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 9»S. IV. Dec. 30/99.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 543 ' ■' » made of the deaths of copyhold tenants, surrenders, admittances, and the like. And the foreman of the jury advises on the document a true bill. Proclama- tion is also made for the heirs, if any, of deceased tenants, and if the rightful parties do not come forward to take the admission, after the third pro- clamation—each proclamation being six months apart—the Lord of the Manor can seize it at the end of two years from the date of death, and do what he pleases with it. After the business is over the Officers of the Manor and the Homage Jury sit down to dinner, which is followed by toasts of the Queen, the Lord of the Manor, the Stewards and Surveyor, and the Homage."—Daily News, Tuesday, 5 Dec. G. Yaeeow Baldock. "Up, Guards, and at them!" (9th S. iv. 497.)—The biographers of Wellington, who helped me to make the contradiction to which Me. Cecil Clarke refers, have been as numerous as his victories. But they need not be mentioned, as all are overtopped this month by Sir Herbert Maxwell's The Life of Wellington' (Sampson Low <fe Co.). In vol. ii. p. 82 Sir Herbert says :— " They reached the crest as a single column, containing the First and Second Battalions of the 3rd Chasseurs. There was nothing in their front, apparently, and they had neared the cross-road when Wellington's voice was heard clear above the storm, ' Stand up, Guards !' Then from shelter of wayside bank rose the line of Maitland's brigade." Then in a foot-note :— "This is the origin of the theatrical 'Up, Guards, and at 'em !' The Guards were lying down, as it was the Duke's orders all troops should do under fire when not actually engaged (Croker, iii. 281)." It hardly requires a solemn explaining of the obvious to say that it must have been the commanding officers' voices that the men heard, not Wellington's, when bidden next to attack. C. E. Clark. "Snipers" (8th S. xii. 128, 150, 237, 438; 9th S. iii. 138).—At the third of these refer- ences Mr. Kipling is given as one user of this term ; but the passage from his works of mast interest just now, when the word is being applied to the Anglo-Boer war, is that in 'The Drums of the Fore and Aft,' in which it is declared that the Afghan sharpshooters " would not for anything have taken equal liber- ties with a seasoned corps with the terrible, big men dressed in women's clothes, who could be heard praying to God in the night-watches, and whose peace of mind no amount of ' sniping' could shake." Alfred F. Robbins. No. 17, Fleet Street (9th S. iv. 395, 481).— It appears that I am not the first to suggest that the house No. 17, Fleet Street, which ostentatiously and falsely proclaims itself to have been "formerly the palace of King Henry VIII. and Cardinal Wolsey," is the work of Inigo Jones, Mr. T. C. Noble having thirty years ago, in his ' Memorials of Temple Bar,' published in 1870, made a similar sug- gestion. The house was, as is well known, in the occupation from about 1802 to 1812 of Mrs. Salmon's waxwork exhibition. Accord- ing to Mr. T. C. Noble, Mrs. Salmon's exhibition was first established in the reign of Queen Anne at the sign of the " Golden Salmon" in St. Martiirs - le - Grand near Aldersgato, there being a reference to it in the Spectator. On Mrs. Salmon's death the show passed into the hands of a Mrs. Clark, and was removed to No. 189 on the north side of Fleet Street, of which house there is an illustration in ' Old and New London ' (vol. i. p. 48), from a drawing by J. T. Smith dated 1793, where it is erroneously described'as the palace of Henry VIII. and Cardinal Wolsey. About the year 1802 the house No. 189 was pulled down, and the waxwork exhibition was removed to No. 17, Fleet Street, on the opposite side of the street, where it remained until Mrs. Clark's death in 1812, when the collection of wax models was removed to No. 67, Fleet Street, at the corner of Water Lane. It appears that when Mrs. Clark was in the occupation of No. 17, Fleet Street the house was described as having been " formerly the Palace of Henry, Prince of Wales, son of James I.," which was near the truth ; but a subsequent tenant, with a view to increase its importance, renamed it " formerly the palace of Henry VIII. and Cardinal Wolsey," which had the effect of disguising its real interest and rendering it ridiculous in the eyes of antiquaries. Mrs. Salmon's wax- works must have continued to be exhibited some time after Mrs. Clark's death, as in my youth I remember hearing a song the burden of which ran :— Says I, " Mrs. Salmon, Come none of your gammon, Your figures are no more alive than yourself." I think it may be shown that it is not merely a conjecture that the house No. 17, Fleet Street, with the gateway on the west side, were designed by Inigo Jones, but that each circumstance Of place, time, fortune, do cohere and jump to this conclusion. These are the facts. In 1609 James I. granted a new charter to the Temple, and the Benchers, feeling their title secure, shortly afterwards commenced build- ing on an extensive scale. One of the earliest improvements undertaken was the erection of the gateway to the Inner Temple from Fleet Street. Mr. Pitt Lewis says that up to the date of the grant of the charter " the Temple had no buildings of any importance except