he must haue his red ruddockes ready, whiche he must giue vnto his Lawier, who will not set penne to paper without them. In the third pocket he must haue patience, which must stand him in stead when his Lawiers do delay him, and when sentence passeth against him." "Mens judgements differ much in these 3 things. Bookes. For one saith, this booke is too long, another too short, the 3 of due length, and for fine phrase and stile, the like that booke was not made a great while. It is al lies said another, y*. booke is starke naught. Wine. For cancerning the qualities of wine, men are diuersly affected. Ah, this is hard wine quoth one; it is too sweete in my opinion said another; nay, nay quoth the 3 ma, it is sharp and piercing me thinkes. It is a cup of neate wine said the owner; I said another it hath a good smacke of the caske, it will doe a man as much good in his shoes, as in his belly. Cheese. For diuerse hath diuers tastes in seuerall mens mouthes. He saith, it is too salt; he saith it is too fresh; he saith it is too hard; he saith it is too nesh. It is too strong of runnet, saith he. It is, saith another, not strong enough for me. It is sayd one as good as can be. Hereof no two of any ten can agree. So that, no booke, no wine, no cheese, be it good or bad; but praise and dispraise it hath, and hath had." Art. 5. Avery proper treatise, wherein is briefly sett forthe the arte of Limming, which teacheth the order in drawing tracing of letters, vinets, flowers, armes and Imagery, & the maner how to make sundry sises or grounds to laye siluer or golde vppon, and how siluer or golde shal be layed or limmed vppon the sise, and the waye to temper golde & siluer and other mettales and diuerse kyndes of colours to write or to limme withall vppon velym, parchement or paper, & how to lay them vpon the worke which thou entendest to make, & howe to vernish yt when thou hast done, with di uerse uerse other thinges very mete & necessary to be knowne to all suche gentlemenne, and other persones as doe delite in lim-' ming, painting or in tricking of armes in their right colors, & therfor a worke very mete to be adioined to the bookes of Armes, neuer put in printe before this time. Imprinted at London in Flete strete within temple Barre at the signe of the Hande & starre by Richard Tottill, an. 1573. Priuilegio. 4to. 12 leaves. Cum This little collection of Receipts to assist in the art of limning is principally for emblazoning arms; gilding; and the mode of tracing with a pen; probably intended to assist the scribe in illuminating initial letters; an art now entirely neglected. Herbert notices only one edition printed by Purfoot, as the assignee of Tottill, 1583. In the catalogue of John Strange, Esq. 1801, are two copies, one printed by Purfoot, 1588, and another described as "The art of Limning, &c. with the names of all such colours, &c. as are mentioned and conteyned in this present booke, and are for the most part to be sold at the Potecaries," by same printer, 1596. This varying of title accords with the present copy, as the enumeration of colours is inserted at the last folio. The following receipt is yet in estimation. "To renewe olde and worne letters. Take of ye best galles you can get & bruse them grosly then lay them to steepe one day in good whyte wine. This done distill them with the wyne, and with the distilled water that commeth of them, you shal wet handsomly the olde letters with a little cotton or a small pe cel, & they will shewe freshe & newe again in suche wyse as you may easely reade them." Conduit street. J. H. ART. XXI. Lines by Dr. Cowper, Father of the Author of the Task. Dr. Cowper addressed a poetical Epistle many years ago to the first Duke of Chandos, from whence the following ex tract tract* is taken. (Dr. Cowper is said to have excelled in ballad-writing.) Good-natur'd wit, a talent is from heaven, In beauteous colours dresses homespun truth, ART. XXII. Literary Obituary. 1808. October 20, at Pentonville, æt. seventy-five, Mr. John Coote, formerly a bookseller in Paternoster-row, a native of Horsham in Sussex. He was author of an Opera and five Farces, three of which have been printed. Oct. 23. Rev. James Hare, Rector of Coln St. Denis, co. Glouc.; and Vicar of Stratton St. Margaret's, Wilts; author of an Essay on Scepticism, and several Sermons. Oct. 30, at his Rectory of Ruan Lanyhorne, Cornwall, the learned and Rev. John Whitaker, born at Manchester, about 1735. He was educated at Oxford, where he obtained a Fellowship at C. C. C.; took the degree of A. M. 1759; and proceeded B. D. 1767. In 1771, he published the first volume of his History of Manchester, 4to.; and the second volume appeared in 1774. He had already published the * Duncombe's Letters to Archbishop Herring, p. 69, 70. Genuine Genuine History of the Britons asserted, in an 8vo. volume, 1772. In 1773, he held for a short time the morning preachership of Berkeley chapel, London; and during his residence in the capital, he became acquainted with Johnson, Gibbon, and many other literary characters. In 1778 he obtained from his college the valuable rectory of Ruan Lanyhorne. In 1783 he published Sermons upon Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell; and he was author of a controversial tract, entitled The Origin of Arianism; of The Real Origin of Government, expanded from a sermon into a considerable treatise; and of The Introduction to Flindell's Bible. His Mary Queen of Scots appeared in 1787, in three vols. 8vo. He was author also of The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall; and of a Supplement to Polwhele's Antiquities of Cornwall. He wrote also many articles for the English Review; British Critic; and the Antijacobin Review; and shewed his poetical talents by his contribution to the collection of Cornwall and Devon Poetry, two vols. 8vo. He was a great literary character; and good as well as great. He had an active and acute mind, and most vigorous imagination. An eloquent character of him appeared in the Truro paper of Nov. 5, (supposed to be written by Mr. Polwhele) which has since been copied into the Gentleman's Magazine, p. 1035, &c. &c. Nov. 28. Sir Richard Hill, Bart. of Hawkstone in Shropshire, aged seventy-six, late M. P. for that county. His religious opinions are well known. He was of the sect of Whitfield in opposition to Wesley, and was author of a variety of pamphlets, in favour of the opinions which he embraced; of which one entitled Pietas Oxoniensis, was on the subject of the expulsion of his brother Rowland Hill, and five other students from Oxford in 1763, for preaching and praying there at prohibited times and places. Another brother is the Rev. Brian Hill, also an author. He is suc ceeded ceeded by his next brother John, formerly M. P. for Shrewsbury, whose son, major-general Rowland Hill, a distinguished officer, is lieutenant-colonel of the 90th foot. Dec. 17, aged eighty, the Right Honourable Charles Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool, (whose father, colonel Jenkinson, who died 1750, was a younger son of Sir Robert Banks Jenkinson, Bart, who died 1738.) He was Under Secretary of State, 1761; and Secretary to the Treasury in 1763, and 1764; a Lord of the Admiralty 1766; and a Lord of the Treasury from 1767 to 1773. In 1786 he was created a Peer by the title of Lord Hawksbury; and appointed in that year Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. In 1796 he was advanced to the Earldom of Liverpool. He was author of A Discourse on the establishmunt of a National and Constitutional Force in England, 1756. Of A Discourse on the conduct of the Government of Great Britain in respect to Neutral Nations, during the present War, 1758. He edited A Collection of Treaties from 1643 to 1783, in three vols. 8vo. 1785, and about three years ago published an able Treatise on the Coins of the Realm, in a Letter to the King: to which the Edinburgh Review has paid great complinients. See Longman's Biographical Peerage, vol. i. p. 344. The Index of this Volume will be given in conjunction with that of the next, peculiar circumstances having rendered it impossible to prepare it in time for this closing Number of the present Volume. ERRATUM. For Louth, read Zouch, p. 103. T. Bensley. Pinter Beit Court, Fleet Street, London. 1 |