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 9°-S. VI- Nov. 24.19001 NOTES AND QUERIES. 403 between these two giants in writing in the shape of books can be verified by a look at six or seven volumes I saw in the audience chamber. These books are titled in almost bewildering language. Here are some of the titles : "An Answer to acertain Libel intituled An Admonition, b ' John Whitgift, D. Divinity, l572”; “A Reply to the Answer made by M. Doctor Whitgifte a ainst the Admonition to Parliament, by  C.” (no date, but probabl between 1572 and 1575); “ The Defense of the Answere to the Ad moni- tion agginst the Replie of T. C. by John Whit- gift, octor of Divinitie, 1574 ”; “The econd Replie of Thomas Cartwright against Master Doctor Whitgift’s Second Answer, 1575.” But I imagine the field was held by the archbishop. At the north-west corner of Whitgift’s sanctum a door of comparatively recent make opens on part of the well-worn stair which leads to the archbisho ’s sleeping apartment. The stair is steep, and) turns abruptly from the door to the left. At the head of the stair is one of the finest specimens it is possible to see of a sixteenth- century inside door. It is very thick, and what may be called two-ply, and of great strength. Some remarkable features of this door its two sets of hinges and its three locks, one of the latter locking and unlocking in common way from the inside and outside. handle on the door inside only opens ' the remaining two locks are manipulated from the outside, and practically secret. The action by which the locking and unlocking is ppt in motion resembles the heads of the Its or nails which are so common and numerous over this and similar doors. It is clear that the archbishop had cause to be careful of his personal safety, and was §>ecially so with regard to his sleeping-room. ven supposing an entry to have een made into the quadrangle, an evil-disposed person would then have had at least five strong oagc doors to force ere he could reach Whit- gi t. No doubt the troublesome times in which the archbishop lived, and certain acts of his own, together with his many enemies among N onconformists, Roman Catholics, and others, made it necessary for him to take the greatest care to protect himself. His body-servant, or whoever had the keys or means necessary to work the outsidelocks, must have been in the highest degree trust- worthy. The person occupying the bedroom, it will be noted, could not get out (if the two outside locks were fastened) without the are t-he A it concurrence and aid of some one outside the room. On the other hand, no erson could enter the bedroom without the archbishop or the occupant being party thereto by un- locking his side and turning the “opening” handle. The shutters of the two ver small windows in the bedroom are in situ. Ileturning down the well-worn stairs, which are celebrated, if not hallowed by the footsteps of Archbishop Whitgift, we revert in thought to the men who have been rivilegefl to fill the position of warden, and solhave trod these time-honoured steps. The archbishop was his own warden for some time. In 1668 William Crowe was chaplain-a man of considerable ability as a writer, who ingloriously ended his life b hanging him- self. John Shepherd, who filled the position of cha lain in 1675, had under him as usher Jolm Cldham the poet. It was at this hos- Eital Oldham produced, among other writings, is satire on the Jesuits. Croydon has to thank this usher for the visit of the Earls of Rochester and Dorset, Sir Charles Sedley, and other persons of distinction at this time, to the venerable structure. Oldham died at the residence of his patron the Earl of Kingston in 1683. At the extreme end of the audience chamber is the entrance to the kitchen connected with the archbishop’s rooms. The kitchen, like the rest of the apartments, adds its quota to the interesting relics this mine of anti- quarian wealth contains, of which fact the inhabitants generally of Croydon and neiglh- bourhood seem oblivious. The culinary e- partment affords specimens of dishes-three at least as many hundred years old each- pewter platters, and some old willow- attern dishes. ALFRED CHAs. JoNAs, ( To be conlinued.) HOYLE’S ‘ WRIST.,-At 9” S. ii. 436 I drew attention to another discovered copy of the second edition of Edmund Hoyles ‘Short Treatise on t-he Game of Whist’ (1743) to which MR. J ULIAN :MARSHALL (as the holder of the thitherto known. sole copy of that issue) replied at 9“‘ S. iii. 35. Out of those notes a corresézondence ensued between MR. MARSHALL an myself upon an interesting point. The two prints of the second edition were plainl different, and the question arose which of them belonged to the older issue. One marked difference was that the price of the book appeared upon one of the tit e-pages and not on the other. I contended that to fit in with the facts, the unpriced copy should be