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7 Camden St., Camden - Shares an anecdote from 'Isocratis Parænesis': when Professor of Greek [Bartholomew] Doddington [Dodington] offers to repeat a Greek speech in Latin for the benefit of Queen Elizabeth, she responds in both languages.

The Limes, Nelson Street, Manchester. - Was mistaken in citing Hunter's life of Oliver Heywood as authority for proclamation of Queen Elizabeth as Empress; the correct source is an anonymous history of the Church of England in the reign of the Tudors, published in 1851; quotes extract from Harleian MSS given in the book; if verified it would be more appropriate than Disraeli's references to Raleigh and Spenser.