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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vi. MAY 15,
The Clerk of the Crown's functions were
to frame and record indictments against
persons tried in the Court and to exhibit
informations issuing from it. See Tomline's
- Law Dictionary,' s.v. ' Clericus Coronse '
and ' King's Bench.' N. W. HILL.
17 Woburn Place, W.C.I.
The ' jST.E.D.' says that this person is an officer of the Chancery department, who issues writs of summons to peers in the House of Lords, and writs of election for members of the House of Commons, &c. ; also an official who frames and reads indict- ments against public offenders. The present officer in London is Sir Claud Schuster.
ABCHIBALD SPABKE.
DARNELL AND THORP (12 S. vi. 170). An account of the Darnell family will be found in the ' Monthly Chronicle of North Country Lore and Legend,' vol. iv., 1890. It refers to Surtees's ' History of Durham,' and mentions a pedigree of the family recorded at the College of Arms in 1832, which com- mences circa 1750.
ARCHIBALD SPABKE.
MB. H. T. GILES will find all he asks for, I think, in connexion with these two families in J. W. Fawcett's ' Parish Registers of St. Cuthbert's, Satley, co. Durham,' Durham, 1914, p. 163, under the pedigree of Darnell of West Shields by Satley. I.-F.
FANI PABKAS (12 S. vi. 190). The British Museum Catalogue translates the Persian characters used by the author of ' Wander- ings of a Pilgrim,' &c., into Fanny Parks, who may have been living or connected with the Asiatic Gallery, Baker Street Bazar, as a book by the same author gives an account of a grand moving Diorama of Hindustan, displaying the scenery of the Hoogly, Bhagirathi, and the Ganges, &c., shown in London, c. 1851.
ABCHIBALD SPABKE.
I do not think the lady really intended to disguise her name. Is your Bombay corre- spondent quite sure about the vowels ? Her name may be Fanny Parkes or Perks. If on the other hand the vowels are correct, there may be some doubt about the initial consonant which may be a " B " and the name in that case would be Barkas. I know a family of that name. L. L. K.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LEPEBS IN ENGLAND (12 S. vi. 150, 195). The following entry in Trinity Register, Dorchester, Dorset, shows
that leprosy had not died out in England
before the reign of James I. :
" 1604. Elizabeth Lawrence [corrected to* " Elizabeth Appleby "] a leper, was buryed ye xvth of March."
R. GROSVENOB BABTELOT. The Vicarage, Fordington St. George, Dorchester.
The late Sir James Y. Simpson wrote an; interesting monograph in 1841 on ' Leprosy and Leper Houses,' which was afterwards published in three parts in an enlarged form in The Medical and Surgical Journal of ' 18412. This paper gives some five hundred references to works, many of which are but slightly known ; see the ' Memoir ' of the baronet, by Dr. John Duns, Edinburgh, 1873, pp. 130-4. N. W. HILL.
POBTUGTJESE EMBASSY CHAPEL (12 S.
vi. 110, 171). Full information as to the Embassy Chapels in London will be found in ' Catholic London Missions,' by J. H. Harting, published by Messrs. Sands, 1903,- and ' The History of the Sardinian Chapel,' by the same author.
The history of these Embassy Chapels teems with interest ; indeed few, if any,- buildings in London are so rich in heroic memories. G. M. GODDEN.
SILVER PUNCH LADLE (12 S. vi. 64). It was a not uncommon practice for eighteenth-century silversmiths to inlay a coin of the period in the silver base of punch ladles. I possess two such, both with whale- bone handles, and each having a silver crown so inlaid. It was usual to tip the end of the flexible handle with silver also, which made a neat and graceful instrument for the purpose of filling the jovial glass of those days W. JAGGABD, Capt.
GBOSVENOB PLACE (12 S. vi. 109, 156, 198). I would refer MB. GATTY to a pamphlet
" Lecture on the Sanitary Conditions of Large Rooms, and of Belgravia. Delivered before the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Shaftesbury, and the Members of the Pimlico Literary and Scientific Institution, on March 16, 1857- With Notes and Topographical Memoranda, &c., by C. J. B. Aldis. London, 1857." These Notes were compiled by Henry George Davies, whose copy is before me. From this I learn that
"a common lane had existed from the Park corner to the King's Road, but the Lock Hospital having been built in 1746-7, a broad road had been formed, and the King (Geo. III.) saw that his presence at Buckingham Palace would cause the line of build- ings to be continued."
ALECK ABRAHAMS.
