The lords of the secret council were likewise made conservators of the peace of the two kingdoms.

By means of a device, known as a kaleidograph, the patterns thus formed may be thrown on a screen or a glass.

Touchwood was by no means critically nice in his society, but was observed to converse as readily with a gentleman's gentleman, as with the gentleman to whom he belonged.

He that shall observe […] so much emulation, envy, so many brawls, quarrels, monomachies, etc., may well require what is become of charity?