86 NQTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vra. JAN. 28, 1921.
- Nag's Head : Whitechapel.
Coaches. T. W. Th. S. Epping. "Oxford Arms : Warwick Lane. Coaches. 31. W. F. Oxford. M,. Dorchester. Carriers. T. S. . . Bray, Windsor. 31. Blandford, Henlow, Layton Buzzard W. . . Buckingham, Bicester, Wendover. Th. . . Beading, Oxford, Wallingford, Wat- lington, Wantage. F. . . Chipping Norton, Haddingham (? Haddenham), Thame. S. . . Highworth, Oundle, Winslow. J. PAUL DE CASTRO. (Tote continued.) ST. PAUL'S CHAPTER HOUSE. press has noticed the impending use of this fine house as a bank for the term, of 21 years. The well-meant protest by archi- tectural students from University College failed, because it came too late and the lease had already been signed. Notwith- standing this, their endeavour was novel and commendable ; it was I believe the first -occasion on which a demonstration for such ,a purpose had been held, and if this interest develops it may yet attain to definite suc- cesses and the general reformation of the custody of National monuments. The house is well known and has been the .subject of several illustrative monographs. Its claims, other than the architecture and decorations, lie in the commemorative importance of the site, which was, prior to the erection of the Chapter House, part of the site of the Bishop of London's Palace. Useful evidence is provided in an Inden- ture of Sale by the Commissioners appointed fey the Commonwealth to Richard Coyshe or Coyish, " Citizen and Skinner of London " on Aug. 15, 1649, for 300Z.. " All that ground or soyle no we or late parcell of or appurteyninge to the capital messuage or Pallace situate in or neare Paulls Churchyard London late called the Bishopp of London's Pallace conteyninge from East .to West thirty- five foote of assize and from North to South Ninety Nine foote of assize being Two Third Parts of the ground alloted and staked out to be sould to build houses upon in Paulls Alley and abutteth West upon a parcell of ground called in the survey thereof the middle parte of the said Pallace conteyninge Two hundred [and] fifty- rseven feete in length from East to West alloted -.for New buildings and sould unto the said Bichard Coysh North upon a parcell of the said vground alloted to build houses upon in Paull s Alley whereupon William Bolton hath begun to erect buildings and extendeth Eastward to the outside of a Stone Wall standing or w[hic]h lately stood next Paull's Alley soe farre as that reatheth (reacheth] and then 'towards the South end to an even range w[i]th that Stone wall into a Shopp in the possession of Robert Taylor and another in the possession of Webb and soe abutteth East upon a slipp of ground in Paulls Alley supposed to have been formerly parte of the Wast[e] or Churchway whereupon now stands or lately stood narrow Shopps or Shedds which Shopps or Shedds are in breadth att the North End three foote from East to West and att the South End three foote of assize and Seven Inches and South upon another parcell of the ground alloted and staked out to build houses in Pauls Alley sould also to the said Richard Coysh together with all waies passages Watercourses Lights Easements, &c." The deed is signed by the Commissioners (Sir; . John Wollaston, Thos. Noel, Will. Hobson, John Bellamie, Lawrence Brom- field, James Stowye, Stephen Estwicke, Richard Vennar, Robert Meade, and has the necessary endorsement and signature of "Elisha Coysh, Doctor in Physicke, sonne and heire of ye within named Richard Coysh," surrendering Dec. 29, 1662, all his inheritance of the within mentioned pre- mises acknowledging to have received " full satisfaction for ye pretended purchase." This description of the site is specially interesting as helping towards the identifi- cation of the site of the Bishop of London's Palace. Printed reference to this are few and of small usefulness. Dean Milmati 'Annals of St. Paul's'), the leading his- torian of the Cathedral and its environs has ittle to say except of Cornelius Burgess who unluckily also purchased Cathedral property from the Parliamentary Com- nittee. Canon Sparrow Simpson ('Chap- ters in the History of Old St. Paul's ') has made some slight research but evidently considered that it did not help to illustrate
- he annals of the Cathedral, so relatively the
subject has been neglected and it is due solely to the architecture of the Chapter House that present-day interest in its Dossible change has been awakened. ALECK ABRAHAMS. ' BOSS-BENT." This word, which would seem to be a synonym of " boss-backed," is not recognized in the ' N.E.D.' Southey visited Selkirk on Sunday, Oct. 6, 1805, and remarks (' Commonplace Book,' 4th Series, p. 529) : " The people dismally ugly, soon old, and then boss-bent." JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
