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232 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2s.x.MA R .25,i022. the Rolls, that indeed would be wise and even expedient.

As to the particular "cap of maintenance which he was the fortunate means of unearthing from the bottom of an old deed-chest in the City of Newcastle, tattered and torn as it was from cruel neglect and unnatural decay, surely the Mayor and Corporation of Newcastle cannot expect Londoners to travel so far north in this inclement weather for a sight of it? Everyone comes to London, sooner or later. May I suggest the South Kensington Museum as a more convenient asylum for a relic (however ragged) so venerable, so interesting and so important?

(12 S. x. 182).—Since forwarding my notes on this family I have come across the following additional particulars. The Bishop's father was buried at Lisburn, Dec. 30, 1689, as "Mr. George Lambert of Dundalk." The fact of his wife having been of a Lisburn family sufficiently accounts for his place of burial. The second husband of Bishop Lambert's daughter Susanna was Sir Sheffield Austen, fifth Bart., Captain Pepper's Dragoons (8th Hussars), second son of Sir Robert Austen, Bart., of Bexley, in Kent, by Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Colonel George Stawell of Cothelstone, Somerset. Sir Sheffield succeeded his brother in the title in 1743, and died about 1758, when the baronetcy went to a cousin, and eventually became extinct in 1773. Courthope, who published his 'Extinct Baronetage' in 1835, evidently was not aware of Sir Sheffield's marriage.

(12 S. x. 41, 108).—24. John Sharpe, D.D., eldest son of the Rev. Thomas Sharp, Archdeacon of Northumberland (1722-1753), by his wife Judith Wheler; born March 21, 1722-3; educated at Cambridge University; matriculated at Trinity College; graduated B.A. in 1743, M.A. in 1747, B.D. and D.D. in 1759; was Vicar of Hartburn, Northumberland, Jan. 1, 1749—April 28, 1792; Trustee of Law Courts Charities, 1758-1792: Archdeacon of Northumberland, April 21, 1762—April 28, 1792; Prebendary of the Ninth Stall in Durham Cathedral August 11, 1768—Sept. 10, 1791; Perpetual Curate of Bamborough, Northumberland, December, 1772—April 28, 1792; Prebendary of the Eleventh Stall in Durham Cathedral Sept. 10, 1791—April 28, 1792 died at the College, Durham, April 28, 1792, aged 69; buried in the Galilee of Durham Cathedral. Memorial inscription there.

(12 S. x. 121).—The Fairish (p. 122, col. 2) whom the writer says he cannot identify, is probably Professor William Farish, M.A., of Magdalene College, Proctor 1792, Moderator in the Math. Tripos 1793, who, in his lectures as Professor of Chemistry 1794 and Jacksonian Professor 1813, was the first to introduce the application of chemistry to manufactures. Gunning, in his 'Reminiscences,' mentions Mr. Farish's efforts when Proctor to prevent improper conduct by the undergraduates at Holy Trinity Church,, where Simeon was vicar. He was a Fellow of Magdalene, B.D. 1820, and was appointed vicar of St. Giles, Cambs, in 1800.

(12 S. X. 150, 198).—This is, I think, older than Burnand. The Era, in an article on Dec. 12, 1912, stated that it was currently believed in the profession that the famous line was first uttered in one of the blood-curdling dramas which were presented at the old Bower Saloon, in Stangate, Lambeth, which stood on a site now covered by St. Thomas's Hospital. The foundation-stone of the latter was laid in 1868. The Bower Saloon, which afterwards was called the Bower Theatre, was a place of cheap amusement which gave many famous actors their first chance. Among those who appeared there in their early days were Robson, Charles Calvert, James Fernandez and Joseph Arnold Cave, the Carthusian.

(12 S. x. 188).—With regard to the disappearance of the tombstone of Mrs. Rachel Williams from the churchyard of St. Mary's, Islington, may be interested to learn that The Star of April 1, 1921, reported that 200 tons of old gravestones had been obtained from St. Mary's, Islington, by the Church Council of Hadley, near High Barnet, in order to pave a public right of way known as "Dick Turpin's Path," which was through Hadley churchyard.

is correct in stating that when, in 1885, a faculty was obtained for the conversion of the churchyard of St. Mary's, in Upper Street into a public recreation