_Law respecting Caps_.--An old Law, enacted that every person above seven years of age, should wear on Sundays, and Holidays, a cap of wool, knit-made, thickened and dressed in England, by some of the trade of Cappers--under the forfeiture of three-farthings for every day's neglect; excepting _Maids, Ladies_, and _Gentlemen_, and every _Lord, Knight_, and Gentleman of _Twenty marks of land_, and their _heirs_, and such as had borne office of worship in any _City, Town_, or _Place_, and the Wardens of the London Companies. T. GILL. _Splendid Biography_.--Richard Neville, the Great Earl of Warwick and Salisbury, was well known in history by the appellation of the King Maker. His biographer says, "He was a man whose hospitality was so abundant, that the ordinary consumption of a breakfast, at his house in London, was six oxen; whose popularity was so great, that his absence was accounted as the absence of the sun from the hemisphere; whose service was so courted, that men of all degrees were proud to wear the badges of his livery; and whose authority was so potent, that kings were raised, or deposed, as suited his humour." P.T.W. _Character of England by Henry the Seventh._--Henry the Seventh (whose breeding had been low and private) being once pressed by some of his council, to pursue his title to France, returned this answer: "That France was indeed a flourishing and gallant kingdom; but England, in his mind, was as fine a seat for a country gentleman as any that could be found in Europe." G.K. _The Plough._ "Look how the purple flower, which the plough Hath shorn in sunder, languishing doth die." _Peachum._ This implement was known to the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, and was invented at a very early period, being perhaps nearly coeval with the cultivation of the soil itself. Anciently, the tenants (in England) in some manors, were not allowed to have their rural implements sharpened by any but those whom the lord appointed; for which an acknowledgment was to be paid, called _agusa dura_; in some places _agusage_, a fee for sharpening plough-tackle, which some take to be the same with what was otherwise called _reillage_, from the ancient French _reille_, a _ploughshare_. _Ancient Fête at Gorhamlury._--In the year 1577, Queen Elizabeth was entertained at Gorhambury, by Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper, from Saturday, May the 18th, to the Wednesday following, at the expense of 577_l_. 6_s_. 7-1/4_d_. besides fifteen bucks and two stags. Among the dainties of the feathered kind, enumerated in this entertainment, Mr. Nichols mentions herons, bitterns, godwites, dotterels, shovelers, curlews, and knots. Sir Nicholas Bacon was frequently visited by the queen, who dated many of her state papers from Gorhambury. P.T.W.