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a useful addition to the bibliography of C, omwell and the Protectorate.

W. B. GERISH. foddeadoii, Herts.

CROSBY PLACE, BISHOPSGATE. The follow- in,:;, from the Daily Chronicle of 14 April, mi y be worthy of preservation in the columns
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The demolition of the house on the left side I of Crosby Hall, Bishopsgate, has revealed some curious Gothic foundations, but whether these belong to the fine old palace mentioned by Shake- sptare, which was inhabited for a brief time by Richard III., or to the adjacent convent of Great St. Helens, has not yet been ascertained. Most probably the two fine Gothic arches which can now be seen from the street formed part of the [vaults of Crosby Hall. The stone is splendidly t, and the arches are of imposing dimensions."

The writer of this paragraph, as a personal examination of the locus in quo will dernon- trate, has not spoken too highly of the cha- racter of the stonework our ancestors really jcould build. The Rev. T. Hugo's account of Crosby Place would possibly throw some (light upon the use of this crypt or cellar. Unfortunately I have not got it at hand to efer to. R. CLARK.

Walthamstow.

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

"Go o' SIMMER." This phrase, meaning the summer, occurs in Morison's 'Poems 7 790), p. 113:
 * ter end of summer, the go, the departure

Wha last year i' the go o' simmer Broke my fore leg, hard hearted linimer.

ie form appears to be due to popular ymology. In Spalding's 'Troubles' (1645), . 1792, i. 34, we find the form go-summer, lere go- is probably for gose- (goes- or goss-) ; e Jamieson (s.v. 'Go-harvest'). Is it pos- )le that this element goes (goss) represents E. gose (goose) 1 A. L. MAYHEW.

Oxford.

ENGRAVING OF WILLIAM LILLY. There is the British Museum an engraving of illiarn Lilly (first High Master of St. lul's), "setatis suse 52, 1520." I recently eked up an engraving exactly similar to e above, with the addition of the inscrip- 3ii "PL 50, Vol. 2."

From what book is this latter engraving ken? It is apparently of some age, and

an expert tells me he believes it must have been printed from the original plate. If so, perhaps that plate is still in existence.

R. J. WALKER.

CROMWELLS OF HENBURY. Thomas Crom- well, Earl of Essex, was Recorder of Bristol in 1533 ('Complete Peerage,' vol. ii. pp. 431, 432), and there are monuments to some of his descendants in Henbury Church, Gloucestershire. In the register of Henbury Church there is recorded the marriage of William Wade and Agnes Cromwell on 9 June, 1600. Oliver Cromwell, the Protector, had a grant of lands at Charlton in Hen- bury made him in 1648 by the Long Parlia- ment ; and Oliver Cromwell, of Hursley, in the county of Hants, was a trustee of the marriage settlement, dated 26 August, 1680, of Thomas Wade, of Frampton-on-Severn, in the county of Gloucester. Who was Agnes Cromwell who married William Wade at Henbury Church on 9 June, 1600? If any reader can give me particulars relating to the Cromwells of Henbury or of any other place in Gloucestershire, with references to pedigrees, I shall be obliged.

NEWTON WADE. Newport, Mon.

LOYAL ADDRESSES TO RICHARD CROMWELL. The following is from an article on Ches- hunt in Herts and Essex Observer, 8 October, 1898 :

"Adjoining the vicarage[Cheshunt]is thesite of the erstwhile residence of Richard Cromwell, ' Tumble- down Dick,' sometime Lord Protector of England. This was called Pengelly House, and stood till the early part of the present century, when it was de- stroyed by fire. He lived here for many years under the name of Clarke, dying in July, 1712. When he resigned the dictatorship and bade farewell for ever to Whitehall, almost the only thing he took away with him was a huge trunk,' filled with addresses which had been sent to him from every part of the kingdom, each of which stated that the salvation of the nation depended upon his acceptance of the Protectorship. The anecdote is told of how he would request a new acquaintance to sit on this chest, and sit lightly, as he was sitting with the lives and fortunes of all the good people of England under him. He would then be asked to drink prosperity to old England."

And the adulatory addresses would be ex- hibited to his astonished gaze. Is the piquant story true 1 ? If so, are these addresses extant? Have they or any portion of them ever been printed? W. B. GERISH.

Hoddesdon, Herts.

THE CIVIL LIST. I would feel much obliged to any of your readers who could tell me where I may find a complete list of grants and annuities from the Civil List. I