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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vn. OCT. 23, 1020.

Cradle Alley ; Thornbury's ' Old and New London,' iii. 38, and Wheatley's 'London: Past and Present,' i. 523. The position of Cradle Alley is not shown on Rocque's 'Survey,' but it must still have been in existence for it is referred to in 1756 by Mai tl and in his ' History and Survey of London ' (ii. 721).

Unfortunately Ogilby and Morgan's valuable but unfinished map of London, 1677, just stops short of Drury Lane.

Col. Thorp will find some interesting references to the Duke of Monmouth and the Earl of Anglesey in the ' Black Books of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn.'

J. PAUL DE CASTRO.

1 Essex Court, Temple.

See Cunningham's 'Handbook of London,' 1850, 2nd edition, under ' Eminent Inhabi- tants of Drury Lane ' :

"John Lacy the Comedian from 1665 to his death in 1681, Jived two doors off Lord Anglesey, and near Cradle Alley."

Some old map may show Cradle Alley, but it does not appear possible for there to be a corner of Drury Lane and Bow Street which run parallel.

WALTER E. GAWTHORP.

16 Long Acre, W.C.

Anglesey House is not mentioned by Thornbury in ' Old and New London ' ; nor by Smith in ' The Streets of London ' ; nor by Wheatley in 'London, Past and Present ' ; but the last named mentions the Earl of Anglesey as an eminent inhabitant of Drury Lane. W. COTJRTHOPE FORMAN.

Compbou Down, nr. Winchester.

ELIZABETH CHUDLEIGH, DUCHESS OF KINGSTON (12 S. vii. 290). Egerton Brydges in his edition of ' Collins 's Peerage,' vol. iv r>. 159 note; vol. v., p. 629, note; W Toone's 'Chronological Historian'; and 'The Complete Peerage,' edited by the Hon Vicary Gibbs, vol. ii. p. 326, all say that she died at Paris, August, 1788, aged 68. The last two give Aug. 26.

Hone in his 'Year Book,' col. 1003, says that she died at Paris, Aug. 28, 1788. To wards the end of the account (col. 1006) he writes :

" Upon returning to Franco [? from Poland she purchased the beautiful chateau de Saint( Assize, two leagues from Pontainebleau, and th mansion in the rue Coq-Heron. at Paris, where sh died, after executing a will, made by two attorney who came from. England on purpose." The reference given by Hone in a footnot is obscure, being "Paris iii, 221," In th

Year Book ' are several references, to History of Paris,' probably the same book.. The rue Coq-Heron exists no longer having >een taken into the site of the Post Office: ^he rues du Bouloi, Coq-Heron, and de la fussienne formed one street running from the ue Croix des Petit s Champs to the rue Mont- nartre.

There were three houses of importance in.', he short rue Coq-Heron, viz., the Hotels de ^esvres, de Chamillart, and Phelypeaux.. >ee ' Les Curiositez de Paris,' Reimprimees. 'apres 1' edit ion originale de 1716, Paris, 883, p. 70. Probably one or more of these lotels or mansions existed in 1788.

Where the Duchess of Kingston, or rather

he Countess of Bristol, was buried I have

lot discovered. The parish church of the

ue Coq-Heron was, I think, Saint Eustache.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

MR. FORMAN must be in error in giving Aug. 28, 1785, as the date of the death of the above. Writing to Lady Ossory on Sept. 6, L787, Horace Walpole said :

" I will only ask whether you have heard that?
 * he Duchess of Kingston has adopted the eldest

Meadows, paid his debts, given him 600 a year and intends to make him her heir ? " and again to Lady Ossory on Sept. 24, 1788

say : I was weary of her folly and vanity long ago, and now look on. her only as a big bubble that is ^ Durst."
 * 'On the Duchess of Kingston I havenothir g to

C. R. MOORE..

Ellesmere.

H z N. OR H.Z.N., DUTCH ABBREVIATION 12 S. vii. 290). This of course stands for H's son, Hendrikszoon probably. No stops should be used ; it is equivalent to our Johnson, Williamson and so forth, to the Irish "O," the Welsh "ap," the Scotch". "Mac." W. DEL COURT.

47 Blenheim Crescent, W.ll.

The abbreviation in question denotes the- parentage of the writer in order to distin- guish him from others of the same namei. In the case in question it means that D.. Bomhoff is the son of H. Bomhoff, the zn-. being a contraction of zoon (son).

To give an illustration, let us assume that two brothers, named respectively Willem Bronwer and Hendrik Bronwer, had each a son named Jan. Now Willem 's son would be Jan Bronwer ,Wzn, while Hendrik's would be Jan Bronwer, Hzn.

G. W. YOUNGER.

2 Mecklenburgh Sqvare, W.C.I. \