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" A list of persons that are dead since my Remem-
brance, who had but small beginnings yet dyed
rich, which in a great measure I apprehend was
occasioned by their Industry and Frugallity."
James Calhvell, Esq 40,000
Michael Atkins, Esq 70,000
John Curtis, Esq^ 35,000
Henry Coombe, Esq 50.000
Henry Tonge, Esq 50,000
James Hillhouse, Esq 30,000
Walter Logher 30,000
Henry Hobhouse, Esq 70,000
David Peloquin, Esq 80,000
Joseph Percival, Esq. 70,000
John Lidderdale, Esq 50,000
Walter Jefferies, Esq. 30,000
John Collet, Esq ... 35,000
Jeremiah Ames, Esq 70,000
Stephen Naish, Esq 40,000
Will Gordon, Esq 30,000
Th s Evans, Esq. 40,000
Ric d Meyler, Esq. 30,000
Henry Bright, Esq 50,000
James Reed, Esq 40,000
John Teale, Esq 7,500
John Andrews, Esq 90,000
Richard Farr, Esq 15,000
Jos. Loscomb, Esq 30,000
Th s Hackett, Esq 20,000
Manasseh Whitehead, Esq 30,000
Th s Easton, Esq 15,000
John Pollard, Esq 20,000
W m Tombs, Esq 15,000
John Turner, Esq 40,000
Sydenham Teaste, Esq 30,000
Paul Fisher, Esq 20,000
Th s Foord, Esq 40,000
Zachary Bay ley, Esq 100,000
Leou- Richards, Esq 40,000
Moses Slade, Esq 15,000
Richard Frampton, Esq 30,000
John James (Skinner) 10,000
Peter Wilder, Esq 30 000
John Brickdale, Esq 100,000
John Haynes, Esq 15,000
Richard Blake, Esq 30,000
rl' 1 Chamberlain, Esq. 40,000
Will" 1 Matthews, Esq. 30 000
Will Miller, Esq 190,000
Gought & Burgess, Drapers 70,000
Will Arnold Taylor 10,000
2,027,500 R. H. C.
[The total is not quite right.]
FLEET STREET, No. 53 The setting back of the south side and the expiration of lease- holds are responsible for the demolition of a number of interesting houses in this thoroughfare. One of the latest to disappear is Xo. 53, long famous as the print ware- house of Messrs. Whittle <fe Laurie. Noble {' Memorials of Temple Bar,' 117) informs us that Philip Overton, "at the Golden Buck," published here some of Hogarth's early plates; and at the commencement of the nineteenth century it " was known by the
print of the Devil and St. Dunstan occu-
pying a permanent place in the tenant's
window." From here, between 1750 and
1800, Ilobert Sayer and R. Sayer & James
Bennett issued many interesting prints. By
1817, when the premises had presumably
been rebuilt, Messrs. Whittle & Laurie are
the tenants. In 1822 Richard Holmes Laurie
is carrying on the business. The building
consisted of shop and side entrance, with
three upper floors and attic story lit by two
dormer windows. The first-floor windows
opened to the ground and gave access to small
iron balconies. ALECK ABRAHAMS.
"THE NORE." I find no mention of the Xore in the ' Century Dictionary ' or in Webster. I suppose it has been regarded as a place-name.
There is a reference to it in the works of Taylor the Water- Poet. A piece of his, called ' A Discovery by Sea from London to Salis- bury,' is printed in the 'Antiquarian Reper- tory,' iii. 239 (ed. 1808); and at pp. 241-2 he says :
Thus downe alongst the spacious Coast of Kent By Grane and Sheppies Islands downe we went ; We past the Nowre-head, and the sandy shore Vntill we came to th' East end of the Nowre.
That is to say, they passed the estuary of the Medway, which has Grain Island on the west and Sheppey on the east. A long stretch of sand extends from the east of Grain Island, and the far end of it is marked by the Nore light, beyond Sheerness ; and this is, prac- tically, the end of the right bank of the Thames. I understand " the Nowre-head " to mean this very point, which may also be called "the East end of the Nowre," i.e., of the shore.
For it may well be that the Nore is equiva- lent to then ore, dative case of the ore ; where ore represents the A.-S. ora, "a border, edge, margin, bank, mostly in place-names," as in Windsor (A.-S. Windles-Ora), Bognor (A.-S. Bogan-ora); see Toller, 'A.-S. Diet,,' and Kemble, ' Cod. Dipl ,' iii. p. xxxv. The A.-S. ora may very well be a native word, not borrowed from, but cognate with, the Latin ora, with the same sense.
It is well known that JVash arose from atten ash, "at the ash," and that there are many similar cases ; ten being a reduction of A.-S. tham, dat. case masc. of the def. article. The dative is required by the frequent use of at ; and the A.-S. ora was masculine.
WALTER VV. SKEAT.
ISLE OF DOGS. It may be worth recording in 'N. & Q.' that in The Boston Herald (Lincolnshire), 11 August, 18-40, there is a>
