ni6.] 



CORNUCOPIA 



Vnder thh superscription it is intended to scatter detached flowers and fruits of literature^ 

 similar to those deposited in the first fortij volumes of the Monthly Magazine, with the 

 title Portfolio. — Ovid tells us, in his Fnsti, that the shc-goat which suclcleU Jupiter bi okt 

 off one horn against a tree ; that his nurse Amalthca picked it up, wreathed it with gar- 

 lands, filled it with grapes and oranges, and thus presented it to young Jove, uho made it 

 bis favmrile pluy-thiiig. K'lienhe was grown up, and had acquired th.' dominion of the 

 heavens, he remembered his Ivrn of sweetmeats, made a constellation in memory <f it, and 

 promoted Amalthealo he the goddess of plenty, or fortune, whose symb^'l it became. This 



■ horn is called roRNiicopiA, and is feigned by the mythologists incessantly iu shed a va- 

 riety of good things. 



MORISCOES. 



A DOUBT has lately arisen among 

 ecclesiastic iiistoiians wlictlier tiie 

 Spanish Moiiscocs were coucealed Ma- 

 Loinetans, as the Inquisition wished to 

 assuade ; whether they were concealed 

 Jews, as many writers have pretended ; or 

 whether tiicy were Unitarian Christians, 

 formed by the publications of Serveto, 

 and others of that school; orwhether they 

 were philosophic deists. Certain it is 

 that many of them tied to Barbary from 

 the Spanish persecution, and settled in 

 tlie mountains of 8 hs. t)f these Ocklcy 

 says: — "Some years bcfoic my capti- 

 vity, as I have been informed by men of 

 undoubted credit, there was a whole co- 

 lony or lineage of people inhabiting the 

 mountains of Sfts, ^^ho were accused by 

 Hieir neighbours for not owning i\[aho- 

 met. Upon which the king sent and 

 had seventy of them brought before 

 liim to iNIacquanes. Denianding: of 

 them if this accusation was just, they 

 answered affirmatively. Asking again 

 if they were drunk or mad. they said, 

 neither ; that they believed in one God, 

 but that Slahomet was an impostor. 

 At which the king was so enraged, that 

 he immediately ordered them all to be 

 belieaded. 



SAINT ROMUALD. 



In the 2()fh volume of the Monthly 

 Magazine, it is enquired who was Saint 

 Bonuiald? Two different corrcsi>on- 

 dents found up, in reply, two diiferent 

 persons answering the description. A 

 third has been found ; viz. Saint llo- 

 inuald, bishop of Salerno and doctor of 

 I)hysic, who was consulted by the first 

 and second Duke William, and who 

 finally became physician to the sove- 

 reign pontilfat Jioine. 



CATULLl'S. 



Tiic elegant translation of Catidlus, 

 printed for Johnson in 1795, bears so 

 •lose a resemblance of xlylc to the 

 jioems of Lord Byron, that it seems 



Iiermitfod to suspect tJie version of 

 tavinj flowed from the jnvcmlo i)Gn of 



that accomplislied nobleman. WilkesV 

 edition seems to have furnished th» 

 text confided in by the interpreter. 



LEGAL TENDERS. 



Period< William theCou- 

 t queror"" 1066 



2d. 



• 41 Hen. III. 1 



} Silver exclu- 

 sively. 



I Silver & Gold, 

 c.kq} •■qiially. (See 

 ^^•"i Stat. 19 H. 



C vir. c.5.) 



3d 



4tU. 



.15 Car. II. 



• 24 Car. II. 



5th. •• .3 Geo. I. 



1663l^''^'^'','=«'" 

 ( sively. 



f Silver gene- 



i Coppi r niidet 

 (, sispence. 

 r Silver gene- 

 \ rally. 

 irir^Gold^-enerally. 

 JCojipcr under 

 (^ sixpence, 

 f Gold generally. 

 I Silver undtr 

 I t!'->\. by tale, 

 6tU. . • • 14 Geo. III. 1774^ \: above 251. 

 by weight. 

 Copper under 

 l^ sixpence. 

 Gold generally. 

 liver gene- 

 7tU.-..2.'?Geo.III. 1733/ rally. 



i Copper under 

 ^ sixpence. 



Gold geneially. 

 f Silv 

 rally. 



1 



L 



/-Gol 

 \ Sii 



. 1733/ r; 



gene- 

 Copper under 



8tU....3r Geo.111. 1797J „ t^'^'epence. 

 > Bank Notes, to 

 tax-gatherere 

 generally, to 

 other pcisonii, 

 ^ sub taodo. 

 C Silver under 

 251. by tale, 

 & above a5l. 

 by weight. 

 fill . ..38 Geo. Ill, 1798^' Gold generally. 

 Copper under 

 twelvepence. 

 Bank Nutet as 

 ^ before. 



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