506 , NOTES AND QUERIES. Ship Ship Ship and Castle Charing Cross . . Ratcliffe Cross . . Cornhill . . 1741 Daily mic 1752 Levar .. 1716 Nov. Ship and Notchblock Shipton's Sir John Falstaff . . Ratcliffe Highway . . . . Swithin's Alley, 'near the Ex- 1711 change t By the Mews, Charing Cross . . 1732 [12 S. IX. DEC. 2-4. 1921. vertiser, Oct. 29 ; Mac- michael's ' Charing Cross,' p. 49. Levander, A.Q.C., vol. xxix., 1916. " This day a fowl was roasted in a wonderful sun kitchen on the top of the Ship and Castle Tavern in Cornhill. The machine was composed of about a hundred small convex glasses." Larwood, p. 331. Daily Courant, Nov 22. Midd. and Herts iii. 198. X. & Q.,' 1897, f Swithin's Alley, which later became Sweeting's Alley, ran from Threadneedle Street to Cornhill. The site is now an open space on the east side of the Royal Exchange. It should not be confused with St. Swithin's Lane. (To be continued.) J. PAUL DE CASTRO. GEORGE ETHEREGE. THERE are accounts of this worthy (who not only Was Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford, but also taught music and practised medicine), in the ' D.N.B.' and in Gillpw's ' Bibliographical Dictionary ' and elsewhere, but these accounts do not mention the name of his wife or the date of his death, which, perhaps, some correspondent can now supply. Dom Norbert Birt, in ' The Elizabethan Religious Settlement,' at p. 446, says : William Herle, . . . the spy and informer, wrote to Cecil on 19 March, 1571-2, accusing a cer- tain James Chillester of coining, &c. Amongst other items of his supposed misdemeanours appears : " He hath been a means for the de- livery of one Dr. Edriche, a physician, out of the Marshalsea upon his bond and another's, who are of no value, whiqh Edriche was there for Popery and Massmongering about Oxford, and is of so great malice towards the Queen's proceedings and against this present state as none can be more ; but Chillester wisheth he might deliver all the Papists out of prison by such colourable means."* Dr. George Etheridge, thus referred to, lived till 1588. He had been in trouble since early in the reign. The Council thus dealt with him : " St. James's, 23 Nov., 1564. A Letter to the Sheriff of Oxfordshire and Henry Norris, Esq., to cause one George Etheridge of Thame in Oxford- shire, physician, to be sought for and apprehended, and sent to the Commissioners for causes eccle- siastical, and to send all such books as they shall find worthy the knowledge of the said Commission- ers to answer sundry notorious disobediences in causes of religion, "f He was a schoolmaster as well as a medical man, and one of his pupils was
- Lansd. MS. 13, No. 61. For an insight into
Herle's methods, cf. Cotton MS;, 'Caligula,' c. iii. passim. t Ibid., 982, f. 125. the distinguished William Giffard, afterwards Archbishop of Rheims."* In a list of recusants dated Nov. 24, 1577, relating to the university and town of Ox- ford, is this reference to him (Cath. '^Eec. Soc., xxii. 97) : Mr. Etheridge, an Auntient Mr of arte, worthe 200U in goodes and leases, commeth never to the churche nor his housholde, he receiveth preystes in serving men's apparel disguysed, besides a great number of the towne and contrey that suspitiousely resort to his house, to heare a masse. To this, the late Hon. Mrs. Bryan Staple- ton appends the note : A list of recusants at large in 1592 includes George Etheridge, convicted Physician, Professor of Greek in Corpus Christ! College, Oxford, ex- pelled for his Faith 1612. Her death prevented the notes being corrected by her (C.E.S., xxii. 10), and this date (1612) is certainly wrong, as Etherege was expelled from his Regius Professorship in 1559. In a list of recusants in the diocese of Ox- ford, dated Dec. 7, 1577, are mentioned (C.R.S., xxii. 112): George Etheredge of Thame, Mr of arte, and his wief ; Thomas, his sonne ; Margaret Wansell, hiff maid ; Dorothye, his maid. In the Exchequer Recusant Roll ofj Michaelmas, 1592, to Michaelmas, 1593, occurs the name of "Maria Etheridge ux' Thome Etheridge de Thame gen' " (C.R.S., xviii. 259). From this it would appear that George and his wife were dead and that Thomas was no longer a recusant. What was Mary's maiden name ? Did Sir George Etherege (1635(?)-1691) belong to this family ? JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT. !
- Wood, ' Athenae/ i., p. 191 ; Gillow, ii., p.
