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CONTENTS. 



Page 



Notes : — 



The Author of the " Characteristics," by W. D. Christie 97 



Caxton's Printing-office, In- E. F. Rimbault - - 99 



Sanatory Laws in other Days - - - - 99 



Folk Lore : — Mi<isiimnier Fires - - - - 101 

 Minor Note* : — Borrowed Thouj^lits — An Infant Pro.- 

 digy in 1G59 — Allusimi in Peter Martyr — Hogs not 



Pigs 101 



Queries : — 



A Query and Replies, by H. Walter - . - 102 



I..ctters of Queen Elizabeth and Philip 11. of Spain - 1C2 

 Minor Qu'-ries ; — The New Temple — "Junius Iden- 

 tified " — Mildew in Books — George Herbert's Burial- 

 place — The Earl of Essex and '• The Finding of the 

 Rained Deer" — The Lass of Richmond Hill — Curfew 



— Ahunni of Oxford, Cambridge, and Winchester — 

 St. Leger's Life of Archbishop Walsh — Query lait to 

 a Pope — Tlie Carpenter's Maggc^t — Lord Delamere 



— Henryaniitlie Nut-brown Maid . - - 193 



Replies: — 



French Poem bv ^lalherbe, by S. W. Singer 

 " Dies Irae, Dies nia " J . . . . 



Dr. ivimuel Ogden, by J. H. Markland . - - 



Repli -8 to Minor Queries : — Porson's Imposition — The 

 Three Dukes — Kant's Sammtliche Werke — Becket*3 

 Mother — "Imprest" and "Debenture" — Deriva- 

 tion of "News" — Origin of Adur — Meaning of 

 Steyne — Sarnm and Barum — " Epigrams on the Uni- 

 versities " — Dulcarnon — Dr. Maginn — America 

 known to the .\ncients — Collar of SS. — Martello 

 Towers — "A Frog he would a-wooint: go" — William 

 of Wykeham — E.Kecution of Charles I, — .Sivords^ 

 The Low Wnidow — Br.isichelli's ICxpurgatory Index 



— Discursus Mudestus — Melanclhon's Epigram 



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3ote3, 



THE AUTHOR OF THE "CHARACTERISTICS." 



Lord Shaftesbury's Ldtei's to a young Man at the 

 University, on which Air. Singer lias athJressed to 

 you an intereslino; coininunication (Vol, ii., p. 33.), 

 were rcfjiiiitoil in 174() in a collection of his letters, 

 ^''Letters of llm. Earl of ShaftesUury, author of the 

 Characteri.tticks, coUectd into one volume; printed 

 Mi)cc.xi/Vi." 18ino. This volume coiituins also 

 Lord Shaftesbury's letters to Lord JMolesworth, 

 originally ])nl)li.slied by Toland, with an introduc- 

 tion which is not reprinted ; a " Letter sent from 

 Italy, with the notion of the Judgmentof Hercules, 



&c., to my Lord "; and three letters reprinted 



from Lord Shaftesbury's life in the General Dic- 

 tionary, which was prepared by Dr. Kippis, under 

 the superintendence of Lord Shaftesbury's son, 

 the fourth earl. 



In my copy of the orisinal edition of the Letters 

 to a young Man at the University, two letters have 

 been transcribed bv an unknown previous possessor. 

 One is to Bishop Burnet, recommending young 

 Ainsworth when about to be ordained deacon : — 



" To the Bishop of Sarum. 



" Reigate, May 23. 1710. 

 " My Lord, — The young man who delivers this to 

 your Lordship, is one who for several years has been 

 preparing himself for the ministry, and in order to it 

 has, I think, completed his time at tlie university. 

 The occasion of his applying this way was purely from 

 his own inclination. I took him a cliild from his poor 

 parents, out of a numerous and necessitous family, into 

 my own, employing him in nothing servile ; and find- 

 ing his ingenuity, put him abroad to the best schools 

 to qualify hiin for preferment in a peculiar way. But 

 the serious temper of the lad disposing him, as I found, 

 to the ministry preferably to other advantages, I could 

 not be his hindrance ; though tid very lately 1 gave 

 him no prospect of any encouragement through my 

 interest. But having been at last convinced, by his 

 sober and religious courage, his studious inclination 

 and meek behaviour, that 'twas real principle and not 

 a vanity or conceit that led him into these thoughts, 

 I am resolved, in case your lordship thinks him worthy 

 of the ministry, to procure him a benelice as soon as 

 anything happens in my power, and in the mean time 

 design to keep him as my chaplain in my family. 

 " I am, my Lord, &c., 



" Shaftesbury." 



The second letter inserted in my copy is to 

 Ainsworth himself, dated Ileigate, 11th May, 

 1711, and written when he was about to apply for 

 pi-iest's orders. But the bulk of this letter is 

 printed, with a different beginning an<l ending, 

 in the tenth printed letter, under date July 10th, 

 1710, and is there made to apply to Ains worth's 

 having just received deacon's orders. The be- 

 ginning and ending of the letter, as in MS., are — 



" I am glad the time is come that you are to receive 

 fidl orders, and that you hope it from the hands of our 



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