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 312 NOTES AND QUERIES. satirical production entitled 'The Accom- j and Bedford House to Southampton Row) plish'd Vagabond a Complete Mumper and occupied the entire space between the exemplified in the Bold and Artful Enter- ; N.E. corner of Bloomsbury Square and prizes and Merry Pranks of J3. M. C.' 8vo. I the N.W. corner of King Street, which ran Oxon. 1745, referred to at 2 S. ii,i. 4, by [ from High Holborn to Southampton Row. J. O., whose contribution I rather think j This view brings into line the conflicting W. S. B. H. has not noticed. I know ! directions on the correspondence. of no existing copy, and I may incidentally ; J. PAUL DE CASTRO. remark that from internal evidence J. O. i appears to be a different person from' J. P. O. who wrote at 2 S. iv. 330. I Thomas Price of Poole in Devon must j have been in his grave when T. P. wrote in 1857 at 2 S. iv. 522 (not 4S. ii 522 as cited) i " a kin( * of Men whom I choose to call Starers ; for the preface to Price's edition of Carew's IS?*! without any regard to Time, Place or 'Life, Voyages and Adventures ' states :- ^ C mpany GLOBIST (12 S. viii. 267). See No. 20 of The Spectator, for March 23, 1710/11, a correspondent, real or imaginary, the signature S.C., describes ae authorized to declare to the reader that this " edition is the most authentic, and fullest account " one whole Isle has been disturbed with one of ever published of this extraordinary man, as it is i these monstrous Starers," selected wholly from the journals which he con- j who Carew died in 1759. If Price be not upon a Hassock, and commands the whole Congregation. ' ' Steele in the essay that takes this letter lying, and Carew in fact kept journals of his a s its text promises' a remedy rogueries one wonders why it was necessary I < If therefore my Correspondent does not inform tor Mr. Goadby, or any one else, to take j me, that within seven Days after this Date the them down from word of mouth. i Barbarian does not at least stand upon his own I regret to say that I do not possess any ! ^g 8 onl y> without an Eminence, my Friend of the earlier editions of this once popular ! opposSrtoWm^n^starTa amsfhinf in Defence book- of the Ladies."' ' In the preface to * An Essay on the New i The ladies we ^ d are expected to opecies of vVritmsr founded by Mr. Fielding ^ i -, T -, with a word or two upon the Modern State Chacon" WlSheS f &UCCe8S ^ ***** of Criticism ' (London : Printed for W. Owen, | Globist must be taken as the iva _ near Temple Bar, 1751 ), occurs the remark : ilent of St arer," but in what tongue? "My task may, without vanity, be said to be i s j t a ghost-word due to a misprint ? performed in a more gentleman-like manner than * j 1-1 ^ Q ln, ^. .-, r> our author has yet been used by any of his Anc ! <? ld lad ^ contributor to Patrol/en critics. If the Examiner of ' Tom Jones,' and ! read ner Spectator in English, Danish, or the author of ' Bampfylde Moore Carew ' may German ? EDWARD BENSLY. deserve that name." This rather indicates that the place of; THE PLACE-NAME TOTLAND (12 S. viii. 231). attack was now London. This name is doubtless derived from tot. J. PAUL DE CASTRO. Toothills occurs in different parts of England with different spelling, tut, tot, tote. The SIR HANS SLOANE'S BLOOMSBURY HOUSE word means a piece of raised ground used (12 S. viii. 211, 277). A more extended ; as a fortification or look-out. Wycliffe examination of the Sloane Correspondence uses it in his translation of the Bible, discloses a sufficient number of letters' " Forsooth, David toke the tote hill Syon." directed to Sir Hans at Great Russell Street, | (Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Bloomsbury, to warrant the conclusion that his house was there situate. A re- Sion. Samuel v. 7.) Latimer also uses it. " Those observants ference to Rocque's * Survey ' shows that who spying, tooting, and looking, watching Sloane's house could not have stood on the i and prying what they might see or hear south side of the Square whatever historians j against the see of Rome." " Toot " w r as a of Bloomsbury Square may say. It may ! common word in the North of England for have stood on the south side " of Russell ' " watching." W. AVER. Street (which ran pavSt Montagu House! Primrose Club, Park Place, St. James's, S.W.I.