LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1894.

CONTENT 8.-N° 108.

that its name was taken from the "Half Moon" public-house, which stood at the corner.

On a house at the corner of Hans Road east is the inscription "Queen Street."

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OLD LONDON STREET TABLETS.
(Concluded from p. 3.)

On the west side of Duke Street, Manchester Square, there is a cul-de-sac of some extent. The houses must have been originally built for well-to-do people, but seem to be now occupied by the very poor; they are called Gray's Buildings. The inscription on a stone let into the wall, between the second-floor windows of the house at the end is "Grays Buildings 1767."

Above the second-floor windows of a modern house, No. 20, Great Chapel Street, Westminster, there is a tablet inscribed "This is Chappeil Street 1656." This street was named after the "New Chapel," completed in 1636, on the site of which, or nearly so, Christ Church has been built. Peter Cunningham mentions a tablet which used to be on the front of a house in Great Peter Street, Westminster, facing Leg Court. It had "This is Sant Peter Street anno 1624" and a heart-shaped mark. A similar mark is on No. 4, Tothill Street, Westminster, associated with the date 1671 and the initials ETA.

On a house at the corner of Guilford Street, Gray's Inn Road (west side), is a stone inscribed "Upper North Place 1796.'

High up on a modern house at the west side of Half Moon Street, Piccadilly, is the inscription "Half Moon Street 1730." Mr. J. T. Smith says

Peter Cunningham tells us that Hemming's Row, which has been destroyed by the Charing Cross Road, had formerly the date 1680 on a wooden house at the west end.

Above a centre ground-floor window of what is left of the old Tennis Court, James Street, Haymarket, there is a stone tablet with ornamental border, resting on a bracket, and having the inscription "James Street 1673." The upper part of the Tennis Court was rebuilt in 1887, but as high as the tablet the original walls, though stuccoed over, remain. Mr. J. T. Smith, in his 'Streets of London,' mentions a tradition that Charles II. and his brother, then Duke of York, used to play tennis in this court. I believe there is no contemporary evidence of this.

A tablet similar in style to the last, though of considerably later date, is above the first floor of No. 16, Great James Street, Bedford Row. It has on it "Great James Street 1721."

On the north side of King's Road, Chelsea, about half way up, there is a little street which has on one of the corner houses a stone inscribed "Jubilee Place 1809"; a record of the jubilee of King George III.

On a house at the corner of Golden Square and Lower John Street is a tablet with the following, "This is Johns Street Ano Dom 1685."

On a house at the corner of Great Marlborough Street and Foubert's Passage there is a stone having on it "Marlborough Street 1704." The word "Great seems to have been cut out.

Not far off, in Little Marlborough Street, is the inscription "Little Marlborough Street 1703." At the corner of Marquis Court, Drury Lane, a stone with ornamental border is inscribed "Marquis Court 1763."

May's Buildings, on the east side of St. Martin's Lane, have on them the name and date "1739." They were built by a Mr. May, who also ornamented with pretty cut brick (still remaining) the front of No. 43, St. Martin's Lane, where he resided.

On each side of the entrance to Meard Street from Dean Street, Soho, are tablets with the inscriptions "Meards Street 1732."

At the north end of Milman Street, Chelsea, on

the east side, is "Millman Row 1726." It derived its name from Sir William Milman, who died in 1713.

On the north side of Knightsbridge, running up towards the Park, are Mill's Buildings; at the entrance is a tablet inscribed "Mills Buildings 1777."

Near the west end of Mount Pleasant, Gray's Inn Lane, between Nos. 55 and 56, there is a plain square stone with "Dorrington 1720" incised in Roman capitals. It is in a brick frame with moulded hood. The builder of this street was one Thomas Dorrington, citizen and bricklayer of London.

Further east, on No. 41, nearly opposite the site of Coldbath Fields Prison are two other tablets; one, similar to that just described, has "Baynes Street 1737." Over this is a more elaborate example of cut or moulded brick with a pediment. It has the motto of the Tylers' and Bricklayers' Company, "In God is all our trust," what may be a rude representation of their crest, other marks or signs in relief (among them the letter P), and the date 1737. This is, strictly speaking, a house, not a street, tablet. I believe that it was put up by a member of the Tylers' and Bricklayers' Company, not unlikely by Thomas Dorrington. The street was named after Mr. Walter Baynes, who owned much land in the neighbourhood, and in the year 1697 discovered the famous spring which supplied the Cold Bath.

There is a tablet high up on the north side of Mornington Crescent, Camden Town, inscribed "Southampton Street 1802." The name, which applied only to this part of Mornington Crescent, was changed in 1864.

A stone tablet which has on it "Nassau Street in Whettens Buildings 1734" is still to be seen at the south-west corner of Nassau Street, Soho. In Strype's map, of 1720, the ground here facing Gerrard Street is occupied by a large mansion with a garden at the back, Nassau Street not being yet made.

On a house at the corner of Neal Street, Long Acre, there is a stone which seems to have the date 1718. The name has disappeared.

On a house in New Lisle Street, fronting Leicester Square, cut in large letters below a firstfloor window, is "New Lisle Street MDCCXCI." On the pediment are the words "Leicester House." On a tablet with decorated border at the west side of the entrance to New Turnstile from Holborn is a stone inscribed "New Turn Style 1688." A correspondent in 'N. & Q.' for June 9, 1883, mentions the pulling down of a house in a small square or yard, on the south side of what was formerly called Princes Street, now Gate Street, near the New Turnstile, Holborn, which had, let into the front, a tablet inscribed "Princes Square 1736." He adds that this was probably the only

On a house at the south-east corner of Rathbone Place and Oxford Street is a stone tablet with the following inscription, "Rathbones Place in Oxford Street 1718." The house was rebuilt in 1864.

Let into the walls on each side of Richmond Buildings, Dean Street, Soho, are "Richmonds Building 1732."

Rose Street, Covent Garden is now to a great extent cleared away or absorbed by Garrick Street. A house here had a tablet inscribed “This is Rose Streete 1623."

A house on the east side of Sandys Street, Bishopsgate, has the inscription "Sandys Street 1727."

There is an archway under one of the old houses in Lincoln's Inn Fields, which leads into Sardinia Street. Above the keystones on each side (one nearly obliterated) is the inscription "Duke Streete 1648."

At the corner of Shelton Street, Drury Lane, is "King Street 1765."

At the Guildhall Museum there is a stone which has on it "Skinner Street 1802." The site of this street, built through the exertions of Alderman Skinner, is now covered by the Holborn Viaduct.

At the corner of Smith Street, King's Road, Chelsea, is "Smith Street 1794." It was built by a Mr. Thomas Smith.

At the Guildhall Museum there is a stone inscribed "Stewkesleys Street 1668." On a label attached it is stated that this is now Bull and Mouth Street, St. Martin's-le-Grand; but I have failed to find any record of Stewkesley Street. Ellwood, in his 'Autobiography,' mentions a Quaker's meeting held at the Bull and Mouth, Oct. 26, 1662.

At the corner of Strewan Place, Milman Street, Chelsea, is "Strewan Place 1739."

At the south-west end of Thomas Street, Oxford Street, is the inscription "Bird Street 1725." Bird Street originally extended on both sides of Oxford Street, from Brook Street on the south to

Henrietta Street on the north. Mr. Wheatley says that some time after 1831 the name of the southern portion was changed to Thomas Street. On the front of Tichbourne Court, Holborn, there were till lately the Tichbourne arms with the inscription "Tichbourne Courte Ano Dni 1688." At the corner of Titchfield Street and Dean Street, Soho, is "Titchfield Street 1737."

A stone embedded in the wall of a house at the south-west corner of Turk's Row, Chelsea, has on it "Garden Row anno 1733."

On a house on the west side of Vandon Street, late Little George Street, Westminster, which runs into James Street, opposite what is left of Emanuel Hospital, there is a stone, now defaced, with, apparently, the inscription "This is George Street 1717." The date is legible.

On the east side of Westminster Bridge Road, at the corner of Belvedere Road, is the inscription "Coades Row 1798." This refers to Coade, the manufacturer of artificial stone, whose showrooms were hard by. The factory was in a street called Narrow Wall, Lambeth.

In the Guildhall Museum there is a stone tablet with "NRJ Ruffords Buildings 1688," said to be from Upper Street, Islington; and a similar inscription is still to be seen on No. 1A, Compton Street, Clerkenwell. There were two groups of houses thus named. They were built by Capt. Nicholas Rufford, churchwarden at Islington in 1690, who died in 1711, aged seventy-one, and was buried in Islington parish churchyard.

On Westmoreland Buildings, Aldersgate, there was in 1889 the inscription "Westmorland Buildings 1761." They mark the site of the London residence of the Nevilles, taken down circa 1760, after having been long divided into tenements. The inscription has now disappeared. On the keystone above a blank window over the door of a house in Windsor Street, Bishopsgate, is the inscription "This is Windsor Street

Anno Dom 1734."

Beneath the parapet of the house of Messrs. George Bell & Sons, formerly Mr. Bohn's, in York Street, Covent Garden, there is a tablet, placed high up, which has on it "York Street, 1636." PHILIP NORMAN.

AGATHA.

(See 8th S. iv. 389, 473, 509.) SIR CHARLES KING has received various suggestions in reply to his query who the mother o Edgar Atheling was, not one of which, however, is perhaps so near the truth as the information supplied by himself at the last reference. About two or three years ago I had an opportunity of seeing a letter written by a Mr. Felch, of Hartford, Conn., U.S., to the Secretary of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at Budapest, in which the

writer informed the Academy that he was at the time busily engaged collecting materials for a book which, among other things, was to include a life of Agatha. The writer stated that he had been unable to find any trustworthy information about the parentage of the lady in question, and asked for help, which, however, the Academy was unable to afford him, as the Hungarian chronicles record absolutely nothing about the Anglo-Saxon princes at the Court of St. Stephen or Agatha, and do not even mention their names.

The late Prof. Freeman and Dr. Mackay, the biographer of St. Margaret, Queen of Scotland, in the 'Dict. of National Biography,' have also searched the Hungarian chronicles and made inquiries on the subject at Budapest, but with the same negative result.

Mr. Felch seemed to have read up his subject well, but unfortunately gave no references. Whether his book has already been published or not I do not know. Most of the data supplied from the English chronicles by him and your correspondents can be found, with references, in Freeman's 'Norman Conquest,' vol. ii., Appendix Y. But more information must be extant, as Mr. Felch found it stated somewhere that Agatha was a sister of Salamon, King of Hungary, or, according to another chronicle, "the daughter of Ladislaus by his wife Enguerharde, who was daughter of Olaf, King of Norway"; yet another source of information "connected her in some way with Andrew I. of Hungary, who married Anastasia, daughter of Iaroslav, King of Russia, who was son of St. Vladimir." Probably Suhm, Karamsin, or Lappenberg will supply a clue to the original authorities for these statements.

It must be remembered (1) that the mother of Andrew I. (1046-1060) was Premislava, a daughter of Vladimir, Grand Duke of Kiev; (2) that Andrew married his cousin Anastasia, daughter of Iaroslav I. Vladimirovich (i. e., the son of the above Vladimir and his successor on the grand-ducal throne); (3) that Salamon was the son of Andrew I., and married Sophia, daughter of the German Emperor Henry III.; and (4) that Iaroslav's wife was Ingigerdis, daughter of Olaf, King of Norway. It seems to me, therefore, that the Ladislaus and Enguerharde mentioned by Mr. Felch are the same couple as the "Iaroslav I., called Ladislas, or George, Duke of Russia," referred to by SIR CHARLES KING, and Ingigerdis, his wife; and Agatha's relationship is quite clear. She was, namely, the granddaughter of Olaf, cousin and sister-in-law of Andrew I. of Hungary, the aunt of Salamon, and no relation, but only an aunt by marriage, to Henry III.'s daughter, Sophia.

According to the English chronicles, the two sons of Ironside were sent to Hungary by Olaf; but according to Adam of Bremen (ii. 51, quoted by Freeman) they were sent to Russia ("filii [Éadmundi] in Ruzziam exilio sunt damnati").