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Tannin, one drachm; water, one ounce: add a little spirits of wine to keep it 
from getting mouldy, and keep it well corked. 
If a document be torn and all the writing be on one side, paste 
it very smoothly on paper, but if there be writing on both sides, 
at or near the torn part, repair it with gold beater’s skin, stuck on 
by gum arabic dissolved in water. F. A. Carrreron. 
THE WHITTLEGATE. 
In the year 1823, I was told by the Rev. H. J. Todd, who had 
been one of the Chaplains of King George the Third, and was then 
Librarian to the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace, 
and Rector of Settrington, a valuable living in Yorkshire, that as 
Rector of that Parish he had a right called a Whittlegate. This he 
said was a right of dining at the house of each inhabitant house- 
holder in his Parish one week in every year, but he must take his 
own knife, nothing being said as to a fork, as forks were not used 
in this country till long after the existence of the right of Whittle- 
gate. 
The Parish of Settrington, in which Mr. Todd had this singular 
right, is a Parish containing 5,540 acres of land, and in the year 
1831 there were in it 131 inhabited houses, 40 occupiers of land 
who employed labourers, 34 tradesmen and master workmen, and 
5 professional and well educated men. When the right was first 
established, the place had probably a much smaller number of 
inhabited houses. 
The Rey. gentleman also further informed me, that from his re- 
siding at Lambeth Palace he could not exercise this right as he 
should have liked to have done, but was paid five shillings a year 
by each householder in lieu of it. 
The term Whittlegate is manifestly derived from the two words 
whittle a knife, and gate going; we have now a long knife to cut 
beef called a Sheffield whittle, and “gang your gate” for go your 
way, is a common expression in Scotland. 
I was informed by Mr. Todd that he knew of several Clergymen 
in the north, who in respect of the livings they held, had the right 
of Whittlegate. Does any such right exist in Wiltshire ? 
F, A. 0. 
