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 10 s. VIIL AUG. 3, 1907.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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founded with the Westminster Fish Market, the rival of Billingsgate, which had its venue by Cannon Row. The market itself was a large open
 * space, with the Market House in the centre, with

stalls and shops around about made use of by butchers, poulterers, and others. In the early part of the last century [the eighteenth] it is said to liave been well served and resorted to. According to Walcott, the Market House referred to was built by subscription in the year 1568; and on its site the architect Mr. S. P. Cockerell erected the Guildhall."

This building, too, has gone, and is replaced

toy a home for the County Council for

Middlesex. W. E. HABLAND-OXLEY.

Westminster.

BILL STUMPS HIS MARK (10 S. vii. 489). I learn from a ' Guide to the Roman Baths of Bath,' by Mr. Charles E. Davis, F.S.A., that there is, or was, in that city a tablet inscribed in uncials which offers great choice of interpretations :

" Prof. Sayce read the inscription in one way, And Prof. Zangemeister of Heidelberg in another. Prof. Sayce read it as a cure from either bathing or taking the waters, certified by three great men, whilst the German professor read it to be a curse upon a man who had stolen a table-cloth, ascribing the theft to a guest of a dinner party !" Pp. 21, 22. Descending to a foot-note and to particulars :

" Mr. Davis and Prof. Sayce, reading from right to left, made out the following wording :

COLAVITVILBIAMMIHIQ AQVACOMCLIQV-TSEO [or B] IV AVITEAMLV TAEL EXPERIVSVELVINNA I LV GVERINVSAERIANXSEX ITIANVSAVGVSTALISSE CATVSM INIANVSCOM

IOVINAGERMANILL

" ' Q(uintus) has bathed [or washed] Vilbia for me with the water. Along with Cliquatis he has

saved her by means of quin tael[or tale]. [His]

pay [is] 500,000 pounds of copper coin or quinari. {Signed by] G. Verinus, Aerianus [JElianusl Ex- itianus, the Augustal priest, and Se(xtius) Catus Minianus, along with lovina Germanilla.'

" Prof. Zangemeister reads as follows :

Q ' IHIM ' MATELIV ' TIVALO(v) XI ' CIS ' TAVQUIL C ' MOC ' AVQA ' LE "AT IN ' IVQ ' MAE * TIVA

VL(AS) ANNIV ' LEV ' SVEBEP SXE ' SVNAIBEA ' SVNIBEV ES ' SILATSVGA SUNAITI MOC ' SUNAINIMSUTAC '

LLINAMBEG * ANIVOI '

IHe reads from right to left, but takes each word (except ma(n)teliu(m), which he considers the key- note of the inscription) to be written backwards :]

" ' q(ui) mihi ma(n)teliu(m) in(v)olavit si liquat[c]

com aqua el(la) ta ni q(ui) earn (sa)lvavit

Vinna vel (?) Exs(u)pereus (V)erianus, Severinus, A(u)gustalis, Comitianus, Catusminianus, Germa- irill(a) Jovina.'

' ' May the man who stole my table-cloth waste away like water unless he restores it. [Parties suspected are] Vinna ; or Exsupereus, Verianus,

Severinus, A(u)gustalis, Comitianus, Catusmini- anus, Germanilla, Jovina.' " Pp. 22, 23.

I have had Mr. Charles Davis's ' Guide ' for perhaps twenty years, so there has been ample time for other learned men to offer their various interpretations ; but I am not able to give examples. ST. SWITHIN.

ROSE AND GORDON FAMILIES (10 S. viii. 8). D. M. R. will find Mrs. Janet Anne Ross's name in the current issue of ' Who 's Who.' She married 5 Dec., 1860, not 1861.

JOHN B. WATNE WRIGHT.

" TREATS " : " MTTLLEBS " (10 S. vi. 310 ; vii. 517). As " treats " in the list given is associated with collars, names, and plough- gear, it seems not unlikely that it may be a misprint for " theats," which is a standard word for traces. Translating in his easy, periphrastic fashion ' ^Eneid ' ix. 316-19, Gavin Douglas writes thus : The bodeis of Rutilianys heyr and thar Thai dyd persaue ; and by the coist alquhayr The cartis stand with lymowris bendyt strek, The men lyggyrig, the hamis about thar nek, Or than amangis the quhelis and the thetis. Similarly, in rendering the lora et juga of xii. 532, the translator finds his equivalent in " the renis and the thetis." This word, from Isl. thatt-r, a cord, and variously written "thetis," " thetes," and "theats," has kept its place in the agricultural ter- minology of Scotland to the present day. It is also very expressive figuratively, as when it is said of one who has kicked over the traces that he has " gane clean ower the theats," or that he is " oot o' the theats a'thegither." THOMAS BAYNE.

LONDON COACHING HOUSES IN 1680 (10 S. viii. 1). In regard to MB. W. NOBMAN'S reference to Lad Lane under this heading, I may be permitted to remark that this lane now exists as part of Gresham Street, being the third (counting from west to east) of the four original thoroughfares of which that street is formed. They were St. Anne's Lane, Maiden Lane, Lad Lane, and Cateaton Street (see my communication under the last heading at 10 S. v. 475).

In that part of the street formerly known as Lad (or Ladle) Lane " The Swan with Two Necks " still exists, not, it is hardly necessary to remark, as a coaching house, but as a receiving office of the London and North- Western Railway; and over the sntrance to the goods yard a carved stone representation of the old sign may be seen n relief on the pediment.

I hope to be enabled to devote a chapter of my history of SS. Anne and Agnes parish