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[9 th S. I. FEB. 5, '98.

top front of the handle, and the initials "T. B." by the side of the Exeter hall-mark. These spoons were made by Thomas Byne in 1843. He lived in the Mint, Exeter, and died in the latter end of the fifties. Some other teaspoons we have, in size between the two just referred to. A shell is stamped upon the top of the handle and under it the initial letters " J. H." On the side of the local hall- mark are the letters " J. P.," i.e. Isaac Perkins, who died in this city in 1828.

HAERY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter.

Payne & Co., of High Street, Tunbridge Wells, have a souvenir spoon, chased in the bowl with a view of the Pantiles, the stem being entwined with sprays of Kentish hops surmounted by a model of the Toad rock. They have also another spoon with the arms of the borough on the handle, but the bowl plain. D. B. DOSSETOR.

MOTTO (8 th S. xii. 389). Burke's form of the motto is most likely correct. It represents Psalm xxxv. 10 (Vulg.) : "In lumine Tuo videbimus lumen."

C. F. S. WARREN, M.A.

Longford, Coventry.

There is a third variation of the motto of the Thompson family besides the two given by F. L. Will the rendering be as under? Thompson, Lord Haversham (ext.), arms, Or, on a fesse dancettee azure, three stars argent; on a canton of the second the sun in glory proper. Motto, "In lumine lucem" (Burke and Collins), a (superior) light in the light. Thompson of Morpeth, Northumberland, the same arms ; motto, " In lumine luce " (Robson and Fairbairn), shine in the light. Thompson (according to C. N. Elvin), motto, " In lumine luceam," \. may shine in the light, or Let me shine in the light. The mottoes refer to sun and stars in the arms.

JOHN RADCLIFFE.

MEDLEVAL LYNCH LAWS IN MODERN USE (8 th S. xii. 465 ; 9 th S. i. 37). At Stanwell Moor, about two miles north of Staines, manifestations of public displeasure are by no means rare. Several times during the last twenty years, when I have been staying there, I have heard the uproar occasioned by them, though I have never been actually present.

It is there called " rough music " and " tin- kittlein'," and consists of beating pots and pans, hooting, whistling, jeering, &c., usually in front of the offender's house. Once, I remember, the object of ridicule was a man, a resident of Stanwell Moor, who worked in

a factory at Staines, and the villagers marched across the fields towards that town and escorted him home on three successive even- ings with the roughest of music. Two or three years ago an innkeeper was reported to have beaten his wife. This was a golden opportunity not to be neglected by his neigh- bours, so they "tin-kittled "him right royally, until he offered the orchestra a plentiful supply of refreshment, whereupon they de- sisted for the time, but returned in less than a fortnight to serenade the landlady, who was said in the meantime to have soundly "wal- loped " her lord.

Since then, I believe, there have been several instances of this harmless though noisy amusement, and I think some persons were taken before the local magistrates in consequence, and that the affair got into the Staines newspapers ; but I unfortunately did not " make a note " of it. W. P. M.

P.S. Since writing the above, I have been told by an octogenarian native of Shepper- ton that "tin-kittlein"' was more common in his younger days. " A regular gang of people would march, like so many soldiers, to the person's house, blowing horns, beating old pots, and now and then ' hurraying ' as they went." This was done at unpopular weddings, and when a man beat his wife ; in the latter case chaff was strewn before the house, " to show that he 'd bin a-threshinV

The following is a cutting from the Hull and North Lincolnshire Times of 15 January :

"Strange and vigorous methods of enforcing the laws of morality have been adopted in the parish of Llanbister, which is situated in the hills of Radnor- shire, South Wales. Scandalized at a breach of the laws of morality which they believed to have been committed, the parishioners a few nights ago formed what is known in Wales as a ' Rebecca ' gang, and, attired in a variety of costumes, and with faces sooty black, serenaded the alleged delinquent's house. The woman who was suspected was also fetched. Both in a nearly nude condition were marched to the river Cwmdwr, which flows close by. In its waters they were submerged, and then made to walk backwards and forwards through the stream for the space of nearly twenty minutes. While in the stream the man made a desperate attempt to escape, but in crossing a weir he came a cropper, and was recaptured. The two were then made to run up and down the fields, and were well belaboured with straps and sticks. Then they were escorted back in procession to the man's house, where the ' Rebecca' sat in judgment. The couple were condemned to undergo further flogging, and to march up and down the fields hand in hand. Their hair was cut off, and, besides, they had to undergo many other indignities. Tar and feathers were procured, but the more cautious prevailed on their companions not to administer such a dread- ful punishment."

H. ANDREWS,