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76 NOTES AND QUERIES. [ 12 6. ix JOLT 23, 1921. 1836, of persons banished to Barbadoes in 1687. But N. S. should consult the whole of the correspondence.

(12 S. ix. 29). See 3 S. ii. 286, 'Oxfordshire Feast'; 392, 'Oxfordshire Feast: County Feasts,' and 438, 'County Feasts.' At the second reference W. H. Husk wrote, "These feasts were annual assemblages of the gentry and others, natives of many of the principal English counties, who were inhabitants of London. They were carried out by the company first attending divine service at one of the City churches (usually that of St. Mary-le-Bow) and hearing a sermon preached either by a native of, or one holding preferment in, the county, and afterwards dining together at the hall of one of the City companies, hired for the occasion." The writer adds that the first such meeting of which he has found mention was in 1654, and he gives the title of a sermon by Samuel Annesley, LL.D., 'The First Dish at the Wiltshire Feast, November 9, 1654, or a sermon Preached at Lawrence Jury to those that there offered their Peace Offerings, and went thence to Dine at Marchant-Taylors' Hall.'

The latest gathering known to this correspondent was that of the natives of Herefordshire, on Feb. 7, 1727/8, when a sermon was preached at St. Michael's, Cornhill, by the Chancellor of Hereford. A list of twelve counties is given which held such meetings, to which, on p. 438, a correspondent adds Suffolk and mentions the sermon referred to in 's query.

Towards the end of the seventeenth century there were in vogue periodical gatherings in London of natives of, or of those connected with, various English counties, at which it appears to have been the custom to make the preaching of a sermon part of the proceedings ; this being generally delivered either at St. Mary-le-Bow or at St. Michael's, Cornhill. ... It seems, also, to have been customary to select as preacher a native of the particular county, or holding preferment there. The above is an extract from Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, xxvii. 26 (1914), where, and also in vol. xxix., are several references to these county feasts. The Evening News of June 6, 1914 contained an article headed " The Counties in London," bringing the topic up to date, and inci- dentally giving Cirencester men in 1701 and Cumberland men in 1745 as earliest examples ; but as the first -named source instances similar gatherings from 1675, and the Suffolk feast of the query was in 1686, it is obvious there was a pre- eighteenth century custom of the kind. The sermon by Dr. Clagett was catalogued by John ' Camden Hotten in 1863. W. B. H. " HONEST " EPITAPHS (9 S. x. 306 ; 11 S. vi. 261, 308, 377; vii. 517; 12 S. viii. 413, I 498). In writing out my notes for my last j reference (p. 413) I overlooked the well-known i circular marble tablet in St. Dunstaivs Church, Fleet Street, with inscription : To the memory | of HOBSON JUDKFN, ESQ. | late 1 of Clifford's Inn, | The Honest Solicitor, | who J departed this life June the 30th 1812. | This j Gratitude and respect for his | honesty, faithful READER and imitate HOBSON JUDKIN. There is also the famous (? mythical) iii- I anjhonest lawyer and that's Strange." J. ABDAGH. OAK SNUFF-BOX from foundation-pile of Old London Bridge (12 S. ix. 31). The ! Guildhall museum contains a similar box and a stone one ; other stone relics of the ! bridge are the Jackson memorial, St. Peter's j Church, Burnham, Bucks, and the sundial Wooden relics include portion of a pile in ' a museum in, the Royal Gardens, Kew, and an oak table in the London Museum,, bequeathed by Mr. William King in 1917. The master's chair in Fishmongers' Hal is made of wood and stone from the bridge. J. ABDAGH. The box recently found by Mr. Mundy ! is unfamiliar, but why does the Revd. Wm. I Jolifte, according to the inscription, claim j to be the builder of JSTew London Biidge ?
 * Tablet was erected by his Clients | as a Token of
 * and friendly conduct to them | thro' Life, j Go
 * scription on Sir John Strange, " Here lies
 * in, the cloister garden of Gloucester Cathedral.
 * A more familiar form of snuft-box was made

in some numbers from the old piles and distributed by William Knight, F.S.A., whe was resident engineer and assistant to Rennie during the demolition of the old bridge and erection of the existing structure. He had prepared and printed a quarto single sheet with an illustration of the carved top of the box and underneath the following : The above design is intended to illustrate the lid of boxes formed out of the timber taken from the foundations of the piers of the original Old London Bridge. The date of its erection,