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 12 S.YIII. JUNE ii, i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 477 SIB HENRY COLET (12 S. viii. 438). I PETTY FRANCE ( 12 S. viii. 407, 452). 'New am exceedingly obliged by the justifiable Remarks of London ... Collected by the criticism by the author of 'Aldermen Company of Parish-Clerks,' 1732, gives of the City of London ' of my slightly Petty France as the name of one of the erroneous reply to the Colet request. The seven divisions or wards of the parish Mayor in 1777 (not 1774) was certainly of St. Margaret, Westminster, the Petty Hayford,' not Layford as misquoted by me France division containing some twenty - from ' Monumenta Franciscana,' and the five streets, yards, alleys, &c., and one of King should have been Edward IV., not 'these being included as "Petty-France." Henry VI. Hewlett, it is true, says the The same^work gives also, in. the parish of Mayor was Sayford, but both Fabyan and St. Botolph, Bishopsgate : Stow say Hayford, and the Rev. A. Bevan j Petty-France, which was a desolate, ruinated is undoubtedly right. place, but is now raised a great deal higher, and CHARLES J. STOCKER. OLD LONDON: THE CLOTH FAIR (12 S. viii. 310, 353, 435). At the last reference MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS writes : , I am not aware that any of the numerous writers state, or even suggest, that the worthy Prior " hit upon the expedient of obtaining per- mission to establish the fair." At ante, p. 353, I distinctly wrote is made a fine spacious street, containing many large uniform Houses, and a handsom Meeting- House. In the Index, at the reference to the last named, is added, " now called new broad street." W. B, H. BOOK BORROWERS (12 S. viii. 208, 253, 278, 296, 314, 350, 377, 394, 417, 456). The k immorality of book borrowers as lately upon the expedient of asking from the King disclosed & these pages is dec idedly depress- the permission to establish a Fair and if ^ and before ou ^^ isd riven violently MR. ABRAHAMS will kindly refer to p. 140 to 6 terminate this topic's career, let me state of the work I mentioned viz O d that this ^ no m( f deru lapse from ^ ace London Bridge by G. Herbert Rodwell, but a chronic vice> for m th d o ld times he will find that the first paragraph of my it wag t ag bad S0ven hundred years reply is an extract therefrom before J christ A ssur-bani-pal, King of I should like to add that I feeL sure your Ai inscribed a similar discoursing ^SSi c ,!!l sp l n i! ^ a V.SL ^oTJ^! ta s on ^ cla y tablets : ^ Whosoever shall carry off this tablet or shall inscribe his name upon it, alongside my own, may Ashur and Belit overthrow him in wrath and anger, and may they destroy his name and leading your readers to believe that my reply was inaccurate. JAMES SETON-ANDERSON. 39, Carlisle Road, Hove, Sussex. " family in the land. H. A. HARRIS. VERNON or LIVERPOOL (12 S. viii. 432). I do not think there was a family which can | Thorndon. be so described, though some one of the name probably built, or lived at, Vernon j The Hood-like lines quoted by MR. Hall, a house near Low Hill, in a district HARTINO are four of the thirty stanzas in which became known as Mount Vernon. i ' The Art of Book-keeping.' They will be I see the will of James Vernon of Low ' found in ' The Poetical Works of Laman Hill, Esq., was proved at Chester in 1688, j Blanchard ' (London, 1876), and in some J -. 11 ^- * I ' .. C^-l^-4- rt - .rx -M ,r- 1 ^-v-C^-i^ .., 4 ,'.,, a trf l- /"vl r rri kO / f> rt * THTn TYI fr*r-t i a "PrkTY^o * ir and a look at this might afford information. I think he was the James Vernon appointed on Nov. 25, 1665, to be Collector of Customs at the Port of Chester, which included Liverpool, then rapidly outstripping Chester in shipping and trade (see Moore MSS., Nos. 380, 392, Liverpool Public Library). I expect he was not a local man, as it was usual to appoint outsiders to this post. He was one of the Common Council of Liverpool appointed in 1677. There are anthologies (e.g., * Humorous Poems* in Walter Scott's series of ' Canterbury Poets.') DAVID SALMON. BLOUNT OF LINCOLNSHIRE (12 S. viii. 210, 278, 436). In the Lincolnshire Pedi- grees published by the Harleian Society (vol. li.,p. 475) is a pedigree of Hawley of Girsby, which records the marriage of " Agnes," daughter of John Hawley, with Thomas Blount. He appears to have been views of Vernon Hall in the Liverpool J her second husband, she being widow of Public Library. The Plumbe Tempests Robert Sutton of Lincoln. In the same seem to have lived there at a later date. volume is a pedigree of Marbury, starting R. S. B. i with William M., who married " Anne,