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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. ix. APRIL is, 1914.

KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL. King's Col- lege Hospital, recently demolished, stood on the south side of Portugal Street, and was founded in 1839, the buildings being on the site of the old workhouse of St. Clement Danes, and of an old parochial burial-ground called the " Green Ground," which was about , third of an acre in extent, the last recorded interment being in 1850. Among the celeb- rities buried here was Joe Miller, author of 'The Jest Book,' who died 15 Aug., 1738. A monument was erected to his memory, with an inscription said to be by Stephen Duck. This memorial, having become decayed, was restored in 1816.

Many hundreds of coffins were unearthed during the recent clearance of this site ; the remains are in a remarkably good state of preservation, and they are being enclosed in shells and reinterred at Brook- lands Cemetery.

Portugal Street was the last place in London where the stocks were set up, being on the north side of the street, facing King's College Hospital. Near the old burial - ground was the " Grange " "public- house, mentioned by Sir William Davenant in his ' Playhouse to Let ' as a haunt of the players. This hostelry with its old and picturesque inn-yard was demolished in 1853, and its site "absorbed by the Hospital.

J. ABDAGH.

" T. K.," AUTHOR or PAMPHLET IDEN- TIFIED. The Library of Congress has lately received a small pamphlet entitled

" A brief Account of the Woollen Manufactury of England, With Relation To the Prejudice it Receives By the Clandestine Exportation of Wooll from Ireland into France [London: Printed for and Sold by A. Baldwin MDCCVIII.]."

I do not know that the pamphlet is rare, but my reason for writing is that I think I can now furnish the author's name.

The Appendix contains the author's reports on his ' Survey of the Southern Coasts of Ireland, in order to prevent the exportation of wool into France,' signed " T. K." In the Calendar of Treasury Papers, vol. iii., 1702-7, there are several references which see.n to establish that Thomas Knox, " Sur- veyor General of the coasts of Ireland," was the author of the pamphlet. Following are citations from the more significant items :

" March 10, 1703/4. Letter from Thomas Knox to Mr. Secretary Lowndes, enclosing for the Ld. High Treasurer an answer to the Com 1 " 8 of the Revenue's Report, relating to the discovery made by him of a correspondence held and a trade carried on by sending wool from Ireland into Prance." P. 241.

" July 9, 1706. Copy of report of the [Com r of Revenue] Ireland to the Lord High Trea- surer, as to the salary of M r Thomas Knox. Dated Custom House, Dublin, 9th July, 1700. P. 448.

" [? About Nov. 29] 1706. Petition of Thomas Knox, Esq., Surveyor General of the coasts of Ireland, for prevention of the export of wool into France. Petitioner had spent about four years and above 500Z. in money on that service, and could not execute the office for 65Z. per ann., which was all that was allowed by the Com rs in Ireland." P. 173.

So far I have been unable to find any biographical material regarding the author.

It does not appear that the author's name has heretofore been discovered. The British Museum enters the pamphlet under " T. K." The work is not mentioned at all in H. B. Wagner's ' Irish Economics : 1700-1783. A Bibliography with Notes' (London, 1907) ; or in the bibliography contained in A. E. Murray's ' History of the Commercial and Financial Relations be- tween England and Ireland ' (London, P. S. King & Son, 1907).

A. P. C. GRIFFIN.

Library of Congress, Washington.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

" STACKFREED." This word is used by antiquaries as the name of a contrivance (a sort of brake) employed in early watches for the purpose now served by the fusee, viz., to equalize the impulse given by the main- spring. The earliest instance of the word that I have found is in the article ' Fusee ' in the ' Encyclopedic ' (1756), where it is spelt stochlred. It occurs in Berthoud's ' Histoire de la Mesure du Temps ' (1802) as stack freed,B,nd in Rees's ' Cyclopaedia ' (1819), art. ' Clock,' as stack-freed. I should be glad to be directed to any earlier instances in English, or to receive any information throw- ing light on the history and original form of the word. Where can the writer in the ' Encyclopedic ' have found it ?

HENRY BRADLEY.

Oxford.

BOTHWELL. This name is found in Liver- pool. Although it sounds essentially Scotch, our fathers have told us that we came from Belfast. Is this probable ? Could any correspondent set me on the track as to how to prove it ? L- V.