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vogue? It is noticeable also in other later maps 

 hung in the room. Again, we have here fully 

 developed the " ocean river," which flows all round 

 Fra Mauro's globe. I hope that these remarks 

 may draw out some more learned antiquary in 

 this branch of science. Caktabrigibnsis. 



Union, Cambridge. 



P.S. Does the copy, alluded to by you as in 

 the British Museum, reproduce the curious de- 

 scriptions which are dispersed as comment all 

 about the map ? 



[The Mappa Mundi we alluded to consists of six 

 plates of double folio, with the descriptions in Spanish 

 dispersed about each map. There is also in the British 

 Museum an octavo copy, entitled Mappa Mundi, otherwise 

 called the Compasse and Cyrcuet of the Worlde, and also the 

 Compasse of every Lande comprehended in the same. No 

 date. The colophon is as follows: "Thus endeth this 

 Mappa mundi, very necessary for all Marchauntes and 

 Maryners, and for all such as Avyll labour and traueyle in 

 the Countres of the Worlde. Imprinted by me Robert 

 Wyer, dwellynge in S. Martyns paryshe, at the sygne of 

 S. John Euangelyst, besyde the Duke of Suflfblkes places, 

 at the Chaiynge Crosse." This copy contains eight small 

 woodcuts and ornaments roughly executed.] 



Sempringham Headhouse (2"'^ S. iv. 433.) — 

 Stow says (Thoms's edit., p. 142.) : — 



" Amongst these new buildings is Cowbridge Street, or 

 Cow lane, which turneth towards Oldborne, in which 

 lane the prior of Sempringham had his Inn or London 

 lodging." 



Mr. T. E. Tomlins, of Lincoln's Inn Fields, 

 has some notes from records relating to Sempring- 

 ham Headhouse, which probably he would not 

 object to communicate if G. P. will apply to him. 



G. E. C. 



Knightshridge Registers (2"'^ S. iv. 388.)— There 

 are twenty volumes of Registers belonging to 

 Trinity Chapel, Knightshridge, of all sizes, from 

 the small volume of but a few leaves to the larger 

 quarto and folio. Some are, however, duplicates : 

 they extend from 1658 to 1752. They are, I re- 

 gret to say, imperfect, and their existence was 

 forgotten till, by constant inquiry, I brought them 

 to light, and put them in order. They had for 

 many years been stowed away in a chest, always 

 locked, and the key of which being kept by the 

 non-resident incumbent, their existence was un- 

 known to the officials on the spot. 



For many years the chapel was in the hands of 

 lay lessees, and the registers appear to have met 

 with the care such records usually do in like cir- 

 cumstances. The earliest are gone ; and those 

 remaining deficient, especially from 1730 to 1739, 

 which nine years are wholly missing. The regular 

 baptismal register is also missing ; but a number 

 of duplicate entries of such are preserved, ex- 



tending from 1663 to 1702, although the rite has, 

 I know, been administered considerably later. 

 Burial registers there are none ; it is only tradi- 

 tionally known that burials ever took place here. 



If any of your correspondents could throw light 

 on these missing documents, I should be glad if 

 they would do so. The remaining ones have been 

 taken into proper care by the Rev. Dr. Wilson, 

 the recently appointed minister ; but as far as I 

 can, I will afford any information your correspon- 

 dent may be in need of. H. G. Davis. 



Wilton Place, Knightshridge. 



Sir Oliver Leder (2°^ S. iv. 410. 440.) —The letter 

 of your correspondent A. Z. would make it appear 

 that my information about Sir Oliver Leder is 

 in the main false. I can only say that it was ob- 

 tained from a source on which I had every reason 

 to place confidence; but, as the means of con- 

 firming or disproving it placed within my reach 

 in a provincial town were not very extensive, I 

 forwarded it to you, in the hope that some of your 

 readers might be able to settle the matter. As 

 soon, however, as I saw A. Z.'s letter, I procured 

 the assistance of an intimate friend who is now in 

 London ; and he proceeded to Doctors' Commons, 

 where he found, among the wills of 1558, that of 

 "Oliverus Leder, Miles." The testator leaves 

 his property, situate at Great Staughton, Little 

 Staughton, Berkhampstead, and several other 

 places, to his wife Frances. He also mentions his 

 father Thomas Leder, his brother Stephen, and 

 his nephew Thomas. He desires to be buried on 

 the north side of the choir of the church of Great 

 Staughton, near the high altar. The name is 

 spelt "Leder" throughout. As to whether he 

 really was buried at Great Staughton, I have no 

 means at present of ascertaining. I find also a 

 mention of Oliver Leder in Lemon's Calendar of 

 State Papers in the Tower as follows : — 



" 1549, June 19, London. Olyver Leder to Cecil. 

 Sends his reply in the matter at variance between him- 

 self and one Edm. Hatley." 



The letter will be found in State Papers, vol. vii. 

 With these facts, perhaps something farther may 

 be learned of Sir Oliver ; who, even if he was not 

 Chief Justice, was at least a man of considerable 

 property about the period before-mentioned. 



V. S. D. 



''The Gay Lothario'' (2"^ S. iv. 454.) — This 

 expression, doubtless, takes its rise from Don 

 Quixote, where, in the "Impertinent Curiosity" 

 (a story inserted in the second part of that ro- 

 mance), Lothario is the name of one of the cha- 

 racters, who seduces his friend's wife. W. H. N. 



" The gallant, gay Lothario ! " the " dear Per- 

 fidious ! " is a character in one of the early tra- 

 gedies of the poet Nicholas Rowe, The Fair 

 Penitent, which is somewhat upon the model of 



