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Extradts from the Port-falio of a Man of Letters. 
TYTHES. 
ELDEN, in his Hiftory of Tythes, fays 
MUSIC. 
One ofthe common recreations jin the 
that they were anciently difpofed of family of Sir Tiomas More was the mut 
by the owners of the land where they 
arofe, at their pleafure, to fuch monafte- 
ries and in fuch porticns as they thought 
proper. Every perfon founding a church 
for his own ufe and that of his tenants, 
appropriated to it the tythes of his-lands. 
QUEEN ELIZABETH. ~ 
Among the many curious manufcripts 
in the Bodleian library at Oxford, is a 
very neat one of a {mall quarto fize, on 
vellum, bound in blue and fi}ver embroi- 
dery, with on each fide the initials K. P. 
for Katherine Parr. It is in the hand 
writing of Queen Elizab-th, entitled 
«* The Glaffe of the fynnefull Soule,” and 
is adurefi-d, “To our motte noble and 
vertuous. quene Kiterin, Elizabeth her 
humble daughter wijneth perpetual feli- 
citie and everia‘ting joye.’’ It 1s in the 
veligious fyle of the time, and has ocea- 
fional {trains of trne eloquence. (Mark- 
ed Arch. C. Seld. fubt.) 
DEDICATION OF CHURCHES. 
Ta a work written very much in the 
ftyle and manner of Sterne, entitled Co- 
riat Junior, or Remarks in a Journey 
througa the Netherlands, 1767. 8vo. p. 
408 is the following fingular corrobora- 
tion of Sir Henry Spelman’s opinien con- 
cerning” the’ rife: of Wakes. “1 was 
much pleafed with the good order and re- 
gularity of one of their village. fairs, 
which was opened wito folemn church 
fervice, and a proceffion, in honour of the 
faint to whoin the church was dedicated. 
The origin of fairs, in the opinion of our 
learned antiquary Sir Henry Spelman, is 
derived from the Anniverfaries of the 
Dedication of Churches. Tis may ferve 
fomewhat to illuitrate thatauthority.. No 
wonder then that fuch contentment in de- 
votion fhould coniinue in civil mirth and 
termima'e in decency.” 
bain CHINESE DICTIONARY. 
Among the manufcripts in the library 
of St. John’s cailege Oxford, is the only 
copy in England of the Chinefe D:étio- 
narvy made about-200 years ago under 
the ailpices of Camr Hiv the luerary Em- 
peror of China. Two copies were, be- 
fore the revolution, in the French king’s 
library, and are perhaps ftill preferved 
there: though fuch are very rare even in 
China. For an account of the work, fee 
Fourmont’s Gramm. Sinic. p. 361, No. 
XI. It is entitled Kam hr cu tien, or 
Kam Hi procurata Collecte, 
fic of voices, the viol and the organ. See 
his Life by More. In one of his letters 
he fays that he caufed his Artt wife, who 
wa’ but young, to be taught all kinds of 
mulic; and that the fecond, though in- 
clining te old age, he perfuaded to play 
on the lute, viol, and other inftruments ; 
every day performing her tafk thereon. 
THE MONKS. 
Among the fineular punifhments which 
‘were formerly infi@ed on mruly monks, 
Hearne (Trokelow p. 265) has recorded 
avery remarkable one at the abbey of 
Tavitock in Devonfhire. It is a com- 
miffion copied from the Epitcopal Regif- 
ter of Wells to fhut up John Cherde, a 
menk of Taviftock, in his folitary apart 
ment during life. 
LA CHEMISE DE LA VIERGE MARIE. 
This holy reli& was preferved in the 
city of Chartres during the ninth century, 
(Gardee par grande Religion, my author ex- 
prefles it). When that city was befieged 
by Raoul, cr Rollo, Duke of Normandy, _ 
the good Bifhop of Chartres carried it as 
a banner, at the head of the Burvhers, in 
a jaliy ; and it was belicved, the flege was 
railed threugh that means. 
But, it fhould feem that fhe had a couple 
of ftocks ; for in 1579, the queen of Henry 
the {IId of France not being fruitful, the 
king borrowed tiem both, and made the 
queen wear one in bed, whilft he put on 
the other; but it appears the relick was 
more propitious in the field of Mars than 
favourable to Juno Lucina. 
ARCHBISHOP USEFR. 
Uther, archbifhoo of Armagh, was born 
at Dublin in 1580, and was amongft the 
firft fcholars admitted into the college 
there. He wds in England at the time 
Charles the Firft was beheaded, and was 
-at the Countefs of Peterborow’s Houfe, 
over againft Charing Crofs, to view the. 
execution. When the prunate faw the 
preparations, he grew pale,and would have 
tainted if he had not been carried away 
from the leads of the houfe, where ke 
ftood with the Counte(s’s gentlemen and 
fervants. He died in 1656. 
CAPTAIN CORAM. 
Captain Coram laboured 17 years to 
efablith the Found!ling-Hofpital, for 
which he obtained the royal charter 
through his fingle application. He had 
been bred tothe fea, and projected many 
ufeful plans for the public benefit + in 
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