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NOTES AND QUERIES.
in his ' Londinopolis,' 1657 (p. 342), says
"Then is there from about the middle o
Aldersgate - street, a handsome new stree
butted out ; and fairly built by the Companj
of Goldsmiths, which reacheth athwart as fa
as Redcrosse-street." Ho well's notion of {
handsome street hardly agrees with modern
views as regards width.
It appears from an interesting lithographic plan of this locality prepared by Mr. J. Worn ham Penfold, the surveyor to the Goldsmiths Company, showing the street improvements made by the Company during the last two hundred and fifty years, which was laic before the jury empanelled to inquire into the late fire, that Hamsell Street was in 1690 known as Ked Cross Alley, and afterwards as Red Cross Square. Well Street was originally called Crouders Well Alley, and was so named from a well called Crouders Well, which formerly existed on the east side near St Giles's Vicarage. Crouders Well Alley was originally only 7 ft. wide, but as Well Street its width has been gradually increased to from 20ft. to 25ft., and it would probably have been further widened had the land on the east side been the property of the Com- pany. PHILIP NORMAN. 45, Evelyn Gardens.
$ wm.es.
We must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.
"CREAR." This word, with the meaning "to rear," appears as a Lincolnshire expression in Brogden's 'Provincial Words' (1866). As Brogden is our only authority for this word, I should be glad to hear from any one who has met with it either in literature or in provin- cial speech. THE EDITOR OF
'THE ENGLISH DIALECT DICTIONARY.'
The Clarendon Press, Oxford.
PORTRAIT OP NAPOLEON BY ROBERT LEFEVRE. Such a picture was exhibited " throughout England. Scotland, and Ireland " in 1818 or 1819, and on 17 February in the latter year was in charge of a Mr. Bell, proprietor of the Weekly Messenger, at the Westminster Central Mart, corner of Southampton Street, Strand. Will any of your readers kindly say what has become of this picture, and whether it was a full-length? EVELYN WELLINGTON.
Apsley House.
SIR THOMAS LYNCH. His father was Theo- philus Lynch, the seventh son of William
Lynch (by his wife Judith, eldest daughter
of John Aylmer, Bishop of London), and was
of Staple, in Kent, and not Cranbrook, as
stated in the ' D. N. B.' What was the name
of his mother ? Were Theophilus and his wife
buried at Langley Burrell, in Wilts, where
his brother Aylmer (uncle of Sir Thomas) was
rector? For in that church is a gravestone
to " Theophilus Lynch, Gent., and Anne his
late wife. He was buried 13 March, 1688 ;
Anne 29 August, 1666." The ' D. N. B.' says
Sir Thomas had two daughters ; but his will,
made in 1681, before he sailed to Jamaica
for the last time, mentions only the daughter
Philadelphia. Was the other daughter Mary,
who, according to the ' D. N. B.,' married
Thomas Temple, of Franktown, in Warwick-
shire, born after the will was made 1 Phila-
delphia was evidently young, as Sir Robert
Cotton was appointed her guardian, and she
eventually married his son, Thomas Cotton.
ARTHUR HUSSEY.
Wingham, Kent.
DAMPIER. I shall be glad of any informa- tion that can be given respecting an artist named Dampier. He flourished about 1823, and was well known in the neighbourhood of Tiverton, Devon. Were his paintings con- sidered to be of much value ; and was he any relation to the Bishop of Ely who lived about 1820-23? J. D.
WILLIAM WENTWORTH. I should be glad of any information concerning William Went- worth, who was elected from St. Peter's College, Westminster, to Trinity College Cambridge, in 1562. G. F. R. B.
REV. WILLIAM EDWARDS, Rector of Tenby from April, 1770, till February, 1795. Wanted information with regard to parentage, date of birth, and birthplace, also the names of ivings he may have filled previous to 1770.
LADY BETTY.
DE Ros FAMILY OF HAMLAEE. Were the
riginal possessions of this family at one or
more of the following places, viz., Rots, a
tillage of Normandy, in the election of Caen,
ind near that city ; Ros-Landrieux, a village
jf Bretagne, in the diocese and receipt of,
and near Dol ; or Ros-sur-Couesnon, another
village of Bretagne, in the last-named diocese,
)ut near Pontarson ? Is it not possible that
- he surname Ros, Rooe, Roos, may be derived
Tom TOO (Derbyshire dialect) = a thing that
ocks backwards and forwards (Router or
Roo-tor Rocks, Stanton Moor, co. Derby)?
s Hamlake, co. York, temp. Hen. III., iden-
ical with the modern Helmsley ; and, if so,
hy and when was the name changed ; or is it
