A Gentleman executed for flogging a Slave to Death (Vol. vii., p. 107.).—Mr. J. V. L. Gebhard, son of the Rev. Mr. Gebhard, was tried at Cape Town, on Saturday, 21st September, 1822, at the instance of the landrost of Stellenbosch, ratione officio prosecutor, before a full court, for the murder of a slave, by excessive and unlawful punishment. He was found guilty, and sentenced to death. The sentence was carried into effect on 15th November, amid an immense concourse of spectators.

Inveruriensis.

Mr. Henry Smith's Sermons preached by a Romanist (Vol. iii., p. 222.).—

"As soon as he (i. e. Obadiah Walker) declared himself a Roman Catholic, he provided him and his party of Jesuits for their priests; concerning the first of whom (I think he went by the name of Mr. Edwards) there is this remarkable story, that having had mass said for some time in a υπερωον, or garret, he afterwards procured a mandate from King James to seize of the lower half of the side of the quadrangle next adjoining to the college chapel, by which he deprived us of two low rooms, their studies, and their bed-chambers; and after all the partitions were removed, it was some way or other consecrated, as we suppose, to Divine services; for they had mass there every day, and sermons, at least in the afternoons, on the Lord's Days: and it happening that the Jesuit preaching upon 1 Cor. ix. 24., 'So run that you may obtain,' many Protestants were hearkening at the outside of the windows, one of them discovering that it was one of Mr. Henry Smith's sermons, which he had at home by him, went and fetched the book, and read at the outside of the window what the Jesuit was preaching within. But this report raised such a noise in the town, that this priest was speedily dismissed, and another brought in his room."—Smith's Annals of University College, p. 258.

E. H. A.

London Queries (Vol. vii., p. 108.).—An authentic account of one of the earliest, if not the most early toll ever collected in England, is to be found in the 5th tome of Rymer's Fœdera, fo. 520. It was in the year 1346 that King Edward III. granted his commission to the master of the hospital of St. Gyles (in the Fields), without the city of London, and to John of Holbourn, to lay a toll on all sorts of carriage, for two years to come, passing through the highway (via regia) leading from the said hospital to the bar of the old Temple of London (i. e. the Holborn Bar, near to which stood the old house of the Knights Templars); also through another highway called Perpoole (now Gray's Inn Lane); which roads were, by frequent passage of carts, waynes, and horses, to and from London, become so miry and deep as to be almost impassable; as also the highway called Charing. These tolls were as follow:

1. For every cart or wayne, laden with wool,
leather, wine, honey, wax, oyl, pitch, tar,
fish, iron, brass, copper, or other metals,
corn, &c., for sale, to the value of twenty
shillings		 1d.
2. For every horse-load of merchandise 0¼
3. For every horse used in carrying corn, or
other provisions, per week		 0½
4. For every load of hay 0¼
5. For carts used to carry charcoal, bark, &c.,
per week		 1
6. For every horse, ox, or cow 1
7. For every score of hogs or sheep 0½
8. And for all other merchandise of 5s. value 0½

But ecclesiastical persons, of both sexes, were to be exempt from this toll.

About this time there was a considerable market or staple held at Westminster; and in 1353 the same king, by an order in council, laid a tax of 3d. on every sack (serplarium) of wool, and for every three hundred of woolfels; 6d. on every last of leather; 4d. on every fodder of lead; 4d. on every tun of wine; and ½d. on every twenty shillings value of all other goods carried either by land or water to the staple of Westminster, in order for repairing the highway leading from the gate of London called Temple Bar to the gate of the abbey at Westminster.—See Fœdera, vol. v. p. 774.

From this record we learn that the gate called Temple Bar, as a western boundary of the city of London, is of great antiquity as a gate.