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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. x. NOV. u, wu.
WORDSWORTH AND ' THE CAMBRIDGE HIS-
TORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.' There is a
curious slip in the article on Burke in vol. xi.
of the work named, where (p. 27) Words-
worth is spoken of as " Wordsworth the
post -master." Wordsworth was a stamp
distributor, but in his day the two offices
were not combined, as in many cases they are
now. It is one of the grievances of provin-
cial sub -postmasters that they have to do
the work of the old stamp distributors with-
out their pay. C. C. B.
MEMORIAL TO SPURGEON. (See ante, p. 303. ) - There is a large bronze statue of Spurgeon in the entrance hall of the Baptist Church House (opened in 1903) in Southampton Tiow, Kingsway. In an angle of the same building, visible from the street, is a statue of John Bunyan. WILMOT CORFIELD.
" DAUD ' ' = GEORGE. A Kossendale corre- spondent tells me that " Daud " is quite commonly used for " George " by the natives of his district. One George Nuttall, son of Robert, is known to his friends and acquaintances as " Daud o' Bob's " ; and George H. Heap as " Daud Harry Yep." One " John Fiz Daude " was a tenant of Thomas Wake, lord of Liddel, in Derbyshire, in 1320 ; " Ralph son of William Daudson " is named in 1321 (' Cal. of Patent Rolls, 1317-21'). W. F.
" DERATIZATION." The following, which appeared in The Standard of 13 Oct., may be worth noting as an example of official imprimatur to what seems to be a newly coined word :
" ' DERA.TIZATION.'
- ' The Board of Trade has issued an official
statement recording that the Cuban Quarantine Department has published the withdrawal of a former notice in view of the fact that since the last case of bubonic plague had been confirmed at Havana no infected rats had been found.
" The Board of Trade communication gives a translation of the circular, in the course oi which it more than once uses the curious wore ' deratization,' meaning, apparently, the clearing away of rats."
W. B. H.
HOLCROFT : THE COUNTESS DE
MARSAC. The interesting Bibliography oi this author which is running through the present volume of ' N. & Q.' reminds me that there is a story of Holcroft's marriage with Marguerite de Marsac, or the Countess de Marsac, somewhere about 1780, and that the Countess's son, Charles " Marsack,' returning from India about that date wel
provided with money, purchased Caversham
Park, Oxfordshire. At 7 S. xii. 409, 478, there
are references to Major Charles Marsack of
/aversham. I am told that this man is
neiitioned in Hazlitt's Life of Holcroft.
The Countess is said to have been buried in
- he old Marylebone graveyard in January,
L785. The "daughter of" Marguerite de Marsac (or Holcroft), named Margaretta, is
- laimed as an ancestress by the Roome
amily of Yorkshire (see ' Burke's Landed Gentry,' 1905).
Thos. Holcroft is stated to have been married four times, but only two of his wives' names are recorded : the second, Matilda Tipler ; the fourth, Louisa Mercier. Was Marguerite de Marsac one of the others ? Perhaps MR. COLBY may have discovered something of interest in this onnexion. G. J., F.S.A.
" FORLORN HOPE " SKIRMISHERS. See Leonard Digges's (the Elder's) ; Stratioticos ' (London, 1579), p, 155. L. L. K.
(gmms.
WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
THE GREEK CHURCH IN LONDON. I am.
collecting particulars relating to the various
places of worship used from time to time
by the Greek community in London, and
am desirous of obtaining the assistance of
your readers. Their first church was in
Hog Lane, Soho, subsequently known as
Crown Street, and now as Charing Cross
Road. St. Mary's Church stands on the
site. The Greek congregation appear to
to have begun the erection of their church in
1677 ; but in 1684 it passed into the posses-
sion of the French Protestants. A full
account of the early history of this interest-
ing building is (I am told) given by the Vicar
of St. Mary's, Charing Cross Road (the
Rev. R. Gwynne), in The Builder, 2 Oct.,
1875, p. 883. It seems to have been the
intention of the community to build another
church, but I can find no record of this
having been done. As far as my present
information goes, the Greeks had no settled
place of worship until 1838, when they began
to assemble at 9, Finsbury Circus. They
removed about 1.850 to a permanent church
in London Wall; and in 1877 they migrated
to Moscow Road, Bayswater, W., where
they erected a magnificent building.
