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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. vi. JULY 6, 1912.

" A Second Century of Meditations, with short Prayers annexed, on various Subjects. To which is added, A Postscript, by way of Meditation, on the Spoils and Ruins made by the dreadful Tempest, Nov. 27, 1703. By Benjamin Jenks ; Rector of Harley in Shropshire, and Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Bradford. Printed for W. Rogers at the Sun, against St. Dunstan's Church, and B. Tooke at the Middle Temple Gate, in Fleet Street." Twelves.

" A Warning from the Winds. A Sermon preach'd upon Wednesday, Jan. 19, 1703/4 ; being the day of publick Humiliation for the late Terrible Storm of Wind, sent in great Rebuke upon this Kingdom, November 26, 27, 1703 : and now set forth, in some ground of it, to have been inflicted as a Punishment of that general Contempt in England, under Gospel Light, cast upon the Work of the Holy Ghost, as to his Divine Breath- ings upon the Souls of Men. Opened and Argued from John iii. 8. To which is subjected, An Exercitation upon Eph. ii. 2, about Airy Oracles, Sybils, Prophetesses, Idolatry and Sacrifices of the Pagan Times. By Joseph Hussey, Pastor of the Congregational Church at Cambridge. Printed for W. and J. Mai-shall at the Bible in Newgate Street." Quarto.

" A Sermon Preach'd, before the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled, in the Abbey Church of Westminster, on Jan. 19th ; being the Fast-day Appointed for imploring a Blessing from Almighty God upon Her Majesty and Her Allies, Engag'd in the present War. As also for the Humbling of our Selves before Him, in a deep sense of his heavy Displeasure, shew'd in the late dreadful Tempest, &c. By the Right Reverend Father in God, William, Lord Bishop of Oxford." Quarto.

A. L. HUMPHREYS. 187, Piccadilly, W.

" SPLENDID ISOLATION " (11 S. v. 348, 454). The author of this phrase (used by Premier Poincare at the unveiling of the Cannes statue to King Edward VII., and ascribed by POLITICIAN to Mr. Goschen) was certainly the Hon. George Eulas Foster, Finance Minister, from whose speech in the Canadian House of Commons, on 16 Jan., 1896 (' Can. Hansard,' 1896, p. 176), I quote :

" In these somewhat troublesome days when the great Mother Empire stands splendidly iso- lated in Europe with interests stretching over the wide world," &c.

In the same session ('Hansard,' p. 1215) Sir Wilfrid Laurier, then in opposition, said :

" It is true England was, as the Finance Minister said on a former occasion, and is yet, isolated, whether splendidly isolated or dangerously iso- lated I will not now debate," &c.

The ' N.E.D.,' under ' Isolation,' ascribes the phrase in question to Sir Wilfrid ; but from the above quotation it will be seen that he expressly quoted Mr. Foster.

AVEBN PABDOE.

Legislative Library, Toronto.

BALDWIN'S GARDENS, HOLBORN (U.S. v; 428). Richard Baldwin, who built some houses in Gray's Inn Lane, was one of the royal gardeners in the time of Queen Eliza- beth. There are some references by DR. RIMBAULT to Baldwin's Gardens in 'N. & Q.' (1 S. i. 410); also in Wheatley and Cunningham's ' London Past and Present,' i. 92. It was a place of sanctuary till all privilege of sanctuary and abjuration consequent thereon was abolished by statute 2.1 Jac. L, c. 28. THOMAS WM. HUCK.

Saffron Walden.

' Leigh's Picture of London ' (ed. 1830) states that Baldwin's Gardens were so called from one of Queen Elizabeth's gar- deners, who erected the buildings. No authority is cited.

In the very valuable notes by Jacob Henry Burn appended to the ' Beaufoy Collection of London Traders' Tokens.' published by the Corporation of London in 1845, occurs this passage :

" 'Baldwins gardens neare Grayes inn lane ' is said to have derived that name from Richard Baldwin, who erected some houses here in 1589."

This site originally formed part of the manor of Portpool, the greater part of which is now occupied by Gray's Inn. As it was in 1560 that Gray's Inn Hall was built,- and about 1600 that the gardens of the Inn were first planted, this seems a very probable period for the " development " of Baldwin's Gardens.

The statement that Baldwin's Gardens was a " sanctuary " seems to mean only that it was a part of the Upper Holborn Liberty, which was outside the boundary of the City, and not contained in any parish of Middlesex. Maitland states (1754) that the Liberty had three constables, two beadles, and seventeen watchmen, so that it was not without constituted authority. Although he mentions that Whitefriars was the resort of criminals, who long kept it by force as a sanctuary against law and justice, he makes no such reference in the case of the L'pper Holborn Liberty. It is, of course, the fact that the " liberties " just outside the City boundaries were always the haunts of such characters, and, owing to the jealousy of the authorities, no concerted action was taken against them. I have no doubt that until the establishment of the Metropolitan Police, Baldwin's Gardens formed a very useful refuge for criminals, especially as it connected by narrow alleys with a number of other courts off Gray's Inn Lane (now Gray's Inn Road), and contained several