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where insurance offices, bankers, and mer- chants were intended to predominate. Less ambitious in design than its contemporaries Princes Street and Moorgate Street, it marked a distinct change in commercial architecture an episode in the decline from Georgian Renaissance to Victorian plain brick ugliness.

The Gresham Club was its only socia] institution, but that is worthy of a special note that I can prepare from the late Mr. Hendricks's papers.

The original clearance of the site pre- paratory to the erection of the buildings now disappearing necessitated the destruc- tion of many interesting houses, and also of St. Michael's Church, Crooked Lane. It was only by inches that St. Clement's was spared, and we may expect to hear of pro- posals to utilize its site for some more material purpose. Many important finds of Roman and mediaeval remains were made in 1833, R. Lambert Jones, the so-called founder of the Guildhall Library, being par- ticularly active ; but the objects which actually came into the possession of the public bodies were of nominal value and small interest. In the recent excavations some important discoveries were made on the site of No. 36. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

LUCAN AND TOM HOOD. I wonder whether the resemblance between the lines in ' The Bridge of Sighs,'

Lave in it, drink of it, Then, if you can, and Lucan, vii. 822,

Has trahe, Caesar, aquas : hoe, si potes, utere cselo, has ever been pointed out. The likeness is very close, yet can hardly be anything more than a chance coincidence.

ALEX. LEEPER. Trinity College, Melbourne University.

THE 2ND CAMERON HIGHLANDERS. As none of the recent books on the Army state the fact, it may be well to put on record that the 2nd Battalion of the Cameron High- landers was raised in April, 1897.

J. M. BULLOCH.

MEUX'S HORSESHOE BREWERY is shortly to be removed from its site at the junction of Tottenham Court Road and New Oxford Street, which it has occupied since 1809, to Nine Elms, Vauxhall.

The brewery, which occupies about nine acres, stands on part of the Rookery of St. Giles's. There was at one time attached to the premises a garden with an old mansion

in its grounds where Sir Henry Meux resided. There is a view, ' Meux's Brewhouse,' by G. Malcolm, 1808 (? in Liquorpond Street), and of the brewery in 1830 in ' Old and New London,' vol. iv. Was it here that the great vat burst in 1814, or at Read's (Egan's ' Real Life in London,' 1905, vol. ii. p. 106, and ' A Lay of St. Dunstan ' in ' Ingoldsby Legends ' ) ? J. ARD AGH.

35, Church Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

DIBDIN BIBLIOGRAPHY. There has recently come into my possession a prospectus of an edition of Dibdin's songs of which I had no previous knowledge. I should be glad to know of (and still more to see) a copy of it. The prospectus announces that

" On Thursday will be published, To be continued every Fortnight, price Six-pence, the first part of The Songs of Charles Dibdin. With characteristic Embellishments. To which will be prefixed a Lite

of the Author Published by Effingham Wilson,

junior, 16, King William Street, London Bridge." There is no date, and the only clue is that there are two small woodcut illustrations which appeared in ' The Songs of Charles Dibdin,' published by John Chidley, London, 1839. E. RIMBAULT DIBDIN.

64, Huskisson Street, Liverpool.

SHAKESPEARE AND BLACKFRIARS THEATRE. All writers on the early English stage persistently mention Shakespeare as having acted at the Blackfriars Theatre. Although this statement is universal, I cannot find anything at all to substantiate this claim. There is not a particle of evidence to prove that he acted at any theatre except the Globe. Perhaps some of your readers can enlighten me on the subject.

MAURICE JONAS.

CLARKE : WAY : MARRIAGE LICENCES. an any reader give me information as to the family of Thomas and Christian Clarke, who lived at Twickenham from 1719 to 1761? What was Christian Clarke's maiden name ? I should also be glad of any particulars concerning a John and Jane Way, who were iving in the parish of Walcot, Bath, 1776- 1777. To which Way family did they belong ? Where may old Bath marriage licences of 1777, not in the Diocesan Registry, be found? JAS. STEWART KENNEDY.