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 9* s. vi. NOV. 3,1900.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 341 LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER S, 1900. CONTENTS.-No. 149. NOTES :—Whltglft's Hospital, Croydon, 341—Interments a St. Margaret's, 342—Walpole and hla Editor*, 344—Kui nt Hoscoff —"Chap as married Hannah " —Haydon Pictures—Draughts of Air—" To the bitter end "—Jewls Fasts, 348—Mnrylebone Church—Gold Stone, 347. QUERIES :—" 'Sdeyns " — Onler of Ramakrlahna—Frenc Pewter Plate, 347 — Monte Carlo and Koulette — 'I Memorlam'—Crack-nut Sunday—Ditto or Ditty—Shake- speare's • Sonnets'—" Peridot" or "Pllidod"—"Castr MontlsemI" — Maimed Soldiers and Marshalsea Money 348-Coat of Arrnt—Cockman—W. Home—Burrington— Bonaparte Ballad, 348—Looking-glass Lore—Ancient Stee —Pierce—Stafford — The Bellman—Heraldic—Gender o " Church," 350. REPLIES :—Nell Gwyn, Gwynne, 4c., 350-Natloniil FlaL. —Vanishing London, 3S1—F. Gilbert, Artist—Margery— Mellard Family —Religion, a Definition—Walton—Wi Pond, 353—Irish In Iceland—Seven Stars—Taafe Family- Eleanor Cross, Waltham — Huskln'i Road—"Max" fo Qln—' John Bull,' 353 — " Sub "—"Whim-beam "—"Olt Jamaica"—"Inundate," 354— "Capability Brown" — "Agam Colours." 355—"Half Moon" Inn: "Maypole' —Silhouettes, 356—"Perflde Albion" — Inquisition In Spain anil Portugal, 357—H. S. Ashbee—Locomotive an< Gas—Ober Ammergau Play, 358. NOTKS ON BOOKS :—Arber's Surrey and Wyatt and Gold smith Anthologies — Gatty's ' Book of Sun-Dials ' — Wright's ' Unpublished Poems of Cowper,' Prof. Max Muller—Mr. W. Bancroft Randall. Notices to Correspondents. WHITGIFT'S HOSPITAL, CROYDON. NOT a few of the links which go to make the chain of history, from an early period of this country's records, have been forged or fashioned in Croydon; thus it is so many men of eminence in bygone days have a con- nexion in some way or other with Croydon, while not a few have had residence here in life and found a last resting-place at death. In 1272 William Chillingden's election to the See of Canterbury was overruled by the Pope, and Robert de Killewareby, Friar Preacher, Prior of the Dominican Order throughout England, Scotland, and Wales, was con- secrated in February, 1272, and in 1273 issued a charge from Croydon. The town has played no insignificant part in the history of the country from the time of the so-called Conqueror, asso- ciated with the battle of Lewes. The seventh Earl of Warren, Sir William Wai- worth, was appointed "Keeper of Croyddn Park." Sir Richard Gurney is said to nave been born here. James I. of Scotland, who was so unjustly detained by two Henries, is said to have made a grant to Sir William Douglas, dated at Croidoun, 1412, in which he calls himself King of Scotland. It is a little difficult to understand this grant, when James, still a prisoner in 1418, was indirectly told by the Earl of Buchan that a prince in captivity was in no way entitled to exercise supreme power. Of course, it is to be remembered this was an answer to a demand made by James under the influence of Henry. Queeu Elizabeth visited Croydon several times; that famous man Cranmer held a consistory at Croydon; N Hai-dy, Dean of Rochester, died in the town, and was buried in St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, where, on the north side of the chancel, a white marble monument was erected to liis memory. Wil- liam Courtenay, son of the Earl of Devonshire, was elected Archbishop of Canterbury by the monks of Canterbury, and the Pope, unaware of the fact, elected him also. The Bulls of his translation were published in Christ Church, January, 1381, and he received his pall in the great hall "sui de Croydon," May, 1382, &c. Nature itself seems to have marie a special effort to stamp Croydon famous by visiting it with an earthquake, which is. rather strange to say, referred to in 'The His- tory of the Church' (London, 1674). Chrono- logically this town can be traced to an early date. It is mentioned in Domesday Survey, arid there yet remain a few memorials of past ages, connecting it very clearly with many centuries ago. Not the east of these is the Archbishop's Hospital, and it is to be regretted that its demolition s aimed at. It has had a place in the listory of Croydon for three centuries, and ias afforded ample matter wherewith suc- cessive historians of the place have filled )ages of their books; in fact, if all apper- .aining to Archbishop Whitgift's hospital was /hereof would be very much diminished. The hospital is so situated now as to form a
 * xpunged from Croydon histories the bulk
 * orner of High and George Streets. In 1833

t is said to be situated "at the entrance of he town." Where it stands is certainly a >usy part of the town, where tram, bus, and ther vehicular traffic is often congested, "he exigencies of life and business play very iften into the hands of the ever-ready vandal, r so-called modern improver, and unless a erious stand is made by the inhabitants of Jroydon to prevent it-, the chances are that his venerable, deeply interesting, and bene- cial (to' the poor) link between the long astand the present will be ruthlessly swept way. This any one interested in the past ecords of Croydon, in historic remains enerally, or the intentions of the founder, an only view with the deepest possible