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BERROW AND BIRTSMORTON (page 29). - On Sunday morning, the 7th of May, 1780, at Organ's Cross, Berrow, a cottager named Edward Gummery, his wife and child, and Thomas Sheen, a brother-in-law, were all most horribly murdered. A neighbour, hearing groans in the cottage, got up and made an alarm, but the murderers had escaped. The victims had been shockingly mangled, apparently with a hatchet. Some tramps were pursued and taken, but nothing could be found against them; and other persons were afterwards charged, but dismissed for want of evidence; and to this day the murderer has not been discovered. The cottage still stands by the side of the road leading from Tewkesbury to Ledbury, and is known by the name of "The murder house."

LITTLE WITLEY (page 205). - At Little Witley a silver communion cup, with a paten, which fits as a lid to the cup, was recently discovered. The paten is dated 1571, but the cup has a Latin inscription, including the name of Humphrey Hill, warden, 1706. This was an ancestor of the present Mr. Alderman Thomas Rowley Hill, of Worcester.

NORTH PIDDLE (page 284). - T. G. Curtler, Esq., of Bevere,is the principal landowner at North Fiddle (not Mr. M. Curtler).