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"tenure of Francis Boteler vintner, and now in occupation of Walter Reddell, Vintner, known by the sign of the Crown and Scepter (vie) situate on "the west side of St. Martin's Lane in the p'sh of St. Martin in the Fields abutting East upon St. Martin's Lane ; West upon a little back Messuage or tenement of s' 1 John Drury and Henry Wheatley; North upon another tenement of s d John Drury and Henry Wheatley ; and South upon a lane leading >to Green Street called New Church-yard Lane or England's Street.

" THE BLACK BOLL AND THB GKOBGB. "23 Sep r, 1613. Valentyne Luddington citizen and Armourer of London assigns to Richard Drury citizen and Haberdasher of London all that Messuage called The Black Bull in p'sh of St. Peter Cornhill and The George in the Parish of St. Peter in Cornhill London.

" 1632. William Drury of Colne, Hunts, gent., assigns to Thomas Hinde Citizen and Innholder of London, the tenement or Inn Commonly called or known by the name of the Black Bull, 'being in the Parish of Saint Peter in Cornhill, London. Also the tenement known as The George, situate in the parish cf Saint Peter in Cornhill, London."

I have a note, but do not know the authority, that the Bull was formerly partly owned by Sir John Russell of Strensham, co. Worcester. H. C. D.

AN EARLY AUTOMOBILE. In the late 'Colonel Baikes's ' History of the Honourable Artillery Company ' (vol. i., p. 322) is the following mention of one :

" On the 15th of May 1759 the Court (of H.A.C.) tgave leave to Mr. Ladd to make use of the (Bunhill Fields) Ground for testing a curious machine which he had invented to travel without horses whict he was unable to try in any field or public place without risk of it being injured by the

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"A NYESSE HAWK." Skeat's 'Concise Etymological Dictionary,' after defining "eyas " as a nestling, goes on:

" For nias ; by substituting an eyas for a nias. F. niais, a nestling ; Cot. (Cotgrave's Dictionary). He also gives niard, whence faulcon niard, ' a nias If aulcon..'' Cp. Ital. nidiace, or nidaso falcone, ' an eyase-hawk, a young hawk taken out of her .nest * ; Torriano, c."

It may be of interest to quote the following from Ray's translation (1678) of Willughby's 'Ornithology,' cp. ix., 'An Abridgment of Some Statutes relating to the Preservation of Fowl ' :

" None shall bear any Hawk of English breed, ^called a Nyesse (Goshawk, Tarcel, Lanner, L/anneret, or Falcon) in pain to forfeit the same ito the King. He that brings a Nyesse Hawk from beyond the seas shall have a Certificate under ifche customer's seal where he lands, or if out of

Scotland, then under the seal of the Lord Warden or his Lieutenant, testifying she is a Foreign Hawk, upon the like pain of forfeiting the Hawk."

J. R. H.

THE ROYAL EXCHANGE STATUES (1669- 1834). Apparently there is some uncer- tainty as to the statues that decorated this the second Royal Exchange.

In what is the only published history of these buildings, ' Description of the New Royal Exchange,' &c., 1844, Emngham Wilson, its compiler, says (p. 43) :

" Over the arches of the portico of the piazza were twenty large niches with Embellishments in which were the statues of our sovereigns."

Further information is provided in a pamphlet by John Halliday, M.A., published in 1754, ' A Brief Account of the Kings and Queens, whose Statues (Now repaired and decorated in a most splendid manner) are placed in the Royal Exchange of London, &c.' The text deals more with the live characters, and achievements of the kings and queens (Edward I. to George I.), than with the statues. The author commences definitely : " The first image, from the south- east corner, is that of Edward I., &c.," but after writing of Edward II. he adds :

" NOTE. This King's Statue is omitted, perhaps, at the Exchange, because of his intolerable oppres- sion of the English and allowing the Scots to snake off their Bondage, thro' his indiscreet measures."

There are similar notes against other kings, so that finally we are left in doubt as to who was represented.

A list is provided in another inconspicuous work, ' The Curiosities of London and West- minster Described,' published by E. Harris c. 1805. At p. 75, after describing the Exchange, it continues :

" The inside of the area is surrounded with piazzas, like the south and north fronts ; above the arches of these piazzas the building is neatly orna- mented with pilasters, etc., and between these pilasters are twenty four niches, twenty of which are filled with the statues of the Kings and Queens of England.

" These statues are disposed in the following order: On the south side, Edward I., Edward III., Henry V., Henry VI. ; on the west side, Edward iV., Edward V. with the crown hanging over his head, Henry VII., Henry VIII. ; on the north side, Ed- ward VI. Mary, Elizabeth, James I., Charles I., Charles II. and James II. ; and on the east side are William and Mary in one niche, Queen Anne, George I., George II. and George III. All these statues (except the last - mentioned) were new painted and gilt in 1754."

The fullest description is provided in ' A New View of London,' ii. 615, where the inscriptions are given at length. Of special