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Yet, one Poplar furviv’d, and was lofty and 
fair, 
*Twas the pride of his youth, when its 
fun rofe enchanting ; 
And AffeGtion had treafur'd his memory 
there, 
And had hallow’d his name on the tree of 
his planting. 
Unknown was the hand that thus witnefs’d 
its truth, 
Unknown was the heart with affe@ion 
thus beaming ; 
Extracts from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. 
(April 1, 
But the Wanderer thought on the friend of: 
his youth, 
And his fpirit was bleft, though his tear- 
drops were ttreaming. 
Thou flow’r of affeétion ! 
hearty 
To deck the drear feene of our wanderings 
given 3 
Thy balm to our grief can its healing impart, 
And thy bloffoms of light caught their 
beauty from heaven. j 
]- 
Birmingham. 
Extradis from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. 
JOURNEY OF CHARLES I. INTO SPAIN 
IN 1623. 
T appears by the Inrollment-Book in 
the Office for Auditing the Public 
Accompts, vol. III., fel. 175, that the 
Prince’s expences for his journey into 
Spain, during his abode there, and for his 
return from thence, amounted to 50,0271., 
which was paid in part out of the King’s 
exchequer, and in part out of the Prince’s 
treafury. 
TRUCKLE-BEDS. 
Among the furniture of our old col- 
leges, truckle-beds are very frequenily 
enumerated. Shak{peare, painting (it is 
prefumed) the manners of his own times, 
roakes the truckle-bed part of the furni- 
ture of his facetious knight— (Merry 
Wives of Windfor, aé& iv., fc. 5.) : and 
Hall, who wrote 1597, fatirizing a 
** gentle fquire’’ and a domeftic tutor, 
reprefents it as the firft condition requifite 
in the latter : 
s¢ That he fleep upon the truckle-bed, 
While his young maifter lieth o’er his head.” 
Baits, te Ge 
There was a high bed and truckle-bed 
at Woodftock Manor in 1649—(Plots 
Or, “en. Vili Rh ar. 42.). In aenry 
VIIT.’s time (July 9, 1529), Sir Thomas 
Nevile, by letier, requefted Join Hales, 
Baron of the Exchequer, to accept Mr. 
Attorney-Generai, Sir Chriftopher Hales, 
to be his bed-feilow in his chamber in 
Gray's Inn—(Dued. Orig. Jurid., p. 273). 
f,nd Holinfhed, in his Chronicle, tells us 
- of that Lord Scrope who was one of the 
_eonfpirators againft King Henry V. :— 
«¢ The faid Lord Scrcpe was in fuch fa- 
vour with the King, that he admitted him 
fometime to be his bed-fellow: in whele 
fidelity the King repofea trua.”” 
SALIC LAW. 
That peculiar characteriftic of the Salic. 
‘law by which women are hindered from 
bearing offices of ftate in the countries over 
which its influence reigns, is fingulaily 
corrovorated by the Digelts, compiled 
above a century after. Dig., lib. L, 
tit. xvil., 2. Ulpianus, lib. 1.,, ad Sabi- 
num :—‘* Feminz ab omnibus officiis civi- 
libus, vel publicis remote funt : & ideo 
nec judices efle. poffunt, nec magiftratum 
gerere, nec poftulare, nec pro alio inter- 
venire, nec procuratores exiftere.”” 
THEATRE. 
A good idea of what a French theatre 
was about 1539 may be obtained from 
the wood-cuts in the French edition of 
Terence printed that year at Paris. 
RANK. 
The cuftom fo univerfally prevalent in 
Europe of a lady once raifed te a certain 
rank not changing or forfeitigg it by mar- 
rying again to an inferior perfon, is fingu- 
larly confonant with the Reman law, from 
whence it was very probably derived. 
Ulpianus, lib. 2., de Cenfiibus. Dig. 1., 
tit. vili., 2.:—‘* Nupta_prius Conlulart 
viroimpetrare folent a Principe, quamvis 
perraro, ut nuptz ittrum miinoris dignita- 
entwining the- 
tis viro, nthilominus in Confulari maneant ~ 
dignitate: ut fcio Antoninum Augul 
tum Julie Mammez confob,i:e2 fuze in- 
dultiffe.”” 
CANTABRIGIANA, 
HENRY FERNE, BISHOP OF CHESTER». 
Bifhop Ferne was a. fellow of Trinity 
College, and chaplain to King Charles I. 
He was the firll who ventarell to print in 
favour of that unfortunate monarch, whofe 
caufe he warmly efpoufed in his ** Cale 
ef Conicience touching’ Rebellion? = 
Dusing 
