Notes and Queries, Number 62, January 4, 1851 by Various
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Dartmouth Castle contains a brass and armorial gallery; the visitor should
sail round the rock at the harbour entrance, it's appearance from seaward is fine.--Littleham Church has a decorated wooden screen, very elegant.--A work on the Devonshire pulpits and screens would be valuable. A.C. _Judges Walk, Hampstead._--A friend of mine, residing at Hampstead, has communicated to me the following information, which I forward to you as likely to instruct your readers. He states that the oldest inhabitant of Hampstead, Mr. Rowbotham, a clock and watchmaker, died recently, at the age of ninety. He told his son and many other persons, that in his youth the _Upper Terrace Avenue_, on the south-west side of Hampstead Heath was known by the name of "The Judges' Walk," from the circumstance of prisoners having been tried there during the plague of London. He further stated, that he had received this information from his grandmother. C.R. WELD Somerset House. _Gray's Alcaic Ode._--A question asked in Vol. i., p. 382, whether "Gray's celebrated Latin Ode is actually to be found entered at the Grande Chartreuse?" is satisfactorily answered in the negative at p. 416. of the same volume, and its disappearance traced to the destructive influence of the first French Revolution. It may not, however, be without interest to some of your readers to know, |
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