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CJhurch,' ' Lists of the Clergy of Colonial Dioceses,' ' Alphabetical List of Benefices,' .and a good deal of other information. It was published by C. Cox at The Ecclesiastical Gazette Office, 12 King William Street, .Strand. On the title-page is printed: "To be published annually," which seems to r issue. I have always understood that ' The Clergy List ' was older than ' Crock- ford. ' The present issue of ' Crockf ord ' is the fiftieth, which only takes us back to 1869, supposing it to have been published gamated with ' Crockf ord ' a year or two ago.
 * imply that this may have been the first
 * annually. 'The Clergy List ' was amal-

At any rate I can go back four years earlier than MB. SUTTON. Perhaps some one will take us back earlier still.

H. P. HART.

The Vicarage, Ixworth, Bury St. Edmunds.

An excellent ' Clergy List ' was published in 1848 and subsequent years by Messrs. C. Cox at the Ecclesiastical Gazette Office, 12 King William Street, Strand, price 9s.

The bound contents of the 1849 issue are flanked with 106 pp. of advertisements.

The alphabetical list of clergy extends to about 17,000 names, and the list of benefices to 233 pages, in all, exclusive of advertise- ments, 596 pages, 8J ins. by 5 ins.

H. WHITEBBOOK. 24 Old Square, Lincoln's Inn, W.C.2.

REFERENCE WANTED (12 S. vi. 150). - I saw the snow-white church upon her hill Sit like a throned Lady, sending out A gracious look all over her domain.

' Prelude,' bk. iv., 1. 21.

'The reference is to Hawkshead Church, and though a strictly accurate observer might criticize the term "snow-white," it is the right word to conjure up at a stroke the general impression of Hawkshead. No one who has seen the place can fail to remember in how great a degree the humble loveliness of this tiny market town depends on white- wash, which attains its utmost effectiveness on many of the cottage walls, as a background for climbing nasturtiums and other vivid flowers. M. F. MACAULAY

64 Lansdowne Road, W.ll.

J. T. F. will find the reference he is in search of in Wordsworth's ' Prelude ' (bk. iv., thus : [ut supra].
 * Summer Vacation '). The passage runs

The church was that of the parish of Hawkshead, in which village the poet passed several years at the grammar-school, which \in those days was held in good repute.

Hawkshead still keeps its old-world charm, and remains much as it was in Wordsworth' s time. When, at a turn of the road, he " saw the snow-white church upon her hill " he was on the way to spend there his first summer vacation since he became an under- graduate at Cambridge. He always kept a warm corner in his heart for the place of his school-days and its surroundings, as well as for the kind and motherly old dame with whom he lodged, and it was at her cottage that he spent his vacation.

S. BUTTERWOBTH.

[Several other correspondents thanked for supplying this reference.]

No MAN'S LAND (12 S. vi. 130, 178). In Loftie's 'History of London' (London, Stanford, 1883), vol. ii., p. 169, speaking of the prebendal manors of St. Paul's, the author says :

" These prebendal manors originally no doubt came up to the very walls of the city. But at a remote period, when land was not very valuable, and life insecure without special protection, a series of monasteries sprung up just outside the walls St. Bartholomew, for instance, was built on waste ground, as we are told. But waste or cultivated, the ground was stolen from a prebend, perhaps that of Holborn. There is a notice in the Domesday Book of a small holding near Newgate, called ' No man's land.' This became part of the Charterhouse."

The author adds in a footnote :

" There is a full and careful account of the foundation by Archdeacon Hale in the Transac- tions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, vol. iii., p. 309."

I have not access to these Transactions here, but if your correspondent has an opportunity of referring to them, it is possible that he may find in the account referred to further information on the subject of his inquiry.

WM. SELF WEEKS.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LEPEBS IN ENGIAND (12 S. vi. 150). Are there such things ? I am not aware of any Evidence that the low side windows in some chancels were ever used for communicating lepers. This is one of many guesses about them. They were most likely intended for the ringing of the sacring bell (a hand-bell) so as to be heard outside. They are usually found in thirteenth-century chancels, and appear to have been superseded by fixed bells on gables or in turrets, which arrangements are rarely found so early. These windows occasionally occur in chapels to which a cemetery has never been attached, and which are on an tipper floor several feet from the ground. There is reason to suppose that some of the ordinary kind were