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only instance that I have met with of the grant of a trade -mark by letters patent under the Great Seal. This patent is not included in the Commissioners of Patents printed series. The official reference to the enrolment is Patent Roll (Chancery), 7 Charles I. Part 10, No. 2. R. B. P.

WE must request corresp9iidents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

" PHILLYMACLINK," The sobriquet to the city of Philadelphia, is vouched for as far back as 1852 by the Librarian of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, who went to Nazareth Hall School that year. At the school the New York boys called the Philadelphians " Phillymaclinkers." Can any one antedate this ?
 * ' Phillymaclink," given by New Yorkers

ALBERT J. EDMUNDS.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

TURNER AND PEAKE FAMILIES. The

register of St. Benet, Paul's Wharf, London, vol. ii., Marriages (Harl. Soc., 1910), con- tains on p. 327 this item : " 1727, April 2. William Turner, of St. Saviour, Southwark, Surrey, and Sibylla Peake, of the same."

The registers of St. Saviour or of St. Olave, Southwark, if printed, are not in the Chicago libraries. I am interested in learning whether this William Turner died before 1740, whether he and his wife Sibylla had any daughters, and whether the wife Sibylla remarried before 1740.

EUGENE F. McPiKE.

1, Park Row, Chicago.

SAMUEL RICHARDSON'S BIRTH. Mr. Aus- tin Dobson in his ' Life of Richardson ' published in 1902 says that the place in Derbyshire where Richardson was born is not known. The month and day of Richard- son's birth also do not seem to be known. It would be interesting to hear whether anything has been found out on these points since 1902. H. G. WARD.

Aachen.

[See ante, p. 123.]

UNDERGROUND SOHO. Can any of your readers tell me the history of the old underground passage which runs from the house occupied by Mr. Thornton Smith, furniture dealer, 11, Soho Square, the whole

length of the Square, and out into the yard of

Crosse & Blackwell in Falconberg Mews ?

There was a year ago an old iron door, if I

remember aright, at the exit in Falconberg

Mews ; but this seems recently to have been

j removed. At the other end, in Mr. Thornton

' Smith's house in Soho Square, there is a

I doorway, and from some of the windows of

the house you can trace the line of the

passage in parts. Has this passage any

history ? There is a tradition that Lord

Lovat, who was executed after the Rebellion

of 1745, hid in this passage ; but Lord


 * Lovat was not captured in London at all.

There is another spot in Soho with a mystery which I should like to fathom. This is the William and Mary Passage off Wardour Street. Here you have endless under- ground cellars of a great wine merchant, but it is said that down this passage and in a portion of these cellars William III. had his stables. CLEMENT K. SHORTER.

1 CRYSTALS FROM SYDENHAM.' Who was the author of ' Crystals from Sydenham,' published in 1855 to commemorate the open- ing of the Crystal Palace ? It is a very clever little book, with imitations not parodies of the leading writers of the time : Tenny- son, Macaulay, Tupper, Kingsley, &c. It is now very scarce. H. N. ELLACOMBE. Bitton Vicarage, Bristol.

GOVERNORS OF THE ROYAL HOSPITAL, CHELSEA. I should be glad if any of your readers could kindly inform me whether there are in existence portraits of the under- mentioned officers who held the post of Governor of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea ; if so, where the portraits are preserved, and whether they are paintings, engravings, miniatures, or book-plates.

1. Col. Sir Thomas Ogle, Kt. Served in H.M. Holland Regiment of Foot. Governor of Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 1 November, 1686, till his death in November, 1702. His son Thomas Ogle married Lady Henrietta Bruce, daughter of Robert, 2nd Earl of Elgin and 1st Earl of Ailesbury.

2. Col. John Hales. Served in Holland, and wounded at battle of St. Denis, 14 August, 1678, when Major in what is now the Northumberland Fusiliers (5th Foot). Governor of Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 17 November, 1702, to 1714.

3. Brigadier Thomas Stanwix, M.P. for Carlisle, Newport and Yarmouth, I.W. Colonel of the 30th Foot and 12th Foot. Governor (or Commandant) of Gibraltar, 1711-13. Governor of Royal Hospital,