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toward his parents, as the storks are said 
to bear their ancient parents on their 
back, and to take care and feed them 
when grown helpless by age: the third 
was a tortoise, with Domum procura; 
the emblem of the tortoise carrying its 
house along, to remind hiin of his duty 
to his asa provident master: the fourth 
was a dolphin, with Officits vaca; be- 
cause the dolphin is said to be the most 
friendly of all fishes, and their sporting 
and playing in the sea is said to predict 
a tempest, Around all these the follow- 
jinx motto was engraved, Celer Virtutis 
€ursus; to remind hiin of the uncertainty 
of life, thereby to make the most of a 
promising long life —Campof, lid. 8. 
SIR THOMAS WHITE. : 
The munificent charitable donations 
of this worthy man, who was lord mayor 
of London at the commencement of 
queen Mary’s reign, deserve to be re- 
called to remembrance, although I be- 
hieve the benefits arising from most of his 
bequests have gone into far different 
channels than those in which he endea- 
voured to direct them, He was avow- 
edly the patron and protector 6f scho- 
Jars, and founded St. John’s college at 
Oxford, which he endowed with several 
considerable manors, and at his decease 
teft three thousand pounds to increase 
its revenues. Tle also founded schools 
at Bristol and Reading, and reserved two 
fellowships at St. John’s for natives of 
each of these places. He gave during 
his life two thousand pounds to the city 
of Bristol, to purchase lands of the yearly 
value of one lundred and twenty pounds, 
for which it was agreed that the mayor 
and corporation of that city in 1567, and 
the ten ensuing years, should pay the 
sum~of one hundred podnds, which 
having for that time been allowed to ac- 
cumulate, was to be thus expended + 
Fight hundred pounds to be divided an 
Ioans without interest, among Sixteen 
voung clothiers, freemen of that city, for 
ten years, upon sufliclent security, at the 
end of which time that sum to he lent to 
the purchase of corn, to be soid to the 
gor at prime cost. At the expiration 
of nine years, at the feast of St. Bartho- 
lomew, he directed that one hundred and 
four pounds should be paid to the mayor 
and corporation of the city of York, to 
be lent by them to four young freemen 
of that city, (clothiers always to be pre- 
* 
hequeathed them. 
corder, and tep aldermen of the city of | 
~Coventry,s six and éight-pence each for 
ee ae 
Of all chaste birds the 
cuch ‘other persons as the desire of the — 
mayor, aldermen, and four of the com- 
won-council, shall point out, The re- 
maining two hundred to be expeuded in 
thought 
of ft pious | 
Extracts from the Port folto of a Man of Letters. [July }, 
ferred.) The same sum the next year, 
on the same conditions, to the city of 
Canterbury; the next to Reading; the 
next to the Merchant Taylors’ company, 
the next tothe city of Glocester; and is to 
proceed, year by year, to Worcester, 
-Exeter, Salishury, Norwich, Soutbamp- 
ton, Lincoln, Winchester, Hereturd, Ox- 
ford, Cambridge, Shrewsbury, Linny 
Bath, Derby, Ipswich, Colchester, New- 
castle, and then to begin again at Buistol, 
and to proceed annually to the other 
places fur ever. He also gave to the 
mayor and corporation of Coventry, the 
sum of two thousand and sixty pounds, 
for the parchase of lands, the rents of 
which, after the deduction of an annuity 
of forty pounds to St. Johw’s college, 
were to be thus appropriated: Twelve 
poor men weré to receive an annual do- 
nation of two pounds, and a free loan of 
ten pounds a year was to be granted to 
four young men for nine years; at the 
eud of which time this benefit was to be. 
conditionally enjoyed by the towns of 
Northampton, Leicester, Notungham, 
apd Warwick. The master and warden 
of the Merchant Taylors’ company were 
lis executors; and for the performance 
of their trust, forty shillings a year was 
To thé mayor, re- 
ever, for their trouble; and to the stew- 
ard and town-clerk, - for. bonds, &c. 
twenty shillings annualiy, so that no 
charge. might be made to those who re- 
ceived his byunty. 
Dk. LONGE. Pie 
Thomas Lodge, M.D. who was one of 
the numervus versifiers that graced “ the 
golden days ef good queen Bess,” ac- 
quired some reputation as a weiter of 
songs, odes, and marlrigals. The fol. 
lowing lines,which are a fair speéimen of 
the poetical taste of the times 
julden, Le- 
lected from isa _ © 
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Of all sweet nymphs I honour Rosaiinde, 
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