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the engraving shows with much distinctness and appreciable size the topographical features of that day, and many individual houses and buildings are given in detail.

A little earlier had been issued ' The Grand Panorama of London as seen from the Thames in 1844,' unfolding to 1,5 ft. by 5 in., and showing the stretch from Westminster to the Royal Victualling Office, Deptford. I believe there was more than one issue one forming a supplement to The Pictorial Times.

W. B. H.

TREE FOLK-LORE: THE ELDER (11 S. xii. 361, 410, 429/450, 470, 489, 507; 12 S. i. 37, 94). My supposition that elder had been unwittingly substituted for alder in a legend as to the material of the Cross, referred to by another correspondent, is backed up by the Irish belief mentioned in ' My Irish Year ' (p. 53). Children were, says the author, " forbidden to strike each other with a rod of the alder. Why ? The people said it was because the Cross was made of alder wood. But this explana- tion shows that the myth about the alder wood had been forgotten."

Mr. Padraic Colum does not tell us what this was. ST. SWITHIN.

FOLK-LORE : CHIME-HOURS (12 S. i. 329, 417). May I greatly daring differ from ST. SWITHIX, who considers that " chime- hours hardly belong to folk-lore " ? (I quote from memory.)

In that home and haunt of so many old beliefs, and especially of ecclesiastic folk-lore, the county of Norfolk, I lately heard a dis- cussion as to the various circumstances of birth which enable a child to see, or not to see, ghosts. It was generally agreed by the Norfolk-born people there assembled that " children born in chime-hours would always see spirits," and several instances were given.

Y. T.

STATUE AT DRURY LANE THEATRE (12 S. ii. 71). I have not seen the print to which J. L. L. alludes, but have little doubt that the statue to which he alludes is the Apollo which fell through the roof, and was presumably broken to pieces. The incident is referred to in the account of the burning of the theatre in 1809 in The Annual Register for that year. Moreover, when the theatre was rebuilt and opened on Oct. 10, 1812, an address written by Byron was delivered by Elliston, in the first stanza of which the poet wrote :

In one short hour behold the blazing fane, Apollo s : nk, and Shakespeare cease to reign.

WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

The statue referred to, which is stated to have been more than ten feet high, was a figure of Apollo. It was destroyed with the theatre.

Boaden, in his ' Life of Kemble * (vol. ii. p. 482), wrote :

" On the night of the conflagration, I stood with my boots covered by the water, in the middle of the street, until I saw the figure on the summit of the house sink into the flames : that Apollo which a contemptible vanity had thrust up into the place that, in England, should always be occupied by Shakspeare : to whose honour, moreover, be it remembered, the pile, on its erection, professed itself to be consecrated."

WM. DOUGLAS.

RABSEY CROMWELL ALIAS WILLIAMS (12 S.. i. 486). The subjoined clipping is from The Manchester Weekly Times, May, 1894. The- Rev. H. C. Field, if he is alive, may be able to supply the details required on the subject- by your correspondent :

GOSSIP ABOUT INTERESTING PEOPLE.

The Rev. Henry Cromwell Field, who has been appointed by Lord Herschell to the Crown living of Bradpole, Dorset, is a lineal descendant of the Lord Protector Cromwell.

FRED L. TATAR*.

THE KINGSLEY PEDIGREE (12 S. ii. 70). The Newcastle Courant of Aug. 9, 1806, has the following announcement :

" At Lamberton, near Berwick, Mr. Kingsley, ensign in the 8th Keg., aged 16, to Miss Maria Taylor, aged 17";

and in the issue of the same paper of Sept. 6 following :

"On the 3rd inst., at Berwick Church, William Jeffrey Towler Kingsley, Esq., of London, to Miss Maria Taylor, daughter of Mr. John Taylor, formerly printer and bookseller, Berwick, being the third time the younr couple have been married : their united ages scarcely exceed 34."

These were the parents of the Rev. William. Towler Kingsley, Rector of South Kilvington, who was born at Berwick on June 28, 1815, immediately after the Battle of Waterloo, at which his father fought.

J. C. HODGSON."""

Alnwick.

The Genealogist for 1913 contains full pedigrees of this family.

R. J. FYXJIORE.

"HAT TRICK" : A CRICKET TERM (12 S. ii. 70). The ' Dictionary of Slang,' by Barrere, says : " A bowler who takes three wickets in succession is said to have done the ' hat trick,' from the custom of giving him a hat as a recognition of his skill." When this expression first came in I do not know, but