9» s. vi. A™. n,i90o.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 117 else than a device for filling his own pocket: His Irish exploits were of similar doubtfi value. His military talents were pitted one more against those of a lady—" Colonel Mary Fitzgerald. The result was as dismal a before. Probably Moore 'is best judged from his signature to the king's death-warran The surname is, purposely and characteristic ally, almost illegible. Had he lived till th Restoration he would most certainly hav wriggled out of his Republican skin, and com up a Cavalier. Like his associate Rigby, h was a thoroughly bad example, and Liverpoo has no cause to think well or him in any waj He is doubtfully remembered in a little lane called Moor Street, which inns from Fenwicl Street to the Goree. GEORGE MARSHALL. Sefton Park, Liverpool. COCKLEBREAD (9th S. vi. 7).—If MR. PRATT does not succeed in getting his library com mittee to buy Mrs. Goiume's invaluable book on the strength of your editorial note, at event that would be truly deplorable, he may find what he needs in the ' New Englisf Dictionary,' or the Antiquary, December 1885, p. 251; June, 1886, p. 278. Q. V. " HOTI" IN HOWELL AND BROWNING (9th S v. 494).—MR. SIMPSON will find in the 'New English Dictionary' abundance of instances of Hoti. One, at any rate, is earlier than Howell. Q. V. ST. ANNE'S CHURCH, BLACKFRIARS (9th S. vi. 48).—The statement in 'London Past and Present,' i. 194, that the Black Friars' Church was given to the parishioners of St. Anne's for a parish church in 3 Edward VI. (1549), is not only inaccurate, but is incon- sistent with the Quotation from Stow which is given at p. 48 of the same volume. This is what Stow says :— " There is a parrish of saint Anne within the pre- cinct of the Black Fryers, which was pulled down with the Friers Church, by Sir Thomas Garden: but in the raigne of Qneene Mary, bee being forced to find a church to the inhabitantes, allowed them a lodging chamber above a staire, which since that time, to witte the yeare, 1597, fell downe, and was againe by collection therefore made, new builded and enlarged in the same yeare, and was dedicated on the eleventh of December."—'Survey,' ed. 1603, p. 343. It would appear from this passage that there was an old parish church dedicated to St. Anne within the precinct of the Black Friars, but that it was pulled down at the same time as the Friars' Church was de- stroyed. According to the Inquisition post mortem of Sir Thomas Cawarden, which was taken on 3 May, 1560, King Edward VI, in the fourth year of his reign, granted to Sir Thomas " all that house, site, precinct, Church, belfry, cemetery, close, ' capitre ' house, 2 ' Ics lies' of the chancel and chapel to the said Church belonging." But Sir Thomas was not the only grantee, for the hall and prior's lodgings were sold to Sir Francis Bryan, and afterwards came into the possession of Sir Anthony Aucher, or Agar, while the porter's lodge and a large piece of land were occupied by George Brooke, Lord Cobham, whose son and successor William gave an entertainment to Queen Elizabeth at his Blackfriars re- sidence in the year 1600. The chief difficulty in settling the topography of the old Black- friars precinct is the want of a datum point to start from, but it is possible that the ex- cavations which are now being carried on in that local may bring to light some evidence that may help to solve the problem. W. F. PHIDEAUX. SIR A. PITCHES (9th S. v. 314 ; vi. 15).—There can be little doubt that this name is one of the many variants upon that of Peche, while it appears probable that the three guttees de poix of Pitches were for difference. Further, I imagine that Montagu arrived at his mistaken conclusion that the Peche shield should be encircled by a wreath of peach leaves fruited (upon each fruit an e) from an examination of the tomb of Sir John Peche in Lullingstone Church, which is de- picted in Stothard's 'Monumental Effigies.' My reason for the supposition is that, if I am not mistaken, this position of the wreath was ised merely for the purpose of introducing
- he rebus, was adopted by no other branch of
- he family, and is to be found nowhere else
ixcept in my own book - plate. I may add hat the tinctures in each of the three Chip- )endale (Selsey) Peachey book-plates are ncorrect. GEORGE C. PEACHKY. Brightwalton, Wantage. BOROUGH-ENGLISH (9th S. v. 376, 501 ; vi. 35). —It is always a pleasure to have ones >lunders corrected by a courteous and com- >etent critic. If MR. BOYLE had been content xj state that the custom cited by me was not iorough-Englishj and therefore not pertinent > the original inquiry, it would have been nnecessary to reply. The tone of his com- munication is scarcely such as we are accus- tomed to in ' N. & Q.,' and I should not have •eplied to it at all except that I thought it ad- risable to set myself right in the eyes of your »aders. MR. BOYLE says, "He states that by the custom of the honour of Richmond, of vhichSkidby [a blunderforSkeeby] was parcel, males inherit in common,' which is not true,
