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Sir J. C. (i.e. John Crosby) entertaining the Grocers' Company.

Funeral of Sir John Crosby.

The Prioress and Nuns visiting Lady Crosby, Childermas Day.

Crosby Place from the East ; Funeral of Henry VI.

The Duke of Gloucester discovering the Widow of Prince Edward disguised as a Menial Servant.

Crosby Place from the Garden.

The suggested essays are in most instances too wide in scope, and could not have pro- vided many additional data on Crosby Place. It is very doubtful if such papers were attempted. I have not met with any, either printed or in MS., but consider it probable that the list of subjects and some other inducements led to the preparation of ' A Lec- ture on the Times and Play of Richard III.,' by Miles Beale, 1843, and the memoir of Crosby Place, written and illustrated by J. W. Papworth, now in the R.I.B.A. Library.

There are two unpublished rimed his- tories of Crosby Hall, prepared as addresses and epilogues to entertainments given by the students of the Metropolitan Evening Classes. The more interesting?, by Geo. R. Emerson, now in my collection, was delivered at the Hall by T. C. Lloyd, 8 Dec., 1854. The other, by Marshall Carpenter, was de- livered by the author, 8 Dec., 1859.

But if the competition was not provoca- tive of numerous historical essays, it caused the preparation of several of the required ''Graphical Illustrations." There is before me a small folio engraving, designed and engraved by F. P. Roffe, of the "Oriel in Crosby Hall. Sir John Crosby receiving the lease from the Prioress of St. Helen's." The subject and a MS. note " added by the Committee for the Restoration of Crosbie Place" justify its identification as one of the illustrations sent in for the competition. In H. J. Hamon's ' Architectural Antiquities and Present State of Crosby Place,' 1844, plates i., ii., and iii. answer the purpose of those called for by the contest, and are probably the direct result of it.

The roof of the Hall, now admirably restored, was of special interest throughout the nineteenth century, and its principal features were reproduced for banqueting halls, libraries, &c. Here are a few notable instances.

Wilkinson (' Londina Illustrata') says :

" The late Duke of Norfolk occasionally visited Crosby Hall, and was so much pleased with the roof that he employed an artist to make correct drawings of the whole, and built his celebrated banqueting room at Arundel Castle precisely on the model, of mahogany."

This was the Barons' Hall designed and built by the Duke Charles, and described in Tierney's 'History of Arundel.' It \\as demolished about 1900, and the mahogany roof presumably destroyed.

In the second issue of the 1832 Preserva- tion Appeal (dated 2 Jan., 1832) it is said: that the roof was reproduced at Eaton Hall,. Cheshire, and the hall of King's College, Cambridge. About 1823 would be the date of the Eaton Hall replica, and the Bucklers made a large number of drawings for its reproduction ; these are now preserved in the library there, but the hall and its roof were removed in 1868.

A very recent instance of its reproduction- was mentioned in The Observer, 16 May, 1915. Referring to the restoration of Hurst- monceaux Castle, the present owner, Lieut. - Col. Claude Lowther. intending to add a chapel and wing to the banqueting hall r it continues :

" The ceiling of the hall is to be an exact replica of the roof of Crosby Hall, one of the finest examples of Tudor architecture in England."

The years immediately preceding the 1832 preservation agitation were the most harmful for the Hall. In that year it was a polling station for the first City election after the Reform Bill. Considerable damage prob- ably resulted, as very shortly afterwards the contractors for the restoration, Messrs. Ruddle & Clark, commenced work, their tender of 728?. having been accepted by the Committee.

In 1816 Strickland Freeman removed the masonry of the Council Room to Fawley Court, and offered the building for sale. The Great Hall became a stable, and the upper chamber a horn mill. Most of the lower windows in the oriel were removed or broken, and the direct access to the hall thus provided' led to the removal of panelling and carvings for firewood. AT/ECK ABRAHAMS.

WORDS IN BISHOP DOUGLAS'S

ENEADOS,' 1513. (See ante, pp. 156, 177, 215, 235.)

Rank, adj., dense with leafage (c. 1250, &c.).

1. " Amyd a rank tre lurkis a goldin bewch "" (Lat., Latet arbore opaca Aureus. . . .ramus). vi. 17.

2. "A rank elm tre huge grit" (Lat.,

Ulmus opaca, ingens). vi. 27.

Rap for rap. " The weyrly schot Maid rap for rap, reboundand wyth ilk stot " (Lat., Dant sonitum flictu galeae). ix. 259.

Reduce, v. (1450, 1485, then 1538, &c.). " The haly schaw Quhilk strang Romulus did reduce and draw In maner of f ranches or of sanctuary "" (LaU, Asylum retulit). viii. 174.