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NOTES AND QUERIES, [is s. VL JUNE 12, 1920.

INNS OF COURT IN ELIZABETH'S REIGN '(12 S. vi. 252). The querist appears to have in mind ' A Discourse or Treatise of the 'Third Universitie of England,' by Sir George Buc, published as an appendix to Stow's 'Annales.' C. E. A. BEDWELL,

Keeper of the Library.

Middle Temple Library, E.G.

There is an account of the Inns of Court in Stow's ' Survey of London,' 1603

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

MOORFIELDS (12 S. vi. 227). Henry "Chamberlain, ' History and Survey of Lon- don,' p. 275, says :

" This year [i.e. 1708] the fiery zeal of contend- ing parties broke out into a most violent flame at the prosecution of Dr. Henry Sacheveral, chaplain of St. Saviour's, Southwark, before the House of Lords, on an impeachment of high crimes and misdemeanours by the commons for preaching two sermons. The populace were persuaded by the tories that instead of the doctor's ruin, that of the church was intended ; nd believing the same to be a contrivance of the presbyterians, breathed destruction to them and -sill other dissenters. Thus spirited up, they ran like as many enraged furies to the meeting-house of Mr. Burgess, a presbyterian minister in New Court, Little Lincolns-inn-fields, which they instantly breaking open, stripped it of its doors, -casements, sconces, wainscot, pews and pulpit, which they carried into Lincoln's-inn-fields ; and while they were erecting the same into a pile, a party was sent to surprize Burgess at his house,
 * dn order to have burnt him in his pulpit on the

top of the same : but he luckily, however, avoided rfcheir fury by escaping out at a back window. After this they divided into different parties, Square, New Street, Drury Lane, and Leather Lane. But before next morning this dangerous tumult was suppressed by her majesty's guards sent for that purpose."
 * and destroyed the meeting-houses in St. John's

Chamberlain is wrong about the year. It should be 1710. He may be wrong in other respects : but if he is right, the heading ' Moorfields ' is wrong.

For Daniel Burgess (1645-1713) see the
 * D.N.B.' JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

GRANDFATHER CLOCK : DATE WANTED -(12 S. vi. 251). The 1919 edition of Britten ^mentions also James Bath of Cirencester, "clock, about 1775."

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

" THE OXFORD BLUES " (12 S. v. 97, 138 ; vi. 212, 236). It may be worth while to <note that Mr. Richard Cannon was not, as stated in MR. J. H. WHITMORE'S reply, the compiler of this Regiment's Record. 'True enough it was included in his ' Series

of Historical Records,' but this happens to be the only one not written by this worthy scribe. To a Capt. Edmund Packe was entrusted the compiling of the Record of "The Oxford Blues," and the results of his efforts were published in 1834, followed by a subsequent edition of the regiment's services to date, thirteen years later. Taking into consideration the rather tall order given to Mr. Cannon of compiling a Record of every regiment then in the Service of the Crown, it is to be wondered at that this historian did not enlist the services of others, besides Packe, in the writing up of these Records.

J. PAINE. 51 Ribblesdale Road. Streatham, S.W. 16.

" STUNNING " (12 S. v. 334). The review of ' The Oxford English Dictionary ' (vol. ix.) at the above reference, quotes the once popular adjective " stunning." May I say that the use of the word in the sense that has so long become obsolete here, still survived in the United States at any rate as late as the first few years of this century. During three visits to America 1900, 1904, and 1906 I frequently heard somebody or something described as " perfectly stun- ning," especially, I am inclined to think, in New York. J. R. H.

J. SYMMONS OF PADDINGTON HOUSE (12 S. v. 265; vi. 192). I am obliged to MR. WAINEWRIGHT for the excerpt from ' The Ambulator.' There are many allusions to the horticultural attainments of this Mr. Symmons or Simmons. The point that requires elucidation is why did he abandon this pursuit and become a bibliomaniac and print collector. Perhaps a clue is provided in the following :

" On January 1, 1818. a new tragedy was produced at Covent Garden, entitled Ii'etribution, by John Dillon, a very young man, and librarian of Dr. Simmons of Paddington, the possessor of a fine collection of valuable hooks." ' The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre,' by H. Saxe Wyndham, i. 376.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

BATTLE BRIDGE CINDERS AND Moscow (12 S. vi. 135, 192, 236). I suggest this discussion is wandering needlessly beyond the original topic of the origin of Battle Bridge as a place name at King's Cross. The long excerpt from the weekly gossip of a present-day popular writer is at fault in its 'acts. The enterprise of Prof. Gesualdo Lanza in promoting the Panarmonia Com- pany led to the construction of the Theatre