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 68 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vn. JULY 24, 1920. Crown and Anchor. . Crown and Anchor. . Crown and Cushion Crown and Mitre. . Crown and Bolls. . Crown and Sceptre Crown and Sceptre Cross Keys Devil's House Dr. Butler's Head Dolphin Tavern Dolphin Tavern Dover Tavern Feathers Feathers Tavern. . Fighting Cocks Tavern Five Bells Tavern. . Forests Fountain Tavern. . Freemason's Freemason's Tavern Leadenhall Street. . 1755 High Street, Woolwich. . 1774 Lambeth Marsh. . . . 1790 Labour-in- Vain Hill, Old Fish Street Chancery Lane. . . . 1760 Greenwich St. Martin's Lane (west 1709 side) and near New 1723 Churchyard Lane Bear Street, Leicester Fields Within two fields of Hollo- 1767 way turnpike Rose Court (now Mason's Avenue), Coleman Street Seething Lane. . . . 1723 Dolphin Court, Ludgate 1797 Hill Hammersmith Near Crown and Anchor 1752 in the Strand At rear of King Street, 1770 Richmond Within the liberty of the 1734 Fleet Near the Maypole in the 1711 Strand 1752 Opposite the Mews Gate, 1738 Charing Cross 1742 Minories. . . . . . 1795 New Bel ton Street Long Acre Great Queen Street, Lin- 1786 coin's Inn Fields Simpson's ' City Taverns and Masonry.' Simpson's ' Suburban Taverns.' Simpson's ' Suburban Taverns.' Simpson's ' City Taverns and Masonry.' Larwood, p. 337. Simpson's ' Suburban Taverns/ ' N. & Q.,' May 8, 1920, p. 186 Simpson's ' London Taverns and Masonry.*' Simpson's ' Old Londpn Taverns and* Masonry.' Larwood, p. 295. Callow, p. 128. Simpson's ' City Taverns and Masonry.*' Simpson's ' City Taverns and Masonry.' Simpson's ' Suburban Taverns/ Simpson's ' London Taverns and Masonry.*' Simpson's ' Suburban Taverns/ Larwood, p. 252.

Larwood, p. 331. Simpson's ' London Taverns and Masonrv." Mac Michael's, Charing Cross, p. 248, 328, Dally Advertiser, March 15. Simpson's ' City Taverns and Masonry.' Simpson's ' London Taverns and Masonry.*" Simpson's ' London Taverns arid Masonry/ J. PAUL I>E CASTRO. (To be Continued.} ETYMOLOGY OF " LIVERPOOL."- This has been the subject of much discussion for many years, in these columns and elsewhere. The "pool" part of the word has never presented any difficulty, for it relates in- disputably to the " Pool " which is fre- quently mentioned in the old Liverpool records, but long since filled up. It was a good-sized creek, running in from the Mersey where the Custom House now is, continuing in a curved course along the sites of the present Paradise Street and White- chapel, and finishing at the present Byrom Street. As regards the first half of the word, there have been two rival theories, one based on " Liver," and the other on " Lither," both of which spellings are found at an early date. In my opinion, both " Liver and " Lither " " are partially cor- rect, for the true form of the name, if written now, should be " Livtherpool," or better " Liftharpol." The name is clearly of Scandinavian origin, like so many other place-names in the Liverpool district. In Old Icelandic " hlifiS " (genitive " hlifoar ") means "-pro- tection " or "shelter," and in the same language " pollr " means " pool," They whole word " Hlifoarpollr " signifies " Pool of Shelter," or " Shelter Pool," a most- suitable name for the creek in question, for it would then offer, for many miles along: the Liverpool shore, the only shelter from rough weather and the swift tides of the> Mersey. (See Zoega's ' Dictionary of Old Icelandic' (1910), p. 202, and Vigfusson's- ' Icelandic Dictionary ' (1874), p. 271. ROBERT GLADSTONE. The Athenaeum, Liverpool PRISONERS WHO HAVE SURVIVED- HANG'- ING ._The inability of Berry to hang John< Lee, the Babbacombe murderer, after three- trials, at Exeter on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 1885, for the murdeivof Miss Keyse, caused a great, public sensation at the time. A stranger case, however, occurred at Oxford in 1650. Anne Greene, a domestic- servant of about 22 years of age, was actually hanged for the murder of her illegitimate* child, but recovered when her body was*