1803: | \ 
INDEXES TO BOOKS. 
«¢ Taubmann comparoit les livres fans 
index, A des magafins fans clefs, et a des 
beeics d’ apothicaire fans inicriptions.” 
cafiana, ii. 235. 
CARDINAL DE LUXEMRBURGH. 
The figure upon the tomb of the Car- 
dinal de Luxemburgh, in Mr. Benthams’ 
Hiftory of Ely, as 1 often told bim, after 
I had feen the plate, which he fent to me 
at Blecheley, had not an hat on the head, 
but a mitre, as was vifible by the rich 
Jabels of it, carved on the cufhion upon 
which the head refted, but the mitre had 
been broken off by fome fanatic. I often 
faw it, and took “particular notice of it; 
and it was always wonderful to me, that 
a perfon wo was born at Ely, and who, 
in a manner, lived in the cathedral, and 
who fomerimes amufed himfelf with paint- 
ing, fhould have fo little obfervation. The 
tomb is naw invifible, being covered by 
the wainfcot of the new altar-piece. 
JAMES THE FIRST. 
Robinfon the Anabaptift teacher at Cam- 
bridge, £778, formerly a journeyman bar- 
ber, though he has acquired futhcient 
learning fince to make him a ¢oxcomb, 
and to expofe himfelf, fays, in his Plan 
of Le&tures on Nonconformity, that King 
James was no tcholar, or fomething to that 
poipa fe, which he has been taught from 
fafhion, prejudice, Mrs. Macauley; Old- 
“mixon, and Neale. This he muft have 
advanced without knowing the learned 
works he publifhed, wich, by this age, 
may be ftyled pedantry, but was by no 
means fo, when Buchanan infufed fuch 
learning into him. Give me leave to afk this 
accomplifhed fcholar one quetiions Would 
Oliver Cromwell or King William, had 
they been contemporaries, have pad a 
vifit to his friend Mr. Locke, Sir Haac 
Newton, er Lord Verulam? Yet this 
pedant King James, the feoff and butt of 
all fanatics and whigs, when he went into 
Denmark to fetch home his bride, did not 
think it beneath him to pay a vilit in the 
ifle of Huen tothe greateft mathemati- 
cian of the age, Tycho Brahe, merely as 
a fcholar end philofopher. Thefe are 
parts of King’s James’s charaéter that 
thefe manly men of candour chofe to 
fupprefs. { jent the book’to a neighbour, 
ana cannot refer to the place ; but read- 
ing another book in the meanwhile, writ- 
ten, as I conceive, by a French refugee 
or Hugonot, by his abufe of his own 
king and country, and therefore a fit 
companion for Mr. Anabaptift, I will give 
his teftimo: ny of King James in 1702. 
The book is called 
Monrury Mac, No, 103, 
Coliana. 
at” Relation dun’ 
429 
Voyage en Danemare a la Suite de Monf,. 
I Envoye d’ Angleterre,” printed at 
Rotterdam, imo&avo, £706. he envoy 
was Mr. Vernon. who was fent to Den- 
mark in 1702 by King William, and, he 
dying before he got trom Hanover, was 
confirmed by Queen Anne. <« Lorfque 
Tycho Brahe demeuroit A Uzaniburg, il 
y recevoit fouvent Vifite de Princes et de 
grands Seigneurs, Admirateurs de fon 
grand Savoir. Et entre autres Jacques VI. 
Roy. d’Ecofle, premier du nom en Angle 
terre, étant venu en Danemarc époufer la 
Princefle Anne, Fille de Frederic II. & 
Sceur de Crifian TV. fit ) Honneur 4 ce 
fcavant Homme de lui aller rendre vifite 
dans fon Ifle, & lui donna des marques 
de fon eflime, &, de fon ae Et ce 
Roy, qui étoit fGavant, & faifort bien 
des vers Latins, lui envoya depuis de {a 
facon écrits de fa propre main, pour étre 
ais 2 la téte desfes Ouvrages. Jen co- 
piera feulement ces quatre vers.” 
Quam temere eft aufus Phaeton, vel preeftat 
Apollo, 
Qui régit ignivemos /éthere 
Eques. , 
Plus, Tycho: cuntta Affta regis 3 
Apollo ; 
Charus et Uranie es Hofpes, Alumnus, 
Amor, 
KING HENRY VI. 
In a curious edition cf * Hore beatif= 
fime Virginis Marie, ad legitimum Sar.fbu- 
rienfis Librarium juratum, in Vico fancti 
Jacobi fub figno Elephantis,” adorned 
on every page with elegant plates and 
carvings, with Enelifh rubricks, in which 
the names of Pope and Papa throughout 
have been by fome zealot erafed, and 
carefully replaced in red ink by as zealous 
a Catholic ; at folio C is a print of a king 
royally robed, with this antiphoa and 
prayer after it. 
anhelus 
tibi cedit] 
DE BEATO REGE HENRICO ANTIPHONA, 
Rex Henricus fis amicus nobis in anguftia, 
Cujus prece nos a nece falvemur perpetua. 
Lampas morum, {pes egrorum, ferens medis 
camina, 
Sis tuorum famulorum ductor ad Celeftia, 
Pax in terra, non fit puerra, orbis per con- 
finia ; 
Virtus crefcat, et fervefcat 
omnia, 
Non Sudore, vel Dolore moriamur fubito 5 
Sed vivamus, et plaudamus celis fine tera 
mino, 
Ora pro nobis, devote Rex Henrice. 
Ut per te cuncti fuperati fint ini- 
mici, 
Claritas per 
be 
R’. 
ORATIO. 
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