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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, AUGUST, 1917.

C N T E N T S. No. 71.

NOTES : Minor London Theatres, 375 Richard Ed- wards's Correspondence, 377 Epigram on Beau Nash, 379 Statues and Memorials in the British Isles, 380 William Pitt's Last Speech Shakespeare Emendation- Chivalry in the Victorian Age, 382 Magic Squares in India" Profiteer," 383.

QUERIES : Germans as " Huns "Germany in Roman Times Robert Aske Joseph Addison's Descendants Coromandel Screens Hampton Court Inscriptio_n, 383 Fletcher Faruily Greystoke Pedigree Fitzwilliams of Grimthorpe Bible : Words printed in Capital Letters John Croke : Sir William Stocker, 384 Noviomagus The Word " Symbol "Philip Westcott, Portrait Painter ' The Shooting Party, Ranton Abbey 'Rolls of Lord- Lieutenant Court Rolls of Whippingham, I. W. Bloomsbury in 1840 Crest on Scottish Cake-Dish, 385 Title of Play Wanted Arbor tristis Lettering on a Sword Latin Version of a Chantey Bunyon " Buller's Thumb " ' John Inglesant ' : Key Wanted Charlotte Bronte's Fairy Stories Winthrop Sargent, 386" Moun- tain," a Wine Clerical Biographies Joseph Trapp's ' Prselectiones Poeticfe ' Steele Surname Crest John Tyndall ' Ireland in Fiction ' Author of Quotation Wanted, 387.

IEPLIES : -Library of Mr. W. W. E. Wynne of Peniarth : National Library of Wales, 388 ' Fleetwood Genealogical Puzzle,' 389 John Phillip's Portraits. 391 Benedictine Picture Interpreted Eustace Clare Grenville Murray, 392 Carr : Douglas of Carr Banbury, 393 St. Barbara, 394 Folk-Lore : the Spider : Wall-Rue, 395 Cham- pagnifs Regiment Artists in Stained Glass, 396 Submarines Lope de Vega, 397 St. Paul's School Subscribers to ' Life of Colet ' Kirkpatrick of the Isle of Wight, 398 English Travellers in the Netherlands Jeatt : Moretus 74th Regiment of Foot Edward John Corbett, 399 Australian Slang Linnwus and the Blossoming Gorse, 400 Keats Queries Picture of our Lord, 401 " Malbrook s'en va-t-en guerre/' The " House " of "The Ladies of Castellmarch " Warden Pies "Losing Loadum," a Game -Authors of Quotations Wanted. 402.

NOTES ON BOOKS: 'The Life of John Wilkes' 1 Calendar of the Liberate Rolls : Henry III., Vol. I.'

Booksellers' Catalogues. Notices to Correspondents.

MINOR LONDON THEATRES.

THE historians of the later London theatres have generally restricted their research to the principal West End houses ; also the resulting volumes are more chronicles of the stage than records of the buildings and their administrative or structural changes. There are notable exceptions to this limited interest. The books by Mr. Barton Baker and Mr. Michael Williams are especially useful, and it is to make good some of their omissions that I offer the following notes.

The Thespian Theatre, Leather Lane.
 * The Wonder ' and ' The Irishman in

London ' were performed here in March, 1796. The company were amateurs, and the programme has no information about the prices of seats, &c. The doors opened at 5 o'clock. " No admittance after half past 6."

City Vaudeville, King Street, Snow Hill, circa 1831. G. R. Chapman, for a time manager of the City Pantheon, Grub Street, and the Tottenham Street Theatre, was " composer and director " here. Tickets for boxes (2s.) and pit (Is.) could be had at the theatre ; and the performance did not commence until half past 7, "in order to accommodate the citizens of London, who do not leave business so early in the summer evenings."

Theatre Royal, Middle Yard, Great Queen Street, near the Freemasons' Tavern, Lin- coln's Inn Fields. ' The Mountaineers ' and ' The Agreeable Surprize \ were pre- sented bv a company of amateurs on Mar. 21, F79S.

Theatre of Fancy, 13 Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. June, 1830. This, the enterprise of a Mr. Wyatt, was a sub- scription theatre. Tickets could be ob- tained throxighout the town.

The Theatre, Gough Street, Wilson Street, Gray's Inn Road. From 1817 until 1852 there existed here at intervals the principal theatre for amateurs. There were several changes of name, but I cannot trace that it was ever a recognized place of entertain- ment. The wardrobe was very extensive. On Tuesday, Jan. 12, 1847, Robins soid by auction the whole of its equipment, which included the dresses for ' Julius Csesar,' ' Coriolanus,' ' Macbeth,' ' Brutus,' ' The School for Scandal,' ' The Rivals,' ' John Bull,' &c.

The whole district of Clerkenwell was infected with amateur theatricals during the first half of the nineteenth century. At the Two Blue Posts, Mount Pleasant, the Dramatic Tyro Club produced plays during 1 84 1 . At the Theat re, N ort hampton House, Rawstorne Street, they attempted ' Richard III.' in 1829. A critic (The Theatrical Amateur, No, 1) informs us that the boots of the two young princes were covered with mud, .and " the gas went out two or three tunes." There was another amateur theatre in Wilmington Square, but the dramatic institution in Gough Street was not only paramount in this district it was evi- dently the principal stage for amateurs in London.

Of the West End theatres the most im- portant omission is the Pantheon. This