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12 s. ix. JULY so, i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. Bell Friday Street, west side 1732 'Parish Clerks' Remarks of London, p. 394.

1745 Rocque's 'Survey.'

1749 'London Topographical Record.' 1907, iv., 96.

Bell Aldersgate, two doors from the Barbican 1732 ' Parish Clerks' Remarks of London." p. 382.

1745 Rocque's ' Survey,' Thornburv ii.. 227.

Bell (One Bell) North of St. Mary-le-Strand Church 1714 Marquis of Ailsbury MS. 1898, p. 217

1732 'Parish Clerks' Remarks of London,' p. 383.

1745 Rocque's 'Survey.'

1754 Public Advertiser, Feb. 15.

Fell and Dragon Hog Lane, St. Leonard's, Shoreditch. D.N.B., art., T. Topham.

On his recent visit (May 12) to Christ's Hospital at Horsham, the Prince of Wales, who is President of the institution, emphasized, in his address to the boys, the manner in which the traditions of the school had been handed down intact, and spoke with pride of its roll of honour, which contains nearly 400 names of " Old Blues " who gave their lives in the Great War. The Heir Apparent did not dis- criminate between the naval and the mili- tary services rendered by the long list of those who won distinctions, including two Victoria Crosses ; but it is of special interest to recall an early connexion Christ's Hospital had with the work of training for the Navy. In the Calendar of Treasury Books 1672-1675 (pp. 379-80) is noted Treasurer Osborne's subscription of a docquet, dated Aug., 1673, of a declaration of the King's pleasure for erecting and establishing a foundation within Christ's Hospital in Lon- don for the maintenance of 40 poor boys to be chosen out of the Blue Coat boys there, who are to be educated in a mathematical school to be built for that purpose within the said Hospital until their proficiency in arithmetic and navigation shall have fitted them for public service, which boys are to be called the children of the New Royal Founda- tion and to be distinguished from the other boys by a special badge in cognizance to be worn upon their blue coats : for which the King grants to the Governor of the said Hospital 1,000 a year for seven years from June 24 last, .with licence to him to lay out the same in the purchase of lands in fee simple to the uses aforesaid, and to purchase any other lands not exceeding 1,000 per annum to them and their successors, not- withstanding the Statute of Mortmain. Doubtless, those intimately acquainted with Christ's Hospital can tell the subsequent history of this special grant, a number of payments on account of which are to be found in the Treasury Books' Calendar above noted. ALFRED BOBBINS. SAUNDERS WELCH. Johnson's close as- sociation with Welch is recorded by Boswell in chapter 61, which deals with the vear 1777. Johnson maintained a long and intimate friend- ship with Mr. Welch, who succeeded the celebrated Henry Fielding as one of his Majesty's justices of the peace for Westminster ; kept a regular office for the police of that great district, and discharged his important trust for many years faithfully and ably. Johnson, who had an eager and unceasing curiosity to know human life in all its variety, told me that he attended Mr. Welch in his office for a whole winter. , Many writers, on this statement, have alleged that Welch was Fielding's successor at Bow Street e.g., Larwood in his ' History of Sign-boards,' in explaining the derivation of the Welch Head in Dyott Street, St. Giles, says, " Saunders Welch kept a regular office of the police of that district in which he succeeded Fielding." As a fact Fielding was succeeded by his blind half-brother John, and Mr. Austin Dobson, in his ' Life of Fielding,' declines to accept Boswell's statement. Says Mr. Dobson : John Fielding succeeded his brother at Bow Street, though the post is sometimes claimed on Boswell's authority for Mr. Welch. The mistake no doubt arose from the circumstance that they frequently worked in concert. During the whole time Henry Fielding was a magistrate, Welch occupied the post of High Constable of Holborn, and Welch carried out many raids on gaming-houses