_House-marks_ (Vol. vii., p. 594.).--I do not know whether [alpha].
recollects the frequent occurrence of _marks_ upon sheep in this country.
Although I have often seen them, I cannot just now describe one accurately.
Some sheep passed my house yesterday which were marked with a _cross_
within a circle.
Riding with a friend, a miller, in Essex, about thirteen years ago, he
jumped out of the gig and over a gate, to seize a sack which was lying in a
field. Seeing no initials upon it, I asked how he knew that it was his;
when he pointed out to me a fish marked upon it, which he told me had been
his own and his father's mark for many years. He also said that most of the
millers in the neighbourhood had a peculiar _mark_ (not their names or
initials), each a different one for his own sacks.