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ing, er appeared in a fairer light, than 
when he fhone by the unborrowed rays 
of bis own imagination. 4 
He had a very fele& acquaintance ; and 
was highly refpeéled by all the firit people 
in Exeter and its vicinity. 
His afpeét when he was alone in the 
ftreet appeared fomewhat lowering and up. 
focial ; but this was merely the refult of 
ftudious habits, which fo tar gained upon 
him as to prevent his even noticing paf- 
fing objects of any kind. His figure 
IAT! 
was tall, and latterly fo debilitated as to 
caufe him to ftoop very much, He long 
laboured ander the affli€tion of a fevere 
afthma, which at length terminated the 
life of an ufeful and highly ornamental 
member of fociety, and deprived a fub- 
lime fcience of a profeffor whole merits 
will be acknowledged while real tafe. 
exifts, and long continue to caft a luftre 
on the intellectual charaéter of his coun- 
try. 
Extraés from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. 
CROYLAND ABBEY. 
N Lent 1460, King Henry VI. went to 
Croyland Abbey, to pay his devotions 
to St. Guthlac, where he ftaid three days 
and three nights; and was fo fatisfied 
with the behaviour of the monks that he 
defired to be admitted into their frater- 
nity. 
DR, CROKE. 
In a Harleian manu(cript in the Britifh 
Mufeum, No. 416, article 2, is an ori- 
-ginal letter from Dr. Croke to King Hen- 
ry the Eighth, dated at Venice, An. 1529, 
or 1530, 23 O&t. concerning the prevari- 
cation of certain Friers of the univerfity 
of Padua, who had taken his Majefty’s 
money for their fub{cription, as dilallow- 
‘ ing his marriage with Queen Catherine, 
and are now altogether for it. 
“ MUsic. 
The earlier writers on mufic, and even 
Kircher a modern, have, in their divifion 
of it, diftinguifhed it into mundane, hu- 
mane, and political; and Cicero de Re- 
pub. 1, ii. fays that what in mufic is 
termed harmony, isin the government of a 
city called Concord; of the latter of thefe 
diftinétions it may be obferved, that Shake- 
fpeare has fhewn himfelf not a little fond 
of it; asin Henry V. Aécti. fe. 2. 
For government, though high and low and 
lower 
Put into parts, doth keep in one confent, 
Congruing in a full and natural clofe 
Like mufic. 
_ And again in Troilus and Creffida, 
Att i. fe. 3. 
Take but degree away, untune that ftring, 
And hark what difcord follows, 
The fame fanciful notion feems alfo al- 
luded to by Milton. 
- orders and degrees 
_ Jar now with liberty, but well confit. 
, Par. Lot, B. v. 1,792. 
Tt may be thought not unworthy of re- 
mark that in ‘he paflage firt cited as well 
as in Mr. Pope’s Ode for St. Cecilia’s 
Day, the word conjent is miftaken for 
concent, from the Latin coucextus, a con- 
cert of mufic. 
ae BOTANY. 
The progrefs of botanical knowledge 
has very probably been much retarded by 
the neglect of which its firft reformers in 
England were guilty. After they had 
formed fcientific names, they forgot to pre- 
ferve the old and provincial terms. Many 
of thefe are undoubtedly recoverable in a 
great degree by a reference to the Anglo 
Saxon herbals, to Skinner’s Lexicon, and 
other authorities of a fimilar kind; and . 
would be more extenfive than a fuperfi- 
cial view may probably fuggeft, 
INTRODUCTION OF GLASS. 
This ferviceably beautiful material, 
though applied about the twelfth century 
to the decoration of churches, was not 
very commonly ufed in dwelling-howfes 
till the century before the laft. Ihe win- 
dows of the middle ages were of lattice, 
either formed of wicker, or fine rifts of 
oak, in chequer-wife. Inthe defeription of 
England prefixed to Holinthed’s Chronicle, 
cry{tal and even beryle we are told was 
fometimes ufed by cur princes and no- 
bility; of which Jaft a particular example 
then exifted in the windows of Sudley 
Caftle. But in regard to glafs, even after 
it began to be ufed in windows, it was 
ftill preferved with great care asa precious 
rarity. The furvey of Alnewick Catile, 
Northumberland, 1267, recommends that 
for fear of injury, during the abfence of 
the owner, the glafs of the windows thould 
be taken down and laid up in fafety, as its 
decay was cofily and chargeable to be re- 
payred. And even Carew, in his Survey 
of Cornwall, p.53, when he gives a re- 
prefentation of a common Cornihh houfe, 
acknowledges 
