DISEASE" (cli. 389). The earliest author's book on the East India House,

instance of this phrase is in Thomas Mid-
dleton's The family of love,' Act V., Scene
iii. (167). Other references will be found
in Bacon's 'Of seditions and troubles
(1612); Buckingham's Speech in the House
of Lords (1675); Dryden-' Juvenal,' Satire
xvi., 1., 31, and Le Sage's Gil Blas Bk.
XII., Ch. viii.
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

who was the first Governor. There follows
the story of the Crosby House days, in which
falls the curious episode of the arrival and
stay in London of the ambassador from Per-
sia to the court of James I.. A good chapter
is that about Thomas Woodall, the Company's
Surgeon-General in the seventeenth century:
his equipment, the salary he received, his
methods, his lealings with the Barber-Sur-
geon's Company, and the various other parti-
culars illustrate the general position of
medicine and surgery as well as the working
imes of the Company. Charles II made use
of the Company's facilities to get birds and
beasts (these of the smaller kinds) to add
te his collection. James I was anxious to
Łecome a stock-holder in the Company, and
did fully as much as became his royal dignity
to force himself upon them-but without
effect. Nor was Charles I more successful.
James II, however, both managed, when Duke
of York, to possess himself of £3,000 of
stock and, as King, acquired another £7,000
by commutation therefor of the substantial
annual present which the Company was wont
to make to the Crown. Of these holdings the
£7,000 was transferred after the Revolution to
William and Mary, and passed eventually to
Anne, who surrendered it in 1703, on the
occasion of a complicated re-organisation of
the Company. The chapters on the Company's
possessions in Poplar-their Hospital and
their Chapel, with the officials and ministers
connected with them- and that on the school
at Bromley ('an Anglo-Indian Boarding School')
should be noted by students of London history.
There
chapters on John Bruce, his-
toriographer of the Company; and on Warren
Hastings as writer of Bengal; but these must
yield in interest to the adventures of John
Dean, single survivor of a number of sailors
who refused to abandon the Company's ship
Sussex, disabled in a storm near the Cape

are

of Good Hope, in 1738. The book concludes
with a substantial account of the India Board.
Sir William writes readably and eschews
padding. The illustrations are good.
Survey of London. Vol. x. The Parish of St.
Margaret, Westminster, Part I. (Batsford,
for the London County Council, £2 2s.).
THE Parish of St. Margaret's, Westminster,
or rather that part of it we are now con-
cerned with, presents chiefly survivals from
the early eighteenth century onwards. Mr. G.
Topham Forrest has made the drawings and
illustrations, and Mr. Montagu H. Cox (editor
for the London County Council) contributes
the historical notes. The areas dealt with are
Parliament Street, Great George Street, Old
Queen Street, and Queen Anne's Gate, conclud-
ing with an account of Queen Square Chapel,
Queen Anne's Lodge, and the Blue Coat School.
Eighteenth century domestic architecture-in
which the prominent features are front doors,
stair-cases, cornices and mantlepieces, together
with a few ceilings-forms the main topic of
this part. The names of former occupiers-

from

down to 1840-give a shadowy life to the houses,
especially where as often-biographical notes
further enliven them. The most interesting
historical detail, belonging to the background
of the scene, is the establishment,
the rate-books, of Cromwell's house in King
Street having been at the north end on the
east side. The editor is not able to substan-
tiate the claim that the Blue Coat School was
designed by Wren; but built years before his
death and plainly under the influence of his
manner, it may well owe something to his
advice. The section on Queen Square Chapel
brings together all that is known of that
demolished place of worship, including results
of search in the records of the Dean and
Chapter of Westminster. In this chapel
preached Antonio Gavin, a Spaniard who
joined the Anglican communion and was given
leave by the Bishop of London to officiate here
in the Spanish language. This was in 1716;
later chaplains, if they enjoyed less popularity
than Gavin, seem to have been more reputable
persons; only seven names, however, have been
recovered. The chapel was on the upper floor
of a building, which on the ground-floor con-
sisted of coach-houses. After disuse for wor-
ship about 1855 it served as a ragged school,
and as a parish room, and since 1890 has
been converted into offices. An elaborately
carved doorway which once belonged to it, is
now preserved in the premises of the Royal
Drawing Society at 18, Queen Anne's Gate.

This volume contains 134 plates with eighteen illustrations in the text, a map, and numerous heraldic illustrations. There is no need to emphasize the value of this Survey.

The Ancestry of William Fleetwood, Bishop of
St. Asaph and Ely. By R. W. Buss.
(London, printed for and published by the
Author. 7s. 6d.).

OUR correspondent, Mr. R. W. Buss, whose
work upon the Fleetwood family is well
known to our readers, has had the good fortune
to find evidence which settles the problem of
the ancestry of the Bishop of St. Asaph, be
loved of Queen Anne. He proves to have
belonged to the Fleetwoods of Upholland in
Lancashire, his grandfather, William, having
been the third son of Edward Fleetwood of
Upholland who, then aged about 100 years.
was living in 1634, according to the visitation
of London 1633-35 (Harl. Soc. XV. 278). This
short monograph gives the Fleetwood pedigree
from the said Edward to his great-greatgrand-
children, of whom one was the Bishop's only
son, Charles, who died without issue. Edward's
third son, William, grandfather of the Bishop
is revealed to us by the will of Geoffrey the
second son, of Blackfriars, London; he was to
have the profit of a mill at Rough Park,
Upholland.

William had six children, of whom Geoffrey, Clerk in the Ordnance Office at the Tower and father of the Bishop, was the third. Mr. Buss's notes set out several useful particulars of these persons.

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He finished it before he left Paris; and by the late autumn it had been revised. The handbag containing the manuscript, with was left for a moment unguarded on the G. W.R. station been recovered. He set himself, in London, at Reading; it disappeared and has never during the following winter, to re-write the book. It now grew to an immense length; an experimental abridgment was made of it; publication was being prepared for, when unfortunately Lawrence was disturbed in his hiding place, and consigning his MS. to the Bodleian Library, sought obscurity again. to issue a private edition very much de luxe, When he was persuaded at last he yielded for two reasons: he wished few people to read the full story; and he wished to make an experiment in typography and illustration with no restrictions beyond what his own plans and taste should impose.

ON Friday of last week the Select Com- Thus he has not only found his own printers,

mittee on Peerages in Abeyance issued their report. Besides certain conditions concerned with propriety and integrity the Commission submits to His Majesty recommendation that in the absence of special reasons to the contrary no abeyance should be terminated the first commencement of which occurred more than a hundred years before the presentation of the petition, and that no petition should be allowed to proceed where the petitioner represents less than onethird of the entire dignity. It appears that there are many scores of possible baronies of great antiquity not accounted for, and that there are at present fifty-one baronies now in abeyance in which the necessary sittings could be proved. Eleven of these are under attainder, and eight, at least, have been subject of petition for termination without success. It is thought that thirty-four are now liable to be claimed.

THOSE who are interested in Oriental history and affairs should not miss the article on Lawrence of Arabia which Dr. Hogarth communicates to The Times of Dec. 13. Its occasion is the appearance privately, and having been oversubscribed at thirty guineas-of Colonel Lawrence's account of the Arab revolt against the Turk and his exploits in the course of it. In an abridged form and at a more moderate price the book is to be published next year. Dr. Hogarth tells how, in the spring of 1919, Lawrence sat down in the temporary home of the Emir Feisal in the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne at Paris to write down the story.

and commissioned artists, and revised and
cut down his text, but has performed this
last operation with an eye to certain effects
on the printed page.
has exceeded his estimate and resources,
The cost, however,
and
so he has been brought to consent to publi-
cation of an abridged edition.
Hogarth says, only subscribers to the édition
As Dr.
de luxe-with some others, fellow-workers
with Lawrence, who are to receive presen-
tation copies docked of the illustrations-
will see the story presented as he wishes it
told.

WE have received the November number of
torical Research. The first place is given to
the Bulletin of the Institute of His-
the article by Dr. W. G. Leland on the Inter-
American Council of Learned Societies. The
national Union of Academies and the
former was organized in Paris in 1919, with
the official title of Union Académique Inter-
nationale. Among the undertakings which
it has in hand are
Vases; a Dictionary of Medieval Latin; and
a Corpus of Ancient
a Catalogue of Alchemical Manuscripts.
The American Council has brought about
co-operation of American scholars on the
Dictionary of Medieval Latin. This Coun-
cil has also begun a catalogue of the MSS.
of foreign origin (ancient, oriental, media-
val and modern) which are now in libraries
and collections in the United States. Mr.
F. J. Weaver begins a series of notes on
Anglo-French Diplomatic Relations 1558-
1603. Under Notes and News' the Editor
prints an important letter from Dr. J. H.