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1695, Mr. Kemp bought a considerable part of the collection during the minority of John, Lord Carteret, now Earl of Granville. This remark was made by Henry, Earl of Winchelsea, who saw many of the things in the possession of Mr. Gailhard at Anger in France in the year 1676, and afterwards much increased at Paris in 1683. Mr. Kemp's collection was sold by auction at the Phoenix Tavern in Pall Mall on Thursday the 23rd [also on the] 24th, 25th, and 27th of March, 1721, in 293 articles, and the amount of the sale was 1,0901. Ss. 6d."

I give this note at length as Beloe, Tite, and even Mr. Goodwin in the ' D.N.B.' (supra Kemp) are at fault in some of their data, derived evidently from a less authentic source. Kemp had two of the terra-cotta lamps found on the site of St. Paul's by Conyers and Bagford, and they passed into Woodward's collection.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

(To be concluded.)

BISHOPSGATE STREET; WITHOUT. (See ante, pp. 2, 142.)

ONE SWAN YARD, which stood between what was, before the Great Eastern en- croachments, Nos. 179 and 181, marked the site of the old " One Swan Inn," a place of call for carriers and wainmen. The Yard was closed finally in 1890. It occupied part cf the ground on the west side of Bishops- gate Street Without.

" A Very handsome Iron-grey Mare, full fourteen Hands three Inches high, comes six Years old, walks, trots, and gallops well, -\yar- ranted sound, and fit to carry ten Stone a Hunting.

"To be seen at any time at the One Swan Yard without Bishopsgate." Daily Advertiser, 10 April, 1742.

To be Sold, At the One Swan without Bishopsgate,

A Pair of genteel Geldings, and a Mare, just brought out of the North, and never in any Dealer's Hands, all warranted sound. Enquire as above for Old Hanover,

Daily Advertiser, 2 June, 1742.

A few doors from One Swan Yard, between Nos. 186 and 187, was Two Swan Yard, the site of which also has been absorbed by the Great Eastern Hotel. The Yard had its name from one of the extra-mural coaching inns, " The Two Swans " : For Bath

A Coach and four Horses will set out on Sunday .Morning next, from the Two Swans Yard without Bishopsgate, by Eobert Ware. Daily Adver- tiser, 1 June, 1742.

Another coach-and-four for Bath is announced to set out from the same yard en Friday or Saturday, " Perform' d " by John Long (ibid., 28 May).

Horse-stealing was especially prevalent in the eighteenth century. Hardly a news- sheet appeared, daily or otherwise, without an advertisement for a horse " Lost " or " Strayed." There was a way of locking " upon the shank or pastern of the horse a case-hardened and fileprpof iron ring, lined with some soft material to prevent chafing, and bearing the owner's name and place of abode." But this plan, I believe, surrendered to the ingenuity of the horse " rustler " of the time. Really strayed horses were seldom recovered. Those which bore the marks of the irons they had worn were, in American parlance, " hot stuff." Especially was this the case when a collar was fixed round the neck, which was soon filed. The following is an announcement typical of hundreds of others :

" Stolen on Monday Night last, out of a Meadow near Hertford, belonging to Mr. James Man, a dark-brown mare, about fourteen Hands and a half high, about twelve Years old, with a brown Muzzle, a nich'd Tail, and a blemish in the off Eye. Al-o a dark-brown Chesnut Gelding, about fourteen Hands high, comes five Years old, with a white Mane and Tail, has been lately dock'd and nich'd, and has been fir'd on the off Leg before. Whoever will bring them to Mr. Man, of Hertford aforesaid, or to Mr. George Cramphorn. at the two Swans without Bishopsgate, shall have Two Guineas Reward, and Two Guineas more, if they secure the Persons so as that they may be brought to Justice." Daily Advertiser, 26 Novem- ber, 1741.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

Sir Humphrey Cahoon or Colquhoun. It is a little difficult to determine who was the " Scotch gentleman " who, according to The Weekly Journal of 25 August, 1722, cut his throat with a penknife in " The Katharine- Wheel Inn " a few days before (see ante, p. 142). Sir Humphrey Colquhoun of Luss died in 1718. At his death the Nova Scctia baronetcy devolved upon his son-in-law, James Grant of Pluscardine, who, in terms of Sir Humphrey's settlement, and the regrant of the baronetcy in 1704, assumed the name of Sir James Colquhoun of Luss. In 1719, however, upon the death of his elder brother Brigadier Grant, he succeeded to the family estates of Grant, whereupon still in terms of Sir Humphrey's settle- ment he relinquished the name of Col- quhoun and the estates of Luss. The baronetcy he could not relinquish, and it is now held by his descendant, the Earl of Seafield. His second son, Ludovick, took the name and arms of Colquhoun in 1719 ; and when he in turn succeeded to the estates of Grant (in 1735), Luss fell to his brother James, who called himself Sir James Col-