46 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vn. JULY n, 1020. Apparently the ruins of the Palace 'received most notice when part of the site was cleared for the construction of the northern approach to the Strand or Waterloo Bridge. To this period belongs : 2. "The History of the Ancient Savoy Palace ' (built by the Duke De Savoy, A.D. 1245), now the -scite [,sic]of the Waterloo or Strand Bridge, eto., by J.Bruce, 1817." This is an 8vo pamphlet in blue paper covers having a folding frontispiece with three views engraved : " Savoy 'as it was in 1(350." "As it was in 1790," and "Waterloo Bridge." The pagination is peculiar ; of the 1 8 pages this frontispiece is apparently counted as 1-2, the title as 3-4, first page of text 5, so that the text actually runs 5-18. As a work it is of no importance but evi- dently supplied a demand as there are two editions, and it is riot uncommon. Almost contemporary is an undated sixpenny pamphlet, 3. " Descriptive Particulars of the Ancient and Present State of the Savoy Palace, by B. Johnson. Savoy Side Warterloo [sic] Bridge." This consists of 16 leaves, 8vo, title, and text pp. 4-15. but successive editions added -to the text until the third edition extends to 19 pages, and has a more pretentious title. The material used by Mr. Loftie for his book is before me, and includes copies of both these pamphlets enlarged by many notes and excerpts, including press cuttings and pages taken from the 12mo (1560 ':) edition of Stow's 'Chronicle.' The earliest pamphlet in my collection is of considerable interest. It is entitled : 4. "An Impartial and Exact Account of the Divers Popish Books, Beads, Crucifixes and Images, taken at the Savoy, by Sir William Waller, one of His Majestie's Justices of the Peace, and burnt by order, in the New Palace-yard, Westminster, the llth of February. Written in a letter to a Friend in the country. London : Printed for R. G., 1678." This, a 2 sheet small 4to, texfc, pp. 1-5 only. reflects the anti - Catherine of Braganza activities of the Government. Other pam- phlets 011 the Savoy relate to unimportant disputes with the clergy, and are not illus- trative. The Iconography is interesting, but voi-y fragmentary. It was never the subject of a large picture or engraving, but of the small 4to and 8vo plates there may be recommended the coloured aquatint in .Ackermanri's 'Repository,' vol. ii., 1816; and the etchings by H. W. Brewer, privately printed for his friends (circa 1880). There ..are some excellent drawings by James Buckler, 1820-26 at the British Museum (MS. Add. 36370). Of MS. material a great deal of interest remains in private collections, so the would- be improver of Lof tie V book has a difficult task. ALECK ABRAHAMS. " CHARA " = CHAR-A - BANG. I observe from a report of a motor offence in a recent daily paper that char-d-bancs has col- lapsed into " chara." This seems to me to be satisfactory, and it may be well to note the occurrence of the word in print early in its career. ST. SWITHIN. We must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct. ROYALIST DELINQUENT ESTATES, NOR- FOLK. " John Adgate, Phillipp Button, and William Dixon, Surveyors appointed by the said Committee for Surveyninge [-sic] of Delinquents Estates within the County of Norfolk about March, One thousand six hundred fifty and two " made a report to the Trustees (qy. Commonwealth Trustees) of the estates 'in South Wootton, North Wootton, and Gaywood, formerly belonging to William Lord Craven and Sir Robert Winde, Knight, and forfeited for treason. Nicholas Hamond of South Wootton, gent., appears to have contracted for the purchase of these estates for the sum of 1575Z. 10s. 4eZ., being eleven years' purchase of the gross annual value thereof, viz., 138Z. 135. Sd [sic]. These surveys are stated in subsequent proceedings to have been entered up in detail in special registers kept by the Trustees at " Drury House," together with the subsequent contract evidences and certificates issued to the purchasers. Are these Registers still in existence, and where may they be consulted ? Who was the William Lord Craven re- ferred to as owning lands in South Wootton ? Is anything known of the origin of the Hamond family of South Wootton and West Acre other than the references thereto in Mr. Rye's ' Norfolk Families.'? I was once informed (by whom I do not now know) that they were prominent Commonwealth tax collectors and came out of Yorkshire. Blomfield is entirely silent under South Wootton on this sale of forfeited estates
