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 9° S- VI. AUG- 18. 1900.1 NOTES AND QUERIES. 135 and was Bur. y° 18“* of y° same, near Arch Bishop Sharp’s Monument, 1728.” The last Archbishop of York buried in the Minster was Archbishop Sharp, who was buried “the 16 day of February, 1713/14,” and in former years the verger used to inform us that he died of a white swelling in the knee at Bishopthorpe Palace. It is remarkable to note the many dilierent places where the archbishops of the northern province found graves, though there are several sculptured eliigies of them in the Minster, notably an excellent one of Arch bishop Thomson, who is buried in the churchyard of Bishopthorpe. Some of the entries are very curious, as N 0. 147 : “M” Elisabeth,l)aughter of D' Sharp, Lord Archbishop of this see, was bur. the 5th day of Aprill, l713.” She was at the time of her death only seventeen years of age ; this shows that the title “ Mrs.” was given at that time to unmarried women. It ought to be noticed that some of the monuments of the archbishops under the great east window sustained much damage when the Minster was set on tire by Jonathan Martin in 1829. JOHN Pxoxrosn, M.A. N ew bourne Rectory, Woodbridge. Tas Woonwonx or Eneusu CATHEDRALS (9"‘ S. vi. 68).--AUGUR puts a somewhat am- biguous question. It is not clear whether he refers to ancient or modern oakwork (it is an exploded idea that in mediaeval days chestnut was to any extent used) to be found in our cathedrals and old parish churches. It is possible that in the days of darkness some old work may have been varnished, but certainly never french polished. N o architect would permit new work to be so treated. If it is to be touched at all, dull wax polishing is undoubtedly the best thing for oak. But the wax should be used very much as my mother, who is a Yorkshire woman, used to butter our bread when we were children, i. e., put it on once, and take it otf six times. Without the wax, after application, is brushed very much oli' again it is apt to be sticky, and stickiness holds dust. As a rule the wood- work, old or new, of our cathedrals generally is seldom touched by the permanent attend- ants. HARRY Haus. “ LAND or GREEN GINGER” (5"‘ S. x. 408 ; xi. 388, 437, 455).-In the leader notes of the Eastern Mornmg News for 27 June the following appears, which is well worth repro- ducing in ‘ . & Q.’:- “Mr. J. R. Boyle, F.S.A., has determined the origin of the singular street name in Hull, the Land- of-Green~Ginger. The earliest mention of the name known to Mr. Boyle occurs in the town rental of the year 1661, prreserved in the records of the Hull Corporation. he entries are as follow :- “ ‘Item, of William Searge for half of the wast ground called the Land-of-Green-Ginger, at Lady Day and Michaelmas, tenant to pay assessments, viij shillings.’ ‘° ‘ Item, of Alderman Dobson for the other half, at the same feasts, tenant to pay assessments, viij shillings.’ “The entries, we are told, occur in subsequent rolls for many years. In 1661 the name did not designate the street, but an adjoining piece of waste ground. ‘Green-Ginger] says Mr. Boyle, is now almost an obsolete folk~nanie for the wormwood plant (Artemisia. vulgaris). The plant, we are told, grows in great abundance in the Hull district on waste spaces and near the banks of rivers, dams, &c. A lield at Marsh Chapel, Lincolnshire, is still, or was recently, known as Green-Ginger Field, doubtless from havinlgosome time been overgrown by wormwood. Mr. yle concludes, and we think correctly, that the ‘ wast ground called the Land- <t;f;Green-Ginger’ gained its name from the crop it re.” WILLIAM ANDREWS. Royal Institution, Hull. Tun SIGN or THE “IMARYGOLD” (9“‘ S. vi. 66).-In reply to the interesting note of COL. PRIDEAUX I beg to say that since publishing my account of “ye Marygold ” in 1875 much more has been discovered to throw light upon the history of the old house. Some searches in the Public Record Oiiice have furnished me with an unbroken history of the site, commencing with the foundation of the Carmelite Friars in 1241, down to the present time, representing a period of 659 years. The site of “ye Marygold,” _now the bank- ing house of Messrs. Child &. Co., was origin- ally a parcel of the possessions of the White Friars or the Friers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, called F ratres Beatas Maries de Monte Carmeli, first founded (saith John Bale by Sir Ric. Gray, Knt., ancestor to the Lord ray of Codnor, in 1241. “King Edward I. gave to the Prior and Brethren of that House a plot of ground in Fleet Street whereupon to build their house, which was since re- edilied or new builded by Hugh Courtnay, Earl of Devonshire, about the year 1350, 24 Edward III.” From this date to the Dissolution the site of the premises formed part of its posses- sions. 'I he first minister’s accounts are found in the Public' Record Otlice dated 31-2 Henry VIII., and under the heading “The Carmelite Friars,” and “ xx' of the farm of one tenement therein, the tenure of Thomas Leigh, Esqf, per annum, payable at equal terms.” In 30 Henry VIII. particulars for grants were ordered to be made out for Thomas