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NOTES UPON CUNNINGHAM’S HANDBOOK FOR 
LONDON. 
Lady Dacre’s Alms- Houses, or Emanuel Hospital. 
—“ Jan. 8. 1772, died, in Emanuel Hospital, 
Mrs. Wyndymore, cousin of Mary, queen of Wil- 
liam III., as well as of Queen Anne. Strange 
revolution of fortune, that the cousin of two 
queens should, for fifty years, be supported by 
charity.”"— MWS. Diary, quoted in Collet’s Relics 
of Literature, p. 310. 
Essex Buildings. ~‘ On Thursday next, the 
22nd of this instant, November, at the Musick- 
school in Essex Buildings, over against St. Cle- 
ment’s Church, in the Strand, will be continued a 
concert of vocal and instrymental musick, begin- 
ning at five of the clock, every evening. Com- 
posed by Mr. Banister.”— Lond. Gazette, Nov. 18. 
1678, * This famous ‘ musick-room’ was after- 
wards Paterson’s auction-room.”—Pennant’s Com- 
mon-place Book. 
St. Antholin’s.—In Thorpe’s Catalogue of MSS. 
for 1836 appears for sale, Art. 792., “ ‘The Church- 
wardens’ Accounts, from 1615 to 1752, of the 
Parish of St. Antholin's, London.” Again, in the 
same Catalogue, Art. 793., ‘The Churchwardens 
and Overseers of the Parish of S#. Antholin’s, in 
London, Accounts from 1638 to 1700 inclusive.” 
Verily these books have been in the hands of 
“Cunjust stewards!” 
Clerkenwell. — Names of eminent persons re- 
siding in this parish in 1666:— Earl of Carlisle, 
Earl of Essex, Earl of Aylesbury, Lord Barkely, 
Lord Townsend, Lord Dellawar, Lady Crofts, 
Lady Wordham, Sir John Keeling, Sir John Crop- 
ley, Sir Edward Bannister, Sir Nicholas Stroude, 
Sir Gower Barrington, Dr. King, Dr. Sloane. In 
1667-8 : — Duke of Newcastle, Lord Baltimore, 
Lady Wright, Lady Mary Dormer, Lady Wynd- 
ham, Sir Erasmus Smith, Sir Richard Cliverton, 
Sir John Burdish, Sir Goddard Nelthorpe, Sir 
John King, Sir William Bowles, Sir William 
Boulton. — Extracted from a MS. in the late Mr. 
Upcott's Collection. 
Tyburn Gallows, — No. 49. Connaught Square, 
is built on the spot where this celebrated gallows 
stood: and, in the lease granted by the Bishop of 
London, this is particularly mentioned. 
Epwarp F. Rimsaoccr. 
SEWERAGE IN ETRURIA. 
I have been particularly struck, in reading The 
Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, of George Dennis, 
by the great disparity there appears between 
the ancient population of the country and the 
present. 
The ancient population appears, moreover, to 
have been located in circumstances not by any 
means favourable to the health of the people. 
Those cities surrounded by high walls, and en- 
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tered by singularly small gateways, must have 
been very badly ventilated, and very unfavourable 
to health; and yet it is not reasonable to suppose 
they could have been so unhealthy then as the 
author describes the country at present to be. 
It is hardly possible to imagine so great a people 
as the Etruscans, the wretched fever-stricken 
objects the present inhabitants of the Maremma 
are described to be. 
To what, then, can this great difference be 
ascribed? The Etruscans appear to have taken 
very great pains with the drainage of their cities ; 
on many sites the cloaca are the only remains of 
their former industry and greatness which remain. 
They were also careful to bury their dead outside 
their city walls; and it is, no doubt, to these two 
circumstances, principally, that their increase and 
greatness, as a people, are to be ascribed. But 
why do not the present inhabitants avail them- 
selves of the same means of health? Is it that 
they are too idle, or are they too broken-spirited 
and poverty-stricken to unite in any public work ? 
Or has the climate changed ? 
Perhaps it was owing to some defect in their 
civil polity that the ancients were comparatively 
so easily put down by the Roman power, which 
might have been the superior civilisation. Pos- 
sibly the great majority of the people may have 
been dissatisfied with their rulers, and gladly 
removed to another place and another form of 
government. It is even possible, and indeed 
likely, that these great public works may have 
been carried on by the forced- labour of the 
poorest and, consequently, the -most numerous 
class of the population, and that, consequently, 
they had no particular tie to their native city, as 
being only a hardship to’ them; and they may 
even have had a dislike to sewers in themselves, 
as reminding them of their bondage, and which 
dislike their descendants have inherited, and for 
which they are now suffering. At any rate, it is 
an instructive example to our present citizens of 
the value of drainage and sanitary arrangements, 
and shows that the importance of these things was 
recognised and appreciated in the earliest times. 
C. P. F. 
ANDREW FRUSIUS— ANDRE DES FREUX. 
Many of your readers,- as well as ‘ RotEro- | 
DAmus,” will be ready to acknowledge their obliga- 
tion to Mr. Bruce for his prompt identification of — 
the author of the epigrani against Erasmus (pp. | 
27, 28.). Ihave just refetred to°the catalogue of — 
the library of this university, and I regret to say | 
that we have no copy of any of the works of — 
Frusius. Mr. Bruce says he knows nothing of — 
Frusius as an author. 1 believe there is no men- — 
tion of him in any English bibliographical or 
biographical work. There is, however, a notice 
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