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people who are walking about their business. Common 

 beggars, gypsies, and strollers, who are quite destitute of 

 friends and money, creeping into the farmers' grounds, 

 about the suburbs of Londoa, to find sleeping-places 

 under haystacks." 



And subsequently, in the same chapter : 



" The gaming-tables at Charing Cross, Covent Garden, 

 Holboun, and the Strand, begin to fill with men of des- 

 perate fortunes, bullies, fools, and gamesters. Termagant 

 women in back-yards, alleys, and courts, who have got 

 drunk with Geneva at the adjacent publick-houses, are 

 making their several neighbourhoods ring with the 

 sehrillness of their ungovernable tongues. Lumberers 

 taking a survey of the streets and markets, and preparing 

 to mount bulks instead of beds, to sleep away the re- 

 maining part of the night upon. ... A great quan- 

 tity of scandal published by people of the first quality, at 

 their drums and routes. Merchants', drapers', and book- 

 sellers' apprentices begin to be merry at taverns and 

 noted publick-houses, at the expense of their friends and 

 mothers." 



This last sentence concludes the " hour ; " 

 while, indeed, the whole relation is no more com- 

 plimentary of the purer morality of the "good 

 old times " than of our own, and is evidently 

 written by one who was well acquainted with his 

 subject. 



Who, then, was the writer ? This I should be 

 happy to learn from any of the numerous intelli- 

 gent readers of " N. k Q." And further, to know 

 also the name of the individual who, in 1835, had 

 printed a small volume of almost identical cha- 

 racter, called The Dens of London Exposed^ con- 

 sisting of an inside view of one of the most famous 

 of the cadgers' lodging-houses of the period, as the 

 writer beheld the scenes himself during his stay in 

 the place from the Saturday night to the succeed- 

 ing Monday morning. 



1 suspect the work to be one of the first literary 

 trials of the " basket-maker " author, Thomas 

 Miller ; nor ought he, as I conceive, to be ashamed 

 of its paternity, the purpose being as useful, as 

 much of the writing is graphic. J. D. D. 



Pope and Gay : " Welcome from Greece." — 

 Can any of your correspondents afibrd a clue to 

 the precise when and nthere of the appearance of 

 this interesting little poem ? There is abundant 

 external and internal evidence that it must have 

 been written between April and November, 1720 ; 

 it would probably have very soon got abroad, but 

 I have not been able to discover when or where it 

 first appeared. None of the editors of Pope, 

 though they print the poem, assign it a date. C. 



Ancient Casket. — An old inlaid ebony casket 

 which I possess, and which evidently belonged 

 either to a Grand Master or Knight of Malta, has 

 two coats of arms on it. Can you tell me to whom 

 they belonged ? On the lid is a shield with six 



pellets ; the one at the top has five fleurs-de- 

 lis engraved on it. The shield has the Maltese 

 cross behind it, the ends of which project, and is 

 surmounted by a jewelled coronet. On the front 

 and back is a shield, with five crosses and two, 

 dolphins back to back. J. C. J. 



Prebendaries of Ripon. — I should be obliged 

 for any information respecting the following 

 clergymen, who held prebends in the collegiate 

 church of Ripon during the periods comprised 

 within the dates affixed to their names, notices of 

 parentage, education, preferment, works of litera- 

 ture, public gifts or bequests, dates of death oy 

 burial, would be acceptable : 



Thomas Astell, 1639 ; dispossessed : died before the Ear 

 storation. 



William Barker, 1604—1616. 



William Bewe, 1604^-1613. 



John Blower, 1691—1722. Sub-Dean, 1722^-^1723; also 

 a Prebendary in York, 1702—1723. 



William Cleyburne, 1616; dispossessed: died before the 

 Restoration ? 



William Crashaw, 1604—1626. Prebendarv in York, 

 1617—1626. 



William Ellis, 1626—1637 ;, said to have been Vicar of 

 St. Mary's, Beverley. 



John Forster, 1733—1742. 



William Forster. 1637—1639. 



George Halley, 1696—1708 (his parentage ?). 



John Littleton, 1661—1681. 



Henry Lodge, 1714—1718. 



Christopher Lyndall, 1604—1623. 



Edward Morris, 1690—1720. 



Richard Moyle, or Moyel, 1637; dispossessed: died after 

 1644, but before the Restoration. 



Tobias Swynden, 1660—1661. Prebendary in York, 1660 

 — 1661. There were two other persons of his namea, 

 perhaps son and grandson : the one of Jesus Coll. Cam- 

 bridge, B.A., 1678 ; the other of Queen's Coll. in the 

 same Universitj', B.A., 1717. 



Peter Vivian, 1660—1667. 



Thomas Walker, 1625 ; dispossessed : died during the re- 

 bellion. 



Edward Wright, 1613—1615. 



John Ward. 

 Wath Rectory, Ripon. 



Robert Churchman. — In a pamphlet entitled 

 Fanatics Exposed^ London, 1706, Robert Church- 

 man is thus mentioned : 



"The Burgezites are the sons of the Brownists, to 

 whom no sign shall be given but the sign of Robert 

 Churchman." 



And in an address to Barclay the Quaker : 



"No more from post to pillar driven. 

 But guided by the voice divine. 

 Sweet and convincing as the sign 

 For thee to Robert Churchman given.** 



Who was Robert Churchman ? R. 



Special Licence for Marriage. — Besides the 

 payment of certain fees, what entitles a member 

 of the United Church of England and Ireland to 

 be " married by special licence " ? Abhba. 



