NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * NO. 15] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1850. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. * * * * * {225} CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Wages in 17th and 19th centuries, by Rev. L.B. Larking ..225 Marlowe and the old Taming of a Shrew, by S. Hickson ....226 Notes from Fly-Leaves, No. 6., by Rev. J. Jebb ..........227 Shakspeare's Use of Monosyllables, by C. Forbes .........227 Notes on Cunningham's London, by E.F. Rimbault ..........228 QUERIES:-- Folk Lore (Metrical Charms), by William J. Thoms ........229 Allusions in the Homilies ...............................229 Minor Queries:--Pope's Translations of Horace-- Havior--Arabic Numerals--Eaton's Edward III.-- Dog Latin--Cuckoo, Welsh Ambassador--A recent Novel--Authorship of a couplet--Seal of Killigrew .....230 REPLIES:-- Selago and Samolus ......................................231 Ælfric's Colloquy, by B. Thorpe .........................232 Portraits of Luther and Erasmus .........................232 Replies to Minor Queries:--Praise undeserved--French Maxim--Singular Motto--Discurs, Modest.--Pallace --Litany Version of the Psalms--Tempora Mutantur, &c.--Pandoxare--St. Thomas of Lancaster--Fall of Rain in England--Judas Bell--Boduc on British Coins--Lord Bacon's Version of the Psalms--A "Gib" Cat--Lay of the Phoenix, &c. ....................233 MISCELLANIES:-- Execution of Duke of Monmouth--By Hook or by Crook --Cupid Crying--Miry-land Town ..........................237 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. ..................238 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted ............................238 Notices to Correspondents ...............................238 Advertisements ..........................................238 * * * * * WAGES IN 17TH AND 19TH CENTURIES. Running my eye accidentally through the household book of Sir Roger Twysden, from 1659 to 1670, it occurred to me to make a comparison between the relative prices of meat and wages, as there given, in order to ascertain the position of our peasantry in these parts, at the close of the 17th century. I send you a few extracts, by which it will be seen that, in Kent, at least, our agricultural labourers appear to have been in far better condition than those of the rest of England, who, in Mr. Macaulay's brilliant work, are represented as living "almost entirely on rye, barley, and oats," owing to the exorbitantly high price of meat, as compared with the ordinary scale of wages. As to meat, I find the following entries:--