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LONDON, OCTOBER, 1919

CONTENTS. No. 97. TES: Temple Bar, 253 'The Tragedy of Nero 'and Piso's Conspiracy,' 254 John Sykes, Nelson's Coxswain, 57 Cowper's 'Sephus,' 258 Statues and Memorials in he British Isles, 259 -East Hatley Brasses, 260 Capt. William Considine Piano Legs in Trousers Stepney for he Ocean-Born A Spurious Charter of the Conqueror, 61 "Up" and "Down": their Barbarous Misuse larriages Swift and Walpole, 262 Ira F. Aldridge, 263 ERIES : William Peer: the alleged Actor, 263 _harles Morris of Portraan Square Congewoi American Church of England Bishops Gilbert White's Portrait Coorg State : Strange Tale of a Princess More or Moore, 264 References to Works Wanted Nuncupa- tive Wills Rede-birds J. Symmons of Paddington House Court of St. James Concannon Family, 265 " As dead as a door-nail " Fleet Prison Records " Gram " in Place-names Richard Warnford, Win- chester Scholar Maurice Derivation of Names Two Popes Blackwell Hall Factor Gender of "Dish" in Latin, 266 Tombstone Inscription Author of Book Wanted Giants' Names Title of Book Wanted Aster- tion Flowers James Wheatley : Cobbler, 267' Quentin Durward 'Lord [John] Vaughan 'Tom Jones 'Authors of Quotations Wanted, 268.

EPLIES: 'Life of Henry Maitland': George Gissing, 269 An English Army List of 1740, 270 Thomas Shepard Chevalier Peter Dillon, 271 Plane Trees in London Cowap Seven Kings Queen Anne : the Sovereign's Veto : the Royal Assent, 272 Bishops of the Fifteenth Century Westgarth, Inventor Exeter Cathedral Epitaph Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth at Sandgate Birds Poisoning Captive Young, 273 Fenner Family : Dudley Fenner Bibliography of Epitaphs, 274 George Dyer Caractacus : Druids Emerson's English Traits Proclamation Stones, 275 John Durston : John Dale" Buffaloes "Louisa spelt Leweezer St. John Baptist Heads, 276 Newton, R.A. Martin " Apo- chromatic "Metal Mortars John Wilson, Bookseller- Mrs. Susan Cromwell Master Gunner, 277 Church of England Marriage Service Mary Clarke of New York : Vassall Bowshot : the Longest " When you die of old age I shall quake for fear" 'The Moat Island' General William Haviland, 278 Exchange of Souls in Fiction- Ralph Griffith Robertson Finkle Street " As jolly as sandboys "Scores" Birth and Earth Place-names, 279. [OTES ON BOOKS : ' Latin Epigraphy : an Introduction to the Study of Latin Inscriptions ' ' The Natural His- tory of the Child. " The Child She Bare " ' lotices to Correspondents.

TEMPLE BAR.

[Y recent contribution on Tellson's Bank mte, p. 37) and subsequent correspondence inte, pp. 136, 164, 187, 222) occasioned some ^search and the reassembling of notes on he iconography of Temple Bar for the ssociated buildings on the south side.

Such a list has in a measure been antici- iated by James Holbert Wilson, whose (ublished portion of his ' Catalogue of 'ictorial Records of London ' describes many lustrations of this outer gate of the city.

The timber gateway on this site, that was aken down in 1670, was a survival of suc- essive triumphal arches raised to welcome

James I., &c., and finally Charles II. at the Restoration. Tha only illustration of it has been re-drawn by T. H. Shepherd and others from the small representation in Hollar's seven-sheet map of London. The Portland-stone gate that replaced this was completed in 1672 from the designs of Sir Christopher Wren, who filled in the west side of the pediment with an altar, from which flames rise, supported on either side by cornucopise ; presumably an allusion to the Great Fire and subsequent re-building of the city.

The seventeenth- century illustrations of Temple Bar are not only uncommon but difficult to date correctly.

1. * The Sheet of Engravings of the Gates of London,' by Sutton Nicholls, includes Temple Bar.

2. ' Memoires et Observations Faites par un Voyageur en Angleterre,' published " a la Haye, 1698," contains a small 4to folding plate showing the structure isolated from its surroundings. There are a few pedes- trians, but no other traffic. The title is provided on a ribbon above the pediment, ' Temple Barr.'

3. The illustration in ' Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne ' has for its title ' Temple Barr du Cote du Couchant.' There are several states of this familiar plate ; the houses on the left have been added piece- meal ; also the incident of the pair-horse coach, the barking dogs, and the man escaping has probably some significance.

4. A small 4to plate that may be an English re-rendering of No. 3. The Bar is represented in fine -line engraving, but the streets cene and houses are etched, and the perspective is hopelessly at fault. The street incidents are a four-horsed coach being met by two pair-horsed coaches from which persons of consequence have alighted, while horsemen proceed to the city. Pedestrians are looking towards this incident, which may be illustrative. The whole plate is sur- rounded by a laurel border with title-piece inlaid : ' Temple Barr : the West-Side.'

Other seventeenth-century illustrations are the rare engravings of the * Solemn Mock Processions,' usually headed by an effigy of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey and his anta- gonists. The procession stopped at Temple Bar and a huge bonfire completed the cele- bration, which apparently was held Nov. 17, 1679, and 1680. The three (5, 6, and 7) engravings and a descriptive pam- phlet are fully described by J. Holbert Wilson (see ante). It is worth noting that Samuel Pepys the diarist completed in 1700