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Pavement, York, is proud of its knocker, which looks as if it might at once comfort and alarm a clinging criminal. It is rather surprising that Beverley cannot show an example. In the neighbourhood are frag- ments of three crosses which marked the line of sanctuary. ST. SWITHIN.

WILLIAM EVATT, CLERK OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS 1784-1802 (11 S. iii. 367). This is pure myth. No person of that name was Clerk of the House of Commons during the period specified or at any time since the Restoration. The succession since that time is as follows :

1660. William Jessop.

1661. William Goldsborough. 1684. PaulJodrell.

1727. Edward Stables.

1731. Nicholas Hardinge.

1748. Jeremiah Dyson.

1762. Thomas Tyrwhitt.

1768. John Hatsell.

1820. John Henry Ley.

1850. Sir Denis Le Marchant.

1871. Sir Thomas Erskine May.

1886. Reginald F. D. Palgrave.

1900. Archibald J. S. Milman.

1902. Sir Courtenay P. Ilbert.

ALFRED B. BEAVEN. Leamington.

ROBERT ROLLO GILLESPIE AT VELLORE (11 S. iii. 348, 397). For an account of the mutiny at Vellore, and the part that Oillespie took in quelling it, see Fortescue's ' History of the British Army,' Book XIII. hap. xv., and Kaye's ' Sepoy War,' Book II. chap. i. The first-named authority gives a fuller description of the actual rising and the fighting that ensued, while Kaye gives a more detailed history of the events which led to the outbreak.

It is a pity that this incident should, apparently, be so little known, as it must ver remain a signal instance of what can be done by energy, decision, and prompti- tude. Had these qualities been shown in a similar degree at Meerut, and other stations when the great mutiny broke out 51 years later, Kaye's History might never have been written ! T. F. D.

The account of the mutiny at Vellore in Wilson's ' History of the Madras Army voL iii. pp. 177-190, is taken from omcia sources, and may be relied upon. Ii includes the relief by Col. Gillespie and his (the 19th) regiment of Dragoons from Arcot. FRANK PENNY.

MR. E. L. H. TEW will find a good account of the mutiny at Vellore and Col. Gillespie' s action therein in ' The History of the British Army,' by the Hon. J. W. Fortescue (Mac- millan & Co., 1910), vol. vi. pp. 40-47. The authority cited is Wilson's ' Madras Army : Life of Sir Rollo Gillespie.' See also 'D.N.B.,' .v. ' Gillespie.' C. W. FIREBRACE.

LAWRENCE STREET, ST. GILES' S-IN-THE- FIELDS (11 S. iii. 309, 398). In the 1755 edition of Stow's ' Survey,' vol. ii. p. 84, n the description of the streets in St. Giles' s- n-the-Fields, Maynard Lane is described as falling into " Laurence Lane." The name 3ertainly cannot be derived from Sir Thomas ^.awrence, who was born in Bristol in 1769. ALFRED SYDNEY LEWIS.

Library, Constitutional Club, W.C.

As an old inhabitant of St. George's, Bloomsbury, having been born there in 1825, at 64, Russell Square, next door to ^o. 65, where Sir Thomas Lawrence lived, allow me to dissent from the quaint sug- gestion that the obscure little street above named, situated in another parish, received its name from him. It will be found as early as 1732, under the name of Laurence Lane, off High Street and near Maynard Street, St. Giles's (the same situa- tion as that ascribed to Lawrence Street in the Post Office Directory for 1904) in the " New Remarks of London "&c., " collected by the Company of Parish- Clerks," printed MDCCXXXII. G. E. C.

PHYSICIAN'S CANE (11 S. iii. 168, 194). Since the query was printed I have dis- covered among family heirlooms an interest- ing example of the gold knob of a physician's cane. This has heavily carved in relief upon it the crest of ancestors who had a fashionable practice in Dover Street, Picca- dilly, and around St. George's, Hanover Square, during the last half of the eigh- teenth century. The crest is a " pelican upon a wheatsheaf, plucking its breast to feed its young." Its wings are raised and a ruby is set in for its eye. With this crested knob are the little "eye-holes" which were set in the side of the cane, and through which the card bearing silken tassels was threaded. This was used by John Kemp of Dover Street (and " of Clitterhouse, Hendon ") during his father's life, and after- wards by his son Daniel Kemp, who con- tinued his father's practice at Dover Street until 1794, when he served with the Army in Holland, dying there in the execution of his duty. The above John Kemp obtained his