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Archbishop Wulfred and the Abbess of Southminster came to an agreement about lands" aet Hearge, HerfreSing lond & set Wemba lea & aet Geddincggum " (Birch, 384 ; Kemble, ccxx.). The association of the name Geddinges with those of Hayes, Twickenham, Harrow, and Wembley leaves little room for doubt that the former is the present Yedding or Yeading hamlet, and that " Fiscesburne " is the present " Yed- ding brook." If so, the brook now takes its name from the hamlet, and the latter is one of the cases to which Kemble's over- worked " patronymic -ing " theory does really apply. There is no mention of Yedding in Domesday Book, as it was doubtless included in the Archbishop's t>ig manor of Hesa (Hayes). To any one interested in the topography of Yedding the details of boundaries given in the first of the above-quoted charters may be worth study. A. MORLEY DAVIES.

\Vinchmore Hill, Amersham.

ESTATES OF NONJURORS (11 S. vi. 9). A full list of Nonjurors, &c., was published by J. Robinson, Ludgate, London, in 1745, find reprinted for John Russell Smith in 1862. The Preface gives the information sought by MR. GOWER. It states that the list is published

" with no other View but to assist the Magistrates, and other Officers, who shall happen to be in- trusted with the Execution of such Orders of Government, as either have already been, or may hereafter be issued, for suppressing the Growth, and unhappy Effects of the present rebellious Insurrection in the North ; which, it is hoped, will caution the Possessors of such Estates, at this Juncture, carefully to keep within the Bounds of their known duty, to our Gracious Sovereign King George, and his Rightful Government over them ; unto which it is con- ceived, they will find themselves more especially obligated, if they only please to observe, that many of them (who in the said Year neglected to give in such a particular Account of the Value -of their respective Estates, as was then under severe Penalties required of them by Law), were never, as yet, called upon to answer for such Neglect, but gently permitted to go on quietly, and to partake equally with their Fellow-Subjects, of all that Lenity and other blessed. Effects of a mild Administration in Government, which these Kingdoms have peacefully enjoyed, ever since the most joyful and happy Accession of his late Majesty, King George the First, to the Throne."

The full title of the book is : " The Names of the Roman Catholics, Non- jurors, and Others who refus'd to take the Oaths lo his late Majesty King George. Together with their Titles, Additions, and Places of Abode ; the Parishes and Townships where their Lands lay ; the Names of the then Tenants, or Occupiers thereof ; and the Annual Valuation of them, as

estimated by themselves. Transmitted to the late Commissioners for the Forfeited Estates of England and Wales, after the Unnatural Rebellion in the North, in the Year 1715."

RICHARD WELFORD.

The book quoted, "The Barnes of the Roman Catholics, Nonjurors, and Others, who refus'd to take the Oaths. ... 1715," London, 1745, was reprinted for John Russell Smith in 1862. The amount placed against the name was, according to the title- page, the annual valuation of the person's land as estimated by himself. The entry quoted (William Stafford) is not the first in the book, but the first in the list for the county of Stafford. The editor of 1745 was James Cosin, who says that the list was collected by his late father when he acted as Secretary to the Commissioners for Forfeited Estates. DIEGO.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE (11 S. ii. 365). It is gratifying to note that a commemora- tive tablet has been placed upon the walls of No. 10, South Street, Park Lane, to the memory of that " ministering angel " Florence Nightingale. As the London County Council does not possess authority to put up like records upon the Duke of Westminster's estate", his Grace himself undertook the duty. The result is an elegant design in grey metalwork, with the simple inscription :

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

BORN 1820. DIED 1910.

LIVED HERE.

It may be permissible to hope that a tablet will some day be erected also upon the house on Haverstock Hill where this noble woman once resided. CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club.

FRANCES, DUCHESS OF SUFFOLK (US. v. 427, 516). MR. E. L. H. TEW'S query, " WTiy did this lady allow her daughter, Lady Jane Dudley, for whom she seems to have cared little, to take precedence of her in claiming the crown of England ? " can. I fear, elicit little more than a conjectural reply. Lady Jane, who, according to Knight, expressed the greatest reluctance, was persuaded into accepting the crown by her father, the Duke of Suffolk, the Duke of Northumberland, and other members of the Reformed Protestant Church, who wished at any cost to prevent the accession of a professed Roman Catholic in Mary. Whatever the Duchess of Suffolk's inclina- tion might have been, it is tolerably clear that she had not the power to exercise it. I. A. Taylor, in ' Lady Jane Grey and her