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LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1911.

CONTENTS.-No. 60.

NOTES : Warwick Lane and its Historical Associations, 121 Quotations in Jeremy Taylor, 122 Richardson's Supposed Derbyshire Connexions, 123 Richardson and the Methodists Sir J. Davies and Francis Bacon, 124 'The Minor ' and ' The Methodist ' Penn Memorial, St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol Domenico Cagnoni Droz's Spectacle Me"cauique, 125 Sir John Mundy " Too many turnpikes to pay" "God made the country, and man made the t own " Coutances, Winchester, and the Channel Islands Hair Folk-lore in Mexico -Trade-Mark granted by Letters Patent, 126.

QUERIES : " Phillymaclink" Turner and Peake Families Richardson's Birth Underground Soho 'Crystals from Sydenham ' Governors of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 127 Walter Haddon W. and G. Ireland Epigram in Schopenhauer " Let us go hence, my songs "French Quotation Authors Wanted " When she was good," Ac. "O dear, my good masters," 128" Cruel of heart were they" Geneva perfuming the World "Had I Wist," Bogy Twenty-Four Acts of Chivalry W. A. Bennett B. Pring W. M. Tollner Scarborough Spa Murderers reprieved for Marriage H. Ginger Ibbetson J. Janeway " No great shakes," 129.

REPLIES : Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke " Tewke," "Tuke," 130 "Tertium Quid" "Vail" : its Use by Scott Hungarian Bibliography" Hie locus odit, amat," Ac. Pyrrhus's Toe, 131 T. J. Thackeray Thackeray and the Stage ' Flying Dutchman '' Death of Capt. Cook' M. G. Drake -Gataker Prickly Pear, 132- John de Cosington Guichard d'Angle, 133 D'Israeli of Dublin " Corbie-steps ", Sweetapple Surname Anne Boleyn, 134 Watson Family Battle in Lincolnshire, 135 " Goulands " Authors Wanted Lacy as Place-Name, 136 Oundle-Dryden as Place-Name, 137 " Stencil" Roger Gollop, M. P. Queen's Regiment, 138.

NOTES ON BOOKS :-Verrall on Euripides-' The National Review.'

Booksellers' Catalogues. OBITUARY: W. L. Rutton. Notices to Correspondents.

WARWICK LANE AND ITS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS.

I HAVE not seen the recently published book by the late Sir Walter Besant called ' London, the City,' but from the review published in The Athenceum for 28 January I gather that, with a few exceptions, it contains little or no fresh material which might add to our available knowledge of the history of the City. As the reviewer says, an opportunity has been lost, for the City of London is o interlinked with the history of England that it affords the best possible groundwork for instruction in the material facts of that history. If the London teachers could see their way to taking their charges on Satur- day afternoons to those localities which are

! associated with historic events, and giving a ! short sketch of the distinguished characters who lived in them, it would lend a reality to their historical studies which mere book- learning can never afford. If the children are reading about the Wars of the Roses, for instance, and are able to pace along the street in which the " Kingmaker " kept open house, it will help them to realize, if they are in the hands of a skilful instructor, that the Earl was no half -mythical figure, but was as much alive in his own day as Mr. Asquith or Mr. Balf our is in ours.

No street is more filled with instruction of this kind than Warwick Lane. Lying under the shadow of the great Cathedral, and, to judge from the ancient name, the site of the residence of the Dean of that church, it came in the days of King Edward III. into the possession of Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, one of the greatest nobles of his day, and an original founder of the Order of the Garter. He died of the pestilence in 1369, and was succeeded in the possession of Warwick Inn by his second, but eldest surviving, son, Thomas, who, after a chequered career, died in 1401. He was succeeded by his eldest son Richard, who died in 1439. His son Henry succeeded as a boy, but was accorded the highest honours by King Henry VI., who not only recognized liim as the Premier Earl of England, with the special privilege of wearing a gold circlet, but also created him Duke of Warwick, and crowned him with his own hands as King of the Isle of Wight. He survived the grant of these honours but a few months, and died in 1445 at the early age of 22. His widow, the Duchess Cicille of Stow, resided in the house till 1450, when it came into the possession of Richard Nevill, eldest son of Richard, Earl of Salisbury, through his marriage with Anne Beau- champ, the sister and eventual heiress of Henry, Duke of Warwick. He retained it till his death in 1471, when, with the rest of the Nevill honours and possessions, it fell into the hands of his son-in-law, the ill-fated Clarence. In this house the Kingmaker, with his 600 retainers clad in red jackets, embroidered with the badge of Warwick before and behind, maintained a magnificent hospitality.

A short walk would bring the party to Dowgate Hill, on the east side of which, on ground now covered by Cannon Street Station, stood a fine old house called the Erber, or, as we should say in modern English, the Arbour. This house, formerly a possession of the Scropes, was afterwards