[Original.] REMEMBER

Remember, remember, the vow so early made,

By the marble fountain's side, 'neath the spreading palm tree's shade;
When the distant sun was sinking, and thou swore by him on high,
On the bosom that then pillow'd thee, to five-to love-to die.

Remember, remember, the hour so sad to me,

When thou fled'st thy home and love in a strange bark o'er the sea,
And I stood upon the shore, and the curse rose in my breast,

But prophetic tears came on my cheek, my heart yearn'd, and I blest.
Remember, remember, when, after years of pain

And madness of heart and head, I saw thee once again;

When menials spurn'd the maniac from the portal where he lay,
In the last fond hope of dying in thy presence, or thy way.
Now thou 'rt low, and art left to the cold sneer and the gaze
Of the world that bent before thee in thy former stately days;
And the sycophants thou smil'dst upon forsake thee in thy need,
As the stricken deer is left by the fleeing herd to bleed.

But one star yet to thee is left-nay, fear from me no word,
Of all we are, or might have been, my claims shall be unheard:
I will but ask to look on thee, and think upon the days
When I joy'd me in the sunny light of thy young beauty's rays.
Fear not that I should speak of love-all word of that is past,
Although its dart will rankle in my sear'd breast to the last;
I will but ask to tend thee with an elder brother's care,
And to kneel to thee in death, with a blessing and a prayer.

March 8.

THE CHANCELLOR'S MACE.

On the 8th of March, 1577, there was a trial at the old Bailey, arising out of the following circumstances:

A little girl, the daughter of a woman who let lodgings in Knight Rider Street, went up to a room of one of the lodgers to make the bed, and was agreeably surprised with finding on the floor some silver spangles and odd ends of silver. Her curiosity was awakened; she pryed further, and looking through the keyhole of the door to a locked closet perceived what she imagined to be the royal crown. She hastened down stairs, and cried out," Oh mother..other! yonder's the king's crown in our closet! Pray mother come along with me and see it." The admiring mother followed her daughter, opened the lock of her lodgers' closet with a knife, and discovered the lord chancellor's mace, which had been stolen from his house. She had been informed of the loss, and immediately gave information of the discovery. Officers were despatched and secured the persons who rented the room, consist

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ing of three men and women; they were examined and committed for trial.

These circumstances are stated in a rare little quarto tract of four leaves, entitled "A perfect narrative of the Apprehension, Trial, and Confession on the day before mentioned of the five several persons that were confederates in stealing the mace and two privy purses from the lord high chancellor of England, at the sessions held at Justice Hall in the Old Baily." On the arraignment of the prisoners, and before the evidence was taken, "the principal of those malefactors, a person very well known in court, having been ar raigned at the same bar five or six several times," very confidently said to the bench, "My lord, I own the fact: it was I, and this man," pointing to a fellow prisoner at the bar, "that robbed my lord chancellor, and the other three are clear of the fact; though I cannot say but that they were confederates with us in the concealment of the prize after it was taken. This I declare to the honorable bench, that 1 may be clear of the blood of these other three persons." The court was surprised by this premature avowal, and quite as much when, one of the witnesses deposing

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March 9.

GREAT SHIPS.

prehending the prisoners, the same culprit March 8. Day breaks
said, "Prithee, fellow, do not make such a
long narrative of my being taken; thou
seest I am here; and I own that I and this
man are guilty of the fact." The prisoner
whom he inculpated said, "My lord, this
man, meeting me in St. Paul's Church
Yard, asked me to go and drink, with
whom I went, and, after we were seated,
he told me that he knew of a booty would
make me smile, telling me of the mace
and purses; and further saying that if I
would be his assistant he would give me
my share of the prize." This account ac-
casioned the first prisoner to exclaim,
"Yes, my lord; I look like a fellow that
would commit a robbery and give him half
the prize!" Upon which bravado a great
shout was set up in the court, and, after
silence was obtained, the evidence pro-
ceeded and all the prisoners were con-
victed

It was the Lord Chancellor Nottingham who thus lost and recovered his mace of office and purses. A like mishap befel Lord Thurlow. When he was chancellor, and lived in Great Ormond Street, his house was broken open and the great seal stolen, which was a greater loss. The thieves were discovered, but the seal, being of silver, they had disposed of it in the melting pot, and patents and important public documents which required the great seal were delayed until a new one was made.

THE MACE.

This was a weapon used in warfare, and differed from a club only in being surrounded with little horns or spikes. Both mace and sceptre, which was also a warlike instrument, became symbols of authority and power.

The origin of the corporation mace is thus given by Dr. Clarke:-The sceptre of Agamemnon was preserved by the Charoneans, and seems to have been used among them after the manner of a mace in corporate towns; for Pausanias relates that it was not kept in any temple appropriated for its reception, but that it was annually brought forth with proper cere monies, and honored by daily sacrifices; and a sort of mayor's feast seems to have been provided upon the occasion-a table covered with all sorts of vegetables was

then set forth.*

• Fosbroke's Encyclopædia of Antiquities.

On the 9th of March, 1655, Mr. Evelyn enters in his diary, "I went to see the great ship newly built by the usurper Oliver [Cromwell], carrying ninety-six brass guns and 1000 tons burthen. In the prow was Oliver on horseback, trampling six nations under foot, a Scot, Irishman, Dutchman, Spaniard, and English, as was easily made out by their several habits. A Fame held a laurel over his insulting head; the word God with us."

The first mention of ships of great burthen in England is derivable from the inscription on Canuing's tomb in Radcliffe church, Bristol, which states that he had "forfeited the king's peace," or, in plain words, committed piracies on the high seas, for which he was condemned to pay king took of him 2470 tons of shipping, amongst which there was one ship of 900 tons burthen, another of 500, one of 400, and the rest smaller. These ships had English names, yet it is doubtful whether at that time ships of so large a size were built in England; it seems more probable that Canning had purchased or taken these ships from the Hanseatics, or else from the Venetians, Genoese, Luccese, Ragusians, or Pisans; all of whom then had ships of even larger tonnage.*

3000 marks; in lieu of which sum the

When I see a gallant ship well-rigged, trimmed, tackled, man'd, munitioned, spread sayles proudly swelling with a full with her top and top-gallant, and her gale in fair weather, putting out of the haven into the smooth maine, and drawing the spectators' cyes, with a well-wishing admiration, and shortly heare of the same ship splitted against some dangerous rock, or wracked by some disastrous tempest,

• Anderson.

On the 11th of March, 1643, there lived at Newark one Hercules Clay; his dwelling was on the west-side of the market-place, at the corner of Stodman-street. The modern house, built on the site of Clay's house, now contains the news-room. This Hercules

Clay was a tradesman of considerable eminence, and an alderman of the borough of Newark. During the siege, in the night of the 11th of March 1643, he dreamed three times that his house was on flames; on the third warning he arose much terrified, alarmed the whole of his family, and caused them to quit the premises; though at that time all appeared to be in perfect safety; soon afterwards, a bomb from a battery of the parliamentarian army on Beacon Hill, an eminence near the town, fell upon the roof of the house, and penetrated all the floors, but happily did little other execution. The bomb was intended to destroy the house of the governor of the town, which was in Stodman-street, exactly opposite Clay's house. In commemoration of this extraordinary deliverance, Mr. Clay, by his will, gave £200 to the corporation in trust to pay the interest of £100 to the vicar of Newark, for a sermon to be preached every 11th of March (the day on which this singular event happened), when the preacher constantly introduces this subject, and reminds the congregation that the dreams recorded of the ancients are not forgotten. The interest of the other £100 he directed to be given in bread to the poor: these customs are continued to this day. Penny loaves are given to every one who applies; formerly they were distributed at the church, but now at the Town-hall. The applicants are admitted at one door, one by one, and remain locked up until the whole is distributed. This day is more generally

March 12, 1703, died Aubrey de Vere, the twentieth and last earl of Oxford of the de Veres. The changes of the eventful times in which he lived did not seem to affect him; he was so passive under fined; and, when William came over, he Oliver the protector that he was not even

went over to him from James II. He had
been easy with the gay and frolicsome
Charles II., grave with William III., and
Queen Anne. After the death of Charles
was graceful in old age at the court of
I., to whom he was lord of the bed-
forces, colonel and captain of the horse-
chamber, he was lieutenant-general of the
and custos rotulorum of the county of
guards, justice in Eyre, lord lieutenant
Essex. He had been a privy counseller
to him and each subsequent sovereign,
and was hereditary lord chamberlain, se-
earl of England.
nior knight of the garter, and premier
He married Anne
daughter of Paul viscount Bayning, and
Diana, daughter of George Kirk, esq.
He may be said to have committed poly-
gamy by the following act: a lady, whose
name is not known, was celebrated fo

the performance of the part of Roxana
and unable to succeed in his purpose by
on the stage; influenced by violent love,
other means, he prevailed on her to con-
sent to a private marriage. It was after-
wards discovered to have been celebrated

by the earl's trumpeter in the character
of a priest, and witnessed by his kettle
drummer. His father, the valiant Robert
de Vere, earl of Oxford, had nobly mar-
of Friezeland.*
ried Beatrix van Hemins, a boor's daughter

* Noble.