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became extinct on the death of his son William in 1841. JOHN RADCLIFFE.

" MAYFAIR MARRIAGES " (9 th S. v. 65). As the chapel in Curzon Street, which was " about to disappear," has now completely disap- peared, the question arises, Where are the many marriage entries kept ? Among them was that of the marriage of Her Majesty's grandfather with Hannan Lightfoot.

E. L. G.

WILLIAM CECIL, LORD BURLEIGH (9 th S. v. 28). Your correspondent will probably find the foregoing list from my 'Bibliotheca Northantonensis ' useful for biographical details :

Bridges's ' History of Northamptonshire.'

Nares's 'Memoirs of the Life and Administra- tions,' &c., 3 vols., 1828.

Collins's life of that great statesman, 1732.

Courteville's ' Memoirs of the Life and Adminis- tration,' 1738.

Macdiarmid's * Lives of British Statesmen,' 1807.

The New Monthly Magazine, 1828 and 1831.

The Retrospective Review, 1827.

Edinburgh Review, 1832.

The Monthly Review, 1828 and 1831.

The Harleian Miscellany.

Somers's 'Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts.'

Lodge's ' Portraits of Illustrious Personages.'

Charlton's 'Life of William Cecil,' 1847.

Sharp's * Handbook of Burghley,' 1851.

' Histories of Noble British Families.'

Peck's ' Desiderata Curiosa,' 1732.

Berkenhout's ' Biographia Literaria,' 1777.

Walpole's ' Royal and Noble Authors.'

Caulfield's * Court of Queen Elizabeth,' 1814.

Naunton's ' Fragmenta Regalia.'

JOHN TAYLOR. Northampton.

"AN END" (9 th S. v. 65). The old War- wickshire labourer's phrase " most an end," in the sense of continuously, belongs to clas- sical English usage. See Bunyan's * Pilgrim's Progress,' vol. ii. p. 115 : " Knew him ! I was a great companion of his, I was with him most an end." Compare the use of " an end " by a well-known Warwickshire man. In the ' Two Gentlemen of Verona,' ed. 1591, IV. iv. 66, we find, " A slave, that still an end, turnes me to shame." For an interesting note on this passage, which has puzzled the learned Dr. Schmidt, see ' N. & Q.,' 6 th S. ii. 304.

A. L. MAYHEW.

Oxford.

In a book of reference under ' End ' I find " an end " means on an end. In Norfolk I have heard an early-stirring housewife de- scribed as "up-an-end betimes," or early on her feet, i.e., busy, and not a-bed. And thus we rnav understand Shakspeare : "Slave, still

an end," still here, about me. I believe the words from Shakspeare are : " Slave, that still an end [query continually 1] turns me to shame." ALFRED J. KING.

101, Sandmere Road, Clapham, S.W.

This is short for " cobblers' waxt end," as the waxed threads were called with which shoemakers and shoemenders who did home work used to sew leather. The old - time cobblers made their own " waxt ends " by twisting lengths of loose-spun hemp or flax to the necessary thickness, waxing it well with heel-ball or cobblers' wax (both terms for the wax were used), twisting and waxing into one end a stiff hog's bristle, which was used to pass the " waxt end " through the holes made by the awl. A " waxt end " was a schoolboy's treasure in those days, and although myself and other boys shouted at my cobbler a rime which would hardly carry in * N. & Q.' the " last " and other things coming out of window at us yet he was always good natu red enough to make us when we wanted them " waxt ends." I have known buttons fastened on with them.

THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

CORNEY HOUSE (9 th S. v. 69). I take it that the Corney House mentioned in such pleasant terms by Aaron Hill to Samuel Kichardson (who lived at North End, Fulham) stood in the meadow near Chiswick Church, close to which is now a delightful manufactory of what our sanitary prophets elegantly call *' effluent," being sewage poured from Chiswick to the Thames. Messrs. Thornycroft's torpedo - boat factory stands on part of the grounds of Corney House, and near it are still, or were till recently, some of the noble trees which once flourished on the river bank. I remember a sort of terrace walk, of which these trees were the chief ornaments, and from which, looking east and south, there were to be had fine views of the Thames. These views embrace that stretch of water which is still known as Corney Reach, much celebrated in boat- racing annals. F. G. S.

The best authority on the houses in Chis- wick is, I should think, Mr. W. H Whitear, of Fairlawn, Acton Green, Chiswick, joint author with Mr. W. P. W. Phillimore of Chiswick, an illustrated quarterly magazine in five parts.* Corney House appears in the index, part v.

I believe Mr. Whitear, whose address I

short article on Corney House,
 * This is a work well worth having. There is a