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CONTENTS. 



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Inedited Letter from the Earl of Shaftesbury, Author of 

 the " Characteristics," to Le ("lerc, respeiting Locke 

 Mr. Cough's Translation of the " History of The Bible " 

 Folk-Lore : — Lammer Beads, by .•Vlbert Way - 

 On Catalogues of Books, by Bolton Corney 

 Minor Notes : — The " Winter's Tale " — Inscribed 

 Alms-dish — Landwade Church — The First F.dition 

 of the Second Book of Homilies, by Queen Elizabeth 

 in I'iea ...... 



Queries : — 



Dutch Translation of a Tract by Robert Greene - 103 



The Black Rood of Scotland - - - - 104 



Minor Queries : — The " Tanthony " — " Beauty Retire" 



The Soul's Dark Cuttage — Small by Degrees and 



beautifully less — Musical Plagiarism — Simon Bache 

 — .Sir Walter Raleigh — Harrison's Chronology — 

 Aristophanes on the Modern Stage — Drachraarus — 

 Strutt's Queen Ho') Hall — CardiTtal's Monument — 

 Names Bacon and Fagan — lUinider — Prince of 

 WmIbs' Feathers — Portrait of Ben Jouson — Robert 

 Burton — Bloiieu • - - . - 105 



Replies : — 



Touchstone's Dial, by Robert Snow and J. Clarke 

 Winifreda, by Lord Braybrooke - - - - 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Did St. Paul's Clock 

 strike Thirteen — By the bye — Clement's Inn — 

 Words are Men's Daughters — Passage in Saint Mark 

 — "And Coxcombs vanquish Berkeley by a Grin " — 

 Dr. Trusler's Memoirs - - . - 



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Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, S.ales, Catalogues, Sec. - 

 Books and Odd Volumes wanted - 

 Notices to Correspondents 

 Advertisements - _ , _ 



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INEDITED I^ETTER FROM THE EARL OF SHAFTES- 

 BUKY, AUTHOR OF THE " CHARACTERISTICS," TO 

 I,E CI^EEC, RESPECTING LOCKE. 



[We are indebted to our valued correspondent 

 .Ianus Dousa, for a transcript of the following impor- 

 tant letter — the original of which is preserved in the 

 Remonstrant Library of Amsterdam — and for which 

 our comspondciit acknowledges his obligations to the 

 great kindness of Prof, des Ainories van der Iloven.] 



" St. Giles's, in Dorset, Feb. 8-13. 170.5. 

 "Sir, — Havinir once writt to you in my own Lan- 

 guage, I continue to use tlic same rrivilege 1 am 



sorry that I am in no better a condition to acquit 

 my SL'lf of my Promise to you. IMy Recovery has 

 been so slow, that I am scarce yet got up: and 

 have been unable to hold any Correspondance with 

 my Friends in Town. TVlr. King promisd to send 

 me the Papers I mention'd to you of Mr. Lock's ; 

 who, it seems, had begun some Memoires of his 

 own relating to my G*^ Father. These however 

 imperfect, yet as being JSIr. Lock's own I should 

 have been glad to send y^i with what supplement 

 I could make myself: But Mr. King's Engage- 

 ments in the Publick atfaires has made him delay 

 this so long, that according to the aci;ount you 

 have given me of the shortness of your Time, I 

 must wayt no longer: but content my self lyith 

 giving you what I can out of my own head, with- 

 out other Assistance. 



" Mr. Lock came into my Grandfathers Family 

 in the summer of the year 1666, recommended by 

 his Friend * Mr. Bennet of y' town of Shaftesbury. 

 The occasion of it was thus. My Grandfather had 

 been ill for a great wnile after a Fall, by w" his 

 Breast was so bruised that in time it came to an 

 Imposthumation (?) within, and appeard by a 

 swelling under his stomach. Mr. Lock was at 

 that tiuie a student in Physick at Oxford : and my 

 Grandfather taking a journey that way to drink 

 the Waters (having Mr. Bennet in y'= Coach with 

 him). He had this young Physician presented to 

 him : who tho' he had never practic'd Physick ; 

 yet appear'd to my Grandfather to be such a 

 Genius tliat he valew'd him above all his other 

 Physicians, the great men in practice of those 

 times. Accordingly on his advice and allmost 

 solely by his Direction, my G'' Father underwent 

 an Operation w^*" sav'd his Life, and was the most 

 wonderful! of the kind that had been heard of, till 

 that time. His Breast was layd open, the matter 

 discharg'd, and an Orifice ever afterwards kept 

 open by a silver pipe: an Instrument fauiouse 



* " A Gentleman of a Sound Protestant F:nnily all- 

 ways in great Friendship with ours. Both Father and 

 Son were members of I'arkment for that Town, .ind 

 were Stewards to my G^ Father." (/« a marginal 

 note. ) 



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