542 Anfwers 
with full purpofe and good deliberation, 
for the weale of my fintul foulé, with all 
my hearte, promile from henceforth the 
chaftity of my body ; that is, never to ufe 
my body, having actual knowledge of man, 
after the common ufage in matrimonye ; 
the which things I had before purpofed in 
my lord my hufband’s days, then being 
my ghoftly father the byfhop of Rochel- 
ter, Mr. Fitzjames; and now eftsince, I 
fully confirm it, as faras in melyeth; be- 
feeching my Lord God, that he will this 
my poor willaccept, to the remedy of my 
wreichedjlife, and relief of my finful foule, » 
and that he will give me his grace to per- 
form the fame. And alfo for my merit and 
quietnefs of my foule, in doubtful things, 
pertaining to thé fame. IT avowe to you, 
my lord of Rocheiter, to whom I am, and 
have been fince the firf time I fee you ad- 
mitted, verily determined (as to my chief 
counfellor) to own mine obedience in all 
things concerning the weale and profit of 
_my foule. 
CHARIOTS. 
In 3471 after the famous battle of 
Tewkfbury, whichwas decifive of the fate 
of poor King? Henry VI. and his houfe. 
¢¢ Some fledde for fuccor in the thicke of 
the _parke, fome into other places. The 
Queene was found in her chariot almott 
dead for forow; the Prynce was appre- 
hended and kept clofe by Syr Rychard 
Croftes.”” Hall’s Chronicle, ps CCXX1. 
LAUREL TREE. 
Mr. Evelyn in his Silva, fpeaking of 
the laurel tree, has this remarkable parti- 
cular, ** Note, that this rare tree was firft 
brought from Civita Vecchia inte England, 
by the Countefs of Arundel, wife to that 
illuftrious patron of arts and antiquities, 
Thomas Earl of Arundel and Surry, great 
great grandfather to his grace the prefent 
Duke of Norfolk, whom TI left fick atPadua, 
where he’ died, highly difpleafed at his 
grandfon Phillip’s putting on the Friar’s 
frock, though after wards the purple, when 
Cardinal of Norfolk.” 
Dr. Hunter's Ecit. 1776. p. 394. 
; 
— se. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
: SIR, ie 
N your Magazine for December, p. 
404, your Correfpondent J.C. re- 
quetts information refpecting the prevent- 
ing of the formation of the .crult upon 
the infide of tea-kettles 5 and aliothe belt 
mode of clearing it off when it is fermed. 
If. J. C. will put into his tea-kettle a 
flat oyfter-fheil, and keep it conftantiy in, 
he will find that it will attract the fiony 
te Queries. | ‘Jenamy 
particles that are in the water, to itfelf, 
and prevent their forming upon the tea. 
kettle. . 
The other intention will be anfwered 
by giving repeated {mart ftrokes with a 
{mall hammeryon the outfide of the kettle, 
which will fpeedily fhake it off, 
The cruft thus formed upon the oyfier- 
fhell may, in fome meafure, ferve to point 
out the nature of the ground through 
which the water pafles. Lam, &c. 
7th Dec. 1803. M.H. J. 
— Lee ? 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
T AM happy to have it in my power to 
anfwer, in a great meafure, your 
Conftant Reader’s Queries relative to the 
incruftation on tea-kettles. 
This incrufiation, in general, is car- 
bonate of lime, which, as water is almot 
always impregnated with carbonic acid, it 
takes up in its paffage through the earth ; 
and when, by the procefs of boiling, the 
fuperabundant quantity of acid is carried. - 
off, the carbonate of lime, not being folu- 
ble in water alone, is precipitated ; when 
driven by the agitation of the water, it 
adheres univerfally to the infide of the 
veffel ; nor does it appear probable that 
any thing will prevent this taking place. 
But to deprive your tea-kettle of this 
unwelcome cloathing, is very ealy, with- 
out the afiiftance of the tinman, to whom 
the houfewste is ufually obliged to apply 
at laft.. The following plan, I am con- 
vinced, will be effettual. To one part of 
muriatic acid, (what is vulgarly called 
fpirits of falt,) add five or fix of water; 
put a few ounces cf this mixture into your | 
kettle, and fhake it about ; a violent dif. 
engagement of carbonic acid air will in- 
ftantly take place; repeat this when the 
effervefcence ceafes, till it be clean. The 
effect is produced by the muriatic having 
a ftronger affinity to the lime than the 
carbonic acid has; the latter it expels, and 
diffolves the lime. , 
From this mode of cleaning tea-kettles, 
if you are careful to rince the veffel out - 
with ‘water afterwards, nothing unplea- 
fant will arife, but undoubtedly a confi- 
derable faving in domeftic economy. The. 
expence of the mixture is very trifling 5 
with one pint of it I perfeétly cleared 
from incruitetion a veflel that had been 
colle&ting it more than three years in 
confiant ufe ; nor did the acid in this di- 
luted fiate affect the metal in the leait. 
' Iam, &c R. M. 
DéC. 125 1803s 
: To 
