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[No. 198. 



In 1652, Christopber Higgins, a printer, whom 

 Cromwell had conveyed with his army to Leith, 

 reprinted there what had been already published 

 at London, A Diurnal of some passages and affairs 

 for the information of the English Soldiers. A 

 newspaper of Scottish manufacture appeared at 

 Edinburgli, the same authority relates, on the 31st 

 of December, 1660, under the title of Mercurius 

 Caledonius ; comprising the affairs in agitation in 

 Scotland, with a survey of foreign intelligence. 

 It was published once a week, in a small 4to. form 

 of eight pages. Chalmers adds, that — 



" It was a son of the Bisliop of Orkney, Thomas 

 Lydserfe, who now thought he had the wit to amuse, 

 the knowledge to instruct, and the address to cap ivate 

 the lovers of news in Scotland. But he was only able, 

 with all his powers, to extend his publication to ten 

 numbers, which were very loyal, very illiterate, and 

 very affected." 



John Mac ray. 



Oxford. 



Door-Jicad Inscriptions (Vol. vii., pp. 23. 190. 

 588.; Vol. viii., p. 38.). — Over the door of the 

 house at Salvington, Sussex, in which Selden was 

 born, is this inscription : 



" Gratvs, honeste, mihi ; non clavdar, inito sedeq' 

 Fvr, abeas ; non sv' facta solvta tibi." 



It has been thus paraphrased : 



1. By the late William Hamper, Esq., Gent. 

 Mag., 1824, vol. ii. p. 601.: 



*' Thou'rt welcome, honest friend; walk in, make free: 

 Thief, get thee gone ; my doors are clos'd to thee." 



2. By Dr. Evans : 



" An honest man is always welcome here ; 

 To rogues I grant no hospitable cheer." 



3. In Evans's Picture of Worthing., p. 129. : 



«' Dear to my heart, the honest here shall find 

 The gate wide open, and the welcome kind ; 

 Hence, tkieoes, away ! on you my door shall close, 

 Within these walls the wicked ne'er repose." 



4. In Shearsmith's Worthing, p. 71. : 



" The honest man shall find a welcome here. 

 My gate wide open, and my heart sincere ; 

 Within these walls, for him I spend my store. 

 But thieves, away ! on you I close my door." 



Anon. 



Hono7-ary Degrees (Vol. viii., pp. 8. 86.). — The 

 short note of C. does not elucidate — if, indeed, it 

 touches upon — the matter propounded. It was 

 stated, whether correctly I know not, that hono- 

 rary doctors created by diploma (reference being 

 made to the Duke of Cambridge, and one or two 

 other royal personages) would have the distinctive 

 privilege of voting in Convocation. It then oc- 

 curred to me that Johnson — whose Oxford dignity 

 was conferred in 1776, by special requisition of 

 the Chancellor, Lord North (his M. A. degree had 



been, I judge, likewise by diploma) — is not men- 

 tioned by Boswell or Croker, as having on any 

 occasion exercised the right referred to. Did he 

 possess that right ? and, if so, was it ever exer- 

 cised ? The frequency of his visits to Oxford, and 

 the alleged rigid adherence to academical costume, 

 make the question one of some interest : besides, 

 in regard to a person so entirely sui generis, and 

 upon whose character and career so much minute- 

 ness of biographical detail has been bestowe 1, it is 

 not a little remarkable how many points are almost 

 barren of illustration. M. A. 



'■'■Never ending, still heginning"(Y o\.\\ii.,-^. 103.). 

 — See Dryden's Alexanders Feast, 1. 101. 



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