any other foreign prince or person. And, nevertheless, let it be enjoined to them, that they shall not promise or give such oath or profession to any such foreign potentate hereafter. And if the statutes of the said order religions, or place, seem to bind them to obedience or subjection, or any other recognizance of superiority to the said bishop of Rome, or to any other foreign power, potentate, person, or place, by any ways, such statutes by the king's grace's visitors be utterly annihilate, broken, and declared void and of none effect; and that they be in no case bounden or obligate to the same; and such statutes to be forthwith utterly put forth and abolished out of the books ormuniments of that religion, order, or place, by the president and his brethren. Also, that no monk or brother of this monastery by any means go forth of the precinct of the same. Also, that women, of what state or degree soever they be, be utterly excluded from entering into the limits or circuit of this monastery or place, unless they first obtain licence of the king's highness, or his visitor. Also, that there be no entering into this monastery but one, and that by the great fore-gate of the same, which diligently shall be watched and kept by some porter, specially appointed for that purpose, and shall be shut and opened by the same, both day and night, at convenient and accustomed hours; which porter shall repel all manner of women from entrance into the said monastery. Also, that all and singular brethren and monks of this monastery take their refections altogether, in a place called the Misericorde, such days as they eat flesh, and all other days in their refectory: and that at every mess there sit four of them, not of duty demanding to them any certain, usual, or accustomed duty or portion of meat, as they were wont to do; but that they be con tent with such victuals as is set before them, and there take their refections soberly, without excess, with giving due thanks to God; and that at every such refection, some chapter of the New Testament, or Old, by some of the said brethren, be read and recited to the other, keeping silence and giving audience to the same. Also, that the abbot and president do daily prepare one table for himself and his guests thither resorting, and that not over-sumptuous, and full of delicate and strange dishes, but honestly furnished with common meats: at which table the said abbot, or some senior in his stead, shall sit to receive and gently entertain the strangers, the guests. Also, that none of the brethren send any part of his meat, or the leavings thereof, to any person; but that there be assigned an almoner, which shall gather the leavings, both of the covent and strangers tables, after that the servants of the house have had their convenient refections, and distribute the same to poor people; among whom special consideration be had of such, before other, as be kinsfolk to any of the said brethren, if they have like power and debility as other be; and also of those which endeavour themselves, with all their will and labour, to get their living with their hands, yet cannot fully help themselves, for their chargeable houshold and multitude of children: yet let not them be so cherished, that they shall leave labour and fall to idleness; with consideration also specially to be had of them, which by weakness of their limbs and body be so impotent that they cannot labour; and by no means let such alms be given to valiant, mighty, and idle beggars and vagabonds, as commonly use to resort about such places; which rather, as drove-beasts and my chers, should be driven away and compelled to labour, than in their idleness and lewdness, against the form of the king's grace's statute in this behalf made, cherished, and main tained, to the great hindrance and damage of the common weal. Also, that all other almses or dis tributions due, or accustomed to be made, by reason of the foundation, statutes, or customs of this place, be made and given, as largely and as liberally as ever they were at any time heretofore. Also, that the abbot, prior, or president, shall find wood and fuel sufficient to make fire in the refec tory, from All-hallow-even to Good. Friday. Sir Philip Sydney's Funeral, (Extracted from the Book of Funerals of Nicholas Dethick, Windsor Herald, son of Sir Gilbert Dethick, Garter King at Arms.) From an original MS. in the Possession of the Marquis of Buckingham. The order of the funeral of Sir Phillipp Sydney, knight, L. governor of Flushing, whose funeral was solemnised in Powles, the 16 of February, 1586, and the proceading from sir Wm. Pellam's house thorough London. John Davis. The 2 conductors } John Duff. Gents. of Greyes Inne, 2 by 2. Tow sargents for the horsemen, } Covered with black beyes. John Thomas. Henry Powell. The drummes and fyfes, } 4 In a cloth mandilion or The ensigne barer,} Henry Whitton. cassock. The lieutenant of the horsemen, } Mr. Thebauld. The corporalle for the horsemen, Alexander Williams. The gydon, } William Bulstrod, in a black velvet cassock, Thelieutenant for the horsemen,} Mr. Crispe. The standart, borne by} Mr. Richard Grome. Servants Servants to the deffunct A Mr. Payne. page, riding on the horse for the feld, baring the Henry Davers. The bard horse, Daniel Bacheler, baring the ax or septer, in a black velvet cassock. Windsor and Chester kept the The great banner, capitaine Whytt. churche, and placed all as they came in, divers of the Qn. Mags garde and of my L. of Lester's men with their halberds to kepe the dores, and at the corpse coming to the west end, was gave this watch word, "Open, the soure fruit is " come." Officers of armes. creast. Richemond bare the sword and the The erle of Lecester. Long black robes. The erle of Essex. The L. North. the erle of Honntington. the L. Willoughby, of Erby Mr. Wm. Knowles, Then the States of Holland, in long black robes. Then the swordbearer. Then the L. mayor in blacke. Then the company of the grosers, 2 by 2. Then 300 shott. Then the pykemen and halberdyers. The said Sir Phillipp was slaine with a musket shot in his thigh, and decesed at Arnim, beyond seas, the of October, 1586, and was hurt the of September in the said yeare; whose corpse was, the 4 of November, brought up the river of Themmes in his barke, all blacke sayles, masts, yardes, &c. with black auncient stremers of black silk, and the said ship was hanged all with blacke bayes, and scochions thereon on past bord, (with his and his wyfes in pale, helme and crest); in the cabin where he lay was the corpse covered with a pall of blacke velvet, escochions thereon, his helmet, armes, sworde, and gauntlette on the corpse. So the said Fryday at night, being the 4 of November, was brought to the Myneries to sir Wm. Pellam's, without Algat, and there continued till the day of the funerall; the said place where the corpse remayned, was kanged downe to the ground, and all the stairs downe to the porche with black bayes, (escochions thereon,) the body was cered, lided, and coffined. The said deffunct married daughter to sir Francis Walsing. ham, and had issue. After the funeral was done, the lords, &c. went to the earle of Lester's house to dinner, and the heraulds had ther messe of meat in Mr. Tho. Dudley's chamb. The body was not put into the ground 'till Fryday the 14th of February, at night, by Mr. Clarenci eux, the chaplin of the commons. This Valliant Knight lieth buried ia Powl's church, at the stand behind the common tabell, in the walle, by 2 pillers. The day the hearse was taken downe, which was with a topp, &c. of 6 principalls, the velvet, &c. For this funerall, Mr. Clarencieux agreed for a hundred and seventy pounds. MISCELLANEOUS MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS. Two Eussys on the State of the Argument, for the Existence of a DEITY, by the late Dr. Paley. IN ESSAY. I. N crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there, I might possibly answer, that, for any thing I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever; nor would it perhaps be very easy to shew the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be enquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that, for any thing I knew, the watch might have always been there. Yet why should not this answer serve for the watch, as well as for the stone? Why is it not as admissible in the second case, as in the first? For this reason, and for no other, viz. that when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive (what we could not discover in the stone) that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose, e. g. that they are so formed and adjusted as to produce motion, and that motion so regulated as to point out the hour of the day; that, if the several parts had been differently shaped from what they are, of a different size from what they are, or placed after any other manner, or in any other order, than that in which they are placed, either no motion at all would have been carried on in the machine, or none which would have answered the use that is now served by it. To reckon up a few of the plainest of these parts, and of their offices, all tending to one result. We see a cylindrical box, containing a coiled elastic spring, which, by its endeavour to relax itself, turns round the box. We next observe a flexible chain, (artificially wrought for the sake of flexure,) communicating the action of the spring from the box to the fusee. We then find a series of wheels, the teeth of which catch in, and apply to each other, conducting the motion from the fusee to the balance, and from the balance to the pointer; and at the same time, by the size and shape of those wheels, so regulating that motion, as to terminate in causing an index, by an equable and measured progression, to pass over a given space in a given time. We take notice that the wheels are made of brass, in order to keep them from rust; the springs of steel, no other 3 N 2 metal |