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28 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.ix. JULY 0,1921. for one thousand of brick . . . . 00 15 00 for!3coftyle 0019061 for 16 roof tyles and 28 corner tyles 00 03 05 pd more to Mr John Wall for the use of Mr Alexander Bence money paid by Mr Bence for chargs in suite expended betwixt the Towne and George Nun in the Arches for doctors and proctors fees as pr bill appeereth . . . . . . . . 05 14 08 More paid by him to Mr Creswell the proctor for psecutinge the suite in the behalf of Benjamen Hooker . . . . . . 02 00 00 pd Thomas Groome money due to him upon an account when he was Church- warden . . . . . . . . 02 14 07 Paid Mr John Bedingfield for beinge the Towne Councell for one yeere due at St Michaell 1640 .. ".. .. 03 00 00 pd an Anuitie given by Mr Thomas Cheney late of Aldeburgh deceased bequeathed in his last Will and testament One hundred pounds to be paid yeerely upon good friday as followeth viz : For a sermon upon that day . . . . . . 01 00 00 To be distributed to the poore of the Towne that dav 03 00 00 pd unto the Constables for the Composicon for his Mats househould 00 05 00 ARTHUR T. WINN. Aldeburgh, Suffolk. (To be continued.} OLD CHEESE FAIRS AND OTHERS. In the first volume of The Farmer's Magazine, covering the period June, 1832, to March, 1833, there is given in the first three weekly parts a list of fairs in England and Wales. From these lists I extract the following : Thursday, June 21 : Boss, Hereford. Horned cattle and cheese. Friday, June 22 : cattle, cheese Saturday, July 7 : Pamphill, Dorset. Hogs, cheese and toys. Rugby, Warwickshire. Horses, cows, sheep and cheese. Tuesday, July 10 : Blandford, Dorset. Horses, sheep and cheese. Leominster, Hereford. Horned cattle, horses, wool and Welsh butter. Do any of these fairs still exist anywhere ? The three lists in The Farmer's Magazine are of interest as showing variation in the name applied to cattle, such as " horned cattle," "bullocks," "cows," " black cattle," " beasts," " oxen " and " lean cattle." Some of the fairs listed seem to be for toys only, such as Sudbury, Suffolk ; St. Peters, Kent ; Foulness Island, Essex ; Little Burn, Kent ; Eling, Hants ; Stratford, Suffolk ; Canvey Island, Essex ; and a number of others. There seems to have been in 1832 a fair held at Coventry, Warwick, for eight days for " flannels, linen and woollen," and one for five days at Boughton Green, Northampton, for " coopers' ware, &c.. ready-made clothes, hats and stockings, &c." Another at Debenham, Suffolk, for " braziers and toys," and at Moor Kirk, Yorks, for " leather ware." At Folkingham, Lincoln, the fair was for *' hemp, hardware, and besoms," and at Church Whitfield, Kent, it was for " lemons, oranges, and toys." R. HEDGER WALLACE. MILTON AND ELZEVIER. State Papers, Foreign, Holland, 203 (Public Record Office), contains a letter written by the renowned printer, Daniel Elzevier, to Williamson, concerning Milton. I went through these State Papers for a certain purpose, but Ledburv, Hereford. Horned u,nae, uueest; , - TI/T-U- and wool. have not made any special study ot Milton. Saturday, June 23 : I am even unaware whether his letters have Bromsgrove, Worcester. Linen, cloth, cheese been published or not. As, however, this ^ -,, and h ? 3es - j letter seemed to me to be worthy of notice Sodbury, Gloucester.-Cattle, cheese and ped- 1 j have CQpied what follows> Maybe it ig Mells, Somerset. Cattle of all sorts, cheese j of some interest to readers who specialize and toys. Friday, June 29 : Fareham, Hants. Cheese and toys. Saturday, June 30 : Bridgnorth, Salop. Cattle, horses, sheep, hops, cheese, &c. ; sheep's wool considerable. Tuesday, July 3: Shrewsbury, Salop. Horned cattle, horses, pigs, cheese, linen, sheep and lambs' wool. Thursday, July 5 : Bricet, Suffolk. Butter, sheep, and toys. Gloucester, Gloucester. Cattle, pigs, horses, and cheese. Lancaster, Lancashire. Cattle, cheese, pedlary, and wool. Wareham, Dorset. Hogs and cheese. Woodland, Dorset. Horses, cheese and toys. on Milton. II y a environ un an que ie suis convenu avec Monsieur Skinner d'imprimer les lettres de Milton et un autre Manuscript en Theologie, mais ayant receu lesdits MSS. et y ayant trouve des choses que ie iugeois estre plus propres d'estre supprimes que divulgez, iai pris reso- lution de n'imprimer n'y 1'un n'y 1'autre, c., &c. The letter is dated Amsterdam, Nov. 20, 1676. The opinion of a man like Elzevier on these letters seems worth recording, not to mention the fact that he refused publishing them. W. DEL COURT. 47, Blenheim Crescent, London, W.ll.