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office in Rymer's ^Foedera': the Reports of the Hist. MSS. Comm., &c.

Information regarding some early Con- fessors of the sovereigns of England will also toe found in the following ; Home Counties Magazine, vol. xii. pp. 100-112, 'Friar -Confessors of English Kings,' by the Rev. Bede Jarrett : The Antiquary, vol. xxii., pp. 114-120, 159-161, 263-6 : xxiii. pp. 24-26, 'The King's Confessors ' (1256-1450), by the Rev. C. F. R. Palmer.

H. G. HARRISON.

Aysgarth, Sevenoaks.

The name alone is probably the survival of the office in Romish times, and doubtless the ancient records would contain the names of this ancient post, which latterly 'iias been equivalent to the more modern title of Chaplain. Chamberlaine's 'Present State of England,' 1700, gives "Mr. John Radcliffe, Confessor to the Household," and the edition for 1755 in 'An Account of his Majesty's Chapels-Royal, their Establi.-h- ments and Salaries,' mentions the D^an, 200, the Sub-Dean, 91 5s., and then "The Rev. Mr. Higgate, as Confessor, or 'House- hold Chaplain 36 10s." Among the ten Priests in Ordinary at 73 a year each, appears the name of "The Rev. Mr. John Higgate" (see 'Alumni West.,' and Foster'?. D.D., R.R. and A.S., held the post, and he was also one of the ten Priests in Ordinary, Rector of Trinity, Mihories, and Willsden, Middlesex (' Royal Kalendar '). He seems to ihave been the la ;t Confessor, as the post was vacant in 18 34, and the title of ffis successor, Charles Wesley, D.D., was altered to that of Chaplain at St. James' Palace.
 * Alumni Oxon.'). In 1826 Henry Fly,

W. R. WILLIAMS.

MR. ARDAGH will find a good account of this office and of the Rev. Dr. Fly, who held' it, in Kinns's 'Six Hundred Years,' which is a history of Holy Trinity, Minories, where Dr. Fly is commemorated by a tablet.

S. D. CLIPPINGDALE.

36 Holland Park Avenue, W.ll.

"NEW EXCHANGE," LONDON (12 S vii. 371, 398). The "New Exchange" erected by Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, Lord Treasurer, in 1608, was, as Sir Richard Baker observes, "a stately building on the north side of Durham House where stood an old long stable." On Tuesday, Apr. 10, 1609, it was begun to be furnished with twares : and the next day King James with

the Queen and many lords and ladies came to see it, and then the King gave it the name of Britains Burse. I possess several tokens issued by traders in the seventeenth cen- tury " nere ye New Exchange in ye Strand." The papers of that date usually refer to the Royal Exchange as the Old Exchange.

WILLIAM GILBERT, F.R.N.S.

RICHARD MARSH (12 S. vi. 252). He was chaplain to Charles I., Vicar of Halifax and Dean of York. I have a quantity of notes on Marsh, if G. F. R. B. could say exactly what he requires.

T. W. HANSON. 32 Southgate, Halifax.

THE ORIGINAL WAR OFFICE (12 S. vii. 310, I 354, 416). I am sorry if I have not expressed myself in exact "terms of art." SIR WIL- LOTTGHBY MAYCOCK and (in a less degree) MR. ABRAHAMS, tacitly assume that a Government department cannot be a " separate entity " unless it has a Secretary of State to itself. This may be a correct "official" view; my phrasing is not hierarchistic. Prof. C. M. Andrews, of Yale, kindly sends me an extract from a Crown Lease Book of about 1730 ;

" ' Et occidental' super passagium ducens a pre- dicto atrio vocato Whitehall Court versus pfficium ibidem vocatura the Warr Office et abinde ad dictam Aream vocatam Scotland Yard."

My friend kindly supplies other references, and an exact plan of the building, having a frontage of 55 ft. 9 in. on " The street leading from Charing Cross to Westminster Hall." The house on the north was occu- pied by the Treasurer of the Chamber, while on the south were " Certain rooms and appartments in the possession of the gentle- man usher of Whitehall." He suggests that 1 verify these and other references in the P.R.O. When I have done so, 1 hope to communicate the result. Q. V.

CAPT. J. W. CARLETON (12 S. vi. 72). Kindly allow me to correct a mis-statement I made at above reference. I have since ascertained that " Sylvanus " and " Craven " were not one and the same individual as I was led to believe they were from a letter written by a Mr. William Wycliffe Barlow which appeared in a leading sporting paper in November, 1889. This gentleman had obviously confounded two names which were phonetically rather similar. Craven was, as I stated, the late Capt. J. W. Carleton who edited The Sporting Review