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till 1812. If a lady who was u going strong " in 1711 were hale enough to carry on her exhibition for over a hundred years, she would have afforded a more wonderful sight than any waxwork figure in her show. Mrs. Salmon, of course, died long before the wax- works came to 17, Fleet Street, though her name was still attached to the exhibition, just as people still talk of going to " Madame Tussaud's," and the lady whose decease took place in 1812 was her latest successor, Mrs. Clarke W. F. PRIDEAUX.

Some of your readers may like to see the following extract, which refers to the building of this house :

"Inner Temple. Parliament held on 10 June, 8 James L, A.D. 1610, before Andrew Gray, Ralph Radcliffe, Hugh Hare, George Wylde, Joh'n Hare, Richard Brownelowe, William Towse, Edward Prideaux, and others. George Croke, treasurer.

" Whereas John Bennett, one of the King's sergeants-at-arms, has petitioned that the Inner Temple Gate, in some vacation after a reading, may be stopped up for a month or six weeks in order that it may be rebuilt, together with his house called the Prince's Arms adjoining to and over the said gate and lane, and that he may * jettie over ' the gate towards the street. Which building over the gate and lane will be in length from the street backwards 19 feet upon the ground besides the ' jettie ' towards the street, which will be 2 feet 4 inches besides the window. And in consideration of the same being granted the said Bennett pro- mised to raise the gate and walls thereof to be in height 11 feet and in breadth 9 feet, and to make the same according to a plot under his hand, to make the gates new (he being allowed the old gates), and he will pave the street against the said house and gate." ' Calendar of Inner Temple Records,' vol. ii. p. 51.

This settles conclusively the date of the erection ; it must be left to your readers to decide how far it bears out the suggestion that Inigo Jones was, or might have been, the architect.

Mr. Pitt Lewis, Q.C., in his * History of the Temple ' (p. 79), says :

"James's patent was granted in August, 1609 (6 Jac. L). Tanfield Court had been erected 20 Hen. VIII., but with this exception the Inner Temple had no buildings of importance nor gateway into the Strand. In 1610 a gateway was opened (a Sergeant Benet being the treasurer who undertook the work) into Fleet Street."

But he gives no authority for his statements and from the former extract it is clear that ii 1610 George Croke was treasurer, and that i gate was then already in existence ; whil< Mr. Inderwick, Q.C., treasurer of the Inne Temple in 1898, says in his introduction t( vol. i. of the 'Inner Temple Records' (p. Ixxiii) "The progress of buildings in the Temple which had begun slowly under Henry VII was continued with vigour under Elizabeth '

nd he there mentions a number of buildings rected in that reign. No such name as John tennett appears in the list of members of the nner Temple (printed 1873) till 1647.

PARRY FAMILY (9 th S. iv. 398, 448). William 'arry, of Dulwich, was a merchant of Alder-

manbury, and was succeeded in the business y his son William, of the Cedars, Sunning- ill, who died 1826, aged sixty-three, leaving

many descendants. J. H. PARRY.

There were Parrysboth in North and South Wales. If their coat of arms could be ascer- ained it would decide to which branch they >elonged. Some branches of the Parry s lived n Berkshire and other counties.

E. E. COPE.

OLIVER CROMWELL AND Music (9 th S. iii. 341, 417, 491 ; iv. 151, 189, 276, 310, 401, 499 ; 7. 9). Some points in MR. CUMMINGS'S last etter require a reply before I conclude. I am sorry I misdescribed the ancient organ music printed from the Magdalen College VIS., but it nevertheless helps to prove my case. Specimens of these absurdly florid accom- paniments are given in Grove's * Dictionary )f Music and Musicians,' art. 'Accompani- ment.' The statement that they were not in- tended for practical use is a pure assumption without a particle of evidence to sup- port it. The simpler versions also existing, perhaps for less skilful executants, contain the outer parts with figures for the harmonies, which the organist filled up in the style he thought proper, plainly or ornately. Tom- kins's ' Musica Deo Sacra ' (1668) is also thus accompanied, if I recollect rightly.

MR. CUMMINGS asserts that there are no organ accompaniments in the Mulliner MS., or that there is no organ accompaniment to the vocal music. All I can say is that I have copied several specimens of organ accompani- ments from it ; they are to Latin plain-songs, as the MS. dates from about 1560. There are many more in Bedford's MS. (Addit. MS. 29,996). By a strange coincidence, almost at the moment I read MR. CUMMINGS'S reference to the Mulliner MS., I received a letter from Germany requesting a detailed account of its contents for Eitner's ' Quellenlexikon.'

The contention of MR. CUMMINGS that con- gregational psalm-singing was practised in churches before the Civil War is beside the question. No one denies it, and he will find from T. Edwards's 'Gangrama' (1646) that the bishops put this singing down in some places. The point I maintain is that con- gregational psalm-singing was not (except at