For the farther satisfaction of the Mas-
ter, Wardens, and court of Assistants of
the Merchant Taylors, the probations
themselves undergo an examination twice
every year, by two judicious men well
learned in Hebrew, Greek and Latin, ap-
pointed by the Master and Wardens of
the company.  Upon these days, which
are between the 11th and 21st of March,
and September, the Master and Wardens,
or at least two of them, are present.  The
examination, which is performed in the
chapel, begins at six in the morning and
ends at eleven.  These are called the
Doctors days.  After the examination is
finished, the audience, which is generally
pretty numerous, returns into the school,
where certain public exercises are per-
formed by the eight senior scholars, or
monitors of the school.

There is yet another public examina-
tion of the scholars of the upper form, by
the President and Fellows of St. John's
College, Oxford, annually performed up-

At this time an account is usually print-
ed, containing the names and order of the
head scholars, their births, admission, and
continuance in the head form; and also an
account of the subjects of the orations.
Stowe's Survey, last edit.  Maitland.
MERCHANTS WATERWORKS for raising
water.  To this office belong three en-
gines, a windmill in Tottenham court
road fields, and lately by two water mills,
turned by the common sewer, one at
Tom's coffee-house in St. Martin's lane,
and the other in Northumberland street,
late Hartshorn lane, in the Strand.  From
these engines issue three main pipes of six
and seven inch bore, from which the
neighbourhood of those places are sup-
plied with water.