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O'er my weary eye-lids ftealing, 
Steep my fenfe in lony repofe, 
From thy dewy pinicns fhedding 
Kind oblivion o’er my woes. 
Hope, beneath thy friendly fhadow, 
Shall her fairy colours fpread, 
Ana with welcome pay iilufions 
Once more dance around my head. 
Extraés from the Port Folio of a Man of Letters [Jan. 1, 
Let no ray of chearlefs morning 
Break the charm that feals my peace 5 
In a long and heavy flumber, 
All my care fhall ever ceafe. 
So the bird of tuneful forrow, 
Tied with noife, and fick of day, 
‘Seeks fome huth’d and lonely fhadow, 
Never withing thence to ftray. 
Exirads from the. Port-folio of.a Man of Letters. 
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JOHN TALEOT.* 
% NE of the oldeft paintings in oil T ever 
O faw, and Mr. Walpole was with me at 
the time I faw it, is of this Nobleman, in 
the gallery at Cafile Afhby, the feat of 
the Earl of Northampton. I faw it there 
in 1763, together with another of his wife. 
Mr. Walpole judged them to be the mot 
antient oi!-painting in England. 
Singular DISPENSATION from the POPE. 
Brother John de Chedewynd, Priett 
and Canon of the conventual church of 
Lillefhull, of the order of St. Auftin, dif 
penfed with for being born a hattard, 
from two fingle perions, by Pope Clement 
the fifth, that he might ferve all the of- 
fices of his order, ard was afterwards dif 
pened with by the Bifhops of Litchfield 
and Coventry, on his being elected Ab- 
bot of his convent: Whereupon the King 
requetts of the Pope a general Difpenfa- 
tion for him. Dat. apud Glhucefir, 15 
“ Sept.1329, 3 Edw II. 
GEORGE NORTH. 
George North was born in London, 
where his father was a peWterer, 1n 1707, 
and received his ecucatien in St. Paul's 
School ; from whence, in 1726, he went to 
Ben’et College, in Cambridge, where, in 
proper time, he teck his degrees of B. A. 
and M.A. In 1729, he tock Deacon’s 
orders, and went to officiate as Curate at 
Codicote, a fmal]l Village near Welling, in 
Hertforcfhre, to the Vicarage of which he 
was prefcnted by Bifhop Maw‘on, in 1743. 
-In 1741 he publ flicd, without his name, 
s* An anfwwer to a feandalous libel, enit- 
tled, The Impertinence and Impofture of 
Modern Antiquaries difplayed.” "This re- 
commended him, not oniy to the notice 
and efteem of Mr. Wile, the ceotleman 
whofe caufe he had fo ably defended, but 
alfo of feveral other ciftinguithed members 
of the Society of Antiquaries; amongtt 
whom he was admitted a member, Au- 
gult 17, 1741. ; 
Tn 1742 he drewup a catalosue of Lerd 
Oxford’s medals, for the public fale of 
* Mentioned by Granger. 1. 44. 
them, as he did that of Dr. Mead’s, for 
the like purpofe, in 1755. 
In 1752 he publithed “* Remarks on a 
Pamphlet by Mr. Clarke,” entitled, ‘« Some 
Conje&tures on an aniient Piece of Money, 
endeavouiing to prove it a coin of Rich- 
ard the firft.” In this anfwer to Mr. 
Clarke, Mr. North has confidered the 
fiandard and purity of our moft antient 
Englifh coins ; the ftate of the mints, and 
the beginning of fierling from the public 
records. No man could be better quali- 
ficd for this than he was; having taken 
uncommon .pains to make himfelf matter 
of the ftate and hiftory of our antient 
coimage. 
Mr. Northdied on the 17th of June 1772, 
having juft compleated his 65th year, at 
his Parfonage-houle at Codicoie, where he 
had refided trom the time of his taking 
orders, without any other preferinent than 
this ima!l Vicarage, which did not pro- 
cuce him above 8o0l. a year, helped aut 
with a little income from a fmail patii- 
mony. . . 
LORD GEORGE GORDON. 
‘¢ The thanks of the congregaticn 
were lafl Sunday defired, by the reader in 
Audley Street Chapel, tor Lord George 
Gordon’s fafe Delivery, as Soame Jenyns 
exprefies it, who was prefent, and toge- 
ther with much the greateft part of the 
congregation, were very highly and jufily 
offended. Though I fhall not return 
thanks, yet Iam not forry his bufinefs 
ended as it did: for had it ended other= 
wife, 1 know not what might.have been 
the confequences.”” A 
From Dr. Lort to Mr. Cole, Feb. 17,1731. 
PERUKES of WIGS: INTRODUCTION of 
, them. 
When Prince Charles and the Mar- 
quifs of Buckingham were at Paris, in 
their way to Spain, 22 Feb. 1623, the 
better to difguife themfelves, they bought 
eaclt of them a perriwig fomewhat to overs 
fhadow their foreheads (Sir Henry Woot- 
ton’s Life of the Duke of Buckingham 
p- 35). 
