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 468 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.ix. DEC. 10,1921. centrum navigabile sine pyxide per Andr. Thevet." And the theory is probably still earlier. In 4 S. xi. and xii. several speci- mens of ' Utopian Bibliography ' are col- lected ; but the one ascribed to Donne (whether he really wrote it or no) escaped notice. RICHARD H. THORNTON. Portland, Oregon. COLUMBIA MARKET, HACKNEY. Few people to-day recollect the origin of the name of this place, on the estate which is to be sold by the Burdett Coutts trustees. The story goes that when Miss Burdett Coutts confided to Charles Dickens her intention of founding the market, he wel- comed the idea with the cry of " Hail, Columbia ! " and thus the name arose and was adopted by the benefactress of the East London poor. An esteemed correspondent reminds me that Charles Dickens alludes to this incident in All the Year Round for 1862. J. LANDFEAR LUCAS. 101, Piccadilly. KEATS, HAMPSTEAD AND SIR C. W. DILKE (see 11 S. iii. 145, 176, 196; iv. 51). The following from the current issue of The Hampstead and St. John's Wood Advertiser may prove of interest : KEATS MEMORIAL HOUSE. The Keats Memorial House Committee has just received a set of framed photographs of the surgery at Edmonton, where Keats lived while indentured to Dr. Hammond from 1811 to 1815. It was soon after he left Edmonton that Keats came to Hampstead. The photo- graphs give four exterior and three interior views of the surgery, the two interior ones showing the poet's sitting and bed room, and the surgery itself containing a dispensing cabinet, which it has been suggested might possibly be the one used by Keats. The examination of the cabinet does not lend much support to that conjecture. The photographs, which have been presented by Miss Edith Aldersey White, were taken a short time ago a fortunate occurrence, as since then' several changes have taken place in and about the building, and it would now be practically impossible to obtain similar views. They will, therefore, be of particular interest as snowing the Keats rooms and the building in a condition approximately the same as when used by the poet. It may be of interest to state that Dr. Ham- mond's house still remains, though with a wing which, has been added subsequently. The photographs, with accompanying letter- . press, may be seen in the Reference Department at the Central Library. In due course this welcome addition will, without doubt, find appropriate shelter at the poet's home in Keats Grove, Hamp. stead, with the other choice relics tem- porarily stored at the Central Library referred to. CECIL CLARKE. Junior Athenaeum Club. WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation 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. ANTIQUITIES or YORK MINSTER. Can any correspondent kindly tell me 1. What has become of the " cope of plain white sattin " stated by Drake to be the only one left in York Minster in 1736 ; 2. Whether any identification has been made or. attempted of the carved stone heads of its chief builders ; 3. Where was the Chancellor's residence in York ; 4. The whereabouts of his seals of office as having jurisdiction in his " Peculiar " and as a Lord of the Manor of Laughton ? GEORGE AUSTEN. Chancellor of York Minster. GENTLEMAN USHERS OF THE BLACK ROD. Can any reader supply me with the place of burial of the following Gentleman Ushers of the Black Rod ? The date of their death is approximate and based on the date of appointment of their successor in office. Died Sir Richard Coningsby. . 1604 George Pollard 1624 James Maxwell. . . . 1640 Alexander Thayne. . . . 1660 Sir John Ayton. . 1671 I am also particularly anxious to find a portrait or drawing of the following : Died Sir David Mitchell (Admiral) 1710 Sir William Oldes. . . . 1718 Sir William Sanderson Sir Henry Bellenden. . 1761 Sir Francis Molyneux. . Sir Septimus Robinson 1765 According to his will there were two portraits painted of Sir David Mitchell (Admiral), and Sir Septimus Robinson was painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, but I can find no trace of their portraits. W. P. PULTENEY, Lieut. -General. Black Rod. 3, Lower Berkeley Street, W.