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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. i. MAY 27, iwe.

VOL. II.

ST. LUKE'S, OLD STREET : BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Allnutt Gordonius Parker

This is one of the many minor parishes in

Ancaster Griesdale *Pembroke

London still wanting an historian or topo-


 * Ashley A. H. Pinckney

grapher. Its interest is sufficient for a small

R. B. C. T. H. *Pink

volume, although as a separate parish its

Baber E. H. Pope

record only commences with the Act of


 * Bampton H. H. *Pnaulx


 * T*arfnrd T ff PrioP

Geo. II., c. 21, which made the outgrowth of

J>ctlIUill ti. JX. illuC

Barker M. A. H. *Pyle

Cripplegate all the parish of St. Giles's


 * Beauchamp N. H. Radnor

outside the City wall into a detached parish,

Bennet R. H. Ridding

under the name of St. Luke's, Old Street.

Benson Hamilton Rolleston Bird *Hawkins Sadler
 * Bertie *Hardwick W. S.

The only printed history is a scarce and singular work, ' The Historie of Eald Street,


 * Blud worth Hawles Sagef

now called Old Street, with Memoranda of the

Bowles *Hearst Salcot

Parish of St. Luke and of the Chartreuse.'

Burgess *Henchman Selwyn M. C. Herbert *Seyniour Capon Hill *Sharpe
 * Rrockwell Hedges Scotus

This is a small 4to, printed and issued by Messrs. Adams & King at 30 Goswell Street in a series of " typographic leaves " or single


 * Cary Hillman Slade

pages, showing different sizes of type, styles

Castlehaven Hody *South

of borders, colours of inks, &c. The com-

Clayton Holmes Stanley


 * /-l 1 *T-T i t t.7^ *

plete work consists of half - title ; title ;


 * Coker *Holt *Strachan
 * Coleman Hooper Strong
 * Collins Hopson *Swanton

dedication ; preface, 2 pp. ; 12 pp. of matter, and colophon one page. There are neither

Conant Hume Talman

signatures, pagination, nor indication of

Cooper *Hyde Taylor

date, but a considerable period elapsed


 * Courte *Jacob Thomas

between its commencement and finish, as

Cox *Jewell Thompson Cradocke *Keene Turner T. D. *Kelsey *Urry

changes in the title of the firm and its address occur in the imprint on each leaf.


 * Davenant *Kent *Vau'ghan

The text, probably written by the publishers


 * *Dawson *Kenton H. V. W.

for each leaf as required, is carefully gathered

Dennis Kerrich Walton

from familiar sources.

Dodwell Knatehbull *Ward Douglas * Lambert Waterer Kddrup Lear Wenyeve

I cannot trace any work on the church ; and the other important public building, the

Evans Leigh *Whitby

Lunatic Asylum, has only occasioned pam-


 * Eyre Light *Whitwell

phlets on its administration, commencing

Farington Long Whyte Fisher Longspec Will mot Fotherby Longueville Wilson M. G. Lowe Wiltshire

in 1754, with frequently reissued ' Reasons for the Establishing and further Encouragement of St. Luke's Hospital,' &c.,

Gardiner Macdonald Regiment

1766, &c.


 * Garrard Marsh Woodward

The Debtors' Prison in Whitecross Street,

Geste *Martyn *Wyatt Gheast Mere'wether Wynn Gilbert *Miller Wyvil Goldsworthy *Mompesson "Young

GOOdall TT -D TTT

demolished nearly fifty years ago, has been described by Renton Nicholson and similar writers, but I have failed to trace any volumes or pamphlets on its history.

hi. J3. W.

The association of the Ironmongers with

the parish in the administration of the

" STRA.FE." It seems to ro.3, as it may to

Mitchell Estate, &c., is fully dealt with in

others, that vigorous protest should be raised

John Nicholl's ' Account ' and T. C. Noble's

-against this expression, which has suddenly

' Brief History of that Worshipful Com-

sprung into vogue in England. The present

pany.' A quantity of memoranda by

can scarcely bs the tim3 when it is desirable

Nicholl, together with a MS. work by

to anglicize any German word, in particular

Noble,

one usad so freely by a hostile nation, and which might, in truth, be well retained for

" A Short Account of St. Luke the Evangelist and St. Luke's Day : a chapter to be added to the

Teutonic consideration only. Many people

Brief History of the Worshipful Company of

also appear strangely ignorant of its msan-

Ironmongers, London,"

ing such is, at any rate, my experience.

are before me.

Let us hope the objectionable intruder may soon pass from our conversation, and em-
 * ployment by our newspaper press.

Select Vestry scandals and corrupt manage- ment of the parish schools provided a number of pamphlets, broadsides, and handbills in

Junior Athenaeum Club. CECIL CLAEKE -

1755 and 1760, the most important item