her
a manor or a reputed manor. In the course of the trial Baron Parke said,
that, in despite of the statute _Quia Emptores_, he should rule that manors
could be created when they contained the essentials.

My first Query is, therefore, Have any manors been created in England since
the passing of that statute? In my _History of Deptford_ I have alluded to
the manor of Hatcham as one of the last manors I supposed to have been
created.

The Inclosure Commissioners, as the defendants, had been prayed by the
Leeze-holders[6] of {449} Queenborough to inclose sundry lands called
Queenborough Common; such inclosure was opposed by the trustees, who
claimed under the act of parliament which constituted their existence to be
in the position of the mayor[7], &c., and thus, if they were the lords of
the manor, to have a veto upon the inclosure of the waste. The plaintiffs
relied very much upon the following fact, which I here embalm as a _note_,
and append thereon a _query_:--During the Mayoralty of Mr. Greet[8], a
gentleman who died in 1829, a turbot was caught by a dredger on the
Queenborough oyster-grounds: this unlucky fish was immediately pounced upon
by the Queenborough officials, and seized for the mayor's behoof as his
perquisite, _a la_ sturgeon.

Query, a like instance?

The Jury, after two days' long sitting, decided that Queenborough was
neither a manor nor a reputed manor.

A. J. DUNKIN.

Dartford.

[Footnote 4: _Parliamentary History_, 1765.--On Wednesday, Dec. 6, 1654, an
attempt was made to disfranchise Queenborough: the then member, Mr.
Garland, suddenly and jocularly moved the Speaker that we give not any
legacies before the Speaker was dead. This pleasant conceit so took with
the House, as, for that time, Queenborough was reprieved, but was voted for
the future to be dismembered, and to be added to the county.--Ap. Burton i.
cxi. _Archaeological Mine_, i. 12. Queenborough was one of the victims
included in Schedule A of the act of parliament known as "The Reform
Bill."]

[Footnote 5: In our own day Cove has been called Queenstown in honour of
Queen Victoria.]

[Footnote 6: _Leeze-holders_, a right of turning on the coming or Leeze
(_Celtic_, Leswes) twenty-four sheep, which of late years, by a bye-law,
has been arranged to substitute either two horses or three bullocks. A
Leeze is supposed to contain about seven acres of land of herbage. The
common consists of about 240 acres, including roads.]

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