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way, and in which the inferior doing homage or even paying respect gave his hand into the hand of his superior in a different way ? I suggest with great diffi- dence, being on uncertain ground, that there was in former times a recognized method of taking and giving the hand, by which the difference between the one and the other process was immediately recognized ; that the probable difference was in the manner the hands were held ; and that the superiors, who took the hands of inferiors, held their hands with the palms uppermost in order to do it. FRANK PENNY.

BROOM SQUIRES (10 th S. ii. 145, 198). The following dialogue occurs in chap. xiv. of Charles Kingsley's novel 'Two Years Ago,' published in 1857 :

" ' Did you ever,' said Tom [Thurnall], ' hear the story of the two Sandhurst broom squires ? ' ' Broom squires ? ' ' So we call, in Berkshire, squatters on the moor who live by tying heath into brooms. Two of them met in Reading market once, and fell out,' " &c.

W. B. H.

[MR. E. H. COLEMAX sends the same extract.]

FINCHALE PRIORY, DURHAM (10 th S. ii. 168). Mr. Chas. Henmaii (not Hensman) pub- lished in 1867 the book of drawings about which MR. HUGHES inquires. It is entitled

" Illvstrations of the Mediaeval Antiqvities in the Covnty Dvrham, by John Tavernor Perry and Charles Henman, jvn r, members of the Royal In- stitvte of British Architects. Pvblisht by James Parker and Co., Oxford and London, MDCCCLXVII. P r 11. Us. 6d."

The book is in folio, dedicated to the Duke of Cleveland. President at the Durham Con- gress of the British Archaeological Associa- tion in 1866, and contains fifty-one drawings, of which fourteen relate to Finchale Priory. MR. HUGHES will easily obtain a copy from the second-hand booksellers. Mine is quarter bound, in russia leather, and I paid for it the sum of 12s. 6d. KICHARD WELFORD.

"VINE" TAVERN, MILE END (10 th S. ii. 167, 218). I remember this curious little timber- built inn, known as the " Inn on the Marsh," projecting almost into the middle of the road in a situation that was, I think, known as Mile End Waste. It had the reputation of being three hundred years old. I do not know the reputed site of the manor of Stepney, which in 1380 was given to the Bishop of London, but it seems probable that the sign was derived from a vineyard on the bishop's property, appertaining to a palace of his called Bishop Hall, which was trans- ferred to the Crown at the Reformation. It

was probably a mere alehouse at that time r and although, none the less for that, it may have been visited by those who could afford to travel from the City to a suburb so far distant, yet it is not mentioned by Pepys, who confined his refreshment in this pleasant region to the "Rose and Crown" in Stepney, celebrated for Alderman Bide's ale. The "Vine" must have been dismantled about the year 1903-4. If, as MR. NORMAN under- stands, a turnpike once stood hard by, the house was probably not unknown to the trustees of the Middlesex and Essex turn- pikes. The Turnpike Trustees customarily met at a convenient tavern to transact business, although the " Vine " was probably,, at an earlier time, not of sufficient importance, perhaps, to merit their patronage. The- Kensington Turnpike Trustees, for instance, used to meet at the " King's Arms " in New Palace Yard (Daily Advertiser, 1742). The same journal advertises a meeting of the Middlesex and Essex Turnpike Trustees a, general meeting at the Court House in Whitechapel, at nine o'clock in the morning,, to ''chuse new Trustees, in the room of others, deceas'd, and Officers for the ensuing Year. Richard Dunne, Clerk " (20 March y

1742). J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

Mile End Gate is shown in many old maps, but very clearly in R. Horwpod's ' Survey of London,' 1799, at the junction of Mile End Road and Dog Row (now Cambridge Road). Dog Row was the road northward to Bethnal Green and Hackney. The gate is to be seen in many old engravings, just as I recollect it ; it was abolished about the year 1866.

On the west side, on the waste ground in front of the " Blind Beggar " public-house* was for many years the halting-place of the Bayswater and Mile End Gate 'buses.

The "Vine" public-house stood a short distance east of the gate, on the waste ground in front of some houses named "Five Constable Row," on the north side of the road. This is also marked on the above map, but its origin is lost in obscurity ; it is described in the 'London Directory' of I860 as No. 1, Mile End Road.

There was a lot of false sentiment expressed at the demolition of the old building ; the why or wherefore I fail to understand. I knew it for over sixty years, and remember it as a dirty, ill-painted, timber building a public- house little better than a beershop ; it had a* wine, but no spirit licence. I really cannot see where " the interesting old wooden structure" comes in. It certainly was a great obstruction, and, as far as I can ascertain, could lay no claim to any historic associations*