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really and truly a living spectacle in the old Palace at 

 Greenwich, by an inventory of the dresses worn by the 

 boys, and a list of the dramatis personm. 



" The schoolboys of St. Paul's were taken down the 

 river with the master in six boats, at the cost of a shilling 

 a boat ; the cost of the dresses and the other expenses 

 amounting in all to sixty-one shillings. The characters 

 were, — 



" An orator in apparel of cloth of gold. 



"Religio, Ecclesia, Veritas, like three widows, in gar- 

 ments of silk, and suits of lawn and cypress.^ 



" Heresy and False Interpretation, like sisters of Bo- 

 hemia, apparelled in silk of divers colours. 



" The heretic Luther, like a party friar in russet da- 

 mask and black taffety. 



" Luther's wife, like a frow of Spiers in Almayn, in red 

 Bilk," &c. 



At p. 107. vol. i. of the Annals of the Stage, 

 published five-and-twenty years ago, Mr. Collier 

 thus introduces the same passage : 



"The original account by Richard Gibson, in his own 

 writing, giving a variety of" details regarding this extra- 

 ordinary exhibition, is now in my hands* ; and although 

 he was evidently an illiterate man, and wrote a bad hand, 

 and although the paper is considerably worm-eaten, the 

 •whole is legible and intelligible We after- 

 wards arrive at the following enumeration and description 

 of the singular characters in this remarkable interlude : 



" The kyng's plessyer was that at the sayd revells by 

 clerks in the latyn tong schouUd be playd in hys hy 

 presens a play, where of insewethe the naames. First a 

 Orratur in apparell of goUd : a Poyed (Poet) in apparell 

 of cloothe of goUd : Relygyun, Ecclesia, Verritas, lyke iij 

 nowessys (novices) in garments of syllke, and vayells of 

 laun and sypers (cypress) : Errysy (Heresy) Falls-inter- 

 prytacyun, Corupcyoscryptoriis, lyke ladys of Beem (Bo- 

 hemia?) inperelld in garments of syllke of dyvers kolours : 

 the errytyke Lewter (Luther) lyke a party freer (iriar) in 

 russet damaske and blake taffata : Lewter's wyef (wife) 

 like a frow of Spyers in Allmayn, in red syllke, &c. &c. . 



" It. payd by me Rychard Gybson, for vj boots (boats) 

 to karry the Master of Powlls SkooU and the chyldyrn as 

 well hoom as to the Kourt to every boot 12d. ; so payd 

 for frayght for the chyldyrn 6s." 



CM. 



Leicester. 



ILLUSTRATIONS OF MACAULAT. 



Unpublished Letter of Judge Jeffryes. — The 

 publication of Macaulay's History of England has 

 drawn much attention to the actors in the events 

 of the era of the Revolution. The following let- 

 ter was sent by this judge of infamous memory to 

 the Mayor of Preston, on the subject of the sur- 

 render of the municipal charter of that ancient 

 borough in the latter portion of the reign of 

 Charles II. The charter was regranted. It 

 would appear that the judge was an adept in the 

 " soft sawder " line : 



* The official cogjf of it, made out from Gibson's rough 

 draught, and signed by Sir Henry Guildford (as Comp- 

 troller of the Household) and by Gibson, is in the 

 Chapter-House, Westminster. 



"I reed yours with an accompt of yo' comunicating my 

 last to yo' Brethren, and I am shure nothing I sayd 

 therein could be more pleasing to any of you then my 

 being in condicon to doe you any act of Service or ffriend- , 

 ship is to me and as a Testimony of my Sincerity therein 

 I shall for y« pnt and as long as I live give you y« best 

 assistance I am capable off nor shall yo' Corporation be 

 any wayes Injured in any of your priviledges if I can 

 prevent. In my last I hinted to you y« most pper time 

 for your attendance upon his Sacred Ma"® and shall 

 hasten y« Confirmation of your Chart"^ with as much ease 

 both of Charge and Trouble as possible can be. His 

 Mat»« has again comanded me to take an especiall Care on 

 your behalf, and y* you may find y« elferts of his Gratious 

 acceptance of yo"^ unanimous and loyall submission to his 

 Royall pleasure by his bounty in yo"^ next Charf, and so 

 I wish you and all your Brethren all happiness, and 

 remain, 



«S', 

 "Your most ffaithful ffriend and 



" Oblidged serv*, 



" Geo. Jeffryes. 



« London, Sept. 29th, 84." 



The superscription is, — 



"For 

 James Ashton, Esq., Mayor 



of Preston att Preston in 



Lancashere." 



Prestoniensis. 



The Crystal Palace and the Monuments of the 

 Templars and Freemasons of the Middle Ages. — 

 At a time when the very sinews of nations are 

 strained to erect buildings amongst heaps of 

 ledgers, cash-books, &c., we forget that those far 

 superior Minsters of the Middle Ages are owing 

 to a secret association, the Lodges and Bauhiltten 

 of whom had nothing at their command but en- 

 thusiasm and self-devotion to a great cause. Their 

 archives and banners (rouge, blanc, bleu I) Vanished 

 with the men who possessed them ; still, they left 

 their mystical emblems on the stupendous euiflces 

 of their creation. It was also the Knights Templars 

 who extorted from John Plaiitaganet the Ma^na 

 Charta — a possession far exceeding any thing ob- 

 tained during the six hundred years I'oUowing. 

 Such an order of men, and its imprints and monu- 

 ments, deserve a place in any art or architectural 

 collection, which lays claim to even comparative 

 completeness. There exists in a not large but 

 charmipg Templar church at Schongrabem 

 (Grave- beauty !) in Austria, a series of alto- 

 relievos representing the very rites and mysteries 

 of the old Knights Templars, which Hammer has 

 figured in his Mines d Orient. They are perfectly 

 well preserved, as the building lying somewhat 

 aside the high road escaped the ravages of bigoted 

 Vandalism. Models of these most curious rites 

 and mysteries, together with similar representa- 

 tions, probably existing on some ancient buildings 



