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The Rev. Charles Wolston, LL.B., became Rector of Torbryan on the death of the Rev. Christopher in 1863, and patron on the death of the Rev. Thomas in 1885, and died in 1905. JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT.

WINE USED AT HOLY COMMUNION (10 S. ix. 90, 212, 432). A broadside in the British Museum, dated 1713, describes a quarrel between one of the churchwardens of Woolwich, Kent, and the lecturer. The churchwarden apparently was a wine-mer- chant or tavern-keeper, and one detail refers to the threat of the lecturer to purchase the Communion wine elsewhere than from the churchwarden. The reference is ' The Case of Mr. Samuel Fletcher,' &c.

AYEAHB.

From the evidence adduced at the last reference, it would appear that it was cus- tomary in the sixteenth century to celebrate this rite by the use of claret wine, in place of port as now, in the case of English and American Protestant Churches. In Ger- many, in the Lutheran Church, I am told, the sacramental element at the present day is not red in colour, but yellow presumably sherry. Is anything known with regard to the adoption of these varying customs as to when and by whom the several ecclesiastical orders concerning them were carried out ? N. W. HILL.

New York.

VILLAGE MAZES (10 S. ix. 388, 475). Mr. J. E. Smith, the author of ' St. John the Evangelist, Westminster, Parochial Me- morials,' p. 304, tells us that "Tothill Fields were at one time ' Tuttle-m-the- Maze,' from there having been formerly a maze here ; it is shown in Hollar's view." This view, Mr. Wheatley states in ' London, Past and Present,' 1891, vol. iii. p. 387, is one of Tothill Fields, and he goes on to say that the maze was made anew in 1672, quot- ing as his authority the ' Churchwardens' Accounts of St. Margaret, Westminster.' The making anew would appear to be an error, for I have before me two printed extracts from the said accounts ; but the question of making anew is not alluded to. Mr. Smith suggests that it was then renovated. The extract under date 1672 reads :

"Item, to Mr. William Brewer, for making a maze in Tuttleffields, 2 0."

Aubrey, the naturalist and antiquary (1626- 1697), thus speaks of it :

" There is a Maze at this day in Tuttle Fields Westminster, and much frequented in the summer time on fair afternoons."

These particulars, although hardly bearing upon the query as set forth by MB. F. G. WALKEB, may yet be of some interest to him or others. W. E. HABLAND-OXLEY.

Westminster.

On the green behind the castle at Saffron Walden a singular work is mentioned by Stukeley, which is called the Maze, and which he supposed to be a British Cursus, or place of exercise for the soldiery. About half a mile from this castle, on the western side, are the remains of an ancient encamp- ment, of an oblong form, called Pell-Ditches or Repel-Ditches.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

SIB MENASSEH MASSEY LOPEZ, BT. (10 S. ix. 508). I have read the query of MB. SOLOMONS with keen interest, and unhesi- tatingly dismiss the story of Menasseh's '* death-bed repentance " as a fiction. Even MB. SOLOMONS seems to have had his doubts of the veracity of it. I take it for granted Menasseh was given Christian burial. With- out seeking to defend the members of the ancient Hebrew congregation in Plymouth, I feel sure that had Menasseh sent to them for a Rabbi to read the " Viddoo " or " Confession " with him, not one, but every member of the " Kabronim," or Burial Society of the town, would have been religiously bound to go to him. I base this statement upon many celebrated dicta in the Talmud. M. L. R. BBESLAB.

FIG TBEES : MATURING MEAT (10 S. ix. 389 ; x. 53). ROCKINGHAM'S reply to my query is interesting, but not quite to the point. That the juice of the papaw, if rubbed on meat, will make it tender is fairly well known ; and possibly the juice of unripe figs may have a similar effect. I wished, however, to know if a piece of meat could be made tender by being hung up in the branches of a fig tree, as was asserted in the article referred to in my query. ROCKINGHAM says that W.I natives " have always hung fowls and joints in the growing [papaw] trees," but adds that for this state- ment " no authority can now be produced. '* This leaves the matter pretty much as it was.

T. F. D.

SAMUEL RICHABDSON (10 S. ix. 510). The family of the novelist was, I believe, in no way connected with that of the Richardsons of Findon ; but if there was any relationship, A. C. H. could doubtless trace it by reference to the pedigree of the latter family, which is to be found both in