98 NOTES AND QUERIES. [ J8 s. ix, J^Y 30, mi.
Consequently the discovery of bones in excavations in Silver Street referred to by H. F. F. supplies interesting corroboration.
Macaulay remarked of these fields:—"It was popularly believed that the earth was deeply tainted with infection, and could not be disturbed without imminent risk to human life." Consistently with this view was established on the site Carnaby Market, clearly shown in Rocque's 'Survey' of 1745. J. Paul de Castro.
POEMS FOB CHILDREN, TITLES WANTED
(12 S. vi. 67). I find the subjoined adver-
tisements in Charles Swain's ' Art and
Fashion,' London, Virtue Brothers and Com-
pany, 1, Amen Corner, Paternoster Row,
1863.
Nursey Rhymes, an illustrated edition.
By the same authors.
Original Poems for Infant Minds.
Select Poetry for Children, by Joseph Payne.
I may note that Charles Swain, the Man-
chester Poet, was my father's cousin by
the marriage of my grandfather's sister,
both aliens in this country.
FRED. L. TAVARE.
22, Trentham Street, Pendleton, Manchester.
OAK SNUFF-BOX FROM FOUNDATION-PILE
OF OLD LONDON BRIDGE (12 S. ix. 31, 76).
A gavel made of oak from a foundation -pile
of Old London Bridge is in the possession of
the Lodge of Antiquity, No. 2. It had
originally two silver plates, one of which bore
the Arms of the Society of Master Carpenters,
the other the inscription :
This mallet, which is formed from one of the
oak piles of Old London Bridge erected in the reign
of Henry II., A.D. 1176, was presented to the
Society of Master Carpenters by Mr. Thomas
Grissell, Dec., 1833.
These are now covered by two silver-gilt
plates, one bsaring the Arms of the Lodge
of Antiquity, the other the inscription :
Upon the dissolution of the Society of Master
Carpenters, this mallet was returned to the donor,
Mr. Thomas Grissell, the builder of the present
Houses of Parliament, who, A.D. 1869, gave it to his
brother, Mr. Henry Grissell, who gave it to the
L. of A.
In a letter accompanying the presentation
Mr. Henry Grissell stated that the piece
of oak was in 1833 in the possession of an
old member of the Court of Common Council
of the City of London, and that he gave it
to Mr. Thomas Grissell, who was then Master
of the Society of Master Carpenters.
C. W. FIREBRACE, Capt.
I cannot trace any connexion between
the Rev. Wm. Jolliffe and the present London
Bridge, opened in 1831 This bridge was
designed by George Rennie, a Scotch engineer
and architect, and his brother, Sir John
Rennie, another engineer, supervised the
carrying out of the work. Jolliffe's name
is not in the index of ' Ency. Brit.' (9th ed.),
r nor in Haydn's ' Die. of Biog.'
ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
MARTIN (MARTEN) (12 S. viii. 433). In-
formation about one of the Martins men-
tioned in the * Diary of Samuel Pepys ; will
i be found in H. R. Plomer's ' Dictionary of
i Booksellers and Printers, who were at work
! in England, Scotland, and Ireland, from
| 1641 to 1667,' where we find :
John Martin or Martyn. Mentioned as a book-
| seller at the Bell in St. Paul's Churchyard from
1649 to 1680. He was in partnership with James
- Allestry (also mentioned by Pepys) and succeeded
! him as publisher to the Royal Society. Refer- ] ences to him cease in 1680. From references under the name of Allestry i we find that, during the rebuilding of St. Paul's | Churchyard, the partners moved into Duck Lane (now Little Britain) amongst the other booksellers, returning to the Churchyard after under the old sign. As Pepys's references to Martin do not begin until 1667-8, it may well be that it vas the position Martin held with the Royal Society which brought the diarist in contact with him. . W. H. WHITEAR. Chiswick. REFERENCE WANTED (12 S. viii. 471; ix. 56). Professor Bensly quotes in your issue of 16th inst. Goethe's saying in the third division of his ' Maximen und Re- flexionen,' " Es ist nichts schrecklicher, als eine thatige Unwissenheit," but Goethe expressed the same thought in somewhat different words at the conclusion of the fourth paragraph from the end of the first division, as follows : " Nichts ist schreck- licher, als die Unwissenheit haudeln zu sehen." In both cases Goethe says that there is nothing more frightful than igno- rance in action. He does not say that there is nothing more dangerous (gefdhrlich), and the quotation, therefore, as originally given in the enquiry, that " the most dangerous thing in the world is ignorance in motion," is not, strictly speaking, correct. F. R. CAVE. Folly Gate, Okehampton, Devon.
