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 9"> S. IV. July 15, '99.] 57 NOTES AND QUERIES. No. 68. or that the business has been handed down from him. It is on record that Richard Shore, who died in 1510, directed that ho should be buried in the neighbouring church of St. Mary Woolchurch Haw, where he founded a chantry. Philip Norman. Upon referring to my papers on the ' Signs of Old Lombard Street' I find that the pre- mises No. 43, Lombard Street, which is the last house near Gracechurch Street, on the north side of the street, was described in a deed dated 1667 as a " messuage knowne by the signe of the Three Crowns, in the parish of Alhollowes, Lumbor Street." Messrs. Duncombe & Kent were both apprentices or clerks to Alderman Backwell, who was ruined, in common with many other goldsmiths in 1672, by Charles II. closing the Exchequer. They appear to have started business immediately afterwards at the Grass- hopper, which was next door to the Unicorn, BackweU's old shop, and so retained much of their former master's connexion. It is only a tradition that Jane Shore's father ever lived and carried on the trade of a goldsmith on that site, and it is most satis- factory to obtain authentic information as to the site of Shore's house. F. G. Hilton Price. Windsor Chairs (9th S. iii. 349,456 ; iv. 12). —These are certainly known in many places —jxtce Mr. Jeakes—as " Wycombe chairs." I did not know any other name. R. J. Whitwell. C.C.C., Oxford. Lady Grange (9th S. iii. 407 ; iv. 16).—For further notices of this peculiar case see the following: (1) 'An Account of the Misfor- tunes of Mrs. Erskine of Grange, commonly known as Lady Grange,' Edinburgh Magazine (New Series of the Scots Magazine), i. 333, Nov. 1817; (2) 'Lady Grange's Account,' Edinlmrgh Magazine, 1819 ; (3) 'The Story of Lady Grange,' Chambers's Journal, No. 114, New Series, 7 March, 1840 ; (4) ' Letters of Lord Grange' in ' The Miscellany of the Spalding Club,' iii. 1-67, 1846; (5) Hill Burton's 'Lives of Simon, Lord Lovat, and Duncan Forbes of Culloden,' 1847. and the same author's ' History of Scotland,' chap. xci.; (6) ' The Story of Lady Grange,' by W. C. (Dr. William Chambers), in Chambers's Journal, Fourth Series, No. 551,14 July, 1874. Thomas Bayne. Helensburgh, N.B. Waller (9th S. iii. 105, 352; iv. 11).—I did not refer to the parallel passages of Waller nd Byron concerning the eagle, because I have referred to them twice before in ' N. & Q.' in connexion with the fable of .<Esop which is their original. I also referred to a verse of ^Eschylus, perhaps the Greek poet mentioned, who possibly had JSsop in his mind when he wrote the verse. E. Yardley. Roman Numerals : 1900 (9th S. iii. 90, 214, 423). — Three correspondents express the opinion more or less confidently that 1900 in Roman numbers will be mcm. This view seems mainly based on the analogy of iv and xc, though both Mr. Hyde ana Mr. Jonas betray a tendency to favour it for brevity's sake. But (putting aside this latter con- sideration as wholly unworthy) is it possible to argue from analogy in a matter of this kind—to deduce CD and CM from iv and ix ? Surely the only satisfactory way of settling the Roman form of 1900 is to discover whether 900 and 1400 were cm and mcd, or dcccc and mcccc respectively. Many readers of 'N. & Q.' should be able to speak with authority on this point. W. E. B. Sir Hugh Evans a Gloucestershire Worthy (9th S. iii. 381, 474).—Acting on the hint given by M., I have obtained a copy of the will of Sir Hugh Evans," Parson of Farm- ington, alias Tnormington." It is dated 7 Nov., 1570, and proved 17 Nov. The wit- nesses were William Chamberling, "dark" ("Vycar of Norlutch "), Edwards ap Davyd, "clerke" ("Parson of Hampnett"), and two others. I have not been able to learn anything about Sir Hugh Evans either at Northleach or at larmington. Un- fortunately Peacham does not give the surname of his schoolmaster, and we cannot assume that it was Evans. Even if we could. Hugh Evans is so common a combination of names that any certainty of identification would be almost impossible. The fact of the existence of this Gloucestershire Sir Hugh Evans (which M. has brought to light) is very curious and interesting, though Shakespeare can hardly have seen nim ; but, of course, if he was a well-known local character Shake- speare may have heard of him. G. E. P. A. "Corn-crake" (9th S. iii. 385, 474).—In 1872 the natural history editor of the Field, the late Edward Newman, F.L.S., distributed a form of calendar to naturalists in all parts of the United Kingdom to be filled up with records of the arrival and departure of the migratory birds. No fewer than 645 separate observations were thus put on record. Twenty-four naturalists included the " corn- crake" or "landrail" in their lists, and of