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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
(24S. No 11., Mar. 15, ’66. 
But there be some would have it now forgot 
There was a Godfrey killed; nor any Plot; 
So impudent {in Lies, with perjur’d Breath, 
They do deny the Plot and Godfreys Death. 
As those of Old, which we may still remember, 
Wou’d Cancel clean the fifth day of November. 
Into the Calendar, let us advance, 
The Murther of brave Henry King of France, 
Let France and Savoy curse the Jesuits train, 
Three hundred thousand were in Ireland slain. 
All Bonds of sacred Friendship you’l unty, 
Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy. ’ 
You take, untake, neither God nor Man you fear, 
What you have Sworn, the next hour you’! Unswear. 
Unto the Test, with double mind you stand, 
You have a Pardon ready to your hand. 
These are the Men, braye BepLowE! who unjust 
Wou'd trample down thy Honour in the Dust; 
That by their Hocus-Pocus Tricks, in fine, 
Thy Testimony they may undermine. 
When did the Apostles teach; pray Read their Story, 
That killing Kings was the next way to Glory. 
David, the next Successor was appointed, 
Durst not lay hands on Saul, the tarts Anointed 
But you, what in the World was never known 
Have framed a New Gospel of your own. 
And being mounted on Ambitions Wings 
Would fly aloft to Heaven by killing Kings, 
And had not Bedlow’s hand come to deliver 
Our Noble Prince had fall’n asleep for ever. 
* An Anacrostich. 
W hat Blessed hand directed thee to pry 
I nto the Jesuites subtile Policy ? ‘ 
et Wisdom that did set thee in the Path, 
imit our Foes, and bind their Boundless Wrath. 
wish that their Repentance truly may, 
nswer the Mischief of this fatal day. 
M ay they that unadyisedly did climb, 
B e truly sorrowful for their foul crime 
E rect their humble minds to Heavenly things, 
D ash all their future hopes of killing Kings: 
L end them a melting Heart fill’d ful of Terror, 
O pen their eyes that they may see their Error 
W isdom that tames the raging of the Seas, 
E nd all our Difference in Love and Peace. 
“London; Printed by Th. Dawks, His Majesties British 
Printer, at the Blew Anchor, at the West end of St. 
Pawls, 1679.” 
Pee 
Bayonets (2°4 §, i, 32. 128.) —In the annexed 
warrant is to be found, I think, the first mention 
of bayonets in the English service. Ihave not 
Grose’s work to refer to, but I do not think it is 
mentioned by him. I have copied it from a MS. 
in my possession, but whence the MS. was ob- 
tained I know not. I have no doubt it was 
copied from some authentie source. 
“ Cuaruzs IL, R. 
* April 2, 1672. 
“ Our will and pleasure is that a regiment of Dragoons, 
which we have established and ordered to be raised in 
12 troops of fourscore in each, besides officers, who are to 
be under the command of our most entirely beloyed 
cousin, Prince Rupert, shall be armed out of our stores 
remaining within our Office of Ordnance as followeth; 
that is to say, three corporals, two sergeants, the gentlemen 
of arms, and twelve soldiers of each of the said twelve 
troops, are to haye and carry each of them one holbard 
[sie in MS.], and one case of pistols with holsters; and 
the rest of the soldiers of the several troops are to haye 
and to carry each of them one matchlocke musket, with 
a collar of bandileers [?], and also to have and earry a 
bayonet or great knife; that each lieutenant have and 
carry one partizan, and that two drums be delivered out 
for each troop of the said regiment, &e, &c, 
“By His Majesty’s command, 
* (Signed) ARLINGTON, 
“To Sir Thos. Chicheley, 
Master-General of the Ordnance.” 
R. R, A. 
MAHOMET AND HIS SUCCESSORS. 
I have no doubt the following, extracted from a 
MS, in the British Museum (a MS. by a Christian 
writer, and belonging to the eighth century), will 
be interesting to some of your readers ; 
“ Memorial of the Life of Mahomet -* of God. 
* After he entered his city, and from what (time) he 
entered three months. 
“ From his first year, and how long the life of every 
thing that arose after him over the Mahagaroje.t After 
they constituted him king, and how long there was fac- 
tion among them, Three months from the time Mahomed 
came, 
“ And Mahomed lived ten years, 
* And Abu-beer, son of Abu-cohapha, two years and 
six months. 
** And Omar, son of Kitab, ten years and three months. 
* And Othman, son of Aphan, twelve years. 
“ And a sedition after Othman, fiye years and four 
months. 
“ And Moawiyah, son of Abusyaphan, nineteen years 
and two months. j 
* And Yezid, son of Moawiyah, three years and eight 
months. } 
“ And a sedition after Yezid, nine months, 
* And Mirwan, son of Hakem, nine months. 
“ And Abdulmelek, son of Mirwan, twenty-one years 
and one month, 
* Walid, son of Abdulmelek, nine years and one month. 
“ And Suleiman, son of Abdulmelek, two years and 
nine months, 
“And Omar, son of Abdulaziz, two years and five 
months, 
“ And Yezid, son of Abdulmelek, four years and one 
month and two days. 
* We reckon all these years to be 104, and 5} months, 
and two days.” 
The same volume contains some notices of the 
early conquests of the Saracens, which are inter- 
esting as coming from a Christian, and a contem- 
porary. The extract above given, may probably 
be relied on as authentic, both with respect to the 
order of the Caliphs, and the length of their rule. 
It would seem to have been written at the close 
of the supremacy of Yezid IL, or about 4,n. 724, 
B. H. Cowrer. 
* A word erased, most likely “ prophet,” — ‘, 
+ Probably from an Arabic root, signifying “ to flee 
— whence Hegira. This word would then mean fugitives, 
{ The sum is 104 years, four months, and two days. 
