552 Letter from Dr. 
Anno 1330. Gunpowder and guns in-| 
vented by one Swartz, a German monk, 
of Cologne... The Englifh in the famous 
battle of Crefly, 1346, had four or five 
pieces of cannon.—Mezeray. : 
Anno 1331. Edward II. grants letters 
of protection to John Kemp of Flanders, to 
come and exercife his trade of a weollen- 
cloth-weaver. Soon after, in the fame 
year, 70 families of Walloons came over. 
This was tne firit foundation of our wool- 
len manufaZure. 
Anno 1367. A grant of 2ol. yearly 
fettled on Geoffrey Chaucer, whom the 
king ftiles his fervant, valettus noffer, for 
the good fervices which he has done and 
is to do hereafter. Rymer, tom. vi. 567. 
Anno 1367. An inventory of goods 
fent to the Pope. Ibid, tom. vit. 356. 
Anno 1367. Clock makers brought firt 
into England. Ib. vi. 590. 
Anno 1391. Playing cards invented 
for the diverfion of Charles VI. of France. 
Anno 1410. Henry IV. grants to the town 
of Cambridge, a number of fmall taxes or. 
tojls on provifions, &c. brought into 
their town, either by land or water, to 
enable them to pave their ftreets and mend 
the high roads leading thither. 
Anno raro., Guicciardini afcribes to 
the Netherlanders the invention of paint- 
ing in vil, and fiaining glafs with co- 
lours, alfo the making of tapeftry ; who 
alfo named the pozats of the compas. 
Anno 1418. Stone bullets ufed for can- 
non, the zroz not being yet invented. See 
an order of Henry V. for 7000 ftones, 
Rymer, vol. IX. page 542. 
Anno 1422. Under this year, ‘in Sir 
Robert Cotton’s Records, amongft the in-. 
ventory of Henry V.’s jewels, arras, ta- 
peftry, apparel, and goods—** You hall 
(fays Sir Robert) find plain gowns of that 
kind of lefs value than gos. and fuch other 
cofily apparel, as the worft pages of the 
Jeaft gentlemen of thefe days would {corn 
to wear.”” 
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To tke Editor of the Monthly Magazine. — 
SIR, 
HE laft number of your mifcellany 
contains a letter from Mr. Bleecker, 
_ of New York, which ftates, that a paflage 
quoted in my Hiftory of George III. from 
a current publication, concerning General 
Wathington, is not genuine. 
The work from which the citation was 
made, is entitled ‘* Epiftles Domeftic, 
Confidential, and Official, from General 
Wathington.”, When I wrote that part 
. Of the hiftory, I had not heard that the 
Biffet.— Queries. [July t, 
work in queftion was in any degree fpu- 
ricus, or that General Wafhingron had 
difavowed certain parts of the contents; 
T therefore once incidentally cited it as an 
illufration of an opinion which I have 
always entertained of Genera] Wathing- 
ton, and ftill entertain, that, though’ the 
ftrenuous and able champion of what he 
regarded as liberty and the rights of the 
American Colonies, he was no friend to 
democratic violence. 
‘But though this has been and is my 
opinion of that great and wife man, from 
his own difavowal I find that the indi- 
vidual letter in queftion is not genuine. 
Far from wifhing to impute to General 
- Wafhington any fentiment which he has 
not expreffed, I am defirous of correcting 
the error into which I have fallen refpeét- 
ing that fat, and alfo, as far as in me lies, 
compenfating its confequences. 
With that view and for that purpofe, 
the parts of pages 444 and 345 of vol. 2, 
that contain the {purious paflage, are can- 
celled ; and thofe who have purchafed co- 
pics of the work, may have the corrected 
pages by applying to the publifhers, 
Meffrs. Longman and Rees, Paternofter- 
row. “Eh iin, Siz, 
Your moft obedient fervant, 
RoBerT BIssET.. 
Sloane Terrace, ‘fune 18, 1804. 
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Lo the Editor of the Monthly Magrzine. 
SIR; 
A. G. wifhes to have, through the 
* medium of your Magazine, the 
opinion of one of your correfpondents, ' 
concerning the affinity of the words Alfred 
and Alured; that is to fay, whether they 
were not originaliy the fame. | 
He conceives that, according to the old 
way of fpelling, the letter o muft have 
been fub{cribed for the a, confequently the 
word muft have become ALVRED, cor- 
rupted, perhaps, into Alfred by an affinity 
of found. The favour is earneftly re.’ 
quefted, as it will tend to clear up doubts” 
now exifting in the minds of many. 
March 19, 1804. 
—S ae 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
SHOULD efteem myfelf obliged, if, 
among your numerous correfpondenis, 
any one could inform me, through the 
medium of your excellent Mifceliany, the 
origin of the word Hackney; and why the 
coaches that apply for hire in the ttreets 
are fo denominated. 
Yours; Ges? F.7. 
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