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panying notes will, it is hoped, be found useful. A

list of inscriptions relating especially to houses will CONTENT 8-No 106.

follow that of the street tablets. On some future NOTES :-01d London Street Tablets, 1-Sacheverell Con- occasion a few others might be added,- for instance

troversy, 3-Primate McGauran, 4-Goth: Gothic-Castle Baynard Ward School—Vanity Fair ’-Vinegar Bible, & the Inns of Court and Chancery, and records of

descriptions of property, dates, and inscriptions in “ Depone," 7. QUERIES

:-Wragg Family—Sir Joseph Yates, 7–White charitable bequests. Perhaps I should say, in conJet-Henry Hussey-Food Laws-Sheriff of Forres—Baker clusion, that several of the tablets to which I shall

-Vicar of Newcastle—“Good intentions"-Author Wanted here refer have been already figured or described _“Yuppefied"-Hardman, 8 – Bangor -- Guelph Genea- in my little book on London signs and inscriptions, logy-Daughters of John of Gaunt-M.P., Long Parlia- but they form an insignificant proportion of the ment-Bertha-Authors Wanted, 9. REPLIES :-Member of Parliament, 9–Pike of Meldreth, whole. Sculptured signs are excluded, as I have 10—Barliest Weekly Journal of Science-Olney-Curse of endeavoured to treat them exhaqstively in that Scotland --Jackson - Juvenile Authors, 11 - Bonner

work. Thamasp-Leap-frog Bible-"New Church," Westminster, On a modern public-house, called the “Gold12–English Translation - Date of First Steel Engraving-smiths' Arms,” No. 13, Bartholomew Close, there Wren's Epitaph — “Chimney-stack" — Dick England

is a stone inscribed “ Albion Buildings, 1776.” It County Magistrates—Title of Book-Strachey, 13-Charge

was rebuilt in 1887. of Cuirassiers--Waterloo in 1893-Prince Charles Edward "Beaks,” 14 — Trophy Tax - Holt-Hill - University

At the corner of Archer Street and Great Wind. Graces -"Kitchel" Cake - Commander-in-Chief, 15 - mill Street is a tablet with the inscription Verses-William H. Oxberry—The Golden Asse'-Duke “Archer Street, 1764.” The street, however, is of Normandy - Apostolical Succession - Potiphar, 16. much older than this, for in Walpole's Anec“ Nonefinch" - Kean's Residence, 17 - Vache - Lamb's Residence–Maids of Honour to Queen Henrietta Marta-dotes' we are told that " King Charles I. invited Sandgate Castle: Hervey: Devereux-Kissing, 18-01d. Poolemberg to London, where he lived in Archer field-Mrs. Markham's * History'-Dr. Gabell, 19. Street, next door to Geldorp, and generally painted NOTES ON BOOKS :- Green's "The Story of Egil Skalla- the figures in Steenwyck's perspectives." grimsson' - ! Windsor Peerage' - Journal of Ex-Libris

The large new offices, No. 21, Austin Friars, Society'-The Magazines,

built on the site of what were once the house and Notices to Correspondents.

garden of Herman Olmius, also caused the destruc

tion of Nos. 15 to 18 (called within my memory Notes.

Winckworth Buildings). They had on their rain.

pipes the initials TW, and the date 1726. I OLD LONDON STREET TABLETS, include this inscription, though not on a tablet, In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as it refers to a street pame which has now diswhen a London street was newly formed, its name appeared. In No. 18, James Smith, one of the and the date were frequently recorded on a tablet authors of 'Rejected Addresses,' resided for some built into the wall of a corner house. The houses years. thomselves were also sometimes distinguished by

In the Museum at the Guildhall is & stone initials, games, or dates, either placed like the taken from Bartlett's Buildings, Holborn Circus, street tablets, or on a rainpipe, or inside the build- which has on it “Bartlet Buildings 1686." Peter ing. Now and then our ancestors preserved by Cunningham says, "The place is mentioned in the an inscription the memory of some quaint fact burial register of St. Andrew's, Holborn, the parish which might otherwise bave been forgotten. Some in which it lies, as early as November, 1616, and of these relics still survive, but thero is constant is there called Bartlett's-court." Most of the danger of their destruction, for every year many houses built after the Great Fire, about the time old houses are levelled with the ground, and streets, the tablet was erected, still remain. once important, cease to exist, are merged in other A stone tablet on the wall of a house at the streets, or lose their importance by being renamed. corner of Barton Street and Great College Street, I have therefore thought it a useful thing to note Westminster, bas on it the inscription Barton them down whenever an opportunity occurred, and Street 1722.' This street was named after Barton the following list of street tablets is the result. It Booth, the actor, who was the original Cato in includes a few which have been already referred to Addison's play. A monument to his memory was in the pages of 'N. & Q.' by your valued corre- erected in Westminster Abbey forty-five years spondents Col. PRIDEAUX, ESSINGTON, and others, after his death, by bis widow (Hester Šantlow, the and one or two which disappeared before my time; dancer), who before marriage had been, it was said but I hardly like to leave them out, as the value of the mistress of the great Duke of Marlborough such a list for reference is largely increased by its and subsequently of Secretary Craggs. being made as complete as possible. No doubt Over the entrance to Bedford Court, on the other observers will add to it materially, for many west side of New North Street, Theobald's Road, examples must have escaped me. The accom- is the inscription" Bedford Court, 1717,"

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