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NOTES AND QUERIES. &* s. n. JULY IG,

house, who spoke of the many changes he had seen in the neighbourhood. Amongst other items he mentioned a public-house called " The Jacob's Well," and a penny gaff which stood " over there," pointing to the block of buildings occupied by Messrs. Hildesheimer & Co., the Christmas-card people. He said he could remember it as a fine playhouse, but it sank into a gaff. AYEAHR.

An extract from ' The Records of St. Giles, Cripplegate,' by the Rev. W. Denton, M.A., vicar of St. Bartholomew's, Little Moorfields (London, 1883), will answer S. J. A. F.'s query :

"Opposite Hanover Court, between Silk Street and Chapel Street, was a building erected for a chapel (City Chapel), but afterwards (1831) turned into a theatre (known as the City Theatre), where the elder Kean and other dramatic celebrities of this day acted. After it served this purpose it was converted into public baths, and then occupied as a schoolroom and mission hall, supported at the ex-

Jiense of a Congregational chapel in the Poultry, t has been pulled down within the last dozen years."

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

HANSOM (9 th S. i. 148, 273). Mr. Hansom, the inventor of hansom cabs, was father of Mr. Hansom, an exceedingly talented archi- tect of Bristol, and one of the smartest volun- teer officers in that city during the early days of the national defence movement. His (Roman Catholic) churches at Bath and Cheltenham are amongst the finest modern structures of their kind in England. He died some few years ago, but has a son prac- tising in the same profession at Newcastle- upon-Tyne. HARRY HEMS.

Mafeking, Bechuanalancl.

Mr. Hansom's partner, in conjunction with whom he designed and carried out Birming- ham Town Hall, with disastrous results to themselves, was Mr. Edward Welch (1806-68). Mr. Welch did not recover from his failure over Birmingham Town Hall in the same mannei as his partner succeeded in doing, and did not regain his practice. When I remember him, he had an office in Southampton Row, where he carried on business as the maker of a hot- air stove, founded on the principle suggested by Count Rumford for warming the air al the back of the fire, for which he obtained a patent. JOHN HEBB.

A CHURCH TRADITION (9 th S. i. 428). It Neale and Webb's translation of the first book of Durandus's 'Rationale Divinorum Officiorum' the following paragraph occurs :

" Another reference <|the Atonement will be found in the deviation J*r* JH the line of the chance often presents from ths&T 1 -?? "the nave. It is some times to the north, but more frequently to the

south. There are many more churches in which it occurs than those who have not examined the subject would believe ; perhaps it is not too nuch to say that it may t>e noticed in a quarter of those in England. Of our cathedrals, it is most strongly marked in York and Lichfield ; among the parish churches in which we have observed it, none have it so strongly as East- xmrne and Bosham in Sussex, and St. Michael's at Coventry, in all of which the most casual glance t occasions. This arrangement represents the ^nclination of our Saviour's head on the cross. In roods the head generally inclines to the left."
 * ould not but detect the peculiarity of appearance

The well-known church of St. Aldate, Oxford, in spite of the lamentable restoration of 1863, is a case in point.

A. R. BAYLEY.

See 'Handbook of English Ecclesiology,' 1847, pp. 39-41 ; Bloxam's ' Gothic Ecclesias- tical Architecture,' ed. 9, 1849, pp. 313, 314, n. ; Walcott's ' Church and Conventual Arrange- ment,' n.d., pp. 60-62, 136 ; Poulson's 'Holder- ness,' under ' Patrington.' The subject has been dealt with in 'N. & Q.,' 2 nd S. x. 68, 118, 253, 312, 357, 393, 430 ; xi. 34, 55, 76, 138, 412, 498 : 3 rd S. i. 154 ; iii. 57, 138 ; 7 th S. i. 387, 435. W. C. B.

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NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

Norum Repertorimn Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Lou- dinenxe. By Rev. George Hennessy. (Sonnen- schein & Co. )

MR. HENNESSY must be a man of indefatigable energy. What Bishop Stubbs has done for the epis- copal order of the Anglican Church in his ' Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum,' Mr. Hennessy has essayed to do for the beneficed clergy of the great London diocese from the earliest times a much more formidable task, as involving an infinitely greater amount of varied research. A suggestion thrown out by the late Archbishop Benson, that every parish should compile, or have compiled, a com- plete list of the succession of incumbents who have held it in historic continuity, fell on fruitful ears, and Mr. Hennessy resolved that he would do the work, as far as London was concerned, not for one parish, but for all. The result lies before us in this goodly quarto, and the compiler deserves to be con- gratulated and thanked on the completion of his laborious work.

We shall best give the reader an idea of its compass by taking a typical example. Dealing with the parish of Stepney, he first of all gives a brief historical sketch of the manor and the right of presentation, the dedication of the church, and some notice of its monuments ; then he tabulates the succession of the rectors, forty-five in number, beginning with W T illiam de Berkhampstod in 1233, down to the present time. To each name are appended the date of appointment and voidance of the living, the name of the patron from time to time, and the authority upon which the information is based. In the majority of instances a reference