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copied the following lines on 14 June, 1886 :

Sacred to the memory of

Mrs. Catherine Olive who died December the 7th, 1785

aged 75 years.

Olive's blameless life this tablet shall proclaim, Her moral virtues and her well earn'd fame. In comic scenes the stage she early trod, " Nor sought the critic's praise nor fear'd his rod." In real life was equal praise her due, Open to pity and to friendship too ; In wit still pleasing, as in converse free 'From all that could afflict humanity : Her gen'rous heart to all her friends was known And ev'n the stranger's sorrows were her own. Content with fame, ev'n affluence she wav'd, To share with others what by toil she sav'd ; And, nobly bounteous, from her slender store, She bade two dear relations not be poor I uch deeds on life's short scenes true glory shed, And heav'nly plaudits hail the virtuous dead.

The above lines were written by Mrs. dive's friend and fellow-actress Miss Jane Pope.

I am aware that most books, including the 'D.N.B.,' give 6 December as the date of death. With regard to her age, she was probably born early in the year 1711, and would therefore be in her 75th year at the time of her death.

Walpole placed an urn to Mrs. Olive's memory in the garden of Little Strawberry Hill bearing the following lines, written by himself :

Ye smiles and jests, still hover round, This is mirth's consecrated ground : Here liv'd the laughter-loving Dame, A matchless actress, Clive her name. The Comic Muse with her retir'd, And shed a tear when she expir'd.

Does this memorial still exist ?

JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

PLASSE : WEEKES : GLTJBB. As there would seem to be some connexion between these names, I think it may be of use to genealogists to note here a few instances of their occurrence.

William Plasse (see also my reply at 11 S. iii. 210) and John Weekes are among the signatories to a petition addressed to the King by inhabitants of " Whitechapel & St. Butolph's without Aldgate," for relief from the noisome vapours issuing from certain alumworks erected by one Turner .at the west end of Wapping (see Stow'j iol. 562).
 * Survey,' enlarged by Munday, 1633

u. H. Burn's ' Catalogue of London Trad< Tokens ' (p. 206) describes one token thus
 * ' Obverse, ISAAC WEEKES^IN (a cow in th

ield); reverse, WHITECHAPEL (in the field . M. W.)."

A list of tenants of Richard Weekes in .674, of lands and tenements that in 1661 lad belonged to John Weekes of North Wyke, Esq., includes John Please as co- enant, with John Wolfe alias Durant, of a nessuage and over 150 acres in Zeale Monachorum, Devon (Coram Rege Roll, Vlich. 26 Car. II. rri. cxcix).

Among the title-deeds of Hawkesland, in Broad wood Kelly, .Devon, which Mr. Wil- iam Summerhayes kindly allowed me to xamine in 1905, was a release in fee, 27 December, 1770, of that estate, by Mr. Fohn Glubb, to Mr. William Summerhayes the present owner's grandfather). It cites a will of Peter Glubb, late of Torrington, brother to John Glubb, dated 14 December, 1759, devising property to Elizabeth Please f Peter Marland, Devon, spinster. Her signature appears on this indenture above a seal displaying the Wykes arms, Ermine, 3 battleaxes, 2 and 1, within a circle (not a shield), and with a bird (dove ?) standing ipon it, which is not a Wykes or Weekes crest. The seal may, however, not have Deen her own, but acquired by the lawyer
 * rom a former (seventeenth-century) Wykes

ord of the manor of Broadwood Kelly.

At the Record Office I find in a docket of the Signet Office, November, 1660, the pre- sentation of Peter Glubb to the rectory of Hunshawe in the diocese of Exeter.

ETHEL LEG A- WEEKES.

ST. MABY-LE-BONE CHARITY SCHOOL. The stone bearing the following inscription was removed from the outside of the school wall, Marylebone Road, on or about 25 July, 1910:

St. Mary-le-bone

Charity School

for the Maintenance and Education of

the Daughters of Poor Inhabitants Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions

Founded A.D. 1750. Removed to this site A.D. 1838.

Affixed to the same wall, i.e. the original

boundary wall, was, and perhaps still

(July, 1911) is, a board, 30 inches high by

45 inches wide, exhibiting the following :

S e Marylebone School for Girls

The Daughters of Parishioners

who have resided Two Years in the Parish

are eligible for this School. Girls are admissible between the Ages of

Eight and Twelve.

For Information respecting the Election of Girls

Apply to the Matron at the School, House

Entrance in Devonshire Place North.

D. G. Crisp, Secretary.