entertaine
Into his house some _Trencher-chapelaine_;
Some willing man, that might instruct his sons,
And that would stand to good conditions.
First, that he lie upon the truckle-bed,
While his young master lieth o'er his head;
Second, that he do, upon no default,
Never to sit above the salt;
Third, that he never change his trencher twise;
Fourth, that he use all common courtesies,
Sit bare at meales, and one half rise and wait;
Last, that he never his young master beat,
But he must aske his mother to define
How manie jerks she would his breech should line;
All these observ'd, he could contented be,
To give five markes, and winter liverie."

R.

_Travelling in England._--I forward you a note on this subject,
extracted, some years ago, from a very quaintly-written _History of
England_, without title-page, but apparently written in the early part
of the reign of George the First. It is among the remarkable events of
the reign of James the First:--

"A.D. 1621, July the 17th, Bernart Calvert of Andover, rode from
St. George's Church in Southwark to Dover, from thence passed by
Barge to Callais in France, and from thence returned back to Saint
George's Church the same day. This his journey he performed betwixt
the hours of three in the morning and eight in the afternoon."

This appears to me such a surprising feat, that I think some of your
correspondents may be interested in it; and also may be able to append
farther information.

DAVID STEVENS.

_Warning to Watchmen._--The following _Warning_, addressed to the
Watchmen of London on the occasion of a great fire, which destroyed
nearly 100 houses in the neighbourhood of Exchange Alley, Birchin Lane,
the back of George Yard, &c., among which were Garraway's, The Jerusalem
Coffee House, George and Vulture, Tom's, &c. &c., is extracted from the
_London Magazine_ for 1748, and is very characteristic of the then state
of the police of the metropolis:--

"Mr. Touchit's _Warning to the Watchmen of London_. From the
_Westminster Journal_, April 2nd, No. 331. (1748).

"Whereas it has been represented to me, _Thomas Touchit_, Watchman
Extraordinary of the City of _Westminster_, that the Watchmen of
_London_ were very remiss during the dreadful Fire on _Friday_
morning, _March_ 25, in not giving timely Notice of that Calamity
over their several _Beats_, whereby the Friends of many