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544 NOTES AND QUERIES. Tanfield Court nor gateway into the Strand " (' History of the Temple,' p. 26). It appears, however, from the introduction to the 'Calendar of the Kecords of the Inner Temple,' transcribed by Mr. Page, that in 1577 "a door was constructed to the passage from Fuller 8 Rents [on the east side of the Temple] to Fleet Street, through Ram Alley (now Mitre Court), to be locked from 10 P.M. to 5 A.M., a practice still continued."—P. Ixxiii. It would appear that in 1610 the house No. 17, Fleet Street was rebuilt, and the Benchers of the Inner Temple took advantage of this circumstance to obtain an outlet leading directly into Fleet Street through the ground floor of this house, the gateway having evidently been designed and built at the same time as the house. Inigo Jones was appointed Surveyor to the Household of Henry, Prince of Wales, in 1610, and it is natural to suppose that in that capacity he would design and superintend the erection of a building for the prince's own use as Duke of Cornwall, and if this is so, the design of the gateway to the Inner Temple must be attributed to him. The first volume of the 'Records of the Inner Temple,' transcribed by Mr. Page for the Society, and printed by order of the Benchers in 1896, with an introduction by Mr. F. A. Inderwick, Q.C., does not extend beyond the close of the reign of Elizabeth, and it is not possible to extract any information on the point from this volume ; but it is possible that if the records of the Society for 1610 were searched some light might be thrown upon the question of the design of the gate- way, _ and it is not impossible that some drawing of it may exist. I have a good photograph of the house and gateway taken by Mr. W. Strudwick in 1869, which shows a narrow pilaster on the east side of the shop of a similar design to the pilasters to the gateway, the house being surmounted by a plain square board (on which is the inscription), behind which the ridges of roofs can be seen, which goes to prove that the present termination to the house has been added within the last thirty years. JOHN HEBB. Canonbury Mansions, N. STAFFORD CASTLE (9th S. iv. 437).— The earliest mention of Stafford is in 913, when the' Saxon Chronicle' records that Ethelfleda, Countess of Mercia, and sister of Edward the Elder, there built a fort to keep the Danes in check; but of this there is now no trace. It is mentioned in Domesday Book as a city under the name of Staefford or Stafeford. A Norman castle was built in the neighbour- hood by Richard de Todeni, or de Stafford, who had obtained a grant of the place from William the Conqueror. The castle was restored in the reign of Edward in., and was visited in 1575 by Elizabeth. During the civil war between Charles I. and the Parlia- mentarians, the royalists withdrew to Stafford after Lichfield was wrested from them, and an indecisive battle was fought in March, 1643, between the rival parties at Hopton Heath, about two miles from the town. Later in the same year the town, which was walled, was taken by Sir William Brereton at the head of a Parliamentary force. The castle, which is in Castlechurch parish, a mile and a half out of the town, was also surrendered and demolished. CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D. Bradford. According to Kelly's ' Staffordshire' this castle was built in the second decade of this century by Sir George William Jerningham, Bart., afterwards Baron Stafford, on the site of an ancient fortress. See also ' The Beauties of England and Wales,' vol. xiii. p. 899. G. F. R. B. "THE STARRY GALILEO" (9th S. iv. 459, 487). Your correspondent is thinking of these great lines which occur in the ' Blind Old Milton' of William E. Aytoun :— I have been With starry Galileo in his cell— That wise magician with the brow serene, Who fathomed space; and I have seen him tell The wonders of the planetary sphere, And trace the ramparts of heaven's citadel On the cold flag-stones of his dungeon drear. ' Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, and other Poems, second ed., p. 262. EDWARD PEACOCK. "NONE" (9th S. iv. 439).—Notwithstanding the dictum of the ' Century Dictionary,' I do not see how it could be correct to say if one asked for a dozen ripe melons that none are ripe if there were one ripe melon. Thin apart from the number of the verb following "none." I do not see how a plural verb can grammatically follow " none = " no one " or "not one." R. BLAIE. Surely he would be a very strict gram- marian indeed who should condemn a prac- tice so common—one might almost say so universal—as the use of " none " with a verb in the plural. Bible English is usually accounted good English, ana in I Kings x. 21 we read " None were of silver." I do not know what a " strict grammarian would say as to the difference in meaning between none is " and " none are "; but since