Willis's Current Notes, No. 14, February 1852 - Unknown

Sir,—In reference to the letter of H. T. E. page 5 of your work, I beg to send you the following extracts from the Account Book of the Churchwardens of this Parish, now in my possession:—

H. Wickham.

"Ao. 1555.
It^m. payd For a horse hyde xx^d.
For maykyng of y^e bawdreck ij^d."
"1556.
For whytt lether for y^e bawdreck xij^d.
For maykyng of iiij bawdrecks . viij^d."

The Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire.

Liverpool, 30th Jan. 1852.

Sir,—I have to complain that your Correspondent T. M. rushes into print so incautiously on the subject of his tobacco-pipe. From the accuracy of his quotation, he appears to have had the Society's volume before him, yet he has taken no trouble to arrive at the truth. Mr. Lamb's paper was read three months before the woodcut of the pipe in question appeared; but as the latter was of peculiar form, it was engraved, as well as one or two others that had not been exhibited. All of these were minutely referred to. Thus, in the Note respecting the Plates, p. iii. there is the following:—"No. 14 [on Plate IV.] is from 'Willis's Current Notes,' for April, 1851; the stem is of bamboo, and the top of the bowl of brass. It was found in taking down an old inn at Fulham in 1836." From a mutilated copy I send you the actual leaf for the use of T. M.; [1] and have to express my sorrow that he does not possess either more patience or more civility,

A. Hume, D.C.L.
Corresponding Secretary.

[ [1] G. W. has forwarded it to his Correspondent, and begs to thank the Rev. Dr. Hume for this correction of T. M.'s oversight, and the manner in which an acknowledgment has been made to "Willis's Current Notes," which it gratifies him to find considered worthy of the attention of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire.