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 386 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.vm. 11^-14,1921. heir of the said Richard; (3)j Thomas Pellett of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, M.D. ; and (4) Thomas Spence of the same parish and Anne his wife the estate was sold by (1) and (2) to Dr. Pellett under the direction of the Spences for 6,000 (Close Roll 5436, No. 17). For the Spence family see Berry's ' Sussex Pedigrees.' Thomas Spence was Serjeant- at-Arms to the House of Commons, and died in 1737. By his wife, Anne Barrett, he left a daughter and heir, Henrietta (born 1719), who married Thomas Powys. Their eldest son Thomas was the first Lord Lilford. Thomas Powys and Henrietta his wife were deforciants in a fine concerning the manor of West Stoke in 1758 ; and in ', 1764, according to Dallaway, the repre- sentatives of Anne Spence, widow, sold it i to the Duke of Richmond. The eighth: part held by Peter Legay the younger in i 1660 has not been traced further. - As bearing on the Solly descent (see Pedigree in Add. MS. 5520, fo. 299, No. 120) may be cited a mortgage deed of December 8, 1717, between John Solly of Sandwich, mercer, and Thomas Hollis, citizen and draper of London, by which the former gave to the latter for 2,153 estates called the Moate, &c., in Ash, some purchased by himself and the rest inherited from his father Richard Solly. This latter part descended in gavelkind to Richard's three sons Richard, Stephen and John ; but Richard and Stephen had transferred their third parts to John in 1697 (Close Roll 5110, No. 7). The Sollys became sole heirs of the Legay family, for Thomas Hollis had no children. He and his family were benefactors of Sheffield and of Harvard. See Hunter's * Hallamshire, ' p. 318, and Waters's ' Gen. Gleanings,' for wills. J. BROWNBILL. " GOG AND MAGOG." THE GUILDHALL EFFIGIES. THESE their popular names have obscured the more accurate identification of " Gog- magog " for the older bearded figure armed with sword, bow and arrows, and what is derisively known as a " holy -water sprinkler." The younger figure with sword, shield and halberd only is " Corineus." Thus they would be labelled if they came to be preserved for their antiquity, and there is an allusion to the existence of effigies so named in 1558 (' Glory of Regality,' p. 287), but until the Restoration there is no work that by description, satire or legend can commence their bibliography. The earliest dated work relating to them is (1) ' A Dialogue Between the Two Giants in Guildhall ; Colebrond and Brandmore, &c., London, printed for the author, 1661.' This pamph- let is merely a satire on the meeting of citizens in the form of a dialogue between the giants, who finally express their intention to step down and leave the Guildhall: Thus we the Genii of this place, Bather than see a new Disgrace, Defenceless leave this thankless Hall, A brave Adventure doth us Call. Apparently till this date and even later their principal use was as effigies in pageants, stored betweenwhiles at the Guildhall. A few years earlier (1659) a single sheet, (2) 'The Citie's New Poet's Mock Show,* provides : Against the old Change A Pag'ant did meet him, And there a Gyant also did greet him. There was no horse in London could fit him. Of these early allusions most useful is that in Shirley's ' Contention for Human Riches,' 1633 (repeated in his ' Honoria and Mammon,' 1652), where, ridiculing the civic pageant' on Lord Mayor's Day and the citizens' love of good cheer, " after them," he continues, " you march to Guildhall, with every man his spoon in his pocket, where you look upon the giants and fced like Saracens." It was near these two giants then on the north wall, that Thomas Boreman, bookseller, published, in 1741, (3) 'The Gigantick of the two famous Giants in Guildhall, London.' This exceedingly rare and diminutive work in two volumes, 64mp. (2 X 1), at 4d. each, apparently attained three editions in its year of publica- tion. They contain much useful informa- tion, and William Hone later wisely observed : The publisher had the best means that time and place could afford of obtaining true informa- tion, and for obvious reasons he was unlikely to state what was not correct. It is this industrious writer's work that apparently comes next in chronological order. In 1823 William Hone had printed and published his useful volume (4) ' Ancient Mysteries Described,' &c. Part xi. on pp. 262-276 relates to 'The Giants in Guildhall.' Not only is this the first, fullest and most exact history of the effigies, but the illustration, representing them in their present position, was drawn and