Appendix.

APPENDIX .

Since I mailed the article on the Old MS ., 1 dived further into the Statutes , and found the following in the 33 rd Henry VI ., or 1445 : " And also that the salaries ancl wages of servants and artificers that shall not exceed the assessiue that folloAvs . "

After stating the Avages of servants , shepherds , etc ., the ordinance continues thus : "The same form shall be observed of Avages of servants being with hostlers , victualers , and artificers in city , borough , ancl elscAvhere ; and such as deserve less

, shall receive loss ; and also the places where less is used to be given , less shall be given from henceforth . And from tbe Feast of Easter to the Feast of St . Michael , the wages of any Freemason or master carpenter shall not exceed 4 d . a clay Avith

meat ancl drink , ancl Avithout meat and drink 5 d . ; from St . Michael to Easter a Freemason and carpenter 3 d . with meat ancl drink , without meat and drink 4 d . " The above SIIOAVS that the statute of

1385 which ordained for the authorities of towns and counties to regulate annually the price of labour , in accordance ivith the price of corn or Adctuals , though not repealed , Avas put into abeyance by the above statute . Wages , thenceforth , Avere made stationaryancl "KnightsSquires

, , , many more , " must have ceased to hold their annual assemblies after 1445 , Avhen the above statute was passed . The ITalli-Avell poem , must , therefore , have been composed before the passage of the above statute , or before 1445 .

Notes On Literature, Science And Art.

NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE AND ART .

BY BRO . GEORGE MAtUttlAM TWEDDELL , Fellmo of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries , Copenhagen ; Corresponding Member of the Koyal Historical Society , London ; Honorary Member of the Manchester Literary Club , and of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society , ( Ire , & c .

THE following sensible sonnet , by EMMA RHODES , appears in the Argosy , ancl contains more rhyme and reason than much of

the namby-pamby stuff published for poetry in magazines generally . The sentiments may be said to be Masonic : — " Who is tbe greatest ? Is it he Avhose SAVord Cuts straight a road to glory ? He

Avhose feet Are swiftest in the race for fame : Avhose seat Is aye above his fellows at tbe board % He AVIIO has heap'd up countless golden hoard ?

Or even he whose life is most replete With richer stores than oil , and wine , ancl Avheat—With love , best good that this world can afford ? No : be Avho folloAvs where bis Master

led , Through loAvly wavs ; Avho strives but to fulfil , By humblest service , all that Master ' s will . He is the greatest ; so our Lord hath said ;

He falls who strains up high to reach renown ; Who stoops shall find the kingdom and the crown . " Mr . Martin Simpson , a careful laborious author , Avhose geological and other

publications are highly and deservedly esteemed , has now finished the Histories of the Lives ancl Times of King William the Third and Queen Anno , on which he has been for many years engaged . The tAvo Avorks would , I believe , fill a volume of about 700 pages . As Mr . Simpson is no

mere bookmaker , it is to be hoped that the labour of so many years will not be alloAved to lie idle on the shelf . I have not perused the manuscripts , but judging from the author ' s other writings , and knowing , from personal observation , his conscientious

carefulness to ascertain and express the truth in his books , I feel confident that this , his largest Avork of all , will be Avell worthy of publication , and I hope it will soon be sent to the press . I am sorry to record the death of Bro .

Samuel Gordon , F . S . A . Scot ., of Stocktonon-Tees , Avhich took place unexpectedly on Monday , July 25 th , at his residence in Sy dney-street , of that borough . He was born at Longton , in Staffordshire , November 25 th , 1832 ; and consequently at the the time of his death Avas in his forty-third