Perhaps some of your correspondents may have an opportunity of consulting the registers of Meapham, and should any information respecting the Tradescants be found there, the marginal note will not have been without its use. I am looking forward with great interest to the information which MR. PINKERTON promises us on the subject; and should this letter be the means of directing him to a new source of information, it will be a matter of great satisfaction to me. C.C.R. Linc. Coll., Oxon. _St. John's Bridge Fair_ (Vol. iii., pp. 88. 287. 341.).--Having received the last polish at Peterborough Grammar School in 1840, and from a three years' residence off and on, I am enabled to speak to the fact of there being two fairs held at Peterborough. One, commonly called St. John's Fair, is usually held on the 18th July; but whether it is also called _St. John's Bridge Fair_ I am unable to say, as this fair was always held in our holidays, although it might be so termed. The other, commonly called "Bridge Fair," is held in the early part of October, and is so called from its proximity to the bridge. The piece in which the fairs are held is called the Bridge Close. Indeed I believe both these fairs were held in the same piece, or at least close by each other, although held at different times. I hope this may assist, but whether it is the same spoken of at p. 88. I cannot say. J. N. C. _A Tye_ (Vol. iii., p. 263.) is described by your correspondent as a place where three roads meet. Perhaps he means a place where one road divides into _two_. The nucleus of old English towns will be almost always found to consist of such a fork of one road into two, requiring three principal gates or entrances, and distinguishing the plans of towns from those of cities, in which four roads meet, forming the Carfoix, and requiring four principal gates. Is there any affinity of the words _two_, _tye_, and _town_? The parallel case of the junction of two rivers into one affects the names of places situated there, as _Tiverton_. K. TH. _Vineyard_ (Vol. ii., pp. 392. 414. 446. 522.).--In reference to the subject of the name "Vineyard" being still applied to certain places in England, it may be curious to note that the little village of _F_ingest, on the borders of Oxon and Bucks, was formerly called _V_ingest; and a farm in the same parish, now known as the _F_ineing, appears on an old tablet in the church as "the Vineing." I should add that the country around is full of steep sunny slopes; and would be, in a warmer climate admirably adapted for vines. G. R. M.