Ax 
the advantage of being capable of ex- 
preffing itfelf better than any other. In 
fhort, this nation wants nothing to make 
it truly happy, but to know how to enjoy 
its bleffings. A natural reftleffnefs, and 
an extreme jealoufy for their rights and 
their liberty, have often plunged them 
into the horrors of civil war, and brouglit 
them to the brink of ruin. The three 
voyages which I have made thither, en- 
able me to know this country well; and 
T can confidently affert, that of all coun- 
trics in the world, it is the moft likely to 
charm a young man, provided he under-. 
ftands the language, and is ina condition 
to bear the expence. En fhort, if the high 
road to hell is fown with pleafures, it is 
abfolutely neceffary to pafs through Eng- 
Jand.”” See Penfées fur divers Sujets 
de Morale, par M. le Comie Oxenfliern. 
Tomi, p. 110.1746. 
JOHN SELDEN. 
It is faid in the Colomefiana, p. 575, 
that **M. Junius m/’affuroit que Selden 
(qiil connoiffoit particuliérement) faifoit 
lire piufieurs perfonnes pour lui, comme 
en l’a dit du Cardinal du Perron, de 
VAvocat General Servien et de M. de 
Picffis.""—In Hearne’s Appendix to the 
Liber Niger Scaccarii, (Numb. xi. p. 564)« 
Selden is faid to have been born at Sal- 
vington, the fon of a¢ommon fiddler, and 
bitd up at {chool at Chichefter under the 
tuition of Mr. Barker. 
i hemes Sinai 2 
ORIGINAL LETTERS. 
£eiter from Lady Anne Warwyck, eldeff 
Daughter of Edward Seymour, Duke of 
Somerset, (and Uncle to King Ed. V1.) 
¢y Anne his fecond Wife, daughter of Sir 
Ed. Stazhnpe, Knit. She wes married, 
tft, 10 Fobn Dudley, Earl of Warwick, 
gud afterward to Sir Edward Untous 
danight of the Bath. 
MY VERIE GOOD LADY. 
i would have written thankes unto you 
4n this tyme, for the lynin cloth you 
tent me, and for divers other good courtefies 
I have received from you, if my opostu- 
bitie would have either ferved, or I could 
lave gotten a convenient meffenger to 
wryte bye. I am not a little glade to 
underftand of the good feryice Sir Nicho- 
fas bath done thelg of Jate ; and how ac- 
eeptable it is unto her Majeltie, and other 
his good friends in England, whoe wifhes 
noe better fortune unto him: then they 
arc fure he caries a mynde to performe 
ood fervice; and for my own parte, there 
fall be nce occafion pretermitted, wherein 
I may either with him well, or doe you 
hoth any pleafure, whereof I pray you 
doe not dgukt but that you fhall tyade me- 
Extrads from the Port=folid if dé Man of Letters; { Auguft t; 
as reddie to performe the beft good to= 
wards you I can, as any friend you have. 
Thus, with my hartie comendations unte- 
your felfe, and Sir Nicholas, I bid yow 
both hartely well to fare. 
At the Courte, this 24th of Novem. 
1579» 
Your verie lovinge friend, 
ANNE WARWYCKe. 
Th. La. Malbie. 
SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 
MR. DUKE, rs 
T wrote to Mr, Prideaux to move yOuR 
for the purchafe of Hayes, a farm fome- 
time in my father’s poffeifion. I will moft. 
willingly give you what foever in your 
confcience you fhall deem it worth; and 
if you fhal], at any time, have occafion ta’ 
ufe me, you fhall find me a thankfoll. 
friend to you and yours, Iam refolved, 
if I cannot intreat you, to build at Colli- 
ton; but for the naturall difpofition I have’ 
to that place, being born in that houfe, 
I had rather feat myfelf there than any 
where elfe. I take my leave, refting 
ready to countervaile all your courtefeyes 
to the utter of my power. 
Court, the xxvi of July, 1584. 
Your very willing friend, 
in all I fhall be able, 
—  WaLrerR RALEieny 
LORD KAIMES+ 
Copy of a Letter from him to Lord ——~s 
MY LORD, Ed. § Aprile, 1763s 
Tt is with no fmall reluétance that FE 
venture to approach your Lordfhipy. 
concerning an office that is not vacant. 
But having been often accufed of back- 
waranefs in foliciting favours, [ have for’ 
this fingle time in my whole life yielded 
to the advice of my friends, which is te 
inform your Lordfhip, (and I doit with. 
real concern) that the Juitice Clerk has not 
many days, perhaps hoars, to live; and 
upon that fuppofition to offer myfelf 2 
candidate, 
My Lord, I would as little enclme te 
be put over any judge who ranks abové 
me, as to have another put over mes 
Lord Minto has a much better claim to 
be Juftice Clerk ‘than I can have; but E 
chearfully fubmit to your Lordfhip my 
claim to be an ordinary judge of the cri< 
minal court. So far only I am bold to 
fay for myfelf, that, by the bleffing of 
“Providence, I have health and vigour fufs 
ficient to undergo all the fatigues of that” 
I am, 
your Lordfhip’s moft 
ebedicat humble Servant, 
MENRXY HOME«. 
office, 
