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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. X. Nov. 29, 1902.

to another. I once rode with a lady who directed the coachman to drive to the top of a certain road, about one mile long. She meant No. 3, the point, eastward, furthest from the starting- place ; the coachman meant Nos. 1 and 4, for the road went up hill, west- ward, to the adjacent town. When school children are shown on a map our Lord's journey southward from Galilee to Jerusalem, they are puzzled on reading that " He went up to Jerusalem." W. C. B.

Surely the Holborn end of Oxford Street is the top. The numbers start there, and any one going "up" to London by road from (say) Uxbridge ascends, nob descends, from the Marble Arch Citywards. Do we not always reckon downwards from the centre or head unless, indeed, there is some obvious physical reason to the contrary ? C. C. B.

As travelling from a city is spoken of as going " down," so travelling towards it is "going up." Consequently the City end of Oxford Street would be the upper part, or

the " top." J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

" THE BEATIFIC VISION " (9 th S. ix. 509 ; x. 95, 177, 355). Compare the lines written by Thomas Aquinas, the concluding stanza of the'AdoroTe':

Jesu ! quern velatum nunc aspicio, Oro fiat illud, quod tain sitio : Ut Te revelata cernens facie, Visu sim beatus Tuae glorise.

GEORGE ANGUS. St. Andrews, N.B.

"Quiz," JUNIOR (9 th S. x. 247, 354). Many years since I possessed a little 12mo volume very nicely got up, having gilt edges, and lettered 'Sketches of Young Ladies, Young Gentlemen, and Young Couples,' and a distant memory suggests that it was pub- lished by Chapman & Hall. It was illustrated by "Phiz." This was the only copy I ever saw of the pretty little book.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

HOME ALLEY, LONDON (9 th S. x. 289, 358). Errors there will always be, and it seems less necessary to complain of the fact than to fulfil, as far as possible, one of the functions of 'N. & Q.,' viz., to correct them in the fullest manner that can be. It appears to me that additional information could have been given the querist, which might have been of great use to him and have saved him time and trouble.

St. George's Church, Botolph Lane, was on the west side of Botolph Lane and the south side of George Lane, leading to Pudding Lane.

It was in the latter lane that the Great Fire began, and on the house where the fire originated there was an inscription set up " by authority." This being too personal as regards Roman Catholics, it was removed prior to 1756. Botolph Lane was in the ward of Billingsgate Within, to which was added or united the parish of St. Botolph, Billingsgate. St. George, Botolph Lane, in the ward of Billingsgate, was repaired in 1627, but was totally destroyed by the fire of 1666. St. Botolph without Aldersgate was partially burnt by the same conflagration, and was being repaired at the time of the publication of Maitland's ' History of London.' So there was a St. Botolph without Aldersgate and one at Aldgate : the former on the south-east corner of Little Britain, near Aldersgate without, and the latter on the north side of Aldgate High Street, also without. Another St. Botolph was on the west side of Bishops- gate Street, a little without.

Several Horn Alleys existed in London. One was near the middle of the east side of Aldersgate Street, in the parish of St. Botolph and "third precinct." As with other respondents, Home Alley, I confess, is unknown to me. "Horn" appears to have its origin, as here used, in a " sign." Botolph was not, I think, so spelt in Elizabeth's time. Two hundred years ago I find it written "Buttolphs." ALFRED CHAS. JONAS.

About the year 1890 Mr. Korneman, second-hand bookseller, now in Red Lion Passage, Red Lion Street, Holborn, but at that time of 168, High Holborn, issued a small quarto book (got up entirely, I believe, by himself) of old street signs and tablets. Among these was a representation of a stone tablet appertaining to Horn Alley. It consisted apparently of four doves accosted,

two and two, with the initials G w i, and

bore the inscription beneath, " This is Horn Ally, 1670"; but I do not know how he obtained it, whether from personal observation or, more probably, from an old newspaper or book. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

BISHOP S. WILBERFORCE (9 th S. x. 345). The story of the bishop reconciling a man and his daughter is -very interesting; but some important details seem to be wanting. If the daughter was so attached to her father that she could not bear estrangement from him, how could she marry against his wishes? Had her marriage reduced her to poverty, so that perhaps she wanted her father to give her again the comfort she had before enjoyed, or had her husband proved a