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plaintiff was to pay 10.s\ a month till the residue (altogether 48?.) was paid ; but the plaintiff has no witnesses to prove the agreement, and the defendant prosecutes his bond at common law.

"[1589] Baker's answer (22 Oct., 31 Eliz.) says that the bond was given about 24 March, 28 Eliz., for payment of 60Z. for bread delivered to the plaintiff during seven years then last past. Plain- tiff has filed this bill instead of paying his debt.

"[1589] The replication of Enego Jones (31 Oct., 31 Eliz.) says he can show, by the testimony of divers earls, barons, knights, and gentlemen of great accompte, which were present at the first erecting of his ordinarie table, which was 18 June, 1582, that the debt is not for seven years, but three, during which time he has paid, the defendant 120^., by 10Z. and 15/. at a time," &o.

The original will of Inigo Jones, dated 14 Feb., 1596, proved 5 April, 1597 (P.C.C.), is signed " Enego Jones." He desires to be buried in the chancel of St. Bennet's as near his wife as may be. To " Inigue Jones " his son, Joan, Judith, and Mary his daughters, he leaves all his debts, bills, bonds, or books, &c. He ordains his son Inigue Jones to be his full and sole executor. In the registered copy (35 Cobham) the testator is described as Ynigo Jones, cloth- worker, of the- parish of St. Bennett's by Poules Wharf in London. The witnesses are John Halward, parson, and Thomas Coeff, grocer. The signature is copied according to the original will, namely, Enego Jones. LEO C.

STATUE IN QUEEN SQUARE, BLOOMSBUBY. Queen Square, Bloomsbury, was at least planned in the reign of Queen Anne. Hat- ton in his 'New View of London' (1708), after describing Queen Square, Westminster, which already had its statue, continues in the following words : " There is also another Square of this name designed, at the N. end of Devonshire str., near Red lion square." The building operations there seem to have been leisurely, to say the least, for in Strype's 'Stow' (1720) we are told that "at the upper end of the said Street is a designed Square, having the foundations of some houses laid," and this statement is repeated in the last edition of Stow (1754).

It is clear from Hatton's remarks that the square was named after Queen Anne, and naturally the lead statue of a queen in the garden has often been said to represent her, though of late years several good autho- rities have expressed the belief that it is meant for Queen Charlotte.

The Rev. Edwin C. Bedford, Rector of St. George the Martyr. Queen Square, has now set "the matter at rest. In his brief account of the church and parish (1910) he

wrote as follows : " The statue in the garden [of Queen Square] is not, as might be supposed, to the memory of Queen Anne, but it represents Queen Charlotte, and was erected in 1775 at the expense of Oliver Beckett [sic].'" A few days ago I ventured to ask him for his authority, when he cour- teously sent me the following extracts :

"The Queen's Statue, which is to be put up in Queen Square at the expense of Oliver Becket, Esq., is cast at a Statuary's in Pall Mall. It is seven feet high, in the Coronation Robes, much like Queen Anne's statue in St. Paul's Church-yard. It is to be placed on a pedestal six feet in height." Lloyd's Evening Post, 8-10 Feb., 1775.

"Yesterday the statue of her Majesty was set up in Queen Square, Ormond Street, which has been done at the sole expence of Oliver Becket, Esq., under which is the following inscription : ' Virtutis Decus et tutamen.'" Morning Post, Tuesday, 25 April, 1775.

I understand that the late Mr. J. L. Miller, who also wrote on the church and parish, first found these contemporary references, but it must have been after the publication of his pamphlet, dated 1881, wherein he expressly says that the statue represents Queen Anne. Many years ago he sent me a copy of the pamphlet with an accompanying letter. PHILIP NORMAN.

SCOTT'S ' WOODSTOCK ' : THE ROTA CLUB. My attention has been drawn to an error in chap. ii. which may either be the result of a lapse on Scott's part or a misprint in the first edition which was overlooked. Bletson is described as " a true-blue Com- monwealth's man, one of Harrison's Rota Club." This, of course, should be Harring- ton's Rota Club the club founded by Sir John Harrington, the author of ' Oceana.* In chap. xi. the name is given correctly :

" The club called the Rota, frequented by St. John, and established by Harrington, for the free dis- cussion of political and religious subjects."

It may be noted that at present there exists a Rota Club at Oxford.

WM. H. PEET.

INK-HORNS AND INK-GLASSES. At 9 S. iv. 166 I drew attention to a pamphlet dated 1680; from which it would appear that glass inkstands had then recently come into use in England. They must have been in use at an earlier date on the Continent, for in ' A Betrothal,' by Velas- quez (1599-1660), a glass inkstand is on the table (National Gallery, No. 1434). Before this, leaden inkstands were employed, as in the great picture of ' The Eleven Com- missioners,' by Marcus Gheeraedts (1604), where the inkstand has ten holes for pens round the edge. RICHARD H. THORNTON.