moated {215} mansion of the Herberts, or Ab-Adams, of Beachley adjacent,
and of Llanllowell.

George Ormerod.

Sedbury Park, Chepstow.


_Omnibuses._--It may be interesting to your readers at a future time to
know when these vehicles, the use of which is daily extending, were
introduced into this country; perhaps, therefore, you will allow me to
state how the fact is. Mr. C. Knight, in his _Volume of Varieties_, p.
178., observes:

"The Omnibus was tried about 1800, with four horses and six
wheels; but we refused to accept it in any shape till we
imported the fashion from Paris in 1830."

And Mr. Shillibeer, of the City Road, the inventor of the patent funeral
carriage, in his evidence before the Board of Health on the general
scheme for extra-mural sepulture, incidentally mentions that he

"Had had much experience in cheapening vehicular transit, having
originated and established the Omnibus in England."--_Report_,
p. 124., 8vo. ed.

Arun.


_Havock._--Havock is a term in our ancient English military laws: the