IsH.] LE vtracts from the Portfolio of a Man of Letters. 
at first sight; but certainly there are 
many men who had rather suffer any 
other punishment than be made pub- 
liquely ridiculous. r 
It is not needful here to ran through 
every particular, and to direct in what 
manner and to what degree these and 
other offenders in the like kind shall. be 
punished, so as to limit and appropriate 
the punishment; but it shall suffice, 
having specifi’d the several sorts of of- 
fenders and offences, to have laid down 
likewise the several species of penalties, 
55t 
sortable to every man’s condition, and 
crime. 
Concerning rewards, something is said 
already, and I shall only add for.a cons 
clusion, that they are every jot as neces 
sary as punishments, and ought to be 
various, according to the several needs, 
tempers, and qualities, of the persons 
upon whom they are to be conferr’d. 
Mony is a reward for one, honour for 
another; and either of these misplac’d, 
would appear rather a mockery thana 
benefit. THE END. 
Extracts from the Portfolio of a Man of Letters, 
— 
RICHARD KEDERMINSTER. 
HIS amiable and learned man, was 
the last abbot but one who pre- 
sided over the monastery of Winchcombe, 
in Gloucestershire, to which office he 
was elected in 1488. His wise yovern- 
ment, and the encouragement he afforded 
to virtue and literature, rendered this 
society so flourishing, that it was equal 
to alittle university. In the year 1500, 
he travelled to Rome, and became after- 
wards a celebrated preacher. On the 
privileges: pi the clergy being attacked, 
in 1515, be preached a remarkable ser- 
mon to prove that it was against the law 
of Ged, who, by his prophet David, says, 
6* Touch not may anointed, and do my 
prophets no harm.” He wrote a valu- 
able history of the foundation of his mo- 
nastery, and another of the lives of the 
abbots, beginning with Germanus, in the 
seventh year of King Edgar, A.D. 988, 
and continued it to his own times. These 
important documents, after the dissolu- 
tion of religious houses, fell into the 
hands of Judye Moreton, and were con- 
sumed by the fire of London, at his 
chambers in Serjeant’sInn. A fair copy 
of them is, however, said to have been in 
the possession of Bishop Fellabout 1630, 
It is possible that this may have been 
preserved, and it would be highly grati- 
fying to kuow where records so valuable 
are deposited, ‘Vanner mentions several 
other Legisters of this house, which pro- 
bably exist to this day, Richard Keder- 
minster beautified the abbey church, ani 
inclosed it with a wall cowards the town, 
and there he was buried in 1531, 
PROCLAMATION AGAINST DEFACING 
MONUMENTS. 
Queen. Elizabeth, in the second year 
ofber reign, issucd a proclamation against 
the impious defacing of such memorials 
as were erected for the deal, and every 
printed copy was subscribed with heer 
own hand. Those who have committed 
this ofence, are ordered, if they are able 
to have them repaired; and if not, they ave 
to be punished by penance, fine, and im- 
prisonment, and the revenues of the 
churches are to be employed in restoring 
them as nearly as possible to their erigie 
nal state. 
ALEXANDER DE HAILES, 
This once g¢elebrated scholar was 
brought upat Tares Abbey, in the county 
of Gloucester, trom whence in due time 
he removed to Oxford, and from thence - 
went to Paris to complete his studies. 
He wrote ** The Summe of Divinitie,” 
xt the instance of Pope Innocent the 
Fourth, to whom he dedicated the work, 
and for this and other good services to 
the church of ome, he received the 
splendid title of Docter Irrefragabilis. 
He died in 1545, and. was buried in the 
Franciscan. church at Paris, 
VACCINATION, AND INOCULATION FOR 
THE SMALL POX, 
It must excite astonishment that the 
vaccine inoculation, which has already 
been attended with so much success, 
should so long have been known, and 
partially acted upon, in the provinces, 
without being adopted in the metro. 
polis. This may perhaps, in some 
measure, be atuributed to the obscu- 
rity of the first practitioners, who not 
being .regularly bred, were of gourse 
supposed to be grossly ignorant; and the 
sapient and soleinn saciety, with the mys- 
tical capitals of M.D. backed to the ead 
of each of their names, held the unens 
Jighteued and literate ia $0 much con- 
tempt 
