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NOTES AND QUERIES. m s. iv. AUG. 12, 1911.

18. What Fathers of the Church declared the mistletoe unhallowed ?

19. Ale ! ale !

Three puddings in a pale ; Crack nuts and cry Ale !

20. I like them well. The curious preciseness And all-pretended gravity of those

That seek to banish hence these harmless

sports Have thrust away much ancient honesty.

21. Ancient sirloin.

22. I do walk,

Methinks, like Guido Vaux, with my

dark lanthorn, Stealing to set the town o' fire ; in the

country I should be taken for William of the

Wisp, Or Robin Goodfellow. Fletcher.

23. Foregone world.

24. Bosom scenes.

25. Pity, " that dwells in womanhood."

26. Prodigious apparition.

27. Who wrote the song ' Of an Old Courtier and a New/ beginning

An old song made by aged old pate Of an old worshipful gentleman who had a great estate,

which is printed in vol. ii. of Ritson's ' Select Collection, 1 and stated to be probably of the seventeenth century ?

28. Barbed sorrow.

29. Satisfied the sentiment.

30. Pure yellow gold.

T. BALSTON.

Fox AND KNOT STREET. On leaving the Thackeray Exhibition I passed through Fox and Knot Street (Charterhouse Street). Will any one kindly tell me the origin of the name of this street ? T. S.

FORT RUSSELL, HUDSON'S BAY. A

certain Col. Russell, of a Scotch family, settled in North- West Canada, c. 1760-80, and is supposed to have founded a Fort Russell, Russell's Bay, Hudson's Bay. Should any of your readers be able to identify this place from early Canadian maps, or give me any information regarding him or his family, I should be most grateful.

MARY TERESA FORTESCUE.

Sprydoncote, Exeter.

ALDUS MANUTIUS : PORTRAIT BY BELLINI. In the 1805 edition of Roscoe's ' Leo X.,' 4to, there is a portrait of Aldus from a picture by Giovan. Bellini, said to be " in the possession of Mr. Edwards of Pall Mall." Where is this picture now ?

XYLOGRAPHER.

TIMOTHY ALSOP was M.P. for Plymouth in Richard Cromwell's Parliament, 27 Janu- ary, 1658/9, to 22 April, 1659. He is sup- posed to be the third son of John Alsopp of Alsopp le Dale, Derbyshire, by Temper- ance Gilbert. There is an entry in the ' Cal. State Papers Dom. Series,' vol. for 1665-6, p. 371, to the effect that the King recommended to the Brewers' Company of London the admission of Josiah Child, merchant of London, as a free brother of the Company for the same fine as the late Timothy Alsop, the King's brewer, paid.

By the courtesy of the Clerk to the Brewers' Company, I have examined the only entries in the books of the Company showing that Timothy Allsop and Jonathan Allsop were free of the Company, the former presenting a silver ewer on the occasion.

Any one seeing this might be pardoned for jumping at the conclusion that brewing had been hereditary for generations in this well-known Derbyshire family ; but we find that the firm of Allsopp was founded early in the eighteenth century by a Mr. Benjamin Wilson, and it was not till 1805 that Samuel Allsopp, " the male repre- sentative of an ancient Derbyshire family," entered the firm (Barnard, ' Noted Breweries of Great Britain and Ireland,' i. 122, 125).

The question to be settled now is, When did Timothy die ? A. RHODES.

CAMPBELL THE SCOTTISH GIANT. Where can I obtain particulars of this giant, who " exhibited " in London (at the Egyptian Hall, I think) in the late seventies or early eighties ? He was a great favourite in Jersey ; and he travelled all over the world. He was very fat as well as very tall. Any particulars will be gladly received.

S. J. ADAIR FITZ-GERALD.

8, Lancaster Road, Bowes Park, X.

AYNESCOMBE, SURREY. In the Book of the Court of Augmentations for 34 Hen. VIIL, fo. 17, under date 15 February (1542), there is a reference to a " Ric. Aynescombe of Aynescombe, Surrey " ; see ' Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII.,' ed. Gairdner, vol. xvii. No. 1258, p. 699. I should be grateful for information about the locality of Aynescombe.

ALFRED ANSCOMBE.

MORLENA FEN WIG. I shall be glad of information as to the authorship of the work in which Morlena Fenwig is men- tioned. A. E. IBBERSON.

[Morleena Kenwi^s is in ' Nicholas Nickleby.'J