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vol. i. p. 15, by your lifelong reader and occasional contributor, my cousin Mr. Walter Crouch, F.Z.S. It gives a view of the ancient house (demolished about 1715) from one of the three double-folio bird's-eye views by Kip, circ. 1710.

There were at least two Wanstead Houses, if not three. In the earliest record the Manor House was known as " Naked Hall Ha we." When this name was altered to " Wanstead House " is uncertain, but it was earlier than the time of Edward VI., who granted the demesne to Lord Rich, Lord Chancellor of England.

The Tudor house was in the form of a square, enclosing a large quadrangle, and in front a large grass plat, with drives on either side, and two detached lodges, between which the outer railings were set, with a centre gate. So far as we may judge, it was built late in the fifteenth or early in the sixteenth century, with (as Dickens wrote of " The Maypole Inn " at Chigwell) " more gable-ends than a lazy man would care to count upon a sunny day."

The house which succeeded this one was built near its site, and was dismantled in 1824. CHAS. HALL CROUCH.

62, Nelson Road, Stroud Green, N.

KAYE'S * HISTORY OF THE SEPOY WAR ' (11 S. xii. 200). The fourth edition of Vol. I. was published in 1865. The fifth edition of Vol. II. was issued in December, 1881 {the title-page of the 1896 edition states that the fifth edition was published in 1888, but both ' The English Catalogue ' and Allibone give it as being published in 1881). The second edition of Vol. III. was published in 1876. ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L.

Vol. I., third and fourth editions, 1865.

Vol. III., second edition, 1876.

My authority is ' The English Catalogue,' but no information is available as to the second and third editions of Vol. II.

WM. H. FEET.

"THE SHAKESPEARE'S HEAD" (US. xii. 201). There were two noted taverns bearing this sign in the Covent Garden district. One was in Great Russell Street. At this the Beefsteak Society (not Club) used to meet before it was removed to the Lyceum Theatre. The other was in Wych Street, Drury Lane. Here the Owls' Club used to meet a club so called because of the late hours kept by its members. (See Larwood and Hotten's ' History of Signboards.')

S. D. C.

According to Walford's ' Old and New London,' this tavern, where the Beef- steak Society held its meetings, stood in Russell Street, Covent Garden. It must not, of course, be confounded with a tavern of the same name of a more recent date, which Mark Lemon took, and which was situated at the north end of Wych Street, Drury Lane. WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

"The Shakespeare's Head" was a noted theatrical tavern situated in the Piazza, Covent Garden. There is a very interesting account of it in John Timbs's ' Club Life of London,' 1866, vol. -ii. pp. 189-91.

There was also a " Shakespeare Tavern " in Little Russell Street, opposite Drury Lane Theatre. The sign was altered in 1828 to "The Albion.' 1 JOHN HARRISON.

Nottingham.

AUTHORS WANTED (11 S. x. 270, 314, 335 ; xi. 31). No. 4. " Prends le premier conseil d'une femme et non le second." In a Latin form, " Primo crede mulieris consilio, secundo noli," this is found in the ' Sylloge' of Gilbertus Cognatus Nozeramis (Gilbert Cousin of Nozeray in Burgundy), a sixteenth- century writer. See J. J. Grynaeus's ' Adagia ' (1629), p. 130. Langius, ' Poly- anthea ' (1659), col. 1900, quotes a parallel sentiment from a collection of political aphorisms :

" Mulieres in extrema necessitate et periculo subito inveniunt remedium, et consilium, et subitis consiliis excogitandis valent plurimum, nam in sexu fcemineo primus impetus naturae in periculis subditis [subitis ?] solet esse optimus, et felicissimus."

Nowadays generalizations on feminine psychology are apt to be current in French. EDWARD BENSLY.

GENERAL SANKEY (11 S. xii. 200). In the Calendar of State Papers (Domestic), 1648-49,' under ' News from the Head- quarters near Colchester' (19 June, 1648), mention is made of a " Captain Zanchie, who took Mersea fort." On 29 March, 1649, the Parliamentary Commissioners ordered Col. Sanchy to be Sub-Warden of All Souls. See ' All Souls College,' by C. Grant Robert- son, p. 126. Mr. Robertson adds :

'The College Register says unkindly of the latter [Sanchy] ' that he was a man, rude, ignorant, and without a tincture of humane letters,' and Wood has called him ' a boisterous fellow at cudgeling and foot-ball playing.' He was also

made Proctor He was afterwards Commander-

in-Chief of the Parliamentary forces in Tipperary, and a Burgess for Woodstock."