48. Perfection of the topiary art.

50. Art of varying the colour of flowers either the growth of that or the preceding age.

52. Art of cutting groves into regularity introduced by Cneius Matius in the Augustan age. Pliny, l. 12, c. 2.

58. Pliny thought that the art could not be carried farther than in his time.

61. Wall-fruits. A new mode of culture. 61.

63. Bellon seems to show otherwise.

65. Pliny's wish, "ut viri liberales se traderent huic culturæ,' quod,' inquit, ‘manibus honestis lætius omnia proveniant, quod curiosius fiant." L. 18, c. 3.1

JOANNIS MEURSII FILII, Arboretum Sacrum, in the same volume.

P. 2. DEAL boards used by the antients for preserving books, inferred from Martial. "Hæc abïes chartis tempora longa dabit." But how? for it is no protection against the worm.

8. Fagutal, a beechen temple or templet under Jupiter Fagutalis.

A good epithet for the faggot-making peers at this time.

10. The laurel, according to Eusebius, “ignea, ideoque dæmonibus infesta.”

Empedocles, who held the soul to be igneous, thought that for that reason, if it were to transmigrate into the body of an animal, the lion would be the most desirable, -if of a tree, the laurel.

11. "Tradunt veteres, lauro ad dormientium caput depositâ, vera videri somnia."

12. A white hen, bearing a sprig of laurel, was dropt from an eagle's grasp into Livia's

lap, just after her marriage with Augustus. The sprig was planted, the breed of the white hen preserved, and the villa named Ad Gallinas. A laurel grove was raised, from which every Cæsar who triumphed gathered his laurels, and planted others in their place and upon the death of every one, his laurel withered and died. In the last year of Nero all the laurel in the Vejentana Villa died, and all the descendants of the white hen.2

20. A laurel staff an amulet against poison.

Julian was of opinion that we ought to eat nothing which was not used in sacrifices.

28. Why the pine was the emblem of a year. One reason was because it put out a new branch with every new moon; and another, because it was of 360 uses to men.

44. The larch will not burn with a flame. A moving tower of the wood could not be burnt.

56. Sterculinus, son of Faunus and nephew of Fatua, from whom prophets were called Fatuarii.

60. "Eo non accedat Noctua ubi platani folium fuerit:" and therefore the stork lays plane leaves in her nest.

65. Lentisk used for tooth-powder and tooth picks.

66. Much care of the teeth was thought a reproachful coxcombry.

75. Travelling cups of yew, had been found in France to render wine poisonous. 99. A notion that the odour of roses poisons beetles who delight in dung.

119. Garlic preserving eggs from being spoiled by thunder.

120. A notion of Pliny that grass humano cruore procreatur."

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2 This is only a translation from the beginning of Scr. Sulpitius Galba's Life, by SUETONIUS.-J. W. W.

BARROW. P. 26.

9ELIGION the best policy.

Piety the best thing in all conditions.

28. Specially in affliction. 40. Best rules of action in religion. 41. 41. The profane man.

43. To be staunch and temperate in our enjoyments.

46. Coincidence of religion with even Epicurean philosophy.

47. The only joy that satisfies the heart.
49. Utter uncertainty of unbelief.
50. No peace in it.

59. M. Antoninus, his horror of a world without God and without Providence. Vol. 4, p. 261.

110. Out of helter, or out of tune. 171. 128. From whose fashion we discost. 356. Vol. 2, p. 535.

247. Jocund and crank in their humour. 252. The Hebrew word for Saints is "gentle ones."

262. Allowable sometimes to praise ourselves and ours.

278. Defence of the clergy.

294. Impious men to be regarded as common enemies.

294. Fashionable impiety of his age. Wits. 305.

361. Strong language against mischievous men justified.

364. But gentle correction of error, vised.

366. Persuasive admonition.

ad

This is by some derived from the Danish, but it is not in use, as far as I recollect. See SCRENIUS in v. It is not in BAY'S Haand Lexicon.-J. W. W.

391. Guilt of encouraging slanderous publications.

396. And of spreading injurious reports. 407. Sectarian and party slander. 408. 488. Puddering in the designs or doings of others.

Barrow is a great admirer of Chrysostom, whom he calls the "excellent father," -and in one place having just quoted Eschylus, he calls Chrysostom a greater author.2

Vol. 2.

P. 2. God's laws designed for our happiness.

18. This exception I should assoil by shewing, &c.

63. Proofs of original goodness. Hence an argument against Hobbes. 75. How slim things are they-how inconsiderable.

98. Mischievous questions not to be stirred.

- a wilful mispense of time.

165. The gripple wretch who will bestow nothing.

383. Earth a purgatory for the good,— this is the truth from which monachism has extravagated.

284-8. Who they are for whom this world is not made to thrive in, and who for whom it is.

530. Wholesome effect of funerals.

548. "Old men are ready to drop of themselves, and young men are easily brushed

2 "At Constantinople, the see of St. Chry sostom, he read over all the works of that Father, whom he much preferred before any of the others," &c.-A. HILL's Life of Barrow.J. W. W.

now.

549. Christmas,-apparently against the Puritans. Dolorous observance of that holy

day.

563. The Virgin Mary.

Vol. 5.

P. 40. GENTILES "used to the winding off and on the subtleties and the plausibilities of disputation."

arena ?"

326. Christians "abstain from things strangled, and from such as die naturally, lest we should contract impurity by unwittingly feeding upon some portion of blood contained in the body."

"Among the trials to which ye expose Christians, one is to offer him to eat food prepared with the blood of animals, well knowing that the act by which ye thus

348-9. Dramas in which the gods were represented and derided. Others in which they were "introduced dancing in the midst of the blood of the gladiators, and the pollution of capital punishments, affording the plot and history in the course of which these wretched victims may be put to death. We (says T.) have formerly seen a man mutilated in the character of Atys, your god from Pessinum; and one who personated Hercules burnt alive. We have joined in the laugh at the cruel entertainments with which ye beguile the middle of the day, when Mercury went about to try with a red hot caduceus, whether the bodies were really dead. We have seen also Pluto, the brother of Jupiter, dragging off the corpses of the gladiators, with a hammer in his hand."

430. "In the furious orgies of the Bacchanalians, they spare not even the dead bodies of the Christians; they draw them forth from the resting-places of the grave, from the asylum of death; they cut in pieces and drag asunder corpses which cannot be recognized, and are no longer entire."

452. "We purchase not frankincense. If the people of Arabia complain, let them remember that their spices are consumed in greater profusion, and at a higher cost in preparing the bodies of Christians for burial, than in burning incense to your gods."

26. They say their Messias is to come from Portugal.

27. Fletcher, (the father of Giles and Phineas) finds the ten tribes in the Tartars, Tartar signifying in Syria a remnant. Sa marchand being the same name as Samaria, and there being a Mount Tabor in Tartary, a Jericho, a Corazin, and other places bearing names which are found in Scripture.

44. A Portuguese who was the King's secretary, perverted to Judaism, 1530, and called Selomah Mo, ho (?) endeavoured to convert Charles V. and Francis I.! and was burnt alive at Mantua in 1540. lius seems to be referred to as authority for this.

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47. An opinion that when Edward I. expelled the Jews, many of their families fled into Scotland "where they have propagated since in great numbers; witness the aversion this nation hath above others to hogs' flesh."

126. Sabatai Sevi. "One report in his time was that a ship was arrived in the northern parts of Scotland, with her sails and cordage of silk, navigated by mariners who spake nothing but Hebrew, with this motto on their sails, The Twelve Tribes of Israel."

129. The Messiah was to disappear for nine months, during which time the Jews were to be persecuted, and many of them to suffer martyrdom; but then returning mounted on a celestial lion, with his bridle made of serpents with seven heads, accom

the Jews.

P. 26. THE Jews in Portugal are by their own people " dispensed withal to make a resemblance of Christianity, as far as to be Romish priests. Many for fear of the Papal inquisition can join themselves to a crucifix and rosary, and upon occasion have again resumed their own religion where they were out of danger; one of them affirming that his compliance was only the work of his nerves and muscles, and that

other side of the river Sabatiai, (the Sabbatical river) he should be acknowledged for the sole monarch of the universe; and then the holy temple should descend from heaven, already built, framed, and beautified, wherein they should offer sacrifice for

ever.

152. The dupes affirmed that Sabatai was not turned Turk, but that his shadow only remained on earth, and walked with a white head (beard ?) and in the habit of