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morning about seven of the Clock and fynding him a 

 bedd M r . Beard asked him whether they were watching 

 and warding abroad, to which this examinate sayd that 

 the nyght before there was much watching and searching 

 for papists and recusants and named one Pern}'. 



"And this Examinate sayd further that it was the 

 most heynous treason that euer was w ch was intended, 

 to which the said Beard sayd It had bene braiue sport if 

 it had gone forwards, and this speech he spake as mut- 

 tering to himself, so as the last words were scarce heard, 

 and not in any laughing or jesting manner. 



" The sayd Reynolds being present at this exam 11 saith 

 that he hath served the said Beard of Boots these two 

 years space and that he used to lodge at M 1 '. Myer3 house 

 at the upper end of St. Johns street who is reported to 

 be a Recusant and to bring up recusant Children which 

 are there to learn but removed to Gibsons howse about 

 half a year gone. 



" John Drake. 

 " The mark x of T. Reynolds. 



" Ex per F. Bacon." * 



w. o. w. 



MOTTOES ON SUN-DIALS. 



Many hundred persons now living must re- 

 member the vertical sun-dial with a very remark- 

 able motto, on the front of a building at the 

 Temple in London. But most of them probably 

 never heard of the curious tradition, probably a 

 true one, respecting the motto. When, a few 

 years ago, the building was taken down and re- 

 built, it is likely the Benchers were either ignor- 

 ant of the tradition, or had forgotten it, else they 

 would probably have restored the sun-dial with 

 its motto. Perhaps they may even yet be induced 

 to do so. 



The tradition is this : — That when the sun- 

 dial was put up, the artist inquired whether he 

 should (as was customary) paint a motto under it ? 

 The Benchers assented ; and appointed him to 

 call at the library at a certain day and hour, at 

 which time they would have agreed upon the motto. 

 It appears, however, that they had totally forgotten 

 this ; and when the artist or his messenger called 

 at the library at the time appointed, he found no 

 one but a cross-looking old gentleman poring over 

 some musty book. " Please, Sir, I am come for 

 the motto for the sun-dial." " AVhat do you 

 want?" was the pettish answer; "why do you 

 disturb me?" "Please, Sir, the gentleman told 

 me I was to call at this hour for a motto for the 

 sun-dial." "Begone about your business!" was 

 th testy reply. The man, either by design or by 

 mistake, chose to take this as the answer to his 

 inquiry, and, accordingly, painted in large letters 

 under the dial — " Begone about your business." 



The Benchers when they saw it decided that it 

 was very appropriate, and that they would let it 

 stand — chance having done their work for them 

 a3 well as they could have done it for themselves. 



Anything that reminds us of the lapse of time 



• " Domestic Series, James I.," vol. xvi. No. 29. 



should remind us also of the right employment of 

 time in doing whatever business is required to be 

 done. 



A similar lesson is solemnly conveyed in the 

 Scripture-motto to a sun-dial : " The night cometh 

 when no man can work." 



Another useful lesson is conveyed in the motto 

 to a sun-dial erected by the late Bishop Copleston 

 in a village near which he resided : " Let not the 

 sun go down upon your wrath." 



Sometimes the unlearned are puzzled to under- 

 stand the meaning of mottoes, especially when ex- 

 pressed in the learned languages. A person (who, 

 by the bye, was not ignorant of Latin,) was at a 

 loss to understand the meaning of a motto which 

 he had seen on a sun-dial, " Septem sine horis." 

 The signification doubtless is, that there are in 

 the longest day seven hours (and a trifle over) 

 during which the sun-dial is useless. 



There is a sun-dial at one of the colleges in 

 Oxford with the motto, "Pereunt et imputan- 

 tur ;" signifying that we shall be accountable for 

 the moments that are passing away. Once, when 

 a party of strangers were visiting the curiosities 

 of Oxford, a lady of the company asked one of the 

 gentlemen (as gentlemen are always by courtesy 

 supposed by ladies to understand Latin) to inter- 

 pret the motto for her. He replied that it signi- 

 fied that, " They perish and are not thought of! " 



Anon. 



Minor #0tr£. 



Curious Discovery. — I send the enclosed 

 cutting from the Morning Chronicle of the 24th 

 March, thinking that such a discovery (if true) 

 must be interesting to your readers : — 



" Some workmen, last week, who were employed on the 

 estate of John de Montmorency, Esq., of Knockleer Castle, 

 county Kikiare, were engaged in removing the remains 

 of an old castle in the demesne, when they came upon a 

 walled chamber, containing the skeleton of a man in per- 

 fect preservation, in a recumbent position. In his hand 

 was a sword with a handsome jewelled hilt, and beside 

 him was a breastplate and helmet, together with a 

 drinking cup. A box was found near him containing 

 some coins of the reign of King John, a small cross, and 

 some parchment papers with writing upon them, which 

 has not yet been deciphered. The whole has been tem- 

 porarily "removed to the residence of Michael Walshe, 

 Esq., Newtown-house, county Kildare, who has devoted 

 much time and attention to antiquarian pursuits, and 

 who has kindly offered to show these interesting relics to 

 any who may wish to examine them. — Carloic Sentinel." 



Anon. 



Biographical Notes from Dugard's Regis- 

 ter or Merchant Taylors' School. — I subjoin 

 a few more extracts of names which may be of in- 

 terest to your readers : — 



1. Joseph Frost, 3rd son of Gualter Frost, gent., 

 born nt Cambridge in the parish of S. Andrew, 

 18 March, 1629 ; admitted 8 July, 1644. 



