And for the due execution of Our Pleasure herein, We do further charge and command the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of Our City of London, That they in their several Wards, and Our Justices of Peace within Our said Cities of London and Westminster, and the Liberties and Suburbs thereof, and all other Our Officers and Ministers of Justice, to whom it appertaineth, do take especial care in their respective Limits that this Our Command be duly observed, and that they from time to time return the names of all those who shall wilfully offend in the Premises, to Our Privy Council, and to the end they may be proceeded against by Indictments and Presentments for the Nuisance, and otherwise according to the severity of the Law and Demerits of the Offenders. Given at Our Court at Whitehall the 18th day of October in the 12th year of Our Reign. GOD SAVE THE KING. London: Printed by John Bell and Christopher Barker, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1660. * * * * * Pepys, in his _Diary_, vol. i. p. 152., under date 8th November, 1660, says: "To Mr. Fox, who was very civil to me. Notwithstanding this was the first day of the King's {123} proclamation against hackney coaches coming into the streets to stand to be hired, yet I got one to carry me home." T. D. * * * * * SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDENCE. _Passage in "The Tempest," Act I. Sc. 2._-- "The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out." "The manuscript corrector of the folio 1632," MR. COLLIER informs us, "has substituted _heat_ for 'cheek,' which is not an unlikely corruption, a person writing only by the ear." I should say very unlikely: but if _heat_ had been actually printed in the folios, without speculating as to the probability that the press-copy was written from dictation, I should have had no hesitation in altering it to _cheek_. To this I should have been directed by a parallel passage in _Richard II._, Act III. Sc. 3., which has been overlooked by MR. COLLIER: "Methinks, King Richard and myself should meet With no less terror _than the elements_ _Of fire and water, when their thundering shock_ _At meeting tears the cloudy cheeks of heaven_." Commentary here is almost useless. Every one who has any capacity for Shakspearian criticism must feel assured that Shakspeare wrote _cheek_, and not _heat_. The passage I have cited from _Richard II._ strongly reminds me of an old lady whom I met last autumn on a tour through the Lakes of Cumberland, &c.; and who, during a severe thunderstorm, expressed to me her surprise at the pertinacity of the lightning, adding, "I should think, Sir, that so much water in the heavens would have put all the fire out." C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY. Birmingham. _The Case referred to by Shakspeare in Hamlet_ (Vol. vii., p. 550.).-- "If the water come to the man."--_Shakspeare._