1810.f 
of queen Mary’s reign, a commission 
was signed for the persecution of the 
Irish protestants; and to give greater 
weight to this lmportant affair, Dr. Cole 
was nominated one of the commissi- 
oners. The doctor,in his way to Dublin, 
halted at Chester, where he was waited 
upon by the mayor, to whom, in the 
course of conversation, he imparted the 
object of lis mission, and exhibited the 
leather box that contained his creden- 
tials. The mistress of the inn where 
this interview took place being a pro- 
testant, and having overheard the con- 
versation, seized the opportunity while the 
doctor was attending the mayor to the 
bottom of the stairs, of exchanging the 
commission fora dirty pack of cards, on 
the top of which she facetiously turned 
up the knave ofcluhs. Thedoctor, little 
suspecting this trick, sectired his box, 
pursued his journey, and arrived in Dub= 
lin on the 7th of October, 1558. He 
then lost no tinie in presenting himself 
before lord Fitz-Walter, and the privy 
council, to whom, after an explanatory 
speech, the box was presented, which, to 
the astonishment of all present, was 
found to contain only a pack of cards. 
The doctor,greatly chagrined, returned in- 
stantly to London to have his commission 
renewed; but while waiting a second 
time on the coast for a favourable wind, 
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465 
the news reached him of the queen’s 
decease. This tale 
queen Elizabeth, to whom it was related 
by lord Fitz-Walter, and she afterwards 
allowed this woman, whose name was 
Elizabeth Mattershad, an annuity of 
forty pounds a year. 
EDWARD EARL OF DERBY. 
Among the many noble and useful 
qualifeations which are recorded to have 
been possessed by this amiable noble- 
man, who died in 1573, the following 
are enumerated.—His fidelity to three 
kings and two queens, in times the most 
turbulent and dangerous; his upright- 
ness towards his tenants, enforcing of 
them no service save the payment of 
their rent; his kindness to strangers 3 
his liberal housekeeping; his charitably 
feeding upwards of forty aged and infirta 
people twice a day, and ‘“ all comers” 
thrice a week, so that in seven years it 
was computed that he relieved two thou- 
sand seven hundred indigent people: 
his skillin setting bones, dislocated or 
broken; ‘ his chirargerie, and desire to 
helpe the poore;” his delivering his 
George and seal to his heir, exhorting him 
to keep it as unspotted in fidelity to his 
prince as he had done; his taking leave 
of all his servants with a cordial shake of 
the hand, and bidding them an affecti- 
onate farewell till the last day, 
4 ORIGINAL POETRY, - 
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TO THE DUCHESS OF BRUNSWICK, 
ON HER LAST ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND. 
SAFE, from where war’s aggressive cannon 
roar, 
Welcome, great princess! to your native 
' © shore. - 
Oh could that air first breath’d but charm 
to rest 
Those sacred sorrows which invade your 
breast ! 
Could weil-remember’d scenes, henceforth 
bid cease 
Sad recollection, and to mind give peace! 
Lovely, as when beneath Kew’s* rising shade, 
These eyes beheld you first a blooming maid ; 
* Kew is thus described by Leland in his 
Cygnea Cantio: *¢ Cheva, vulgd Kew, villa 
elegans ; zdes autem non multis ab hinc 
annis construct (tempore Henrici 7mi.) 
@ quodam penuarii, ut ego audivi, prefecto.— 
Cheva, commonly called Kew, an elegant 
Village, with a house built not many years 
Sifce (in the time of Henry the Seventh) as 
Thave heard,by acertainclerk of the kitchen.” 
_Montuty Mac. No. 199. 
When care and grief no anxious hour em- 
ploy’d, 3 
And each bright morning rose to be enjoy’d. 
Such, madam, were your early joys and 
mine; 
My joys and sorrows if I durst entwine 
With your auguster fate, because on earth, 
The self-same year and month to both gave 
bicels.) © | 
CHEVENSIS. 
. 
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On tHe FLUCTUATION or GREAT 
HOUSES anp LARGE ESTATES. 
BY THE SAME. 
WHAT'S an estate ? my friend, you see 
it change 
From the wild heir thro’ various hands to 
range : 
Who now owns Cannons, once of Chandos 
. ~ pride ? 
(OF which so truly Pope has prophesy’d) 
The house in fragments sold to half the town, 
The lands a gambler’s heir for master own ! 
Such was, sir Gregory Page, thy house’s fate; 
And such shall be of others, soon or late. 
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