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CANONS, MIDDLESEX : " ESSEX " AS CHRISTIAN NAME (US. ii. 328, 374, 394, 437, 534 ; iii. 92). In the ' London Marriage Licenses ' (Foster's edition) are at least four instances of " Essex " used as a female Christian name: Col. 130, "Richard Bynns and Ef.sex Ingram (Spinster), 1687." Col. 420, " James Drax and Essex Lake (Spinster), 1662/3." Col. 948, " Sir Roger Mostyn and Lady Essex Finch (Spinster), 1703," Col. 1085, " Hon. John Poulett and Essex Pop- ham (Spinster), 1663." DIEGO.

Lodge's ' Peerage ' gives, under the title of Baron Mostyn, " Hon. Essex, born 22 Oct., 1833." E. L. H. TEW.

Upham Rectory.

ALEXANDER HOLMES, 1848 (US. iii. 70). A copy of The Times for 1848 can be seen, I believe, at the Advocate's Library, Edin- burgh. The Catalogue of the Library would lead one to infer as much. Another copy may be seen at Glasgow in the " Stirling's and Glasgow Public Library." Files of the journal are no doubt preserved at the British Museum, but in a building, I understand, apart from the Library. SCOTTJS.

" LOVE ME, LOVE MY DOG " (11 S. ii. 522 ; iii. 51, 113). The St. Bernard about whom MR. MACMICHAEL asks is St. Bernard of Clairvaux. The words immediately follow- ing those quoted are

<l Nos vero, o beati Angeli, catelli sumus Domini illius, quern tanto affectu diligitis ; catelli, inquam, sapientes saturari de micis, quae cadunt de mensa dominorum nostrorum, qui esbis vos."

This proverb is traced back at least as early as the first half of the eleventh century. In enlarged editions of the ' Adagia ' (e.g., 1629, p. 776) the proverb " Qui amat me, amat et canem meum " is, with others, such as " Qui nimium festinat, caldum edit," dis- tinguished from those that have come down from antiquity. EDWARD BENSLY.

"No GREAT SHAKES" (11 S. iii. 129). At 5 S. viii. 184 the following appeared in a note on this subject:

"In California a shake is a large-sized shingle for roofing buildings, and, taking it in that sense, the slang expression becomes perfectly clear, and indi- cates that a poor bargain, or a person or thing of little account or value, is in the same relation to a good one that a shingle is to a shake. The distinc- tion between a shake and a shingle probably still exists in the shingle -using counties of England, and was doubtless formerly exported thence to America."

Admiral Smythe's explanation seems less probable. He says it is a term expressing

little value, and derived from the taking to pieces of a cask and packing up the parts, which are then termed " shakes " (' Sailor's- Word-Book ' ). J. HOLD EN MACMICHAEL.

ORDINARIES or NEWGATE (11 S iii. 86). After the attempt to secure the appoint- ment of Silas Told in Oct., 1773, 1 have come across no reference to the successor of the Rev. John Wood as Ordinary of Newgate until 8 February, 1774, when, according to- The London Magazine, p. 97, of that year, the Rev. John Villette was elected to the post by the Court of Aldermen.

HORACE BLEACKLEY

COL. OAKES AND QUEEN CAROLINE'S FUNERAL (11 S. iii. 69). The Monthly Magazine for 1821, pt. ii. p. 138, states that, upon the people commencing to barricade Edgware Road, a party of Horse Guards charged, and were received by volleys of stones, upon which a boy officer fired his pistol and shot an inoffensive man, when the troops began a general firing, by which another innocent man was killed and many wounded.

This could hardly refer to Oakes, who was then Brevet-Major. He was promoted to the rank of Major 6 Sept., 1822, and to that of Lieut. -Colonel 25 Jan, 1823, and appears to have been placed on the half -pay list on 12 June, 1823. However, in January, 1832, he again appears on the active list as Major and Lieut. -Colonel of the 2nd Life Guards, but he resigned the same year.

He married 1 March, 1828, at St George's, Hanover Square, Sophia Charlotte, dau. of Edward Fletcher, of Park Street, by whom he had issue. F. M. R. HOLWORTHY.

UNDERGROUND SOHO (11 S. iii. 127). This subterranean passage evidently only crosses the north-east corner of the square. If its direction was west to east it might have been a means of communication between the first and second Carlisle House situated respectively in King's Square Court (now Carlisle Street) and on the site of St. Patrick's Chapel. Or was it used for some sinister purpose by Mrs. - Comely 's guests ? Sir Walter Besant, who worked up the local colour of his novels by actual observation, knew nothing of it. When Jenny's house is besieged by "the company of Vengance " (' The Orange Girl,' chap, xiii.), she escapes by stepping out of the garden gate into Sutton Street. Of the wine cellars in William and Mary Passage probably nothing more can be said than that they are cellars