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Hugh Peters.—The question I raised in 'N. & Q.,' 11 S. vi. 463, as to whether the "Hugo Peters" or "Peeters" who graduated from Trinity, Cambridge, was the same person as the regicide, can now be set at rest.

Dr. Venn, President of Gonville and Caius College, has been so kind as to inform me that he has discovered that the ordination records of nearly all the English bishops are in existence (a fact which will be news to research workers), and by his courtesy I am able to give the following details from the transcripts in Dr. Venn's possession.

In the ordination records of the Bishop of London, Peters is described as a schoolmaster of Laindon, Essex, at his ordination as deacon on 23 Dec., 1621, and also as B.A., late of Trinity College, Cambridge, born at "Foye," Cornwall. He was ordained priest on 18 June, 1623. The regicide, therefore, must have been the "Peters" who graduated B.A. in 1618 and M.A. in 1622. The new details—that Peters was schoolmaster at Laindon, &c.—well illustrate the value of the ordination records.

Dr. Venn has also been so kind as to tell me that in the forthcoming 'Book of Matriculations and Degrees,' &c., at Cambridge, compiled by himself and Mr. J. A. Venn of Trinity, Peters appears as having matriculated from Trinity, as a sizar, in November, 1613. This also is new. J. B. Williams.

On Note-Taking.—I have recently had occasion to go over the material collected by a Scots minister in reference to his parish. It is all written in note-books and on both sides of the paper, and to be of any use would have to be retranscribed and arranged. Similar laborious collections have fallen into my hands from time to time, and as I notice amateur workers at the Public Record Office, I fancy the practical method of note-making is not so obvious as one would expect. The real way, of course, is to use separate slips of paper, cut to a standard size. This enables one to arrange and rearrange the material in any way desired. The bound note-book is a wasteful fallacy. J. M. Bulloch.

Tarred Roads in 1886.—These are mentioned in a little pamphlet written by Mr. W. H. Wheeler (and published by the Roads Improvement Society in 1886), according to whom tar was used for making roads by "some road surveyors" in those days. L. L. K.

John Adams: Epitaph and a Correction.—In the old burial-ground at Putney is the following inscription on a headstone:—

Here lies interred the Body of
The Revd. John Adams, A.M.
many years Master of a
respectable Academy in Putney
and Author of several Sermons
and many Classical and Historical
Publications useful to the rising
Generation.
He died the 16th of November, 1813.
Aged 64 years.

Footstone:

J. A. 1813.

In the 'D.N.B.' it is stated that "he died at Putney in 1814." The above gives the correct date. Librarian.

Wandsworth.

Riot at Covent Garden Theatre, 1773.—Following on Mr. Aleck Abraham's entertaining account of the tailors' riot at the Haymarket Theatre in 1805 (11 S. vii, 464), the following quotation from The Lady's Magazine; or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, for May, 1775, relating a similar outburst against the famous actor Macklin, which took place in Covent Garden Theatre thirty-two years earlier, may prove of some interest:

"Yesterday morning [April 11th, 1775] Mr. Justice Aston reported to the Court of King's Bench his minutes of the evidence on the trial of Messrs. Leigh, Miles, James, Aldus and Clarke on the 24th of February last, the first four of whom were convicted of a conspiracy and riot, and the latter of a riot only, in Covent Garden Theatre, on the 18th of November, 1773, with intent to drive Mr. Macklin from the stage. Lord Mansfield observed on the nature of the offence, called it a national disgrace, and in very severe terms reprobated the conduct of the parties concerned in it. He said in the first stage of the business he had urgently advised the defendants to make Mr. Macklin an adequate compensation for the great damage he had sustained; that he then particularly pointed out as an adviseable measure the saving of the costs, by putting an end to the matter at once; that the law expences were now swelled to an enormous sum, which sum the defendants themselves had given rise to, by their obstinacy and want of prudence. Some time was spent in the court's endeavouring to make an amicable adjustment of the matter, and a final conclusion of it. Mr. Colman was proposed as arbiter general, which the defendants unanimously agreed to, but Mr. Colman declined the office; at length Mr. Macklin, after recapitulating his grievances, informed the court, that to shew he was no way revengeful, with which he had been charged, he would be satisfied for the defendants to pay his law expences, to take one hundred pounds worth of tickets on the night of his daughter's benefit, a second hundred pounds worth on the night of his own benefit, and a third on one of the manager's nights, when he should play; this plan, he observed, was not formed on