being once admitted into the same society, they may obtain pardon of all their sinnes past, at the hour of their death, saying or but thinking on the name of Jesus, Mary, Joseph, they are actually pardoned, and free from the paines of purgatory; which otherwise, had they not beene of this society, they should have endured. a "With one of the aforesaid graines, saying Ave Maria, they may, by the virtue of each, deliuer soule from purgatory. Besides, on the day any that are in this sodality estabushit their sins are remitted, swearing fidelity, and stiling themselves the Virgin's slaucs. On this manner each Sunday, between seven and eight they spend their time, and they all go to masse, and receive the communion; thence to breakefast, after to study, whereas be fore, they busie themselves in reading diuine stories til dinner; anon after din ner to their church where they sing vespres and letanies to our lady for England's conuersion, hauing written on their church and colledge doores in great golden letters, Jesu, Jesu, conuerte Angliam, fiat, fiut. These are only the outsides of their profession: but now will 1 rippe up the very bowels of these treacherous glosing fathers: first, those schollars who are nobly descended and of rich parentage, they strive to allure by their honied words and flattered in bracings, endowing them with pictures, beads, meddals, agnus dei, which they have from Rome. Also that their baits may take effect, they licence them to participate of all those wines and jun. cates, prouided for their own pallates, and if white boys of a comely feature, they bestow on them (though ill-deserving) the preheminence of the schsoles. And with these is the prefect of musick most recreated, reading to them Quid, Hor. Catull, and Propertius." -From page 11 to 19. "As for their religion, they make it a cloake for their wickedness, being most of them atheists, or very bad christians; these are they that observe these ten commandments which follow: 1. To seek riches and wealth. 4. To be still jocund and merry. 8. To make a slaue of their ghostly child. 10. To govern their neighbour's wife. These commandements they diuide into two parts: all for me, and nothing for thee."-From page 27 to 28, In 1622, our author obtained leave to go from St. Omer's to Spain, which be did, he says, (page 31) in a ship that had taken" a false certification from the governor of Calais that the ship and goods belonged thereunto. In their voyage they had an engagement with a pirate, which I shall give, as describing a sea-fight of that era, in his own words: This ship was of an one hundred tunne burthen, carrying twelve pieces of ordnance, forty men besides passengers, one chirurgion and two trumpetcers. And we departed with seuen other ships in the company, and having sailed to the promantery called Fines Terræ, upon the coast of Galisia, we descried a ship coming from the coast of Portugall, which took his course aside of us; at last we perceiving hee discerned our French colours, we forthwith made towards him, who put out the States colours, but we supposing him to be a pyrate of Algier, Sally, or Rochell, is would not be amisse to board him, being so near the coast of Spaine, not doubt ing within a few houres to take him, to which end the admirall, with the other five being all French, joyned himselfe to the vice-admirall, being the strongest of the company, they were conceited it were best to let him goe; but the viceadinirail, desirous to contest with them, preparing himselfe for to fight, launching forth his boate, charging his artillery, muskets, and murthering pieces, laying his traines of powder, nayling vp his decks, crossing the hatches with cables, and hanging his grappling chaine on the maine mast; which done, the captaine of the vice-admirall Jaques Banburge by name, began to encourage his marmers, telling how easy it was for seuen to take one, not thinking the supposed pyrate to have had above thirty men, aud ten pieces of ordnance, whereupon the rest gathering together, resolved that the admirall should make the first onset, and the vicc-admirall the second, and the rest in their order; but the Hollander discerning us to be French, made up baste to escape us, and hauing gotten the winde made towards us, with a desire to get some provision of vs for his money, * Grose (Milt Antiq. i. 493) has Murtberers chambered pieces of cannon, much used in small forts, and on shipboard. An oid dictionary of teclinical terms has, Mardering shot to clear the decks when men enter. and and we towards him, which seeing, he hung out a flag of truce, but our admirall saluted him with two pieces of orduance, our vice-admirall with four, and the rest in their order came on, which he valiantly withstood, putting forth on each side some fourteen brasse pieces of ordnance, not having before out above four or five, his burden being some two hundred tunne, with one hundred and fifty men and five trumpeteers, who turning about, gave us two broadsides with his ordnance, shoot.ng three or four of our ships through and throughout. Our admiral and the other Frencu ships seeing themselves deceiued, and that he was no pyrate, but a statesman of warre, fled, leauing our vice-admirall engaged in the fight. The vice-admirall seeing how the case stood, said unto us twelve, that we were now to die with honour, or suruive with infamy, and because we were young and unexpert in sea-fight, to encourage the better, made vs drink each one of vs a good draught of aqua vitæ with gunpowder; this done, he enjoyned his marriners to play on them with small shot, but they replying so stoutly, made our marriners quickly quit the hatches, and fly to their ordnance underneath, as their best defence, whereupon we killed the master of their ship, which their captaine perceiving, discharged more eagerly, and with the shot took off the sterne of our ship, which our captain perceiuing, grew desperate, euen some times minded to blow vp the ship; in twelve shootes more they strooke downe our maine-mast, and killed our chirurgion, who newly was come up from onder the lowermost deckes, and saying these words, Si Deus nobiscum, quis contra nos, was slaine on a sudden with a common bullet, and hauing one hand on my shoulder, pulled mee downe along with him, his blood streaming out upon me. "And thus, after seven houres fight, they boarded vs with fire and sword, massacring all those that came first to their hands, and after they had cleared the decks they desisted.”— From p. 51 to 33. The Dutchmen then shifted the pri soners to a Hamburgher, which was taken by the Moors of Sally. The stare of the slaves he thus describes: vere "This Morisco carried me to his house, where fettering one my legs with an irone chain, and cloathing me with a canuas suite, laid these iniunctions vpon me: first he gaue me charge of his stable, and then to grind at his hand mill, and to draw water at the fountaine, with many others of the like nature. The victuals he gave me were grenas, cabbage, and goat-flesh; as for my lodging it was in a dungeon, in the market-place, where they vse commonly to lodge their slaues, who repaire there every night about eight of the clocke, their masters manilting their hands before for feare they should make an insurrection, the number being about eight hundred; being Spaniards, Frenchmen, English, Italians, Portugals, and Flemmish; our beds were, nothing but rotten straw, laid on the ground, and ouer couerlets, peeces of old sailes full of mil lions of lice and fleas, being constrained to put back to back, and rub out the paine; about five of the clock in the morning, the doore being opened, we repaire to our masters houses, and so to our wonted worke."-From page 37 to S8. The remainder of the author's history is, that he escaped from Africa to Spain, where he obtained an appointment under his catholic majesty; but, through reading the Scriptures, detected the errors of the Romish church, and going into France, emigrated from thence to Eng land, where he became a protestant, Extracts from the Portfolio of a Man of Letters. PALM-SUNDAY. IDDLETON, in his Letter from procession on Palm-sunday was a rite borrowed from the worshippers of Serapis. It was Origen who introduced it into the christian church. He is said to have presented palm branches to the adorers of the Egyptian idol on their favourite holiday, (Epiphanius, lib. ii. hæres. 64,) saying: "Take the leaves, not of the image, but of Christ." The priests and votaries of Serapis; and were therefore the more inclined to coalesce in any innocent observance of that form of worship. In a letter of the emperor Hadrian, preserved by Vopiscus, it is said: Illi, qui Serapin colunt, Christiani sunt SERTORIUS 1810.] Extracts from the Port folio of a Man of Letters. 567 SERTORIUS. Sertorius is described by Plutarch, as imagining the first emigrations America. When Sertorius, (says he, to vol. iii. p. 313,) fearing the might of Sylla, Red to Africa, and thence to Spain, he met with Andalusian shippers, who were just returned from the Fortunate Islands. Thereupon he felt a vio lent desire to go and reside in those regions, where he might dwell in peaceful independence, escaped from tyranny and warfare. MEDLARS. The medlar, or mespilus germanica, is rarely praised as a dainty, but is preferred when slightly tainted by frost. It requires a Dutch palate to relish med lars; for Linnæus, in his Academic Amenities, says, that they pass for delicacies in Holland; and, a Dutch traveller to Surinam, (Fermin, vol. i. p. 176,) vaunts, as an exquisite fruit, the scarlet medlars of Guyana. TOMB OF EZECHIEL. Benjamin of Tudela says, that within a few leagues of Bagdad, exists a superb mausoleum, containing a valuable library, which is still called the tomb of Ezechiel, and is visited not only by Jew. ish, but by Christian and Mahometan pilgrims. SALVATION OF SOCINIANS. Basnage, (Histoire des Juifs, lib. iv. c. xxix.) quotes certain Rabbees who allow, that Serveto and the Antitrinitarians may be saved; but who maintain, that there is no chance of escaping dam nation in the next world, for those Christians who have thrust a strolling physician into the throne of the Almighty. BON-MOT OF TASSO. The exemplary virtue and chastity of Laura towards Petrarch, drew the following bon-mot from Alex. Tasso: "That Petrarch enjoyed her as do the drugs of an apothecary, by licking the outsides of the bottles."-Mem. Vie. Pet. vol. ii. p. 478. SINGULAR EXTRACT FROM A WILL. rats Thomas Cumberworth, kut. of the diocese of Lincoln, by his last will, made in the year 1450, thus provides for his funeral: Furst, I gyf my sawle to Gode my Redemptur, and my wretchid bodie to be bery'd in a chitte without any kyste, (that is, a shroud without any coffin,) in the north yle of the paryshe kirke of Somerethy.-Er. Mram. Lum. Episc. Linc. SCOTTISH OATH. to Skene, was formerly in use in Scot land, and taken by their assisers or jurors: "We shall leil suith say, And no suith conceal, for nothing we may, SPANISH INDOLENCE. Voiture, in a letter to a friend, says: "I have no other excuse to make for the length of time I've been a writing to you contracted that of the country where I than indolence; for besides my own, I've am, which surpasses, without doubt, all conspicuous in the Spaniards that no the kingdoms of Europe for laziness; so constraint whatever will oblige them to doors, and when it rains, those who sweep away the dust from their own carry bread from Madrid to the villages, will not go, although they were sure of getting double the price. plenty in t'astile, they will not take the is dear in Andalusia, and there is a When the corn trouble to fetch it, though they are liter ally starving at home for want: if a countryman has here a hundred acres of land, he will badly cultivate fifty of them, thinking it enough, leaving the other half uncultivated. Their vines grow spontaneous of themselves, without being they have nothing at all to do: the fertitaken care of, though at the same time lity of the land is so great in Spain, that they seldom plough more than four inches deep; yet some reports say, the increase is as eighty to one; nevertheless, they are poor in the midst of abundance, in one of the finest states of Europe: the thing but a set of rogues and vagabonds." reason of which is, because they are no A SPANISH PROVERB. 66 In a little old book, without date, A CURIOUS SHIELD. Alphonso, duke of Calabria, made a The following singular oath, according to admonish him with a due respect 2 toward toward his parents, as the storks are said ferred.) The same sum the next year, to hear their ancient parents on their back, and to take care and feed them when grown helpless by age: the third was a tortoise, with Domum procura; the emblem of the tortoise carrying its house along, to remind him of his duty to his as a provident master: the fourth was a dolphin, with Officiis vaca; because the dolphin is said to be the most friendly of all fishes, and their sporting and playing in the sea is said to predict a tempest. Around all these the following motto was engraved, Celer Virtutis Cursus; to remind him of the uncertainty of life, thereby to make the most of a promising long life -Campof, lib. 8. SIR THOMAS WHITE. The muniticent charitable donations, of this worthy man, who was lord mayor of London at the commencement of queen Mary's reign, deserve to be recalled to remembrance, although I beJieve the benefits arising from most of his bequests have gone into far different channels than those in which he endea voured to direct them. He was avowedly the patron and protector of scholars, and founded St. John's college at Oxford, which he endowed with several considerable manors, and at his decease left three thousand pounds to increase its revenues. He also founded schools at Bristol and Reading, and reserved two tellowships at St. John's for natives of each of these places. He gave during his life two thousand pounds to the city of Bristel, to purchase lands of the yearly value of one hundred and twenty pounds, for which it was agreed that the mayor and corporation of that city in 1567, and the ten ensuing years, should sum of one hundred pounds, which having for that time been allowed to accumulate, was to be thus expended: Eight hundred pounds to be divided in Joans without interest, among sixteen young clothiers, freemen of that city, for ten years, upon sufficient security, at the end of which time that sum to be lent to such other persons as the desire of the mayor, aldermen, and four of the common-council, shall point out. The remaining two hundred to be expended in the purchase of corn, to be sold to the At the expiration poor at prime cost. of nine years, at the feast of St. Bartholomew, be directed that one hundred and four pounds should be paid to the mayor and corporation of the city of York, to be lent by them to four young freemen of that city, (clothiers always to be pre pay the on the same conditions, to the city of Canterbury; the next to Reading; the next to the Merchant Taylors' company, the next to the city of Glocester; and is to proceed, year by year, to Worcester, Exeter, Salisbury, Norwich, Southamp ton, Lincoln, Winchester, Hereford, Oxford, Cambridge, Shrewsbury, Linn, Bath, Derby, Ipswich, Colchester, Newcastle, and then to begin again at Bristol, and to proceed annually to the other places for ever. He also gave to the mayor and corporation of Coventry, the sum of two thousand and sixty pounds, for the purchase of lands, the rents of which, after the deduction of an annuity of forty pounds to St. John's college, were to be thus appropriated: Twelve poor men were to receive an annual donation of two pounds, and a free loan of ten pounds a year was to be granted to four young men, for nine years; at the end of which time this benefit was to be conditionally enjoyed by the towns of Northampton, Leicester, Nottingham, and Warwick. The master and warden of the Merchant Taylors' company were his executors; and for the performance of their trust, forty shillings a year was bequeathed them. To the mayor, recorder, and ten aldermen of the city of Coventry, six and eight-pence each for ever, for their trouble; and to the stew. ard and town-clerk, for bonds, &c. twenty shillings annually, so that no charge might be made to those who received his bounty. DR. LODGE. Thomas Lodge, M.D. who was one of the numerous versifiers that graced “the golden days of good queen, Bess," ac quired some reputation as a writer of songs, odes, and madrigais. The following lines, which are a fair specimen of the poetical taste of the times, are se lected from his Euphine's Golden Le gacy: Of all chaste birds the phoenix doth excel, Of all sweet flowers the rose doth sweetest Of all fair maids my Rosalinde is fairest, of 1810.] Original Poetry. Of all her gifts her wisdom pleaseth most, CURIOUS EXTRACT FROM STOW. Although human credulity is very liable to imposition, and a distempered imagination ever on the wing for "tales of wonder," yet circumstances of a most improbable nature do sometimes occur, stamped with such marks of authenticity, as the most sceptical must give credence to. Such I conceive to be the following singular account, a of March, (1586,) strange thing happened; master Doring ton, of Spaldwickt, in the county of Huntingdon, esquire, one of her majesties gentleman pentioners, had a horse which died sodainly, and being repped to see the cause of his death, there was found in the hole of the heart of the same horse, a strange worm, which lay on a round heap in a call or skinn, of the likeness of a toad, which being taken out and spread abroad, was in form and fashion not easie to be described; the length of which worm, divided into many graines, to the number of fifty, (spread from the body like the branches of a tree) was, from the snout to the end of the longest grain, seventeen inches, having four issues in the graines, from whence dropped forth a red water; the body in biguess round was about three inches and a halfe, the coloure whereof was very like to a mackarell. This monstrous worm, found in manner aforesaid, crawling to have got away, was stabbed in with a dagger and died, which after being dried, was shewed to many honour able persons of the realme. ORIGINAL POETRY. ADVICE TO THE M-D BD. OF HIS POETICAL WORKS. EDITION "Lintot (dull rogue) will think your price Unless you well revise 'em and retouch." POPE. Dead expletives invite a flagrant tomb; Will please all senses by their charmful pow'rs; But think not tameness is simplicity, THE BROKEN REED. BESIDE the sedgy banks of Can, There mark the rippling water glide, Along its winding way. At such a time, in such a mood, An object caught my view;" Drew from my cogitative mind To those experience taught; That rectified the thought. For now the wind, both rough and rude, Its |