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engravings (John Harris, St. Paul's Church- yard, 1838), each verse forming the heading to a separate prose chapter. Considerable difficulty was obviously experienced by the author in finding suitable rimes, and now and then the result is more prosaic than poetic. I append, as a specimen of well- meaning effort, the concluding verse, which is better than some others : The Princess Victoria, when only eighteen, Took her seat on the throne of Old England as

Queen.

Ye Britons, with virtue and valour attend ; Be prompt to uphold her, and strong to defend. May justice and mercy, and goodness and truth, Like a sunbeam adorn the bright brow of her youth ; May oppression and wrong 'neath her sceptre bow

down, And her heart find delight in her country's renown.

W. B. H.

BOARD OF GREEN CLOTH (11 S. iv. 89, 137). I suggest that MRS. FORTESCUE should refer to ' Angliae Notitia ; or, The Present State of England,' by Edw. Chamberlayne, which according to the ' Dictionary of National Biography ' was first published in 1669. I have the fifteenth edition, 1684, in which is an account of the Board of Green Cloth, p. 152, with a list of the officers on p. 160. The account, with some few omissions and alterations, is reproduced in ' Magnao Britanniae Notitia ; or, The Present State of Great-Britain,' by John Chamberlayne, referred to by ST. SWITHIN (ante, p. 137).

Besides the fifteenth edition of Edw. Chamberlayne' s book, I have three editions of his son John Chamberlayne's enlarged repro- duction, viz., those of 1708, 1726, 1755. In each is a list of the officers. In my 1726 edition, p. 106 of the ' General List,' some one has crossed out John, Duke of Argyle and Greenwich ("Lord Steward of His Majesty's Houshold"), and written in the margin " D. of Dorsett." Similarly " S r P. Methuen " takes the place of the Right Honourable Hugh, Earl of Cholmondeley, Treasurer ; " E. of Lincoln " that of William Pultney, Esq., Cofferer; and " P. Finch " that of Paul Methuen, Esq., Comptroller.

Reference may also be made to ' The Official Handbook of Church and State,' new and thoroughly revised edition (John Murray, 1855), compiled by Samuel Red- grave, pp. 13, 14 :

"The Palace anciently formed an exempt juris- diction, which was subject to the court of the Lord Steward of the Household, held in his absence by the Ireasurer, the Comptroller, or the Steward of the Marshalsea."

Acts of Parliament are referred to. 3 Hen. VII. c. 14 conferred certain powers on the Board. 33 Henry VIII. c. 12 gave enlarged powers for trial and punishment of treasons, misprisions, murders, &c., in any palaces or houses of the king, or other house where he resides. This extensive jurisdiction, having long fallen into disuse, was in part repealed by 9 Geo. IV. c. 31; and the civil jurisdiction which the court continued to exercise till 1849 was abolished in that year by stat. 12 and 13 Viet. c. 101. ROBERT PJERPOINT.

THESES BY MR. SECRETARY THOMAS REID (11 S. iv. 163). Line 19 from bottom of col. 1, for "essentia" reac^ essentia. Line 17 from bottom, for " cruitur " read eru-itur. Line 5 from top of col. 2, for " quae " read qua.

I have a suspicion that " intrivere " in line 8 of col. 2 is wrong, though I am not able to suggest an amendment. It is a Latin word, but is difficult to construe here. JOHN R. MAGRATH.

LONDON DIRECTORIES OF THE EIGH- TEENTH CENTURY (11 S. iv. 168). Messrs. Kelly, the publishers of the ' Post Office Directory,' have a comprehensive collec- tion, which can be consulted on payment of a fee. The B.M. collection is fairly com- plete ; see the ' London Directory,' 8vo, 'The New Complete Guide,' 12mo, and Kent's Directories. A few not in the Museum collection are before me, and I should be pleased to let J. R. F. G. have sight of them. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

The British Museum contains a fairly lengthy series of London directories of the eighteenth century. I think there are some gaps in the series. Baldwin's ' New Com- plete Guide ' is the title of one of the earliest, best, and longest-lived. It gives not only a list of all the streets, &c., in the City of London, but also a fairly complete alpha- betical list of the tradesmen, in addition to much other information. The earliest issue I have is that of 1770, which is the twelfth edition. I think it came out annually.

W. ROBERTS.

18, Kings Avenue, Clapham Park,

There are a number of old London direc- tories in the Newspaper Room of the British Museum, accessible to "readers" only. There is also a good collection in the Refer- ence Library of the Bishopsgate Institute, Bishopsgate, E.C., open free to the general