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 156 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vin. FEB. 10, 1021, Xantes in 1685 they came to England, settling in Colchester together with a family named Boggis, who are said to have intro- duced the manufacture of baize into this country. The first mention of the name in iYbrks. Records occurs in 1374 when William Shillito and Sybil his wife are defendants in a fine touching 6 acres of land in Ponte- fract ( Yorks. Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser 52). Again, in 1403 occurs the administration of Agnes, wife of John Shilleto (so spelt) of Snyclal near Heath, co. York. The Rev. W. S. (a younger brother of the famous Greek scholar) compiled a pedigree of the Heath, Aberford and Kirkby Wharfe branches, all of whom bore the same arms. I now find that the Heath branch were closely con- nected with the branches of Mathley, Gastleford and Featherstone, who were yeomen and weavers in those parishes, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. ROWLAND J. SHILLETO. Oxford.' COL. OWEN HOWE (12 S. viii. 109). In answer to TRIUMVIR, I notice that though TEE BEE (1 S. ix. 449) quoted from vol. iv. of Lysons's 'Environs of London,' he had apparently overlooked the following refer- ence in vcl. i. : "Sir William Rovve, of Higham Hill, had taken so active a part against the Royal Cause, as to occasion his commitment to prison, soon after the Restoration (Public Infe/liyeiicer, July 9-16, J660). His cousin, Colonel Rowe of Hackney, was one of the regicides." In the 'History and Antiquities of the Parish of Hackney,' by Wm. Robinson, X.L.D., F.S.A. (London, 1842), is found the following : " Owen Rowe was of the Re we family of Hackney." The 'D.JST.B.'' states, of course, that Owen's father was John Rowe of Bicklej', Cheshire, yeoman ; and his brother, Capt. Francis Rowe (died c. December, 1649), who was Scoutmaster General of Cromwell's Irish Expedition. Also that Owen married thrice : first, Mary. dau. of John Yeo- mant [sic] ; second, Dorothy, dau. of - Hodges, of Bristow ; and third, Mary, dau of Rowland "Wiseman [sic] (Hasted says Wilson), of London, and widow of Dr Crisp. He had a son, though by whicl wife is not mentioned, Samuel Rowe, Fellow of All Souls, Oxford. Chester's 'London Marriage Licenses refers to one, dated Feb. 4, 1616/7, for Owen Roe, bachelor, aged 24, and Mary, 28 spinster, dau. of John Yeoman [sic] At 6 S. v. 327 ITHURIEL wrote on the olla podrida of a herald's w^ork book (1648-66),. and quoted an entry : " Arms of Col. Rowe (the regicide) of Darlston, n the parish of Hackney, impaled with those of his ,vife L s he was the daur of Hodges of Bristowe,, b. 18 Sept. 1650, and was buried at Hackney." ["his appears to afford additional evidence- hat it was the Regicide who married Dorothy Hodges, and also that he was in he habit of using armorials. BEATRICE BOYCE. LAMB IN RUSSELL STREET (12 S. viii. 109)- In maps of London by Harwood and 3ary, dated 1799, 1804/1816, and 1839 Respectively, the Russell Street in Covent harden is given as " Russell Street " simply y 3iit on the other side of Bridges Street its- continuation is marked as Little Russell Street. In Elmes's 'Topographical Dictionary of Condon,' 1831, however, I find the following ntry : " Russell Street. 1. Great, is in Bloomsbury Square, at the N.W. corner, extending to Totten- iam Court Road. 2. Little, is in Bloomsbury, ihe first street parallel southward to part of the preceding. 3. Little, is in Drury Lane, on the N. side of the Theatre. 4. Great, is in Covent Garden,, the continuation of the preceding to the East side of Covent Garden." Moreover, on the trade card of Thomas Owen, Lamb's landlord, the brazier, is a- picture of his house, which, being a corner one, bears also the name of the street, thus : Gt. Russell Street. And Crabb Robinson,, in a letter to his brother at Bury (Nov. 23,. 1818) says : " At Xmas I will thank nay sister to send Turkies as usual.... One to Charles Lamb at Mr. Owen's, 20 and 21 Great Russell Street*. Covent Garden." This evidence proves, I think, in spite of the maps, that the appellation " Great," though often omitted, was nevertheless a- legitimate part of Lamb's address. G. A. ANDERSON. Woldingham. Mr. C. van Noorden to whose article in The Bookman's Journal, Feb. 6, 1920, I am indebted discovered in the British Museum Library the business card of the brazier Owen, over whose shop lived Charles and Mary Lamb. A reproduction of the card which shows a view of the shop and house, known as "Russell House," is given in the above-named journal and at the foot of it is printed " Thos. Owen, 20 and 21 Gt, Russell Street, Covent Garden." The name of the