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I am perfectly aware that almost every village 

 has its Cromwellian legend, but I think this one 

 worth a little more inquiry ere quite cast aside. 

 There is a charity at Kensington still called 

 CromweU's Gift, and is popularly ascribed to the 

 generosity of the great Protector : the story, too, 

 that Cromwell and Ireton held secret converse on 

 the green in front of Holland House, and other 

 Cromwellian recollections in the locality, will, I 

 hope, excuse me asking, — considering the new 

 light thrown on topographical subjects — ■ 



1. Was Oliver Cromwell in any way connected 

 with Cromwell House, or the hostelrie at Knights- 

 bridge ? The slightest note will be valued. 



2. Did either Richaird or Henry Cromwell re- 

 side at Cromwell House ? 



3. Did Hale ever reside there ? 



4. The earliest mention of the Holland Souse 

 tradition ? , 



5. And woul^l Mr. Jerdan, ere all is swept 

 away, specify a little more particularly his recol- 

 lections of the district ? I know he could with 

 ease compile a most Interesting paper for " N. & 

 Q." 



Cromwell House was sold piecemeal by Mr. 

 Marsh, June 7, 1853, and pulled down imme- 

 diately afterwards. An engraving may be seen 

 in Mrs. Hall's Pilg7-images ; and of Mr. Corbould's 

 picture, In the People s and Howitfs Journal, 

 No. 3. 



The author of the " Old Court Suburb " might 

 well have exercised his affluent fancy In an addi- 

 tional chapter (and a pleasant one It would have 

 made) on the legends of the West London Dis- 

 tricts. H. G. Davis. 



Knightsbridge. 



Sir Edmund Andros. — The ancestots of this 

 gentleman are said to have been of the house of 

 Andrews or Andrew, of Charwelton, co. Noi-th- 

 ampton. I should be glad to clear up the follow- 

 ing points on good authority. 



1 . The Christian name of the first who settled 

 In Guerhse;^. 



2. The connecting link In the pedigree with the 

 Korth^mpton family. 



3. The reason of the change of name. 



It Is said that the first Andros was a military 

 man, and ca(ne In the suite of. Sir Ifetey Meautis, 

 Governor of Guernsey, temp. Hen. VIH. . , 



Cl. Hoppek. 



General Epiitles. — Why Is this term applied to 

 seven of the Epistles in the New Testament ? 

 Two of the Epistles of St. John are not " general" 

 in any sense ; and on a careful examination of the 

 rest, the conclusion may be come to, that not one 

 of the seven is, strictly speaking, " general." 



James wrote his Epistle to the twelve tribes In 

 the dispersion ; and Peter to " sojourners of the 

 dispersion," i. e. to devout Gentiles. Ag.;ba. 



" Shandygaff." — What Is the probable orij^ui 

 of this word, which is of recent introduction, ar^-i 

 which. In the Midland Counties (and elsewhere 

 perhaps). Is popularly used to designate a favourite 

 beverage with thirsty souls, consisting of a, mix- 

 ture of ginger-beer and brewers' ale? 



Henky Kensington. 



Licence to Marry, a.d. 1265. — 



" From an inquisition taken in the year 1265, it appears 

 that Sir John Fitz-Nigel, or Fitz-Neale, then held a hide 

 of arable land, called the Dere-hide, at Borstall, and a 

 wood, called Hull Wood, by grand serjeantry, as keeper 

 of the forest of Bernwood ; that his ancestors had pos- 

 sessed the same lands and office prior to the Conquest, 

 holding them by the service of a horn ; and that they 

 had been unjustly withheld by the family of Lazures, of 

 whom William Fitz-Nigel, father of John, liad been 

 obliged to purchase them.* Prior to this, WilUam Fitz- 

 Nigel had been obliged to pay King John eleven marks for 

 the enjoyment of his father's office, and for liherti/ to 

 marry at his own pleasure." f — Brayley's Graphic Illus- 

 trator, London,' 1834, p. 2. 



Was this a yearly payment, and were such 

 licences common ? Such at fine gives a strange 

 idea of the power of the crov/n six centuries ago. 



C. W. L. 



Horse-Meat and Mans-Meat. — 



" Patrolling with horse-meat and man's-meat, &c. — 

 Carlyle's Life of Sterling. 



In the Essays from the Times (vol. 11. p. 139), 

 the reviewer's comments on this phrase as though 

 It had run " for horse-meat and man's-meat," &c., 

 appears Ignorant of th^ fact thsit " hors6-meat and 

 man's-meat" Is of proverbial usage. I find It In 

 The Silent Woman, Act III. Sc. 1. : 



" Who allows you your horse-meat and man's meat? " 



Sir Walter Scqtt has it In The Monastery. 



My query Is, What is the origin of the expres- 

 sion ? G. Mansfield Inglebt. 



Birmingham. 



Epitaph. — Who Is the authoir of tte Inscription, 

 " Heii ! quanto minus est cum fellquis versari, 

 quami tiil memihisse ? " It occurs In Shenstone's 

 epitaph oh his cousin ; but this Is not the last time 

 It was use(i, and may not have been the first. It 

 was placed oh the tomb of his wife. In 1782, by 

 Sir G. Shuckburgh, known by his papers In the 

 Philosophical Transactions : but he married again 

 within three "years.- M. 



" Name (Pedrte of Prayer)." — I should feel 

 obliged to any coffespohdent If he could give me 



* Vide Bishop Kennet's Parochial Antiquities of Am- 

 brosden, Sfc, p. 265. 

 t Ibid., p. 166. 



