472 
ditto, with the wool fhorn, zs. 2d. 3 a fat 
hog, two years old, 3s. 4d. 5 a fat eke 
27d.; ditto, in the city of London, 3d. 
a fat capons 2d. 5 ditto, in the city of 
London, 24.; a fat hen, 1d. 5 ditto; i in the 
city of Pana, tid. 3 two chickens) id. 
ditto, in the city of London, ii; 5 four 
pigeons, id.; three, ditto, in thercity o 
London, 1d. ; twenty-four eggs, 1d.; 
twenty, LEER in the city of London, rd. 
The following curious paffage from 
prefident ‘¢ Henauli’s Hiftory of France” 
will give fome idea of the "oes of money 
in nS ninth century. 
+ Pour juger de prix de Vor et de l’argent 
datos, il futfira de rapporter deux faits, Au 
concile de Touleufe, tenu en 846, la contri- 
bution gue cha gue cute étol t tenu de fournl 
a fon évegue, ee ae un minét de frument, un 
minot @orgesun méfure de vin, et un agneau, 
‘ etoit valué deux fols: le fdvoad fait cet que 
Charles le chauve fit un eait en 864, pour 
une nouvelle fabrication de monnois; et 
‘comme par cet edit l’ancienne monnoie étoit 
décriée, il ordenne, qu'il fut tiré cinquante 
livres dargent de fes cofires pour €tre répan- 
ues. dans la commerce.” 
Extraéts from the Port 

Jouan pe MeuuN, author of the ce- 
Jebrated ‘* Rosmance de yp Refe,”’ about the 
year 1530, beque athed to a monaftery in 
France, a chef fuppofed to contain articles 
of great value. On opening it; however, 
the friars found it filled only with vetches ; 
and in their rage on the ridicule and dif- 
appointment, they would not fuffer the 
body of the unfortunate bequeather to 
havea Chriftian funeral. The following 
paflage frorn ‘© Piers Plowman’ s Vifion,” 
fnew that fuch things in oid times were 
not unknown in England. 
s¢ ‘The friars followed folke that id ere r 
€¢ And folke that were poor ai littl 
they fet; 
s¢ And no corfe in the ki:rke-yard ne kirke 
was buried, 
s¢ But quicke he bequeathed them ought, or 
quit part of his debt.” 
And Chaucer fays of a friar: 
€¢ Full fweetly. oatd he coniefion, 
“© And pleafant was he’s abfolution; 
‘* He was an eafy man togive penance * 
s¢ There as he wiftto have a good pittance.” 
© 
we oO 

Inthe Philippine ffles a certain pro-. 
portion of the dower’ is paid to the in- 
tended wite, after liberty of conver fing 
with her ; a farther fhare for the permil- 
fion to eat with her, and the remainder 
upon confummation. 


In Turkey, bakers convitted of felling 
bread under weight, are hung up at their 
own door; anda traveller in that country 
Eola of a Man of Letters. 
[July 
mentions that notwithitanding executions | 
for this offence are fo trequent that a per=. 
fon can hardly walk along the ftreets with- 
out rubbing againft the bodies, yet’ even 
thefe inceflant rigorous punifhments do 
not put a flop to this nefarious practice. 
Ben Jonfon fays, ** Princes learn no 
art truly but that of horfemanfhip; the 
reafon is, the brave beaft is no flatterer ; 
he will throw a prince as foon as his 
groom.” The adulation which princes 
receive in all countries, from their infancy, 
is certainly ill calculated to make them 
know truly thelr duty as fovereignss 
To thofe.in the habits of attending a 
court, this is perfectly well known: to - 
fuch as are accuftomed to courts, the fol- 
lowing paflage trom Fabian’s Chronicle, 
may afford at once information and amufee 
ment—‘¢ Henry the Sixth, when eight 
months old, fat in his nipthelss s lap, in 
the parliament chamber; the fpeaker 
made a famoufe prepofitzon, in which he 
faid much of the Providence cf God, who 
had endowed the realm with fe taward a - 
prince and foveréign governour. 
The coronation of a king is at alltimes 
the occafion of {plendor, fhew and expence. 
The ftile of expence was however for- 
merly very different from bylicia= it is In 
thefe days. Inthe time of Edward the 
Firft, every fheriff within 150 miles: of 
London, was obliged upon this folemn 
occafion to fend 60 oxen and cows, 60 
hogs, 2 fat boars, 60 fat fheep, and frome 
3, to, 5000 hens and capons. 

By the Charta Forefle we find that be- 
fore that time to kill one of the king’s-. 
deer was punifhed with the lofs of life or 
limb, at the fame time that a murderer 
» paid only a weregild or was entitled to 
benefit of clergy. 

From Crantz’s account of Greenland 
we learn thatthe Greenlanders fhew their 
refentment for injuries by giving their 
adverfaries notice, that they will, at a par- 
ticular day, publicly recite a libel againft 
them ; and it is reckon’d a want of {pirit 
if the ‘adverfary does not appear and give 
a fluent anfwer—what barbarians! notte 
have recourfe to duel. 
sig tbe aile ue 
CURIOUS ORIGIN OF THE NINE 
MUSES 
The mufes Sein confifted of only 
three in number: Mnemofyne, Memory, 
Melete, Meditation, Aede, Song. They 
were augmented to the number of nine; 
becaufe 
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