Philadelphia.
Wardhouse, and Fisherman's Custom there (Vol. viii., p. 78.).—Wardhouse or Wardhuuse, is a port in Finland, and the custom was for the English to purchase herrings there, as they were not permitted to fish on that coast. In Trade's Increase, a commercial tract, written in the earlier part of the seventeenth century, the author, when speaking of restraints on fishing on the coasts of other nations, says:
"Certain merchants of Hull had their ships taken away and themselves imprisoned, for fishing about the Wardhouse at the North Cape."
W. Pinkerton.
Ham.
"In necessariis unitas," &c. (Vol. viii., p. 197.).—The sentence, "In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas," may be seen sculptured in stone over the head of a doorway leading into the garden of a house which was formerly the residence of Archdeacon Coxe, and subsequently of Canon Lisle Bowles, in the Close at Salisbury. It is quoted from Melancthon. The inscription was placed there by the poet, and is no less the record of a noble, true, and generous sentiment, than of the discriminating taste and feeling of him by whom it was thus appreciated and honoured.
Would that it might become the motto of all our cathedral precincts!
W. S.
Northiam.