"Up, Guards, and at them!"
—Is there authority for the "Up, Guards, and at them!" traditionally put in the mouth of "the Duke" at Waterloo? I have heard not.
A. A. D.
P.S. Is not the battle itself a myth?
St. Botolph.
—I much wish some of the readers of "N. & Q." would refer me to any authorities they may know of respecting St. Botolph?
Private hints directed "A. B., Mr. Morton's, Publisher, Boston," will be most thankfully received.
A. B.
Rental of Arable Land in 1333.
—In the year 1333, it appears from The Custom Book, fol. 60., that the then Sheriff of Norfolk sent a copy of the king's proclamation to the Bailiffs of Norwich, commanding them to cause proclamation to be made in the city that "no man presume to take more than 24s. for the best living ox fatted with grain, and if not fatted with grain only 16s.; the best fat cow 12s.; the best fat swine of two years old, only 4s.; the best fat mutton unclipped, 20d.; and if clipped, then 14d.; a fat goose, 2d.; two pullets, 1d.; four pigeons, 1d.; a good fat capon, 2d.; a fat hen, 1d.; and twenty-four eggs, 1d." Can any of the readers of "N. & Q." inform me what was the then yearly (average) rental of an acre of arable land, and the value per annum of an acre (average) of pasture? Also the relative value of one shilling sterling, as compared with one shilling at the present time?