« It seems Miss ****** was a great lover of French novels; and much enamoured of Mr. Rousseau's Julie. How much have these writers to answer for, who make vice into a regular system, gild it with. specious colours, and deceive the mind into guilt, it would have started at, without the aid of art and cheat of sentiment. I have wrote the names of the delinquents very plain, as God forbid their crime should be imputed to any innocent person. There is danger of that, if one does not explain oneself.

"I believe one may affirm, though it is not declared in form, that our young Queen is in a way to promise us an heir to Great Britain in a few months. Lady Sarah Lennox is very soon to be married to Sir William Bunbury's son; and Lady Raymond, it is said, to Lord Robert Bertie. Mr. Beauclerk was to have been married to Miss Draycott; but, by a certain coldness in his manner, she fancied her lead-mines were rather the objects of his love than herself; and so, after the licence was taken out, she gave him his congè. Rosamond's pond was never thought of by the forsaken swain. His prudent parents thought of the transmutation of metals, and to how much gold the lead might have been changed; and rather regret the loss.

"I am very glad you have the good fortune to have Sir Richard Lyttelton, and the Duchess of Bridgwater, at Naples. I know not any house, where the sweet civilities of life are so well dispensed, as at theirs. Sir Richard adds, to elegance of manners, a most agreeable vivacity and wit in conversation. He was made for society, such as society should be. I shall be glad, when you write, to hear of the Duchess of Bridgwater's

health;

health; and the recovery of Sir Richard's legs: though he sits smiling in his great chair with constant good humour, it is pity he should be confined to it! I wish you would present my compliments to him and my Lady Duchess.

"In the way of public news, I should tell you, Lord Halifax is adored in Ireland."

ART. XVII. The Idol of the Clownes, or Insurrec. tion of Wat the Tyler, with his fellow Kings of the Commons, against the English Church, the King, the Lawes, Nobility and Gentry, in the fourth Yeare of King Richard the Second, Anno 1381.

Nulla Tyrannis vel quieta est vel diuturna. London. Printed in the Year 1654.

This curious little volume details some events, exactly resembling those dreadful scenes, which took place in France during the revolution: and the reflections of the writer, after what has passed in our days, carry with them peculiar force.

"To the Reader.

[Extract from the conclusion.]

"What I relate here (to speak something of the story) I collect out of Sir John Froissart, a Frenchman, living in the times of King Edward the Third, and his grandchild, K. Rich. who had seen England in both reigns, was known and esteemed in the court, and came last over after these tumults were appeased; and out of Thomas of Walsingham, a monk of S.

Albans

Albans, in Henry the Sixth's dayes: who (sayes Bale, in his Centuries, of him) writes many the most choice passages of affairs, and actions, such as no other hath met with. In the main, and to the substance of things, I have made no additions, no alterations. I have faithfully followed my authors, who were not so historically exact as I could wish, nor could I much better what did not please me in their order. No man (sayes Walsingham,) can recite fully the mischeifes, murders, sacriledge, and cruelty of these actors; he excuses his digesting them upon the confusion of the combustions flaming in such variety of places, and in the same time. Tyler, Litster, and those of Hartfordshire, take up the most part of the discourse; Westbrome is brought in by halves; the lesser snakes are onely named in the chronicle: what had been more, had not been to any purpose; those were but types of Tyler the idol, and acted nothing but according to the Originall; according to his great example, they were Wolves alike, and he that reads one knows all; Thomas of Becket, Simon of Montfort; the English Catiline, Thomas of Lancaster; Rebels and Traitors of the former yeares, are canonised by the Monks (generally the enemies of their kings.) Miracles make their tombs illustrious, and their memories sacred. The Idoll and his Incendiaries are abhorred every where, every history detests them. While Faith, Civility, Honesty and Piety, shall be left in the World, the enemies of all these must neither be beloved, nor pittied."

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ART.

ART. XVIII. Boscobel, or the compleat History of His Sacred Majesties most Miraculous Preservation after the Battle of Worcester, 3 Sept. 1651. Introduced by an exact Relation of that Battle; and illustrated with a Map of the City. The Third Edition with Additions.

Hear this, ye old men, and give ear all ye inhabitants of the land: has this been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

JOEL i. 2. London. Printed by M. Clark, and to be sold by H. Brome, and C. Harper, at their shops in S. Paul's Churchyard and Fleetstreet, 1680. 12mo. 1st Part. 81 Pages. The Second Part, styled the second stage of the Royal Progress, is dated 1681. 90 Pages.

This volume, which is dedicated to the King, by Tho. Blount, Esq. is ornamented with (1.) an engraving of his Majesty by Van Houe. (2.) An exact Ground Plot of the City of Worcester, as it stood fortify'd 3 Sept. 1651. (3.) View of Boscobel House; White Ladies, the Royal Oak, &c. &c. (4.) Engrav ing of arms, in which the Royal Oak is introduced, (proper, in a field Or, a fess gules, charged with three regal crowns of the second; by the name of Carlos. And for his crest, a civic crown, or oaken garland, with a sword and scepter crossed through it saltier-wise) granted by the King to Colonel William Carlis, who was born at Brom-hall in Staffordshire, within two miles of Boscobel. (5.) Frontispiece to the second part by Van Houe, representing some of the principal

events.

events. Subjoined is a small treatise of go pages, éntitled Claustrum Regale Reseratum, or the King's Concealment at Trent, published by A. W. 1681.

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This account was first published 1660, in 8vo. and translated into French and Portuguese; the latter by Peter Gifford, of White Ladies in Staffordshire, a Roman Catholic.

Thomas Blount," the author, was son of Myles Blount of Orleton, in Herefordshire, and was educated to the law in the Temple, where he became a Barrister. He published several other works, of which one has been already mentioned in the Second Vol. of the CENSURA LITERARIA, p. 162, and the rest are re corded in A. Wood's Ath. II. 73. He died at Orleton, 26 Dec. 1679. ***

Full extracts from this Bosco BEL are given in the ADDENDA to Lord Clarendon's History, on which account they are omitted here.

ART. XIX. Poems upon divers emergent occasions. by James Howell, Esquire. London. Printed by Ja. Cotterel, and are to be sold in Exchange Alley neer Lumbard Street. 1664. 8vo. pp. 127.

This volume, of that copious compiler James Howell, is allotted a place here from its uncommonly rare oc-' currence; and on that account will be allowed more room, than its intrinsic worth would justify. It was édited by Payne Fisher, of whom a full memoir may be found in Wood's Ath LI. 899.

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