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mathematician receives nothing without 
roof.” | 
A friend of Fransham’s who died in 
1796, Mr. Thomas Golf, left orders by 
will, to have his head separated from 
his body before interment; some persons 
‘whom he knew, having recovered in the - 
of the signs of .: 
coffin. The uncertaint 
death, probably through Mr, Goff’s con- 
versation, had also left a strong impres- 
sion on the mind of Fransham. Afraid 
‘of being buried alive, he repeatedly de- 
sired, that his body should be laid before 
a fire, that wine should be offered to his 
‘Tip, and the arm of a woman clasped 
zbout his neck, before he was given up 
as irrecoverable. - 
The sister of Fransham, Mrs. Bennett, 
who is still living, having become a wi- 
‘dow, he went in 1806 to reside with 
her; but after a stay of nearly three 
years, removed to the house of a younger 
female relation, who was able to render 
him the active services which his infir- 
mities now required, Conscious of the 
approach of death, he declined medical 
aid; and on the dst February, 1810, 
‘expired calmly and gently; leaving, be- 
side his books and several articles of fur- 
niture, a hoard of ninety-six guineas to 
his sister, who caused his body to be in- 
Sterred in the charch-yard of the parish 
‘where he was born. ‘The grave-stone, 
Scarce Tracts, Ke. 
“cence. 
. Similar. idjosynerasy. 
[May 1 
which her affection has ¢rected to his 
memory, is thus inscribed, ‘ 
M. S. Joannis Fransham, qui plurimis 
apnis in hac urbe Gracas Latinasque litera’, 
necnon mathematicam studio explorayit, pra 
ceptis illustravit. 7 
Fransham had merits which are now 
become rare. Temperate, continent, 
frugal, just; he wanted, for the displa 
of virtue, chiefly the power of paper d 
Leaving his soul to grow ac- 
cording to its nature; his only moral art 
-consisted jn so chiselling away the faulas, 
as to strengthen its inherent likeness to 
the models of antiquity. Hehought as 
- he pleased, spoke as he thought, did as 
he Iiked, and countenanced in others-a 
lis manners’ had 
the urbanity of yarious intercourse, and 
the suavity of a kind heart; unassuming 
and undaunted, they appealed merely to 
the man, never to his station. Educated 
during the sunshine of British freedom, 
he prolonged traces of its honest inde- 
pendent charactér, beyond the period of 
its offuscatign ; and held the reciprocal 
coercion of modern behaviour to be only 
worthy af a nation of slaves, , In an age 
of compliers he chose to be bimself.. He 
is remembered like a- Greek bust in a.c@le 
lection of painted wax-work, , 
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SCARCE TRACTS, WITH EXTRACTS AND ANALYSES OF — 
SCARCE BOOKS. . 
‘Tt is proposed in future to devote a few Pages of the Monthly 
Magazine to the 
Insertion of such'Scurce Tracts as are of an interesting Nature, with the Use 
. ” é ? 
of which we may 
> 
be fuvoured by our Correspondents ; and under the same Head-te 
wntroduce also the Analyses of Scurce andCurious Books. 
—a 
Extracts from a Sermon called Ahab’s 
' Curse. 
F [Continued from page 249.) 
ci HE next that'succeeded was King 
James EI. who began his reign in 
the year 1684; and this king, though net 
“altogether so lascivious as the furmer, yet 
was he a very bigot to the church of 
“Rome; for no so0uer (as a late author 
“saitby did he come to the throne, but 
“mass-houses were-set up, and in all haste 
*Prosestents must be converted te his 
faith; and therefore, weekly ‘sermons 
Were appointed for that purpose; in 
which discourses, with a bare face they 
assert, that our English Bibles were 
‘stuffed with lies; their Popish catechisms 
*weie put into our hands to make proso- 
lytucs: Vather Peters, made privy-couns 
sellor, to confront the bishops of Can. 
terbury and London; Magdalen college 
was filled with Romish pnests, and the 
sycophant-bishop Parker, forced upon it, 
crowds of Irish papists called in upen-us, 
with a standing army, headed with Popish 
officers, to the great terroryof the .citys 
the pricsts and Jesuits appear publicly in 
their religious habits, under- promise of 
‘protection; the test, in all haste, must 
7 
be taken off: “Oats, Dangerfield, and 
Jobuson, mest barbarously used, and 
-bundyeds sacrificed inthe west: Prog 
-testants were put from all employment, 
both civil and military: illegal prose- 
cutions, exorbitant bails, and many 
more oppressions, to the great damage of 
the subjects: yea, the bishops were sent 
to the Tower, and the birth of the Pre« 
tender was must neatly contrived. These 
things 
