Sir,--I should be glad to obtain answers to any or all of the following
Queries:--
1. What is the origin of the name TOWER ROYAL, as applied to a London
locality, and when did our kings (if they ever inhabited it) cease to
inhabit it?
2. When was CONSTITUTION HILL first so called, and why?
3. Is there any contemporary copy of the celebrated letter said to have
been written by Anne Pembroke, Dorset and Montgomery, to Sir Joseph
Williamson? It first appeared in _The World_.
4. Does a copy exist in MS., or in print, of the sermon which Archbishop
Tennison preached at the funeral of Nell Gwynne?
PETER CUNNINGHAM.
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GROG--BISHOP BARNABY.
Mr. Editor,--I hope you intend to keep a corner for Etymologies.
Query, the origin of the word "Grog?"--And why do the people in Suffolk
call a ladybird "Bishop Barnaby?"
If you can enlighten me upon either of these points, I shall feel
encouraged to try again.
Yours, &c.
LEGOUR.
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