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ON THE 2nd of januakt, 1830, was published, , 

EltgvMllii prinltd M demy octmo, and aitcktd a m Onutmntti ffrapper 

(to be cMliniKd nay Sjtckdjt MojuiiwoJ 

No. I. Price Sixpence, 

OF THE 

ANNIVERSARY CALENDAR, 

AND 

UNIVERSAL MIRROR: 



tlit«S«, Briitlit, mil eattDUc «tM» 

of mare than ten thouMand iHnilmaa aod memorable IndiiiduiJi, in eveiy 
period oT the World, wilb the place, and year, pieciwiy itsled, of ifae 
■IHTH, BDBUi., (or DEATH) and MABTYRDOM, OD ike dayi of theii occur- 
n>>c«, in the foim of a 

ROMAN AND ENGLISH CALENDAR; 



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beii^ a correspoDdlni Daily Register, dltlgently compiled fiDm tlie most 
authenticated lourcei, of Events Id miscellaneous History, from the Creaiion 
of the World, (inclusive) and paiticularl; in our National Anoals; with the 
Institutions, or Festivab, of the English, Greek, and Luin Churches, and 
those mendoned in the Crecieu, Homaa, Hebrew, and other Calendars ; in- 
teispened alw with various remvlable incidents and facts, connected with 
Chronokigy, that have, from their novelty, been deemed most worthji of 
lecoid and illusttation : the entire Repertory being intended as 

A BIRTH-DAY BOOK 

X Vrryrtnal C^xnnplai; (or ebern Dag in t|t Year ; 

to be embellished with approved Sentences on each day, and Passages 
descriptive of, and connected with, the MsmIm and Seasons. 

What hath this da; deserv'd 1 What hath it done ; 

'niit ii iK gold«n laun itnithl be set. 

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PLAN OF PUBLICATION. 

I. Each Number will codUud Siileen Pages of leuer-preu, (or, »t the 
least. Seven Dvfi) reiy «legsiitl; printed in demjr octavo, and Btilched 
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regularly on the Pint of every Monlh with the Magaiinei, forming, 
when complete. Two handsome Volumes. 

•,• Part XIII. (or the concluding Par() will conlain a ampittt 
AljA/Aitical ladei of the Births, Deaths, &c. 



ADDRESS. 

The Editob (eels it his duty to nodce to the Public, that the principal 
feature of the present Work, in which it differs boia any other of the same 
kind, is The Plan of combining in a two-fold Calendar, with appropriate 

Mottoes for every day in the year, a large assemblage of Bmineal Names, 
collected with iofinite labour from numerous volumes, orrangnf ckrtmo- 
logicalty on Each Day, with the j^aea of their Birtk, and Diiriai, aeeuTately 
affiled. He begs also to state, notinvidiously, buteipresily, that the Work 
will contain no line derogatory from the institutions, or the morals, of the 
Conntry ; but rather it is his purpose to collect as much of the sententious 
wisdom of the great, the pious, and the ingenious, in every age, as could be 
introduced into a compilation of its vaiiely and magnitude ) aad he humbly 
trusts, as indeed it is his principal object, that The Work, when completed 
with tbe present year, may, from the accuracy and fulness of its details, form 
a Library Book of general reference. 

An Alphabetical Index of all the Perunt, with a note of tbe particular 
day and month on which they died, and were boni, or are mentioned, will be 
sn[f lied at the concluuon of the Work. The average Contents of every 
Number will be Seiien Days. 



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ANNIVERSAEY CALENDAR, 
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UNIVBRSAl MIRROR. 



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AVNIVERSARY CALENDAR, 

NATAX. BOOK, 

UNIVERSAL MIRROR; 



ANMVER^AEIES OP PERSONS, EVENTS, INSTITUTIONS, AND 

PBSTIVALS, OF ALL DENOMINATIONS, HISTORICAL, 

SACRBD, AND DOHESTIC, IN EVERV PERIOD AND STATE OP 

THE WORLD, PROU THE CREATION TO THE 

PRESENT AGE. 



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DEDICATION. 



TO THE NATURAL GUARDIANS OF THE PEOPLE. 

This humble offering is mainly vindicatory, appealing to 
the mass of every growth, aor wholly national, and with a 
fair prospect (desire) to please. The Jirst (not an ordi- 
nary) satisfaction, was a mde endeavor to fasten, within 
the minds of the indifferent, one mighty, eternal principle 
— that Chkist is tlie real and entire fountain-head of 
what is understood by the name of " Libebtt," the lai^ 
Foster-father of the human will, as it is supported and 
impelled by a responsible Soul. The rich and noble 
are Christ's active vicegerents. Cherish the industrious 
poor, and they are social; fed and clothed as Christians 
diould be, temperate; taught and watched through the 
path of righteousness,— Aa^y. 

April 30, 1S32. 



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THE 

ANNIVERSARY CALENDAR, 

AND 

XiyiVERSAL MIRROR. 



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THE SEASONS. 



The coolinual Bucceuion oF Seasons in the humaa life, by daily pre- 
ECLting to us new scenes, render it agreeable, and, like tboBeorthe jear, 
aflbrd UB detigbts by their change, which the choicest of them could a 
as by their coQtinuojice. In die Spring of Hfe, the gilding of the 
ihine, the veidure of the fields, and the variegated paiotingi of the sky, 
so exquisite in the eyes of infants, at their first looking abroad into 
m world, as nothing, perhaps, afterwards can equal : the heat and 
ligour of the succeeding Summtr at yoiilh ripens for us new pleasures, 
the blomniog mud, the aigfatly revel, and the jovial chase : the serene 
unn of complete manhood feasts us with the golden harvest of our 
worldly pursuits ; nor is thehoaiy Ifinterof old age destitute of itspecu- 
liaicomforts and eujoyments, of which the recollection and relation of 
those past, are, perhaps, none of the least : and, at last, Death opens 
new prospect, from whence we shall, probably, look back upon the 
rsioos and occupations of this world, with the same contempt wi 
upon our lops and hobbyhoises, and with the same surprise, that 
they could ever so much entertain or engage us.— Jniynj. 



Behind the glowing wheels 

Six jocund Seasons dance, 
A radiant month in each quick-shifting hand ; 

Alternate they advance, 

While buxom Nature feels 
The grateful changes of the frolick band : 

Each Month a constellation fair, 

Knit in youthful wedlock, holds ; 
And o'er each bed a varied sun unfolds. 
Lest one vast blaie out visual force impair, 

A canopy of woven air. — Sir Wm. Jmti. 



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WINTER. 

Hiffh ^n an Atp qf Ue hr aiU miSron'd 



WiNTEB, niler of th' inverted jear. 

Thy icatter'd hair with sleel like ashes fill'd. 
Thy breath congeal'd upon ihj lipi, thy cheeki 
Friug'd with a beard made white with other anewa 
Than thou of age, thy forehead wrapp'd in clouds. 
A leafless branch thy sceptre, and iby throne 
A slidiof car, indebted to no wheels. 
But urg'd by slonns along it's slipp'ry way, 

1 erowD thee king of intimate delights. 
Fireside enjoymeatt, home-bom happiness. 
And all the comforts thai the lowly roof 
Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the houn 

Of long uninterrupted ev'ning, know.- — Cmuper, 



Caiild blew the bitter-biting north 
Upon thy early humble bictli ; 
Yet cheerfully Ihou glinted forth 

Amid the storm, 
Scarce rear'd above the parent earth 

Thy tender form. 
There, ia thy scanty mantle clad. 
Thy inawie bosom lunward spread. 
Thou lifts' thy unassaming head. — JTu Daiiy. — Bums. 



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JANUARID9. 

Voder tht Proltction <^ Juno. 



Hail, ireddad lore < m^rturioDs law, true source 

Of human oKphug, sole pioprielj 

In Piradise of niribiufs common else. 

By thee adulterous lual was diiren from mea 

Among the beatiil heids to range ; by tbee, 

Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, 

ReladoDS dear, and all the charities 

Of father, son, and hrolher, first were known. 

Perpetual fountain of domeatic sweets. 

Whose bed is undefiled, and chaste pronounced, 

Present, or past, as saints and patriarchs used. 

Here love bis golden shafts employs, here lighU 

Hii constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, 

Keigng here and revela ; not in the bought smile 

Ofharlota, loveless, jo jless, unendeared. 

Casual fmitioD j nor in court-amours. 

Mixed dauce, or wanton mask, or midoi^t ball. 

Or serenade, which the starved lover sings 

To his proud fair, best quitted with disdain. — JUilton, 



Mine eye yet fixed tm Heaven's unchanging clime. 
Long had I listened, free from mortal fear. 
With inward sUllness, and submitted mind ; 
When lo I its folds br waving on the wind, 
I saw the train of the DEPABTiNe Year ! 
Starting from my silent tadnesi 
Then, with no urdioly madness, 

Eie yet the «oteied cloud Guecloaed my sight, 

I raised the impetuous song, and solemnized his flight. 



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If tben, YooDg Year 1 tbou need'tl mult come. 
Choose thy altBudiDta well ; for 'tis not thee 

We fear, bul 'lis thy company : 
Let neither Loss of Fiiends, or Fame, oi Liberty, 
Nor pining Sickness, nor tormenting Pain, 
Nor Sadness, nor uncleanly Povet^, 

Be seen among thy train : 

Nor let thy livery be 
Either black Sin, or gaudy Vanity. — Comity. 

Ask me nhj I send yon here 
This tweet Infanta of the year ? 

Ask me why I send to you 
This primrose, thua bepearled with dew ? 

I will whisper to youc ean, 
The sweelB of love are mixed with tears. 

Ask me why this flower dolh shew 
So yellow'green, and sickly too 1 
Ask me why the slalk is weak 
And bending, yet it doth not break 1 

row. — Hrtperidti. 

The ihepherda on the lawn. 

Or e'er the point of datrn, 

Sat simply chatting in a rustic row i 

Foil little thought they Iheo, 

That the migh^ Fan 

Was kindly come lo live with them below ; 

Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, 
Was all that did tlieir siliy thoughts so busy keep. 

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The Temple (hakes, Ibe ionnding gUtt inifbld, 
Wide vaolls appear, and rool^ or fretted gold : 
Rus'd OD ■ ttuHuand pilkn, meMh'd around 
With lauiel-fbliage, and with eagles cnnrn'd. 
Full in the passage of each ipacioua gate 
The sage Historiana in white gumeiili wait ; 
Graved o'er their seats the Ibnn of Time wu Ibund, 
Hii acytbe reren'd, and hoth his pinioDs boand. 
MiUioiu 1^ mppliatil awadt Iktihrine attend. 
And all dtgrtet btfirrt thi Goddai bend ; 
The pour, tht rich, ch« luliant, and thi lage. 
And tooittn; i^mth, and narrative M age, 
TTdck at tb btei, ihal wiiA tht ipring rmnn 
Their Jloiaery toiit, and lip Ihefiagranl dtie. 

Temple of Fame. 



Here Patriot! liie, who for their country's good 
la ^ttng fields tvere prodigal of blood ; 
Piiesti of unblemished Utos here malre abode, 
And Foeta worthy their irujuring god ; 

And searching Wits, of more mechanic parts. 
Who graced their age with new-ioTenled arts ; 
Hioie, who (o worth, their bounty did extend, 
And those, who knew that bounty to commend. 

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VivtH 

'' Stephen Morin, 1625, Caen. 
~ "V. Fleetwood, ie56,T*iiiei-. 
Waiiam ElBtob, 1673,NnoraJti<. 
John Hopkiai, 1675, Irttand. 

r.Dnkeiiborch.l6B4, (/Iruftt. 
Sotune JfiLyDS, 1704. Lonirni. 
Edmnnd Burke. 1730, Dtiblm. 
G. Biirger, 1748, Wolmernemde. 



^bMa/tht Latin ChvTCk. 

Si. AlmachuB (orTelemachus), 
JWarlyr o( Rome, A. D. 404. 

St. EugenduB (or Oyend), Ab- 
bot of St. Ciotnte, d. 510. 

St. Fulgenlius, Bo. af Rtapa, in 
Tvnii. d. 533. 

St. Faschea (or Faine), Virgin 
of Ireland, 6th Ceatury. 

SC Mochua (oi MoDcaiu, aliat 
Cluanua), ViTgin of Ireland, 
6th Century. 

St.Mochua (orCronao), Abbot 
of Balla in Ireland, 631. 

St. Odilo (or Olon), Abbot of 
Cluni, d. 1049. 



Seallii 

Su Basil, Abp. if Ccuna, 37< 
CharlM the Bad, 1387. d. P™ 

pelu^. 
Charles (of Orleans), 1466. d. 

Louis XII. (Uie Just) I51S. 
J. L. Fieicbo, 1547. dr. Gemm. 
Christian III. (of Dtma.} ISfiS. 
Jo.du Bellft;, 1560, Notre Darae. 
Henry E. of Kent, 1615.Flit(oii. 
Thos. Hobton, 1031 . Comh-idge. 
^ JcdkD Hotham.MiAid. 1645. 
W.Wyclierley,1716.Cm.Garrf. 
Lou. lie Dangeaa, 1733. d.Purii. 
Mel. Duringer, 1723. d. Beme. 
Daniel E. ofWinchelsea,1730. 
Henry Lord MontTort, 1755, 
C. A. Helvetius, 1773. d. Pa™. 
Tho|.Homa,1774.d.Cm«™ii«. 
JoliD Bo^iBet,mS.Caen.Abbey. 
Sir Fletcher Norton, 1789. 
N.VaQdennonde,1796. Parii. 
L. J. M. DaubentoD, 1800. 
J. C. O. Voigt, 1821. Ilmemit 



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Thb Cikcvnchion. By the pjimitiTa Chiiitiuit the lit d>y of JuuMy 
wu Dbaerrad ai tfutt, (o diiUagniih it from die ■biuM of p* ~ 

u Dot until the jmr 487, thu the /MihI, called ia the Latin rita*l, the 
Oetam iif Cknitmia, became kiiowD lo ^ Chnrch ; mir, and^ ita pra- 
•ent title of " Ciicumcmon," ai intiodnced into oor Engiiah litni^ id 
0, it it to be traced higher than abont the clote of the lltb Century. 
The ceremoay itaelf In which Chriit nbiDitted, ii reDumbered, irith re 
tax, by treiy ChriatiaD. 

[ew Yeas's Dat. Hat vihetaemt ciutom of makiDg prMeDta oi 

the opetung of the year, ia aa ancieot aa humanity ; far it wai *' id the 

end of ^ da^," at tha ADtomnal Equiooz, Aat Abel oKied np to God 

lamb of nine montlii old, aDd Caia (wbea every brmnch yielded him 

e meani of happioeaa) the fint ftviti of hia hoabandry. 

tr«diticinaiy irith ixi the Celtic tribea, the Jewi, Sarmata, and Romani, 

' wat pecBliarlj a BriiuA obaetrttKC ; aod, ia a later age, i 
Mill blended with feelinga of [Hely,aa well aafriendabip. Even new the 
DNige ia rewired amoDgat Da, id codudod with the Jewa, of eiehang- 
on thii day, TintiDga and congntulatioiu. The Lanieale'i Lyric 
.which chimed in the year, waaailenced 1790; bvtIiDm no diaho- 
r in the inititDUoa, that had cniolled the proodeat n 
annala of Engliah poeay. 

Tm Montr or Jandakv, and ita succeaaor, were adapted lor tbeii 
pieient station, ai leaden of the year, by the wisdom of Nnm* Pornj*- 
liai, B.C.GT2. The Roman CoDauli fromB.C.lM, inclnUTe, were 
r^lariyinaugnraled on the litof January i and ttieSenateaflerwairdt. 
~D the times of the Emperon, annnallj renewed od the mm day their 
oath of allegiance. Then al» begun, B.C. 45, the famoui Juluii 
riai, after the Roman Caleodar hid fint been reformed by S> 



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and adjuBled by Flaviiu, under Cesar's third Dictaumliip ; although it 

not until A. D. 4 that his iolention respecting the leap-yean w 
correctly observed, and then Au^stus fixed the decree in brau. 

When Julius Ccsai entered upon his first Consulate, B.C. 69, he iatro- 
duced a new fe||[uIation, of commilUng to writing and publUhiitg daily, a 
the Act$ or stale occurrences both of the senate and the people ; vihii 
undoubtedly confers, by refledioa from its author, a singular luttrt on the 
first day of the year, if it be not the fountain <rf England's greatest bles- 
uog — a parliamentary press. The Cattndt of each month being conse- 
crated to Juno, in allusion lo the Moon's birth, this day was particularly 
detoled to (hat Goddess i and lo Jonu, inventor of the Italian Almanack, 

a type of the Universe. The luuiar Miculiipiut shared the sa 
honour on account of his renovating altiibules ; and last, but greatest, 
JupiMr, as the parent of tha Seasons .< — Set IM March. Itwaa, morec 
coQudered an anspicions day by the artists to begin their tvorki ; and wlio 
shall say that many an admired fragment, from the Italian chisel, has 
ot an Anniversary eternal with the yearl In the fourth century the same 
sople, at this season, performed a kind of masquerade of beast«, called the 
Ptay vf iht Slag, which St. Jerome tolerated as an ionocent diveiwon. 

The Festival OP Fools was instituted at Paris on lijour (i< I'an 1 198, 
and continued prosperously for 240 years. The merits of this lich solem- 
ni^ originally belonged to St. Nicholas i and the " Lords of Misrule," 
urluns of Court, with the "Abbots of Unreason," seem to have ac- 
quired dieir dignity from the same motive, that of exploding, by a just 
ridicule, the Satnraaliai) mummeiy and the priest .craft of (he Druids. 

Edward III. in 1349, rewards (he gallantry of his ant^onist, Eustace 
de KibeaumoHt, with a chaplet of pearls, desiring him to wear it for his 




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d«b Ihii niceruiDIy. King Jama. 

uke, and lo tell the India, wherever he came, tKat it mat gtiwn by the 
King of England to the braveiC oj'knighls. 

In 1582 a tournament is held at Westminster, in which the Duke of 
Anjou Ki|;DaUies his deiterity, to the delight of the Royal Mistress and 
Presideat : — the knight's device " uniet alernum, dvicit qvem (orjuri 

Eii«." 

The N En st^le of commencing the year on the 1 st of January was 
adopted Id Fraoce, 1564 ; in Scotland, 1600, and not long after in Den- 
mark; inHolland.ProteBtaat Germany, and in Russia, 1700; in Eag- 
Uod, 1752 ; and last, in Sweden, 1753. Peter the Great celebrated the 
event in his dominions by a Jubilee of leven days. The Chiistian Era 
be first introduced there, 1725 ; bnt, in deference lo the UngliA taatht- 
malieiani, he declined (o omit the guiplos days, so tbat, by the addition 
of another day since &e close of the 18th Century, the Gregorian is at 
present in advance of the Rossian Cakndar tuvltw day*, a variance which 
beipressedlhus — ■ ^ ^^ ^'^ -, and recognited tbrougboul Europe. 

Charles n. in 1651, i> crowned, at Scone, King of the Scots; sweai- 
ing, upon his knees, to establish the Presbytery, and abolish and witb- 
ttaod all ^se religions. 

The first Leip«c fair, of tvrelve days, was instituted and commenced 
upon this day. 

In 1801 M. Piaia, of Palermo, discovered the planet Cera. On the 
same day the Union of the twin-islands, Albion and leme (joiotly 
boDODred by the notice of Aristotle 1150 years befora this event), was 
Jeatully consummated : the Imperial parliament assembles ; a new 
great seal is used ; and now the French arms are first expunged after 
their assumption by tbe third Edward. 



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v Ctmmlrj ud PinMi k &i ti 



id fviBcipd of civil oUjgiliHU' 



Ccnr dc Hue;. 1703, Artin. . PobHu Oviiliiu (Nun) A. D. 
JoIuiBofle,E.ofC<Mk, 1707. 18. r«ut. 

JobD, Maiq. of Granbf , 1721. . Titoi liviiu, A. D. IB. Padm. 
Gen. Wolfe, 1727, Wattrham. 'rierreduB(MC,1692.Ri>Menlan. 
I Henry E. of WarriogtoD, 1694. 
jDr.P. BacoD,1783.d.Bd 
Titlw of q>ia%, wbea tbe AleranderE.of Rosslyo, 1805. 
<L Baytii. 
BallhmOT Lombaid!, 1802. 
E. Bal^nger, 1604. d. JUorTiur^. 
Williim Tlnrauu Lewis, 181 1. 
Joha MiMD Good, 1827. 



unend tbon, lie of DO iDore 

adoB than tluwe which the 
couitoy of the vulgar have be^ 

d on the defoimed ; and 
when 1 LMk orei a ]oag tree of 

nl, T ■ometimei fane; I ca 
diicovei the real chaiactera i 
Bhajpen, reprolKiteK, and ptiu 
r» of Ihwr conntiy. 

Earl of Cork, 



Hew 



re had 



Spo- 



init* of Iht Latin Church. 
St. CoDCordini, martyr 

Ulto, 178. 
St MacaiiuB of Ala. d. 394. 
StB, MS. for thi Scriplura, 303, 
St. A[da] laid. Abbot of Corbu, 

837. 



endowed him wiA a highly hril- 
liint gift of inzing what ii cha- 
racleristjc io homanily, and of 
uanation ; with the talent of a 
poet, only withoat the eommand 
of loetncal laogoage, or &e de- 
lightiait. Hewrote, notdonbt- 
ing, and jel trithout conviction ; 
iriihing to forget the degeneracy 
of his own age, while reviving tbe 
recollection of what had been 
^orions or eictllent in former 
times. — NuAuAr on Livg. 



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Df *U intellleeiil bciop, i 



r ifflpertCcdwia. — MonlaqulBA. 



SbtB. 



This ixj wsb amoAg the MacJb, or UDfortuiule days, i: 
enlar. The Emperor TacitUB, faTouring the supendtioa, excepted the 
tuns of each month ftom the rule dial he had made of passing no 
iKj withoot Btady. 

Ferdiaand V. takes Granada tram the Moors mA sitiBguislieB their 
leign m Spain, 1492, more than seren centuriet after the first settlement 
tiiere of those barbariaas. It nas four jean from thii aalional epoch 
when the Pope confened Dpon Fenlinand the stj le of Catholic. 

Queen Mary (the unhapj^) lerokee, in 16GS, the privilegei of the 
EatlarLDga, or Meichuits of the Steelyard in LondoD, a measure wiaelj 
sDiqiorted by her jHOteMant Bueceasor. 

The paper called " The Taller," conducted by Sir Richard Steele, 
and iwned oa alleroate days, terminates on this day, 1711. "The hand 
that has aaiisted me in these noble discourses upon the immortality ol 
the sool, the gtoiioua prospects of another life, and the moat sublime ideas 
of religion and rirtue, is a person (alluding to Addison) who ii too 
fondly my friend ever to own them ; but I should little deser»e to be bis, 
if I usuiped the glory of Item." — Who does not grieve, knowing that 
dhriiions aflerwards embittered so genuine a friendship ! 

Capt.Cook dedicatestbe Sandwich Isles inhonourofhia patron, 1778. 

Upon this day, in 1809, the Penguin Idand at the Cape of Good Hope 
sank from its " propriety," and la now only known to mariners byname. 

Lord Byron dedicates toT. Moore, Esq. his " CDnair,"lB14, iu a Pre- 
face equally honourable to both these sons of song, and which will, most 
probably, as a little skiff, attend the poem down the stream of poe- 
leiily. It may be observed that oci departed Poet's wedding happened 
upon tbe same day in the ensuing year. 

The Prince Regent, in the name of hia lato Majesty, i: 
nance in 1815 for extending the Order of the Badi ; to ce 
autpicioia Itrndnatiim of (A< war, onij t» mark in an apecial ntannfl' hit 
graciotu un$e of tht vul^nir, peneveraaee, and dtvotion, manifaied by the 
officen ef Jiij MajeWy'iyitrcw heili it) mo and iond. 



Wlul li mon 



leelkDl thaD inrioUble pict/l whu 



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ISictfa. 



SiatlM. 



Maicui Tullius Cicero, B. C. 

107, Arpinum. 
John Boyse, 1560, Nttllatead. 
Wm. Homberg, 1652, Batavia. 
Frederick Hauelquigt. 1722, 

Toanaila. 

The lore which every mtn 
beaca to himself does not, cer- 
tainly, flow from any ejpected 
recompense or rewurd, but solely 
from that pure and ianate regard 
which each individual feels for 
his own person. Now if the 
same kind of aflection be not 
transferred into/riendtkip, it will 
beinvaintohope for a true friend, 
aa a true friend is no other, in ef- 
fect, Iban a second ulf.— Tally. 

®bita of the Latin Church. 
SL AnteruB (Pope), martyr at 

Rmu, 235. 
Sl.GordiuS, martyr at Caiarea, 

in Cappadecia, c. 302. 
St. Peter Balsam, martyr in Pa- 

Imline, 311. 
St. Geneviive, V. Fatnmeu ef 

Parii. i. 512. 



Philip V. (o/FranMj 1332. 
J. Sbna (of Milan) dr. 1434. 
Katheiine (of England) 1437. 
Alderman (Hen.) Smith, 1627. 
Jeremiah Horroi, 1641. d.Hooie. 
Gen. (Geo.) Monk, 1670.^6t«y. 
ClaucipBoiirgelet, 1779. 
Josiah Wedgewood, 1795. 
Chas. Towoley, 1S05. Bumliy. 
Lord (Chanc.) Loughb™' 1805. 

If thon canst love a fellow of 
Ihb temper, Katt, whose face 
is not worth sun-buming, that 
never looks in hii glass for love 
of any thing he sees there, let 
thine eye be thy cook. I speak 
to thee plain soldier. What ! a 
speaker is but a prater; a rhyme 
is but a ballad ; a good leg will 
fall i a straight back will stoop ; 
a blsct beard will turn white ; 
a curled pale will grow bald ; a 
fair fece will wither ; a full eye 
will wax hollow : but a good 
heart, Kate.is the Bun and moon ; 
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Mite. 

MvKoniDEi, th« Athenuu genenl, oruthren the BteotUni, U (Eno- 
phyta on tliU dij, B. C. 456. 

CSTBndiib, the lecond Engliihiuuk thu niled nmnd the 
» wilhin aigtit of Guano, one of the LtdraM itiukdi, 1688, 
■ge borne by way of the Cipe, wfaidi he ouulc thtf IfW) of 
Hky; hevrng in nine week* ran aboat one thonund e^t hutdrad ud 
Mtjlttgae*. 'ThoieeleTeiiiileliiranne>wdtlieI«ibviu>,byMege1UQ, 
from the ptlfbriog di>po(itian of the occspinti. Hun en impertitl Pro- 
vidence hei planted the bcead-frait tree in abandaaee. 

Secrelaij Pcpyi vinli, 1661, the new thealie near Linceio'i 
Fieldi (foiTDerly Gibbooi' Tennii Court), where Fletchei'i comedy of the 
r'l Buth" warn repeated ; " and km (Aijint lini* Ihil ever Iim 
HH tifun tht llagt." 

X nwmben, indading Hampden, an impeached of high treaaon, 
1643 ; on the nine day diet a committee of the bouM wai appinnted to 
take into tbcdr coniideratiaQ the militia of tbe lungdom. It wa> on 
Id of Januaiy 1639, that Ibe king'i light hone were trained at Bramham 
Honae to be employed agaiut die Scottiih co*enantara. " Tbe beat 
u" (laid Hampden in hii defence tbe neit day) " to diicem be- 
tween tbe tnie and falw religion ia, by leaichiDg die Old and New Tei- 
I, wlucb ii of ilaelf pore, indited by the •[urit of God, and written 
by holy men, umpotted in tbeii lirea and cooTeiMtians." 

Lord Cheaterfield thu* ipiiteUut on thii day, with an oblique aeverity -. 
" at your age people have rtrong and active iioriti, alacri^, and vivacity 
'n all they do ; an indehtigable and quick. Tbe difference ia, that a 
young fellow of talent* exert* all thoie happy djapoiitiani in the punuit 
of proper objects, endeavonn to excel in the lolid, and in the ahowith 
put* of life ; wbereaa a litly pappy, or a dull rogue, thiow* away all 
~ is youth and tjurit* upon trifie*, i^en he ii lerioui ; or upon diigraceful 
*icea, while he aims at pleamre." 

Lucien Buonaparte lettlei, 1811. in hi* retiiement, a few mile* from 
Ludloy, in ShmpiUre, formerly the caiulil leat of the titular prince* 
and pteiidenti of Walei. There he composed bii ejnc poem, " Chaile- 
le Church deliveied," publiihed in 1814. 



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or Uib phUoHphy, (Hi lit 

aim. peacernl) Aoadifalng beid of il : 

we nuy view. proronDdty <tHp Mun, 



. Abp. (J.) Udier, 1660, i>u<>jjtt. 
■ Heoiy OiDve, 16B3, TounOn. 
L. Gojtoa de MorvMU, 1737, 
Dgm. 

We can behold with coldness 
the stupendous displays of Om- 
nipoteuce, and be in transports 
al (he punj essays of human 

; throw aside specolatioDs 
of (be rabtimest oatare and vast- 
est importance into lomeobicnni 
cotnerofthe mind, to make room 
for new aaiiinu of no coniequeoce 
; and prefei the fits! reid- 

if an iodi^ecent author, to 
the second or third perusal of 
one whose merit and reputatioD 
are eslablished. — Cnmt. 



4&btta of Ihe Latin CImrck. 
St, TiWs (Diseipi* af St. Paul) 

d. CmU, C. 100. 
St.GiegOTj, Bp, of Langra.Ml. 
St. Rigobert (or Robert), d. 

GemicouT, c. 750. 
St. Kumou, Bp. Jmrwd or Tovu- 

txk, c. 10th Centuiy. 



Hemy Button, 1648. London. 
Edw. Knott, 1656. St. Pancrat, 
Lewis le Maistie, 16B4. d. Fom- 

Prince Louis (of Baden) 1707. 
Steph. Hales, 1761. Tcddinglm. 
Chailotte Lennox, 1804. 
Alei. Macdonajd, 1B15. Edin- 

Go, soal, the body's g;ueat, 
Upon a thankless errand ; 

Feai not to touch the best. 
The truth shall be thy warrant : 

Go, since I needs must die, 

And give the world The Lie. 



WhenIobserve,from an almost 
blamable degree of modestj, oi 
joung gentlemen of bshioa ai 
cusing themselres of more vices 
tlion diey have constitution: 

lit, I am led by a kind of 
impulse lo this work ; which is 

led to be a public reposi- 
tory for their real frailties, in 
order lo relieve them from the 
necessity of such private conles- 
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Tbe Ififi i( u a dlim 
Hie Mold aniel dMb ; 
The Widow a jewtl ii 
Wbkb IbonEb lot itn 



aris. 



The fonrtli of ti 



ibat was i^pTopiUted u a fast day by the 
Jews in memoiy of the death of the Elden, who sncceeded Joshua. 

Edvard lit writeB to the abbot of Cluni ftom Ashridge on thii day, 
1391, acquaintiiig him with tbe demiae of hii Queso, Ettanor, and n 

leitiiig that niaai, and other nana] officea, might be periarmed for the 

It of her aoul. Tapers were bamt both day and night upon hei to 
at Westminstet tot more than two centuries ; and evei^ liaper in English 
xtiojmll remember that the three croisei standing at Geddington, Wal- 
(ham, and Narthampton, are lo many manumebts, which time has spared, 
of Edward's gratitude. 

" I am now Ulting this pteaeot fonrth of January" (Peca of Constaii' 
IJDC^, 1716) writes Lady Montagu lo a female coirespoadent, " with 
the windows open, enjoying the wano shine of the sua, while you are 

edng over a sad sea-coal fire ; and my chamber is aet out with carna.- 

us.roses, and jonquils, fresh liom my garden. 1 am channed with many 
pointa of the Turkish law, to our shame be it spoken, better designed 
and better executed than onn ; particularly the punishment of convicted 
liars (triumphant criminals in our country, God knows) ; tiiey are burnt 
ID the forehead with a hot iron, when they are proved the authora of any 
DOtorions falaehoodB. How many white foreheads should we see disfi- 
1, how many fine gentlemen would be forced to wear their wigs as 
low as their eyebrows, were this law in practice with us 1 I should go 
on to tell you many other parts of justice, but I must send for my mid- 
wife." 

War Is declared against Spain, 1762. This spark was fanned by a 
remnant of that old enthuuaam which properly should have (quite) ei)Hred 
with the dale of Queen Eliiabelh. 

In 1793 tbe Alien Bill passes. It was during the debate on this m 
sure that the great Burke threw upon the Soor of the house, a Sheffield 
;er, to enforce his powers of oratory, 
ovent Garden Theatre is founded, 1309. 



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. FitmciG Sulu«i, 154B, Granada. 
Dr. B.RuBh, I74fi, PeniutfJu 



Edwinl the Confeuw, 1 



I CI 



sid«r 1 






romantic animal, that may 
be adorned wilh fuia and feathers, 
pearls and ditunoads, ores, and 
ailka. TbelyDishallcaatitsskin 
It her feet to make her a li| 
the peacock, paitot, and 
shall pau contrifmtitms U 
muff; the sea shall be searched 
for ahella, and the rocls for 
la ; and every part of u 
lish out its share lowaida the 
embetlishnient of a creatur 

most conBummate work of 
iddinm, in dil. 



Cbailes the Bold, UTT. kilUd. 

Alex, de Medicia, aa. 1537. 
Nich. Thoynaid, ITOG. d. Parii 
C2artan Fetiarch, 1724. i. Ko 
froKk, aged 185. 
B. de Valincour, 1730. d 



®itte eftha Latin Charei 
8l Telesphorns (Pope) m. : 

SjQclelica, Virgin, d. A. 
aadria, c. 4lh Centuiy. 
Si. Simeod Slylites, of Cili 
439. 



Isaac Heed, lt)07. AmvKit. 
£■ Giiffilh, 1T93. d. MiUiceal 
Frederick, Duke of York, 1827. 

The same hath happened b 
the truly nise, which befalls ean 
they shool and raisf 
their heads high and pert, whilsi 
mpty ; but when mature and 
swelled with giain, begin to fiaj 
1 and droop. So those men whc 
have triedand sounded all things, 
' and discovered nothing solid and 
£nn, have quitted their presump- 



lural condilit 



—Manl. 



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Ahatde, of Sicjon, on the fifdi d^ of the Month Anthtiurim, B. C. 
261, nscues hia nadtBtown from tbe Haccdonita^nkimj. Anumual 
FettiTil of iJiankigiTiiig uid sacrifice to Jupilu Soler, tha pmntwr, Wh« 
afterward! instituled, around his tomb, to celebrate thii patriadc achiere- 
meat ; and aoolher, called the ^nit«a nu >olenuiiled on hii iMrthday, 
at vhkh hii son offidated, wearing a girdle of white, with purple ipota, 
in the presence of the assembled citiieni — the sage and schoolboy. 

!lA(k«iiin^i«uifictuni,&ataxsuinedbyEdwirdlbeConfeuoriD lOSS, 
and bequeathed by him to lis successors, the sovereigns of England, 
was, it may be supposed, fieqnently aiercised on the day when so dsTout 
a King disappeared fmta the world. In 13T2 we find that Edward I. 
after touching lor the malady called, by distinction, tKe Evil, gave gold 
medals, which were suspended, with a formula of prayer, round the necks 
of the patients. This coin, in value ten Ehllliags, was impressed with 
the igure of an Angti, aikd so named. The custom may probably be 
derived from the baptiimal ceremony; for we learn from Zeno, Bishop 
of Verona, thai b his time (4th century) it was usual to give a medal 
to every one who received the sacrameatary ablutions, but whether 
■tamped with a sacred image, or with the monognun and cross, then 
recently adopted by Constantine, is not recorded. Queen Eliiabetii Snt 
relinquished the sign of the crow in the ceremony, and Queen Aaae 
deprived the nation, with her life, of the royal virtue itself. She had 
touched the ijifant Hercala, Samuel Johnson, in the Lent of 1712, then 
bnt thirty months old, an incident which ha very well remembered. 

The " Journal dei S^avans" spears 1665, bn this day, onder the 
directtoQ of its projectors. Messrs. Gallois and de Sallo. 

In 1757 Robert Daroiens attempts the assassination of Louis XIV. 
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Thy tpirlti iDdependcDCCi let i 
Lord ft tkc lion-heart uul tlti 
Thy ilcpa 1 tollow wllh my bt 



Vitt^. 



Richanl II. 1366, Baurdeavx. 
Joan of Arc, I40S, Domnani. 
JobaDuUe, 1594, ChateU»raut 
John Soauen, 1647, Kiom. 
Pelei MelaMa^o, 169B, Romt. 



Longevitj ought to be highly 
'aloed by men of jriety and la- 
eats, as it will enable them to 
be moch more aseful to maoUnd, 
eapeciallj lo their own coun- 
try. Ab lo othera, it is no great 
alter; uncethey areadisgrace 
mankind, and their death is ra 
:er a service lo the public. 

Comarv. 



t&titf BftU Latin ChuTiih. 

;t. MelaniuB, d. Brittany, 490. 
it, Peter, Abbct in En.giand, 

draaiied 608. 
>I. Nilunmon, Hermit of Egypt. 



Dionjnu* (^of Portvgal), 1335. 
Jbs. E. of Ormond, 1338. d. Ird. 
Bp. (William) B>tem«n, 1356. 
Avignm. 

ji. A. Conini, 1373. d. Fieieli. 
Sir J. Stanley, 1414. d. Inland. 
Anthony {of Paltrm,'), 1471. 
Qu. Catharine, 1636. PttsrWi)'. 
Innocent X. (Pope) t65fi. 
Bishop (Seth) Ward, 1689. Sn- 

Lambert Boa, 1717. d. FroiuW. 
J. V. Giamna, 1718. d. fiii»«. 
John Deuius. 1734. (UbitwL) 
Gaipard Dochange, 1767. 
Major Pieiwni, 1781. HUtd, St. 

Htllitr. 
N, le Poivre, 1786. d. Lsms. 
C. A. Count d'Aigental, 1788. 
Dr.Geo.BeileIey, tT95.St.Cltm. 
Rev. W. Jones, 1801.d.Pflrton. 

Among the writers of all ages, 
some deserve fame, and have it ; 
others ueither have, nor deserve 
it; some have it, not deserving; 
ottiers, though deserving, yet U>- 
lilly miss it, or have it not equal 
to their deserts. — Milton. 



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]o Dotbin{ but nllj nor m 



ireet nutj, thoDKb b* do Dothlng but RpTov«. 



attB^ 

The Epifhanv, U a featival originall; observed by ilw Church in I 

Kumemontie Uie nuuiifWatian of Chrisl to Ihe thiee Kings, or Magi, 

which happened on Ihe Tvtilfth Day afier the NativiQr. Jt i 

the Christaias of the Greek and Russian Church, and kept as " 0I< 

ChriBtmu,'' b; those in England who, nilh King James, consider the 

patriarchs the best telescopes. The election of Kings by the btan, 

om of greater antiquity than Twelfth-day, formerly took place, ' 

" heavy-headed" wassail, on the night precgrfing that festival ; for by 

changing it onr playful ancestors eacToached one day upon the season 

of labour, when the PLoDoa and Distaff were resumed. " We had 

h mirth on boand (says Heniy Teonge, off the Morea, 1676) : 

a great cake made, in which was put a bean for the Ung, a pease 

for the queen, a clove for the knave, a forked stick for the cuckold, I 

rag for the slut. The cake was cut into several pieces, and all put inti 

oapkiD, oat of which every one took his piece, as oul of a lotteiy; then 

A piece was broken to see what was in it, which caused much laughter 

seeonr lieutenant ^ove the cuckold." The Marquis de Dangeao 

nee that Loois XIV., in 1698, refiised to keep his TwellUi-iiight, i 

Veruilles, on account of the great number of ladies (four hundred and 

seven !) whom he considered himself oiligeii to invite. 

This viaa dw Anniversaiy, according to Plutarch, of the coming (oC' 
oasui), or birth, of lus, the " mighty nrather" of Egyptian idolatry. 

The New Year's day among the Druids, who began both their months 
and j«ars, itot from die change, but when the moon fint became visible. 
Cteiar passes Ceraunia on his march towards die fatal plains i 
Phantdus, having embarked two days before at Brundusium, B. C. 41 
The Danes, ia 876, take possesuoo of the royal villa of Chippenban 
and chase Alfred, with his little hand, to seek shelter in the hospllalile 
woods of Somersetshire ; from which secloHon caxie Ihe old wives' tale 
of the burnt cakti. 

The Lady Anne of Cleves unites her useful virtues to those of " the 
majestic Lord, that bit^ the bonds of Rome," 1540. 



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A»a Gane, 1743, Braltm. 
Joa. Buompaite, 1768, Ajaccur. 
Pi«.CharloMe(»/"lfola),1796. 

hou, O blessed soul I 
Dosl, haply, nol respect 
Those tears we shed, 
Tho' full of loviQg pure aspect, 
HaviDg affii'd thme eyes 

lal most glorious throne 
Where, full of majesty, 
The high Creator reigns ; 
Where thou dost gather now 
Of well employed life 
The inestimable gaios. 

0bftS of the Latin Church. 
St. Lucian, Martgr at Antiach, 

312. 
St. Cedd. Bp. of London, 664. 
St. Kenligema, Wiiioai <^ In- 

load. d. 728. 
St. Thillo <o[ Theau, atiat Til- 

in) c. 702. 
St. Aldric, Bp. ^ MsTu. d. 856. 
St. Canut, d. Denmark. 1130. 



Bratts. 

ChaHe) I. {of mpta), 128 
Dr. Wm. Bulleyn, 1576. 
JameiADdreaa, 1590. 
John Guignaid. brheaded, li 
Ph. Hentlow, 1616. Southwark. 
Raph. Fabreiti, 1700. d. Rome. 
Fenelon d( la Afone, IT16. 
W.H.Bougeant,1743.d. Pari,. 
Allan Ramsay, 1763. d. Edinb. 
Di. Frank Nicholls, 1779. 

I am contented : I wish foe 
nothing more, I have set bounds 

my desires. 1 possess r 

thing that is necessary for liie. 

nnnatus, Curius, Fabriciui, 

Regulus, after having coa. 

itoered nationB and led kingi in 

triumph, were not so rich as I 

am. I should always be poor 

I to open a door to the 

passions. Avarice, luiuty, am- 

bitJOD, know no bounds; cu[h- 

di^ is a fathomless abyss. I 

have clothes to cover me, (ood 

nourish me, horses to cairy 

me ; land to lie down and walk 

, and to receive my rem 
wlien I die. — Petrarch. 



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irta. 



The Heb dome. Kits a fesOTttl kept at Athens oa the tnwniAdaj of everr 
lonu month.inhonourof ApoUo, loirbom all seienlh dsji were lac 

aae (as Ileiiod Bmgs) one of them was supposed tt> be his lurthdaj ; 
eridentlj ■ fabulous sUusion to the Gnt opecadons of the nine in/aided 
tphtra round tbe solar body, at the creatioa of (he uaJTeise. — Sa 1th 

Lord of the Seasons, with thy fiery car 
And leaping couraerx, beaming light from fw : 
With thy right hand the source of morning light. 
And with thy left the &ther of the night. 
Foe to the wicked, but tbe good' man's guide. 
O'er all his steps propitious you preude : 
With Tarious-sounding, golden lyre, tis thine 
To fill the world with hinnony divine.— Orpheiu. 
Trajan makes his triumphal entry into Antioch, A. D. 107. 
All the Km^ls Temjdara in Ei^and and Ireland are arrested o 
this day undeT sealed mandates, 1308. 

The Book of Common Prayer, composed by the directioa of Cranmer, 
is e$tabliihed trith the authority of pariiament, 1 549. 

The first treaty of Alliance between England and the States General 
is concluded, 1ST6. 

Galileo, the friend of Milton, and a kindred genius, discovers on this 
day, 1610, the Satellites of the planet Jupiter, which he called the Me- 
dicean Stars, in honour of bis patron, Cosmo, Duke of Tuscany. " It 
in Florence (says Milton) that I found and visited the famous Ga- 
t, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, far thinking in astrouomy 
otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." 

fonsienr Blanchard and Dr. Jefieries navigate, in an air balloon, tbe 
Straits of Dover, from off the point of " Shakspeace's Chlf," and des- 
cend in the forest of Gaienaes, 1785, 

The industrious St. Distaff commenced her festival at the first cock 
after Twelfth-tide, which concluded, with her riles, the sports of Christ- 



KIhh betuitE Gllti.— Orlmto/ Prmri. 



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Hi buniint ptooghihirH an of Itnaie chuUljr ; I 



D. r. Secousse, 1691, Farit. 
EUzaBuDiiapaHe,lT7T,4;acct0. 

It is not (he red and white 
hich girelh the perfection of 
beauty, Ae truth of which may 
>pear in a discontented woman, 
iceeding fair, who st that in- 
stant will seem unlovely ; a: 
uiwise, a hard-favoared 
and brawn woman, being meny, 
sjid jocund, will seem sufficient 
beeatifiil , — Lomai, 

imfU of tht Latin Church. 
St. Apollinaris, Bp. ofHurape- 



390. (Sa Engiiih Church Ca- 
lendars^ 

Bp. of Aberdeen, 



Felix, Bp. of NanlM, 584. 
Edeai (of Scotland), 1107. d. 



irchrf 



St. Seveiious, d. Atuiria, 482. 
St. Gudula (or Goole), P. Pa- 

trOntu of Bruatla, d. 713. 
St, Pega (or Pec), P. of Eiig- 

land. d. Some, 719. 
St. Villain (or tJltins), Balup 

ofShiTtlmm. d. 973. 

iDODiy nu Bnl Uiihl by God, lor ni 



r,-Edin. 
Lawrence Jusiiniai 

1455. 

Henry Bynneman, 1584. 
Guy Ubaldo Bonarelli, 1608. 
Galileo, i642.d. Jrcilli. 
Justus Van Egmont, 1674. d. 

L. Bellini, 1703. d. Ftorenee. 

Earl of Stair, 1707. 
C. Rawlinson, 1733. Si. Aibant. 
J, !e Clerc, 1736. d. Amsterdam. 
Sir Thomas Bumet, 1763. 
Thos. Edwards, 1757. d. Por- 

um'i Grten. 
Peter Davall, 1768. 
Dr. Gregory Sharps, 1771. 
Lady Dodingt. MonUgu, 1774. 
Sir Wm. Draper, 1787. d. Bath. 
A. O'Leaiy, 1802. St. Pann- 
Sir Francis Bourgeois, IBll. 
Major Edw. Pakenham, 1815. 

hilUd, New OrUam. 



a In that.— Xliv Jam 



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The MoNTua. Tbe mDon bang ordiiocd ■■ ■ paipctnil ud nmrantl 
chnnMtmeteTi wcmtj, with immb, Cl»>c^■idc, tbU ia Iba mfsncjof the 
woitil h«t NtuiBBi kept aa met p«cB frith the nn*! pngnu thro 
each of the twdre xkUaol ligiu ; bat fiorn what uttonit etattt, * 
thei by deca; in tfaa gnnttting foma, or othaiwiu, the pmeot uuiutl 
dificrence of elevcD daj* ii occuioDed, mu4t ivec renain (peihapi) 
matter for fiaita *-V<rtlifi If, bowerv, wa admit bd A]rp«<Aau, of a 
lEceptiaa in tbo cantit* of the earth of a Sood af water* from tbemooo, 
at tlw period of the Mnfc, then tlw Utter might Eniih htr bmalioai ni 
daja ■ooner, bf laity, and tlie forowr he retarded five daji, bj griniits, 
which at race w^ Mconnt for the Tariance, and tqunlate the ante- 
diluyian, or Noetic Moatb (wbidi we know coniiated af thirtj daji) 
with the twelre hinar appnranea, withont rewirting to a nide cnboliim 
of Gte days, inrented from n«w>nfy tiy Noah, who, ia Otodt fable, ii 
called Satomui, and Janni at Rome. The Julian nontb, January, 
which takes iti name fram thii prince of aatroiioiDen, agieei marly with 
the elerentfa moon Tybi, of the andent Egyptian calendar, and the fifth 
of the AleiBodrian, or the modem jear— with the fifth wculu and Ihe 
eleveDth lacnd moon, Shtbat, of the Jewi— with the fifth moan, Mtrdtd, 
of the Fernan Yeadegerdic year— with the fifth nooni TUr, KkagutU, 
and Tana, of the Eihio^an, Armenian, and Coptic cakndan— with the 
fifth moons, Peritim, Kitariiu, and Hnvcliui, rf the Syro-Ililacedonianf, 
Cjrprinni, and Bylhiniam — with the fourth aaltf nooth, Coaiin JJ. of 
the Synani— with tbt «j^th ttanth, 4nlliattnai, of Ihe Athenims, 
the fiftli Dyitrat ot the Macedeoiaii*, and Ihe first, Audgnmiu, of their 
solar year — and with the seventh moons, Rtgii^ and Rigtb, of the 
Anbs and the Turks. It was called ICai/-moiidi b; the Suodi, and ii 
the LaoB-maund of the HoUandei*. 

The dty of Bagdad is Uken by the Tartars, 1358. 

ncgmtHt pItMiire of life !• lole; tlw tnitot trunn li coBlentmnit : 
greitnl poKukoi li bcilth ; tbt irtalnl att U ■lup ; aad Ibt pTalal uedl 
!■ ■ trot Mtwl.—SiT W, TrmfU. 



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Id be mBeh man IbuliAil (Or Ibe t 
lid. We an In lh> hudt ot Pnn 
/eii cmr ckuk li food ud Doblc. 



Abbi de Ranc«, 1636, Pani. 
JoK^ Ciadocfc, 1742. 

Chri»tiaiiVIl.fo/Dmm.;i749. 

Nerer contntct a friendihip 
witli any body, until yoa have 
fini exuniiied how be behsved 
himself to his fonoer friends. 
Take indeed a sufficient time 
before yon profai youraelf a 
friend ; but that ooce done, en- 
deavoui to be always such ; (or 
it i> equally ahameful to have no 
friends at all, and to change them 
often. — Iioeralei. 

tdiitt of Iht Latin CfturcA. 

St Marciana, V. Mart, in Af- 
rica, c. 305. 

Sis. Julian and Bunlissa, M. 
Egypt, c. 313. 

St. Peter of SebasU, c. 337. 

St. Felan, Abbot in Scotland, d. 
71b Centuiy. 

St. Vaneug, d. Nirnnandy, 6B8, 

St. Adrian, iJ6brri at Conl.d. 710. 

St. BrilhwaW, Abp. of Canter- 
fcuTTf, d. 731. 



John VI. (Pope), 705. 
Henry Courtenay, Manjuii of 

r, beluoM. 1539. 
Gen. do BeUay, 1543. Man,. 
Corn. Musso, 1674. d. Bmm. 
Barn, dt FoDtenelle, 17S7. 
Cath.Talbot,1770. d. Richmimd. 
J. r.Blondel. 1774. d. Lmivr,. 
Dr. J. Fotster. 1799. i. Haiti. 
tenger, 1837. 



SeattpB. 



The eaueit and Iha shortest 
way for a man to arrive at In 
gloiy is leally to to what I 
deures to appear to be, saltb S< 
cralei ; for that which is bi 
external ihow, adds his con 
mentator, Cicero, u a flowe 
quickly fades and withen. 

Amoretl as sweet and good 
As the most delicious food. 
Which, but tasted, doe) 
Life and gladness to the heart. 
Sacharissa's beauty's wine. 
Which to maduess doth iadin 
Such a liquoi, as no brain 
That is mortal can sustain. 
Waiter. 






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The Eight aondliul letlen, A to H, eoimpoiMling in the Romin 
Cilendv With iha fint oglit i^jt of JuiiMiy, utd la repealed, like our 
dominical character, tbroagfaont the jtaz, weie aaed for the conTeiuencs 
of tboie whii reiided in (ha caoDtiy, in order that thej might auemble 
within the dtj, w>d tnnaact tbeir aflain. Theie mtikeu were held every 
ninth Jay, m the letoni of tbe letKr, tnd hence ii derived tlieii name, 
" Nundinc." 

The Agonali*, a featt in luinoar of the god ot bouneu, Agonini (or 
oF Janui, aa aome nii^on, but inconectly, ai the oU Calendar mutt 
his lacriBcc* on ttie ei^lh, onleM he be confounded with Hercni;, tba 
man, for the matter), wai kept on the preient day. — St Slit May. 

The town of Altona, on the Elbe, ii burnt by tbe Swedei, 1712, under 
the commuul of Genenl Staabock, u iUuitrioai for hit wiidom and 

The treaty of Conitantinople ii ligaed, by which the aorercignty of 
tbe CrimcK wat ceded to Ruuia, 17EI4. Upon the tame day, 1793, a 
final treaty of peace was concluded by Catharine with the Ottoman 
Porte, filing the river Dnietter at tiie conmon boundary between tbe 
two em^ret. 

Benttte ex^tiM to Dr. BU^lock hi* tnotivM for pmning tbe lickly 
and exotic plant of infidelity, 1769: " Aveiy litthtnlhwill tomelime* 
enlighteD a vut eitoit of adence. I found that the iceptical philotophy 
w>B DDt what the world imagiiked it to be, nor what 1, following the ojunion 
of the world, had hitherto imagined it to be ; but a friroloiu, tbongli dan- 
gerous, lyitem of verbal tnbtilty, wiiich it required neither geniut, nor 
learning, irartatte, norkmiwledge of mankind to be able to put together ; 
bat only a cqitioiu temper, an irjeligioui tpirit, a moderate command 
of woidi, and an extiaoidinaiy degree of vanity and preiumption." 

TwQ ihipt Mil from Oiaveieiul, with black people on board, to ellect 
a new lettlement at Sierra l.eone, 17EI7. Thii ia the poipeniu cokmy 
founded by Granville Sharp. 

Sir David Burd takei poaaesuon of the Cape-of Good Hope, by 
capitulation, upon the defeat of General Jauueni, 1806. — The foneral 
of IfeliniwBtiolemniiedalSt. Paul'aiOnthe Mmeday, amidit a nation'a 

n> pnhi of tlorr lead but lo the fuTv. — Gf^. 



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PiDie, ir nol donblr-hceil. ii 
And wUb atntimif blut proc 
On balb U> wlnfi, a 



n In bit wild avry Sliht.— mUn. 



»tt^. 



Nidi. St«DO, 1630, Copenhagm. 
L. F. Duke of Bouflera, 1644. 
Ciid. Gabrielli, 1664, CatUUa. 
JoEhna B*mes, 1654, LimdoB. 
J. £. Grabe, 1666, Kmingiberg. 
Michael Ney, lT69,5arr«-L<mu. 

Age will BiiperciUouly sen- 
lure all who are fooDgei than 
AmmcIvm, and the vicei «f tbe 
pcSfCBt tinw ai d«w aad anheard 
of, whan in bndi the; ar 
VC17 nme (i>^ fcactind, and 
practised as long as they 
able. They die in an opiaion 
■tmt they have left oone 
behind tham, tbougb the; have 
left QODG bdiind them who ever 

d any eiteam of their ivisdem 
and judgment. — Ciortadin. 



OUtt a/' the Latin CImrck. 
I, Marcian, d. Coiulaiit. 5lh 
Century. 
St. Agalho (Pope), d. 663. 
SL Wilkam, Atp. if Bmrga, 
1209. 



lEIrattll. 



MUtiade* (Pope). 314. 
Gregory, Bp. (f Nyua, 400. 
John I. (of Cmatant.) 976. 
Bishop Bluet, ezpind 1133. 
Gregoty X. (Pope), 1376. 
J. Cochlaeui, 1G&3. d. BmUu. 
Sir Maurice Abbot, 1640. 
Abp. (W.) Laud, behtad. 1645. 
Edw. Cave, 1754. CUrktnmll. 
John, Dak« of Rutland, 1711. 
Francis Nicole, 175S.d. Lyoia. 
Adm. Bosca,HeD ,1761. Fenhmel. 
Adam Andeison, 176S. 
Geo^ Costani, 1782. 
Eliaa de Beaumont, 1785. 
Peter Lyonet, 1789. i. Hague. 
M. J.deChenier, ISll.d. Pa™. 



I cannot think Nature ii «i 
ipent and decayed, that ^e can 
liriQg forth nothing worth her 
tanner yean. She is alwayi 
me, like herself; nsd when 
she eellecls her strength, is abler 
Men are decayed, and 
studies ; she is not. — Jamim, 



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TfteoDOsroa otriiliritM tbt Gaelic creed upon th« rains o[ AiiuiiBm 
ia all the pmviDcn of tbe East, b; meaiu of a militaiy commiuiaD, 
dated on the preMotdsy, A.D. 3BI. 

Ibe aBokat Smdiih year btgan with the mMwintBT of the Jtoaiaaa ; 
. «. tb« M«nMMA (this) day after mir winter MlitKa, wkea the hiCival 
A Ac DBW ]F««r WW celAiMad in the cit; of StooUiolm. 
No gende breathing breeze preparei the tpiing, 
No birds within the deiert r«giati sag. 
The thipi, unmaved, the btnaianiiu wiodi liafj. 
While TMlling choriata o'n Iha ocaan 6y. 
The vast leviuhan wanli loom to play. 
And Epont hit i^tos in the face of day ; 
And starving wolvei along the mun lea piowl. 
And to the moon in icy vaUayi honl. — A, PhUipM. 
OUver Cramwell takes his seat in the Hoiue of Commcmg, 1628. 
was King ChuUa'i tMnl .parliament. 

Dom. John Bourget, «o reqwctable for lui leanikig and jHely, is elected 
to hoiwiwy nerobei of the Society of Antiqaariea, London, 1766. 

Bruce, the tiaveUer, ratuina to Cairo from ihe Abyanotaa court, after 
HI dxenoe of more than foutyeai*, 1773. 

Beattie, writing to the DucheH of Gordon, 1779, " I nsed to derour 
the ' Nig^t Thoughts ' with a sattafaction Dot nnl&e that whidi, in my 
yoooger years, I have foond in walking alone in a churchyard, ra- c 

1 mountain, by the light of the moon, at midaight. Such things may 
help to (often a ru^ed mind. When I Gret read Young, my heart w 
brc^en to think of the poor man'tafitictlonB. Afterwards, I look it in my 
head, that where there was u much lamentation, there could not be 
ive suffering ; and I could not help a^ying to him sometimes those 
t of a song, 

' Believe me, the shqiherd but feigns ; 
He's wretched, (o show he has wiu' 
I haM aiDce 4band, ftmn his'friMids,<tb«t «y ooajcetim «M «ghl." 
i> tflfflcBlt lo flad 1 yomig; (tBow din li neHlier i wll bi hli own tyt, a 



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mule tnx, imbidoui 



- Di. T. Wren, 1632, Cambridg4. 
• Heni7, Duke of Norfolk, 1654. 
' Robert HiU, 1699, JtfumlJ. 
Cunille Jordan, ITTl, Lyaai. 

Aspire not to publk honoun 
enter aot the palaces of kingi 
(said tlie eipiring Emir to his 
son) ; thy weallb will set 
above iniutt, let thy modei 
keep Oiee below envy. In the 
height of my power,' I said to 
defamation, who will hear theel 
and to arlifice, what canst thou 
perform ? But, my sod, despise 
not thou the malice of the weak- 
est, remember that venom sup- 
plies the want of strength, and 
that the lion may perisli by the 
punctura of an atp,-~RambUr, 
indil. 

®btt9 of the Latin Cftureft. 
St. Hyginns (Pope), d. 1«. 
St. Theodosiiis tlie Cenobiareh, 

529. d. Paleilinc. 
St. SaUius (or Sauve), Bp. c/ 

Amiem, 7th Century, 
St.Egwin,Bp.of H'Dre«Wi-,lie3. 



Seatti. 

Mendoia, Abp. of TaUdo, 1495. 
Augustine Vincent, 1636. 
WilUam Chamberlayne, 1689. 

Shaftetbary. 
John George Grtatius, 1703. 
J. ZaonichelU, 1729. d.-Fenice. 
Sii H. Sloane, 1752. Chtiaa. 
F. Roubilliac, 1762. d. London. 
Charles Linnsus, 1778. Upml. 
Abp. (W.) New(ome. 1800, i 

Dublin. 
F.Schlegel. 1829. d. Vienna. 

What a wretched cooditipn 

are tho«e kings and slatea 

who put their confidence in such 

I as believe neither natural 

revealed religion ! Indeed, 

\, who are themselves void of 

learniag, who give no credit to 

Ihe judgment of any learned men 

whatsoever; who have do sort 

of concern for truth, but live in 

perpetnal hypocria; ; are by do 

lo be tjusted in any 

It even with such as 

relate lo the public.— Xe CUrc. 



I Id the woiki at Skikipem ■ wbok woild It luftiUed \ and he wlw bu i 

j coiiipteheDdHl Ihii, mbA bttn pentlnted Hilh Its iplrtl, wLil dM tt^y allow 

t effect lo Ik dimlDiibed by Ihc Ann, or Uitea to ibe cavlli of thOH wbo ue Ld 

j (ableotnodotiumlingilielmpotlotwlnllbey wooM crillcJit— /■. Scliligil. 



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TkeetHiuI God b ei 



Octt. 



TheAktresteria, (iiiAtheDiu)ie>tiTalinboiionrof"pliimpyBaccbiu, 
with pbk eyne," wu beld on ilie lllh, ISth, tnd 13th dafi of dM 
nxmth AntbeiterioD. The i«a>els neie tapped, and taited, on the Gnl 
diy; on the second the TOtariea " look Aeir capi," and diaik, like 
tnK decks, to repletion ; the lail da; wu one of itntineDce, divided, 
most rationally, between fot-lttath and the tait comedy. 

The Cannentolia, a fea«I of dedicatimt, wai celebrated on thii aAei- 
DDim 1^ the Roman mations, in conunemoialioD of tb«r connabial feli- 
city. — Sa l&th day. 

The exptatoiy Instratiom and tacrificei are celebrated at Rome, aa 
enjoined by the Sytnllina books, which Aiueliu and the lenate had 
consulted pieviona to the emperor's victor; at Fana cner the invading 
Alemanni, A. D. 271. 

AduD de HoDghton, Bp. of St. David's, receives the great seal, 1377. 

The divwing of the first Public lottery begiiu at the weat door of St. 
Paul's, 1669. It continued, by day aitd candle-ligfat, antil the 6th of 
Uay. The lots weie forty thonsand (without blanks), at ten shiHioga 
each, and the chief prins consisted of plate. It seems that the profiU 
of this scAmc were to have been " converted towards the reparation of the 
havens, and strei^[lh of ^le realm, and towards such other farther good 
wm-kt," Thus about 30,0001. was ingeoiously raised by a sale, in some 
shape, of the royal plate and trinkets — useless new years' ^fu. 

A hnman skeleton, according to M. Le Cat, ia found, in 1613, en- 
tombed eighteen feet below the surface of a spot called the Giant's 
Field, in Daujdiiny, which was tnenly-five feel and a half lor^. and ten 
feel wide across the shoulders. There appeared on a gray stone this 
inscription: " Tbcdtobochiis Rex." 

Louis XIV. by a decree, 16B0, establishes, at the Arsenal, a special 
court for the trial of poisoners and nagieuins; by which authority several 
persons, distinguished hy their birth and titles, were gravely convicted. 

Sir Edward Hughes storms and captures the Dutch ■etllement of 
Trincomalee, in Ceylon, valuable for its £ne harbour, 1782. , 

Sir J.Moore finishes his memoiable retreat, and eaten Comnna, 1809. 



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D'y- 


9mt- 


BMtH. 


Prld. 




AbMSttget, 1153.4. 51. Dmii. 


Id. 

12. 


OduHDtw. 


Andrew Aleiati, l»SO.d. Pa»ia. 




£di*ud Bwnftfd. 16B6. Oi/'onJ. 






Dem. Vinceni ThuiUwr, 1736. 




Spill not dis monung (which 


JohX.Uvalei.lSOl.d.ZuricA. 












JoaephUairyatt, 1B24. 










fore, cance to Nucei; and he 






cannot properly have my dile 






lb be Tefreched, who wis-not&it 


It wen batlCT for a man to 




faint. Paitini, lilu »iae, ii 


ba iulqect la any viea, than to 




pabon in the morniDg. It ii. 






then, good hacUadiy w m,« (he 






h««d, whkh hMA lain bUow all 


> dninkud will never (hala off 




night, with BDDc Miious weiL. 


the delight of beaitliaeu; for 




fuller. 


the man he will delight in H, 




ffittb oflfti Zolui Clurci. 


aod the eUei be gmwetb, the 
mm he abril be BUhjeet to it ; 




SU AiQulius, Borlyr in 4frka, 


fi» it dHllelh the ^tB, and 




C.300. 






St. Benedict BiKf^ (« BewKi), 


the tii tieer er a> the wonn 










Stt. Tygra. aad Eutrajiu,, M,. 


of the nut. 






S^Ueigk. 




St. .£l»d,JUMX^«M«i)l,» 











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Lvfc and wIm in Ok booda Iktt IUub ■■ an ; * 

The wcrld bM lOr thnc 10 coafatioa wnid bH: 
Wt>a DM vain ow Uv«, not noaM apnk wWwiil tblnkhii, 
TI« woaU Uop nk lb( wocM, tal ftir Inn ual pml driOhit. 



TnECoNFiTALiA.tleitiTtl uutitDted b;^ Semui alMDtB.C. 576, wm, 
according U Gellini and Maerabhu, abaened b; tbc Roman lUntt, e 
the 13di of Jannaiy, u well ti on Uw lit of Maj. Tho Lara, guanluuu 
of all flie highways, were then hoDoared both in tmrn and conntiy, 
etch aerrant wu permitted to forget himMlf and become tua own ma 

"Itnatare" (that excellent king ii uid to have ipokeu to theaenate) 
"hai made injr diitinctiini between ilarei and nch ai an born lne,we 
ought, indeed, to obacrre Ac order ahe haa eatabliihed, and to diride 
thoae from the rett of manUnd whom abe bai tepanted bom them : but, 
if the placing aome in a state inferior to otbera be owing to fortune or, 
does it not become ytmr wiadom to rectify the npricioaa dctensinationi 
of B blind goddess 1" 

XenophoD, with the 10,000, forces a paaiage through the defiles of 
Aimenia, B. C. MO. 

The Homers' Company at London is incorporated, 1638. 

An unaccountable darkness i* lemaiked, at noon, in England, I6TS. 

Lord Chatham, writing to hia nephew, ai Cambridge, on this day, 
1754 : " FitoRila at improNi Sym, Daidia, I de>in may be affixed ic 
the cnrtaina of year bed, and to tbe walla of your chambeia. If yon do 
rise early, you never can make any progress woitii mentioning. 1 
you do not set apart your hour* of reading ; if yon snfier yourself, o 
one else, to break in upon diem ; your days will slip through yonr 
hands, nnproEtably and feivohnuly, vnjniaed by all 704 wirii to pleaae, 
and raaliy unenjc^ed by yonnelf." 

Flou^ Monday, is the first Monday aftir TwtUth-tide, and fcU, in 
I B39, on \he present day ; which agrea also with Old Ifew Year^ Day, 

rmeily considered moat auspidons for marriages. On dmt day, I6S1, 
a lady presented ber husband with the following noptiat poey : 
How iwilUy time doth pass away 
When hap^ness completes tiie day ! 



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TboD^ Hie timet tod opportanl 



OratW. 



Aattnnelte Boarignan, 1616. 
Edw.R.Mores,1730. runiMJl. 
Charlei James Fd>, 1749. 

The princes of Ihe world have 
always laid before .them the ac- 
tions, but not the ends of Ibose 
great men which preceded them. 
Tbey are alwajs transported 
with the gloiy of the one, but 
they never mind the miser 
the other, till they find the 
perience jn themselves. They 
neglect the advice of God, ' 
they enjoy life or hope il ; but 
they follow the counsel of dealb 
upon his first approach. It 
he that puts into man all the 
wisdom of Ihe world. — Raleigh. 

^itg 0/ thi Lalin Church, 

St. Kentigem ((umamAJ Mung- 

hu, or dearly beloved), Bp. oj 



Sem^us, Abp. ef iU<imt, 533. 
Ethelwulf {of Englonf), 868. 

Waahater. 
Charles the Fat (of Jramtt), 

BBS. 'Bachtnau.. 
Frederick the Fair (q/^Gsmuiiii ), 

1330. 
Richard II. 1400. murdmd, 

P(>n(efrac(. 
John Alasco, 1560. d. Folar^. 
Sir W. Petre, 1572. JngoMtnM. 
Francis Adorue, 1586. 
JohaBochius,1609. d.^inluwrp. 
Gen. Valette, 1642. d. Locliu. 
John Claude, 1687. d. JJoUwuf. 
George Foie, 1690. d. Londm. 
FrederickV.(o/tt!t<mflrfc),1766. 
Claude Watelet, 1786. d.P<>ru. 
N. de Basseville, 17S3. oiiun- 

nalnj, fionw. 
Dr. James Macknight, 1800. 
Robert Onne, 1801. d. Ealing. 

For a man to talk great and 
falsely of himself in discourse, 
is but to imitate, and be laughed 
ai with, Bra^adocchio in the co- 



robt>«r Is ihrice xa enemy 



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M Of ( feiUe ud pndiMnr n«. 



flctf. 



In tha Latin Choich calmd&r Ihii da; ii mutol u the Ottave of tlit 
tlpiphany, ud conuDcmoTfttei the tnptitm of C^kiist; t Hlemnity which 
■ppevs to be kept by the GnA church on Twelfth Daj ; for, ia 1676, 
tb« Bilhop of Zante did Itm ""M llicj ettl k, btptix the Mt, with ■ 
great ieti of cereiDony ; iprinUing Ibeir galliet and fiihingtackla with 
htriy water." tit ii alao New Yiu'i Daj, hf the Oieek uid RnHitn 
lapputatioii of time* 

The tbirteeDth day (the Idea) of thii month the Roman people ie< 
apart for the tnimptten, dieaied in the habiti of women, to make pnbli- 
cations thmngh the dty^^H 15(h UuTtK The ptewat da; waa like- 
wise aiicieiitly devoted to the booour of thoae bran ioldien who rallitd, 
under Romnlni, in an action againit the Sabinea. 

Octavioa Cnat ii digiti6ed, B. C. 37, with the aHntaiDe of Avtvlia- 

Tbt Tartan, nnder Tamarlaoe, {ullage the imperia] city of Delhi, and 
on the ISdi wantonly mauacie tbe oitin Indian population, 1399. 

In U04 (an tfie ti«nw of St. Hilary) it waa enacted, by tbe ahorteat 
act of parliament on the itatute-iolla, that " none (refi^Tring to the 
chymiits) from henMlbrlh ihall nee to imjlipjy gold and ailTcr, or uae 
the era/1 of mnltiplicaiiDo ; and if any iha aame do, he ahall incur tbe 
pain of felony." It waa repealed 1 William aad Haiy. 

Sir Philip Sidney i> knighted (Snnday), 1683 ; tbe aame day that 
an earthc[uake wai felt in Donetahiia, which ismciTed a Urge piece of 
ground, 

Heiiod teaches to plant, and not to aow, upon tfaia day ; 
" Not ei'iy plant on ey'iy kbI wijl grow ; 
The ullow lores the wat'iy ground, and low ; 
The teoi, the aldera : Nature leenii t' ordain 
The rocky cliff for the wnid aabes reign ; 
Tbe baleful yev Jo Mwthem blaata aangni, 
To ihoi«t the myttlM, and to mounta tbe iiBet,''—Gerrgitkt. 

The Hilary Terma are ^^oinUd to commence, at Cambridge on tbi«, 
and on ^le day (allowing at Oxford ; and to coDclQde wifh tbe Friday 
and Saturday neit beftne Palm Snnday, 



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. Shakerley ManDU)ii,1602, Ayn- 

■ JoknEve\yn,i6S^,Saya■CouTt, 
Rob. Price, 1654, Caer-y-Dn,i- 

Joieph Bojse, 1660, Letdi. 
Alderman SkiaMr, 1T3T. 
Sir William Curtis, 175B. 
f. P. Biissol, 1754, Ouaraillt. 

Let it sullice to name a Boa- 
diceai aadifhcrendeavouradid 
^eet with the aucceSB of an 
aoder, aCffi3ar,araCtiarlei 
oFSwedea, in bis fortunate da^s, 
coinage and conduct were 
such as render her worthy lo be 
considered equal, if oat superior, 
to them all. — Sepkia'i Jiiodat 
VmdiCttlioT, of Womun. 

<Bbilf 1^ the Latin Church. 
St. Felix, ifNola, d. 3d Cent. 
?t. laaiaa aod Sabbaa, Ms. h 

Arabia, 273. 
ii .Bacbascemiuus, and h is C om - 
panions. Mi. in Persio, 346. 
St.HilaTy,Bp.ufPmfier(.d.368 



States. 



Bp. (Tho.) Beckiagton, 1466. 

Wtiii. 
£dw. Laid Bnioe, 1610. RolU- 

Chapel. 
Lord (Tho.) Coventry, 1640. d. 

Dvrimm H(m». 
John Boyse, 1643. Ely, 
Madame de Sevign^, 1696. 
Edni.Ha]ley,1742.d.Gr«>Hncb. 
Stephen SoucteC, 1744. i. Pirii. 
Bp.BerkeUy, 1763. Oxf<ml. 
Dr. Ednard Hamood, 1794. 
H. Haated, 1812. d. ConWa. 

An antiquary is a great lii 



, but i 



.s of ti: 



t of 



mind, to which he conforms ei 
actly, but is wholly retired from 
the present. H 
a natural affection to any thing 
tlmt is old, that he may truly 
say lo dust and w 
my father, and 
thou art mif metbrr. All his GU 
riosities take place of one another 
according; to their seniority, and 
he values them not by their abi- 
lities, but their standing. — But- 



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atto. 



This da; of Ihe miKilh wa^ considered by the Greeka aa th« ttar-day, 
and the most projntious for the birth of vfohen. It atturally presidet 
met Airee virtues ; beauly, patience, <uid ktadness, it little knot thai 
binds the world.-'&H! 14lA day of each month. 

St. Hilacy's day (a festival which belongs to the 13th January in our 
Eu^i^ caleodais) is, upon an average, the coldest day in the year. In 
1205 a &o«t began on this day, which endured for more than tvo 
moDlhs ; and it was thin, 1820, that the Society for Klievbg the House- 
less was founded in London. 

Henry III. the weakest of oui kings, espouses Eteanor of Proretice ; 
who, six days after, was crowned with great splendoni, 1236.. 

Fiantns I. of Fiance is conveyed from the place of his captivity in 
Italy to Madrid, where, on this day, 1 525, he signs a disadvantageous 
treaty, which he afterwards infringed, under the Pope's absolutioll. 

In 1734-6 (O. S.) Di. Gmelin observes that the thermometer at 
Yeneseisk, in Siberia, (ell to — 120° of Fabreoheit's scale. The foggy air 
was ID a stale of fixation, so that smoke had ua passage, and the birds 
dropped boata to the ground. 

The Pope issues his edict against the assemblies of Freemasons, under 
penalty of the rack and condemnation to the gallies, 1739. 

Id All Souls' College, Oxford, a custom is occauooally observed on 
this day ; that of keeping the MaUard Kigkt, in remembraDce of the 
discoTcty of a very large mallard, in a drain, when diggiog tor the 
fonndatioD of die college. At the celebratioD, an old song, called 
" The twappiDg, swappiog mallard," is always introduceil. 

-I bi^ly aj^Hove of the inttnt of Pythagoras's ininnctioD (writes Lord 
Chatliam on this day) ; which is, to dedicate the first parts of life to hear 
aikd to learn ; and not to be presuming, and flippant, and thus expose 
die nakedness and emptiness of the mind, like a house opened to com- 
pany before it is furnished dther with 
for tbeir reception and entertainment. 



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. gltttB. 

fi ChhitiaDKarthoIt, 1633, Burj. 
■ Lewia Duteiu, 1730, Tmin. 

Dr.S. Parr, 1747, 0.8. Harron. 

Dr. Joha AiUn, 1747, Kibt^th. 

Gen. Sir B. Laghion, 1747. 

I rMd nith disgust, iha ma- 
tnal reproaches of BomBiiiats 
and Protestants, as they are 
called ; and in convening vilh 
English divines, I often reust 
their attacks upon iLe choich o( 
Rome, even io events, which 
have loBg ago passed aiva^. 

tSftitS of tht Latin Church. 
St. Paul, the fnt Hirmit, d. 

Egypt. 34a. 
St. Isidore, o/' &^lj, c. 3d0. 
St. Isidore of Alaamlria. d. 403. 
St. Main, a Brilak Biihop. 
St. Joho Calybile, d. ConKonl. 

5th Centuiy. 
St.Itl. (or Mid»,)r. of Waterford. 

d.669. 
St. Maorus, of Anjou (the root 

of the noble family of Sej- 

mout), d. 584. 
S(, Bonitus (or Bonel), d. Lgoni, 

710. 



Sergius Galba,iuKU>iRa( Af , A .D . 

69. 
Father Paul (Saip), 1623. 
Bishop (John) Cown. 1673. 

Aacklmi. 
Sir PhiUp Warwick, 1683. 
Bichvd Boyle, Earl of Bdt- 

litigton. 169B. 
Bobert, Count of St. Germain, 

1778. 
John Landen, 1790. d. Milton. 



The Boman empire more 
iembled the eitravagant pass 
and raving! of the Tituni, which 
the poeti speak of, when it was 
lorn to ptecea by rebellion, and 
turned its anus against itself; 
not so much through the ambi- 
CiDn of the emperors, as the ava- 
rice and liceutiouiDeiK of the 
soldiers, who drove out one em 
peror by another. — Plutarch, i\ 
Gatbd. 



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Ulmr wn tht KB <K Nf«i>irr, Ibt onnllBt d Ho 
be had tbc nnBflh or hli nwcber, Ibc ipliit d( h)> onn 



Sets. 



The fifteenth daj of Ihe month Slitbat begu die yein of Ireet, when the 
Jem wtre first pennitted to eat the Tniit of them, after being pUnted 
three jean. — lev. lii. 33. 

Ad ancient Soman festiTal wai kept on Ihii daj in hononr oF- Poat- 
Tcna and Potrima, aiilen of the propbelesi Cmwtnic, rappiMad to 
preeide OTtr leemiag women. She mi the Tbemia of the Gie^i, and 
the mother of Evaoder, and received lacii&cM the lame daj, with 
compaDLoiia. 

The liolent itorm, with a louth-tntt wind, recorded by Waliingham, 
and other hiitoiiani, and mentioned alio in the Viaant cf Pun* Plauih- 
nofl, happened oa the evening, of this day (Sataidaj), 1362, 

Elinbeth, af lum-port, and aat-eommajiding /aci, il CrowDtd, 1559. 

Col. Coole tale> and demoliihei the leltiemeat of Pondicheny, 1761. 

The libertine Maiqnerade ii introduced into Scotland, 1773. 

Bum wrilei from Lochlee to Mi. Hnidoch, at Slaple'i Inn, 
iudulftnlfatfur, and Uadur, 1783 ; " I aeem lo b« lent into Ibe world 
to lee and observe ; and I raiy eacilj componnd vrith the knave n 
Iricki me of my nxmey, if (here be any thing original about him which 
■howl me haman lutaie in a diflerent light from any thing 1 have ■ 
before. Ti* iacongmoa*, 'tii abauid, to aui^ioae Ibat the man whoae 
mind glowi with lentimenti, lighted up at thtb- iacred Same [Tfaomi 
ftlackeniie, Sleine, Oiaian, and Sbenatone] ; whoie hekrt diitendi with 
benevolence to all tbe human race ; he ' who can aoar above thii little 
■cene of thingi', can descend to mind the paltry concenu about wl 
the terra-filial race fret, and fame, and vex themaelvei. — I forget that 
T am a poor iniignificant devil, unnoticed and unknoirn, (talking up 
and down fain and nurketi, reading a page m two of mankind." 

Sir William Jonea Ibuudi Ihe AiiatiG Socie^r, at CaicutU, 1784, a 
set ever lo be remembered in the diariei of acience ; but (fail day ii 
lendeicd doubly illustrioni by tbe dmuiiioii, from the SovEitEigN, in 
lS23,ortbeRi^ILIbnry, containing 1 30,000 volumei, fiir the benefit 
of the Britiih Nation, and die advancement of onr Litentnie. 

Pride ud mihncii oMf lora one'i hamoar, Int tttUrt nnu oiw'i Han»ck. 
air Wmam TrmpU. 



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Edmund Crouchback, 1245. 
Rich, Savage, 1697, Foi-cmir 

He was veiy Ulde disturbed 
at the marks of contempt which 
his ill fortune hrought upon 
from those whom he nevei 
teemed , and with whom he t 
conadered himself as levelled by 
any calamiUes ; and thoagh it 
WIS not without some aiKHsiuesi 
that he saw some, whose fiiend. 
ship be T«lued, change their be- 
haviour ; be yet wat more in- 
diited to desiHse them, than to 
lament himself. — L^tafSava^ 

®bftS of the talin Church. 
St. Marcel Iu9 (Pope), d. 310 
Macarius, the eUer, of Egypt, 
d. 390. 
St. Honoratus, 4bp.i/fArla, d. 
429. 



n Irtland, d. 



St. Fursey, Abhal 

:. 650. 
Saints, the five Friars, Mi. at 
MoToco), 1220. 
;. Henry, Hermit of Nvrthum- 
berland.d, 1127. 



Bp. Rufus de Belmeis, 1127. 

Si. Oiyih. 
Edward, Earl of Lincolu, 1565. 

Windior, 
Sdmund Spenser, 1399. Abbey. 
Dudley, Lord North, 1666, 
Oliver Fatru, 1681. 
R. Nelson. 1715. Kensivglon. 
F. M. Misson, 1 72 1 . d, I->ndcn, 
S. Aug. Souciel, 1744. 
John Lewis, 1747. T^net. 
Miss HiU Boothby, 1736, 
Dr. John Leiand, 1766. 
Paul Heniy Maty, 1787. 
Edwai-d Gibbon,1794.Fl((cAint 
Sir John Moore, 1800. k. Ehina. 
Cbarlei Lloyd, 1828. 



We shall best honour the dead 
by extending our protection lo 
the living; — we must assist and 
defend their widows, protect and 
honour their parents, embrace 
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^th hb BunUl cknk u 



atte. 



Tbi9 day the Roman citixens dedicated to the goddess Concord. 

William de Hamillon, Dean of York, is appointed Cbancelloi of Eng- 
land, 13DS. 

Columbus sails (lom Haiti tor Europe on (his day, and aniving at 
Palos, ISlh of Maich, 14S3, he completes his first Ametican adventure. 

An act of parliament is passed in 1542. which declarea that " It shall 
be felony to practise, or cause to be practised, conjutatioD, witchcraft, 
enchantment, or sorcery, to get money ; or to consume any person in his 
body, members, or goods ; or to provoke any person to uolanful love ; 
or for the despite of Christ, or lucre of money, to pull down any cross ; 
or to declart where goodi ilofm ht." Another curious jnece of wisdom is 
proDDUDced by the seoale, held on the same day, in the following year, 
prohibitiiig any " woman, or artificers' prentices, journeymen, serving- 
men, of the degree of yeomen, or under, husbandmen, or labourers, to 
Ttad the Nea Teitament in English." 

Thomas Harriot begins to observe the podtioos and revolulionts of the 
satetliies of the planet Jupiter, 1610. 

Lady Montagu writes to her sister from Vienna, 1717 : " 1 foig;ol to 
tell you one curiosity in all the German courts, which I cannot forbear 
taking notice of: all the princes keep favourite dwarfi. The emperor 
and empress have two of these little monsters, as ugly as devils, espe- 
cially the female; but they are all bedaubed with diamonds, and stand 
at her majesty's elbon in all public places. I am told the King of Den- 
maik has so far improved upon this fashion, that his dnarf is his chief 
minister. I can assign no reason for their fondness of these pieces of 
deformi^, bat the opinion all the absolute princes have, that it is below 
them to converse with the rest of mankind ; and, not to l>e quite alone, 
they are forced to seek their companions aroongthetefuseof human nature." 

Admiral Rodney defeats Uie Spanish fleet off Cape St. Vincent, 1780. 

The bean-fed friars in 1790 are ejected from tiieir convents by an 
Augean labour of the French Revolution. 

The battle of Comnna and death of Sir John Moore.— See DeaChi. 






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B. de MontbucaB, 1656, Saa- 

Anth. de U Motle, 16TS, Paru. 
Atcli. Bower, 1686, thindtt. 
B. Fraaklm, 1706, Bottm.K.A. 
George Lord LytlellOD, 1700. 
FraneisGOBsec,1733, Vergnitrt. 
Victor Alfieri, 1749, Aai. 



<Slitt oftht Latin Churcht 
8L Anthony, FatrinTchaf U/mki, 

Egypt, 356. 
Sis.Speuiippui.Eleiuippiu, and 

M«)eiiiippus, (three twin bio- 

Ibera) Martyn m Cappadoeia. 
St. SulpicEus (the severe), ..liTi, o/" 

Boarga, d. 591. 

,. NeiiniuB (or Nennidhius), 

Abbtt in (7li(er, 6lh Ceaturj; 

.. Sulpiciua, (i, ri^imnal™,) 

.*tp. n/Bimrgtt, 644. 
3t.Milgitbe (or Milvida), V. (f 

Kent, 7th Centui;. 



BcatH 



Coius Marios, B. C. 86. Rome. 
Ileodorius the Great, A.D. 396. 

d. MitcH. 

DaeobeitIU.(g/K'»uErui). 715. 
George Scaoderbeg, 1467. Liaa. 
R. Fermor, 1553. Eitm-KeOm. 
Philip de Neri, 1656. FlortiKe. 
J. AlvareidtPa., 1620. 
Went. £arl of Roscommon, 1664. 

John Ray, 1706. Black Notley. 
Jibei Hughes, 1731. 
G. Byng, Lord Toniagtob, 1733. 
Sir RoE>ert Modro, 17 J6. killed, 

FMirk. 
Robert Levetl, 1782. BrifetcriJ. 
Bp. (G.) Home, 1793. Elthm. 
Anqaetil du Ferron, 1805. d. 



To do an ill action, is base ; 

to dCt a good one, which involves 
you in nit danger, is nolbiog 
more than common ; but it is 
the popeity oC a good man, to 
do great and good things, (hough 
he lisks eveiy thing by it. 



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The Iteble tjtt ol oar ufMmt Ihim^t 
Behold tUflo pcacut, •>■ negnl ikkBp pulj 
But Ihln^ la nnK 110*^ on hanoi nwb. 
Ami in BM palBtot yu bt ■ftli' eyH.— ^iKlit 



Mabtih Luther preached at Wittenberg bb final leniWD, 1546. 

George Peele, (be icbolai, Ibe poet, the «n(, and, in erery lam, the 
iclDT, af ler reTelling in all (he licenK of an age unpaialleled ia thk ctmntry 
fbr tbe variety and extent of (alent, aa well aa the riro it ei^nderad, io 
tbe eitiemily of age, diieau, raiDone, and poraTty, (he acoro of Iboie 
who, bj repoit or eiperience, were Euniliu with hii life, dewrted by moat 
of biafriendiand aasocialei, and writtea down by tbe rirali ofhii quill, 

m, in 1S96, reduced literally to bis latt ibift. I.otd Baileigh, who 
at DO period bad dittioguiihed hiituelf ai a patron of <ltrinil)i, in Tene, 
and being, abo, on (he rergt of hi* temporal caieer, wonld be th« least 
hkely to rciDeinber that aacb a thing u the " Tale o^ Trty " had ever 
been lyllabted, in the bouiehold phiaie, and itood a ten yean' ba((eiy of 
e pnblic finger. This (tale book, thereCpre, <J fire bandied Enea, oar 
wiGlched poet leaolvcd (o dedica(e, ai loinething neu, to hii lordihip ; 
and on ttie present day it wai piBienled by (ucont/i Hnwii, hii dangbter, 
who, if tbe "menyjecti" betme, waanJi port af htr fulhtr, aitd a moat 
eomeatid veneh. Tbe Epiitk ia couched in a attain of clunuy adolation; 

there ii one piaaage, " long NckneH having » enfeebled me maketb 
baAfi^'iai olmoat become impndency," which aeant to realiie tbe trope 
of Gray, dkat tvm in our adut i(M tkdr vmted firtt ; for (he boldeit of' 

les did not long luiriTe (hia itroke of deceptioo — be was usuredly 
dead in 1598, the bit(eT aport, both in bia person and writinp, of inio- 
lence, want, aikd rerenge. 

The uncommon phenomenon of a lunar lainbow (irii Innaria) ia ob- 
•erred for an himr at Waiefield on the nigbt of (bii day, 161)6. 



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, M^. de LouvaU, 1641, Parii. 

• L<id;MadiEin,1658,Cran^Rdg(. 

V(0Dle«iuieu, 1689, Brtde. 

Lionel, Duke of Doisel, 1689. 



Even natiinl light leveds Uie 
blackaeBi ot vroog ; and thai 
religion ahinei.lmt-dimljr, that 
doei not discover it. They 
nound region to the quick 
ihalj ashling its practice, show 
it to the woild with adulterated 
>pol». — Fellham. 



®tlite 0/ Ihl Latin Ckarck. 
Si. Paul, and 36 Companioiu, 

iTtyra in Egypt. 
St. Friica, Virgin, M. at Rome, 

275. (Set Bag. Church Cat.) 
St. Deicolus (or 81. Deal)i «f 

Inland, i. .625. 
St. Ulfiid (oi WolfredJ of En^- 

latid, Martyr, 102B. 



BwtjB. 

St. Anutaintu, Patriareh of 

Alexandria, 373. 
Benedict X. (ADtipope), I05E>. 
MaigateH<f HimgaT^), 1271. 
AmiirathIIlL(£^peraT), 1596. 
Cha. le Cointe, 1681. d. Parit. 
Areangelo Cwelli. W13, Homir. 
Sir Sam. Oartb, 1719. Harrow. 
Pr.ClenKDtlna, 1T85. d. Ronu. 
J. Baikemlle, 1776. Wolveriey. 
^ J. Pringle, 1783. d. LonJon. 
Dumitei Kadul;, 1782. d. Ha- 

iMnumJi, aged 140. 
John Dunooiabe, 17B5. 
Bp. Egerton, 1787. Sl.Jama'i. 
W.B. Cadogan, 1797. Hwding. 
&T George Staunton, 1801. 
Aug.Daniuier,lB02.d.TMl<nM. 
Peter Maieschal, 1803.d. Para. 
Abp. Moore, 180S. Ltmheth. 
LTon Lery, ISlO.'MUsd, Afo- 

nuntnt Yard. 



tbit i> the English, not thi 
Turkish court ; not Amuiath ai 
Amuratb Eucceeds, but Harry 
Harry.— Kinf Htnry JV. 






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Tbrn in foor Unit people i 
Utat prepare Ueir meat Id tlic 
rocka ; the Idcuiu Uut ^ forth 



D Ibc culfa which n 



ads. 



CKceeding viae ; [he «■ 
K ipidn tlul lakelh bi 



Tbis is the day of the festir&l of St. Peter's Chaii, at IUm«, la 
fata di Cattedra, observed wilh great splendour by the Latin church. 
The martyrdom was under Kero, Uiat monBter in blood and profligacy. 

Henry VII. of England espouses the Princess Eliiabeth of Yi^l, aod 
nniles the two Roses, 1486. The chapel which this king founded tt 
WestnuDEler was consecrated on the same day, 1602. 

The Tragedy of " Gotboduc, er Femx and Petrei," written by 
Thomas, Lord Sacltville, is represented at Whitehall, 1561 ; a period 
that has been justly named, by a pleasing; female annalist, ths birthday 
<fthe Engliih Drama, 

•• Oh where is ruth ; or where is pity now 1 

Whither is gentle heart and mercy fled \ 

Are they eiiled out of our stony breasU, 

Never to make return T is all the world 

Drowned in blood, and suiik in cruelly! 

If not in woman meicy may be found. 

If not, alas ! within the mother's breast. 

To her own child, to her own fiesb and blood ; 

If mth be Bamshed thence, if pity there 

May have no place, if tliere no gentle heart 

Do Uve and dwell, where should we seek it then 7" — Corbodue, 
Beanie writing to Sir W. Forbes, 1780 ;—■' It gives me great pain lo 
bear of the late of poor Cook. I lately read his voyage for the second 
time ; and considered him, not only as an eicelleni writer, an able pbi- 
loaopfaer, and the most coninmmat« navigator that ever lived, but also as 
a person of the gi«alest magnanimi^, modte^, and humanity. He was, 
indeed, one of my greatest favourilea ; and 1 look upon hii death as an 
incparable loss to his -country and to mankind." — This latter sentence 
shooU be engraTcd in golden characters, as it tells us temperately, what 
Sew, properly, have comprehended, respecting the services of Capt. Cook, 
who was (in deed, and serioosly,) a vatt fhilanthTopiit. 
Dreid o'er the actiH, Ihe ghoU of Huntet lOtki ; 



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ttirtti. 

Nich, CoperuicuB, 1472, Thjtm. 
Fbil. Baratier, 17-21, Schvwback. 
Sir John Jervis, 1734, Meaftrd. 
JaiDM Watt, 1736, Gntneek. 

The "hole proceBs of cunning 
is privative ; to say nothing, and 
Id da nothing, ii the utmost of 
iti reach. Yet men, thus nar- 
row hj natnre, and mean by art, 
are lometimei able to rise by 
the nuscaniages of bravery and 
the openoeBs of inlegri^. 

Idler in di^. 

®tl(U of the Lolin Church. 
Sts. Maris, Martlia, Audifai, and 

Abachum, Ml. at Sobu, 270. 
St. Lamer (or Laudomanu), i. 

Cfcortra, 593, 
St.Blaitbina«,<lhb<itin&afliind, 

Martyr, 793. 
SL CanutuB (or Knut), King of 

Denmark, M. 1086. 
St. WuUtaa, Bp. of Worcater, 

d. 1095. 
St. Henry of England, Martyr 



Dagnbert, (be Great, €39. St. 

Robert (o/^apbO< 1343. 
Heniy, E. of Surrey, bdt. 1547. 
John Sachi, 1578. Nvrtmberg. 
Ilenr;, Ear! of Pembnike, 1601. 

SaiiAury. 
Charlea, Earl of Donel, 1706. 

d. BalA. 
ReneMBssuet,l7I6.d. StMavr. 
Wm. Congreve, 1739. Abbey. 
Peter II. (of Riujfa), 1730. 
Thoa. Ruddiman, 1757. EdaA. 
Dr. Wm. S. Powell, 1775. 
S. Gamn-Douriignf, 1784. 
Jonathan Toup, 1785. Enter. 
M. P. Bouvart, 1787. d. Parit. 



This lady is Ih« moit e: 
economist, without appearing 
busy; the most strictly virtuoDE, 
without tasting the praise of it ; 
and shuns ipplause witb as 
much induslry. as others do re- 
pioach, — Coi^nve's Aspa^. 



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The Eaiftnf, FlKviu Tbeodonin, nmtBicil tJw Gnat, from tbe mig- 
nitude of bii eiplmU, ii iavnled wilb the iopciul poipla, aftor the 
<)eMi«:t>on of Valcni bj tba Cothi, 379. 

Bobert Bnica plaadcn tnd deitioji the towo of Path, m. i. 1313. 
Henry V. of England, entBt* Room, U20, "fotloweil bj a paga 
Douiited on ■ beautiful bww, beaiing a lance, at iho tai lA which, asar 
die point, wai luteaed a/u't bnah, I7 waj of itnamar," which Mcoied 
to indicate to the aitoniihed citiKna, that the viclor-monvch wmU 
■weep bii ciafty oppoKn Erom thtar hddj and futowia. 

Ben Jonaon, now, alai 1 feeble and bed-rid, pniduMa die bit and 
leaat of iti glotiou race, bit comedj of the Sm Jm, IflW, which, 
" wai driven from the ilage, and pomwd with bmtal hoitililj bj hii 
nngcneronl Mtd imrelenting enemiei." Tbii reniiifc of that levete 
Clitic, bat waim-bearted nan, tba late Hr. Gifiicd, mnat be webbed in 
tbebalaoc* of human natnie, and we ahall then petbapi End, that de- 
tiactiim will alwayi follow at the heel of anoyance, and that ndtbei 
geniiu, adrerntf, uoi rank, can fomiih a acraen againit it. 

Sai W. Tnuuball idopti, aa a birth-dajr poem, 1716, Aeu raiae* of 
Pope, from Martial '1 epigram on Antonhu Primtu :-~ 

At length, m; friend (while time with uill caner 
Wafti on it* gcntk wing hit eightieth jeai), 
Seea hia pait dayi lafe out of fbrtnae'* power, 
TSttt dreadi ■{^■roacbing fate'i uncertaia bonr ; 
Reriewi hU life, and in the atiict larrej } 

Findi not one moment be conld wiih awaj, > 
Pleaied with the teriei of each ba^ij day. \ 

Such, inch a man eitendi bia life'i ahort ipace. 
And fiom the goal again reoewa the nee ; 
For be lirei twice, who can at once employ 
The prenni wdl, and e'en the pait enjoy. 
Lord WelUi^ton itormi and captnni Ciadad Rodiigo, • Sp«wih 
town near Ibe bmden of Portugal, IBIS. 



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■WHi Si. A(n«' night. 



PItuc ycoi w 
Wblfhiu 



■ Frederick, Prince of Wales, 
1707, HaanMr. 
J. J. ButheUmi, 1716, Ceaii. 



e stripped , 

of all the bombut in his pas- i 
Ds, and dies«ed ia tbe mosi 
vulgar words, we ehouid find . 
the beauties of his tbougbts re- . 
maiDiDg ; if bis embroideries 
e buml down, there would . 
still be silrei at the bottom of: 
the mfltiop^t : but I fear that , 
who ape his sounding nrordi, : 
have nothiog of his thought, but j 
aie all outude ; diere is not so ' 
much as a dwarf within our 
giant's clothei. — Dryden. 



Louis II. (o/Gtrmany), 882. 
Eyiaehiai ef StTigmiium, 1270. 
Peter Bembo, 1547, Bergamo. 
Rodolpti II. (Emperot), 1612. 
Claude Menud, 1652. 
Humphrey Hody, 1706. Oifard. 
Chas. D. of Manchester, 1722. 
Andr. Tooke, 1731. Chartriuse. 
Charles VIT. (Emperor). 1745. 
John Ilervey.E.of Bristol. 1751. 
Sir James Fergusson, 1759. 
Sie, de Silhouette, 1767. d. Bry. 
Charles (Lord Chw.) Yorke, 

1770. 
David Garrick, 1779. Abbey, 
John Howard, 1790. Chiiwa. 
Charles IV. (o/ Spnm), 1819. 

d. KapUi. 
Charles L. Cleiisseau, 1830 



eWt of the latin Church. 
St. Fabian, Pope, M. d. 250. 

(See Engl. Cft«™ft iiWeBdor.) 
3t. Sebastian, X. at Rimt, 286. 
St. Eulhjmiina, d. PalMitu, 473. 
St. Fflcbin, AlAotm Iniani, A. 



The generality of women of 

fashion make use of a superfine 

stucco, or plaster of Paris highly 

; glazed, which does not require 

duly renewal, and will stand 

pr«t^ strong collision. 

Chattrjutd. 



PUng tlie Ymen/fr. 



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■ grUbMy.tkeBrilU 



acta. 



The finL £agli^ Puliameal uumblu, dmimj, M K iMcnt IiiMBriin 
>ppnn to con^nnle, fot Ihe poipoK of eztcoding ilw iafliHiicc, lad 
pRkcuiing rappt^ to Ibe pn^ecM ^ Moulbrt, Eari of Laicatai, 1365. 

MkttlKW mie, Hu^ Feten, Jdu Rnihwortfa, Sir ADthan; Aihlej 
Coopec, Major D«iborougIi,uid olb«n, an appoinleil ortha Coutniltaa 
to conBcUi of tba r^ormatum ^ thv lav, 1653. 

Great Brilain ackooiiMgea the litdrpniintf at bar Coloiuea m Nottb 
Amaiiea, 1TB3. 

Sir Philip Francii writea to Mr. Oeoige Thieknaue, Htatci of St. 
Panl'i School, 1TB5 : " TboDgb I condamn mjnelf for neglect, belivre 
me, I baf c nerct ccaMd to think of yon, u of my friend and bwielacloT. 
YoQ tuTo tba beat claim to my-gratiiade, and a right to creij teiric* in 
Kj power. He idia of your being (breed to qait a houie which, I am 
tM, yon find comfntable, makea me Tuy aneaiy ; and yon will do me 
a *eiy great [avoiir, if you will allow me to obriate Ihe necewty of a 
ilep which, \ miouly beliere, yon would not fcel man than I ihould. 
For the poipoie of aniwering lhe*e laH tarn, I hare taken the liberty 
of encloung to you a bank note of twenty ponndi, which, in futnre, ai 
long a* yon and I lite, you ihall ngulaily reeeiTe in Iba beginiking of 
aveiyyear. I entreat yon not to laAae thii Htde mnik of n^ {latitnde 
and aflectioafv youi and mnch moreaanM^doIenBeatyaa, not 
ta attribute ihiio^ to any motiTc th«ta«g^lodiBncliMyo««me." 

The aM month PluviJw «f tba Fiencb BcraktiaBaiy Calendar began, 
retiaq)ecliTely, on thia day, 1793, wUch waa Ihe flmenrraDt year of 
the BepobHc.— &» 22«d Sqiteeiter. It U aboof4B«amBd«f that Ae 
■un cnten the imaginary ugn A/fuania, or tlie watar-beMer.'an ancient 
emblem in the perwnificatioDi of the preaent mDotb. 

A grand Reqaiem ii performed Ibi the lenFica ef Lmm XVL al Paiii, 
eompoud bi wiul inatnmenti only, by M. Robert Beehaa, 1815. 

Ttua day, in the Calendar of Heuod, ii moit prcpiiioai for the birth 



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Isaac H. Btowdc, 1706, Bartm. 
Louis Anquetil, 1723, Porii. 
Ludwig Ge^er, ITSO, EitUben. 

People of fuhion will please 
Ui/erget tulurt m much m fMi- 
libU ; such u, laughing at a 
men;, oi crying at a moviaf 
talci bring ihemselves hippj 
with happineiB. or sad with sor- 
row ; being pleased with the 
attentions of others, or pleasing 
others b; their atlentions) in 
^Tl, a. great many sincerities 
which the winter always kills, 
among people of fashion, in a 
town. — Loangtr, in diS. 

®bfta oftht Latin Church. 
St. FructuosuK anil hii compa. 
>n>. Ml. at rorragim, 259. 
St. Agnes, Viipn, M, at Borne, 

c. 305.— CSm Eng. Cli. Cal.) 
St. £pi]riiBiiins, fiiihop o/ Pavia, 

d. dth CentDry. 

St. Vimin (or Vivian), Bp. in 

Scotland, d. c. 615. 
El Publius, 2nd Bp. cf Athtm, 

'iiartyr. 



3t.Maxinius (of Constant.), 61 
LonisIV. tht aiUCEnip.),911. 
Dr.Walter Hlddon, 157-2. lond. 
Wro. Lord Howard of Effing- 
ham, 1573. 
Joseph Scaliger, 1609. Lajidm. 
Nicholas Menard, 1644. 
John Digby,E. of Bristol, 1653. 
0. Walker, 1699. St. Paitcroi. 
Adrian Baillet, 1706: d. Parti. 
John Haria LtndN, 1730. 
Francis Fagi, 1721. 
Dr. Bem.deMandeville, 1733. 
Joseph Fr. NoUikins. 174S. 
James Quin, 1766. Bath. 
Alexis Piron, 1773. 
Mustapha III. 1774. Conilnnl. 
Pngaticheir, beh. 1775. MtacBa. 
Louis XVI. gMll. 1793. Paril. 
C. M.Wieland, 1813.d.ir«iRar. 
J. H. Bern, dc St. Pierre, 1814. 



When I did hear the motley 
fool thus moral on the time, '. 
did laugh, sans intermisnon, ai 
hour by bis dial. 

4i Vou Like It. 



THIfrr, on ScaltfiT'i Graei. 



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n fint, Ihu bli wbo >p«1u Uwin 



9cle. 



The plague breaks out at Edinburgh, I64T. The lut they had, si;i a 
gouip of the time, raged so violently, thai the fortieth man oi noman 
lives not of those that dwelt there four jean since, but il is all peopled 
with iten fac«- 
The shade of Juniut appears io the political bohzon this day, 1769. 
" It seems I am a partiaan of the great leader of the apposition. If 
(bechorgehad been a repioach, it should have been better lupported. I 
did not intend to make a public declaration of the respect I bear Lord 
Chatham. I well knew what unworthj conclusions would be drawn from 
il. Bdi I am called upon to deliver my opinion ; and turely it is not 
in the litHe censure of Mr. Home to deter me from doing ngnal justice 
to a roan who, I confess, has giowD upon mj esteem. As for the 
common sordid views of avarice, or any purpose of vulgar ambitton, I 
queatioit whether the applause of Junius would be of service to Lord 
Chatham. My vole will hardly recommeud him to an increase of 
pennon, or to a seal in the cabinet. But, if bis ambition be upon a level 
with his understand iug— if he judgea of what is truly honourable for 
himself, with the same superior genius which animates and directs him 
10 eloquence in debate, to wisdom in decision, even the pen of Junius 
■hall conbribute to reward him. Recorded honours shall gather round 
his monument, and thicken over him. It is a solid fabnc. and will sup- 
port the laurels that adorn it. 1 am not conversant in the language of 
panegyric. These praises are extorted from me; but they will wear 
well, for Ibe; have been dearly earned." — Who it Juniut, Is not an idle 
question at the present day, for it seems the secret is worth keeping ; 
and, indeed, if he were a man of rank and influence, as is universally 
su[^K»ed, there are descendants, relatives, conDccIions, which hitherto 
may have required (he protecting hand of oblivion ; but man; lamps ar 
alieady eitinguiibed, and others have long been huming, so thai in al 
human probability a little climacteric, or even a ternary of yean, will 
unfold the myslerj, in good time to supply the Russells, or the house 
of Mannen, with al least one able and fearless historian. 
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I cbeti.-Childe HanM. 



Francis Lord Bacon, 1561, York. 
House. 

Sir Eobert Cotton, 1570,D™im. 
P. GaasenJi, 1592, Chantenier. 
J. J. Brucker, 1696, Augsburg. 
Vincent Houdry. 1631, Toari. 
Gollhold LesMng, 1729, Kamelt. 
G.Loid Byron, 1788, Laadim? 

There happened in my (ime 
one noble jpeafcer. Ho member 
of liis speech but coosisled of his 
own g[races. His hearers could 
not cough, or look aside fmi 
hliD, vilhout loss. He com 
manded where he spoke ; an 
had his judges angry and pleased 
at his devotion. No man had 
Iheir aJToctions more in his ponei. 
The fear of every man thai heard 
him was, lest he should ma 
end. — Janion't Discoiterin, 



<a)|(tB «ftlit LaliH Church. 
Sl.Tincent,M.a(rai«iciu,304. 

(See Engf. Cfrurefi Calendar.) 
SI. AnastasiuB, M, in Assyri 



Scattis. 



Timothy, A. D. 97, d. Ephetus. 
Paschal U. (Pope). 1118. 
Peler Doria ("o/Gctw.), k. 1380. 
Edward, Duke of Somerset, bt- 

keaded, ISSa. 
Jas.DukeofChatelheT«uli,1575. 
Louis Duiet, 1586. d. Pnrii. 
Capt. James le Muie, 1617. 

le Ballin, 1678. d. Porti. 
Eail of Shaftesbury, 1683. d. 

Amsterdam. 
Peter Pautre, 1744. d. Pant. 
Matl.Concanen,l749.d .London. 
Ph. Moore, 1783. life o/Mob. 
George Stevens, 1800. Popiar. 

We cannot think of fortresses 
of war without admitting images 
of danger; butweraogedelighl- 
ed and jocund through the gay 
apartmenlsof the palace, because 
nothing is impressed by them on 
the mind but joy and festivity. 
Such is the difference between, 
great and amiable characters; 
with protectors we are safe,nrith 
companions we are happy. 

Hamfcter, in dil. 



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The Cat^i^ta, an erotic and bacchanlliau leitival, was celebmled at 
E^mui 00 litia da;, by its liceotious devoIe«i, aboal the Uc Century. 
Tfaeo, alw, tbe pantomiines anil ihows were acted at Rome, in honour 
of AnguilDB. 

Richard II. of England ii mairied to his £nt wife, Anne, dangler of 
the EmpcKHT Cbailea IV., popalari; call«d the geod Qatm Anm, 1362. 

Tbe Wiodwaid Caribbee Iilaad, named St. Vinetnl, ms diicovered 
bj (he Spaniards this day. 1'he indigo thrives upon its rich loamy soil. 

In 1644 an ordinance is passed for tbe reform of the Univeni^ of 
Cambridge. The Earl of Manchester bad the superintendaace of this 
ungracioua mandate, and ten beads of colleges, nith-sii^-Sve fellows, 
only were expelled j but upon the general's departiue a more lealaus 
committee increased the number to two hundred. 

Gray writes from (own to his friend Mason, 1761, " The Opera -house 
is crowded this year like any ordinary theatre. Elui is finer than any 
diing that has been here in your memory i yet, as I snspecl. has 
been finer than he is: bis action is proper, and not ungraceful. We 
ha>e heard nothing, since I remember operas, but eternal passages, 
divisions, anil Bights of eiecuUon: of these he has absolutely none; 
nhether merely hom judgment, or a little from age, 1 will not affirm ; 
his point !s expression, and to that all the graces and ornaments he inserts 
(which are few and short) are evidently directed : he goes higher (Ihey 
say) than FarineUi ; but then this celestial note you do not hear above 
oBce in a whole opeia ; and be falls from this altitude at once (o the 
mellowest, softest, strongest tones (about the middle of his compass) 
that can be heard. The Mailti, I assure you, is much improved by his 
example, and by her great success this winter ; but then the burlettas, 
and tbe Piiganiiu, I have not been so pleased with any thing these many 
years : she loo is fat, and above forty, yet handsome withal, and has a 
&ce diat speaks tbe language of all oatiims : she has not the invention, 
the fire, and the variety of action thai the SpiUtta had ; yet she is liglit, 
agile, ever in motion, and, above all, graceful ; but then her voice, her j 
ear, beriaste in ranging : Good God— as Mi. Bjchardson the painter says. 






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Braidlty 

he npllo; ; 

hli God, he »iu 
qpon lh« ■llEhb 



Aik ant or Ibli h 

rrah, dtm't A« imj 



Day. 



mtm- 



Snittf. 



ni. ISTff, 



St. Viocenl Ferrer, 1357, I'o- Jm.E. of Moray, i 

Undo. I Linlilftgoui. 

G.B.Bilfinger, 1693, Caniiodi.lFh. £. ofPeDibrDke, 1650. Sa- 

Tlw Wway fig. among us, ia E„ert-Aupi»tUB (tf" Howw), 
veiyimall.liearsiU, andllhink j jgj^ 

« ""We : »f the blue, that : y^^^ ^^ Mehegan, 1766. 
I which .mells Dioat is ever j ,y^_ f,^^^ ^^g^ g^ l^j^,,_ 
the best 1 of Iho while, I know f^^ jj^^_ 1,33^ ^ s«mTut 
wo wits, and both excel- u^au. 
one ripe in the beginning ^^ j„^^_ Stewart, 1785. 
pf July, the other in the end of, j^^^ j,,^;^^ „^_ 
September, and is yellowe- "— 



the first ; but this is difficult to 

raise, though an excellent fruit. 

Sir Wilti-m T«nple. 

®biN if tht Latin Church. 
SI. Emerentia, Virgin, M. at 

limit, c. 304. 
St. Clemenl, rfAncyra, M.304. 
St.EusebiuB, Abbot in Syria, d. 

4th Century. 
St. Agalhangelus (or IldeFon- 
as), Abp. of Talede, d. 667. 
St. John the Almoner, Patriarch 

ofAUi. c 7th Centuiy. 
St.RayniUHd,ofPm7ia/Drt,1275. 



William Pill, 1806. ^46^. 
Edward Duke of Kent, 1820. 

An absent man is one who, 
after having busied himself a 
long lime in casdng up a sum, 
shall inquire of another Ihat uu 
by, how much the whole anwuots 
ts 1 In the middle of winter he 
rails at his servant that he did 

iotbrmed of the death of a friend, 
after grieving for his loss, he 
presently adda, il happened wry 
Ixxckily . — Theophrailui. 

i itUU imMi 



widow ii wilkliig bUsdlUld ii[ 

Kniibte dT hit Autga u a cliiU of ■ qurler 

key kaplDg on the tilet oT ■ houe. 

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He ttatt boBosmh Ui BsOwr to u sh tkM kjrMk if tinmn.—Pmm^i 

Tbb t««nty-third da; of tb month &bat, wu t«pt u ■ fut bj llie 
Jewi, io DWiiKiij of tb« w«i waged b; all the tea tribeiof Iirael *g«iiut 
that of Benjamia, for the outrage commitlad npm tba penoo of 
Lerite's irife, by tbe meo of GOtiA. — Judga ix. 

TajMrhoe intraducei hit tnopi within thg walb of Damticiu, in 
violation of a trnce, 1401 ) and after lorying a contribution of Kn 
milUong of gold upon the iDhatntanti, Ibaoualvei ate fini manac 
and afterwaida thnr city ii reduced to aibei, in nfenga of the maider, 
■ereneenlorin before, of the giandKui of Mahomet, by the Syiiam. 

Qneen Eliiabelb dedkalei tbe Bogat Etdiamgt, (then called " Bri- 
tain'! Bune,'') by lennd of tnimpet, oo theiRemooaof thiiday, IfiTI. 

The aiticlea at union between tbe Dutch prorincei aia ligned at 
Utraebl by Ibwr uren dcpntiei, 1S79. Thii honeit land wai leiaad by 
tbe French, tbe nme day, in 1790. 

In 1759, wai bnried at LickBeld, Mn. Sarah Johnun, Iba mother of 
the gnat Cham in letten j — an event not unworthy to be noted, ai it 
eminently illuimtei the ^lial pitty of the author of " Raiaelai," awoifc 
was compoied with wonderful raindity to defray tbe eipeniai of her 
faneral : " Yon will concave my urrow far the loea of ray modw, of 
the beat mother. If ibe were to live again, aurely I afaonld behave better 
to her. Bat ibe ia hap^, and what ii paoed ia nothing to her ; and 
far me, lince I cannot repair my faalla to ber, I hope repentance will 
effica them." Tbaae that know a motbar'i tendemeaa— the children of 
Geniua, in wboie breaats is moat ■(qtomtl the milk of maternal end 
Dent, ai the eBnsiona of Gray, Cowper, Tope, Hayley, and othera, 
iofficiendy testily, will priu tbeie little borate i^ nature, the cata of i 
woM where Ravin and Doplici^r Iwve set up their pillars, more than al 
tbe poliibed laboun of the learned, in which tbe A^irt ii wantitig. 

like Agricollural Society commenced iti lituoga on thii day, 1794. 

I^ Hilary or Lrat Term, in the EngliEh courts of law, cammeDcea 
as also the Candlemiu Tmn in Scotland. The sabbath was a joridical 
d^ anti) 617, in which year it was properly exempted from legal pv 
ceadiB^ We are indebted tat tbe division of the year into four Tetms 
to Edward the Confetior. 

OdI or ihe oU lelili eosMlh iht biw nni.— jlr Atuurd (tit. 



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^WUh 111 Ihelr Irophlet h<ui{, a 
In coploBi IcgcBd, or ttml lyn 


d ncl. iowtfd 


Day. 


BirtS.. 


DntHi. 


Cal. 

24. 


Hadriao, A.D.66, Borne. 
Chirles, Eail of Dorset, 1637. 
Chrislisn Wolfe, 1679, B™(au. 
Fred, ihe Great, 1712, Birli,,. 
PeterBeaumaichais,1732,Pnrij. 
Francis Rorier. 1734, ty«,.. 
Gustavus III. Df&™<J«i, 1746. 
WiUonLowTj, 1762, Wiiifiown 

He nas a man whose elegance 

canfeued, aod whose bounty to 

the learned and witty was gene- 
rally known. "Iknownothow 
it is," said Rochester, "but 
Lord Buckhurst may do what 
he will, yet is ne>er in the 
wrong.— Ii/« rf E. of Dtrtet. 

<t«ftfi o/ the Latin ChvToh. 
St. Timothy {Disciple of Si. 

Pia[), Martyr Bt Ephexii, 97. 
SLBabyla.. Bp.,/AntiMA, M. 

c. 250. 

St. Cadocus (or Cadoc) AbM 
i» Walfs. d. 6lh Century. 

St. Suranus, Abbot in Umbria, 
M. 7lh Century. 


Philip (of Maceaon), «*uji- 

.m(.d, B.C.335. 
Caiiis Caligula, auau. A.D. 41. 
Justice Henry Yelverton, 1630. 
Dr. W. Holder, 1697.Si. Pflul'i. 
Sir George Rooke, 1709. Cant. 
Philip de Vendome, 1727. 
Archbishop (W.) Wake, 1737. 
James Ralph, 1762. Chi«,iek. 
Edward Capell. 1781. 

•■ If," said De Will, "I have 
any necessary despatches to 
make, I thiok of nothing else 
till those are finished : if any 
domestic afiairs require my at- 
tention, I give myself up wholly 
to them till they are set in order." 
We often see men of dnil and 
phlegmatic tempera arriving to 
great estates, by making a regu- 

tharbusiness; and that, without 
it, the greatest talents and most 

their affairs than bring them to a 
happy issue.— SpwialM-, in dif . 



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Bccomet (he richer lUU. IIk iMtr, 

Ajid profEB Ihr pleuutfr, the cD]iler.-~AifIcr. 

aett. 
Claodids is elected Emperor on this daj, A. D. 41 ; nbich was tbe 

leut of Seed-time, /rriie itmtntina, amoag tbs Romuii. 
In tlie journals of Dr. Swiil to his Stella and her compaDion, Mn. 

Dinglej, are coolaiiied, fbi this day, the foUowing pawagei : 

1711. — '■ MomiDg. Coow now to jour letler. Al for my old fnondi, 
if 3rou mean the Whigi, I nerer lee them, as jou may find by my 
jouraals, except Lord Halifiu, and him reiy leldom ; Lord Sonken 
never, since the Bnt visit, for he has been a false, deceitful ratcal. 
Mj new frienda are very kind, and I hate promises enough, but I 
do not count upon them. Your news, that Mr. St. Jidin is gomg 
to Holland ; be has Do such thoughts to quit the great station he 
is in, nor, if be had, could I be spared to go with him. Pray 
God Stella's illness may not return. If they come seldom they 
begin to be treaty : I judge by myself ; for when I seldom vi 
grow weary of my acquaiutance. So good morrow, Madams, 
both." 

1712. — " Tbe Secretaiy made me promise to dioe with him lo-day, after 
the parliament was up ; I said I would come ; but I dined al 
usual time, knowing the house wrfuld ait late on Ibis great afiair 
[tbe censure of the Buie of Marlborough by tbe ministryj. At 
ten, this' evening, I went to the Secretary, but he was not com 
home - I sat willi his lady till twelve, then came away ; and h 
just came as I was gone, and be sent U> my lodgings, but I would 

niSr— " I was at Court lo'day, and it was comical to see Lord Aber- 
corn bowing to me, but not speaking ; and Lord Selkirk the same. 
I dined with Lord Treasurer [Harley], and the Saturday club, 
and sal with him two hours after the rest were gone, and spoke 
freer to bim of affairs Ihau, I am afra.id, others do, who might do 
more good. All his friends repine, and shrug their shoulders ) 
but will not deal with him so freely as they ought. It is an odd busi- 
ness; (be parliament just going to sit, and no emplopnents given. 

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He wu Ilie WHB (rnUil the (nvi, 

Whea In bli hamfly rein! 
Al " BuiHKkbiuii" Ibe bird el i-m, 

Wllh thondcr In bll tn.\o.~Ja«ia Maitgimirrji. 



Bfrt»». 

. Robert Bojle, 1627, Litmote, 
Wm. Duke of Devonshire, 1640. 
Ptul Whitehead, 1T09, Helbam. 
T. Desbilloni, ITll, Chattau- 

Jut. I.agnmge, 1736, Turin. 
Robt. BuTBs, 17G9, Dom-iuU. 

The tiro chief advantages 
which n real acquuniaDce with 
nature brings to out mindB, ue, 
first, by iDstmcting our UDdei- 
slandings, and gratifying out 
curiouties ; and next, by exdl- 
ing and cherishing our devotion. 

0&itf i^the Latin Church. 
SI. Juventinus and Maximinui, 

Ml. at Aniweh, 363. 
St. ApoUo, Abbvt in Thebaii, d. 

St. Publiut, Abbot in Syria, d. 

4th Century. 
St. Piajeclus, (or 3t. Pnx), Bp. 

af CUrmml, m. 674. 
St. Poppo, Abbot 0/ SlavtU, d. 

1048. 



ButSs. 

ChBKOi, bthtadid, A, D.4). 
Aurelian, bw. A. D. 275. 
Athanaric, 381 . Cimitaneincjib. 
Stephen V. (Pope), 817. 
Gregory IV. (Pope), 844. 
Bp. Flenuning, 1431. Lincoln. 
Christian U. (of Dmm.) 1559. 
Henry Wm. Ludolf, 1710. 
Sir Gilbert Healhcote, 1733. 
Francis Arisi, 1743. 
Fh. ArgelUti, HSS.d.Sfllan. 
Nich. Beauiee, 1789. d. Pnrii. 
Dr. Alex. Webster, 17B4.ErJinJ 
Dr.J.£TBDs, 1827.d.IilinfWn. 

Not aa opera is praduc«d oi 
our theatres vrithout some oni 
or two solema invocations It 
Hopi, to be Eung by lovers on 
the brink of despair ; and in 
real life we have not a con- 
demned malefacior who does 
not ' hope for the best,' nor an 
old wDmaa expiring in an hos- 
pital, who does not comfort her- 
self by lepeatiag that 'while 
there is life there is hope.' 



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TbcT Hf il ii obHTTCd in the Ldv 
the luuDC kind ud nil of jtm and vi 






a«I evvr^ ive^ud-lhlrly yttn 
!• ilHmt atiin; u inal (re 

wllh Utile heu. uri the IL 



acts. 



A PESTivAi, in commemoniioii of the miraculou* Conterrion 0/ St. Paul, 
U DamucuE, A.D. 37, obserreil both b; tlie English and Catholic 
xib. — It vas institated in the year 813, and Gnt noticed in our Eng- 
tiih Calendar, 1662. 

The great council meets al C/anniilrni, in irbich John of Oxford ii 
president, 1164.— The marriage of Edwsid II. with the bmutiful Isa- 
bella, daoghter of Philip the Fail, is solemnized at Boulogna ii 
peseoce of fbor kings, and three queens, 1308. — Ii was the daj also of 
thisnnhappj monarch's alleged abdication (tbeo stjrled Edieard of Car- 
on), and the conuneacemeiit of his wn't long and brilliant reign, 
1327. 

By a statute of this da;, 1504, it is enacted that no man shall ■ 
n a long boa without the Ung's Uceate, except he be a loid, or 1 
two hundred mark land. 

Capt^n Hawkins airivei at Mount's Bajr, in Cornwall, Anm has ihird 
and mast calamitous American expedition, 1569. 

Bonw writes fnrm Eltisland to Mrs. Dunlop, 1790: — "I fot^twhat 

part of Scotland had the honour of giving Falconer birth (1), but he was 

tbe son of obscuri^ and misfortune. Ha was one of those daring ad- 

itarous spirits which Scotland, beTond uiy other conntiy, ii ramack- 

i for pndncing. Little does the fond mother think, as she hangs 

delisted over the Eweel little leech at her bosom, where the poor fellow 

naj hereafter irander, and what maybe his fate... .Allow me to give you 

itanraa of an old simple ballad, which I am sure will please you. 

Tbe catastrophe of the piece is a poor mined female lamenting her fate. 

le concludes with this pathetic wish : 

O, that tbe grave it were my bed ; 

My blankets weie my winding iheet ; 
The clacks and the worms my bedfellows a' ; , 
And, 0, sae sound as 1 ^uld sleep ! 
Hiaeiy i< like lore ; to speak its language trnly, the author must have 
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BHtH. 



Lord George SackviUe, 1719. 
J. B. Bemadotie, Fau, 1764. 
Tluiniu)Mi<ldleton,1769, 



Yon lire npon mock-turtlB, 
and lUwail b«ef ; 1 dined, yei- 
teriaj, upon cmmpeti. Yod lit 
witli paiiib oAiceTi, careuii^ 
and canatd, the idol of the 
table, and tbe omider of the day. 
I jnoe in Ibe aolitnde of lick- 
neu, not bad enough 
pitied, and not well ent 
be endued. You *1eep away 
tlw night, and langh, or icold 
away tbe day. I 



gmntble, and gnitnUe and cougb , 
and am diwrdered by very little 
ttiinga. Ii it actideot or me 1- 
Ji>hnwn lo Mn. TTtralt, in dii. 



Marcian (Emperor), 457. 
Dr. John Bate, 1429. Yvtk. 
Henry Briggei, 1630. Oifirrd. 
Alice Spencer, C. of Verhj, 

1636. HarifiiU. 
Sir Samuel Tuke, 1673. d. 5s- 

rul Houtt. 
R. Chat de RaiCignac, k. 1696. 
John (Lord )Cu[ta, 1 IdLO^ard, 
Dr. Daniel Williuni, 1716. 
Peter Daii.Huet,1721.d.P<n-tt. 
Dr. John Kennedy, 1760. 
J. B. KegTOW (Pcye), 1771. 
France! Brooke, 1789. 
Dr. T. Nash, 1811. Dnntviieh. 
HeniyA ndrewi,! B20.d. Royttm, 
Dr. E. Jenner, 1B23. B<rlc<^. 
Alei. rilloch, 183S. JiJmglon, 
Lady Caioline Lamb, 1826. 



mftf of tht Latin Cfnircb. 
St. Polycarp, Bp. rfSngnu, M. 

d. 166. 
St. Fanla, Widow, d. BtAUhen, 

404, 
StCooon, Bp.o/'S«l<ir,d.648, 



Prophetic achemea. 
And golden dreanu. 

May I, unungnine, cait away! 
Have what I have. 
And live, not iutx, 

Enamooi'd of the pment day I 



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«t ii]iwUUi«l]' do Iku wkUh Uj atliamy pomr lo 



TRiFope confitrai, by ■ Bnll, 1564, the Deciwj of the Ctmneit afTmi. 

King Junei, tbeo id bii twentieth yeir, ippealt to Elimbetb la ipMc 
tbe life oT hit mother, Hirjr, Queeo of Seoti. 1S86 : " What thing, 
Madim, csD grealliCT tonch me in boDour, tb*t both ii ■ king and a 
■on, tban that mj nefticM neigbboQi. being in itnughtett ffiendihip with 
me, ihall rignraoilj pnl to death a free, tOTcreign prince, and nj w 
total niatber." B; way of jutificaiion (whidi wai veiy neceatarf) far 
employing the pea on tkia dccuhhi, a p«uage fram Jamci'a " SteeaJ 
ThaughU," may not impraperly be imertcd bare : " I am unable to 
revenge the heiooua mnrdet colnroitled do my deanet nwtbci. Fint, in 
napectof my tender yonlh, not tiaiaed np in deiteriiy nf am*, either to 
wilhitand injuiiei, or lo eonqner mina own right ; bang, at all timea 
tTgooe, denned in ctf6ntj. Next, my eieenive cnpidi^ from hand 
lo hand, from needy lo needy, <raai giwd; Id greedy ; baring inffieient 
patrimony and caanal^, and yet M am* abill in tlore." Every nn< 
tnaued pemn mut here admit iIm wiadom, and wwiieetale the aitna- 
lion, of Jame* i ior M^ng wai mote certain than (at leaHJ a peipe- 
Inal cavity, had he oppoud himielf, in any leiMa* iliapc, to iIm 
pow«r and the ipleen of the Engliih Court. 

Tb« iDratnabU Library of Eliai Aihmole i» dettiaytd by fir« at hii 
chamben, in the Middle Temple, together with hii coQectjon of about 
9000 coini, betkka aeali, charter*, and other cnrioui anliqnitiei, 1&79. 

Two Cameronian wonien art hanged at Edlobargh, 1681, fiw calling 
die king and tnihop* perjurtd, bla>d\f iihi. 

The peace of CwUmUt (in Sclaf onia) ii conclndod betw«tn Iicopold I, 
of Anittia, and Mnitapha II. Emperor (rf the To^, 1699, aRei fflaen 
yean hoatilitiea. 

The Colowlt of Hew South Walea effijct th«i lettlemonl, 1708. 

In 1823 a grand ball was given, at liibon, to the reatarsd King, 
Jtdia VI., whoie aon, Don SUgvtl, wa* pieaeni, — described by Hn. 
Baillie a> " a Ihin, al^l yoath, with pale and ntber el^ant features, 
from which, bowerer, every ray of intelligence seemed banished : solemn, 
upright, and immovable ; when once sealBd be had the sir of a statue. 



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WlHit* power wu II Ihat mcompiMe 
beillh and tnfllck, lo bs proper (U I 



imllllDg ligbl by its tmupareni:; 



Pius V. (Pope) 1504, Bouhi. 

Dr. Thos. Willis, 1622, Sw£nijn. 
J.C,W.Monirt,1756,So{(iturg. 

It is Dated, Ihst eov; doth 
mike a man pne, which otber 
aflections do not, because they 
ae not ad continDal. Il is 
the lilest aHectioo, and tbe most 
depraved ; for witiicb cause it is 
the proper attribute of the devil, 
who is called " the envious inaD, 
that aoweth tares amongst the 
wheat, by night ;" as it always 
happens tbatenvy wofketh sub- 
tilly, and in the dailf, and t^ 
the prejudice of good thiogs, 
such, u is the wheal. — Baem. 

®bitS ly tht Latin Chttreh. 
St. John ChryuAlom, Abp. ef 

Coastanlinojili, 438. 
St. Julian, First BiduiprfMani, 

d. 3rd Centuty. 
St. Naialis (or St. Naal), Abbot 

in Breftiey, 563. 
St. Marina (or Sl May), Abbot 

ill Dauphiny, d. 6th century. 



Deatfli. 



Anm (of Hungary'), 1&47. 
Lady Cath. Gray, 1567. d. Tower. 
Sir HJchard Lowthet, 1607. 
Dr. R. Alleitre«, 1681. Elm. 
Dr. N. Cl^ett, 1T27. St. Edm. 
Thos. WoDlstoD, 1733. K. B. 

Prixm. 
Ph. Macqoeer, 1770. d. Parii. 
Admiral (Loid) Hood, 1816. 
Dr. C. HuUdd, 1633. Ckarllm. 
Bp. (Edward) Legge, 1837. i. 

Oiford. 

One of the ladies wondered 
that, among the leatmes to be 
used in defence of their countiy, 
(here was do mention made of 
teeth; upon which she uniled 
very channingly, and discovered 
as fine a set as ever eye beheld. 
Aoothei, who was a tall, lovely 
prude, holding; up her head in a 
most majestic manner, sud, with 
some disdain, she thou^tajuoil 
ntck might have done hii ma- 
jea^ as much seivice. 

FrteKolder, in did. 






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el E"ic«leH E«loti flfbt ; 



BdI (U muikkDd'i . 



ntu. 



The teaxt of dedication, by Aulus Pouhumius, dictator, of a temple to 
(he twin kni^ta, CaMoi and PoUiu, on the spot near the Uie Juiuma, 
where the; aie said to have both appeared upon white horses, and **- 
listed the Romans in the Latin war, al the battle vl Regillum. B.C. 
496. Their well-known acta of friendship are signified in the conitella- 
lioi) Gtmtm, for, nauallj, ai one seta, the other predonuoates. 

Dante, during hia absence from Florence, as amhassadoi to the Pope, 
is, b]' an iniquitous decree, 1302, mulcted dght thousand tirt, and 
condemned, by a faction, to two yeara' banishmeat from his natiTC city. 
To salisly the fine, his house was immediately entered and [ullaged i 
and scarcely seven weeks had elapsed, when a second decree was issued, 
that he, and his associates b exile, should be bunad, if they fell into 
the hands of the N eii, tbeii enemies. 

In 1691, Queen Elizabeth assigns unto Sir Waller Raleigh the lease, 
for aiaety-niae years, of Sherborae Manor, which she had obtained, but 
nine days before, from the trishopric of Salisbury, al the rent of two 
hundred pounds, ^iteen shillings, and one penny. This estate was 
forfeited to the crown upon the knight's attainder, in 1603, and was 
only lost to the family by the death of Prince Henry, who, with a noble 
generosi^, had purchased it a few months previously, in 1613, with tbe 
iatentiou of restoring it to the original proprietor. It was then valued at 
the annual rental of eighty thousand pounds, which fell to the foiturw of 
Carr, the king's favourite ; James, as some sUght atonement, ^ving to 
the wife of Raleigh (a daughter of Throckmorton) the sum of eight 
thousand pounds. 

The South Sea Company, in 1719, propose their scheme to parliament 
(or discharging the national debt, upwards of thirty m Jlious sterling. 

Pope publishes his elaborate Epistle, addressed to Lord Bathurst, On 
tht Uu of RUha, 1733. 



WbcB PmuB 



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lairtta. 

Rich. Earl of Warwick, 1381, 

Satmirp. 
Henry VIII. 1491, Greenviich. 
John Alp. Bocelli, 1608, Naples. 
John HeveliuB. 1611, Dnnliir. 
Richard Verne;, Lord Brook, 
32, Belton. 



t^iila of the Latin Church. 

Sta. Thyrsus, Leucius, and Cal- 

linicus, Ms. i» Pbriigia, Srd 

St, Cyril, Patriarch ,.f AUian- 
dria, 444. 
t. John, of Reomay, Abbot ta 

\Tch ofAqvi- 



St. Paulinus, Pofi 

>. 804. 
Charlemagne, Emperor, d.814. 

Burinf a( Aii-la-ChajitUe. 
St-GlaiUan, Bithopin Scotland, 

d.830. 
SL Agnes. Second dmnnmini- 

lion, on tht Iranilaliim of htr 



Olho m. (Emperor), 1002. 
Henry VIII. 1M7. Windior. 
Sir Francis Drake, 159B. Octan. 
SLrThos.Bodley, 1612. Orfard. 
Paul V. (Pope), 1621. 
SirB.Whileitteke,1676.Fattj(ej. 
John Hevetias, 1687. 
Peterlhe Great, 1725. 
Sttita. 1728. d. Dtibtin. 
Anthony VaHisnleri, 1730. 
J. B. d'Auvilla, 1782, d. Poru. 
Peter (the Wild Boy), 1785. 
John Breitkopf, 1794. Liepsic. 
Got. (Joseph) Wall, ext. 1802. 
Thomas J, Woodward, 182 



Neier vae any of her sei bom 
vith better gifts of the mind, or 
improved them by reading 
and convene tion. Her ad 
was always the best, and with 
the greatest freedom, miied with 
the greatest decency. Never 
10 happy a conjunction □: 
civility, freedom, easiness, and 
sincerity. 
Smft's CbaracterifSretta.ih iH:. 



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Trilli 



r Iblek nrMol notei tfee Mm 
Am, ud fiittai Aaa nrii 



Octs. 



JoBH de UMktu, Bishop of H; , racaivn the GtcU Sod, la do then- 
with lAu. belooBol to the ChanccUor, 1338. 

Xhmnai Chuieet, the poet** m«. and diief batter la the King , ii pro- 
smied by the Conmuiu thor Speilwr, 1410. 

John of Poitugtl. inintnied iht FertuaaU, a ctomed Kii^ of hii 
enfranehiicd couotij, 1640. 

The abdiaatiim of King Jimei II. ii TOled by Ibe Lonrai HoBse, wmI 
the diTone, by * BeailBtiaii, declared Ttcuil, 1689. 

Evelyn whiei to ^ Tbomw Browne, ^viug him n giandiloqaont ac- 
coant (wfaidi leenH, from Pepyi, to hare been hit uuai maiuier) of the 
plas of hu intended pnUication upon gardttu : *' Our diift U a ikoble, 
princely, and nnirenal Elyunm, capable of all the auKEiiities that 
natHially be introdaced into gaidene of pleaaoie, and toch a* may itand 
ompetiliot) with all the augiuE dengiu and itoriei of thie nituie, 
eilhei of ancient or modern duee ; yet to as to become nseTuI and signi- 
kant to the least {oeteoces and facnltie*." 

Lori CheUetfield wiilei to his ipn : " Yoa will say, it may he, 
hat when yon write so vety ill, it ii because you are in a hurry. 
mh of sense may be in bMU, but can never be in a hony ; because 
knows that, whaterei he does in a huny he must neceasanly do very ill.- 
le minds are in a huny, when the ol^ect proves (as it commonly 
does) too much far them ; they run, they bale, they punle, confbnitd, 
and perplex themselves ; they want to do eveiy thing at onee, and ni 
do it at all. There was a Pope, I think it was Pope Chip, who wis 
JBStly ridicaled for his attention to little things, and his inability in g 
; and therefore called masimat in ountmii, and ninimiu ia maii 
Why 1 because he attended to little things when he had great ones to do." 

lie Royal Irish Academy is incoipoialed by patent, 1786. 

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The liM w» Ht, nfaoK IlnuMler tieir . 

Tlic TIUd nee, * nhtl crew, 

Thai from i hndrvd hUU My'A, 

Id impixit l»e«e. their Kim deO'-d.-JiUiH-. 


I 




Daj. 


Kfrtfis. 


Sestet. 






29. 


Auputus Lubin, 1624. Po™. 

John Hughe.. 1677, Marlboro-. 
Em. Swedenbourg. 1689, Suck- 

kolm. 
Thomai Paine, 1737, Thetfard. 
William Sharp, 1749, Minoriti. 
Henry Neele, 1798. Slrand. 

St. Sabinianus, o/ T™y«, ««■- 

l,r, 3d Centuiy. 
St. Solpicius Severas (Diwiple 

o/S(.Mflrlni),d. c. 430. 
St. Gildas, the Scot, d. Glasttm- 

(mry. 512. 
St. Gildaa, the Wise (or Bado- 

nicus). Abbot in Brittany, d. 

570. 
St. Sulpiciua, Bp. of BouTgti, d, 

591. 
St.r™nci8 0f Sales, Bp.»/G«- 

«™u. 1622. 


Sir ThomM Pope, 1559. 
W. Butler, IBlB. Cambridge. 
Bp. SatKlenon. 1663. B«M«,. 
Charles. Earl ot Donet, 1706. 

d. Bath. 
Bemird Luni. 1715. d. Beaia. 
Jamei, Earl of Derby. 1736. 
George, Earl of Orkoey, 1737. 
John Theoph. Fiehte. 18U. 
George III. 1820. Windm: 
J. Angeratein, 1823. d. Wood- 

landt. 

A modern cridc ia an apociy- 
phal scribbler who censures in 
gross, and commonly udes with 
the newest: he is worse than 
an Inda Eijturgaioriui, for be 
blotsoulall; and.whenhecan- 
twtfindafault, mafcesone. he 

quackii^ of the iaiirm and dis- 
eased parts of beoka, to show bis 
skill; buthasnothingtodowitli 
the sound : he deman to all wri- 
ters, and when he is mmnierf, 
will run into «.ri(e»q.f.-B"<Jn-- 








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Otte. 

The tweD^-uinth day of the month Shebat wai obiened m > feitini b; 
Ae JevB, to cominemorate the death of a most iaretente eoemj. Ad- 
tiodnu Epiphanei, B. C. 164.— Su Mace. i. 6. 

The Eqnirian games, in honoai of Mftn, were inttiluted by Romolni 
at this time, and eihllrited in the Campos Martiui.— &* 27 Fib. 

Robert de Cnmia and his Norcoan follovera are massacred, and the 
Episcopal Palace, at Duiham, is burnt to the ground, 1069. 

Si. Francis falling sick, His preceptor inquired of him, with tean, what 
hehtdto appoiDtcoDcerninghiafimeial,uidothera&ini "Nothing," 
be cheerfully answered, " unless it be that my body be giien to the 
Theatze of Anatomy, to be dissected ; far it aitl bt a cma^ort tome if I 
can be ef any ttdvantege, 'a/hendead, having 6cm afntmt, ahiltt aiivt." 

Charles I. bums his private papers and clavises, and takes farewell of 
his children, Elizatieth and Henry, 1649 ; a dreadful, and most afiecting 

e, that caused the death of the little princess, who eipiied al 
(dgbteen monUis after at Carisbrook Castle, in her GtWnlb yew. 

Sir William Temple addresses his Essay On the Ei«aan ef Gritf to 
the Countess of Essex (wife of Lord Capel), 1674 ; " It is, at least, 
[nous to ascribe all the iU thai befalls os to our own demerits, rather 
thaji to injustice in God ; and It becomes us better to adore all the issues 
of his providence in the eflects, than inquire into the causes.: for >ub- 
misdon is the only way of reasoning between a creature and its Maker ; 
and contentmeat in his will is the greatest duty we can pretend to, and 
the best remedy we can apply to all our mistartunes." 

geneiBl thanksgiving throughout England for the pregmncy of the 
Qneenof JaiQeslI..lG88. '■ The Pretender" was bom in Junefollowing. 

Weatmiaster Bridge, which was raised by lottery, is founded, 1739. 

This day is the Anniversary of the accesaon of our beloved monarch. 
King George the Fmirth, to the Briti^ throne, 1830. 



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Ubcrtr It ■ plDIthat dnene 
>h«llcni] tktm nmlR IN kxei. 



Abp. Sancroft, 1G16, Freriag- 

fitU. 
Villien, Duke of Buekingham, 

1627, WaUiBg/wd ll«m. 
Charlu Rollin, 1661, Pa™. 

«I Wright, 1683, fUtford. 
Kichard, EorlofShaDaon, 1T27, 

Wtm we i«fleet tbut wnM 
princes hsTe ban barbannulj 
murdered, and Ihat by tboM 
it lent beeame ; frhile 
olbm ImTe been neceMitaled 
ai QM Iheir peUtM faTOorit 
and beM friend* ; tndiome again 
have experienced both theie fa- 
taUtiei : tbeo we detennine the 
meaneit condilioa in the world, 
to be ptefenble to empire, ic- 
compniiedwiih iBch cftlamide*. 

0blU iftht Latin Church. 



(0 

Bp-ofEdaM, M. 114. 

St.Martina,P.At<vtifr,3d.Cent. 
St. Aldegondei, Virgin, A.liiM- 

bergt, 660. 
St. Bathildea (or Baldechilde) 

Qaten of France, d. 



Sophoclei, B.C. 40&. Athem, 
William de MontacuCe, Eail of 

Salisbury, A. D. 1344. 
Scip. Ammirati , 1 601 .d.Floreiue. 
arE.Digbr,«.1606,Sl.Po 
George, Lord Lanadowiie, 173fi. 
Cardinal Aodrew de Fleuiy, 

1743. Louvre. 
Williajn ChtUingworlh, 1644. 

Ckichetter . 
King Chailei I. beheaded 16^, 

Windior. 
Suianna Maria Cibber, 1766. 

J. Bartholomew Beccaiia, 1766. 

John B. Britard, I7M.d. Parii. 
Claude deRuIhiere, 1791. 
Dr. John Rabiaon, 1805. 



I hare ihown that all genuine 
leaionii^ doe> ultimately tern 
nats in certain principlei, which 
it u ImpoMible lo diibelieve, and 
M impouible to prove : therefore 
Ibe ultimate nandard of truth, to 
ui, ia comuKm Mtiie. — Battit, 



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The Attk poet, Arialapbases, producei hia cwoed; of " The Wcipt," 
■bout ihis da;, B. C. 422. Id the nroe year died Cratinui, ihe comic 
poet; die GcDBrals Cleon aod Braridas f^l u Amphipolia; uid the 
citiiem of Atheni (males) are compgied, by aceDstu, at tw«a^ tbouund. 
The day of the Soman Pacalia, dedicated to the godden Peace. 
Joho Aatley .the Warwickshire koight, accepti, as cbampion of the 
English natioD, the cbsllenge of Sir Philip Beaufe, ai Boyle, a knight 
of Anagon, whom be vanquishes, at Smithfeld, in the presence of 
Henry VI. and all hia Dobili^, 1442. Jlii revrocd waa a pensioo of one 
bnndred maika, and instant knighthood. The combatants' usual oath it 
remarkable : " Thia hear, you justices, that I have this day neilhei eat, 
drank, nor haie upon tne either bone, stone, or glass, or any enchant- 
nent, lorcery, or wilchcraTt, vhere through the power of God mi)^! 
be inleased or diminished, and the devil's power incieaaed." 

A pheoomeiwn is oblfflved at London called ^elmmitig ipeari, 1560; 
b«ng (perhaps) the earliest record of that appearance at piieseni well 
known by the name of " Aurora Borealis." 

The Journal of the House of Commons contains tbe fbDotnng entry 
on the day of King Chaslbs's Martvrdoii i " Die Martis, 3D Ja- 
nuaiii, 1G4S, post meridiem. Ordered, That the common post be staid 
until to-morrow morning, tea of the clock." Upon the same day, in 
tbe erening. Sir Lewis Dyves escapes from Whitehall, by le^ng from 
a water-closet into the Thames, and, aesummg aftermrds a woman's 
habit, arrived safely in Scotland ; butthe J>uke of Hamilton, In escaping 
from Windsor, is i^taken at Soutbwaik. The annusi fiut was first 
solenuuKd by an ordinance of parlianteDl, in 1661. 

Tbe Life-boat, invented by Mr. Greathead, is first used at Shields, 
1790. It is credibly slated that five hundred lives by its meaos hare 
been saved at the entrance of tbe river Tyne alone, sinoe that period. 
Mungo Park sails for Africa, 1805. 

Niy, Midun, he i> > Doctor; never rack hil pm»ii, bal rick bU ililc; 1(1 ; 

n luv« fta, ulc, iwl piper, nod hvlp of tH>oki, snd be ei^loiiied to coBtibiK the ' 

ry nbtn it breikoih off, and I will uaderuke, by cuUtcilDg ihi iiilei, la : 
igt wtielher he were tlie intbor or no. Ba&rr^t A^otofftf- 



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lltrt^*. 



E[Mcuius, B.C. 341, Auica. 
B. Jomoo, A. D. 1574, Wettm. 
John Francis Regis, 1697. 
Bp. <Nalh.) Crew. 1634, Stmt. 
Bp. Conjbeare, 1692, Pinhae. 

And lei it like an odour liae 
To all the senses here, 

And fall like sleep upon tb«r 

Or muuc in their ear. 

Joaton't Paiort of Delight. 

®lill oftht Latin ChuTch, 
St. Marcella, Widow, d. St. 

Paul'l, R™*, 410. 
Sla. CjruB and Jidin, JUi. al 

Cunoput. 
St. Maidoc (or Maodhog, alias 

Aidan, otheroise Si. Dee), 

Bp. of Ftnu, d. 624, 
St. SentfnoD, itf England, M. 

1240. 
St. Peter Nolasco, Founder and 

Gtraral ^ tht Order, at Bar- 

rtfono, fur th> redemption of 

Capciwt, 1256. 



Seleucui Nicator, murdtred, 

C. 280. 
Charles IV. (the Fair), 133B. 

d. Vincenna. 
Guido Fawtes, ei. 1606. Wat. 
Sir Richard Grosvenor, 1664. 
Eustache de Noble, ITU. 

J. Fioyer, 1734, LUhJieUi. 
Chas. Edward Stuart, 1-78T. d. 

SirAshton Leier, 17B8.d. Man- 
Clan Ctairon, 1S03. d. Parit. 



Seotts. 



Good nature and good sense 
came rrom our births or tempers ; 
good breeding and truth, chiefly 
by education and converse with 
;et truth seems much in 
one's blood, and is guned too 
by good sense and reflection. 
Nothing is a greatei possession, 
Doi of more advantage to those 
that have it, as »ell as those 
that deal with it.— Ttmpk. 



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flct«^ 

Thh dftjr the Romans dedicateil, moQlhlj, lo tlie bonsehold deitie* 
called Ptnata ; B festival othemise knowa. st tliis season, by Ihe name 
mlalia, because sacrifices were then offered al the gjates of their 
departed relatives ; and, as it was an iastitutioa of .CnesB, we may, not 
absaidly, Gi the death of ATahiia, about the present day, in Sicily, 
'.. 1133. — King Htrom, the geometricisn, and the friend of Solomon, 
built and dedicaled the Temple of Hercules, at Tyre, in this month 
(PtriliBt}, about B. C. 1000. 

The Atlienian festival of the Diasia, was celebrated at the close of the 
monthAnthesterion, without the city, in honour of Jupiter Melichius, 
the pTDpiltout, to whom the people sacrificed, and oflered supplications 
lot his protection from misfortune. It was a general fair, not unlike 
that under the tutelage of SL Bartholomew. The comic poet in his 
" Cfoudi." introdoces Stiepuades as having purchased, on this holiday, 
a littie chariot. for his goo. 

The planet Ju^ter is eclipsed by the moon on this day, A.D. 807. 

The iohabitaiiU of Glincee vale, in Argyleahire (the birth-place of 
Ossian), are barbarously massacred, and the spot disembowelled of 
every social appearance, 1692. King William, " whose chief virtue 
not humanity," ugned and countemgned the warrant, which was tn 
mi tted to the Secretary for Scotland, who particularly charged the ministers 
of destruction to take no pruoturs. 

Lord Chatham writes to his nephew, from the Horse Guards, 1^56 -. 
" FinitimM Oralati Poeta. Substitute Tully and Demoglhenes in the 
place of Homer and Virgil ; and arm yourself with all the yariety of 
iner, copiousness and beauty of diction, nobleness and magnificence 
of ideas of the Roman consul ; and render the powers of eloquence 
iroplete I7 the iriesislible toireni of vehement argumentation, the closi 
and forcible reasoning, and tbe depth and fortitude of mind of the Gre 

n statesman." — This imperial style would not disgrace the page of 



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Bnrnrnpalirfl ni«iid with wtudi and tonpeid t 



II looM-niTolving field*, the swain 
Is ; sees other bilU ucend, 
or HDkoowD, joylus brow ; aod other scenes, 
or horrid prospect, shi^ the ttacUess plain : 
Nor finds the liier, nor tbe forest, hid 
Beneath the ronnleu wild ; but wanders on 
From hill to dale, still more and more aitiaj ; 
ImpatieDt flouncii^ through the drifted heaps, 
Stong with the thoughts ofhome. How sinks his soul !~ 
What black despair, what borrour, fills his heart ! 
When for the duskj spot, which fancy feigned 
His tufted cottage rising through the snow, 
He meets the roughness of the middle waste, 
Far from the track, and blest abode of Man j 
While round him ikight reustless closes last. 
In vain (or him th' officious wife prepares 
The fire fair-blaong, and the vetlment warm ; 
In vain his little children, peeping out 
Into the mingling storm, demand thdr sire, 
With tean of artless innocence. Alas ! 
Nor wife, nor children, more sliall he behoW. — Tlumnm. 

Rivers arise i whether thou be the son 

Of utmost Tweed, or Oose, or gulpb; Dun, 

Or Trent, who like some earth-bom giuit spreads 

His thir^ arms along th' indented meads, 

Or sullen Mole that runneth nndemeath, 

Or Severn swift, guilty of muden's death, 

Or rocky Avon, or of sedgy Lee, 

Or coaly Tine, or ancient hallow'd Dee, 

Or Humber loud that keeps the Scythian's name. 

Or Medway smooth, oT royal tower'd Thame. — Miltou. 



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Under the Proteetian t^ NeptulK. 



Mr eye descending from the Hill, lurreya 

Wbere Thamtt among Ihe waDton vallies strays. 

Hasting to pay bis tribute to the sea, 

like martal life to meet Eteinity. 

Though with those streftms he no resemblance hold, 

Whose foam is amber, and tbeii gravel gold ; 

His genuine, and less guilty wealth t' explore. 

Search not his bottom, but survey his shore ; 

O'er which he kindly sprMds bis spacious wing. 

And hatches plenty for tb' ensuing Spring. 

Nor then destroys it with too fond a stay, 

Like motbeis which tbdr infants overlay ; 

Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave. 

Like profuie kings, resumes the wealth he gave - 

But godlike his unwearied bouuty flows ; 

First loves to do, tIAn loves the good be does. 

Not are hit blessinp to his banks couGu'd, 

Bat bee, and common, as the sea or wind. 

He roams ibe world, ajid in his flying towers 

Brings home to us, and makes both Indies oun ; 

Finda wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, 

Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants. 

O CffUid JJioto lUtg thee, and make thy stream 

My great txampU, oa it ii my l&mu I 

Thmgh deep, ytt etntr, tlioiigk gentU, ytt not dull. 

Siring vilhiM "ve, uitAsut 0'<rjtiiuti^/uU.— Denham. 



Mr soul, lime post* away. 

And thou, yet in Ihmt irosE 

Which flDwei and fruit fa&th lost, 

As if all here immortal were, dost stay.— Druiiimmiil. 



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HI* pl«|k Md hv«H ty hit M*.—9fmmr. 

Obi IKTB ths dkily circle of the ma. 

And ibc ihort jrar of nuh revolving moon. 

Wbeo fint the mooD ippean, if Ihen ihe ihroodi 

Her ulver creiceot, tipp'd with Mble cloudi. 

Conclude ihe twdei a lempeM od the mUD, 

And bnwi, foi fieldi, impetnoni floodi of rain- 

Or, if bei face with fiei? fluihing; glow. 

Expect the nttling wiodi aloft to blow. 

Above the re>t, the ion, who never liet, 

Foielelli the change of weather in the ikies. 

For, if he liw unwilling to hii race, 

Cloudi on hit brow, and ipoti upon his face. 

Or if through miib, he ihoot* hii inllen beami. 

Frugal of light, in looie and atraggling Mreanu ; 

fiiupect a drinliag day, with wutheni laiu, 

Fatal to fruiti, and flocki, and promii'd grain. 

But, more than all, the letting lun survey. 

When down the sleep of heaven he diivei the dly : 

If dudiy ipoti are varied on his brow. 

And, ilreaL'd with red, a troubled colour ihow. 

What desp'nite mldman, then, would venture o'er 

The frith, or haul his cable* from the shore ? — Geor^eki. 

Hail, Biihop VatentiDc! whose day this is ; 
AU the ait ii thy diocen. 

And all the chirpng choriilen, 

And other bitdi, ue thy puiihiooeri. 
Tbou marrieat every year 
The lyrick lark, and the grave whispering dove. 
The iparrow that neglecu hii life for love. 
The honiebald bird, with the red itoroacher ; 
Tbou mak'it the blacklnrd ipeed ai loon, 
Ai doth the goldfinch, or the halcyon ; 
The huiband cock looks out, and itnight is iped. 
And meeli hi* wife, which brings ber feather-bed. — D«ib#. 



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. The Woild, wbcceiii we pliy, ii bnt * itage. 
And an the men «nd women mocl; plqrcn : 
Tbey hire thdr aiii* mA tbeii entnnca ; 
And one man in hii Ume pl>j> miny parts, 
Hii acta being tenn agn. At fini, the in^iiiil, 
Mewling and poking in the nnne'i anna : 
Then, Oe whining tduwl-ioti, wilh hii nlchel. 
And (hining morning &ce, cnepiDg like snail 
Unwillingly to ichool ; and then, the lorn- ,- 
Sii^ui^ like furnace, iriih a woeful ballad 
Hade lo lu* ioi>ti«»' eye-brow : then, a iiiUi«r ; 
Foil of iMiige oathi, uid bearded like the pard. 
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in qoantl. 
Seeing the babble reputation 
Even in the cannm's month : and then, the jiufict ; 
In fair round belly, with good capon lin'd, 
Wilh eyes serere, and beard of formal cut. 
Full of wise saws and modern instancei. 
And so he playi his part : the liith age ihifta 
Into the lean and slipper'd panMiaoa ; 
With spectaclei on noie, and pouch on aide ; 
His youthfol hoae well saT'd, a world too wide 
For hi) Bhrank shaok ; and hii big manly met;, 
Tarmng again towaid childish treble, pipes 
And whistles in bis sound : lait scene of oil. 
That ends this strange erentfdl history. 
Is leeond childiAnta, and mere Mrcv/n ; 
Saos teeth, laaa eyei, sans taste, lans every thing. 

Shalapeare. 



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It ia not the oak, (he ash, or 
he elm, or any of the robust 
jees of the forest, which we 
consider as beautiful ; they are 
awful and mHJeatic ; they in- 
spire a sort of reverence. It is 
(he delicate myrtle, it is the 
orange, it is the almond, it is 
jessamine, it is the Tine, 
which we look on a% vegelable 
beauties. — Burfa. 



4SbitS tftht Latin CfturcA. 
St. Ignatius (TheophUras), Bp. 

i^Antieeh, JIfarlyr, 107. 
St^PioQiUB, of Sntynta, M. 260. 
St. Kinnia, Firgm of Ireland, 

d. 5lh Century. 
St.Bnd^t(oTBride), Patronta 

of Intaud, d. S23. 

St. Sigebett 11. King of ^usi™- 
lia, i. 656. 



le fill, uid aooH trow ; « li Ibc ge- 
Ecctetiaaticttt, 

)9(atta. 

Cudinal Aleander, 1543. 

Edward Finch, 1643. 

Cardinal Nidhari, 1881. 

Francis Blondel, 16B6. 

AlexaDderVIII. (Pope), 1691. 

Sani. Pitiscui, 1717. d. UtTtchl. 

Charies, Duke or Shrewsbury, 
171e. d. IiUaorth. 

Dao. Francis Voidn, 1718. 

Fredeiick Ai^Mna I. (of Po- 
land), 1733. d. Wahate. 

Sir Hew Daliympk, 1737. 

Ant.de Senecai, 1737. d.Jf own. 

George Lambert, 1765. 

WiUiam Ailon, 1793. d. Kac. 

Wm. Vise Barrii^toD, 1793. 

Dr. Joha Lempriete, 1B24. 



There is no wisdom without 
honesty ; all else is but art 
cunning, which only makes good 
the present, but looki not (o 
fnrthenend. Truth hadi but 
way, and <Hie facs. 



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SePTUAOEsiKA Sdrsat, wu «ibblUhed bj Gitgm; the Gmi, • 
of the bnt of tlw Popw, ibaM 1^ baipnaiiig of Ibe nvmlh ontBiy, 

■ jnepualivs fiw ibe Lent uA Euter (olcninitKi, uid ii n cklk 

D it* Ullng on die mwntMth da; precdUog Low Snndkj, when tt 
high ftatl of EulBT, in itmembnnce of our Sananr'i ramrraelioa, Va 
miDtMd. It u manble with the Puchil mooD, bat Bxed celuinl; Ibe 
■econd wed bcfare Shrave (i. e. Quinqnigeumk) Saodaj, tod the niDth 
from Eaiteb Dat, — Stt Gdi April. 

The dedioliaD of ■ temple to Jnno SspiM (tbe ptewner), ii n 
tiDned on thii dm; a» i. Romia fcitiral. Cicero detcribe* tbe godden 
u one who n oerer (ecu, even ia » dnun, wilhoni ■ gnt-ikin, & ipear, 
■ little tbield, end brood HUidkli, Thoie u > cmtU bnn imige c^ her 
ID tbe Florehce Gtlleij, but mutililed, ind tbe lecl ue buc. It i« not 
extravagant to identifj tbii lady with tbe PoHot of the Orsek*. 

Edward III. ii crowned at Windior, 1337, ia hit Uleenth jtta. 

Edward, Duke of York (Edwaid IV.) rerengei hit tkihn^ death bj a 
■igna] victory over ttie royaliiti, cominaBdad bj Jaaper, Earl of Penibroke, 
at Horttmn-'j Cnw, in Herefbidahin, 1461. 

Lord Burleigh ligni llie Commiinon, " penned" b; hiinnlf, bi Ihe 
execution of the Queen of Scoti, dii«cted to (be Earli of Shiewibui;, 
Kent, Derby, Cumberland, and Penbn^ (Shakapeaie'i palron), 1587. 

Tbe artificial riraam, named tbe N«m Rntr, i« begun bj Sa Hugh 
Middleton. fmn two spnnga, ooe in tbe paiirii of AmmQ, the otha near 
Waie (called Chadwell), in Hertfbrdihire, die waten of which be united, 
1608. AltiMWgli ei^t hundred biMgw were conMnietsd, and mx hun- 
dred woAom were gmenllj craplojcd during the period of mora than 
yean, orer a anrboe of tUity-nine miln, tbe projector** diibnne- 
menta a^ipeat to bate not exceeded 16,0001. money of that day. 

Tbe Bciyal Sardtign, mut-of-wtr, i* burnt at ChaOtm, 1696. The 
leviea of money for building tbi* noble rauel caoied the Rebellion. 

War is deebuad ^;aiinl Bt^tand and Holland bj the French, 1793. 

Tbe Bell Rock I^t-bonae, eo the Scotch coaU, ii Ulumiiud, 1811. 

An eruption of the volcaiio of Albay, in Luconia, one of the Philip- 
pine Talei, ISl 4, which dotroyed five town*, and twelve bandied pan 






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Hlcber Ihin the if keo c) 



mm*- 



Bp.(W.)Tboinu, 1613, Briiiot. 
Walter Chuleton, 1619, SA«;>- 

tm-Mallet. 
Dr.Wm.Barlaie,ie96, Pendeen. 
John Nichols, 1744, iilington. 



Melhinki most of tbe pfailo- 

■ophera and moralists have run 
too Diacb iDtoeitiemes, in prais- 
ing eDtiiely dther solitude or 
public life : itt the fonner. men 
generally grow useUss bj loo 
much test ; and, in the latter, 
are destroyed by too much pre- 
cipitation ; as nateia lying still, 
putrefy aiMl are good (or no- 
thing; and running riolently an, 
do but the more mischief in 
ihdr passage to others, and are 
swallowed up and lost the soooei 
themielveBi — Sieeli. 



4nitf oftkt Latin Church. 
St. Lawrence, Abp. <f Caatei 



Sir Owen Tudor, 1461. beh. 

Hertford. 
Balthazar Castiglione, 1539. d. 

Tattdtt. 
Si. Catharine de Ricca, 15B9. 
Giovanm di Palestrioa, 1594. 

John Fautie, 1683. 
Marquis du Quesne. 1688. 
Wm. del' Hospital, 1704. 
Abp. (John) Sharp, 1714. York. 
Clement XIII. (Pope), 1769. 
John Lockman, 1771. 
de la Haye, 1774. 
:i9 Hayman, 1776. 
James Stuart, 1788. 



Lucullus entertained Pompey 
in one of his munificent houses; 
Pompeyobserved,Thisiaa mar- 
vellous fair and sUtely house 
for (be summer ; but methinks it 
should be very cold for winter. 
■Lucullus replied ; Do you not 
think me as wise as divers foola 
are, to change mj habitation in 
the winter season T 



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The PoRiriCii'noN, a d>; set span b; the church to comi 
Bttendwace of the Vii^n Mar; Id the Temple, on the (brlietb da; al 
childtnith, IS conunanded bj the law. It b aUo called CjiMDLEvaa 
Cay tmai tlie practice still continued at Rome, bat reliDqaUhed here io 
1&48, of lighting the churches nith caodlet of wai-~«mbleiiu of that 
spleudniU' and pnritf it wai intended to menHiriie ; and pethapi ini 
cently adopted ftom the Liiteria, ot ProseririDs] riles, which were eei 
braled with QDUiual solemoilj by the Romaiu oa the ame or preceding 
(lay, in the Salaiian grovei. It is called a GRaNit Day ii 
Court ; a Gaody Day at the two Uoivetstiet ; and a Coliab Day at 
lunes's, being one of the three great holidays, doling the Tenm, on 
which all legal and official bosineas is sospended. 

Kii^ Stephen, whqse valoor was deserving of a better fortune, is de- 
feated and taken captive at the battle (befbie die castle) of Linealtt, 1 141. 
In 1415 leien dolphin* were obtened spoiting in the Thantea al 
London, font of which were takes. 
Charies I. is crowned king of his English dominimu, 1626. 
Cowley produces, at Trini^ CoU^, Cambridge, his I^lin comedy, 
in proM, called " Naulragium Jocniare," 1638 ; hanng iteither the b- 
cilily of a popular, nor Ihe accuracy of a leanted work, it seems to be 
H universally neglected, saith Jt^naon ; but let it alio be lemembered 
that that precocious genius had not then attained his majori^. 

Captain Aleiandei Selkirk is discovered by two British privaleen ir 
his (Dliludf at Juan de Fernandez, an Island west of Chili, in the South 
Sea, where he had lived for four years and four monlhs, and forgotten the 
dialect of his country .—&« Rohitaoa Cnuoe. 

The French, upon the capitulation of Mantua this day, take ei 

possession of the Pope's dominions, when Buonaparte dictates to his 

holiiKsa those pioia terms of paciAcatiou, signed at TalmliBD ten days 

after, 1797. 

The first fair at Novi, in the Milanese, is established. 






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Heniy Cromwell (M. S.). 1637. 

Good men ai« the stars, the 
planets of the ages wherein thej 
live, and illustrate the times 
God did never lei them be naot- 
iag to Ibe world : as Abel, for 
an eiamplcofitiDoceDcy, Enoch 
ofpuiit;, Noah of trust in God' 
mercies, Abraham of faith ; who 
looked dawn on the stage of the 
world, and contemned the play of 
fortune . — Jonsm . 

9Mt cf tU Idlin Church. 
\. Blase, Bp. nf Sehattia, in 

Jrnunia, M. 316. Thetitular 

patroD of tiie profesuoD of 

wool-cotnberB. ("Sm Engliii 

Churtft CaiCTdar.) 
St. Anscbahus (or Scharies), 

jltjt.of ifinnburg anii Brm«i, 

d. 865. 
SI. Wereburghe, F. Palnmesj of 

CfceHer, d. 699. 
St. Margaret {'sumanud a/' Eng- 

Imi'), V. d. 13th Century. 



Sweyn ("of Denmork_>, 1014. d. 

JobnofGaont, 1399. 
Tbomaa Lord Fitigerald, (eh. 

1637. 
Charles X. Co/'SiMdM;, l6iS0. 
Francis Lord Conway, 17S2. d. 

Eliz. Thomas, 1730. St. Bnd«'i. 
Sir Tbomiu Lombe, 1738. 
Richard Nasb, 1761. BalA. 
Gasp. Rubeck, 1786. d. ^niv. 
John Charles Brooke, fciJi«tf, 

Haymarliet Theatre, 1794. 
JidiD Beckmano, 1811. d. Gut- 



As every thread of gold is 
valuable, so is every minute of 
time i and as it would be great 
folly to ^oe horses (as Nero 
did) with gold, so it is to speod 
D trifles. — AToHR. 



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And an Uw lliMt UUI 
Ov «uh « Uk* 1 Ml 



James I. hj lellcci patent, dated iLii day, 1616, gnnti to Ben Ji 
a peniioD of one hundred marki doiing hit lifg, " in coomkntioD i 
good and aecaptablc umce heretalbic done, and hoMftn to be 
b; the nid B. J." The munimenl inunsu ui in two retpedi, finl, ai 
it conferm the laat«l wreath on the brawi of our Biitiih Fan ; ud iibi 
beouw it is not without nme appveal nfermce to aDOlhar great maitc 
then eqiial, and >iiice Ttitlj superior to him in fam«, the Siron tf Am 
who drew up hii lutwill in that monlh, and lignod ii on the Ladj-daj, 
when probabtf all his inflnence at the eonit had coued, 
he recmved troni it auj pennon, by grant, is yet unknown ; but his death 
nuUtR, amidst the hilarities of his birthJay, and whilst be was pre- 
paring for postetity the legacy of his woiki. 

Mr. Wilkes is expelled the House of Conunotu fi>r ft breach ofpiirilege, 
an the motion of Sceretaiy Lord Bairington, 1769, 

Dr. Johnson on lliii day, 17TB, gives diiectiaiu for travelling to the 
best adTBntage. They are addressed to a young lady, but mtiy be applied 
unirenally.— 5m " Life" by BanttU. 

Captain BuH Ball describes this day the climate of Panama, o 
iiduans .- " Dniing the morning it was much too hot to move about with 

,y comlbrt ; but towards tun-sci, all the world stioUed about to enjoy 
the deUgfatfnl air of the brief twili^l, along some chinning walks in 
woods, befond the inhni^, (be scenery abont which was of the richest 
description of tropical beau^. Theli^t closed in upon ui with a pre- 
ci[«tancj unknown in hi^ier latitudes ; but before we reached the draw- 
bridge al the entrance of tbe (own, the moon had risen, and the land- 
scape became even more beautiful than before." 

GeDoal Auchmnty caniei Montevideo, in Buenos Ayree, by storm, 
1807. 

In 1664 (N.8.)lba river Thames was " planted with bootfis in formal 
streets, all aorls of trades, and shops furuiihed and (ell of ciHnttiOditiei, 
1 to a printiag-press." A umilor Pairwas held there (intwocountica) 
upon the same day, 1814. 

The fair of St. Germain, which continues until Easter, u 



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L't ud hlAory ] to-dar in 



Bingutarit; ia almolt alwayl 
regained a> a brand of iVgbl 
reproach ; and where it la ftSio- 
ciated with acknowledged meiil, 

alio; of eicelleace, by which 
ejei are recanciled U> iii 

liutre, and by which, though 
Ida ia not gained, at leaat 

eDvy ia averted. — HaakatuBrth . 

0blitBftlit LaHa Chumh. 
St. Fhileaa and Philoiomua, U). 

t Egypt, c. 309. 
Sl-laidore .of Feluaium, d . c. 449. 
at. Modan, MbBt in Scotland, 

d. Tlh Centui;. 
StIUmbert,^bp.a^Bmnm^B. 
St. Gilbert, Mbut in Engbind, 

d.ll»0. 
St. AndiewCoraini, HWiip,1373. 
St. Jane (or Joan), Qii«n of 

Fraiut, d, 1506. 
Si. Joaeph, Bjl-Bmiua,A. 1613. 



gfgtt». 

LaciuiSeptimiuBSerenia.A.D. 

211. d. York. 
Egbert (of Engloiui), 836. 
Rabanua Macnia.BSfi. d. Wiiatl. 
George Abbot, 1648. 
John AJenochiui, 1656. 
Fraacia de Creijui, 1687. 
Robert Blair, 1746. d. Athtl- 

itane/ord, , 

J(4n Jamei Hridegger, 1749. 
Hiclini'mil. 

ouii, Duke of Orleana, 1752. 

d. Si. G6n£viiu. 
Samuel Davia, 1761. d. J 

Dr.W.H»iTia,1770.d.Hmi 
Charlea de la Condamine, 1774. 
Eaprit Peienaa, 1 776 . d ..itnfR«n. 
John Mortimer, 1779. d> AyUi- 

Humilitjr ever dwell* with men 
of noble nundi i it ii a flower 
that ptolpen not in lean and 
barren aoila ; but in a ground 
thai ii rich, it flouiiahea and ia 
beautjfal.— Fdlfcom, 



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Tbr ChiiWM yt*t, irhicb ti monblc (compqtiiig by ■ Kiiei ti eyelet, 
M connei, of uity yean each, dated rmni ths Deluge), begioa about 
I, wbao (be whole empire keeps bolktaj. The Japaneae, «ba 
also reckon by that mode, celebrate tb^ new year near d>e tame day. 

Tbe poind of the dealh of Screnu, at York, ii muikable (or Oe 
Bnitenceof Fingal, aomrawneduilbe Poestof Oiman, Tbeempenr'i 
MMU, Geta and Caracalla, were rMslM by that event fttxu Scotland, 
while debatiDg with the bare, over beath and monntain, her aacienl, 
ttabbom iDdepaodeDce. 

John Begert, a prebendaiy of St. Panl^, and tbe proto-mai^, ia 
bnmed at Smilhfield, I5SG. Tbe number of panont that anfiml daring 
■he font yean of Mmt'i (joint) rdgn ii two hundred and dghly-eigiit, 
at tbe iiiMtMtin. 

An cartbqnake in Sidly, which (wallowed np Cuana (tbe bitth-epot 
of Stetiehomt) and dghleen tbooaaDd dtueni, I6B3. 

Howdl writei to bii weU teloMd tnmn, 1626 : " Of all dvil actjoni 
that are incident lo man, there ii not any that lendi mine to hit infelicity 
ir tiapjHneai than maniage ; theiefor«. it coocenu you not to be over- 
hMly hanin, nor to take the tall btfort Ih* bound ; for not Aleiander't 
■word can cut anwder n hard a knot, among nt Chiittiana. If you 
are reaolvcd to many, dumtt ichtn y«i lovt, cud raolvi fa J«m jmir 
: let love latber than lucre be your guide in thii election ; Ihongh 
X of both be good, yet for my part, I bad isiher the latter 
ibonld be tranting than the Gral ; the one ii the pilot, but the other tbe 
ballaat of the ihip, which thonld carry ui lo the karbouT of a happy 
life. If you light npoD a threw, 1 with yon may have the tame meatore 
of patience that Sociatea and SIroad, onr Wettminiter cook, had. I 
remember a French proverb : 

1 maiion ett miierable et michaDle, 
la poule plot haul que le coq chaale i" 
but, though lilencc be tbe dumb oialor of beauty, and tbe bett ornament 
of a woman, yet a ]Megmatic dull wife m diugreeable and futidioai." 

Thit day, in the calendar vl Heuod, ii luipiciDui for marriage, and 
for tbe lepBTation of thipa ; but a day of tmuiJci. 



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BUnry iIcbHn ud emueoluo lb* mind.— ifiMHr. 



■ Bi(h(ip(Thoma«)Tanner,1674, 
(N.8.) aSarktt Lavington. 

Ii it not far more hoDounble 
10 hftte it decUied bf the Miiau 
thkt k gcDsral pmervsd hii pra- 
>B by tbe milduM and equity 
of his adminiilratiaD, than thai 
red it either to the ttiength 
of hii IroDps or to the fftTotu of 
legodtl — Colo. 



tMtiHvfthi Latin Church. 
St. Agatha, V. M. Patrima, «f 

Malta, d. 351. (Sue EngtUl 

Church Caiaidar.') 
TheMailyn of Poutui, c. 304. 
31. AbraamiuB, Bp. of Arbthx, 

M. 34S. 
8t.AvLtu»,^frp.o/F^7«,d.525. 
St. Alice (or Adelaide), F. J 66u) 

at Ctttgnt, d. 1016. 
The twenty-six Martyrs of Ja 

pan, d. 139T. 
The Mirtyii of Chini, 



gMtt«. 

M>r«ui Cato, B.C. 46. Ulica. 
Bp.AmBD,A.D.l-293.5t..AupA. 
J.Meya, I652.i, Blmkaibarg. 
Pmpera Alpini, 1617. Podiu. 
JooM Van Vondel. 1678. 
Ph.dc Hontnnlt, 1664. d.fani. 
Adrian Rcland.lTlS.d. Utrtcbt. 
Jamet, Earl Stanhope, 1731. 

Cherening. 
Stiba Tracbet, 1739. d. Pnrti. 
Dr. William Beniman, 17«>. 
Dr. Willii, 1760. Fnns Siretf. 
Hn^ Fanner. 1787. d. TfoJ. 

Ihtmutew. 
Dr. William Cullen, 1790. £»«• 

Sir John EaidleyWilmot, 1793. 
Lewii G atvani, 1 799. d.Bali^>Hi. 
Oen. Faoli. 1807. d. England. 



Heroei and authora are 
gotten, a> >ome have poetically 
laid of a Spaniih jennet, by the 
wind, n^ich ii the rain man'i 
deity, public rumour. 

fVychtrUy. 



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AnaDSTDi a, bj a Tote of the wiule, ia lull tsaemblj, Atii tmo* 
crowned with laiiret, rahiled irilh Ibe title of Father of lai Country, 
B.C. 31- 

An eruption of Vvicarxo, one of the Lipari Itlandi, which dunged 
the ealire face of the local ningalion, 1444. Ariitode rMtmla adread- 
All explosioii that is sapposed to hare fonned die ahuA lu it ilood in the 
time of Pliny, who, with Stiabo, meationi ill piodaclioi] nnder a dif- 
ferent same. It is the Hiera of Vi^il. 

Chajlet II. ii ptoclaimed king by Am Scotliah parliament, at the emu 
in Edinbnrgh, 1649. 

A parhtlum, or mock sun, ii otnened near MaricDbourg, in Weitem 
Prussia, I6T4. It appeared in the boriioD, beneath the material mn, of 
a red colour, and shortly preceded a veiy leverc boA, 

The peace of Nimfguen, between Fiance and Auitiia is Hgned, 1679. 

Colonel Cliie achieves hii glorious and important victory on the plains 
of Plassj, in Hbdostan, 1757. 

Theoider of knighthood, called St. Patrick's, ia inititated. 1783. 

The Grsl shock of the eartbquakei in Sicily and the two Calabrias, is 
lelt at the town of Scylla on tht uam day. In the night a tremendoni 
wave swept from the coast two thousand fonr hundied and serene-three 
of it! inhabitants, irilh the prince of the place. The work of deitrucIioD 
aikd tecTour continued for almoBt four months, accompanied by incenant 
rains and bursts of thunder. 

The Begenc; Bill passed into a law, when His Royal Highness the 
Prince of Wales attends the privy council, aiu] accepts Iha oath, 1811. 

Tht ViBoa if Nina. It was on the ^tft day of the moos which, ac- 
cording to the custom of my foiefathen, I always keep holy, after having 
tmihtd myself, and offered up my momiag devotions, I ascended (he 
high hills of Bagdad, in older to pass the rest of the day in meditation 
and prayer. — Sa Spectator, Ho. 159. 

The Aaniveisary of the Medico-Botauical Society, in Sackville Street 

A day of dire calamity, says He^od, in which certain Greek ladies, 
called " The Furies," make their round — " about, about, about." 



TuD>ODn 



Cnp« HD. •> 



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like UlU or IUdp In the icghm al 



IS Ihc moon, ihnya dor u 



Doy. 


Victtft. 


BHIIDf. 


VIII 


Andrew Duditb, 1533, Buda. 


Bi8hopBrynoth,1317.d.&««. 


Id.' 


Antony Arqauld. 1612. Porit. 


Jamei Amyol, 1593. 


6. 


Daniel Mortof, 1639. Wimar. 


Dr.JohnAgUonby,1610. Iilip, 




Anne, ot Englwd. 1665, St. 


John Ant. le Vacbet, 1681. 




JamaU. 






C. H. HeiaecUn, 172t , Luiwli. 


Joaeph Mitchell, 1738. 

Clement XII. (Pope), 1740. 







Maurice Johnson. 1765. 




Falitica] creduU^, U daU; 


Dr. Joseph Priestley, 1804. d. 




nouri^ed and kept in humour 






by fiction and deluaion ; and may 


Ann Flaiman. 1820. 




be compared to the old abstinate 






knight b Rabelais, that everj 













for hii brcakfMt. 


He wai a prince of many 




Frieholdtr, in iH. 


virtues, and many great imper- 
fections ; debonair, easy of ac- 










dtlit* <^tht Latin Chareh. 


voice great, proper of person. 




St. Dorothj, V. Martyr at Ca- 


every motion became him : a 




$ana, c. 304. 


loverofthesea, of planting, and 




St. Mel, Bp.ofArdagk, (nephew 


building. He had a particulac 




ofSt. Patrick), 488. 


talent in telling a story, and face- 




St. Vedaat. Bp. of Arra,, i. 639. 


tious passages ; this made some 
buflboDS and vlcknit wretches 




d. etlt Century. 


loo familiw, not worthy W fa- 




St. AmanduE. Abbot of Elntm, 


voui Ihey abused.— JEwljM. 




d.6T5. 





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•t lie wlKirttd.~Jmrrtmt oj 



Three Arobawadon from John Upc*siu, the Jewuh Pootiff, an 
leceiTed at Rcme ; vhen the Senate, on thii day, decree ■ renewal of 
the league of amity and awiitance with that good aiul/ritsdly peopU, 
and diimisB tbe delegates with pmenti, B, C. 129. 

leen Maij incorponla, by Chaitet, the Compaoy of AUfchaol 
AdTentuietB, tntding to Hnicavy, 1655. 

The book entitted A Nohle Roman Uiitmy of ■■ Tifu Andronictu," 
11 entered by Joba Dantet, printer, at Statiaiien' Hall, 1594. 

The Scotch deliier ap King Chariet I. to the Puiiameat upon le- 
ceiTiDg the lum of two hundred thousand ponoda, for aiiean of pay, 
1647 ; and two years after, (lame day) dw Home of Loids, and the 
oSice of King, were abolished by two brief leaolatiDni. 

Mr. Pepys visiU the King's Home, 1668, and saw the Moor of 
Fttuee ; bnt to hil «ai}iri>e, Moooe did not act the part of lago u well 
u Ch»^ used to do, nor another. Han't, which was that of Cauio^~The 
fonner is supposed to have been an illegitimate stm of Ben JonHn, and 
Hart was one of the nephews of Sbakspeare. 

The French nation avows Ae independence of the thirteen American 
States, by concluding a treaty of defensive alliance with the cohHua, on 
is day, at Paris, 177B. The English Ambassadoi wai immediately 
withdrawn, and acts of war cammencad. 

Swift's Journal, 1712 : " The Queen ga»e Prince Eugene Ibe diamond 
twDrd to-day ; but nobody wu by, except the Loid ChamberUin. Tbia 
is a binh-day chat." 

Bnnii addresses the Bsilliei of Conongate, 1787, for permission to 
place a stone at the grave of Robeil Fe^uison ; ' a man whoie talents 
for ages to come will do honour to odt Caledonian name.' 



'e tlwir ipleai, vicb BEUy oi 



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PUH, u ■ riTcr, 1> nairowril when 'eii bred, inil bnwieit ahc oS: u cifiii- 




D,J. 


Vims. 


»Mt6«. 




Id.' 
7. 


Dr. Henty Moncrieff, 1 750. 

'Tis Ibou, thrice iweet and 
eraciom goddess,iddreuiagm;- 
self (o Libeitj, whou tatle ii 
grsUful, and ever will be to, 
till Nature heraelfihaU change. 
— No lint of words can ipot 
thjr inowj mantle, or chymJC 
power turn thy iceptre into iron ; 
—with thee to mill upon him a5 
h* eat< hi. cni.l, the iwajn ii 
happiet than hi. monarch. 

«titf 0/ «-!-.(«. C*»rrf. 
St. Theodonii (Slratllalei), W. 

flt HrracUa, 319. 
at.\ugului(Aueu.tu.,orAiiIe), 

Bp. ofLondm. M. 4lh Cent. 
St. Treaain (or Trafanm), of 

Ireland, d. 6tk Century. 
St. Richanl, King <f the Wtit 

Sarmj, d. Lucca, c. 732. 
St. Romnald. Abbpt tf Canml- 
<Wi, d. 1027. 


St. Ronan, of Stat\«nd, 603. 
Jamef Earl of Moray, (the 

Bonny), murdtrid. 1592. 
FranciaPitbon, I62I. 
Thoi. E.of Eieter. 1622. ^ftfcn,. 
Bp. (WilBam) Bedell, 1M2. 

PauIPelliuon-FoDtaiuer. 1693. 

d. VertailU,. 
Dr. John Hedwig, 1799. 
AnneRadcliSe. lS23.d.Pimlic<>. 
Henry NeeU, 1828. 

She wMt to her death with 

and without chaaging the coknit 
of her fuG, and thereby diaco' 
vered the pobUily of herdeuenl 
to the .pectalor.. Thiu died 

•oul; bat ihe wanted modera- 
tion, and had too much of con- 
tentioB in bat nature; yet bid 
.he all that can be .«d, in the 
benuly of her pervn, and in the 




Jtiloqiy, like Um pirrlcUlt, dulroyj Uial by which 11 lini, uitl li btiollcn. 













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The Months. The geotle Nnint. appMn to hive t^opttd FtArtwry 
DC of the moutfai, in referaace to the imrgolioni obwrved near the 
nd*, or DBW moon, tX tUs aeaian of the jear. It caimpoiida with 
the twelAh mooa Utchir, in the oU. «nd the Nilh ia the modem Egyp- 
tian calendu ; with the nxth cinl, and the twelfth ecdenaMical moop, 
r, of the BebrewB ; with tka Hith monlb, ScloAmr, of tlw Fenians i 
with the sith moons, Jate-Ait, Amthtirg aod ArgU, of the AbyniDiaiu, 
Copts, and Armenians ; with the sixth moDUs, Dyitnu, Stbaitia, and 
Diui, of the SyiD-HacedoDians, Paphians, and Bidiyniana ; widi the 
fifth sohir month, Saint, of Ihe Syrians ; with the ninth dimid. Elapht- 
on, of Ihe Athenians ; tba aith, XanthUm, of the Macedonians ; 
and the second, Pcriliiii, of theiitoW jeai; and with the eighth moons, 
SaAaben, and Sakaaban, of the Arabic uid Torkisb calendaia. The 
Sauns named it SoI-mDalh, (which marks the season) ; and it is called 
5pn>fc)[tl -month b; the Dutch and Germans. — The origin of the months 
coouoonlj eiplain that of states, the souicea of their power and 
happiness, with the manners of the people ; and therefore it is, that mo 
defiikitionsof the Roman calendar are either secondaiy or fanciful, i 
the objeclavreraqtnle obscured, e*ea in those eyes that best shonUknow, 
by the Rvolntiens of pride and refinemenL 

The seienlh of the month Adar, vna kept as a ha by the Jews, in 

memory of the death of tliwr gieat prophet Ukd legislator, Moses, B. C. 

51. — It was about this period, at the heliacal setting of the Pleiades; 

1 time of the latter nios in Jodna, B. C. 134, that Antiocbas Sidtta 

IS besiegii^ the city of Jerusalem, defended by J<din Hyrcanus, nrho 

had then assumed the PonliGcate upon the mnrder of his father Kmon, 

|A< btntfactOT. That year is memorable &om ita being Sabbatic, or the 

seventh year of reM, hi which the Jews are forbiddea either to pbttgti, 

I enjoy the fruiU of thar trees. 



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D.J. 


mttit. 


BMt»f. 


VI. 


St. Proclni, Potrurch iif Om- 


Wmiam Longtwonl, ild Eari of 


Id. 
8. 




BalLbury, 1360. k. Manwn. 


Mary I. of EnjlMd. 1616, 


Count Robert, of Artoii, 12M. 




GrM.tti<h. 


kilUd.M«.oura (Egypt). 




Robert Barton, 1676, Lfndi^. 


St. Jorom ^miliani, 1S37. 






Noel Beda, 1537. Mount St. 




WUUm. 


SffeWI. 






Geoffrey Vall6e, 1674. h.rn«d. 




P«tor D>Diel Hud, 1630, Com. 


p™. 




Oobriel Diniel, 1649. Aoum. 


Maiy, of ScotUnd, fttAmdof. 




Chrulei Heoanlt. 1686, PsHi. 


1687. Jftftflf. 




Joli» At>di«w do LtK, 1737, 


Alph. d'Elbeno, 1608. d. Mhl. 




G,«^. 


Ferdinand II. (of Qermany), 
1637. 






MoiM Amymut. 1664. 




OI(tl^t)^I'>i» Church. 


Ricb. Fendretl.lST 1 .d. Lsnten. 
Fnmcii d'Eicaublean , 168<3. 




St. Paul, Bf.tf Vtrdun, d.631. 


Geo. A>hwell, 1693. KmiMll. 




81. Cuthmaa, tf England, d. c. 


Dr. Oeorge Sewell, 1737. d. 




8lh Century. 






St. Stcpban, of Oiandmoitt. d. 


Aanm Hill. 1760. Abbey. 




Limaga.WU. 


Oaipwde Real. 1762. d. Pirrii. 




St John, of Matha, fimaitt of 


WiUiam Hllfonl, 1837. Exbury. 




theOnler arrrimtaiiani, 1213. 







to he bold 




udlebi 


BlH dtUfhUth t 


b«r of 


udUie* ■■>>] Tiliuct; » 


meDdlDi 


ipravHl hirdy ma 


of Iwr wmnlrr, altboiifb fliey be hei 




UMta l» «».rdlM 




t M«d.. 


The thlii Ihii 


BOH tbe 






ABi >11 Ihiiv - 




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OU Oetu, hiUI boutk * 
Thi lemt <l«p Ua nHTpk 
Yt touprtti [ o'er my b«d 



Id tduk an^aiioB, la, Ikcy bcntr but 
HiU, •cKJiil hotoonl like iii]r turn irvcn 



flUtl. 



Tbe eighth days mra baU ucnd (o Neptune bj the Atheniaiii. 

Pipiiiiu Cnnor triumpb* for bii Ticloiy orec the Sunnitai, B.C. 393. 
He dedicated on Ibii occuion a temple (o Qii inm u, upon wbkh ip 

ted ■ moHlia], Ibe Gnt evei Ken at ,Iloim. Belbre thii period the 

Iran of the daji wai noted by three intemk ; the liung and lettiag 
of the iwa, and the time of noon, which trai proclaimed by the connilac 
haialdi when hil diik appeared between the nratn. and the honH ap- 
pointed br dw raception of ambauadoon. Rome, in the lanpiage of 
Cyoeaa, wai then a temple, and As wnate ao auembly of kiDga,— 
wai in B. C. 291 that the lalutaiy God, fwmlajnw, wai brougfat in I 

I of a aerpeat from Etodannii, and etufarioHi upon id iiland in I 
midit of the Tiber. — See Ovid'i iplendid fabte. Ttiii phjtician and 
benefiaciDt invented the probe, cathaitici, dentition, and the ue of ban- 
dages, and bence the n^net Gr- hil mcmoiy. 

ielja ii at Faiii, 1644 : " I took coach and went to He the famona 
JanJis Sinfiil, which ii an enclosare walled in, cmeisting of all Taiietiea 
of gTUUid ioT plantii^ and caltore of medical umplea. It is well choaan, 
harii^ in it hilli, meadows, wood and upland, natural and artificial, 
and is richly stored with eiotic plants. In the middle of the parterre is 
it fountain. Then isaTeiyfise house, chapel, laboraloij, orangeiy, 
and other accranmodatiDns for the president, irtio is always one of the 
king's chief phyucians." 

Wycberley writes to Pope, M.S. 1707 : " As often as fevers and a( 
attend the best consdtntims from the worst air ; so does that malignant 
ir of calumny soonest attack the sound and elevated in mind, ai sto 
f wind the tallest and miMt fraitfal traes ; whilst the low and weak 
bowing and moving to and fro ate secured from the violence of the 
tempeiL" !■ this fla.tleiy, or sympathy, or bothi 



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Thil day Ihim doomt 



Daniel BeraouUti, 1700. Gra- 

If there be a aation thai ex- 
ports its be«r and linen, to pa; 
for (he iniportatioa of claret aad 
porter, while a great part of its 
people lire upon potatoes and 

ir no shirts ; wlierein does it 
differ from the »di, who lets his 
family atarvre, and sells his 
clothes to buj';drinlLT— Fran Win 

®M% Bftht Latin Chmdi. 
t. ApoUonia, V. M. . 






, 249. 
St. Nicephor 
tioch, 360. 
SL Allracta (or Tarahata), Vir- 

InUtjid, i. 5th Cent. 
St. Theliau, Biihop of Lamtaff, 

St.ADshett,Abp.pfR<men,dM5. 
St. Erhatd (or Eberhardus), of 

Scotland, Abhol at EatUbm, 

d. 8lh Century. 



a to d1«.— OU Xallad. 

St. BuFCkird, o( England, TS3. 
Agoei Sorel, 1460. d. Matnt. 
Bp.(Jidin).H(iopeT,1665.ftuntt, 

GlncnMT. 
Dr. RowUnd Taylor, 1555. 

him*d, HadUigk, 
HsDiy, Lord DBmley,nvr.lAeT. 
PbiUbertde Lnme, 157T. 
Dr.P.HoUaDd,1636.d.C«i«Knf. 
Fredericklll. (ifDenm.} 1670. 
Paler Bouiddot, 16B5. 
PeierPoHniere,! T34.d. Omlmct, 
H. r. d'AguesBcaa, 1751. d. 

Hubert Dnniua, 1767. d. Pom. 
Dr. J. Gregory, 1773. d. EdM. 
Dr.Wni.Boyce,1779. Sc Pirai'* 
BeDJamin Martio, 1782. 
Dr. Nevil Maskelyae, 1811. d. 

FUmitiad Hoote. 
Sir Vicaiy Oibba, 1820. 



God should place ! 
where he knows it is best for 
them (0 be, and when it is best 
s, we shall go to them ; 
tnit they must not come back to 

Lnrfy jjuaeii, in dU. 

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,—ParadUe Rigabud. 



flttff. 



The Emperor John Pilteoli^pu, on hb pauag* to the great ajrood or 
Ferrara, make* his tiitunphal entry *l Venice on thit dij, 1438. " He 
laiied iu the Bacentaur. which wu accompanied by twelve itatel)' 
gatlies : the lea was overspread with innumerable i^ndolas of pomp and 
pleasure ; the air teaounded with music and acclamations ; the martners 
d even the vessels were dressed in silk and gold ; and in all the 
emblems and pageants, the Roman eagles nere blended vKth the lioos of 
St. Mark. The proceBBioa ascending the great canal, passed under the 
iridge of the Riallo ; and the eastern strangers gaxed with admiration 
in the palaces, the chun:heS| and the populousness of a city, that seemed 
o float on the hosom of the waves." This florid water-piece by Gibbon 
agrees very well with the object of the imperial visit, a leunion of the 
two churches, which hinged upon the following points : 1. The use of 
unleavened bread in (he communion. 2. The nature of purgatory. 3. 
_Tbe supremacy oFlhe Pope. And, 4. The single, or double procession 
of the Holy Ghost. Thus, the umple formula of the Christian religion 
ever been rendered subservient to ths meddHng ambition of its prin- 
cipal ministers, whose duly, if rightly understood, is to teach its precepts, 
and not to cavil about precedence and ceremonies. Had they turned 
their polemical swords with the same leal against tha cardinal sins as 
they did against each other, the world had been betler. " A hmae 
divided Bgainit itutf, it falUth," i* a maxim worth attention, although 
one of the precepts of the divine founder of the Christian Temple. This 
nay, indeed, be shaken, as the oak, which concentres its strength by 
toncniHon, bat can neiar be destroyed, either by the indiflerency of its 
pretended supporters, or the more subtile pens of inGdel besiegers. 

Mi^ Kadey (afterwards Eml of Oxford) is chosen speaker of the 
House of Commons, 1701, 

Laid Amherst saih from Sngland in the ship Alceale, on his embassy 
to China, 181&. The pusage from Rio de Janeiro to the Cape, a dis- 
a of more than three thousand miles, was performed in niseteen 

' A peace between Austria and France is concluded at Luneuilit, 1801. 
This day is marked in the Roman calendar as the beginning of Spring. 

jumkr; ID hqr rejoicing wiUi he»vcD ud vanh. Milum. , 



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WlHly RgudlU of Ihe en 



lUt*. 

), Count of 8t. Pri, iuuei agaimt Heniy IV. of Eogland lui 
famous cartel of defiance, 1402. 

All Sonk' College at Oxford ii founded by the gift of Arcbbiihop 
Chichelej, 1437. Id the quadiaogle, irhicb wu roofed, 1440, is a 
carious dial, cootiived by Wren, which shows the time (o a minuU. 

Ferdinand Cortex sails bom Cuba, with five hundred and eight lol- 
dien, one huitdred and ten sailors, sixteen horses, tLiity-two crosi-bow 
1, thirteen musketeers, and ten [deces of artillery, on his expedition 
kDst the Mexicans, 1519. The tint Eogliih vessel ever seen in the 
West Indies arrived at Potto Rico the sajne year. 

Peter the Great signs the plan which he had projected of the Imperial 
Academy of Sciences at Petersbnrgh, 17S4. 

The French pillage tha town of Loretto, snd Kod tlie Madonna b> 
Paris, 1797. No pious feeling could prevail with an insolent soldiery, 
where so much of (he grossest auperstitioa was unveiled. In all kinds 
of adverd^ we find a purifying virtue, and that people are surely die 
Host h^ipy who have the sense to profit by their sad experience. 

In Addison's " Freeholder" of Ibis day is a hnmorous assemblage of 
patriot fatu ; " A prel^ young lady will very soon appear wilh a fan, 
a nunnery of lively black-eyed vestals, who are eudea- 
Tonring to creep out at the grates. Another baa a Ian mounted with a 
fine paper, on which b represented a group of people upon their knees 
very devoutly worshiping an old ten-penny nail. A certain lady, i 
has a good satirical turn, has filled her fan wilh the figure of a huge 
tawdry woman, representing the vrhore of Babylon. The following 
designs are already executed on several mountingB. The ceremony of 
the Holy Pontiff opening the mouth of a cardinal in a full consistory. 
An old gentleman, with a triple crown upon his bead, and big with 
child, being the portrait of Pope Joan. Bishop Bonner purchaung 
great quantities of faggots and brush-wood, for the conversion of herc- 
ticks : with a distant view of Smithfield." 

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And what 4re witft, bat woodbLuei vhJch dficaj 
Tbe uiulf oilu, by wUeta UieniKlvei upire t 



Day. 


vmt. 


Ceatds. 


Ill 


PfiDcess Eliiabelh, (of York), 


Heraclius (Emperor). 641. 


Id. 


1466, ICo(mitiil*r, 


St. Benedict, 821. d-C;™. 


11. 


Bernard U Bmtier di Fontaoelle, 


Amurath 11. (Emperor). I4SI. 




1657, Bwtn. 








Eli7abethPlantagenet(ofYort), 
1502. Abbiy. 




If we consider the fiied slara 


Sir William Sidney, 1653. Fms- 




at BO manj vast oceans of flame. 


hursl. 




that are each of Ihom allended 


Retii Descartes. 1650. St. Ci- 




with a different set of planets. 


niiQw du MdiiI. 




and still discover new Gnna- 


Francis Osborne, 1659. Veiher- 




menta, and oen lights, that aie 


Watton. 






CaptBOD John Perry, 1733. 




able depllii of ether, so as not 


Wm. Shenstoue. 1763. Hale,- 




to be seen by the stroogesl of 


o«™. 




oui telescopes, we aie lost in 


Peter de Marivaui, 1763, d. 




such a labyriDth of suns and 


Pari,. 






JeandeB*«.rud,1771.d.Porij. 






Dr. John Burton, 1771. Etan. 




nature Aidisov. 


Thomas Hawela, 1820. 






Adam Walker, 1821. d.H«A- 




tSatt of Ihi Latin Chnrch. 


mand. 










-Otheis, MaHyriqfA/rica.30i. 


The Utvfiant think that we 




St. LeverinuB, /•/ Agaunun,, d. 


ate made by God to live accord- 




507. 


ing to nature.— Uur*. 




The Empress Theodora, d. 867. 





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•t trt Indebted for Ihe Iiitb i 



to dlnlDgotib Uk ri|h(i i 



r, uid they btd 'pirU id 



Henbt 111. in 1225, subscribes the Great Charter of liberties, wbicfa i* 
witoessed by thirteen bishops, tweoij abbots, and thirlj-tna earls and 

Mexetai records the sppearance of a comet of eitraordinaty magnitude, 
which wa> viuble in ihb moDth, 1471 ; its head was in the sign of the 
Balance, and it had a long tail, turning a little towards the north- 
Drake, the navigator, ig conducted by the SymeroBi to the summit of 
\ large tree, notched with steps, which served them as a watch-tower, 
and from thence blessed him with a sight of the two seas, on on 
which (the Pacific) no English vessel had ever sailed, 1573. 

Peter the Great presents to the Royal Academy of Sciences, at Paris, 
m eiact chart of the Caspian Sea, accompanied by a letter of this date, 
1721 : " The choice you have made of our person for a member of your 
illustrious Society, could not but be very agreeable to us ; and we would 
not delay to ocqaainl you by these presents, with what joy and gratitude 
we accept the place you effer us in your Society, harii^ nothing more at 
heart, than to contribute our utmost to the advancement of arts and 
sciences in our kingdoms, in order to render ourselves the more worthy 
so boooBiable a rank." 

Gray wirtes tohia pupil, Horace Walpole, 1751, on the subject of his 
far-famed " Elegy," which tht Magaxitu of Magozitui was about to 
publish by his iiujuijwuv, and begging the himour of Au cumtpondenin ; 
is I am not at all disposed to be either so indulgent, or so cwreapon- 
dcDt, as Ihey de^re, I have bnt one way left to escape the honoui they 
wonld inflict upon me; and therefore am obliged to desire you would 
make Dodsley to print it immediately from your copy, but vrithout my 
It, in what fonn is most convenient for him, but on his beat paper 
and chaiacter ; he must print it vridiout any interval between the staui 
and the title must be, " Elegy, written in a coualry churchyard." The 
iUnltrious frnrt wss published on Ihe 19th, Shrove -Tuesday, with a pinch 
or two by nurse Dodsley in the cradU, " that I doubt it nUl bear 
marks of as long as it Uvea." 



Cddie 



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Tbe |Tud detutet 
Tkt pepaliT liuiacBcj tht tvt reptXi 
Tin lojle, ud Uh vMoni, lud the *l 



■ Gabriel Naude, 1600, Faru. 
Buhop (John) PeanoD, 1613, 

Snariag. 
Herman Witilu^ 1626, Enck- 

Dt. Cotton Mather, 1663, B«- 

(m, Itf. ^. 
Eliu d« Crebilloo, 1707, Parit. 
Jamei Baiben de Bourg, 1709. 






I nnvet noted Ihe reTationi of 
the devila and witchet talking 
together, but abont fooliih Ibinga. 
King Jamti, 



®bil» of Ik< Ldtin Churck. 
St. EaUia (or Oliiic) Potro- 
) rf BoTMiinui. f. JUiir^, 
[.305. 
St. Heletiui, Pttriank of An- 

tiKh, d. 381. 
at. Benedict, of Anian, AbM, 

buriid rtuJi, 831. 
St. AntboDf CanUu, PaUiarth 
■f CemlmtinapU, d. SH. 



Felagini 11. (Pope), 690. 
David «p Owen, Bp. 1513, 
Lad; Jane G1C7, biAudAi, 1566. 
Lon]G.Dudiej,6(b»ul«d,lS56. 
Sir NichoUf Tlircickmoibai, pot* 

I, 1571. 
George Heriot. 1624. 

a Alexander, 1640, 
Mildma; , Eail of WestmoielaiMl, 
1665. 

AdolphuiII,(D/SiHdfli),1771. 

RogeiBoKovich.neT.d. Milan. 

Gabriel Brolier, 1789. d. Parii. 

Aol.d'Aiivngiie,I797.d.Lji«u, 

Laz. SpallaDzani,1799,d.Patiu. 

Immanuel Kaot, 1B04, 

What ii in dial word, hononri 
Who hath iti He (bat d 
WedneHUj. Doth he U 
No. Doth he heu itt 
1* it inwniibla, dten 1 1 
the dead. Bui will it n< 
with the living 1 No. 
Detraction will not 11 



re nine 



Honour 
—King 



YoMb preftr benlUnl to proltihlc eondBel ; I 



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acts. 

Thomas Plantaoenet, surnuned De Biothertoct, Earl of NorTolk, U 
iDvesled with the office of Earl Marshal of England, 1335. This title 
was conrecred aflerwajda, in 1383, upon Thomas, Loid Mowbray ; and 

h June, 1403, it was granted to Lord John Howard, on his receiving 
(he Dukedom of Notfoik, in which noble house it is now hereditary. 

The battle of Roveray, or of Herrings, 1429, in which thai renowned 
rogne, Sir John Falstaff, with his little convoy of fifteen hundred archers, 
entrenched hy four hundred waggons of Yaimaulh herrings, repulses a 
body of five thousand French cavalry, and kills hi hundred Scotch in- 
fantij ; but whether these were sailed and eaten by his tall fellows, is a 
problem, and tlie detpalch which oui poet had surely seen is not extant. 
The digni^ of Viicount is created in England by letters patent in 
favour of John Baron Beauchamp, 1440, The second Viscounty was 
conferred, 14th December, 1446, upon Heniy Lord Bourchier, 

This day is meniorable for the marder, on the scaffold, of Lady Jane 
Grey : " Good Christian people, you come to see me die ; not for any 
thing I have offended, for I will deliver to my God a soul as pure from 

pass, as innocence from injustice." 

'he immortal Milton is admitted a Pensioner of Christ's College, 
Cambridge, 1625. The entry is as follows : " Johannes Milton. Lon- 

^nsts, Glius Johannis, iostitutus fuit in literamm elementis sub Mro. 
Gill, Gymnaui Paulini prsfecto. Admissus est Pensionariui minor, 
Feb.l2, 1624,subMro. Chappell, soIvitqueproingTEBSU lOj." His tutor 
Mr, William, afterwards Bishop, Chappell. ia the reputed author of the 
■■ Whcte Duty of Man ;" and Dr. Gill, Master of St. Paul's School, and 

imposer as it appears of ballads, was the father of Dt. Alexander Gill. 

Ben JoDSon's scurrilous opponent, but whom the poet did not live tc 

degraded from the Mastership, in 1640. fiw his " crueiliw and hii crim 

General St. Martin achieves the independence of Chili, 1817. 

The Hilary and Candlemai Terms of law in the English and Scotch 

courts, conclude with the present day. 

much more to behold /m aaclenl noble ^mUy, wliLth hath itood Bgaiaii 



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In iwntiKH »f her koki ind mind, ' 

- By Virtue Dm, then choice, > Queen, 
Tell DW irihe were uol deiL|n-d 
Tb' tcUpm and ski; of btr klndf— 5Ir iTnrv Jfottm. 



mtm- 

Cari^leandd, 1480. ha-ia. 
Anlhony Jo». Fernety, 1716, 

Baatint en Forez. 
Alei. Wedderbam, (Esrl of 

Roulfii) 1733, Chaterhall. 
Dsvid AHm. 1744, /««. 
James Hiuui, 1776, London. 



®titS o/tAe Latin CAurcA. 
It. Polyeuctus, Martyr at MtU- 



(.350. 



Hen 



Si. Martini 

JUiem. d. c. 4th Century. 
St, ModomDoc (or Domimc), 

Bp. of Ossoiy, d. 6th. Cent. 
St. Stephen, Abbot in Tcaltf, 6tli 

Century. 

.. Liciuius (or Lesioj, Bishop 

.fAnger..6\S. 
Si. Gregory IL (Pope), d. 731. 
Roger, Abbot in Champagne, d. 

circa 1 175. 
St, Catharine de Ricci, ViTgin, 



NJcinor, B.C. ISl.ilain, Bttt 

Androuiciu 11. A.D. 1333. 

Catheiine Howard, behiad . 1 S43 . 
Benw. Cellini, 1570. FJorwi«. 
Alpb.Selmeron, l5S5.i,Napla. 
Dr. A. Novel, 1603. St. Pan 
Cuh. of Bouibon, 1604. Nanei. 
Eliz. C. of ShrewGbury, 160B. 
Elizabeth (of Bohemia), 1662. 

A. Iticeiier Hmat. 
Dr. Wm.Watt0D, 1736. Btated. 
Bp.W. Nicolsou, 1727.d.Dmi,. 
Or. Cotton Mather, 1738. Boi- 

ton. N. A. 
Dr. Samuel Croiall, 1752. 
Dr. Jeremiah MUles, 1764. 
Charles Count de VergenDM, 

1787.d. FersaiJia. 
John Geo.Forater, l794.d.Porii. 
Duke de Herri, 1820. an. Porij, 

If all the pictures and pattctni 

of a mNciless priac« «er« lost 
to the world, they might afain 
be painted lo the life out of lh« 
history of this king. 

BtUigk m Hearj, VIII. 



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le rcmBlnlDE put.— PJctra. 



fltts. 



Upon the thirteeath of the montb Adar, was lept the H«brei* ftut 
inBtituted by Esther, in menwrial of the day appointed by Hunan for 
the eitirpation of ber CDuntiymeD. The same dlf was decreed as a 
feaii tot the death of Nicanor, the Syrian captaia. but it leema to have 
been remmed te the ISUi of &e month'— &< 3 Mace. xt. 

The feasts of Famui were celebrated bi Rome on the Ides of this 
month, distinct from the " Faonalia." — Ste 5tk DtfmiAv. 

Thi 300 and six Fabii an cut to [ueces at the Cnnwia, B. C. 4TT. 

The Civil GuTernment of Janwicn is Grat inititatsd, A. D. 1661. 

Thb Hafpv Revolution. William, Prince of Orange and fte 
Princeis Uarj, a dau^ler of the abdicating monarch, are pmclumed 
on this day (Wedoeaday), niA the approbation of the Lords a 
Commons, Smtragti* if England, 16S9. " She came into Whitehall 
laughing and jail;, as to a wedding, so ax to seem quite trajuporled ; 
^ulst the PiiiM», her busbaod, has a thoughtAil countenance, is m 
derfol serious and siUnI, and seems to be very intent on afiUrs." 

Bums mrntes AMn EUitland to his Friend Cunningham, 1790 ! " 
is surely worthy of an inquiry, whether there be not auch a thing Oi 
science of life t whathat medl6d, economy, and fertility of expedients, 
b« not applicKble to enjoyment ; and wlietber tbeie be not a wai 
dexteritf in fleaiure, which renders our little scantling of happiness 
still less i Bud a prafuseoess and intosicatioD in bliss, which leads tt: 
satioly, disgust, and talf-abhonence. Then is not a doubt but that 
health I laleiiU, dtataoter, decent competancy, respectable friends, a 
■wl aahitantiil bleuings j and yet do ne not daily seelbose who enjoy 
maoy, or all of these good things, ,coBtii?e, . ua twithslanding, to b< 
unhif^ -as other* t« whose lot few of them have fallen ; I believe 
gnat source I>[ ^ mistake 01 miscwduct, i< owing to a certain stima 
with u called imbilioni which goaids us op tbf bill of life, pot ai 
aaceod other •miAencM, for the laudable ouiiosity of viewing an extended 
landscape, but rathet for the dishon^ ^ide of leaking down on others 
of our fellow -creatuiw, seemingly diminutive in humbler stations." 

Tbe>ir of i>um/riM was establiEhed_and fixed to be kept the Wed- 
nesday falling OD, or next after, this day. 

A country lITi? Le ucit in kindred to vitdom and phl]o»phyp — Ottiateila, 



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umi. 



SeattW. 



Camllle Duke d« TaUtrd, 1663, 

Daufhini, 
Dr. WaterUnd, 1883, WoMtly. 
K.O. Cambridge, 1717, Lmifon. 
Anih. Perein de Figaeirado, 

1735, Monu. 

Cheerfulneu ii like a ludden 
■UDihiiM thai awakeiu a uciel 
delight in the miod, without her 
ittending to it. The heart re- 
jtncei of iti owa accord, and 
■utoiaUy ftowB out into friend- 
ihip and benevolecce towiuds 
the yenm who hai u kindl; i 
eflect upoD il.—Adduan. 

0Ut» if th* Latin Chureh. 
St. VaUntine, Friat. Jtfartyr, .. 

^^0.—(SeeEng.ClulTrhClli.) 
St, AbraaiDM, Bp.tfCarm.A. 



9t. Maro, -4i*il m Sstw, d. 4! 
St, Anientini, of Bithynia, d 

470. 
St, ConrsD, Bp. of Ortrnti), d. 

7* Century. 



Innocent I. (Pope), 417. 
HonorinsII. (Pope), 1130. 
P.iEni.SfandraU,161B. d. ifa» 
Anthony, Earl of Shafteibuiy, 

1713, (N.S.)d. WopJa. 
Wm.UaniMm,1713.d. London. 
Chai. Lord Chancellor, Talbot, 

1737. Barrin^lon. 
litac HawldnB Browne, 1760. 
Peter ReMant, 1764. d. Pari*. 
CapU Janua Cook, 1779. hlUd, 

Oiehyhse, 
Sir Wm. BUckatooe, 1780. 

WaUingford. 
Bp. (Thomai) Newton, 1783. 
Bnia Croaby {Mayor), 1793. 

How niaay lelf-coi^Tatula- 

iBi natnrklly ariie in the nund 

when it reflect* on du* it 

into <Mmitj , when it takea 
' ofthoae focuUiei, which, 
it its fint letting ont, ha*e 



and which will be ilUl raceiring 
an inereaw of pertKtian, and 
conaeqnently an increaie of hap- 
pineii ' — Addiim. 



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A> If (key ftxi'd tli 



Nd Sid apoa llw Euler-day 



9cU. 

The feast of Furim, or Lota, unnng the Jews, to coiaiiieiaaiate tbeir 
deliverance b; Esther from Hamsn's coiii;NrBCj, This festival begins 
OD the preceding evening, and lasts two dajs. It wax cidled the feast of 
Loll, because Haman, acconliiig to Persian tttpersntioD, drew lots to 
decide the day when hit deugn should be put into execution. 

"Valentine. This day derives it« name from the Saitit iDentiaaed b 
the Latin calendar ; but the hoUdai/ is of heathen instilutioD. — Su 15tA, 
Among the houKhold expenses of the princess Maiy, 1543. is a gift of 
forty shillings to Geoige Mountjoy, for " drau'in^ her Lady's Grace to 
his Valentine." The unprosperoua marriage of the princess Elimbeth, 
called " The Qutm of Htarts," with Count Ferdinand, Elector Palatine 
of the Rhine, was solemniied with appropriate magnificence on the 
present day, 1613. The chief poets, excepting Ben Jonson, who seems 
have been upon the continent, were in requisitiaa on this very in- 
tetesting occasion. Beaumont and Chapman supplied masques, and 
me the Epthalamion. Sir Heniy Wotion then (perhaps) composed 
his celebrated Canio to " llu Lady Etixabeth," and it is mora than 
probable that Sbikspeare, who was certainly in town on the 10th of 
March, revived the tCinteT'i TaU with ujme courteous changes in the 
persona and diction of the piece, if indeed it was not composed expressly 
for thi nonce, ud as a trial of sVill with Fletcher, whose sweet pastoral 
of " Tbe Faithful Shephenlesi," was condemned about two years before, 
by the many-headed bencli. 

Admiral Jervis achieves bis splendid tictoi; over the Spanish Fleet, 
off Cape St. Vincent, 1797. 



Our age, M m m e nd^Me ip other thjop, Islbe tge ot iiymeat.—yeUaire. 



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Tbomu Wagtnff, 164fi. 
Louii XV. faf Pruii™). 1710. 



I bahdil hii bod; half iruWd 
*wsj with long eipectatkiD tad 
lamaM, and Celt whal kiod 
of lickiieu of ibe baart it wai 
vrbicb uiaei from hope defvmd. 
Upon looking nsanr, I ia« him 
ptlcandfiTBiiih: intbic^ynn 
tbe wGiteiD bnen hid not once 
faBMd bit blood ; — he had laen 
no ann, IM moon, id all thai 
liBMS. — nor had the ymi 
fricDd or lunama* bm 
ihrougii bii latlic«! — hi* cbil- 
drcn — but heie my beart hegas 
to bl«ed.-^t«nM'i CofliM. 



0tlM i^iht Latin Ckureh. 
St. Fanttinui and Jorita, Mar 

tgrt at Brtuia, e. ]31. 
St. Sigefiid* (oi Sigfrid). ^ 

York, ApoiUs of Sw«d«a, d, 

1002, 



gwtH- 

Uiwf (ef ViiTthumbrla), 6T0. 
LjttUton, 1590. 
Sir Dudley CacletOQ, 1633. 

Claude de la Colomtntre, 1683. 

d. Parai. 
John Philip*, 170a. Utr^ord. 
Dr. Thomu Bny, 1730. 
Bp. (Francii) Attcibniy, 1732. 

Sbbty. 
Cha*.ADd[«w Vanloo, 176$. 
John Hellot, 1766. d. Pant. 
Scipio BexoD, 17S4. d. Parii. 
Joliu Beard, 1791. Hamftm. 
SIi John Feon, 1794. d. I>tn- 



Tbeie it nothing more illni- 
trioBi in tht liTe of Socrale*, 
than that he bad tbiftjr whida 
day* whenia to ruminate ii 
the lantcnca of bit death ; 
bare ^geMed it all thu tine 
nitb an awurcd hope, without 
cue, and without altaratioa. 
Xaniaigat, 



Anr Met la pUkiKiphy wlU m 



\y ibooVl nurk tbi diy wlu, . iituik or ■ itUd iIdm, nld, 
led by me. with nelthflri but wlili good^ brom ochrt, — 



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Nnmbtn at ill dim^d -, aU t»itnm kudi, 
Dire vu Uk U>tuiig,dKp tii« groAoa j DBi|Hlr 
Tended U» ikk, bnniil froin (ouch to (oacb.— Mlhn. 



ait^; 

QDiNQDAaEMM*, or Shrore Sonday, is the jyOetk ^y, and mv 
Sunday precedlag Euter. — £m Sth Ajnil, 

The Li^percalia, aripoally, weie rural sacrifiecs ia bonaur of Pan, 
introduced into Latium b; Evander, ibe Arcadian. Aoguitua, with bis 
nual good sense, abated Ibii UceaUoui faetiral ; but tbe nude aupersti- 
lioQ nas mtDred, and continued until the time of tbe Emperor A&asta- 
Biu». when iH (ilea were totally abrogated, A. D. 496. The Roman 
youth, by a kind of coijjvgalia tortet, chose thdr paramours upon this 
day. The evstom, however inntceat, was endeavoured to be restrained 
by the Catholic clergy, nho substituted the names, says Mr Bnller, of 
paiticulv aainta, written on biUtts ef paptt, which they diatitbuled not 
on the present but the precading day, and from that pious intentioi 
receive Ae name of the ^uterious aaniveisoi; of St. FaUntiTii. It 
Cecnipi that first ealabliibed a marriage vow, in Attica j and perhaps 
die Juno distinguished by the surname Febmaia, who presided over 
nuptial bed at Rome, was no other than the vrift o! the founder of the 
Palladium — nearly Iha only virtve it adopted of the Oiaeks. 

In 1319, the Prior and Convent of St. Swithin's, at Winchester, grant 
to Thomas ef Shaftesbury, Clerk, a corody of two dishes daily, from the 
prior's kitchen, bread, driak, robes, and a competent chamber in 
monasteiy for the term l^ his life ; Sor which the said Thomas paid fifty 
marks, with an obligation to aerve them in the tut of medicine, " doer' 
virt ruAit in srM ntdicirui." 

The peace of Hubertsburg is concluded at the electoral palace of that 
name, which tenninatet the seven yeais' war betwaen the Aualrian and 
Pnuuan stales, 1763. 

Joseph Buonaparte enters Ni^es upon the capitulation of the gamson, 
1806 j and on the 30ih «f March ia ohoeen king, by the acclamation 
of an enslaved and enervate people. 



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Wbo broke bo promlH, KiVd nDprJnu ti 
WIm tilB'd Bolllle, lod who kw no rrleod' 
EnooUcd bj Umi/a.—Lina m Craggi. 



Day. 


Vim. 


BMrti. 


CJ." 


Philip MilinedkOD, 1497, Brrt- 
tn. 


St, Panphilui. SOS. d. Catara. 
Abp. Hichirf, 1184. Conttrft. 


16. 


GupuddeCoUgni.ien.aa- 


Alphonao III. (o( Pon«eoi). 




lillon nir Leing. 


1279. 




Abp.(John)Shaip, 1644, Brad- 


Abp. (Henry) Dw«, 1602. 




ford. 


Ca^Urhury. 




Ottomu El%«r, th« Ymnger, 


Bp. (John) du Bell«y, 1560. 




\666, HmahiTg. . 


Borne. 
Jaioea Cragga, 1731. Abb^. 
Dr.Ricl.ardMead,lT64.rfliipfc. 




Tbt pretogali»e of infancy ii 


Peter Macqaer, 17B4. d. Forit. 




iottDcency ; of ebildliood, reve- 


John Romilly, 1796. d. Porii. 




rcnca ; of miuhood, amturiiy ; 






Bud of old age, wiidom. 


Frandi Goaaec, 1828. P«ij. 




TUUigh. 


A Mt ii like a alalue placed 




^tttHfth. Latin Church. 


in a moiil air ; «ll the linea- 




St. OneMmni, Dueiple of St. 


menti of humanity are moul- 




Pftul. Manyr, 96. 


dered away. Ho hat a dif- 




St5. EliM, Jeremy, Il^ai, 8«- 


ferent kumour for every nick his 




muel, aod Daniel (Egyptim 


drink rJiea to. like the degreea 




Martyr*), d. Cwmwi iB Puiw- 


of a wealher-glau, and proceedi 




tint,309. 


froM nbaldty and bawdry to 




St. Juliana, V.Martyf at Jiico- 


politicB, religion, and quarrel- 




m«iia. c. 309. 


ing, until it is at the top, and 




8t.Tanco (or Tatlo).ot Scotland. 


then are the dog-dayi with him ; 


Bp.Jf«r«yrfl<FmJ««,c.B15. 


but Uling down again then- 


8t. Gregory X. (Pope), 1276. 


he il froien ap.—ButUr. 



Tbt dtodi of old n 



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high and lov. — Sidn^^ 



fltta. 



The Diokvgu were solemaities ia memoiy of Bacchus, the Osiris of 
the Egypliaos, obsetved within the city of Alliens, between the eighth 
and eighteenth days of Elaphebolion, nith great spleadour and decuru\ 
hose women (fourteen in number, aud styled the venenJiU,') o 
cialed nhose lives were the moat free from pollution, a* the oath, which 
they took before the wife of one of the chief magistrates, declared. 
Then the TTogtdia were eihibited ; and a new spirit was infused into 
emulation, benevolepce, and glory, with the spring of the seasons. 
Tenestiial Dioayuus, annual god. 
Who laid asleep in Proserpine 'a abode. 
Didst lull to drowsy and obUvious rest 
The riles triennial, and the sacred feast ; 
Which roua'd again by thee, in graceful ring, 
Thy nurses round thee mystic anthems sing ; 
When briskly dancing with rejoicing powers, 
Thou mov'st in concert with the circling hours. — Orpheai, 
The remains of that incompaiable piece of vtrlue Sir Philip Sidney 
ire deposited within the Cathedral of St, Paul, with the honours, if not 
the sympathy, of royalty, 1537. 

Bruce, the traveller, enters Gondar, the capital of Abyssinia, and is 
introduced into the palace of the emperor, 17T0. " Abba Salama, the 
first religious oflicer there, was a man eiceedingly rich, and of the very 
worst life posHble ; though he had taken vows of poverty and chastity, it 
said that he had at that time above seventeen mistresses, and hii way 
of seducing them was as eitraordioary as the number seduced ; for when 
he had fixed his desires upon a woman, he forced her to comply uuder 
pain ot eieamtaunication." 

According to the tablea of Dr. Herschel, if it be new or full m 
DC the mooD enters into the JirU <ir lait fuarten, at or near to midnight, 
it is a sign of fair and frosty weather, unless the wind beS. or S. W. 



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WW. b«.ly, which 1. T«,tai eray hoori 




Wnlwird (bu|c, IhtK hlo«u ■ dothka flowM, 


ThM DtmUk* « «uth Uh >tr or Pu*11k.-J,jwJo £wiuroii. 


i^ 


BirtliB. 


Bfotei. 


nil. 


Francii, Dake of Onae. 1519, 


Jcnrian (Emperar), 864. d. Do- 


CI. 


Bar. 


dwtaiu. 


17. 


Honet do Saussoie, 1740, Ge- 


Michael AneelD,15e4. Fbmmn. 




ne™. 


SkS.Gtxj,k.im.St.Alb<,a,. 
J. Bnmo, 1600. 5«m«(, Vmiet. 




'~ 


Hi.LadjBamanl,1670.Aftw^. 




As & nettled lown it more 


J. B. de Moliere, 1673. Paru. 




worthy than a village, «o is the 


Denbl, Lord HolTia, 1680. 




forehead of a married man mon 


DorchtiUr. 




honourable than the bare hum 


Bp.<Geo.)Ball,17H>. St.DavU. 




of a bachelor: and bj how much 


John Hoghe., 1730. Lmdcm. 




dtftnct U better thaa no skill, 


Fadier La Recevenr, 1788. 




by 10 much is a hem more pre- 


iJaifi, BMuny Buy. 




cious than lo leanC.—Teuchitoni. 












&bit»<iftluLatmCltUTch. 


A detraeter is a person who, 
it he hears one that is abseat 




Sl.Tbaadu]uB and Julian, MS. 


spoken Ul of, declares that fel- 




at C«a™ in Pntoii™,, 309. 






St. rUrian, Abp. of Con*tantI. 


has the look of a nical, and yet 




naple. Martyr in Lydio, 44S. 


is ft gitatet mcBl than he ap- 




Si. Lumim (or Loman), jSrK 


peal* to be: hiswife, poorladyl 




Bp. of Trim, d. 6lh Century. 


has a sweet time of it, he keeps 




SI. FLntan, Abbot ef the Ivy-cavt 


her as leiu u ft rake, ftad will 




in LeitaUr, i. 6th CeDtoiy. 


not arfocd her so lilUe as a 




St. Silvio, ofAiuhg. Bp. burUd, 


uurm-toO. in the middle of Fe- 




, 718. 


Upoary. Tftaipfcrajhij. 


I un *pl lo bcUcve Ihil oKalhf r h« nmnwil u ilhaiM nhole inlo i grEU gnu, | 




IheBri 


I»h Nilion, we >luH.)d aol have ininy 


chatt'—Sutlaci Buietlt. i 



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Loohip,tk«H 



H lo nad tbfl KkB| 



ttdt. 

Shrove TnnDiV, tke KiUmn ptriod of tei^tidoK intmducW; to (be 
Lent (ut, uid ttUl M)ioed in the fimBol* of tlw CiUkoUe cburch. — 
Sw tUA jlpril. Upon ^ Howlaj «gg» wA coUopi af br^ad onlj w«fe 
peimilUd to be eaten, end the mon nisple diet of nrim wu appnipri- 
altd far ihe pmenl da; ; ibmriag, bj a ^actical IcMon, dul nbelliooi 
■OS ii bettCT ielrailDeod Iban driion to mortificalieB, aldkaagb t ^ 
oBDtuuj, and indeed an nurenal obMrranee. The old EagUah dinnion 
of ■• Coek-igfathif" np«o this da; wm one of the uwiitationi of the 
£ait (we can liaca it into Greece) ; and peibapt lymbolical of the 
niB'l entianM into theTusal qnaitar ; for tkii bird will ilwayi loniid iti 
eiminn at tb* abangea of light £val]^ leaehea Venice at Shnnetide, 
1646, " nban all tfae mirld i«p«ir to it id m« dke folly and madneii 
of the Carmml ; ttf weaoM, moo, and penoci of all eonditioiu dii- 
gniuag tlwmnlrai in antick ifaaaea, tiaTcniiig Iho MiMti, from hoiii 
hoDH, irith MtnMVgant miuie and a Aoonnd gamboli, all place* being 
then acceaible, and flee to enter. Abned, the; SiOK eggi filled with 
■weal water, but aomeliniea not OTar awoet. The; hara >bo a barbaiotw 
coatom of haaliiig bolli absnt tb* itiMli and pianaa, wbiefa la reij dao- 
geiDiu. Tbe jtntb of die KTetal pariabM ceMead in odwr naiteiiea 
aad pailiniai ; tbe gieet banka an let up far tboM who wUl play at 
bauet ; the comediani have liber^, and the opaiaa are open ; « ~ 
paiquili an thrown abont, and tbe monntebanki have Iheir itagei at 
ever; comer." Tb* fbllie* of th* camivaJ leenbomwed bum die /a- 
ftuR litiltarum, held on this da; in ancient Rome, and hare little depen- 
dence, it may be icued, on the picaent laaaon of ifnoffm. 

Tilt Qvirinalia were eitabli&bed on tliii day, in henont of Jtsimliu : 
and the FenUia, aacred to the Mann, or thoaa dei^ who were luppoied 
to hare the cnatod; of departed ■ooli, a [aoaa fe*fi<r*l which coatinned 
for elerea dayi.^Dr. Fonter oburre* an appearance nmilar to tbe 
aHrom bortalii, in tbe Sonthera Ucean, 56 degree* of latitude, 1773. 



1Vr«ai«aor a 



a Uk VDfid, aod oafkl 
Prpi am Rugiti. 



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John Giavina, 1664, Roggiano. 
JanKi Casnni, 1677, Furu. 
Dr. Rob. Henrj, 1718, Muir 
Tmni, 

Volta, 1746, Cwi«. 



The difference between a let- 
I and an oration ii that the 
one ihould be attired like a. 
m, the other like a man. 
The tongue and the pen aie both 
of them interprcten of the mind ; 
but the pen i> the nun Mthful 
of the two, Bi It hath a greater 
advantage of piemeditatioa, is 
notioiubjecttoerTot, and leave* 
thingi behind it upon adtbentic 
record. — HmntU, 

taUXi o^ the Latin C)mrch. 
St. Simeon (or Sinwn), Bp. of 

Jerusalem, Martyr, d. 116. 
Ste. Leo and Faiegorini, JUm 

lyri at Palara, 3rd Century. 



8t AngUbert, 814. St. Bajuier. 
Gregory V. (Pope), 990. 
Oeo^, DukeofClBieDce,nii 

drrtd, 1478. Taduibtiry. 
Martin Luther, 1M6. Wittttmb. 
Sir K. Baker, 1649. St. Bride'i. 
Gregaiio Allegri, 16S3. Biimt, 
John Louia de Balmc, 1664. 

PJatredanu da Anget. 
John Labadie, 1672. d. AUma. 
Dr.Thoi.H;de,1702.Haniiin)'. 
Ph.Verhe;eD,171().d.LDutuiR. 
Baron GorU, biheaUd, 1719. 
Dr. Sir George Wheeler, 1724. 
Charlei Beckingham, 1730. 
G. B. Bilfinger, 17S0. Stutgari, 
Joaeph Benujer, 1756.d. P«rf». 
John Ernest Count Benuttaf, 

1T72. d. HanibuTg. 
Joseph Terray, 1778. i. Para. 



The choleric, an^, impa- 
tient nutn can be very little de- 
lighted nith fiieadship, since he 

abhors nothing so mnch a* con- 
tradiction.— Cfarmdm . 



PtOflt itaODld ID act Ihll 

Inly )iu Jndfiiinl euwH b 
procnd directly fron the mil 
•baBld be aiider Uu |d> 



LIuraL rlfliL miy ever prcd 
(d by thi ild of uy book 
(h BO book eilitnl. There 



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Pall Ibxy itr 

SonHllDK., u 

UhIci Ihe CSV 



» itw.—Paraiite Rrsainti. 



flrh. 



Ash WEDHEtfAY, begioi Ihe gieat aod primitive fast of/nriy •Joi^i, 
iiulituled I^NoaL, ai an etEmal beacon to future agei of the providence 
of Goo ID the preKTvadon of thewocld: the numbeiofdaji coireGpood- 
ing with the inlervil between thi ttttitiatM of Oa dmt, on Sunday the 
Ifth of August, and Ihc/nl day of the New Year (Friday), B.C. 
2348, It w«B probablj obierved by the Palrlarah and hU (nous des- 
cendants (among nhom we ennmenUe Che ancient Hebrews) until the 

le of Moiei and tli< change tf ih» year, during the ibur decades pre- 
ceding the ■utumnal equinox. — Set21a Septemher, The eminence upon 
which Christ himself solemnized thii period of privation, called " the 
Mountain of Forty Dtjs," is even now a halltiwed spot, and commaadg 
the noblest Burview in the prorince ; overlooking the mountains of Arabia, 

e country of Grlead, the land of the Ammauites. the plains of Moab, 

id of Jericho (on which it slonds), and the flat surface of the Dead Sea. 
After our Saviour's ResuirecCion, this institution was, hy his disciples, 
very haj^ly blended (because falling exactly on the day when tki ark 
raui) vrith a mem gtarieia evait — the second, or moral regeneration i 
ikind. — Stt ith April. Bj the omisuon of the hi intervening 5iii 
doift (which were, with good reason, regarded as festivals of rest), there 
Tz forty dayi; nn arrangement thai was GrstpuMiiAedby Fope Felix in 
the year 487 ; but the cnttom of sprinkling aha (clearly a remote allu- 
n to the deluge) on the beads of penitents, was not introduced until 
abont the end of the 6th Century, and tMablithed afterwards by the 
couDcil of Beneventum, in 1091. In this kingdom the ttrmmiaaiiny 
lervice was substituted in its place, at the Reformation. 

According to the tables of Tiivalore, the great Hindostan epoch, 
Caiiyhougkam. began at nnnM this day, B.C. 3102, that is A.M. 
" , and before the death of Adam. 



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Vixtjt. 

Gilileo OtliUi. 1se4, Pita. 
Htarj Vmi. Pnoct.ot Wilc«, 

15M, airling Oath. 
Peltr Mottenx. 1660, Bmnn. 
Richud Cnmberlaiid, 1782, 

IVnity Cplb^, CambrUgi. 



Thii Mine ikull, ur, wu 
Yoriek'i ikulI. I knev him, 
Horalio; afellowofiDBnilejeit, 
armnleicellentraiicf. Wbere 
be your jibe* now 1 jout gam- 
boll T your longi 1 your flaiheB 
of merriment, that were wont to 
■el the table in a nur ? aolane, 
to mock your own grinning t 
quite chop- fallen ! Nowgetjou 
to my ladj'i chamber, and (ell 
her, let her paint aa inch thick, 
to this favour (he muit come ; 
make her laugh at that. 

HaniUt. 



0kfto ff iht Latin Church. 
3l. Riibatut (wBarbaa), SuAii;i 
<^ KenevenUi, 684. 



Dec.Albiinu(Giiipen)r),Jiinal, 

190. Rh«u (rin-r). 
ErauDui Rcinbold, 15S3. 
Bp. (Thomu) Benibam, 1&T8. 



L.Vanini.leiS.Ninit, TmUnm. 
Sir Henry Savile, 1632. Elm. 
Dr. Francis Beraard, 1607. 
Peter Motteai, munlnwl, 1717, 

St. Clement Dantt. 
Frandi de SauTag», 1707. d. 

Matthew Tut, 1793. d. Anehin- 

Uck, ^ed 133. 
Nicfaolai Joeeph Betit, 1B03. 
Elit. Caiter,ie06.GrMiu ChifMl. 

What a ittiking contrut there 
ii in the two aged Bratim of 
Terence : the one ii all m" ' 
new and good humour ) where«i 
the other, on the contrary, ii 
repienated al an abiolulc churl. 
Ai to avarici, nothing can be ■ 
more irrational and abuird, Ihm 
for an old man to increate bii 
proviiion for the road, the neuer 
he appioache* to hia journey'i 



AH tke 0MNN In Hm wsrM U 

M 



Ih u Ditti.— /Mnn Heart. 



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Yon mun tiekrviih nie: |tny now n>rf«1iiid foT^^t,—Ktng Ltar. 

arts. 

The Chjibi9T1A, were soIemD banquets of love and good will held at 
Rome on this day-bettroen famiUes and relativeB. The feast of Chiggim 
observed bj the Jena, the Agapt, or love feasts of the primitive Chris- 

■, tba Suttitia of the CietBDS, and the Fhiiiiia of the Spartans i 
all of a kindled spirit (o those AotixhaU asaemblies so landabl; cherished 
b; the Romans. — The Feast of Laatems is kept in China on the fifteenth 
da; of the first moon (this daif), when it is said that tw6~hundred mil- 
lioiu of those faociful emblema of light and benevolence ore suspended 
ir the portals of hamanilj. It is for biMd-eyed eniditioa to ntraci 
these footsteps through the sand-buks of time. 

Fjithus passes into Italy about this day, with tweo^ dephantfe, three 
thousand hone, twenty thonsand heavy-anned bot, two hundred archers, 
and five hundred slinga, having very aarrowly escaped shipwreck, B. C. 
280. It was the merit of this heroic prince to be great only in his con- 
ceptions, and perhaps in adversity. He was humane, abounded in gia- 
titnde; was a&ble, and temperate in his enmities ; but Antigonus 
compares him to a man at dice, who has admirable fortune bat plays 
badly ; — for whatever he acquired by his exploits he lost by the vaiki^ of 
his expectations. Like Pompey, that idol of the hisloriaa, he has all 
ur love, but none of our faith; BcbarmingfigurefromNatuie'achisel, 
ng on a pedestal of clay. — lu the same year Demosthenes was 
hoDour«d at Athens with a statue, on the motion of his n^ibew Demo' 
chares : Ceraunus is slain bythe Gauls : ChiyuppUS, the Stoic, is born 
at Tarsus, — more &mous as the birlh-place of St. Paul : and the Acluean 
League, in which the energies of Aratus were enlisted, is established. 

Prince Charles and Buckingham embark at Dover and laoil at Bou- 
logoe, 1633, on their romantic expedition to Madrid. 

He sixth month, VnXiia, of the French Republican Calmdar b^an ; 
about the day that the sun enters the sign Pitea. 



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^OB I comprehend u wi 
hatK lliil ga bef«rt the : 
Ir JVidulai Boom. 



BfttN. 



M. r. A. de Voltaire, 1694, 

Chatenas, 
David Ganick, 1716, bapllted, 

Henfvri. 

Tbe En^iib House of Com- 
moDB ii properl]! the oatioa. 
Peers and bishopi aie in parlia- 
ment only for themitUa, and 
the HoiiK of CommoDE for all 
the counUy.— FoJlaire. 

<Dllita of tht Latin Charch. 

Sis. Tyraonio, Zenobias, and 

Othan, Marlyri in Phtnitia, 

c. 310. 

SL Sadoth, Bp. ef SiUaeia and 
CtttiphtR, with 128 compa- 
nioni, Sforl^, 343. 

Si. Eleutheiius, Bp, of Tmtrnay, 
Martgr, 533. 

St.MUdred, V. Abbtu in Tkantt, 

d. 7tb Centncy. 

St. Eucberius, Bp. of OrUani, 

d. 743. 
St. mrick,^- England, i. 1154. 



Deaths. 



Archbishop, (Thomas) Arundel, 

1414. CanterbuTy. 
Martin V. (Pope), 1431. 
MatteoBoiudo, 1494.d.Htg^io. 
L. Caslelvetro, 1571. d. Basil. 
Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1S79. St. 

P«vl'i. 
Dorothy Sidney, Countess of 

Sunderland, 1684. Bringtoa. 
Elizabeth Rowe, 1737. Fronu. 
Robect,19th£.orKildaie.1744. 
UsherGahagan, executed, 1749. 
John de Maiian, 1771. d. Paris, 
Ch-fles III. (of Savoy), 1773. 
Laura Baasi, 1778. 
Joseph II. (Emperor), 1790. 
Dr.John Moore, ISOS.d.Ridk- 

Richard Gougb.lSOO.Tformtfy. 
Dr. Arthur Young, 13W. 



For mj name and memoiy I 
leave it to men's charitable 
speeches, and lo foreign nations 
and theoeitages. — Lord Baeoa'i 
Wilt. 



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fltti. 



SoPR<>OLEi obUins his fint Iragie vicloiy in the moulL ElapMioliim, 
■bout ihe pie*ea( daj, B. C. 468, »t thoie dramatic games ettmblished 
ID nteounyvftbe recoverf, bj CiiDOD, oF iha aihet of Tbeun* Avm the 
Scytians. Tki* award of taa impartial cemcm, lelected bj Ae gemral 
bitnself, in favoui of a yoai% mui then tinknown within the theatre of 
bine, ia uid to hare so disconcerted £<eh;liu that he retired to the 
vicinity of Gela, in Sidlj, where, twelve yean after, he cloted hii 
hanourabU existence. The same year in which the " Triplatemai" was 
prednced at Atbens mariu.also Ihe birth of Soeratea, and of Andocidei 
(the orator) ; ami the deaths of Simonidea and Aristides, as well as the 
destnicliDn of Mycena by the Argives. The " Clnudt" of Aristophanes 
wa«eihibit«d in that month, B. C. 433, which fiiei the age or Socrates 
3.i forty -Jiin when he was calumniated upon the sUge. 

Edward VI. is iaaognrated with three crowns, emblems of his love- 
reign^r over Eogland, Frana, and Ireland, 1S4T. This event took 
place in the prince's tenth year, and lanr dayi titer the intennent of his 
father. 

The Btate-eaponaals of Pelei, Ciai of Muscovy, and his wife, CatbB- 
riae Aleiievna, ctJIed by etiquette hit Hajealy's Old Wedding, are 
solemoiied at Peteisburg, seven o'doek of the morning, 1713. 

The " Frethotder" of Addison, on the standard of money, 1716 ; 
" One cannot but fity the melancholy couditioo of a miaer in Fiance, 
who ii perpetually telling hii iivra, without briikg able to kiMiw bow 
rich he is. He is as ridiculously pnoled and perplexed a* a man that 
counts the alone* on Salisbury Plain, which can nerer be settled to any 
certain number, but are mote or fewer every time he reckons them." 



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P°v- 


Virtls. 


IBMtSi. 


IX. 


Pime du Bosc, 1633, Bayeui. 


Calaa Cesar Agrippa, A.D. 4. 


Cai. 
21. 




kilM. Ly™. 




Ju>e. I. (<f &*tiBnd), ««r. 




Pompejaed among the %yp. 


demi, Perth. 1437. 




tian ilavea, U wve bin life. 


Julius 11. (Pope}. 1513. 




tflei loai of empire aod Ubert; : 


Henij Gi«;, Duke of Suflblk, 




Cnai choK h> die once rather 


beheaded, 1655. 




than live b fear of dying: Calo 


Robert Southwell, eitat. 1596. 




(0 die, T&ther than outlive the 


Secretaiy John Thurloe, 1668. 




libertiea of bis counti;, or Bub- 


LiiBoIn'. Inn. 




mit to a conqueror. Aniens 


Chartet Span, 1684. d. Lyon,. 




preferred tlie q«iet of life before 


Peter Allii,lTlT.d.£on<ioN. 




all riches and power ; j« were 


Benedict XIII. (Pope) 1730. 




all these contemporaiiei, and 






lb« four greatest of Rome. 






Sir William TempU. 









Mnnieh. 




miti'f thi Latin ChuTd,. 






Sis. Daniel, Pruw, and Verds, 


The mui of railleiy, who 




Virgin. Mortyr., 344. 


would B> soon bile off his tongue 




St. Severianus, Bp. cf Seytkopo- 






ft.. Martyr, c. 4S2. 


of trms in the pKience of a 




Pepin of Landen, Mayor of the 


miliary man. shall instanay 




PnlflM, 640. 


brighten up, and assume an air 




St>. Germati, Abbot, and Han- 






daut (or iUDdo»ld), Martyr., 


and the Church, 




c. 666. 


Berkeley. 



I U|bL-~:4raMi» Frmerb. 



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tUtt. 



Jahes HoHELt.a;ddteawa Sir Eil«anl3p«nce[ this day, 1647-8: 

" Sorel; the nitch of Endor ii jiofabUi the burning Joan of Arc, at 
Raii«n,and theMarchtoneiiD'Aacre, aflateyean,iaFariB,uei>ofiblet: 
the eiecoiiDa of NaUradamiu for a kind of witch, some founcoie yeut 
aincE, who unong olbei thing* forebdd that the unate of XjmAm wilt 
kill tA«ir King, Si. Anguatin ipeaki of women who couhl turn men to 
horaea ; and in some of the DOrthem coantrieE it ia common to buy and 
sell tifJR<'( ai it is to do wines in other parti. Thamui, the Italian jnlat, 
a little after the birth of ChiiM, wai (old in the dead of night that the 
gnal god Pan (the oracle of Calabria) uoi diad ; Iherenulo may be 
added the rich widow thai wax burned in Lyone, because it was proved 
tiie devil had lain with her. But we need not crass the sea for eiajnplei 
of diis kind, we have too many (God wot) at home. Scodand swanni 
with tbem, and jierBong of good quality are executed daily." 

Swift's journals are continued on this day (N. S.) as follows : 
1711. — " How do you pass your lime thiiugly weather? Gamiqg and 
drinking, I suppose : fine diveraions for young ladies, truly. I wish 
you had some of our Seville oranges, (ind we wme of your wine. 
1 am resolved to have half a hogshead when I get to Ireland, if it 
be good and cheap, as it used to be ; and I'll treat M. D. at my 
table in an evening, eh hoa, and laugh at great miniatera of atate." 
1712. — " I saw Prince Eugene at court to-day very plain. He Is plaguy 
yellow, and literally ugly besides. A puppy of figure here, with a 
fine chariot, asked me one day at court, when 1 had been just talk- 
ing with some lords who stood by. Doctor, when shall we see jou 
in the county of Meath 7 I whispered him to take care what he 
said, for the people uould think he vat mmi baTbanan." 






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Ik (bcm uLnp Willi oi 



itona.—77irophriialiH. 



Da^ 


»irt|«. 


DwlfW. 


»ii.. 




St. Isabel of Lcngchamp. 1270. 


Cat. 

n. 


1715, Mmlauban. 


David II. (of Scotknd), 1371. 


Theoph. de Bordeu, nii.IaU. 


d. Edinlmrgh Cattle. 




Dr. Rich. Price, 1723, T"j,Blm,. 


Ferdinandl.Cu/Tuicany), 1609. 




Charles, D. of Ilichraond, 1735. 


John Chspetain, 1674. d. Pari,. 




Gilbert Wakefield. 1756, Not- 


Frederick Ruysch, 1731. 




ti„eham. 


William Couston, 1746. d. 

Pari.. 
James Barry, 1806. St. Pai.J'.. 








A flalleret is one tfiat, if it 


SmithGOQ Tenntmt, ISIS. d. 




piece of lint appeais upaa jour 


BoulBgnt. 




trowsers, lakes it off with great 


Dr. Adams Ferguson, 1B16. d. 




officiousiieBS ; and wheneverlhe 


St. Andrew's. 




perioD to wbom he would make 


Eleanor Anna Porden, 1825. 




bis court begins to speak, he 






begs the compaa; lo be silent. 







moat impudently praises him to 






his face, is in raptures while he 


When he enters the „«T«vy 




speaks, aod, when he has con- 


of hit patron, he will call the 




cluded, eiclaimi, How verggaod 1 


children about him and distri- 
bute a pocket fuU of apples with 




- . 


agreat deal of fondness i wonders 
to see so many fine boys, and 




mOf^tU Latin Ch«Tch. 


turning about lo the father, tells 




SU. Thalasuus and Limoeus, 


him, 1% or* all at like kirn at 




5th Century. 






St. Baradat, 5lh Century. 






St. Margaret, n/Cm-lono, 1297. 





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Otts. 

CJuADRjkOEsiMA SUNDAY, originatlj the first daj of tlie great fast, ai 
H> called because it is ihe/<trlj<t)i day before Good Friday, when amc 
rigid abstinence for Ibrtjr hours was appointed by the church.— Su 3 
April. With the first Sunday in Lent commencei one of the four weeks 
in wliich the Ember D*vs (Wednesday, Friday, and Satu d y) al 
called " Ymbrep" in the laws of Alfred and Canute, and by he an n 
qaaluar anni tempera," i. e. the four seasons of the year wh n h 
solstitial and equinoctial rains are prevalent. The root o h w d 
" ember" |eems to be the Greet ambroi, or the Lalin imbrei gn g 
" showers of rain ; " and although these periods of humiiiat w re d 
creed to be observed in the Christian service, about the y 3 by 
Pope Calixtus, and placed in the cofmdar 1095, they are probably o 
highest antiquity, in remeoibrance of God's covenant with Noah.~ 
Set \5th December. — It is. not trrelevaot to add, that the Juno Imbratia, 
patrODess of the seasons, received her worship in this month. 

By the Council of Oiford the curse of eicommuuication is decreed Ic 
le said mediciaal four times in the year ; i. e. upon Ihii dag. Trinity 
Sunday, the Octave of the Virgin, and upon the first Sun(lay of the Ad- . 
vent. Within this ban are all those who use false weights and measures ; 
the helpers ofSaracens against Christian men; and those who falsity the 
seal'Of our lord the King, or any other seat authentic. 

Edward HI. celebrates ijubiUe — he had reigned fifty years. 

The Festival of the establishment of Si. Peter's Chair, at Antioch, 
about the year 36, is kept on this day by the Catholic Church. It is 
called " Brand Sunday" in some parls of France (the Lionnois), from 
an ancient bnt absurd custom among the peasants of assembling in 
gardens and orchards at night, with lighted torches, and after having 
plighted every tree, devoting them to deadln use if not fruitful in sea: 



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■DC. raritltaMmj : 



mf glory of which ibv ki 



ttudlDgt logelber with ■ eouiiDiDiiLtB pnidcDee, 
' <tf the purlly of her heart by ber foDdnmi of 
ly pcTKiD, whirh time tndnillr fmpiln ; II 1( 
i«d — Klii|r (!• YauHftr. 



.Strtfis. 



. SuDoel Pcpy*, 1G33, Bamplm, 

(Hunt.). 
Chvlu Patin, 1633, Parii. 
William Maaon, 1725, Hull. 
Samuel Badcock, 1747, &niiA 

Moltm. 

Sombriiu ii icandalized at 
youth for tmng liTsI;, 
childhood for beiog pla^rful. He 
MU at a chiulBDiiig or a mar- 
feait ai at a fiimral ; lighi 
« coDchiuon of a man/ 
itorj i and giDwi devout when 

a ml of thi company grow 

EauuL After all, 

a leligioui man. — AddUim. 



Oittf i>ftht Latin ClHmk. 
St. ScRDui (or Qaidiner), Sfor- 

tjrr, d. Stmaum, 307. 
Sl.SoiHl, Prior of Mtlr<iu, 664. 
SuKinmi^iV.AbbtuinShrep- 

lUrv, d. 7th Century. 
Dcritheui, a Monk of PaU^lint, 
Fetei Damian, CardimJ, Buhup 

of Onio, 1073. 



Engenini IV. (Pope), H47. 
Don Diego Cotumbut, 1626. 
Fcancii Connl Eiigbieii,lc.l64B. 
Sir Thomai Wyat, bth. IfifUJ. 
Andrew Dudith, 1589. 
And. Cauialpioui, 1603. d. 

Dr. Tbomu Goodwin, 1679. 
Magnui Sieinbock, 1717. d 

Frtdtriekthaven. 
Stanistaui J. (,ef yolaad), 1766. 
Sir JoihuB Beynolili, 1792. 

St. Paul',. 
Nicholas Btofflet, 1796. ^at, 

r. Jowph Warton, 1800. d. 
Wi^iliam, Hand. 



The eelipH of th« inn ii 
))en it ii new moon ; Ih 
eclipie of the moon when it it 

They lay Dionyiin* w 
conretted by Ute eclipM that 
h^tpened at oar Sationr*! death, 
JO it WW nMther of dicM, 
and w could not be natural. 
Stldm. 



Weill pes^ m licapable of iliiurilj.— Awjtffiwanifl. 



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fl(t«. 



The Terhinali* of the BomanB, s fesdval of two Aayt, fouaded bj 
Noma, aad named from those equitable deities who piesided ovei hmn- 
dariei, because nilh the second daj concluded the Latian (intercalary') 
yeoFj when probably the conquered lands of Romulaa were apportioned, 
and the laws of propertj established. By die appointment of Varro these 
feasts were removed from the present day, and included in, or made to 
follow the " Sotumaliii," which, in the Julian jeai, was their proper 
station. The sacrifice was a lamb '. It is a singnlar coincidence for the 
comment of those who can reconcile pardal revelation with the destinies 
of snblnnaty beings, that the Mtiicans, a people living undei the same 
parallel widi the natives of Thebais and HiDdostan, both equally cele< 
braled for their aboriginal antiquity and astronomical tore, begin their 
year upon this day. 

The sotdien of Diocletian, iu the morning, demoUth the principal 
church of Nicomedia. and commit the sacred volume! to the fiames, 
A. D. 303. I^D the nest day was publidied the first general Edict of 
fertccntion against the Christians, by which all their religiouB .auemblies 
in the empire were to be levelled to their foundations, and the church 
proper^ confiscated, and sold (o the hif^iest Indder, or gnutled to rapa- 
dous courliera. This abominable decree was inst&ntly turn ftom its 
coltimB by a Christian of rank. " He was buret, or radier roaiKd, by 
B slot* fire," and suffered with the pstience of a martynlan. 

Edward II. is inaugurated, with his Queen, at Westminster, 1308 ; 
the same day that Katheriue, the Queen of Henry V. was crowned at 
London, with eitraordinaiy state, 1420, 

Johnson lelinqmshes his office of Composer of the DthiOa, 1743. 



B Pelugini 



migntkn. — TiUbaJn: 



alogUti not u redly tbey 

Dt KtUunaitl foTDKd by 



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LDrc of good fuul «vU ai 



P"!/' 


Vfrt^. 


JBMliS. 


Vl 


John Picns. Counl of Miran- 


Richard de la Pole, kUled, 1 535. 


Cal. 


dula. H63. 


PatFia. 


24. 


Charles V. (of Spoin). 1500. 


Francis. Duke of Loiraioe, *. 




Ohe«t. 


1526. Pa,,ia. 




Maldiiai de Hoe, 1580, Vienaa. 


Genetal de laTremouille, 1525. 




George F. Haiidel, 1684, Halt: 


kitlid. Pfltjia. 




James Quin, 1693, C™. Card. 


Francis. Duke of Guise, auwi- 






tiattd, 1563. 




Sydnej. 1733. 


Sir Thomu Adams, 16«7. 




Bobert, Lord Giffori, 1779. 


Jamet. Eail of Deiwenlwater, 










®bttl of Ihl Latin Church. 


John Sheffield, Duke of Buck- 
inghamshire, 1721. Abbty. 




St. MitthinB. ihe Aposlle (cho- 


Isaac Wood, 1752. 




sen by loi, c.33>,d»d at Ccl- 


Joseph (of P^iug^), 1777. 




eAii. (£M£ng. CAurcAGil.) 


Charles Buoniparta, 1785. 






Stephen Lewis Mains, 1812. 




Julian, Vlctoricu*, Primolus, 


John VI. (•>/ Portugal), 1826. 




RbeDus, and Donatian, Mar- 


r 




(yrj o( Carlft^f, 259. 







Si. Pretowatus (or Prii), Ahp. 






p/B«<m, M.cSaS. 

St. -Lelhanl (or Luidhard) flp. 


When I heat mu«c first, I 
am satisfied with the sound; 




ofSenlit, d. Cunterfrtin;, 596. 
Si. Ethtlbert, jSrjl Cimlia.. 

Jfing of EngloBrf. and Fodn. 

derofSl. Paul'., d. 616. 
Robert, of ArijriMel. 1116. 


but after I have heajd it avhUe, 
I look what the meaning of it 
is, what it «gnifies-and then 
'tin bat air.-King J™«. 



Id miHlek ; IM u hava Ikt tonft ud ih 



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Noma, when he introduced at Rome tbe Egyptian manner of computing 
lime bj the cycle, iuaeited his intercalaiy month, which was teimed 
Mercedinus, in this place, not without game political respect, peihapa, to 
the aacient form of the yeu, which he had chaaged, the 34th day of 
Febmajy being about the point where the Romulian, or Albaa cBleodar 
tenniuated. By adding a short month, alternately of , twenty-two and 
twenty-three days eveiy other year, the lunar Or civil time of three 
hundred and fifty-five days was made to correspond, at the end of a 
lustrum of five years, nearly with the solar itvolution ; and at the con- 
clusion of twesty-twD years, by not intercalating the last biennium, 
and adding twenty-two instead of twenty-three days, in the twentieth 
year, the equinoxes were brought back to their places, indeed with a 
precisioa that even the Julian era did not attain, for its etceu \a minutes 
was mora than the deficiency in Numa's suppulation. Five of these 
periods composed the great century of one hundred and ten yeais, ty 
which the growth of the Roman slate was ascertained historically with 
the Prstor's naif. — Set \3th September, Festus mentions the " Dies 
Mercedonii" as certain days appointed for the paymeut of the wages 
of artisans and lervanls ; but whether the month was named from so 
Tague a circum stance, or as a compliment to that shrewd lerrttary of 
the old seipent Tim^, ycleped Mercury, is a cnii for the lioguiaL — This 
was the Uap-day in the Julian year, called " biuatite," because the 
sixlh day of the calends was repealed. — Set 29lft FttiniaTy. 

The Refuge or flight ofTarquio ihePreud, and the foundation of the 
Roman republic, mariied in the calendar as a ichite or fbrtanate day. 
See 29lh May. 

Francis I. is taken captive, four miles from his camp at Pavia, 1325. 

Valdivia (bunds the capital of Chili, St. Jago, 1541, 

Thomas Cavendish passes the Straits of Mageltan^ 1587. 



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D'y- 


UirtftB. 


19»t»l. 


V 


GemML ie Saint-Foix, 1703, 


Feliini. (Pope), 492. 


Cai. 


liennw. 


Lucius 11. (Pope), 1145. 


26. 




Wm. Lily, 1523. Si. FanV,. 






Bflbert, Eari of Essei, beheaded, 
1601. Warwick. 




A confufiion and concern in 


Kobert, Earl of Dorset. 1609. 






Daniel Heinsios, 1655. d. Uy- 




throwBagraca upon all he utters; 


den. 




for there is a cerlun decent ti- 


General Nicholas Calinal, 1712. 




■nidtl^ which, I know not h»w, 


d. St. Gratian. 




ia infinitely mare engaging tlian 


Frederick I. (af Praaia), 1713. 




the assured and self-sufficient 


Sir Christoplier Wren. 1733. 




air of confidence.— PHns. 


Si. Foul'.. 
Joseph Francis DesmahiB.nei. 







Dr. William Buchan. d. 1805. 




- mitt ^ the LoHnChurih. 


— 




St. Viclorinus and Six Compa- 


As the least discord is imme- 




nions, Martyri. d. 284. 


diately perceived by a skilful 




St. Cssarius, a phyiicmn of 


musician, so we ought more es- 






pecially to employ our care m 


_ 


St. Walbntge, Fir^« of Eng- 


avoiding those Uttle unheeded 




land, d. 779. 


indecencies which are hardly 




St. Taranns, Fctriarch of Con- 


understood by the generaUty of 






mankind.— Cicero. 



Tbdw iJiu arc gTHter uhlch . 
nlili;h are commftttd thraath u 
liter oTpicr.— TAeopftnunit. 



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flcts. 



PoMFEY THE GsEAT i» elficWd, uid declared by the Inienei, cole Con- 
B. C, 52. " An; gDvernment," siud Calo on this occuion, " is 
preferable to anarchy ; tmd no man is better qualified than Fompey to 
hold the rans of the BtaCe in a time of such diiordei." When the chief 
magistiale thtuiked him for liis assistance, thatMern republican replied. 
What I ipoke in the imate uiai uAth a viae ta terv 



Sir William Cecil, the minister of Queen Elizabeth, is di^fied inth 
the Barony of BurghUy, in Lincolnshire, on this day, ISTl i and In the 

It year he succeeded to the office of Lard High TtearaTeT, upon 
decease of WUIiam Powlell, Marquis of Winchester, a man who I 
piosperoasly under seven monarchs, and left behind him one hundred 
and three descendants, who had witnessed his garrulity. 

Handel produces his second opera, entitled " Nera," at Hamburg, 
1705. 

Tamaahtnaah, the King of Oahyhte, cedes bis dominions, and o 
council of the nation acknowledge themselves subject to the sovereignty 
of Great Britain, 1794. 

The " Liivtr" appears under the direction of that prince of bentvBUaee, 
Sir Richard Steele, 1714: " I would have this leaf goolTIike an a< ' 
a play, with a couplet ; but the spirit of that will be wholly in the power 
of the reader, who must qoickea his voice heieabonts, like an actor ai 
hii exit, helping an empty verse with lively hand, foot, and vince at 
once ; and if be is reading to ladies, say briskly, that, ' viith ngard to 
iht gnaua pari of nanJnnil, 



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fiitm*. 



Dr. John Edwards, 1637, Hert- 
ford. 

AathoDfCooper, EulofSbaflei- 
bury, 1671, Eielir HvHse. 

James Hervey, 1714, Harding- 

James Mercer, 1734. 



Tbe Life of Savage I am ready 
to go upon ; and, in great pri- 
mer, and pica notes, I reckon 
oa seodiDginhalf a sheet a day ; 
but tbe mooey for that shall 
likewise lie by in your hands 
till il is done. With the de- 
bales, shall not 1 have business 
enough! if 1 hadbutgoodp«DS, 
Ji-hnson to Cavt. 



&%ita of Iht Lalin ChuT 
St. Alexander, PaiTiarch of 

AUiandria, d. 326. 
St. Porphyrius, Biihop of Gaza, 

d. 420. 
St. Victor (or Tittre), of Cham- 

pagne, 7lh Century. 



^tattn. 



Manfred (o/ TannU). kitUd, 

1266. 
Henry Lord Percy, 13S2. 
John, Cardinal de Bn^ni, 1426. 

Romt. 
Robert Fabian, 1513. Comhill. 
Anlh. Possevia, 1611. Ferrara, 
ClaudeMezeriac,1638.d.BDurg. 
Sir Nicholas Crisps, 1666. St. 

Mildred's. 
Godfrey, Count d' Estradea, 

16B6. 
Sir Charles Scarborough, 1696. 

Craiford Bridge. 
Thos. d'Urfey, 1733. Sl.JatRet's. 
Maximiliaji (u/Buvaria), 1726. 

d. Munich. 
Yves-Mary Andree, 1764. 
William Duncombe, 1769. 
Joseph Tartini, 1770. d. Podna. 
Dr. Alexander Geddes, 1802. 

Paddiagto'n. 
John Philip Kemble, 1823. d. 

Lo«sanne. 
Dr. WUliam Kitchiner. 1827. 



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arts. 

The Epoch named from NabonaEsar, (a King of Babylon, after Ihe 
sion of the Aaayrian monarchy), called also the Egriplian Ytat, 
began the first da; of the month Tkolk, coneaponding with Wednesday 
the twenty-siith ot February in Ihe Julian calendar, B. C. 747. It was 
a solar intercalary period of three hundred and siity-five days tmig, st 
that nearly one day was loEt every four years ; and, consequently, at the 

id of fourteen hundred and siity. years it ran thmugli all the Julian 
months, whence it is termed an erratic year. About Ihe time of the con- 
quest of Egypt, B. C. 31, the beginning ottbe civil year at Alexandria, 
(i. e. the first of Thoth) fell upon the 29lh of August, which was then 
1 by Augustus to be (he commencement in future of a new era. — See 
29th August. As notes of comparison, the foundation of the Nabonas- 
aareaa Era tool: place about lir years after the building of Rome, and 
about ten years alter the appearance of Isaiah as a prophet. 

John Chrysoslom, or the preacher with the Golden Mouth, is elected 
Archbishop of Constantinople, A, D. 398. It was eleven years before 
this time, in 387, upon the same day, that the great sedition happened ai 
Antioch, just after John (then a presbyter) had preached his lirst sermor 
upon drunkenness and blasphemy. The statues of Theodosius and the 
imperial family were then thrown from their pedestals and demolished by 
the tumultuous eilijens. 

An earthquake in Yorkshire and the midland counties, 1674. 

Dr. Heyiher in 1628, endows the Univ^^ty of Oxford with a Lec- 
tureship for Music, of the annual value of 161. 16j. 8d. 

Buonaparte embarks at Porto Ferrajo, from Elba, 1815, on the evening 
of this day, and lands Ihe Isl of March at Cannes in Provence, 1B15. 



r, by »on,e . 



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4t u brishi, u rttdy to pro 

m pliilDsa|>hy'g nillEhKsed i 
!h muerlili, iDd Kgale yoai 
unlu It wu 1 pii>U<ge lo ] 



Biibop (George) Morley, 1597, 

Chtapiide. 
John David MichaelU, 1717. 

HalU. 

Do not doubl but that angling 
IS an art, and an art worth your 
Uarning: th«qaesdon is, rather, 
whether jon be capabla of leam- 
il. For angling is Ktmewhat 
like poeOy, meo are to be born 

>l only briog 
inquiring, observing wit, but also 
a large mewuie of hope and 
patience. — Ixaae Walton. 

OiittofthtLatmCkureh. 
St. Nestor, Biihopiu Famphylia, 

Mnrtyr, 250. 
Sts. JuliaOfChranion, and Besas, 

Martyrt, 3id Century. 
St. Thalilieus, of Citicia, 5th 

Century. 
"I. Leander, Bp. of StviUe, d. 



596. 
Si. Galmier (or Baldomems), 

P/Lj,™!, d. c. 650. 
rt. Alnoth, of England, MartSr, 

c. 7th Centuiy. 



Btat^. 



Geta ( Emperor) , murdtrtd, 312. 
Dr. Tobias Ciisp, 1S42. 
Philip Nye, 1673. d. Lmdon. 
Dr. John Erelyn, t706.»'«H«i. 
I>r. JohD Arbuthnot, 1735. d. 

Cork Strat. 
Henry Grove, 1733. d, TatnUm. 
Dr. Aolhony AbUw, 1774. d. 

HamptUttd. 
John Scott, 1B21 . d. Cli>.lk Far, 






a maD of great com- 
, skilful in bis profes- 
, versed in the sciences, se- 
ated with ancient literature, 
and able to aaimate his mass 
.nowledge by a bright and a 
ive imaginatioD ; a scholar with 
great brilliancy of nit ; a 
td of life, 
tained and discovered 3 noble 
ardour of religions leal. 

Johnioa on Arbutlmia. 






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On nuny , nrely Bud ■ Meat.— Gay. 

atw^ 

The EddibIiv, were hone-racei id memocj o! the god casting hit iha- 

daa btfart, exhibiled DA llui day, when oui hunting aeuon terminatei, 

Coirper compom bia fhble of The VightiRgati unit Cilaw-uvnn, 1780. 

A Nighlii^aU, that all daj long 

Had checrM llw village with hii Eong, 

Hm yet at eve hii note nupended, 

NoTfct when even-tide waa ended. 

Began to feel, as veil he migbt. 

The keen demands of qipelile j 

When, lookii^ eagerlj around. 

He spied fai off, upon the ground. 

A Bomelhing sbiniitg in the dark, 

And knew the glov-wonn by his spak ; 

So, stooping down fn>m hawthorn top. 



Thew 



reofbu 



Hantngued him thus, right eloquent — 
Did yon admire my lamp, quoth he. 
As much as I your minstiElsy, 
You would abhor to do me wrong. 
As mnch as I to spoil your song ; 
For twaa the selftame Power Divine 
Taught you to ung, and itie In shine ; 
That you with music, I with light, 
Might beautify and cheer Ihe night. 
The songster heard his short oration. 
And warbling out his approbatiou, 
It«leased him, as my story tells, 
And bund a supper somewhere else. 

HoiiliMl ud wbU in thonl a uliury fly!~Cni|r. 



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ilDg Um d>ftcU oT IciTDlo; an princely vi 



, 1533, 



Virtus. 



. Michael de Mod 

Henry Slubbs, 1631, Pnilney. 
Dr. Daniel Solander, 1736, 

Nardlartd. 
Peter Broussoaot, 1T6I, Mmt- 

Isupposeyou meanTomFool, 
when you called me Tom Folio 
in a late trifling paper of yours. 
Tbe tobacco -paper an which 
your own writinga are printed, 
IS well as tlie incorrectness of 
the preas, and the Bcucvy letter, 
sufficiently rfiow the eilenl of 
your knowledge- 
Tom Fol» |0 the Spectator. 

<DI>itS oftke Latin Church. 
Martyrs, who died of the great 
pestileace in Alexandria, 
261-3. 
St. Romaaus, d. c. 460 ; and 
St. Lupicinus, c. 479, Abbots 
af Co-dale. 
St, Proterius, Potriarch vfAlei- 
mdria. Martyr, 557." 

rooM ilemur upon pniilihliie a J 
in accuDDl af liig own cholrc; w 
whip and chuliae tlieu- childrci 



L. Junius Brutus, B.C. 509. 

Chosroes II. miird. A. D. 628. 

Henry 1st. Earl of Northumber- 
land, 1408. fc.Bmmftom M-or. 

Humphry Duke of Gloucester, 
murdeied, 1447. St. Albans. 

G. Buchanan, 1582. d. Edinb. 

W. Fleetnood, 1594. Missenden. 

Rob. Rolloek, 1598. d. EJmfr. 

Christian IV. {of Deam.), 1648. 

Cassibelau Burton, 1681. 

John B. Thiers. l703.d.Ki(roie. 

Didaco, Marquess of Leganeze, 
nn. d. Boil de VinctTina. 

Ferdinand de Faleotti, ei. 1T18. 

Edw.Moore, llST.i. Lambeth. 

Dr. Richard Grey, 1771. 

John d'Espagnac,1783.d.PaTii. 



Do you imagine, said Soctales 
to his liberdoe disciple, (hat what 
is good IS not also beautiful 1 
have you not observed that these 
appearances always coincide ! 



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The twenty-eighth day of the moDlh Adar, was a feist anumg (he Jewa, 
to celebrate the repeat of that decree b; which ths Kings of Greece had 
foibiddea them to circumcise tbeii cliildi«D, to observe the sabbadi, and 
to reject forngti worship. . 

The Tarquins aie vanquished in the (Esuvian fields, but with the loss 
of Bnitui, and more than ekven Ihausand citizens on the side of the 
victoiB, B. C. 509.— &» IM Marth, 

Henry IV. of France confers upon his f^thful minister, De Boany, 
the dukedom of Sully, 1606. 

The Pope pennits the Bible to be translated into all the language* 
of the Catholic states, 1 759. 

Btimi writes to Dr. Moon^ tlie author of Ztluco, IT91 : " Poets ha*e 
the same advantage as Roman Catholicka ; they can be of servic 
llleir tneoda after th^ have passed thai bourn where all other kindness 
« to be of any avail. Whether, after all, either the one or the other 
be of any real service to the dead, U, I fear, very problem aticaJ ; but I am 
these tiibutes are highly gratifying to the living ; and, as a very or- 
thodox tiit.says, ■ whatsoever is not of faith, is sin ;' so say I, whatso- 
ever is not detrimental to society, and is of positive enjoyment, is of God, 
giver of all good thbgl. As almost all my religioua tenets originate 
liom my heart, 1 am wonderfully pleased with the idea, that I can still 
keep up a tender ialercourae with the dearly beloved friend, or still more 
dearly beloved mistress, who is gone to the world of spirits. I have had 
mmenw loss in the death of (he Earl of Gleocaim, the patron from 
m all my fame and good fortune took, its rise. Indepeodeat of my 
gtalefnt atlaehmenl to him, which pervaded my very soul, and was 
lined, indeed, with the thread of my existence : so soon as the 
Prince's friends hod got in (and every dog, you know, has his day), my 
getting forward in the excise would have been an ea»ei business ; though, 
thank Heaven, I can live and rhyme as I am." 



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ce ; and hli tonptt 
1 lullen bell, 
« depirled friend.— JTIiv Btmy IK 



Edwiid Caie, 1693, Neuion, t> 

Warmekihin. 
ETaMari«Gamck,1T34, rimna 
Robert Bage, 17ZS, Derby. 
Oioacchioo Roirini, 1792, Pe- 

The oipI thai watches, wiili 
[ullaned chin, oa Apallo'i 
«lool for the inflatus of prophet j ; 
the fwt that in the profundity 
of his follj lectures, at randem, 
ise and the great ; the on 
that from his hillock will read 
the galai J and btaj- an euTtka — 
not eomparable lo .the rot- 
b, who, although the epitomE 
of all these in neutral absurdity, 
s still without the fool's rod, 
the owr« spectacles, and the 
ass 's skin. — Ctrmnn Imptompt i 



®bita oftht Lalia CAurcA. 

St. Oswald, Biihop af Wmatirr 

and Arehbishigi of York, i. 



St. Barbas, BuAop of Bentvaila, 

684. 
Lord Thomas Bardolph (of Wo- 

■nergay), 1406. Bntmhinn- 

Archbishop (John) ■ Wbi^ft, 
1604. Cntyd™. 



For M«reh there came vialets, 
eipeciall; the single blue, which 
are the earliest ; the early daf- 
fodtl, the daisy, the almond tree 

blossom, the peach tree m 
blossom, die comeliaii tree in 
bloesom, iweet-fariaf. In April 
fblhi* the double while riolet, 
the nall-BDwers, the stod-giUi- 
flower, the cowslip, Aower-de- 
lucei, and lilies of all natuies; 
rosemary-floweni, the tulip, the 
double peony, the pale daSbdil, 
he French honeyBnckle, the 
:heiTy tiee in blossom, the dft- 
maseene and plum trees in blot- 

1 ; the white thorn iu leaf, 

lilac tree. — Bacen. 



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A> wheo he Bin too mirUy (o be muked.-J/rn BalOlt. 

gtto. 

The Leap^daj wu Temmed from tba twen^-iivtl qf the montb and 
intercaUted m thia pUca upon ttw reYuioQ of di« Lituigj, at the Rcitor- 
ntion. B; the itatute " dt utno et dU BimttUi," 1237, il wu anicted 
that the day increaling in the leap-jeai, and Ihe da; neit precediog, 
^uU be compuled u one day, ai the; an now ««eenied in lh« ca 
of Uw; and bj the act regnlatiag the ttyk, 1751, it ii declarad that 
the je*n 1800, 1900, 3100, 2300, 3300, ta an; othar hondredlh j«ara, 
except the fourth, wiierwf the yeai 3000 ihould be the firat, ihonid not 
be eileiemed teap-yean ; and that the yean 2000, 3400, 3800, and ereiy 
other fourth hundiedth year from the laid year 3000, incluiive, ihonld 
for the future be taken to be leap-yean. Thii, called the Grtgariim 
regnlalian, by retienchiQg tbree dayi in every four hnndred year*, dii- 
poiei Cor eitr of the lurpitu eleven minntn in the Jnlian year, and 
ledocea the nominal tiiqe a* nearly at poiaible to the frua conm nf the 
iUD.— Sm Sth Ocmifr. 

Swift wiitea to Ifaitha Blonat, 1738 1 " Dear Patty, I am told yon 
have a mind lo leceire a letWr from me, which it a lery undeeent decla- 
ration in a young \tdj, and almoat a <wifaH)on that you hare a mind to 
write to me 1 for u lo (be faiiCjy of looking on me aa a man wu co 
quence, H ii wbal 1 will neYer undentand. 1 am told likewice you grow 
every da; younger, aqd mote a fool, which jt directly contrary to me. 
I wiih you would bring Mi. Pope over wiih yon wben you come, but we 
will leave Mr. Gay to hi* Seggan and hi> Opens, till he ii able to pay 
hii club. Since I can never live in England, my greateai hi^pineu 
would be U have, yon and Mr. Pope condetoncd, duriag my life, to livi 
in Ireland, he at the Deanery, and you, for repuiation'i aakc, jmt a 
neat door, and I will give you eight diunera a week, and a whole half 
doisa of jant boulea of good French wine at your ledpnga, a thing you 
could never eipect to arrive at, and every year a iuit of finv-penny itnff, 
that should not be worn out at the right side. Adieu, deer Fatty." 

eod made thi amnDy ud msn Uie iBwru—Ctinftr. 



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SPRING. 

n* SprlBf, btdlilil <o Indi ind leiru ot lowcn 



Now tbe golden mom alnCl 

WuM her dew-betpangled wing, 
Witb vennil cheek, and whisper Boft 

She wooei the tardy ipring. 
New-born Bocks, in rustic dance, 

FriAing pi; thdi feeble feel ; 
Forgetful of their wintry truice, / 

The birds his presence greet : 
But chief, the sky-lark warbles high 
His trembling thrilhng ecuaay ; 
And, leauDing from the duzled sight, 
Melu into air and liquid light. 

Still, where rosy pleasure leads. 

See a kindred grief pursue ; 
Behind the aiepi that DuMiy Heads, 

Approsching comfort view : 
Mark the vrretch, that long has tosi'd 

On the thorny bed of pun, 
At length lepcuT hii vigoor loet/ 

And breathe, end walk again : 
The meanest floweret of the vale, 
lie umplest note that swells the gale. 
The common sun, the ait, the akiei. 
To luni am opening Paradise. — Gray. 

The Uackbiid strives with emulation sweet. 

And Echo answers from her close retreat ; 

On airy downs tbe idling shepherd lies. 

And sees lo-mom™ in (be marbled slues. —fliwin^fid. 



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MARTinS. 

Under Ihi Pro(«lwn of Hineiva. 



1 ilipiirB flipiru.— £iican. 



Oh I beaTCnly bora I id deepest delli 
If biresi 8ciaic« ever dnells 

Beneath the mosi; care ; 
lodolge the verdure of the woods ; 
With amce beaut; giM the floods. 

And flaw'iy carpeta lave ! 
For melaachol; evei reigns 
Delighted in the aylran aceoes 

With icieolilic light ; 
While Dian, bantreiE of the vales, 
geeks lulling sounds aad fanning gales. 

Though rapt from mortal sight. 

Thou, Goddesa, yet the way eiplore 
With magic ritet and heathen lore 

Obttructed and dqneu'd ; 
Till Wiidom give the lacred Nine, 
Untaught, not nninipii'd, to shine. 

By Reason's power redresi'd. 
Itmt bear on azure wing ; 
Energic let her soar, and sing 

Thy universal sway. 
Bid bright Astroa gUd the morn. 
Or tnd a hundred auni be bom. 

To hecatomb the year ; 
Wilhaal thy aid in tain the pola j 
In vain tht 2adiac lyitmi retti : 

In vain lh« lunar iph«rg. — Swift. 



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te tbe plough I 
And o'er your hilti, uid long wilhilr&wing talvt. 
Let Autumn (pretil hii tieMnrei to Ihe no, 
Luxoiiant ud unbouDded : m tlic •«>, 
Far thnni^ hii uure tnibolent domun, 
Youi eni^nre owoi, aud (torn > tLeiuud ■Iwre* 
WaTUall the pomp of Ufe into four ports; 
So with tupuior boon may your rich toil, 
l^uberant, oature'i better bleeangi pour 
O'ei every Uod, the naked naliom clethe, 
And be th' eihauKleH gnuiary of a wold t — T^ntu 

The City, which thou leeit, no other deem 

Thau great and glorioni Rfime, queen of the earth, 

Bo fu lenown'd, and with the ipoilt enrich'd 

Of nationi ; there the Capitol Ihou leeat, 

Above the reit lifting hii ilateiy head 

On the Tarpeian rock, her cibldel 

Impregnable ; and there Mount Palatine 

The imperial palace, compau hnge and high 

Tbe itructure, lUll of nobleit architect!. 

With gilded battlement! coDipicuaui far, 

Tuneti, and terrace*, and glillering ipirea, — Xiltm. 

We have abort time to ilay ai you. 

We have aa ihort a apring ; 
Aa quick a growth to nteet decay, 
Aa you, or any thing. 
We die 
Aa your boure do, and dry 

Uke to the aumniec'e rain ; 
fir as the pearia of morning'i dew. 

Ne'er to be found again. — Tht DafftdiU. 



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8bb bow tbe orient Dew, 

Kied fnm the bowMn of the Morn 

loto the blowing nMCs, 
Yet ciraleu of iti manuon new ; 
For the clear tegion where 'twai born 

Bound in itwir incloM* ; 
And in ita little f^obe'a eiteni, 
Fiwoei u it ctm iti naUve element. 
How it tbe purpte flow'r doei ali^t, 

Sctice touching where it liei. 
But guing back apon tbe ikies. 

Shine* with a mournful Ught ; 



Trembling leil it grow impure •■ 
Till the wamT sun pity in pain, 
Aad to the lUei etfaale it back again. 

So the Sou], that drop, that raj 
Of the clear fouutain of eternal Da;, 
Could it within the human flow'r be seen. 

Remembering (till its former beigbt, 

Sbniu the sweet leave* and blouoms green ; 

And, recolleclilig its own ligbt. 
Does, in its pure and circling tbongbts, eipiess 
Tbe greater Heaven ia a Heaven teti. 

In bow coj a ^re wound. 

Every way il lunn away ; 

So the world excluding round. 

Yet itceivisg in tbe day. 

Dark beneai, but bright above : 

Here disdaining; there in love. 
Coi^eal'd on earth : but does, dissolving, run 
Into the glories of The Almighty Sun.— Mored. 



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the ermiiiE wlUihold not Iby bnitil: fin 

, Eilka' tliil or thU, or vhclher lh€y bolb 

Ecclaiatta. 



O'y- 


liitti.. 


Bnm. 


Cal. 


M. Vilerius Maitialia, A. D. 


Anne, of Engloml, 1619. d. 


1. 


30, Eilbila. 


Wflmplm Cour(. 




Dr.JohnPell, WW.Soalhwyke. 


Matthias (i;f Gtrmany), 1619. 




Caroline. «/ Eng/nnrf, 16B3. 


Dr. Thomas White, 1623. 




N.de luCaille, 1714, Bvmigns. 


Sir Thos. Herbert, 1 683. d. ywi. 




Dt. David Bogue. 1750, HiJ- 


Colonel Francis Charteris,1732. 




iidoum. 


Dr. Thomas Ashlon, 1776. 




Alei. Balfour. 1767. SfoaikU. 


J. F. Dreus du Badier, 1780. 






Leopold II. (Emperor), 1792. 




The mamcDt which severs iis 


Frag,,.. 




from the object we love ii ter- 


Eichard Gifforf, 1807. d, Daf. 




lible ; it iosuUles us from all the 


fi'ld. 




earth ; the facuIUn at the soul 













with the UQLvaise .ubsisu only 






through the medium of a hor- 


Unmarried men are best 




rible dream which distorts everj 


friendi, best masters, best ser- 






vants ; but not always best sub- 






jects, for thej are light to ran 




®h(Uo/lA«Xalm Church. 


away. A single life doth vrell 






nidi churchmen, for charity will 




i«™, (removed to (he Vale of 


hardly water the ground where 




Boss), Patron of W.to, d. 


it must Gil a pool. It is iodif- 




544. (S« Eng. Church O.J.) 






Sl Albinus, o/ Jn^m, d. 649. 


be corrupt, you shall have a 




St. Swidbert (or Swibert), of 


servant five times worse than a 






wife.— a™.. 




Sl.MoDan,of&;oUand.M.874. 





« iugliter Bl Iho tool: It li 



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arts. 

Martids. Id the stale calendar of Bomulua then were ten naminal 
moDthi, of which MareK was the fiist, sod Decembei the lait, in oider, 
coDUiniog blether tbtee huudred and fout days. By sane it has been 
conjectured tiiat two emboliunic solar nmatfas were iaseited at the con- 
clnuon of the year ; but, as we hare no relic of their oamea or duration, 
the bettei opiiuui seems to be that the deficiency was otherwise sup- 
plied ; ibr six of these defective jeais were equal to fiTe of the Gregoriaa, 
with ibe lou oaij of two days and a quarter. -Now, aa addition of_;!ve 
day> at the end of every tea complete years would leave a mrpiut balf 
day, which at the cekbiatlou of the Alban secle of one hundred solar, 
or ODB hundred and twenty Romulian years, amounted eiactly to 
tbe same number of days, when the ordinary intercalation would be 
amiUid — a regolilioa more remote but mora simple, and even more 
correct, than that afterwards established bj Numa. This refined prince, 
by dedicating tbe month Mariiut to Minerva, had not the same rerertnce 
for the attributes of Mars as the descerulaats of Eneas ; but if he de- 
gisded the latter dei^ &am his place, as patron of the year, he did not 
tentOR to chtmge the namt of the month, in deference perhaps to the 
pFeJodices of his new subjects, but more an account of its conneiian, in 
mystic philosophy, wfth tbe season of the year. In Greek fable we 
undentaad by VtiUas an emUem of winter, and Fimui of the eaith ; 
and when it is said in this month that Mai« and Venus weie found 
logeihei, and expoeed to tbe tavghter of the gods, there need* no iaier- 
[oetation. In the Oriental dsmonolog; two principles goveriwd the 
world : one of them, aa Plato observes, of a benevolent disposition, 
and the author of eieiy thing that is good, while the other was of an 
oppoule character, the author of every tliiikg that is evilj but that 
the blaHtUHg of these prindplei would produce order and excellence, 
both morally and physically, whether in respect of tbe seasons or the 



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Par-AinliiK npwinl lo the Sibtoe hUb. 
ToAnlo-il raar, ud Tlbnr'ioUn dudcj 
To wtatrc PnBneUc una her iliy tinnr ; 
Or doWDWaiTl Hpreadljic lo the iDiuiy thottt 



acta. 



ions. Numa derived hii letigion from Eg3rptian 
(he Mara of Troy, as he well knew, vns the god Belui Ariui of the 
AsiTriBDE, iiD ftQti^rpe of harmony, and of til those useful virtues for 
which Minerra is preeminently distin^ished. His embleias n«re the 
a and the lioo, denofing vigour and fecundity; perhapa the fornief 
n w»s a figure of the fronl and restatiration of the year, and allusive, 
would seem, to theJUtcy oblation offered by Noah, after the great 
hxt. The following paxiage from Plntarch dt tildt, vrill ilhistnte 
"iB motives tor dedicating the present month to Minerva: " Hercules 
is supposed by the Pythagoreans K> be placed io the Sub (i. e. Belos), 
and to accompany him iii his pn^:re«i roimd die world, «s Mercury 
does the Moon (i. e. Isis) ; intending benby, thtt as the influence 
of the latter body seems to lesemble the works of reason, and to pro- 
ceed From wisdom, so the operationa of the former are like those strokes 
which, by mere i^ntof slrangth and force, bear down all before them. 
I9 also (he opinion of the stoicki (say these astionomera) thai the 
snn was at first kindled, and is still m^tained by exhalations drawn 
I tbe sea, whilst (he moon is fed by (hose more sweet and benign 
vapours which arise from fountains and lakes." Tbit is intelligible, and 
li the reason why the Egyptian Isis was adorned with a vest of 
many colours, eipressive 'of her vaiied power and docility ; and why 
both these deities have ever been conudered the patronesses of states, 
because, being representatives of tiie moon, she strikes, by her changes, 
those lesser periods of time which should be devoted (o the gods, as 
without service there Could be no jrreiectim. The moon, therefbre, i 
the kindest of mistresses, for she perpetually reminds us of all the duties 
of pTesrrvtttioB r orw of those blessings that can never be appreciated 
I we lose it. — What iIk Greeks did partially the Latins did entirely 



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nm. 

respecting Iheic catnutar : Ihej counted thedayi backward, so that in the 
progress to any interesting ptunt of lime, aa the nones, tbe ides, and the 
calendi of the month, they more reiptctfitUy went, as to a temple, with 
their Huxa in Ironl, by regolar gradations, and not like crabs, by retro- 
cession, which would have been both clumsy and profooe. It was thus 
Donths presented tin appearance of those double steps, by which, if 
sanding on the Centre ((Ac ida), uiher slope will cmtducl you to a 
t: we atetnd on one side, from new to fiill moon, and dticmdoa the 
odier, with the wane, until her renovation. In the rude period of the 
Koman state, before the publication of the Fasti by tmliag, it was 
cuBtomai7 for one of the priests of the -augnial college to pronounce 
aloud to the people, on the change of every moon, the number of 
1 in each month, repeating the Greek word " kalea" (in Latin 
, " I proclaim," resembling the Anglo-Saxon phrase infn) so many 
times as they consisted of days ; whic^, in effect, was an announcement 
of the almanac, as all the days of every month vers governed by tbe 
position of the nones. — Upon this d^ the Vettat iiir;giiu, four in number, 
at their establishmeitt by Numa, increased to six by Tarquin tbe Proud, 
annually renewed the mend fin from die tolar rays. They watched it 
le night-time alternate!;, snd whoerer suAered it to be extinguished 
was sconrged by ii» Foutifex Maximus, an incident which was only 
expiated by extraordinary sacrifices. The punishnient of any vestal 
~ D violated her vow of chastity was of the highest severi^ ; no less 
than li^iig buried alive, with funeral solemnities, in a place called the 
Campus Sciltralia; and tbe paramour was sconiged to death in the 
Ibrum. But their jrrtvU^gei were likewise great, for they were exempted 
from oaths, and could absolve a criminal from punishment if they met 
him accidentally. The mother of Bomulus was a vestal. The insti- 
tubon of the pe^ietual £ra was derived from the East, but ispeculiar 
also to tbe Mexicans, and was probably symbolized in the Fhienix. This 
ai^ral solemni^ was- Bboliabed by Theodosius. 



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Ths Months. Tbe JuUwi Hortiiu agree* nei^ with the fitst mooa 

anoth, ID tbe incicnt, uid tbc «eveatli in (be modem Egypfian year; 
nitk Ifae seveath socular, and the fini ucied moon NUan (called berora 

unil«, Abib, signifying an tar of barltg, refening to the barky har- 
vest abvut this time, as well in ^ypt as m Judo* ; but the name 14 
is denred lioni the Cbaldeans.iiH and nut, the month of tear omfiEonni), 
□t the Jews : nith tbe seventh moon, M^tar, of the Persisns ; with tbe 
•eyenlh moons Xanlhicui, AKtoeratorieui, and JBendidnu, of the Syio- 
Macedonians, Faphians, and Bithynians ; willitiie seventh moons. Ma- 
gitbitf Barmthat, and Micladd of the Ethio|Hab, Coptic, and Armeoian 

ndais ; with the uilh solai moon, Adar, at the Sjiians ; with the 
tenth mocm (lauoUi/ commencing, with the other Attic months, about 
the d«K of the cMTe*pondil^; Latin months) Miaiydiim, of the Alhe- 
niaiks; the seventh, ATUmiiiut, of tbe MacedoniiBii, and the thiid, 
Di/ttTui, of th^ lolai year ; and with the ninth moons, Ramadlwn, a 
Bamatan, of the Arabs and iha Tnriu ; by the Saxons it wai temed 
iiA«d(-maoth, and at a later period LfflO-mtntth, wUch ii iia a 
among the Dutch and Germans. The intercalary month of the Jewi 
Vt-Adar, i, «. second Adar is inserted in this place : for instance t 

' 5689, agieung with A. D. 1829, was an embolinnic year, and 
conaaquently tjie ensuing nominal months weie Ihiown backward Ol 

on. tfa famih tf Afril cone^nding with lb fint o^ Ninm, i. 
their New Year's Day, and so {Hogresuvely throng tbe year. Thia 
day is afatt in memoiy of tbe dwith of the children of Aaron, for bura- 
ing unhallowed fire in tbe lanctuaiy. — Sm Lxi. 10. 

The festival of the Salii was celebrated at Rome en this da; in honour 

of Uort. I'he Salii wera the priests of that god, who carried ia proces- 

Q the sacred oncilia or shields, dandng and singii^ rude verses, not 

unallied to the Dionjinan mirth of the Athenians. It continued for three 



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At pHrii apoa u Elhlap*! urm.— Oyer. 

aetB; 

or fbui dajB. The Mttronalia was aoothei fenst of this dt^, instituted 
bj Romulus and Talius, iu memory of the peace and urior of the two 
» coDcladed 1^ the mediatioQ ot the Sabbe women, who offered 
sacrifices to the god Qutru (Afon), and to Juno Lucins. It was custo- 
mary for husbaodi to ma]M preMDts to their wives dd thii anmveraar;. 

Valerius Publicola pronounces a/u>i«nit watunt over the temaiiu of 
Junius Bnitus, his colleague, B. C. 509, which was the first instilatiDa 
of that geaeroni tribute to the memory of the virtuous dead — it wis 
introduced at Atheiu until about siiteea yean after this period, on the 
occauon of iha battle of Marathon. Th« consul entered the city with 
the body in a chariot and yuadriga, which was also the first triumph in 
Roman aimals. 

CimstantiuB Chbrus and Galerius are ciealed Cesais by Diocletian, 
A. D. 292. To the former was intrusted the defence of firiMtn— 
" in a great pool, a swan's nest," and the country of the Gaoh. 

The Eternal Ci^ is besi^ed by Alaric the Goth, in the reign of 
Hooorius, A. D. 409. See an admirable chapter, by the imperial his- 
torian, on the famine witUn tht walls. 

The Duke of Northumberland procures the paiung of an act fiir the 
snppressioo of the Biihopric t^ Durham, 1553. 

Th» Sptdalor commences upon this day, Tuttday, 17U, one of the 
most useful and delightful papers in any language. 

St. David's Day. In the household expenses of the Princess Mary, 
1544, is a gift of fifteen shillings among the yeomen of the King's guard 
for bringing a Uek to her grace on St. David's Day. This is the Anni- 
versary of the society of" Ancient Britons," under the protection of His 
Majea^, as Prince of Wales. 



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BirtftB. 

D. Juniiu Juvenal, A. D. 42, 

AquinuBi. 

Sir The. Bodley, 1544, Extter. 

Wm. Murray, Earl of Mans- 
field, 1705, PMh. 

ADthonyde Blanc, 1730, Mar- 

Louis du Bust Naneay, 1732. 
Louis Sucbet, 1773, Lifimt. 



®iita if the Latirt Church. 
St. SioipliciuB (Pope), ImrUd. 

483. 
Manyn, under the Lombards, 

. 6th Ceotury, 

St. Joavan (or Joevin), Bithop 
in Arvuiriea, 6th Century. 

St. Maraan or Scotlanil, d. in 
nofuiale, 630. 

St. Ceada, ot Chad, Biihop qf 
LichfiM, A. 673. <5m Eng- 
lish Church CalendaT.) 

St. Charles the Good, Earl of 
Flanders, martyr [assassi- 
nated at Bruges], 1 124, 



Bratli. 

Pelagius I. (Pope), 560. 

Lothaire (of Fnuice), See.juri- 
ivnedj Compiegne. 

Andrew Hartcla, Etui of Car- 
lisle, iai2.eitm.ttd,CBTlitle, 

Bp. (Bobett) Abbot, 1618. 
SaHtbuTifw 

J. MaiioD Avutlio, 1632. < 
Padua. 

Dr. Junes Snki. 1707. i 



r Nicholas Boileau, 1711. 
CanlioalBouillan,1715.d. finnu. 
Fran. Bianchini, 1729.d.RofM. 
Solomon Gesoer. 1788 J.StirieA. 
John Wesley. 1791. d. Londaa. 
Horace Walpole, (Eail of Or- 

ford), 1797. d. Berheltii Sq. 
Francis, Duke of Bedftrd,ie03. 

See nhere the new-born day 
first valcea the eagle ; where, oi 
the glittering summits of th( 
rocks, the eihalaliona auMod 
lii with the pure air of the 
morning, as the incense from 
the altar.— Gfour. 



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Ferdinand V. Imnubw die Jewi from Spain, 800,000 uuli, 14EK!. 

JohmoD ud Girrick itart on the iDoriung of thii day froia Licblield, 
1738. Tbey " rode and tied" la Londoa ; tiie great leiict^rapber wilh 
o-pence hallpenny ia hii pocket, and Daty witli lomethjng kai. The 
latler, thenin hii twemy-tbird jreat, entered >a « Kholutic pupil of Cobon, 
it Rocbeitei, and Jobnun wagfat emplojinent in tranilatian and tbe 
drama . his biendi having great expectation that he would " tuin o 
fine ti«ged]r-wriler." The apectatoi of their uhtma tf lifi oa tbe waj, 
tbdr r<cip«cttf(s of eneontagemeftt, nnd of Tanity, diamouutiBg on a 1 
ude to ipout or lietea to lonie ratutuj wliloijay from the " Irene," or 
10 debate mth half-sword puley on gnoe and accent, alexandrine* and 
tmchcei, a leuten fail, or the laat penny ; would lurely have Hen i, i 
picture of the eiubenoeeo(;onth — Iht dittant pratpact nm-gilt. 

Lord Cbe»terfleld writet to his lOD ; " Whereabouts an you in Aiiai 
or have jaa gone throogh that matt ingenioui contexture of tniAi 
, of aeriolii and eitranganl, of knighbt-emn), magiciaDi, and all 
: Tarioui matter, which be auuouncct in the beginniDg of hii poem 1 
n by no meanl lure that Homer had superior invention to Aiiosto. 
What ean be moT« ledocing and Tolaptuaas than the deiciipliDn of 
Aldaa's person and palace 1 Whi.t more iugenieaily eitravegaat than 
aeaich made in the moon (or Orlando's lost wita , and the sccoant of 
otbet peopk's that were found there 1 Thewholeiiworthyoiiralteation, 
K mly as an ingenions poem, but as tbe soaice of all modern tales, 
novels, fables, and romaoces." 

The extennve copper-mine in the Iiteof Anglesey is discovered, 1768, 
a day thai has been kept as a fesliva]. 

Tbe Savoy Fakce in tbe Strand ii bomed to iti foundations, 1776. 
tt was constructed forlheuieofPeierof Savoy, an uncle of Hcniy III. 



The worU hat few [reHtn- pteva 
tlity ba«r puud logetber. 






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mut, Uk ndeit luBt.— Wi^ltr. 



Hfrti*. 

Gub«rl Voel, 16B9, Httaden. 
B. F. Count de Pagan, 1G04, 

Avignim. 
Edmund WbUct, 1605, CoUtkiU. 
Sir W. J)av«iuuit, 1606, bap- 

&t Patar Leiceitcr, 1613. 
rboma* Otwftf, lOSl, TntUiHg, 

H« that buildi b laii houie 
■pOD an ill seal, CMOBiiKeth 
bimaetf to piiton ; aa aa 

air with diveruly of heat 
■od cold, which ii dwelling 

il placet ; ill wiy«, ill 
maiketi, and if you will coniull 
with Momua, ill n^ghboun. 
Bacmt. 

tIDtlitS tf Ibi Latin Church. 
SU. Marinus and Aaterias Mar- 






c. 272. 



SU. Emeterius far Madir) and 
CbelidoaiuB.Morly r( in Spain , 

SL Winwaloe (or Winnaioc), 
Abbot in Arvnirica, d. c. 529. 

81. Lamoliue, o^Scoiiand , 7ib C. 

St.CunegundeE, £«piv»,d.l040. 



Sir Nicholas Carew, bebtadtd, 

1539. Aldgati. 
Arthur Planlagenet (Viao 

L'lile), 1S41. 
John Frederick (o^ Saximy), 

1554. 
John Stnnniua, 1589. 
Walter Baley, 1592. Oxford. 
Edward Somersel, Eail^f Wor- 
(cf, 1626. Windmr Catllt. 
Qeorge Herbert, 1633. buritd 

Bnoerlon. 
RDbertHooke, lT03.£t. Htlm'i. 
Campegio Vitiinga, 1732. d. 

Cunilto, Duke deTallard, 1728. 
Dr. Wm. Stukele;, 1765. Eatt 

Ham. 
Ji»ephHighmare,17B0.Cant*r- 

Robett Adam, 1792. Abbty, 

The propriety of goods is the 
lother of courage, and the nurse 
of iuJustry, makes u> valiant in 
id good husbands in peace. 
WalUr. 



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Sharspeare's historical jitj of Heni; VI. (now called the jint part) 
is produced at the Rose Tbeatre, standiDg on the Banlaide, and repre- 
sented b; the plaj^ra tbeo under the prolection of Ferdinaud, Lord 
Stiaoge, 1592. II was very popular ; for il had a run, in the coune of 
fifteen weekg, of thirteen days. That Ailing satirist, Tom Nash, speaks 
" t, in the laine year, in the foUowing terms : " How would it have 
joyed brave Talbot, the teirour of the Fieoch, to tbiuk that after he had 
lien two hundred yeai in his tomb, he should triumph again on 
stage ; aw) have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten thousand 
spectators at leut, (at sereral times) who, in the tragedino that rejH^- 
sents his person [Alleyn] behold him fresh bleeding." There have been 
those, and acute judges too, in some things, that, by a kind of tortious 
ciuu, laboured to deprive Shakspeaie of the honour of baildivg this 
tragedy ; on no other apparent ground than that it it inferior to his later 
more Gniihed comporations. But Leonard Digges must be luard, who 
wrote hU eU^, inmeiiiaiEiy after the appearance of the fir«t folio in 1623. 
*' Neit Nitut* only helped him, for look thorough 
This whi)le book, ihou shall find he doth nol borrow 
One phrase from Greeks, nor Latins imitate. 
Nor once ftom vulgar languages translate ; 
Nor plagiary -like, from others glean, 
Nor b^ he from each witty friend a scene. 
To piece his acts with : all that he doth write 
Is pure his own ; plot, language, exquisite." 
His late Majes^f, King George III. recommends to parliament, in a 
speech from the throne, the passing of an act for establishing the future 
independence of the judges, 17G1 : " 1 look apoa the bdependency and 
uprightness of the judges of the land as essential to the impartial admi- 
nistration of justice, as one of the best securities (o (he rights and liberties 
of my loving subjects, and as most conducive to the honour of the cron 



TIm prlnclplea 



le Englidi lim *r 
aiterplEu or Uic h 



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DoD Ptdra (of Pariugai), 1394. 
■ James Eul of Waldegrave, 
1715. 
John Lord Somen, 1652, Wvr- 

Peter Pautre, 1659, Parii. 



The apple wiu > native of 
Italj, and when the Romaiu 
had tasted the ricber flavour of 
the apricot, the peach, the pome- 
granate, the citroD, aod (he 
re, they contented them- 
s nilh applying to all these 
fruits the common denomi- 
n of apple, discrimitiating 
them Trom each other by the ad- 
ditional epithet of (heir couiitiy. 
Gibbon. 



®b(tfi a/ tht Latin Clnirth. 
St. Lucius, Pope, Jfnnjr, 253, 
SL Adrian, Up. of St. Attdiews, 

MoHyrinthehltofNayfili. 
St. Casimir, Prince of Poiand, 

d. al Tdna, 1482. 



d. 



Saladin, 1193. d. Damaicui. 
BernanlGilpiD.lS83.d.I/<M'gh- 

toa U Spring. 
Gerald Gtace (tht Hn-icnun), 

\6ia. d. BallyliHck. 
Benedict Turretini, 

Ma((hias Hoe, 1 645. d. Dradim. 
J. Vanderlindea, 1664. d. Leu- 

den. 
Nicolas de Maleaeu, 1727. 
John .4nstis, 1744. Dalit. 
Thomas Seward, 1790. d. Lich- 
field. 



His 

and consistent with itself, and 
his vhole conduct of a piece : 
his piinciples were founded in 
reason, and supported by virtue ; 
and therefore did oat lie a( I 
mercy of amhition, avarice, 

conclvdtd his course among (he 
same well -chosen frieodships 
and alliances, witliwhich li 
bfgan iL-^AddiMn on Sotneri. 



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ThM diy were (uuded urc — C^trg Chatt. 

gttS. 

The Egyptians saciiGced to the lun on the foui-lh day of Every month ) 
QstilutioD, accardiDg to the genealt^tj, of Onii the son of Isis and 
Osirii. So great wai the veneration these people fett fbi thii luminary 
tbat they batnt incenEe of appeasenwot three timei on every dij : renn 
U his first appaanaee ; myrrfi when he waa in the meiidian ; and a 
mixture called kuphi vrben be parsed the neilerD horiion. 

Cicero Kiitea to Ihe learned Trebatius, B. C. 53: ^'1 forbore to vriie 
being ignorant nhere to direct my letleis. I nippoie, however, tlial this 
I a plea which yovi loftinea* will scarce condescend to admit. But tell 
le then, ii it the weight of your purse, or the honour of being the coun- 
sellor of Cssar, that moit disposes you to be thus insuSerably arrogant I 
Let me perish if I do not believe that lliy vanity ia so immoderate, as to 
choose rather to share in his councils than his collers. But should he 
lit jou into a participation of both, you will undoubtedly swell into 
such intolerable airs that no mortal will be able to endure you : or none, 
at least, except myself, who am philosopher enough, you know, to en- 
dune any thing." — This it ijint specimen of the friendly Tailltry. 

Edward III. by the advice of his parliament at York, signs there, 
1338, the preiiminsTies of peace with Boberl Bruce, by which he re- 
signed all dominion and supremacy over the kingdom of Scotland, and 
agreed thai any instraments of subjection should be delivered up. and the 
palladium leitored. This peace was concluded at Edinburgh, the ITll 
of March, and received the sanction of the parliament, at Harthampion 
the 4th of May following ; Bnce, as an equivalent for these concessions 
paying the sum of twenty thousand pounds. 

~1)e.teaanti of Sir Edward Charlton, Lord of Powis, execute on thi 
day, at Sbiewibiuy, 1431, letters of release and satisfaction, as " takers 
of Sir John Oi4caEtle, that was miscreant and unbnxom to the law of 
Ood.and traitor convict to the King." — Edward IV. is proclaimed, 1461. 

The traveller, George Sandys, leaves Cairo, for Jerusalem, 1611. He 
entered the lacred city seventeen days after. 

Rossiiii produces hii delightful Opera, " Tancredi," 1813. 



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AhI knn uid •» IbH ill (kc wUk 
Softlj ip»k, iDd iwhIIt unilc.— Avpi*. 



l>-y. 


SiTtt*. 


BeolH 


m. 


John ColIlD*, 1624, Wooiealm. 


MarcDi ^pulins Lepdos, B.C. 


Non. 


I«ac CUode, 1853. 


13. d. Cmeii. 


5. 


Di. George SUDbope, 1660. 






ffiffJWn. 


Alpbomo II. (rf Partugai), 






1323. AUvbof*. 
^H«fri Conefio,1534.CwT(gio. 




God hath Bimpl; isid. " I 


Doctor liabelli Loia, 1546. 




Am :" He Kta u It weie hii 


L«reHi>. 




hand to s black, thil hii people 


W.Brooke, Lord Cobhom, 1597. 




may write under it what tliey 


Clement VIII. (Pope), IGOS. 




pleaie that it good for them. A> 


Jamea. Dukeof Hamilton, 1649. 




if he ihould >^, " Are th^ 


heluaded. Old PaLui Yard. 




weaki I am itrength. Are 


Arthur, Lord C«pell,Wi. 1649. 




they poor 1 I am rkhea. Are 


Heniy, Earl oT Holland, be- 




they In troubled I am comfort. 


kauUd,i64S. 




Are they lickl I am health. 


John, Marqoii of Winchester, 




Are they dying 1 1 am life. 


1674. EngUfitU. 




Have they nothing 1 1 am all 


Henry Wbinon,l69S.d. Cant«r. 




thing*."— B««rWg«. 


Bp.( Wm.) Beveiidge, 1708. St. 

PaNl't. 




miM<^thtLatmChx^rch. 


Dr. John Taylor, 1761. d. tfar- 

nflflrm. 




Sts. Adrian and Eubnlua. ^ 


Dr.PhUipFnuicU.1773.d. Bold. 




Palatine, Marlyri, 309. 


Peter Li wreneedn Belloi, 1775. 




St. Kiaran (Keoerin, or Piran), 


Dr. Thomai Ang. Arae, 177B. 




<</ iTeUmd, Biihop, 4th Cent. 


R.Twiaa, 1821. d. Somen Tot™. 




St. Roger, a Franciuan, 1236. 


Marquii de U Place, 1327. 




St. la. Vh-gin «f IrttBod. 





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9m. 

In close a(ipraiima&in to this dij " The Knight^' of AiiitophaD 
B. C. 434, (when tlie butle of Delinm was (buglit and won), a 
" Tht Frogt" of die Bome poet, B. C. 405, (when tlie Atbenian fleet 
was deBtrojed by Ljsauder), were produced at AtheoB. Agatha also 
obttuned hU tiag^ victor; at this period, B. C. 416, in thai yeai when 
e Iiland of Melos surreodBred its aDcient liberties to the barbarous 
Athenians. Perhaps it was a few days anttriar that Dioo^iuB 
Qfant, B. C. 367, gained hit dnmaldc crown ; the year (strange to say) 
'n which he died, and that Archidamus achiered the UnrtenvJclory des- 
cribed by Xenopbon. 

Gray writes to Dr. Wharton, 176S: " Had I been married, like 
Mason, some excuse might be made ; who (lor the first lime unce 
great event) has just thou^t fit to tell me tiial he never passed so happy 
inler as the last, and this in spite of his anxieties, which he says tnighl 
I makeapaitofhiahi^iness; for bis wife is by no meaiu in health. 
Hie accoonts one has lately bad from all parts, make me suppose yon 
buried in the inow, lUie the old Queen of Denmark. As soon as yon 
are d^ oat I shall rejmce to hear your vnce from the battlements of 
Old Park. Every thing is politics. There are no literary product! 
worth youi notice, at least of oui country. Mr. Walpole has got soi 
bow well of his gmii, goes ta all public places, sees all the best company, 
and is Teiy much in bshioo. He says he sunk like Queen Eleanor at 
ring-Cross, and has ri«en ag«ii] at Paris. I saw the lady you in- 
quired after, when 1 was last in Loiidoii, and a prodigious fine one she 
; she had a strong auspicioQ of roi^ on her cheeks, a cage of foreign 
birds aikd a pipng bullfinch at her elbow ; Iwo little dogs on a cushion 
~n hei lap, and a cockatoo on her shoulder : they were all eiceediog 
^ad to see me, and I them." 



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VI. MARCH. 

Yoo .WeU. *hleh «r.i wpv: 
By Ih«. yon. ptlrple IDlnlle. hno-n. 

Ma<AHkapr<»dYlritn.orih<re.r. 
Aa if the tpring w.™ .11 ycnr aw„ : 
What an yam whm the rate b blomil-WMIm. 


1 




Day. 


»itt|i. 


Btam. 






Piid. 
Noo. 

6. 


C0(nM>uN'etn,A.D.33, Noni. 
Mkbul Angclo, 1474, aiui. 
Ft. Giuccunliiu, 1481, FirnnM. 
Kibop (Fnncii) Atlabaij, 

1663, Ifilton. 
John BoniU<!t, 1G90, Strrwia,. 

1 challenge you lo show me 
in Himrr any thing equal lo tlie 
allegory of Sin and Death, either 
aa lo the gieataeu and jiutneu 
of the invention, or the height 
and beauty of the colouring. 

Atterlmry U Pope. 

mm oftht Latin Church, 
St Fridolin, Abbot, d. Antlria. 

538. 
St. Baldrede, Biibop o/Giojg™. 

d. c. 608. 
St. Kyoeburge, Kynedride, 

KyoeKvide, and Tibba, «/ 

Eugland, 7th Century. 
St. Chrodegang. Bp. of Meti. 

d.766. 
St. Cadrot, a Laird of Scotland. 

d. c. 975. 
Colette, a Vi^. d. at Ghent. 

1447. 


Sl Roia, of roTb,, A. 1252. 
Roger. Lord Grey d« Bnthy.^ 

1353. 
Sii John Hawlnrood, 1393. 

Ren>i Belleaa, 1577. Pori.. 
Zadiary Uninni, 1683. d. A'ra- 

tudt. 
Philip, 3rd Eari 0/ L«c««er, 

1698. 
Sir John Holt, 1710. Rtderave. 
Philif Earl of Uardwkke, 1764. 

WimpoU. 
Janet MalBllastre, 1767. d. 

P«r«. 
Sir Joihaa Vaoneck, 1777. 
Francis lloU, 1784. A. UeiJti- 

Wm. Rayoal, 1796. A. Paag. 

Dr. Sam. Pan, 1825. Hati,m. 

Life is a dream : the pnisuit 

of Fame cheats us of a consi- 
derable number of our years ; 
but we can scarcely get into the 






Wherever he wa> jndje he never torgol Ihal he wu bIk connieL The pri»iier 

ami that hit jiidEe wonU wresl no law to deilroy him, oor conceal any Ihal could 
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The Empemr Augustus assumea the oSice of Pantifei lUaiimm 
Higb Piiesl, B. C. 13, upon the death of Lepidus ; and immediatelj 
aher destroys two IhousBjid books of prophecy, the wiitera of which were 
either UDkoovii, or of no autbori^. He dow began to reduce the ca- 
lendar to that regularity designed by Julius Cssar, his uncle ; and cslli 
the ^nlb mouth, whifh hitherto had received the title of Seililii, by his 
naToe. because in thai moDlh he entered upon his first consulate, B.C. 
43, and obtained-his moat coo^derable victories. — Set 29tA Avgtitt, 
nas upon the occaaon of his accesuon lo the Fontificale that he first 
eiclnded women from a.pp«aring al the sAletic combats in the theatre, 
celebiaUng (hat event. 

The festivals were observed al Rome on this day, in honour of the 
goddess Vtita, who was a representaliTe of the Eardi, not as a prolific, 
but a Totatmy body, as it describes the zodiac by which the secniar year 
was adjusted. — Set 9th June. 

The Duitedon of X.aiica£lei is confened by patent this day 13SI, upon 
Henry, Earl of Lancaster, grandfather of Heniy IV. The <%uity of 
i>ul(«wasfint created in this country by Edward III. in 1337, in favour 
of bis BOB the Black Prince, as Duke of Conacall, a title which is always 
vested in the King's eldest son the moment he is bam. 

The Ladrone Islands are discovered by the Portuguese navigator, Fer- 
dinand Ma^llan, 1531. 

The Earl of Cumberland embarks at Plymouth with a fleet of twenty 
sail, 1596, his twelfth voyage. He landed at Puerto Rico on the 6th 
ol June, and in the same month captured the island, but which, from 
the uckoeu of his men, he was obliged to relinquish. An officer 1)e- 
' longing to the Vice- Admiral's ship was " thrice brought to the gibbet," 
and at leqglh pardoned, for cemmitting sacrilege in the church. This 
will remind us of Bardolph's fortune, who was hanged for stealing a pii. 

The peace of Rastadt, in Stubia, is ugned between Austria and Spain, 
after fourteen years' hostilities, 1714. 

A very brilliant ' aurora borealis' appeared, which was visible from 
the west of Ireland lo the confines of Busua, 1716. 



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uiicritli of nn—Gibbm. 



Sir John Fotteacue Aland, 1670. 
Antonio Sancbei, 1699, Pemia 
liacoT. 

Tlie til-DHiiue, which earl; in 
Febnuuy begins to make two 
quaint Dolea, like the whetUng 
of a saw, is Ihe marsh tit-mouse ; 
the great lil-monse sings with 
three cheerful, joyous notes, and 
begins about the same time. 
Red-breasts sing all through the 
spring, Hummer, and autumn ; 
and wrens all Ihe wiotec, frost 
excepted. The reason that Ihi 
former are called aurutnn song- 
sters is because iti the two first 
seasons th^ir voices are dionoed 
in the general chorus, — While, 

iDbitS of the Lali'n ChuTch. 

Sis. Perpetua and Felicitaa, 
Martyri (with their compa- 
nions), at CaHkagi, 203. (See 
English ChuTch CaUndaT.) 

St. Paul, (Ac Simpte, Anchartt, 

St. ThoDias, of Aquino, Doctor 
of iht ChuTch, d. \274. 



Antoninus Pius, 163. Larium, 
St. Ardo Smaragdus, 843. d. 

Anion, 
William Longsword, Isl Earl of 

Salisbuiy, 1336. 
Innocent XIII. (Pope), 1724. 
Dr. John Dsvies, 1732. Can- 
Bishop (Thomas) Wilson, 175&. 

UieefiSan. 
Samuel Derrick, 1769. 
Thos. Martin, 1771. Faigravi. 
P. A. AlleU, 1785. d. Pari,. 
J. Whitehead,.t804. d. London. 



According to the relation of 

hotter than others. Amongst 
the planets, next to Sol, Mars 
is Ihe hottest, then Jupiter, and 
then Venus. Luna is cold, and 
Saturn coldest of all. Amongst 
Ihe filed stars, the holiest is that 
called Sirius, ,then the Lion's 
Heajt, or Regului, then the 
Dog-star. 

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artB^ 

The Nones, a divtiion of dme in the Roman almanac derived from ihe 
Etninans, with whom eveiy ninth day was the day of buunesa, on whicb 
Ibeir kings gave audience and adminiiteied justice. Tbir^-n^l of 
; weelu of raght days composed the Tuscan year of ten monlha, and 
ManntiuB found eiactly ^le same number of Faiti in the Julian Calen- 
dar. But the Romans only retained the /arm of this Institution, 
theii nundino', or periodical market*, had no affinity with (he nones, 
alter the time of Numa, who probably lirst condemned this day as 
1 dead-letter, that pointed merely to the Ides, or polestar of tbe 
almanac. Tiie custom of lockoning by weeks was not introduced at 
Rome until Ihe 3rd century, and from a better model, the E^ijmtian 
that anamalous people, who united in themselves all the wisdo 
and all the foUy of die world. In the moolhs of March, May, July, 
and October the nones fell on tbe levtnth day ; consequently, reckoning 
upward to the calends, they were tii in number, but in all the rem 
ing months only four, because that period occurred two days soo 
Augustas avoided even the name of this day with thai which followed 
the nundines, as ominous, and kept bis chamber; because it is lupp 
tbej had some relation to the novendialei, those days on which the dead 
me buried. Tb«re seems Id be, indeed, some witchery in the qu ~ 

Romulus dedicates a temple to Ve-Jupiler (i. e. the infant thunder- 
bearer) in the wood Aigtum, 

Evelyn is at Fontainbleau, " a aumptuouE palace of the King's, like 
HITS at Hampton, about iburteen le^ues from the city. We went 
ihe voj^iy, which has a cupola, in the middle of it great trees and 
Dashes, it b«ng full of birds who drank at two fountains. Iq the Que 
garden is a Diana ejecting a fountain. The great garden has in the 

stre a fountain of Tiber, a colossean figure of brass with the wolf 

erRomulns and Remus. The carps come ^mlllarly to hand to be fed." 



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Btrfta. 

. SL JohDCofOod), 1495. 
TfaDmaEHutin, 1697, Tlie^ord. 
Di. JohnCampbdl, 1T0B, Edin- 

JohD Fothergiil ,1712, Carrtnd. 

You of LicedacmoD are the 
DDly women in the world that 
rate the nKn, said a foreign 
lady to (he wife of Leonidu: 
epiied,— 'we are the only 
in that bring fortii men. 

(Mils rf tk« Latin Chwreli. 
Sis. ApoUaniiis, Fhikmon, and 

othen, ISarti/n of Egypt, c. 

311. 
St Senan, Bp.ia Ireland, c.544. 
St. Psatnioid (or Saumay), of 

Inland, d. c. 589. 
Si. Felii, Bp. of Dunaich. Suf- 

folk, d. 646. 

■t.Juiina.Abp.i^TaUda.A.'iSO. 
St. Rosa, Virgin ^ Fiferto, 

huried, 1262. 
St. Dutiiak, Bp, if Sua, d. 1353. 
St. John of God, Founder nf the 

Order of CUrity, died, 1550. 

Who ihipkt of «dr wbea failiii ov 



Fiance* Sidney, 1589. d. Bw- 

noiufMjf. 
Sir Dudley Diggea, 1639. Chil- 

ham. 
TVilliun Douglas, Earl 

QueeD<bury,1640.DuruiJ«r. 
WilUam llI.(a/'En£lofid},1702. 

d. Kmnnglon. 
Bishop (John) Hough, 1743. 
Thomas Blackwell, 1757. d. 

Sir Wm.Chaniber!, ll^.Abbe^, 
Fiancla, Duke of Biidgewi 

1803. d. St. Jttma'i. 
Sawrey GUpin, 1807. d, Bromp- 



Pride a 



mif^t, 



to protest, that a pastry-cook's 
boy should be raised to be a 
general and governor, and to 
princely dignity ; but Peter had 
already aCCDsIomed his subjects 
see, without surprise, every j 
inggivenlomerit.andnolhing j 
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ads^ 

Walter, the Pennyless, departs from France, with his van of 
uders, 1096. By the council of Clermont, this (the firat) expedition 
was appointed for the 15th of August ; bnt Walter, Peter'i lieutenant, 
was compelled, bj the zeal (or hunger) of his fidlowen, to cDinm 
pious breach at tbe decree : the conaequence was that three hundred 
thousand of these needy and uoorgauiied tribes perished before Godfrey 
and the other chieft had received from their mistresses the ciimson 
badges of the mission ; and only discorered by a pyramid rf bonei the 
fate of their plebeian companions. 

The great frost at Paris breaks on this day, 1663, which had endured 
for more than three months. 

Secretary Harle; is stabbed by the Marquis de Guiscaid, at 
council board, with a penlnife, during an eiaminalioa upon a charge of 
high treason, 1711. " Tbe point stopped at one of ihe ribs," says 
Swift upon this day, " and broke short half an inch, liomedialely 
Mr. St. John [Bolingbrolie] rose, drew his sword, and ran it into Guis- 
card's breast. Five or six more of the caaiicil drew, aad stabbed Guis- 
card in several places ; but the Earl Fowlet called out, for God's soke, 
to spare his life, that he might be made an tiample ; arid Mr. St. John's 
awotd was taken from him ajid broke : and the footmen without ran in, 
and bound Guiscard, who begged be might be killed imniediately. I 
know him very well, and think him a fellaiv of little consequence although 
of some cunning, and much villainy. It is not ahove ten days ago, that 
I was interceding widi the Secietiu} in bis behalf, beuuue I heard he 
was just starving ; but the Secretary assured me he had four hundred 
pounds a year pension." ♦ 

A violent earthquake is felt in London, which shook the river, 1750. 

The season for salmon and tront lishing b^ins in ^is mon^i, aitd 
until Michaelmas : also for the mullet End par. 



1 Hit TOB Itait my Iiouk ttandi upon Iht 
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Ii buid ii (bD or untlu, « 



Cut Grande delU Scaitt, 1391, 
LewU GoDiaga (5t. Atoyimt), 



I am beholden to RrutKui 
thai I fint conceived Uiat m; 
life wanted some amendment 
to write letters wilbaul aSecta' 
tion and nicety ; to be bnrud 
io cecondGBliDa with thoae wl 
have ofiended me ; to read wilb 
diligence, and not to be can- 
tented wi& enperficial know- 
ledge, noT to be quick in auenl- 
ing to mere awettian. 

M. AuTtliu,. 

1S)litt of the Latin CburcA. 
8t. Pacian, Bp. of Barcelana, 

d. 4th Centui;. 
St. Gregory, of Nyua, Bp. 400. 
1. Frances, Widow of Some, 
Foundress of (be Collalines, 
d. 1440. 
St. Catherine, of BoUgna, Fir- 
>, d. 1463. 



SIralis. 



Lord John de Hastings, 1313. 
BaJBiet I. 1403, munf. de-ie, 

Antioch. 
David Bimo, 1566. murdtrtd, 

Helyreod HouM. 
Wm. Warner, 1609. Amwtlt. 
Fraocis Beaumont, 1 6 1 6. buried, 

Abba/. 
Js. Bonfrerius, 1643, d. Tmraay. 
Cardinal Julius Mazarine, 1661 ■ 

d. Vijictnnei, 

:ich.Eltmuller, 1683.d. leipsk. 
Gaipard Sa^ttaiius, 1694- 
John Francis Baltus, 1743. d. 



WilUam Gulhrie, n70.d. Lot- 
Dr. Samuel Jebb, 1772. d. Der. 

Dr.Ed ward Daniel Clarke,1822. 

CambridgtM 
lata Letitia Barbauld, 1B2S. 

d. Stda Newington, 



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Hy ftiemli, I Un Ion > diy—TUw VMpuian 



att>. 



JosEPHDs records the prodigies which, od Uib ninth day of the inanth, 
Xanthicus ^Niian), at (he time of the punjtcatiimi vhich preceded the 
fcasi of unleavened bread, foretold the huraing o[ the HoDae of God. 
The piiDcipal omen vu, that a heifer, u ihe was led tr/ the high- 
prieit to the altar, brou^t forth a UinJ>, in the midst of the teni|de. 

Ladj Montagu vrites, froni Constantinople, to her siuer, 1T1S: 
" Fatima, mj lovely fiiend, has all the politeness and good-breeding 
of a court, ivith an air that inspires, at once, respect and tenderness i- 
and DOW that I understand her language, I find hei wit as agreeable 
as her beauty. A Greek that I carried with me, who had never seen 
her before, showed that surprise at her beauty and manners which is 
unavoidable at the first ught, and said to me, in Italian, ' Thit U 
no TnTkiaK lady, ih» u cerlainltf loiiu CAriifian.' Fatimi guessed she 
spoke ofher, and asked what she said. When the Greek lady had told 
her, the smiled, saying, ' It ia not thefint time I havt heard m: my 
melhtr ma a Patantie, takm at the siege of CaminUr ; and mj father 
lunj (D Tatty at, uyiKg, he bdieved hii Chriitian ici/e had foand lome 
galtaHt,f<rr thai I had nut Iht air of a Tvrkiihgiri,' I assured her, that 
if all the Turkish ladies were Uke her, it was absolutely necessary to 
confine them from public view, for the repose of mankind ; and proceeded 
to tell her what a noise such a face as hers would imke in London or 
Paris. ' I ran't belUve yim,' replied she, agreeably : ' if beauty woi 
10 much vaiiud in your country, ai you aay, they would never ham mffertd 

Prince Henry defeats Griffitii Clendour at Grvmont, 1405— The ei- 
ttaoidinary &nix is issued confirming Ihe imuKence of Calas and his 
family, 1763. 

The battle of Loon, in which Napoleon is defeated by Marshal 
Blucber, 1BI4 i — the day tdso of his marriage vrilh the afiectionate 
Jvuphine, 1796. 






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John Wower, 1574, Handmrg. 
Bp. Duppa, 16E9, Ltieiihani. 
Mnrcello Mal^gfai, 1928, Crt- 

J. Kettlewell. 1653, Ki^haU. 
John Pitjfaii, 1749. Btnit. 

We Bee frequenlly thai wtie 
men and of best abilitiei have 
foiliorae to write the acU of 
their own dayi, while they be- 
heU with a juit tliadaio, not 
only how unworthy, how per- 
vtiK, how corrupt, but oft«n 
how ignoble, bow petty, how 
below all history, the penoni 
aad their aetioiu were ; who 
^Iher by (ortune or iome rude 
electJOD had attained, aa a 
j udgmeat upon the land, to have 
cliief may in managing the com- 
monwealth, — fttiJlan'i England. 

®bttS of Iht Latin Church. 

The forty Martyrs o^»6rMle,320. 

St. MackesBoge (or Kessoge), 

Biihop in Scotland, d. 560. 



Btalf». 



Heliogabalui (Emperor), be- 
htaded, A. D. 322. 

Benedict III. (Pope). 856. 

Ricbard de St. Victor, 1173. 
Si. Vicbn-;. Pari.. 

Ladislaoi 111. ofPeUnd, 1333. 

William Sawtn, buraed. 1401. 

Thomai Lord Seymour, (of Sud- 
ley), J«A*ud(rf, 1549. 

Wm. Powlett, Manjuii of Win- 
chester, 1573. d. Basiag. 

Peterdu Moulin, 165B.d.StiIiin. 

SiTjobnDenhain. 1668.'lU>«i|. 

Hentielte Coligni, 1673 J.Parii. 

Colonel Vrats, atcuted, 1682. 

Dr. John Scotl, 1694, fit. Gib)', 

.Tohn Jamei Boileau, 1735. 

SirWm. Browne. 1774. Lmd™. 

Elias Catherine Fteron, 1776. 

N. Sabiier, 1785. d. Porii. 

Rome de L'lile, 1790. d. Porii. 

John Earl of Bute, 1792. 

Charlotte Addison, 1797. bnritd, 
Biltm. 

J. C. fiorda, 1799. d. Porii. 

Ld.CollinEwood,1810.S(. Puttr.. 

Benjaoiin Wesl,1820.St.PaHri. 

John Pinkerton, 1826. i. Pom. 



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Tre tenth da; ot the manlh IViion was a Hebrew fast far tbe death of 
Miriam, (he sister of Moses. 

Aleiaader Serenis is proclaimed Emperor oF the Boinana, A.D. 223. 

Upon the evening of this day, 1643, Evelyn observes " a shining cloud 
in the air, in shape resembling a sword, the point raaehiog to the north ; 
it WIS as bright as the moon, the rest of the sky being very serene. It 
began about eleven at nighl, and vanished not till above one, being seen 
by all the south of England." 

Lady Montagu dcfncts this day the Ex-Sultana: "Her dress was some- 
tlnng 10 inrpriiingly rich that I cannot forbear describing it to you. She 
wore ■ veit called donajraa, which dillers from a caftan by longer sleeves, 
and folding over at the bottom. It was of puiple cloth, straight to her 
■hape, aDd thick ki, on each side, down to her feet, and round the 
akete*, with pearls of the bmt water, of the same »ze as their buttons 
commanly are. You must not suppose that 1 mean as lai^ as those of 

my Lord , but about the bigness of a pea ; and to these buttons 

la^ loops of diamonds, in the form of those gold loops so common on 
birth-day coats. This habit was tied, at the vraist, with two large tassels 
of smaller pearls, and round the atm embnodered with la^ diamonds. 
Her shiil was lasteited al the bottom wilh'a great diamond shaped like 
a loisnge ; her girdle as brMtd as the broadest English riband, entirely 
covered with diamonda. Her whole dress must be worth a bundi:ed 
Ibousuid pounds iterlii^. She gave me a dinner of fifty dishes of meal, 
which (after their fashion) were placed on the table but one at a time, 
and was eitrenfUj tedious : the magnificence of her table answered very 
well to thU of her dreaa. She assured me that the sloty of the Saltan's 
tAivuing a handkerchUfis altogether fabulous ; neither is there any such 
thing at creeping in at the bed's fiwt." 






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Tb* tUou which iitIh wUhcnt » ihtp.~Bfni^i fmniiif qf^ Tbat. 



TorquMoTauo, 1544, Sorrtnm. 
JobnPelerNiceron,1685,Paru. 



Madam, the distrust I bllTe 
had of Dot being able to 
to jou any thing which might 
pay the charge of reading, has 
persuaded me tt> forbeai kU«Dg 
your hand at this distance ; zo, 
like women that igTow proud, 
became tbey are chaste, I 
thought I might be negligent, 
because I was not troublesome. 
Suckling'i Lititn. 



mitt rfthe Latin Chunk, 
3t. CoUBtanline, of Scetland, 

Afarft^, 6th Century, 
St. Sophronins, Pnfrforclk of 

Jemaltm, d. 639. 
St. ^i^B, the Culdee, Biihap 

B Irtlend, A. c. 824. 
St. Eulogius, of Cordova, d. 



IBtatlM. 

Joba Toland, 1722. Futnty. 
Peter Chirac, 1732. 
Dr. Thomai Mangey, 1755. 
Hannah Cowley, 1809.d. Ti<m 

William 0<ren, 1624. 



The hoDK of Tuaa't birth 
Itands on the edge of the cliff, 
and commands a magnificent 
view of the bay ; it has been 
repaired and modemiied, until 
nothing that was rendered r 
cied by the poet remains. Tl 
house is large and roomy, with 
two fronts, one of which, at least 
the greater part of it, is i 
narrow street, opposite the high 
wall of a nnnneiy, and the other 
ia perched on the difla. At on 
angle of the house, there wai 
formerly a bust of ibe poet it 
terra catla, which some French 
soldiers, during their invasioi 
1799, mistaking for a saint, i 
charged their pieces ai, j 
shattered its head. — Anoa. 



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'. marriage of Kddud Monteccbio irilh Juliet Cappelletlo was ulem- 
uiied in the church of the Minorites, at Citlajiella, oa the present daj, 
1302. Their history scarceVf survives among a people (hat have nun 
bered and foi^oHen men, whose voAs are scattered as " thefathtr-dun 
about the world ; Flinj, Nepos, aad Catullus, and who, like this ill- 
starred pair, living in delpbick verse more durable than either marble 
>r tiadilioii, were natives of old Verona. Never were events so adapted 
or the tngick web, so nahappilj twbted " to point a moral, and adorn 
I tale," as the guilty loves of " Romeo and Juliel :" a plot, simple and 
pathetic, solemn and retributive ; which petrifies the tear about to I 
Tbe poet has, however, rejected the sacrilegious /act, ihat Juliet is silting 
n the chur of penitence at the time thai Romeo was placed covertly be- 
hind the grating with her subtle confessor, in order to deceive the ladj's 
mother, who was piesent ; ;et the catastrophe is justified , and the acute 
^but harsh) comment of Johnson is supported, that " Juliet jdajed most 
of her pranks under the appeanmce of rel^ou." 

The tlniveruly of Farii issues a circular addrassed to all (he French 
cletgj, 1444, expressing the opinion of the Cbuich, (hat thefeatt iffooU, 
about (be csleodi of January, was a well imagined institution, connected 
with ChriEtiaDi(y, and that those who had attempted to suppress it should 
be euni and aewmmvXcate. Altiiough this appears to border upon the 
ridicnlom, the party-coloursd feast, we shall lind, was first corrupted ai ~ 
abused by HalaXry : it is to be tracM into all climes, and the remotesi ages, 
at (he close of the year, and to Aaianl an opinion respecting so dark an 
observance, it might have been termed ongvnalXy " the festival of the 
oio." — The Au was a principal figure in these ceremonies, as in 
Egypt, and there it was the representative of TigiAo, or the evil principle. 
The memorable eruption of Mount Etna began about sunset of this 
da;, 1669. 
Napoleon espouses Maria Loiusa, Archduchess of Austria, 1810. 

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HirtSB. 

Godfrey Bidloo, 1649, Amiterd. 
John Theoph.Dn^;Bliers,I683, 

RockelU. 

p.(Q.)Be[keley,1684,Kilcnn. 

It is utunl with ma to coosi- 
der myuir as having a natural 
propel^ in aveiy abject that 
admiDiBleia pleainre. When I 
I the coimtiy, all the fioe 
aeati oeai the place of my rau- 
deoce, and to which I have ac- 
ceiB, IregardBBmiHd Bythese 
priaciples I am posseued of half 
a dozen of the finest tea 
England, which, in the eje of 
the law, belong to certain t 
acquaintance, who choose to 
live seat the court. 

Btrkei*!/, in GvardUm. 

t&iitS "f thi Latin Chvrch. 

SL Maximilian i^ Nvmidia, 
Martyr, 296. 

SI. Paul of Cornwall, Bishop of 
Leon, d. c. 573. 

St. GregDiy the Great, t>ope, d. 
604. (Stt English ChuTck Ca- 
lendar.) 



CopH, of NDithnmbria, 
lainaled, 1067. 
CieuT Borgia, 1508. hilUd, 

Conk of Vima. 
air Arthnr SU Lt^er, 1559. 
Alei. I^olomini, 1578. 

Sitnna. 
Dr. J.CoDtal, 1693. Nenlump. 
Lodavtck Mn^lelon, 1697. 
Henry Kcher, 1748. d. Porii. 
John Lewis le Beau, 1766. 
Touuaint B<»denave, 1783. 
Dr. Geo. Gragoiy, 1806. d. 

Wta Ham. 
C^t. Robert BiMghmn, 1831. 

d. Fhnnci. 
BcT. R. Bland, 1835. d. Ua- 

mingtim, 
Cbas. Wm. Le Oeyt, 1S37. i 

HtUitr. 

Because in perilous attempta, 
the longer they are debated the 
more difficulties appear, and 
consequently ihey are the i 
unwillingly ondertaken : il 
nerally happens in conspiraciea, 
delay of execution begea a 
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The third, bI Ota, la ihot vlihou nun : 
And OB Mi long ytOaiw Iscfei ibcn, 
A chaplM bad fat ill of leant greeib— J£liv Jaaut I. 

gttt. 

JaMES 1. of Scotlaiid, durii^ the littiiig of hU parliameiiC at Penh ai 
this day, 1425, arrextg Murdoch, Duke of Albany, the kte regeai, the 
EarlB of Donglu, Augui, uid March, with twen^ other persvns of the 
hi^ieelrankaDd power. The Duke with his two soua were immediately 
tiied for aetl of niurpation i and being (bund gqil^bjamajori^ofvoices, 
■e executed on the castle-hill at Stirling. It is stated by bistorianB, 
thai James I> adjudged to death, within (he first two jein of his leign, 
three thousand of hii sul^ects, (or offences comtoilted during his long 
impriwmment in England. The penalty waamurdn-l^thiity-siiwDiiiidB. 

The b«^ entitled " Tbe first part of the contention betwixt the two 
famous houses of York and Lancaster, with the death of the goql Duke 
Humphrey, and the banithment and death of the Duke of Sufiblk, and 
the tra^a] end o! the proud Cardinal of Winchester, with the notable 
lebellioB of Jack Cade, uid tbe Duke of York's first claim unto t) 
crown," is entered at Stationers' Hall, 1G94, by Thomas MilHnglon, 
bookteller. 'Hui play waa the/miiuIiMuni of Shakspeare'c drama, called 
" The second part of Heniy VI." according to Mr. Malone's hypothesis ; 
bat tfaei« is, however, no reason to suppoee thai Shakspeare was dif- 
ferent ftom other poets, and did not imprmie the early and more hai^ 
productionsofbispen. It was on the seventh day of the pretenl month, 
1426, that Cudisal Beaufort and the goad Duke referred their t/uamlt 
a/id grieBonca to the arbitrament of the council. One of the articles in 
the Duke's complaint is, that the Cardinal Bdvised the Prince (Henry) 
to destroy bis father in his lii^ness, and seize the crown. 

The tattle of Erpin^m, and defeat of the rebels under Sir Robert 
Welles, 1470 ; Chelsea Hospital ii founded, 1682 : James II. lands at 
Kinsale, 1689; Steele's paper "The Guardian" commences, 1713: 
Pope presents bit " Dunciad" to the King and Queen at St. James's, 
1729 : and the Aunous comet of 1759, this day passes its peribelium. 



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SttUe, IGAI, Richmond, Sumy. 
Dr JoiephPriestley , 1 733, FieU- 



I think tbaiiiibe best climate, 
where I can be abroad in the air 
with pleaiucB, or at leaal without 
trouble or iDCODvenietice, the 
Dioit daji of the, year, and the 
moMhounoflbeday i andtbii, 
I think, I can be in EDgianil 
more thaa in any country I 
know of in Europe. 

King William. 

CDbftD tif'lhe Latin Church. 
St. Euphrasia, Virgm, d. 410. 
Si. MochoemDC, (in Laltn Pu 

cherius) Al/bvt in Ireland, G5t 
St. Gerald. Bp. in Inland, 731 
St.TheopfaaneE.Abboi.d.&tni< 



Ihra, 
Si. NicephoruB, Patriarch of 

Constantinople (traasii 

his rtlickt), d. 828. 
St. KeDnocha, Virgin in 
1007. 



Stot^. 



Beliiariua, 566. CoaslaallnopU. 
Henry d'Almaigne, 1271, dnu- 

tinntcd, Vilerbo. 
Michael de I'Hospital, 1573. 
Cardinal <l'OBBat,1604. Rame. 
Bartholo. Legal, iiirnerf, 1614, 
Richard Cowley, 1619. burial, 

Shartditch, 
John Gregory, 1646. Oiford. 
Ferdinand Lord Fairfai, 1647. 
Peter Mignard, 1695. . 
Johnde la Fontaine, 1695. 
M. Valentin, 1726. d. Cieum. 
Abp. Herring, 1757. Cnrydm. 
Charles le Beau, 177B. 
Chriarian VII. (o/ Dramark), 

1808. d. Hendjfruig. 
Ed.Long,iaT3.d. Arundel Park. 
Edm. Ailiin, 1820. i.Stokt Nac. 
Sophia Lee, 1824. d. Clifton. 



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[louchi 

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flrit 

An eclipse of the moon is noticed b; Josepbns, wbicb bsppened at 
bour of (bree in the mDmiiig of Ihii daj, B. C. 4, about Ibe dme a 
tb« in&nt Cbriit wai curled Into Egypt. It prognoaticated the death of 
Herod, which look place Id that jear, and probably befOFe the feast of 
Penttcoil, having ceigoed ihltty-seren yean, reckoning not fjom the 
death of Ant^DnuB, but when he received from Marc Anlonj (three 
years before) hU i^al autbori^. 

Richard Cirur de LtaB.laods at Sandwich, after an absCDcefroin Eng- 
land of more than four yean, 1194. 

Urban VIII. issues a bull In which the lulei are staled lor the 
beati£catioH and canonization of SainlE, 1625. 

Evelyn notes, 1661, " This aRemooD Prince Rupert showed me the 
new way of graving, called itutu linlo, which aRcrwards, by his per- 
ion, I published in my " History of Chalcograpby ;" this set so many 
artists on work, that they soon arrived to ifaatperTeciion it is since eg 
emulating the tenderest ntiniatures." TbeHuioty was presented to the 
Eoyal Society in a dedication to Boyle, on (he 10th of June, 1663. 

Sir Wm. Herschel discovers, 1781, the planet which he called ii 
compliment to his royal patron, Gtorgium Sidas ; hut known on the con 
tinent by the names of Htnehal and Uranai. ll has six satellites o 
moons, and ia the most distant of all the known planets ; its revolntion 
round Ibe sun completing a period of not less than eigbty-Uiree of o 
years. The innermost of the satellites performs its orbit in five days 
twealy-one hours and twenty-five miautes, and the remotest in one b 
dred and seven days sixteen hours and forty minutes. 



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mmj lore, ibd KM ba kor'd ifilp 
a tn nln lb* BAla Mi pirai. 
kufi tlH ea ifii t kinr for Ihc « 



I, or Mill il«ir<l' 

t apuB (hi HDd.— HnfY and El 



Piid. F)%po Lnigi OOii, 1766, Cor- 



She hid the ehum* of tn 
•ngal, hot her itam «■* qnile 
pUin tai clean, like a cooAlijr 
Ditid : iMt pemm ifqiBBraii 
hiiltlci, utd of tke miimt 



bei face a Mreel 
otal, and her complexiDn ttu 
of t^bngbtrichkio^i 
ber mouth like • roM-bad, that 

juat bc^i^ to blow, and 
hgitire dimple, bjr flti, wwld 



■Iwafapau- 
inguherfuo ; aitd in heilosg, 
even, chennt tyet, tbere waa 

aid Ate, aufficionl for half 

Eoea pail. — Amary. 

0ltiU cf ttit Lutia Church. 
St. Acepaimaa, Biiluip in Amyria, 
Jotejlk and Aithilahaa, Ma 
lyn, 380. 

. Bgaiface, Itp. d/'Hoh, d. 630/ 
.. Maad (or Msthildii), (bum 
of Gtrmmy, d. 968. 



Feuc flie Cruel, kmti, 1369. 
John Ewl of Bedford, 1565. 

Chtnin, 
Man). MuauM da Fa*, 1640. 
SiMn M4«a, IwiMd, 1663. 
Hiebael B^on, 1710. 
Lady Marr FaloonbeiK, 1712. 
Peler Niralle. 1764. &■ Parit. 
Admiral John Bjmg, lT67.«h«i, 

P>rUiMi.tlt.<8on>l>liiU.) 
John WMWB, 1783. 
Wn. MelBi«tb, 1709. <L Bath. 
Oainaa BaiDagMti, 1800. Ttm 

pU. 
FiMlanckllMopUlui KlqMlodc, 

IMS. OttaRWB. 
An|MlM Kmtf, Dske 

Orafion, 1811. 

Monmfiil are Tua'i wslli. 
Thy ipooae i« left alone in her 
joDlh ; the ton of thy love ii 

He shall coma U ~ 
gela, and aik ber why ihe weepi. 
He iball lift hii eyca to the wall, 
and ■«« hii hther'a inord. 
Wboae twoni ii that! he will 
■ay ; and the laiil of hi« modiei 
il ui^—Oaiaa. 
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Ott*. 



rsFAasovBi (id Greek Pou^.ud ia Lalio 7>«nritui) of tha Jews, 
bq;ui on Iha lAenwoo of the fbiuteeutk Kuan, when the oflbring 
to b« ihin, and concladed before midiiight, hy whkli tinM it wu c 
minded to be tattn, witfa barley bread, colled the tuMd of aSiction, to 
diitingniih it from the wheatan bread, the old Uavtn of tbeir Egyptian 
maaten ( ahhaugb, it abonld be obnrred, the great htdiday wai not kept 
until lh« fifioHth or following day. — Exodut xii. The ftatt iif un ~ 

li bntd properly commence* at the lame moment with Uiat of (he 
paaurer, and terminU** with the KCOiid great coDTOcUion, on the after- 
luioB of Lbe twen^-fint of the month ; to that it cenliDned far leven 
BycMhemerona, or aghl days, if we iikclude tbe allemaoB of prepaiatiim. 
raa inititnled in iolemii lenembmBce of ibe teeion that God passed 
ow (tTDiuiii) ihe boniM of the ItneliM, when he ilew the fintbom, aa 
well u to diBcouBteaaaeetheperTeHedandidolBtrout rilea celebrated ia 
Egypt OQ lb« nme day, for then wal lbe time of purification and rejoic- 
ai among die Romans. Tbe Her(^ ww to be a male lamb without 
blemish, and iti age not to exceed Iwelw ntontiit, nor to be le» than 
eight diys. TW fint frniti of the barley harrest were oflend in the 
riieaf, on the wcond day of the feitiral, Ibeiu'tenlftofNiaani anacknow- 
ledgmcDt that all men would do welt to remember with the aame zeal 

d ptttj. — Ste I6lh March. The Jewi kepi \he fortieth *DUvenaiy 
of Ihar pauofCr at Gilgal, foar daya after Ate pauage of lbe Jordan, 
when diey took poneraioB of&e promised land, B. C. 14SI. 

Tlomai Randolph leiice the Castle of Edinburgh, by sarptiae, 1313. 

Edward IV. landi at Raienspur. with an ostrich feather in his 
bonnet, aa Prince of Walei, 1471 ; his Fleming foUowera carried hand- 
gnin, which a ttte euliest account of them in Eoglatid. Crichtoo dis- 
putes with the Fiofesson at Fadua, ISBl. Addiaon retires fhmi bis se- 
cretaiyafaip, with a pension of 15002. in 1718. The Excise scheme is 
taoBtd, 1733 i and Admiral Hotbam on tbe same day defeats the French 
fleet off Genoa, 1795. 



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Sign'il In Itay ipoll. ud crlnuon'il Id Ihy ]clli«. 
Hid I u Din]' tyn u ihov hut wounds. 





li ttnu or Itiendikip wllk ihlne 


toetBla.—Mare Anitnt. 


D^. 


mm*. 


BMtll. 


Idus. 


Patrick Adamfon, 1563. P^h. 


Julius Cssar, tiHtnbrwJ, B. C. 


15. 


TTwoi*. Bonet. 1620, G™™. 


44, Smati T/ouk. 




John BaiUyrac, 1674, Borim. 


Thoa. Lord Chancellor Egerton, 




Gen. (Andrew) Jickson, 1767.] 


A.D. 1617. Dodlolon. 






d. CAfbM. 






John, Eatl of Loudoun, 1663. 




Ihat the Deiljr conitanllji in- 


J. B. Molinier, 1745. d. Porii. 




spects the actions of all the liu- 


Denis Secousse, 1754. d.Po™. 




man race; nor will the virtues 


Dr. Thonuu Francklin, 17B4. 




ot »ices of any one pass unre- 


John Jervis, Earl St. Vincent, 




garded ; but, agreeably to the 


1833. Sumt. 




different nature of them, the; 












retribotiaa, Theae maj not, b- 








What! though jou have given 




but they are the conatant eipec- 


many illuatiious proofs of great 




tation of every man, arising from 


abilities, both iu the state and in 




the conscionsnesa of hi> actions. 


the camp ; yet in (his, Cssar, 




Sotttat to Cfur. 


thou ait not singular. What 
we eipecl from you is the resto- 
ration of fallen liberty. Accom- 




^ilbi<fthtLcti« Church. 


plish this, and every comer of 




St. Abraham, (HtrmiC of Meso- 


the earth will be instantly filled 




patamia, and (hia niece) St. 


with your applause ; then, in- 




Mary, 4th Century. 


deed, wilt thou rise to match- 




St. Zacharj, Pope, d,752. 


leas glory.— Sa^iurt lo Caiar. 




St. Leocritia (o/' Curritfto), Vir- 






gin Mai-lyr, d. 859. 





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The Ides, a day in the Romui calend&r, so niLnied from the Etnitcan 
word idaart ('dividere) because it divides the lunaj month into two equal 
parts, aad b; that meanB marks where tfae days runoing before the calends 
of the eosuiiig maath began. It invariably fell, and ceunled eight days 
after (lie oodss ; but as Uiese were movable, the ides happened soouei 
IT later; in March, May, July, and October, upon ihe^MntA, and in 
he remaining months upon tbe thirleeDth day. Tbe osual sacrifice 
ra these days was a mrtfier lo Jove.— The Ida of March is memora- 
ble far the assasunation, called the paTricidt, o( Cssar, in the Sena- 
tors' Houae, constructed by Pompey. He perished at five o'clock in 
die anemoon, by twenty-tluee wounds. His character as a tiiiua is 
variously staled by different bctioaa. In his penon he «>aa tall, of a fair 
complexion, ronud limbed, rather full-faced, his eyes black and lively ; 
d in his yonth, of a healthy habit of body. There was a preciseness 
and efleminacyin his dress and manners, which are rarely discovered in 
rirMtfr, unqaestioDably the grvateri, except onejib the history of m 
I. In summar;, it maybe said of Julius Cesar, ihat with thegeniui 
of a King, it was perhaps his mii^itrlunc to have been bom a Bomai 
The Consuls were inaugurated on thisday, fiom the time of the second 
Punic war, B. C. 218, until B. C. 154, when they began to enter upon 
thdr offices on the calends of January. The Ides and calends were 
usnal days for assembling in the senate, the Ides of March exctplid. — 
This day is the anniversary of Anna Pereima, the sister of Didc, who 
DM drowned in the river Niunicus. — Longinus, the penitent, whopierced 
theude of Christ, was killed lhe«ameday in Cappadocia. 

Tbe Qelalean eta of the Sultan Malek Geladeddin Shah began on the 
[«esentday, A.D. 1079- This reformation of the Persian Calendar w 
effected by a g;encral assembly of the Eastern astronomers. It is a fixed 
solar year (the Ytadtgerdic being erratic or movable), formed by an in 
tercalalion made sii or seven tiroes in four years, and then every fifth 
year, and connsts of 365<i, 4h, 49*. 15" 0'" 4B"". In fact, this 
is only a renovation of that of Zoroaster, which had been ntgletted after 
the fall of the Magian empire. 

James, Duke of York, establishes, at OunSeel, the first regular system 
if naval warfare in Ei^land, I66S. 

The ucced teit ay ^lily Ihal mat tkiogi m not Ceur*!.— &Iilm. 



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And iKver from Ifaj m 
Hie iiA wboM IwDH ii 



vm*- 



I. Geri>niidBiederode,158S,^- 
• $teniam, 

'• ReDeleBoMU, 1631, ParU. 
Jamei Boikau, 1635. 

With regird to wit, did I, for 
my life, desire to bewellserred, 
I would apply only (o thou who 
made it iheir trade, and lived by 
it. You Binile at the oddity of 
myopiDioD; but be assured, my 
friend, that wit is in soidc mea- 
sure mecbaoical ; andthatamaa 
long habituated to catch at eren 
tta resemblance, will al last be 
hapj^ enough to possess Ibe lub- 
■tuMw: by a long habit of writ- 
ing, he Mqaiies a justaeu of 
Ihiakiog, and amulery of man- 
ner, which IwHday wiilen, men 
viithUR tima hit gtnfiu.may vain- 
ly ancmpt to equal.— GeUwiilh. 

0|(tl '/the Latin Cturvh. 
St, Julian, of CUicia, Uartyr, 

C.S03. 
St. Finian, lumdnwd Lobbu, 

<aT dke Lepai), *f InLmtd, 

6lh Century. 

living a bad prectcteot lo poMeriiy, llw I 
uelvet to miintaln llw ncU of iny per* 
at be toBntbcrA to itler lilfi condacl. 



BtaOn. 



Claudiui Nerv Tiberius, A.J). 

ValentinianlII.(Empen>T), «- 
laainated, 455. 

Alei. III. (o/ Scotl.'), h. 1286. 

John Bouicbier, Lord Bemen, 
1532, d. CutaU. 

Richard Burbadge, 1619. bu- 
ried, Shirrtditch, 

Francis, Lord Cullen, 1726. 

John Dussault, 1799. d. Pom. 

Dr. Wm, Thomson. 1817, ■ 
KauingUm. 

O, there ate playen, that I 
have seen play, and heard othen 
praise, and that highly, — not lo 
speak il prolansly, that neither 
having the accent, nor Ae gait 
of Christian, Pagan, or Turk, 
have to strutted and belkiwad, 
that I have thou^t some of 
nature's jouroeymen had made 
men, and not made them well, 
tiiey imitated humuiity so abo- 
minably. — I hope we haT« n- 
ibtmed this indiKnully with as. 
— O, refoRD it allegetber. 

Hmlet mud the Plagen. 



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0,uWeiulqs«Bl miul, tHvIn, 

DiaotreT of ili« nnc, und iniokled cirt, 

Wuidtrinf bj nk^tr r^tAeiag In the field 

O'er blnhi pmldlug, ud Ihyaelf a mild I 

A itriani (twin, Cydoiilia power, li Mm 

GlT« eirOi ■ itore of bHUeoni frnllg Id b 

Send goitle petet, nd beritk wMi mftiM htir. 



«CU^ 

It mi lifoni the tizuenth of Nisau, fte Sabbtth, ditt ^^^dtjs were 
to be let^oDed onto the feast ef FaaeeoMt ; ts a man, observe* Maimo- 
mdcB, eipecfiiighisbetlttidmoM fiu&fiil friend at an appoinled time, U 
tLccuHtomed to number the days aikd honre until hiaarriTlJ. — SeeStk May. 
llieHsniiehia, an AtheiuBnfeMiTal,inlioiKiurof Diana, eoanroamed, 
whose temple alood in the Muojcliia, a port of Pineu, wb« celebrated 
apon the siileenUiof the month MuDjchion. The oMuiDiii were smalt 
cAxa, ctHed amphiphmtit, because Ihej were probably gland and of a 
nrand ihape, emblematieal of the fuU moon, when (hey yreie offered. — 
Atiieni is token npoo tbk da; by Ljiaiuler, and the tyranny commences 
ofthe thirtf, B.C. 404.— The Jews at Zorfc are iawlesslj massacred by 
Ae citizens, fix ibxxr weaMi, A. D. 1 190. 

Sir Francis Drake is enteitaioed by the King of Java, on his passage 
nmnd the woiU, tlie Wednesday of Midtent, 1580. " Leaiing Javs 
March 26th they sdled homewards by the Cape of Good Hope, w 
they saw on Jatte the 6th ; and on the 15th of August passed the tro- 
pe ; and on Sie 3(Ui of September arrived at Pljmonth, where they 
found ttat, b; passing through so many different dimatis, they had lost 
a day in dieir aeconnt of time, it being Sunday by their journal, but 
Monday by the general computation. Id this haiaidoas voyage, they 
' spent two yean, ten monthi, and book odd da^ ; but were recom- 
pensed for their Inls by great ticbM, and die oturersal applause of their 
countrymen. Drake afterwards brought his ship ap to Deptfbrd, where 
Queen Kiiabelh Tinted him on bosid, and eoniened the honour of knight- 

1 upon faiiD ; tm honour, in diat illusbious ruga, not made cheap by 
pnnthntian, nor eren bestowed without uncommon merit." It was cos- 
tomary afterwards for cirenmBBrigalors to start with the loss of a day. 

lustaTDs III. of Sweden, is assassinated by the hand of Ankecstiom, 
n92.-~S«29th March. 

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Utttft*. 

Francis Albani, IS7B, BoUigna. 
David AaciUoD, 1617, Me(i. 
John Maifc le Nattier, 1686. 
Dr. PeUi Templeman, 1711, 

Dorcliater, 
Sunnel Palerson, 1728,I.<>nd0n. 
Caraten Niebubt, 1733, Wat 

LiuUngvarlfi. 

Observe that you o'ei-Elepnot 
the modestj of nature : for any 
thing so overdone is from the 
purpose of playing, vrhoie end, 
both at the first, and now, was, 
IS, to hold, sd 'Ivere the 
r up to nature : to show 
s her own feature, sconi 
her own image, and the very age 
and body of the time, tiis form 
and pressure. — Hamlet. 

OlitS efthe Latin Chvrch. 
Many Mar^ at AUx. in 392. 
St. Patrick, Apostle of Ireland, 

d. Saul-Abbey, c. 464. 
jl. Joseph of Arimathea, the 

FattOQ of Clastonbiuy. 
St. Gertrude Virgin, Abbot in 

Brabant, d. 669. 



Cneius Pompeius, B. C. 45. 

killed. Mvnda. 
Labienus, B. C. 45. ft. Munda. 
Attiut Vans, B. C. 45. kilUd, 

Marcus Aurelius Aatoninus, 

A. D. leO. d. Strmium. 
St. WLlhburge ofDtrtham, 743. 
Diego Esquivel Alava, 1563. 
Aleum. Ales, 1565. d. Leipiie, 
William Eail of Pembrolu, 

1570. Si. Faul-i. 
Thomas Randolph, 1634. Bla-, 

thiraick. 
Philip Massinger, 1640. St. 

Saviwr'l. 
Angustin Lubin, 1695.d. Parit. 
Bishop (Gilbeil) Burnet, 1715. 

St. James'i. Clerkenwttl. 
Bp. (Samuel) Bradford, 1731. 
John Baptist Rousseau, 1741. 

d. Bniseli. 
Denis Rivard, 1746. d. Niuf- 

Geo. Earl of Macclesfield, 1764. 
Dau. Bemouilli, 1783.d.Biuti. 
Dr. WUIiam Rowley, 1806. St. 
na'i-chaptl. 



md nmrlih in their Utile 

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The LiBEaALi:t, a Latia festival, dedicated to Bacchus. Then the 
RomaQ youth were accixsU^med to assutne the toga virilis, and slaves en- 
joyed the brief freedom ofa day. TuUy, writing to Atticua, from l.aodicea, 
n February: " My two little Ciceroi lave aoe anotiier; they pursue the 
ame studies, and the same exercises ; but, as Iioctates said of Ephonis 
and Theopompus, the one reqnirea a bridle, the other a spur. I intend 
to give Quintus [his nephew] the manij ™i«, on tkeftait of Bacthas 
his father's request ; but I shall observe that festival without any iui 
calalibus." As the sun entered Aria upon the following day, accoidiug 
to Ibe Julian calendarj this holiday was connecled, it would se 

ion of the tropical year. The ancient feast called Agonia, 
they kept on this diy — the aacrifica wa» a ram. — Ponipey abandons 
Italy, and takes the sea, with his legions, at Bruudusium, B. C. 49. It 
IS DpoD the sBine day, B. C. 45, that the battle was fought under the 
walls of MumJii, in Granada, which decided the fate of the Ramau Re- 
public. The word of the younger Pompey was Fielaa; and perhaps it 
niasenliment, aswell aslo the strength of hia cauae. 
that the CsBsar had reason to exclaim, " In his other battles he fought 
for victory, in this for his life : " or, as Florus £iiely observes, *' ut ptune 
viderttUT Ttetcio quid dtliberari Fottvna." — A large spot is noticed upon 
the sun's disk for eight days, 807. 

The Dukedom of Cornwall is instituted by charter ; to hold to Edward, 
Prince of Wales, and his heirs. Kings of England, and to their first- 
— This was upon £l. Patrick'/ day, a high festival in 



the Catholic church, hut more particularly id Old Inland, i 



generous 



pupil, and the principal seat of the lutelar's charitable deeds. 

The itomilfr lerminales, Saturday, 1752. — " I shall never envy the ho- 
nours which wit and learning obtain in auj other cause, if I can be ni 
beted among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence 
to truth." Johnson lost his wife IheTuesday following : the moraliat'i 
labours were probably concluded by tlie expectation of that event. 

The Queen Charlotte, of 110 guna, is destroyed by an eiplDsion, ol 
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ShiJI prMe ■ hup of tealptiiRd nvble nit. 



IhSUniet— Oarrtel. 



rill only tell you ; it ii Ibe 

jxaeder tbaX ftiade Vesoi > god- 
dess, that kept her perpetually 
youi^, clear'd her wrinklei. 
finn'd her gums, fill'diiec ikin, 
colouT'd hei bail ; from hei 
derired to Helen, and at tbt 
sack of Troy unfortunately lo«t . 
till now, as happily recoveied 
by a studious antiquary, oat of 
some niius of Alia. — Vtipont. 

tSitit of tht Latin Church. 

St, Aleiander, Buhop of Jmt- 
taUm, Martyr, 251. 

St. Cyril, irchbiihop of Jtrv- 
talem, i. 3B6. 

St. Fridian (or Frigidiao, aJias 
Erigdian) Bp. ofLacca ,d. 578 . 

St. Edward, King of England and 
martyr, 079. Hcwiattahbed 
at Cmfe Castle, bxriii 
ITareAam, and TaBmed 
Shaftabury or to AUngion. 
(Sm Ey-glijA Church Calend.) 

St. Ansel m, Bp.o/'Lucca.d.: 



HoDodDi III. (Pope), 1327. 
John IV. («^Itturia). 1S80. 
Kahap (Patiick) F«b«i, 1635. 

Aherita. 
Jolm Lowin, 1659. hin*d, St. 

Bonaieuture Banni.l 696.R«im. 
GeoraB Stanhope, 1728. 



Sir Robert Walpole (Eurl of 

Orford), 1746. Houghton in 

the D»tt. 
I^awrance Sterue, 1768. 

G«rg.:. 
Abiw Bobatt Janus Tnrgot, 

1781. 
John HomeTooke , 1 8 12. Eolii^ . 

The ancient obserratioQ is 
true, that a child bom in the 
seventh month commoDly does 
well; but bom in the eighth 
month generally dies. For 
where there is so great an 
cipation of the ordinary 
this leems owing to the strength 
of the child, but when the and- 

position of the mother. — Baam, 






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VKryln^ her pUcf: kod fa 



acta. 



U Iter prey.— 7^ Harlat. 



The iDtervUir betweea Cicerv and Ihe voluptuous Clenpatra took pUct 

about the prexnt iaj. Id ths gardsni of Ctesar on tbe Tiber, with whom 

she iia» living at the mament of bis death. Ths object of thia lingvlai 

meetiiig was \3k acknowledgmoit of iier Bon.(by Juliui Csaai) u King 

of Egypt, which the orator, no douht, pronuied to u« his iuflaence to 

efiect ; but in return for this obligation he was to receive hooka of gram- 

aoa and piobablj statuei from the Atexandrian libnuy to embellish 

hU owD. The leaBh ^ijieais from a letter addressed to Atticus ■■ 

e the QuMn tf Egypt. The favours she promised me, were such I 

^ not be ashamed of, thougb thej were proclaimed from the rostrum ; 

they were only toch as befitted a man of learning and became my dig- 

ly. The kaugktiaeH tf tin Qiuen when iht vol at Ikt gardtTta, I tuver 

n rt/itct upon without Urrngfitlaig and rnmlmait." Cicero now 

Eirea from Bonte to his Tiae^lamim, and composes, as tbe means c 

amn^Dg his Borrows, the treatises on Old Age, on FntmUhip, and o 

Ftu, beaidei a hiitoty of the time, called his Anecdatt, which, to tb 

grief of all tbe lovers tf the abarp style of thia great man, has pmshed. 

The fiiit mayoiaity of Sir Richard Whittington eipues, 1398. 

Lady Mary Wobtlev Montagu, inoculates, at Belgrade, her infant 

son, as an eiperimenial preservative agajost the smallpox, (Tuesday) 

1718 — this disease first made its appeanuice at Mecca, where it is stated 

to bave destroyed the invading Ethiopian army, aad thus terminated, 

in 360, what i* dengnated The War af the Elephant. Inoculation was 

tried in England, npon criminals, with complete success, about nine 

ftt-n i^er, in 1727. If Egypt had an hU, we have a Moalagu. 

The AmericiB atamp-act is repealed by an act of parliament, 1766. 

Tlie baHle of Landen in Bratumt, when Dumouiiez is repulsed end 

rented by the Prince of Saxe-Coburg, and tbe Austrian Nelbertands are 

recoveted, 1793. Tbe Rusdan troops enter Hamburg, 1813. 



the K<Me ud 



itb, delight ol 
ibnud; they gladden iu ■( 



roiperily. 



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y or my lUt, and mj kiogdoni 
Lh; Is rti%n : by eiqnlille mctb 
Ml Bm Id MUrw Ikt runn-ili of 



Vfrtifl. 



John le Clerc, 1657, Gmtm. 

John Aslnic, 1684, Sauvt. 
Charin Ubnia, 1739, St. Sau- 
twur Laudttin. 



There is in some places, 
ticularlj in Cephalenia, a 
shrub called holly-Dak 
dwarf-oak ; upon the leaves 
whereof rises a tumour 1: 
blister ; which tliej' gather, and 
lit of it a certain red dust, 
urns to wonziB : these the; 
kill with wine, when thej begin 
to quicken ; and wiUi this dust 
they dje scarlet. — Bacon. 



tdliti of the Latin Church. 
St. Joseph, died (before the 

marrit^ at Caaa), let Cent. 
St.Alcmund^Dngland, Martyr, 
819. 



Btatit. 



Alex. Sevens, mur. A. D. 235. 
St. Plato, (Abbot), 813. Mount 

Olgmjmi, 
Cunftavr Peter Colon, 1636. 
Spencer Compton, Earl of North- 

unplon, 1643. kUUd, Haptim- 

Healh. 
Bp. (Thos.) Ken, 1711. Ffmne. 
Clement 11, (Pope), 1721. 
Nicholas Hawkamoor, IT36. 
Cffiuir Verdier, 1759. d. Porij. 
Sir Hugh Palliser, 1786. d. 

Creenivick Hoipital, 
Francis jDsephDesbillons,178B. 
Step. Stoiace, 1 796. d. Ijmdcn. 
Dr. P. Hajes, 1797. St. FaaV,. 
Richard Arden, Loid Alranley, 

1804. d. Wtstmimter. 



Senecia waaamsnof a turbid 
I ; he would bate no servants, 
but huge, massy fellows : he 
kept a concubine that wai a 
veiy giantess, and made her 
walk in chioppins ; till at last 
be acquired the eogtumrtiiuiii 
of Senecio Grandio. — Semca. 



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94*. 



The Sekaebmltlrtt: 



The QciNaDATRiA wen I^mui feiliTali dedicated to Mii(erv>, pk- 
eu of the manth, which c^DtiDUCf^ fo'.five ia.jt : Ibe first it>u iMft 
ucred u her birih-dtiy, the rail were devotfd to glailiatiuUl ei^erciaea. 
11 one of IhjB mcwt pleasing of the LatiD hoUdayE, for tb«n, tbe ichool- 
boja preseuled gift*, called min<nial, to their tutors, from a belief that 
. the goddm wu the invenlnss of letlen and numbeia (her or^ is 
Phceaician), sod bloodless oblalioaB were, ofiered for the prolectioii of 
leaniiag. Au^stna writes to his daughter upon this fetliial : " I have 
. sent you b>o hundred and Gtiy dienarii, which I gave to eiery one of my 
: gaeata ; in caae they were inclined al aufpei to divert thetnaelves at the 
garne of men or add." Ovid received his iHrth apoii the mmd day. 

The first eclipse of the moon upon record (by Ptolemy), B. G. T2I. 
■ The hiaiory of tlerodotui tefminaieB with the aiege of Seslot, B. C. 
47ft. 

ehaalea Uartel Burprises utd defeats Chilperic at JnfcnuH, A. D.717. 
The complaint against Lord Bacon fw cDtruplion b drawn up by 
Sir £iJ«ianl OAt, and othem, of- the €oroinoiis, and piMWied lo the 
Heusa of Lonh, this day, 1«31 ; the chaDceHor was nek, bat vUrea^ 
skHer to hia peenthro«^ themedhun of Budlngjiais, not to prejudge 
his cue fo>Bi " any mumliet of potions a^unat a judge Uiat makes two 
tJiouaamd decrees and orden in a year ; but that he may aauner them 
aceonUng to the rales of justice, .seveiallj aad ra^ieclively." — Pope's 
tinkliog onehariMble hyperbola ihi taken from Swifts " meaB and great 
Figures." Tilt Lard Oionalfer BMcon ohm fw mat comikted-ef brUiry. 
¥«t Swift could diuingniBh vaty mU Uaehianel fana the tnioUer ; a 
Jlof jostice li<HD adaoof Sieves) bisoanlimeaGran tho^of Qoeen 
Eliiabedi i — The giea) lumiiwu* zMtva appt^m- o^aa all the. west of 
Eurape, 1719: at. Maitia's church i( (ouiided by Gibba, 1781 : Charles 
IV. 'iwH— la. ttu Spaiush. duoM 1Q09, dte same 'day that the const^- 
tioo-ef-theOodaa waaugnedaad pi»ol«im<d ial&l,3> 



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Sirt|«. 

. PubliuB Ovidiua (Naso), B. C. 

43, Suinto. 

Bp.(Tho8.)Morton. 1564, York. 

Kapalcim, Ihike of Reichitadt, 

1811.] 

Faliuff. Whit,_U the old 
kiiigde«d1 — Piitol. Ai nail 
door : the thioga I ipeak >r« 
—Bantotph. O jojful day. 
— FnUlaff. Away; suUle my 
bone. Master Robert Shallow, 
chooie what office thou will 
in the land, 'lis thine,— Pistol, 
1 will double charge thee 
with dignities. Cany Maatei 
ffilence to bed. Get on ihy 
booU, Maiter Shalbw; we'll 
ride all night i O, Bw«et Pistol ; 
away, Bardolph ; boot, boot, 
Mutei Shallow. 

King Henry I V, 

tffibll* tf tkt Latin Omrch. 
St£uthlMrt[a prince mireland,] 

fip. of LiWiifanu, d. 687. 
St. WoUru, Abp. of Seni, d. 



BrattM. 

Publiui Gallieniu, (Emperor), 

A'.D.26e.aiiauimital, Milan. 
Henry IV. (o/ EagloKl), 1413. 

Canltrbury, 
Baptist Spagnoli, 1516. 
ErueU Duke of Luntbarg, 1611. 
John Kirchman, 1643. d. Im- 

btck. 
Geoige Digby, Earl of Bristol, 

1677. ChtUea. 
Bishop (Samuel) Parker, 16B7. 

Oif</rd. 

Sir Isaac Newton, 1727. Abbes- 
Adrienne la Couvreur, 1730. 
Pet«r Bnrman, the Eider, 1741. 
Frederick, Prince of Wales, 

17S1. d. l^ieattr Heute. 
Firmin Abauiit, 1767. Gtnnia. 
Wm. Murraj', Earl of Ml 

field, 1793. Abbey. 

The motioD of the comets 
about the auu is in a very long 
ilender oval ; whereof oat 
the focuses is the centre of the 
and the other ceiy. much 
heyond the sphere of Saturn. 
Locke. 



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ADdtothe world'il 



Pnler ilw btunekH bennluiFl— FTortflh 
fletfl. 

The copy of the Gospel of St. Jobn buried with St Cuthbert, vu, 
inring Ihe lul ceotuiy, in the pouenioa of the dun Earl of litcbfield. 
The baanB Jrdin Talbot it cnated Ead of Stmwibuiy, 1443. 
C^)taiD'jDhii While Kaib fam Flynwnlh upon hii fifth voyige to iha 
West Indict, with the Hopewell, Jobn EvaogellBt, and tbe ijttle John, 
1590. The 34th of June they look a luge Spaniih tkip, with hides 
and ginger on board, which did not prove *o valuable a prin aiAey ex- 
pected, heaSM a Fnnth mu o^ivar had plutider*d4ht vui bt/on. 

" In faranr to my eye* (laya PepfS, io I66T,) I stayed at home 
raadiag the ndicnloni Hiltory of my I.oTd Newcastle, wrote by hie 
wife ; which ihowa her to be a msjl, coacdied, ridicalouB woman, and 
be an an to nSer her to write what Bbe does about him." Again ; 
vhole ilery of Oua lady k a romance, and all she does is romantic. 
a the otbsi day at ber own play ' The Hununvui Xowri,' the 
moat ridknloiu thing that erer was wrote, but yet she and ber lord 
mightily pleased with it : and at the end she sent her retpecU from her 
boi to the playen, and gave them thanks." 

Johoion writes lo Thomas Waiton, 175S ; " After I received my 
IMiJoma, [dated 30th F^niarj] 1 wrote you a letter of dianki, with a 
letter to the Tice-Chaneeilor, and sent another to Mr. Wise : bat have 
baaid from nobody ndm, and begin to tbink. myself forgotten. Dear 
Hr. Wailon, let me hear finm you, and tell me something, I cue not 
what, M I bearit bntfrom you : I hope to see my Dlctionaiy bound and 
lettered next week ; tuitd malt mperbtu. And I have a great mind lo 
le to Oxford at Easter ; but you will not invite me. Shalllcome 
aninvited, or stay here where nobody would nues me if I went t a hard 
choice 1 bat such it the world to me." — The Docttr was now preparing 
to open a Bibluithequt, or Gazette ) bis friend Dr. Adams tecom- 
. mended Ma^ as an asustant, "'He, (said Johnaon), the little black 
! I'd Ihnw him into the Thames."— The " BtoMir" commences, 
1760. 

If liue patnit, aiHl uBdoir wiD iiHDd, 

Stat niMketiDi IbcH tmtft niy lraa.—MtUB (o AvUgr. 



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OtiHnfit dM 4v. iMimfcNib 

V%,llft IIU Ih* ■taov'r IM DM 



Umi; Kiita W]>i% 17W, 

I coDJara fou. my deantt 
beut,. bjr all thoie gracei that 
halli giieo jou, that you 
iie yoai patience in this 
great aod itrange trial. If 
htnn cawe to you, then I an 
dead indeed ; and antil then I 
Ihe in yon, who are truly 
the belt part of n^nelf. 

Eorl of Dtrby. 

litteftlmLiitwiCiamih. 

St. BerapoD, (eatltd the Sindo- 
nile), d. E^pt, c. 38B. 

Sl.9en[nini(theKhohutic),Bp. 
in Egypt, 4th Century. 
I. SerajMon, Abbot, 

si Benedict (or Bennet) AUat 
«/■ Jfounf Cnirino, PatriaKh 
ot&e WeiteniMoiiki.d. 043. 
(5m RtglUh-Chareh Caind.^ 
. Eana (or Endent), .dU^t 
in Irdand, 6lh Century. 



Aiclitabop<TtwnM)a«on«. 
Petal EiMM. Cwiat d« H*m- 

FrHKu Ewl of Wcxmoiakiia, 

Thoo CanpuaUt, 163V> Pwul 
AnUNahap (JwM) Uiker> 
1«GA. JMiS. 



ot Derby, 16».0n»Ur4.. 
N. Highmon, lCM.d,Sb«rianM. 
JMMaDoiiieaUii. XHA-^ant. 
Bd. Dawec, ns& d. HmwrcV 
Janet. NiobolH Ballw, 1773. 

Ceiwd Ed.I>e)]vnL ««. 1803. 
Dntw d'En^w, 1S(H. lAM. 

UKhMl:Qi;yw,]SSl. 

Men of real leiue and under- 
itanding pnfer a pmdent me- 
diociity to a precarioui popu- 
larity ; and, feutng to outdo 
(heir duty, leave it half ondOBc. 



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el wUh fHkde fale»'* 



iHrf. 

Tre Sprihq Eodinox. It fell correctlj upon this nommal Sa; in die 
yen of our Lard, 335, the period when the firtt^^enl Cooacil was held 
at Nice in Ana. In IiiS2, howevw, the uihual eiceta of elerSn 
BuM had braugfal the Julian jev ten Amy* beyoad ibEr«quiiioxM, 
which b; Ike T«gulatk>Q of Pope Gregory >i>«i« thea-emiitad fnim the 
papal odendar,Biiddiat scale of iotercalatioD he introdaoad (toe([n>Kie 
for ever the civil with the natuml year,) 'Which, in 17IU1, nyt taidilj 
adqiled1]j the Eaglish itate. Id the enactmentof 1751, farTeiMvating; 
tlie Britidi calendar, it ii declared, bj the tablw, that Eastbr-Dav, 
uhit^-llu rat of tb mnwoU* 'feaiti and holy-daya depend, it oiicaifi the 
fitat Sundcg after the FuU Moon uihich happeni upon <rr mil after the 
twenty^finl dmg 'iif March; and that if the Full itfwn kafipetli upon 
a Samtaii, EaiUr-DM/ u dig Sunday iifier. Xhii rule ii lU canbrmh; 
to the decree af the conBoil of Ni«; hut-ai the method fat coiqputiDg 
the Fall Moent^aad bj4he lAunh of England had became by procew 
of time to be entmeoiu, diitinct tables were thanframed, and >u((li- 
Inted in our Boek of Camman Prayer. — See-2nd StfteTaba: 

The new Epoch and lacred year of the Jews ii eitaUiahed by divine 
command, conesponding irith llie Sat day of AbA (Nisati), the day ■ 
or'Fhai«cdi'*4»etthraw, B.C. 1491.— 5h 21ii September. 

A remukable adipee uf the eun is observed in England, which 4;Miied 
a total darkiMU, 1140. A hiuing detonUing meteor pMnU «ver Italy 
on &« aama d^, two hours after sunset, 1676. Its appaiant diameter 
was greater than- tbalof the moiHi: ita leal diameter about three quarlen 
of a mile ; and the veloci^ was caleulated at one hundied and sixty 
miles in a miiiule ef time. 

The general peace is proclaimed, 1763, Aberorombie's victory « 
Aleuadiia, 1801. Napcdaon takes. possevnoa of Paris, and is joined 
the Bcit day by-Uanhal Ney, IBIS. An earthqm^e in Spain, 1839. 

TUe wweotb wostb, Gentinal, >of the French ftepuUican Calendar 
began ; abewt the time. that ^he sun enters the sign Ariti. 



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hul lu bcfliulBt! 



D.S. 


vmt. 


mm*. 


XI. 


Hcmy da Bnochunp, Dak* 


TfaomM, Earl of Lanculer. 


Cal. 
22. 


of Wmrick, 1424, Himks 


13!», bttuaded. PoRM/fUt. 


Cutb. 


Thomai, Dnke of Claieace, 




Jghn ElUi, 1696, Si. CUnunt 


l«il,)dlUd.BBniJi. 




Dmw. 


ChMjxi (rf Abgiri^). kUUd. 






1669. 






AnneCliffMd, ConnlMtof Pem- 
broke. Iff76. i. Brmgh^. 




'BehoW, in thi. jonog gen. 


John Bap^t Lnlly, 1687. 




ttoniM. the eighth wonaer of Ibe 


ChaifeiBwtie, 1711. U#«ff™. 




world r Then tomtog to me, 


Matthew Hobert, 1717. P™. 




uid throwing Ml irau about my 


Jonathan Edwtrdi, 176B. V» 




neck, •rorgi«<criedhOmy 


/m«,. 




tnuiiporia! I cwnot contain 


John CentOT. 1772. 




the joy that your piennee cr«- 






atefc'— OiJ Btu. 








Having eaten and drank hU 
belly full, he accaK«l me in 




«ttta nf J*« Lotm Ciurcft. 


theKwordt: ' Signor Oil Blai, 




St. Paul, B(.li*p-./ IforfcmiM, 


I am loo well tatiafied with 




3d Centa^. 


your good cheer to leate yon, 




St. Baul, of Am^ra, 'Martyr, 


without oAring an adrice. for 




363. 


whicb yon hare great oecanoo : 




St. Lea. TfiJ™ of H»w, d. 3B4. 






at. Deogratiai, BiAcf <f Car- 


and be upon your guard agaiut 




thagi. d. 467. 


everybody you do, not know.' 




St. Ckdurine, of Sw^On. V. 


-8o«ymg.helaugb«linmr 




Abben, I3B1. 


fi»t, and (talked away. 



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fnm Ginnel'i tlmond-iiHded ite«p 

Wc f«l Uh chceiiag Otpma: canp : 

O'er EnfMlill'i (hnibf or bila 

Wh» tht dmIr-ElnpBrpIcd pillB.— TAf OihbA. 



arts. 



The Gfib Sunday in Lent, and the lecoiid before Eu(er-(Uy, — 5m 6tlk 
April. It ii railed Cart Sunday in Mune puti of England, and by the 
Lulu church, Piunim Sondny ; but Ibnt ucred title refers to Pain Sud- 
day in our rafonned Caleudir, conintcntly with the inspirad uuntive. 
ThLi ii the earlieat day upon which Euter cm powibly fall, accoiding 
to the' Nicene canon ; Ae loweat ii Ibe 2Sth of April. 

Theodcnini d^rada Antioch, the metrapolii of the But, from the 
rank'of a city, and luljecti it to the innidictiati of Laodicea, 3ST. The 
ledition, which was the canie of thii temporary act of lemi^, a de- 
■cribed by the tro local onton, Chrysonom and Libaniut. 

The order of KnighdTemplan is lujqirened by a papal decree, 1313. 

Sir Walter Ralrigb, with two sail, arrives this day, 150S, at Punta 
de Gallo, ia the Island of Trinidad, where he hnnu the eiqr of San 
Joeepb; and takes the Ooremlir Don Antonio de Barren, a prisoner, in 
revenge for his having in 1694, betrayed and shot eight of Captain 
Whiddon's rnen, " after he had- given hia'word, that they ahotald take 
watei and wood safely." Be then proceeded to the Oroooco, and 
entered one of its moutlu the 33d of May. " 1 know alt (he earth doth 
not ^Id the like confluence of itieams and branches, the one ciosting 
Ibe other to many times, and all so fur and large, and so like one to 
another, u no man can tell which to take ; and if we went by the sun, 
or coDipass, hoping thereby to go directly one way or other, yet that way 
we were also carried in a circle amongst mulUtndes of islands, and 
every island so bordered wilh higbtrees, al no man could see any fur- 
ther than the breadth of Lhe river,or length of the reach." — The battle of 
tltmjf, io Anjou, (E^ler-eve) 1431 ; Nevrark c^lulate* under the 
anna of Prince Rupert, 1644 : Potto Bello sunenders to Admiral Ver- 
non, 1740. Lord Caitlereaghintroduceia bill forthe renewal of the East 
India Company's Chailsr for twen^ years, IB 13 : — that period ejqnreB the 
lOikiif April, 183*. TheSpringfairatFrBnckfoTtiaheldon.CarwSun- 
day. It continueB for fourteen days, or two weeks ; the first of which is 
called the week of acceptance, and the second the week of payment. 



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Tha Jrtlj i«t am ntiirf^iM Isaftt, 

H( brtnii thi Rabboni aiidcnuth hb niti, 
Diunu the loTir of fate hl^ dJMlalii, 





iMd^mUUmmftUMMi 


(o tbi Mr MtHm—TOaOat. 


D^ 


mtmt- 


miH. 


X. 


CtnfVB VitriDga, <;Hy«uvfr„ 


iobn d. Brioio., (E»p™), 


Cil. 
33. 


iwa. 


1237. 


Petal Simoa Laplaoe, lltf. 


JuUdI m. (Pqie) ia66. 






Jiobu Lijwba, 1606. Lmwtn. 







Jabii Btftiit Duboi, 1742. d. 




Fein on netnog i1m monu- 


Pari,. 




minil of RiflbJiM. ngudlwof 


Df. Kobeil'Jimei, 1776. 




the beuliei or tb leulpture,, 






which ie • mwtn-pMce of id 


Pftul (of RuDi), 1801. itm- 




kiad, ud adadriDg bdIj Ibe 


,W, Prt*™*-,^. 




imagt of ■ miDHler who had 


Thom» Hokroft. 1809. 




iMond to Jruce IW glaty 


Princeu Augoltl fB/- Br««- 




which riu h>d laM, he ew-i 


«KfcJ, 1813. 




laaaA it iriUt raptnn, enJiuni- 


Angntui Frederick Kotubue, 




inc. "GiMt ninl I woald. 




h«M bMlowad ane half of mj 


Auelm Weber, 1821. 




•M^ OB thee, to b^ve tau^t, 






■w* te.Banra the other." 






r«itaira. , 


Yon wonder, with gioA rea- 






lOD, that the hedge-.puTow can 




0UtK^th,UtinChuTtk. 


be in^aced at all to (it on the 






e^ of the auliM without being; 




iMl«rtlt.r«l.l.,484. 


•caadaliied at iti >ul diipropor- 
tioned *i.e ; -bat the hrute cr«a- 




SL Edahnld, Y E'v''^ ^• 


tioD, I tuppoee, have reij liule 




6BB. 


idea of liie, colour, oi numbei. 




fil. Al^Bni TuiUu, ;(«*. 


WhiU ^'StOmnt. 




Mfa(>^£i.^.d.i«)6. 





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XXin. MAflGH. 



AjHl nnmnrfinontttycKplita.— Init £Mpli>« ^ IhJam. 

The TubiloMriwm ^onclpded the qoinquaiiiiiv nhin tbe tninp^Ii and 
oihei musical iiitGniitiehti Dud In the TeUgtotn ritra n 

ne *u a 'teeond Mm oT Ais mom k^ im flK-tUdtrfiHay. Tbey 

'e probably an maliHitHMi of Kemilue, and.eoimecied with the cete> : 

brabOQ of -(be liUtm wd c;clei of the state. Ovid, that "fine wtg," as : 

ax filiiabeA hafjpiljr ducribed hitn, iteliiU fbor cianoua teuons : 
why thh 'prioee ooOipMMd his calendai of only ten monthK. — 1. BecauEO ' 

binds bare ten fisgen. 2. The cardinal mmben leTminate with ; 
the tenth digit. 3. Tbn luoar monthi is ibe mo&Id sllotted by-malnre to ' 
nuAe up the iafantr^'Of Man ; and 4. the widows moani<d the aame 
■pace ef time <gi Ibe 'liMs of thnr husbands ; indeed it wiks contedeied • 
in/onoui to Ihraw off the veil before. Climate, six and twenlp c 
tnriea ago, we find had littla to do with virtue t 

eMeace of-inMnliftis proaaunced liy the Bishops of London, Ely, | 
and Worcester, against the dominions of King John, 1203. 

Pope writes to Dr. Swift, 1738: " Mr. Oay'i operalias been acted neai 
An^ days rntmieg, and Will osrtainly conUnue the whole season. Eiiall nt 

of us live as we wonld wish each other to liveT Shall he have n< 
aant^ , yo« bo MttlBnMnt -on this aide, and 1 no prospect of getting to ; 
OD the ethiStt This world is made for Cssar, as Cato aud.~ i 
Respecting thtose BClibblen for whom you apprehend 1 would suppress . 
my Dulntn, (which bj the way, for tiie future, you are to call by a \ 

e pompom name, TIte Dtmciad,') how much (hat nest of hometa ai 
rojTCgard, wyt eam^ appear to yon wheii ytm read Iha TieBtise of the 
BatiioB. As'the«)llwbiiigtiie'to*Bof'rahi^leiDenislheh^;riest end 
I koowof <Ms life, 'wtfaetWMfelidly is to get riti Of fe ' 

Hm, whose incapaci^ is not-gieater than their insincvity. 1%is poem 
will lid me of these insecti."— 'It did, inaUttU timt,'tffivtimU'fiil 



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Mahoioet II. 1430. Adriam^U, 
George Agricola, 1494, Glau- 

ehau. 
E^lhud Labin, 1656, M'attr- 

lUd. 
Joaeph de Aguirra, 1630,Sj)ain. 
Heniy Benetiict Stmirt, 1725, 



Chief Justice PophBin, when 
he trai Speaker, md the House 
of Commoas had ut long and 
dooe, iu effect, nothiug. coining 
one day to Queen Eliiabelb, the 
said lo him , ' Kvu, Mr. Spfoker, 
mhat kalh paued in tht CamnioHi' 
HaaitV — He answered, ' Jf it 
pUai€ your Majetlg, tevtn \otila.' 
Apophthegms. 

®bft> of Ihe Latin Churdi. 
t. Ireoeui, Bp. i^ Simiun, 

Martyr, 304. 
t. William, Martsr.at Nw- 

wicA, (aged 11 yeara), .1137. 
t. Simon, (an lufaat), Afartyr 

o( Trmi, 1472. 



Kthop Mac CaTlin, 606. di«d, 

Clogher. 
31. Catharine of Sweden, 1381. 
Nicholas V. (Pope), 1455. 
Sit James Dyer, \S81. Sioulm. 
Eliiahedi (0/' En^/iml), IG03. 

Wtitmiiitttr Ab'ity, 
Sit Thos. Aston, 1643. Aitm. 
Dr. Jonathan Goddsrd, 1674. 

St. HiUn's. 
John Evelyn, 1699. d. London. 
John PeriT^skiold, 1730. 
X>r. Darnel Whitby. 1726. 
Peter Sabathier, 1742. Rhtimi. 
John Jamea Welatein, 1754. 

Anuterdam^ 
Philip Stanhope, Earl of Cbei- 

lerfield. 1773. 
Stephen Leake, 1773. JTuirp. 
John Harriton, 1776. Haiap- 

J.B.deCloots. jt.i». 1794. 
Charles Ronan, guUl. 1794. 
James Uebert, ^ill. 1794. 
Mary' TLghe, IBIO. d. Ifosd- 

llock, Ireland. 
Thomas KohiusoD, 1813. Lti- 



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A^ 1 ban (i' 

tnlll Boi; vineyi 



rt yards wbleh ya planted not. How, 
ilscnily and Inlk, and pal away 1 
kcr aldt of Ibe toai, and Id Egypt. 



flcte. 

The (weatf-fourdi of Niian u mariied as « fast in the Jews' calendar 

be death of Joshua. Their General ma buried, full of honoiiT, i 
the borders' of his ca^nlal id Monot Ephmim, B. C. 1426. 

: ii attested opou Ibis day by many enl^bteoed as well as grave at 
thorities ia France, that the niece of the celebrated Paical was cured of 

1 inveterate distemper by a loucb of one of the thorsB in the hols " 
1656. This hallooed relic had been pledged in the thirteenth ceolnry 
by the mendidCy of Baldwin II. to a rich Venetian, to be redeemed on 

rtain day, and was translated from Venice to Puis witb great cere- 
raony, upon the payment by St. Louis, of about seven thousand pounds, 
in dischai^ of the debt, and nearly an equal sum lo the Emperor for 
his right of resumption. 

The aoniversaiy of the demise of Queen Elizabeth of gloriouM mtmory. 
She died at her manoi of Richmond, three o'clock in the moniingofTlun- 
dAy, OD tlie last day of the citil year i but according lo the Nob Style, 

he fifth da; of April, 1603—3. We may attribute lo lhi> long and 
vigorons. reign the establiahment of the Protestant Church. 

Evelyn is at Venice, 1646 : " The next day I » 
Ghetta, where the Jews dwell together Bs in a tribe or ward, where I 
was present at a marring;. The bride was clod 
lofty chair, .«nd cov^ed with a white veil ; tiien two old KabbieEJ(Hned 
them together, one of them holding a gioss of nine in his hand, which 
in the midst of the ceremony, pretending lo deliver to the woman, he let 
isll, the breaking whereof was to ugnily the frailty of our nature, and 
that we must expect disasters and crosses amidst all enjoyments. This 
done, we hud > fine banquet, and were brought into the bridechamber, 
where the bed was dressed op witti Bowers, and the coanterpatie strewed 

wks. At this ceremony we saw divers very beautiful PortugueiB 
Jewesses, with whom we had some conversation." 

The painter, Benjamin West, is inaugurated Pmideni of the Royal 
Academy, 1794. 

Tbe knot or Uk wiU and ((fKiii>n li » moch the man 



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Wm Ihil twm«UltT^ KtX M Pi 







miltm. 


P»y- 


Uitlft.. 


ButH 


vm 


Abp. (John) WillUm^ 15B2, 


SirT.Eyol, 1546.6. Cflrtim. 


cal! 






36. 


Bp. (George) Bull, 16M.7V(H.. 


Dr.J.Barkham,1642.B«lwg. 




Sir Rich. Coi, 1650, Bandon. 


Archbishop (John) Williams, 




RapindeThoym. 1661,Ca«™. 


1650. Llamlegay. 




Geneml a'E.I«pnc, 1713, 


Henry Cromwell, 1674. 




BrfW Ib Calltardt. 






Joadhlm Muiat. 1774, ScuHife 








Ellis Faraeworth, 1763. 






WilHam Cuming. 178B. 




Drunken men imat^ne all 


Anna Seward, 1809. Lichjltld. 




turoi rouDd, and that external 


Hn. Btudbasite «ns tw* 




things are coming upon tbem. 


yards touod (he waist, and tar 




They do not well discern objecu 


faes (fafe ptctareor^be fnllstitoa. 




aCu off, and those they Me neai 


Are yon die yMDgwmnaD.Mill 




at hand, they lee out of their 


Ae, Ast an come to nffti^MP- 






selft'I oenr tals any body 




Men are sooner jtunk with small 






draughts than with la^r ; and. 


doyeucomeafl I tlmtidd'ber 




wine sugared ineMatra less than 






pure wine. We hoTO a merry 


airiAM we had beta aafivtiK- 




saying thai drunkaa men beget 






daughters. Baam. 


^ad, 'to OTine to ™«, and hate 






three meats a^y.-Smdh g™- 




t^iiXt iif tht Lattn Church, 


dewoDWBl I am sare we hm-e 




St. Cammin Abbot in Inland 






d. c. 653.' 


Pray.Mrs. GeBl!erfomBn.-lro.^ 




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IUb( mi, ye ciyMil.tpftem, 



•eoCHuTU^ 



artfc 



The Anndhciation. Thii festival, obseived by the whole Cbriitian 
world, ii commenK^tive of the fRcomation e^ Chbibt ; or, b; peii- 
phraaii, the ^nnuneiatiM to tbe VirgiQ Muy of our Saviour's Advent. 
Ill inftlitulion ma; tto conwlly AVgA. sbpnty after the pitUicatiaa at 
Rome of the Faachal Tablat. in the year. 627 of tb« CbnMiaA epoch, 
vhtDh iV lininder, Dion^iuB, th^ monk, commenced frotu hai^ Day, of 
the civil time, and liom Chrwtnuu Day, of tlK hiMorical tiioe,—Stt 25th 
Dianib^, In the age of Bed*, the 6th centuiy, that called the vulgar 
Era began to be generally knpivB Bod used throughout die vrest of £u- 
iqie ) bat diArent ataUa vaiied tbei^ suppntation a> beat aaited theii 
policy, rel^iouB enmitiaa, oi i"yi»«T ifnonnce. 

The IfilEria.weie feaiti of nernment itfl at arcieat Bomav on the 
Eqainoi. »ad devoted Id CiiMc, the Mother of the Goda, ivhase ihiine 
her prieils then purified in the waters of the Almoi It continued for 
several d«yi-—Sn I2ih Afrii. 

In lArd Bnrghlef'a Diary is the folkimng notica of a printer's 
nopoly, 1694 : " A privilege granted la Chedea Yeliwa»t, for printing 
all bODka of the common taw." la &t 3tulHHi|ers' book, Octobw, 1587, 
is an entry of a iieexie to John Cluiilewoode, by the whola conaei 
the auistantg, that he shall have "tbe oofy imprinliag. of all manner of 
biOtfir piageri ; provided that if any trouble arise herd>y> then Charle- 
woodelobear the charges." Again, CikKovembar, 1616: " tbeliber^ 
of ptinti]^ at) bills for/«i«ing wa« granUd ta M^.Pntfboi." 

Evelyn observei, 1649' i " t heard tbe Common Piayai, (a rare thing 
in tbeM times), at 3t. Paul's Wharf .-r-Chaaty schools are fint iutti- 
tnted in London and Westminster, I6BB. The memorable fire in Com- 
hlll, 1748. Chatterton addiesaei Horace Walpole, from Com Street, 
Bristol, inclosing hia first Rowleian manuscript, 1T6£>. — South westerly 
storma, about tl>e equinox, denote a uee summer ; and a showery April, 
between a dry March and a dry May, a healthy summer. 

A iitii mlrei with oniTeriiJ an^aw, »a<i i)k hki day *ait UwMl' ik> nb- 
jcct tl nlUtry, wlllioat luwwln( whil mlgtil become ol Ihe opinLan wkjeb 
hid or hii HfriL The reiHin j^ Ihli, IhU ose nre^ iOdBe* of 01^ by 



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^ei nay nUint tlnid 



VlrtH 

ChuleaI>iilieofMByeniM,16M. 
WiUiun WoUaKoD, 1669, Cut- 

fim CUnfvrd. 
J.WaUoa, nU, Li«t-H,nlts. 

a C&iholic oftfaeCbuich 
of Route, but not of the Court 
of Rome : a true Roinui Ca- 
tholic ai to ihe olber vorld, but 
1 true Englisbman i 
luch > one ai, had ve a King 
inclined Co that professi 
00 the coDtrsry, we b.; 
It DHMi £nn and cooatant to 
le Pruteitant nligiou ibaterer 
Mt upon the 'rhrone)l nould tell 
s fteely as the Duke of 
Snlly told Heniy IV., that if be 
to be a ' king, he must 
in the rellgioii eilablidied 



Dhia 



Eart tf Briitot. 



4&bite <!f the Letin CliuTch. 
St. Biaulia, Biibop of Siira- 

aa, d. 646. 
Sl Ludger, Biilwp of Mututer, 
Apoitle of SaxoDj, d. 809. 



graft*. 

Biihop (Brian) Duppa, 1663. 

Abbiy. 
Sir Winston Chorcbill, 1608. 

St. Monm'i. 
WilUam Courten, 1702. died, 

Kenangtim* 
Sir J.V>nbrugh,1726.d.I<mdM. 
Robert Moil. 1739. Ely. 
GUberl Weat, 1766. WUkhBm. 
Charles Diueau Dados, 1772. 

d. Pom, 
Dr. James HutloD, 1797. 

In the midst of dinner, my 
misEress'i faiourite cat leaped 
into her lap. I heard a noise 
behind me like that of a dozen 
stockiog-neaven at work ; aod 
lumiDg my head I found it pro- 
ceeded from the purring of that 
animal, who seemed lo be tbiee 
times larger than an ox, as I 
computed by the view of her. 
head aod one of her paws. The 
of Ihe creature's con n- 
tenance altogether diKompoaed. 
lut it happened there was 
:ger, for the cat took not 
theleastnoticeofme. — GvUiver. 

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!%«; iMka dIh cto, b 



Chablu I. raoewi th« ptilaiit, granted b; hii bthei, to Beitjann /ofcii- 
wn, 1630. The peniion of one hundred nurb was Kugmenled to pi>uBi£(, 
with the gnce-cup of ' ou tlertt of Canary Spanith wiia,' tobedeliTCRd 
tuuni)tlly from the royal cellan at Whitehall. 

Eretyn notes upon thit day, 1699 : " After an eitraoidtnarr Uonn, 
[here cnaa np the Thamei a whale which wai fif^-ui teetlangt Such, 
■sd a larger of the ipout kind, wu killed there forty year* ago, fJune, 
16S8). That ' ytar died Crana^L" The rererend aali<]naiy prohably 
coniidered ihii a pndigwui omen of the niurpei'a disaolu^n. 

The Regalia of Scotland are depotited at £dlnbui^ Caitle in as 
oaken cheat, ITOT, 

Ad earthquake at Vtnetvela (tittle Veuiee) in South Aunrica upon 
Holy Thunday, 1813. II ia compated that twenty thousand penoni 

ihed in the niina of Ihe towni La Guayra, Cuwccai, Merida, May- 
qneda, and SanfeHpe. 

Lord Cbealerfiald addreiiiei hii aon ; " Doei good company care to 
hare a nan reeling dmnk among them 1 or to see aiuittier tearing bis hair, 
and blasphemii^, for having lost, at play, more than he i* able to pay 1 
whoie-mastei with half a nose, and crippled by c6aiH and inFa- 
moos debauchery t No : those who practise, and much more those who 
bng of them, make no part at good company j and are most unwillingly, 
if ever, admittedintoit. Take waraiag then by them ; chooae your plea- 
snrei for yourself, and do Dot let them be imposed upon you. Follow 
nature, and not fashion ; wugh the present enjoyment against its neces- 
sary cooiequences, and then let your own common sense deteimine. I 

> not meutloiied thepleanuvsofthe mind (which are Ihe solid and per- 
manent ones), because they do not come nuder the head of what people 
commonly call pleasures ; which they seem to confine to the senses. 
The pleasarti of virtue, of charity, and of learning, is true and lasting 

isnie ; with which J hope you will be well and Idng acquainted." 



[ call Ibal ■ compttlt ind gt 



tb pabllc aDd priTBt(, o 



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Jun«i KeUI, 1673, £<l4»u^. 



Fei^af IhefiiiMtaiMl 

lively geaiiM bave th« graateU 
coDSequence the 
moat livsly pasuona ; tht vio- 
kiKe of whLch puts tbeii con- 
duot upon a toeoag viith 4ai 
of fools. Fools discern the 
SW4 which thej havs 
a with thanualves ; but 
seDsible 1^ their eical- 
leof^ics, (o which Ibej. Imw iu 
pretsnuopi ; of coiuie, always 
iaflliDed to difipule the superi' 
ority. 



0bft« a/lfteLslfn Church. 
St. Jol^Q of Egypt, Hermit, 394, 
St. RupeTl,{orHol^rt>Bi,)w(.o/ 

SB.J(ibirg,J18., 



PtoiMiir xin. iof Sstpt). 

B. C. 47, dwH(*(. Afile. 
Ctement !». (Pope), 4. ». 

1191. 
AlphiMi«)II.(o/Ca«iV<)..1360- 

d. Gibraitai, 
Gregory XI. (?op«). 1378, 
John Diai, 154$, nwdnml., 

Theodore de Biye, 1508. d. 

Ma^:aret (^FroiiM), 1613. d. 

James t. (of Englartd), 1625.. 

d. 'Theobalds. 
George Carew, Eail of Totnei, 

1629. Stratford vpon 4vc 
Dr. Tobiis Venner, 1660 

Bath. 
Bp. Edward Slilliagfleet, 1699. 

WBTCeiter. 
Lipoid, Duke of Lorraine, 

1729. d. LtinevitU. 
Maiy Mason, 1767. Britlal. 
Jacab Morean, guilt. 1794. 

A tnvaUiiis pie«otwiv uA « 

VsUiDgWOMtn. HTfiqWRftl^ 
any good al all. — fi^tnf Jamn, 



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JOLIDB CsaxK, upon tbe death of Ptolemy Bacckvi, (hii real title i> 
Extcrablt, to the latest poileri^,) ta^ poueBUOD of Aleiaodria, tnd 
ten tbe Egyptian kingdom, freed from tribute, into the handi of Cleo- 
patra uid hei yoimger brother, — a boy, wham be oblige* her to marry, ii 
obedience to tlw tettamentary wiihei of Ptolemy AuUta, their father, 
B. C. 47. Csur after lhi« judicial act, nordiy of himielf, alloyed 
doubtleas by lome ihadowy viiitingi, amuiei himself for three mo 
witli the cODTettation of (hat (ednctiTe and magnificent priocew, whole 
ioilt finished with the scene we have juil noticed in the Capitol. 

A ftast of tinighthood it celebrated at Siinjni, on Easter Sunday, A.D. 
1334, at which fifteen hundred minstrels and buflbons (ftiHriiHio) as- 
sembled, from all the southern parts of Europe. In the hansehold legu- 
Utioni of Harry VIII. it was a rule that " no herahl, mimtnl, falco- 
lec, or other, do bring to the court any boy, or ratcal : nor keep ladi, 
r rascals in court to do their buuaetB for them." The race of ag 
able vagabonds waa not scatlered until about the ckiie of the liiteenth 
century, when the occupation of chivalry had deputed with the youth 
of those great and gay princes Elizabeth, and Henry of France. 

Bobert Bruce i> crowned at Scone, 1306, ■ day and place which his 
grandson, Robert II. appointed, in 1371, (or lbs same ceremony. Ed- 
ward had canied off the national diadem, so that one was mannfac- 
tared for this occuion, which was placed npon the head of tbe liberator 
of Scotland, by Isabella, Countess of Bachan, the sister of the Earl of 
Fife, a descendant of tbe great and muse-emblued Macduff. 

Henry VI. keeps his Easter at Hertford, 1429, and confirms, by charter, 
the weekly markets, for seven miles round, on pain of loss of goods. 

Captain Caitleton arrivei at the Mourtlitu, and supposing it to hare 
been undiscovered, they name it after their vessel, lAcP«arl Jtlond, 1613. 

Caraccioii, the Viceroy of Sicily, abolishes the Inquiiitiun there, and 
deitraysihe archives, 1783. The peaeeof Jmieiu is rigned, 1802. An 
ruption of Etna, 1809 — Mount Frumento was formed by an indurated 
aan of lava upon the same day in the great eruption of 1669. Tbe 
Zooli^al Society in Bruton Street is incorporated, 1839. 

Egypt, lh« jonng were obU|:td lo riie op tor Ihe ■s»d ; ind on every o 



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vm*. 

Rafaello Saniio Raphael, 1 463, 
Urbino. 
• SiiThoi. Smith, 1514, ITaUni. 
Saint Tbereu, 1615, Avila. 
Richaid Sackville, Eail of Doi- 

set, 1589, CharireuK. 
Wm. CourttD, 1642, Leadm, 
Dr. Andrew Kip^, 1735, JVol- 

Thii JB die band, these are 
the thoDgfati of him who tnt 
beloved by the greatest mini 

~ Dme, — one who could ha»8 
> Leonardo, a Michael 
Angelo, a Tidan, » Corregio, 
\ Pannegiano, an Annibal, a 
RubeDi, but none of them could 
ever have been a HnpAari. 

Rwhariim. 



eibta of tht Lolin Church. 

Sts. Friscns.Malchus.and Alex- 
ander, of Camraa in Pafailine, 
Martyrt, 260. 

St. Siitus, 3d Pope, d. 440. 

St.Gonlraa, KjifBvTgu ndyfi&i. 

Night ii the Hbtulh dT I 



gtatH 

PnbliuB HelviaiFertinai, (£in- 
perur), bounded, A.D. 193. 
St. StefJien, of Citmu, 1134. 
MartiD IV. (Pope), 1285. d. 

Bishop (Wm.) A;rmin, 1337. 

d. Choring'Crots, 
Lord Filzwaller, 1461. kitted. 

Ferrybridge, 
Lord John de CliBbrd, 1461. 

kiittd, Fenyl>ridge. 
RafaelU Saniio Raphael, 1520. 

Rotunda, Rome, 
Marcus Benavidio, 1582. 
Richard Sackville, Earl of Dor- 
set, 1634. WiChiam. 
James Callot. 1636. Nanci. 
Wentiel Hollar, 1677. ir«liT>. 
Claudius Dechalei, 1678.TuriR. 
Dr. WUIiam Clagett, 1688. 

St, Miehaet's Bmsiihaiu. 
Robert Damiena , tiecnUd ,1 757. 
Margaret Woffington, 1760. 
Dr. James Tunstall, IT72. 
John, Maiq . of Condorcet, 1 794. 
Sir Ralph Abercrombie, 1801. 

hU^Nalta, 
Aleiander Sabei Felioo, 1818. 

Haiti. 

oinkini].— Bmbr. 



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tb !• Time, Ihil Ukd on 



Wba in the dark ud liltm grive. 

Shall up the uory or oni dayi I— AuMfh. 

ttrtg. 

The Romaa Senate Auemble Bl t^Jil o'clock in the morning — fonrUcD 
d>7i after Pauliu £my1ias htui anumed hii immortal Connilate, B. C. 
1GB. — Ste IM April. The Engliih Houaa of Commani uiually Mt al 
the Mine hour fve ceotiuiei rrom the present age. — Tbe tea thoni 
Prctorian gnarda, apon dw mnriei of tbeii Emperor PertiDai, aOer the 
imperial diadem by public auctioD ; aDd Ibe Senator Didiua Julian 
hanng bid the lum of two hundred poondi to tatK mUier, he wai in- 
■tanllj deeliied the purchuer ; bat refusing to pay ihe price, he was afler- 
wards stripped of the pniple and put to death by hii lebeltious crediton. 
— The town and cutle of Berwick are idzed by Ihe generala of Bruce, 
1318. — GtiKpoadtT ii supposed to have been first used in Europe by the 
VenetiaDl, upon this day, 1380, about the time that prinling was 
Tented, by " dinDe iiu[Nration," sailh Rabelala, as a match (coma 
cmtTt-JU) for the devil's snggeslion of artillery. 

Howell wriu* to Sir James Crofts, 1618 : " The newi that keeps 
greatest bmso ben now, is the return of Sir Walter Raleigh from his 

e of gold in Qviaoa, which it uems is prored a mere chimt 
bat what will not ooe in captivi^ promiie, to regain hii liber^ 1 'Tis 
{Mty such a knowing, well-wngbted knight had not a better fortutie ; 
the Dotinif (1 mean that brave ship which he built himself, of that nan 
that carried him thittier) is like to prove a fatal destiny to him, aod to 

K of the real of those gallant adrentuieia. Sir Walter landed at 
Plymouth, whence he thought la make an ewape. Gandamai criei out, 
that he hath broke the sacred peace betwixt the two kingd(»ns ; aod » 
lands justice." — Thnt, that gnat man was sacrificed by tbe puiil- 
lanimity of James, to gratify the cunrung of a SpaniA Embaisador. 

A hill five hundred leet in height was carried four milei from its site 
by the dreadful Calabiian earthquake, this day, 1783. 

The planet Pallat is discovered by Dr. Olberi, oS Bremen, upon this 
day, 1S02. It revolves round the sun in four years seven months and 
eleven days, and is nearly of the same magnitude with Crra. 

Hu, whai k( rMMh sad wnntli himvlf ipcn dlTlH proKctkn ud hi 
(itktrctk ■ tsm and IkUi wMch Imiiui Ditm la IimH enaid acnr obala. 



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XXIX. MARCH. 



hther. ud ke wiU ib 



iibnwIhHirJait.ul 
I lead thF p»[dr Df III 



Dr. John LightToot, 1602, Sloke 

Peler le Coq, 1728, IJi. 
H. GuillotiD, 1738, Sainta. 
JeODMle'Dieu Soult, 1769, S(. 

A profligate fellow is one who 
is capable of laying or doing the 
baMsl things without an; UDse 
of thame. He will furnish jo\i 
with as many oaths bs you have 
occasion for, — reputation is not 
his business ; you aie welcome 
to abase him as much bb you 
please. — ThtopbToitm , 

t&Ula of the Latin Church. 
Sts. Jonas, B aracb is'i'uB , and their 

Companions, martyrs, 327. 
St. Mark, Biihep of AreChuia, 

in Syria, 4tb Cenluij. 
Sts. Armogasles, Arcbiuimus, 

and Satur (or Salurus), mar- 

tyrs, 457. 
St. GundleuB,B Welsh King, 5th 

Century. 
81. Eusiasiui (or EnsUchius), 

Abbot of Ltaea, d. 635. 



Btallis. 



Stephen X. (Pope), 105B. d. 
FUmnee. 

Raymond Lully, I3i5. Majorca. 

Henry Pei-cy, 3rd EajlofNortb- 

umberland, U61. k. Touilm. 

SciEvola St. Marthe, 1623. d. 

Archbishop (Tobias) Matdiew, 

1629. d. York. 
Claude Sarrau, 1651. d. Para. 
Tbeopbilus Bonet, 1689. 
II. Basnage, 1710. d. Hague. 
James Peirce, 1726. d. Exeter. 
Vincent Houdiy, 1730.d. Porii. 
ThoB. Coram, 1751. Fmndling 

Chapel. 
Wm, Hamilton, 1754.d.Fni?ire. 
Emanuel Swedenborg, 1772. 

R^tcliffe. 
GuBtavuB III. (of SacSm), 

\1Q2. i. Stockholm. 
Charles Dignum, 1827. 
Sir Wm. Dnimmond, 182B. 



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Falm Sunday is the uxlh, or last Sunday in Lent, uid the next pre- 
ceding Eaalet-daj. — See 5th April. It commemorates Christ's triumphal 
entry into Jerusakm upon Suadai/, the twenty-ninth of March ; five 
days before the feast of the Pasaover.-^oftn lii. 13. Thii day records 
the death of Ejmphroditui, ihe Apostle of Philippi, and the messenger 
of St. Paul, then in bonds at Rome, with bis Epistle to Ihe Philippians. 

The battle of Pollentia, and defeat of the Huns, under Alaric their 
leader, upon Eastei day, A. D. 403.— Tlie battle of TuKtcn, betweeo 
tlie York and Lancastrian partisans, which decided the supremacy of 
tiie former, and placed Edward IV. upon his empurpled throne, Palm 
Sunday, 1461. Tbis conflict continued from nine until three o'clock, 
amidst heavy falls of snow. The heralds appointed to number the 
sldn, returned the Lancastriass alone at twenty-eight thousand, many 
of them victims of their own despair.— Prince James, of Scotland, in 
his passage to France, is seized Ibis day, 1405, by an English corsair 
at Flamhorougb Head, and conducted to the EogUih Court. " In 
fact," said Henry IV. with a political salw, " the Scots onght to have 
pven me the education of tbis boy, for I am an eicellent French scholar." 

" Yts," said Queen Elizabeth, addressing herself to Ihe prelates in 
full convocation, I58&, " if you, my lords of the cle^, do not amend, 
I mean lo depose you : — look you therefore well lo your charges." 

Dr. Swift predicted the death of Partridge, the almanack maker, of a 
raging fever, on this night, 1708 ; "tiiough tiie legs and arms, and whole 
body of that person may still appear, and perform their animal func- 
tions; yet his art is gone— the man is gone." The Royal Society of 
Edinburgh is incorporated by charter, 1783. Dr. Olhers discovers the 
planet Veita, 1807 — its revolution is completed in three years sixty-sii 
days and four hours. Gustavus IV- of Sweden, signs his abdicatioD, 
1809 :— Marshal Soult took possession of Oporto, upon the same day. 
Napoleon aboUshes the slave trade in the French dominions, 1815. 



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Let the Ulr tnle wllhjul uct 
And elDlhHii ttipa be Uvd, 
Aad rmiB Hw dead corporei] m 
TlmM^K ueh profreitlT« OT<lei 



eirQi. 



Sir HcDry VIottoa, 1668, 

Baughtm Hail. 
W. Bomner, 1606, Canterlmrti. 
Tiberiui Cavallo, 1749, NapUt, 
FraiKUI^UtnduRaiier,lT66, 

MtU. 

Natuf« a. u it irere, untn- 
tioui of bringing togethar the 
fiuiti oF diffinent cliuutci, mod 
I ■ ■ «tiile Miong Ike w*- 
of tbc year, each cluming 
ftTOOitd eoantiy u their 
own : for nol onl; do trniU of 
every qieciei flooriib, but con- 
tinue to ripen ; the gnv** 'nd 
flfi for ten moolbe, other kind* 
Ihimigiunil the jeu, — Jamphna. 

&Ht<^tht Latin Church. 
St. John Climacui, the tkho- 

lt*ti«, JMot o^ Uaunt Sinai, 

d. 606. 
St. Zoamnt, Bitht^ afSyraaat, 

d.660. 
St. BegulD* (or Rienl), Biiluip 

rfStntil. 



BMtfrl. 



PhocioD, B. C. 317. Alhmi. 
Si. Feler lUgiUU of FaU<-d«lid, 

A. D. 1456. 
Archbi^op (Tboa.) Bourchier, 

1486. KneviU. 
Sir Ralph Sadler, 1587. d. 

Standon. 
Henry Cnfib, 1601. taeuted, 

Tybum. 
John Wower, 1612. d. Cnttorp, 
Biehop (John) King, 1631. 
William Somner, 1669. Can- 

Sebaitiui de Vauban, 1707. d. 



The olive itill vindicates ill 
paternal mnl, and ii ibund, at 
thii day, upon the ume tpot 

which vol calkd by the Hebrew 
wrilen MonnI Oliret and the 
Monnt of Olivei, eleven cen- 
Inrie* before the Chriitiiii en. 
Dr. Clarla. 



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XXX. MARCH. 


O. Ptut, ay li^u'd 


1.IX. op-bl«l 


0. riHl ll»ll«V(«, 


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TbeBrili.bUon,j«lii 






OkiMtl.yf« 


Ahi «R> u,r hMtT 


rc<EB.— CWUm 



Scti. 



This day tbe Roman people debated to Janui, aikd to Ibtir goddauM 
Commrd, Htatth, and Peact. The fint temple elected to " Health" 

It coDwciated b; the Dictatoi Juniai BtibDicut Bmtiu, aAei hia rapid 
victory a*« the ^ui, B. C. 302. Fsbiiu Ptdor rec^ved that luniaiDe 
Irom hii baring adorned the wr1]« of thia new fEuie in lieuo, which Bp- 
peara to be the earUeil record of the nae of tlie fine ait, painting, among 
tbe Roman*. 

The Sicilian Vaptn, ii • qnainl appellatioa to eipieu the promiicuDui 
nouoetv of eight Ibouwuid French, by tbe peopk of Sicily, wbicb b<^^ 
at Palenno upon Eaitei-Mooday (tnilj a black monday), when the bell 
wastoUioglbreTeBingtemce, lheDfl;wn, 1382. "OGod!" exclaimed 
the ■anguinaij Chiilea, aflei thii letiibotioD, " if thou halt decreed to 
bumble me, gnmt me at leail a gentle and gradual deacent liom tbe 
pinnacle of greatneai ■■ ' ' — a prayec that the eternal Avenger of blood aod 
:rueltf denied, to tbe conacience-itricken uinirper. 

Edward I. takes tbe town of Berwick by aauult, which ii plundered 
of ila wealth, and about uventeen tbonund of the iohabitants put to 
the iwotd, 1296. The truce for thirteen yean between Edward II. and 
Bruce, who had recently defeated Ibe Eugliah mooaich at BiUnd Abbey, 
ii concluded at Thorpe, 1323 i— the lame day alio that the tAinJ Ed- 
ward, then newly inaugurated, in bit fifteenth year, convoked hii iplendid 
and gallant rmdeivoni at YDrkofuitythauundrDecatanna " includ- 
ii^ fire hundred belled knighti, animated by the pteaence of the queen 
mother, and fifty ladie* of Lhebigheatrank" to revenge the breach of that 
treaty, 1327. 

Hugh Balaam, Bishop of Ely, endowi hit foundation of Peterhoiae, 
the fini college in the Uoivenity of Cambridge, 1280. The peace of 
UlTtcht ii aigned, 1713. 

The City of London Lying-in Hoipital i* inalitated, 1750. 

Roiuni prodncea bis opera of " Cenerentala" at Vienna, 1822. 



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XXXI. MARCH. 



Vim*- 



Prince Arthur, Duiu af flrii- 

i«»S, 1187. 
Diana o/Poilien, 15O0. 
Henry II. (o/" France), 1518, 

Si. Cemaia. 
Rene Descaitea, 1596, La 

Hayi. 
Benedict XIV. (PojwJ, 1675, 

3ologrut. 
Frederick V. (of Dmrnark), 

1723, 
Francis Joseph Havdn, 1732, 

Rfcorau. 



St. Acacius (or Achates), Bp. 

of AntiBch, in Aaa Minor, d. 

3d Centui?. 
St. Benjamin, Deacon, ISaTtyr, 

424. 
Sr. Guy (or Witen), AlAot at 

F^rrora, d, 1046. 



Batttft. 



Titus FompoDius Atlicus, B. C. 

32. Appiim Road. 
A1)Aansod'Avaloa,A.D.1546. 
Francis I. (of Franct). 1647. 

d. SambouitUt. 
PhUip III. (of Spain), 1621. 

d. Madrid. 
Dr. John Donne, 1631. St. 

PouC. 



Thou 



sGore, 1684. d. Jider- 



Chrislian Kortholt, 1694. 
Petet d'Orleans, 1698. d. Parii. 
Nakita, Count de Panin, 1783. 

d. Petersburg. 
Geo(^, Earl Macartney, 1806, 

Chiswick. 
Ludwig Beethoven, 1827. d. 

Vienrm. 



The pursuers of vain koow- 

Ige are like owls, sharp' 

;hted in vanity, and blind at 

the approach of true light. — He 

le that can hurt and does 

not; and he is a fool that would 

hurt, bat cannot. — Btoi. 



.—Jmcrlpllim mier Plato't Acadtraf. 



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XXXI. MARCH. 



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Tkc childlBg ulBi 



BylhtlrldCMK,!. 



: ui borrwif^ dayi, ue the lut IbiM diji of March, uid the Snt 
tbrM dap of April. They are of nutic authoriij, sufficiently eiprei- 

e of their roeBDinf ; derired partly &om Knne andeat aupentitioD, 
and partly liam aa actual obserratioD of Oxefickltnta and itutabLlily of 
the temperature at the period of theii occurrence ; ai raiiu in the for 
triad, and rough wiada ia the latter. "» that Kara lh£ bitUm h 
Au time;" and, both changes being equally injurioua to the health and to 
vegetation, iheie accoimiiodatian dayi were (oot to diipnte the proTerb) 
appropriately called, pltdgtt of evil. 

The marriage of the Empferor Conitantine with Faiula, the cruel and 
dissolute daughter of Haiimian, ii celebrmted at Ariel, A. D. 307. 

Cockf^hliug ii pnrfiibited by an Act of the Uiurpation, I6S4. 

Swift'a Journal, 1713 : " Thia eieniag. Lady Maiham, Dr. Arbutb- 
not, and I, were contriving o lie for (o-mofrow, that Mr, Noble, who 
wai hanged lait Saturday, waa recovered by iiii friendi, and then letaed 
again by the iheriff, and ii now in a mesieoger'a hunda at the Blsfk 
Swan in Holbom. We are all tc lend to our frienda, to know whether 
^ey have heard any thing of it, and lO we hope it will apread." 

The dedaivlion of wu between Great Britsiii and France, 1744. 

The Jeanila thia night are leiied and expelled Irom Madrid, 1767, 

The Allied Sovei^na enter Paria, upon ita evacuation by the troopa 
' of Hanhals Mannont and Mortier, 1814. 

The planet itfnn, which derivei ita name from the aame aourcea aa the 
present tnontb, levolvea on hia axii in tvienty-four hour*, Ihir^-nine mi- 
's, and twenty-two aecoDds ; and perform* hia revolution round the 
in one year, three hundred and twen^-one daya, twen^-three houn, 
en miuutea, and for^-four lecondi. Hia ina|;nilude exceeda by oi 
■eventh that of the earth, the diameter beir^ 4213 miles. 

Spnni he th; glftit— He toon ihill (Ive : 



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SPRING. 



held with fliDHt, Iby minlle brlgbt wllh Bow 

This da; dame Nature seem'd in love : 

Tb« liu^ n^ btgio to move ; 

Fresh juice did (tir th' embraciDg vines, 

And birds had di»wn dinr vilentiBes, 

The jeiloDi trout that low did lie, 

Hose at a well-dissembled &j. 

Already were the eases possess'd 

With the swift [Nlgnm's daubed nest : 

The graves already did rejoice. 

In Philomel's triuniphiiig voice ; 

The showers weie short, the weather mild. 

The moniiag fresh, the evening sniil'd. 

Joan takes her neat ruhb'd pail, and now 

She trips lo milk the sand-red cow. 

The Gelds and gaideiks were beset 

With tulips, crocus, violet i 

Aod DOW, though late, the modest rose 

Did more than half a blush disclose. 

Thui ail looki gay and full of thter. 

To weUome the new Uvgry'd year. — Sit Henry Wottoa. 

Sweet bird, that ung'st away the early hours 

Of winters past, or coming^ void of care, 

Well pleas«l with delights which present are, 

Fair seasons, budding sprays, sweet- smelling flowers : 

To rocks, to springs, to rills, from leafy bowers 

Thou thy Creatcr's goodness dost dcclaie. 

Arid what dear gifts on thee he did not spare, 

A stain to human sense in sin that lowers. 

What soul can be so uck, which by thy songs 

(Atlir'd in streetness) sweetly is not driven 

Quite to forget earth's turmoils, spies, and wrongs, 

And lift a reverend eye and thoaght to heaven ! 

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APRIUS. 

[/Tuln- tht Pn/ttetian of Veous. 



Of Cylherea'i day, 

O'ei Iddia^ T«Ivet gc«en 

The Kisy-cTowiwd Lorn aire Ken ; 

Whera'er iht tnnis the Gracei homage pay : 

With anni lublime, that float apon the air, 

Id gliding stale ibe wingi her easy way : 

O'er her iraim cteek and riung bosom more 

The bhiom of young dean and purple light of lore. 

An me ! toi togfat that ever I could read. 

Could ever hear by tale or history. 

The course of true love never did run smooth : 

But, either it was difiereut in blood. 

Or else miagtaffed, in tespect of yean, 

Or else it stood upon the choice of fiiends ; 

Or, if there were a sympathy in choice. 

War, death, or sickness did lay tiege to it ; 

Making it momeatimj as a sound. 

Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; 

Brief aa the lightning in the coltied night, 

That, in a spleen, anfolds both heaven aikd earth. 

And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! 

The jaws of darkness do devour it up : 

So quick bright things come to confouon. — 'Shakipeare. 

O BDBTic herald of the Spring ! 

At length in yonder woody vtie, 

Fast by the brook I hear thee sing. 

And studioni of thy homely tale. 

Amid the vespers of the grove. 

Amid the chanting choir of love. 

Thy sage responses hail. — The Cuckoo. — Akeniidt. 



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APRIL. 

lb April, winton u a kid.— JpnHsr. 



Afbil, at whose glad coming Zepbjn rise 
With irbisper'd sighs, 
Then on their light wiag biush away. 
And hug amid the woodlands fresh 

Their aei; me^ 
To tangle Flora on her way. 

April, it ia thy band that doth unlock. 
From plain and cock. 
Odours and hues a balmy store, 
That breathing lie on Nature's breast, 

So richly blest, 
That earth or beaven can ask no more. 

Apiit, the hawthorn and tbe eglantine. 
Purple woodbine, 
Slreak'd pink, and lilj-cup, and rose. 
And thyme, and marjoram, are spreading. 

Where thou art treading. 
And their sweel eyes for thee unclose. 

The little nightingale alts siugiug aye 
Ou lealy spray. 
And in her fitful strain doth run 
A thousand and a thousand changes. 

With voice that ranges 
Through every sweet division. 

Swttt numth ! it ii luAtn thou, doit cime again, 
That love iifain 
With genttat breath the Jim to wAt, 
That covered up and ilumbering lay, 
ThrDMgh tnoTiy a duy, — Belleau. 



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Ui'oN hii breast a bloodj Crww ba bore. 

The dear remembrance othia djingLoRD, 

For vrhose iweel sake that glonous badge he vore, 

And dead (as tlnag) evei turn adored : ' 

Upon bis shield the like was also scored : 

His angry steed did chide his foaming bit ; 

Aa, much disdaining to the curb to yield : 

Full jolly Knight he seem'd. and fair did sit, 

As ODe for knightly justs and fierce encounteis fit. 

Eaforc'd to seek some covert nigh at band, 
A shady grove not for away he spied. 
That promis'd aid (he (empesl to withstand : 
Whose lof^ trees, yclad with summer's pride, 
Did spread so broad, that heaven's light did hide ; 
The sailing pint, the cidar proud and tall. 
The vioe-prop elm, the poplar never dry, 
The bailder oak, sole king of forests all, 
The otpin, good for staves, the cyjma flineial. 

The laartl, meed of mighty conquerors 

And poets sage ; lbe_^r that weepeth still ; 

The tcillow, worn of forlom paramoun ; 

The yea, obedient to the bender's will ^ 

The birch for shafU ; the lallea for the mill ; 

The myrrh sweel, bleeding in the bitter wound ; 

The warlike buci ; the oiA for nothing ill ; 

The fruitTul olivr, and the platane round ; 

The carver bairn ; the mapU seldom inward sound. 

The GroMj of Errour, — Spcnsi 



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RlH up. mjr Ion, ud co 
yl IIk nnta ki heud in OBI 



P°S- 


BirHB. 


atam- 


Cftl. 


Sir John Suckling, 1613, Wi- 


Abp.Cel>ui, 1119. ^rmogfr. 


1. 


Ihun. 


JamM, Lord Audley, 1386. 




CharlM de SL Evremond, 1613, 


SliJlm. 




Si. DtnU U Ovatt. 


Tamerlane. 1405. d. Otrar- 




Solamon Gemer, 1T30, Zurich. 


Vfon-Sihon. 




Bartholomew Mercier {Ahbi dt 


Robert III. (o/'&Wlond), 1406. 




St. Ltgtr), 1734, Lyimt. 


PaiiUy. 




Louis ScbiBTODrtti, 1766, au- 


Henry de Montmorency, 1614. 
Archi(bald) Armittong, 1673. 






buritd, Arthurel. 




Eroilia hu aooietbiDg of ma- 


John Burchud Ueacke, 1733. 




jestical, that imprint. re.p<ct, 


d. Leipaic. 




■ometluDg of tweet and inge- 


Dr. John Langhome, 1779. d. 




olouB, that wini ths iacHna- 






tions. She attract* you, ihe re- 


Hilary Rouelle, 1779. d. P-rii. 




Uini ;cu ; and jou always ap- 


John LewU Lombard, 1794. 




proach lo her with deairea, that 


Dr. Iwac Miloer, 1820. 




JOU cannot ihow. 






Si. Eoremaad. 










A wise man"! heart ii at hii 




«bit« of'th, Latin Church. 


right aide ; but a fool's heart at 






his left. Surely a aerpent will 




fhef),Bp.ofS„rde,.mLydia. 


bite without enchanunent ; and 




2nd Century. 


a habhler i> no better. A fool 




SL Bugb, Biihop of GnmAU, 


alao is full of words: a nan 




d. 1132. 


cannot teU what shall be. 




St. Gilbert, Buftop in Scotland. 


&W». 




d. 1240. 





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The Months. If we diiregard ihe (certain];) pka 

ancieat fable, we maj con^der the Eecond RomuliaD month, Aprilu, but 

expressive of the Earth, aa she appears in Ihis poailion of the aun, fi^ed 

im the embrace of winter, and crowned with promise and beautj. The 

me is derived ftom aperir*, (a open, or uncmtr ; Venus (in Greek, 

uu, and id Lalin, celumba) is her prototype, as was the Fhacnnit of 

; Dodonians, and the Frea of pagan Saionj. The fourth Julian 

month, April, CDrresponds with the secood moon, Pharmutki, in th( 

ent, and the eighth of the modem Egyptian year ; with the eighth 

historical, and the second ecclestiutical moon, Jior ('called heTore theii 

captiri^, 2i/,) of the Hebrews ; with the eighth moon, Aben (the month 

in which the vnisltraca, or live interculuy days of the Yesdegerdic year 

were inserted) of the Feisiana ; with the eighth moqns Artimiih 

maTchoBBui, and Strattgiat, of the Syro -Macedonians, Paphiai 

Bithyniaas ; with the eighth moons Miaiia, Bonwudah, and Avitki, of 

the Abyssiaians, Copts, and Armenians ; with the seventh solai month, 

NitaB, of the Syrians; with the eleventh moon, TTtorgeltan, of the Atheni- 

li the eighth, Drwiui, of the Macedonians, and the fourth, Xanlftunii, of 

their solar year ; and with the tenth moons, Schtvoat, and Schevrail, of 

e Arabs and Ihe Turks; by the Anglo-Saxons it waa named Oater 

■Dotilh (according to Bede from Eutrc, a Saion goddess), and Gnu 

month is its denomination among the Dutch and Germans. 

The foundationa of Ihe Temple of Solomon were laid in 
Jiar, the foarth year of this Prince's reign, and the eleventh year of that 
of Hiram, King of Tyre. B. C. 1012. It was completed and dedicated 
il the end of seven years and ^i months. According to the Hebrew 
historian the citadel of Tyre was founded two hundred and forty years 
before the temple. In reply to Solomon's letter for aasiatance, his royal 
friend observes 1 " Do you take care to procure us com for this timber; 
because, living upon an island, it is a commodity we shall much want." 



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•I lo bide; 
Bal lh» irt of UmI (enlle (rowlh 

Which ulu UBH lotlnl tjre 
To hwp li In imM gunlliBihlpi 

Or [l nail Jnwp inil AW.—Th* M^tt. 

flrti^ 

Vbndi, Upon the flnrt of April the festival of Vma Vertieordia (the 
chute) wu kept vithb the temple dedicated to her homage in the Sala- 
rian way, where ihe w( euthraniied, crowned with myrlJe and flowen, 
and icattered (tropically) the viitue* of die catui to the mint deterring 
of her votaieuei. The moroing Ibey employed in bathing, which 
wai performed at the Temple of Fvnune, itanding on the banki of the 
Tiber, ui edifice cotMbnicted by Serviiii Tulliua, for the eiclutive uu 
of the fair. The image of the goddeu wai alio itiipped, with great 
care aD4 nicety, of her ornamental dre» (the brimt-plaU wai com- 
poted of Britiih pearli preieDted by Juliiu Cesar), and then replaced, 
after (he accustomed ablutions, with the Mine regard to the ropremacy of 
the queen of imilei and wrinklei. She ii termed by the matter of tbeae 
ceremonies, " Mother of the two Lovet," her doable oftpring Cvjtid 
and Anlera, lymboliiiag Ihal mutual endeaimenl which ii produced by 
emulation. The general respect of the Pagan nationi for the shrine of 
thii all-powerful divinity is to be cenaured so far only ai it gave au- 
thority to idolatrous worship ; otherwise there eovld be no iiiepdariiy 
in a decent attention (which, however, in more polished times wu rarely 
undeistood) to the purposes of life — those means by which the earth 
preterrea ita happiness, its order, its existence. 

All Fools' Day, was the octave, or last day of the " Hilaria" already 
noticed in the Roman Calendar. The limg-coati ue a very ancient 
house ; and it hciuj; vain to trace the initiluliou of thia f^tival to aoy 
particnlai people, we are perhaps better occupied in plucking the moral 
from ill mytleiy, wluch leacbes ua to reconcile every state that is sub- 
•oliT with occMJonal di>^)pointnient. All mea were children of folly 
upon thia day, because devoted lo universal mirth and equality ; and 
because the rich and wise reverted their imignia, if not voluntarily, 
at length by a trick of their iaferiort, these were dubbed old fboU of the 
college; or to ipeak as statiitt, the herring and the nuatitrtl, the lamb 
and lion) enjoyed, upon the £rst of April, a community of privileges. 



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Ttit bubrul nrild-duck'i eitly bnwd l^aWM'i JprU. 

gtta.' 

Tub inonlh of abstiDence observed by the Turks aad the resl of the 
Mobammedan sects conclades with Ramadhan ; aad the bigh festival 
called the " L4ttU Bairnm" commences with the new moon of Schtim 
There is but little variance in the rptciei of sacrifice from the o^rii 
at the Jewish Fassoi/eT. Tbis is tbe season of the pl<^;ue in l^pt, 
arising (torn the dry and putrid state oF the river, until the atmosphert 
becomes purified by those ra.iQs and dew-falls which are always expected 
abont Si, John'i dag. 

Emylius Paulus passes from Brundusium to Corcyra (the modem 
C(>r/u)on his famous Macedimian expedition ; and upon the sixth of this 
month he sacrifices to Apotlo at the shiine of Delphi, B. C. 168. 

Urban Vlll. issues hisbuU InciciuUiHnint, A. D. 1637, announcing 
Uie usual spiritual analhenia upon Holy Thursday (tlie anniversary of 
the last supper), against all infrin^rs of liie papal Hierarchy, 
Erasmus is enlejlained at London by the great and learned, 1506. 
Lady Montagu writes from Adriaiiople upon this day, 1716 ; " Here 
are some little birds held in a sort of religious reverence, and for that 
reason they multiply prodigiously : turtles, on the account of their in 
cence ; and storks, because they are supposed to make every winter the 
pilgrimage U> Mecca. I am patnol enough to take piinB to bring this 
useful invention of ingrafling into fashion in England ; and I should not 
failtowrile to some of our doctors very particularly about it, if I knew any 
one of them that I thought had virtue enough to destroy such a consider- 
able branch of their revenue for the good of manklml. Perhaps, if I 
live to return, I may, however, have courage to war with them." This 
divine creature kept her word — she killed the mil. 

The ancieiit abbey of Cistercians at Plailey, is burnt, 1771 , 
Napoleon's state marriage with the Archduchess is solemuiied in his 
own ca^tal, 1810. — Here begins the season to angle for the barbel, the | 
bream, the carp, and the smelt. | 



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11. APRIL. 

Nmr PUIoBtl mm kct todtr Unli, 
iBdaltfof lU lb* sKkl bf r pkulni pain : 

1 UVlht Um grOTH to bCHT tbc WUEOI fllDf , 

Ymf lirft Hat-tyMi wkiR tliaiiuiiil florici pliy, 
A< brlfkl, u U*tlr, bnl m wUd u Oif.—tbnJUm P 



^ 


Vfrtti 


aratftl. 


n. 


Wm. Hmey. 1878, FMiUm,. 


RichudEulofCoramtHXTn; 


Non. 


Ju. Window. 1669, ftfriw.. 


D/Il0m«;,1373. Aiil«. 


'■ 


Peter lUmi Wilknwt, 176S, 


Prince Anhur (afWaUt). 1803. 




Vanci. 


d. Z^odlow. 




ChvlM Nicolu OudiDot, 1767, 


Sir lUbert Dnirj, 1616. 




Bv-nr-Omain.] 


Matlhiai Ciwrnir, 1640. d. 




Alexin SibM Petun, 1770, 


IfoTMlC. 




Porl -ail -Prince, 


John JimetDillemui. 1747. 






ThoniM C»He, 1764. YatUndon. 
John Biptiit Bojtr, 1708. d. 




«nttt<ftlu Latin Chuvch. 


Port.. 




St. ApuD (or Aphiu), Martyr 


Honors Gabriel, Count de Mi- 




in Cttarta, ■/ PalMJM, d. 






3M. 


Mmt. 




St. TheodOiin, F. Martyr In 






CauTto, i. 308. 






St. Niceliui (or Niiier), ArO,. 






bMcprfLymu,i. 677. 
St. Ebba, Abbta in Scotland, md 
her Compinkmi. Jtf«iyr„ 


They ought not to Mteen dif- 




Buificient cauM of alieuttJOD ; 




870, or 874. 


but i«lfaer the; ahosld join with 




Conitanllnell. (KinsofScot. 


ui in the {ninuit of virtu* aad 




Und). 874. 


pobi^, for tbii belongi to all 




BL Bronichi {or BronwiQi), 


men in comman, and of itaelf 




V. Abbeu in Ireland. 


alone ■• lufficient for the prteer- 




SI. Francii <if PauU, FoniMler 


ration of hnman \ift,—Jimplnii. 




of tht Orfer of Hinint, d. 






1608. 





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Macndy ThdredjIV. Thia da; records (he inaiituCioii of ths holy 
ticmotnlotTkt Lord'i Supper, when aai Saviour celebrated, for the last 
tints, the natiiHial Pauover., According to Spelman, the nunufi is the 
hand-batlirt in which the king was accuEtomed to give almi to the poor : 
but its derivatiTe is moit probabl; the itiUial mandate io the Greeli text 
— that the poor ihonld ilwaja be lemembered, even aa this woman 
(Maijof Belhan]') faul remembered me ; or perhaps a corruption of the 
inHrt>R,the casket ofodoTOUi funereal Bintmtnt bestowed by her upoa the 
pereon of the Saviour. This ointmeat, said Judas Iscariot, who 
the ptem-beanr or almoner of Christ and the apostles, we might have 
purchased, and with it embalmed or purified the poor ; but Christ te- 
bnked him, saying " iht pour always ye have with you, but me ye have 
nA always." Edward III. in 1363, the 30lh of March, lirst distributed 
the Maundg, and purified the poor, which latter ceremony waa, however, 
discontiDued at the Revolution ; but the proviuons and silver pieces 
ate still heMowed upon this day by the King's Sub-Almoner in 
Royal Chapel at Whitehall. 

The siege of Conilanliiio^da by Alexius Comnenus, 1081. The Earl 
of Bolbwell's skirmish with the cavalry of King James at Edinburgh, 
1594. A petty king of Canton commands eleven of the bonzes or priests 
ofFohitobebufDedforincoDlinetice.iee?. The Eddjstone LighlhouH 
is founded of iCffiU by Smealoo, 1757 ) which great work he completed or 
die 34tii of August 1759. Bums writes upon this day, 1789, " Wealth 
daily bsitowt las greatest kindnesses on the undeserving and the worth- 
less— .assure him that I bring ample documents of meritorious demerits i 
— ihU for the glorious cause of Lucre, I will do any thing — be any 
thisg — but A» horse- leech of private oppression, or the vulture of public' 
robbery I" The pseudo-tragedy of " Vvrtlgern" a produced at Druiy- 
Lane, 1796. The nival victory of Copenhageo, 1801. The selling of 
the seven Pleiades in the Roman calendar, when the pJnyi, in the tii 
of the cominoawealth, were represented in honour of Cybele. 

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1 WDDld lato Itay bcHU poor my Xbmtau.—Knif Jalim. 


D-J,. 


VirtH 


mtm*. 


Ill 


GaorgB Herbert, 1593, Mont- 


St. Fira of Farammtier. 665. 


Nou. 


g««Ty Ca.lls. 


John II. (Emperor), 1143. 


3. 


Roger KabatiD Count de Bossy, 


CWantin^. 




1618, Epiry. 


Prince Arthur (Duke of Bril- 




John Antonidei, 164T, Cm,. 


lany), 1203. murtf. Bwtn. 




George Edwards, 1694, Wat 


HononuilV. (Pope), 1287. 




Ham. 


Charles Blunt, Earl of Deiou- 




Milhurin Brisson, 1733. Fon- 


ahire, 1606. Aibts. 




tnuil le Camte. 


John Boron Napier. 1617. d. 

Merckiuon. 






TboTDu Lydiat, 1646. OJctrtm. 




Men know not the worth of 


Edward, Marquess of Wor- 




a measure of lupine., and tert- 


ceUer. 1667. Ki^land. 




nily ofmind.— CrolM. 


Edmund DicUown, 1707. SI. 







James Ownani. 1717. d. Poru. 




®tite of thi Lath, Church. 


John Albert Fabricius, 1736. 
d. HombuTg. 




Sts. Agape, Chionia, and Irene, 


Samuel Wright, 1746. d. tifw- 






ingion Giwn. 




Mar(i/n, 304. 


James Bemgnus Winslow, 1 760. 




Si. Ulpian, of Tyre, Martyr, 


Heniy Thrale, 1781. d. South- 




d. c. 306. 


uiark. 




Si. Nicetaa, Abbot on Mount 






Olympu,, d. 824. 


Richard Lallemant, 1807. 




St. Bichard de Wiche, BiiAop 


Roam. 




of Chlchea.r, d. 1253. (S« 


Biahop<Beginald)Heber,lS36. 




EngfiiA Church Coiffldar.) 


Cateutla.- 



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When be of pnrplE did hii tunnel ipreid 
On CftLvuy abrowl npon tfac rood, 

artf^ 

Good Fridav. The crncifidon of the Sxf iodr was peipetrated upon 
thia da.;, in the nineteealh year of Tibeiiua, Anno Dmimi, 33. It 
place al the «itb bom of Roman time, and continued until the n 
houi, i. e. Tram twelve (a three a'cltwk. Id the age of Augustus the 
Jews ivere exempted ftom the secular authorilj' after the ninth hour oi 
Friday, called the day of prejuraliim for the Sabbath ; EO that the Pas- 
n and snpeniatura] dartneaa cloud with [hat part of the day which 
divided the Sabbath from the Pasaover. By the Anglo-Saione this day 
was called Lvng Friday, to distinguish it from all oTher Fiidays in the 
year, which were, as indeed they aie tutw conudcied b; the English 
Chuich, orifmary days of abstinence. Gray is at Rome, 1740 ; ' 
1 something extremely novel to see that vast church, and the ni 
magnihcent in the world, nndoubledly, illuminated (for it was night) by 
thousands of ciystal tamps, disposed in the figme of a Luge cross a' 
h altar, and seeming to hang alone in the aii." He then meal 
Dnmerous processions, and the demt -suicides, or those jwnilmCi wlio 
incaniadine the consdence. Upon Good Friday John Blagrave, the 
mathematician's annual donation is disposed of by lot to one of the Ibrei 
elect inrtumt maideni of the town of Reading who have lived for five 
years jti the service of the same family, — a benevolent iustitudoD. 

Augustus signs his vrill this day A. D. 13, wiitten upon two skii 
parchment. He gave, in legacies to the Roman people, forty millions of 
sesterces, and divorced the two Juhas, his daughter and grandaugbtet, 
from his sepulchre. Galba accuses Is' era, before the people, of his enor- 
mities, and elects himself Lteutenant of the state, 68. 

The battle of Nmarelte, and victory of Edward the Black Prince by 
which Peter the Cruel was replaced upon the Castihan throne, 1367. 

Prince Rupert enters the town of Birmingham by force, 1643. 



a tlvui HcriOce.— Jseraff 



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o-y- 


Virttf. 


9tam. 


Prid. 


John JMloDit, 1686. Lnuy. 


St. Ambcow, 397. d. Hilait. 


Noo. 




Alphoitto X. (o/CoMiU). 19»4. 


4. 




s«au. 




Who i> ihU yonder, bdBctcd. 


Nicbolai IV. (Pope), 1292. 




■w>ck«d ud BpnnMd > Whom 






do tJwy drag like. Woo? See 


1568. 




where tbey havt iwM ihe Ixxd 


Mildred Coke. Lad; Burghloy. 




and givtr oT life 1 How his 


1569. 




•Rmiidi blacken > HU bodj 


Charlei de I'EcIiik. 1609. d. 




wrilbei, hii bnrt heaTci with 


L,j*«. 




lu^ utd with agony ! Oh, Al- 


Si Robert Nauulon. 1634. 




m^h^ tuBerei, look down, look 












hmyl Lo, he iodine. hi» head 


And. lUnDus. 1666. d. Ltijme. 




lo hU Mcred boram r Hark, he 


Dean (Knigfadj) Chetwood, 




gnniu ; «ee, he eipirea 1 The 


1720. 




evth trembles, the rocks bnrsl, 


Rl.Ainsworth.l743. Papiar. 




the dead ariae ; which are the 


Mkhael Lon>oi«)iof, 1764. 




quick 7 which are the dead? 


Dr. J.Tajlor, 1766. Si. P-W.. 




Sure nature, all Datoie ii de- 


James Parsons, 1770. He<,dm. 




puting with her CieabH. 


OliverGoldsroilli.l774.T«.p(«. 




Sir Riclurd StaU. 


JohnSwinlor,. 1777. Oif«^. 







J.ATdesmf,17B9.d.T*mJi™. 
Lloyd (Lord>Ke[iyon, 1802. d. 




^kiHnfihtLalin Church. 


BolA. 




St.ltidore, Bp.ofSmitU.d.me. 


Andrew Massena, Duke of Ri- 






voli, 1817. d. RutL 




hex, R13, 





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Tre Meqaleiia wen the Boman gnmt gunai uulitated id memoiy of 
Magna Rhea, the PhrygiiD Cybele, mother of HunnioD Ju^ler, or 
Nutma, u sbe ii cdled in ucred hiitoiy, — which coatiaued lor lii daj*. 
—Sie 12tA April. By the luraptnuy law ot Fuiniui, B. C. 161 , il wu 
decreed thai no penon ihould aipend at the great feitiiali Toi one day 
more Han ooe hundred auri. The valne of an oi wai three faithiogi. 

Sir John de Couicy, Earl of Ulster, whilit perfbnniaf; penance baie- 
bot Id the churchyard of Downpatrick (Ooad Friday, 1203), ii uiied 
by the retainers of Hugh de Lacy ; and a ■kirmiih ensuing, two of the 
SOD* of Sir AmoryTrislrom, BaroD of Howlh, were ilain. It was thii Earl 
of Ulster that obtaioed from King Joho the privily for bii succeaaon 
(Ban>ni of Kiagule) to remain covered in the presence of royally. 

Drake, the naTigator. ia knighted od board of his famous ship ifaa 
Peiiem, at Deptford, 1581, 

The three Samuels of Warboya, am condemned at Hunlingdon, by 
Mr. Juatice Fenner, 1593, for bewitching, with Ihe aid of nini fusiliars, 
one of whom was called Pluck, Ihe children and servadta of Mr. Tbrog- 
morton. They were executed, and Iheir goods escheating to Sir Thomas 
Cromwell, as loid of the manor, an annual Lecture was founded upon 
Ibe subject of Witckcrafi, lo be preached in the presence of the corpora- 
tion ot Huntingdon every Lady-day. by a Doctor or Bachelor of Divinity, 
of Queen's College, Cambridge. 

HoweU writes to Sir Thomai HawU, WwtmiDSler, 1636 : " 1 was 
invited yesternight to a solemn supper, by B. J. ; Ihere wu good com- 
pany, eiceltent cheer, choice wines, and jovial welcome : one Ihiog io- 
lervened, which almoil ipoiled the relish of the rest, that fi«i began to 
ingross all the discourse, to vapour eitremely of himself, and, by villi- 
lying others, lo magnify hii own muse. T. C buiwd me in the ear, 
that though Bn hod barrelled up a great deal of knowledge, yslitseema 
he had not read the elhics, which forbid self-commendatioD. For my 
part, I am content to dispense with ibis fioMiin infirmity now that time 
hath snowed upon bis pericranium." 



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Vtrtlf. 
Plalo, B.C. 428, Jittrf£gma. 


Wmx^ 


Nod. 


Flalo, B.C. 347. ^dljbflu. 


S. 


Saint PUrick, A. D. 373, KU- 


John Stoo, 1605. Si. Mny-ait. 




palHck. in SttaUmJ. 






Doaiaic dt CMiman. 1170. 


1605. 




Calaraga. 


Edmand Albertino. 1652. 




Tho. HobbCT, 15Se. MalmJmry. 






Nichalai Pertot, 1606, Cioimi 


Si. Cathtrim;. 




nr Marn.. 


Dr. Seojamia Ibbot, I72S. 




VioceDtio Viviaai, 1623, FU- 


Abbt^ 




rmct. 


Dr. William De^am, 1735. 




Dr. Edmund Calamy, 1671, 


Ujmimter. 






Sir Tbnmai Hanmer, 1746. 




CBM>«riMl. (ofRumoJ.ieeS, 


Jo«ph Alaleona. 1749. died. 




Ilin^ni. 


Fad«a. 







J. F. Banm de Bielfield, 1770. 




or alt wild animali a (;ni.t 


AlUmbo«Tg. 




is tbe moit miKbievooi, and ol 


PiancU Rirsud, 17TS.d. Parii. 




all tame ooei a BatUrar.— Biat. 


AUiiiHulKrtJailloi. 1780. 






Geo^ Danton, guilletintd, 

1794. 
Fraoci. Chabot, e<^ilUHi,ed, 




©bin n/ (ft. Lai™ CAurtft. 




Sl.Tigeniach,Bp.in Intand.SSO. 


1794. 




St. Becan, ^66al in JrfJdTuJ, 


Ckwte Banre, fuiJblinaf, 




6lh Cenlury. 


1794. 




SI. Gerald, ^M<.( of S«u«*, d. 


Wm. Giipnn, 1804. d. BaUr«. 




1095, 


Robert Raikes, 1811. d. GJou- 




St. ViQCEnl Ferrer, i,f Spaii., d. 






U19. 





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eriitaibk Ihlnga.— -Vic&uJ .Iniw/ii. 



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flctt. 

Easter Day. The high tnd univettal Chiutiin Fntivst of £««<r ia 

memoiation of Chbikt'i Resdkrection. The French nition com- 
puted th«r Jew from Eatler Day aadl 1664. 

The ufc rail upon MoUDI AnnI, in Amiem*, midmj betireeD the 
(outbein eiticniilin of the Eniine «nil Cupikn «i, B. C. 2348 ; i 
RDnivemiy which itu tlie fouudttioii, among the idolaliom bmiliei, of 
■11 the Bupenlitioni thai have defaced the Gnuiii. It it ifae firarleeDth 
dayftomtbcEquinoi, and coneipoDdi withlhcjewi' PaHsmr ,- batboth 
tboe feWiTala, the foimer Eeneral, the latter uatioDal, are uoir drowned in 

:ompi«henttTeiieuandpBiit}ofth«ChrUtianhilb. Tbeevenlwhich 
leMored to the patiiardii the blewingi of ti|ht, wanoth, and ultiuiatel; 
vegetation, took place at the end of cMctlj five months (one hunditdaDd 
llf^ dajn) from the coBmeDcement of the deluge, and one hundred and 
ten dayi aftei the waten had ceaied to flow ; to that the teiroun of 

flood continned tatferty daj/i, which, lor the reaun already Dottced 
(^Aik Widitaday), were lakmnly renwmbend by the children of Sham 

le elim of the year, thui connectiog the Craaln- with the Pnttrver 
of the world, ai out Spring lait and EaUer feitival commemorate itt 
gloriom Snjmplian from primitive lia, and the grou bondage! of ido- 
latry and folly in the penon of the Son of God. 

The year of Plalo'i Urth lecordi the death of Anaiagorai the great 
philoiopher of Lampeacoi, and preceptor of Earipidei and Sociatet. 
Being aiked by the magiitnlei whether he detired any commemora- 
tion of himielf : " Yei," he lefrfted, " let the boyi be permitted to play 
upon Ant annirenaiy of my death." Thii holiday called Amuiagnri 
waa obierved fei more than aii bundled yean. 

The trea^ of lubjection to the Saracoui ii ngned by Thtodeairr, Prince 
of Mnrcia and Caithagena, A. D. 713- — The Jewi crucify eighteen 
£ngliih Chiistiani (Good Friday). 1230 ; for which crime four of them 
e punished by jiia, asd the rest were baniAtd. — Hilton's Maiqne of 
Cmhiu ia performed at Dniry Lane Theatre, 1 7S0, for the benefit of Eli- 
zabeth Faster, hia graodaughter, and the last descendant of our divine 
poet. Johnson wrote a prologue spoken by Ganick. 

Tralh will b( appemoilj one lime or olber, llkt cock, Iboa^ kept down la Ibt 
wilcr. Str WUHam nm^U. 



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1 ' — ^I 

VI. APRIL. 

HnrtcH ID nuiijF ; k taBpinW, thai be nner pnmnd ptann lo Yimt; ud 
M wIm, Dial Iw wu ible, evni In ilic mail dlflcnll cu», lo Jgd|*, wlUuxt *d- 
Tlct, Of wlui «u ridii iQd .iptdl^M. Ximrhtm. 


1 




Id.' 
8. 


VirtH 


9wt»f. 






Somia, B. C. 468, Attptc*$, 

in jlllica. 
Andnw Dicin, A. D. 1661, 

Aithbiihop (Edw«d) SjDge. 

lew, IniiWaiu. 
Jo. Bap. Hounctu, 1669, Porii. 

Socntet icl* wickedly, uid 
with criniin«l carioiitT InreMi- 
gatei thing! ludei tha Mitli, 
aod in the hOTcrru. He aUo 
mkei the wone to be tha letter 
■lament, and he teacbei ihoe 

ebOtifthiUlUCImTth. 
St. Bixtiu lit. (oi Kiilai; Pope, 
Martyr, Sod Ccntniy. 

In Fmia, d. Srimda, 346. 
St. CelMtlne, Pope, 432. 
81. Pnidenliiu, BUIiap nf Trayt,, 

d.Bei. 

St. Calini (or Ccallach), Abp. 

of ArmagH (kept oa the 

•erenlh), 1129. 
Si. Williani, Jfrhrf of EikilU. 

i. 1203. 


Riehard I. (ijf England), 11S9. 

St. Peter, of Vtnma, 1363. 
Law. d. Noott. 1848. ^t>«i«m. 
Alben Dniw, 1628. St. JoIm'$, 

Sir FiancU Waliiogfaam, 1000. 

St. p«,i;. 

1608. 
William BnrtoD.lSie.HBiiAw^. 
Darid Blondel, 16S6. d. Am- 

iterJam. 
Artbui AaMal«7. Eail of An- 

SIoh;, 1S86. d. Drury-toM. 
Dr. Hied. Buby, 1096. Abbty. 
J>. Feiiionini, ITIT, d. Ltgdrn. 
Denii de 8>ii>t«-Mailhe, 1736. 
WilBun Meliwrtb, ih, EUtr. 

1743. Lincoln', Inn. 
FredeHc (o/'SiMdni), 1761. 

d. IMnglm. 
Sir WillUm HamUtoB, IBOS. 
Colooel Mootgomeiy, 1803. 

kilUd. Clulk F«m. 
Cht, Pitbegni, tnngltd, 1804. 
&i Riehaid Ma>giave, 1810. 






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Aleiandek the Great. The dealh of this famoiu ben toot pUce at 
e liith daj of tb« Alhenlui moDth Thargtlim, which 
A with ibe twentj-eigfaili of the Mwwdoniui month 
Qnitu, B. C. 323. He lived Ihirtj-tiro yarn and lea monthi; 
tmgaoi (compntiiig from the Oli/mpiod, mi moathl prior to Ihe death of 
Philip) twelve jean and leu monlha : a brief caieer of eitraocdinaij, 
bnl pcoGtleia g]tirj.~^S»t 13lA Nowmier. In thfi year Epicunii, tbea 
■ youth of eightaep, came from Samoa to Athene. Demoathenca died id 
the bUoiriiig jtn, when hi* mal, Hyperidei, wai put to death by the 
command of Aniipater, 

The dead! of Hidiard Caur it Um, 1199. There wa* ao inteiref- 
num until the conniahim of King Jidm, which was solemniied on Aicen- 
liuo-day, (he 27th of Uaj fbUowing. It ahould alao be noted, that the 
yean of the rei^ itf tU* prioce ue computed from one Aaceniion-da; to 
another, and that, ai it it a amablt feHl, they varied in Iheir duration. 

The beauty of Laura waa cut off by the flagne, the day wban Fe- 
tmch first beheld it, in 1337. Let no unlucky pointaterjii^le with thoie 
erenti which are hallowed by gi ' 

Mohammeil II. opeiu the aiege of Canatantinof^, which tenmnated 
with the overthrow of the Cbritlian Empire, 1453. 

Ad eajthqaaka i* fidt in London, and other parti of ll 
Ihe evening, Eaiter Wednesday, 1580. lire jeater, Tarleton, wrote ■ A 
Short Diacotine' upou it, and there is a pretty allouon to the same shock 
in 'Samta and Juliit,' 

Napoleon writes to his mistreu &om Albenga, 1796 : " 'What ii the 
Futon t What is the paat1 What are we 1 Is it astonishing, that 
pneits, astrologers, and quacks have profited by this lingular ciftuui- 
■tance, to lake the diiection of our o;unians, and to direct them in con- 
ranniiy to their awn puuoDs 1 — Chaovet i* dead. But hi* aoul is in 
ihe air ; it will be projHtions to my destiny." — Generous day-dreams \ 

£aster Motulay ; when the £nt fur at Lyons begins, and continues 
for Iwen^ dayi. Handel'a last Oratorio, at which be ii present, 1759. 



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Boon u llu! Ewn 
The moon mkci o 
And nlihUy » tk 
Rcp«li tli< ilory 
WhllM all Iht lU 


gih*d»pR 

IkowoIdnH 
liUeliD|<ir 

orherbirtk: 





Aod .p«.d Ih. tnuh from pok lo polc-^ddfrnt. 


Day. 


WrtH 


BmIH- 


~^ 


St. FraDCU Xavkir, 1506, ;fo- 


Baldwin I. (of JmiMten), 1 1 19. 


Id. 


vin- CuttU, Pifrinea. 


Mwinl C«lmry. 


'■ 


Lewis deDieu,lS9«.FJ»Mi«y. 


V/m. Longbeard, ll96.ha^,d. 




Dr. Hugh Blair, 1718, Editi- 


Tyhum. 




bnrgh. 


Charles VIII. (ff Fmn«>, 




Michael Adaaion, 1727, Ait 


1498 i-AnUnnt. 




in Proi-mee. 


Thomas Hant. 1613. Slrat^oni 




Michael Bryaa, 1757, Nnc- 


vfonAvmi. 
Jeronie Bignon. 1656. 







Sir WUliam DaTeoant, 1668. 




The hreath of Sowers is fu 


Abb>y. 




sweeter iii the air {where it 
comes and goes like Ihe war- 


Francis Porter, 1703. d. Raae. 




bling of music) than in the 


Oxford. 




haod. Bum. 


Richard SimoD. 1712. £ed. 
Dr. Robt.Jenkin, l727.Holin«. 




&M§ of thlUtin Church. 


Julius Bale, 1771. d. Jrtindti. 




St. Hege«ppa> (o Hirtm-ian of 


Charles Fetei Colardeau, 1776. 
d. Paris. 




thiCkaTch),Sed, 180. 




St. Aphraaies, AHchont in Sy. 


Dr. Robert Watson, 1780. 




™, 4lh Centuiy. 
St. Albert, a Rtclau of Cam- 


Peter Camper, 1789. I^ydm. 




waiiam Mason, 1797. 




fr«.3,d.c. 1140. 


Joseph Jerome de Lalaode, 




Hernan Joseph, «/ Ctlognt. i. 


1807. 




1236. 


G. SaveHo Poli, 1835. died, 




Si. Finan. of K«,R«.EthU:l; in 


A'-pi«. 




Ireland. 








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aelt 

Tbc Thakgel'ia were Atheniau TeBtivali celebrated on the uveoth of 
Thargelion, in hontnir of Apello and Diana. The Ent fruiU were Iheo 
coined aboul in poti (tAar^loi), and the citj wu jnirifitd from din 
and calunity, iij meuu of certain lupentiliDiu ceremaiiiei perfomied by 
of each oF the leiei. At this (eitival the Athenians enrolled their 
lied loiu in (he public legiuer, as at the ^paluria the; did Ibeir 
nataral childieo. It agreei with the leveDtfa day of the Delphic mi 

iot, which wM called Apollo'i tnrth'day became he wai then rery 
talkative and oracular lo a Dunncoui anditoiy, wbo ate hii catea and 
paid for them. The Delphian god, aa^ Enaebiai, delivered lo Auguitut 
lu ancle in heroic verse, cooceraing the comii^ of Chriat. The tt ' 
of Latana have their births lecoidedinthe Houhm calendai upon thii day. 

The lempla of the Jews wai dedicated on the Mveoth daj of Jiar, when 
the Asmoneaiu conwciated it again, after the Greek pereecuttoos. 

The death of Plato took place upon his birth-daj, the ttventh Tharge- 
llon, cotreaponding with the^lh April in the Romaa caleodar. 

The Code of Jiutiniui is completed in less than fourteen moQths, bj 
the labours of Tribonian and nine auocialei, A. D. 529. 

Heni? VI. granti a charter to Sir Edmund de TrafGiid and Sir 
Ibomis Aihton, for the liauimntation of metals, 1446. 

Magellan erects the Spanish standard in one of the Philippine Islands, 
1521. 

The Chapel of St. Edmund'a HaL, Oxford, ii ciniKcrated by Bishop 
Fell, 1682. 

The inilaUatim of Prince George of Denmark, at Windsor, with the 
Dukes of Somerset and Northumberland, 1684. The South Sea stock 
. the flUTimutB, and books are opened for subscripliDns, 1720. This 
bubbU bunt at the close of September. Loid Chatham is suddenly at- 
tacked by illness and conveyed from the House of Peers, IT7S. 

The surrender of Bodqjoi, to Lord Wellington, 1812. 



He best wsj to keep food ac 



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Von TOMJ t»ke tana to open 
the liwr,it«elIoopeDtheijileea, 
flover of lulphur for the lui^, 
cutoreum tar ihe brain : but 
no receipt openeth the heart but 
a true fri«Dd, to whom yon ma; 
irapart giieb, jojrt, hopes, lus- 
pidoBs, coDoaeli, and whatao- 
(ret lieth tipon die hear! U 
ofpnm it, in a kind of civil 
ihrill 



^Mfvftht Latin CAi 
St.Vioays.iaa, Biihap of Corinth, 

2Dd Centui;. 
3l. .^desina. Martyr at AU: 

aadria, 309. 
St. FerpMuu*, Biilup of Taur 

c. 491. 
3t. Waller, Abbot of St. Mar- 



xnionui Jntminui Canicalla, 

A. D. 217, auui. Edena. 

,ha (</ Fninn), 1364. d. 

Sows P"!""- (Si- Denia.) 
Th09. de Beauchamp, iih Earl 

of Warwick, 1401. Waruick. 
Loreout de Medicis, 1493. 

Ftnmce. 
William Earl of Denbigh, 1643. 

MonJi'j Kirbg. 
Dr. J. North, 1683. Camhridge. 
Dr. Thos. Gale, 1702. York. 
Job Lndolf. 1704. d. Frauc/ort. 
Francis Leopold, Prince Ragot- 

iki, 173S. d. Radata on the 

Manoora. 
Anthony Blaekwoll, 1750. d. 

Market BoniKirth. 
Peter Sue, 1816. d. Para. 



What ia better than gold? 
jaaper : What a better than 
jasper 1 wisdom : and what is 
better than wisdom ^ woman : 
and what is better than a good 
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Sett; 

>DY of three hundred Thabans lurprue Platan in lb> dead of nigbl, 
aad nn oilier dcstrnjed oi ciptuied bj the iahabituiti, B, C. 431 . 

iliai Csrai defeali Sci[no and Juba, at Thauus, in Africa, 46. Hii 
word at Munda was Veiaxi ; in this battle it wag pledged to Good Tor- 
A veteran of the Gflh legioa, heavy laden with armour, saith the 
Commentary, was snatched up by the trunk of an elephant, w 
whirled him about in the air ; but the soldier losing none of hi ■ presence 
of mind, began to cut the proboscis, and at length compelled the beast 
to relinquish its prey, and retire, with a marvellous noise, to the rest 
his companions. The senate instituted plays for three dajs. 

The dtKent of Dante, when he supposes himself to have seen i 
'■ Vision" he describes in his thiitf -fifth year, Good Friday, 1300. 1 
canvulsioQ at the Crucifixion, the poet tells us, sublimely, was fell e\ 
in the depths of hell. 

The inauguration of Fetrarth, in the Roman Capital, with a crown of 
laurel, as jkwI laureati (Easier Day), 1341. He received by diplon 
the perpetual privilege of wearing, at his choice, a crown of laurel, ivy, 
ar myrtle, of assumii^ the poetic habit, and of teaching, disputing, inter- 
preting, and compnung, in all places whatsoever, and on all subjects of 
liieiBture. 

Lord Chatham wiiles to his nephew, 1755 : " I rejoice eitraroely to 
hear that your father and the ^rls are not ODentertained in theii travels : 
ie mean time, your travels through the paths of literature, arts, and 
aces (a road, sometimes, set with flowers, and sometimes difficult, 
laborious, and arduous), are not only infinitely more profitable inliiturei 
but at present, upon the whoke, infinitely more delightful. My oi 
travels, at present, are none of die pleasantest : I am going through 
a fit of the gout, with what proper patience 1 may. — Avit mt Ua 
my sweet boy : Bonember thy Creator in the days of thy youth. Let 
eicessea lay the toundationi of gout, and the rest of Pandora's boi ; 
any immoralities or vicious courses sow the seeds of a too late and 
painful repentance. Here ends my sermon, which I trust, you ar 
fine geudeman enough, or, in plain English, silly fellow enoagh, to 



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TanwrlaM, 1336, Keieh, in 

Bacharia, 
Jomet Harrii, Eul of 

Udmnbor]', 1746. 
Fiibcr Amei, ITSB, Didlutm, 

K.A. 



tOUftlu Latin Churek. 
St. Eap^cbial, Marlgr at CW- 



Romui Captive*, Martyn 
Penia, 363. 
St. Hniy tf Sgypl. d. 431, 

Tbe Miujlelui Hu^, tn 
AfriM. 

St. Dotto, Ahbet ofOrkniy, Sth 
Cenlurj. 

St. WaltnidB (oi Vautnide, 
eonmimly Vautra), Widow, 
titoltr pttnmeH of Mom, 
ud Ul Huiuult, d. 686. 

St. Guicbcr (or Gautier), Abbot 
Limmuin, i. UaO. 



Edward lV.<^Eii£i«i>d).1483. 

H'tndtiir. 
Ralph Jloolej, 1604. bariid, 

Cambridgt. 
Lord BacoD, 1626. St. Alban't. 
Sam. Sorbtere, 1670. d. Boiint. 
Win. E«l of Craven, 1697. 
Lord Loral, titcuttd, 1747. 
Cbriitian Wolff, \7M.i.HaUt. 
Nicholat Hardinge, 17S6. 
William Law, 1761. Kiag'i 

Clife. 
Dr. Richard Parly, 1780, d. 

Marlat UaHMmmgh. 
Nicbolai Sjlvealer Bttgi^, 

1790. d. Pari,. 
Jamet NeAer, 1804. d. Csprt. 
Jobn Ope, 1807. St. Paufi. 

It irii prttHljT deviled b; 
.¥,U!f ; tbe % Mt upon tbe 
Bile-tiee of the chariot wheel, 
and uid, " what a duU do I 
r«ife !" So are there lome vsin 
penoot that whatioever mo' 
upon gnatei mtanii, if thej 
have never n little a hand ii 
the; think it i* they that can; 

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The 9Uv(r-volc><l UAj : Oc m»I (ur 

CalUapei Ihi wkaK >IKikLil| lUtBCC d«lll> i 

Abd tht whole pniae the heavenly body chiptL — CAapnan. 

«tto^ 

The Ceeealia now commonlj began tt Rome, tmd coDtinued for eij 
days. Tbey commeniDrate the ictDm of Ibe dx vegetatiTe nwDtbs, like 
the Clmia of the Gredm, beM about ibe laiae day. Theie were boree- 

I in tbe Ctrau Xaiimm (a «a^ of tbe first Tarquin), and plays 
wkhin ihe Theatre. The nocturnal rite> were celelKaled liy the ax 
whose diutity was figured in their white g^aimenli. It was during the 
Cerealia that tbe circuit of Ibe fields, called the Ambarvaliir, took placi 

atic and superstitioas ceremony which occarrad again about tbe 
time of harvest. Tbe gamti also were rapealed upon the nineteenth day 
al this month ; — they reiy much resembled iht BKidem A'cwnurftef. 
King Henry V. (an ever cherubed name) is inaugurated, 1413. 
Sir Ricbaid OreiiTille embarks at Plymoutii with seven sail ; the 
largest vessel wM named (be Tigfr, of one hundred and forty tons. 
Upontbe24lbof June, 1666, tbey landed nt Virginia > and, after leav 

a colony of one hundred and eight men (one of whom was Thomas 
Heiyoi) in Ihe island RooimaA, returned to England. 

A truce is signed at Antwerp for twelve years, by the mediation of 
Great Britain and France, between Spain and the Provicces, 1609. 

Howell oddioses Dr. Prichard, about this lime, 1626 : " My Lord 
ChancetloT Bacon died bo poor that he scarce leit money to bu[y him. 
The fairest diamond may have a flaw in it ; but I believe he died poor 

of s contempt of the pelf of fortune, is also from an eicesa of gene- 

y. He wrote ■ [udful letter to the King not long before his death, 
and concludes : ' Help me, dear Sovereign Lord and Muter, and pity 

K) ^, Ibal I who desire to live to study, may not be driven lo study 

The nine Uuwi wei« ^led tbe daughters of Memory, whom diG bore 
at a bWth to Olympian Jupter, attended by Love aod the Graces, 
montb was consecrated by tbe Bomans to JErato, the muse of nuptial 
song and amorous affiun. She is represented with a lyie in her right 
hand and a lute in her left, and latirtattd with the rose and tbe myrtle. 



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niiti 






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le bim, Ukc min with MeH> poxcn'il. 





Prom uUen einh) ilnii by 




Dag 


VirtH 


BmtlA 


IV. 


Hugo Grotiui. 1583, I>«l/[. 


St. James the Less, (.Ap«iU). 


Id. 


Sir John Pringle, 1707. SlicAri, 


A.D.62. 


10. 




Louis II. (o/F«««), 879. a. 






Cumpiegnt. 
Hugo Libe^er, 1266. St. Ni- 




HorteoBeBTOulwirDbis, Uuchess 


eaitl, Rkeimi. 




ofSULeu (Ei-««e™ o/H"l- 


Thomts Grey, Marquess of 




land), 1783.] 


Donet. ISO'l. 
Thomas Glover, 1588. 






Gabrielle d'Eitrie., \iS9. 






William, Earl of Pembroke, 




sioD, that, though I have fmm 


1630. d. Baynard'i CattU. 




my veiy cbildliaod loved you, 


(Salisbury.) 




dark as yoa were, and though 


Thomas Cawton, 1677. Wat- 




jou had conceived n strong a 


minitrr. 




love for me, yet, you will find 


Andrew Morel, 1703. d. Arn- 




there is luch a thing aa beau^, 


Uodt. 




which may ensnare you inlo B 


Charles ■Wilasse,1716.d. Pari.. 






Robert Woodcock. 1738. 




Qow are innocent, and take you 


Francis Prince Eugene <>/ Sa- 




from me for ever.— .Bjind Lww. 


wy), 1736. d. Fimn-. 




—Steele. 


Wm.Cheselden,17S3. ChtUea. 
Dom. Joseph Vaissette, 1766. 




IgbHtpfthtLotmChnrcl,. 


d. St. Germain do Pr«. 
Jatm Saas, 1774. d. Roum. 




St. Bademus, Abbot in Penh,. 


Admiral John Byron, 1786. 




Martyr. 376. 
Mechtildes, V. Abbia in B<iva- 


Joseph Louis Lagrange, 1813. 




rifl, 14th Century. 





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■ llnnet—Sirl r^ PtmbnUt. 



artB. 

The tenth of Jiar was a faat with the Jews for Ihe death of their High 
Ptieit, Eti, and for the taking of the nrk by the Philistines. 

The de«tb of William, Earl of Pembroke, requires a particular nwDiorial, 
for he WIS Ihe son of the illostiiaus Mary .Sidnai, and united in himself 
the eiqnisiie virtuei of his mother with the mannen, accotDpliahments, 
Bjid chuacter of b true English Gentleman ; beloved by ever; good man , 
and by all the mutes of the age in which he flourished, and especially, 
because gratefully (as it is ever between £ue minds), by the glory of the 
En^ish stage. In the dedication, b; the playeis, of their firEt folio to 
noblenwD and his younger brother (the foil of courtesy and the blot of 
history), PAilip Earl of Montfomeiy, 1623 : " Since your lordships have 
been pleased to think these trifles somethinj;, heretofore. " say these fellovr- 
labonreis in the art of pleasing, " and have prosecuted both them and 
thur author, living, vith so much favour, vre hope that you will use 
like indulgence toward them you have done unto their parent. There 
is • great diEference, whether any book choo«e his patrons or find them : 
this hadi done both ; for so much were your lordships iikinga of the 
sereral pails, when they were acted, as before they were published the 
Vfdume asked to be yours. We have but collected them, and done a 
aSce to the dead to procure his orphans guardians, without ambition 
dtber of self-piofit or fame ; only to keep the memory of so worthy a 
friend and fellow alive, as was our Shahtpeart," In the Spring of 139S, 
Loid William Herbert left Wilton, to mingle with the gaieties of the court 
and capita] ; but like the antipadiies of Ja(|uei, they were not cogenial ; 
and although courted and noUced by all whom he could desire to please, 
s611 he was considered, by the wild and envious, a tBelanehnly young 
man. " He Uved," saith Clarendon, " many yean about the court be- 
fore in it, and never by it." 

The lenng of peace ofiered by the Rajah of Bhurtpore are acceded to 
by the East India Company, and ngned the 34ih of December following, 
1BD&. — The minitlry of Mr. Canning began, on the vigil of his birth- 
day, and continued until his death io August, the same year, 1827. 

Lme Ib I Hin of fTicndihlp; and ii dlhcr honen. Ihit la, printed anlj' on 
vlnnooi mind ; or didioneu. that a, alnliiK only at torporai bmul pleaiiuc). 



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And shiU i»l hit Dumory la Brluln be deir, 

WhiiK Fximiile Hith tivjr all Biiloni bthoM 



Marc AntoDj Murelns, 1636, 

Muni, near Litaegei. 
ChriaWpLar Smart, 1723, Ship- 

bourn*. 
Jobn Manhal Lannei, 1769, 

Ltclmirt. 
Geoi^ Citaning, 1770, Lmdon. 

Horsemea on wide dowDS are 

oncn closely atteailed by a ItUle , 

party of undlows formileatoge- 
which plays before and 
d them, sweep) ag aiound, 

and coUectiDg all the skulking 
ts that ace roused by the 

IrampUui; of the horses' feet. — 

~7hiU of Mbomt. 

t^ittofthe Latin Church. 
Si. Autipas, a primitive AforCyr 
PtrgflBu..— SeeRev.ii.l3. 
Leo the Great, Pope, 
•.ranilatian), i. 461. 
St. linccai, Abbot in Scotland, 
c. 5d) Centuiy. 
t. Guthlake, PatTOn of Croy- 
Umd Abbiy, i. 714. 
St. Aid, Abbot in Irelami. 



CanliDal Hcdt; Beaufort, 1447. 

Winchaler. 
Cast, de Foil, 1612. li.Riiuntna. 
Gregory XUI. (Pope). 15S5. 
Philip Hecquet, 1737. Pom. 
James, Earl Waldegrave, 1 741 . 
Viltemune de Biaocas, 1758. 
G. Caaning, 1771. Maryltbime. 
Staoblaua Pooiatowiky (of Pa- 

iand), 1798. d. PttenbuTg. 
A.de Rivarol, 1001. i. BeriiH. 

The houso, or chimney [pen- 
sile] swallow, is the first comer 
of all the British hinindines ; 
and appears in geneisl on or 
about the 13lh of April, as I 
have remarked from maoy 
years' observation. Not but 
DOW and then a straggler is 
seea much earlier; and. in par- 
ticular, when 1 was a boy, I 
observed a swallow.' for a whole 
daytogelher, on one sunny warm 
Shrove Tuesday — This litde 
bird begips to form her nest, iiie, 
six, or more feet down thechiiu- 
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The trial of Milo for the murder of Clodius in the consulship of Pompey, 
B. C. 52. All the unwashed industi^ at the city was crammed within 
the Forum upon diBt momentoua day ; but neither Cato's CBodid ballot, 
nor the splendid laboura of TuUy were sufficient to save the tyrant-liiller, 
so that he was banished to MarEeillei, and his estate coaGscaled. This 
same day, B. C. 44, we find Marc Antony in the Senate recording a 
decree of JuHna Ciesai on bebalfof the /ewt, made (our and thir^ days 
only before his assassination. The decree is addressed lo the Senate of 
Paroa, who had forbidden the Delian Jews to wor^ip in the manner of 
their forefathers ; "Now it does not please us," says the Dictator, " that 
such laws should be made against onr friends and confederates ; for even 
in that decree wherein we forbid other Bacchanal revellers to meet in the 
cily o{ Rome, the Jews alone were pennilled to bring in their contribu- 
tions and assemble at their common sappers." Id B. C. 33, Cicero 
writes to Cneins Plaocus, then in Gaul. " Deapise the false splendour 
of all those empty honours that are short-lived and transitory ; true 
glory is founded upon virtae alone, which is never so illustriously dis- 
tinguided as when it displays itself by important advices, to our country." 
This PlancuB was the founder of the city of Lyimi, most probably in the 
present year. 

The battle of Ravenna, 1S12. King William and Mary are inaugu- 
rated, 1689. Pope acknowledges Wuburtoa'a explication and defence 
of his Essay on Man, 1732. A treaty is signed between Great Britain 
and Russia, the basis of the Anli-Galljcan Alliance, 1605 : — Austria 
coalesced on the 9th of August following. Napoleon subscribes the 
treaty of abdicalkn at Paris, 1814, the same day that the white banner 
was advanced by Lord Wellington on the ramparts of Toulouse. The 
Catholic Bill of privileges passed the House of Peers this morning, 1829. 



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MallhiuFaior, 1399, Ha-bemt. 
Ed. Bird, 1772, Wtieerhnrnplim. 



Demochares, one of the am- 
bassadors to Philip, to)d him, in 
reply to the compliment What U 
thtrt, gmltamm , that I can do to 
Mige tht Atheniani, that " they 
would take it for a great obla- 
tion if be Kould be pleased to 
haagbimseir." Philip restrained 
ibe iodignatian of tbe bj-atand- 
ers by Ibis memorable obseira- 
lion to the rest of tbe ambassa- 
dors, Prafi lell tht Athtniani 



ObttS »/ thi Latin Church. 
St. Victor of Brogo, c. 303. 
St. Julius, Pope, d. 352, 
SI. Sabas, tbe Goth, Martgr 

372. 
St. Zeno, Bishop of Vtrona 



Lncini AniiKaa Seneca, A. D. 
66. ItdnM. 

Afairtu Clouditu TadtuB (Em- 
peror), 276. oxasiinated, Ty- 
ana upon &nit. 

ArchlMshop( Henry) Cbicbeley, 
1443. Canfrrbury. 

J. Marquess of Hamilton, 1604. 

Francis Guyet, 16SG. 

Thomas Stanley, 16Te.Sl. Mar- 
John Kettlewell, 1695. Barking. 

James Benignus Boianel, 1704. 
Utaui. 

Dr. Geo^ Cheyne, 1743. d. 
Bath. 

Samuel Say, 1743. died, St. 

William Kent, 1748. d. Sur- 
fing Jrm Hou4e. (Chiswick.) 

Frauds Bellenger.l 749.d. Porii. 

Dr. Edirard Young, 1765. 
Weiv/gB. 

EliasdeCrebillOD, 1777. Faiii. 

Peter Metastasio, 1782. Vienna. 

Joseph Raulin, 17S4.d. Fori,. 

Joseph Dacre Carlyle, 1804. d. 
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K Mother Cjbek; alonr. 
! chiiiol 1 djtrk Mdlngi Ibvwn 
mnimy; wilh lomU cronnM. 



CTBE1.E. The day when the ihrine of Ibii potent divioity was Mceived 
>t Rome from Pesainus in PLrygia, md deposited within the Temple of 
Victory, B. C. 205, Sciirio A/ricanut and CrasBUS Dives, consuls. It 
waa in pursuance of an oracle in the Sybilline boots, which affirmed, 
" That if a foreign enemy insided Italy (meaning the Carthaginians), 
they might be vanquished by introducing the goddess Cybele into the 
Capitol." Ovid is very diffuse respectiijg the Megalesian rites, which 
counted chiefly of noise, feastiag, and a general freedom from restraint. 

The siege of Conslantinopte by the French and Venetian cnisadera, 
1304. In the pill^ which followed the conqneat of this superb city, 
all the admirable monoments of Grecian genius were demolished. 
Among these, says Nicelas, was a colossal Htrculei, by (he master 
Lysippus, " of such magnitude that his thumb was equal lo the waist, 
his leg lo the stature of » common man ; hia chest ample, his shoulders 
broad, his limbs strong and muBcular, his hEiir curled, his aspect com- 
manding. Without his bow, or quiver, or club, his lion's akin care- 
leaaly throwD over him , he waa seated on an osier basket, his right leg 
and arm stretched to the utmost, his left knee bent and supporting his 
elbow, hia head reclining on his left hand, his countenance indignant 
and pensive." Hercules was one of the few immorlala of Pagan and- 
quily who might have commanded Ihe iiteem of these western icnneclatti. 

FraDcia Alvarea arrives at iht Court of David, the Abyssinian king. 
15-20. Admiral Rodney defeats the French fleet, commanded by the 
Count de Grasse, off Dominica, in the Westeni Indies, 1782. The 
French fleet in Basque Roads is destroyed by Loid Cochrane, 1809. 

Low StiKDiY. The Octave or first Sunday after Easter Day, which 
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From Ihe pomp of K«pl 
I'rviD the rebd'i nDliy b 

Lluentnf lo Iha Silibath 



Day 


»im». 


Btirt»i. 


Idus. 


Thomu Weniworth, Eail of 


Henrj, Duke of Rohan, 163B. 


13. 


Straffofd.l59a.a=n«rsI«n«. 


d. Switwrland. 




John Peter de Crousu, 16^3, 


Bishop (Richard) Montague, 




Lataannt. 


1641. Norwich. 




Paul Frisi, 1727, MiUn. 


Dr. John Hinckley. 1691. 




Frederick North, Earl of Guild- 


K.vlhfield. 




ford, 1733. 


Charles Leslie, 1722. d. Clai- 




Philip l4)uis, Duke ot Otleaas, 


lougk. 




1747, Sr. Cloud. 


Oliver Reylof, 1742. i.Cheru. 




Joseph Braaiab. 1749, Suin- 


Christr. Pitt, 1748. BU-ndford. 




6orr,«gJ.. 


George Frederic Handel, 1769. 




Dr. Thomii Beddocs, 1760, 


tVeitmiatttr Abbey. 




Shiff,Lal. 


James, 2d Earl of Waldegrave, 




Gouvion St. Cyr, 1764, Twt. 


1763. 
Peter Chaumelle, guilUtined, 




To study in old age is as ri- 


1794. 




diculous as to attempt finding 


General{Arthur)Dillon,ffui/. 




the nature of a stiaigLt in a 


MnfJ. 1794. 




crooked line ; or to expect to 


Dr.- Benjarain Rush, 1813. 




see one's face iu muddy water. 


North America. 




%""■ 


Dr. Charles Buniey, Ihe Elder, 






1814. d. Chelua Hos/iital. 




4Dbtt0 'f the Latin Church. 


Sir Waller Raleigh »as wont 




St. Hermeaegild, Matter, d. 


to say of the ladies of Queen 




(Easier Evt), 536. ■ 


Elizahelh's bed-chamber, timl 




StGuinoch,Bp.iB Seoltand.OSS. 


then tm-e like witches, the)/ could 




St. CaiiJoe. Hennit of Wales, 


da hurt, but Ihei/ cmild Ai no 




d. (L™ Sunday), 1124. 


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Xlll. APRIL. 



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Jdlius CxsAa finishes, id about lix days, bis famous wall of entiench- 
rnent, suiteen feet io beighl. and eileoding aeventeea miles id length, 
fromGenevataSt Claude, B.C. 68. 

The Sultan, Selim I. takes the cil; of Cairo, and (bus cruahed tlie 
power of the Mamalukes, wbo fi» mora Iban two bundred and sixty 
years had swayed ihe land, ISI?. 

The treaty of Cattau Cambreiii, on the Seille, la concluded between 
Henry II. of France and Fbilip II. of Spain, 1559. 

Henry IV. of France publisbes, upon this day, 1598, at Nantei, tbe 
■nemoiable Edict of Toleration, which, in 16B5, was reimked by Louis 
XIV. ; who, like the false shepherd, regardless of the prosperi^ of his 
charge, Seeced the French nation of all its ingenuity and wealth, by an 
emigratum Ibal would more than lepeople the county of Surrey. 

" 1 went to London," saith Evelyn, in 1640, " to see the solemnity 
of bis majesty's riding through tbe city in slate to the Short Parliataait, 
which began on tbe ISlhof April, a lery glorious and magnificent sight ; 
the king circled with his royal diadem and the aflecliDns of his people. 
This parliament on the 5th of May was unhappily dissolved." 

The Radcliffe library at Oifoid, founded under tbe will of Dr. John 
Radclifle, is opened by his trustees with great public ceremony, 1749. 
Gibbs, the architect, began this, one of tbe most admired el&its of bis 
skill, on the 16tb of June, 1737. 

A water-spout fell upon, and nearly destroyed UrDOmsgiove, 1792. 

Lady Montagu to Pope, from Adrianople, 1717. N.S. "1 amwri^g 
in a bouse situated on the banks of the Hebmi, which runs under my 
chamber- window. My garden ia full of all cypress-trees ; upon the 
branches of which, several couple of true turtles are saying soft things 
lo one another from morning till nighl. How naturally do boughs and 
uHf] come into my mind at this minute ; and must not yon confess, lo 
my praise, (hat 'tie more than an ordinary discretiou, that can resist the 
wicked suggestions of poetry, in a place where truth, for once, furnishes 
all the ideas of pastoral V 



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MiyBiHllheirplew 


irH >i > atai.—nu friiii<v-Daf. 


Day. 


BirttW. 


ffltattifl. 


Cal. 


Leonanl Euler, 1707, BatU. 
Thomas Hollis, 1720, LenJxm. 
tleraj le Kain, 1738, ParU. 
WiUi«m Hen.y. Duke of Port- 
land, 1738. 
Dr.GBO.Gregoiy,1764.DuWin. 

I will lell you the property of 
a lion; when the liooegs hath 

will not turn to her all that day, 
nor thai nighl, and in such wise 
he shows his lordship. 

Kaighl of the Toaer. 

eiitt of thiUtin Church. 
Sli. TiburduB, Valerian, and 

Maximus, Marljrj, 229. 
Sts. Carpus, BisftopnfT^i/aiira, 

Martyr,, 251. 
St. Beneiet (or Little Bennet), 

Patron n/-v(wijn™,d. 1184. 
Sts. Antony, John, and Eusta- 

chius, Martstl at Vilni; C. 

1343. 
Lidwina (or Lydwid), I'irgin 

of Holland. 1*33. 


Harold Hattfoot (of England), 
1040. Walmimttr. 

Richarf Nevill, Earl of War- 
wick, 1471. kiUtd. Banut. 
(Bilsun Abbey.) 

John Nevill, Marquess Mon- 
Utg«,l47].kilUd,Ban>et. 

William Fienoes. Lord 3ay and 

Thomas Otwaj, 1685. Si. C(e- 

Thnr«a. 
Louia(lhe Dauphin), 1711. d. 

MiHdim. 
Bishop (Thomas) Randle,1743. 

d. DvUin. 
Louis Silvester, 1760. d. Pari., 
John Gilbert Cooper, 1769. 
Michael Dandra-Bardon, 1783. 
William Whitehead, 1785. South 
. Audley Street. 
John Baptist Gab«],gt<ill<)[ifi£d, 

1793. 
Bishop (Beilby) Porteus, 1809. 

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A NAVAL engagemeat look place upon this day, 1393, in llie middle of 
Ibe Channel, between the French and English, by mutual agiMmenl, 
with the whole of their respective forces. The victor, Edward 1. cairied 
off more than two hundred and fifty sail of his opponent, Philip the Fair. 

The maiineis of Portsmouth and the Cinque Ports capture the Nor- 
man fleet of two hundred ships off Brittany, and ma&sacre the crews, 
1293. 

The £rst Wanlen and Fellows on this day, 1386, make their public 
entry into F«u Cd/^«,Oifdnl, founded by William of Wykeham. 

The battle of Bamel, on the conGues of Hertford and Middlesex, re- 
markable for (he death of Warwick, styled the king-maker. Easier Sun- 
day, 14TI. Queen Margaret, on the same day that her unworthy lord 
was taken prisoner at Barnet, lands at Plymouth with a body of French 
aoiilianea, which recalled Edward once again from his brief repose at 
London, to the still more fortunate Geld of Tticktibury. The Oliv 
BUaom, Capt«n Cataline, swis from Woolwich with colosists and 
stores for the settlement on the River Wiapogo in Guiana. They were 
obliged to tonch at SorAiuJaei, and finding it without inhabitants, the 
crew took paaaession of the country, by erecting a cross upon the spot 
where Jama TWrn was afterwards built, with this inscription, " Janes 
King of England and this Island !" but they only stayed to refresh 
themselves, and proceeded to the Island of St. Lvcie, where they left 
a short-Uved colony on the 23d of August, 1605. 

The Allies are defeated at Alrnanza, by the French and Spaniards, 
under the Duke of Berwick, 1707. 

The cuckoo is supposed (o be Grst heard upon this day, dedicated in 
the Roman calendar to Libtrti/. 



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AuluE AIIhus Tibullua, B.C. 

63, Rome. 

Claud« Saumaise, A. D. 1S8B, 
Sanur. 

Dr. Samuel Woodfonl, 1636, 
Idmdon, 

John. EBrlofPort»mou(li,l6go. 

A. G. M. de Querlon, IT02, 
Nanlei. 

Will. Aug. Duke of Cumber- 
land, 1721, Leicester Houie. 

Felix Fonlana. 1730, Poiaarola. 



er and bttOFC—Spfrarr- 



QMttfl. 



t^iitt ^f the Lati^ 


Church. 


Sis. Basilissa and 


Aaasta»B 


(Disciples of St. 


Peter and 


Si. Paul), Martsr 


,1st Cent. 


St. Paternua (Palier. Pair, or 


Foil), BMop of 




d. c. 550. 




St. Ruadhan, called 


one of the 


Twelve Apostles 


f Ireland, 


Abbot, d. 584. 




SL Munde, Abbot ia Scotland, 


d. 963. 




St. Peier Gonzales 


conimoniy 


called Si- Telro, 


or Elmo, 


Patron of mariutr 


<1. 1246. 



Godwin (Earl of Kent), 1053. 

Wincheiter. 

KChrysolonis, 1415.Cni»tanc«. 

Charles Somerset, Earl of Wor- 
cester, 1526. 

Bp.(Wm.)Alley,1570. Exeter. 

Dr. Kchard Mulcastar, 1611. 
d. Stamford-ltivers. 

George Calvert, T.ord Baltimore, 
1632. Si. Di<n>ia>>'<. 

Gerald Grace (the Traveller), 
16*2. killeJ, Kilriiih. 

JohnDaille, 1670. d. Pom. 

Charles XL (o/SttfJ(n), 16»7. 

Frances.Madame deMaintenon, 
I719.d. Si. Cyr. 

LukeMilbonme, 1720.d.L(indon 

Js.Caw«iora,1761.d.ri,n6rirfge. 

Wm.01dys,1761.PouriH''A 

Jane de I'ompadour, 1764. 

Dr,Rob.Whytt,1766.d.EdtBg4. 

Js. Granger, 1776. d. Sblplake. 

Dr.Tho.Wilson,1784.»'ri[ft™li. 

MarjDelany,1788.d.H'ttirf»i>r. 

Pbilibert de Blanchelande, exe- 
cuted, 1793. 

Dr. Alexander Murray, 1813. 

John Bell, 1820. d. B<me. 

.Tames Bartleman, 1821.j<ft6«y. 



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THEfifleenthof Jiorthe Israelites arrive at the wildemesB of Sin; just 
jne month »ftei theit deparlure from Rameses, B. C. 1491. 

The first battle of Mutina, the presept Modena, in which Marc Antony 
is repulsed by the two oonsuU, Hirtius and Pansa, assisted by Octavius 
CieBar, B. C. 43. Fansa died of the wounds received in this conflict, 
and his coadjutor was slain after he had achieved a second and more 
decisive victory. — See23rd April. Keligious sacrifices, called Fordicidui, 
because a gravid cow was oSered in every ward to the goddess Tellus, were 
instituted by Numa, and solemnly observed upon this day. 

ill-Simeon, and Hugh the Illuminator, two friars of DubUn, com- 
menced their pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre, 132'i. Sir John Man- 
deville began hia travels in the same year. . 

Chailea Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, espouses Mary the Queen Dowager 
of France, wster to Hany VIII. and grandmother, by this Duke, of the 
unfortunate Lady Jane Grey, 1&15. 

The Princess Mary addresses the following note upou this day, to 
whom does not sppear ; " My very good Lord, because my trust is, 
your goodness will not be weary, though I do daily ntolest you with my 
continual suits, I shall most heartily desire the same to have iti remem- 
brance my earnest suit made unto you for Mistress Colu, my mother's 
servant, touching the farm of Riabridge, belonging to the New 
College in Oifiird, the warden whereof bath neither used you nor me 
I think) gently therein ; and therefore, as my sheet-anchor next the 
King's Majesty, 1 recommend it wliolly unto you ; and even so beseech 

I Lord to send you no worse to fare than I would myself. At Ibe 
Court, your loving assured friend during my life." 

Sir Edward Howard is defeated off Brest, by the French admiral, 
1513. Johnson publishes his great national work, Hu English Dietiim- 
ory, 1755 ; the same day that his paper the " JdUr" appeared, 1758. 

The Oxford and Cambridge Easier Terms commence on Wedaaday,tiu! 
tenth day from Easter ; and end with the week next before Whit Sunday. 






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U-.V. 


Virtue. 


fflwtStt. 


X... 


Francis Anthony, 1550, London. 


RoberlBnice,(theCompetitor), 


C«l. 
16. 


Sir Haas Sloaoe, 1660, Killi- 




liagh. 


Matthias Cornnui, 1490. 




Cliarles Monlague, EbiI of 


Silvester Gigles, Bishop of Wor- 




Halifax. 1660, HbiIo,,. 


cester, ISil.d. Rone. 




John La\T, 1671, Edinhiirgh. 






Peter Meihain, 1744, La™. 


»,i(rf, 1594. Omsftir*. 
Aphara Behn, 16B9. Amy. 
Dr. John Edwards, 1716. 




~~ 


George Louis, Count de Buffon, 
1788. Mo7,lbard. 




©tlt« oflhi Latia Church. 


Di'. Geo^ Campbell, 1796. 
Arthur Young, 1830. Br«dJiM 




Eighteen Martyrs o/ Saragnsia ; 


Combvsl. 




and St. Encralis (or Eugra- 


Henry Fnseli, 1826. d. PhImj 




tia), Pi-gin Martyr, 304. 


Hill. 




St. Turibius, BijAop D/".lj(orgo, 






e. 460. 






SI. Fracluosus, ^rcWiiJiop of 






Braga, d. 665. 


It ii necessary, as it seems to 




St. Mans (or Magnus). Bithop 


me, that we ehould pay attention 




if Orknen, Martyr, UOi. 


to ftiturity 1 since it happens 




St. Dnion(or Drugo), Patrm of 


that only the most illiberal and 




ihepherd,, d. Stbmirg, 1186. 


depraved among mankind are 




St. Joachim »/ Sunna, d. 1305. 


Dot concerned about the opinion 
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OCTAVI0SC:tSAl 



hisvi 



d sliuts the gales of the temple of Janus Quirinus the second time, 
B, C. 39. This is the anniversary a]:>o of hii b«iag saluted Empernr ; 
D Other words, the annihiladan of the Bomtn Conmonwealth. The 
ci^ at this period was lifly miles in circumference, contaiaiug four mil- 

in souls; and the annual revenue of the state amounted to foui hun- 

ed millions sterling. It was upon the siileenlh of Artetniuus (Jiar), 
.under the ProcuialorBliip of Gesaius Florui, A. D.66, that the massacre 
and cnicifiiion of the three thousand ai hundred Jews took place in 
Jenisalem, at the same time that Bemice was performing, in Ihe Temple, 
her Ibirtj dayi penance, tor an incestuous commerce with her brother. 
King Agrippa the Second, an incident that has not escaped (he wither- 
ing vetse of Juvenal, the monster- killer of a, monstrous age. 

The ephemeral pestilence, tudar Brilansievi, breaks out at-Shrews- 
buiy, 1551. It reached the capital on die 7th of July, when the num- 

:r of the weekly mortality was seven hundred and sixty-one persons- 
After ravagiog all the east and northern parts of England, il stopped 
suddenly about the close of September. 

The equestrian statue of Charles II. is set up, in the Parliament Close at 
Edinbui^h, 16B5, at an eipense of more than one thousand pounds. 

Addison is appointed, by King George I. one of his principal secre- 
taries of state, ITIT. If this greatly good man was then unequal li 
Ihe various and nervous bustle of an olBce so important, the act of a so 
rereign, who could dislinguish real merit, will, on thai account, losi 
none of its value. The Spectator was now declioing ; for venalility of 
genius can adapt itself to any sta^n, the mechanism of which is always 
to be supplied by industry, as Demosthenes imagined an angiy sea h 
opposition, and from the shore practiitd how lo rule a multitude. 

The victory of Cullwfen, which terminated the Scottish lebellum, 1746. 



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And (iiii*, lUii tord of nsckB 1 


o>.»nd..n<l,l-P<ip.. 


o«„. 


BirtW- 


Beat(w. 


XV 


John Fotd, 1586. hapliztd. 


Agapetus (Pop«). 536. d. C.m- 


Cat'. 


IUi-gt«n. 


slaiilirmpfe. 


17. 


Bishop (Edward) Siillingfleei. 


Joachim Camerarius, the Elder, 




1635, Cra»lmiT». 


1575, d. Ltifiic. 




William Molyneux. 1656, 


George Villiers, 2nd Duke of 




Dublin. 


Buckioghom, 1687. d. Khkhy 




Anthony de Rivarol, 1757. 


Moorsidt. (Abbey.) 




Bagaals. 


Joseph I. (Emperor) 1711. 






Bishop (Benjamin; Hoadly. 
1761. Winchester. 




All birds that have crooked 


Henry Woodward, 1777. 




claws; have also a short neck 


Dr. Benjamin Franklin, 1790. 




and a broad tongue, and are 


d. PhiUiMphi,!. 




imitative, as the Indian parrot, 


Dr. Erasmus Darivin, 1802, 




frhich becomes more loquacious 


UreadssU. 




when he has Usted wine. The 






asinine flu., if it descend into 







the iungs. the beast dies ; but 


We travel to China lo obtain 




confined to Ihe head, il is not 


clay for porcelain, as if we had 




mortal.— -JHstolfe' J Phyiichs. 


none ourselves ; stuK, as if we 







were destitute of stuffs ; and a 




eiiUofthtL«linCh«rch. 


small herb to be infused in 
water, as if we had no simples 




Si. Anicelus, Pope, 2d Century. 


inourowncounUies. la return 




St. Simeon, BUhop of Ciesiphon. 


for these benefits, we are de- 




inPertia,3». 


sirous of converting the Chinese. 
Voltidrt. 




St. Stephen, 0/ CttMu, 1134. 





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WbcR iIk brawl dchb leniii MalBit 
Hie ilow ciu^, IhB jcUov-blovoai'd 



Rlgii.~na TrawEbr. 



flds. 



Tre iDutidalioa or the riren at Dort, in Holland, wbicb swept a<ray 
one huodred ihouuad pemni, and deitiojed leveaty-two Tillagm, 1431. 
I city, wbicb n built upon ui itland, ia cclebnted for it* ialmao- 
fisheij. The froit breaks at Pari*, tbnt had continued, nilh a iligfat Id- 
tenDiuiaQ. intra the fint da; of January, 1434. Snow fell in Holland 
Ibr forty dayi HicceMiTely daring the lame winter. In 153T, npon 
'ay, tbe rifer Simeto, in Sicily, orerflowed iti banks, destroying five 
huodred houses with tbe neighbouring castles, and all tbe wood was 
uprooted by a sloim. 

The Spanish sovereign!, Ferdinand and Isabella, sign, at Santa Fi, 
their grant to Columbus, 1493. cooililuting bim faereditaiy Admiral and 
Viceioy over all the islands and continents be should discover during 
his expedition, wilb tbe benefit of a lithe of the profits irinng from the 
nnrchBDdise found within his admiral^. 

A petition, signed by a poor man npon this day, is presented to King 
Jaoiei at Theobalds, on his progress from Edinburgh to London, 1603. 
" Good king, let there be an niufoimi^ in true religion, without any 
distnibance of papist or puritan. Good king, let there oAt be such 
delay and craJ^ proceedings in the law, and let lawyert have moderate 
teei. Good long, let no man have more offices than one, especially 
touching the law. Goodking, look to thy taken and officeraof iby house, 
and to Ibeir exceeding fees that peel and pole thy princely allowance." 

A prvdiguna mmiUr u bom at Adlington in I^neaster, this day, 
1613, with two bodies joined to one back. It was described by a reve- 
rend gendeman in a pamphlet entitled " Sfmn^ Ncm." 

The western tower of Hei«foid calttedial fell, 1TS6. The distribu- 
tion of priie-money into tighthi is settled by Gareinment, 1193, Tbe 
peace of tMben a signed between Buonaparte and the Archduke, 1T9T. 
Tbe Coneordat, or code of religion, is pablisbed this day at Paris, 1802. 

The Horticultural 3odety in B«gent Street is incorporated, 180S. 

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It ihiill b< Aekle, falK, 



Day. 


SirliN- 


Seatlf. 


XIV. 


Sir Fmocii Baring, 1140. 


Archbishop Theobald, (^6tBto/ 


Cal. 




astro), 1161. 


18. 




John Leland, 1552. L<mdon. 




As unber attracU a straw, so 


bBiu. 




dots beauty adniiradan, which 


John Fox, 1587. CrippUeaU. 




only laato while the warmth con- 


Robert Parsons, 1610. Bimt. 




tinues: but virtue, wisdom, 






gooduess, and real worth, like 


Sir Symonds D'Ewes, 1650, 
John Craunt, 1674. Si. Du„- 




the kadilone, never lose their 




power. These are the true 






graai, which, as Homer feigns, 
are linked and tied hand in 


George, Lord Jeffreys, 1689. d. 
Toatr. 




hand, because it is hj their 


Alexander Laioei, 1710. d. 










so firmly united to each other. 
BurlBii. 


Madame Bonlems, 1768. d. 

Pari,. 
Charles Pratt. Earl Camden, 








®t(la tftht Latin Cftunft. 


1794. 










Martyr, c. 186. 


They that govern most malw 




St. Laiuean (or Molaisre), 


leaalDoise, You see when they 




Buhopofleighlin.d.63li. 


row in a barge, they that do 




SL Oaldin, ArMM^ of JUiion, 


dradgery Work, slash, and puff. 




d. 1176. 


and sweat; but he that governs, 
Mt. quietly at the stem, and 






scarce U seen to tHr.—Selden. 



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Suh BBvloai britr titi 1TU17 Icp doth iccmtcli. 
Each ihiidDv DuktB Urn atopj «icb n^nnnr lU; : 
For mlMrJ il trodden Da by man;, 

atoto. 

The cbuich of St. Nicaiu, at Rheimi, u faiii>d«d by tlie aicLitecI 
Hngo Libergier, 1229 ; wbich, hDHeTer, w«s Dot comideted ualil the be- 
pDDiag of the fourteenth cenluiy, by Bobert de Courci. — Eleanoi, 
d&nghter of Edmrd IIt deputa thii day, to connunmale her cspouiali 
with R^inald, 3d Earl of Gmldrei. The jaumey of this Princeu ter- 
minated at Verfeil, the 3Stli of Joly, 1332 i^ier eipeuMi amounted to 
£42. Shakapeaie'ipoemof" Fmu and Jilimu"iienteredthiaday, 1593, 
by Richard Field, an eminent printet, who wai a native of Stratioid. 
Thii j!nt htir of one poel'a ima^jnatian, which it leenu obtained the 
jmIm in the race with Uarlowe'i " Hera and LeandeT," wai dedicated, in 
abriefsndelegantadd[«u, toIfaefiunouiEarlofSautbftniplon, We£nd, 
from a maaiucript iwyiMnt of 12iJ. for the Survey of France and the 
preient poem, that on the 13th of June it wai in circulation. ." Ai 
the Uml of £uphorbu>," tailh Merea, !□ 1598, " wai thought to live in 
Pythagonu, so the iweet, wit^ toul of Ovid live* in melliflunui and 
boDey-tongned Shaktpeare 1 wilneu hii Veniu and Adonii." 

Sir Heniy WottoD whtei from Eton College to the young Milton, juit 
previoui to hii coatiDental eKcnnion, 1638 : " It wai a ipecial favour, 
when yon lately bettowed upon me here the £nl taste of yoiv acqiuuBt- 
uice, though no loD^ than to make me^ow, that Iwtnted mora time 
lo value it, and lo enjoy it rightly. Since your going, you have charged 
me with new obligationi, both for a very kind letter from you, dated the 
nith of this month, and Ibc a dain^ piece of enteitainmeat that came 
therewith ; wheiein I should much commend the tragical part, if the 
fyrical did not ravadi with • certain Doric delicacy b jour songs and 
ei, whenia I must fdainly confeM to have seen yet nothing parallel in 
r lat^uage : ipm inoUiiui. . . . Now, sir, concerning your tnvdi, I 
should think, that your best line will be through the whcde length of 
France to Marseilles, and Ihenca by sea to Geno*, nbence the passage 
inta Tuieany is as diurnal as a Gravesend barge." . 

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XIX. APRIL. 

B-tmoi.mfnl1y.nri.tnw, 

In (be iniy i^qdvc .iirrtl .wlngln;, 
Wilh > rieep Kinnd, lo ind fr>. 
Hovllytothefacuillieygo! 

Hickl thtbymaittii.^nE- 
'nu: HUE (or the dead Ixlaw, 
Or Ihe Uvlnf who ihoilly ihiU be k I— PoWtina. 






D-S- 


Wfrtfti. 


SeotQB. 






Cal.' 
19. 


Michael le Tellier, 1603. Po™. 
Lady Eliiabelh Haatings, 1682. 
AuEuatus William Iffland, 1759, 
Hamoer. 

Her countenance ia the lively 
picture of her mind, which is 
the seat of honour, Irulh, com- 

cence. TKtre dwitU the ,com 
of vkt, and pity loo. lie rest- 
less Potuglosia is so perfectly 
opposite to Aspaiia, that as vice 
a terrible to her only as it is the 
object of reproach, so virtue is 

m& ipfh<»».—Congreve. 

®bf» oflhe Latin Church. 
St-Ursmar, Bp.o/I*te<,d.713. 
St.Elphege, the Baid,Bp. d.953. 

ttrbury, Jtfarlyr, lOlS. {Set 
Englith Cburcb Caintdor.) 
8L Leo IX. Pope, d. 1054. 


Robert 11. (o/S™(t.mi), 1390. 

Philip Melancthoo, 1560. Wti- 

ternherg. 

Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dor- 
set, 1608. Weu-imler Abbey. 

Tho. Bastard, 1618. DotcAoift. 

Geoi^ Bate, 1669. KingiUm 
apoB Thama. 

Christina (o/Swdm), 1689.d. 
Rome. 

Nicholas Saunderson, 1739. 
Bonconh. 

Thomas Coieter, 1747. 

John Banks. 1751. d. hlingloa. 

Dr.Rd. Price, n9l.d.H«ehu,y. 

George, Lord Byron. 1824. d. 

Daked frailties of the d«ul we 
can cleanse the breath of a whole 

society, then there may be virtue 
in saciilege. and chari^ in the 

abuse of charity :— otherwise, no 
private worth . or motive, can jus- 
tisfy the severe inBiction. 

Cmtipondaia. 






aomsj he HMi l.i./o««, lie gently on him l-Jirin,, Jbb, P///. 


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Bendideia, an annivenaiy of Diana kept by ihe Thiuiuu, who called 
her Bendii, ai well as by the Atheoiani, upoa the DiDeteenth or twen- 
tieth or Tharg«lian. The Dioclea were celebrated about Ihii tim 
Megva, near die tomb of Diocles, killed in tbedefeace of a youth w 
be loved. A garland wai bestowed upon that boj who gave the >wei 
kias. It encouiaged manly friendihip, a virtue ta ran that Sir Philip 
Sidney suppoied it buried with the Hrtcieiits. The. Romani destroyed 
a certain niunber offoia during the racei on the preient day, by faiten- 
iag little bundles of lighted itranr to their backs, and then looaiog Ihem 
in the plain. They repreienled, appai«ut]y, the state-vermin ; but all 
kinds of cmcdy are much belter rewarded in the breach of Ibem. 

An eclipse of the bud, noticed b; Heiodotua, B. C. ISl. Xenei 
reached Sudn from Suu in the autamn of thii year, and winieted 
Ihere. In the spring he marched to Abydos, on the Hellespont, and 
Ibe great nanl battle of Salomii followed, during the autumn, B.C. ' 

The Lutheran Princes pabliih iheii pniatatim of appeal against the 
Imperial decree of Charles the Fifth, arid that promulgated at Spire, 
condemning their nonconformity to the Roman church, IS29. lACoille 
'es at the Cape of Good Hope, for the purpose at observing the 
Southern hemiiphere, IT5I. He remuned there for three years, during 
which period he detennined the eiact position of ten thousand stars, and 
Sied the situation of the Isles of Franca and Bourbon. Tbe American 
irar, between Great Britain and her colonies. Commences at LeiingtiHi, 
in Ihe nei^bourhood of Boston, 1776. Tbe" I-phigtnit" of G luck, the 
composer (adapted from Racine), is produced on tbe Parisian stage, by 
mand and under the patronage of the Queen, Maria Antoinette, 1776. 
Dr. Herschel observes three lunar volcanoes, 1787. 

The Mcood Suftday after Easter, The Synod of Edinbui^b upon this 
day, N. S. 1684, changed the year of eaajirmalim for children from the 
age of eight to uiteen, when they would possess more knowledge. 



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To ihow At itRaitli. tat iatimj of fMt, 
B} til •Oi f^ow'd, and by lU deny'il. 

Pntoe, md tht ghwy w eooIcDn it, toot— r«iv. 



If, acconUng to the rules oS 
Machiavcl, tic vale, lie 
hold ia tliow tbitt are a 
cooimtnd, and if it be lawful, 
fat tt lafat, to do any thing 
that ia beneficial, only tfianM 
ihould pDuei) the earth ; and 
Ihey, alriving to eicted 
ranny, should each to athei be 
& alaaghlerman ; till, the migh- 
lieil anlUiing all, om itroke vie 
l^tfor dtath ; IB that in an >) 
the race_ar man ■hoald be eiti 
paled, Robtrt Crtene. 



®tftS 1^ tht Latin Ckurek. 
St. S«rf (or Servanm). AptalU 

«f Orhneg, Sth Century. 
St. Agnes, Bf Monte Puldam>, 

Virgin, d. 1317. 
St. James, if Sclammia (or Illy- 



im), 1485. 



Salviui Otho, (EmperorJ A. D. 

69. d. BriielUm. 
Caaadwalla, King of Wcssei, 

688. Si, Prter'j, Bomt. 
Clement V. (Pope), 1314. d. 

Rajuemaun. 
Eliza. Barton, (Maid of Kent), 

1534. eiecultd, Tyburn. 
Sir J. Mason, 1566." Si. Paul',. 
Bishop (John) Daventinl, 1641. 

Salitbary. 
Francis, Duke of Somenet, 

1678. tuurdertd, Gmoa. 
Dr. Lancelot Addison, 1703. 

Lichfittd. 
Lady Dameria Muham, 1708. 

Baih. 
James Fe^ver, 1718. 
JohnLewiE?elit,1750.d.Farif. 
Roland D'ErcevtUe.guJll. 1794, 
Francis Mathurin Dupon.guil- 

latiaed, 1794. 

I do not call him a poet that 
write* for his own disenion, any 
more than thai genlleiaan a fid- 
dler who amtuei hinuelf with a 
violin. Swift. 



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XX. APRIL. 

The iprlEbtty SyWii IrijH along the grnD, 

Wtaik » kind glKiice « htr pnnact 9lei, 

How mDch at variucx ve her («et lod tjnl—Fiipirt Spring. 

aiiB. 

Thb lesser Fon&theniea were annual festivals kept by the Atheniaji 
1 honour of Mioeiva, beginaiag with the twentieth of Tbargelion. 
Then were three games conducted by ten presidents. Upon the first 
day at even was the race of lotchei. The second contention was gym- 
naitic, and the third, instituted b; FericleS, included mtlady of all 
kinds, the dance, tbe song, instrumental music, and the drama. There 
was likewise a mock sea-ligbt at Sunium. — See 38(A June. 

The Gothg, with Alaric their king, are defeated by CoastaDtiae in the 
plains of Mssia, and compelled to repass the Danube, A. D. 332. 
Christian faith was linl established in the Isle of Wight, during the 
reign and by the means of Cieadwalla, 6B6. The chuich, chapels, 
abbey, and bishop's conrl of the aV/ of Cloghei are burnt to the groi 

S, Oliver Cromwell expels the Parliament and dissolves the Coun- 
cil of Stale, (Wednesday), 1653. The Lord General entered the house 
clad in plain black clothes, with gray worsted stockings. " Then he 
went to the table where the mace lay, which used to be carried before 
the Speaker, and said, ' take away these baubles ;' to the soldieiB took 
away the mace, and all the house went out ; and at the going out the 
eral said to young Sir Hany Vane, calling him by his name, 
light have prevented this eitraordinaty couise, but he was a juggler, 
and bad not so much as common hoitesty." The immortal ni 
achievement of Blake, at Santa Crui, m TeneHlIe, 1667. Pepys nc 
i: " This night I am told the first play is played in Whitehall, 
;h is now turned to a house of playing." The siege of Londonderry, 
by James IL, in 1689. Jacob Tonson appliesto Pope for the honour of 
printing his Paitoralt, from Gray's Inn Gale, 1T06. The professorship 
of. Rhetoric in the University of Edinburgh is established by George III., 
1T62. The Austrian armies are defeated by Napoleon at Ahaubtrg, 
and the two next days successively routed and overthrown at LmidAut 
and Eclaau},!, IBOQ. The New Bethlehem Hospital is founded, 1812. 
The eighth month, Flirr^l.af the French Republican calendar began; 
when the sun enters the sign Taurui. The ancient Romans kept the 
Persian feasts of Mitltnu upon this same day to reconl the circumstance. 
hlak, till Ihirly, or wllh lomc ■ little longer, people ihoald dren in ■ way 



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m ihe voodi,— i>4pa. 



Numa Pompilius, B. C. 753, 

Cum. 
Bbhop (Reginald) Heber, 
1783. 

Aleninder was Id bod; mott 
grecefDl, moEt aclive.niasE inde- 
^tigable ; in mind moU niaiily, 
moat ambitJODi of glory, most 
indiflerent lo danger, most dili- 
gent in devotion to th« Dei^. 

Ablte b/ the Latin CJkurcA. 
St-Eingan (orEneon) 0/ WaUi, 



F^lrurrchof 

Amiach, d. S9S. 
St. AnaBtasi 

Younger, Patriarch of Ah- 

tiock, d. 6)0. 
St. AnaslBsiiu, the Sinaite, 

7th Centuiy. 
St. Beuno (or Beunor,) Abbot 

s, 7th Centuiy. 
St. MaltulHUS of Irtlaiid, Mar- 

(jfr, 721. 
St. Anselm, Archbithap rf Cm- 

labuTy.d. 1109. 

Of *U ■fflJelim l>iiE>>t ■ 



WtttHt. 



Remni, B. C- 763. vmrd, Rohm. 
Alexander the Great, 333. AUi- 

Diogenes tbe Cynic, 323. 

Alerandar IL (Pope), A.D. 

1073. 
Peter AbeUrd, 1143. d. 

Marcetliit opm Saint. (Pin 

la Chaise.) 
John Beaufort, Marquess of &c 

merset, 1410. Contn-frun/. 
Anthony Godeaa, 1671. 
Philip de la Hire, 1718. 
Dr. Richard Newton, 1753. d. 

Lavtndim Crangt, 
D. Mallel,176S. d. DruTyLaru. 
AU Bey, 1773. d. Syria. 
General Dagobert, 1794. Spain. 

Anguitne testified his veoera- 
rion for ihe memory of Aleiau- 
der by Ihe present of a golden 
crown, and scattering Sowers 
upon^the body. Being asked 
if he would inspect those of tbe 
Ptolemies likewise, he replied. 
" I wished 10 see o ting, not 
dead men." Biim Caaiat, 

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gtts._ 

E Anntvehsarv of the foondation of Rome, in the 3rd yew of the 
6th Olympiitd, B.C. 753, of the Julian period 3961, after the deitrac- 
in of Troy 431, and one hundred and Sixteen years from the buildiug 
of Carthage. Romulus was in his seventeenth year when he received 
tfK regal title ; and his subjects (citiieaa) consisted of a legion of three 
thooEand foot and three hundred horse. This prince established that 
system of military discipline which artervards enchained the aatii 
Numa foUoHed. and by erecting die cardinal virtues opoa the broad 
basis of religion and piety, the civil fabric was cemented, which under 
ServiuB (the siith king) was burnished and rounded by ti representa- 
e polity and municipal rights. The vUthU city became ennobled by 
the colossal improvements of the two Tarquius. just handsome enough, 
wbispers the spirit of Cato, for the admisuon of Junius Brutus iu his 
amtular robes. The thousandth auniversaiy of this day was cele- 
brated in the reign of the Emperor Philip, when Pompc^'s famous 
theatre was bumtd, A. D. 348. Although the secular games were 
vived to give tciil to the solemnity, it was now that llie Roman empire 
cihiUted the first symptoms of its declension. — The PbHHh were festi- 
vala catemporary with the foundation of the city, consecrated to Pales, 
the goddess of shepherds. Tbe couutiy people then purified themselves 
by passing thnmgh a itravJiTt, and obtained by that means a piotec- 
and increase for thrir flocks, and pardon for any involuntary sacri- 
■. The oblation of the Roman milkmaids was a cake, manufactured 
by their own sweet hands. — Cicero delivers his fourteenth and last Phi- 
pic, and decrees a thanksgiving of fifty days for the tictoiy at Jifiitina. 
HoKEDAY, an ancient English female /nlival, kept on Easter Tuesday 
tnight, quindena pascha. The custom of lifting upon Easter Tuesday 
may be referred to the same original. Perhaps the Cereafinn rites of 
~ nan ancestors. Half-yearly rents in the olden time were Kserved 
upon this day, corresponding with the great day of Michaelmas. 



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How pnllily, npon Ui pilded 
The Tlvidly couUuled liiiU nn 
To pleiK the idmlrint eyel » 
And hlEh fB^ low, lU Id bit m 



7^ T^nvftf.— CniAanw. 



J}«S 


BirHw. 


Bratbi. 


Joseph Pellicer, \em,Zarugoia. 


Henty VII. (of E«gla«d). 


22.' 


Dr. John Davies, 1679, L™im. 


1SU9. d. Richmond. 


Henry Fielding, 1707, Shaq,- 


JohQ le Noir, 1692. d. Nantes. 




ham Park. 






Immanuel Kant. 1724, K««ifi- 


Matthew EUas, 1741. 




■ berg. 


Antony de JussEeu, 1758. d. 




JainesGrahirae.l765,Gk,jou.. 


PBri*. 

Dr. Edward Cobden, 1764. 






Isaac de Chapelller, guUtotintd, 
1792. 




®bft« of tlu Latin Church. 


Christian de Makiheibes, h> 
headed, 1794. 




St. Sotar, Fope. 2nd Century. 






Sts. Epipodius and Alemmder, 






Sforti^i at Itmii, c. 177. 






St. Leonides, Martyr at Jtei. 


She dotb not, with laying long 




and™, 202. 


a-bed, spoil both her compledon 




Si. Caius, Pope, 296. 


and condition ; nature bath 




Sta. Aiades, Tharba (or Pber- 






bula), and many others, 


sleep is rust to ihe soul ; abe 




Martyrs i„ Persia. 3il. 


rises, therefore, with the lark. 




St. Theodornsa/S;™,,. Bishop, 


and goes to bed with the lamb. 




d. 613. 


Thus lives she; and all her 






care is that she may die in the 




Abbtss, d. 770. 


pring-lime, (hat she may have 




St. Bofua <or Hufin), Anchoret 


lore of flowers strewed with hei 




ifGlt^d^kch. 


corpse. The Milkmaid. 



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XXII. APRIL. 



Acts. 



Drajftait'i Uargartl. 



The nunuge of Heniy VI. with Miirgaiet, danghter of IUn§, Duke of 
Adjou (titular King of Naples and Jerusalem) ii ■olemnized at Titcb- 
field, 1445, and npoa (be 30lh of May following, the lady was CRxroed 
at Weitminster. Thii priiice«a chose for her device a dairy, an alluuoa 
lo her name, — aa eipiessed in French, margutriti. 

Sir Philip Hob; being appmnted Usher of the Black Rod, 17th 
March, 16A3, write* this day from Brussels to Sir Wm. Cecil, " 1 have 
leceired your letter and the Roit withal, which according to youi adter- 
liKnieDt, I have tied to a lace, and do carry about my neck, in token of 
mine office." 

The Boyal Society of London is incorporated by the charter of Charles 
II. himself a novice in physical science, and a patron of the teally skil- 
ful, 1663.— The Peace of Aii-la-Cbapelle is concluded, 1668. 

A tola] eclipse of the sun, nine in the morning, when (he stars ap- 
peared, and the birds sank within their nests, 171S. It is noticed by 
Halley and Loutille, who came to London to assist his observations. 

Chatterton leaves Us native city for the capital, ITTO.—General 
Washington enters Philadelphia, with the honours of a triumph, 1789. 

The trial of Warren Hastings, governor-general of Bengal, tenninales, 
1795, by the sentence of the House of Lords, pronounced by the Chan- 
cellor : " Warren Hastings, yon are acquitted of all the charges <rf 
impeachment bronght against you by the Commons, and of all matters 
coDlained therein ; you and your bail therefore are discharged." The 
twen^-two articles of chai^ were delivered by B-arlte, at the table of 
the House, during the fir«t week of April, 1786 ; and the trial was 
opened in Westminster Hall, the 13th February, 1788. 

The Easter Term commences on Wedneiday, following the second 
Sunday alUr Easter Day ; and concludes on the Munday after Ascen- 
Hon Vtj.Sa Uth May. 



Putitnc 


»tb 


«mqnr 




„ 


ih 


prflv 


Ihi. 


merllelb meiry, wh 


^ 










.-K.ogh. 


Iv 






fury 


Dd midiMU, wher 




'' 


lOHdV 


cebn 


ruhneu 


aotritbt 


m 


«I« 


mltth 


uidr 




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Hcriwftl ttte: Tbcdi 



Ulwdi 



Thii pncU uke (iIk atd) whoK r 
KeUy piiDl Uw lenul yar: 
TbiDe too Ihete gnLd«D keyi» immc 
TUa cu inliKk tb« gilci oTjo;; 
Of bomr Hut, iiid thrilUnf fein, 





Orope,h.«c™i«.r« 




Day. 


fiirtH 


9rat»i. 


rK. 


St. Loui. IX. „f Fnnee, 1213, 


Me«nliu., (o/ Elraria), B. C, 


Cai. 
23. 


A'AvitJ*. 


U76. 


JuUos C«ar Scalipr, 1484, 


Anlui Hirtiu^ B. C. 43. killed. 




itifu in thi Vfnmae. 


M«tina. 






EthelredII.(ofEBfiflnd),A.D. 




burgk. 


1016. St. Fauft. 




WiUiaiD Shakipeire. 1564, H«- 


Leo VII. (Pope), 939. 




fey ^b-Bl, Siml/brii uptn 


Gilei of Ainti, 1272. died. Ft- 




Avon. 


rugia. 




George, Lord Ausod, 1697, 


Peter Danes, 1577. d. Pa™. 










Sir Gilbert, Eul of Mbto, 


p.«™«rf, 1606. 




1751. 









Stralford upon Avoa. 
Uicbael Cervantea dt Saavtdra, 




e%a» of tht Latin Church. 


1616. M^rid. 




St. George, of Cappadwia, Pa- 


John Barbeyrac, 1744. 




TaoN ov England, and Ti- 


Andrew Baiter, 1750. 




tuUr Saint o/Gnwa, Martyr 


Anthnny Dinouart, 1786. d. 






Paris. 




tidi Church Calendar.) 


James d'Espremenil, gaiila- 




St. Gerard, BUhcp of T™(, d. 


tintd, 1794. 




994. 


Nicholas Schiavonetti, 1813. 




St. Adalbert, Biii^B/ Prague, 


Aaron Arrowimith, 1823. died. 




Apoitle of Pruuis, Jtfortjr, 


Soho Square. 




997. 


Joseph Nollekins, 1823. died, 




3LIbar(orIvor)BWu.pi»J«- 






tand. d. c. 500. 





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Our iDclcnt word or coingc, fair Et. Gtmitl—Ficimimd. 

MM. 

Saint Gbohce'i Day. The ADniversBiy of the Patron of Eoglaod,' 

Mh whose inspiring banner a loDg and splendid line of oobilit; have 
sprung, illuBtiating hy Ibeit deeds in arms, tb«r faith in counsel, and 
with hearts of conrtesy, ■ throne, venerable from inheritance, and un- 
■potted by dishonour ; abroad respected ; approached with general af- 
fection at home ; and possessing all those ener^s which, triumphant as 
they have been in a whirlwind of contention, are Blill proved soundly 

: in a dUt of repose. The Chronicle of Rastel, speaking of the third 
Edward, contains the following appoale passage in relation to our 
Dnal festival : " About the niaeteenth year of this king [1345], he made 
solemn feast at Windsor, and a great Just and Tournament, where he 
devised and perfected substantially the Order of lAe Kn'tghls of the Garter ; 
howbeit sonte affirm, (hat this order began first by Richard C^tR DE 
Lion, at the siege of the city of Acre [1191], where, in his great neces- 
sity, there were but twenty-sii knights that fiimly and surely abode witli 
the king, where he caused all them to wear thongs of blue leather about 
their legs; and afterward they were called the KnightioftheBiut Thong." 
Theie isnuvin the leather, for no origin could smack more of real honour; 
that is, fidelity. In those moslem auti- silken Gelds the uame of Richard 
Plantagenet, that tmrd of fear, was employed as a spell by the Syrian 
mothers lo ulence their infants ; and if a horse started suddenly from the 
way, his rider was wool to exclaim , " Dost thou think King Richard is in 
bushV Their style is •' Equita Aurca Periicetidii." By the 
Great Counnl at Oxford, ii was first decreed that the feast of Saiai 
Gen-ge, which at this moment commemorates the civil birth-day of His 
Majesty King George IV. should be observed as a holiday througboot 
England. In the time of Addison, there was afinepainlii^ of the Mar- 
tyr wiihin the church of St. George at Verona, an easel-jnece of Paul 
Veronese, then considered the chief Dmament of that handsome struct 



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PatroDift wu Uw danthln' cl Aitrmt, by ■ mortil tkthcr, ind had been < 
ulcd In Ike Kbool of Trmth, by Uk Ooddotn, whom (hi wu wnr ippalnte 
fnutL She euu don, wlUi Uw leixril luiUiuUcifi of all Uu powen Uiil fti 
l«nlB(. Ob PtnuiHU ilu t»d btr mUenu, la ■ pilue niKd tiy Ibc Bcl- 
UCH, (Bd idnrBcd with irbiteTn- cwUd dcUihl Ihc rye, (Inalr tbi iDailutioB, 
gr c^irie tkt udcntudlBf. Hun ihn dlipcned On tyiu uf yonuH, wltb be 
tDpartlallly u( Jaitk*. ud tht diKumHDI at Truth. Her fU Hoot ilwayi 
u porUL Jnta* 

llie hoDonnble badge of the Garttr don not maleriaUf vitj fiom that 
of the Band warn bj the companiaDi of an older of knighthood lo 
■tituted b; Don AlpboDiiu, Kiog oT SpaiD, ia 1368, ind 
derived from Augndiu Csmu. The riband of the Knighli of the Band 

II of three fingen breadth, and they were lubject to thirty-five ralea. 
The order of St. Michael wu eatabljihed in France bj Looii XI. i 
1380: that of the Golden FUtci, by Lonia the Good, Doke of But- 
gund;, in 1410 : and thut of St. Andnw, in Scotland, bj Jamea V. 
in 1520. The Emperor Frederic IV. irutiluled, in 14T0, an order of 
knighthood in honour of St. George i and an honourable militaiy order 
'n Venice bean hi* name. The once celebrated libruy, collected by 
George of Cappadocia, anddepouted at Antioch by the Emperor Julian, 
ia now better remembered, from ita deiCniction by Jovian. 

The twenty-third of Jiar wai a Hebrew feast, for the capture of 
city of Gaza (or Guara), by Simon Moccibmi. — Sei 1 Mate. liii. 43. 

The ViTialia are celebrated at Rome, when die libation of a bumper 
wu pieieuted to Jupiter, in memory of the death of the impioua Mezen- 
tiua, by the hand of i£iteu ; and the filleted maideni offered op lala- 
cioni vowt in the temple of Venue. 

The velwrahle monaMery of St. Paul, at Jirrow, it dedicated by iti 
founder, Geoffrey of Northumberland, 685. 

The finindalioni of the Butile are lud, 1369 : IhU odioni buildmg, 
which wu the work of Hugo Aubriot, (founder alio of the lect of 
HugimiMi,') wit completed by Charlea VI. in 1383^^^ lilh July. 

The heroic Eail of Warwick, Richard Beauchamp, on hii paaiage to 
IheHoly Land, ii challenged at Verona, by Sir PandalphMa]et,wboie 
•houlder the Engli^ knight cleavea with bii battle-axe, after iplintering 
Ibdr lancea, 1408. 

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nnhuid riiiiU Pun* > 
Unbori alike, nor p 

Am BuJuefi own en 

fUuU fitaakipcBc'i hmogn by lilmKlf be fU, 



arte. 



The ADnivereaiy of Ihe " obsbucUoa" of William Shalapean, 1616, 
ittpecAag wliom it ii icaicel; a figure to uj that ha hu cut off a peat 
pile of Ibe eaidiineai and gravi^ of succeeding generatiooi. Oliver 
Cmnwell wai admitted a member of Sidney College, Cambridge, and 
Samnd Foiter Ihe astronomer, ■ uzai of Emanuel, apoD iht umt dag. 
King Charles II. incoipontes, by charter, the colony of Connecticut, 
mnd fixes tb«r bouBdaiiea, 1662. This mtrry nunurch was inaugurated 
upon the same day in the preceding jear, King of England, The 
Yeoman Uiher notes : " Monda;, 2Snd, The King rode from the 
Tower through the dty to Whitehall, in order to coronatian. Tuesday, 
33rd, CTOwaed in tiie Abbey, and dined in Westminster Hall. At night 
to my charge the globe and two sceptie*, rich with jewels, which I 
delivered to the Dean of Westminster, Doctor Eaile." The salary of 

the Yeoman Usher was three ihiUiags yer diem. 

Kii^ James II. and his Queen, Mary D'Eate, piinceas of Modena, 
■re crowned, 1 685 : — ' to (he sorrow of Ihe people, there was no sac 

Dent, a< ought to have been ;' and the good Queen Awu, in 1702. 
General Paoli, attended by the Comcan deputies, presents himiel: 

die bar of the National Ataembly at Paris, and accepts the oath affideti^ 

10 the French Gaiemment, 1790. 

The R^eucy of Spain issues a manifeito against the Pape'i Nuncio 

there, Peter Graviua, who had endeavoured to excite the Bishops and 

Chatters to itfbse publishing, in their respective dioceses, the law which 

abolished the loquiution, 1813. 

The Catholic Chartn' of privil^el, which passed into a law, by the 

ronsent of the three estates of the realm, on the (Mrt«nlA of April, came 

Erst into operation upon tfaia proptious day, 1829. 
The Geological Sodetr, Somenet Bouse, is inititqted, 1826;-~iti 

aimivertaiy is Uie 20lh of Febraaiy. The Society of Aniiquwies estab- 

~ ed at London, celebrate th^ Anniversary upon St. Geo^'s Day. 

■prlnp wbert Avon t«ilt]r amn in wild riiii|illeily.~ AnM w tiat.—Gtttlu. 



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m, tb> rvka, du Word, aikd Uie f 



«»« 


God which be belli <e*liaed of U. S 


«u nuBpuki^jiam. 


Day. 


»trt^. 


Saa^i. 


VIII. 


John Gnunt, 1630, BWchin 


31. Wilfrid, (Bishop of YoA), 


Cal. 
24. 


Lam. Lmdm. 


709. RipoH. 


Paul Boccone, 1633, Pairnno. 








134S. d. AackLmd. 




Edv;, which is the canker of 


VonParris,1551. Jami, Uruim. 






Archbishop (James) Beaton, 




decluing a maat self in his 


1603. d. Poril. 




ends, rather to seek merit than 


Marshald'Ancte Concinl, 1617. 










man's successes rather to divine 


Bishop (Matthew) Wren, 1667. 




proyridence »nd felicity, than W 


Ca-nbridgt. 




his own vi rtue or policy .—Aifon . 


Daniel Debe, 1731. BanhUU 

Field,. 
CliarIesStephenPesseIier,I763. 




e\iia«fth, Latin Ch«rch. 


d. Porit. 




St. MelUlBB, ArchhUhapofCan- 


Zachariah Mudge, lT69.d. PJ<|- 




ta-bury, Founder of S«. Paul's 


aiouth. 






MaximiUan, Duke of Brans- 






wick, rffwBjd, 1786. 




in 609, died, 634. 


George Travis, 1797. d. Homp- 




Sis. Bona (or Beuve), d. 573, 


stead. 




and t)oda, 7lh Ceotuiy, Vir- 


William Seward, 1799. 




gint u«d Abbe»a. 


John Charles Borda, 1799. d. 




Robeit, Abbot and Founder of 


Parit. 




Chaise-Dieu, in AuvBrgne, 






buried. 1067. 


d. Pari,. 










Mariyr, 1622. 




AU min ii rrimi kii vcrr binh a iitcuc : 


Kheii Bra hom be li iwIch, end h» 


(Or relif f (>om oihfn ; when be jtowi up, 




(nUjro 


»lh.wickBll in hii decking egg. 


DiKrabIc, utiltne tbron(h(>iit all bit 



,— 7a* Louahias Piiiompfor. 



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Thb conqaeit and deitiuctioD by tlie Grceka oF the city of Tro]', bxtk 
[dace upon ibe twenty-fourth of TTuitgelim, B. C. 1184.-^Upon that 
da; >lw, B. C. 339, Timolwin defeated the Carthaginian! at the river 
nuui nev Mooat Giulivio in Sicily ; about the day Ibat SpeuDp- 
pu> letigned the Flatonic Cbiir, from iofinnity, lo XeDocralei. 

The feitiral of the idol Sempu a celebrated at AlexandiiB, A. D. 6 
This gloomy diirini^, with hb agreeable attendaati the DragoD and 
Cerbenii, wa* broDght fiom Snope to the Egyptian capital under 
Ftolemy Sattr, AoMj aAei the death of Alexander. The iftes n 
introduced at Rome by AntoiuDal PJui, and otaerred upon the aiith of 
May. until abobabed by the Senate for thtdr grouneu, and lince entirely 
lued by the hanvni of St. George. 

t. Lonii embaiia fmia Aen, in Falettine, with hia queen, children, 
oScen, and troops, in fourteen lesaela, and arrives at Vincennes, a 
stranger for six years from hia doniniou, im the Gth of September, 1254. 

The discoTery of Branl by Pedro Alvares Cabral, a Portuguese, 
irtiich he named Sauls Cms, 1500, — Osep Napea, the fint Ruwian 
Ambassador to Ei^land, it introduced this day lo Queen Eliubeth, who 
recraves his masler'a presents, and afterward* concludes with him a treaty 
0( amity and commerce, 1&S6. 

The marriage of Maay Queen of Scott with the Dauphin is solem- 
nized in the Cathedral of Natre Dame, 1558. By the contract it wai 
proiide^ that the eldest sod of Ibe marriage should be King of France 
and Scotland, and diat Francis should bear the titlt of King of Scotland. 

Howell describes the death of the favourite, Cencini : ' ' Anci«'s body 
was buried that night in a church hard by the court ; but the next uu 
ing the lacqueys and pages (who are more unhappy here than the 
appieoticea in Loiidon) broke up his grave, tore his coffin to [rie< 
ript the winding-sbeel, and tied his body to an asa's tail, and so dragged 
him up and down the streets of Palis, which ate none of the sweetest; they 
then sliced off his ean and o^Ied them upOD the gales of ihe city ;" &c. 



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AuDBfa^i brlglileBt on 
Btae lit! ■ MiVreltii, a 
By (hM, Ihe radc burl 





Oar wntem vorid, ud dw 




D-y- 


»«lftfc 


■Oiam. 


vir. 


Edward II. (ofEaglaad). 1284, 


Vibiu. Paii«., B. C. 43. d. 


Cal! 


Cafmaniin Cailf«. 


Bcnrnw «pm Cht Rhim. 


35. 


Oliver Cromwelt. 1&99, Hun- 


Saint Mark (the Evai^liit), 






A. D. ee. AUiandria. 




Thomai Howe. 1687, Lflid«i. 


Benedict XII. (Pope), 1342. d. 

Avig^m. 






Admiral Sir Edward Howard, 
I&13. kiUed. CoBfutit. 




®bite oT t^ LiKm CAurch. 


FraDcii Negro de Plain, 1536. 
bumd, Etna. 




8L Mark of Cyren'aica, Em«. 


Torquato Taaw, 1S9S. Si. Ond- 




geliti and MartyT, Patron of 


frio, a™*. 




Venice. (_Sm EnglUh Ch^trch 


Jimes Hay. Earl of Carliak, 




Coimdor.) 


1636. 




St. Amttmi8(or Annianng), 2Dd 








IIa,npt«, Lo«t. 




St. Kebiua of C<m,v>M. Bishop 


Dr. John Woodward, 1728. 




of Poiliei^. 4th Century. 


Abh^. 






John Conrad Dippel. 1734. d. 




o/-*g«i,c.392. 


I«(g™<™. 




St. Maeult (Macallius, com. 


Samuel Wesley, (»* Eldtr, 1735. 




mm.it, Manghold) .^pmlfeand 


Epiuorli.' 




BUhrpofthihU^flian.^. 


J. Ant. Nollet, 1770. d. Porij. 




488. 


Bishop Green, 1779.d. BalA. 




St.-Ivia (or Ivo>, a BUhop in 


William Cowper, 1800. Eorf 




Persia, d. England, 7th Cen- 


DrrdWn. 




tury. 


Thomas Pownall, ISOS.d.Saih. 
Dr. Patrick Colquhouo, 1820. 



men value th«nielvn upon tbvlrbl: 



Efitlla llf Phalarit. 



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Tht TCI'na ihowB, nut, gnclnE ( gny bui4 
With ymlhftil amilei, dcKtwIi tawud Ibe EnTc 
Spritlilly, and aid almMI wlthoEl dcuy.—Tlc .«i/ii- 

St.Make's Day.. There were muij couotiy superetitious observances 
BJicienlly Bttacbed to the eve of Si. Maik ; but, aa these haxl no relation 
(origimillj) lo the ChiistiaD featiiat, the Bomui church, sometime in 
the 15tii centur;, wisely changed it for > day of <J>itinmct. 

The RoBiQALiA were tachfidid liles paid to (be goddesi Robigo, by 
the Roman busbandmeo, to avert the influence of blasu and mildew 
from the corn. Numa Porapilius establisbed this feaiC ia the ninth year 
of hiittign. Ovid haa called the present day middU'ipring,w]ddt Co- 
lumella lather places four days sooner. 

The Commons giant to Rlchaid II. a capitation tax, graduated ac- 
cording to eadi person's rank and eilai«, 1379. Ia this financial scale 
the Dnke* of Lancastei and Brittany were rated at £6 13i. id. : the 
joaticeB of K. B. and C. P. and the chief baron at £5 ; an earl, an 
eari'i widow, and the mayor of London, £4; a baton, knighlB ban- 
neret, the aldennen of London, mayors of great towns, and Serjeants 
law, X3 ; a knight, and great merehants. £1 ; sufficient mercbanl 
13i. 4d, J esquires and attorneys at law, 6i. Sit. ; each mairied labourer, 
for himself and wife, id. ; and the same for single men and women, 
who weM-not mendicaDts, 

A dreadful conSagraiion of Mount Etna, which demolished the church 
of St, Leon, and consumed the [Aysician, Fiazzi, 1536. 

William Peaa ugnshis cbajler of liberties and privileges to the] 
of Pennsylvania, 1682. " On or about the 25tb of April," observes 
Mr. Wilson, " if the season be not nnconunanly cold, the Whip-foor- 
vM is heard in Pennsylvania, in the evening, as the dusk of twilight 
commences ( ot in the morning, as soon as dawn has broke. The notes of 
thia solitaij bird, from the ideas which are naturally associated with 
them, seem like the vmce of an old friend, and are listened to by almost 
all with great interest. The notes seem pretty plainly to articulate the 
vrords, ' Whip-poor-viiH' the first and last syllables being uttered with 
great emphasis, and the whole in about a second to each repetition." 

The Neapolitan Academy of History and Antiquides, established by 
Joseph Buonaparte, first assembles, 1807. 

ler of foppery, uid Uic ilBTcb uui tongl 
liclly.— 2.etti!r on SUOx. 



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, npoD the thiop of thii w 



r»» ud nvketi.— jVon 



Day. 


mm*. 


Qutt*. 


Tl. 


M>rcD> Aurelius AnIODiDas, 


John 11. (Pope), A. D. 635. 


Cal. 
26. 


A. D. 121, Jt«mt. 


Stephen m. (Pope), 757. 


Roger Boyle, £>rl of Oirery, 


Arehbp. (Simon) lalip, 1366. 




1621, Inland. 


Julio de Medici, 1478. oiuni- 




Tbomu R«kl, 1710, 5(n»A«> 


nated, Ftertna. 






Fetdinand Magellan, 1521. 




David Hnme.lTll, EditAurgh. 


kilUd. hU rf Matan. 




Madims 1e Pm>ce it B^m- 


Diana di P«l«n, Duche» of 




mont,l7Il, n«™. 


Velentinoii, 1566. 




John ADthon; G<ild«i»taedt, 






1746, Riga. 


P/«-wAri«. 




Ricbd. Twin, 1747. Botttrdam. 


Rebecca Beny, 1696. Slqmty. 




General R6n* Savaij, 1774, 


John. Lord Somen. 1716. 




M««, in Cianpogn*. 


Norlh M«u. 




Alia, Europe, what are Ihey 


Marj d'Eate (of England), 
1718. St. Germain'.. 




but u conten of tbe universe 1 
of whicb the tea is as a drop, and 


Jeremy Collier, 1726. St. Pan- 




Mount Athoi a clod, aa all pie- 


John Baptiit Morvan de Belle- 
garde. 1734. 
Sir Ejre Coole, 1783. died. 




eien!tf.~M. Aurdin,. 




miti of th. Latin Ckunh. 


Uadnu.(Rockwood.) 




St. Ck^^,t. Pope. Martyr, d.S9. 


WilHam Woodville, 1805. d. 




St. MarcelJmaE, Pofw, d. 304. 


Pancrat Hnpital. 




St. Richariua (or Riquiar,) Ab- 


Canten Niebuhr, 181&. d. Mel- 




6=1. d.c.645. 


Aarfin HeUtan. 




St. Fuchasins Radbeit. Abbot 


George Hardinge. 1S16. died. 




^Corbit. d.c.B65. 


Srttlagn. 



UDainr ift icqnlRd by ictkoa. Lova U tbv be 



sTIkt Uit.—Thterlirattia. 



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Thb Pltnteria, tm Atheoiia f««dral kept upoo ilic twenty- 
ThaTgelion, when tbe lUtu* of Minena wai deprived of ~ 
and alterwards purified. It w«i therefore coDHdered >d unbrtuDita 
daji the men bMng eicluded bynfwi fixim the templei. The retumof 
Alcitriadei from his exile happened daring ihii umirenuy, B. C. 407. 
IjOKtao d« Medici ■■ rescued by the Florentine populace from the 
haiidi of iiuuuaa, whilst cetebratiiig mus in the Cathedral (Sunday), 
14TS. His biothei Julian was ilain. Tba ArchUahop who'became tbe 
tool of Pope SiituB for accompliihing this foul and imjnoas conspiracy 
was afterwards niipniil^d in his pontifical robes fhnn the window of his 
Neither tbe great nor the mimi laws of our nature can 
ever, from their very cnnstitulion, be inliinged with impumly. 

John While, with one hundred and fifty meu in three Teuels, tails 
from Portsmouth to settle a colony in Vii^uia, by the orders of Sir 
Walter Rilngh. On the 32nd of Jane, 1687, they anchored at Santa 
Ctui, beyond Dominica, where " some of ourwotmn and men, by eating 
a small fruit like green apples, were fearfully troubled with a st)dden 
burning in their mouths, and swelling of their toognes so big, that some 
of them could not apeak." Upon the IBtb of Angust Eltamrr, daughter 
to (he Gaventn of Virginia, and wife ot Ananias Dare, was delivered 
a dtwgbt*!' in Roanoak, and btauat lAii child uoi tJufirtt CKrittiaa 
bom in ^irgiTua, the was tiamad VirgMa. 

The first conrt is held in the colony of Counecticat, New England, at 
Hartfori, now one of the capilali of this state, 1636. 

Dr. Pitcaime delivers his inaugural oration as Professor of Physic, in 
tbe University of Leyden, 1692. 

Henry Howard, Earl of Bindon, Depnty of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, 

Eail Marshal of England, holds his Court of Chivalry ta the painted 

It Westminster, accoiding to ancient custom, 1707. 

urn vru <hk of tbDse divine meq, who, tike s cbspel Ja j pslaco, 
' "b lU Oim rest li tynimy, corraptldn, iDd fDUy : s msu, 
' fail lifa, uid pUiuied them Cot poiterity. He wu nl 
, ud Ibc Unchiloiie of Swift.— Jfforocs Wa^(^ 



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OOBdBdH wUh CipWl SBIH, 

nar (hu do duf* old la<a fM M 
Pnf (odi, tlw7 ck*Bia ftor nwi 



Charlei Btmint, 1664, Upper 

HcUcnay. 
Edwud OibtNm, 1737, O.S. 

PutMy. 
Nicbolw SelU, 1737, Parii. 



H; lot might btve bceo that 
F a aUve, t, Mnga, or & p«>- 
uit : nor on I reflect without 
plMiure oa (be bount]' of nalgra, 
(rhich cMt mj' birth in ■ free 
wod drilind coontij, in an tge 
ence and philoioph;, in * 
faniily of bonoujabla rmt, tnd 
d^ently endowed with the pfti 
of fortune . — Gabm . 



0lftl of lb Latin avreh. 
Bt. ADthimu, Biihup, and man; 

olben, Mortyn at Niciwur' 

303. 
3t. Anutaiini, Pope, 401. 
Si. Adcui, lit Biihop of 

phin, promoted bjf 5t. Patrick. 
St. Zlta, Tirgin, d. 1372, 



T» lo Die *«U laot, in 



Ethelmd I. (of England), Jnllnf, 

871. TPin^m. 
Conrad of Montferrat, 1102. 

uiaotnataj, Tyre- 
Philip the Bold, (Dnke of Bur- 
gundy,) 1404. d. HaU i 

HamoHit. 
Commodoro (John) Batth, 

1702. d. DunUrli. 
June* Bernard, 1718. d. Ley- 
John PoDtai, 1728. d. Porit. 
Nicholu Amhnnt, 1742. d. 

Tmetmham. 
John Jamei Aolcentniin, trt- 

inOtd, 1792. 
Sii William Jonei, I7M. Cel- 

Jamea Bmce, 1794. i,- Kin- 

notrif, in Sttrlingihirr. 



goided by ootbing but hi* pre- 
MDt paiuoni (if he hu any) 
joA intemUi and to be mu- 
ter* of hit jtUlMopby, we need 
not hi* booka or adiice, for every 
child if enable of the ume thing, 
without any itudy at all. — Gray. 






-Sir WaUBmJtna. 



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or thlDgi Inviinte ID moTtil light.— ^amUH Lott. 
flftt. 

The Latian Feitivsls, when the foily-seTen "LUaa depotiei annnallj 
aucmbled at Alba, upon the Mens Sacer, and oKred sacrificei to Jufutei 
Lai'udu ; a political association first eitabliihed bjr TuquiD the Proud. 

The ichabitants of Milan return to their capital, which had b 
razed bj the Empeior Frederick Barboroua, and rebuilt b; a noble con- 
tribution of the Lombard cities, 1167. 

The battle before tiie castle of Dtmbar, and defeat of John Btdiol, 
1296 : " Felon fool !" exclaimed Edward, in a tone of ccmlenipt 
[Nty, " but since he will not obey our aummons, we must go and 
him out." This punitory mission was eutnisled to and executed by 
Warenne, Earl of Surrey.— Su Snd Juit|. 

The States- General seize tiie town of Flnshing and hang the Spanish 
cbmmsiider, 1573. Beading surrenders to the Eail of Essex, 1643. 
King Charles I. leaves Oxford in diiguiM (over the Magdalen Bridge), 
one in the mormng, Umairii lh» Scottith iptarten, thtn al Soulftuwlt, 1646. 
Milton, the blind Bchoolmaster, as Waller contemptuously called 
him, executes this day, 1667, the contniei disposing of the copy-right 
of his " Porodisi! Loit" to Samuel Simmons, a printer and stationer 
in London, for the prsenl sum of five pounds, and five pounds mon 
when thirteen hundred copies of the first impiession should be sold in 
retail, and the like sum at the end of the aecolid and Ihiid editiona, toh 
aecoKattd at aforetaid ; and that [each <^'\ tht mid three firit impreuiina 
thalt not exceed Jifleea hundred booia, or volumes of the §aid manusmpt. 
The second payment was made to the anlbor, 36tb April, 1669, and on 
the 31st of December, 1680, his vridoa Elizabeth Milton disposed of bet 
entire interest in the poem for eight pounds ; so that the sublimest 
poetical building in the world produced for its arohttect the san 
Eighteen Poandi '. The price of the small quarto, in 1667, was 3i, 

The Earl of Anglesey presents his celebrated remonitrance to Charles 
II., 1682. The marriage of Frederick Prince of Wales (grandfather 
of his Majesty), with Augusta, younger daughter of Frederick, Duke of 
Saxe Goiha, 1736. Chatham spoke his maiden oration on this event. 



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rtltcnViri ban ll(hlcd (Wb 



Told b) lu IdlM, Ht'iUyint-mOiiDi.—MacMh. 



D'y- 


Vittll. 


BNltH. 


IV 


Mareui Saltiui Olbo, A. D. 30. 


Meneniui Agrippa, B. C. 492. 


c»i. 




Kern: 


28. 


John Dand Michaelii, 1717, 


Thomu Chwcer, A. D. 1434. 




HalU. 


Etoelm. 







HeDTj Percy, 4lhKarlof North- 




Wh«a he wtlki, h« more* 






Uke >n engine, and the gniuiM] 


Cotftbdge. 




ihrinUbeTorthittreadiDe. He 


ZAn Houghton, (Prior of the 




ii able to pieree a conlet nth 






h>> ere 1 talk, like a knell, uid 


Sir Juliu. CB«r,-1636. St. 




hU hum ii a battet7. He nu 


mim'.. 




>a hi. .tate. ai a thing made for 


John Anthony, 1655. St. Bar- 




Aleiindei. I paint him in the 


tlulamtw. 






Jtma Bonnell, 1699. Dublin. 
Thomu Betterton, 1710. Abbey. 
Thoi. Parker, Earl afMaccIet- 




®btta o/l/» Lalin Church. 


field, 1732. Shirbun,. Oxm. 




St. Vitalii, Martyr, Potnm d/* 


Tho^Gibwn. 1751.d.Oi/Br<i. 




RowniKi, d. C. 63." 


Franci. Oudin, 1752. d. Dp™. 




Sti. Dtdrmui and Tbeodina, 


Mary Ann de Camargo, 1770. 




Manyn, c. 304. 


Count John StrueaKe, 1772. 






btheadtd, Copenhagen. 




Afar(j« in Pan™.«, 304. 


Count Enevold de Brandt, 1773. 




St. Patricini, Bp. of Pnua in 






Bitftynio, Maitsr, c. 4lh 


Bonnier d'Alco. 1799. <BHai- 




Centoij. 


luted, RailaAl. 




St. Cranan, Abbot «f R«c™o 


Baron Danon, 1825. d. Paru. 




in J«;flnd, d. c. 640. 





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Whliper'd •IHi>tRr--in(l llini 



Twu bat fall own npprta'd IIU now, he found ; 
And outtbejF ipoke o(Io1b Rir fleih ind bliKKl, 
And vho should die to b* his fallow's food, — Efron. 

fltrtt. ~ 

The twenty-^hth of Jisr is a Hebrew fast for lh« death otSamutl, ihe 
prophet, which took place about two years before the deitnictioD of Saul, 
B.C. 1060 Set 1 5otB. 25, 

The Fltrroiia of six days naw b^an at Borne. — Set Ijl May. 

ConstaDtiiia, the third and HnmTing son of CoDStantiue the Great, 
lisits Rome for thir^ days, when he displayed the magaificeace o 
triumph, A. D. 357. 

Salisbury Cathedral is founded, 1230. It was not completed m 
the yeai 12Se. 

De la Mare, Speaker to the Good Parliatnmf, lemooitrates agaiDst 
Ihe iuiufficieikcy of the AdministratioQ, 1376. 

The Parliament assembles, in which the law of the Six Articles, s 
called the Bloody Bill, was introduced by the Chancelhir, 1539. 

The last lolenm offices are paid to the memory of Queen Elizabeth, 
the Lady NorthamptoD being chief mourner, 1603. 

Steele leceiies the honoui of knighthood from King Geo^ I. in 1715. 
"There was a great wmilitude," observes Lady Montagu, "between the 
character of Henry Fielding and Sir Ricbanl Steele. They both agreed 
in wanting money, in spite of all their friends, and would have waole 
it, if th«r hereditary lands had been ai eitengive ss Ibeii imaginalionB 
yet each of them was so formed for bappioess, it is fitj he was not im 
mortal :" — and you, too, for saying so. 

Sbakspeaie's tragedy of " Jtiliiu Cmor," is performed at Druiy Lane 
dieatre, 173B, the profits of which rapietentation compoied a principal 
part of the fund for the erection of a monument to embody the poet's 
memory in Westminster Abbey. It was designed by Kent, and elecuted 
by Scheemakers, with this inscription by Pope : C\ilielm) Shakttptar, 
mmo pett mirriem, cxxlv. Amor PuUicui potait. 

C^tain Cook anchors in Botany Bay, 1770. The mutiny of the 
Bmnty, Bgwnst its commander. Captain Bligh, in the Polynesian 
1789. Buonaparte s&ils from Frejus for the Isle of Elba, 1814. 



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Wc (ibblc o*u iha u 



Hh rich, Ihc poor, Ihe old mtn ukd xkt jdwii} 



Ed«BKllV.(orEDgluid), 1441 



Thou n«rt iwifl si a n 
the deaart : lb; wrath was ai 

lonn : thy Ttnce wai 
Ihander orerdiitanl hilli. But 
when thou didst return from 
war, how peaceful was ihy 
bronl Th; tact wai like the 

tlei lain : like the mooa 
in the silence of aight, calm ai 
the breast of the lake when the 
loud winds are laid.— Oiaian, 

4»ftl oflht Latin Church. 
St. Fiachna, a Sfirnh /^ Lutium 

n Inland, d. after 630. 
St. Hugb, Abbot of Ciuni, d. 
1109. 



Bardas of ConBtantinople, oboi- 

linalid, 666. 
Archbp. Adalbert (of Prapie), 

tnuTdend, 997. 
Sir RaljA Percy, 1463. kilUd, 

Htdgeiey Moor. 
Bisbop (Thomas) Cooper, 1594. : 

Winthater. 
Louis de Saint-Harthe, 1656. 

d. Farit. 
John Cleyeland, 1659. Si. Mi- 

rfcmi'j, Ci^Ugt Hilt. 
Luke d'Acheri, 1685. St. Ger- 

Charles de St. Pierre, 1743. d. 

Parii. 
Dr. J. Ash, 1779. d. Penhore. 
Bertiardo, Manjuia Tanucci, 

1783. 



eel are thy murmurs, 

! but mote sweet is the 

1 hear. It is the voic 
Alpin, the aan of song, moi 
ing for the dead t Bent is 
head of age; red his tearful 
eye, Ossian. 



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T« cUBb Ihe wbtd, bat lU In t^b ; 
Hla «■ mlthi biiB|> Um doVD titln. 

Butler"! Stin^M. 

fltcW. 

Upon thii daj, in 1652, "ww thu calebiated eclipse of the sun, to 
mncb threatened b; the uCrologen, aod which had lo eiceedisgl; 
alanned the whole natiaD, thai hardJj any one would work, nor itir oat 
of their hoiuei. So ridiculoHaly were they abuied by knavish and l^o- 
tant tlv-gaien." 

Holl-Gi« clnba ace tiippieiKd bj an order of the conaci!, 1729. 

The finl clasncal book publiBbed in Rusun, was the Lirei of Comi- 
iuu NepM. It iaiued from the Moscow press npoD this day, 1763. 
One of the lost miiks of Nepos, is a History of the Ancient World, in 
Area volDmea ; the first treated of obscure artd uncertaia events, the se- 
cond of the fobolous ages, and the third respecting genuine histoiy. — 
Tertullian tells u< the historian afErmed, that no Solum had evOr been 
who was not aman! He numbered among his intimate frienda aTully, 
a Catullus, and a Foroponins. 

The Frttheldtr of Addison, afler distinguishmg between the just hi 
torian and the Gmb Street biograjdier, 1716 : " There is no quesli< 
but there are aevnol eminent persons in each partf , howerei they may 
r^t«ient one uiothet at present, who will have the same admirers among 
posterity, and be eqDall? celebrated by those, whose minds will not 1 
diitempeied by intereil, paauon, or paitialibr. It were happy for u. 
could we prevail upon aunelvea to imagine, that one, who differs from 
OS in opinion, may posubly be an honest man ; and (hat we m^;hi 
the same justice to one another, which will be done to us by those who 
shall make th^ appearance here, when this generation is no more." 

The trial of Lord Melville, on hia impeachment by the Commons, 
commences in Westminster Hall, 1806. The sentence of acquittal was 
pionounced on Ihe 12tb of June followmg. 

The festival of Onenphm-ut, one of the disciples, is kept by the Greek 
church upon ihit day. — Stt 3. Tim. i. 

The Anniversary of the Koyal Socie^ of Literature, instituted by his 
present Majesty, is kept on the Tkunday precediug May-day. 

Tnii! Mil may b« dcanul a perfect conception iriih in eaj delivery — /■gpi. 



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XXX. APRIL 

Kvt to Qm mbbr ngioiu, ivb«n tfaa haul, 
Aad bctvlflf Lud(i Uicir tLUI powin BE«iti 
Tlwn llgf'riiii latt, ud long eonlUcIlag, llh 
HoH ijiLbii tut, and Hill nutntiiii'J Iht Hi 
DriT'B Mt il IcniUi, BnwUllDtly ud ikiw, 



. And. Veulioi, 16U, Bniwili. 
AlaxBoder Duke of R«i, 16U. 
Mftr; IL (n/ England), 1662. 

Crabbed age ind youth 
Cannot live togetbeT ; 
Youdi U full of pleuun, 
Ageiifullo(c««; 
Yonth lika nmmec mom. 
Age liki winter weslher ; 
Youth like lummeT bme. 
Age like ndnter bate. 



Ofeftf 1^ (k* Latin Chunk. 
St. Miiimiu, Martyr in Aia, 

360, or 261. 
Sti. Jamei, Hirian, and Com- 

paniaiu, Marlyn in ^imiidia, 

260, 01 360. 
St. Sopbis, Virpn, Harlyr in 

Italy, aid Centntj. 
St. Eikenwald, BiAtp tf Lm- 

dm, 7th CtWaty. 
St. AdjutK (or AdjnUn), an 

Jlnehent at Vtnan upm At 

5fi'ni, d. 1131. 
St. Cathuioa of S'ltDlM, Virgin, 

1380. 



Marcut Aniuaui Lucanot, A . D. 

, Bimt (in hit OanUn). 
Queen AmalaioDtha (the Oi- 

tiogoth), 634. >tnin. Beltna. 
Ahy. Fonutoaiid (of Armagh), 

" I. d. I'unir m the Itetue, 
John XV. (Pope), 996. 
Alexander Newiki (of Mni- 

covj), 1363. i. GmidM. 
John in. (of Brittany). 13*1. 
Richard fi^uchamp, Earl of 

Waiwick, 1439. d. Bourn. 
Eduood de la Pole, itU. 1613, 
J.B«an:biet,EarIofBath,1639. 
'nio.LordAndley,1644. ITaJilm. 
Marcellua II. (Pope), 1565. 
PiniV. (Pope), 1673. 
Jobs Count de Till;, 1633. 

IngoUtadl. 
Euatacbele Sueur, lS66APari«, 
Dt.C .Bennetfl 666.5t. Cr^aryt. 
Siait Rene le Payl, 1690. 
Dr. Rob. Plot, 1696. Borrfm. 
G. Farqnhar, 1707. St. Mortin'f. 
Pbi.Limborcb,1713.d.ilmjWnf. 
Bp.(Wm.)Da>rei, 1734.C<ini 
Di. D. Duncan, 1 736.d .LmuJon . 
John Jamea Birthelemi, 1 

d. Pari,. 



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Toi kuw not which 



ly beUi.—Sir Philip Sidney. 



atti. 



The Xanthica, a. Macedonian festival obteired in the monlh Xatiihi- 
cui, when the umj was purified b; k ulemn Initratioa, too absurd for 
an;' serioHS detail. — The day on which Romului b^an to build the 
city of Rome, wu, according lo Plutarcb, the lAirtulh of the Oreciao 
moDtb, when there happeoed a canjunctjan of the ion and moon, at- 
tended with an eclipie i the lame that wai obeerred by Antimachoi the 
Teian poet. Tanitiiia, a learned malhematieian, supplied hi* acqnaint- 
ance, Vairo, with a coicvlaljiin, which for its singpiluity ma; be insetted 
in this place : Be affirmed, withont doubt or heutation, that the concep- 
tion of Romolos was in the first jear of the Snd Olympiad, on the SSrd 
day of the Egyptian month Chaac (December), at the third hour, when 
the sun was lotaUy eclipsed ; and that his Inrth was on the S3rd of the 
month Tholk (September), about sun'rise; and that he foundtd Pout 
on tht nmik tf tht mmlh Phamutht (April), bituittn tlit lecimd and 
third ham; i. e. half past eight o'clock in the morning. 

This day was cooiecrated by the Romani partly lo Apoila and lo 
Fata (whose ahrioei were placed within the palace of Augustus), and 
partly to the Emperor himself j a circumstance which furnished the 
author of the Fasti with a noble compliment. — Stt 33d Dtctnber. 

Cicero writes to his wife and iamilj from BruDdusinm, in bU enle, 
B.C. 66: "Obi that 1 had been more iodiffeitnt to life 1 ourdajrs 
would then have been, if not wholly aoacquainted with sorow, yet by 
no means thus wretched. However, if any hope* are still reserved to us 
of recovering some part at leasl of what we have lost, I ahall not think 
that I have made altogether lo imprudent a choice. But if our present 
fate is unalterably fixed — ah I my deareM Terentia, if we are utterly 
and for ever abandoned by those gods whom yon hare'so religiously 
adored, and by those men whom I have so faithfully served, let me 
see yon as soon as pouible, that I may have the satisfaction of breathii^ 



K Iscapsble of lonelr utbfiicttoni : 
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I bcfiD 10 coBlcnptilc (he prMpMI of the eoantriei inmiid me [ } 
■hind, Minn before Die ; PiriEai on Ihe rlglil ; CoHnlh on the left ; 

Don thii light, I caaU ■»< bnl think pmently wllhlD myielf, Alu I I 
li bippen la dl 



out mj l(ut depaiting ugh in ja\a amu. . . . I im juit giring to embaifc, 
and poipoce to pui Itkion^ MuedoniB, in my nay to Cyncnm. ... I 
entnot JDU lo lalw all pouible caEcof yoor health, and bo aunied, your 
miifoitunei tDore Maiibly aSect nw than my own. Adkn I my T«- 
renlia, tbou moat ^thfiil and beat of witcb '. Adieu. And thoa, iny 
deanat dabghter [Tulliola] togethar mlh that other coniolatioa of my 
life, my dear ton, I bid you both moat tenderly farewell." 

JnliuaCKMT upon iliit ume day, reliues the Helvetian depatiea a 
pauage Ihiougfa bia province ; aod aftei vainly attempting to ford the 
Rbone, in hia deajnte, the Swiai army enter the counliy of Autun, by 
the put of Bemnfon, and lay it watte with fira and aword, B, C. 58. 
ll waa aUo upon the present day, B. C. 46, that Csaai wrote hii letter 
of condolence to Cicm, dated from Hispalii (Seville,) upon the loaa of 
hit daughter, Tulliola., the wife of DoUliella, one of the moit eiteemed 
and lea^ed of the Roman ladiei, and piiied by her father ai the apple 
of hit tight. 

LiciniuB defcata the Emperor Galeiiut Haximiaut, at Htraelta, 
A. D. 313. 

The d^ofHoicowia founded by Duke Geoi^ L, 115S. lit present 
population, in round numbers, is three hundred and twenty thouiand. 

Heury IV. replies to Louis, Duke of Orleans, who had reproached 
him with rebellion, ninipalioD, tod the muider of Bichard II., 1403 : 
" If you mean that we bkd any hand in hia death, we «ay that you lie, 
and will lie falsely, aa often as you shall assert it ; as the true Ood 
knowi, whom ire call to witneat our innocenoe, oSering, at a loyal 
prince ought, our body agonal youn, if you will n- dare to prove it." 






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XXX. APRIL 



Flnl-bon of Sprinf, to Swnmcf^ muhy tr 



Am o'er tbe hbled lo 



i \ DOf Nbtlaofl fviTi 



acta. 



By an order of (he Sodsty of Liocoln'i Ina, 1431, il wu provided that 
tliere itunild b« four RtvtU (muked dances) In that jeai, and no more ; 
one at the feul of All -Hallowe'en ; anothei at the feait o£ Si, Erhm- 
Hdld (ihii daj) i the third at the feait ofthe Foiification ; andlhefourth 
at Midmmmer-day. 

William de la Pole, tiie exited Duke of Sufiblk, salli from Ipswich, 
but iimuidered offtbe coatt, 1400. — i^ id May. Thii duke-manied 
Alice, grandangfater of tha poet Chancer. 

Richard, Di^ of Glouceater, aireita the Loidi Riven and Gray, at 
Stonj Stratford, on thdr paitage with the joung king (Edward V.) to 
the cental, 1483. 

The ikirmiih at lldinburgh, called " CUatue ihf CavutBay," between 
the Earts of Airs'!] and Angus, 1519. 

The new Creed, lenned i^ Kng'i BwJc, ii approved b; the hornet 
of convocatiaTi, and made the itandard of Engliih ortbodoiy, 1543. 

Lord Burleigh gives a grand enteitaiument lo the French commis- 
lioner at Exeter Hauie in the Strand, 15S1. The unfortunate CAortet 
Gndi a temporary aajlom atDownholm, in Norfolk, 1646. — Stt 6A May, 
The last execution at Halifax, under the GtU(t-l<nii, 16S0. The Royal 
warrant is isaned for the establishment of a militaij college at Gieeu- 
wich, 1741. The memorable battle of exterminatian at Fonlmay, 1746. 

Sir Wm.JonesiselectedaFallowofthe Royal Society, 1772. General 
Washington ii inaugurated Prendent of the United States, 1789. The 
dreadful eruption of the Sou&nera mountain, b St. Vincent, 1812. 

The foundation -stone of the London Univeruty ia laid, 1827 : — its 
establishment is dated the 11th of February 1B26. The King't College 
and (be London InstituliaD hold thdi aanuol meetingi upon (hii day. 

The planet Vntit is in diameter T498 miles, and performs her annual 
orbit round the Sun in 234 days, 16 houra, 49 minutes, 10 seconds. 






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SPRING. 



t> ilw niflitlBftlf drapt IB 



Comb, live with me u>d be m; love. 

And we will all the pleaiurei prore. 
That grove oi vallc;, hill or Geld, 
Ot wogd ind aleepj mouDttin yield. 



Wbeie we will nt on riMDg locka, 

And Me the thepheidi feed their Socki 

By ihUlmr riven, to whoK falls 
Melodiaut biidi ling madrigals. 

Pleu'd will J make thee bedi of mei, 
And twine a thouiand fragiaat pouea ; 

A cap of SoweiB, and rural kirtle, 
Embtoidei'd all with leave* of myitle. 

A jaunCr gown of finest wool, 
Whii^ from our pret^ Iambi we pull ; 

And iboes lin'd choicely for the cold. 
With buckles of the purest gold. 

A belt of straw, and ivy budi, 

With coral cla^, and amber itodi ; 

If these, these pleasurei can thee move. 
To live with loe, and bie my love. — Morltwe. 



His combe was redder than the fin coiall, 

Enbattetled, as it were a castel wait. 

His bill vras black, and as the jet it ihone ; 

Like asuie were his legges and his toae ; 

His nallea whiter than the lily flour. 

And like the burned gold was his colour. — Cluauer. 



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MAIUS. 

Under tht Protettim of Apoiio. 
P«Dla CifOlte pku BlatOrEl tqm.—tMd. 

'Tm Fancy, in "bet fieiy car, 
lYanspoiti me to the thickest war, 
niere v/hich me o'er the hills of elitin. 
Where Tumult and Deslmctioa reigo ; 
Where, mad nith pain, the wounded steed 
Tramples the dying and the dead : 
Where giant Terrour gtolks around. 
With sullen joy surveys the i^und. 
And, pointing to th' ensanguin'd field. 
Shakes his dreadful gorgon shield ! 
O Nymph with loosely flowing hsir. 
With buskln'd leg, and bosom bare. 
Thy waist with mjrtle -girdle bound, 
Thy bfows widi ladian feathers crown'd. 
Whole rapid wings thy flight convey 
Through air, and over earth and sea, 
While the vast various landscape lies 
ConspicaouE to thy piercing eyes ; 
Conduct DS from this horrid scene 
To high-aich'd walks and alleys green. 
Where .lulumn coolliig caverns seeks. 
And stains with wine his Jolly cheeks. 
■s again 



Anim 



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Who, lill'd with unexhausted fire. 

May boldly ^nite the sounding lyre ; 

With tenour shake, with pity move. 

Rouse with revenge, or meit with love ; 

With native beauties win applause. 

Beyond cold codes' stodied laws : 

O let each Muse's fame iikcrease. 

And bid BritaBHta rival Crttet! — Jouph Warim. 



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Rise, and put on your foli^. and be ueu 

To come forlh, like (he spring-time, fresh and grwn, 

And sweet us Flora. Tali, no care 

For jewels for youi gown or hair ; 

Feat not, the leaves will strew 

Gcrris in abundance upon yon ; 
Besides, the childhood of the day has kept 
Against you come, some orieot pearls unwept. 

Come, and receive them while the light 

Hai^ on the dew-locks of the night ; 

And Titan on the eastern hill 

Retires himself, or else stands still 
Till you come forth. Then, sin no more hy staying ; 
Few beads are beat, when once we go a Maying. 

Haptrida. 



Once did she hold the goi^ous East in fee ; 

And was the safeg:uard of tiie West : the worth 

Of Venice did not fall below her birth, 

^'enice the eldest child of liberty. 

She was a maiden city, bright and free ; 

No guile seduced, no force could violate ; 

And when she took unto herself a mate. 

She must espouse the everlasting sea. 

And what if she had seen those glones fade. 

Those titles vanish, aod that strength decay ; 

Yet shall some tribute of regri-t he paid. 

When her long life hath reached its final day : 

Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade 

Of that which once was great is pass'd away. — Wardiumik. 



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O, Liberty I thou goddess heavenly bright, 
ProfuK of bliss, and pr^mmt with delight ! 
Eternal pleasures ia th; presence leign. 
And smiling Plenty leads thy wantoa train ; 
Eas'd of her load. Subjection grooB more light. 
And Povertj looks cheerful in thy sight ; 
1'hau mak'st the gloomy face of Nature gay, 
Git's! beauty to the Sun, and pleaMiie to the day. 



WnEN in mid-aii the golden Immp gball sound. 

To laise the nations under ground ; 

Wheu in the valley of Jehoahaphat, 

The judging Qod shall elate the book of fate; 

When ratding bones together fly 

From the four comers of the ahy ; 

When sinews o'er the skeletons are spread, 

Those clolh'd wi\h flesh, and life inspires the dead i 

The sacred poets first shall hear tlie sound. 

And foremost froib the tomb shall bound, 

For they are cover'd with the ll^test ground ; 

And straight, with inborn vigour, on the wing, 

like mauDting larks to the new mamiug sing. 

There thou, sweet saintl before the choir shall go. 

The way which thou so well hast leaml below, — Drydtn. 



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Wkleh nnwvcll 
anger: which ilxl 

hIoih tpremletii « 



, mid Plciadci, tnd Lh 



Wm. Lilly, 1602, Diiticorlh, 
Frederic Sp&nheim, tht i/ouagfr, 

1632, Ctatm. 
Sebutian de Vauban, 1633, 

Dr. Woodward, 1665, Derbyih. 

Joseph Addison, 16T2, Aljlil.m. 

Sir Arthur WtlUiUy, Duke of 

Wellington, 1769, Dangan 

4^bin 0/ lAf Latin Chiirch. 

SI. Jtmei the Leu (otha-aiu 
the Jum), ApoHle aad Mar- 
tgr, 62. (S« Englith Church 
Catmdar.) 

St. Philip of Btthaya^'AfMiie. 
d. ul Himipolu, c. 90. {Set 
Ei^lah Church Calaidar.) 

St. Acdeolui of Caul, JU. 208. 

SU. Aciui and Acheolus (in 
French SU. Achand Acheul), 
JUarl<(rl ol Amient, c. 290. 

St. Amalor, Bp.«fAuierre,il». 

St. Brieuc(otB[iocus)a/GTMl 
Brilain, BUbop, 502. 

St. Marcou (oi Mucnlfni), 
Abtol in Nurmandji, d. 558. 



Arcadius (Emperor), 408. d. 

Conttant inopleM 
Maud the Good, (of England}, 

Ills. 
Aibert I. (Emperor), 1308. ax- 

tauiTiated in Switierland. 
John Urjden, 1700, d. Gerard 

SirM(.( Westminster Abbey.) 
Claude deVeK, llOa. AbbevilU. 
Abb* Ftancis Paris, 1727. Si. 

MeJarri'i, Purii. 
Dr. John Ri^rs, 1729. £nt- 

Thomn Earl of Coaingshy ,1729. 
Nicliol as CoustoD , 1 T33.d. Paru. 
Jobn Alphonu) Turretini, 1737. 

d. GeneiM. 
J. B. Oudri, 1755. d. Pa™. 
Wm. DuDcan, 1760. Aberdetn. 
Louis de Backaumont, 1771. 
William Heition, 1774. 
Israel LyoDS, 1775. 
J. B. de Si. Palaye, 17B1. d. 

PoHi. 
MlleaCooper, 1785. Bdinburgh, 
Maxslial J. B. Beaderes, 1813. 

Mllid near Lutxtn. 
James Delille, 1813. d. Parii. 



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Maivs. The preunt month aad JiiniNi 

t upon a poutlve and settled otigin, when we are assured that the 
it Roman devoted lliis to the majirrei, the heads and majesty of the 
igdom, and the latter to those joath, Juniorri, wlui being beneath the 
age far magisliacy, had upheld it b; their armg. But at Ihe month of 
May was sacred loMercui^, whowastheoflspringof Main, the brightest 
of the Pleiades (some princess the destinies had cut out, for her v~ 
into a sweet alar), and as the Bona Dta, Maia Cjbele, received also hei 
worship in the house of the chief magislrate, upon the caltnJi, 
bable thatNuma substituied the lait two months for those civil holidays, 
and gave nnditided riles to the Modier of harvest and production, 
eastern latitudes the Earth ii now in her malurily. The golden Api^ta 
thai dispensed this universal laughter over the undulating tunows of 
Asia, recrived his homage in numerous houses ; at Delphi, DktjmB, 
al Abe in Phocis, Claros, Laiiisa, Eutreus, Orope, Tchnsa, CoTypa?, 
Hybb, Oiobiffi, Tegyra, on the Mounts Ptous, lamenus, and Pa 
natsai, and in his birth-nest at Delos, whence he sent forth his first ai 
purest oracles, — Ihe best were but crooked mutilations of the Baby- 
lonian records, and the fouotain of Grecian mythnlagy. — Sw 7th Mail 
Apollo was the Orui of the Egyptians ; according la Bryant the CAiu o 
the Mosaic narrative ; but iikt Salntnus he left his home, aajth Clau- 
dian, and found an asylum among the HypeTboTtan$, 
The Lara Pr«lils9 or little household guardian 
their oflferingB upon this day. They were jJaced before the hearths and 
» of Ihe Roman mansions, wilb the image of a d(^ at their feet, i 
wfm, as emblems of Ihe vigilance or piety of the inhabitant!. 



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The Flobalu. The first da; oT May, par tictlUnce waa the day or 
pleainre and dd^hl, when Flora tbren out from her " pieturtd urn ' 
(two-handted like the Greek Pii, figuring Ihe two months of her don 

) lo ^e siailing Honra, the mesaeagers of the Graces, every blossoEn 
that perfumet or vaiiegtLiea Ihe Spring. Her fettivaJs are coeral n 

ieasons ; but appear lo have beea discontinued at Rome, although 
commanded by a Sibylline oriicb, for a ointer of siity-sii years, until 
reiloied in all their fragrance under the consuls Lnnas and Posthu- 
us. B.C. 173. From Flora we derive our Ladu of Mai/, and that 
ciesled mast Khich oaet, as Pope sings, ' mtetUii/k'd Ihe Strand.' The 
" Morrii-danci" vai an ancient English game peculiar to this day. Be- 
fore'' the time of Queen Elizabeth it was composed of twelve figures. 
, The Bavaan tool, witli his yellow slabbering bib. 2. Maid Marian, 
the Queen of Ma;, with a golden crown upon her head, hair dishevelled, 
and in her left hand a red pink, as the emblem of summer. (T' 
Ma; Da; of course now falls twelve days later,) 3. A Franciscan 
, in the full clerical tonsure, with corded girdle and wallet, the giey- 
et habit, a chaplel of white and red beads in his right hand, and 
s, eipresuTe of humility, corrnntrting with the ground. 4. Hocus 
Pocus, in a jnggier'i jerkin, with the Epimedium, upon his forehead. 
5. The Hobby-horse, was a steed of pasteboard, in which the master 
dani^ and displayed tricks of legerdemain, such as threading tlie needle, 
" daggers in the nose," &c. : his golden crown indicates the monarch 
of the May. 6, A clown, or villane. 7. A franklin, or gentlemi 
I. The May-pole, painted yellow and black in spiral lines. Upon it 
vere displayed the red cross of St. George, or tlie banner of England, and 
1 white pennon emblamned. 9. Tom, the Piper, as the ancient n ' 
strel, with his pipe and tambour de baejut. 10. A Spaniard, with flying 
sleeves. 11. A Morisco, in a purple coronetted cap and feather, and 
12, The counterfeit fool, with his bauble, cock's.comb and bell, and 
what a foolscap never larked, the asinine auricles. 



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Helhbiki, E Hc grwil DwdtiUa v. 
■■ Uk S^OBlia (uden'i noblt dud 
Wkith by tail owm Inpwlil bindi i 
I Ht him •nik, mtthiaki, •> Ik do 



T Inlke biu b> ■ IhiflBc mt^ln.—Cowlnfi Garim. 

The MoNTas. The t(l/b month, Moiui or the Jnliao raleodar, afrcea 
with the third mooD, Packim, in the old, uid the ointb of ihe dew EgTp- 
tiui year ; with the ninth civil, and the third sacred moon, Givm, of the 
Jewi ; with the ninlh moOD, Adar, of the PersiaDai with the niolh 
ni, Dirituf, Plethaiatut, aod Atiaa, of the Sjro-Macedoniiuii, Pa- 
phians, and Bilhyniani; with the nioth moons, GinbMh, BaAaaik, and 
AiOd, of the EthiopiBJi, Coptic, and Annenisn cakndan; with the 
«ghlh solar month, /car, of the Syrians ; with the twelfth and conci 
ing month, SeirojAori™, of the Athenian jeaj ; the ninth, Pmtmui 
the Macedonians, and the fif^i, Arientmvt, of tlieir solar year ; and 
with the eleventfi moons, DvVmladath, and Zilkaadt, of Ihe Araliiins and 
Turks. B; the ancient Seions it wu called Tri-milchi, a pastoral i 
from the dairy, and by tlie Dutch and Germans Blou month, as floriits. 
Vpon this day, B. C. 139, the prstors of Pn^nniui issued a lingular 
ree in which it is attested " that their ancestors «ere friendly to the 
Jews even in die time of Abraham, who was the father of all the He- 
rs, ai tt't hart found il Ml dmrn in our public recerdt." The Lace- 
demoniaiis and Paithiaus were also from the same reverend stock. 

Diocleuan in the Iwenty-first year of his reign alxllcates the imperial 
throne in the presence of his soldiery and a maldtude of people, fiom 
a bill upon a plain about three miles from Kicomedia, 30^. Manin 
resigned hii share of the imperial dignity at Milan upon the same ( 
When this ambitions old man afteiwaids soliuitcd Dioclesian to resi 
thepniple, the latter, with a smile of commisentiaii, calmly replied " ' 
if he could show Maiimian Ihe eobJagM which he had planted with his 
own hands at Salona, he should no longer be urged to relinquish Ihe 
enjoyment of happiness for die puisuit of power." 



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N«w tkt brittlil UaniBi-tV, Amj't kirl>l>iir, 

Tbfl flowery ll«y, *Fha lyom her [ncn lip tkroin 

Tk jdlow niwillp md lh> pid« prtiDrnM, 

Hiil, bonDlcDiu Uiy, ihM don luipln 

Mirth, ind jFDitfa, iM wino dciln ; 

Wuxli ud frOTH IK of Ifay diwlBt, 

HIH ud dilc, iMh bout Ihjr bliHla( I— JHIttm. 



All tb« Italiaa ■iwn:huitiiDdterMlinofFruice(csUtd«m«y'J«iuI(n) 
>ra iHied ihi) night, hj commtad of Philip the-Tair, for tbdr rantimi, 
1301.— A tplendidjuttiihcldat Smithficld daring the Gnt fire diyi of 
May 1363. which wu kUeaded by Edward III. and hii Queen, with 
tba flower o[ tbe cluvali^ of England and Fiance, and knighli from 
div«n oibci Dktioni. Edwvd IV. privately etpouKi, *t Gtaftou Regk, 
the Lady Elinbcth Woodville, widow of Sii John Grey. 1464. It wu 
a lAlin pravetb : — " nunie mtlai maio nnbera." — Tlw EvU May Day 
recaidatheiniurrectionatLondoauDdeiJolinoflincoln, 1617. Charlei 
V. reduce* «nd teveiely puniibei Chsnt, hii native dty, N. 8. 1640. 

Jamei VI. of Scotland land* at L^tb, liom Copenhagen, with hitnew- 
mairied ipcuH, Ann of Denmark, 1S90. He left hif docaiaiaai upon 
thifl nuptial eipeditioa the 32nd of October. 15S9. 

Queen Beu want a-maymg to Sir JUehard Buckley'i mt LewithaiD, 
(her Uat Spring), 1S03. Ptpyi DotM, " My wife away lo Woolwidi 
in order to a little air, and to lie there to-night, and >o to gather May- 
dew lo-monuw morning, which Mn. Turner hath Unglit her ii the only 
thing in the world to waah her lace with ; and I am contented with it." 
Again, at the Hague, 1660 : " We were made lo nnderntnd tbe inten- 
tion of 3fa]i-}»ln, which we uw there at every great mt-a't door, of dif- 
feient gieatneH, acconlbg to the quality of the penon." 

The decrew of the Synod tf Dart are publicly read, when the godbciI 
wai diuolved, 161S. Thii famoni Calviniitic caovocation Gnt ataeni- 
bled the 13th of November, 1618. and wai compoted of lii niemben 
from each of the ptDviace*, twelve from North and Sontb Holland, (wo 
from the country of DrenI, with depntie* from London and ten other 
foiei|;n ciliea or lepublici. — The letter of Chirlei II. from Breda, ad- 
dreued to the Home of Cammoni, ii received bare-headed by that aa- 
•emhly, when he wa> uknowledged King dt facta, and an immediate 
supply of fifty-thonjand ponnda wai ordered lo be transmiMed, 



uUh t>ukcrolilH<lUljciKil,«idIwi11lHaiHir]i<HrliUli— 
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By noBnUia, meidow, nra 
Whire Die poii'd lark bli ci 


MICT'd bHUllg 

»lng duty cb. 


cell. 


Whitc-maiiUcd iDDwenn, tUieRil iprite, 
BhiU etuv te off tke gabUna vf Hm Di(bn 


ftetf. 



Upon diii da; the berdsmeD b the Highlaiidi of Scotlanil perfbimed 
I. kind of malic chann and SBcrifice, called Btl'tein .- by which it was 
imagined Ibrir theep and cattle wets protected from deBlruction thiough- 
ont (h« 3i«ar. The ciutom leaemblei the Romtin Paliiia, and leema lo 
han beee derived tmm the Fhtenician ihepherda. 

The union of England with Scotland ii conBummated, 1707. 

The tfieanial act ii repealed, 1716. Fort Louia, at the moulb of the 
Senegal, U taken by the Engliih, 1760, It waa leslored to the French 
at the late peace. Gaadaloupe, one of the French Caribbee Iilanda, 
lunenden, 1759 } itwaaceatoiedin 1814. Gibbon concliidea tbe/mrih 
volume of bia History, unmortal u it> mbject, 1786. Tbe Indian war 
commence* with Tippoo Saheb, Sultan of Mysore, 1790. The Vice- 
cbancellor or Great Brilaia, Sir Thomu Plomer, sits for the first time 
in LidcoId's Inn [UU, upon tbe creation of that office, 1813 :— the 
talents of Sir John Leach gave it dignity. The Grit fair at Riga, is held 
during this month. The Horticoltutal Society holds its annual aaMui- 
bly upon the pment day. The rainy season beigns now in Abysunia. 
when ibe sun becomes vertical ; and at Siam, the falls, during this and 
the (bliowing month, are tnc«uanl. This il the period of harvest in 
Falestiae ; and the fruits are ripe at Algiers. The niu riis with us in 
Engllind at about balf-paat four o'clock ; and utt about twenty minutes 
past seven o'clock. Upon the 3dlh of June it will ritt at about forty 
minutes past tbi«e o'clock, and let at about a quarter past ei^t o'clock; 
after which day, the nighti begin insensibly to lengthen. 



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Day. 


BittH 


Bam.' 


VI 


William Camden, 1551, Old 


WUliam de la Pole. Duke of 


Non. 


BaiUy, L»Bdmt. 


Suflblk, M,. 1430. Wiugfiild. 


2. 


Edwmri Beroari, 1638, P*f7T, 


St. Autouinus, the Less, 1459. 




Si, Paul, neor roniwtn-. 


Uonaido da Vinci. 1520. d. 




Dr. LewLi AOerbury, 1656, 


Foulainebleaii. 




C«Wec»(. 


Sebastian B.audl, 1520. died. 




tleniy. Kail Bathunl, 1714. 


Stnilnirg. 




CalharmelI.(n/RHUia),lT2!). 


Joan(Bocl.er) of Kent, biirnej. 




£»lifl npin Oijfr. 


1550. 







Antliony («/ PoilKga/), 1595. 

d. Parii. 
Horace Vere, Baron Tilbury, 




In May and June come pinks 




of all lorts, especially ihe blusli 


1633. Abhiy. 




pinl 1 honey-suctUs, Blrawl^ei-' 


George Wither, 1667. CQ«n?) 






Archbishop (James) Sharp, 




rigold.GDsArricanus.ligaiarruit, 


1679. HitassiHated, Magaik 




ra*pa, vine floweis, lavender in 


Mwr. (St. Andrew's.; 




flowers, the avfeel salyrian, her- 


Sir George Mackeniie, 1691. 




ba muEcaria, lilium convalUuro, 


Edi,.b,,rgh. 




and roses of all kinds, except 


Lawrence Hyde, Earl of Ro- 




the musk, wliich comes later. 


chester, 1711. Xf.ie.w. 




BacoB. 


Leonor Souhs d'Allainval, 
1753. d. Paris. 






John Lewis de Beaumont, 1765. 




1©6it8 of ihe Utit> Church. 


d. Mtsml. 




St. Alhanasius, Pelriarch <■/ 


Hester Lynch Fioiii, 1821. d. 




Altmndria, Doctor of the 


Clijm. 




Church, (irfliu/mioii), 373. 


Sylvester, Lord Glenberrie, 
1823. 



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Lahbekt Stmnel, the tmpOBter, is crowned in Chiltl Church, Dublin, 
by Ihs stjle of Edicard Ike Siith, the Lonl Depnty, Gerald, Earl of Kil- 
dare, with other nobles, aesisling at the ceremony, 1487. 

Columbus discovers Jumaica, and on the Sth day, he sinchored ii 
a port on its north side, now St. Anna, 1494. 

The eseeulion of Joan of Kent, for hei-esy, 1550. " It is a goodly 
matter to consider your ignorance ; it was not long ago that you bi 
Ann Askew for a piece of bnad, and yet came yourselves soon afle 
believe and profess the same doctrine for which you burned her; and 
forsooth, you will needs bum me for apiece of JUth ; and in the end w ' 
e to believe this also, when ytra have read the Scriptures and under- 
stand them." 

Mary, Queen of Scots, aided by the galluil George Douglas, escapes 
this night from Lochleven Castle, in Kinross-shire. 1568. 

" A pleasant conceited history, called Tht Turning of a Shrea" is 
entered by Peter Short, piinter,-IS94. Shakspeare's comedy, with the 
some title, was distinguished in 1598, by the name of " Lutie'i Labour 
Wm." Upon the same day, in 1606, was entered, by Thomas Pavyer, 
"Thf YmliihiTt Tragedy," a book written by Wylliam Shakespere ; but 
it is very quesdonable whether he wrote this play tntirtlg. 

Femand de Quiros discovera the Nea HeWdei, in Australana, after- 
wards eiplored by Cooli, 1606. 

he itateia cross io Cheapside is demorished by the Parliament, 1643 : 
the tall May-pole of the Strand, shared an equal fate. The matsacre at 
Madrid, by a French detachment chained by Murat, 1806. The battle 
ofLuIsm, 1313 :~NapoleoD, who kept the field, entered Dresden on 
sixth day. He left Paris this day, in 1815, to meet the allied armie 

The espousals of the lamented Princess Charlotte of Wales and 
Prince Leopold, of Coboui^, are solemnized at Carlton Palace, 1816. 
Don Pedro resigns the throne of Portugal in favour of his daughtei 
na Maria. 11. da Gloria, 1826. The KCand fair of Novj. in th 
Milanese. Here begins the season (o angle far the chub, ruff, pike 
gudgeou, eel, dace, bleak, and finnock. The palm-tree of the desert, 
which is bi-seiuat. expands its odorous blossoms about this time. 



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Gain on yoaw pnrpcH-d wlU. Not In Ihe Ih 
Wkcn woodbine! aioni, ind ma Hunt t ■ 
While Evening dnni tier crinuoo caitilni 
Trait your mlt aiiaaia vllh iKlraylnf mv 



JJ^. 


BirtiB. 


Statu. 


V. 






Nod. 


Ttnre. 


Mahomet 11. (Emptror), 1481. 


Deao (Humphrey) Pride«u«, 


Heary Gurnet, 1606. hanged. 




1648, P0j,t^. 


Si. Paul',. 




Adoiphus Frederic 11. (,/Su«. 


Dr. Isaac Dorislaua, 1649. at- 




dtn), 1710. 


»Mi»al(d, /fuffoRd. (St. Mar- 




Auguitu* Frederick Kotiebue, 


garet-^) 




1761, IVrimar. 


Sir RichanJ Coi. 1733. 
George Psalmanazar, 1763. 






Sir JotDCoxeHippsley, IBM. 




Speak kiodlj of jour aUanl 







frkpds. to those that aie pre- 






aeol, (hat they may Dot think you 


Iheafdthalhehadbeeudevt 






Dear Ihree months, and felt a 




they are absent. 


strong desire to see where they 




I$ocTala, 


had lain him-^when, upon poll- 
ing out his little horn bo>, as 






I sat by his grave, and plucking 
up a nettle or two at the head of 




&hHS of the Lalia Church. 


it, which had no buunesa to 




St. Aleiander, Popt. Evenlius, 
aDdTheada1as,JtIan>,n, 119. 

SI. Juvenal, BUhop in Umbriu. 
jMarljn-, c. 367. 

St.Conlaelh, IslBiriflpn/KH- 
dare, 519. 


grow there, they all struck to- 




gether so forcibly upon ray afiec- 
lions, that I burst inio a flood of 
tears— but I am as vreat as a 
woman ; and I beg the world 
not to smile, but ^ty me. 

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iDia or KltiKe — HU Uh hInDrin of mlshly cmplm, i 
' conlcntiou — mn tkt •oblleliei of Logic, iKe isjiki 



gttfl. ^^ 

The Invention OF treCbcws. The festival of H(rIy'r«KJ-da>;,ithich 
belongs both to the Latin and Greek, u well as to the Euglith charch, 
commemofalei lh« discovery (inventia), b; the Empress Helena, in the 
year 326, of the Holy Crou upon whith our Saviour was put to death, 
Tbe rubric-board affixed wtB one toot in length, and it* inicnptioa id 
the three toofuea, comprised in firc lines, and eupmsed by red letteri. 

The border feud happened upon this daj at Riediquair, between the 
English and Scotliah march-men, 1575, when the former with Sir Johu 
Foster (who was a priaoner), were completely beaten. This skinntah 
was the last of any note between Ihe two nations. 

The sentence of fine and imprisonokent is passed by the Hddk 
Peers upon Lord Bacon, who had two days before resigned the Great 
Seal, 1621. King James signed a warrant (or his pardon (his parlia- 
mentary sentence excepted), on the 12th of October following. 

Evelyn, at Paris, notes 1650; " At the hospital of La Charite I saw 
the operation of cutting for the stone. A child of eight or nine yean 
old, underwent the operation with most extraordinary palieace." 

Jamaica is taken from the Spaniards under tbe Protectorship, I66fi. 

Swift execatea his laat will, 1740, by which he endowed Si. Patridc'i 
Harpitat, for the reception of idiots and lunatics. The French fleet, off 
Cape Finisleire, is taken by Admiral Anson, 1747, Captain Cook dis- 
covers the Bay of Crou Sound in North America, 1778. Byron (wi " 
a Lieutenant Ekenhead) swims over the Dardanelles &om Abydos 
Seatos, like another Leander, 1810. The whole distance, including the 
length they were carried by Ihe rapidity of the current, wa« upwards of 
font English miles; though the actual breadth is barely one. 

Capt^ Boss lajls from Shetland, to ascertain the existence of a pas- 
sage from Ihe Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, by way of Davis's Straits and 
Baffin's Bay, 1818. They returned to Shetland on tbe 30lh of October, 
and brought home a quantity of red mme, which amused the chymists. 



Hclblnki Hripkic uid am 
■nee r«tmbUD( Uiat, wbtrei 
ttsiKi: which tlie one prii 
Ihey discover. 



OS Igven bcboU eiwriar bcauUei with idKrer- 
ildren ad utronomen conrider GalUeo'i optic 
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Francis Peck, 1693. Slamford. 
■ David, EulafLev«D, 1722. 
JobnCbaitesBorda, IT33,D<u', 



" I leave my aecond sod, ujd 
the e»i»ring miaet, mj i 
tale." ^jid«L', in a BoiTowful 
n(, prayed Heaven " to pro- 
ng his father's life and health 
to enjoy it himself." " I le- 
comtoend Simon to the care of 
hit elder brother, and leave him 
be^de four thoosand pounds." 
" Ah! father," criedSimon, (in 
great affliction to be sure,)"inay 
Heaten give you life and health 
to enjoy it yourself." — The Bei. 



®llill of the Latin Church. 
St. Monica, Widoa, 387. 
St. Godard, Bukap cf Hildeii- 



ni Ihejr boul, 

The Oimpalfn. 



Bishop Richard de Belmeis, 

1162. 
Prince Edward, (of Wales), 

mvrdtrtd, U71. Tevikabun,. 
Louis XIII. (o/ France), 1643. 
Dr. Isaac Barrow, 1677. Wat- 

miHiler Abbeii. 
Faustina Aui de Forii, 1724. 
Cardinal Louis de Noaillei, 

1729. Pa™. 
Sir James Thornhill, 1734. d. 

Thorahill. 
Eustace Budgell, 1737. dr™m. 

ed, Thama. 
Charles Louis Camns. 1768. 
Tippoo Sabeb, 1799. kitUd, 

Stringapatam. 

At last, turning to poor Dick, 
" As for you, you have always 
beena sad dog. you'll never come 
to good, you'll never be rich ; 
I'll leave you a shilling to buy a 
bailer." — " Ah 1 father," cries 
Dick, without any cmotiott, 
" may Heaven give you life 
and healtli to enjoy ityouiself." 



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The cDIcDinh Urd, Hi tilkUlvc inri gnT(, 



TsE eventful vicloiy of the York partisans Bt Ttwhetbury, 1471: 
" Distrust uid diimaj spread through the ranks of the Lancastrians : 
the ramparl was bul funlly defeuded : first the banner of the Duke of 
Gloucester, soon thet of Edward, waved in the midst of the ramp : and 
Somerset indespair, riding uplo Lord Wenlock, atone stroke beat out his 
brains. The Queen and her son were made prisoners. The former was 
reserved to grace the conqueror's triumph ; the latter was led to his tent, 
and being asked wbat had tirought him to England, boldly but ingenu- 
ously replied, " To preserve my father's crown and my own inheritance." 
Edward had the barbarity to strike the young prince in the face with his 
gannttel : Clarence and Gloucester, or perhapt ilw knighls ia Iheir re- 
linue, dispatched liim with their swords." It was twelve yean after 
this tragedy, upon the same day, that Richard was acknowledged by tlie 
chief nobility, Prvlictirr of the realm, and of the person of his nephew, 
Edward V. wn of the last monarch ; an event which took place in the 
palace of the Bishop of London, UB3. The Duke assumed the style, 
on this occauon, of" brother ai>d uncle of kingt, ptoiecloi and defensor, 
great ehamberiain, co[utab1e,.aDd lord high admiral of England." 

The capture of Seringapatam by General Harris, 1799. The kingdom 
of the Mysore was extinguished and divided on the24lh of June following. 

The ei-Emperor makes his pubUc entrance into Elba, 1814. It was 
on the 20th of April that he called his officers about him for the last time 
at Ftrttaiabieau : " For you, gentlemen, I am no longer to be with you ; 
you have another government ; and it will become you to attach your- 
selves to it frankly, and serve it as faithfully as you have served me." 
Very few sceites like thii have occurred in history, or which men as 
members of the world are more teuacioas of remembenng and preserving. 

A treaty is concluded between Great Britain and the Netherlands, 
for abolishing thai badge of Antichrisl the Slave Trade, 1818. 



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Ik rbrltw SabUu ; Ibc tnh for tbt Hi| 
LCTnlbforllu UypocrilHofall nUilM 

V(ttif- 

Sainl Paula, A. D. 347, Rem. 
JnMinianui (Emperor), 483, 

TaumJum, in Bulgaria. 
Tbomu Cecil, Earl of Eieler, 

1&42. 



Lam are not made like lime- 
twigs, or nets, lo calcli at everj 
tiling that touchelh them ; but 
ralber like leamarki, to guide 
lioin ihipwieck the igDor^at 
paucDgei.— 5ir Philip Sidney. 



9&iiti a/the Latin Church. 
St. Hilari^, Archln^ap tf ArUt, 

(the tuppoied aalbor of the 

AthaDaaian Creed,) d. 449. 

. Manront, Abbot of Brtiil, 

i. 706. 
St. Avertin of Tavraine, 1189. 
St. Angelua, a Carmelite Friar, 

Martyr, 1225. 
St. Pius V. (Pope), 1572. 



' KT«K>Ia<«''lKirlekBl) tbeliM 
iMtuH; the tUid tor Ihe Jcw>; Ux 
\*at; Ike iliilh Cor Ok Pijui ; and 
•. £wk of iht TWfa. 

gealH 

Frederick the Wise,Co/Sumy), 

1S36. 

Paulus ^milius, 1529. Pant. 
Sir Henr; Sidney, 15e6.d. hud- 

FrRQcis Aanibal d'EsIrees, < 

Pari: 
Edw.EailofMoncbester, 1671. 
Robert, Earl of Hoiburgh, 

1682. droimtd, Lemon-Ore. 
Dr. Daniel Breviol, 1695. Lin- 
coln. 
Stephen Alorio, 1700. d. Am- 

ilerdam, 
Leopold 1. (Emperor). 1705. 
Nicholas Poisson, 1710. died, 

Lyon.. 
John Pichon. 1761. 
Lawrence Shirley, Earl Ferren, 

1760. eieculed, Tjftum. 
Maiy Countesa of Molesworth, 

1763. burned accUle<.tallti. 
^.Davies,1785.Cini«t( Garden. 
Jos, Baretti, 1789. Marylehme. 
Adolp. Murraj, 1803. d. Upul. 
P. Cabanis, 1808. d. Meulan 
Napoleon Buonaparte, 1B2 

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V. MAY. 

imdH HeETcn ; Parthluu, ud MedH, and Eluuilo, ind the d*c1l>n In Huo- 
poUmli, iDd ia Jadei, and Cappadocii, In Ponini, and Aita, Flii^gli, ind Pun- 
pliirllji, in EETptFiDd In tbe paruof LTt>ii about Cyreat, and tinngen ofHomCj 
Icwi and prowlflet, Cnlei ind Anblani, ill IhiH did bur, every man In Iheir 
cTcnl fsajMO, tki wonderfol vmIu or God. Sacred HUlortf, 

nttt. 

Pentecost. Tbefeutaf we«k>, oi of the wheat buvMt and Gnt-ftniti, 
was the morrow after leven sabbaths, on tbt_^ittk iaj from the even- 
ing of the Sabbath sacceediag the paiMver,— nSw ISIA March. It 
dnring Ibii Sunday, the first' da; of the week, at Ae hour of niiM in the 
morning, that the Divine Spirit wu ibed forth on the Apoitlea 
A(^t il. I. It IB also the univeraal opinion of the Jews that then (third 
mooD, ChadhetJi,') THE LAW wai given on Mount Sinu, namel;, 
the fiftieth dajr after the flight from Raanuea in Egypt, B.C. 1491. 
' King CharlH pioceeds from Noriblk to the lodgings of Montieril, the 
French envoy, at Smthvnll, in Nottinghamshire, bj whom be wai ii 
duced to the EbiI of Leven, and the officers of hia ataff, 1646. Id a 
days the Scottiih leaders broke up tfaeti camp before NenaA, and 
tired with their rojial captive to Newcastle. The civil war of swoids 

now at an end, and Hendetson, a piesbjieFUUi minister, mat Mnt 

1 to dispute with Charles, respecting &c institution of Epiicapaj^ ; 
but the monarch was too argumentative for the divine, who died ihortlj 
after, it is said, with deep contrition, ^ victim of his logic. 

TheJndgeB,inl6B0, unaninioDsly declare, "that his majesty may hj 
law piohitnt the pnMicatioii of all news-books and pamphlets of news 
WhatBoever, not licensed by his authori^." James, Duke of York, ii 
wrecked in the Glmter man-of-war, npob the sand-bank Called the Le- 

'Oie, about twelva leagues from Yarmouth, against the mtAith of 
Humber,16S3. The sunrivois preserved themselves with great diSolty. 
The assembly of the Stales-General opens at Paris, 17B9, Nelson re- 

is his appointment, lying at Kioge Bay, in tht Baltic, of com- 
mander-in-chief, upon the recall of Sir Hyde Parker, 1801. Ganick's 
sale, 1823. The original cup carved from Shakspearo's mulbeny-tree, 
and presented to the great actor by the corpomtioa of Stratford, during 
the julnlee in September, 1769, was then tapped down to Mr. J. John- 
BOQ, of SonthamptoQ Street, in the Stiaad, for £137 and one shilling. 



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lE Ij T«rr odd tbil llicie Ihne crlmdi uagle, homy, ud tbit AgviB 
of wUcb ihe tnt uif kl cuil; be ynmd not lo eiUI « nil ; Ibc kco 
■uuepIlUc of u InAnilc onmbar of dWIncIiaoi, laUrpRlillolu, ud III 
the Ihird, Id br ofttn obicim and anccrUIn i It U very odd, 1 uy, IbM IhtK tlrnt 
crime! ihonUl tmoii|il ai bi psnlihfd villi in.—Mentatuitv. 



. General Andrew Mus«nB,17S8, 



A pMvUh feHow ia one who 
has some reason in himself for 
being out of humour, or has > 
natnnl incapaci^ for delight, 
A therefore disturbs all t^o 
e happier thut himself with 
pishes and pshaws t or other 
well-bred interjections, at erery 
thing that is said or done in his 
presence. There should be ]Ay- 
lic mixed in all the food of which 
these fellows eat in good com* 
panj, — SUtle. 

ISiiH of the Latin Chunk. 

St. John the Evangelist, sugerrd 
before the Latin G ate at Rome , 
A.D.gs. {SttEngiithChitrch 
CaltndaT.) 

St. Eadbert, Biihep of Lindlt- 
/o™, d. 687. 

St. John Damascen, Fathtr if 
iht Church, d. c. 780. 



Bishop Robert de Baldock, 
1337. d. NeugaK Priim. (I 
Paul's.) 

Edmund Beaufwt, Duke of So- 
metwt, 1471. h^ued. Ttwiitt- 

Charles Due de Bourbon, 1527. 

mUd,Rimt. 
John Lewis Vivet, 1541. died, 

Paul deThermes, lS62.d.Pdru. 
Sir Bobeit Bruce CoUon, U 



Samuel Bochart, 11 



1. d. Com 



Gratieu de Couttili> 1712. t 

ParU. 
Andrew Michael Ramsay, 1743. 

St. Germtin-tB-Lait. 
Christopher, Manhal Schwerin, 

1767.*iUttI, Pragiu. 
Bishop (Samuel) Squire, 1766. 
Anthony d'Artigui, 1768. d. 

Swphea de Montigni, I7S2. 
John G esnw,( Canon afZiaidt.') 
1790. 



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Ud in an Ike land were no wdhkd dnmd k fair u (he diDghlcn of Jot 

. «ttB^ 

The feiti*al of Job a oburved on Ibe pieient da; b; the Gmek cbnrcb. 

M»muB Rulilui, ibe first Dictaioi elected from Ibe pkbeiaoi, GDlen 
Rome io triumph for hit vicloiy over the Einuiuu, B. C. 356. The 
modem d^wu taken b; the Imperialiils tbii day, A.D. 1537, andin- 
duciuninntelj pillaged. BourboD (ell by a muiket->bot in the escalade, 

Ann Boleyn addreaaei her last letter to Henry VIII. froia ber dolefal 
pxiwnin th«!I'miw,1636: " Bat if you have already determined of m 
and that not only my death, but an infamoui eUnder must bring you die 
enjoying of your deiired happineai ; then I deiiie of God, that he will 
Ion youi great sin therein, and likewiie mine enemies, the ins 
1i thereof; and that be will not call you to a strict account for your 
unprincely and cruel OMge of me, at bia graeial jnt^enmit-ieat, where 
bctb you andmyself must shortly appear, and in whose Judgement, I doubt 
not, whatsoever the world may think of me, mine innocence ^all be 
openly known, and sufficiently cleared." Cksst'i wile must not be sus- 
pected ; or had some lago poisoned the irascible monarch's ear agaioit 
this gay-ihougbied lady, who was liric^ in hii presence 1 

In dw Session-records ofthe covenanters at Dumfries, 1652; "R 
garet Davidson, spouse to James Lin, is to be rebuked in tackcloth, if 
^ she fall into tht thret litu, or any of Uiem, of cursing, drunkeniKsi, or 
Sabbath -breaking.' ' 

Kouli Khan, alter plnnderiug the cajulal of Hindostao and slaughter- 
ii^ one hundred and fifty thousand of the people, departs the city diis 
day, 1739, leaving bia aoo Mohammed Shah, whom he had cnwiied 
with hit own hands, the reigning Emperor. 

Frederic the Great, of Pmsiia, delfts the Austtians at Pmgui, 1757. 

Ji^ Wilkes is released from his confinement in the Tower, by the 
memorable sentence of Chief Justice Pratt, Lord Camien, 1763. 

The Sirvceo, or south-east Syrian wind, is usually felt for several days 
in the neighbourhood of Naples about this period. Its singular effects 
tie Usdlode and depression of the animal spirits. It puses faintly 

tt Palermo about the beginning of July, and sets in at Dalmatis 
early as Easter. Plants are very lensibly agitrtd by this vapour. 

■Til (D olKliik, wbich Iboigh AwDded la Uie earth, hatk ■ iplie which na 



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■ Dr. Thomu Bennel, 1673, 5a- 
Genrd Van-Sirieten, 1700, 

A* in the bodj, when an aa- 
tural eieicise U used, the spiriti, 
rMch want Iheir due employ- 
lenl, turn agaiast Ihe coDililu- 
Lon, aod Gitd work for them- 
elves ia a deslmclive way ; so 
i tke nuod, uaeietciied, and 
which languishes for want of 
employmenl, the thoughts and 
affeclioni, being abslracted in 
their due coune, and deprived 
of their natural energy, raiie 
disquiet, and foment a rancorous 
eagenKSs and lonnenting jnita- 
>n. — Shaftttbury . 



(Mitf tfthe Latin Chunk. 
St. Benedict, 2d Pt^, d. 6B6. 
St. John of Bevcrla; , Bitlu^, d. 

721. 
St. Staoislaa, Buhap tf CntaiB, 

Martyr, 1079. 



Srottpa. 

Socrates, B. C. 399. d. Athaa, 

by poinm. 
Otho the Great, (Empmn-), 

A. D.ffJ3. Magdeburg. 
William the Bad, {of Sicily), 

1166. 
Bishop (John) Longland, 1547. 

Elm ColUge. 
JohnGuilllm, 1621. 
Sir John Sucltling. 1641. 
Henry de Valois, 1676. 
Dr. Patrick Delanj, 176B. d, 

Bath. 
Charles de Brosses. 1777. d. 

Pari,. 
Nicolas Ficcini, 1800. d. Pauy. 
Williani, MatquesB of Lands- 

downe, 1S06. 
Ricliard Cumberland, 1811. d. 

London. 
Madame do Fresnoy, 1825. 

Not the loss of lands and 
bouses but the loss of valuable 
liresistobedeplored; for lands 
cannot produce men ; but let us 
keep ourselves strong in men 
and ne shall not want for lands. 



Ifslh are ID IM ilndllj' looked a.t.—lltchtfotieaiilt. 



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The Peloponne^au wu is atated to ha.ve cammeDced by the allies of 
the SpaiUDB, upon the Tth of May, cocTnpQadiiiK with the secotid de- 
cade of Mtm^chion, but see ilh Aprii, where the first act is recorded. 
invasioti of Attica took place, sayi Thuejdides, eigUy dayi after 
this event. It was about this day that the Atheniaii procesnon, vowed 
by Thesem, annually returned, from the festival of Apollo, in thelslaod 
of Delos. The beginning of the voyage (called the aieent) «aa com- 
puted ftom the time that Apollo's priest first decorated the stem of the 
vesKel with garlands ; when they began to cleanse and luatrate the city ; 
and because it was considered unlawful to pat any criminal to death 
until its return (the dacent), the execution of Socrates was cruelly post- 
poned for thirty days after hla condemnation. — See 6lh April. 

Tt;. vast luminous cross appeared over Jerusalem, which was ob- 
■erved by the whole city, and >□ powerfully attested by St. Cyril, an 
eye-witoesx, in his famous letter to the Emperor Constantius. A. D. 351. 
This miraculous meteor was encircted by a large rainbow, and eitended 
from the Moutit Olivet to Golgotha. 

The fourteen Ih general council and the second of Li/ffniasseinbles,1274; 
St. Thomas Aquino expired on the way. James, King of Arragon, live 
hundred bishops, seventy abbots, and divers ambassadors, were present. 

Laid Burleigh, as Chancellor of Cambridge, Issues rules for reforming 
the appaiel, and other dimrders of the scholars, 168B : " and that the 
las of coloured shirtbands and ruBi, exceeding one Inch and a half 
(Bating for the sons of noblemen), be avoided presently ; and that no 
scholar do wear any long locks of hair upon his head, but that he be 
polledafter Uiemarmerof the gravest scholars, under the pain of 8i. Bd," 

King James I. arrives at the Charireute, having created two hundred 
and thirty-six knights during his progress from Berwick, 1603. 

The Master of the Revels' receiptor iia, 1633, " for allowing of Tfte 
Tflfe ef tht Tub, Vitm Hoop's part being wholly struck out, and the 
motion of the tali, by command from my Lord Chamberlain ; exceptions 
being taken against it by Tnigo Jooes, surveyor of the King's works, oi a 
perumal injary unto him." Vitmviu« Hoop npreseoted the mucUnid. 

The Rusuan army crossed the Fiuth, against the Tuits, 1828. 



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Vlir. MAY. 

G«, MkliHl, ar«lcitt>l uiiilH prince, 

And tb«, la miUUrr prowcat atxU 

OibrM, l»d faith to batUe IbcK my hhu 

iBTlBclbk ; l«ad rortb 1117 unicd hIhIi, 

By Iboniuiili and by mlllkiiu, nnt'd for SiliI, 

Bqiil In nnmtwc lo Ibat [OtUcH cnw 

RcbeUkni: Uum nrllh lln and boitUa unu 

Feariiu auuU: and. lo Ibc bnw of Hutch 

Funnlnt, drltc ihf m onl fniin Cod and bllH ParaiUi Loil. 



Das. 


SfrtH 


StatH 


Yin 


Aluu n^nk 1« Sag*, 1668, Sar- 


Benedict II. (Pope), 685. 


Id. 


itau in BritUmi/. 


Fiancii Paei. 1G32. d. StoilU. 


B. 




Bidwp (Edwaid) Fox, 1538. 




Albans, 16T0, Unettn'i Jnn 


TTiama Slrtel, 




F«U,. 


Biihop (ComeUut) Jaueniiu, 




Biihap(Bw]bf ) Foctena, 1731, 


1638. d. Ypra. 




Y«-k. 


Dr. Peler Heylin, 1662. AtAa/. 
Vincent Aliop, 1703. d. WeM- 






mintter. 
Aichbbliop (William) King, 




®bfll </ lb Lolin Chtavh. 


1739. Dmnybrook. 
John Clark, 1734. d. Hull. 




The Apparition of St. Michael, 


Gilei Jacob, 1744. 




thi Archangil. 


Benedict XIV. (Pope), 1758. 




St. OdiiaJi, BUhop and Tutitar 


Dr. Samuel Chandler, 1766. 




Saint of Wut«ford. [time 


BunhiU FUUU. 




uncertain.] 


Richtrd Jago, 1781. Snitter- 




St. Victor, Mortyr ot M.-/««, 


field. 




303. 


Sebastian, Marquis de Fombal, 




St Wire, Bishop i„ Irtlond, c. 


1782. d, Fombal. 




700. 


Antony Lawrence Lavolaier, 




St. Gjbrian (or Gobrian), »f 






Ireland. 8lh Centurj. 






Si. Peter, JrcftbuAop »f Toiwi- 


mi. kangid, Torivla. 




(aiM (or Mmitien) in Savoy, 


Gilbert Bum*. 1827. d.Oront'i 




1174. 


BroM. 



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Vin. MAY. 7 

A lallor K« Ood'. vomlen 1« Ui. d«p, bat » m th«r nlh« appear hi. piiy. 
rcllowt, Ibu tliiim ol hia na] i nothin; bm hunger and hard rocki un tonverl 
him, and then but hi> npptr dech, for hl> hold nciUicT i^ara nor hap» : bli wU- 
don Ii th« »ld«t part about hIa, tor it tnr polnu to the Mrth, and It lie. low- 


flctS. 



THEt««jc«lled"eiegT(o(prac(,"issigiied this day at Bretigni, 1360, 
by vbicb Edward III. renounced all his cUims to tiia French crown 
and lerritoriei. It wai ratified at Calaii tlie 34lh of October following, 
by the peiwinal oatbs of the two soveragns, Edward and tbe unfortunate 
Jaht), togelher witb their chief nobili^. 

Ferdinand and Isabella con/inn, at Barcelona, the appoinlments of Co- 
lambn*, upon bi« return from the New World, 1493 : " The office of 
atboinJ of tbe said ocean, K^Uh is oun, commences by a line, which 
wB bare ordered to be mariud, passing from tbe Azores to the Cape de 
Verd Islands, from tbe north to the soudi, from pole to pole ; so that 
all which is beyond the aforesaid line to the west is ours, and belongs 
to us i and of all this w« msXe and create our admiral, yon and your 
children." 

The liege of Orleans is abandimed, 1429 : " At dawn, the English 
aimy was diicoiered at a imall distance from the walls, drawn up in 
battle amy, and braving the enemy to fight in the open Geld. Alter 
waiting fiir some houn, the signal was given : the long line of farts, the 
fruit of seven months' labour, was instantly in flames ; and the soldiers 
irith mingled ieelings of ibitM and regret, turned their backs to tbe 
enemy." Thii was oiw of tbe iiKiplicable feats of Joan d'Arc, 

TbeParliamentofQueenEliiabeth assembles, 1ST3; towhichDame 
Dorothy Packinglm, as lady of the town of Aylesbury, sent by her no- 
minatioD, the Inuly and iHU.Maved Thomat lAekJitld and Gtorgt Bur- 
den, Eiguiret, lo be her Bta-gaUM ; and whatever they should do in the 
service of the Qneeu's bighneis in that present parliament, the lady 
thereby approved, as if she were herself prewnt. 

A nmaant of the I^ng Parliament assembles, during the onorcAy, 
which was termed, with an En^ish ancerity, the Ramp, 1659. 

Charles II. is proclaimed at London : ' botii houses being attending,' 
1660. Upon the tenth day, tbe ' State's arms were pulled down from 
over the Speaker's chair in the House of Commons.' 

Brace's interview widi the 9iekhAdelan,alAini, near Smniur, 1772. 

A iBpolaliy tt wealth (Idik caa Hppoit lenfUieHd ud dlnaut hMtiiitiei. 



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Umuiil; UuHi(k( I wliU Kuou aa canirol, 

WbU fueled Kiru can clreuDucrilic Iht lout, 

Wlu>i cMUciou of Ibi •DBTce (Tom nhinee tbe eiiniip. 

By Rcuen'i Il(bt. on ReioliitlDii'i nlnp, 

SpLIv of her tnU coinpuil«i» dinnUe*! foea 

O'er LfbU'i d«Krth *>>•< tbrmtli ZemUi'i ininh Orof, 



John Faewello, 1740. 



Youil 






ihei bnXera and brewen keep 
Iheirasuie, aod whether as veil 
the;, ai butchare, innhoUen, 
rietuallen, da aell thai 



lie piice> ; and whether 
they do link and combine to 

taiw prices. 

Baeoa'i Ckargt at the ^fgt- 



4nito 1^ lAc latin CfturcA. 
St. Herrnas, of Rome, Ist Cen- 

St. Gregoiy NaziaDzeD, Doctor 
of the CAurcA, 3B9, (>r391. 

Su BiTnoth I. Bishnp ef Scam, 
in Smdm, 1317. 

St. Niclulai, Biihop of lAnco- 
jm, in Swtien, 1391. 



rnnKii, 4th Earl of Bedfud, 

1641. ChoMt. 
Elimbeth FtwWi, ITM. d, if 

Nkholu Lewii, Goant Zim^' 

dorff, lT60.ifcrnAuK. 
Bonnal ThorolDn, llflB. ^M*?. 
Sir Bobnt Chambers, 1803. d. 



Montano fcequeuted every 
family ' table, and atUaded 
every hone-r«ce in the kingdom, 
He Gral reduced betting into an 
art, and made While's the grand 
muket far wagen. He is at 
length inch an adept, that wliat- 
cver tnm thingi take, . he can 
never lose. TUi he has taught 
the world to call 'htd^nga^.' 



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ThereroTE Iht DticK or rlrtue 

And Eddn Irumpet of etei 

Tliil lowly ItaD^tt lln sp to 



flda. 

Tub Lemuwa were noclamal ritea, by which the Lennra, or evil spi- 

weie eiorciied and appeaiMd. What the ilack beam could hat 
do with those " thick aod gloomy. ibadowi," might punle Pytbigonis 
himieir in the Mole of a- modem brachman ; although pouibly the bean, 
(faba) was a Hindoo ^rpa of the Metempiyclmu, or tiiat doctrine which 
tai^ht that the mental or radiciil seeds did not perish with the body, but 
might animate difiereat Tnms of matter at difierent period, imbiuted or 
iBD, according to their faculties. These ceremoQies ww« instituted by 
RomuluB at Rome upon the burial of his bnitber, wheiD be had ilain, 
and coDtiDued for three alternate nights, or during five days. 

Columbus sails from Cadiz with four vesiels,. in worch of a passage 
to the South Sea, bdng his fourth voyage over the Atlantic, IfiDS, 

Philip HasuDger j>roduces his play of " 7^ Boi&ftil Loiwr," which 
was performed by the Royal or Shakspeare's coc^any, 1636. 

A secret trea^ is Ngued at Paris between Louis XIV. and Oliver 
Cromwell, IfiST, Their deagn was principally "diernin anddeHruc- 
tion of the proud and tyrannical monarchy of Spain." 

Canini observes, by the poutiao* of certain spots, Ihe revolution of 
the pUnet Ftnut on its axis, 1667 ; which was confirmed sii^ years 
aflervnrds by the remarks of Bianchini. Pliny mentions that the great 
Pythagoras had noticed the motiimt of this hrilhant planet on Italian 
ground. W hen she appears tiwtt of the sun,Bhe is a moming'Star, Pbos- 
phoruB or Lucifer ; and when taitiiiard of the sun, an evening-star, 
Heiperus or Vesper; — her distaace from it is siity'Uine millians of miles. 

The fint colony, conusting of four bandred blacks and six^ while 
people, arrived fiom England at Sitrra Leant, 1787. They were s. 
in 1789, attacked and plu^deied when this settlement became dispersed, 

Tbe muse Calliope, the preudent of eloquence and henric poetry, i 

pouitrayed with a trumpet in her right hand and volumes in the other, as 

narratirr of those deeds of glory which are recorded by her sister C '" 



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Uut Iwn I UTed In c«rt, 
Yat l«ni-il OM lU Uili oliUc, 

To kU poor Billon suokc. 
Nor whm I bale U> naUt ; 

Snpcriori to adorti InTariori to iafiart 
To fljF from nch u Ml, 

To Mlow neb u rlie : 

Ta doik ■ poor doiln %aitr ■ rtab urwy 

Nor to uplra by tIc«, tbOBfh 'V 



Henrj Hua, Lord CoUrune, 

1693, BUchinglg. 
J. F. Di«ni du Ktdin, 1714, 

ChaUatuuvf, in TTMnwroii. 
MuiniT Dmboumey, 1733, 

RmtH. 
Anne Robeit Junet Turgot, 

1727, Pm^f. 
Jamb Conleiu, 17M, Dn- 

Lonii NIcfaolu Dtimit, 1770, 
JniMU, In Burgtmdy. 



•IftS «f lb Lalin aurcA. 

I, E[nmacbul, JUortyr, 260. 
St. Gordiaii, Moriyr, 362. 
St. Csmg«ll, Abbet of Baagor 

' Ireland, d. 601. 
St. Cataldiu, BtiAcDi and Tilular 

Saint of tht CathtdnU <f To- 

rntiim, 7tli O&toiy. 
St. Iiidore, Laboum-, Patron of 

Madrid, 1170. 
St. Antoniniii (« Litde Anta- 

nj), JrcUubp of FlortTue, 

1459. 



a»- Jfthi Oarfi. 



Butud of Vannu, 1422. ext- 

euttd, Mtaia. 
John of AviU, 1669. d. TnUda. 
Lomt 6e MarilUc, 1632. be- 
headed, Parit. 
OeiMral (John) Banniei-, 1641. 
Hunel d' Almeida, 1646. died, 

Goa. 
Birtan Booth, 1733. CohIcj, in 

MiddUMBT. 
Uuii XV. (af Fnntt), 1774. 

d. VeneUlu. 
PrinMu Cuoline Matilda, 

(QuM of Domflf*), 177S. 

d. Zdk. 
Anthony Court de Gebelin, 

1784. d. Parti. 
General dc D«n;Mem, 1793, 
ed, FamaT$, 



A member of parliament u 

iginally to be tender or bii 

own liberty, that other men may 

Uie betta tniU him with (hun. 

SavilU. 



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EoCATiON Sunday Uthe^ltSDadaj alter Eutci, and derivGiiti title 
from the Mondsy, Taeida;, and Wedneslay immediately lucceeding-, 
which weie termed fiog'aftan dayi, horn (he LatiD rogon, to beieech, be- 
K Ibe etrlieit Cbiittiaiii devoted Ihoie three days to ptayci and nip- 
plicftlion, u ■ luitable introdnction lo the great holy-dag commemoiat- 
ing oui Savioch's aiceuioD. — Set Hth May, 

The memorable pnlilcRca in Ireland, began upoatbii day, A,D. 664. 

Edward I. by Bnljanmn, hii Cbief JiwtiGe, infomu the Scottiih 
auembly at NarhMn, that be bad come lo uiunie the iovereignly pan- 
mount of Scotland, as tbe rneani of arbitntiag between Robert de Bruce, 
Lord of Annandale, John Baliol, Lord of Oallaway, and the ten otbei 
cutdidate* for the Caledonian crown. Upon tbe 3d of June, 1291, tbe 
eompelilor* publiihed an iutrnment by which they labiciibed to the 
judgmeal of tbe perenqitoiy Edward j andten daya after tbe royal caitlei 
were rengrted into hia haada, and all the military tenant! of the Scottish 
rn awon leally to him as Ita tupcrior lord. It was this present day. 
1307, that the gnat Biuce, ugnally defeated at Loudinifi Hili, Ajl- 

:r de Valenoe U Bnm, Earl of Pambroke, who Bed to the castle of. 
Ayr, in confiuioQ. By tbeie *itd umilar aucceaaful trimniHigi, although 
hunted with blmd-hiiHidi like the deer of tbe Ibiat, this heroic monarch 
"giadimUy accnftomed hii men to lepoae lo much coofideoce in hia 
alull and wisdom, that his orderi foi battle were regarded u a call to 
Bssuied victoiy." 

Heniy V. redncea Umo* after a siege of seno raanths, 1422. 

Queen Eliabeth issues W njal theatrical license under seal for ibe 
perfbnuanee of ttage-playt, 1574. As it is tbe epoch of the firat esla- 
" 'iment of a regular company of players in England, tbe omiauon of 
this document in our pages would be a species of little treoaon against 
the mirth and moiala of the country. We aball therefore iutioduce it 
t : " Elimbeth, b; tbe grace of God, Queen of Ei^laiid, &c. To 
all jntlicea, mayoia, aheriSi, bailiffs, bead constables, under constables. 






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tmd all ottier our oSicen tod miniilna, gnatlng. Know ye, thit-WB of 
oar cspeciil gnfn, eertain knowledp, ud in«r« mslion, h&te liceMed and 
authohied, sod bj these preuDtsdo licemoBodautliiiriM ovr loving lub- 
jecti, Jamti Sttrbage, JsAr Ptrkya, Jchn LatOiom, IftJIfBBi /okntm, and 
RoAert Wiliim, lenanU to our tnuty and mtUMmtd emain and MHutUor, 
tht Earl of Leiettttr, to nte, eisrciae, and ocenpy the btI and facuhy of 
playing eomediea, tragedie*, iaterlndeB, «tag«-plajm, and luoh alter like 
ai they have already und and studied, or hereafter thall nie and study, 
(H utllfm-tlitrecrtatiiin of out ianing nt/uu, at /or our mbutiind pUa- 
iurt, tD^ <H thall think good te lee thtm ; at alio to me and ocoapy all 
Buch inatnunenti aa they hats alreldy practiied, or hereafter iball prac' 
tiie, for and during our pleasure ; and the laid comedies, tragedies, io- 
terludei, and slage'7]ayE,'together<iridi their mnslck, to show, prtilish, 
eierciie, and occupy to their best eonntodiiy, dariog all the tenn atoie- 
said, as well within the liberties and freedoms of any oar citlea, lowos, bo- 
roughs, &c. wbatwerer, as without the lime, 'throughoat our lealm of 
Engiand. WilKog and eonmaoding you, and nery of yon, as ye ten- 
-der our pleasure, topermit and tofiatthMuherrin without any lets, hin- 
denmce, or molcMation, duimg the time afostsaid, any act, statate, or 
proclamation, or commandment, heretofore made, or heresAar to be made, 
DOtnitbMandiBg ; provided tltat'lhe eald comfdies, tiagedtes, intedudes, 
and stegcpl^s be, t^ theMutn-«^0»rRtwlt/er tin tUnebting, btfon 
«m md albnnd ; md that the tame be aol pnUiihed or ifamtD m tht 
ttiiH»/'«nBnD» prayer, or in the time of great and comnon ptagne in our 
■aid eiiy of London ." The ahoim JaivM Ba:t*ge was the fii Aer of the 
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It tnat ftmh tTcn In Uiil ImEhlBr whidi h nind bf comcdTi ind lOrbMiIni 
phlnly bj Ar)«trHe 1>, Ihit U itln linihtet In ilnfnl rtlop, wbUk in TtlhM 
■bit Hun ridlciilDuii or Id mlHnble, which in mhRMbc pitted Ihu 
•d I lOr libit It II U lift 11 bcffuy, or agiiait tb* In «( huplnllly, to 
t nnnfcn, benDH Ihry ipuk BU Bqiliili » weU u w( do t 3Uiif. 

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lative of Robert Laoham, the miter of a ludicrona account ofttiaKenil- 
north pageant ID 1576. There were leveial other campaiiiei eiisticg near 
' s period; ex. gral. 2. The Lord Chamberlain, the £atl of Suisei'i 
playen. 3. The Earl of Warwick's. 4. Sir Robert Laae'a. S. The Earl 
(Walter) of Easei.'« men, upon whose death, in 1576, thej were 
tected by his guil^ counteu. S. The Earl ofWorceBter'a aervinti. 
The Earl of Derby's players, and not long after, in 1580, we find hia 
I, the Lord Strange'i tua^Urtf exhibiting at the court, but reslrwiied 
1589 for their icurri/ilj atid licmtimtMSi, 9. The Lord Howard of 
Sngham, the admiral's men. 10. The Lord Berkelej'i. IL The 
Lord StaOoid'a. 12. The Eorl of Lincoln's. 13. Giles, Baron Cbao- 
doii, of Sudley Castle, his players. 14. Tba Eail of Oiford's c 
panj, and his ' boyi.' IS. The children or cboriiters of Paul's. 16. The 
children of the Royal (househoM) chapeL IT. The cboristera of St 
George's chapel, at Wiodsor, which there is some reason to suppose 
were childrtn by discipline. 18, The children of Westminster Abbey ; 
and 19. The cbildrea of Merchaul TayWs School. 

Sir William Dethick, Garter principal King. of Anns, and the great 
Camdtn, as Clucncieui, attend the summons of the Court of tkt Gartir 
this day (Monday), 1603, and reply to a liieZfoui tcroll made aguoM 
the heialds, that they had granted anas (among others) to the heirs of 
John ShukipeaTe, beloogiog to the Lord Mauley, (ililed da SlaUt Laen), 
~ . may as well be said, that HartUy, who beareth gold a bend between 
cotiies sable, and all othei that bear or and argent a bend sables, 
rp the cgat of the Lord Manley. As for the spear in bend is a patibte 
diSerence ; and the penou to whom it was granted [the diamatisl's 
falher, who died in the preceding year] hath borne m^stracy, and was 
justice of peace at Stratford upon A«an. He manied the daughter and 
j heir of Antemt, and was able to maintain that estate.'' 



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tuu. 

lie utklM «u« inbieribad by (be GcnetDor of Jmhiuci, 1666, by 
wbich it wM tgmd th« Spuundi ilunild eracDste the iiluid in favour 
of the £iigluh inTiden. The icqnintion of J4iiiucs, under Adminl 
PeaB, mfty ihcrafbie be (Uted moie concctly tmn tUi dag. At to hmei, 
they were in mch pUoly, oburvea the Vicc-tdaunl Goodion, thu we ec- 
caonted them tlie Tertniu of the eaontty. 

" Dined UHt.Tieanner'i," niA Erdyn, 1971, " m ca^any widi 
MonlieDT de Gnmmout, aiid levenl French ooblcmeD, ind one Blood, 
that impudeot bold fellow itho had aal long before atlempted to >teal 
imperial erom oat of the Tower, pittending only curioti^ to lee the 
regalia there. Thit man had not onlytdiring, but avillainoni uni 
ciTul look, a falie coimtenance, but rery well ipoken, and daugeroucly 
iuinnating." 

Ilia Fieoch order of knighthood. Si. Limit, ii inuituted, 1698. 
wu abolished by the aiMonbly, wiih all the other hooourable natioiial 
orden, July 30, 1791. 

The articlea of impeachment agaioit Warren Haiiii^ baring been 
brought up from the Kcret committee and ^oled, thej ire n 

oded, and agreed to thii day, without adiviuon, 1787. Mr. Burke 
then rote and moved, " That Wanen Haitinge, Eiq. be imptaehtd of 
high crimei and miidemeuion npon the uid atticlet." The quettion 
wai put and carried. Mr. Frederick Montague then nwe and o^ 
" Thai Mr. Buike, in the name of the Houu ol Conunoni, and of all die 
Comnuini of Great Brilun, do go to the bar of the Houk of Lords, tad 
impeach Wanen Heatings, Eiq., lata CoTemor-general of Bengal, of 
high crime! and miidemeanoii, and do acquaint the Loidi, that the 
CommoDi will, with all convement ipeed, eihilnt articles againit him, 
and make good the aame." The motion being agreed to, the majoriQ' of 
the Houie immediately attended Mr, Buike Co the bar of (he Houm of 
Feeri, where he tolemnly impeached Mr. Haidngi in form. 

NothLDK li ID ebecrtaLu u fcnml t«piitatLoD : ■ oun liijdr«i me upon Inua 
pwiUm, or hitenil. or tor itudloE la tab wit ; hata nf beeatite At Hat infmtd 
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ClOBBO cmbaib for Grtece, u the putimi of Pompey, B. C. 49. 

The b*Ule at Um brtige of Ledi, wu Puma, " tht loritli faaage," 
u BuoDkputc hu bimielf eotitleil oae of the moM biilliut militaiy piget 
of hit own biitoTj, 1796. The bikve Lanao, the Ajaz of th« Wett, 
who Ihare uught hii rsputatioa hteiall; in Ihi eannon't mmlh, will Dn- 
thei be iorgottoi. " I faand I«niiM a dwarf, bat I mtit him a giant," 
■aid the fallen Napoleon, ia alluiioii to hi* oriE^nal obacniit;. Cer- 
tainlj, tboM that are 6orn gi«at, era thay can acMtw gieatnm, mint 
finl have oppoitonitiei ; be protected by mea who an capable of diicerD- 
iDg and eocotiragii^ merit. Lanoei was a actx^r worthy of Napoleos ; 
liberal with Ibe livci of othen, and equitably lecUeu of hk own. 

Mr. Pitt tvnuMi hii adminiitiation, 1804, which inbaiated until hii 
death, in January, 1806, when Mr. fox accepted office. 

The eipeditioQ under Captain Fury, for the diicoiery of a north-west 
passage, sails from the Nora, 1819. On ibe 23d of AagoM, the two 
vessels, the Heda and the Griper (Lieutenant Liddon), entered the Po- - 
lar sea ; and on the 4th of September, they crossed the meridian of 110 
degrees, west from Greenwich, in the latitude of 74 degree*, 44 mmi 

whicli eipltnt the officen and crew* becnine entitled to the national re- 
wvd of £5000. The headland, called Bwni^ Capt, marki the war 
of British p&lioiiaBe, and Udviib Jjlaiid, the poiod of the good fartDoa 
of these gallant adventureis. Th«y iritaetaed then, from the borth of 
Norember, a three monlhg' tirili^t. The <reasels reached the port of 
Peterhead, in Scotland, the 29th of September, 1830 ; withont (of coniie) 
having accomplished the main object of theii equipment ; hut in tb ' 

ul compaii to dan is half a conquest : and frequently, hj accident, 
the greateit benefita vrill accrue from insormonntable undertakiap ; 
the barren American Ag-tree produces the richest atlifirial eoloar. 



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Rise from Ihy »n tmbrodftl Iwd ; 
When, in Elyilu ilamlMr bsoitd, 
Embowering myrtlH "ell the* round.— Jtfinp.—Z>p»|m(«. 



Sirtt*. 



Cuilina1(ItegioftM)Pole,)S00. 
StDTWrton Corite. 

Sir John MenUB, 1S9B, Sand- 
wich. 

ChsTlM MickliD. 1690, Wat. 

Roger Joseph BoBcimcb,lTlI, 

Ragtaa. 
Peter Camper, 1722, Leyien. 



Grace, honor, praise, delight, 

Here sojonm day and nighL 

Sound bodies.lin'd 

With a good mind. 

Do here pursue with mighl 

Grace, honor, praise, delight. 

BabeUiU. 



®l(tB oftht Latin CburcA. 
it. Miumnertus, Arthiuhap ef 

Vienne, d. 477. 
It. MiuBul (or Majolus), AlAot 

of Climi. A. 9Si. 



IBMttlB. 



Robirt la Bruce, 1141. GU- 

bmiugh, 
David I. (ttf Seotland), 11A3. 

d. CaTlitU. 
Abp.(RQbt.)WincbelMy,]313. 
James d« Molai , ( Grand Maittr) , 

1310. hamtd, Paris. 
Jean GuaJberl de Campistron, 

1723. Tmhaie. 
Charles Beanclerk, Duke of St. 

Albans, 1726, 
Catharine Cockbum, 1749. 
Wiltiam Pitt, Earl of Chalham, 

177B. d. Ilayti. (Abbey.) 
Richard WUson, 1782. Ltan- 

virris in Denbyihin. 
Philip Nicholas Pia, 1799. 
Spencer Perceval, 1812. oisu- 

tinattd, Labbif of the Hmue (f 

Commtmi. 

Yongitiltj looking feUovs, 
ReaaoD doth pUltilj tell as. 

That we should not 

To you allot 
Room here, but at the gallotn ; 
Yon wieiy looking fellows. 

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Which hinder Ihy repoK, (nd awible iiH.—J^ar'i Suhmm. 

9rt9. 

It w recorded Ihsl the fint letlei of the imcription upon a statue of 
Catar Augustas was struck out this daj by liglitning ; which the col- 
lege intetpreled as > jHesage that he would liie but C da;s ; and fulfil- 
led donbdess l^ tiioK means with which bad men are familiar when gonJ 
princa have been iheltered from outrage by the affections of their people. 
The word JEhit in the Tuscan agnifies a god ; thus also, like Romulus, 
he was to be despatched among the flan, and by the same flight. 

The anniversary of the dedicadaa of Conilanlimiplt, A. D. 330. a ce- 
remony which continued for thirty days. The foundations of the city were 
laid on the 26th of September, 339 ; so (hat at least the ciladtl must have 
been raised and completed during a period of seven months, acconling to 
Codinus ; but Julian mentions the lime as ten years, from the year 334 
to the year 334, which, however, is not entirely free from objections. 
" As often as the birthday of the city returned, the statue of Constan- 
tine, framed by his order, of gilt wood, and bearing in his i^;hl hand 
a small image of the g^iiu nf the plate, [the Virgin Mary, say Cedrenui 
andZonaras] was encted on a triumphal car. Ttiegaards, carrying wl ' 
tapers, and clothed in their richest apparel, accompanied the solemn 
procession as it moved through the Hippodrome. When it was opposite 
to the ihrotie of the reigning emperor, he rose from his teal, and with 
grateful reverence adoted the memoryof his predecessor. At the festival 
of the dedication, an edict, engraved on a column of marble, bestowed 
the title of Secimd, or New Rotne, on the city of Constantine ; but the ni 
of Constantinople has prevailed over that honourable epithet ;" and after 
the revolution of eiactly ffteen ceuturiet, which are completed on this 
day, the Tuikish IttavdKl still perpetuates (be fame of its Christian 

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Fifty-four of Iha KoighU of tb« TempU, wilh thmr Gnuid M»tw, an 
pubUclj burned >t Ptrii, ander tile d«crec of an arcbiepiKopal council, 
1310. Tbcnwei* ninehnndied m«mbeii aucmblcd in tbe capul to de- 
had tboowlre* from tba chugei of IiDMliim, the wanbip of the ctt tud 
calf, and other eaatmoiu practice), and thoM delivered up to the lecnlar 
am wtic luch wbo had baldly rttraeUd a pratioua confeuioa of guilt, 
appetenlljr eitoited tron them by tbe application or fear of thoee «*■ 
qaiiite matboda of eatabliihiDg inuh, which were the pure invanliinH of 
an iofatoaicd heartleia orthodoxy. Tbe tree had uine dubioua leaves. 

A tenible and dntmctive eruplian of Mount Etna, 1637. 

Three vcMeli tail from Daptlbrd aodei tbe command of Sir Hu^ 
W^bmghby, to eiplore the northern let*, 1S53 ; by which voyage an 
ialei to tb« Whiu Sta ud theBojf ^.Irnhoi^lwendiicaveml, and aa 
almoat eiclniive coDDieree «a« etlibHehed with Rnwa in that qnartw. 

Fmndica de OreUmra iiili Itoib St. Lncar with lour ihipi and (our 
bandied men ; he Mopped three nMinthi at Teneriffe and two at the 
Cape de Veria, and ttten pMceeded irilb Ihiee ihipa and two hundred 
and fifty men, 1564. In their diitian Edt want of water, one ihip with 
■•TCn^ men put back and <r>i never beaid of, while tbe remaining two 
went a bnndred lea^ei up the Bivtr afAmatoiu, where they built a bri- 
gantine. Here Gfty-ieren men of the party died, and ime of the leaiali 
waa broken up for the mateiiali. Twen^ league* higher up the river, lbs 
othet ehip paned her cable with the itiength of the current, wai driven 
on aliDie and loet : they broke bei up, and built a boat with tha materials, 
a labour of two month* and a half. OreUanaaAerwardawaathir^dayi 
in eaekii^ tbe main brmuh ot the river, R«tnnung uiuuccaihl, be 
declared he waa lick, and rewdved to return into a Chriitian country. 



Mb 1 (THt Uaitf ; ami ibsnld conddar, u 
u to tlie biatblf prinu, vko r^celcd b 
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Tbe ladians killed seventeen of KU men, and one hundred resolved to 
■ta; in the province ■■ he xnm aftemardi diid of grief and diseaie. The 
mtt, with his widow, who always accompanied him, made foi the West 
Indies tmd arrived at Margarita. This is aa abridged account of the fate 
of the Spaniard that, in 1540, discovered tbe domain of the King of 
Rivers, whose course compared with the Ganges is as fifteen and Ihree- 
fbmthsisto nine and a half; that is, a current of three thousand miles, 
and whose tremendous moulh is one hundred and fifty miles broad from 
■bore to shore. Orellana was vet; icarmiy received by armed swift- 
footed females, which originates the fancifal name Amaionia. 

King James, upon leaving the Chartreuse, conf^re knighthood upon 
Arthur Atlit, orator of Alban Halt, who was foimerly the lecielary of 
Leicester, and connected afterwards with Esser, the favourite, 1603. Tliis 
lespectable gentleman was interred at Harrow in the following year. 

The sanu monarch creates the dignity of Baroaeti (or lesser Batons), 
161 1 i they engaging singly to maintain diirty foot soldiers in Ulster for 
duee years, at die rate of Sd. English per day* 

Evelyn observes, 1654 : " My Lady Gerard treated us at Mulberry 
Garden [the site of Buckingham House] now the only place of lefiesh- 
nent about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceedingly 
cheated at ; Cromwell and bis partisans having shut up and seind an 
Spring Gardtn, which till now hod been tbe usual rendezvous for the 
ladies and gallants at this season. ... I now observed how the women 
began to paint themselves, formerly a most ignominions thing, and used 
only by prostitutes." 

The mayor and bui^sses of ^aftsbury in Dorsetshire annually, upon 
the Monddi/neilbefore the feast of the Ascenuon, tiiisday, are accustomed, 
by an ancient prescriptjon, to assemble within the manor and liberty of 



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acw. 

GUIiagbaid, in aplacelbere oiled EaiDua Green, where u a pool of water, 
aad diven springt and welli ; and id thai place " (t> tnaik or danci hanil 

and nmnd thi lame gntn in a lung ddnn, then being a muiicui 

ur and pipe,a7id alio a ittff,orbeeom, adorned icithfeathertt pieeea of 
gM Tingi, and other jewtU, called s priie-htuHn ; which dance being 
ended, the uid mayor and burgeisea do tendar and deliver uiilo Ibe 
bailiff of the manor, one pur of glove*, a calt'a head, raw and undreued, 
a gallon of ale or beer, and Ino pennj loavae of while wheat biead, vhich 
he fccriveih and cairieth away to hii own use." — Thii cuMom 
foimed as an aehmmUigmeitt of the Lord'i manerial right lo the springs 
of water oted by the corporation, look place before the year 1662, upon 
the Sunday foUoHing Holy-rood-day ; but by an agreement made be- 
tween the Honourable Sir Edward Nicholas, the lord of the manor, 
the coiporation of Shafton, on Maj-day in that year, the annivenaiy 
wu. from pioui motives, removed to this present day. The ceremony 
and origin of the yrixt-beiam may be worthy peihapt of preaervation. 
Gray is at Rome, 1740, and writes to his young friend Fammitu: ' 
am to-day just returned from Alba, a good deal htigued ; for you know 
the A[fHan iaiomewhat tiresome. We dinedalPompey's ; he, indeed, 
gone for a few days lo hia Tnsculan ; bul, by the care of his villi- 
cua, we made an admirable meal. We had the dugs of a pregnant sow, 
a peacock, a diah of thrushes, a noble scams, just freah from the Tyr- 
rhene, and some concbylia of the lake, with gamm sauce : for my part, 

TOr eat better at Lucnllus's table. We drank half a dozen cyathi 
apiece of ancient Alban to Photoe's health ; and, after bathing, and play- 

an hour at ball, we mounted our essedum again, and proceeded up 



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the DiouDt to the temjJe. Biit quitting my lUnnanitieH, to jour great 
joy, let me tell you ia plaia EnglUh, that we come from the town of 
Albaoo, which liei withio the inclosure of Pompej's villa in ruins. I 
am now al home, and going to Ihe wiodow to tetl you it ii the moil 
beautiful ef Italian nighti. There i« a moon ! There are atari for you '. 
Do not jou hear the fountain ? Do not you sniell the oiange-flowen 1 
That building yonder ig the caavent of St. Isidore ; and that eminence, 
with the cypreas-treea and pinea upon it, the top of Mouut Quirinal. 
Thii is all true, and yet my prospect ia not two hundred yaids in length." 

Maria Theresa ia crowned at Prague, the lOTereign of Bohemia, 1743. 
This (iciory waa as much attributable lo the co-operation of the King of 
England aa to her own personal eloquence, addreased to a gallant people, 
when she fled from Vienna, and throwing herself, with her infant ion to 
heraimi, in tbemkUtof the auembleditatei of the Hui^rian nation, ihe 
additaaed them in Latin : " Abandoned by my friends, persecuted by my 
enemies, attacked 1^ my nearest relations, I have no resource left but 
in your fidelity, courage, and constancy ; I entrust into your hutda the 
children of your kings, they depend on t|ou lor life and safety." 

Mr. Wadham Strode, a maitar of 81. Kitu, cat off one ear and slit 
the other of his n^^roman. Paler, this day, 1785. The same ofiencewas 
committed there by Mr. Jordan Burke, in thai year, against knfemaU 
ifoH, Clarina. They were fined, the former, £100 ; the latter, £60. 

Sir Arthur Wellesiey takes posaesiion of Optrto, upon the retreat of 
Soull, 1809. The bombardment of Vienna began at nine in the evening 
upon the same day. The garrison of Ion thousand men had evacuated 
the city upon Napoleon's approach, so that the Genet«l, er« the next 
night, aisembled his staff within the imperial palace of Sehombrunn. 



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h, ihil nlthty bDDicr, canbi tboi 



a,*. 


ISfrtM. 


BcotH. 


IV. 


Johnde Santeul, 1630. Parii. 


FiKhal I. <Pope), A. D. 824. 


M. 
13. 


Philip, Duke ofOrleBM, 173S. 


Charlea, Dnke of Gaienoe, poi- 


Cbirlei William LeGa^t, 1733, 


tantd, 1471. 




Jeney. 


Tbomaj WenKrorth, Eul of 







SlrafToid, 1641. bthtaded, 
T«nr 7/ill. 




Satfoi Bftt tomm lo cmi jwn 


John Buthworlh, 1690. S<Ktth- 






var-k. 




ftDd good coiiit«e, and in >11 


John J«:Uon, 1763. 




tobriet; and tntth. go on in Ae 


Chriitopher Smart, I77I. died. 




race which ;ou have lo ran. 


Undaa. 




Stnfford la hii Sen. 


Francis GroM, 1791. Drum- 

•widra. 
Princeu EHiabelh (flfFronw), 




eitU^tht Latin Church. 


' behtadid, 1794. 




Sla.Nm>u and AchUkni, Afar- 


Enml Plainer, 1818. d. L^r^. 




tlW,2dC«il«iy. 






8t naTia DomileUa, Virgin 






Martyr. 2d Cenlary. . 


The lirtl fonDdation of friend' 




St. Panorai, Martyr at Samt, 


tfalp ii not the power of confer- 




(aged 14) 304. 


ring benefit!, but the equality 






with which they are recwTed, 




m Csprv*. i. 403. 


and may be retumed. The mU- 




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taJun prince who look* for 




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Acts. 

The SciROPHOItIA were Atheniui feativali upon Ifae twelfth of Sciro- 
phorim, dedicated to Proserpine and Cere*, expressive of S 
tiibaiarj to (he geneml abundance. It is oot impossible Ihe Roman 
FloTolia were derived from (his aouice, varied out; b; (he climate ) like 
the Furry a bacchanal holiday of rude merriment observed at Helston. 
The battle of PAoruIia, wbich fonns an important era in the histoly 
of the world, wa> decided upon this day (the time of harvest), aftei 

arhad blocked op for the space of four months, within a 
ramparts, the troops of his antagonist. B. C. 48. The ev< 
known, that Pompey with an luiny two-foid in number, but utterly des- 
le of the ^scipline of Cieiac's legions, luBered a shameful defeat ; 
and dbaodoning his camp he directed his course on foot, io a traveller's 
habit, towards the Vale of Tempt. " As he saw he was not pnisued," 
saith the philosophic historian, " he went softly on, wrapt up in such 
(boasts as we may suppose a man to hare who had been used for 
thirty-foni years to conquer and carry all before him, and now, in his old 
first came to know what it was (o be defeated and te fly." He re- 
posed (he same night in a poor fisherman's hut on the sea-coast. This 
day is dedicated, in the Roman calendar, to Mars, the avengtr, (o whom 
a splendid votive (emple was et«c(ed by Augustus, after his victory met 
the pan-ietifei, atPhilip^H. The Circensixui games or plays were annually 
celebrated, on (he present day, in commemoration of the god. 

The defeat of Henry III. by Leicester, at Lncet, '1264. The King's 
standard was a dragan, the same that was borne by (he West-Saion 
princes, as also by CadwaDader, and the ancient kings of Hungary, 

Ferdinand de So(o sails <kim the Havaunah with ten ships for the con- 
quest of Florida, 1639. This plnuanl country was discovered and named 
by Juan Ponce de Leon, (he Spaniard, upon (he 13th of April, 1512, 
James I. appointe an annual fair at Hertford for this day. 
The Calvinists of Bohemia enter the castle of Prague, cast the liBding 
members of (he council of state from the windows, and take pi 

armit, of the oapilol. 1618 : — neit year they gave away the a 
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Richard Siman, 1638, Ditppe. 
Maria Theresa {Emprai),\in. 
Emesl Godfrey Baldinger.lTSa, 

Erfurlh. 

Amos Wolff was the oracle 
oui burgh ; being (he talleat 
and best - looking it was his 
busioess lo read the rules of the 
Saturday club, and to make 
ipolc^es for the drunk or dumb 
■nemben. Such was hia alacril; 
to be upon hie Icp, that he was 
always sure to be found at the 
barrel's head during the fair, 
hammeiing about the malt-tax 
and other heavy burdens. 

German Ana. 



ditt of the Latin Church. 
Si. Servattis, fiiiAop of Tongrti, 

d. 384. 
St. John the ^enl, Bithop in 

Armenia, c. 560. 
St. Pet«r R^:alati, ^ Valladolid, 

1456. 



Marguard Freher, 1614. died, 

Htuielbtrg. 
John Olden Barneveldt, 1619. 

behtadtd, Ilagvt. 
Bishop (William) Chappel, 

1649. d. Dtrbg. 
Proftuor Henry WiUdnsoa, 

"». d. Comard. 
Louis Bourdaloue, 1704. Parii. 
Thomas Rowe, 1T15. Bunhiii 

Fitlds. 
Bartholomew Mercier, 1799. 
James Elrskine, Lord Alva, 

n96.i.Dn,mihtagh. 
James Baure, 1802. 
Charles. Earl Whilwonh, 1825. 

d. KnimU. 

The same cjualitieE joined with 
rtue, often furnish out a great 
an, which, united with a dif- 
ferent principle, furnish out a 
highwayman; I mean cour^;e 
and strong pasuons. And they 
may both join in the same ex- 
pression, though with a meaning 
somewhat varied — be pronuited 
or be hanged. Sbeastone. 



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Meton, the Athenian astraaoroer, began hia Tai 
(sen jettTB (then marked by successive lellers 
called the goWen numbeyi) with the new moon nearest to the Summer 
soinice falling upon the aiiteenth of Sdrophoiion, B. C. 432.— S«r 27(4 
Junr. The summary of days in the couise of nineteen solat intercalary 
years of three hundred and six^-five days, six hours, eighteen minutes, 
and fifty-seren seconds each, was 6940, when the new moon would re- 
turn to the <iame posiUon in the natural year as it stood at the commence- 
ment of the cycle. — Set 2 lit June. The last corrected Greek cycle 
terminated B. C. 1 ; so that we are now (1S30} in Che strtnth Golden 
Number of the ninetj-aixth lunar cycle from thai period. . . 

Pompey in passing through the Archipelago stops at Mitylene to re- 
ceive his wife, the exemplary Coraelia, and there converses with Cralip- 
pus, the philosopher, on the nature of Prmiidetice, 

King John is visited by Pandulph. the Pope's legate, at Dover, in 
whose presence he subscribed an instrument 1213, by which the sentence* 
of interdict, cmnnmunicalioa, and deposition, were revoked, conditionally 
that he reversed all his former acts of oppression. — See 16lh May. 

Tlie Bill is introduced vesting in the crown all the property of the 
mmattie atabtukmeitii, 1539. This measure, which tbmW Into circula- 
tion an annual revenue of £143,000, (i. e. the one-and -twentieth part of 
the national rental) was promptly effected by the following spring. 

Edward I. embarks from England with his chancellor as arbiirainr 
betoeea the kings of France, Arragon, and Sicily. 1268. 

The regent, Murray, defeats Mary at Langiufe near Dumbarton, 1668. 

The Island of St. Christopher is divided by treaty between the English 
and Ficnch commissioners. Sir Thomas Warner, and M. du Rossy, 162T. 

Thomas Creede, a printer, nleri this day a drama<by Robert Greene, 
entitled " The Scottish History of James the Fourth, slain at Flodden, 
intermixed with a pleasant comedy, presented by Obvram, King of 
Fairia ; as it hath been sundiy times publicly played, 1594. 

The treaty of Tacheti is concluded between the Empress and Prussia, 
1779. The swift is first seen upon the Sussex coast about diis day. 
A *oi M.J mihf I 1 fll chnrclij-.rd.— OU Emelith Fruvtri. 



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SHtll. 


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John DuntOQ, 1669, Cro/iom. 


Henry IV. (*f F™»«). 1610. 


Id. 


Amideui Victor, (d/ Soniy), 




14. 


1666. 


Looii Xin.(o/F™Ba), 1643. 










Dannie. . 


Johd Hen.7 Unnoua, 1667. d. 




M.iy Deluj, 1700, ConUm. 


Aniit&on. 




William Emereon, 1701, H«r- 


Hiomai Simpnn, 1761. d. B<k- 




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tmrtli. 






Feler Montan Berton. 1780. d. 




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Pari,. 




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children in the whole country :' 


Dr. KobeitBiiKl, 1S05. 






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made them— handaome eDougli. 






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Sophia to secure one. Olivia 




doe..' Vicar of WakifiM. 


wag often aflected, from too 






great a deaite to pleaie : Sophia 




CMitf Bf thi Latin Church. 






St. Pontiui, Martyr at Cimeli 


her rears to offend. The one 




in Savon. "■ ^^■ 


entertained me with her vivacity 




St. Boniface, Martyr, c. 307. 


when I WW gay. die other with 






her leose when I was seriouB. 




348. 


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Ascension Day is Ihe fortieth da; from the vigil of Easier, and com- 
memonles the Asceosiau of our Saviour, as thai festival records Ihe Re- 

smreclion. — See Sift April. II is called Holif Th-unday in Ihe Eaglisb 
cslendajs, bj nhich title the I'hursda; in Passion week, is more gene- 
rally expressed, perhaps nith more propriety ; and falls invariabiy len 
doyi before Whit Sundav. — Su 2ith May. 

The custom of perambulating the parishes during Rogalim v^eeh was 
first introduced, with other Roman ceremonies, by Claudius Mnmertus, 
a French bishop, of Vienoe, in the year 560 ; whose precedent was soon 
aAerwards repeated by Sidonius, Bishop of Clermont, and at length esta- 
blished by the Coancit cf Orleans. The regulation of Queen Elizabeth, 
relating to the Engltsh ambarvalia, or processions, is as follows ; "The 
people sliall once a year, at the time accustomed, with the curate aud 
substantial men of the parish, icath atoul the paTiihti, as they were BCi 
customed [with willow wands] and at Ihfir return to chuTchj mata thtir 
vmmon prayen ; provided that the said curate, in the said common per- 
Lmbulations, as heretofore iu the days of rogations, at certain convenient 
places, shall admonish the people to give thanks to God , in the behold- 
ing of God'i benefits, /•»- lAf increate and ainindanee of hii frultt upon the 
faeeef llie earth, mlh the saying of the hundred and fourth Psalm, ' Bene- 
anima roes,' &c. ; at which time also the same minister ^sll incul- 
thia and such like sentences, ' Cursed be he which traatlateth the 
bounds and dola of hit neighbmir,' or nick other order of prayer ai ihall 
be hereafler appointid." This heathen usage, however expedient and ne- 
cessaiy to continue the memory of parochial landmarks, ought never to 
have been amalgamated with the holy serriee of our religion. Happily, 
in these days, the church needs no foreign aid — no decorative foUt : 
the naked light and chaste symmetry of IVulft is her ungle only dowry. 



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The Diipoleia, an Alheniui festival, obsened upoD the foiuteeDlh 

of Scinphonon , aoi so named, because il nas sacred to Jupiler. sur- 
named Polieai, or Ibe pratecttr of Ihe cilg. The sacrifice was an oi, one 
of a drore who had the ill-luck or irspertinence to eat the consecrated 
cakea, placed most temptingly Hilhiu the reach of their wuilfary biTpn-i. 
Foiphji; observe*, that do less than tbTce families nere engaged in the 
sacrifice. The drivers or gentlemen of the ipur, — the bores ; those that 
knocked Ihe oflender upon the head, the Canaaaites, who were de- 
scendants of Thaulon ; and that verj' able family which slaughtered and 
cut him up, the butchers. The cooking aad eating of a bttf-sltak has 
been sung with proper gout and dignity by Homer, the minstrel of Jove. 
The Espousals of the Adiiatic Sea, with the Venetian Republic, 
were annuall)' solemniicd upon Ascension Day, a ceremony which hai 
been descril)ed by Evelyn, when Venice was in its piide and splendour, 
1646. " The doge having heard mass in his robes of stale (which an 
very particular, after the Eastern fashion), together with the Senate in 
their gouos, embarked in their gloriously painted, carved, and gilded 
Bucentnra, environed and followed by innumerable galleys, gondolai, 
and boats, filled with spectators, some dressed in masquerade, trumpets, 
music, and cannons ; having rowed about a league into the Gulf, the 
Duke, at the prow, casts a gold ring and cup into the sea, at which a 
loud acclamadon is echoed from the great guns of the arsenal and at the 
Liddo. . . . We climbed up the toner of St. Mark : on the lop is an 
angel, (hat turns with the vrind, and from hence is a prospect down the 
Adriatic as far as Istria and the Dalmatian side, with the lurpriung 
sight of this miraculous city, lying in the bosom of the sea, in the shape 
of a lute ; the numberless islands lacked together by no feiier than four 

hundred and fifty bridges It was now Ascension week, and the gnat 

mart or fair of the whole year was kept, everybody at liberty and Jolly." 



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The liege of Nict, the Turkish capital of Soliman. Sultan of Roam, 
IB apeued by the French crusaders, whoae camps fbnneil an imperfect 
circle of more than sii miles, 1097. It lell after a close invextmeot, on 
the 20th of June. Roman engines were employed by the besiegers. 

Id the regulations published by Henry III. 125S, for the preseivation of 
the peace, " Watch was ordered to be kept from aun-set to sun-rise, dur- 
ing the nights between the feast of the ^ic«TUum«niJ that of St. Michael ; 
in the villages by four or aii stout and good toeu, armed with bows and 
arrows, and other light weapons ; in the boronghs, by a company of 
twelve ; and in the cities, hy companies of six, stationed at every gale." 

Moalfort, Eail of Leicester, after the battle of Lewes, issues sun 
moDses in theKing's name, convening a parliament at Winchester, in 
hnigkuftrr each ztninty, and two burgeaes J'or each borough, 1!J64.-— Sf^ 
the 20tk January. The treaty called the ' Mise of Lewes,' wa 
eluded on the following day. 

Philip Massinger is entered a commoner of St. Alban's Hall, 1 

Amerigo Vespucci sails with three ships furnished him by Emanuel of 
Portugal, that adventurer's third voyage, l&Ol. He eiteuded his course 
la far as Pntagmit, and returned in the month of September, 1602. 

Catharioa, the queen of Charles II. lands at PurlinMulA, 1662, 

The canal between the Baltic and North Sea is opened, 1785. 

Vaccination is first applied by Dr. Edward Jenner, 1796. 

The colossal Apollo in bronze, at Rhodes, (the land of Rata') which 
was regarded as one of the laien tamdtri. stood five hundred feet it 

. Itwas thrown down hyanearthquake, (having braved a thousand 
ters), in the seventh century, when the metallic mass was sold by 
Mahwias, the Saracen invader, to a Jew, of Emessa, who conveyed his 
purchase on nine bandied camels to Aleiandria. 

^his is one of the three great Ttmitml holidays. — Set 2d FebtMary, 



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»«?. 


VixtH 


mtm. 


19. 


BichudSmon. I63B, DiiHM. 
Cudintl Juliui Albcroni. 1664. 

Dr. RichtrfWooddewn. 1746. 
Kifi^jdBi tipM JTmrntt. 

Tb« grealeal innaiatioa that 

itiwtiou of England, i. to come 
la a Tole that there shall be do 
innovaUon in it. The giealesl 
beauty of the conititation ia. 

Charta Foi. 

mm •!f thi Lalm ChuTch. 

Sts. Peter, Andrew, Paul, Ni- 
comachuB. and Denjsa, Mar- 
tyr, in Alia, 350. 

St. Dympoa, Virgin of Irttand, 

St. Genebranl (or Genebum). 
of Ireland, MaiPrr in Bra- 
bant. 7ih Ceniuiy. 


Vahntinian 11. (&>f»ror). 

A. I}.392.$traBgl«i, r»R>w. 

(Milan.) 
SoinJ Isidore, 1170. Madrid. 
Heni; Beaufort. Dake of Somer- 

Meaelaui WinMmiui, 1639. d. 

Francis Aonibal d'Estrtes. 

1670. d. Parii. 
John Bagford.1716. Chartrtuu. 
Fmncu Milavil, 1719. d. 

Sfarwilto. 
Alexander C«mmr«ha». 1737. 

St. Martin'., 
Ephnim Chambeni. 1740. d. 

ConmAuni H«m. (Abbe;.) 
Dr. John Astnic, 1766. died. 

Poru. 

1772. 
Albao Batler. 1773. St. Omer'i. 
Junes Hallet du Pan, 1800. d. 

Dr. John W«ll Callcott, 1831. 

\Vo„lKich. 



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0-cr moDiuitD, towtr, ud 

Or niiTOf'd In Ihe ocein vu 



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Tub Ahnitersaby oF the birtii of M<r«iH3i, nippoMil to be i. yonngu 
■OD of Noah, bora within the ui, and die brother u well ai popil »f the 

ihen Jupiter; known also by the lereral namea of Ilennes Truat- 
gitmi, (thiice-greal), Tuitco, Teutatei, Tbenlh or Tboth, (hence the 

lDn«), snd Tuiubii. This great utiil, altroDoniGr, and benehclor, 
puwd from Egypt into Europe, B. C. 1TS7 ; when, however, he seems 
to haie Introduced Auman eipiatorj lacrificea, and eitahliihcd Dmiditm, 
etpecultj in the Britannic iiles. The memoi; of hii birth wax preeened 
•t Rome upon Ihii day ) when, in recollectimof thou eitraordinaiyand 
terrific rilm, two aged Ggnrei formed of nuhei, man of itraw, were cut 
by the higfa-prieel. attended by the TUtalt, from the lEmylian bridge into 
the Taican itieam. Mercury wai the patnm of foreign commerce, fivm 
which office he derivee hie Latin cognomen ; and thertfoie, the Roman 

chants obserred their annual festival opon bis day. Vc^tios marks 
the idea of May as the period of aafe nangatisn («rta norti), until the 
I4th of Sepletnber ; which is also, according to Ptolemy, the Gnt day of 
Summer, tdthou^ placed by Ovid two d».y>, and by ColvKieUn, six days 
ii»n«r. The old brenvn hat may now paw wanant in the sun. 

The Jews, upon the fifteenth of Sivan, celebrate a (east tar the victory 
of Judas Maccabeoi over the people of Bethian, oi ScythopoUa, B. C. 



164.- 



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The flnt Dtcmvirate began at Rome, B. C. 452. During this year 
of theii authority, they compiled ten of the twelve titles : the lemaiiiii^ 
wera added in the following year. Respecting tlui bmoiw coda of 
laws, it was the decisive sentence of Cicero, th«;t they ware justly ts bt 
preftTTtd to wholt lAraria rf tibe phiietaphert. The friend of Heiaiodo- 
ii • dream, had seen all the nations of the earth bowing down before 
them, and irorsUpping them in the Persian mannm'. In a word iky 
re the collected wisdom of Greece adapted to Roman habits. 



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Sir Cbarlei Brandon, wbo became ihe brolher-in-law of Hany VIII. 
far hii lemcM both b; lea and land is created Viscount L'lsle, 1513 ; 
and in Febniuy following, be was advanced to the didsdom of SuBolk. 

The arraignment of A one Balepi in the King'i Hall at the Toirer, 
1&36; Tbomaa, Duke of Norfolk, ai Loid H^ Stewaid of Engl 
uttiag under the cloth of state, the Lord Chancellor on hit right hand, 
and the Duke of Suffolk on his left ; fhe Earl of Suney utting directly 
before hia father, a degree lower, asEarl Manhal of England ; toi^ 

re joioed twenqp-six other peers, and amoag them the Qnten'sfather, 
bj all of whom ihe was to be tried, and received her condemnation. 

Charles V. presents to the imperial diet his new system of faith, called 

the hurim, 1&48. 

The marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots, with Ihe Earl of Bolhwelt is 
totemnind, 1567. — Queen Elizabeth entertains the French ambassadon 
with divers abowE and devices, 15BI. — CaptaJa Langtoa conveys into 
Plymouth harbour, the Spanish admiral, of two bundred and fifty tons, 
taken in the Bay of Honduras, 1694. The celebrated Kepler diicoven 
bis caiwn for the periodic motions (rf^e [doneb, 1618. 

Pepys notes, this day, 1663 : " The keeper of the Pell-mell toM n 
ofwbat the earth is mixed thatdoth floor tbeMall, and that overall there 
Is cockle-shells powdered, and spread tokeepilbst ; which, however, 
dry weather turns to dnst and deads the ball." 

The sunenikr of the Isle of Cayennt, by the Dutch Governor, Gne 
Spraiiger, to the French Commissioner, M. de Tracy, under articles of 
treaty, 1664. 

The AihmeUan AfuKuni. at Oifbrd, one of the works of Wren, ie 
founded, 1679 ; for the purpose of recMvii^ ' the twelve CWt-loads of 
rarities,' that were depowtad within its vrolls by the hands of Dr. Plot, 
Dn &e 20& of March, I6B3. 

Dr. JohnsoD and John Wilkes meet at the literary table of Dillj, in 
the Poultry, 1776. — See the very amusing conversatians in Botatll. 



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XVI. MAY. 








rorpdntn; 


Whleb (Uaih 




Wordilkooc 


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Thldg. h. -.1 


t« coloan dr* 


Willi* ihr til 








U0.I.O.J.U, 


■d Dkdy tnic 



D«y. 


Uirti*. 


BMtlf. 


IVll 


Sir WUliam Patty, 1623, flu«- 


JohnXXI.(Pop*>,12J7.JriU«i, 


Cal.' 


leg. 


VitlTbo, 


Jun. 
18. 


Uiria GaeUu Agnesi, 171B. 




Sfiian. 






Chulei, Eul of Liverpool. 


Dr. Thoma. Smith, 1710. d. 




1727. 


London. 
Paul R»pin dt Thoytat, 1726. 

d. Watl. 
Dr. John Hoadly, 1776. 




&iHf«flht Latin Chwth. 


Dr. Daniel Solander, 1782. 




St. Abdai, BWiop in Chaldma, 


Eliiabeih Aleiiomia, (of »«.- 




4th CBDtiuT, 


m;, 1826. 




8LAb4iMa. (orHeWjem), 


Sir William Congreve, 1828, 




Bitfitip in Cltaliiao, died Stb 






CeDtury. 













BriUm, aaittant of St. Patrick. 


It is great pit; that the same 




St. Brendan the Elder, Abbot «f 






ClimftHi« Inland, i. 519. 


raises nitondly jealon«y, and 




St. MonoratuB (or Honore), 


enty, and mtdice, in the hearts 




BMop of Amitni. 7lli CenU 


of other men, should deprive 




St. llb»ldui, BiiAop D^ C«W«, 


■hose who ■¥« possessed of it of 




d. 1160. 


all warinesi, and deileriiy. and 




St. Simon Stock. ofKraf, died. 


uddiess, which is at least con- 










Si. John Nepomucen, Martyr in 








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Ta try Job'. 


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SiUI ibe tly 


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acts. 



Sir Thohas Mobe resigns (he ^at Seal (which hid been delivered 
to him on the 35tb of October, 1529) into the hands of his loyal n 
ter, trho, OD Ihe 20(b day, granls it to Sir Thomas Audley, 1532. 

Mir;, queen of Scots, crosses (he Fiilh of Solway, (As irmuotte Mream, 
and lands, during the'evening of (lus day, at Wutington, in Cumbeilaod, 
and proceeds the next daj to Cailisle, 1568. 

Evelyn notes, in 1672, when at Dover : " The Dake of York, with 
his and the French squadron, in all one hundred and seventy ships (of 
which above one hundred weie men of wai), sailed by alW Ihe Dutch, 
were newly withdrawn. Such a gallant and formidable nary never, 
I think, spread sail upon the seas. It wu a goodly, yet terrible si^t, 
ehold tbem as I did, passing eastward by the Streights twin Dover 
and Calais in a glorious day."— S« 23<ft May. 

Female dancers are first introduced on the Parisian stage, at the 
theatre of the Palais Royal, in a court opera, called ' Lt Triomphe de 
i'AmtmT,' 1661. This was during the lively reign of Louis XIV. 

Titus Gates is convicted of peijui; sjid many other crimes, 16B5. 

King William is entertained on board the Admiral's ship at Ports- 
mouth, and bestows honours and rewards among the officers and seai 
upon Ibeir recent defeat of (he French in Bajttry Bai/, 16B9. 

The Dauphin (Louis XVI.) of France, espouses Maria Antoinette, 
Archduchess of Vienna, 1770. A remarkable lempat on that nuptial 
day was an omen, said Ihe superstitious, oF their liituie misfortunes. 

The French navigator, De Pages, passes the eighty-first degree of 
north latitude, in an attempt to reach the Pole, 1776. 

The French take possession of Vtnitt, " boasting of an independi 
of fourteen centuries, during which she had often foiled Ihe attacks of 
the most potent princes, and had beld in her hands the balance of 
Italy," 1797. The oligarchy henceforth ceased to legislate, and a provi- 
sional government was soon after established on the model of France. 

Geikeral Beresford repulses Marshal Soult aXAlbuera, 1811. 



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Day. 


Virt|>- 


Stmt. 


XVI. 


Dr. Edwircl Jenner, 1749, 


Heloise, 1163. died, ParacUtt 


C«l.' 

17. 


BtrkeUn. 

If he make a viul, oaiparaiile 


Abbin. (Fire U ChaUe.) 

Edward StaFord, Duke of Buck- 
ingham, \52i.bhd.TBwerHiU. 




runs before him, gives notice to 
the inaiter of the house; and 


George Boleyn, 1536. tihtadid, 
Towtr HUt. 




letum* quite out of breath to 
let him know that ereiy thing is 


Archbishop (Matthew) Parker, 
I57S. Lambu!,. 




read; for his reception. He is 
perfectly well vetsed in ill fe- 
male buiiness, and Is as hand; 


1610. Worcuwr. 
JacobAuguatnsThuanus, 1617. 




among the women as the best 


St.Andvea's oftheArchei.Paris. 




&iitfqftht Latin Church. 


1690. 

Joseph Bingham. 1733. Head- 






boarat' Worthy. 




in Numidia. Patron of Mi- 


Catharine I. (of Rw.m), 1727. 




randola, 5th Centuiy. 


d. Pite^sbuTg. 




SI. Maden (or Madem), «J 


Dr. S. Claike, 1729. d. Landmi. 




Cemaalt. 


Wm. Lowth.1733. B«HI«i. 




St. Maw. of Falmouth. Biihop. 


Peter Julian Rouille, 1740. d. 




(painted as a Schoolmaater.) 


Pari). 




St. Cathan, Bishop ia Scliond, 


S. Boyse, 1749. d. Sho* Unt. 




c. 7tli Century. 


Dr. William Heberfen, 1801. 




St. Silave {or Silan), BUhop m 
Ireland, 1100. 


Augustus. Duke of Saxe Golha, 




St. Pa«hal Baylon, qf Spain. 
d. 1592. 


1833. 

BtlhUhem Hapitai. 



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Hrfic Dial oathl to be cuttoulf medi 



Bcient knDwlvd^ idi 



[ ksOH Ihe nkill oT yonr « 



acrt; 

The seveDteenth of Sivan, was a feast amoDg the Jews for tbe lakja 
Ciesai«a, b; the AsmoDeaos. 

RichaiJ.Ettrl of Cornwall, biMher of Hut; tbe Third, is inaugurated 
King of the Romans, at Aii-U'Cbapelle, Ascension-day, 135T. 
. A new weathercock, cross and ball, are set up on (he steeple of 
Paul's and solemnly amstcrattd, 1498. 
' Anne of Denmark is crowned Qneen of Scotland in the Abbey of 
Holyrood House, 1590. 

War is declared by King Williem and Maiy against France, I6e 

Lady Montagu writes from Adrianople (o her friend, the Abb^, with 
m account of the Turkish May-processions, or Cerialia, 1717. Tbe 
description is too long foi these columns, but eitremely curious. 

General Washington addresses the following honest t<lt«r to his friend, 
Francii HopkiosoD, Esquiie, dated from Mount Veioon, 1T8S : " Dear 
— In for a penny in for a pouod, is an old adage. 1 am so hack- 
neyed to the touches of tbe painter's pencil, that I am now altogether at 
thnr beck, and sit like patience on a monument, whilst they are deli- 
neating the lines on my face. It is a proof, among others, of what habit 

~ custom can eSect. At first, I was as impattent at the request, and 
estive onder the operation, as a colt is of the saddle. Tbe nei 
time, I submiUed very reluclaolly, but with less AouDciug. Now, a 
dray moves more readily to tbe thills than I do to tbe painter's chair- 
It may easily be conceived, therefore, that 1 yielded a ready obedience 
10 yourrequest, and to tbp views of Mr. Pine. Letters from England, r 
commendatory of that gentleman, came to my hands previous to his arrival 
in America, not only as an artist of acknowledged eminence, but as one 
who bad discovered a ^endly disposition towards this country, for which, 
it seems, he had been marked. It gave me pleasure to hear from you." 

Tilt HwiiEliti Ihil come siuoii|hl, iDd u llwcredrspl into tlie mind, irc rom- 



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Btblnd hlj biek ii •lung. 
Tkl> he nsT wei, nor fOr It nni 

Bol KTC wtth follitr laboiin ; 
Por fill before lil> face II bean 







an/. 


StrtH- 


mam- 


XV, 


JahD Papihui MwuoD, 1644, 


Bishop (Nicholas) Longeipee. 


CaJ. 


Fora. 


129T. 


IB. 




Robert, (Emperor), 1410. 






William Thomas, 1554.awuKd, 
Tyburn. 




The wiihitig of ■ thiog is not 


Archbishop (Samuel) Harsnet, 




properl; the willing of it ; but 


1631. CI^M. 




it ii that which it called b; die 


Samuel dos Msieta, 1663. d. 




schools an mpfrfttt vtlUUy. and 


Groni^en. 




imports no mora than an idle, 






unoperative complacency in, and 






desire of the end, without any 


Bishop (Herbert) Croft, 1691. 




consdemlion of the means. 


Hrri^Brd. 






Elias Ashmole, 1693. Gnat 







Frederic Spanheim, tA« Yeat^er, 
nai. A. Lesdtn. 




mit» of the Lati„ Church. 


Connl de Choiseul Beanpie, 
1711. d. ffai^nnoA. 




St-Venantins, of^«*™i,M.260. 


Edmuod Chishull, 1733. Wal- 




St. Theodotus, Vintner, and 


thamttmc. 




seren Virgins, Mortyrj, 303. 


Bishop (John) Douglas, 1807. 




St. Potanion, Biihap of Heraclta 


Si. Gan-gi', Chapel. Windtar. 




inEg^pt, Martyr, 341. 


Sir John Carter, 1808. Pnrt.- 




St.Eric(orHenrj)IX.Po(™i. 


mruth. 




«/5icBjen, Martyr, 1151. 


John Beltingham. Aot^, 1812. 



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Ajid Crelt, wich ploy vcrdnce crown'd, 
Echotil (he prcptiellc iltala.— Tilf Crutade. 



The loss of Acre b; the Franki, or Lalin CbiiBtiuii, and all Palestine, 

bj conieqnence, of whicb that promiBcuous colony was the last bulwaik 
and the key, 1291. "After a siege of thlrty-lhree days, the double wall 
was forced by the MoBlemB, the principal towef yielded to tbeir engioea, 
e Mamalukea made a general asiault, Ibe city wai atomied, and 
death 01 slaveiy wai the lot of uxty thooiand Cbiistians." 

The atgt of Malta by the Turks, whicb is abandoned with Ibe loss of 
thirty thouund men, 1666. 

Newton diiecls ibe conduct of a juvenile traetller, 1669 : " When 
foa came into any fresh company, 1. Observe tbeir humours. 3. S 
your own carriage tberetoi by which bsinuatlon jau will make tbeir c< 
e more free and open. 3. Let your discouise lie more in quehes a 
doabtinga, than peiemptoiy assertion! or disputing, it being the design 
of IravellerB to learn, not to teach. You will find little or no advan 
in seeming wiser, or much more ignorant than your company, i. Seldom 
discommend any ibing, though never so bad, or do it but moderately, 
lest you be unexpectedly forced to an unhandsome retraction ; for il 
safer to commend any thing more than it deserves, than to discommend . 
A thing so much as it deserves." 

An extraordinary meteor, called vulgarly a flaming nBord, was 
observed at Leeds, 1710, at a quarter past ten, after the meridian. 
direction was from south to north, and was in appearance shaped like 
a trumpet, moving with its moulh foremost. 

War is declared between Great Britain and France, 1756. Baona- 
parte aminui the Imperial d^ity, confirmed by a decree of the repub- 
n legislatnre, of which he was informed six months later, 1804. 



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eiitif. 



Augustiu.EarlorBriitol, 1734. 
Chailotte (o/" England). 1744. 

Lawtr Sanmy. 
John TheophUus Fichle, 1763, 

Bitiiuiwfuiu. 



One of the pbUoiopben who 
'tu auM persecuted, m» the 
DiDOrtal Bayle, tbe honour of 
liumao DSlure. 1 shall be told 
that the name of Jurieu, his 
slanderer and persecutor, is be- 
comeexecTable ; I acknowledge 
that it is so i thai of the jeauit, 
Le Tellier, is become so like- 
wise, roltair,. 



IJlV ^tht Lslin CJivrcA. 
St.Pudenliana, Pirgin o/Somt, 

Ist Centurj. 
St Dunslln, Anhbuhtip if Can- 

terlnay, d. 988. (5m Englitk 

Church CalfluJsr.) 

. Peter Celestine V. Pop*, d, 

1296. 



St Hidulphus, of rritn, A. D. 

729. 
Flaccus Alcdnas, 804. Toun. 
Connt d« Peicbe, 1317. MOtd. 

Olho IV. {rfGirmany). 121B. 

Hantiburg Cutlc. 
St. Yvo Heloii, of BrilUny, 

1303. 
Anne Boleyn, 1536. beheaded, 

Tomer. 
Iliomu Sancbei, 1010. Gra- 

Oanian 1, (Enptrirr), itraiigled, 

1622. 
John Hales, 1656. Eton Collrgt. 
Fefdinasdo Ugbelli, 1670. 

John Greraihiil, 1676. 

Samuel Badcock, ITBS. d.JSay 
Fair. 

Junes Boswell, 1795. d. Port- 
land Street. 

William, Lord Byron. 1798. 

Tama^maah 1. 1819. died, 
Oahyhtt. 



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Pal OTU to tilt end Uwy wen 
Woold bilDi wbile hiin niihi i 

arts. 



rt.—Kb%i HaiTt VI, 



The battle befoie tbe gates of Lincoln, which eSectually wcuied this 
counlry from the dominian of a foteign invader, LohIb the Dauphin, 
wbo was then holding bis court within the walls of London, t21T, 
Nichola de Camville was, on this occauon, c«lebiated for her hennun 
and loyalty, by defending Ihe castle ^aimt tbe confedeiate traitors. 

King Henry VI. is imighttd by hii uncle, John, tbe famoDs Duke 
of Bedford, at Lticesler, upon Wbit-Snndaj, in hii fifth year, 1436. 

Columbus proceeds towards Cuba, and namei the headland called Cabo 
dt Crui, upon thii day, 1494, The Archipelago, called by bim. 
Queen's Garden, was, in his belief, tbe live thousand islands whichMarco 
Polo and Manderille described as the boundary of India. Henowasc 
tained from the natives, that Cuba was an itJand, bul after coasting it 
three hundred and thirty-five leagues bom the eastern point, he renounced 
the idea ; and, bol for a scarcity of proviwoni, would have attempted to 
return to Europe by wsj of the Red Sea. 

Tbe decollation of the Queen, Anne Boleyn, 1636 : " Friends and 
good Christian people, 1 am here in your presence to sufler death, wheieto 
t acknowledge myself adjudged by the law, bow jnstiy I will not say ; 
I intend not an accusation of any one. 1 beseech the Almighty to pre- 
serve his Majesty, long to icign over you : a more gentle or mild prince 
never swayed sceptre ; his boDnty and clemency towards nw 1 am lurt 
hath been special ; if any one intend an inquisitive survey of my actions, 
I entreat him to jndge favourably of me, and not rashly to admit anj 
censorious conceit ; and so t bid tbe world farewell, beseeching you It 
commend me in youi prayfra to God." — This was spoken mtlingly .' 



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BrntOa ind atHalEi Ifac lunl Inu, 

SkaliiDi each boniti and luT, 

TheB— Ituw irt atU.~A fmt £lir.— KbpiUKk. 

«rt* 

Tbe Spuniih Anttaia, which wai bo sigoallj oveTlhroiTn, pirtlj by (he 
wind) of hesvea, and gloriouilj completed by nalive valoui and dUcn- 
tion, lailed upon this da; fiaiu the Tagus, 1588. The English fleet left 
Plymouth Harbour about the >ame time, under the renowDcd Charlec 
Honaid, nhose Admiralty mBntle, " inwrought with figures dim," 
lupposed wide enough to wrap iu King Arthur and all his round %abU. 

King James giants to the companj oT players at the GJa6< Thtatri 
sealed od the Bankside, a license, under sea.!, to his servants, IFJilum 
Shakapiare, Richard Burbage, and iheii associates, " freely to use and 
exercise the art and faculty of playing comedies, tragedies, katoriet, 
interludes, mm-alt, pailirraU, stage-plays, and such like." The present 
patent varies from that of Elizabeth by an additional clause, that the 
magistrates to whom it is addressed, should be " aiding or assisting to 
1 if any wrong be to them offered, and to allow them such former 
tesies as hath been given to men of (heir place and quality ; and 
also what further favour you shall show to these our servants, for 
lake, we shall take kindly at your hands." 

King James issues /arising tiikens, by proclamation, 1613. 

Oliver Cromwell is created Doctor of Laws, at Oxford, 1649. 

Evelyn is at Margalt, 1672 : " This town much con^sli of brewers 
of a certaJD heady ale, and they deal much in malt, &c. For the rest, 
tis raggedly built, and has an ill haven, with a small fort, of little con- 
cernment, nor is the island well disciplined ; but as to the husbandry 
and rural part, far exceeding any part of England, for the accurate ci 

re of th^r ground, in which they exceed, even to curiosity and em 
lation. Wepaasedthrough a sweet garden as it it were, to Canterbuiy." 

Sir Geoi^ Rooke defeats the French fleet olf the Cape of La Hogue, 
in Normandy, an immortal and splendid victory, in which they lost 
twenty of their capital ships, 1692. 



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For whlcb 1 never ip^e.-^lr Jtlm Datii. 

gtrt. 

Sir Matthew Ha.1e is appcnated Chief Juitice of the Court of King's 
Beoch, 1671, " He did not, however, preside long in this court : his 
strength and health ihoitlj begaji to fail him ; and though for a dme he 
endeavoured to perfonn the duties of his office, being supported to 
bench bj his aervants, he al length resolved to resign the seat fn which 
he foand hiniKlf unfit. Ue made an earnest application for bis uril of 
; but such was the general satisfactioa which his'conduct, as chief 
justice, had gircD, that Ibe King delated for some time the granting of 
his request." This pillar of integrity signed his resignation on the Slst 
of Febmarj, 1675, shortly to be Dumbeied with ' tht mighty dtad,' not 
as a judge alooe, bat as a phih)sopher, and for his humanity. 

The Vice-chancellor of Oifbrd grants hia imprimotur for the publica- 
tion of Dr. Young's poem on tbe Lmt Day, 1713. 

War is declared belneen Great Britaia and France, 1766. 

The Portuguese sovereign^ is re-eslabli^ed, b Pemambuco, 1817. 

A note bythe Bhephcrd-astronomer, Ferguson, in manuscript : " The 
dome oF SI. Paul's is one hundred and forty-live feel in diameter. Sup- 
: a globe of this size to represent the Sun j then a globe of nine 
:a-tenths inches will represent Mercury ; one of seventeen nine- 
tenths inches. Taiui; one of aghteeu inches, Ibe Earth ; one of five 
inches diameter, the limin (whose distance from the Earth is two hundred 
and forty thousand miles) ; one of ten inches. Mars ; one of fifteen 
(eet, JupiUr; and one of eleven and a half feel, Saturn, with his ring, 
four feel broad, and at the same distance from his body all around. 
In this proportion, su[q>ose the Sun to be at St. Pnul'i, then Mercuiy 
might be at the Tmcer, Venus at St. Jama's, the Earth at Mart/ieboiit, 
Mara at Kensington, Jupiter, at Hamplim Court, and Saturn at Clifdtn, 
moving roond Ihe cupola of St. Paul's, as their common centre. 



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Ut acka iiiuUltiiic* in niy cUnw, 

And (prudi Ike tmnej of kb deep roewcb 

He imtli, u>f I UH. 1 trad hlidiek, 
/LmetaA hli lo]nu>t, Uiniafh bit pccriii( eT< 

Sribr hit <rt», ud ikut !■ kb Mcapai 
WUk hucy, like Ihe flifer of ■ chxk, 
Rwu tb( (ml cimii, ud l> Bill al baaic. 



Elijah lea\aa, 1683, 5A<[lini, J 

Sir William Caagier«, 1772. 

Iropndenl maul thon had 
worahipped God ; Ibou hast 
preacbed and practised virtae ; 
thou hast served and assisted 
man ; thou hait protected the 
oiphao, hast aaccDured the pooi j 
thou hiu changed deserts, in 
which slaves dragged on a mi- 
serable existence, into fertile 
districb, peopled with ha[^j 
Tamiliei ; but I have discomed 
that thon hast never read mj 
coatmvetwal woii. 

Tht Ptnecator, 

Oiiiti'ftlu Latin Church. 
St, Elhelbert, King of the Eait 

Anghi, Atnnyr, 793. 
Yvo, Biihap of Chartrei, 1 1 16. 
St. Benmrdin, of Sienna, died 

1444. 



B»ttf. 

Christophet Colnmbui, 1506. 

d. VatUdalid. (_SC.IImBiBga,y 
Bishop (Miles) CoverdUe, 

1S6S. 
Nicholas Semtns, 1610. Mag- 

Bishop (Thomas) Sprat. 1713, 

BnmUg. (Abbey.) 
Dr. Nicholas Brad;, 1726. died, 

Clupkam. 
James le Quien dt la Keuf- 

ItU, 1728. 
lliomas Boston, 1732. died, 

Elteritk. 
Dr. Wm. Robertson, 1783. d. 

Woivtrhomplan. 
Antony Louis, 1792. d. Pari). 
Charles Bonnet, 1793. d. Ct- 

Dt. Joseph Towers, 1799. 

I will show the judge that 
Du hast spoken diirespectfidly 
for these ten yean past of Tobit's 
dog. which thou asserleat to have 
been a spaniel, iriiilst I maintain 
that it wa* a greyhound. 

Vottain. 



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ID tb( 1 



>e hill, 



Fed tht Hint ftoek, bj' lOiini 
Togelher bmh, En the high lawni ■ppai'd 
Under the opcnlnf eytlMi at Ibt Mom, 
We drove ilteld, ud bolh U^elber belrri 
Wbtl lime llM urejr-fljF vlnda ber iiltr; horn. 

fltti^ 

An eulliqiiakc at Aalioch, by which two hundred and fiftj thouiand 
penoQi are said to bare perished, A. D. 536. 

Richard the Firat raises the aiege of Vernmil, in Normandy, 1195. 

Alonio de Ojeda sails from Port St. Mary's, Cadii, 1499, upon a 
weileni voyage of discovery, accompanied hy Juan de la Cosa, as- his 
chief |nlot, and AmerUut Vtipiuei, but with ofden not to touch at any 
pari nfaich Columbus bad discovered before 1495. Tbe expedition re- 
tamed in tbe fallowing October. " In what station Americiia served is 
uncertain ; but as he was an experienced aailor, and eminently skiKiil in 
all the science* subservient to navigation, he seems to have acquired 
tuch aulhori^ among his companioru, that they willingly alkiwed bun to 
have a chief share in directing their operatjans during the voyage. Soon 
after his return, he transmitted an account of bia adventures and discO' 
veriet to one of his pountTymea ; and labouiiog, with the lauily of a tra- 
veller, to magni^ bis own exploits, he had the address and confidence 
to frame his narrative, so as to make It appear that he bad the gloiy of 
having first discovered the continent in the New World. Ameiig 
acconnt was drawn up, not only wifli art, but with tome elegance. 
contained an amnung history of his voyage, and judicious observationi 
upon the natural productions, the inhabitants, and the customs of tbe 
countries which he had visited. As it was the first description of any 
part of the New World that wai published, a performance so well cal- 
culated to gratify tbe passion of mankiud for what is new and marvel- 
lous, circulated rapidly, and was read with admiration. The country, of 
which Amerigo was supposed to be the discoverer, came gradually to 
called by his name, Tbe caprice of mankind, often as unaccountable 



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Tbi noM or Udi it At twnlr or Hiy, 



Oct*. 



I DDJuti bai paipataatcil tliii ^tot. Bj tlie uiiTOaU come: 
uiau, America a the utme b«Mawcd on thii new quuter of tbe 
globe. The bold pnteauoni of • fntunalc impostor bara tabbed the 
dUcoTCicr of tbe New World of > dntiDclioa which belonged to 

Dune of Amtrigo hai (oppUoled that of Coldmbds ; and "iiikiTiri 
mair regiet an act of injuitice, which, having received tbe lanction of 
time, it ii now too lale to.redten." — St* 12(A OcUbtr, 

Thi> day ii tbe aDoivanaiy of the deaih of Columbui, 1506. A free 
and generMU ipiiil maj be diMinguiibed in iti featnna, ai the oook'i 
diicipline i« leen tbrough the ragi and Uidingi of an aglit. Tbe fol- - 

*ig chaiacteristici ue authentic. " He wai lall, itrong, and well- 
proportioDed, with a loDg face, aquiline noce. gKj eye*, ruddj com- 
plexion, and light bail : be appealed twro to command. Hewaseaiyof 
acceu, a^ble to ittangen, kind to hii domestici, and gaj with hit 
fiiendi. lie bad a great loul, commanding genioi, gieal presence of 
mind, and a heail proof againat all accidenU. He wai fertile io r«- 
lourcei, dicunupect in liii actioiu, and without ottentation. Hia c 
teoui mannen and jndicioiu etotjueoce made bii giaiit; agreeable. He 
wai lealous (w lite puUic good, and above all for relij^." 

Hie DominuB Vobiscum, and another vesie), fitted out at tbe eip 
of King HuTj the ijghth, sails from London on a vojage of discover; 
lo the American coast, 1527. A canon of St. Pasl's, a great mathema- 
tician, and several "cunning men," were on board: one of these vessek 
was wrecked in a veiy large gulf to tbe norlbwaid ; the other coasted 
along to the southward, and relumed to England in October. Hacklujt 
could abtaiu no other inbnnation : but Ibe attempt should be noted. 



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No dihy nuket comptrlHii ; 

(Who K» IhtD Ig undone,) 
Fw BiMki of iTd imi! mIntM Ihere, 
Sncti 11 IK on 1 Calh-rliK pear, 

(Tb« (Mt UuCa next Itic Kia.)—SacWiv. 

atte. 

HcDiylheEiglithespouwiJaMSnimDiir, upon thii day, 1536, "i 
ID the nine and twentielh, wu publiclj ibDwed Qncen." 

" A book of Pct'uIo, Princt o/ Tyn," and uiollier book called " j^Rtffny 
and CltBpatn," an eolered by Ediraid Blount, at Staliotten' Hall, 
1608. Abo, on the lame daj, 1609, by Thomu Thorpe, a book called 
" Shah^itan'$ SoiuUtt." 

King Jamei , upoa hU retam from Scolland, publicly declares hit 
pleuDie, 1618, " that after the end of dinne aerviee, the people ihonld 
not be lett«d fiom any lawTul mcnatioD on Sandayi, inch ai dancing 
either of men or wooieii, arcbCTy for nao, vaultiDg or any other lucb 
ianfui recreation, nor from kaving May-gaawa, WhitauQ-alea, and Mor- 
lii-dancei, and the tetting up of Ma^foles, and other tpoitt therewith 
uied ; and that women thoold have l«*ve to cany mibet to the church 
he decoring of it, according to Ihoir old cBatomi" Thi* penniiuon 
however, waii not to extend to i*cnMalt, nor aren to coDfbcDiili if 
ihej had not on (he tame day attended dhriM Mrrice. 

The DBial battle at Fort Philip, in Minorca, 1766. John Byng, the 
Briiiah Admiral, wai shot by Ihe aeateace of a caurt-mattiaJ, for not 
haviiq; dent AJi duty in this engagement, but which hii death belied. 

A floiiat, at Harlem, t«fuies ten Ihouiand flotini for a hyacinth, the 
" UHgaim^fiiniitT inicrU>td loilA MM,'' 1771. 

Htcka's Hall, in Cletkenwell, ii franded ap<» thii day, 1779. 

The ninth month, Proirul, of the French Bepublican year began ; 
about the period (the next day) when the son cnten the zodiacal ti\ 
Gmini ,- but marked on the nineteenth by the Roman calendar. 



TrMlmi oiHi Crtniila. 



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Philip IT. (of Spain}, 1627, 



Fiucii EgertoD, Duks ol 

Bridg«water, 1736. 
Bryao Edvtida, 1 743, Wettbury. 



GoodnssB I ctll tbe hsbit, 
and gooduets of oatuM (he in- 
cUnBlion. Thii, of alt Tirtues 
kod dij;nitiea of the mind, ii the 
greatest, being the character of 
the Deitj ; and wilbout it man 
ii abiu;, miKhieToua.wietchBd 
thing, DO betlw thau a kind of 

logical virtue, charitj, and ad- 
mits no eicen, but error. 

Lord Baem, 

Obftf of t^ Ltin Chunk. 
SI. HoBpitiul, (or emmunils 

Sospa,\ af Prmxnci, d.681. 
StJ'fiadtiA, of Norfolk, Hermit, 

i. 1170. 
SL Felii, of Cai.taiiciB, 1S87. 



mtam- 

PauloB Ma^hia, B. C. 316. 

mUd, Canna. 
Louis V. (of Frimct), pmioned, 

A.D. 987. 
Thomas, Duke of NoTlblli,lSa'l. 

Tlulfont. 
Dr. John Seynoldi, 1607. 
James Graham, Marquis of 

Montroie, 1650. 4iiiiaUd, 

Edinburgh^ 
Joaeline Percy, Earl of North- 
umberland, 1670. 
ConliRai Siichael Angelo Ricci, 

1683. d. ft<im«. 
Cornelius Tmmp, 1691. d.Jm- 

strrdam. (D«lft.) 
Gaspard Abeille, 1718. d. Pitrii. 
James Maboul, 1723, i.Aeth. 
Robert Harley, Earl of Oiford, 

1724. Brampton Bryan. 
James Anlhon; Baisam. 1747. 

d. VUtnia. 
Lady Charlotte Hasham, 1773. 

Sir John Hawkins, 1789. 
Dr. Thomas Warton, 1790. 
Trinity ColUgt, Oxford, 



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XXI. MAY. 

Gnu Janiii, 1 ay plnnn. 
With *U tht IliupUn Inuiin 
' DoKrloni); puiut; 
To the put yrar relnrnJni. 
Ai IhoDgh th« tU ktjonniiiig, 



nat. 



The battle o( CaoDe, ncai the river Ofanto, in which the Koman Con- 
■uls were vanquiahed by Hannibal, a general who knew Dot Ihe use of 
victorjr, with the Joss of fortj Ihousand meo, jticladiag 5630 knights, 
B.C. 316. The .Igonin to JanuB were DOW repeated at Home. 

John Cantacuienus, the hiatorian of hia own time*, and a defender of 
the hith, is inaugurated Emperor at Coastantinople, A. D. 1342. 

The famous treaty of Troyei, called " the perpetual peace," is raliiied 
and signed in that city between Henry V. of England and the Commis- 
Bioners of Charles VII. of France, 1410. Bj these articles Henry was 
to receive Ihe hand of Kate, the monarch's daughter, aad upon his 
death, "the crown of rranee, with all ita rights and dominions," 

Thomas, Lord Cromwell, the minister of Henry VIII. addresses the 
prior of Trewaidrelh as to his manerial rights and libertia within the 
borough of Fowey, in Commdl : " For his highness ihinketh, that the 
■aid port of Fowey oweth to be his, aad to be held of him, so thai his 
gtace intendeth from henceforth to have it as well provided for with good 
governance, and of defence for utter enemies, as other his towns and 
ports be within these parts. Whereunto ye for your part before this time 
have had little or no regard, neither to the good order, rule, and defence 
thereof, nn- ^tt te lft« ^ihnI gMemance of yourielf, ygur nuiKulsry, and 
Tiligum, m i/« art bound ; teluTefirt hii highntu tftinfitib lAal ye be very 
ttmarrtky to have rule of any tdun, that cannot uett rule yourself-" 

Buonaparte relinquishes the uege of Acre, in Palestine, which had 
continued for »ily days, and retreats upon Jaffii, from which place he 
marched six days after for Egypt, 1 799. The name of Sir Sydney Smith 
will always be well associated by his countrymen with this event. 

The bloody battle of Wurtichen, which continued leieepingly for two 
dayi, nearBautien, 1813. The Fnissians were driven from Iheir position, 
and Napoleon advanced inafoam to Bretlau, leavinglS.OOO Frenchmen 
in the searching clam of their titcutori — the crows. 

If a Ktorm happen from an easterly point on this or the two preceding 
days the emuiLg summer will, (our limes in five, be diy. 



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Th' Ftcrul Howi appur ilnidy put. 
And tlw Ant chHub mJ mnanliliM turn 
Bui, IboH utilD'd, wa irunblt lo umc; 
Tbe {nwiui labowi of Ihc knalliui'd way 



Alezandei Pope, l68S,L(nitanI 

Slrtet, Landm. 
Michael Diodra-BudoD, 1700, 



What 1 chiiDen then ii nun I 
what « confoMd chao* ! what a 
tubject of contmliction ! a pco- 
leiMd judge of *I1 thing*, jret a 
feeble worn of the eaith I the 
great depoutai; and guaidian of 
inlh, and jet ■ nKie huddle of 
unceiuintj I the gloi} aad the 
Kandal of the univene I 



eatl i)f tfu Latin Chunh. 
St*. Caitua and J^milins, Jlfor- 

tyra in Africa, 250. 
St. Baiiliu:ui, Biihiip of Comana , 

Marty, 313. 
3t, Bodo, of ProvCTM, 986. 
St. Yvo Helori, of BHtony, 

1303. 
Su ConaJ], Abbal ofEnnii-Cha- 

vil in Jreiand. 



BMtH- 



itbeGraat,A.D.337. 
d. Poioce of JfByrion, Nieo- 
media. (Conituliiiaple.) 
Conrad IV. (Enperar), poi- 

1,1254. 

Hediy VJ. (t/-X»el<«id), 1471. 

murdertd, Tomer. 

B.VUI>lpandi,1608.d. Rime. 

Fabia Ckigt, Ale 

(Pope), 1667. 
John Andiew (j 
Junea Bertie, Eul of Atnngdon, 

1609. RyeoU. 
Sebaitian Vullanl, 1723. 
Robert, Lord MDleiworth,1735. 

d. Ireland. 
Di. Robert Dick, 1757. 
John £ntick, 1773. St^ney. 
John Baptist Beccana, 1781. 

A. Turin. 
Garrett Wellesle;, Earlof Hom- 

ington, 1784. 
GenenJ Duroc, killid, 1813. 

WvTtscliea. 
Dr. Joieph White, 1814. 

Oxftrd. 
Dr. Jotej^ Kemp, 1824. 
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The battle tteai ths GroRiffiu, in Bithjuia, m fuuiliar In the month of 
J tjro, wss decided in Thargilim, CQneiponding nitli this day, 
B. C. 334. Tbe Macedonian bero aremin Caria before the winter; 
then he advanced to Goidium, reduces Lycia, and the faoioos battle of 
Istvi followed in November, ^um jam hinu imtaril, B, C. 333, 

The death of Coaataatine tbe Great, A. D. 337 ; hii three (one look 
possession of the imperial inheritance on the 1 lib of September. 

James [. of Scotland, is crowtied ^hleen y^m after bii accenion, 
having been for all that period immiired in eaptivity, 1434> 

Tbe murder of Heni; VI. in the Tower, tbe evening of tbs lame da; 
that Edward made his entry into London, Aicenaiaa-eve, 1471. 

Vbsco de Gama lands at Calicut, npon the coaxt of Malabar, which 
was the first ludiaa port visited by an European vewel, IISS. 

The Huty leagat, between FranciB I. utd the Italian Statei agaitial 
the Emperor Charles, is concluded at Cognac, 1&2€. 

James V. embarks at Leilh in a voyage of inspection round hii king- 
dom, which he completes b July at DumbaMm, -1&40. 

Bishop Jewel) in ■ private letter to hiifnendiBullInger, 1559, observe! 
that " Queen EUiabeth refuses to be called head of the church, u it 
was a title that could not justly be given to any mortal." 

Sir Waller Raleigh discovers and ntimes the Bed Crou RiMr, 1S95. 

The order of Baronets of Nova Scotia is now fint instituled, 1625. 

King Charles II, and the Dnke are at tfewmukU, al a great hunt 
race, 1668. A vast lumhkous meteor appeals at Ldpsic, 1680. 

An eclipse of the sua accurately calculated i? Henry Pitot, )T24. 

KouH Khan defeats the Turkish army b Fenia, thii day, 1734. A ] 
total inundaliaa of Fomaia, by vokanic agency daring a storm, 17S3. 

A veiy ancient feast, called topi and ale, is observed al Eastboome. 



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m pvr iplB.— TV SMkmm. 



D.j».| SirtH. 


itam- 


I. 


EliuAibinoU, 1617, Lick^. 


Leo 11. (Pope). A. D. 683. 


cii. 

33. 


Dr. Wlllikm Hunter. 1718, Kif- 


Henrj V. (Emperor), 1125. d. 




UlTtthl. 




CalhiiineII.(fl/-«u«i«),1729, 


Henry Percy. 2d EailofNorth- 






umberland, 1455. k.&t.Al- 
bam. 







Edmund Beaufort, Duke of So- 
merset. 1455.(. St. /IJfufli. 




When Ibe iiioou U in her 








«i,,F(™.«. 




diia tl in; otber times in the 


Sir KichMd Caiew, 1620. 




month. The leaKm of this U, 


Fra!.cis Algarotti, 1764. PUa. 




bccluH the attractive forcei of 


William WooUet, 1785. 




the lan and mooD crouiag each 






other, are u contruj ai it poi- 






tibls to the swelling of die sea 


Lewis Duteoa. 1812. d.LTOrf«i. 




Ale«rmi. 







. 


Voltaire amused himself some- 
times with the style of certun 




®bittB/(A«Lo(inaureft. 


authors, all bristling with (pi- 




St. Desklerioi, Bithep p^ Lon- 


thitt ; " If Ihey could only un- 




gra. Martyr, ill. 


dersUnd," he said, "that adjec- 






tives are the greatest enemie* of 




Martyr, 612. 






St. Julia, Virgin, Martyr at 


in gender, number, and case 1" 




Cmita, Sth Ceutuiy. 


Ana. 



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XXIIl.MAY. 

hut DM burd 1I{ ]^ Ik* wkh 



acts. 



Th e capture of Jerusalem, by Pompey tbe Great, took place dd the 
23d of the Hebrew month Siean, in tfae consulate of Cicero, a day that 
was then observed at a fast in remembrance of the defectioo and idolatry 
of Jeroboam, vho moAi Iirati ta )in,.B.C. 63.— 5m 1 Kingt xii. S7. 
It fell into the bands of Herod the Great upon the same day, twenlj- 
seTen years later, in the consulate of Agrippa, B. C. 37, which was one 
of those septenary periods called Sabbatic years.— Sm 1th Ftbrvary, 
Hiey were computed by the hhtorical or civil calendar. 

This day the Romans dedicated to Ttdcan, the hut and teU divinity, 
when the sacred trumpets were again purified. Larcher places the chro- 
Do1(^ of the fall of Troy upon this day, B.C. 1370. 

The iirct batde of Si. Atbani, which was won with the loss on both 
sides of "lii lenv" individoals, 14-^. The Yorkists conducted Henry, 
their king and prisoner, with a mock authority to Loudon. 

Craamer pronouuces sentence of di two at the court held in the priory 
of Dunstable, between Henry VIII. and Katharine of Arragon, staliag 
that their marriage was null and invalid, having been contracted and 
consummated in defiance of the divine prohibition, and therefore without 
force or effect from Ihe very beginning, 1533, 

Henrietta Maria, the queen of Charles I. is impeached of treason, 1643. 

Charles II. weighs from Sckttieiing for England O 1 Pepys feelingly 
observes, 1660 : " Upon the quaiter-deck he fell into discourse of hi* 
escape from Worcester, where it made me ready to weep to hear the 
stories that he told of bis difficulties that he had passed through." 

The Battle of Ramillia, in Biabant, one of Ihe immortal acu of Ihe 
Duke of Marlborough, N. S. 1706. The French were led by Villenn. 
Thesunwuwhollyobscured thatdaybyanedipse, 13lhAfay,O.S. WMt 
Sunday, The massacre of the Christians by the Turks at Bonn, 1816. 

The French Afiiitiiippi scheme, projected by John Law, disaolies, 
as those bright floating circles ndiich amuse and vex the hopes of 
children, ofa low growth, 1720. 



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U wblqwi'd prooii'd pleuan, 
■d bKlc ihe lonely teaa at dMu 



re «d« wu hurd U erery chM*. 



;. (John) Jewel. 1522, 



Cbarlei Von Uddbiib, 1707, 
N. S. BMhiUt, in Smaland. 

Junei Nteld, 1744, Knut^erd. 

P«Ier Chiumette, 1763, Nmtn. 

The Friactu Alciandnn& Vic- 
toiu, 1819, KmtinjCon.} 

Keep the fear of God con- 
Uanlly in youi heail ; remember 
that he always <eei &nd ui 

; and order your life w in 
hii presence. — Sir Af. HaL 



eiftt qf Ihe LaliH Chareh. 
Sti. DoastiaD and RogatiaD, of 
inUii, Brotfaera and Mar- 
t, c, 287. 
SL Vincent, o/lla Iile of Lerins, 

«ff Prmvnce, i. 450. 
St. John de Prado, Martyr al 



Giegor; VU. (Pope.) 1085. d. 

Nichoiai CopernicHB, 1643. 

Then. 

Robeit Cecil, Eatl of Salisbury, 
1612. d. Morlboniugh. (Hat- 
field.) 

TbomaB Doolittle, 1707. died, 
CrippUgaU. 

Charlei WUliim geheele. 1786. 

Geoi^ Brjdges, Lord Rodney, 
1792. 

Great part of the happioeis of 
every individual depends upon 
the opi aion and actions Dfothers; 
it Ib, therefore, desiraUe for you 
to gain and preserve the good 
will of all. But the consia 
steady esteem and friendship of 
a person long tried, and well 
known, who bu abtainid a n 
tation for virtat and dncei 
is an invaluabk treasure. ) 
serve it with a religious care, 
return it with fidelity and I 
— Dr. HMckennorth to a Y(m»g 



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XXIV. MAY. 

IT nmoDg nuDy lulLoiu. Klngi beyond the bHtbi of the 
m ru- ud wide : Oiry bowfdiohlinuonc or their own kin. 
■war, ht kned God'i Uw, kc prcwrved Ibe ptopWi pHcc, 
1^ Ibil mn before Id Ike memory of man. Aai Ood iru 
iBd cult bowed la him : ud Ikey obeyed hli will. 



Acts. 



Whit Sondat is the fiffieth ihj uxl wventb Sunda; from the primi- 
tive Easier. — Stt &lh April. This aolemn Christian festival was called 
the Daif of PmtHDii, in tnemotiil of the sjuntual benediction vouchsafed 
hj God to bis Apostles ; and Whit Sunday, because the coaveits Dewiy- 
tnpliicd appeared, from Easter uatil Whitsuntide, in tckiti vestmeDti 
5m 5lh Afay. Here cammencea Iba seomd of the four Ember m 
the periods appointed for our humiliation. — S« 22d Ftbra/ay. 

The many-virtued King Edgai, somanied " th* peattfal," 
crowned in the city of Bath, upon the leest of Pmlicoit, in his 30th 
year, 973, with a splendour and magmfice&ce appropriated to his cha- 
racter; fbrwith him, laith Milton, in his aJmrmUi miniatuie lifeofthii 
prince, shaded by bafalliti, " died til the Saion glory." 

Edward, the Black Prince, the vicloi at Poitiers, conducts his cap- 
tive, John, the French King, through the city of London, in Irinm^di U 
Westminiler Hall, where the prince's/oiAcr recmvea them *eated oa bit 
throne, suitounded by the pcelaica and bwons, 1357 : a day, wbost 
bright and solid minutes thine out with few parallels in ancient or mo- 
dem stOTf : — a day, in eveiy respect wnrthy ol the golden period of tht 
British monarcby, and therefore gieat and lasting. 

Fruicis Drtke sails fiom Plymouth in the PucAa, 1572, a voyage 
of Ttptital against the Spaniaids, and letumed there with his West lu- 
^n ploodei on tba 9th of August, in the foUowing year. 

Sir Thomas Greaham endows t^ deed the Koyal Exchasgt^ 1574. 

Louis XIV. of France purchues of the West India Company, for the 
benefit of the Knights of Malu. the islaods of 3l. Cbrialopher's, 3t. Bar- 
tholomew, 8C Martin, and Santa Cini, for the sum of one bundled and 
twenty thoosand Uvret, tonmois, 1651. 

An eruptian of Mount Etna, which eitended its ravages for four 
leagues roundi and seven) penons were buried ^ive in the lava, 16B6. 



By ibe iuUtniloB of oor incHton, li wu wiKly provided, thai ikr yow 
leuB fnm the aied, not naly by pMcapti bol by Ibeii i 
behire In Ibet ipbeit nrhtielB Ikey were one diy Uiemii 



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XXV. MAY. 

Wblk cMaef d Pic9 dlipliTi 
Hrr miHildcrliii roll. Ikt picrelni eye tiplDni 

WhtK. cnlli U» peulve bud hb plctor'd Uoni i 
V>it [«B|t>, Boi burni, tn (he wlndiiic w*ri 


' 




Cay. 


•irtH 


Botto. 






C«l.' 

as. 


JohnM>MnGood,1764,Eppin£. 

Thongh th« »<umd itself be 
htayier tbtn ur, the thread it 
■[HDi from in bowell it speci- 
fically lighter. This is its UU- 
iMn. The tpder, kh lo iUelf. 
wouU drop to the ground ; but 
being tied to its thread, both are 
«.pported. 

Patay-. Natural Tht^cgy. 

e\it» of thMl^linChuTth. 
St. Urban, Ptp< aad Martyr. 
C.330. 

Marlt/rt in Nffrmaidii.c.GA 
Century. 
St. Adhelm, (or Aldbelm), Ab- 

of Sherborne, d. 709. 
81. Dumhade, Abbot inScolUnd. 

717. 
SLGregoryVlI. Pope, d. 1085. 

St. Mary Magdalen, Rrgino/ 
Paai, in FIvrtnct, d. 1607. 


Alexander IV. (Pope), 1261.d. 

Viterbo. 
Louis (of NapU,). 1363. 
Valens Acidaliiu, 159S. 
Bishop (William) Batlowe, 

1625. Ea«™. 
Editard, Earlof Mealfa,dr«wit. 

1675. 
James Antony Atlaud, 17*3. d. 

Geaem. 
Sir Dudley Ryder. 1756. 
Dr. George Fordjee,lB03. 
Dr. (William) Paley, 1806. d. 

Edmond Malone, 1813. 

This same peteeptim of eau 

dition of great comfort; espe- 
cially when riding at its anchor 
after > busy and tempeitnous 

Rousseau, lo be the intenal of 

the bunj and the end of life. 

PaUs. 






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fa. Sir, Mt Bp your nil*. 
And rowc AHth with evil h^ 
F« iritbontdi inlf HOe 



9cU. 



The fbundltioiia of Ae Mcond lemple at Jenimlem ue laid by tht ehU- 
drtn of the captivity, in Che secood year of Cynu Ihe Great, King of 
Peiaia, and by hU peipuuion, upon Ibe tweaty-fifth of Sioan, B. C. 635. 
Itwai completed, a^i a long int«imption, and Mkninly dafieoud upon 
Ibe inen^-thin] of the month Adat (FebnuTy), in tbo lixth yeai of 
Ihe reign of Diriui Hystaapea, B. C. 6i5.—Ste Etra vi. 16. 

THus Veipauan takes the city of Joppa, ia Galilee, 1^ uiault, ou 
the iweo^-fifth of the month Daiita (Siran), B. C. 67. 

Edward Bruce invades Ireland with lii thousand men, 1315. "Ha 
fought many battles, and gained Ibem all ;" and was crowned, for a brief 
peiiod, Kii^ of the country. — Sei 5th OcUtber. 

Aleiander, Lord of the Isles, peiforms penance of submission to King 
James ia his shirt and drawers, before the congr^aiian of Holyrood 
church, 1427. — The Scottish lait term now commences. — Sit Itt Augial, 

The caooniiation of Si. Eliiabtlh, Queen of Portugal, called the fwoce- 
•mJcer, by Pope Urban VIII. Si. l/rfcin', day, 1625. If thia day be 
fair, it piomiaes a fruitful vintage : — so they say in Girmany. 

Massinger produces his ' Cily Siiuiam,' under the auspices of the 
King's players, 1633. ■ A Ntw Way t/> Pay Old Debti,' was printed 
(for it was never licenud,') in Novembn following. 

An alarming insurrection of the negroes in Jamaica, 1760. The lou 
to the island, in human flesh and blood, was estimated at £100,000. 

Whit Monday. Tom Coriat, m his CrWitio, 1607, describes the 
Wbitsun fool of France : " About two miles this side of Monlreuil, there 
a Whitsuntide fool, disguised like afool, wearing a long coat, wherein 
there were many several pieces of cloth of divera colours, at the comeri 
reof, there banged the tails of squirrels : he bestowed a little piece 
of plate, whereon was expressed the effigies of the Vibqin Mary, upon 
every one that gave him money, for be begged money of all travellers for 
Ihebenelitofthe parish church." The Cfcaier IfWinitiPfoi/i, composed 
1^ Ralph Higden, a monk, in 133B, were the first Interludes in Engli^. 



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And Sonvw*! |iliRiD| Out.— Slut OOtf. 



CiMdM Dokt of Oriccu, I3»l . 
Dr. Miehad Ettnaltn, 1644, 

John Otl^ 1680, Lmulni. 
To ran up uiA down & hill, 

wave irith hii hedi, to nriog 
ami totiAT i& t bctlioiM, to nuke 
■ Git, tad itietch out botli bii 
unu, wid M stand lik« • raod ; 
to ttimUa ow «ad ant, to top 
OTCT tail, to tet back to back, 
and Me who can hean ■notber'i 
heeli highMt, with ranch other 

itodioni. — Sog«r Atelum. 

0iOM of tli« Latin Omnh. 
^EIeutbeiiuj,P<ft,Af.d. 193.- 

St. Qnailratoa, BUvip afAAmi, 
Sod Centni;. 

SL AngnltiBe (coflwumly St. 
Autiii,) AnMiulu>p if Can- 
Hrfrwy, cwl ApOUle of the 
Eoglidi, d. 004. (SnEmg. 
Uih dmreh CaUadar.) 

SLOAattiitAbbetifMtlntijBOS. 

St. PhiUp N«ri,o/'f tiT«iiM,lS05. 
Ai Iran nijr Utc la ny 



Jlu VenniU Bede, A. D. 735. 

d. Jarnw. (Dorfaan.) 
EdBond I. (of England), 9M. 

MoUcrf, PmkUkirk. (Glis- 

tonbnry.) 
FranoU Anthony, 1013. St. 

BarthiilemtK'i, 
SirJofanUaraham, 1685 Caek- 

Vitconnt Dundee, Idlled, 16B9. 
Sam, PeiTi, 1T03. d. Clapham. 
Thomai Sontbem, 1746. 
John L. Beiti, 1766. d. Ptu. 
Nancy Dawwo, 1767. (QiuiT) 
Vim. EmenoQ, 1783. Burmrth, 
N. Femnd, 1795. ihet, Pitrii. 
Jamni BnniGt, Lord Mmboddo, 

1T99. d. EdMmrgh. 
J. J. BpaUiog. 1804. d. Btrlm. 
Frand* JoKph Haydn, IBOg. 

OrhMpe/tdarff, Ffnina. 
Capel LoA, 1824. d. Mtnail- 

Uir, mar TMn. 

The thiee Cnt piioci^ea of 



lam of God, oonoern toi tin 
gooi of man, and foftilnde un- 
der the acrident* of life — THadt. 



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DLipene tfacHe phuikina from my »l^ 

ThOK mfniic ihidei of ttaet, 

Tke KboUuCi InmliiE. »phlil'i cut, 

The TMoury b&goi's rvit, 

He monk'! pliLletopby. — Hi/mn to ScSenee. 

■ actt^ 

oM E of Prague, makes hi* reuless declantion for whicfa be mfiered 
martjidom, one of the UtUo! gnat men, 1416.— Sh 30(h May. 

An £ii(iidiffo>i of the Wehh buda and minitiela u beld BtCafroes.in 
Flintihiie, by the Queen Elizabeth's comminiaa, when Gftji-five degrees 
were confemd, ai^ the great priie of the silier harp <ru ftdja<tged K 
on ap Williuns ap Bion, 1568. The Tudors wore the leek of Su 
DsTid. 

he toterment in Westminster Abtwy of that great servant of Apollo 
and the stale, Thomas, Ixad Sackvilie, 160B. " There never was a bet- 
ter TreatSTet," obterves Sir Richard Baker, " both for the King's profit 
the good of the subject." He received the itaff upon the ISlh of 
Ma;, 1659, after it had dropped from the grasp of Lord Burldgh. 
Queen Btu ytrj nUnrally bved, as her father, to see a nan. 

Edwud Alleyn, the actor, and founder of Dulwich HoEgntal with an 
•ndowment of i^lO.OOO sterling, has left the following piouj meworial : 
" Maj 26, 1620, — tij wife and 1 acknowledged the fine at the Common 
pleas' bar of all our lands to the college ; blessed be God that he has 
girea us life to do it." Tb« warm sincerity of this apostrophe is his 
best cleg;. 

The battle at the pass of KiUuraiikie, remarkable for the defeat of 
King William's troops bj tba Highlanders, led b; Lord Dundee, 1689. 

The musical festival, in memory of Handel, a celebrated for three suc- 
cessive days, in Westminster Abbey, 1784. Thia grand burst of rene* 

~ >n, to which we may imagine the great master hiniielf litlening Vith 
complacency, was contribuled by more than five hundred artists. 

Napoleon is inaugurated King of Italy at Milan with the iron cm 
said to have been worn by the old Lomlmid kings, 180S, 

WhitTdesdav. The ancient festival called the Elm Jlfmtnia, is 
tebrated by the srbolars trUntuaUs, it ii believed, upon this day ; — their 

We livlie while '(!■ Mtj.-Grur't OdcmtHt Spring. 



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XXVII. MAY. 

DiBb Iben hid kHD Ih* if hlxorft Hue, 
Ami pRbh-d aU Ibc KHU or ipoIhi ruH ; 
TkoK Huij U(kl> iX Ylnm, Ih<[ difiH 
I>r..|b U« d«t depU, 0( tlB>e their .Irtd fl—e. 
HmI all ben lou wilb nch u have » un. 
Who ttadi hHl Korn'd bit eue for othrn' (mt T 
Wba then bud UU-d npackxu ueii la timet 
Wba la the pabUc br»«ch dnoKd tlond, 
A»] for bl. wq-ir,'. «™ beea prodipl of bloodi 






D.S. 


»irt»«. 


ButN. 






Cai. 
27. 


AlighieriDu««,1265.Fiarm«. 

Caidititl Louii do NoaiUei, 

16SI, Pari.. 
ThomuEvelyn, l663.Stamf«rd. 

clear and calm ; and Uiougb it 
waa aTtemanU overcast, jet, m 
that generaJ alorm, you «ere 
iwver withoat a shelter. And 
DOW you are happily arrived to 
the evaing of a day aa Mrene 
ai the dawn of It was glorioui ; 
but It it the eveuing of a lum- 
mor's ran, which keep, the day- 
Ught loDg within the skin. 

eitit^tht Latin Church. 
St. Julius, Martyr in Bulgaria, 

C.302. 
St. John, Papt, Martyr. d.S26. 
St. Bede, Fatlur n/ Ihi Church, 

735. (Sm EngtUh Cfcurrf 

Cnlen'lar.) 


Margaret,Countesi of SalUbiu;. 

1S41. bthaidtd, Taatr. 
John Calvin, 1564. d. Gciwih. 
Prince Demetrius, 1600. omu- 

IIMWd, JUdu«io. 
Vincent Voiture, 16W. 

1661. («*««&<(, jr»rfc«c™, 

Ediiiitir«ft. 
Dr. John Spencer, 1695. C<im- 

bridge. 
Domlnik Bouhoora, 1702, d. 

Henry de Bukertop, 1716. d. 
Ltuvain. 

Charles Lennox, Duke of Rich- 
mond, 1723. Abbes- 

Charle. de la Rue, 1715. d. 
Jtmiti" ColUgi. 

Henry Dundas, Loid MelviUe, 
\Zn. A. Edinburgh. 

The btow of a lion, though hj 

itself it is far from beautiful, yet 

because it happens raturally it 

is both comely and delightful. 

Marcus Auniim. 




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Bgt miidul u li Apollo'i IriU, 

And 1 pcrpelnAl Teut of nectu'il tflnfii 

Whtn DD crads Hifiit leiiDL— A/mm'i Qimw. 

get*. 

Pbilif of Macedon Ukes poaseiBioti of Fkoeii upun Ihe tmnCj-serenUi 
of Ihe mpnlh Sciropharian, ind the towen are dismantled ia Julj, wl 
tenniDftled the ten yuan' war, B, Q. 346. 

King John a crowned at Weslminatei, Aicensioa-day, 1199. — Sti 
6th April. 

Thomas a Becket is consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury, llSi. 

Edward III. sails for France to perbrm homagt for Aquitain. 1339. 

Charlel V. viMts Harrj VIII. this day at Canlerbuiy : — the sqna- 
dron anchored an Ihe 2Sth, at Hythe haihoiir, 1530. 

he matini ofMotcDin, to called from the time of the day wlieo Prince 
Dernvtrio* and all bia PoliBb adherenlfl, were as&aaunaled in the ci 
six in the moming, 1600. 

Charles II. signs Ihe secret treaty with Louis XIV. of France, 1678. 

The Habeas Coipu) Act is passed, 1679 : the act tutpending it 
repealed and most probably for ever, 31sl Jannaiy, 1618. 

' The Sweel Singers' renounce the printed Bible at the Caaonfata 
Tolbooth, and all unchaste thoughts, words, and actions, and bum all 
stoiy-books, ballads, romances, &c. 1S31. 

Sl Petersburg is founded by ihe Gieal Peter, Whit Sunday, 1703. 
Ttuscity now contains ntartg one-thiid of the population of London. 

King George I. assents to the Bill br the baaishment of Bishop At- 
lerbury, a roan whose great virtues are now lemembered, 1723. 

The order of the Knights of ibe Bath is re-established at St. James's, 
and constituted a militaiy fraternity for eier, 1725. 

The library of Addison is disposed of in eight hundred and fifty-six 
lots, during four days, 1799, for the sum of £456 2i. 9(1. The two let- 
rs addressed by him to the joung Earl of Warwick, dated 30th and 2Ttb 
May,1708, are delightful specimens of that SclpianplayfuloesB and 
tujsl toning, supposed to be the pitch of true philosophy j indeed he waJ 
«t this time warmed by the eyes of the countess, and dierefore, as such 
an ought lo be, be was without political amUtion and easily happy. 

Etknui l> banded in in nlcDdid eonlcmplltloil of the plict we iHnr la Ilx 



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XXVIII. MAV. 

" A Mil t— ■ Mil I"—! prenlMd prtu Is Hope I 



Bm (ilr. Dm bneu \—U 
Almdr doibkd l> Iki cipt—oar tujr 
B«cIt«i IhU prow which pnadly ipini 



r|^ 


«trt«l. 


B»f|f. 


V. 

28. 






gam ». Po-trofatdiV.. 


366. 


J>mei Sfona, the GiMt, 1639, 


St. William (of .<fuifoi«), 812. 




Coiig«^. 


d. G,ll«i,. 




Caaige I. (0^ England), 1660. 


St. Benurd, o/Satm/, 1008. 




FtMcii Seymour, Lord Cooway. 


Archtuhop Laafiaac. 1089. 




1679. 


Alphonnu IV. (0/ PwHi^oi), 




/ohD Linimce Berti, 1696. 


1357. 




FItcidw FixnUber, 1720, Ach- 


Thomu Htnmd. Eul of Sof- 




UUen. 


folk, 1626. WaUUn. 




John Smnlon, 1724, O.S. Aui- 


Edwtrd Mantagn, Ehil of Butd- 




thorp,. 


wich, 1673. WemainiUr Ab- 




Waiiun Pia, 1759, H«s<i. 


fcj,. 






Adminl de Oheot, 1872. MIM, 




Thomu Moon, 1780, A«ngUr 


&«rffaooMais. 




Sirttt, Dublm.} 


AdminldeToumlle,d. 1701. 
Edward Wdchman, 1739. 






Jauthaii RicbardioD, 1745. 
Geor^ Eail HirtKhal, 1778. 




mttttflkiLMtmChortk. 


d. PoUdam. 
AnihoDy Frederick BdichiDg, 




St.C»rttinni»(orC«ro,Ji.rmu;i 


1793. d. Berlin. 




Ch«rOD), Ifarlyr nter Char- 


Richird Hole, 1803 J.Enaoutli, 




tra. 611. CDtuiy. 


Biihop (Richard) Huid, 1808. 




St Germaiui. BWwy of Pari., 


HortJ^^. 




d. 670. 

1 


Williun Eden, Lord Auckland, 

1814. 
La Porte duThiel, laia.Porii. 




■u. ihil, bX (h»|li>C w with IIU) 





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PoFG Honorins III. issnea hii decree at Viterbo, as a ulataTj check 
iC encroachiag Baions, that no person in EagUnd iball keep in his 
hands more than two oT the royal castles, 1320. 

An interlude is perfoimed b the area of the Black Bear Inn, Cam- 
bridge, at which one " Dominni Pepper wss seen nilh an improper 
habit, having deformed long locks of unseemly aiglit, and gieat breeches, 
undecent for a graduate or scholar of orderly carriage ; therefore, the 
said Pepper was commanded to appear preseaily and procure hii hair to 
it or poled ; and which being done, the said Pepper returning to the 
Cotuistoiy, was then suspended at omni grodu luieepto (I luicipimdB, 
Stubbs, in his ,4nalDnii| ifAbaia, remarks that the new-fangled breeches, 
were of Parisian origin ; thej were made ridiculously large, and stuffed 
out with rags, until they were bronghl lo an eoormaus uie. 

The pariiament that l^an 23th May, 1661, at Westminster, was du- 
wltwd, accoidbg to a note of Di^dale, 24th January, 1679. 

" I, by water, lo Foxball," laith Pepys, in 1667, '■ and there walked 
in Spring GarJm. A great deal of company, and the weather and gar- 
den pleasant ; and it is veiy pleasant and cheap goii^ tlutbcr ; for a 
man may go lo spend what he will, or oolhing, all ai one. But to hear 
the nighiingaU, and other birds, and here fiddles, tod there • harp, and 
here a Jew's tiump, and here laughing, and there fine people walking, is 
mighty divertiiing." This is linpb, yet Pepys had a strong bead and 

The famous naval victory in SetUhmM Bay, agumt the Dutch, 1672. 
The Duke of York ncbly distinguished himself in this engagement. 

Commodore Wager attacks and destrayt the Spanish fleet, near C 
Ihagtna, IT08. 

Fieemasons' Hall, b Great Queen Street, is coasecrated with great 
solemnity, 1776. 



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Then llt>d kb Oolliic diyi, u 1cc>imI> Icll, 
A (btpbcnI-nnlB, ■ luii «( low defne ; 
WboM iln. pcmkauH, In FilijUial ulfhl dwt 
ElcUlu iKTfi, or T>k> otArtmyi 

A uttofl tun-d (Or »»(, "Bd b«»tyi ehiniii ; 
2e•IlIll^ yd iii«l(«i lnuoctiil. ibHfb rr«i 
P>ll«nt o( IdU : KRiM imtdil alanoi ; 
Indelible Id lUlh 1 inilnelUt In vmE.—Tlu M 



»(rtH 

Chulu II. {(fEagtiad,') 1630, 

5t. Jamtt't. 
Humphnj Dillon, 167S, Snlit- 

Heniy Pilot, 1695, Aramaii. 
Louit DaabcDloD, 1716, JlfaiiC- 

bard. 
Df. Willuin. Dodd, 1729, 

Patrick Henry, 1736, Virginia. 
JoMph Foaehi. 1763, IVants. 



It ii cerluplj, a Ime oburva- 
tion, tfau no people m 10 im- 
patieni of ceuiure u thoie wlio 
lue the greateM iluideren. 

^lll of thi latin Church. 
St. CoDon and hii Son, Uartyrt 

iflemaa, in jiiu, c. 275. 
Si. Cyril, Martyr at OnaHa in 

Cappadaeia, Sri Centuty. 
Si. Maiiminm, BuAup of Trwrt, 

d. 319. 
SM. ^inniu*, Martyrin*, and 

Akundcr, Mariiin in tbi 

Urritray of Trant, d. 397. 



Henty II. {«/C<u*iJ<;. 1379. 
ContlantiiK XIII. (Emperor), 

1153. killtd, Comtanlini^. 
CanUnal (David) Beaton, 1546. 

anal. St. A«drtw'$ CattU. 
John Peniy, titcuttd, 1593. 
Stephen de Coorcelkt, 1659. 
Michael A. Bandnuid, 1700. 

Rouvra. 
Dr. Andrew Ducaral, I7B5..d. 

South I^nbelJt. 
Jowphine (of Ftanet.) 1814. d. 

Malmaitim. 
Charlei Alfred Slothud, 1821. 

hilled, Brre Ferrii. 
Sir Humphrey Dary, 1829. 



The Eogliih people alwayi 
look forward to the period when 
by coune of Ian new reprnen- 
tatirea muit be chocen to lup- 
port the commoD intereit ; and 
generally with an expectalion 
that Mine additional spirit, force, 
and mind, will be imparled to the 
SteeU. 



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XXIX. MAY. 



arte. 



The range of omtnokmeDti IhroHn up hj Titui againit the wall oF Je- 
nualem, the work of terenteei] days, U unJemitud and cooiumed or 
buriedinapitof Gie,wiib all the Roman eoginei, B.C. 71. Thuwai 
eflected b; the ikill and conduct of John, the high prieil. 

Piince Henry diipeisea the ei^t Ihouaaod iniargents under Scroop, 
at SUpton Uoor, by Kmog the peraoDS of their leaden, 1405, 

CtiiwiMituiople, the capital of the Greek empre, it taken by the wcond 
Mobomet, and the lun of Chriitianit; since bu cowered there to the 
cieacent of the Turk*, 1453. The beautiful Irene, whoM ftite ii drtimt- 
tiicd by Johmon, wsb one oT the captivei. 

King Cbtrlra addrcsiei bis first caatroversial po-per to Henderwtn, the 
divine, dated NewoMle, 1646. We ahtll extract one paragraph : — 
" Know that from my iobncy I was blest with the King m; father' 
lore, which, I tlunk God, was an invaluable happineu to me all hi 
days ; and amoi^ all hii cues for my education, hii chief was to settle 
me right in religion ; in tbe true knowledge of which he made himHif 
to enuoent to all tbe world, that 1 am nue none can call ia qoettion 
the Mghtotat of hit lame in that particular, without thowiog their own 
^norant base maUce : he it na* who laid in me the graundg of Christi- 
anity which, to thit day, I have been constant in ; to that whether tbe 
wortbinesa of my initructor be considered, or the not lew yean that I 
ha*e been settled in my principles, it ought to be no strange thing, if it 
be found no easy work to make me alter tbem." 

Chaelu II. enters London, 1660. Tbe Turkish emperor is reported 
to have said, that if he were to change his religion, he would only do it 
for that of tbe King of Great Britain's God, who bad done such wonder- 
ful thi^ (or him. Iiaac Walton wrote a congratulatory paitoral ; but 
thit «Miit were arorthy of an epic, had tbe hero beaa so. The Aaniver- 
ta^, lor a genenl " nanklgivbig," was fint observed in 1661, by a 
command of tbe I^idalnre. A itar was said to have appeared upon the 
monarch'! birthdag ;— but " all ii not gold that gliiteis." 



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XXX. HAY. 

idw ihu tke LgiMu «lr. 



Hl|k Iknnik lb* ibr nU. Btiiat Ib> iln, 

Bmr 01 U> plMKUiy need, pamn 

Wid cjrc iBtcnt, ud vuiu Urn with Ui to4o(. 









D.,. 


VMH. 


a«iH 


■II. 


FMer (bt OiMt (af^ Bnaia), 


King Aidmr (^ Brifc*.), 642. 


CiL 


O.8.1«n,Xr«.lii.,JH<«M0. 


MM, CoraKwU. 


30. 


Dr.Wn. BnuA.lTlI.irMww. 








J<nn>,i>fPnsM,l4M.hmM{, 




Why, bt luaki Dp uid down 
like « pMCocki a Ibid, and 


Cwufet. 
Joan of Are, 1481. fcinwd. 




• Mud: niQiiD>la, like as 
boKM. lUt hith DO mthiM- 


Cbariaa IX. (^ Fomm), 1574, 

d. TtUMMt. 

P<«r Paul Raben, 1640. 51; 
JoMi'i, .l«tw>n>. 

ElinboA Ektob. 1T6& &d, 

AJMrada. 
8>»o> Snck, 1764. d. 7H«i>, 

aged 141. 
H. F. A. de Voltun. 1778. d. 




tick bat b«r bniii to Ml down 
her nxkooiag -. bile* hli lip 
wLtli a poUtick n^ird, m who 




thu bead, an 'twould oat; and 
■o them i.; but Ulietai coldly 
in him a. fii* in a aidt. which 
will not ihow wilhont knocking. 










•Ift» iflht Latin Churttt. 






St. PeGx I. (P<^), Martyr, 374. 







St. M^il (i« laliB, Madel- 
IR Ficariy, d. c. 685. 


Plcamm Oat ha* rictac ibr 




St. Waliian. a/* Ba/wr, t» Var- 
fM, d. 1016. 


Kc»d,wlw(eai,w>lb<mtit.-tiia 
deteaUbkoriL I^mm. 




SLFenliDandlll. Kin^o/'Cai- 






liU and Um, d. 1252. 





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Oi Triailf* Vondajic Ln Ihe monu, 

TbU mn bitUylc wu doiHa'd lo bcc i 
Vl^nnnnyc > knltlite ery'd.'WclI-awvel 

AlUkt. U vu ibc ison sMai—Dtalh i^ArOm. 

gttt. 

Thi thirtieth of Shan wu • fnit id memory of Ihe lolemii judgment 
giren by Aleunder IheGieit, infaTDoi of the Jewi agunilthe Iihmiiel- 
itei and Egyptiaiii, B. C. 332. Tbe G«D«nl foaodeil the cl^ of AUi- 
oHfliia in this yeu, viuted the Vtide of Hunmoa, and paned hi* it 
at MemphU. 

Louii, the Freach Daaphin, croaiM the channel with a B«et of hi 
hondrad and Bi|4>'y ■■i'> ■'■'1 landi at Sandwich, by the inntatioii of the 
unprincipled r«M baroni, pamcides of their country, 1216, 

Tbe epocli of the Alphonuoe tables, conttracted by Hatwi, a Jew, by 
the appaintment of Atphonio the Wiae, comnwDciog with the day of bii 
aec«WOD 10 tbe throne of Leon and Ciitile, 1252. Atpboaw wai 
Gnt Caitiliaa Uog who reduced the public law* and the Mcied writingi 
into the popolai tongue. 

Edward I. Tetmning bam Palestine, -ii met at tbe foot of Mount Ce- 
nie, by the Count of Saniy, and receiiettiie congralulatioaa of a body of 
Engliib knigbta and prelates, 1273. 

Charlei VIII. of Fiance, innamed the affable, is inaugurated at 
Rheimi in his 16th year, 1484. He was met at the gates by a young 
damsel, named Hi Ferrtt, habited a> Flora, Or (he queen of May, who 
delivered to him the keys of the city. 

The Spaniih loverdgns grant additional powers to Columbni, 1497. 
The Indians were to wear a mark of bnus or lead coin, about tbeir 
nacki, which waa to lie (not removed but) changtd, on payment of tbeir 
ttibnie-money. The adventurer sailed (ram the port of St. Lucar de 
Bairameda, with a squadron of ui veiseli on his Ihird voyage of disco- 
very upon this day, 1 49B. 

" There was a goodly May-game in Fenchurch 3ti«et," taith Stiype, 
1557, "with drums, and guna, and pikes, with the nine mn'tAia, iriio 
lid, ami each made his speech. There was also a morrii-dance, and au 
elephant and caitle, and the Lord and Lady of du May appeared." 

Christina of Sweden, abdicates ber throne at Upaal, 1654. 

The general Pact is subscribed by the allied powen at Paris, 1814. 



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XXXI. MAY. 

rim, 10 iliimb For(«ltBln« 
I pituinf uilooi bclni « 
hi wim prcclmcU of Um 
r cut m* IodkLdi 1iii{vr1ii 

nv ptout dropa Uw eIoiId^ 
from Uu t«nli ike Tokc c 
■ la Du ubu Un U>(ir ■ 



Iwk bthlnd t 



, Abraham Demolvn, 

tri, in Champagnt, 



Yonr filthy tnimperie*, 
Stord wilh pemicioui lies 

(Not vorth a bubble). 

Would only trouble 
Out euthly Paradise. 
Your filthy tiumperieB. 
Tbii ii dcNgo'd > place 
For every chinning grace ; 

The witty and the (air 

Hither may all repair ; 
For every hnnest fhce 
This ii deiigDed a place. 
lUittaii. 



Obtll b/ tlu Latin Church. 

Si. FetrotMlb, Firkin af Romt, 

lit Century. 
SU. Cautlui and Cantianua, 

Brolhen, and CaDtianitla, 
theirSisler, Martyri in Aqui- 
leU, 304, 



LadislaiuV.(«/Pt>l<iTid), 1434. 
Sir Waltei Mildm^, 15B9. Si. 

Barllmlomtte'i. 
knne(DucheHor York), 1671. 
Chriitopher Davenport, 1680. 
Biihop (SimoD) Patrick, 1707. 

Ely. 
William Baiter, 1723. 
Philip Dnke of WhtnoD, 1791. 

d. Terragimt. 
Frederick William I. (rfPrtu- 
lo), 1740. 



Husbandmen live uprin an 
itale given them by their mo- 
ther ; andothn^. upon an estate 
cheated from (heir brethren. 
They live, like sheep and kine, 
by tbe allowance of nature ; 
others, like wolves and foies, 
by the acquisitions of laf 
And, I hope, I may affirm that 
sheep aod kine are very uiefol, 
and that vTolves and foxes are 
pernicious creMures. — Couley, 



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rclu of powtr dob hoM, 



7Tb Scieei-M^rai. 



aitfl. 



NITT SuNDAV is tiie Bimdij next folltntiag the (eMival of Whitsua- 
lide.— Sm 2itk M*y. The myateiy of the Holy Trinity wasjSnt or- 
dained to be lolcmniied apon iMs particuliiT dfty by Pope Jtrfm XXII. 
a th« year 1334. Id the Greak churcbei, howeter, it is obserred on 
the Monday sAer Pentecost. 

The Anrtfluiria were Alhenian festivals, observed during this month 
in honour of Minerva and Ersa, one of the daughleis of Cecrops. The 
nameii derived from certain myiterioui things which were earned by foui 
■elect Dofale virgins, not under eeven nor above eleven yeara of age. 
They were habited in white apparel, >et off wilb omanients of gold. Upon 
Iba 30th of Ptiancpiiini (October), Iwo of these young ladies, chosen 
for the purpoK, began to weave the peplni, oi garment for Minerva, al the 
room, or bajf-cmrt, appropriated for ^eir use in the Acropolb. 

Heniy VIII. with bis court, crossea the strait to Calais, the laoie day 
that the I^peroi Charles V. sailed from Sandwich, 1620. 

lie two legates, Catdinals Wolsey aikd CampeggiD, open the conrt in 
the Parliament Chamber al BlacklHars, to Uy the legitimacy of King' 
Henry's marriage with Katharine of Arragon, whom they summone 
appear, 1529.— £« 2lM June. The coroDatioD of Anne Boleyn, 1533. 

Dr. Ame't " Opera of Operas" (Fielding's Tern Thnmb, set to mm 
in ibt ItaUait manner), is ptodnced at the Haymarket theatre, 1723. 

The oameof tbe seven PJeiiiil«i, or Vet^lin, ii derived from the Greek 
word plBiR, to sail, becanse that constellaUon shows the period n 
pnjudous for naTigation. The seven G reek poets, called tbe Pleiades, 
are Lycopbron. Theocritus, Aratos, Nicander, ApoUonins, Fhilicus, and 

oems the younger. The gentU knot named the Freiwh Pleiad, i 
Rtnsard, BeUean, Jodelle, Beilay, Thyard, Dorat, and De Baif. 

Apollo was Bunuuned, Itadtr of the Muaea, the niTu monthi of his do- 
minion, deoomiaated from tbe planeti by the antediluvian astronomers. 
The two TemaiaiBg months have always beeu kept tturtd. 

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SUMMER. 

Wkiic WcaUh ud Commncc Uft iheir goUn I 



Thkh caniB the joll; Suwtmtr, being dight 

Id a thin dlken cusock colouicd gTMn, 
That w» anUoed all, 19 ba more light : 

And on his hekd a garland well bneen 
He won, from which as he had chafsd heen 

The sweat did d'lop ; and in his hand ba bore 
A bow and shafb, as he in forest green 

Had haaled late the libbanl and the boar. 
And now wmild bathe his limbs, with labour heated ec 

Upon six plump dandillloDs, higb- 
Rear'd, lies her elvish majesty, 
Whose fleecy-bubbles seem'd to drawn 
Her Mab-ship in obedient down ; 
For either sheet was spread the caul 
That dotb the inraut's Tace enthral, 
When it is born, by tome enstyl'd 
The lucky omen of the child ; 
And next to these, two blankets o'er- 
Cast of Uie finest goasamei. 
Thus soft she lies ; and over-head 
A spinner's drcle is bespread 
With cob-web curtains ; from the roof 
So neatly sank, as thai no proof 
or any tackling can declaiE 
What gives it hanging in the air- 
Hie King's undresi ^ and now, upon 
The gnat's watch-woni, the elves are gone. 
And now the bed and Mab possess'd 
Of this great little kingly giiesl. — HtyitTultt. 



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JUNIUS. 

F/niin' the PTOItetitm of Meicuiy. 



UPiTAKTiiia from fail couch, on deck ba ipnmg, 

Thrica wiib ifarill note tkabouamiii'i wUiUe rang : 

BooKd liam ttftrnt, aloft liie nMon nmm. 

And wilh Ihw Incn lom the wiudlan irm i 

They Ei Ibe ban, awl heava tbe wiudlua rannd ; 

At eTet7 tora tha aUnging pmit letound : 

Up-torn i«luctaiitfiDiB:itaoaa; cava 

The poadanm anchDr ■«■ o'er tha wan. 

High on Iba aUppair.matfa'lke yardi uoeBd, 

And &r akaad'dn a 

Ahiog the gUatj pj 

While ame ntdiasce tnrabl^ oi 

The luBBi raya in ioog reflection ^ean>. 

With ulvcT delagii^ lhG<Smd ibeam. 

Levani, and Thiaciui gftlca alternate play. 

Then in Ih' Egyptian quutei die away. 

A calm eaiuei ; adjacent ihoea they dread. 

The boali, .with rawen mann'd, an lent a-hei 

WithcDidtgefulen'd to the kif^ prow 

Aloof to lea (be Maiftly ehip.tbey tow ; 

Atectu atttndi (Mr tUU I the danger"! o'er : 

The port a ioaiUd, and beheld M more. — Fak 



Moke thought thao woe nu in her duiky hce. 

For »he w*» prophesying of her gloiy j 

And in her iride imaginatian stood 

Palm-ihided temples, and high nval fuel. 

By OiuB or in Ganges' sacred isles. 

Even as Hope npon her anchor leaiiB, 

So lent she, not so fair, upon a task 

Shed fioDi tbe braadeat of her elephanti. — Ana. 



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Whtwaid, moeh naun bj toalh'KMt, btboU 
Wh«i« on tha .£g«ui ibon m ci^ itandi. 
Built nobly, pun Ibe tii, tuid ligbt tbe nil ) 
Atr(m, tbcsjeof Gnaea, motiiCTofuU 
And aloquBoca, nttiTci to (unoai wib 
Or ba>intmblc, ib bra iwect racwt. 
City or inbaibsD, itadioBi walk* and itwk*. 
Thera flowccy luU HymcttBi, wkh tba Miikd 

To itadioiu miuiDg ; tben Ilkiai ralla 
Hii whi)periiig ittvani : irithiD Iha walli Ibi Kbooli ; 
Where thou ibah hear and leam tbe leott power 
Of harmony, in tonea and nnmben hit 

JEolian chuvu, aod Dorian lyric oda 
And hii, wba gart them bFcath, bat higher nag. 
Blind Meleaigenea, ibence Hotner cali'd, 
Whoae poem PintUu cbalkng'd for bii own : 
Tbanee what tbe lofty gian tr^iediaiu tangfat 
In Chorui or Iambic, tcAcben beat 
OfmMal pradenee, with deUgbt receiT'd 
la Mcf aententioQ* prscepU, Fbile they tiMt 
Of fate, and chance, and change in bnman lib. 
High actiom and bigh paaiioot beat dsKiilnng : 
Thence to tlie famoiu oratora repair, 
Thoae antient, whoK reiiatlen eloquence 
Wielded at will that fierce democcatie. 
Shook ^e araenal, and fulmin'd orti Gnece 
To Macedwi and Atlaieriei* throne. — Hilton. 



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Thekb often wanden one, ithom better days 
Suit b«ttei clad, in cloak of satin trimm'd 
With lice, and hat with splendid liband bound. 
A semng-nraid wu ibe, and fell in lovs 
With one who kft her, went to lea and died. 
Her fancjr fbllow'd him Ihroagfa fbuuing waves 
To diitanl ihom ; and abe would sit and weep 
At wb&t a tailor toUen ; hacy too, 
Deluave most where wannest wishes ai«. 
Would oft anticipate his ^ad return, 
And dream oF trensporls she was not to^ know. 
She beard the doleful tidings of his death — 
And uefet amil'd again I and now she ntamii 
Tbe dieaty waste ; then ipendi the liveiong dij. 
And there, unleu when charilj forbids. 
The liveloi^ night. A tattei'd apron hidei. 
Worn ai a cloak, and haidly hides, a gown 
More tatter'd still ; and both but ill conceal 
A bosom heav'd with never-ceasing sighs. 
She begs an idle pin of all >he meets. 
And hoaida them in hei ileere ; but needful food. 
Though preu'd with hunger oft, oi comelier clothes. 
Though pinch'd with cokl, asks never. — Kate is crai'd. 
ThtSafa. 

I KNOW a bank where the wild thyme blows. 
Where ox-lips and tbe nodding violet grows ; 
Quite ovei-canopied with lu«cions woodbine. 
With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine : 
There sleeps Tilania, some time of the night, 
LuH'd in these Boweli with dances and delight. 

Midtumatr'i Dftam. 



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BvapMtt gfdij.lbit cmi'it Ike laUtM Bon 
Wtik Ibj brifht clRlM, pnlH klu Is Ibr ipkcn, 
WUa diy Btwi, UMt nnM hwr arprlM. 
ThH ■<■■, o( tUi (ml world bulk (j* uid mI, 
AckDowMf* Mm thj ptUtr ; Kiaad Ui pnlic 
■■ tkf ctami come, boih vIkd ibM tlinb'i^ 



IBilUl. 



lifrtn), Eari of Norfolk, 

I30O. 
Robot Cod], Eari of Saliibnry, 

1560. 
Nidwlas Poninn, 1694, Andtli/ 

in Hmmajijy. 
StnMrji John llarioe, 1916, 

MUti Btiding. 
Sif John Dngdile, 1628, Sku. 

(Mb. 
Jotui Tiraddill, 1T», lW>;r- 



0tft* of ti< £4iiM Chureh. 
it. Jutin, dw PUIooophcr, 

Horlyr, c 1S7. 
St. Famphilni, of Conss m 

Pofoiiu, Blortyr, 309. 
St. Ctpimii, Abbet in tlie LU i>f 

Ltrint, d. 430. 
St. Wiitu, PHwf ^ Jbma, 

AbMyr, d. 849. 
Sl FeUr of Piu, Hirmit, i. 

1435. 
[St. Nkrawdc, Martyr, lit 

Centncjr. Sh Ei^'ifc CJtmeh 

CoZnufor.] 



ButH 



Engeoiu I. (Pope), 658. 
Henrf Diodolo, 1205. A. &. 

phia, CeiutaitlinopU. 
Chriitoplier Miriowe, 1303. 51. 

Kichelm, Deptford. 
BuDuel Weienfeb, 1740. £ed, 

Bool. 
Robeit le Lorudc, 1743. died, 

Parit. 
Petor Jaieph Deunlt, 1TS6. 
Uuihal Aleundei BeitbW, 

WIS. kiUed, Bambtrg. 



Thou hail moK tnitonoil; 
comptol tbe yoalh offlie icalm, 

crectiDg; a gnmmar-Kh 
■Dd wheicM, before, our fore- 
ftthen Ud no oOMr booki bat 
■core and the tallj, than 
earned priDrini; to be nied. 
Awa; with faim ! be hai a 
miliar under hii tongue ; be 
ipcaki Dot o' God'i name. 

Jack Cade. 



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AiSoiM Hera dwell 1 HcnibBMr, 
Wbon yovog Apglla conrtcd Cor her hi 

Where ebe thould »it Aw nKA to gue a| 



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TbeMonths. This is the moatAonnmuuioribemonlbs, (he mn-iiJtan 
le seasons, and the^nolof tbeyeur. The nith Julian month, Juntui, 
correipondi wilh die fourth moon, Poifni, in th« ancient, and the tenth 
of the modem ^^^tian year ; with the fenlh historical, and the fourth 
sacred moon, Tftanunuj^, of the Hebrevs ; witk the tenth moon, Di.ofthe 
Peruans ; with the tenth moons, Panemui, Archijerivt, and Periliui, of 

te Syro-Macedonians, Paphians,BndBithynian8 ; with the tenth moons, 
Lent, Bona, and Maritri, of the Ethiopians, Copts, and Armenians ; 
with the ninth solar month, Jfotiran, of the Syrians; with the first month, 
Hecatomb^on (commencing ahont the lo^iice), of the Athenian yeai ; 

'le tenth, Lmit, of the Macedonians, and the sixth, Diciiuj, of their solar 
year ; and with the twelfth and concluding months (io which the intercal- 
aUons are made) Duit^iodntft and Zilldgge, of the Arabians and Turks. 
B; the Germans it is called Zomer month ; and the Anglo-Saxons nai 
it Sere mondt (from the dryneii of the atmosphere) ; bnt mote anciently 
Wtyd month, " because their beasts did then wGjd in the meadows, Ibat 
■o taj, go to feed there ; and hereof a meadow is also in the Teutonic 
called a weyd ; and of weyd, we jet retain our word wade, which we un- 
derstand of going through watery places, such as meadows are <ronl to 
' The calendsoi first of June was dedicated by the Romans to Juno 
Jfim^ta (the counsellor), within the temple of the Hint, which was vowed 
by Camillus ; also to Sfari (for now the tagit rises) and Tanpeilat 

a theii several fanes ; the latter was Totive by Marcellus, upon his 
escape from a storm in the Sardinian sea ; and lastly to Cardinea, the 
goddess of the Mingt, a type of ber power in divination and astranomy. 
A cake of beans and barl^, widi slices of bacon, were the established 
meal upon this lady's festival. Cama is one of the titles of the moon. 



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The Romtna dedicated ibU monih to Mtmuy, Ibe tulelu; god of 
nnrchuiti and trsveUcn, and jK«babl; (b« father of naF^aium. 

Ths c^>tQce of JoMpata, ander VeipMao, took place apan the £nt 
daj of Pannmu, m the 13lh ytu of Nero, B. C. 67. The dl; waa de- 
noliBbedi entombing fot^ thonund Jem, the nnmheT of the ilun. 

The lebellion of Jack Cadt, who impndeatl; auamed the neme of 
Moitimec. Thi* iniurgent encemped on Blackheath, at the bead of 
twen^ tbouiaiid tag-iag and boti-lail, the 17th of June, 1450. 

Queen Anne Bolcjn i> crawoed upon Whit Sunday, 1533. 

Sir Thomai More ii tried at the bar of hii own court, 1635. 

The great naral ecgagement belweeu the English and Dutch, which 
continued during four daji, 1666. Eieljn notes, " "Twaa on the mi- 
lenm fait day when the news came ; his Majesty being in the chapel, 
made a ludden stop to hear the relation, which being with much advan- 
tage on oDi nde, he commanded that public thanks should immediately 
be given as for a otetffrjr. But this was no sooner over, than newB came 
that am loss was Teiygieal, both in ships and men; that the Prince fri- 
gate wai burnt, and as noble a vessel of ninety brass guns lost, and the 
tailing of Sir George Ayscue, and exceeding ibattering of both fleets, w 
a* both being obstinate, both parted rithei for want of ammunilian and 
tackle than courage, our geneial [Monk] retreating like, a lion ; which 
exceedingly abated of our former Joy. Thtrt teat, hevievtr, ordtn givin 
for boaJiTa and btlU ; btit God kntnct it uxu rathtr a deliverana tiua a 
IriumpA." Pepys obseryes, " the guns were heajd at Greenwich," and 
iiM"weaertt}iidtftattd." De Witt introduced hi* inreniion of chain- 
shot in this engi^ienient, which he painted with efict at the 'nggtif' 



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In Oisj'i dOattt U the tollowiag entiy, 1675 : " Some lodiea were 
in the galkly, pMjang over the gentlemen's sbouldere. The Speaker 
tpfingthem.caUedont, " Wbalb<noaghdothon ladieiierve fori" To 
which Sit W.Coventry replied, "They serve for the Speaker's chamber." 
Sir Thomas Littlelon tuA, " Periiap* the Speaker may roiitake them lor 
gentlemen nilh fine sleeves, dressed like ladies." Says the Speaker, 
umlunc ptttkoati." Some yean since, Madame de Stael was i 
ticed sitting m habit d'hariimi, in a snrtont and mililary indesciibables, 
listening to ihe debate, under the prolectim.it has been iiat«d, of a dis- 
linguisbed living ornament of the interior. 

A whiriirind at Chyleiton, the capital of South Carolina, 1761. 

Lady Monti^ describes a most magnificent Rtgatta at Venice, 1 740. 
It is a race of boats, accompanied by gilded vessels or nachiaa, called 
Piotas, or Bichones, rowed by gondoUeis. — Sa 2nd /wu. 

llw French carry off all the inhabitants of Turk's Island in die West 
Indies, with nine English vessels, 1764. The number of slaves imported 
to Jamaka in that year was lea thousand two huikdred and twenty-three. 

Lord Howe's famous victory in the Atlantic Ocean, off Ushant, 1794. 

Captain Broke, in the Shannon, engages the American frigate, Chtu- 
pcal«, 1813. " The ships were soon in close contact, when Captain 
Brake, discenung a favourable opportunity, gave Anders for boarding, 
himself selliog the example. The con£ct was bloody, but short : the 
American's decks were cleued in two mianles, her colours were hauled 
down, and the Bntish Bag hoisted over them, and she was led «w> 
triumph in the ugfat of all her friendi, who were expecting her vicloriona 
return." — " How now!" said the Admiral — " isC^ttainBrtAeondiel:?" 

About this time it is midieinieT at Lt Plata in South America. 



Her Ups (Of hDECT bKi h 



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Bfdfn Uu Ktlidi HD to Indiui iniUt, 
1^ rayat f if 1c dnwi Ua Tlgorooi yABngi 
Strong -pwuc'd, ud ardcnl wllh pilmil 

He driro awm (Vom hli Rirt, Hit lowerin 
Pot ■■«, of hb enipln ; «M(1, !■ pun, 
UubIdM ht boU>, wliITt BUy ■ !(■(« I 
Be wlap U> cosiH. ind prejri b dlilut 



NlcbolM le Fcm, 1»4, Pari 



I iuqim not into jmx parti- - 
tular eondocl ; I m 
wkk tba nmlt ; I mnt aot to 
know wfaetfier you mads two or 
Ihne er £600,000 ; keq> what 
;«)i kkTe fpt ( have 70U' made 
menNii people ikh snd 
happy ; ham jmi in«i«««ei: 
Krcc of the conntiy. 
laigad ill meoiw of wealth, and 
irapraved its reveau 
d<HBg you have icflected boDOor 
glory on the cbBracter of 
the British MttiOD. — BuriM. 



Kdlns Jnliin (Emperor), ««■ 

niiBJ. 193. 
St. Nkepbonu (Patriarch). 
- B18. 
lUbert BewiiDODi, Etrl of La- 

CMler, 1118. 
Thomai, Duke of Norfolk, 167S. 
■ ttemttd, Toiwr HiU. 
Jamea DongUs, Earl of HortoD, 

158I.g«i7IatHuit, Edmbur^ 
Sir William Berkeley, kUUd, 

1666. 
Sir Edtnid Leigh, 1671. Butt- 

all. 
M. Dambomney, 179S. Rouen. 



®bit> of tht Latin Church. 

Su. PotUfuu, BiAup, Sanctas, 
Attalui, BlandioB, and llu 
alhtT JUorlirn nf L901H, 177. 

St. Enumnl, or Ermo (esn- 
nonig Ebno), Buknjr . ami 
Martgrat Fonnic, 303. 

Sts. Matcelliaui and Peter, 
MoTtyn, 304. 

Let imedoom't-di)'; nil]', laki 



The power o! forgining flowi 
lOm a strength of soul cou 
if its own force, whence itdnkwa 
I certain safety which its enemy 

D interrupt ; for 'tis peculiar in 



have aonw hope. — E^gram, 



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arts^ 

Heiewasp, Ltnd of Bom, desttoft the town and sbbe; of Petetbo- 
rough, 1070, 

Loiiu the DsDphin receives the homage of hia Engliih lubjecti, the 
(^tizen» and baroDB, in the cathedral of St Paul, I2IS. 

The eipouEala of Catherine the Fair (belter knowD ai sweet Kaaf), 
of France, with Uany V. are celebrated ia die cathedral of Tmyit, Tri- 
citf Sunday, at noon, 1420. Upon the fifth da;, he opened the li^e of 

b; " the whichetonn u worthily beseged; for ther 1; at that a 
two kyngi — queeoea, IV dacka, with my loord of Bedford, nhaiiae be 
Cometh bedir." 

The gieat Napier addresies hia letter to AnlhoDy (hrolher to I^ord) 
Bacqn, entitled " Secret iureaticmB necewaiy for defending the ialaod 
linal gtniDgers, the enemies of Cod'i truth and Feligian," 1696. The 
Qciple of hia everlaating LogoritAnic Csrob had been then atablitlud 
for about two yean. 

rince Henry, tlw hope of the nation, U bvested with the ordc 
the Gaiter, 1603. 

Charlea I. granta to Jamea Hay, Eail of Culiale, by letten patent, 
all the Caribbean Itlaoda, inclndiiig Barbadoea, 1627. 

General Monk defeats the Datch, under Van Tromp, off the North 
Foreland, 1653. Ia this engagement, which coniiniied for two days, 
twen^ ^ips were token and destroyed. 

King Charles I. issues a lemonstrance 1637, to the mayw and alder- 
men of the city of ICinctatsr; "TniB^tuidwell-beloved, we greet you 
veil. Whereas we are given to anderatand by our well-betoved chap- 
lain. Doctor Yonng, Dean of Wincheiler, that he hath lately given yoa 
notice of an order which, with the advice of the lords of oar [nivy in 
.1, we have settled for the regulating of our cathednl cburch at Windws- 
t, in some pardculars which were in diArenoe between that chi 
and the mayor and corporation of our city there, iwnely, that our mayor 
there should not beu up his maces in the quire of that oar church. 



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H< pnuh-d Ihi )sti m Uawtm, ud palBi sT ScU, 




I'MBinroHjou, UwHijmafWinchMUr, utdotbcnby jFinuciam- 
]^, Imm erer noca fcrbom* In coma to out othadiml church then. 
We bam ibtnfon thought fit, br the pieaen&tioa of the lolemmtj of 
M Hrvice in lo tncicDt uid cmiiMml • cbnrcb, and likewise tm your 
own good, to will ud reqniic you lod jam company to freqaent that 
htHj plica duly from time to time, npon Sundayi and Holidayi, with til 
nmcnce, and that yon be then at the beginning of dirine lervice ; 
tlaX at your going in and coming out, and whilit yon are then, yon 
cany yonraelvea ai it baconwtb yon, io all obedieiKO and conlbnni^ 
the canoni of ttta ehnrch, and to the commendable cuilomi of that 
i other our calbedrab ; and herein yon an not to tail, we haiing 
commanded the diocesan and <le«a of that place to take eipedal care 
lee dia performed i and to girt an account Irom time to tiaie 
of yoai deoManonn benin. Tina we bold moat fit lo be abaerved for 
prerention of diioider and difftnneea between die chuich and the d^ ; 
'n Ae good of both which, seong we kaTe w gittt u inlereit, it ihall 
be onr ipeeial can that the diitinet libertiea and pticilegei granted by 
inr royal progeniton to tfaeae wvaral bodiei, be innolably kept for all 
itMi lo cone, and that every one in hii own place be reipecled and 
obeyed acconlii^ly. And thmfan wt do htrtbii trier, Ihatfivni imet' 
/irrth tlun ihall not bt hanu befan Iht mayn- if that our citg any mata 
ttatl,mlhi» tic foire of our Mid cathedral church at Wiocbeiter; nd< 
dwT ibtll he make any nae of theie cniigni of authority in any part of 
the cathedral church or Ubertiei thereof, hit upon eouriay asJ pmaiwiwi 
txprmly gniUd by the dean and chapter." 

Timou mi wcU-dbpoHd paioa, Uki ■ fsod bMiI, Uw nan IM b iced, 
man Iw It anvd ; IW mon h* b oppoed, the non he Ij anmncd ; wrovca 
H7 wtll UT Ubi asd IMck Urn, tail eaauM Inprtal li him u 



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Fir to Uk rlltal, yim Appcnnlna aicn 

la npluidj ikipin^ deck tbe moanulii'a i 
WDOdi over wmdi in gay Iktilrtc pride 
While oft Mune lemple'i mouldering lopi 
' With memonble cmdear rauh the leeE 

acts. 



The day of St Elmo, invocated by the marinfl-i to tbe Mediterranean. 
In 1669 tbe n>ind had been Dorlherly at London for neatly six monthi. 

Rob Hay Macgiegor (wi well ramembered) surrenders to the Duke of 
Athol, but afterwards etcapes into tbe Highlands of Scotland, ITIT. 

The Regatta at Venice, 1740 : '• The Signor* Piaani Modnego's 
piote repreaenled the chariot of the Night, drawn by four sea-horse*, and 
shomng the rising of the idddq, accompanied with bUui ; the statues on 
each side repieseotiag Ihe hours, to the number of iwenty-fout. rowed by 
gondoliera in rich liveries, which were changed three dii^es, all of equal 
richness, and the decorations changed aiso to the dawn of Aurora and the 
mid-day sun, the statues being new dressed every time, the first in green, 
the second lime ia red. and the last blue, all equally laced with silver, 
e being t]u«e races. Signer Contanoi's piote showed the liberal arts : 
Apollo wax seated on the stern upon mount Famassua, Pegasus behind, 
and the Muses seated round him ; opposite was a figure representing 
iitiag, with Fame blowing her trumpet ; and on each »de Sculpture 
and Music in their proper dresses. Sigoor Paul Doria had the chariot 
of Diana, who appeared hunting in a large wood; the trees, hounds, 
stag, and ajuipbs, all done naturally : the gondoliers dressed lilfe pea- 
sants attendiog the chace ; and Endymioti. lying under a large tree, 
gaaing on the goddess." 

The sii founders of the Academy of Sciences at Stockholm (one of 
whom was Lintwiu) first assemble, 1739, This institution was incorpo- 
rated under the name of The Hjryai Sandiili Academg, on the 3l>t of 
March. 1741, 

The City of Grand Cairo is nearly destroyed by an earthquake, 
40,000 of its inhabitants are buried in tbe ruins, 1754. 

The riots under Lord George Gordon, in St. Good's Fields, 1780. — 
Two Catholic chapels and Ihe prison of NiKgatt were destroyed. 

Tihei in the aniierK, dot endi In nuD.— £iiciiii ini Cain. 



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Dr. Ttio. Smith, 1638, LmuIor. 

' T>t.J.0nfp>Tj,\7iA,AlitniMti. 

Dr. Junea Hutton, 1736, £din- 

bnrgh. 
RobertTtniMliill, mi.Pauttj/. 

Sir EJmrd Coke wai went lo 
*fj, whta a great man cMne to 
dinner, and gave him do know- 
ledge at fail coming ; Sir, rinci 
ynu <ni( me no ward of ymtr 
coming, ^du nuM dint uith n 
buHf I had taunm of it in d 
lint, I would havt dinid wi 
Apophtlwgnii. 



Ih} Iraln ■Fpaar.— Mitg J^ur^ 



St. Bimbiai, 342. d. JMoAm 

in Pmia. 
Biibop (Jobu) Aylmer, 1694. 

d. futtoB. (St. P»ul'».) 
William Harvey, 1657. Htmp- 

ittad in Eua. 
Admitil Opdtm, blam up, 

1665. 
Dr. Edmand Ctlunj, 1732. 
Jsthro Tail, 1740. Birlahirt. 
PmI Egede, 17Bfl,d.Gr«niii»ii. 
William Hamilton Reid, 1826. 



m&t if Iht LoCin Chumh. 
8l. Ceciliui, of Africa, 211, 
St ClatildU(ar Clotilda), Qunn 

ef France, d. 645. 
St. Lirard, Abbot near OrUant, 

d. eth Century. 
St. Coemgen (or Keiven), lit 

Abbot, and Palriw of Gltnda- 

loeh, d. 618. 
St. Geneiini (or Oenei), Biihop 

if CUrmmt, c. 662. 

Hypoeriij li ihc bomtft ibai vi« pi 



Upon that, he took heart and 
went to Hearen, and knocked ; 
}|. Peter aiked wfao wai 
there 1 He lud 5iitiu Pqv [v.] 
Wberennlo Si. Pitir uid ; whj 
do jrOD kDockl you ht,n 
keyi. SiiiiM uuwerad; i 
true, but ill* M longiineetb^ 
given, u I donbi the wardi 
of the lock be atteicd. 

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Th:s day was dedicated by the Ramant to BtUntia, tbe goddess of war. 

The capture or Aniiaeh, on tbe Orootes, the captlal of Syria, by the 

fint cnisadera, 1098. This famous sic^«nnin<Rcnflhe3Ut of October, 

The sword of Godfrey divided a Turk, says aa tye-vitnai, t 

thesbooldertolbehauncb ; aadone-hairof theiofidel felltotbegrouad, 

while the other was earned by bis horse to the city gaiea '. 

Mahomet II. nts down before Btlgrade, on the Danube, 145& 

The marriage of Heoiy VIII. with Kalbarine is solenmized 1809 

The Cadiz expedition, under Nottingham and lhe^«ry and gallant 

Earl of Essex, sails from Plymouth 1&96.—Ste Sin Junt, 

Sir Amias Paulel, the kaper of Mary, reports 1686 ; " The Scottish 
Queen is getting a little strength, and has been out in tier coach ; and is 
sometimes tarried in a chair (i> ont af the luJrotniRg pnuli, to ms the iti- 
eenioB i^ duck-hunting, but lAc ii not able Ui vmik wilAout ivfpir. 
tkhiT tide."' — AJoi ! it w« nailing down the rincyard. 

King James visits the Liom' Uneer, 1605. Afler being farced from 
thwr den with burning links ; " then was there two racks of mi 

o them, which they did jnesenlly eat : then was there a lusty 
liie cotk cast unlo them, which they preseutiy killed, and sucked his 
blood. After that the king caused a live lamb to he easily let down unto 
n by a rope, and being come to the ground, the lamb lay upon his 
knees, and both the lions stood in their former pUcea, and only beheld 
the lamb ; but presently the lamb, rose up and went unto the lions, mho 
Vtry gtntly laiked upon him and latlUd on Aim, withmit lign of an^ fur- 
ther Aurt." This was an amusement of the British Sclomim and his court. 
The Earl of Sandwich defeats the Dutch fleet, off Horuici, 1665. 
' King Charlei wrote a letter of thanks to the commander upon this f 
and happ^ vietcry : '• I will say no more myself till I see you, that 1 may 
lake you in my aims, and give you other testimonies how truly I a 
your aflectionale Irieod." 

The tranut of the planet Vemit, over the sun's disk, observed by Dr. 
Homiby, Lalande, and others, and at OtoAcitE, by Mr. Green, who sailed 
Tot that purpose under Captab Cook. 

The city of Fort-au-Frince, in Si. Domii^, is destroyed by an earth- 
ijuake, 1770. Mara's last vocal performance in England, 1802. 

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CsBlki'il, ■nmmbti'd nmlllmln an fcaml, 
Who pua, rtpH, iiItibcc, ud |lMe awaj ; 
HoM mii'd by ftar, iDd ptoanionu of ■ dij, 
TV «Tl>I rsBoan (UlWd a Ikcj rtU'd, 



Emumel Alvarez, 1026, liiand 

of MaJtira. 

met Mflne, 1737, Suttit 

Sanu. 
Georgein.(»/Tnetand),I738, 

N. S. JV^D» Hmue, Si. 

JohD ScoU, EttI of EldoD. 1751 , 

KtweailU.'i 

4B/bii»rftht Latin Church. 
t. Quirinnt, Biahi/p in Pan- 
noniu. Martyr, 303. 
St. Optalus, Bithop in A'tHnidia, 

(after) 384. 

St, Nenooc (or Nennoca), fir. 

gino/GrMlBrilain.d.467. 

, Breaett(orBreBguc),ri>giii, 

d. Camuatl, Sth Century. 

St. Petroc (or Peireuse), Ahboi 

rf Padsloat and of Bvdmiii, 

C. 564. 

St. Burian, on Jriih Wainan, 

(before) 10th Century. 
Si, Waller, of England, Ubet. 

1150. 
SL Walter, Abbot in Anamc 
13th CeDluiy. 



ice (0/ Frasct), 1306, died, 
Parii. 
Aliarea de Luna, 14S3. hthtaJ, 
VallaiU^id. 
avlui BloDdui, 1463. died. 

Sir John Aidea, 15S6. 

JobD Fiyth 1533. hinud,£nilA- 

M. A. Muretas, 1585. died, 

Purii. 
Arehtrishop (William) Junm, 

1663. St, John'i, Oiftrd. 
Sir John Lawion, kUltd, 1G6&. 
FraDcis le Minne, 1737. 
Aleiis Normant, 1745, 

XVII. (»/ Frcnce), pci- 
d, 1795. 
Sir Francis Bulter, 1800. 
FraDcis Xavier Talbert, 1804. 

Mtishal Louii Davousl, 1833. 



Celerity vrith politick nwi 
like the motioD of a bullet in 
air, which flieth go swift a 
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IV. JUNE. 

Pnxetd In Ihj Eirat work ; brin( (linh Ihy knlihl 
Pretetvtd fllr hli U^IE^ lluil by Ihf Ini|ht 

Hhmc nln'i] mu of ilrloe, lud inlld man. 

BeycHid the pillu, and Hirchei of tiK in. 

Let him umpt lit; ud when ■ vartd Li •tm, 

Submit it dol]' to Ibig uile, idd Ibnuc, 

Tiil tiUF, ud Dlmoil ■)■> nuke Uul lii> oWB^'-ysiuM. 



A TEHFLE was dedicaled by Sjlla to Htrcula.—Sif 30th June. 

DioDyuns atteals, that iu bis lime (the Augustan age), the twealy- 
thiid da; of the Greek month, ThaTgetim (Apiil), fell icventeeii days 
befijie the SumiiKt solstice ; and he computes thirty seven days fn 

.t pOTUt to the end of the Attic year ; therefore the fourth day 
H«catombeon wouM Ihea occur on the 224 day afltr the tropic. 

Hear/ VIII. crealea the Bishopric of Brlitol, in the place of the n 
nastery, 1M2. The muiticipium was the neit year proclaimed a city. 

Prince Henry receives the dignity of Prince of Walei, in his siiteenlh 
year, 1610. Ben Jonson produced his Maiijue cf Obtron, and the Bar' 
i, on the two succeeding days, to celebrate the event, Itwas at these 
Bairiers that Carr, then a page to Lord Hay, broke his leg, which laid 
the foundation of bis eitrai»dinary fortune. The Prince at tilt adopted 
the style of Maliadti, Prince of the Isles, which in anagram expressed 
his mot and character, Mifci u Dm.— See Drummond's " Tean." 

Charles I. is seized by Joyce, at tfaJn^, near Northampton, and 
conveyed first to Newmarket, and afterwards {the 34th of August) to 
Hampton Court, from which place he escaped in the night, lllh of No- 
ber, and, two days later, found himself in a closer custody within the 
walls of Cambrook Castle, in the Isle of Wight, 1647.-S« 30tk Jm 

The dly of Glasgow is declared by charter a royal borough, with 
power to elect its own magistrates, iodepeodenl of the diocesan, 1690. 

The youDg Ntiua sails with Captain Phipps from the Noie, in a voy- 
age to the North Pole, 1773. His adventure with the btar, "that he 
[night cany the skin to his father," is one of those unimjiiirlanf, but de- 
lightful traits in the life of a great man which is always sure to be pre- 
served, as straws in amber — sunny petals diied in the folio of memory. 

Trinity Thunday. "CoiposChristi," the Catholic Eurfariiiic festival. 

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Nod. 


Jooph do Toanwfotl. 1656, 


Lamo«l, Count l:Bmont. 1668. 


S. 


Ah in Proiimo!. 






Dr. Adim Smith. 1723, KWk- 






cUs, 








Mif. 




Th. Mthoriqr of > /»(*«■, u> 


\icbalai Tooley, 1633. Imried, 




Mefta to om <dl beioK. and u 


St. Gila', CrippUgatt. 




juitl; TOtienbli upoD ftU u- 


John Henry Hottinger, 1667. 




counb, hinden ui fram having 


dnwW, (riwr) !«««*. 




thit entin lore fat him th&t we 


Thomai Baker, 1690. Bulu-p', 




hara (or our mothtn, where 


Nym^. 




the pUemal ■nthoritj' is almott 


Roger CotU, 1718. Trinity 




melted down into the mothu't 






fondiuM and indulgeoce. 






Burkt. 


Cherle. Vlner, 1766. 






DaTid Homy. 1792. 

John Paiuello, 1B16, Napta. 




«ttoof.*.L.(mC*.rei. 


Oeorge Stephen Kemble, IB32. 




St. Dorothea. HuAoj. of r^r*. 


Carl MaiU Von Weber, 1826. 




Af. 4lh CentUT- 


Moorfield. Choftt. 




St. Dorotheui, of Thebei, Ah- 


Hany 8to« Van-Dyfc, 1923. 




bct, 4th Centui?. 






St. IlBdiH., BUiop of Ci™«.t, 






d. ;. 386. 






St. Bonifice, of England. Ar<A. 


King J«»e. I. u«d to «y 




fti^ Bf ««nlt. Apoille of 


of/atwry, "Nay,bymy«)nl. 




Germany, Martyr, 7M. (5m 


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ncta. 

Tat BcBOtiiiu, upon (he fifth of their moDtb, Hippcdromiiu (Hecatom- 
beon), &di>eved tiro lignat victoriei. both of which rettored liberty to 
Greece ; Ihe one at Ltueira, under Epamiuoudat, tneot; dajs after the 
Sputin CDDgnu, caireiponding with the eighth of July, the year ii 
which be (bnoded Megah)polis, B. G. 371 : _the other at Cirmui, abou 
B. C. 5OT, when they defeated the Theisalians led by Lattamyaa. 

The earliest eclipse of the tan mentiooed in the Roman Annalt 
UoitDti as hanng been obierred, fell, according to Cicero, on the none 
if June, about the year fi. C. 350 : the earlier eclipiet weie computed 
backward from it, unto that when Bomolus was carried np to heaven. 

Heniy IV. iuuei from Weitminiler a proclamation to dispel the ni' 
nxmn of Richard II. havii^ apjuared in Scotland — staling (hat he was 
recently dead and buried, A. D. 1403. 

The eleven Judges address a memorial to the ministers of Queen Eli- 
zabeth. compUining of the arbitrary imprisonment and detention of cer- 
tain individuals, contrary to the tatci <fthe rtain, 1591. 

The Ei^lish merchants trading to the Levant, surrender thdr patent 
to King James, who exonerates them from the annual penuon of £4000 
cootribDlEd by them for this commercial monopoly, 1603. 

The marnage of Shakspeaie's daughter, StaanmiJi, with Drj John 
Hall, a celebrated physician, 16DT. The qualities of this female were 
wit aftoH her ux, uDiversa] chanty, and a strong religious feeling. 

The attack of Nac How by the Irish rebels, who are repulsed, 1798. 

The old law of wager of battle, in which personal combat was allowed, 
is abolished 1819. An eitecmioatiag plague at Tunis, same year. 

Tbihitt Friday. Tradition states, that tiie beautiful Godiva, of 
Coventry, wife of Leofric, Earl of Chester, in Ihe lime of Edward the 
Confessor, procured upon this day from her lord a restitution of privi- 
t for the citizens, by a nnde eihibitioa, which is so well known U 
have excited tbe curiosity of a child of (he needle, called t^ Petper. 



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VI. JUNE. 

I'l htaiiii lale ihatl bil <UU]' vlth UtH, 






D«S. 


SirtH. 


Beam. 


vni. 


PetCT Conieille. 1606, R™™. 


Heui; I. (of CaitiW). 1317. 


Id. 
«. 


John BaptUt Languet, 1679, 


d, PJawnlia. 


Dj,-™. 


Lodmia, Oim-anni Ario«l0.1663, 




Dr. Nalhaniel Lafdner, 1684. 


(O.S.)F«Ta™. 




ffoirWiurrt. 


WUKam Hunnia.1597. d. Wat- 




JoMpli(ofPortugaO. 1714. 


Anthony Ascham, 1680. «*a- 
nnolxl. Spain. 




An author ii UuU to be va- 


Charlci de Schomberg, 1656. 




Ined, who telli D> notbiiig but 


d. Pari.. 




wbat we can leam from «veij 


Xouise, Ducheu de la Valliere, 




CDfiee-houM coaverealion. 


1710. 




H»mt. 


Samnel Dale. 1739. d. Becking. 






George, Lord AnsoD. 1762. d. 




«nitf of tht L«ti« Church. 


Mccr Park. 




St. PbUip the Deacon, a/ C*- 


Grochowski. 1791. kUled. Sgf 




nno in Pfl(«ti«, (after) 58. 
St. GuiwtU, BUhop of St. Ma- 


Patrick Henrj, 1799. rtrgiMa. 




la:, d. c 600. 






St. CUude. ATchbuhop^BeaT,. 






pn, and Patron of the Dio- 


Where the riches are in few 




ceu of St. Claude, i. c. 700. 


handt, Ibeu must enjoy all the 






power, and will readily con- 




rfrf-ufX. founder of the order 


spire to lay the whole burthen 




of White Canons, d. 1134. 


on the poor, and oppieaa them 




St.Coca(orCogn), Virgin, Po- 






inmas ^tki Church BfKU. 
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am. 

The ANNivBKsABy of the birth of Alexjihder the Gnat, do th« aiith 
Aaj of Iau (^Htcatombiron), during ibe Olympic gam«*, ilt Ibe finl 
year of the 106th Olympiad, U Pelta, B. C. 366._&e 6th April. ThU 
joyful dtlivtraact wu nodGed to Philip a.t the falling of PoCidna ; niid 
two other mesiengen reached his camp oa the same day, aanaancing 
that his race-hone had gained the priie at the games, and that Paimenio 
hii captain had defeated the lUyriani. It wai in Ibe nigjit of this very 
day that Ibe celebrated temple of Diana (who wha then watching the 
liboun of Olympiat) wai buint to the ground by Eratoatntui, 
Bpbeaiaii youth &M fondly panted for an iniamouB reputation. 

The goddeia Veata's nine-dayK' holiday began. Upon thii day h«r 
temple wai annually swept and tiioroughly purified. — Sa 9lb Juai, 

King John lands in Irehmd and leeeivea the homage of twenty natira 
princes, 1210. HerBturned to England on the 30th of August following. 

Isabella, the Queen of Castile, addresses a letter of greeting and fritttd- 
thip to Ihe usurper Richard 111. by the hands of her c 
Bachelor of Sasiola, — signed " Fa la Reyiu," 1483. 

The caranatian of Louis XIV. of France, 1654. HemieU*, the 
vidinmi Qneen c^ Charles, and her son James Duleof Yorkwi 
at the ceremony. 

Dr. Fitcairne publishes atLeyden his dissertation on the mrculatianor 
the blood throu^ Ihe tinni, 1693. 

George II, defeats the French under Maishal Noulles at Dtltiagea, 
1743i The capture of Cape Breton by the British troops, 1T4S. 

A conspiracy of the Turldih ilniwi at Malta to eitermioftte the order, 
1740. 

A tntDiit of Ibe planet Fcniu described by Canton, and Cnssini de 
ThOty. 1761. 

The ashee of Jriotto are nmored into the libiw^ of Ferrara with a 
splendid {Mirade, 1)101. 

The Emperor Aleiander and Frederick of Prussia land at Dorer, 1G14. 



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JoLn Beanu, 1761, Frtttm 
Kirk. 

Robert JenkiiuoD, Eul of Liver- 
pool, 1770. 

TIm day will eon*, when the 
eirlk lad the beaTnu ihell be 
chingcd ; Mid mcB ihall am* 
forth ftnm Ami pit* to ^^mi 
before Iheoaly, the might]' God. 
And tboa aball «M the wicked 
bonnd to|{vllwr in /ittcn, and 
fin riiall cover their hat* ; for 
Ood ii ticifi in tikiiig en ic- 
Connt. Koran, 

4Sk(tl of the Latin CRurdi. 
Si. Paul, Bithip if Cmilanti- 

>H7>J<, if. c. 3G0. 
St. Colnan, BiAop tf Qramon, 

d. c. 010. 



Prinea 0/° IA< 
[4'(iMn>Faiufalt,udbilCom- 
pftDioDl, Marlifrt, 1066. 

St. Robert, AJUbM is Afortfcum- 
bcrfoiuf.d. 1160. 

St. MeritdtCf Biihop 0^ Vmam, 
130a. 



Mtrcn> Opiliui MacriDui(Eiii- 

ptrsr), A.D. 218. btheadid, 

Cajrpadacia. 
Si. CoInmb«, fi9T. d. Irtland. 
M»liomet, 633. ditd (and bu- 
ried), Mtdina. 
St. WillibkU, 790. A. Aiciatadt. 
Robert Bmc«, {if Stmlmd), 

1329. died, Cardnm CaitU. 

(DanfermliDe.) 
Arcfabiehop (John) de Uflbrd, 

1349. 
Adhc {ijf England), 1394. d. 

Aichnuituj. 
Anne of St. Bartholomew'!, 

1636. Antwrrp. 
Diibop (John) S^, 1711. d. 

EdmbuTgh. 
Henr; Dodnrell, I7I1. ShclUt' 

braolie. 
Williatn Aikman, 1731. died, 

Ltietttir Fields. 
Anthony Polniinel, 1769. 

drowned, Cvadalqviver, 
Bidiop (WilVam) Warbnrton, 

1779. Gloucetter. 
Dmo WilliuD Di^ei BUplej, 

1S26. d. Boddryddan. 



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The FillMTiiieD'i leitiTRl was kept >t Rome ia th« Cimpui Tiberiau, 

The fkinoiu iDleivisw of eigbtean dayi, betweea' Henr; VUI. aiiil 
FriDcii I. wiAin tba EogKih pale, beMeen Gbimei and Anlm, upon 
Lt Champ dt Drapd'Or, 1S30. " After tlie loiiniaiaeal," obieivo the 
Hareacb*! d« Fleunngei, wbo wu preaeiit, " the French ind Gngliah 
wratlert made Ibeii appeaiance, and wrestled in pretence of the kiop, 
and the ladie* ; and ai there were muiy stout wrestlers there, it afforded 
eicellent pastime : but as ibe King of France had neglected to bring any 
wiestlera out of Bretagne, the English gained the prize. — Alter this, the 
Kings of France and England retired to I tent, where they drank toge- 
ther, (nd the King of England, seising the King of France by die collar, 
, ' Mg brathtr, I mull urtttk uilA you,' and endeavoured once or 
t lo trip up his heels ; bu) the King of France, who ii a deileron* 
wrestler, twisted him round, and threw him on the earth with prodigiona 
'ioleace. The King of England wanted to renew the combat, but wai 
pterented." At this meeting, the English wer« said to have cattied 
their tMiiori, Ihe French their /urMti, upon their hacks. 

The penal Statute oF the Six Articles passes the two botuet and tbft 
Rojal auenl, 1539. 

The Royal Exchange is fodnded by Sir Tbomu Gmham, on tbe 
model of, and as a substitute for, Ibe Hut at Antnorp, then tba centre 
of commerce, 1566. His aitt was a ' giusbopper.' 

Captain John Davii sails from Daitouratfa, to diioner ■ narth-wesl 
passage to the Eastern Indies. He returnedontbeSdof September, 1585. 

An order of cooncil, 1660, that the Stattoneit' Company da teine and 
deliver to the Secr«lafy of State, all copies of Buchanan's " History of 
Scotland," and dt Jute rigni spud Stain, " which are very pernicious 
to monarchy and injarious to hit majea^'i blessed progenitors." 

A dnadfal earthquake in Jamaica, at noon, 1692. — The battle of 
Bunlcsr'i'^iJI, in North America, 1776. — A mall manusciipt volume 
of prayers, composed and writtaa by Queea Eluabeth, wa* sold by auc- 
tion for one hundred gnineas, upon this day, 1786, 

; unM otlhe worUIr muin, ttiat (ben !• K«>ltiB«a |i>od In nil; tor pro- 



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. hMit I clothed 
nd (o Uw houchok 



SUoalu ^IpU toa^, 1 



f-l Wrt^^ 

John Dominic Cauiai, 1635, 

PMmmt. 
Count Aleundei CigliotUo, 

1743, PaUrm,. 
Tbomu Dunham WhiuJw, 

1768, Rainlmm. 

There nay be mme circum- 
(tancet, wlieie Ihs commerce 
anil ricbn and luiuiy of indivi- 
dnalt, ioMead of adding itiengih 
to (be pDblic, will lent only 
diminiih ili tutborilf among the 
neighbouring nstioni. — Hunt. 

9U1* tflh/ Latin Church. 
St. HaiimiDua, IM Archbiilup 

a/* Aix in Pmtmuw, lit Cenl. 
Si. OiUaid (ocOodard), Biih>p 

of Houcn, SUi Centuiy. 
St. Medard, Biibip bJ JVoym, 

64B. 
Bt. Syra, Tir^B of rretond, 7lh 

St-Clon (orC1odnlphn«),Bjijbi7> 

0/Hrii. d. SS6. 
St. William, ^reUuAjpDffoHi, 

d. 1164. 



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ClaudiiH Dinttiui Nero, A. D. 

68. RoiM, 
HaidccanuU (o^ England). 1 042. 

d. JmA^K (Wincbealer.) 
Thibaultl, (ofSaxtm). 1S33. 
Loui. X. (^Fraw), 1311 

VitKttmn. 
Edward, t>a Tiloxk Princt (of 

Wal«), 1376. died, Wat 

atRiUr. (CanterbuTy.) 
Archbiibop Scroop, bAtoAtA, 

140&. York. 
Sir Thmnai Randolph, 1 

J. BeiUut, 1611. JVmnBnd 
Sir H. Siingtby, tihcadid, 1658. 
John Durell, 16B3. Wmdtar. 
Henry Arnauld, lfi93.d. ^nfen. 
C. Huygeni, 169S. d. Hagut. 
FiinccH Sophia {efBiwrncick), 

17U.d. //am-KT. 
EdithaPope. 1733. Tmi£\aAam. 
Kouli KhaD, nMtitrti, 1747. 
W. FtUleney , EorlofBath.l 764. 
AbU John Winckclmann, 1768, 

inatad, Tr'aatt. 

CodfredAuguttuaBiirgei, 1794. 

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The GjDopndis, a SpaTtax ftttivat, in which nakid children lang the 
praisei of Apollo, and of the ihies hundred LacedKmoniaui who glori- 
ouslj fell al ThermopylBS, wai celebrated on the seventh or eighth day 
of Htcatomhatm. The black and diiaatrous news at Leuctra reached 
Sparta od the last day of the games. — The day of the goddess M«u. 

The death of Nero by his own Aand, in the thirty-second year of his age, 
and the rourteenlh of his dominion, A. D. 6B. " Everybody about him 
now prassiog him to save himself from the iadignitiei which weie ready 
to befall him, heoidered a grave to be loade before hii eyes, suitable to 
the liie of his body, and the bottom covered with pieces of marble put 
together, if any could be found about the farm-house, and water and 
wood likewise to be provided for his funeral ; weefring at every thing that 
was done, and fi«quently saying, ' What oii iirtTit it now to pertib /' — 
He died with hii eyes standing out of his head, to the terror of all that 
beheld him." This lump of abomination was succeeded by Galba, and 
■bortly after by Olbo, neither of them a model (or men in any station, 
and liw itafftd portrait of Nero, al full length, would even disgrace an 
eihibilor'i show. The moiuler destroyed Ociavia upon this day. 

The elocution of Archbishop Scroop, for insurrectian, 1 40S ; — 
" Henry IV. coinnuadaJ the Chief Justice Gatcoigm (memorable on 
another and mora interesting occaHon) to pronounce upon him the sen- 
tence of death : but that inflexible judge refused, on the plea that the 
laws gave him no jurisdiction over the life of the prelate ; and that As 
had a r^t< Id bt tried bji hii pten." 

Martin Frobtsber under the protectjon of the Earl of Warwick sails 
from DeptTord with three ships, upon a north-wealem paiaage : " We 
bore down by the court, wbera we shot off ao ordnance, and made the 
best show we coaU. Her Majesty beholding the same, commended it, 
and bade us brewell, tcith ihalaiig htr hatid at ui nut of the windoa .'" He 
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Prokaporiich Theo^uiea , 1 68 1 , 

Kief, m 1A( Dnitpn-. 
CAnuIicr Andrew Michael Run- 

187, 1^6, .1^. 
Fnuici*Blickbunw, 1705,RM- 

GcorgiaDt, Dncheu of Dcvdd- 
ihire, 1767. 



<HHl rf III* Latin Ckardt. 

3U. PrioDf u>d Feliciuuu, 

BnrUfli (D^ Martyn at Nt- 

mntum, 286. 
St Vincent, Martyr al Agtn in 

Caul, Znd or 3rd CenUiy. 
St. Pelagia, rn^iii, JHartyr at 

JnCtiKh, 311. 
Si. Coluinba <dt Colmukille, 
uni'nJtf pntumnaii Colme), 

fff Inland, Apottk of the 

PicU, 6S7. 
St. Bkclurd, of England, fiiiAifi 

ef Andria in .Ipuiia, c. Tib 



Leo VI. UicWiK < EMfMr<ir)9l 1 . 
Otto, Dak« orBniiwwict, 1353. 
William, Lord Paget, 1 

Secretary Sir WiUiam Miitland, 

1573. d. Edinburgh. 
Thamai BadclyA, Earl 

SiUKi, 1583. Bermembeg. 

(Boreham.) 
JcMcpb Anchieta, 1597. flrnil. 
Marine d'Ekoibar, 1838. 
'Heniy Bncb, 1866. d. Pnrit. 
William Lillj, 1681. Wallim. 
Anloine Variltai, 1698. 
Walter BIo<rte,1 721 .d.CsnmH. 
Benfdiei Ptctct, 1 724 . d.Gnuni. 
Daniel de Superville, 1738. d. 

Itottrrdam. 
Nicbolaa Tnri (_Datrf), 1764. 

d. Fnmia. 
John Irea, 1776. Yamauth. 
Dt. Wm. Kcnrick, 1779. 
Robert Roliiuoii, 1790. died, 

Birminghinii, 
Panhne Buonaparte, 1825. d. 

Borghtie Palace. 
Dr. Abraham Heet, 1835. died, 

FintbuTy. 



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The Veitalia, fesdviiU obtened at Rome upon this day, in hoooui of 
Veita, when the ladiea walked ia procession, baitfoDled, lo her lempl«, 
and an alta/ ivas erected la Jupitei Piitor, Ihe pounder, la truth, tb<M 
were aitronomical rites derived from a di&rent climale, and obsened in 
a corrupt form wilboul being understoad ; as iheblind jade turns the mill. 
The ninth day of the Jewish month Thammug wai an especial fart 
for the taking of Jerusalem, under Ntbuchadntaar, king of Babylon, 
upon that day, B. C. 587.— See 7cA July. The ' seventy years' of tb 
eairlivHy, according to the prediction of Jeremiah, begins B. C. 606, wbei 
Ihe temple was plandertd, and Daniel with his three compaoiona whi 
escqied from the furnace, were led away to the Assyrian capital. 

The seige of Jerusalem by the first crusaders, 1099. " Godfrey, o 
Bouillon, erected bis standard on Ihe first swell of Mount Calvary : t 
the left, as far as St. Stephen's gate, the line of attack was continued h' 
Tancred and the two Roberts; and Count Raymond established his 
quarters from Ihe citadel to the foot of Mount Sion." — See ISlA July. 

y Lord Sacktille writes to Sir Julius Cssar from Horsley, 
" Now, Mr. Chancellor, touching- your lamentation of the cla- 
ind iuils that arc daily made to you for meruy, and how grievous 
u you, I can say but this ; thai true fortitude is never daunted, 
and Inlb ought never to b« either afraid or ashamed. You may truly 
tr Uiem, that no labours shall be spared to collect the King's n 
and pay his debt* : in die mesndme, they must have patience and 
bt cootent." ^ 

Evelyn notes, 1S98 -. " To Deptford, to see how misenbly the Cur 
bad left my home j after three uondis making it his court. — I then went 
le ihe/duniiiitrDn of the ball and chapel at Greenwich Hospital." 
lio was the first of the Muses, and the preudent of History. She is 
figured with ■ plectrum, or quill, a lule, book, and trumpet, and d 
a laurel crovra, The Spectator signed with her letters. 



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AdminJ lUn^ Dugntj-Troiua, 

St. Xaloa. 1673. 
JanMi Stuart, {catUd thi OM 

PrelcDdet), leSB, Lmdm. 
John DolloDd, 1 706, SpilBlJittdi. 
Jamn Short, 1710, EdinbuTgh. 



A drop of water All out or a 
cloud iolo tlie aea, tod Eudiog 
iuelf loH ID inch an imnwnuty 
or fluid matter, broke out into 
the rollowiDg reflectiaa : Alai ! 
what an inconuilerable Eieature 
am 1 in thii prodigiow opcan of 
«te™! Mj 
coocera to the 



Obitf tftbt Latin Church. 

St. Getulini, aod Companioni, 
Martyt^ii Century. 

St. Laudiy, (or Laodericiu), 
Bithtp ^ Parii, (after) 653. 

SL Hlrgiret, Oaten of Scctland, 



»,(or8t.BJKDj, 



Frederic Darb«t«ua,( Emptnr), 

I190.d. Cllirio. 
lobelia Andrdni,' 1604. died. 

Biihop (Vileotiue) Cany, 

1636. 
Aothoo; Aliop, mtid, 1736. 
Tbomu Heame, 173&. Oxftrd. 



It K) happened thai an ojiter, 
lich lay iu the OMghbouiliood 
oftbiadrop, chanced to ^tft 
iwallow it up in the luidMof 
hit humble ioliloqiiy. Thedrcf 
lay 1 great while hardening in 
the ibell, till by df^rae* it wu 
ripened into a pearl, which fall- 
ing into the handi of a di«er, 
after a long uriei of adten- 
luree, i> at preient that famoui 
pearl which ii Riedontbett^ of 
the Penitn diadem. — Add'uen. 



willed <• not Mai.—PtndM. 



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a l[p or »ye. 



OcU. 

Joan of Arc besieges the Earl of Suffolk, is Jargeau, aad od tbU daj, 
the place is earned by itonii, 1439. " The Maid of Orleaiu led the 
gssailanls, and reached [he top of the wall, froiD which, by a Btioke on 
the head, she was precijutated into the ditch. As she lay, uoable to 

e, she continued to exhort her friends with her voice, '■ Forwaid, 

nnUymen, she exclaimed, feai oothing : tfu! Lord fiia diliixred them 

•j) oar handi." SaSbtk inquired of the officer, who demanded his 
sword, if he were a koighll and being told to the conlntiy, "Then," 
said he, " I will make thee one." Having knighted him, this cap 
of the lotim mord, de la Pole, sunendeTed ivilb tjlimruh. 

The College of Bologiia detemitu that the mani;^ law in the book 
of " Leriticui," being a part of the law of nations, as well as of the law 
of Moses and of God, is Undmgon the ^baleCbristiaiichutch, as w ~ 
t infidels ; and tlurif<irt, gave tbeii decision against the legality of 
Henry's tnarriage with Katharine of Arragim, 1530. 

Two barks fitted out by Raleigh, ntider the command of Captains 
Barlow and Amidas, arrive at the West Indies upon a voyage of disco- 
very. They sailed the S7th of April, and returned to England in the 
middle of September, 1S84, haring taken possesion of a new country, 
called Wingondacoa, by the natives, which so delighted Queen El 
beth, that she named it Virginia. 

The Dutch, commanded by De Ruyter, enlei the river Hedway as far 
as Chatham, and destroy several of oni ships, men of war, 1667. 

The London Hospital, at Mile End, instituted 1740! isfounded, 1753. 

Henry Teonge, N.S, 1675, "Takes coach from Poplar to Blackwall. 
In four days they hoist sail : and pass to the Buoy on the Redsands, 
where seeing a merchantman near us, without taking the least notice, v 
him a shot, and make him lower his top-gallant, i.e. put oj^ his hat. 



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3ir KciMlm JKgbj, 1603, 

Gotkum. 
Edwud CapcH, 1713. Tmtn. 

nun ahall >ee ficea, that, 
if JDS eumbe tbmn part by put, 
yon tbaU find nerer a good ; 
■od yet aliogethei do well, tl 
it be true, that ibe principal 
part of beauty ii in dacenl 
tion, ccitaiDly it it no nianel, 
though penom in yeai* leetn 
manytinieimoieaniiablei "^• 
hnnim autunnui puleher ;" tm 
10 yontb can be comely bat by 
paidon, and coniidering the 
yooth ai to mike up the come- 
I. Baton on Btautj. 

•Utoo/'tft* Utin C'hirak. 
St.Btxattmi, of Cypnti,ApiMllt 

and Martyr, (afttt)eS. (_Sf 

EnglUh CImrch Cnbiubr.) 
St. Tocbnmoa.of Tocbomncht, 

Fn^iit in InUmd. 
St. Tochtmina, Tirpn, i>iMsn 

if KOMrt. 



Scntu Tollia, B. a t 



Theodon (Eavran), A. D.MS. 

CfutoiritiMpi*. 
Leolll. (PopiXaiS. 
Fiioce Heniy (jf Zitgiaid'), 

llS3.d. Frnm. 
Roger Bmmi, 1294. d. Oxford. 
Heiuy Beancliaipp. I>itke of 

Waiwkk, 1445. rmJcakry. 
Uauiea (tfSmmyy, lfi63. 
$a A. Cooke, 1576. Ba^rrd. 
Sii Kenelm Digby, 166S. 

CkriKeliiirck, UnegtU. 
Andiew FeUbien, 1G9S. Porta. 
Balthuu Bekker, 1^8. Aeut. 
Loait Joetpli, Dnke de Vcn- 

dane, 1712. Eu^aial. 
GeaiteI.i,fE«ei'md), 1737, 

O. 8. d. Htnr (knabnrgh. 



(Han 



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Ckmi do Uanaii, 1 756. d.ParTi. 
GcDcnJ GcHHiOD, 1793. kUM, 

Xathtagt, n ihd Samkrt, 
DiJUbari«oii,l'793.EdJntwK'^ 
SMDoel IreUod, IBOO. Lon, 
£nMitPo«ilI,1804. BtidMtrg. 
Dngald Stewait, 1B38. 



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L«id> QD Uk bnnd rtfal|«Dcc af like da)*; 

Uukind in ih« tIcniU; deliglK, 

And iKHie pnniaei b> ilion tkji bcaaWMi lii 



a<w. 

The Uatbaua tie celebrated in hoiwnr of Mater Matata the goddeu 
of the iHnuRj, called b; the GreakiLncotbea, orthe/air, changed b; 
Neptane ta a ie> divini^. Her Ismple wu CnuBded b; Servin*. 

Tbc dotnKlioii of Tiof ii placed commonl; by English chronot^ti 
in the night of thia daj ) an event vhieh Homei has invested with un- 
rivalled ImportaDce and a p>rgeoas iminortali^. — See Utk April. 

The Coniul Rulilius Lupus is deatrojed, with his forces, hj an tmbta- 
Ead«, near the river Livis, during the sodal wai. B. C. 90. 

The great council of reform called the ' Mad Parliament' asaenibles at 
Oxford, 1358. Eveiy nKiiber was «woni to alkm no consideration 
itber of gift nor promiie, profit nor loss, love nor hatred, nor fear" 
to infloence him in the discharge of his duty. 

The annivenaij of the desib, at Oxford, of the famoas Soger Ba«n, 
1394. It is to this native philoMiidier (JichttUr boasts his Inrth) that 
we are indebted, if ttot fiR- the discovery, at least the reriral, in £nn^, of 
the me of gunpotDdar, an instrument of deetmclian which modem war- 
hie has earned te an Sicess (olerable only to those aa»i«iiHtli, who have 
endeavoured to pttnade the wcild that in the ratio'as the arta of pharmacy 
and ehemiatry have diminiibed its diseases, some other coanleiaetiDg 
ice mint necessarily be invtnltd to level existence with the mmni of 
nouriahmeat ; — if oui earth ^Minld ever be found too imell to sof^Mut the 
number of mouths Ihat m^t be generated upon it even in an universal 
state of peace, let lhe»e gentlemen of the btUnet conuder nhether cer- 
tain prescribed rales of tempermite would not produce the tame eflecl 
without annihilating the prindpal attribute of the Ddty ) for undoubtedly 
itHELIOBATtoN of buuui iniseiy, of all ihoae milt which may he 
iMuedied by the labann of philanthropy, ia a boon exacted by the 
Ciealor from Ihe undttUed aenimuUting energies of man almu. 



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Tbc nlciDoiable battle oF GmpoUHu, wbeit At Ploraotjiwt defeat 
(be people o( Anuo, 1389. Duile, then in bii twenlj-riHrlli jear, 
■u preieni, lerving; in the fbremoM tfoap of cavalij, and ezpodng hu 
peraon to hnmiDMl danger. He ha>, in ■ letter, deicribed the order 
at the battle. ■■ The Ubetti, Lambert], and Abali, with all the ei- 
«ni of Florence, who adhered to the Ghibtliitie interaat, were with 
Aretisi ; while Ihoie inhabitants of Areno, who, owii^ to their 
attachment to the Gaelph partj, had been baniihed from their own dtj, 
B ranged on the tide of the Plorenlines." The beaulifiil Bealrirt, 
whom the man of Dante haa made imperiihable, died in the jrai luc- 
ceeding Ibii victory ; her father, Folco Portinari, the year proCTding it. 
Wat the Tyler awembka bii followen at Blackheath, amounting to 
ine handled ihouKind men, 1381. John Ball, an itinerant preacher, to 
be ChaiictUar, gave them a wrmoa upon the ipot. — Sec \Sth Jtme. 

Sebaitiaa Cabot, a Venetian bam, but an Engliahman by education, 
reaches this day, the latitude of sii^-seven degrees, thirty minutes, 
ipon hii north-west passage eipedition, which sailed from Bristol earl; 
n May, 1497. "There were three men he brooght to the king (says 
Fabian) taken in the Neic/imndlund, who were clothed in beasts' tk' 

raw flesh, spoke a slnuige ancouth tongue, and wen leij brutisb in 
their behaviour." The counli; anerwards called, by Ponce de 1a 
Florida, was lisitad by our navigator during this voyage. " Cabot is 
my veij friend," says Peier Martyr, in 1515, " whom I use hmiliarly, 
and delight loh(vehim sometimes keep me compaoy la my own house." 
James III. of Scotland ta overthrown by the insurgent lords, and 
' afterwards murdered at Milltown with the daggers of his subjects, 1488. 
This event took place •• not far from FeUurk. where Wallace was de- 
mI, and yet neater to the memor^le field of Bannoehburn, where 
Bruce triumjAed. It might be said, that he was weak and utifartunale, 
rather than criminal. But the follies of itwnarcbs are no less fatal to 
themselves and their subjects, than their actual crimes and vices." 
WhtD Adsm delved and BvA quo. 
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Sir Humphrey Gilbert, (he bratber-U-lur o( Bklcigh, embartj from 
Ptjmouth upon hii liut eipeditiiKi, with five veueU, 1563, Hia com- 
minoD wu aow expiring, dated the wnt iJb^, IG78, which gave'hiiii Full 
power, daring lii ymn, (o Qoderiake (he diuoreTy of the northern parts 
ofAmericti.'Mid lo iuhabit mud poueu any laodi which at that lime were 
unKttled b; Chriition princa, or their lutjccli.— <Sh 5(h Ju^iul. It 
waildMut the date of thii patent, that be received from Queen Eliiabcth, 
ai a roaric of her pecnliar favour, an emblematiral jewel, being a tnmJJ 
aruhor if btatm gold, vith cm Jorge ptarl a-ptak, whidi he elterwardi 
cotuluitly wore at hii breait, in remembrance of hei bounty. 

The ffigfal of Haiji Queen of Seoti, and her haiband, Bolhwell, from 
Borthwit^ Castle to Donbar, 1667. Bothwell wag gbortly afterward* 
diimiwed from her locicty, at the requeat of the Confederatei. " He 
retreated to the Orkoeyi, and driven from thence, committed loine out- 
rageaonthetradaofDeiimark, Hewaifinally taken and immured in the 
caatk ofUalmoe. iu Norway, where he died, after ten yean' confinement." 

An order of the parliament for the demaliihment of Monlgomei^ 
Castle, upon the Severn, the property of the Lordi Herbert, 1649. 

The aiege of LimtHek, defended by O'Nial, 16B1.Sm 27th Octobtr. 

The Duke of Monmoudi landi at Lyme, in open rebelliou. 16SS, 

The peace of BreiIaiD,re*pecting (he Austrian lucceuien, is concluded 
between Austria and Pruiaia, 1742.:— ,S« ISih October. 

Louis X'Vl. is inauguialed with theiolemni^oF theiSocre, at Rheima, 
1776. There were too immenia statue* raised at the distaye of a 
quarter of a league kom the city, on this occsbod, one representing E4- 
^gion, holding in her left hand the crown, mppotted by the sacred code, 
and in her right hand, an olive branch ; and (he other Jtutia, with her 
balance ) between whom the king passed upon bis entrance. 

Buonaparte leiies Malta, the hei/ nf the ilfdUerrartean, which he gar- 
risoos, and proceed* with the Beet, canying twenty thousand regular 
troops, lo the Egyptian coast, where he arrived on the lat of July. 1798. 



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O-BtoA Uniia U> blutid nal, 

Awl MopiyU Ui irkHb, ud loDk-d hki ri 



"^- 


IBfrtlf. 


mm: 


Prid. 


TbeM*rinD)D,16a3,;p»M. 


Maiimn.(£...,>^)..W«ed. 


Id. 
13. 




466, (riber.) 




Ja<ii(a.III. («^ SMtmd), 1488. 




iMigiiV la pMitrt ud iMlwn. 


MiM, £*t». Mill. 




In both lb<w, to ba gncclnl. it 


Adrian Turaebni.I66fi.d.P«ri«. 




» Kquilila that then be do ip- 






pwiUM of difien%. Intbu 


TbomM Faniabj, 1647. 5tw. 




UM, tl.il tniKllHU., thii deU- 


Oda. 




ON? of ittibiaa and madoD, 


WiUiamOoghtnd, 1660. 




it i> that all tbe m^ of giace 


Janwi, Dniu of Berwick, 1734. 




coiuiau. and what >• called it* 






> M *(« (Hin ,- u wiU bt ob- 


Willlaoi CoUioa. 17&9. Si. 




fioiu In ny obaener who con- 








Cienaral Pttei Aagereau, 1818. 




Hcdicla. lb« Antinow, or any 






lUtnc gnMiallj tlkrwcd to be 






gracrfullnahighdepte. 


The motion of the cyt coatri- 




tnitt 1^ tiM Utim CkHrek. 


bulet to iti beantj, by contiuu- 




SiL Builidei, Quirinu*. and 


allj ihifting iu dtrmion ; but 




othcn M. at Rma, 4tb Cent. 


a ilow and Iati«a.d motion if 




£l. Onuphriui, Htrmit in Egypt, 


mora beauliral than a briik 




4lh Century. 






Bt. reman, BUhcp rf (It. Pku. 


the former lovely. What »- 




Wh Centt.?. 


lourtd eye ihall pleue mail. 




81. EekiU, BUhup i, 8<Mifn, 


depend, a good deal on parti- 




M. UlhCentaTj. 


mlar hnciei. Buiie. 




81. John, Hermit in Spain, UT9. 





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Hebodotds recites bis celebrated Hiilory it Athena, diuing tlie 
Olympic games, in bis tireaty-niath jear, ISlh of HecatpmtuMO, B. C. 
4S6. He bad traTelled witb bis work from Caiia. Tbncjdides was 
then ■ boy: J^schjrliis died in that year ; Cimon was recalled from 
exile 1 tuns the Athenians compUt* their long walls. This interestiDg 
literary circumstaiKe is, however, placed by Conini in the following 
year; when, according to EviMat, " Empedocles el Ptrmenides, pbysici 
philosophi notiBumi habenlnr. Zeno, et Heraclitiu tenebrosas agnosci- 
tui : " — Zeno was the inventor of It^ic and Empedocles of ihetaAe. 

Bibaia, the Saltan of Syria, lakes possesnon of Andoch, 1368. Tbe 
Latin principality was eitingnlihed, and the whole existence of the 
Franks was now confined to the ci^ of Ptolemais. — iS« 18(b May, 

Owen Glendoui, tbe last of the native Welsh priacea, defeats and cap- 
tures Sir Edmand Mortimer, at Mtliaiydd, in Radnorshire, 1402. 

Tbe muBtcre in Paris at night, by the direction, if not under tbe eye 
of J<din, Dnke of Burgundy, called the Feacleu, M18, Villaiet le- 
lates, that in the course of three days, three thonaand five hundred souls 
were sacrificed (with the Count of Annagnac) within their eagn ; that 
the streets and palace-yard Sowed with the blood of these unhappy vic- 
tims of a merdless faction, Heniy V. with giaat-stridea, was thtn re- 
ducing IJonnuidy.— Expenses of Joanna, the Qoeen-dowager, U21 : 
To Master Lauieni, is paid for aqaa-vitn for the Queen, 2«. ftl. ; to two 
seijeants, for pleading the matter of the Queen's dower, 6j. 8d. ; to John 
Perse, for divere medicines for tbe Queen's body, SOt. ; Ibi one ounce of 
red thread, li. 6d. ; for making a gown, 2i. 6d. 

Henrietta Maria lands at Dover, conducted by the Duke of Buckmg- 
ham, and is recMved there by Charles, lurrounded by the English nobi- 
lity (Sunday), 1625. The espousals were solemnized by proxy, on a 
pUtfonn erected before the cathedral at Paris, upon May-day, confirmed 
on die day following this in the cathedral of Canterbury, by their per- 
sonal hand), and consummated (it is material) at Hampton Courl. 






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XIII. JUNE. 

IlliA UifMBg cuBt; udmuiiBt la ma, <u| 
H«r ttt wblla inni aboat mj atck ; iktn 1iih| 
Bnbnc'd ih) kiK'd nc ofl, ud Bioknl mr eb 
■ay 111, ilii ««iM Mt MlKr lovfr Mk. 
I'U ilni y« tangi, ud plew joa «ary day, 



Sfrttf. 



CDBiui Jnlisi AgikoU, A. D. 

40, Frgui in Pnntiiet. 
Adrian Bullet, 1649, NaivUU 

in Ficariiy, 
ChhMoph«r RawlioMHi, 1677. 

Sj-riugfitU. 
Jowpb Highmore, 1693, Gar- 

iUk Hitht, Landm. 



Her poor dtoghtcr, ihc uid, 
crying, was wandering ioiiMi- 
wban (boul the ra«d — Whj 
doei mj palie twat langaid 

'ite thkl and vhat made 
La Flear, wboie heait leemed 
odIj to be turoad to joy, to pan 
tbe back of fail hand twice acnu 
jtt, u the wcHuiD (tood 
■ndUUitl Varia. 



0kftl eftht Latin Chtreh. 
1. DamhkDide, Fir^'n tn It* 
land, 6tb Cealnry. 
St. Antooy ofPadva, d. 1331. 



WUliam, Lord HutiDgi, 1483. 

hiktadtd, Toatf. 
Anthony Widvile, Eail Riven, 

14S3. MauJMJ, Porfnt. 
Olint HaUIaid, 1602. d. Tim- 

Falrick Lord Ruthien, IS«6. 
John Bambuciu, 1584. died, 

Mark Welier, 1614. Augiburg. 

HcDc; Caiey, Eail vf Mon- 
mouth, 1661. 

Dr. William Anoand, li 
EdiiOurgh. 

Jame* Wondalc, 1767. Cnnit 
Garden. 

Vi. William Battle, 1776. 

Andiew Tiuot, 1797. d. 

Richard Lovell Edgetrortb, 

iSn. Edgimitth't Tamt. 
Charlea Plovdea, 1821. died, 

I am poudve I have a umt; 

ir can all the booki with which 
materialiiu have peitered t 
world ever coavince me to t 
contrary. Stenu. 



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9icH. 

The Icufr Quicqu&lria ue celebrated upon tfae Mount Aveatine, appi- 
leDtljr adapted froin the ' Panathauea' of the Greeks. — Sm 19lb Moreh. 
Tbe feilival of the mirutreli (tlludnei) nai obierred upon tbe idea of 
Jone, devoted to Miaeira, as the inTeotien of the flute. Probably the 
daj was devoted to hiitrkioic and muucal peHbrmsDces. There was a 
Mlemn proceiuon of the pipen. nuuked aikd habited io long itolei. 

Joliui Cnar embatki from Ulica, upoa terminatiog the Africas wai ; 
wid bur daj« after landi at Csaales, id Sardinia. He weighed from 
thence for Rome, on the 38th of June, B. C. 46.— Sm 36th July. 

he anuivenaiy of the birth of Juliui Agricola, duiiog the third COD- 
lulate of tbe Emperor Csliguia. Thii great mas was governor In Gnat 
Britain, and b; doubling the nortlitm point of Scotland, first diicorered 
it to be an iiland. The hiatorian Tacitoi married his daughter. 

In the agreement between the eiecuCon of Richard, Earl oF Warwick, 
uid the artuoni employed in the execution of his private chapel at War- 
wick, ii the Ibllowing curiolu item, -1454 ; " William Auiten, citizen 
ud founder, of London, to make of gildad iMCm, fourteen images of 
lords and ladies, after fourteen pattenii made of timbet ; also eight 
^re* of angds ; and a hearse to aland on the tomb ahore tbe principal 
image. ForeBchof the first called •w«p<ri,13i.4il.; for each angel, 6i. 
and for each pound of latten in the heane, lOd. 

Tbe 6n Penderella of Boicobil, attend King Charles at Whitehall, 
who rtuartU Ibem for their loyaltj, IGSO. 

A treaty is concluded at Madrid, with Great Britain, 1731. The 
abips employed for the tnffic of Negroes by tbe Royal Company of 
Great Britain, were to be admitted, without hindrance, to trade freely, 

Coiuca Is wiied by tbe French, 1769. Geoeral Faoli fled, and em- 
baiked from Legfaom for Engltmd, where he remained undl IT90. 

Geoi^ Lukins is dispossessed by Mren clergynKn of the same num- 
ber of dmilt, in the Temple Chuicb at Bristol, 1788. 



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with Ion in; I»wb to HupriM : 
In VAlD mf eout hfl imUj baiBU, 
!■ TtiB fall Idle dltUa chuuli; 
V(t rwi Bot to npol bli HWi 
BMk tr-t} di7, utd «1] di7 kwf : 

Asd blorii mjHir m Ui <lli(rm».— T^U Ci>t«Mtr. 



Dr. JobDMipkiofl, 1631, Ma 

gartt In£i. 

Thtj do beil, wbo if thej 

cuinot bnt tdmitlove, jctmike 

il keep qatiXtr, and Mvei 

wholljr from theii urioiu aSaii 

know Dot how, but maitla] 

ID an girea to Iot« ; I thiak 

w but u tbej are givea 

wins ; tor peril* eommonl]' atk 

to be paid in pleaiurei. — Baton. 

liH <>f til* l^in ChunK 
SU. RoGuDiand Valcriaa, liar- 
I of Saiuoiu, ard Cfloldr;. 
St Baiil the GieM, AttibiAap 
of Caaru, is Cappade 
370. 

U Dncmmel (or St. ^od), of 
FniifrrohwUn, 6th Cenliuj, 
L Nennnt (or Nebemiai), 
Alibat mtiuIOief BuU, 7lb 

St. Pnhnodini, Htmit ^ Li- 

mtfti, Tib Centuty. 
8t.Hetlu>diiu, PatTiarektfCan- 1 

tUMtmepU, d. £46, 

TW inrH Ibc k>d|lDi ii, 



ArcbbUhop (Siidod) Sudburj, 

bJaaitd, 1381. 
Fnuuai G«iwh, 1631. • 

PoUiin. 
Sii Humpbre; Ljiule, 1 

CMam. 
John Marquii de Toirai, 1636. 

k. TantanetU, tn tht Milaaae. 
Adminl Aimand de MaiU£, 

1646. UOii, OrbUtlle. 
3ii HeDT7 Vane, 1663. bfheaJ*d, 

Toatr. 
Dr. Ralph Bathunt, 1704. 

Oxfird. 
Claude Fteutj, 1723. 
Dicky Peaice (t*. Feoi), 1728. 

Btrlalty. ' . 
Junei Villotta, 1743. d. 

NichDlai, nor Nanci. 
Colin Macianrin, 1746. died, 

Scotland. 
Proapei Marchaod, 1756. died, 

Geoeral J. B. Kleber, 1800. 

Kd, Caini. 

Oenenl Loaia Deaiaii, 1800. 

UiUd, Marengn. (St Ber- 



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The Romao Republic U eitabliibed, and the fint Cmuuii are elected, 
according to the Capitoline maibles, A. U. C. 244, B.C. 510. Tbi* 
noble political fabrick gubaiiled for a period of four hundred and Aitj- 
two jean, until the bailie of Fkuialia. Cicero has preBeired ibe ori- 
ginal Um of die Comitia which lubverted the granny and set up the 
commoDYfeitlth; " Btgit trnptrio duoamte, iiqut pratvndo,jtxduatido, il 
omtnltndo, praiantijtidica, cmuuUi, appellanlur. Mililia mnmumjtu 
habenlo* NtmiAi parento, Otlia talut pojmli tumma In ttte," 

Scbaateii> and Le Maire lail from the lalaod of the Teiel, in the ships 
CoDCord and Horn, 1615. They doubled ' Cnpi Horn,' the most southern 
point of America, the 31sl of January, 1616. 

Charles I. writes to his nephew, Prince Rupert, from Tickonhall, 

1644. "ir York be loat, I shall esteem my crD?rn little less, unless 
supported by your sudden march to me, and a miraculous conquest in 
the wulh, befort the effecM of the northern power can be found here : 
but if York be relieved, and yon beat the rebel armies of both kingdoms 
which are befoie it, then, bul otherwise not, I may posubly make a 
shift (upon the defensite) to spin out time until you come to asdst me : 
— (signed) Yoni Icing ' Oncle' and moat foilhfnl friend!" 

Frynne, with Dra. Burton and Bastwiok, are ccmdemned in the Star 
Chamber to lose their ears, to pay a fine of £6,000 eech to t|^ King, 
and to be imprisoned Gw life in theCaittei of Camaivoii, Cornwall, and 
Lancaiter, 1 637. Bir John Finch bnttatts said : " Is that Mr. Pr^n« } 
I bad tbout^t Ml. Prynoe b«d bad no cars : but methinki he hath ears, 
and it is Gt the eoort ibould lake order that lheirdeci«ea should be better 
executed, and see whether Mr. Prynoe hath ears or no." 

Cromwell's deadly lictoryorer Rupert luid the Royal cause at N<wfty, 

1645. TheCongresaofSoiuani, 1736. Napoleon defeats the Austriuu 
at Maitngo, in Italy, 1800 ; and the Russians at Fritdland, in Prussia, 
1007. The Smitrtignt ve magnificently entertKined in the Radcliffe 
Library, at Oxford, 1814. The ' London Otphsji Asylum' opeat, 1835, 



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IWb mUBf Hli'd Um wnCchwl huUjr, 
AaA bon than In hli iiiip^ni huidt iwHjr^ 



ftiy. 


«(rtti. 


Seattf. 


XVI.. 


£d«*td I/O BUek Priaci (of 


Count Robert i«f Oriwu), 


C«l. 


Wairn). 1330, IV^diUieh. 


JdiM, 922. 


15. 


Thomuauidolph,ie05,\'>kq>- 


Wat Tyler, 1331. (lain, SMJtA- 




ham. 


JWJ. 




Job Li»lolf. 1634, Erfurtk. 


Philip the Good, iofBuTgu«Is}. 




Benitid de Ii tloaaojt, 1641, 


1467. d. Brugu. 




D,,«.. 


Gilet Corront, 1568. d. Psri.. 




Aothonj Francii dc Foureroy, 


John Udil, 1593. d. in yriwn. 




17M, P«r«. 


BUbop (Richard) Fletcher. 






1696. Si. Paul;. 




IfTon happen iclettbe child 


Rene Aobert de Verlol. 1735. 




Adl, iDd luoe it, bi lare Devet 


d-Porif. 




coDhuit; and if it di«i, aU ii 


June* abort, 1768. Ntwi<>e^ 




i«ft.-Di«£(i<mi 10 tht Nunt. 


Butu. 






Fiktre de Roiiei. kilUd. 178S. 




<MU« a/'lA« Lsfin CbvnA. 


W^U, nwr B™fagn*. 




8ti. Vilu. (or Gny). CraMntu, 






»niWiatMi,.«fSUMy.m. 


1793. 




4ll) Cratmy. 


Antoioe Sabatter d* Cattrtt, 




St. Vang* (or Vorecb), H«mJI 


1BI7. Porii. 




in C.™»«K, d. 6B6. 






St. UndeUD, AUoltf^CrapiR, 


TheiolicitudoofpeCTitopre- 




in Ffiwa, eee. 


•erve or ualt th«r rank, n a- 




St. Bemrd (> Stvoyud), of 


teemed no other than a manly 




HeBtboD, F«Hid*r rf V.t 


and beconiing ambition ; a (imi- 










CudiMl OregDTT Le»b Bwbi- 






digo, Bp. «/ Fidiui, d. 1697. 


ShifitUme. 



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oniic of th< world doth dwell 
re lislHi, Truth, Slmplitlly; 



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flttfl. 



Henry, Prince of Wales (ibe eldesl rebel-son of Heniy II.). is ioau- 
guraled king, at WeatminsWr, in bia fathei's life-time, 1170. 

Daate ii chosen chief magiatrate of bia native city, 1300. 

Martin Luther ia excommunicaled b; a pKpal bull, 1520. 

Charlea V. roakea bia public entry into Aagiburg, where the membere 
of the Diet had aaaembled. The famoui decree, called the Confeuiim 
tf AugAuTg, diawn up by MeJaacthon, waa then read, 1530. 
' Cbulea I. ia enlertnined at Edinbu^ with ' a nii^RT^c«nl tptctaclt,' 
1633. " At the approach of the King, the theatre (a curtain drawn) 
manifetted Mtrcary, in hia feathered hat and hia caduceui, with a h 
died and seren Scottish kinga, wluch he had brought from the Elyaiau 
Fields ; Fergua die Fint had a speech in Latin." 

Thia was the birthday of Martha Blount (angUce Polty) die j 
chant and legatee of the bard of Tmtttnham. 

Abel Jan«en Taaman, the Dutch navigator, arrivei at Balavia, aher 
baving sailed round the aoulhem aide of Che globe, 1643. He Etarted on 
the 5th of September, 1642,aDdili(cin«refl VaaDiemaa'aLaad, with tlie 
laland of New Zealand, which he called Stattn Iiland. 

The battle of Piacentia, between the allies and Spaniard!, 1746. 
' AnaotiairiieaalSpii'iaiilaftera voyage of three years and nine months, 
round the world, 1744. The treasuiea of the fantous Acapuico galleon 
were conveyed to London in thirty-two waggona, " with music playing, 
and amidst the ahouta of the rejoicing populace ; and the booty waa di- 
vided among those brave men who had ihaied hii glory and his toila." 

The Nabob Suiajah Dawla invests Calcuttt at tbe head of 70,000 
bone and fiMt with four hundred elephanU, 1756. 

A memoiable eruption of Mount A'eiuvius, ten at night, 1794. 

The Nod London Bridgt is founded with great ceremony, 1S25. 



only (Dod tMloBiini la Uiu ii suder granad. 



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M or Cht*ili7 (bowc'fr 

U iBd iWi* ba hO, yM kar* 

I |«Btiy Aoild iu<da) dcay'd: 



TkM itirKb fte Mn, «Bd nVd Um BrlU* a> 
Td be 1 eoHtflliUoB : riikMi ud iwoKII, 
Cobvcbb'd ud lUty; bM ■ beln ilMdi 





U,h. «, A. wrid, Ud .ud. U« Biu™ liT.^«-». 


D-y- 


«ttt«f. 


Bam. 


XM. 


Ed«^l.(flfR.eW).1239. 


Biihop (Hugh) de Balaam, 


Cal. 
16. 


ait John Cbete. 1514, C™- 


ISBG. Ely. 


bridge. 


John de la Pole, Eart of Lin- 




towM Dnke of Saint-Simon. 


cola, 14BT. mUd, Sickt. 




1875, Pari,. 


Sinus Betuldui, 1554. died, 




Henrielta Stuart, (Dwfta. of 


Auglbuyg. 




Orltaru), 1644, E«Mr, 


Le»I> Capellui. 1658. died. 
Sir Rich^ Fanahawe, 1666. 




Religion in iU very mtnte 






d. Madrid. <Ware.) 




will nobraee it, a certain degree 


Sir Triitram Beresfoid, 1701. 




oTiDtegri^andhoDeM;; »hich 


Lewia Ellia Dupin, 1719. Paru. 






John Churchill, Dula of Marl- 




men hive or not. and to extt- 


borough, 1722. d. Winiwr 




ciM. in inch u lisTO H, in order 








Edward, Earl of Oxford, 1741. 






Biihop (JoMph) Butler, 1762. 




^/UittflhtLMviChvrth. 


d. Bath. (Biiit^l.) 




Sti. FCTTeoloi (or Ftrgeau), 


J.B.C«iiet, m7.d.-lmfeM. 




and Femtini, JShiyn at 






Baa>^m. 212. 


TWefore the qoettioa ii not 




Sti. Quiricni (or Cjr), Pofrm 


at. all, whether the eridenee of 




of NrtfTi, and Jnlitta of Ico- 






nium, JHartjnff* Tamil, 90S, 


whether it be. in reaaat>, tuffl- 






cient to prore and diacipfine 




d. fiS2, 






9t. John Fnincii Segii, tfLan- 


Now the eridenee of it ii fully 




f<iaJ«, of the Society of 


■ufficient far all thoee pnrpoia 




Jeiui, 1640. 


ofpnibatlon. Butkr. 



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And every vtona make dUc PaItaM.~Thi CoUm Ate. 

grt>. 

The Metoieia irei« celebralad at Athens upon tbe liiteenth of fleca- 
tncon, to coTnmemiirate tbe iuudii, by Theieiis, of Ihe tcatlered funi- 
lies of Attica into a commonwealth, about B. C. 1200. Then feitivsls 
vere under the protection of the godd«as Fallas, or Minerva. 

The great Egyptian festiial of Apii, or Mneuit, during seven da^ 

The depoHlion of Anema, Queen of Persia, " the siiEh of the tnn- 
aient uauiperB, who had aiiaen and vanished in three or four yean, uace 
the death of ChoeroeB, and the defeat of Heiacliui. 
placed on the head of Yesdeqird, the grandson of Cbosroes (a jouth 
of fifteen), nmt dayi after the death of Mahomet; and the sa 
which cninctded with an aUnntomieal ptriad (completiag the tatlfch 
cjcle of one hundred and twenty yean each), records ibe bll of the Sas- 
unian dyneitj, and the lel^Ni of Zoroaster, B. C. 632. This famous. 

1, as amended by Ihe Saltan Oeladeddin Shah, ii now In u>e by the 
Panees of India, some of the provinces bqinning the year in 
and othera in October. — Set 15(i March. 

The aiuuTenaryof thebirthof Edwaidl. called the EnglUh JuUiniau. 
In 1386, Ela, Couatesa of Wanrick, held the manor of Hoke-norlon, in 
Oifordahire, by the sergeantry of caminjr at thi Sing'i tabli an hii binh- 
iay ; and she was to have the knife the King then uaed at table. 

The celebrated batde of Stokt, 1487. Lambert Simnel received die 
King's pardon, and was made a sculUon in the royal kitchen, and after- 
wards tfaUsma; in reward of his good coikduct. — Set id Mug. 

The States- General of Fraitce form themselves into the National As- 
sembly, 1789.— Joseph Buonaparte is proclaimed King of Spun, 1808. 
' Your princes," sud Napoleon, " have ceded to me their rig;hli to the 
crown of Spain. Your nation is old ; my miuion ii to restore its youth." 

An earthquake near Fooaah, in the Eatt Iikdies, which svAllowed up 
a large diatiict, and more than two thousand penona, 1819, 

The Turkish imperial corpa of goards, called the Jonitana, ar 
feated and aboliihtd, 1826. This military body, consisting of tr 
captiven, was firet instituted in 1363, by the third Amurath. 



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Tfaniath tliDutliU uplrini I 
Vo^ M Ibe Hml duth nte lln 
And ill Uie Knlu of Ikw b 
80 loTi of ua! dol)i lovE ol 
Nd ha Ikn pctAct (old mrm 

gjrttt. 

St. 3oKjb,of Capertinti, 1603. 
Lewii Ellu Dupin, 1667, Foni. 
John We»lej, 1703, Epitorth. 
Ceur Cunoi de Tbury, 1714, 

Parti. 



Ttief diat go down to the mb 
in ihipi.lhat do buiinni in great 
mtlan; tfaeuieeHuwondi 
tbe deep. Tbej roounl up to 
bMKD, Ihfj go down (gain 
iIm deptbi, thnr wul U null 
became of tiouble. — Daiid, 



Obitf 0/ iht Latin Churtft. 
Si*. Nicuder ind Murian, 

MaHyTM, e. 303. 
St. Prior, Htrmt in Egypt, itb 

St. Antui (or Arj), Abbai 

OriiaM, e. 530. 
St. Botulph, of' England, Aibot, 

656. 
St. MoUn'gni (or IHircbilla), 

Biihvp tf Ftnu, d. 6&7. 



awt»». 

Wniiun Bathe, 1G14. Uadrii. 

Andrew Allam, 1686. Oiford. 

SobieikiJ<An 111.(0/ Potowd), 
1696. d. Warta«,. 

JoMph Addiwii, 1719. d. Hol- 
land Hbuu, (Weitnunitei 
Abbej.) 

Louii Hector Duke ile Villui. 
1734. d. Turin. 

Sir WUliam Wyndham, 1740. 
d. Wtllt. 

Selina, Counleu of Hanting- 
dOQ. 1791. 

Henry Trefham, 1314. 



They reel to KTidlra, and itng- 
ger lilu a druaken maa ; and 
are at their wit'i endi. Then 
they C17 onto Him in 
trouble, and he biingeth them 

oT their di>(reuet. 
makelh the itonn a calm, _. 
thai the wavea thereof are ■till. 
Then they are quiet became He 
bringelh them unto their deiired 
haven. — Hjbthu of David. 



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The Mveateenth of TKnanmig wu > Hebtew Hut In memar; ot the Ts- 
bln of the Law, which were broken by Mo«ei. — Exadut xxiii. 15. 

The waters ot the Nile bepn to iwell in Abjwnia.— &« 29th Junl. 

The dicta.tor,TubertuiPoilhuniiui,triunipfti over the .Equi and Valid, 
incoDsideiable but noiiouE enemiei of tlie commonweajth, B.C. 431. 

Robert GiuBcard openi the famoaa aege of Dutoud, A, D. 1081. 

Edwaid I. !■ ajiasBiiiated in hii tent at Acre, by the enur of Joppa'i 
meueager, three o'clock in the aftemooa, Whit Friday, 12T2. He n- 
ceiied the blow on (be aim, grappled with the suanin, and throwing 
him an the groDod. despatched him with bii own dagger. The leqiul 
ii recorded on a haoner of ctimKm ulk, with imall glowing chuocten, 
in the far-renowned Caitilian Temple of Romance. — Stt 4lh January. 

Jamet 1. holdB a pariiament and canvacation at Edinburgh, 1617. — 
" I have nothing more at heart (said the King) than [o reduce four bar- 
ban^ to the lu/ttt Avility of your neigfaboun : and if (he Scoti will be 
ai docible lo learn the goodnen of the Engliib, ai they ua teachable to 
limp after their ill, then I shall not doubt of success ; for tbey have 
ready learnt of the Kngliih to drink healths, to mar coKbw and g 
clothes, to take tobacco, and to speak • language which is neit 
English nor Scottish." The Kmtiihfelk are tA( ctmUit in lAi iilel 

The acquittal of the SEVEN Bisaops, who had been committed lo the 
Tower for presenting to the King (James II.) a pttition against his dt- 
claratim which dispensed with all the Catholic lest laws, as well as the 
official oaths of alltgiana and mprtmacj), 1688. In vis, justly, a day 
of Irioniph. The [rious Bishop Ken was one of the glm-ioui uven. 

The fint English " Nat^otion Canal," extending from Wortley K 
Mancbesler, is opened, 1761. It originated with Scroope, Duke of 
BBIDCEWATEIt, called thefather of inland navigatim in England. 

The Anniirenaty of the Roxbvrgh CMi instituled in 1812, " lo com- 
memorate the enormatis value of a worthless edition of ^ Dtaaitnn." 

The Royal Society of Literature now first assembles, 1623. 



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Tke wlMle bUuUaa <rlnn, thtlr oriei 
TWlr Tii«n wd lUUn MI of (odi ; 
IWte MialHr bM he lu.. Aatmm 



Ljiiu, B. C. 46S> AthtHi, 
Sebert Sttaarl, Muqacu of 
LoDdonduij, A. D. 17t 



Caliph Othi 



Be ignorant otaar caDimon 
Wb J bear wilh unpatieuce what 
ITS erer iipected ! Why 
revolt agaiait the law oF necei- 
uty, aiDce Death a equal to the 
h«ro and U the comrd, odther 
onerlooking the rillain id con- 
tempt, DOT iparing, in admira- 
tioa of hia character, the man ol 
higfaeit virtue 1—Lj<foi. 



Olltf of tht Latin Ckarch. 
St*, Marcni and Uarcellinat, 

tnjin-bnthm and Martjfri at 

Home, 2S6. 
St. Aniand , BuAop ^Baardtatu, 

6lh Century. 
St. Marina, V. of Bicht/nia, flth 

St. Elijabeth. V. Abbot of Sto- 
nauge, in Cermanii, d. 



A.D. 656. 



Leo III. (Enpnw), 741. 
Bi«hap(T1uHnu)Bilion,1616. 

Wettnituter Abbey. 

r. William Bawlej, 1667. d. 



Francia Ponrlbur,! 741 . d.Parit. 
A.Fl^ft,ni9. AudUyChapil. 
Gerard Van-Swieten, 1772. d. 

Schoenbrani, Fimno. 
.Arthur Murphy, 180S. died, 

Knightibridge, 
Central Sir Thama* Pict 

1S16. kiiUd, Waterloo. 
Iiaac Benedict Pr^viMt, 1819. 

d. Montauban. 
Dr. C. Hague, \B2l. Cambridge. 
JameiCarmichael Smyth, 1821. 
William Coombe, 1823. died, 

Lambeth Road. 

Victory i* the fairett m 
ment o( liberty, and prevee 
a handfol of freemen cantend- 



bouring -with inbmy to infringe 
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ReiUsii II nlk, BOK fli'd, UH 
PlutlilBg afir,— ud u hli kroB 

acts. 



il il»di ire done.— Sam*. 



The topa of the mounUiaa ire fiisl Been b; the Inhabitants af the ark, 
lerentj-four dayi from the rating of the ve>ael.~&< 5lh April, 

An Atheniaa fcEtival called lliie Crania was observed during the niODth 
CroDlus(Hec>lonibHOD)in taemorj otSatum, called Cronui by the Gieeki. 

The great Hiadoo featival of the Rntt Jnttra ii cemmeniarateil at (he 
town of Juggeniaut b Oritsa, once a leptrate kii^oiii, but now a pro- 
rince of Hindoitan. Hii table highneu, beiQg tuireted upon * cm ititf 
feet high, hia wide wooden ntoulh "besmeared with blood," isprodaced 
exactly at noon to thec«unll«)i pilgrims, maay of whom (one tenth at leait) 
ite tbeir miserable lives beneath his chariot wbeels. It la reserved 
for Chriatianity to scatter to the winds the riles of the areh-idol, Juggtr- 
MuC, as appresuve to the hilpleu as they are duguiting to humanity. 

The birth of Lyiiai took place upon oi near this day, in the lerenth 
yew o! the Meseenian, and the third of Uie Egyptian war. The " A) 
nemam" of j£«cbylua was jHixlnced in the same year, B.C. 458. 

The CDDflagration of Rome, attributed by Nsro to the Ci^riittanj, which 
was the oEtensibte cause of the Ural pelsecution, A. D. 64. It is scarcely 
possible to conjecture how a great dty, at that moment the seat, — ~ 
asphaltic " connion Micrr" of unblushitig infamy, could have iicaptd so 
extraoidinary and terrible judgment t Although probably efiecled by th^ 
warning voice of Piovidence, an infinite multitude of the first human de- 
positaries unce the Sood of aboriginal virtue were innocently condemned 

id punished at the will of that imperial calf : some were aewed in the 
ikins of wild beasts, and lorn b; dogi, or fastened upon, crasaes ; the 
greater part were thrown upon the pile, and when the dayi of this civic fes- 
tival of atmanent had ^led, the proto-martyrB of our holy faith were 
burned like lumps of naphtha, to girt light Set 34th June, 

The forces of Pope LeoIX. are routed by Robert Guiscard, the Nonaan, 
at Civitella, 1063, The adreDlnien exacted from their reverend captive 
the tRvsattturs of the kingdom of Naptti, those provinces in Apulia and 
Calabria, which they had acquired (and have retained) by the sword. 



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mil did Hit, 



B< of ■ tmrnf -nt H alMDloM, 

Ai Ou ll ■Hii'd, wbei Nuin Ub kcfu, 

Bkt mnal n •boo aUlbil inWil b( Id kwd.— J>nw«ai. 

9t^ 

Edh«hd U. mkrches wilh bit mt unj from Berwick, 1314. 

The celebraled battle of Palmy, and tkfeu of At bnve Tdbot, bji 
Joan of Arc. Saturday, 1429 : " one -thsuuiid Stb hmdred Tstanroua 
I in anna were ilaia, one Ibouaand made priioiKn, and among Iheae 
» iome penom of note, mch ai Earl Talbot, Falitaff, and the son 
of the Eai4 of Bedford, beeidea diran othen ; jet of eun, not three 
I were found wouoded, -which we deemed to be ooiDg to a divine mi- 
racle. These, and manj more, hath the maiden already defeated, and, 
by the aid of God, will she yet eSect ilill greater deeds. Tht danitet k 
of a nmitlii Jigurt ; iht perfonutk nunjy aetieni, tptalath but tittU, ma- 
tiifatah grtal dtiention, and in ftrr ipetch and coiHitTjatHm, hath a cfefi- 
■t vaiee, liht at u wont Id be llul iif a uiDman. Slii eattlh but tittlt, 
toMttk not mueh of tcine, and it (jjwrl in tht occimtTimenti of hantt and 
mti. She hath great admiration of lotdien, and thoie of rtdbU ra- 
n plsiuin^, the deiighUth grtatly ; and u polimC and umeearied it 
•^bearing armoar, that the Ttmaintth (Cc dayl Jong, both day and night, 
/ulty acemlnd in nmit," It wag in this conflict that the EHnabht Sir 
John Fatttaff, considering nitliiD himself whether discretioa ii not the 
better part of lalour, dropped hii ihinty lance, and fairly ran away. 

The treaty of truce lor ten yean between the Empetot Charies V. and 
Francis the French King is signed at Nitt, 1638. 

Cardinal Wolsey presents to his royal patron the palace of Hampton 
CovTt {originally founded b; Sir Rowland Lenthall), 1625. 

Hampden is wounded moitatly ia the shoulder hj a jnstol-shot «t the 
battle of Chalgravs Field, in Oifonlshire, 1643.— 5w 2iih June. 
The eilled Bishop Attwbury sails from the Tower, 1728. 
St. Bride's ileeple a severely ihatlered by a storm, 1T64. ' 
Otah«tee thou^t to be the Sd^llario of Quires is discorend by Cap- 
lain Wallis, caUed hy him, " George Ibe Third** Island," 1767. 



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Thenbr. hli morul bltdc foil comely bunt 

In tvoc; dicatb, ycwT'd nltfa cuiiani allgfau ; 

WlwH bUu were barnlih'd goM, ud biwlte itroni 

Of nollKr-pMrl, ind buckled wllh i EOlden lonpie.— JrUor. 



The Battle of Watebloo. This U <hi« of > uries of lictoiies, and 
IS it wss, happily, the lut, w ii it the |;iealest, and cetUunl; the most 
brilliant of all the laureUed aad feathered trium;^ diat jret hsTO been 
achieved b; the Britiih Beth>na ; whether we regard d>e aaat, 1 
downfall of a gigantic T VB AN HV which, like an incubus, oppreswd, a 
[uie-like, drained the healdiy blood of Europe ; or lhem«in>,,avi, 
lance, mental presence, and deileri^, the Hebo'b triple Virtue, sup- 
ported by steady courage, the patriot's flsme, and by those companima, 
each of whom felt au Alexander at his Amrl, and the death in his 
{ ; or whether we consider the rtfull of this great national day, that 
stale of Peace, id which the four mlstieues of the earth are at present 
lepouDg, just and uoitelesi, as the beaven-direcled planebi in t' 
couraei. . There is somefting of romance in the uolioD of Fluiaich, that 
tiie deMiuction of those to whom their country is most obliged is ntttt- 
lory to perfect th^ happness i as if every great character was merely a 
puppet of fbrtiue, and their Talnable places were to be supplied by the 
diMJ< .' II was surely a higher sentiment of the Grecian ipolaguer, that 
" J>Mlli u (Mri un/orlunale in tht linw of praperity." Where is 
veteran to be toaoA lo dead lo fame, who is not annually rigged and 
bnnii^ed in the glass of his " reptxtatim V The fire-spurred laurel 
ever looks green : the marigold still bends to the sun. 

The civic banquet of the Smereignt at Guildhall, ISK. The Prince 
B«geDt opens WattrUe Bridge, in the Stand, built by Rennie, ISIT. 

The coIoemI statue of Achilles, cast from French cannon, dedicated 
bj their " cimneryiHiRCR lo Arthub, Ddee of Wellington, and hit 
bmvt eampontonj in armi," was placed in Hyde Park upon this day, 1832. 
by the eipreas command of departed majesty.— See SGrt June, 



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Charlu JuuM I. (of Gnat Bri- 

tain),l59a.EdinlniTgkCaitU. 

Bkiie P>M*1, 1S23, CUnnmt, 

Philip Limbotch, 1633, An- 



ThedniatioQ of Aims depemU 
npoD an tuj iBppl; ef the nou- 
HiluiKnt : io, ID the court of 
Engluid, (btie ii > Krvice tbey 
oil 'AU-nlght ;' being a kind of 

gnat cake, of uvi, wi 
wick in Iba middle. — Baeo 



OlftV ;f tlu Latin Chttrch. 
SU. Oorvaum and ProUaiui, 

twin-brntkeri and Mart3(r», 

(TiiulaiSaintiof) Won, lit 

Ceatni;. 
St. Die (or Deodatni), Biilup 

i^Neven,d.ff39,or6aO. 
St. Boniface, AreU/iMhop and 

Apoille of Ruiiia, M. 1009. 
St. Juliana Falconieri, V. 1340. 



Si. Romuald, 1027. died, An- 

PienOaverioD, ISlS.nvratMl, 

GoMnitK. (Langlej.) 
Biibop (Eiek>el)Ho[^,ia90. 



Dr. William Sherlock, 1707. d. 

Hampttfod. (St. Paul's.) 
Iiaac Papin, 1709. d.Poni. 
NicholaiLemeiy.lVlS.d. Pmit. 
WUliamHa;, 175S. 
Sit JoHph Bank*, 1830. d 

Spring Crtvt. 



The glow-nonn biMdi chiefly 
in the hottcit inmmcr monthi ; 
and not io open cbunpugnt, 
but in bnibea and Iwdgti ; 
whence, peAapa, ibdr ijnrit ia 
veryfine; and, byreaionoftbe 
fioeneii, it may readily eiliale. 
The Italian fly, called Incdole, 
that ihinea ai the glow-fronn, 
and are only leen in the heat 
of aummer, ii chiefly fi>und ia 
fen* and aedgei. — Boom. 



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XIX. JUNE. 

You BW the rKklBg pug, the EkHlIf fun, 
nc lip pftl« qnlvtirini, aoA th« bvunlcn eye* 
Nd men *f1Ui irdov hiifhli yon h«rd the pc 
or iiDiiiEiiit iliipi, from ahwe Is akoi* i 
Hnrd Diihtly plini'd araid Ibt uUan vitcb 
TbE h-cqKBI cDfH, while on euh otka Bi'd, 



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Sets. 



[□ JoHNaobscribcs MaonaChabt*, 01 tlieGieUChaitec of liberties', 
which is the ba^ and palladium of British freedom, upon this dajr, at 
Runuy-mtml, a meadow bo named on the bonlu of tbe Thamei, between 
St(dnCT and 'Windsor(nowiheI^hamrace-coui«),rrtn%Friiiif, 1215. 
" On lbs one side, stood Filz- Walter, and the majori^ of the baiona 
and Botuli^ of England : on the other sate the Kiag, accompanied b; 
eight bishops, Pimduir the papal envoy, and fifteen gentlemen ; these 
attended as his tmslj advisers." This memorable instrument was i 
ftd four times by Heniy III. (the son and auccesBoi of John), twice by 
Edward I., fifteen times by Edward 111., seven times by Richard II., 
sii times by Heniy IV., and once by Henry V.—S« lllA Febmary. 
" Most of the provisions eipired with that system for which they w 
calcaUted ; but at the time they were highly useful. They checked the 
most galling abuses of feudal superiority ; Ihey gave a aew tone to 

h legislation J Ibey jus^fied resistance to the encroachments of des- 
potism, and in subsequent struggles with the crown, pointed to delermi- 
late objects the ellbrts of the nation." 

" An interlude, entitled the tragedy of Rickard the ntird, wherein Is 
hown the death of Edwaid the Fourth, with the smothering of the two 
princes in the Tower, with the lamentable end of Shore's wife, and tbe 
ention of the two houses of Lancaster and York," is entered at Sta- 
irs' Hall, bj Thomas Creede, a printer, 1594. It contains one grave 
line ^utttd by HamUt, with a sli^t and pleasant altera^on ; Thi 
aking' raven doth ' beilooi'J'or Ttnenge. — The writer was probably a 
pufied witling of the Red £uU— the Physignathui of Chick Lane. 

AdmiralVeroonseiieslhecflriiHofCarthagena, in Terra Fiona, 1741. 
They were afterwards compelled to abandon the siege from petliUnce. 

The tenth (and first Summer) month, Jtfuiufur, of the French Republi- 
can year began, when the sun enters the sign Cancer, according to the 
Roman calendar ; but with us, two days later. — S« 31i( June.- 



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A fiim aAttraci comelkfiom afiilm cc 



Day. 


vixth. 


9tst|f. 


Xll. 


ffir H«cii7 adney, 1519, Pm.- 


LouiiL (he Feeble (Enperor), 


C»l. 
20. 


hunl? 


840. d. Iilaiuf «i lb> ffiiiiM. 


Dr. OMifc HiclM, 16+2, 


Bp.AdJbert,B81.iPT«6ur^. 




IVmiAcm. 


Sir Archibald, DopbUi, 1333. 




Jimei EnkiDB, Lord Ain, 


fcilJ«J. Haling tfjJJ. 






Tboiini,Locd D'Arcj, M«d«f. 




Dr. Adun Ferpuoo, 1733, 


1S38. St. B.Ca[ph'.. 




Imuran, 


Henry Percjr. 8th Earl ofNorth- 




TheophUo. LiadMj. 1723, 








Taeer. 




Am* LetilU BiibmU, 1743, 


WUIum Caveodiih, 2d £ul of 




ni^HTMi. 








Henriella Stuart (««*«. o/ 




The Politic*] Liu on wuh 


OiI««), 1670. d. St. a«ud. 






SirTboDiuAnDitiong,ei.l684. 




.Mil.lof<u>.tl>«Ut;>D<l.p.. 


Edward Ward, 173L 5t. P«.- 












Joha GeoiKB Ke^aler, 1743. 

i.Hamwn: 
Cbukii Fnderidi Abel, 1787. 




tniif tf tht Latin Church. 




Bt. Sjlteriui, Pope, Moriyr 


FelU Vicq D'Aiir, 1794. died. 




(itaPKrf), at Paimim, 63B. 


Porii. 




SL Gobuo, of Jnlud, FWrat 







ontf Martyr, (.fWr) S56. 


WoawB ha™ meie atiengtfa 




8LU«bcipt(or Edbuige), Fir- 


io Ibcdr boU, Iban wt have ia 




gi>ii^E»gUnd.mCtaU,j. 


oar lawi ; and dkh« power bj 




St. Bud, 3iti«p ,>f Ttroumvt 


their tean, than we hafe b; our 




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XX. JUNE. 

Oir dna-tnd wu »t Ilka tke bouiboM fln, 
WMcb Ihc pom pHiul hMH imaa| In (nben. 
To Hninlder on, and wilt i tliM tbr wtklni. 
Oara wu Iho conflairttloD of At fontt, 
Whithr In Iti tary, ipam Aor aproat, nor Main. 
~~ ~ to be avlLnpiiih'd, 






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flCtt^ 

A Rohan templs to Plato Summamu, king of the detd, tod dmnderer 
of the nighl ; erected bj the citiieni during Cbe w«n with Fjirhui. 

The illiulriaai John Chijaoatom ii banished bota his patriuchBte to 
^ remote and deaolate town of Cucusni, among the ridgei of Moant 
Tauma, by ■ command of the Empreu Eudoiia, A.D. 404. The day of 

» hie final exile, wu marked by the conflagiation of the cathedral, ef 

i leDale-houM, and of the adjacent buildings, and by the destructian 
of the incomparable statues of the Sfiuw. from the temple of Helicon. 

The tnnsUtioa of the bod; of &unt EijihikI.— See I8th March. 

The battle of Halidm Hill, 1333. TbeRt^nt of Scotland, six earls, 
and many baroni, fell in the field : the fugitives were punued by King 
fidmid and a parly of hone, on the one aide, and by the Lord Darcy 

d his Irish auiiliaries od the other : and the ilaughler is said lo 1 
exceeded that of any former defeat. The tuireuder of Berwick, by the 
Eul of March, immediately rollowed. "The Scottish wars areeoded," 
■aid a public voice, " since no one of that natioa remaina having intereat 
enough to raise an army, or akill aufficient to command one." 

Richard II. gianti the name and style of Earl Marshal of Engla^id, to 
the liain malt of Thomas Bigod, Lord Movbny (then Earl of Notting- 
ham), upon this day, 1396 : the office wu renewed by Jama I. for (ha 
lift of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel and Surrey (aikd aRerwards of 
Norfolk), tbe 29tb of August, 1632 ; and Charles II, bestowed the mhmi- 
!> of this high dignity io favour of Henry, Lord Howard, of Caatle- 
Rising (Eail of Norwich, and aileiwardi Ouht of Norfolk), by letten, 
patent, dated tbe 19th of October, 1673.— Sm 13th Ftbrvary. 

The separate treaty bettveen Charles V. and Pope Clement VII. is 
concluded at Bamirma, 1G29. The Black-hole incarceration, 17S6. 



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ipwtlDf <or ibc anoT, hli wlft, wl 
hiE.n,to(a*.™™qr*l™tr; "'■ 
.0 be advlKd to taka etre of Ihemi 
t an at olbln."—ApapklAtgmt. • 



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Flint l"t ■ none, Ibe (lul diet ; 
Lu(h nd be wtU. Monkcyi hi 
Zitrtmt food doeton (Or the ipl 



attf. 



Sift Editabd Coke, after the comictioo sud eiecatioa of Garnet, 
the leil of the gunpowJtr coiuptnilin-t, ii proDioUd from the office 
of Attornej-general to the Chief-Juiticeihip of the ComTnon Fleu, 
S. Bacon recaved, at Ihe tame time, the appointment of SolieUor- 
gentral, probably as a Ic^ed contul, for Mcret Krvic« rendered to th 
King of Scotlaod. Sir Edward Coke was of aaother faction, and n 
^/rwnil of the philoupher, as the following valuable letter, written about 
I time to the fonuei trill explain ; " Air. Actomej, I thought it I 
e for all, lo let jou know in plainneu, what I Gnd of you, and what 
you shall find of me. Yon take to yourself a liber^ to disgrace 
disable my law, my experience, my discretion : what it pleaselh you, I 
pray, think of me : T am one that knows both my own wants and other 
's ; and it may be, perchance, that mine mend, others' stand at 
tj ; and nirety, I may not endure in public place to be wronged, 
out repelling the same. You are great, and therefore have Ihe more 
envien, which would be glad to have you paid at another's cost. Since 
the time I missed (he Solicitor's place (Ibe rather I think by your 
■nn), I cannot expect that you and I shall ever serve as Attorney and 
Solicitor together ; bul either to temt viilh another [Sir HitiTi/ Sobari 
outAdr of tht ' Law IUp<rTti'1 vpon tfour remmi, OR TO STEP INTO SOME 
OTHEB. COURSE. I write Dot this to show my friends what a hi 
letter I have written to Mr. Attorney. 1 have none of those humoi 
but that I have written is to a good end ; that ia, to the mote decent 
carriage of my nualer'i itnice, and to our particular better understand- 
tne of another. This letter, if it shall be answered by you, in deed 
not in word, I suppose it will not be worse for us both ; else it is 
I few lines lost ; which for a much amaller matter, I would have ad- 
ventured. So thiibeing to yourself, I for my part rest." — Sa 25th October. 

B« ye u(>7, ind ^ not: Iei hdi die tun (o down d)Kin ^onrwialh; neither 
give place 10 Ihc deviL St- Pmd to the Ephetirvu. 



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Then ObHrfilaeit, ■ aymph of facaUhicit hmfl. 



PHplBC nwn lOrlh ilwir alleya [thb. 

And Sport Ifitpt up, lod •elE'd hli bcedMB ipvar. — Oi£r- 

atfte. , 

Sir Antho&y W«ldan, b wn of the clerk of iht kitchen to Qaeeo Eli- 
zabeth, and Eo well knovn for the ipleDetic roughtiMi of hii gooie-^Ht, 
accnmpanied King Jamei upon his visit to the nonheni metiopalia, in 
the character of clerk of the Board of Green Cloth. This daj he ad- 
dreased to a friend (cook 1) in Loudon, his funoui iibtl upon the Scot- 
tish nation, dated Leith, near £diiibiir^, 1617, which is pnsetred in 
the Kennet collection among the Lansdowne MSB. The picttue of hi* 
Royal matler, in "The Court and Character of King James," published 
16S0, is indeed a cuTumty, hot cbaiBClenEtic aod to the life. " ~ 
was veiy tempeiale ia his eierciaea and diet, and not intemperate in his 
drinking. It is true he drank veij often, and of the strongeit kind of 
drink, but it was rather out of a cutmn, than uj delight." 

Charles I. grants tbe tenitory (now the State) of Man/land, so called 
in compliment to his Queen, to Cecil, second Lord Baltimore, as parcel 
ofWindsorManar, with a reservation, anaually, of two Indian arrows.t 
presented on Easter Tuttday at theCasUe. wherathey may be seen, U 

Died miitrably, Richard Brandon, the hereditor; hangman, and the 
hireling tool who beheaded Charles I. and the Earl of Straflaid. He 
was interred in Whitechapel chtirchyard the next day, amidst eiecr«- 
tions and vulgar insults which he could not feel, 1649. 

The church of 81. George. Hanover Square, is founded, 1712. 

Commodore Anson captoies the rich g^lem near Manilla, 1743, 

The great wa ttrpcnl was obsetred at Plymouth, in the UnitedSlales, 
1815. Ill extennon above the suiface of the water was more than a 
hundred fi»et, and the head appeared to be about six or eight feet long. 
The leipeDling anima], noticed in the Norway Seas, is of much greater 
proportioDB, with large blue eyes " which looked like a couple d^ bright 
ptwltr platei." It would astonish the learnid, to find Old Neiens at 
Eieler Change. Wordsworth may yet have more than a ' glimpse' of 
PmtRu, for having spoken so handsomely of one of his daugbten. 



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tbe board h« wblrl'd ■ pj 



Now hive It (11 by Silnl 
THen I beheld haw he dit 

Hli eyH bleared, hlificE 



Antbon; Collini, 1676, Hitlan. 

Popelinicre hu well abuived, 
thai the fbrcei of princea by tea 
an margtut <lt grandeia d'Ei- 
talej for whoMiever commuidi 
the iea> commtods dw trade : 
■boKiever commandi the tiade 
of the world, commandi the 
riches of the world, and conae- 
quenllj the world ittetT. 

RaUigh. 

9tita t^ the Latin Church, 
St. Eusebius, Biihop of' Same- 

Ufa, M. 379, or 380. 
St, Aaion, Abbot 

6th Centnry. 
St. Meen, MevenDua (also 

Metanus), Abbot tn Brilnni 

c. 617. 
Si. Leufredni (in Frttteh Leu- 

frol), Abbot, 738. 
St. Ralph, Archbiihep cf Bour- 

ga, d. 866. 
8l Aloyaiiu (or LewU Gi 

zoga), d. Romt, 1591. 



I Britasiy, 



1, Olt/mpia. 



Tbalea, B. C. M6. d 

(Miklui.) 
Edwaid III. (d/ Englaxd), 

1377. d. Sheiie, Rithmond. 

(WeatmiDiter.) 
John SkelloD, 1639. St. 

garet'i, Wtttmimler. 
Caplaia John Smith, IK 
Sir Inigo Jooel, 1652, St. 

Paui'i Wharf. 
John lindaa;, 1768. IiJtaglini. 
William (Alderman) Beckford, 

1770. 

John Hutchina, 1773. Wariham. 
George Juan y Sflnlori[io,1774. 

d. Codit. 
John ArmitroDg, 1797. died, 

London, 
Aodrew Peter, Count Bernstoff, 

1797. Denmark. 
Daniel Lambert, 1809. died, 

Stamford. 
John Frederick Tiichbeia, 1813. 

d. Heideiberg. 
Gilbert, EaHofMinto, 1814. 
Jeremiah Joyce, 1816. Cktihnnt. 
Dr. MaRlD Wall, 18S4. died, 

Oxford. 



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XXI. JUNK 



A broid m^eHle fttttm, tod rM\af on 

Tbniifh (D the ttinding haTmany at >aiiiid.~Ui«r<f. 

mm. 

TflB3cifMEB5oLSTlCEiitbe(«ntralp(HDt of the tropic (treps, to turn), 
which begina upon the feativt] of Bamaby bright, ami coutiauei for three 
weeki. The nn (tpeaking in the figumtive language of the Greeks), 
while doDhlisg the najnow bouadi of hit oval pasnge, appein to itand 
iHII, the dej'i aie neailj of equal daration, and the Umgal of the jeat. 
— Set 21it Dtctaiber, Id Sweden, Russia, and even in die North of 
Scotland, icarcelj any night i« perceived, the lun only Beeming to dip 
ir an hour or two beneath the horiton. According to (Mjmpiodoiui, 
I £gyp[iaii of die fifth century, the nung of the Dog-ilai wai juit 
twenty dayi aftei the eitival ' (united.' — Set 3d July. 

The Olympiad. Thii lamout epoch, by which the Graeka com- 
puted their time, was compoted ot/mir yiari, the iaterval elapiing be- 
tween the celebration at Olympia, in Elii, of their greit national Gomel, 
B martial institnUon of Hercnlei, B.C. 1222, revived by Lycurgui, 
B.C. 884. Thefirst01ym[nadbegan one bandied and ei^IyeiTB after 
the re-ertabruhment of those gamea, when Conebm, a t^ouner of Elii, 
obtained the prize, B.C. 776, twen^-three yenn before the foundation 
of Rome. Tb« computatkia by Olympiads, ceased A. D. 440, shortly 
before the inadtntioD by Dennis, of the Christian era. The first day of 
le games agreed with the commencement of eacb quaternary cycle, i, e. 
thefuU moon neit after tht lummn- aUlice, when douhtlcM, in Ifae per- 
fect ages of die world, the hinge of that luminary moved in harmony with 
the gate of the year. The Oratti were Venus (April), Mater Maia (the 
place of honour), and Diana, or Luna, (June), who gave her name to Si- 
In FhtEoicia, Bad to LmuJiniuni, the throne of Britannia. These 
were certainly real personages. The Metoaicyear of the Athenians be- 
gan with the Htte moon neareat to tHa day, — See 21th June. 

The death of ThaUi, in the/mtrlA year of the MG& Olympiad. He 
divided the Grecian Zodiac into (easoiu. Cyras Captured Sardis in that 
year; when also Crcesus was overthrown, having reigned fourteen years. 
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Tlut utili late food mni.-~jniv Htntj/ VIII. 

The foniidiliOD-iUinc of Ihe Boman Ca^tol fannwd bj Ihe loldien of 
ViteUini, ii innk npoD iu reuituti«n by Vei|iui&n, A.D. TO. Thii 
mtgniicent temple, of ■ bnndred (lepi, wbicb ww Bnt TOwed 
fimnded bj Tuquimni Friicui, apoo the Tarpeuui rock, corered fboT 
acre* of gionnd, and wai dedicated to Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva, tbe 
patroni of the Empire, or rather of lU period. — 5m 19th Decimber. 

The trial of Queen Ktthuiae before tbe Legatee, at Blaekfcian, 1529. 
Heiuy lat in ilate on the right of the Ceidiuali, and eniweFed lo 
name. Tbe Que«n wu on Ibeir left; and ai loon ai ihe wai called, 
luing from her cbail, proteited againit the juiitdiction ; bnt herjudgei 
not admitting tbe appeal, the loie again, croued before them, and ac- 
companied by ber maidi, tbiev berielf at tbe KiDg;'i feet : " Sir," aaid 
thii pattern of injaied eicellecce, " I beieech you to pty me, a woman 
end a itiaoger, without an asiared friend, and wilhoat an indifierent 
counaellor, 1 take God lowitneti, that I have alwajebeen to you a 
and loyal wife : that I have made it my conitant duty to leek your pleo- 
aure : that I have loied all whom you loved, whetbei I bad ream 
not, whether they were frienda to me or foei. I have been your wife for 
yean: I have brought you many children. God know* that, when I 
came lo your bed, I wai a virgin ; audi put it to your own conicience te 
■ay, whether it wai lK>t *o. If there be snyoSence wbicb can be ell^;ed 
tgunit me. 1 conient to depart willi infamy : if not, then I pray you, to 
do me joiUce." She then reipectfnlly left the court ; leaving there a 
very itrong impiCMion in her favour, an impreuion which Wolaey bim- 
■elf, with all bii looie vittue, wm never able to ihake off efiectnally for 
hia lafety ; eipecially ai hit colleague from over tbe water appeared U 
andenbmd the lofty eloquence and force of mental cbeitity. 

Chaile* V. takei Terouanne by aiiault, and tazei the fortificationi, 
ISS3. Weber producn the " Dn- Friachatt," at Berlin, 1B31, 

FilHhaod la Jiu u dliuni from Intb, » the eyo uc fmtn the ein. — Tht 



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Tie death of Edward III. in the jytj-jSrit year of an illnalrious reign, 
lie cross in Cheapside is broken and defaced, and an imagt of the in- 
fant Christ lacnlegiously conveyed away during the night, 1581. It was 
oripnaily one of Qneen Eleanoi'a memorials ; but had been embellished 
in 1446 with sculplured religious figures. — Set id May. 

The Anniversaij of the foundation of thp Cathedral of St. Paul, 
1675. The highest stone of the lanteni was placed by the tmi of the 
litect in 1710. This sublime Hmie of the Godhead, is supposed to 
• been erected near the t-uitu of a fane devoted to the heathen mis- 
t, Diana, as the Christian Abbey at Westminster appears to have 
arisen beneath Ihe ashes of an idolatrous temple, consecrated to Apollo ; 
both striking monumeDts of the grandeur and durability of truth : for the 
DeJmouitnfgewhich taught a Wren to construct his cupola, basdirected 
the human intellect to seek tlie sources of omnipotence itymiiJ the viuble 
world. This cathedral stands upon two acres and sixteen perches of 
ground. Its height is four hundred and four feet, or douhU that of the 
Monument. The bell belonging to the clock, Gied in the south turret, 
is ten feet in diameter. Dr. Henry Comptou was the diocesan. 

Tbe naTal victory at Cadii, under Howard and Essex, when the lat- 
ter, in a fit of delight, threw his hat into the lea, 1596.— See S2d. 
A flood, near the Havanuah, which swept away 3000 pecaoos, 1791. 
The Battle op Vittohia, 1813. In thia lolstidal victory (which 
^re«f with the birih of, in every view, a nmr rtlatist'), the Marquis of 
Wellington totally defeated the French under King Joseph (Buona- 
parte) and Marshal Jourdan, with immense loss of men, one hundred and 
tea pieces of cannon, four hundred and fitleen waggons of ammuni- 
], and all thdr baggage, proviuons, treasure, &c.; ti^ther with the 
Marshal's baton, and drore them out of Spun. London and Westmin- 
werc illuminated for three nights succesnvely ; and a htcatomb of 
Spanish buflaloes should (properly) hare been oSered in Jiadrid. 



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XXll. JUNE. 

Thtj ulk of NiH, I Iedow Bgt wbn, 
Pflnuk chlmrm, tbM o'tt pocu rclcB; 
I Df tr ccHld tsd that (Ucy Rni. 
fix havi UvDk-d Ukdi aft, I'm nn. In 
Thty talk of Bappbo; bat, alul Ihc ihai 
IUhuvuiui »U Hi* iBUn of bar fame I 
OrlDda'i Inward vinai li lo brifhl. 





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Gupar Buthiui, 1676. Cuilrin, 

toy, in Scft™™. 
Robert Nriwo, 1656, LW«i. 

lliomu Day, 174B, L«»Im. 

AndhowdoMltf*.!, Mon- 

iieur1.Midihe.-Wiihdlihe 
benignity, uid I, looking quiellj 
in her eyei, that I expected.— 
She wa. going to My loniething 

into tlie ahop with the glorea.— 
Apr<ip«, laid I, I want n couple 
of pain mjieU.—Tkt Futu. 

Si. Alb.n, Profmarlifr of Bri- 
tain, d. Veiulam, 303. (Su 
Engliih ChuTck CalmdoT.) 

St. Paoliau, BMcp of Nolo, 
431. 


AlpboDIO V. (^ ^r™^), 

1458. 
NLcholttMachiarel, 1537.Flo. 

Biihop (John) Fi.d>«r, 1535. 

beluadtd. r«iw Hill. 
Catharine PhUipe, 1664. died. 

Hahomet IV. (of Tuiley). «■ 
uuinatid, 1691. 

Soljman III. (_of T^luy%ik<l, 

1691. 
Edmund Pourchot, 1734. d. 

Pari,. 

1763. d. CaitiM 4 Loeha. 
Philip Cuteret Webb, 1770. 

d. Buibridgt. 

Her Toice i> a low, toft muHe, 
formed lo cham Ihow only who 

a crowd ; it hat thii advantage, 
you must come clow to her to 
hoar it. A CTumKter. 



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ncus. 

The Battle of Pydna, and defeat of Peraens, the (ait ting of Mace- 
doaia, b; the Rardans, nader £m;liuB Panlus, B. C. 168. Thii date 
is settled by the eclipse, whidi happened (he preceding nighL Perseus 
was shoitly aflenvardB sdied bj the couqueior. in Samollmce, and thus 
tenDinated the indepeodeDce of a cooatry which bad seen a saccession 
of thirty tigitmait rooDarchs, and eight naurpers. The great and thiryl 
Aleiaiiderwas the DineleeDth lineal ruler from Caranas, the founder of 
the empire, B. C. 814, si years after the fall of Assyria. 

The third (Ecumenical coancil assembles at Ephaui, to execute the 
decree of Pope Celestine as to the heresy of Nestoiius, A.D. 431. 
There were present, in the first session, one hnndred and thirty-eight 
bishops. He was deposed from his see, and banished to an oasis. 

The death of Saint Wtn^ride, of Holy- well .—Se« 3d Nmtnbtr. 

A remarkable eclipse, eight in the morning, 2d Richard I. (who was 
Bien at -4cr«), which caused an artificial night. In that year a porijiion 
appeared, undistinguishable by the naked sight from the real sun, 1191. 

The vicloiy of the Scotch Earl of March, on Nesbit Moor, 1402. 

The defeat of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, at Morof, in Swit- 
zerlaod, 14T6. Philip de Comines, speaking of this celebrated conflict 
for liberty, meutioaa hnrfixbuuifri as troops. 

The accesHon of the nsuiper, Richard III, 1483. It was that me- 
morable Sunday when Dr. Shaw, a brother of the Lord Mayor, preached 
it St. Paul's Cross, from the singular teit, " Bastard slips shall not 
strike deep roota ■" and thence proceeded, by the appointment of Glou- 
cester, lo show the Illegidmacj of the inbnt princes. 

The Cornish rebels, under Lonl Audley, encamp on Blackheath,I497. 

Sir Thomas Randolph embarks at Harwich, as Envoy (o Bulsia, 
1568. A mercantile treaty was concluded (here the 2(>th of June, 1569. 



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PriH la ihr iUh all.objHU an, 

Hum tn iIh tnoriDdkH ilfhf, 
Tbe Or* Ifeu bami, ud {Int » Uiht 
All lOftMata of (ke dinn'd m flod 

O J«aloHy 1 
TksE Ifnnl, lyrul «( llw mind.— Drfdai. 



:r of Cadii, b; capituUlioD, 1596. The impetuoiu E*- 
ei, with ■ hindful of men, at that moment wai in the nmriul-jilati, 
dealiog death troimd him ai tbe denl'i caidt. A ranioni of 130,000 
■ waa to b« paid for thui live* ; and the town and merchaodiK 
wereabaodoiKdUi the rapacity of the cooqueron. The Admiral, Howard, 
a letter U hi* father-in-law. Lord Burleigh, kindly but fialteriagly 
oburres ; " 1 can auiue you, theie ii tmt a, braver man in the world 
than the E^l ii ; and I proleit, is my limple poor jadgmeol, a gravt 
tsMur ; for ahal He dolh it in grtat order amlgood diiciplim ptifarmtd." 
Ad Older of tbe Fiivy Council, 1600 (the Court was then at Gretn- 
uich), itAibiling all public petfotmanoea about the ci^, except in two 
housei ; tbe Globe, in Surrey, upon the Bankude ; and the other, the 
Fortune, in Golding Lane, Middleaei, then ertctiiig hy ont Edicard Alien,. 
a uruanl of lAe Idrd Admiral, instead of another (The Curtain) to be 
plucked down. " And for the other house lo be allowed on Surrey ude, 
I* their hudihips are pleased to permit, to the company of players, 
that shall play there [Shakspeare'i amtyj to make their own chcnce, 
which they will have, rf diimt houttt that art lliert, chooung one of them 
and no more. And the said company of players, being the serranU of 
the Lord Chamboriain, [' skill -embracing hair of Hunsdon'] have made 
choice of the home called theGloh." Itwas alio ordered, that the tv 

impanies shonld play " twice a week and no ottener; and especially 
they shall refrain to play on the Sabbath-day." 

llenalowe, MSS. : " Lent unto Benjemj Johnsone, at the apoynlmenl 
of £. Alleyu and William Birde, the 32 of Jnne, 1603, in earnest ot 
a boocke [play] called " Rie'mrd Crook-back," and for new adycioas 
(or ■' Jtraaimo," the sum ot xli." That tragedy ' if ever acted,' waa 
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vt kiully iplei*. 



t.—Salwdaf Sight. 



acts. 



Henry III. upon bis going into Gucony, delivers the cuatody of the 
Great S«>1, u ChatanUor, to Eleanor his Queea, 1263. 

Sir Nictiolaa Bacon, a loii of tlie Lord Keeper of tbal oame, ia Treated 
by KiDg Jamea I. tlie premier Barooet of England, 1611. 

Galileo and hii booti «je con^emn^ bj tbe InqnUilioD. ie33. 

The Scottisb coTenanten are defitated at the bridge of BetKntli, • 
village □□ the Cl;de, bj the Duke of Monmouth, 1679. 

Mr. Canoing'i mutian in favour of the Catholic cluma, ia carried by 
a signal maprity of one hundred and nineleen. The same notion, in' 
trodueed by the Marquis Wellesley, in the Hoaie of Lords, an the Ist 
of July, 1812, wti only hut by a msjori^ of i>r>; " and on each aide," 
saya a 3udL<noua annalist, *'ivere ranged ministers and their habilual 
suppoitera, Royal dnkes and bishops ; the latter, indeed, in vciy un- 
equil proportion." In short, tbe solid airay of inuuj in this cause, 
which at lei^;th it has achieved by atorm, would illuminate many pages ; 
and to omit one name (as Gray baa Teiy well said) is beCIsi avoided. 

Louis XVI. King of France and his family, who had escaped the 
preceding day from Pans, aie arrested at Varenoes, in tbe department 
oftheMeuse, and conducted back to the Thuilleries, 1791. 

A brilliant and general illumination to commemorate the battle of 
Waterloo, 1815. Louis XVIII. re-entered Paris the 8th of July. 

Meuieuis Brougham and Denman are first beard at the bar of the 
House of Lords, as the advocates of the late Frinceia of Brunswick, 
called by courtesy, the Queen, 1820. While men are endowed with 
ions there will be eicess and prejudice ; to long as this country is 
free, there must be party, and the weak wilt always find proleclora ; 
existence is for too limited and valuable to busy ourselves with per- 
sonal enmitiefl respecting those who, disrobed of every earthly vani^, 
" thtir littUfietiHgi tunc mo mori," are mingled peaceably together. 



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OR an I bT Ike wtBRilciU, 
Poor Aauamom t Iboa ipcm'u old. 
WhMlKr 1 (TOW iM or H, 





Aid DUUtl wIkI; 


Dm tui aMkt.-At,. 


I^H- 


VtrtI*. 


BMtlS. 


rx. 


Bidup (John) Fell, 1625, 


Caiui Flamliuui, MIM, B.C. 


Ca). 
23. 


Ung^k. 


ai7. 


WUliain Godfraj de Ltibnite, 


Albertui, ArchbMtp of M«u$, 




1646, L<ipne. 


A. D. 1137. 




Sit FletchetNorton.Lord Grant- 


Maij Tudor (Dutchtu of Suf- 




ley. 1716. 


filk,) 1533. 




Supben Louis Malus, 1775, 


Dr. John Mill, 1707. BUthing- 




Porii. 


don. 






Gabriel Daniel, 1738. d. Parit. 

Achmet HI. (Empmr), 1730. 




Then iiaweakDsu that con- 


Joseph Barre, 1764. d. Pmt. 




tributu (a health ; and c«iti«l 


Mark Akenade, 1770. St. 




must be na warily increaaed as 


Jamis'i, Watminiter. 




diet, whilst there are dregs 






enough left of the disease to 


1791. Binfiild. 




■poll the operation and diges- 


Mathuiin James Briuou, 1806. 




lioiL Clarmdit,. 


WiUoa Lowry, 1834. London. 




etit* of thtLatiu Church. 


The coHveraalion -ith wise 




St. Etbeldreda (or Ediltradis, 


and good men cannot be oter- 




ammmlyA»d,yy.Virgi,iAb- 


valued ; it forms Ibe mind for 




btu a/ Ely, d. 679. 






St. Mary, of Oigaiti, m B™- 


to be pieferred before the mere 




Jwnt, 1213. 


learning of books, in order to 
bewise—Ctmrndon. 



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^Upon the vigil of Si. J<*o the Baptiil (Midianuner-eve), at ni^t, id 
the Mm (itw, the London Walch vra» accustomed to be ue with great 
parade, marches, and couater-miucheB, " from the little conduit bj 
Panl'a Gate, through Weit Cheap, by the Stoc^, through Combill, by 
Leadenhall to Aldgale, then back down Fenchurch Street, by Grau- 
CbuFCh, about Gnui-Church conduit, and up Giasa-Church Street 
into Combill, and through it into West Cheap agun, and to broke Dp." 
It w*i altogether a very imposing civic spectacle, scucety inferior aod 
veiy umilar to the Lord Mayor's show of the present nge. 

The French r^al ceiemony, called " I</eu de la Saint Jtan," when 
a certain number of cats, with a fox, aie bomt in die Place de Gr^, 
upon SU John's Eve, is probably u ancient ai llie monarchy. 

The overthrow of the Consul, Flaminius, mar the lake Thrasymenns, 
(Pcni^'a), B.C. 217. It was one of the moat decisive and destructive 
victories on record, sounding as a drum to Roman ears, the prmaitiTig 
bat deceptive talents of Hannibal. — 5m 21it Afoti. 

The Caliph AU, burth horn the prophet, is ehoitn, A. D. 665. 

The Emperor Heniy VJ. wbo meanly purchased, imprisoned, and 
sold our lUchard I. is inaugurated by Pope Celestine, Sunday, 1191. 
Matthew Paris states, that Ihe tttijnt to(A place upon lUa day. 

A terrible convulsion of Mount Etna, pbout sunset, 1281. 

Richsrd III. publishes his famous pnvlatnalum, 1485. It stated, 
that Htnry Tudvr " intended to change and subvert the lawa of the 
realm, and to do the most cruel murders, slaaghtera, robberies, and dis- 
herisons that were ever teen in any Chiistian countiy." 

Charles II. arrives in the Frith of CromarUe, 1649.— 7W niiwni are 
leen at London, noticed by the/ommi John Partridge, N. S. 1679. 



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of Ml Uddi whhMood i 
loDi MUion Jton may ml, 

tBllUui of hit ««iili7'i bkiod. 
I'll ■ hdULhi luit, 

tl»lrcrln>a»iiBii-il: 
y OD iBHklBd,— Grof. 



P-y- 


WftH. 


B»tH 


VIII, 


&<i>i< John lh« R>ptisl, B. C. 


riluF(<iuujVeipuiauu>,A.D. 


C»l. 


t, Hebron, in PalMint. 


79.d. Cufiiio. 


24. 


Si.}ohn,ofMatha,A.D. 1169, 


Gilbert do Clare, E«l of Glou. 




Fourun. 






Theodore Beia, 1519, Fotlai. 


liabel, CoanMH of Waiwick, 




in Burftmdy. 


1439. Tiidaib«ry. 




/^An Ch.rcUII, Duk« of Mul- 






bor<mgh.I660,,W»,I>™M*. 


dn«mtd, 1630. 




Ur.D.Gregopy. 1661,^fc«rd«n. 


NichoiuClaudeP^iKu:, 1637. 






^ir in Ptvcence. 




1721. EdijibuTgh. 


John Hampdeo, 1643.d. Thame. 




Dr. Tieadirsy Buuel Nash, 


(Hampden, in Bucb.! 
Biabop (Uaac) Barrow, 1680. 








Dr. Ale«nder Adam, 1741. 


St. Anph. 




Ro/Brd, «*n- Fffrrei. 


Di.JohnPartridge,17l5.M«rt- 






lakt. 




DaupftiB^. 


Lewi., Mwqnis de Beau.au, 




JoKpblne (■»/ F™««), 1763. 


1744. WW, Ypra. 






Adrian, Duke de Noulles, 




General ( Uutua) Hoche. 1768, 


1766. 




MmtnuU. 


ChriHopbet Drakenberg, 1770. 






d. Nom^s^Mged 146. 




e%ii»>>/tluLatmCkj,Tch. 


Dr. Thoma* Araoij, 1774. 




The Naliviiy of St. John the 


BunJitlJ FiiUi. 




Bopfirt. 


Lady Miller, 1781. Bad. 




I'he Martyrs of Rame, under 


Dr. J, Blair, 1782. St. Bridt'i. 




Nero, A. D. 64. 


Tbomai Suidby. 1798. 




St. Bartholomew. Mmk of Dur- 


Sir FranrfaMilman. 1821. 




ham Abbtu. 





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Hvilil 


. lb< d«-y borf*. lei me .Lt 




MM 






Tl«r, 


iq Uial himoir'd iDcL, eroteune 


indw 






BVI! 


wiring nmliriee ihaded ; wliEre 






dlll|«Dt, iDd wllb lb' eTtracul 




OflMgnnl woodbine loadi hli UIILe lh[(h.— 



St. John's Day. This great festival of thechun:hiiuiiisiitul«d A. D. 
488, to cammemoiate tbe nativitj of the pracnrsor of Christ, and from 
its importance it has been placed (or misplaced) in the Catholic necro- 
logj. — Sa Blh July. Midmmmtr Day, with the days of the Puriffeo- 
tiea and AictuitBB, a the Ihird end last of the three great and solemn 
holidays during the lenns.— 5m 2d FtbruaTy. 

The first ChriiliaD persecnlion under Nero, 64.— Sm ISth June. 

Vtipaiian had Teigned with popularity for ten yean, 79. He was the 
firal of Uie Komao Empeion who died a natural death ; and leems to have 
merited this exemption, if superior worth be a protection from domes- 
tic tieacheiy or open assasiinadoa. VespsBiaa was succeeded by Titus, 
a prince not inferior in virtue to his father ; but his reign was brief. 

Frederick Barbariftsa issues his famous imperial edict, under the 
sanction of the diet at Constance, restoring die Lombard towns to their 
primitive rank as iudependenl republics, with all their lucient usages, 
1183 ; a day which, to adoptaseoteace, "maybe numbered among the 
most remarkable epochs in the long progress of human society." 

The Battle op BANNocKBtiHN, in the vicinage of Stirling, 1314.— 
A proud and bright and a prosperous Monday for Scotland, "The 
slaughter was immense ; (he deep ravine of Bannockbnm, to the sooth 
of the field of battie, lying in the direction taken by most of (he fugi- 
tives, was almost choked and bridged over with the slain." 

Edward's great and bloody victoiy oflT Slvys, 1340. Nautical know- 
ledge was not yet allended b; humanity ; for two French Admirals, Sir 
Nicholas Bnchet and Sir Hugh Quetet, were ' haagui,' says Fabian, 
' upoQ the saUs of their ships.' Philip was first made acquainted with 
the defeat by tiie wit of his buffoon. He called the English cowards ; 
and when the king inquired the reason, implied, that Ihey had not the 
courage to leap into the sea, litLC the French and Normans. 

Jit Bumockbam 1 Hrved Uh! Bnce, 

or wbllk Ihc Infill had ni ntiH.-^colcA BToadianrll. 



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%n» 


Ibit hilb plic-d Ihli lilud to 


ToIhUb 


e Esnpt, ud Ixr Butn lo i 


iDlllUc 


pjapctlg. dgll> oo BriMtB m 




tR ItHltr, (od tki inunl 111 


Whdiw 


thla ponton of Ihe world wer 




da a«u nron ihc eoBilDni, 


Ortl... 


c[»itd; II wu »rt dtilfo'd 


TdImiIi 


•■end ntatt of muklBd.— 



FFoUn' M 0»hkU. 



Tba battla oT Sfvrn OoJii, when the rebel. Cade, turning on hii pai- 
uien.put them In flight, killed KrHuniphreyStaffanl, their cammander, 
and lurvyed himself in the knigbt'i panoply and spun, 1460. This 
' hog iD umour' look poisesuon of Soiithwark on the 1st of Jul;, and 
two days later entered LoodoD, cutting nith his sword tlu nrpa if Iht 
dTawbridgt as he passed. 

The Duke of Buckingham harangues the good citizens rrom the hua.- 
tinga at Guildhall, and Richaid 111. is proclaimed King by hireling 
M. The corporation wailed the next morning upon his Highness at 
his den, Bvynard's Castle, and lender the cronn, winch he rtlucianilti 
accepts, 1483. 

The Island of Newfoundland is diBcorered by Scbasliaa Cabol, 1497. 
It was the first Eumpean expedition thai reached the American cantinnt. 
—Sit IJth Jwu. The license of Henry Vll. (for he, like Vespasian, 
loved money for its use) is dated theStiiday of March, 1496. 

The coronation of Henry VIII. and his Queen. KathaiiiK of Arragon, 
at Westminster, 1609. A dazzling prince, but even Cardinal Pole ob- 
serves, that he was then "inialtt,t\ qua peclara omnia ipmiripossent." 
The lady was dressed in wliiic, with her hair loose, and the ceremonies 
were appropriated to the nuptials of a wadta. 

The anniversaiy of the great procession at Dunkirk, called Cormati, 
durii^ the dominion of Charles V. This place ca^tulaled to Cromwell, 
when at the sununtt of hii greatness, upon the present day. 165B. 

John (Boccold) of Leyden, the leader of the Anabaptists, is elected 
King of Munitcr, called £ion, in Westphalia, 1534. 

Sebastian III. embarks at Lisbon against Africa with one thousand 
sail, 1 577. The garrison of Oxford surrenders to the IndeJ^dents, 1646. 



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Km* AyHlr.— VMtD iifThala. 



Tnc Gnt ilone of Ihe Senate House, at Cambridge, ii placed 1732. 

TbeAct of James I. i^aimt cmjumtiim, vitcherajt, and dealing with 
evil and uicbd qnrili was repealed from Ihis day, 1736. The proem 
of Ihe Act in the 5tfa year of Eliiabeth, 1563, againsl cncAantntenti, &c. 
is as follawB : " Where at tbii present then ii no oidioary ne cDodign 
punishmeot provided against the pmclices of the wicked ofleaces of COD- 
juratioDs and inrac&tioiu of evil epirita, and of sorceriM, eochinnneiits, 
chaims, and witcfaciafts, the nfaich ofleaces. by force of a statute made 
'la itdii year of the rrign of tJie late King Henry the Eighth, were 
made to be tetany, and so continued until the said statute was repealed 
by the act and statute of repeal made in the first year of the reign of 
the late King Edward the Sixth : sithens the repeal whereof, many 
fantastical and devilish persons have devised and practised invocations 
and conjurations of evil and wicked spirits, and have used and prac- 
tised witchcrafts, enchantments, charms, and sorceries, to the destruc- 
tion of the penoDs and goodK of tbcdr neighboun, and other subjects of 
this realm, and for lewd intents and purposes, contrary to the laws o: 
AlmighQ God, (o the peril of their own souls, and to the great infamy 
and disquietoess of this realm." — 5m 39i& Septetabtr. 

The foundation of the Grammai School, at Edinburgh, is laid, 1777. 

The diviwon of the territories and treasures of Tippo Saheb, 1799. 
It may here be toU, that the Duke of Wellington (then Colonel Wel- 
lesley) was itruck with a ifMnl ball tn the hue, during the attack of 
Tope on the Sih of April ; and that the present Marquis Welleslej 
(then Lord Momiogtoo) was at this time Gmrmtir-geneTal of India, 

The Trinity Term begins on the Friday (at the two Univeraities oi 
the Wednesday) following TrinitySunday, and continues until the Wed- 
nesday fortnight from that period, (twenty days) unless it happen oi 
St. John's Day. The concloaion of this terrn, at Oxford and Cambridge, 
is r^ulated by the Act of the former, and the commencement of the 
latter, which usually take place the first Ttitiday in July. 



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Tbt .itin iKHi; tkil met BU'd yoor dHck., 


Like tk( bixtdlni ro«, pnu forth atili 


Aner cold wialci'i vialcBcci ihI jobi IJpi 


On wboK »n touch, bid 11 b«D Monlbk, 


Dtilh wodM hive dM hlnudr, Ih(Iii io ihow 


Like nnWacli'iJ cheniei ink frtlb notnlPt d»w. 


Whlrh one* iim'd otf, D» |H>pk firall upUri, 


Wllh inoroDi bLu.h«, K. IbUc* the taull 




U^ 


Hittti. 


m^m- 


jDhn Coropui Becanai, 1518. 


Philip Duke of Swabia (Em- 


Cal'. 
3d. 




perer), 1208. imai. Bomtnj;. 
yueen Eleanor (nf P™«ne«), 




I have Men men in puliament 


1291.d. JmiTMtuni. 




who laid ind did nodiiag ; thou 


Jane (Abbess) Chibol, 1593. 




ihat w«re onty busy in impedisg 


d. ParacUle. 




auful m«uure>i uid otheri 


HtoTj Howard, Earl of North- 




■ho Ulked, indeed, but aver in 


amptOD, N. S. 1614. Dover 




romance. I would have no pro- 


CoMtU. 




feued mfideli in tlul House. 


John Maratoti, 1634. Tnaptt 




StetU. 


Church. 
Bishop (ThomM) Westfield, 




«Ut« of (i> Latin Church. 


1644- 




St».Ago«d«ndAgIibert,Mflr. 


BUhop (William) Thotnas, 




tyn at CreUU, near Parti, 


1669. WorcBler. 




400. 


Roger Gale, 1744. d, Scmton. 




Si. Prosper nf Aquitain, (after) 


Godfrey Sellius, 1767. died. 




«3. 


Charenton. 




St. Maidmus, Bishop of Turin, 


Charles Darbaroux,guill. 1794. 




(after) 465. 


WilHan. Smellie, 1795. died. 




8l MoIoc, BUhop in Scotland. 


EdinJurgJi. 




Tth Century. 








AristiMincy is a> IkUl as de- 




d. Egnumd. c. 740. 






St. William. Founder o/Mmt,. 


mils of neither. Hlovesaking, 




Virgine, near Bfuvento, d. 


lords, and commons, hmOI; 




1142. 


chosen by the nobought nif- 
miges of a fiee people. — Juntiu. 




I'rearher >i onio, ikI 


oodrfd,.^, 

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■.t bid! Die ihli dc 
of bravf nly plcui 
in<!lanGhDly Td«, 



Btnealh Iha mllk-whlU (horn ihil k»U the (venlng gi]>.— Adth. 

grtfl. 

The marriage of Josd, the elder sister of Henry III. will) Alexaadet II. 
King of ScoUand, is solemniied in Ihe cathedral of York, 1221. 

in imperial diet assembles at Spite, where the divines who attended 
the Elector of Saxony and the Landgrave, preached publicly, and admla- 
istered the sacrament according to the riles of the reformed church, 1 526. 

The can>na(ian of Charles IX. of France, at Rheims, 1S61 : " At 
thai solemnity, Morjf (of Scotland) appeared in all the slate and pomp 
of widowed royalty ; but distinguished by the white mourning allotted 
o youthfiji dowagers ; her dark hrowu tresses were concealed utider a 
long crape veil, which floated loosely on her shoulders, and, according 
to BrBDtome, was not to delicate as the tint of her cotourlesa cheeks." 

The Hexham Grammar School is instituted by Queen Elizabeth, 1598. 

Ring William retakes NamuT from the French, after a long and 
bloody u^, although the town vras defended by ten thousand n 
commanded by Bouflera ; and it appears that Villeroi, al the head of ten 
ijnxi that number, was In the n^hbourhood, 1695. 

The dieadfiil confl^ration of the haxbcraugli vessel, bound from Ja- 
maica, to Loudon, in the latitude of for^-one degrees, forty-five minutes, 
and longitude, from Crooked Island, thirty degrees, thirty minutes. East. 
She blew np and disappeared ; those fliat hastily escaped In the yawl, 
arrived without food orwater, compass, mast, or sails, and with but three 
I, alNewfoundland, IheVthof July, 1T2T. The survivors had lived 
upon fifteen of thrir dead companions. The fire began in the laiaretto. 

The Emperors of France and Russia hold thdr amicable conference 
upon a raft moored on the river Niemen, near Tiliic. The famous Treaty 
ras ratified on the 7th of July, 1B07, by which act Napoleon restored 
D Frederick William, ancient Prussia, and the French conques.j in 
Upper Saiony— the King agreeing to adopt " the continental system." 
There were ucret articles levelled against our maritime supremacy. 



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Ernnt the Fioui {of Luntburg), 

1497, ZilU. 
Dr. FbiUp Doddridge, 1702, 

Londim. 
Chailei Measiec, 1730, Bodtm- 

filler. 
George Horknd, 1763, Hay 



If joQ do sol correcl jeanelf, 
ow that I will cut jou off 

fiom the tucceiuoD, u we lap 

off an nielesi member. 

Peter to hit Son. 

OlitS «/" tht Latin Church. 

Ste. John and Paul, SotdUn 
ami Msrlyri, c. 362. 

St. Vigiliua, Biihop of Treat, 
M. 400 or 405. 

St. MaiEatius, Abbot in Poitm, 
0.616. 

St. Babolen, In Abbot of St. 
ur'i, 7lh Century. 

The VentrabU Raing^a, Wi- 
dow, iuri«/, II 35. 

St. Aulhelm, Biihep ef Bellay, 
' 1I7B. 



Julian (Empnvr), A. D. 363. 
t£ajn, near Samara^ upon tht 
Tigrii. (Conilanlioople.) 
lonoceDi V, (Pope), 1276. 
Jamei Toucbet, Lord Audloj, 

beheaded, 1497. 
FnnciKo Piiarro, 1541. onani- 

naled, Lima. 
Victorinna Slrigelius, 1569. 

died, Hiidelberg, 
Gabriel, Count of Montgomery, 

1S74. bduaded. P«ri$. 
Roger Manoen, Earl of Rnl- 

land, 1612. Bel^«^. 
Ralph Cudwonh, 1688. Chriit 

College, Cambridgt. 
John Flavel, 1691. DartauHUh, 
Alexis Cmrewitz (of Bwno), 
O. S. ma. died (under len- 
ience), Petenburg, 
Cardinal Julius A Iberoni, 1752. 

d. PUuenlia. 
Aldentmn Hugh Smith, 1789. 

I. Trevor Park, 
Nich. Jadelot, 1793. d. Nancy. 
Gilbert While, 1793. Setbtme. 
Peier Demoun, lT95.d. PoHi. 
King George IV. (of England), 
Royal Chapel, Windmr. 



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To Join the public jndfinerl, and approre, 

Orlly whalenr Ihey dislike, or lore) 

Mine be (lie uumr prndesl Reynard made 

To Ihe ilek llon—Tnily I'm afriid, 

When 1 bebold (ke uepa Iktt lo Ik; den 

Look forward all, bul none relam tffia.—JJimux. 

ath^ 

DloNVSlDs, of Aleiuidria, b^aa hii aitranoinickl era, ISondag, B. C. 
385, the ;eu of the acces^n of Ptolemy Philadelpbus. He wai ihe 
first person who found the eiiLci limits of the boUi year, conBistiag oF 
three hundred and sii^-Gve da;s, five houn, and forty-mne minute; 

Cicero anives at Athens In his pn^ress to Aua, tud spends ten days 
with the Musea. This was the year of the rhetorician'! pro-consulst 
he left RoDH on the 1st of May, tccompaaied by his brother and their 

sods; laikdedatActiiimthe ISthof June.at EphesuilbeSad.a 
leached Laodieea, one of the capital cities of his province, on the 3 
of July, the day when his goiernmeat began, B, C> 61. 

The memorable conference between Brutus, and Cassius, aod Cicei 
at Aniium, a few weeks after the parricide, B. C. 44. Fortia (dang 
ler of Cato) and Tertulla, the wi*es of the two friends, asiiited. 

The death of KiaiTO, tht amquenir of Peru, IMl. "With a t^j 
of mind no less daring than the constitution of bis body was robust, he 
was foremost in eveiy danger, patient under the greatest hardships, and 
unsubdued by any fatigue. Though so illite)rs.le thai he could not even 
re>xl,hewas soon considered as a man formed to command. Every ope- 
ration committed to his conduct pnned successful, ssby a happy, but rare 
conjunction, he united persereraoce with ardour, asd was as cautious in 
executing, as he was bold in fbrming his plans. By engaging eaily in 
active life, without any resource but bit own talents and industry, and 
by depending on himself alone in his struggles to eme^ from ob- 

irity, he acquiied such a thorough knowledge of a&iis, and of men, 
that ha was fitted to assume s superior part in conducting the fanner 
D goieming the latter." This ambitious advenlurar founded the city 
of Lima, the capital of Peru, on the feast of the Epiphany, 1S36, and 
lailt the commercial town of TruiiUo in the same year. 



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11w EarU of Penbn^, Marr, and Soutluunptoii, and the Duke at 
LeDDOx. are made Kpigfati Ccmfniom of tbe hoDourable onlei of the 
Gaiter by King Jamei, al Wiadtor Castle (Sunday), 1603. 

Oliver Croiqwel I ii lalemnlj inaugurated Lord FtoUcIot, in Weatmin- 
9t«r Hull. 16S7. "Tbe Speaker iateiled his Higfanei* with a purple 
mantle, lined with ermioe ; pieMnted him with a bible, superbly gilt 

~ embooed ; girt a aword by his side, and placed a sceptre of ms 
nve gidd in hi* bawl. On the right of the chair, at sonu distance, ai 
tbe French, on the left, tbe Dutch Ambiatitdai : on oue side stood the 
Earl of Warwick, with the sword of the Commonwealth ; on the other, 
the Lord Mayor, with that of the city." 

Lady Montagu writes to Fope, from Belgrade Village, N.S. 1717 : 
" To say truth, I am sometjmea very weaiy of the unging, and dancing, 
and sunshine, and wish for the smoke attd impertinences in which you 
toil, thoDgh 1 endeavour to persuade myself that I live in a more agree- 
able variety than you do ; aad that Monday, setting of paitiidges ; 
Tuesday, reading English ; Wtdnttday, studying in the Turkish lao- 
guage (in wlucb, by the way, I am already learned) ; Thunday, clas- 
sical anlhorB ; Friday, spent in writing ; SiUvrday, at my needle ; and 
' anday, admitting of visits, and hearing of muuc, is a betterway of dis- 
posing of the iveek, thaq Montiay, at the dravrlag-room ; Tundai/, Lady 
Mohun'§ ; Wednetday, at tbe opera ; Tbvralav, the play ^ Friday, 
Mrs, Chetwynd'i. &c. : a perpetual round of bearing the same scandal, 
and seeing the same follies acted over and over again." 

Coutel, the aeronaut, accompanied by an adjutant and general, re- 
connoitres the contending armies at Flturtu, !□ an air^balloan. and pre- 
serves a commanicatian vrith Jourdan, in defiance of tbe Austrian bat- 
teries, 1794. This battle continued fgr fifteen hours, a lununer't day. 

The Duke of Clarence escorts tbe SovertigTis to the continent, 1814. 






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The Accession or KiMO William the Foukth. 'Die da; of a new 
reign is, politically, a. day of i ntauraliim, and themfora one of unn 
gled prmpective cbeeifulnen. In t mi»al seme, indeed, a man is 
moved from eiiBtenct, a perseolge with the tissued qualities of out c 
man nature, trhe immediately becomes the subject of opinion. Theie 
are pritale, dear conoexioDi Ihal^ gaang opoa his vacant chair, will call 
up his sentimental and social cfaaiaclcr, and icttp the more, btcaiae ihey 
I in vain ; and there aie also public leim, the soiiows of a nation, 
who, if he posiesaed a paiental attachniant fiH bis country, if his name 
be associated with its ghii;, if he has advanced her reputatton by his 
eaaour, her happiness by his cbahtiea, or her elegance, by patron- 
; those emollients of manners, the fine arts, which . are the ceiUin 
Idi of philosophy, Ihey will grat^uUy consecrate hit memoty. But 
c are limiled reflections, wholly separable fiom the contemplation of 
insecutive aavereigaly. Although the stale-wa^on and chaiioteer 
the same, yet the levera are of other metal, and its " propriety" is 
changed : the long-risoinding pace is renewed in oth^i paths. As the 

~ and lady of the chaiiot pass, a health is fired fiom three kingdon 
LoNO Live Kino William IV. and God bless Queen Adelaid 
Gieen-mantled Thame waved her silvery locks, and venerable Ocean 
smoothed his shaggy beard and smiUd. Flattery, that impious i 
which diverts all good and patriotic resolvei into false chanaels, is 
a close watch in the chambers of princes, unless, like his Majesty, Ihey 
can maintain the inle^ty, and the wholesome blessings of an English 
fireside. It is scarcely an art — the art of making love and popularity. 



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SwccI qocEn o( pvtcy. cUa 


Ihlcr at Oie IphEn \—amau. 


Dos- 


Bfrt|«. 


9tm>. 


V. 


Louii XII. (the Jnit), 1462. 


sir John Hajward, 1627. 


cii. 




Fiederick Morel, tht ywnffr. 


27. 


ChulBS IX. (of FnnM). ISGO, 


1630. d. Parit. 




£l. Gmnoin. 






Chirie. Xn. (BfSu^ton), 1682, 






S<«JJ«.(n? 


Sebastian Baroo do Fontchas- 
teau, 1699. d. Pari.. 




But roBOD, or IhewiiMtcoa- 






clnsiooB drawD fiom even Imth 


Nathan BaiUy,1742.d.S«7m«f. 






George Nerth, 1772. C«tU<1e. 




of guilt, nor posKU the soul 


Nicholas Tindal, 1774. died. 




with thai peace which ever sut- 


GrttTiaich Ho^tal. 




psBsei the best toronned uoder- 


Martin Wall, the Eldtr. 1776. 




itandiDg. ; DO, Dothing but 


Bath Abbey. 




that voice of Almighty power, 


Dr. William Dodd. 1777. et- 




that ipoko from the crou la jour 


tevttd, Tyburn. 




mfftring cmtpanim there, can 


J. H. Waser, 17B0. bdieaiUd, 




be jrour point DOW ; and we all. 


Zurich. 




like him, muit pass sentence 


Simon Nicolas Linguet, 1794. 




upon auraelvea. 






Lfldj Huntingdon to Dodd. 


Claudius, Prince of Bit^io, 







Uai. guillotiTitd, Paru. 




ebita of Cht Latin Church. 


Domiaic Vlllais, 1B14. d. Strai- 




St. John, D/"M»u[i«-, 6lli Cent. 
St. Ladidas 1. (or Lancelot), 


burg. 
Joseph Von Hager, 1820. died, 

Jtfilan. 




Ki«e of Hungary, (taansla- 




t)on), 1095. 





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Trg estival Bolilke of Melon, Ibe Aihtnum, camspo&ili wiih this day 
la the BTlli Olgmpiad, B.C. 432.— 5« \3th May. From the time of 
Solon, whose Aichomhip took phce b the year, B. C. 594, the Attic 
iDonlhs were lunar, of ttree hundred and fi^-fouT days, compued ■)- 
teinalely of ihir^ and tw^ty-nine days, and connected with the •olu- 
rerolution by id intercalaty month (called PoMdeoo 2) of twen^-two 
and twenty-three daya, allemylely, etery two years. The EimeaJMcaeterU 
of Heloa, took a wider ciicuil by intercalating aeren months in ntn* 
yean. TheyeaTswbichiecraved the emlNdisinic months were these: 3, 5, 

~ t, 13, 16, 19, and hiinineleea yean contained two hundred and thirty- 
five mouths of thirty days, or seven thousand and fifty days. But aa 
nineteen years in aalar time contained six thousand nine hnndrad and 
forty days; according to Melon's computation, there wai an overplus 
one hundred and ten days to be expunged from his cycle. These he de- 
ducted b; a new method. In the old system of takii^ one day from 
every alternate month, too much wax gained. His method, therefore, 
was to strike out every aii^-third day. Yet his months did not agree 
with the Innationa, andinhis lolar year there was still an eiceta of thirty 
minutes, amounting, durii^ a period, to nine hours and a lialf. lliii v 
attempted to be corrected by (he cycle a! Califpiu, of teven^-sii Julias 
yean, containing four Metonic petiade,e«Riiu>icin£ July, B.C. 390, the 
yeat when the last Darius was slain. It was, however, only a partial 
refbrmation, by deducting one day in seventy-six years, leaving a 

iss of eleven minutes end tbiee seconds beyond our Gregorian year. 
The Calippic cycle and the calculation by Olympiads fell together. 

The elKiion of Jovian by the imperial army, A. D. 363. Julian 
was in his thir^-second year, having i^gned one year and about eight 
months from the death of Conatantius. He died just before mid-niglil. 



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Pope BoDifiice VIII. issues an auihoritaiive rescript, directed ]i> Ed- 
•anl I., by which he claimed the feudal sovereignl; over Scolland, and 
raserved to hii decision anj controversy between the crdwns, 1299. T' ' 
docatnenl WIS delivered by Archbishop Winchelseyio Edward, in hiimnp 
before CKrlavATOck, the 26th or August, (^00, and was aniweced by tlie 
BaroDs of England, 13ih of February, 1301 : "ll is, and hj the grace of 
Godshallalwaysbe,ourcoaunon and unanimous resoUe, that with reaped 
to the tflB}wral righu t>{ our Lord the King, he ahall oat plead before 
you nor submit io any means loyoarjudgm^t." Themoaarcb alio, in 
a/ontfjar leller, dated 7lh May, 1301, formalEy deduces his claim ti 
the superioh^ from Snite, the Tryan. Hit Holiness replied : that tlk 
Scots cared not for Brute, the Trojan, as they were derived from Scola, 
the daughter of Pharaoh, who landed in Ireland, and whose descendants 
became Kings of Albany by conquest, — Upon this day the Uuiverslly of 
Oibird unanimmuttf determined that IhejuTuriiction of tht I'op* of Same 
did not eiceed tht mini(tr]( of ang tlhtr English Bithap, 1634. 

Ferdinand, of Arragon, reugiks [he goveniment of Castile, 1506. 

Richanl III. ennobles the two Howards, 1483. — See 22<i August. 

Howell writes to hU/alher, Mr. Ben Jomon, 1629 : " I find that you 
have been oftentimes mad ; you were mad when you writ your Fox 
and madder when you writ your Alchgmiit ; you were mad when you 
first writ Cataii/te, and staik nud when you writ Stjanui ; but when you 
writ your Epigyaim, and the Magnetic Lady, you were not so mad : 
somuch that I perceive there be degrees of madness in you. Excuse 
me that I am so free with you. The madness I mean is that divi 
fury, that heating and heightening spirit, oF which Ovid speaks." 

O, Ilicy are Sed llic 1i;hl ! Tboie mi^ly apiriti 



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George Vlllten, Dnkfl of Buckingham, uili ftam Fortiinoulh upon 
hii aipeditiDQ agUoai the Frencfa cinst, from which he letumed wilh 
iiagr»(x, having lost ia the lale of Rhk the Bower of hii anny , 1637. 

The JBn-curiui Polilicu, No. 56: " Fitdaj, June 27, 1661. Mr. 
Hilton's book fanth been burnt Rt Timbmie, by an anest of the Pailia- 
ment." The fanuiui " Dtfince of thi PeopU of England" wai, twelve 
daji Iftter, bamt by the commoB eiecutioner, at Parii, auder ajujieul 

The French, commanded by M, du Cane, attack the Island of Ja- 
muca, and lay it waste bom Cow Baj to Part Morant, 1694. 

The celebnied battle of PuJtmni, in Rubhi. between two great and 
potent monarchi. The " lanacibli," wa» driven from the field with Ihe 

aaat of hii tiaopi, after a deapemte conflict of two hours, and Be 
Bender, O. S. 1709. " To tay all m a vxrrd," writes the Ciai tc 
Oeoeral, Callz, " thtir v>holt army hai had thtJaU qf Pimtan." 

Gibbon concludei his great work at Z^uunnt; the sixth volnme, 
whichheb^anlhelStborMay, 1786. " It was on the day, or rather 
nighl, of lhe37th<J June, 1787, between the hours of eleveo and twelve, 
that I wnte the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in 
garden. After laying down my pen, I took several tnma in a btrfai 
covered walk of tcacia*, wfakh commands a prospect of the conntiy, the 
lake, and the nountsini. The silver orb «f the moon was reflect 
from the waters. 1 will Dot diuemble ^ flist emotions of joy on t 
recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame." 

The capture of Buenos Ayres, by Sir Home Popham, 1B06. 

That rare phenomenon, a water ipaat, " which shipmen do the bu'ni- 
canoeall.constriogedin mass by the almighty aun," was obaerved by Si 
Richard Phillips, nearHighgaU, seven in the morning, 1817. — The rt 
tiring Vase is presented (by'Lord Hotliind) to Ji^ Kemhie, same day. 



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Awl l«r> btpin 1 


Ihm.-Alaimdtr'i Feat. 


D^ 


Bittt*. 


»«««. 


IV 


Ale«nderU.e Grew, B.C. 356, 


Albovinus («/ Lomfcorrfy), 573. 


c»i. 


PtlU. 




28. 


Hen.7 VIII. (o/ Engiand), 


Lord Leonard Gray, behtadtd. 






1541. 




John Drusiui, 1550, Ourfmard. 


J. Coropius Becanus, 1573. 




Henry Earl of Danven, 1S73, 


Abraham Oitelins, 159S. died. 




DonliHy. 


AntiBerp. 




Sir Peter Paul Rubens, 1577, 


John de Rotrou,' 1650. died. 




CokgM. 


Drnii. 




Je»n J»quei Rousseau, 1712, 


Wm. ralman, 1688. HomjAm- 




Gm^. 


M«swj. 






Thomas Creech, 1700. Oifard. 




My opimon 1 will prcfesi, 


Jo<»ph de MaiUa. 1748. died. 




that not without especial pni- 


P>Un. 




pose of the Deity such n mao 


FrancU Wheatley, 1801. 




was given ts tbe world, U whom 


Thomas Ganiett, ie02.L<«d«i. 




none has ever yet been equal'. 


George Keale. 1797. hUi«n1k. 




Arri>m. 


John Fiy, 1822. d. Sritiol. 




«Siit% of thtLaHn Church. 






St. Irenffiua, Biihep of Lyotw, 


all cauception ; being invisible 




Marlr. 202,or20e. 


he can have no form ; but from 




Sta. Flutaich and otbers. Mar- 


what we behold in his iwrii we 






may conclude that he is eternal. 




Sis. Potamiana and BaaiUdes, 






Afartyn, 3rd Century. 


and present eveij where. 




St. Leo II. Pnpe, buried, 683! 


BookoftkeHindM,. 






tact thai I liim a bob, thw be- . 
w wonhy of fait inberltuoe an4t 
Kbtg Philip lo Arittatlt. 



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to bHTenly bodici, which unie (wxl or <tU III 



Brti. 

The Coroiution of KiDg E^lnaid IV. tbe PUntageiwt, of the irhiu Sox, 
1461. His brothen, George and Richard, were cieated, upon thii an- 
guil occasion, Dukes of Cloiencc and Gloucester. 

The aDDiveissi; of the birth of Henry VIII. 1491, a great nKmarch, 
bat very hi horn being an admirable character. His life is rather felt 
than chronicled ; a good fortnae, far which he is indebted to his dough- 
if ' hiqipjr memory,' whose throne was her mind ; bet ruling pas- 
oon, England's welfore, with the least expense ; who picked out 
cherished a batch of nm that might have served the space between, and 
fr^roents now to spaie. The woman it partly silenced in the prince. 

The heraldi of Francis, the French Dauphin (who married Haiy of 
Scotland), assume the arms of England in the justs at Paris, 1569. 

The Island of Gnadttloape ii colonized by French settlers, under 
M. M. d'Olire and du Plessis, on the rigil of St. Feter^ day, 1 635. 

The Mereun'w Polttinu for this day, 1660 : " Satuidsy being ap- 
pointed by his M^esty [Charles II.] to touch such as were troubled 

h the Evil, ft great company of poor afflicted creature* were met 
together, many brought in chairs and flasketi, tnd being appointed by 
hit Majes^ to Mpwr to the Banqueting Houae, his Majea^ sat in a 
[ of slate, where he stroked bU that wete brought to him, and then 
ptat about eaiA of tbur necks a white ribbon, with an aogel of gold upon 
In this mantMr his Majesty itroked above lii Aundrtd ; and such 
was his princely patience and tenderness to the poor afflicted cteaturei 
that, though it took up a veiy long time, his Majesty, wAo ii niivr vear 
tfviM-da»ig,viwi pleased to make inquiry whether there were any more 
that had not yet been touched. After prayers were ended, the Duke of 
Bu^ngbam biou^t a towd, and the Earl of Pembioke a bason a 
ewer, who, after they had made obeisance to his Majesty, kneeled down 
till las Majes^ had washed, — See 5tk January. 

The suireoder of Minorca, by General Blakeney, 1756. 

Marshal Suchet leiies Tarragftia by stonn, 181 1. 

Kino WiLUitM IV. (Patenii juris Dtfiniary is proalaimed by the 
heralds at the high places, and with the accuatomed formalities, 183 



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9it Hen; Ydteikn, 1S6G, 1,- 


3L Peter tbe ApoUle, A. D. 


d. 


iingU^. 


66. crucitof , 7u Odiit, R«M. 


29. 


Dr. Tbomu Hjde, 1636, BU- 


(V«i<:«n.) 




if-jj«y. 


8t.PiultheApo.tle,A.D.65. 




Pewr Fruck dn FonuiiM, 


MiauM, A^K Solvit, Rami. 




16B6, R«u«>. 


BanJanf the Oult. 






BUhop (WiUkm) AJKongli, 
1450. n<>rd<r«d, E<Uf<vl<»>. 




Tht •mcroDi Mnmd of a crair 


Mugaret fieauCart, CotmUu ef 






Riclnmmd, 1M9. WatmniUr 




in Ibt braoding M«iM>, *ttempt 


Al**g. 




•ometuDa. inllM paeij of tfanr 


General Gaqtard de TavaiiBa, 




beuU, loiing. bol »iU DO giul 


1673. d. SuUy CatU. 




.uccMi; lb> woodpecker leli 


Di. Richard Lucai, 1716. Ab- 




up > load >Dd htmt; kagh ; tht 


bm- 




fem-owl uitudn hU mate wkh 


Mmha]FlorimondMerd,17M. 




tberUiteriDgorcuUneU. 


fdUtd. Parma. 




(fJKM. 


Biihep (Zichaiy > PearM, 1774. 
WettmiMUr Abbty. 






Fimnceico Caiaccioli, 1799. 




mat of th, Latin Chmch. 


aieuUd, NcpUt Bay. 
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SI. Peler, PHn« of th* ApoaU$, 


Limdm. 




Martjr, A. D. 66. (Sm Zng- 


David WiUiun., 1816. died. 




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St. Peter's D*t U remarkable Tor the Bpleodid Ulominalion of St. 
Petal's CfauTch'at Rome. It pretentg, from the laatem, > panorama 
beunitd by tht tea, Tbe martyrdom took place in the 12lh year of N«ni. 

llie Nile ia lounded with the Nilometer at the Isle of Rodda, and die 
deptbi of the waters prmlaitaid. In 1762, they had leached the height 
of liiteea ells upon the 8th of August, when the dun of the canal at 
Cairo was cut through with the uaual cemnoniei. The standard is six- 
teen cnbiti long , and formeily was deposited in Ibfa temple of Sernpis, 
at Aleiaodria, until the time of Theodosius. A. D. 392. 

The lack of Rome, For fourteen days, under Genseric, the Vandal, 
lenniiiates, 455. The spoils of Jenaalem were removed to Carthage. 

The death of OfTa, a powerful English king, 794. He cotrespooded, 
on flattering terms, with Charlemagne, and fiied a ml to hia charters. 

Ferdinand III. enters the city of Cordma, by capitnlatioD, 1336. 

Edward Bruce expeli the English from GaUmeay, 1306. 

Heiiry II. of France is wounded in the «</< at a (oiiraameDt, with the 
spear of the Count de Montgomery, 1559^^«r 10th July. 

Charles V. is declared Emperor by the Electoral Toices, 1339. 

The new BritiA Seal is delivered to Chancellor Egerton, 1603. 

The Globe theatre, " thtgtpry ofth» Bank," is burnt to the ground tji 
a pwls/'chanibcn during the representation of ^akspeare'a "Kii^Heniy 
VIII." upon SU Peter's day, 1613 Su Id Jtity. 

Ferdinand of Grati is crowned, by the unanimous consent of the 
Slalea, Kiag of Bohemia. 1617. 

King Charlea defeats Waller at Cropredy Bridge, 1644. Charles II. 
by patent grants to hia brother, the Duke of York, the territory of the 
Dilawart Slats, then called the New Netherlands, 1674. The battle 
'erma, between the Freikch and Imperialiitt, 1734. The City Rood 
from Islington to Old Street is fini opened upon this day, 1761. 



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Citdmal Btivniui, 1607. 
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Clemeat Jowph Tiseot. 1826. 

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Colonel Dikoa Denham, 1828. 




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Thai » Hcond knowi it« third. 

And liy an wUlt ■ boloanil, 

And, thoagb her body dlE, bcr Itme httItcj 
A Kcnlir bird ■!» or UtH.-- £bium JpimMfa. 

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Thb HyacinthU of three daji were celebrated at Amycle, in the month 
HecalombBon. to the memoiy of Hjacintbas, with games in htmoui of 
Apollo, who eraektd tht (tvur of hit young pupil, by a powerful stroke 
of fail quoil, uded (it ia laid) b; a wicked puffof ZipJ^rnu. 

A Roman fcatiral of dedication to Hereultt and tht Muiti. A co- 
loual statue was erected to " ths bravest and (he wisest Greek," B. C. 
312, duripg the censorship of Apfnus Oaudius, the blind, who built the 
celebrated Road. According to Dionj^us, the club-beaierwas the father 
of Pailat, by LaitD*, « daughter of Evender, AmoDg the Sabinea (his 
inal worshippers in ItalyJ he was called Semo Saucui. The white 
poplar was dedicated to thii laborioni hero. — Stt lltb jliiguil. 

Henry VIII. emharks with his ftKces at Dorer fu the iuTasion of 
France, appointing " hia moat dear contort, Queen Cathahne, rectiix 
and govenior of the realm," 1613. 

A plague at Stratford in the year of the great poet'i birth, 1564. 

The victory under the walls of Oudmarde, on the Scheld, 1708. 
The Elector of Hanover (George II<), who fought with Marlbormgh, 
narrowly escaped i a ball struck down hia horse, and Colonel Laschky 
waa shot, at another time, dead by hia nde. 

Evelyn notes i " I went with a select committee of the commissioneis 
for GbeENWICH HosriTAL, and with Sir Chritloplier Wren, wliere with 
him 1 laid the first stone of the iutendad foundatioii, precisely al five 
o'clock b the evening, after we had dined together. Mr. Flamiteed, the 
King'a astronomical prafessor, ohaerring the punctual time by iottru- 
ments," 1696. The fobscriptiana were £9046 13i. 4d. KingWilliam, 
with great munificence, placed bis name on the list (or £3,000. 
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A» Jalii once a tlumb'riag lay, 

It duuic'd a bee did 6j tbat w>j. 

After ■ dew, or dew-tike *bo«er. 

To lipple fieely in ■ Bowa ; 

FcR- lOiDe rich flower, fae look the lip 

Of Julia, and begu lo aip ; 

But when be fell he inck'd from tbence 

Honej, BDd io the quinteuence ; 

He dnnk w mnch he mrce could itir ; 

So Jnlia took ibe piUerer : 

And lira* Mirpcii'd, u filchen nie, 

He Ihni begin liimielf I' exciue : 

Sweel ladj-Sower I 1 oerer bconghl 

Hilber tbe leaat one ihieriog Ihought ; 

But taking thoae rue lip* of joan 

For Mtme fieih, fragraat, laidoui Aowen, 

T tbosgfat I might ibere take a UiW, 

Where 10 much lyrup lu at wmw : 

Bendei. know thit, I new iti[^ 

Tbe Bow'r that girai me DonriihiDg } 

Bat with a kiit, or Ihankt, do pay 

For honey that I bear away. 

Thi* uid, he laid hia little wrip 

or boDey, 'fora ber ladyihip. 

And told her, aa lome l«>i« did fall. 

That, that he look, and that wu all. 

At which ibo imil'd, and bade him go 

And lake hii bag, but ihiu much know. 

When DCit he came a pilleriog w. 

He ihonld from her full lip> derire 

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JULIUS. 

Under tA> Profertwrn a/ Juiwlet. 

Vi ptrlUr DoUi cwpD* cup lanpiiiie crucU.-'^J^HcnlHir' 

Thod loo, O Earth, great Rhea wid, bring roiih ; 

And ihart shall be thj paagi : ihe laid, and high 

She lear'd ha arm, and with her iceptre atnick 

The yawning cliff : from its disparted height 

Adown the mount the guihing tontat nn. 

And diecT'd the valliei : there the hravenl; mother 

Bath'd, migfatj King, thy lender limbs : ahe wrapt them 

Ir purple banda : she gave the preGuaa pledge 

To prudent Neda, and tmiiicg she receiv'd thee. 

Thee God, to Cnouos Neda bnn^t : the nymphs 

And Ctnybantet thee tbeii lacied charge 

R«ceiv'd : Adiaste rock'd thj golden ciadle : 

The Goal, now biigfat amidal her fellow-itara, 

Kind Amaltbea, leach'd her teat distent 

With Dulk, thy early food : the sedulous Bee 

Distill'd ber hone; on thy purple lips. — CaUinuichui. 

In silent boiroi o'er the hoandlesa waste 

The driver, Hassan, with his camels past : 

One cruise of water on his back he bore, 

And his light scrip contaiu'd a scanty store. 

The sultry sun had gain'd the middle sky, 

And not a tree, and not an heib was nigh. 

With desperate sorrow wild, th' aflhgbied man 

Thrice VE^'d, thrice struck hii breast, and thus began : 

V« mute companions of my toils, that bear 

In all my griels a more than equal share ! 

In vain ye hope tlie green delights to know. 

Which [duDi more blest, or verdant vales, bestow -. 

Here rocks alone, and tasteless sands, are found, 

And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around. 
Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day. 
When first from Schirai' walls I bent my way ! 

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Aod Ull th; mlent muter'* Kanble tde, 
Id BODJidi tbit maj prarail ; 
Souodi ttnt gentle thoughu ioipifc : 
Though «a exalted ihs, 
Aa4 1 10 lowly be. 
Tell ber, incb AAient wHm make all ihy hMnwoy. 

H*ricl bowtheMdi^nrklHi 
Aad, thoogh tho movng haiidsppfoach not near, 
ThemielTCl with atrial U*r, 
A load of BUBKraua 4rembliDg nake. 
Now all Oty foroes try, 
Nov all thy chaisis apply, 
Herenge upon baicar the coaquetla «f her ey«. 

Weak, Lyie I thy Tirtne aore 
Is naeleis here, since thou art only fouod 
To cure, but not to wound, 

Aad ahe to wouod, but not to cuj«. 
Too weak too wilt thou prove 
My pauioa to remove, 
Phyuck to othei ilia, IhouVt Dounihment to love. 

Sleep, sleep again, my Lyre I 
For thon caa'st never tell my humble tale 
In sounds that will prevail ; 
No[ gentle thoughts iu her inspire : 
All thy vuia mirth lay by. 
Bid thy strings ulenl lie, 
Sleep, sleep again, my Lyrel and let thy matter die. 

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The scentleu and Ihe ■cenied Hi— ; Ihi* red, 
And or an humbler growlh, the odiei Ull, 
And throwing up into ihe daikett gloom 
Of neighb'ring cypicM, or more aabk yen, 
Hertilferglober, Hgbt ax the fovaj lorf, 
That the wiad uv«i8 frara ths brokso wave 1 
The Lilac, various ia anajr, now iddte. 
Now sanguine, and her beanMom iiead dow sei 
With porpia epikei pjiUHdal, •< if 
StudioDB of orauncnl, yet uureiolv'd 
■ Whidi hue (be moat.appn»'d, she choie tbem all : 
Cuptoas of-Bowtn liie Waodbine, pale and wan. 
But well compMuatlng her sickly looki 
With nerer-clojnng odoun, eariy and late ; 
HypirieiHn, all bloom, so thick a Swtim 
Of flow'n, Hke die* clothing her slendar rods, 
That Ksiae a leaf appears ; Matrtaii, too, 
Tboo^leaiew, well attir'd, and thick beMt 
Widi blushing wreaths, inveiliag ev'iy spray ; 
AUIuta, with ibe ftufh eye { ibe Brnom, 
Yellaw and bright, u bullion unalloy'd. 
Her blowomi ; and iHxuiianI above all 
The Jetmint, throwing wide her el^ant sweets. 
The deep dark green of whose unTUnish'd leaf 
Mokes mne coEnpinuous, and illumines more 
The bright prefiiwni of her scattered stars. — 
These bsTB been, and these ^sll be in their Day. 

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Fanlu Htnntiiii, 1513, Vniei. 
Kibop (jMepk) Hill, 1S14, 

BritUiB Park, Lfkltertkirt. 
Loni* JoMpb, IMt it Vatdamt, 

1654. 
LaiM CntT, Dvkt d' Ettrtn. 

1«9S. 
Jon BaptiUe, ComU d* Ba- 

mibtaii, I73S, Vtndamt. 
Adam, ViMOuil Duncan, 1731, 

I>IUwIM, A*g¥t'llliTt. 

0kti§i>ftiu Latin Chvrth. 
Bu. Jnliui and Aamc, Britiih 

Martyn at CaerUm, c. 303. 
Bu Thwiri, Aibot ntar Rheimi, 

4.633. 
St, Calaii, Ahbet in Mmtu, 542. 
St. Oal, l*t Biihap of CUrmonl. 

Si. Cjbv of Perigerd, 681. 
St.6iai»oit,tlitFinluli,6lhCtBt, 
Si. Gal.Znd Bpji/ CUnRtmt,660. 
St. LeoDonu, gf WaUt, Biibop. 
St. Kuinbold, BiAap and Mar- 

tgr. Patron of MccUin, 775. 
SI. Theobald (or Thibaolt). of 

Brie, 1066. , 



Edgar (afEagbmi),9lyGlai. 

lanbvty Aitti/, 
Biihop Manger, 131S. died, 

Ponlhint. 
Piam da Eiun, 1413. bt- 

htadtd. Para. 
John Biadfbrd, 1556, bimud, 

SnithfieU, 
Thi AdmirabU CnehUm, ISSS. 



BntH 



Iiaac Cannbon, 1614. Wat- 

minrltr Abbtg. 
Nicbolai Tnfbm, Earl of Tbanet, 

1633. Sjiynhant. 
Archfaubop (OIitbt) Fhinket, 

1681. txtenttd, Tyburn. 
Fred«iic,Dnke&ehombeif , 1890. 

UiM, BoyiM. (St. Pttiick'i.) 
Edmrd Lhn;d, 1709. died, 

Oxford. 

B. Nolin, 1763. d.P<iru. 
John Bnibu, 1763. d. Porit. 
Henry Fox, Loid Holland, 1 774. 
Willioin Huntingdan, 1613. d. 

Tavbridft Wtlli. 
Sir TboniBi Beraard, 1B18. d. 

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T!U CiEiv'i happy gklll ntOtu'd ibe jeu ; 
Though talgk fall autlon, banaai'il u ■ god. 
He on Um ulcndu mnttl palu bcalmr'il ; 
Awl u to hcli'ii fac *oald by imtrU r\t. 
So went Ik Hoi > nniqtr to Um ikta.-Ottd. 

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The Months. The lilth Roman moQih (Quintilii), received iu pre- 
sent digniBed appellative from Julias, the Cssar, by a posthumouG ttct 
or the senate ; hi in this patent moalh he had his birth. It Israel 
wiUi the first month, MahaTram, of the Arabs and Tucks ; with the fifth 
in, Epiphi, of the ancient Egyptian year; with the eleventh histori- 
cal moDth, Ah, of the Jews ; with the eleventh moon, Behen, aC the 
siani; with the eleventh moons, Loui, Esthius.aai Aphrodiiiui, of the 
Sjrro- Macedonians, PaphiaDs,aDd BilhyDians; with the elevenlb moons, 
Hamlt, Abii, and Dfarifalt, of the Abyssinians, Copts, and Annenians ; 
with the tenlli solar month, Tamvi, of the Syrians ; with the sectHid 
moDlh, Afilagttnum, of the Athenians ; the eleventh, Ci/rptrua, at the 
Macedaniana, and the seventh, Panontu, of their solar year. By the 
Germans and Hollanders it is named Hiuy (in English hag) month. 

TheAnniverearj of the death of -4onm, inMounlHor,thefiislday of 
the month Ab, a century and tweniy-thiee years old, B, C. 1453. 

The Ifoumenia, were Grecian games observed at the commencement 
of evei; lunar month, or the nemtBoon, in honour of all the gods, heroes, 
and dniDoni ; but especially of the great Apollo, autnamed Nmmfautt. 

The Metagitnia was a festival in Itus month celebrating the virtues 
of Apollo itfeiogilniui, and kepi by those inhabitants of Melile, who 
left th^ residences and settled in Allica ; as the name implies, a re- 
val/mn one neigkbeiiThood to another. So in the Roman Calendar 
the calends of July was the legal or periodical day appcrinted for (as we 
say^ moving ; the ' ' migratiotiei in alienas fitty 

Vespasian is proclumed al Aleiandria, by the governor of Egypt (in 
opposition to Vitellius) ; which is the date of hit ataaim to the Empire, 
Z. 69. The general was then at Ctesarea, (he capital of Jndea, 
where, two days later, he who had fought thirty battles on British ground, 
and reduced two powerrul nations and twenty towns, with the Isle of 
Wight, under ihe yoke of Rome, was saluted by the legions. 

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iiaden uad«i Richiud Plantageoel and Philip de, Voloit. 

to 100,000 wurion and pilgiimt, uaemble ia the pliins 

ol VckIu, 1190. The; •eparated on the lait of the moolh at Ljodi, 

the French kiag taking the road to Geaoa, Richaid that to ManeilleE. 

Louii IX. of France uila fiom Aiguei Mortal npoa hi> fatal cruiade. 

agsinit the iolideli of Tunii in Africa, 1370. 

Chailei II. «ign* hii charter incorportting " Tbt Cavemiin of the 
Charils far tht relitf of poor WiJoKi and CliildreB of Cttrgymen " 
167B { with licenie to poueu an; estate not exceeding the value of 
£2000. The governint, after the accenian of Dr. Turner's noble do- 
nation, obtained an augmeutatioa of the licenae to an income of £5000, 
dated 16th December 17U. 

The great baltJe on Ihe banks of the Bt^ne, in KildaK, 1690. James 
fled upon hia diacomliluTe to France ; Dn^heda and Dublin sun 
dered. " And if King William be returning we ma; say of him as . 
Csur <aid, ' Vtni, vidi, vici ;' but, to alia; much of this, the Fiench 
fleet rides in am channel (24ih June, O. S.), ours not daring to in 
f^, and the snem; threatening to land." King William returned to 
England ou the ISth of August, leaving Lord S;dne; " Governor of 
what is conquered in Ireland, which is neer three parta," 

The town of Athl/nu on the Shtkonon is taken b; staim under General 
Ginkell, alterwarda Eail of Athlone, IGSl. The celebrated Cotooel 
Grace was governor. 

Harlej, Earl of Oxford, is acquitted b; his peers, and released from 
his confinement (during two years) in the Tower, 1717. Il was the 
signal for Ihe retirement of this worthy steersman from public life- 
Sir E;re Coote defeats Hyder Ally, at Porto Novo, near Cuddaloie, 
with a very unequal force. Upon the 27th of August he drove this 
powerful invader from all his posts, and from the field, after the liaid 
cautestofada;, 1781. Hyder was the fatb«- of the famed TippooSaheb. 









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