For the Monthly Macazine. 
~ COLIANA; 
Confiffing of SELECTIONS of the curious 
Mss. bequeathed by the late MR. COLE 
to tbe BRITISH MUSEUM, azd lately 
opened. 
Copy of one of Cromwell's Letters to bis 
Wife. 
«¢ MY DEAREST, : 
ee HAVE not leifure to write much; 
dt but I could chide thee, that in ma- 
ny of thy letters thou writeft to me, that 
I fhould not be unmindful of thee and 
thy little ones. Truly, if I love you not 
too well, I think Lerr not on the other 
hand much. 
<¢ Thou art dearer to me than any crea- 
ture: let that fuffice. The Lord hath 
fhewed us an exceeding mercy. Who 
can tell how great it is? My weak faith 
hath been upheld : I have been, in my in- 
ward man, marvelloufly fupported ; though 
I affure thee, I grow an old man, and 
feel infirmities of age marvelloufly flesling 
upon me. Wovld my corruptions did as 
faft decreafe! Piay on my behalf in the 
Jatter refpect. 
«© The particulars of our late fuccefs 
Harry Vane or Gil. Pickering wiil im- 
part to thee. My love to aildear friends. 
Dunbar, the «¢ Thine, 
4th of Sept. 1650. ‘*O.CROMWELL.” 
EPITAPH 7% KING'S CHAPEL. 
The epitaph in Mr. Walpoie’s Fugt- 
tive Picces, p. 5, note, mentioned to be 
in King’s-college chapel, and in the Spec- 
tator, Vol. 7, No. 518, though extremely 
fine, yet, in my opinion, wants a great 
deal to come up to the noble loftineis of 
that really in one of the fide chapels of 
King’s-college chapel, on Mr. Thomas 
Crouch, who died in 1679, and is without 
his name to it. 
‘6 Aperiet Deus Tumulos et educet, 
Nos de Sepulchris: 
Qvalis eram, Dies ifthec cum 
Venerit, fcies.” 
Which is fo grand, folemn, and fublime, 
that it is impoffible to read it, and not be 
ftruck with it. The capital beauty in 
the former part is wanting in that quoted 
by Mr. Addifon, and has only the latter 
turn of thought, which, though extremely 
beautiful, would not fingly have been no- 
ticed, to the negleét-of the former, had fo 
judicious a perfon ever feen it. From 
whence I conclude, he muft allude to 
fome other in(cription than that in our 
college-chapel. 
Coliane. 
[ May 1 F3 
HARLOW, ESSEX. 
Round the font, or by it, for it 1s fo 
long aga fince I faw it, that I have forgot 
which, is wrote this Greek infcriptions 
which may be read either backwards oF 
forwards : 
NI¥YON ANOMHMA MH MONAN OYIN. 
Wath the fin, not the face only. 
The fame is round the font of the 
church of Sandbach, in Chefhire; and 
round a noble filver bafon, or large difh, 
in which ftands an ewer, and ufed at the 
vice-mafter’s table on great feftivals; in 
Trinity-college hall, in Cambridge, on 
the rim is wrote the fame in{cription in 
large capitals. ; 
< St. Memin eft une abbaye célébre fous 
Yancien nom de Micy, fur la riviére 
de Loire, proche d’Orleans, en Latin, Mi- 
ciacum, ou S. Maxianini ad Ligeritum. 
Il y a dans l’églife dece monaftére un be- 
nitier de forme ronde, avec cette mf{crip- 
tion Grecque, gravée fur Je bord du baf- 
fin, : 
NIYON ANOMHMATA MH MCNAN OYIN. 
La méme chole eft a Paris au Bewitier de 
Saint Etienne d’Egrés, et auffi autrefois 
a celui de Saint Sophie a Conttantinople. 
‘¢ On lit encore Ja méme chofe en retro- 
gradant, ce qu’on peut rendre ainfi en 
Latin—Lava delida, non folam faciem ; 
et en Francois, Ne lave pas feulement ton 
vifage mais encore tes pechez.”’——Vay- 
age Liturgique de France, par le Sieur 
de Mcleon, p. 219. 
OATH of WILLIAM RUFUS. 
Our hiftorians fay, that the common oath 
of King William Rufus, was by St.Luke’s, 
face ; but this is a miftake, for he uled to 
fwear by the holy face of Lucca; mean- 
ing a great crucifix in the cathedral of 
that city, held in fingular veneration’ 
—See Butler’s Lives of the Saints, vol. 
2, p.136, and Lord Lyttleton’s Life of 
Hen. II. vol1,. p. 424. 
MR. GRAY. 
‘¢ J have the unhappinefs to live in an 
age when all decency, both of behaviour 
and language, is fet at nought ; and, under 
a notion of freedom and liberty, every 
man’s private charaéter is made the ob- 
jet cf public cenfure, by means of a mof 
licentious mifufe of the liberty of the 
preis. Thus my friend Mr. Gray, a 
man void of all ambitious views, becaufe 
his friend, Mr. Stonehewer, had pointed 
him out as’ a moft proper perfen fo the 
Dvke of Grafton, for the profefflorfhip of 
modern hiftory, without the leaft applica- 
tion or thought of it himfelf, met with 
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