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Life, vol. ix. p. 229. Mr. Jacob died in 1852 aged eighty-eight. The widow of his old school-fellow, the Hon. Thomas Douglas, afterwards Earl of Selkirk. See Life, vol. i. p. 77, and 208 n. Ante, p. 10. Afterwards included in her Poetical and Dramatic Works, Lond. 1851. Dr. Henry Phillpotts, consecrated Bishop of Exeter in 1830. Crabbe's Tale of the Dumb Orators. Dr.

Stow's Survey of London, by Strype, book iii. p. 35. Edit, folio. With the Conquest of Jerusalem. As it hath bene diuerse times acted at the Red Bull, by the Queenes Maiesties Servants. 410, Lond. 1615.

And for that skylle, thei make none habitaciouns there. Theise folk, that I speke of, thei tylen not the lond, ne thei laboure noughte; for thei eten no bred, but zif it be ony that dwellen nyghe a gode toun, that gon thidre and eten bred som tyme. And thei rosten here flesche and here fische upon the hote stones azenst the sonne. And thei ben stronge men and wel fyghtynge.

Also the cytee of Cayre is righte gret, and more huge than that of Babyloyne the lesse: and it sytt aboven toward the desert of Syrye, a lytille above the ryvere aboveseyd. In Egipt there ben 2 parties; the Heghte, that is toward Ethiope; and the Lowenesse, that is towardes Arabye. In Egypt is the lond of Ramasses and the lond of Gessen.

Fro this lond men gon to another yle, that is clept Silha: and it is welle a 800 myles aboute. In that lond is fulle mochelle waste; for it is fulle of serpentes, of dragouns and of cokadrilles; that no man dar duelle there.

His brother Charles agreed to accompany him, as did Benjamin Ingham, a member of their association at Oxford, and Charles Delamotte, son of a merchant in London. Burton was solicited by the excellent Dr. BENTHAM, de vita et moribus Johannis Burtoni. 8vo. Dr. HALES, Dr. JOHN WESLEY and of the Rev. CHARLES WESLEY, his brother, by the Rev. HENRY MOORE. 8vo. Lond. 1824. 2 vol. Vol. I. p. 334.

Others assign it to the repercussion of the voice from accidental angles." Atkyns' Ancient and Present State of Glostershire, Lond. 1712, folio, page 128. Reed, to be the "first newspaper, published in England;" we are, however, assured by the author of the Life of Ruddiman, that it has no title to so honourable a distinction.

Manchester Textile Recorder. By ERNEST W. WHITE, M.B. Lond., M.R.C.P., Senior Assistant Medical Officer to the Kent Lunatic Asylum; Associate, Late Scholar, of King's College, London.

James Ferrier, one of the Clerks of Session, the father of the authoress of Marriage, The Inheritance, and Destiny. Mr. Ferrier was born in 1744, and died in 1829. "Authentic Memoirs of the remarkable Life and surprising Exploits of Mandrin, Captain-General of the French Smugglers, who for the space of nine months resolutely stood in defiance of the whole army of France," etc. 8vo, Lond. 1755.

Arabye durethe fro the endes of the reme of Caldee, unto the laste ende of Affryk, and marchethe to the lond of Ydumee, toward the ende of Botron. The whiche Eneas was of the cytee of Troye, and aftre was Kyng of Itaylle. Mesopotamye strecchethe also unto the Desertes of Arabye; and it is a gret contree.