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( /er to contumely, but it was certainly ofte i sed to indicate disgrace. There was a tim i i France when traitors' houses were painte c i that tincture. ST. SWITHIN.

Referring to ME. ST. CLAIR BADDELEY'S ver interesting communication on this subject,. r 'quest that I may be permitted to direct hi a Dtention to a statement by Augustus J. C I tare at p. 253, vol. i. of ' Walks in Rome (London, W. Isbister & Co., 1874), to th effect that when the Jews were first shu up within the walls of the Ghetto or Vicu J udieorura, as it was called by the fanatica Dominican Pope Paul IV., "they were com manded never to appear outside it, unless th men were in yellow hats, or the women wer in yellow veils." If this statement, I beg t remark, has foundation in fact, it therefor may be assumed that the wearing of yellow hats and veils was not compulsory inside th Ghetto. HENRY GERALD HOPE.

Clapham, S.W.

SIB AMBROSE CROWLEY (9 th S. iii. 90). You correspondents who want information abou knights who lived temj). Car. II. to Queen Anne would do well to ascertain whether what they seek is not already printed in Le Neve's ' Knights ' (Had. Soc., vol. viii.). ^ In that work is a good pedigree of the knigh above named. In the Genealogist (First Series vol. i. p. 148) are additions thereto and various references to other works relating to him and to these may be added Page's ' Suffolk (1847), p. 370, under 'Barking.' Some de- scription of his property at Greenwich is in 'N. & Q.' (6 th S. xii. 191), under 'Queen's House, Greenwich,' as also in Drake's 'Hasted's Kent' (Hundred of Blackheath), where he is called " the great, ironmaster of Newcastle." He himself entered his pedigree in 1707 (at the College of Arms), which, how- ever, I have not consulted. G. E. C.

Crowley House, which stood on the banks of the Thames, near Greenwich, was pulled down in 1855. The house formed the subject of a query in 2 nd S. iii. 48. References to Sir Ambrose Crowley in the Spectator, Tatler, the East Anglian, and three volumes of the Gentle- man's Magazine, will be found at 4 th S. ii. 159, 233. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

There is a farm at Axford, in the parish of Ramsbury, Wilts, which is evidently the one MR. PILE is looking for. It was in the pos- session of the Pile family for many years, but now (I believe) belongs to Sir Francis Burdett. The house is of considerable interest, and con- tains a chapel, the windows and roof of which

are in good preservation; a full account of this chapel, with drawings, can be seen in Doran Webb's ' Hundred of Ramsbury,' part i. If MR. PILE is collecting information about the Pile family I have one or two notes which are at his service, and I should be glad to hear what he has found about the Berkshire branch Sir Gabriel Pile, who held the manor of Oakash, in the parish of Chaddleworth, in the seventeenth century. H. MESSENGER. 21, Pretoria Avenue, Walthamstow.

Crowley was ironmonger by trade and lived in Thames Street, London, and at Greenwich, in Kent. He served as one of the sheriffs of London 1706-7, and was knighted 1 Jan., 1706/7. For his pedigree see Le Neve's 'Pedigrees of Knights' (Harl. Soc. pub., vol. viii.), p. 495. G. F. R, B.

LONDON EXHIBITIONS (9 th S. iii. 83). MR. W. ROBERTS may add to his very interesting list three London exhibitions the names of which occur to me, and doubtless scores of others could be mentioned. The three I refer to are :

Don Saltern's Museum, Chelsea.

Rackstrow's Museum, 1787.

Rotunda, circa 1850 (?).

Of the first of these I need say nothing here, as its history has, if I mistake not, already
 * ormed the subject of communications in

N. & Q.' The second, Rackstrow's Museum, seems to have been rather popular in its day. The title of its lengthy catalogue reads as x>llows :

"A Descriptive Catalogue (giving a full explana- ,ion) of Rackstrow's Museum : consisting of a large and very valuable Collection of most curious Anato- mical Figures, with real Preparations : also Figures esembling Life ; with a great variety of Natural and Artificial Curiosities. To be seen at No. 197, Tleet-Street, between Chancery-Lane, and Temple- Jar, London. 1797."

n one portion of its contents Rackstrow's Museum seems to have somewhat resembled )on Saltero's, but it had also (what the latter was, I think, commendably free from) a pro- nounced erotic flavour. The gaping citizen f 1787 was shown at 197, Fleet Street, a few rare" minerals, some models, a few birds' ggs and the birds themselves, some auto- matic figures, and so on ; but these were nly designed to whet his appetite for the ieces de resistance in the shape of ela- orate models of the female pelvic organs nd so on. The proprietor, by the way, aimed to have made such arrangements lat ladies could visit his museum without Tence. I think, from some newspaper cut- ings in my copy of the catalogue, that the museum lasted till about 1808. The third