1803.] 
has many traits of our Puritan biographi- 
cal books, fuch as Baxter’s Life, by Syl- 
vefter Calamy, and others of that itamp, 
and is intituled “* Mémoires pour fervir a 
Ll Hiftoire de Port Royal, par“M. Fontaine, 
2 vols. 8vo. printed at Utrecht, 1736 3 at 
p- 470 of vol. ii. is the ftory.—The fa- 
mous Dr. Arnaud d’Andilli, one day talk- 
ing with Roger du Pleflis Duke de 
Liancourt, pon the new philofophy of 
Monf; Defcartes, maintained that bealts 
were mere machines, and had no fort of 
reafon to direét them, and that when they 
cried or made a noife, it was only one of 
the wheels of the clock or machine that 
made it: the Duke, who was-ef another 
opinion, gave this reafon for it: ‘*I have 
(fays he) below in the kitchen, two turn- 
ipits, who take their turns regularly 
every other day to get into the wheel: one 
of them not liking his employment, hid 
himfelf when he was to be employed, fo 
that his companion was forced to mount 
the wheel in his room; but crying and 
wagging his tail, he made a fign for thofe 
concerned to follow him. Accordingly he 
carried them to a garret, where he diflodg- 
ed him and worried him.—Are thefe ma- 
ehines and clocks? fays his Grace to Mr, 
Arnaud. The ftory is introduced not to 
combat Mr. Defcartes’ falfe philofophy, 
but to fhew that the auftere gravity of a 
Janfenift could on fome occafions relax 
the mufcles of his face, and {mile, like 
other people, when occafion was admini{- 
tered. M.de Liancourt,and his Duchefs 
were both Janfenifts, and under his direc- 
tion, and both died within fix weeks one. 
of the other; fhe dying 14th June, and the 
Duketheift of Auguit following, 1674. 
FRANCISCANS, OR GREY FRIARS. 
Francifcans are not monks: but no- 
thing is fo common among Proteftant 
writers as to call'them fo: thus Sir Joha 
’ Hawkins, in his Hiftory of Mufic, vol. v. 
p- 27, ftyles them: and Dr. Robertfon, in 
~his Hiftories, eternally makes thee fame 
miftake; which though of noconfequence, 
yet the want of precifion ina writer of his 
magnitude is what one would not expect. 
. Prefbyter and Prieft convey in moft coun- 
tries the fame’ idea ; yet though Dr. Ro-. 
bertfon may be a prefbyter, it would 
be an impropriety he would not excufe, to 
call him a Prieft of the Kirk of Scotland. 
JOHN Fox. 
Mr. Pennant, though a zealot againft 
Popery, cannot help reflecting feverely on 
Fox’s intemperate zeal, in making a mar- 
. tyr of an enthufiaft who fuffered for at- 
tempting to kill a prieitt while officiating 
at the aliar.—* It is with a kind of hor- 
Coleana. 
211 
ror I read in the zealous Fox, of an outrage 
of this fort, committed in our own king-_ 
dom, inthe reign of Queen Mary, The 
enthufialt was taken and punifhed, by the 
itriking off the criminal hand, and by be- 
ing burnt: yet the hilterian gives hima 
place among the more well-meaning fuf- 
ferers of that barbarous period.”’—WelfS 
Tour. vol.i. p. 182. - 
TURKEYS. 
Tt has been frequently remarked that 
turkeys were not introduced into England 
till the time of Henry VII. ; yet Dr. Ken- 
net, in the Parochial Antiquities of Bur- 
cefter, p. 287, relates, that by a burfar’s 
account-book of the priory there, in 1277, 
there remained after their audit for that 
year, among other things, fex Africane 
\ femina, six hen-turkeys, as he expiains it 
in his gloflary. 
FOSSILS. 
Dining Nov. 26, 1774, with my old 
friend Jacob Bryant, Efq, at his houfe at — 
Cipenham, near Salthill, and clofe adjoin- 
ing tomy parith of Burnham, near Eaton, 
in Buckinghamhhire, he gave me a large 
piece of ftone, if it may be fo called, 
which was brought by General Defagu- 
liers from Gibraitar, and given to him.— 
It is a concretion or aggregation of ani- 
mal bones and rock-ftone of a reddifh hue, 
and is a very fingular curiofity. They 
are found in the Rock of Gibraltar, at 
forty feet high, and below the furface of ° 
the earth, greatly too low and deep for. 
human interment, and as much, too high 
for art and induftry to carry them thither. 
Thefe bones of animals are thickly incor- 
porated with the rock, and now and then 
among them appears a fea-fhell, which 
ftrongly and-demonftratively indicate the 
deluge. An account is given of this fin- 
gular appearance, in the Philofophical 
Tranfaétions. Mr. Sryant fllewed me a 
piece which is fawed afunder, and would 
‘take a polifh, except in fuch parts of the 
bones as were hollow; and at the end of 
the joints are very minute cavities, where 
points of pins might enter, where the mar- 
row and fat were lodged. I brought a 
large piece, of feveral pounds weight, to 
depofite in our Mufeum at Cambridge, as 
a prefent from Mr. Bryant. 
JOHN DE FOUNTAINES, 
ELY. 
When the choir of Ely was removed 
from under the cupola, or lanterne, into 
the prefbytery, about 1770, the {tone cof- 
fin of this Bifhop was dilcovered juft un- 
der the pavement, .in the old choir. It 
was covered witha fingle flab. I faw his 
{keleton : the robes were decayed, but an 
Bes oakea 
BISHOP OF 
