T.
53. Salmon Fishery in the Thames.
—This was once of great importance to the inhabitants of the villages upon the banks of the Thames, who appear to have had each their assigned bounds for their fishery. In the Churchwardens' Book of Wandsworth, under date 1580, is the following entry:
"M.D. that this yere in som̄er the fishinge Rome of Wandesworthe was by certen of Putney denyed, and long sute before my L. Mayor of London continued, and at the last, accordinge to Right, restored by the Lord Mayor and the Councell of London. And in this som̄er the fysshers of Wandesworthe tooke betweene Monday and Saturday seven score salmons in the same fishinge, to the gret honor of God."
I have heard my mother say, that Thames salmon was plentiful when she was a younger woman, and that it was the most esteemed of any. She died recently, aged eighty-nine.
Shall we ever have Thames salmon again?
R. J. R.
54. Cromwell Grants of Land in Monaghan.
—Are there any records, and where, of grants of land in the county of Monaghan, Ireland, as made by Cromwell?
E. A.