1807.] B. Porta’s Procefs for rendering Sea-Water Potable. 238 
Court in London, between two ftreets 
called Tiddberti ttreet and Savin-{ireet.* 
—Turner’s Hifiory of the Anglo Saxons, 
Vol. iv. p. 287. 
ST. MAGNUS, LONDON BRIDGE. 
In a curious old | Mifcellany, which goes 
by the name of Arnold’s Chronicle, 
printed by Pynfon in 1516, we have the 
following articles as found by the Inquifi- 
tors at one of the Vifitations of St. Mag- 
nus, early in the fixteenth century. 
“ Fyrit. That the Chyrche and the 
Chauncell is not repayred in glafinge in 
divers placys. 
“* Item. That the bookys and veft- 
mentys ben broken and vuhoneft for 
dyvyne feruyce. 
“Ftem. Thatmany of the preyftys and 
clerkys often were foule and unclenly 
furplefys. 
‘¢ Trem. We es nat that ony clere 
Inventory, is made of the goodys and 
landys of the chy he 
Item. That the londys and tene- 
mentys.of the chyrche By tavoure of the 
: churehcwar dyens, afore tyme ben laten 
under the very value by xx'!b yerly and 
. more. ** 
~~“ Trem. Wefynde that for defaute of 
good prouyfyon, bothe of the chyrch- 
wardeyas, and alfo of the mafters of the 
falue, neyther the preylftys nor clarkys, 
thet hen rétayned for the chyrche wyll 
nat. covie-to our lady maffa nor falue, 
nor the clarkys and. preyflys that ben 
-retayned- by the mayfters of the falue 
and the wardeyns of the chyrche wolde 
for the mayntenyngeé’ of Guddys fervyce 
atthe tyne of raceyynge of {uch pryeitys: 
and | *clarkys- good cuftuine of vertu and 
~ grete. encrente ofdyuyne fervyce. 
Ker Item.” That the chyrche wardeyns 
“wyll-nat fhewe vs the wylles of chen 
that “have gyven goodys or londys vnto 
the» parysthe wher by we fholde forther 
inquy re,whether the wyiles be performed 
orivfitytor without them we can not haue 
therot vaderttand: ing. 
Item. “That the wardeyns of the 
chyrche na of the brody rhed haue not 
giuen t! heyr acomptys, 
“ Ttem, That afortymes for dePute 
of good and dylygente autoryte oi the 
acomptys s of the wardeyns, ther hath ben 
many and grete fommes of mouey aes 
from the chyrche, the whiche myght well 
come to lyvht yf the olde acomptys were 
well examy ned. 
“ Ttem.' There is in’ the hand ys of 
~~ 
* Dugd. Mon.Angl. vol. i. p. 138. 
dyuers of the parysfhe, Reftys of money 
of the beame lyght, and of the almes 
gaderynge to the fomme of xii or xvilb, 
and that one Palmer can {fhewe the 
trouthe. 
“ Item. That the chyrcheyarde is yn- 
honeftly kepte. 
“ Item. ‘hat dyners of the preyfiys 
and.clarkys in tyme of dyuyne feruyce be 
at tauerns and ale howfys,at fyslhynge and 
other tryfyls,wherby dyuyue feruyce is let. 
““Ttem. That by fauour of the wardeyns 
there bythe admyttyd bothe pryetiys be- 
nefyced and relygyous, where there 
myght be more convenyent and expe- 
dyen it, and that haue more nede to be 
receyued in ther gees and thefe ben 
the names. Syr Robert Smyth, bene- 
fyced; and a Monke, Syr Johan Botell, - 
benefyced ; Syr John Bate hatha ‘thynge 
that we can nat vnderftonde. 
“The names of the inquylytoars of the 
fayd artycles at the fame vi! ytacyons : 
Johan Halmon Thomas Broke 
Symon Motte Wyillyam H eet 
Johan Hobchaunt {| Thomas Dauy 
Joban Yonge Wyllyam Crene 
William Dycons Robert Vincent 
Richarde Baronys Symon Neuynegtor 
Johan Eton Johan Tarke.” 
SE 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
STR, 
5S your Magazine is calculated to af= 
ford general and muifcellaneous in- 
formation, a5 well as amufement, the 
following paffaze from a very fcarce work 
may prob: ibly be well received, I ex- 
tract it from the beginning of the twen- 
tieth book of Baptifta Porta’s Natural 
Magid, not froin the original, for that 
I never could find in Italy, the country 
of which he was a native, but from an 
Unglith tranflation publithed i in 1658, in 
folio. 
Some further account of him and his 
compolitions I may perhaps take another 
occafion Me fend you; fuffice it at pretent 
to remark, that this.collection of his ex- 
periments was firft publithed when he 
was only fifteen years of age, but the 
work from which the tranilation was 
made was one revifed by him when he 
was fifty. 
We all know, and it will be found 
detailed in Dr, Watfon’s Chemical Ef 
fays, that Mr. Irwing received a very 
confiderable bounty from the Britilh par- 
ue ument, for inventing a method of ex- 
raéting frefh water from falt water at 
fea, by fimply adding a {till head to the 
fhip’s 
