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 ii s. vii. jcnb 28, wis.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 505 spaces and public gardens under the designa- tion of " Geffrye's Garden." The garden was opened to the public on Saturday, 27 July, 1912. The almshouses are to be utilized as a museum and library of furniture and cabinet- making, an industry that is largely carried on in Shoreditch and the vicinity. (Authorities: 'London County Council: London Statistics, 1911-12,' vol. xxii., Dec, 1912, p. 191 ; information from Sir Laurence Gomme, Clerk of the L.C.C.) Daniel Hipwell. 84, St. John's Wood Terrace, N.W. The Original or Little Dobrit.— Mrs. Mary Ann Cooper, of Ivy Cottage, High Street, Southgate, a playmate of Charles Dickens, and the original of Little Dorrit, died 21 April, 1913, aged nearly one hundred years. There is a full-page portrait of her in Edwin Pugh's ' The Charles Dickens Originals' (1912), p. 152. Frederic Boase. A Hatfield Charter.—Amongst a book of notes made or collected by William Lam- barde are the following, from which appa- rently he derived some of his remarks on " Sealing " in his ' Perambulation of Kent' (second edition, p. 406):— " Sigillatio. Edward kyng the third do give to the norman hunter the hopp and the hopp- toune, with all the bounds upsyde doune : from above the earthe to heaven, and beneathe the earthe to hell: from me and from myne, to thee and to thyne, as freely as the kyngeryke is myne : And in witnes that this is soothe, I byte this waxe with my ffange toothe. In the presence of Maude and Margery and my eldest Sonne, for a bowe and a broade arrowe, when I come to hunt upon Yarrowe." " Sigillatio. Per istu' cultellu' feoffauit Al- bericus de Veer primus, Eccle'iam de Hatfeldc Regis monachoru de duabus partibus dec'iaru' de d'nico d'ni Reginaldi filii petri in Vggelyed die assumpeio'is b'te marie virginis, pro a'iabus antecessoru' et successoru' suoru', ann° ab incar- natione d'ni millio centesimo tricesimo quinto." " Hanging and affixed in stead of ye seale a short knife, the heft of black bone like an old halfpeny whittell, it belongeth now to Trinitie college by kyng II. 8. yc founder thcare." It will be noted how completely the latter differs from the charter referred to by Morant and by Wright, and also by ' The Victoria County History of Essex ' (ii. 107). Possibly they are different charters with the same peculiarity. And possibly the two knives in the Public Record Office Museum that were " found among the records " were used for a similar purpose. F. Lambahde. Arrigo (or Henry) Pleunus.—This writer deserves a word of notice. In 1701 he brought out at Leghorn (Livorno) an English Grammar for the use of Italians ; and in 1702 an Italian Grammar for the use of Englishmen. The former was dedicated to the Grand Duke Cosmo III. ; the latter to eighteen English merchants at Leghorn. (B. Mus., 627. c. 15. 1-2.) The letter w, as one would expect in fan Italian imprint, is represented by two v'a: water, towel, perwig. But in the 25 Dialogue with ' The Perwig-Maker,' p. 236 (1702), I find a genuine w twice. This must have been from a piece of type specially cut. It occurs also on pp. 232, 248, 250, &c. But the w greatly predominates. The edition of 1720 (?) goes column for column with that of 1702, but the pagination of part ii., after p. 136, is corrected from 97-270 to 137-306. Richard H. Thornton. " Lettre de cachette."—This rare, if useful phrase ought to have been included in ' The Stanford Dictionary,' beside the " lettre de cachet " so dear to the romancer. In the second volume of ' Harley Papers ' (Report on the Portland MSS. at Welbeck, in Fifteenth Rep. Hist. MSS. Coram., App. IV. [1897] 275) is a letter from the Earl of Sunderland (recently returned from Vienna) to Robert Harley, dated by the editor 31 Dec, 1705:— " Will you do me the favour to let me know whether I am to give the Kmperor's leltres de cachette, and his letters of recreance, to the Queen when I shall kiss her hand, or whether I should give them to you when I wait on you." ' The Oxford English Dictionary' does not give recreance in this sense. Q. V. The Records of the City Liveby Companies. (See 11 S. vi. 464; vii. 101, 403.)—The following may be of some use in conjunction with the interesting Records by Mr. William McMurray. The Records, in some cases, evidently existed before incor- poration, and in others it is clear that incor- porated Companies were working previous to the keeping of " minutes," &c Of course, there is nothing new in this, but since it may throw doubts on the correct- ness of some of the records or of the dates of incorporation, it is as well to clear up matters wherever possible. Apothecaries—were incorporated when se- parated from Grocers. Armourers.—Their Minutes are from'1413, and must have been begun before incorpora- tion, which was about 1423 ; so an authority of 1691 states, and another of 1708.