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tion of Prince's Ground, is correct. In the early years of this century a long series of articles, evidently the work of an expert, on changes in London streets and buildings were published at intervals in The Builder. The article relating to Hans-Town and neighbourhood appeared in the issue of Nov. 2, 1901 (p. 384), from which the following extracts are taken :

" Some houses on the southern side of Pont Street, occupying the site of old Prince's.... [illustrated in The Builder of Nov. 27, 1886] are by Mr. E. T. Hall, who also planned and designed the houses in Cadogan Square and The Mansions, Sloan e Gardens, [built by Messrs. Foster & Dicksee and Messrs. Langdale, Hallett & Co., which we illustrated on June 2, 1888, Jan. 19,

1889. and (plan) Jan. 26, 1901 In Cadogan

Square. Messrs. Ernest George & Peto were architects of two houses [designs illustrated May 15, 1886] built by Messrs. J. Simpson & Co.

for Col. Thynne and Mr. T. A. De la Rue The

Racquet and most of Prince's were pulled down in 1886, and twelve years afterwards the club settled at Knightsbridge."

I have also lately received some letters, further corroborating this date, for which I am obliged.

ALAN STEWABT.

THE KING'S GENTLEMEN VOLUNTEERS IN THE ROYAL NAVY IN 1692 (12 S. iii. 229). I cannot get at the book, particulars of which I append. It is likely to contain something helpful. The author was a well-known naval officer. The date covered by the book does not quite touch DR. MAGRATH'S period :

Harris (Capt. Robert R.N.) An Historical Sketch of the several means adopted for the education of Naval Officers from the year 1729 to the present period, with some remarks. London, 1863. 79 pp.

187 Piccadilly, W. A. L. HUMPHREYS.

AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740 (12 S. iii. 191). Maurice Bocland's " first wife was Jane, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Fox, of the Kingdom of Ireland, by whom he had issue five sons, and two daughters who survived him. Jane married the Rev. Dr. Bisset of Dublin ; Lucy to the Rev. Mr. Ellyott of Lichfield [?] in Hampshire. By his second wife Sophia, daughter of Major Bisset, of Southampton, he had no issue."

The foregoing particulars are taken from the monumental tablet in All Saints', parish of New- church, which further states : "he was the second son of Maurice Bocland of Stanlige^ [?] en. Wilts by his wife Mabella, daughter of Sir Robert Dillington, Bart., of Knighton." On the death of Sir Tristram Dillington, in 1721, without issue, the Knighton property, with other estates, came to his sisters, Hannah and Mary, children of Sir Robert Dillington's second marriage, Hannah died intestate. Mary died unmarried, and by herwill, proved July, 1749, left the estates in common between her nephew Maurice Bocland, and her niece Jane, wife of John Eyre, the children 'of her half-sister Mabel.

The tablet further states that " in the year 1715 he was made Cornet of Horse, and served his King and Country with great Credit and Distinguished Zeal for the Protestant succession in the Illustrious House of Hanover."

JOHN L. WHITEHBAD.

Ventnor.

' THE WORKS OF KING ALFRED THE GREAT T (12 S. iii. 249). The London Library Catalogue (1913) gives " Whole Works of A., with essays illustrative of the ninth century Jubilee ed. r 3 vols. in 2, 8vo, O. (London), 1852-3 ; Jubilee ed., 2 vols., 8vo, O. (London), 1852-8 ; vol. ii- has 2 pp.,pagin. sep.,the signatures of 2, ii. being ' vol. iii.' " A. R. BAYLEY.

WARREN HASTINGS (12 S. i. 148, 211, 318). Now that the buildings in process of erection at the north-eastern corner of Park Lane are- nearly completed, it is to be hoped that the metal tablet removed from the walls of No. 40- will be either reinstated upon that site, or a new one substituted therefor.

CECIL CLARKE.

GOVANE (12 S. iii. 271). Burke in his ' General. Armory ' gives two families of Govan in Scotland bearing different arms, one of Cardrona, co. Peebles. In Alderney (Channel Islands) there is a "family of Gauvain. L. C. P.

PEDIGREES WANTED (12 S. iii. 210). There- is some account of Anthony Bacon, M.P., of Cyfartha, Glamorgan, in ' Old Wales,' vol. i.,. 1905, pp. 57-8 and 379. W. R. W.

0n Hacks,

The Collegiate Church of Ottery St. Mary, being- the Ordinacio el Statuta Ecclesie Sancte Marie de Otery Exon. Diocesis A.D. 1338, 1339- Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by John Neale Dalton. (Cambridge University Press,. 11. os. net.)

ENGLISH scholars and antiquaries should, we think, feel great satisfaction in considering that this monograph has been produced in the very thick and crisis of the great European War. It affords magnificent testimony to the unbroken continuity of learning amid so immense an up- heaval. The readers to whom it will appeal may perhaps not number many thousands ; yet assuredly these count among the fortunate ones of their day. For to gain the availing refreshment of seeing the present world sub- specie ceiernitatis what line of study is more effectual than that of the fabric and history of an ancient church ? If, wherever an English lad lies buried, we have been taught to think

That there's some corner of a foreign field

That is for ever England,

we may also say that wherever a church is built" there is a little pile of the earth's rocks and stones that is for ever human. A sad part of the mistake made by those who defaced the churches of England is that they minimized this peculiar possession by humanity of the inanimate sub- stance of the earth, and curtailed the. tradition and witness of our fathers, to whom, at any rate,. those fortunate readers we spoke of a moment ago- have probably during the War found themselves drawn closer. For the Hundred Years' War or- the Wars of the Roses, though they may seem small to us compared with the struggles of Europe now. were undoubtedly hard enough to those who went through them, and dabit Deus his quoque finem we may hopefully say, remembering them..