To Kinge and Countrie that some good may come.

Loe! thus you heare the _Farriers_ endelesss praise,
God grant it last as many yeres as it hath lasted Daies.

Anno Dni 1612.

G.W.


[1] It commences from Henri de Ferrer, Lord of Tetbury, a Norman who came
over with William the Conqueror.

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CURIOUS SCRAPS.


We read of a beautiful table, "wherein Saturn was of copper, Jupiter of
gold, Mars of iron, and the Sun of silver, the eyes were charmed, and the
mind instructed by beholding the circles. The Zodiac and all its signs
formed with wonderful art, of metals and precious stones."

Was not this an imperfect orrery?

In 1283, say the annals of Dunstable, "We sold our slave by birth,
William Pike, with all his family, and received one mark from the buyer."
Men must have been cheaper than horses.