MENDIP MINES.

_To the Editor._

Sir,--The very great entertainment I have derived from your _Every-Day

Book_ induces me to contribute to your present publication, if you

consider the accompanying copy from an old record merits a place in the

_Table Book_. It formed part of a brief held by counsel in a cause,

“Hembury and Day,” tried at Taunton assizes in 1820. On referring to the

papers I find that the present Mr. justice Gaselee was the counsel

employed. Some of these old Mendip laws are recognised in “Collinson’s

History of Somersetshire.”