The word is correctly printed from the original MS. Can any of your readers explain its meaning?
_Fairfax Family Mansion._--On the right-hand side of the road between Tadcaster and Thorpe Arch, Yorkshire, extends the domain of the Fairfax family. The mansion, a comfortable old fashioned red-brick Tudor-looking structure, stands some two hundred yards back in the grounds through which, from the road to the front door of the house, extends a fine avenue of chestnuts, terminated at the roadside by a pair of venerable, rusty, and decaying iron gates _which are kept closed_; the entrance to the park being by a sort of side gateway of insignificant and field-like appearance further on. Can any of your readers give me the facts, or the local tradition which accounts for this peculiarity? I believe it is a family incident of somewhat historical interest, and a subject on which I am desirous of information.
_Postman and Tubman in the Court of Exchequer._--In the _Legal Observer_ of the 24th April, I find the following:
"LAW PROMOTION.--Mr. James Wilde has been appointed to the office of _Postman_, in the Court of Exchequer. The _Postman_ is the senior counsel without the bar attending the court, and has pre-audience of the attorney and solicitor-general in making the first motion upon the opening of the court. The _Tubman_ is the next senior counsel without the bar. The _Postman_ and _Tubman_ have particular places assigned them by the Chief Baron in open court."
My Query is, from whence and at what date these two offices sprang into existence, with a list of the persons who have occupied them. And it would be as well to inquire what their duties are: for although Stephen's _Blackstone_ derives the names from the _places_ in which the individuals themselves _sit_, still the explanation hardly conveys sufficient to gather what their duties are.
_Second Exhumation of King Arthur's Remains._--What chronicle narrates the circumstances of the _second_ disinterment of King Arthur's bones in Glastonbury, temp. Edw. I. (A.D. 1298)?
_Stukeley the Antiquary, and Boston._--In _Anecdotes of British Topography, &c._ (Lond. 1768), occurs the following, speaking of Boston:--
"The Churchwardens' account from 1453 to 1597, and the town-book, wrote by Mr. John Stukeley, 1676, one of his (Dr. Stukeley's) ancestors, are in the hands of the Doctor's son-in-law, Mr. Fleming."
