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crypt." Vide 'Guide' sold at the Cathedral, 1867.

" The height to the top of the cross is 352 feet from the floor of the church, or 360 feet from the pavement in the street." Vide ' Guide,' pur- chased at the Cathedral c. 1880.

" The total height from the pavement of thu churchyard to the top of the cross, 370 feet." Vieie ' Some Notes, chiefly on the Fabric of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in London,' by Lewis Gilbertson, M.A., Minor Canon and Sub- Librarian (" Kyrle Pamphlets," No. 1, 1893).

" Height from the ground without to the top of the cross, 340 feet." Vide ' The Churches of London,' by G. Godwin and John Britton, 1838, vol. i. p. 47.

" The height from the nave pavement to the t >p of the cross is 365 feet." Vide ' Old and New London,' i. 254.

JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

MOYLE WILLS (11 S. x. 429). St. Germans being a " peculiar " of the Bishop of Exeter, the early wills of persons belonging thereto should be found at the Exeter Probate Eegistry unless for special reasons they were proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, in which case they would be at Somerset House, London.

The will of Richard M/wyle of St. Germyns appears to be the oldest in the "Exeter Registry, for it is listed under the year 1532, and is numbered I.

The other names mentioned by your corre- spondent do not appear in the Calendars. These wills should therefore be sought for at Somerset House, or they may, perhaps, be found at the Bodmin Probate Registry.

H. TAPLEY-SOPER. The City Library, Exeter.

REGENT CIRCUS (11 S. x. 313,373,431). " Tichborne Street should bo Coventry Street." This foot-note is given as a correc- tion to the statement quoted from Tallis's ' Illustrated London,' which asserts that Tichborne Street is tone of those which radiate into Regent Circus. But if the statement is a little misleading, still more so is the correction. Coventry Street does not touch Regent Circus, and never did so. It ends, and Piccadilly begins, at the top of the Hay- market.

Then, on the north side of Piccadilly, Tichborne Street used to slant off almost immediately, and run at the back of the north-eastern of the four quarter circles which formed Regent Circus, and it ended at the bottom of the Quadrant. The quarter circle mentioned, a few houses in Piccadilly, and one side of Tichborne Street have been pulled down, and an opening has been made on the remaining side of the street for

Shaftesbury Avenue. The rest of that side has been rebuilt, and now forms part of Piccadilly Circus (formerly the lower Regent Circus), but with the removal of the quarter circle the symmetry of the Circus has been destroyed. W. A. FROST.

A " TRAWN [THROWN] CHAER " (US. ix. 488; x. 32, 432). I conclude that your Australian correspondent has not had an opportunity of consulting the ' N.E.D.' We find there abundant evidence for throw (a lathe), throw-lathe (a small lathe driven by hand), thrower (one who turns things in a lathe), throwing (turning wood), thrown (turned in a lathe), thrown chair (one con- sisting of parts so turned). Thrown chairs are not very uncommon. They consist of bars or staves of wood turned in a lathe so as to form rows of balls not separated one from another. These bars are fitted to- gether, and are usually black. The back of the chair is capable of being set at different angles, and the front legs are thrown, or " turned," to correspond with the bars.

Durham. J ' T ' F '

MR. OWEN is in error: the inquiry on this matter was not mine. "Thrawen chairs'* have no more to do with " thrones " than has "drawn work" with "drones." Throne.i would be out of place in the house of an Elizabethan yeoman; but, apart from this, a knowledge of local dialect upsets any " at sight" philology. "Thrawen" is a good old English word, and means "turned" or " twisted " ; and these chairs a very well- known type are constructed of turned or twisted bars. They are sometimes called "bobbin chairs" hereabouts. I fear that MR. OWEN has been misled by the " scholo chamber. ' ' This was merely the schoolroom , where the children of the house were taught, and had no connexion with the Grammar School at Clitheroe, six miles away.

JOHN PARKER (Col.). Browsholme Hall, near Clitheroe.

WARRINGTON : POEM WANTED (11 S. x. 408). A similar question was asked at 6 S. xii. 168. In Sir Walter Scott's introduc- tion to ' Marmion ' the whole 51 four-lino verses are printed, and entitled " Cenbrrn yr Ellyll ; or, The Spirit's Blasted Tree ; a legendary tale, by the Reverend George Warrington." Allibone, following ' Biog. Diet. Living Authors,' 1816, attributes <>n!y to that author " De Salkeld ; or, Tin- Knight of the White Rose, a poetical tnlr. 1811." 'The Gossiping Guide to Wales,'