Feb. 26. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUKRIES. 



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xny old uncle, -Who piqued himself on the correct- 

 ness of his style in manners, dress, and conversation, 

 and whose portrait, in the ample sleeves, capacious 

 ■waistcoat, and formal head-dress of the last cen- 

 tury, looks down on me as I now write, being in 

 company when wine was on the table, and each 

 person had supplied their glasses, would occasion- 

 ally, as a mark of respect or affection to any indi- 

 vidual sitting near him, in a gentle tone of soli- 

 citation mention the name of the party, and ask 

 " Hob and nob ? " On the immediate compliance, 

 which nothing short of hostility or ill manners 

 could refuse or avoid, the parties held out their 

 glasses till they touched one the other, health being 

 at the same time invoked. But at this point always 

 ensued a little polite rivalry as to which of the 

 parties should hold the glass rather below that of 

 the other as they came in contact. If a lady were 

 the challenged on the occasion, she would with 

 simpering diffidence allow of the superiority indi- 

 cated by her glass being uppermost, overwhelmed 

 with my uncle's expressions of regard ; if a gentle- 

 man, each party got over the formality on as near 

 a level as possible, amidst murmurs and protest- 

 ations of humble service and great esteem. 



J. D. S. 



A Gentleman executed for flogging a Slave to 

 Death (Vol. vii., p. 107.).— Mr. J. V. L. Gebhard, 

 son of the Rev. Mr. Gebhard, was tried at Cape 

 Town, on Saturday, 21st September, 1822, at the 

 instance of the landrost of Stellenbosch, ratione 

 officio prosecutor, before a full court, for the mur- 

 der of a slave, by excessive and unlawful punish- 

 ment. He was found guilty, and sentenced to 

 death. The sentence was carried into effect on 

 15th November, amid an immense concourse of 

 spectators. Inverubiensis. 



Mr. Henry Smith's Sermons preached by a 

 Romanist (Vol. iii., p. 222.). — 



" As soon as he (i. e. Obadiah Walker) declared him- 

 self a Roman Catholic, he provided him and his party 

 of Jesuits for their priests ; concerning the first of 

 whom ( I think he went by the name of Mr. Edwards) 

 there is this remarkable story, that having had mass 

 said for some time in a virepaiov, or garret, he after- 

 wards procured a mandate from King James to seize of 

 the lower half of the side of the quadrangle next ad- 

 joining to the college chapel, by which he deprived us 

 of two low rooms, their studies, and their bed-chambers ; 

 and after all the partitions were removed, it was some 

 way or other consecrated, as we suppose, to Divine 

 services ; for they had mass there every day, and ser- 

 mons, at least in the afternoons, on the Lord's Days : 

 and it happening that the Jesuit preaching upon 

 1 Cor. ix. 24., ' So run that you may obtain,' many 

 Protestants were hearkening at the outside of the 

 windows, one of them discovering that it was one of 

 Mr. Henry Smith's sermons, which he had at home by 

 him, went and fetched the book, and read at the outside 

 of the window what the Jesuit was preaching within. 



But this report raised such a noise in the town, that 

 this priest was speedily dismissed, and another brought 

 in his room." — Smith's Annals of University College, 

 p. 258. 



E. H. A. 



London Queries (Vol. vii., p. 108.). — An authentic 

 account of one of the earliest, if not the most early 

 toll ever collected in England, is to be found in tlie 

 5th tome of Rymer's Fcedera, fo. 520. It was in 

 the year 1346 that King Edward III. granted his 

 commission to the master of the hospital of St. 

 Gyles (in the Fields), without the city of London, 

 and to John of Holbourn, to lay a toll on all sorts 

 of carriage, for two years to come, passing through 

 the highway (via rej^ia) leading from the said hos- 

 pital to the bar of the old Temple of London (i. e. 

 the Holborn Bar, near to which stood the old house 

 of the Knights Templars) ; also through another 

 highway called Perpoole (now Gray's Inn Lane) ; 

 which roads were, by frequent passage of carts, 

 waynes, and horses, to and from London, become 

 so miry and deep as to be almost impassable ; as 

 also the highway called Charing. These tolls were 

 as follow : 



1. For every cart orwayne, laden with wool, 



leather, wine, honey, wax, oyl, pitch, tar, 

 fish, iron, brass, copper, or other metals, 

 corn, &c., for sale, to the value of twenty 

 shillings - - - -Id. 



2. For every horse-load of merchandise - 0\ 



3. For every horse used in carrying corn, or 



other provisions, per week - - OJ 



4. For every load of hay - - - ^i 



5. For carts used to carry charcoal, bark, &c., 



per week - - - - 1 



6. For every horse, ox, or cow - - 1 



7. For every score of hogs or sheep - - 0|- 



8. And for all other merchandise of 5s. value 0| 

 But ecclesiastical persons, of both sexes, were ta 



be exempt from this toll. 



About this time there was a considerable market 

 or staple held at Westminster ; and in 1353 the 

 same king, by an order in council, laid a tax of 

 Zd. on every sack (serplarium) of wool, and for 

 every three hundred of woolfels; Qd. on every last 

 of leather ; Ad. on every fodder of lead ; Ad. on 

 every tun of wine ; and ^. on every twenty shil- 

 lings value of all other goods carried either by land 

 or water to the staple of Westminster, in order for 

 repairing the highway leading from the gate of 

 London called Temple Bar to the gate of the abbey 

 at Westminster. — See Foedera, vol. v. p. 774. 



From this record we learn that the^gate called 

 Temple Bar, as a western boundary of the city of 

 London, is of great antiquity as a gate. 



I hope some of your readers skilled in architec- 

 ture may answer the other Queries of your cor- 

 respondent. Broctuna. 



Bury, Lancashire. 



