1815.] 527 LANSDOWNIAN A. It is well known that the late William Marquis of Lansdowne emploned part of his active life in collecting MSS. and Papers illustrative of English History, and that after his death they were brought to the hammer, and the greater part of them purchased by the Trustees of the British Museum, at a cost of upwards of 60001. We again present our readers with some specimens of their contents, and purpose to repeat a similar article two or three times per annum, till we have extracted the essence of the 1000 volumes of which they consist. The Names of such Princes as are of the Religion as withdrew themselves from the Masse at our Ladies Church in Augsberg, July 3, 1582, before the Beginninge of the Diett. HE P. Elector of Saxe. John Frederick, administrator of the Bishoprick of Meydenberg, who was come thither for his father, the P. Elector of Brandenberg. Philip Lodowicq, Count Palatine of the Rhine at Nuberg. Otho, Henry, and John, brothers of the said Count Palatine of the Rhine. The Count Ulric, of Mecklenberg. The Count Chretien, sonne of P. Elector of Saxe. Frederick Guilled, sonne of the late Count Guilled, of Saxe. John and his brother, Sigismond and Augustus, Counts of Mecklenberg. John Adebertus, and manie other princes, lordes, &c. not named. The Names of such Princes, &c. us stayed with the Emperor. The P. Elector of Maience. The two deputies of Treves and Cologne. The two Dukes of Baviere. The Count Guillan and Ferdinand. The deputie of George Ludowicq, landgrave of Leuchtenberg. The Archduke Charles. The Bishop of Seskaules, legat for the Bishop of Saltsbury. The deputies of Julius B. of Wirtsberg, and of Martin B. of XXIX KNIGHTS. The Articles that every Knight shuld observe and kepe by the dignity of his Order. He shall not tourne his backe to his enemye for to flee. He shall truly hold his promise to his friend and also to his foe. He shall be free of meate and drink to all his men about him. He shall uphold maydens right and the right of wydowes. He shall be mercyfull and do no harm to the poore. 2 He shall hold with the true worship of Almighty God. XXXII. UNION OF SOVEREIGNTY. The monarch of Great Britain hath in actual possession nineteen ancient king. doms and principalities; England ancicontained seven, Scotland three, Ireland Ave, Wales three, and the le? of Man one. The inhabitants speak nine several languages, English, Scotch, Welsh, Cornish, Irish, Mansk, Galish in the Orcade Isles, French in Jersey and Guernsey, and Dutch in several places where Netherlanders dwell, having churches, and the service in their own tongue. XXX. ROMAN SOLDIERY. Account of the Allowance made to the Ancient Roman Soldiers for their Pay and Diet. The Roman footman had 2 ob, by the day to the value of 14 denari. The centurion had 4 oboli, or duo soldi & mezo. The horseman had una drachma, or 3 soldi & mezo. A footman had every month 2 pts of a mina attica of wheat. A horseman had 6 minas of barley for his horse, and 2 minas of wheat. By this appeareth that the footman had every moneth quatro quarto bigrano par nutrirsi, which is un quarto every week. In Augustus' time the footman had by the day un denario of sylver, which was worth 3 souses in French. It appeareth in Thucidydes that the footman had by the day 2 drachme, that is, 8 Sestertii Romani, or duo denarii of sylver, worth 6 souses French, Note that Capo di Squadra had double pay to a footman. A horseman treble. A legion of Romans contayned 6000 footmen and 732 horsemen, In every legion were ten cohorts, in the first whereof were 1105 footmen and 132 horses, and this cohort had the aquila, and had the antigard. The other were of 555 footmen and 66 horsemen, Note-every footman had by the moneth 3 scudi, and the forsentan 9. The Capi di Squadra had double to the footmen, footmen, viz. 6 scudi daily, scudi being hundred years, usurped upon the crown 35 souses. XXXIII. TITLE OF CONQUEROR. The title of Conqueror to King William, our first Norman king, came in long after the time of Edward III. to avoid an inconvenience in his title, for there were three Edwards before the Conquest. The Confessor being called Edward III. and the Third Edward afterwards; therefore, to avoid a mistake in the stile, he caused himself to be writ, Edwardus post conquest tertius. Sir Roger Owen. XXXI. ANCIENT REVENUES. An Estimate of the whole certain likely Yearly Revenues and Issues of England, and the difference thereof. Sept. 23, 1606, by Sir Julius Cæsar, Chancellor of the Exchequer, &c. £ S. d. 315,384 7 10 367,700 2 11 This cannot last, but will bring a dearth! Now, therefore, let our most wise, sacred, and religious Pharaoh provide for a man of understanding and wisdom, some religiously wise, improveably honest, uncorrupt, stout, and chaste-mmced Joseph, &c.-Genesis, chap. 42, verse 33. XXXIV. DEAFNESS. Remedy for Deafness, recommended by Mr. First make a lofe, of the quantitye of a two-pennye lofe, of rye meale, and bake it on oven, and then keep yt hott unty!l you goe to hedd; and then, when you are in bedd, cutt itt asunder in the middle, and put the one halfe of the lofe to one of your ears, and the other halfe to the other, as hot as you can suffer it, and lett them lye untill they be colde, and keepe your hedd with double the warmth you weare accustomed before; and when you have taken the lofes off, warm the oyle, and droppe two or three droppes thereof into your eares lukewarm, and make two tentes of fine lynte, and wette them well in the oyle, and tente your eares with them all nyght. The oyle I know not the name of, but the apothecary who, by desire from the doctor, maketh yt for me, shall make the more, and if it please you to make triall thereof, he shall make as much more for me, and I will, God willinge, send it unto you. of England four points of jurisdiction. 1st. Sending of legates into England in the time of William the Conqueror. 2d. Drawing appeals to Rome in the time of King Stephen. 3d. Donation of bishopricks in the time of Henry the First. 4th. Exemption of clerks from secular power in the time of Hemy the Second. XXXVI. KINGS OF SCOTLAND. Richard the First granted by charter to William king of Scotland, and his heirs, that, when by sommons they should come to the court of England, the Bishop of Durham and the sheriff of Northumberland should receive them at the river of Tweed, and bring them under safe conduct to the river of Tees, and there the archbishop of York and the sheriff of Yorkshire should receive and conduct them to the bounds of that county, and so the bishop and sheriff of other counties, till they came to the court of the king of England; and, from the time of his first entrance he should have one hundred shillings a day allowed him for his charges. It was a common opinion, and so affirmed in the star-chamber by the lords there assembled, Term Paschall. 20 James the First, (in an information against Bradshaw) that all the riches of the realm would not pay the interest of the debts of the nobility and gentry; and yet, from the 1st of Elizabeth to the 13th of King James, no less than nine millions of ore had been coyned in the mint of this realme. XXXVIII. CHURCH YARDS. Cuthbert, Archbishop of Canterbury, about the year 750, obtained from the Pope a dispensation for making of church-yards within towns and cities; whereas, until his time, within the walls none were buried. XXXIX. EPISCOPAL POVERTY. The anoient election of bishops was not lawfull, unless it were with the con sent of the people, and then also there was not that wary limitation of diocess in those times, nor such great revenues allowed with them. Our British bishops being called to the council of Ariminium, anno 359, they had not wherewithall to defray the charges of the journey, but were fedd and lodged upon the emperor's cost; and there also were the presbiters and deacons, fellow counsellors and fellow benchers with the bishops, without whose consent the bishops would not doe The court of Rome, in the time of one any thing. There remains a glimpse of JOHN EVELYN. XXXV. PAPAL USURPATIONS. this this truth even in the centre of Rome it self, for the Pope himself performeth all ecclesiastical jurisdiction as in consistory among hie cardinalls, which were origi nally but the parish priests of Rome. XL. ANCIENT TITHES. No tithe was anciently paid for any wood by our common law, untill the constitution of Winchelsea; and then the clergie and other ecclesiastical persons persuaded the laity to the payment of them, alledging that the great plague that then infected them was inflicted by God on this nation for their neglect in the payment of those tithes. XLI. KING JOHN. The Wordes of Fealty made by Kinge John to the Pope, anno Domini 1213. Jo hani regni 14. 529 the act herewith sent unto your lordship may appear. And further, for that we finde not only great expence of venison to have been in taverns and alehouses, both also very many and greate enormities both of drunkennesse, seditious rumours, unthrifty assemblies, incontinencie, and other evilles, to growe of inordinate resorting to tavernes and tipling houses, specially by the meaner sort; we have sort meanes to redresse such disorders by restrayning the drinking and eating in such howses. The form of this act, which we herewith send to your lordship, hath been considered by me, the mayor, and all my brethren, the aldermen, and by a great number of the discretest comoners, to whom the same hath been committed, and in our and their opinions, and generally of good citizens, verie well thought of; so, as we intend to procede with offering it to the Comon Council, if your lordship have liking thereof, which John, by the grace of God, Kinge of England, and Lord of Ireland, from this hower forwards, shall be faithfuli to God and to St. Peter, and to the church of Rome, and to my lord Pope Innocentius, and to his successors lawfully entering; it shall not be in word nor deed, in consente or counsell, that they should loose life, or member, or be apprehended in evil manner. Their losse, if I may know it, I shall prevent and stay, soe far as I shall be able; or else soe shortly as I can, I shall signify unto them, and declare to such person, the which I shall believe will declare the same unto them. The counsell which they shall commit to me by themselves, their messenger, or letters, I shall keepe secret, and not utter to any man to their hurt, to my knowledge. The patrimonie of St. Peter, and especially the kingdom of England and Ireland, I shall endeavour myselfe to defende against all men to my power. help me God, and his holy evangelists, Amen. Soe your allowance we thoughte meete herein to have respect unto, not only for your lordship's good advice, which we humbly beseeche you to give us; but also for thatwithout your good meanes for come like order in St. Martin's and Westminster, and other exempt and adjoining places, it is by many citizens thought that our proceeding here will lack a great part of the fruite that is hoped to ensue thereby. For which cause we have both sent your lordship the bill, and this bearer, our officer, entrusted in that mater to at-` tend upon your lordship, for your good pleasure, how your wisdome will advise us for direction in this behalfe, which we beseech you that it will please you to impart unto us when we shall be redy to follow the same. And so we comit your good lordship to the tuition of Almighty God. Your lordship's humble Our duty to your lordship humbly done. It may please the same to be aduertised, that for avoyding the excessive spending of venison and other vitail in the halles of this citie, which we understand to have been offensive to her majestie and the nobilitie, we have by act of Comon Council forbidden suche festes hereafter to be kept, and have restrayned the same only to necessarie metings, in which also no venison is permitted, as by the copie of LIONEL DUCKETT, mayor. } aldermen. At London, this 5th of August, 1573. Title of the Grant of an Earl of Warwick A graunte of Ambrose Erle of Warwick, to Thomas Atkinson, gent. of the office of Keeper of the Sworde called Guie of Warwick's Sworde, duringe his life, with a yearlie annuitie; 31. 10s. yearly to be paid at or Lady Day and Michmas, issu ing out of landes and revenues in the countie of Warwick. XLIV. ANCIENT TENURES. Before the conquest, the king's tenants, who who held their lands of the crown, paid only victuals, wheat, beefs, mutions, hay, oats, &c. and a just note of the quality and quantity of every man's ratement was taken through all the shires of the kingdom, and levied ever certain for the maintenance of the king's household; other ordinary incomes of ready money was there none, but what was raised by inuicts out of cities and castles, where agriculture was not used: these provisions in kind were after, in the time of Henry I. rated to certain prices, and received in money by the consent of the state, because of the king's long being in Normandy. Our ancestors had only two kinds of tenures, Boke-land and Folk-land; the one was a possession by writing, the other without. That by writing was as freehold, and by charter hereditary, with all immunities, and for the free and nobler sort: that without writing was to hold at the will of the lord, bound to rents and services, and was for the rurall people. The inheritances descended not alone, but after the German manner, equally divided amongst all the children which they called Landskiftan, or Parta land, a custom yet continued in some places in Kent, by the name of Gavelkin, or Grif-eal Kin. Such as were tenants at the will of their lords, (their number being grown greater by the Norman conquest,) the conqueror, upon their petitioning, relieved. Their case was this, all such as were discovered to have had a hand in any rebellion, & were pardoned only to enjoy the benefit of life, having all their livelihood taken from them, became vassals unto these lords, to whom the possessions were given of all such lands forfeited by attainders; and, if by their diligent services they could attain any portion of ground, they held it so long as it pleased their lords, and were often times violently cast out upon any small displeasure; where upon it was ordained, that whatsoever they had obtained of their lords, by their obsequious service, or agreed for by any lawful pact, they should hold by an invi olable law during their lives. XLV. SIR W. CECIL. Sir William Cecil's Directions to his Lady, while in Prison on Lady Jane Grey's Account, and he expected to suffer Death June 13, 1553. Firste, That she fear and love God, spend hir tyme as muche as she may in studying and redinge the Scripture. Item, That she help my son (as she may) to some learninge, and to be a schol lar in some place of the universitie until! he be 17 or 18 years old, and then to be a common lawyer, or brought up with a common lawyer. Item, That she mourns not for me, al. though, to respect of the world, I dye with adversity, for in the grace of God my trust is to dye in the faith of the gos pel, like a chastened child of Almighty God; and therefore during my adversity before my death, let hir earnestly pray for me that I may have patience in God's visitation, and so shall we mete in the day of the Lord, when our joy shall be greater then thought of my creatio can coceave. Item, If she meane to marrye, let hir marry with such a one as hath a true judgment in religion. Item, Let her assure all my friends that my renouncing of all the world's fortunes is to save my conscience cleare, which hath in public service suffered many torments; and to be a freeman before the sight of God, I am content to be a bondman to the world. These things, my good wife, do I utter, being well strengthened in mynd by Christ, after long consultation betwixt God and my conscience, and seeing greate perills threatened uppon us by the lyknes of the tyme, I do make choise to avoyd the perill of God's displeasure. XLVI. LISTS OF SCOTCH AND LANCASHIRE REBELS IN 1745. English Rebel Officers in the Manchester Regiment, taken at Carlisle. Colonel Francis Townley, of Lancashire. Captains John Sanderson, of Northumber Stewart's. At Brampton, near Carlisle. 21. Quarter-master Harvey. John Robottom. Philip Hunt. Valentine Holi. Alexander Anderson. 30. George Hamilton. At Penrith. Alex. M'Grouther, of Perthshire, in Nov. 2. Andrew Swan. the Duke of Perth's. Thomas Park, Lawrence Mercer. At Carlisle. 4. Sir Archibald Primrose. Moleneaux Eaton. Patrick Murray. John Wallace. Alexander Stephenson. At York, 8. David Row. 15. James Ried. At Kennington Common. 28. *Sir JOHN WEDDERBurn. Colonel Hamilton. 531 * Sentence of death being passed upon this rebel, the Judges all agreed he was by far the most audacious villain they ever saw since they had sat upon the bench. Twenty-one other rebels received sentence at the same time with this convict, out of whom the above five only were executed. 3 U Beheaded |