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Mr. Wheatley (' London Past and Present, i. 412) says that

"Lord Macaulay, on his return from India in 1838, took lodgings at No. 3, Clarges Street, and stayed there the next two years."

Was this the house in which his father died 1 JOHN HEBB.

Canonbury, N.

Outfits.

WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

SAKESPER. Looking over Fisher's 'Forest of Essex ' (London, Butter worths, 1887), I noticed on p. 374 the name of Simon Sakesper given as one of the verderers of the half hundred of Warithani in the year 1250. Is not this the earliest recorded mention of any form of the name Shakespeare? The next earliest I know of, given as the earliest in Russell French's ' Shakespeareana Genealogica,' is in ' N. & Q.,' l* S. ix. 122. It occurs in the Pleas of Rolls, 7 Edward I. (1278).

LIONEL CRESSWELL.

KEATS AND HAMPSTEAD. There is some confusion in the press anent the two buildings in John Street, Hampstead, namely Went- worth House and Lawn Bank, so intimately associated with the memory of poor, sensitive Keats, the poet. Apparently, at one time there existed a block of two houses called Wentworth Place, which afterwards became severally Wentworth House and Lawn Bank. Surely the latter is the one identified more particularly with the poet's fame, as the medallion affixed thereon testifies. Yet I read in a powerful daily how it was at Went- worth House much of the 'Hyperion' and nearly all of the odes were written ; also that in its garden the nightingale inspired the famous poem. Now that this house is doomed and its neighbour, Lawn Bank, threatened, it would be more than ever interesting to set any topographical doubts at rest. Will readers of 'N. & Q.' kindly assist me to do this ? CECIL CLARKE.

[MR. CECIL CLARKE falls into error, as all fell into it who published notes on this matter until, after going wrong in his first edition of the ' Letters of Keats to F. Brawne,' Mr. Buxton Forman visited Lawn Bank, formerly the two houses of Wentworth Place, with Mr. W. Dilke (died 1885). Mr. W. Dilke, who was born in the same year as Keats, himself named the houses. He was the younger son of Keats's friend Mr. Charles Went- worth Dilke, of Chichester, and the younger brother of Keats's friend C. W. Dilke, the critic. Went-

worth House had nothing whatever to do with Keats. The facts are fully set out in the second edition of Mr. Buxton Forman's book.]

EDMUND SPENSER. In 'The Faerie Queene,' book iii. canto ix. stanza xx., there is a turn of phrase which may be an intentional chiasmus, a slip on the part of the poet, or a printer's error. In three out of four edi- tions including the Aldine, 5 vols. 1866 that I have examined, the last line of the above-mentioned stanza stands as follows: And through the persant [piercing] aire shoote forth their azure streames.

Should not this be :

And through the azure aire shoote forth their per- sant streames ?

It is so printed in Archdeacon Todd's one- volume edition of 'The Works of Edmund

Spenser,' 1861.

Todd, I think, is correct. JONATHAN BOUCHIER.

[The reading you give, though probably right, is not adopted in Grosart's ' Spenser.']

"SQUAB." In the Child's Guardian, the organ of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, in the report of a case heard at Birmingham, in the course of the evidence it was said that "a neighbour saw the child lying naked on the bare boards of an old ' squab' in the kitchen in a terrible state of neglect." What is the meaning of " squab " 1 I cannot find it anywhere.

D. M. R.

I" Squab, a long seat, North" (Wright's 'Pro- vincial Dictionary ).]

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PRINCESS BAGRATION. Whom Bagration (1765-1812) marry ?

TRADE ROUTES. What are the best books to consult on the subject of trade routes in the Middle Ages ? W. J. SIMPSON.

" RIDER." " Rider, an inserted leaf ; an additional clause tacked to a Bill passing through Parliament " (Wharton's ' Law Lexi- con '). Why is an inserted leaf or additional clause called a " rider " ? H. ANDREWS. [Consult the ' Century Dictionary.']

THE VIRGIN OF BRESSAU. In one of Dr. Faustus's necromantic journeys he came to Bressau, where he saw

" not many wonders, except the biazen Virgin that standeth on a bridge over the water, and under which standeth a mill like a paper-mill, which Virgin is made to do execution upon those dis- obedient town-born children that be so wild that their parents cannot bridle them ; which, when any such are found with some heinous offence, turning to the shame of their parents and kindred, they are brought to kiss the Virgin, which openeth her arms.