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called ' The Chapter of Kings,' which no doubt was considered a work of art at the time. Each verse has two pictures the lines of the verse underneath, and the historical facts at top. Now ' The Brush ' was an entertainment, and as such was published as late as 1899 in Oxberry's 'Theatrical Banquet.' The song was sung in 'The Brush ' by the author, in the character of an Irish schoolmaster, as we learn from a little book published at Birmingham in 1804, entitled ' Scripscrapologia : Collins's Doggerel Dish of all Sorts, consisting of songs, comic tales, quaint epigrams.' To this a portrait of Collins is prefixed, and from the contents it seems he was a Bath personage or performer. That is as far as I can carry the matter at present. Unfortunately, Bath material for Collins seems scarce : Keene's Bath Journal for the years likely to give particulars of Collins is not in the British Museum. A. RHODES.

' History of the Kings and Queens of England in Verse, from King Egbert to Queen Victoria,' by A. Rossendale, appeared in 1846 ; and in the following year there was published ' The Royal Remembrancer ; or, Versified History of English Sovereigns.' The author, W. Worth, covers the same period ; but there is no resemblance between the two works. Thomas Dibdin also pro- duced a metrical version of English history ; the manuscript was in rny hands a few years ago, but I cannot give its title at present. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

ARNO SURNAME (11 S. iv. 290). In one case, at least Arno's Grove, Southgate, Middlesex this name appears as a form of Arnold. Some account of this interesting- house, formerly " Arnold's Grove," appears in Thome's 'Environs of London,' part ii. p. 560. A description of Arno's Grove will also be found in ' The Beauties of England and Wales ' (London and Middlesex), vol. ii. p. 709, facing which reference is a fine con- temporary engraving of the mansion.

F. S. SNELL.

Court," was some years ago purchased by Roman Catholics, and is now used as a reformatory for youthful offenders of that faith. E. T. MORGAN.

Bristol Cathedral.

MR. A. H. ARKLE can find the name of Arno in the current London * Post Office Directory,' in the " Court " section, and the son of this Arno in the suburban division of the same ' Directory.' The former would be described in French as a rentier, whilst the latter is a Fellow of the Surveyors? Institution. A. H.

[DRYASDUST and MB. A. LEWIS are thanked for replies.]

THOMAS OLIVER, BOND STREET (US. iv. 290). There is no one of this name among Bond Street residents in the ' Universal British Directory,' 1790-91. There were then four of the name living in Mark Lane, Brick Lane, Fleet Street, and Brook Street. The prerogative will of Robert Oliver of St. James's, Westminster, proved 4 Feb., 1773, mentions his godson Robert Oliver, son of Thomas Oliver. W. ROBERTS CROW.

According to the ' Universal British Directory of Trade and Commerce' (1791), he then traded as a French trimming-maker at 112, New Bond Street.

DANIEL HIPWELL.

There was a clock- and watch-maker named Thomas Oliver in business in 1790- 1800 at 2, Brook Street, Hanover Square,, which is close to Bond Street.

TOM JONES.

Thomas Oliver was a well-known jeweller date, but I cannot find this name at Bond Street anywhere near 1786.
 * and goldsmith at 17, Fleet Street, at this

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

LEMAN STREET, E. (11 S. iv. 210, 258, 316).. In the " Antiquities " column of The East London Advertiser for 13 July, 1901, is a long account of this street and of the Leman family, written by myself. The paper was- reprinted in ' East London Antiquities.' The street was named after William Leman,

Latimer, in his ' Annals of Bristol in the Eighteenth Century,' says that a publican

of the name of Arno kept an inn in High ! a nephew of Sir John Leman, Lord Mayor of Street, Bristol, in the year 1773. London in 1616-17, and the inheritor of

About a mile from Bristol Railway Station, along the Bath Road, there is a locality named " Arno's Vale," but the derivation of this designation is unknown.

About 1757 a Bristol merchant named Reeve built a large mansion at Arno's Vale. This mansion, which was known as " Arno's

the greater part of his estates, which included a considerable amount of property in the East End. Goodman's Fields were some- times known as Leman' s Fields. William Leman married Rebecca, elder daughter and coheiress of Edward Prescott, citizen and salter. He was created a baronet 3 March,