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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. iv. OCT. u, 1911.

I should like to know what grounds the querist has for saying that the ' Essay ' was " published between 17 December, 1774, and the middle of July, 1775," and that it is a criticism "on R. Cumberland's plays, particularly on that entitled ' The Fashionable Lover.' ' Neither Cumber- land nor his play is mentioned in the poem printed in ' The Harleian Miscellany,' which from internal evidence must have been written some years before the above date. For instance, Hogarth, who died in 1764, is still in the land of the living :

Should Hogarth, with extravagant conceit, Make a strange group of contrast figures meet.

Again, we have a reference to a famous

actor :

Fame gives this rule, if we to fame may trust, Tragedians only act a Falstaff just : In this, indeed, long famous have they been, For Betterton was matchless, now is Quin.

Quin, unrivalled in his impersonation of Falstaff, on retiring from the stage took up his abode at Bath, where he died in 1766. A reference is made to Colley Gibber : Vain all the puffs to publick papers sent ; Vain all the arts ev'n C-bb-r could invent.

Gibber died in 1757. It would therefore follow that the poem to which I refer was composed not before the date just mentioned, nor later than 1766. I am strongly inclined to believe that this is the ' Essay ' which your correspondent desires to see.

JOHN T. CURRY.

LEMAX STREET, E. (11 S. iv. 210, 258). For twenty years (1876-96) I was continu- ally in touch with the neighbourhood in which this street is situated. The name . was almost universally pronounced as " lemon," with an occasional lapse to " le-m'an.'' I have heard a porter use both these pronunciations almost in the same breath when calling out the name of the station. " JOHN T. PAGE.

MR. STILWELL is quite correct, When I resided in that district, many years ago, we always referred to it as Lem'an Street, with accent on the " lem." Curiously enough, I was introduced recently to a lady of that name, and it was pronounced in the same way by her friends, i.e., as " lemon."

M. L. R. BRESLAR.

URBAN V.'s FAMILY NAME (US. iv. 204, 256). As to Don Giuseppe, Marques de Grimaldo (1660-1733), Secretary of State to Philip V., Moreri in his Spanish ' Historical Dictionary,' 1753, says that Don Giuseppe was a Grimaldi, of that branch settled at

Seville. He also mentions Prince Francesco* Grimaldo of the Spanish branch, who claimed? to be of the Genoese Grimaldi, affirming; that he had always kept up his establish- ment at Genoa. Mr. (afterwards Sir) George Bowyer, in a letter in my possession, dated Genoa, 1 January, 1834, says that the minister was a Corsican ; and the Grimaldis of Corsica came from Genoa, and some are still living in that island.

Battilana in his ' Nobilita di Genova,' Geneva, 1826, vol. ii., begins the genealogy of the Grimaldi with Grimaldo, Consul of Genoa, 1162; then follow 8 pp. headed Grimaldo, and the name Grimaldo appears- as late as 1460 at least.

A letter relating to the death of the- Marquis Joseph, from Francesco di Grimaldi,. is in the British Museum, Additional MS- 15,577, fo. 392; and a volume of his letters,. &c., is in Egerton MS". No. 364.

Piferrer in his ' Nobiliario,' vol. iii. p. 98, gives the pedigree of the Seville Grimaldo,, and the dates would agree with his Francesco Martinez being the son of Bernardo of the Carignano (Piedmont) branch as set out by Venasque in his ' Genealogica Grimaldse- Gentis Arbor,' Parisiis, 1647, p. 134.

The expression " one of the most powerful of the medieval septs," used of the former position of the Grimaldi, may be questioned ; but having had among them 6 Principalities,. 5 Dukedoms, 13 Marquisates, 9 Countships, and 40 Baronies, besides numerous Lordships, and having given many Doges to Genoa,, and one to Venice, and Cardinals to Rome, they must have come pretty near it.

I should have given the title of the second life of Urban V. to which I referred ante? p. 204, as " Vie du B. Urbain V. Pape. Par M. Charbonnel. Marseille, 1872." Another account of him is to be found in " l^tude sur les Relations Politiques du Pape Urbain V. avec les Rois de France Jean II. et Charles V. Par Maurice Prou. Paris. 1887."

I have no knowledge when the change- took place, if it did, from Grimaldi to Grimoard ; ; such changes were certainly not uncommon. Thus a Grimaldi in Normandy changed his name to Bee Crispin. One of them was standard-bearer to William I. in his invasion, and received very large grants,, the name being again changed to Fitz- william, I suppose in compliment to the- Conqueror, and this great family still bears, the arms and motto of the Grimaldi.

The old legal family of Grimord in Pro- vence was, I found, called Grimaldi ; and they were formerly numerous there.

L. M. R.