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of ninety-one of the City companies, and
illustrations appear of the following halls :
Cloth Workers', Vintners', Drapers', Iron-
mongers', Goldsmiths', Grocers', Fishmongers',
Mercers', Merchant Taylors', and Haber-
dashers'. On p. 429 it is recorded that the
"Scriveners had formerly a Hall in Noble
Street, but having been much reduced, they
sold the latter- to the Company of Coach-
Makers, who are the present owners." On
the same page we find that
"Plaisterers' Hall is situated on the north side of
Addle Street ; it is of brick, and its internal decora-
tions were originally in the best st7le of the Com-
pany's profession, but these have greatly suffered
through the appropriations made of this building,
which has been rented by various tenants for dif-
ferent purposes : of late years it has been occupied
as a Dancing School Music Room," &c.
On p. 441 we have "Parish Clerks' Hall, an old and irregular brick edifice on the west side of Wood Street, is now occupied by a whalebone cutter." In connexion with the Tylers and Brickmakers' Company it is stated on p. 426 that " the Hall was built in 1627, but has long been deserted by the Company, and is now a Jews' Synagogue ; in the centre of the roof is a handsome cupola."
Founders' Hall (p. 425) " is now rented by a respectable congregation of Protestant Dissenters, and it has been used as a Dissent- ing Meeting-House for upwards of a century."
Masons' Hall (p. 424) "is a small stone edifice in Masons' Alley, Basinghall Street ; it is now rented by a carpet manufacturer."
As a liveryman and freeman of the City of London, I naturally take a great interest in the City companies and have much informa- tion about them. If I can be of any further assistance to A. F. H., I shall be glad to place my services at his disposal.
CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL D.
Baltimore House, Bradford.
- STEER TO THE NOR' - NOR' - WEST ' (10 th
S. ii. 427, 490 ; iii. 13). Vol. c. of Temple Bar, published in April, 1894, contains 'An Alphabetical List of the Titles of all Articles appearing in the previous Ninety - nine Volumes,' but I fail to find any story with the above title.
EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.
The name of the captain who commanded the vessel on which the apparition was seen is not mentioned in the version of the story given in 'Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World.' Mr. R. Dale Owen states that he had it from Capt. J. S. Clarke, of the schooner Julia Hallock, who heard it from a Mr. Robert Bruce, chief mate in 1828 on the
"barque trading between Liverpool and St.
John's, New Brunswick," when "Steer to the
Nor'- West " was in his presence written on a
slate in the captain's cabin by some imma-
terial visitant. ST. SWITHIN.
MOLLY LEPEL'S DESCENT (10 th S. iii. 127). A. F. S. asks to be directed to an article proving that the beautiful Molly Lepel, Lady Hervey, was of Danish descent. John Wilson Croker, who edited 'Memoirs of the Reign of George II.,' in two volumes, published by Murray in 1848, states at p. 17 of his ' Biographical Notice ' that she was " daughter and sole heiress of Brigadier- General Nicholas- Lepell, and of the family to whom belonged the little island of Sark." Croker adds, " I find in] the magazines for 1743 the death of Nicholas Lepell, Esq., land proprietor of Sark." This, he remarks, probably gave the French tinge to Lady Hervey's tastes and manners, a subject of frequent pleasantry to- her friends and family. Lady Louisa Stuart, in 'Literary Anecdotes,' writes that Lady Hervey's manners " had a foreign tinge which some called affected, but they were gentle, easy, dignified, and altogether exquisitely pleasing." JAMES WATSON.
Folkestone.
Mary, Lady Hervey, according to ' D.N.B./ was the daughter of Brigadier - General Nicholas Lepell, who had been page of honour to Prince George of Denmark, and in 1699 1 obtained an Act of Naturalization. He was, therefore, probably a Dane. S. B.
A. F. S. will find this subject fully dis- cussed in the 'Letter-Books' of John Hervey, first Earl of Bristol, edited by the Rev. S. H. A. Hervey, published by E. Jackson, Wells, 1894. The reference to Molly Lepel's descent is in the supplementary volume containing the ' Diary of John Hervey,' p. 287.
J. F. FRY.
Upton, Didcot. [ME. E. H. COLEMAN refers to 9 th S. xi. 388.]
ST. SEPULCHRE (10 th S. iii. 101). St. Sepulchre Gate in Doncaster, so called from a church of the Holy Sepulchre that has disappeared, is commonly called " Spooker Gate." Asa companion to "St. Pulchre," I may mention "S. Tulius," whose name (sic) appears under a figure of a king with a ship, on an old English embroidered cope-orphrey at TJshaw College St. Olave, of course, whence Tooley Street and "S. Tulius."
J. T. F.
Durham.
The mistake pointed out by B. W. in the interpretation of the above dedicatory title
