medicine, but it will cure all diseases." The executioner inquiring in what manner he proposed to lay his head upon the block? "So the heart

be straight," he said, "it is no matter which way the head lieth." Having lain down, and the executioner shewing some hesitation in striking the blow, "What dost thou fear?" he said, "strike, man!" His head was then severed from his body at two blows.

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In the time of the Commonwealth, there was a well known place of entertainment in Old Palace Yard, known by the singular denomination of "Heaven." Butler speaks of it in "Hudibras " as "falseHeaven' at the end of the Hall;" and Pepys mentions his dining there in 1659-60. sent a porter," he says, "to my house for my best fur-cap, and so I returned and went to 'Heaven,' where Luellin and I dined." About the same time, a club, called the Rota, was founded by the celebrated James Harrington, at Miles's Coffee House, in Old Palace Yard. Pepys was a member of the Club, and more than once mentions the "admirable discourse" which he heard there.*

Before quitting Old Palace Yard, we must not omit to mention that when the celebrated poet Geoffrey Chaucer held the appointment of Clerk of the Works at Westminster, in the reign of Richard the Second, his residence stood on the spot where Henry the Seventh's Chapel now stands,

* For an account of the "Rota" Club, see Biog. Brit. vol. v. p. 3345, and note.