MS. local history, written
in 1619, there is this {79} passage: "They bought herrings during the
season, and then departed, _as those fishermen which kill fish at Wardhouse
do use to do at present_."

Where was Wardhouse, and what was the custom there?

C. J. P.

Great Yarmouth.

"_Adrian turn'd the bull._"--In an old MS. in my possession, the following
verse occurs:--

"Of whate'er else your head be full,
Remember Adrian turn'd the bull;
'Tis time that you should turn the chase,
Kick out the knave and take the place."

Would any of the correspondents of "N. & Q." be so good as to explain to me
the reference in the second line of the verse?

G. M.

_Cary's "Palaeologia Chronica._"--I have an old book entitled:

"Palaeologia Chronica; a Chronological Account of Ancient Time.
Performed by Robert Cary, D.LL., Devon. London: printed by J. Darby,
for Richard Chiswell, at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church Yard,
1677."

and shall be glad to be informed whether the author was any relation of Dr.
Valentine Carey, who was consecrated bishop of Exeter in 1620, and died in
1626. (See Walton's _Life of Dr. Donne_.)

CHRIS. ROBERTS.

Bradford, Yorkshire.

_The Southwark Pudding Wonder._--I have been very much pleased with the
perusal of a collection of MS. letters, written by the celebrated antiquary
William Stukeley to Maurice Johnson, Esq., the founder of the Gentlemen's
Society at Spalding. These letters have not been published; the MSS. exist
in the library of the Spalding Society. They contain much interesting
matter, and furnish many traits of the manners, character, and modes of
thinking and acting of their respected author.

Can any of your readers explain the meaning of the following passage, which
is found in a letter dated 19th June, 1718: "_The Southwark Pudding wonder
is over?_"

In the same letter the Dr. alludes to a contested election for the office
of Chamberlain of the City of London, which took place in 1718:

"The city is all in an uproar about the election of a chamberlain, like
a country corporation for burgesses, where roast pig and beef and wine
are dealt about freely at taverns, and advertisements about it more
voluminous than the late celebrated Bangorean Notification, though not
in a calm and undisturbed way."

PISHEY THOMPSON.

Stoke Newington.

_Roman Catholics confined in Fens of Ely._--Mr. Dickens, in _Household
Words_, No. 169