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through the continuity of succeeding genera- tions. Also, many of the lilts are almost ubiquitous in Britain, e.g., our local school song, ' Here comes a Duke a-riding ' (doubt- less arising from the Bigods, who bearded King Stephen) :

Pray, what are you riding for,

Biding for, riding for Pray, what are you riding for ?

Aranza-tanza-tee ;

or, better, the Ipswich song (unknown here, sixteen miles away) :

Pray, what has she done to you,

Done to you, done to you Pray, what has she done to you,

Nice Fair Lady ?

is or used to be paralleled so far distant as Galloway by :

Whaf'll the robbers do to you,

Do to you, do to you What '11 the robbers do to you, My Fair Lady ?

CLAUDE MOBLEY. Monks' Soham, Suffolk.

OLD INNS (12 S. iii. 169). Old inns are commonest in the smaller towns, as Bideford or Bishop Stortford. The Maid's Hotel, Norwich, and the Flying Horse, Nottingham, are very ancient. The Old George, High Street, Salisbury, is known to have existed in 1406, and about the time of the death of Shakespeare was used as a theatre. It is mentioned by Pepys, as also is the Bell At Maidstone. God-Begot House, High Street, Winchester (date 1558), is a good Tudor building. The hostelries immortal- ized by Dickens are too well known to need enumeration. I am certain that Miss Austen's Emma danced at the Swan, Leatherhead. W. A. HEBST.

4 The Old Inns of England,' by Charles Harper, would supply a list of old inns with interesting associations.

I have a newspaper cutting to the effect that the oldest licensed house in the kingdom is the Seven Stars at the foot of Shudehill, in Manchester. It has been continuously a licensed house for 527 years.

R. J. FYNMOBE.

A good deal of the information desired is to be found in Hackwood's ' Inns, Ales, and Drinking Customs of Old England ' (1909) and Maskell and Gregory's ' Old Country Inns' (1912).

If MB. ACKEBMANN will call on me when in this neighbourhood, I will endeavour to supply him with further information as to some old Midland licensed houses.

S. A. GBUNDY-NEWMAN, F.S.A.

Walaall.

Two fine old inns that I remember with pleasure are the Feathers at Ludlow and the Saracen's Head at Southwell. The latter claims to be one of the oldest in England. C. C. B.

The Broad Face Inn at Reading, which is mentioned in Pepys's ' Diary.'

CONSTANCE RUSSELL. Swallowfield, Reading.

QUEEN ELIZABETH'S PALACE, ENFIELD (12 S. ii. 361, 384, 404, 423, 536). The Enfield " Palace " is my old school, and JUDGE UDAL'S account of the building at the first reference had therefore a special interest for me.

During almost the whole of last century " The Palace " was used as a school. Before 1823 and for many years after, Dr. Thomas May kept a " first-class boarding school " there (Robinson's ' History of Enfield,' 1823 ; Tuff's ' Historical Notices of Enfield,' 1858) ; from 1855 to 1863 the head master was a Mr. Barker, upon whose death in the latter year his son Mr. W. Nutter Barker took the school over and carried it on until 1883, when the premises came into the hands of Mr. E. L. Hogarth, my old head master, whose tenancy lasted until 1899. Since that time the building, after temporarily serving as a post office, has been in the occupation of the Enfield Constitutional Club.

In the time of Mr. Nutter Barker and his successor the large room (now the Club billiard-room) leading out of the principal apartment served as the school classroom. The suggestion of JUDGE UDAL'S informant that it " formed the classroom in which Dr. Uvedale taught his pupils " deserves no credit, the western portion of the building in which it is situated being obviously a modern addition. I cannot discover when it was built, but its appearance suggests the earlier part of the nineteenth century.*

The " tradition " that the cubicles on the upper floor of the main building were " occupied by certain Indian princes, so as to keep them distinct from the other scholars," is of very recent origin, and is easily accounted for. It is undoubtedly due to the circumstance that Mr. Hogarth had several Siamese pupils schoolfellows of mine locally reputed to be princes. In

Observer (our local newspaper) on May 1, 1873, a reference to the "venerable aspect" of the Palace School " before the process or modernizing had commenced, and before the large additions were made to the edifice to fit it for scholastic requirements."
 * I find in an article appearing in Mey era's