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on the tithe-map is to be found the name Kester Muick.

The word has a British sound. I have found no one who can throw any light upon its probable origin. Kestor we have on Dartmoor ; Kistvaen is familiar to archaeo- logists. Mr. Anderson-Morshead calls atten- tion to a name occurring in another Sid- bury document Henry de Melewys sug- gesting that to-day it would be Melhuish.

Another curious name with a British sound is Maid myll hoole or Maid wyll poole, of recent times styled Maid Milk Pool. As it is the name of a close not near a mill, it is difficult to guess its meaning.

Any one who can help me with these names, will earn my gratitude.

FRANCES ROSE-TROUP.

THE LIVERYMEN OF LONDON. I should be greatly obliged to any of your readers who couid inform me \vhere I could see a full list of the whole body of liverymen of London, for any of the years between 1799 and 1826, if such exists.

Such a list, giving the liverymen of all the London companies, appears in a Supplement to the, ' British Directory of Trade and Commerce ' for the year 1792 and the year 1798, giving their profession or business and addresses ; but I do not find either the above Directory or any list subsequent to the year 1798 in the Libraries of the British Museum or Guildhall, or elsewhere. R.

THE GUILD OF KNIGHTS. I was much interested in the information given by MR. JONAS at ante, p. 386, relative to the formation of a number of the City companies, and I wonder if he or any other reader could give me any information concerning what appears to have been the most ancient guild of all, viz., the Guild of Knights, which probably had its origin in the reign of King Edgar, and was dissolved in 1125.

WlLLOTJGHBY BULLOCK.

Knights' Hall, Clifford's Inn, E.C.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED : GEORGE CHARLES MEYER : Miss BLOUNT. The son of Jeremiah Meyer, R.A., ob- tained a writership in the E.I.C.S., 7 Aug., 1783. In Mrs. Papendiek's ' Court and Private Life ' (1887), vol. i. p. 56, mention is made of a " Miss Blount for whom George Meyer died." I wish to ascertain the date of Meyer's death, and an explanation of this allusion.

I should be much obliged if correspondents of * N. & Q.' would give me any information

about the following boys, who were educated at Westminster School : ( 1 ) Tarver Richard Fearnside, admitted 1811 ; (2) W. G. Fearn- side, admitted 1807 ; (3) Thomas Fearon, admitted 1783 ; (4) John Fell, admitted 1733, aged 9 ; (5) Robert Fell, admitted 1739, aged 10 ; (6) James Fenwick, at school in 1763, aged 13 ; (7) Thomas Fen- wick, admitted 1717, aged 13; (8) Thomas Fenwick, admitted 1720, aged 12 ; and (9) Thomas Fenwick. admitted 1772.

G. F. R. B.

DEFOE'S ' WEEKLY REVIEW.' Lowndes's ' Bibliographer's Manual ' (London, Picker- ing, 1834) has the following in reference to- above :

"Defoe, Daniel. The Weekly Bevieiv, London, 1704-13, 4to, 9 vols. The first number of this periodical publication (far superior to anything which had hitherto appeared) was printed on the 19th of Feb., 1704, repeated every Saturday and Tuesday until 1705, and after that three times a week until its termination in May, 1713. A com- plete set is probably not now in existence. A copy from Feb. 19, 1704, to March 23, 1710, is in the British Museum. This work paved the way for, and set the example of, that species of writing soon afterwards carried to its perfection in the Tatlers- and Spectators."

Since Lowndes penned the words I have italicized above a complete copy has come to- light, as appears from the following foot- note to p. 86 of William Lee's ' Life and Recently Discovered Writings of Daniel Defoe ' (London, J. Camden Hotten, 1869), vol. i. :

" Only one complete copy of the Review is- known to exist. It is in the possession of James Crossley, Esq. The British Museum contains Volumes I to VII., and some subsequent numbers, and the Bodleian Library has recently acquired several of the earlier volumes."

Ibid., p. 200, he states :

" Defoe protracted the eighth volume of his Review four months beyond the usual time, until the new stamp duty came into operation, when it was closed on the 29th of July, 1712, with a double paper, containing a Preface, and the following Title : * A Review of the State of the British Nation. Vol. VIII. London. Printed in the Year 1712.'"

On p. 204 Lee continues :

" ,he commenced the first volume of a new

series in the beginning of August, each number consisting of a single leaf, quarto, headed 'Re- view ' ; it was published twice weekly, and part of the time thrice weekly, until the llth of June, 1713, when it had reached the 106th Number, and terminated with the words * Exit Review.' Until within the last few years, no complete set of this new Series, improperly called the Ninth Volume of the Review, was known to exist. Mr. Crossley, of Manchester, is now the happy possessor of the whole; and to him I am indebted for the par- ticulars of its extent and termination."