was probably suggested by the young chick looking out of the
half-broken shell. It is quite certain that the "peep of day" has
nothing to do with sound; but expresses the first appearance of the sun,
as he just looks over the eastern hills.

L.

_Martinet._--Will the following passage throw any light on the origin of
the word _Martinet_?

Une discipline, devenue encore plus exacte, avait mis dans
l'armee un nouvel ordre. Il n'y avait point encore d'inspecteurs
de cavalerie et d'infanterie, comme nous en avons vu depuis,
mais deux hommes uniques chacun dans leur genre en fesaient les
fonctions. _Martinet mettait alors l'infanterie sur le pied de
discipline ou elle est aujourd'hui._ Le Chevalier de _Fourilles_
fesait la meme change dans la cavalerie. Il y avait un an que
_Martinet_ avait mis la baionnette en usage dans quelque
regimens, &c.--Voltaire, _Siecle de Louis XIV._ c. 10.

C. Forbes.

July 2.

_Guy's Porridge Pot._--In the porter's lodge at Warwick Castle are
preserved some enormous pieces of armour, which, _according to
tradition_, were worn by the famous champion "Guy, Earl of Warwick;" and
in addition (with other marvellous curiosities) is also exhibited Guy's
porridge pot, of bell metal, said to weigh 300 lbs., and to contain 120
gallons. There is also a flesh-fork to ring it.

Mr. Nichols, in his _History of Leicestershire_, Part ii. vol. iii.,
remarks,

"A turnpike road from Ashby to Whitwick, passes through Talbot
Lane. Of this lane and the famous large pot at Warwick Castle,
we have an old traditionary couplet:

"'There's nothing left of Talbot's name,
But Talbot's Pot and Talbot's Lane.'

"Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick, died in 1439. His eldest
daughter, Margaret, was married to John Talbot Earl of
Shrewsbury, by whom she had one son, John Viscount Lisle, from
whom the Dudleys descended, Viscount Lisle and Earl of Warwick."

It would therefore appear that neither the armour nor the pot belonged
to the "noble Guy"--the armour being comparatively of modern
manufacture, and the pot, it appears, descended from the Talbots to the
Warwick family: which pot is generally filled with punch on the birth of
a male heir to that noble family.

W. Reader.

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QUERIES.

NICHOLAS FERRAR OF LITTLE GIDDING.

Dr. Peckard, in his Preface to the _Life of Nicholas Ferrar of Litt