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are but too well adapted for giving rife 
to a myftical polytheific perfonification, 
and worfhip of a moral or a!legoric quality, 
refembling. the Pagan adoration of Con- 
cord, Viétory, or Fidetity. 
GHELFUCIUS. 
In the preface to Ceva’s Jefus Puer, one 
Ghelfucius is mentioned as magni nomiuts 
wvates. What did he write?. Where and 
when did he flourifh? Is his work, like 
Peterfen’s Uranias, which Leibnitz cor- 
rected, one of thofe pious poems, the au- 
thor of which has merited eternity, but 
net immortality? 
EDWARD FAIRFAX. 
_ Edward Fairfax, fays the laft editor of 
his Jerufalem Delivered, was a natural! fon 
of Sir Thomas Fairfax, of Denton, in 
Yorkfhire. The time of his birth and 
death are alike unknown. Very few par- 
ticulars of his life have been preferved. 
The firft edition of his Taffo was print- 
ed in 1600. A fecond edition, publifhed 
in 1624, was edited by Mr. Bill, an indi- 
rect proof of the previous death of Fair- 
fax. 
In the colleétion of ancient Englith po- 
ems, publifhed’ by E. Cooper in 1738, an 
eclogue, called the fourth of Fairfax’s, is 
inferted. Manufcripts of his, it fhould 
feem, were then ftill in being, and are 
faid tdhave conffted: of twelve eclogues, 
a book of demonology, and the Hiftory of 
Edward the Black Prince. Was this iaft 
a metrical rémance, of which his dzemono- 
logical fludieswere to fupplythe machinery, 
an epic poem, for which his tranflation of 
Godfrey was but the apprenticefhip ? 
Can any of the readers of the Monthly 
Magazine communicate more concerning 
him, and his works? 
JOAN of ARC, 
A Latin poem was printed at Paris in 
1516, with the title De geftis F Joan Vir- 
ginis Frantic lib.iv. 
TINDALL’S TRANSLATION Of the 
NEW TESTAMENT. 
Tindall’s Tranflation of the New Tef- 
tament was finifhed in the reign of Hen- 
ryVIII. A.D. 1526, and the whole impref- 
fion (as it was fuppofed) purchafed by 
Tonttall, Bithop of London, and in.the 
courfe of that year publicly burnt at St. 
Paul’s Crofs. - 
Tindall was betrayed at Antwerp, and 
apprehended by the emperor’s officers, 
who made him a clofe prifoner in the 
Caftle of Fribourg, 1536, where he had 
the fame fate as his Tranflation, for he was 
publicly burnt. 
One copy of this curious Tran Beaton ef- 
' From the Port-folio of a Man of Lateré: 
[ Feb. Tt, 
caped the flames, and was picked up by 
one of the late Earl of Oxford’s collec- 
tors, and was confidered of fo much value 
by this munificent nobleman, that he “fet- 
tled twenty pounds per annum for life 
upon the perfon who procured it. 
His lordthip’s library being after his 
death purchafed. by Ofborne the bookfel- 
ler of Gray’s Inn, this copy was marked 
in his catalogue fifteen fhillings, and for that 
fum purchaied by the ingenious Mr. Ames 
(Author of the Catalogue of Englith Por- 
traits, &c. &c.) 
Ca the death of Mr. Ames, his library 
was fold at Langford’s Rooms, and on the 
13th of May, 1760, this copy of Tindall’s 
Tranflation was fold for fourteen guineas 
and a half, 
Dr. CROXALL’S 30th of JANUARY SER- 
MON, @#d ORATOR HENLEY’S VER- 
SIFICATION, — ' 
On the 30th of January, 1730, Dr. 
Croxall preached a fermon before the 
Houfe of Commons, from the follow- 
ing text—‘* Take away the wicked 
from before the king, and his throne fhail 
be eftablifhed in righteoufnefs.”” 
This fermon gave fo much offence to 
Sir Robert Walpole, that. he’ prevented 
the thanks of the houfe being prefented to 
the preacher. Of this circumftance Ora- 
tor Henley availed himfelf, and to the next- 
advertifement of his lecture at Clare Mar- © 
ket, appeared the following motto : 
‘¢ Away with the wicked before the king, 
And away with the wicked behind him; 3 
His throne it will blefs . 
With righteoufneis, 
And we fhall know where to find him . 7 
_ REFORMERS. 
Bradford, in the reign of Henry VIIf. 
chole rather to be burnt alive than admit 
the word TRANSUBSTANTIATION into his 
creed, becaufe it was abfurd, yet be wrote 
a long book in defence of PREDESTINA- 
TION: query which is the moft abfurd ? 
Richard Cox, Dean of Weftminfter and 
Canon of Windfor, was appointed one of 
the commiffioners to vifit the Univerfity of 
Oxford about 1548, and his zeal for refor- 
mation was fo exceflive, that he deftroyed 
a number of curious books, for no other 
reafon, but becaufe they were written by 
Roman Catholics. 
John Blagrave died r6ntg, and among: 
other charities left ten pounds to be annu- 
ally diftributed in the following manner. 
On Good Friday, each of the three pa- 
rithes in Reading fend to the Town-hall 
one virtuous maiden who has lived five 
years with her mafter; there, in the. pre- 
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