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he found therein no trace of upright burials, nor, in fact, any remains but those of a Morley (Whitaker's 'Craven,' third edition, p. 444). This, I think, is sufficient to dispose of the " grisly sight " in Wordsworth's pretty fiction, but leads ine again to ask for some authentic data to support the old tradition. CHARLES A. FEDERER. Bradford.

Several coffins appear, some in upright positions, in the frontispiece of ' Old St. Paul's,' a tale of the Plague and the Fire, by William Harrison Ains worth, 1841. The artist was H. K. Browne.

HENRY GERALD HOPE.

119, Elms Road, Clapham, S.W.

SHOPS IN CHEAPSIDE IN 1650 (9 th S. xii. 128). Although St. Mary Colechurch was destroyed in the Great Fire, and not rebuilt, and although the surrounding houses in Old Jewry and Cheapside were probably rebuilt on their old sites, it is not improbable that the disaster offered an opportunity to those who so desired for shifting their quarters to adjacent parts, taking their signs with them.

Among the Beaufoy tokens, one (No. 672) relates to the White Hart (couchant) in the Old Jewry, in the occupation of Andrew Bleachle. It is difficult to say whether this is identical with the sign of John Noon, the religious book publisher, who, at the White Hart in Cheapside, near Mercers' Chapel, sold " The Materiality or Mortality of the Soul of Man, and its Sameness with the Body, asserted and proved from the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament : Shewing that, upon the Death of the Body, all Sensation and Consciousness utterly cease, 'till the Resurrection of the Dead. Price One Shilling." Fog's Weekly Journal, 25 Oct., 1729.

He also sold (price sixpence) " A New Year's Gift, humbly offer'd to the Con- sideration of all the Thirtieth-of- January Preachers : In which the Moral Character of God, &c., are vindicated from the foul Aspersions, &c. By Amos Harrison." Daily Advertiser, 22 Dec., 1741.

And many other books, for which see ibid., 26 April, 8 July, 1742, and the Whitehall Even- ing Post, 29 April, 1756.

It may be that the "Ball" alluded to was not rebuilt on the same site after the Fire, for there was a well-known "Golden Ball " at the corner of Friday Street, Cheap- side, whither its owner may have removed This sign constantly occurs in mid-eighteenth century advertisements as appertaining to one Stafford Briscoe, a jeweller. The sign o: the "Ball" was almost invariably, at al events in the eighteenth century, representec as a " Golden " Ball. Sometimes it was a " Blue Ball," and sometimes it was added to

another sign, as the " Salmon and Ball," but ! know of only one instance of the " Baule" alone, and this was the sign of John Case or Nicholas Hill, in St. Paul's Churchyard, where he printed ' The Pleasant, Playne, and 3 ythye Pathway leading to a Vertuos and lonest Lyfe, no less Profitable than Delect- able.' Perhaps it was a descendant of Sir Peter Osborne, John Osborn to wit, who was a publisher at the " Golden Ball " in Pater- noster Row as late as 1738 (London Evening Post, No. 1702). His advertisements also occur in the Daily Advertiser, 22 December, 1741, and 2 and 14 July, 1742. In 1756 S. Crowder & H. Woodgate dwelt at the same sign.

Another of the Beaufoy tokens (No. 674) relates to a " Sugar-loaf," the sign in 1666 of Thomas Walker in Old Jewry.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

The houses in Cheapside, Nos. 81 to 90,
 * rom Old Jewry to Ironmonger Lane, are

in the parish of St. Mary Colechurch, and perhaps also the Insurance Office, No. 91, The freehold is the property of the Mercers' Company. I would recommend DR. FURNI- VALL to make inquiry at the office of the Mercers' Company. S. P. E. S.

The only one of the five shop signs given by DR. F. J. FURNIVALL that I have any note of is the "White Harte." St. Mary Colechurch was burnt in the Great Fire and was not rebuilt ; the site is now occupied by Frederick Place, Old Jewry. Now Old Jewry is near Mercers' Chapel, not far from which in 1681 was a house known by the sign of the " White Hart," and in the occupation of James Smith, a milliner. From 1737 to 1744 the house was occupied by J. Noon, a bookseller. F. G. HILTON PRICE.

ORANGES (9 th S. xii. 170). I would refer your correspondent to 'Much Ado about Nothing, 3 Act II. sc. i., "civil as an orange, and something of that jealous complexion,' where the word "civil" is believed to be a sort of play on the name Seville.

PATRICK MAXWELL.

Bath.

"Civil" in the passage quoted is un- doubtedly meant for Seville. See^'H.E.D.,' s.v. V' V. B.

" THE POLICY OF PIN-PRICKS " (9 th S. iii. 46, 115, 238, 278; x. 372, 412, 518; xii. 15). I have not yet ascertained the exact source of the quotation fromCormenin (see ante,ip. 15), but if, as seems likely, it is from his * Etudes sur les Orateurs Parlementaires ' (1838), then the following would be of older date, a.s the.