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THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE for JUNE

ridge; James II. and the Devonshire Justices; the Legend of St. Peter's Chair (with an Engraving); Municipal Franchises of the Middle Ages: the Story of Nell Gwyn, by Peter Cunningham, Chapter VI.; Pilgrimage to the Holy Land Curiosities of the Old French Canons; Dictionaries of Classic Archæology; Christian Iconography; the Heavenly Host (with numerous Engravings). With Notes of the Month, Review of New Publications, Proceedings of Archaeological Societies, Historical Chronicle, and OBITUARY, including Memoirs of Lord Langdale, Mr. Serjeant Ludlow, Joseph Moore, Esq., Dr. Pye Smith, W. H. Maxwell, &c. &c. Price 2s. 6d.

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[ORE ÆGYPTIACA; or, the CHRONOLOGY OF Records upon its Monuments, including many Dates found in Coeval Inscriptions. By REGINALD STUART POOLE, Esq.

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ARNOLD'S INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF HEBREW. In 12mo., price 78. 6d.

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HE FIRST HEBREW BOOK; on the Plan of "Henry's First Latin Book." By the REV. THOMAS KERCHEVER ARNOLD, M.A. Rector of Lyndon, and late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

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TOMB OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER.

JOHN BRUCE, Esq., Treas. S.A.

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The Tomb of Geoffrey Chaucer in Westminster Abbey is fast mouldering into irretrievable decay. A sum of One Hundred Pounds will effect a perfect repair. The Committee have not thought it right to fix any limit to the contribution; they themselves have opened the list with a subscription from each of them of Five Shillings; but they will be ready to receive any amount, more or less, which those who value poetry and honour Chaucer may be kind enough to remit to them.

Subscriptions have been received from the Earls of Carlisle, Ellesmere, and Shaftesbury, Viscounts Strangford and Mahon, Pres, Soc. Antiq.. the Lords Braybrooke and Londesborough, and many other noblemen and gentlemen.

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WALCOTT'S HISTORY OF WESTMINSTER.

In 8vo., price 10s. 6d., the Second Edition (with Appendix and Notes) of [EMORIALS OF WESTMINSTER: the City,

lege, Parish Churches, Modern Buildings, and Ancient Institutions. By REV. MACKENZIE E. C. WALCOTT, M.A., of Exeter College, Oxford; Curate of St. James's, Westminster.

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Just published, in 1 vol. fep. 8vo. 58. cloth,

A TREATISE OF EQUIVOCATION.

Wherein

is largely discussed the question whether a Catholicke or any other person before a magistrate, being demanded upon his Oath whether a Prieste were in such a place, may (notwithstanding his perfect knowledge to the contrary) without Perjury, and securely in conscience, answer No; with this secret meaning reserved in his mynde, That he was not there so that any man is bounde to detect it. Edited from the Original Manuscript in the Bodleian Library, by DAVID JARDINE, of the Middle Temple, Esq., Barrister at Law.

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Jews in China

The Dutch Martyrology

Lady Flora Hastings' Bequest

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Indulgences proposed to Benefactors to the Church of
St. George the Martyr, Southwark
Gray's Plagiarisms, by Henry H. Breen

On the Application of the Word "Littus" in the Sense
of Ripa, the Bank of a River

Minor Notes:- Epigrams by Coulanges and Prior –
Brewhouse Antiquities - Joseph of Exeter de Bello
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The Window-tax, Local Mints, and Nobbs of Norwich
Minor Queries: - Gillingham -“We hope, and hope,
and hope"-What is Champak? Encorah and
Millicent Diogenes in his Tub-Topical Memory
St. Paul's Clock striking Thirteen- A regular Mull:
Origin of the Phrase-Register book of the Parish of
Petworth - Going to Old Weston-"As drunk as
Chloe"- Mark for a Dollar -Stepony-Longueville
MSS.Carling Sunday-Lion Rampant holding a
Crozier-Monumental Symbolism - Ptolemy's Pre-
sents to the Seventy-two- Baronette- Meaning of
"Hernshaw" Hogan "Trepidation talk'd "
Lines on the Temple - Death — - Was Stella Swift's
Sister?

MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:- John Marwoode -St.
Paul Meaning of Zoll-verein — Crex, the White
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The Frozen Horn West Chester Registry of Dissenters Poem upon the Grave-Round Robin -Derivation of the Word "Yankee"- Letters on the British Museum - Names of the Ferret A nonymous Ravennas- The Lion, a Symbol of the Resurrection Paring the Nails, &c.- Meaning of GigHill-The Mistletoe on the Oak-Spelling of “ Britannicus" T. Gilbert an Clandestine Marriages Dog's Head in the Pot-Pope Joan-"Nettle in Dock out"- Mind your P's and Q's - Lay of the Last Minstrel Tingry -Sabbatical and Jubilee Years of the Jews-Luncheon - Prophecy respecting the Discovery of America Shakspeare's Designation of Cleopatra-Harlequins - Christ's-cross Row, &c. 456 MISCELLANEOUS : —

Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c.

Books and Odd Volumes wanted

Notices to Correspondents

VOL. III.-No. 84.

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EDMUND BURKE, AND THE ANNUAL REGISTER. That Burke wrote the Annual Registers for Dodsley for some period after its commencement, is well known; but no one has yet distinctly stated when his participation in that work ceased. Mr. Prior, in his Life of Burke, places in his list of his writings: "Annual Register, at first the whole work, afterwards only the Historical Article, 1758," &c. He also states that "many of the sketches of contemporary history were written from his immediate dictation for about thirty years," and that "latterly a Mr. Ireland wrote much of it under Mr. Burke's immediate direction." (Life, vol. i. p. 85. edit. 1826.)

In proof of this statement, a fac-simile is given of Burke's receipts to Dodsley for two sums of 50l. each "for the Annual Register of 1761," the originals of which were in Upcott's collection. At the sale of Mr. Wilks's autographs this month, I observe there was another receipt for writing the Annual Register for 1763. I am not aware whether any other receipts from Burke are in existence for the money paid to him for his contributions to this periodical; but for the Annual Registers beginning with 1767, and terminating in 1791, I have the receipts of Thomas English, who appears to have received from Dodsley, first 1407, and subsequently 150. annually, for writing and compiling the historical portion of the work. Burke's connexion with the publication must therefore have lasted a much shorter period than Mr. Prior appears to have supposed, and apparently was not continued beyond seven or eight years, from 1758 to 1766, after which year, English seems to have taken his place.

Everything relating to Burke is of importance; and if any of your correspondents can afford any further assistance in defining as correctly as possible the limits of his participation in the Annual Register, I feel assured that the information will be gladly received by your readers.

I have not seen it noticed, that the historical articles in the Annual Registers, from 1758 to 1762 470 inclusive, were collected in an 8vo. vol. under the title of

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"A compleat History of the late War, or Annual Register of its Rise, Progress, and Events in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, &c." London, 1763. This work went through more than one edition. My copy, containing 559 pages, is a Dublin edition of the date of 1763, printed by John Exshaw. As there seems to be no question that what is contained in this volume is the composition of Burke, and as it has never yet been superseded as a spirited history of the stirring period to which it relates, it ought undoubtedly to be attached as a supplement to the 8vo. edition of Burke's Works, with his "Account of the European Settlements in America," his title to which is now placed beyond dispute.

It is greatly to be regretted that some of Burke's early publications are yet undiscovered, amongst which are his poetical translations from the Latin, and his attack upon Henry Brooks, the author of the Fool of Quality. JAS. CROSSLEY.

JEWS IN CHINA.

The mail which arrived from East India and China about the middle or end of March last, brought news of the discovery of a race of Jews in the interior of the latter country, of which I have seen no notice taken by the English press.

It being a subject in which a number of your readers will probably feel interested, and but comparatively few of them see the China newspapers, I beg to enclose you an account from the Overland China Mail, dated Hong Kong, Jan. 29, 1851.

The existence of a fragment of the family of Abraham in the interior of China has been certainly known for upwards of two hundred years, and surmised much longer. The Jesuit Ricci, during his residence at Peking in the beginning of the seventeenth century, was the means of exciting the attention of foreigners to the Jews of Kai-fungfú, the ancient capital of Ho-nan province. In 1618 they were visited by Aleni, a follower of Ricci; and a hundred years later, between 1704 and 1723, Fathers Gozani, Domenge, and Gaubil were enabled from personal investigation on the spot to give minute descriptions of the people, their synagogue and sacred books, the latter of which few could even then read, while the former was, with the peculiar institutions of Moses, fast falling to decay. Beyond a few feeble and ineffective efforts on the part of Biblical critics, nothing was subsequently attempted to maintain a communication with this handful of Jews until in 1815 some brethren in London addressed a letter to them in Hebrew, and offered a large reward if any one would bring an answer in the same language. The letter was entrusted to a Chinese bookseller, a native of the province, who is reported to have delivered it, which was doubted, as he brought no written answer.

Recently the Jews' Society in London, encou

raged by the munificence of Miss Cook, who placed ample funds at their disposal, instituted enquiries on the subject, and sought the co-operation of the Bishop of Victoria, who having previously opened a correspondence with Dr. Medhurst on the subject, during his Lordship's recent visit to Shanghae, the plan of operations was agreed upon. This was to despatch two Chinese Christians, one of them a literary graduate, the other a young man with a competent knowledge of English, acquired at the London Missionary School. The North China Herald of the 18th January contains an interesting account of their mission, from which we gather the following particulars.

The two emissaries started on the 15th November last, and after an absence of fifty-five days, returned to Shanghae, the distance between the two cities being about six hundred miles.* Arrived at their destination, they found in the decayed city of Kai-fung-fú, both Mohamedans and Jews, the latter poverty-stricken and degraded, their synagogue in a state of dilapidation, and the distinguishing symbols of their religion nearly extinct. The books of the Law, written in a small square character on sheepskin, are however still preserved, although it would seem for many years they have been seen by no one

able to read them.

The Jesuits mention the existence of the sacred books, but were not suffered to copy or even to inspect them; but the Chinese Christians encountered no such scruples; so that, besides taking copies of inscriptions on the stone tablets, they were enabled to bring away eight Hebrew manuscripts, six of them containing portions of the Old Testament, and two of the Hebrew liturgy. The correspondent of the North China Herald states that

"The portions of Scripture are from the 1st to the 6th chapters of Exodus, from the 38th to the 40th chapters of the same book, Leviticus 19th and 20th chapters, Numbers 13th, 14th, and 15th chapters, Deuteronomy from the 11th to the 16th chapters, with the 32nd chapter of that book. Various portions of the Pentateuch, Psalms, and Hagiographa occur in the books of prayers, which have not yet been definitely fixed. The character in which these portions are written is an antique form of the Hebrew, with points. † They are written on thick paper, evidently by means of a style, and the material employed, as well as the silk in which the books are bound, exhibit marks of a foreign origin. Two Israelitish gentlemen, to whom they have been shown in Shanghae, say that they have seen such books in Aden; and the occurrence here and

ated about a league from the southern bank of the Kai-fung-fú, according to Williams's map, is situHwang-ho, or Yellow River, in 34° 55′ N. Lat., and 114° 40' E. Long.

The Jesuits state expressly that the Hebrew was without points.

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THE DUTCH MARTYROLOGY.

Wall, in his History of Infant Baptism, frequently mentions a book called The Dutch Martyrology as quoted by Danvers. He appears never to have seen it, and if I mistake not (although I cannot just now find the passage) he somewhere throws out a hint that no such book ever existed. Archdeacon Cotton, in his valuable edition of Wall's book, says (vol. ii. p. 131. note m.):

"Danvers cites this work as The Dutch Martyrology called The bloody Theatre; a most elaborate and worthy collection: written in Dutch, by M. J. Van Braght.' I have never seen it."

A very fine copy of this curious and very important work is in the Fagel collection in the library of Trinity College, Dublin. It is on large paper, with the exception of some few leaves in different parts of the volume, which have been mounted to match the rest. It is full of beautiful engravings by Jan Luyken, representing the sufferings of the martyrs; some of them, indeed all, possessing very great artistic merit. The first in the volume, a crucifixion, representing Our Lord in the very act of being nailed to the cross, is a most striking picture and I may also mention another, at p. 385., representing a party in a boat reading the Bible, having put out to sea to escape observation.

The book is a large folio in 2 vols.: the first consisting of 450, the second of 840 pages; and contains a most important collection of original documents, which are indispensable to the history of the Reformation, and many of them are intimately connected with the English Reformation. The history of the martyrs begins with Our Saviour's

crucifixion) for He is represented as the first Anabaptist martyr!), and ends with the year 1660. The Dublin copy is the second edition, and its full title is as follows:

"Het Bloedig Tooneel, of Martelaers Spiegel der Doops-gesinde of Weerloose Christenen, die om't getuygenis van JESUS naren Selighmaker, geleden hebben, ende gedood zijn, van CHRISTI tijd af tot desen Chronijken, Memorien, en Getuygenissen. tijd toe. Versamelt uyt verscheyde geloofweerdige Door

T. J. V. Braght [or, as he is called on the engraved title-page, Tileman Van Braght]. Den Tweeden Druk, Bysonder vermeerdert met veele Autentijke Stucken, en over de hondert curieuse Konstplaten. Amsterdam.

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LADY FLORA HASTINGS' BEQUEST. All who reverence and love the memory of Lady Flora Hastings,-all who have had the happiness of a personal acquaintance with that gentle and gifted being,-who have mourned over her hapless fate,-who have read her poems, so full of beauty and promise, will receive her "Last Bequest" with feelings of deep interest. This poem has never before been published.

Oh, let the kindred circle,

Far in our northern land,
From heart to heart draw closer
Affection's strength'ning hand:
To fill my place long vacant,
Soon may our loved ones learn;
For to our pleasant dwelling

I never shall return.
Peace to each heart that troubled
My course of happy years;
Peace to each angry spirit

That quench'd my life in tears!
Let not the thought of vengeance
Be mingled with regret;
Forgive my wrongs, dear mother!
Seek even to forget.
Give to the friend, the stranger,
Whatever once was mine;
Nor keep the smallest token

To wake fresh tears of thine,—
Save one, one loved memorial,

With thee I fain would leave;
'Tis one that will not teach thee

Yet more for me to grieve.
'Twas mine when early childhood
Turn'd to its sacred page,
The gay, the thoughtless glances
Of almost infant age;

ERZA.

"Twas mine thro' days yet brighter,

The joyous years of youth, When never had affliction

Bow'd down mine ear to truth.
'Twas mine when deep devotion
Hung breathless on each line
Of pardon, peace, and promise,

Till I could call them mine;
Till o'er my soul's awakening
The gift of Heavenly love,
The spirit of adoption,

Descended from above.
Unmark'd, unhelp'd, unheeded,

In heart I've walk'd alone;
Unknown the prayers I've utter'd,
The hopes I held, unknown;
Till in the hour of trial,

Upon the mighty train,
With strength and succour laden,
To bear the weight of pain.
Then, Oh! I fain would leave thee,
For now my hours are few,
The hidden mine of treasure,

Whence all my strength I drew.
Take then the gift, my mother,
And till thy path is trod,
Thy child's last token cherish
It is the Book of God.

WITCHCRAFT IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.

Sir Roger Twysden, with all his learning, could not rise above the credulity of his age; and was, to the last, as firm a believer in palmistry and witchcraft, and all the illusions of magic, as the generality of his cotemporaries. His commonplacebooks furnish numerous instances of the childlike simplicity with which he gave credence to any tale of superstition for which the slightest shadow of authenticity could be discovered.

The following amusing instance of this almost infantine credulity, I have extracted from one of his note-books; merely premising that his wife Isabella was daughter of Sir Nicholas Saunders, the narrator of the tale :

"The 24th September, 1632, Sir Nicholas Saunders told me hee herd my lady of Arundall, widow of Phylip who dyed in ye Tower 1595, a virtuous and religious lady in her way, tell the ensuing relation of a Cat her Lord had. Her Lord's butler on a tyme, lost a cuppe or bowle of sylver, or at least of yt prise he was much troubled for, and knowing no other way, he went to a wyzard or Conjurer to know what was become of it, who told him he could tell him where he might see the bowle if he durst take it. The servant sayd he would venture to take it if he could see it, bee it where it would. The wyzard then told hym in such a wood there was a bare place, where if he hyed himself for a tyme he appoynted, be

hind a tree late in the night he should see y Cuppe brought in, but wth all advised him if he stept in to take it, he should make hast away with it as fast as myght bee. The servant observed what he was commanded by ye Conjurer, and about Mydnyght he saw his Lord's Cat bring in the cup was myst, and divers other creatures bring in severall other things; hee stept in, went, and felt ye Cuppe, and hyde home: where when he came he told his fellow servants this tale, so yt at ye last it was caryed to my Lord of Arundel's eare; who, when his Cat came to him, purring about his leggs as they used to doo, began jestingly to speake to her of it. The Cat presently upon his speech flewe in his face, at his throat, so yt wthout ye help of company he had not escaped wthout hurt, it was wth such violence: and after my lord being rescued got away, unknown how, and never after seene.

"There is just such a tale told of a cat a Lord Willoughby had, but this former coming from so good hands I cannot but believe.-R. T.

L. B. L. Witchcraft.-In the 13th year of the reign of King William the Third

"One Hathaway, a most notorious rogue, feigned himself bewitched and deprived of his sight, and pretended to have fasted nine weeks together; and continuing, as he pretended, under this evil influence, he was advised, in order to discover the person supposed to have bewitched him, to boil his own water in a glass bottle till the bottle should break, and the first that came into the house after, should be the witch; and that if he scratched the body of that person till he fetched blood, it would cure him; which being done, and a poor old woman coming by chance into the house, she was seized on as the witch, and obliged to submit to be scratched till the blood came, whereupon the fellow pretended to find present ease. The poor woman hereupon was indicted for witchcraft, and tried and acquitted at Surrey assizes, before Holt, chief justice, a man of no great faith in these things; and the fellow persisting in his wicked contrivance, pretended still to be ill, and the poor woman, notwithstanding the acquittal, forced by the mob to suffer herself to be scratched by him. And this being discovered to be all imposition, an information was filed against him."Modern Reports, vol. xii. p. 556.

Q. D.

INDULGENCES PROPOSED TO BENEFACTORS TO THE
CHURCH OF ST. GEORGE THE MARTYR, SOUTH-
WARK.

As I believe little is known of the early history of this church, which was dependent upon the Abbey and Convent of Bermondsey, the following curious hand-bill or affiche, printed in black letter (which must have been promulgated previous to the disgrace of Cardinal Wolsey, and the suppression of religious houses in the reign of Henry VIII.), seems worthy of preservation. It was part of the

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