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 118. VII. Mar. 15,1913.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 201 LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1913. CONTENTS.—No. 168. ■ NOTES :—St. Katharine's-hy-the-Tower, 201—Fnllwood : Halley: Parry: Pyke, 203—The Lord of Buileigh and Sarah Hoggins, 204—" Brach Merriman " : an Emenda- tion — Vanishing London : Proprietary Chapels — The Waxwork Effigies in Westminster Abbey, 205 — Un- corrected Error in Evelyn's ' Diary '—' Comus' and Gray's ' Elegy': a Parallel, 208. QUERIES: — "Sharpshin" — Lovelace: Turner, 206— Translation of Klinger's ' Faustus '—St. Loe : Kingston : Wortinge—Charles Dymoke, Champion to Charles I., 207—Authors Wanted—Crouch Family of Rye—" A cele- brated Cardinal" in Lytton's 'The Disowned'—" Hastie Roger"—Curious Stone Vessels, 208—Ingelo Family— References in Ruskin—Hogge—Oliphant Family—Frog's Hall. Royston—Bibliotheca Bryantiana, 209. REPLIES :—Lions in the Tower, 210—The Alchemist's Ape — The Stones of London — "Pillowbeer" — Winthrop Mackworth Praed— Haynes Bayly, 211—John Norris: Norris of Spate, 212—Vicars of Little Missenden, 213— Taylor of Ballyhaise—Died in his Coffin—Wine - Fungus Superstition—Edgar Family—Inquisition in Fiction and Drama, 214 — White Horses — Reference of Quotation Wanted — No Twin ever Famous—" Pudding-time"— Earldom of Somerset in the Mohun Family, 215—General Elliot—"Monk" Lewis—Battle of Quiberon Bay—Repe- tition of Passages—T. Chippendale, Upholsterer—The " HouUe Cuppe," 216—Clarendon's 'Essay on War'— i Reference Wanted—First Folio Shakespeare—Marshal- seas—Curfew Bell, 217—Jockey Doctors, 218. NOTES ON BOOKS:—Papal Letters relating to Great Britain—Longmans' Annual Catalogue (with Illustration) —' Book - Prices Current'—Trollope's Novels—' Church and Manor.' Jlotes. ST. KATHARINE'S-BY-THE-TOWER. Towards the preparation of the much- wanted History of this Collegiate Church and Hospital the following note on its biblio- graphy may be of some use. The most important of the volumes already devoted to it is Dr. Andrew Coltee Ducarel's ' History of the Royal Hospital and Collegiate Church of St. Katharine, near the Tower of London, from its Founda- tion in the Year 1273 to the Present Time.' This was published by John Nichols in 1782 as Part V. of the ' Bibliotheca Topo- graphies Britannica,' and, with its 160 pp., is one of the longest histories in that useful series. The plates are exceptionally nume- rous—seventeen in all; they are just what the book required. Ducarel completed the MS. prior to 1763, and on 10 March of that year presented it to Queen Charlotte, the Patroness. It was beautifully bound, and contained " a drawing of the Church of St. Katharine, a very fine drawing of the famous Pulpit, and 32 arms of the Queens of England who have been Patronesses, properly blazoned and coloured." A clear transcript of the work was retained, and, with additional notes and corrections by the author, was used for the published work. Subsequently it formed part of the Stowe MSS., and is now in the British Mu- seum, together with two volumes of material for the History described as " Collections of Papers relating to the History of the Hospital and Collegiate Church of St. Katha- rine near the Tower of London, made by And. Coltee Ducarel, LL.D., Commissary of that Boyal Jurisdiction, A.D. 1763." It is from a note on the transcript in the hand of the author that I have quoted the description of Queen Charlotte's copy, but the original is safely preserved in the library of the migrated foundation in Regent's Park. It was probably presented during her lifetime, as it did not occur for sale when her library was dispersed by Messrs. Christie, June, 1819. The delay between the completion of Ducarel's MS. and its publication—nineteen years—is difficult to explain. We may suppose the author intended to issue the work himself, as the plates were engraved at various dates— 1764, 1766, 1770, 1779, 1781. . To the MSS. and printed material of earlier date than this History there are many references in its Appendixes, but although there is suitable mention of Sir Julius Caesar as one of the Masters, the few interesting documents—amongst others King James's confirmation of his Queen's grant of the Mastership to Dr. Csesar (Lot 73, Sale Catalogue of his MSS., 1757)—-are not mentioned. At the Bodleian, Ashmole MS. 1144, "a viewe of all the foure famous Colledges or Innes of Court," includes St. Katharine's. This is a clerk's copy of a MS. temp. James I., and probably con- tains matter of some interest. In the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, MS. 1124, 'Transcripts of Charters,' includes (folio 98) ' Grants to the Hospital of St. Katharine's by the Tower.' I am informed these are identical with those printed by Ducarel. Apparently there is only one printed work preceding Ducarel's—a very scarce pamphlet by William Bissett, then Eldest Brother of the Collegiate Church. I quote the title and sub-title at length, as there is no copy of the work at the British Museum, Bodleian, or any other public library, and