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12 s. ix. JULY 9, i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 31 CHEESE MOULDS OF METAL INSTEAD OF WOOD. The earliest patent I can find is recorded in April, 1859, for Cheese vats (moulds or hoops) made of tinplate, WATERLOO BOUNTY. -Can anyone tell me anything about the above ? When was it distributed and to whom ? " HANTS HENWIFE." galvanized iron, tinned or plated iron or copper or other metal. They have a loose shifting bottom Q ^ TA7 n and a perforated disc or follower. bURVEY OF POPE NICHOLAS IV. One Cheese moulds, called vats, forms and has heard of this as being a survey and hoops used to be of wood made of staves account of all the ecclesiastical property coopered, and for some varieties are even ^ England whether m the form of -in use to-day. Are there any references , churches and other buildings belonging to indicating the replacement of the wooden the . various parishes, abbeys and nun- moulds by galvanized iron ? The movement s belonging to the various religious probably began before 1859, as the following bodies or the benefices attached to offices extracts from ' Recreations in Agriculture, from the lowest sacristan to the highest Natural History, Arts and Miscellaneous archbishop and Papal Legate, authorized Literature,' by James Anderson, LL.D., an required by the above Pope. No. 19, Sept., 1800, indicate. In the. . But I find m examining the statutes article ' On the Utensils of the Dairy ' we ' & ve11 b y Pickering m vol. i. of his Statutes reac l . at Large,' that that of 4 Edw. I., stat. i., The utensils of the dairy must, in general, ! A ' D - 1276 > required the taking of a census from the nature of the business, be made of wood. | or survey, over the whole kingdom, 01 the But of late, many persons who affect a superior j buildings, demesnes, common pasture, parks, degree of elegance and neatness, have fallen | demesne woods, common woods, pawnage, P^7^^ "*. Swings, freeholders cus- earthen-ware, both of which ought to be care- , tomary tenants, cottages and curtilages, fully excluded. . . . perquisites of counties and courts of Fashion, however, having once in- patronages (of churches), liberties, fairs, troduced among fine folks a dislike to wooden mar kets, customs, pleas and perquisites utensil^ for the dairy, an ingenious gentleman, Q courtg> &c> To what extent, if any, was this inquiry connected with the ecclesiastical inquiry under Pope Nicholas ? By what machinery was this second Domesday carried out and what historical a Mr. Hayes, with a view to humour the whim of the day, proposed to substitute vessels made of cast-iron. R. HEDGEB WALLACE. LORD CAMOYS'S MILK SYPHONS. In 1851 there appeared in various journals an | references are there to it ? W. S. B. H. advertisement by a London firm of glassware, such as glass slates, glass tiles, glass milk- OAK SNUFF-BOX FROM FOUNDATION-PILE pans and cream-pots, glass preserve -jars, i O F OLD LONDON BRIDGE. At a recent sale pastry-slabs and pins, hand-glasses, cucum- i^ the New Forest, I purchased an old ber-tubes and propagating bee-glasses. In- wooden snuff-box mounted in gold with eluded in this advertisement are lactometers the following inscription : and " Lord Camoys milk syphons." For This Box is part of an Oajc pile that was 656 what purpose were these syphons used years in the foundation of Old London Bridge, and have they been described anywhere ? being put down A.D. 1176 by Peter, a Pi-iest, As it is to be presumed that they were who was the engineer, & taken up A.D. 18 32 by the of glass, none of L m is likely to E come i %&*& ^^ *"** do to a later gener^on.^ second ^ js ^ followjng fa . script] on : A small relic of Old London Bridge. Pre- V ATERLOOViLLE. Can any reader tell me j son ted to Mr Nathan Dunn, Chinese Collection, the origin of the name of this village (Hants) London, July, 1843. By J. Ovenston, 32, Great and whether it has anything to do with T;chfield Street. the battle of Waterloo ? I am told that in I should be interested to know if this is old maps it is marked as Wheatlane End, a unique specimen or whether others and that the Duke of Wellington, riding exist, with a similiar inscription to the first on that old coaching road, remarked that one above quoted ; and also whether any- the country reminded him of the Field of thing is known of the persons named in Waterloo. " HANTS HENWIFE." ; the inscriptions. P. D. MUNDY.