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-will of his father-in-law (will dated 30 March, 1660) in respect of certain leasehold property in Whitecross Street and Golden Lane, parcel of the manor of Finsbury. The interest in part of this property descended to Thomas and Elizabeth Nottingham by virtue of the marriage settlement of their mother. They sold it before 1678.

A. J. C. GUIMARAENS.

" BUNKINS " (11 S. v. 251) is a character in Miss Macnaughtan's novel ' The Fortunes of Christina McNab.' K.

ROMAN COINS (11 S. v. 226). Roman coins are found in great numbers in all Roman camps. Whitaker seems to me to be entirely wrong in his supposition that hoards of coins are not found in such places. A few years ago a large number, including 12 early aurei, was exhumed in the camp here; and only last year many aurei, some 150, were found in Corsto- pitum. These also are early in date, while about two years ago some late gold coins solidi were found at the same place. R. B R.

South Shields.

GABRIEL GRANT, PREBENDARY AND ARCH- DEACON OF WESTMINSTER (11 S. iii. 8). Not having seen any reply to the query of O. F. R. B. as to the marriage of this man, I think the following from Chester's ' Mar- riage Licences ' may be opportune :

" Grant, the Right Worshipful Gabriel, D.D., Prebendary of Westminster, Vicar of Waltham- stow, and Anne Senior of St. Clement Danes, 35, widow of Morgan Senior, Esq., late of Ashton, co. Dorset, deceased. At St. Bartholomew near the Exchange. 10 February, 1633/4. (Bishop of London's Licence.)"

She was his second wife. I have a note that his first wife was named Dionisia. My interest in this man lies in his connexion with Walthamstow, of which place I have con- siderable MS. collections.

WILLIAM GILBERT. 35, Broad Street Avenue, B.C.

COUNTY BIBLIOGRAPHIES (11 S. iv. 488; v. 30, 178, 196, 276, 338). Although some counties possess no propel bibliography, as MR. HUMPHREYS points out in his valuable record, yet it is but bare justice to earlier workers to point out a reference work of a century back which contains useful county book lists. I refer to the ' Beauties of England and Wales,' 1801-18. See, for instance, the volumes on Derbyshire and Leicestershire, WM. JAGGARD.

Norfolk Topographer's Manual, being a Catalogue of Books and Engravings relating to the County, by Samuel WoodAvard, revised and augmented by W. C. Ewing, with Catalogue of Drawings, Prints, and Deeds, collated by Dawson Turner, 1842.

R. STEWART BROWN.

BACON : REGISTER OF BIRTH (11 S. v. 269). The baptism of Francis Bacon is entered in the Register of St. Martin-in-the-Fields under the date 25 January, 1560 :

Mr. Franciscus Bacon (films D'm Nicho. Bacon Magni Anglie sigilli Custodis).

The " Mr." is interlined in a somewhat different - coloured ink, but is in writing of the period. The volume is not the original register, but a transcript, made about the year 1599. The date of baptism would, of course, be 25 January, 1561.

FRANK J. BURGOYNE. Brixton.

The Baptismal Register of St. Martin-in- the-Fields contains the name of Francis Bacon under date 25 January, 1560/1. The interlineation suggests some mystery connected with the entry, and certain inter- esting deductions have been drawn from it, which I shall be happy to communicate to your correspondent if he cares to write to me. E. BASIL LUPTON.

147, Hyde Park Road, Leeds.

[A. T. W. also thanked for reply.]

URBAN V.'s FAMILY NAME (US. iv. 204, 256, 316, 456, 499, 518; v. 255). At the last reference I referred the origin of the family of Grimaldi. Princes of Monaco, to the village of Grimaud, near St. Tropez. By one of those coincidences which are so common that they can hardly be called curious, I had scarcely returned the proof of my " reply " when I received a copy of that excellent journal, The, Continental Weekly, for 21 March, containing an article by the accomplished editor, Mr. H. Villiers Barnett, on Beauvallon, the new golfing resort near St. Tropez, from which I venture to make the following extract :

" ' Castle-crowned woods ' is no empty figure of speech. Grimaud is hard by not the antique village only, but the ruins of that castle which once protected it and was once inhabited by that Ghibellino Grimaldi who first effectually smote the Saracen usurpers of the land, and who, it used to be said but now is denied, was the founder of the Princely House of Monaco. The archivists ' of Monaco reject the story on what seems clear evidence ; but Ghibellino Grimaldi, that valiant soldier out of Genoa, a ' man of great heart and right magnificent,' did fight a great victory over