t 
1802. ] 
Englifh Saxons, and is called in divers of 
the old Saxon MSS. annals Granteceafter ; 
and, notwithftanding the great devafta- 
tions it fuffered, with other places, by 
reafon of the old Danifh incurfions, yet in 
the fir tome or volume of the book of 
Dometday (for now I come to cite record), 
it appears to have been a place of confider> 
able moment, having in it decem cuftedias, 
anda caftle of great ftrength and extent 5 
and fo I have done with Cambridge as a 
renowned place.” 
The other part of this celebrated fpeech 
I pafs over. 
111.—Axz amicable way of fettling the 
Difpute concerning the Antiquity of Cam- 
bridge and Oxford from Thomas Fuller. 
I care not a rufh which of thefe aged 
ladies is to take precedence of the other, 
and mott cordially approve the amicable 
manner in which Thomas Fuller adjufts 
the difference. 
“< Far be it from me (fays he) to make 
odious comparilons between Jachin and 
Boaz, the two pillars in Solomon’s tem-« 
ple, by preferring either of them for 
beauty or-ftrength, when both of them 
are equally admirable. Nor fhall I make 
difference between the filters, (copies of 
learning and religion), which fhould be 
the eldeft. In the days of King Henry 
VI. fuch wasthe quality of defert between 
Humphrey Stafford Duke of Bucking- 
ham, and Henry Beauchampe Duke of 
Warwicke, that to prevent exceptions 
about priority, it was ordered by the Par- 
liament that they fhould take precedency 
by turns, one one year, and the other the 
next year; and fo by courfe were to che- 
quer or exchange their going or fetting all 
the years af their life.” 
This Thomas Fuller, to the honour of 
the Univerfity, and his own credit, was a 
Cambridge man, author of the Church 
Hiitory of Britain, and of a Hiftory of 
the Univerfity of Cambridge. 
iv.—Another way of fettling a Contro- 
very. 
In the time of Sir T. Smith, and Sir J. 
Cheek, there wasa celebrated difpute con- 
Original Poetry. 
ATI 
cerning the proper pronunciation of the 
Greek languaye. WhileLordCromwell was 
Chancellor of the Univerfity, the zewer 
larnynge gained ground, Gardiner, Bi- 
fhop of Winchefter, who afterwards be- 
came Chancellor, put a ftop to its pro- 
grefs. And how did he fettle this con« 
troverfy ? Thus: he iffued an order in 
his own name and the Senate’s: the fok- 
lowing moft fingular paflage is an extra 
from that order : 
<< Quifguis noflram potefiatem agnofciss 
jonos literis, five Grecis, five Latinis, ab 
ufis publico prefentis feculi alienos, privats 
judicio afingere ne audeto. 
“‘ Dipbthongos Grecas nedum Latinis, nifi 
id dierefis exigat, fonis ne diducito—a: abe, 
& « abs, fous nediflinguito. Tantum is 
oribocraphia difcrimen fervato ¢,%, v, uno 
eodemque fono exprimeto. 
“< Ne multa—In fonis omuino ne pbilofo- 
phator, fed utitor prafentibus.” 
IT have heard of a Via regia ad omnes 
artes et [cientias. ‘This may be calleda 
Via regia (except that it proceeded from 
the mouth of a prieft) to fettle a learned 
queftion, 
The new method of reading Greek was 
afterwards revived, and is that which now 
prevails in England. E.R. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. ' 
1 SHR, 
F any of your claffical readers recol- 
i leé&t, that in your Magazine of Febru- 
ary laft I propofed te alter the punctua- 
tion of a line in Homer, Il. 1. 133. Lowe 
them and myfelf the following detence of 
the common reading. In Iliad, 8.v. 393, 
we read— ; 
Teipornevoy cwegKey bm’ Bvpucsnos aeAwy. 
Eurip. Her. Fier. v. 832. 
ET7Es OE prox Sous OeETEpAT Eupue-Se0s. 
The correction propofed was firi&ly 
claffical, and well enough defended by the 
paflage of Mofchus; but my ufual cau- 
tion forfook me, when I pronounced it in- 
difputable. I am, Sir, your’s, &c. 
HighamHill,Nov.3,1802. E.Cocan. 
ORIGINAL POETRY. 
Ee 
Io the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE following lines were found, with many 
other monuments of fine tafte, and deep 
fenfibility, among the papers of the late Mifs 
Temple ; and as they appear, from their dates, 
to have been fome of the fir productions of 
her infant Mufe, will not, it is prefumed, 
with a fhort account of the amiable, accom- 
plifhed, and much-regretted author, be deem- 
ed unworthy a place in your jultiy-efteemed 
Mifcellany ; a diftinétion that cannot be too 
highly valued, which gives us the hone(t af- 
furance of an honourable and moral fame— 
ee our 
