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It will be seen that the accompanying docu- 
ment is a report which the Surveyor-general 
makes to the Lords of the Treasury, respecting 
the petition of Mr. Anderson for a lease, which 
he recommends to be granted; and by a warrant, 
dated August 12, 1729, signed by three of the 
Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, which ap- 
proves of the Surveyor-general’s report, a new 
lease was ordered to be made in conformity there- 
with; but, in consideration that the chapel was 
much out of repair, and the congregation poor, 
the fine of 40/. was remitted. I shall doubtless 
meet with the original petition of Mr. Anderson 
shortly ; and if it contain any facts unnoticed by 
this report, I will communicate them. 
Wicriam Henry Hart. 
Albert Terrace, New Cross. 
“ May it please your Lordships, 
«“ By the annexed petition, Mr. James Anderson, pastor 
of the Scotch Congregation in Swallow Street, represents, 
that they many years since purchased of the French 
Protestants a chapel there, which they have been at great 
expenses in repairing, in order to keep it up during the 
remainder of their term, and that, as his Majesty and 
your lordships have been ready to encourage all congre- 
gations for religious worship, and he (the petitioner) in 
her late Majesty’s reign showed his zeal for the Hanover 
succession, he prays your lordships to grant him in trust 
for his said congregation a reversionary lease of the pre- 
mises to make up their term in being fifty years under a 
small rent, without fine. 
« J have perused an indenture, dated 5‘* April, 1694, in 
which ’tis recited that Mr. John Lawson, haying a lease 
from Henry, Lord Dover, and others, dated the 10 of 
January, 1695, of a messuage in Piccadilly, with a court 
before, and a yard behind it, for the residue of the several 
terms of twenty-three and twenty years therein men- 
tioned, had mortgaged the same to Mr. Benjamin Skinner, 
by which indenture the said Lawson and Skinner leased 
to Mr. George Boyd part of the said premises, viz. a 
piece of ground abutting eastward on Swallow Street, 
containing from north to south 68 feet, and from east to 
west 35 feet, together with the gateways, into the said 
street for thirty-five years from Lady Day, 1694. 
“T have also perused an indenture, dated the 15th 
February, 1709, reciting that the said George Boyd (who 
was a member of the French Church) had by a writing 
acknowledged the lease of the said ground was taken in 
his name in trust for Mr. John Graverol, and other French 
ministers, by which indenture they sold the said ground, 
with the chapel and messuage thereon erected to Mr. An- 
derson (the petitioner), and to Charles Lowther and Gilbert 
Gordon, both since deceased, for the remainder of the 
before-mentioned term of thirty-five years, which expired 
at Lady Day last; and the petitioner has produced to me 
a writing under the hand of Mrs. Hannah Edwards, 
dated the 27tb of November last, whereby she agreed that 
he shall have the premises at the yearly rent he now pays 
her for the remainder of the term granted by the crown, 
which will expire at Lady Day, 1734. 
“Having caused the premises to be surveyed, I find 
there is now only a chapel thereon, with a yard at the 
north-west corner (part of the before-mentioned messuage 
having been converted into a vestry-room, and a gallery 
over it, and the rest laid into the chapel); at the south- 
east end of the premises there is a gateway of 7 feet 
19 inches in breadth, leading from Swallow Street through 
the adjoining building, The said building abuts east on 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
the house of Henry Bone and on the said street; west on 
the grounds of Kilborne and others, being the backsides 
of hogses in Sackville Street; north on the stable-yard 
of Oakes, and south on the houses of John Blany 
and the petitioner; and contains in breadth, from east to 
west, 35 feet, and in length from north to south 68 feet 
and 10 inches, or thereabouts.. The said building is a 
slight one, much out of repair; and considering the bad 
situation of it, almost surrounded with buildings, may be 
valued at 202. per annum. 
“ Tf your lordships shall please to grant the petitioner’s 
request, a reversionary lease of the premises may be 
passed to him in trust for the benefit of the said congre- 
gation for forty-five years, to commence from Lady Day, 
1734, when the term in being of five years will expire, 
for a fine of 402, to be now paid (unless your lordships 
shall think fit to remit it according to the prayer of the 
petitioner, who alleges that his congregation is very 
poor); reserving a rent of 2/, 102. per annum, being 
2s. 6d. in the pound on the said yearly value, which will 
be agreeable to the Civil List Act. 
« And the better to ascertain the tenancy of the pre- 
mises, a rent of 12d. per annum to be made payable to 
the crown during the term in being; but to cease when 
the rent reserved for the said reversionary term shall 
commence. 
“ All which is humbly submitted to 
“ Your Lordships’ wisdom, 
“ Putt. GyBBon, Surveyor General, 
« 25th April, 1729.” 
CONFESSION OF THE AUTHORSHIP OF “ JUNIUS'S 
LETTERS.” - 
From the first volume of “ N. & Q.” to the 
present, I have frequently observed its pages 
spangled with new and “ bright” lights bearing on 
the Junius mystery, together with some links, 
which at a future day, may be of considerable as- 
sistance in completing the long-sought chain of 
evidence. 
The following remarkable letter from the pen 
of M. Bonnecarrere, French Minister Plenipoten- 
tiary, which that gentleman addressed to the 
editor of the Moniteur, in Aug., 1816, affords 
what many would consider conclusive evidence in 
support of the not uncommon assumption that 
Mr. Hugh Boyd was the personator of Junius. 
The following is a translation of M. Bonnecarrere’s 
letter. I do not remember having met with it in 
any work on the authorship of Junius ; and I cer- 
tainly think it deserves to be rescued from the 
perishable columns of “a forty year old” French 
newspaper. From what I have heard of M. 
Bonneearrere’s character, I believe him to have 
been a man of the highest integrity, and, of course, 
incapable of uttering an untruth. 
. Witriam Joun Firz-Parricx. 
Booterstoun, Dublin. 
“ To the Editor of the Moniteur. 
“ Sir, — The Journal des Debats of the 7th of August, 
1816, contains the following article: 
“There is 2 pamphlet published in London, with this 
title — Facts and Arguments which demonstrate, incontes~ 
tably that the Letters of Junius are by J. H. de Lolme, Av- 
