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 488 NOTES AND QUERIES. na. vm. j is. m: Of course " aalut " also means " salvation," but not in this application of the expression. "Her Benediction" indicates simply the service she was accustomed to attend. J. B. MCGOVERN. St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester. " LIGHTLY COME, LIGHTLY GO." The ' N.E.D.,' under Lightly (adverb), 4, has an example of this proverb from the year 1624, in Sanderson's Sermons. It can, however, be traced back to a much earlier date. See * Letters and Papers, 'Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII.,' arranged and catalogued by James Gairdner, vol. xiii., Part I., 1199, 2. Here we find that in the articles against Sir Thomas Cowley, vicar of Ticehurst, in 1538, he was accused of making certain reflections from the pulpit on the recent changes in religious matters, one of his comments being that those who had the New Testa- ment were of the new trick. "It is but trick and go. Lightly it came and lightly it will be gone again." EDWARD BENSLY. University College, Aberystwyth. IRONMONGER'S HALL. The demolition of this notable City Guild Hall and the sale of its site has apparently passed unnoticed in these pages. The loss is to be deplored because the wealth and traditions of these guilds should make them proof against the mere money advantages of such changes. There are many illustrations of the Hall, which was built 1745/1750 by Spier and Dowbiggen from the designs of " Mr." Holden at a cost of 5,500 plus the material of the old Hall. This earlier Hall dated from 1585, and although badly scorched by the Great Fire it had survived, thanks to special effort and in particular to William Christ- mas, a shipwright. In the minutes of the Court held March 6, 1667, it is recorded that he " had done very great service in assisting to quench the late dreadful fire here about the Hall and severall other places in London, wch was well knowne to sevall members psent ; and the Court was therefore pleased to bestow on him four pounds and give him thanks for his care in that business, which he thankfully accepted of." This Elizabethan building was especially subject to the risk of fire, but the Court insured it for 1,500 in 1704 in " the office for insuring houses from fire by Mutuall contribucon kept in St. Martin's-lane in the Strand." It is uncertain if this was the second or third Hall built on the site. The company have or had a considerable assemblage of deeds relating to the site, commencing with a grant by Robert de Kent and Felicia his wife to Richard atte Merk on Monday next after the feast of St. Hilary (Jan. 20), 17 Edw. III. (1344), of a vacant plot of ground. The actual building is identified as on this site in a deed dated June 4, 1494. It is therefore greatly to be regretted that this long association should now cease. The historian of the Guild, John Nicholl, F.S.A., provided in 1851 an excellent volume besides leaving important MS. collections still unpublished. ALECK ABRAHAMS. FORGOTTEN PERIODICALS (see ante, p. 465). To the periodicals mentioned at the above reference may be added Figaro in London, commenced as a weekly on December 10, 1831, at a penny, which died with No. 160, December 27, 1834, and was then issued as an. annual volume with first title page dated for the year 1832. The preface says that " Since we made our first appearance we have been ' Figaro here ! Figaro there ! Figaro everywhere ! ' : " and boasts that it sells four times as many copies as its namesake in Paris, and accounts for it by the way which " we have used our razor for the public good," and promises .to " keep the barber where he is and always ought to be, ' at the very top of the poll. 5 ' ARCHIBALD SPARSE. (Buerte*. WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries in order that answers may be sent to them direct. THE EARL OF ANGLESEA'S MS. HISTORY OF THE TROUBLES IN IRELAND. Disraeli, in his chapter on ' Suppressions and Dilapida- tions of Manuscripts ' (' Curiosities of Lite- rature,' vol. iii.), makes the following state- ment : " The Earl of Anglesea's MS. His- tory of the Troubles in Ireland and also a Diary of his own Times have been sup- pressed ; a busy observer of his contem- poraries, his tale would materially have assisted a later historian." Is anything known of the existence of