_Brewhouse Antiquities._--In Forth and others _versus_ Stanton, Trinity
Term, 20 Charles II., Timothy Alsopp and others sue for 100_l._ for cost
of beer, sold by them to defendant's late husband. Can this Timothy
Alsopp be a lineal predecessor of the present eminent firm of Samuel
Alsopp and Sons? We are told that Child's is the oldest
banking-house--which may be the oldest brewing establishment?