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to give dramatic performances here, was
probably the first date when it became a
theatre.
The subsequent remarkable mutations of this house are of great interest. Its history has been written and published within recent years, but for the moment 1 cannot recall the name of the author. Vide Mr. Barton Baker's ' The London Stage,' vol. ii. p. 36 ; also Cunningham's ' London,' Timbs, and several similar works. ALECK ABRAHAMS.
39, Hillmarton Road.
SERJEANTSON FAMILY OF HANLITH, YORKS (10 th S. ii. 250). If other information be lacking, is not the first consideration the probable origin of the surname? Walker's ' Dictionary ' tells us that " surnames origin- ally designated occupation, place of residence, or some particular thing or event that related to the person." li Serjeantson " seems to imply son of some one known commonly in his time as "The Sergeant":
" This word 'Sergeant ' is used in Britton for an Officer belonging to the County ; and the same which Bracton in his Fifth Book, cap. 4, num. 2, calls Servientem Hundredi, and is in truth no other than Bayliff of the Hundred. And the Steward of a Manor is called Serviens Manerii : Coke, vol. iv. Copyhold Cases, fol. 21 a." Cowell.
More details concerning this family have not been found by the present writer than the following, from The Craven Herald in 1901, over the signature " R. B. Cragg." " The monks of Fountains were the chief over- lords or proprietors in this p'sh " (Hanlith). "In the Abbey's rent roll for 1357 I find one called Scberlantson " (? Scheriantson). "In 1361 one Eich' 1 Serjeantson held a cottage of the Abbot at Malham" (an adjoining hamlet).
"In the poll tax of Rich. II., of 1379, a Will
S n and his wife lived at Kirkby - Malham
[another adjoining hamlet], and they paid 4f/. In 1530 this family was settled at Hanlith, and must have been yeomen. In 1569 the 'Rising of the North ' found the head of the family siding with
the Nortons At the dissolution of the Abbeys
by Henry VIII. Hanlith was granted to John Lam- bert, whose grandson Josias, about 1610, sold it to the Serjeantsons ; and they have held it ever since."
TYKE.
LONDON CEMETERIES IN 1860 (10 th S. ii. 169, 296, 393, 49G, 535; iii. 56). I am extremely obliged to COL. PRIDEAUX for replying so kindly and fully to my question respecting the burial-ground in White Horse Street, Stepney. From what he says I have no doubt it is the Stepney Meeting Ground, near Salmon's Lane, which I remember to have seen.
With regard to the East London Cemetery, closed, as MR. liAClilCHAKL informs us, in 1854, 1 may say that I have now located its
say.
W
site. From a map issued with ' The Pictorial
Handbook of London ' (Bohn, 1854), it appears
to have been a plot of ground lying a little
to the north-west of the Commercial Gas
Works, near the point where Ben Jonson
Road joins Harford Street. Whether the
site is now built over or not I am unable to-
I JOHN T. PAGE.
est Haddon, Northamptonshire.
TYRRELL FAMILY (10 th S. iii. 69). Has your correspondent consulted 3 rd S. xii. ; 4 th S. iv. r v. ; 6 th S. iii. ; 7 th S. ix. ; 8 th S. ii., iv., which furnish many particulars respecting this family ] EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.
71, Brecknock Road.
In my experience Lipscomb is always useful, but not always exact.
I have seen it stated that a subsequent owner by purchase of the Thornton estate caused the old Tyrrell monuments or tomb- stones to be thrown into the River Ouse, which flows close by. This is almost in- credible, though not impossible. If true, it is possible that they may now be in a better state of preservation than they would have been in air exposed to wind and frost. Those interested should investigate on the spot.
A cabdriver now claims the Tyrrell baronetcy.
A short article on the Tyrrell family appeared a few months ago in The People. LLEWELYN LLOYD.
Blake House, Winslow, Bucks.
AlXSTY (10 th S. ii. 25, 97, 455, 516). I have not an unlimited range over topographical works, but I can find no mention of Ainsty except as regards a district about York. MR. ARTHUR HALL seems to know of an Ainsty in Cambridgeshire ; but Prof. Skeat does not include it in his 'Place-names of Cambridgeshire ' (Cambridge Antiquarian Society), a fact which is for me very sig- nificant. I cannot, of course, accept the suggestion that ain and an must be equiva- lent. ST. SWITHMT.
' PARADISE LOST ' OF 1751 (10 th S. iii. 68). This is clearly a further reprint of the "smaller edition," of which I possess the ninth issue. Of this, the title-page (single) is the same as CANON HEWITT'S, but is dated 1711, and the name of Jacob Tonson appears alone as publisher. It is faced by a portrait of Milton, with an epigraph by Dryden. The volume contains (1) the dedication to Lord Sommers, (2) the poem in Latin by Dr. Barrow, signed S. B., M.D., (3) the poem of Andrew Mar veil, 'The Verse.' Many of the plates show marks of having been signed,
