The late Professor F. York Powell told us in one of his delightfully informal but most stimulating lectures that the “Cold Harbour” of Oxford, on the Abingdon Road, not far from Folly Bridge, dated from the Statute of Winchester in the year 1285. By that Statute the gates of all walled towns were to be closed from sunset to sunrise, and “no man should lodge in the suburbs nor in any place out of the town from nine of the clock until day, without his host shall answer for him.” It followed from this that belated travellers had to find harbour at some distance from the city, and the shelters were of such an uncomfortable type that they acquired the title of “Cold.”—Rev. J. G. Cornish, Salcombe House, Sidmouth.