་ leave labour and fall to idleness; with consideration also specially to be had of them, which by weakness of their limbs and body be so impotent that they cannot labour; and by no means let such alms be given to valiant, mighty, and idle beggars and vagabonds, as commonly use to resort about such places; which rather, as drove-beasts and my chers, should be driven away and compelled to labour, than in their idleness and lewdness, against the form of the king's grace's statute in this behalf made, cherished, and main tained, to the great hindrance and damage of the common weal, Also, that all other almses or distributions due, or accustomed to be made, by reason of the foundation, statutes, or customs of this place, be made and given, as largely and as liberally as ever they were at any time heretofore. Also, that the abbot, prior, or president, shall find wood and fuel sufficient to make fire in the refec tory, from All-hallow-even to GoodFriday. Sir Philip Sydney's Funeral, (Extracted from the Book of Funerals of Nicholas Dethick, Windsor Herald, son of Sir Gilbert Dethick, Garter King at Arms.) From an original MS. in the Possession of the Marquis of Buckingham. The order of the funeral of Sir Phillipp Sydney, knight, L. governor of Flushing, whose funeral was solemnised in Powles, the 16 of February, 1586, and the proceading from sir Wm. Pellam's house thorough London. John Davis: The 2 conductors } John Duff. Gents. of Greyes Inne, 2 by 2. Tow sargents for the horsemen, } Covered with black beyes. In a cloth mandilion or cassock. John Thomas: Henry Powell. The drummes and fyfes, } 4 The ensigne barer,} Henry Whitton. The lieutenant of the horsemen, } Mr. Thebauld. Trompets, 4, allowed black cloth cassocks. The gydon, } William Bulstrod, in a black velvet cassock, Robert Snowe. Thelieutenant for the horsemen, } Mr. Crispè. Servangs Servants to the deffunct in black robes. The Surgion, Wm. Kelly. Towe chaplins.} Mr. Payne. Mr. Styte. A page, riding on the horse for the feld, baring the broken staff in a black velvet cassock. The bard horse, Daniel Bacheler, baring the ax or velvet cassock. Henry Davers. septer, in a black Windsor and Chester kept the The great banner, capitaine Whytt. churche, and placed all as they came in, divers of the Qn'. Mags garde and of my L. of Lester's men with their halberds to kepe the dores, and at the corpse coming to the west end, was gave this watch word, "Open, the sourc fruit is "come." Officers of armes. Blue mantell bare the gauntlete. creast. Richemond bare the sword and the The erle of Lecester. Long black robes. The erle of Essex. The L. North. the erle of Honntington. Then the States of Holland, in long black robes. Then the sword bearer. Then the L. mayor in blacke. Then the pykemen and halberdyers. The said Sir Phillipp was slaine with a musket shot in his thigh, and decesed at Arnim, beyond scas, the of October, 1586, and was hurt the of September in the said yeare; whose corpse was, the 4 of November, brought up the river of Themmes in his barke, all blacke sayles, masts, yardes, &c. with black auncient stremers of black silk, and the said ship was hanged all with blacke bayes, and scochions thereon on past bord, (with his and his wyfes in pale, helme and crest); in the cabin where he lay was the corpse covered with a pall of blacke velvet, escochions thereon, his helmet, armes, sworde, and gauntlette on the corpse. So the said Fryday at night, being the 4 of November, was brought to the Myneries to sir Wm. Pellam's, with out Algat, and there continued till the day of the funerall; the said place where the corpse remayned, was hanged downe to the ground, and all the stairs downe to the porche with black bayes, (escochions thereon,) the body was cered, lided, and coffined. The said deffunct married daughter to sir Francis Walsingham, and had issue. After the funeral was done, the lords, &c. went to the earle of Lester's house to dinner, and the heraulds had ther messe of meat in Mr. Tho. Dudley's chamb. The body was not put into the ground 'till Fryday the 14th of February, at night, by Mr. Clarencieux, the chaplin of the commons. This Valliant Knight lieth buried in Powl's church, at the stand behind the common tabell, in the walle, by 2 pillers. The day the hearse was taken downe, which was with a topp, &c. of 6 principalls, the velvet, &c. For this funerall, Mr. Clarencieux agreed for a hundred and seventy pounds. MISCELLANEOUS MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS. Two Eassys on the State of the Argument, for the Existence of a DEITY, by the late Dr. Paley. IN ESSAY. I. N crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there, I might possibly answer, that, for any thing I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever; nor would it perhaps be very easy to shew the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be enquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that, for any thing I knew, the watch might have always been there. Yet why should not this answer serve for the watch, as well as for the stone? Why is it not as admissible in the second case, as in the first? For this reason, and for no other, viz. that when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive (what we could not discover in the stone) that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose, e. g. that they are so formed and adjusted as to produce motion, and that motion so regulated as to point out the hour of the day; that, if the several parts had been differently shaped from what they are, of a different size from what they are, or placed after any other manner, or in any other order, than that in which they are placed, either no motion at all would have been carried on in the machine, or none which would have answered the use that is now served by it. To reckon up a few of the plainest of these parts, and of their offices, all tending to one result. We see a cylindrical box, containing a coiled elastic spring, which, by its endeavour to relax itself, turns round the box. We next observe a flexible chain, (artificially wrought for the sake of flexure,) communi cating the action of the spring from the box to the fusee. We then find a series of wheels, the teeth of which catch in, and apply to each other, conducting the motion from the fusee to the balance, and from the balance to the pointer; and at the same time, by the size and shape of those wheels, so regulating that motion, as to terminate in causing an index, by an equable and measured progression, to pass over a given space in a given time. We take notice that the wheels are made of brass, in order to keep them from rust; the springs of steel, no other 3 N 2 metal metal being so elastic; that over the face of the watch there is placed a glass, a material employed in no other part of the work, but in the room of which, if there had been any other than a transparent substance, the hour could not be seen without opening the case. This mechanism being observed, (it requires indeed an examination of the instrument, and perhaps some previous knowledge of the subject, to perceive and understand it; but being once, as we have said, observed and understood,) the inference we think is inevitable; that the watch must have had a maker; that there must have existed, at some time and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers, who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use. 1. Nor would it, I apprehend, weaken the conclusion, that we had never seen a watch made; that we had never known an artist capable' of making one; that we were altogether incapable of executing such a piece of workmanship ourselves, or of understanding in what manner it was performed all this being no more than what is true of some exquisite remains of ancient art, of some lost arts, and, to the generality of mankind, of the more curious productions of modern manufacture. Does one man in a million know how oval frames are turned? Ignorance of this kind exalts our opinion of the unseen and unknown artist's skill, if he be unscen and unknown, but raises no doubt in our minds of the existence and agency of such an artist, at some former time, and in some place or other. Nor can I perceive that it varies at all the inference, whether the question arise concerning a human agent, or concerning an agent of a different species, or an agent possessing, in some respects, a different nature. 2. Neither, secondly, would it invalidate our conclusion, that the watch sometimes went wrong, or that it seldom went exactly right. The purpose of the machinery, the design, and the designer, might be evident, and in the case supposed would be evident, in whatever way we accounted for the irregularity of the movement, or whether we could account for it or not. It is not necessary that a machine be perfect, in order to shew with what design it was made: still less necessary, where the only question is, whether it were made with any design at all. 3. Nor, thirdly, would it bring any uncertainty into the argument, if there were a few parts of the watch, concerning which we could not discover, or had not yet discovered, in what manner they conduced to the general effect; or even some parts, concerning which we could not ascertain, whether they conduced to that effect in any manner whatever. For, as to the first branch of the case, if, by the loss, or disorder, or decay of the parts in question, the movement of the watch were found in fact to be stopped, or disturbed, or retarded, no doubt would remain in our minds as to the utility or intention of these parts, although we should be unable to investigate the manner according to which, or the connection by which, the ultimate effect depended upon their action or assis tance and the more complex is the machine, |