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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. m. MAY, 1917.

The " Stuart " Lethieullier mentioned in the second column of p. 191 ante is evidently Smart Lethieullier of Alders- broke, Essex, who died, aged 59, without issue, on Aug. 27, 1760, and is buried in the family vault, Little Ilford Church. I recorded the inscription to his memory in full at 7 S. iv. 407. There is another in- scription at Little Ilford to the memory of John Lethieullier (father of the above) and Elizabeth his wife. They were married in 1695, and had issue John and Anne, who died young, and Smart, Charles, and Elizabeth, who survived them. Mrs. Lethieullier was injured through the over- turning of her carriage on Aug. 16, 1724, and died on Nov. 20 following, aged 48, and her husband died Jan. 1, 1737, aged 78.

JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

[See also additional reply, p. 315.] ]

THRALE HALL, STREATHAM (12 S. iii. 231). The historical villa where Dr. Johnson spent so much of the latter part of his life no longer exists, having been pulled down in 1863. It was called Thrale Place origin- ally, but its name was subsequently changed to Streatham Park. It stood on a site now traversed by Ellathorne Road, lying between the Mitcham Road and Tooting Bee Road. The present Thrale Hall, which is now a private hotel, on the right-hand side of the Mitcham Road, was, I believe, originally erected, by some member of the Thrale family, for a girls' school, but has been added to from time to time. The land at the back of it contains some old elm trees, under the shade of which the learned lexicographer is reputed to have roamed in company with his fascinating hostess.

WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

At the end of his essay on ' Streatham Place,' reprinted from The National Review in 'Rosalba's Journal and other Papers' 1915), Mr. Austin Dobson writes :

" Its last owner was a Mr. Phillips, by whom, in 1863, it was pulled down. There is a Thrale Road still on the old site ; and, in 1832, Thrale Almshouses were erected by Lady Keith and

EDWARD BENSLY.

Aberystwyth.

This query has already been answered at 9 S. x. 57. Thrale's house, Streatham Place, was demolished in 1863, and the materials were sold by auction. No trace of it remains to-day. MALCOLM LETTS.

ST. BURCHARD (12 S. iii. 127, 219). -My authority for saying that St. Burchard's Day was Feb. 2 is the late Father Stanton of the Oratory, in his ' Menology of England and Wales.' He followed the first English post - Reformation martyro legist, John Wilson, who followed Blessed Peter Canisius. He in turn seems to have followed earlier authorities.

Under date Feb. 2 the Bollandists, in the ' Acta Sanctorum,' February, vol. i. p. 269, write :

" S. Burchardus, Ep. Herbipolitanus, obiit hoe die, quo et Martyrologio adscriptus a Galesino, Felicio, Canisio, Wilsono in 1 et 2 editione Martyrol. Anglicani. E.JUS Vitam dabimus, quo- die Herbipoli colitur. xiv. Octobr."

So it is clear that J. DE C. L. is quite right in asserting that Oct. 14 is the correct date of the feast. I am grateful to him for raising the point, more especially as it has compelled me to consult authorities.

Bishop Challoner, in his ' Britannia Sancta,' vol. ii. p. 195, says that the saint died Feb. 9, 752 ; Father Stanton, on the other hand, says he died Feb. 2, 751.

Bishop Challoner says :

" He has a place in the Roman Martyrology on: the fourteenth of October, which was the day of his solemn translation by the Emperor Otho the Second, and Pope Benedict the Seventh, in the latter part of the tenth century."

Father Stanton writes :

" At a later period, about the year 972, on the 14 October his relics were solemnly translated by Hugo, Bishop of Wurzburg a ceremony in those days equivalent to canonization, for which he had obtained the express sanction of Pope Bene^ diet VI."

Otto II. reigned from 973 to 983, Bene- dict VI. from 972 to 974, and Benedict VII. from 974 to 983.

Both Challoner and Stanton record his original burial at Wurzburg, and his subse- quent translation there ; and neither knows anything of his translation to Berceto in 1455.

It is remarkable that Mgr. J. P. Kirsch in ' The Catholic Encyclopaedia,' iii. 64, gives Hugo's episcopate at Wurzburg as being from 984 to 990.

If this is correct, it would seem that neither Benedict VI. nor Benedict VII., nor yet Otto II., can have been responsible for his translation on Oct. 14. It may be remarked that in the ' Magnum Legendarium Aus- triacum,' St. Burchard is put down for Oct. 10 (see ' Analecta Bollandiana,' xvii. 84).

Any further light on this little - known Anglo-Saxon saint would be welcome.

JOHN B. W T AINE WRIGHT.