seems to have been only the offspring of our immortal Bard’s playful imagination. {234} See _supra_ in this chapter, p. 228. {238} See also Grose’s _Military Antiquities_, vol. ii. p. 291, where the passage is referred to. {240} It appears from the above, that the wages of a Doctor of Laws (John Coke) were then two shillings, and of a public Notary one shilling per day. {241} In the _Harleian Manuscripts_ there are several documents of the reign of Edward V. and Richard III. in which guns, serpentines, artillery, gunpowder, &c., are mentioned. {242} See pages 223 and 224. {245a} The paper upon the family of Wyche, or De la Wyche, was read by the author in person, before a meeting of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, on the 18th of October, 1848, and the thanks of the meeting were voted for it to him. {245b} Ormerod’s _Cheshire_, vol. iii. p. 302; Lysons’ _Mag. Brit._, _Cheshire_ (note _f_), p. 356. {245c} Lysons’ _Mag. Brit._, _Cheshire_, p. 482; Ormerod’s _Cheshire_, vol. iii. p. 302. {245d} Lysons’ _Mag. Brit._, _Cheshire_, p. 482, referring to _Heraldic Collections_, by W. Smith, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant in the Heralds’ College, p. 78; and in a note in third vol. of Ormerod’s _Cheshire_, p. 302, he mentions the same fact respecting that embassy. {246a} Ormerod’s _Cheshire_, vol. iii. p. 302 (note), in which he mentions the above arms to have been allowed them in 1663–64, and states that a pedigree of the family is given in _Harl. MSS._ 2040, 267. {246b} Lysons’ _Mag. Brit._, _Cheshire_, p. 356.