Has not been wrongly given by Dr. Grey to Lilburn, and whether Prynne is not rather the person described. Dr. Grey admits in his note that the application of the passage to Lilburn involves an anachronism, Lilburn having died in 1657, and this passage being a description of one among "The quacks of government who sate" to consult for the Restoration, when they saw ruin impending. CH. _Peep of Day._--Jacob Grimm, in his _Deutsche Mythologie_, p. 428., ed. 1., remarks that the ideas of light and sound are sometimes confounded; and in support of his observation he quotes passages of Danish and German poets in which the sun and moon are said to _pipe_ (pfeifen). In further illustration of this usage, he also cites the words "the sun began to peep," from a Scotch ballad in Scott's _Border Minstrelsy_, vol. ii. p. 430. In p. 431. he explains the words "par son l'aube," which occur in old French poets, by "per sonitum auroræ;" and compares the English expression, "the peep of day." The Latin _pipio_ or _pipo_, whence the Italian _pipare_, and the French _pépier_, is the ultimate origin of the verb _to peep_; which, in old English, bore the sense of chirping, and is so used in the authorised version of Isaiah, viii. 19., x. 14. Halliwell, in his _Archaic Dictionary_, explains "peep" as "a flock of chickens," but cites no example. _To peep_, however, in the sense of taking a rapid look at anything through a small aperture, is an old use of the word, as is proved by the expression _Peeping_ Tom of Coventry. As so used, it corresponds with the German _gucken_. Mr. Richardson remarks that this meaning was probably suggested by the young chick looking out of the half-broken shell. It is quite certain that the "peep of day" has nothing to do with sound; but expresses the first appearance of the sun, as he just looks over the eastern hills. L. _Martinet._--Will the following passage throw any light on the origin of the word _Martinet_? Une discipline, devenue encore plus exacte, avait mis dans l'armée un nouvel ordre. Il n'y avait point encore d'inspecteurs de cavalerie et d'infanterie, comme nous en avons vu depuis, mais deux hommes uniques chacun dans leur genre en fesaient les fonctions. _Martinet mettait alors l'infanterie sur le pied de discipline où elle est aujourd'hui._ Le Chevalier de _Fourilles_ fesait la même change dans la cavalerie. Il y avait un an que _Martinet_ avait mis la baionnette en usage dans quelque régimens, &c.--Voltaire, _Siècle de Louis XIV._ c. 10. C. Forbes. July 2. _Guy's Porridge Pot._--In the porter's lodge at Warwick Castle are preserved some enormous pieces of armour, which, _according to tradition_, were worn by the famous champion "Guy, Earl of Warwick;" and in addition (with other marvellous curiosities) is also exhibited Guy's porridge pot, of bell metal, said to weigh 300 lbs., and to contain 120 gallons. There is also a flesh-fork to ring it.