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as the maces of thofe famous heroes of romance, Roland 

 and Oliver, who ai'c faid to have lived in the time of Char- 

 lemagne. One is a large ball of iron, fallened with three 

 chains to a ftrong truncheon, or ftaff, about two feet long ; 

 the other is of mixed metal, in the form of a channelled 

 melon, faftened alfo to a llafT by a triple chain : thefe balls 

 weigh eight pounds. At the end of both the Haves are 

 rings for holding ends or leathers to faften them to the 

 hand. Contrivances like thefe, except that the balls were 

 armed with fpikes, were long carried by the pioneers of the 

 trained bands, or city militia : they are generally called 

 ♦' Morning Stars." The morning ilar, or Morgan ftern, 

 was a weapon formerly ufed for the defence of trenches. 

 It was a large llafF, banded about with iron, hke the fliaft 

 of a halbert, having an iron ball at the end, with crofs iron 

 fpikes. 



At prefent the mace is generally made of the precious 

 metals, and highly ornamented and ufed as an emblem of 

 the authority of the officers of ftate before whom it is 

 carried. 



Mace, Thomas, in Biography, one of the clerks of Tri- 

 nity college, Cambridge, in the feventeenth century, of 

 quaint and lingular memory, publifhed in folio, 1676, a 

 treatife, entitled " Mufick's Monument ; or, a Remem- 

 brance of the bell praftical Mufick, both Divine and Civil, 

 that has ever been known in the World ;" a work that mull 

 not be forgotten among the curiofities of this period. It is 

 impoflible to defcribe the ftyle of this original book by any 

 choice or arrangement of words, but the author's own. 

 The work is divided into three parts ; the firft. treats of 

 pfalm-fmging and cathedral mufic ; the fecond, of the no- 

 ble lute, " now made eafy, and all its occult, locked-up- 

 fecrets, plainly laid open ; (hewing a genera! ivay of pro- 

 curing invention and playing voluntarily upon the lute, viol, 

 or any other inftrument, with two pretty devices, &c. 

 In the third part the generous viol, in its rightejl ufe, is treated 

 upon ; with fome curious obfervations, never before handled, 

 ■ concerning it, and muiic in general." 



In pfalm-finging the author re commends Jhort-/quare-even 

 and uniform ayres, and is " bold to fay that many of our old 

 pfalm-tunes are fo excellently good, that art cannot mend them 

 or make them better." In fpeaking of the difficulty of 

 finging in tune, even with a good voice, he obferves, that 

 " with an unjkilful-inharmonious-coarje-grained-harjh-voice, it is 

 impoflible. 'Tis fad to hear what whining, toling, yelling, 

 or fcreeking there is in our country congregations, where, if 

 there be no organ to compel them to harmonical unity, the 

 people feem affrighted or dillradted." 



The liberal ufe of compounds by the ingenious mailer 

 Mace gives his language a very Grecian appearance. He 

 doubts not but that there are " many rational-ingenious-ivell- 

 compofed-'willing-good-ChriJlians, who would gladly y^rw God 

 aright, if poffibly they knew tut how;" and therefore he 

 advifes the purchafe of an organ of thirty, forty, fifty, or 

 fixty pounds ; and then, " the clerk to learn to pulfe or 

 Jlriie the pfalm-tunes, which he offers hiinfelf to teach for 

 thirty or forty fhillings ; and the clerk afterwards may in- 

 flruft all the boys in the parifh for a (hiUing or two a-piece 

 to perform the bufuiefs as well as himfelf. And thus by 

 little and little, the parilh will fiuarm or abound with or- 

 ganifts." 



The lute and viol are mailer Mace's favourite inftruments, 

 concerning the effefis of which, and, indeed, of mufic in 

 general, he is a great rapturift. On the lute, though " he 

 had occafion to break both his arms, by reafon of which he 

 could not make the nerve fhake well, nor ftrong ; yet, by a 

 certain motion of his arm, he had gained fuch a contentive- 



Jhaie, that his fcholars aflced him frequently how they Ihould 

 do to get the like ?" 



We fliall not attempt to recreate our readers with more 

 extrafts from this matchlefs, though not fcarce, book ; but 

 recommend its pcrufal to all who have taile for exceffive 

 fimplicity and quaintnefs, and can extraCl pleafure from the 

 fincere and undifTembled happinefs of an author, who, with 

 exalted notions of his fubjeft and abihtics, difclofes to his 

 reader every inward working of felf-approbation in as un- 

 difguifed a manner, as if he were communing with himfelf 

 in all the plenitude of mental comfurt and privacy. We 

 fliall, however, prefent fuch readers with an advertifement 

 from good mailer Mace, that was written on Iiis arrival in 

 London, 1690, fourteen years after the publication of his 

 book. We found it in the Britidi Mufeum, N"' 5'936, in a 

 coUedlion of title-pages, devices, and advertifements. 



yin Advertifement. 



" To all Lovers of the beft Sort of MuficV 



" Men fay the times are (Irange 'tis true : 



'Caufe many flrange things hap to be. 

 Let it not then feem llrange to you 



That here one llrange thing more you fee." 



" That is, in Devereux-court, next the Grecian coS^se- 

 houfe, at the Temple back-gate, there is a deaf perfon 

 tcacheth mufic to perfedlion ; who, by reafon of his great 

 age, v. 77, is come to town, with his whole (lock of rich 

 mufical furniture, v. inftruments and books to put o(f, to 

 whomfoever delights in luch choice things ; for he has no- 

 thing light or vain, but all fubfiantial and folid music. 

 Some particulars do here follow : 



" I. There is a late invented organ, which (for private 

 ufe) excels all other fafhioned organs whatever ; and for 

 which, fubftaatial-artificial reafons will be given ; and (for 

 its beauty) it may become a nobleman's dining-room. 



" 2. There belongs to it a pair of fair, large-fi^ed confort- 

 viols, chiefly fitted and fuited for That, or confort ufe ; and 

 'tis great pity theyflould be parted. 



" :;. i'here is a pedal harp/icon (the abfolute beft fort of 

 confort harpficons that has been invented) ; there being in it 

 more than twenty varieties, moft of them to come in with 

 the foot of the player, without the leaft hindrance of play 

 (exceedingly pleafant). And 



" 4. Is a fingle harpficon. 



" 5. A new invented inftrument, called a dyphone, v. a 

 double lute ; it is both theorbo -a-ud French-lute i:om^\e\.e ; and 

 as ealy to play upon as any other lute. 



" 6. Several other theorbos, lutes, and viols, very good. 



" 7. Great ftore of choice coUeclions of the works of 

 the mofl famous compofers, that have lived in thefe laft hundred 

 years, as Latin, Englifli, Italian, and fome French. 



" 8. There is the publiflier's own Mufick's Monument; 

 fome few copies thereof he has ftill by him to put off ; it 

 being a fubfcribed book, and not expofed to common fale. 

 All thefe will be fold at very eafy rates, for the reafons 

 aforefaid ; and becaufe (indeed) he cannot ftay in town 

 longer than four months (exaftly)." 



He farther adds, " if any be defirous to partake of his 

 ^experimental flvill in this high-nobk-art, during his ftay in 

 town, he is ready to afGll them; and (hapiy) they may 

 obtain that from him, which they may not meet withal clfe- 

 where. He teacheth thefe five things, v. the theorbo, the 

 French-lute, and the viol, in all their excellent ways arid 

 ufes ; as alfo compofttion, together with the knack of pro- 

 curing invention to young compofers (the general and greateft 

 difficulty they meet withal), this laft thing not being at- 

 tempted 



