MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHY. Lives of LELAND, HEARNE, and WOOD. Leland. P. 17. printers. ERMANS came to buy books here when the monasteries were spoiled, and published them at the press of Frobenius and other 23. His poem to Cranmer-quite worthy of its author. 45. The authority for Pol. Virgil's villainy. Bale must certainly be wrong when he says in the New Year's Gift of John Leland, “As concerning the Hebrew, it is to be thought that many were therein well learned in the days of King Athelstan. For at the instant request of his prelates, he caused the Scriptures out of that tongue to be by certain doctors translated into the Saxonysh or Englyshe speech, as in the chroniclers is mentioned." Hearne. P. 2. THIS Mr. Cherry who put Hearne to school, I suppose to be the person who gave Bishop Ken a place wherein to hide his head. Wood. P. 45. Tucking1 freshmen at Oxford. 46. Shrove Tuesday pranks in the colleges. 65. This year, 1650, a Jew opened a "That is, set the nail of their thumb to their chin, just under the lip, and by the help of their other fingers under the chin, they would give him a mark, which sometimes would produce blood." in loc.-J. W. W. CARDAN-De Propriâ Vita. Amst. 1654. NAUDEUS, in his preface, while arguing against astrology, professes his belief in the Caledonian Merlin, Nostradamus, Baudarra, &c. Who is the German Lolhardus whom he classes with them? Cardan confesses that he wrote the more because he was paid by the sheet. P. 8. Breastplates which would resist a bullet. 9. Before he was a month old, he had the plague, with five carbuncles on his face. Three years afterwards, when he had the smallpox, there was a pustule in each of these plague-marks. A fact worthy of notice by those who dreamt that vaccination might be a preventative against the plague. He was taken naked out of a bath of warm vinegar (after the plague), and given to a new nurse, his first dying of the plague on the day that it seized her. Weened in his third year. 10. His father, who was a pious man, professed that he had a familiar dæmon. 17. He had wide-spreading, hump-backed toes, so that he could find no ready-made shoes to fit him. 22. This strange fellow used to bite his 270. What insecurity in travelling these precepts imply. 282. “ Qui libri ad legendum admittendi." He enumerates forty books, and says, "Auctores hi solum digni qui legantur, cum vita hominis his vix sufficiat, quidquid vero aliis impenderis his detrahes, unde aurea æreis commutabis." Blount's Trans. lips, distort his fingers, and pinch himself, PHILOSTRATUS. Apollonius Tyaneus. 31. "Quam licuit vixi mihi; et in aliquam spem futurorum, præsentia sprevi." "Vitæ genus mihi institui, non quale volui, sed quale licuit." 32. Evil consequences of expecting to die according to astrological predictions. 51. Sir John Cheke one of his friends. 100. "Asturconem. Angli eum appellant patriâ lingua Obinum.” P. 1. He would wear no garment made of the skin of an animal that died of any disease. 2. "His disciples observed silence concerning things divine; for that they had heard many sacred mysteries, hard to understand for those who had not previously learned that to be silent is a kind of reasoning." 17. "He was of opinion that wine was a 130. Agriculture. "Quod exercere opor- pure kind of drink, as proceeding from a teat magis quam scire." mild plant nevertheless he esteemed it an 146. What he says of America, as a part enemy to the settled state of the mind, in of the New World. respect that it sometimes disturbed the air of the soul." He rejoices to have been born when a New World was made known. The other three mighty novelties which he enumerates are gunpowder, the needle, and printing. "Jam quid deest amplius ne cœlum occupemus." 149. A stone shower. 150. Portents used for seditious purposes. 155. He boasts of his prediction respecting England. 164. "Sed habent hæc mira in hominibus, ut cum adsunt, vel paulo ante acciderint, totum hominem ad se trahant; cum refrixerint, adeò attenuantur, ut nisi aliquo tanquam clavo firmiter instauraveris, quasi dubites an videris, vel audieris." This is a very just observation. 208. An odd maxim-to be given as such. When you are about to wash yourself, see that you have a towel. 211. "Tria maxime mutant mores, ætas, fortuna, conjugium." 22. He went barefoot now, let his hair grow long, and rejected all animal clothing, using linen alone. Esculapius himself rejoiced to have been a witness of his cures. 60. He condemned hot baths. 77. He learnt of the Arabians to understand the language of birds and beasts, &c. which they acquired by eating the heart, or, some say, the liver, of a dragon. 82. A dragon taught Melampus this by licking his ears. N. Pliny, x. 49. 104. Tunnel under the Euphrates. 128. "I clothe myself with this fleece of the earth, not shorn from the sheep's back, but springing up purely from the pure, being a gift of water and earth, even made of linen." 154. Blount defends suicide, and appeals to Donne's authority. 171. Dragons greedily covet eagles' eggs, and often have severe conflicts with the | buried, whose statue made him look older eagle, who defends her nest. N. than he was. 208. Ancient pictures. Progress of painting. 233. Between the Hyphasis and Ganges, sages who defended themselves "with prodigious tempests and thunderbolts." "The Indians, by music and singing, admonish their king when he goeth to bed that he have good dreams, and that he arise kind to, and careful of, his subjects." LODOVICO DOLCE'S Trans. P. 61. OIL from a white worm, with properties like the Greek fire, or worse, for the fire consumes stone wall. 62. Pepper cultivated by apes or monkeys, for which reason the Indians protect them against wild beasts. Old lions feed upon apes, their flesh being a cure for all leonine diseases. 63. Apes tricked of their pepper. 63. Cocoa nuts (?) which, as wonders, were suspended in some of the temples. 64. Good reason for describing the manner of hunting dragons. 65. He who ate the liver or heart of a dragon, understood the language of all animals. 78. Ether, the fifth element, from which the Gods were created. 80. A ghost in love with a boy. One of the sages sent the ghost a letter, which he seems to have obeyed. 82. Oracular origin of medicine. Poisons could never have been introduced in medical practice, had the use not been thus revealed. 83. That marvellous stone the Pantarba. 85. Pearl, the oyster's heart. 86. Bells at the head and stern, to frighten away whales. 90. The plague demon at Ephesus, in the shape of a poor old man, but when stoned by Apollonius's orders, a huge dog, big as a large lion, was found under the stones. 91. Achilles liked to have his tomb visited, and retained his enmity to Hector. 92. And told him where Palamedes was 96. An effeminate youth, "talmente lascivo che pareva incantato dalle malie delle Amazone." 104. Evils of a sea-merchant's profession exposed by Apollonius. 108. Nero's verses sung about the streets, and they who did applaud and pay the singer, imprisoned as enemies to the Gods. One of his fiddlestrings exhibited by the performer as a precious relic. 114. Theory of the tides, and why at Gades none can die during the flow. 115. The belt (il cinto) of Teucer's sword, and of Telamon's, preserved at Gades. 120. Esop had the last intellectual gift which Mercury had left to bestow. He gave the prizes in order, according to their value, wisdom first, then eloquence, astrology, music, and poetry. He had forgotten Esop, and then for his sake remembered fabling. 122. Trade in idols. Formerly they were made on the spot where they were to be consecrated, by travelling artists. 123. Discourse on music. 129. Apollonius says, "Solevà un Musico assai intendente, mandare i suoi discapoli a udire altri Musici ignoranti, perche imparassero quel che era da fuggire." 131-2. Question concerning restoring the republic. 137-8. Amasis in the lion. 142. Memnon's image. 156-7. His opinion of Egyptian as compared with Grecian idols. 162-3. Falls of the Nile. 163. Pindar says a demon resides in its sources. 165. Titus said he was the minister of God's vengeance upon the Jews. 171. A youth at Gnidus in love with Ve nus. 173. Case of hydrophobia. 184. Habit of the Pythagoreans, "linen, long hair, and some peculiar kind of sandals." 202. Belief of all wrestlers in charms. 203. So of traders; but especially of lovers. 206. Speeches measured by the waterglass. All Tiber, Apollonius said, would not suffice to measure out what he had to say, if he spoke as fully as the occasion required. 214. Costly follies of luxury. The highest-priced horses were marked with the letter K. 222. Character of the Arcadians. 224-5. Why human sacrifices are not so fit for the purposes of divination as those of beasts. Both Alva and Turenne thought that no army ought to consist of more than 50,000. 28. He and Wallenstein, and Turenne after them, banished from their army all disputes concerning rank and priority of commission. 43. Jingling spurs. 123. A flash of lightning destroyed the funeral trophies of all the kings in the royal chapel at Copenhagen, (about 1630.) "Christian was struck motionless in his military capacity from that moment, and never 232. He gets 1000 drachmas from Jupi- afterwards recovered the use of his warlike ter's money at Athens. faculties." 236-7. He wished to live privately if he could, but if not, at least to die so. 237. Some say he disappeared in the Temple of Pallas at Lyndus. 238. Song of virgins at his death. His apparition confirming the truth of what he had taught, but admonishing men not to be too curious in things above their reach. 170. The Duke of Pomerania's great crime was that he had wished the Emperor ill success, in a bumper of white ale. 292. Gefrorn soldiers. Vol. 2, pp. 45. 121. Vol. 2. P. 18. REMEMBER Magdeburg! 57. His humanity concerning women and 239. Studying mathematics by making children at Koenigshofen. diagrams in the dust. 70. Marauder derived from the Count de Merodé, a brutal and licentious officer in these wars.1 67. Sir H. Vane-a vile negotiator. This was probably the elder. 142. Oxenstiern's saying, “Mi fili! parvo mundus regitur intellectu.” HERBERT'S Remains. CHARACTER of Thomas Jackson. Plays and Poems burnt upon Nicholas Ferrar's grave. G. H. "I have heard sober men censure him as a man that did not manage his brave parts to his best advantage and preferment, but lost himself in an humble way: That was the phrase, I well remember it." The profits of his prebend at Lincoln This is well known to be a mistake. See TODD's Johnson in v. He refers to COTGRAVE. See also MENAGE and RICHELET in v. Maraud. J. W. W. he employed in re-edifying the ruined church of Leighton, "where the corps of the prebend lay," because he lived far from, and so could not attend the duty of that place. A wish that" some cathedral, ecclesiastical, and academical men (which ranks the modest author meddles not with) would draw ideas for their several orders respectively. Why should Papists (as Timpius) be more careful or painful in this kind than we ?" The Country Parson. 4. Chaplains. 9. Apparel. Note upon Whitfield's notion of going nasty. 14. Recommending the Country Parson to compile a body of divinity for himself, to be the storehouse of his sermons, he says, "this being to be done in his younger and preparatory times, it is an honest joy ever after to look upon his well-spent hours." 19. Gently and pausably. 20. Persons of rank to be presented if they make a practice of coming in late. N. B. A. Laud and Charles I. 22, 3. Preaching-introduction of stories. 30. Reconciling differences in his parish. 39. His wife's skill in healing. 40. His children not "put to vain trades and unbefitting the reverence of their father's calling, such as are taverns for men, and lace-making for women, because those trades, for the most part, serve but the vices and vanities of the world, which he is to deny and not augment." 42. "Even the walls (of his house) are not idle, but something is written or painted there which may excite the reader to a thought of piety, especially the 101st Psalm, which is expressed in a fair table as being the rule of a family." 43. Perfumes from the garden. 49. He keeps his money for the poor, and his table for those that are above alms. 50. Invites all his people in the compass of a year. 53. He gives no set pension to any. 71. “ On a journey, at going to bed, he gives the host notice that he will have prayers in the hall, willing him to inform his guests thereof, that if any be willing to partake, they may resort thither." 79. If he chance to find any reading in another's Bible, he provides him one of his own. 83. Catechizing the elder, privately. 85. "The catechizer, if he once get the skill of it, will draw out of ignorant and silly souls, even the dark and deep points of religion. Socrates did thus in philosophy, who held that the seeds of all truths lay in every body, and accordingly by questions. well ordered, he found philosophy in silly tradesmen." 89. He "baptizeth not willingly, but on Sundays or great days. He admits no vain or idle names, but such as are usual and accustomed." 93. Five or six communions in the year, because all that receive not thrice a year were liable to be presented. 96-7-9. His skill in physic, and store of herbs. If neither himself nor his wife have the skill, and his means serve, he keeps some young practitioner in his house for the benefit of his parish. 116. The general ignominy which is cast upon the profession, the church parson knows" he must be despised.” 137. Justices of the Peace. 157. Particularly he loves procession, and maintains it. 159. Custom of saying, “God send us the light of Heaven," when light is brought in. 163. People went often out of church before the blessing. |