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,
that this elegant "Alcaic" was to be found at the Chartreuse not very long
before the outbreak of that great political tempest, proof of which will be
found in the following extract taken from the 9th volume of Malte-Brun's
_Annales des Voyages_, Paris, 1809. It is found in a paper entitled "Voyage
a la Grande Chartreuse en 1789. Par M. T*******," and is in p. 230:

"L'Album, ou le grand livre dans lequel les etrangers inscrivent leurs
noms, presente quelquefois une lecture interessante. Nous en copiames
quelques pages. Le morceau le plus digne d'etre conserve est sans doute
l'Ode latine suivante du celebre poete anglais Gray. Je ne crois pas
qu'elle ait ete publiee encore."

Then follows the ode, as usually printed, excepting that in the third line,

"Nativa nam certe fluentia,"

the words "nam certe" are transposed.

G.B.

_Fleet Marriages._--_The General Evening Post_, June 27-29, 1745, contains
the following singular Note of a Fleet Marriage:--

"Yesterday came on a cause at Doctors' Commons, wherein the plaintiff
brought his action against the defendant for pretending to be his wife.
She in her justification pleaded a marriage at the Fleet the 6th of
February, 1737, and produced a Fleet certificate, which was not allowed
as evidence: she likewise offered to produce the minister she pretended
married them, but he being excommunicate for clandestine marriages,
could not be received as a witness. The court thereupon pronounced
against the marriage, and condemned her in 28l., the costs of the
suit."

Y.S.

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