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Davies, who, it is said, passed her childhood in Bourdon House, Davies Street, brought the united Audley and Goring and Ebury {Pimlico and Belgravia) estates in marriage to Sir Thomas. Their son Sir Richard Grosvenor, 4th Bart., began to build on the Audley (Hyde, or Mayfair) estate with Hanover Square in 1718-19, when John Price was planning, and had just begun to build for Lord Harley (Oxford) in Maryle- bone Fields, what is now Lord Howard de Walden's property.

The laying- out of Cavendish and Hanover Squares on the common axis of Holies Street, Harewood Place, and George Street seems to indicate that the two ground landlords mutually communicated their projects and plans. Grosvenor Square, 654ft. by 654ft., is plotted and named in the Mackays' large-scale survey, 1725, of the parish of St. George, Hanover Square, as reconstituted afresh on 25 March of that year. Kent laid out the Square, garden : one would like to know if he took further share in the planning of Mayfair, and if Price shared in it too. Most of the parish had been taken out of that of St. Martin-in- the-Fields ; Grosvenor Square was plotted near to " Oliver's Mount," and athwart the line of forts thrown up around the town in 1643. The renumbering of all the houses in 1888, and some renumbering, with rebuilding, since, to the confusion of honest chroniclers, have resulted in the substitution of 51 new door-numbers for 49 old. As the alterations appear to be unrecorded, I may mention that the old and the (last) new numbers stand thus, the old being printed in italics Nos. 1-7 (17) ; 8, 9, 10 (9) ; 11 (11) ; 12-15 (12-15) ; 16 (15 A.) ; 17-20 (16-19) ; 21 (19A) ; 22 (19s) ; 23-32 (20-29) ; (29 A) ; 35-51 (30-46). Of these numbers (old) 39, now 44, was Lord Har- rowby's at the time of the Cato Street con- spiracy ; 9 was the first Lord Lytton's ; xS, Lord Derby's, built in 1773 by Adam ; 30, John Wilkes's; 2, W. Beckford's ; 32, Duchess of Bolton's ; and 24, Lord Shaftesbury the philanthropist's. The re- building comprises two houses on the north side one of them being Lord Derby's and those now numbered 3, 4, 22-3, 26-7, 30, 38-9, and 40-1-2.

Much further information about the pro- perty, and the building and rebuilding on the estates, will be found in The Builder of 6 July, 1901, with illustrations, and a reproduction of the Mackays' survey of the parish a fine piece of work. Charles Mackay tnd his son Charles, " mathematicians,"

made the survey to a 1 in. to 10 poles scale in 1724-5, upon skins of vellum, and presented it to the Vestry ; it is now, I believe, in the Mount Street Library. On the plan are inscribed a "List of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal present Inhabitants of the Parish," a painfully detailed rehearsal of a visitation and marking of the new bounds on " Ascension day, being May the 14th, 1725," and other particulars. Mr. Herbert Siev eking' s happy citation of the survey some months since ended for ever the long and much-vexed controversy con- cerning the exact site of the gallows when permanent, at Tyburn. The survey de- lineates the triple gallows with a boundary- mark on " the S.E. Leg of Tyburn where S" G was mark'd."

The estate muniments contain Henry Morgan's " mapp or plot of the Lordship of Eburie being situated in the Parish of Saint Martins in the Fields Mrs. Mary Dammison [sic] being Proprietess," to a 1 in. to 10 perches scale, 53 in. by 23 in., 1675. Confer also Rhodes' s plan of the parish, 1761, a drawn plan in the Grace Collection of the Mayfair property as in 1723, with the intended streets around Grosvenor Square, and the survey, in the King's Library, British Museum, of " Mr. Audley' s land " as in or about 1710.

W. E. D.-MlLLIKEN.

" OLD CLEM " : ' GREAT EXPECTATIONS ' (US. iv.289, 354). But for MR. APPERSON'S reply, I should have said that here is the song Joe Gargery sang. 3 It will be found in Hone's ' Everyday Book,' vol. i. pp. 749-51 :

Come, all you Vulcans stout and strong,

Unto St. Clem we do belong.

I know this house is well prepared

With plenty of money and good strong beer,

And we must drink before we part,

All for to cheer each merry heart.

Come, all you Vulcans strong and stout,

Unto St. Clem I pray turn out ;

For now St. Clem's going round the town,

His coach and six goes merrily round.

Huzza-a-a.

A rime like prepared and beer hardly seems worthy of the smiths. I should have thought their poet would have made use of cheer; 3ut then one is always trying to help people who knew better than oneself, and that is why there is so much Shakespeare emenda- ion. ST. SWITHIN.

I am'much obliged to MR. APPERSON, and also to another correspondent who has written to me privately, for drawing my attention to ' The Jolly Blacksmith '