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John’s college, Cambridge, that the fla- 
gellatory difcipline prevailed in that fo- 
ciety till as late a period as the year 1684, 
when it is fuppofed the fyftem expired 
with the flogeing of the celebrated Mat. 
Prior over the hatchway of the fcholars’ 
buttery. As for the truth of this ftory 
‘Ido not pretend to vouch, but that it is 
in circulation at St. John’s, Mr. W. may 
fatisfy himfelf by applying to any of 
the members of that college. From the 
dungeon-like appearance of the apart- 
ment in one of the turrets of St. John’s, 
which is faid to have been occupied by 
Prior, and which is now converted into 
a gip-room*, it is evident he was allowed 
no great accommodation at college; con- 
fidering which, and other circumftances, 
E think it not at all improbable that fuch 
a_punifhment might have at that time 
prevailed, both at this and other colleges 
in the univerfity. 
For the furthe@; fatisfaction of the 
learned writer, for whom the above infor- 
mation is more particularly defigned, I 
beg leave to obferve, that there is a fenfe 
in which the word Aitchis ufed in the 
maritime parts of our northernmott coun- 
ties, different from any in which he or 
Mr. KersHAw have explained it, but 
which does not throw anylight on the 
meaning of the werd as ufed by Pope. 
In the fenfe I allude to, it fignifies the 
fuddden aét of catching hold of a perfon 
by furprize or unawares, and firft intro- 
duced in this fenfe, as I conceive, by 
fea-faring perfons, amongft whom the. 
ferm is not unufual, as applied to the 
“ catching hold of any thing with a hook 
or rope,” fee Bailey's di€tionary, where 
the word is derived from the Saxon hiczan 
fignifying ‘‘to wriggle, or move by de- 
grees.”’ If this be (as Bailey reprefents 
it) itsreal import, [I do not fee with 
@hat propriety, or peculiar aptnefs, Pope 
can be admitted to have ufed it in the 
paffage referred to by Mr. WAKE FIELD. 
Tt is rather furprifing that no notice is 
f#aken of this firange word by Junius in 
his ** Btyznologzcon.”” Your’s, &e. 
April 8, 1799- Resi; 
— é 
Jo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
Tague 
LTHOUGH many law books have 
FM. been lately publifhed which have 
gontributed but little to the advancement 
ef knowledge, it does not follow that 
works of real utility may not ftill be ne- 
verfity, fignifies a {mail apartment allotted 
; for the Gips,or men-fervants, to clean fhoes 
avd perform fintilar neceffaries in, 
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Flagellation of Cambridge... Settlement of Honduras. 
[May 
ceflary to complete the library of the ftu- 
dent. Since the publication of Mr. BAR-. 
RINGTON’s obfervations on feveral old 
ftatutes, no book ef that kind, to my 
recollection has appeared. I would fug- 
geft to your learned readers a book not 
formed after that model wholly, but one 
that fhould contain obfervations on all the 
ftatutes from the reign of Henry VIII. te 
the prefent time, the hiftory of their in- 
troduction, by whom, the charaéters of 
the propofers, the arguments pro and con, | 
the common law as it ftood before the 
ftatutes, the alterations in confequence 
of the new law, and the feveral fub{e- 
quent determinations thereon. Thefe 
ihould be the leading features of fuch a 
work, which, if well executed, I am con- 
fident would be of infinite ufe to the pro- 
feflion; would leffen the fatigue of 
fearching into many books for the clear 
underftanding of any particular ftatute, 
and would, I hope, facilitate the ftudy 
of our ftatutelaw. There are, however, 
two obvious, though not unanfwerable 
objections; I mean the labour of com- 
pleating fuch an undertaking, and the 
danger of its being handled by the un- 
fkilinl; but he that hopes to accomplifh 
it, without infuperable courage and per 
feverance will deceive himfelf, and labour 
in vain—without deep refearch and pro- 
found legal learning will add little to hie 
fame, and le{s to his fortune. 
Newbury, Feb, 20. | c. 
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‘To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
SEB ei 
HE accounts juft received of anattack 
4 made by the Spaniards on the bay 
of Honduras, the particulars of which 
we are however yet to learn, give fome 
intereft_ refpeGting the nature of a coun- 
try almoft unknown*. As froma re- 
fidence there of feveral years, I have 
had an opportunity of being well ae- 
quainted with this fettlement. I beg 
leave through the channel of the Monthly 
Magazine to give fome information te 
the public upon this fubject. 
‘Yo this eftablifhment we have impro- 
perly given the name of the bay of Hon- 
duras. Ft is not a bay; and Honduras 
is the name of the Spanifh Province to the 
fouth and fouth eait of the Britith fettle- 
ment. I fhall however adhere to the po-_ 
pular name. 
¥No Geographer has defcribed this country- 
The only traveller that has given any account. 
o: it is Captain Nathaniel Uring, who, ina 
book of Voyages and Travels, publifhed in 
1740, gives fome particylars of two trading 
voyages he made te this place. ae is 
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