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after, digging, they continually found 
heads, legs, &c. miferably torn and 
{corched, befides many whole bodies, with 
not fo much as their cloaths finged. In 
this accident there were two things very 
remarkable; the miftrefs of the houfe of 
_ the Rofe Tavern was found fitting in her 
bar, and one of the drawers ftanding by 
the bar-fide, with a pot in his hand, only 
ftifled with duft and fmoke; their bodies 
being preferved whole by means of great 
timbers falling acrofs, one upon another. 
Alfo the next morning there was found 
upon the upper leads of Barking Church, 
a young child lying in a cradle, neither 
child nor cradle having the leaft fign of 
any fire or hurt. It was never known 
who the child was, fo that one of the pa- 
rifh kept it for a memorial. And in the 
year 1666, (fays Mr. Stow) I faw the 
child then grown up tobe a proper maiden, 
and came to the man that had kept her 
all that time, when he was drinking at a 
tavern, and he afferted the above circum- 
ftance to be true. 
Antiquities of London and Weftminfter, 
by Nicholas Bailey, Author of the 
Dittionary. 
THE CITY. 
An old writer, fpeaking of the metro- 
polis in the reign of Elizabeth, faith, 
that ‘“‘ The citizens be famed and noted 
for their induftry, and warille abide by 
their fhoppes, and fticke untoe their mar- 
chandize like unto leeches, except on the 
Sundaie, whenne they doe fnuffe the frefh 
air, and perambulate unto the Pindar of 
Wakefield, and Iflington, where are to be 
fold fugared cakes, and well frothed fyl- 
labubbes. Thefe be their principal fum- 
mer delights, though fome of the bet- 
termoft fort do on the laft even of the 
week, fleep at the furrounding villages : 
but thenne thefe be only they whofe 
bagges are well filled, and they would be 
deemed moft unthrifty, and get into 
doubtful credite, were they abfent from 
their fhoppes at nine o’clock on Monday 
morning. 
_JUDGE FOSTER’S CHARGE to the GRAND 
JURY of WORCESTER. 
A fhort time before this great lawyer’s 
death, he went the Oxford Circuit, in 



From the Italian of FuLvio TESTI. 
APLY my friend, beneath the Cee- 
lian height, 
Or Aventine, ’tis thine, with penfive pace, ‘ 
Rome’s fpacious ways and pompous 
wrecks to trace, __ 
While mofs and weeds obftru thy cu- 
rious fight, 
Original Poetry. 
535 
the hotteft part of one of the hotteft fum- 
mers that had been remembered. He was 
fo-far advanced in life as to be fearce ca- 
pable of doing the duties which belonged 
to his office, and when the Grand Jury 
attended for the charge, addrefled them 
as follows :— 
“ Gentlemen, the weather is extremely 
hot, I am very old,and you are very well 
acquainted with what is your duty: I 
have no doubt but you will practife it.” 
MILTON’S WILL. 
This great poet’s will bears date in 
1670, and in 1674 he died. Introductory 
to one of the legacies is the following fin- 
gular remark—“ Unto my daughter 
next mentioned I fhould have left more, 
but fhe neglected me when I was blind, 
and forfook me in my old age: J there- 
fore, &c. : 
COUNT KONINGSMARK, MR. THYNNE, 
&e. 
Mr. Tuynne, who was aflaflinated by 
order of Count Koningfimark, was a very 
tall man. His family either perfuaded or 
compelled him to marry an heirefs of 
large fortune before fhe was twelve years 
of age. The ceremony over, he walked 
out of the church into his carriage, drove 
to a fea-port town, and embarked for the 
continent, to make what is called rhe 
grand tour,—but he did not go alone;.a 
very beautiful woman, to whom he was 
partial, accompanied him in his travels. 
Every body knows, that during his ab- 
fence (which was feveral years) the Count 
becarne enamoured with his lady, and 
that on his return the poor gentleman 
was ailaflinated by the Count’s inftiga- 
tion, and had, in confequence, a marble 
monument, with a mo elegant bas relief, 
reprefenting the event, erected in Weft- 
minfter Abbey: but every body does not 
know the following epitaph that was 
written on the occafion: ; 
“Here lies Long Tomof Long Leat Hall, 
Whofe affairs would not thus have mif- 
carried, 
Had he married the woman he lay withal, 
Or lain with the woman he married.” 


ORIGINAL POETRY. 
With pity-mingled anger, whilft thine eye, 
Where temples once and theatres arofe, 
Sees the plough cleave, the lowing herd 
repoie ; 
Deep from my breaft I heave with thee 
the figh. 
Ours 
