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 228 NOTES AND QUERIES. t, 2 S.IX.SBPT. 17,1921. Janeway's Jenny Whim Jerusalem. . Joe's -;*; John's John's John's Jonathan's. Jones's Cornhill St. George's Row, Pimlico 1733 1735 1750 1719 Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell Green Swithin's Alley .. .. 1720 Fullwood's Rents, Holborn. . Sheer Lane, Temple Bar. . 1720 1744 Duke Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields 1744 Near Bedford Row. . . . 1754 Finch Lane, next the Exchange 1704 (To be continued.) Daily Journal, Jan. 18. Country Journal^ or The Craftsman, June 21. Walpole to G. Montagu, June. Warwick Wroth, p. 222. Thornbury, v. 43, 45. Daily Courant, June 27. Timbs's ' Clubs,' p. 396. Daily Courant, Oct. 11. Thornbury, ii. 536. Daily Post, Nov. 21. General Advertiser, April 14. Wheatley's ' Hogarth,' p. 279. London Daily Post, Mar. 1. Whitehall Evening Post, Feb. 19-21. Defoe to R. Harley, May 12. J. PAUL DE CASTRO. AMERONGEN. A belated vindication of the hospitality extended by Count Bentinck- Amerongen to the Kaiser, based on undis- putable historic facts. In 1672, during the unwarranted surprise attack of a mighty King, Louis XIV. of France, on the small commonwealth of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, aided and abetted by the ungratefulness and shortsightedness of another mighty Mon- arch, Charles II. of England, who at one time had taken shelter and received great help there, the Castle of " Armerongen " was burned to the ground by the French in- vaders. It belonged at that time to Baron de Reede- Ginckel, whose descendants be- came Earls of Athlone. Ginckel was Dutch Ambassador at Berlin during the invasion, and highly esteemed by the Grand Elector. After the war was over and the French had been* driven out after the damage had been done, the same as in the late war Ginckel went home. But he found no home, nothing but the charred remains of his ancestral keep. He determined to raise it, phcenix-like, from its ashes, more imposing than before. His friend, the Grand Elector, in order to show his good will, presented him with the necessary timber, and had for that purpose 800 trees cut down in his Thiergarten at Berlin. Incidentally, the roof was built therewith. When the last Ginckel -Athlone died, Count Bentinck inherited "Amerongen" from the descendants of his ancestors in the female line. What else could Count Bentinck-Amer- ongen do, when it was sprung upon him, but provide with a sheltei this roofless fugitive who knocked at his door ? Quite apart from the duty he owed to his liege lord for Count Bentinck bears, besides his Dutch and English recognized titles, an exalted title in Germany this door was the door of the very home the bygone ancestor of this fallen man had provided a roof for ; after that it had been burned down by the French. Was it for Count Bentinck to decide whether the German- Austrian aggression of 1914 was more or less criminal than the Franco-English one of 1672 ? And that on the spur of the moment ? Most certainly not. Like a Christian and a gentleman, regard- less of public opinion, he took a helpless, fallen-down man in, leaving it to history to pronounce judgment. W. DEL COURT. Miss MELLON'S FIRST MARRIAGE. I do not know whether this epigram on Harriet Mellon's first marriage with Thomas Coutts the banker has been printed. It appears in a manuscript collection of verses by Alexander, 4th Duke of Gordon, in the possession of Aberdeen University Library, where I have just had the privilege of ex- amining it : An apple we know was old Adam's disgrace, Who from Paradise quickly was driven. But yours, my good friend, 's a more fortunate case For a Mellon transports you to heaven. The MS. is in the handwriting of Lt.- Col. Alexander Gordon, RE. (1794-1863), who was a natural son of the 5th and last Duke of Gordon. J. M. BULLOCH. 37, Bedford Square. " ISCARIOT " AS A CHRISTIAN NAME. I lately had occasion to refer to a weekly newspaper published in Staffordshire in January, 1865, and noticed " Iscariot Buckley " as the name of a prosecutor in an assault^ case before the local magistrates. W. B. H.