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 ii s. XIL JULY 3, i9io.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

appears that some property known as " The Park " did exist on Bankside.

In the Token Book for Bankside dated 1598 not only the names of the inhabitants but also the names of the properties, are given. It here appears that the tokens were first collected " from the Bell." In an earlier Token Book, 1593, "The Bell ;5 is described as "Ye Bell on ye Bankside.' After " The Bell " in the 1598 Token Book reference is made to the various properties on Bankside, which include " ffrom the Park." The Park was the name of the small houses fronting upon Bankside anc forming the northern boundary of Brand's property. After the collection had beer made " ffrom the Park " the very next entry is " Mr. Brandes Rents." These Sacramental Token Books deserve more study than has as yet been given to them.

So far as I have been able to discover, the first reference to Globe Alley appears as a marginal note under the heading " Brand's Rents " on p. 61 in the Token Book for the Clink Liberty for the year 1619. The Alley dividing Brand's property was not appa- rently known as Globe Alley until that year.

Sir Matthew Brand was the freeholder of Globe Alley, as appears in another of the South wark documents dated 1637 : " Globe Alley, Sir Matthew Brand, Knight, Moulsey, Owner."

The Globe Playhouse was actually built upon the site previously occupied by the Bear Ring. This may at once be seen by a comparison of the ' View ' by Agas, c. 15*80, where " The Beare bay ting " ring is shown, with the ' View ' by Visscher, 1616, where " The Globe " is shown as occupying the site of the Bear Ring.

To-day the site of the Globe is covered by warehouses known as 6 and 7, Bankside. When these warehouses were built, the foundations of the theatre were disclosed. Many Elizabethan objects of small interest were collected from within the walls of the theatre, and these are now contained in a glass case at the warehouses.

GEORGE HUBBARD, F.S.A. (To be continued.)

ALTER" IN A LATIN EPITAPH (11 S. xi. It seems to me that the epitaph quoted by S. R. C. merely states that Richard Uervaux was an adherent of Henry VI. and a cousin of Edward IV. and Richard III. In the last two lines :

Sanguinis Edvardi quarti ternique Ricardi Crradibus in ternis alter utrique fuit,

the words " alter " and " utrique " should be read as one word, " alterutrique," which is sometimes, though not often, used for " utrique." " Of the blood of Edward IV. and Richard III., he was to each of them in the third degree of relationship." These kings were brothers. Any one descended from any of their great-great-grandparents would be their third cousin. " Terni," I know, does not mean " third " in genuine Latin, but the epitaph -writer was attempting elegiacs, and could not use the words " tertii Ricardi" or " tertio gradu." " Gradus," however, is the regular word for a step in^a pedigree. B. B.

The Latin epitaph is certainly extremely- obscure, especially the lines :

Sanguinis Edvardi quarti ternique Ricardi Gradibus in ternis alter utrique fuit.

Could they mean : " Being in the third degree of blood-relationship with Edward IV. and Richard III., he was to each of them as a second self " ? It seems to me unlikely that it would be recorded of a man that he had been hostile to two kings, whose rule at the time he must have accepted. I recognize- the brilliant scholarship of the late Canon T. S. Evans, but in interpreting Latin of this very low order, brilliant scholarship is perhaps rather a hindrance than a help.

G. C. MOORE SMITH.

Has consideration been given to the frequent use of " alter " for exact mental or ysical resemblance ? A general might be-- called " Alexander alter " ; and the phrases "* alter ego " and " alter idem " are familiar.. May not the writer of the epitaph have meant " He was related to two kings, and might have 3een mistaken for either of them " ? If so,
 * he statement would be of interest to those

writers who maintain that the repulsive ap- pearance of Richard III. has been exaggerated-

OLD SARUM.

JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN (US. xi. 357).

Add:

lans Breitmann in Politics. By Charles G. Leland. A Second Series of the Breitmann Ballads. With

andH.L.W. same.

lunted Down, a Story : by Charles Dickens. With some account of Thomas Griffiths Waine- wright, the Poisoner [1870]. The Introduction containing the account of Wainewright is signed J. C. H. Piccadilly.

Lcthaw. By Mr. Benjamins (Bret Hart) Pre- liminary by J. C. H. Piccadilly, 4th May, 187K

ast and West. By Bret Harte. Preliminary not signed, but dated Piccadilly, Dec. 12, 1871.

a few Explanatory Notes by J. C. H. i 1869 The Introduction is by the s