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This was picked up by one of the men on our farm. It is one 

 of a late date, but we hardly think it belongs to the parish of 

 Bradford. 



Compton Parish adjoins Bradford, and, indeed, part of our 

 farm consists of land exchanged with Mr. Goodden, of Over 

 Compton, and it is not impossible that the bottles stamped as 

 figured belonged to a Robert Goodden. 



Besides these, through the kindness of friend W. J. Bernhard 

 Smith, Esq., of the Middle Temple, we are enabled to point, 

 among others, to examples picked up in the Thames. 



One probably meant as a reversed F as follows : 



Another with a crown for a crest and a complicated coat of arms 

 with the word 



'PYRMONT WATER' 



for an inscription, from which we gather that these stamped 

 bottles were not always employed as wine decanters. 



In this collection is a stamp found near Abingdon, Berks, with 

 the inscription of 



This was doubtless a stamp from a big-bellied bottlo. 

 The next two stamps are so modern that they are in use at the 

 present time. One with the lamb and flag, as a crest surrounded 

 by the words 



MIDDLE 

 TEMPLE. 



Ordinary wine bottles so stamped on the shoulder are still 

 used by the benches for port wine. 



