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under the Black Prince) repaired part of the Brixton Road with stone at his own ex- pense, and for many centuries afterwards it was called " Bristowe Causeway " after 'himself.

Manning and Bray, however, in their ' History of Surrey,' state that Bysshe gives no authority for his assertion, and that it was more likely the road was made by one Brixi, a Saxon proprietor in that neighbour- hood. The hundred is called Brixtan in Domesday, nearly 300 years before the time of this John de Burstow.

Bysshe' s statement is to be found at the end of his account of the Burstow family in his ' Upton de Studio Militari,' published in 1654 :

" Post reditum exGallia sumptibus propriis viam publicam tertio ab urbe lapide silice constravit quse in hunc usque diem dicitur pavimcntum seu lithostraton de Burstowe."

I should be glad to know of other re- ferences to Bristow Causeway, and about what period the name fell into disuse.

G. H. W.

Jenkins near Barking was an estate and seat of the Fanshawe family. According to Mr. H. C. Fanshawe's interesting and valuable notes to the ' Memoirs of Ann, Lady Fanshawe,' 1907, it was acquired in 1567 by Thomas Fanshawe (1533-1601), Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, " the seller being Martin Bowes, who had purchased the property from Edward Osborne, Lord Mayor of London " (p. 280). Eventually it passed to his great-grandson, Sir Thomas Fanshawe of Jenkins (1628-1705), "the second knight of that name and place."

" On the death of his daughter [171-1] the old timbered house of Jenkins was sold to Sir William Humphreys, who pulled it down and built another house in the Queen Anne style on the site. This too has disappeared, and the Manor Farm House now represents Jenkins, standing on the south of ^the long pools of water once enclosed in the old garden and fed by the Mayes brook, which passes It on the east." P. 314.

From a note on p. 280 of this same book it will be seen that " Jenkynes " is mentioned in Norden's ' Description of Essex.'

EDWARD BENSLY.

DUTCH LITERATURE (12 S. iv. 14). W. J. Wendel's ' Schets van de Geschiedenis der nederlandsche Letterkunde ' (Groningen, 1884) is a very handy little book that gives a conspectus of Dutch literature from the earliest times. Other detailed works on the subject are : Hubert's ' Biographisch Woor- denboek der Noord en Zuid Nederlandsch

Letterkunde ' ; a German translation, Geschichte der niederlandischen Litera- book ; several works by J. van Vloet in Dutch ; and Gosse's ' Studies of the Literature of Northern Europe.' N. W. HILL.
 * ur' (Leipzig, 1870), of Prof. Jonckbloet's

CLAUDE DUVAL, THE HIGHWAYMAN (12 S. iv. 15). At Lightwater Farm-House, near Brookwood, Surrey (the farm-house formerly belonged to Claude Duval), there is a secret chamber formed inside the chimney, so arranged that it can be used even when the fire is lit, the room being entered through an iron door well up in the chimney.

WALTER WINANS.

MEMBERS OF THE LONG PARLIAMENT (12 S. iii. 299, 366; iv. 21, 52). 3. John Moore. Some further notes will be found in a paper on the Moore family of Bankhall in vol. Ixiii. of Trans. Hist. Soc. of Lancashire and Cheshire. R. S. B.

SUBMARINES: IRONCLADS (12 S. iii. 356, 397). Allow me to reproduce the sub- joined abstract from my article with this heading that appeared in Japan and the Japanese, Tokyo, April 1, 1917.

' The Encyclopaedia Britannica,' llth ed., vol. xxiv. p. 917, tells us that the history of this subject in the West goes back at least three hundred years, but the first undoubted success with a submarine vessel was achieved by Bushnell in America in 1775.

Turning our attention to the Far East, in Matsura's ' Buko Zakki,' written in the seventeenth century, ed. Kondo, Tokyo, 1894, torn. i. fol. 62 b, we read as follows :

" During the winter siege of Osaka Castle (1614), leyasu, the leader of the besiegers, happened one day to witness the enemy dis- charging musketry from the turret at Kidzu Gate, causing much annoyance to his army. Thereupon he bade Kuki Moritaka to build four ' blind . boats.' On their completion, he com- manded Kuki's soldiers to attack the turret therewith. So they did, and succeeded in destroy- ing it after losing two persons, who were killed by hostile bullets whilst busying themselves to fire muskets from one of the ' blind boats.' "

An anonymous author in his ' Shishi Seidan,' written about 1700, ed. Kondo, Tokyo, 1901, p. 69, relates this exploit of Kuki thus :

" During the winter siege of Osaka Castle, it befell Kuki Moritaka to be ordered by leyasu to repress the cannon shooting from the turret at Shimbashi. Kuki constructed some ' blind boats,' manned them with his soldiers, advanced there- with submerged in the moat, and crushed the turret with his cannon. Thence was made known