same occupation:

"So that now hee hath left brokery, and is become a draper. A draper,
quoth Freeman, what draper--of woollin or linnen? No, qd. he, an
_ale-draper_, wherein he hath more skil then in the other."

Probably these instances of the use of the term may be sufficient for your
correspondent.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

P.S. The above was written before J.S.W.'s note appeared (Vol. ii., p.
360.), which does not carry the use of this term further back than Bailey's
_Dictionary_.

_George Herbert_ (Vol. ii., p. 103.) was buried under the communion table
at Bemerton, but there is no monument to his memory. The adornment of his
little church would be one of the most fitting offerings to his memory. It
is painful to contrast the whitewash and unpainted deal of the house of God
with the rich furniture and hangings of the adjoining rectory. In the
garden of the latter is preserved a medlar-tree, planted by "the sweet
singer of the temple."

J.W.H.

_Notaries Public_ (Vol. ii., p. 393.).--Why does your correspondent
MANLEIUS think this form of expression "putting the cart before the horse?"
_Public notary_ (though that phrase is sometimes erroneously used) is not
so exact as "notary public;" for a notary is not, as the first form would
imply, a public officer appointed by the public to perform public services,
but an individual agent through whose ministry private acts or instruments
become _publici juris_. The same form, and for analogous reasons, prevails
in several other legal and technical titles or phrases, as
Attorney-General, Solicitor-General, Accountant-General, Receiver-General,
Surveyor-General; Advocate Fiscal; Theatre Royal, Chapel Royal; Gazette
Extraordinary; and many other phrases in which it is evident that the
adjective has a special and restricted meaning.

C.

_Tobacconists_ (Vol. ii, p. 393.).--There was, in the old house of commons,
a room called the _smoking-room_, where members tired of the debate used to
retire to smoke, and in later years to drink tea or write letters. These,
no doubt, were meant by the _Tobacconists_, members within call, though not
actually within the house.

C.

_Vineyards_ (Vol. ii., p. 392.).--In answer to CLERICUS, I beg to say that
there is a piece of land called the Vineyards situated in the warm and
sheltered valley of Claverton, about two miles from Bath: it formerly
belonged to the Abbey of Bath.

There is also in the suburbs, on the north si