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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vn. OCT. 2, 1920

! to my grandmother, Mary Jane Makeham {nee Mathews), who also died in 1870, and who used to assert that she was, herself, descended from Oliver Cromwell. I

<lo not know on what, if any, evidence. I never attached much importance to the

olaim, and have not seriously followed it up, but should be interested if any reader could

-throw light upon it. J. MAKEHAM.

Crouch Hill, N. 19.

It is quite likely this was the Judge Payne who lived, about sixty years ago, at the 'tiny "bungalow " on West Hill, Highgate, opposite the carriage entrance to Holly Lodge. He was a great friend of, and con- temporary with, Sir William Bodkin, assistant Judge of Middlesex Sessions, whose house was close by. SIR HARRY BODKIN POLAND -might, perhaps, confirm my surmise ?

CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club.

THE CLINK (12 S. vii. 246). It is highly probable that "clink " as a vulgar term for a place of confinement has survived as a reminiscence of the Clink prison in South- wark, but it must be remembered that the Clink, like Newgate or the Old Bailey, derived its name not from its employment &s a prison but irom its situation. The parish of St Saviour's, Southwark, is divided into two liberties, the Borough and the Clink. The latter was a liberty belong- ing to the See of Winchester, and was for- merly notorious as a resort of vice and villainy of every kind. The prison was situated at the corner of Maid Lane, turning out of Gravel Lane, the exact spot being now covered by Southwark Street. The 'building was destroyed in the Gordon Riots of 1780, and therefore affords another proof of the manner in which a locality may -obtain an enduring reputation.

F A RUSSELL.

J16 Arran Road, Catford.S.E 6.

The 'N.E.D.' points out that there were Clinks elsewhere, especially in Devon and Cornwall, but says :

" The evidence appears to indicate that the name was proper t<*the Southwark 'Clink ' and thence transferred elsewhere ; but the converse may have been the fact."

The first quotation, 1515, refers to the Southwark Clink. Stow, after referring to the Bordello on the Bankside, says :

" Then next i the Clinke.a gaol or prison for the trespassers in those parts ; namely, in old time, for such as should brabble, fray, or break the peace on

the said bank, or in the brethel houses, they were by the inhabitants thereabout apprehended and committed to this gaol, when they were straight- way imprisoned. Next is the bishop of Win- chester's house, or lodging, when he cometh to this city."

Stow's editor, W. H. Thorns, in 1842, says:

" It is now but little used ; and it is understood that the persons who are at present confined therein for debt will, under a late act of parliament, shortly be removed to Queen's Bench."

Clink Street, running from Cathedral Street, Borough Market, to Bankend, occupies the site of this prison.

During Queen Elizabeth's reign it was largely used for the imprisonment of Papists, some of whom were committed thither by the Bishop of Winchester, but the greater part by other ecclesiastical authorities. It does not seem to have been a large prison ; but on June 12, 1586, there were six priests, seven Catholic laymen, and one recusant lady there (see ' Cath. Rec. Soc.,' ii. 246-7). JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

Any old plan of Southwark will show that the Clink was close to the Cathedral. The name and the word are fully dealt with in the 'N.E.D.' (on p. 504, col. 2). The date of the oldest quotation is 1515, four cen- turies before the war. L. L. K.

CRIMEAN WAR IN FICTION (12 S. vii. 90, 135, 178, 213). My query has brcught me not only several valued replies in 'N. & Q.,' but two books bearing thereon through the kindness of Lieut. -Col. J. H. LESLIE, one of which is entitled 'History of the Great National Banquet given to the Victorious Soldiers returned from the Crimean War and stationed in Irish Garrisons, by the People of Ireland, in the City of Dublin, Oct. 22, 1856.' The Report records that at a public meeting subsequent to the banquet (at which upwards of 4,000 non- commissioned officers and soldiers were entertained), it was resolved to invest 1,100Z. (the residue of 3,588Z. 15,s. 2d. sub- scribed) in Government stock

"for the benefit and advancement in life yearly, in each and every year, of one or more of the Students or Pupils of the Royal Hibernian Military School . . . .provided that in case the said school shall be removed from Ireland, or cease to exist, then the proceeds of the trust fund shall be applied, in like manner, to some other institu- tion or charity in Ireland of the like or similar nature or character, as nearly as the circumstances of the case will allow."

Is this school still in existence, and if not how has the trust fund been since adminis-