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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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from the Greek emperor. Amongst the numberless 

 facts and data rehiting to the great Bonaparte, I 

 do not recollect to have heard what was the coat 

 of arms of the Corsican branch : and whether 

 there had been any change in it when they had 

 settled in Florence, or even sooner. In the coat 

 of arms line, nothing is perhaps so interesting as 

 the stone armorials which stood engraved on the 

 house where Gothe was born at Frankfort : " a 

 Av^inged lyre, surrounded by stars." Hahent sua 

 fata lapides. J. Lotskt. 



15. Gower Street. 



Lefral Times of Worli, Meals, and Sleep for 

 Artificers in the Iteign of Henry VIII. — The fol- 

 lowing may interest some of your readers. I copy 

 it from a small and very old black-letter tract, 

 j)rinted by " Robert Wyer for Rycharde Bankes," 

 without date, entitled, — 



" The Ordynal or Statut, concernynge Artyfycers, 

 Seruauntes, and Labourers, newly prynted with dyuers 

 other thing therunto added." 



" Item. It is enacted by y® saj'd statute made in the 

 vi 3'ere of k)'ng Henry the viii., the iii. chaptyre, that 

 euery artyfycer and labourer shal be at his worke be- 

 twene the myddes of Marche and the myddes of Sep- 

 fembre before f)'ue of the clocke in the mornynge, and 

 that he shall haue but halfe an houre for his brekefaste, 

 and an houre and an halfe for his dyner at such tyme as 

 lie hath to slepe by the statute, and when he hath no 

 season to hym appoynted to slepe, then he shall haue 

 but one houre for his dyner, and halfe an houre for his 

 noone meate, and that he departe not from his worke 

 tj'll betwene vii. and viii. of the clocke at nyght. 



" And that from the myddes of Septembre to the 

 myddes of Marche, euery artyfycer and labourer to be at 

 their worke in the spryngynge of the daye, and departe 

 not tyll nyght. 



" And 3'f that any of the sayde Artyfycers or labourers 

 do offende in any of these Artycles, that then theyre de- 

 faultes to be marked by hym or his deputy that shall 

 paye theyr wages, and at the wekes ende theyr wages to 

 be abated after the rate. 



" And that the sayde artyfycers and labourers shall not 

 slepe in the day, but onely from the myddest of Maye 

 vnto the myddest of August." 



Robert Wyer and Richard Bankes were printers 

 and publishers who flourished circa 1530. I 

 fancy The Ordynal, above mentioned, has escaped 

 the notice of Dibdin, as it is not to be found in 

 the list he gives of the works executed by Wyer 

 and by Bankes. The Ordynal must have been 

 published between 1530 and 1540. 



Henry Kensington. 



Note on Xenophon. — In the Anabasis of Xeno- 

 phon (lib. i. cap. 6.), Cyrus interrogates Orontes 

 in the following words ; — 



OixoKoyeli oiv, nepi e/ne adixo; yeyevii<x6ai." 



And the answer given, according to all the edi- 

 tions I have seen, is "'H ydp avdyK-rj." Now this 

 punctuation I believe to be erroneous, for ^ yap 

 evidently belongs to the question, the answer 



being aydyKv only, Comp. Plat. Oorg. 449. E., 

 450 C., 451. E., &c., where ^ yap closes the ques- 

 tion, and where it is answered by the affirmative 

 vol, as it is in every case in the same treatise 

 except three. J. O. B. Crowe, A.B. 



Professor of Celtic, Q. Coll., Galway. 

 Belfast. 



7'Ae common Soldier in Coleridge's Friend. — 

 Mr. Emerson, in his recently-published book on 

 England (p. 6.), tells us that he made inquiries 

 about the authorship of a passage in The Friend 

 (vol. iii. p. 5Q.), professedly taken from a common 

 soldier's address to his comrades. Coleridge con- 

 fessed that he had "filtered" the original, but 

 gave no exact reference. As some among your 

 readers may be as curious as Mr. Emerson, I give 

 the full title of the pamphlet from which (p. 25. 

 foil.) Coleridge's garbled extract is taken : 



" Justice upon the Armie Remonstrance, or a Rebuke 

 of that Evill Spirit that leads them in their Counsels and 

 Actions. With a Discovery of the contrariety and enmity 

 in their Wales, to the good Spirit and Minde of God, De- 

 dicated to the Generall, and the Councel of War. By 

 William Sedgwick. 



' But they shall proceed no further, for their folly shall 

 be manifest to all men.' — 2 Tim. iii. 9. 



London, Printed for Henry Hils, and are to be sold at 

 his house over against S. Thomases Hospitall in South- 

 wark, and at the Black Spread-Eagle at the West End of 

 Pauls, neare Ludgate. m.dc.xlix." 4to. pages 62. 



Those who know Coleridge will not be sur- 

 prised to learn that Sedgwick was not a common 

 soldier, but an ordained minister. See Calamy's 

 Account, pp. 114, 117. ; Continuation, p. 155, He 

 may perhaps be identified with William Sigiswick 

 of Calus College, M,A,, 1638, Calamy says that 

 he was " a pious man, with a disorder'd head." 



J, E. B. Match. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



Was Lord Bacon the Author of the Plays at- 

 tributed to Shakspeare ? — Mr. Smith in his letter 

 to Lord Ellesmere (recently reviewed in the 

 Athenaeum) having opened the field to controversy, 

 the following coincidence of expression may not 

 be thought unworthy of a note. 



In the play of Henry V. Act III. Sc. 3. occurs 

 the following line : 



" Tfie gates of mercy shall be all shut up.". 



And again in Henry VI. : 



" Open the gate of mercy, gracious Lord," 



Sir Francis Bacon uses the same idea in a letter 

 written to King James a few days after the death 

 of Shakspeare : 



" And therefore in conclusion he wished him (the Earl 

 of Somerset) not to shut the gate of your majesty's mercy 

 against himself by being obdurate any longer," • 



Cl, Hoppe9, 



