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pal charitable foundaticns are a large hof- 
pital for poor and fick adults ; an houfe 
for orphans of both fexes; and one for 
deferted children, two leagues from the 
town. The deferted children, who are 
under three years of age, are committed 
to nurfes frcem the moment they are taken 
up. They prefer nurfes of the town to 
thofe frcm the country, as they can more 
eahly fuperintend them. They teach 
thefe children to labour, and give them 
inftruétion fuitable to the occefians of life. 
The infane are ina part of the great hol- 
pital, but they propofe to remove them 
from that place ; and doubtlefs they wiil 
not neglect fo neceflary an inftitution. 
The cellars of the great holpital are an 
object of curiofity, not only on account of 
their conitru@ion, but for the veffels 
which contain the wine. ‘The cellars are 
great arched vaults, large enough for car- 
riages to-pafs to and tro. The veffels 
which hold the wine, or rather which 
were defigned for it, for the fuppreffion 
of tithes and many kinds of rents, leaves 
them at this time empty ; thefe veffels, I 
fay, are not hogfheads or cafks, but what 
are called in German foxdres, immenfe 
tuns, placed on folid ftone props, not 
made of ftaves, but of thick planks, hoop- 
ed with iron, and have double bottoms 
formed of {mall joif's, clofely joined, and 
often ornamented with fculptures. “They 
hold from five to fix hundred meafures a- 
piece, each meafyre being fitty French 
bottles. Among thefe enormous vefl-ls 
there are three of the fame fcrm, but 
greatly inferior in fze. They cannot 
come at the ipigot of thefe veflels without 
_Grawing the bolts of a wicket which is 
contrived in the double bottom, ‘Tickets 
give the age of the wine, as on one the 
wine of 1472; on the fecond, that of 
15193 and’on the third, that of 1525. 
Thefe tickets are read without difficulty, 
but they are feldom credised. The pro- 
ple of the hofpital agree that thele {mali 
caiks are fupplicd by the heft wine, pour- 
ed from time to time on the old, to re- 
new it. But as they always chofe for 
this purpofe the moft excellent, the coa- 
fequence is, that the wine in th-fe {maller 
veifels is delicious, particularly that under 
the ticket of 1472. cs 
—SEEE 
Yo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE compiler of your Cantabrig‘ana, 
No. XCI!. has fallen into an error 
refpecting Mr. Ray, the naturalift, whom 
he reprefents, after Calamy and Palmer, 
Ray not a Nonconformift. 
[ Jan. 1, 
to have been a Non-confarmift. Now, in 
refutation of this, take Mr. Ray’s dying 
declaration to the Rev. Mr. Pyke, reétor 
of Black Notley, and prebendary of Nor- 
wich. mk 
<¢ Tam a prieft of the Church of Eng- 
land, ordained by Dr. Sanderfon, then 
Bifhop of Lincoln. That I did not fol- 
low the peculiar duties of my funélion 
more, iS now the greatelt concern and 
trouble tome. I do here profefs, that 
as I have lived, fo I defire, and, by the 
grace of Ged, refolve to die, in the com- 
munion of the Catholic Church of Chritt, 
and atrue, though unworthy, fon of the 
Church by law cftablifhed in this king- 
dom. I dothink, from the bottom of 
my heart, that its doétrine is pure, its . 
worfhip decert, and agreeable to the. 
word of God ; and in the moft material 
points of both, conformable to the faith 
and practice of the godly. churches of 
Chrift in the primitive and purer times. 
I am not led to this perfuafion fo much 
from force of cuftom and education, as 
upon the clear eviderce of truth and rea- 
fon. And after a ferious and impartial 
examination of the grounds thereof, I am- 
fully perfuaded, that the feruples men raife 
againft joining in communion with it, are 
unreafonable and groundlefs; and that 
the feparation which is made may very 
juftly be charged upon the Diflenters 
themfeives, as the blame-worthy authois 
of it.” 
‘* He then ({fays Mr. Pyke,) defired me 
to read to him the prayers of the Church, 
which, in the vifitation of the fick, are 
appointed to be uled by us; and the ab- 
-{clution, in particular, he requefted me to 
read; which I having pronounced to 
fuch a true penitent, devout, and humble. 
foul, I could not but have thefe comfort- 
able thoughts, that what was thus de 
clared remitted upon earth, would be re- 
mitted in heaven alfo. ; 
“After this lgave him the facrament of 
the Lord’s Sup; er, which, as it is men’s 
duty often to receive in the time of health, 
fo, at the hour of death, he faid, it was a 
neccfiary viaticum, he thought, for the 
great journey he now was going. ”"—See 
-Phioiophical Letters between the late 
earned Mr. Ray and feveral of his inge- 
nious Correfpondents, publifhed’ by 
Dy. Derham, 8vo. 1718, p. 374- ( 
Hornet John Fox infer:ed the names of 
feveral perfons in his Martyrology as 
having been burnt by the Papilis, who 
were aétually living when he wrote his 
ponderous work ; and Dr. Calamy and 
Mr. Palmer, with equal propriety, have 
forad 
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