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place, I lay in the next room to the bed-chamber, the King then commanded me to bring my pallate into his chamber, which I accordingly did, the night before that sorrowful day. He ordered what cloaths he would wear, intending that day to be as neat as could be, it being (as he called it) his wedding-day; and, having a great work to do (meaning his preparation to eternity), said, he would be stirring much earlier than he used.

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For some hours his Majesty slept very soundly: for my part I was so full of anguish and grief, that I took little rest. The King, some hours before day, drew his bed-curtain to awaken me, and could by the light of wax-lamp perceive me troubled in my sleep. The King rose, forthwith and as I was making him ready, Herbert (said the King) I would know why you were disquieted in your sleep? I replied, May it please your Majesty, I was in a dream. What was your dream? said the King, I would hear it. May it please your Majesty, said I, I dreamed, that as you were making ready, one knocked at the bed-chamber door, which your Majesty took no notice of, nor was I willing to acquaint you with it, apprehending it might be Colonel Hacker. But knocking the second time, your Majesty asked me, if I heard it not? I said, I did; but did not use to go without his order. Why then go, know who it is, and his business. Whereupon I opened the door, and perceived that it was the Lord Archbp. of Cant, Dr. Laud, in his Pontifical Habit, as worn at Court; I knew him, having seen him often. The Archbp. desired he might enter, having something to say to the King. I acquainted your Majesty with his desire; so you bad me let him in. Being in, he made his obeysance to your Majesty in the middle of the room, doing the like also when he came near your person; and, falling on his knees, your Majesty gave him your hand to kiss, and took him aside to the window, where some discourse pass'd between your Majesty and him, and I kept a becoming distance, not hearing any thing that was said, yet could perceive your Majesty pensive by your looks, and that the Archbishop gave a sigh; who, after a short stay, again kissing your hand, returned, but with face all the

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way towards your Majesty, and making his usual reverences, the third being so submiss, as he fell prostrate on his face on the ground, and I immediately stept to him to help him up, which I was then acting, when your Majesty saw me troubled in my sleep. The impression was so lively, that I look'd about, verily thinking it was no dream.

The King said, my dream was remarkable, but he is dead; yet, had we conferred together during life, 'tis very likely (albeit I loved him well) I should have said something to him might have occasioned his sigh.

Soon after I had told my dream, Dr. Juxou, then Bishop of London, came to the King, as I relate in that narrative I sent Sir William Dugdale, which I have a transcript of here; nor know whether it rests with his Grace the Archbishop of Cant. or Sir William, or be disposed of in Sir John Cotton's Library neer Westminster Hall; but wish you had the perusal of it before you return into the North. And this being not communicated to any but yourself, you may shew it to his Grace, and none else, as you promised.

Sir, your very affectioned friend and servant, THO. HERBERT. Sent to me by Dr. RAWLINSON, 24 Feb. 1729. C[ARTE.]

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out a monument.

"Under the uppermost arch, on the North side of the altar, lyes the body of King Edward the Fourth. The said arch is lyned with Touch; over the body lyes two large stones of Touch; at the East end stands an altar of Touch, supported by two pillars of the same stone. The North side is fenced in with a grate of iron and steele, wrought and pierced in church-work by an excellent hand.

"The body of King Charles the Martyr lyes buried in a vault made in the South side of the quire, neere the first hault pace ascending to the altar, the head of his coffin lying over against the eleaventh stall on the Soveraignes side. North of his body, in the same vault,

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lye also two other coffins, supposed to containe the bodies of King Henry the Eight, and Jane Seymour, his wife."

J. HAWKER, Richmond Herald.

Mr. URBAN,

May 10.

T HAVE just seen a Catalogue of

Curious Books to be sold, belonging to the late Mr. Aichorne, which Catalogue also comprizes some duplicates of a Nobleman's Library.

Among them are many very uncommon early printed books of the fifteenth century, which are severally described in notes subjoined to each, with reference to Audiffredi, Braun, Laire, and other eminent Bibliographers.

Now, Mr. Urban, it has struck me as a little singular, that among these references no mention is made of Mr. Beloe, whose "Anecdotes of Scarce Books" are now before me. I find that our countryman has described each and all of these rare and curious books with circumstantial minuteness; and, as it should seem, from the use of many of these very copies which are now exhibited for sale. Could the Compiler of the Catalogue be ignorant of this fact? or could he be actuated by any undue motive in suppressing it? Such, however, is the case; and in justice to Mr. Beloe it may be added, that I believe no uncommon book, was printed abroad in the fifteenth century, of importance in any branch of classical learning which has not been more or less particularly described in the "Anecdotes of Literature," &c. abovementioned. AN OLD CORRESPONDENT.

Mr. r. URBAN,

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Angel Court, Skinner Street, Muy 11. CORRESPONDENT in your last Magazine (p. 302), under the signature of Metellus, has undertaken to "put to rest for ever the vague conjectures of those who amuse themselves with guessing at Junius:" how far he has succeeded in this attempt, must be left to you and to your Readers to determine. It is true the Common Place Book, shewn to me as Dr. Wilmot's, was made of paper with the same water-mark as that used by Junius in a part of his correspondence with my Father, viz. a foolscap folio, having a figure of Britannia, and the motto Pro Patria on pue leaf; on the other, a Crown, with

the initial letters G. R. in a circle. But does it follow that this kind of paper was manufactured for the sole use of Dr. Wilmot? It is true that a nearly obliterated memorandum was discernible, that the writer had "finished on such a day a Ju-s, and seat it to Lord S-ne;" but to this memorandum was subfixed the date March 17, 1767. Of the month and year I am certain; of the day of the month I am not quite so sure. Now if Ju-s meant Junius, the date is more than twenty monthsprior to thewriter's adopting that signature, as inay be seen by a reference to vol. III. p. 190 of my edition of those Letters. With respect to Metellus's remark, that "the MSS. of Dr. Wilmot had been perused by me, that I declared my surprise at this discovery, equally accidental and sulisfactory, but that I expressed no decided opinion upon the subject;" I can only inform him, that he must have greatly mistaken Mrs. Serres' information upon this subject, as I told that Lady I was perfectly convinced the hand-writing in the Common Place Book, and the MSS. in my possession from Junius, were not written by one and the same per

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Mr. URBAN,

May 12. R. Wilmot was Curate of the pa

Drish of Kenilworth, of which I

am now Vicar, from the latter end of the year 1770 to the year 1777. That he regularly attended and officiated in person, appears from the entries in the parish registers, made in his hand-writing, which, by the way, as far as I can judge, bear no resemblance to that of Junius, published by Mr. Woodfall. This affords at once so decisive a proof of the impossibility of his having written those celebrated Letters, that I need not wound the feelings of his relatives by invidious inferences of another nature, It is, however, but justice to state,. that men of talents far superior to

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Dr. Wilmot, might hope in vain to be thought the authors of those masterly compositions. I can, in fact, afford an explanation of the circumstances which give a colour to the pretensions of Dr. Wilmot. He was, perhaps, ambitious of literary distinction, and wished to be thought the Author of Junius. Hence arose the remarks in his Diary or Common Place Book. He there may have extracted passages from Junius, and given those who read them after his death, without explanation, ground to think that these passages were his own composition. His having finished a letter of Junius, and sent it to Lord S-ne, proves nothing. He might have finished reading it, and sent it. He might have finished a Jetter in imitation of Junius, with the signature of Junius, and sent it to Lord S-ne. He might have done neither the one nor the other; but have entered this memorandum for his own amusement, to mislead those into whose hands his Common Place Book might fall, or in whose way he might designedly intend to place it. And that this was the case, few of your readers will doubt, when I tell you that I have just received a letter from my excellent mother, of whose sound understanding I would rather my revered friend Dr. Parr should speak than myself, in which she says, that she very well recollects Dr. Wilmot saying to her, about the time that the Letters of Junius were published, "they say that I am the Author of them." Will any man of common sense believe that the real Junius would have said this? I remain, Mr. Urban, your sincere well-wisher, and constant reader, S. BUTLER.

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Mr. URBAN,

May 13. HAVE read, in your Magazine for March 1813, a letter by a Correspondent, signing himself "PhiloJunius." If this gentleman has any knowledge of the elegant writer who wrote in the Public Advertiser under that name, he has wilfully attempted to mislead you and the Readers of your Work.

friends of an Officer of very distinguished talents, strength of mind, and general knowledge.

A Work has lately appeared before the publick, intituled, "Facts tending to prove that Gen. Lee was never absent from this country for any length of time during the years 1767, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12; and that he was the author of Junius." It is edited by Dr.Girdlestone.

If Mr. Woodfall is really ignorant of the Author of Junius, we must naturally suppose, from the many fruitless inquiries that have been made, and the various contradictory accounts presented to the publick, that the Writer of the Letters under the signature of Junius never made himself personally known to any individual whatsoever*. From whence then are we to discover who he actually was? From no circumstance whatever, except a comparison of handwritings with the fac-simile of the Letters of Junius. In the book I have alluded to, fac-similes of Gen. Lee's hand-writing are given. I have carefully compared them with those of Junius, published by Mr. Woodfall, and they most closely resemble each other.

Instead, then, of examining into the Library of a man whose " asthma and numerous family have excluded him from society for many years," I should recommend your Correspondents, and the Literati, to search for intelligence from the only remaining son of the bosom friend of Gen. Lee, the Rev. Robert Davers, of Bradfield, near Bury, in Suffolk, or in the Libraries of Lord Suffield and Sir Charles Bunbury.

Mr. URBAN,

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April 10. Bas induced to visit the Library EING last year at Winchester, I

of the College founded there by that munificent Patron of Learning WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM. In this Library there are many books deserving of the attention of the learned and the curious. Amongst them I noticed, in particular, the three following,namely,

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The Letters of Junius were far from being studied in their composition; they have the characteristic stamp Terenti' in' < throughout of the ideas, language, and writings, of a disappointed military man; and eventually they will be acknowledged as such by the

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*See this Month's Review, p. 459. EDIT. Impressum

Impressum in imperiali ac libera vrbe Argentina per Joannem Gruninger. Ad illam forma' vt intuenti iocundior atq' intellectu facilior esset per Joannem Curtum ex Eberspach redactum. Anno a natiuitate d'ni 1499. Tertio ydus Februarii." fol.

This edition is illustrated with some very curious cuts.

"1509.

"Accipe, Studiose Lector, P. Ouidii Metamorphosin cu' luculentissimis Raphaelis Regii enarrationibus: quibus plurima ascripta sunt: que in Exemplaribus antea impressis non inueniuntur. Que sint rogas: Inter legendum facile tibi occurrent. Cum gratia et privilegio. "Ad lectorem.

Siquid forte litterar' immutatione, transpositione, inuersione, appositione, omissione aliaue deprauatio'e offenderis, studiose lector, id correctionis difficultati ascribas rogat Georgius de Rusconibus Mediolane'sis, cujus industria Raphael Regius i' hoc opere describendo usus est. Venetiis principe felicis. Leonardo Lauredu'o die ii Maii M. D. IX.” fol.

This edition is likewise illustrated

with cuts.

1473. "Sermones Quadragesimales de legibus fratris Leona'di d Utino sacre theologie doctoris, ordinis predicatorum.

Impressi sunt hii sermones Venetiis, per Fra'ciscu' d Hailbrun. & Nicolau' d Frackfordia, socios. Laus deo. M.

CCCC. LXXiii." Goth. fol.

The last-mentioned book was presented, with some others, to the Library by Mr. Atcheson in 1811. It is in high preservation, and one of the most perfect Black Letter books I have seen. This edition is not no

ticed in De Bure: he mentions a subsequent one, but not in the Black Letter, printed at Paris in 1478. See his Bibliographie, vol. I. p. 326, art. 513, tit. Theologie.

Amongst the other books presented by Mr. Atcheson, I observed the Life of Mr. PITT, in three volumes, quarto, very superbly bound in Russia, with the following inscription beautifully printed on embossed paper, and pasted within the cover of

the first volume:

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reponendam, dedit
Nathaniel. Atcheson, armiger,

de Keyhaven, in comitatu
Hantoniensi :

quo tempore istius Collegii Custos fuit venerandus in Deo Pater Georgius Isaacus Glocestriæ Episcopus, vir tam ob mansuetudinem morum ac facilitatem valdè dilectus, quàm ob puram animi pietatem, vitæ sanctitatem, et interiores in eo reconditasque literas, admodum sanè reverendus: Magisterium ibidem exercente Henrico Dyson Gabell, Clerico, A. M. cujus à doctrinæ humanitatisque studio, perfectâ eruditione, sanâ quidem, et perspicuâ intelligentiâ, publicam Britannica juventutis institutionem antiquis in his disciplinæ sedibus,

hocque jam claro scientiæ domicilio, clariorem reddi atque utiliorem omnino necesse est. A.D. 1811."

There are many objects in and about Winchester worthy of observation, which cannot fail to excite the most pleasing reflections in the minds of all well-informed and intelligeut travellers. But none of them are more deserving of their attention than this most noble Endowment, which continues to maintain its rank for

learning, ability, and morality, with undiminished character and reputa tion, not only to the advancement of the honour of ITS ILLUSTRIOUS FOUNDER, "who, besides his high station and great abilities in public affairs, was an eminent example of generosity and munificence," but to the lasting benefit and improvement of the youths educated on its Foundation. LONDINENSIS.

Mr. URBAN, Leamington, May 12.

HAVING been induced to try the with pleasure add my testimony to Waters of Leamington, I can the recommendations of your Correspondent, in p. 511 of the First Part become the resort of fashion and eleof your last Volume.-The Spa is gance. The delightful retirement it its accommodations, the fine rides in affords, the variety and excellence of its environs, and the spirited exertions of its inhabitants to procure every luxury, as well as convenience,

*See Bishop LOWTH'S Life of William of Wykeham, which is one of the most beautiful specimens of biographical com osition extant.

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for their visitors, entitle it to the most particular attention of the publick. In addition to Mr. Bissel's Picture Gallery, that gentleman has now removed hither his much-admired Museum from Birmingham. On the efficacy and high estimation of the Waters I forbear enlarging, as I hear there is now in the press a poetical guide, by Miss Sarah Medley, to which will be annexed several of the most remarkable and well-authenticated cures obtained by the use of this Spa, and the names of many eminent Physicians who have analysed the Waters, and given their most decided testimony in their favour. The New Pump-room is built upon an extensive and most superb plan, and has cost the proprie tors 15,000l. The Assembly Room is spacious and elegant; 90007. has been expended on its erection. The number, cheapness, and plentiful supply of the Hot Baths is not surpassed in any other part of the Kingdom. HYGEIA.

Mr. URBAN,

May 14. AN N apparatus, superior to phosphorus bottles, for producing instantaneous light, is daily advertised in the London papers. It consists of matches, which are to be thrust singly into a small bottle; and this operation is all that is necessary to inflame them. According to Dr. T. Thomson (Annals of Philosophy, &c. for April 1813), the bottle contains sulphuric acid, and the matches are covered, at one end, with a mixture of a salt called by chemists the oximuriate of

potash (or "potass") and sugar, or some other combustible substance, as camphor, sulphur, &c. My sole object in sending you this notice is, to caution your Readers against employing this method of procuring a light while in bed, for it must be extremely dangerous. I have already heard of several accidents with these matches. One person had the acid driven out of the bottle by an explosion, which was occasioned by his rubbing the match against the sides of the bottle, it was supposed, in introducing it. The acid so driven out inflamed a heap of the matches which were just at hand, to the no small pain and terror of the operator. A much preferable apparatus for producing a light, but certainly much more expensive, is sold by Banks, 441, Strand. consists of a handsome box, lined with copper, containing hidrogen gas, confined by water. On turning a cock, a stream of the gas issues from it, and is inflamed at the same moment by an electrical spark proceeding from an electrophoros placed at the bottom of the box: a candle or lamp is placed before the flame, by which it is immediately lighted. The cock must then be turned back to prevent an unnecessary consumption of the gas. The process for replenishing the box with the gas is cheap and easy, and is but seldom required. This apparatus would save the expence of a constant light in a bedchamber, and might be used with perfect safety.

E. M.

METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for May, 1813. By W. CARY, Strand.

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