[Our correspondent will find a more correct reading of this
inscription, with some remarks on Bishop Burnet's account of it,
in _Reflexions on Dr. Gilbert Burnet's Travels into Switzerland,
Italy, and certain Parts of Germany and France, &c._, divided into
five letters. Written originally in Latin, by Mons. ***, and now
done into English. 1688, pp. 23-29.]
_Turnpikes._--What is the earliest instance and origin of this word, and
when did the system of turnpikes commence? In the will of Walter
Ildryzerd, of Bury, dated 1468, mention is made of two pastures without
the town "j vocat' _Turnepyke_."