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and “ weos in the language of the Pleas 
and Bench,”’ he ridicules the pedantry of 
.the lawyers in their ordinary phrafeology. 
But this by the bye. . 
The MS. alluded to above was the ori- 
ginal MS. of Igzoramus, from which Mr. 
Hawkins derived the text of his edition, 
printed not many years ago. 
LXXXI—KING’S COLLEGE, AND CHA- 
PED. 
Mr. Cole, when treating of King’s Col- 
-dege chapel, avows his chief defign to be 
the prefervation of the monuments within 
that moft beautiful ftructure, ‘ which, 
however, (he adds) confidering the Jarge- 
ness of it, and the number of years it has 
been erected, contatns but an inconfider- 
able number, and thole of no extraordinary 
account.” Mr. Cole purfues his defign 
with a moft fuperftiticus minutenefs, and 
his accotint of this chapel is more cireum- 
frantial than is to be obtained any where 
ele. Ke obferves, that it appears from 
fome old vertes at the beginning of feveral 
MS. Hifieriettes, in King’s Coilege, that 
the founder himfelf, Henry VI. was pre- 
fent at the foundation, and that he laid 
the firtt ftone. He proceeds to quete from 
Fuller’s Church Hiftory thofe verfes , but 
fometime afterward he writes a remark 
to this effect on the oppofite page: ‘“* The 
_verfes alluded to on laying the firft ftone 
ef the chapel are not the originals: of 
this I was informed hy Mr. Smith, fen. 
Feliow of the College, who communicated 
the following, as he extracted them from 
fome original papers in the College.”°— 
They are inferted here for the fake of the 
Englifh tranflation, which is a fingular 
one. 
Luce tua qua natus eras, Nicholae, Sacer Rex 
.Henricus Sextus hoc ftabilivit opus ; 
Undtum qui lapidem poftquam ponebat in 
Eton 
Hunc fixit, Clerum commemorando fuum. 
M. Domini C. quater quadraginta monos ha- 
bet annus, 
Paffio cum Domini concelebrata fuit. 
Annus erat decimus nonus, menfis fed Apri- 
lis, 
Hic flectente genu Rege fecunda dies. 
Confeffor Nicholae, Dei, cum virgine fumpta 
Celis da regi gaudiafumma Dei. 
Tranflation of the above : 
‘Saint Nicholas, in whos day was born Henry 
the Sext, our Severn Lord the King, 
After thathis-Excellence at Eton had-leyd 
the anojnted ftone, 
Here ftabluhed this work, hys clergy ten- 
derly remembring, 
The yere of our Lord aThoufand Four hun- 
dredan Forty one. 
Cantabrigiana. 
[Aug. 1, 
The fecunde daye of Aprill that tyme Sun- 
day inthe Paffion. 
The x1x yere of his Reigne here kneling on 
. his knee 
To the Honour of Seint Nicholas, fixft found- 
ed this edificacon, 
. With whom in Heven.to be laureat graunt 
might the Holy Trinitye. 
To a moft minute defcription of 
this wondertul building is fubjoined a 
fhort account of the Provofts, beginning 
with William Millington, the firk Pro- 
volt, choien by the founder himfelf, April 
10, 1443, and ending with Dr. Snape, 
ele&ted in February, 1719. This is fol- 
lowed by a fimilar account of thofe who © 
were railed from this fociety to the epifco- 
pal order, beginning with Nicholas Clofe, 
Bifhop of Litchfield and Ceventry, tran{- - 
lated to that fee in 14.52, and ending with 
Francis Hare, Bifhopof Winchefter, tranf- 
lated to Chichefler, 1731. This was the 
Hare who publifhed Phadrus and Te- 
rence, and the Pialms of David adjufled 
to metre. ; 
And thus much for Mr. Cole’s two firft 
volumes of MSS. The two next purfue 
nearly the famefcent ; they contain, how- 
ever, as well as the two firft, obfervations 
on the parochial antiquities of other coun- 
ties. ‘The churches, the funereal monu- 
menis, the infcriptions, and the efcur- 
cheons, in numerous parifhes throughout 
Engiand, are, in the courfe of this fingular 
colleétion, brought into one heap, and, 
together with the copies from anciert re- 
cords, and fome articles of more trifling | 
confideration, compofe an immenfe body 
of parochial antiquities. 
To eftimate, therefore, the qualities, 
and to apportion the merit of fuch a work 
as this, we fhould confider the materials 
of which it is formed, and the purpofes 
which the bringing of thofe materials in- 
to one mafs, may anfwer. The fubftance, 
then, of which itis compofed, isthe moul- 
dering regifters of the years that are for 
ever fled, the perifhable fabrics of human 
ingenuity and of human induftry, the 
fhort-lived memorials of mortals removed 
from a world of noife and buftle, to the 
land of filence. and forgetfulnefs. Such 
are the materials: and the purpofes which 
the collecting of them into one body may 
anf{wer, are, to preferve what is old from 
perifhing through age, and from finking 
into eternal oblivion: for, 
data funt ipfis quoque Fata fepulchris. 
. Suv. 
Itisno uncommo..thing to hear purfuits 
of this kind made the fubjeét of ridicule by 
men of tancy, What may not be fo treat- 
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