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-collections, he mentions it in the following words.

Catholic banker, residing in London, and had offices in Jermyn-street and Great Russell-street, and in the house in which 1 now reside. He had a lottery for jewellery, which he could not dispose of -and to those persons who were unfortunate, he presented medals. The number of his tickets amounted to 30,000, at seven or ten shillings each."
 * Henry Jernigan was a Silver-smith and Roman

In a footnote Smith wrote : "A large -cistern was the grand, prize." To this note Mr. Whitten adds the following information : " Jerninan's lottery was arranged about the year 1740, to dispose of the ' silver cistern ' alone, and to each purchaser of a ticket he presented a medal .of the value of 3s."

S. BUTTERWORTH. .33 Stanley Street, Southsea.

ENGLISH FAIRS : AUTHORITIES WANTED ^(12 S. vii. 429). One of the earliest, if not actually the first, books containing a lengthy list of old English fairs, with their annual dates, is Arthur Hopton's ' Ccncordancy of YEARES....' 1612, which was re-issued in 1615,each edition published by the Stationers' Company. This trading body had then a monopoly in almanacks Hopton's venture, which seems to have proved popular, as it deserved, was an early forerunner of our fa-niliar 'Whitaker.' The book can be seen at the British Museum.

W. JAGGARD (Capt.).

PEWTER BASINS FOR BAPTISMS (12 S. vii. 390). I have just seen a flagon marked inside the bottom with a ship in full sail enclosed in a square about 1 in. across, the border floriated and three sides bearing words complimentary to America. At the base the word "Maxwell." Stephen Maxwell was a pewterer at Glasgow in the latter half of the eighteenth century. The words were in- tended to draw American buyers.

WALTER E. GAWTHORP. J6 Long Acre, W.C.2.

COATS OF ARMS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE <12 S. vii. 311). The statement at 2 S. iv. 423 that Sir George Naylor 's ' Collection of CJoats of Arms of the County of Gloucester ' was " confessedly taken from Atkyns and Rudder " is a little misleading. The intro- duction to the ' Collection ' states that the -coats are arranged in three divisions : (1) .the arms prefixed to Sir Robert Atkyn's

the table in the Index to Rudder's ' History '; (3) such arms as were not illustrated or described in either of the histories. Rudder did not include any plates of arms in his
 * History ' ; (2) the arms of families given in

volume, but he indexed the names of over five hundred families whose arms are described in the text.

I have an index of the coats illustrated in Atkyns and in Naylor, and also of those in vol i. of Bigland's ' Collections relative to the County of Gloucester ' (1792). There are 8 plates illustrating 320 coats in Atkyns, 62 plates and 370 coats in Naylor, 3 plates and 192 coats in Bigland. All but 6 of the coats in Atkyns are in Naylor. Bigland gives 105 coats which are not in Atkyns or in Naylor. ROLAND AUSTIN.

SIR ROBERT BELL OF BEAUPRE (12 S. vi. 39 ; vii. 178, 414). It would be interest ing to have CAPT. WILBERFORCE BELL'S authority for the statement that " Robert Bell ' of the Temple ' settled in Hertfordshire, and as far as is known, died without issue." So far as the Records show there was only one Robert Bell of the Temple and he was afterwards Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Moreover he had two sons. C. E. A. BEDWELL.

Middle Temple Library, E.G.

FLOOR COVERINGS OF THE TUDOR EPOCH (12 S. vii. 311, 357, 394). I am aware that in Tudor times "carpet" often meant a table-cloth, but it often meant a floor- covering too. In the 'O.E.LV there are six or seven quotations for it in this sense before the end of the sixteenth century, and one of them (dated 1580) is "a carpet of Turkey." C. C. B.

LONDON INSURANCE COMPANIES : BIBLIO- GRAPHY (12 S. vii. 388, 437). 'The Inns of Court,' by Wilfred Rutherford ; pp. 45, illustrated, n.d., was recently published by the Legal Insurance Company, Limited.

W. B. H.

LONDON IN THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES : POLICE UNIFORMS AND SMITHFIELD MEAT MARKET (12 S. vii. 431). MR. G. L. BARKERS' recollection is perfectly correct. The police. did wear tall hats when Smithfield was partly covered with open- air cattle pens and some years later. The subject of the removal of the Cattle Market from. Smithfield had been agitated from 1815 and there is a library of books, pamphlets, &c., thereupon. Finally, what is known as the Copenhagen Fields Proposal was adopted, and the existinglMetropolitan Cattle Market laid out and opened there Wednesday, June 13, 1855. This entailed the almost complete desertion of Smithfield,