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whether he will not think it an intrusion: doubts 
which any editor who did wish for communications 
might dispel by making such an announcement as 
I have suggested. R.R. 
Lincoln’s Inn. 
NOTES UPON CUNNINGHAM’S HAND-BOOK OF 
LONDON. 
St. Giles's Pound. — The exact site of this 
Pound, which occupied a space of thirty feet, was 
the broad space where St. Giles’s High Street, | 
Tottenham Court Road, and Oxford Street meet. | 
The vicinity of this spot was proverbial for its 
profligacy ; thus, in an old song : — 
** At Newgate steps Jack Chance was found, 
And bred up near St, Giles’s Pound.” 
Dudley Court, St. Giles’s. — This spot was once 
the residence of Alice Duchess of Dudley, in the 
reign of Charles the Second; and afterwards of 
the celebrated Lord Wharton. The mansion and 
gardens were of considerable extent. 
St. Giles’s Hospital. — The celebrated Dr. 
Andrew Boorde rented for many years the 
Master’s house. He is mentioned as its oceupant 
in the deed of transfer between Lord Lisle to Sir 
Wymonde Carewe, dated in the last year of 
Henry the Fighth’s reign. 
Gray's Inn Lane. — Anciently called Portpoole. 
See the commission granted to the Master of the 
Hospital of St. Giles’s, &e. to levy tolls upon all 
eattle, merchandize, &c., dated 1346, in Rymer’s 
Federa. 
Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn. — Lord Her- 
bert of Cherbury was one of the first inhabitants 
of this street, residing at the south side, near the 
east corner of Wild (or more properly Weld) 
Street, where he died in 1648. The house is still 
standing, and is one of fifteen built in the third 
year of James the First. Powlet and Conway 
houses, also still standing, are among the said 
number. The celebrated Dr. Mead (d. 1754) 
resided in this street 
Turnstile Lane, Holborn. — Richard Pendrell, 
the preserver of Charles the Second, resided here 
in 1668. It is supposed that Pendrell, after the 
Restoration, followed the king to town, and settled 
in the parish of St. Giles, as being near the court. 
Certain it is that one of Pendrell’s name occurs in 
1702 as overseer, which leads to the conclusion 
that Richard’s descendants continued in the same 
locality for many years, A great-granddaughter 
of this Richard was living in 1818 in the neigh- 
bourhood of Covent Garden. Richard Pendrell 
died in 1674, and had a monument erected to his 
memory on the south-east side of the old church 
of St.Giles. The raising of the churchyard, sub- 
sequently, had so far buried the monument as to 
render it necessary to form anew one to preserve 
the memory of this celebrated man. The black 
marble slab of the old tomb at present forms the 
base of the new one. Epwagp F. Rimpautr. 
Mrs. Cornelly’s is stated, in vol. ii. p. 753., to 
be “the corner of Sutton Street,” Soho Square, 
* now D’ Almaine’s.” Mrs. Cornelly’s was at the 
eorner of Sutton Street, but has long been pulled 
down: the Catholic chapel ix Sutton Street was 
Mrs. Cornelly’s concert, ball, and masquerade- 
room; and the arched entrance below the chapel, 
and now a wheelwright’s, was the entrance for 
“chairs.” D’Almaine’s is two doors north of 
Sutton Street, and was built by Earl (?) Tilney, 
the builder of Wanstead House? ‘The House in 
Soho Square has a very fine banqueting-room, the 
ceiling said to have been painted by Angelica 
Kauffmann. ‘Tilney was fond of giving magnifi- 
cent dinners, and here was always to be found 
“the flesh of beeves, with Turkie and other small 
Larks!” 
Cock Lane. —The house in Cock Lane famous 
for its “*Ghost” is still standing, and the back 
room, where “scratching Fanny” lay surrounded 
by princes and peers, is converted into a gas metre 
manufactory. Naso. 
— 
FOLK LORE. 
Easter Eggs. — The custom of presenting eggs 
at Easter is too well known to need description ; 
but perhaps few are aware that, like many other 
customs of the early Church, it had its origin in 
paganism. 
Sir R. K. Porter (Travels, vol.i. p. 816.) men- 
tions that, at a period of the year corresponding 
to Easter, “the Feast of Nooroose, or of the 
waters,” is held, and seems to have had its origin 
prior to Mahometanism. It lasts for six days, and 
is supposed to be kept in commemoration of the 
Creation and the Deluge —events constantly 
synchronised and confounded in pagan cosmogo- 
nies. At this feast eggs are presented to friends, 
in obvious allusion to the Mundane egg, for which 
Ormuzd and Ahriman were to contend till the 
consummation of all things. 
When the many identities which existed be- 
tween Druidism and Magianism are considered, 
we can hardly doubt that this Persian ecommemo- 
ration of the Creation originated our Easter-eges. 
G. J. 
Buns.—- It has been suggested by Bryant, 
though, I believe, not noticed by any writer on 
popular customs, that the Good Friday cakes, 
called Buns, may have originated in the eakes 
used in idolatrous worship, and impressed with 
the figure of an ox, whence they were called Bouy. 
The cow or bull was likewise, as Coleridge (Lit. 
Rem, vol. ii. p. 252.) has justly remarked, the 
