_Notes on Newspapers._--The following may be worth a place among your
Notes. I copied it from the _Evening Mail_ (a tri-weekly issue from _The
Times_ office), but unfortunately omitted to take the date, and the only
authority I can offer is _Evening Mail_, No. 12,686. p. 8. col. 2.
(leader):
"_The Times_ has its share of antiquities. Our office stands upon the
foundations of Blackfriars, where for centuries Plantagenets, Yorkists,
Lancastrians, and Tudors, held court. We have reason to believe that
just about where we sit was heard that famous cause for annulling the
marriage of Catherine, which led to the English Reformation. Under
these foundations others still older are now open to view. First we
have under us the Norman wall of the city, before it was extended
westward to give more room to Blackfriars, and under that presents
itself the unmistakeable material and composition of the old Roman
wall."