EACH DAY'S PRICE OF STOCKS IN Bank (3 perCi 3 per Ct. Ditto (4 per Ct, 5 per Ct Long Short | Ditto | India | India | India | S. Sea Stock. reduc. confols. 1726 Confol. 1761 261 173 744 77 84 94 [14 221 87 225 1741 86 N.B. In the 3 per Cent. Confols. the highest and lowest Price of each Day is given; in the other Stock the highest Price only. 12 Derby Ipfwich Leicester Lewes Liverpool 3 Maidhore Northampton Nottingham OXFORD Reading Shethela 2 Shrewtbury Stamford Winchester WorceĤtel Cumberland For M AY, 1788. CONTAINING Хокк 3... 412 Meteor. Diaries for May 1783, and June 1737 379 That Epifcopal Church no longer Nonjurant 400 461-469 4721 Embellished with Two Picturefque Views of the old PARSONAO House at BexLEY in By SYLVA NUS URBAN, Gent. LONDON, Printed by JOHN NICHOLS, for D. HENRY, late of SAINT JOHN'S GATL METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for May, 1788. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. ID. of OBSERVATIONS. a Rye-grafs in bloom, and mowed for hay.-b Lactuca virefa fpindles for bloom: the milky juice of this plant is very bitter and acrid.- Elder begins to blow. Kidney-beans and greens of potatoes injured by the froft.- The foliage of the Italian poplar is very mean. N. B. This diary will from this day be kept at a village feventy miles SW of Loudon. Rain-meafurer nine feet above the ground. Thermometer hangs against a north wall abroad. Latitude 51, 12. Longitude 1, 24, W. The foil chalk. Obfervations taken about noon. elce THE Gentleman's Magazine: For MAY, 1788. BEING THE FIFTH NUMBER OF VOL. LVIII, PART 1. May 26. Mr. URBAN, ***** great, and, for obvious reafons, a very unfortunate mistake.Lady Fane is now living, in a very advanced age, but in perfect health, at her boufe in Curzon-freet. The lady for whom he was miftaken was the Lady Viscountess Vane, wife to the Lord Vifcount Vane, of the kingdom of Ireland, who died at her houfe in Hill-ftreet, Berkeley-fquare, on the 31st of March laft, in the 75th year of her age. The lite of Lady Vane, as blazoned by herfe'f in the novel of Peregrine Pickie, is ftill in the recollection of a great part of the world; and it is painful to the relations and friends of Lady Fane, that two perfons fo diametrically oppofite in character fhould have been confounded by you. Lady Fane and Lady Vane had one quality only in common, viz. eminent perfonal beauty. Larly Fane has through life heen diftinguished for the most unexceptionable and exemplary conduct: she has made the happinets of two husbands, viz. Sir William Juxon and Lord Fane; and the friends and relations of both, who refpeel and love her, are eager upon the picfent occafion to thew that they have an intereft in her reputation. A near relation of one of Lady Fane's hufbands writes this; and he doubts not but you will intert it in your next Ma gazine. You may depend upon the exactness of every thing he advances. ORIGINAL Letter from O. CROMWELL. HAVEING occafion to (peak with you upon fome affairs relating to the publique, I would have you, affoone as this comes to your hands. to repair up hither; and upon your comeing you fhail be acquainted with the particular reafons of my fending for you. I reft vour loveinge friend, OLIVER P. Mr URBAN, THE Whittington, May 14. HE late Mr. Folkes, in his Table of English Silver Coins, p. 110, speak❤ ing of Thomas Simon, the celebrated engraver, fays, I am told, that he died loon after, and probably in this very year 1665.' With this agrees the ac count Mr. Vertue gives, p. 64, of his Collection of the Medals, Coins, &c. of Thomas Simon, A. D 1753: his words are, This bing dated in the year of the great ficknets [1665], 'tis conftantly reported, that Tho.. Simon died at that 'time; but where buried, after having 'fearched many registers of wills and burials in and about London ineffectually, and it being laid, he retired to his native country, my enquiries there proved alfo vain and fruitlefs labour.' But now, S.r, Tho Simon, I believe, overlived that date many years, for the Rev. Wm. Gofling, the Perambulator of Canterbury, gave me the following information, A. D. 1751. My father, who, was Ice as thick as a crown piece. Greens of potatoes much damaged, and whole acres of kidney-beans killed to the ground. Naftertiums alto destroyed.-f Quail (tetrao coturnix) calls. The gale rifes and fails with the fun; levant weather. Hay-making general. Strawberries dry and taftelefs.- Much hay houfed in good order.- Foliage of oaks greatly injured by late frofts and infects, tho not fo much as the two laft years.-k Ice early in the morn as thick as a fhilling. Flycatchers have young-Young nightingales appear. Are not the late frofts owing to the extraordinary quantity of ice which came down this spring from the North ?— Barley in ear.— Hay makes well; farmers very busy 1 was born on Lady day 1650, was perfonally acquainted with Simon, who ufed to fit by him in the Choir at Canterbury, and fing out of his book. This could not be till on, or after, the year 1674, fince till then my father was 6 not of age for Priefs Orders; but I believe he was not Minor Canon of Canterbury fo foon. My father knew Simon fo well, that he, fince my being a 'housekeeper, bought a very indifferent painting of him, but a striking likeness,, merely because he knew it was done for him. Simon (probably from the time in which Mr Folkes places his death) • used to stroll from place to place, with a long coat, a long ftaff, and a long beard, as I have often heard my father defcribe him. I have now two proofs of feals engraved by him, which were 'given to my father (I believe by Simon himfelf, but cannot be pofitive), one of the Queen Dowager, the other (I think) is that of the African company. Mrs. Davell, who is fill living in this neigh 'bourhood [Canterbury, mentioned fome particulars of Simon to me fome years ago, which I believe the has not forgotten; he remembers his perfon, when he used, in his rambles, to vifit her family as a relation.' You may depend on the above narrative, Mr. Urban, for I wrote it down at the time; Mr. Gofiling wifhed me to fend it to Mr. Folkes. I accordingly did fend it the Auguft following; but that gentle. man, I fuppofe, had no opportunity afterwards of making any public ufe of the information. Mrs. Darell, here fpoken of, was Olivia, daughter of Lord Vilcount Strangford of the kingdom of Ireland, and furviving her husband John Darell of Cole-bill, Efq. Com. Cant. died 1753. Yours, &c. SAMUEL PEGGE. From the genuine MSS. mentioned in p. 286, we shall now extract some particulars relative to Dr. WALLIS. ON his art of decyphering, he fays, "About the year 1699 or 1700, it was thought (and fuggefted accordingly) that I fhould teach this art to fome young man, that the fkill might not die with me, as being a thing which might be of fervice to the publick when I fhould be dead. I had long before this time acquainted my fon, John Wallis, Elquire (of Soundefs, near Nettlebed, in Oxfordshire), with my methods and manner of proceedings herein, who underftands it tully, and hath been affiftant to me in decyphering of divers of these The Doctor died in the following year; and was buried in 'the choir of St. Mary's church in Oxford, where a handfome monument is erected to his memory, with the following inscription : Joannes Wallis, S. T. P. Geometria Profeffor Savilianus, March 1, 1700-1. The three letters which follow are now firft printed from the originals. 1. To Dr. WALLIS. Hon. Father, I poke yesterday again to the Archbp. who told me he had fpoke to my Ld. Godolphin, who is firit Com'r of the Treafury, and he did believe the thing would be done. I let him know I went out of towne on Monday, and defired he would pleafe to let his chaplaine give the notice as foon as any was ordered, which he fav'd he would doe. I intend to fee you as I goe to Redding, and lye att y'r houfe |