all manner of vices, and inforceth him to vertues and good customes, by the which they maynteyne rightfullie the order of knighthood, according to the high honor which to them is due and app'teyneth. The shield is given him to put betwene the enemie and him to beare of the strokes, betokening that a knight's office is to be meane betweene the king and his people, for a p'fect uritie betwene them. The gantletts are given a knight to weare on his hands, to the end he maye defende same, and maye be the more suer to receive the strokes if it chance any part of his armor to fee, signifying that beside noble corage, yet vertue ought to be in him, to the end that if his corage did pricke him to do any thing contrarie to the said order, yet vertue might staie him and resist the same. The saddell of his horse is toe end that he maye sit suer therein and stedfast who he rideth, soe that he cannot stirr or move unlesse he be willing signifying thearby the steadfases and suertie of courage which ought to be in him; whearby it causeth him to be in the front of the battaile, wch suertie aideth him in adventuring for the love of knighthood. And the great char and deed of knighthood is, that he ought not to remove or ret from things lawfull. The horse is given to the said knight, whey he is mounted and sett more higher than another man, and seen further of; signifying thearby the noblenes of courage, and the apt and redie apparrelling of him to that which apperteyneth to the order of knighthood more in him than any other man. The horse hath a bridle, which the knight holdeth in his hand by the raynes, Whearby he maye holde and refrayne his horse at his will; signifying theary that he ought likewise to refreyne his will from evil, end to bend himselfe to goodnes."-From a MS. in the College of Arms.

BOLLS OF PARLIAMENT. We believe an Index to these valuable parliamentary and historical documents was commenced about the year 1767 When we consider their importance, and the rigidness with which evidence is exacted of the fact sitting under a writ of summons to Parliament in cases of claims to peerages, and which are to be founded upon the Records of Parliament, we can readily imagine of what infinite value this Index would be; and few persons will deny th it ought long since to have been published. That accuracy in a work of that nature is of essential importance is most clear; and consequently a series of years may have been required for the perfection of so laborious an undertaking, in order to prevent the possibility of a second life being devoted to the same object. Still, however, ould it assume the most perfect form, time and money enough have been sacrificed. We cannot therefore be deemed impatient, if, after the lapse of a half century, we venture to inquire, whether it is likely; to be completed before the moths and worms have destroyed those sheets which have been some years lying useless in the printer's warehouses Many are the works, whose authors are long since numbered with the dead, that might have benefited by the references