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LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1917.

CONTENTS.-No. 59.

ZNOTES : Temple Bar : a Note on its Bibliography, 101 Army List of 1740, 103 From Liverpool to Worcester, 106 James I. and Sir Henry Mildmay's Marriage- Remarkable Longevity Three Generations in Two Centuries, 107.

QUERIES : Shelley's Copy of Abbe" Barruel's Work on Secret Societies Authors Wanted Heraldic Query: Salamander Mary Bellamy, Actress, 108 Flodden : Aberdeenshire Men Slain Bishop of Sorron Identifica- tion of Church from Photographs Francis Place Effigy at Old Cleeve, 109 Stokes : Stocker Cassell's Illus- trated ' Robinson Crusoe ' Bowtell : Beauclerk Miss Mitford and her Works, 110.

^REPLIES : George Turberville, 110 Henchman, Hinch- man, or Hitchman, 111 Francis Timbrel 1 Roger Hand- asyde, M. P., 112 -Mews or Mewys Family Sir William Trelawny, 6th Bart, 1'13 Foreign Graves of British Authors : Thomas Campbell Silhouettes Gambardella, Italian Portrait-Painter The Dominican Order, 114 Mrs. Esten Americanisms, 115 English Colloquial Similes " Staig "Jill, Gillian, 117 St. Kilda Colds : Tristan da Cunha ' Reminiscences of a Scottish Gentleman ' " Wipers " : Ypres William Hastings, 118 Poems by Lord Chesterfield Authors of Quotations Wanted, 119.

VNOTES ON BOOKS: 'The Towns of Roman Britain' 'Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica 'Reviews and Magazines.

Notices to Correspondents.

TEMPLE BAR : A NOTE ON ITS BIBLIOGRAPHY.

FOR nearly half a century Temple Bar was an object of such great public interest that .it overshadowed bibliographically its parent

thoroughfare, Fleet Street. Yet many of
 * its histories and descriptions have little to

say of this outer gate of the City, and would

be meagre and insufficient but for their

stories of Fleet Street events, buildings, and -persons. This may be attributed to the
 * misleading title of T. C. Noble's 'Memorials

of Temple Bar,' which is in fact a commend- -able history of the parishes and precincts

lying between it and the River Fleet.

Published in 1 869 by Messrs. Diprose & "JSateman, it was intended to be a popular .history, the foolscap 4to issue of 140 pp.,

sewn, being priced at half-a-crown only. 'There was another issue in brown cloth, and
 * a few on large paper, bound in green cloth, at

the price of half a guinea. There was no

further issue or change of text, a list of ^additions and corrections being provided for

the bound copies ; an 8-page prospectus reproducing press notices was issued later. Noble's well-known work was prompted by the desire to produce an adequate history of this part of the City. He had been per- sonally associated with Fleet Street and had gathered an immense amount of material, and this work was intended only as the forerunner of a more exhaustive volume, that it is to be regretted he never com- pleted.

The title was due to the prevailing interest in Temple Bar. Mr. Councillor Fricker's motion for the removal of Temple Bar had been dropped because there was some uncertainty as to the changes likely to be made necessary by the erection of the Law Courts, but grave doubts existed as to its safety and the high tide of popular reverence had commenced.

Noble claimed too much in stating that " Temple Bar with, all its historical recollec- tions ' had " hitherto escaped notice." This disregards the works provided by J. Holbert Wilson, of which the most familiar is ' Temple Bar : the City Golgotha,' a small 4to published by David Bogue, 1853, in boards with label, also in red or blue cloth extra.

Identified as "by a Member of the Inner Temple," its author was not gener- ally known, and as there are still some librarians to be convinced I transcribe a letter inserted in a presentation copy before me :

]9 Onslow Square,

April 11, 1853. MY DEAB SIR,

I now forward to you a copy of my little work on ' Temple Bar ' ; had I thought the subject would have afforded you any interest I should have done so much earlier. I have endeavoured in the latter part to trace the sev'l ameliorations in our Criminal Code, to show that if [?] the public exhibition of the last moments of a criminal in our streets of his body on our commons, &c., were in time abandoned as calculated to produce an effect very contrary to the one I presume intended moral improvement. I have then raised the question whether as executions are conducted at present they are not calculated to brutalise the people. I believe they are most eminently calculated to effect this end, and I con- clude by proposing that a stop should at once be made to public executions. Differ with me if you please, but give me credit for sincerity. With kind regards to your family. Believe me, my dear sir, yours faithfully,

JAS. H. WILSON.

This writer's second work, ' Memorials of Fleet Street and the Strand,' by a Barrister of the Inner Temple, printed for private circulation, is a small 4to of 30 pp. and