12 s. ix. JULY so, i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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Bell Friday Street, west side 1732 'Parish Clerks' Remarks of London, p. 394.
1745 Rocque's 'Survey.'
1749 'London Topographical Record.' 1907, iv., 96.
Bell Aldersgate, two doors from the Barbican 1732 ' Parish Clerks' Remarks of London." p. 382.
1745 Rocque's ' Survey,' Thornburv ii.. 227.
Bell (One Bell) North of St. Mary-le-Strand Church 1714 Marquis of Ailsbury MS. 1898, p. 217
1732 'Parish Clerks' Remarks of London,' p. 383.
1745 Rocque's 'Survey.'
1754 Public Advertiser, Feb. 15.
Fell and Dragon Hog Lane, St. Leonard's, Shoreditch. D.N.B., art., T. Topham.
(To be continued.)
Christ's Hospital and the Navy. On
his recent visit (May 12) to Christ's Hospital
at Horsham, the Prince of Wales, who is
President of the institution, emphasized, in
his address to the boys, the manner in which
the traditions of the school had been handed
down intact, and spoke with pride of its roll
of honour, which contains nearly 400 names
of " Old Blues " who gave their lives in the
Great War. The Heir Apparent did not dis-
criminate between the naval and the mili-
tary services rendered by the long list of
those who won distinctions, including two
Victoria Crosses ; but it is of special interest
to recall an early connexion Christ's Hospital
had with the work of training for the Navy.
In the Calendar of Treasury Books
1672-1675 (pp. 379-80) is noted Treasurer
Osborne's subscription of a docquet, dated
Aug., 1673, of a declaration of the King's
pleasure for erecting and establishing a
foundation within Christ's Hospital in Lon-
don for the maintenance of 40 poor boys to
be chosen out of the Blue Coat boys there,
who are to be educated in a mathematical
school to be built for that purpose within
the said Hospital until their proficiency in
arithmetic and navigation shall have fitted
them for public service, which boys are to be
called the children of the New Royal Founda-
tion and to be distinguished from the other
boys by a special badge in cognizance to be
worn upon their blue coats : for which the
King grants to the Governor of the said
Hospital 1,000 a year for seven years from
June 24 last, .with licence to him to lay out
the same in the purchase of lands in fee
simple to the uses aforesaid, and to purchase
any other lands not exceeding 1,000 per
annum to them and their successors, not-
withstanding the Statute of Mortmain.
Doubtless, those intimately acquainted
with Christ's Hospital can tell the subsequent
history of this special grant, a number of
payments on account of which are to be found
in the Treasury Books' Calendar above noted.
ALFRED BOBBINS.
SAUNDERS WELCH. Johnson's close as-
sociation with Welch is recorded by Boswell
in chapter 61, which deals with the vear
1777.
Johnson maintained a long and intimate friend-
ship with Mr. Welch, who succeeded the celebrated
Henry Fielding as one of his Majesty's justices of
the peace for Westminster ; kept a regular office
for the police of that great district, and discharged
his important trust for many years faithfully and
ably. Johnson, who had an eager and unceasing
curiosity to know human life in all its variety, told
me that he attended Mr. Welch in his office for a
whole winter. ,
Many writers, on this statement, have
alleged that Welch was Fielding's successor
at Bow Street e.g., Larwood in his ' History
of Sign-boards,' in explaining the derivation
of the Welch Head in Dyott Street, St.
Giles, says, " Saunders Welch kept a regular
office of the police of that district in which
he succeeded Fielding."
As a fact Fielding was succeeded by his
blind half-brother John, and Mr. Austin
Dobson, in his ' Life of Fielding,' declines
to accept Boswell's statement. Says Mr.
Dobson :
John Fielding succeeded his brother at Bow
Street, though the post is sometimes claimed on
Boswell's authority for Mr. Welch. The mistake
no doubt arose from the circumstance that they
frequently worked in concert.
During the whole time Henry Fielding was
a magistrate, Welch occupied the post of
High Constable of Holborn, and Welch
carried out many raids on gaming-houses
