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 I. ,f _/_ _/ 9"“S- Wine. 29.1900-1 NOTES AND QUERIES. . 503 poration should at any time wish or have to take part in them officially :- Bethnal Green-St. Matthew. Chelsea-St. Luke. Finsbury-St. James, Clerkenwell. Fulham-All Saints. Hackney-St. John. Hammersmith-St. Paul. Hampstead-St. John. Holborn-St. Giles-in-the-Fields. Islington-St. Mary, Upper Street. Kensington-St. Mary Abbots. Paddington-St. James. Poplar-All Saints. St. Marylebone-St. Mary-le-bone. St. Pancras-St. Pancras. Shoreditch-St. Leonard. Stepney-St. Dunstam. Stoke Newington-St. Mary. The above are all in the diocese of London, and are directly under the control and within the jurisdiction of the Bishop. At West- minster, while the nine parishes owe alle- giance to his lordship, the Abbey does not, being what is called “a Royal peculiar ” directly under the control of the Sovereign. Maybe the Abbey will be selected as the Corporation church of this city, but it must be borne in mind that there are nine churches, many of the authorities of which are keenly alive to the honour that would be brought to them if one of them were to be chosen: St. Anne, Soho ; St. Clement Danes ; St. George, Hanover Square; St. James, Piccadilly ; St. John the Evangelist; St. Margaret; St. Martin-in-the-Fields; St. Mary -le-Strand ; and St. Paul, Covent Garden. Most of these have many historic memories, but the claims of 'one of them rank pre-eminently before those of all the others: St. Margaret’s, once the mother church of the whole of the old city, has claims far and away over any of the others. important though they may be ; and when the selection IS made. as it will have to be very shortly, I trust that the choice will fall upon it. With reference to the boroughs on the Surrey and Kent side of the river, I believe nothing has been yet decided-at least I have seen no pronouncement on the part of the bishops of the dloceses concerned. The boroughs are Battersea, Bermondsey, Camberwell, Dept- ford, Greenwich, Lambeth. Lewisham. South- wark, Wandsworth, and Woolwich. If it is allowable to foreshadow what the selection may be, there would seem little doubt as to what the choice will be: at Battersea, St. Mary’s ; at Bermondsey, St. Mary Magdalene’s; at Camberwell, the beautiful church of St. Giles; at Deptford, either St. N1cholas’s or St. Paul’s, the former being the more likely; at Greenwich, the nqble church of St. Alphage; at Lambeth, the church of St. Mary, a building rich in many memories, all of historic interest. At Lewis- ham most probably St. Mary’s Church will be chosen. At Southwark there can be only one wish upon the subject: St. Saviour’s, a very beautiful edifice, will, of course, become the church of what will be a very interesting corporation. At Wandsworth the parish church of All Saints, and at Woolwich the fine parish church of St. Mary, will be most certainly the choice of the powers that be. Some of the churches will, perhaps, need some alterations to adapt them to the new honour to which they have been somewhat unexpectedly born, but many will not require any change beyond the fitting ug of a mayoral pew or something of the kin. W. E. HARLAND-OXLBY. 14, Artillery Buildings, Victoria Street, S.W. Caaauoss v. PAcK-sAnpr.ss.- In ‘Chan- cery Proceedings ’ (temp. Elizabeth, ser. ii. 120, 61) relating to certain lands in Wygenton, Derecombe, and Wood, in the parish of South Tawton, Devon. the complainant declares that “ he and his ancestors for forty or fifty years or more have had a wa! and free-pass for them and their tenants, fc., with horse, cart, and carriage and all manner of cattall.” Having always been given to understand that in the olden times, and even down to those within the remembrance of elderly men, wheeled conveyances were unknown in the district referred to, and that pack-saddles, with their stout crooks or horse-litters, were the only means of transport for heavy bur- dens, I was struck by the piece of evidence to the contrary above quoted, which is further borne out by a specification in the will of William Wekys, of Sampford Courtenay, Devon, 1539, of “my long waine w° yron bounden wheels and a bedd that ’longeth thereto.” If the words “’longeth thereto ” do not refer to his wife J oan, whose name occurs a little previously, they would seem to imply that the bottom of the wain was provided with a mattress or squab, to sit or recline on. Another quaint item in this will is :- “To ...... my dau. Johan ...... a payre of beades of corall w* gaundys of siluer and gylte ...... To my dau. Dennys ...... a payre of beades of ambur w' gawdeys of siluer.” ETHEL LEGA-“'EEKES. “ TRUNK ” on “ Box.” (See ‘ Luggage Train,’ ante.  4l8.)-It may be of interest to H. E. I. and others to know that Dickens uses both words in reference to the same object in the scene at Scroogeis sohoolmaster’s