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visitors or assistants connected with the stalls I cannot now say. Anyhow I have reason to believe that it continued for some years as a bazaar after the date I mention.

D. A. H. MOSES. 78 Kensington Park Road, W.

BOTTLE TICKETS OB WINE LABELS (12 S. vii. 330). Owing to the fact that they were formerly exempt from being hall- marked, it is extremely difficult to find out the age of wine labels.

The London Museum has a collection which no doubt J. C. would be allowed to examine. Some are hall-marked but many not.

Very old wine bottles have oval excrescences with figures on them and these may have originated the labels. When wine was drawn from a cask the same bottle would be used over and over again, every cask having its own set of bottles ; but when wine came to be sold in bottles a label had to be hung on to these to distinguish one from the other.

M. H. S.

By the Act of 1739 (12 Geo. II. c. 26) certain wares are exempted from the opera- tions of assaying and hall-marking, but they are nearly all such as are wrought in gold.

By the Act of 1789 (30 Geo. III. c. 31) particular wares wrought in silver are also exempted. The exceptions include silver wares not weighing five pennyweights each except certain articles specifically mentioned, among which "Bottle Tickets" are sche- duled. Bottle Tickets therefore were excepted out of the exemption and are liable to be assayed and hall-marked what- ever their weight. J. PAUL DF CASTRO.

" OVER AGAINST CATHERINE STREET IN THE STRAND " (12 S. vii. 321). In this article Catherine Street is much in evidence. But why called Catherine Street ? I have access to no archaeological books on London and its old suburbs, but in this connection the extract which I append may be of interest not only for its mention of a shrine of St. Katherine, but as affording evidence also of another place-name apparently in or near to the Strand. I have not been able, owing to continued absence from London, to consult the original record, which I regret, as the translation is not without some ambiguity, but I give it as it appears in one of the volumes of Patent Rolls published by the Record Commissioners :

Patent Rolls, 20 Ric. II. (1397), June 2, West- minster. " Pardon at the supplication of the King's knight, Baldwyn Radynton, of Roger de

Swynerton of Chebsey, Co. Stafford, for the death of John de Ipstones, chivaler, &c., killed on Tuesday next before St. Matthew in the 17tb year (1393), as he was going from his house in Walbrook in the City of London to attend Parlia- ment as knight of the Shire of Stafford with a single yeoman carrying his sword in accordance with the Proclamation, &c. The said Roger with his three servants being in the house and liberty. of St. John without Smithfield perceiving the said John going thus unguarded and returning as far as the lane opposite the charpel of St. Mary, Runs wale, there assaulted John Joce and the said John Ipstones and killed the latter. Roger de Swynerton is also indicted for being there, armed with swords and bucklers, and for being a principal in the said commission of the felony, and also for with others pursuing the said Member of Parliament as far as the Hermitage of St. Katherine continuing the felony up to West- minister."

It would seem as if the Hermitage of St. Katherine must have been further. on than Catherine Street, and in any cas& Catherine Street in its name may be no- reminiscent echo of St. Katherine 's shrine, but at any rate the coincidence here disclosed is not unworthy of remark.

CHARLES SWYNNERTON.

THE HEDGES OF ENGLAND (12 S. vii. 190, 216,236, 255). Much useful information on this topic will be found in the following anonymous pamphlet :

" Enquiry into reasons for and against in- closing the open, fields. Humbly submitted to all who have property in them and especially the members of the British Legislature. Coventry r Printed by and for T. Luckman, 1767. 8vo. pp. 40."

The subject closely interested our national hero as may be seen by reference to :

" Ingleby, Shakespeare and the enclosure of" common fields at Welcombe, being a fragment of the private diary of Thomas Greene, 1614-17, reproduced in autotype, with transcript and notes. Birmingham, 1885. fo."

" Act for dividing and inclosing certain common fields. .. .meadows, pastures, and other lands- within the parish of old Stratford, 1774. fo."

W. JAGGARD, Capt.

JUDGE PAYNE (12 S. vii. 232, 273, 338). Sir HARRY POLAND has so excellently sum- marised the leading characteristics of this amiable public functionary that there is little to be added. Anyone, however, who is desirous of learning further details of Judge Payne will be well repaid by reading chapter xx. of ' Bernhard Bar, &c.' by the- late Mr. Serjeant Robinson. Third Edition, 1891, p. 220.

Strange to remark, although Judge Joseph Payne seemed to possess all the virtues yet