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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 78. 



istence of villenage ; or whether bondage was a 

 reality in the reign of Philip and Mary ; and if so, 

 at what time it became extinct? II. C. 



Workington. 



[Our coirespondent's Query is an interesting one; 

 but ho does not seem to be aware that in our First Vol., 

 p. 139., Mr. E. Sjiikke had given the names of three 

 " bondmen of bloude " living near Brighton in 1617.] 



Roman Roads near London. — In the most an- 

 cient maps of Middlesex that I have seen, there 

 are no roads marked out. In a folio coloured 

 map of Middlesex, published by Boweu (the date 

 of which is, I think, 1709, although the same map 

 lias various dates, like those of Speed, where the 

 date only is altered several times), the roads are 

 introduced. A lioman road appears from the 

 corner of the Tottenham Court Road, where the 

 Hampstead Road and the New Road now meet, 

 running through what must now be the Regent's 

 Park, until it reaches Edgeware, and thence to 

 Brockley Hills, called Sulloniaca;, an ancient city 

 in Antonine's Itinerary. The lanes marking this 

 road are so different from the other roads, as to 

 show at once wliat is intended ; and yet, either in 

 this same map, or in another with the same route, 

 Watling Street is printed upon the highway that 

 leads to Tyburn Turnpike, in a manner to show 

 the whole of that distance is meant. The Roman 

 road from Tottenham Court, after making its ap- 

 pearance in a variety of other maps up to a certain 

 date, about 1780, is nowhere to be found since, 

 in any of the Middlesex maps. Can any of your 

 readers show by what authority this was first 

 introduced, and why discontinued; and if the 

 Watling Street branched off, upon its ajiproach to 

 London, where did the part crossing Oxford Street 

 at Tyburn lead to ? John Francis-X. 



Mrs. Catherine Barton. — In Brewster's Life of 

 Sir Isaac Newton, p. 250., is the following pas- 

 sage: 



" This accomplished nobleman was created Earl of 

 Halifiix in 1700, and after the deatli of his first wife 

 be conceived a strong attachment for JMrs. Catherine 

 Barton, the widow of Colonel Barton, and the niec«,of 

 Newton." 



1 witfh particularly to know the maiden name of 

 this Catherine Barton ; she married Mr. Conduitt, 

 who succeeded Sir I. Newton as Master of the 

 Mint. J. E. R. S. 



Sampford, Braintree, April 7. 1851. 



Sempecta ut Cropland. — Dn. Maitland has so 

 kindly answered your correspondent's Query re- 

 specting his work on Mesmerism, that I venture 

 to ask him another, through the medium of your 

 pages. Where can be found the poem respecting 

 the old soldier monk atCroyland (or Sempecta, as 

 Ingulphus calls him), from which Dr. M. lias irivon 

 extracts in p. 305. of his JJark Ages ? li. R. L. 



Trin. Coll. 



Schmidfs Antiquitates Neomagensis — Roman Me- 

 dicine-stamps. — Can any of your readers inform 

 me, — 



1st. Of the DATE when Schmidt published his 

 Aiiiiqnitntes Neomagensis, and YiB.v:RE: also in what 

 libraries it is to be found? 



2nd. Of the existence of any Roman medicine- 

 stamps found in the British Islands, as yet unde- 

 scribed by those who have written on the subject. 



Q. 



Sir Ilan-is Nicolas'' History of the Royal Navy. 

 — Is there any probability that the History of the 

 Royal Navy, begun by Sir N. 11. Nicolas, and 

 carried by him to the reign of Henry V., will ever 

 be continued. It is a most valuable work, and 

 was stojiped by his lamented death, just as it was 

 beginning to be most interesting. E. N. Vi'^. 



Wooden Baldrochs. — Thanksgiving-book. — In 

 the vestry-books of St. Peter's, Ruthin, co. Den- 

 bigh, there are some entries, explanations of which 

 will be A'ery acceptable. 



From 1683, and many subsequent j'ears, there 

 is a constant repetition in the churchwarden's 

 account of " Wooden Baldrocks," from time to 

 time supplied new to the parish. 



In 1704, "A Thanksgiving- book" is charged 

 in the parish accounts. 



Query the use and nature of Baldrock ? and 

 what book is meant by a Thanksgiving-book ? 



About the above period, continual payments are 

 made for the destrucli<m of hedgehogs, which 

 seem to be valued at sixpence a-piece, in some 

 cases fotu'pence ; and to have boon allowed in the 

 parish accounts. A Chdkchwarden. 



History of the Jesuits. — ^Vho was the author of 

 A History of the Jesuits; to which is prefixed a 

 Reply to Mr. Dallas s Defence of that Order. It 

 was published in two volumes 8vo , London, 181C, 

 by Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster Row. 



H.R.L. 



Trln. Coil. 



Mind your P's and Qs. — What is the origin of 

 this phrase ? I have heard one solution of it, but 

 wish to ascertain whether there is any other? 



R. D. H. 



Mode of hiring Domestic Servants in Holder- 

 ness — Sittings — Fest. — It is customary once a 

 year for men and women servants out of place to 

 assemble in the market places of Iledon and Pa- 

 trington, the two chief towns in Ilolderness, and 

 there t(^ await being hired. This very ancient 

 custom is called Hedon Sittings or Stattdes. What 

 is the name derived from? A^small sum of money 

 given to each servant hired, is supposed to legalise 

 the contract, and is called the Fest. From what 

 is the word derived ? F. R. R. 



Home-made Wines. — It is stated in The Times 

 of this morning (Feb. 17) that — 



