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[2nd s. VI. 145., Oct. 9. '58. 



gretted that frdiii its great historical interest the 

 topography of both Greenwich and its suburbs 

 has been so little investigated. 



George W. Bennett. 



Pillory (2"'' S. vi. 245. 278.)— In reply to the 

 inquiry of T. N. B., there is, or was two or three 

 years ago, a pillory in the church at Rye, in Sus- 

 sex. It was kept in a part of one of the aisles, 

 used as a kind of lumber place. The last time it 

 was used, I was told, was in 1813; when a ]\Ir. 

 Hughes and a Mr. Robins were put in the pillory 

 at Rye, and imprisoned for two years, for aiding 

 in the escape of two French general officers. 



OcTAVius Morgan. 



Sehastianus Franck (2"* S. vi. 232.)_— lie was 

 an Anabaptist and mystic of Woerdea in Holland. 

 He taught with the Stoics that all sins were equal, 

 and that all sects and religions belonged to the 

 true Church. He despised the Holy Scriptures, 

 and insisted solely on the spirit. He was opposed 

 by Luther, Melancthon, and others of the Re- 

 formers, and died before Luther in 1545. A 

 work, in which he appears to have satirised the 

 female sex, is strongly censured in a Treatise on 

 3Iutrii)ioiii/ by Frederus, and by Luther in the pre- 

 face to the same. 



The above account is taken from Jiicher's All- 

 gemeines Gelchrteii Lexiwn, 



Dublin. 



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W(! arc iiulebted to Mr. Albany Foublauquc, Jan., for 

 a little volunie entitled Hoic We are Governed ; or. The 

 Crown, the Seiiiite, and the Bench. A Ilandhooh of the 

 Constitution, Government, Laws, and Power of Great 

 Britain. In tbe form of Letters, l^Ir. Foiiblanque fur- 

 nishes brief sketches of the coustitutioii of Kugland, and 

 by whom and in what way the country is governed : 

 treating, as he goes on, of the Origin of that Constitution — 

 the Prerogative of tbe Crown — the Composition and 

 Privileges of the two branches of the Legislature — our 

 Financial System — our principles of Local Government 

 — the Church, the Army, the Navy, and the Law — our 

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Messrs. Routledge have added to their Series of British 

 I'oets an edition of Godfrey of Bulhigne, or Jerusalem 

 Delivered, by Torquato Tassn, translated by Edward Fair- 

 fa.r. Edited by Robert Aris AVilmott, Incumbent of 

 Bearwood. Mr. Wilinott has aimed at a popular edition, 

 and tells us that we shall find " the Archaisms occa- 

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 its propriety ; and if, as he admits, " the language of 

 Fairfax is commonh- simple and uuatTected," there can 

 be little reason for making it "assume a modern dress 

 with easy elegance." Mr. Wilmott's Biographical Sketch 

 of Fairfax is very pleasantly written. 



The Society for making known on the Continent th0 

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Students of Spanish Literature are indebted to Messrs. 

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 of their social state as compared with that of the Saxons, 

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