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who had been nominated the Secretary to the newly established Marlborough College. From that time onward for some years he maintained himself and his family by this occupation, supplemented by his literary productions and musical compositions, and by aid from his mother in Antwerp, who survived him for more than nine years, and from his brother, who had become the head of the mercantile house in Antwerp which he had quitted. About the year 1855 he lost his secretarial situation, and he died at 9, Ponton Terrace, Battersea, 12 March, 1864 it is said in distressed circumstances.

F. DE H. L.

THE SITE OF THE GLOBE.

(US. x. 209, 290, 335 ; xi. 447 ; xii. 10, 50, 70, 121.)

2. The Position of the " Park." MR. HUBBARD says :

"The Globe Playhouse actually stood on the northern of the two pieces of land owned by Brand. This northern piece of land in the Coram K'ege Roll document is said to be bounded on the north by the

If the " Park " had been the Bishop of Winchester's Park, continues MR. HUBBARD, it " would have been called [on the Roll] the is most unlikely that it would have simply been referred to as the Park." Although, according to this opinion, it was most " unlikely," yet I have many instances where the "Park," without qualification, refers to the Bishop's Park only, and I have no instance where the " Park ' ' refers to anything else. If MR. HUBBARD can supply a single other instance of the " Park " in the Libert v of the Clink being aught than the Bishop's Park I shall be grateful.
 * Lord Bishop of Winchester's Park,' and it

MR. HUBBARD is unwise in appealing to the testimony of the Sacramental Token Books of Southwark for evidence on behalf of his contention for a park to the north of Maid Lane. He says that if you started from " The Bell " on Bankside you arrived " From the Park " and " Mr. Brand's Rents," and that, therefore, the Park of the Roll was north of Brand's Rents and, ifc follows, of Globe Alley.

Now Bankside extends a considerable distance, stretching, as it does, from the modern Blackfriars Bridge to London Bridge. But MR. HUBBARD plumps clown ' The Bell," because the book for 1593 says it was on Bankside, at a spot convenient

for proving the conclusion that, in some way or other, the Park was adjacent to the river. There is no evidence or ground for supposing that " The Bell " was where he wishes to place it. " The Bell," the book of 1633 says, was" next St. Mary Overye's Stayers," some distance from Bankend and the position MR. HUBBARD assigns for the Park.

MR. HUBBARD says : " The Park was the name of the small houses fronting upon Bankside." I am not aware of an iota of evidence that this was the case, beyond MR. HUBBARD'S statement. The books for some years (e.g., 1599, 1605) name only one tenement holder as " From the Park." It is curious that these small houses should have but one householder and in them only six token-holders in all !

Now let us see what exactly the Token Books did say. The relative order of the names in the books is almost always the same, with the exception of Winchester House and Rochester House. These, in the earlier books, come last by themselves, as it were. Whenever the names occur some of the names being occasionally dropped the order is Winchester House, Rochester House, "The Bell," the Clink, the Park, Hill's Rents, Brand's Rents, Globe Alley (identified with Brand's Rents), Maid Lane, Hunt's Rents, The Vine, Bankend, Drewe's Rents, Norman's Rents, Oliphant Alley, Newton's Rents, Three Tuns Alley, Horseshoe Alley, &c. Extending some of these names from the books, we find that Rochester House is " over against the Park." As Rendle ex- pressed it, as far back as 1878 :

" In the token-books Rochester House is fre- quently noted as 'over against the parke,' 'opposite the parck gate,' somewhat further on the way to the Banck, and near to the Clink Prison." The book for 1636 says " Rochester House and so along to the park gate." " Park gate," simply, is shown eo nomine in a plan- map of Southwark as early as about the year 1542, south of Winchester House and south of " the way to the Bank," as the plan has it. As regards the Clink, the Clink at one time was near Rochester House. Con- tinuing in order, Bankend at the north on the river-side is at length reached. Between Rochester House on the south, " over against the Park " and Bankend, we see the order is the Park, Globe Alley, which is identified with Brand's Rents, Maid Lane, which the later books divided into two parts, of which the " South side " comes before the " North side," and the Vine, which there is good reason to suppose was close to Bankend. Then instead of " Bankend " we have occasionally