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trust that each fresh unavoidable transfer of this immortal and inesti mable Novel, like a new link added to a strongly connected chain, may serve only to bind in still closer ties of cordialamity those illustrious Worthies who shall be the proprietors thereof from age to age, till (at length) resembling the fabled golden everlast ing chain of Jove, in Homer, it shall clasp and hold in its extensive em brace the earth, and main, and heaven!"Quid plura ? Thunders of rapturous applause ensued, and the delighted Orator re-seated himself amidst the cheers and hums of the assembly. " \pm[t」 !ii% ཞཀྟ་

Childe Rodd first bade 100 Childe Tripebook next tendered 2604; then came swiftly on the tug of mimic wars and the bloodless battle coorteously raged with great spirit, in utter uncertainty, valiant Longimani knights, from Paternos ter-row, bare off the glorious meed their last bidding being 875 guineas, i. e. 9187. 15s.-This book cost the Duke of Roxburghe but 100% For it, exactly seven years ago, the present Duke of Marlborough gave 2,2601. It seems agreed, that the now adventurous purchasers have bought the same bona fide on specu lation. Although, at one time of the sale, the Earl Spencer did actually spur in among the champions, and sportively break one lance in person, yet Childe Robert Tripehook, a preux chevalier from Bond-street, of no du bious fame, remained the last bold opponent of the Longimani, unhorsed. Mirabile dictu! The redoubtable Roxburghe phalanx, headed by their chiefs, Messrs. Bolland, Dibdin, Drury, and Heber, displayed their wonted prowess and skill in arms during best part of the shews but most mysteriously abstained, ONE AND ALI, from any share whatever in this final GRAND ASSAULT: merely pacing their chargers slowly up and down the outskirt of the lists, to keep the ground for the successful Longimani, Earl 98**** supposed efficient representatives. b. hid am, Sir, yours to comniand, edge on beg A QUIET LOOKER-ON, 19 W. B. dire que VEE Newgate-street, June TIL

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edition of Hudibras," without the name of the Editor or Publisher being giver, we are apprehensive it may be mistaken for the Edition we are now publishing, and may cause a very erroneous impression respecting it, in the minds of the Public. We trust you will do us the justice to state that the edition criticized in your columns is not the one published by,

Yours, &c. C. and A. H. BALDWYN.

***We readily assure our Readers of the accuracy of the above statement. The Edition criticized by our Correspondent is printed for Thomas M'Lean, bookseller and publisher. EDIT. et mon aviselivni to snosib m diegos tent is gonebro gailseg COLLEGIATE SCHOOLS. I (Continued from ph417.99 Mira URBAN, 010 Crosby-square, June 15. AM enabled to make the following additions to communication of the 4th ult.

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MANCHESTER, The Collegiate Church of Manches ter was founded in the reign of Henry V., was re-endowed by Queen Mary, and finally regulated by King Charles,

The Establishment includes a Warden, four Fellows, two Chaplains..or Vicars, four Clerks, and four Choris ters. The Warden and Fellows are not confined to any particular class. in their selection of boys, the Statutes. requiring only that they should have Musical talents.

The excellent Free School for English and

Oldham, is open to their instruc am, Latin, founded by Bishop tion; but the School in the Church yard is not now a Grammar School The Choristers receive annually 51. from the College, and one penny each from the Marriages, which averages to each boy about three shillings weekly; so that their income will be about five shillings per week.

WINDSOR The Choristers of this Collegiate Church have been honoured in an especial degree by Royal attention.

The Statutes of the founder, King Edward III. in addition to the Dean, Canons, Priest-vicars, and Clerks, appoint six Choristers who have been instituted of the Clerical order fo and six juuior boys to succeed them

Statutes of Windsor, MS. Baker in Bibl. Harl. 7049. Ashmole's History of Windsor College.

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as vacancies occur. One of the most skilful of the Priest-vicars is to be selected for their careful instruction in Grammar and Music. Henry IV. and Edward IV. added to their number and endowment. In the 16th century the Choristers' School was newly modelled by the Royal Commission ers under Edward VI. They enjoin that 10 Choristers shall be found in the College; that one of the Priests, or Clerks, shall be annually chosen to instruct them diligently in the Catechism, in the principles of Grammar, and in Writing, and also to superintend their manners. He is also freely to teach, at the least, ten other children, if they resort unto him.

The Grammar Master is to attend them four hours daily. The rest of the day the Teacher of Music shall teach the Choristers to sing, and to play upon instruments. The Dean, and every Prebendary, may command the said Teachers to bring the children before them, that they may be heard and tried, whether they profit in Grammar and Music as they ought to do. The Commissioners also enjoin that every Chorister, whose voice shall change, shall have five marks yearly for his exhibition, towards his find

ing at Grammar School, for the space of four years, if he be apt, and will diligently apply himself to learn.

On a subsequent Visitation in the same reign, the Dean and Chapter are required to have the School House repaired at the College charge, for the accommodation of both the School

masters and their pupils. M. H.

Mr. URBAN,

June 16.

BY way of helping a Correspondent (see p. 420) out of a difficulty by which he feels himself surrounded, in a passage from Plutarch's treatise "De tuendâ bonâ valetudine," I beg leave to refer him to the following passage in the third chapter of the second book of Xenophon's Anabasis: -Elavba xxι TOV εγκέφαλον τοῦ Φοίνικος πρῶτον ἔφαγον οἱ στρατιῶται, και οἱ πολλοι εθαύμαζον το τε είδος και την ιδιοτητα τῆς ἡδονῆς, ην δε σφοδρα και τουλο κεφαλαλγες. ὁ δὲ Φοινιξ, όθεν εξαιρεθεση ο εγκέφαλος, όλος Tavasyslo. Here also, for the first time, the soldiers ate the pulp, which is procured from the head of the date

palm-tree; and many were struck both with its appearance and peculiar sweetness. This, too, as well as the fruit, caused violent head-ache. But the tree from which the pulp had been extracted, withered entirely." The liquid substance found in the head of the date-tree may, perhaps, be more properly called a syrup than a pulp, for it is the sap which, after rising to the top, is inspissated by evaporation. The following quotation from Martyn's edition of Miller's "Gardener's Dictionary," under the article Phoenix dactylifera, at the same time that it coufirms and illustrates Xenophon's account, will give your Correspondent a satisfactory description of the mode in which this syrup is procured;

cured by cutting off the head or crown "The juice of the date-tree is proof the more vigorous plant, and scooping the top of the trunk into the shape of a basin, where the sap, in ascending, lodges itself at the rate of three or four quarts a day, during the first week or fortnight; after which the quantity daily diminishes, and at the end of six weeks or two months, the tree becomes dry, and serves for timber or fire wood. This liquor, which has a more luscious sweetness than honey, is of the consist

ence of a thin syrup, but quickly becomes tart and ropy, acquiring an intoxicating quality, and giving, upon distillation, an agreeable spirit, or Ar'aky, which is the general name for all hot liquors extracted by the alembick."

To the Correspondent who is amusing your Readers with a dissertation on Signs, I take this opportunity of suggesting one, with which he may not, perhaps, be acquainted, viz. "the Pig and Carrot," which I met with some years ago at Newport in the Isle of Wight. The association not being unnatural, I thought no more about the sign, till I happened to meet with one of the Pig and Chequers" at Godmanchester, "when it occurred to me that both might sign, " Pique et Carreau,” in English probably be corruptions of a French

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Spade and Diamond." In the first instance, a total change has taken place, not only of the name, but of the sign; while in the second, the "Diamond" remains, after having a sumed the name of the "Chequers." Yours, &c.

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Mr. URBAN,

May 18. N your Magazine for January last (p. 9.) is a view of Beminster Chapel, co. Dorset. As a companion to it, I now solicit your insertion of the Church of Netherbury (see Platel.) · with which Beminster is connected as to ecclesiastical matters, though in all other respects a distinct parish.

Netherbary is one of the largest parishes in Dorsetshire, being six miles and a half long from North to South. There are three manors belonging to three prebends in the Church of Salisbury, Netherbury in Ecclesia, Netherbury in Terra or Yondover, and Slape; the prebendaries being lords of the manor.

Netherbury is divided in four tithings; Ashe, Bowood, Melplash, and Netherbury; containing within them no less than 33 farms, or hamlets.

There is a Free-school in this parish, the founder of which is not known;

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but the funds are employed pursuant to au award made 3 Jan. 7 Elizabeth. Iu 1796, the master received 421. per annum. This foundation is not noticed by Mr. Carlisle, in his "Endowed Grammar Schools.".

The Church of Netherbury is a large and handsome fabrick ; situated on an eminence at the extreme part of the parish, bordering on Bewinster. It is supposed to be dedicated to the Virgin Mary, on whose nativity, Sept. 8, is the annual feast or wake. It consists of a chancel, body, and North and South ailes. The tower is high, and large, containing six bells, a clock, and chimes. There are no very interesting memorials within the Church. The epitaphs are recorded in the new edition of Hutchins's "History of Dorsetshire,” vol. 1.; in which work a full account of this extensive parish may be found. Yours, &c.

COMPENDIUM OF COUNTY HISTORY.

N. R. S.

ADDITIONS TO CUMBERLAND, Vol. LXXXVI. Part ii. page 599.` (Concluded from page 405.)

1811. Gilsland ravaged by Robert Bruce King of Scotland.

1314. Kirk-oswald burnt and Lanercost pillaged by the Scots under Edward Bruce, brother of the King.

1815. During the siege of Carlisle, St. Bees monastery, with the manor houses of Cleator and Stainburn, destroyed by the Scots.

1819. Gilsland laid waste by the Scots under James Douglas and Thomas Randolph.

1322. Rose castle and Wigton town burnt, and Holme Cultram abbey, where his father was buried, destroyed by Robert Bruce King of Scotland, who devastated the Western side of this county to Duddon sands.

1328. At Carlisle, Andrew de Hercla, Earl of Carlisle and Lord Warden of the Marches, accused of a treasonable correspondence with the Scots, arrested by Lord Lucy, and beheaded.

1332. At Carlisle, Edward Baliol the fugitive King of Scotland, entertained by Lord Dacre the governor.

1337. At Arthuret the Scots entered England, destroyed 20 villages, and carried off a great booty. In another incursion they burnt Rose castle, the hospital of St. Nicholas, and the suburbs of Carlisle.

1342. Penrith and several neighbouring villages burnt by the Scots. 1345. Penrith town burnt by the Scots under Sir William Douglas, who besieged Carlisle, and set fire to the suburbs; but on his retreat to Scotland was overtaken and defeated by Kirby Bp. of Carlisle and Sir Robert Ogle. 1346. Liddel castle taken by assault, its, governor Sir Walter Selby bebeaded, and Lanercost priory plundered, by David Bruce King of Scotland. 1380. Penrith, during a truce, treacherously surprised by the Scots, who slew many of the inhabitants, and carried off numerous prisoners and a great booty as it was a fair day in that town. These marauders also set fire to a street in Carlisle.

1383. Holme Cultram abbey saved from burning by the Abbot paying the sum of 2007. to the Earl of Douglas, commander of the Scots. 1385. Carlisle unsuccessfully besieged by the French and Scots. GENT. MAG. June, 1819.

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