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NOTES AND QUER1KS. [12 . v. NOV., 1919.

aware of the waste of time caused by attempts to verify loose and inexact asser- tions in ancient pedigree-tables. This Society would be glad, nevertheless, to receive schedules of the marriages in any family, taken from the archives and note -3 of readers of ' N. & Q.,' and would file them under the principal family n^me concerned, so that they would always be immediately available for purposes of reference.

GEORGE SHERWOOD, Hon. Treasurer. The Society of Genealogists of London, 5 Bloomsbury Square, W.CJ.l.

EXCHANGE OF SOULS IN FICTION (12 S. v. 124, 191, 246, 279). At the second reference both MR. ARCHIBALD SPARKE and MR. N. W. HILL adduce R. S. Hichens' ' Flames : a London Phantasy ' as an instance required by your querist under this heading. Oddly enough, since the pen- ultimate reference appeared I have read a volume entitled ' Byways,' by Robert Hichens which contains stories all closely akin to those already enumerated, ' The Charmer of Snakes,' ' A Tribute of Souls,' 'An Echo in Egypt,,' 'The Face of the Monk,' and 'A Silent Guardian.' The second named evidently resembles ' Flame?,' by (apparently) the same author though the locus in quo is placed in Africa ; the last is the story of a poul infused into a marble statue all of them weird compositions which can legitimately find a place amongst those of which your querist is in search.

J. B. MCGOVERN.

PORTRAITS ON GRAVESTONES (12 S. ii. 210, '277, 377, 459 ; in. 14 ; v. 250). Any traveller held up for an hour at Woodford Junction on the G.C.R. may see for himself in the churchyard, an unrivalled series of grave- stone portraits, by artists of the Horton School, mainly of the later years of the seventeenth century. They include busts in relief of the deceased, often both of husband and wife, and occasionally, full lengths in high relief, not by any means the only examples to be met, with locally of such ambitious sculptural efforts.

J. HARVEY BLOOM.

BLACKWELL HALL FACTOR (12 S. v. 266). Blackwell Hall, or as it was sometimes named, Bakewell or Blakewell Hall, was a market place which was removed in 1820 to make way for the new Courts of Law at the Guildhall, and extended almost to Basinghall Street. The earliest mention of it is in 1356 in the ' Calendars of the Letter Books of the City of London ' (Letter G.

p. 67) when it is referred to as " Bakkewelle halle," though the property was granted t< John de Banquell in 1293. From 1396 tin place was used as a market place for woollei cloths, and foreigners were directed to brini their woollen cloth for sale to Bakwellehalle Stow describes it as a market place fo: cloths, and says it was rebuilt at the end o the sixteenth century. It was burnt in th< fire, 1666, rebuilt 1672, and finally remove< in 1820. It is evident, therefore, that i "Blackwell Hall Factor" was a clotl merchant at the Blackwell Hall market.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE. [ MR. F. A. RUSSELL also thanked for reply.]

THE LUMBER TROOP, FETTER LANI (12 S. i. 469, 515). An account of this clul is given in Grant's ' Sketches in London, 1840, chap, iii., with three illustrations.

J. ARDAGH.

49 Nansen Road, Lavender Hill, S.W.I1.

RICHARD HOOKER'S BUST (12 S. v. 152). Certainly " Bishopsborne." See p. 11 o Dean Church's edition (Oxford, 1888) o: book i. of ' Hooker,' quoting Walton' i Introduction to his ' Life of Hooker.'

W. A. B. C.

HERVEY OR HERVET (12 S. v. 95, 167 189, 246). I cannot think with MR. HILI that Hervet can possibly be a result oi Hervetus. It is much more likely thai Hervetus was a result of Hervet. Thai people in English villages should go or saying Harvet for six hundred years becaus< now and then a monk or a scribe had writtei Hervetus on a bit of parchment, does noi seem likely. S. H. A. H.

SHAKESPEARE AND THE GARDEN (12 S v. 153, 193). See 'The Rural Life o Shakespeare, as illustrated by his Works, by C. Roach Smith, 2nd ed., 1874 (pub lished by subscription). E. BRABROOK.

Laugham House, Wallmgton, Surrey.

' QUENTIN DURWARD ' (12 S. v. 268).- The lines quoted in paragraph 7 are fron Leyden's ' Lord Soulis,' a fine ballad to< little known. As Ley den di:d only a fev years before Scott, "Old Ballad" is a littli strained. N. POWLETT. Col.

PRESIDENT WILSON'S ANCESTORS (12 S iv. 298 ; v. 51). Mr. Philip Gibbs under th< heading ' Heroine of Cambrai,' described ii The Daily Chronicle of May 31 his meetinj with Miss Mary Cunningham after the cap ture of Cambrai by the Allies. In a previou article in the same paper he dealt fully wit!