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 i2s.vm.juxE4,i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 441 LONDON, JUNE 4, 1921. CONTENTS. No. 164. NOTES : St. Peter's Chapel of Ease, Westminster, 441 Glass-painters of York : Witton, 442 Irish Family History: O'Reilly of Dublin, 443 English Army List, 445 Shakespeariana, 446 Paper from Straw Dema- gogue Wolf, 447 ' Woman and her Master ' History repeats itself, 448 American English, 449. QUERIES : Window Tax and Dairies Henry Clay- Corker (Corcor) Robert Johnson Louis Masquerier Acid Test " Howlers," 448 James Lorimer For- draught The Bronte Poems Anstruther : Vansittart : Yule : Cardew The " Plague Pits " Hanging a Scotch Falconer Church Building and Parliamentary Com- missioners William Thomas ' John Inglesant, 450 Handshaking " Parliament Clock " Pitt's Peers Authors wanted, 451. REPLIES : Legay of Southampton and London, 451 Petty France The New Theatre, Hammersmith Sir Hans Sloane's Bloomsbury House, 452 The Caveac Tavern Smallest Pig of a Utter John Witty" Magad- len " or " Mawdlen " Club Membership Longevity " Beads of Castledowne," 453 Viscount Stafford, 454 State Trials in Westminster Hall Sir Roger de Coverley Dance The Year 1000 A.D. Old Song Wanted, 455 King of England : Lord of Baux Book Borrowers " Nothing but their Eyes to weep with " " Zoo " G. A. Cooke and his County Itineraries, 456 Tavern Signs Napoleon and London Gray's Elegy Robert Parr, Centenarian, 457 Lightfoot American Customs Repositories of Wills Ludgate, London, 458 The " Diehards " " Common or Garden," 459. NOTES ON BOOKS : 'Etymological Dictionary of Modern English' 'English Prose.' Notices to Correspondents. ST. PETER'S CHAPEL-OF-EASE, WESTMINSTER. ON June 8 this Georgian adjunct to St. Peter's, Eaton Square, will be auctioned, and then will be probably swept off the face of our Westminster earth. This seems a pity from the view of antiquaries, because, although only dated from 1766, no one- time " proprietary " chapel is so packed with interest. When George III. married Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in Sept., 1761, it became necessary to buy a separate house for her as part of her jointure. On. the site of Buckingham Palace stood an ugly mansion, built by the wealthiest of the Sheffields, John, Duke of Buckinghamshire. Why it was so big was because (as His Grace explained to everybody whom it did not concern) he intended to have twenty children, each of whom would require " princely chambers as befitted their illustrious line," and each a separate staff of servants. These plans were rendered void by the fact that he had only one child, who died young. So later the Duke's representatives were only too glad to sell the place to the Crown. It was promptly renamed Queen's House, and the seventeen- year-old bride was therein installed. Most of it was pulled dowTi after the King's death, and we owe the present hideous structure to the combined efforts of George IV. and his architect, John Nash, who had already given London the Carlton House, Terrace, the Regent's Street, and the really finely conceived Regent's Park. Amongst the little Queen's royal chap- lains was a handsome and popular man named William Dodd ; and amongst the little King's numerous subjects who held an eye to the main chance were two builders, Neale and Winkworth. Dodd (1729-1777) had had the most amazing success (I exclude politicians) that any man of that era had " in his twenties." A certain charitable Mr. Bingley had set himself to think out what could be done towards the spiritual .and social salvation of that sad class of women whose patroness is St. Mary Magdalene. He started his work near that Montagu House which has now grown into our British Museum, and amongst numberless applicants for this unpaid post, Dodd won it. The effect was marvellous. While the famous preacher, the Rev. Laurence Sterne he of the ' Sentimental Journey ' could only suc- ceed in obtaining some 160 for the Found- ling Hospital, one appeal from Dodd often resulted in sums between 1,300 and 1,400. So Neale and Winkworth ran up this chapel, backed by a Mr. Ralph Ward, who was contented with a peppercorn rental. They persuaded Dodd to be licensed as " Morning Preacher " ; and Dodd per- suaded Queen Charlotte to make it the most fashionable " place of worship " at that date. The street in which this spacious chapel stood was known as Charlotte Street ; and the chapel itself as Charlotte Chapel. Somewhere about 1883, Charlotte Street was quite foolishly renamed Palace Street. This street ran out at right angles from Pimlico Road, which had quite recently been known as Salisbury Walk, and which Londoners of to-day know as Buckingham Palace Road.