Alley whereupon William Bolton hath begun to
erect buildings and extendeth Eastward to the
outside of a Stone Wall standing or w[hic]h
lately stood next Paull's Alley soe farre as that
reatheth (reacheth] and then towards the South
end to
an even range w[i]th that Stone wall
into a Shopp in the possession of Robert Taylor
and another in the possession of Webb and
soe abutteth East upon a slipp of ground in
Paulls Alley supposed to have been formerly
parte of the Wast[e] or Churchway whereupon
now stands or lately stood narrow Shopps or
Shedds which Shopps or Shedds are in breadth
att the North End three foote from East to West
and att the South End three foote of assize and
Seven Inches and South upon another parcell
of the ground alloted and staked out to build
houses in Pauls Alley sould also to the said
Richard Coysh together with all waies passages
Watercourses Lights Easements, &c."

The deed is signed by the Commissioners (Sir) John Wollaston, Thos. Noel, Will. Hobson, John Bellamie, Lawrence Bromfield, James Stowye, Stephen Estwicke, Richard Vennar, Robert Meade, and has the necessary endorsement and signature of "Elisha Coysh, Doctor in Physicke, sonne and heire of ye within named Richard Coysh," surrendering Dec. 29, 1662, all his inheritance of the within mentioned premises acknowledging to have received “full satisfaction for ye pretended purchase.”.

ST. PAUL'S CHAPTER HOUSE. THE press has noticed the impending use of this fine house as a bank for the term of 21 years. The well-meant protest by architectural students from University College failed, because it came too late and the lease had already been signed. Notwithstanding this, their endeavour was novel and commendable; it was I believe the first -occasion on which a demonstration for such This description of the site is specially a purpose had been held, and if this interest interesting as helping towards the identifidevelops it may yet attain to definite suc-cation of the site of the Bishop of London's cesses and the general reformation of the Palace. Printed reference to this are few custody of National monuments.

The house is well known and has been the subject of several illustrative monographs. Its claims, other than the architecture and decorations, lie in the commemorative importance of the site, which was, prior to the erection of the Chapter House, part of the site of the Bishop of London's Palace.

Useful evidence is provided in an Indenture of Sale by the Commissioners appointed by the Commonwealth to Richard Coyshe or Coyish, "Citizen and Skinner of London on Aug. 15, 1649, for 300l..

"All that ground or soyle nowe or late parcell of or appurteyninge to the capital messuage or Pallace situate in or neare Paulls Churchyard London late called the Bishopp of London's Pallace conteyninge from East to West thirtyfive foote of assize and from North to South Ninety Nine foote of assize being Two Third Parts of the ground alloted and staked out to be sould to build houses upon in Paulls Alley and abutteth West upon a parcell of ground called in the survey thereof the middle parte of the said Pallace conteyninge Two hundred [and] fiftyseven feete in length from East to West alloted for New buildings and sould unto the said Richard Coysh North upon a parcell of the said ground alloted to build houses upon in Paulls

and of small usefulness. Dean Milmau (Annals of St. Paul's'), the leading historian of the Cathedral and its environs has little to say except of Cornelius Burgess who unluckily also purchased Cathedral property from the Parliamentary Committee. Canon Sparrow Simpson (Chapters in the History of Old St. Paul's ') has made some slight research but evidently considered that it did not help to illustrate the annals of the Cathedral, so relatively the subject has been neglected and it is due solely to the architecture of the Chapter House that present-day interest in possible change has been awakened.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

its

"Boss-BENT."-This word, which would seem to be a synonym of "boss-backed," is not recognized in the 'N.E.D.'

Southey visited Selkirk on Sunday, Oct. 6, 1805, and remarks (Commonplace Book, 4th Series, p. 529): "The people dismally ugly, soon old, and then boss-bent."

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

"PARAPET,' A STREET FOOTWAY.-In elevated from one foot to eighteen inches, and 1908 a note of mine appeared (10 S. x. 366), separate the foot-pavement from the road. in which, after remarking that "parapet Throughout the city there is hardly a street unfurnished with this convenience. Where there was the word generally used in Lancashire is width to admit of a broad foot-path, the interval (possibly I should have said South Lan-between the curb and the line of building is filled

cashire) for a street footway, I gave a quotation from a 1766 French book in which the word apparently meant footway.

The New English Dictionary' gives this meaning as used "locally," but has nothing earlier than, 1840, and its one quotation is dated 1900. The Dialect Dictionary' does not give the word. John Chetwode Eustace uses "parapet apparently for “footway" in his Classical Tour through Italy, An. MDCCCII.' I am referring to the fourth edition, published at Leghorn, 1818, vol. iii. In his description of Pompeii he

writes :

"The street which runs from the neighbourhood of the soldiers' quarters to the gate is narrow, that is, only about thirteen feet wide, formed like the Via Appia at Itri and other places, where it remains entire of large stones fitted to each other in their original form, without being cut or broken for the purpose. There are on each side parapets raised about two feet above the middle and about three feet wide." (P. 56.) "The gate has one large central and two less openings on the side, with parapets of the same breadth as the street." (P. 57.)

The footways in Pompeii were of various heights. There are several plates (6, 11, 51, 85) in Sir William Gell's 'Pompeiana,' 1837, in which they do not appear to be at all high. In the description of plate 38, vol. ii., viz., Windows of the Atrium (of the house of the Tragic Poet), Gell writes, pp. 101, 102:

The foot pavement itself is here one foot seven inches higher than the street or vicus.... The vicus, without the footpaths, which are each about three feet nine inches vide, measures caly seven feet six inches in breadth."

up with earth, which has then been covered over with stucco, and sometimes with a coarse mosaic

of brickwork."

Perhaps Eustace was not exact in his measurements. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

[See also 12 S. i. 190, 319.] of the first attempts to use the air was that EARLY EFFORT AT FLYING.-Possibly one reign of King Harold. So confident was he of Eilmer, or Oliver, of Malmesbury, in the of success that, after fitting on a pair of large wings, he threw himself off a lofty tower and is said to have skimmed through breaking both legs in so doing. He ascribed the air for quite a furlong before he fell, his accident to having neglected to fit on a tail for the purpose of balancing. R. B. Upton.

JOHN EGERTON, THIRD EARL OF BRIDGWATER (1646 1701).-A French novel his first wife forms Sloane MS. 1009, ff. founded on the fortunes of this earl and 360-365. This does not appear to be noted J. ARDAGH.

in the 'D.N.B.'

SIR WALTER SCOTT AND FRANCE A

The

CENTURY AGO.-It is not generally known
that Charles X. was the first to introduce
Sir Walter Scott's novels into France.
last legitimist King of France during his
first exile in Britain resided some time at
be the first Frenchman who read Waverley
Holyrood House, Edinburgh, and is said to
on its first appearance. The King, after his
coronation, told the Duke of Northumber
land that the happiest time of his life was

A 'Guide de Pompéi,' by Nicolas Pagano, when he was reading the Vicar of WakeScafati, 1881, p. 27, says, "Toutes les rues Lake' in Scotland. Armand, Comte de Surveillant des fouilles d'antiquité, 6th ed., field' in England and the 'Lady of the

sont bordées de trottoirs.

It is not improbable that "parapet
in Staffordshire where

meant "footway

Pontmartin, who afterwards became a distinguished literary critic, as a small boy was one of the pages at the coronation, and

Eustace was at Sedgley Park school, 1767, four years before his death in his feuilleton

thereabouts-1774, according to the of the Gazette de France (July 17, 1886), 'Dictionary of National Biography.' Appar- gives the following account of the vogue of ently in

P. 56, referring to parapet.'

an unusually

high

I find in Pompeii: its History,

Buildings, and Antiquities,' by Thomas H. Tolstoï, quelle que soit leur vogue auprès de la

"Quel que soit le talent ou, le génie de Pouchkine, de Gogol, de Tourguénéf, de Dostoïesky, de jeunesse lettrée, avide de renouveau, elle n'égalera brillante qui va de 1820 à 1835. Cette fois, ce jamais celle de Walter Scott pendant la phase n'était pas un groupe studieux et curieux, se passionnant pour une littérature étrangère : c'était la

ROBERT CROKE, fl. 1270.-In 'Some Feudal Coats of Arms and Pedigrees' there occurs & Robert Croke who took up the cross in the last Crusade 1270. Can any of your readers say from what part of the country this Robert Croke came, or, better still, inform me to what family he belonged? I have no evidence, but it is just possible

that he may have belonged to the Lancashire Crooks, the senior branch of which held the manor of Crook in the township of Whittle-le-Woods from the twelfth to the sixteenth century. In the short skeleton pedigree given below there is a Robert who would be contemporary with the one named in the above-mentioned work :— Gilbert de Whittle, living circa 1150...... (See 'Lancashire Pipe Rolls,' &c. (Farrer)

I should be grateful for any information sent direct to me at the address below.
Eccleston Park, Prescot, Lancashire.

JOHN BEAUMONT.-The following query appeared at 8 S. viii. 187 :—

"I have an oval miniature on vellum, about three and a half inches by three inches, enclosed within a silver-gilt case with glass; a loop, formed in the shape of a true lover's knot, for suspension. The miniature is probably by Richardson, a portrait painter of some repute early in the eighteenth century, and the portrait is dressed in a grey open coat, coloured waistcoat and frill or lace neckcloth. Who was the John Beaumont above referred to? J. HENRY."

this

Can any one inform me if the writer of query is still alive, or who has possession of the eighteenth century miniature of John Beaumont to which he refers ?

1 Staverton Road, Oxford.

E. BEAUMONT.

PORTRAIT OF LEOPOLD I. OF Belgium.— A fine equestrian life-size painting of King Leopold I. of Belgium was a notable feature for many years of the principal diningroom of the former De Keyser's Royal Hotel at Blackfriars. Where is this picture at present located?

extinct.

J. LANDFEAR LUCAS.

as to

be

F. CROOKS.

EDWARD BOOTY.-Information is sought concerning the life and remains of Edward Booty of Brighton, landscape painter, who exhibited in London between 1846 and 1848. Was he a connexion of Henry R. Booty who exhibited in 1882-3 ?

F. GORDON ROE.

Arts Club, 40 Dover Street, W.1.

KINEMA OR CINEMA ?-I do not know whether the spelling and pronunciation of this word has been discused in N. & Q.' There is, I believe, a Cinematograph Act of Parliament; and if so spelt in the Statute Book, it may be regarded as an authoritative ruling. G. B. M.

THE MAYFLOWER: PETER BROWN.-One

of the passengers was a Peter Brown, carpenter, an ancestor of the renowned John Brown of Harper's Ferry. Could any one state birthplace or county of origin of Peter ?

1 and 2 Whitfield Street, E.C.2.

F. BROWN.

MAUNDRELL'S JOURNEY FROM ALEPPO TO JERUSALEM,' Easter, 1697.-This passed through many editions not only alone, and combined with the same author's 'Journey from Aleppo to Beer on the Euphrates, and to Mesopotamia; but bound up under one title-p -page with Dr. Clayton's translation of the Journal which the Prefetto of Egypt kept of the journey he took in 1722 from Cairo to Mount Sinai and back, and, in at (Mrs.) C. STEPHEN. least one instance, along with Jos. Pitts's 'Faithful Account of the Religion,' &c.,

101 Piccadilly, W. GOUGER.-Information required name of Gouger-believed now to (Mrs.) C. STEPHEN. STAPLETON, TUTOR TO O'CONNELL.-Can give any record of a Brian Stapleton or Bryan Stapylton, tutor to Daniel O'Connell ?

any one

Wootton Cottage, Lincoln.