1804.] 
vated by a flight of fteps; and from the 
inde arches of the o&tagon, J would have 
had a femi-eircle of open arches, that 
fhould have advanced quite to the feats of 
the prebends, which would have difcovered 
the pictures; and through the octagon it- 
felt, you would have perceived the fhrine 
of Edward the Confeflor, which is much 
higher than the level of the choir. But 
men who atk advice teldom follow it, if 
you do not happen to light on the fame 
idea with themfelyes.”’ 
Letter trom Mr. Horace Walpole 
to the Rew. Mr. Cole, Fan. 5, 1780. 
FLEURS DE Lis. 
We are obliged to Dante for inftruSting 
us in the true origin of the word Fleur de 
fis, ufed in the arms of France. They 
are the flowers which grow on the banks of 
the river Lis, which feparated Artois and 
#rance from Flanders, after the Marriage 
of Philip Ausuftus with If{abella, of 
Hainaut. Dante’s. words are in the 
xxixth Canto del Purgatorio. 
“¢ Coronati venian di Fior da Lifo.” 
Speaking of the twenty-four Elders in 
the Apocalypfe, he fays, that they walked, 
being crowned with Fleurs des Lis. The 
Poet alfo repeats the fame word, when he 
relates the infult done to Pope Boniface 
VIIT. in Anagni, in the xxth Canto of the 
fame Comedia, in thefe words : 
‘© Vegvio in Alagna intrar le Fior da Lifo, 
Et nel Vicario fuo Chrifto efley catto.” 
PHYSIC. 
 Creft ainfi gu’on definit la medicine : 
Part, ou la fcience d’entretenir un malade 
des raifons frivoles de fon mal, et de 
Vamufer par des remedes, bons ou mau- 
Vais, en attendant que la nature le tue, ou 
je gueriffe. Menagiana, vol. 3, p.295. 
But Moliere’s definition of a phyfician, 
was, that he is a man paid for telling idle 
Monfenfe in a fick perfon’s chamber, till 
either nature had cured him, or medicines 
had killed him. Vie de Moliere avant 
fes oeuvres, p. 38. 
AN EFIGRAMs 
Made by Dr. Byrom of Manchefter, 
who had fome difpute about parith rates 
with the officers of his parifh, men re- 
markably lean : 
There were two men, nam’d Bone and Skin, 
Contriv’d to take the parith in, 
Be:ween them both to fhare it 3 
But be it known, to Skin and Bone, 
That fled and Slocd won't bear it. 
THE JESUITS. 
The following epigrams were written 
Coliana, 
$03. 
on 4 piece of paper, by M. Leonard, Coun- 
feller of the Chatelet at Paris, when he was 
at Cambridge foon after 1740. The firk 
is on the town of Dole’s giving the con- 
vent of /’drc to the Jefuits, who had alf 
the convent of La Flecbe, or the Arrow, 
given them by. the king. The fecond is 
on the fame Fathers taking eway the figure. 
of our Saviour over their door, and placing 
the arms of Lewis XIV. in the place. Or, 
as [have it im another place, the inferip- 
tion over their convent was Demus Fefi, 
which they removed to make way for 
Domus Ludovice Magni. 
: In Fefuttas. 
Arcum Dola dedit Patribus, dedit alma 
Sagittam 
Gallia; quis 
dabic ? 
Suftulit kine Fefum pofuitque infignia Regis 
Impia Gens: alium non hater illa Dean, 
Funem, quem meruére, 
PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL, 
As tothe two queens that were buried 
here—Mary Queen of Scots was eigh- 
teen years after her interment removed 
to Weltminfter Abbey, and a fine tomb 
erected over her grave, by her fon King 
James I. But Queen Katherine refteth 
here, under a plain altar ftone, placed 
over her by Mr. Taylor, one of the pre- 
bendaries ; but the Church itfelf is her 
greatefl monument, which it is faid King 
Henry VIII, left ftanding on her account. 
Pity it is the like reafon had not prevailed 
with him to fpare St. Edmundfbury, fer 
the fake of his own filter, Mary, the 
French Queen, buried there in his life- 
time, 
CHESTERFORD MAGNA IN ESSEX. 
Mr. Afhby, Fellow of St. John’s Cam- 
bridge, calling upon me this morning, 
Monday, Dec. 18, 1769, gave me the fol- 
lowing account of fome antiquities lately 
difcovered at Chefterford, by digeing away 
the old Roman fortifications in order to 
-mend the high-way with the materials, 
He told me he received his information 
from Mr. Shepherd, an intelligent farmer, 
of the fame town, 
A fine red difb of very bright red earth, 
and exceedingly {mooth, and within a cir- 
cle was wrote ARILIS. F. and was very 
fine ware. This was found with many 
other broken pieces, with fheepg bones, 
at the bottom ofa well, ten feetdeep. A 
fkeleton lay acrofs the top of the well. 
About feven years ago was ‘found in 
the hollow road from Chefterford to Stret- 
hall, a piece of gold, weighing eight 
ig had "pounds, 
