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Browning may, I think, have had in mind either Anemone nemorosa (wood anemone) or Arum macu-latum (cuckoo pint or lords and ladies), due allowance being made for " poetic licence." A. C. C.

(11 S. vi. 288). The word " hyke " was used here when I was young in the sense of rocking. " Hyke the bairn " meant " move the child to and fro."

It is sad to think that the writer of the note in ' N. & Q.' at the above reference has joined the majority, and that we shall never again see his incisive and instructive notes in your valuable paper. R. B R.

South Shields.

LAMB'S CHAPEL, LONDON (US. vi. 291). This chapel formerly stood at the extreme west end of Hart Street, close against an angle in London Wall. It had Lamb's Chapel Court on the north side and Lamb's Chapel Alley on the south, and was exactly opposite St. Giles's, Cripplegate, on the outer side of the Wall. Originally it had been a hermitage, founded in the reign of Edward I., with William the Lion as hermit, afterwards the parish church of St. James- on-the-Wall ; but in 1542 it was granted by Henry VIII. to one of the gentlemen of the King's Chapel, William Lambe, citizen and clothworker. He, dying in 1577, be- queathed his chapel to the Clothworkers' Company, together with 50?. a year to provide a minister and maintain service in it. It was used after the Great Fire by the parishioners of St. Olave's, whose church had been destroyed. The minister in 1714 was William Strongfellow, at that time preacher to the Clothworkers' Company. It was still existing and in use in 1831, and had been recently rebuilt by the Company, together with a row of almshouses.

Monkwell Street (which is still in exist- ence) commemorates a well which was in the hermitage enclosure.

In all probability the registers are in the possession of the Clothworkers' Company.

WM. NORMAN.

The old church of St. James-on-the-Wall. otherwise known as Lamb's Chapel, stood in Monkwell Street. City. Its origin can be traced back to the reign of Edward VI., when the "Hermitage and its appurte- nances " were purchased from the King by William Lamb, one of the gentlemen of the King's Chapel, and a citizen and cloth- worker, who afterwards gave it to his Company, together with property of the annual value of 50?. to be devoted to the

minister's stipend. In accordance with his will, dated 11 Oct., 1574, services were con- ducted in the church on Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday in each week until 1872, when, under an Act obtained by the Company, the old building was pulled down and the site built over. The Registers have since (in 1902) been presented by the Company to the Guildhall Library, where they may no doubt be consulted. ALAN STEWART.

This chapel is situated in a court at the north - west corner of Monkwell Street, Farringdon Ward Within,* and was founded in the reign of Edward I. and dedicated to St. James, and was distinguished from other places of worship by the name of St. James-in-the-Wall, or Hermitage-upon- the-Wall. There was also a well for the use of the religious, hence the name of the street. At the dissolution of religious houses Henry VIII. granted it to William Lambe, a rich citizen and clothworker, who be- queathed it in 1568, with other property, to the Clothworkers' Company, of which he was a member. It has been recently rebuilt, with a row of almshouses, by the Company.

This chapel, like that at Mayfair, used to be famous for weddings.

ALFRED SYDNEY LEWIS.

Library, Constitutional Club.

Perhaps some research will be necessary to answer fully this query. It is said, on the one hand, that the Abbot of Garendon had a cell called St. James's- on-the-Wall ; the authority for this, so it is asserted, is " in the 27 Edward I., and William de Lion was hermit here." This hermitage was bought from Edward VI. by William Lamb, one of the gentlemen of the King's Chapel, and clothmaker of London, who died in 1577, leaving the hermitage to the Clothmakers' Company of London, which was incorporated about 1520, and in 1708 consisted of four wardens, about 60 assistants, and 166 on the livery. It is the twelfth Company of the City, and, up to the last year mentioned, had supplied it with thirteen Lord Mayors.

Another authority asserts that the hermit- age was granted to William Lamb, and was thereafter called Lamb's Chapel. It was situated in a court at the north-west side of London Wall, and was founded by Edward I. and dedicated to St. James ; but, to distinguish it from other churches of

was anciently in the parish of St. Olave.
 * A very ancient deed states that Lamb's Chapel