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 12 g. ix. A, so, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 141 LONDON. AUGUST 20, 1921. CONTENTS. No. 175. NOTES : Dr. William Aglionby, F.R.S., 141 Principal London Coffee-houses in the Eighteenth Century, 143 Aldeburgh Chamberlains' Accounts, 145 Tournay Font at Boulge, 147 Thomas Chatterton The Queen in Eastern Games of Chess Welsh Rabbit, 148. QUERIES : The Marney Tombs at Layer Marney The " Chalk-Farm Pistoleer " Qualifications of Grand Jurors in Fifteenth Century Greenhouse, 149 " Lacticinia " Mrs. (Mary Ann) Grant of Croydon Elizabeth Fry " Dreamthorp " Piavonius ' The Tynesfde Observer ' Dowse Heraldic Query The Dance of Salome Runnymede, 150 Metcalfe Morell Thomas Mailie Dickson Family Stocker Tomohrit : Avatar " Toff," 151. REPLIES : " Cuckoo Pen " and " Cuckoo Pound," 151 Domesday and the Geld Inquests Hockley of Hamp- shire, 152 The Ivory Gate of Virgil Source of Anecdote Wanted Domenick Angelo's Burial-place ' Daily Ad- vertiser ' " Floreat Etona ! " 153 Sussex and Surrey Dialect Words and Phrases Baron Ricasoli Dr. John Misaubin Hearth Tax, 154 Apple Christening Cateaton Street, London Warrington Gang, 155 " Tenant in Capite," 156 Sicco Pede ' Miss Croker,' by Sir T. Lawrence Gleaning by the Poor, 157 Milton and Elzevier The ' Ingoldsby Legends ' A. Bryant, 158 The Knave of Clubs Cream-coloured Horses Title of Book Wanted Cigarette Smoking Authors Wanted, 159. NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Calendar of State Papers. Foreign Series. Elizabeth.' Vol. xx. ' Original Sources of English History ' The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library. Notices to Correspondents. DR. WILLIAM AGLIONBY, F.R.S. THE biographical dictionaries have not done justice to Dr. William Aglionby, a diplo- matist and author from the time of Charles II. to that of Queen Anne.* His parentage and the date of his birth are obscure : in a work of no great authority, written about 1705, he is said to be " turned of sixty years old " and to be the son of a clergyman in Cumberland. t Aglionby is a good Cumber- land name, but he does not appear to belong adds an unsatisfactory account of him to the notice of John Aglionby, Principal of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. For attempts to supplement this, see Gentleman's Magazine. Ixiv. 686, 798 ; Ixv. 368. t ' Memoirs of the Secret Service ' of John Macky, pp. 153-4. to the landed Aglionbys whose genealogies are printed. In dedicating a book to William, fourth Earl of Devon, he writes of his par- ticular obligations to that nobleman's family, obligations laid on him " not only in my infancy, but even some days after my birth ; and so generously contrived that they are like to last as long as I live."* What these were it seems useless to conjecture, nor can much be said about Aglionby's youth and education. In a book published in 1669, and almost certainly written by him, there is a phrase (" within this twenty-five years I do not remember any ill accident but this "f) which seems to imply that his recollections of the United Provinces go back to the early forties, but he may be speaking only of what he has heard from others. The first firm ground in his life is reached in 1667, when, on the proposal of Sir Anthony Morgan, he is elected to the Royal Society. % On that occasion he is described as " M.D.," and it appears that he had taken this degree at Bordeaux : ten years later the Duke of Ormonde, as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, asks for a grace for him to take the same degree there and refers to " his diplo- ma " from Bordeaux. In the summer of 1678 he appears as secretary to Sir William Temple, then Ambassador in Holland- !l At some date before 1688 he was given an appointment in the Post Office, which he kept after the Revolution of that year,^[ and this is no doubt the reason why, in his later work as a diplomatist, he was frequently in charge of postal negotiations. In the first year of William and Mary he was again at The Hague as secretary to Lord Dursley, the 1 ' Painting Illustrated ' (1685), dedication. t * The Present State of the Low Countries,' p. 363. % Birch, ' History of the Royal Society,' ii. 203, 207-8. Aglionby served on the council in 1683-4 and 1686-7 (ibid., iv. 231, 237, 505). Hist. MSS. Comm., Ormonde MSS. at Kilkenny, New Series, iv. 618. This seems to disprove the statement of Macky (loc. cit.), that Aglionby was " bred to the civil law." Ormonde says that he was highly recommended by Lord Longford. Mr. R. L. Poole, the Keeper of the Archives of the University of Oxford, kindly informs me that the Register of Convoca- tion contains no record of the matter. Public Record Office, State Papers, For., Holland, 207. 1f Macky (loc. cit.) ; receipt for 20 granted by the King for service in the Post Office, May 24, 1689 (Bodleian MS. Rawlinson, H. 306, fo. 8).
 * Chalmers's 'Biographical Dictionary' (1794)
 * His dispatches, July 2 6- August 5, are in the