IN Edward the Sixth's reign, when it was intended to establish a free mart in England, the mart was to begin after Whitsuntide, and to hold on five weeks, "by which means it shall not let St. James's fair at Bristol, nor Bartholomew fair at London." These then were the two great English fairs.BURNET'S Reform. vol. ii. part ii. p. 79.

THE introduction of railroads in the north of England, which were at first all made of wood, destroyed the New Forest, the colliers carrying wood back. So difficult is it to manage concerns of this kind, that the government's own wood from the forest, when delivered at Portsmouth docks, was found to cost 4s. 6d. per load more than that which they purchased.

Ar Moor Park near Farnham, Sir William Temple's heart, according to the directions in his will, was buried in a silver box under the sun-dial in the garden, opposite to the window from whence he used to contemplate and admire the glorious

works of nature.

LITHGOW calls the river Weir, "Durham's dallying and circulating consort."

THE Cob at Lyme.-Life of Lord Keeper Guildford, vol. i. p. 228.

Shields would become the port town, if Newcastle had not a privilege, that no common baker or brewer shall set up between them and the sea.-Ibid. vol. i. 233. p. Canal coal.-Ibid. vol. i. p. 278.

It was a superstition concerning Stonehenge (noticed in the history of Allchester), "that if they be rubbed and water thrown upon them, they will heal any green wound or old sore."

KEW BRIDGE. Londres, vol. 1, p. 320, Est-il vrai?

WESTMINSTER HALL. — Ibid. vol. 3, p.

134-8.

IN York Castle, a collection of instruments which had been employed by robbers and murderers, brought into court, and deposited there by public authority.

MR. SENHOUSE's' grandfather colonized the Solway Firth with good oysters, and they bred there, but as the population of Maryport (which he founded) increased, the people destroyed them.

He was the first gentleman in Cumberland who sashed his windows.

ABOUT 1600, some strollers were playing late at night at a place called Perin (Penryn ?) in Cornwall, when a party of Spaniards landed the same night, unsuspected and undiscovered, with intent to take the town, plunder it, and burn it. Just as they entered the players were representing a battle, and struck up a loud alarm with drum and trumpet on the stage, which the enemy hearing, thought they were discovered, made some few idle shots, and so in a hurly-burly fled to their boats. And thus the townsmen were apprized of their danger, and delivered from it at the same time.-HEYWOOD, Somers' Tracts, vol. 3, p.

599.

Southey's old and intimate friend, Humhrey Senhouse, Esq. of Netherhall.

J. W. W.

Ar the Lord William Howard's house at Naworth, a hare came and kennelled in his kitchen upon the hearth. Lilly gives this as a note to Mother Shipton's prophecy, that "the day will come that hares shall kennel on cold hearth-stones."

NEAR Cadbury, in Somersetshire, the Wishing Well, where women fill their thimbles with the water and drink it, and form their wish. The story is, that a girl of low degree drinking there one day, wished she were mistress of that well and the estate to which it belonged,—and ere long the lord of the estate married her.

RICHARD II. when his queen died at Richmond, cursed the place and pulled down the palace,

TILLOTSON was curate at Cheshunt in 1661-2, and lived with Sir Thomas Dacres at the great house near the church. (?) He prevailed with an old Oliverian soldier, who set up for an Anabaptist preacher there, and preached in a red coat, and was much followed in that place, to desist from that encroachment upon the parish minister, and the usurpation of the priest's office, and to betake himself to some honest employment.2 Some years afterwards, he and Dr. Stillingfleet hired that house for their summer residence,

| permit, and I left a direction. The next day it was sent, with a note, saying the chamber maid had found it under our bed,-which was most certainly false.

WE were at Stamford on a fair day in September. Among other things I observed a patchwork quilt for sale in the marketplace. A waggon laden very high with hay went through the crowd in so perilous a state that I verily expected every moment it would fall and kill somebody; the hay was so ill fastened that it was swaying from side to side. I stopped several persons, and made them get into the houses till it passed. A sudden jolt must have upset it. The man knew not what to do when I spoke to him. It was in such a state that no person could get upon it to secure it; and to have let it fall in the town on fair day, would have blocked up the street. So he went on at all hazards, and by God's mercy cleared the street.

to penitence, and becoming a voluntary exile in this country, ended his days in solitary confinement." Harold, after the battle of Hastings, where he lost an eye, is said to have retired to this city also. "The truth of these two circumstances was declared (and not before known) by the dying confession of each party."-HOARE'S Giraldus, vol. 2, p. 166. "The Countess and her mother keeping tame deer, presented to the Archbishop three small cheeses made from their milk: a thing which Giraldus had never seen before."-Ibid.

KENDAL a quaker-coloured place; picturesque chimneys there. In the inn the rooms on the first floor a very great height from the street. A strange looking settee

2 In Shropshire and Staffordshire, Gob is the name for a specified measure in a coal pit. To work in the Gob is a common expression.

3 WHITE remarks in his Natural History of Selbourne, "Though these birds are, when in season, in plenty on the South Downs round Lewes, yet at East-Bourn, which is the eastern extremity of those downs, they abound much more:" vol. i. p 281. J. W. W.

there, covered with pepper and salt cloth, the back being about three feet and a half high, five long, and six inches thick. A brazen chandelier in the room, the part above the candles perfectly blackened with smoke. Clothstretchers about the town.

BETWEEN Kendal and Kirkby Lonsdale one alehouse has on its sign "Good ale tomorrow for nothing." Barns along the road remarkably substantial and good.

INGLETON.-Handles of the bells shaped like anchors. Single church not a mile from the town; when we passed there was a light in it, and four bells were ringing. There had been three manufactories in the town, two of cotton, and the third of tow? but they had all been given up,-which an old man who told us this thought better for the people of the neighbourhood. The mountains are table-formed. Before Settle

you leave an old road on the left. Its green line is a very characteristic object: the ground hereabout park-like. Ebbing and flowing well. Long church at Giggleswick; the schoolmaster's salary here has risen from £50 to £1000. Proctor1 born at Settle, but very little known there, though we inquired of his own relations at the inn.

An old

and stocks.

AT Skipton there was a print of the Short-horned Bull Patriot, engraved by William Ward, engraver extraordinary to their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Duke of York.

WHEN we were at Witham Common, September, 1815, they were foddering the cows for want of grass, and brought all the water for sixty horses from a mile distance, such had been the drought. In the north we had had rain enough.

BATHS at Ilkley high up the hill, and

1 Thomas Proctor, the sculptor, is alluded to. J. W. W.

scribes it in one of his letters to Strafford. 1637. "It is a noble place both for seat arable, woods, water, partridges, pheasants, and all things about it, downs, pastures, fish, a good house of freestone, much better for some additions he hath newly made to it; for he hath built a stable of stone, the on-the-Hill only, exceed it; also a kitchen third in England, Petworth and Burleigh

which is fairer and more convenient than

any I have seen in England anywhere. £2000 land a-year he hath about it; and whilst I was there his park-wall of square white stone, a dry wall, only coped at the top, was finished, which cost him setting up £600 a mile, but it is but three miles about. The finest hawking-place in England, and wonderful store of partridges, which is his

chiefest delight when he is there.”—STRAFFORD Letters, vol. 2, p. 118.

TUNBRIDGE Castle. The inclosure turned into a vineyard by its owner, Mr. Hooker, and the walls spread with fruit; and the mount on which the keep stood, planted in the same way. He sometimes makes eighteen sour hogsheads, and is going to disrobe the "ivy-mantled towers," because it harbours birds.-H. WALPOLE'S Letters, vol. 1, p. 259. A. D. 1752.

“WITHIN a mile or less of Bristol city, there is a navigable river that runs for about two or three miles between two prodigious high rocks of hard stone, (supposed by some to be as high as the Monument in FishStreet-Hill,) just as though it was cut out by art."

Query. Your opinion whether that river was the product of nature or of art! British Apollo, vol. 2, p. 600.

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In a mere near unto Staffordshire, small eels, about the thickness of a straw, abound so much about a set time in summer, lying on the top of the water as thick as motes are said to be in the sun, that many of the poorer sort of people that inhabit near to it take such eels out of this mere with sieves or sheets, and make a kind of eel-cake of them, and eat it like as bread."-Iz. WALTON, p. 188.

"A BOY about twelve years of age, belonging to most respectable parents at North Shields, was during the summer taken to Gilsland Wells by a near relation. The scenery pleased his youthful imagination to such a degree, that he formed the romantic notion of making a plantation in that neighbourhood the place of his residence for life, where he designed to build a hut to screen him from the winter's blast. On his return home he used every endeavour to raise money, in which he in some degree succeeded. His next care was to select a brother hermit to accompany him,

and he at last found a schoolfellow, rather younger, who appears to have been as romantic as himself. These two worthies last week, after packing up their wardrobes, and securing a pistol, powder, and shot, to furnish themselves with game, actually set out on their pilgrimage, and were some miles west of Hexham before one of the persons employed to seek the fugitives overtook and brought them back."

A MAD Welshman, in BEAUMONT and FLETCHER'S Pilgrim, says―

"The organs at Rixum1 were made by revelations,

There is a spirit blows and blows the bellows, And then they sing."-Act iv. sc. 3.

This Welshman "ran mad because a rat eat up his cheese."

MARBLE discovered at Dent by two upright slabs set up as a stile in the churchyard, which in process of time were polished by those who rubbed against them in passing through.

BIBLE Society.-Book worship substituted for idol-worship by the Jews, Heretics, and Moslems.

Catholics in Ireland and England, how they have acted.

Spectacle Society desiderated, and of course to follow.

It will soon be a question whether the Bible be created or uncreated.

THE Admiralty has ordered that one Bible, one Testament, and four Books of Common Prayer, shall be allowed to every mess of eight men in the navy. The books are to be in charge of the purser, to be frequently mustered, and considered as seastore. A proportion is also allowed to all the naval hospitals.

G.G. S. from Birmingham, suggests "me

i. e. Wrexham. The pronunciation is pretty much the same to this day.-J. W. W.