Sir J. A. My Lord, fhall I call the gentleman up? You may hear him fpeak for himself.

Abp C. No, no, I will not fee him; I am fure he is a very wicked perfon, and I had as lief fee any thing else. Sir J. A. My Lord, he has the Queen's warrant to your Grace.

Abp C. Warrant! I had rather he would come and cudgel me, than bring me that; for I am refolved not to do it, let the Queen do what the pleafes. I'll fooner go to prifon first.—I had never fuch a thing put upon me in all my life before.

Sir J. A. If your Grace please to let the gentleman come up, you may hear what he will fay for himfelf.

Abp C. Well, let him be called up

then.

Enter Mr. B. This is the fubftance of the difcourfe that paffed before I came in, as I received it from Sir J. A.

Mr. B. My Lord, I beg your Grace's bleffing

Abp C. I can't bid God blefs you, Sir, for you are a very wicked mån. How durft you do fuch a thing as this? I must tell you, you are a very wicked man, and I can't pray to God to blefs

you.

Mr. B. I have brought the Queen's warrant to your Grace, will you pleafe to fee it?

Abp C. Reads the warrant. Oh! you are a very wicked man! I'll never fuffer it. How dare you do fo? Well, we're come to a fine pafs! I am fure good King William would not have done it. No, he promifed me he would not; for 'tis an unreasonable thing, and not lawful.

Sir J. A. What is confirmed by A&t of Parliament cannot be unlawful; this is the Queen's undoubted preroga tive, and certainly the may exercife it when the pleases.

Abp C. The Queen may do her pleafure. I'll write to my Lord Bolingbroke about it, but will never confent to do it, let them do what they will. For, if I fuffer them once, to break in upon me, I know not where they will ftop.-But hark you, Sir, How can you fupply these two livings, hah?

Mr. B. The one I will ferve myself, and will take care to provide a fufficient curate who shall ferve the other.

Abp C. I tell you 'tis an unlawful thing, and cannot be done, if they be above 30 miles diftant.-Pray how far are thefe two places distant from one another!

Mr. B. Between 40 and 50 miles, my Lord.

Abp C. Oh, abominable ! 'tis a very wicked thing. King William abhorred fuch things. Aye, good K. William! -I tell you, Sir, I'll never do it, do what they will.

Mr. B. If it be not unreafonable for your Grace to grant difpenfations for 30 miles, why may not the Queen do it, if they be above, fince it is equally impotlible for the fame perfon to supply two livings in both cafes?

Abp C. I tell you I never did it in all my life, and never will,

Mr. B. I am informed that King William granted his warrant in the like cafe, my Lord. and it was obeyed.

Abp C. Who told you that? I am fure K. William was a better man than to do fuch things. 'Tis a very wicked thing!

Sir J. A. I can affure your Grace, there was a royal difpenfation granted in K. William's reign.

Abp C. Pray, Sir, urge me no more: for I tell you I won't do it.

Sir J. A. I can't but take your Grace's refufal unkindly, fince I never heard of fuch a thing being denied before; and am the more concerned, in regard I am the patron of the living, and the gentleman a near relation.

Abp C. I can't tell how to help that; but I won't fuffer the great ones to fwallow up the little ones, no, net I. Befides, pluralities are only for men of diftinguished merit. Here was t'other day, Dr. B-g's fon, a very good man, and he came to me to get one living; and you, who are fo much his junior, have gotten two. This is very fine!

Mr. B. This will equally hold againft all pluralities, be they ever fo near together, and the farther they are off, they are generally the better ferved; becaufe when two livings lie near together, they are generally ferved by one minifter, and by this means both are frequently neglected; whereas at fuch a diftance, there muft of acceffity be kept a fufficient curate to officiate at that upon which the incumbent does not refide. And as for the gentleman your Grace mentions, I am his fenior in the univerfity, was his fchool-fellow, and know him very well.

Abp. C. Well, well, 'tis all one, I'll not do it. Pray let me have your name, and an account of your college and degree.

Mr. B. My name is A. B. about

feven years ago of Jefus college in Cambridge. My degree LL. B.

Abp C. I wonder people don't underftand themfelves better than to trouble me, when my wife is fo ill. I wonder people fhould be guilty of fa much indecency. But we are come to a fine pafs!

Sir J. A. This is the fame living I gave your uncle, Archdeacon Tenifon. Abp C. I remember it; He had that living before Dean Aftley, but I can't allow this gentleman to have it. I don't keep public days, &c.

Sir J. A. Your Grace's humble fervant. I am forry we have fo much difturbed you.

Abp C. Well, pray God bless you, Sir Jacob, but let me hear no more of this wicked thing. I hope you'll concern yourfelf no more in it

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A true Copy. A. B—LE.

MR. URBAN, EEING in your Magazine, p. 445, the form of enthioning the prefent Archbishop of Canterbury, I here fend you as a curiofity, the ancient form, tranflated from a Record of Archbp Winchelfey.

Form of enthroning the Archbishop. On the Lord's day after the feaf of St. Michail, viz. Od. 2, in the year of our Lord 1294, the Archbishop (Winchelfey) was enthroned by Henry [Eafty], then Prier of Cbrift Church, Canterbury, in the jollerving form:

"On that day, carly in the morning, the Convent celebrated the firft maf, and the whole fervice as far as high mafs, and afterwards, invefted with their copes, waited for the Lord Archbishop in the choir, who that might and for five preceding days had refided conftantly at the manor of the Convent at Chartham. When the Archbishop arrived at the gate of the cemetery, he alighted from his horfe, and the Prior, invented with his habit, received the pall of the Archbishop, folded up in a clean cloth, from the hand of a certain clerk of his houthold,

The fame Metropolitan told Mr. (after wards Bishop) Hoadly (in his coarse manmer) that he would fooner have a horn of greafe poured down him" than grant him a difpenfation (to hold Streatham with St. Peer's Poer), yet figned the fiat before Mr. H. left the palace. This anecdote from the late Chancellor Hoadly. EDIT.

and unfolding the pall gave it a chap lain to carry, who folemnly bore, with an erect hand, the unfolded pall in a filver veffel covered with the whiteft filk, the Convent preceding the Archbishop and Prior to the high altar, upon which he placed it. The Convent remaining in the choir, the Archbp proftrated himself in prayer before the high altar. His prayer being finished, and the blefling given to the people, the chanter began Te Deum. The pall remaining on the altar. While the Convent were finging Te Deum in the choir, the Archbp turned to his wooden feat in the choir. That being fung, the Prior, and afterwards all the reft, in order approaching the altar, killed the pall, and then the Archbishop. This ended, the pall was carried into the veftry and the Archbishop retired to his apartment. And when our Ld the King came from St. Auguftinc's, and entered the church, the Archbishop invefted in the veftry with all his mcft folemn pontificals, and in his pall, entered the choir, with the Prior, three Deacons, and three Cardinal Sub-dea cons. At whofe entrance the chanter twice began the Suffrages, which the convent folemnly chanted. Mean time the Archbishop, the Prior, and the above-named minifters of the altar, took their station behind the high altar, under the fhrine of St. Blafe, before the marble chair, turning towards the Eaft. The King, with many of the nobles of the realm, ftanding near thaɛ chair, waited for the Archbp. The Suffrages being chanted, the Prior added the collect, Lord who from the highest heavens, &c. and then he led the Archbp to the marble chair. And ftanding a little time before the chair, the Prior annexed another collect, Almighty and everlasting God, &c. Having faid that, the Prior reverently took the Archbp in his arms, and enthroned him in that chair, with the following words, which he read from a schedule which he held in his hand. In the name of God, Amen. By the authority of the jame, I Henry Prior of thy church of Chrift, of Canterbury, enthrone thee Lord Robert Archbishop in this church of Canterbury, in which our Lord Jesus Chrift preferve thy [going out and 1 thy coming in from this time forth and for evermore! Amen. The fchedule being read, and witnesses called,,

Not in the MS.

the

the Prior defired a certain notary pub. lic to reduce all the premifes into a public form for the remembrance of pofterity. After this, eight monks fung alternately the fong of Simeon (Benedi&us) before the Archbp, fitting in his chair under the fhrine of St. Blafe. This being fung, the Prior fubjoined the collect, Almighty and everlafling God. This faid, the chanter folemnly began the office of the mafs of Trinity. The Archbishop before his chair, turning to the Eaft, began Glory in the bigbeft, and afterwards he added the collect of the mafs; and when the Gospel had been read, he began the Creed, and after that he alfo fubjoined The Lord be with you. The office having been fung, he defcended from his chair, and received an oblation of bread and wine from the chanter, as is ufual, and then completed the whole mafs, ner afterwards returned to his chair that day. After the celebration of the mafs, he granted indulgences to the people, and, divesting himself of his facred robes in the veftry, he entered his apartment, and in his feftive robes went to the great hall in his palace, to dinner. When the King had entered, all fat down, and were fplendidly regaled. After dinner, the King and the Archbp, and alfo all the Prelates and Peers, entered the Archbishop's apart ment in the palace, to take

as is customary after meals. The King then returned to St. Auguftine's, and the Archbp remained in his apartment. All the reft joyfully returned home. At the above enthronifation were prefent Lord Edward (I.) King of England, Prince Edward his fon, and Edmund the King's brother, with the Bithops of London, Lincoln, Hereford, Ely, Norwich, Rochefter, and Durham; the Earls of Gloucefter, Lincoln, Pembroke, Marefhall, Hereford, and Warwick, and an innumerable multitude of other Prelates and Peers of the realm."

Add to this, the day before the enthronifation the High Court of Stewardship was held in the Archbishop's palace, when Nicholas de Mevill (Ld Conyers) and Mr. Stranguish, Lords of the manors of Whyvelton, Semer, Efton, &c. in right of thofe manors, were admitted to do the office of Panterer on that day: Their fee is not mentioned. In 1314, Bartholomew Lord

So in the MS.
GENT. MAG. Aug. 1783.

Baddlefmere, in right of the manor of Hatfield, near Charing, put in his claim, and was admitted to the office of Chamberlain for that day; his fee was the furniture of the bed-chamber. The fon and heir of Roger de Mereworth, in right of the manor of Ceryton, claimed the office of carver, and the fee belonging thereto, which was the knives that were ufed at the table. His claim was allowed; but he not being a knight, the office was performed at that time by Sir John Bluct, according to the appointment of the Lord High Steward. Alfo Roger de Kirkby fued for the office of cup-bearer on that day, in right of the manor of Horton, and to have the cup in which the Archbishop fhould drink, as a fee. His claim was admitted: but he, not being a knight, was not qualified for that office; and the Lord High Steward, in his place, affigned Sir Gilbert Owen to perform that office.

The Archbp fitting in the middle of the high board alone, firft the Ld High Steward, as Lord of the Caftle of Tunbridge, came on horfe-back bare-headed, refpectfully in his fcarlet robe, with his white ftaff, the enfign of his office, in his hand. He was followed by two heralds; then came the chief fewer; and after him the dishes; at the first courfe were brought up fourteen in number, befides the fubtleties. While the dishes were placing on the table, the High Steward alighting from his horse, stood on foot before the Ld Archbishop; then making a low reverence, he departed to his own apartment, where he was attended at dinner by his own fervants. The Archbp, at his fecond course, had 16 difhes, and his third course was wa fers, fweet-reats, &c. All this was for himfelf alone.

The Archbishop's first course being ferved, as foon as the High Steward was retired into his dining-room, his table which had two feveral meffes or fervices, and the ends of the Archbp's board, with their feveral fervices, were all at the fame time ferved from divers kitchens. At the firft mefs of the Duke's table (at Archbp. Warham's feat) fat the Duke himself, Ld Clinton, Sir Edward Poynings, and Lord Chief Juftice Fineux. At the fecond mefs, at the Duke's board, were Sir William Scott, Sir Thomas Scott, and Mr. Butler, Serjeant at Law. At the Archbp's board's end did fit on the right hand the Earl of Effex, the Bishop of

Mayen,

the fabbath was a fin against both God and man, and fined him five fhillings for his pardon, or to be fet in the ftocks, faid," If the juice would give him affurance of God not punishing him for it, he would pay the fine." One caufe of Roger Crabb's perfecution was, a pamphlet he published, called "Dagon's Downfall, or, the Great Idol digged up by the Roots, 1657." There is likewife a pamphlet, called "A Voice from Zion;" in which are fome letters of his. The above is all that I have ever feca; if you have any other pam

you mention (in anfwer to fome of the Biographical Defiderata) in your letter in the Gentleman's Magazine for May 1783, p. 376, you add, Roger Crabb. If you have the pamphlet by you, published 1655 under the title of The English Hermit," I believe there is litle or no account to be now had of him from any other channel. That tract mentions he was a foldier in the Parliament's army for fome time; that after he retired to Chefham, and kept a hatter's fhop there, was polleffed of an eftate of 20 a year, which, he fold, left off bufinefs, and gave away the major part of the money to the poor, to full literally the fcriptures, of felling all, and giving to the poor. The fhorted account that can be given of him I will take from the title of his book, in which he fays, he counts it 2 fin against his body and foul to cat any fort of flesh, fish, or living creature, or to drink any wine, ale, or beer; his conftant food is roors and herbs, bread and bran, no butter or cheste; his cloathing fackcloth, the cottage. he lived in, anno 1655, was at lcknam, near Uxbridge. He was feveral times put in the flocks for working on the Sunday. In his defence for to doing, he fays, in a letter to a Nicholas Adams "Doth not the fcripture fay, Pull the beam out of your own eye? How dare you to rebel against this fcripture, and yet imite us for breaking it? Have you not perfecuted poor men for labour ing the first day of the week to get their children bad, when they have cried for hunger, cloathing, and firing, and at the very time your fervants are at work at their ordinary employments, your grooms, coachmen, and cooks, to pleafe your fuperfluous mind? but if a poor nian work for neceflity, you will plunder his goods." Roger Crabb, when the juice told him his breaking

would mention it in your next letter below I have added a passage from the 23d page of his Dagon's Downfall:

"Therefore, Reader, let me exhort thee to look into the light of thine own heart narrowly, and be watchful, and thou shalt find that it will beget a confcience there, to which if thou give diligence, and obey it, it will lead thee to life and light of Chrift, wherein thou mayeft find full and clear redemption, wherein is prepared that bread that came down from heaven for the food of thy foul." Yours, J. D.

P.S. I cannot avoid mentioning a query of Roger Crabb's, it happening to be on the oppofite page from whence I wrote the above: it is this; "Whether it be not as justifiable to buy a Bible on the Sabbath, as to give three times the worth of it to hear a prit make ong hour's difcourfe out of it?"

MR. URBAN,

Tis, I believe, generally admitted, that the fouls of men and angels, though Both iminaterial, are yet pof felled of very different degrees of intelligence; and there are fome who go still farther, and think there is yet another rank of beings, inferior to angels, and fuperior to aneh, who hold a more immediate communication with both. Hence thofe revelations, by which many are apprifed of events that nearly, concern them long before they happen; of the truth of which there cannot be the least doubt Now, Sir, the quef, tion which I could with your learned correfpondents to five is this: Whether perfons fasonred with this kind of revelation have it in their power to avert the evil, or anticipate the good, by prayer or other menos And if fo, te whom their applications thould be addreffed.

Y. D.

FRIEND URBAN, Stamford, July 22, have fent the following queftions un

fpondents feem more deeply verfed in literature than thofe of others. As they are of a difcordant and heterogeneous nature, the fubjects may not all lie in the compafs of one perfon's reading; I therefore fhould think myself under a much greater obligation to him who answered only one fatisfactorily, than to him who thould give a vague and unfatisfactory account of them all.

Qu. 1. We frequently read in political tracts of the greater and leffer baróns. I would know whether the lefs baron held of the greater, or of the King latter, what it

was that difcriminated the barons? if the former, as I fufpect, I want to know who the author is that gives an account of it?

2. Why were the Houfes of York and Lancafter characterifed by the white and red rofe?

3. In the liberty-medal ftruck by the Americans, an infant Hercules is reprefented ftrangling a couple of ferpents, and a leopard aiming at him, which is repelled by an emblematical figure of France. I wish to know why a leopard was figured on it, fince, as the British were the only enemics to their liberty, one would rather think that a lion would have been reprefented, it being fo confpicuous a figure in the British arms.

4. We fometimes meet with hints in authors, efpecially poets, as if those who fprung from noble blood were of a fomewhat fuperior degree of excellence to thofe produced by the vulgar; and the Pagan Horace, in the 4th Ode of his 2d Book, makes a rout about it; I fhould be glad to know if any reafon can be affigned why the fon of the vilet rogue and whore that ever exifted should not, with equal education, be as likely to prove as eminent a man as the fon of the greatest prince that ever existed ? 5. Andrew Boorde, who wrote in 1643, fays, that they fpoil ale who put any thing to its making befides water, malt, barm, and God's good." What is God's good? Parkinson, who wrote his cumbrous Herbal but three years before him, mentions it not, nor can I find it in any of the modern botanical books that have failen in my way.

6. As it is allowed on all hands that freckles are produced by the fun, what

as the elbow on arms that are never expofed to its beams?

7. Whence arose the phrase of putting the miller's eye out, when too much liquid is put to any dry or powdery substance?

8. When a perfon has changed fides, it is frequently faid, that he has turned cat in pan. Whence the original of this faying?

I remain thy friend and well-wisher
EBENEZER BARCLAY.

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MR. URBAN, July 11. 'N the third volume of Mr. Gibbon's Hiftory of the Decline of the Roman Empire, p. 465, 4°. very honourable mention is made of the Roman General Ægidius. Of this illuftrious perfon I apprehend there is a ftatue in the Pomfret collection; but, not being engraved among the Oxford marbles, it may not perhaps be generally known. The names both of the hero and of the artist are infcribed on the bafe: ÆGIDIVS ROMANVS MORETTUS FACIEBAT.

The ftatue, which is feven feet high, and in a military habit, has received little injury from time, excepting a flight bruife on the nofe, and the lofs of the fword or dagger which the right hand once held. Of the fculptor I know nothing more than the name; but he appears from this fpecimen to have been by no means a contemptible mafter of the chiffel.

P. S. In your Supplement for 1781, p. 622, there was a quer, which I have not feen anfwered: "Prefent' quod A. B. fel' brat' et fregit affifam." Till a better account is given of the only two words that feem to be doubtful, I fhall venture to suppose the meaning of the prefentment to be, that A. B. was a felfer of ale, and had broken the affife. With regard to the affife of bread and beer, fee Barrington's Obferv. on the Ancient Statutes, p. 41. The word brace, brafia, brafeum, &c. is generally faid to mean malt. See Spelman and Du Cange.

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