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 9* s. vi. OCT. 27, i9ooo NOTES AND QUERIES. 331 certain alterations with the express intention o: preserving intact to the parishioners, not only the structure of their parish church together with its adjoining graveyard, but likewise all rights anc privileges belonging to them. When, however, Sir Thomas Cawarden, in his capacity of Master o the Revels, came upon the scene, he soon founr occasion to assert: first, that, in his opinion, this parish church of St. Anne really constituted part and parcel of the dissolved conventual house of the Black 'Friars; secondly, that, whether it were so or not, the king his master had need of the church for storing therein his 'tents, pavilions, masks, ane revels'; therefore the parishioners must surrender their jwoperty. So the poor people were forced to submit, and the edifice wherein they had been wont to assemble and worship—having stood, we are told, for upwards of two Hundred years—forthwith underwent desecration and dismantlement, a por- tion of its interior being converted into stabling for the accommodation of the Master of the Revels' horses. The churchyard of St. Anne was appro- priated likewise, ana allotted to one Master Harry Filian, 'a carpenter of Streatham, in Surrey," who occupied it for his trade, and appears to have con- structed therein those 'pavilions,' or wooden booths, which it was then customary to transport hither and thither in the royal progresses. "After the accession of King Edward VI. the requirements of the Court in respect of pageantry were doubtless trifling compared with those of the late monarch's establishment, for we find the young king granting away in his second and fourth years all those buildings, standing upon the site of the old priory, which had previously been of service for the preparation and storage of theatrical pro- perties. In the latter year Sir Thomas Cawarden obtained a grant of so much of them as was not embraced in an earlier grant made in the former year to Sir Francis Bryan, quondam Ambassador of King Henry VIII. at the Papal See. Cawarden very shortly proceeded to make capital out of his acquisitions. In 1553 he disposed of that portion styled the 'Great Hall,' with its adjacent build- ings, to Lord Cobham. About the same time, too, he authorized the erection of two tennis ' courtes or ' playes' within the circuit of what had been the ancient parish church. The introduction of that pastime into the locality, however, resulted in an inordinate amount of gambling, and the enjoyment of it was soon suppressed as a crying public evil." Frorri the Bill of Complaint we learn several other interesting facts. One is that the Prior of the House of the Black Friars, in con- sideration of the messuages, lands, Jsc.j which belonged to the House being within the parish of St. Anne, " dyd contynually ffynde and maynteyne, at his owne proper cost«s and charges, a sufficients Curate to serue the said parisshioners in the parisshe Churche aforesaid Aswell for the admvnystracion of all Sacramentes and Sacramentalfes As for there deuyne seruyce and all other thiiiges to a Curat apperteynynge." It also appears that after the misappro- priation of the parish church the king was graciously pleased, after " consycleringe the godly sute of the said parisshioners, [to] graunte vnto them a certen rome scy tuate and beinge vnder an olde gallery w'in the said Scyte for the hearinge of deuyne seruyce." This was probably the "lodging chamber above a staire" which, according to Stow, was given to the parishioners when the church was pulled down. Altogether it seems probable that there was an ancient parish of St. Anne, which occupied the site granted to the Black Friars by the Mayor and Barons of London in 1276, but that in course of time it became so overshadowed by the great church of the Preachers which was built alongside of it that it was popularly regarded as "part and parcel of the con- ventual house," as Sir Thomas Cawarden pre- tended. This would possibly account for its omission from the Nomina Beneficiorum Londoniarum,' 31 Edward I., and from the list of parish churches in Fabyan's 'Chronicle.' It will be observed that the prior retained the patronage of the church in nis own hands until the dissolution. W. F. PBIDEAUX. VANISHING LONDON (9th S. vi. 221).—I have read with great interest the paper on 'Vanishing London,' by ME. J. 0. FRANCIS, in your issue of 22 September, and hope that others with special knowledge of a similar kind will imitate his good example. In no carping spirit, but for the sake of information, I should like to ask MR. FRANCIS what authority he has for calling Dr. Nicholas Barbon nephew of Praise-God Barebone or Barebones. The ' Diet. Nat. Biog.' says that they were probably father and son, in this agreeing with T. C. Noble ('Memorials of Temple Bar,' p. 60). I am aware that Praise- God is stated in Granger's ' Biographical History of England' to have had two brothers, named respectively " Christ-came- into-the-world-to-save Barebone" and "If- Christ - had - not - died - thou - hadst - been- damned Barebone," but this is considered ipocryphal by later writers. Noble attri- butes the latter baptismal name to Nicholas, and adds that he was called for short " Damned Dr. Barebone." His house, said to have been rebuilt by Wren, and afterwards occupied by the Royal Society, was in Crane Court, not Crown Court, Fleet Street. The house numbered 10, Nevill's Court, cer- jainly dates from after the Great Fire. I have railed to find any connexion between it, or ts site, and the Bishops of Chichester. It has Belonged to the Moravians since 1744. Here Dount Reuss lived, and. here Joseph Latrobe, irst Governor of Victoria, was born.