_St. John's Bridge Fair_ (Vol. iii., pp. 88. 287.).--I cannot agree with
the conjecture that this was Peterborough Bridge Fair. On the confines of
Gloucestershire and Berkshire, at the distance of about 77 miles from
London, near Lechlade, and on the road to Farringdon, is a St. John's
Bridge, near which was a priory or hospital. It is at this place that the
Thames first becomes navigable. (Leland's _Itinerary_, vol. ii. fo. 21, 22,
23; vol. iv. fo. 48; Bowles's _Post Chaise Companion_, 1782, pl. 28;
Lysons' _Berkshire_, vol. i. p. 193., and map of county prefixed;
_Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica_, vol. i. p. 320.; _Parliamentary
Gazetteer_, art. "Lechlade.") Whether there is or ever was a fair at this
place is more than I can state; but perhaps some of your correspondents
dwelling in those parts can give information on this point.