[Cromwell's dying Advice.] In a satirical account of English manners written in the assumed character of a Frenchman, 1659, (Scott's Somers' Tracts, vol. 7, p. 176,) the writer says, “how new a thing it appeared to me to see my confi-ing, whether he dreamed, or conjectured, dent host set him down cheek by joul with me, belching and puffing tobacco in my face, you may easily imagine; and that the gentlemen who lodge at their inns entertain themselves in their company, and are much pleased with their impertinences." This passage seems to prove that the writer was an Englishman, unacquainted with foreign customs. [Gold and Silver Crosses.] "GOLD and silver pendant crosses, an article of female dress disused since the latter end of Queen Anne's reign, are since the passing of the Quebec Bill, much worn by the ladies at Court."-Gospel Magazine, July, 1774. [English Politics that live only by the Day.] "I AM confident every man that thinks at all must think it were not amiss if his Majesty and his Ministers would once for all consider and agree upon a general draught of those ways and counsels, both at home and abroad, as they judge will best answer the great ends of the King and kingdom's safety, honour, and quiet. For when such a scheme is once agreed upon, all the parts of it may be pursued in their order, and with constant application, till they are brought to pass, at least such as fail not in "WHEN Cromwell found death approach -or judged from some certain symptoms that his son Richard would prove but a very weak Governor of the Commonwealth, he is said to have expressed himself in bro ken words, as if it had been revealed to him by the Lord, with whom he is said to have been very conversant, that Charles Stuart would certainly be restored to his kingdom, that he would utterly ruin the republican party, and that a dreadful storm was hanging over their heads. It is reported also, that he exhorted them as soon as the breath should be out of his body, to embark themselves on board as well-provided a fleet as ever England had fitted out, and to transport themselves to the Indies, where by preserving their lives abroad, they might be of much more service to their country, than by staying at home to be massacred by kings. But either the love of their native country, and the hopes of pardon, or the desire of ease, or a commendable affection for the royal family, restrained them from following that advice."— CUNNINGHAM'S History, vol. 1, p. 6. [Apostles' Spoons, &c.] AMONG the plate which Archbishop Parker presented to Benet College were "thirteen Spoons gilt, with Knops of Christ and his twelve Apostles; for the use of the Master and twelve Fellows for the time being, weighing 26 ounces. Qr. di. qr. “1. FIRST, let no man presume to blaspheme the Holy and Blessed Trinity, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost; nor the known Articles of our Christian Faith, upon pain to have his tongue bored with a red-hot iron. 2. Unlawful oaths and execrations, and scandalous acts in derogation of God's honour, shall be punished with loss of pay, and other punishment at discretion. 3. All those who often and wilfully absent themselves from sermons and public prayer, shall be proceeded against at discretion: and all such who shall violate places of public worship shall undergo severe censure." Lawes and Ordinances of Warre, established for the better Conduct of the Army. London, printed for John Wright, at the King's-head in the Old Bailey. [Renewal by Charles I. of Henry VII's Statute against Depopulation.] "AMONG the means to which Charles I. resorted for raising money, during the years when he governed without a Parliament, one was the enforcement of Henry the Seventh's laws against depopulation, or the converting of arable lands into pasture. The Star-Chamber, in order to terrify others into composition, fined Sir Anthony Roper £4000 for this offence, and above £30,000 were levied by this expedient."HUME, vol. 6, p. 302. [Archbishop Parker's Gift to Caius ARCHBISHOP PARKER left to Caius College one nest of gilt bowls, with a cover, all weighing forty-two ounces, qr. di. qr. And to Trinity Hall, one other nest of bowls, silver and double gilt, with their cover, forty-two ounces, di. SOBER INSPECTIONS. [Enrolment of Soldiers.] "No man that carrieth arms, and pretends to be a soldier, shall remain three days in the army without being enrolled in some company, upon pain of death.”—Lawes and Ordinances of Warre. [Former Moderation and Honesty of the House of Commons.] "SUCH was the moderation and modesty of the House of Commons in former times, that they declined the agitation and cognizance of high state affairs, specially foreign, humbly transferring them to their Sovereign and his Upper Council. A Parliament man then (I mean a member of the Commons House) thought to be the adequate object of his duty, to study the welfare, to complain of the grievances, and have the defects supplied, of that place for which he served. The bourgess of Linn studied to find out something that mought have advanced the trade of fishing; he of Norwich what mought have advantaged the making of stuffs; he of Rye what might preserve their harbour from being choked up with shelves of sand; he of Taverston what might have furthered the manufacture of kersies; he of Suffolk what conduced to the benefit of clothing; the burgesses of Cornwall what belonged to their stannaries; and in doing this they thought to have complied with the obligation and discharged the conscience of honest men, without soaring to things above their reach, and roving at random to treat of universals, to pry into arcana imperii, and bring Religion to the bar,―the one belonging to the Chief Governor and his interior Council of State, the other to Divines, who, according to the etymology of the word, use to be conversant and employ their talent in the exercise and speculations of holy and heavenly things.”—Sober Inspections into the late Long Parliament, p. 34. BACON-PAPENHEIM-SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE. [The true Way to Peace is to put out the Seeds of Sedition and Rebellion.] HENRY VII. said by his Chancellor to Parliament," that it is not the blood spilt in the field that will save the blood in the city; nor the marshal's sword that will set this kingdom in perfect peace. But the true way is, to stop the seeds of sedition and rebellion in their beginnings; and for that purpose to devise, confirm and quicken good and wholesome laws against riots and unlawful assemblies of people, and all combinations and confederacies of them, by liveries, tokens and other badges of factious dependence; that the peace of the land may by these ordinances, as by bars of iron, be soundly bound in and strengthened, and all force both in court, country and private houses be supprest."-BACON's Henry VII. p. 59. [Henry VIII's Use of secret Spialls "As for his secret spialls, which he did employ both at home and abroad, by them to discover what practises and conspiracies were against him, surely his case required it; he had such moles perpetually working and casting to undermine him. Neither can it be reprehended, for if spialls be lawful against lawful enemies, much more against conspirators and traitors. There was this further good in his employing of these flies and familiars; that as the use of them was cause that many conspiracies were revealed, so the fame and suspicion of them kept, no doubt, many conspiracies from being attempted."—Ibid. p. 246. [Bucula-Umbo clypei,-Boucle.] "BUCULA dicitur umbo clypei, istic ubi manus inserenda, convexioris. Francis nunc generice boucle protuberantia est, a Teutonico beuke, buyke, venter, concavitas, derivato nomine: unde etiam rotunda par 665 ma, quæ tota orbiculariter convexa est lateri soli pectorive tegendo, cum clypeus quadratus atque oblongus majorem corporis partem protegeret, nomen accepit, ut beukeler Teutonibus, Francis bouclier dicatur. Nec admittendus est Kilianus, qui ab hædinis pellibus quasi bouke-leer dici credit sicut Palladis ægeda finxere Græci.". Acta SS. March, tom. 3, p. 339. [Tristis-sad; their assimilated Use.] “TRISTIS, vulgato Italicismo, non tantum mæstum significat; sed etiam improbum et nequam. Idem apud Flandros nostros usu venit circa vocem drouf, quæ aliis Teutonibus mæstum significans, ab ipsis vix aliter sumitur quam in deteriorem partem.”—PAPENHEIM, in Act. SS. Apr. tom. 3, p. 506. The word sad with us has obtained in colloquial language the same signification. [The Virtues of Ground-Ivy.] "ALEHOOF, or ground-ivy, is in my opinion, of the most excellent and most general use and virtues of any plants we have among us. It is allowed to be most sovereign for the eyes, admirable in frenzies, either taken inwardly, or outwardly applied. Besides, if there be a specific remedy or prevention of the stone, I take it to be the constant use of alehoof ale, whereof I have known several experiences by others, and can, I thank God, allege my own, for about ten years past. This is the plant with which all our ancestors made their common drink, when the inhabitants of this island were esteemed the longest livers of any in the known world and the stone is said to have first come among us after hops were introduced here, and the staleness of beer brought into custom by preserving it long. It is known enough how much this plant has been decryed, how generally soever it has been received in these maritime northern parts; and the chief reason which, I believe, gave it 666 HARCOURT — LOZANO — CAZAL · FLECKNO-CARTWRIGHT. [Serro, and Cochilhas,—What?] CAZAL defines Serro to be a bare, sharp,¦ circular summit. "Chamam-se Serros as porçoens mais elloadas das serras, e cochilhas de forma circular, pontuadas, e destituidas de vegeta es, de cujas sumidades se descobre grande extensam de terrens." In the province of Rio Grande do Sul they have been used as beacons during war: from some of these points Cazal says others are visible at a distance of twenty leagues,-fourscore miles. Cochilhas are extensive chains of hills, with pasture, but without trees-precisely our downs. – Vol. 1, p. 129, 130. www [The Pinto Tree.] FLECKNO (p. 70) mentions "a tree called the Pinto, which though no fruit tree yields them (the Portugueze at Rio Janeiro) more profit than all the rest; growing most commonly in moist places like our willow, the body growing cane-wise, distinguished by several knots, out of whose poory (?) sides the branches issue forth in round, with their several falls rendering it so many stories high; of a delightful green, body and all ; whose leaves being thick and filmy, they use to sleave and spin to what fineness they please, the grosser serving for hemp, the middle sort for flax, and the finer for silk." [Language of Flowers.] "THESE from richer banks Culling out flowers, which in a learned order Do become characters whence they disclose Their mutual meaning, garlands there and nosegays Being framed into epistles." CARTWRIGHT. Love's Convent. [Coffee House.] "THOUGH their grosser wares are at Marashewaccas."—Harl. Misc. vol. 3, p. 195. | home in their storehouses, they have many T. BROWNE - FULLER – SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE-SORBIERE. 667 66 things of value to truck for which they al- | have been mistaken about the two foremasts ways carry about 'em, as Justice-for fat every sculler on the Thames," says capons to be delivered before dinner; a re- SPRAT, "knows it has but one." prieve from the whipping post for a dozen bottles of claret to drink after it; licenses to sell ale, for a hogshead of stout to his Worship, and leave to keep a Coffee House for a cask of cold tea to his lady."-T. BROWNE'S Works, vol. 3, p. 31. [Mortality of London in Fuller's Days.] "In the most healthful times 200 and upwards were the constant weekly tribute paid to mortality in London."-FULLER'S Good Thoughts in Worse Times. [The English Soldier when well fed fearless of Death and Danger.] 66 SIR WM. TEMPLE says it is the known and general character of the English nation to be more fearless of death and dangers than any other, and more impatient of labour or of hardships, either in suffering the want, or making the provision of such food and clothes as they find or esteem necessary for the sustenance of their lives, or for the health and strength and vigour of their bodies. This appears among all our troops that serve abroad, as indeed their only weak side; which makes the care of the belly the most necessary piece of conduct in the commander of an English army, who will never fail of fighting well, if they are well fed."— Miscellanea, part 3, p. 266. [Ship with two Keels, and two Foremasts,— a Mistake.] "I HEARD them," says SORBIERE, (speaking of the Royal Society,) discourse of a ship with two keels, that carried two foremasts, and having two sails, drew more wind, but less water, and consequently must sail faster than others."-Sorbiere seems to [Why the English admire their own Language.] SORBIERE says the English are great admirers of their own language, " and it suits their effeminacy very well, for it spares them the labour of moving their lips." [Early Lighting of London.] THE Duc de Lewis thinks that London was lighted before any other town in Europe, and that the custom originated there in 1416. [Rare Use of Forks and Ewers by the English.] "THE English," says SORBIERE, (writing about the year 1663) 66 scarce ever make use of forks or ewers, for they wash their hands by dipping them into a bason of water." [The Sagamore and his Notch Cane.] "A SAGAMORE, or petty king in Virginia, guessing the greatness of other kings by his own, sent a native hither who understood English, commanding him to score upon a long cane (given him of purpose to be his register) the number of Englishmen, that thereby his master might know the strength of this our nation. Landing at Plymouth, a populous place (and which he mistook for all England) he had no leisure to eat for notching up the men he met. At Exeter the difficulty of his task was increased; coming at last to London (that forest of people) he broke his cane in pieces, perceiving the impossibility of his employment."-FULLER'S Good Thoughts in Bad Times. |