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bably he escaped after the battle, and was betrayed by one of his servants.]

Itm p fenro v compi in papiro et encaust v". ij".

Itm Willmo Veule p fenro muro in pte orient eccles iij".

Et p. nov calixt empt. iij'. xiij". viij.

Et p.... ... Rectore et Johe Chaffe ad superdem campan. viija.

Et Bart Jelys p Rob' camp. de nov fact. xvi.

Et Rico Toker p yrework eod" occupati. viija.

Et in pot dat Johe Williams et p convent sua. ija.
Et Gervas Ffoxe p secat unius quere cum carr. ij. ija.
Et Johe Hop p fenro le sepulqu. v. iiija.

Et p xij capist empt et p uno pred campan. viija.
Et p' uno Regist argent de nov empt. xvija.

adas.

Et p' fenro le Judas et aliis Joh. Hoxham.

x4.

Et Johi Derte p barris de nov fact pr camp. xa.

Et in pot dat divsis psonis eoẩm tempe. iiij.

ix.

Et puno pixidi p eccles de nov empt. xija.

Et pij quart calcet empt. xvja.

Et p.... lap macer et zabulo carr. xvj.

Et in pot dat divis hombus ad ...... latham.
Car. lap in alta campanilia.

Et pr uno lec equit London. xv.

Et alio lec equit Exon eadm causa. xijd.

Et p uno pixidi p eccles de nov empt. xij.

V.

Et Johi Williams p emend fenestro in le vice. xija.

iron work

Et in yre worke videlt. twists nayles et aliis. iij.

[Then a long list of rents and other receipts.]
(To be continued.)

SELECTIONS FROM EVELYN'S DIARY.

(Continued from vol. iv., p. 753.)

1678. 22 Feb.-Dr. Pierce preach'd at Whitehall, on 2 Thessal. 3, 6, against our late schismatics, in a rational discourse, but a little over sharp, and not at all proper for the auditory there.

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22 March. Dr. South preached, coram Rege, an incomparable discourse on this text-" A wounded spirit who can beare?" Notenow was our Communion Table placed Altar-wise; the Church, Steeple, Clock, and other reparations finished.

5 Nov.-Dr. Tillotson preach'd before the Commons at St. Margaret's. He said the Papists were now arrived at that impudence as to deny that there ever was any such thing as the Gunpowder conspiracy; but he affirmed that he himself had several letters, written by Sir Everard Digby, (one of the traytors,) in which he gloried that he was to suffer for it, and that it was so contrived that of the Papists not above two or three should have been blown up, and they such as were not worth saving.

1679. 30 Jan.-Dr. Cudworth preach'd before the King, at Whitehall, on 2 Tim. 3, 5, reckoning up the perils of the last times, in which, amongst other wickednesse, Treason should be one of the greatest; applying it to the occasion, as committed under a form of reformation and godliness; concluding that the prophecy did intend more particularly the present age as one of the last times; the sinns there enumerated more abundantly reigning than ever.

2 Feb. Dr. Durell, Dean of Windsor, preach'd to the household, at Whitehall, on 1 Cor. 16, 22; he read the whole sermon out of his notes, which I have never before seene a Frenchman do, he being of Jersey, and bred at Paris.

4 Feb.-Dr. Pierce, Dean of Salisbury, preached on 1 John, 4, 1, "Try the Spirits, there being of late so many delusive ones gone forth into the world." He inveied against the pernicious doctrines of Mr. Hobbes.

4 April.-The B" of Gloucester preached in a manner very like Bishop Andrews, full of divisions, and scholastical, and that with much quicknesse. The Holy Communion followed.

20.-Easter Day. Our Vicar preach'd exceedingly well, on 1 Cor. 5, 7. The Holy Communion followed, at which I & my daughter Mary (now about fourteen years old) received for the first time. The Lord Jesus continue his grace unto her, and improve this blessed beginning.

23 Nov.-Dr. Allestre preach'd before the household on 11 St. Luke 2. Dr. Lloyd on 28 Matt. 20, before the King, shewing with how little reason the Papist applied those words of our Blessed Saviour to maintaine the pretended infallibility they boast of. I never heard a more Christian and excellent discourse; yet were some offended that he seemed to say the Church of Rome was a true Church; but 'twas a captious mistake, for he never affirmed any thing that could be more to their reproach, and that such was the present Church of Rome, showing how much it had erred. There was not in this sermon so much as a shadow for censure, no person of all the Cleargy having testified greater zeal against the errors of the Papists than this pious and most learned person. I dined at the Bishop of Rochester's, and then went to St. Paul's to hear that greate wit Dr. Sprat, now newly succeeding Dr. Outram in the cure of St. Margaret's. His talent was a greate memory, never making use of notes, a readiness of

expression in a most pure and plain style of words, full of matter easily delivered.

1680. 25 Jan.-Dr. Cave, author of "Primitive Christianity," &c., a pious and learned man, preached at Whitehall to the household on 3 James, 17, concerning the duty of grace and charity.

26 Feb. To the R. Society, where I met an Irish Bishop with his Lady, who was daughter to my worthy and pious friend, Dr. Jeremy Taylor, late Bp. of Downe & Connor; they came to see the Repository. She seems to be a knowing woman, beyond the ordinary talent of her sex.

26 March. The Dean of Sarum preached on Jerem. 45, 5, an hour & half from his Common-place book of Things, and greate men retiring to private situations. Scarce anything of Scripture in it.

30 Oct.-I went to London to be private, my birth-day being the next day, & I now arrived at my sixtieth year, on which I began a more solemn survey of my whole life, in order to the making & confirming my peace with God, by an accurate scrutinie of all my actions past as far as I was able to call them to mind. How difficult & uncertaine, yet how necessary a work! The Lord be merciful to me & accept me! Who can tell how oft he offendeth? Teach me, therefore, so to number my daies that I may apply my heart to wisdom, & make my calling & election sure. Amen, Lord Jesus!

31.-I spent this whole day in exercises. A stranger preached at Whitehall, on 16 Luke 30, 31.* I then went to St. Martin's, where the Bp. of St. Asaph preached on 1 Peter, 3-15; the Holy Communion follow'd, at which I participated, humbly imploring God's assistance in the greate worke I was entering into. In the afternoon, I heard Dr. Sprat at St. Margaret's, on 17 Acts 11.

I began & spent the whole weeke in examining my life, begging pardon for my faults, assistance & blessing for the future, that I might in some sort be prepared for the time that now drew neere, & not have the greate worke to begin when one can worke no longer. The Lord Jesus help & assist me. I therefore stirr'd little abroad till the 5 Nov., when I heard Dr. Tenison, the now Vicar of St. Martin's; Dr. Lloyd, the former Incumbent, being made Bishop of St. Asaph.

7 Nov.-I participated of the blessed Communion, finishing and confirming my resolutions of giving myselfe up more entirely to God, to whom I had now most solemnly devoted the rest of my poore remainder of life in this world; the Lord enabling me, who am an unprofitable servant, a miserable sinner, yet depending on his infinite goodnesse & mercy accepting my endeavours.

1681. 20 May.-Our new Curate preach'd,-a pretty hopefull young man, yet somewhat raw, newly come from Colledge, full of Latine sentences, which in time will weare off. He read prayers very well.

(To be continued.)

• This was probably to the king's household, early in the morning.

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SIR,-On a former occasion I mentioned two circumstances in the Breviary worthy of notice, which I purpose to exemplify as far as it may be done by some short extracts. The first is the mode in which an ulterior and spiritual sense is connected with or responds to a more immediate and primary one. This is the case in the responsories, where passages from the Old and from the New Testament are introduced to respond to each other. The same may be seen in the extracts from the Psalter in a former number of this Magazine, (for Jan., 1834,) in the hymns appropriate to the different hours of the day. It may likewise be observed very remarkably in the hymn appointed for the Sunday morning as there given, beginning with "Morning lifts her dewy veil," in which the creation and redemption of mankind, as completed on that day, are the subjects of alternate stanzas. What I would now refer to are some of the different hymns corresponding with this, which are substituted for each day of the week in the daily Psalter, and in which this secondary application, so natural and so scriptural, is beautifully illustrated.

The other circumstance to which I would allude, is the followingviz., the appropriate and peculiar tone and aim which pervades each day's service as noticed before (in No. for May, p. 539.) This indeed is not so clearly seen in the following instances, which are selected more particularly for the former purpose, but still the tendency may be observed; as, for instance, on the second day God's goodness to man is celebrated: this is observable in the first hymn here given. The hymn for the third day turns to the love of our neighbour. Those for the fourth and fifth, to faith and Christian hope, the peculiar subjects of the services for those days.

Hymn from the "Officium Nocturnum" for the Second Day.

Dei canamus gloriam,
Coelum secundo qui die
Expandit admirabile
Mortalibus spectaculum.

Poli stupemus alveo
Stagnare pensiles lacus:
Hinc imbre terras fertili
Cœlestis irrorat Pater,

Quam præparas nobis, Deus,
Est hæc imago gratiæ:
Hæc rore stillans uberi
Cordis penetrat intima.

Hanc qui fideli combibant
Aquam salubrem pectore,
In his ad æternas domos
Miro resultat impetu.
&c. &c.

Glory to God on high,
Upon this day unfolding
His tent along the sky
To wond'ring man beholding!

Heav'n's roof becomes a bed
Where liquid lakes are pending,
On earth beneath outspread
In dewy drops descending.

An image of the dower
Thou hast for us prepared,
Of grace the living shower
For them Thy love hath spared.

In them who drink that dew
In faithful heart concealing,
It heavenward springs anew
Itself in strength revealing.

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Miramur, O Deus, tuæ
Recens opus potentiæ,
Quae scripta scintillantibus
Refulget astrorum globis.

Ut sol diei, candida
Sic luna nocti præsidet:
Exercitu totum novo
Discriminant stellæ polum.

At ipse, cœlorum decus,
Sol novit occasus suos:
Sunt certa lunæ tempora,
Statique lapsus siderum.

Jugi rotata turbine Furantur et reddunt diem: Tu semper idem, nescius Mortalium spem fallere.

Turbata quid mens fluctuet?
Curâ paternâ nos regis:
Æterna si cordi salus,
Eterna nos salus manet.
&c. &c.

O God, we behold how thy wondrous might Hath hung with new works the vast infinite, How, writ bythy hand,mid the glimmering stars, It shineth from far in strange characters.

The sun builds the day for his chamber bright, The white moon doth sit on the throne of night, While the stars all around like her army appear, And thro' the blue dark marshal here and there.

The sun, tho' he walks the broad heav'ns alone, Knows his rising well and his going down; The moon and her host they come and they go, And silent and still to thine ordering bow.

On the noiseless wheel of a whirlwind born,
They carry away, and they bring the morn;
These changes amid that around thee dwell,
Thyself art alone the Unchangeable.

Then why should the soul like a wave be driv'n,
If her anchor rests on the depth of heav'n?
If she make thee here her healing and health,
She shall have in thee her eternal wealth.

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