June 7. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



451 



mentioned by our correspondent was erected in 1619 

 by John Marwood, who was also a physician, and by 

 Bridget his wife. For further particulars respecting 

 tlie family of the Marwoods, see Gentleman s Magazhie, 

 vols. Ixi. p. 608. ; Ixiii. 113.; l.wix. 3.; Ixxx. pt. i.4'29.; 

 Ixxx. pt. ii. 320.] 



St. Paul. — I shall be obliged if you will allow 

 me the oppoi tunity of asking your correspondents 

 for a reference to the fullest and most reliable life 

 of St. Paul the apostle? Emun. 



[Our correspondent is referred to The Life and 

 Epistles of St. Paul, comprisinr/ a complete Bioyraphij of 

 the Apostle and a paraphrastic Translation of his Epistles, 

 inserted in Chronological Order, now in course of pub- 

 lication by Messi-s. Longman, under the editorship of 

 the Rev. W. J. Conybeare, BI. .\., and the llev. J. S. 

 Howson. The work is copiously illustrated with map.s, 

 plans, views, &c.] 



Meanmg of Zull-verein. — Should a one-shilling 

 visitor to the Crystal Palace ask a question of a 

 holder of a season ticket touching the exact mean- 

 ing and history of the word Zoll-verein, I wonder 

 what he would tell him ? Corderot. 



[Zoll-Verein, i. e. Customs Union. — An union of 

 smaller states with Prussia for the purposes of Customs 

 uniformity, first commenced in I8I9 by the union of 

 Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, and whicli now inchides 

 Prussia, Saxony, Bavaria, Wirtemburg, Baden, Hesse- 

 Cassel, Brunswick, and Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and all 

 intermediate principalities. For the purposes of trade 

 and customs these different kingdoms and principalities 

 act as one empire.] 



Crex, the White Biillace. — AVill you insert a 

 Query from a new correspondent but old sub- 

 scriber ? Crex is the ordinary name with Cam- 

 bridgeshire folk for the White liullace. I cannot 

 answer for the orthography, as neither Dictionary 

 nor Provincial Glossary acknowledges the word. 

 Can any of your correspondents enlighten me ? 



Charles Tuikiold. 



St. Dunstan. 



[This Cambridgeshire name for the White Bullace 

 is clearly connected with the Dutch name for Cherry, 

 Kriecke. See Killian, s. v., where we find Krikcke, 

 Cerasum, and the several kinds of cherry, described as 

 Sivarte Kriecke, Spaensche Kriecke, lioode Kriecke, &e.] 



THE OUTEE TEMPLE. 



(Vol. iii., p. 375.) 

 While I thank Mr. Peter Cunningh.^m for his 

 ready compliance with my request, I am sorry to 

 Bay that I cannot concur in the reliance which he 

 expresses on the authority of Sir Geoi'ge Buc. 

 The j)assage quoted from that writer contains so 

 palpable a blunder in tiiat jiart of the history of 

 the Tem])le of whicli we have authentic records, 

 that I look with much suspicion on that portion of 

 the relation, with n^ganl to which no document- 

 ary evidence has been Ibund. 



He makes " Hugh Spencer, Earle of Glocester," 

 the ne.xt successor of the Earl of Lancaster in the 

 possession of the Temple after the suppression, 

 and places " Andomare de Valence" in the house 

 after the execution of Spencer for treason : an 

 account which receives a somewhat significant 

 contradiction in the fact, that Valence died in 

 1323, and Spencer was beheaded in 1326. 



With reference to Buc's assertion, that " the 

 other third part, called the Outward Temple, 

 Doctor Stapleton, Bishop of Exceter, had gotten 

 in the raign of the former king, Edward the 

 Second, and conucrted it to a house for him and 

 his successors. Bishops of Exceter," I can only 

 say that no such grant has ever been discovered, 

 and that every i'act on which we have any in- 

 formation in relation to the Templars' possessions 

 in London, contradicts the presumption that any 

 part of them was disposed of to the bishop. He 

 was raised to his see in 1307. The Templars were 

 suppressed in 1309. Their lands and teneinents 

 in London were then placed in the hands of cus- 

 todos appointed by the king, who in 13,11 trans- 

 ferred them into "the custody of the sheriffs of 

 London, with directions to account for the rents 

 into the Exchequer. In both of these documents, 

 and in the grants to the Earls of Lancaster and 

 Pembroke, all the property tliat belonged to the 

 Templars in London and its suburbs is expressly 

 included ; without excepting any part of_ it as 

 having been previously granted to the bishop ; 

 which, had any such been made, would inevitably 

 have been specially noticed. And I have already 

 shown in my former communication (p. 325.) that 

 the grant by the Hospitallers themselves to Hugh 

 le Despencer in 1324 is of the ichole of their house 

 called the New Temple, and that the bishop's man- 

 sion is therein stated to be its western boundary. 



All these particulars confirm me in my opinion, 

 that the bishop's house never Ibrmed any part of 

 the New Temple. Edward Foss. 



THE OLD LONDON BELLMAN AND HIS SONGS OK 

 CRIES. 



(Vol. iii., pp. 324. 377.) 



The songs of the old bellman are interestiiig 

 relics of the manners and customs of " London in 

 the olden time;" but they must not be confounded 

 with the more modern "copies of verses" which, 

 until lately, were annually handed about at Christ- 

 mas time by that all-important functionary the 

 "Parish Beadle." The history of the old London 

 bellman m.iy be gleaned from a series of tracts 

 from the pen of those two prolific writers— Thomas 

 Dekkcr and Samuel llowlands. The first of these 

 in the order of date is The Bclman of Lomhm. 

 Bringing to light the most notorious Villanies that 

 are now practised in the Kingdome. Projitahle for 

 Gentlemen, Lawyers, Merchants, Citizens, Farmers, 



