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they officiated; they attended at funerals, towards the end of the seventeenth century,
and proceeded on foot before the corpse, and their descendants may still be traced, I
singing, until they reached the church; believe, in the sister isle. The traditional
they had also (probably at "The Angel") origin of the name is related in The Metal
public feasts, with music and song.
Mines of Ireland,' a paper read before the
Royal Dublin Society by Mr. G. H. Kinehan
on 24 March, 1886.

Speaking of the co. Wicklow, the author says:

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Lamb Alley, formerly between Nos. 144
and 145, derived its name from a sign of
"The Lamb Tavern"; and Sun Street,
part of which still exists at the back of
No. 144, though formerly it had a continua-
tion through the opposite side of the street,
also had its name from a sign of "The Sun."
A token of "The Sun in Bishopsgate
Street, issued by W. I. A., probably relates
to Bishopsgate Within, where there was a
tavern of which Sun Yard marked the site :
To be Sold
A Strong season'd Hunter; also a gentle Gelding,
Master of about fourteen or fifteen Stone, fit for
a Lady. Enquire of Major Tames in Sun Yard,
Bishopsgate Street."-Daily Advertiser, 1 Oct.,

Bacon, an Englishman, came over and built works at Shillelagh. Before his time most of the charcoal was sent to Wales to be there used in the final working of iron. He, however, con-sidered it would be more economical to import the pig iron than export the charcoal. This adventure was most successful, and at the time

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of the Commission for examination into the state of timber in Ireland, he had amassed a sum of over one million pounds. Having only one child, a daughter, the bait was too seductive to one of the Commissioners, a scion of the twice noble house of Cholmondeley, who became Bacon's son-in-law and successor, relinquishing his heritage, and changing his name to Chamney. though he changed his name during his life, and his descendants adopted the change, yet on his tomb in Carnew churchyard his real name and creased the trade, having works not only at lineage are given. The Chamneys greatly in-Shillelagh, where Bacon established the industry, but also in the Vale of Clara; at Bally-na-Clash or 'Clash' in Glenmalure; at Woodenbridge and Aughrim, in the Vale of the Darragh Water, and elsewhere; besides innumerable bloomeries; his works popularly being said to have filled the county.' The Clash and Shillelagh iron was of very superior quality. Elsewhere in Ireland the iron trade gradually ceased, as the woods were sudden and untimely end prior to 1761, on account exhausted, but here it seems to have come to a of a fracas between Chamney and the English agent of the lord of the soil. Written information about the old ironworks is very hard to procure, as nearly all the Chamney papers appear to have been destroyed when the family were dispersed. Old people will tell you that the noise of the Chamney hammer was a weather guide.' Also they know that the iron and ore was carried in baskets on horseback from Wicklow port, and from the different mines and the old horsetracks from the mines and Wicklow to the furnaces can still be shown."

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"The King's Arms," 128, Bishopsgate
Street, was an ale-house in 1742, unless the
following announcement relate to "The
Arms," 106, Bishopsgate Street
King's
Within:-
"Lost the 31st of March last, from behind the
Stoke Newington Coach, between Stoke Newing-
ton and Bishopsgate, a Deal Box, with some
Shifts, and Wearing Apparel. Whoever will bring
the same to Mr. Hawkins at the King's Arms
Ale-house in Bishopsgate Street, shall have a
Guinea Reward, and no Questions ask'd."-
Daily Advertiser, 8 April, 1742.

The tavern stands at the corner of Acorn
Street, and was perhaps originally "The
Acorn." There certainly was, according
to Dodsley, an Acorn sign here which
gave its name to Acorn Street.

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Sweetapple Court, at No. 157, was so
named, not after such a sign, but after Sir
John Sweetapple, the owner (Dodsley's
London'); but who he was, whether
knight or baronet, or whether he had held
the office of Alderman (he was not appa-
rently a Mayor), I cannot say.

J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.
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(To be continued.)

Nearly twenty years ago I entered into correspondence with the late Rev. Joseph Chamney, D.D., Rector of Dromiskin, Armagh, with reference to the Chamney family, and we were able to piece together the following fragmentary genealogy. John Cholmondeley or Chamney of Ballard, co. Wicklow, and Ballynellot, co. Wexford, born 1650, married circa 1686 Jane, daughter of Bacon, ironmaster of Shillelagh, and had issue a son Thomas and two daughters: Elizabeth, b. 1688, married Percival Hunt of Lara, co. Kildare; Anne, married Archer. He died 1733, and was buried at Carnew.

"The Black Raven," 136, Bishopsgate Street Without, survives, like the curate's egg, "in parts." Some few years ago it could be distinguished, not by a hanging sign, but by a modern tessellated pavement at the entrance, bearing a large black raven. The probability, however, that it occupics the site of a more ancient house with the same sign is suggested by the circumstance of the upper portion containing, among other things, a very old-fashioned staircase, which I have not at present seen, and heavy beams of oak supporting the ceiling. My informant is Mr. Samuel Mossman, the owner, who is landlord also of "The Swan Hotel" at Stratford, E., and whose connexion with "The Black Raven" has lasted over fifteen years.

which "settles the point." This sentence is as follows:

By his [Milton's] second wife he had only one daughter, of which the mother, the first year after her marriage, died in childbed, and the child also within a month after."

Katherin Woodcocke married Milton on 12 November, 1656, and the child, according to the parish books of St. Margaret's, Westminster, was born 19 October, 1657. This date is given in the Museum Bible. Had Masson known of this Bible, he could even have given the exact day of death.

Mr. Mossman tells me that an old-fash

ioned society called "Ye Olde White Dogs

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There are slight differences in the wordings of some of the entries in the two Bibles. Here is another and important difference. "I am the book of Mary Milton," i.e. Mary Powell, Milton's first wife, is written, "in his wife's handwriting," in the Birch Bible. Those words are not in the Museum Bible, but on the inside of the back cover is was held there for many years, and at Yulewritten "Eliz. Elcock," and underneath time the chairman always gave the toast "Eliz. Salmon, Her Book (apparently of the buxom lasses and merry wives of Of Milton's Bishopsgate." maiden and married names). "White Dogs The at the third wife, Elizabeth, née Minshull, who same festive season distributed bread died in 1727, the same year as Mrs. and coal tickets among the poor inhabitants Foster, surviving Milton fifty-one years, of the surrounding district, a charity, supwe are told that she left all her effects, ported by many City merchants, which did after payment of debts, to her nephews and a vast amount of good, but which has now nieces. Among those effects was a large been removed to the Bishopsgate Institute Bible." Possibly this was the Museum under a new name. Bible, which had been acquired by one of those nieces.

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BISHOPSGATE STREET WITHOUT. (See 11 S. ii. 246.)

THE widening of this ancient thoroughfare begins at Lupinsky & Brandon's, tailors, Nos. 134 and 135, and will extend to Norton Folgate. It may be observed that the new 'Post Office Directory' includes Bishopsgate only, and has a note that Bishopsgate Within and Without have been amalgamated under

the new title.

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There is a seventeenth-century token extant of 'The Black Raven," but I do This Museum Bible was purchased from not remember to have seen the sign noted Thomas Kerslake in 1884. Masson's Life by MR. MCMURRAY in his interesting lists of Milton,' by the way, was published only of some of the "Signs of Old London.' three years previously. I naturally inquired I have the remains of an old handbill, of Dr. Warner whether Kerslake had given dated 1791, of "The Black Raven," 136,. any details as to how the Bible had come Bishopsgate Street Without. The landinto his possession. Dr. Warner kindly lord at that time was Alfred Love, who looked over all letters received from Kerslake announces the perhaps not surprising fact during 1883 and 1884, but found nothing of that he was a direct importer and Bonder the kind. Kerslake, who is now dead, of all his wines and spirits, noted for Special It would be extremely Scotch wrote from Bristol. and Irish Whiskies." A raven interesting to know its history. And per- perched on a bough adorns this handbill. haps some day the Bible described by Dr. But why were the "White Dogs" so named ? Birch may come to light.

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Angel Alley, which stood between Nos. 137 and 138, but was swallowed up by the Great Eastern Railway Station about, I think, sixteen years ago, probably marked the site of "The Angel Inn" in Bishopsgate Street, where the Parish Clerks, incorporated in 1232 by Henry III., kept their hall, that is, the first hall of the Fraternity; and by it was. an almshouse for seven poor widows of deceased members. The Clerks kept the account of christenings, casualties, &c., and published the bills of mortality, among other privileges of their charter being exemption from parish duties in the parish wherein

Sweetapple Court, at No. 157, was SO named, not after such a sign, but after Sir John Sweetapple, the owner (Dodsley's 'London'); but who he was, whether knight or baronet, or whether he had held the office of Alderman (he was not apparently a Mayor), I cannot say.

J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.
(To be continued.)

Not a word about the alleged addition of his "real name and lineage," which would hardly have escaped the transcriber's notice if present.

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The Rev. Joseph Chamney first drew my attention to the tradition that his family were a branch of the Cholmondeleys, and the romantic circumstances that had prompted the corruption of the surname. He, however, had not been able to verify the statement as to John Chamney's real name and lineage being inscribed on his tomb. was only the other day that I myself was able to visit Carnew with this object in view. Unfortunately, I could not find this grave in the churchyard, nor was any official connected with the church forthcoming who might have assisted me. I have since discovered, however, that the Carnew inscriptions have been dealt with by the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, and that the inscription I was in search of is given as follows :"Here lyeth the body of Jn' Chamney, Esq., who departed this life the 11th day of April, 1733, in the 84th year of his age."-Vol. vii. p. 205.

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The church at Carnew is about sixty years old, for it replaced an edifice condemned as unsafe. The square tower, surmounted by a spire, of the former church is separated from the body of the present one. There is a Chamney memorial inside the church, viz., a mural tablet with the following inscription :

"Sacred to the Memory of Joseph Chamney, Esq., of Ballyrahin, late Captain of the Coolattin Corps of Yeomany Infantry in the County of Wicklow. | On the 2nd day of July, 1798, and the 52nd year of his age, He was killed with his nephew a most amiable youth both fighting | the battles of their God and of their King in defence of their religion and their country. In testimony

of the high sense entertained of his many public and private virtues which are indelibly graven on the hearts of his numerous and sorrowing friends they have erected this monument | A.D. 1806.”

Edward and Elizabeth Archer had with other issue a daughter Jane, who married in 1781 Dr. John Haughton, a Dublin physician. Dr. Haughton's second son was Sir Graves Chamney Haughton (1788-1849), Orientalist. In the 'D.N.B.' the latter's second Christian name is erroneously given as Champney. But Champney, of course, has nothing to do with Chamney, being derived from the French Champagnois,' a native of Cham-attacks

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The nephew was Capt. Nickson of the Coolkenna Corps. The engagement was the last of three reverses, or melancholy affairs," as the Protestant historians term them, which the King's troops suffered in this It took neighbourhood within a few days. place half-way between Tinnahely and Carnew. The Yeomanry after their repulse took refuge in Capt. Chamney's house at the foot of the hill, where under Capt. Morton and Lieut. Chamney, a son of the deceased, they sustained during fourteen hours the the rebels, who attempted of repeatedly to fire the house. Some (particularly a large man from Gorey, named John Redmond, nicknamed Shaun Plunder) advanced under a covering of feather-beds to the hall-door, with the design of applying a torch to it; but they were shot down in the attempt, despite this thick tegument. This incident is illustrated by Cruikshank in Maxwell's History of the Rebellion.'

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The Ballyrahin Chamneys were probably descended from another son of John Chamney, not included in the above pedigree. In Vicars's 'Prerogative Wills of Ireland' there is Joseph Chamney, The Forge, CO. Wicklow, 1742."

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Colour is lent to the assertion that the original name of the family was Cholmondeley by the fact that they bore the same arms. Chamney silver-Irish silver of the early part of the eighteenth century-has passed through my hands, and it bears the Cholmondeley coat of arms and crest, which are also attached to the memorial to Capt. Chamney.

What was the date of the "Commission for examination into the state of timber in Ireland," and where could the names of the Commissioners be seen?

More about this earliest Anglo-American H. G. ARCHER. periodic service is doubtless to be found, and would be welcome.

ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

SOUTH AFRICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY.-As so many readers of ' N. & Q.' are devoted to the study of bibliography, a note should be made of that valuable contribution, 'South African Bibliography,' by Mr. Sidney Mendelssohn, published by Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trübner & Co., the first volume of which contains an Introduction by Mr. I. D. Colvin. Mr. Mendelssohn has devoted the best part of eleven years to the compilation of his two noble volumes, the last five years having been almost entirely given to the work. The Bibliography was at first confined

ANGLO-AMERICAN MAIL SERVICE : ITS BICENTENARY.-So many centenary and bicentenary celebrations of various kinds take place in these days that it is somewhat strange that none appears to be contemplated of one which would make a particularly wide and human appeal, that being the bicentenary of the establishment of a regular Anglo-American mail service. The beginnings of such a service can be traced, of course, to the seventeenth century; but it was not until the closing months of the first decade of the eighteenth that these seem to have settled into the periodic. In The Daily Courant for 8 January, 1711, appeared the following:

"Bristol, Jan. 6. This Day arriv'd here the Royal Anne Packet Boat, Captain Shorter, from New York, with a Mail of Letters from Her Majesty's Dominions on the Continent of America, which made her Passage from Bristol to New York in 50 Days, and her Passage home in 28 Days. This is the first Mail in return from the Continent since the erecting the Correspondence to and from this Kingdom and the said Continent."

The information here given was supplemented by the subjoined advertisement, published in the same newspaper on the following 15 June, showing that this regular mail service had taken a firm hold upon the public:

late Packets have not duely kept their Cours, hath been occasioned by the Death of Sampson Mears, late Proprietor of the said Packets."

"For New York.

"The Harley Packet-Boat from Bristol, Joseph Palmer, Commander, will be ready to Sail the last of this Instant June, (Wind and Weather permitting) with the Mail of Letters for the Continent of America, which will be taken in at the General Post-Office in London, or at any of the Post-Offices in Great-Britain, at any time between this and the last Day of this Instant June, 1711. And other Packets will be successively provided to depart monthly, with such Letters which shall be in the General Post Office in London or Post-Office in Bristol, by the last Thursday in every Month. All Merchants and others, who have Occasion to send Goods or small Parcels, and are desirous to go as Passengers to New-York, New-England, Long-Island, Rhode-Island, East or West-Jersey, Pensilvania, Maryland, Virginia or Carolina, applying themselves to William Warren, or Jonathan Scarth_Merchants, at the 3 Crowns in Gracious-Street, London; or to Richard Champion, or Charles Hartford, Merchants, in Bristol, may be Accommodated on reasonable Terms. P. S. Note, That there are already Posts, and other Conveyances, from New-York to the several abovementioned Places, And that the Reason why the

to the author's library of works relating to South Africa, but has been extended to other sources. His own collection he has left by his will to the Union Parliament of South Africa. He states in the preface, "It is not presented now, as I have by no means finished collecting"; and he is afraid that he could not work without his collection at hand. A. N. Q.