Dublin.
_Custom of the Corporation of London._--In the evidence of Mr. Bennoch,
given before the Royal Commissioners for inquiring into the corporation of
the city of London, he stated that there is, amongst other payments, one of
133l. "for cloth to the great ministers of state," the city being bound by
an old charter to give a certain amount of cloth annually to them. He
subsequently states that this custom is supposed to be connected with the
encouragement of the wool manufacture in its early history; and that four
and a half yards of the finest black cloth that the country can produce are
annually sent to the First Secretary of State, the Second Secretary of
State, the Lord Chancellor, the Chamberlain of the Household, the
Vice-Chancellor of the Household, the Treasurer of the Household, the Lord
Steward, the Controller, the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, the
Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Chief Baron of the Exchequer,
the Master of the Rolls, the Recorder of London, the Attorney-General, the
Solicitor-General, and the Common Sergeant.
Can any of the readers of "N. & Q." give a more particular account of this
custom?