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This must be an error, perhaps for 40 or 50 thousand; as a shilling of these days was worth at least from fifteen to twenty modern shillings in effective value; and within memory herrings have often sold, in a very plentiful fishery, for a shilling the cart-load, when salt could not be had in sufficient quantity. Decl. and Fall.
Hamilton returned to London; made another fruitless journey, with new concessions, to Edinburgh; returned again to London; and was immediately sent back with still more satisfactory concessions. The king was now willing entirely to abolish the canons, the liturgy, and the high commission court. * Rush, vol. ii. p. 137, etc. King's Decl. p. 87. * King's Decl. p. 88. Rush, vol. ii. p. 751.
King's Decl. p. 18. May, p. 32. * King's Decl. p. 20. Burnet's Mem. p. *8*1. Rush. vol. ii. p. 396. May, p. 31.
We accordingly departed from Tambico about three o'clock, and halted for the night at Jeningalla near Bufra, or Kabatenda, where I formerly slept; my former landlord brought me a large calabash of milk. o " Mer. Alt. Tambico 166 56 0 Diam. 0 32 0 1/2 167 28 0 83 44 0 Zenith Distance 6 16 0 Decl. 20 9 0 Latitude 13 53 0 ======== May 22d. Halted at Jeningalla to purchase corn for our asses.
Maskelyne measured many proper motions of stars, from which W. Herschel came to the conclusion that these apparent motions are for the most part due to a motion of the solar system in space towards a point in the constellation Hercules, R.A. 257 degrees; N. Decl. 25 degrees.
Hardly any part of it now remains independent, except Zagatai; or Transoxiana, Kharism, Candabar, and the deserts of Western Tartary: the former of which is subject to the Usbeks, and the latter to the Kirguses. Gibbon, Dec. and Fall, IV. 355. Decl. and Fall, XI. 402.
The tumult, however, still continued without: stones were thrown at the doors and windows: and when the service was ended, the bishop, going home, was attacked, and narrowly escaped from the hands of the enraged multitude. * King's Decl. p. 22. Clarendon, vol. i. p. 108. Rush, vol. ii. p. 387. King's Decl. p. 23, 24, 25. Rush. vol. ii. p. 388. * King's Decl. p. 26, 30. Clarendon, vol. i. p. 109.
In short, fanaticism mingling with faction, private interest with the spirit of liberty, symptoms appeared on all hands of the most dangerous insurrection and disorder. * King's Decl. p. 35, 36 etc. Rush. vol. ii. p. 404.
After France and Holland had entered into a league against Spain, and framed a treaty of partition, by which they were to conquer and to divide between them the Low Country provinces, England was invited to preserve a neutrality between the contending parties, while the French and Dutch should attack the maritime towns of Flanders. * King's Decl. p. 317. Mem. D'Estrades, vol. i.
The clergy of Scotland, though such tumult was excited about religious worship and discipline, were both poor and in small numbers; nor are they in general to be considered, at least in the beginning, as the ringleaders of the sedition which was raised on their account. * King's Decl. p. 140, etc. Rush. vol. ii. p. 772. * King's Decl. p. 188, 189. Rush. voL ii. p. 761.
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