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 12 s.x. APRIL 1,1922.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 253 Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, on which also is inscribed the name of his second son, Lieut. " waste A. Edwards, 29th Bombay Native In- j figured fantry, killed at the fight of McNeill's Zariba, -' ] in the Sudan War of 1885. General Edwards married a Miss Morrison, granddaughter of Sir Richard Morrison, the celebrated Irish architect and a de- scendant of one of Cromwell's sisters. The General's mother was a member of the well-known and distinguished Layard family, and his connexions include many noble families, among them Wimborne, Bessborough, Lindsey, and Huntly. Three sons served in the Great War : 1. Clement, Colonel, Worcester Regiment. 2. Richard, R.E., Colonel in Command at Liverpool. 3. Arthur, R.F.A., Colonel. Two grandsons : 1. Vincent, private, R.A.M.C. Invalided out. 2. Charles, R.N.V.R. Interned in Holland. C. GROTH. THE VINE TAVERN, MILE END (12 S. x. 191). The Vine at Mile End, on the road- side edge of the Mile End Road, by Cam- bridge Heath Road, on the east side of the Toll House of Mile End Gate, is depicted, in its last utterly decayed and neglected state, in a water-colour drawing by Dr. Philip Norman in the London Museum ; but a time there was, as local records ex- pansively show, when it was a hostelry of distinction, which was the occasion of a that the Vine's tall mast on the adjoining of Mile End was similarly dis- The only room, save the bar, accessible to the inquirer, was made in- teresting by a collection of magazine and newspaper cuttings and police notices, in which the Vine figured in the eighteenth century when a very motley company called upon the host for a stirrup cup or a horse ration ; and in a place of honour over- mantel were old Masonic Lodge tools in use before the Union. But an examination of the minutes of the Court Baron of Stebunhith Manor, held on July 4, 1692, dissipated many of the romantic myths which had gathered around the head of the dilapidated Vine in Victorian times when highwaymen, footpads and rioters never held the Mile End Road in fee, and when even the political glories of the scrap of the ancient Mile End Common were no more. By that record the copy- hold tenants were directed to proceed to a certain piece or parcel of "the Waste ground of the said Manor,, lying before the Mansion house of Thomas Swain, situate near the Pound on Mile End Greene, between the tenements and lands of Robert Stanborough on the East and Robert Becket on the West, and there to view and see the same, and set out by meter and bounds where the said Thomas Swain may erect a shop upon the Waste ground without prejudice to the Lady of the said Manor [Lady Wentworth] or any people of our Lord the King passing T he Court Baron re Prted that Swam, . great and prolonged struggle between j might, with consent erect and build a shop shed with pent -house upon the Haste before h *s aid h <> u se and ground at a distance of twenty-five feet left for a footway various authorities claiming exclusive user and control over what was left of the once- wide Mile End Green or Common. For two hundred years it enjoyed popularity 11 - 11 j i 1*1 ^u-^*-*-*-'*^ uv ^J.c^u tiii- ocbivt. OJJLV/^./ vrj. .- i n i ii [ -1 HI iii'. long all sorts of travellers on the road to I Waste, over the Ditch or Common Sewer there, )x (sometimes mapped as the road to I by the space of twenty feet, and twenty-five feet Harwich) for its retail of sound Madeira, j east and west, at each end. icrry and port. Originally it was (like I Swain was to keep the said common lost of the tradesmen's little shop -dwellings sewer or ditch in good order r stores hereabouts on the fringes of the by cleansing the same and also permitting the historic Common) mainly constructed of water to run into the same at all hours from the wood ; but its tenure having become Great Road, as it now doth, or formerly hath done, uncertain by the bitter contentions of I From this certain of the holders of land manor-lord, copyholders and commoners, i and houses facing Mile End Green on both and by the wholesale usurpation of squatters j sides of the road deduced that they had on the " Waste," its patchwork repairs of second-hand bricks and roofing were not concealed by the gaudy boards of the to the Victorian public authorities and saleable or leaseable to anybody. That brewers and distillers, or by the odious I made a long contention in the courts of law trespass of the flying billposter, whose I which was very expensive ; and the point antics were satirized in songs in the White- | whether the Manor Lordship of King chapel " gaffs." By those ditties we know i William III.'s time, and the copyholders
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