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when the famous churches of St. Clemen at Hastings and St. Clement at Sandwicl were built and dedicated, and if those foun dations had any connexion with the Danes I should also be glad to learn the origina authority for Dr. Worsaae's statement tha the body of Harold Harefoot was buried " in the Danes' churchyard in London," with the Latin text of the chronicle in which the state ment is found, and should also be obliged fo: references to the " Ecclesia Sancti dementi Danorum." In the majority of cases th< qualifying term is certainly "Dacorum."

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

Your correspondent has hit upon a verj interesting point in his note on the connexion between the church of St. Clement and a settlement of Northmen close by it. But i is quite clear that the connexion between tin Northmen and St. Clement was older than the pontificate of Pope Clement II., who moreover, only occupied the Papal throne foi nine months. Absalon Taranger, in his book on ' The Influence of the Anglo-Saxon Church on the Norse Church,' writes thus about the foundation of Nidaros, now Trondhjem, by Olaf Tryggevesson :

"The foundation of Nidaros was likewise an important step towards the strengthening of Chris- tianity in the Northern districts, and about Christmas 999 a church was consecrated there to Clement, patron of seamen's voyages."*

Here we find King Olaf founding a church of St. Clement within five years of the time when he received confirmation at the hands of St. ^Elfheah. It is to the great Viking who kept his peace with the England to which he owed his Christianity, and not to any far- away and short-lived Pope, that the con- nexion between St. Clement and the North- men is due. The dedication of the church at Nidaros was certainly followed elsewhere, for a short time after its consecration Olaf sent a mission party to Iceland with instructions to build a church, with timber which he supplied, on the spot w r here they first came to land. They landed on one of the Westman's Isles, to the south of Iceland, arid there on the site of an old heathen temple they set up a church, dedicating it in the name of the same saint the consecration of whose church at Nidaros they had attended before their departure. The island now bears the name of Klemens- eyri.t And if through the influence of King Olaf and his church at Nidaros the dedication to St. Clement was carried as far as Iceland,

Indflydelse paa den Norske,' Kristiania, 1890, forste hefte, 127.
 * Absalon Taranger, ' Den Angelsaksiske Kirkes

t Taranger, 161.

there would be no wonder that it should reach London also. No doubt the tradition that St. Clement suffered martyrdom ly being tied to an anchor and cast into the sea caused him to be venerated by sailors, and the anchor which, at any rate till quite recently, formed the vane of the church of St. Clement Danes commemorates the legend. It would be inter- esting, if it were possible, to trace the origin of Olaf's special veneration for St. Clement ; but beyond the facts that, according to Norse tradition, he was baptized in the Scilly Islands,* and that he was certainly con- firmed at Andover by St. .dillfheah, nothing seems to be known of the circumstances of his conversion. C. S. TAYLOR.

Banwell Vicarage.

"MARY'S CnAPPEL"(9 th S. vii. 168). This is most probably the chapel or church of St. Mary, Hog Lane (subsequently Crown Street and now Charing Cross Road), which Hogarth also drew in his plate known as 'Noon.' Hogarth was apprenticed to a silversmith named Ellis Gamble in the imme- diate vicinity (Soho). I do not know the ticket which A. W. F. refers to, but he had better compare it with the easily accessible Noon.' I possess a curious emblematic print lettered * Crown Street Chapel, Soho,' designed by J. Rees, and engraved by H. Folkard, 260, Regent Street; but I am not sure whether this refers to St. Mary's Church or to a Wesleyan chapel which used to Nourish in Crown Street or Hog Lane.

EDWARD HERON-ALLEN.

one point out that " Jane " is really Jane I," meaning Jane Ireland ? The coun-
 * erpart of the ticket faces p. 43, vol. ii., of

Samuel Ireland's 'Graphic Illustrations of Eogarth.' This information is given in Mr. Austin Dobson's ' William Hogarth ' (Kegan Paul). The particular reference is p. 275, where the ticket is marked with a query as oeing doubtful. ARTHUR MAYALL.

'BOOK-WORLD' (9 th S. iv. 48, 95, 251 ; vii. 77). James Macfarlan's poem 'The Lords i Labour' appeared in unabridged form n the Pall Mall Gazette of 15 June, 889. I have not a copy beside me of N. & Q.' with my reply to a former query .oncerning the author of ' Book - World/ ind am consequently uncertain whether it s information regarding James Macfarlan rimself or his lines entitled 'The Poet' hat MR. HEMMING desires. Macfarlan ias been dead thirty-nine years, and is tow almost entirely forgotten. When the

Taranger, 125.