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to prove either statement. On the other hand, the foundation of the first Grand Lodge of England in 1717 at the ' Goose and Gridiron' can be verified by records in Freemasons' Hall, London. I may further add that the Lodge of Antiquity No. 2, now meet- ing at Freemasons Hall, is the only one left of the four lodges that founded the first Grand Lodge of England. In 1717 its domicile was the ' Goose and Gridiron.' "

Another error propagated by 'Old and New London ' and repeated by MR. MACMICHAEL is the substitution of the name of the physi- cian Sir Hans Sloane for that of the architect Sir John Soane. JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

Dutch carvers

Hither to whet [not wet] their whistles daily come. J. HOLDEN M.VCMlCHAEL.

JEWS' WAY : JEWS' GATE : JEWS' LANE, &c. (9 th S. ix. 508; x. 54). The name of Jews' Court is applied to two houses situated, near the Jews' House, on the Steep Hill, Lincoln. They are of considerable antiquity, but they are not in any way connected with the period at which the Jews lived in Lincoln. Tradition, however, claims that one of the houses contains the well into which little St. Hugh's body was thrown after his sup- posed murder, whilst a cellar in the rear of the same building is said to be the scene of his crucifixion. The St. Dunstan's Lock mentioned by ST. SWITHIN was, it is sup- posed, the lower boundary of the Jews' quarter, beyond which no Jew was per- mitted, at all events after sunset. The real name, probably, of the gateway is Dernestall Lock, an old -time local board being re- sponsible for the corruption. Even Derne- stall Lock is said by some to be a corruption of " the Dernestall," the place where little St. Hugh was born. Further information on this subject may be gleaned from two ad- mirable articles on the Jews in Lincoln in the Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society, sessions 1896-8. A. R. 0.

SHAKESPEARE t. BACON (9 th S. ix. 245, 414 ; x. 11). I am not a Scott student, but I am told that in ' Ivanhoe ' and ' Rob Roy ' the "Author of 'Waverley'" quotes from the acknowledged poems of Walter Scott. Doubt- less some of your readers can supply these references, and possibly others.

At the same time it would be well to have exact references to the places where the "Author of 'Waverley '" "makes honourable mention of almost every distinguished con- temporary poet," and the terms in which he speaks of them. When we have this list, and a full list, corresponding to it, of Francis Bacon's references to his distinguished

poetical contemporaries, we shall be in a position to discuss the weight of the_argu- ment that MR. STRONACH and MR. THEOBALD raise at the last reference. It seems to me a very interesting aspect of the question, and well worth looking into with a view to ascertaining the direct and acknowledged effect on the mind of a great writer of the works of his contemporaries. Q. V.

[The motto at the head of ' Guy Mannering ' is from ' The Lay of the Last Minstrel.']

Adolphus, in his 'Letters to Heber,' is wrong in saying that the author of ' Waver- ley' never makes honourable mention of Walter Scott. Some lines from ' The Lay of the Last Minstrel ' are the motto to ' Guy Mannering.' And surely this may be called honourable mention. I have a notion that Scott refers to himself elsewhere in the " Waverley Novels," and that he has done so designedly in order to convince the public that he was not the- author of them. Shak- speare had nothing to do with Henslowe and Alleyn. He wrote for his own theatre. The playwrights mentioned were connected with other theatres. As is the way with small writers, the minor dramatists wrote com- mendatory verses on one another. Shak- speare was too great to do this. He disdained to recommend himself by praising others in order that he might himself be praised. Still it must be remembered that he is sometimes mentioned by authors of his time, and that Ben Jonson wrote commendatory verses on him, after his death, which are worth more than all the other eulogies written in that age. E. YARDLEY.

DEFOE (9 th S. ix. 207, 318 ; x. 32). Since the statement that in the late Miss Mary Ann Defoe died the last of the descendants of Daniel Defoe has gone the round of the papers, two letters on the subject have appeared in the Daily Mail. The first, written by Mr. C. E. Baker, of Nottingham, is as follows :

" I notice it 'is stated that the late Mary Ann Defoe, of Croydon, was the last descendant of the author of ' Robinson Crusoe.' This may be on the male side, but Daniel Defoe's daughter Sophia, who died in 1772, married Henry Baker, F.R.S., the author of several microscopical works, and their descendants are represented by Hugh Baker, Esq., of St. Albans, and others, Defoe having been coupled with that of Baker until quite recently in the late Rev. W. De Foe Baker, late rector of Thruxton, Hants." Daily Mail, 23 June.

The second letter came from the Rev. Canon De Foe Baker, of Lincoln, who wrote as follows :

" A namesake, Mr. C. E. Baker, of Mapperley Rise, has stated correctly in a recent number of the