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 408, NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2S.Vin.MAY*i,i2i. which bore this inscription : " Sacred to Milton, the Prince of Poets." Jeremy recorded some payments made to him, especially during 1617-18, when he was Bentham's garden touched the garden attached to the household of " Illus Signore which once was Milton's, and the grounds! Gou*." In whatever coin Bartolini was of both are now covered by Queen Anne's; paid he gives the equivalent in lire, and Mansions, which, at the time they were | perhaps the following points may be of built, were more individually known as| use to those who are interested" in the " Hankey's Folly." i currency exchange of that period. The almshouses of Cornelius Van Dun in Urbino, 1618, a zecchino (Venetian were in Petty France. sequin)=12 lire, and a doppia di spagna Cornelius Vandon was born at Breda in (? Spanish doubloon) 2H lire. Brabant, Yeoman of the Guard and Usher to their Majesties Henry 8th, King Edward 6th, Queen Marie, and Queen Elizabeth. He did give In Padua, 1620, a quarter of a Venetian ducat 2.2 lire. The other Italian coins 8 almshouses in Pettie France next to the end mentioned are the grosso and the soldo. of James Street, for the use of 8 poor women! Rmjv TT'Tw^nw^i? of the Parish. He did also give 8 other Almshouses near St. Ennin's Hill by Tuttle side, for the use of Spoor widows of this Parish. THE NEW THEATRE, HAMMERSMITH. Sir John Moore was also a householder : The vexed question of the site of this I should be grateful to be told at what date, theatre exercised the mind of that eminent I long to step into James Street (which London antiquary and historian, the late has been foolishly renamed Buckingham Mr - E - Walford, F.S.A., who wrote to Gate), to which so many historic and the Editor of < N. & Q.,' and whose letter literary links are attached. will be found in 8 S. x. 29. Mentioning James Street reminds me Mr Walford stated that he had several that when I wrote (12 S. viii. 243, 333) playbills relating to this theatre, and on about James Street, Westminster, I forgot on f was an a PP eal to the P ubhc for better to give the proof as to why it was James patronage. Strlet, and not St. James's Street. MR. S. The idea that a theatre could have been BUTTERWORTH equally forgot to give the erected m what was then (1785) a suburban proof, which is this:- Vllla g e of about 5,000 inhabitants the r T, fj _ greater number of whom were employed James Street was named after our first f brickmaking, gardening, and farming, English Stuart king James the First, who geems to me ^ { the f estion. (whether liked or not by succeeding genera- j am of inion that a large room was tions) was certainly no saint The street, rented in / hich the } ^ ere acted which ran from Arlington House on its guch room gtood ^ a few ears interrupted way to the river was named gince adjoining the Windsor Castle after the king from gratitude for what T -^ ^ t and uged for he had done to help the silk-weaving trade, purpose g in Spitalfields and elsewhere. He bought " Mor P eov F f have searched the Church up acres of the ground behind Arlington Rate B fe fop thftt and 8ucoee ding House (not wholly covered by the Royal years? and do not find a theatre mentioned, gardens of to-day), which stands behind ' he name of Mr Waldron, 17, Buckingham Palace, and packed it with Dorvil i e 's Row mulbBrry trees One sees the anticipated -j 1?93 ft &u for ratin purpos es sequence. Mulberry leaves : silkworms : made of aR t j be ^ fopertieB ^ Hammer- silk : prosperous English weavers. So the fe here I ^ to find ft theatre roughly cobbled new road which ran from menti ' oned? excepting the private theatre those grounds towards the river was natur- Margravine of Anspach. ally called James Street. M. E. W. . , , The first public theatre to be erected ITALIAN EXCHANGE IN EARLY SEVEN- in Hammersmith was that now known TEENTH CENTURY. 1 have a copy of the as the Lyric ; some years afterwards,- by <MedicmaJoannisFernelii,'Ambiani: Venice, the enterprise of the present owner and 1555. From 1574 to 1620 at least its owner was manager, Mr. J. Mulholland, the Kings Vittorio Bartolini of Urbino, who practised Theatre, Hammersmith Road, was ereci medicine in Urbino or Padua, possibly It is gratifying to an old inhabitant in both cities. On the fly -leaves he has to know that both these theatres are