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 i2S. vm. APRu.23, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 321 LONDON, APRIL 23. 1921. CONTENTS. No. 158. NOTES : Extracts from a Westminster Assessment Roll of 1718, 321 Isabella de Fortibus, 322 Glass-Painters of York : Inglish, 323 Huntingdonshire School Maga- zines, 325 English Army List of 1740, 327" A Gentle- man, a Scholar and a Christian," 328 War Portents Sir Thomas Chaloner, 329. QUERIES : Etching by Rowlandson : ' Pawpaw Sweet- meats ' The Earliest " London " Books, 329 Ghost Stories connected with Old London Bridge Capt. Cook's Crew : Coco-nut Cup, 330 Smallest Pig of a Litter Song Wanted Rose Gordon : ' Childe Archie's Pilgrimage ' ' The Golden Manual ' Archbishop Tillotson and the Last Sacraments Residence of Mrs. Fitzherbert Hareway, Englefleld, Berks " Scotch Hands " " The Milk of Paradise " " He will never set the sieve on fire " Beeleigh Abbey Scott Family, 331 The Thames running dry Wine Names Browne Family of Kidding- ton, Oxon Reference Wanted Author of Quotation Wanted, 332. REPLIES : Rose-coloured Vestments on Mothering Sunday, 332 Julie Bonaparte's Letters " Counts of the Holy Roman Empire " Robert Whatley : James | Street, Westminster " Singing Bread," 333 Some | Ulster Rhymes The Royal Horse Guards Double i Firsts at Oxford The Qualities of Female Beauty Book Borrowers, 334 " The Empire " Captain Cook : Memo- rials Epitaphs Desired " U.K." Member for Matdon The Tomahawk tavern Signs Sir Robert Bell of E-iupre, 335" The Haven under the Hill " Churches of St. Michael Author of Quotation Wanted Abnepos Variations in Gray's ' Elegy,' 336 Funeral Cake Live r- pool Halfpenny Tennyson Queries Income Tax Ex- emption : Brighton B. A. and T. Fawcet, Printers Liverpool Gentleman and Manchester Man, 337 Cowper : Pronunciation of Name Lions in the Tower Cream- coloured Horses Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon Peter Tillemans, Artist Gray's ' Elegy,' 339. NOTES ON BOOKS : ' The Church Bells of Lancashire,' Part IV. Quarterly Review Antiquaries Journal Folk- Lore ' A Manual of Lu-Ganda.' Notices to Correspondents. EXTRACTS FROM A WESTMINSTER ASSESSMENT ROLL OF 1718. HAVING had occasion to consult one of the j original parchment rolls which sets forth the | " presentments " of the authorized jurors for raising money for drainage purposes in the City of Westminster in 1718, a few notes made at the time are perhaps worth re- cording. These lists, known as sewer -rolls, afford first-hand evidence of the streets! in which the assessees resided, while the | figures at which each house was assessed in- 1 dicate, to some extent, the relative styles I in which a few early Georgian celebrities I lived. This sewer -roll, which is one of a | series, is the property of Mr. Richard Hoi- 1 worthy, editor of The Archivist, and I am! much indebted to him for allowing me to examine it. Presentment for Raiseing Money to pay for Work about King's Schollars' Pond and Tothill Side Sewers, 1718. Roll 183. [To-day the notice " King's Scholars' Pond, L.C.C. Pumping Station," may be seen at 78, Grosvenor Road, S.W.] St. James 1 Square West (membrane No. 7). The Rt. Hon. Lord Bathurst, 120. [Allen, Lord Bathurst, 1684-1775, was ono of the twelve Peace Peers created in 1711 to form a Tory majority in the House of Lords. His country house at Cirencester was often visited by Pope. Father of Lord Chancellor Bathurst. 1 St. James' Square East (m. No. 8). Her Grace the Duchess of Hamilton, 150. [Widow of James, Duke of Hamilton, who died by Lord Mohun's sword in 1712. " She is the devil of a teaser." Swift.] Sailers' Court (m. No. 11). William Windsor, Esq., 1,000. [Who was this person, and what was the nature of this valuable property ?] Portugal! Street (m. No. 12). The Rt. Hon. the Earl of Burlington, 320. [Burlington House was not then in Piccadilly, which extended only from Coventry Street to St. James's Church.] Jermyn Street (m. Nos. 17 and 19). James Craggs, Esq., 113. [Secretary of State, who died in 1721, aged , 35, of whom Pope wrote : " A soul as full of worth as void of pride Which nothing seeks to show, or needs to hide."] Dr. John Friend, 66. [1675-1728, 'M.D., F.R.S. Author of the 'History of Physic,' which he dedicated to Dr. Mead. Sent to the Tower in 1722 for abetting Atterbury.] The Rt. Hon. the Lord Cobham, 173. [Sir Richard Temple, 1669-1749, who had been created Baron Cobham in 1717 and Viscount in 1718. He rebuilt Stowe in Buckinghamshire. ] Golding Square (m. No. 26). The Rt. Hon. the Lord Masham, 62. [Samuel Masham, who in 1711 was created one of the twelve Peace Peers.] Orlando Bridgeman, Esq., 53. [Son of Charles II. 's Lord Keeper. " 1714, April 1. Yesterday the Commons heard the merits of the Election for Ipswich between Wm. Thompson and Wm. Churchill, sitting members, and Mr. Sergt. Richardson and Orlando Bridgeman, petitioners, and carried this day for the latter without any division." Portland MSS., 1899, v. 408.] St. James' s Street (m. Nos. 30 and 39). Dr. Garth and stable, 80. [Samuel Garth, 1661-1719, to whom Pope dedicated his ' Second Pastoral.' Published his poetical ' Dispensary ' in 1699. Ap- pointed physician to George I. in 1714.]