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the design to which it was attached was for- gotten. In 1824, when the new London Bridge was commenced, the name may have been revived, but of this there is no evidence at present available. J. L. D.

Guildhall Library.

THE RAWSTORNE STREET THEATRE, CLERKENWELL. Some years ago (I cannot trace the reference) the identification of this theatre was sought, but the late J. Duff- Brown, then local librarian, expressed some doubt as to its ever having existed. In gathering material for a long note on the minor theatres of London, I have met with several references to it. Of most value is a paragraph in John Bull of 9 Sept., 1822. The Chief Constable at Worship Street had visited the house, and found it was fitted up as a theatre, plays were performed on a stage, and about 150 persons were present. The defendant's plea was that no money was taken at the door, or emoluments derived from the performances, which were provided for his friends only. The magistrate dis- missed the case with a caution, as an audience of 150 suggested it was something more than a private performance for friends.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

SIGNS OF OLD LONDON. (See 11 S. i. 402, 465; ii. 64, 426; iv. 226; v. 4, 77, 286, 416 ; vi. 167, 266, 306.) The subjoined list of the leading traders, &c., of the parish of St. Vedast, Foster Lane, compiled from the parish registers of circa 1700, may be deemed of sufficient interast for the pages of N. & Q.' : Peter Abbot, watchman, at the Clock and Dyall,

Gutter Lane. Caleb Banfield, shoemaker, at the Crown and Boot,

ditto. William Birkes, silkman, at the Three Anchors, in

Chepe. Samuel Bourne, goldsmith, at the Queen's Head,

Gutter Lane. James Bradford, cabinet maker, at the Angel,

Goldsmiths' Row. George Burleigh, at the Naked Boy and Globe,

Blowbladder Street.

Daniel Chapman, glover, at the Blue Ball, Gold- smiths' Row. Edmond Cooper, gold-chain maker, at the Gold-

chaine, Old Change. Isaac Davenport, silversmith, at the Blackmore's

Head, Gutter Lane. Richard Davis, grocer, at the Leg and Star,

Cheapside. Robert Elmes, coatseller, at the Cherry Tree, in

Jackanapes Row.

Richard Hewetson, at the Sun, Foster Lane. William Leggatt, coatseller, at the Fox and Leg,

Gutter Lane. William Luken, silversmith, at the Golden Cup, in

Gutter Lane.

Nathaniel Markes, glover, at the Glove, in Cheap- side.

Thomas Pangbourne, at the Rainbow Coffee House,. Cheapside.

Nathaniel Ragdale, goldsmith, at the Golden Bottle, in Cheapside.

John Rolt'e, laceman, at the Black Bull, OldChange.

Joseph Saxton, at the Sun, over against the Con- duit, in Cheapside.

John Sleigh, blacksmith, at the Hammer, Old Change.

Joseph Stennett, at the Indian Queen, Gold- smiths' Row.

"Mr. Taylor, at the sign of the Dolphin in Cheap- side, Milliner."*

Thomas Wade, coatseller, at the Half Moon, Gold- smiths' Row.

Francis West, haberdasher of hats, at the Mitre and Hat, Cheapside.

Where the occupation is not given it may be understood that it is omitted in the MS. WILLIAM McMuRRAY.

HAIR USED IN MAGIC. In his '^Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft ' (Letter VI.), Sir Walter Scott writes as follows about Dr. John Fian, the schoolmaster at Trenant, who was executed with others for an attempt to kill by magic King James VI. of Scotland :

ic This man was made the hero of the whole tale of necromancy, in an account of it published at London, and entitled ' News from Scotland,' which has been lately reprinted by the Roxburghe Club. It is remarkable that the Scottish witchcrafts were not thought sufficiently horrible by the editor of this tract, without adding to them the story of a philtre being applied to a cow's hair instead of that of the young woman for whom it was designed, and telling how the animal came lowing after the sorcerer to his schoolroom door, like a second Pasiphae, the original of which charm occurs in the story of Apuleius."

Much alike to this, a Japanese description of a warlock's discomfiture is briefly given in Ishida's ' Ehon Tasogarregusa,' " Kyoto, 1793. Nagata, a samurai resident in Yedo, had to wife a woman both wise and virtuous. It fell out one day that a strange yamabusM^ was permitted to lodge in their house for a single night. Absorbedly fascinated by her exquisite beauty, he invented a pretext, and privately asked of the hostess one of her hairs. But she rightly suspected his foul intention, fetched a hair from the stable, and handed it to him as her own. After the nightfall, totally unapprised of this im- position, the yamabushi secretly manoeuvred


 * This reference is added from another source.

f Yamabushis formed the so-called Shugen Order, whose creed was a mixture of Buddhism and Shintoism. They used to wander from mountain to mountain, there to perform their mystic services, their main professions being theosophy and magic. See J. Collin de Plancy, * Dictionnaire infernal, Bruxelles, 1845, p. 263, s.r. " Jammabuxes."