Sept. 7. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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His blessinffs tliroujili the medium of tbe same 

 faith, aud looking forward for salvation to tbe One 

 Intercessor, Mediator, and Sacrifice for all, — men, 

 who, as they did, addressed the Eternal in the 

 form of that "Universal prayer" — Our Father — 

 the authority and the ])rivilege of one common 

 parentage, offered by all in the union of the same 

 spirit, in the conviction of the same wants, in the 

 aspiration of the same hope. I say, I think Lord 

 Pliinket so spoke, for I write from memory dat- 

 ing from the period when George the Third was 

 king. Now be this so: according to the dogmas 

 of some critics, Lord Plunket may be convicted of 

 an eloquent plagiary. Head the following extract 

 from a missive by S. Agobard, to be fouiul in the 

 Bihl. Vet. Patrum, tome xiii. page 429., by Gal- 

 land, addressed " Ad prasfatum Imperatorem, 

 adversus legem Gundobadi et impia certamina 

 quae per earn geruntur," and say whether, in spite 

 of the separation of centuries, there does not 

 appear a lamily likeness, though there were no 

 family acquaintance between them ; Saint Agobard 

 being Bishop of Lyons in the ninth century, and 

 Lord Plunket Attorney-General for Ireland in 

 the nineteenth. 



The Saint is pleading against the judicial or- 

 deal : — 



" Illi aiitera profecti, proedicaverunt ubique Domino 

 cooperante ; annuntiataque est ab eis omni creatura ; 

 id est, cunctis nationibus iiiuiidi ; una fides Indila per 

 Deuni, una spes diffusa per Spiritum Sanctum in cor- 

 dibus credentium, una caritas nata in omnibus, una 

 voluntas, accensum ununi desideriuni, tradita una 

 oratio ; ut omnes oranino ex diversis gentibus, diversis 

 conditionibiis, diverse sexu, nobilitate, lionestate, ser- 

 vitute diversa, simul dicant uni Deo, et Patil omnium; 

 Pater Noster qui cs, &c., sicut unum Patrem invo- 

 eantes, ita unam santificationem qua;rentes, unum reg- 

 num postulaiites, unam adlmpletionem voluntatis ejus, 

 sicut fit in coelo optantes ; unum sibi panem quoti- 

 dianum dari precantes et omnibus dimitti debita." 



To which other passages might be added, as, in 

 fact, S. Agobard pursues the one idea until he 

 hunts it down to the one eifect of sameness and 

 common antithesis. Should we say Lord Plunket 

 had rea<l these passages, and is thereby convicted 

 of elotjuent jilagiary ? I say, No! Lauder then 

 equally convicted ililton of trespassing on the 

 thoughts of others, by somewhat apposite (juota- 

 tions from the classics. We. are, in truth, too 

 much inclined to this. Tiie little, who caimot 

 raise themselves to the stature of the great, are 

 apt to strive after a socialist level, by reducing 

 all to one same standanl — tiioir own. Ti-iith is 

 commcjii to all ages, and will obtain utterance by 

 the truthful and tlie eloquent throughout all time. 



S. II. 



Athcnxum, August 12. 



NOTES ON THE SECOND EDITION OF MR. CUNNING- 

 HAM'S HANDBOOK OF iONDON. 



14. Long Acre. Mr. Cunningham, upon the 

 authority of Parton's History of St. Giles's, says : 



" First known as the Elms, then called Seven Acres, 

 and since 1612, from the length of a certain slip of 

 ground, then first used as a public pathway, as Long 

 Acre." 



The latter part of this statement is incorrect. The 

 Seven Acres were known as Long Acre as early as 

 1552, when they were granted to the Earl of Bed- 

 ford. See Strype, B. vi. p. 88. 



Machyn, in his Diary, printed by the Camden 

 Society, p. 21., under the date a. d. 1556, has the 

 following allusion to the Acre : — 



" The vj day of December the Abbot of Westminster 

 went a procession witli his convent. Before him went 

 all the Santuary men with crosse keys upon their gar- 

 ments, and after went iij for murder : on was the 

 Lord Dacre's sone of the North, was wypyd with a 

 shett abowt him for kyllyng of on Master West, squyre, 

 dwellyng besyd . . . . ; and anodur they ff that dyd long 

 to one of Master Comtroller .... dyd kylle Uecherd 

 Eggylston, the Comtroller's tayller, and kylled him in 

 the Long Acurs, the bak-syd Charyng Crosse." 



15. Norfolk House, St. James's Sqiutre. The 

 present Norfolk House was built from a design by 

 R. Brettingham, in 1742, by Thomas Duke of 

 Norfolk, and finished by his brother Edward in 

 1762. Mr. Cunningham speaks as if the old house, 

 in which George III. was born, was still standing. 



16. Soho Square. Mr. Cunningham has net 

 corrected his mistake about Mrs. Cornelys's house 

 in this square, (see "Notes and Queries," vol.]., 

 pp. 244. 450.). D'Alwaiiie's, which Mr. Cunning- 

 ham confounds with Mrs. Cornelys's, was at a 

 former period tenanted by the Duke of Argyll ; 

 then by the Earl of Bradford ; and, at a later 

 time, by the celebrated Onslow, who held his par- 

 liamentary levees in the principal drawing-room. 

 The ceilings of the best rooms are adorned with 

 paintings by Rebecca and Angelica Kautfman. 



]Mr. Cunningham has taken some ]iains to 

 ctestroy the Pennant tradition concerning the name 

 of this square, but he has not given us one im- 

 portant piece of information, i. e. that between the 

 years 1674 and 1681, the ground was surveyed by 

 Gregory King, an eminent architect of those days, 

 who projected the scpiare with the adjacent streets. 

 Query, Did it not take the name of Kirig's 

 S(piare from the architect ? This seems very pro- 

 bable ; more especially as the statue of Charles I. 

 was not placed in the stpiare until the beginning 

 of the next century. The centre space was ori- 

 ginally occupied by a splendid fountain, (the work 

 of Colley Cibber's father), an estimate of the 

 " cost and charges" of which is now before me. 



Among the eminent iiihal)itants of this square, 

 not noticed by Mr. Cunningliam, were the follow- 



