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37 the Clerk of the Cheque ; their Duty is to md Prisoners of State, and to wait at the t, to take an account of all Persons that come ) the Tower, to enter their Names, and the nes of the Persons they go to, in a Book, to perused by the Constable or lieutenant. Two hem are upon the Watch every Night."
 * es ; Ten of them are usually upon the Days-

W. R. WILLIAMS.

JHAKESPEARE AND THE GARDEN (12 S- 153). I think MB. PATON'S question Avon. In the garden at the back of ikespeare's house all the plants men- led in the plays are represented. I have doubt a list is kept, and a reference to this uld give the information required as to flora of Shakespeare.
 * ht be answered by a visit to Stratford -

J. FOSTER PALMER. Oakley Street, S.E.3.

["he poet's garden has been industriously y over by Mr. H. N. Ellacombe ( ' The m,t-Lore and Garden-Craft of Shake- >are') and Mr. Leo H. Grindon ('The ikespeare Flora '), and I should say that >y and others labouring in their tracks /e made a note of every vegetable that a,kespeare planted in his works. There i plot of ground behind the birthplace at atford-on-Avon in which an attempt has >n made to grow specimens of all.

ST. SWITHIN.

A glance at the subject index in my tiakespeare Bibliography ' under " Shake- sare's botany " or " Shakespeare's garden owledge " or " Shakespeare's flowers " uld instantly reveal the half-dozen books Beisly and others dealing with this >ject. WM. JAGGARD, Capt.

Fhere are several works which treat of > plant-lore of Shakespeare. Taking them onologically, the following may be men- tied :

Shakespeare's Garden. By Sidney Beisly. ngmans. 1864.

Dhe Plant-Lore and Garden-Craft of Shake- rth Street, Exeter. 1878. Reprinted by nold. 1896.
 * are. By Rev. Henry Ellacombe. Pollard,
 * chell & Co., 1 884. Another edition, illustrated ,

Che Shakespeare Flora. By Leo H. Grindon. Lmer & Howe, Manchester. 1883. Shakespeare's Garden. By J. Harvey Bloom, thuen & Co. 1903.

1 Garland of Shakespeare's Flowers. By se Carr Smith. With coloured plates. Elliot >ck. 1911.

J. E. HARTING. MR. ARCHIBALD SPARKE also thanked for

ly.]

MORLANDS AND NEWCOMES (12 S. V. 141).

Rev. Thomas Moreland was rector of Sulhamstead till 1652, when he died. His- daughter Marie was baptized 1628. Two- pieces of land were called Morelands.

When Sir Samuel Moreland was created - a baronet he was called of Sulhamstead.

Another Rev. Matthew Moreland was of- Sulhamstead temp. Queen Elizabeth.

Apparently Martin Moreland lived at one- time in Sulhamstead.

Thomas Morland, clerk, married at Heck- field, 1613, Alice Croswell, gent.

(Mrs.) E. E. COPE.

Finchampstead, Berks.

LABOUR-IN-VAIN STREET, SHADWELI* (12 S. v. 123). Harben in his 'Dictionary of London ' says that the name of a Court as above was taken from a sign of a public- house of " two women scrubbing a negro." It was also meant to typify the excellence- of the ale brewed in the house, which defied the competition of the women brewers in the industry. It was called by the lower classes the " Devil in a Tub." Harben also mentions other places that used to bear this curious name, and so do Larwood and Hotten in their ' History of Signboards.' " To wash an ^Ethiop " is a proverbial expression, and occurs in Massinger's ' Par- liament of Love.' ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

INSCRIPTIONS IN ST. JOHN THE EVANGE- LIST'S, WATERLOO ROAD (12 S. v. 63, 135). One supposes that Mr. E. V. Lucas's authority for his statement (in a note on Lamb) that R. W. Elliston was not educated at St. Paul's School, but at another place of the same name in Covent Garden, is the mention of the latter locality in the ' D.N.B.' life of Elliston. The epitome volume of ' D.N.B.' gives simply St. Paul's School, which is in agreement with the School Registers, and with Lamb. He entered on July 29, 1783, and left in 1790. He is in the registers wrongly stated to be " son of Dr. E., Master of Sidney College, Cambridge," who was really his uncle ; his father was apparently worthless. Was there such a place as St. Paul's School, Covent Garden ?

G. G. L.

THE ANT-BEAR AND THE TORTOISE (12 S. - v. 125). That old-fashioned but generally reliable authority 'Chambers' Encyclopaedia ' observes that the anteater

" has the reputation of being slothful, unsocial and stupid. Like other insectivorous animals it can live for prolonged periods without food. It spends much of its time in sleep, the long.