C.

_Remarkable Murder_.--"Anno 1605: one William Calverly, of Calverly, in
the county of York, esquire, murthered two of his own children at home
at his own house, then stabbed his wife into the body, with full intent
to have killed her, and then went out with intention to have killed his
child, at nurse, but was prevented. He was pressed to death, at York,
for this murther, because he stood mute, and would not plead."--_Old
History_.

_Law respecting Caps_.--An old Law, enacted that every person above
seven years of age, should wear on Sundays, and Holidays, a cap of wool,
knit-made, thickened and dressed in England, by some of the trade of
Cappers--under the forfeiture of three-farthings for every day's
neglect; excepting _Maids, Ladies_, and _Gentlemen_, and every _Lord,
Knight_, and Gentleman of _Twenty marks of land_, and their _heirs_, and
such as had borne office of worship in any _City, Town_, or _Place_, and
the Wardens of the London Companies.

T. GILL.

_Splendid Biography_.--Richard Neville, the Great Earl of Warwick and
Salisbury, was well known in history by the appellation of the King
Maker. His biographer says, "He was a man whose hospitality was so
abundant, that the ordinary consumption of a breakfast, at his house in
London, was six oxen; whose popularity was so great, that his absence
was accounted as the absence of the sun from the hemisphere; whose
service was so courted, that men of all degrees were proud to wear the
badges of his livery; and whose authority was so potent, that kings were
raised, or deposed, as suited his humour."

P.T.W.

_Character of England by Henry the Seventh._--Henry the Seventh (whose
breeding had been low and private) being once pressed by some of his
council, to pursue his title to France, returned this answer: "That
France was indeed a flourishing and gallant kingdom; but England, in his
mind, was as fine a seat for a country gentleman as any that could be
found in Europe."

G.K.

_The Plough._

"Look how the purple flower, which the plough
Hath shorn in sunder, languishing doth die."

_Peachum._

This implement was known to the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, and was
invented at a very early period, being perhaps nearly coeval with the
cultivation of the soil itself. Anciently, the tenants (in England) in
some manors, were not allowed to have their rural implements sharpened
by any but those whom the lord appointed; for which an