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the time of Midsummer), by reason that the ayre with them is troubled, cloudy, and many times with foggy dampes overeast, whereby is engendred the cause and originall both inwardly and outwardly of this disease: the vehemency whereof bringeth them into a bloody sweating, wherewith they must wrestle and strive as with a most fierce and strong enemy, and which they must endeavour with all might to supplant: hereupon happen traunces and swounings, through feeblenesse of body and minde, fainting and drooping of the spirits, decay of powers, stopping of the pipes and voyce, and life almost thereby cleane yeelded up, and the party even brought unto death's doore.

For this country people, not being able to abide any great travaile and labour, as being persons cockering themselves in much tender nicety and effeminate life, are very proclive and apt to be thrown thereby into the languishing extremity of this perillous disease: It is expedient for them therefore to be recomforted, cherished, revived, and refreshed with sweet odours, and with the drinking of pure good wine. And hereupon cometh it that this nation peculiarly and almost daily useth to drinke malvesey or Sacke, to comfort and restore their stomackes, when they be quasie or surcharged with excesse of sundry curious dishes: which thing I finde to have beene used and put in use by Men of elder time, to help such discrasies: whose order was, with this wine, to drive away pain at the heart, Stiches, Swounding or Traunces, Chollicke, fretting of the Guts, and Belly-ach. Thus the Poet Juvenal frumpeth a certaine miserable Chuffe and niggardly Pinchpenny, for that he denyed to give a little wine to one of his friends that fell into a swoune or traunce, through feeblenesse and too much sweating, being in great danger of his life.

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Hee stores and drinkes oldWine, long kept: len Hall. Even since the civill strife,

When gamboyles and discension

In common-wealth were rife.
Who Snudge-like to his friende (whose
hears

Was paind with stiche and griefe)
Not one poore draught thereof would send
To ease him with relief."

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Yours, &c.

INDAGATOR.

P.S. Isaiah xviii. would serve to

illustrate the passage in Ptolemy noticed in p. 7:

"Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia that sendeth ambassadors by the sea even in vessels of Bulrushes upon the waters, saying," &c.

*Oliver, during his usurpation, arbitrarily appointed Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, (formerly of Magdalen Hall,) Warden of Wadham, though a married man, and in opposition to the statutes of that society, which require an unmar

ried one.

Mr.

Mr. URBAN,
May 18.
N the parish church of Firle, Rape
the perenscy, and Hundred of

Totuore, co. Sussex, are the follow-
ing inscriptions.
O. S.
In the chancel, belonging to Firle
Place, on a brass over a tomb, in
capitals:

"Hic jacet Edwardus Gage, Miles, et uxor ejus Elizabetha, qui obierunt anno D'ni 1569; quorum animabus propicietur Deus."

On the verge of the tomb, in capitals:

"Scio quòd Redemptor meus vivit, et in novissimo die de terra surrecturus sum, et rursum circundator pelle meâ, et in carne mea videbo Deum Salvatorem meum, quem visurus sum ego ipse, et oculi conspecturi sunt, et non alius. Reposita est hæc spes mea in sinu meo. Job. cap. 19 & 25."

Arms, on two brasses: 1. Quarterly, of four coats, 1. & 4. Gage; 2. & 3. Sinclair. 2. Quarterly of four coats, 1. Gage; 2. Sinclair; 3. Fretty Vert and a Fess; 4. Quarterly of four coats, 1. & 4. a chevron between three Bees, 2. & 3. Argent, a Bend Gules between six Tirwhits or Lapwings.

On a tomb are the effigies in full proportion of a Knight of the Garter in armour, in his collar of SS. and George, also his Lady in the dress of the times, with their hands uplifted; and on the verge of the tomb, the same passage from Job as above, and the following inscription on a brass:

"Hic jacet Joh'es Gage, preclari ordinis Garterij Miles, quondam Constabularius Turris London. Cancellarius Ducatus Lancastriæ, Dominus Camerarius Hospicij Reginæ Marie."

Arms on Brasses: 1. Gage, quartering Sinclair. 2. Quarterly of ten Coats: 1. Gage; 2. Sinclair; 3. a Saltire between four Martlets; 4. Sable, a Bend engrailed Gules, and a Chief Argent; 5. Argent, Barry of six, on a Chief two Pallets between as many Piles (no colours discernible), over all on an inescutcheon of pretence three swords meeting in one point; 6. Sinclair; 7. Gage; 8. Ermine, on a Chevron three Crescents; 9. A Fess between three Wolves' beads erased; 10. Vair and a Cantou.

On a tomb are the effigies, on brass plates, of a gentleman in armour between his two wives in the dress of

the times, with the same passage from Job as the above: on a brass fixed in the wall the following inscription

"Hic jacet Job'es Gage, armiger, et duæ uxores ejus Elizabetha, et qui obierunt anno D'ni milessimo quingentessimo nonagesimo quinto; quorum animabus propicietur Deus."

Arms: Gage, quartering Sinclair, and impaling a chevrou between three escallops.

On the verge of the tomb,

"Joh'is Gage, qui hic jacet, fuit hic monumentu' anno D'ni 1595."

On a slab was a brass of a Gentleman in Armour, with his wife, a son, and two daughters, infants, kneeling, and the following inscription:

"Hic jacet Thomas Gage, Armiger, et uxor ejus Elizabetha: obierunt anno Domini milesimo quingentessimo nonagessimo; qui habuerunt unum filium et duas filias; quorum animabus propicietur Deus.

* Miseremente mei Miseremente mei Saltem vos Amici mei Quid Cando' Quid Vita Flos Pul[vis et Umbra." On a brass with the Effigies of a Gentleman in Armour, and his wife in the dress of the times, this inscription:

"Hic jacet Bartholomeus Bolne, Armiger, et Aleanor uxor ejus; obierunt

anno Domini Mill'imo ccccvi°. Amen." On another:

"Here lyeth the body of Mary Howard, daughter of William Lord Eure.

She died at Furle the 28th of lenuarie anno D'ni 1638, aged 36 yeares, when shee had beene married 18 yeares wanting a quarter to Sir William Howard, eldest sonne to Sir Phillip Howard, sonne and heire to ye Lord William Howard, youngest sonne to ye Duke of Norfolk." On a brass:

"Here lyeth Alice ye wife of Tho. Levett, Vicar of this parish, who dyed Mrh 29, 1676. Resurgam."

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On a brass :

"Here lies the Body of Mrs. Taylor, widow, daughter of Dr. Moreton, formerly Bishop of Meath, in Ireland. She died May 25, 1774, in the 80th year of her age. Ossa in pace quiescent."

It appears by Domesday Book that Earl Moreton held Firle in domain, where he had 5 ploughs in demesne, and 80 villeins with 34 ploughs; here were also 2 mills of 40s. 72 acres of meadow, and a wood of 40 hogs.-26 Hen. VIII. the Vicarage was valued at 137. 9s. 4d. at which period Robert Ott, Clerk, was Vicar; and the Prebend at 108. Sampson Mychell, Clerk, Prebendary.

Mr. URBAN, Aug. 20. W THEN you have opportunity, you will oblige me by inserting the accompanying two small Views of Great Bookham Church, and the Market House at Godalming, both in the County of Surrey, (see Plate II.) The Parish of Great Bookham, in the hundred of Effingham, is on the turnpike road from Leatherhead to Guildford. It adjoins to Fetcham on the East, to Little Bookham on the West, to Stoke Dabernon, on the North, and to Dorking on the South. The soil on the North side is clay, on the South it is chalk, the intermediate part is a good loam. It contains by a recent admeasurement 3223 acres, of which 1536 are arable, 194 meadow, 256 wood, 784 common land, 109 tythe free, and 344 in buildings, pouds, gardens, waste, and pasture.

The Church is in the Deanery of Stoke, is dedicated to St. Nicho las, and was valued 20 Edw. I. at 35 marcs. It is a discharged living in the king's books; and pays procurations and synodals to the Archdeacon 2s. 1d. The Church is built with flints, squared chalk stones being intermixed; and consists of a Nave with a Chancel at the end, separated by a lofty arch; a North aile as long as the Nave, separated by two obtuse pointed arches; and a South aile separated by four rounded arches, resting on round pillars. At the East end of the latter is a Chapel belonging to Slyfield House, sepa rated from the South aile by an obj tuse pointed arch. The Font is a plain square stone, on a large square GENT. MAG. September, 1814.

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In the last century, this place could boast among its landholders two brave Admirals, Sir Francis Geary, bart. and Admiral Brodrick, nephew of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland of that name.

According to the Population Re turn, 1811, the parish of Great Bookham contained 1 house building, 2 houses uninhabited, and 111 houses occupied by 120 families, (74 of whom were chiefly employed in agriculture, and 32 in trade, &c.) consisting of 299 males, and 307 females; total VIATOR.

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Mr. URBAN,

HE use of alkalies, is a new subject in Medicine. Enough however is already known to unveil the errors of our forefathers; and to sanction a supposition, that there still lies a mighty treasure concealed in the various abodes of acid and alkali, for time and the increasing light of philosophy to explore.

After this exordium, some illustra"tion is necessarily expected.

Among the many voyages which Mr. John Reader, a very respectable and well-known character in Jamaica, made from that island, for an extraordinary hæmorrhage from his

*This is engraved in the Archæologia, vol. XIII. p. 395.

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