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 386 [9"- S. IV. Nov. 4, *99. NOTES AND QUERIES. explain this London name. The name *Eh (dat. Else, ' Cod. Dipl.,' vi. 131) cannot, from the later forms, be the origin, but it is note- worthy as an instance of the use of the stem of Mesa, a name as rare as Alum. W. H. Stevenson. It would appear that the main thoroughfare connecting Aldgate with Mile End Road was formerly called Whitechapel, sometimes, at least, without the prefix of High Street. I possess a business card of my late grand- father's, which reads, " Hems & Son, Manu- facturing Cutlers, Furnishing Ironmongers, and dealers in Albata, or Improved British Plate, 23, Aldgate and 39, Whitechapel. Established 1799." This card seems to have been printed in or about 1813. Harry Hems. Fair Park, Exeter. "Lonk"Sheep (9th S. iv. 309).—Halli well, in his ' Dictionary of Archaic Words,' and Wright, in his ' Dictionary of Obsolete English,' describe " lonk " to mean a native of Lancashire, while the former adds that a sheep bred in that county is also so called. Everard Home Coleman. 71, Brecknock Road. Halliwell says a sheep bred in Lancashire is so called. Lonk " stands for the dialect form of the first syllable of the name of the county, which is pronounced in the dialect as though written Lonkyshurr." Arthur Mayall. Notes on the Third Volume of the ' Mus.b Anglicans ' (9th S. iv. 282).—In his notes on the third volume of the ' Musre Anglicaute' Mr. John T. Curry states that the present genial Sir Wilfrid Lawson is a poet by de- scent, inasmuch as he is descended from a certain "Wilfridus Lawson, Baronettus," who wrote an ode in the early years of the eigh- teenth century. It is a small matter, no doubt, but perhaps worth putting right. The poet in question must have been the third baronet of the first creation, who was Groom of the Bedchamber to George I. and died in 1737. The baronetcy expired with the tenth baronet in 1806, and the estates were left by will by that baronet to his wife's nephew, Thomas Wybergh, who assumed the name and arms of Lawson. Thomas Wybergh, or Lawson, dying unmarried, was succeeded by his brother Wilfrid Wybergh, who likewise assumed the name and arms of Lawson, and was created a baronet in 1831. He was the father of the present Sir Wilfrid Lawson. The Lyttonsand Verneys of to-day are similar instances of the representation of ancient families going with the estates to strangers in blood, and doubtless there are many others. R. Cheyne. Earls of St. Pol (9th S. iv. 169, 293).—From the book which I have quoted, I extract another passage concerning this family :— " Les Saint-Paul ou Saint-Pol de ce temps etaient une branche de la maison de Luxembourg. Henri de Limbourg, Comte de Luxembourg par sa mere, et mort en 1280, fut la tige des deux branches principales de ce nom: la premiere, dite imperiale, qui compta cinq enipereurs, et d'oil sortit un rameau ducal, par un des tils de l'empereur Charles IV.; la seconde, dite Luxembourg-Ligny, d'ou provinrent les rameaux de Saint-Pol, de Brienno, Piney et de Marigues. Valeran III. de Luxembourg, dont il est ici question, qui fut conuetable de France et l'un des plus celebres partisans du due de Bourgogne, etait le quatrienie descendant de Valeran I" de Luxembourg-Ligny, second fils de Henri de Lim- bourg ; et le fameux conuetable de Saint-Pol, Louis, qui fut decapite sous Louis XL, etait petit-neveu de Valeran III. Dans la branche imperiale, le pre- mior empereur de cette inaison, Henri VII., etait potit-fils du meme Henri de Limbourg."—Anquetil, ' Histoire de France,' vol. iv. p. 61 note. Valeran III. of Luxembourg, mentioned above, flourished in the year 1400. E. Yardley. The Antiquities of East London (9th S. iv. 145, 215, 315).—I shall be glad if O. S. T. can furnish information with regard to the house on the west side of St. Leonard Street (formerly Three Mill Lane), Bromley-by-Bow, at the corner of Grace Street, until lately in the occupation of Mr. Rutty, a contractor. It is an old house, probably of the time of George I. or even earlier, and, although not very attractive from the outside, contains some very interesting work in the interior, particularly a fine oak staircase and some early panelling. The house has been illus- trated by Mr. Ashbee's society, and has been scheduled by the London County Council as an historic building ; but very little appears to be known of its history. The house stands in about an acre of ground, which is now in course of being laid out as a recreation ground, and was evidently the residence in former times of a family of some importance. John Hebb. Canonbury Mansions, N. As further proof of the concluding pro- position of my former note to the effect that East London nas not only its antiquities and a history, but students able and willing to describe and record them, I find in an article on ' Genealogical Literature,' appearing in your contemporary the Athenceum, No. 3755, 14 Oct., p. 521, a most valuable addition to the literature of the antiquities and topo-