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I cannot find this in the 'P.O. London Directory/ but on p. 1154 I see " Mrs. Jane Patient," who is described as a " Car- woman/' WM. H. PEET.

This is a common name in parts of South Wilts, though its usual form is Patient. In the Wylye Parish Registers, recently pub- lished. Patient, Paishen, Paishent, Pashen, Pashent, Fashion, Patience, Payshent, and Payshoii all occur as variants.

J. J. H.

The surname of Patience will be found in two instances in the Suburbs Section of the current ' P.O. London Directory.'

ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L.

Bolton.

In the ' List of Monumental Inscriptions in Hertfordshire ' I find the following :

Gilston. William Patience, died April 16, I860' set. 35. Tewin. Francis Patience, died Aug. 25, 1789, aet. 79

W. B. GERISH.

LAWRENCE : WASHINGTON (11 S. viii. 269). Possibly your correspondent may be right in assuming that a Washington of Warton, Lanes, married a lady of the name of Lawrence of Ashton, Lanes; but I may point out that the- use of " Lawrence " or" Laurence " as a Christian name in that district is very frequent, I myself having several ancestors on the " distafT " side, in the family of Harrison, who bore that Christian name. In the Registers of Mel- ling, five miles south of Kirby-Lonsdale and ten north-east of Lancaster, appears " Law- rence Weshington, de Archolme quartr: in ecc: 7 Feb. 1672-3." MISTLETOE.

"GAS" AS A STREET-NAME (11 S. viii. 290, 337, 356, 378). There is a street in Hertford called Gas-house Lane.

HELLIER GOSSELIN.

Bengeo Hall, Hertford.

At Crewkerne in Somerset a thoroughfare is named Gas Lane. It was here the first gasworks associated with the town were built in 1837. They fell into disuse in the year 1854, when new gasworks were erected in South Street.

W. G. WILLIS WATSON. Exeter.

DRYDEN'S 'PARNASSUS'? (11 S. viii. 370.) The facsimile of a signature of John Dryden the poet mcy be seen in a Sale Cata- logue issued by Messrs. Sotheby in April, 1912 The date is 1655. He signs " Jo Dryden.' An original signature may be

seen, attached to the poet's request for a licence to marry Lady Elizabeth Howard, at the Vicar-General's offices of the Arch- bishop of Canterbury. The latter is dated 1663, and reads ""John Driden." There were relatives of the poet named John Dryden and Jonathan Dryden, some being of contemporary date. P. D. M.

FIRE AND NEW-BIRTH (11 S. viii. 325, 376). One of the best-known instances is Chislehurst Common. It is generally stated in Chislehurst that none of the flourishing birches now to be seen grew on this common before a fire which devastated the ferns and herbage. W. H. QUARRELL.

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Calendar of the Fine Rolls, preserved in ihe Public Record Office. Vol. IV. Edward III. A.D. 1327- 1337. (Stationery Office. )

THE text of this Calendar for the first ten years of Edward III.'s reign was prepared, under Sir A. C. Maxwell Lyte's supervision, by Mr. A. E. Bland, assisted by Mr. S. C. Ratcliff. The matters dealt with do not present any very extraordinary features. A certain number of the documents belonging to the earlier years are concerned with measures taken against the friends of Hugh le Despenser and other persons responsible for con- ducting the affairs of the realm " to the damage and dishonour of the king." The most interesting is the order, sent to the sheriffs of the different counties by the hand of the king's clerk, Thomas de Gayregrave, to take into the king's hand the property of Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, and Geoffrey Mortimer, Oliver de Ingham, and Simon de Hereford. The woollen industry is the subject of several orders ; thus in July, 1327, in view of the Scotch war, for which the king " will be forced to pour forth infinite money," we have a relaxation, in consideration of certain sums paid beyond the customs due, of the stringent regula- tions with regard to staples ; and in 1333 there are directions for the due levying of the subsidy granted by the Parliament ' at York. There are two orders connected with forestry of special interest : that in October, 1328, to- John de Crumbewell, keeper of the forest beyond Trent, to take possession in the king's name of the peel of Hegheved in the forest of Ingelwod, it being a place where the deer often repair, and a source of loss to the king if it be in other hands than those of his ministers ; and the appointment March, 1336 of William Kandolf to make coppices of the underwood growing in the park and forest of Claryndon, enclosing them " with a low hay," and to sell the underwood so cut down for the benefit of the Exchequer.

A grant in February, 1327 to Glastonbury of the guardianship of the abbey and its tem- poralities during a voidance has a rather mag- niloquent preface, in which- we learn that the church of Glastonbury, " as the authority of the ancients hands down, was first built by the disciples of the Lord and consecrated by the