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 526 NOTES AND QUERIES. 1 12 s.ix. DEC. 31,102!. Stratford . . Oxford Street. . ' . . 1764 Levand< 1789 Parker's Sugar Loaf. . . . Fleet Street 1737 Andersc 1756 Hammc Sugar Loaf. . Bishopsgate Street 1732 pp. 5 ' Parish p. 38 Sun Ludgate Hill with a back en- . ' Londc trance from Stationers' Court 1903, Sun Aldersgate

Brit. Mi Sun Fetter Lane 1754 Levand< Sun . . Clare Street 1723 Lane's ' Sun Sun Sun (Bell and Sun) Sun Sun. . Sun and Punchbowl. Sunder land's , 1724 1733 Bed Lyon Street, Red Lyon 1720 Fields Bound Court Strand. . . . 1754 King Street, Westminster. . 1733 Upper Shadwell/between King 1745 David Lane and Cutthroat Lane Barnes. High Holborn. . Warwick Lane. . 1761 1710 (To be continued.) Levander, A.Q.C., vol. xxix., 1916. Parker's ' Variegated Characters.' Anderson's ' Constitutions,' p. 336. Hammond, A.Q.C., vol. xxix., pp. 5-18. ' Parish Clerks' Remarks of London,' p. 389. ' London Topographical Record,' 1903, ii. 92. Brit. Mus., SloaneMSS. 4066, p. 297. Levander, A.Q.C., vol. xxix., 1916. Lane's ' Handy Book,' p. 167. Daily Journal, Oct. 9. Daily Journal, Jan. 8. " On Friday night two footpads stopt a coach near Lincoln's Inn Fields Play- house in which was Mr. Lucas who keeps the Sun Tavern in Clare Street, near Clare Market, and robb'd him of about fourteen Shillings." Larwood, p. 498. Daily Courant, Sept. 26. Levander, A.Q.C.. vol. xxix., 1916. Daily Journal, Oct. 30. " Yesterday there was a rehearsal at the Sun Tavern, King Street, Westminster, of the Ode for his Majesty's Birth- day composed by Colley Cibber, Esq., Poet Laureate, and set to Music by John Eccles, Esq." Rocque's ' Survey.' London Museum : pewter tankard (r. 1529). Kept by J. Sanster. Sadler's ' Life of T. Dunckerley,' 1891, p. 116. ' London Topographical Record,' 1903, ii. 105. J. PAUL DE CASTRO. A ROYAL CHARTER HITHERTO APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED (see ante, p. 481). In con- 1 tinuation of my note on Bitton at the reference just cited, may I add the follow- ing. The footnote should have run thus : The Rev. Charles Taylor, F.S.A., an acknow- ledged authority, considers, on a review of the ' available evidence, that the estate of Dons (King's thegn in 1086) on his death passed to the Crown, and remained with it till the time of Henry II., j together with the King's estate in Domesday j Book, and that from these combined estates j Henry II. carved out first a manor for Robert j FitzHarding, and then ahpther for Adam de j Damneville. The former part of this view seems highly probable, especially as no doubt Dons held his land in soccage of the King. However, on mature consideration I still incline to the opinion that Adam de Dam- neville acquired, whether by purchase or otherwise, simply that manor of Bitton (possibly including Dons' estate), no more and no less, which had been originally granted by Henry, when only Duke of Normandy and Count of Anjou, in 1151 to Robert FitzHarding I. A comparison of Richard I.'s charter, which certainly must repeat the very wording of his father's charter, with the charter of 1151 seems to afford strong evidence to that effect. In the latter charter the land granted is determined so, manerium Bethone cum omnibus appen- diciis suis. In the former, manerium de Betton cum omnibus pertinenciis suis. A divided manor it became, but apparently not till after Adam de Damneville had acquired it, and it became his, I fancy, tenendum de capitali- Domino feodi, to be held, that is, in this case of the King, who merely, as I have said before, "conceded and confirmed" it as Richard his son did. It would follow also that the manor would mid