1804. ] 
mazarius. This poet, in one of his eclogues, 
introduces the Bictmnan Thelgon, feated 
on the declivity of the hill, called Mergel- 
Jina, oppofite the crater of the mountain, 
and exprefling himfelf thus ; 
Rupe fub hac mecum fedit Galatea; videbam,. 
Et Capreas & que Sirenum nomina fervant 
Rura procul ; veteres alia de parte ruinas 
Herculis ambufta fignabat ab arce Vefevus. 
By thefe words, veteres ruinas Hercu- 
lis, the poet could only mean the ruins of 
the porticos. of Herculaneum, already 
overthrown in his time, but yet vifible. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
COLIANA ; 
Con/fifting of SELECTIONS of the curious 
Mss. bequeathed by the late MR. COLE 
to the BRITISH MUSEUM, azd lately 
opened, 
MAYOR OF ANGIERS. 
HE following piece of pleafantry 
upon a Mayor of Angiers, who died 
in his mayoralty, and had the arms of 
the city, and himfelf, pourtrayed in a 27/z- 
tary habit, on his tomb, may with equal 
propriety be applied to thoufands of other 
people, who have been thus accoutred by 
their grateful executors : 
6¢ Ici git Pierrede Pincé 
Qui en fon Tems a bien pincé ; 
Tl étoit de bonne Nature, 
Et ne fut armé qu’en Péinture.” 
OricinaL LETTERS from Robert Earl of 
Leicefter, copied from a Manufcript in the 
Library of Benet College, Cambridge. 
‘¢ To the Right Honorable and my fingu- 
lar good Lord, my L. of Canterburies Grace 
geve thefe. 
MY LORD, : 
«© The Q. Mati¢ being abroad hunting 
yefterday in the forreft, and having hadd 
weary good happ, befide great {port, fhe 
hath thought good to remember yo" Grace 
with part of her pray, and fo comaunded 
me to fend you from her Highnes a great 
and @ fat ftlagge, killed with her owen 
bowe hand, which becaufe the wether was 
woght, and the dere fomewhat chafed and 
daungerous to be caryed fo farre without 
fome helpe, I caufed him to be parboyled 
in this fort for the better prefervation of 
him, which I doubt not but fhall caufe 
him to com unto you as I would be glad 
he fhuld. So having no other matter at 
this prefent to trouble your Grace withall, 
I wyll comytt. you to th” Almighty, and 
with my mof harty commendacyons take 
my leave in hat, 
At Windfor, this i1iith of September, 
Yor G. affured, 
R. DuppDELEY.” 
Coliana. 
549 
The Seal was gone, but the ftamp of it 
on the paper fhewed the impreffion very 
perfectly ; it was large and round, having 
the bear and ragged ftaff incircled with the 
garter. 
GRAY. 
Two Latin Epitaphs in the church of 
Burnham, in Buckinghamfhire, from the 
pen of Mr. Gray. 
On a monument of white marble againft 
the north-wall of the church : 
Huic loco prope adfunt Cineres 
ROBERTI ANTROBUS. 
Vir fuit, fi quis unquam fuit, Amicorum 
amans, 
Et Amicis amandus, 
Ita Ingenio & Doétrina valuit, 
Ut fuis Honori fuerit & aliis Commodo. 
Si Mores refpicis, probus et humanus; 
Si Animum, femper fibi conftans ; 
Si Fortunam, plura meruit quam tulit, 
In Memoriam defunéti pofuit 
Hoc Marmor 
amantiflimus 
Frater me(ftifiimus 
t J.Rogers.AD.1731. 
On amonument againft the fouth-wall, 
M.S, 
Jonathani Rogers, 
Qui Juris inter negotia diu verfatus 
Opibus modicis laudabili Induftria partis, 
Extremos Vitz annos 
Sibi, Amicis, Deo dicavit, 
Humanitati ejus nihil otium detraxit, 
Nihil Integritati Negotia, 
Quznam bonz Spei juftior Caufa, 
Quam perpetua Morum Innocentia, 
Animus erga Deum reverenter affeQus, 
Erga omnes Homines benevole ? 
Vixit Ann. LXV. Ob. Stoke in Com. Bucks, 
A.D. MDCCXLII. O&ob. xxxi, 
Anna Conjux meeftifima, 
Per Annos xxxiii. 
Nulla unquam intercedente 
Querimonia, 
Omnium Curarum particeps, 
Hoc Marmor, 
(Sub quo et fuos Cineres juxta condi deftinet) 
Fietatis oficium, heu! ultimum. 
PC 
PARISH.REGISTERS, 
In order to remedy the diforders occa- 
fioned by the frequency cf divorces in 
Spain, the great Cardinal Ximenes, arch- 
bifhop of Toledo, in a Synod held by him 
for that diocefe, put a ftop to them by 
the firli infitution of Parifh Regifters ; this 
was in 1497. The whole paflage concern- 
ing this is worth reading, as recorded by 
Marfolier, in his Hiffo:re du Miniftére du 
Cardinal Ximenez. p. 147. Tholoufe, 8vo. 
16943 which would be a more ufetul, 
though hardly a move ente: taining book, 
were the da:es of the fevcral moft intereft- 
ing tranfactions better obierved. 
Vie de Petrarch, in 4to. 1764, mentions 
parifh 
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