1803. ] 
- ler expence, direé&tly up the Rhine. ‘The 
fummer-fair is ufually attended by about 
five thoufand ftrangess, buyers and {ellers, 
of whom nearly a thoufand are Jews from, 
Poland and various parts of Germany. 
—aEa 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
CANTABRIGIANA. 
NO. XXXVI.—TRANSLATION of QUEEN 
ELIZABETH’s LETTER, ‘extracted from 
fome Papers in the Public Library, and 
copied into our laft Number. ‘ 
bys LIZABETH, by the Grace of God, 
yy &c. to the Noble Virgin, endued 
with diftinguifhed virtue, Margaret Heyld, 
our mott illuftiious friend, greeting. The 
great fame which is fpread about of your 
virtue and integrity, and alfo of your no 
common refpeét for us, occafions, though 
we have not feen you with our eyes, that 
we treat with you, at this time, in a fami- 
liar manner by thefe letters ; for the affair, 
concerning which we write, will not be 
more defirable to us, than, as we hope, 
happy and aufpicious to you. 
‘© We have, at this time fent into Ger- 
many the bearer of thefe, Robert Colfhill, a 
gentleman diftinguifhed for his family, 
and alfo for the virtue and confummate 
fortitude of bis mind, a penfionary of our 
family, very dear to us, to tranfa& bufi- 
nefs of ours of no light moment. He is 
fo inflamed with the bent of your geriius, 
with the celebrity of your morals, that there 
can be no ardour in love that he does. not 
poflefs ; which, indeed, we conjecture be- 
fore-hand, has been long very well known 
to you by many tokens. We indeed are 
fo favourably difpofed to his moft honour- 
able withes, as very earneftly ta defire 
that this affair may have a favourable iffue, 
according to his prayers, and fo much 
the rather becaufe we can have no doubt 
that the marriage will curn out fortunately 
and happily for the advantage of you both, 
and becaufe we entertain a hope that you 
will, fome time or other, come into Eng- 
land, and pay usa vifit (which indeed we 
very much defire.) 
‘© What weight our recommendation 
may have with you, will reft entirely in your 
own power. But, if we have any judg- 
ment, you will not be able, in choofing a 
hufband, to do any thing more prudent, 
more ufeful in point of intereft, or more 
calculated to advance your reputation, 
than tochoofe the man of our recommen- 
dation, all which we have good confidence 
in, and firmly promifé to ourfelves. 
“* Laftly, we teftify, “as much weight as 
you give to our recommendation in choof- 
MontuLy Mac. No. 99, 
Cantabrigiana. 
ing this hufband, fo much of our favour 
will you add to yourself; and, for this 
your inclination of mind towards us, you 
fhall always fird us mindful and pratetule 
Health and happinefs to you. Given ag 
Greenwich, May 18, 1576, in the eighth ° 
year of our reign.” 
The introduétion of the above letter is 
in the ftyle in which letters on public bu- 
finefs are ufually written. I therefore 
afked a friend to whom I read the letter, 
whether he did not think the language tuo 
official for the occafion. He replied, if 
it was not too official, it mufl be allowed 
to be very officious, 
XXXVII.—ARCHBISHOP PARKER’S Li-« 
BRARY. 
Dr. Fuller, in his Hiftory of Cambridge, 
ftyles the collection of manutcripts and 
books, left by Archbifhop Parker to Be- 
ne’t College, <¢ The Sun of Englifh Anti- 
quity, before it was eclipfed by that of Sir 
Robert Cotton.” 
There is in this collection a letter 
from the Privy Council, fignifying her 
Majefty’s .pleature, that the Archbifhop 
or his deputies fhould be permitted to per- 
ufe all the records belonging to the dif- 
folved monafteries. This letter is dated 
Howard Place, July, 1568, printed and 
attefted by I Incent, notary-public. There 
is alfo the fame letter, probably the origi- 
nal, fays Naimith, but the fignatures are 
all cut off. In Nafmith’s excelient Cata- 
logue this letter comes under the head 
CXIV. in a Codex Chartaceus, in folios 
cui Titulus, Epiftole Principum. 
This moft valuable colle@ion forms the 
library of which we are now {peaking. 
Parker, previoufly to his being advanced 
to the fee of Canterbury, had! been Matter 
of this College. The original letter of 
Henry VIII. recommending him to this 
office, is among the manuferipts of the 
library. : 3 
XXXVIM.—-DIFFICULTY of accefs to 
PARKER’S LIBRARY. 
The difficulty of accefs to this library 
is in proportion to the value of the con- 
tents. It is fubjected to the following 
regulations. Every fellow takes an oaths 
that he will not injure the books, and 
there is a limited time for confulting them, 
viz. from eight to eleven o’clock in the 
morning during the winter, and from fix 
to eleven, and from one to five, in the 
fummer. Wo one is permitted to take 
any book out of the college; the malfter, . 
however, may have three at once at his 
lodge, but no more; or the fame number 
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