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Ludlow, "who was then prefent, tho' by long "fickness very weak, and much extenuated, 66 yet animated by his ardent zeal and constant "affection to the common caufe, upon hearing "those words stood up, and interrupted him, "declaring his abhorrence of that deteftable "action, and telling the Council, that being now going to his God, he had not patience to "fit there, and hear his great name fo openly "blafphemned; and thereupon departed to his "lodgings, and withdrew himself from public ❝ employment."

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Bradshaw did not pronounce fentence of death against the unfortunate Charles the First. The sentence was read by the Clerk (the Prefident of the High Court of Juftice, and the reft of the Members, ftanding up while it was reading, in teftimony of their approbation of it). The King objected to the legality of the Court. The Prefident replied," Sir, inftead of answering the "Court, you interrogate their power, which be❝ comes not one in your condition.". "These "words," fays Lilly, who was present and relates them," pierced my heart and foul, to "hear a subject thus audaciously to reprehend his Sovereign, who ever and anon replied with great magnanimity and prudence."

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The following original fupplicatory letter from Lord Keeper Williams to Prefident Bradshaw, when he was Chief Justice of Chester, fhews but too forcibly the viciffitude of earthly things, and the uncertainty of the poffeffion of human power and dignity:

ORIGINAL LETTER

FROM JOHN WILLIAMS, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, LORD KEEPER IN THE REIGN OF CHARI.ES THE FIRST, TO MR. BRADSHAW, AFTERWARD PRESIDENT BRADSHAW, CHIEF JUSTICE OF CHESTER, AND MR. WARBURTON, HIS ASSOCIATE IN THAT CIRCUIT.

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"Gwyder, 24 March 1647.

"I live here under the favour & protection "of both the most honourable Houses of Parlt: "to whom I am much bound in that kynde, &

in the House of Sir Richard Wynne my nere "Kinfman & a conftant Member of the House of Commons.

"Where upon my return from Ruthyn "(where I hadd the opportunitye to falute you) "I finde that Sir Rd Wynne is a Patentee for

the Poft Fynes, &c. of the Countyes of "Chefhyre and Flintfhyre, & hath affigned his "brother Owen Wynne for the executinge of

"that

"that place, who by these late distractions & "difcontinuance of the Affizes is threatened by "the Attorneys & fome other Officers now in

place in thofe Countyes to be putt off from "the employment & receivinge of the pro"fitts of that Office, the reft accountable unto "the pfent Eftate, for the rent reserved upon "the Patent, & (at this inftant) cal'd upon for "the arrears of 4 years rents, wherein, for "want of Circuits and peaceable times, there "hath been little profit, & yeat forced to give "fatisfaction to the Committee for the Revenue, " & all this under a ptext that this shold be a grievance in thofe two Countyes wch both you (and myself too upon fome remembrance "of the courfe heretofore) doe know to be no grievance but a conftant & fettled Revenue to "the Crowne in all England, in the Dutchye " of Lancaster & the feveral Countyes of North "Wales & South Wales.

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"My humble fuyte therefore to you on the "behalfe of my Landlord Sir Rd Wynne & his • Affignee is this, that he maye, by your fa

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voure, proceede peaceably in the execution of "his Office (wch he hath under both the "Greate Seale of England & the Seale of the Chamberlayne of that Countye Palatyne) until "fuch time as by any complaynt before the most "honor

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"honorable Houfe or the Committee of the "Revenue this fhal be proved to be any fuch "pretended grievance either in point of right or "of execution. And for this juft favoure not "onelye Sir Richd Wynne, the Patentee, & "his Brother the Affignee, fhal be readie in all "thankfull acknowledgement to take notice "thereof, but myfelfe, though a stranger & of "late acquaintance yeat much your Servant, for

your great care of the Justice & quietnes of "these partes, in order to theyr obedience to "the pfent Government, shall be obliged to remayne to the utmost of my poore Abilitie ડ your

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faithful & Humble Servant

"Jo: EBORAC. " qui fuit."

Bradshaw died before the Restoration, and fome of his defcendants in the female line were a few years ago in poffeffion of an estate at Chapel in the Frith near Buxton, which had belonged to him.

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JOHN MILTON.

DR. JOHNSON divined with his ufual acumen when he fuppofed that Milton had undergone fome bodily discipline while he was at College. Mr. Aubrey was told by Christopher Milton, that his brother John was whipped for fome "unkindneffe" by his firft Tutor in the Univerfity of Cambridge, Mr. Chapel; and that he was afterwards (though it feemed against the rules of the College) transferred to the tuition of one Mr. Tovell, who died Parfon of Lutterworth.

"Ut pictura poefis erit," has been often faid, and pictor ut poeta perhaps occafionally thought. Mr. Garrick used to call Salvator Rofa the Shakespeare of Painting, and might not the name of the MILTON of Painting be transferred to our Mr. FUSELI, a man whofe ardent imagination, like that of Milton, unites the terribiles vifu forma, as well as the molle atque facetum? Mr. Fufeli has nearly finished a series of pictures from the principal fcenes of the Paradife Loft and of the Paradife Regained of that divine Poet, which he intends to exhibit in a gallery to be called "the Gallery of Milton." Who appears fo fit to tranfmit and convey the ideas of Milton, as the Painter that feems poffeffed with the fame fublimity and force of imagination which infpired

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