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 216 NOTES AND QUERIES. »» s. iv. SEPT. 9, WL East London in general. At the Bethnal Green Free Library there is now, thanks to the kindness of Mr. Chas. Welch, F.S.A., the courteous librarian of the Corporation Library at the Guildhall, and his brother, Dr. Welch, the valuable collection of books and pamphlets formed by their father, the late Dr. Welch, all dealing with the history and antiquities of the parish of Bethnal Green and its neighbouring East-End parishes. At the City Library in the Guildhall there are many books dealing with East-End parishes, while at the French Hospice in victoria Park Road there is a very valuable library of great interest to the student of East London history, for it is specially rich in its records of the French Huguenots whose settlement in East London created Spitajfields and Bethnal Green, once flourish- ing silk industries. As showing that East London has still not only its history and anti- quities, but students able and willing to record the same, I might mention en passant the publication within the last few years of Dr. Clarke's'Glimpses of Ancient Hackney '(pub- lished under the pseudonym of "F. R. C. S.") and Mr. H. G. C. Allgood's' Stray Leaves from the Past of our Village : a History of Bethnal Green,' 1894. G. YARROW BALDOCK. 18, Groombridge Road, South Hackney, N.E. I take the following from Dunstan's ' His- tory of Bromley St. Leonard':— "In the year 1738 Gilbert de Flines, of the parish of St. Bartholomew, London, a Dutch merchant, by will, gave a large freehold house and premises situate in the High Street of this parish [>'. •, Bromley St. Leonard] (known to the present in- habitants as occupied by the late Mrs. Tennant and at present occupied by Mr. Tudor) to the Minister and Churchwardens for the time being, in trust for the use and benefit of the poor of this parish for ever."—Dunstan, p. 198. The parish failed to obtain possession of this estate, which was let to Mr. Tudor at 50/. a year, he having recently (Dunstan's book is dated 1862) purchased the estate. The house in which Mr. Tudor, copper and brass worker, lived was situate in High Street, Bromley-by-Bow, on or about the spot occupied by Lancaster's iron foundry, and was pulled down about twenty years ago, but 1 am not sure of the actual date. This house is not to be confounded with Tudor House, otherwise Rutty's house, in St. Leonard's Road, Bow. JOHN HEBB. PEAT (9th S. iii. 483; iv. 37, 75, 113).—In reply to PROF. SKEAT'S query as to the use of the word pete before 1500, I beg to refer him to the ' Acta Dominorum Concilii,' where there is mention of an action concerning " fourti fuder of pettis." The date of the action is 14 March, 1490. I presume that PROF. SKEAT uses the word English in his query in contradistinction to Latin. J. G. WALLACE-JAMES, M.B. Haddington, N.B. " THE INFANT'S LIBRARY " (9th S. iv. 129).— Some additional particulars may be obtained from ' N. & Q.,1 5th S. viii. 207, to which in- quiry no reply has been given. No informa- tion can be obtained of either the work or publisher from Timperley's 'Dictionary of Printers and Printing,' or from ' The Cata- logue of Books,' published in London between 1810 and 1831. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. WELSH SURNAMES (9th S. iv. 107).—Powell is a Welsh name, now becoming very common. There are some two dozen clergymen in the ' Clergy List,' and some two do/en solicitors in the ' Law List'; in fact, some of the name are to be found of various grades in life in every considerable town of England. The derivation is understood to be from Ap Howell. H. Y. POWELL. Bayswater. " INDE - BAUDIAS " (9th S. iv. 147).—Does not this mean " Bania's indigo " ? indigo sold by the native merchants, Banyas or Bunnias, after whom the banyan tree is named. F. J. CANDY. Norwood. BASTARDY (9lh S. iv. 108, 158).—The news- paper cutting quoted by MR. WOOLFORD evidently refers to the use of the " cair " or spousal cloth :— "Cedrap, qu'on estend sur cenx qui se niarieut, que les Latins appellent pallium, d'oCi vient qu'on dit mettre les enfanta sous le poile, de la ce>emonie qui se fait pour legitimer les enfants naturels par un subsequent mariage en les mettant sous ce poile."—Furetiere. William of Jumiegos, in his ' History of the Dukes of Normandy,' describes how "Conies Ricardus Gunnorem Comitissam, more christiano sibi copulavit, filiique, qui jam ante nati erant, interim dum sponsalia agerentur cum pat re et niatre pallio cooperti gnnt." J. G. WALLACE-JAMES, M.B. Haddington, N.B. The law of Scotland, following that of Rome, into which it was introduced by the Emperor Constantine, recognizes legitima- tion per subseyuens matrimonium, while the law of England does not. In carrying out such marriages to legitimate the offspring of the parties previously begotten, it was, and is believed to be still, the custom in Scot-