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for electric lines laid in deep subways. The speare's son (p. 826). The surname of first use of "tube as signifying an under- this person was Layman: he lived at ground railway, however, was far earlier Horsham, and got into trouble in 1653 than June, 1900, when Twopenny Tube for assaulting Richard Slark. was flashed on a receptive world, for it The name Hamlet is without doubt is to be found more than once in an essay exceedingly uncommon. I remember but entitled Air Traction,' included in a volume two other examples, both of which occur of such, brought together under the title of in the eighth volume of the Transactions "Subtle Brains and Lissom Fingers,' by of the Leicestershire Architectural and Dr. Andrew Wynter, published in London Archæological Society. They are Hamlet in 1863. Describing a proposed atmospheric Tarrington, 1515 (p. 97); and Hamlett underground line from Euston to the General Dove, 1605 (p. 232). EDWARD PEACOCK. Post Office, by way of Holborn and Smith- Kirton-in-Lindsey. field, it was stated that passengers were to ride in a dark tube"; that it would be so arranged that between station and station only one group of carriages could be in the tube at the same time"; that "as the atmosphere in these railway tubes would be circulating every moment, there would be perfect ventilation"; and that "this great city will henceforth have its lighter traffic and parcels and letters carried on by a circulation of air ramifying in a network of tubes through soil." But the project thus glowingly described failed, and the name was so completely lost sight of that, although the City and South London Railway, the pioneer of all the present ." tubes,' was opened for traffic in the winter of 1890, the now familiar title was never again heard until "the Twopenny Tube" commenced operations in the summer

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MISS CHUDLEIGH. On looking over Mr. E. H. Coleridge's beautiful edition of Christabel,' which has recently been published under the auspices of the Royal Society of Literature, I see (p. 14) that Coleridge in a letter to Wordsworth dated Tuesday (23 Jan.), 1798, says that he resembles the Duchess of Kingston, who masqueraded in the character of Eve before the Fall' in flesh-coloured silk." Although the costume seems to have resembled that of Eve in her most innocent days, the character assumed by Miss Chudleigh, as she styled herself at the time, at the famous fancy-dress ball which was commemorated by Horace Walpole, was that of Iphigenia.

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THE REGENT'S CANAL.-From a number of papers and letters in my possession I have ascertained that before the Regent's Canal Act (52 George III.) was promoted, the occupiers and owners of property on adjacent to the land to be acquired were canvassed to ascertain their views on two schemes-the construction of a canal, or of a canal and railway combined. Their votes are classified as follows: for the canal, Assent," "Dissent," "Nuter" (sic), Speciel" (sic); and for the canal and railway," Assent,' Dissent," "Nuter" (sic), Speciel" (sic). The results are remarkable. In "the return of John Stevens to Monday evening, 17 January, 1803," at Jew's Harp Gardens, three occupiers and one assent to both. In Lisson Grove three occupiers dissent from both. In the Hampstead Road (i.e., Chalk Farm Road) two owners vote "Speciel" for each. another return I note that "Thomas Lord, occupier of the Cricket Ground," dissents from both schemes.

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One of the most interesting points thus revealed is that the promoters suggested a railway (i.e., a horse-drawn tramway), in connexion with the canal, at almost the same date that a company had commenced the Surrey Iron Railway from Croydon to Wandsworth (see Home Counties' Magazine, vol. ix., Nos. 33 and 34, The Old Croydon Tram Road'). Apart from the papers referred to above I have not seen any map or prospectus of the undertaking, and Mogg's map London in Miniature (published HAMLET AS A CHRISTIAN NAME.-In a 1 May, 1806), in which the " Improvements very interesting article in The Cornhill both present and intended are shown, Magazine for June, entitled 'Wanted, More contains no indication of it. In direction Knowledge,' which treats of the Quarter it evidently proposed to follow, with some Sessions records of the seventeenth century modifications, the plans detailed by Robert for Sussex, the writer remarks: "The Whitworth in his Report and Survey of name Hamlett as a Christian name is surely the Canal proposed to be made on One a rare find. I know of no other but Shake- Level from Waltham Abbey to Moorfields.

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

Also a Report and Survey of a Line, which
may be continued from Marybone to the
said Proposed Canal,' &c., London (1773 ?).
The Regent's Canal Act, 1812, reprinted
in 8vo, does not contain a single reference
to the railway scheme.
ALECK ABRAHAMS.

Passover. All secular labor was laid aside by all the inhabitants, and it was a time of holy convoSaturday afternoon, and Monday forenoon were cation. Besides the Sabbath, all day Thursday, spent in public religious services, and as strictly observed as holy time......Previous to the Sabbath it was the usual custom to give out the 'tokens,' with one of which every communicant was required to be furnished. These were small pieces of lead "TOTTER-OUT. '-In "The Virgins "Inn of an oblong shape, and marked with the letters at Kenilworth (there is no apostrophe on L.D. On the Sabbath the great day of the feastthe signboard) there is a portrait of " William tables stretching the whole length of the aisles were spread, at which the communicants sat and received Taylor the worthy totter out of our birth- the consecrated elements. The tables were 'fenced,' night Society ætat 61. Oct 1848." He is which was a prohibition and exclusion of any from represented holding a decanter in one hand, communicating who had not a token.' It was in and a small wineglass in the other. It is the power of the Elders who had the distribution explained that it was his duty to fill the whose life had been irregular or scandalous. Unof the tokens to withhold one from any professor glasses of the boon companions. This noun leavened bread, prepared in thin cakes of an oval totter-out" does not appear to have form, has always been used in this ordinance. The entered the dictionaries. In the 'Shrop-giving out of the tokens, and the Halfway Coveshire Word-book,' by G. F. Jackson, tot is nant, though now dispensed with, were both defined as "a small drinking cup," and continued into Dr. Dana's ministry." Dr. Wright's' Dialect Dictionary' concurs. E. S. DODGSON.

[Tot, a small drinking cup, is also in Annandale's four-volume edition of Ogilvie.]

JOHN JAMES, ARCHITECT.-Walpole had no notes by Vertue to assist him with regard to this architect, and consequently fell into He says:

error.

"John James, of whom I find no mention in Vertue's notes, was, as I am informed, considerably employed at the works at Greenwich, where he settled. He built the church there, and the house for Sir Gregory Page at Blackheath, the idea of which was taken from Houghton. James likewise built the church of St. George, Hanover Square, the body of the church at Twickenham, and that of St. Luke [Old Street], Middlesex, which has a fluted obelisk for its steeple. He translated from the French some books on gardening."

Wyatt Papworth in the Dict. Arch.' says: "Sir Gregory Page's house at Blackheath was sold by auction to John Cator to be pulled down (Woolfe and Gandon, Vit. Brit.,' i. 64-5). St. Luke's, Old Street, is by G. Dance, sen. James died 1746 (Gent. Mag., xvi. 273). By his will he directed a house at Croom's Hill to be sold for the benefit of his widow Mary."

Miss Porter in the 'D.N.B.' says James added the new steeple to St. Alphage's Church, Greenwich, in 1730. The design of the church (built in 1711) is frequently attributed to James, but is more probably by Hawksmoor (cf. plate by Kip, 1714). JOHN HEBB.

COMMUNION TOKENS IN NEW ENGLAND.The following extract is from Lawrence's New Hampshire Churches,' 1856, p. 94 :— The Lord's Supper was celebrated but twice in the year, spring and autumn, and it was then kept with almost the solemnities of the Jewish

This Dr. Dana was the minister from January, 1822, to April, 1826. He was of his people, one of whom (p. 92) said, much scandalized by the heavy drinking "I do not see how I can worship God acceptably when I feel so very thirsty." On the Doctor's installation a hogshead of rum appears to have been consumed (p. 91). The early settlers of the town came from the Irish Londonderry.

RICHARD H. THORNTON.

CORNISH VERGERS: CARNE FAMILY.I think the following instance of longevity and of one family continuing for so long a time to hold one office ought to be preserved in N. & Q.' It is taken from The Morning Post of 2 May, p. 3 :—

"A CORNISH CENTENARIAN.-Mr. James Carne, clerk of St. Columb Minor, Cornwall, celebrates verger of the Church of St. Columbia, and parish his 101st birthday to-morrow. Three generations of the Carne family have held the same office during the past 167 years. The grandfather, John Carne, who died in 1801, aged 80, served 50 years as verger, and was followed by his son John, who died at the age of 84, after a service of 54 years, retiring in 1843 in favour of the present verger, who, until seven years ago, never missed a service, the death of his wife then causing a break in his record."

ASTARTE.

"BLADUM " "SILIGO."-To the usual translation ("corn") of bladum Du Cange's * Glossary adds a secondary meaning, "manipulus frumentarius," an armful, bundle, or bottle, the latter being usually applied to hay as measures. In Lincolnshire in 1297, as will be seen from the following extracts, it was used as a measure of oats, the same as a quarter. A valuation for the collection of elevenths was made at

The name Hamlet is without doubt

[F. J. F. supplied at 8 S. iv. 326 an instance of the name in 1562,3.]

for electric lines laid in deep subways. The speare's son (p. 826). The surname of first use of "tube" as signifying an under- this person was Layman: he lived at ground railway, however, was far earlier Horsham, and got into trouble in 1653 than June, 1900, when "Twopenny Tube for assaulting Richard Slark. was flashed on a receptive world, for it is to be found more than once in an essay exceedingly uncommon. I remember but entitled Air Traction,' included in a volume two other examples, both of which occur of such, brought together under the title of in the eighth volume of the Transactions Subtle Brains and Lissom Fingers,' by of the Leicestershire Architectural and Dr. Andrew Wynter, published in London Archæological Society. They are Hamlet in 1863. Describing a proposed atmospheric Tarrington, 1515 (p. 97); and Hamlett underground line from Euston to the General Dove, 1605 (p. 232). EDWARD PEACOCK. Post Office, by way of Holborn and Smith- Kirton-in-Lindsey. field, it was stated that passengers were "to ride in a dark tube"; that it would be so arranged that between station and station only one group of carriages could be in the tube at the same time"; that as the atmosphere in these railway tubes would be circulating every moment, there would be perfect ventilation"; and that this great city will henceforth have its lighter traffic and parcels and letters carried on by a circulation of air ramifying in a network of tubes through soil." But the project thus glowingly described failed, and the name was so completely lost sight of that, although the City and South London Railway, the pioneer of all the present tubes,' was opened for traffic in the winter of 1890, the now familiar title was never again heard until "the Twopenny Tube" commenced operations in the summer A. F. R.

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MISS CHUDLEIGH.-On looking over Mr. E. H. Coleridge's beautiful edition of Christabel,' which has recently been published under the auspices of the Royal Society of Literature, I see (p. 14) that Coleridge in a letter to Wordsworth dated Tuesday (23 Jan.), 1798, says that he resembles the Duchess of Kingston, who masqueraded in the character of Eve before the Fall' in flesh-coloured silk." Although the costume seems to have resembled that of Eve in her most innocent days, the character assumed by Miss Chudleigh, as she styled herself at the time, at the famous fancy-dress ball which was commemorated by Horace Walpole, was that of Iphigenia.

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

THE REGENT'S CANAL.-From a number of papers and letters in my possession I have ascertained that before the Regent's Canal Act (52 George III.) was promoted, the occupiers and owners of property on or adjacent to the land to be acquired were canvassed to ascertain their views on two schemes-the construction of a canal, or of a canal and railway combined. Their votes are classified as follows: for the canal, " Assent," Dissent," "Nuter" (sic), Speciel" (sic); and for the canal and railway, Assent," Dissent," "Nuter” (sic), Speciel" (sic). The results are remarkable. In "the return of John Stevens to Monday evening, 17 January, 1803," at Jew's Harp Gardens, three occupiers and one owner assent to both. In Lisson Grove three

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occupiers dissent from both. In the Hamp-
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from both schemes.

One of the most interesting points thus revealed is that the promoters suggested a railway (i.e., a horse-drawn tramway), in connexion with the canal, at almost the same date that a company had commenced the Surrey Iron Railway from Croydon to Wandsworth (see Home Counties' Magazine, vol. ix., Nos. 33 and 34, The Old Croydon Tram Road'). Apart from the papers referred to above I have not seen any map or prospectus of the undertaking, and Mogg's map London in Miniature (published 1 May, 1806), in which the "Improvements both present and intended" are shown, contains no indication of it. In direction

HAMLET AS A CHRISTIAN NAME.-In a very interesting article in The Cornhill Magazine for June, entitled 'Wanted, More Knowledge,' which treats of the Quarter it evidently proposed to follow, with some Sessions records of the seventeenth century for Sussex, the writer remarks: "The name Hamlett as a Christian name is surely a rare find. I know of no other but Shake

modifications, the plans detailed by Robert Whitworth in his Report and Survey of the Canal proposed to be made on One Level from Waltham Abbey to Moorfields.