o's word is _Tunke._]

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A HINT TO INTENDING EDITORS.

Allow me to suggest, as an addition to the sphere of usefulness of the
"NOTES AND QUERIES," that persons preparing new editions of old writers
should give an early intimation of the work on which they are engaged to
the public, through your paper. Very many miscellaneous readers are in
the habit of making notes in the margins of their books, without any
intention of using them themselves for publication, and would be glad to
give the benefit of them to any body to whom they would be welcome; but
as matters are now arranged, one has no opportunity of hearing of an
intended new edition until it is advertised as being in the press, when
it is probably too late to send notes or suggestions; and one is also
deterred from communicating with the editor from doubts {244} whether
he will not think it an intrusion: doubts which any editor who _did_
wish for communications might dispel by making such an announcement as I
have suggested.

R.R.

Lincoln's Inn.

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NOTES UPON CUNNINGHAM'S HAND-BOOK OF LONDON.

_St. Giles's Pound_.--The exact site of this Pound, which occupied a
space of thirty feet, was the broad space where St. Giles's High Street,
Tottenham Court Road, and Oxford Street meet. The vicinity of this spot
was proverbial for its profligacy; thus in an old song:--

"At Newgate steps Jack Chance was found,
And bred up near _St. Giles's Pound_."

_Dudley Court, St. Giles's_.--This spot was once the residence of Alice
Duchess of Dudley, in the reign of Charles the Second; and afterwards of
the celebrated Lord Wharton. The mansion and gardens were of
considerable extent.

_St. Giles's Hospital_.--The celebrated Dr. Andrew Boorde rented for
many years the Master's house. He is mentioned as its occupant in the
deed of transfer between Lord Lisle to Sir Wymonde Carewe, dated in the
last year of Henry the Eighth's reign.

_Gray's Inn Lane_.--Anciently called _Portpoole_. See the commission
granted to the Master of the Hospital of St. Giles's, &c. to levy tolls
upon all cattle, merchandize, &c., dated 1346, in Rymer's _Foedera_.

_Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn_.--Lord Herbert of Cherbury was one
of the first inhabitants of this street, residing at the south side,
near the east corner of Wild (or more properly _Weld_) Street, where he
died in 1648. The house is still sta