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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. XL JAN. 3, 1903.

house Chapel," on Fish Street Hill, not far from the old Weighhouse, took its name. But the ground on which it stood was required by the Metropolitan and District Railway Companies for the completion of the Inner Circle Railway, and was sold for 37,000. ; so that the site of the chapel is now occupied by the Monument Station booking- office, the station itself standing upon the site of the Weighhouse. In April, 1888, the Duke of Westminster offered a site in Duke Street, Grosvenor Square, a street which was then being almost entirely rebuilt, at a peppercorn rent, for ninety-nine years' lease. The freehold of this site was valued at 25,OOOZ., and this is briefly the story of the King's Weighhouse Chapel in May fair, con- cerning which, however, nothing will be found in Clinch's * History ' of that fashion- able locality. Mr. A. Waterhouse, R.A., was the architect. J. HOLDEN MAcMiCHAEL. 161, Hammersmith Road.

PAUSANIAS (9 th S. x. 386). Pausanias was one of Philip's bodyguard, and a favourite of the king. A rival attempted to oust him from Philip's good graces ; he assailed his rival in a peculiarly opprobrious manner; the rival complained to Attalus ; Attalus bitterly insulted Pausanias ; the latter com- plained of the outrage to Philip ; but Philip spared Attalus; hence Pausanias. in anger, took Philip's life. Pausanias tried to fly, but was killed by some officers of the king's guard. These events are related by Plutarch and Justin ; but neither mentions Attalus as the murderer. H. A. STRONG.

University College, Liverpool.

MR. HEBB had better refer to Diodoru Siculus (xvi. 93). He will then see why it is impossible (Eph. v. 12) to speak in detai on the point^ in *N. & Q-' Grote's language is, no doubt, intentionally obscure.

W. T. LYNN.

Blackheath.

[Answers also from C. C. B. and F. A., the latte quoting the passage from Diodorus in detail.]

MONARCH IN A WHEELBARROW (9 th S. x. 467; The monarch MR. T. H. BATTEN is in search of is, no doubt, Peter the Great. Or p. xi of a life of John Evelyn, Esq., prefixes to an edition of his * Diary ' published b Alex. Murray & Son, 1871, we are told :

" When the Czar of Muscovy came to England i. 1698, he was desirous of having the use of Saye Court, as being near the King's Dockyard at Depl ford, where that monarch proposed instructin himself in the art of shipbuilding. During hi stay he did so much damage, that Mr. Evelyn ha an allowance of 15(M. for it. He particularly regret the mischief done to his famous holly hedge, whic

ight have been thought beyond the reach of am age."

A foot-note adds : " It is said that one of }zar Peter's favourite recreations was to emolish the hedges by riding through them i a wheelbarrow." JOHNSON BAILY.

Ryton Rectory.

One of Peter the Great's recreations luring his tenancy of Sayes Court was to be triven through the holly hedges in a wheel- >arrow. See John Evelyn's 'Diary and Correspondence,' edited by Bray, 1850.

F. JARRATT.

LATIN QUOTATION (9 th S. x. 488).

Leeva in parte mamillse Nil salit Arcadico iuveni,

s from Juvenal, Sat. vii. 159, 160. "Of course ,he master is blamed because the scholar has no wits," cor being the seat of the intellect cf. ex-cors). H. A. STRONG.

University College, Liverpool.

From Juvenal, Sat. vii. 159. " Sed " should pe quod, and "Arcadico" should be Arcadico '.uueni. WALTER W. SKEAT.

INDEX : How NOT TO MAKE (9 th S. x. 425). Bulstrode Whitelocke's 'Memorials,' folio, 1682, has a most promising and unusually t arge index of more than forty-two columns, but every user of it knows by sad experience hat the figures are often hopelessly wrong.

PURCELL FAMILY (9 th S. x. 386). The fol- lowing description of the arms painted on the Purcell tablet is from Neale's 'West- minster Abbey,' vol. ii. p. 218 :

" Barry wavy of Six or and Vert, on a Bend Sab. three Boars' Heads, couped, of the First, Purcell : Imp. Gu. on a Bend betw. two Escallops Arg. a Cornish Chough Prop. betw. two Cinquefoils of the Field."

G. F. E. B.

BRANSTILL CASTLE (9 th S. x. 149, 191, 231). From vol. vi. of 'The Beauties of England and Wales ' (London, Vernor & Hood, Long- man & Co., 1805), p. 597, I cull the following :

"Near Eastnor, on the South-East, is Castle Ditch, the seat of Charles Cocks, Baron Somers of Evesham, whose grandfather married Mary, sister and co-heiress of the great Lord Somers, the illus- trious promoter of the Revolution of 1688 -Be- tween one and two miles from Castle Ditch, in a glen of the Malvern Hills, stood Bransill Castle, now wholly demolished, but originally of a square form, with a round tower at each angle, and a double moat surrounding it. From the appearance of the site, it must have been exceedingly strong. The surrounding scenery is very picturesque and beau- tiful."

Virtue's 'Gazetteer of England and Wales,' 1868, under the heading of Eastnor, states :