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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. xii. NOV. 13, 1915.

hostelry of low condition, whither posting- folk largely resorted.

The last" owner of the name " Old Mother Damnable " was, naturally, daughter to an- other witch, and was in collage with a gipsy, who suitably died in their hovel on the hill, -conveniently leaving some money which .gossips magnified a thousandfold. Ori the neighbours and Old Charleys breaking in, squalor (but without the usual sulphurous odour) was found within in plenty, but no cash and no Mother. The latter had de- camped, and the former had never existed to any large extent. ' Sketches of Old London ' (illustrated by H. Browne) gives the above details in full.

Dyce defines "huff cap" as strong ale inspiriting drinkers to set their caps in a huffing manner. H. H. JOHNSON.

103, Abbey Road, Torquay.

SWALLOW STREET CHAPEL (US. xii. 316). The passage in Wheat ley and Cunningham's ' London Past and Present,' to which your ^correspondent makes reference, might possi- bly mislead some of your readers interested in the history of London Dissent ing meeting- houses.

Swallow Street Chapel was, as is stated, built originally for a French Episcopalian congregation, who, in 1692, had obtained a lease of Crown lands for thirty-five years. In 1709 the members of the congregation had much decreased by removals and deaths, and it was decided to sell the building ior the use of the Presbyterian congregation, that had first met in Glass House Street, under the pastorate of Dr. Jas. Anderson That congregation, about the same time received an accession from the meetings over which Mr. Stort had presided. A new chapel was erected in 1710, and over th devotions there the Rev. Jas. Anderson presided until 1734, when he was succeeded by the Rev. Wm. Crookshank, ordained to the Swallow Street ministry on 23 Jan. 1734/5.

The controversy that had followed the republication and condemnation of ' The Marrow of Divinity ' in Scotland vexed anc divided his congregation, amongst whom wa one William Cudworth, afterwards th friend of Hervey and opponent of John W T esley.

It was Cud worth's positive misfortune i life to be possessed of a power of explici statement that never left his meaning ob scure, when, by any chance, it could b offensive. Upon 30*Oct., 1743, Mr. Crook shank preached a couple of sermons, whic were shortly afterwards printed with preface

'herein he referred to " impostors " HI aatters of religion. Cudworth replied with A Vindication of the Assurance of Faith,' ublished in 1744.

These pamphlets are the first of the series f " Antinomian " tracts that extended the Id controversy into Wesleyan organizations, nd that led to the feuds that embittered the atter days of Hervey. In 1748 Mr. Crookshank was detected in agitious conduct that led to his removal rom his post. He died on 28 July, 1769.

The schism that had rent his congregation pas, I think, repaired after his death and hat of Cudworth. The latter controlled a ect, known as " Followers of the Apostles," vhich possessed meeting-houses at the old French churches in Black and Grey Eagle Street, Spitalfields, at Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, at Angel Alley, White-
 * hapel, at other late French churches in

Castle Street, Leicester Fields and New Hermitage Street, Wapping, and possibly also at Barton in Leicestershire and else- where. After his death in 1763, the reunion of the Castle Street Chapel with the Swallow Street congregation was debated, and was, I believe, actually effected in January, 1776.

The " Followers of the Apostles " were remarkable for uniting with ultra-Calvinism revival of sacramental doctrine and Dractice. Their ministers taught a Real Presence, objective in the sacramental species, and gave to their sick extreme unction.

The books of the Swallow Street Chapel are in the present care of Dr. Fleming, Clerk to the Synod, at St. Columba's Scotch Presbyterian Established Church, in London.

I have been able to give no references to authorities, since I cannot get to the Museum, and have, therefore, quoted only my own notes. I do not doubt their accuracy. J. C. WHITEBROOK.

24, Old Square, Lincoln's Inn.

INWOOD FAMILY (9 S. viii. 505). For a literary reason I have been looking up par- ticulars of the Rev. Jethro Inwood, who in ] 799 published a volume of sermons preached by him in Kent and Essex, 1793-9, he being then described as B.A. and curate of St. Paul's, Deptford. The Gentleman's Maga- zine for May, 1814, p. 519, has a notice of the death, on 26 April at Tugby, Leicester- shire, of the Rev. Jethro Inwood, Vicar of Horninghold, and curate of Tugby and Norton. This information, which is all I have, may possibly assist the above query, and I should be glad to learn more of the sub- ject of the obituary note. W. B. H.