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members of this family, including " Mr. Arthur Shakespeare, Ropemaker, Nat. Nov. 3, 1699. Obt. May 9, 1749," and " John Shakespeare, Esq., Alderman of London, who died May 19, 1775, aged . n .6 years," &c. The tomb bears the following : Crest, a falcon, wings addorsed, inverted, holding a tilting spear in bend. Arms, on a bend a tilting spear.

JOHN T. PAGK. Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

A charity school established by Protestant Dissenters in Shakespeare's Walk, Shadwell, was opened in 1712. The school no longer exists, but under a scheme of the Charity Commissioners the income of the foundation has since 1878 been applied by the British and Foreign School Society to the award of " Shakespeare's Walk Exhibitions."

DAVID SALMON.

Swansea.

THE DUTCH IN THE THAMES (12 S. iii. 472 ; iv. 111). Some twenty-five years since I was informed by Mr. John Bragg (of Messrs. John Bragg & Son, fish factors and salesmen of Billingsgate Market):] that the skippers of the Dutch eel -boats had held their moorings just below London Bridge for several hundreds of years ; that their right to those moorings was granted in perpetuity by King Charles II. in recognition of their spirit in bringing their cargoes to London during the Great Plague ; and that their tenure of the moorings was subject to their maintaining a constant intercourse with the City. My informant stated further that during the Dutch War of 1797 two of the boats were scuttled by their crews at their moorings with a view to a compliance with that condition.

Upon what evidence my informant founded his statements I do not know. We have here, however, two definite dates which might well serve as a direction to further inquiry. W. P. H. POLLOCK.

I see no reason to believe that the supposed privilege was derived from a charter or anything exceptional. A licence to import eels and vend from their ships moored in the river would give these strangers all the rights they have ever enjoyed. That one of their boats must always be at their station is the ordinary custom for the preservation of mooring rights. By selling ex-ship they avoid market tolls, and I believe they are not liable for port dues, but on this point I gladly seek information.

Something can be learnt from that useful work ' A Description of the River Thames,. &c., with the City of London's Jurisdiction and Conservacy [stc] thereof ' proved,' &c. [London, 1758). No direct reference to the Dutch boats occurs, but at p. 195, after discussing the varieties, habits, and merits of eels, it concludes :

" How eels are to be sold in barrels, packed, imported, sold, &c., vide stat. 22 Edw. IV. cap. ii. r 11 Hen. VII. cap. xxiii., 5 Eliz. cap. v., 32 Car. II cap. ii. sect. 7 ; 10 and 11 Wil. III. cap. xxiv."

The italics are mine, and this is, I suggest,, the source of the tradition.

ALECK ABBAHAMS.

" ORATOB " HENLEY: MACEB (12 S. iv. 48). W. B. H.'s question comes to this r Who was the barrister practising in West-' minster Hall in 1752 whom the satirist hoped! to pain, or whom the victim's acquaintance- would be pleased to recognize, by the! reference to " slanderous Macer " ? Wej may, I suppose, presume that Macer is not. an English surname, but the Roman. When] Pope wrote his ' Macer : a Character,' in the! ' Miscellanies ' of 1727, it has been conjee-} tured that he was alluding to Ambrosej Philips's spare figure. Cf. " Lean Philips- and fat Johnson " in the ' Farewell to London in the Year 1715.'

Was any raucous and foul-mouthed counsel in 1752 distinguished by his thinness ? or would any one of the name of Thynne answer to such a character ? A knowledge of this particular satirist's tastes and prejudices, and of the system on which he introduces personal names, might help to solve the problem.

EDWARD BENSLY.

WILLAUME (12 S. iv. 158). G. F. R. B.. will find a fxill a'nswer to his fourfold inquiry in a pedigree of the Huguenot refugee families of Willaume and Tanqueray- Willaume which was communicated to Mis- cellanea Genealogica et Heraldica (vol. iii., Fourth Series, 92-5) by H. W.

[MB. L. C. PRICE also refers to this pedigree.]

PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART AND A FRENCH PRINCESS (12 S. iv. 18, 165). On p. 101 of ' Letters of The Marchioness of Pompadour : From 1746-1752 inclusive ' (London, 1772) there is "Letter 47. To mr. CAMPBEL." It speaks of her being " protid of the remembrance of prince Edward," of " the King, who was with much reluctance forced to force him away " ; says that " His marriage with the Princess-