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NOTES AND QUERIES. [8* s. n. JULY ie,.

mot Harrison ('Memorable London Houses,' pp. 148-9) says :

"At the corner of Burwood Place on the west side, numbered 12 (formerly 4), Burwood Place, is the house memorable as the scene of the tragic death of

B. R. Haydon His painting room was on the

first floor, with the window facing the street. The entrance at the corner is an alteration of recent years."

Mr. Harrison gives an illustration of the house at the north-east corner of Burwood Place, now called No. 125, Edgware Road, as having been Hay don's residence.

No. 12, Burwood Place was altered in 1868 to No. 125, Edgware Road, but, with this exception, the numbering of the houses in Burwood Place has not been changed. No. 4, Burwood Place is on the north-west side of the street, and it is improbable that this was Hay don's house, as if his painting room fronted on the street, as it appears it did, it would have had no north light, which is indispens- able to a painter ; and the house is described in the report of the inquest in the Times of 25 June, 1846, as being " three doors from the 'Norfolk Arms'" public-house, which is on the opposite side of the street. I think the house must have been on the south-east side of Burwood Place ; but the house at the corner of Edgware Road does not exactly correspond with the description given in the report of the inquest, as it is only two doors from the " Norfolk Arms " instead of three.

JOHN HEBB.

Canonbury Mansions, N.

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

" HORSE-CHESTNUT." (See 3 rd S. x. 452, 523 ; xi. 45, 67, 123, 241 ; 4 th S. i. 208 iv. 40.) In a notice in the Quarterly Review (xix. 49) of Evelyn's 'Memoirs' (ed. Bray), Southey quotes from Evelyn the statement that the horse-chestnut is " so called for the cure of horses broken- winded, and other cattle of coughs." Can one of your readers supply the reference for the 'Historical English Dic- tionary"? ROBT. J. WHITWELL.

70, Banbury Road, Oxford.

CAPT. ARTHUR PHILLIP. Can any reader- send me particulars of the naval career of Capt. Arthur Phillip (afterwards Governor of New South Wales) in the Portuguese service, and also of his share in the taking of Havana in 1762? No doubt there is some record of

both matters, though our own Admiralty Office knows nothing of Phillip (practically) beyond his services as the first Governor of Botany Bay. INQUIRER.

"TARR." The following occurs in some extracts from a terrier of glebe and parson- age of Stopham, ami. 1635, printed in the ' Sussex Archaeological Collections,' vol. xxvii. p. 66 :

" Also there is aTarr or little Island belonging to the said Parsonage and Glebe, called ' the Parson's Tarr,' lying a little below Stopharn bridge ...... unto

which Tarr there was anciently a Ware belonging."

Is this a Sussex expression 1

A. L. MAYHEW. Oxford.

CHARTER RELATING TO ST. PETER'S, WOL- VERHAMPTON. I shall be glad to be furnished with an explanation of the following extracts from a charter relating to our old collegiate church of St. Peter, Wolverhampton (formerly dedicated to St. Mary). The date assigned for the charter is one of the closing years of the tenth century. Sigeric, who signed the charter, was made Archbishop of Canter- bury 990, died 994. Among the other signa- tories are Eadwulf, Archbishop of York, 993 : Godwin, Bishop of Rochester, 995; and ic, Bishop of " Confensis."

" Regnante Domino nostro Jhesu Christo anno a passione ejusdem Domini et Salvatoris nostri Jhesu Christ! DCCCCXCVI. indictione septima."

' ' Scriptum per Calamum et atramentum et manum notarii et scriniarii Ethelredi regis Anglorum in inenseOctobrisinDoniinico diexvii.'Kal.,luna xxij. indictione vij."

"Ego Ethelredus gratia Dei rex Anglorum et patricius Nprthanhumbrorum consentiens signo sanctje crucis subscripsi in Olimpiade iii. regni mei."

Here are various dates, viz., 996, the ninth not the seventh indiction. "17 Kal. Octob.," i.e., 16 October on the Sunday. " Third Olym- piad of Ethelred's reign": this was in 990. "Seventh indiction": 994 was the seventh indiction, but this year 16 October fell on Tuesday, and on Friday in 996, so that neither of these years is correct. Can any one explain the expression "luna xxij." or twenty-second moon ?

G. BRADNEY MITCHELL.

Wolverhampton.

OLD BURIAL-GROUND OF ST. CLEMENT DANES. Is anything known of the former churchyard and burying - ground of St. Clement Danes, Strand? The tombstones have almost disappeared from the churchyard as now enclosed; the few which remain, utilized as paving stones, have inscriptions