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TAKING TOBACCO : WOMEN SMOKING : 1621. Students of ballad literature are familiar with quaint woodcuts in which groups of men and women are seated at supper, with meat, ale-cups, and tobacco- pipes on the table. I do not recall any

block in which a woman is represented as I to affix their names and addresses to their queries, smoking. This detail is added by the j in order that answers mav ^ sent to them direct ' record of a libel action in the Court of the

Archdeacon of Essex, which supplies a DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN. I should description, in words, of an alehouse scene, ! be much obliged if any of your readers

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest

contemporary with the pictures furnished by the engravers of the black-letter blocks. George Thresher was reported, in the Archdeacon's Court, to be "a poore man, little or nothinge worth in his owne estate," who " kept a shopp in Romford," and " lived by selling beere and tobacco." Elizabeth Savage was described as addicted

cou!d inform me who is the author of the following poem, addressed to Drummond of Hawthornden. It can be found in the edition of the ' Poems ' of Drummond by Phillips (p. 67), and in the folio edition of 1711 (p. iii), as also in the edition of the Maitland Club (p. 310). It is entitled ' Clorus,' and runs as follows :

Swan which so sweetly sings

to " stronge drincke and tobacco," and said

to be "a good friend and customer " to i By Aska's bankesTand

George Thresher. On 8 June, 1621, this ! That old Meander never" heard "such straines,

Elizabeth told her story in her own words, Eternall fame, thou to thy country brings :

as follow-? i And nmv our Calidon


 * Is by thy songs made a new Helicon ;

" George Thresher kept a shoppe in Romford ; Her mountaines, woods, and springs, and sold tobacco there. She came diuers tymes J While mountaines, woods, springs be, shall sound to his shoppe to buy tobacco there ; and some- ' times, with company of her acquaintance, did take tobacco and drincke beere in the hall of George Thresher's house, sometimes with the said George, ani sometimes with his father and his brothers. And sometimes shee hath had a joint of meat and a cople of chickens dressed there ; and shee, and they, and some other of her freinds, have dined there together, and paid th?ir share for their dinner, shee being many times

more willing to dine there then at an inne or taverne."

A. CLARK. Great Leighs.

VANISHING LONDON: THE SARDINIAN ARCHWAY. A portion of London now vanishing is referred to in The Estates Gazette, 20 Jan., 1912, as follows :

" The Sardinian archway and three of the oldest houses in Lincoln's Inn Fields (52, 53, and 54) are being pulled down. They were erected in the seventeenth century by Inigo Jones. The Sardinian archway was a" dark, gloomy passage, and in it several crimes are said to have been committed and duels fought in the days when Lincoln's Inn Fields was one of the worst places in the metropolis. At one time No. 54 was the residence of Sardinian Ambassadors. Just behind it stood the chapel attached to the Embassy, afterwards known as the Sardinian Chapel, which was once the only Roman Catholic chapel permitted in London. It was pulled down two or three years ago. No. 55, once occupied by Lord Tennyson, remains, and with it a small portion of the Sardinian archway, over which it

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is built. Dublin.

> WILLIAM MACARTHTJR.

thy praise ;

And though fierce Boreas oft make pale her bayes, And kill those mirtills with enraged breath, Which should thy brows enwreath,

Her flouds have pearles, seas amber do send

forth,

Her heaven hath golden stars to crown thy worth.

Following Phillips and the folio edition, the editors of the Maitland Club edition of Drummond's ' Poems ' ascribe the following piece, omitted by Ward, to the Laird of Hawthornden :

Ilyrune.

Saviour of mankind, man Emanuel, Who sinlesse died for sin, who vanquisht hell The first fruits of the grave, whose life did give Light to our darknes, in whose death we live,

strengthen thou my faith, correct my will, That mine may thine obey ; protect me still, So that the latter death may not devour

My soule seal'd with thy scale ; so in the houre When thou whose body sanctified thy tombe, Unjustly judg'd, a glorious judge shalt come To judge the world with justice, by that signe

1 may be known, and entertain'd for thine.

As no trace of this piece can be found in the Hawthornden MSS., or in any of the early editions of Drummond, I am inclined, apart from other reasons, to believe that it is not the work of Drummond. However, I have no direct evidence to back my opinion, and hope that on this question also I may have the assistance of your readers.

L. E. KASTNER.

Universitv of Manchester.