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156 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i 2 s.ix. AUG. 20, 1921. Gresham. Peter Cunningham, in his ' Hand - book of London,' 1850, s.v. ' Cateaton Street,' quotes Stow (Thoms's edition, 1842, p. 102) : Catte street, corruptly called Catteten street, beginneth at the north end of Ironmonger lane, and runneth to the west end of St. Lawrence church. Cunningham adds, " In 1845 this street was most improperly renamed Gresham street." In Maitland's ' History of London,' vol. ii., 1754, facing pp. 880, 892, are plans of Cheap Ward and of Coleman Street and Bassishaw Wards in which the street is called Catt Eaton Street (in the former) and Cat Eaton (? Eaten) Street (in the latter). In the letterpress it is spelt Cateaton, p. 882. ROBERT PIEBPOINT. Catte Street (see Stow, p. 102), corruptly called Catteton Street, Cheapside, ran from the north end of Ironmonger Lane to the west end of St. Lawrence Church. In 1845 it was renamed Gresham Street. There is, or was, a street of the same curious name in Manchester. WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. Cateaton was a short street, forming the eastern portion of the present Gresham Street. It began at Basinghall Street and terminated at Aldermanbury, the Church of St. Lawrence Jewry being situated on its northern side. It was inhabited by merchants, and, owing to its proximity to Blackwell Hall, especially by those engaged in the woollen trade. Probably there are few parts of the City proper that have in modern times under- gone more alteration than the neighbour- hood of the Bank of England. Formerly Moorgate Street was non-existent, and the principal outlet to Moorfields and Finsbury in that direction was by way of Coleman Street. From the western end of Broad Street, Throgmorton Street and Lothbury formed one continuous line of street, Loth- bury ending and Cateaton Street com- mencing at Basinghall Street. At the western end of Cateaton Street, Milk Street and Aldermanbury again forming one con- tinuous street, the present line of Gresham Street terminated, and the way out to St. Martin's-le-Grand was through by -streets. Gresham College was erected at the corner of Basinghall Street in 1843, and about that time, I presume, the present Gresham Street was formed and named. F. A. RUSSELL. 116, Arran Road, Catford, S.E.6. Stow has the following passage : " Now for the north wing of Cheape Ward have ye Catte Street, corruptly called Catteten Street, which beginneth at the north end of Ironmonger Lane and runneth to the we*t end of St. Lawrence Church. . . ." In 1845 Cateaton Street, together with its continuations westwards, Lad Lane and Maiden Lane, was widened and improved, and the throughfare re-named Gresham Street, which now extends from Prince's Street on the east to Aldersgate Street on the west. In Wheatley and Cunningham's ' London Past and Present,' vol. i., p. 339, we learn that there is a street in Manchester bearing a similar name, but I am ignorant of its etymology. G. KENNETH STRUGNELL. Dickens mentions the street in the ' Pick- wick Papers,' for the Bagman Tom Smart represented ' ; the great house of Bilson and Slum, Cateaton Street, City." T. W. TYRRELL. St. Elmo, Sidmouth. WARRINGTON GANG (12 S. ix. 71). A fairly full account of this affair will be found on p. 438 of the ' Chronicle of the Annual Register for 1806.' The trials took place at Lancaster, but the judge, Baron Graham, forbade any notes to be taken of them, or any young person to be present at the hearing. WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. " TENANT IN CAPITE " (12 S. viii. 429, 472, 518). MR. GRIFFITH gives ample proof that this term was not confined to those hold- ing of the King ; but MR. FLETCHER main- tains that the narrower sense was the original one, and that caput is merely equiva- lent to " king." The last point may be met with the question why a term, which would thus be applicable to the lord only, should be invariably used only of the tenant. More- over the stock phrase " in capite de rege " would be tautological, and we should cer- tainly sometimes find " de capite," which we never do. That the wider sense is the older is ren- dered certain by the fact that on the Con- tinent in capite, en chef, in capo are found at least as early as with us, and there the nar- rower sense is unknown. Indeed, foreign jurists note with surprise that some English writers appear to restrict the meaning. The simple reason is that the great bulk of our records were purely fiscal, and from that point of view the only tenants in capite that