wall are prints of Earl Camden, and Alfred dividing his last loaf.Near them, Matt. Prior, ob. 1721, æt. 57;' an exceeding good portrait, and the features full of animation and vivacity. He wears a cap and crimson gown. This picture and its companion Sir Richard Steele were presented to the Company by Mr. Nichols. The latter exhibits a large man inclined to corpulency, with handsome dark eyes and brows, with a velvet cap on his head, and his collar open. They were formerly part of the collection of Edward Earl of Oxford; and were painted, it is believed, by Kueller.Between them is a half-length of Bishop Hoadly, an excellent portrait, given by Mr. Wilkins. On a tablet under it is the following inscription: This portrait of Dr. Benjamin Hoadly, Lord Bishop of Winchester, Prelate of the most noble Order of the Garter, was painted at the expence of William Wilkins, Esq. eitizen and stationer of London, out of the high esteem and veneration he had for the Bishop, on account of his being always actuated by the true spirit of the Gospel, and the principles of the Protestant Religion, and of his being a firm friend to liberty, religious and civil.Mr. Wilkins left it to the Stationers Company after his wife's decease, who departed this life the 29th day of July 1784. This fine portrait is a half length of the Bishop seated, habited in his robes as Prelate of the Order of the Garter. This eminent Divine appears to have been more than 60 years of age when the painting was made, and has pleasant full features, shaded by a moderate-sized powdered wig.-A fine print of Alfred III. visiting William de Albanac completes the decorations of the North wall.-At the East end of the room is the brass plate in memory of Mr. Bowyer, with a bust of him taken after death; and the three following portraits, all given by Mr. Nichols : -Archbishop Chichley, the venerable Founder of All Souls College, a fine old picture on board. A portrait of William Bowyer, printer, born July 1663; died Dec. 27, 1737. He had been many years a valuable member of the Company of Stationers; and appears to have been a pleasant round-faced man + Robert Nelson, born June 22, 1656; died Jan. 10, 1714-5.'-The excellence of this pious Author's life, evinced in various admonitory publications, gave his features great placidity, which, added to their beauty, has en * Engraved in our Magazine for 1783 (LIII. 284.) Engraved in "Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century." abled Sir Godfrey Kneller to present us with a most engaging likeness.-The Register of printed books in the records at this Hall has been on many occasions highly serviceable to Editors andCommen tators of our antient English lore. Both Mr. Steevens and Mr. Malone have industriously searched through them for the illustration of Shakspeare and Dryden; and Mr. Herbert most diligently for his improved edition of Ames's Typographical Antiquities.' Many curious particulars relating to the uses made of Stationers-hall may be found in Malone's Life of Dryden; and at the commencement of the last Century, Con certs were frequently given in it, similar to those now common in Hanover-square and other places. Numbers of funeral feasts and convivial meetings have besides been celebrated and held there, exclusive of those peculiar to the Company." For a very full History of the Sta tioners Company, and a List of their various Benefactors, see the Third Volume of the "Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century.' Yours, &c. CARADOC iealosie of unfaymed loue, I playe the foole a little, and say a word or two att guesse, I know you will pardon ilt. It were a vaine thinge by letter to dispute ouer your doubts, or to undertake answare your obiections. I haue heard them all, and I have rest from the trouble of them, and what has risen in my owne hart, for which I desier to bee humblie thankefull. I doe not condemne your reasoninges; I doubt them. It's easie to object to the glorious actinges of God, if wee looke too much upon instruments. I haue heard computa tions inade of the Members in Parlat good kept out, the most bad remayninge: it has beene soe this 9 yeerrs, yett what has God wrought? the greatest workes last; and still is att worke; therfore take heede of this scandall. Bee not offended att the manner; perhaps noe other way was left: what if God accepted the zeale, as Hee did that of Phineas, whose reason might have called for a Juryet what if the Lord have witnessed his аррго 1 approbation and acceptance to this alsoe, not only by signall outward acts, but to the heart alsoe? what if I feare my freind should withdrawe his shoulder from the Lords worke (o its greivous to doe soe) thorough scandalls, thorough fals mistaken reasonings: there's difficulty, there's trouble; in the other way, there's saf tye, ease, wisdom. In the one no cleeness (this is an objection indeed), in the other satisfaction. It's well if wee thought of that first, and severed from the other considerations wo doe often byace if not bribe the minde, whereby mists are often raised in the way wee should walke in, and wee call it darknesse or dissatisfaction: o oure deceiptfull harts! o this pleas inge world! How great is it to bee the Lords servant in any drudgerie! I thought not to have written neere the other side: love will not lett mee aloane, I haue beene often provoaked) In all hazards, his worst is farr above the worlds best. Hee makes us able in truth to say soe, wee canott of our selves. How hard a thing is it to reason our selves up to the Lords service, though it bee soe honourable! how easie to putt our selves out of itt, where the flesh has soe many advantages! You was desired to goe alonge with us: I wish it still; yett wee are not tryumphinge, wee may (for ought flesh knowes) suffer after all this, the Lord prepare us for his good pleasure. You were with us in the formes of thinges, why not in the power } I am perswaded your hart hankers after the hearts of your poore freindes, and will untill you can finde otheres to close with, web I trust (though wee in our selves bee contemptible) God will not lett you doe. My service to the deere little Lady. I wish you make her not a greater tentation then shee is: take heede of all relations; mercyes should not bee Sony yett wee too oft make them soe. The Lord direct your thoughies into the obedience of his will, and give you rest and peace in the truth! Pray for your most true and affec tionate servant in the Lord I perceaved a proceeding in that web the Lord will (I trust) cause him to unlearne. I woud fayne have written to him, but am straightened in tyme. Would he would bee wth us a little; perhaps it would bee no hurt to him. Superscribed, For the Right hon'ble the Lord Warton, theise. Indorsed, 1 Jan. 1649. from my La Leetennant of Ireland. For the Right h'nble the Lord Wharton, theise. Dunbarn, Sep, My deere Lord, 4th! 1650. I, poore I, love you love you the Lord'; take heede of disputinge. I was untoward when I spake last with you in St. Jeames parke: I spake crosse in stateing groundes; I spake to my iudginges of you, wch was that you, shall I name others? H. Laurence, Rob. Ham'ond, &c. had ensnared yr selves wth disputes. I beleive you desired to bee satisfied, and tryed, and doubted your sincerityes: 't was well, but uprightnesse (if itt bee not puer lye of God) may bee, nay is comonly deceaved: the Lord perswade you, and all my deere freindes! The results of your thoughts concerninge late transactions I knowe are your mistakes, by a better argument then successe; lett not your engaginge too farr upon your owne iudgments bee your tentation or snare, much lesso successe, least you should bee thought to returne upon lesse noble arguments. It is my hart to write the same thinges to Norton, Mountague, and others: I pray you reade or com'unicate theise foolish lines to them. I have knowen my folly doe good, when affection has overcome my reason, I pray you iudge mee sinceere, least a preiudice should bee putt upon after advantages. How gracious has the Lord heene in this great businesse. Lord, hyde not thy mercyes from our eyes! My service to the deere Ladye. 1 rest your most humble servant, O. CROMWELL. Indorsed, 4 Sept. 1650. From my Ld General from Dunbaru. N. B. The battle of Dunbar was fought Sept. 3, 1650, the day before this Letter was written. mon, (though not intentionally) have helped one another to stumble att the dispensations of God, aud to reason your selves out of his service &c. Now you have oportunitye to associ ate wth his people, in his worke, and to manifest your willingness, and desire, to serve the Lord against his and his peoples enimies. Woud you bee blessed out of Zion, and see the good of his people, and rejoyce wth his inheritance, I advise you all, in the bowells of love, lett it apeare you offer your selves willingly to his worke, wherein to bee accepted is more honor from the Lord, then the World can give, or hath. I am perswaded it needes you not, save as our Lord and Master needed the beast to shew his humilitye, meeknesse, and condescention; but you need it to declare your submission to and owning your selfe the Lord's, and his peoples. If you can breake thorough ould disputes, I shall rejoice,if you help others to doe also. Doe not say you are now satisfied, because it is the ould quarrel, as if it had not beene soe all this while. I have noe leisure, but a great deale of entyer affection to you and yours, and those named, wch I thus plainly expresse. Thankes to you and the deare Lady for all loves, and for poor foolish Mall. I am in good earnest, and soe alsoe y Lordps faythfull friend and most humble servant, O. CROMWELL. Stratford on Avon, Aug. 27, 1651. For my honored Lord Wharton,theise. Letter from OLIVER ST. JOHN to My Lord, Your many and constant fav's, and especially those not long before my leaving England, wth ye circumstances accompanying them and the benefit ........ thereby, have made an impression upon me never to be forgotten, and are as fresh before me as when they weare donne; and as they then caused me to blese ye Lord on you behalfe, soe have I through his grace donne cv since, and, as I promised, have in all my addresses to ye Lord in what councerns my selfe and all men, most presented yor name unto him for all those good and greate things I have asked for my selfe, and shall by his assistance continue soe to doe. I was desyrouse to let yor Lordp kuow as much, because good turnes are for ye most pt quickly forgotten, as allsoe yt I should judge my selfe verry unworthie if my long silence had proceeded from forgettfullnes, or undervalewing ye respect you have cast upon such an unworthie one. I know yr judgment and charitie too well then yt you will soe judge. The truth is, my condition and all circumstauces considered, I have denyed my selfe that pleasure and satisfactio, least ye pleasing my selfe thearin might turne to yr prejudice; nor should I have adventured now, had I not well knowne ye person doctr Sampson that hath promised to deliver it wth his owne hand. He is not, as I take it, unknown to yr LordsP: I know he is one you may have confidence in, and that it will not be tedius to heare of my present condition whh he knows well, because that benefactores amant be nefuctos. I came,some years since,first acquaynted with him att Montpellier; and ever since yt time his love hath made him as a childe or servant unto me rather then a friende. His profession is phisick: my own ignoraunce yt way, and suspicion that affection may blinde judgint, makes me say nothing of my owne concerning his proficiencie in his calling; but, by letters and otherwise I accidentally come to know yt yr most eminente and famous phisitians in these pts of Europ, and of Leyden in ye Low Cuntries, where he is now, give him a high character, If this occasion of further knowing him prove any meanes hearafter of doing service to yo'selfe or yors, I have all I ayme att; since yr Lorde will let him know yt I ow much of my health under God to his care and skill. My Lord, the sum and all of this is only to acknowledge the Debt whh I am not able to pay, and to let you know that I ow much of ye freedom and quiet whh by God's blessing I now enjoy unto yor Lord. The infirmities of age now grow uppo me, and God knows whether I shall live to see yor face agayne. I should be glad to heare of them for whome I dayly pray, because that mercies soe given are allsoe mercies to my selfe,, as likewise that I may thereby the better know how to performe the duties sutable to such with..... joy and thankfullnes: my L.. because it gives me the satisfaction of ..... *Obliterated in the original. * giving som testimonie of acknow fedgment of yor kindnesses. That the greate and graciouse God woud requite all your love, and blese you and yours wth all the blessings of heaven and earth, hath bin and shall be still the prayer of, My Lord, Yor beadsman, obliged and most affectionate Servant 170 Junii, 1668. OL. ST. JOHN. Directed, For the Right honourable my Lord Wharton. Indorsed, from my deere Frend; pr. Dr. Sampson. Extract from the Notes of a Traveller in Russia in 1679. Nas diced neta Kopra, a College was then first established for the purpose of teaching the Latin language; but this has been since entirely destroyed by the ecclesiastics of the country. The Russians embraced Christianity, and were baptized, on account of a miracle wrought by a priest at Kief whose prayers restored the great. Duke of Moscow from a dangerous sickness, and at the same time converted him to the faith. Their Liturgy is borrowed from that of the Greek Church. It is composed in the Sclavonian tongue, the knowledge of which is about as com mon with them as that of the Latin in the Romish church. They imitate, though rudely, the modern Greeks in the architecture of their Churches. Those of the Russians are filled with paintings, mostly set about with coloured stones; but images are abhorred by them as contrary to the second commandment, and they look upon any adoration paid to them as idolatrous. They never kneel during their prayers, but prostrate themselves on the ground. On the vigils of certain festivals, Christmas for instance, and Easter, and Bogoroditza,the birth-day of God's mother, they pass the whole night in the churches, and throw themselves flat on the ground from time to time, crossing themselves and beating their heads against the floor. In their service are certain intervals, during which they are allowed to talk of business, or of what they please. The Emperor, who attends regularly, accompanied by all his court, gene rally takes this opportunity for dispatching several people on his affairs; and if any one of his suite be wanting, he inquires diligently after him. At Whitsuntide the churches are filled with branches of birch (which the Russians believe to be sycamore), on which they prostrate themselves, under a strong persuasion that the Holy Ghost descends on these branches, as the manna fell formerly on oak, leaves in the wilderness. Instrumental music is no longer in use amongst them, since it was abolished by the last patriarch. They give the name of Obedni to the prayers that are said at three hours after sun-rise ; Vecherni to those after sun-set; and Zaoutrini to those which are repeated at one hour after midnight. Obedni; or Morning Prayer. Have pity upon me, my God! according to the greatness of thy mercy; and do away mine offences according to the greatness and multitude of thy loving kindnesses. Vecherni; or Evening Prayer. Incline thine ear, O Lord! to my prayers. Hear me when I call upon thee; and let my cry come even unto thee. Zaoutrini; or the Prayer at One o'Clock in the Morning. We put our trust in Christ our Saviour; and our trust is in him. They repeat, Hospudi pomilui, Lord have mercy upon us, a hundred times consecutively; and he of the priests that can say this the oftenest without taking breath is reckoned the cleverest man. Five or six of them read all together confusedly, one a chapter, another a psalm, a third a prayer, &c. &c. Every priest is called a pope, as Pope Peter, Pope Isidore, Pope Basil. A bishop is called Metropolite, or Archimandrite, and a dean Protopope. The popes are commonly dressed in red; some however wear green, and several in other colours according to their fancy. They never cut their hair, nor shave their beard. They are obliged to be married; but they must be the husbands of only one wife, according to the literal expression of the Apostle Paul. So that their priesthood depends upon their wives, and dies with them: for which reason they marry young that they may come early to a benefice, and treat their |
