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��Goldsmiths' Company by the cousin of a well-known contributor to ' N. & Q.,' Col. Prideaux. This is beautifully printed for private circulation, and contains many illustrations. The title-page runs :

" Memorials of the Goldsmiths' Company, being Gleanings from their Records between the Years 1335 and 1815. Compiled by Sir Walter Sherburne Prideaux, Clerk of the Company. 2 vols."

The author in his preface modestly says that the work makes no pretension to be an exhaustive history, but that he " has found Herbert's History untrustworthy, and that many of his statements have required verification and correction." It must be remembered that when Herbert wrote his great work, there was not the easy access to records we now enjoy. Herbert's book did for the Livery Companies what Stow did for London.

Other works include Edward Basil Jupp's historical account of the Carpenters, with illustrations by Fairholt, published by Pickering 1848, and Humpherus's history of the Watermen in four volumes, 1859. W. H. Black wrote about the Leathersellers. This book, like that of Humpherus, is scarce, and fetches 51. 15s. Clode also wrote two works on the Merchant Taylors. This he did to commemorate his mastership in 1873-4, he being the 574th Master.

London has formed a topic of perennial interest in ' N. & Q.' As early as the 6th of December, 1851, the question as to its ety- mology was raised by M. C. E., to which Francis Crossley replied, suggesting that the word is derived from the Celtic Luan, " the moon," and dun, " a city on a hill." Thus Luandun would mean " the city of the moon," i.e., of " the temple of the moon." Fuller's ' Worthies ' was quoted by J. Eastwood : " That it was so termed from Lan Dian, a temple of Diana, standing where now St. Paul's doth."

Much is to be found as to the title and precedence of the Lord Mayor Lord Mayor. The precedence taken by him on public occasions His title, is shown by the following extract from The Times of the 10th of January, 1806. In giving an account of Nelson's funeral, which had taken place at St. Paul's on the previous day, it stated :

" The Procession entered at the Great Western Door of the Church, according to the ceremonial which we have already given, as published by the College of Arms, with this exception of the last publication respecting the situation to be taken by the Lord Mayor in the Pro- cessions both to the Church, and from the West door of the Cathedral to the Choir. His Lordship was placed in the Processions, both in his State Carriage and in the Church, between his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the Herald of Arms, who preceded the Great Banners, in obedience to a warrant under his Majesty's Royal Signet and Sign Manual, bearing date the 6 th instant, placing the Lord Mayor in the same situation as if his Majesty had been personally present, and published by the authority of the College of Arms on the 8 th of January."

��His pre- cedence at Nelson's funeral.

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