NEW LIGHT ON OLD LONDON
How City Once-Lost Law Courts Related
"CHRONICLE" DISCOVERED
A dispute about the price of a loaf of beans, supplied for the re freshment of a Bishop's horse, once; cost London its law courts. This is! revealed in the "Great Chronicle uf London," which is now for the first time being transcribed at the Guild- hali.
Fleet Street was the seene of the wrangle, and the year was 1392. "There was debate and offrey in Fleet Street between the citizens and the servants of the Bishop of Salisbury concerning a horseloof." runs the official account of the mat- ter.
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The unofficial interpretation that my Lard Bishop had core to London to attend to legal business, and that whatever citizen of London supplied the "horseloof," had "stuck on the price."
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1934
Arrested on, a charge of soliciting, alms, a middle-aged mendi- cant in Mexico City turned out to be Agustin Becerra Dias, former society Han in Europe, Mexico, and the United States. Diaz is shown at the left as he appeared when the name of the Mexican tenor head-lined pre-revolution concert programmen, and at the right as he appears today.
Today's Short Story.
The Doctor
Descarcely
The presence of the law courts at CATHOLIC CONGRESS PRETTY WEDDING AT
Westminster, it was explained to al representative of the "Morning Post" at the Guildhall, was always
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ly he felt through his vest trusting eyes upon him. pockets: thermometer, forceps, "Do you know, doctor," she said. surgical scissors. Then the "when I woke this morning and jacket: stethoscope, prescription found myself still here I was just forms, all were there. Descend a little disappointed."
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ing the stairs, he entered the. The doctor's features softened! living-room where his wife and with sympathy. He knew instinc-ANAGOUDDOGANDO-OD-ULUUJON three amall children sat at break-tively what she meant. Her hus fast.
band had been a surgeon "Expecting another busy day, hospital he himself had entered as Phit?" Mrs. Byrne enquired as the student. He had admired this doctor glanced through the corres-great "magician with the knife," pondence beside. his pinte.
as his fellow medicos called him, "Rather," he replied. "But with an intensity amounting to I'll try and get back in time for hero-worship. With such a hero
inner. Don't wait though."
His wife looked at him with just led to attain a high position in the
as his goal, Philip Byrne had work-! a little pride in her eyes. "You're medical profession. It was he who becoming very popular," she said, had attended the surgeon's fatal but it doesn't give us much op injuries when, after leaving an portunity to be together, does it?"
Smiling, her husband rose and urgent midnight kissed her. "During the day I'm out and at night it's the telephone.
Doctor Byrne climbed into his
Never mind, dear, mustn't grum- ble. Good-bye!"
had
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MONDAY'S STORY
Monday's story will be "Just Опе Word," by Sapphira.
It was, therefore, natural that the
car and started hla rounds. There Bishop should vent his annoyance
was a tinge of spring in the air, over the mutter of the "horseloof"
and passing through the park he A talk by Father Martindale, by presenting an exaggerated
A pretty wedding was solem- caught a glimpse of the first gold- count of the brawl, and at the same relayed from
the Eucharistic nised at Union Church yesterday, en crocus peeping above the grass. the "King Congress at Buenos Aires, is em when Miss C. M. Markham time requesting that
bodied in the British Broadcast-came the
He was recalled to the present few days in the country should change his phee."
bride of Commander would do the wife and kiddies by his patient's confiding voice. In this he was joined by the ing Corporation's Empire trans- R. Morpeth, of the Chinese Mari world of good." he thought before "I don't quite know what I be- Archbishop of York, the latter do-mission, to-morrow.
time Customs.
turning his mind to more The relay is scheduled to start Powell officiated.
The Rev. E. G.
im-lieve about the future lie, Phi- ing a good stroke of business for
mediate matters.
lip," she was saying, "but," and his own town by securing the re-at about
on Monday.
The bride is from Darlington,
His firat call was a hard one-her features lightened with the moval of the law courts thither. Hong Kong time.-British Wire England, and she has been in re hard because there was so little he smile which
less Service.
always appeared sidence in Holhow and Hanoi for could do. He sat beside the pati-when she thought of her husband, six months. She is the niece ent'e bed with an air of apparent "but this I know: I shall soon see
of the Commissioner of Customs Icisure, for he knew that patients the doctor"....
dislike a hurried visit. A trained Doctor Byrne drove to the hos-
Edition To Be. Published The "Chronicles." which are now!
of the
2.30 a.m.
MR. NORTH'S NEW APPOINTMENT
Dual Role In Absence Of Mr. Tratman
Hoihow.
She wore
at
a pretty tulle drese nurse hovered in the background,pital abstractedly. "I wish it of light orange colour, with a veil her only duty being that of keep didn't affect me so," he thought. to match, and was given away byjing undisturbed the gentle reverie "And people think doctors are Mr. E. N. Ensor, Commissioner of in which the patient wished to die. hard as iron., Cultores in Hong Kong Mr. R. Wolfenden was best man.
being transcribed, lay for two hun- dred years in the library Bromley Tamily at Baginton, Wari wickshire, disguised by a mislead- ing title. Only recently rediscover! ed, they have been presented by Lord Wakefield to the City of Lon- don, and are to be published in aj Mr. R. A. C. North has been ap limited edition. three
hundred pointed Principal Assistant to the Church was Mrs. P. B. Joley, the Amongst the those present in copies, of which will be presented to Colonial Secretury and
Clerk of bride's aunt. universities and libraries within the Councils, during the absence, British Empire.
The Chronicles, which run to 360 C.M.G.
on
leave, of Mr. D. W. Tratman.ception was given at the
Following the ceremony à re- Hong Kong Hotel. The newly-wedded fullos, cover the years 1189 to 1512. Dr. K. H. Uttley has also buen couple later left for Repulse Bay They are known also to tell of Lon-lappointed Deputy Registrar don's gossip about the probable fate Births and Deaths.
of the little Princes in the Tower,)
of the frat English voyage tu
America, and even of earthquakes MIGRATION OF
and fery dragons.
There is also a fund of informa- tion for students of price changes, the trade of the City, and the wider history of England, especially dur- ing the reign of Richard III.
One 1504 entry has special terest at the present time. "The
latter in harvest.”
WHALES
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of for their honeymoon.
It is expected that she will be on the whaling grounds for three
QUIET CATHEDRAL WEDDING
Mr. Lloyd Of A.P.C. Staff Weds Miss Joan Potter
DEAN SWANN OFFICIATES
OIL DANGER ON OPEN SEA
Grave Warning From Parliamentarian
FISH AND BIRDS MENACED
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At the hospital he visited all the worst cases, heard the house- surgeon's report on others. Then The went to the out-patients' de-
partment.
HERE were not very many
Tses waiting, but they all
took time. Two were fresh cases) with obsecure symptoms needing careful history-taking; another was a man who wished to hear the The contention that modern respective merits of half a dozen methods of mechanical propulsion surgeons before deciding which at sea may end in the poisoning of them was sufficiently competent to fish and marine birds, with incal-perform a minor operation. Then culable consequences to human life, came a girl from an office. The was put forward by Mr. Geoffrey pathologists's report showed Shakespeare, M.F., Parliamentary tubercolosis, and it was Doctor Secretary to the Ministry of Health, Byrne's duty to tell her so. She in months without touching port.
nt the Second (Economie) Com- must take a year off, doing noth Experiments and to be under- A quiet wedding took place at St.mittee of the League Assembly. ing to over-exert herself. Sho Somyr," it is stated, "was too drye taken, and are part of the general John's Cathedral yesterday when Mr. Shakespeare impressed upon didn't know how she could man- that noo notary rain fell from scheme of investigations on which Miss Joan Potter, daughter of Mr. the Committee the damaging effects age as long without wages, she Whitsuntide tyll our Lady Daye the the Royal research ships, Discovery A. G. Potter, store officer of the of oil pollution at sea, involving not confided, but nevertheless she left and Discovery 11, as well as the Royal Naval Yard, and Mrs. Potter, only consequences to bathers, but the consulting-room gamely Going even further back, it is Willam Scoresby, have been em-was married to Mr. L. M. S. Lloyd; horrible and unnecessary suffering enough with her head held high. likely that the Chronicles will pro-played on previous commissions. of the Asiatic Petroleum Co., (S.C.) to all varieties of sea birds.
The doctor stood for a moment vide the fullest version of the Operations this season are specially Ltd.
In addition, there is the danger or twe by the window meditating "Brut," those strange Welsh stories directed to the determining of the The Very Rev. Dean Alfred to inshore fisheries,
-wondering what the next case which tell how Brutus, grandson of migration of whales.
Swann officiated, and Mr. F. Mason) Great Britain has prevented the would be. Thon,,, squaring his Eneas, came from Italy to England The investigations are, controlled was at the organ. The bride was contamination of her. waters by the shoulders, he summoned tha to found a new Troy, and of the by the committee acting on behalf given away by her father and the oil in Navigable Waters Act of patient, and was relieved to dis- whole legendary auccession down to of the Falkland Islands Government, Matron of Honour was Mrs. Pot-1022, but this is not enough ance cover that this was the last. King Arthur himself.
under instruction from the Secre-ter; Mr. G. G Worrall performed pollution can be caused by oil dis- Consulting his list, Doctor charged outside the three-milo limit. Bydne found that there were The British Government suggests several telephone appointments to various methods of dealing with the be kept now that the strain of in- problem including the compulsory terviewing the silent, still figures installation of oil separators in all from the waiting-room was over. ships. It is claimed that ship Aleo, he had to meet a practitioner owners can easily recover the cost in consultation. He would only of the installation of such apparatus arrive in time by missing lunch! by the saving in oil involved.
tury for Colonies.
SOME 'CONFIDENTIAL Discovery 11, which sailed from
PAPERS'
the duties of best man.
The William Scoresby is expected After the ceremony, a reception. to return in the Spring, as will was held at the Hong Kong Hotel.
London in October last year and is U.S. RE-FINANCING at present actively engaged in re- Tobacco Case In Naval arch work in the South-British
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Wireless Service.
DUKE OF KENT AT KING'S FUNERAL
SIR JOHN SIMON LEAVES FOR FUNERAL SERVICE
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LOWER INTEREST RATES
The Treasury has announced call for U.S.31,870,000,000 worth of) Fourth Liberty Bonds for redemp- tion in April.
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THE INDIAN QUESTION
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He checked over his equipment again.......scarf, bag, stethoscope.
Doctor Byrne was admitted to the house by a maid who bora evidence of
recent tears; Hel
con.
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The discovery of a case of to- bacco was described at Ports- mouth when Thomas Sebastian
(Continued from Page 1) Busby, aged 44, of Portchester
The call is believed to be another Those who talk about the Govern-smiled as he recognised the doc- Road. Portsmouth was fined £28: Alexander, His Highness will be more to secure lower interest rates, ment's proposals constituting the tor who had arranged the double duty and double value, for accompanied by General Sir Walter and, therefore, before April, it is surrender of India, should recollect sultation dozing in a chair. harbouring uncustomed tobacco. Braithwaite, representing the Bri-likely that holders will be offered that the greatest danger of sur
Suddenly he started and, opened Busby, it was stated in evi-tish Army, and by Major Butler, lower interest securities instead of render lies not in any Government
his eyes. "Sorry, Byrne!" he dence, was employed as a driver Equerry to the Duke, and Major cash.
proposals, but in the possible ad- apologised. "I've been, op every in the senior naval officers' de Arnhold-British Wireless Service.
The call is interpreted in many vent of the power of a Socialist night for the last ten days. Lots partment at the Royal Dockyard,
quarters as an indication of the Government. and when driving he was stop-
Administration's 'continued confid-] GREATEST DANGER.
Then he proceeded to outline the ped by a Royal Marine police-
fence in its financial steps.
Referring to the Government's case. "Only been married six It is presumed that the call was farmaments programine, Mr. Cham-months," he said, "and she con "Don't touch It contains con-
-not decided without the definite as: berlalu sald that he hoped that the tracted double pneumonia. See fidential papers," anid Busby to London, To-day-Sir John St-surance that refunding can be ac-new expenditure involved would not what you think about her heart. the policeman, but when the mon, Foreign Secretary, who will complished if desired.-United su great in any one year as to Pity! She's a fine girl and her Case was opened it was found to to-day represent the United King- Preas, per S. E. Levy and Company, cripple Britain's resources. He add. husband is a splendid fellow. Very contain nineteen "periques of na-dom Government at the funeral of OCTOBER, FINANCES COMPLETED ed that Great Britain would not much in love and all that. Rotten val tobacco, the monthly allow-the late French Foreign Minia-
Washington, Earlier. relax her efforts to prevent a gen- luck, isn't it?" ance of nineteen men. It weighter, M. Louis Barthou, who died The Government has building of
Doctor Byrne tried not to notice ed 171b., and its value was $1 from wounds received at Mar- the October Snancial operations, armaments Reuter, the level of
the wedding presents on the man- 58., the single duty being £10 55.seilles on Tuesday, left Croydon Including the conversion
teleplece and sideboard; the Busby pleaded guilty, but said by air for Parls yesterday even U.S.$1,020,000,000 worth of Fourth plans for the possible calling of an-range
chintza curtains with he did not know what the case ing. He will stay at the British Liberty Bonds to lower interest ob-other U.S.$2,000,000,000 worth of grotesque green parrots that only contained. It had apparently Embassy, returning to London to ligations.
Liberty Bonds for new conversions one with been left in the car by a passen- morrow. British Wireless Ser The Treasury Secretary, Mr. in April. United Press, per 3. E. Would
Henry Morgenthaus is studying Levy and Company,
vice
of
keen sense of humour
chosend
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