origin of the name, and he urged that presumption on the 

 ground of early communication with the people of France, 

 who must have known it as a place at which to buy good 

 oysters. The suggestion is certainly an ingenious one. 



Among some valuable notes attached to the evidence 

 taken on oath in the Committee of the House of Lords in 



Reculver Towers. A Landmark. 



1866, on certain bills promoted by the Herne Bay 

 Fishery Company, I find the following observations : 

 " The Whitstable Company are a most ancient body of 



