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Valesii, p. 246. Ὅτι ὁ αὐτὸς Πυθαγό

βας παρήγγελλε πρὸς τοὺς θεοὺς προσοίς

και τους θύοντας, μὴ πολυτελεῖς, ἀλλὰ λαμπρὰς καὶ καθαρὰς ἔχοντας ἐσθῆτας ὁμοίως δὲ μὴ μόνον τὸ σῶμα καθαρὸν πα ρεχομένους πάσης ἀδίκου πράξεως, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν ἀγνεύουσα». Auctor in certus Epigr. 239. Anal. 3, 199.

Ὅστις δ ̓ οὔλοον ἦτος, ἀπόστιχε· οὔποτε γὰρ σὴν

Ψυχὴν ἐκνίψεις, σῶμα διαινόμενος.

Jam versus iste, de quo agimus, ex eorum est genere, qui, inverso ordine lecti, eadem verba, eundem sensum præbent. Kagxívous vocant, aut retrogrados. Qua re animadversa, consului caput Anthologiæ Planudeæ, ubi tales ingenii lusus extare memineram, ibique hunc etiam versum inter alios deprehendi. Vide Anthol. L. 6, Tit. 13."-IM. G. HUSCHKE'S Analecta Critica in Anthol. Gr. 1800, p. 289.

2. "Post hunc Indicem," (in Cod. Palatino-Vaticano, nunc Parisino,) "in locum Paraphrasios Nonni inserta sunt tria folia, impleta illa, ut dixi, variis epigrammatis, ex Planudea maximam partem excerpta. Sunt autem hæc,24. Versus, sive verborum lusus potius, mihi aliunde non notus, xaexivans,

Νίψον ανομήματα, μὴ μόναν ὄψιν.

In marg. τοῦ Κύρου Στυλίτου Καρκίνος." 3. "Le docte M. Gevartius, Historiographe de l'Empereur et du Roy d'Espagne, ne donnant

disner chez luy à Anvers, me fit remarquer sur son bassin à laver, ce vers retrograde, tiré de l'Anthologie,

Νίψον ανομήματα, μὴ μόναν ὄψιν. Ce qui me fit souvenir de ce que m'avoit dit autrefois mon pere, qu'il avoit oui à Paris un predicateur, qui commença son Sermon ainsi, Nous lisons autour du Benoîtier de l'Eglise de S. Sophie à Constantinople ce vers Grec,

Νίψον ανομήματα, μὴ μόναν ὄψιν. Ce qui confirme le Medicin Vertunian écrivant à Scaliger, de Poitiers le 13 Avril 1607. M. Rapin, dit-il, m'a appris ce Vers Grec ἀντιστρέφοντα trouvé autour d'un Benoîtier à Constantinople, Nitor, etc."-P. COLOMESII Opera, 1709, p. 318.

MR. URBAN,

(June, June 12.

TN the following passage of Horace "Meo sum pauper in ære," (Epist. ii. lib. 2,) there appears some difficulty. The words occur, it will be remembered, in the opening of the Epistle, in the story of the slave-dealer, who, after commending in the highest terms the qualifications of the boy in person, obedience to command, and education, "Literulis Græcis imbutus, idoneus arti Cuilibet"

goes on to say, in reference to himself, who is thus dexterously making his bargain,

"Multa fidem promissa levant; ubi plenius

æquo

Laudat, venales qui vult extrudere merces. Res urget me nulla: meo sum pauper in ære."

The meaning of the expression seems to be, that, ". 'although poor, I am indebted to no one, and able to keep out of debt, and therefore in a inanner rich." Perhaps the familiar phrase, when applied to a man of humble means, of living on his own property, may be nearer than any other expression in English to the Latin phrase, although by no means comprehending the exact meaning. The Delphin note on this passage is,

"Nullum æs alienum habeo ; nihil debeo cuiquam. Cic. pro Roscio comædo. Locuples erat: nihil debebat: in suis nummis versabatur.

The meum as seems to be used in direct contrast to the aes alienum, and to intimate that a freedom from all debt may be thus comparative wealth. Francis translates the lines I have transcribed thus:

"He sinks in credit who attempts to raise His venal wares with over-rating praise, To put them off his hands. My wants are

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NOTICES OF TAVISTOCK.

With a Plate.

(Continued from page 412.) 'N' Tavistock Church is a monument, beautifully executed, of Judge Glanvile, in his robes; another, which I have little doubt, is that of the unfortunate Sir John Fitz (of whom more under Fitzford) and his lady. Also memorials of the Willesfords, the Fortescues of Buckland Filleigh, and the Manatons, who, subsequently to the Glanviles, were the possessors of Kilworthy.

Prince mentions an honorary cenotaph to that eminently great and politic sovereign Queen Elizabeth : the Rev. Mr. Bray informs me, that it consisted of a painting on the south wall of the chancel, now effaced, representing a sepulchral monument. Such memorials to that eminent protector of our newly established reformed church, were, I believe, not an unfrequent tribute by the parochial congregations of England, to her memory. Against the north wall of Greenwich Church, in Kent, there hangs, at this day, a painting on board, representing a monumental effigy of the Virgin Queen.

THE LAZAR HOUSE, OR HOSPITAL, OF ST. MARY MAGDALEN AND ST. THEOBALD.

An hospital for leprous men and women, (of the foundation of which no record is extant) stood at the western extremity of the town of Tavistock, on the spot where the parish work-house is now built. It was dedicated, as eleemosynary establishments for a similar purpose usually were, to St. Mary Magdalen, and was commonly called the Maudlin Chapel. St. Theobald was, in this instance, associated as co-patron with St. Mary.

My researches among such of the old deeds in the parish chest at Tavistock as were accessible to me, in the year 1827, has enabled me to give the following list of Priors or Governors of the Maudlin. I shall incidentally mention the different documents which have afforded me the information.

Ralph Gryth was Prior in the 17th year of the reign of Edward the Fourth, when I find him granting to Ralph Foster, in the name of himself and his successors, for 20 years, all the close called the Maudlin park (enclosed GENT. MAG. June, 1830.

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fields obtained, and in many instances I believe retain, the appellation of parks in this county), at the yearly rent of 12s. per annum.

Thomas Glanfelde was Prior in the 19th year of Henry VIII. as I learn from his lease to John Tibb, during the term of the contracting parties' lives, of nine feet of ground lying by the hospital plats and boundyngs," at 10d. per ann. the rent to be paid at Michaelmas and Lady-day, half-yearly.

William Cole, Prior in the 32d of Henry VIII. leases for 60 years to Richard Foster, Constance his wife, and John the son of Richard Foster, all the close and garden situate north of the hospital, having on the west the Spital-lane, and the land called the "Mawdelyn grounde."

Robert Isaac, who is styled Gubernator (Governor), in the following year grants a lease to Guido Leman, of a tenement and three gardens in Ford-street.

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Thomas Payne, Prior in the 2d and 3d of Philip and Mary, lets to William Russell, baker, all the garden and its appurtenances called "the blind Hey," at 2s. per ann. The style of the King and Queen I shall add from the attestation, as it is not perhaps very generally known: Philipp and Marye, by the grace of God Kyng and Quene of England, Fraunce, Naples, Hierusalem, and Ireland, defenders of the Fayth, princes of Spayne and Sicyll, archedukes of Austria, dukes of Millayne, Burgundye, and Brabant, counts of Haspurge, Flaunders, and Tyroll."

The hospital or lazar-house of St. Mary and St. Theobald, survived the suppression of establishments of a larger nature, and in the 27th of Elizabeth,

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John Batte, then Prior, and the bretheryn and sustern of the same house, with one consent, by deed indented under seal, demised to John Ffitz, Esquier, William Houghton, Nicholas Glanvile, Robert Moore, Edward Denys, Roger Upcote, Thomas Libbe, Richard Drake, Thomas Sowton, the last eight being supervisors,dispensators for the behoof of the Church and parish of Tavistock of the poor people of the same, for the term of one thousand years, the house known by the name of the Maudlyn Chapel, the chapel: hay thereto belonging, three closes of land called the Maudlin parkes, one garden in the occupation of John Ffitz, and one meadow called

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they provided for the Lazer to keepe him out of the citie from clapping of dishes and ringing of bels, to the great trouble of the citizens, and also to the dangerous infection of many, that they should bee relieved at home at their houses, by severall pensions."+

The Chapel of the Maudlin appears by the following entry in the Churchwarden's book of Tavistock, to have been in existence, and used I suppose for divine service, in the year 1672. "October 20, 1672, then collected at the Maudlin Chappell, towardes the reliefe of John Bazely, blacksmith, inhabitant in the saide towne of Tavistocke, the sum of thirty shillings and sixpence."

ST. JOHN'S CHAPEL. On the south bank of the Tavy, under a steep and woody declivity, near Guile or Abbey-bridge, stood St. John's Chapel, a dependency of the Abbey, occupied, I believe, by a solitary monk or hermit, to whose custody this oratory was consigned.

A fine natural spring rises in this spot from the earth (a circumstance which seems to have been usually sought for in chusing the site of an hermitage), and falls into the Tavy.

Now Lamerton. Rowe the Poet was born there. He was sou of the incumbent of the Church.

+ Survey of London, 4to. edit. 1613, p.

596.

See observations by A. J. K. on the Hermitage in the wall, Monkwell-street, Cripplegate. Gout. Mag. May, 1825, p. 401.

[June,

Hermitages were generally dedicated to St. John, from that apostle having entered on his labours in the desert. The ancient Romish Pontifical has a particular office for consecrating an hermit to his solitary life," Ad recludendum anacoritam." From an old inventory of the Treasury of Tavistock Parish Church, I gather that a hermit (doubtless of St. John's) left his silver crucifix to the Church, inclosing a portion of the wood of the real cross.§ The following petition to William Earl of Bedford, which may be dated about the year 1677, is extant among the parish archives.

"To the Right Honorable William Earle of Bedford, Lord Russell, and Baron of Thornaugh:

"The humble petition of your Portrieve, and the Masters of yor Towne and Burrough of Tavistock,

"Humbly sheweth,

"That, whereas theare is a little cottage

much ruyned, with two little garden plotts to the same belonginge, called by the name of St. John's Chapple, bought in by the late contagious sicknes, and then conthe p'shioners of Tavistocke in the tyme of

verted to a Pest House, and was verie usefull and beneficiall to your said Towne and Burrough, in regard it borders on the River of Tavey, and seeinge of late it is falne into your Lordship's hands, wee humbly desire and begge your Lordship, out of your noble bountie and wonted charitie, to bestowe an estate for nynetie nyne yeares determinable on the three lives hereunder named, in the said cottage and gardens on your said Towne and Burrough, reservinge to your Lordship the auncient rent of one shilling yearly and as it is our whole desire, soe it shall be our choicest care, it be altogether converted to the use of the poore of your said Towne and Burrough, except great necessitie constrayne us againe to convert it to a Pest House. This boone, if your honour please to bestowe on us for soe pious a worke, your humble petic'oners shall daylie praie for your Lordship's prosperitie, long to continue. (Signed) John Cudlippe, Portrieve, Ffrancis Collen, Michael Willesford, Jo. Herry, David Sargant, Richard Spry, William Saxfen, Walter Godben."

ST. MARGARET'S was a small Chapelry also dependant on the Abbey. No remains of this

§ I saw a cross of gold of this description, sold in the year 1828, at Thomas's Auction-rooms, described as having belonged to Edward the Confessor; it inclosed a small portion of black wood, and bore the inscription PRECIOSVO LIGNVO DOMINI.