C.W. BINGHAM.

Bingham's Melcombe, Blandford.

_Law Courts at St. Albans_ (Vol. i., p. 366.).--Although unable to answer

[Greek: S.], perhaps I may do him service by enabling him to put his Query

more correctly. The disease which drove the lawyers from London in the 6th

year of Elizabeth (1563) was not the _sweating sickness_ (which has not

returned since the reign of Edward VI.), but a plague brought into England

by the late garrison of Havre de Grâce. And it was at _Hertford_ that

Candlemas term was kept on the occasions. See Heylyn, _Hist. Ref._, ed.

Eccl. Hist. Soc. ii. 401.

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