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reproved for it. (2 Chron. xvi. 12). The 
fame cuftom prevailed in India, and all 
over the Eaft. The Tartars and Moguls 
are other inflances; and we find it the 
ame at prefent among all the favage na- 
tions of Siberia and even in America..,,.In 
England, particularly to the ume of the 
Retormation, the profeffion of phyfic was 
intirely appropriate to the, clergy 3 and 
the inftances which perpetually occur in 
our hiftorians, are tco numerous to be 
cited here. One or two may ferve as ex- 
amples: Kinefrid, phyfician to St. Echel- 
dreda, who died fo long ago as 679, is the 
oldeft infance we meet with. Ralph de 
Lincoln, abbot of Croxton, was_ phyfi- 
cian to King John, at the time he died at 
Newark. (See Matt. Paris, 288)... And 
Burns, in the Hiftory of Weftmoreland 
I. 99, has given a curious indenture be- 
tween Sir Waiter Strickland in the 18th 
of Henry VIII. and a dodtor of phyfic 
who was to have twenty pounds to cure 
him of an afthma. 
ORIGINAL LEITER written by the. Com- 
mand of the KING of DENMARK, to 
DR. KENNICOTT, at the time be edited 
the Hebrew Bibie. 
REV, SIR, 
The king being informed of the learned 
work, which you are {paring no pains to 
accomplifh, viz that of reltoring by the 
text of the civine writings of the Old Tel 
tament ; his Majetty thinks fit to affitt 
you by all poffible means, in order to pro- 
mote a defign fo truly ufeful :o religion 
and learning, and confequently fo much 
deferving the greateft encomiums. 
In this view Lam honoured with his 
royal commands te acquaint you, Sir, 
with the arrival of fome antient copies of 
the Hebrew Bible lately purchafed in 
Egypt for the Royal Library, and fent 
hither by fome gentlemen, who are actually 
making a voyage into Arabia Felix by 
his Majefty’s orders. 
You receive here inclofed a fhort ac- 
count of the condition of thefe valuable 
remains of antiquity. The King intends 
wth pleafure, to give you leave to make- 
ule of them. It depends only .of you, 
Rev. Sir, to appoint fome able perfoa 
here, who may examine, and, if you 
think it proper, collate thefe manufcripts 
with printed copies; in order to. gather 
out of the former fuch various readings 
as may occur therein. 
fon employed by you to this purpofe, wiil 
meet with all imaginary readinefs to faci- 
litate his tafk. And I beg you will be 
* 
Elen. 
I hope yeu will . 
_ be periuaded before hand, that the per- 
{Nov.1, 
fure of my beft wifhes for the fuccefs of 
your arduous undertaking, that cannot 
fail to immortalize your name; and, what 
-to-a man, of, your religious way of think- 
ink muft be of infinitely more value, will 
draw down. upon you God Almighty’s | 
bleffing. Lam with great efteem and fin- 
cerity, Reverend Sir, 
Your moft obedient humble Servant, 
Copenbagen, BERNSTORFF. 
March 31,1764. 
ORIGINAL LETTER from LORD ORFORD 
to the REV. MR. COLE, ». 
Arlingion-fireet, Aug.25; 1772. 
I thank you-for-your notices, dear Sir, 
and will deliver-you from the trouble of 
any further purfuit of the Paleryne of 
Thomas. J have difcovered him among 
the Cottonian manufcripts in the Mufeum, 
and am to fee him. 
If Dr. Browne is returned to Cambridge, 
may I beg you to give him a thouland 
thanks for a prefent he left for me at my 
houfe, a goar ftone, and a feal that be- 
longed to Mr. Gray? J hall lay them 
up in my cabinet at Strawberry among 
my moit valuables. Dr. Browne how- ~ 
ever was not quite kind tome; for he 
left no direétion where to find him in 
town,fo that T could not wait upon him, nor 
invite him to Strawberry-hill, as I wifhed 
‘to do. 
help of antient manufcripts the original ~ 
Do not thefe words, inwite him to 
Strawberry, make your ears tingle ? Sep- 
tember is at hand, and you maft have no 
fore throat. The new chapel in the gar- 
den is almoft fnithed and you muft come 
to the dedication. 
I have feen Lincoln and York ; and to 
fay the truth, prefer the former in fome 
refpects. In truth I was feandalized in 
the jatter. William of Hatfield’s tomb 
and figure is thrown afide intoa hole ; and 
yet the chapter poffefs an eftate that his 
mother gave them. Ihave charged Mr. 
Maton with my anathema, unlefs they do 
juftice. I faw Roche Abbey too, which 
is hid in fuch a venerable, chafm, that you 
might lie concealed there even from a 
{quire parfon of the parifh. Lord).Scar- 
borough, to whom it belongs, and who 
lives at next door, neglects it as much 
as if he was afraid of ghofts, I believe 
Montefino’s cave Jay in juft fuch-a folema 
thicket, which is now fo overgrown, that 
when one finds the fpot, one can {carce find 
the ruins, 
I forgot to tell you, that in the {creen 
of York minifter, there are mof curious . 
ftatues of the Kings of England, from 
the Conqueror to Henry VI. very fingu- 
lar, evidently by two different hands, the 
2 ‘ one 
