charm may be deemed of sufficient moment to merit a record in N. & Q.' The hill was widened several years ago for L.C.C. tramway purposes, and the " Huntsmen's Lodge swept away, I believe, at the same time. The kennels, however, have remained until now, picturesque, though battered relics of more picturesque days. When, by whom, and under what circumstances were they built? As they gave their name to the hill, they must in their time have been of some local note. WILMOT CORFIELD.

HORACE SMITH'S VERSES ON SURNAMES. -In several books on surnames there are quotations from a humorous poem by Horace Smith, e.g.:

Mr. Metcalf ran off on meeting a cow
With pale Mr. Turnbull behind him.

I should be glad to know where the original can be found. E. W.

GAS was introduced by way of experiment at the Lyceum Theatre as far back as June, 1789, by means of what was termed Eropyric Branch," which illuminated the Saloon. In September, 1804, Frederick Albert Winsor gave lectures at that theatre, and his observations were illustrated by means of

a chandelier in the form of a long flexible tube suspended from the ceiling, communicating at the end with a burner designed with much taste, being a Cupid grasping a torch with one hand and holding the tube with the other."

In 1807 the experiment of lighting the stage with gas was tried by Winsor, who in that year lighted Pall Mall with gas, the first street in London that was so illuminated. Byron may well have seen some of these experiments before he left England for Italy in 1816. Turning to the last paragraph of MR. FISHWICK'S question, I observe that on 6 Aug., 1817, the Lyceum bill announced that 66 the gas lights will this evening be introduced over the whole stage," and so successful was the experiment that on the 8th of the following September a manifesto was issued to the

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"The complete success which, after a trial of several weeks, has attended the experiment of lighting the stage by gas, has induced the proprietor of this theatre still further to consult

the improvement of the Publick Accommodation; and this evening a new and brilliant mode of illuminating the audience part of the theatre by means of Gas Lights will be submitted to the observation and, it is respectfully hoped, to the approbation of the visitors of the English Opera House.”

This method of illumination did not, however, appear to find much favour with the public at the Lyceum, for on the opening night of the season of 1823 an advertisement announced that "twelve elegant new cut glass chandeliers have been added and are to be lighted with WAX," the last word being emphasized in capital letters as special attraction.

WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

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It must, I think, have been at Covent Garden Theatre, and in May, 1821, that Lord Byron and a good many other people first saw a theatre illuminated by gas.

My authority for this statement is a very excellent and informing article entitled 'The Night Lights of Old London,' which appeared in The Builder in April, 1879. It is there stated that

"in 1819 Messrs. Taylor and Martineau erected an apparatus at Apothecaries' Hall for making oil gas, and in May, 1821, the Whitechapel and Covent Garden Theatre, Whitbread's Brewery, Bow Works adopted the invention, as did also and the Argyll Rooms."

It was clearly very successful, for it was proved in evidence given before a Royal Commission in the following year that the Chartered Gas Company, one of the three then in existence in London, supplied 8,586 houses and 172 public buildings, including seven theatres.

But long before that date the Moravian refugee, Mr. F. A. Winzer, or Winsor, had been enthusiastically extolling the wonders of gas-lighting, and he is said to have fitted up the Lyceum Theatre and lectured there on the merits of the new invention. Whether or not these lectures and experiments of Winsor's were really given at the Lyceum Theatre on the site of Wellington Street, as this statement would imply, seems to me rather doubtful. There was a place known as the Athenian Lyceum at No. 22, Piccadilly, and as it was at that place that, according to a contemporary programme, a facsimile of which is now before me, a Mr. Hyde lectured on 8 March, 1808, and other dates, on The Danger of Gas Lights,' with a Grand Display of Philosophical Experiments and Illustrations," by which he proposed to prove "the insalubrity of Carbonated Hydrogen Gas and the Fallacy of the pretended Inventor's Assertions," it

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Eight public libraries are named on p. 496 of my Bibliography' where copies of the 1632 edition can be consulted.

Referring to the number of existing copies. It is not for me to say whether a census of known exemplars would repay the time and trouble necessary to compile it, but a hint as to the probable number is to be found in the quantity appearing on the market.

The first edition of 1623 probably consisted of 500 copies, of which about half are certainly known to survive. Of these 250 copies, exactly one-fifth appeared at auction in the twenty years 1886-1906.

The second edition of 1632 doubtless consisted of 1,000 copies, of which probably half survive, for in the same twenty years 1886-1906 there appeared at auction 111 copies. WILLIAM JAGGARD.

HISTORY OF CHURCHES IN SITU (11 S. vi. 428, 517; vii. 55, 155, 231, 298, 377).St. Peter's Church, Droitwich. A good Church Guide is published, price 3d., and is sold in the porch. It is written by the Vicar, Rev. E. H. B. Price. It contains four good illustrations, including one of the interesting monument, of 1616, of Sergeant George Wylde, recumbent, in robes and coif. The pamphlet gives a good description of this curious composite building, with its sixteenthcentury half timber additions. The early tiles, carefully preserved round the font and in the vestry, probably from the Droitwich or Malvern kilns, are noted; these resemble closely those preserved in the Ashmolean Museum, and I have recently preserved similar tiles discovered in the foundations in the restoration of an old house near Droitwich.

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This Church Guide has run into a second edition. I regret to see that the editor has now dropped the pleasing reference to the tombstone of Capt. Samuel Evans, of the 89th Foot, who died in 1829. On this tombstone some kindly friend, evidently with the leanings of an historian, caused a later inscription to be engraved : Whose name is associated with the double murder at Oddingley." From my copy of the scarce pamphlet of 1830, published by T. Eaton, this remarkable tragedy, commencing with the murder of the Rector of Oddingley, Rev. George Parker, and ending with the killing of the murderer, Richard Hemming, by his associates, occurred in June, 1806. Hemming's skeleton was found in a barn in Oddingley on 21 Jan., 1830.

W. H. QUARRELL.

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ST. GEORGE'S, HANOVER SQUARE: ELY CHAPEL (11 S. vii. 428).-Licences for marriages which took place at St. George's, Hanover Square, at any time between 1754 and 1812, must have been issued from one of the three following offices, and may be seen there :

Faculty Office, Knightrider Street. Vicar-General's Registry, Creed Lane. Bishop of London's Registry, Dean's Court.

With regard to the registers of the old Ely Chapel, they have been printed with Ely Episcopal Records,' published by IVY C. WOODS, Librarian-Secretary.

A. Gibbons.

Society of Genealogists, 227, Strand, W.C.

It is quite possible that Mr. C. Maisey, clerk, St. George's Church Vestry, Maddox Street, W., may be able to supply the information required by MR. L. E. MORIARTY for his first inquiry. CECIL CLARKE.

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STANDISH': COPYRIGHT LAW (11 S. vii. 389). My copy of the Author's Protected Edition (5th ed.), published by W. Kent & Co. (late D. Bogue), in 1859 does not contain the notice mentioned by CIVIS. I presume, therefore, it only referred to the first edition.

STATUE IN QUEEN SQUARE, BLOOMSBURY (11 S. vii. 425). This statue is fully dealt with in the L.C.C. Return of Outdoor Memorials in London' (1910). It is indexed under "Queen Charlotte (?)," and extracts from contemporary newspapers, &c., are cited as evidence. The writer (Sir Laurence Gomme) then proceeds :

"Writing at about that time (1775), Walter Harrison, in describing Queen Square, states that at the north end of it is a very handsome statue of however, to be some reason for doubting whether her present majesty, Queen Charlotte.' There seems, the statue then erected is identical with that at present standing in the square. The features of the statue in no way resemble any of the portraits compatible with the assumption that the latter is of Queen Charlotte, and the style of dress is hardly represented. Moreover, when recording the erection of Queen Charlotte's statue in 1775, the Morning Post and Daily Advertiser mentions that underneath is the following inscription: Virtutis Decus et Tutamen.' There is, however, no trace of such therefore seem necessary to take into account the an inscription on the present pedestal. It would possibility that Queen Charlotte's statue has been removed, and some other substituted. Whom itis supposed to represent is uncertain: perhaps Anne. though the name of Mary II. has been suggested."

JOHN T. PAGE.

[MR. WILMOT CORFIELD also thanked for reply.]

STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE BRITISH ISLES: "OFFRS." (11 S. vii. 443).-I am sorry MR. PAGE, when copying the inscription on the pedestal in front of Regency Square, Brighton, did not protest against the contraction of the word officers to "Offrs." I have from time to time called the attention of my friends to this, and one and all agree that such a contraction ought not to appear on a public monument, and that it is in very bad taste.

Inner Temple.

"TOWN-PLANNING " (11 S. vii. 447).-By a curious coincidence the same morning's mail brought me two papers, in one of which the latest number of N. & Q. SIR J. A. H. MURRAY'S question about town-planning" was asked, while the other, a German newspaper-which I am sending to the Editor-had an article about the right way to combine house and garden, with the heading, Haus and Garten

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Planung.' This with the verb planen in an architectural sense (to design) was new to me, though "der Plan eines Hauses, einer Stadt," "Stadtplan," Hausplan are quite common. Probably this use has as yet remained confined to professional literaAs the author refers to Prof. Mutheture.

sius as his master, and to Lichtwark, perhaps some brethren of the N. & Q.' community who are architects will be good enough to search in the works of the writers mentioned. I have no doubt that the incomparable storehouse of the B.M. Library contains them. G. KRUEGER. Berlin.

MUNGO CAMPBELL'S DYING MESSAGE : FAREWELL, VAIN WORLD!" (11 S. vii. 449). The editorial note under this query states that the earliest definite example of the whole verse is 1776. Mr. Alfred Stapleton's work, The Churchyard Scribe,' on p. 95, gives an example from Greasley Churchyard, twenty years before that date. He writes:

"In the same churchyard is to be seen the worst travesty of an epitaph I have met with yet, founded on what are among the most hackneyed of all graveyard rhymes, which occur, in a conparatively correct form, in the same churchyard, over William Harvey, 1756, thus :

Farewell vain World, I've had enough of thee, And Valies't not what thou Can'st Say of me ; Thy Smiles I court not, nor thy frowns I fear, My days are past, my head liest quiet here. What faults you saw in me take Care to shun, Look but at home, enough is to be done. "The travesty occurs a headstone to is exactly reproduced below. Its fearful and Phillis Robinson, dated as recently as 1866, and wonderful rendering possibly is due to the circumstance that it was chiselled from memory by an extremely illiterate man :—

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Farewell vain world I've had enough of the,
I doent value what thou can see of me;
Thy frowns I quote not, thy smiles I fear not,
Look at home and theirs enough to be done."
CHAS. A. BERNAU.

DICKENS: PLACES MENTIONED IN THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER' (11 S. vii. 249, 434).-I cannot find an essay entitled 'The Noble Savage' in The Uncommercial Traveller,' although a paper under that title is entered in the general index to All the Year Round (vol. v. p. 424). But on turning up the reference I fail to discover any mention of St. George's Gallery. Will your corre spondent give the reference to the volume and page of All the Year Round where the article to which he alludes first appeared? I think it very probable that St. George's Gallery was a name given to the building originally erected in 1842 to serve the purpose of a Chinese exhibition. According to The Illustrated London News (6 Aug., 1842, "the left hand P. 204), the building stood on side of the inclined plane extending from Hyde Park Corner to Knightsbridge, and