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fatal duel. I do not think that the number
is referred to, but at p. 264 a foot-note states
that the Prince (Regent) was initiated in a
Lodge at " The Key and Garter," No. 26,
Pall Mall evidently a misprint for " Star
and Garter," as Gould's ' History of Free-
masonry,' vol. ii. p. 483, states that the
Prince of Wales " had been initiated into
Masonry at a Special Lodge held for that
purpose at ' The Star and Garter,' Pall Mall."
In ' Old Stories Retold ' in All the Year
Round, 16 Feb., 1867, it is said that " The
Star and Garter "
" stood on the site of the present Carl ton Club. Degenerating in later days into the office of a light and heat company, and after that into a blacking manufactory, it was finally, like its neighbour the Royal Hotel, swept away by the progress of im- provement, and the present political palace erected In its stead."
The author goes on to state that " one of the saddest of these tavern tragedies took place at ' The Star and Garter ' on the 26th January, 1765." The story of the duel is then related fully. R. J. FYNMORE. .Sandgate.
SALFORD : SALTERSFORD : SALTERSGATE (10 S. x. 222, 256, 274). It may interest MB. HENRY TAYLOR to know that in the field behind the quaint and interesting old parish church of Salford, Bedfordshire, there is a large group of willow trees. They are close to the stream, and are evidently a well- established feature of the district. I fancy they are of the sallow species, but I am not botanist enough to know for certain at this time of year, when the catkins are not on. What value for philological purposes this evidence may possess I will not venture to estimate. W. R. B. PRIDEAUX.
The Pines, Flitwick, Bedfordshire.
" OFFICER OF THE PIPE " (10 S. x: 188). I hope some one will answer this query. I have tried without success to do so. Thomas Lowten (or Lowton), the founder of the Lowtonian Society, who died 2 Jan., 1814 "a man distinguished for a long series of years amongst the very foremost of his professional brethren as a solicitor of talents and integrity " (Gent. Mag., 1814, vol. Ixxxiv. part i.) was " Clerk of ' Nisi Prius ' in the Court of King's Bench, and Deputy Clerk of the Pipe," &c. I want to add an explana- tion of this office to the ' Reminiscences of the Lowtonian Society.'
Hie ET UBIQUE.
It is often the office of ' N. & Q.' to put readers in the way of obtaining information, though not actually imparting it, and so Jet
me mention one who held the office of " Clerk
of the Pipe and Hanaper." This was John
Potenger, Esq., who held that office until
his death in 1676, and whose daughter
Philadelphia married Richard Bingham of
Melcombe Bingham, Dorset. If I mistake
not, there was a little memoir of Mr. Potenger
written by his descendant the late Rev.
Charles W. Bingham, once a valued corre-
spondent of ' N. & Q.' There was a portrait
of John Potenger at Melcombe Bingham,
the ancient seat of the house.
The Binghams were a very ancient family (one was Bishop of Salisbury in 1246), and were founder's kin at Winchester and New College, being collaterally descended from William of Wykeham.
JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.
Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.
The Pipe Office appertained to the Court of Exchequer. The Clerk of the Pipe, as he was called, was in 1723 William, Lord Cheyney, Viscount Newhaven, his deputy being Francis Neale, Esq. (John Chamber- layne's ' Magnse Britannise Notitia,' 1723, p. 599). He was an officer who charged all accounts and debts due to the King into the Great Roll. These accounts and debts were drawn from the Remembrancer's Office, an office which also appertained to the King's Exchequer. Cowel further says that he " also writeth Summons to the Sheriff to levy the said Debts, upon the Goods and Chattels of the Debtors. And if they have no Goods, then doth he draw them down to the Lord Treasurer's Remem- brancer, to write Estreats against their Lands. The ancient Revenue of the Crown remaineth in charge before him, and he seeth the same answer'd by the Farmers and Sheriffs to the King. He maketh a Charge to all Sheriffs of their Summon of the Pipe and Green wax, and seeth it answer'd upon their Accounts. He hath the drawing and ingrossing of all Leases of the King's Land."
The office of the Clerk of the Pipe with that of Comptroller of the Pipe was abolished by the Act 3 and 4 William IV., and the records of the Pipe Office were transferred to the custody of the King's Remembrancer of the Exchequer.
J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.
" SINEWS OF WAR " (10 S. ix. 470 ; x. 137, 218, 253). In ' The Holy State,' by Thomas Fuller, Cambridge, 1642, p. 121, in chap, xix.,
- The Good Souldier,' is the following :
"Moneys are the sinews of war, yet if these sinews should chance to be shrunk, and pay casually fall short, he takes a fit of this convulsion patiently ; he is contented though in cold weather nis hands must be their own fire, and warm themselves with working," &c.
ROBERT PIEBPOINT.
