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a like dedication, was known as " St. James's Chapel, or Hermitage-on-the-Wall," owing to its being near the City Wall in Monkwell, or Mugwell, Street, which was a little to the west, and almost parallel with Little Wood Street, near Cripplegate.

In ' New Remarks of London,' 1732, collected by the Company of Parish Clerks, under ' The Parish of St. Albans & St. Clave,' and among the remarkable places mentioned, is " Lamb's Chapel."

In a Plan of London, 1761, Lamb Street is shown parallel to Wood Street.

ALFRED CHAS. JONAS.

Locksley, Bognor.

[The REV. E. COOKSON, Marlesford House, 34, Warrington Road, Ipswich, writes that he has transcribed and published Indexes to the Marriages at Lamb's Chapel.]

DEVONSHIRE SCHOOLS (11 S. vi. 270). In ' Devonshire Characters,' by S. Baring- Gould (John Lane, 1908), biographical details are given of several pupils at some of the schools mentioned in the query. A casual glance reveals the following : Edward Gifford (Exeter Grammar) ; William Gifford, Hoppner (the famous painter), John Ireland, Dean of Westminster (all of Ashburton Grammar School). Other books containing notes of scholars are indicated. This book is now remaindered, and can be obtained cheaply from some of the big libraries ; or, if the inquirer likes, my copy is at his disposal, or I shall be pleased to copy full particulars and forward to him.

HENRY ROGERS.

Eversley, Stanhope Road, Highgate, N.

MR. CANN HUGHES will find information regarding thirteen of the fifteen schools mentioned by him in Carlisle's ' Endowed Grammar Schools,' i. 241-361, and ' Schools' Enquiry Commission Reports,' xiv. 273-403. MATTHEW H. PEACOCK.

LEASE FOR THREE LIVES (US. vi. 230, 297). The expression " to the use of," quoted by MR. McPiKE from the will of Mrs. Price, does not imply that the property was entailed. The reason for the expression is this. The word " to " would be enough to pass the property. But lest any one should, upon such a gift by will " to " A., or " to " A. and his heirs, raise the objection that, 1 hough the bare property was thereby given, the words did not declare to whom the benefit, the beneficial vise, of it was given, some cautious testators employed (as they still do) the expression " to the use of," thereby manifesting their intention and removing the doubt,

The wording of the will, so far as given by MR. McPiKE, does not imply any refer- ence to any rules as to leases for lives. KATHERINE KIRBY.

ELIZABETH HARDY, NOVELIST (11. S. vi. 269). There is less information in The Gentleman's Magazine than in the 'D.N.B.' and Boase's ' Modern English Biography,' vol. i. col. 1332.

I should like to suggest whether Elizabeth Hardy was not also author of a book under an initialism entitled " The Heiress, a Tale founded on Facts, by E. H. ; London, James Burn, 1839."' It is dedicated to the Countess of Brandon. RALPH THOMAS.

REGENT'S CIRCUS (11 S. vi. 109, 174, 216, 277). " Regents Circus " (sic) is marked, exactly as described by MR. W. L. KING, with " The Paddington Road " (now Mary- lebone Road) entering it at the west, in a map headed " Wallis's Guide for Strangers, through London, and its Environs. 1821." But there is no long pond on the west of the Broad Walk. An arm of the Regent's Canal comes down on the east side to a basin opposite Mornington Place.

EDWARD HERON-ALLEN.

SCOTTISH MERCENARIES IN NORWAY ( 1 1 S. vi. 269). I would refer the querist to an illustrated article on this subject which appeared in The Graphic of 24 Aug. last. A photographic reproduction of a memorial stone which apparently still exists in the Gudbrandsdal, Norway, is given, with the following translation of the inscription thereon :

" Here the leader o? the Scots, George Sinclair, was buried after being killed at Kringolen, August 26, 1612."

JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

The cutting from The Pall Mall Gazette of 10 Sept. regarding a Scottish expedi- tion to Norway in 1612 apparently quotes an article by me in The Graphic of 24 Aug. It is partly based on the only British authority on this historical episode, viz., Thomas Michell's ' History of the Scottish Expedition to Norway in 1612,' London, 1880. W. R. PRIOR.

Particulars relating to the disaster at the mountain pass are to be found in ' Scottish Soldiers of Fortune,' by James Grant, London, 1889, pp. 176-81. Calders ' History of Caithness ' and other authorities are quoted, W. S.