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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. VIL MAY 3, 1913.

I should be glad to know of any other references to smuggling songs and poems. Did the Catnach Press publish any ?

G. H. W.

In English's ' Reminiscences of Old Folke- stone Smugglers,' by an Old Folkestoner, p. 28, will be found ' The Attack on Dover Gaol.' The compiler states :

" This memorable attack on Dover gaol was com- memorated by a song, as many similar incidents were in those days, and from the lips of an old lady, then eighty years of age, it was told to me as follows :

We smuggling boys are merry boys,

Sometimes here and sometimes there ;

No rent nor taxes do we pay,

But a man of-war is all our fear.

'Twas on the 21st of May,

As you will understand,

We sailed out of Boulogne Bay,

Bound for the English land."

And so on ; altogether ten verses.

R.-J. FYNMORE. Sandgate.

HOSIER LANE, WEST SMITHFIELD (11 S. yii. 249, 333). The earliest mention I can find of Hosier Lane is in 1328, in the will of Albreda de Appleby, which contains a bequest to Emma, daughter of Adam de Dray ton, of "a shop in the lane called Hosiereslane " (' Calendar of Wills, Court of Hustings,' vol. i. p. 332). Although the situation of the lane is not given in the Calendar, it seems more than probable that the lane here mentioned is the Hosier Lane in West Smithfield, because we find that Roger de Appleby by his will in 1314 gave to his wife Albreda " rents and other tene- ments in the suburb of London in the parish of St. Sepulchre." and it is in this parish that Hosier Lane, West Smithfield, is situated.

But in any case there are several other bequests of tenements, &c., in Hosier Lane, in the parish of St. Sepulchre, recorded in the ' Calendar of Wills ' between the years 1332 and 1350. which furnish abundant evidence that the lane was a place of con- siderable resort even so long ago as the four- teenth century ; and in the earliest maps of London which have come down to us, viz., those of the sixteenth century, the houses appear to be as closely packed together in the lane as they are at the present day.

Stow, in his ' Survey of London ' (ed. 1603, p. 82), says: "The Hosiers of olde time in Hosier lane neare vnto Smithfield, are since removed into Cordwayner streete ' ' ; and it is interesting to note in support of this statement that John de Flaunden, a " hosyere," had tenements in " Holebourne "

and " Hosyereslane " in West Smithfield in 1332 (' Cal. Wills, Ct. Hust.,' i. 379).

Strype in his edition of Stow's ' Survey/ published in 1720, does not give a very favourable account of the lane, although it is evident from his statement that the houses were old, and that at that date they had not been lately rebuilt :

" Hosier Lane comes out of Cow Lane, and runs into Smithfield. A Place not over well built or inhabited, having all old Timber Houses. This Place is of a great resort during the time oi Bartho- lomew Fair. All the Houses being generally made publick for Tipling and leud sort of People." Strype's Stow, ed. 1720, vol. i. bk. iii. 284.

It would appear from these records that the lane has been continuously inhabited and resorted to as a place of trade from the early part of the fourteenth century, if not earlier ; and it is extremely interesting to obtain a hint as to the possible date of its rebuilding in later times, and of the erection of the old timber houses mentioned by Strype. It is possible that this rebuild- ing (if it was carried out thoroughly) might account for the suggested increase in t he- trade and popularity of the lane in 1614.

I. I. GREAVES.

OLD-TIME CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND STORIES (11 S. vii. 310). In addition to the two books you mention by the late Andrew Tuer, MR. GERISH may perhaps like to know of the following :

' Books for Children ' (Quarterly Review, vol. vii. pp. 54-83), 1842.

1855, pp. 1-4).
 * Chap - Book Literature ' (Chambers'* Journal*

'Chap-Books' (Chambers'.? Journal, 1862, pp. 72- 74).

nal, 1881, pp. 657-60).
 * Some Humorous Chap-Books ' (Chamlerx's Jour-

'Children's Books' (Quarterly Review, vol. Ixxiv. pp. 1-26), 1844.

Dodd (Catherine), ' Some Aspects of Children's Books' (National Review, vol. xliv. pp. 846-52), 1905.

Dodd (Catherine), 'Some Old School - Books r (National Eevieiv, vol. xlv. pp. 1006-14), 1905.

Ferguson (R. 8.), 'On the Collection of Chap- Books in the Bibliotheca Jacksoniana in Tullie House, Carlisle ' (Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, vol. xiv. p. 1, 1898 ; vol. xvi. p. 56, 1900).

Field (Mrs. E. M.), 'The Child and his Book r (Wells Gardner, 1891). The history and progress- of children's literature in England.

Hawthorne (Julian), 'Literature for Children r (North American Revieiv, vol. cxxxviii. pp. 383 396), 1884.

Page (H. A.), 'Children and Children's Books'" (Contemporary Review, vol. xi. pp. 7-26), 1869.

Salmon (Edward), ' Literature for the Little- Ones ' (Nineteenth Centun/, vol. xxii. pp. 563-80), 1887.