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NOTES AND QUERIES.
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JUDGES ADDRESSED AS " YOUR LORD-
SHIP " (11 S. x. 89). The earliest reported
instances known to me of judges, not en-
nobled, being thus addressed are :
1. Trial of John Udall for felony, Croydon Assizes, 1590, coram Mr. Baron Clarke and Lord Keeper Puckering, from the pri- soner's own MS., in which he loosely de- scribes both as " Judge," and styles Pucker- ing " Puck." The prisoner uses the familiar " May it please your Lordships " several times." On the other hand, Mr. Daulton, " of counsel for the Crown," opens " My masters, vou of the jury," &c. (1 St. Tr. 1277 sq.).
2. Arraignment of Sir Thomas Monson for the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury (2 St. Tr. 950), 1615, where Sir Lawrence Hyde, Queen's Attorney, addresses Sir Edward Coke, L.C.J., thus : "I have looked into this business, and I protest, my Lord, he is as guilty as the guiltiest."
A Master of the Bench has kindly drawn my attention to Tomlins's ' Law Dictionary ' (1820), i., sub verb. ' Judge,' where I find :
" The Chief Justice of the King's Bench hath the title of Lord whilst he enjoys his office.... The Chief Justice of the Common Pleas hath also the title of Lord whilst he is in office."
The Year - Books in the later period indicate that " Sire " was the mode of address by counsel to the Bench, and the Chiefs do not seem to have been distin- guished by a more deferential style.
It is suggested that counsel, having to address the Lord Chief Justice sitting " in bane " with his puisnes as " My Lord," did not discriminate, and hence all high judicial officers, from the Lord Chief Baron to the Recorder of London, were so styled.
Be it observed, however, that a puisne to-day refers to " my Lord's observations," &c., where he cites the Lord Chief Justice, and not, as in other cases, to " my brother's observations," &c. ERIC WATSON.
ORIGIN OF STREET-XAMES (11 S. x. 289). There cannot be much doubt as to the origin of these names. Stow supplies an answer to the first in his ' Survey,' p. 363 (Kin^sford's edition, vol. ii. p. 10), where he writes as follows :
" Next adjoyning to this Queene Hithe, on the West side thereof, is Salt Wharffe, named of salt taken up, measured and sold there. The next is Stew lane, of a stew or hotte house there kept. After that is Timber Hithe, or Timber street, so called of Timber or Boordes there taken up and wharffed : it is in the Parish of saint Marie fcomers hithe, as I read in the fiftie six of Henrie the third, and in the ninth of Edward the second."
As to the second, Little Durweston
Street is on the Portman estate, and is
evidently so called after a village of that
name in N. Dorset, of which living Lord
Portman is patron. ALAN STEWART.
BAKER OF ASHCOMBE (11 S. x. 270). A reference to ' Debrett's Baronetage ' for 1815 and subsequent issues shows that Sir Edward Baker Littlehales (afterwards Baker) r 1st Baronet, creation 1802, and his two im- mediate successors were located at Ash- combe, Sussex, until at least 1832. The Official Roll of Baronets gives the creatory designation as "of Wembley."
ARTHUR G. M. HESILRIGE,
Ed. 'Debrett.' [MR. GRUNDY-NEWMAN also thanked for reply.]
BONAR (11 S. x. 190, 237, 277). I have not Bardsley's ' Surnames ' at hand, but the origin of this name is obvious, and will be found in the ' Oxford Dictionary.' Bonair is an old Anglo-French word, shortened from debonnaire, and signifying " gentle, cour- teous, affable." In use from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century, it was variously spelt bonere, boner, boneyre, and honour, Perhaps the most distinguished bearer of the name was Bonner, the exemplary bishop of Reformation days. But in earlier times the surnames "Le Bonur " and " Le Bon- ere" probably did reflect the character of the individuals to whose courtesy and gentle- ness their neighbours paid this tribute. Fortunati nimium, to have lived in days when chivalry was something more than a name. W. F. PRIDEAUX.
RENAMING LONDON STREETS (11 S. x. 250). In the reign of Edward IV. the High Street between St. Paul's and Ludgate was known as Bower Rowe i.e., Bowyers' or Bowmaker Row. Adjoining St. Martin's, Ludgate, stood, before the year 1760, one of the City gates. Outside this gate was Ludgate Hill, and within the gate Ludgate Street, mentioned by Pepys 7 Sept., 1666, which name is repeated in all maps down to Kelly's, 1865, and was changed to Ludgate Hill not long afterwards.
Blowbladder Lane occurs in Pepys, 1 Aug., 1667; Butcher Hall Street in Noorthouck's 'Hist, of London,' 1772; Butcher Hall Lane in Rocque's map, 1746, and in Pigot & Co.'s 'Directory, ' 1823-4. King Edward Street appears in Kelly's map, 1865.
Tyburn Lane is mentioned by Noort- houck, 1772, and Park Lane in Horwood's map, 1794.
