1803.] 
IMPROPRIETY OF BURYING -IN 
CHURCHES. 
In the Voyages atd Travels of Dr.Haf- 
felquift, a Swedith phyfician, he obferves, 
concerning burials in churches and towns: 
«‘ The burying-places of the Turks are 
hand{ome and agreeable, which is owing 
chiefly to the many fine plants that grow 
in them, and which they carefully place 
over their dead. The Turks are much 
more confiftent than the Chriftians, when 
they bury their dead without the town, 
and plant over them fuch vegetables as 
by their aromatic and. balfamic {mell can 
drive away the fatal odours wich which 
the air is filled in fuch places. I aim per- 
fuaded that by this they efeape many mis- 
fortunes which affect Chriftians, from 
wandering and dwelling continually among 
the dead. 
The great Sir Matthew Hale was al- 
ways very much againft burying in 
churches, and ufed to fay, ‘* that churches 
avere for the living, and the churcb-yards 
Jor the dead.’ He himfelf was interred 
in the church-yard of Alderley, in Glou- 
cefterfhire. ‘The belt arguments for bu- 
rying in gardens and fields will be found 
in Mr. Lvelyn’'s Sylva, p. 625. 
In Mold Church, in Flintfhire, is an 
epitaph on Dr. William Wyone, written 
by himfelf: in which are thefe words :— 
<¢ In conformity to an ancient ufage, 
From a proper regard to decency, 
Anda cencern tor the health ' 
Of his feilow-creatures, 
He was moved to give particular direc- 
tions for being buried in the adjoining 
church-yard, and not 
In the church.” 
In 1776, the King of France prohi- 
bited the burying in churches. 
Much may be feen on this fubjeét, in 
Gervafe of Canterbury, Butler's Lives of 
_ the Saints, and in Kennett’s Parochial 
Antiquities. 
CONTROVERSIES IN RELIGION. 
Sir Francis Bacon, writing in 1609 to 
Dr. Toby Mathew, who had: revolted to 
the Jefuits, ules this fimile :—** Myfelf 
am like the miller of Grancefter, that was 
wont to pray for peace among the willows, 
for while the wind blew, the wind-mills 
Wrought and the water-mill was lefs cul- 
| tomed. Sol fee that coutrowverfies in re- 
| figion mult hinder the advancement of 
| fciences !” 
The letter is in the Middle Temple 
| Library. : 
DR. BREWSTER, OF CAMBRIDGE. 
Dr, Brewer was put out of commons 
“Montniy Mac. No. rer. 
From the Port-folia of a Man of Letters. 429 
for miffing chapel; on which occafion he 
wrote the following epigram :— 
To faft and pray, we are by Heaven taught; 
O, could I praétife either as I ought! 
In both, alas! F err; my frailty’s fuch, 
I pray too little, and I faft too much! 
This epigram procured his immediate 
reftoration. 
\JESUIT’S BARK. 
The firt book on the virtues of this 
medicine was printed at London in 16825 
and entitled, ** The Englifh Remedy ; or, 
Talbor’s Wonderful Secret for curing of 
Agues and Fevers. By Sir RobertTalbor.’” 
This work was a mere tranflation from a 
French book, written by the furgeon to 
the Duke of Orleans. In 1683 Dr. Gideon 
Harvey publifhed a, fmall tra@, called 
‘¢ The Conclave of Phifitians, with a 
Difcourfe on the Jefuit’s Bark,’’ in which 
he treats fome of the greateft names in 
his profeffion with much fcurrility and 
contempt. Alluding to Dr. Talbor, he 
fays, ‘*Though this Jefuit’s powder ‘is 
not a medicine newly tound out, but re- 
vived by a debauched apothecary’s ap~ 
prentice of Cambridge, in the applica- 
tion to all intermittent fevers, and he, im 
this empirical practice moft diligently 
imitated by our moft famous phyfic doc- | 
tors, as their Efculapius and firft matter 
(a hopeful tribe, in the mean time, that 
fhail leave their fenfe, reafon, and dog- 
mata, to follow a quack or empiric.’’) 
Dr. Birch notices, that in 1680 Talbor’s 
febrifuge of the bark was mentioned to 
the Royal Society. Madame de Matte- 
ville, in the Memoirs of Queen Anne of 
Auftria, vol. 5. p. 208, fays, that in 
1663, the Queen being ill of a fever, the 
phyficians gave her the Jefuit’s bark, which 
removed it for atime. This fhews the 
practice of it before Sir Robert Talbor 
was applied to. Madame de Motteville, 
who was never abfent from the Queen, 
and is minute to.a great degree in what- 
ever concerned her, could not be miftaken. 
The contents of Talbor’s book are given 
in Mr. Baker’s manufcripts. 
HUMPHREY WANLEY. 
There are few among the literary cha- 
racters of the laft age, whofe lives, if weil 
written, would comprize a more inte- 
refting narrative than that of Humphrey 
Wanley. He was a man whofe indui- 
try and talents alone raifed him to literary 
eminence ; and whofe life was fo clofely 
interwoven with the deareft interefts of 
learning, that the hittory of Wanley, and 
of Britifh literature at its brighteft pe- 
riod, would be one. Among the varicus 
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