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was still defying the elements with im- punity, and there may be still a few hale greybeards haunting the scene of their life's activities who could, with fair coherency, relate to the interested stranger their boyish remembrances of the old house. It was a roomy, timbered structure, with gables and quaint carvings, very like the picturesque old house in Canterbury in which David Copperfield first found Mr. Wickfield. It was, to repeat David's description.

"a very old house, bulging out over the road: a house with long, low lattice windows bulging out still farther, and beams with carved heads on the ends bulging out too, so that the whole house was leaning forward, trying to see who was passing on the narrow pavement below."

We have seen that the earliest parchment of the public records relating to this parcel of the manor of Poplar, save the Domesday Survey, carries us back only to the fourteenth century, when Sir John de Pulteney was the owner, two years before the Black Death swept heavily over the land. At the time when Domesday was made the " herberger " was reckoned with the inferior class of trades- men, and doubtless held his " inn " under the laws governing the system of villeinage ; by and by his status became improved, and he was able to acquire a small parcel of land on terms of free tenure. In some cases, however, the harbours were the direct property of the manor lord, and were managed by his bailiff. Which of these conditions prevailed at the Cold Harbour at Blackwall it is wholly impossible to say, but we do know that by the time Pulteney figures as the lord of the manor of Poplar harbours had become appreciably more comfortable places, with large, cheerful hearths fenced round by benches long enough to seat well " fifteen or sixteen persons on a cold evening." The bedchambers were yet common, unscreened dormitories, where travellers slept at a penny a night along with the host and hostess, the Englishmen of those days being uneducated in the comforts, not to say the decencies, of life. Is there room for wonder, then, at any lewd drama such as Chaucer narrates in ' The Keeve's Tale ' ?

Besides the better-known Cold Harbours of Dowgate, Camberwell, Hatcham, and Blackwall, others were to be met with in Hackney, Finchley, the Tower, Erith, and Hayes' (Middlesex). To the last two Wai- ford has some slight references in ' Greater London.' R> A> H. UNTHANK.

IRISH FAMILY HISTORIES (ADDITIONAL).

(See 11 S. vii. 483; viii. 124, 173, 213, 335, 403; ix. 24, 66, 223.)

MacCarthy. Memoir of Michael Stephen Joseph MacCarthy (of Whitchurch, co. Cork), by his Grandson, C. Desmond MacCarthy, M.A.,. with a Pedigree, showing his Descendants, compiled and verified by Constance Harts- home (born MacCarthy). 1885.

MacNamara. The Story of an Irish Sept, by N. C. MacNamara. 1896.

Martin. Genealogy of the Family of Martin, of Ballinahinch Castle, in co. Galway, Ireland,, by Archer S. Martin. Winnipeg, 1890.

Massy. A Genealogical Account of the Massy Family. Dublin, 1890.

Mathew. Genealogy of the Earls of Llandaff, of Thomastown, co. Tipperary, Ireland. [1904.]

Mercer. The Mercer Chronicle (an Epitome of Family History), by an Irish Sennachy (Edwd. S. Mercer), &c. 1866.

Molyneux. History,. Genealogical and Bio- graphical, of the Molyneux Families, by Nellie Z. R. Molyneux. Syracuse, N.Y., 1904.

Molyneux. An Account of the Family and Descendants of Sir Thomas Molyneux, Kt., Chancellor of the Exchequer in Ireland to Queen Elizabeth. Evesham, 1820. (Chapel Molyneux. )

Montgomery. A Genealogical History of the Family of Montgomery, of Mount Alexander and Grey Abbey, by Mrs. E. G. S. O'Reilly. 1842.

Montgomery. Montgomery MSS., 1603-1706, &c.., by Wm. Montgomery of Rosemount, with Notes by Rev. Geo. Hill. Belfast, 1869..

Montgomery. A Family History of Montgomery, of Ballylech, co. Monaghan, now of Beaulieu ., co. Louth, and Conway, co. Donegal ; Montgomery- Moore of Garvey, co. Tyrone r Leslie Montgomery of Ballyconnell, co. Cavan ; Maxwell of Falkland, co. Monaghan ; Fraser of Cuba, King's Co. ; Tichbourne,. Baron Ferrard, of Beaulieu, Aston, and Tipping, also of Beaulieu, co. Louth ; Sir Henry Tichbourne 's Letter to his Lady, &c. ; Montgomery, Counts de Lorge ; Historical Notice of the Family of Montgomerie, Mont- gomery, Earl of Mount Alexander, Antient History of Montgomery. (No date.)

Montmorency. Les Montmorency de France, et les M. d'Irlande, ou Precis Historique des Demarches faites a 1' Occasion de la Reprise du Nom de ses AncStres par la Branche de Montmorency-Marisco-Morres, par le Chef de cette derniere Maison, avec la G4ne"alogie complete et de'taille'e des Montmorency d'Irlande. Paris, 1828. O'Brien. Genealogical Notes of the O'Briens of

Kilcor, co. Cork. 1887. O'Brien. The O'Briens, by W. A. Lindsay.

I ondon, 1876

O'Byme. Historical Reminiscences of the O'Byrnes, O'Tooles, O'Kavanaghs, and Other

Irish Chieftains, by O'Byrne. 1843.

O'Byrne. History of the Clan O'Byrne, by Rev P. L. O'Toole. Dublin, 1890.'