1804.] 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
COLEANA. 
Confiffing of SELECTIONS of the curious 
Mss. bequeathed by the late MR. COLE 
to the BRITISH MUSEUM, aid lately 
opened. 
FREDERIC HARVEY, EARL OF BRISTOL 
AND BISHOP OF DERRY. 
ms R. GEORGE Athby, Reétor of 
Barrow near Bury, calling upon 
me, Tuefday March 1g, 1782, with the 
Mafter of Emmanuel ; hetold me, that the 
Count Bifhop was moft lively and enter- 
taining, full of anecdotes and pleafant fto- 
ries ; and that he told him lately, on a vi- 
fit to him, that being at the Grande Char- 
treufe, whillt the fociety were at dinner, he 
found the Convent-door fhut,and knocking, 
the porter told him that no one was permit- 
ted to enter while the Monks were at din- 
ner; upon this he gave the porter a letter 
to the Abbat, from a neighbouring Bifhop 
who had fent this recommendation,.and in 
which the Bifhop had called-him his bro- 
ther, the Bifhop of Derry ; immediately 
after the letter was delivered, the doors flew 
open, and the whole Convent on their knees 
met his Lordfhip and defired his bleffing : 
_ which the Bifhop without ceremony deli- 
vered to them, as he pafled them. No doubt 
they were ignorant of the Church the Bith- 
op of Derry was of, and thought him fome 
Catholic Bifhop. Let this be as it may, 
he bleffed them all, throwing out his bene- 
ditions with his hand. The monks, no 
doubt, when they were better informed, 
had different opinions of the efficacy of 
thofe benedictions. 
VERSES ON MARY QUEEN OF SCoTS. 
Regibus orta, auxi Reges, Reginague vixi, 
Nupta tribus, tribus orba viris, tria Regna 
reliqui ; 
Gallus opes, Scotius cunas, habet Anglafe- 
pulchrum, 
PROVINCIAL HISTORIANS. 
Notwithitanding Boccaline’s cenfure on 
the writers of Parochial Hiftories, Towns 
and Countries, and Bithop Warburton’s 
- fevere criticifms of the fame complexion,’ 
and on Anthony Wood, at p--64 of his 
fearce book printed early in his life, 1727% 
called a Critical and Philofephical Enquiry 
into the Caufes of Prodigies and Miracles, 
as related by hiftorians, &c. yet I beg leave 
to diff nt from them both, though of fuch 
eminence. Private Hiftory, anecdotes of 
Men of learning and charaéter, notices of 
Cultoms, and Manners, are not only amu- 
fing, but inftruétive of the ulages of early 
ages, and of our Country and Anceftors. 
_Boccsline’s ftri@ure is this, “ Ragougli 
di Parnaffo, Cent. pr. Rag. 54. 
** Dipiu, {otto la Pena della perpetua 
Coleana. 
539 
infamia, efpreflamente prohibiamo il poter= 
fi, per l’avenive fcrivere Hiftorie particola~ 
ri dicittaalcuna, fe ella non fara Metre- 
poli d*Imperio, di Regno, o di Provincia 
grande 
This injun@ion notwithftanding, I fhall 
go on at my old rate.” W.C.- : 
ORIGINAL LETTER FROM MR. HORACE 
WALPOLE TO MR. COLE. 
April 16, Arlington Street. 
You muft be concerned, my good fir, 
for what I have this minute heard from his 
nephew, that poor Granger was feized at 
the communion-table on Sunday with am 
apoplexy, and died yefterday morning at 
five. I have anfwered the letter with a word. 
of advice about his manuferipts, that they 
may not tall into the hands of bockfellers. 
He had been told by idle people fo many got 
fiping ftories, that it would hurt him, and 
living perfons, if all his colle&tions were to 
be printed ; for as he wae incapable of tel- 
ling an untruth himfelf, he fufpe&ed no- 
body elfe—too great goodnefs in a biogra~ 
pher! Yours ever, 
HOR. WALPOLE. 
P.S. The whole world is occupied with the 
Duchefs of King{ton’s trial. I don’t tell you 
a word of it, for you will not care about at 
thefe two hundred years, 
GAZETTES, OR NEWSPAPERS. 
Monfieur de Saintfoix, in his hiftorical 
Effays on Paris, (vol. 2. p. 218, Ed. 
Lend. 8vo. 1767, in 3 vols ) gives this ac- 
count of their introduction. 
Theophrattus Renaudot, a phyfician of 
Paris, picked up news from all quarters, te 
amufe his patients; he prefently became 
more in requeft than any of his brethren 3 
but as a whole city is not ill, or at leaft 
don’t imagine itfelf to be fo, he began to 
reflect at the end of fome years, that he 
might gain a more confiderable income by 
giving a paper every week, containing the © 
news of different countries. A permiffiow 
was neceflary 3 he obtained it, with an ex- 
clufive privilege, in 1632.- Such papere 
had been in ule for a confiderable time at 
Venice, and were called Gazettes, becaufe 
a {mall piece of money, called Gazetta, was 
paid for the reading of them. This is the 
origin of our Gazette, anditsname. About 
ten years atter, they were common in Eng- 
land, by the name of Mercuries. 
Copy of the Vaw of Celibacy made by Mar- 
GARET, Counte/s of Richiacnd, Mother to 
King Heary Vil. 
In the pretence of my Lord God, Jefus 
Chriit, andjhis bleffed mother, the glorious 
Virgin, St. Mary, and of all the whole 
company of heaven, and of you alfo, my 
> 
ghoftly tather,* I Margaret of Richmond, 
* Fither, Bithop of Rocheiter, 
