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Palmer (Frederick William), printer and chemist, 1854-1902. He was born 19 April, 1829, and died m 1902. His son, Mr. A. H. Palmer, continues the business.
Ridgley (Edward), bookseller, 1855.
Mead (J.), bookseller, 1864.
Foster (———), son of Mr. E. W. Foster of St. Ives. Started a printing business about 1894, but did not continue long. 1895.
Davies (C.), printer, 1895-7. Successor to Foster Davies (P. R.), printer, 1897-1902. Succeeded his uncle, C. Davies, and sold his business five years later to Mr. King.
Bluntisham.
Asplan ( ), bookseller, 1823.
ELTON. Beal (Thomas), stationer and bookseller, 1862.
STILTON. Drage ( ), bookseller, 1824.
SOMEESHAM.
Stevens ( ), bookseller, 1814.
Asplen (W.), bookseller, 1835.
KIMBOLTOX.
Belton (Mr.), bookseller, 1768. Ibbs (C.). bookseller and printer, 1796-1837. Ibbs (William), printer, 1835. Ibbs (Charles William), printer, 1835. Ibbs (R. C.), winter, High Street, 1849. Ibbs (B. C\), printer, "of' the Churchyard," 1855. Ibbs (Mary), printer, 1851. Ibbs ( ), printer, 1855.
The above are some of various imprints of the Ibbses. " R. C." was Robert Carroll Ibbs, who died 1 March, 1907, at the age of S4 years. Mr. Ibbs was in business at Kim- bolton for upwards of sixty years, succeed- ing his father as a
" printer, copper-plate printer (while you wait), Her, stationer, bookbinder, picture frame maker and gilder, paperhanger, and photo- grapher,"
and a thoroughly competent man at each of his trades. Mr. Ibbs disposed of the printing portion of his business about 1897 to Mr. W. J. Short, who still continues it.
In concluding these notes I should point out that the dates given are the earliest and latest I have seen of the various firms, and are necessarily fragmentary and dis- connected. I have, however, compiled a MS. Bibliography of Huntingdonshire which includes over a thousand works printed by the various firms I have mentioned in the county. HERBERT E. NORRIS.
Cirencestef.
"TREDEKEILES." This opprobrious term
was used by a woman to some workmen pre-
paring ground for building a house, to whom
the men replied that they would make her
Work with them and tread the ground
("cum eis operaret et terrain calcaret "). and
forthwith bumped her on the ground (" ita
quod ipsam per maliciam deorsuin sedebat
in terra "). I suppose there can be but-
little doubt as to the literal meaning of
" treadkeel." It occurs in a Coroner's
Roll for the City, A.D. 1301 (the first of a
small series of similar Rolls I have just
finished calendaring for the press), but I
have failed to discover the word in any
dictionary. REGINALD R. SHARPE.
Guildhall, E.G.
JOHN PHILLIP: HIS CONNEXION WITHT DYCE. When a passenger on the Buchan section of the Great North of Scotland Railway looks out of the window on his left,, as the train slowly climbs the gradient from the Don Valley to Dyce, he catches a glimpse of a big, bare building standing on the wind- swept edge of the plateau, and clearly sil- houetted against the sky. This is the " Old. Inn " of Dyce, where John Phillip, the- painter, often spent happy days when a little boy.
The " Inn " (no longer such) and the handful of houses that compose the old village of Dyce are quiet enough now, but in Phillip's youth they were more lively. The canal from Port Elphinstone to Aber- deen went along the back of the inn, and as the canal boat passed up and down, the horses were changed there. The inn was kept by Mrs. Allardyce, a widow with a large family, who conducted her business in a very exemplary manner. Though there was no Forbes-Mackenzie Act then, the rule of the house was that customers had to be all outside and the door barred at ten o'clock, after which the landlady sat down, and read her nightly chapter in the Bible.
Phillip was a distant relation of Mrs. Allardyce, and often walked out from Aber- deen to stay with her. To the city boy there was a great attraction in the inn, with its lively household of young folk not too- strictly ruled by the kindly widowed mother, for whom he had a great regard. The pas- sing and repassing of the canal boat, the freedom of country life, and the animals about the farm all appealed to him, and he was fond of spending the long summer day herding the inn" kye." He would some- times trot away out of the town to Dyce without leave, and be duly sent back,, only soon to turn up again; and he might have been found lying in bed there till Mrs. Allardyce had washed and ironed his only shirt.
Of all the family at the inn his favourite was Nelly, who, being something of a rustic beauty, seems to have pleased his artistie sense. It was with her as a subject that h&
