"Pepper come rent" originated during the Middle Ages. Webster defines it as follows : "A rent consisting in supplying a certain amount, usually a pound, of black pepper cornes, at stated intervals ;" also "a nominal rent in kind operating to keep alive the paramount or dominant title to a property

me of an earlier opportunity of acknowledging the favor of your address. But a testimony of kindness so flattering to me, and a display of philanthropy so honorable to yourselves, will be forever remembered with gratitude and respect. "The great objects of a free government must be to establish

ERRORS CORRECTED LETTER OF WILLIAM F. WORNER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE LANCASTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Lancaster, Pa., August 5th, 1927. Mr. Adolf C. Darmstaetter, President, Chamber of Commerce, Lancaster, Pa. My Dear Mr. Darmstaetter: I have read, with much interest, the pamphlet issued by the

John and Abraham Nov. 3, 16. Carpenter, and Jacob Eshleman, etc. 24 barrels of flour, and from George Duffield, collected in the town of Strasburg, $56.15. $56.15 24 From the foregoing statement it appears that the donations from Lan- caster county received by the comissioners, totaled in cash

, John Har- man, Michael Rine, Peter Root (miller), John Buckwalter, Abra- ham Carpenter, Samuel Herr, John Herr, Henry Herr, Henry Miller, Jacob Neff, Jr., Samuel Miller, John Kendig, Francis Ken- dig, Henry Bowman, Daniel Witmer, John Carpenter." The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Declaration of

The American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 28th, 1817, con- tained the following notice : "The citizens of the borough of Lancaster, and gentlemen from the country

scriptions have been raised and forwarded to these unhappy suf- ferers; and surely the benevolent inhabitants of Lancaster will not be the last in contributing their proportion. Let it not be said, that at the seat of government of the wealthiest state in the union, the citizens were devoid of

Address to President John Adams from the Citizens of Lancaster Borough and County Supporting the Government in its Attitude Toward France By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN THE proceedings of the Lancaster County Historical Society of October, 1924, appears an article entitled, "John Marshall in