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fhort, his whole life was {pent in promot- 
ing charitable and uleful projects, to the 
injury of his fortune; infomuch, that, 
when old age came upon him, he was 
under the neceffity of foliciting a volun- 
tary fubfeription for his own fupport. 
He died in 1751, at the advanced age of 
84. yedrs, and agreeably to his own defire 
was buried in the chapel of the Found- 
ling hefpial. The following. epitaph 
has been written on him; 
Here Coram lies, whoa liv’d till fore’d to crave 
That alnis his bounty to a nation gave. 
REYNOLDE SCOT, 
Reynolde Scot wrote a book filed 
**Scot’s Difcoverie of Witchcraft,’’ to 
prove that the common cpinion of witches 
was imaginary and erroneous, “ for the 
undeceiving of judges, juftices, and juries, 
and for the prefervation of poor people,” 
in the words of the title page. King 
James the Firlt in the preface to his De- 
monologie, printed firtt at Edinburgh, 
1597, and aftewards in London, 1603, 
oblerves that he wrote that bock chieély 
again(t the damnable opinions of Wierus 
and Scot; “the latter of whom is not 
afhamed in public print (fays his Majefty) 
to deny that there can be fuch a thing as 
witchcraft, and fo maintains the old error 
of the Sadducees in denying of fpirits.”’ 
THE HOUSE OF HOWARD. 
Buck, an eminent antiquary, and wri- 
ter of the moft favourable, if not the moft 
partial Hiftory of the Life and Reign of 
Richard the Third, fays, the original an- 
ceftor of the houfe of the Howards was a 
baltard of Hawardus, who fortified him- 
felf with a ftrong party in the Ifle of Ely, 
and held out for along time againft Wil- 
liam the Conqueror, who at laft made him 
his friend. *¢ And let it not (adds Buck) 
be thought any difparagement for a no- 
ble family to be raifed from a natural 
iffue; for many princely families have 
been derived and propagated from natural 
fons, as was Eneas, Romulus, the Foun- 
ders of the Roman Families ; fo was The- 
miltocles, as Plutarch writeth; others 
fay as much of Hercules, &c. The King 
of Spain defcended from the bafe fon of 
Alphonfo, King of Caftile; the Conque- 
ror himfelf was a baftard fon of the Duke 
of Normandy ; Robert Earl of Gloucef- 
ter of King Henry the Firft; the Earls 
of Warren from Hamelin the bafe fon of 
Geoffry Plantagenet, Earl of Anjou; 
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41 
the Herberts likewife from a baltard fon 
of Henry I. and the Somerfet family, the : 
offspring of the Beauforts, natural fons of 
John of Gaunt.” 
REGNARD. 
Regnard, the belt writer of comedies 
in France after Moliere, travelled to the 
North Cape in 168r, with two com- 
panions, going up the Bothniac gulph to 
Tornea, and afcending the river Tornea, 
which has its fource at the Cape, leit thefe 
nes engraven ona rock : 
Gallia nos genuit, vidit nos Africa, Gangem 
Haulimus, Europamgue oculis luftravimus 
omnem; 
Cafibus é& variis ati terraque marique, 
Hie tandem fletimus, nobis ubi defuit Orbis. 
Dr. William Thom/‘on, editor of the 
Travels of Acerbi, to the North Cape by 
the fame route, has given this laft line with 
an Emendation as tre motto of his two 
guarto volumes, Sitimus hic tandem, 
nobis, &c. 
LORD CHANCELLOR MORE: 
Lord ChancellorMore, the elder, thought 
aman making choice of a wife was like 
one who thruit his hand into.a bag of 
foakes with the hope of, bringing out a 
fingle eel that chanced to be in it. He 
might, fays he, happen to light upon the 
eel, but it isan hundred to one but _he 
is ftung by a fnake. 
MOTHE LE VAYER. 
Mothe de Vayer fays, ‘ Life feems fo 
indifferent to me, that, far fiom ever de- 
firing to renew the race, if put to the, 
choice, I would not exchange the few ca-° 
lamitous days in an age fo far advanced. 
as mine is, for the numerous years ex- 
peéted by the greateft part of young per- 
fons, all whofe pleafures I well know. I 
could really {wear this as well as Cardan, 
if I did not think it more proper to cite 
his own expreffions, to which I intirely 
fubferibe, Nos, per Deum, fortunam nof- 
tram exiguam, atque in zetate ienili, cum 
ditiffimo Juvene, fed imperito, non com- 
mutaremus: that isin plain terms, ByG—, 
I would not exchange my humble condi- 
tion, even in my old age, for the jargeft 
pofleffions of an unexperienced you h.”’ 
And Tally formerly faid the fame bing 
in the charaéter of Caio; S1 ques Deus 
mihi Jargiatur ut repuercfcam, vale :¢- 
cufem, nec vero velim; Nam quid habet 
vita commodi? 
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