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used to congregate, sitting and supporting their heads with their knots. Sounds of never-failing interest were the cries of the men coming up from the docks : " Six men wanted," " Eight men wanted," " Ten men wanted." In Botolph Lane, facing my uncle's and at the corner of St. George's Lane, dwelt another merchant, Bower by name. My relative, Mr. Wrightson, has been dead for some years, but has left numerous descendants.

MATILDA POLLARD. Belle Vue, Bengeo.

In reply to MB. REGINALD JACOBS'S inquiry in your issue of 13 Dec., the sources are many/ Lay Subsidies give lists of in- habitants. The Churchwardens' Account Books and the Vestry Minutes of the several parishes at the Guildhall furnish most detailed information. At Lambeth Library is a Tithe Roll of the reign of James I. The wills of John Cudworth (43 Dycer, P.C.C. and of his descendants, as well as their litigation amongst themselves, furnish usefu facts. I have probably some hundreds of items of interest relative to the streets named, and derived from these sources. J. C. WHITEBROOK.

24, Old Square, Lincoln's Inn.

Fish Street Hill. Pepys's ' Diary,' 22 Dec. 1660 :

''Went to the Sun Taverne on Fish St. Hill to

a dinner of Captain Teddiman's where we hac

a very fine dinner, good rnusique, and a great dea of wine. 1 very merry. Went to bed : my heac aching all night."

Pudding Lane. Ibid., Sunday, 2 Sept., 1666:

It [the Great Fire] begun this morning in the

King's baker's house in Pudding Lane." (The baker's name was Faryner.)

CARL T. WALKER.

Mottingham, Kent.

REC4IMENTAL BADGE OF THE 6TH FOOT

(11 S. ix. 8). With regard to the antelope badge and the tradition of its Moorish origin, Chichester and Burges-Short, in their ' Records and Badges of the British Army ' (1895), say:

"The historian Cannon admits that there is no record in point, and it is quite possible that the antelope an ancient royal badge and in Henry VI.'s reign one of the supporters of royal arms was assigned to the regiment, then [1710] or previously, as a distinguishing badge, as it had been to one of the companies of the 1st Foot Guards by which it is also borne."

In an Appendix to the ' Records and Badges,' giving ' A Complete List of the Badges and

Mottoes of the Brigade of Guards,' the description of* the antelope badge of the Avelfth company of Grenadier Guards is slightly different from that given by your correspondent, in that it describes not only lorns, hair, and hoofs, and places the whole on a green mount. In the records of the regiment the antelope is simply described as " a badge of Henry VI.," without any qualification.
 * he collar and chain as golden, but also the

I might mention that the Royal War- wickshire Regiment has two other badges besides the antelope. The ancient badge of the Warwickshire Militia, " Old Neville's crest, viz., the rampant bear chained to the ragged staff," in silver, is worn on the tunic collars, but this has only been worn by the line battalions since the adoption of the territorial system.

The most ancient badge of all, I believe, as far as this regiment is concerned, is borne in the second, third, and fourth quarters of the regimental colours, viz. : " The Emblem of England " the rose and crown, the rose displayed with stalk and leaves, unlike the ludor rose, and with the crown over. This appears to have been borne by the six " Holland " regiments English regi- ments in Dutch pay in 1673-4. It has always been borne by the two surviving corps the 5th (Northumberland Fusiliers) and the 6th (Royal Warwickshire).

G. YARROW BALDOCK, Major.

South Hackney.

In answer to ANTELOPE, I find in Major Archer's book on ' The British Army : its Regimental Records, Badges, &c.,' that there is no record to account for the origin of the antelope as the badge of the 6th Regiment, and it is quite impossible to say when the antelope (an ancient royal badge, and in Henry VI.'s reign one of the supporters of the royal arms) was assigned to the regiment. Some argue that it was the device on a flag captured at Saragossa in 1 7 10. In a warrant by George II., 1 July, 1751, the antelope is referred to " as being the ancient badge of

the regiment."

A. GWYTHER.

DICKENS IN LONDON (11 S. ix. 9). Pro- bably the book about which MR. ARDAGH inquires is ' Charles Dickens,' by George Augustus Sala. It is not dated, but was published, no doubt in 1870, by George Routledge & Sons, who, according to the Preface, had asked Sala to consent to the republication of an essay which he had written in The Daily Telegraph on the day following Dickens's death. The book is.