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 s. XIL JULY 24, 1915.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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DR. MARTIN'S theory. Furthermore, Do Wit's view of London, Hollar's view of London, and the ' Londinium Urbs prsecipua regni Anglise ' have certainly not been cut down, for they show the Globe with much of the land lying to the south. The building shown and named the Globe in these three views coincides so exactly with the Globe shown in the other views that there can be no question that they are all intended to repre- sent one and the same building, and that is the Globe, and it can be nothing else. DR. MARTIN, however, continues :

" That the panorama has been curtailed may be seen from the way in which its lower boundary sharply cuts through the line of hedging, a line rsuch as in Braun forms the southern side of Maid Lane."

Here, I am afraid, DR. MARTIN falls into another error an error which is vital to the question. He has mistaken the hedging on the south side of the way or lane shown by Braun for the hedging on the south side of Maiden Lane. This same way or lane, after- wards to be known as Globe Alley, is shown by Visscher and others as leading to the Globe Playhouse.

If DR. MARTIN and others will trace this way or lane through the series of views and maps of Southwark, they will find that it enters Deadman's Place on the west, exactly opposite Clink Street on the east. It could not therefore, as DR. MARTIN assumes, be Maiden Lane.

To quote one other example DR. MARTIN has taken certain liberties with respect to the Merian view ; he has attempted to correct what he fancies to be errors in a contemporary document. The Globe here is shown just to the north of the way or lane (Globe Alley), and behind the cottages on Bankside. The Globe has an index number 57, and in the index 37 is shown to be the Globe. DR. MARTIN, however, considers that this is a mistake ; the building should, he thinks, have been called the Rose. Another building, which is No. 38, is in the index called the Bear Garden. DR. MARTIN considers that ND. 38, the Bear Garden, should have been called the Globe.

After making these alterations DR. MARTIN concludes by saying :

"From this map view of Merian, we see the Globe assigned to a position south of Maid Lane." I am afraid that we do not see anything of the kind. We see the Globe in the Merian view where others have placed it m their views, and that is on the north side of the way or lane (Globe Alley). In DR. MARTIN'S effort to support his theory by reference to

the Merian view, he has again fallen into the error of mistaking Globe Alley for Maiden Lane.

After the important discovery by Dr. William Wallace of the Coram Rege Roll document, the theory falls to the ground that the Globe was on the south side of Maiden Lane.

In definitely locating the position of an earlier Globe Alley on the north side of Maiden Lane, I hope that I have done some- thing to elucidate a standing difficulty which was inevitable so long as the later Globe Alley, on the south side of Maiden Lane, was accepted as " the alley or way leading to the Gloabe Playhouse, commonly called Gloabe Alley," as mentioned in the deed of transfer from Sir Matthew Brand to Hiilarie Mempris, 1626. Also the reference I found " ffrom the Park " in the Token Book for Bankside, 1598, clears away the difficulty which was felt to exist in the Coram Rege Roll, wherein the land leased by Nicholas Brand to the brothers Burbage, Shakespeare, and others, was said to be bounded by the Park on the north.

GEORGE HUBBARD, F.S.A.

WATERLOO (US. xii. 3, 21). MR. ALAN STEWART has helped to enrich the notes of ing extracts from his uncle's letters on the above. In letter iii. there is a note re- garding Lord William Lennox of the " Bluss," written five days before this battle, to which I am, from what he told me, able to add certain details. He said that when riding at his regimental races, a short time before the battle, he broke his arm, and lost an eye ; he was still on the sick list when on the 18th he rode away to join his staff on the field. At the moment of Sir Thomas Picton being killed which he saw he was close to the Duke of Wellington, who, recognizing him with his head and arm bandaged, exclaimed : " What are you doing here ? Go back at once ! " and sent him off the field ; the result being, to his lasting disappointment, that his name does not appear in the roll of " Waterloo men." HAROLD MALET, Col.
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