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yf r. Newman it remained in a ruinous state, )ut I saw the last of it in the spring of 1881. 3igh up on the front of the house, which r aced Salmon's Lane, was a carved stone Dearing in the centre in relief the features )f a man. Above the bust were the words 'Johannes Colet," and below it the letters 'D.S.P." I wonder if this stone still exists >r whether it shared the fate of the bricks. JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

Dean Colet's house stood where St. Matthew's Vicarage now is, in White Horse Street, Stepney. The avenue across the churchyard to the White Horse Street ?ate is still called Colet's Walk. A public- louse a few paces from the old residence Dears the title " Colet Arms." H. DOWNS.

THE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM (9 th S. iii. 307, U7). Many similar stories are told of the people of Ebrington (vulc/o, Ebbertpn), near Shipping Camden in Gloucestershire, who ire credibly reported to have been guilty of such acts within these last few years.

W. C. B.

THE GOLDEN GATE (9 th S. iii. 349, 412). Up till about 1849, when there was the famous rush for gold, there appears to have been no name attached to the strait that connects the magnificent harbour of San Francisco with the ocean. The region was in fact a terra incognita, or known only to a few Franciscan monks who had established themselves there to convert the Indians. Then came the dis- covery and the wild excitement that followed it. " From that time," says the amusing and bigoted Capron in his history of California, "the strait has been commonly known as the Golden Gate, or El Dorado," for it was the entry to a land of promise where the Argonauts of the nineteenth century hoped to gather untold riches. So, too, we have the " Gold Bluff," a cape where it was expected much treasure would be found, and another " Golden Gate," a pass over the Kockies, and " Golden City," once the capital of Colorado and situated on the line of march.

T. P. ARMSTRONG.

Putney.

The ' Century Cyclopaedia of Names : guesses tentatively at an earlier date : " The Golden Gate [so named by Drake in 1578 (?)].' EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

Hastings.

MARTIN, A GAME (9 th S. iii. 408, 458). May I be permitted to suggest to your correspond- ent that this was a game of cards that derived

its name from Martin Schoen, a German artist, who was a designer of playing cards ? In Strutt's ' Sports and Pastimes ' there are four woodcuts from a pack formerly owned by Francis Douce, the well-known antiquary. They are pictorial in design, and Strutt wrote of them :

'I have chosen one from each of the different suits, namely, the King of Columbines, the Queen of Rabbits, the Knave of Pinks, and the Ace of Roses ; which answered to the spades, the clubs, the diamonds, and the hearts, of the moderns."

In another passage Strutt wrote :

"The originals of these cards, I make no doubt, are the work of Martin Schoen, a well-known and justly celebrated German artist."

Schoen died in 1486, a period when there were few designers of these toys, and no such means for their mechanical reproduction as at present, so that an engraved or painted pack of cards was a valuable possession, and their pictorial character made them so dis- tinctive that it does not seem improbable that games played with them should come to be known by the name of their producer, and the period in which Schoen lived agrees with the date the fifteenth century named by your correspondent. B. II. L.

DOUBLE-NAVED CHURCHES (9 th S. iii. 429). I doubt the correctness of the assertion that there are only "three double-naved churches in the kingdom." The parish church of Grasmere in Westmorland has two naves, and there is also a church in York- shire which has two naves ; I think it is the parish church of Gilling, near Richmond. JAMES PEACOCK.

Sunderland.

' N. & Q.,' 4 th S. iii. 382, 440, 493, furnishes particulars of the following churches which are said to be double-naved : Hannington, Northants ; Pakefield, Suffolk ; Caythorpe, Lincoln ; and Crayford, Kent.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

"HiLL ME UP !"(9 th S. iii. 285, 435.) No ! I am not "mistaken in assuming that 'to hill 'implies the raising of a mound or ridge," though MR. ELWORTHY considers I am. A man goes " to hill " potatoes when they have grown to a certain height, and he " hills " them by drawing with a hoe the soil to the haulms, covering them all but the tops. This is "hilling "Bridging, and " hill ing" = cover- ing. Before leaving a " burying, "old-faahioned folk tell the sexton to "hill the grave up nicely," and they go the Sunday following to see that it is " hilled," that is, the earth piled up neatly. That Derbyshire and Lancashire