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PEEKS IMMORTALIZED BY PUBLIC - HOUSES (11 S. iv. 228, 271, 331, 456). The following is a list of Gloucestershire houses named after peers and baronets, with one or two bearing family names of titled personages. I have omitted the 13 houses named " Prince

of Wales," but have included the first three on my list as, with one exception, they occur once only in the county. Where the origin is apparent the name of the person after whom the house is called is not given :

Inn.

Prince Albert. . Prince Arthur. . Princess Royal Bathurst Arms Beauchamp Arms Beaufort Arms

Berkeley Arms

Codrington Arms Darell Arms Ducie Arms Duke of Beaufort Duke of Brunswick Duke of Sussex. . Duke of Wellington Duke of York.

Earl Grey Lygon Arms Marlboro' Arms Marlborough Inn Marquess of Granby Marquis of Granby" Nelson.

Noel Arms

Raglan Arms. . Redesdale Arms Russell Arms. . Salisbury Seagrave Arms Somerset Arms Somerset Inn. . Sherborne Arms

Suffolk Arms. . Wellington Arms

Wellington Hotel Worcester Arms York Hotel

Locality.

Gloucester, Rodborough

Gloucester

Rodborough

North Cerney

Dymock

Cheltenham, Gloucester, Kingswood, Mangotsfield, Stoke Gifford, West- bury-on-Trym, Wickwar

Berkeley, Cam, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Hinton, Tewkesbury

Wapley and Codrington, Iron Acton. .

Fretherne

Gloucester. . . . ..

Cheltenham

Hawkesbury

Cheltenham, ^Gloucester

Gloucester

Chalford, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, Cirencester, Gloucester, Horfield, Stroud, Tewkesbury

Quenington, Wotton-under-Edge

Chipping Campden

Fairford

Cheltenham, Cirencester, Lechlade

Winchcombe

Gloucester

Bisley, Cheltenham, Cirencester, Glou- cester, King Stanley, Marshfleld, Minchinhampton, Stroud, Tewkesbury

Chipping Campden

Gloucester

More ton- in- th e-Mars h

Cheltenham

Cheltenham

Weston Subedge

Cheltenham

Aldsworth, Cheltenham, Lechlade,

Northleach

Cheltenham, Gloucester Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucester,

Horfield, Moreton-in-the-Marsh Gloucester

Cheltenham, Gloucester Cheltenham

Person*

Earl Bathurst. Earl Beauchamp.

Duke of Beaufort.

Earl of Berkeley.

Sir G. W. H. Codrington, Bart*

Sir Lionel Darell, Bart.

Earl Ducie.

Family name of the Beauchamps* Duke of Marlborough.

Lord Nelson.

Family name of Earl of Gains- borough. Baron Raglan. Baron Redesdale. Earl Russell. Marquis of Salisbury. Baron Seagrave. Duke of Somerset.

Baron Sherborne. Duke of Suffolk.

Duke of Wellington.

Marquis of Worcester. Duke of York.

In compiling the above the following rather uncommon names of public - houses were noted and may be of interest : " Bird in Hand," " Bird in View," " Bishop Blaize," "Corner Cupboard," "Fire Engine," " Forge Hammer," " Happy Return," "Hob- nails," " King David," " Live and Let Live," "Malt Shovel," "Port Cullis " (after the Beauforts), "Ragged Cot," "Trouble House." The last is suggestive.

ROLAND AUSTIN.

Gloucester Public Library.

FIRE-PAPERS (US. iv. 406). It would be of interest to know when these first came into use. I remember them sixty years ago, and think they were not known at a much earlier date. They were then called " fire- place aprons," and seemed of a more sub- stantial make than those of a later date. In country places they were made and "peddled" by the people known as " gipsy women," who brought them strung on a short pole, with the request, " Army fire appens ? " As far as I remember they were