sadors of kings and princes bringing presents unto him, with this inscription, I Principi tributati dai Popoli tributano il Servitor loro. 6. Mummia Tholosana; or the complete head and body of father Crispin, buried long ago in the vault of the Cordeliers at Tholouse, where the skins of the dead so dry and parch up without corrupting, that their persons may be known very long after, with this inscription, Ecce iterum Crispinus. 7. A noble quandros or stone taken out of a vulture's head. 8. A large ostrich's egg, whereon is neatly and fully wrought that famous battle of Alcazar, in which three kings lost their lives. 9. An Etiudros Alberti or stone that is apt to be always moist: useful unto dry tempers, and to be held in the hand in fevers instead of crystal, eggs, lemons, cucumbers. 10. A small vial of water taken out of the stones therefore called Enhydri, which naturally include a little water in them, in like manner as the Ætites or Eagle stone doth another stone. 11. A neat painted and gilded cup made out of the confiti di Tivoli, and formed up with powdered egg-shells; as Nero is conceived to have made his piscina admirabilis, singular against fluxes to drink often therein. 12. The skin of a snake bred out of the spinal marrow of a man. 13. Vegetable horns mentioned by Linschoten, which set in the ground grow up like plants about Goa. 14. An extract of the ink of cuttle fishes, reviving the old remedy of Hippocrates in hysterical passions. 15. Spirits and salt of Sargasso, made in the western ocean covered with that vegetable; excellent against the scurvy. 16. An extract of Cachunde or Liberans, that famous and highly magnified composition in the East Indies against melancholy. 17. Diarrhizon mirificum; or an unparalleled composition of the most effectual and wonderful roots in nature. R Rad. Butuæ Cuamensis. Fo. Lim. lac. Tigridis dictæ. Rad. Ligni Solorani. Rad. Malacensis madrededios dictæ an. 3ij. M. fiat pulvis, qui cum gelatina Cornu Cervi Moschati Chinensis formetur in massas oviformes. 18. A transcendant perfume made of the richest odorates of both the Indies, kept in a book made of the Muschie stone of Niarienburg, with this inscription, 19. A Clepselæa, or oil hour-glass, as the ancients used those of water. 20. A ring found in a fish's belly taken about Gorro; conceived to be the same wherewith the duke of Venice had wedded the sea. 21. A neat crucifix made out of the cross bone of a frog's head. 22. A large agath, containing a various and careless figure, which looked upon by a cylinder representeth a perfeet centaur. By some such advantages King Pyrrhus might find out Apollo and the nine Muses in those agaths of his whereof Pliny maketh mention. 23. Batrachomyomachia, or the Homerican battle between frogs and mice, neatly described upon the chisel bone of a large pike's jaw. 24. Pyxis Pandora or a box which held the unguentum pestiferum, which by anointing the garments of several persons begat the great and horrible plague of Milan. 25. A glass of spirits made of æthereal salt, hermetically sealed up, kept continually in quicksilver; of so volatile a nature that it will scarce endure the light, and therefore only to be shown in winter, or by the light of a carbuncle, or bononian stone. He who knows where all this Apollo. I'm sure I am not he. treasure now is, is a great However, I am, Sir, yours, &c. REPERTORIUM: OR SOME ACCOUNT OF THE TOMBS AND MONUMENTS IN THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF NORWICH. [THE REPERTORIUM was one of the very last of Sir Thomas's productions; his especial object in drawing it up, was to preserve from oblivion, as far as possible, the monuments in the Cathedral of Norwich, many of which had been defaced during the civil wars. It pretends not to the character of a history of the antiquities of the church, and therefore neither deserves the sneer bestowed by Bagford (in his MS. collections in the British Museum, No. 8858), that "it rather feared than deserved publication;" nor justified the anxiety of the author's friends to prevent its publication, on the ground alleged by Archbishop Tenison (Preface to Miscellany Tracts), that "matter equal to the skill of the antiquary was not afforded." The volume containing it has afforded a favourite subject of illustration for topographers: the list of monuments was continued to the date of publication by the editor (said to have been John Hase, Esq., Richmond Herald), and very many copies exist with numerous manuscript additional continuations and notes, some of which I have availed myself of. The most valuable is that of the late Mr. John Kirkpatrick, now in the hands of Dr. Sutton, to whom I beg to offer my thanks for his kindness in affording me the use of it.] IN the time of the late civil wars, there were about an hundred brass inscriptions stolen and taken away from grave-stones and tombs, in the cathedral church of Norwich; as I was informed by John Wright, one of the clerks, above eighty years old, and Mr. John Sandlin, one of the choir, who lived eighty-nine years; and, as I remember, told me that he was a chorister in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Hereby the distinct places of the burials of many noble and considerable persons become unknown; and, lest they should be quite buried in oblivion, I shall, of so many, set down only these following that are most noted to passengers, with some that have been erected since those unhappy times. First, in the body of the church, between the pillars of the south aisle, stands a tomb, covered with a kind of touchstone; which is the monument of Miles Spencer, LL.D., and chancellor of Norwich, who lived unto ninety years. The top stone was entire, but now quite broken, split, and depressed by blows. There was more special notice taken of this stone, because men used to try their money upon it; and that the chapter demanded certain rents to be paid on it. He was lord of the manor of Bowthorp and Colney, which came unto the Yaxleys from him; also owner of Chapel in the Field. The next monument is that of Bishop Richard Nicks, alias Nix, or the Blind Bishop, being quite dark many years before he died. He sat in this see thirty-six years, in the reigns of King Henry VII. and Henry VIII. The arches are beautified above and beside it, where are to be seen the arms of the see of Norwich, impaling his own, viz., a chevron, between three leopards' heads. The same coat of arms is on the roof of the north and south cross aisle; which roofs he either rebuilt or repaired. The tomb is low and broad,2 and 'tis said there was an altar at the bottom of the eastern pillar. The iron-work, whereon the bell hung, is yet visible on the side of the western pillar. Then the tomb of Bishop John Parkhurst, with a legible inscription on the pillar, set up by Dean Gardiner, running thus: Johannes Parkhurst, Theol. Professor, Guilfordiæ natus, Febr. 1574. A person he was of great esteem and veneration in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. His coat of arms is on the pillars, visible at the going out of the bishop's hall.3 1 First.] Beginning from the west end.-Kirkpatrick. 2 broad.] It fills up all the space between the two pillars, and on the two sides there was a rail of iron, the going up (on the platform of the monument) was at the west end of the south side.-Kirkp. 3 bishop's hall.] Bishop Parkhurst "having lived much at his palace, at Norwich, which he beautified and repaired, placing arms on the |