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read. Printed in the Transactions, with
Orlando Jewitt's beautiful woodcuts, it
forms a suitable memorial of the ancient
edifice, which, as Mr. Hugo observed,
"well deserves our reverence and regard, whose
venerable walls, solemn chambers, and diversified
history can reveal beauties, suggest associations,
and elicit remembrances, at once so fair, so national,
and so grandly great."
It is scarcely credible that such a building, bound up as it is with a stirring episode in English history within whose walls, moreover, it can scarcely be doubted that Shakespeare trod can be allowed to perish at the hands of the housebreaker.
W. F. PBIDEAUX.
The pamphlet on Crosby Hall by Mr. E. I. Carlos, referred to by MB. ALECK ABBAHAMS, was noticed and largely quoted from in The Mirror of 5 Jan., 1833. Refer- ence is also there made to an engraving of Crosby Hall ; see Mirror, vol. ix. p. 329. I do not possess this volume.
In The Literary World of 15 June, 1839, a short report, signed " T. J.," was given of a lecture delivered in Crosby Hall on the old mansions and baronial halls of England by John Britton, F.S.A. The lecturer evidently devoted a considerable portion of his time to a description of Crosby Hall.
An engraving of the interior of Crosby Hall, accompanied by three or four columns of letterpress, appeared in The Penny Magazine of 30 Nov. to 31 Dec., 1832.
A . letter by the present writer, drawing attention to the unique associations of Crosby Hall with several notable Northamptonshire families, was published in The Northampton Herald of 14 June last. JOHN T. PAGE.
Long Itchington, Warwickshire.
HALESOWEN, WOBCESTEBSHIRE (10 S. vii.
470). In Lewis's ' County Atlas,' 1842
(the only reference I have at hand), Hales-
owen is represented as a detached part of
Shropshire. Though that county appears
to have no other, the Birmingham district
is rich in examples of " discreteness " in
counties : bits of Staffordshire and War-
wickshire lying in Worcestershire, and the
latter county and Gloucestershire being
wonderfully intermixed about Chipping
Camden. Similar cases occur in many parts
of England : I live myself in a part of
Hertfordshire surrounded by Bucks. Most,
if not all, of these detached parts have for
administrative purposes been united to
their enveloping county by orders of the
Local Government Board in the course of
the latter part of the nineteenth century.
The origin of detached parts is briefly
discussed in Pollock and Maitland's ' History
of British Law,' 2nd ed., pp. 533, 556 ; but
I know of no thorough investigation of the
subject. When the invaluable analyses of
Domesday Book in the ' Victoria County
Histories ' are complete, an exhaustive
study of detached parts will be a simpler
matter than it has yet been. The commonly
accepted explanation, that they are detached
parts of great estates, may sometimes be
true ; but I very much doubt if it is at all a
general explanation. I have shown in the
case of Caversfield, a detached part of Bucks,
that this explanation does not apply (Records
Biicks Arch. Soc., ix. 104-19, and Home
Counties Magazine, vi. 134-44) : and I
suspect that in many cases discreteness is
more ancient than great estates. It is
certainly more ancient than the Norman
Conquest. A. MOBLEY DAVIES.
Winchmore Hill, Amersham.
Hales-Owen together with Oldbury was at one time a part of Shropshire, in the same manner that Farlow, near Stottesden, Salop, was a part of Herefordshire. I think the exchanges were made about 1848, but application to the Clerk to the County Council of Worcestershire will no doubt receive a reply. See 6 S. iii. 293, 455.
Pigott's county maps of the early nine- teenth century, show the extent of this place and district, which formed part of Shropshire. In 1824, according to Gregory (' Shropshire Gazetteer '), there were 1,472 houses and 8,187 inhabitants in the Shrop- shire part of Hales-Owen (the entire parish had 10,946 inhabitants) ; so that it was considerably more than an outlying portion of a Shropshire estate.
HEBBEBT SOUTHAM.
Hales-Owen (St. Mary and St. John the Evangelist) is a parish comprising the market town of Hales-Owen, in the Hales- Owen Division of the hundred of Brimstree, a detached portion of the county of Salop. It stood within a part of Shropshire, in- sulated between Worcester and Stafford ; but by the operation of a statute passed in 1844 it now forms part of Worcestershire. The poet Shenstone was buried here. For a more detailed account see Lewis's ' Topo- graphical Dictionary of England,' vol. ii., and ' Murray's Handbook to Worcester,' p. 34. ALFBED SYDNEY LEWIS.
Library, Constitutional Club, W.C.
10 S. vii. 509). It
is quite easy to find this word in ' N.E.D., '
when it is once understood that in all such
