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forgott my mantle, which you were to 
line with mufk colour fattin, and all my 
other things, for you fend me noe patterns 
nor anfwer. Monfieur Lainey is going 
away. Pray fend me word about your 
fon Griffin, for his Majeftie is mighty well 
pleated that he will go along with my 
lord duke. I am afraid you are foe much 
taken up with your owne houfe, that you 
forget my bufinefle. My fervice ‘to dear 
Lord Kildare, and tell him, I love him 
with all my heart. Pray, Madam, fee 
that Potvin brings now all my things with 
him, my lord-duke’s bed, &c. If he hath 
not made them all up, he may doe that 
here ; for if I doe not get my things out 
of his hand now, I fhall not have them 
untill this time twelvemonth. The duke 
brought me down with him my crochet 
of diamonds ; and I love it the better be- 
caufe he brought it. Mr. Lumley, and 
everie body elie, will tell you, that it is 
the fineft thing that ever was feen. Good 
Madam, fpeake to Mr. Beaver to come 
down too, that I may befpeake a ring for 
the Duke of Grafton before he goes into 
France. 
I have continued extream ill ever fince 
you left me, and Iam foe ftill. I have 
fent to London for a doétor. I believe I 
fhall die. My fervice to the Dutchefs of 
Norfolk ; and teil her, I am as fick as Her 
Grace, but doe not know what F ayle, al- 
though fhe does, which I am overjoyed 
at, that fhe goes on with her big belly. 
Pray tell my Ladie Williams, that the 
King’s miftrefles are accounted ill pay- 
matters, but fhe fhail have her moncy the 
next day after I have the ftuffe. 
Here is a fad flaughter at Wind{or, the 
young men’s taking their leaves and going 
to France ; and although they are none 
of my lovers, yet I am loath to part with 
themen. Mrs. Jennings I love you with 
all my heart, and foe good-by. Let me 
have an aniwer to this letter. 
Ea Ge” 
STURBRIDGE FAIR. 
That this was the greate(t mart in Eng- 
Jand about Elizabeth’s time, is evident 
from the following paflage mm an old play, 
called Lingua, written in 1607, by An- 
thony Brewer, who probably was of 
Cambridge Univerfity. It is recounting 
the numberlefg articles neceflary to dreis 
up a young lady in the fafhion—* and 
now there is fuch calling for fardingales, 
kirtles, bufk-points, fhoe-ties, &c.- that 
feven pedlars fhops, nay, all Stourbridge 
Fair, will fearce furnif her. A thip is 
fooner rigged by far, than a gentlewoman 
made ready.”” 
Coltanaz 
rod. fy 
». JAQUES DE LOXENS. =~ 
Made this excellent epitaph upon his: 
{colding wife, Ya 
‘¢ Cy git ma femme. Oh! qutelle eft bien 
‘© Pour fon repos, et pour le mien.” 
Les Trois Siccles denotre Litteraturey 
tom 2, p. 250. 
VILLENAGE. ; 
In Sir Richard Worfley’s Hiftory of the 
Ifle of Wight, Appendix, page 120, is 
the foliowing curious grant to the monks 
of Carifbrook, by Richard Triftram, of 
bimfelf aud all bis lands, at Affeton, in 
that Hfland. 
‘* Carta Richerii Triftram de femetip- 
fo, cum terris fuis :— 
*« Sciant prefentes et futuri quod ego 
Richirius Trittram, de Affeton, dedi Deo 
et Sanctee Mariz de Carefbrock, meipfum, 
cum omnibus Catallis meis, ad fervitium 
et obediendum juxta rationabilem difpofi. 
tionem~prioris ejufdem loci, et totam ter- 
ram meam, cum pertinentiis in Affeton, 
quam Rob. de Affeton dedit mihi pro fer- 
Vitio meo, in perpetuam eleemofynam ; et 
hee obtuli et feci et juravi ad tenendum 
fuper altare Sanz Mariz de Carefbroek, 
pro falute animz mez et predecefforum et 
fucceflorum meorum.” 
TRINITY-CHURCH, OR ST. 
CHAPEL; IN ELY. 
This elegant and beautiful ftructure, 
of which a full account may be feen in 
Mr. Bentham’s Bcok of Ely, feems to me 
to have been originally defigned for the 
Chapter-houfe, by the continuation of fine 
marble arches-all round the bottom part of 
it, and even at the ealt end, now partly 
covered by the altar-piece. At the Re- 
formation it was converted into a parifh- 
church, and a new dedication impoled on 
it. Inthe f{ummerof 1775, the parifhion- 
ers came to a refolution to clean all the 
fine carved work about the pillars and 
cieling, which was filled up with dirt and 
white-wafh; but they can never make it 
compleat, while they fuffer the irregular 
pews to deform it. . 
DIMENSIONS OF CHICHESTER CATHE=> 
'  DRALe . ; 
Length of the whole fabric, from eaft 
to weft, 397 feet 2 inches; whereof the 
weft porch comprebends 23 feet 7 inches : 
whence to the choir door is 153 feet 6 
inches. Length of the choir 100 feet 3 
inches, and of the burial place behind 24 
feet 7 inches. The entrance into the Lady- 
chapel is 17 feet 1 inch; and of the faid 
chapel, which compleats the whole, 78 teet 
z inches. Breadth of the body and fide~ 
ailes, in the eaftern part, is 64 feet 5. = 
MARY’'S- 
