How should we doe for songs?
"If all things were eternall,
And nothing their end bringing;
If this should be, then how should we
Here make an end of singing?"
Edward F. Rimbault.
Mount Mill, and the Fortifications of London (Vol. ix., p. 174.).—B. R. A. Y. will find that the name is still applied to an obscure locality in the parish of St. Luke, situated close to the west end of Seward Street on the north side. The parliamentary fortifications of London are described in Maitland's Hist., and Mount Mill is noticed in Cromwell's Clerkenwell, pp. 33. 396. This writer supposes that the Mount (long since levelled) originated in the interment of a great number of persons during the plague of 1665; but
this, I think, is a mistake, for the Mount is mentioned in a printed broadside which, if I remember rightly, bears an earlier date. I cannot furnish its title, but it will be found in the British Museum, with the press-mark 669. f. 8/22. A plan of the city and suburbs, as fortified by order of the parliament in 1642 and 1643, was engraved by George Vertue, 1738; and a small plan of the same works appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine a few years afterwards (1749?).
W.P. Storer.
Olney, Bucks.