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of the "High" and Mr. W. Hanbury of the " Low " party. See Doddridge's ' Works,' 1804, vol. v. p. 579, n. W. C. B.

ALBA POTTERY (9 th S. viii. 44). Will MR. DRURY pardon me if I suggest that the above name is perhaps a misprint for ** Alloa'"? I cannot trace out any reference to "Alba" ware, but it may not be too far-fetched to imagine that a mark or monogram which has " flushed " might possibly be misread as regards a difference of but one letter. Respecting the "Alloa Pottery," I venture to quote a few words from * The Ceramic Art of Great Britain,' by Llewellynn Jewitt, F.S.A. (new edition, 1883), p. 625 :

"Alloa Pottery. These works were established in 1790 by James Anderson, and were afterwards carried on by William Gardner, and in 1855 passed by purchase into the hands of W. & J. Bailey. At first the works, under Mr. Anderson, produced common brownware pans and crocks, ana by Mr. Gardner the addition was made of Rockingham ware teapots ; and later this branch of manufacture has been considerably improved, and so greatly extended that, at the time I write (1883), 1 am informed no less than twenty-six thousand teapots can be produced by them per week. Majolica and jet ware goods are also largely made, and a speci- ality of the firm is its artistic engraving of ferns and other decorations of the finer qualities of teapots, jugs, &c. The excellent qualities of the Alloa goods ' arise from the nature of the clay got in the neighbourhood,' and the density of colour and softness of the glaze are highly commendable."

HERBERT B. CLAYTON.

39, Renfrew Road, Lower Kennington Lane.

PASS TICKETS OR CHECKS AT THEATRES IN SHAKESPEARE'S TIME (9 th S. viii. 84). If your correspondent will turn to Wilkinson's * Lon- dina Illustrata' (London, 1819), he will find twenty-four illustrations of the checks and tickets of admission to the public theatres and other places of amusement, among others the "Red Bull Theatre," which flourished from about the middle of the reign of Queen Elizabeth until some time after the Restoration a check for the "Upper Gallery." For Drury Lane Theatre there is one "For the First Gallerie, 1671," on the obverse the head of Charles II., and another with the bust of James II. and Maria d'Este, his queen, dated 1684. There is also another "For the First Gallerie" of the Queen's Theatre, bearing the same date. The re- mainder are modern, and comparatively of recent dates. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

CROSIER AND PASTORAL STAFF (9 th S. vii. 387, 495 ; viii. 50, 90). The following extract from the tenth edition of that rather scarce little book, Dr. John Bulloker's 'English

Expositor Improv'd,' edited by R. Browne, 1707, may be of interest to your readers :

" Crosier. An Arch-Bishop's (not a Bishop's) Staff, that, with the Pall, being Badges peculiar to an Arch-Bishop, whilst the Bishop's is called a Pastoral- Staff, and hooked, or crooked at the Top, like unto a Shepherd's, whereas the Crosier is fashioned like a Cross at the Upper end, and thence became so called."

W. I. R. V.

In the fine east window of Bolton Percy Church, co. York, which contains some of the most beautiful fifteenth - century glass in England, are the life-sized figures of five Archbishops of York, Scrope, Bowet, Kempe, Booth, and Neville, each having in his left hand his pastoral staff surmounted with a Latin cross, whilst the right hand is raised in the act of benediction.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

TAVERNS IN SEVEN DIALS AND SOHO (9 fch S. vii. 487 ; viii. 94). The " Witch's Head " at the last reference should be the "Welch Head," a sign commemorative of Saunders Welch, one of the justices of the peace for Westminster, who kept a regular office for the police in the district, in which he was succeeded by Fielding, brother of the novelist. Here a certain " Mendicants' Club " was held in 1710, the origin of which dated back to 1660, when its meetings were held at the "Three Crowns" in the Poultry ('N. & Q.,' 1 st S. i. 229). The "Welch Head," like the " Black Horse," was in Dyott Street.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

A LOST TOWN IN SUFFOLK (9 th S. viii. 63). The estuary of the river Deben, which estuary is within a few miles of the town of Woodbridge, lies within or touches the bounds of the manor of Walton with Trirnley, and is in the court rolls of that manor frequently called by the name of Gosford Haven. But the same estuary is in the rolls of the same manor also sometimes called Woodbridge Haven. Where, then, is there any evidence that a town has been lost at all 1

JOHN H. JOSSELYN.

Ipswich.

BURNT SACRIFICE : MOUND BURIAL (9 th S. viii. 80). A parallel case to that recorded by Prof. Boyd Dawkins will be found in Robert Chambers's * Popular Rhymes of Scotland.' In the first edition of that work (1826) Chambers recorded a tradition, which he had taken down the preceding year, to the effect that it was supposed by the people who lived in the neighbourhood of Largo Law, in Fife, that there was a very rich mine of gold under