Page 32. Psalms.

George Sandys's translation of the

To justify the character given of him as a poet by Walton, we subjoin his " Version of the VIII Psalm:

"Lord, how illustrious is thy name !

Whose power both heaven and earth proclaim!
Thy glory thou hast set on high,
Above the marble-arched sky.

The wonders of thy power thou hast

In mouths of babes and sucklings placed;
That so thou mightst thy foes confound,
And who in malice most abound.
When I, pure heaven, thy fabric see,
The moon and stars disposed by thee;
O what is man or his frail race,
That thou shouldst such a shadow grace!
Next to thy angels most renowned,
With majesty and glory crowned:
The king of all thy creatures made;
That all beneath his feet hath laid:
All that on dales or mountains feed,
That shady woods or deserts breed;
What in the airy region glide,

Or through the rolling ocean slide.
Lord, how illustrious is thy name!

Whose power both heaven and earth proclaim!

Page 35. St. Paul's Cross.

We learn from Stowe, that in the midst of the churchyard of St. Paul's was a pulpit cross of timber, mounted upon steps of stone, and covered with lead, in which were sermons preached by learned divines every Sunday in the forenoon, when the court and

the magistrates of the city, besides a vast concourse of people, usually attended. Dugdale mentions "its leaded cover." This circumstance explains Owen's epigram entitled "Paul's Crosse and the Crosse in Cheap opposite St. Peter's Church."

"Aurea cur Petro posita est crux, plumbea Paulo ? Paulinam decorant aurea verba crucem."

In foul and rainy weather these solemn sermons were preached at a place called "The Shrouds," which was, it seems, by the side of the Cathedral Church, under a covering or shelter." In the Pepysian Collection at Magdalen College in Cambridge, is a drawing of the pulpit at Paul's Cross, as it appeared in 1621. During the wars of York and Lancaster Paul's Cross was a mere state engine.

"Here is the indictment of the good Lord Hastings, Which, in a set hand, fairly is ingrossed;

That it may be to-day read o'er in Paul's."

Shakspeare's Richard the Third.

It was at Paul's Cross that in the beginning of the Reformation the Rood of Grace, whose eyes and lips were moved with wires, was exposed to the view of the people and destroyed by them. It was a place of general resort, where the citizens met, like the Athenians of old, for the sake of hearing and telling of news. "A man was asked whether he was at the sermon at Paul's Cross? and he answered that he was there and being asked what news there? Marry, quoth he, wonderful news." And it was sometimes a subject of complaint, that the people

walked up and down in the sermon-time, and that there was such buzzing and huzzing in the preacher's ear, that it made him oft to forget his matter.

Page 64. Martin Mar-Prelate.

In 1588 many libels were published against the bishops. They were principally written by a society of men, assuming the name of "Martin Mar-Prelate." They appeared under various titles, as "Diotrephes ;' "the Minerals;" "The Epistle to the Confocation House;" "Have ye any Work for a Cooper?" in answer to what Cowper, Bishop of Winchester, had written in vindication of the bishops and church of England; "More Work for a Cooper," &c. &c. The authors of these publications were John Penry, a Welshman, John Udal, and other ministers.

Page 64. Tom Nash.

Mr. Thomas Nash, a man of a facetious and sarcastic disposition, was the author of numerous tracts to which he gave quaint names, as "The Apology of Pierce Penniless; or, Strange News," &c.- "Have with you to Saffron Walden: - Pappe with a Hatchet; alias, a Fig for my Godson; or, Cracke me this Nutt; or, a Country Cuffe, that is, a sound Box of the Ear for the Idiot Martin to hold his Peace; written by one that dares call a Dog a Dog." He wrote with great pleasantry and wit against a set of men, who at that time boldly pretended to prognostications and astronomical predictions.

Page 91. Procession-perambulation.

It was among the injunctions given by Queen Elizabeth in 1559, on the abolition of those ceremonies, which attended the Popish processions, "that the parishioners shall once in the year, at the time accustomed, with the curate and the substantial men of the parish, walke about the parishes as they were accustomed, and at their returne to the church make their common prayers."

Page 114. Vice.

Vice was the fool of the old moralities, with his dagger of lath, a long coat, and a cap with a pair of ass's ears. (See Shakspeare's Twelfth Night, Act

IV. Sc. iv.)

Page 116. Brownists.

Robert Brown, a person of a good family in Rutlandshire, educated at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, was the founder of a sect of Puritans, who took their name from him. He inveighed with the most bitter acrimony against the Church of England, condemning her government as Antichristian, her sacraments as superstitious, and her whole liturgy as a compound of Paganism and Popery. His own system of religious institution was explained by him in a book entitled "A Treatise of Reformation." He wrote several tracts in support of his opinions, and sustained various persecutions, having been committed at different times to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at broad-day. Before his removal with his followers to Middleburg

in Zealand, he became disgusted with their divisions and disputes; and though, according to Strype, he had gone a farther distance than any of the Puritans did, he renounced his principles of separation, being promoted by his relation, Lord Burghley, to a benefice, that of Achurch in Northamptonshire. He died in a prison, in 1630, in the eightieth year of his age, having been sent thither by a justice of the peace for assaulting a constable, who was executing a warrant against him. (Of the Brownists, see Fuller's Church History, B. IX. p. 168.)

It appears from a passage in Shakspeare that the Brownists were treated as objects of satire: "Policy I hate; I had as lief be a Brownist as a politician.”. (Twelfth Night, Act III. Sc. ii.) "Why now thou art a good knave, worth a hundred Brownists."— (The Puritan, Act III. Sc. vi.)

Page 152. Orator for the University.

Of the office of Orator, which still continues the most honorable academical employment, Mr. Herbert has given the best description in a letter to a friend. "The Orator's place, that you may understand what it is, is the finest place in the university, though not the gainfullest; yet that will be about £30 per annum. But the commodiousness is beyond the revenue, for the Orator writes all the university letters, makes all the orations, be it to the king, prince, or whatever comes to the university. To requite these pains, he takes place next the Doctors, is at all their assemblies and meetings, and sits above the Proctors; is Regent or Non-regent at his pleasure, and