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Jean Joachim Beceee. VII, 280. — Lowndes mentions a John Joachim 

 Becher as the author of " Magnalia Naturae : or the Philosopher's Stone, 

 lately exposed to public Sight and Sale. Lond. 1680. 4to, pp. 38." It was 

 reprinted in the seventh volume of the Harleian Miscellany. — T. Q. C. 



CoRNiSHMEN AT WINCHESTER. — In au age when the Fair was the chief 

 emporium of home commerce, an important one was held on S. Giles's 

 Down, near Winchester. This, like most fairs, was attended by persons out 

 of employment and seeking to be hired. Each person had a badge indicative 

 of his craft, and every county had its separate station. In the Eevenue Roll 

 of William of Waynflete (anno 1471), a district of this then greatly decayed 

 fair is said to be unoccupied r — " Ubi homines Ccn-nubice stave solebant."* 

 Wliat special business led Cornishmen to such a distance as Winchester, 

 where they seem to have had a steady market for their labour, and to have 

 flocked in such numbers as to have a permanent station allotted them ? — T. Q.C. 



PoMEEOT. — Thomas Pomeroy, Gent", married. May 1, 1598, Mary Gif- 

 ferie, widow. He lived at Tretheurick in the parish of St. Earney, near St. 

 Germans, Cornwall, and had property at Tredethy, in the parish of St. 

 Mabyn and manor of Colquite, which I believe was granted to him by Edward 

 Harris, Esq. — Can any of yom- readers inform me who was the father of 

 Thomas Pomeroy? or of Mary Gifferie? — W. S. 



» Ellis's Brand. 1841. I," 270. 



