[in his letter of July 2, 1613. Reliq. Wotton. p. 425.] of a new play, acted by the King's players, at the Bank's Side, called All is True; reprefenting fome principal pieces of the reign of Henry VIII. The extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majefty, with which that play was set forth, and the particular incident of certain cannons shot off at the King's entry to a masque at the Cardinal Wolfey's boufe (by which the theatre was set on fire and burnt to the ground) are ftrictly applicable to the play before us. Mr. Chamberlaine, in Winwood's Memorials, vol. iii. p. 469, mentions the burning of the Globe, or Play-house, on the Bank Side, on St. Peter's-Day, 1613, which, fays he, fell out by a peale of chambers, that I know not on what occafion were to be used in the play. Ben Jonson, in his Execration upon Vulcan, fays, they were two poor chambers. [See the ftage direction in the play of Henry VIII. a little before the King's entrance, viz. “ Drum and trumpet-chambers difcharged.] The Continuator of Stowe's Chronicle, relating the fame incident (p. 1003.) fays exprefsly, that it happened at the play of Henry VIII.

In a MS. letter of Thomas Lorkin to Sir Thomas Puckering, dated London, this laft of June 1613, this fame fact is thus related. "No longer fince, than yesterday, while Burbage his company were acting at the Globe the play of Henry VIII. and there fhooting of certain chambers in way of triumph, the fire catched, &c. &c. MS. Harl. 7002.'

[Mr. Steevens observes, that they were called chambers, because they were mere chambers to lodge powder. It is the technical term for the cavity in ordnance which holds the combustibles.] A paffage in Coriolanus that had hitherto much puzzled the critics, is at length decifively explained, by Mr. Steevens.

"Why in this woolvish gown should I stand here, &c." Dr. Johnson explains it thus rough, hirfute gown.' Mr. Steevens, on confulting the old copy, was furprised to find, that it was woolvish tongue.' He conjectures with good reafon, that tongue was mifprinted for toge-the Roman toga. For, as Mr. Malone remarks, the very fame mistake of the printer happened in Othello, where we met with tongued inftead of "toged confuls." Befides, as he farther obferves, the old copy hath in and not with, which is a ftrong proof that the original word was not tongue.' But what fhall we make of the epithet woolvib? Luckily Mr. Steevens hath hit on its precife meaning, in an old black letter book, entitled a "Merye Jest of a man called Howleglas." The hero of this merry jest binds himself to a taylor. He is fet to work about a garment, "Then faid the "maister, I ment that you should have made up the ruffet "gown, for a husbandman's gown is here called a wolfe." By a woolvish toge or gown, Shakspeare might have meant Coriolanus,

Coriolanus, to compare the drefs of a Roman candidate to the coarse frock of a ploughman, who expofed himself to folicit the votes of his fellow ruftics.'

In the fame play Menenius the friend of Coriolanus fays,

"Do not cry, havock, where you should but hunt

"With modeft warrant."

In this paffage, Mr. Tyrrwhitt obferves, that to cry havock, feems originally to have been a sporting phrafe from hafocs which, in Saxon, fignifies a hawk. It was afterwards used in war. So in K. John,

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-Cry, havock, kings."

And in Julius Cæfar,

"Cry, havock, and let flip the dogs of war."

It seems to have been the fignal for general flaughter, and is exprefsly forbidden in the Ordinances des Batailles. 9 R. II. Art. 10. "Item, que nul foit fi hardy de crier havock, sur peine d'avoir la teft coupe."

This expreffion, cry havock, reminds us of a similar paffage in the concluding scene of Hamlet.

This quarry cries on havock

Sir Thomas Hanmer reads " cries out havock!" Dr. Johnfon obferves, that to cry on was to exclaim against. I fuppofe (fays he) when unfair sportsmen deftroyed more quarry or game than was reasonable, the cenfure was to cry havock.". This interpretation muft undoubtedly be erroneous, if Mr. Tyrrwhitt's note, mentioned above, is allowed to have any weight. And, indeed, the obvious fenfe of every other paffage, where this expreffion is made use of, confutes Dr. Johnson's fuppofition. We are furprised, that fo accurate a critic as Mr. Steevens fhould have fuffered Dr. Johnson's note to pass uncorrected. From his filence a perfon might be ready to infer his approbation.

The paffage ftrikes us in this light. When Fortinbras beholds the flaughter which had been made of fo many noble perfonages, the fcenes of a bloody hunt rufh on his imagination. To flaughtered game (called quarry, in old books of hunting. and falconry) he compared the victims of that merciless hunter, death. Viewing them, he exclaims:

"This quarry cries, i. e. repeats, or cries in my ear, the bloody fignal by which they fell as hunted game to the hounds. of death "On! Havock!"

It may not be altogether unworthy of obfervation, that the terms commonly made ufe of in fome parts of England by the gentlemen of the field to encourage the dogs, feems to have been derived from this antient fignal of pursuit. We would, with pleasure, give further fpecimens of the ex"Hoik! Havoik!” cellence and value of this new edition of Shakspeare, but we have already, perhaps, extended this article too far.

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HE Dune, or Tower of Dornadilla, is defcribed by the Rev. Mr. Pope, minifter of Reay. It is fituated in the parish of Duirnes, on Lord Reay's eftate. The height of its prefent ruins is 25 feet on one fide; on the other, it is only 9. The door, 3 feet fquare, fronts the north-east, as we are told is the cafe in all round buildings in the north. The walls are very thick, and within is an opening or paffage, divided into galleries, which run horizontally round about the building; each gallery is 5 feet high; the floor is laid with large flat ftones, which gird and bind the whole building compactly together. The common conjecture is, that thefe galleries were for fleeping rooms, or barracks, in the hunting feafon. Befide thefe, there are other openings, full of fhelves, formed of large flat ftones, the use of which feems to have been to give light and fresh air to thofe who flept in the galleries, to hold their quivers or baggage, and perhaps, the lower fhelves were cup-boards, and preffes for their victuals. What conveniency they had at the bottom is not known, nine feet being filled with ftones. Three of the galleries are entire, and goats take shelter in them in fnowy weather. The building was at firft much higher, and would make, it is faid, a grand figure in a forest. The mafonry, we are told, is extremely well done, but without either lime or clay. Some maintain, that this Dune of Dornadilla was a druidical temple; but that, Mr. Pope obferves, cannot be the cafe, as the Druids made no use of roofed, or covered buildings, and it appears, that this building was roofed like the round Pictish houfes; befide, he adds, in that age, there were no inhabitants in these parts to worship in any temple. It does not, however, appear improbable, but that this Dune may have been erected by the Danes, as there are two buildings, faid to be exactly the fame in other refpecs, only of larger dimenfions, in Glenbeg, which are afcribed to that people. But Mr. Pope informs us, that there is a fragment of a very old poem ftill preferved, which mentions Dornadilla as the chieftain or prince, for whose fake this building was erected. Concerning this Dornadilla, little more has reached the prefent day, than that he spent his time in hunting, and was the first who enacted foreft laws. Mr. Pope does not mention the age in which Dornadilla lived. The print confifts of the elevation of the tower, and a fection of it.

Stone coffins have been frequently found in different parts' of England. Mr. Pegge, in a letter to Guftavus Brander, Efq; offers a few obfervations relative to fome lately discovered at Chrift-Church, Twynham. The kift vaen of the Britons,

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he apprehends, were of this kind, fome of which rude fepulchral receptacles, he fays, he has feen in Derbyshire. These at Christ-Church are somewhat more artificial than those of the ancient Britons, but as they are formed of ten or eleven pieces (a print of which is exhibited), and there does not appear to have been any ftone underneath for the body interred to lie on, Mr. Pegge concludes, that they are very ancient, the production of a rude and barbarous age [perhaps the fourth century], and affording a strong proof that Twynham was very anciently settled.

Mr. King prefents the Society with two fmall fragments of antiquity; the one a brick of a very fingular form, and ornamented with the representation of fome flower, which was found with feveral others, in clearing away the foundation of an old malting-house, in 1776, in Merfey Ifland: its texture leads him to fuppofe, that it is not of fo high antiquity as the times of the Romans. The other fragment was dug up in the fame year, near Colchester, by a labourer, who, at the time, difcovered about thirty of the fame fort, but began immediately to dash them all to pieces, with a view, as he faid, "to fave himself the plague and trouble of anfwering the enquiries that would be made about them." It was merely by accident that three of them were preserved. This veffel (of which, and the other, is a little print) Mr. King fuppofes to be a kind of lachrymatory; made of course red earth. His article is but fhort, and he apologizes for defcanting on what may be thought trivial, by obferving, that many things which appear of little importance when feen feparately, have been found very useful means of illuftrating curious facts, when viewed with others collectively.

In the 23d article, written by Mr. Brooke, of the Herald's college, we have a defcription of the great feal of Catherine Parr, the fixth wife of Henry VIII. It is taken from an impreffion in the collection of Mr. Guftavus Brander. Henry, fays Mr. Brooke, was exceeding kind in granting arms to his wives, though he deprived them of their heads. This feal, the fculpture of which appears to have been very elegant, gives an opportunity for many obfervations on the family and connections of Catherine Parr; to which is added, a curious account of this great lady's funeral, taken from a book in the Cotton library, and never before made public.

The defcription of an ancient fortification near ChriftChurch, Hampshire, is written by Francis Grofe, Efq. It is accompanied with drawings of the entrenchment on Hengiftbury-head, and the camp on St. Catherine's-hill. Mr. Grofe apprehends, that thefe are the remains of Roman works. The name of Hengift feems to direct us to another origin; but that name may have been given after the times of the Romans, though the works were raifed by their skill and industry.

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An account of ancient monuments and fortifications in the Highlands of Scotland, forms a long article, in a letter from Mr. James Anderson to George Wilfon, Efq. Mr. Anderson reduces the remains of antiquities in Scotland to fix claffes. I. Mounds of earth thrown into a fort of hemifpherical form, which are fometimes found in the fouth of Scotland, and ufually diftinguished by the name of mote or meat, which, he supposes, from the name, and other circumftances, to have been erected as theatres of juftice by our Saxon ancestors. II. The Cairns, which are evidently fepulchral monuments, to be met with in every part of the country. II. The long ftones fet on end in the earth, which are known to be monuments, intended to perpetuate the memory of fome fignal event in war. Thefe, he supposes, to be of later date than the cairns, as there is hardly one of them whofe traditional hiftory is not preferved by the country people, in the neighbourhood; and it is not difficult to reconcile these traditional narratives with the records of history. Mr. Anderson conjectures, that this kind of monument was first introduced into Britain by the Danes. IV. Large ftones placed in an erect position and circular form, which, being lefs known than the former, and confined to a narrower diftrict, are more particularly defcribed. Their fituation and form are faid to intimate, that they have been places deftined for fome kind of religious worship. Mr. Anderfon has examined a great number of them, and finds, that by restoring the parts which have been demolished, they would all coincide very exactly with a plan here given, and drawn from one ftill very entire, at a place called Hill of Fiddefs. Thefe, without doubt, are druidical temples. V. Circular buildings, confifting of walls composed of ftones, firmly bedded on one another, without any cement, and usually distinguished by the word Dun. A particular account, with a print annexed, is given of the remains of one of these buildings, called Dun-Agglefag, in Rofs-fhire. Anderfon concludes, that thefe have been places of religious worship, and obferves, that though every erection of this kind has the fyllable Dun prefixed to the name of the place in which it ftands, yet the particular building itself is always called the Druid's houfe, as the Druid's houfe of Dun-Beath, of DunAgglefag, &c. This remark feems rather to militate against Mr. Pope's opinion, as expreffed above, concerning the Dune of Dornadilla; though it must be acknowledged, this latter Tower or Dun, feems to differ in fome refpects from thofe here mentioned. VI. The moft remarkable of all the Scottish antiquities are the vitrified walls; which confift of ftones piled rudely on one another, and firmly cemented together by a matter that has been vitrified by means of fire, which forms a kind of artificial rock, that refifts the viciffitudes of the weather, perREV. April, 1780.

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