NOEL JAMESON DUKE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Treasure %oom HIST A N O R I ^V AND A L T T TT ' ^JJ ?T C H R O N O L O G I C A L REMEMBRANCER (Ty y Ac ALL REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES, FROM THE CREATION TO THIS PRESENT YEAR OF OUR LORD, 1775.. LIVES AND OF THE GREATEST jnjj PATRIARCHS, PHILOSOPHERS, HEROES HEROINES, MONARCHS, &c. AMONGST THE ^S) JEWS, GREEKS, ROMANS, SAXONS, DANES, BRITONS, SCOTS and IRISH. AN ALPHABETICAL INDEX. B Y JOHN BURNS, ofMONAGHAN, WHO WAS BORN DEAF AND DUMB. DUBLIN: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, 1775. ^cMk^ Pli>^c <»^n. ADVERTISEMENT. JOHN BURNS, THE AUTHOR, WAS born Deaf and DomB, in the Town of Mo- naghan, in the Kingdom of Ireland, of re- putable Parents, (who d} ing before he attained the Age of ten Years) he became an Ohjeft of Compaflion ; but difcovering uncommon Senfe and ftrong natural Sagacity, he was taught to read and write, and by his own Penetration and unwearied Application, acquired a Knowledge in Arith- metick, Geog-raphy, Hiftory and Chronology ; which re- commended him to the Notice of a learned Divine in the Neighbourhood of his Nativity, who inflru£ted him in the Principles of Religion, fo as to qualify him for the Holy Sacrament, and otherchriftian Duties ; and he has ever fince governed his Life and Condud thereby. He, by the moft indefatigable Induflry, improved a Beginning of a few Shillings to the Increafe of lool. firfl: lis a Pedlar, afterwards as a Shopkeeper; and in that Way might probably have acquired a happy and comfortable Support, had he not been ruined in his Peace of Mind and Circumftances by an unfortunate Connexion. He was thrown into Goal, compounded his Debts at five Shillings in the Pound, —and has fince difcharged the whole. His unhappy Wife is fince dead, and left him two Children. With fo fmall Mean^ to provide for two Children and for himfelf^ now grov/ing old, and unable to buftle in Bu- finef^i as formerly, he i^ confidered as %^ery worthy of the Support of the Publick in refpeS to his Affairs, as well as of Admiration, in regard to the wonderful Abilities he dif- covered incompiling his Book, &c. and to his ftill Increafing Fund of Knowledge. The Truth of the above, that the Author was born deaf and dumb in the Town of Monaghan, will appeir by his Certificate, figned bv feveral of rhe Nobility, Clergy and Gentlemen, Subi'cribcib lo his Wofko LIST O F SU BSCRIBERS. His Excellency SIMON HARCOURT, Earl HARCOURT, Lord Lieutenant General and General Governor of IRELAND. A. ANNALY, Right Hon. L.C.J. K.B. Annefley, Hon. William Achefon, Right Hon. Sir Ar- chibald, Bcirt. M.P. Aylmer, lady Archdall, Hon. Mrs. of Caftle- Archdall. Abraham, Mrs. of London- derry. Abraham, Revd. John Abraham, Thomas, Gent. Achefon, Mrs. Achefon, Arthur, Efq; Achefon, Mr. Chriftopher Achefon, Mr. Robert Achefon, Mr. William Achmet, Dr. Ackland, George, Efq; Aciciand, Mr. John, 6 fets. Adam, Mr. William Adams, Francis, Efq; Adams, Richard, Efq; Adanif, Samuel, Efq; Adarafon, Mifs Agnew, Lieutenant Colonel James Alcock, Mrs. of Londonderry Alcock, Revd. John Alcock, Mrs. of Dublin Alcock, Captain Alexander, Mrs. jun. Alex;u;der, Mifs Jane Alexander, Robert, Efq; of Dublin Alexander, Robert, Efq; of Londonderry Anderfon, Alexander, Gent. Anderfon, Mr. Jofeph Anketell, Mr. Frederick Archbold, Mrs. Charlotte, of Lilburn Archdall, Mervyn, Efq; M.P. Armar, Mrs. ofCaftlecool, z fets. Armftrong, Mrs. Anne Armftrong, Mifs Maria Armftrong, Mr. Robert Armftrong, Mr. Richard Afh, George, Efq; Auchinleck, Revd. Alexander Auchinleck, Mr. Hugh B. Bunbury, Right Hon. Lady Sarah Belvidere, Right Hon. Earl of, Blayney, Right Hon. Lord Blayney, Hon. Mifs of Bewly Blayney, Right Hon. Lady Dowager Bangor, Right Hon. Lord Brooke, Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur, Bart. M.P. Brownlov/, Rt. Hon. William, M.P. Barry, Hon. Barry, M.P, Browne, Hon. Lieut. Colonel Arthur, M.P. Babington, Revd. William A 2 Babington, SUBSCRIBERS NAMES. Babington, Mrs. Dorothea Babington, Revd. Wray ^. Babington, Mr. George Babington, Mr. Richard Badifh, Revd. WilUani Bagley, Mr. Richard Baker, Revd. George Baker, John, Efq; Ball, Revd. Stearne Ball, Mils Dorcas Barclay, Robert, Efq; M.D. Barlow, Revd. John Barlow, John, Efq; Barlow, Mr. James Barry, Mr. Matthew Barton, Guftavus, Efqj Barton, Edward, Efq; Bateman, John, Efq; of Caftle- Gore Bateman, John, Efq; of Bu- neranagh Batefon, Thomas, Efq; Batterfby, Mr. Richard Batterfby, Mr. James Battier, Mr. John Gafpard Batty, Mr. Efpine, T.C.D. Bayly, Revd. Edward, D. D. Dean of Ardfert, and Aixhd, of Dublin Bayly, Revd. Samuel Bayly, John, Efq; Bayly, Mrs. Alice Bayly, Lt. Col. Robert Clayton Bayly, William, Efq; Bayly, Thomas, Efq; Bayly, Mr. John Public Notary Bayly, Mr. John, of Brookville Beafley, Mrs. jiih. 12 fets Beadey, Mafter John Burgefs Beafley, Marfter Edmond Beafley, Mr. Thomas Beatty, Mr. John Bell, Thomas, Efq; M.D. Bellew, Mils Frances Beli'inghani, Alan, Efq; Bennett, Stephen, Elq; BenningjRevd. Conway, Arch- deacon of Dromore Benfon, A'Irs. of Fairview Benfon, John Bowes, Efq; Bere, Peier, Efq; Bird, James, Efq; BilTet, Revd. Alexander, D.D; Archdeacon of Connor Blackall, Revd. Roger, L.LB Blackall, John, Efq; Blacker, Mrs. Sarah Blacker, George, Efq; Blair, Mark Anthony, Efq; Blair, John, Efq; Blakeney, Mrs. Martha Boggs, Mr. James Bolton, Chichefter, Efq; Bolton, Mr. John Bomford, Mifs Maria Anne Bond, John, Efq; Bofwell, Mrs. Bouches, Mr. John, Attorney Bourns, Mr. Charles Bowater, Thomas, Efq; Bowen, Thomas, Efq; Boyd, Robert, Efq; Boyd, William, Efq; Boyd, Alexander, Efq; Boyle, Mr. Alexander Brabazon, William, Efq; Brady, Patrick, Efq; Brady, Revd. Bernard Breading, Jofeph, Efq; Brennan, Mr. Robert Brough, Revd: Richard, A.M. Browne, Revd. Edward, A.M. Archdeacon of Rofs. Brown, Mr. John Brunker, Mr. Thomas Bryan, Revd. Mr. Robert Bryan, William, Efq; Buchanan, George, Efq; Bunbury, Mrs. Bunbury, William, Efq; Burgefs, Mr. John, of Mo- naghan Burke, William, Efq; Burrowes, Robert, Efq; Burrowcs, Samuel, Efq; Burfton, Beresford, Efq; Buflie, Gervas Parker, Efq; M.P. Byrne, Gregory, Efq; By-rne, Henry, Efq; Byrne, Patrick, Efq; Byrae, SUBSCRIBERS NAMES. Byrne, Gerald, Gent. C. Carrick, Right Hon. Earl of, Corry, Right Hon. Lady Margaret Clogher, Right Revd. John, Lord Bifhop of, Corke, Right Revd. Ifaac, Lord Bifliop of, Clonfert, Right Rev. Walter, Lord Bifliop of, Gary, Right Hon. Edward, M.P. Caulfeild, Hon. Francis, M.P. Cole, Hon. Arthur Cole, Hon. Mifs Maria Cole, Hon. Mifs Sarah Creighton, Hon. Mifs Milly Cahill, Mr. Richard Cairnes, John Elliott, Efq; Campbell, Revd. Thomas, L.L.D. Campbell, Revd. John Campbell, Charles, Efq; Campbell, Mr. Edward Canning, Paul, Efq; Cannon, Rouquier, Efq; Carroll, John, Efq; Card, Mr. Ralph Carleton, Alexander, Efq; C. at Law. Carlefton, Chriftopher, Efq; Carlefton, William, Efq; Carmichael, Hugh, Efq; Carmichael, Andrew, Efq; Clerk of the Crown Carnac, Mr. Peter Carfon, Mr. William, of Gra- nada Carter, Jofliua, Efq; Cartland, George, Efq; Cary, Henry, Efq;. Cary, George, Efq; Cavendifh, James, Efq; M.P. Caulfeild, Revd. John Caulfeild, Revd. Caulfeild Byrne Chambers, Daniel, Efq; Chamney, Mrs. Sarah, ot Drogheda Cheiliire, William, Efq; Church, Arthur, Efq.ofDerry Clarke, Revd. Dr. Henry Clarke, Revd. Dr. Robert Clarke, Thomas Efq; Clarke, Mr. Edward Clarke, Mr. Roger Cleapem, Mr. William, Sur- geon Clement, William, M. D. V.P.T.C.D. M.P. Clements, Henry Theophilus, Efq; M.P. Clements, Mr. Henry, Jeweller, Clibborn, Mr. John Clofe, Maxwell, Efq; ClolTv, Mr. William Cobbe, Thomas, Efq; Cochran, Mr. William Coddington, William, Efq; 3 fets Coddington, Mrs. of Drogheda Coddington, Henry, Efq; Coleton, Samuel, Efq; M.D. Collins, Mrs. Rachel Collins, Mr. John Colombine, Revd. Charles, L.L.D. Congreve, Reverend Charles Walter, A.M. Archdeacon of Armagh Connor, Mr. James Conyngham, William, Efq; Conyngham, Redmond, Efq; Cooke, Daniel, Efqj M.D. Cookman, Mrs Elizabeth Cooper, Richard, Efq; Cooper, Samuel, Efq; Coote, Mrs. of Dawfon-ftreet. Cope, Mrs. the Lord Bifhop of Clonfert's Lady Cope, Henry, Efq; Cope, William, Efq; Corry, Mrs. Sarah Corry, Armar Lowry, Efq; M.P. Corry, Mifs Mary Lowry, 2 fets Corry, Ifaiah, Efq; Corry , SUBSCRIBERS NAMES. Corry, Thomas, Efq; Corry, James, Efq; Coulfon, John, Efq; Cowan, Richard, Efq; 5 fets Cowan, Mrs. of LifFord Cowan, John, Efq; Cowan, Mrs. M.A. Cowan, William Henry, Efq; Cowan, Thomas, Efq; Cowan, Mr. John, Merchant Cowan, Mr. David Cox, Mr. John, 8 fets Coyne, Mrs. Cradock,Revd. William, A.M. Dean of St. Patrick's Cradock, John, Efq; Craig, Revd. William Cranfton, Revd. John Crawford, Revd. Alexander Crawford, John, Efq; Crawford, Thomas, Efq; Crofton, Morgan, Efq; Croker, Mr. Charles Cromie, John, Efq; Crookfliank, Alexander, Efq; Crofs, William, Efq; Crowe, George, Gent. Culle.n, Patrick, Efq; Cuming, Mr. John Curll, Mr. John Curtis, Richard, Efq; Cuthbert, Rev.Ephraini, A.M. D. Down, Right Rev. John, Lord Bifliop of, Dartrey, Right Hon. Lord Dalton, Mifs Regina Darner, John, Efq; M.P. Dane, Revd. William, 2 fets Daniell, Revd. Mr. '\verell Daniel!, Mr. William Dardis, Mifs Lucy Davis, Mr. David Davys, James, Efq- Dawfon, Richard, Efq; of Ardee Dawfon, Richard, Efq; of Monaghan DawfoT, James, Efq; Dawfon, Revd. Mr. William Dawfon, Thomas, Efq^ Dawfon, John, Efq; Decluzeau, Mrs. Efther Delany, Mr. James Denis, Charles, Efq; Dennifton, Revd. John Dick, Mrs. Cliarlolte, 7 fet* Dick, David, Efq; Dickfon, Thomas, Efq; Difney, Reverend Brabazon, D.D.P.D.T.C.D. Difney, Mrs. of Drogheda Difney, Captain Doherty, Mr. John, Attorney Donaldfon, Mr«. Margaret Douglas, Archibald, Efq; Downes, Mils Catherine Downing, Dawfon, Efq; Doyle, Surgeon Doyle, Mr. Michael Draffin, Mr. Ellis Mathew Drew, George Purdon, Efq; Duffield, Mr. Ben. A.M. of Penfilvania Duncan, Mr. James Dundafs, Mr. Philip Dunkin, William, Efq; C. atL. Dunkin, James, Efq; Cat Law Dunn, William, Efq; Banker E. Erne, Right Hon. Lady Dow- ager Eyre, Right Hon. Lord Earbery, Matthias, Efq; M.P. Ecclei, Daniel, Efq; Eccltfton, William, Efq; jun. Edmonds, Mr. William Elliott, John, Efq; Ellis, Mrs. Marv Ellis, Thomas,' Efqj M.D. Ei!is, Lieut. Thomas Ellis, Edward, Efq; Ellis, Robert, Gt. of Drogheda Ellis, Robert, Gent, of Fer- managh Ellis, Lieut. James Ellis, Mifs D. of Monaghan Ellis, Henrv, Efq; Ellifon, Thomas, Efq; Enery, SUBSCRIBERS NAMES. Enery, John, Elcj; Ennis, Revd. Michael Efte, Mr. Evans, John, Efqj Evatt, Mis. L. Senior Evatt, Mifs Jane Evatl, Mrs. jun. Ewing, Mr. Thomas F. Farnham, Right Hon. earl of, Fofter,Rt.Hon.Ant.L.C.B.E. Forfter, Sir Nichcla.s, Bart. Fitzwilliain, Hon. Richard Fitzwilliam, Hon. William Fairtlough, Oliver, ECq; May. of Drogheda Fairtlough, Revd. Jofeph Falkiflcr, Revd. John, A.M. Fanning, Audley. Efq; Farran, Charles, ECq-, Farris, Robert^ Efq; Farris, William, Efq; Farris, Thomas, fen. of Lam Farris, Mr.Thos jun, of Dub. Faviere, Major Maximilian Faulkner.Geo. EfqjAld. of D. Fayle, Mr. Samuel Fenner, Richard, Efq; Fenner, Mr. Edmond Fenter, Mrs.Cath. of Strabane Fergufon, Revd. Jofhua Ferifs, Mrs. Charlotte Ferrall, John, Efq; M.D. Feyrac, Colonel Finlay, Mrs. Mary Finlay, John, Efq; Fitzfiraon, Mr. Chriftophtr Fleming, Mr. John, Bookfc Her, of Drogheda. Flood, Mr. Chriftophej Foot, Mr, Lundy Forbes, Mifs Prifcilla Forbes, Mifs Sophia Ford, Roger, Efq; Forde, James, Efq; AKi. of Drogheda Forefvth, Thomas, Efq; Forreft, Mr. Charles, Attorney Forfter, John, Efq; Fonler, Revd. Arthur Forfter, Arthur, Eq; Forfter, Thomas, Efq; ofCavan Forfter, Thomas, Gent. A.B. Forfter, Mr. Robert Fortefcue, Mrs. |. Fofter, William, Efq; Fofter, Revd. William Fofter, John Thomas, Efq; Fofter, Ant. Efq; of Dundalk Fofter, Edward, Efq; M.D. Fofter, Revd. Mark Fowkes, Mr. George Foxali, Mr. Zachariah Frankling, Mr. John French, Mrs. Frances French, William, Efq; Friell, Mr. Peter Frith, Mr. Richard Frood, Mr. James Fuller, John, Efq; Fuller, jofeph, Efq; Fuller, Abraham, Efq; G. Gage, Hodgfon, Efq; Gage, M.'-s. of Bell- Arena Galbraith, Samuel, Efq; Galbraith, Revd. Matthew Gallagher, Jame-, Efq; Gaft, Revd. John, D.D. Arch- deacon of Glandelagh Gayer, William Watts, Efq, L.L.D. Geale, Ebenezer, Efq; Geoghegan, Mr. Edward George, Revd. Mr. Luke Gerrard, Samuel, A.B.T.C.D, Gibfon, Revd. Wood, D.D. Gibfon, Revd. John Glafllock, William, Efq; Gledftanes, James, Efq; Gledftanes, Thomas, Efq; Godley, Revd. William, D.D. Godley, Revd. Richard Godley, John, Efq; Godley, William, Efq; Goldfniith, Mrs. Mary, of Drogheda Gonne, Mr. Henry, Attorney Goodwin, Mr. Roger Goold, Revd. Pierce, A.M. Gordon, Alexander, Efq; Gordon, SUBSCRIBERS NAMES. Gordon, Mafter John Gordon, Charles, Efq; Gore, Ralph, Efq; Gorges, Hamilton, Efq; Gorman, Francis, Efq; Gorman, Fortefcue, Efq; 8 fets Gorman, Doherty, Efq; Gorman, Mr. Stafford Gould, Mrs. Gower, Mr. Roger, jun, Graham, Mrs. Graham, Hedtor, Efq; 12 fets Graham, Mifs Grace Graham, Arthur, Efq; Graham, John, Efq; Graham, Mr. William Gray for, Anthony, Eiq; Greffor., William, Efq; Griffith, Jofeph, Gent. Grove, Humphry, Efq; Grueber, Revd. Arthur, D.D. Grueber, Nicholas, Gent. Guinnefs, Benjamin, Efq; Guinnefs, Mr. Richard H. Hillfborough, Rt. Hon. earl of, Hewitt, Hon. John Hamilton, Sir Patrick, Kt. Aid, of Dublin Hamilton, Hon. Mrs. Haire, James Gent. Hall, Jofeph, Efq; of Skelton- Caftle, Yorkfhire, now of Drumgoon, Ireland. Hall, Mr. Richard Hall, Mr. Simon Hamilton, Claudius.Efq; M.P. Hamilton, John, Efq; M.P. Hamilton, Mrs. Catherine Hamilton, Mifs Anne Hamilton, Revd. Andrew Hamilton, Archibald, Efq; of Derry Hamilton, Archibald, Efq; M.D. of Dublin Hamilton, Dacre, Efq; Hamilton, Revd. Edmund Hamilton, Mr. Galbraith Hamilton, Hngh, Efq, of Mo- naghan Hamiltor, M ■ Hu^^I: .jf Dub. Hamilton, Revd. James of Do- nagheady Hamilton, Revd. James, of Maghera Hamilton, James, Efq; Aid. of Dublin Hamilton, James, Efq; of Strabane Hamilton, James,Efq; of Mil- wood Hamilton, James, Efq; of Monaghan Hamilton, Mr. James, of Dru- meny. Attorney Hamilton, Captain John Hamilton,John,Erq; of Brown- Hall Hamilton, John, Efq; of Aughlis Hamilton, Robert, Efq; Hamilton, Mr. SkefRngton Hamilton, Thomas, Efq; of Ann Brooke Hamilton, Thomas, Efq; of Strabane Hamilton, William, Efq; of Dunymanagh Hamilton, Mr. Williain, At- torney, of Omagh Hamiltorl, William, Efq; of Garrifon Hamilton, William, Efq; of Donegal Hamilton, Wm. Efq; of Derry Handcock,William,Efq;M.P. Hand cock, John, Efq; Har'dman, Edward, Efqj Hargrave, Mrs. Mary Harloe, Mrs. Harriot, William, Efq; Harris, Revd. George Harrifon, Henry, Efqi Harrlfon, Mifs Harrifon, Mr. Jofeph Harrifon, Mr. Ifaac Harrold. George, Efq; Harr, George, E'q; King's C. Hart, Robeit, Elqj Hart, Revd. Edward Harvty, Revd. Aizm SUBSCRIBERS NAMES. Harvey, Revd. John Haflard, Richard, Efqj Haffard, Mifs Haflard, Jafon, Efq; Haflard, William, Efq; Haflard, Robert, Efq, Haflard, John, Efq; Hafl:ings, Revd. Dr. Thomas Haftings, Mrs. Haftings, Mr. Patrick Haftings, Revd." James Hawkfhaw, Revd. John Hawkfliavv, Mr. Thomas Hawkfliaw, Revd. Samuel Hawkfliaw, Mr. William Hawkfliaw, John, Efq; Hellen, Robert, Efq; M.P. Hemming.s, Revd. Matthew Herbert, Robert, Elq; Higginbotham, Thomas, Efq; Higginbotham, Mr. Henry Higgins, Captain Hugh Hill, Hugh, Efq; M.P. Hill, Edv/ard, Efq; Hogan, Mr.William, Attorney Holmes, William, Eiq; Holmes, Mr. John Hopkins, Francis, Elq; Hopkins, William, Elq; Houfton, Francis, Efq; Howard, Gorges Edmund, Efq; Howard, Mr. Alfred Howard, Mr. William Howifon, Thomas, Efq; Hudfon, Revd. Thomas Hughes, Mr. William Hunter, Mr. Robert, of Br!fl:ol Huffby, Walter, Elq; M.P. Hutchefon, Mrs. Martha I. Jobnflion, Sir Richard, Bart. Jackfon, Richard, Efq; Jacob, Revd. Arihui, D.D. Jaffray, Mr. Alex?ii>ier James, William, Efq; James, John, E-q; James, Mr. Francis Icbb, Mrs. of Droghcda Jebb, Frederick, Eiq; M.D. Mailer of the Lying-in Hof- pital, city cf Dublin Jenney, Brabazon, Efq; Jenney, Marmaduke, Efq; Innes, Mr. George Johnfton, Mifs E.M. Johnfton, Mifs Grace Johnfton, Nicholas, Efq; Johnfton, Andrew, Efq; Johnfton, Arthur, Efq; Johnfton, Captain Arthur Johnfton, Mr. Archibald Johnfton, Benjamin, Efq; Johnfton, Enfign Charles, 24th Regiment Johnfton, Revd. John Johnfton, Mr. John of Tyrone Johnfton, Mr. Irvine Johnfton, Rober I, Efq; of Stone- ville, 40 fets Johnfton, Robert, Gent, of Enniflcillen Johnfton, Robert, Gent, of Monaghan Johnfton, captain Robert, of Drogheda Jones, Mrs. of Merrion-Square Jones, Edward, Efq; Jones, John, Efq; of Drogheda Jones, John, E(q; of Dublin Jones, Richard, Efq; Jones, William Todd, Efq; Irvine, Willio.m, Efq; MP. Irvine, Gerard, Efq; Irvine, John, Eiq; Irvine, Chriftopher, Efq; M.D, Irwin, Mrs. of Fairvicw Irwin, Achefon, Efq; Irwin, Arthur, Efq; Irwin, Williai!), Efq; Irwir, Mr. Ale.xander Irwin, Mr. Gerard Irwin, Mr. Robert Ifaacs, Mr. Ifauc K. Kane, Mr. Garc Kaihrens, Murray, Efq. Kearney, Rev. Michael, D. 1). S. F. T. C. D. Keating, Mr. Patrick Keen, Jofeph Efqj 4 fets Kellcttj Mr.<:. Kelly, SUBSCRIBERS NAMES. Kelly, Thomas, Efq; King's Council Ke!!y, Thoir.as, Efq; of Rich' hill Kelly, Dennis, Efq. Kelly, Edmond, Efq. Ke:,nedy, William, ei'q; jun. Kennedy, Mr Patrick Simp Ton Kei, David, Eqi of London Ker, Hugh, Efq. Ker, Mrs. Hannah Kerr, Rev. Andrew Keys, George, Efq. Kilbe, Mr. William King, Rev. Aiu-'rew King, Charles, Efq. King, Edward, Efq. King, Gabriel, Efq, M. D. Kingftcn, Mr. Delemy Kiniock, Mr. David Kippen, John, Efqj of Glaf- gow. Kirk, George, Efq. Kirk, Mr. Leflie Kirkpatrick, Alexander, Efq. Knipe, Rev. George Knipe, Mr. Samuel Knox, Thomas, Efq; M. P, Knox, James, Efq. Knox, W;lliam Efq; of Done- gal Kncx, William, Efq; of Meatii. Knox. William, Efq; under Secretary of State for Ame- rica. Knox, Mrs. Anne, of L. Der- ry. Knox, Alexander Gent. Knox, Mr. Berkley Sidney L. LifFord, Right Honourable James Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Limerick, Right Rev. William Lord BiiTtop of Lambart, Gccrce, Efq; Lamy, John L. L. D. fchool- roalter of Raphoe. Landers, Mr. Patrick Lane, Ambrofc Efq. Lane, Jnraes, Efq, Langrilhe, Hercules, Efq^ M. P. Law, Rev. Robert, D. D. Law, Michael Efq; M. D. Law, Samuel. Efq; 6 fets Law, Mr. William Lawe, Robert, Efq; z fets Leavens, Rev. Robert Lecky, Alexander, Efq. Lecky, Hugh, Efq. Lecky, Squire, Efq. Lecky, William, Efq. Lecky, Captain Holland Lee, Richard, Efq. Lee, Thomas, Efq. Lefanue, Rev. Peter Leigh, Francis, Efq; M. P. Lendrum, James, Efq; Lendrum, Mrs, Anne. Lendfay, Robert, Efq. Leilie, 'Charles Powell, Efq; M. P. Lefiie, Rev. Richard, Archd. of Aghadoe. Leflie, Mrs. of Leflie-Hill. Leflie, Henry, Efq. Leflie, Rev. Henry Leflie, Edward, Efq; Leflie, Rev. Alexander L'Eftrange, Henry Peifly Ef^J. L'Eftrange, Mr. George Lindefey, Mrs. of Caledon* Lloyd, Richard, Efq. Locker, Mr. John Lovett, Robert, Efq. Lowry, Rev. James Lowry, Robert, Efq. Lowry, Mr, William Lowther, Gorges, Efq; M. P. Lowther. George, Efq; M. P. Lucas, Edward, Efq; .M. P. Lucas, Mrs. Elizabeth of Caftlefhane. I.ucis, Frai cis, Efq. Lucas, Thomas, Efq. Lyle, SUBSCRIBERS NAMES. Lyle, Hugh, Efq. L^-nam, Jofeph, Efq; Aid. of Dublin. Lynani, Mrs. Lvndfey, lofeph, Surgeon. Lynott, Hubert, Efq. Lyiler, William, Efq. M. Morningfon, Right Hondura- ble Countefs of, Moira, Right Hon. Earl of Meath, Right Hon. and Right Rev. Henry Lord Bifhop of Mt. Eiorence, Right Hon. Lord Mt. Florence, Rigbt Hon. Lady, 2 fets. Murray, Hon. Colonel Molyneux,SirCapel,Bait.M.P. Morre.s, SirHayd. Evans, Bart, M. P. May, Sir James, Bart. M. P. Montgomery, Sir William, Bart. M. P. Montgomery, Ladv M'Cally, Robert, Efq. M'Can, Thomas, Efq. M'Caudand, John, Efq; M. P. M'Caufland," Marcu«, Efq; Sen. M'Ciaufland, Marcus, Efq; Jun.T. C. D. M'Caufland, Rev. John M'Caufland, Doni. Efq. M'Caudand, Abraham, Efq. M'Clenaghan, Charles, Gent. M'Clintock, James, Efq. M'Clintock, Robert, Elq. M'Clintock, John, Efq. M'Clintock, Mr. John, Merch. M'Combe, Rev. Alexander M'Donall, James, Elq. M'Donneli, Thomas, Efq; M'Dowell, James, Efq. M'Geouj^h, John, Efq. M'Geough, Samuel, Elq. M'Ghee, Rev. Robert M'GregoT, Mr. Robert M'Guire, Arthur, Efq. M'Kay, Mr. William, Attor- ney. M'Kcnna, Mr. jamcs M'Kinftry, Mr. Lee. M'Laughlin, Mr. Patrick M'Mahon, Mr. Alexander M'Mahon, Mr. Edward M'Maiius, Charles, Efq; Miyor of Derry M'Mollen,' John, Efq; King's Council. M'Naughton, Barth. Efq; M'Neaie, Malcolm, Efq. M'Ort'en, Mr. Dennis Macartney, Jt^hn, Efq; Macartney, Mr. John Macbride, David, Efq; M. D. Madden, Rev. Samuel Magee, Mr. Robert Magenis, Arthur, Efq; M. D. Magill, Rev. Mofes, A. M. Magrath, William Efq; Magrath, Mr. Foiliott Mahan, Mr. Robert Mahon, Rev. Arthur Major, Henry, Efq. Makilwaine, Andrew, Efq. Malone, Richard, Efq. Mansfield, George, Efq. Maquay, George, Efq. Marmion, Mr. Ralph Marlli, Major James Marfliall, Mrs. Rebecca Marfhall, Rev. John. Marfhali, Mifs, of Drogheda. Martin, Mrs. of Galway. MafTey, Colonel Eyre Mathews, William, Efq. Matliews, Edward, Eiq. Mauleverer, James, Elq, Maxwell, Rev. John, D. D. Archdeacon of Clogher. Maxwell, Mrs. Maxwell, Mrs. Ann, of Fin- nebrogue. Maxwell, Mifs Grace Ma.xwell, Robert, Efq. Maxwell, Rev. Henry Maxwell, John, Efq;' Maxwel;, SUBSCRIBEES NAME S.- Maxwell, Major John Maxwell, Zach. Efq. Maxwell, William, Efq. Maxwell, James, Gent. Maxwell, Mr. Richard Mayne, Rev. Edward, L.L.D. Mayne, Charles, Efq. Mayne, Robert, Efq. Meares, George, Elq. Meares, Charles, Efq. Metge, Peter, Efq. Middleton, Ifaac, Efq. Miller, John, Efq. Miller, Mr. Stephen Mitchell, Mr. John. Molefworth, VVilliam, Efq. Molefworth, Major Molloy, Rev. James Monck, Rev. John Stanley, L. L. D. Archdeacon, of Derry. Monck, Henry, Efq. MoncricfFe, Mrs. of Capel- Street. Montfort, Mr. Peter Montgomery, George, Efq. M. P. Montgomery, Alexander, Efq. county of Monaghan, M. P. Montgomery, Mrs. E. of Rofe- field. Montgomery, Alexander, Efq. county of Donegal, M. P. Montgomery, Alexander, Efq; of BelTmount. Montgomery, Alex. Efq; of the Hall. Montgomery, Hugh, Efq; 2 fets. Montgomery, John, Efq. Montgomery, Nath, Efq; T. C. D. Montgomery, Robt. Efq; Sen. Brandriri). Montgomery Robt. Efq; Jun, Brandrim. Montgomery, Archd. M'Neile, L. L. D. & B. L. E. &.I. Montgomery, Mifs Ann Montgomerv, Mifs Mary of Dublin. ' Montgomery, Robt. Gent, T. C. D. Montgomery, Thomas Gent. Montgomery, William Gent. T. C. D. Montgomery, Mrs. Margaret, Moore, Mrs. of Summer-hill. Moore, Rev. Arthur Moore, Hamilton Efq; Moore, William Efq; Moore, Mr. Andrew Morgan, Richard Efq; Coun- fellor at Law 7 Sets. Morin, Mr. John Morris, Brabazon Efq; Moffe, Rev. Charles Moutray, James Efq; M.. P. Mulhollan. John Efq; Jun. Murphy, Matthew Efq; Murphy, Mr. Anthony Murray, Eneas Efq; Murray, Mrs, Rebecca Murray, Mr. David Myers, Chrift. Efq; N. Newenham, Sir Edw. Knight, M. P. Naghton, Mrs. Naghton, Mr. John Edmond Nafli, Andrew Efq; Nelbitt, Thomas, Efq; M. P. Nefbitt, Cofby, Efq; Nelbitt, Rev; William Nevill, Brent, Efq; Newburgh, William, Efq; Nicholofon, Mailer James Corry Nifbitt, Alexander, Efq; Nifbitt, Charles, Efq; Nilbitt, Henry, Efq; Nifbitt, Jofliua, Efq; Nixon, Alexander, Efq; of Nixonhall. Nixon, Mrs. of Ditto Nixon, Humphry, Efq; 6 Sets Nixon, Revd. John Noble, SUBSCRIBERS NAMES. Noble, Brabazon, Elq; Noble, Adam, Efq; Noble, Revd. Mark, School- Mafter of Ennifkillen. Noble, Mils Prudence Jsloble, Thomas, Efq; Noble, Mrs. Mary Noble, Capt. Jerome Noble, Revd. William Noble, William, Efq; Noble, Francis, Efq; Noble, Mungo, Efq; Norman, Richard, Efq; T.C.D. Norman, Mr. Thomas Norris, Revd. Richard, D.D. School-Mafter of Drogheda. O. Obins, Capt. O'Brien, William Efq; O'Bryan, Mr. Daniel Ogle, William Meade, Efq; M. P. Ogle, Revd. William Ogle, William, Efq; of Newry O'Hara, Mr. Charles Oliver, Mr. William Olpherts, Richard, Efq; O'Reilly, Dowell, Efq; O'Reily, Thomas, Efq; Ormlby, George, Efq; Ormlby, Capt. Orr, Mr. James P. Paterfon, Right Hon. Marcus, L. C. J. C. P. Pakenham, Hon. Mifs Palmer, Roger, Efq; M. P. Parlinfon, John Gent. Parnell, John, Efq; Parvin, Mr. Benjamine Jun. Paterfon, Henry Efq; Patton, Andrew, Efq; Paumier, Peter Efq; Paumier, Mrs. Sufanna Pauinicr, John, Efq; ^ Sets Paumier, Capt. Mungo Pearfon, Mrs. Anne Peliffier, Revd. Dr. Peliffier, Mrs. Perceval, Philip, Efq; Perceval, Robert, Efq; Percy, Revd. William, A.M. lo Sets. Perry, Francis, Efq; Petrie, Mr. Surgeon, 6 Sets Piggot, Revd. Thomas Pollock, Jofeph, Efq; Powell, Revd. Richard Powell, Mr. William Powell, Mr. George Power, Richard, Efq; Pratt, Mervyn, Efq; Price, Cromwell, Efq; Pringle, Revd. Robert Pringle, Lieut. Colonel Henry, 12 Sets. Pringle, William, Efq; Pringle, Mafter Willm. Henry Q. Quin, Mr. Valentine R. Rofs, Right Hon. Earl of Roper, Hon. and Revd. Richard Henry Ramage, James, Efq; Ramfay,, Charles, Efq; Rawdon, Mr. John Rea, John Efq; Rea, Revd. Charles Rea, Henry Efq; Rea, Mrs. of Monaghan Rea, Mr. Thomas Read, Thomas Efc^; Read, Mr. John Reath, Mr. Patrick Reby, Richard Efq; Reed, John Efq; Reed, Mr. Alexander Reeves, George Efq; 6 Set* Reeves, Mr. Robert Reilly, Hugh Efq; Reily, Thomas Efq; Richards, William Efq; Richardfon, Henry Efq; Richardfon, Mrs. Jane 6 Sets Richardfon, SUBSCRIBERS NAMES: Richardfon, William Efq; Richardfon, John Efq; Richardfon, Francis Efq; Richardfon, David Efq; Richardfon, Simon Efqj Ridge, John Efq,- Riortecue, Mr. John Robinfon, Richard Efq; D. Mufter Mafter General. Roche, Major Boyle M. P. Roche, Mr. Anthony Roche, Mr. Henry Roche, Mr. Alexander Rogers, Revd- George A.M. Rogers, Revd. John A. M, Rogers, Mr. John Rcfborough, Mr. John Rofborough, Mr. Thomas Rofs, David Efq; Jun. Rofs, William Efq; Rofs, Mr. Forbes Rouffe, James Efq; Rowe, Thomas Efq; Rynd, Thomas Efq; Rynd, John Efq; Rynd, Revd. William S. Shelburn, Right Hon. Earl of Scott, Hon. William Second B. E. Stratford, Hon. andRevd. Mr. Southwell, Hon. Bovi^en Somervell, Lady Dowager Salt, Mr. John Sanderfon, Alexander Efq; Savage, Charles Efq; Savage, Mifs Hefter Saurin, Lewis Efq; Savers, Andrew Gent. Schoales, Adam Efq; tichcales, George Eiq; of London-Derry, Schoales, George Efq; of Drogheda, 2 Sets. Scott, John Efq; Solicitor General, M. P. Scort, Thomas Efq; Scott, James Efq; Scott, Alexander Efq; of Lon. Scott, R'lbert Efq; M. D. Scott, William Efq; M. D; Scott, Mrs. Lienor of Dublin. Scott, George Efq; Shannon, Mr. George Sharkey, John Efq; Shaw, William Jocelyn Efq; 4 Sets. Shaw, Mrs. of Drogheda. Shaw, Mafter Thomas Shaw, Thomas Gent. Sub Sheriff S bthorpe, Mrs. Sibthorpe, Mafter Sinclair, Mrs. of Strabanc. Sinclair, Mr. Robert Singleton, Thomas Efq, S!celton, Revd Philip 13 Sets Skelton. Francis Efq; M. D. Slack, John Efq; Slack, Benj. Efq; Smith, Lt. Colonel Edward Smith, Tennifon Efq; Smith, Henry Efq; Smith, Rob. Efq; A.B.T.C.D. Smith, John E(q. Smith, Lt. Henry Smith, Mr. Francis Smyth, Revd. Thomas Smyth, William Efq; Smyth, John Efq; of Dublin Smyth, John Efq; of Drogheda Smyth, "Patrick Efq; Somervell, Warburton Efq; Spear, Ralph, Efq; Spear, P>.obert Efq; Spence, Revd. Nicholas Spence, Revd. William Spotfwood, Andrew Efq; Squire, James Efq; Stanford, Daniel Efq; Sreel, Walter Efq; Stephenibn, Robert Efq; Sterling, James Efq; Sterling, Lt. William Orange NaiTau. Sterne, Charles Efq; Steuart, Mrs. Steuart, William Efq; of Bailyburrovv M. P. Stewart, SUBSCRIBERS N A M E S.- Stewart, William Efq; of Kiilynioor. Stewart, William Gent, of Ennifkillen. Stcviart, James Efq; M. P. S.cwart Charles Efq; S -wart, Hamilton El'q; Sewarr, Henry Efq; S-cvvart, Revci. Hugh Stewart, Poynti Efq; Stewart, Revd. Thomas Stewart, Lt. Alexander Stewart, Mr. Walter S.George, Re vi^. Howard Si. George, Richard Efq; T. C. D. Stock, Revd. Jofeph S. T. B. F.T. C. D. Stopford, Revd. William Story, Revd. Jofeph Story, William Elqj Strean, Samuel Efqj Strong, Revd. James 3 Sets Strong, William Efq; Strong, Mr. Henry Sutton, Thomas Efq; Swan, John Efq; Swanzy, Mr. Henry Sweetman, Walter Efq; ..' 'ii • -;> Swettenham, Killner Efq; Aid. of Dublin. Swettenham, William Efq; Synge, Edward Efq; T. Tuam, His Grace Jenjmett, Lord Archbifliop of Talbot, William Efq; M. P. Tandy, John Efq; Taylor, Mrs. Bridget Tenifon, William Barton Efq; Thettford, Mr. Nicholas Thome, Mr. Francis Thompfon, Reva. Dr. Francis Thompfon, Theophllus Efq; his Danilli Majefty's Conful in Ireland. Tho;npfon, Mr. George Tliornhill. Ed. Badham Rfq; Thwaites, George Efq; Thwaites, Mr. Auguftine Tighe, Mr. Hugh Tighe, William Efq; Tipping, Edward E'q; of Mount-Hill! Tipping, Mrs. Tipp'ng, Mifs V?f Bevvly Tipping, Mifs So. J Tifdall, Revd. William Tifd'il, Thomas E.o; Tifciall, Mr. Wiiliam Torrens, Revd. Thom. LT..B. To'te-.ham, Charlos Eiq; M. P. of Drogheda Tracy, John Elq; Trulock, Thomas E.'q; High Sheriff of the C.ty of D. Tunnadine, John Efq; M. P. Tyrrell, John Efq; V. Vallancey, Major Charles Vaughan, George Efq; 6 Sets Verner, Thomas Eq; Verner, James Etq; Vickers, Jerm. E.'q; Vincent, Richard E(q; Vincent, Thomas Efq; W. cWandesford, Right Hon. Eir! of Wolfeley, Lady Dowager Wade, Robert Efq; of Meath Wade, Mr. Robert, of the Treafury Waller, Mrs. Waller, William Efq; Wilier, Richard Efq; Wallis, Mrs. Margaret Wailis, Revd. Thomas Wal;is, John Efq; Coun. atL. Walin, Anthony Efu; WailK, David JEfqj ' Ward, Mrs, Ward, Mifs Anne V/aring, Samuel Efq; Waring, Major Holt Waring, Mr. Thomas Warren, William Efq; Warren, SUBSCRIBERS NAMES. Warren, Revd. Jofeph Wathins, John Efq; Watfon, Mr. William 26 Sets Weir, Robert Efq; Weir, Revd. William Weld, Mr. Ifaac Weft, Mr. James White. Revd. John White, John Efq; Whiteway, John Efq; Whittingham, Revd. Dr. John Whittingham, William Efq; Whyte, Mr. Samuel Wilde, William Efq; Wilde, Mrs. Williams, Henry Efq; Williams, Richardfon Ei'q; Williams, Adam Efq; Williams, Mr. Ralph Willoe, Capt. Samuel of the King's Regiment of foot. Wilfon, John Efq; high Sheriff of the City of Dublin, Wilfon, Mr. Peter Wilfon, Mr. William Bookf. Wilfon, Mr. Richard Winftanley, Capt. Woods, Mr. Philip Woodroffe, Philip Efq; Woolley, Mr. Ifaiah Woolfey, Revd. Thomas Workman, Meredith Efq; Wray, William Efq; Wright, John Efq; Wright, Jofeph E:q; Wright, Mr. Jofeph Jun, 3 Sets Wrightfon, George Efq; Aid; of Dublin. Wrightfon, Lt. Colonel Johh Major of Chelfea Hofpital Wynne, Mr. Cornelius Bookf. Y. Young, Alexander Efq; Young, Mifs Catherine Young, Thomas Efq; Young, George Efq; Young, Revd. George Young, Revd. David A. M. Young, James Efq; Young, William Efq; #€^#f######t#^€^^i^#^##^#€>€<5#^ With the utmoft gratitude and refpeft, the Au t h o r begs leave to return his unfeigned thanks, to thofe generous BENEFACTORS, whofe liberality has enabled him to pafs the remainder of his days as comfortably as his Situation will admit of. Gratitude and Good wiflies are all the hum- ble poor have to beftovsr : But the charitable and humane, will certainly receive a more ample and folid reward, in that Day, when, «« the Dumb /ball Speak, and the Ears of the Deaf hs Opened:', A N HISTORICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL REMEMBRANCER O F ALL REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES, FROM THE CREATION TO THIS PRESENT YEAR OF OUR LORD, 1775. PART I. From the Creation to the Birth of Chriji. FIRST AGE OF THE WORLD. From the Creation to the Deluge. FIRST Day, God created the Heaven and the earth, light and darknefs ; light he called day, darknels he called n-ght. Second Dayy God created the firmament, and called it Heaven. Third DiT^, God tlivided the land from the water ; land he called earth, water he called fea. Fourth Day, God created the fun, moon and ftars. Fifth Day, God created all kinds of fifh and fowl. Sixth Day, God created all kinds of bealts and creeping things, God created man after his own form, and gave him dominion over all things. B Seventh i8 REMEMBRANCER. Seventh Day^ God ended all his work, and God bleffed the feventh day, and ordained it as a day of reft for all mankind, and to be kept a day of thankf- giving for all the bleffings v/e enjoy j glory and praife be to God for ever. This was our firft parent Adam. But God's goodnefs did not reft here, for fearing left his new formed creature ftiould grow melancholy for want of a companion, and with an intent, as we may fuppofe, to continue his kind upon earth, he caft Adam afterwards into a deep deep, and taking a rib from his fide, he out of it formed a woman ; Friday, Odlober 28. Adam received her from God, and called hername Eve. So he took Adam and his wife, and placed them in a beautiful garden of Eden, or the terreftrial Pa- radife; telling them, at the fame time, that he made them a prefent of every thing they faw, which they might frceiy command, and make what ufe they pleafed of, only, faid he, of one particular fruit, •which grows on a tree, in the middle of the garden, you ftiall not eat ; nay, he told them, if they tafted it they ftiould certainly die. However, this was not fufficient to prevent the woman from being tempted by the Devil, in the fhape of the ferpent, to break God's command ; and not only fo, but ftie brought fome of the fruit to her huftjand, who was weak enough to tafte ic too. Now this apple, for fo it is called in the holy fcriptures, had fome particular quality belonging to it, by which means, the perlons who eat it, imme- diately became to have the know^ge of good and evil. Adam and Eve, God drives (after their fall} out of paradile, and places the cherubims to keep them out. Cain REMEMBRANCER. 19 Y.W. 2 Cain born, the fon of Adam and Eve. 3 Abel born, the fon of Adam and Eve. 129 Abel is killed by his wicked brother Cain, 130 Scth born after the death of Abel, God gave Adam another fon. . 235 Enos born, the fon of Seth. 325 Cainan born, the fon of Enos. 395 Mahalaleel born, the fon of Cainan. 460 Jared born, the fon of Mahalaleel. 461 War firft began in the World by tlie im- pious fon of Cain. 500 Lamech complains to his wives Alah and Zillah that he had (lain a man. Calnites fomented the firft war by debauch- ing their brother's wives; 622 Enoch born, the fon of Jared. 687 Methufelah born, the fon of Enoch. 874 Lamech born, the fon of Methufelah. 930 Adam dies, aged 930 years, the firft man. 940 Eve dies, aged 940 years, 10 years after Adam. 987 Enoch taken up to Heaven, aged ^6^ years, not dead. 1042 Seth dies, aged 912 years-, malice increafed. 1056 Noah born, the fon of Lamech. 1140 Enos dies, aged 905 years. 1235 Cainan dies, aged 910 years. 1290 Mahalaleel dies, ?ged 895 years. 1422 Jared having i'etn all the Patriarchs, and Adam in the Flefti, for 470 years, dies, aged 962 years. 1536 God commanded Noah to build the Ark of Noah, begi!^i20 years before the flood. i55^ To Noah, when aged 500, is born Japheth, and two years after, Shem. 1 65 1 Lamech the bigamift dies, aged 777 years ; ^ he is the firft man whom the fcriptures mention to have died a natural death before his father. B 2 1656 Me- 20 REMEMBRANCER. 1656 Methufdah (the longell liver of all men) dies, aged 969 years. The Flood comes upon the earth in the 600th year of Noah's age. SECOND AGE OF THE WORLD. From the Deluge to Abram. 1657 The Deluge, and going into the Ark, the _ whole Earth and all therein contained was drowned and deftroyed by the Flood, only the Ark. This being done, the fountains of the great deep were broken up, the windows of Heaven were opened, and fuch violent rains poured dov/n for forty days and forty nights, that the waters rofe fifteen cubits above the higheft mountains ; and, both men, cattle, creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven were deftroyed, and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the Ark. But fending the fame dove out again, m a ihort time after fhe prcfently came back with an olive branch in her bill ; thereby letting Noah underftand the flood was gone back. So Noah with all his f mily came out of fhe Ark, thanking and praifing God, and all the birds and beafts came out with him. He told him, moreover, that he had fet his bow in the heavens, (that circle of beautitul colours which we frequently fee .before and af- ter a Ihower, and call a rainbow in the cloud) which fhouid be as a covenant between God and man. Noah would not have been ordered to build an Ark, if there had been any part of the world which God did not intend to cover with water. REMEMBRANCER. 21 water. Have we not heard of the fpoils.of the Ocean on the higheft mountains in the Globe ? The moLife deer of America, have been found in the vallies of Ireland, and elephants have been dug up in the midll of England. All thefe muft be undeniable proofs of the univer- fality of rhe flood, not to mention the expref- fions of fcripfure, which are as full as pofTible. 1658 Arphixad born, the fon of Shem. i66^ About chis time Noah having planted a vineyard, and made wine, drinks to exccfs. 1693 Saiah born, the fon of Arphaxad. 1723 Eber born, the fon of Salah. 1757 Peleg born, the fon of Eber, fo called, be- caufe in his days the earth was divided. 1770 The building of the tower of Babel, the con- fufion of languages, and the difperfion of mankind. 1771 The Babylonian or Afiyrian kingdom, mo- narchy began, founded by Nimrod, the fon of CuQi, was the firft who afifumed the title of King. 1786 Nineveh built by Nimrod 18 J miles long. 1787 Reu born, the fon of Peleg. 1788 Upon the reparation, the race of Shem fet- tled in Afia, thofe of Ham partly in Africa ; and the greater part of thefe of Japhet in Eu- rope, and earth given to Shem, Ham, and Japhet. 1792 Languages confounded at Babel 22 years after it was begun. 18 16 Mizraim, grandfon of Ham, leads colonies into Egypt, and layeth the foundation of a kingdom, which lalted 1663 years, vy/ience Egypt is called the land of Ham. 18 19 Serug born, rhe fon of Reu. 1849 Nahor born, the fon of Serug. 1876 Edifla, a famous city, built by Nfmrod. 1878 Terah born, the fon of Nahor. 1920 The Arabians paftoral Kings Egypt. 1948 Harah 22 REMEMBRANCER. 1948 Harah born, the fonof Terah. 1957 Ireland inhabiced, and fo called by Bartholir nus, of the offspring of Japhet. 1987 After thirty years pofielTion of the ifland, !3artholinus dies at Moynealta, now Clontarf, hear Dublin. 1996 Peleg dies, aged 239 years. 1997 Nahor dies, aged 148 years. 2006 Noah dies, aged 950 years, 350 years aftejr the flood. 2008 Abram born, the fon of Terah. 2018 Sarai, Abram's wife, called alfo Ifcah Haran, Abram's brother's daughter, born ten years after her hufband. Babylon city built by Semiramis, in cir- cumference 514.6 paces: Height of the walls 33t yards ; breadth 25 paces, or 8 yards 4-» it had 1500 turrets, each of them 66 yards in height. 2026 Reu dies, aged 239 years. 2048 Lot born, 392 years after the flood. 2049 Serug dies, aged 2'30 years, 2060 Apis or Ofiris, built Memphis, in Egypt. 2083 Abram, in obedience to the call of God, leaves Ur, and goes to Haran, in Mefopota- mia, where Terah dies, aged 205 years. THIRD AGEOF THE WORLD. From Abram, to Mofes's quitting Egypt, Abram in the75ih year of his age is com- manded by God to enter upon the land of Catiaan, which God had promifed to give to his ittd^ {viz.) Chrifl Jefus our Lord, in whom all the families of the earth fiiould be blefled. 2084 A famine in the land of Canaan, forced Abram and family into Egypt. From the firll coming REMEMBRANCER. 23 coming into Egypt to the departure of the Children of Ifrael out of it, are 430 years. 2092 He defeats Chedorlaomer and his confede- rates, and retakes his Nephew Lot. 2093 Sarai, Abram's wife, being barren, gives Hagar her handmaid to Abram, 2094 Ifhmael born, the fon of Abram, by Hagar. 2096 Arphaxad dies, aged 438 years. 2107 God makes a covenant with Abram, and changed his name into Abraham, and that of Sarai, into Sarah. The inftitution of circumcifion. 2108 Abraham entertaineth three Angels. Sodom and Gomorrah deftroyed, threaten- ed with fire and brimftone from Heaven. Lot's wife turned into a pillar of fait, in the 65th year of Lot's age. Lot commits inceft with his daughters. Ilaac born, the fon of Abraham and Sarah. 21 1 1 Abraham puts Hagar and lihmael out of his houfe. 21 15 Hagar and Ifhmael at Sarah's requeft cafl: forth. 2126 Salah dies, aged 433 years. 2133 Abraham forbid by an Angel to facrifice Ifaac. 2145 Sarah dies, aged 127 years, at Hebron. 2147 The marriage of Abraham with Keturah. 2148 Ifaac marries Rebecca, and about this time began the Inachus, firft kingdom of the Ar- gives in Peloponnefus j his daughter's name was lo. 2i£;8 Shem dies', aged 600 years, and about that time Mars lived. 2168 Jacob and Efau born, the fons of Rebecca and Ifaac, aged 60. Apis, or Ofiris, Ifis the chief God of the Egyptians. 2178 l^thmofis begins the Theban Dynafty in Egypt. 2179 The 24 REMEMBRANCER. 2179 The foundation of Jerufalem. 2183 Abraham dies, aged 175 years, Jupiter then King of Crete. 2 187 Heber dies, aged 464 years •, from him Abraham and his feed were called Hebrews. 2200 ifaac makes a league with Achimelech, king of Gerar. 2208 Efau aged 40 years, marrieth Judith, the daughter of Beeri, and Bafhemath, the daughter of Elon, both Hittites, at which his parents are much grieved. The deluge of Ogyges in Attica and Boeotia; 248 years before Deucalion's Flood in ThefTaly. ZZ31 Ifhmael dies, aged igy years. 2242 The Chaldeans take Babylon. 2245 Ifaac, by miftake, blefles Jacob, inftead of Efau. Jacob withdraws into Mefopotamia, where he marries Leah and Rachael, the daughters of his uncle Laban. 2246 Reuben born, the fon of Jacob and Leah. 2247 Simeon born, the fon of Jacob and Leah. 2248 Levi born, the fon of Jacob and Leah. 2249 Judah born, the fon of Jacob and Leah, from whom the Jews received their denomina- tion. 2250 Dan born, the fon of Jacob and Rachael, Bilhah conceives. 2251 Naphtali born, the fon of Jacob and Bilhah, Rachael's maid. 2252 Gad born, the fon of Jacob and Leah. 2253 ADier born, the fon of Jacob and Zilpah, Leah's maid. 2255 IfTachar born, the fon of Jacob and Leah. 2256 Zebulun born, the fon of Jacob and Leah. 2257 Dinah born, the daughter of Jacob and Leah. Z2S9 Jofeph born, the fon of Jacpb and Rachael, Jacob Hies into Mefopotamia. 2265 He REMEMBRANCER. 25 2265 He left Mef()potamia, hc]wreftles with an angel, and is called Ifrael, He returns to the land of Canaan, with his wives and children. 2266 Benjamin born, the fon of Jacob, and the death of Rachael. 2273 Dinah, Jacob's daughter, ravifhed by She- chem. 2276 Jofeph hated by his brethren, fold, and car- ried into Egypt. 2279 Kohath born, the fon of Levi. 2287 Jofeph is accufed by Potiphar*s wife, and put in prifon. 2288 Ifaac dies, aged 180 years. 2289 Jofeph explains Pharaoh's dreams, and is thereupon made governor of all Egypt. Saomis was then king of Egypt, but the Egyptian kings all took the name of Pharaoh. 2292 ManafTeh born, the fon of Jofepii. 2293 Ephraim born, the fon of Jofeph. 2296 The beginning of the feven years famine, when Jacob fends ten of his fons into Egypt to buy corn. 229S They come again into Egypt, with their youngeft brother Benjamin. At length Jofeph makes himfelf known to his brethren, and fends tor his father Jacob and all his family to Egypt. Cenfaopis was then king, and Jofeph gets all their money, cattle, &c. for bread. 2315 Jacob dies, aged 147 years, and is buried at Canaan. 2318 Prometheus, the inventor of ftriking 6re, the ufe of metals and other arts and fciences among the Greeks j and Atlas fuppofcd to prop Heaven, 2339 Orus, called Pharaoh, king of Egypt, in Jofeph's time, kind to the Ifraelites. 2363 Amram born, the fon of Kohath and Levi. 2369 Jofeph dies, aged no years, and defires to 26 remembrancer; to have his bones carried into the land of Canaan. 2373 Orus, or Bufirus, as king of Egypt, builds the famous city of Memphis : others fay it was built by Memes. 2385 Levi dies, aged 137 years, grandfather to Mofes and Aaron. 24-1 6 Kohath dies, aged i^j years. 2423 Miriam born, the daughter of Amram. 2427 The new king of Egypt (Ramafles Miamon) perfecutes the Ifraelites. The bondage of the children of Ifrael began. About this time lived Job, famous for his virtue and wifdom as well as patience. 2430 Aaron born, the fon of Amram and Jacobed. 2433 Mofes born, the fon of Amram and Ja- cobed. Mofes is expofed on the water, but faved and brought up by Pharaoh's daughter. 5447 Cccrops, the firft king of Athens, by birth an Egyptian. 2456 Deucalion's flood in ThefTaly. 2460 Jofhua born, the fon of Nun. Led the Ifraelites 18 years. 2473 Mofes kills an Egyptian, and flies to Mi- dian, where he married Zipporah the daughter of Jcthro. 2474 Caleb born, the fon of Jephunneh. 2484 Mofes is thought to have wrote the book of Job, whilft among the Midianites. 2494 The Arabians take Babylon. 2500 Amram dies, aged 137 years. 2510 Cadmus having built a city, and 62 years king of Thebes. 2513 God fpeaks to Mofes froni the burning bulli, and fends him to deliver the Ifraelites out of Egypt. After ten plagues inflifted on the Egyptians, Pharaoh permits the Ifraelites to depart. This king's name was Amenophis, and it is he who was drowned in the Red Sea. FOURTH REMEMBRANCER. 27 FOURTH AGE OF THE WORLD. From Mofes\s quitting Egypt, to the building of the Temple of Solomon. 2513 May 4th, upon Monday the pafTover was inflitutcd. May 15th, the firfl-born of Egypt are flain. The llraelites let go out of Egypt after their bondage of 430 years, being 600,000 men, befides children, came to the Red Sea, the Lord conduced them in a pillar of fire by night; they carry Jofeph's bones with them; Pharaoh and his hoft drowned. On Thurfday the 4th of June the Ifraelites came to the wildernefs of Zin, and murmur for want of food : God fends them quails and manna, on which they lived 40 years. The gufliing of water from the fmitten rock. — Mofes at Horeb, at God's commands, ftriking the hard rock, brings forth waters for the Ifraelites. God publifhes his law .contained in the ten commandments, with a terrible voice: from Mount Sinai. Moles forty days in the Mount without eating. He receives the two tables of (tone ; Mofes received with refpe6l. 2514 The tabernacle is erefbed, and Aaron made high-prieft. 2515 Korah, Dathan and Abiram flain ; general murmuring againll Mofes, and affe(5l:ng the high-pricfthood, the earth opens and fwallows them alive. 2522 Sefoftris, king of Egypt, conquers Arabia, Perfia, India, Scythia, Thrace, Afia the Lefs, all in nine years. 2530 Hermes 2H REMEMBRANCER. 2530 Hermes Trifmegiftus, the famous philofo- pher, was privy-coimfellor to Sefoilris. 2549 C?dmus, fon of Agenor, follows the ra- viihers, came into Europe, into Thebes, and invented 16 of the Greek letters, charadters. 2550 Aaron affumed the priefthood at 120 years old. 2552 Miriam dies, a?Ted 129 years. Aaron dies, aged 12.^ years, on Mount Hor, and is fuccceded by his fon Eleazer. .2553 Th.. Ifraelites conquer feveral countries on this flue Jordan. 2553 Moics dies upon Mount Neho, aged 120 years, and is fucceeded by Jofl-n.ia. Balak, king of Moab, lends for Balaam, fon of Beor. Ba'aam's ?Ss fpokc^ in a man's vo.ce. The Ifraeiacs pafs .he river Jordan, and take Jericho. The fun ard moon ftand ftill. At this time Scfoftiis rc.gns in Egypt, ac- cording to Ulhtr. 2559 Jofhua divides the land . mong the nine tribes. 2560 The firft fabbaticnl year, or yea** of reft, from hence the year of the Jubilee, or every 50 years to be reckoned. 2570 Jodiua, having conquered Canaan, dies, aged 110 years, was buried at Timnath Serah in Mount Ephraim. Deucalion's flood feems to have happened about ihis time. 2574 Liber, or Bacchus, fon of Semele, daughter of Cadmus. 2585 Athens has war with Thebes, in which Te- reus having been very ferviceable, Pandion king of Athens beftows his daughter Progne upon Tereus. j;59i Micah, a great man in the Tribe of Ephraim. 2592 The REMEMBRANCER. 29 2592 The Jews are made tributary to Chufan, king of Melbpocamia- 2594 Epirus, or Corinth, built by Sifiphus, Ion of . Aeolus. 2599 Othnial, the firft of the Judges of Ifrael, defeats Chufan-, after which the Ilraelites enjoy peace. 2624 Ganymede — rape according to Walfingham. 2634 Amphidtion and his b: other Zethus rebel, and in a battle having killed Lycus the guar- dian of I.aius king of Thebes. 2639 Eglon, king of^Moab, defeats the Ifraelites, and enflaves them. 2641 Tantalus, king of Sipylus in Phrygia, before called Ivleonia. 2657 Ehud (another of the judges) kills Eglon. 2667 Caleb dies, aged 193 years. 2672 Amphyftion, king of Thebes, his family, and multitudes of the people, dead of a great Plague. 2682 Pelops, fon of Tantalus, a little king in Phrygia, hence Peloponnefus. 2691 Acrifius, lad king of the Argives, father of Danac, who was wife to Perfeus, fon of Acri- fius, k* Is his father, king of Mycene. 2699 Deborah and Barak, judge Ifrael, and de- feat the army of Sifera, Jabin's general. 2708 Boaz efpoufeth Ruth ; Boaz,. near Kinfwo- manof Ruth, marries heraccording to the ordi- nance of the law. 2723 Orpheus, Mufaeus, and Linus flourifhed; the laft of thefe was the mafler of Hercules. 2728 Oedipus the fon of Laius, king of Thebes, ignorantly flew his father, married his owa mother, by whom he had two fons, who con- lending for the crown of Thebes, killed one another •, their bodies being on the fire, the very fmoak would not unite, on difcovering his wife to be his mother, he flew himfclf. He was called 30 REMEMBRANCER. called Oedipus from Oihu to fwell, and *?? Foot. 2735 The firft colony of the Aborigines, goes out of Italy into Sicily, five years before the lail colony. 2737 Jafon, and his Argonauts went now from loleus, over the Euxine fea to Colchis. 2740 The fecond colony goes out of Italy, into Sicily, called the Ligures, or Siculi ^ from their leader Siculus, hence Sicily, formerly Trinacria. 12746 Gidepn defeats the Midianites. 2752 Tyre built, the metropolis of Phcenicia, for- merly called Sor, and the daughter of Sidon. 2760 The Evander, the Arcadians came into Italy. 2768 Abimelech, the fon of Gideon, ufurped the title of King. 2769 Thefeus, fon of AeguSj king of Thebes and Athens. 2770 Carthage, a capital city of Africa, built by Elifa, called alfo Dido, filter of Pygmalion kmg of Tyre. 277 1 Abimelech was killed three years after- wards. 2774 The expeditioni of the Argonauts, towards the year of the worlds It is nor to be doubted but Thefeus was then living, for he was in company with Jafon^ and his Demophoon was at the fiege of Troy, which happened forty years after that expedition. 2790 Heli, or Eli born, and Ninus fubduea Zoroafter king of the Badtrians. 2791 The Amazonian war; 2799 The Ifraelites fervitude under theAmmonites. 2806 The rape of Helen by Paris. 2810 The Trojan war began with the Greeks. 28 1 6 Tyndarus, father of Callor and Pollux, king of Lacedemon. ;j8 1 7 Jeptha, Captain of the hoft of Ifrael, fubdues the Ammonites i before the battle, he vows his REMEMBRANCER. 31 his daughter, unawares, to be offered in a fa- crifice, and performs it -, he puts to the fword 42,000 Ephramites, and judged Ifrael. 2818 Olympic games inftitured by Hercules, the fon of Jupiter and Alcmena -, the wife of the valiant Amphytrion, who fubdued the Triballi, Jeptha was then judge over Ifrael, and Tau- tenes kingof Aflyria. 2820 Troy taken and deftroyed by the Greeks, after a ten years fiege. Homer the firft, born at Smyrna, a noble- man, lived about the fiege of Troy, i^neas enters into Thrace. 2821 ^neas goes from Thrace into Sicily. 2822 Helen ravifhed by Thefeus. 2823 ^neas, with 22 fhips and 600 men, goes from Sicily to Laurentum ; king Latinus at war with the Ardeans. 2824 ^neas flies into Italy, kills Turnus king of the Rutuli j married Lavinia daughter of Latinus •, and built the city of I.avinium.' The iEneid of Virgil is built on this ftory. 2826 Anchifes, father of ^^neas, dies. 2828 iEgyfl:hus, king of Mycene, and his wife Clytemneftra, killed by Oreiles fon of Aga- memnon. Oreftes, having loft his wife Hcrmione, daughter of Menelaus, runs mad. 2829 Oreftes being cured of his madnefs, went to Athens to be tried for the murder of /Eg/f- thus and Clytemneftra, and was acquitted by the vote of Minerva. Jeflc, the fon of Obed, born. 2838 The building of Rome. 2840 Pyrrhus is killed at Delphi, and alfo Oreftes and his wife Hermione. 2849 Sampfon born, the fon of Manoah, at Zorab. Danaus's fifty daughters murthcr their hulbands. 2851 Samuel SZ REMEMBRANCER. 2851 Samuel born, the fon of Elkanah and Hannah. Alba Longa, built by Afcanius the fon of JEneas, king of the Latins. 2854 Hopnai and Phineas, the tv/o fens of Eli the high prieft. 2856 During which time Sampfon performs his wonderful exploits. The temple of Diana at Ephefus burnt by Eroftratus. 2866 Sampfon killeth a Lyon. 2867 Sampfon marrieth, and propounds riddles. 2868 He burns the Philiftines' corn by means of 300 foxes. He flays a thoufand Philiftines with the jaw-bone of an afs. 2875 Melanthus Micinius, king of Athens, kills Xanthus king of Thebes. 2880 Sampfon being fhut up by the Philiftines in Gaza, plucks up the top of a mountain. He difcovers to Dalilah that his ftrength lay in his hair, which fhe having cut off, he is feized. 2887 He kills himfelf and many Philiftines. 2888 The ark of the covenant taken by the Phi- liftines ; 30,000 Ifraelites flain, with Eli's two fons. The death of Eli, aged 98 years. 2889 Saul born. 2900 Homer the fecond, author of the Iliades and OdyfTea, born at Chios, eighty years after the deftru(5tion of Troy ; he was a lovely child, named firftMilefigenes •, having weakened his fight by hard and long ftudy, he was called Homer, which in the Cumean tongue fignifies blindnefs, or deprivation of fight ; born 909, fome fay. 2909 Saul anointed firft king of Ifrael. Samuel facrifices and prays to the Lord ; the Philiftines are defeated by thunder from Heaven, REMEMBRANCER. 53 Heaven, and by Samuel's perfuafion the llraelites. I919 David born, the Ton of Jefle, at Bethlehem. 2941 Abimelech, with 85 priefts, flain by Saul for adhering to David's interell. Goliath flain ; David kills Goliath the Phi- lirtine, a giant of a prodigious bulk, with a fling ; and David at the age of 22 flew Goliath. 2943 The building of London. 2949 Saul went to the witch of Endor ; fiie raifed an apparition of Samuel. The llraelites defeated, and Saul's three fons flain ; he himfelf falls on his own fword. Saul's death ; the twelve tribes divide, and Judah receive David. 2050 David anointed king of Ifrael in Hebron, by Samuel. 2957 He makes Jerufalem the feat of his king- dom. 2959 The Ark of the Covenant brought from Gilga to Shiloh, and to Jerufalem, placed at Zion, 30,000 choice men of Ifrael attending it, and finging the 68th Pfalm. 2969 Rabba, the metropolis of the Ammonites, befieged and taken, where Uriah the hufl^and of Bath-Sheba was flain. David commits adultery with Bath-Sheba. 2970 He is reproved by Nathan for taking Uriah, the Hittite's wife. 2971 Solomon born, the fon of David, by his wife Bath-Sheba. Homer the third, born at Salamis, a great and rich man. 2972 Amnon, David's fbn, raviflieth Tamar, his own After. 2974 He is killed by the command of his brother Abfalom, for having deflowered his After Tamar. 2977 Abfalom, after three years, returns to Je- C rufalem 34 REMEMBRANCER. rufalem from Gelliur, whither he flew upon killing his brother Amnon, having been pro- tedted by his grandfather Talmai, king of Gefhur, and lived two years privately. 2980 Hiram fucceeds Abiblus, joint king of Tyre, he dies, and was fucceeded by his fon, who reigned alone 34 years •, was great with David and Solomon. 298 1 A bfalom rebels, and forceth his father David to flee from Jerufalem. He fleeing from the battle with 20,000 men, is caught up by the hair, and hung on the bough of an oak ; Joab fl:rikes him through with three darts, and Abfalom flain by Joab. 2987 David attempts to number the people, for vt'hichGodfends apeftilence, and 70,000 died in one day. 2988 Rehoboam born, the fon of Solomon ; Pha»- raoh king of Egypt gives his daughter in mar- riage to Solomon. 2989 Solomon anointed king. 2990 David dies, and his fon Solomon afcends the throne. 2991 Solomon aflceth wifdom, God giveth him wifdom from above, and adds thereto riches and honours.' His famous judgment between two harlots, whereby he difcoyered which of them both was the mother of a child which they equally pre- tended to. FIFTH AGE OF THE WORLD. From I-aying the Foundation of the Temple of Solomon^ to the Dejiruciion of Jerufilem. 7.992 Solomon lays the foundation of the temple in the 489th year after the departure of the children of Ilrael out of E^ypt. Solomon REMEMBRANCER. 35 Solomon procures timber and workmen from Hiram king of Tyre, to affilt him in building the Temple. 3000 The temple of Jerufalem walls, built by king Solomon, is finiflied, four miles in cir- cumference. Jol-i-phus reckons them thirty-three Itadia or furlongs •, fo allowing eight (ladia to a mile, the whole round of the wall was four miles one eighth, being leven years and a half building. 3001 Solomon afiembles all Ifrael in order to the folemn dedication of the temple. 3009 Homer the fourth born, at Colophon, a painter and carver: Homer, the famous Greek poet was brought up by Phemius of Smyrna, who had married Homer's mother. 3013 The queen of Sheba came to fee Solomon and all his glory, to hear his wifdom, and to prefent to him her royal gifts. 3026 The rebellion of Jeroboam againfl: Solomon. 3029 The death of Solomon, who is fucceeded by his fon Rehoboam. In his time the kingdom was divided into two parts, by the revolt of the ten tribes ; only thofe of Judah and Benjamin remaining fubjedt to Rehoboam, under the name of the kingdom of Judah ; and the other ten who revolted to Jeroboam, retaining the name of the kingdom of Ifrael. 3033 Shifhak, king of Egypt, fpoileth Jerufalem. 3047 Abijah, who fucceeded Rehoboam in the kingdom of Judah, gains a great vidfory over Jeroboam, killing 500,000 of his men. Agefilaus, fon of Do.yffus, king of Lace- demon, died, aged 44.. At lea, on the coaft of Africa, on his return from Egypt, DoryfTus died, aged 84. 3049 Abijah dies, and is fucceeded by Afa, who fupprefles the idolatry that had been introduced into the kingdom of Judali, G 2 3052 Nadah, 26 REMEMBRANCER. 3052 Nadah is fuccceded by Baafha, who built Ramah, to hinder the Ifraelites from going to Jerufalem ; but Afa king of Judah engages Benhadad king of Syria to invade the terri- tories of Baafha, who thereupon quits his un- dertaking at Ramah. 3063 The building of York. The Culhites attack A fa's kingdom with 1,000,000, men, commanded by Zerah the Ethiopian. 3080 Omri, king of Ifrael, builds Samaria, and makes it the feat of his empire. 3084 Hefiod the Greek poet born. 3090 A fa is fucceeded in the throne of Judah by his fon Johofaphar, whofe reign was pious and profperous. 3096 Elijah caufes the falfe prophets of Baal to be (lain, and appoints Eliflia to be his fucceffor in the prophetic office. 3100 Ahab, the fucceffor of Omri, defeats Ben- hadad king of Syria, who had befieged Sa- maria, in a pitched battle. 3103 The third year after the great drought the Lord commanded Elijah to (hew himfclf to Ahab, promifing to fend rain upon the earth. 3106 Thalcs the mufician flourifhed at the lame time, 3107 Ahab going to lay (lege to RamothGilead (thenin the hands of the kingof Syria) he is (lain in difguife, and fucceeded by his fon Ahaziah. 3108 Elijah is taken up into Heaven in a fiery chariot. 3109 EJifha procures the army of the Ifraelices a miraculous fupply of water, and foretells their vi(5lory over the Moabites. 31 10 Lycurgus, governor of the Lacedemonians, reigned ten years. 31 12 About this time Drdo lays the foundation of Carthage. Homer the fifth, an Athenian, lived in Re- hoboam's REMEMBRANCER. 37 hoboam's time, an excellent orator, in great efteem. 31 19 Benhadad befieges Samaria, and reduces it to great ftreights •, but he and his army being feized with a panic in the night, they raife the fiege with the utmoft precipitation. 3 1 20 Jehoram,- king of Ifraci, is (lain by Jehu, who afcends the throne ; Jezebel being thrown out of a window by Jehu's order, is devoured by dogs. Ahaziah (the fon and fucceflbr of Johoram king of Judah) being killed by order of Jehu, his mother Athaliah ufurps the crown, liaving deftroyed all the royal offspring except young Joafh, who is concealed in the temple. Elifa, filter of Pygmalion, king of Tyre, (called alfo Dido) flying from Tyre upon the murder of her hufband Sichaeus, prieft of Her- cules, in company with many others, goes and fettles m Africa, and builds the famous city of Carthage. Dido, queen, fled into Lybia. Hazael, king of Syria, warring againfl: Jehu, • king of Ifrael. Lacedemonian fenate inftit'uted by Lycurgus. 3135 Carthage, the famous metropolis of Africa, built by queen Dido. 3164 Zechariah, the high prieft, is ftoned to death by order of Joafh. 3165 His country is invaded and plundered by Hazael, king of Syria, after which he is mur- dered by his own fervants, and fucceeded by his fon Amaziah. Eliflia dies about this time. 3168 Joafli is fuccefsful in his wars with Benha- dad, king of Syria, the fon of Hazael. 3178 He obtains a great victory over Amaziah, king of Judah. He dies, and is fucceeded by his fon Jero- boam the fecond, in whofe reign Jonah, Hofea, Ifaiah 38 REMEMBRANCER. Ifaiah and Amos prophefy. 3184 Medes now freed from the yoke of the Afly- rians by Arbaces, prefeft of Media, and Belefis, a prieft of Babylon, and 4 famous aftronomer. " 3194 Amaziah is fucceeded by his fon Uzziah, (or Azariah) in whofe reign the prophets Ifaiah, Jonah, Hofea, and Amos arife in the kingdom of Judah, 3195 Captivity of the Jews foretold by Ifaiah. 3197 Jcnah cafe over-board ; the prophet Jonah being Iwaiiowed by a whale, continues three idays in his belly, and afterwards is caft by it on dry land. 3199 ' Homer the fixth, born at Argos, a poet and geometrician. 3201 Nevvniage, king of Sycambri, fo called from Cambria, the queen, wife of Antenor, and Franks of Francus, king. 3204 Joel prophefied about this time. 3210 Amulius Sylvius, having drove OHt his bro- ther Numitor, 42 years king of the Latins. 3217 Amos the prophetdies, according toOnkclus. 3228 The Olympic games, which had been long difcontinued, are renewed by Iphitus ; and from hence tlie epocha of the Olympiads commences, 324.4 Hofea began to prophefy. 3246 Nahum prophefied againft Nineveh. 3248 Aleman the lyric poet lived. 3251 Romulus kills Amulius, and fets up Nu- mitor. 3252 Romulus, king of Rome '^y years and 10 months ; and according to the chronologifts, in his time lived Achaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah ; Micah and Habakkuk prophets. The building of the city of Rome's wall ploughed out by Romulus. 3254 The rape of the Sabine virgins by command of Romulus. 3257 Arbaces, governor of Media (whom the learned dean Prideaux makes the fame with ^^ ■"••'■ Tiglath- REMEMBRANCER. 39 Tiglath-Pilefer) and Belefis, (otherwife call'd Naboncrzzar) befiege SardanapaJus, king of Affyria, in Nineveh ; who at laft burns him- lelf, with his wives, eunuchs, and all his riches, in his own palaces. The famous Epocha of NabonefTar began. 3257 Hereupon Figlath-Pilefer, is acknowledged king of AlTyria, and Nabonazzar lays the foundation of the Babylonifh empire. ^262 Tatius, joint king with Romulus, killed by the Lavinians. This prince being invaded by Rezinkingof Syria, and Pekah king of Ilrael, begs affiftance of Tiglath-Pilefer, and fubmits to pay him tribute. 3264 Tiglath-Pilefer overcomes Rezin, and puts him to death, then enters the land of Ifrael, takes feveral cities, and carries away a great number of Captives. 3272 Syracufe built by Archias of Corinth. 3277 Hezekiah fucceeds Ahaz in the kingdom of Judah ', applies himfelf to reftore the true wor- Ihip of God, dellroys all the idols and images that were in the land. 3279 Hoft^ea, thinking to fliake off the yoke of Salamanefer, makes an alliance with Sa, or Sabacon, king of Egypt, and negleds to pay his tribure. 3283 Hereupon Salamanefer takes Samaria, (after a three years fiege) carries away the ten tribes captive, and fo puts an end to the kingdom of Ifrael, after it had fublifted fcparately from that of Judah 254 years. 3289 Romulus dies. .'f29i Homer the 7th, a Meonian born, in the time of Numa Pompilius j he corrc^ed the Greek tongue. Hezekiah's ficknefs ; Ifaiah foretells his cure, and gives him a fign and pledge of it, that the fhadow of the fun ihould go 10 degrees back upon 40 REMEMBRANCER. upon Ahaz's dial, and that he fhould live fifteen years more. 3294. Niima Martius, firft Roman pontiff. 3295 Sennacherib continues the war againfl He- zekiah, but 185,000 of his army being deftroy'd in one night by an Angel, he returns to Nineveh j where he is kill'd by two of his fons, and fuccteded by a third named Efarhaddon. 3297 The Parthenians under Phalantus built Ta- rc^ntum. 3305 Cyrus king of Perfia, foretold by Ifaiah, 100 years before he was born. Midas, for wrong judgment had afies ears fixed on him by Apollo, which his barber could not conceal, but whifpered it in a hole, thus, " what monftrous ears fprout from king Midas's head !" 3307 Midas king of Phrygia, had all his meat turn'd into gold, and then dies for want of bread. 3323 Aflaradon or Efhardon, re-unites the Afly- rian and Babylonifh, or Nineveh empires, to that of Chaldea. 3329 His generals carry Manafleh prifoner in chains to Babylon. 3346 Byzanciumj or Conftantinople, built by Paulanias. 3347 Alemeon and Lefches flourifh. Holofcrnes, general of Nebuchadonazzar, (or Saofduchen) the iucceflfor of Efarhaddon, invades Judea, and his head is taken off by Judith, a woman of the tribe of Simeon. 3363 Amon is murder'd by his fervants, and fucceeded by his fon Jofiah, in whofe reign Jeremiah and Zcphaniah prophefy. 2S^^ Thales, the Milefian flouriihed, the prince of the Ionian philofophers ; and Solon born. 3369 Tullus Hortilius, third king of Rome, deftroyed by fire from heaven : Temple re- ftored by king Jofiah, and the bible from 640, three years after Thales, the Milefian, was born. 3370 Jofiah 30 REMEMBRANCER. 41 Jofiah the king reftorcd the temple, and the true worfliip of the Lord. g375 Prufias in Bithynia built. 3378 The Fidenates and Sabines rebel againfi: the Romans. 3380 NabopalaiTur, kills Saracus, in Nineveh. Draco (the bloody-law-giver) is chofen Ar- chon of Athens. 5384 Nebuchodonazar, takes Jerufalem, and Joachim, the king thereof: Ancus Marcius, then king of Rome, beat the Volfci. 3389 Latins conquered by Ancus Marcius, a king of Rome, he built the city of Oftium, now Oftio, a fea port to Rome, at the mouth of the Tyber. 3394 Jofiah, is flain in battle againft Necho, king of Egypt, and is fucceeded by his fon Jehoahaz ; but this prince after a reign of three Months, is difpofTefs'd by Necho, who places his brother Eliakim upon the throne, and changes his name to Jehoiakim. 3395 Habakkuk, prophefied under his reign, 3398 Nebuchadnezzar the fecond, takes Jerufa- lem, and carries away Daniel and his compa- nions to Babylon. From hence are reckon'd the 70 years of the Babylonifh captivity. 3399 Jeremiah, begins to reduce his prophecies into writing. 3402 Daniel, interprets NehuchadneEzar*s dream of the great image. 3404 Jehoiakim, rebels againft Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchaddnezzar, fends'an army and waftes the whole land of Judea, and carries away 3023 captives. 34.05 Mordecai, queen Elther's uncle, and Ezekiel, carried into captivity. Cyrus the great born, fon of Cambyfes and Mandane, daughter of Afty ages, king of Media. Fidena, taken by the Romans. Jehoiakim 42 remembrancer; Jehoiakim dies, fucceeded by his fon Jeco- niah, who (after reigning three months) is car- ried prrloner to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar ; and his uncle Zedekiah made king in his (lead. 3410 Ezckiel. begins to prophefy in Chaldea, and Ezekiei's yifion on the 15th of Tammuz, or June. 341 2 Zedekiah makes a league with Hophra, king of Egypt, and rebels againll Nebuchadnezzar. 3414 Nebuchadnezzar belieges Jerufalem, and the Egyptian army r-dvajices to its relief; but upon Nebuchadnezzar's marching to give them bat- tle, they retire into their own country. 3415 Lamentations of Jeremiah finilhed. 3416 Nebuchadnezzar takes Jerufalem, utterly dc- ftroys both the city and temple, puts out Ze- dekiah*s eyes, and carries him to Babylon, and fends the Jews captive beyond the Euphrates. Thus ended the kingdom of Judah, after it had fubfifted 388 years from the time of the fe- paration, after the falling otF of the ten tribes, and 134 years after the dcftrudlion of the king- dom of ifrael. The dellrudion of thefird temple of Jeru- falem by Nebuchadnezzar ; he took away all the treafure he could find in the temple and the king's palace; and carried away captive the king, his mother, courtiers, and 1.0,000 able men, v^ith 8000 artificers; he laid the whole city in afhes, and rafed the walls to ihe ground. Thus ended the kingdom of Judea, after it had fubfifted 468 years. Nebuchadnezzar took the city of Jerufalem, as prophefied by Ezekiel 10 years before. 3417 Nebuchadnezzar returns to Babylon, and ere<5ls the golden image in the plain of Dura. 3419 He befieges Tyre. Obadiah prophefies againft Idumea. ^^426 Nebuchadnezzar caufeth three Hebrew young men to be caft into a fiery furnace, from whence they REMEMBRANCER. 43 they are miraculoufly delivered by an angel, and the God of Shadrach, Mefhach, and Abednego» to great honour. 3432 He takes Tyre, after a fiege of 13 years. He makes war againft Egypt. 3433 Having finifhed all thefe wars, he returns to Babylon. 3434 He dreams of a great fire. 3435 Apries, king of Egypt, gives battle to Amafis, viceroy of Nebuchadnezzar, but is defeated, taken prifoner, and ftrangled, and Amafis reigned 44 years, king of Egypt. SIXTH AGE OF THE WORLD. From the Dejlru^ion of the Temple and City of Jeritfalsviy to the Birth of Chrift. 3435 Nebuchadnezzar, boafting of his victories, and. great buildings, falls diftrafled, and by the judgment of God, is reduced to the condition of a bead, living abroad in the fields, eating grafs like an ox. 3442 After feven years fpent among the beafts of the field, he returns to his former condition. J444 He fets up a golden ftatue, and orders it to be worfhipped. Daniel's three companions are cafl: into the fiery furnace. Nebuchadnezzar is reftored to his reafon and kingdom: foon after which he dies, and is fuc- ceeded by his fon Eyilmerodach, who releafes Jeccniah from his imprifonment, and promotes him to great honour. 3445 Daniel's vilion of the four myfterious ani- mals. Solon dies, aged 79 years. 3446 Nerigliflar declares war againft the Medes ; but Cyrus, being made general of the Medes and 44 REMEMBRANCER and Perfians, kills Nerigliflar in battle, and routs Crefus his confederate. 3449 Belfhazzar's impious feaft, and death. 3450 Daniel cafl: into the lion's den. About this time lived Arion the famed muli- cian, Alceus, Epimenides, Greek poets, Sappho the poetefs, and Pythagoras the philofopher. 3455 Cyrus, king of Perfia, vanquifhes Crefus, king of Lydia, afecond time, purfues him, and takes him prilbncr in Saidis, his capital city. Crefus pafTing the river Halys, upon a bridge built by Thales, is taken by Cyrus at Sardis -, Crefus being to be burnt by command of Cy- rus king of Perfia, he cried out So'ion j Cyrus hearing the cry, demands the reafon •, to which Crefus replied, Solon told me in my fancied profperity, that no man was to be accounted happy before his death. On which Cyrus was moved to pity, and not only gave him his life, but ever after honoured him for Solon's fake. 3456 Panthea kills hcrfelf on the body of her huf- band Abradates. JE(op the fagacious fabulifl: flourifhed. Thales dies, aged 90 years, and is fucceeded in his fchool by Anaximander, who invented maps and globes. 3457 x-^naximander dies, aged 64 years, and is fuc- ceeded in his fchool by Anaximenes, who firft invented the figns of the Zodiac. 3466 Cyrus lays fiege to Babylon, and takes it, and having flain Belfhazzar, places his uncle Cyaxares upon the throne. This Cyaxares is called in fcripture Darius the Mede. 3468 Cyaxares dies, and Cyrus fucceeds him ; and with him begins the Perfian monarchy, the Af- fyrian empire being now deftroyed. In the firft year of his reign Cyrus gives leave to the Jews to return to their own country, and rebuild the temple, and fo puts an end to the 70 years REMEMBRANCER. 45 70 years captivity. About this time lived the feven wife men of Greece, viz. Thaies the Milefiarv, Chylon the Lacedemonian, Cleobulus of Corinth, Byas of Pryene, Pittacus of Miteiene, Solon of Sala- mis, and Periander a tyrant of Corinth. Cyrus fets the Jews at liberty feven years before. Now fungthe merry poet Anacreon the lyric, choaked by a grape. 3469 The Jews return to Jerufalem, and begin to rebuild their city and temple, butareobftrudled by the Samaritans. 3472 Polycrates, tyrant of Samium, and Polycra- tes the Satnian. 3475 Cyrus, with an army of 200,000 men, killed by Tomiris, queen of the Scythians, about this time, and is fucceeded by his fon Cambyfes, king of Perfia and Media, vyho forbids the Jews to go on with the temple. 3480 Cambyfes conquers Egypt, puts Jiis brother Smerdis to death, and dies foon after. 3481 Polycrates, tyrant of Samos, is treacheroufly murdered by Oretes the Perfian governor of Sardis (under Cyrus) at Sardis. 3483 Smerdis the Magian (in fcripture called Ar- taxerxes) fucceeds Cambyfes, and flops the building of the temple ; but he is foon killed, and Darius the fon of Hyftafpes is placed upon the throne of Perfia, by the cunning of [^ groom Othanes. 3484 Darius, by a decree, permits the Jews to go on with the building of the temple. 3489 The temple finiftied, and dedicated. Capitol at Rome built by Tarquin the proud, the laft king of the Romans, 432 years before the burning of the capitol at Rome. 3492 Darius, by a ftratagem of Zopyrus, retakes Babylon, which had revolted. 3495 Lucretia ravilhed by Tarquin's fon, Ahafuerus 46 REMEMBRA^JCElt. Ahafuerus puts away his queen Vafhti, and efpoufeth Efther, niece of Mordecai ; Ahafu- erus cauks Haman to be hanged on a gallows he had prepared for Mordecai, and reverfes the edidt he had publifhed to deftroy all the Jews that were in his kingdom. 3495 Efther, queen, her feaft begins on the nth day of Deoda, or fecond of our February. This month is a thirteen th month among the Hebrews, ■ happens every fecond or third year, at leaft fe- ven times in 19 years, the Cycle when the moon perfefts a complete revolution, and then is this month inferted. Efther, obtains a recall of the fentence againft the Jews. 3496 Tarquin the Proud, the feventh and laft king of Rome, expelled with all his family, and the confular government eftabliftied. 3497 Confulate firft began, lafted 460 years before Julius Caefar. L. Junius Brutus, and L. Tar- quinius Collatinus were the firft confuls. 3498 Rome befieged by Porfenna king of the Tuf- cans, in favour of Tarquin. Pythagoras flouriftied in the time of Xeno- phon. 1^501 Poplicola and T. Lucretius chofcn confuls ; they revive the Cerrlus and L-uftrum, and find 1 30,000 men in Rome paft the age of puberty. 3505- Porfenna, king of Hctruria, or Hetrufey, or Clufium. 3507 Hippocrates began his tyranny at Gela. 3511 Darius, king of Perfia, fends to demand earth and water from the Grecian cities in Europe. 3514 Daiius fends a great army againft the Gre- cians, which army is defeased by Mihiades (one of the ten Athenian generals) with only 10.000 men, overcomes the Perfia n general Datis, >• ith 100,000 foot, and 10,000 horlt-, in the plains of Marathon, killing vaft numbers at that fa- mous REMEMBRANCER. 47 mous battle. 3515 1 he book of Efther is now fuppofed to be . wrote by Mordccai, uncle to Efther the Jewifli queen of Perfia. 3516 C. M. Coriolanus, was driven into exile. Olympiad 73, fays Plutarch, becaufe he op- pofed diftnbuting among the people the corn that had been imported from Sicily. 3517 The Birth of Herodotus the Greek hiftorian. 3520 • Darius dies, and is fucceeded by his fon Xerxes, who is alfo called Ahafuerus, king of Perfia, reigned 20 years, was defeated attheHel- lefpont, and his looofhips deftroyed by the vi- gilance and condu6l of Themiftocles, re(ftor of Greece. Tribunes eftablifhed for the Roman people, inftituted. Q^ Martins, firnamed Coriolanus, by a con- ful of that name, was the firft knight banneret, made in the field of battle betwixt the Romans and the Volfci. Gelon (a native of Gela in Sicily) upon the death of Hippocrates, fucceeds him in the ty,- ranny. 3521 L. Quinftius Cincinnatus the firft dictator chofe by the Romans. 3524 Xerxes invades Greece with an army of 1,000,000 men. Leonidas, king of Sparta, with only 500 men, killed 20,000 of them af the pafs of Thermopylae ; but being at laft overpowered by numbers, they bravely perifhed on the fpot. The fame year the greateftpart of Xerx s's fleet is deftroyed near Salamis by the Athenian general Themiftocles. 3524 Terrified by this ill fuccefs, he returns in- gioriouQy into Afia. 2525 The forces that Xerxes left behind him, un- der ihe command ot M.^rdonius, are cut to pieces near Platea, by Paulanias, and Mardo- nius 48 REMEMBRANCER. niiis himfelf killed. On the very Tame day Leotychides burns the remainder of Xerxes's fleet at Mycale, and de- feats his land army. 3528 The birth of Thucydides. 3530 Democritus, was a great Aftronomer and geometrician ; he made himfelf blind, by look- ing upon a brazen globe when the fun fhone upon it : He was born at Abdera in Thrace^ and called the Abderite. 3531 Xerxes is flain by Artabanus, who ufurps the government for feme months, but is then killed, and Artaxerxes Longimanus (the fon of Xerxes) placed on the throne. Pindar and Symonides, lyric poets •, and So- phocles and Euripedes, tragic poets ; lived about this time. 3532 Epicharmus a famous SyraCufan poet. 3535 Cymon the Athenian, (fon of Miltiades, by the daughter of the king of Thrace) a man of confummate wifdom. 353^ Cymon the Grecian captain flouriflied in his time -, and in the 4th year of Archidamus king of Sparta, mount Taygetus was almoft fwal- lowed up by a moft dreadful earthquake that happened at Sparta •, in which, 20,000 inhabi- tants and all the houfes but five, were deilroyed. 3537 Ariftides, the great Athenian commander dies. 3538 The death of Hiero, tyrant of Syracufc; his brother Thrafybulus. 3540 The Roman conful, Servilius, defeats theSa- bines, and Quinclius, the Equi, and Volfci, and takes the city of Antium. 3544 The Carthaginians war againft the Moor Numidians. Ezra, the Jew, fent by Artaxerxes king of Perfia, in the feventh year of his reign, to Jeruialem, &c. &c. 3548 Appius Herdonius, a Sabine, attempts the rcdudign REMEMBRANCER. 49 rcdiKftion of Rome. 3584 Aefchylus, the poet dies. ^550 The Jews finiflied the building of the walls of Jerufalem, from whence many date the fcvcnty weeks mentioned by Daniel. 3551 Nehemiah, being fent governor to Judea, rebuilds the walls of Jcrufalem, re-peof)les if, and proceeds to reform the Jcwifh church and Rate ; antl he, having finifhcd his work at Je- rulalcn\, and here the old tellament hiftory ends. in his time Zechariah and Malachi prophefy, Cimon the Athenian commander, with 200 fail of fhips, attacks the Perfians with 300 fail, takes 100, delboys many others, lands in Cilicia, defeats Megabyzus, the Pcrflan gene- ral, with 300,000 men. 3552 Decemvirs firfterefted in Rome. 3554 The laws of the twelve tables ratified. Alcibiades was born. Inarus the Libyan king, contrary to agree- ment, is delivered to the mother of king Artaxcrxes, who caufed him to be crucify'd, and all his companions beheaded ; upon which Megabyzus the Perfian general revolts, raifesa great army in his province of Syria, and de- feats Ofiris, who was fent againft him with 200,000 men. 3557 The Decemvirate abolilhed, and the Confuls reftored. About this time, lived Aefchylus the tragic poet J Herodotus, Halycarnafllis, and Thucy- dides the hiftorians •, and Ifocrates the Orator. 3562 The Equi, Volfci, and Sabines. The Athenians declare war againft the Sa- mians. 3564 Pindar, the famous Theban poet dies. 3566 liberates, the famous Athenian philofopher born : His panegyrick upo;; Evagoras, kmgof Salami s, was fo well received, that his fon Nicoclcs gave him twenty talents as a reward D for so REMEMBRANCER. for it. He dies at 98 years of age. 3568 Anaxagoras the famous philofopher, and preceptor to Pericles. 3570 The Fidenares revolting from the Roman L. Sergius. 3573 The Peloponefian war began, between the Athenians and Lacedemonians. A general plague through all the known world ; Hippocrates writ of it, great plague at Athens. Arcefilaus, the fourth king of Cyrene, be- ing killed by his fubjeds. 3575 Pericles death. The birth of Plato. Phidias dies. 3576 Anaxagoras the great philofopher dies: He mended the Ionic philofophy, and tirft admit- ted an intelligent being, diftinft from matter, and alfo fuppofed the air to be the firft princi- ple of the univerfe — He was the firft that wrote of the cclipfe of the moon, he died aged 70. An extraordinary drought occafioned a fa- mine, which was followed by a dreadful plague in Rome. 3583 The beginning of this year a great earth- quake, and an eclipfe of the fun, happened at Athens together. 3590 Themiftocles the famous Athenian captain, who was banifhed by the Athenians, kills him- felf, rather than lead an army (for the king of Perfia) againft his country. 3591 Nicias, the Athenian, makes war in Sicily at the inftigation of Alcibiades, wherein he is oppofed by Nicias, but to no purpofe. 3592 Demofthenes and Efchines contemporary Orator. S593 About this time ] ived Ariftophanes the comic poet, Socrates the philofopher, and Alcibiades the Athenian general. ^Sg6 Hannibal, the fon of Gifco, the Carthaginian. 359^ REMEMBRANCER. 51 3596 Conon the Athenian general lived. 3600 Alcibiades the Athenian general, cut off his great dogs tail to find the people matter to talk of rather than of himfelf : He was expelled, re- called, begot a child by king Agis's wife, con- quered the Spartans at fea, he fets up 30 tyrants, takes Athens, Sec. he was burnt in his houfe, he dead. Amilcar brother to Hannibal lived ; was the Carthaginian general, after Hannibal's death. ^602 Thralyballus, the Athenian, banifhed the 30 tyrants, and to 10 new governours, brought up the word Amneftia, lignifying to forget injuries paft •, he was a wife, warlike and juft prince, and arriving in Sicily with -a fleet of lliips, he was flain in his tent, the watch being faft aflecp. Athens taken, the Peloponefian war ended, and peace made. Cyrus (his younger brother) makes war againft Artaxerxes, and is kili'd in battle. Ten thouland Greeks under Xenophon, who had fcrved the vanquiftied prince, make a fa- mous retreat. 3605 About the laft months of the firft year of the 95th Olympiad, Socrates entered into his 70th year. 3608 At this time lived Plato the philofopher. 3609 The death of Lyfander. 3616 Lucretius the prophane poet lived. 3617 Rome (but not the capitol) taken by the Gauls, 490 kept feven months, who were after- wards cut to pieces by M. Furius Camillus. 3620 The birth of Ariftotle. Pagan priefts, exempted by the Romans from all wars, fave thaf againft the Gauls : this was in Camillus's time. 3623 The birth of Demofthenes. 3634 The fame year happened the famous battle at Leu(5^ra, wherein the Lacedemonians, under D 2 the 52 REMEMBRANCER. the condud of Cleombrotus, were defeated by the Thcbans general who were commanded by Epaminondas, Clembrotus fell in the action, and by his fon Agefipoles. L.atins and VoUci, conquered by a ftrata- gem of Camillus, firebrand. 3640 The building of Edinburgh, and Cambridge. 3641 The famous battle of Mantinea, wherein Epaminondas prevails, but was flain by the fon of Xenophon the hiftorian. 3643 Agefilaus king of Sparta, goes into Egypt with an army to ailill Tachus. 3648 Alexander the great born, fon to Philip king of Macedon and Oiimpia. The fame night the temple of Dianna at Ephefius was burnt as fome lay, by one Heref- tratus 5 and others, Ligdamis, in order to tranfmit his name to pofterity. And (June 6th, thirteen years monarch of Greece) Philip king of Macedon then in the field, that his wife Olimpias, daughter of Neoptolemus king of Epirus. 3651 Dion dies, the deliverer of Syracufe Calyp- pus. Lycophron lived, the tyrant of ThelTaly, the poet. 26s2 Maufolus king of Caria dying, the nobility and people of Rhodes drive out the Carian garriibns, and recover their former liberty and government. Artemifia queen of Caria, who built the maufoleum, one of the kven wonders of the world, wife of king Maufoleus, out of her ar- dent affedion to her hufband, order'd his dead body to be burnt, and drank of the allies in her wine every 'day, fhe ere6led a mod famous tomb to perpetuate his memory ; 4CX)0 work- men worked upon it, and tho' (he did not live to fee it finifhed, the architedls performed it, calling it Maufoelum, after the king's name. 3656 Plato REMEMBRANCER, 53 ^6^6 Plato dies, aged 81 years. 3657 Cornelius Scipio NarcL-if, one of the confuls, falls fick, M. Pompilius Lenas, his coUegue. 3658 Furius Camilkis (Ion of the great Cannillus) and Appius Claudius Cceus lived. 3659 Timoleon attacks and takes Syracufe. 3660 Plautius Hipfeus and T. Manilas Torquatus. S^6^ The birth of Epicurus. 3664 Eumenes, 22 years king of Troy, Alexander the Great, Phocian, and Datames lived. Timoleon overthrows the Carthaginians in a great battle. 3666 Bagoas, the Eunuch, poifons Ochus, and makes his brother Arfes king in his ftead. 3668 Bagoas deftroys Arfes, and places Darius the fon of Al'anus, who Juftin fays was called Co- domanus, on the throne. Philip, king of Macedon, flain by Paufanias, and fucceeded by his fon Alexander the Great. 3670 Oiaf, i^neas, being monarch of Ireland, Far- quhard, king of Ireland, had two fons, who were princes of great fame and valour, Fergus and Fcnthairs, and Fcrquhar, king of Ulfter, firft went into Scotland, and became the firft king there. Cathluon, fon of Goud, aided by Herimon, invaded and became the firft king of Scotland, 1301, but Buchanan, and the other Scots au- authors fix their firft king Fergus. Fergus the firft, 28 years king of Scotland, of Irifh birth. Euclid, Mathematician at Alexandria, theela- borate compiler of the ancient geometry, lived in the days of Juddus, high prieft of the Jews, Daniis Oftus, and Codomman, kings of Perfia, Ariftotle prince 'of philosophers, and Diogenes the Cynic, according to the learned Whifton, died, and Demofthenes the Athenian Orator, Ariftotle, in his Zenith. S'^71 Alexander the Great, pafles into Afia, and * defeats 54 REMEMBRANCER. defeats Darius, with an army ot 600,000 men at the battle of Ilus, in which about 100,000 were killed, and ihe tent ot Darius taken, in two pitched battles. 2672 He deft roys Tyre, and marches to Jcrufalem, where the high prieft diverts his anger, anden- gages his favour to the Jews. 3674 Alexandria, a city in Egypt, built by him, and about that time he beat Darius, king of Perfia, at Arbella, Auguft 26. Darius receives a final overthrow at the battle of Arbella, being flain in his flight by Beffus, one, of his own captains, and wiih him ends the Perfian monar(:hy. 3677 Porus, conquered by Alexander the Great. 3681 Alexander (ihe founder of ihe Grecian em- pire) having pufhed his conquefts as far as the Indies, returns to Babylon, and dies there, in the 33d year of his age, June 28th. 3682 After the death of Alexander, the great of- ficers in his army divide the empire among themlelves, Lyfimacus obtains Thrace 40 years. 3683 Agarhocles, 29 years king of Sicily. Perdiccas firft murders Cynane, the daughter of Philip late king of Macedon, and proir.otes her daughter Ada (or Eurydice) to be the wife of king Arideus (or Philip) upon which Anti- gonus, governor of Pamphylia, &c. retires to Greece, to accufe Perdiccas to Antipater and Craterus. 3684 Ptolemy, the fon of Lorgue, by the Greeks, called Soter, leizes on Egypt, and conquers Judea. Papirius, firft law-profeflx)r at Rome. Timoleon, general of the Syracufans, died, to his memory was ere6tcci a monument in the market place. 3686 Polyperchon and Olimpias create Eumenes general in Afia. l^emetrius REMEMBRANCER. 55 3686 Demetrius Polycrates 17 years king ofAfia. 3688 Arideus (called Philip) joint king of Ma- cedon, &c. is murdered by Olimpias, and Alex- ander y^gus, Ton of Alexander the Great. 3691 Eumenes, an officer under Alexander the Great, denying to lend him 300 talents, on pre- tence that he had no more tiian one; r.hr king ordered Eumenes' tent to be burnt, in which were found lOoo talents in gold and Silver. Take up your money, fays Alexander, keep it, and I will keep you Lie. 3692 Seleucus Nicator or Nicanor, 32 years king of Syria, having taken Demetrius, Polycrates king of Afia poiteffed himfelf of Afia, and Se- leucus founds the Sy; ian monarchy. 3694 Samuites, 30,000 flain by Papirius Curior. 3697 Fergus the firrt king of Scotland was drowned . at Carrickfergus. Cleopatra, the filler of Alexander the Great, put to death by order of Antigonus, governor of Afia. Eumenes, a carrier's fon in Cardia, after having raifed himfelf by true valour to the poft of a general, was ftarved to death by order of Antigonus. 3698 At this time lived Democritus, Zeno, Euclid, Epicurus, and Pleraclitus, now in vogue. 3714 At this time lived Theocritus author of the Idyles, or Paftorals, which Virgil imitated. iEfculapius came to Rome on purpofe to cure the foldiery of a mortal flux, contracled by eating too greedily o[ the Samnites' fpoil. 3724 Hortenfius born. 3725 Nicomedes fucceeded his father Zipetes in the kingdom of Bithynia. 3727 Pto emy Philadelphus, the fucceflTor of Pto- lemy Soter, caufes the Hebrew fcripture to be tranflated into Greek. This honeft king, having lodged the remains of his father in the grand Pyramid, became mighty 56 REMEMBRANCER. mighry gotjly all of a fudden •, nothing would ferve his turn, but to have the Hebrew bible tranflated into Greek, which was done by 72 arch- levites from Jerufalem, to fuch perfeftion, that not one word through the whole work dif- fered : though in our days, commentators, re- finers, and text- menders, blame the whole fep- tuagint verfion. Fabius Maximus, five times conful, lived. 3728 Brennus, king of the Gauls, comes into Ma- cedonia with 140,000 foot, and 10,000 horfe j againft v.'hom Soilhenes. 5729 The Romans drive Pyrrhus out of Italy ; and Ptolemy fends an ambaffador to defire their alliance. 3732 Pyrrhus, kin^ of Epirus, was (lain by a tile flung at him by a woman •, his head was cut off by Zopyrus, one of Antigonus's foldiers, and his fon Helenus was fent honourably home by Antigonus. 3735 PyrrhuSjkingofEpirus, waswarned byCaius Fabricius, the Roman general, to beware of his phyfician, for that he had offered topoifon him for a reward. 3'740 The firft Punick war, which held twenty- four years. 3744 Berofus, the famous, now flouriflied, a Ba- bylonian hiftorian, and dedicated his hillory to Antiochus Theos, which contained the aftro- nomical obfervations of 480 years; while he taught at Athens, his reputation for aftrological predictions was fo great, that the Athenians ereded a (latue to him m the Gymnafium, with a golden tongue. 3746 The inhabitants of Segefta and Aliena maf- facred the African garnfon, and opened their gates to the Roman confuls. 3748 About : his time a dreadful earthquake hap- pened at Rhodes. Caius Duilius beat the Romans at fea. 3750 The D 749 REMEMBRANCER. 57 3750 The birth of Philopemon. :jy53 ManliusVulfo and Marcus Atillius Regulus with a fleet. 3755 Fulvius and y^milius engage the Carthagi- nian fleet ofi'Cape Hermea, or Cape Mercury, and Tunk 104 of their fliips, took ^Oy and killed 15,000 men. 3'75'7 Sirnames, firft came up in Greece, from great A£ls, &c. as Soter from Saviour-, from marks on the body, as Phyficon, or Gryphos, gore- belly'd, or hook-nofe, from fome virtue, as Euegetus, benefa-flor, Philadelphos, lover of his brethren •, or from fuccefs, as Eudemon, fortunate ; from liberality, as Dacon, giver : one of the Ptolemys was called Lamyros, as much as to fay, conceited. Ptolemy Kuergetes fucceeds Ptolemy Phila- delphus, and makes himfelf mafter of Syria and Judea. 3758 Arfaces frees the Parthians from the Mace- donian yoke, and lays the foundation of the Parthian empire. About this time lived Berofus, who wrote the hidory of Afli)'ria and Babylon. 3760 Canon, the m ahcmatician, to appeafe Pto- lemy's wrath ag'inft the priefts of the Zephy- rian Venus, for loving the hair his queen Be- renice cut ofi^from her own head as a token of joy for his Syrian vicftory, points out to him feven liars, near ihe tail of the lion, declaring them to be Berenice's hair, and which ilill re- main a conflellation under that name. Plautus, the comFc poet at Rome. 3761 Rrgulus, (lain in a tun. 3783 Ptolemy Euerg^ces his fon and fucceflbr; Ptolemy Philopater enters into a war with An- tiochus the Great, king of Syria. Hannibal, the Carthagenian general, marches' over the Ahps into Italy, and (within the fpace of a few years) defeated the Romans in feveral battles, 3786 The 58 REMEMBRANCER. 3786 The fecond Punick war, began by Hannibal the Great, lafted. 3794 Marcellus the Roman conful befieges Syra- cufe (a city in Sicily 22 miles in circumference) which is defended by the engines contrived by the famous mathematician Archimedes, three years, againft the whole art, courage, and in- duftry of Pvome, with fuch deftrucTtive methods as no engine was ever heard of before. Hicronymus fucceeds Hiero, king of Sicily, who reigned ^6 years. Hippocrates and Epicydes (two Carthaginian generals.) 3796 Archimedes, flain by a foldier on the fands of Syracufe, feized by Marcellus. 3797 Virtue and Honour, temples of that name, at Rome by Marcellus. 3801 The death of Fabius Maximus. 3802 Scipio defeats Hannibal in Africa, and takes Carthage, which was demolifbed by order of the Roman fenate. About this time lived Ennius and Terence, Roman poets. Maffinifah, king of Numidia. 3806 Syphax, king of Numidia, and Afdrubal, conquered and hanged. 3809 Hannibal prevails with Antiochus, king of Syria, to enter into a war with the Romans, which lafted feven years, in which he was un- fuccefsful, and makes an inglorious peace. 3816 P. Cornelius Scipio (firnamed Nafica.) Lufitania, now Portugal, conquered by Sci- pio. 3820 Scipio Africanus dies, after vanquilhing Hannibal in Africa. 3821 Philopemen dies. 3822 Hannibal poifons himfelf, to prevent his fal- ling into the hands of the Romans, aged 64. 3828 Heliodorus attempting to rob the te.mple of Jerufalem, is prevented by an angel. Jefus REMEMBRANCER. 59 3828 J fu^ Syrac, writ his book, Jefus, fon of Siracti, lived. Antiochus Epiphanes fucceeds his brother Scleucus in the kingdom of Syria, who proves a violent periccuior of the Jews, takes Jerufa- lem by (form, and prophanes the temple. 3836 Matthias being dead, his fons take up arms againll him, Juuas Maccabeus his fon is m:ide captain of the Jews. 3837 The perlecution is violently carried onagainft the Jews, the feven brothers of Judas Macca- beus, and their mother are martyr'd. 3840 AntiOchus Epiplianes dies miierably, and is fuccccded by Antiochus Eupator, who ftill opprclTcs the Jews, but is vanquifhed by Judas Maccabeus. 3841 Perils, is intirely routed at Pydna, by the Roman conful Paulus Aemilius, who killed 20,000 of his troops. Paulus Aemilius, being one of this years cenfors, by the cenfus taken $^7^552 citizens are found in Rome fit to bear arms. Aemilius dies. 3843 Judas Maccabees is flain in battle, and fucceed- ed by Jonathan, as captain of the Jewifh forces. 3847 Dalmatia invaded by the Romans. 3853 The birth of Marius. 3855 The death of Cato the Cenfor. 3858 Carthage deftroyed by Scipio the younger fon of Paulus Aemilius, who acquired the furuame Africanus, as his father by adoption had done. The third and lad Punic war ended, 4 years. 3869 Bratus makes great conquefts in Lufit:;nia, and penetrates ineo the country of the Callaici, engages an army of 60,000 Spaniards, kills 50,000, takes 6000 prifoners. 3872 Scipio ^miLanus Africanus, added to his furname Numantinus, having taken and ruined Numantia demolifhed in Spain. 3874 After long v/ars with the king of Syria, un- der various captains, and with various fuccefs; Hyrcanus 6o REMEMBRANCER. Hyrcanus frees the Jews from the Syrian yoke, 3875 He conquers the Edomites. and makes them embrace the Jewifli rehgion. Eratofthenes, an eminent aftronomer in Greece, firft defined the Obliquity of the Zodiack, and aflign'd 15^ to an hour of time, or 900 miles to alter an hour eall, or weft. Laodice, wife of Ariarathes, 6th king of Cappadocia. 3879 A great part of Africa being covered with Locults, deftroyed all the produce of the Earth, &c. and being afterwards blown into the African fea, were thrown upon the fhore in prodigious quantities and bred a plague, which fwept away an infinite number of men and all kind of animals, and in Numidia only 300,000 people periflied, in Africa Propria 200,000, and 30,000 Roman foldiers about Utica, and in that city 1500 a day. 3882 Domitius, the Roman procunful in Spain, overthrows the Allobroges at Vindalia upon the Rhone, and kills 20,000 Gauls, and takes 3000 prifoners. ^ 3883 The Arverni, under their king Bitultick, with 200,000 men, come againft the Romans. The famous Opimian wine made. Cleopatra preparing poifon for her fon Gry- pus, was forced to drink it herfelf. 3895 The birth of Cicero. Hyrcanus befieges and takes Samaria. 3897 He is fucceeded by his fon, Ariftobulus, who afllimes the titleof king, but reigns only one yeaf. 3898 Pompey the great born at Rome, and Cicero. Alexander Janneus fucceeds Ariftobulus. 3899 He befieges Ptolemais, but is defeated by Lathirus, king of Cyprus. He makes an alliance with Cleopatra queen of Egypt. 3903 ' Marius and Catulus engage and gain a com- pleat vidory over the Cimbri, kill j 20,000, and. REMEMBRANCER. 61 and cake 60,000 men. 3904 The birth of Julius Csefar under the fixth confulate of Marius. 3906 Alexander, kingof Jerufalem, takes and dc- moLlhes Gaza. 3911 Jugurtha, king of Numidia, defeated and made prifoner by the Romans. 3912 The beginning of the war between the Ro- mans and Mithridates, kingof Pontus. 3920 Cinna, ftoned to death. 3921 Sertorius fent into Spain. The temple of Jupiter Capitolinus at Rome ; burnt 432 years after the capitol of Rome builc bv Tarquin the proud. 3923 Gilias, was taken in battle and beheaded; and to him fucceeded Evenus, the grandlon of Jofina, kingof Scotland ; by his fon Donallus. Divifions at Rome between the fenate and people ; Caius Marius fides with the people ; Sylla oppofes and kills him. This was the firlt civil war among the Romans. Caius Marius feven times conful, having vidorioufly fought many battles, died, aged 70, loaded with Ambition and wealth. 3925 Sylla abdicates the didlatorfhip, writ 22 books of commentaries, and dies the year fol- lowing. His epitaph, for ferving his friends and oppofing his enemies executed by him. 3926 Queen Alexandria, the wife and fucceflbr of Alexander Jannaus, diverts Tygranes king of Armenia, from invading Judea. 3934 Lucullus defeats Mithridates king of Pontus. ^g^5 Arillobukis, the fecond Ion of Alexander Jannaus, feizes the kingdom of Judea upon the death of queen Alexandria, having defeated his elder brother Hyrcanus. 3940 Pompey takes Je-ufalem, facks it, carries Ariftobulus prifoner to Rome, and makes Hyr- canus high-prieft and prince of the Jews. 3942 Augulitus is born. 3943 Pompey, 62 REMEMBRANCER. 3943 Pompey, having finiihed the Mithridatic war, triuriiphs at Rome. 3945 Julius Caelar invaded Britain. 3950 Julia (the d-iaghcer of Julius Caefar, and wiFe of Pompey) dies. 3951 Orodes i<:ing of Parthia, pours melted gold down Marcus .CrefTus's throat, bidding him quench his thiril with what he thirfted after. 3955 The war breaks out between Caefar and Pompey. 2956 Csefar is faid to have taken 800 cities, and fubdued 300 different nations, and defeated 30,000,000 ot men, 10 000,000 killed, and 10,000,000 taken prifoners, in his feveral ex- peditions againft the Gauls. The battle of Pharfalia, wherein Pompey is defeated. The library of Alexandria isbu.mt. Pompey's theatre, containing 40,000 people burnt. Pompey's death, the fenate and people of Rome declare Caefar. Julius Cccfar makes Cleopatra queen of Egypt. 3957 He makes himfelf mafter of Alexandria. 3958 Dover caftle built by Julius Caefar. Diodorus Siculus, the Greek hillorian, and Cicero, the Roman orator flourifhed at this time. Cato, who fided with Pompey, againft Cae- far, at Utica kills himfelf. 3959 At this time Julius's account came into ufe, Caefar as fovereign prieft, having reformed the Calendar. 3960 Caefar is murdered in the fenate houfe, by Brutus, Caffius, and others, for invading the Romans liberty. 3961 G<5lavius Caefar, with the help of Antony, gains a vidory over Brutus and Caflius, and has the monarchy conferred on him, with the name of Auguftus, at Modina. 3961 The REMEMBRANCER. 63 3961 The glory of the Romans was now at its full height. At this time, fiourifhed, Dionyfius Hali- carnaffus the Greek, and Titus Livius the Ro- man hiftorian ; togetlier with the poets Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Cornelius Galius, Catullus, Ti- buUus, Propenius, with many others. In fine, ail kinds of polite learning and fcience, never fo univerfally fiourifhed, as in the Auguftan a^e. 3962 The battle of Philippi, where Brutus and CafTius, being overthrown by Auguftus and Mark Antony, lay violent hands on themfelves. 0964 Auguftus and Antony are reconciled after the death of Fulvia, the wife of Antony, who thereupon marries Odiavia, Ceefar's fifter. 2965 Philo, the learned Jew, born at Alexandria in Egypt. 3966 The virgin Mary born, the daughter of Joachim and Anna. 3972 A war breaks out between Auguftus and Antony, wherein Herod fides with the latter. $g']2 The famous naval battle of Acftium, where- in Antony is entirely defeated, and flies with Cleopatra into Egypt. 3974 Auguftus makes himfelf mafter of Alexan- dria. Odavius purfues x'^ntony and Cleopatra to Alexandria, where they kill themfelves. 3975 Salome Herod's filter. 3976 Auguftus returns to Rome, and enters it in triumph. The fenate and people unanimoufly confer on him the whole monarchy of the Roman empire, v/ith the name of Auguftus Caefar, which was alfo borne by his fucceflTors. 3978 Frachna Fahag, was the firft provincial king in Ireland, in the monarch Echoaig Feijleagh's reign. 3979 Marcellus the adopted fon of Auguftus, fon to 64 REMEMBRANCER. to Odlavia, fifter of Auguftus, by her firfl; hufband marries Julia the daughter of Auguf- tus by Scribonia ; and Juba king of Getulia, marries Cleopatra ^clena, daughter of Cleopa- tra queen of Egypt by Mark Antony. 3980 Aelius Gallus makes an expedition againft Arabia Felix, with 10,000 men given him by Auguftus, 500 out of Herod king of Judea's guards, and 1000 given him by Obodes king of the Nabithean Arabs. 3980 Candace queen of Ethiopia, invades the province of Thebais in upper Egypt. 981 M?.rcel!us the fon of Auguftus dies. Herod king of Judea, fortifies Jerufalem, rebuilds Samaria ; this year there happened a great drought, which brought on a famine, and ended in a raging peftilence, of which multi- tudes died for want of help and fuftenance. Herod depofes Jefus the fon of Phabeus. 3984 Julia the daughter of Auguftus and wife of Agrippa. 3985 Virgil born, at Pietola] near Mantua, the prince of Latin poets, dies, aged 51 years. 3987 Herod gets together materials for build- ing a new temple, and pulls dovvn the old one. Pantheon at Rome, now the round church, built by K. Agrippa. 3989 Upon the death of Lepidus, Auguftus takes upon himfelf the office of high-prieft of Rome, examines the Sibylline prophecies, and burns fuch as were deemed fpurious. 3994 Oftavia, fifter of Auguftus dies, a lady of wifdom and virtue. 3996 Horace the Latin poet dies. 3998 Herod caufes Alexander and Ariftobulus, his two fons by Mariamne, to be ftrangled. 3999 Lucius and Caius, (fons of his daughter Judea.) Galba born in the fame year with Jefus Chrift. 4000 John REMEMBRANC E R. ^s 4000 John the Baptift, the fon of Zachary, (a pried of the courfe of Abiah, and Elizabeth his wife) born fix months before Chrift. The birth of our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrill, fon of GOD, blefled for ever, made man to fave us, born of a virgin in Bethlem of Judah, on the 25th of December, four years before the vulgar Aera. 4004 N. B. This is the vulgar Chriftian Aer.i, (as invented by Dionyfius, and dill in ufe amongft us) but it is generally agreed, that it places the time of Chrifl^s nativity four years too late ; fo that our Saviour was really born in the year of the world 4000. Be this as it will, (for it is a matter uncertain, and of no great confequence) methink it mod convenient to fol- low the common computation. PART ir. From the Birth of Chrift to the prefent Tear iy']4. SEVENTH AGE OF THE WORLD. 1 Jefus Chrift circumcifed on the i ft of January. 2 Jofeph fled into Egypt with the child Jefus, and Mary his mother. Herod maftacres the infants of Bethlem, and Chrift brought out of Egypt. He dies in a miferable manner, and his do- minions are divided among his fons. 3 Auguftus banifhes his daughter Julia. 4 He adopts Tiberius. 6 Archelaus, who fucceeded Herod in Judea, is batiiftied into Gaul, and his dominions arc reduced to a Roman province. King Juba maffacred all the Romans. 9 Quintilius Varus (lain. 12 Jefus difputes with the dodlors in the tem- E pie, 66 remembrancer; pie, at twelve years of age. 14 Augnftus numbered the Roman citizens, who amounted to 4,137,000 fouls. He dies at Nola, in the 56th year of his em- pire, and 76th of his age. He taxed the world the year before, and is fucceeded in the whole empire by Tiberius. Jofephus called Caiphas, is made high-prieft of the Jews. 15 Tiberius, makes Valerius Gratus, governor of India. 1 7 The poet Ovid dies at Tomos in Pontus. 23 Sejanus poifons Drufus, and debauches his wife Livia. 28 Pontius Pilate fucceeds Tiberius, and creates great difturbances. 29 Livia, the mother of Tiberius dies, aged 86 years. John the Baptift, the fore-runner of our Saviour, begins his preaching. 30 Jefus Chrift came from Galilee to Jordan, and was baptized by John, Jeius led by the fpirit into the wildernefs, where he fafts forty days and forty nights, and is tempted by the devil. Is tempted in the wildernefs ; works his firft miracle of a marriage in Cana of Galilee, by turning water into wine ; converfes with Nico- demus, and with the woman at Jacob's well. The vocation of St. Matthew. The Jews refolve to put Jefus to death. 31 John the Baptift is imprifoned by Herod's order, having loudly declared againft Herod's marrying Herodias, his brother Philip's wife. 32 Chrill chufes twelve apoftles in feveral parts of Judea. John the Baptift is beheaded in prifon at die Solicitation of Herodias. Jefus feeds 5000 men, befides women and children^ with five barley loaves, and two fmall fifties^ R E IVt E M B R A N C E I^. ^7 firties, and refufes to be made king. 32 Our Lord is transfigured on the mount. 33 Our Lord converts Zaccheus, raifeth Laza- rus from the dead, and enters triumphantly in- to Jerufalcm. He curfeth tlie barren fig-tree. Thurfday evening April 2d, he goes into tlie city, and eats his lad fupper with his A potties. He inftitutes the facrament of his body and blood in bread and wine. Thefame night heis betrayed by Judas licarior. The next day being Friday the 3d of April, he is carried to Pilate's ; accufed, condemned, and crucified upon Mount Calvary. Chrift is buried, rifes again on the third day, and he firft appeared feveral times to his difci- ples, and to Mary Magdalene. On May the 14th, the fame year, he afcend- ed into heaven, on the fortieth day after his refurredlion. Matthias is admitted into the number of the Apoftles in the room of Judas. The efFufion of the Holy Ghoft. 34 St. Stephen is (loned, who is reckoned the firft martyr. Philip baptizes ; converts the Samaritan?, and the eunuch of queen Candaces. 25 The converfion of St. Paul near Damafcus, from whence he retires to Arabia. 36 Pilate is deprived of his government. ^y Tiberius dies, and is fucceeded by Caligula, who banifhes Herod into Gaul, and makes young Agrippa, king ofpart of Judea. 38 Paul comes tojerufalem. Caligula aflumcs divine honours, and orders his ftatue to be placed in the temple. Pilate kills himfelf. 93 Peter cures ^neas atLydda, and raifes Ta- bitha at Joppa. The converfion of Cornelius. E 2 About 68 REMEMBRANCER. 39 About this time St. Matthew writes his gofpel. Antioch church built by St. Peter. 41 Caligula is (lain by Chercas, and fucceeded in the empire by Claudius. 42 St. Paul goes with Barnabas to Antioch, where the difciples of Chrift are firft called Chriftians. St. Mark's gofpel is fuppofed to have been written, at this time. 43 St. Peter the firft bilhop of Jefus Chrift. 44 Kerod Agrippa, caufes St. James the great to be beheaded ^ puts St. Peter in prifon, who is delivered thence by an angel j and himfelf dies miferably. Claudius Caefar conquered part of Britain. 45 The death of the blefled Virgin Mary, aged 75 years. 48 Meflalina the emprefs, marries her gallant, and is executed for it. Claudius marries his niece Agrippina, and adopts her fon Nero. 49 Barnaby converted the ifle of Cyprus. 50 The firft council in the chnftian church, held at Jerufalem. 52 Paul writes from Corinth to the Theflaloni- ans, and did miracles at Smyrna. 54 Philip the apoftle martyr'd. St. Paul is forced to leave Ephefus, on ac- count of the uproar raifed againft him by one Demetrius a filver fmith. c^6 Nero fucceeding Claudius in the empire, Claudius is poilbned by Agrippina, fent his lieutenant Suetonius Paulus into Britain, who flays 80,000 Britons. St Mark was the firft bifliop of Alexandria. 60 St. Paul, appealing to Caefar, is fent to Rome, and in his paflage is ftiipwrsck'd on the iflandof Malta. 61 St. Luke writ his gofpel. The REMEMBRANCER. 69 61 The martyrdom of St. James minor, bifhop of Jerufalcm. 62 Agrippina, murdered by her fon Nero, the cruel tyrant. 63 Mark the apoftle fuffered under Nero. Nero, flew his wife. 64 He lets Rome on fi;e. He begins the iirft general perfecution againft the Chriltians. Afconius Pedianus, writ the meditations. 65 This year Campania was damaged with dreadful tempefts, violent whirlwinds, and earthquakes. At Rome a plague fwept off 30,000 perfons, 66 Vefpafian is fent into judea, and carries on the war againft the Jews. . St. Paul and St. Peter fuflfer martyrdom at Rome. All the Jews at Scythopolis have their throats :;. cut in one night. £7 Seneca, aftpr undergoing the office of conful, praetor, and queftor, was put to death by the command of his pupil Nero. Auguftine and Hieronymus affirm that he died a Chriftian j but they forget the proof. 68 Philofopher, baniihed by Nero. Nero kills himfclf, and is lucceeded by Gal- . ba j who reigns eight months, and the empe- ror Galba is flain ; the revolt of Vindex. 71 This year, according to Chrifl's prophecy, Jerufalemis befiegegIft, 2§i After reigning a few years, in all manner of yice,Heliogabalus,emperor, buried in theXyber, ib 76 REMEMBRANCER. is flain, and fucceeded by Alexander Severus, his coufin german> 221 Ulpian, the lawyer, died. 226 Pompurus the lawyer. 229 The end of" the Arlacides. . 236 The feventh general perfecution of theChrif- tians. 243 The young Gordian remained fole emperor, his father-in-law Mizethus was killed by Philip, and he fucceeded him. Athirco, king of the Scots line, was a cruel tyrant, confcious of his own guilt, he murdered himielf, for fear of an oppreffed people. 248 Was the year 1000 fi'ic^ king- dom, which Canute the Dane wrefied from him, was barbaroufly murdered by his own ilibjecSts. 1-028 Guide Aratinus a bentdidine, and a tamous mulician, invented the monofyllables, by which we now read ihe notes in mufic, ut, re, mi, fa, fol, la. Romanus Argyropolus, obtains the empire of the eaft, having divorced his firft wife, and married Zoe the daughter of his prcdeceflfor Conftantine. 1029 Hungary converted by AnaftaHus. 1-034 Romanus is murder'd by Zne, and fucceed- ed by Michael the Paphlagonian, her gallant. 1036 Conrade, emperor, went the circuits inperfon, and heardcaufes; neMiniftriscrederecogeretur. J038 St. Michael's chapel built by bifhop Donat ; and afterwards converted into a parochial church, by Archbilhop Talbor. Chrift church built by Sitricus fon of Am- lacrus king of the Danes of the city of Dublin for fecular canons. 1039 Bryen Boiroimhe, monarch of Ireland, the famous battle of Clontarf fought on Good- friday between the Irifli and Danes ; after a long and bloody engagement, the vidory fell 10 the Irifh. His revenues were as follow : Connaught paid 800 beeves ; 800 fat hogs ; Tyrconnet paid 500 of each ; Tirowen paid 60 of each ; and 90 tons of Iron : Rathargians of Ulfter paid 500 beeves ; Leinfter paid 500 fat hogs-, Or- giels paid 500 beeves ; Leinfter paid befide 300 Beeves, and 300 tons of iron ; Dublin Danes I 50 how (heads of wine ; Oflbry 60 beeves, 60 fat hogs, 60 tons of iron j Limerick Danes, one I02 REMEMBRANCER. one ton of clar' t daily. That great and valiant prince was bafrly murdered by feme runaway cowardly Danes on Good-Friday. Bryen Boiroimiie foon alter died of his wounds. In this battle fell his fon Murchard, and many of the nobility : The Danes loft 1 1,000 'ncn. After the ha' tie .Sitricur, wirh the reliqucs of the Danes rctir'd to Dublin. 1039 Maolfeackluin II. reftored to the throne of Ireland Waterford plundered and burnt by Derrnot, king of Leinfter. Michael ends his days in a monaftcry. Munibragan this is a grofs ir/llake in Mr. Cambicus ; fur Bryen was killed aged 80, which added to 946, amounts but to 109,6: So that he was a king i 3 years before iic was born, being killed at Clontarf May day, 13 years muft be added to make Cambreus iV.m right. Yet it is a pity that a fecreta'-y, and a king's tutor, could not caft up a fum in addition. Thus, 946x80x13=113 1039. for 946x8orzio39. 1041 Coleman anEngiini autr.or, writ in the time of king Harold the firft king of England, a book of Chionologv, a catalogue of the kings of England, and an accurate defcription of the country as it was then. Died. 1045 Danegelt was a yearly fine of 40,000 pounds a year, which England paid to Denmark. It was raifed thus, every liide of land, that is, as much as one plough can plow •, or as Bede fays, maintain a family, was taxed is. per ann. This tax was taken off by Edward the con- fcffor. 1046 Henry III. king of Germany, the fon of Conrade, depofes pope Gregory VI. refigned to make way for a new election, to prevent a fchifm, and caufes Clement II. to be elefted by whom REMEMBRANCER. 105 whom he is crow p. 'd emperor. 1047 Swein, Ton of eari Goodwin, being banifhed for forcing an abb.fs, and find;n:^ his father's interelt too feeble to obtain his paid )n, com- mandrd a fleet of pyratcs againft his native country. Edward the confefibr. John Gerhard the divine died a cruel death. 1048 Froll: killed all the fheep, Edward the con- feflfor. 1049 The Patzinace, a Scythian nation crofs the Danube on the ice, and enter the empire with 800,000 men, and deftroy all with fire and fword. The cathedral of Kilkenny fuppofed to have been built about this time by St. Canice. Sec 113 page. 1057 Coventry, Warwick, by Leofric earl of Chefter, and his lady Godiva, hence came peep- ing Tom. Coventry abbey by Leofric earl of Cornwall, 1059 The right of eleding popes is lodg'd in the cardinals by a fynod at Rome. 1061 Lanfranc, archbifhop of Canterbury, writes fchool divinity. Michael Bells, the philofopher, 1065 Waltham abby, by king Harold 11. 1066 Ingulfus, fecretary 10 William duke of Nor- mandy, writ a hiflory from 664, to the year, 1066, Battle of Haftings, wherein v/ere killed king Harold and his two brothers, with moil of the Englifh nobility, and 97974 private foldiers, O(5tober 14. William the baftard, duke of Normandy, obtains the crown of England ; from whence he is cali'd William the Conqueror. 1067 Whitby by Ofwy, finidied by William de Percy. 1069 York burnt, and 3000 of the citizens and Normans flain by the Danes, under the leading of Harold and Sweno, fons to Canute's king of Denmark, I04 REMEMBRANCER. Denmark, for the recovery of the crown to the Danifh blood. 1069 RomanusDifgencaSj emperor of theeaft, after fighting valiantly is taken by the Turks, who treat him honourably, and afterwards releafe him. 1074 Great broils between the emperor Henry IV. and pope Gregory VII. which continue Icveral years, pope Gregory orHildebrand, buUy'd. 1076 Gregory excommunicates Henry, declares that he had forfeited the kingdoms of Germany and Italy, and abfolves his fubjedts from their oath of allegiance. This is the firft pope who aflbmed the extra- vagant power of dethroning kings and empe- rors, and difpofing of their dominions at pica- fure. 1077 Henry become fuppliant, and receives abfo- lution from the pope on very difhonourable terms. 1080 Henry breaking the accommodation, Gre- gory anathematizes him and his abettors, for- bids all chriftians to obey him, and gives the kingdom of Germany to Rodolphus. The troops of Rodolphus are defeated by Henry, and himfelf receives a wound, of which he dies foon after. J081 Henry marches into Italy, and goes directly to Rome without any oppofition ; but the in- habitants Ihutting their gates againft him, he ravages and ruins the country. Robert Guifcard, duke of Apulia, enters Thrace with an army of 15000 Normans, and defeats the emperor Alexis Comnenus, who came againft him with 160,000 men. 1082 Bermondfey, Surry, by Aldwin Child, gent, built London monaftery. Henry lays fiege to Rome, but is obliged to retire on account of the excefTive heats. He befieges Rome again, takes the city, and caufes himfelf to be crown'd emperor by Cle- ment REMEMBRANCER. 105 mentll. whom he had made pope in oppofition to Gregory. 1082 Pope Gregory betakes himfelf to the caftle of Sc. Angelo, where he is belieged by Henry; but Robert, duke of Apuha, comes to his relief, and obliges the emperor to retire into Germany. 1084 Dublin, eredled into a bifhopric; wh")fe firft bifhop was one Patrick, uii Eafterling, and chofen by the city, whofent him to Ef;gland, to be confecrated by Lanrranc, archbifhop ot Can- terbury •, and in 1152 had ihc archiepifcopal dignity added to it, as well as to Armagh, Cafhel and Tuam by Pope Eugene the third. 1085 Marianus, a Scots moiik, wrote the hiftory of the world down to his own time ; with him lived Alfred of Beverly in England. 10S6 Battel-Abbey founded by William the Con- queror. 1087 This king built Weftminfter-Hall, rebuilt London- Bridge. The lea drowned 400 acres in Kent, now called Goodwin Sands. 1088 King William takes Oda, bilhop of Bayeux, prifoner, at Pevenfey. TheCarthufian order, inflitutedbySt.Bruno, or Bruto, profefibr of philofophy at Paris, who had heard the glioll of his deccafed friend fay, I am condemned by the juft judgment of God, to eternal flames. 1089 An univerfity in Armagh, of confiderable fplendor, eredled by St. Patrick. 1091 500 Houfes in London were blown dov/n by a tempefl. J096 The cathedral of Waterford, built by the Oftmen, and Maichus its firll bifhop. Hereford Priory a cell to Glocellcr, by Hugo de Lacy. The firft Croifade, or expedition for recover- ing the Holy Land out of the hands of the Sa- racens, in which above 300,000 menenlift them- felvesj under the command of Godfrey, duke of io6 REMEMBRANCER. of Bouillon. 1096 Holy war, under pope Urban the fecond, 50,000 Saracens beaten. Holy arms againfb the Saracens, by Urban the fecond, 50,000. O^ce of the Virgin Mary inftituted ; and Bul!« Cruciate, 300,000 ronfcripti pacres, or league and covenant againll the Saracens. 1098 Turgor, monk in Durham, and afterward bifhop of Sc, Andrews in Scotland, wrote ihe annals of his own time, and the life of king Malcoinb in Englslh. Ciftercian order licenced by Hugh, arch- of Lyons, Legac. J 099 Godfrey, duke of Bouillon, the Cioifaders took Jerufalem, defeated the Sultan of E^^ypt, and died. Wedminfter-Hall, built by William Rufas; that edifice, as it now (lands, w.is timbered and roofed with Irilh oak, given 10 the king of England by Turlough M'Feig, king of Leah- moa, and moft: part of Ireland. 1 100 Haii, king of Morocco, makes a defcent upon Spain, and gains a gieat viftory over ihj troops of king Alphonfus the fixch, whole only Ion Sauftius is killed on the fpot. Chriftians drove the Saracens out of Jerufa- lem. Ewyas Priory in Hereford, founded by He- rald lord Ewyas. William Rufu?, killed by chance, by Sir Wil- liam Tyrre!, in New Foreit. 1 102 Hofpitals and fchools fet up by monks in the provinces they converted. 1 105 Henry IV. emperor, dies at Liege the year following, under excommunication, for which he lay five years above ground. Pafcal the fe- cond, pope. iio6 Overy, St. Mary, or, Over the Water ; of long ftandinof. Before the conqueft a houfe of filters, REMEMBRANCER. 107 fifters, founded by one Mary, who left the houfe and ferry to the fifterhood. Swithin, a lady, changed it into a college of priefrs ; they changed the ferry into a tiiTiber bridge, and kept it in repair. But this church was again founded for canons regular, by William Pont de la Arch, and William Dauney, both Norman knights. 1 1 09 Limerick burnt, to the great lofs of the Danes. I no Henry V. is crowned king of the Lombards at Milan. 1 1 1 1 Henry comes to Rome, feizes the pope, (to- gether with feveral cardinals) and obliges him to crown him emperor. Coin, Eflex, a cell to Abingdon, by Alberic de Vere, confirmed by Henry. 1 1 1 3 Benevent couqcil under Pafcal the fecond. St. Neots, Huntington, rebuilt by Rahefia. At this houfe was given meat and drink to all poor travellers. 1115 ' Edwardfton, in Sufiblk, a cell to Abington, by Hubert de Monte Canui, and confirmed by Henry L 1 1 17 St. Giles's, an hofpital for 14 leprous per- fons, built by the wife of king Henry I. in which was a chapel, that prefented each dying criminal with a bov/1 of ale, on his journey to Tyburn. 1 1 18 Brown, a Florentin, and monk at Worcefter, wrote from Adam dov;n to his time. 1 1 19 The order of the knights of St. John of Je- rufalem inftituted. 1 120 Radingfield, in Suffolk, by Manafies, earl of Ginenft's. Horfliam, Northfolk, by Robert Fitz, con- finr.ed by Henry I. Gervife of Dover, a Benedidine monk, wrote the hirtory of Britain, and the divifions thereof. X122 The Greek emperor, John Comnenus, defeats • the Scythians and Hungarians. 1125 Pope io8 REMEMBRANCER. 1 125 Pope Honorius the fccond, and Celeftine the fecond, both chofen by a divided conclave ; they both refign to prevent fchifm ; the former is re-choien. 1 1 29 Parliament, the highefh court in England, inftituted by king Henry I. Members were maintained by their electors, during the feffions of parliament, and were chofen without any expence. 1 130 St. Mary's church built on the ifland of De- veniih, near Silverhill, in the county of Fer- managh, 1 134 Fin bar church, near Cork, founded by Cor- mac, king of Munfter. 1 1 35 Anlelm, bifliop of Canterbury, Henry I. I king of England. John Fiberues, wrotei the Epitomy of the Britifh Annals down to his own time, in the reign of king Stephen. Raradac, wrote the Hiftory of the Britifh kings, fromCadwallader, down to his own time, in the reign of king Stephen. Huntington, Henry, archdeacon, wrote the hiftory of the kings of England, and the original of the affairs of Britain, down to king Stephen. Stafford priory, by Chriftiana de Sumeri, builr by king Stephen. William Newbury, not Jack, one of king Stephen's authors, he wrote the hiftory of England in five books •, quarrels heavily with Godfrey of Monmouth, and calls him all to nought. But had the other been living, he would have played the fchool-boy, and faid, I do not meddle with you, let me alone. 1138 Briftol taken by Robert earl of Gloceftcr, in the defence of his fifter Maud the emprefs, againft king Stephen. 1 1 39 Alphonfus, count of Portugal, is proclaimed king b.y his army, juft before he gave ba[c!e to five petty Moorifh kings in confederacy againft him. He REMEMBRANCER. 109 1139 He obtains afignal victory, taking the five ftandards of thofe kings-, on which account he puts (ive fhields in the arms of Portugal, which are retained to this day. 1 140 Carmelite Order inflituted. 1 142 Magna Charta granted by King Stephen, on EghaniMead. 1 143 Catherine's Hofpital below theTower, found- ed by Matilda, wife to king Stephen. 1 1 46 The firft nunnery ercdted, and intitled St. Mary of Hogges •, a village without the Eaf- terngate^ fince ingiilphed by the city of Dublin. 1 147 The fame Alphonfus takes Lifbon from the Moors, which from that time became the feat of the kings of Portugal. 1 150 Godfrey of Monmouth, firfl: a monk, after- wards bifliop of St.Afaph, wrote the Iiirtory of Britain.. • . 1151 Gratian compiled his Decretals. .1 rr.v.' The four archbifliops conftituted^ viz. Ar- mag'n, Dublin, Calhel, and Tuam j and 23 ,-.- other bifnops. 1 1 54 Stephen, king of England, taken prifoner at the battle of Lincoln, fought agamft the right heir Matilda. The city of Gloucefter burnt by the kino's command. S:mon of Durham, wrote the hiftory of England, from Bede to the days of -Henry II. died. .Vfin;. Avicennu the famed phyfician. 1155. ■ LmdoD Bridge built of wood. Frederic Barbarofla is crowned emperor at Rome by pope Adrian the fourth. 1 156 Peter L?4mbart, mailer of fentences. - William Malmfbury, a Benedidine monk, writ the hillory of England down to his own days, a new hiftory of the acfls of the bifliops of England, the genealogy of Henry II. with the antiquities of Glaftenbury and Malmfbury. 1 159 Pontefrad no REMEMBRANCER. 1 159 Pontefradl abby by Robert de Lacy ; his [on Henry gave him the holpital of St. Nicholas. 1 160 Pope Victor IV. ufurpt by three cardinals on the right of Alexander III. 11 60, but he and his friend, the emperor Frederic, were excom- municated, Concilio Agnienfi. 1 162 Raimond, prince of Arragon, a terror to the Moors, built 300 churches. 1 163 Laurence archbilhop of Dublin, changed Chriil Church from fecular into regular canons. Cadwell Pembroke, a cell to Sherburn, founded by Roger bilhop of S^rum. Henry II. ferving a difh to his fon's table. 1 164 The cathedral of Oerry was built by Flath- bert O Brolcan its firll biftiop ; in this he was allifted by Maurice M'Loghlin, king of Ireland, 1 165 Malcomb IV. made a vow in his youth ne- ver to marry, which vow he made good j he was called the maiden, dies. Ealred Rival abbot of the Ciftercian monks in Yorklliire, writ the life of king Edo, and Da- vid king of Scotland, with a chronology from Adam. 1 166 Dermot king of Leinfter, founded the priory of All-fouls near Dublin, for canons of the order of Aroafia. Queen Elizabeth in the year I59rj erecSted a colledge there, dedicated'to the bleflcd Trinity. The emperor Frederic goes to Italy with an army, to put Pafchal into poffefTion of the holy fee. 1 1 67 He makes himfelf mafter of Rome, but the ficknefs in his army obliges hitn to retire. 1 168 Roderic O Connor II. king of Ireland, en- tering Leinfter put to flight Dermot fon of Murchard king thereof, for committing a rape upon the wife of Teighernan O'Rourke king of Breifne. Dermot being drove from his country flies to England, and makes an agreement with Strong- bow R E M E M T] R A N C E R. in bow earl of Hc-nbroke to aflift him in Ireland. 1 1 70 The Jingli'h firft land in Ireland. 1 171 Henry il. grants to Strongbow the whole province of Leinftcr. Dublin taken by Reymond le Groin. Thomas a Becket is murdered in Canterbury cathedral, by Reginald Fitz-Urfe, William Tracy, Richnrd Britton, and Hugh Morvill. 1172 Henry II. lands in Ireland with 400 knights, and 5000 men at arms, on the 8 th of OiStober at Watei ford, and is crowned king of Ireland. Tlie cic^rgy confirm the kingdom of Ireland to kin? Henrv II. Thui ended the monarchy of the Milefians, or ancient Irifti, which commenced above 2500 years beiore, in the pcrfons of Heber and He- remon, two of the fons of Milefius king of Spain. The fame confirm'd by the bifhopsi'" Henry II. built a pavillion of platted twigs, near St. Andrew's church, city of Dublin; where he entertained feveral Irifh princes. 1173 He by a grant of divers privileges, encoura- ged a colony from Briftol to fettle in Dublin. He embarks for England, leaving Hugh Lacy at Dublm to govern the ifland in his name, wi h the title of judiciary of Ireland. Hugo de Lacy, an Englilh governor of Meath, was fuch'an oppreflbr of the poor, thiat Stanhurft fays, a young man flew him- to rid his country of a monftc^r. . ...--j'; A- confpiracy in England formtd" againft Henry, on account of fair Rofamond a concu- bine of his. 1 174 Richard Strongbow ere<51:ed the order of knights templars, atKilmainham, near Dublin. Richard Strongbow died of a mortification in his foot, and was buried in Chrift Church, in Dublin. John of Oxford i firfl: he was deacon ofSarum, next lU REMEMBRANCER. next bifhop of Norwich; he writ a well penned hifto ) of England, which Boetius calls opus iaudatum. 11 ;6 Jomna the king's daughter, is married to William kingof Sicilv Sr. Paul's church in London burnt. 1 lyy John earl of Moreton, Ton of king Henry II. landed ui Ireland. Almcrick deSt. Laurence, and his fan Nicho- las were wounded in an engagement with the Uifter frifh in the county of Down, under the couimand of John Courcv, whrn 15,000 were killed. He was anceftor to the barons of Howch, and to him K. John, then earl of Moreton, grantee^ the lands of Howth. Canons of St. Victor founded in Dublin, by Henry the Jecond. Frederick is reduced to afk pardon of pope Akxander, who fets his foot upon that empe- ror's neck. 1 178 Aretic, called Jefus's Staff, brought from Armagh to Chrifli-Church, Dublin, which was very profitiible to the Canons. The Abbey at Monaftereven built by Der- mot O'Dempfy, king of Offaly. Adulbcrt converted Holland. Albigenes excommunicated by the council of Rome. 1184 GloceRer-Abbey, founded by Henry the fecond, to attonsfome irreligious, and immoral pradice, as his brother, king William of Scot- land, did another at Ardbroth, on the fame ac- count. 1 1 85 New temple, founded by the Knights Temp- jers. John de Courcy, earl of Uifter, firil lord lieutenant of Ireland. Andronicus, who had obtained the Eaftern empire by murdering Alexis II, is feized by his own fubje<5ts, who cut off one of his hands, put out REMEMBRANCER. 113 out one of his eyes, lend him about the ftrecrs on a camel wuh his face towards the tail, tear off hiS flefli with iron-hooks, and at lali h.mg him up between two pill rs. • 1186 Stephen Riddel, the firil lord chancellor ap* poinded in Dublin. J 187 Saladin, Sultan of Egypt, takes Jeru fa lem from the Chriilians, of which Guy of Lufignan was then kinp;. 1188 Priory of St. John, in Thomas-ftreet, within Newgate, founded by Alured de Palmer in Dublin. 1189 Apprentice, firft by a charter of Richard I. Thoma.s Fabian, a tribune of London, wrote an hiftorical concordance from Brutus, the firft king in that part of Britain, down to the laft year of Henry 11. 1190 . Great part of Dublin confumed by an acci- dental fire. St. Patrick's church in Dublin, builc by bifhop James Comyn. Chrift-Church rebuilt by archbiftiop Comyn in Dublin. Henry de Loundres, his fucceflbr, eret5led it into a cathedral, and appointed William Fitz- Guy the firll dean in Dublin-. 1 191 Holy War by Richard I. king of England, and Philip Auguftus, king of France, mal^e an expedition to the Holy Land, to recover it from Saladin ; and in his voyage thither Richard conquers the Ifland of Cyprus, with which he purchafes qi Guy of Lufignan, his right to the kingdom of Jerufalem. 1 1 92 The cathedral of Kilkenny built. See page 65. Caftles of Kilkenny and Kingfalc built. 1 194 Clerkenweil, by Jordon, fon of Raduiph, fon of Bryan, confirmed. King Richard returning home through Ger- many, is taken by Leopold, duke of Auftria, and delivered to the emperor Henry VI. w!io H keeps 114 REMEMBRANCER. keeps him prifoner fifteen months, and makes him pay 100,000 marks for his ranfom. 1195 King Richard returned to England, and was crowned again. 1 197 The order of Crutched Fryars rcftored by St. Ciriacus. 1 198 The Kirk atGlafcow built. Deep in Lincolnfhire a cell to Thoray, by Baldwin Wac. This year dies Roderick O'Connor, fome- times king of Ireland, and in whom ended the Irifh monarchy, and fettled in the perfon of Henry II, king of England. 1199 Having beaten the French, who had taken the advantage of his abfence, and ravaged Nor- mandy, king Richard I. is mortally wounded by an arrow at the fiege of Chalus in the Li- mofin, and dies foon after. Joanna the queen of Sicily dies. Herald, or Harald, earl of Murray, was hanged, and his children caftrated by William king of Scotland •, that good prince foon after built an abbey for a propitiation. Great part of London burnt. 1200 The Abbey of St. Peter and Paul in the county of Clare built. King John fold for 4000 marks, to William de Braufa, all the land of Philip de Worcefter, and all the lands of Theobald Walter in Ire- land. Maiden in Kent, by Gundulph, bifliop of Rochefter. Catherine's Nunnery, near Oxon, by Exeter, confirmed by king John, William de Tracy, and Henry de Pomerya, benefadors. Jews tortured to difcover their treafure, and plundered of them when difcovered, by king John. 1201 The kings of France were without Ihips or Sea-ports. The REMEMBRANCER. n^ I20i The republic of PifaafTumed the foverelgnty of the neighbouring fcas, which they loon loft to the Gcnoefe. Antwerp fortified, and feveral cities founded in Holjand and Flanders. Charters granted to feveral towns in England. Aftronomy and geography brought into Eu- rope by the Moors of Barbary. Euftachius, the commentator upo i Homer. r203 A dreadful conflagration hi'.p[:)ened in Con- ftantinople, that burns down a great pan of the city. Abbas Ufpergenfis, the hiftorian. 1 204 Maria de Prato, near St. Albans, by Garinus, abbot, Marget, a cell. The French and Venetians take Conftanti- nople i and Baldwin, earl of Flanders, is ele6i:ed emperor. The empire is now divided, Baldwin count of Flanders reigning at Conftantinople T^jeodore Lafcaris at Nice in Bithynia, and Alexis Com- nenus at Trebifond. I'he Danes enriched by a vaft hcrring-fidiery on the coaft of Schonen. Where Amfterdam now fcands, there was only a Imall caftle and village. The plague carried off numbers in Dublin. 1205 The word parliament firfi: ufed in England. Henry de Loundres, archbifbop of Dublin, began the building of the caftle of Dublin. 1206 Baldwin is taken by the king of Bulgaria, kept a prifoner for fiyieen months, and then put to death in i cruel manner. Hoveden, an Oxford prieft, wrote the hiftory of the wars between the Br-tains, Romans, Pi6ls, Sax{>ns, l-an.s and Normanr, and dies. 1208 London's firft free charter for eleding their own magulrates, .a? obtained. ot Donii.iick Hi ^lituted the order of Fredi- cauts. H 2 1208 St. Francis, ii6 REMEMBRANCER, 1208 St. Francis, Patron of the fryars minorites. King John furrendering his crown to the Pope's Nuncio. 1209 Venice gains the filk manufaftures from Greece. The Groifaders againft the Albfgenfes (a fe6t of chriftians fo called) take the city of Beziers in Languedoc, burn it, and put 60,000 of thofe poor people to the fword. Black-Monday J lb called, on account of the flaughter committed by the Irilh on a great number of the Britifh people who inhabited Dublin, and went out to divert themfelves in Cullen's Wood, on Eafter- Monday, when the O'Birno's and Tools, mountain enemies, fell upon them, and deftroyed 500 men, befides women and children. 1 2 10 St. Catherine's church at Waterford, built, founded by Ellas, fon of a Norman. Pence and farthings were coined in Ireland, by order of king John, Courts of judicature were firft erected in Dublin ; as were judges of aflize, to whom an abftradt of the Englilh laws were delivered for their government, appointing twelve Englifli fhires, with fheriffs and other officers, for the due adminiftration of juftice. Jews, of both kxes, imprifoned and inhu- manly butchered by John, king of England, of hated memory : refolving to have all their mo- ney, he infli6led grievous tortures upon them. Every one at leafc, had his eyes plucked out. One of them infilling on it, that fuch barbarity was repugnant to the law of Jefus, as well as to the law of Mofes, the tyrant commanded one of his great teeth to be plucked out for (even days running. The poor wretch then gave the hungry tyrant 1000 marks. The king, at that time had plundered the Jews of 66000 marks in fiiver, yet thirfted as greedily after the REMEMBRANCER. 117 the political blood of this unhappy people, as before. 12 10 King John, the office of mayor was infti- tiited, after this manner: Hardcl and Winchef- ter, bailiffs of London, purfuant to a charter granted by Richard I. would not permit the king's purveyors to buy up provilion for the king's houHiold, in a time of fcarcity, before the citizens were ferved. This enraged the king fo, that he clapt both bailiffs under an arreft. But paying a fine, and begging pardon, they were enlarged •, yet the form of government changed : for in lieu of the old, the king gave them leave to chufe out of their body an officer yearly, called mayor, and two fherif^s, in the room of bailiffs. Mayor comes from the Latin word Praetor, as Praetor Urbanus, the chief man of the town. Henry Allen, the firft mayor and fheriffs of London. 2 21 1 The Moors of Africa, having invaded Spain with a vafl army, the pope forms a croi- fade againft them, and they are entirely de- feated m the plains of Tolofa, where 200,000 Saracens were malTacred, moft of them being killed on the fpot, by the confederate Spaniards. St. John the Evangeli^ft's church in Kilkenny built. 12 1 2 London Bridge built with (lone. J213 The Caftle of Dublin built by bifhop Cum- min. The tileing firf: uled in London. King John became tributary to the Pope. Thomas's Hol'pital, founded firft by Ber- mondfcy, prior; he named it Almery, or Alms- Houfc for converts and poor orphans ; but Peter de Rupibus, bifhop of Winchell:cr, re- founded It in 12 1 5, for regular canons. t2i4 Philip Augultus, king of France, obtains a great vidtory near Bo vines, over the emperor Oiho ii8 REMEMBRANCER. Otho IV. who (in -onjunClion with the counts of Flanders and Bologne) attacked him with an army or" 150.000 men. 1215 Ron-ian rouwcii called by Pope Innocent the third, confuted of 70 archbirtiops, a:.d 412 bifhops. That pontiff oies, and was releafed out of purgatory bv St. Lutgard. 12 16 Magn^ Charta, figned by king John and his barons, on the J5th of June, at Runingmede near \Vindfor. Cafhel, e eded into a borough, by Donchad C*Loiargan, archbifhop there. 12 17 Henry II J. granted the city of Dublin to the citizens, in ,cc-faim, at 200 marks per annum. J2i8 Simon of Montford, head of the Croifaders againll the Albigenfes, is killed before the city of Tf?»ulouJe, which he was befieging. Black Priory of St. Andrews, in Ardes, county of Down, built. 12 19 Saxo, the Giammarian. 1220 Weftminfter -Abbey, the Danes afterwards deftroyed it ; next, Edward the ConfefTor, with one tenth part of his revenue built it a-new. King Henry III. pulled it down, and rebuilt it in 50 years. 1221 Bren, king of Jerufalem ; Henry III. Pont. J 224 The cuftom paid in the ci'y of Dublin, were three pence for every fack of wool, fix-pence for every laft of hide, and two pence for every barrel of wine. The cathedral of Drogheda built. The Caftle of Sligo built by Maurice Fitz- Gerald, lord juftice of Ireland. 1227 The Priory of St. Mary and St. Edward at Limerick, founded by Simon Minor, a citizen of Limerick, in the reign of king John. Sr. Mary's- Abbey Priory at Mullingar, built. 1228 Yarmouth becomes confiderablt for its fifhery. 12-^0 James, king of Arragon> drives the Saracens out of Mc^jorca and Minorca, 1231 He REMEMBRANCER. 119 1231 He takes from them the kingdom of Valentia* 1232 St. Stephen's Church at Leighlin, county of Catherlough, built, Carrickfergus Church, in the county of An- trim, built. 1234 Frefli-herring parties good for kings. Straw was ufed for the king of England's bed. i'^35 Spencers, flain for the public good. 1236 Antelamus, madebifhop of Armagh and pri- mate of all Ireland. 1237 Water conveyed in leaden pipes to London, through Tyburn-fields. 124.0 Hugh deLacy, earl of Ulfter, was raifed to the dignity of an earl, by king John, with the ceremony of girding on the fword 5 he was alfo the founder of a friary in Down. England, miferably drained of its money by the popes, to the amount of 120,000!. per an- num of our modern money, equal in point of expence of living to 720,0001. m our days. 1241 White-Fryars Church built. Thomas, earl of Savoy, comes to England, 1245 Cardinal's Hat, firft given by Innocent IV. 1246 Mod of the houfes of London were covered with thatch. Wheat fold for two flail lifigs per quarter, I. 2. 6s. of our money. 1247 -^ marvellous and Itrange earthquake over Ireland, England, and all the W^eftern world, which held near three months. 1248 A company of wool- merchants fettled in London. 1249 Louis IX. kingof France, having undertaken an expedition to the Holy Land, takes the city of Damiata in Egypt. ^250 He vanqulflies the Saracens in two battles, but in a third he is defeated and made pri- foner, and obliged to pay 400,000 livres for his ranfom, bcfidcs the reftitution of the city of Damiata. 1250 Norwich I20 REMEMBRANCER, 1 250 Norwich becomes confiderable. 1251 Magna Charta folemnly confirmed. A new coinage in Dublin. 1252 Don-inican Friary at Sligo, buik by Maurice Fitz-Gcrald. Henry III. king of England, coined the firfl fterling money. Ordo Servitarum, by pope Innocent IV. 1253 Some fine linen made in England. Sarbon CollejiC, founded. 1255 Church of Lonalord built. 1 256 After the death of W illiam, earl of Holland, Richard, duke of Cornwall, (brother to king Henry ill. of England) is cholen emperor by fome of the elcftors, and Alphonfus, king of Caftile, is chofen by the others. 1257 The firft college erefted in Cambridge. 1258 Stephen Longfwood, lordjuftice of Ireland, gave battle to O'Neill and the rebels of Ulfter, at Down, and flew ^^2, with O'Neill. 3262 The petty kings of Ireland own themfelves vafTals to the Englifli crown. 1263 Baliol College in Oxford founded. Charles, earlof Anjou, brother to Louis IX. of France, is made king of Sicily by pope Ur- ban IV. A great ftir between the prior of Chrift- Church and the commonalty of the city, about the tythe of fiih of the river LifFy. 1264 Fall: of Corpus Chrifti; by pope Urban IV. 1265 Clement IV. (the fuccelTor of Urban) con- firms Charles in the kingdom, and crowns him at Rome. 1266 The citizens of Dublin, excommunicated by bell, book and candle, for encroaching on the church ; and from whom the church required a fum of money for a public fing, and if re- peated, to be cudgelled about the church. Burnham, Bucks, a priory, by Richard, king at the Romans. - 1266 Cities REMEMBRANCER. 121 1266 Cities and boroughs were firfl reprefented in parliament. 1267 Fryars preachers arrive in Ireland, and fettle at Rofs and Wexford, and the Minors at Kil- kenny, and in two years after at Clonmell. 1268 The annual cuftoms paid at the port of Lon- don, amounted to little more than 2000I. ot our money. Conradin, duke of Swabia, comes with an army to recover Sicily, which was the inherit- ance of his anceftors ; but he is defeated near the Lake of Celans, and made prilbner. J 269 He is beheaded at Naples, by the inlligation of the pope, and thereby the race of the princes of Swabia becomes extinct. MauriceFitz-Gerald, earl of Defmond, drown- ed between England and Ireland. The Cattle of Rofcommon, built by Robert UfFord, lord judice of Ireland. 1270 Louis IX. miakes an expedition againft Tunis, (hoping thereby to open a way for the conqueft of Egypt, and the recovery of the Holy-Land) but whilft he is befieging that city,' he is taken ill, and dies, and a great part of his army are alio deftroyed by peltilential diftempers. J 27 2 The firft alderman of London was chofen, being Nicholas Farringdon : Half-pence and farthings firft coined. Eleanor fucking poyfon out of her hufband's wound. The Welchmen fubmitting to an Englifli prince, born among them. J 2 73 Rodolph, count of Habfbou' g, (from whom the prefent Auftrian family is defcended) is cleded cmpefor of Germany. 1 274 The firft commercial treaty between England and Flanders. 1275 London lends the crown 1 6,000 1. of our modern money. 1276 The Caftle of Rofcommon taken by thelridi, and 122 REMEMBRANCER. and a great overthrow given to the Englifh. 1278 Rodolph defeats OfFocar, king of Bohemia, who is flain .n the battle. By this vidtory he recovers Aullria, which he gives to his fon Albeit. 1279 The famous MoitmainAift, pafled in par- liament, which limited religious foundations, and corporate focicties in the extent of their revenue. Four-penny pieces, pence, halfpence, and farthings, were coined, and diredled to pafs current in England and Ireland. The Italians were at this time the coiners of Englifh money : Edward 1. commanded groats, pence, half-pence, and fai things to be coined. 280 Jews hanged for clipping and coining. The city of Waterford burnt. 1281 Matthew Paris, the noted hillorian, Bale. James Devoragine the hiftorian, dies. 1282 A general maffacre of all the French in the ifland of Sicily, in which even the women who were with child by Frenchmen, were not fpared. This maffacre has obtained the name of the Sicilian Vefpers, being committed (as had been agreed on by the confpirators) when the bells rung-in for vefpers (or evening prayers) on Eafter-day. — Hereupon, Peter, kingof Arra- gon, makes himfclf matter of Sicily. J283 The Englifh parliament, conftitured of knights, citizens, and burgeffes, as well as lords fpiritual and temporal. A great part of Dublin and Chrift-church burnt. Alexander III. king of Scotland, killed by a fall from his horfe near Kinghorn. 1284 Charles the Lame, fon of Charles, kingof Sicily, is taken prifoner by the king of Arra- gon's admiral, in a fea-fight, near Naples. Tangodar, a Tartar, king of Perfia, Julian- like, REMEMBRANCER. 123 like, fell from the faith, and became a woife enemy 10 the poor Chriftians, than Pagan prin- ces had been before j but divine vengeance purfued him, for he died by the hand of Ar- gon, who deprived him of his life and crown. 1284 Edward II. born, and ftiled prince of Wales, being the firfl: that had that title: Edward, elded fon to that king, after the conquefl: of Leuelin, was created prince of Wales, the firfl: Englilhman that ever had that title. Leoweilin, prince of Wales, was Qain in bat- tle by Edward 1. who, purfuant to his wonted jufticcand honour, caufed the dead man's head to be hung on a pole in the Tower ol London. 1285 Greece, and the lefler Afia, invaded by the Turks. Murders, robberies, riots, and burning of houfes, very frequent in England. London's water-conduits completed. 1287 The Carmelite Friars firft ordained. 1288 Charles is fet at liberty, but never recovers the kingdom of Sicily. J 290 Jevvifh Synagogues pulled down by Edward, and every one obliged to purchafe his life or liberty by a ranfom, in the 1 6th year of his reign-, and in the 19th year of his reign, after he had dripped them of 15,000 Jews, baniiheci them all from England, and made fale of their houfes ; by which he amafied heaps of inglori- ous wealth; yet extorted one fifteenth from the people, on pretence that he had been at vad expences in banifhing the Jews : Had the ma- nagers in forry-eight been furnifned with fuch a fubjedl: to work upon, all fons of true liberty mud have applauded the blow. 1291 The chridians lofe Tripoli, Sidon, Tyre, and whatever they were poficis'd pf in and near the Holy Land. 1292 Adolphus of Naflau is elected emperor after the death of Rodolph. J 294 Pope 124 REMEMBRANCER; 1294 Pope Nicholas VI. died. A certain fcholiaft being afk'd, where was infallibility when the feat was vacant two years and three months ? anfwer'd, tho' the vifible head's aQeep, the invifible head watched. The order of Celeftines by pope Celeftinus. 1295 F'rfl: inftanceof letters of marque and reprifal. 1296 Hull in Yorklhire founded and fortified, by king Edward 1. 1297 Fhik mention of the office of admiral of the Englifli feas. Sir William Wallis, totally routed the Eng- lilh army at Stirling. In that adion, perform- ed by the conduit and bravery of a true friend to native liberty, fell on the Englifh fide the noble and warlike Pearcy, earl of Northum- berland, Walfingham, earl of Warwick, with Latimer and the heroic Creiringham. 1298 Adolphus is depoled, and Albert duke of Aulbiafon of Rodolpb, chofen in his ftead, 1299 King's palace at Weftminfter burnt. Fine earthen ware invented in Italy, — fpec- tacles, — and windmills. 1300 A bloody battle is fought near Spires be- tween Adolphus and Albert, wherein Adolphus is (lain, and Albert remains in peaceable poffef- lion of the empire. The Jubilee appointed to be kept at Rome every 100 years by pope Boniface VIII. Wine was then fold only by apothecariesj as a cordial. From this time to 1500, the merchandife of the Eaft- Indies was brought into Europe by way of theP^ed Sea and the Nile, and fometimes up the Euphrates, and by Caravans toAieppo. The Venetians alone had the art of making loakino; o-laflcs. CD 'D Some few clocks were ufed in Italy. In the towns of France, Germany, and Eng- land., they had fcarce any but thatched houfes : and REMEMBRANCER. 125 and the fame might be faidof the poorer towns in Italy. 1300 And although thefe countries were over-run with woods, they had not as yet learned to guard againft the cold by the means of chimneys (the kitchen excepted) an invention fo ufeful and ornamental to our modern apartments. The cuftom then was, for the whole family to fit in the middle of a fmoaky hall, round a large ftove, the funnel of which pafled through the cieling. Lafflamma, (fays Voltaire) who wrote to the fourteenth century, complains, that frugality and fimplicity had given way to luxury. He therefore regrets the times of the empe- ror Frederic Barbarofla, of the twelfth century, and of the emperor Frederic II. of the thirteenth century, when in Milan, the capital of Lom- bardy, they eat flefh meat but three times in a week. Wine was very fcarce. They had no idea of wax candles, and even thofe of tallow were deemed luxury ; infomuch that even the better fort of people ufed fpiin- ters of wood inftead of Candies. They v/ore woollen fnirts. The mort confiderable citizens gave not above- one hundred livres for theirdaughter's portions. But now, fays Lafflamma, we wear linen. The women drefs in (ilk gowns, fome of which are embroidered with gold and filver, and they have two thoufand livres for their por- tions, and have their ears adorned with gold pendants. Table linen was fcarce in England. Private men's houfcs were all of wood in Paris as well as in London. It was reckoned a kind of luxury to ride in a two- wheeled cart in the ill-paved and dirty ftreets of Paris, it being forbidden to citizens wives, 126 REMEMBRANCER. wives, by Philip the Fair. 1300 Let no one prefume (fays an edift of Charles VI. to treat with more than a foop and two difhcs. The ufe of filver knives and forks, fpoons, and cups, was a great piece of luxury. 1301 St. Werburgh's church and part of the city burnt. 1302 The mariner's compafs invented, by which a voyage could be performed in three months, which before took up three years. Bread-ftreet in London, once the market for bread, for till the year 1302, the bakers were allowed to fell none in their fhops. Mackduff, earl of Fife, flain at the battle of Falkirk. Steward of Boot flain at the court of Falkirk. 1302 John Cumin earl of Bachan, and the warhke Frazier, of whom are defcended the noble fa- milies of Lovit, and Salton, defeated Edward the firft, called in derifion Longflianks, at Roflin. II Kail. Ang. Buchanan. The Flemings gain a great viAory over the French commanded bv Robert earl of Artois, 20,000 of them being flain upon the fpot. 1303 TheSwifs republic firfl: formed. 1304 1 he firfb inftance of the maritime ftrength of the Hollanders. Forty men a fufficient com- plement for the largefl: fliips of war. 1305 The city ofLouvainin Flanders, with the adjacent villages, was faid to contr.in above 15,000 journeymen weavers. Clement V. transfers the papal fee from Rome to Avignon, where it continued fcvcnty-two years. John Cumin earl of Buchan fl:abb'd b" king Robert Bruce, at the high altar in Dumfri.% for traiteroufly divulging their covenant to Edward king of England. 1306 Money fo fcarce, that one (hilling (equal to three REMEMBRANCER. 127 three of ours) per day, defrayed the expence of a bifhop in prifon, with a chaplain and two fervants. 1307 John Cumin earl of Buchan, put to death by Edward king of England, contra jus gentium. Crofles erc by lealon of ihe crowd, was llabbed in the belly by oneRavaiUac, and died immediately. He is fucceeded by his fan Louis XIIL a minor, under the tuition of lii."; mother, queen Mary dc Medicis. Henry, eldcft fon to . . j^ James I. created prince of Wales. Arminius, ■T o o [ o o o 6 o 174 R E M E iM B R A N C E R. Arminius, the divine. Che'fea College built by Wellminfter. 161 r. Bartholomew L.egat, the Arian bifhop, buinE for an Heretick in London. The order of Baronets infticuted in Ireland. Firft voyage of the Knglifli on the whale iifhery. The Hollanders firll fettle at Japan. Pay of the land-forces viz. Commander in chief, per day, - / Colonel, - . - _ Lieut. Colonel, - _ _ Four thoufand foldiers, wiih a captain to each company. - - 156 o o 1612. The firfl; voyage of the united merchants trading to the Eall-Indics under a joint itock, before th^ir trade was carried on by feveral diftindl funds. The Irifh fociety for plantings of Ulfter eredled in London. The Summer Iflands firft planted. Henry^ prince of Wales, died at St. James's, No- vember 6. 1613. Firft voyage to Japan by the India-company^ Balance in favourof the trade of England 346,283!. 17s. lod. profit made by the Dutch Eall-lndia com- pany, thofe who put in 4CX)0 guilders in 1602, had divided to them at this time by difl^erent payments 10,400, with their capital in trade. Artillery company revived. Elizabeth, daughter of James I. married to Frede- rick V. elector palatine. Genefna in Poland almoft confumed by fire. Dorcheller burnt, Auguft the 7th. The parliament of Ireland called, which had not met for 22 yeirs : The Papifts refufe to attend the houfe, upon a difference between them and the Pro- j:eftants, about the choice of a fpeaker. 1 6 14. Barbadoes planted. Wadham College founded at Oxford. Dying cloth in the wool firft invented. A convocation was this vear held at Dublin, which eftablilhed REMEMBRANCER. 175 cftablifbed articles of religion; 104. drawn up by archbifhop Ufher for Irehnd. The king of Denmark went into England. 1615. Trie coals of Newcaftle employ 400 fliips, of wliich 200 fail to London. James VI. of Scotland, and firfl: of England, began his prof^/efs back into Scotland, March 16 16; 14 years after he left it : returned to London, Odober 5th, 16 17 : Before that king the play of ignoramus was a<5led at Cambridge, March the yth. Sir Thomas Overbury poifoned in the Tower, for which the earl of Somerfet and his lady were arraigned and condemned. The lady Arabella dies in the Tower. The parliament of Ireland difTolved. Sir Gcrvas Elvas executed. Smithfield paved. The firft fcttlement in New-England. Sir Robert Lambert was fent to the ifland of 11a, in quell of fome rebellious Scots, Elarvey, the CL'lcbrated phyfician, who providen- tially found out the circulation of the blood, publifhed his book. Dies, 1657. 1616. The paffage to the South-Sea by Cape Horn, difcovered by the Dutch. William Shakefpear dies, aged ^7, at Stratford upon Avon. 1617. Marco Antonig de Dominio, archbifhop of Spalato, comes to England, and embraces the pro- tedant religion, January the firft. — But commanded to depart 1624. Vifited England. Jubilee of proteftants at Hiclborn. Thuanus, the hiftorian. Butler the famous Cambridge phyfician dies. The deftrudion of the Spanifh army againft the Venetians. Haidock, the deeping preacher A proclamation iflued m Ireland for banifhing the Popifh clergy. j6i8. Batavia firft fortified by the Dutch. The 1^6 REMEMBRANCER. The African company erefted. A remarkable comet leen in Europe. Cardinal Cajeto, dies. Inigo Jones, an ingenious Britifii archite6V, drew a fine draught of a new palace where White- Hall ftands, rinifhed the Banquetting-Houfe as a fpecimen of the whole, lived in vogue. Sir Walter Raleigh beheaded Odober 29. 1619. A proclamation, direflinghoufes to be built with brick-walls. Tapeftry-work firft introduced into England. The rebellion in Bohemia, Auftria and Hungary* 1620. The Bohemians having offered the crown to Frederic, ele6tor Palatine, he accepts ir, but his army is entirely defeated by the emperor's forces near Prague, and himfelf forced to fiy with his family into Silefia, and afterv/ards into Holland. Cardinal Bellarmiin, archbifhop of Capua, dies, Grotius, Hugo conveyed out of prifon, and pre- ferved in a furprifing manner : For his wife hid him in a chell, and kept the fecret from her moft intimate goffips. The famous dodlor Uilier made bifiiop of Meath. Broad filk firft manufa(5tured. Games, and gaming boules licenfed in London. 1 62 1. Nova Scotia granted to king James. The war renewed between the Spaniards and the Hollanders. Sir Nathaniel Rich, Sir Thomas Crew, and Dudley Diggs, Sir John Perrot, and others, came over com- miffioners to enquire into the eftates of Ireland, on complaint of the Irifh. Th.e ChritVian king enters into arms againft his re- bellious fubjedts. The woollen manufaflure in a decl'ining; ftate. David Poreus, dies. Loyala, founder of the jefuits, was canonized. A fire in Cork, contumes moft part of the city. 1622. Ofman, emperor of the Turks, invades Po- land with an army of 400,000 men, and comes up with REMEMBRANCER. 177 vi,'iili the Polifh army of about 65,000. He makes three attempts to dorm the Polifh camp, but is as often repulfed, with the lofs of 60,000 men, and lofes a greater number in his march bacl<. to Con- ftantinople. The Dutch mafTicre the Engiifh at Amboyna. Prince Charles goes into Spam. Eilhop Ulher preaches befoie the lord Falkland, being lord deputy of Ireland, and the papifts take exceptions at his fermon, as provoking the govern- ment to deftroy them -, fo that he preached an expla- natory fermon to appeafe them. Several popifli magiltrates, who had refufed the oath of fupremacy, contrary to the ftacute of queen Elizabeth, cap. t. were cenlured i.i the Star-chanibcr, when bilhop tJlbcr made afpecch upon the lawfulneis of the oath. 1 623. A proclamation, requiring the popifli clergy, regular, as well as fecular, to depart Ireland in 40 days. The Upper Palatinate, and the ele6lorai dignity, conferred on Maximilian, duke of Bavaria. I'he fatal Vefpers at Black-Friers, frighted half of London, Odober 26. 1624. '^ general law again ft all monopolies. Intereft of money reduced to 8 1. per cent. Before this reduction lands fold at 12 years purchafe. The word intertft ufed in the place of ufury. The Dutch make woollen-cloth to the amount of 25,000 1. a year. The fiege of Breda begun in Brabant. The cruelty of the Dutch at Amboyna; James 1. fent forces to recover the Palatinate. Dotftor Ufher made bifliop of Armagh. Reading, Michaelmas term kept there. Antiochus de Dominis burnt at Rome after he was dead. 1625. Chriftian IV. king of Denmark, is made general of the Circle of Lower Saxony, and engages m a war againft the emperor. M Maurice, 178 REMEMBRANCER. Maurice, prince of Orange, falls into a deep me- lancholyj and dies. Breda furrendered to the Spaniards, after a long fiege. Nova Scotia baronets firfl: inftituted. The crown of England pawned with the Dutch for 300,000!. Hackney-coaches firft ufed. Abraham Sculcclus, dies. 1626. The wages of the feamen of the royal navy, raifed from 14 s. per month, to zo s. The king raifes money by the fale of crown-lands. Military eftablifhment in Ireland, 5000 foot, and 500 horfe, at 64,240 1. Charles, ,duke of Brunfwick, lamed in war. A little before his death a worm came out at his mouth four ells long, and two fingers broad. The king orders the lord deputy of Ireland, to make a lord high Reward, &c. for the tryal of the lord Dunboyn by his peers, for killing a man in the county of Tipperary. Count Tilly, the imperial general, gains a great vidory over the king of Denmark near Lutter in the Duchy of Brunfwick. 1627. A fecond examiner firft added to the court of Chancery in Ireland. An additional duty on the exports of Ireland. Precedency given t£) the fecond ferjeant above the attorney and folicitor general. John Fclton hanged in chains for ftabbing the duke of Buckingham, November 19. Voyage to the I lie of Rhe. A great earthquake in Italy, whereby many thou- liinds of perfons periflied. Tilly takes feveral places from the Danes in Hol- flein. The duke of Mantua dies without ifilie, which cauies new troubles in Italy. Abbot, bifhop of Canterbury, banilhed to Kent for nonlicenfing Dr. Sidthorp's fermons. . 1628. Ro- REMEMBRANCER. 179 1628. Rochelle taken from the proteftants, after a long and obftinate defence, the befieged having had no bread, were covered in vain by the earl of Den- bigh, May 8, and by the earl of Lindlay, Sept. 8. Surrendered to the French, October 8. The buildino; of Bofton in New-England. The fieo;e of Monferrat. 1629. I opifli College, ere<^ed in Back- Lane, Dub- lin, (in oppofition to Trinity College. Shut in 1632. See. The crown of England redeemed from the Dutch by iron ordnance. Adam Lofrus, vifcount Ely, lord chancellor, and Richard earl of Cork, lord high treafurer, fworn lords juftices of Ireland, each allowed 100 1. per month. The burning of Mount Vefuvius. Bethlehem Gaber, prince of Tranfilvania, dies. Henry Ifaacfon, a Londoner, wrote the hiftory of all countries, from Adam down to the 5th year of Charles I. Peace concluded at Lubeck, between the emperor and the king of Denmark. 1630. Fifteen of the religious houfes were feized for the king's ufe in Ireland, by an order from Eng- land. St. Patrick's Purgatory, afmall ifland in the county of Down, defaced by order of government, in order to prevent the fcandilous refort of people, under pre- tence of making atonement for their fins. Guftavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, invades Germany, and takes feveral towns. Magdebourg, one of the chief cities of the pro- teftant party, is taken, plundered, and burnt by count Tilly, the Imperial General. 1631. Guftavus, having joined his forces wiih thofe of the elector of Saxony, defeats I'illy near Leipfick, kills 10,000 of the Imperialifts, and takes all tiieir baggage and artillery. Milled money firll coined. M 2 New i8o REMEMBRANCER. New Africa company eredled. Broadway and Fitzpatrick executed. Lord Audley beheaded on Tower-Hill. Jefuits, moved from Vienna by the Pope's confenf. The king recommended to the nobility and gentry, the raifing amongll themfelves a large contribution towards the reparation of St. Paul's church, in Lon- don; which motion was fo far entertained, that a con- fiderable fum was gathered, and the work had a fair progrefs. 1632. Another battle at Lutzen, near Leipfick, between the Swedes and the emperor's forces, under count Walftein, wherein the former gained the vic- tory, but their king, Guftavus, lofes his life. Part of London-Bridge burnt down. Some broils in Ireland, but foon appeafed. A Popifli college ereded in Back-Lane, Dublin, (in oppofition to Trinity-college, Dublin) was fliuE up, and difpofcd of to the univerfity of Dublin, who placed a rcdtor and fcholars there, and held weekly le(5lures ; but was taken from them by lord Strafford, who reftoring it, was afterwards converted intoa Mafs- Houfe. 1633. Intereft of money in Scotland, at 81. per cent. Saw-mills erefbed in England, but fupprefied in confideration of their depriving numbers of people of employment. Lacquer-varnilh firft ufed. Almoft a third part of Confliantinople confumed by fire. Charles I. crowned at Edinburgh, June 11. James, duke of York, afterwards king James II. born 06tober 15. 1634. Sedan-chairs firft in ufe. . A parliament met at Dublin, and granted fix fub- fidies, in all 240,0001. The convocarion compiled a new book of canons. The Irifn parliament fend over two perions (con- taining their grievances) to England, one to the king, the other to the parliament. An REMEMBRANCER. i8i 1634. An impeachment from the commands of Ireland was brought to the houfe of lords againft Sir Richard Bolton, lord chancellor, the lord b;fhop of Derry, Sec. for introducing arbitrary government, and giving unjuft decrees. Precedency given by the king to the archbifhop of Armagh in preference to the archbifhop of Dublin. Ship money firil taxed. The Swedes are entirely defeated near Norlingucn in Swabia. 1635. A peace concluded at Prague, between the emperor and the elecflor of Saxony. The parliament of Ireland diflljlved. Thomas Parr dies, aged 152, November 15. He lived in the reigns of nine kings and queens of England. A regular poft ereded from London to Scotland and Ireland, once a week. 7635 Commotions began in England about the ce- remonies of the church. The bank of Amfterdam ere6ted. The king of England fends a large fleet under the condu(5l of Robert earl of Lindfey to guard the nar- row feas. 1636 The Dutch fpoil the Spanifh filver fleet. Ship money projected by attorney Noy, 1634, and difpured the Michaelmas term, 1636 which dif- pute was the bufinefs of the whole year. The king builds a man of war called the Royal fo- vereign of 96 guns and 1740 tons, then the largeft in the world. The Dutch pay 30,0001. for liberty to firti on the coafts of England. John Atherton made bifhop of Waterford and Lif- more was about 40 years after, executed for fcan- dalous crimes. Callle Corle taken by Storm and ftratagem. 1637 A tumult at Edinburgh on reading the Eng- Jifli liturgy. Breda taken from the Spaniards, Calabriaa i82 REMEMBRANCER. Calabrian earthquake did much hurt. Stamp office for cards and dice erefted. A blazing ilar. 1638. Louis XIV, born. The Hollanders are beaten near Caloo. The Scots national covenant. Coinage of the mint of England from March 161 9, to March 1638, 6,900,042!. us. id. in gold and filver. 1 659 The revenue of Ireland amounted to 8o,oool. a year. The office of the rolls of Ireland built. A firveyor of wreftling within three miles of Lon- don appointed ; in fuch efteem was that exercife. Martin Tromp deftroys the Spanifh fleet in the Downs, which was intended to attack Sweden in conjunction with the Danes. Dutch beat the Spaniards at Dover. 1640. Bows and arrows, and ftone cannon fhot in ufe. The Portuguefe ihake off the Spanilh yoke, and proclaim John duke of Braganza king. The fii il feffion of the long parliament in England, November 5. King Charles I. fets up his ftandard at York. Cardinal Mazarine, fucceeds Richlieu. Stowe, writ the hiftory of England from Brutus, down to the i6th year of king Charles I. 1640 A committee of the houfe of commons of Ireland went over to England to impeach the earl of Straffiard. Bilhops (10) fent to the tower for high treafon againfl the ftate modellers, December 31. 1 641 Mary, daughter of Charles I. married tq William prince of Orange. Ireland fpins linen yarn for Manchefter, who re- turns it to them made uko cloth. Thecuftoms of England amount to 500,0001. Maflacre of 154,000 proieltants in Ireland, on the 23d of 0(5lober, the day dedicated to St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the order of Jefuits. Lord REMEMBRANCER. i8^ Lord Maguire with others form a fcheme to fur- prize the caftle of Dublin on the i^d of Odtober, but prevented by the difcovery of one Owen O'ConoUy. Sir Phelemy O'Neal having taken Dunkalk march- es with 4000 men to Liflhegarvy, and is repuifed. The fame day Sir Charles Coote, beat Luke Tool and 1000 rebels in the county oF Wicklow. Great numbers of the perfecuted protellants fly from the country to Dublin for prote(5lion, when the rnagiftracy was called upon to raife a fund for their fupport, which amounted to no more than 40 20 50I. fo prevalent was the popifh party in the city. The reduced protellants to the number of a thou- fand formed into a regiment, commanded by Sir Charles Coote (who was afterwards, killed at Trim) as were two regiments more placed under the com- mand of lord Lambert and colonel Crawford, when the caflle of Dublin was put into a pofture of defence. Tredah or Drogheda befieged by 14,000 rebels. The parliament of Engknd vote a fupply of 50,0001. for the relief of Ireland, November 16th, with a pardon to the rebels, which was proclaimed in Dublin. The Algerines have 6§ (hips of war, befides gal- lies, but have finee much declined. Death of Cardinal Richlieu, the founder of the French commerce, who at his death left them in pof- (eiTion of 100 fhips of war, and doubled their revenues. 1642. Two millions and a half of acres of land forfeited in Ireland by the rebellion, dilpofed of by the king, for eftates in Ireland fold. By order of the lords ju dices, the citizer.s brought in their plate to be coined, to the amount of 120,000 /. to fupply the exigencies of ilate, was brought into the mint at Dublin. The kfng went to the houfe of commons to de- mand the five members. Commons petition the king for rhe militia, Jan. 7. Malmfbury furrendered to the parliament, March 25. Scarborough, delivered bvErov/n Bufhel, March 28. Sir i84 REMEMBRANCER. Sir Richard Gurny, fent to the tower, July ii. The earl of Eflex, voted general of the parlia- ment army, July 12. Excife firft came up in England, July 18. The Irilh parliament fat the 21 of July. The officers of the army in Ireland raife a fui)- fcription amongft themfelves for its fupport, and take debentures on the forfeited lands for their pay. The poverty of Dublin fo great as not to be able to raife loooo/. half money and half provifions for the army. PortfmoLith befieged by the parliament, Auguft 2. The parliament declare themfelves necefTitated to take up arms againftthe king, Aiiguft 3. Caftie Sandon delivered to the parliament, Aug. 18. Caftle Dover taken by the parliament, Aug, 21. Noitingham, king Charles fet up his ftandard there, Auguft 22. War civil, broke out in England. South-fea caftle near Portfmouth taken by the par- iiamenr. Wickfield fight, four miles from Worcefter, Od:. i. Edge hill fight near Keinton, October 23. CatUe Banbury, and town fubmitted to the king. Bifliops voted out'of church government. Dundalk taken by the Englifh. The callle of Limerick furrenders to the Irifh. The town of Sligo taken by Sir Frederick Ha- mikon. The battle of Ballintobber, where 2CO0 Irifh were flain. The feveral battles of Tymacho, Raconnell, Rofs, Raphoe, and Kilbrufh, in Ireland. Chicheller deftroy'd by the parliament, Dec. 2. Wincheiter, delivered to tlie parliament, 5th of December. Sir ifaac Newton born, December 25. 1643. T^^ t)^^ ^y^» °^ fcarlet colour firft made. The lords and commons (without the confent of the king} direft the public to pay weekly 54,108 /. los. which REMEMBRANC E R. 185 which amounts to 1,773,649/. i6s. a year. Duty on beer and ale, impofed by the name of excife. London pays io,coo/. a week. An engine tor cutting down the wheels of watches firll invented. Leeds, ftormed and taken by the parliament, January 23. Salifbury, plundered, February 12, 13. Capuchins Hiipt from Somerfet-houfe to go for France, by order of parliament, March 16. Grantham taken for the king, March 23. Fairfax routed on Barham More; he was defeat- ed by the earls of Newcaille and Cumberland, March 29. Litchfield entered by prince Rupert's forces, April 8. Reading, in Berks, invefted by the Earl of Eflex, April 16. Caverfham bridge flcirmifh, as king Charles I. came from Oxford to the relief of Reading, April 25, Cheapfide crofs demolifhed, May 3. Louis XIII. dies, and is fucceeded by his fon Louis XIV. a minor, under the tuition of Ann of Auftria, the queen-mother. May 10. Parliament army defeated by the king at Stratford, in Devonlhire, May 16. The po{)e fcnc over his bull of indulgence to the Irifli, May 25. Taunton and Bridgewater, given up to the par- liament, June 15. Colonel Hambden (lain, June jS. Seal, a new great one voted by the parliament^ July 26. Halifax quitted by the parliament, July 3, Burton upon Trent taken for the king, July. Tomline and Challoner are executed, July. Briftol furrendeied to the king, July 27. Glocefter befieged by king Charles I. Auguft i, Galway furrendered to the Irifl], Auguft 6. AV^eymouih and Melcomb, fubmiited to the king Augull c. Beveriv iS6 REMEMBRANCER. Beverly taken by the earl of Newcaftlc, Aug. i8. King Charles I. demai as a c^LlFation of arms with the Irifh, Sept. 7. Exeter furrendered to prince Maurice, Sept. 25. 1643, Th^ ^^^^ 0^ Manchefler, takes Lyn, Oc- tober 16. Prince Harcourt, ambaffudor from France, arrived at Oxford. Marquis of Hertford inftalled chancellor of Oxford. 06lober 31. Irifli forces arrived at Mofton, under the command of Sir Richard Eraly. King Charles I. proteftedagainft the new broad- feal, November 2 1. Daniel Kniveton, one of the king's meflengers is hanged, Nov. zj- Caftle Howarden yielded to the king, December 6. Boucher and Yaomans executed at Briftol. Bidiford and Barnftaple furrendered to the king. Vow and covenant, taken by the pretended par* liament. Lyplyhome taken for the king. 1644. An excife laid by proclamation on all goods confumed in Dublin, with other taxes, and three- pence on all lands inhabited by the Englifh. The Scots enter England to affiil the parliament againft" the king. Caftie-Strutton, taken for the king, March 23. Dennington iurrendered to the parliament, March The marquis of Montrofe defeated at Dundee, April 7. Leicefler befiegcd by the king, retaken. May 26, and July 18. Henrietta Maria, princefs, daughter to king Charles the firft, born at Exeter, June i6- The battle of Marllon-Moor inYorkfliire, is fought, in which prince Rupert is defeated, July 2. City of York delivered to the parliament, July 23. City of Hereford befieged by the Scots, July 30, Lyfthedel REMEMBRANCER. 187 Lyfthedel taken by the king, Augufl 5. The earl of Eflex fled to Plymouth, and his in- fantry fubmitted to the king, September 2. John, lord Steward, dies at Abington. Hillary Term adjourned to Reading in Berks. Bolton ftormed and taken for the king. Great fire at Oxford, Odober 6. The people of Dublin numbered 2565 men, and 2986 women, proteftants. The people of Dublin numbered 1202 men, and 1406 Women, papifts. Total 8159. The marquis of Antrim fends over 2400 Irifh to join the marquis of Monirofs in Scotland. Hungerford, the king comes there from Walling- ford, Nov. I*;. Parahelii, or three funs feen at London, Nov. 19. Lord McMahon is executed, Nov. 22, and lord McGuire the fecond of February following. Propofitions from the parliament came to the king at Oxford. Commilfioners from the Roman Catholicks in Ire- land, came to Oxford, December 3. Sir John Hotham, fentenced to the block, Dec. 7, Sir Alexander Carew is beheaded, for attempting to deliver up Plymouth to the king, Dec. 23. 1645. Hoiham's father and fon beheaded, Jan. i. Common prayer voted out of doors, and the di- reflory fet up in its room. The Turks take Canea, and begin the fiege of Can- dia, which la(ls twenty-four years. Lud, archbifhopof Canterbury, beheaded, Jan. 10. Shrewfbary, furprized by the parliament, Feb. 22. Uxbridge-treaty began, Jan. 22. Ended Feb. 22. Milton-Moubry battle, colonel Rofliter beaten, Feb. 25. Ledbury fi^ht, colonel Mafley worded there, April 22. Colonel Windbank fliot to death at Oxford, for giving up Blecking-Houie to the parliament, April 25. Oxford, iS8 REMEMBRANCER. Oxford, befieged the firfl: time, May 22.' Evefham taken by the parliament, May 26. Sligo in Ireland is befieged, and the archbifhop of Tiiam happens to be killed there, July 7. Cafile-Pontefrad, ?i'ter three months fiege delivered to the parliament, July 21 . Carlifle furrendeied to the Scots, after a fiege of 42 weeks, July 28. Caftle-Sherburn, taken by the parliament, Aug. 15, Larentus Villa, dies. The marquis of Montrofe is defeated at Philipf- burgh, 0<5lober 13. Bafinghoufe taken by ftorm, and in it the marquis of Winchefter, 06t. 14. 1 646. Langporr, the king's forces defeated there, Jan. 10. Parliament denies theking a perfonal treaty, Jan. 13. Dartmouth ftormed and taken by the parliament, Jan. 19. Caflle-Belvoir delivered to the parliament after a three months fiege, Feb. 3. Well-Chefter Ibrrendered to the parliament. Torrington, ftormed and taken by the parliament, Feb. 16. . Foy quitted by theking, March 9. Exon delivered to the parliament, April 15. Prince Rupert's troops difbanded. Oxford befieged a fecond lime by Fairfax, May 2. IfisStream, by Oxford, diverted and turned into the old channel. Peace proclaimed between the king and the Irifii rebels. The Irifh parliament make an addrefs of gratitude to the marquis of Ormond, for his conduft. The French begin their manufa6lure of fine wool- len cloth, under the patronage of Cardinal Mazarine at Sedan. The battle of Bemburb, between the Iiifii, under the command of Owen Roe, and the Scots andEnglifb, where the latter were routed. Peace kEMEM B RANGE R. ,^9 Peace concluded with the Irilh Roman Catholicks. Court of wards fupprefled. The plantittion commodities to be brought home in Britilh bottoms only ; this gave rife to the naviga- tion aft, the commercial palladium of Britain. Charles, prince of Wales efcapes into France. Great Seal of England, broken and defaced, July 18. Robert D'Evereux, earl of Eflex, dies, Sept. 13. Dunkirk furrendered to the French, Oft. 10. Denbigh-Caftle furrendered to the parliament. Oft. 12. 1647. The Eaft- India company almofl fupplanted by the Dutch. The lords and commons raifed upwards of 40 mil- lions for the war againft the king, between the years 1641 and 1647, being about 6y666i666\. 13s. 4d. a year. The Scots deliver up king Charles 1. to the par- liament for 400,000 1. Scots army, having delivered up the king to the Englifh commiffioners, left England, Feb. 11, The lord lieutenant delivered up the government to Arthur; Annelly, Efq; Sir Robert King, and Sir Robert Meredith, Knights, colonel John Moore, and colonel Michael Jones, commiffioners, June 19. The common prayer prohibited by proclamation, June 20. The great infurreftion in Naples by Mafianlelio, July 7- The defeat of the Swedes near Egra, by the Impe- rialifts. Treaty of guaranty, July 10. Dungan-Hill fight, wherein colonel Jones com- manded, killed 6000 Irifh, with the lofs of only 20 Englifh. Owen Roe burns the country about Dublin ; fo that 200 fires were feen from a fteeple there. . The inundation, of the river Tiber, at Rome. The lord Inchiquin overthrows the Irifh at the bat- tle of Knockmofs. Liturev ipo RE MEM BR AN C E R. Liturgy Tent into Scotland^ read at Edinburgh J Covenanters oppofe it j Argyle fides with ihem, July 23, fee page 181. Jenkins, judge, denyed the authority of the court of chancery. Captain Burleigh, executed at Winchefter. Holmfby Houfe, the king being prifoner there, was feized by cornet Joyce, carried thence to Chid- derfby, to Newark, Royfton, Hatfield, Windlbr, Ca- verfham, Maidenhead, Latimer, Sion- Houfe, and fo to Hampton-Court, Auguft 24. 164S. Peace concluded at Munfter, between Spain ana HoJland, the latter being declared a free com- monwealth, to which Spain fhould make no preten- fions for the future, Jan. 20. Williams, a prelate of that name, exchanged the world for another ; and as a certain author has it, is hard to fay, whether for a better, or a worfe ! March 25. Major Pitcher fhot to death. James, duke of York, efcapes out of St, James's, and withdraws into Holland, April 9. Colonel Poyer (hot to death, April 25. Locker, a leveller, fliot to death, April 27. Ker, or Kerfbrook-Caftle, king removed from thence to Hurft-Caftle, to Winchefter, 21, thence to Farnham, thence to Windfor, May 1 1. Surry petitioners difpeffed, fome wounded, fom.e fla^n, on May 16. England voted a free ftate. May 1 7. Sir Nicholas Kemifh, flain at Chepftow fiege* May 24. Colonel Monk furprized Monroe, and takes Car- rickfergus and Belfaft for the parliament. Dublin befieged by the marquis of Ormond, June 7. General Fairfax defeated the revolters at Maidftone fight, Jiily 2. Francis, lordVillars, (lain at Kingflon upon Thames^ by colcnel Leveley. General Cromwell arrived at Dublin with his^army,' Auguft 16. Queen REMEMBRANCER. 191 Queen Chriftiana, the daughter of Guftavus Adol- phus, king of Sweden, The Scots army commanded by James Duke of Hamilton, is entirely routed by Cromwell, and the duke taken, Augull i 7. Sir George Leflie, and Sir Charles Lucas are fliot to death. Treaty of Munfter, between the empire and France, Oftober 14. 1649. i'^ft* "3 folemn and memorable one, kept over all England and Wales, to diredt the high-court of pretended juftice, how to kill and fpare rone, who had any remorle or mercy on an opprefled people, and an abufed prince, Jan. 4. Authority fupreme voted to be in the houfe of commons, Jan. 4. King Charles I. taken away from the IQe of Wight, and carried to Hurft-Caftle. Scots commiffioners proteft againft the proceedings of the pretended Englifh parliament, relating to the king's tryal, &c. Jan. 10. The king brought before the pretended high-court of juftice firft, Jan. 20. The king brought a fecond time, Jan. 22. The king brought a third time, Jan. 23. King Charles 1. fentenced to death by John Brad- fhaw, of the high court of juftice, Jan. 27. The duke of Hamilton made his eicape from Windfor-Caftle, Jan. 29th, the day before his mafter*s death. King Charles I. brought to a trial by his rebellious fubje6ts, and beheaded on a fcaffold eredted beforej White-Hall, after a troublefome reign of 23 years, 10 months, and three days, Jan. 00. King Charles II. is proclaimed at Edinburgh in Scotland, Feb. 3. Houfe of lords voted ufelefs and dangerous, Feb. 6, Council of ftate created, Feb. 14, fifteen days after the king's death. James, duke of Hamilton, Hcnrv Rich, earl of Holland, 192 REMEMBRANCER. Holland, and Arthur, lord Capei, are beheaded, March 9. Stadt-houfe at Amllerdam, the foundation laid. Corporation for propagating the gofpel in foreign parts inftituted. Kingly government abolifhed by parliament, March Colonels Vry, and Spotfwood, beheaded at Edin- burgh, March 19. 1649. Charles II. proclaimed -king atYoughall, in Ireland, March 19; Twelve Englilhnlen together, murther Dr. Do- riflaus at the Hague, May 3. England made a republick. May 21. Colonel JoneSj governor of Dublin-Caftle, makes a fally out, routs the marquis of Ormond, kills 4000 men, and took 2517 prifoners, with all their cannon and baggage, at the battle of Rathmines, Aug. 2. Oliver Cromwell lands in Dublin, as lord iieutenantj with 9000 foot, and 4000 horfc, Aug. 1 3. He takes Drogheda by florm, Sept. 10. He took Dundalkj Sept. 16. He took Waterford, Oflober 4. Johan Guir, emperor of the Moguls, dies, Aegyra 1028. 1650. Powder-plot, inTower-Street, London, Jan. 2. James Graham, marquis of Montrole, is hanged and quartered at Edinburgh, May 21. A plague raged, and carried off great numbers in j the city of Dublin. The Hollanders commerce arrives at its meridian altitude. The worfled manufadurers of Norwich incorpo- irated. 1 The fcdl, called Qiiakers, firft appear under George Fox. The lord lieutenant, Ormond, and his adherents, excommunicated by the popilh clergy of Ireland, at :their affembly in James's Town. The laft blow was given to the Irifli rebels, under Emir REMEMBRANCER. 193 Emir Mc Mahon, bifhop of Clogher, by Sir Charles Coote, and colonel Eenwick; in which flight mod of the chief otHcers were taken, and McManon himfelf mortally wounded, June 14. John, duke of Marlborough born, June 24. Holborn Street, burnt down, July 20. Rene de Caries, dies, Augull 3. Fairfax voted 10 go againlt the Scots — lays down, Sept. 5. Edinburgh-Callle, delivered to Cromwell by Dun- dafs. Oliver Cromwell, having reduced Ireland in lefs than a year, is recalled to England ; and being made general, in the room of lord Fairfax, makes into Scotland, and defeats the Scots near Dunbar, Sept. 22. Princels lilizabeth, dies at Carifbrook-Caftle, bu- ried at Newport in the Ifle of Wight, Sept. 24- Norfolk infjrre6tion, for which many fuffered. Prideaux, bifhop of VVorcefter, dies. WilliaiTj 11. prince of Orange, died, and his prin- cefs is delivered of a fon, who was afterwards kins William III. of England, Nov. 4. Cromwell embarks for England at Youghall, and leaves his command to Ireton, his Ion- in-law. The battle of Skirfolas, where the Irilh were routed by Sir Charles Coote. The Turkilh fleet defeated by the Venetians. 1 65 1. Charles II. Stewart, crowned at Schoon, in Scotland, Jan. i. Brown Biulhel, beheaded, March 25. A notable overthrow of the Coflacks and Tartars, given by the king of Poland. Cape of Good Hope, fettled by the Dutch. The I (land of St. Helena taken pofiTeflion of by the Englifli Eaft. India company. Death of Inigo Jones, the great architect. The memorable navigation-a6t, occafioned by the infolence of the Dutch, which afterwards occafioned a fierce naval war, between two very confiderable re- publics. N Charles 194 REMEMBRANCER. Charles II, entered England with the Scots army, Aug. 6. Revd. Chriflopher Love and Gibbons, beheaded on Tower-Hill, Aug. 22. King Charles II. lay concealed in the Royal-Oak, Sept. 4. James Stanley, earl of Darby, is beheaded at Bolton, Oa. 15. Cromwell defeats king Charles's army near Wor- cefter, who had like to have fallen into the hands of his enemies ; but, after a great many dangers, efcapes into France, and thence to Holland, October 15. Ludlow, made commander of the army. The laft battle fought in Ireland between the par- liament-forces and the king's, at Knocknaclalhy, Oa. 29. General Mafley, being fore wounded, threw him- felf under the protection of the countefs of Stamford ; her fon, the lord Grey, fent him to London. General Ireton dies at Limerick, Nov. 26. 1652. Galway furrendered -, which was the laft town of importance in Ireland, May 12. Lyton, or Church-Layton, almaft deftroyed by lightning, and Fife at Glafgow in Scotland, fuffered the fame fate, July 17. Sea fight in the Downs with. the Dutch, June 19. Sir George Afcough's engagement with Ruyter, at fea, Aug. 16. When he was an Englifh admiral under the parlia- ment, he took, funk and difperfed ^6 Dutch men of war. A cofFee-houfe firft opened in London. The taking of the city of Barcelona by the Spanifh army. • French fleet beat admiral Blake, Sept. 5. Dunkirk, furrendered to the Spaniards, Sept. 10. Dunkirk and Gravelling repofleffed by the Spa- niards, Nov. 29. Admiral Van Trump beat the Englifh fleet, and failed through their channel with a broom at his main-top. 1652. Two REMEMBRANCER. 195 1652. Two hundred, the number of hackney- coaches in London. . The revenue of the poll office farmed for 10,000 /. a vear. The parliament raife 120,000/. per month. Was lieldat Kilkenny the firil high court of juRice for the trial of thole accufcd of the rcbeilun. Sir Phelim O'Neill hanged. Lord Mayo was condemned and fliot to death in Connaught. Colonel Fleetwood commander in chief. 1653. The parliament refign their power to Oliver Cromwell, who takes the title of Protestor. Several battles between the Englilh fleet under admiral Blake, of Portland, and the Dutch under Van Trump, in the firft of which the Dutch loft their gallant admiral and twenty-fevcn men of war, Fcbrtlary 18, 19, 20. Rump parliament of England diflblved by the ar- my, a council of ftaxe called 30. A new parliament called July» Cromwell enters the houfe of commons with a file of n>ufqueteers, and commands the fpeaker to leave the chair, April 20. Chancery court voted ufelefs by the new parliament. General afTembly of Scotland difmifs'd July 20. Martin Trump, a famous Dutch admiral, born at theBril, being raifed to a vice-admiral of Holland, was killed in an engagement with the Englifli, July 30. Martin Trump was fincere to his friend, faithful to his country, jult in his command, and a generous enemy. Colonel Liiburn tryed and acquitted, Auguft 8. Oliver Cromwell, a great general but a bad fub- jeft i he cunningly wanted to grow bafely rich — pro- claimed lord title of fworn protedor of England, Scotland and Ireland, December 16. 1654. Chriftiana queen of Sweden, abdicates the crown. Janfonius condemned by the apoftolick chamber. N 2 Seldon, 196 REMEMBRANCER, ^ Seldon, the antiquary. Don Panteleon Sa, the Portuguefe ambaflador's brother, is beheaded at London for a murder. The navy expence of England of this year, 1,048,737/. i3i. 8^. The Newcaftle colliery employs 900 fail of fhips. Hackiaey coaches, now 300, put under regulation of commiflioners. Vafialage aboliflied in Scotland ; this was not con- firmed at the reftoration. The fine broad cloth of England fent to Holland to be dyed. 1655. '^^^ Stadt-houfe of Amfterdam finifhed. Jews recalled, by virtue of a treaty Oliver Crom- well made with Manaffeh Ben Ifrael, the Jews admit- ted into England, after an expulfionof 365 years. Dodor James Ufher, archbifliop of Armagh dies, primate and metropolitan of all Ireland, a good and learned man, but wanted pride fufficient for his high ftation, March 31. 1655. The Englilh take Jamaica from the Spa- niards, May 7. The Venetians beat the Turkifh fleet near the Dardanels. Charles Guftavus, kingof Sweden, invades Poland; Colonel Peruddock executed. May 16. 1656. DoftorWiid, and Gunning, claptunderan arreft by the Arian parliament, for celebrating the na- tivity of our Saviour, March 25. William Molyneux born in Dublin, June 18. The Thames river, ebbed and flowed twice in 'one day, three hours, Oflober 3. The new general poft office for England, Scotland, and Ireland eftablifhcd ; fingle letters within 80 miles at two-pence, at a greater dillance three-pence, thefc were further confirmed at the reftoration. Clare market built. The national charge of this year, and colleded without a land tax. For the navy. - - - ;£ 1,000,000. Civil REMEMBRANCER. 197 Civil government, - - - C» 300,000. 1657. Moles Sundercomb poifon'd himfelf, he was dragged round Tower hill at a horfe's tail, and then flung into a pit, February 17. Treaty between Cromwell and Louis XIV. John Milton, the Englifh Homer, writ mofl ele- gant and fubliiiie in blank Verfe. See Paradife lofl:» lived. Richard Cromwell made lord chancellor of Oxford, July 29. Mardike taking by the Englifli and French. Knglifh coinage for nineteen years in gold and filver The India trade laid open, for four years.' Revenue of Ii eland for two. years ending, Nov. i. /i37o8« 13^- 3^- '. . 142,509/. 1 i J. expended. 1658. The caftle of Dublin furprized by a number of general officers inclined to king Charles II. redo- ration. Spring watches invented. Colonel Sexby dies prilbner in the tower, Jan, 13, 1658. Papifts and "cavaliers, configned to five miles from home, February 17. /V pamphlet publiihed intitled. Killing no murder, wrote by colonel Titus alias Allen, March 17. Henry Cromwell the protector's fecond fon, is made lord ieutenant of Ireland. Oliver Cromwell dies at White-Hall, September 3, He from the low provifion this wicked great man made for his family, fome have come over to think, that tho' he was no good fubje6l, yet, he was a (lift' patriot. The taxes he railed were generally apply'd to the public ufe. F'or men in a much lower Iphere fince, have quadrupled the Fortune he made for his family. A great man fays, had he been the fon of a republic, as he was the fon of a monarchy, he would have proved the brightell Gem in the annals of his country, that nine centuries have produced. Richard Cromwell is proclaimed protector, Sept. 4. Oliver 198 REMEMBRANCER. Oliver Cromwell's pompous funeral on the 23d of September. 1 659. Richard Cromwell is depofed by the parlia- ment. He is turned out of the protedorfliip, April 22- Sir George Booth is taken, and committed to the tower, 0 696,000 Paris — >- — 488,000 Amfterdam, — — 187,000 Venice — - — 134,000 Rome — — 125,000 Dublin — -^ 69,000 Rouen —> -■ — 66,000 Briftol — — 48,000 Firft treaty of peace and neutrality for America, between France and England. King James fends the tarl of Cadlemain ambalTa- dor to the Pope, 7\uguft 9. The earl of Tyrconnel fworn lord deputy of Ire- land, who not being able to prevail on the magiftracy of the city of Dublin to admit Papifts to their freedom, had a quo warranto brought againft the city charter, who had judges to perfecft his defign, Buda taken by the Imperialifts, Auguft 23. Julian Johnfton whipped for a libel, Dec. i. O 2 The 212 REMEMBRANCER. 1 687. The Imperialifts gain feveral advantages over the Turks in tlungary. The Turkiih garrifon in Agria furrender for want of provifions. Hie emperor's fon Jofeph is crowned king of Hun- gary at Prcfbourg. The Prorcllanc Diffenters, to avoid perfecution, go in great numbers to America. Father Edward Pecre, ajefuit, admitted and fworn of the Privy-council, Nov. n. By excelnve rains, and a violent ftorm, there hap- pened a great inundation in Dublin, which put the lower parts of the city of Dublin under water up to the firft floor, fo that boats plyed in the ftreets : At which time EfTcx Bridge was broken down, when a coach and horfes palling over it, fell into the river, where the coachman and one horfe perilhed, Dec. 4, and 5. 1688. The memorable revolution of England, which Voltaire calls the Aera of Englifli liberty. James Francis Edward, the Pretender, formerly called the Prince of Wales, born, June 10. Natural iffue of king James II. by Mrs. Arabella Churchill, fifler to John, duke of Marlborough. Henry Fitz- James II. natural fon of king James II. by Mrs. Churchill. King James II. having a daughter by Mrs. Catha- rine Sidley, only child of Sir Charles Sidley, of Alesford, in the county of Kent, Bart. Thankfgiving day in London for his birth, June 10. General Thankfgiving for the fame, July i. Smyrna deftroyed by anibarthquake, July 10. General rental of England, for land, houfes, and mines, before we became confiderable in trade, viz. about the year 1600, did not exceed, per ann. 6,000,000 1. which general rental we take now, 14,000.000. Moreover in 1600, the fald fix millions, at 12 years purchafe (the common price ot lands at that period) was worth but '72,000,000.' But the lands, &c. of England, at the rental of fourteen REMEMBRANCER. 213 fourteen millions, and worth 18 years pnrchafc, in the year 2525000,000. An amazing alteration in lefs than a century. Eirfl; law for a bounty on the exportation of corn. War declared againfc France. James Butler, duke of Oimond, dies atKingfton- Hall, in Dortetfhire in England, in the 79th yejr of his age, July 21. King James's abdication cflablifhed by parliament. King James II. arrived in Dublin, and the next year aflembled a parliament, which attainted 3000 proteflants. A mint eltabliflied by king James II. for coining money of brafs, old guns, and the refule of metal, melted down together, to the amount of 389,724. 33.1ft valued at 1,596,799 1. os. 6 d. The prince of Orange made his firft declaration, Oa. 10. The earl of Tyrconnel filled the churches with foldiers, and made them ftore-houfes for the arms belonging to the protellants. The gates of Londonderry were fliut againft the earl of Antrim's regiment, who were fcnt to gariifon it, Dec. 12. Three thoufand Irifh fent over to England, which frightened and alarmed the v/hole kingdom. William III. Prince of Orange, lands in England, Dec. 13. James II. embarks, and goes over into France, Dec. 23. 1689. The Houfe of Commons voted that king James II. had abdicated, January 28. William III. and Mary, voted king and queen by parliament, Feb. 6. Trinity-College, made a barrack for popilh fol- diers, in Dublin. The firll bounty on corn exported. The firil Ailiento Treaty, for kippl) ing the Spanifli Weft- Indies with Negroes. French imports prohibited. The 214 REMEMBRANCER. 1689. The memorable ftatute, of the declaration of rights, or England's new Magna Charta, by Wil- liam and Mary. King James II. lands at Kingfale in Ireland with French troops, but returns to France the fame year, March 12. The fiege of Londonderry raifed by general Schom- bergh, and lieutenant general Hamilton, routs the proteftants in the north at Dromore, many of whom fly to Derry, March 14. James II. came to Dublin and called a parliament, March 25. The prince of Orange, and his princefs Mary, are crown'd king and queen of England, April 11. Brafs money made current in Ireland, June 18. Fifteen hundred Ennifkilleners, did (the day be- fore the fiege was raifed,) meet major general M'Carty, with 6000 men, whom they defeated, killed 3000 of them, and took mod of the reft prifoners, with the lofs of only 20 men, July 20. Epifcopacy abolilhed in Scotland by acl of parlia- ment July 22. The French proteftants invited into England. The church tythes appointed by a(5t of parliament to be paid to the popifli clergy. An adl made in England for the reftoration of the Irifti proteftant clergy to their benefices, which from the unhappy ftate of the kingdom they were obliged to leave. Five thoufand a year of the poft office revenue fet- tled on duke Schomberg, on his departure to com- mand the army in Ireland, being in confideration of his fervices, and to make good what he loft in France and Germany, for adhering to king William III. Forces depart for the relief of Ireland, the 12th of Auguft, and land at Carrickfergus on the evening of the 13th under the command of the dake of Schom- berg. I'he trenches opened before Carrickfergus the 224 of Auguft, and capitulated the 26th. looo Ennifkilleners under colonel Lloyd rout 500Q Irim REMEMBRANCER. 215 Irilh going toSligo, and kiird70o of them, Sept. 17. The brafs coin raifed, by calling in the half crowns, and (lamping them anew for crowns at Dublin. Hearth-money abolifhed in England by king Wil- liam III. 1690. Firft began to make fine paper in England. The Irifh beaten at the battle of Cavan, near Bel- turbet, February 7. Six thoufand Danes land in the north under the duke of Wertenberg. Five thoufand French land at Kingfale, to aflift king James, for whom fome Irifh were fent back in exchange with M'Carty, the 12th of March. Sir Cloudefly Shovel takes a Frigate out of the har- bour of Dublin, in fight of the Irifh, April 18. King William III. lands at Carrickfergus, June 4. Colonel Lutterell, the governor of Dublin, iflfues out an order forbidding more than five proteftants to meet together, on pain of death, June 18. The Englifh army in Ireland much reduced by ficknefs and want, owing to the villainy of their pur- veyor one John Shales. On the failure of brafs, king James had his image impreflfed on pewter, which was alfo to have been made current, but in this he was defeated by king William's viftory at the Boyne, July i. The college of Dublin turned into a barrack for popifh foldiers, when the provofl and fellows were difpoflJeiTed. Dr. Moore, a popifh prieft, nominated provofl, who contrary to expe6lation, conduced himfelf with prudence, and paid great attention to the prefervation of the books and manufcripts. The proteftants of Ireland difarmed, by order of Tyrconnel. The reverend Mr. Walker, appointed governor of Derry, preparative to the memorable fiege there. The mine and adventurers company erefted. Duke Schomberg killed by a wound in his neck, owing to the imprudence of the regiment of Comboii, who too haftily fired upon fome of king James's guards, that attacked the duke as he was croffmg the Boyne, 2i6 REMEMBRANCER. Boyne, to head the French refugees, whom he per- ceived in dilbrder. Drogheda furrendeisto the vidlorious kingWilliam, King William's army encamp at Finglais, July 4. Athlone began to be befieged by lieutenant general Douglas, July 17. Sarsfield furprifes, and deftroys the great guns, with tin boats, &c. atBallynedy, within leven miles pf the befiegers camp, Auguft 11. Soon after him fell the memorable Dr. Walker, who fo bravely defended Derry. King William goes for England. 169c. Count Solms goes for England, Lieutenant general Ginckleis commander in chief of the army. The duke of Grafton mortally v/ounded at Cork, September 22. An earthquake in Dublin at Seven o'Clock in the jnorning, but did no harm, Odober 7. Belgrade taken by the Turks, Odober 18. 1691. Count Schombcrg, fecond fon of the late duke, created duke of Leinfler. The duke of Berwick, and other great officers went from Limerick to France. Mark Baggot taken as a fpy in womens cloaths March 28, and hanged the May after. Monfieur St. Ruth fent from France to command the Iriih army. General Ginckle goes to the camp at Mullingar. Was fought the {harp and decifive battle of Augh- rim, when after many fevere conflids and doubtful ftates, victory was declared in favour of king William: The Irifh lols amount to 7000 men, with their gene- ral St. Ruth, who fell by a cannon fliot as he came down the hill of Killcomaden. The lofs of the Eng- lifh did not amount to more than 600 killed, and 960 wounded, July. 12. John Mac Cabe the famous robber with four of his men taken and three killed at Dunfert near Johnfon- bridge, by lieutenant Courtney, and lieutenant Sherls, with a party of the county of Meath militia, July 28. One hundred and forty commillion officers taken at REMEMBRANCER. 217 at Aihlone, Aughrim &c. were fent from Dublin to Chefter as prifoners. John Mac Cabe and his four men hanged at Naas, Augult 19. Sir Albert Conningham was kill'd by a party of Irifh at Colloony, near Sligo, upon a furprize. Galloping Hogan with his party of raparees fet upon the Englifh cimp took away 70 horfes, near Collen, September 2. The lord Lilburn Ihot in the trenches before Limerick, much lamented, September 15. Civil and military articles were a^rreed on for Limerick and all the other forts then in the poHeirion of the Irifh between Sir Charles Porter and Thomas Coningfby Efq-, lords jullices of Iicland, and his ex- cellency, the baron Gmckle commander in chief of the Englifh army on the one part, and tlie right ho- nourable Patrick earl of Lucan, Piercy Vifcount Galmoy, colonel Nicholas Purcell, colonel Nicholas Cufack, Sir Toby Butler, colonel Garret Dillon, colonel John Brown, and their excellenies the lieute- nant generals D'Uffon, and De TefTe, commanders in chief of the Irifh army, on the other parr, with the ratification thereof under the great feal of England, by their majefties king William and queen Mary, O6lober 3. 1692. A great froft in Ireland, which held till the middle of Eebruary from the 19th of January. A proclamation was publifhed declaring the war of Ireland to be at an end, March 25. Admiral Ruflcl obtains a memorable vifbory over the French fleet in a battle near La-Hogue, May 21. Port Royal in Jamaica ruined by an earthquake June 7. A great earthquake in England, September 8. 1693. The Greenland trade company erected. Bank of England created. CommifTioners appointed to enquire ifito the for- feited lands and goods, &c. in .Ireland, The parliament of Ireland dilTolved, July 28. 1694. The 2i8 REMEMBRANCER. 1694. The Tower of Limerick (being old) fell fuddenly, in which were 218 barrels of powder, which by the ftriking of the (tones took fire and blew up, it greatly fhattered the town, killing about lOo perfons, befides the wounded, February i. The French plot and intended invafion. Queen Mary II. died &c. of the fmall-pox ; a princefs of illuftrious and peerlefs virtue, Dec. 28. 1695. The coin in Ireland raifed by proclamation 5 a Louis d'Or 21s. a. ducat 6s. Sd. The hofpitalat Greenwich began to be created. Dr. John Tillotfon, archbifhop of Canterbury, died at Lambeth, aged 64, November 8. The New Orphan company eredled, and 8000/. a year impofed on London for its fupport, in order to make good the depofite that had been formerly puc into their care. London hackney coaches and chairs taxed. Henry Purcell, a famous Englilh mufician, his compofitions are faid to fall fhort of none •, his Te Deum's a lading monument of his exalted genius ; and he is gone to that place, where only his mufic can be exceeded. Died. St. Malo's, Granville, and other places on the coaft of Normandy, bombarded by the Englifh. 1695. Namur furrender'd to king William. The French bombard BrufTels. Captain Walfh a fubjedt of England, but com- manding, a French privateer on thefecoafts was taken and hanged, April 15. The maflfacre of Glenco by the earl of Argyle's regiment. May 9. The parliament of Ireland met, they voted a fup- ply of 183,325/. Auguft 27. The rolls, records, papers, &c. relative to the a6ls of attainder, and other ad:s of king James's parlia- ment, weie cancelled and publickly burnt, 061. 2. Bank of Scotland erected. Rife of the million bank. Exchequer bills introduced. 1696. Sixteen REMEMBRANCER. 219 1696. Sixteen millions fuppofed to be the current cafti of Great Britain. Lords commiflioners of trade erefted. Began to be built the Edyllon light-houfe. A law to prevent the exportation of Englifh wool, and ihe importation of Irilh. Hemp, flax, linen, thread and yarn from Ireland, admitted duty free : (This law firft gave rife to the now happy ftate of the linen manufadlure in Ireland) and a bounty granted on the exportation of Britifh fail-cloth. French proteftants fettle in Ireland, and improve the linen manufa6lure. The Mufcovices take Afoph from the Turks. Ann of Auftria died. May 17. This year the Four Courts for jufl;ice were new built in Chrifl: Church lane, at the charge of the crown. William packet boat, with two mails, and 80 paflengers, cad away in Dublin bay, near Sutton, November 10. The lord chancellor Porter died moft fuddenly in his chamber, December 8. 1697. This year Barthol.Van Homrigh Efq; one of the commiffioners of the revenue and lord mayor of the city of Dublin, obtained the prefent collar of SS. a royal donative for the chief magiftrate of the city, to the value of looo/. the former collar being loll in king James's time. The parifli of St. Michan's divided into three parilhes, viz. St. Michan's, St. Paul's, and St. Ma- ry's •, two churches were erefted in the two latter by a tax on the pariflies in Dublin. 1697. ^'^^ of '^'^^ ftock brokers. A(5t paffed for erecting lamps in Dublin. The new fabrick of St. Paul's cathedral. The magazine of Athlone fired by lightning, blew up the calllc and divers houfes, and fourteen perions werekill'd, Oftober 27. The treaty ofRyfwick. 1697 Peter 520 REMEMBRANCER. 1697. Peter the Great, Czar of Mufcovy, vifits Holland, England, and Germany. 1698. The palace of Whitehall burnt, January 4. Abraham le Grove, was executed and hanged in irons below Ring's-End, for a horrid murder he committed on a Dutch Skipper, whofe body he cut into joints and cad it into the river but mod of thern were found, February 7. The African trade laid open. The woollen manufaiflure of Ireland difcouraged, and the linen countenanced at the requeft of both houfes of parliament ; in return for what the Irifli parliament had done the year before, relative to their woollen manufadure. The French firft fettle at the mouth of the river Miflifippi. William Molyneux author of Ireland's Cafe dies in Dublin, Odlober 13. 1699. Upon the commons addrefs his majefty king William gave 9000/. to Trinity college Dublin, enlarging it by fome new buildings, which are fince cre61:ed,on College-Green, repaired andraifed in 1765. Wool and woollen manufacture of Ireland and America, to be exported to England only. The nett proceeds of the poft office revenue. - . _ 90,504 10 6 Exports from England, — 6,788,166 o o Imports, - - . 5,640,506 o o Value of their woollen manu- facture exported, - - 2,932,292 o o Increafe of our exports fince 1662, - - - . - 4'7^5»334 o o Value of the wool and its ma- nufacture, — — 8,000,000 o o The parliament of Ireland diffolved. May 30. The parliament of England vefted the forfeited eftates in 13 Truftees, to be fold for the publick Vife, notwithftanding feveral grants already made. The treaty of Cariowitz between the emperor and the Turks. 1700. The REMEMBRANCER. 221 1700. The duke of Gloucefter dies, at Windfor, aged 12 years, July 30. Farquhar, the famous comic poer, wrote his Trip to the Jubilee. Jndia-Silks prohibited to be worn in England, Flanders lace admitted, provided the fame indul- gence be given to the woollen manufactory and corn of Great-Britain, on exportation. 1 701. John Dryden, Efq-, the ingenious tragi- comic and epic-poet, died, aged 70 years. May i. The earl of Oxford, lord Summers, and the lord Halifax, impeached, May 9. Hanover fuccelTion- ait, figned by king William IH. June 12. The earl of Oxford, lord Summers, &c. acquitted, June 17. Pruflia ducal, ereded INTO a kingdom. The Partition Treaty charged in the Houfe of Lords upon the Lord Halifax, June ly. The city of Dublin, in grateful commemoration of their late deliverance, by the condud: and valour of king William III. erc6led his Ilatue on horfeback, in brafs, in the College- Green, with an infcription on the marble work, July i. James II. king of England, dies at St. Germains, Sept. 5. Upon the death of king James, the French king immediately caufed his fon to be proclaimed king of England, Ireland, and Scotland, by the name of James III. An alliance between England, Holland, and the emperor. 1702., King William thrown from his horfe, and broke his right collar-bone, Feb, 26. He died at Kenfington, March 8. when the na- tional debt amounted to above fourteen millions. Queen Anne crowned, April 23. Doftor Michael Boyle, archbifhop of Armagh, and primate of all Ireland, died in the 93d year of his age. The 222 REMEMBRANCER. The two Eaft-India companies united. The Princefs Sobiefki, late wife to the chevalier St. George, born July 6. The Englifh fleet fent to Cadiz, under the com- mand of admiral Rooke ; and 12,000 land forces, under the duke of Ormond. Admiral Rooke lakes and deflroys the galleons at Vigo. The king of Poland is defeated near Cracow, by Charles XII. of Sweden. Rear-admiral Sir John Lake takes and deftroys 51 French fhips at Newfoundland. The earl of Marlborough created duke of Marl- borough, Dec. 14. 1703. The king of Sweden takes Thorn. Great earthquake in Rome, Feb. 14. Vce-admiral Graydon let du CafTe efcape, March 18, Kirby and Wade fhot at fea for cowardice, April 4, Bounties granted by England for raifing naval ftores in America, owing to the ill ufage of the Northern crowns. Daniel de Foe fentenced to the pillory, for the Shorten way to the DifTenters, July 7. The city of Dublin gave a fplendid entertainment to the duke and dutchefs of Ormond, at the Tholfel, at which time the corporations marched through the city, with feveral pageantries before them, Aug. 12. An infurredlion in the Cevennes, Aug. 12. Monfieur de St. Evremont died, Sept. 9, The Grand Seignior depofed, and his throne ufurped by his brother, Sept. 29. The commons of Ireland expel Mr. Afgil the houle^ for his book aflTerting the Pofllbility ofTranflation to the other world, without death. Captain Green, of an EngliQi merchant-man, was hanged on the fands of Leith in Scotland, for piracy, and murdering one captain Drumond on the high feas. The murder was difcovered by one of Green's crew, at the houle of Rachael Read, in Brunt-IHand. Borrovvftonefs in Scotland. A whale was taken there, I REMEMBRANCER. 223 there, drove in by the herrings, 52 feet long. Landau furrendered to the French, Nov. 19. November 26, at about eleven at night, began a great ftorm of wind in England, which encreafed at midnight, and rofe to lb grievous and dreadful a temped, continuing till fix in the morning, that no man's memory reached the like, nor perhaps was there ever a ftorm more violent. In the country innumerable trees were blown up by the roots, houfes overturned, and ftacks of corn and hay difperfed. In cities the chimnies were blown down, and the tilings of houfes fwept quite away. 1704. The city of Dublin-marfhalfea, removed from Bridge-Street to the Merchant's-Quay. Intereft of money, reduced from lol. to 81. per cent. The linen-manufa<5lure of Ireland, admitted to be exported to America. Enadled, that promiflbry notes ftiould be fecured in like manner, as bills of exchange. The Barracks, in Dublin, began to be built. Staniflaus, elefted king of Poland. Mr. Rochford, attorney-general, ftabbed with a knife in St. Andrews Church, Dublin, by Mr. Chef- wick, May 21. Gibraltar taken by admiral Rooke, July 24. Rear-admiral, Sir John Lake, forced the French fleet at Malaga engagement, where he took and burnt 13 of their men of war. The Caftle-market, in the city of Dublin, opened by the lord mayor, by proclamation, and beat of drum, July 26. ' An encampment of the army at Bennet's-Bridge near Kilkenny, when fome were detached to Por- tugal. The duke of Marlborough marches into Germany, and in conjunflion with prince Eugene, gains a me- morable vidiory over the French and Bavarians, at the battle of Hochfter, near Blenheim, where the latter, being an army cf 75,000, were entirely de- feated. 224 REMEMBRANCER. feated, 1 3,000 were taken prifoners, with the French general monfieiir Tallard, and moft of the reft flain orfcattered, Aug. 2. Sir Roger L'Ellrange died, aged 88 years, Dec, 11. The Work-houfe of the city of Dubhn began to be built ; her grace the dutchefs of Ormond laid the firft ftone. The number of the Popifh clergy, in each county in Ireland, returned to the clerk of the council, pur- fuant to an ad: of parliament for regiftring the Popifh clergy. The Number of the Popifh Clergy, in each County in Ireland, returned to the Clerk of the Council. In the Counties of Antrim Armagh Catherlough Cavan Clare Cork .- - - City of Cork Donegal Down Town of Drogheda Dublin City of Dublin Fermanagh Gallway Town of Gallway Kerry Kildare Kilkenny City of Kilkenny King's County - 19 14 30 45 38 4 21 2 ?>^ 34 13 87 8 3^ 30 26 4 20 Leitrim - - - Limerick City of Limerick Londonderry Longford - Louth Mayo Meath Monaghan - Queen's County - Rofcommon Sligo Tipperary Tyrone - - . Waterford - City of Waterford Weftmeath Wexford Wicklow Town of Youghal Total • 23 47 12 14 16 14 51 • 55 17 • 25 ■ 49 ■ 39 • 45 ■ 27 21 • 6 ■ 36 ■ 34 • 13 - 1 ;o8o 1705. The REMEMBRANCER. ^25 1705. The lord Cutts appointed commander in chief of her majeilies forces in Ireland under the duke of Ormond, ?vlarch 23. Dr. Oates died, July 12. Reinfcliald, a Swedifli general, fell upon the Saxon army, he had but 10,000 men, the Saxons had 18,000, he killed 70O0, and took 8000 pnlbners. 1706. The adt of -bankruptcy eommerices in Eng- land. Bank of England be^an to circulate exchequer bills. Pitcairn, a famous phyfician in Edinburgh, in his zenith. Great eclipfe of the fun May i. The union of the two kingdoms of England and Scotland figned London, July 22. Prince Eugene beats the French, and raifes the fiege of Turin, September 7, Rear admiral Sir John Lake, relieved Barcelona, and in it the prefent emperor, taking 96 fail of corn fhips. 1 707. Lord Cutts died in Dublin, January 26. Specie in Scotland faid to amount to 900,000/. Burning of the town of Liiburn, April 20. Don, a river 2 miles north of Aberdeen in Scot- land, '2^c^'] Salmon were drag'd out at once. Sir Cloudefly Shovel, knight, and two other capital (hips caft away on the rocks of Scilly, the vice admi- ral, died at lea with all the fhips crew. His low birth was ennobled by his brave atchievements i and iho' iome have blamed him for too levere a command, yet his miftrefs regretted his lols, 06lober22. The cuftom houfe of Dublin beo;an to be built. 1708. The allies take Lifle. Philips (John) the Englifli comic poet died, aged 32. The chevalier St. George's expedition from Dun- kirk to Scotland with count Forbin, March 6. Burning of the caftle of Belfafl, wherein were ^eltro\'d three young ladies and two others, on P Sunday 226 REMEMBRANCER. Sunday April 24. Gregg executed, April 28. Hanover admitted to be the 9th eleftorate, June 19. Prince George of Denmark, hufband to queen Anne, died, aged 56 years, Oftober 2B. The famous John Locke Efq; died Oflober 28. Great fire at Conftantinople, November 6. The ifland of Minorca taken by the Englifh. [708. The battle of Blarignies, where there were killed 12,000 of a fide, the allies took 500 officers and prifoners, befides their cannon baggage and amu- nition. 1 709. Robert Walpole, Efq-, appointed treafurer of the navy, January 1 3. A general naturalization of foreign proteftants ena6led in England. Five hundred Palatine families fent into Ireland, where 24,000/. were granted for their fupport and eftablifhment. The bank of England double their capital, and for that purpofe difpofe 2,201,171/. 10s. at the rates of 1 15 per cent, which was compleated between the hours of nine and one, Tournay taken by the allies. Mons taken by the confederates. Charles of Sweden is beaten by viftory of the Mulcovites at Pultowa, and retires to Bender, a town belonging to the Turks, June 27. The battle of Tanniers, or Malpiaquet, in which the French army, under the heading ot marfhal Viilers, was utterly defeated by the confederate ar- my under the command of the duke of Marlborough, Augufl3i. Dr. Henry Sacheverel preached his feditious fer- mon at St. Paul's, November 5. Mr. Euftace murder'd his wife in Smithfield Dub- lin, and made his efcape ; but being purfued by a conflable to Saggart they fired a piftoi at each other, and both died on the fpot. I 710 The REMEMBRANCER. * 227 1710. The battle of Villa Viciofa, where Starem- bergh came up to t'nc afTiftance of Stanhope, and kil- led 7000 of their men, and took their cannon, &c. Dr. Henry Sacheverel's tryal bc-'gan, February 27 : He is filenced for three years by parliament, March 23. Several Indian kings arrive in England, and have an audience of queen Anne, April 19. The new law pailed for adjufting the afllze of bread that of Henry ill. being out of ufe. Value of the money coined in England, between 1569 and 1710, of gold and filver, 21,419,307/. Bank of Holland faid to contain 36,000,000/. fterl. The allies take Doway, Eethune, and feveral other places, April 24. Queen Anne gave 5000/. to the univerfity of Dub- lin, Sept. 22. Lord Griffin died in the tower, Nov. 10. Colonel Parkes governor of Antegona murdered. 17 1 1. Great fire at Francforc, Jan. 15. Guifcard flabb'd Sir Robert Hariey with a pen- knife, March 8. The council chamber and treafury burnt, and moft of the records confumed, in Dublin. The general poll office eredted, and a poft mafter appointed for the three kingdoms •, the revenue of the office in 1710, 111,461/. ijs. lod. Increafe of the London exports for four years, viz. 1707 to 17 lO, both inclufive, amounted to 2,389,872/. Hackney coaches and chairs in London put under the regulation of five commifiioners, when 800 coach- es were licenfed at 5^, weekly, and 200 chairs at \os. a year. highefl: price fold Rife of thefouth fea fcheme began 1720 original money paid. highert price fold. South fea (lock, ift. fubfcription, 100 - - 1000 Ditto ill, fub-7 fcription, atJ^o^P^'"^^"^- " ^^^ " " 750 Ditto 2d, at 400 - - - 80 - - 600 Ditto 3d, at 1000 - - - 100 - - 440 Ditto 4th, at 1000 . - - 200 - - 245 P 2 South 228 REMEMBRANCER. South fea projeft propofed by Mr. Harley to the commons, May 2. Great plague began at Copenhagen, May 22. Queen Anne created twelve peers at once. Dec. 31. 17 12. John duke of Marlborough turned out of all his pofts, Jan. i. Robert Walpole Efq; fen t to the tower, Jan. 17. Proclamation againft the Mohawks, March 17. Louifa Maria filter to the Chevalier St. George dies, April 7. The duke of Hamilton and lord Mohun both kil- led in a duel, Nov. 15. The duke of Shrewfbury fent to France, and the duke de Aumont came to England. Richard Cromwell, fon of Oliver, died in the ninetieth year of his age. 1713. King of Sweden made prifoner by the Turks at Bender, after three years proteftion, Jan. 21. Hudfon's bay ceded to England. Nova Scotia ambiguoufly given up. National debt fifty millions. Value of black filk for hoods and fcarves made in England amounted to 300,000/. a year, which before was purchafed from the French. The brave Catalans, abandoned by the Britilh miniftry, contrary to their folemn engagements, after a long time ftruggling for liberty againft the united powers of France and Spain, were obliged to fubmit. Both houfes of parliament addrefs her majefty, to get the pretender remoy'd from London. Marflial Villers takes Landau from the Imperialifts, though defended by 17,000 men, May 20. Do6tor Henry Sacheverel in divinity, a popular pulpit-man in queen Ann's time -, he was fufpended for three years, and died redor of St. Andrew's, to the great grief of thepariih clerk. 17 14. General Ingolfby died, and was interred in Chrift-Church Dublin, January 4. Barcelona taken by the duke of Berwick, July 12. This was efife(fled, after four years eflay, by John Harrif®n GEORGE I. 229 Harrifon of London-, who, in 1765, received a par- Jiamentary reward of 20,000 1. for difcovering the Jongitude, having fird given full and fatisfadory proofs of the utility of his time-piece, and principles in feveral voyages. Legal intereft in England reduced from 6 to 5 per cent. Rife of the Oftend company in England. There happened a terrible hurricane over the king- dom of Ireland which had a ftrange effedt upon the old church of Stackallen, one xnile fouth of Ardce in the county of Louth. Ballance of trade in favour of England in I7i3> and 17 14, 2,103,148/. Iron firft made in Virginia. Queen Anne dies, Aug. i. GEORGE I. i7i4.y^EORGEGUELPSI.Elea:orofHanover, V^ thirteen years king of England, Auguft I. and crowned 0(5l, 20. 1 715. The greatelt eclipfe of the fun that had been . feen for 500 years, happened April 22. The Turks make themfelves mafters of theMorea. The earl of Mar fet up the chevalier St. George's ftandard, Sept. 3. A rebellion breaks out in Scotland. A proclamation, with 1000 1. reward for Sir Wil- liam Wyndham, Sept. 24. Robert Walpole, Efqj firft made chancellor of the Exchequer, 06b. 10. The rebels are defeated at the battle of Prefton, m England, where the rebels fubmitted to Will and Carpenter, 230 GEORGE I. Carpenter, the two Engliflt generals, 1489 prifoners taken, 1 18 of them noblemen and officers, and up- wards of 2000 killed. The battle of Dunblain in Scotland, the fame day, where the rebels were routed by Argyle ; the rebels army confided of 9000, and the Englifh 3500. Nov. 13- The Pretender lands at Peterhead, near Aberdeen, Dec. 25. Captain Dalzel, the Scotch pyrate, executed at Tyburn. Dorel, Ker, and Gordon, hanged for high treafon, Dec. 7. 1716. The chevalier St. George, lord Mar, &c. efcaped from Scotland, Feb. 4. LordNithofdaleefcaped out of the Tower, Feb. 23. The earl of Derwentwater, and vifcount Kenmure beheaded, Feb. 24. Colonel Oxburgh executed. May 14. Richard Galcoine executed. May 25. Jufcice Hall, an unhappy gentleman, and in the commifTion of the peace, was drawn into Mar's in- furredion, for which he fuffered : He was hanged at Tyburn, July 13. Reverend parfon Paul, a divine of the church of England, was convided (upon the ftatute of quifque fuo muneri, every man to his own trade) for anti- canonically breaking in upon the military art ; for he, whofe fundlion it vvas to fave fouls, went to kill bodies. He was hanged at Tyburn, July 13, Dumblane, near thar place, on Sheriff Mure, was fought a fmart engagenienc between the duke of Ar- gyle and the earl of Mar, Perth, the rendezvouz of the late earl of Mar, 1 71 6. (n that place happened a great inundation in the reign of William I. by which the king's Ton and the nuffe were drowned, 1249. That prince built the Abbey of Ardbroth in Angus j that edifice, though now in ruins, has a magnificent look -, and whether we confider its fituation, extent cf ground, or GEORGE I. 231 or bulk of the fabric, ic is exceeded by no piece of Gothic, that I have feen in ^o years travel. King George at HanovcT, enters into an alliance. The queen of Prulfja goes to Hanover to vifit her royal father. Prince Eugene beats the Turks, and takes Temef- waer. The river Thames frozen over, and oxen roafted upon the ice. The Swedifh fleet blocked up by the Englifh and Danifli fleets in Carlelcroon. ^717. Francia, the Jew, tryed and acquitted, Jan. 22. 2,500,787!, r2s. id. on the difcovery of count Gillemberg, and baron Degorts, by inftance of the king of Sweden, in favour of the Pretender, Jan. 29. Robert Walpole, Efq-, firft lord of the trcafury re- figned, Ap. 10. Captain Fitzgerald taken near Bleflington, in the county of Wicklow. The Britifh linen exported duty free. The guinea reduced from 1 1. is. 6d. to il. is. od. The right of Britifli fubjedls to cut logwood, again afiferted. The Dutch trade in the Baltic with 1200 ihips. The Buccaniers of America fuppreffcd. A great victory obtained by their Imperial and Ca- tholick Majellies forces over the Turks at Belgrade, under the command of prince Eugene ; the Turks being 500,000 men, prince Eugene's 80,000, Aug. 16. The Turks lolV 131 pieces of cannon, ^y mortars, 23,000 cannon-balls, 3000 bombs, 3000 grenades, 600 barrels of powder, 300 barrels of lead, 52 co- lours, 9 horfe-tails, 4 trumpets, i large drum of the Janizaries, 4 drums fmaller, i fmallcr, i large cop- per kettle-drum, 2 pair of fmall ditto, 10 brafs can- non, 6 iron ditto, in the gallies, 57 brafs cannon, 105 iron, &c. 1718. The young prince George \\^illiam, fon to the prince of Wales, died Feb. 6. ' Maria 232 GEORGE 1. Maria Beatrix Eleonora, queen of the late king James II. died at St. Germaine, April 26. Some perfons broke into the Tholftl of Dublin, and cut his majefty's pidlure in feveral parts, June 29. The lords juftices offered locol. reward for dif- covering any of the perfons, June 29* Color:el Henry Lutterel fhot in a hackney-chair, as he was carrying home from Lucas's coffee- houfe, A proclamation publifhed by the lords juftices of Ireland, for apprehending the late duke of Ormond, promifing a reward of 10,000 1. for taking him. The marquis de Palcotti, brother to the dutch&fs of Shrewfbury, kiHed one of his fervants in London ; he was tried for it, found guilty, and was executed. The famous Quaker, Sir William Pen, dies. Lord Carpenter defeats the Spaniards and Rebels at Sirachell in Scotland j the Rebel forces confifted of 1640 Highlanders, 300 Spaniards, and a corps a part of 500 Highlanders. His majefty's forces did not exceed 850 men, befides 120 dragoons, and 136 Highlanders. The late earls of Seaforth and Marefchal, and the late marquis of Tullibardine, land in Scotland with 400 men. Admiral Sir George Byng deftroys the Spanifti fleet in the Mediterranean. King Charles XII. of Sweden, is killed by a can- non-Ba'l at the fiege of Frederickfhall, Nov. 30, 1 719. Baron Gortz, theSwedifli minifter, beheaded, Feb. 9. Mr. Jofeph Addifon, a prodigy of wit and parts, flouriftied : he died, June 17. A great thunder and lightning in Dublin, which continued from two o'clock in the afternoon, to five the next morning, July 17. The chevalier St. George, married to the princefs Sobiefki, Aug. 21. Lombe's famous filk-thrown miachine fet up at Derby, and the fecret purchafed at 14,0001, 1720. A dreadful plague at Marfeilles in France, Aug. 16. A Charity GEORGE I. '33 A Charity fermon preached at all the churches in Dublin, for the poor weavers, by order of the go- vernment, and the money gatliered was as followeth, viz. St. Andrew's St. Audeon's St. Bridget's St. John's St. Catherine's St. Mary's St. Michael's St. Michan's St, Patrick's Cathedral St. Paul's St. Peter's St. Luke's Ch rift- Church Cathedral 1. 60 45 43 12 19 10 17 40 21 104 21 s. o o o o o 16 o o o 7 o o d. o o o o o o o o o 1 1 o o 40 o o 1. s. St.Werburgh's ^^ 10 St. Nicholas with-in 10 o St, Nicholas without St. James's St. George's 17 o 10 o 60 Priv) Council 100 o Chanc. lady 100 o LadyConnolly 50 o Bilh. Dublin joo o TheDifTentcrs 160 o Pi^y-Houfe 73 o d. Total 1227 14 2 Rear-admiral Sir John Lake, the fame year took Carthagena, Alicant, Ivica, Majorca, Minorca, and Sardinia. This great man died (much lamented by his country) in the 64th year of his age, interred in Stepney Church-Yard. Charles-Edward, the chevalier's eldefl: fon, born, Dec. ^i. The national debt of France, at the death of Lewis XiV. 1,977 millions of livres, and their an- nual intereft amounted to ne.ir 90 millions per ann. 1 72 1. Patrick Wail and Wilham Coghlan executed at Broken-Bridge, Feb. 15. Doftor Steven's Hofpital began to be built. Lord Coningfby committed to the Tower, Feb. 27, John Aiflabie, Efq-, committed to the Tower, March 8. The Quakers allowed to make their affirmation, inftead of taking an oath, Feb. 12. Printed calicoes prohibited to be worn, alfo buttons and button-holes made of cloth, A public 234- GEORGE I. A pubiic bank attempted by parliament to be erefted in Ireland. The filk manufacture of England encreafed to the amount of 700,000). per ann. fince the revolution. See 1766. William, duke of Cumberland, horn, April 15. Matthew Prior, a noted Englilh poet, died. Natlianiel Mifl, printer of the Saturday's Pod, voted to Newgate, London, May 27, 'I'he unfortunate accident at the Four-Courts, Dub- lin, happened at the tryal of the two Mr. Brigantines, for killing a conftable in Golden-Lane, whereby many were cruftied to death by their crowding out of the courts upon a falfe alarm of their being on fire, June 16. Amongil thofe killed was John Ormfby, Efqj 1722. Cheap year, when cows fold at 12 1. a fcore, Grofs amount of the poft-office 1. s. d. revenue - - 201 ^804 i i Franksdedud 33,397 12 SK^, .^9 i- 8 Expenceofcondu<5t70,296 i 5) j'>iJ-> ^ Nett produft 98,010 7 5 A bounty granted on the exportation of filken-ma- rufaclures. A furprizing revolution in Perfia, the city of If- pahan being taken by an army of Rebels, and the Sophi dethroned. The great John, duke of Marlborough, died, June i6v Mary Allen was burnt at St. Stephen's-Green, for drowning one of St. James's parifa children. The ilatue of king George I. on horfeb-,:ck, in braf;, was placed at Eir:;x-B;idge, July i6-t but co- vered f:om publick view till the firit of Auguil fol- lowing, at vvhicii time the Franchifes Vv-ere rode. Taken down in 1753, in order to .rebuild the bridge, and place the ilatue in fom.e more convenient fitu- ation •, but never fmce creded. Leyre, GEORGE I. 235 Leyre, council at lav*?, was tried and convicted at Wedminllcr, for holding a correlpondence with fo- reign powers. 1723. VVeftminfter- Abbey •, bills of pains and pe- nalties ordered againftAtterbury, bifhop of Rochefteri the prelate was banifhed, March 2. Frederick, prince of Denmark, born, March 20. The great fire at Stockholm, May i. Chriftopher Lyer, or Layer, executed for high treafon at Tyburn, May 17. George Kelly, alias Jchnfton, committed to the Tower, with PJunkec, May 27. Alliance figned between England, Denmark and Sweden. A patent for coining half-pence for Ireland, grant- ed to William Wood, July 24. Againft this pro- jtdior. Dr. Jonathan Swift appeared^ in the character of the Draper; who, in a maflerly manner expofed ihe defigns of the coiner, and raifed Inch a fpirit, as tffcdlually banifhed him ihekingdom. A fcvere edi61: in France againtl Proreftants. The pragmatic fandlion, for uniting the dominions »f Auflria under one head. 1724. A great eclipfc of the fun. May i. 1 Norway rats began to infcli Ireland. An alliance between Sweden and Muftovy. Jack Shepherd, a molt ingenious houlc-Dreaker ; lis arr, or th; filver key opened more locks in New- jaie, thp.n would have puzzled 100 Vulcans to have jone in the time. Newgate was not firong enough keep him in, nor hola him. out : He was hanged 1 Tyburn. Wcftminfter- Abbey -, Atterbury, Lifnop of Ro- jiefler, gave it a new front, in im/itation of the old ork. ii was tinilhcd. 1725. Henry-Bencdifl, the chevalier's fecond fon, iorn, Feb, 24. John Comm.cr, executed at Sr, Steplien's-Grecn for ne murder of counfellor Hoar. ' Earl of Macclesfield tryed for high crimes, May 6. \ A treaty 236 GEORGE I. A treaty between the emperor and Spain, at Vienna. Another at Hanover, between England, France, and Pruffia. The death of the Czar of Mufcovy Peter the Great. Cornet Poe, executed at Kilmainham for robbery, Oflober 17. Sir William Dawes, late archbirtiop of York, a gen- tleman of good accomplifhments, which centered in afts of religion and morality : He had humility be- coming a bilhop, and fincerity fit for a prieft. Jonathan Wild, a moftexquifite tutor and trepanner of thieves, praftifed and taught for a long feries of years ; at lengcli his pliilofophy failing, by a glut of vaft fuccefs, he turned his hand to politics at a cer- tain inftalmenr, which attempt coft him a journey to the other world up Holborn-Hill j his being pelted in the cart as he was going to die, fliewed that he left many fpe6lators behind him, as great ftrangers to humanity and religion as he was. No Porteus com- manded there -, he w-as hanged May 24. 1726. Sir Ifaac Newton, B^n. whom the learned guefs at, and of v^rhom I can give the vulgar no Idea. He was born at Wolfthrop, near Grantham, in Lin colnfliire, where he went firfl to fchool, and then wa; entered at Trinity College, Cambridge : Born, Dec 25, 1642 •, died March 20, 1726. That great ma thematician was mailer of his majefty's mint, and pre iideni of the Royal Society. One hundred hackney-chairs added to the numbe in London, amounting to 300. About 18 perfons, men, women, and children were drowned near Ring's-End, by the over-fettini of a boat. The firft maiket of corn at the new market- houf in Thomas- Street, April 13. 1727- Captain Avery, a fea pirate, and king ii Madagafcar, died poor at Bidiford, in De\on. Note like the bee he laboured for licney to feed on; bu being robbed by falfe friends, he died for warn June 10. Tf GEORGE IL 237 The Spaniards befiege Gibraltar, but in > : j . King George I. dies at Ofnabrug, in his way to Hanover, June 11. GEORGE If. 1727.T T I S majefty king George II. ^^ years king JL X of England, June 11. Earthquake in the Weil of England, July 19. Mary Gore, born at Gotten, in Yorkfhire, Aged 14.5 years. About 100 people burnt at a Puppet- fhew near Cambridge, Sept. 8. King George II. and queen Carolina crowned, oar. i[. A large whale came on fiiore at Erris, in the county of Mayo •, the jaw-bone was 22 feet long. 1728. Dr. Berkley (fmce bifhop of Cloyne) at- tempts to ereft an univerfity at Bermuda. Number of Ihipping that arrived at London, between Chriftmas 1727 and 1728, viz. Britifh, 1829; foreign, 213 ; coafters, 6,827 -, in all, 8,869. The Charitable Infirmary on the Inns-Qiiay, was opened for the admifTion of patients, and the houfc rebuilt in 1741. William Congreve the poet, died. Mr. Audouin executed at Stephen's Green, for the murder of his maid, June 5. A duel was fought near Drogheda, between captain Pcppard and Mr. Hays, the latter was killed. The Linen-Hall was opened for the reception of linen, for the more convenient difpofing of it in Dublin. 1729. The treaty of Seville. Parliament fat at the Blue- coat Hofpital. The Parliament-Houfe on College-Green began t© be built. Th« 238 GEORGE II. The water kept out of the North-wall. William King, lord archbifhop of Dublin, died, aged 80, May 8. Carolina, purchafed by the crown for 800,000 1. St. Mark's church, on Lazer's-Hill began to be built. Bridewell began to be built, near the city Work- Houfe, Dublin. The bridge at Rings-End built. The firft burial with linen fcarves, at colonel Grove's funeral, 061. 15. William Conolly, Efq-, Speaker of the Houfe of Commons, died, 0<5l. 19. Frederick prince of Wales, eledled chancellor of the univerfity of Dublin. 1729. This month was remarkable ; ifb, for florm.s, 2ndly, for a very fickly time ; 3dly, for con- tinual rains and inundations ; 4thly, for fuch a mul- titude of ftreet robberies, that there was no ftirrincT out in an evening ; whereupon a reward of 1 00/. Vy'as offered for apprehending any one of them, Dec. 1730. The Levant company export ten thoufand pieces of broad cloth. Credit of the Eno;liih manufadture of filk fo great in Italy, that at Naples, in order to recommend their goods, they faid they wereEnglifh -, the revcrfe in 1766. The bridge from Falham to Putney built, A great revolution at Conftantinople, where fultan Achmet is depofed, and his nephew Mahomet ad- vanced to the throne. Viftor Amadeus. kina; of Sardinia, abdicates the crown in favour of his Ton Charles Emanuel prince of Piedmont. The mufic-hall in Crow-ftreet builti 17,31. Law pleadings ordered to be in Englilli. Hat manufacture difcouraged in America. Si.^ thoufand Spaniards introduced into Tufcanyj to fecure the fucceiiion of that duchy to Don Carlo. The parliament of Ireland met at the new houfe, compleated, in expence 40,0001, Oftober 5. A whal« GEORGE II. 239 A whale of 45 feet long caft into Heath. An account taken of the fouls in the kingdom of Ireland in 1731, ftood thus, viz. Provinces Roman Catholicks Proteftants Totals Connaught - 221,780 21,604. — 243,384 _ Leinfter — 447,916 203,087 — 651,003 Munfter — 482,044 115,130 — 597>i74 Ulfter — 158,028 360,632 — 518,660 1,309,768 700,453 2,010,221 1732. Captain Mooney and Magwirk were execu- ted at Stephen's Green, for enlifting men for foreign fervice, February 14. College library finilhed in Dublin. The archbilhop of Saltzburg expels the proteftants out of his territories. Milan furrendered to the French, December 19. 1733, Stanillaus, oppofed by the emperor and the Czarina, but fupported by France, is a fecond time elefted king of Poland, he retires toDantzick. The eledor of Saxony is proclaimed king of Po- land towards the end of the year ; which brings on a war bqtween France and the emperor, Bifliopfgate rebuilt by alderman Barber. Burying in woollen cloth introduced. The Irifh incorporated foe iety erected. Proteftant families in Dublin, 8,823 Papifts ditto, - - 45I19 Ten to each houfe, — — 129,420 Proteftant families in Cork, 2,569 Papifts ditto, — — 5»398 Seven to a houfe, — — — 55,760 The excife fcheme on wine and tobacco brought into the houfe, March 14. 1734. This was a very fickly time in London-, there died 1500 in one week, viz. between the 23 Dec. and I ft of January, of a head-ache and fever. Forging or counterfeiting acceptances, or bills of exchange, made felony. Mercer's 240 GEORGE IL Mercer's hofpital in Stephen's-Streer, Dublin^ opened for the reception of patients. Mr. Ford, one of the fellows of Trinity college Dublin, was fhot by one of the fcholars, Feb. 7. The foundation of the college printing-houfe. The Ruffians befiege and take Dantzick, but Stanidaus efcapes. The French take Philipfburg, in the fiege of which place, the duke of Berwick, natural fon of king James II. a brave general, is killed by a canon ball, June, 1. Marfhal Villars died, June 6. The battle of Parma, in which the imperial gene- ral count Merci is kill'd, June 18. Philipfburg furrendcred to the French, July 6. 1734. Tomo Chichi the Indian king introduced to the royal family, Auguft i. Prince of Orange married to the princefs royal of England, Auguft 14. Atterbury bifhop of Rochefter, died and was bu- ried in Weftminfter. Don Carlos conquers Naples and Sicily. Gallows Paul, alias Paul Farrel hanged by the mob in Cloth workers-fquare, Dublin, and moft in- humanly mangled, Auguft 22. Battle of breeches In Italy, Sept. 4. 1735. Princefs Sobieiki wife to the chevalier St- George died, January 8. The magazine in the Phenix-Park began to be built. Elizabeth She, of Catherine's parilh Dublin died aged 119, April 7. Field-Marfhal, an office firft inftituted in Great Britain by king George II. his grace the duke of Argyle, and the right honourable the duke of Ork- ney were firft put in commiflion. The Derwentwatcr eftate, forfeited to the crown in 17 1 5, appointed for the fupport of Greenwich faofpital. Exported GEORGE ir. 241 Exported from Cork, 107,161 barrels of beef. 7,379 ditto of pork. 12,461 calks I ^^^^^^^ 02,727 rerKinsj Admiral Norris fails to Lifbon with a ftrong fleet to proteft the Portuguefe again ft. the defigns of Spain. Kouli Khan gains a great victory over the Tuiks. Peace concluded between France and the emperor. 1736. Prince Eugene of Savoy died, April 10. Venice made a free port. Frederick prince of Wales, married the princefsof Saxe-Gotha; April 27. • The obelifk at the Boyne credled. Firft aft of parliaiTienc, for granting money for building the bridge at Wellminfter. Captain Porteous, who commanded the guard at Edinburgh, and fired upon the people who were af- fembled to fee the execution of a fmuggler there, was found guilty of.' wilful murder June 22. 1737. Number of fouls in Paris 536,712. The RufTian general count Munich takes Oczakow from the TurM.. . :; -;r! i 1738. Ahoufeblovvn upbygun-powder in Gharles- Street Dublin, Jan. 7. Thirteen children found murdered under the farid-* bank at Kilmainham, that belonged to the poor houfe. Colonel Archer fhot himlelf in Dame-Streer, Dublin, Feb. 8. Weftminfter bridge began to be built. The firft powder and ball put into the magazine in the Phoenix park, Sept. 2. Gold coin reduced in Ireland, Sept. lo. 1739. The duty on wool and bay yarn imported from Ireland taken off. Number of people employed in the woollen ma- nufaflure of Great Britain, 1,500,000 at 6d. each for 313, the working days in a year, amounts to I U7 37^500 1. A large whale taken by lieutenant Chaplain at Kil- iybeggs, it meafured 70 feet between the head and tail. The college fteeple began to be built, Dublin. Q. Henry 242 GEORGE II. Henry, lord baron Santry tryed by his peers at the bar of the houfe of lords and found guilty, for ftab- binga man of which he died, April 27. A {"nan killed ih the four courts Maifhalfea, May 12. Cornet Peter Marcelly, of the lord Molefworth's dragoons, fhoc himfelf in Sycamore-Alley, Dublin, July 26. A man that died in St. Stephen's hofpital, when^ opened, his liver weighed 24 pounds. 1739. Admiral Vernon takes Porto Bello with fix fhips only, Nov. 5. The Imperial general count Wailis attacks the Turks near Krotzka, but is defeated, having loft near ! 0,000 men. As intenfe a froft, as perhaps was ever known in thefe parts, began the 29th of December, a great ftorm, and continued to the 8th of February, which is univerfal over all Europe, 174O. Death of the emperor Charles VI. who is fucceed- td by his eldeft daughter Maria Terefa in all his he- reditary dominions. The king of Pruflia invades Silefia. But 71b. 140Z. 2drs. in a 12 penny loaf, Jan. 6. Same day Lineal an officer of mace, murdered a tnan in Ormond market, Dublin. The Swedes ere6t a board of manufaflures. Lord Anfon, goes out on his expedition againft the Spaniards, and fails round the world in near four years. Value of 100/. fterling in the paper currency of the Britifli colonies, New England, viz. Maflachufet's- Bay, Conne6licut, Rhode ifland, and new Hamp- Ihire — — — I 525 New York, — 160 The Jerfeys, — 160 Penfylvania, — 170 Maryland, — , — - 2CO N. Carohna, — 1400 S. Carolina, — — 800 Maflacre of the Chinefe at Batavia, 061. 16. t)utch) 1740 Th iree, GEORGE rr. 243 1740. Three hundred houfes burnt in Carolina; the damage computed at 200,000/. November 18, The reverend Mr. Edward Shewell, executed at Stephen's-Green, Dublin. 1741. Sir John Dinely Goodyer, murdered at Brjjflol on board the Ruby man of war, by the procurement of his brother Samuel Goodyer efq-, captain of faid man of war, January 24. Charitable infirmary, on the Inns Quay, rebuilt. Value of Irifli iinen exported 600,000/. which only amounted to 6000/. at the acceflion of William II. The forts and caliles in the harbour of Carthagena attacked by admiral Vernon, and Sir Challoner Ogle, ^'nh a ftrong fleet, and a confiderable body of forces under the command of general Wentworth, makes an unfuccefsful attempt upon Carthagena, great part of the troops being deftroyed in attacking fort St. Lazare, or fwept off by an epidemical fick- nefs, March 20. The ele6bor of Bavaria takes Prague, and is pro- claimed king of Bohemia. A remarkable revolution in Ruflla, whereby the princefs Elizabeth the prefent emprefs, is placed on the thtone. -' A battle near Wilmanftrand between the Swedes and Ruffians, wherein the former are defeated. Glogaw taken, by thePrulFians, March 20. Samuel Goodyer, an^d hi'^ two abettors executed at Briftol, April 15. Thirty houfes burnt in Cavan, April 21. The reverend Mr. Tanner, minifter of Skerries, murdered by one'Cappogue, May 2. One Clarke (labbcd her ftep-fon in the belly with a cafe knife, of which he died. May 14, The right honourable Henry O'Bryan, earl of Thomoivd, died' in Jervis-Strect, May 14 Their excellencies the lords juftices pardoned Lineal an officer of mace, who was condemned for murder, ^a condition of being tran (ported for Life, May 4. Q^ 2 Twenty 244 GEORGE II. Twenty-one houles in Navan burnt, May 15. Mf. John Stephens of Lazer's-Hill, fell out of a garret vyindow and died immediately, June 10. Sir John Norris fails with 45 (hips of the line of battle, and 8240 men, June 26. A woman was fafelv delivered of two boys and a giil in Charles-Street Dublin, July 31. 1741. In the dead of the night John Bodkin, with feme ruffians entered into his father Oliver Bod- kin's houfe. about three miles from Tuam, murdered liim, his wife, and fon •, Mr. Mark Lynch who lay there that night, three maid fervants, and four men in the barn, in ail eleven perfons, Sept. 19. : Mrs. Ryan dropt dead in her houfe in Charles- ftreet, Sept. 21. The fame day another woman died fuddenly. Mr. Doyne chandler, dropt dead in his Ihop in Nicholas-Street, Sept. 23. A boy dropt dead in High-Street, Dublin, Sept. 25. The cuftom houfe of Limerick burnt, Oct. 2. John Bodkin and his alTociates executed, Odl. 8. Mr. Lynch murdered near his houfe at Loughrea, Nov. II. The number of proteftants, in Ulfter, and the amount of which was 96,067. -, The Superb man ot war brought into Kingfale a Caracca fhip with 200,000/. December 25. 1742. Thomas Kouli-Khan obtained a great vidtory over the Great Mogul, who left in effedls and other- wife 125,000,000/. kouli-Khan carried away with him as follows, viz. The jewels to the value of - . ;^ 031,250,000 The jewels of the throne — 011,250,000 Money coined > _ _ 031,250,000 Gold and filver . _ - 006,250,000 Fine cloths, &c. - . _ 002,500,000 Houfhold furniture - - 003,750,000 Cannon . _ > _ 001,250,000 Carried away by officers and foldiers 012,500,000 Fields laid wade, goods carried awa v 025,000 ,000 £ 125,000,000 Sir GEORGE II. 245 Sir Robert Walpole created earl of Orford, Feb. 9. He went to court and refigned all his employments, Feb. r i . The firft fhip laden with Irilh coals came to Dub- lin from Newry, March 28. 1742. The whole town of Omagh burnt d<3wn, except the church and four houfes, May 4. The tryal between Mr. Mercer plaintiff", and Mr. Sandys defendant, came on at the common pleas for criminal converfation with the plaintiffs wife, when Mr. Mercer got a verdict of loco/. damages, and 6d. coft, May 1 9. Same evening Mr. Saunder's coach man, was kil- led in Abby-Street. John Longrin Porter to the caftle fhot himfelf, May 20. Mr. Spring tryed at the king's bench and found guilty, June 23. A ftrange kind of male child brought from Anigil, in the county of Monaghan, to Dublin. The eledlor of Bavaria chofen emperor and crown- ed at Franckfort. The Auftrians overrun Bavaria, and take Mu- nich. A battle between the Auftrians and Pruilians, which laft remain mafters of the field. A treaty concluded at BreQaw between the king of Pruffia and the queen of Hungary. Marfhal Bellifle makes a furprizing efcape with a great body of French troops from Prague, which foon after furrenders to the Auftrians, Septemberii. The Czarina is crowned at Mofcow, and declares the young prince of Holftein her fucceffor. The Ruffians conquer Finland Don Philip reduces Savoy. The Spaniards invade Georgia, but are forced to retire. Captain Middleton makes a fruitlefs attempt* to difcover a north weft paflage into thefouth fea. The Rev. Hugh Boulter primate of all Ireland died, Sept. 27. A velTel 2^6 GEORGE n. A veflel coming from Wexford to Dublin with eigliten felons, the Jaylor, his afTiftants, and feverai perfons were by a violent florm drove on the coaft of \Vi klow and all periihed, 0(5t. 2. Mr. Waite late Cafnier of the bank of England taken in the city of Dublin, and committed to Newgate, for tnkingof whom a reward of 500/. was offered December 20. 1743. Six prilbners in Wicklow-goal cut their bolts, knocked down the turnkey, and made off, Mar. 6. A whale killed in Killybeggs Bay, 60 feet long, the tongue alone filled eight hogfheads, April 30. The queen of Hungary is crown'd at Prague. A viilory obtained over the French, by prince Charles of Lorrain, near Indoiftadt, where 7000 were killed, and 4000 taken prifoners, June 8. Plots in Mofcovy. All fhips coming from Sicily to Dublin, ordered by proclamation to perform quarantine, on account of the plague which then raged there. Plague at Mefiina in Sicily, July 18. The Revd. Claudius Gilbert, died : He left his fine colledlion of books, worth feverai thoufand pounds, to the library belonging to the Univerfity of Dublin, Sept. 15. John Banks, Goldfmith, tryed at the Tholfel, and found guilty of vending bafefilver as fterling, 061.20. The brother of the Bafliaw of Tetuan, with his four fons, took refuge in Gibraltar, and brought with them 2,000,000 in gold. Was determined the great caufe which came on at the court of Exchequer, on Friday the nth, wherein James Annefly, Efq; was plaintiff, againft the Right Honourable the earl of Anglefey. The tryal, having lafted twelve entire days, the jury, after ftaying a few minutes in the jury-room, gave a verdidl for the plain- tiff, Nov. 25. Eleven millions of money were raifed on the people in France, for fix years, ending with the year 1743- Land- GEORGE Land-forces in France, May 1743, foot horfe and dragoons Total of regulars Miiitia Invalids Total of land-forces, Seamen of all denominations, bom- bardiers and mariners - - - Annual expence of France, The clear revenue, II. 247 37'i64 182,600 2i9>7^4 75,000 9,296 304,060 42,440 546,500 I 14,850,000 6,000,000 Annual debt _ . - 8,850,000 Annual expence of England - 7,300,000 1 744. There died at Aleppo, and the adjacent parts round it, of the plague70,ooo perfons in three months, January. Lord Netterville tryed by his peers, for murder, and acquitted, Feb. 3. A compleat vidlory obtained over the French and Spaniards, by admiral Mathews, Feb. j r. An old houfe in Pill-Lane, where a prieft was cele- brating mafs, fell, by which accident, he and nine others were killed, and feveral hurt, Feb. 27. 9000 Dutch troops land in England, March 18. Mr. Abraham Wilkinfon, fenior, killed by the dis- charge of a piftol, which he let fall out of his hand, May 14. The Auftrians pafs the Rhine. The militia of the city of Dublin marched from their feveral parades to Stephen's-Green, and from thence through the faid city, May 25. The French take Menin, Ypres, and other places, June 4. The king of Prullia takes Prague. The French take Friburg, after an obftinate and bloody fiege. Coni 248 GEORGE 11. Coni befieged by the French and Spaniards, but the place making a gallant defence, they are at length obliged to raiic the fitge with precipitation. An uCticn before Toulon bec-/.een the Englilli fleet and the French and Spanifh Squadrons. Commodore Anfon arrives at St. Hellen*s, from the Scuth-Seas, in the Q-nturion, with his prize, the Nufera Senoraldel CabaDonga, the trealure amount- ing to 2,600,000 pieces of eight, and 35,682 ounces of virgin plate •, in the whole to the amount of 1,250,0001. fterl. Commodore Anfon returns to England, having failed round the globe. He arrived in London with his treafure. Alexander Pope died, June 19, aged ^^. The higheft fpringtide that was remembered to have been in Dublin for feveral years, Sept. 24. Sir JohnBalchen, in the Viftory, the fineft firft-rate fliip in the navy of England, was caft away near the Race of Alderney, the whole crew perifhed, confift- ing of 1000 men, and above 100 gentlemen's fons, volunteers, Cd:. 6. Died her grace the dutchefs dowager of Marlbo- rough, in the 84th year of her age. A dreadful hurricane in Jamaica, 0 WHEN BRAVERY AND LOYALTY WERE INSUFFICIENT SECURITIES FOR THE LIFE AND HONOUR OF A NAVAL OFFICER. Mr. Pitt and Mr. Leg2;e refigned their employ- ments ; and were prefented, by the city of London, with their freedom in gold boxes. The king of Pruflla defeated count Brown at Av- wall, near Prague, and laid fiege to that city. May 6. His PruITian majefty was defeated by count Daun, at Collin, and forced to raife the fiege of Prague, June 1 8. A battle was fought between the duke of Cumber- land and marflial de Eftrees, at Haftenbeck, when the French claimed the honour of the viftory, July 25. Admiral Watfon, dying in the Eaft-Indies, was fuc- ceeded by rear-admiral Pocock, Aug. 16. Militia-Adl palled. ' The GEORGE II. 267 The king of Pruffia defeats the army of the empire at Rofbach. Count Daun defeats the prince of Bevern, near Brellau, and took him prifoner, Nov. 22. The king of PrulTia defeats count Daun, at LifTa, Dec. 5. Marfhal Richelieu threatened to deflroy the elec- torate of Hanover with fire and fword, and burnt the fuburbs of Zell, but wasoppofed by the brave prince Ferdinand. The king of PiufTia retook Breflau. 1758. Senegal, in Africa, taken by the Engliih, cap- tain Amillar was the firft that pafTed the Bar, May i. The king of Pruflia enters Moravia, and invefts Ohnutz, May 27. Fort St. David's in the Eaft-Indies, taken by the French, June 2. The duke of Marlborough burns 100 fail of (hip- ping at St. Maloes. The prince de Clermont defeated atCrevelt. Vidlory obtained by prince Ferdinand. Madrafsbefiegedby the French, who were beat off by the Englifh, June 23. The Ifle of Cape Breton, and Louifburgh, taken by the Englifli, (the fleet commanded by admiral Bofcawen, and the Jand-forces by general Amherft) furrendered, and the garrifon, amounting to 5673 men, were made prifoners of War. General Wolfe dillinguifhed himfelf greatly at this fiege, June 26. The exportation of fait provifions from Ireland, permitted for lix months, on paying the ialt duty. Milford-Haven direfted by parliament to be for- tified. St.Thomas's Church began to be built finifhed. The gift of the Right Honourable Charles Gardiner. Statue of George II. erected in St. Stephcn's-Grcen. Cherburg Forts deftroyed by the Englifh, Aug. 6. Upon a plan drawn up by John Fielding, Efq-, in May 1758, was inftituted the Afylum, or houfe of refuge, near Weftminfter-Biidge, for orphan girls, from the age of 10 to 13 years, refidmg within the bills 268 GEORGE II. bills of mortality, whoff lettlements cannot be found. The duke of Mailborougii dies at Munfter in Germany, Sept. 20. The Ruffians having befieged Cuftrin, his Pruffian majefty flew to its relief ; when a bloody battle was fought, wherein 21,529 Ruilians, and only 2000 Pruffians were (lain, Sept. 23. The French defpairing to defend Fort du Quefne, abandoned it, when its name (as fome fay) was changed to that of Pittfburgh, in honour of Mr. Secretary Pitt, whofe meafures had been, and are llill, fo glo- rious to England, Nov, 24. The liland of Gorce, on the coaft of Guiney, taken by the Englifh, Dec. 29. 1759, New front of Trinity college finifhed. A(ft for regulating the corporation of Dublin, pafled into a law. Live cattle and tallow, to be imported duty free from Ireland, for five years. The bank of England iflues notes df ten and fif- teen pounds. South Carolina produces 10,000 lb. of rav/ filk. Guardaloupe ifle taken by the Englifli, M^y i. Marigalante, Granadas, and St. Martin, taken by the Englifh, May 26. Madrafs befieged by the French, who were beat off by ihe Englifli. The famous battle of Minden, won by prince Fer- dinand over marfhalContades, who loft above 10,000 men, Auguft i. The Enghlli INFANTRY, parti- cularly the regiments commanded by Waldegrave and Kingfley, behaved with the moft extraordinary bravery againfi; the French cavalry, and forced them to retreat with great lols, Aug. i. Crown Point taken by general Amherft, Aug. 4. Admiral Bofcawen engaging M. de la Clue, de- feated him glorioufly ; and took or burnt four large men of war, cape Lagos, Aug. 1 8. Kew bridge built. Quebec, capital of the French-empire in North America, GEORGE II. 269 America, was taken by the Englirti forces, com- manded by general WOLFE •, who, lofing his life on that occafion, gained immortal glory : The glorious conqueft, loll a moft proinilii^ loldier, who, at the age of ^5 perfe(rttd that character, and fulfilled the expectation of his cuuntry, dying in the arms ct vidtory, Sept. 13. General Mo .ckton, who was dangeroufly wound- ed, fignallzc'd hiriifeif greatly, and general WOLFE, though victorious, is flam., France in the death of M. de Montcalm, had no lefs a lofs in a general, than the fatality of the day, Sept. 13. The Houfe of Commons voted a monument to be erected in Wellminller-Abbey, to the memory of general WOLFE. FortNiagara, in America, taktn by general Johnfton, Sept. 25. Ticonderoga taken by General Amherft, Sept. 28. Admiral Hawke, coming up with the French fleet off Belle-ifle, under Conflans, defeated it, taking or finking five of their fliips, forcing eight of them up the river Vilaine, and difperfingthe reft. Oft. 2Q. This was one of the mofl: fignal naval victories fince the defeat of the Spanifli armada in 1588, admi- ral Drake, very like admiral Hawke in 1759. The noblelt thanks were returned admiral Hawke in the Houfe of Common=, by the fpeaker ; and two thoufand pounds per ann. were afterwards fettled upon himfelf, &c. Some account of William Andrew Hcrne, efq; who was convicted at Nottingham allizes, Aug. 10, 1759, for the murder of a child in the year 1724, and executed there on the i ith of Dec. 1760. Amount of the parliamentary grant for car- rying on the war, £ 12,749,860 o o .Value of the linen manufadu- red in Scotland, . . ^ 45i>390 17 3 Value of the linen exported from Ireland, — — 939,562 r 4 Ditto — — 891,697 I 8 Amount 570 GEORGE II. Amount of parliamentary fup- p\ks, — ^ — , 15,503,564 15 9 The fannous Monfieur Thurot landed 1000 men at Carrickfero-'j^ in Ireland. The ioUovving is a lift ot the provifions which vere demanded by the iVlonfieur Thurot from the town of Bel fail. Hogflu-ads of wine, 40 Fiogfheads of brandy, 20 Barrels of peafe, - 30 Bacv? of onions, - * q Bed^-^, . - - 6h Bar/eL of butter, 60 Barrels of vinegar, - 4 Weighr of bifcuit, 4000 Weight of Tobacco, 1600 Weight of candles, 600 Weight of rice, - 4O0 Weight of fugar, 100 Monfieur Thurot was afterwards killed in an en- ga;-. cMient with captain Elliot, &c. Feb. 8. which he loon quitted, after plundering the tov;n ; but he reached the Ide of Man, was overtaken by captain Elliot, who engaged him with three frigates mount- ing 31 guns: The French Ihips were equal in num- ber, but much fuperior, mounting 102 guns, and proportionably mianned. The French commander was killed, and his fquadron taken. His name was O Farrel, and was well acquainted with the Irifli coaft, where he had frequently been with contra- band goods. His grandfather, who followed the fortune of James II. was a native of that kingdom ; but his mother being of a family of fome dignity in France, he was called after her. The Englifli fliips were very providentially put in- to Kingfale by ftrefs of weather. Lift of the Englifh fhips. Aeolus, captain Elliot, commodore 32 guns, 240 men Pallas, captain Clements, - - 36 guns, 240 men Brilliant, captain Logic, - - 36 guns, 240 men The French fhips. MarHbal Bellifle, monfieur Thurot late comman- der, - - - - 44 guns La Blonde,- _ . . - , 30 guns .]..a Terpfichore - - - 24 guns A dreadful fire broke but in his majefty's yard at Portfmouth, GEORGE II. 271 Portfmouth, July 3. St. Catharine's church began to be rebuilt — opened in 1769 — The old church eredled in 1105. The marquis of Granby, and the Englifli, acqui- red fignal honour in this battle, July 31. His Prufiian majefty attacked the Auftrians, under general Laudohn, in their march between Lignitz and Parchwitz •, when 7000 Auftrians were killed or wounded -, 4000 taken prifoners, with 90 pieces of cannon: the Prullians not lofing above looo men, Aug. 15. Black-friars bridge over the Thames began to be built i the (irft ftonewas laid by Sir Tiiomas Chitty, lord mayor of London, under which a plate was laid with the following inlcription : THAT THERE MIGHT REMAIN TO POSTERITY A MONUMENT OF THIS CITY's AFFECTION TO THE MANj WHO BY THE STRENGTH OF HIS GENIUS, AND STEADINESS OF HIS MIND, AND A CERTAIN KIND OF HAPPY CONTAGION ' ■' ' OF HIS PROBITY AND SPIRIT (under THE DiVlNE FAVOUR, AND FORTUNATE AUSPICES OF GEORGE THE SECOND^ RECOVERED, AUGMENTED, AND SECURED, THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN ASIA, AFRICA, AND AMERICA ; AND RESTORED THE ANTIENT REPUTATION AND INFLUENCE OF HIS COUNTRY, AMONG THE NATIONS OF EUROPE i THE CITY OF LONDON HAVE UNANIMOUSLY VOTED THIS BRIDGE TO BE INSCRIBED WITH THE NAME OF WILLIAM PITT. Montreal and the remainder of Canada conquered, Sept. 8. Increafe of the linen manufafture fince laft: year, 71,762/. 13^. id. The civil lift revenues as fettled by parliament, 800,000 per ann. King 272 GEORGE in. King George II. died in the 77th year of his age, and the 34th of his reign, O6lober 25. GEORGE Iir. GEORGE III. king ofGreat Britain, France, and Ireland, and eleftor of Hanover, born 4th June, 1738, fucceededhisgiandfather king George 11. 1 76 1. The town of Pondicherry, beautifully built, and ftrongly fortified, in four leagues in circuit, in the Eaft- Indies, taken from the French, January 15. Each of thefe powers prepared a declaration, which were all five figned on the 25th of March at Paris, the lall day of the fame month thev were delivered at London, accompanied by a letter from the duke de Choifeul to Mr. Pitt. Mr. Bufsby reprefented to Mr. Pitt, that it would be very dangerous to determine the fate of the neu- tral iflands without attending to the claims of Spain, with which his catholic majcfty had recently acquaint- ed the court of Verfailles, but which might eafily be relinquifhed, if the other articles were adjufted to the fatisfa<5tion of that monarch. The light-houfe in Poolbeg, (defigned and execu- ted by John Smyth efqj under the direction of the ballaft office committee) to be built. Finifhed in 1768. Belle-ifle in Europe taken by the Englilh. Illand of Sc. Dominica taken by the Englifh. Mr. Pitt, who at this time h.id the principal direc- tion in the miniftry, and who was, perhaps, the greateft minifter", and undoubtedly the honefteft, that England ever had, plainly faw into the artifice of France in the negotiation, and the defigns of Spain, being fully fatisfied that Spain would be entirely led by France •, and that a war with Spain, was, for that reafon, abfolutely unavoidable. Mr. Pitt's opinion upon this occafion, feems to have been GEORGE III. 273 been this : That if Spain for the prefent rather de- layed declaring war, than laid afide their hoftile in- tentions, it was in order to ftrike the blow at their own time, and with the greater effeft ; that there- fore their reafon for delaying to aft, were the very motives which ought to induce us to aft with the ut- moft fpeed and vigour. Mr. Pitt and lord Temple, adhering to their firft opinion, delivered their realon in writing, and refign- cd their employments on the eighteenth of Sept. Nor does it appear, that a very great perfon thought lefs of his intrepidity, or had leis lenfe of his abi- lities ; for on his refignation of the leals, he was treated in the moft amiable manner -, and though his majefty, upon the nobleft principles, approved of the opinion of the majority, yet Mr. Pitt had the next day a penfion of three thoufand pounds a year fettled upon him for three lives. Mr. M'Naughten executed at LifFord for ftiooting Mifs Knox. The proYoll and vice-provoft of Trinity college were returned members of parliament, an inftance never knovvn before in that univerfity in Dublin. Number of fhips that arrived at Amfterdam this year 1508. The cattle killed in this year, for the inhabitants of London, viz. Plogs for pork, 146,932 Hogs for bacon, 41,000 Sucking pigs 52,600 Sheep andlambs, 711,121 Bulls, oxen, and cows, - - 78,254 Calves, - - 104,760 1762. The death of Elizabeth, emprefs of Ruflia, Jan. 5. Peter III. who fucceeded her, immediately {hewed himfelf to be the K. of Pruffia's friend \ and the Ruffian general Zernickef foon received orders to quit Silefia, with 1 2,000 men that he commanded, and to return into Poland by the way of Moravia. Martinico taken from the French, Feb. 4, S The 274 GEORGE III; The Iflands of St. Lucia, Grenada, furrendered. Captain Sawyer, in the Aftive frigate, and captain Pownall in the Favourite floop, take off cape St. Vincent, and carried into Gibraltar, the Hermione, a Spanifh regifter fhip, of 16 or 28 guns, bound from Lima to Cadiz, having on board 2,600,000 hard dollars, legiftered for- the court of Madrid. A Ibldier of the French army going to bathe in the Rhine, was feized by a crocodile of an im- menle fize, which took half his body off from the middle. About this time the emperor Peter III. was depo- fed ; he died a few days after, and his wife Catha- rine II. was declared June 28, O. S. fovereign and autocratrix of Ruffia. St. John's in Newfoundland taken by the French, Sept. 18, but retaken June 24. Kavanna taken from the Spaniards, Aug. 13. Manilla, with the Philippine iflands, taken from the Spaniards, 0(5b. 6. But nov/ the appearance of a peace once more re- vived. His moft chriflian majefty having nominated the duke de Nivernois to come here to treat of a peace, his Britannic majefty was pleafed to name the duke of Bedford to go to Paris for the fame purpofe •, the lat- ter accordingly fet out for Dover the firit week in September, and a few days after the duke of Niver- nois arrived in London. On the 3d of Noveml^er the preliminaries of peace were figned at Fontainbleau, by the count deChoifeul, fecretary of ftate for foreign affairs, on the part of France ; by the duke of Bedford, minifter plenipo- tentiary, on the part of Great Britain ; and by the marquis de Grimaldi, ambaffador and plenipotentiary from the court of MadVid, on the part of Spain. The moft chriftian king rewarded the fervices of the count de Choifeul in tins negociation, by creating him a duke and peer of France, with the title of duke de Praflin. Seven GEORGE III. Seven years of the war. 275 Years 1. s. d. 1755 - 4,520,327 12 8 1756 - 7,915,430 4 6i: '757 - 8,330,906 6 5l 1758 - 10,475,007 I by Great Britain's 1759 - 12,705,339 3 8f 1760 - 14,606,930 15 91 great expences. 1761 - 17,301,119 19 9k 1762 - 16794,153 i« Hi z 92,679,215 2 of National D E B T. 1. s. d. Princi pal — — 110,613,836 8 Annu al intereft [al of the debt i 3,792,594 3 4 To 1 1 4,406,4^; cj 11 4 Irifh fait provifions admitted duty free to Chriftmas 1762, for the ufe of the navy only. Land carriage of fifh, encouraged by parliament. According to calculation made by an ingenious pro- feflbr of political arithmetick, we find that the Euro- pean regular forces in the time of peace are as follow. The Ottoman Porte — 300,000 Sweden — United Nether- 48,000 Ruffia — The houfe of Aurtria — 250,000 200,000 lands — - Great Britain - The king of the 40,000 30,000 France — ■ King of Pruffia The other dates 160,000 1 46,000 of two Sicilies - Venice — Poland — 30,000 28,000 24,000 Germany S pain — Denmark — 1 30,000 70,000 59,000 Knig of Sardinia The other Italian Portugal — 15,000 15,000 1 4,..:iOO 1,559,000 By thislift abovea hundredth part of theinhabitants S 2 of 276 GEORGE III. of Europe appear to be foldiers. 1763. Thtre was a temporary peace reftored to the empire, which at lail happily proved permanent -, for the negociacions for a peace between the emprefs queen and his majefty of Pruflia, were fo fuccefsfully and rapidly carried on, that on the 15th of February 1763, peace was figned between thofe two powers, and the electors of Saxony at Hubertfberg. On the 1 8th of March following, the ratification of the definitive treaties with the emprefs queen and elector of Saxony, arrived at Hubertfberg, and were immediately exchanged ; and on the 5th of the fame month the proclamation of his Pruffian majefty's peace, with the above menrioned powers, was pub- lifhed, with the ufual folemnities at Berlin. Thus, after a great variety of fortune, the brave and illuftrious king of Pruflia, fits down in the full and quiet pofleilion of all his territories, and Europe once more enjoys peace. John Wilkes efq; member of parliament for Aylefbury, ar^efted on a general warrant figned by lord Halifax, one of the Secretaries of ftate, and committed to the tower under a warrant figned by him and the other fecretary lord Egremonr, April 30. Saturday the 3d of May, he was brought to the bar of the court of Common Pleas, by virtue of the Habeas Corpus, when he was difcharged on his parliamentary privilege. In 1765 the Right Hon. the Lord Camden decla- red general warrants (except in cafes of high treafon) to be illegal, opprefTive, and unwarrantable. The union bridge over the Tweed was begun, and the firll ilone laid by the earl of Hume, May 18. The SancflifTimo Trinidad, a Spanifh galleon, taken by captain Parker. She arrived in England, June 9, 1764. New Orleans that had been ceded by the French to the Spaniards, taken pofiefllon of by the latter. The new excife on cyder took place, when the Right 1. s. d. 72,002 2,400 920 17 75^322 17 GEORGE III. 277 Right Honourable George Grenville was firft- lord of the treailiry, July 5. Amount of the penfions on the Irifti civil eltablifhment, ending 1763. The military ellablifliment The French penfioners The political paper, called the North -Briton, N° 45, was publicly burnt, by order of both houfes of par- liament, Dec. 3. 1764. Amount of the national debt, Jan. 5. 1. s. d. Principal . . - 129,586,719 10 o Interell paid - - 4,688,177 11 o i34>274>^*97 ' o The charter of the Bank of England was renewed for 21 years, from 1765, for which the government was paid ioo,ocol. and a loan of one million for two years at one per cent, intereft Jan. 25. The archduke, Jofeph of Auftria, crowned king of the Romans at Frankfort, April 3. New regulations in regard to franking of letters, took place. May 1. The king's meflengers were fined in a thoufand pounds, by a London jury, for illegally feizing the perfon of Mr. Beardmore and his papers, when con- cerned in writing the poHtical paper, intitled the Monitor. Great inundation '.n Berklliire, when the damages amounted to 20,000 1. June 23. Queen's-Bridge built, Dublin finifhed in 1768. Prince Frederick, his majefty's fecond Ion, eledted bifhop of Ofnaburg in Germany, by a conge d'elire trom his father, as ekftor of Hanover. The Ifland of St. John, granted to lord Egmont, to be divided into fifty baronies, and held by military tenures; 278 GEORGE III. tenures -, his lordfhip being lord paramount. The Danifli Ulands, St. Thomas and Sr. John, in An'jcrica, declared free ports for American products, pacing five per cent. duty. European goods to be imported in Danilh bottoms only. To (o great perfection were the mechanical arts brought in this age, that one Arnold of London, prefented to his majefty, a repeating-watch, fet in a ring, the diameter of which was fomething lefs than a filver two-pence, and contained 120 different parts, weighing no more than 5 dwts. 7 grs. and 5-4ths : as was alio another, in which were inlaid the portraits of the two young princes, done in enamel, from the life, by Mr. Sykes. Prince Ivan, or John, of Rufila, aflaflinated in the fortrefs of Sklupenburg, where he was confined ; his rnother was grand-daughter to Czar John, and he had been declared emperor in 1750, when but three years old, July 16. Staniflaus Poniatowflci, elcded king of Poland, The Society of Jefuics dilTolvcd in France, by an edidt from the king, which was regiftered by the par- liament, and their revenue confifcated : this year was fatal to them in Portugal, from whence they were alfo ban i filed. The tide rofe higher in the river Thames, than it has been known to do in the memory of man, and did vaft damage, Sept. 2S. Thi Great arch of Blackfriars Bridge, v»'as opened, oa. I . Dr. George Stone, primate of all Ireland, died, Dec. 79. 1 765. The clergy of London form themfelves into a fociety, for the care of their widows and orphans, Jan. 8. For this moll laudable purpofe, an affociation has been long fince entered into in the capital of Ireland. Amount of the fupplics granted for the year, 7,763,090!. Value GEORGE III 279 Value of linen cloth made in Scotland for public fale, 579,227 1. IIS. The fociety for the encouragement of arts, manu- fa6lures, and commerce, in Great-Britain, incorporarca by charter, Jan. 29. The Pope's Bull was fupprefled by the parliameni: in France •, when it was declared, that no bull or brief, for the future, (hould be received, unlefs at- tended with the king's letters patent. New canal, adjoining the city of Dublin Bafon, begun, fubfcribers incorporated by a<5t of parliament in 1772. An a(fl for laying an impofition of a ftamp-duty, in the BritiQi colonies, received the royal affent, in the adminiftration of the Right Honourable George Grenville, May 10. At an ordination at St. James's, a Black was ad- mitted into lacred orders. The government of Portugal, fupprefs a Bull of the Pope's, favouring the Jefuits, fome time fince ex- pelled the kingdom. The government of the Ifle of Man, placed under the jurifdidlion of the crown of Great Britain ; com- penfation being made to the duke and dutchefs of Athol, whofe anceftors held it by feudal tenure of king Henry IV. and king James I. which obliged them to make homage, and prefent two falcons; firft on making homage, and again on the king's corona- lion. May 10, A dreadful fire broke out in Rotherhithe, by which upwards of 200 houfes were confumed, befides v/are- houfes, and other buildings, June i. A little mare, 4 years old, and only two feet four inches high, was brought from the Eafl-Indies; it having been a prefent fiom captain Douglas to his Royal Highnefs the duke of Gloucelfcr, who pre- fented it to her majeily, July. Francis Stephen I. emperor of Germany, died, Aug. 18. Jofeph If. afcended the Imperial throne. Mr. 28o GEORGE III. Mr. John Harrifon of London, efflcled the dif- covery of the longitude, and received the reward. See 1714. Tlie people of Mingrelia and Georgia relieved themfelves from the Turkifh yoke: they profefs the Greek religion, and hold in great abhorrence the proftitution they were every year obliged to make of their daughters, for the ufe of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio. His Royal Highnefs William, duke of Cumber- land, uncle to his majefty, died, 06c, 31. National debt amounted to - ^^ 130,213,900 Annual Intel eft, Dec. 25 - 4,698,656 The army commiflions regulated in their prices, by a board of general officers. 1766. The chevalier de St. George died at Rome, Jan. 2. Frederick V. king of Denmark and Norway, died, Jan. 14. Several ports in the ifland of Jamaica and Domi- nica, declared free, under certain reftridtions. The prince of Orange is inftalled Stadtholder, March 8. A bill for the limitation of parliament, paiTed the Houfe of Commons in Ireland. A bill for the repeal of the American (lamp a<5t, •was prefented to the Houfe of Lords by Mr. Secretary Conway, where it paffed. > Commodore Byron, who had been on difcoveries in his majefty's fhip theDolphin, arrived in the Downs from a voyage round tiie world, May 9. The importation of French wrought filks, and velvets prohibited for five years, in order to en- courage thefe manufacflures at home, much upon the decline, May 14. A great riot at Madrid, railed in refentment to fome orders from the court, for laying afide the old national drefs, viz. the beaver and cloak. The 1. s. d. 90,000 85,000 ,ii7'9H 3 5 GEORGE III. 281 The king, for fome time, was obliged to quit his capital •, and his miniller (an Italian) the kingdom. Count Lally, the commander in chief of the French forces the laft war in the Ealt-Indies, beheaded at Paris, May 17. The amount of feizures, from Chriftmas to May The expence of cruifers for one year . - _ . Supplies granted for the year - Tlie total revenue of excife in Great-Britain - - _ 3,968,000 o o India-Stock rofe from 183 to 190, June 7. An obfervatory began to be eredled in the port of Liverpool, Sept. 5. To kich extremity was England reduced by a failure in the crops, and an excefs of exportation, that the latter was prevented by proclamation, Sept. 26. Her Royal Highnefs the princefs Matilda, was efpoul'ed by proxy, to his majeftv of Denmark, Chriftian VTI. Oft. i. The Hibernian Hofpital for the reception of the children of foldiers, began to be built in his Majefly's Park the Phoenix, Dublin, Od. 31. James, Marquis of Kildare, created Duke of Lei n- fter, in 1691 ; this title was conferred on count Schom- bcrg, Nov. 14. The i'econd fon of duke Schomberg, who was killed near the Boyne, after he had pafled the ford, to head the French proteftants, then in king William's armv. A bill received the royal affent, to indemnify fuch perfons as had a6ted for the fervice of the public ; in advifing the proclamation of the 26th of September,' and thole who had inforced an obedience to it, December. Whtat and oats permitted to be imported, duty fvtc^ for a limited time. 1767. There has been received of fheriffs fines, for building Black- Friars bridge, fince the firft of June, 282 GEORGE HI. June, 1758, to the prefent time, the fum of i6,20ol. The amount of the toll of the foot-paflage over the new bridge at Black-Fiiars, from Nov. 19th, 1766, CO Feb. loch, 1767, amounted to 758I. is. 6d|. A calculation of the number of cattle, &:c. killed in one year, in the city of London, made by the late Mr. Empfon, 1761 : Sheep and lamb§ - - 711,121 Bulls, oxen, and cows - 78.254 Calves _ - - - 104,760 Hf^gs for pork - - 146,030 For bacon, - - _ 41,000 Sucking pigs, - - 52,600 Feb. 25. The earl of Strathmore was married to Mifs Bowes, of Durham, the richeft heireis m Eu- rope; her prefent fortune is 1,040,000! ; befides a great jointure on the death of her mother, and a large ettate on the demife of an uncle. Colledlions were made in the feveral churches of Dublin, for the relief of the induftrious poor, which amounted in the whole to 2738 1. 14 1. 5 d. Twenty live bullocks and cows, the property of Mr. John Hav/thorne, of Drogheda, in Ireland, were maflacred by the mob, on pretence of their being de- figned for exportation into England. A filver llatue of the goddels Cybele, weighing 56 pounds, of excellent workmanfhip, was lately taken out of the Tyber, three miles below Rome. i/ Sept. I. Ralph Payne, Efq-, was married to ma- demoifelle Robel, daughter of the late general, fhe came to England with the princefs Poniatowfky, filler to the king of Poland. Sept. 29. His royal highnefs Edward Auguftus, duke of York and Albany, died at Monaco, in Italy. ^ Francis Ange, aged 134 years, died in Maryland. He was born at Stratford upon Avon. His Pruflian majcfty fent the order of the Black Eagle of PrulTia, with a fine diamond ftar (valued at 40,0001.) to his Serene highnefs the prince of Orange; and GEORGE III. 283 and in the evening, the marriage of her royal high- nefs the princefs Frcderica- Sophia Wilhelmina of Prullia. A breakfaft was given to the friends of the rr.arquis of Kildare, at the Rotunda in the New Gaidens, in Dublin, of which the following is the bill of fare : 'lOO Rounds of beef. 100 Neats tongues. 100 Sheeps ditto. 1 00 Baked pies. 100 Sirloins of beef. I GO Geefe roafted. 1 00 Turkies ditto. 100 Ducks ditto, ido Pullets ditto. 100 Wild fowls. 1000 French loaves, 2000 Large prints of butter. 100 Weight of Gloucefter cheefe. Tea, coffee, and chocolate, in abundance. 2000 Saffron cakes, 4000 Plain ditto. 50 hams, 2500 bottles of wine, and a moft fplcndid and large pyramid of fweetmeats in the middle of the deffert in the centre of the room ; likewife a great number of ftands of jelly, and a curious fountain playing;, handlbmely ornamented with ivy. Sic. James McAveity had a cow that had ten calves in four years in the manner following; two the firft year •, three the fecond ; two the third ; three the fourth ; all heifer calves, and lived : He lived at Carryan, in the county of Fermanagh. He grew rich till he fold the cow, and poor ever fince. Prayers were publicly read in all the Popifh mafs- houfes throughout Ireland, for his majefty king George III. Queen Charlotte, the prince of Wales, and all the royal family •, being the firft time the royal family of England have been prayed for in this public manner by the Papifts in Ireland, fince the revolution. 1768. Francis 3i84 GEORGE III. 1768. Francis Confit, aged 150 years, died at Burythorpe, in Yorkfhire. I'he new-born fon of his excellency the lord lieu- tenant of Ireland, was chrillened at the Caftle of Dublin, by the name of Frederick. His majefty (by proxy) and thedukeof Leinfter, were godfathers, and the countefs of JMoyra, Jan. 6. 06tennial parliaments obtained, the bill for Irmiting the duration of parliaments, received the royal aflenc at Dublin, the i6th of February. A fpire erefled on St. Werburgh's fteeple. A male elk was carried to Richmond, as a prefent to his majefty. It is a very curious and uncommon beaft, is of a moufe-colour, its head and ears like a mule, its neck fo remarkably fhort, that it kneels to feed ; its legs like a deer, is about twelve hands and a half high, and being but ten months old, will pro- bably be much higher. It is very quiet, and very much admired. The king of Denmark's table at St. James's, is at the expence of the king of Great-Britain. Befides inferior ones, there are two principal tables; that of his Danifh majeily is noble; the deflert is elegant and fuperb ; and the whole daily coft is eftimated, we hear, at 84 1. (exclufive of wines) comprehending not the dinner alone, but every meal. 1769. Captain Hughes, ofthe A6live, from Leg- horn, has brought over a favourite dog of Pafchal Paoli's : ten guineas were paid for his pafTage. The dog was allowed three pounds of meat, and as much bread, every day, during the voyage. It is faid this dog is the largetl ever feen, and has accompanied the general in all his campaigns. General Paoli, a great warrior, and patron of liberty. The foundation-ftone of the Royal-Exchange, was laid in Dublin. Mr. Balfh, married at Stratford, in EfTex, aged 73, to Mifs Hannah Spencer, aged 18: this is his third wife within thefe twelvemonths. Martha Prefton died, aged 123; ftie had been married GEORGE III. 285 married to five hiifbands, and has had tvventy-feven children, at Barnfley, in Yoikfhire. Captain Gordon, known in France by the name of lord Gordon, was beheaded at Bred, for being concerned in a confpirac) to fet that fortification on lire, and burn the fliipping in the dock. Lady Caldwell delivered of a daughter, fhe was baptized by the name of Georgiana Sophia Selina ; the ceremony was performed by the bifhop of Clogher; the lord lieutenant, the duke of Norihumberland, the countefs of Moira, and lady Shelburne, were fponfors. January 24, in Dublin. 1769. Abftraft of the account of the charge of his majefty's civil government for one year, from Januarys, 1765, to January 5, 1766. f Queen - - - £ 50,000 I Duke of York - 12,000 n 1 r I I Prince Henry - 8,000 Royal family ^ p^j^^^,-^ ^^^^j^^ _ ^^^^^^ Princcfs Amelia - 12,000 ^ Late duke of Cumberland 1 1,250 £ 153^250 The wife of one Mr. Smith, mafon, in Oxford- road was delivered of four fons, who are all likely to do well ; the hufband is ^^ years of age, and the woman 47 years of age. A letter from king James I. to Sir John Harring- ton, in the original fpelling. To our trufty and well-beiovede Sir Johne Haringe- ton knight. RYGHTE truftie and vvelbelovite friende, we greete yovv heartily wcill. we have raifTavit your lanterne, with the pofie yow fende us be owr fer- vande Wiiiiame Huncei , gevenge 3-ow hairtie thankes ; as lykewayfe for yowr lafte Icctcr, quhawin we per- faife the continuance of yowr loyall afl'eftione to us and yowr fervyce ; we fhall not be unmyndefule to extende owr princclie favoure heir after to yow and yowr 286 GEORGE III. yowr perticulers at all guid occafions. We com- mittee yow to God from our cov/rte at Hallyraid- howfe, April the thyrde, 1603. JAMES R. Lady Ann Dawfon, wife of Thomas Dawfon efq; and daughter of Thomas and Henrietta Louifa, earl and countefs of Pomfret j lady Ann Dawfon, left 450/. of her private property, to add an iile {or the Dawfon family and their fervants, and a gallery for others, to the church of the parilli where the manfion-houfe is built. She kept at fchool and cloathed feveral boys and girls, chiefly the children of rhofe who lived on her hufband's eftate; they dined at her houfe every Sunday when fhe was at home j and the evening was dedicated to catechizing and in- ftrufting them, and at her death fhe made provifion for continuing the education of the girls. Charter fchool, which (he took particular care of, and brought into a regular and promifing condition. Lady Ann Dawfon died in the 36th year of her age, at Ematrefs in the county of Monaghan, March 8ch, 1769. (now lord Dartrey 1770.) New Meath hofpiral, and the foui^.dation ftone of the Royal Exchange was laid. Marine-nurfery the like. An earthquake in the ifland of St. Maura, in Greece, has lately deftroyed 700 houles •, mod of the inhabitants were buried under the ruins. Mr. William Salmon died aged 84 ; he had mar- ried ten wives, the laft of whom furvives at HoUing- burg, in Effex. Entertainment given by Sir Watkins Williams Wynn, at Wynnftay, April 19. 30 Bullocks, 70 Pies, I Ditto roalled whole, 51 Guinea fowls, 50 Hogs, 37 Turkies, 50 Calves, 12 Turkey poults, 80 Sheep, 84 Capons, 18 Lambs, 25 Pie fowls, qoo Chickens, GEORGE 300 Chickens, 360 Fowls, ()6 Ducklings, 48 Rabbits, 15 Snipes, 1 Leverer, 5^ Bucks, 421 Pounds of Salmon 30 Brace of tench, 40 Brace of carp, 36 Pike, 60 Dozen trouts, 108 Flounders, 109 Lobllers, g6 Crabs, 10 Quarts of fhrimps, 200 Crawfifli, 60 Barrels pickled oyfters, I Hogfhead of rock o) Iters, 20 Quarts of oyfters for fauce, 166 Hams, 100 Tongues, III. 287 128 Plumb puddings, 108 Apple pies, 104 Pork pies, 30 Beef pies, 34 Rice puddings, y Venifon pies, 60 raifed pies, 80 Tarts, 30 pieces cut paltry, 24 Pound cakes, 60 Savoy cakes, 30 Sweetmeat cakes, 1 2 Backs of bacon, 144 Icecreams, 18000 Eggs, 150 Gallons of milk 60 Quaris of cream, 30 Bulhels of pota- toes, 6000 Afparagus, 200 French beans, 3 Diihes green peas 12 Cucumbers, 70 Hojj^llitads of Ale 120 Dozen of wine. There was a great quantity of Brandy, Rum, and Shrub; falt-butter coft 36/. befides frefli ditto; rock-work, fhapes, landfcapes in jelly ; blancheman- che, &c. a great quantity of fmall paftry, one large cafk of ale, which held twenty fix hogflicads. Three coaches full of cooks were lent from London on the above occafion. It is thought that there were at leaft 15,000 people at dinner in Sir Watkin's park, all at the fame time. 4 The trial of Mungo Campbell before the court of jufticiary at Edinburgh, for the murder of lord Eg- lington, he put an end to his life, by hanging himfelf in the Tolbooth at Edinburgh, and was fent to Surgeon's -hall. Chriftenings 288 GEORGE III. Chriftenings and burials lafl year Births. Deaths. In London — 16042 — 226^c) Norwich — 1649 — 1136 Newcaftle 741 — 775 York — — 410 — 505 Paris — — 17578 — 20898 A dreadful fire broke out in the hofpital of Beth- lehem, and burnt fo furioufly, that the firemen were obliged to break through the roof to releafe the un- happy people in the upper part of the houfe. Dublin, that their export of linen is lefs by 700,014 yards than it was the year before-, in 1768 it was 18,490,019, in 1769, 17,790,705. At the fale of Mr. Lemon's curious colledion of birds, a gold pheafant was fold for twenty guineas, and a peacock pheafant for forty guineas. Mr. Thomas Bernard, tallow-chandler, died worth 100,000/. Ralph Nied died near Chefter, aged 107, he had buried fix wives. The city of Corte, the capital of Corfica, taken by the French, May 21. General Paoli, arrived at Leghorn, having made his efcape from Corfica, on board an Englifh fhip. Tune II. A dreadful fire broke out in the little town of Eldgafon, about two miles from Hanover, by which 120 houfes were reduced to afhes. Mrs. Gray died aged 121, at Northfleet, fhe was born deaf and dumb. The famous old man of the North, Chriftian Jacobfen Drakenburgh, lately died at Aarhuus, in the I46i:h year of his age. He was born at Stavanger in Norway, in the year 1624, and lived fingle till the age of 1 13 years, when he married a widow of fixty years of age. During the latter part of his life he was frequently vifited by perfons of the highefl rank, who were curious to fee and converfe with him. It is faid there is a print of this old man in England curioufly engraved. The mod noble the marquis of Granby, died Oaober GEORGE nr. 289 Oftober 18, at Belvoir caftle, to the irreparable lofs of his country, and the inexprellible grief of all tfue Engliflimen. AN ODE. W H E R E's now O T H ELLO*s hairbreadth fcapes *, And all his fancied hardfhips of the field ? A vaunt ! ye mimic, bug- bear fhapes : Shadows murt to fubllance yield. GRAN BY h^uh more horrors feen, Bv irre.uer perils been bel'et, DEATH and GRANBY thrice have met, And not an hair between -f. The Frenchmen ftared, as well they might. Threw down their arms, and took to flight. His naked poll more terror bore. Than Cy9^,SAR armour'd o'er and o'er. '*. i^arbleu ! " fays one, **: -But I'll be gone, " This is the devil of a D o n ! " This father Time •, I know his pate ; " And thcit's his fcythe, as fure as fate!" GRANBY, who loved a little fun. And knew the caufe which made 'cm run, (Thus the tim'rous foe befpoke By vyay of keeping upthejoke) ' ^* But gentlemen^ — Holla I fay — :;**:Take nothing but yourfelves away; .^' Ye carry now the jeft too far : " Are theieyour tricks and fpoils of war? " To leave a man in open air, 1 ; . *' Waiting on you, fans hat or hair ? " Why, what a plague! what breeding's that? . ."■ You fellow there — return my hat : f Tis true 1 am not very old ; *^ But what of that ?— I may take cold." " Not fo, my fon. Fame fmiling faid, " And clapt the L'aurel on his head : T «' Beyond * See Othello's fpeech to the fenate. -f He was born bald. 290 GEORGE III. " Beyond the reach of human eyes ; -» " Mars faw it fall, and bid it rife > " An Hat, immortal to the fkies." -> The Hero to the goddefs bow'd. And faw her vanifh thro' a cloud ; Then tur'n'd about his horfe's head. And pick'd Ijis way through heaps of dead. Within his tent retir'd to reft, And flepr, with honour in his breaft. The commiffioners for victualling his majelly's na- vy, contraded with Mr. Mellifli for 2000 oxen, at 2c;j. gd. per hundred weight, to be killed between the prcfent time, and the 31ft of December, at the vidlualling offices Tower- hill. 177 I. A poor woman near Ackworth in the coun- ty of York, was delivered of four fens. In the courfe of laft year 4344 fhips have been cleared from Newcaftle, of which 3950 were coafters, and 394 for foreign ports ; which is 454 more than were cleared out the year preceding. During the courfe of the year 1771, the Dutch employed 120 fhips in the Greenland trade, which brought home 500 whales, and 14,320 barrels of oil. Three fhips caught fifteen whales, and foundered with them. We have caufe of complaint on account of the dearnefs of provifions as well as the Englifh •,. prime pieces of beef and mutton are here 6d. per pound, lamb 8d. veal 7d. and butter lod, per pound, May 4, the city of Dublin. New chapel to the Work-houfe opened the 7th of April. '- ■::■ .: :- The commilfioners for victualling his riiajefty's navy, contrafted for 10,4.00 hogs, to be delivered at 800 hogs per week, for the month of June, July, and Auguil next, at 50s. 6d. per hundred weight, they alio contrafted for 2600 oxen, to be delivered in the fame time, at 200 oxen per week, at ^6^. per hundred weight ; the caieaffes of the former to weigh not lefs than one hundred weight, and the lat-^ ter* GEORGE III. 291 ter not lefs than fcven hundred weight each. At Worcefter market, 206 pockets of hops were fold ; the general price from 4/. loj. to 5/. 12s. per hundred. A fi.e broke out again in the Jews quarter, named Balat ; the conflagration was terrible, and the num- ber of houfes confumed, is computed at two thoufand, Conftantinople June 17. While oneDonaldfon, a labouring man at Irvin, in Scotland, who had b.en deaf upwards of twenty- years, was at work in the fields, he was ftruck to the ground by a flafli of lightning, but fo^n ufter recovering, he found to his great fut prize, that he was reilored to his hearing. The public v/ill fee that this excellent charity his been on the decline by the following lift of the lalt ten years colledions. 1. s. d. 1. s. d. I76I 1096 15 ! ! 1766 - 1 149 6 5 1762 ^3^ 13 9- \i7^7 - 902 19 5 1763 - 1224 14 j 1768 - 935 6 II 1764 - 1 009 2 2 I1769 - 803 I 6 1765 - 1207 II 10 1 1770 - 786 16 6 P:iris afle'ts, that the number of officers and men dead or fick by drinking the waters in the wells of Strafburgh, (by the returns from the fix regiments quartered in that city) is as follows : Officers, 30 dead, 3 fick ; rank and file, 1287 dead, 796 fick. Margaret Coles, a beggar, in St. Giles's aged, loi : fhe left behind her 30/. in gold and filver, and up- wards of 10/. in halfpence. The late Mifs Jones of Nafs, in Gloucefl:er(hire, who was unfortunately murdered, was about 23 years of age, and very beaut'ful, though radier fnoit, and of the moft mild and benevolent difp-;fition ; at the death of an old aunt, now upwards of 80, flie would have come to a fortune of 80,000/, July 16. City of Hamburgh and all its environs, are juft fubmerged by a ludden inundation, tlie low lands T 2 which 292 GEORGE III. which promifed the mod plentiful harveft, are all un- der water. The lofs in wheat alone is computed at loooOo marks ; and the damage occafioned by this unhappy dilader, in the diftridt named Niewe-Gannu, amounts to 3,000,000 of rix-doUars, July 16. The moft melancholy accounts are received from Werben in the old mark, no lefs than forty villages and 34. gentlemen and county- feats have been laid under water, by the Elbe's again overflowing its banks, and forcing its way through the dykes, which were broke by the great inundation that hap- pened laft fpring, and have not been fince fufficiently repaired, at 2Ckd,ooo/. A pair of very beautiful birds, which were brought from king George's ifland, in the fouth fea, were made a prefent to her majefty, by one Mr. Hervey : They are of a bright green colour, curioufly varie- gated with yellow and brown, with red beaks and feet •, and are about the fize of a dove. Two married ladies, who have lately made fomc noife in the world, have taken lodging at Windfor, at the price of fifty guineas for three days. Caftlelyon, fire broke out in the county of Cork, that on Sunday night laft, the earl of Barrymore, it is faid to have coft near 40,000. Naples, the fmall pox has made fuch havock in the city, that in the month of Auguft 6000 children died of that diftemper, Sept. 3. Hague, the ficknefs among the horned cattle con- tinues to rage in the united provinces, " A lift is pub- lifhed of a number of thofe which have been feized wiih it in the province of Holland alone, by which it appears that the dead amount to 17 [,780, and that thole which recovered amount to 6^, §^6. Sept. 6. A moft dreadful fire broke out at a cork-cutter's, the corner of Iron-Monger-Row, Old-Street road j the wind being high, foon communicated the flames to the houfes contiguous, from tiience they fpread to the bovd and pin, and then to the houfes behind, which were deftroyed and damaged to the number of about GEORGE HL 293 about thirteen houfes, this evening about eight o'clock. An Indian cow, not bigger than a large dog, and a calf, brought from the Indies by one of tae Indian fliips jull arrived, was brought to St. James's as a prefcnc for the prince of Wales. Warfaw, the king is not )et quite recovered of his wounds, iti confequence of which, his majefty did not appear in publick, on the 25th, the anniverlary of his coronation ; the kings Uhlans brought in here, on the 25th eleven confederates, who were at five miles dillance from this capital. They have alio ta- ken the famous Donlafki, who had reiblved to kill Koflinfki, that he might make no' further difcoveries. November ^o. In the pocket of a footman to a lady of fafhion ; (who, it feems, had purchafed the chance of a ticket in the hie lottery) was found the following curious memorandum, viz. when I get the ten thoufand pounds I'll marry Bett Janibn, but biecafe (he v/as koy and faucy, I'll ufe her lyke a fervanr, fhe fhall bring me every morning a mug of ftrong bear, with a toaft, nutmeg and fugar — then deep till Tan, when I'll have a fack poflit — Have dinner on table preciie- ly at won — lay in a itoe of wine and brandy — about five has tarts and gellies, and a gallen boul of punch — A hot fupper of too diflies, and if in a good- humour afke Bett to fit down — Go to bed at twelve, Feb. 20. The Rev. Samuel Murrel, prefbyterian minifter of Donaghelony, was fliot by the Hearts of Oak ; and immediately expired : He was fincerely pious, a faithtul friend, had an honeft open heart, and was zealous and brave in defence of the laws of his country in the cou;ity of Down. Henry, duke of Cumberland, born Oclober 27, 1745, married the of October, 1771, to Mrs. Horton, widow, daughter to lord Irnham, and fifter to colonel LuttrtU. The number of perlbns who have died throughout the Ruirian empire of thj plague, amount to 62,000. Praeue, 294 GEORGE III. Prague, in Icveral of the circles the inhabitants are forced to fupply the want of bread, by eating the bark of trees, &c. They devour alfo all the horfe?, dogs, and cats they can catch. This dreadful fa- mine is concealed as much as pofTible •, but a dilmal mortality has arifen from it. Above 100,000 perfons are reckoned to have died (-f it within the fpaceof a year; and according to the report of the Circles, 4000 now die in eight days time, March 28. Monfieur Pignarclli, a Neapolitan gentlemn, was beheaded at Rome for his fatirical writings ngainft the Holy See, April n. The mortality in Poland is dreadful, where it is computed that 84,000 perfons have died between the firft of January and the 17th of April. At Naples, there has lately happened fome very confiderable ftorms of thunder, lightning and hail, in this kingdom ; the mofb remarkable of which v.-as at and near Girgenti in Sicily, where the hailftones weighed 20 ounces, and killed great numbers of cattle, and 84 perfons were killed by the lightning. The commandant of the Caftle, in order to difperfe the cloud, fired off feveral cannon •, hue the cloud being perpendicularly over head, frefn lightning ilTued from it, v;hich killed feveral gunners. Jonathan Britain, who pretended to be concerned in fetting fire to his majefiy's dock-yard atPortfmouth, was executed at St. Michael's-HiU gallows, near Briftol, for forgery. The claim of William Imclair. Efq-, of Ratfer, to the title of earl of Caithnefs, was heard before the houfe of peers, and admitted 5 he appeared to be the lineal dcfcendant of William, earl of Caithnefs, who died in the year 1505, May 6. Hereford, May 14. On the 5ih inft. Anne Bridge- water, a girl of fourteen, in the parifh of Much Mat'cle, in this county, vvas delivered of three daugh- ters, who are all likely to live. The national debt, as laid before parliament the 5th of January, amounted to 127,497,619 I. annual intereft, GEORGE III. 295 intereft, 4,526,393 1. * The revenue of the kingdom for the piefent yedr amounts to 6,327*0001. Before the rtrvolution it was eftimated to lefs than two millions. An architect at Leflwithiel in Cornwall, has in- vented a method of flating the roofs of buildin.';js, fo as not to requi:e above half the quantity of timber nowufed, yet will ftand good, without being dripped by the moft tempeftuous winds, and not admit the leaft quantity of wet from rain or fnow, fo long as the timber which fupport it fhall endure. A fire broke out at Crediton, in Devonfhire, (at the weft end of the town) and confumed 39 houfes, May 14, in the evening. Amfierdam, laft Monday evening a fire broke out in the play houfe, fituated at the Keyzers-Gragt, which occafioned a terrible conflagration, 1 50 perfons loft. May 14. On Tuefday a journeyman carpenter in Holborn, was committed to NewPrifon, for committing a rape on his matter's daughter, a girl of four years of age, May 19. At the Ifle of Sky, in Scotland, the mortality among the black cattle is eftimated at eight or ten thoufand pounds fterlingin that Ifland alone, June 13. The great number of locufts which cover the fields, &c and devour all the fruits of the earth. They make the greateft ravages in Old Caftile in Spain, where upwards of three thoufand mtn are employed in deftroying them ; but it is feared that they will not tully fucceed in removing this dreadful calamity, which will occafion a great dearnefs of provifion this year, June 15. I'arts of France and Germany are full of the great devaftations lately made by tempefts. In the neigh- bourhood of Weiftenftad, upwards of twenty barns were in one night reduced to afties by the lightning; the hail had entirely dcftroyed all the fruits of the earth, July 9. Counts Srruenfee and Brandt's execution at Copen- hagen, A fire 2,^6 GEORGE III. A fire h^s lately conrumec^ at Oediga, n^^ar Arch- angel, 519 houies, and a great number of magazines, in whicli were looo lalls of rye, and great quantities of hcn^.p, July 19. At Marfcilles in France, a young man'of this town, whd was violently in love with a girl whom he de- fpaired to fucceed with, on account of the great dif- proportion of fortune between the two families, lately poifoned his father, mother, brother and filler, at one meal, in order to get their lortunes : The precaution he had taken to bring two eggs for his own fupper, was the means of difcovering this crime ^ but he found means to make his efcape, June 19. A ftorm of thunder and lightning, an afh tree was fplit at Milford near Tadcarter, that contained a ton of wood, and forced the fhattercd parts thereof above 100 yards every way. Mrs. Keith, died, aged lo,-^, at Newnham, in Gloucellerlliire. Cn fearching a coffin, lately difcovered, it was found to contain the body of Thomas Beaufort, duke of Exeter, uncle to Henry V, and depofited there in 1427. The workmen opened the lid, and to their furprlze, found the fleili, hair, and toe and finger- nails, as perfed and as found, as though he had not been deacl fix hours A fire broke out at Stoke- Fleming, near Dart» mouth, which entirely ccnfumed upwards of thirty houfes in lefs than two hours, and reduced the inha- bitants to the greateft diitrefs, July 23. Inverary, in Scotland, on Monday lalt we had the moft dreadful rain and flood, by v^hich large trees were tore up that flood 100 years, and numbers of bridges fwept away •, the military roads were rendered entirely impalfable for any cairiage, by the amazing torrents tumbling froni the aiountains, which nothing could withftaud, Sept. 12. We 1. s. d. 33.668 2 4 24.575 16 7 11,736 14 9 6,743 :> iO 2,898 13 7 2,447 4 4 582 7 1 1 GEORGE III. 297 We have been favoured with the following authentic particulars of the Hop duty for Kent Worccfler - - Suflex - - Surry, Reading, and Hamplhire North Cfays Efiex The other parts of England 102,652 3 4 In the 27 th year of Edward III. all the commodities exported trom England amounted to 294,184!. and all the imports to only 38,970!. fo that the kingdom cleared to that year the fum of 255,214!. EPITAPH. THE PARLIAMENT ERECTED THIS MONUMENT, TOTHE MEMORYOF MAJOR GENERAL JAMESWOLFE; W^HO, HAVING DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF EMINENTLY IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA, r.y A STRETCH OF MAGNANIMITY, GAINED A MASTER VICTORY AT QUEBEC, SEPTEMBER XIII. MDCCLVHI. AND FIXT, UPON THE SPOT, IN DEATH, THE FULNESS OF HIS FAME. By an exa6t account of the ftate of population in the leveral countries, under the dominion of the l<.ino: of Pruffia, (not including his late acquifitions in Poland) it appears, that during the lall year, there were Births - - 149,703 Deaths - - 185,661 M.i;riages - 34,468 By the fame computation it further appears, that the territories compr'.fed within this defcription, con- tain 298 GEORGE III. tain 3000 German fquare leagues ; and that in the kingdom of Denmark, with Norway, and the Duchies of ijchlefwick and Danifh Holftein, which are twice the extent of the former, the number in the fame year were no more than Chriftenings - - 56,732 Burials . . _ 62,600 Weddings - - 8,752 On the whole, it is therefore evident, that the king of Pruffia's dominions are about fix times more po- pulous than thofe of his Danifh majefty. Foundation-ftone of the new Blue- coat Holpital in Oxmantown-green,» laid by his excellency the earl Harcourf, 1773. By the violent wind, many thoufand fine trees were deftroyed in the earl of Fife's woods in Scotland, many of which were fit for mads to the largeft fliips, and the lofs is computed at above 4000I. 20th of January lad. The following ftate of the export-linen and linen- yarn trade of Ireland, for thelaft7o years, fhsws its vaft improvement within that period, and what fingu- lar importance its prefervation from the ruin with which it is now threatened, is to the morher country. 1701 Amount of exports of linen 14,0007 Ditto, linen-yarn 29,000! ^^^ 17 1 1 Linen 78,000) ' V ( 122,000 Yarn . _ . _ - 44,000) 172 1 Linen . - _ _ - 126,0007 V 00 i 214,000 • Yarn . _ _ - . 8 8,000 3 ^' 1 75 1 Linen - - . _ . 220,000 7 _ _ V of 304,000 Yarn 84,0003 ^ ^ 17^1 Linen 480,0007 ^^ ^ V ( 509,000 Yarn 129,0003 ^ ^ 1 7c I Linen 7^1,000 7 © '-' V /o ' t 892,0000 Yarn 142,0001 ^^ i76il^inen - _ _ . _ 8oj,ooo7 ' V V < 1,041,000 — — Yarn . _ _ _ _ 238,0003 ^ 1 77 1 Linen 1 ,69 1 ,000 7 ^ ^^^ V > 1,89^,000 Yarn - - - - - 204,0003 ^^ k GEORGE III. 299 It appears by the export-entries at the Cuftom- houfe at Dublin, whence this account was taken, that the linen trade alone has decreafed 5,000,000 ot yards, ot the invoice value of 350,000!. in the year 1772, and by the beft eftimate that could be formed of the exports from March 1772, to March 1773, they were fuppofed 10 have further decreafed one third, which would bring them under 900,100!. fo that the ex- ports of linen and yarn, taken together, will fall ihort of 1,100,000, little more than one half of their amount in the year 1771. March 16. Naples, we had a violent temped here lafl: Monday evening, when the lightning fell upon the Hotel of my lord Tilney, traverfed feveral rooms, wheie about threefcore ladies, and as many gentle- men were aflcmbled, and burnt and damaged all the gi'dings ; but we do not hear that any of the com- pany received the leaft injury. Several fine Iheep were fold in Smithfield at 58 s. each, fuch as were fold only ten years ago, from a guinea to a moidore, April 6. From Mexico, we leai n, that a plague, of a very malignant nature, had broke out in that city, and the contiguous country. It had made its appearance but fix days before the advices were dated ; and fuch were the fatal efifefls of it, rhat above 30,000 Spa- niaids, Mcftize, Indians, and Negroes, were then dead, April 6. in the laft two years, 62 fliips have failed from the North of Ireland, with paflengers for North-America, the burthen of theie veflels 17,350 tons, the num- ber of paflengers at leaft equal to the tons. The greareft part of thefe emigrants paid their pafTage, which, at 3 !. I OS. each, amounted to 60,725 1. moft ot them people employed in the linen manufacture, or farmers, and of fome property, which they turned into money, and carried with them, (in evidence of this, it was computed tliat one fhip, lall year, had no lels than 4000 I. in fpecie on board. Belfaft, April 6. May 300 GEORGE III. May 8. The emprefs of Ruflla has built a mod magnificent theatre at Peterfbiirgh, after a model of Dm ry- Lane theatre, (for plays in the E. giiiL i m- guage) taken by her direction in the yea'- iy6s-, «: ^ne expence of upwards of 15000 1. fterl. and has lately made an offer to David Garrick, Efq; exclufive of all cxpences, of 2000 1. iierl. May 17. Was killed in the fhambles of Belfafl, the largefi ox ever feen in the North of Ireland, the property of Mr. Andrea, butcher, of faid place. Said ox was fed by Rowland Hevland, Elq-, He weighed 1 200 lb. and had 18 ftpne of fat in him ; his heart weighed 11 lb. the tongue fold for 3s. 3d. and the flefh for 4 d. per pound. The remarkable large bullock, fed by Mr. Pidgeon, of Black Ditch, in the county of Wicklow, and bought by MefT. Wilfon and Rogers, of Ormond Market, weighed 13 hundred, 12 itone, 23 pound, and con- tained about ten ftone of tallow. As a proof of the great induitry of the French in their Newfoundland fifneries, we are informed, that upwards of 26,000 quintals of fifh, caught in the American, or more properly the EnglifH feas of New- foundland, have been exported from France to the feveral markets in Spain only, fince the latter end of June lad. June 2. Sir James Lowther, Bart, has ordered a ring of eight bells to be caft for St. James's church in Whitehaven. June II. Mofcow, a melancholy account was brought of a fire having happened in 'that City, by which upwards of one thoufand houfes were burnt. Charles McFindley, Efqj died, aged 143, at Tip- perary in Ireland. July 12. From Aleppo, Balfora, and Bagdad, were brought the moft melancholy accounts concerning the plague, which has carrird off about 100,000 perions in the firft mentioned city, and upwards of 200,000 in the latcer. The French conful at Bagdad, and the agent of that nation at Balfora, and all the Catholic criefts G E ORG E III. 301 priefts in thefe two cities-^ are among the dead. In Blackpool, Corke, Mr. William Riordan, aged 74, married to Mifs Murrogh, of Mallow, aged 15 years, July 15. John Grunter, died here lately in tiie ii6th of his age. I'his man, who had been many years a private foldier in the fervice of the Republick, lived on the penfion allowed to invalids, at Hague, July 18. July 20. Poitiers in France, in the parifh of Champ- niers, a league and a half from Civrage, there is a poor family of extraordinary formation. They con- fid of three ciiildren, two boys and a girl, who were born with white hair or woo!, and red eyes. Their eye- lids and brows are as white as fnow. July 24. Saturday night, 22 (heep were killed by lighming, in a field belonging to farmer Baker, at Blagdon, in Somerletfliire. A fhoemaker lives in Grovenor's Mews, who has been married only thirty months, and has had feven children at three births, viz. 3, 2, and 2, in London, July 29. The dreadful dorm of thunder and lightning on Friday night and Saturday morning, a man croflinga field near Iflington, had his watch melted in his fob, but providentially received no other damage -, in England. The royal regiment of artillery had a great field- day on Woolwich- Common, after which feveral ex- periments were made on grape- fhot, one of which was of a moft extraordinary nature, from a gun in- vented by general Defaguliers, which was fiied againit a long target of wood; it kept, a conftant firing, whilft the regiment marched 150 yards, in which time it put 800 fhot through the target, at the diftancc of 400 yards, having fired 24 times in a minute. This is juflly looked upon as the greatell improve- ment ever made on cannon fince their firfl invention. An order of the privy-council has been made and fent to the exchequer, and bank of England, that no S02 GEORGE III. no gold coin be received, if more deficient in v/eight than as follows : Guineas, coined before George III- Half guineas George III. guineas - dwts. 5 2 5 grs. 3 6 i.e. wanting 1 I 6 6 Half guineas - 2 H - - 3 1772 guineas Half guineas - 5 2 8 16 - - 2 A labourer in the county of Carlow, cutting wheat laft week, difcovered a frog with two heads and eight feet, which fhewed marks of both fexes. Was played on Guilford-Downs, a very extraordi- nary match at cricket, between a carpenter on one fide, and a company of nine taylors, for a quarter of lamb and cabbage -, which was decided in favour of the carpenter, by 64 notches. September 13. At Kidderminfter fair, on Satur- day fevennight, there was the greateft quantity of cheefe that has been known for many years, though but a fmall part of it was brought into the fair, the reft being kept up in inns, or private houfes ; by which fcheme, the price, in the beginning of the fair, was from 28 s. to 30 s. for the beft cheefe, and two- meal from 25 s. to 27 s. but in the afternoon the beft was fold at 24s. and the fecond fort at 22 s. and many waggon loads were carried back unfold, into Birmingham. Prefect ftate of the government of Europe ; under the fimilitude of birds. Ruflia governed by a female Cantor. Pruffia by an old Hawk. Germany by a young Eagle. Sweden by a young Stork. Denmark by a Cuckoo. France by a Cock-Sparrow. Spain by a Peacock. Great-Britain by an Englilh Cock. Poland, GEORGE III. 303 Poland, in part by a King Fifher. Holland by Kites and Vultures. Sardinia by a Chicken. And Ronne by an old Turkey. At Portfmouth, a melancholy accident happened, by a prilbn carelefsly throwing into the ftreet Ibme ginger- bread cakes, in which he had put fome ar- fenic, in order to poifon the rats, when three children picked ihcm up, and eating them eagerly, the fatal effefls of the poifon foon began to operate i and though every means were ufed to expel it, yet ic proved fatal to one of them, the other two (it is hoped) will recover, though there is one of them not yet entirely out of danger, Sept. 14. Surprifing large hogs were (hewn at Edmonton ftatute, one of which was four feet nine, and the other four feet eleven inches high, meafured from the tip of their fhoulders, Sept. 14. September 15. Edinburgh, wc hear from Strath- opey, that the poor people in Badenoch andLochaber are in a molt pitiful fituation for want of meal. They are reduced to live on blocd, which they drew from their cattle by repealed bleedings. Need we wonder to hear of emigrations from fuch a country ? It is reported, that a merchant in the city of Lon- don has received an order from the court of« Peterf- burgh, to buy up cloth to the value of 40^000/. for cloarhing the Cazrion's army. Sept. 24. 0(5bober5. Our laft advices from Bafibra and Bag- dad, in the Perfian gulph, are very alarming, 300,000 perfons having aftually died in thofe two places of the plague ; this determined the Englidi agent, and thofe of his nation to attempt the laving themfelves, by leaving thefe places for a time ; but there is rea- lon to fear they may meet vvith another fcourge in their enemy Kerim Khan> who is the laft conqueror ot Perfia, which kingdom is under the fame unhap- py circumftances in Afia, as Poland is in Europe. The enmity however of this conqueror, is looked on only C04 GEORGE III. only as a temporary cloud hanging over tl>e heads of the Ervglifli traders, who having been accuftoined to m-;nv vKifficudes in that part of the world, doubt not of rit ;ng our the prcfent ll:orm. Their addrefs in navi- gaci::jr the Indian ana the Red Sea, hath given rile to many important difcoveries in thofe parts, and among the red, in their voyages irom IMoka to Gedda, they have difcovercd the coaft of AbyfTinia lo be laid down in their charts 25 or 30 miles too far well; neither do ihofe charts mark many fmaH iflands and rocks, which none can approach without the alTiftance of the native pilots. Notice is given when afhip arrives, by firing a gun at the rifing of the fun, and two at its fetting, which the pilots by having their ears to the ground, declare they can hear at two degrees dillance, gnd in confequence put off in canoes, and pilot the flaip fafely through the rocks and fliallows into the Red Sea. Cdober 7. Dublin ; were fold at. the market of Smithfield by Mr, Richard Bryan, feven two year old wethers, got by Mr. Johnfton's Englifh ram on Irifh ewes, which being lince killed and weighed by Mr. Laurence Hickey, butcher, in Ormond-Marker, proved at that tender age, equally fat with mod four year old fneep, to the aftonifhrnent of many judges, who had a confiderable wager deper.dingcn the occa- fion ; c^ne carcafs, as per Craner's note, weighed one. hundred and feventeen pound, and feveral fqre quar- ters of the reft thirty pound each. Oftober 9. Mr. Allen Claxton, aged 27, married to Mifs Ann Murphy, aged eleven at Corbally, in the Queen's county. A \\cn Bullfinch, the property of a young lady at Rofs, now on a tour to the north of Ireland, has laid two enz^ in a case where Ihe has been confined two years, and without the afliltance of a cock. Extract from the accounts of linen itamped in the following years in Scotland, as attefted at the Linen- HalL GEORGE III. 30^ Hal), eftablifhed by the board of truflees at Edin" burgh, inllituted in the year 1727. 1727 to 1728 - 2,182,978 - £ I03'3i2 1747 - - - 6,661,788 - - 262,866 1757 - - - 9,764.,^i.o8 - - 40'»5ir i7^->7 - - - i3»224,557 - " ^37'346 October 13. In the great hurricane on Saturday night laft, part of the gavel of the old caftle in Carlow was blown down by the immenfe force of the wind, which ftripped fevcral houfes, and wafted a large quantity of corn in this neighbourhood. Extra6l of a letter from Dantzick, Odober 16. The order of Jciuits is entirely diflblved, as you have feen in the public prints. There has juft been difco- vered a depofit in the hands of three people of this town to the value of about 80,000 livres, confifting in bar gold, jewels, and filver plate, which had been concealed thefe twelve years, one is ftill upon the look out to difcover if pofTible, other effects which are fufpedled to be concealed here. Ic is the Abbe Deftouches who has the care of the enquiry. October 18, Limerick. There is now living at Clounlehairp near Glin, in this county, one Kelly, aged 120, he is quite ftraight in his limbs, can walk twelve miles a day, and his chief diet is potatoes and milk. — There is alfo living near Shanagolden, in laid county, one Mary Fowloe, aged 109, Ihe has upwards of a hundred children, grand children, great grand chidien, and great great grand children now living. The old gentlewoman retains her fight lb well as to enable her to knit ftockings, and is of fo iprightly a difpofition that at a country diverfion, at which flie lately was, (he danced merrily. St. George's, (in- Grenada) Odober 24- A few- days ago died here, James Forihon efq-, in the 127th year of his age. He was born at Bourdeaux in 1645, arrived in the Weft Indies in 1694, married at St. Kitt?, and removed from thence to Martinico, where he remained thirty years, and has refided 48 years in this ifland. He retained his eye fight to his U 117th 3o6 G E O K G E III. 1 1 7th year, and enjoyed good health and a chearfu! dilpofition till within a few days of his death. He was undoubtedly the oldcft man that ever died in the Weft-Indies. J and, had he refided in a climate more favourable tc longevity, he might in all probability, have attained the age of the famous Jenkins or Par, the former of whom lived 169 years, and the latter above, acentury and aihalf Francis Ellis, late of Monaghan, in the county of Monaghan efq; did by his lall will and teflament, devife fifty fhiUings a year to buy bread and wine for the church of Monaghan, for ever ; and alio, 300/. to be. put to ufe at 15/. a year for the poor of faid parifh ; and willed that in cafe his fon Henry Ellis, efq; fhould have no heirs male lawfully begot- ten by him, he the faid Henry fhould at his death pay ■ or caufe to be paid 6000/. Sierl. one half of which for the ufe of the Poor-houfe in Monaghan, the other 3000/. for Mercer's Hofpital, in Dublin, and ap- pointed the faid Henry and others. Executors, The following method, if ftridlly praftiled may .;be depended upon to. prevent the bad effefls of tur- nips on butter, and to make it as fvveet as any grafs- butter : Milk your cows in your farm yard j as you milk it, carry it warm from the cow to the dairy, and firll putting a quart of boiling water into your lead or paafion, lyle your milk as loon as polnble in- to the fame, when ypu cake.otF your cream, put a common tea cup full of fak with every two quarts of cream into the cream pot. The method of executing Mrs. Herring yefterday, for the murder of her hulband, was as follows : fhc was placed on a ftool fomething more than two teet high, and a chain being placed under her arms, the rope round iier neck was made fall to two fpikes, which being driven through a poft againft which (he ffcood, when her devotions were ended, the ftool was taken from under her, and Ihe was foon ftranglcd, when ftie had hung about fifteen minutes the rope was burnt, and fhe funk till the chain lupported her, forcing GEORGE III. 307 forcing her hands up to a level with her face, the flame being furious flie was foon confumcd. The crowd was fo immenlcly great, that ic was a long time before the faggots could be placed for the exe- cution. A i3:''eac number of coaches \vere overturned, and the axletrccs ot others broken. X\vo men were feen lying under a coach without the leaft figns of life. 'The crowd extended for near half a mile, and it is fuppoled that more than twenty thouland perfons were prefent, not a tenth part of V/hom could have a fight of the melancholy fpedacle. BailinaQoe. We are informed, that black cattlefold at the fair, from ten fhillings, and jfheep qn an ave- rage four Ihillings cheaper than at the former fair. This mod ailonilhing part of the human i'pegies was born in the ifland of.Corfica, on the mountain of Stata Ota, in the year 1743. She is only thirty four inches high, weighs but twenty fix pounds, a child of two years of age has larger hands and feet. Her fur- priling httlenefs makes a llrong imprellion, at firft light, on the fpedator's mind •, nothing dilkgreeable, eitiier in perfonor converfation, is to be found in her, although moft of nature's produdions in miniature are generally fo in both : Her form affords a pleafing furprize, her limbs are exceedingly well proportioned, her admirable fymmetry engages attention, and upon the whole is acknowledged a moft perfc6l beauty : She is pofielfed of a great deal of vivacity and Ipirir, can Tpeak Italian and French, and gives the inquifi- tive mind an agreeable entertainment ; in fhort, (he is the moft cxtraordinaiy curiofity ever known or ever heard of in hiftory ; and the curious in all coiintric"; where Ihe has been Ihewn, pronounce her to be the fineft d'l'play of human nature in minia:ure, they ever faw. The board of commiffioners of excif% afrer a trial of three da)s, condemned 760 yards ot Fiench wrought filk, and 4200 yards of French fiik bone laces, which were found concealed in a fliip from Bourd^aux ; part of the lace was dctciftcd running IT 2. ^n 3o8 GEORGE III. on fhore by the mate, and the box of wrouglit filk was broke, and fome of the filk fmuggled — This feizure gives the greateft pleafure to every friend of the manufadlures of Ireland. London. A maiden lady at Hackney, who died lad week, left twenty guineas each, to four maidens, who were to be her pall bearers, and were to fwear, that they were maids before receiving the money ; but when the oath came to be adminiftered, three of of them recanted, declaring they fhould think it a heinous fin to be guilty of perjury, Xhe^Hg^ht honourable lord Annaly, attended by the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs of this city, laid the foundation (tone for a new goal, at the Little Green. Oftober 25, Goucefter. On Sunday night, the 17 th, a moft tremendous ftorm, of thunder, lightning, and rain, came on here, about eleven o'clock, and continued for three hours. Our letters from different parts of the country mention its alarming appear- ance ; but we do not hear of any other damage than an out houfe fet on fire at Leighterton, in whjch two waggons, and other implements of hufbandry were burnt — A cow was ftruck dead at Hunt-Courr, and a girl had her cap burnt, and the hair of her head fmged, as llie lay in bed, without receiving any other damage. By the above ftorm at Beverftone, an oak tree was fliivered into pieces, fome of which were liner and lighter than fnavings made by a plane. The following aff.iir happened at a gentleman's houfe at Deptford : While a young man was paying his addreiTes to a fervant girl, he heard her mifirels coming, and wiiliing to avoid her feeing him, defired the girl to hide hide him any v/heie ; The according- ly hid him in the cafe of a jackvveight. 1 he footman, who likewife courted the girl, and was jealous of the young fellow, went into the yard and fafbened him in ; afterwards fet the jack a going, until the weight lodged upon the man's head, who roared out terri- bly, and alarmed the whole family. Oaober GEORGE III. 309 Odober 27. By the late improvements made by the Abbe de I'erray in the French finances, as is laid, they amount to 380 millions per annum -, a lum little Hiort of fourteen millions Englilh currency ; and much fuperior to the ordinary revenues of any prince in Chriilendcmi, or perhaps in the univerfe. The king of PiulFia, it is faid, hath demanded of the Jews throughout his dominions, a free gift of 6,000,000 of Florine, about 500,000/ Sterling. 1 he landed gentlemen in Scotland feeing too late the bad confequences of their having raifcd their rents, by which the country has been half drained of its inhabit- ants, have begun to reduce their rents to the old ftand- ard -, which it is hoped will put a flop to emigration. St. John's church re- built — Opened November 7th. On a tree in the garden of Dr. Lowther, of little Chelfea, a black bird has thee different times hatch- ed young in the fame nefl this feafon. All the young ones have white tails. We are told that a MufHn-man, who cries his cakes at the wefl end of the town, adually receives an annu- ity of jo/, per ann. from a lady in a flreet near Ber- keley fquare, on condition of his not crying them in that Itrcer, which he has enjoyed chefe three years. Letters from Warfaw mention, that his Polifh ma- jefby has been plealed to create and and grant unto Trevor Corry, efq-, his Britannic majefty's commifTa- ly and conful at Danczic, and his heirs for ever, the dignity of baron, or lord of Poland &c. Died, at Leinlier-Houfe in Dublin, James Fitz- Gerald, duke of Leinfter, marquis and earl of Kil- dare, earl pnd baron Offaley, premier marquis earl and baron of the kingdom of Ireland, and vifcounc Leinfter of Taplo\v,in Great Britain. He fucceeded his father Robert, nineteenth earl of Kiidare, on February 20, 1743. His grace was born May 29, 1722 ; created vilcount Leinlter ofTaplow in 1746; in 1761 mcirquis of Kiidare, and in 1766 duke of Feiniler, on February 7, 1746, he married lady Emilia, Iccond farviving daughter of Charles, fecond duke of Richmond jio GEORGE III. Richmond Lenox, and Aubigny, and by her grace has kit ifTue, William, now duke of Leinfter, and icvcral other children now living. His grace is fnc- ceeded in honours and ettate by his eldeft ion, one of the reprcfentatives in parliament for Dublin, for v.hich city he hath aftcd with the greateft integrity, and Patrioiifm, for which the citizens never can pay him too much acknowledgemenrs and honours. The late Duke was a real patriot, fpending his whole edate in this poor country, making the mod pi'incely improvements not only in Dublin, but in all parts of his very extenfive eftate-, and to his eternal credit be ir faid, that in the moft calamitous times and rigorous feafons, he never turned off any workmen or labourers, but paid their full wages, and gave them bread and fuel to iheir great comfort. What abfen- tee landlord- can fay this, who never faw the kingdom, or built, or ever improved therein, or ever contribu- ted to the taxes or welfare of the nation ? Oilend, December 29. The diftemper among the horned cattle is again broke out in feveral parts of the province called V/eil-Flanders ; a few difiri(5ts of which -(viz. Courtray, Furnes, Bruges, and Spres) annually fupply their neighbours with 60 or 70,000 head of black cattle, of which Lifle alone conTumes 12 or 14,000. In the diftrift of Courtray, feveral infedled cattle have been already killed ; and this week the diftemper has appeared at Sevecote and St. Peters Capelle, two villages not above two leagues from this tovvn, where fix infected beafts have been killed i notwithftanding which, and the unremitting attention of the perfons appointed in the beginning of laft year to fuperintend every thing relative to this con- tagion, it is apprehended, from the defultory manner oi" its appearing at places remote from each other, that It may again become general in this province. 1774. Onalate very nicecalculation, it appears, that the lums colleded for the maintenance of the poor, in the feveral parifhes in England only, exceed 8oo,oool. ilerl. annuallv. That GEORGE ni. 311 I'hat the mint now coin to their utmoft force, or 15,000). a day, and pay to the bank 90,000). a week. A Tailor, at a public houfe near ShadweH, 'JZ-der- took, for a wager of one guinea, to eat a goofe raw, that weighed (ix pounds, and to drink a pint of brandy, and half a gallon of porter, in one hour. He won his wager, but foon after was taken very fick, and in draining to vomit, broke fomething in his infide, and expired in a few minutes. A tradcfman in Newgate- Street, fet off from Shore- ditch- Church, for abett of 200 guineas, to the Shire- Hall, Cambridge, and back again ; he was allowed ^4 hours, but performed it in 22 hours and 15 minutes, which is nearly at the rate of five miles an hour ; to Cambridge (the Epping road) being §^ miles. A letter from London to a gentleman at Man- chefter, fay : *' A noted pofture-mafter, at Sadler's- Vv^ells, has undertaken, for a wager of 200 guineas, to walk five miles on his hand in two hours. Great betts are depending. February i. I'he following are the certain and pro- bable fupplies granted by the Houfe of Commons in three days : Certain army 1. 1,261,679 s. d. 15 2| Ordnance Navy Uncertain army and ordnance 271,124. 960,000 200,000 17 7 0. Navy building, repairs e,x- > traordinary, &c. 3 Deficiencies to be added onfe- j veraliremsin thelaftgrants 1 1,300,000 260,000 Exchequer- bills in circulation 1 ,000,000 5,252»So4. 12 gl Wavs & means, malt, &c. 7 co,ooo 7 T "j T- > 2,2*:o,ooo o o Land Tax - 1 ,500,0000 5 -^ ' Balance 10 be charged on the fink- •> iiig fund, which, if deficient mufi ( _ , be made good by a new tax, Ex- f £'^^2,^04 12 9%- chequer billSj or a lottery. -' Sunday 312 GEORGE III. Sunday 28th of February, a mod excellent charity fermon was preached in St. Mary's church, by the Revd. Mr. Philip Skelton, at which was coUcded 322 1. los. 6 d. Cambridge, March 18. Some gentlemen and la- dies were courfing near Stilion, they ftarted (what they thought) a black rabbit, but when killed, to their aftonifhment it proved to be a coal-black hare. It was drefied at the ball at Stilton, and the fkin af- terwards (luffed, to be preferved as a curiofity. I^ewis XV. died in the 64th year of his age, and the 59th from his acceflion to the throne, May 10. A cbrrefpondent informs us, that the prefident and focicLN of antiquarians, having obferved, that in Rymer's Fcedera, mention is made that kingEdward I. firnamed Long Shanks, was interred in a ftone coffin, inclofed in a ftone tomb, in one of the chapels in Wellminfter- Abbey, and that he was done over with Wax, and a fum of money allowed in order to pre- ferve the tomb : accordingly they applied to the dean of Wellminrter, for leave to have the tomb opened. The dean being defirous to give all encouragement to curious enqui'ics, appointed Tuc-fday laft for open- ing the fame, he being prefent at the time, when to the great aftonifhment of the curious gentlemen pre- fent, they found the royaK corps to appear, as the Hiftorian informed them. He had on a gold and filver tiffuc robe, and a crimfon velvet one over that ; the jewels that were about him appeared very bright ; he held a fceptre and dove in oneiiand, and a fceptre and crofs in the other, which meafured between four and five feet long •, they lifted up the crown from his head, and hisfcull appeared bare; his face and hands feemed perfectly whole ; he meafured fix feet and two inches : he died on the 7th of July 1307, in the 68th year of his age. Mr. Moore's new conftru6led machine to go without horfes, went along the Strand with one paffenger in it, at a rapid rate. The Right Hon. John Beresford, married to Mifs Montgomery, GEORGE III. 313 Montgomery, daughter to SirWilliam Montgomtry, Bare, -^nd filter to Jady Vifcountefs 'lownlliend. Thellirprifing wealth and populour.eis of London, will further appear from a general ellimatecjt the toi- lowing provilions confiimed in the courfe of one year within the city and fuburbs of London and Weilmin- flcr. Black catilc killed in i year - 98,244. Sheep and lambs - ^ _ 711,123 .Calves - _ - _ 194,760 Swine - - - - 186,932 Pigs - _ _ . 52,000 Poultry and wild fowl innumerable. Mackarcl fold at Billingfgate - 14,740,000 Oyfters, bulhels - - J 1,53^ Sniall boats with cod, haddock, whiting, &;c, over and above thole brought by land-carriage, and great quantities of river and fait fifh - - i)39S Butter,; pounds weight, about -r 16,000,000 Checfc, ditto, aboijt - - 20,000,000 Gallons of milk about ' - - 5,000,000 Barrels of ftrong beer - - 11,72,494 Barrels of fmall beer - - 798,495 Tons of foreign wines - - 30,044. Gallc ns of rum, brandy, and other dif- ) ■ 1 1 J u ( II ,000,000 tilled waters, above - J Pounds weight of candles, above - 11,000,000 Paris, Peter Lewis Naliere, died in the i i/\,th year of his age. He had buried 1 1 wives; and about 5 years fince, carried a young girl of eighteen to the curate of his parifli, and defired to be married •, but the old man's relations oppofcd and prevcnteci the marriage. Doftor Bond, a gentleman who has been for many years contending a litigated property, of confiuerablc value, in the North, poifoncd himfclf on Thurfday morning laft, in the city Marlhalfca. June 9th. Boftoii (New-England) was firft fettled in 1630; and fince that time it has been greatly damaged bv feyerj^l j&ies that happened in the following years : -:. -q.-:! Firft O R G E III. Seventh 1702 I l 1 n. r;-- , , ' I was the lalt, was Tvv^ i ' Cthe moft dread- Nmth .759 fui. .Icnih 1700-/ Guineas coined fince the gill of December, 1771, 5dw. 8gr. half guineas, during the fame period, 2dw. i'6gr. Guineas coined prior to the firfl of Ja- nuary, 1772, 5dw. 6gr. half guineas, during tha fame ptriod, 2 dw. i4gr, quarter guineas, during the f.^me period, i dvv. 7 gr. be not allowed to be current, except in payments to be made at the Ex- . chequer, or to the collecStors of the revenues, or to the bank of England, or to the feveral perfons in differ- ent country towns m.entioned in this proclamation. Vienna. A young woman, a native of Carniola, is fhewn, fix feet nine inches high, and remarkably ftrong and well made. September 10. Laft week a very great number of herrings were caught at Auld Harks in the Eaft- Fife, Scotland. Some boats brought on Ihpre 50,000 at one time ; and they were felling to the country- people at three-pence per hundred. A few days ago a woman folicited to be admitted into the workhoufeof a certain parifn, not many miles from Tottenham, near London; and upon being in- troduced to the gem'en of the veftry, a certain per- fon in the commilTion of the peace addrelfed himfelf to her in the fallowing wor.is : — " Why, you imperenc *' Huffy I — why — what does you mean by coming to *' impoie upon as in this here mannei^, whereof the •* perochial laws are made for to proteft the lame, the " halt, the blind, and the omnipotent poor." The following infcription is literally taken from a fi:!ewboard in a country village in Yorkfnire, England : ■" W Tighten, a Readden and Trew Spellen and *' Aileo Manchantts Ackounts v/ith dowhie Entery ^' Poil-fKript girlls, and Buovs Bot)!ded, and Good ^' Yozitch for: chiilderen." His graCii the' duke of Marlborough gave a moft hofpitable GEORGE III. 31^ hofpitable entertainment to his tenant?, and other farmers in the neighbourhood of Woodllock, in Ox- fbrdfliire. Two hundred and twenty-five were al- fembled on this occafion, and Vcgaled at four difFerent tables in the green-houfe at Blenheim. \Vc have been favoured with a bill of the dinner, which is as toUows: 12 Difhes of fifh. ~ 12 Haunches of venifofif 12 Venifon parties. 12 Geefe roafted. 8 Difhes of road beef -, 4 kot, aod 4 cold. 8 Difhes of roaft mutton. 8 Difhes of boiled mutton, 8 Difhes of veal roafted. - 8 Hams ; 4 hot and 4 cold, 16 Plumb puddings. 16 Apple pies. J28 Diflies, exclufive of vegetables, &c. 300 Bottles of port wine. §1 Bottles of rum made into punch ; befide an indefinite quantity of ale and ftrong beer were drank on this occafion. Mr. FI. Bates's garden at Raphoe, in the county of Donegal, from only two potatoes that had been cut into nine fmall parts, were dug up in the prefence of feveral witnefTes, 1404 potatoes, which, when weighed, amounted to 103 pounds and a half. Thefe arole from the feeds of the potatoe-app!e ; and though the two potatoes were both of one fort, yet there are now four or five different fpecies, and difi'erenc co- loured potatoes among this produce, Nov. the firft. One hundred and thirty thoufand new-coined gui- neas were brought to ths treafury from the mint, under the care of Samuel Sneyd, Efq; The caufe, wherein lord Cartleftewart was plain-, tiff, and the daughters and heirs at law of the late Achefon Moore, of Aghnacloy, in the county of Tyrone, Efq; defendants, was heard in the court of King's-Bench, before a very refpeftable jury, when a vcrdid was brought in favour pf the defendants, whcrebv -i6 GEORGE III. whereby they are encitled to a very large parental eftare in the counties of Tyrone, Monaghan, Dublin, and in the city of Dublin. Houfe of Indufti-y, opened, in the city of Dublin. Adt pafled for new general pavement ; and for eftablifliing of market juries in the city of Dublin. Lying-in and inoculation charity, inftituted in the city of Dublin. 1775. An oak in Lnngley Wood, near Downton, Wilts, fuppofed to be a thoufand years growth, was fold tor 40 1. It was the property of the bifhop of Salilbury ; meafurefi fix feet two inches diameter, and contained about ten tons of timber. A bow and a quiver, in which were 24 arrows made of reed, pointed with fteel and bearded, were found in New Foreft, Hampfhire, fuppofed to have lain there fince the reign of king William Rufus, who was {hot in that foreft Gjc^ years ago ; The reeds were not decayed, nor the points rufly. Braganza, a tragedy, performed at the Theatre- Royal in Drury-Lane. Written by Robert Jephlbn, Efq; It is faid, the diamonds that her majefty had about her on Monday night, at Drury-Lane Theatre, coft upwards of 150,000). Theftomacher, fleeve-knots, nccislace, ear-rings, and hend ornaments, were cluf- ters of the largefl: and moft valuable brilliants. The young prir.cefs- royal dropped from her bofom a large fprig of diamonds, over the box, on the ftage, which a yeoman picked up, and gave to lord Delawar, who prefenced it 10 the queen. The chevalier Dcfcazeau, commonly called the French poet, died. He has left a great perfonage a curious fword, a valuable gold medal, and a curious pi dure. Mr.Tullius Baker, batchelor, died, aged 81, worth 40.000 1. moft of which he has left to charitable ufes; among the reft 5000 1. in marriage portions, to any \ti\ young maidens v/bom his executors may think moil ddervino-. ..■■.' INDEX. N D E X, From KING JAMES I. to KING GEORGE III. Abbot birtiop of Canterbury, .78 Addifon, jofeph, 232 JEgypUan Mummy 2t;4 Africa company 180 African 176, Royal 262 Aglirim, battle of, 2i6 Aiflabie, John, Efq; 233 Aix-la-Chapelle 255 Alamodes 211 Algate, old, rebuilt 172 Algerines 183 Allen, Mary, 234 Allen, Lord John, 249 Alliance 221, 235 Allum 173 Amboyna 177 America 211,222,231,280 Amfterdani 273 St. Andrew's church 203 St. Andrew, archb. of, 207 Ange, Francis, 282 Anglefey's trial 246 Anglefey, Countefs of, 251 Angria's family 265 Anne, Qiieen, 201, 221, 227, 228 Anne, Princes, 209 Anne of Auftria 219 Anfon, Commodore, 242, 248, Antiochus de Dominis burnt Antrim, Marquis of, 187 Apothecaries Common Coun- cil 260 Arabella, Lady 175 Archer, Colonel, 241 Ardee town near Church 229 Argyle, Marquis, 199 Argyle, Earl of, 210 Arminius the Divine, 174 Armftrong, Sir Thomas, 210 Arran bridge 210 Artillery 174 Arts, fociety of, 263. Encou- ragement of, 279 Afcue,SirGeorgeAdmiral 194 Afgil, Mr. 222 Atherton, John, 181 Athlone, iVlaga7.:ne 2«9 Attainder, Arts of, 2t8 Aticrbury, bifliop of Rochefter 235 St. Audeon's church 205 Audlcy, Lord, 181 Audouin, Mr. hanged 237 Auftria, 235. Aultrian 247 B. Baggot, Sir Walter, ac; Raggot, Mark, 216 Balchen, Sir John, 248 Ballaft Office Mafter 259 Ballintobber, battle of, 184 Ballyraagarry-houfe burnt 2$9 Balmerino, Lord, 25a Balih, Mr. married 284 Bandores or Viols 209 Bank, Stockholm 173. Rot- terdam 173. England 217, 226, 268, 277, 301, 314. Scotland 218. Rife of 218, Holland 227. Ireland 234. Bankruptcy, A(St of, 22$ Banks, John, 246 Barbadoes 174, 206 Barbers Common Council 260 Barcelona 194, 229 Baronets, order of, 174 Bafliaw of Teluam 246 Bafmghoufe taken 188 Bavaria, Eleftor of, 245 Beardmore, Mr, ' 277 Bedford, Duke of, 274 Beer and Ale for Excife 18$, 20S Segflf 3»^ I N D Began to be built 219 Belew, Mr. 251 Belfaft caftle 225 , town of 270 Belgrade taken 216, 231 BcH-.ir;iiin, Arclib. of Capua 176 Bclle-in: tf.ken 271 Bcllingbani, Sir Daniel, 201 BL-lliOe, Mai-mal, 2|5, 24.9 Bemburb viftory 1 88 Bcrgen-cp-Zoc:n 253 Bcresfcrd. B-t. Hon. John 312 Berlclcy, Dr. 263 B"enriU(.!as ^7^ Bernard, Mr. Thomas, dies 288 Berv.'ick. Duke of, 216,. 229, 240 Kethlehcni Gabet 179 Beverlv taken 186 Bible tranflation 172 Bills 218,223,225,239 Birds, collcftion ot, 288, 292, 304 Bin-iops 182, 184, 199 Blfliopfgate rebuilt 239 Black-friars 282 Blake, Admiral, 194, 195 Blakeney, General, 265 Bland}', Mifs, 262 Blarignies, battle of, 226 Blenheim, battle of, 223 Bleed 200, 204 Bloody bridge 203, 204 Blue-Coat Hofpital 203, 237 Boats tin 216, Stranded 261 Bodkin, John^ 244 Bohenjia,. King of, 243 ijchon, Sir Richard, 181 Btiinib-Kelches Z08 Bond, Henry, Ek|j 251 Bond, Dr. 3'3 Bofcawen, Admiral,. ' 268 Bciftcn, bihlding. of, 179 Bottle conjurer 2^6 Boucher and Yeomans i85 Boulter, Frimate, 245 Bows and arrov.'s 182 Boyle, Primate, 221 Boyle, Rot-cr Earl of Oi rery, 207 Boyne, battle of. 215 Bradock, General, 264 BradlKaw 198, 199 Braganza, Duke of, i8'2 Bramble, Primate, 200 Brandenburgh, Ele£lor of, 206 Brafs money 214 Bread, affize of, 227 Breda fiege J77, 181 Breeches, battle of, 240 Breflau, battle of, 267 Breton, Cape,. 249, 256, 267 Bridewell 238 Bridge-Water, Anne, 294 Bright, Mr. Edward, large man 259 Britain, Great, 259, 265, 275 Britain, Jonathan, 294 BrJtany, coaft of, 252 Britiili plantation 189, Miniftry 228, right of 231, currency of the 242 tonnage of the 256 Mufeum 262 Thirty.fix Colonies 279 Broadway and Fitzpatrick 180 Brown, Count, 26^ Browne, John, Efq; 25+ Brunfwick, Duke of, 124, 178- Bruffels 218, 252 Buckingham, Duke of, 178 Buda taken 21 1 BuLIock large 300 Burleigh, Captain, hanged 190 Burton, Sir Charles, 255, 258 Bufhel Brown 183 behead- ed 1.9.3 Butler, phyfician 175 Byng, Aldmiral 232, 26$, 266 Byron, Commodore, 280- C. Cajeta, cardinal 176 Calcutta taken 266 Caldwell, Lady, ' 285 Callicoe printing 206 Cambricks and Lawns 250 I Cumbridge near burnt 237, 312 Camdcn>. N D Camden, Lord, 276 Cameron, Dr. 263 Campbell, Mungo 287 Canada 171, Governor of, 256 Candia 203 Canea taken 187 Canons, new book of, 180 Capuchins Shipt 1S5 Carlowit7, treaty of, 220 Cardigan 259 Cards 182 Carew, Sir Alexander 187 Carolina 202, 238 Carrick, Earl of, married 249 Canickfergus 2J4, 215 Carthagena 243 Caffini, Mr. 210 Caftleficwart, Lord, 315 Caftle of Dublin 197, 200, 210, fkulls, &c. found therein 260 Caftlemain, Earl of, 211 Caftle market opened 223 Caftieprane, Captain, 257 St. Catharine's rebuilt 271 Cattle, Scotland, 303 Cavan, battle of, 215 Celebrating Mafs 247 Celeftial and Terreftrial 209 CeiFation of arms 186, pro- claimed 255 Cevenes, infurreclion. 222 Chairs 180, 227, 236 Chancery, court, 178, 195 Charity 233, 291 Charles I. 171, 180, 182, 184, 186, 187, 189, 191 Charles Prince of Wales 189 Charles II. 191, 193, 194, 198, 199, 200, 204, 210 Charles XII. 222, 228, 232 Charles Edward 233 Charles VI. Emperor, 242 Cheapfide Crofs 185 Cheele 302 Chelfey college 174 Clierbiirgh forts deftroyed 267 ChevalierSt. George 222,225, 228, 230, 233 Chevalier-de-la-Corne 257 EX. 3.9 Chichefter, Sir Arthur 171 Chichi, :Tomo, 240 Children 241, 263, 292, 301 China, with trade, 206 Chinefe mafTacred 242 Chriftian IV. King of Den- mark 172, 175, 177, 179 Chrjftiana Queen of Swe- den 191, 19$ Chriftianily, Moors, 173 Churchill, Mrs. Arabella, 7i2 Claims, court of, 200, '-02 Clare market 196 Clarendon, Edward Earl of 205 Clau-du-Val, hanged 203 Clarke, Mary,' 243, 254 Cleveland, Dutchefs of 264. Cloth 182, 196, 233, 239 Coaches, 172, 178, 195, 196, 2oo, 218, 227 Coals 175, 245, 251 Coffee houfe 194, 205 Coinage 182, 197 Coin raifed 218, 241, 256 Coined 179, 183, 227, 302, . . 3H.. 3'5 Coining 235, money ot brafs 21^ Coles» Margaret, 291 Collar of SS. 199, 21^ Collier, aged 137 years 258 Comet 176, 182, 201, 208, 249 Commer, John, 235 Commiiiioners 176, 187. 189, 191, 217 Common prayer 187, 189 Common pleas, court of 276 Common, houfe of, 183, 208, 2 1 4, 280 Congreve, William 204, 237 Coni befieged 248 Coningfby, Lord 233 Conings-Mark, Count ao8 Cunningham, Sir Albert 217 Conncly, William, Efq; 238 Cor.fir, Francis, aged 15c, 284 Cor.ftantinople 320 Conftantinopls 238 Coote, Sir diaries 183, 193 Cork, Earl of 179 Cork, garden of 203, 241 Corn, exportation of, 213, market opened 236 Cornilh, alderman, 211 Corporation 19a Corry, Trevor, Efq; 309 Corfc caftle, taken 1 81 Corfica, late king of, 256, little woman of 307 Coftello, the Tory 202 Cotton, Sir Robert 173 Council of State 191 Chamber 227 Cow, 234, 263, 283, 293 Covvan, Jacob, 254 Cowley, Abraham, poet 202 Cripptegate Beggars 200 Crocodile 274 Cromarty, earl of, 252 Crcinwel), Henry, 197 Crcmwel!, Oliver, 192, 193, 194, 195, 197, 198, 199 Cromv.- ell, Richard, 197, 198, 22S Crow-Street Mufick-hall 238 Crown lands 178 Crown Point, Fort of, 262, taken 268 CuUoden battle 251 Cumberland, duke of, 234, 266, 280, 293 Current 198, cafh 2r9 Cuftom ot Taniilry, 172,225 Cutis, Lord 225 Cyder for excife 277 D. Dalazel, Captain 230 Dangerfield 210 DanrHi in America 278 D=»rknefs at noon 207 St, David Fort taken 267 Divis, Sir William 203 Daun, Count 267 Dawns, Sir William arch- bifliop of York 236 Dawfon. ladv Ana 286 N D E X. Death, Captain, killed 266 Debt National 228, 275, a8o, 294 De Cartes, Rene, died 193 De Choifeul, the title of Duke de Praflin 274 Dclamere, lord 21 1 Denmark, king of 284 Denmark, prince of 235 St. Dennis, battle at 207 Deptford 30B Derby, earl of 194 Derwentwater, earl of, 230, 252 St. Dominico taken 272 Donaldfon, deaf and dumb 291 Don, a river of Aberdeen 225 Dor el 230 Doriflaiis, Dr. murdered 192 Dover beat 182 O'Dougherty, Sir Cahir 172 Douglas, general , 216 Doway taken 227 Doyne, Mr. Chandler 244 Drakenburgh, Jabobfen 288 Droghcda 183, ziS Drowned men, women and children 263 Dryden, John 221 Dublin, city of 200, 222, 261, 282, 284, 290, 293, 309, 316, charter of 173, pover- ty of 184, Ormond 190, Militia 201, 247, fquadrons of 202, Bafon, planta- tion, bells, churches 203, 204, Tholfel of 209, 232, hofpital 210, college of 215, barracks of 223, pri- vateer of 24S, 252, fociety 251,259, circumference of 252, inhabitants 262, cor- poration of 268 Dumblane 230 Dunblaine battle 230 Dunboyne, lord, tryed 178 Dundalk taken 184, 192 Dungan-hill 1S9 Dunkin, Rev. Dr. Wm. 252 N D X. 32t Dunkirk, 189, 194, 200, 256 Dunn, Mr. Thady, 256 Dutch 174., 175, 176, 178, 189, 193, 201, 205. Fleet 195. War 201, 205. Sail 202. Trade 232. Troops land 247. Flanders, French mafter of all 253 E. Earthquake, Italy 178. Cala- brian 182. England 199, 209, 217, 237. Dublin 216. Smyrna, Jamaica 217. Rome 222. Lima 252. Scotland 256, London 259. Lifbon, 265. Greece 286 Eaft-India 171,206,209, 221. Company 210. Eaft-Indies '74 Edipfes of the fun 225, 229, *35. 255 Edge firft, fecond 184 Edinburgh Caftle 193 Edward I. 312 Edward IIL 297 Eglington,Iord, murder of 287 Egyptian wheat 263 Elizabeth, princefs, died 193 Elizabeth, princefs, marrieo 174 Elizabeth, queen of England «7' Elizabeth, queen of Bohemia Elizabeth, emprefs, 243 Ellis, Francis, Efqj 306 Elvas, Sir Gervas 175 England 181, 182. Due to. Infurreftions 172. Crown of »73. '78, 179- New 175. Cuftoms of, 182. Great feal of, 183. Voted a free ftate 190. Made arepublick 192. Navy expence of, 196, 248. Balance 201. Plantation 203. India 208. Revolu- tion of, 2 12. Rental,Thankf- giving 212. Cattle Morta- lity 255. Parillies 310 Englifli army 174. Fleet 248. At Calcutta malTacre of, 265 Enniflcilleners 214 EfTex, earl of, 184, 185, 187, 189, 205, 206, 209 Eflex Bridge built 206, 262 Everard, Sir Digby, 172 Eugene, prince, 200, 225f 231, 241 De St. Evremond 222 Europe, inhabitants of, appear to the foldiers . 275 Euftace, Mr. 226 Ewe with five feet 257 Exchange, New, Alley, Lon- don 263 Exeter furrendered 186 Exeter, duke of, 296 Fairfax routed 185, general, 190, 204 Falkirk battle 251 Farmer's wife 262 Farquhar, poet, 221 Farrel, Paul, 240 Fafhion, Lady of, 293 Faft, a folemn 19I Felt-Marflial 240 Felton 178 Ferdinand, prince, 267 Ferrers, earl of, 270 Fielding, John, Efq; 267 Fire works of the Green 257 Fire, Dorchefter, Genefna, 174. Cork 176, 292. Lon- don 180, 201,254- Oxford 187. Conftantinople 180, 226, 259, 291. Glafgoiv 194. Barbadoes2o2. North- ampton 205. Southwark ,' 206. Stockholm 208, 235. Lifbon 225. Francfort 227. Carolina 243. Civan 243. Navan 244. Omagh 243. Mullingar253. Mofcow255, X . ^ )?oo< 3*2 I D 300. Loughrea257. Ro- therhithe 279. Bethlehem 288. Eldgafon, ib. Caf- tlelyon292. Crediton 295. Am'fterdam 295. Oeftiga 296. Stoke Fleming, ib. Bofton 313. Fifliing 173. FifhiSl. Car- riage of, 275 Fifheryto6. French 250, 300. Britilh ereaed 258 FiHieries 3°° Fitzgerald, capt. 231 Flaherty, John, married 254 Flax, duty free 219 Fleetwood, colonel 195 Floods,. exceffive, 24.9. Scot- land 296 Foe, Daniel de 222 Fontenoy, battle of 249 Ford, Mr. 240 Fcrthon, James, Efq; 305 Four-Courts built 219. Acci- dent 234. Marllialfea, man killed in, 242 Fowloe, Mrs. Mary 305 Fox, Peter, hanged 206 Fox, Mr. _ 264 France 247, people in, ib. Ex- pence of ib. Francia the Jew 230 Fray happened, great 252 Frederick, prince, bifliop of GfTiaburgh 277 Frederick V. elector 174 Frederick, king of Denmark . • ■ 280 Freeze, Mr^ John 261 French, Robert 251 French 206, 213, 215, 220. Fleet 194. • Merchandize 207,-247, 24S. War con- tinued 249 Freney the robber 257 Friars, Black, bridge, 271 , 218 Froft • . r 2q8, 217, 242 Fuller, writ ;^ 199 GalJway furrendered 185,194 Garnet, Henry lys Garrick, David, Efq; 300 Gafcoine, Richard, hanged 23a Gaunt, Mrs. burnt 211 Genoa, city of, 210. Mafter of, 252 George I. 198, 229, 231, 234* 237. George II. 209, 237, 240, 259, 261, 267, 27* George III. 273 George of Denmark 203; 225 George, prince, 231 Gibraltar 223, 237 Gilbert, Rev. Claudius 246 Giles, St. 172 Ginckle, general, 216 Girl of extraordinary fize 263 Glafs 204 Glenco maflacre 218 Glocefter, duke of, 221 Glogaw taken 243 Goodyer, Sir John Dinely 243 Gordon, capt. 285 Gore, Mary, aged 145 years Goree taken 268 Gortz, Baron, 232 Grafton, duke of, 216 Granby, marquis, 271, 288 Gray, Mrs. deaf and dumb 288 Graydon, admiral, 222 Green, capt. ib. Greenwich Hofpital 218 Gregg 226 Griffin, lord, 227 Groom Porters 251 Grot i us, Hugo 176 Grove, Abraham Le 220 Groves, colonel 238 Guaranty treaty 189 Grunter, John, died 301 Guardaloupe taken 268 Guildford 302 .Guineas from 1 1. is. 6d. to i 1. IS. od. 231 Guifcard 227 -Gun-powder 268. Plot 172 Gurny, Sir Richard 1 84 Gyl- I N Gyllembery, count 231 H. Habeas corpus aft 207 Hackney Maids 308 Haidock 175 Hail 255, 257 Halifax, lord 221 Hall, juftice 230 Hambden, colonel 185 Hamilton, duke of, 191,288 Hamilton, general 214 Hamilton, Francis, Efqj 254 Hammond, Dr. 198 Hanover, fucceflion-a£l 221, 226, 236 Harcourt, prince 186 Harley, Sir Robert 228 Harrington, Sir John 280,285 Harrifon, Mr. John 229, 280 Hartford, marquis 186 Harvey, phyfician 175 Hat 238 Havanna 255, taken 274 Hawke, admiral 248, 269 Hawthorne, Mr. John 282 Hearth-money 215 Heath's, Mrs. tryal 249 Helena, St. ifland of 193 Hemp. duty free 219 Henrietta, princefs 186, 203 Henry IV. king of France, ftabbed 173 Henry, eldeft fon of kin^ James I. 174 Henry Benedift 235 Herring, Mrs. 306 Herrings, Scotland 258. Fifh- ery 208, 314 Hibernian hofpital built foi children of foldiers 281 High court of juftice pretent'- ed 191 Hoadly, primate 252 Hochftet, battle 223 Hogan, galloping 217 Hoggs 303 Hogue, Le battle 217 Hglborn-ftreet, bur.it 193 D X. Holland, builds looofliipsiyi, 292. Hollander 171, 173, 192 Holmes, Sir Robert 201 Holmlby Houfe 190 Holltein, prince 24.5 Hops 291. For duty 297 Horn, Palatine hiftory 204 Home, Andrew William, El'q; 269 Hofpital, new, Meath 286 New Blue-coat 29S Hotham, Sir John 187 Hudfon's Bay 228 Hume, earl of, 276 Hungary, king of, 212. Queea of, 245 Hunt, Edw^ard, alderman 259 Hurricane 305 Hufiey, Edward, Efq; 251 Hyde, Anne 204 I. Jamaica 196, 248, and Domi- nica declared free 280 James I. 171, 174, 175, 177 James II. 180, 198, 205, 207, 210, 21 1, 213, 214, 221. Queen of the late, 232 James, prince of Wales, born 212 Sr. James's, coronation of, 279 Janfonius Apoftolic 195 Japan difcovered 173 J eh an Guir, emperor 192 Jenkins, judge 190 Jephfon 200 Jerfey planted 199 Jefuits 212. Loyala 176. Popes 180, in France 278 Jewels 305* 3'^ Jews recalled 196 Imclair, William, Efq; 294 Indigo 253 fnduftry-houfe 315 Infirmary rebuilt 237. Chari- table 243 fngoldlby, general 229 Inundation, Rome 189. Ire- land 212. BerkfKire 277- X 2 Hamburgh 3^4 N D Hamburgh 291 Intereft 177, 186, 198, 205, 223, 229 Tnvafion plot 218 Jones, Inigo 1 76. Jones, death of, 193 John, St. taken 274 John, St. granted to lord Eg- mont 277 John's, St. Church 309 Johnfon, Julian 21 1 Johnfton, general 264 Jolly, capt. 249 Jones, Mifs, murder of, 291 Jofeph of Auftria, 277 Ireland, 172, 174, 177, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 283, 299. Countries of, 173. Mi- litary exports of, 178. Broils, 180. Rolls of, 182. Battles of countries. Eftates, 183, 184. Roman Catholicks of, 189. Cattle 200. Mutiny 201. Forces 214. King- dom of, 239. Famine 249. Coafts of, 256. Horfes 259. Current fpecie 263. Capital of 279 Treton, general 193,194 199 Irifli 174, t84, 185, 188, 201, 21^. Forces 208. Peace 189. Officers 217. Incor- porated 239. Bottles 254. Salt, duty free 267, 275. Summoned 199 Iron 171, 229 Ifaacfon, Henry, hiftory 179 Ifis, Oxford 188 Iflands, Summer 174 Ifpahan, city of, 234 Italian kingdom 281 Ivan, prince of Ruflia 278 Juxton, primate 200 K. Keating, Maurice, Efq; tried 251 Keenan, Rev. Daniel 252 Keith, Mrs. died 296 Kelly, George 235 Kelly, Jofeph, Efq; 260 Kemifh, Sir Nicholas 190 Kenmure, vifcount 230 Ker Caftle 190 Kew Bridge, built 268 Kildare, earl of, married 253. Marquis of, created duke of Leinfter 281 Kildare, marquis of, break- faft 283 Kilkenny 223 Killing, no murder 197 Kilmainham Commons, men killed 253 Kilmarnock, earl of, 252 King, Dr. archbifliop of Dub- lin 238 Kingfale goal burnt 254 Kirby and Wade fliot 232 Knaveton, Daniel, hanged 186 Knockraofs, battle of, 189 Knox, Mifs, fhot 273 Kouli-Kan, Thomas 244, 250, 259 Lacquer 180 Ladies 299. T\\-o manied 292 Ladlow made commander 194 Lake, Sir John, admiral 2n, 222, 223, 225, 233 Lally, count, beheaded, 281 Lambert, Sir Robert, 175 Land -Tax 196. Excife 186 Landau 223, 228 Langhorn, counfellor 207 Langley wood 316 Larentus Villa 188 Laud, archb. of Cant. 187 Laudable 278 Lawler, Robert 172 Layer, Chriftopher, counfellor 235 Lazer's-Hill chapel 260, 261 . Holpital 262 Ledbury fight 187 Le-Eftrange, Sir Roger 224 Legat, bifhop »7+ Legge, I N E Le^gc, Mr. 266 Leinrter, duke of, died 309 Lepion rode 172 Leflie, Sir George 191 Letters, franking of, 277 Lewis XIJI. 185 Lewis XIV. 182, 1S5, 198, 233 Lewis XV. 312 Leyre, council 235 Licenfed 1 76 Liege, battle 252 Lightning 301, 308. Naples 294. France 295 Lilburn, Colonel 195 Limerick 184, 217, 218, 244 Lindfey, Earl of 181 Lineal 242, 243 Linen-Hall built 237 Linen 202, 203, 211, 271, Irifh 243, Britifh 23!, 251, Scotland 251, 279, 262, Dutyfree 219. Scarves 238, Export of, 288, 299, 305. Lipfius Lilburn, lord Lifle taken Liturgy at Edinburgh X, 325; 172 217 225 181, 190 281 215 226 Liverpool, port of, Lloyd, Colonel, Locke, John Efq; 205 Locker, a leveller, fhot 190 Locufts, number of, 255, 295 Loftus, capt. 251 Logg's town deftroyed 264 Logwood 200 Londorijcity of,i 80,256. Bridge 181. Miles of, 182. Pay 185. Bullocks 202. Cattle killed 227. Increafe of the inha- bitants of, 273. Sickly 239. Clergy of, 278. For cat- tle 282, 31 1, 313. Londonderry-Abby, 172, gates of, 213, 214. Longrin, John 245 Lords and commons i85.Houle of 191 Lorrain, Prince of, 2|6 Lovat, lord 253 Lqv^, Rev. Chrirtophcr 194 Louilbourg, harbour of, 2«;7 Lowofchuts, battle 266 Lowther, Sir James 300 Lowther, Dr. 309 Lucas, Sir Charles 191 Lucas, Dr. Charles 258 St. Lucia, St. Granadc, fur- rendered 274 Luteftrings 211 Lutterel, Colonel 215 Lmterel, Henry 232 Lutzein, battle 180 Lying-iu Hofpital 249, 261 Lynch, Mr. 24.4 Lytchficld forces 185 Lyton, or Church-Layton, de- ftroyed 194 M Mc Cabe, the robber 217 Mc Callan, David 250 Mc Finley, Charles, Efq; 300 Mc Quire, Lord 183, 187 Mc'Kearty, major gen. 214,215 McMahon, Lord 187 Macklesfield, earl of 23?: Madrafs 268 Madrid, a great riot 280 Meaftricht battle 253 Magazine, Park 240 Magna Charta 214 Male child 245 Malone, Richard 249 Malplaquet, battle of Taniers, 226 Maidens 308. Marriage por- tion to, 316 Man, 24 pounds 242 Man, itle of, government 279 Manchefter, earl of, 186 Mantua, duke of, 178 Mar, earl of, 229,230 Marcelly, cornet 242 Mardeville, John, hanged 259 Mardike 197 Mare from Eaft-India to Eng- land 279 Marigalaiiie 126 I N D E Marigalante 2^8 Marine Nurfery 286 Marlborou-h, duke of, 193* 222, 228, 234, 268, 314. Dutchefs dowager ot 24.8 Marhon battle 186 Mortality 29-V' 295 Martinico takea 273 Mary II. 200, 213, zi4> 218 Mafl'aniello 1 89 jVIafley general i94 Mathews, admiral 247 Matilda, princefs 281 Mayo, lord, fliot i95 Mazarine, cardinal 185, i99 Menin taken 247 Mercer's Hofpital 240. Tryal 245 TVIervyn, Arthur, Efq; 254 Middleton, Sir Hugh 173 captain 245 Milan 239 Miliord Haven 267 Militia uQ. ^^6 Miller, Robert, Efq; killed 254 Mills, Saw I 80 Milton, John 173, i97. 205 Milton, Moubray battle 187 Minder., battle of, 268 Mingreiia and Georgia, people of, 280 Minifters 200 Minorca taken 226, 265 Montreal 271 Mill:, the printer 234 Mohawks 228 Monun, lord 2 28 Moles, Sunderconib 197 fvlolyneux, William 196, 220 Mcnk, colonel, } 90, 198, 201 General 203 Monmouth, duke of, 210 Monopolies 177 Mons taken 226 Montcalm de, was killed 269 Mcntfcrrat 179 Montrofe, Marquis i85, 187, ;• 192 Mooney, captaiu 239 Moore, Mr. 312 Morgan, Thomas, Efq; re- corder 25^ Mofcow palace 263 Mulberry tree i73 Mule, a male elk 284 Munich, count 241 Munlbr, peace 190. Treaty 191 Murphy, Mifs Ann, married 30+ Murrel, Rev. Samuel 293 Murrogh, Mifs, married 301 Mufcovy plots 246 Mufcovites 219, Mudin 204 Muffin Man 3°? N Nabob defeated 266 Naliere, Peter Lewis, died 313 Naniz, edia of, 211 Navigation aft 198 Neill, O's, Sir Phelemy 183, 195 Nehhorp, hanged 211 Neptune, fhip, loft 2^6 Netterville, lord, tryed 247 Nevvcaftle colliery 196 Newgate, goal of, 258, 398 New ftile 262 Newton, S r Ifaac 184, 236 Niagara taken 209 Nithfdale, lord 2^Q Nivernois, duke of, 274 Normandy 2 18 Norris, admiral, 24I. Sir John 244 North-Wall 238. Glafs houfe 254 Norfolk, infurreiflion 193 Nova Scotia 176, 178, 228. Hoftilitics ' 256 Numur 218 O Oak 316 Gates, Dr. 237, 210, 225 Obelilk at the Boyne 241 Ochtred, William 199 Oftennial 284 Officers, number of, died 29' Old I N D X. 327 Old Mens Hofpital 210 Orange, prince of, 178, 162, 193, 204, 205, 206, 213. Orange, prince of, 240, 260, 280, 282 Oranges, lemons ic.8 Orang/eb, Mogul emperor 2c8 Orforil, lord 221 Orleans, dutchefs of, 203 Orleans, New 276 Ornior.d, duke of, 199, 200, 210, 21 J. Ormor.d bridge built aio Market 208 Ornifby, John 2-54 Orphan 218 Olman the emperor 176 Oilend 229. Taken z'o, 310 Ofwego taken Zj^ Overbury, Sir Thoma-, 175 Ox 300. Oxen 290 Oxburgh, colonel 230 Oxford, firft, fecond, 187, 188 Palatinate Ele£toral 177 Palatine families 226 Panteleon, Don 196 Paoli, general 284 Paper 21$. France 211. Po- litical 277 Papifts 187, 197, 239 Parahelii, 3 funs 187 Paris, Soul 241 Parirties tax . 219 Parke, captain 276 Parke, colonel 22.7 Parliament of England 183, 195,220. Longi82. Malml- bury 183. South-Sea; Porif- inouth, Dover, Dcclr.re, Wincheftcr, Sandon, Chi- chefter 184. Seal, Army, Taunton, Leeds, Halifax 185. Vow and covenant, Dennlngton, city of York 186. Shrewfbury propcfiti- ons 187. Eveiliam, Dc- vifes, Sherburne 1S8. Dirt- mouth, Pontefradl 188. Bel- vier, Exon, Chefler, Tor- rington 188. Denbigh 189. Kingly 192. Raife, refign 19;;. Rump 19';, 207. Years iCjS.Biilicpfgatc 204.Houfes or, 228. jew« 253. Long 207. Parliament of Ireland, 174, 175, 180, 181, 201, 214; 217, 218, 220, 259, 258, Irilii 180, 184, 199. Ait of, 214. Houfe ol, 237.' Dublin 180. Parliamentary 229. Amount of, 269 Parma, battle 24Q. Parr, old , . i8j; St. Patrick's fpire 2;;7, 259 St. Paul's church 206 Paul's fabrick 2i(j Paul, Rev. paVfon, haiiged 2^0. Payne, Ralph, Efq; 282 Peac zcl 266 2:2 202 Pen, Sir William PentlanJ, battle Peppard and Hoys 237 Perfia, kingdom of, 263 Perudilock, colonel 196 Peter the Great 220, 256 Peter HE emperor 273 Peters, wife of William, four fons 207 Petfrlliam, lord 255 Phenomtnon feen at Dunlear? 25o Philadelphia 208 Philip, Den Savoy z^.^ Philippine, Iflands, taken 274 Philips, John, poet 225 Philiplbourg taken 2|o Phoenix in the Park 25 ; Pickering, Thomas, hanged, 257 PignarelH, mcnfieur 294 Pilkington, Mrs. Lcctitia zSo Pitcairn, phyfician 225 Pitcher, i-najcr, fliot 190 Pitt FZS I D X. Pitt, Mr.- 256, 271, 272, 273, Pittsburgh town 268 Plague, London 171, 172,201. X>ub!in 171, 192, 246. Si- cily 24.6. Copenhagen 228. i^Jarfeilies 232. Aleppo 247. Conftantinople 201. Rufl^an 2^3. Mexico 299. Balfora and Bagdad 300, 303. Pleadings, law 238 Plijnket, Dr. Oliver, primate 2c8 Poe, cornet 236 Pojfoned 296, 303 Poi(ftiers 301 Poland, king of, 19;, Invades 196, eledtor of, 278, wound- ed 293 Pondicberry 272 Poor rates 210. Houfe 224 Pope, A'-'xander 248 |*ope'sBulI 185, 279 Pop.ili clergy 175, 177, 179, • 192, 20I, 207, 224. Popiili foldiers 213 Poreus, David 176 Porteous, captain 241 Porter, lord chancellor 219 Porto-Betio 242 Portfinouch fire 270 Portugal government 279 Poituguefe failor (tabbed 255 PoS: 18 s, penny 209, office 195, 196, ^199, 200. Poiaioes 315 Potter, Dr. John, Primate 254 Pov/der, Ball 241, Plot 172, 192 Poyer, colonel, fliot 193 Pragne, peace iSi . Befieged 245. Taken 247, 294 Prelton-Pans, battle 229, z^o Prefton, Martha, died 284 Pretender 212,228, 230,231, 2jO Prideaux, billiop of Worcefter, 193 pnncefs, royal, young 316 prifon, New 295 prior, Mathew, poet 234 Proclamation .472, 217, 22^, 23:?, 250, 281 Proportion of people 211 • Protcftants,mafl"^cre 182, 183, ' Fly to Dublin 187,212.226, ^35» 239. French into Eng- : land 2 14. Five, Ireland 215. .Number of, 244, JubiUe ■ ^ 175 Priiflla, ducal 221, Queen of, -251. King of, 265, 266a. -:^§j, 271, PiufTians 245. Majefty 266, Peace 276, 298, 309. Pultowa, battle 226 Purcel, Henry, mufician 218 Putney built 238 Pyrenee, treaty 498 Quakers 1925, 233 Quarter SeiTions, 248 Quebec taken by Gen. Wolfe 268 Queen's bridge built 277 Queen, diamonds worn by 316 R Rain, the Great 212, ^48, 26r Raleigh, Sir Walter, 171, 176 Ratclifte, Charles, Efq; 25a Rathbone, &c. hanged 201 Raihmines battle 192 R^ts from Norway, to Ireland 235 Ravillac 173 Reading in Berks, Michaelmas Term 177. Hilary Term 187 Rebellions m Ireland 171, 182, 18?. Bohemia, Auftria 176. Trial 195. Tyrone 172. S<;otland 229 Rebels hanged 352 Regicides 199 Reiily, Edmund, primate 202 Reinfchild Swedifh 225 Republics 1 N D Republics i93 Revenues, Ireland 182, 197 France 209, 309. Poft Of- fice 211, 220, 227, 234, by parliament 220, 271. Of excife in Great Britain 281 Rhe, ifleof, 178 Richlieu, de, duke of, 265,267 Richlieu, cardinal, 182, 183 Ring*s-End bridge built 238 Robberies, Street 238 Rochelle taken 179 Rochefter, bin\op of, 23$ Rochford, Mr. ftabb'd ^23 Roe, Mr, Painter 261 Rogers, James, fat 254 Rooke, Admiral 222 Roufi, capr. 257 Royal fociety 199, exchange 202. Family 285 Rufus, king William, 316 Rumbold, colonel, 210 Rumfgate, harbour of, 256 Rupert, prince, i88, 20I Ruffel, lord, 209 Ruflla, emprefs of, 273 Ruffians, 186, bloody 268 Ruth, St. monfieur 216 Ruyter, admiral, 194 Ryan, Mrs. 244 Rye Houfe plot 209 Ryfwick, treaty of, 219 S. Sacheverel, Rev. Dr. Henry, 226, 228 Sailer 3 1 1 Salifbury, biflicp of, 316. Plundered 181^ Salmon, Mr. William, died, 286 Sampfon, Patrick, 261 Santry, lord, tried 242 Sardinia, king of, 230, 25$ Saunders, William, 209 Saunders's coachman killed lawyer, capt. 274 Sa.xony, eleftor of, peace 276. Invaded 265 Scale boards 209 E 329 Scaliger, Jofeph, 173 Scandalous 179 Scarborough, 183 Scrr'et colour 584 Schomberg, general, 214, 215, 216 Scotland 191, 2?,). General aflembly of 194. Union with 225. Dcrwentwater eftate 240. Scots 182, 189. Army 189, 191,494. Here- ford 186. Parliament 191. Enter England 186. Fair- fax note. Dumber 195. VafTalage 196. Carlifle 188. Lands 232. Clanfliip of 252. Ellates 262. Covenanters of 207, 309 Sculcelus, Abraham, 178 Sea-fight 194, 20^ Seamen, w^ages of the, 178 Seignor, Grand, 222 Selden the antiquary 196 Senegal taken 267 Seville, treaty of, 237 Sexby, colonel, 197 Shakefpear, William 175 Shales, Johr, 215 Shee, Elizabeth, 240 Sheldon, archbilhop of Cant. 207 Sheep cheaper 307 Shepheard, John, 255 Shewell, Rev. Edward, 243 Ship largcft 1 18. Money 181. Loft 259, Ships 290 Shipping, number of, 237 Shovel, Sir Cloudfly, 215, 22<; Shrewfbury, duke of, 22? Shrewlbury, dutchefs of, 232 SJcilly, ifland of, 240 Sidley, Mrs. Catherine, 212 Sidney, Algernon, 209 Silk 176, 200, 232, 234, 238, 268. Fabrics 2ti. Worms 173,221. BlackizS. Sil- ken 234. Silks 280. Ma- nu^'aflures of Ireland 308 Skelton, Rev. Mr. Philip, 311 Sligo, taken 184, befieged 188 Smith, 33© I N Smith, Jane, delivered of 4 fons 260 Smith, Mrs. 4 fons 285 Smithfield, 175, 299, 304 Smock- Alley play houfe fell 204 Smyth, John, efq. 273 Snow, the great, 248 Sobieflci, princefs, 222, 240. Solicitor general, 178 Solms, count, 216 Solemn league 199 Sovereign, royal, 181 South fea, 227 Spalato archbifhop 175 Spaniards 173, 176, 178. Scotland 232, invade 24$- Spanifh 213, deftruQion of 17$, fleet filver 181. Gold lovi^ered 260 Spring, Mr. 245 Stadt-houfe, at Amfterdam, 192, 196 Stafford, lord, 208 Staniflaus, king, 206, 223,239 Stephen college 208 Stephens, Mr. John, 244 Stephens, Walter, efq. 251 Stephens's hofpital 233 Stevi'ard, lord John, 187 Stock brokers, rife of, 219 Stocking 171 Stoe hiftory 182 Stone, primate, 253 278. Storm, the great, 223, 242, 246, 257, 261 Stralbourg taken 208 Strathmore, earl of, 282 Struenfee and Brandt, counts, 295 Sugar 198, 253. Taxed 210 Suns three in England 208 Superb man of war 244 Supplies, amount of, 296 Supreme authority vote 19^ Surry petitioners 190 Sweden, king of, 179, 180. Swedes 189. Fleet 231- M?niifa6tures 242 Swift, Rev. Dr. Jor:athan, 20-i. ► E X. 250, 257, 258. Sykes, Mr. Arnold, of London 278 Talbot, Peter, archbifKop of Dublin 207 Talbot, capt. 250 Tallow duty free 268 Tanner, Rev. Mr. 243 Tapeftry 176 Taylor, biftiop of Downe 202 Tench, Mr. Andrew, 260 Teft a£l 205 Thames river 196, 209, 278. Frozen 231 St. Thomas's church 267 Thomond, earl of, 243 Thompfon's plot 200 Thread 219 Thuanus, the hiftorian 175 Thunder Dublin 23,2. Wick- low 248. England 255. Milford 296 Thurot, monlleur, lands at Carrickfergus 270 Ticonderoga taken 269 Tide, high, 203, 248 Tillotfon, Rev. Dr. John, Pri- mate 218. Tilly, count, 178, 179. Timber, quantity of, 295 Tinning of iron 208 Tobacco taxed 210. Excife. 239. Duty 253 Tobago, evacuation of, 256 Tobago, ifle of, 205 Tomline, and Challoner 185 Tooth elephants 262 Tournay taken 226. Trade of England, 174, 210. India 197. Balance of 202, 229. Greenland 217. Com- miflioners of 219. African 220. Afriento258, (tradef- man) 311 Trent, capt. 264 Trinity college 180, 220, 227. Library 239. Printing 240. Steeple I N D Steeple built 241, rebuilt 263, 268. Provoft of, 273 Triple league 202 Trump, Admiral, 194, 195. Turenne, dc, marflial, 206 Turkifh fleet 193, 196. Arm;' 209, 212. Turks 212, 229,240. Peace 172. War 208. Truce 208 Turnpike 200 Tufcany, prince, 203, 2^8 Twynn the printer 200 Tyrconnel, earl of, 211,213. Tyber, a filver ftatue 282 Tyrone 1 7 1 V. Val battle 253 Vane, Sir Henry 200 Venice port 241 Venners infurreftion 199 Vefuvius 198 Vefpers, fatal, 167 Vefuvius, mount 197 Vienna befieged 209. Treaty 1236, 314 Villa, battle of, 227 Villars, lord Francis, 190 Villars, marlhal, 229, 240. Villiers de, monfieur, 261 Virginia, 173, 229. Ury and Spolfwood,"; (colo- nels) 192 Uilier, Dr. James, primate, 176, 177, 181, 196 Uxbridge treaty 187 W. Wadham college 174 Waite, Mr. Cafliier, 246 Wales, Frederic Lewis prince of 238, 241, 256, 261. Wales, princefs of, 2O1 Walker, Rev. Mr. 215 Wall, Patrick, hanged 233 Wailis, count, 242 Walpole, Sir Robert, 2o5, 225, 228, 229, 231, 245, E X. Sit Walfli, capt. 218 Wallh, Mrs. Elizabeth, 248 Walton, Brian, bifhop of Chefter 199 St. Werburgh's church bells 255. Fire 264. Steeple 284 Wards, court of, 189 Warren, admiral 253 Warrefton, laird, hanged 230 Wafliington, colonel, 262, 264 Watches, wheels of, 185, in- vented 197 Water kept 238, 285 Watfon, Clark, and Brook hanged 171 Watfon, Admiral, 263, 266. Wethers fold 262 Wertenberg, duke of, 215 Weftminfter bridge 241 , built 241 , in the v/orld 259 Whale fifhing 174, 205, 232, 237,239, 241, 246, 251, 290 Wheat Oats duty tree for a li- mited 281 White-Bread hanged 207 Whitehall burnt 220 Whitehaven man of war 253 Wickfield fight 184 Wicklow town goal 246 Wild, Dr. 196 Wild, Jonathan, 236 Wilkes, John, efq; member of parliament 276 Wilkinfon, Mr. Abraham 247 William III. 213, 215, 216, 217, 220, 221. William packet boat loft 219 Williams, a prelate 190 Wilmanftrand, battle 243 Wind m Scotland 298 Windbank, colonel, iliot 187 Wine excife 239 Wire mill 230 Wits, de 234 Wolfe, general, epitaph 297 Woman died fuddenly 2^.4. Delivered of two boys and one girl 214, of a female child 254 VVood, William, 235 Wool ^ 33* I N D Wool 174, 2oi, 220, 262. Duty free 219. Duty 241. Woollen 176, 177, 188, 201, 2o2, 220, 221, 239, 241. Worfted manufadlu- rers 192 Wren, Matthew, 202 Z X. Wyndhara, Sir William, 229 Wynn, Sir Watkin Williams, 286 York, duke of, 180, 190, 207, 282, Yarn, dutyfree 219 ^1 THE THE TABLET OF MEMORY; OR, THE HISTORIAN'S ASSISTANT. SHEWING EVERY REMARKABLE EVENT I N H I S T O R Y J MORE PARTICULARLY THAT OF ENGLAND. ALPHABETICALLY DIGESTED. WITH THEIR DATES. TOCBTHER WITH A FULL AND EXACT CHRONOLOGY OF THE MOST EMINENT MEN IN ALL AGES OF THE WORLD, WITH SEVERAL USEFUL LISTS AND OCCU'RRENCES, That could not befo well ranged alphabetically. THE TABLET O F M E M O R Y I OR, THE HISTORIAN'S ASSISTANT. ABBIES, difToIution of, by king Henry VIII. to the value of 2,853,000!. 1540. Abbingdon-Abbey, built by Etholwold, bifhop of Sherborn, 958- Abbot, archbifliop of Canterbury, by accident killed his park- keeper, January 20, 1621, died Auguft 3, 1633, aged 71. Abdalla, fon of Omar, flourifKed 625. Aberconway Caftle, in Carnarvonfhire, built, 1284. Acapulco fhip, taken by admiral Anfon, June 20, 1743- Academy of fciences eftablifhed in France, 1666 ; ditto of architecture, 1671 ; ditto, Royal, at Nifmes, 1682. Academy of painting, &c. in London, incorporated, 1768. A '37i> 1401, 1577, 1618, 1647, 1652, 1661, 1664, 1665, 1666, 1667, two 1680, 1744, 1769' '77°' ^^• Commines, philolcpher of Flanders, died I $09. Common-pleas, court of, eftablifhed 1215. Commonwealth of England eftablifhed 1649; abolifhed 1660. Compafs, feaman's, invented 1300. Conca, Sebaftian Italian painter, born 1676, died 1764. Conception of the Virgin, the feaft inftituted, 1387. Confirmation took place in the time of TertuUian. Confucius, the Chinefe philofopher born 551 before Chrift. Confecration of churches inftituted 153. Confpiracy at Lift)on by feveral of the nobility, who fhot the king, 1758. Conftantin, tyrant of Gaul, died 411. Conftantinople founded by the Argives 658 before Chrift j ta- ken by the Fren«h 1250 ; taken by Mahomet II. which put an end to the eaftern empire, which had fubfifted 1 123 years, H53-" ■ . ■. Cooper, Samuel painter of London, born 1609, died 1672. Copenhagen univerfity founded 1498, confiderably enlarged 1539 and 1569; the city burnt 1728, when 77 ftreets were deftroyed. Copernicus, of Thorn, Pruffia, died 1543, aged 60. Copes inftituted 256. Corbet, bifhop of Norwich, died 1635. Corfe-caftle, Dorfet, built before the conqueft. Corelli, the mufician, died 1733. Cork, in Ireland, built 1170. Cornwall, the firft duke of, 1337. Coronation chair and ftone brought from Scotland 1296. Coronation oath firft ufed in 979. Corpus Chrifti, the moveable feaft of, appointed 1263. Cotton, Sir Robert the antiquarian, diedi63i, aged 60. Cottonian library fettled for the public benefit 1701. Covent-garden built by the earl ofBedford 1633. Coventry-a6l pafl'ed 1699; abbey founded 1043 '> priory built 1333; made free of tythes 1052. Counties, England divided into 52, 896. County courts'firfterefted 896. Cracow univerfity* founded 700. Cranbourn monaftery, in DorfetHiire, built 930. Cranmer, archbifhop of Canterbury, burnt at Oxford, March 21, 1556. Cratinus, the comic poet, died 421 before Chrift. Creation of the world, October 13, 4004 before Chrift. Creation, THE TABLET OF MEMORY. 343 Creation, by letters patent, firft ufed by Edward III. 1344. Creed, the Lord's prayer, and commandments, tranflated into the Saxon language, 761. Creech, Rev. Thomas born 1659, deftroyed himfelf 1701. Crifp, Ednmnd of Bury, in Sulfolk, cut and mangled 1729. Cromartie, earl of, beheaded for treafon 1746. Cromwell, Oliver, born April 25, 1599, at Huntingdon, made a colonel 1643 ; went over to Ireland with his army, July, 1649; returned May 1650 ; made Protestor lor life, Dec. 12. 165^ ; was near being killed by falling from a coach-box, 0&. 1654 ; defied king, but refufed the title. May 8, 1657 ; died of the gout in his ftumach at Whitehall, Sept. 3, 1658, leaving his fon Richard his fuc- ceflbr. Cromwell, Richard, proclaimed Protestor, Sept. 3, 1658 ; depofed April 22, 1659; diedjulyi2, 1712, aged 89. Crook, Japhet, his ears cut off in the pillory for forgery. 1731. Crofs, theofChrill, found on Mount Calvary, 326. Croxall, Rev. Dr. Samuel, died 1751. Croyland monaftery built 716; abbey built 833 ; burnt by the Danes, and the Monks maffiicred at Peterborough, 868. Ctefias, the hiftorian, died about 384 before Chrilt. Cudworih, Rev. Ralph, born 1617, died 1688. Cumberland, William, duke of, youngeft fon of George II. died aged 45, Sept. 30, 1765. Curfew, bell eftablifhed by William the Conqueror, 1088, aboliflied 1 100. Curtius, Mart, rodeintoagulph at Rome 362 before Chrift. Cutters hanged for rioting, Dec. 1769. Cyprus taken from the Englifh 1 1 50. Cyril of Jerufalem flourifhed 412. D. Dancing by cinque paces introduced into England from Italy Damien attempted to alTafllnate the French king, Jan 5, 1757. Danchet, French poet, born 1671, died 1748. Danegelt, a land tax, firft .eftabliilied by Ethelred II. 1^302 j abolifhed by Stephen 11 36. Daniel, father French hiftorian, born 1649, died 1723. Dante, Italian poet, borni265, diedi32i. Dantzick taken by the Swedes 1734. Darnley, lord, married Mary, queenof Scots i 561 ; murdered by being blown up, Feb. 10, 1567. Dartford nunnery in Kent, founded 1355. Dartmouth burnt by the French 1377. Dauphin, the of France, murdered the duke of Burgundy, and was difmherired the crown, 1419. Daurat, French poet, born 1507, died 1588. David, king of Scotland, taken prifoner by the Englilli 1346 ; rcleafcd 344 THE TABLET OF MEMORY. releafed on paying aranfom of 100,000 marks 1357 ; vilited England, and died in London, Feb. 22, 1371. Davie?, Rev. Dr. John, born 1679, (ii^<^ 1732- Day, John, printer to queen Elizabeth and king James L the firft introducer of the Greek and Saxon charaflers into works priited in England, died 1584 Dear'h 1094 ; fo great in England and France, that a quarter of wheat was fold for alnioft aos. as much as 61. now, which v/as followed by a peftilential fever that carried off multitudes of pecple 1193, 1 194, 1 195, another 1222 ; ano- ther with a murrain, when wheat fold for 40s. a quarter, as much as 81. now, 1315 ; wheat fold for 3I. a bufhel, and the poor forced to eat horfe-flefli and dogs, 1316 : another great one, owing to the rainSj with a murrain, 1335 ; two others 1348 and 1353 ; again when bread was made in many places of fern-roots and ivy-berries, 1438. Decemviri, creation of, 450 before Chrift. Decker, Thomas, cotemporary with Ben Johnfon. Deerhain, Weft, monaftery, in Norfolk, built 1196. Dselius, the architeft, flourifhed 987 before Chrift. Delphos, temple of burnt 543 betcre Chrift. Denmark embraced Chriftianity, and bifhops appointed, 940 ; united with Norway 141 2 ; crown made hereditary, when they made a refignation of their freedom, 1660 ; revolution at Jan. 17, 1772. Dennis, order of St. inftituted in France 1267. Dennis, St. monaftery, in Winchefter, founded 984. Derham, Rev. Dr. William, born 1657, died April 1735. Dering, Sir Cholraely, killed in a duel with Mr. Thornhill, May 9, 1711. Devifes caftle built 11 36. DeyofTunis, was firft appointed 1570. Diflator the firft at Rome 497 before Chrift. Dleu et men droit, firft ufed as a motto by Richard I. on a vic- tory over the French 1 193. Dieppe, laid in aflies by the Englifti, July 14, 1694. Digby, SirEverard, born 1581 j hanged with other confpira- tors in the powder plot January 30, 1606. Difpenfations firft granted by the pope 1200. Divorce, the firft, at Rome, 234 before Chrift. Dobfon, William, portrait painter of London, born 1610, died 1647. Doflor, thedegreeof, firft given in England, 1207. Doddridge, Dr. died OfEtober 26, 1731, aged 50. Dominicans, their order founded, 1215. Domingo, St. Ifle of, difcovered 1494. Domus-Dei, houfe for the Templars, founded at Dover 1240^ Doncafter priory, in Yorkfliire, built 1355. Doomefday book began in 1060, finilTied 1085. Dorcheftcr in Oxfordfliire, burnt Auguft 7, 1613. Dort, THE TABLET OF MEMORY. 345 Dort, fea broke in at, drowned 100,000 people, April 17, 1446; Synod of, began November 3, 1618 ; ended April 19, 1619. Dover of Caftile, order of the knights of the, inftituted 1379. Dover priory built 1 1 1 3. Dragon, order of the knights of the, inftituted 1418. Drefden univerfity founded 1694 Druids delliroyed by command of Nero, 60. Drummond, William the poet, born 1585, died 1649. Drunkennefs forbidden by the canon-law to the clergy, 741. Duck, Revd. Stephen, drowned himfelf, 1756. D'Udine, the reviver of ftucco-work, born 1494, died 1564. Dudley, Edmund beheaded on Tower-Hill, Auguft 28, 1510, aged 48. Dudley, lord Guildford, duke of Northumberland, beheaded on Tower-Hill, Feb. 12, 1554. Duelling, in civil matters, forbidden in France, 1305 ; intro- duced into England 1587. Dunkirk taken by the Englifh, June 24, 1658 ; fold to the French for "Joo.oool. October 17, 1662; delivered up to the Engliila July 7, 1712. Dunmow, priory, in Effex, founded 11 11. Dunbar built, 11 87 before Chrift. Durer, Albert, German painter, author, and inventor of en- graving on wood, born 1471, died 1528. Durham, made a bifhop's fee, 994; monaftery built, 1073; cathedral built, 1093. Dutch, the', became a free people, 161 5. Eachard, Revd. Laurence, the hiftorian, born about 167 1, died 1730. Earl-marfhal, the firft. 1383, in the perfon of Thomas, lord Mowbray, earl of Nottingham, who, in 1397 was created the firft duke of Norfolk. Earthen veflels firft made by the Romans, 17 15 before Chrift. Edgar began his reign, 959; obliged fix of his tributary princes to row him in a barge on the river, Dec. 961 ; deftroyed the wolves, vvith which the country was over-run, by demanding of the Welch a yearly tribute of wolves heads: Crowned at Axminftcr, 973 j died 975, aged 32; and was fucceeded by his fon, Eaward the nianyr. Edinburgh taken by the Englilli 1296, burnt 1544. Edward II. married the widow of Sigefer, a Danuh nobleman, who was put to death in 1015 ; began his reign 1016, aged 27 ; was murdered at Oxford 1017, and was fucceeded by Canute. Edmund's St. Bury monaftery founded 1020. Edward the marcyr began his rc!gn975, aged 19; ftabbed bv order of his ftep-mother, Ehrjda, whom he called to fee, 979. and 346 THE TABLET OF MEMORY. 979, and was fucceeded by his brother-in-law, Ethelred II. F.dyftone light-houfe, built in 1696; blown down in 1703; burnt 1759 ; re-built Oftober 1759. Eginhart, the hiftorian, died 842. ^Sypf> the kingdom of, began under Mifraim, the fon of Ham, the fecond fon of Noah, 2188 before Chrift, and lafted 1663 years; reduced to a province, 31 j conquered by the Turks I 517. Their canicular year began July 20. Eleanor, Edward the firft's queen, died of a fever, on her journey to Scotland, at Herdby, in Lincoln/hire, 1290; and was buried at Weftminfter. Elephant, order of the knights of the, inftituted 1478. Eleufinian myfteries, firft introduced at Athens, by Eumolpus, 1356 before Chrift. Ella, came over from Germany, and eftabliflied the kingdom of South-Saxons 477, was the firft king of SufTex, died 514. Elfineur, in Denmark, built two years after Chrift. Ely cathedral built 506 ; bifhoprick founded, 1008. Elzevirs, Dutch printers j Lewis began to be famous i 595 ; Daniel died 1681. Eminence, the title of, firft given to the cardinals by pope Urban VIII. 1644. Empfon beheaded on Tower-Hill, Aug. 28, 1510. Eneas, the Trojan general, died 1177 before Chrift. Engraving on copper invented 1481. Epimethius, the inventer of earthen veflels, died 715 before Chrift. Epiphany, the feaft of, inftituted 813. Epiphanius, born in Paleftine, about 332 ; died about 403. Epifcopacy abolifhed in Scotland 1638. Era, of Nabonazar 747 before Chrift. Philippic of death of Alexander, 324 before Chrift. Of contrafts, or Seleucidae, 312 before Chrift. The Chriftian, 4 after Chrift. Of Dio- clefian, or Era of martyrs, 2S4. Of Hegira, or flight of Mahomet, 622. Perfian, or of Yezdagird, 632. Efchylus, the poet, died 456 before Chrift, aged 69. Efop died 556 before Chrift. Eftrees,' cardinal de, died 1714. Ethelbert, St. of Kent, began his reign 561 ; was their firft chriftian king, and founder of St. Paul's in London ; died 617, and was fucceeded by Edbald. Eufden, Revd. Laurence, died September 27, 1730. Euftatia, ifland of, taken by the Englifh, 1691. Evagoras, king of Cyprus, murdered by Nicocles the eunuch, 373 before Chrift. Evremond, St. died Sept. 9, 1703, aged 90. Exchange, Royal, firft finifhed at the expence of Sir Thomas Grefliam, i 569 ; called Royal, by queen Elizabeth, Jan. 29, 1571 ; burnt 1666, repaired, finifhed, and opened Sept. 28, 1769. Exchequer, THE TABLET OF MEMORY. 347 Exchequer, court of, inftituted 1704; fliut up 1672. Excifc-office formed 1643 ; houfe built in Broad-Street, 1772. Excife fcheme defeated, April Ji, i733- Exeter taken by Sweyn, king of Denmark, and deftroyed 1003 j Leofric, firft bifhop of, 1057 ; cathedral built 1060 ; city rebelled 1067, and reduced by king William the conqueror. The infirmary built 1 741. Exeter, marquis of, lord Montague, and Sir Nicholas Carew, beheaded, Dec. 31, 1558. Expedition, grand lecret, Sept. '757. F. Fairfax, Edward, the poet, lived in the reign of James I. Falkland, Lucius, lord, born 1610, killed at the battle of Newbury, Sept. 1643. Fanfhaw, Sir Richard, born 1607, died at Madrid, 1666. Fauft or Fauftus, John, one of the candidates for the f^iven- tion of printing, died about 1466. Faux, Guy, &c. executed in parliament-yard, Jan. 31, 1606; for the gun-powder plot. Fenoillet, bifhop of Montpelier, 1700. Fenwick, Sir John, beheaded on Tower-Hill, early in 1697. Ferrar, bilhop of St. David's, burnt at Cacrmarthen, March 30. 1555- ^ ^ ^ Ferrers, Laurence, earl of, hanged at Tyburn, for murder. May 5, 1760. Feudal law mtroduced 1070. Feverfliam-abbey, founded by king Stephen, 1154- Fiddes, Rev. Dr. Richard, born 1671, died 1725. Figures in arithmetic introduced into Europe, 941. Finchale priory, near Durham, founded 11 58. Firft-fruits and tenths firft collefted in England, 13 16; granted by queen Anne for the relief of the poor clergy, Feb. 7, Fitzgerald, with five of his uncles, Irifh rebels, executed at Tyburn, Feb. 3, 1537. Fitzherbert, Anth. lord chief juftice, died 1538. Flaminius, a Latin poet, born in Italy, 1600. Flamftead, John, aftronomer, born j 646, died 17 19. Fleet-market opened, Sept. 30, 1737. Flemings expelled England, 1493. Fletcher, John, dramatic writer, born 1576, died 1625. Florida difcovered, by Cabot, in 1512; taken by the Englifh Folkes, Martin, antiquarian, died 1754, aged 64. Food, animal, permitted by God for man's ufe, 21 1:7 before Chrift. Ford, John, dramatic writer, died about 1561. Foreft, New, made 1081. Forgery firft punifhed with death in England, 1731. Forreft, 548 THE TABLET OF MEMORY. Forreft, John, burnt in Smithfield, for denying the king's fu- premacy, May 22, 1538, aged 42. Fort-William taken by the Englifh 1757. Fortefcue, Sir John, made lord-chancellor about 1461. Folter, Samuel, the mathematician, died 1652. Fofter, Dr. James, anabaptift preacher, born 1696, died 1753. Fotheringhay monaftery and caftle, in Northamptonfhire, built 1408. Fouquier, James, Flemifh painter, flourifhed in the beginning of the 17th century. Fox, John, martyrologift, born 1517, died 1587. Fox, Gecrge, founder of the quakers, appeared in 1655. Francifcarjs, order of, founded 1206. French tongue abolifhed in the Englifh courts of juftice, 136^. Friend Dr. John, born 1675, ^^^^ 1728. Frobiflier, Martin, admiral, died 1594. Fryth, John, burnt for herefy in Smithfield, July 4, 1533. Fulh'Ai bridge built, 1727. Fuller, Revd. Dr. Thomas, born 1608, died 1661. Furneffe Abbey, in Lancafhire, founded by king Stephen, 1 1 50. G. Gaddi, Taddeo, painter at Florence, builder of their famous bridge, born J300, died 1350. Gaddi, a Florentine painter, born 1239, died 1312; the re- ftorer of Mofaic in Italy. Gale, Revd. Dr. Thomas, born 1636, died 1702. Gale, Revd. Dr. John, born 1680, died 1721. Gallies firft ufed with three rowers to each oar, 786 before Chrift. They came from Corinth. Gamaliel, chief of the fynagogue, died in 53. Game aft pafled 1753. Gardening introduced into England from the Netherlands, from whence vegetables were imported till 1509. Gafcoigne, Sir William, lord chief jullice of the King's Bench, who committed Henry prince of Wales into cuftody for affauliing him on the bench, 1412. Gaunt, John of, duke of Lancafter, married the daughter of king of Caftile, and took the title of king thereof, 1371. Gavellon, Peter, favourite of Edward II. murdered July i, Geniiniani, the mufician, died 1762, aged 96. Geneva, the republic of, founded 15 18. Genner, order of the knights of, inftituted in Spain 780. Genoa, the republic of, inftituted 63 before Chrift ; taken by • the Auftrians, Dec. 8, 1746. Gcntilis, Albericus, the civilian, born in Italy 1551, died 161 1. George, St. the tutelar faint of England, fufFered martyrdom, under the emperor Dioclefian. The order of knighthood inftituted in England 1349; inAuftria, 1472. Germanicus, THE T ABLET OF MEMORY. 349 Germanicus, the corpfe of, brought to Rome, and received with great marks of grief, 20. Germany, Charles, emperor of, vifited England, May 25, 1520. German empire founded 813. The emperor firft eleded king of the Romans in 1056. Gervafe of Canterbury, the hiftorlan, wrote in 1202. Gibraltar taken by Sir George Rooke July 24, 1704; befieged by the Spaniards Feb. 27, 1727; May 1731, nearly def- troyedby a ftorm Feb. 13, 1766. Gideon Sampfcn, the rich Jew died 1762. Gildas, the hiftorian, born 493, died 580. Ginaftpafled, July 24, 1737- Gladiators, the combats of them abolifhed 325. Gladiators, the order of, inftituted in Livonia, 1204. Glafgow, univerfity founded 1454- Glafs invented in England by Benaltia Monk 664. Giaftenbury abbey built 503, repaired 689. Glauber, the chymift died i 500. Gloucefter abbey founded 760 ; cathedral built 1055 ; burnt 1 102 ; again 1 122. Gloucefter, duke of, uncle to Richard IL fmothercd betweeo two feather-beds, Feb. 28, 1397. Gloucefter, Humphry, duke of, fourth fon of Edward IV. murdered and buried at St. Alban's, 1447. Gloucefter, Richard, duke of, brother to Edward IV. murder- ed Edward, prince of Wales, 1471 ; drowned the duke of Clarence, fecond fon to Edward IV. in a butt of Malmfey wine, 1748 J made prote£lor of England 1483 ; eleded king June 20, following, vide Richard III. Gloria Patri, the doxology of, added to the end of the pfalms, 382. Godeau, bifhop Anthony, French writer, born 1603, died 1672. Godfathers and godmothers firft appointed at baptifm 153. Godfrey, Sir Edmondbury, an adive juftice of the peace againft papifts, murdered, 0<5tober 17, 1678. Godftow nunnery, in Oxfordlliire, built, 1215. Godv/in, earl of Kent, invaded England 1052; tried for the murder of Alfred the fame year, and bought his pardon ; choaked in protefting his innocence at table with the king Godwin's fands, on the coaft of Kent, occafioned by an inun- dation of the fea 1 100. Gold firft coined in England 1344. Golden Fleece, order of the knights of the, inftituted in Bur- gundy 1429. Golden fliield and thiftle, order of the knights of the inftituted in Bourbon 1370. Goltius, Henry, the engraver, born 1558, died i5!7. Good Hope, cape of, difcovered by the Portuguefe, 1487. Gower, Sir John, firft Englifh poet, died 1402. Grain, 350 THE TABLET OF MEMORY. Grain, John, French hiftorian, born 156$, died July 1745, Grammarians, firft regular ones, flouriihed 276 before Chrift. Granada recovered by the Spaniards from the Moors 1501 j univerfity founded 1517- Grandier, burnt at Loudun in France for witchcraft 1634. Gratius, cotemporary with Ovid. Gravefend burnt 1727. Greatiakes, that healed by ftroking, born in Ireland 1629, died after i666. Greenland was difcovered iS9o« Gregory, St. died 270, after 30 years epifcopacy. Gregory, James, the mathematician, died 1675 aged 40. Grefham college founded by Sir Thomas Grefliam 1581, who died 1597 J which college was pulled down in 1770, and the excife-office built on the fpot 1772. Greville, Fulke, lord Brook, born 1554; killed by his fer- vant, Sept. 30, 1628. Grew,' Dr. Nehemiah, died 1711. Grey, Rev. Thomas, died July 30, 1771. Grierfon, Conftantia, of Ireland, died 1733, aged 27. Groats and half groats were the largeft filver coin 13$!. Gruter, Janus, the philofopher, born at Antwerp 1560, diedl627. Guards firft inftituted for the king's perfon i486. Guicciardini, Italian hiftorian, died 1540, aged 58. Guildhall, London, built 1410 ; burnt 1666 ; repaired 1669. Guineas went at the rate of 30s. 1695 ; reduced to 21s. 1717. Gunter, Rev. Edmund the mathematician, died 1626 ; aged 46. Guftavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, killed Nov. 16, 1633. Guttemberg, John, one of the candidates for the invention of printing at Mentz, in Germany, died 1467. Guy, Thomas, bookfeller, died Dec. 27, 1724, aged 79; and left 200,000!. for building an hofpital. Guyon, Mary, of France* the quietift, born 1648, died 1717, H. Hncket, William, the fanatic hanged July 28, 1592- Hackney- coaches firft ufed in London 1625 ; office eftabliflied, June 24, 1694 , office in Surry-Street burnt 1770. Haddington abbey built 1180. Haggai, the prophet, flourifhed 520 before Chrift. Hales, Rev. Stephen died January 4 1761. Half-pence and farthings firft coined by government Aug. l6, 1672. Hall, one of the murderers of the duke of Gloucefter, hanged at Tyburn, 1 399. Hallifax, Charles, earl of, born i66i, died 1715. Haman hanged by order of Ahafuerus 500 before Chrift. Hamel, John, French philofopher, born 1624, died 1706. Hammond, Mr. died 1743, aged 30. Hambden, born 1594, killed in battle June 24, 1643. Hanover, THE TABLET OF MEMORY. 351 Hanover, which had hiiherlo been but a village, obtained the privileges of a city 1178 ; made the 9th ekdlorate 1692 ; treaty with France, &c. 172$. Hanover, princefs Sophia of, mother to George I. died June 8. 1714, aged83. . ,. ^ , , Hanoverian troops arrived in England 1756. Hardwick earl of, Lord Chancellor, died in 1764, aged 73. Harley, Robert, earl of Oxford, born 1161, ftabbed at the council board by Guifcard, March 8, 171 1 ; died 1724. Harley, Edward, earl of Oxford, died 1755. Harifleur taken by the Englifli Sept. 18, 141 5. Harold IE began his reign 1066 ; defeated his brother Tofti, and the king of Norway, who had invaded his dominions, at Standford, Sept. 25, ditto; was killed by the Normans at the battle of Haftings, Oft. 14 following, and fucceedcd by William duke of Normandy, the conqueror. Harriot, the mathematician, died 1621, aged 61. Hartland monaftery, in Devonfliirc, built 121 1. Haftings burnt by the French 1377. Haftings, earl of Pembroke, died 1375. Haftings, lord, put to death in the tower, June 13, 1483. Hawes, Stephen, the poet, flourifhed 1506. Hayles monaftery, in Gloucefterfhire, built 1240. Hayward, Sir John, thehiftorian, died June 1627. Head, Richard, caft away at fea 1678. Hebrew points firll invented 475. Heftor, the Trojan general, died 1 184 before Chrift. Heliodorus flourifhed at the end of the fourth century. Hell-fire clubs fuppreffed by order of council, April 29, 1721. Henley, John, commenced orator, July 10, 1726. Henrietta, queen of Charles L died in France, Aug. 10, 1669. Henry IL grandfon of Henry I. began his reign 1 154, arrived in England December 8, and was, with his queen Eleanor, at London, crowned the loth ; crowned again at Lincoln 1 1 58; again at Worcefter 11 59; quelled the rebellion at Maine n66 ; had his fon Henry crowned king of England 1170; invaded Ireland and conquered it, 1172; did pe- nance at Becket's tomb, July 8, 1 1 74 ; took the king of Scot- land prifoner, and obliged him to give him up the indepen- cy of his crown 1175 ; named his Ton John, king of Ireland 1177; had, the fame year, a criminal amour with fair Rofamond, and with Alice of France ; loft his fon Henry, June II, 1183 ; had his fon Jeffrey, trodden under foot and killed in Smithfield 1 186 ; made a convention with Philip cf France to go to the holy war 1188 ; died with grief at the altar, curfing his fons, July 6, 11 88, aged 37 ; and was fucceeded by his third fon Richard I. Hepheftion, the Macedonian general, died 325 before Chrift. Heralds college inftituted 1340. Herbert, Rev. George, the poet, born i 593 ; died about 1635. Herculaneum firft fufFered by an earthquake Feb. 5, 63 ; totally 352 THE TABLET OF MEMORY, totally overwhelmed with Pompei'um, by an eruption of Mount Vefuvius, Nov. i, 79, in the firftyear of the emperor Titus. Heretics, thirty, came from Germany to England to propa- gate their opinions. They faid they were chriftians, but denied baptifm, the Lord's Supper, and matrimony ; for ■which they were condemned by a council of bifliops al Oxford, and delivered over to the fecular arm. According- ly they were marked in the forehead with a red hot iron, whipped and thruft out of doors naked, in the midft of win- ter ; where, none daring to relieve them, an order having been publlflied to the contrary, they died of hunger and cold 1 160. Hermione, Spanifli fhip, taken March 21, 1762. Herod began to reign in Judea 55 j put his wife Mariamne to death, and his mother-in-law Alexandria, 28 ; began to re- build the temple of Jerufalem 18 j his two fons put to death, by order of the Jewifh council 6 ; died Nov. 25, four be- fore Chrill. Herring, nrchbifliop of Canterbury, died 1757. Hertford rebuilt 913. Heffe, Landgrave of, vifited England 1611. Heffian troops arrived in England 1758. Heywood, Thomas, lived in the reigns of Elizabeth and- James I. Hicks, Rev. Dr. George, born 1642, died 1715. Hicks, William, Efq; who left 300I. per annum to the marine fociety, died 1763. Higham Ferrars monaftery built 1423. Hifpaniola difcovered in 1492. Hoadley, bifhop of Winchefter, died 1761. Holbein, Hans, the painter, born at Bafil 1458, died of the plague al London 1544. Holingflied, author of Chronology, died 1580. Holt, Lord Chief Juftice, died March 6, 1710, aged 67. Holy.Ghoft, defcent of, May 24, 33. Holy-water firft ufed in churches 120. Homilies drawn up by archbifliopCranmer 1547. Hondius, Dutch engraver, born 1573. Honiton, in Devonfhire, burnt 1765 to the amount of 140 hou fes. Hood Robin, and Little John, noted highwaymen in 1189. Hooper, biflicp of Glcucefter, burnt in Smithfield Feb. 4, 1555. Hopkins, bifhcp of Londonderry, born 1633, died 1690. Honox, Jeremiah, the aftrcnomer, born about 1619. Horfe-guards inftituted 1550. Hotman, Francis, the civilian, bom at Paris 1524; died i59o> Hotfpur, Henry Percy, killed July 22, 1403. Howard, Mr. Juftice, ftabbed in Weftminfter-hall, Nov. 21. 1640. Ho\*'ard, THE TABLET>OF MEMORY. 353 Howard, Sir Edward, attacked Prejeant, a French admiral off Brelt, and was defeated, xApi"il25> *5'3- Howe, lord vifcount, flain 1758, aged 34. Hudfcn's Bay difcovered by captain Hudfon l6io. Hugh de Beauvois, with 40,000 foreigners, coming to the af- fiftance of king John, periihed in a ftorm as he fet out from Calais, 1215. Huygens, Dutch aftronomcr, born 1629, died 1695. Hyde, earl of Clarendon, died 1675, aged 67. Hydraulic fire engines invented 1663. Hyginus, bifliop of Rome, who was the firft ftiled pope, fuf- fered martyrdom 158. I. Ich dien, the Bohemian motto, ufed by the prince of Wales af- ter the battle of Crefly 1346. Idolatry firfl: abolifhed from Kent, by Ercombert, who began his reign 640. Ignatius, made a bifhop, by St. Peter and Paul, died 107. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jefuits, born 1491 ; died 1556 ; canonized by Paul V. 1609. Ilium built 1359 before Chrift, 64 years before the voyage of the Argonauts. Image-worrtiip introduced into England 715. Impoftors. Two were crucified for giving out that they were both of them the Meffiah, or Chrift ; and two women were executed, the one for pretending to be the Virgin Mary, and the other Mary Magdalen,- 1221. Indies, Eaft, difcovered by the Portuguefe 1487; conquered la 1500, and fettled by them in 1506. The firft fettlement was Goa. The Englifli company eftabliflied 1600, their ftock confifting of 72,000!. they fitted out four fhips, and meeting with fuccefs, have continued ever fince. A rew company eftabliflied 1698 ; the old one re-eftablillied 1700 ; agreed to give government 400,000!. a year, for five years, on condition they might continue unmolefted, Feb. 1769. Indulgences, money firft given for them, 1200. Ingulphus, the hiftorian, lived iioo. Inoculation firft tried on criminals 1721. Inundation. The fea overflowed 4000 acres of earl Godwin's land, Kent, fince called the Godwin fands, iioo. A hun- dred and twenty laymen, and feveral priefts, befides women, were drowned by an inundation at Newcaftle upon Tyne, 1339. The fea broke In at t)ort, and drowned 100,000 people, 1421. In HollnnJ, where 400,000 were drowned, 1570. In the north of England 1771. Ipfwich Weft-Gate built 1430. Iron difcovered by the burning of mount Ida, 1432 before Chrift. Ifthmian games inftituted by Syfiphus, king of Corinth, 15 Z years 354 THE TABLET :OF MEMORY. years after the rape of Ganymede, 1326 before Chrift. Ives, St. monaftery, in Huntingdonfhire, founded 1015. Jackfon, Rev. Dr. Thomas, born 1579, died 1640. Jamaica difcovered 1494 ; taken May 7, 1665 ; a terrible earthquake happened June 7, 1692 ; a dreadful hurricane Aug. 20, 1722. James, St. put to death 41 ; made the patron of Spain 796 ; feaft inftituted 1089 ; order of knighthood inftituted 1 158. James, St. the lefs, bifliop of Jerufalera, wrote his epiftle 59; martyred 62. James III. of Scotland, killed by his nobility, 1487. Jefferies, Lord chief juftice, fent to the tower by the lord mayor of London, where he deftroyed himfelf, April 18, 1689. Jeffrey, third fon of Henry II. trampled under foot and kil- led at a tournament in Paris, 1 126. Jenkins, Henry of Yorklliire, died Dec. 1670, aged 169. Jericho, walls of, fell, I454 before Chrift. Jerome, of Prague, burnt May 30, 1416. Jerufajem taksn by Nebuchadnezzar, after a fiege of 1 8 months, June 9, 587 before Chrill: ; deftroyed by Titus, Aug. 31, 70 ; taken by Robert, duke of Normandy, who was there elected king of it, iioo. Jefuits, fociety of, eftabliflied by Ignatius 1536; expelled France 1764'; ditto Spain 1767 ; ditto from Naples 1768. Jefus Chrift was born Monday, Dec. 25, in the year of the world 4005 ; in that of Rome 752 ; four years before the common sera ; his firft miniftry in 30 ; baptized by John 30 j celebrated the laft paflbver and inftituted the facrament in its ftead, Thurfday, April 2 ; crucified April 3 ; at three in the afternoon, rofe April 5 ; afcended Thurfday, May 14, following } which was in his 33d year. Jefus Chrift, order of the knights of, inftituted 1320. Jewel, bifhop of Sarum, diedi57i, aged 49. Joan of Navarre, Henry IV's widow, died 1437. Job died 1553 before Chrift, aged 189. John, St, the feaft of, inftituted 313. John's St. monaftery, near Smithfield, built 1 104 ; burnt hj Wat Tyler's rabble 1 381. John, order of the knights of St. of Jerufalem, inftituted 1 099 ; removed to Rhodes 1300 ; removed again to Malta 1329; expelled England 1540. John, the youngeft fon of Henry II. born at Oxford 1166 ; crowned May 27, 1199; divorced his wife Avifa, and married Ifabella, daughter of the count of Angolefme j went to Paris 1201 ; befieged the caftle of Mirabel, and took his nephev/ Arthur, prifoner, Auguit 1203, whom he murdered 5 the fame year, he was expelled the French provinces, and afterwards recrowned in England ; imprifon- ed his queen 1208 j baniftied all the clergy in his dominions 1208 ; THE TABLET OF MEMORY. 355 1208 ; was excommunicated 1209; landed in Ireland June 8, 1210 ; fuirendered his crown to Pandolf the pope's legate ; May 25, 1213, abfolved July 20 following; loft his treafure and baggage, as he parted through the marflies at Lynn, 1216; died of a fever, at Newark caftle, 0£t. 18, 1216 ; and was fucceeded by his fon, Henry IlL John, king of France, taken prifoner, by Edward the Black Prince, and brought to England, but afterwards ranfomed for 500,0001. died at the Savoy, on a vifit, 1360, John's town, St. Antigua, deftroycd by a ftorm, Aug. 17, and 31 , 1772. Johnfon, Rev. Samuel, degraded and whipped from Newgate to Tyburn, for a libel, Dec. i, 1686. Johnfon, Rev. John, born 1662, died 1725. Jofeph and Mary, with Jefus, returned to Nazareth three years before the conmjon aera. Jubilee, the eftablidiinent of the, among the Chriftians, infti- tuted by pope Boniface VIIL at the end of every century j it was afterwards every 50 years j then every 2$ years, at which period it is now fixed, 1300. Jude, St. wrotehis epiftle in 71. Feaft of, inftituted 1090. Judges appointed, and the kingdom divided into fix circuits, 1 176. Their falaries augmented, and they appointed for life, inftead of during pleafure, 1759. Jugurtha, war with, iii before Chrift. Julian the apoftate fent a vicar into Briton 358, died 363, aged 31 . Julius Agricola totally fubdued the Britons 78. Juries firft inftituted 979. Juftices of the peace firft appointed 1076. Juftices itinerant appointed 1176. K. Katherine's, St. priory, near Tower-hill, built 11 50. Keil, John, the aftionomer, born 1671, died 1721. Kenelworth caftle and monaftery built 11 20. Kennet, Rev. Bafil, died 1714. Kent, the maid of, executed at Tyburn i 534. Kettering, in Northamptonfhire, burnt 1767. Keyfer, architeft of Amfterdam, born 1565, died 1621. Kidder, bifKop of Bath, killed in his bed by the fall of Si ftack o^^himnies, in the great ftorm, 1703. Killegrew, Anne, died 1685, aged 24. King of England, the title firft ufed 1542. King's fpeech, the firft delivered 1 107, by Henry L King, Dr. William, born 1663, died 1712. King, Sir Peter, lord chancellor, died 1729, aged 76. Kirieleyfon brought firft into the Litany 960. Kifllng the pope's foot firft practifed 709. Knee firft ordered to be bent at the name of Jefus 1275. Z z ' Knells, 356 THE TABLET OF MEMORY. Kneller, SirGodfrey, painter, died 1723, aged 76. Knight, Mr. Cafhier of the South-fea company, abfconded with ioo,oool. 1720 ; compounded with the company for lOjOOol. and returned to England 174.3. Knighthood firft inftituted 540. Knights Baronets renewed by Henry VII. 1485. Knox, John, the reformer, born 151 5, died 1572. Kouli Kan ufurped the Perfian throne March 11, 1732 ; aflaf- linat^d June 8, 1747. ' L. Lafteals, the difcovered by chance in opening a dog, by Afellius, July 23, 1622 ; in birds, fifti, &c. by Mr. Hewfon, furgeon of London, 1770. Lambert burnt in Smithfield 1538. Lamb, Dr. murdered in the Streets of London, June 24, 1628. Lambeth college and chapel founded by Hubert, archbifhop of Canterbury, 1196. Lancafter, duchy court of, eftabliflied 1376. Lancafter, Plantagenet, earl of, beheaded at Pomfret, March 23, 1321. Lanfdown, George, lord, born about 1667, died 1736. Lanterns invented by king Alfred 800. Latimer, bifliop of Worcefter, burnt at Oxford, Odlober i6, ^555- . ^ Latin ceafed to be fpoken in Italy about 581. Lauderdale, duke of, died, Aug. 24, 1682. Launcefton monaftery, in Cornwall, built U49. Laws of Edward the confeffor compofed 1065. Lazarus raifed from the dead 33, died Dec. 17, 63. Lazarus, St. order of knighthood, inftituted 11 19. Lee, archbifhop of York, died 1544, aged 62. Legates from Rome firft fent 1183. Leiburn caftle, Kent, built about 1 190. Leicefter collegiate church built 1334. Liege, the city of, taken by the Englifh 1702. Leipfickuniverfity founded 1409. Leland, John, the antiquary, died 1552, aged about 41;. Leland, Dr. died January 16, 1766, aged 75. Lenox, earl of, regent of Scotland, murdered i 571 • Lent, the faft of, inftituted 140 firft eftabliflied SfKent, by Ercombert, 641. Leo IX. the firft pope that kept up an army, 1054. Leofricus, the firft bifhop of Exeter, died 1073. Leonard's, St. monaftery, at Stratford, by Bow, built ii8i. Leftock, vide Matthews. Lewis, St. king of France, died Aug. 25, 1270. Lewis, Philip of France's fon, laid claim to the cr'^wn of England and landed with an army in the ifle of Thanet, May 23, 1 216, ' Leyden THE TABLET OF MEMORY. 35^ Leyden univerfity touncied 1575. Library, firft public one founded at Athens, by Mipparchus, 526 before Chrift. The firll: private library, the property of Ariftotle, 534 before Chrift. Alexandrian, confifting of 400,000 valuable books, burnt 47 before Chrift. Literary property, ftatute in favour of, paflTed in the eighth year of queen Anne. Lights firft ufed in churches in the day time 409. Lilburne, John, whipt Feb. 19, 1638, died Aug. 1657. Lilly, William, the aftrologer, born 1602, died 1681. Lilly of Navarre, order of the knights of the, inftituted 1048. Lilye, William, the grammarian, died i^tl,, aged 55. Lima and Callao, in Peru, fwallov^red up by an earchquakfe, Oa. 28, 1746. Lincoln's-Inn, the palace of the biiliop of Chichefter about 1226. Converted into an Inn of Court about 1310. Lincoln Cathedral built 1076; priory built 1270. Linus and Orpheus flourifhed 1281 before Chrift. Liftjon deftroyed by an earthquake, Nov. i, 1755 ; the Cuftbtti- Houfe burnt May 31, 1766. Lifle, lady, beheaded at Winchefter, Sept. 2, 1685. Litanies firft ufed in churches, 443. Livy, the hiftorian died 17 after Chrift, aged 76. Logarithms invented by lord Napier, of Scotland, i6t4. Lollard, Walter, began to propagate his opinions 1315, burnt 135 1 ; his followers profcribed by the Englifti pariiahieht, 1406. Longbeard, William Filz-Oft)ert, a lawyer fo called, a noto- rious ruffian,, hanged at Tyburn in 1197. Lord Lieutenants of counties inftituted, July 24, 1549. Lord Mayor's fiiews inftituted 1453. ' Lorenzetti, A:nb. painter of Sienna, flourifhed 1330, died aged 83. He was the firft that painted rains, .ft'drftis, and winds. .' ' Lotteries firft eftabliHied 1694. , ..I •', 1 Louis XV. king of France, (tabbed by Daitiieri, fc'^'^rtO^ irior- tally, Jan. 5, 1757. ' ' ' [ Louis, St. the order of, inftituted. May 16, C693I ,' V Louift)ourgh taken by the Englifa, June 17, i74'5';, :gi*eri'i'p to the French 1749; retaken July 2Z, 175^, .,\[\, Lubeck, city of, burnt to allies ?209, again 12J0. '] \ Lucan, born at Corduba, in Spain, Nov. ii,37j condemned and bled to death in a bath, April 30, 64. Lucas, de Leyden, the painter, died 1533, aged 40 j whole print of a bagpiper fold for 16 pounds. ' ' ,,-,""; .< Lucas, Revd. Dr. Richard, born 1648, died blind 1715. Lucas, Dr. of Dublin, died Nov. 5, 177 1. Lucca, its republic founded, 300. Lucian, the prophane author of the Dialogues, was a fcandal to 358 THE TABLET OF MEMORY. to all fober men, he made a banter of the Pagan religion, and mocked Chriftianity ; for he ran up and down the ftreets of Rome, and cried out, one three, and three one, in derifxon of the dodtrine of the Trinity. In fome part of his time lived Titus the fon of Vefpafian ; Domitian and Trajan emperors j and Quadratus and Ignatius fathers j Clitus and Anacletus bifhops of Rome j Jehunda Benthoma Favorinus the philofopher, &c. Lucian died unlamented, Lucius, the firll Chriflian king of Britain, he reigned 77 years, founded the firft chriftian church in London, at St. Peter's Cornhill, which was made the fee of an archbifhop, till re- moved to Canterbury, 179. Lucretiu.s bom at Rome 95 ; put an end to his life, in a raging fit, in $2 before Chrift. Luke,, St. wrote his Gofpel in 55; died about the year 70, aged 80. • Ludgerfhali Caftie, Wilts, built before 1199. Lycurgus, the Spartan Law-giver, born 926 ; eftabliflied his body of laws in Lacedemcn 884 ; died m Crete 872 before Chrift. Lymming rTjon!\ftery built 634. Lynn priory built 1271^ Lyfimachus, the Macedonian general, died 281 befoxe Chrift, aged 80. Lyons, in. France, founded by Lucius Plancus 43 before Chrift.. Lyons Inn eftablifhed 1420. Lyttl^ton, bifhop of Carlifle, the antiquarian, died in 1770. M; Macedonian war commenced 200 before Chrift. Madeira, illand of, difcovered by the Portuguefe 1416. Madrafs taken by the EnglilTi 1746. Madrid built 936 before Chrift. Magliabechi, the hiftorian, died 1714, aged 81. Maidftone priory founded 1394. Malcolm, Sarah, executed in Fleet-ftreet, for a murder in the Temple, March 7, 1733. Maiden, EfTex, built 28 before Chrift; rebuilt 919: priory built 1 29 1. Malnift)ury Abbey found In 642 ; Caftie built 1 134. Malo's, St. reduced to aflies by the Englifli 1695. Malt tax eftabliftied 1697. Malvern piiqry, in Worcefterfhirc, buih 1171. Man, Ifle of, governed by its ov.'n kings from 1065 till 1266, when William Montacutc, earl of Salift)ury, ftiled himfelf lord of Man in 1403 ; William, lord Stanley, became lord of Man, in whofe family that title continued till it was an- nexed to the crown of England, June 1765. Mandeville, THE TABLET OF MEMORY. 359 Mandeville, Bernard, of Holland, died 1733, aged between 60 and 70. Manetho, the Egyptian Hiftorian, flouriflied 261 before Chrift. Manilla, taken, July 27, 1757. Manlius, M. thrown down from theTarpeian rock, 384 before Chnft. Manning, Cromwell's fpy, put to death abroad, by order of Charles II. i6<;5. Manfion-houfe, London, founded Odlober 23, 1739 ; in- habited 1752. Maratti, Carlo, Italian painter, born 1625, died 1713. Marca, archbifliop of Paris, born 1594, "^''^^ 1662. Marcion began to fpread his herefy about 134. Margaret, queen to Henry VI. with her fon, taken prifoner at the battle of Tewk(bury, May 4, 1471. Margaritione, painter, of Arezzo, in Italy, inventor of the art of gilding with leaf-gold in bole armoniac, died 1275, aged 77- Marife, William, a nobleman's fon, drawn, hanged and quar- tered for piracy, 1241 ; the firft punifhment of the kind. Mark, St. wrote his gofpel in 44, died in 68 j feaft inftituted 1090. Mark, order of knights of St. founded at Venice 330, revived 1562. Marlborough priory in Wilifliire, built 13 10. Marloe, Chriftopher, killed by his rival, 1533. Marot, Clement, French poet, born 1495, died 1544. Marriage in Lent forbid 364, forbid the 1015. Marriage acl pafled June 1753. Marfhals of France inftituted 1436. Martin, St. died about 402 ; feaft of, inftituted 812. Mary de Medicis, queen-mother of France, vifited England 1638. Maflacre, at Conftantinople, of 35,000 perfons, in 533 j at Milan, of 300,000, by the Goths, 539 j at Paris, Auguft ' 14, 1572 ; of Amboyna, 1623 > °^ '^'^e IrilTi, when 40,000 ' Engliih proteftants were killed, O£lober 23, 164 1 ; of Glencoe, Feb. 13, 1693 Mafter of the ceremonies firft appointed 1603. Mathani, eng.aver ofHaerlem, born 1571, died 1631. Matilda, Stephen's queen, crowned Eafter-day 1136; died May 3, 1 15 I, at Henningham-caftle, Eflex, and buried in a monaftery at Feverrtiam. Matthew, St. wrote his gofpel in 44, died in 65. Matthews, John, hanged at Tyburn for a treafonous libel, Nov. 6, 17 16. Matthews and Leftock, admirals, fufFered the French and Spanifh fquadrons from Toulon, to efcape, Feb. 1746. Matthias was high-prieft fix years before Chrift. Mauritians, 36d THE TABLET OF MEMORY. Mauritians, order of the knighthood of, inftituted in Savoy H9o- . . . ., Maxiritius, alias 0-Fihe!7, archbifliop ot Tuann, died June 8, Maxunilian, the emperor, enlifted as a fubjeft and captain under Henry VIII. when he invaded France in 1513. Mayne, Rev. Dr. Jafper, born 1604. i ^'^^ 1672. Mazzuoli, painter of Parma, born 1504, died 1540, inventor of etching. Mead, Dr. Richard, born 1673, Q'^^ '754- Meau.x ::onaftery, in Yorkfhlre, built 1150. Mercer's chapel firfl built, and dedicated to St. John at Aeon, 11S9. Mercers company incorporated, 1393. Merlin, then Ophet, lived in 477; Merton priory founded, 1 1 17. Meflenian war, firft, 743 ; fecond, 685 before Chrift. Methodifts, firil appearance of; 1740. Mexico feized by the Spaniards 1521. Mezeray, the French hiftorian, born 1610, died 1683. Michael, St. monaftery, near Halifax, in Yorkfhire, founded .'376- Michael, St. order of knighthood inftituted in France, 1469. Microfcopes firft ufed in Germany 1621. Middleion monaftery, Dorfet, built by Athelftan, 926. Middleton, Dr. Conyers, born 1683, died 1750. Mill, Rev. Dr. John, born about 1645, died 1707. Miller, Rev. James, born 1703, died 1743. Milo banifhed for killing Clodius, 52 before Chrift. Mint, London, eftablifhed, 1066. Minos, the law-giver, reigned at Crete 1432 before Chrift. Minfter monaftery, in the Ifle of Thanet, built 647. Minutia, the veftal, on fufpicion of unchaftity, buried alive 337 before Chrift. Miffiftippi fcheme 1720. Monaftery, the firft, founded, to which the fifter of Sr. An- thony retired, 270. Money firft made of gold and nlver, at Argos, S94 before Chrift. Monk, general, arbiter. of England's fate 1659, "^^de duke of Albemarle, July 12, 1660. Monks firft affociated 328. Monteija, order of knighthood inftituted in Spain 1223. Montreal taken by the Englifli 1760. Moon, order of the knights of, inftituted in Sicily 1464. Moorfields made into walks 16 14, planted 1740. Moore, Roger, his conspiracy in Ireland, 1641. Moravians, a re!igioH.s fedt, firft appeared 1743. Morea Caftle, at the Havanna, taken by the Englifh 1762. Motley, lord, tried at Weftminfter-Hall for murder, 1666. Mortality, THE TABLET OF MEMORY. 361 Mortality, great one, 1094; again, among men, cattle, and fowls, I II I; among men at Oxford, 1471 ; among youth 1589 ; at York, when 11,000 perfons died, Augufl 1691. Mortars, for bombs, firft made in England 1543. Mortimer, Roger, earl of March, hanged at Tyburn, Nov, 29. 1330. Mortmain-a£l pafTed May 20, 1736. Mofs, Rev. Dr. Kobert, born about 1667, died 1729. Motteaux, Peter, murdered, 1718, aged 58. Mountford, William, born 1659, murdered, aged 1,2. Mughoufc-riot, m Salifbury-court, Fleet-ftreet, tor which five perfons were hanged, July 23, 17 16. Murray, earl of, regent of Scotland, afTaflinated, Jan. 23, '570. . . Mulcovy, Peter, Czar of, vifited England, m the difguife ot a common man, working in a fhip-yard, 1693. Mulkets firrt ufed in France, at the city of Arras, 1414. Mufeum eftabliflied 1753. N. Nafii, Richard, Efq; was born in the town of Swanfea in Gla- morganfhire, on the i8th of Oflober, in the year 1673. ^'^ father was a gentleman, whofe principal income arofe from a partnerfhip in a glafs-hcufe ; his mother was niece to co- lonel Poyer, who was killed by Oliver Cromwell for defend- ing Pembroke Cattle againfl: the rebels, 1673. Naturalization bill, pafled 1753, repealed foon after. Navarre, Margaret, queen of, died 1549. Navy-office founded. Dec. 4. 1644. Naylor, the quaker, whipped and pilloried for perfonating our Saviour, Dec. 4, 1656. Netlcy Abbey, Hamp{Kire, bnilt 1239. Newark Priory, in Surry, built betv.een 1189 and 1199. Newcaftle upon Tyne, founded by Robert, fon to William the conqueror, 1081. 120 laymen and feveral priefts, women, &c. drowned by an inundation 1339. Bur'.it to the ground by accident 1349. Newfoundland difcovered by Scbaftian Cabot 1520. New-Forcil, in Hampfliire, made 1079. New-River, firft brought to London attheexpencc of Sir Hugh Middlcton, 1614 Nicot, John, who introduced tobacco into Frilnce, died 1600. Nineveh deftroyed by the Medes, 612. Norfolk, duke of, beheaded 1547. Norfolk, duke of, beheaded on Tower-Hill, May 8, 1572. Norman, John, lord mayor of London, was the firft that went to be fworn at Weftminfter-Hall by water 1453- Normandy invaded on all hands, 1 1 17. Normans mafTacred at Durham 1069. Norris, Revd. John, born 1657, died after 1710. Northallerton, 2 370 THE TABLET OF MEMORY, Sherburne, Sir Edward, born 1618; killed in a mutiny at Oxford, June 12, 1646. Sheridan, Rev. Dr. Thomas, born 1685, died 1738. Sheriffs tirft appointed in England 1079 ; one of London fined 50 1. for kneeling too near the lord mayor at prayers 1479; ilierifFs firft drank to, by way of eleftion to the office, by the lord mi\yor i486. Sherlock, William, dean of St. Paul's, born 1641, died 1707. Shillings firft coined in England i 505. Ship, the firft feen in Greece, arrived at Rhodes, from Egvpt, 1485 before Chrift. Ship, order of the knights of, inftituted, 1252. Shrewfbury monaftery founded 1033. Sicily firft peopled from Italv, 1292 before Chrift. Side-faddles firft ufed in England 1388. Siena, Bal, Pariflian painter, born 1481, died 1536 j was the firft who painted icenes for the theatre. Sigebert, the hiftorian, died 1113. Sigifmund vifited England 1416, died 1438, aged 60. Silefia taken by the king of Pruffia 1 740. Silk firft brought from India 274 ; the manufaftory of, intro- duced into Europe from India by fome monks 551 ; firft worn by the clergy in England 1534. Silver firft coined in Rome 266 before Chrift. Simnel, Lambert, the impoftor, crowned king in Ireland 1487. Simon Magus came to Rome 41 . Simon and Jude, feftival of, inftituted 1091. Simonides, the poet, flourifhed 503 before Chrift. Singing eftablifhed in churches 67. Sion monaftery, near Brentford, built 1415. Sion college, founded .by Dr. Thomas White 1683; incor- porated 1664. Sirani, Elizabeth, Italian paintrefs, born 1638, died 1664. .Sixtus, Quintus, pope, 1585. Skelton, Rev. John, the poet, died 1529. Skinners company incorporated 1327. Slave-trade, epoch of, with the Portuguefe 1443 j with the Englifli 1562. Vide African company. Slingfby, Sir Henry, governor of Hull, with Dr. Hewit, be- headed on Tower-Hill, June 8, 1658. Sloane, Sir Hans, born 1660, died Jan. 11, 1752 Smart, Rev. Chriftopher, died 177 1. Smith, Rev. Dr. Thomas, born 1638, died 17 10. Smollet, Dr. died Sept. 17, 1771. Smyrna, built by the people of Cums, 1050 before Chrift, deftroyed by an earthquake 1040. Snow for. eleven days in 1672. Society, Royal, inftituted Dec. 30, 1660 ; ir.corporated 1663; for reformation of manners, formed 1698 ; promotion of chriftian knowledge, eftablifhed 1699; prep, of gofpel, in- corp. THE TABLET OF MEMORY. 371 Corp. 1701 ; Antiquarian, ditto, Nov. 2, 1751 ; Arts and Sciences, intlituted 1753; Marine, eftab. 1756; of artifts, incoip. Feb. 26, 1764 j IriHi working fchools, incorp. Oft. '733 ; American phiiolbphical, inrtituted Jan. 2, 1769. Socrates, the piiilofopher, died 400 before Chrift, aged 70, Solar year introduced by Julius Cxfar, 45 before Chrift. Solomon's ifles, in America, difcovered 1569. Solvvay Mofs began to flow, Dec. 1771. ' Somerfet, duke of, made protedlor 1.547; deprived 1549; beheaded on Tov/er-Hill, Jan. 28, 1553. Somerfet, Henry Beaufort, duke of, beheaded at Hexham, May 15, 1464. Somerfet-houfe built by the duke of Somerfet, proteftor, o '549- Somner, William the antiquarian, born i6o6, died 1669. Sorbonne, the, founded 1250 j univerfity founded in 1253. South., Rev. Dr. Robert, born 1633, died 1716. South-Sea avH: pafled, May 6, 1716; its bubble 1720. Southwark monaftety (St. Saviour's) built 1098. Southwell minifter, at St. Neots, founded 630. Sowing corn, &c. the art of, taught by Ceres, 109 before Chrift. Spain, Old became fubjeft to the Saracens in 713 ; and re- covered from them IQ93. Spain, New, difcovered 15 18. Spain, Charles, king of, landed at Portfmouth on a vlfit, Dec. 1703. Spedlacles invented 1299. Speed, John, the hiftorian, died July 1629, aged 76,. Spencer, John, dean of Ely, died 1693, aged 62. Spencers, father, fon, and grandfon. The father hanged at Briftol, aged 90, in Odtober, 1326. The fon hanged at Hereford, Nov. 24 following. The grandfon beheaded at Briftol 1400. Sphere, invented by Archimedes of Syracufe, in 209 before Chrift. Spinckes, Rev. Nathaniel, born 1653 J '^'^^^ ^1^1- Sponfors firft inftituted 130. Sports allowed on Sundays, after fervice, 161 7. Spotfwood, archbifliop of St. Andrews, born 1565, died 1639. Stafford, Humphrey, for lebelling againft Henry VII. be- headed at Tyburn i486. Stafford, lord, beheaded, through the perjury of falfe wit- neflcs, May 12, 1642. Stamp-duties inftituted June 28, 1624. Stamford priory built 1356. Stanrtead monaftery in Herefordfhire, built 1431. Staples Inn, eftabliflied, 1413. Stapleton, Walter, bifliop of Exeter, murdered in London, A a 2 . by 37* THE TABLET OF MEMORY. by an infurreftion of the people, for fiding w ith the court 1326. Star, order of the knights of the, inftituted in France 1022. Star-chamber, court of, inftituted 1487 ; aboliflied 1641. Steele, Sir Richard, died, Sept. i, 1729, aged about 53. Stephen, the firft martyr, died, Dec. 26, 33. Stephen III. was the firft pope who was carried to theLateran, on mens flioulders 752. Stephen's, St. Chapel, Weftminfter, built 1115. Stephens, Mrs. rewarded for her medicine, March 1740. Sternhold, Thomas, the poet, died 1549. Stilpo, the philofopher, died about 294 before Chrift. Stockholm, ci^7 of, began to be built 1253, revolution at, '772- Stonehenge, fuppoled to be built by Aurelius, 461 before Chrift. Stow monaftery, in Lincolnfhire, built 1043. Stratford upon 'Avon, burnt Aug. i, 1614; monaftery built in 700. Struenfee and Brandt, Danifh counts, beheaded ut Copen- hagen, April 28, 1772. Stubbe, Henry, born 1631, drovi^ned 1676. Stukely, Dr. died 1765. Style altered by Auguftus Csefar's ordering leap-year to be but once in four years, and the month Sextillis to be called Au- guftus, 8 before Chrift ; again, at Rome, by taking 12 days off the calendar, 1582 j the Gregorian ftyle received at Paris, by taking off ten days, Dec. 15, 1582 ; again, at London, by taking eleven days off the calendar, Sept. 2, 1752- Sudbury, archbifliop of Canterbury, beheaded by the rebels onTov.-er-Hill, June 14, 1381 ; he founded Sudbury priory, in Suffolk, 1380. Suetonius Paulinus, in the reign of Nero, invaded the Ifle of Anglefea, and burnt the Druids 59 ; defeated Boadicia at London, and flew 80,000 of the Britons, the fame year. Suetonius, the hiftorian, flourifhed in no ; died after 117. Suffolk, duke of, murdered 1450. Suffolk, duke of, beheaded, Feb. 1554. Suffolk, Edmund de la Pole, earl of, beheaded on Tower- Hill, in iSi3- Sulpieius, the hiftorlan, died 420- Sun ftood ftill at the command of Jofhua 1454 before Chrift ; total eclipfe of, April 22, 1715. Sunderland, Robert, earl of, died Sept. 28, 1702. Sun-dials invented 558 ; the firft ere(Eted at Rome, when time was firft divided into hours, 29^3 before Chrift. Sunning monaftery built 1409. Surat taken by the Engliih 1759. Surrv, THETABLETOFMEMORY. 375 Surry, earl of, beheaded on Tower-Hill 1547. Sutton, Thomas, founder of the Charter-houf*, born 1532, died 161 1. Survey of England made at firft by the order of Alfred 900 ; by William the conqueror 1080 ; by Charles II. 1668. Sweating-Sicknefs that carried oft' great numbers, Sept. 1485 j again, but not fo bad, 1 507 ; again, fo that in fome towns half the people died ^ in others, one third, 1517; again 1551. Sweden, kingdom of, eftablifhed 1525. Sweyn, king of Denmark, drove Ethelred II. froni his king- dom 1013, but was killed Feb. 2, 1013, at Gainfborough, and was buried at York. Swieten, baron Van, died June 1772. Swifs cantons, the republic founded 1338. Swifs foldiers, firft in the pay of France, 1480. Synge, archbifliop of Tuam, bor:; : '59, died July 24, 1741. Syfigambis, the mother of Darius, on heating of the death of Alexander, ftarved herfelf to death 324 before Chrift, Talbot, lord chancellor, died 173^, aged 50. Tallard, marHial, taken prifoner by the EnglilTi 1704. Talreud, the, made 117 before Chrift. Tame monaftery, in Oxfordfhire, built 1134. Tamworth monaftery, in Warwickfhire, built 915. Tangiers deftroyed by the Englifh 1684. Tarquin. died 493 before Chrift, aged 90. Tar-water, firft recommended by bilTiop Berkly, 1744. Taffa, Orland mufician, died 1594. Taviftock monaftery built 961. Taunton monaftery built 1 122. Taylor, John, the water-poet, died 1654, aged 74. Tea firft bronght into Europe by the Dutch Eaft-India company, early in the laft century ; a quantity of it brought from Holland by lord Arlington and lord OifTory, 1666. It from this time became univerfal, and fold for 3 1. a pound. Tedworth, drummer of, tranfported 1661. Telefcope invented by Zacu. Janfen, a fpe€tacle-maker, at Middleburgh, 1590. Temefwaer taken by the Imperialifts, 1716. Temple-hall (Middle) rebuilt, 1572. Church founded, 1185-. Prefent edifice built, 1240. Templers knights of, inftituted 1013 ; abolifhed 1320 j their church near Fleet-ftreet built 1182. Tenths of church-livings firft collet5led 1320. Terence died 1 59, aged 64 j his comedies firft afted i $4 before Chrift. Terpander, the mufician, lived about 7o6*befoxe Chrift. Teutonic 374 THE TABLET OF MEMORY. Teutonic order, knights of the, inftituted izoo; expelled Pruffia 1323. Tewkelbury monaftery built 715. Thales, the philofopher, born 640 ; died 572 before Chrift. • Thames was fo low between the Tower and the bridge, that women and children waded it over, owing to fo great an ebb in ihe ocean, that laid the fnnds bare feveral miles from the fhore, which continued a whole day, 1214. Rofe fo high at Weftminder, that the lawyers were brought out of the Hall in boats, 1239 j again 1703, and 1736. Dry at London-bridge, that many pafled and repafT^d, June 1592. Ebbed and flowed twice in three hours, 1658 ; again three times in four hours, March 22, 1682. Thavy's Inn, eftablifhed 1569. Thaymis, the poet, flouriflied 1104 before Chrift. Theatins, the order of, founded 1594, eftabliflied at Paris . 1644. Theban war, 122$ before Chrift. Thebes deftroyed by Alexander, when he left only Pindar the poet's houfe ftanding 339. Rebuilt by Caflander3i5 before Chrift. Theobald, Lewis, wrote in George the Firft's reign. Theodore, king of Corfica, abdicated his kingdom in 1737 ; iheltered himfelf in England, where he was confined for debt in the King's Bench prifon, from whence he was re- leafed by an aft of infolvency, and regiftered his kingdom for the benefit of his creditors in 1756 j died in obfcure lodging, in St. Ann's Soho, London, in 1757, and was buried in the church of St. Giles's in the Fields. Thermometers firft invented by a Dutchman, 1610. Thefpis, the poet, flourifhed about 536 before Chrift. Thetford, burnt by the Danes loio ; monaftery founded 1070. Thiftle, the order of the, founded in Scotland 812 ; revived 1705. Thomas, Elizabeth, died Feb. 1731, aged 55. Thoracic duft difcovcred in a horfe, by Euftachius, in 1563 ; in the human body, hy OHver Rudbeck, a Swedifli ana- tomiftj Thomas Bartholine, of Copenhagen ; and Dr. JollifFe, , of England, 1653. Vide Ladleals. Thoreft)y, Ralph, the antiquarian, born 1658, died 0(5lober 16, Thorn, bloody execution of prcteftants at, July 16. Thorney Abbey built 970. Thornhili, Sir James, painter, died 1734, aged 57. Thorp, Speaker of the Houfe of Commons, murdered by the mob, 1460. Throgmorton, Fraivcis, executed 1583. Thynne, Thomas, fhot in his coach in Pall-Mali, Feb. 12, 1682. Tichfield THE TABLET OF MEMORY. 375 Tichfield Monaftery, in Hampfliire, built li 16. Tide ebbed and flowed three times in one hour, at Lyme, in Dorfetihiie, May 31, 1582. Tiraeus, the hiftorian, flouriilied 262 before Chrift. Timotheus, St. difciple of St. Paul, died Jan. 25, 97. Tindal, Dr. Matthew, born 1657, died 1733. Tindale, William, hanged at Aug(burgh, for tranflating the fcriptures, 1 536. Tithes firft granted 855. Tiverton, 200 houfes burnt down, June 5, 1731. Tobit born 749 ; cured of his blindnefs by his fon 690 ; died 645 before Chrift. Toleration adl pafled 1689. Tolet, Frances, the firft jefuit that was made a cardinal, died Tonftall, Cuthbert, bifliop of Durham, born about 1474; died Nov. 28, 1559. Torquatus, M. caufed his own foH to be put to death for hav-^ ing fought contrary to his orders, 340 before Chrift. Tournements inftituted by Henry, emperor of Germany, 935. Tourniquet, the, invented by one Morell, at the liege of Befancon, 1674. Petit of France invented the fcrew tourni^ quet 1718. Torre monaftery. In Devonfhire, built 1214. Touching for the king's evil, firft introduced by Edward the Confeflbr, 1046. Tower of London built 1080 ; walled round 1099. Trade and plantation-office formed, Nov. 7, 1660. Tragedy, the firft a£ted at Athens on a waggon by Thefpis, 535 before Chrift. Trajan's pillar fet up at Rome 1 1 4 before Chrift. Transfiguration, the feaft of, firll obferved 700. Trap, Rev. Dr. Jos. born 1679, *^'^^ Nov. 1747. Trefilian, Sir Robert, chief juftice, and others hanged at Tyburn, 1388. Tribunes of the people inftituted at Rome 495 ; military ones, with confular power, created 345 before Chrift. Tribute, of wolves heads paid in England 971 ; paid by the Englifh to the Danes in one year 48,000'. in 979. Trinity, the word firft applied to the perfons of the Godhead, byTheophilus of Antioch, about 150 ; the ferift of, inftitu- ted 333. Tnnity-houfe founded by Sir Thomas Spert, 151 5. Incorpo- rated 1685. Trinidado, the ifle of difcovered 1497. Troy built 12$$ j burnt June 11, at night, 1 184 before Chrift. Turin univerfity founded 1412. Turky company eftablifhed 1579. Turkifh empire, founded 1299. Tufcanwar commenced 312 before Chrift. Tyler, J76 THE TABLET OF MEMORY. Tyler, Wat, the rebel, killed b/ Walworth, lord inayor ot London, 1381. U. Ulyfles flourifhed 1 149 before Chrift. Unftion, extreme, praftifed in the firft century. Uniformity, adl of, pafTed 1559; took place, 1662. United Provinces, the origin of, 1579. Urbin VI. and Clement VII. and popes, in 1337. Urbino, Raphael Sancio, the famous Florentine painter of the cartoons, at the queen's palace, born 1484, died 1520. Urbino, painter, father ofRaphael, born 1453. Utrecht, peaceof, April i, 1713. V. Val, Claude de, the highwayman, hanged, Jan. 21, 1670. Van Swieten, baron, died June 1762. Vanburgh, Sir John, died March, 26, 1726. Vaneck, John, painter, born 1370, died 1441. He firft intro- duced oil colours. V^anini died at Tholoufe, a martyr to Atheifm, being burnt Feb. 19, 1619, aged 33. Vaux, Nicholas, lord, died 1523. Venables's expedition to America, Dec. 4, 1654. Venetiano, Dom. a painter of Venice, where he introduced the ufeof oil colours, flourifhed 1450. Venice took its rife 452, reduced to afhes iioi, univerlity founded i 592. Vermeyer, John Cor, a Dutch painter, whofe beard was fo long as to touch the ground when he ftood upright, born 1500, died 1559. Vernon, admiral, died 1757, aged 73. Verocchio, Andrew, a Florentine painter, who firft found out the way of taking off the likenefs in plaifter of Paris, born 1432, died 1488. Verfailles, palace of, finillied 1687. Verftcgan, Richard, wrote in Elizabeth's reign, died after 1625 . Vefpafian conquered the ifle of Wight 43. Vefuvius, eruptions of, 79, 203, 272, 472, when all Campa- nia was deftroyed, 512,685,993. 1036, 104^, 1048, 1136, 1506, I 538 at Puzzole, 1631 , 1632 when 4000 perlbnsand a large tra(5t of land were deftroyed, ?66o, 1682, 1694. 17CI, 1704, 1712, 1717, 1730, 1737, 1751, 1754' 1760, 1766, 1767, 1770, 1771. Vidlualling office inftituted Dec. 10, 1665. Vigo, galleons taken there by the Engliili fleet, OR. 12, 1702. Vinci, I con. da, Italian painter, born 1445 ; died at Paris in the arms of Francis I. king of France, 1520. Virgil, born at Andes, near Mantua, 69; died at Brundufium, in Italy 18 before Chrift. Virgin of mount Carmel, the order of the knights of, inftitu- ted 1607. Virgini a THE TABLET OF }/lEUOKY. ^-j-j Virginia difcov£rcd by Sir Walter Raleigh 1584. ; planted by the EngliiK 1608. Virginius, killed his daughter, that flie might not fall a facrifice to the luft of Claudius, 449 before Chrift. Vifcount, the firft in England created 1440. Vortigern made king of Britain, 447 ; depofed 455, reaiTumed the crown 457 ; depofed again, 469 ; burnt with his queen in a caftle in Wales. Vortimer, fon of Vortigern, fucceeded to the government of Britain 455 ; died 457. Votes of the houfe of commons firft printed 167 1. Vulgate edition of the bible difcovered, 218. \V. Wade, marfhal, died 1748, aged 75. Wager admiral, died 1743, aged 77. Wagftaffc, Rev. Thomas, born 1645, died 171 2. Wales, firft inhabited by Britons, on their being expelled Eng- land by the Saxons, in 685. Divided into North Wales, South Wales, and Powis-land, 843 ; North Wales continued till 1093, ^hen Henry II. fubdued them ; South Wales continuedtill 1282, when Edward I. conquered the laft of their princes, and created his firft fon prince of Wales ; which title has been continued to the eldeft fon of the king, ever fince. The third divilion, Powis-land, continued till it was annexed to the crown of England, 1536. Wales, princefs dowager of, (mother of George III.) died of a consumption Feb. 8, 1772, aged 52. Wallace, Sir William, taken prifoner, hanged and quartered, 1305- Wallis, Rev. Dr. John, born 1616, died 1703. Walfham high-crofs monaftery built 1065. Walworth, lord mayor of London, knocked down Wat Tyler, with his mace, 1381 . Warbeck, Perkin, executed at Tyburn, Nov. 1499. Warrants, general, declared illegal, Ocl. 21, 1765. Waterford, in Ireland, built 1 162. Warwick, earl of, made fole governor of ki.ig Henry VT. 1427 } died 1440. Warv/ick, earl of, fon to the duke of Clarence, beheaded on Tower-hill, Nov. 21, 1499. Warwick, Richard Neville, earl of, defeated at the battle of Barnet, April 14, 1471, and flain. Warv/ick abbey deftroyed by the Danes 1016. Vv''ii verly nionaftery founded 1 1 22 . \Veights and meafures invented 890 before Chrift. Wells cathedral built 766 ; the bilTicprick founded 905. Wenlock nionaftery founded 1043. Vv eft admiral, died 1757; aged 43. V\ eilihury monaftery, in Somerleiniire, built 1454. Weil-Indies ■578 THE TABLET OF MEMORY. Well-Indies difcovered by Columbus 1493. Weftminfter palace burnt 1540. Weftminfter abbey built by Sebert, king of EfTex, on the fpot where the temple of Apollo had once ftood, about 600; its. monaftery, confecrated, by Edward the confefTor, I065 ; rebuilt, and confecrated, 1269. Weftminfter fchool founded, 1070 j again by queen Elizabeth, 1560. Wexford, in Ireland built 1 170. Whaley monaftery in Lancafhire built 1454. Wharton, Philip duke of, died about 1731. Whifton, William, the aftronomer, born 1667 ; died 1752. Whitby, Rev. Daniel, born 1638 ; died 1726. Whitby monaftery, in Yorkfliire, founded 1075. White Eagle, order of the knights of the, inftituted in Poland 1325. Whitefriars monaftery, in Fleet-ftreet, London, founded 1245. Whitefriars monaftery in York, founded 1254. Whitefriars monaftery, in Norwich, founded 1267. Whitefriars monaftery, inlpfwich, founded 1279. Whitefriars monaftery, in Hull, Yorkfliire, founded 1280. Whitefriars monaftery, in Scarborough, Yorkfhire, founded Whitehall, great part burnt April 1690 ; totally confumed Jan. 5. 1698. Whitehall preachers appointed March 1724. Whitfield, Rev. George, excluded the church May 10, 1739 ; died 1770 ; aged 56. Whittington, Sir Richard, mayor of London 1377. Whittington, feaft of, inftituted 813. Whorwell abbey, in Southampton, built 972. Wjckliffe, preached againft the pope's fupremacy, 1377 j died 1385 ; 'and 40 years after, his bones were burnt for being a heretic. Wight, ifle of, taken by the French July 13, 1377. Wildfire invented 663 by a Grecian. William, prince, only fon of Henry I. fliipwrecked in coming from Normandy, with 150 nobles 1120. Williams, biflicp of Oflbry, born 1603 ; died Feb. 1672. Williams, Rev. Dr. Daniel, died 17 16; aged 71. Willis, Dr. John, died 1703, aged 77. Willis, Dr. Browne, died Feb. 1760. Wills, priviledge of making them, granted by Henry I. in 1 100. IVilfon, Arthur, the Hiftorian, born 1596; died 1652. Wilfon, Samuel, Efq; of London, bequeathed 20,000 1. to be leni out in fmall fums to induftrious tradefmen 1771. Wilton nunnery built 972. Winondham monaftery, in Norfolk, buik 1106. Winbornc nunnery built 712. Winchel'ea, Anne, countcfs of, died 1720. Winchefter THE TABLET OF MEMORY. 379 WInchefter cathedral built 644; city burnt 1 102 ; college founded 1387. Winchcombe nionaftery in Gloucefterfhire, built 796. Window tax, cftablifhed, 7th of William III. Windfor-caftle built by Edward III. chapel built by Edward IV. '473- Wine fold by apothecaries as a cordial 1300. Licences eft^bliHi- cd 1661. Sold at 20 s. the ton, and the fecond fort at 13s. 4d. 1389. Winifred's Well, Flintfhlre, built i486. Winkelman, Abbe, murdered at Triefte 1768. Woburn, in Bedfordfhife, burnt 1724. WoUafton, Revd. William, born 1652 ; died 1724. Wolfey, appointed minilt^r to Henry VIII. in 151 3 ; archbifhop. of York I 5 14; Cardinal I$i5 j chancellor Dec. 24, follow- ing ; appointed legate 1518; refigned the feals Odl. 18, 1529; ftripped of all he poflefled Nov. following; died Nov. 18, I 530 aged 59. Wolverhampton monaftery built 1J96. Wood's patent for coining granted Jan. 1723. Woodward, Dr. John born 1665 ; died 1708. Woolfton, Thomas, born 1669 ; punifhed for blafphemy 1729; died 1733. Worcell:erCathedralbuilt955 ; rebuilt, and monaftery founded 1064. WorHiipping images firft introduced in England 763. Wotton, Rev. Dr. William, died 1726, aged 60. Wren, Sir Chriftopher, died 1722, aged 91. Wyatt, Sir Thomas, the poet, died 1541, aged 37. Wye monaftery, in Kent, founded 1449. Wymondham monaftery, Norfolk, founded 1105. X. Xenophon died at Corinth 359 before Chrift, aged about 90. Ximenes, cardinal de, died 15 17, aged 80. Y. Yalden, Rev. Dr. Thomas,- born J670 ; died 1736. Yarmouth pricry built 1278. Yeomen of the guards firft inftituted i486. York, Richard, duke of, made proteftor of the kingdom, March 27, 1754; declared right heir to the crown 1460 ; flain at the battle of Wakefield 1460. York built 1223 before Chrift j city and cathedral built 632 ; burnt by the Danes 10695 monaftery founded 1072; city burnt again 1 179. Young, Dr. Edward, died 176$, aged 81. Z. Zenodotus, librarian at Alexar.dria, 287 before Chrift. Zeuxis, 38o THE TABLET OF MEMORY. Zeuxis, the painter, flouriflied 468 before Chrift. Zuinglius killed in the Swifs war 1531, aged 44.. OCCURRENCES. That -could not be fo well ranged Alphabetically. BEFORE CHRIST. 4004./^ N the 4th day of the creation, at noon, according \^^ to Kennedy, the earth firft received its diurnal motion.. 3015. Univerfal corruption overfpread the world. Deftruc- tion of men refolved on. 192 1. The number of falfe divinities multiplying, gave occafion to the vocation of Abraham. 171 5. About this time Epimetheus invented the art of making earthen vefleis. 453. Ariftarchus, the tragic poet, flouriflied. 331. A great many Roman ladies poifoned their hufbands ; 170 of them fuffered death for it. This was the firft example of fuch a crime. 280. Ariftarchus, the aftronomer, died aged 81. 212. Archimedes, the mathematician, killed. 204. Antiochus, fon of Seleucus, fell fick, the caufe of which his phyfician difcovered to be a violent love for his father's wife ; upon which Seleucus refigned his wife and part of his kingdom to his fon. 160. Carthaginian war with the Romans, ceafed. AFTE.R CHRIST. 33. Ananias and his wife Sapphira ftruck dead. 47. A new ifland appeared in the iEgean fea. 48. On enquiry, there was found to be 1,544,000 citizens in Rome. 68. About this time, Chriftmas, Eafter, Afccnfion-day, and Penticoft were eftablifhed. 71. St. Bartholomew, martyred Aug. 24. 74. On examination, feveral perfons at Rome werejfound to be 100, 120, 130, 131, 132, 138 and 140 years old j and two were advanced to 150. 232. Africanus Julius, the hiftorian died. 291. There was a darknefs at Rome at noon-day. 303. Sr. Aiban, the firft Englifli martyr, died. 326. Our Savioui's crofs found on Mount Calvary. 356. Sr. THE TABLET OF MEMORY. 381 356. St. Anthony, the Great, died in a defcit, Feb, 14, aged 10$. 389. At Rome, a pillar of fire was feen in the air during 30 days. 424. The Perfian army, fearing they fhould be cut -cfF by the Romans, threw themielves into the Euphrates, where up- wards of 100,000 perifhed. 431. St. Auguftin, father of the Latin Church, born 354, baptifed 387. 446. Sept. 27, Conftantinople fuffered greatly by fire, pefti- lence, famine, and a terrible earthquake that overturned its walls and 17 towers. 546. Sr. Benedift, founder of the Benedi(5^inc order, died aged 66. . 670. Glazing and building with ftone, brought into England by Bennet, a monk. « 694. St. Augultin, fent by pope Gregory to convert the Britons, landed in the Ifle of Thanet 597, and was foon after inade the firft archbifhop of Caterbury. 721. Godfathers and Godmothers forbad to marry. 998. Kyrieieifon and Paralipomenon were accounted two eminent faints of the church ; and he who could read Greek, paffed for a forcerer. 1009. Peter made pope, and took the name of Sergius IV. he was the firft pope,, by birth a Roman, who changed his name. 1014. July 29, Bafillus, emperor of the Eaft, defeated the Bulgarians, and made 15,000 of them prifoners, whofe eyes he caufed to be put out, except one man in a hundred, to whom he left one eye, to ferve as leaders to the reft. 1022. Bouchard, bifliop of Worms, one of the moft learned prelates of his time, died: the inventory of his worldly goods, confiftingonly of a hair-fhirt, an iron chain, which ferved him for a belt, and three denicrs in money. 1024. John XIX. a layman, made pope, by dint of money. 1038. Agilnoth, archbifhop of Canterbury, who refufed to crown Harold, died. 1054. ^^^ ^■^- ^^^ fi""^ pope that kept an army. 1074. '^hs firft Englifh nobleman beheaded. 1 09 1. OiJ the 5th of October there fell a violent ftorm in feveral parts of England, efpecially at Winchelfcomb, in Gloucefteriliire, where the fteeple of the church was thrown down by thunder and lightning, and the crucifix, with the image of the virgin, was broken to pieces. During the above, there was alfo a thick fmoke which darkened the fky. On the 17th of the fame month, there happened a ftorm of cvind at S. W. the fame that blew in the late tempeft, fo dreadful to tlie whole nation. In London, it threw down 500 382 THE TABLET OF MEMORY. 500 houfes, and unroofed Bow-Church. At Old Sarura, the fteeple and many houfes were blown down. 1113. The water of the river Medway failed fo much, that the fmallelt boats could not float in the channel. Alfo, the Thames was fo low between the Tower and the bridge, that women and children waded it over ; owing to fo great an ebb in the ocean, that laid the fands bare feveral miles from the fhore, which continued a whole day. 1 1 14. During this year, feveral bridges in England, being then of timber, v/ere broken down by the ice when it thawed, after a fevere froft. 1 120. 150 nobles and the king's fon loft at fea, in coming from Normandy. 1 134. On the fecond of Auguft, juft as king Henry was about to take fliip, and fail for Normandy, there was a.moft terrible earthquake. D'a;'ing the earthquake, flames of fire burft out of certain rifts ot the earth with great violence. 1159. Adrian IV. pope, an Engliiliman, died. 1 160. Thirty German heretics came to England to propa- gate their opinions. They faid they were Chriftians, but de- nied baptifm, the Lord's fupper, and matrimony ; for which they were condemned by a council of bifhops at Oxford, and delivered over to the fecular arm. Accordingly, they were marked in the forehead with a red-hot iron, whipped and rhruft out of doors naked, in the midft of winter, where, none daring to relieve them, an order having been publiflied to the contrary, they died of hunger and cold. 1 179. At Chriftmas, at a place called Oxen-Hall, near Darlington, in the biflioprick of Durham, the earth raifed itfelf up like a lofty tower, and remained feveral hours in that potlure ; on a fudden, it funk down again, with a horrid noife, and the earth fucked it in, that it made there a deep pit, which continues to this day. Mr. Cambden fuppofes it to be the wells that are ncv/ called Hell kettles. 1 193. Richard I. having obtained a vi6toryover the French at Gyfcrs, not we (fays he) but Dieu et mon droit (i. e.) God and our right has obtained this victory ; ever fince, the kings of England have made it their motto. 1200. Peter Blois, the hiftorian, died. 1201. Anvari, the Perfian poet, died. The cuftom of ringing a bell before the facraraent, when carried to the fick, that all who heard, might bov/ theinfelve?, ir.fti luted. 1203. De Ccurcy, the privilege of ftanding covered before the kings of England, at their firft audience, granted by John. I22i. Two impoftors were crucified, for giving out that they were both of them the Mefliah, or Chrift ; and two women were executed, the one for pretending to be the Virgin Mary> and the other Mary Magdalen. 1251. The THE TABLET OF MEMORY. 383 1251 The chimney of the chamber where the queen and her children lay, was blown down by a terrible Itorm, and her whole apartment at Windlor lliaken and torn. Oaks in the park were rent afunder, and turned up by the roots, and all was accompanied with iuch a thunder and lightning as had not been known in the memory of man. 1262. The two companies of goldfmiths and taylors of London fought, and feveral were killed on both fides. The fherifFs appeafed the tumult, and thirteen of the moft muti- nous of them were hanged, as were thirty ciiiizens of Nor- wich, for quarrelling and fighting with the monks of that city. 1267. The king's half-brother killed a chief juftice in Weftminfter hall. 1274. St. Thomas Aquinas, died aged 50. 1285. As the king and queen were talking together in their bed chamber, a flalli of lightning ftruck m at the window, pafled by them, killed two of their fervants, who waited upon them, but did them no prejudice. I29V Oftober 14, Baliol, king of Scotland, appeared in Welbumfter-hall, in perfon, by fummons, to anfwer a com- plaint againft him, of the earl of Fife, where he pleaded his own caufe. 1300. The eftablifliment of the jubilee among the chriftians, inftituted by pope Boniface VIII. at the end of every century j it was afterwards every fifty years, then every 25 years, at which period it is now fixed. M27. Company, Skinners, incorporated 1327. Goldfmiths, 1327. HaberdaiTiers, 1407. Grocers, 1429. Drapers 1430- Vintners, 1437- Ironmongers, 1464. Merchant-Taylors, 1466. Ciothworkers, 1482. Fillimongers, 1536. Salters, 1558. 1330. The rair.s were fo violent, that the harveft did not begin till Michaelmas. At Chriftmas, a wefterly wind over- threw feveral houf^s and public edifices, tore up trees by the roots, and did a vaft deal of mifchief, 1338. It rained almoft continually, from the beginning of Oflober to ihe beginning of December, and then came a froft upon it, which lafted tv/elve weeks ; yet, though the corn was deilroyed by it in a great ineafure, the war with Scotland made money fo fcarce, that all forts of grain were fold at a reafunabie rate. 1340. Parliamentary grants to the king were in kind ; this year 30,000 facks of wool were in the grant. 1345. Abulfeda, the geographer, died aged 72. 1346. At the battle of Crocy, Edv/ard the Black prince, firft adopted, in memorial of this vi£tory, the Bohemian creft and motto, viz. three Ollrich feathers, and Ich dien ( i. e ) I ferve, the king of Bohemia being flain in the action. Suc- ceeding princes of Wales have continued it ever fince. 1348. It rained from Midfummer to Chriftmas, fo that there ivas not one day or night dry together. This v.-et feafon caufed great -384 THE TABLET OF M E M O^R Y. great floods, and a peftilence, which raged a whole year. The earth was at the fame time barren, and even the fea did not produce fuch plenty of fifh as formerly. The mortality was fo great, that in the city of London two huncfred bodies were buried every day in the charter houfe yard, befides thofe interred in other common burying places ; this lafted from Candlemas to Eafter. 1353. Was remarkable for the fcarcity of corn and provifi- ons in England and France, occafioned by a great drought. It was called th^ dear fummer. Rye was brought out of Zea- land to fupport the poor, who otherwife muft have perifhed for wantof futtenance. 1359. When king Edward was on his march within two leagues of Chartres, there happened a moft dreadful hurricane of deadly piercing wind, that fwelled*a tempeft of rain, lightning, and hail (tones fo prodigious, as to kill inftantly Cix thoufand of his horfes, and a thouland of his beft troops, 1364. April 8, died at the Savoy London, John, king of France. 1371. February 22, died ^.t London, David, king of Scotland. 1374. Bull-running, at Tutbury, StafFordlhire, inftltuted about. 1381. When Richard II. firft wife came from Bohemia, fhe had no fooner fet foot on ftiore, but fuch a tempeft immediate- ly arofe, as had not been feen for many years. Several of the fiiips were dafhed in pieces in the harbour, and the fhip in which the queen came over, was .fhattered and broken ; which was the more obfcrvable, becaufe his fecond wife brought a ftorm with her to the Englilli coafts, in which the king's baggage was loft, and many fliips of his fleet caft away. 1389. A hurricane threw down many houfes, deftroyed cat- tle, and rooted up trees ; this preceded a great mortality, efpeclally among youth ; and that a famine. 1392. A dolphin v/as taken near London-bridge ten feet long. 1394. Happened a conjunction of the tv/o great planets, Saturn and Jupiter. 1408. There were royal jiifts in Smithfield, between the earl of Hainault, and certain Hanoverians, challengers, and the earl of Sonierfet, and an equal number of Engliflimen, defendants. The vi6tory was on the Englifhmen's tide, for the earl overcame, and all the Englilhmen but one. ,1412. Black-rent eftablirtied in Ireland. 141 5. The church fervice changed thfoughout England, from the ufe of St. Paul, to that of Sarum. 1438. Nov. 25, a guft of wind blew oft the leads of the Grey Friars church, and almoft beat down the whole fidof a ftreet called the old exchange. At Bedforel on the day of the afllzes, eighteen perfons were killed^. THE TABLET OF MEMaRY; 385 killed, and many hurt, •by the faHof aftair cafe. 1443. On Candlemas-day, St. Paul's fteeple was fired by lightning, ditto the fteeple of Waltham dole was confumed, but the church was faved. 1446. There were two unufual combats within lifts appoint- ed. The firft was by the prior of Kilmainhani in Ireland, who impeached. the earl of Ormond of high treafon, and the place of trial was in Smithficld ; but the quarrel was taken up by the king, and fo decided without combat. The fecond was by one John David, an armourer, who impeached his mafter William Catur, of treafon ; but the latter being with his neighbours. Intoxicated with wine, before he came to fight, he was unhappily flain, without any juft fufpicion ot guilt ; but the fervant lived not long after him ; for, the next afllze, he was hanged tor felony. 1450. Boetius, the hiftorian, died. 1453. John Norman, mayor of London, the firft that went to be fworn at Weftminfter hall, by water. 1456. There was taken at Erith, within twelve miles of London, four wonderful fi)"hes, viz. two whales, one fword- fi/li, and one called Mors Morina. 1467. The people had an extravagant way of adorning their feet. They wore the beaks or pikes of their fhoes fo long, that they encumbered themfelves in their walking, and were forced to tie them up to their knees ; the fine gentlemen did theirs with chains of filver, or filver gilt, and others with laces. This ridiculous cuftom was in vogue ever fince the year 1382, but now it was prohibited, on the forfeiture of 20s- and the pain curling by the clergy. The king concluded a league with the king *of Caftile, by which he allowed certain Cotfv/old flieep to be tranfportcd into Spain, where the breed fo increafed, that their fine wool has fince proved very detrimental to England. 147 1. Pope Sixtus IV. eredted a famous bawdy-houfe at Rome, and the Roman proftitutes paid his holinefs a weekly tax, which amounted fometimes to 20,000 ducats a year, 1478. Clements Inn, eftablifhed. 1479. Robert Byfield one of the fheriffs of London, was fined fifty pounds by the court of aldermen, for affronting the lord mayor, which, it feems, was only by ^kneeling too near him at prayers, at St. Paul's church. 1480. Antonello, the painter ofMeftlna, who firft introdu- ced painting in oil into Italy, born 1390, died. 1483. There happened fuch a flood in Gloucefterfliir-e, that all the country was overflowed by the Severn, and feveral perfons were drowned in their beds. The waters did not abate for ten days, which hindered the duke of Buckingham's pafllng that river into Wales, to join the V/eichmen, who were rifen againft the king and occafioned his misfortune and death. R b i486. John 386 THE TABLET OF MEMORY. i486. John Percival, drank to by tjje lord mayor for ftierift, the firft time of this method of election. 1492. America founded by Columbus, fuppofed to be inha- bited by the ten tribes of the Jews. 1494. The body of one Alice Hackney, which had been burifcd 175 years, accidentally dug up in the church of St. Mary-Hill, London j the (kin was whole and the joints of the arms pliable. 1505. Philip, king of Caftile, in his voyage to Spain, was driven by a ftorm on the coaft of England, where he was de- tained till he had feen king Henry, which he did at Windfor. 1508. Csefar Borgia, killed himfelf, March 12. 1509. No kitchen-gardens in England ; vegetables were imported from the Netherlands. Before this time fugar was eaten with meat to ccrreft its putrefcency. 1 5 15. Dec. 14. Francis I. of France figned the memorable contract with the pope, by which he granted him the firft years income of the bifhopricks and other great benefices, and in confequence of this obtained the right of nomination to them. 1517. Barbaroifa, the famous corfair, died aged 43. 1521. Francis L of France, being wounded in the head by fomething thrown from a window, was obliged to cut off his hair, which till that time was worn very long, and the beard clofe fhaven j however, willing to gain on one fide, what he loft on the other, he fuffered his beard to grow long ; and from thence, it became a fafliion to wear the hair fliort, and the beard long, as we obferve in many of our old pictures. 1534. Ariofto, the Italian poet, born 1474 died. This year, Clement VII. began to reign, who brought pluralities to iheir confummation, making his nephew, Hippo- iito. Cardinal de Medicis, commendatory univerfal, granting unto him all the vacant benefices in the world for fix months, and appointing him ufufruftuary from the firft day of his pofleffion. 1544. Read, alderman of London, was prefted, and font for a common foldier, for refufing to pay an arbitrary benevolence afleffed on the city by Henry VIII. men being never prefled at that time, unlefs obnoxious to law. 1546. Cardinal Beaton, archbilhcp of St. Andrew's mur- dered May 28, 1557. Rev. George prince of Anhalt, born 1507, died. 1563. Bale, bilhop of Oflbry, the hiftorian, born 1495 died. 1567. There were found, on enquiry, to be only fifty eight Scotchmen in London. 1577. Bleau, the French poet, died. 1594. Dublin univerfity. Students admitted, January. 1600. About this time, London was almoft entirely built of wood, and, in every refpect, a very ugly city. The earl ot Arundel firft introduced the praCtice of brick-buildings. 1615. Articles of religion J 104 drawn up by archbifliop Ullier THE Tablet of memory. 387 Uilrer for Ireland 1615 ; eftabllflied 1634. Arthur Agard, the antiquarian, died, aged 75. 1623. ^ ^°^^^ °^ chivalry erefted for a trial, by combat, between lord Rea, and Ramfay. 1626. Edward Alleyn, the player, born 1566, founded Dulwich-College, Junezi, 1619, died. Sir Francis Bacon, fent to the Tower, 1622 ; died April 9, aged 66. 1627. Bayer, the mathematician died. 1632. Richard Boyle, earl of Corke, born 1566, died, 1634. The gentlemen of the four inns of court prefented a mafque to their majefties at Whitehall. 1642. Bedall, biihop of Kilmore, born 1 570, died. 1645. Sir Richard Baker, author of Chron. born 1584, died. i6$o. May 14, an aft paflTed to make incell and adultery capital for the firft offence, and fornication capital, for the fecond. 1654. J"b' >^» Don Panraleon de Sa, brother to the Por- tuguefe ambalTador, beheaded, for fliooting Mr. Greenaway. 1654. Qyeen Chriftina, of Sweden refigned the throne, to Charles Guftavus her nephew, changed her religion, and retired into a convent at Rome. 1658. Sept. 3, the day Oliver Cromwell died, there arofe a ftorm, fo violent and dreadful, that it extended all over Europe, and feemed to threaten a wreck of nature. i66d. Oftober 10, ten of the regicides were tried, and ex- ecuted foon after. 1661. Jan. the carcafTes of Oliver Cromwell, Ireton and Bradfhaw hanged at Tyburn, buried under the gallows, and their heads fet on Weftminfter-Hall. Sept. 3, at the public entry of the Swedirti ambaflador, happened a rencounter between the French and Spanilh am- bafTadors for precedency, and many of their retinue were killed on Tower-Hi1l, but the SpaniOi arabaffador's coach had at length the good fortune to get firft. 1663. June I, a confpiracy in Ireland difcovered. 1664. Jan. 5, a plot of the fanatics in the North difcovered, for which about 21 were executed. 1676. Clocks with pendulums invented by one Fromantil,a Dutchman, about 1662 ; repeaters invented by one Barlow, 1676. Vide watches. 1678. Ott. 25, the popifli lords were committed to the Tower, upon the oath of Oates. 1679. Roger Boyle, firft earl of Orrery, born 1621, died. 1680. Bourigon, Mad. the enthufiaft, born 1617, died. " 1682. Bonner, bilKop of London, born 1682, deprived May 30, 1559, died in the Marflialfea, Sept. 5, 1569. Mr. Pilkington, and Shute, Hierift's of London, fent to' the B b 2 Tower, 38B THE, TABLET OF MEMORY. Tower, for continuing a poll, after the lord mayor had adr journed it. 1683. The lord mayor and fherifFs arretted at the fuit. of two pretended llierifFs, April 24. 16S6. The biihop of London fufpended for refufmg to lufpend Dr. Sharp, of St. Giles's, afterwards archbifhop of York, at the king's defire. 1687. The pope's nuncio arrived in England. Gray's Inn, built, 1688. Mafs ordered- to be celebrated on board the fleet, which occafioned a tumult, and the priefts narrowly efcaped being thrown overboard. 1689. Mrs. Aphra Behn, died; 1690. Robert Barclay, the quaker, born 1648, died. Nov. 7, 12,000 Irifli catholics tranfported themfelves to France. 1691. Benferades, the French poet, born 161 2, died. Robert Boyle, the mathematician, died. 1692. Elias Afhmole, the antiquarian, born 1617, died. 1696. Rev. Dr. Edward Bernard, the aftronpmer, born 1638, died. 1697. Sir Thomas Pope Blount, born 1649, died. 1700. John Aubrey, the antiquarian, born 1626, died. 1703. Nov. 26, 27, there happened fuch a dreadful tem- peft, as frightened the whole kingdom. The houfes in London fhook, and many fell. The water rofe to a great height in Weftminfter-Hall, and London-Bridge was choaked up with wrecks. 13 fhips of war were loft, and i3oofeamen. The damage at London was computed at a million. 1708. John Blow, the mulician, born 164S, died. 1710. Betrerton, the player, born 1635, died. 171 1. Clarendon printing-houfe, Oxford, founded. ' Marftia! de Boufflers, died. T712. Boileau, French poet, born 1630, died. 17 13. Bidloo, the anatomift, born at Amfterdam 1649, died. 17 16. Aug. 5, two foldiers were whipped almoft to death, and turned out of the fervice, for wearing boughs in their hats, the 29th of May. 1717. George I. at the requeft of the univerfity of Cam- bridge, fupprefled the ridiculous cuftom of burning in efkgy^ the pope, the pretender, the earl of Mar, the devil and the duke of Ormond. 1718. Cuftom-houfe, London, prefent one built ; firfti559. 1724. A fire happened in a -barn at Burwell in Cambridge- fliire, when i 50 perfons loft their lives and were buried in one vault in the church. 1726. Rev. Dr. Nicholas Brady, born 1659, died. 1727. The common-council of London entertained at St. James's palace by George I. 1729. Bancroft, a lord mayor's officer, died worth 30,000!. which THETABLETOFMEMORY. 389 >vhich is, by his will, difpofed of in building an hofpital, and other charitable ufes, by the drapers company. Sir Richard Blackmore, died. Boyer, the lexicographer, born 1664., died. 1730. Achmet III. emperor of the Turks, who encouragjpd printing in Conftantinople, died. 1731. Charles Boyle, earl of Orrery, born 1676, died. 1732. In April, Richard Smith, a book-binder, prifoner in the King's-Bench, perfuaded his wife to follow his example, and make away with herfclf, after they had murdtred their infant. They were found hanging in their chamber, and their infant dead in the cradle. They left a paper, intimating, they did it to avoid the diftrefles of life. 1733. Barton Booth, the player, born i68i, died May. 173.5. Dr. Arbuthnot, born idSi, died. X738. Dr. Boerhaave, died Sept. 23, aged 69, 1742. Revd. Dr. Richard Bcntley, born 1662, died. 1744. J""^ '4» Admiral Anfon returned with the rich Aca- pulco fliip. 1749. Confplracy at Malta to deftroy the whole order, for which 125 Turkilliflaves fuffercd death, June 26.; 1750. In May, the lord mayor, one alderman; ijvo judges, the greateft part of the jury, and a number of fpeftators, caught the jail-diftemper, at the feffions-houfe, Qld-Bailey, and died. 1751. Lord Bolingbroke, died, aged 73. 1752. Cardinal Alberoni died, aged 88. 1753. Berkeley, bifliop of Cloyne, died, aged 73. 1761. Admiral Bofcawen, died, aged 50. J764. Sir John Barnard, died, aged 80. ,' 1768. Revd. Dr. Birch, died, aged 78. ■ j 1770. Dr. Mark Akenfide, died June 23, aged 35. Bofton, New-England, feveral killed by the 29th Regiment, March 5. 1771. March, the lord mayor, and alderman Oliver, fen t to the Tower by the Houfe of Commons, for committing their meffenger. Aug. Dr. Solander and Mr. Banks returned from a voyage to the South-Seas, in fearch of difcoveries. John duke of Bedford, died. 1772. June, trade had nearly received a fatal blow, by the failure of feveral capital houfes. 1773. Philip earl of Cheilerfield, died, aged 78, H E l» 39© THETABLET OF MEMORY. HEPTARCHY. TH E Saxon, commenced in the fixth century, and con- tinued till 800, when Egbert reigned alone. ("Kingdom of Kent, containing only that county. *■ (^ Tl began 457, and ended 823. f The South Saxons, containining Suflex and Surry. ■ \ It began 49 1 , and ended about 600. The Weft-Saxons, containing Cornwall, Devon- fKire, Dorfetfliire, Wiltfliire, Hampfnire, and ^* Berkfliire. _ It began 519 ; ended 1066. The Eaft Saxons, containing EfTex, Middlefex, and part of Hertfordfliire. began 527 ; ended 747. pNorthumberland, containing Lancafliire, York- j fhire, the bifhoprick of Durham, Cumberland, Northumberland, and part of Scotland, as far as Edinburgh Frith. _It began 547 ; ended about 792. ' The Eaft-Angles ; containing Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgefliire, ^ It began 575, ended 793. pMercia, containing Gloucefterfhire,Worcefterfhire, Warwickfhire, Leicefterfhire, Rutlandfhire, Northamptonfhire, Lincolnfliire, Huntingdon- fhire, Bedfordfhire, Bucklnghamfliire, Oxford- fhire, StafFordfhire, Shropfhire, Nottingham- fhire, Chefterfhire, and part of Hertfordfliire. ^It began 582 ; ended 874. ENGLAND. 457. 491. 519- 527. 4, 547- 5 575. 6. 582. 7.^ It |ti (it n I 207. T U C I U S the firft chriftian king of, left the Ro- M J man empire heir to his kingdom. 430. Quitted by the Romans. 440. Ravaged by the Pifts and Scots. 443. Refufed further proteftion by the Romans. 446. Invited over the Saxons to expel the Pids and Scots. 457. Who foon began to eftablifh themfelves, by taking pofTeffion of different parts of the kingdom, on the South fide of the Severn, viz. Hengift erefled the kingdom of Kent. 491. Ella erefled the kingdom of South-Sex. 519. Cerdic erefled the kingdom of Weft-Sex. 527. Erkenwine erefled the kingdom of Eaft-Sex in. 547. Ella and Ida erefted the kingdom of Northumbers. And afterwards divided it into the provinces of Bernicia and Deria, which became united under Ofvvy. 575 Uffa erected the kingdom of Eaft-Angles, 582 Cridda THE TABLET OF MEMORY. 391 582. Cridda eftablifhed the kingdom of Mercia. 809. AH which kingdoms were united under Egbert, king of the Weft Saxons. 842. Who became the firft fole monarch, and in whcfe reign it firft received the name of England, (vide Heptarchy.) The kingdom divided into pariilies. 886. Into counties and hundreds. 921 . Invaded by the Scots, who were defeated by Athelftan. 984. Invaded by the Welch. 1003. Invaded by Sweyn king of Denmark. 1013. Invaded again by Sweyn, and almoft; totally fubdued by him. 1015. Invaded by Canute. 1052. Invaded by Godwin, earl of Kent. 1066. Invaded by the Normans, under William their duk«, who fubdued the kingdom. 1069. Invaded by the Irifh, who defeated the Englifh. 1070. The Irifli landed again, and were defeated. 1071. Invaded by Malcolm of Scotland, who burnt feveral churches, &c. again in 1091, and 1093, when Malcolm and his fon were killed at Alnwick. iioi. Invaded by Robert, duke of Normandy. 1 136. Invaded by David of Scotland : By the Welch, the fame year, with fuccefs. 1 183. Invaded by the Scots. 1206. Put under an interdict by the pope. 1214. InterdiQ taken off. 121 5. All in arms. 1258. Underwent a reform. 1416. Invaded by the French. 1485. Invaded by Henry, duke of Richmond, Aug. 7. Vide Danes, War, Rebellion. REBELLION. 1088. ^A E the Englifh againft William Rufus, in favour V^ of his brother Robert ; extinguifhed 1090. 1095. Of the Welch, who defeated the Normans and Englifh. 1381. Of the Englifti, under Wat Tyler, June 12. 1387. Of the barons. 1400. Of the Englifli and Welch. 1450. Of Jack Cade, in favour of the duke of York, June i. 1469. Of the EngliiK. 1536. Of the Englifh. 1549. Of the Engliih. 1554. OfWiat's. 1569, In the North of England. 1599. Of the Irifh, under Tyrinc. 1608. Of O'Dogherty, Ireland. 1639. Of the Scotch. 1641. The 39Z THE TABLET OF MEMORY.. 1641. Of the Iriili. 1666. Of the Scotch. 1685. Under Monmouth, June 11. 1715. Of the Scotch, under the pretender. 1^45- Of the Scotch, under the pretender. LONDON. 306. 'XT 7 A L L E D ard a palace built. 653- W Made a bifli ..prick. 8S5. City repaired by Alfred. 91 z. Toraily burnt. 1077. Nearly deftroyed by fire and 1130. 1208. Obtained their firft free charter for elefting their magiftrates! 1242. Aldermen firft appointed. 1246. Moft of the houfes were thatched. 1300. xA-li built with wood. 1386. Privileges of, taken away, but reftored on fubmiflior. 1453. John Norman was the firft lord mayor that went to be fworn at Weftminfter-hall by water. 1479. Robert Byfield, one of the fherifFs, was fiued fifty pounds by the court of Aldermen, for" affronting the lord mayor, only by kneeling too near him at prayers, at St. Paul's church. i486. John Percival, was the firft perfon drank to by the lord mayor for fherifF. 1582. The Thames water conveyed into the city. 1600. The city M'as almoft entirely built of wood, and> in every refpeft very ugly, about. 1613. The new river water brought to London. 1682. Pilkington and Shute, tke city fheriffs, fent prifon- ers to the tower, for continuing a poll, after the lord mayor had adjourned it. 1653. "^^^ lo^'d mayor and fheriffs arretted at the fuit of two pretended jTierifFs, April 24. 1683. The charter of the city declared forfeil^ed to the crown, June 12. 1688. Privileges taken away, but reftored foon after. 1770. The city remonftrated on the king's paying fi.o atten- tion to their petition for a redrefs of grievances. j ard-vfafS cenfured. 177 1 , Brafs Croft)y, the lord mayor, and alderman Oliver, f§nt to the tower by the Houfe of Commons, for committing their mefTenger. LONDON-BRIDGE. 1018. T> UILT about. 1036. |J Burnt. 1 163. Built new with timber. 1209. Finifh^d THE TABLET OF MEMORY. 393 1209. Fin.ifhed with ftone after 33 years labour. IZI2. Burnt by a fire at both ends and 3000 perfons loft their lives. 1632. A great fire on it, Feb. 11. 1725. Another, Sept. 8. 1758. Which did great damage ; the temporary one burnt April II.* 1 761. Houfes taken down, ornamented with ba!uftrades,&c. JEWS. 606. ^ I A HE Seventy years captivity of, began 606 J[ before Chrift. 115. They about Cyrene, headed by one Andrac, murder- ed near 200,000 Greeks and Romans, they eat their entrails, and covered themfelves with the (kins of thofe they aflafilnated , J 1 5 after Chrift. 135. Above 580,000 deftroyed by the Romans. I079. Firft arrived in England. 1180. Thinking to invoke the divine clemency, at the fo- lemnixation of the paflbver, facrificed a young lad of twelve years old, the fon of a rich tradefman at Paris, by firll whip- ping his flefli from his bones, and then crucifying him ; for which cruelty the criminals were executed, and the reft ba- niflied France. 1189. From thisclrcumftance the Jews have been ever fince held in deteftation. Maflacred, Sept 3, 1235. Seven were condemned to pay the king 200,000 marks, or fuffer perpetual imprifonment, for circumcifing a chriftian child at Norwich, and attempting to crucify him. 1255. Two hundred and upwards were apprehended for cru- cifying a child at Lincoln, i8 of whom were hanged, and the reft heavily fined. 1262. Seven hundred were flain in London, becaufe a jew would have forced a chriftian to pay him more than two lliil- lings per week for the loan of twenty. 1274. Every Jew, who lent money on ufury, was com- manded to wear a plate upon his brcaft, fignifying that he was an ufurer, or to quit the realm. 1277. "Fwo hundred and fixty4feyen were banged and quar- tered for clipping. 1282. The fame year the Jews crucified a child at North- ampton, for v.'hich fifty were drawn at horfes tails and hanged. All the fynagogues were ordered to be deftroyed. 1287. All the Jews in England were apprehended in one day, their goods and chatties Confifcated to the king, and they, to the number of 1 5,060, banillied the realm, having only fuftenance m ney allowed. 1771. Four executed for murdering Mrs. Hutchins's fervant atChelfea, December 9. A V I E W 394^ THE TABLET OF MEMORY. A VIEW OF THE VARIOUS PRICES OF PROVISIONS. 1 177, A FAT ox, i2d. flieep, 4d. provender for 20 _/\_ horfes, 4.d. bread tor 100 men, »2d. I299. Goule 4d. lamb at Chriftinas, 6d. all the reft of the year, ^d. two pullets, i d. farthing. 1314. Fat ox, 1 1. 4 s. flieep, is. 2d. hog, 3 s. 4 d. two chickens, id. four pigeons, id. 24 eggs, id. wheat, beans and peafe, 20 s. the quarter. R O M E. 753. y^OUNDED, April 20, before Chrift. Romulus _£' was the firftking. 602. The city walled, and the common fewers made. 605. The great circus built, which could contain 150,00c perfons. 907. The capitol and temple of Jani:s built. 388. Burnt by the Gauls. 83. The capitol burnt before Chrift. 48-. On enquiry there were found to be 1,544,000 citizens, !j-efore Chrift. lOQ. On examination, feveral perfons were found to be loo, 120, 130, 132, 135 and 140 years old, and two were advanced to 150, in 74. 250. Pompey's theatre burnt. 270. A great many Roman ladies poifoned their huft)ands, 170 fuft'ered death for it. 331. This was the firft example of fuch a crime. Year 669 490 480 470 375 Tl :aTTLE OF 'HEHoratiiandCu- ratii, before Chrift. Marathon, before Chrift. Salamis, before Chrift. Eurvraedon, beforeChrift. Leudlra, before Chrift. ^6^ Mantinea, before Chrift. 334 The R.GranicuSj before Chrift. 33^ Irfus, before Chrift. 331 Arbela, before Chrift. 47 Pharfalia, before Chrift. 31 Philippi, before Chrift. 31 Aftium, beforeChrift. 633 Hatfield, inYorklhire, be- tween Canwallen and Year. BATTLE OF Edwin, after Chrift. 634 Benfield. 641 Olweftree, between Pen- da the Mercian, and Ofwald of Northum- berland. 642 Malerfield. 651 G.'liing. 655 Leeds. 740 Landesfarne. 771 Benfon^ in Oxfordiliire. 834 834 Helfton, in Cornwall, and ill the Ifle of Sheepy, between Eghert and theDanes. 840 THE TABLET OF MEMORY. 395 Year. BATTLE OF 840 Romney. 84.3 Somerfetfhire. 851 Devonfliire. 852 London and Canterbury 8$4 IfleofThanet, where the Englifli were defeated and the Danes fettled. 871 AfKdown, where the Danes were defeated by Alfred and Ethel- red ; and another de- feat at Merton. 872 Wilton, in Oxfordfliire, where the EnglifK were defeated by the Danes. 894 Farnham, in Hampfhire, where the Danes were defeated. 905 Bury, in Suffolk, between Edward the elder and his brother Ethelwolf. 910 Edward and the Danes 913, and 914. 916 Griffith of Wales, and Leofric the Dane. 918 Maiden, in Eflex, be- tween Edward and the Danes. 938 Widendane, between A- thelftan, the Irilh, and the Scots. 938 The Saxons and Danes, with different fuccefs, fought feveral, 1016. 1016 Aflidown, between Ca- nute and Edmund. 1038 Crofsford, with the Welfh. io$4 Dunfinane, in Scotland, between Siward and Macbeth. 1066 Stanford-bridge, fince called Battle-Bridge, between Haroldl. and Harfinger, Sept. 25. 1066 Maftings, where Harold was flain. Oft. 14. 1078 Gerberay. Year. BATTLE OF 1094 Alnwick. 1 106 Tinchebray. 1 138 The ftandard. 1141 Lincoln. 1 198 Gifors. 1 21 4 Bovines, July 25. 1217 Lincoln, May 19. 1264 Lewes, May 14. 1265 Evefliam, Aug. 4. 1296 Chefterfield. 1299 Falkirk. 1303 Biggar. 1314 Bannockburn, June 25; 1333 Halidon-Hill, near Ber- wick, where 15,000 of theScotswere flain, and only 15 Englifh, July 19. 1346 Creffy, where the king of Bohemia's ftandard, with the motto ICH DIEN (I ferve) was taken, by Edward, prince ofWales, com- monly called the Black prince j and ever fince ufed as the creft to the arms of the princes of Wales, Aug. 26. 1346 Durham, where David, king of Scotland, was taken prifoner,Oi5l. 1 7 . 1356 Poidiers, where the king of France and his fon were taken p'rifoners, Sept. 19. 1369 Najara. 1388 Otterborn,betweenHot- fpur, and the earl of Douglas, July 31 . 1403 Shrewfbury, July 12. 1415 Agincourt, 0&.. 1. 142 1 Beauge, where the duke ofClarence was killed, April 3. 1423 Crevant, June. 1424 Verneuil, Aug. 27.. 1429 Herrings, Feb. 12, '454 THE TABLET OF MEMORY. 396 Year. BATTLE OF 1457 St. Alban's, May 22. 1459 Bloreheath, Sept. 23. 1460 Northampton, July 10. 1460 Wakefield, Dec. 24. 1461 Teuton, March 29. 1464 Hexham, May 15, 1469 Banbury, July 26. 1470 Stamford, March. 1471 Barnet, April 14. 1471 Tewklbury, May 4. 1485 Bofworth, Aug. 22. 1487 Stoke, June 6. 149 1 Knocktow, Ireland. 1497 Blackheath, June 22'. . 1513 Floudon, Sept. 9, when James IV. king of Scot- land Was killed. 1542 Solwky,- Nov. 24. 1547 Pinkey, Sdpf. 10. 1557 St, Quintin, Aug, 10. 1597 Blackwater, Ireland. 1642 Kilrufh, Ireland. Lifcarrol, Ireland. Edgehill, Oa. 23. 1643 Rofs, Ireland, March. Shafton, May 16. Landfdown, July 5. Roundaway iDbwn, July ■ "NfiW'bury, Sept. 20. t644- 'Marfton-Moor, July 2. Newbury, 0€t. 27. 1645 Nafeby, June. 1646 Benburb, Ireland. 1647 Knocknonefs, Ireland, Not: 1649 Balhmines, Ireland. 1650 Dunbar, Sept. 3. 1651 Worcefter, Sept. 3. 1679 Bbthwell-Br'idge, June 22. , . ..,. . i689' Newtown-Biitlersy' Jxp-l land. . 1690 Boyne', Ireland, July i'. 1691 Aughrim, Ireland, July 12. 1(^92 Steinkirk, Aug. 3. 1693 Landen,, July 19. Marfaglia, OQ.. 8. Year. BATTLE OF 1700 Narva, by Charles XII. of Sweden over the Mufcovites, Dec. 11. 1701 Chiara, Aug. 6. 1702 Luzarain Italy, Aug.15. 1704 Blenheim, Aug. 2. Hockftet, Aug. 13. 1706 Ramilics, Whitfunday. Turin, Sept. 7. 1707 Almanza, in Spain. 1708 Oudenard, June 30. Winnedale, Sept. 28. 1709 Caya, May 17. Malplaquet, Sept. 11. Pultawa, when Charles XII. was defeated, June 27. 1710 Almannara, July 17. SaragcfTa, Philip defeat- ed, Aug. 20. ' Villa Viciofa, Dec. 12. 1715 Dumblain, Nov. 12. 17 16 Peterwarden, Turks de- feated, Aug. 5. 17 17 Belgrade, July 16. 1734 Parma, June 29* Guaftalla, Aug. 19. 174I' Molwitz, April 10. 1742 Hilkerfburg, April 8. Craflaw, May 7. 1743 Dettingen, June 26. 1745 Fontenoy, April 30. Friedberg, June 4. Prefton-Pans, Sept. ^i. 1746 Falkirk, Jan. 17. Roucoux, April 12. Culloden, April 16. St. Lazaro, May 31. 1747 Laffielt, July 20. 1755 The Lake of St. George, ; .. . Sept. 8. ■1756 Lowofchutz, Sept. 30. 1757 Prague, May 22. Kolin, June 12. Crevelt, June 23. Cofeldt, July 25. Rofbach, Nov. 5. Lifla, Dec. 5. »759 THE TABLET OF MEMORY. 397 Year. BATTLE OF 1759 Bergen, April 14. Minden, Aug. i. Wandwafh, Jan. 10. Niagara, July 24. Warburg, Aug. 6. Montmorenci, Aug. 10. Cunnerfdorf, Aug. 12. The Plains of Abraham, at Quebec, Sept. 13. 1760 Near Quebec, April 28. PfafFandorfF, Aug. 12. Torgau, Nov. 3. 1762 Graebenftein, June 4. SEA-FIGHT. Year. 876 1217 1297 1574 1639 1652 1653 WITH the Danes, when Alfred de- feated 120 fhips off Dorfetfliire. Off Sandwich. Between the French and Englifh, when the French admiral was taken. With the French, and 200 fail taken laden with wine. Near the gulph of Le- panto, between the Proteftant powers and the Turks, who loft 25>ooo men killed, and 4000 taken pri- foners, and out of zSoveifels, favedonly 25; oa. 7. Between theEnglifti and French. Between the Spaniards and Dutch. In the Downs, with the Dutch, June 19. Near Portland, with the Dutch, who were beaten, Feb. iS. Year. SEA-FIGHT. With the Dutch, June 2, the fame. Ag^ain, July 29, the fame. 1664 Again, Dec. 4, 130 fail of Dutch merchant- men taken by the duke of York. 1665 Again, June 3, when the Englifli cpaquered. Between theEnglifliand Dutch, Sept. 4. 1666 Of four days, June I, 2, Vi6lory of the Englifli, July 25, following. 1667 Dutch fleet failed up as far as Chatham, and deftroyed great part of the Englifli fleet, June II. 1667 With the French, when their fliips were burnt, near Martinico, June 1671 Twelve Algerlne pirates deftroved by Sir Ed- ward Spragg. . . 1672 At Solebay, May 28. 1673 With the Dutch, May 28. With the Dutch, June 4, the fame. At the Texel, Aug. 11, 1680 Between the French and Englifli, May i. 1690 Englifli and Dutch beat by the French, off Beachy-Head, June 30- 1692 French beat off La Hogue, May 19. 1702 Spaniards beat by Sir George Rooke, &c. Oa. 12. 1718 French fleet deftroyed by Sir George Byng, I!. i744» Aug. THE TABLET OF MEMORY. 398 Year. SEA-FIGHT. 1744 Engagement ofFToulon, Feb. 9. 1759 Of admiral Hawke. French beat off Cape Lagos, by admiral Borcawen, Aug. 18. l755'*Alcide and Lys. taken by admiral Bofcawen. WAR AND PEACE. Year. 1068 092 013 116 118 139 161 186 194 195 201 215 216 224 243 262 267 294 296 299 323 327 328 333 339 360 WAR, among many others, witliScot- land. Peace with Scotland. Peace with France. War with France. Peace with France. Peace with Scotland. War with France. Peace with France. War again with France, with fuccefs. Peace with France. War with France. War civil, renewed. War ended. War with France. War ended. War, civil. War civil, ended. War with France. War with Scotland. Peace with France. Peace with Scotland, March 30. V/ar again, with Scot- land. War ended. War again, with Scot- land. War with France. Peace with France, May 1368 War with France. Year. WAR and PEACE. 400 War civil. War with Scotland. 420 Peace with France, May 31- 422 War with France, 452 War civil, betweenYork and Lancafter. 471 Peace wirh France, 0(5l. 486 War civil. 492 Warwith France, 0£t. 6. Peace with France, Nov. 3, follow^ing. 502 Peace with Scotland. 512 War with France, Feb.4. 513 War with Scotland. 514 Peace with France, Aug. 7- 522 War with France. War with Scotland. 527 Peace with France. 542 Peace with Scotland. War with Scotland, di- redtly after. 546 Peace with France and Scotland, June 7. 547 War with Scotland. 549 War with France. 550 Peace with both, March 6. 553 War, civil. 557 WarwithFrance,June7. 557 War with Scotland. 559 Peace with France, April 2. 560 Peace with Scotland. 562 War with France. 564 Peace with France. 570 War v/ith Scotland. 588 War with Spain. 604 Peace with Spain, Aug, 18. 624 War with Spain. 627 War with France. 629 Peace with Spain and France, April 14. 642 War, civil. 651 War with the Dutch. 654 Peace with the Dutch, April 5. 165s THE TABLET OF MEMORY. 399 Year. EARTHQUAKE. Year. WAR and PEACE. 1655 ^^'' "^^'^^ Spain. j66o Peace with Spain, Sept. 10. 1666 War with France, Jan. 26. War v/ith Denmark, 0(^l 19, following. 1667 Peace with the French, Danes, and Dutch, Aug. 24. 1668 Peace with Spain, Feb. '3- 1669 War with the Algennes, Sept. 6. 1 67 1 Peace with the Alge- rines, Nov. 19. 1672 War with the Dutch, Mfirch. 1674 Peace with the Dutch, Feb. 28. 1689 War with France, Ma)'7. 1697 Peace, general, Sept. 20. 170Z War with France, May4. J713 Peace of Utrecht, July 13- . . ^ 1718 War with Spain, Dec. 1721 Peace with Spain. I7J9 War with Spain, Odl. 19. 1744 Warwith France, March 3^- . 1748 Peace with France, &c. Oa. 18. 1756 War with France. 1762 War with Spain, Jan. 4. 1763 Peace with France and Spain, Feb. 10. EARTH Q^UAKE. Year. 17 /^NE in Afia, that V-/ overturned 12 cities. 79 Herculaneum buried by one. 107 Four cities in Ada, two in Greece, and three in Galatia, v/ere ver- lurnsd. 115 Antioch deftroyed. izo One that Iwallowed up Niconiedia, and le- veral neighbouringci- ties. 357 One in Macedonia that fwallowed up 150 ci- ties, 358 AtNicomedia inBithynia. 363 At Jerufaleni and Con- ftantinople. 369 In Italy. 370 The city of Nice de- ftroyed. 377 -^ ^tneral one. 394 One irom the month of S-pr. to that of Nov. which fwallowed up feveral cities in Eu- rope. 400 Five at different parts of Europe. 417 One fwallowed up feveral villages in the neigh- bourhood of Cymbri. 419 One fwallowed up feveral cities in Paleftine. 434 One at Conftantinople, and 446 Conftantinople, Alexan- dria, and Antioch, fuf- fered much. 458 One that almoft deftroyed the city of Ai)iioch, Sept. 14. 480 One at Conftantinople, that lafted 40 days, and overturned fe- veral edifices. 526 One at Antioch, that de- ftroyed that and fe- veral other cities, 528 Another at Antioch thac fwallowed up 4800 in- habitants. 54I Pompelopclis, in Myl!a, . fwallowed up. 544 One almoft univerfal. 552 One at Conftantinople. SSI ^oo THE TABLET OF MEMORY. Year. EARTHQUAKE. 557 One at Rome and Con- Itantinople that over- threw many houfes. 560 City of Berltus deftroy ed, and theifleofCoos iKaken, and Tripoli and Bilbus damaged. 581 At Daphne and Antioch. 742 Six hundred cities de- ftroyed, and men and beads without number killed. 746 In Paleftine and Syria where thoufands loft their lives. 867 At Mecca where fifteen hundred houfes and rinety towers were throv.-n down. 986 Conftantinople over- thrown, and Greece fliaken. 1021 One at Batavia. 1048 At Worceller and Der- by. 1076 One in April 6, in Eng- land ; and 1 08 1 again in and 1089. 1090 One throughout all Eng- land, followed by a great fcarclty of fruit, and a late harveft. mo One in Shroplliire. 1112 One v.hich overwhelmed the city of Liege, and the town of Rotten- burg, in Sweden. 1 1 14 One in Dec. at Antio- chia, which deftroyed feveral cities and towns, and overturn- ed the caftle of Tria- letb, and the cities o Marifcum and Mamif- tria were totally de- ftroyed. 1117 In Lombardyfor 4.odays. 1 1 18 One in Dec. 1 120 One in Sept. Year. EARTHQUAKE. 1 1 34 One in Auguft. 1 1 34 In the month of Auguft in many parts of the kingdom. 1 137 One that fwallowed up the city of Catania and more than 15,000 fouls. 1 142 At Lincoln. 1 159 Antioch, Tripoli, and Damafcus deftroyed. 1178 At Oxenhall, near Dar- lington, in the county of Durham. 1 179 In Hungary and Eng- land. 1x85 One that overthrew the church of Lincoln and others. 1186 At Calabria, in Sicily, and a city with all its inhabitants loft in the Adriatic fea. 1 1 87 The city of Verona greatly damaged. 1 199 In Somerfetjliire. 1222 At Brifa, in Lombardy, where 2000 lives were loft. 1248 A dreadful one in Eng- land, Feb. 14. 1249 One in Somerfetfliire 1250 One at St. Albans. 1274 General one that threw down St. Michael's on the hill, without ' Glaftonbury. 1318 The grealeft ever known in England Nov. 14. 1346 A dreadful one in Ger- many. 1382 Several churches thrown down by one in May 21 1426 A very dreadful one, ac- companied with thun- der and lightning, Sept. 28. 1456 One in Naples when 40,000 perfoRs perifli- • ed THE TABLETOF MEMORY. 401 Year. EARTHQUAKE. ed in the ruins of the city. I 510 In Italy. 1530 In the ifle cf Cuba, which did great da- mage. 1551 At Rygate, Croydon,: and Darking in Surry, May 25. 1556 In China. : 1571 At Knanftone, in Here-' fordfhire, whichever- 1 threw Kingfton cha- ' pel, and removed ' houfes, highways, &c. February 17. 1574. In YorklKire, Worceft- erfhire, Gloucefter- fliire, Herefordfliire, &c. which did great damage, Feb. 26. 1580 In London and Weft- minfter, wJien part of St. Paul's and the temple churches fell, and many houfes were overthrown. It was felt at Sandwich, where it agitraed the fea J and at Dover, where part of the rock and caftle fell into the fea ; Sahwood caftle and Sutton church, in Kent, fell April 6. 1581 In Peru, and 1 582. 1583 In Dorfeifliire, where it removed a confidera- ble piece of ground, Jan. 13. 1590. In Bohemia, Moravia, and Hungary. 1596 In Japan, where thou- iands \vere deftroyed, and feveral cities fwal- lowed up. In Kent, where the hills became vallics full of water. 1600 1621 1638 1640 1657 1660 1667 1668 1677 1678 1679 1683 16S8 1692 1693 1718 1726 1731 1732 C c In Peru, at Quitto and Arequipa. In Banda, in the Eaft- Indies. In Calabria, in Italy; March 27. At Manilla. ■ At Mechlin. In Norway, May 24, In France, June. At Ragufa, in Illyrium,; a terrible one that de- ftroyed that city, and near 6000 inhabitants, and feveral towns in Dalmatia and Albania, April 6. In China. In Staffordfliire and Dsr- byfiiire. Another In Oxfordfhire and Staf- fordflilre. At Oxford. At Naples, where a third part of that city and much iKipping were deftroyed, June 6, and 7. One felt in England, Fifance, and Germa- ny, 100,000 perifhed by it i Port Royal in Jamaica, deftroyed, and 3000 peoole loft, Sept. Meffina, in Sicily, over- turned in a moment, i8,ooQ perifhed ; in the ifland 60,000, Jan. One at China, June 19. Palermo, in Sicily, near- ly deftroyed the great- eft part of the city overturned and 6000 perfons buried in the ruins, Sept. 2. At Aynto, in Northamp- tonfliire, 06i. 10. One at Naplc;. 1734- '4(^ Year •754 1742 «745 1746 THE TABLET OF MEMORY. 1-40 1750 1751 1755 r55 i7<,6 . EARTHQUAKE. At Arundel and Shore- liani, Oa. 25. At Leghorn, Jan. 5 and 6. Lt Somerfeiflirre, June 15- A nioft terrible one at Lrma, which deftroy- ed that city, and 5000 perfons Io{t their lives j There were 74 church- es, 14 uionafteries, 15 hcfpitats thrown (,irw*n,' and the lofs in cfTcifis reckoned im- nienfe'; from 0£t. 27 ro N.OV. '16. The fame tilneit extend- ed iil'elf to Callao, a lea-port town near, which was totally de- ftroyed, with above $000 ofits inhabitants. In London, Eeb. 8, and March 8/ At Liverpool, Chefter, and Manchefter, April 2. At Firme, in the gxilph of Venice, Feb. 5. A terrible one, Nov. i. Which did confiderable damage -^t Oporto, in Portugal, aF.d Seville, in Spain ; but more particularly at Liftbn^ in about eight ininutei liicft of, the iiiperb - houfes, ■ and above 50,000 inhabitants were deftroyed, ^and whole ftreets fwallow- ed up. The .lofs fuftained was immenfe. The cities of Coimbra and Brage fnffered fcverelv ; and St. Ubes was alnioft totally fwallc'.ved up Year. EARTHQUARE. 1736 At Faro 3000 inhabit- ants were buried in the ruins of their houfes. One half of the city of Fez, in Morocco, and 12,000 Arabs, who were encamped, were fwallowed up ; and above half of the ifland of Madeira de- llroyed. This earthquake ex- tended round more than 5000 miles. Another terrible one at the Azores, July 9. 1760 A terrible one in Syria, Oa. 30. 1766 A dreadful one at Con- ftantinople, buried 880 perfons. May 22.. 1767 At Martinico, Auguft, where i6oo perfons loft their lives. 1768 At Komora and Buda, June 28. 1772 One in theBrafils, where it did conliderable da- mage. PLAGUE. 1494 -'-pN E N% of Egypt, X before Chrlft. 767 Almoft the whole world vifited by one before Chrift. 78 In Rome which carried off 10,600 perfons in a day, after Chrift. 1247 In England, and 1347. 1348 In Germany, which cut off 96,000 people. 1362 In Paris and London, very dreadful. 1379 Again the fame. 1407 In THE T_AB.L"ET Year. .P A L ,G U E.„. ; i 1407 In London, whidh-kiHcq -.. ^ ;. .30,000 perforfe. ^ ' 1477 Again, when more vvcr? deilroyed than ;ip ■ 15 years war before. 1499, Again, when 30,000 -died in Londoh,-. 154S Again. 1594 Again. ' 1604 Again, which carriedjpfF • "'■ in London,^* "^foiinh! pnrt of its inhabitants.! «6i:l At Gonil:antinO|)!e, when: 200,000 perfons' died. 1625 At London, where died' 35>4'7- ■. ^4, -'• l6j2 At Lyons ir^TFrance, where died 60, coo. 1665 Again at London^ which deftrcyed 68;,ooo per- perlcns. ;: viTi.-FJmA'J'M 1 ^ E. -'■''' -, ' , -' 1708 The beginning of tliat which l-ifted feven years before Chrift. 440 An extraordinary one at Rome, when many perfons threw them- telyes into the Tyber, ■ ,,i before Chrift. >. tij 446vA' terrible one at Con-" . a ■• ftantincple. - :- 4.50,: Sq dreadful a oae in Ita- ly, that parents were reduced to the cruel neceflity of eating their own children. 976 One. Foo5 Another. ip§7. Another. i.f^3^ Que in England and t>3ix>Bq-iFrance, which conti- -idi .i: nnued from 1^93 to II95- . 1 25 1 Another in England. 1315 Atlother. I3!E^ Another. OF MEMd'TlV. 4^^403 Vear. E A M I N E.'": 1335 AnotifeF.--^' 1348 Anotlier. ' ' 1353 Anoilrer- in England and ■ £" ranee, ' called the • dear Summer. I389 Another in England. 1438 And another. F r' OS T. 558 So great, that the Da- nube w^s <|uite frozen over, 760 One that continued from Oa. I, to Feb. 25.^ 859 Carriages were ufed on the Adriatic fea. . . 987 One that lafted ijo^ays, which began Dec, 22. 11I4 Sevejal bridges in Eng^- 'iand, being then- of timber^ were broken down after a, fevere frbtl., •■:••../ <"'■ 1407 One of i5,'.^eeii:s. 1434 Great one in England, from Nov. 24 to Feb. 10. 1683 When the Thames was frozen over below bridge to jGravefend j another ■Othich conti- nued thirteen weeks. 171 5 Again. '739 Another, which beg^n Dec. 24, and continu- ed nine weeks. F I R E. 1666 Of London-, that burrtt d'Own ii3,ooohoufes, the city gates, Guild- ha:l, and a vail num- ber o/11ate!y edifices ; 86 churches, among v/hMi was Sr. Paul's C c 2 cathedral ; 404 THE TABLET Year. FIRE. cathedra], ^; "and 40^) ftreets. The ruins of :i the city^ were 486 ;; acres, extending itielf from the Tower to the , 7'eniple church, apd rroin;ib€ Nprth-eaft gate to Holborn- • bridge -and Fleet- ditch,, It;, broke r>ul near the Monument,' . .,■ Sept. 2, and continued; burping foiir days and; nights. ; 1676 In Souihyv^rk, €00: houfes, ; ( ;679 In the Temple, Jan.! I 08,0 Gray's-Inn,. Feb. 7. 171 <, Thame^c-Strcet, Jan. 24. 171-6 Liinehoufe. 1734. St- Cath.prin(?'i,j673 and ,- - ' ^7H-' ,"' ji[749 Battle-bridge, Aug. 12. 1705 Cornhill, March 25, 1748,. Nov. iq, 1759, .,an^ l^o.v,. 7, ^765- C>iFH MEMORY. Year.= 'FIR E, ScC ■ 1737 Iriher-Temple. 1752 Lincoln's-Inn-Square, June 27. l759"Eondon Temporary - bridge, April 11. 1765 At Rotlierhithe, June i 1772 Throgniorton-'Street, May 9. L'iG'H'tN ING .-vnd : T.'HUNDER, &c. s?. 1222 _^ hrow down feveraT churches, F-eb. 1233 It thundered 15 days to_ ' igether, with rain and floods, that deftroyed tJhe fruits of the .ear lb 1360 Deftroyed many men'and V^afts, and burnt many houfes, &c. Vide Storms. ST 1 vR-M. ¥ s. .^ ' : :l : 1091. A Violent one in feyeraFparts of England, efpc- ^X. cially at Wincljelfcomb, in Gloucefterfhire, v.hcre the lleeple .of the Church; v.^asthrjcwji down, 0£t'. 2'.'' f 1091. At London 500 houfes were thrown down, and Bo.x- church unroofed j and, at Old Sarum the fteeple with many hoirfes were thrown down, 061. 17. 1222. One in different parts of England which threw down feveral churches, Feb. , 1233. It thu'ndie.red for 15 days together, with terrible tem- pcfts of thunder and rain. r25i. The chinmey of the chamber where the queen ^' Henry IH. and her children lay, was blown down,- and their' whole apartments, at Windfor fliaken, many Oii.ks in the park were rent afunder, and turned up by the roots, accompanied with fuch thunder .and lightning as had liot been known in the memory of man. 1285 As king Edward I. and his queen were talking to- gether in tlieir beJ-chamber, a fialli of lightning ftruck in at the THE T A B L.E T O F MEMORY. 405 ihe window, pafled by them, killed two of their fervants, who waited upTQii them, but did tiieir oiajefties norprejudice. I359. When Edward III. was on his march, within two leagues of Charres, there happened a moll dreadful ftcrni of piercing wind, that fwelied a tcmpeft of rain, lightning, and hail-ftones, fo prodigious, as to inltaritly kill 6000 of his horfes, and loop of his, beft troops. , .- 1381. When Richard the Second's full wife came from Bo- hemia, fhe had no looner fe't foot on fliore, but fuch a ftorin immediately arofe, as had not been feen for many years j when feveral fhips were daflied 10 pieces in -.the harbour, and the fliip in which the queen came over, was fliattered and broken ; which was the more obfervable. becaufe his fecond wife brought a ftorai with her to the Englilli coafts, in which the king's baggage was loft, and many fliips of his fleet caft ivvay. ,,-.-•', 1389. In different parts of England many aoufes were thrown down, cattle deftroyed, and trees rooted up. 1438. The leads of the Grey-Friars church, and the whole fide of a ftreet called the Old Exchange, almoft beat down, on Nov. 25. 1443. ^'^^ Paul's fteeple fired by lightning, and the fteeple of WalthamrCrofs confuilied. 1651. The day that Oliver Cromwell died, one was fo violent and terrible, that it extended all.ov.er £iyope,. and feemed to threaten the wreck of nature, Septf^j^t^/^/ ., - j 1662. A great one in London, Feb. rS. ,-' 1703. The moft terrible one that had ever been/known in England, attended with flaflacs of lightning, was Nt)v. 3. 1740. Which unroofed many houfes and churches, blev/ down feveral chimnies, and the fpires of many fteeples, tore whole groves of trees up by the roots. The leads of feme churches were rolled up like fcrolls of parchment ; and feveral vefllMs, boats and barges, were funk in the Thames j but the royal navy fuftained the greateft damage,, being juft returned from the Mediterranean, four third rates, one fecond lace, four fourth rates, and many others of lefs force., were call: away upon the coaft of England, and above 1500 feamen loft, be- Udes thofe that were caft away in the merchants fervice. 1740. In London only, the damage v/as cftimatcd at a million. 1740. A violent one on the coaft of England, Nov. i. 1 71; I. One at Nantz, where 66 veilels.and 800 failor.s weir loft, March 7. 17-2. At St. Jago, where it did great damage, and the hail-ftones were as large as oranges, July 16. 1772. A terrible one at St. Kitt's, which did immenfe da- mngp. in that and rhr adjeining ill?nds, Aug. 30. A VIEW f 40^ : ■ A V 1 E" W 9^F-'T HE VARIOUS PRICES OF ''-'■"' 'P R OVI S IONS. AV H E A T. J 1 93. QOLD for 20 fhillings per quarter, equal to fjx ^ pounds now, in 1 193, 1 194. aiid I195. I2i6. Fcr twelve pence a quarter; beans and oats, for fcur pence. 1223. Wivgat in England at 1 1. 16s. od. of our money per quajrer, " ' •• ' '■ i2S'5. b'tfo. ■ 12S6. Wheat fold in fome places for twelve- pence a quarter, and not many years after, for tv-nenty fliillings a bufhe!, as much as four pounds now. 12S8. W'lieat in England at fcurpence the bufhel. 1314. Wheat,, beans and peafe, 20 fliillings the quarter. -1315. Wheat iv'a's fold for 40 fhilHngs a quarter, as much S^ eight pourrdsTibw. 13 1 5. Wheat. was fold for near three pounds a bufKel. J333.' Wheat fold in Dublin at fixpence a bulliei. 1335. Wheat was fold at 40 fliillings a quarter, as much as twenty fliilHngs a bufhel now. 1387. Bcirley, one fliilling the quarter. I4';4. Wheat, one fliilling the quarter ; Malt, i6d. i486. Wheat three fhillings the bulTiel. 1491. Wheat, IS. 8 d. the bufliel. 1493. Wheat fold in London for four fliillings a quarter. 2527. Wheat, 15 s.' the quarter. 1552. There was fiich a fcarcity of corn in Ireland, that a barrel of wheat was fold for 24 fliillings. 1553. A barrei^of b^er, with the caflc, 6 d. and four great leaves for I d. 1555. Wheat fold in England at 2 !. 3 .s. the barrel. 1558. Wheat, I 4 fliillings the quarter. 15S7. Wheat, 3 1. 4s. the quarter at London, while at three places it was at 10 s. and 13 ^. the bulTicl. 1596. Price of wheat, the quarter 2 1. 13s. 4d. and flour, los. the bufliel. 1597. Wheat at 13 s. per bufliel in England. 1646. Variue of wheat the quarter, 2 1. 8 s. 1656. Wheat at 2 I. 3 s. the quarter. 1660. Valued vvhtat the quarter, 2!. i6s. 6d. 1666. Wheat at 1 I. 1670. Wheat at 2 I. 1675. Wheat at 3 i. j6f/Q. Whe^t at 3 I. 165. the quArter. '1 s. 8 d. the quarter. 4 .<;. 8 d. the qrarter. 4 s. the qrrart-er. A SHORT ( 407 ) A SHORT ESSAY ON THE FLUX OF TIME. THERE is no time, properly, but theprefent ; that which is paft, and that which is to come being rather portions of eternity. The former has loft its exiftence, and the latter has not commenced being: Therefore, the very eflence of time is conftituted of a fuccefTion of inftants, and fubufts by a flux ot moments. Like mercury, it glides out of our hands, \vhile we attempt to hold it, and its fubtilty is fo minute, that it is loft at the inftant it is found. The motion of light, which is alnioft inftantaneous, holds notwithftanding, a ttow pace, compared to the imperceptible lapfe of time. No wonder then, that Horace begins his refledtion to Pofthumus, with an Ehu ! Eheu ! fugaces, Pofthume, Pofthume, Labuntur Anni. So that a balance ftruck we can be faid to exift the prefent moment only ; the preceding and fucceedlng having no being, as they are placed out of our power : The duration of human life is one important now ; we change the point of duration every inftant, and are advanced a point more, while we make ; the refleftion at every pace our life moves forward with the minute hand, till death lifts the hammer, ftrikes the hour, and we are no more. The years we have fpent, are not, we perceive no more of them, than if we were dead ; the years to come, we can-not live, till they arrive ; we poffefs no fhare of them, no more than if we were yet unborn : The prefent moment (our only ftore) is vanifhed, even in the inftant of fruition j and one minute pufhes another into the gulph of eternity ; fince then we hold our leafe of time by moments, not by years, which are conftantly renewed, how invaluable fhould we efteem fo precarious an intereft ; the expiration of which, we are wholly ignorant of, and are every inftant haftening to. Time is deftroyed by the very means, whence it exifts ; and its own being arifes from its own deftruftjon. This pre- fent inftant never exifted till now, and is annihilated by the fucceeding one, which will never exift any more. Wie haften to the period of our own duration, while we fpeak, and are, every mortal man of us, dead in the law of nature, as we are under the fentence of death, v/hich can never be repealed ; the longeft life being but a very iliort re- prieve, a fmall refpite from the point of execution. Of this day many hours are paft, of this hour many minutes are gone, and of' this minute many feconds are expired ; we live them not, nor are we certain, whether we faall live the lucceeding portions of this minute, this hour, or this day. And fhall we kill, v/hat deftroys itfelf ! fhall we barba- roufly kill an hour, which is itfelf a fuicide ! But perhaps we aa ( 40» ) aft by the lex talionis, and for fpite kill what will certainly kill us, fince there is no hour, or indeed no inftant, wherein death has not equal jurifdidion with life, no point of time, which life fhares not with death ; how ftrange then, that the being of duration, which is of fo fleeting and fubtle a nature that time, v/hich is fo light that it cannot be weighed, fhould yet lie heavy on our hands. Delicate indeed muft be the bal- lances, which ihould weigh moments, being of fo tranfitory and fugitive a texture, that they evaporate in the very fcales, yea even in the very transfufion ; fo that no hermetical fealing can fix and reftrain their fluidity ; no experiment bind them into confidence, no attraftion keep them from flying oft in Tangents. Every man who lends out money to ufe, may be an adequate judge of the value of time j and yet, would not the ulurer, at the point of expiring, purchafe moments with pounds, and days at a million per cent ! The reverfion of moments is fo precarious, that the life of man in the political calculations, is abridged to fo fmall a duration, as feven years, and even this trifling duration is va- ried and curtailed, according to the circuniftances of age, health, and other accidents and retrofpects : For the celebra- ted Dr. Halley fheweth, that it is eighty to one, a perfon of twenty five years of age does not dye in a year ; that it is five and a half to one, that a man of forty, lives feven years ; and that one of thirty, may reafonably expefl to live twenty feven, or twenty eight years. So great a diff'erence there is in the life of rnan, at different ages, that it is a hundred to one, that one of twenty, lives out one year, and but thirty eight to one that a man of fifty does fo • From which obfer- vations, he has calculated the following table fhewing the value of annuities, from every fifth year of life to the feventieth. I Age. Years. Pur. I 5 10 28 »3 40 lO 13 44 IS 13 33 20 12 78 25 12 27 30 n 72 35 1 1 12 40 10 57 45 9 91 So 9 21 55 8 51 60 7 61 65 6 ' 54 70 s 32 So that between thofe variations, which are from five the fmalleft, to thirteen the greatefl:, the middle number or ftandard may be v/ell afcertained at feven ; and even this but a moral probability. What an attention then fliould we pay to»this important article of time ; how parfimo- nioufly fhould we hufband it, and imitate Dido's conduct, who having obtained as much land as fhe could cover with a bull hide, had the artifice to cut it out into thongs ; and by this ftratagem inclofed a tra£t of ground, fufficient to comprehend the city of Carthage. NEW CALENDER, TABLES, RULES, AND CALCULATIONS, FOR CORRECTING THE TIMES OF THE SEVERAL REMARKABLE INCIDENTS THAT HAVE HAPPENED IN THE ENGLISH MONARCHY. B E FOR FINDING THE REMARKABLE DAYS FOR EVER IN THE PERPETUAL ALMANACK; A TABLE OF THE MOVEABLE FEASTS FOR EVER. I ( 4n ) 768 769 770 771 772 773 774 77? 776 777 778 779 780 781 782 783 784 785 7S6 787 788 789 790 79' 792 793 "94 795 ^2 CB A G F ED C B A GF E D C B A G F E DC B A G FE D C B AG F E D ^ ^ p -S 3 rt ^^ a 2 I I 3 22 4 3 5 14 6 2S 6 8 17 9 28 10 9 11 20 •^ '3 12 H 23 iq 4 16 I? 17 26 iS 7 '9 18 I 2 1 1 3 22 4 3 5 14 6 2? 7 6 8 17 9 28 10' Q rt 5 I ^ i < I g 3^ 4i 8 I IO| n I t 2 I '3i i4i '5 i 1 I 2 f 3 I 4 I 7 1 81 9| 10 I n § 12 I '•3 i 796 797 798 799 800 801 802 803 804 Pos S06 807 808 809 810 811 81 2 8,3 S14 815 816 8.7 8i8 819 820 821 8Z2 82, Qj CB A G F E D C B AG F E D CB A G F ED C B A GF E D C B A G F E U 9 (1 I 2 ^ o 20 I 12 23 4 »5 26 7 18 o 1 1 22 3 14 25 6 17 9-28 The Ufc of ihe 56 Years Alinanack. •5 I To find the Dominical Letter for the year re quired by the annexed Table, v\hich will be the Sunday letter for that year 5 and when it is Leap-year, then there are two Dominical Let ters, the (irft of which ferves fiom the beginning of the year to Saint Mat- thias's day, which is the 25th of February ; the other all the year after To find the day of the month, firlt find the Do- minical Letter for the year required, which will be the Sunday Letter for all that year. EXAMPLE. In the year 177^, the Dominical Letter is (A.) I would know what day of the month the firft Sundayin May is. There- fore turn to May, and you will find Friday to be the 5th day, and the firft Sunday to be the 7th day. THE USE OF THE FIFTY-SIX YEARS ALMANACK. The ufe of 'the above Table fqr finding. the Doniinlcr.l Letters, Cycle of j^ tlie Sun, Golden Number, Epaft and Iiidiction. ir- • Thefe Tables are contained in fix columns ; the firll: flvcws the Year of ?i cur Lord ; the fecond, the Dominical Letters ; the third, the Cycle of the 7. "Sun ; the fourth, the Golden Number ; the fifth, the Epact ; and- the fixth, ^ the Indi(5liqn. The Dominical Letter is ufeful for finding the day of the ^•"month ; as eath been already fiiewn ; the Cycle of the Sun, for finding * rhe Dominical or Sunday Letters, the Golden Number for finding of Eafter- "^ dav, 'and other ufeful things, as fliall be fhewn in their place ; the Epa6l '^for finding th,e age of the Moon||,; an,d, the Indiclion .Cor, finding counted ■r from September. ; ' " .•" " ' . " * , T A B TO FIND r H E MOVEABLE FEASTS F O R E V E R, 4 Y T li E DOMINICAL LETTER and GOLDEN NUMBER Dom. Lett. Golden Number. Epipha. Sunday. Septua. Sunday. From Chrift to Shrove Sunday. throve Tuefd. Afh- Wed. 3- II. 14. Jan. ? Jan. 22 6 Weeks Feb. 7, Feb. 8 5. 8. 13. iC. 19 Jan. S Jan. 29 7 Weeks Feb. 14 Feb. ,5 Feb. 22 A. 2. 7. 10. 18. Jan. 8 Ftb. 5 8 Weeks Feb. 21 I. 4. 9. 12. 15. Jan. 8 Feb. 12 9 Weeks Feb. 28 Mar. I 6.17. Jan. 8 Feb. 19 lo Weeks Mar. 7 Mar. 8 3. II. 14. 19. Jan. 9 Jan. 23 6 Weeks I Day Feb. 8 Feb. 9 Feb. 16 2. 5. 8, 13. i6. Jan. 9 Jan. 30 7 Weeks I Day Feb. 15 B. 7. 10. 15. 18. Jan. 9 Feb. 6 S Weeks I Day Feb. 22 Feb. 23 1. 4. 9. 12. Jan. 9 Feb. 1 5 9 Weeks I Day Mar. I Mar. 2 6. 17. Jan. 9 Feb. 2c 10 Weeks I Day Mar. g Mar. ^. 3. 8. II. 14. 19. Jan. 10 Jan. 24 6 Weeks z Days Feb. 9 Feb. 10 2. 5. 13. 16. Jan. 10 Jan. 31 7 Weeks 2 Days Feb. 16 Feb. 17 C. 4. 7, 10. 15. 18. Jan. 10 Feb. 7 8 V/eeks 2 Days Ffb. 23 Feb. 24 I. 9. li. 17. Jan. 10 Feb. 14 9 Weeks 2 Davs Mar. 2 Mar. 3 6, ■...,..;;;.:- Jan. JO Ftb. 21 10 Weeks 2 Days Mar. 9 Mar. 10 14, Jan. 11 Jan. 18 5 Weeks 3 Days Feb. 3 Feb. 4 3. 8. 11. 19. Jan. II Jan. 25 6 Weeks 3 Days Ftb. 10 Feb. 11 D. 2. 5. 10. 13. 16. Jan. II Ftb. I 7 Weeks 3 Days Feb. 17 Feb. 18 4- '/• 15- 18. Jan. II Feb. S 8 Weeks 3 Days Feb, 24 Feb. 25 1. 6. 9.12.17. Jan. I J Feb. 15 9 Weeks 3 Days Mar. 3 Mar, 4 3.14. Jan. 12 Jan. 19 5 Weeks 4 Days Feb. 4 Feb. 5 8. 11. 16. 19. J.^n. j: Jan. 26 6 Weeks 4 Days Feb, II Feb. 12 B. 2. 5. IC. 13. Jan. 12 Feb. 2 7 Weeks 4 Days Feb. iS Feb. 19 4. 7- 12- 15- J8. Jan. 12 Feb. 9 8 Weeks 4 Days Feb. 25 Feb. 26 I. 6. 9. 17. Jan. 12 Feb. 16 9 Weeks 4 Days Mar, 4 Mar. 5 3. 14. Jan. 13 Jan. 20 5 Weeks 5 Days Feb. 5 Feb, 6 1;. 8. II. 16. 19. Jan. 13 Jan. 27 6 Week? 5 Days Feb. 12 Feb. 13 F. 2. 10. 13. 18. Jan. 13 Feb. 3 7 Week? 5 Davs Feb. 19 Feb. 20 J. 4. 7. 12. 15. Jan. 13 Feb. 10 8 Week? 5 Dus Feb, 26 Feb. 27 6. 9. 17. Jan. 13 Feb. 17 9 Weeks 5 Days Mar. 5 Feb. 6 Mar. 6 3- II. 14- Jan. 7 Jan . 2 1 5 Weeks 5 Days Feb. 7 5. 8. 16. T9' Jan. 7 Jan. 2? 6 Weeks 6 Days Feb. 13 Feb. 14 C). 2. 7. 10. 13. iS. Jan. 7 Feb. 4 7 Weeks 6 Davs Feb. 20 Feb. 21 1. 4. 12. I?. J.in. 7 Feb. 11 S Weeks 6 Davs Feb. 27 Feb. 28 6- 9. 17. J:in. 7 Feb. I 9 \Veck5 6 Da\ s Mr.i 6 Mar, 7 T A B E T O ISO T n r MOVlEABLE F E A S t s' FOR! EVER, BY THE DOMINI^f. l^ETtEI^lAND GOLDEN NUMBER. Good Friday. Mar. 2+ Mar. 31 Apr. 7 Apr. 14 Apr. 21 Mar. Apr. Apr. Apr. Apr. Eafter Day. Mar. a 6 Apr. 2 Apr. 9 Apr. 16 Apr. 23 Mar. Apr. Apr. Apr. Apr. t6 Mar. 22 •Mar. 29 Apr. 5 Apr. 12 Apr. 19 Mar Apr. Apr. Apr. Apr. Rogat. Sunday. Apr. 30 May 7 May 14. May 21 May 18 Aicenf. Day. '. Mar. Apr. Apr. Apr. Apr. 27' May 3 May 10 I May 17 tMay 28 [May 4 'May 11 'May iS May 25 [May May 4 May II May 1 3 May 25 June I May 5 May 12 May 19 May 26 June 2 Whit- I Trinity Sunday. Sunday. Cor.Cli. Advent Tliuri'd. Sunday. May 14; May 21 May 2: May 2ijMay 28 June May jsjjune 4 June June June June Mir. Mar. Apr. 6 Mar. Mar. Apr. Apr. Apr. Mar. Apr. A.pr. Apr. vlar. Mar. -\pr. Vpr. 22 'Apr. 29 jMay 5! May 12 I May 19 [May 23 [Apr. 30 ; May 6 iMay 13 'May 20 ;May 2 i May 6 9 ' May 1 3 1 6 I May 23 'May 27 30 ! June 26 j Apr. 30 3 May 7 10 'May 14 May 21 May a 8 May 15 May 22 May 22 jMay 29 May 29 1 June 5 June 5 I June 12 June 12 (June 19 !May May iTHay jjune jj'une ■r6|May :2 3|May 3oijJune 6^ June 1 5^ June 24 I Apr. u Miy 7 Miy 14 (May 2,1 JMay May I May 8 May 1 5 May 2X May 29 May 2 May 9 xMay 1 5 May 23 May 30 June June 15 22 Dec. Dec. Dec. iDec. June 22 'Dec. May 26 'Nov. 27 June 2 Nov. 27 June 9 June 16 June 23 27 May June 3 una 10 Junt 17 June 24 May 21 May 28 June 4 June II June 18 Nov. 27 Nov. 27 Nov. 27 Nov. 2 5t Nov. aS Nov. 2S Nov. ?« Nov. 28 .Mar.2 5 [Apr. 29 jMay 3 \pr, jt jMjy 6 jMay 13 ._^-. , \pr'. 8}Mty 1 3 May 17 Apr. i3|A;.>r.i5 JMiy 20 ' May 24 ,-\pr. 20' Apr. ii-'Miy 27 j May 31 M «v 1 J Ml} 20 Miy 2 7 Juaa 3 May 22 May 29 June 5 June tz June 19 May 23 May 3D June 6 June 13 June 2.-3 M«y 20 Mav 24 Miy 27 J May 31 Jinj 3 J^n- 7 Jan: lojjune 14 Nor. 29 Nov. 29 Nov. *9 Nov. 29 Nov. 27 Nov. 33 Nov. 30 Nov. 33 Nov. 30 Nov. 30 Dec. I Dec. I Dec. I Dec. I Dec. I Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. J'j.ae lajjji.' 17] June 21 [-De THE SEVEN VARIETIES OF THE D A Y S O F T H E WEEK. FOR FINDING THE DAYS OF THE MONTH Six Moiuij-s I SiuKlays ^ Mondays - I 8 1=; 22 29 § Six Montlis Jan. 3,. 2 9' 16 2) 30 July 31. Feb. zS. 1 Tueldav^s - ^ iO 17 24 31 Aug. 31, Mar. 31. § Wedneldays 4 II 18 2^ Sept. ' 30. April 30. May 31. . 1 Tljurfdays 1 Fridays s 12 19 26 27 1 oa. 31. Nov. 30, 6 13I20 June 30. i Saturdays 7 I4I21 2H 8 Dec 3 1 . Mondays - - Tuefdays Wednefdays Thurl'days , - Fridays - - Saturdays - Sundays I 8 '5 22 29 2 9 lb 23 30 ■3 10 17 24 3.1 4 1 1 18 2^ S 12 19 2b b n 20 27 7 14 21 2^ Thurfdays - Fridays - - Saturdays - Sundays .- - Mondays Tuffdays - Wedneldays I 8 •5 22 2 9 lb 23 3 4 10 17 24 25 1 1 18 > 12 '9 2b b M 20- 27 7 '■4 21 28 Tucffdays - Wednefdays Thurfdays - Fridays - - Saturdays - Sundays - - Mondays 15122 16 23 17 24 18I25, 19 26 20 27 2.128 Fridays - - Saturdays -, Sundays - - Mondays Tuefdays - Wednefdays Thurfdays*- I S l'^ 22 2 9 .'6 23 3 10 .17 24 4 II i8 25 5 ^12 19 Zb b M 202:^1 7 '4 21 28| Wednefdays Thurfdays - Fridays - - Saturdays - Sundays- - Mondays '^ Tuefdays - ij 8 2^ 9 15 lb 22 23 29 30 3 10 17 24 31 41' 18 25 5.12 19 2b b-M 2D 27 7 14 21 28 ' Saturdays - Sundays - -_ Mondays - - Tuefdays - Wedriekjays Thurfdays - Fridays - - I 8 2 9 3 lO 4 1 1 S 12 6 13 7 14 16:23 17 24 18 25 19 26 20 27 21 28 The U S E of the T A B L E tfcif flie^vs (he S l^V E N' V A R I ET I E S of the W E- E K', fcV fiirdln-g 'Ihe D A Y of the MO N T H; by the laft T AB'LE,,.; .....,:, Having by'the'tVi'O former Tables ;found\vhat ijaryjof the week, fhe Month begins;; this Table.rcadilv fliewstheday of the Month. , . E X a'',M • P- .L E. TheiirftofMav 1777, falls on Thurfday ; and! would know what day of the Month the third Thurfday is in that Month. . I feek for the fquare in this Table that begins with Thurfday, und againft it Itind i, S, 15, 22, 29, ^vhich arc all Thurfdays in ^e Month, the third anfwereth the queftion, being the i <^rh dav. ianuarY ( 4^5 > JANUARY hath 31 Days. FEBRUARY hath 28 Days. p P Remarkable .0 P Remarkable I r A Days. ■; I r Days. The Circumcifion. D Bridget. 2 B 2 E Purification of the V. M. 3 C 3 F Blaffius Bifliop & Mart. ■J 4 D Archbp. Ufherborn 3G 5 E 5 A Agatha Sicil. V. 6 F The Epiphany. 6 B 7 G 7 C , 8 A Lucian, P. & Martyr. 8 D 9 B 9 E II C D 1 1 F G 12 E Old New Years Day. 12 A '3 F Hillary B. & ConfefTor. '3 B K. W. III. & Q^ Mary H G 14 C Valentine Bp. & Mart. 15 A ^5 D j6 B 16 E »7 C 17 F 18 D Queen born, kept. 18 G t If '9 E 19 A 20 F Fabian B. of R. & M. 20 B 21 G Agnes R. V. & Martyr. 21 C 22 A Vincent, S. D. & Marty. 22 D • 23 B 23 E 24 C 24. F St. Matthias J. M. 2) D Corwerfion of St. Paul. 25 G 26 E 26 A Observe thatwhen 27 F 27 B it is Leap Year, which 28 G 28 e is every 4th year, then 29 A February hath 29 days, 30 B Martyr, of K. Charles I. and St. Matthias's day 11 C falls upon the 25th day. The D E S C R I P T I O N and U S E of the Fifty-Six Years Almanack. EACH month containeth four columns; the firft fhews the Golden Number to the feveral days, between the 21ft day of March, and the i8th day of April, both inclufive, denote the days upon which thofe Full Moons, the fecond fhews the days of the month, the third (having the Dominical Letters) flieu's the day of the week, the fourth lliews feveral remarka- ble pnfTages that have happened in England, principally fince. the ye.Tr i77y MARCH C 4 r6 ) CH hath 31 D*ys. I ^A R APRIL haih 30 Days. p c t- C p p v^ V*' Remarkable Remarkable z I r Dr. vs. 2 '3 I r G Days. D St. David. A. B. M. All Fools-day. 2 E Chad. B.cf Letch. 2 2 A 3 F 3 b Richard B. of Cbich. 4 G 10 4 c St. Ambrofe B. of 5 A 5 D (Milan, 6 B 18 6 E -7 / C Perpet. Maurrtan. 7 7 F 8 D 8 G 9 E '5 9 A 10 F 4 10 B u G 1 1 C 12 A Gregory B. of R. &' 12 • 2 D 13 B (Confl. I 13 E 14 C 14 F i«; D 9 15 G 16 E 16 A Battle of Cull. 1746. 17 F St. Patrick. 17 17 B 18 G Edward K. ofW.S. 6 .8 C '9 A Jofeph. 19 D Alpheg. Archb. of 20 B Equal Day 20 E 21 F 22'G (Cant. H 21 C Benedict Abbot. 3 22 D Paulinus. 23 E 23 A St. George Martyr. 1 1 24 F 24!b 25 G Lady-day, or Annun- 25c 26' D St. Mark Evangelift 19 26 A ( elation of V. Mary. • (nnd Martyr. 8 27 B 27:e 28 C 28 F 16 29 D 29; G 5 30 E 30' A 3' F 1 THE number? here prefixed to the fev^ral days, between the Twenty-firft day of March, and the Eighteenth day of April, both inciuiive, denote the days iipon vhich thofe Full Moons do fall, which happen upon or next after the 21ft of March, in thefe years, of w^iich they are refpcQively the Golden Number. AND the Sunday letter next following any fuch Full Moon, points out Eafttr-day for that year, all which holds until the year of our Lord 1899 inclyfive j after which year the places of thefe Golden Numbers will be to be changed, as is hereafter ex- prefled. ( 4»7 ) MAY hath 31 Days. JUNE hath 30 Days. P •1 Remarkable P p Reirarkable I r B Days. I r E Days. St. Philip y Jac. Apojile. NicoinedeR. P. &Mart. 2 C 2 F 3 4 D Invention of the Crofs. 3 G E 4 A King born. 5 F 5 B Boniface B. of Mentz, 6 G St. John Evangelifi, Port. 6 C (& Martyr. 7 A (Latin. 7 D 8 B 8 E 9 C 9 F 10 D 10 G Mary Queen of Scot.-,. 1 1 E 1 1 A St. Barnabas, Apoftle & 12 F 12 B (Martyr/ 13 G »3 C. 14 A •4 D 15 B "5 E 16 C Queen boia |i6 F Battle of Dettin. 1743. 17 D '7 G St. Alban, Martyr. i8 E 18 A 19 F Dunftan, Abp. of Cant. 19 B 20 G 20 C Tranfl. of Edw. K. of 21 A 21 D LongellDay. (W. S. 22 B 22 E 23 C 23 F 24 D 24 G St. John Baptifi. 25 E 25 A 26 F Auguftin, Abp. of Cant. 26 B 27 G Ven. Bede, Prefbyter. 27 2§ A 28 D 29 B Birth y Return ef King 29 E St. Peter ^ Paul. 30 C (Charles II. 3<5 F 31 D The EXAMPLES of U S E of each COLUMN, , TO KNOV/ THE DAY OF THE MONTH. THIS is the chief and moft ufeful obfervation of any Alma- nack, and may as well be performed by this as by any other. To this purpcfe, you muft firft know the Dominical, or Sunday Letter, for the year propofed ; which you may eafily find by the Table in the 347 page following the Almanack. ONLY note i That if there be two Dominical Letters (as you will have in every Leap-year) then the firft of them you muft ufe only to ihc 24tb day of February, and the other all the year »ft€r. D d J V I Y ( 41' 5 ) JULY hath 31 Days. AUGUST bath 31 Days. .0 P Remarkable P Remarkable r G Days. I r c Days. Battle of Bcyne 1690. Lammas D/y. 2 A Viftt of the B. F. Mary. 2 D St. Stephen. 3 B 3 E 4 C Tranllaticn of St. Mar- 4 F Dominick. 5 D (tin, B. & C. 5 G 6 E 6 A Transfig. Name of Jefus. / F Thomas aBecIcet, Cant. 7 B 8 G 8 C 9 A 9 D ro B 10 E Laurence Abp. of Dub- II C 1 1 F (lin, R. & M, 12 D Battle of Aghrim, 1691. 12 G Prince of Wales bom. '3 E 12 A H F H B 15 G Swithin, B. of Win. 15 C AJfum. B. F. M. 16 A Tran. 16 D 17 B 17 E 18 C ■ 18 F St. Helen Emprefs, 19 D '9 G 20 E Margaret, V. & Martyr. 20 A Bernard Archbifhop, 21 F St. Mary Magdalen. 21 B 22 G 22 C 23 A 23 D 24 B 24 E St, Bartholom. A. ^ M. 25 C St. James y Apojile, 2^ F 26 D St. Anne, Mother to the] 26 G 27 E (B. V. Mary. 27 A 28 F 28 B St. Auguftin B. of Hip. 29 G 29 c Beheading of St. John 30 A Dog Days begin. (1622. 30 D (Baptift. 3'' B Ign. Loyola & Logcan 31 E 1 As for E X A M P L E. I N the year 1784 (being Leap-year) the Dominical Letters are DC ; therefore the fiift Sunday in January is the 4th day of the month, the firft Sunday in February is the firft day of the month ; but the firft Sunday is on the 7th day. The fame is to be underftood all the year after. To know what day of the week any notable day will fall upon in any year. Firft find the Dominical Letter, (as is before direfted) then look for the fame in the month required, next be- fore the day you defire ; and fo from thence count the days of the week till you come to the day defired. SEPTEMBER { : 4»9 ) SEPTEMB. hath 30 Days. OCTOBER hath 31 Days. P ^ Remarkable P Pj Remarkable | r F Days. I r A Days. Giles Abp. & Confeflbr. Remigius B. of Rheme. 2 G London Bmnt 1666. 2 B 3 A 3 C 4 B 4 D St. Francis. 5 C 5 E 6 D (Days End. 6 F Faith, V. and M. 7 E Enur. B. of Orl. Dog 7 G 8 F Nat, B. V. Mary, ^ 8 A 9 G (Royal Nuptials. 9 B St. Denis Aieop.B.&M. 10 A 10 C II B 1 1 D 12 C \z E '3 D 13 F Tran. of K. Edw, Conf. •4 E Holy Crofs Day. H G «5 F 15 A - 16 G 16 B 17 A Lamhprt B. & M. »7 C Etheldrel Virgin. 18 B King George I. land ed. 18 D St, Luke E'vangeliji, 19 C '9 E 20 D 20 F 21 E St. Mattheiv Apojlle. 21 G 22 F Equal Day. King a nd 22 A 23 G (Queen crown ed. 23 B Irijb Rebellion 1 64 1. 24 A 24 C 25 B 25 D King's Acceflion. 26 C St. Cyprian, A. B. Car th. 26 E 27 D (& M, 27 F 23 E 28 G St. Simon ^ St, JuJe. 29 F St. Michael the ArcAn^ B-f/. z9 A 30 G St.Jer.Pr.Con. & Dc a. 30 B 1 3' C EXAMPLE, I F you would know what day of the week Lady-day (or the Annunciation of the Blefled Virgin) falls on the year 1785 : The Dominical Letter is B, which is five days before the faid day j therefore it falls on a Friday that year. ' D d2 NOVEMBER ( 4*0 ) NOVEMB. hath 30 Days. DECEMB. hath 31 Days. p P Remarkable p p Remarkable I r Days. I r F Days. D J// Saints Day. 2 E All Souls. 2 G 3 F 3 A 3 G King William III. born. 4 B 5 A Gun-pO'vjder Plat. 5 C 6 B Leonard Confeflbr. 6 D Nicholas B. of Myra. 7 C 7 E 8 D 8 F Conception B. V. Mary. 9 E 9 G 10 F to A II G St. Martinmafs, B. & II B 12 A (Confeflbr. 12 C 53 B Britius Bifliop. 13 D Lucy Virgin & Martyr. 14 C T. Toole Abp. of Dubl. 14 E 15 D MachutusjB. of Lincoln. 15 F 16 E 16 G Sapientia, 17 F Hugh B. of Lincoln. 17 A • 18 G 18 B 19 A 19 C 20 B Edmund K. & Martyr. 20 D 21 C 21 E St. Thomas Abp. ^ M, 22 D Cecilia, Virgin & Mart. 22 F (Shorteji Day. 23 E St. Clement \. BiHiop of 23 G 24 F (Rome & Martyr. 24 A 25 G St. Catherine, V. & M. 25 B Chrijlmas. 26 A 26 C St. Stephen Protomartyr. 27 B 27 D St. John the E'vangeliji, 28 C 28 E Innocents Day, 29 D 29 F 30 E St. Andreiv Afojlle. 30 G 31 A Silvefter B. of Rome. A N AN EXPLANATION O F SEVERALTERMS USED IN THE ALMANACK, FOR THE INFORMATION OF THE VULGAR CIRCUMCISION; alludes to the Circumclfion of our blefled Saviour on the eighth day after his birth, ac- cording to the cuftom of the Jews ; for fulfilling of the law. Epiphany. An appearing of light, a manifeftation ; allu- ding to the appearance of a miraculous blazing ftar, conduc- ing the wife men to the place of our Saviour's abode, on the 1 2th day from his birth. Purification, or Candlemas Day ; alluding to the meeting of Simeon, and the offering of candles on the 40th day after the Divine Birth, for the Purification of the Blefled Virgin : as was the cuftom of the Jews. Septuagesima, about 70 days before Eafter, is the third Sunday before the beginning of Lent. Sexagesima, or the fecond Sunday before Lent, is about fixty days before Eafter. Qu I N Qjj A G E s iM A, Shrove Sunday, or the Sunday before Lent, is fo called becaufe it is about fifty days before Eafter. Quadragesima, Or the firft Sunday in Lent is about forty days before Eafter. Emb e r Da ys, are certain days fet apart four times in the year, by putting embers on the people's heads in token of hu- miliation. Ash-Wednesday. The firft day of Lent, fo called from a cuftom of the ancient church, of fafting in fackcloth, with aflies on their heads in token of humiliation. Shrovetide. The time juft before Lent, when our an- ceftors were fhriven or confefled their fin, in order to mo re ftri£l keeping of the enfuing Lent fealbn. Lent, fignifies a feafon the fpring of the year : It is a fet time of abftinence and fafting for forty days before Eafter. Palm Sunday. The Sunday before Eafter, on which day the people went out to meet our Saviour with boughs of palm and olive branches, v.'hen he entered into Jerufalem riding on an afs. P • s s 1 o r ( 422 ) PassiokWeek. So called from our Saviour's PafTion ; is the week before Eafter. Easter Sunday, fee the Pafcha, or feaft of the paflb- ver among ibe Jews, Exodus, ii. 3. xiii. 3. Alfo the day held in commemoration of the Refurreftion of our Bleffed Saviour. Invention of the Cross. Kept the third of May, on account of the finding the Crofs (whereon our Saviour I'uffered) on that day. Good Friday. The Friday before Eafter, or the day whereon our Saviour fuffered for our fins. HoL Y Th u RSD a Y, or Afcenfion day, a feftival kept in memory of the Afcenfion of our Blefled Saviour into heaven, 15 days before Whit-Sunday. Whit-Sunday, or W.h i t e-Su nda v, anfwers to. the Penttcoft of the Jews; fee Lev. xxiii. 15, 16, &c. held on the feventh fabbath, or the fiftieth day after Eafter. The catechumens, cloathed in white robes, being admitted to the facrament. The defcent of the Holy Ghoft upon the apoftles, in the fhapc of fiery tongues feems to give it this appellation. R o A t I o N W E E K , is the week before Whitfunday, It is faid to be firft inftituted by the bi/hop of Vienne in France, Anno 452, and called Rogation week, upon account of the many extraordinary prayers and preparatory petitions made for the devotion of Holy Thurfday, for a blefling on the fruits of the earth, and for averting the difmal eff"e£ls of war, &c. Trinity Sunday. The Sunday after Whitfunday, held in reverence to the Holy Trinity : Father, Son and Holy Ghoft, Three Perfons, and one God, blefled for ever. Corpus Christi, Is called the feaft of our Lord's Holy Body ; an offering made to the High Father of Heaven at the altar, for the remiffion of our fins ; founded by pope Uiban V. and held on the Thurfday in Trinity week. All Saints Day. The firft of November : Inftituted on account of the great number of prayers offered for us by the faints on this day, and it is alledged that our prayers will be more readily heard on this day than any other on that account. All Souls Day. The fecond of November : On ac- count of the great numbers offered to heaven for the relief of fouls in purgatory, &c. Advent Sundays, to fhew the coming of Chrift ; the four Sundays next before Chriftmas day ; the firft of them be- ing the neareft Sunday to St. Andrew's day, or 30th of Nov. Christmas, i. e. Chrift's-Mafs, a feftival celebrated on the 25th of December in commemoration of the birth of Chrift Jelus. Innocent's Day; the 28th of December, obfervcd in memory of Herod's caufing the innocent children to be flain j tailed alfo Childermas dsT. APPENDIX. APPENDIX. O F CIVIL TIME, MORE PARTICULARLY OF THE TERMS, RETURNS, &c. ^ XXr HEN does the Spring-Quarter be- A, It commences at the Equinodtia!, viz. The 2oth of March, called therefore the Ver- nal Equinox, and ends on the 21ft of June, or the Summer Solftice. TABLE OF THE SEASONS. Sea(bns. Spring, - Summer, - Harveft, - Winter, - Begins. March - - 20 June - - 21 September 22 December - 21 Ends. June - - 21 September 22 December - 21 March - - 20 ^ How is the Year politically divided with us? A. Into Terms and Returns. ^ How many Terms ? A. Four, viz. Hillary. Eafter. Trinity. Michaelmas. i^ Whence are thefe Terms named ? A. From the Seafons, or Feafts on which they commence. ^. Whence is Hillary Term named ? A, From St. Hillary, and fo of the reft. A TABLE B E BY HAVING THE GOLDEN NUMBER and DOMINICAL LETTER, TO FIND WHEN THE MOVEABLE TERMS BEGIN, SIT, AND END, F,OR EVER. Dom. Lett. i Golden Number. E Begins. after-Ter Sits. m. Ends. Trinity-Term. Begins. 1 Sits. Ends. 3. 11. 14. Apr. 10 Apr, 12 May 8 May 22 May 26 June 14 5. 8. 13. 16. 19. Apr. 17 Apr. 19 May 15 May 29 June 2 June 21 A. a. 7. 10. 18. Apr. 24 Apr. 26 May 22 June 5 June 9 June 28 I. 4. 9. 12, 15. May 1 May 3 May 29 June 12 June 16 July 5 6. 17. May 8 Apr. 11 May 10 Apr. 13 June 5 June 19 June 23 July 12 3. 11. 14. 19. May 9 May 23 May 27 June 15 2. 5. 8. 13. 16. Apr, J 8 Apr. 20 May 16 May 30 June 3 June 22 B. 7. 10. 15. 18. Apr. 25 Apr. 27 May 23 June 6 June 10 June 29 I. 4. 9. 12. May 2 May 4 May 30 June 13 June 17 July 6 6. 17. May 9 Apr. 12 May 11 Apr. 14 June 6 June ao June 24 July 13 3. 8. II. 14. 19. May 10 May 24 May 28 June 16 2. 5. 13. 16. Apr. 19 Apr. 21 May 17 May 31 June 4 June 23 C. 4. 7. 10. 15. 18. Apr. 26 Apr. 28 May 24 ■June 7 June II June 30 1. 9. 12. 17. May 3 May 5 May 31 June 14 June 18 July 7 6. May 10 May 12 June 7 June 21 June 25 July 14 .4. Apr. 6 Apr. 8 May 4 May 18 May 22 June 10 3. 8. n. 19. Apr. 13 Apr,- 15. May II May 25- May 29 June 17 D. 2. 5. 10. 13. 16. Apr. 20 Apr. 22 May 18 June I June 5 June 24 4*. 7- 15- 18. Apr. 27 Apr. 29 May 25 June 8 June 12 July I I. 6. 9. 12. 17. May 4 May 6 Apr. 9 June 1 June 15 May •19- June 19 July 8 3.14. Apr. 7 May 5 May 23 June II 8. 11. 16. 19. Apr. 14 Apr. 16 May '1 2 May 26 M4y 30 June 18 E. 2. 5. 10, 13. Apr. 21 Apr. 23 May 19 June 2 June 6 June 25 4. 7. 12. 15. iS. Apr. 28 Apr. 30 Mav 26 June 9 June 13 July 2 '„ I. 6. 9. 17. .May 5 May 7 Apr. 10 June 2 Juae 16 June 20 July 9 1 3. '14. Apr. 8 May 6 May 20 May 24 June i» 5. 8. II. 16. 19. Apr. 15 Apr. 17 May 13 May 27 May 31 June 19 F. 2. 10. 13. 18. Apr. 3z Apr, 24 May 20 June 3 June 7 June 26 1. 4. 7. 12. 15. Apr. 29 May I May 27 June 10 June 14 July 3 6. 9. 17. May 6 May -8 June 3 June 17 June 21 July 10 3. 11. 14. Apr. 9 Apr. II May 7 May 21 May 25 June 15 5. 8. 16. 19. Apr. 16 Apr. 18 May 14 May 28 June 1 June 20. G. 2. 7. 10. 13. iS. Apr. 23 Apr. 25 May 21 June 4 June 8 June 27 X. 4. 12. 15. Apr. 30 May 2 May 28 June II June 15 July 4 6. 9. IT. May 7 May 9 June 4 June 18 Juoe 22 July n CIRCUIT- ROA D S ^I N IRELAND. t Mark for Airize-Towns, Ulfter, North-Ealt. f Drogheda in A. t Dundalk in A. f Dov\npatnck K. Saintfield f Carrickf«rgu« Belfaft Li^um Kurgan Ponadown Richhill f Atrcagh Tjnan Glaf lough {• Monaghan Caftlehaven Caftleblayney Peterborough Mil! of Louth Ardee Navan f Trim Back lo Dublin in I. l]lft£r, North-weft. Kilcock in F. In^ld Kinnegad f MulHngar Balnelack Edgevvortliftcwn f- Longford Sranaid f Cavan ^Jewtownbutler Lifncfkea Maguire's-Bridge Lirin:i!la f Enr.ilkillen Lifmaila rimpoe Fintona j Z3 t Omagb 4.0 Newtown- 40 72 80 Sz loo 107 116 121 126 130 '35 137 14. "+5 152 158 163 i68 180 1S6 206 Stewart Strabane t Liffoid •f Londonderry Back to Dublin in H. Leinfter-Circuit. f Wicklow in L, Arklow Gorey Caftlebridge t Wexford Roi's f Kilkenny Leighlinbridge f CarJow t Athy Ca) f Maiybcrough Portnahinch f Phih'pltown Back to Dublin in F. .(a) Athy generally in Summer, and Naas in the Spring. Munfter Circuit. t V/;nerford K. 4; i L'r.rrick 47 t Clonmel 51 t t^'ork in D. 65!Moyallow ySJKanturk 89 1 Me A market 3 j Biackwaterbridge 95JCaftleifland 99 f Tralee 103 Caftleifland 107 Abbyfeal 1 1 1 Newcaftle 117 Rathkeale E e zo 114 12 J Adair 130 f Limerick 137 JJack to Dublin 138, in G. 149' -62;C,onnaught Circ. — jt Rolcommon L Tulflc 23|Elphin t Carrick Boyle t Sligo in L Ballalbdare Kiilony Tobbercorry Ban a da Kilma(fleague Foxford t Caitlebar (b) B-^Icarra Newbrook Hoiymount Killmaine Shrule Cahsrmorris f Gaiway Gort Crulheen t Ennis Gai t Loughrea Kilconnel " Afheragh Mount-Talbot Rofcommoa Back to Dublin inL (b) Caftlebar Generally Sum- mer, &c. Ballin- 5J206 robe, Spring. 2lZ 2I9 306 35 42 58 60 75 90 102 108 IJ7 127 135 145 183 71 83 91 I3Z H5 '57 164 171 180 187 194 20I 67 71 75 80 87 105 lO^ HI 121 124 127 134. 1+3 147 IS*. '55 . 158 3 161 6 167 « 175 it 137 6J193 199 2I1 22r» 2 2'> 23r »37 24s 3=>S 42^ CHANCERY RETURNS. ST. HILARY, FOUR RETURNS. In eight days after St. Hilary. In fitceen days after St. Hilary. On the Morrow of the Purificat. of the Blefied V.M. In eight days after the Purificat. of the Blefled V. M. EASTER-TERM, FIVE RETURNS. In fifteen days after Eafter. From the day of Eafter in three weeks. From the day of Eafter in one month. From the day of Eafter in five weeks. On the Morrow of the Afcenfion of our Lord. TRINITY-TERM, FOUR RETURNS. On the morrow of the Holy Trinity. In eight days after the Holy Trinity. In fifteen days after the Holy Trinity. From the day of the Holy Trinity in three weeks. MICHAELMAS, FOUR RETURNS. On the Morrow of All Souls. On the Morrow of St. Martin. In eight days after St. Martin. In fifteen days after Sr. Martin. FIXED Hilary Term. Begins January 20 Sits January 23 TERMS. Michaelmas Term. Begins November 3 Sits November 6 Ends February 12 j Ends November 2S KING'S BENCH RETURNS. 427 ST. HILARY, FOUR RETURNS. The 06lave of St. Hilary. In fiheen days from St. Hilary. The Morrow of the Purificac. of the Blefled V. M. The Odave of the Purificat. of the Blefltd V. M. EASTER-TERM, FIVE RETURNS. In fifteen days from the feaft of Eafter. In three weeks from the feall of Ealler, In one month from the feaft of Eafter. In five weeks from the feaft of Eafter. The Morrow of the Afcenfion of our Lord. T... .lie TRINITY-TERM, FIVE RETURNS. Monday, the Morrow of the Holy Trinity. Monday, the Oftave of the Holy Trinity. Monday, in fifteen days from the Holy Trinity. Monday, in three weeks from the Holy Trinity. MICHAELMAS, FOUR RETURNS. The Morrow of All Souls. The Morrow of St. Martin. The Odave of St. Martin. In fifteen days from St. Martin. The Ufe of the Table of Moveable Terms. This Table is to be ufed in the fame manner as the Jaft, by knowing the Dominical Letter and Golden Number for the year propofed. Explanation of the foregoing TABLE. Having found the Dominical Letter and Prime for any year you defire, fee for the Prime or Golden Number in the Square next the Dominical Letter, and in a ftreightline to the right hand under Eafter-Term, you have the time it begins, fits, and ends, for ever ; and under Trinity-Term, the fame for ever. E e :2 ■ P.Vfl' 428 COMMON PLEAS RETURNS. ST. HILARY, FOUR RETURN~ Returns. Quarto die poll. J^n. .20. On the Odave of St. Hilary. Jan. 23 Jan. 27. in 15 days from the day of St. Hil. Jan. 30 Feb; ' ^'. On the Morrow of the Pur. of the ' Bleffed Virgin Mary. Feb. 6 Feb.'itf.' On the 06lave of the Purif. of the Blefled Virgin Mary. Feb. 12 EASTER TERM, FIVE RETURNS. In fifteen days from Eafter-day. In three weeks frqm Eafter-day, In one month froni Kafter-day. In five weeks from Ealler day. On the Morrow of the Afceniion of our Lord. TRINITY TERM, FOUR RETURNS^ On the Morrow of the Holy Trinity. On the 0 S^ — ■^. 9^g 930 91 « 958 96 » 9/ o 980 99 g 6 700 1400 2100 2800 3500 ^^ BA G F E DC B A G FE D C B AG F E D CB A G F O ED Cy (J '-^ p vy ^ L> A O goF Ci' F GF E D C 200 900 1700 2300 3000 3700 •^^ DC B A G FE D C B AG F E D BA G F E CB A G F DC i ED B I C A ! B FE 1 GF AG F E 1) E D C BA G F 300 lOOC 2400 3100 3800 ^^ ED C B. A 400 I loo 1800 2500 3200 3900 ^^ i-E D C B GF ; AG E F D E C D BA G F E CB A G F DC B A G FE D C ED C B A GF E D C AG i BA G F CB A D2 A 500; 1 200' 1900 2600 3300' 4000 GF E ' D C BA G F E DC B A G FE D C B AG F E D CB A G F ED B A 600 1300 2000 2700 3400 41 00 ^^ AG F E D CB A G F ED C B A GF E D C BA G F E DC B A G FE D C 1 hs ut'e of the Ta- ble t'nat {heweih the Dominical Lettcf from the firft year ti\ our Lord, to the yeai 4100, and may bl continued for ever. The feven hun^ dreds are to be found on the top of the Ta- ble, having their Do- minical Letters next under them (and an all Leap Years) ai 700, 1400, 2I00j iSco and 3500, all which years have BA. for their Dom. Lett. The odd yean above the hundred) are to be found 01 the fide, as 12, ao 68, and 96 have AG for their Dom. Lett. To find the Dom Letter to thofe year that are hundreds ant odd years. You muft faek th< feven hundreds onth( top, and the odd yean by the fide, and in th( angle of meeting, yot will find the Dom Let. orLetters anfwer ing to fuch years. EXAMPLE. I d:mind the Dom Lett, or Letters for thi year 1784, fee 1703 01 the top of the Table, am S4. on the fide, and ia thi An^le of meeting yoi will find DC. to be tto Djni. Letters for tlut year ; the firft of whid ferves from the begin ning of the year, to thi ijt i of Feb. (»which i St. Matthias day) C. tlw Letter to the end of thf year. T A B E SHEWING THE CYCLE OF THE SUN, r K O M THE FIRST YEAR OF OUR LORD, T O T H E YEAR 4100, AND MAY BE CONTINUED FOR EVER. 1 00c 1 7°- 1 1 40c 1 ^'°*^ g 2S0C 1 -i^oc 1 u IOC 800 1500 '.2200 2900 3600 20c 90c 160c 230c 3000 3700 3CC looc 170c 240c 310c 3800 ^ 40c Hoc ) i8cc 250c 320c 39CC ) 5c( ^ I2CC ) 1 90c 260c HOC 400c ) 60c ),i3cc ) 200c ) 270c )34O0 4100 ) Theufe of the table that ftieweth the cy- cle of the fun trom the firlt year of our Lord, to the year 4100, and may be continued forever. To find the year of the cycle of the fun, for any year of the Cluiltian Era. To the current year of Chriitadd9; b«- caufe from the be- ginning of the cycle, till the firlt year of Chrilt, there were y years palt ; Divide thefum by 28, the quotient rtiews the 1. umber of cycles, that have revolved iince the firft year beforeChrirt, iilJthe current year j and the remainder, if there be any, is the cuuent year of the cycle ; but ^if there be no remainder, then 28 is the cur- rent vear of , efolar tycl.. • 1 _3 _4 5 6 7 8 _9 10 I I 12 li 16 17 18 20 21 22 £i 2'^ 28 29 22 li 1£ ^ 35 36 37 38 40 i!_ 42 11 44 45 47 49 50 n. 52 53 1^ 5- 1^ 5S 60 61 62 63 64 65 .84 25 '3 I 17 5 21 «5 86 87 88 ! "^ 26 14 2 18 6 22 1 1 27 '5 3 »9 7 23 » 2 28 16 4 20 8 24 ^ 13 1 17 21 9 25 26 27 89! '4 90 1 1 > 2 j8 1 22 10 3 '9 7 23 i 1 21 92 93: f 16 4 5 20 9 24 12 28 s J7 18 21 -5 26 13 1 6 7 8 9 1 22 10 H 2 66 94, 67 95 j 68! 96 j ' '9 20 23 24 25 II 27 '5 3 12 zH It) 4 21 >3 I '7 5 70 Zi 72 73 97 1 98 i 22 23 10 26 14 2 18 1 1 27 15 '9 7 99 i \ 1 24 25 26 12 2> 16 4 -c> 8 9 13 1 ^7 5 21 •4 2 ly 6 7 22 10 74 1 '5 3 19 _i3_ I 1 75 76 77 2^ 79 80 81 82 _i 28 1 16 4 20 8 I 2 '7 18 S 21 9 25 M 2 6 22 10 2 , '4 3 4 19 7 23 1 1 27 *5 20 8 24 12 2.:> 16 5 21 ^5 •3 H i 17 '9 1 6 22 lO 26 2 26 ;;4. ^3 1 1 12 27 JS 3 27 55| !l ^ M 24 2) 10 4 20 A A B FOR THE READY FINDING OF THE GOLDEN NUMBER FOR EVER. ;b ! i ' c : 010 1 j ; 0* ^ 8 8 0^ --J 00 00 o| Y, s KOO KOO Km teao KCOKXr Kxo icao (000 Ko) »a»j»eooJK03 ko. tea BOO^BOOS KCO KCO *;? " 6 II 16 2 7|12 17 3 8N Ii8|4 9 M »9 s 10 IS I «j n SOO- KM tcco KCh C03 ICO- Ks: w •OX) KOa ■aObKO; WJU no BOO coolnt»>3ou KOO 8 5 1 M hi 0^ Va3 1>J oe nootoK MOO too KOSHOctoooacoo aaitaxi 1003 KXXt «Oj tec IOC ■KC' ■000 ICOO Km KOu icco KO ■01 roOjiooo Kxx) ■009 Z I 2039:51; 77 96 7jI2 »7 3 8 »3 18 M 9 '4 19 5 10 '5 I 6jii|i6 2 3 2|2'[40j59|7«'97 3,22!4ij6o|79'98 8'i3 9114 18 19 4 9 10 »4 •5 '9 I 6 10 1 1 '5 16 I 2 6 7 II 12 J7 2 3 7*11 »!»7 S'ls'iF 3 4 5 4|2 3|42;6iJ8o99 10] IS ■ 6 1 1 16 2 7 12 17 3 8 13 .8 4 9''4Ji9 5 6 5 6 7 H43 as|44 ^J4S 6281I 64;83! 11 16 12 17 Ijj.g 3 _5 6 7 < n 8 9 10 12 13 i7j 3 181 4 « 13 j8 4 9 10 14 16 18 19 I 2 3 19! 5 T 4 9 6 11 712 10151 J 11J16 a 'ij'7 3 6 7 8 7 lol "1 111 14 15 i6 17 19 1 2 3 4 5 6 ~~ 7 5 8 14I19J 5 15 ,|6 ± 7:12 813 9 8J27J46 65 84J H'19 13 15 ,8 4I 9 19 510 10 II 9|^.8'47J66 8s io'i9 48 67 86 ,,i6j 2; 7 ""inn Q i2^i7J 3J 8 i3|'8| 4 9 14J19I sjio |i6 '7 ,8 — |"9 2 3 4 14J19 i6J 2 9|i4 10J15 i: 16 iaji7 i| 6 II 12 12 II ;3o 49,68 i2J3i'5o|69 87 88 89 16 17 2 7 >3 3' 8 13; >4 i3 32[S,i7o S Jo|i5 I ejii 8 13 iSi 4| 9 HJ '5 '4|33 52-7; 90 i- 6 1 ii'i6 '1' .2 X7J 8 ,3J,8 4I 9 14 »9 5 '? »S i6 XS!34 5372 91 9- 93 7 8 9 'O, .-- .7| 3h '3 i8| 4 9 14I19 s'lo 1 813 '5 16 '7 18 ^1 I 2 3 4 6 2 8 9 II 12 '3 <4 15 16 17 18 I? i63s}54i73 i3Ji8| 4] 9 i4]'9| 5 '° 15I I 611 14 'S 16 19 s| 10 2^1 16 2 '7 3 i8 17 37I56 74 75 ,1 1 oil 2I 7|'^ »9 iS' 19 94| Isl 1 ^9; I 3S 5- 76 95 6 II 16 2 7 I2{ 17 3 S 1 13 18 4' 9 .41 1 S ID .1 The Ufe of the Table for finding of the Golden Number for ever. The feven hunilretls are to be fought for at the top of the Table, and the odd years on the fide ; and when the year fought confifts of hundreds and odd years, then the angle of meeting (hews the Golden Number for the year fought. Example I. To find the Golden Number for the year 1700, (which Number look for at the top of the Table, and juft under you will fee ic, which is the Prime for the year. Example II. To find the Prime or Golden Number for 1797, feek for 1 700 on the top of the Table, and the odd year on the fide, and in the com- mon angle of meeting y ;u will find ii, the Prime or Golden Number of that year. THE A B E FOR. THE READY FINDING OF THE ROMAN CYCLE OF THE INDICTION FOR EVER. ^ IOC 20c 30c The ul'e of theTable t:- 15 ingcertain taxes, or for 2 17 32 47 62 77 10 5 other civil purpofes ; 93# I when this cycle was tirll: inftituted is very 3 18 ■^^ 48 6^. 78 1 1 6 — ^ 94 €« 2 — <5>^ 95 # 3 96 ^jj 4 uncertain, fomeafcrib- 4 19 34 49 64 79 12 7 ing it to Conftantine, (A.D. 312) and others carrying it up as high asAuguftus.ThePopes have dated their Bulls by the year of the in- 5 20 35 50 65 80 13- 8 6 21 S6 51 66 81 H 9 97 ^^^ 5 7 22 M 52 67 82 «5 10 didion, ever fmce the 98 # 6 time of Charlemagne. The commencement of the Cycle being fixed to the 8 ^3 38 53 68 83 I 1 1 " ~ ' ' ■ 9 24 39 54 69 84 99*^0 7 yfff 2 12 3d year before Chrift, add 1, to the given year, divide 10 25 iO 55 70 85 # 8 3 I ; the fum by 1 5, and the re- C* 9 mainder will (hew the year of indiftion. If nothing 1 1 26 41 56 71 86 d 14 — 8- *?* remains it is the 15th or laftyearof the Cvcle.— . ^? 12 Z"' |2 57 72 ^ic? 10 5 i^ By this operation (for ex- ample) the year 1776 will 1 13 2^ +3 5« 73 3o o/jj 1 1 6 ' ;be found to be the 9th of -« — — — — *^ — -— the Roman Cycle of in- H 2-- 44 59 74 8q ^ 12 1 7 2 'diction. CALENDAR FOB. THE YEARS OF THE FLOOD CALCULATION MADE BY THE AUTHOR, FROM THE HISTORY OF THE BIBLE, TO PROVE THAT THE ARK MUST HAVE RESTED IN THE YEAR OF THE WORLD, 1656 and 1657: ( 43^ ) O <" r A B C D E F G A B C D E F G A B C D 9!E 2o;f 21 iG 22. A 23!b 24 1 C 25:0 26 27 ►^ A CALENDAR ioi the Years ot the FLOOD; a Calculation for the Place where the ARK refted. OCT OB ER hath 31 Days. The Year of the World 1656. The Hiftory, New Moon Hor. 5 P. M. Moon not vifible, beginning In defeen, figns. Moon vifible at her fetting. The firft year and the month of Tifri begins, and the fun enters Libra. Noah 599 years old about this time. Methufelah 968 years old about this time. Number, as fmall as it is, we muft except all Animals, that are of equivocal generation as infefls j all that are accuftomed to live in water, as fiili, and water-fowl, all that proceed from a mixture of different fpecies, -as mules ; and all that by chang- ing their climate, change their colour, and fize, and fo pafs for F 2 different ( 437 ) r NOVEMBER 30. The Year of the world 1656. The hiftory. New Moon, Hor. 3. A. M The Second month Marhefhvan begins, and • (the Sun enters Scorpio. Methufelah dies about this tirtie. GOD fpeaks to Noah. Noah enters the Ark. Earth in Perihelium, Hor. 10. P.M. Noah enters the Ark. Noah enters the Ark. f^oah enters the Ark. Noah enters the Ark. I Rain, Noah keeps the Sabbath in the ark. z Rain. 3 Rain. different creatures when in reality they are the fame. We muft obferve farther, that all creatures of the Serpentine kind, the Viper, Snake, Slow- Worm, Lizard, Frog, Toad, &c. might have fufficient fpace for their reception, and for their nouriHi- ment, in the hold, or bottom of the Ark, which was probably three or four foot under the floor, whereon the beafts are fuppofed to ftand ; and that the fmaller creatures fuch as the Moufe, Rat, Mole, &c. might find fufficient room in feveral ^ parts ( 438 ) > p it DECEMBER 31. ***: -- 1^: 5-' The Year cf the World 1656. The hiftory. S • ?- I F 20 ,'23 , 4 Rain. 2 G 21 ;2. s 5 Ra,in. ; A 22 2; 6 6 Rain. 3 2 ; 2 1^ - 7 Rain. C C 2II2- s S Rain. 6 D 25I25 9 9 Rain, - £ 26123 j^ 10 Rain. S F 27 D 1 1 II XewMoon, Hor. 3. P.M. c G 2S 2 12 1 2 Rain. !0 A 29 ^ 1 3 13 Rain. I I B 3- 14. The Sun enters Sagitrarj. 12 C I 5 I ^ i; The third Month Chiiieu begins. 13 D 2 6 16 i5 Rairu 15 E F T e iS I- Rain. iS Rain. 16 G tj C -'9 19 Rain. 17 A 6 I^ 20 20 Rain. iS B - I I 21 21 Rain. 19 c .5 12 22 22 Rain. 20 D 21 E G 10 13 14 23 24 23 Rain. 24 Rain. 22 r I II 15 25 Rain. 23 G] 12 i5 26 26 Rain. A '■ i; 1 2" 2- Riin. -3 3 M.I iS' 25 2S Rain. 26, C i ; I? 29 29 Riin. 2-!d ,15 20 30 30 Rain, 23;e h-I 21 31 31 Rain. 2CrF !: = !;; :^2 Rain. f?; G ! ^ 1 "* -. 1 '" >; V^ Rain. parts cf the Ark, ^rithout having anv panicular places, or ceils appointed for them : So that :ae number of the feveral fpecics of animals to he placed in the fird or loweft ftorv, upon tie foot of this decu^ion, ftaads thus. On FRUITS I The Hog I Mastej Baboon j Sloth Ape I Porcupine ROOTS. Hedre-Hog Squirrel Guinea-pig. .•\nt-Bear ."Armadillo Tori:.fe The ( 439 ) The Ye A R of the World 1657. The History. .2 p § P r ^ !5 JANUARY ^ » FEBRUARY 3'- a. 28. I 35 35 Rain I 66 26 High Water 2 36 36 Rain 2 •67 27 High Water ■3 37 37 Rain 3 l68 28 High Water 4 38 38 Rain 4 69 29 High Water 5 39 39 Rain 5 70 30 New Moon, Hor. 1 1. 6 40 40 Laft day of Rain. 6 7' 31 High Water (P.M. 7 4' I New Moon, Hor. 6. 7 72 32 High Water 8 42 2 High Water. (A. M. 8 i73 33 Sun enters Aquariu.*^ 9 43 3 Sun enters Capricorn. 9 74 34 High Water 10 44 4 High Water. 10 |75 35 Fifty month Shebat 1 1 45 5 fourth month Tebet II 76 36 High Water (begins 12 46 6 High Water, (begins. 12 77 37 High Water »3 47 7 High Water. 13 78 38 High Water •4 48 8 High Water H 79 39 High Water •5 49 9 High Water IS 80 40 High Water £6 50 10 High Water 16 81 41 High Water 17 51 II High Water 17 82 42 High Water 18 52 12 High Water 18 83 43 High Water 19 53 13 High Water '9 84 44 High Water • 20 54 14 High Water 20 85 45 High Water 21 55 15 High Water 21 86 46 High Water 22 56 16 High Water 22 87 47 High Water 23 57 17 High Water 23 88 48 High Water 24 58 18 High Water 24 89 49 High Water ^5 59 19 High Water 25 90 50 High Water 26 60 20 High Water 26 9' 51 High Water 27 61 21 High Water 27 92 52 High Water 28 62 22 High Water 28 93 53 High Water z9 63 23 High Water 30 64 24 High Water ^i 65I 2$ High Water BEASTS which live on HAY. The Horfe Afs Camel Elephant Bull Urus Bifon Goat Buck Rabbit Bonafus Stone-Buck Rein-Deer Marmotte Buffalo Shamois Roe Sheep Antelope Rhinoceros Stejciferos Elk Camelopard Broad-Tail Hart Hare OS ( 440 ) The Ye ar of the World 1657. The Hi story. m I z 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 lo II 12 13 '5 16 '7 18 '9 21 22 23 4 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 oi 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 o I 12 '3. '4 15 (6 '7 [8 '9 [2o [21 [22 123 [24 MARCH 3'- 54 High Water 55 High Water 56 High Water 57 High Water 58 High Water 59 High Water 60 New Moon, Hor. 1. 61 High Water (P. M. 62 High Water 63 High Water 64 Sun enters Pifces 65 Sixth month Adar 66 High Water (begins 67 High Water 68 High Water 69 High Water 70 High Water 71 High Water 72 High Water 73 High Water 74 High Water 75 High Water 76 High Water 77 High Water 78 High Water 79 High Water 80 High Water 81 High Water 82 High Water 83 High Water 84 High Water Oi3 I 2 .3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 1 12 '3 '4 15 16 '7; 18 '9! 20 1 21 j 22 j 23' 24 25 26 27 28 29, 30 ; 12^; 126 12-7 ;i28 129 130 '131 132 J33 :'34 ,'35 136 1^3 MS 139 140 141 142 H3 144 '45 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 '53 '54 APRIL. 30- 85 High Water 86 High Water 87 High Water 88 High Water 89 High Water 90 NevvMoon,Hor.8 91 High Wat. (A. M. 92 High Water 93 High Water 94 High Water 95 Seventh month Ni- 96 len begins, and the 97 fun enters Aries. 98 High Water 99 High Water 100 High Water 101 High Water 102 High Water 103 High Water 104 High Water 105 High Water 106 High Water 107 High Water 108 High Water 109 High Water I lo High Water 1 Arlcreftson oneof the 2 mountains of Ararat. 3 Ebbing Water 4. Ebbing Water On FLESH. The Lyon Bear Tyger Paid Ounce Pole.Cat Cat Martin Civet-Cat Stoat Finer Weefel The Caftor O.ter Dog Wolf. The Fox Badger jackall Caragu^a ( 44« > The Year of the World 1657. The History. ^1 D S P D •>< 3 0" P" MAY t 3,. (a 3 a. JUNE. 30- I 155 5 Ebbing Water 1 186 36 Ebbing Water 2 156 6 Ebbing Water 2 187 37 Ebbing Water 3 4 'S7 7 Ebbing Water 3 1S8 38 Ebbing Water 1S8 8 Ebbing Water 4 189 39 Ebbing Water 5 159 9 New Moon, Hor. 12. 5 190 40 Ebbing Water J 6 i6o 10 Ebbing Water (P.M. 6 191 41 Ebbing Water 7 161 II Ebbirg Water 7 192 42 Ebbing Water 8 162 12 Ebbing Water 8 »93 43 Ebbing Water 9 163 13 Ebbing Water 9 194 44 Ebbing Water 10 164 14 Ebbing Water 10 '95 45 9rh month Sivan be- 1 1 '65 15 8th monthjjar begins II 196 46 Ebbing Water (gins 12 166 16 Sun enters Taurus 12 197 47 Ebbing Water 13 167 17 Ebbing Water '3 198 48 Sun enters Gemini '4 168 18 Ebbing Water H 199 49 Ebbing Water 15 169 19 Ebbing Water '5 200 50 Ebbing Water 16 170 20 Ebbing Water 16 201 51 Ebbing Water *7 171 21 Ebbing Water '7 202 52 Ebbing Water . 18 172 22 Ebbing Water 18 203 53 Ebbing Water 19 '73 23 Ebbing Water '9 204 54 Ebbing W-iter 20 '74 24 Ebbing Water 20 205 55 Ebbing Water 21 '75 25 Ebbing Witer 21 206 56 Ebbing Water 22 176 26 Ebbing Water 22 207 57 Ebbing Water ^3 177 27 Ebbing Water 23 208 58 Ebbing Water 24 178 28 Ebbing Water 24 209 59 Ebbing Water ^5 179 29 Earth in Aphelion H. 25 2I0 bo Ebbing Water 26 180 3oEb. Wat. (J. P.M. 2 J 2ll 61 Ebbing Water 27 181 31 Ebbing Water 27 212 62 Ebbing Water 28 182 32 Ebbing Water 28 213 63 Ebbing Water' i 29 183 33 Ebbing Water 29 214 64 Ebbing Water 30 184 34 Ebbing Water 30 ri5 55 Ebbing Water 3' .85 35 Ebbing Water | Now concerning rhefe creatures, God gives Noah this injunftion : of every clean beaft, thou flialt take to thee by fevens, the male and the temale ; and of beafts that are not clean, by two, the male and the female. Taking the words then in their higheft accepta- tion, viz. tha^ Noah was to receive into the Ark, one pair of every fpecies of unclean animals, and feven pair of every fpecies of clean j yet, confidering that the fpecies of unclean animals, which were admitted b^ pairs only, are many, in comparifon of the clean, and G g the ( 442 ) The Year of the World 1657. The His T ry. § p % p 3 JULY 3»- C p 2 AUGUST f D- Ui Cl. I 216 66 Ebbing Water I 247 23 Earrh feen 2 217 67 Ebbing Water 2 248 24 N. Moon at mid-day 3 218 68 Ebbing V/ater 3 249 25 Earth feen 4 2ig 69 N.MoonHor.i.A.M. 4" 250 26 Earth feen <; 220 70 Ebbing Water 5 251 27 Earth feen 6 221 71 Ebbing Water 6 252 28 Earth feen 7 222 72 Ebbing Water 7 253 29 Earth feen 8 223 73 Ebbing Water 8 254 30 Earth feen y 224 74 Ebbing Water 9 255 31 The eleventh month 10 225 I Tenth month Tam- 10 256 32 Ab. begins 11 226 2 muz begins. Tops II 257 33 Earth feen 12 227 3 of mountains leen. 12 258 34 Earth feen ^3 228 4 Earth feen 13 259 35 Earth feen »4 229 5 The fun enttrs Cane. H 260 36 The fun enters Leo. 15 230 6 Earth feen 15 261 37 Earth feen 16 231 7 Earth feen 16 262 38 Earth feen 17 232 8 Earrh feen 17 263 39 Earth feen 18 ^i^ 9 Earth feen 18 264 40 The Raven fent out 19 234 10 Earth feen 19 Z65 41 Earth feen 20 235 1 1 Earth feen 20 266 42 Earth feen 21 236 12 Earth feen 21 26-7 43 Earth feen 22 237 113 Earth feen 22 258 44 Earth feen 23 238 114 Earth feen 23 269 45 E-irth feen 2.V 239 15 Earth feen 2 + 270 46 Earth feen 2^ 240 16 Earth feen 25 271 47 The Dove fent out. 26 241 17 Earth {ten 26 272 48 Earth (ttn 27 242 r8 Earth feen 27 273 49 Eirth feen 2S 243 19 Earth feen zb 274 50 Earth feen 29 244 20 Earth feen 29 275 51 Earth feen 3^^ 245 21 Earth feen 30 276 52 Earth feen 31 246 22 Earth (een 3' 277 53 N. M. Hor. 10. P.M. the fpccies of large animals few, in comparifon of the fmaller; we cannot but perceive (as by a fhort calculation it will appear) that this lower ftory, which was ten cubits high, three hundred long, and fifty broad, i. e. 225,000 folid feet in the whole, would be capable of receiving, with all manner of convenient)', not only all ( 443 ) The Year of the World 1657. The History. s P 2 P 3 SEPTEMBER !Z? OCTOBER •< I 0. 278 30- I 308 3'- 54 The Dove fent out 84 Earth Seen 2 279 55 Earth Seen 2 309 I N. year, 01 iftmon. 1 3 280 56 Earth Seen 3 310 2 Tifrl hegins&cNonb > 4 281 57 Earth Seen 4 311 3 fees the earth dry j 5 282 58 Earth Seen 5 3! 2 4 Earth Dry 6 283 59 Earth Seen 6 3>3 5 Earth Dry 7 284 60 Earth Seen 7 314 6 Earth Dry 8 285 61 f Dove fent out the 8 3'5 7 Earth Dry 9 286 62< lafttime & the 12th 9 316 8 Earth Dry to 287 63 1 month Elul begins 10 317 9 Earth Dry II 288 64 Earth Seen II 3.8 10 Earth Dry 12 289 65 Earth Seen 12 3' 9 1 1 Earth Dry 13 290 66 The Suns entersVirg. »3 320 12 Sun enters Libra. 14 291 67 Earth Seen 14 321 13 Earth Dry 15 292 68 Earth Seen 15 322 14 Earth Dry 16 293 69 Earth Seen 16 323 I 5 Earth Dry ; »7 294 70 Earth Seen 17 324 1 6 Earth Dry 18 295 71 Earth Seen 18 325 17 Earth Dry »9 296 72 Earth Seen «9 326 1 8 Earth Dry 20 297 73 Earth Seen 20 327 19 Earth Dry 21 298 74 Earth Seen 21 328 20 Earth Dry 22 299 75 Earth Seen 22 329 21 Earth Dry 23 300 76 Earth Seen 23 330 22 Earth Dry 24 301 77 Earth Seen 24 l?,^ 23 Earth Dry 25 302 78 Earth Seen 25 332 24 Earth Dry 26 303 79 Earth Seen 26 333 25 Earth Dry 27 304 80 Earth Seen 2T 334 26 Earth Dry 28 305 81 Earth Seen 28 335 27 Earth Dry 29 306 82 Earth Seen (A.M. 29 336 28 New Moon, Hor. 6. 30 307 83 New Moon, Hor. 7. 30 337 29 Earth Dry (P. M. 31 338 ^0 Earth Drv all the forts of beads, that we are acquainted with, but probably all thofe other kinds, which are any where to be found under the cope.s of heaven. G g 2 444 ) The Ye A R of the Wok LD 1657. The History. NOVEMBER 3°- 339; 3 1 Second Month Mar^ 340J 32 heflivan begins 341 ,'33 Earth Dry 342' 34 Earth Dry 343 34+ 315 346 347 348 349 3SO 35 1" 35^ 353 554 355 356 357 ?58 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 2S 35 Earth Dry 36 Earth Dry 37 Earth Dry 38 Earth Dry 39 Flar.h Dry 40 Earth Dry 41 The Sun enters Scot. 42 Earth Dry 43 Earth Dry 44 Earth Dry 45 Earth Dry 46 Earth Dry 47 Earth Dry ^8 Earth Dry 49 Earth Dry 50 Earth Dry 5 I Earth Dry 52 Earth Dry 53 Earth Dry 54 Earth in Perihelion, 5=5 Hur. 4. A. M. 56 Earth Dry 57 Gjd fpeaks to Noah, 1 Days after the Flood 2 Noah comes out Ark 3 Nnah comes out Ark NewMinn, FIor.4. A.M. O I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 o I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 O DECEMBER 3'- H 4 3d M.Chilleau, begins 5 Noah comes out ot A. 6 Noah comes out of A. 7 Noah offers lacrifice to the Lord, vvhich was fa- vourably received, the Lord promifes him to drown the earth no more; and for a fign of the truth of his promife, he told him, moreover, that he had fet his bow in the Heavens (that circle of beautiful colours which we frequently fee before and after a fliower, and call a rainbow in the cloud) which fhould be as a covenant between God and Bian. New Moon,Hor,3.A.M. The 4rh Tebcth begins. A CHRONOLOGICAL AND SYNCHRONICAL TABLE OF THE VARIOUS MONARCHIES, KINGDOMS AND STATES OF THE W OR L D, FROM THEIR RISE RESPECTIVELY TO THE PRESENT YEAR, 177s, 44^ A CHRONOLOGICAL and V.w. 2148 2198 2258 2292 2362 2416 2451 2497 2518 2529 »579 2620 2643 2660 2691 2723 2729 27.30 2738 2796 2829 2844 2851 2879 2447 2497 2506 2516 2566 2606 2656 2696 2721 2769 2799 2822 2855 2867 2868 2876 2913 Arrives. Inachus. Phcroneas Apis Argus Crialus Fhorbas Tricpas Ciiotopus Sthenelus Danaus Lynceus Abas Pretus M}'cenes. Acrifius Perfeus Meftor Eledtro Sthenelus Atrous Euryftheus Agamemnon Aegiilus Erelles Penthilus lall: •eoe«costba3oece ooooMMMea Athens. Cecrops 1. Craneus Aniptidlion Erichthonius Pandion L Erichtheus Cecrops n. Pandion H. Aegeus Thefeus Mcniheus Deinophon Oxintes Amphidas Thymetus Meknthus 7 Micinius J Codrua 50 60 35 70 54 35 46 21 I ! 50 41 23 17 31 32 6 I 8 58 33 15 7 28 22 50 9 10 50- 40 50 40 2458 2502 2524 2555 2630 2690 2744 2780 2961 2980 30 u 3021 3030 3042 3054 3°^3 3064 3096 3104 3^^3 •09910)0 3207 5243 3257 3269 3286 3324 3373 3385 3442 25 4« 1 1914 1966 30 201 I 23 33 iz 2031 2056 2108 I 2I42 s 1 218: 37 224O 228-7 21 8 2333 Scamander Teucer Dardanus Erichthonius Tros Ilus Laomedon Priamu?, laft. H03MM KoaeooaoaaaMMoeee Tyre. Abiblus Hiram Baleazer Abdraftus Delcaftartus Aftartas Afthargure Peles 9 months Ithchalus Bazorus Metinus Pygmalion laft «ooano( w »Mt«P M Ci :o i 111 ) 1 1 WW Lydians. Ardyfius Halyattes A'lells Candaules Gyges Ardyfus Sadyattes Halyattes Crsefus, laft Sicyon. i^gialeus 52 Europa 45 Telchin 20 Apis 25 Thelafion $2 Aegydrus 34 Thurymachuj 4$ Leucippus 53 Mefapus 47 Peratus 46 Plemn^us 4^ 44 22 3« 75 60 54 36 49 «9 34 7 9 12 12 9 32 8 9 40 36 H IZ 17 38 49 12 57 H SYNtHRONICAL TABLE. 447 7i 73 Y.W. Sicyon. 63 Y.W. Aflyriar.s. 2. "2 2381 Onhopolis 2706 Panyas 45 2444 Marathan 30 2751 Sofarmus •9 2474 Marathus 20 2770 Metreus 2-7 2494 •Lchyreus 55 2797 Tantance 32 2549 CorajE 30 2829 Tauteus 40 2579 lipopcus 35 2869 Thineus 30 2614 LeoiDcdon 40 2899 Dcarcilus 40 2654 Sicyon 45 2939 Eupalus 48 2699 Polybus 40 2977 Laofthenes 45 2739 Janifcus 42 3022 Pyritiades 30 2781 Pheftus 8 3052 Ophrateus 20 2789 ^drartus 4 30" 2 Ophratence 50 2793 Polyphides 31 5122 Ocrazapes 42 2824 Pelafgus 20 3164 Sardanapal 20 2844 Teuxippus 1 32 MM •M9MD Medes. AfTvrians. 3184 Arbaces 28 '77> Ninirod '39 32.2 Solarmus 30 1910 Belus 35 3242 Medidus 40 1945 Ninus wife "i Semer y 52 3282 3295 Cardyceas Dejoces 13 53 1997 Semiramis 7 queen 3 42 3348 Phraortes 22 3370 Cyaxares 40 2039 Ninius 38 3410 Aftyages 35 2077 Arius 30 2107 2147 Aralius 40 30 Baleus 2177 Arinainitres 38 Perfians. 2215 Belochus 35 3145 CvillS 3<^ 2250 Baleus 52 3475 Carnbyfes 8 2302 Altadas 32 34^3 Semerdis, the 2334 Mainith 30 Magi 8M 2364 Mancaleus 30 3484 Darius Hiftafp. 36 2394 Spherus 20 3520 Xerxes J. II 2414 iVIamilus 30 3531 Artaxerxes ' Longimaniis _' 2444 Sparteus 40 49 2484 Al'catares 40 3580 Xeixes II. 2M 2524 Aniyntas 45 3580 Sodiaru5 6M 2569 Belochus 25 3581 Darius Nothus 19 2495 Bellepares 30 3600 Artaxerxes 7 Mnenion \ Ochus 46 2624 Lamprides 32 2656 Sofares 20 1 3646 20 2676 Lamparts 30 448 A CHRONOLOGICAL akd "?o lb Y.W. Perfians. 2. ' Y.W Macedon. n eg 3666 Arfes 2 3772 Antigonus 18 S66H Darius Codaman- 3784 Philippus 42 nus 6 3826 Perfes, laft 10 •escteoc Macedon. «*• oo«o«e«a Aborigines. 3'9« Caranus 28 2674 Janus, or Saturnus Szi Canus 12 Albanus 33 3-3' Tyrinimas 35 2707 Picus 37 3269 Perdicea 5> 2744 Faunus 44 332- \rgeus 38 2788 Latinus 36 335« Philippus 35 3396 Europus 25 3422 Alcetas 29 345' Amyntus 50 Latines. 350I Alexander 43 2824 Aene a 3 3544 Perdicea 28 2S27 Afcanius 38 3572 Archalaus 2| 286$ Sylvius 29 359t Oreftes 3 2894 Aeneas 3« 3599 Aichalaus 4 2925 Latinus Sylvius 51 3603 Amyntas I 2976 Alba Sylvius 39 3604 Paufanias I 3015 Capetus Sylvius 26 3'3o5 Amyntas 6 3041 Capys 28 361 1 Argeus 2 306c Calpetus »3 3613 Rurfum Amyntas 18 3082 Tiberinus Sylvius 8 3^31 Alexander I 309c Agrippa Sylvius 41 3632 Ptolemeus Alorites 4 3131 Allades 19 3636 Perdicea 6 3150 Aveniinus Sylvius 37 3642 Philippus 26 3187 Pracus Sylvius 23 3668 Alexand. the Great 13 3210 Amulius Sylvius 4« 3681 Philippus Arideas 7 3688 Caffander 19 ^ 3707 Antigonus Antipater 3 Romans. Alexander 3252 Romulus 38 37»o Demetrius 6 329^ Interregnum 1 3716 Pyrrbus 6M 329- Numa Pompilius 43 3716 Lyfimachus 8 333- Interregnum 2 3724 Ptolemaus I 333 Tullus Hoftilius 32 3725 Melagrus 2M 33^^- Ancus A'larcius 21 3725 Antipater 33SS Tarq. Prifcus 38 3725 Solllicnes 2 34-" ScrviUsTuUius 44 3727 Antigon Gonatas 35 3471 Tarquin the Proud, 3762 Demetrius 10 ^ laft. ^ ?S S Y N C H R O N I C A^L T A B L E: 449 2513 2553 2570 2592 2599 2639 266 2679 2699 2700 2720 2753 2760 Judges of; Ifrael. ! Mofes in the Wil-, \ dernefs. Joihua Interregnum Cuilian Othniel Interr. iheA^oabites Eglon Ehud Shamgar Jabin Deborah and Barak the Midianites^ . Gideon y.w. Judges ofJifrael. Abimeleck Tholah Jair The Ammmiites;/. Jeptha ..!i;i/. ibzan . .), f Elon Abdon Eli Samfoif Samuel Saul David • ->:t. /, riT'^mA ASt •'i«ETJri^Mi: •*«i" a*! '■'7 'let 4Ct 2990 SolonioD, 40! Reig. ',.'riqon?iciA}8of ; Y.w. 3029 3046 3049 3090 3 ' ' 5 3120 3120 3126 3166 3^94 3246 3262 3277 3306 3361 3362 3394 3394 340s 3405 Kings of Judah. Rehoboam' Abijah A (a Jehofliaphat Jehoram Ahaztah Athaliah Joafti Amafiah Uzziah Jotham Ahaz Hezekiah Manafleh Amon Jofiah Joahaz Jehoiakim Jehoiachin Zedechiah 17 ;y.^-. ^^;> r Kings of mitvi H h Jeroboam :•/■ ' Nadob ^-r-Ujaii Baaflia ' a^ft-imt El ah ;. a ion 3'! I/- I Zimri) Omri ii-«'it?| Ahab ?.i."^rh::c Ahaziah Ct-imc^ Joram f'Tocam/i Jehu "♦n^ifunA Jehoahaz ;^?iou.--•? Interregnum ' Zechariah' ^ij'l (' '' Shallum '^q-^run^A Menckem Tor{ 'olnC^i Pekahiahtn-qy^rnriT | Pekah i3fui?lij"l"-j Holhea ^\'d-r-^■^^\ Salmanefer | zoSieaui"::'- 1 . ff ^'^ a .- I- ti' ■JtF 20 r t • 1 45<> A" C H R O N.O L O G I C A L !^ £hl 229S 2308 ^m 2446 2420 2.5, 26S 274 276 28! 282 3OO' 302 306 3071 308' 308 3'5i 3166 3'79 3204 3213 3223 3 267 1 Mizrain»i^^'J-'''-'/ Salatis tlfiloflT Be on :i£l Apach«tfg-A '•'•"'' Apophis Janais Allis Tethe ' Chebron ■ ■•^ Amenophis IX'- '••" Ameflia hi-pto Mcphres '-^'^ MeptraniuthoTis- -' Thmolis Amenophis II. Qtas , Acenchres I. Acenchres II. Armais m ■•>'•. •■- 1 Raiiiefles Ramefles Miaftian' Airenophis, 3Drovy. Sefoftii|,..;j , . . ..\ Setholis dpuA Ramefs ih.':Zzr\P. Arnenophes nr^oT Ammenemes f-'i^i Thuores xciiftodj] Dyneftis ff'^ol Semendis ',ii;-->,:!t ■-■' Pfeufenores • Tt -I NopherchSeres, • . > Amenophes:;j. Onfochor ..-lOwOi; t/ Pfinafpinades ' -. Pfufenne:= Sefonchis cjii.., Ororthoau^.3ni~:r:!£f Tachelorls Peiubaftes Oforthon Pfanimis Bucchoris Sabacon .7 26 4^ "4 9 6 9 '35 21 IS 13 25 9 10 44 12 Y.U- Egypt. « n 3279 Stveciiiis 13 3291 Tarachus 20 S3'» Meries i2 3323 Stephina^e^s 7 3330 Nechepfus 6 3336 Necho 8 3344- Pfaniiivitichus 44 3388, Pharaoh Nscho i^ 3.'04- Pfammis 6 34' L^ Pharaoh Plophro 2-, 8435 Aniafis 44 3 1-79 Planfmenotus 6M tocKiocoa (XcaxoTxecaxaxaoKrr.'f/yiroMixo Airvrian^. ten ' 3-233 Pol 24 3257 Tighth-Filefcr. *9 3276 Saimanefer 15 3291 Sennacherib 4 3295 Efirhadden 28 -ggra. Babylon. ■■ 32S7 Nabonazzar H 3271 Nadius 2 3273 Cin'iirus and Perus c 3^7S Jug:us 5 3283 iVlardokenipodus if; 3295 Arcianes ...ft 3300 Interregnum . a. 3302 Bebibus 3 330-> Apronadius 6 3323 AfTaradinus or ETarhadden 13 3330 Saofuachinus ■29 3356 Nebuchadonofar zi 3378 NobopalafTar , 20 33 i3 Nebuchadnezzar 44 3^!-2 Evil-Merodach 2 3444 NeriglifTar 2 3446 Niricairolaflarus 3 3449 Laborofcarchod 9M 3449 Bafshazzar, laft 17 S Y N C H R Q N I C A^ L 1 TA^U Ei 4!5ii -- —■■'■ ■" bo =^ Y.W. topt- ! n 3 i 43 AD: Rdriigns. 3 3O84 Pioleniy Lagus 7' V^f"pa'fiaii"j'""^i""'-' 0-8 3727 Pcclemy Fhiladel- 79 Titus' --hudl'ioD "^•3 phus \ 38 82 Domitiail-ii:'-:^-^ »4 3757 Ptolemy Euregeteri ^6 96 Nerva ■"iir.zhco'J "eft 3783 Ptolemy Philopater ■ n 9« Trajan ■ ,zn£f..:oJ ?i9 3830 Ptolemy Epiphance' 24 ■ 117 -Adrian ■'» .fHii.'->->' ' '«» 352+ Ptolemy Philonjater 35 :• t38' Antoninus -^iusr 143 3859 Ptcleniy Euregetes' 2'.- 161 Marcus Aur^lius [ M 3888 Ptolemy Lathyrns 36 & Lucius VerUS'' i- ^ 3924 Ptolemy &Alexand. 15 ■ 180 Commodus ■• ' "7 "\>* 3939 Ptolemy Auietes »4 192 Pertinax "■■'■' •- ' 2 ill 3953 Queen Cleopatra, 193 Didius Julianiw-'-* ' pm lall 21 ' 193 Severus 18 «mooM ()g)jooo3eco3eoajowcBoooofl»»ww tpeo 211 Caracalla and Gfeta i Syria. 213 Geta 3692 vSeleucus Nicanor 32 «9 217 Macrinus 3724 Antiochus Soter 218 Heliogabalas- 4 3743 Antiochus Theos 15 222 AlexandcT SeV-eriK 3758 Scleucus CuUinicus 20 is killed-' :;a'i'--^' ■:.^ 3778 Seleucus Ceraunus 3 : ^^35 MaximiBiia • -.•io'vA ' "a 3781 Antiochus Magnus 36 1: • 237 PupinusMa^imus & 3B17 Seleucus Philopater 12 1 Silius Baibinus 3829 Antioch. Epiphance II .237 Gofdlati ■ -riu^y 6 3840 Antiochus Eupator 2 243 Pliilip -ancMHy'^^ 1842 Demetrius Soter 12 killed :^.;ri 7 3854 Alexander Balas 5 .250 Decius Kiisli;'''" v^» 3859 Demetrius Nicanor 5 e 252 Gailus ■iir>bo3;lT ., -^J 3864 Antiochus Sidetes 10 253 Aemilianus:':''r.j-:. 4.^o» 3874 Demetrius Nicator 253 Valerianas -■-.• r! :" •^7 iterum 4 260 Gallienus ; ' : 8 3878 A!e::.inder Zebina 2 268 Claudius z 3888 Antiochus Grypus 28 270 Quintilius. 3908 Seleucus 4 i 270 V alerius Aurelianus 6 3912 PhilippusAntiochus 98 276 Interregnum 8m 3921 Tygranes laft i8§ ooo» 9 277 Claudius Tacitus 7m Mosnn CCOMOM oauMoaeaaiaaosaeea son 277 Florian Ronisti s. 1 277 Aurelius Probus 6 3956 Julius Csefar 61 233 Carus I 3962 Auguftus Cxfar 56 i 284 Numerian & Cairus M Tiberius 23 p 2S4 Diociefian and Max- ■' 37 Caligula 4 1 imian S9 4' Claudius Csfar '3 i 291 Conft. Chlorus and x5 54 Nero 148 Galerius 20 68 Galba 7 m 8 3 f" 5 305 Severus II. and 69 Otho Maximinus S 70 VitcUiu? 8m 1 H h 2 ' 45*. AiqHRONaLaOIC AL A».6 A.I>. Romans. i.A.D. 337 •137 34' d^i 3^3 364 375 381 394 423 455 455. 456 457 461 466^ 471 473 474 475 364 379 395 40S 450 46S 474 474 491 518 527 565 578 582 60 z 6io 6}. I 641 642 658 Conftantine the Gr. Conftantine III. . . Romans Conftantius, Eafl;. & Conftans, the Weft Conftan. the W. li. Julian the Apoftle Jovian- Valef\tinianj, . o Gratian - - -^ Valentinian II. Hoaorius Valeniinian III. Petronus Muxiinus Interregnum Majocianus Sevej'us and inter Authemius Olyblus & Inlerreg. Glycerius Julius Nepos RomulusAuguftulus Eaftern. Valens Theodoiius Arcadius Theodofius Marcian Leo I. Ardaburius Leo the youngei Zeno Anaftafius Juftin I. Juftiniau juttin II. Tiberius II. Maurics Phocas Heraclius Conftantine Heracleonas Conftans Conftantius 3» 24 24 »3 2 7m 1 1 6 15 29 32 j.- I 4 4 ( 5 2 I I 9 ^S »3 4 20 8 3^ I 26 Eaftern. 685 695 697 705 711 713 7»4 7.i6 .741 752 780 790 797 802 811 813 820 829 842 867 889 911 912 94S 959 963 969 975 025 028 034 04 1 042 054 056 057 059 067 068 071 o7« 08 1 118 143 iSo 1S3 Juftinian Leontius Apfiniar Tiberius Juftinian II. Philippic. Bardance Anallafius II. Theodofius 111. - Leo li'auricus Conft. Copronymus Leo Porphyrog. Conftantine & Irene Conftantine alone Irene alone Nicephorus I. Michael Curopal Leo v. Michael II. Fheophilus I. Michael Balbus Bafilius I. Leo VI. Philofopher Alexander II. Conftantine Porph Conftantine alone Romanus II. Niceph. Phocas II. John Zriinezes Bafilius II. Conftantine X. RonianusIll.Argyr. .Vlichael IV. Michael Cu!«ph V. Conft. Monuiuacuin Theodra Michael VL Ifaac Comnenus Conft. Ducas XII. Mich. Andronicus Roinnnus Diog- Mich. DiecasVII. Niceph. Boton Alexis Conin. John Coinn. Alanuel Coinn. Ale.xis Conin. Andronic Coain. 2 10 6 2 I Z 35 5 lo 7 5 \ 9 2 7 9 '3 25 22 25 I 37 n 4 6 6 50 3 6 7 I 12 2 I 2 8 I 3 7 3 37 25 37 3 2 SYNCHRONICAL TABLE* 453 Eaftern. Ifaac Ange Alexis Ange Ilaac Ange Alexis Murlzuft Theodore Lafcaris Baldwin II. French Henry French Peter French Robert French John Ducas Nice Baldwin French Theod. Lafcaris Nice John Lafcaris Michael Paleolog Androtice Paleolog Michael Andronic Androtice Paleolog. John Cantacuzence John Paleolog Manuel II. John VI. Conftantine Mahomet II. Turks taken Eaftern Turks. Ottoman Orchan Amurath Bajazet Joihua Zelabi Soliman Mufa Mahomet Amurath II. Mahomet II. Bajazet II. Selim Soliman II. Selim II. Amurath III. Mahomet III. Achmet I. Muftapha Ofman Muftapha 11. c^- O A.D. • — o — lo g 1623 8 g 1640 I O 1655 O 1687 O 1695 g '703 o 1730 9g'754 33§»757 30 O »774 A O 70 ' o 21 O ,2 O z o 21 O Hg 30 o 8 o o o — o o 28 g 28 o HO o ■■§ 3 O 8 O 30 1 31 o 31 o 8 ^ 46 o 8G 2.1 ;> 9g '3g O SO I o 632 642 644 655 665 665 670 670 690 693 715 725 727 730 734 753 754 754 754 759 764 785 795 796 819 824 844 853 858 873 877 880 Amurath Jorahion Mahomet IV. Soliman III. Achmet II. Muftapha III. Achmet III. Maliomet Ofman Muftapha IV. Achmet IV. Perfians. Mahomet Abubecher Omar Ofman Mavia in Egypt Holi in Arabia Hazen Mavia Gefid Abdimetce Walid Soliman Omar IL Gefid II. Hifcam Walid IL Gefid III. Ibrahim Mavia Abalia Abrijafar 7 Almonafar 3 Muhamed Mufa Haron Rafchid Abu Muhamed Abulabu Almamon Muhamed Muftefion Haron Wacie Billa Almontafer Almatadedi Bellahi Almotazzo Bellahi Alonftemeda Bellahi 454 A CHRONOLOGICAL and A.D. 903 913 919 $43 945 95 « 955 984 rooi 1042 1086 105 129 146 149 171 182 190 1236 '237 [254 '396 1469 .478 ■485 1488 1490 '497 '497 '499 525 575 '577 58=; 585 [629 (642 166& [694 722 ■725 1728 73' Muiadld Bellabi Muftafi^ Bellahi Giafer Abultadlus Cahirus Bellahi Alradi Bellahi Moftafis Bellahi Alinoti Taius Liila Cadirus Billahi Caum Brannilla Muftadis Billahi Muchadines Billahi AInioftahad Roched Almoctafi Almoftinged Almortanzi Narceladin Altaher Almoftazen Abdula Tamerlane Ulum Caflan Jacup lalaver Bavfingir Ruftan Aghmal Alfanti Ifmael Thomas Itmael II, Mahomet 1 Cedabinde j Emir Hems ilmael 111. Abas the Great Mirza Abas II. Solyman Schah Huflein Myrr. Mayhmud Arzraf Thomas .Vlii'/.a Abbas TiiiiiM-! Kouli K.m 700 <^OA.D • O — O 24 O 861 880 943 980 6^ 1020 4O 1042 29^ i'i6 '70 41 O 44 o '90 »7o 1300 30'327 80 + O 17O ■4g G 90 7O ' O 30 zO O 2O 50 o o o 44 O 240 2SO =8 I 3 1 I r 156 '33'^ 3?'^ 381 385 399 406 450 505 533 584 597 605 605 606 6o5 610 610 611 613 545 576 6S2 587 683 7^5 ^7 Burick Igor Swatodaw Wjodimir leroflaws "Wlodimir II. Wecw'olode George, Dimitri George, Andrew JercHaws Andrew, Michael Dan. St.Ale.x.Nufski Daniel George Danielowit;^ Diniit. Michaciowit/ Jv.-an Danielowitz 1 wan Jwanowirz Diiiiirri J wanowitz Bafilu^ Dimitriwitz B-i^Ids Bafilov.itz Greg. Dimitriowitz Bafilus Bafilowitz Jwan Bifiiowi'z Bifilius J wanowitz Jwan Bafilowitz Feeder Jwanowitz Boris Gadenow Feeder Borilfowitz Dimitri Bafilius Kufki Dimitri Dimitri WladiflausP. of Po- land Dimitri Michael Federowitz Alexis MichaeJowitz Fcedor Alexifowitz Jwan and Petei I. .•Meicowitz. Percr I. Caih.arine I. widow of Peter Peter II. Alexifco- wiiz '9 65 37 4Q 23 73 3 44 55 28 5» 13 8 32 5 6 37 SYN CHRONICAL TABLE. 4S$ A.D 1730 »74o 1 741 176^ 1762 999 IOZ5 '034 IC41 1059 1082 1 103 J 14c 1146 1174 U78 1195 i;2fc)3 i'?79 1.-289 r29S 1296 t'300 ^305 '333 «37o 1385 1386 '■434 1444 '447 1.492 1501 /■507 1533 '"548 '■573 1C76 J RufTians. Anna Jwanowna Jwan cr John Elizabeth Petrowna Peter Hi. Catherine II. Poland. BoleQas Mietziflas Interregnum Cafimir Bolfcflus II. killed himlclf V/ladiHas Bolefliis III. V/'adidasII. BolellaslV. Mieclflas CifiiiirTT. Lefcus Wladillas III. Bolella, V. Lafcus VI. Bjleilas Henry Wiad- iflas. Prachifl.is Wladiflas WenceflasK. of Boh. Wfadiflas Cafimir 111. Scwis K. of Hungary Interregnum Wladiflas D. of Liw thuani-a. Wladiflas II. Interregnum Cafimir IV. John Albert ' Alexander Sigifmond I. Staniflaus duke of Lorrain. Sigifmond II. Henry ofAnjou Stephen Bator/ ?3 & 21 'S" © A.D. 1587 1632 »64b 1669 1674 1697 1705 1733 •7(^3 ^" o ■4 '•* 8 o 2; O 5 3 fo 6g 1^ 4o SO 7,8 V? ,- D/ 12 3 <^ 48 s c> 10 v> t> io 4=; !> 26 1 L- < > •■> 2"? 11 ^ 43 O t>- :>t. St. 9 1 St. 1 01 St. I lo St. IIQ St. Mc St. 140 St. I'JZ St. >S6 St. 165 St. J7^ St. «77 St. 192 St. 20I St. 219 St 224 St. 231 St. ^V^ Sr. 236 St. 2^1 S-. 253 St. 255 St. 2$7 St. 258 St. 270 St. 27'; St. 28, Sr. 296 St. 304 St. 309 S . 3" St. Sigifmond K. of Swe- den Wladiflas John Cafimir Vlichael John Sabieflcy Fred. Au"uftus 11. -jtanmaus Fred. Augullus HI. Sianiflaus Auguftu.s St Popes. Peter bijhop Jefus Chritl. Linus Clefus Clehient I, Anacletus Euarilius Alexander L Sixtus I. TeJefphorus Hvgin«s ftvled Pius L Anicetus Soter Eleytherus Viaor I. . Zephrvmus . Caliaus I. Urban I. Pontianus Anterus Fabianus Cornelius Luciu.s I. Stephen I, Sixtus II. Denys Felix I. Eutychianies Cajufor Gap is Marellinus Marcellus Eufebius Melchiades of 456 A CHRONOLOGICAL and 314 336 336 352 356 365 385 398 402 4«7 418 4^3 432 440 461 467 483 492 496 498 SH 523 526 530 532 535 536 540 555 559 571 577 604 606 607 614 617 626 639 639 641 649 655 655 St. Silvefter St. Marcus Sr. Julius I. Sr. Liberius St. Felix II. St. Damalus I. St. Siricus St. Anaftafius I. St. Innocent I. St. Zozimus St. Boniface I. St. Celeftine I. St. Sixtus III. Sr. Leo I. the Great St. Hilary St. Simphei'us St. Felix III. St. Gelafius I. St. Anaftafius II. St. Svmnrachus St. Hormifda St. John I. Sr. Felix IV. St. Boniface II. St. John IJ. St. Agapetus I. St, Silverius St. Vigilius St. Pelagius I. Sr. John III. St. Benedia L -. . St. Pelagius II. 590 [Sr. Gregory, ftyled Ssrvus Sabinian Boniface III. Boniface IV. Deufdedit Boniface V. Honorius I. Severinus John IV. Theodoriuj St. Martinu'i L Eugetiius I. Vitalianus 22 15 ; 4 8 A. Dsedalus Donus I. Sr. Agatha Sr. Leo II. St. Benedia II. John V. Conon S;. Sergius L John VI. John VII. Sifinnius Conftantine Gregory II. Gregory III, Zacharias Stephen II. Stephen III, Paul L Stephen IV. 772JAdrian I. 795|LeoIIL Stephen V. Pafcal I. Eugenius II. Valentines Gregory IV. Sergius II. Leo IV. Benedia IH. Nicholas I. Adrian II. John VIII. Vlartiu II. Vdrian III. Stephen VI. Pormofus Mephen VII. Romanus Theodore II. ohn IX. Benedia IV. Leo V. Chriftopher Sergius III. Anaftafius III, Landou SYNCH RONICAL TABLE. 457 A.D, 913 928 929 931 936 939 943 949 9i5 962 964 965 972 972 975 984 985 996 999 999 1003 1004 looc I0I2 !024 1034 1044 [046 [048 I 04c 1055 '057 1058 1061 1073 1086 1087 1099 118 119 124 130 134 144 ;i45 lohn X. Leo VI. Stephen VIH. "ohn XL Leo VII. Stephen IX. Martin III. Agapetus II, John XIL Leo VIII. Benedict V. John XIII., Domnu.s II. Benedict VI. Benedicl VII. Boniface VII. lohn XIV. John XV. Gregory V. JohnXVL Silvefter II. John XVII. John XVIII. Sergius IV. Benedia VIII. John XIX. Benedia IX. Gregory VI. Clement II. Daniafcus II. St. Leo IX. Viaor II. Stephen X. Nicholas II Alexander II. Gregory VII. vidtor in. Urban IT. Pafchal II. Gelafius II. Calixtus 11. Honorius II. Innocent II. Celeftin II. Lucius 11. Eugenius III. 73 '5 I z 5 3 4 6 6 7 2 I .3 9 I 1 1 3 6 3 12 I® 10 2 2 I 6 I 3 12 '3 I 12 '9 I ■; 6 4 10 I 8 A.D. •S3 154 159 181 i8s 187 188 191 199 216 227 241 2+3 -25 + 261 265 271 276 276 276 277 2S1 28=; 287 294 295 303 305 ^16 28 334 312 3^,2 ]'H 378 378 389 404 406 409 410 4'7 43» 447 455 Popes. Aneftus IV. Adrian IV. Alexander III. Lucius 111. Uiban III. Gregory VIII. Clement HI. Ccleftine III. Innocent 111. Honcrius III. Gregory IX. Cckllin IV. Innocent IV. Alexander IV. Urban IV. Clement IV. Gregory X. Innocent V. Adrian V. John XXI. Nicholas IlL Martin IV. Honorius IV. Nicholas IV. Ctlei^in V. Boniface VIIT. Benedict. X. Chment V. JohnXXIL Niicholas V. Benedia XII. Clement VI. Innocent VI. L'rban V. Gregory XI. Urban VI Clement Vli. Boniface IX. Innocent VI[. Gregory XII. Alexander V John XXIII. ' Martin V. Eugenius IV. NichclTS VI. Caijxti!' JII. i'7 1 1 '4 2 II 45» A CHRONOLOGICAL and A.D. '4^8 '4^4 '471 (484 1492 1503 503 r5i. 522 !523 ^534 1550 !555 :555 566 ;57z ^585 !59o ■590 (591 ";92 1605 1605 r62i 1623 1644 .655 ■ 667 .670 [676 1689 1691 1700 721 [72] 1730 74" 1758 '7'^9 4i« 428 448 45S S.xtus iV, 'imocent VIII. Alexander VI. Pius in. [ulius II. Leo X. Adrian VI. Clement VII. Paul III. lulms III. Vlarceilus II. 'aul IV. Pius IV. Pius V. Gregory XIII. Sixtus V. Urban VU. Gregory XIV. liincccnt IX. Clement VIII. Leo XI. Paul V. Gregory XV. Urban VIII. Innocent X. Alexander VII. Cement IX. Clement X. Innocent XI. -Alexander VIII. innocent XII. Clement XI. Innocent X'll. Benedici XIII. Clem-nt Xll. Benedia XIV. Clement XIII. Clement XIV. ttXxxcaoxaoKEDxaxtccoxxxajxiiea Frrince.. Pharamond C odijn Merovius ,Ghiidcric I. 16 2 21 1 1 12 3 6 13 9 21 7 10 18 1 1 5 to 20 to A.D. 5" 558 561 570 584 629 638 655 670 674 691 695 711 716 721 722 739 742 75 1 768 8 3D 814 France. Clovis I. Childebert L Clotharius I. Cherebert Chilperic I. Clotharius II. Dagobert I. Clovis II. Clotharius HI. Childeric II. Theoderic I. Clovis III. Childebert II. Dagobert II. ChiljCric II. Clotaire, ftt up by C. Martel Theodoric II. Interregnum ChildePic HI. the Witlefs Pepin Germany& France. Charlemagne Charles!.^ ^^ Louis J.^/^^^^'^-^^ Lotharius - n 55 Louis 11-^ ^rJ-"/-"* 87:; 'Charles ir. 878 Louis III. Germany' 879 Charles 888 ArncIf 900 Leu is IV, 912 Conrad >-)IQ Henry 9s6 Oiho L 97 1 Oiho II. t;84 Otho in. 1002 Herry II. 1024 Corrad 10:|9 He rv III. 1056 Her^ry IV. I 106 Henry V. 30 47 3 9 »3 45 16 18 14 4 17 4 17 5 5 I «7 4 »7 46 i4 26 »$ 20 3 I 9 12 12 7 17 37 If 18 22 18 17 50 19 SYNCHRONICAL TABLE. 455 A.D 1138 1 152 1190 1 198 1208 I2I2 1250 1273 1292 1298 1308 I318 879 884 Germany. Lotharius II. Conrad III. Frederick I. Henry VI. Philip I. Otho IV. Frederick II. Conrad IV. Inter- regnum Rodolphus Adolf NafTars of MalTaw Albert J. Henry VII. Inter- regnum Lewis IV. France. Louis III. Carl. Charles IIIM^^^'/' 7i 1 •3 '4 38 8 10 4 38 23 19 A.D, 888 893 922 923 936 954 986 987 996 1032 1 060 1 108 "37 1 1 80 1223 1226 1270 1285 1314 1316 France. '^5 29 I 18 3« 9 45 28 Eudes C.ot7t-^^^' Charles IV. Robert Rodolph Lewis IV. Lothaire ^^ Lewis V.ile.^ ''■■i *^*^ '■'^i Hugh Capet Robert Henry I. Philip I. Lewis VI. -^ti»>-'»^ 29 Lewis vir.^yL<**< .43 Philip IL^v£/U^^^ 43 Lewis Vlll.jt;^^^^ 3 St. Lewis IX. ,'; 44 Philip IJI._£^^6'^aJi 15 Philip IV .ZL- \r?-^~- Charles V.jf^-O^^- Charles VIJS-ca*'^^-"^ 9 6 »3 4* Charles VII.^^ir-,>* ^9 Lewis XT. Charles VIII. Lewis Xir.,7iJ5Wj^-^ Francis I. ^"^ Henry II. li 2 22 IS »7 32 460 A CHRONOLOGICAL a :: d '^ ?3 A.D. Gerraany. C5' France. Crq* 3 1559 _ _ - — Francis If. T\ 1560 - — Charles IX.. . 13 1564 Maxiiniliam I. 26 1574 _ — Henry in. ^s 1576 1589 Rodoiphus «9 Henry W .^^~.^^aca><.yzi 1610 - — Lewis Xllfi^^vf^.^;^ 33 1612 Mattliias L 7 ". J 1619 Ferdinand IL '7 1^37 Ferdinand III. 20 '643 - - - — Lewis XIV.S^ C\.n^ ^ 1658 Leopold 47 1705 jofeph 6 1711 Charles VL 29 ^715 - - - Lewis XV, 59 1740 Charles VIL 5 4k -•' '745 Francis Stephen zo 1765 Jofeph ^774 - — Lewis XVL ^.D. Goths. ^6q Athanaric 182 Alaric 411 Ataulpha 41 ^' Sigeric 411; Wal'.ia 420 Theoderic 4i2 Thoriiniond 4>^ Theoderic -i'>6 Evaris 4S4 Alaric troy Almalaric f32 Theuda S48 Theudegefilia 549 Ag.ia ^52 A'.hangilde 5^7 Luiba I. C.68 Leuvigild • S85 Recared I. r)Ol Luiba II. 610 Gondemer 612 Sifcbut 620 Pvecaied 11. 7^ \ 5 32 I IQ A.D. Goths. 621 Suintilla 631 Sifenand 67,6 Chintilla 640 Tulga 642 Cheritafvind Suevi 649 Recefvind 672 Wamba 680 Ervige 6S7 Egiza 700 Vjtiza 710 R-oderic 714 Interregnum Leon and Afturia. 718 i'elagus 737 Fa villa 739 Alphonfus I. 757 Froiia 7-8 .Aurelia 774 •Silop SYNCHRONICAL TABLE. 46» 7i 13 Y.W, Leon and Afturia. cfq" 3 5 Y.W. 1072 Caftile. =1 783 Mauregat Alphonfus VII. 36 788 Veiemond 15 1108 Urraca & Alphonfus 16 797 Alphonfus II. 40 1 124 Alphonfus 33 842 Ramirus 7 1157 Sancho III. I 850 Ordanis" 16 1158 Ferdinand II. 866 Alphonfus III. 44 II58 Alphonfus IX. 56 910 Garcias 3 I2I4 Henry I. 3 913 Ordonis II, 10 I217 Ferdinand III. 35 923 Froila 11. 4 1252 Alphonfus X. 3^ 937 Alphonfus IV. 6 1284 Sancho IV. 1 1 933 Ramirus II. >7 1295 Ferdinand IV. 15 950 Ordonis III. 5 I3II Alphonfus II. 40 955 967 Sancho 1 2 Ramirus '5 Portugal. 982 Veremond II. 17 1088 Henry, firft Earl 50 999 Alphonfus V. 28 I 138 Alphonfus J 46 1027 Veremond III. 10 II85 Sancho 26 — I2I2 Alphonfus II. 21 Caftile. 1233 Sancho II. I \ J037 Ferdinand 32 1246 Alphonfus III. 34 1069 Alphonfus VI. 3 1279 Denis 46 1069J Sancho IL 3 Caftile. '325 •35" 1357 1367 1368 1379 1383 •385 1390 1406 H33 '43« '454 '474 1481 1495 - Peter Henry II. John Henry IH. John 11. Henry IV. Ferdinand V. Ifabella, his wife Spain. '9 Portugal Alphonfus IV. Peter Ferdinand Interregnum John Edward Alphonfus V. John IL Emmanuch 462 A CHRONOLOGICAL and ^ 73 Y.W. Spain. 3 2 Portugal. 3 1504 PhiJip I. 1506 jane his wife alone 8 1514 Charles L 40 1521 _ _ - . John in. 36 ^554 Philip 11. 44 1557 - — SebaRian 21 1578 _ — Hen. Portugal taken 1598 Philip III. 23 by Philip II. king of 1621 Philip IV. 44 Spain. 164.0 - John D. ofBraganza 16 1656 _ _ - — Alphonfus VI. depofed 12 166c; Charles II. 35 1668 - _ Peter 38 1700 Philip V. 46 J 706 - John V. 44 •723 Lewis 23 1746 Ferdinand VI. 13 '750 - Jofeph '759 Charles III. — Swedf 780 Bcro III. 824 Amundus 827 Biorn 8U Haraldus 8c;6 Charles VI. 868 Bero IV. S83 Ingellus 891 Glaus SOD Ingo 907 Eiic 917 Eric 917 8teenchill IOI2 Olaus 1035 Amund I 04 1 Plaqum 1059 Steenchill io=;9 Ingo 1066 Halftan 1080 Philip 1 1 10 Ingelde IV. 1129 Ragualde 1 140 Swercher II Sweden. 7 14 30 19 1 1 10 St. Eric Charles VII. Canute Suerchor IIL Eric II. John Eric XII. Waldemer Magnus Birger II. Magnus Albert Denmark. Germo I. Sigefoidus Gettieus Olaus Hemmingus Siwardus Rings Harald Siwardus SYNCHRONICAL TABLE. 463 852 853 869 879 895 903 925 936 975 1014 041 041 048 074 076 082 096 106 138 «43 149 149 160 184 202 242 250 Denmark. Eric I. Eric II- Canute I. Frotho Germo II. Haraid Germo III. Haraid Suenon I. who in- vaded England. Canute II. the Great was King of England Den- mark & Norway Canute III. JVIaganus Swenon II. Harold St. Canute IV. Olaus Eric III. Nicholas Eric IV. Eric V. Suenon III. Canute V. Waldeniar [. Canute VI. Waldemar II. Eric VI. .Abel 252 Chriftophilus 259'Eric VII. 27 '333 Denmark. 1388 Eric VIII. Chriftophilus II. In- terregnum. Waldeuiar III. Norway. Arold Harold I. Suenon Olaus Suenon Magnus Haraid Maganus II. Maganus III, Harold II. Maganus IV. Ingo Interregnum Maganus V. Aquinus I. Olaus II. Eric Aquinus II. Magnus V. Aquinus III. Magnus VI. Aquinus IV. Olaus, III. and Mar- garet Q^D. N. Aquinus and Marg. Enc II. 1381 13B8 J 396 X412 Sweden. Marg. Queen of Den. EricXIIl. K, ofS. & D, ?o 8 42 Denmark & Norway. Olaus and Margaret his mother Eric IX. 464 A CHRONOLOGICAL AND Sweden. 1438 Chrifto. K. ofS.&D. 1448 1458 1466 1470 1481 1483 1521 1522 1533 1559 1560 1568 1588 1592 1599 161 1 1648 1654 1660 1670 1696 1699 1718 1730 1746 1751 1766 1771 Charles VIII. K. of Sweden Chriftian I, Eric Interregnum John K. of Denmark Chriftian II. Guflaus Encfon K. of S. from Denmark. Eric XV. John III. SigifmondK.of Poland Charles IX. Guftavus Adolphus Queen Chrillina Charles Guftavus Charles XI. Charles XII. Frederic and Ulrigne Eleonora Adolphus Frederic Guftavus 1. cfq' 3 10 22 8 4 •3 30 8 39 24 7 12 37 6 6 37 22 33 20 Denmark & Norway. Chriftopher III. Nor- way united with Denmark. Chriftian I. John Chriftian II. Frederic I. Chriftian III. Frederic II. Chriftian IV. Frederic III. Chriftian V. Frederic IV. Chriftian VI. Frederic V. Chriftian VII. The marriages and ISSUES of the SOVEREIGN KINGS of ENGLAND. WILLIAM I. is married to the daughter of Baldwin V. earl of Flanders. Henry I. is married to the daughter of Malcolm, king of Scotland. Stephen toMaud, daughter to the earl of Bolougne in England. Henry II. to the dutchefs of Guienne and Gafcony, and countefs of Xaintong, France. Richard I. is married to Berengera of Navarre. John, 3 wives, Alice, daughter to Hugh earl of Morton, and daughter to earl of Gloucefter, and daughter to vifcount of Angoulefme. Henry III. is married to Eleanor of Provence in France, Edward I. is married to Eleanor of Caftile, and daughter of the king of France. Edward II. took wife daughter to Philip the fair of France. Edward III. is married to Philip of Hainault. Richard II. married to Anne of Luxemburg, fifter to the emperor Winceflaus and daughter of king of France. Henry IV. is married to Mary Bohun, daughter of the earl of Hereford, Joan of Navarre, widow to the duke of Bretagne, in France, Henry V. married to Catharine of France. Henry VI. is married to Margaret of Anjou, daughter of the king of Sicily. Edward IV. took Mrs. Widvile widow of Sir John Grey, and daughter to Sir Richard Widville. Richard III, is married to Anne, daughter of Richard Nevil Great earl of Warwick. Henry VII. is married to Elizabeth of the houfe of York, daughter of Edward the IV. Henry VIII. married feveral wives, Catharine ofArragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, daughter to the earl of Hertford, Anneof Cleve, Catharine Howard, daughtertothe duke of Nor- folk, and Catherine Parr, daughter of lord Kendal, Latimer. Mary I. efpoufed the king of Spain. Elizabeth was never married (Sir Thomas Bullen married to the marchionefs of Pembroke and Wikfter.) James I, married to Ann, daughter of the king of Denmark, Charles I. is married to the daughter of the king of France. Charles II. is married to the daughter of the king of Portugal. James If. is married to the daughter of Lady Anne Hyde, carl of Clarendon. William III. is married to the daughter of king James II. Anne married to George prince of Denmark. George I. married to the daughter of the duke of Zell. George II. is married to the daughter of Margrave of Brand enburgh. _ George III. is married to the daughter of the dulrc of Mc:ck- jinburgh. K k 466 A CHRONOLOGICAL and 2372 2673 -2705 2719 2723 2733 2753 2783 2B33 2837 2877 2897 2921 29-1-3 2961 2988 3013 3018 3043 3050 3080 3095 3tio 3'27 31^1 3 '63 3179 3^00 J207: Milefius, 30 fliips Hcber flain Heremon Muimhne Luighne, and Laighnefons cf Heber Er, Orbha, Fearon and Feargna fons of Heber Irial the fon of He- remon Eithrial flain Conniaol fon of He- ber Tigherinbas EochaidhFadgoth- och Ccarmna and Sob- hairce Eochaidh Faobhar- glas Fiachadh Labhr- uine Eochaidh Mumho Aongus flain Eodna Airgtheach fon of Eochaidh Mumhokill Rotheachra grand- fon of Aongus Seadhna Fiachadh killed Muinheamhoin D. Aildergoidh, S. Oihmh Fodhla fon of Fiachadh Fionnachto, D. Slanoll, D. Geide, S, Fiachadh fon O; Fionnachta, K, Bcarngall, S. OiiJioll, S. Siorna, Ivotheachta burnt LI i ill S. '4 3208 3217 3239 3259 3268 3269 3289 3309 33'5 I 3320 \ II 3324 I 3336 3345 « 3361 3 I 3373 1 3385 I \ 3395 I 3401 I 3408 i 34'7 I 3424 I 3447 I 3457 i 3464 I \ i 3485 Giallchadh grand- fcn of Saogh, S. Art Imleachfon of Elim. Nuadha Fionn Fail fonof Giallehadh S. Breafrigh fon of Ark, K. Eochaidh Apthach, K. Fionn, S. Seadhana Jonar- aice, M. Simeon Breac, D. Duach Fionn, S. Muireadhach Bal- grack, K. Eadhna Dearg, D. Lughaidh Jard- hoinn, S. Siorlamh, S. Eochaidh Viarceas, S. Eochaidh Fiadm- huim, S. Lughaidh Lamhd- hearg, S. Conuing Beg Ag- lack, S. Art, fon of Lug- haidh Lamhd- hearg, S. Frachadh Foig- rach, S. Oillioll Fionn fon of Art, S. Eochaidh, S. Airgicdmhar, S. Duach Laghrach, S. Lu?haidh Lairhd- l"e, S. Aouh Ruadh,- drowned at Faf- rundh. Diothorba SYNCHRONICAL TABLE. 467 72 1 7^ Y.W. Ireland. crq" 21 8 Y.V/. 3'^^87 Ireland. 3 3506 Ciombaoth Oillioll Caiflaiac- ■ " 3527 Machadh Mongru- locb, S. 25 adh daughter to 37^2 Adanihar Follhain, Aodh Ruadh, S. 7 D. 2 3533 Rcachta Righd- 3717 Eochaidh Foitha- hearg, S. 20 than, S. I I 3553 Ugaine, S. 30 3728 Feargus Fortam- 3583 LaoghaireLorckjK. 2 huiU. I 2 3585 Cobihaig Caol- 1 3740 Aongus ' Tuirm- brcag, M. 30 1 heach, K. 30 3615 Labhradh Loingf- 377<^ Conall Callamb- each iS rach, S. 5 3633 Meilge Maibthacb, 3775 Niadh Seadhaai- K. 7 huin, K. 1 3640 MoghChorb, S. 7 i 3782 Eanda Aighnacli, S. 3647 Angus Olamb, K. 18 Criomhthan Cof- *^ 3665 Jaran Gleofathach, 1 38'o gragh, S. ^ S. 7 1 38'7 Rugbruidhe, D. / 3672 Fearchorb fon of 1 3847 Jonadhmhar, S. 30 Megba. 1 1 1 3850 Breafal Bodhiabha, 3 3683 Conia Cruaidih, D. 4 I K. r I 3861 3866 3S79 3889 3907 3919 3931 3937 3937 3967 5987 3988 Ireland. Lughaidh Luag- hne, S. Congal Claring- neacha, K. Duach DaltaDeag- hadh, S. Fachtna Fathach, S. Eochaidh Fiedhii- och Eochaidh, S. Eiderfgeoil, S. NuadhaNeacht, K. Conaire, fon of Eiderfgeoil, S. Lughaidh Riabh- deorg Connor Criomhthan Niad- nar, K. ?3 I 1 " 8 1 C^'. g Y.W.| 3 < \ 1 3674 5 1 3702 '3 1 3717 10 1 3746 18 3774 12 § 12 1 ^Z^-^ i 3820 M^34 6 i 3846 30 s 5 3870 23 5 i 3900 I 16. 1 3909} 1 1 i « Fergus I. Feritharis Mainus Dornadina Nothathus Reuther Reutha Thereus Jofina Finnanus Darllus Evenus I, K k 3 2S '5 29 28 20 26 14 12 H 30 9 It) 468 A CHRONOLOGICAL and 24 -7 59 109 122 I2S 182 212 213 254 382 73 316 346 347 554 371 390 421 47' 491 5^5 Fearaidhach Fion- faclitnach Fiacbadli Fion, S. Fiachadh Fiono- Juidh Cairbrc Cinnacit Elini, S. Tualhal Teacht- mar, S. Mai, S. Faidhlimhidh Rea- chiniar Cathaoir Conn Creadcha- thach Conaire, S. Art Aonfliir, K. Lughaidh, M. Feargus Connac Ulfado the fon of Art EochaidhGunait,S. Cairbre Liffeachair, K. FathachAirgtheach and Fathach Cairptheach, 2 fons of Mac Con, S. Fiachadh Searb- thuine, S. Colla Vais Muiireadhach, S. Caolbach, S. Eachaidh Moigh- meadhin Criomthan, D Niall, D. Dathy M'kfiechra Laogaire, k. i>y a thunderbolt Oiiollniolt Lughaidh killed by a tl underbolt Mortough, I. Tuathai Ti 27 Y.W 9, 3930 ^3987 Scotland. 7' § 109 O '59 O '92 O Gillus Nothus Erenus IL Ederus Evenws IIL Metellanus Caraftacus Corbred L Dardanus Corbred IL Ludatus Mogaldus Conarus Ethodius Satrael Donald I. Ethodius Achirco Nathalocus Findehus Donald IL Donald III. Crathilinthus Fincormachus Roniachus Angultanus Fethelniachus Eugenius I. Interregnum Fergus II. Eugenius II, Doiigard >7 40 7 39 20 4 S5 ? 4» 9 33 4 2r 21 12 12 n I 24 47 3 I '4 44 i3 21 4 SYNCHRONICAL TABLE. 469 A.D. Ireland. 528 Deniiot, I. 550 Feargus and Daniel I. EochaidhandBaod- 55' han, I. 554 Ainmereach 557 Baodhaji, II. 558 Hugh, I. 585 Hugh, II. and Col- man 59' Aodh 618 Maolchobha 622 Suclhne 635 Daniel, II. 648 ConailandCeallacb 661 Blathmac and Der- mot II. 668 Seachnufach 674 Cionnfadha 678 Fionn^chta 685! Loingfeach 693 Congall, I. 702 Feargall 719 Fogarthach 720 Coinaoith 724 Flaithbheartagh 731 Hugh III. 741 Daniel III. 782 Niall, I. the Great 786 Danchadha 814 Dorndighe ?o 465 482 SOI 535 568 57^ 580 606 606 620 632 647 668 688 692 699 700 717 730 761 764 767 787 809 814 Scotland. Conftantin I. Congale I. Conran Eu genius III. Congale II. Chinaule or Cuma- tillus Aldan Clenet Eugenius IV. Ferchard I. Donald IV. Ferchard II. Maldwin Eugenius V. Eugenius VI. Amberchelet Eugenius VII. Mordac Etfinius Eugenius VIII. Fergus III. Solvatius Achanis Congale III, Don2;ald V. A.D. England. 820 Egbert 823 S37 838 85, - •- • Ethelwulf 854 S55 858 S59 Ethelbald Ethelbert ?o Ireland. Connor, I. Nial, II. is drowned 14 '5 Scotland, Alpinus Kenethus, II. Dona^I, VI. ConftantinCjII. 476 A CHRONOLOGICAX AND JOf 50 ?«s A.D. England. Crq' 3 6 Ireland. crq' 3 Scotland. 3 S66 Ethelcired Turgefius c ie- pofed 13 872 Alfred 28 874 - — - - — Ethus I. I 875 - — - - — Gj^egory i8 879 _ - - — Maolfeachl un I. i- 16 893 - — - Donald VII. II 895 - - - — Fionnliath 18 900 Edward I. 25 904 - - - — Conftantinelll. 9»3 . — Flan Sionnc I 38 defeat.bySax. 39 925 Athelftane 16 941 Edmund I. 7 943 _ _ - - Malcolm I. •5 948 Edred 7 951 . Niall III. 3 954 _ — Donough I 30 955 Edwy 4 958 - — - ■ Indulphus 10 959 Edgar i6 968 - — - Duphus 5 973 _ - - — - - — Culienus 5 975 Edward 11. 4 978 - - — Keneth III. 30 979 Ethelred II. - 37 984 Congall II. 10 994 - — Daniel IV. 10 Conftantin IV. I 995 _ - - — - - — Crimus 8 1003 - — - - — Malcolm II. 30 1004 - - *■ — Maolfeach unll. i- 23 1016 Edmund II. Ironfide I 1017 Canute I. 18 1027 _ - - — BryenBoirc im- 1033 he, fon Kenned) the Lin HeberF of ', of 2 of ionn lo Duncan I. 7 1035 Harold I. 6 1037 _ - - — Bryan and Murrou gh II 1040 - ..- - — Macbeth 1041 Canute II. j Tyrant 17 1041 Edw.II. Conf. 25 1 i SYNCHRONICAL TABLE. 471 ^ y=\ ?o I 70 A.D. England. 2 3 Ireland n Scotland. 3 1048 - - - Donough II. 1057 - - fon of Bryan Boirouihe 50 - - - - Malcolm III, 36 1066 Harold 11. 1 066 William I. 21 1087 William II. »3 1093 . - Donald VIII. 1 1094 . — - — Duncan II. z 1096 _ _ _ — - . - — Edgar 10 1098 - - - — Turlough I. fonof Taige 12 1 100 Henry I. 35 1 106 - . > — . _ _ . Alexander 18 I Ho - - - — Mortough II. 20 1 1 24 _ - - — _ — David I. 29 1130 _ - _ — Turlough II. 20 1135 Stephen '9 1 1 50 . Mortough III 17 "53 - . - — _ — Malcolm IV. 12 1154 Henry II. 35 1 165 - - _ _ - - — . William 49 1167 - - - — Roderic O'Connor II. 5 II 1172 - Henry U. landed in — Ireland 17 1 % England, re crq' 3 10 Scotland. 1189 Richard I. 1199 John 17 1214 - - _ - — Alexander 11; 35 1216 Henry III. 56 1249 - - 2 -Alexander III. 36 iz-'Z Edward I. 35 izSs- - ■" i"~~ Interregnum 7 1292 - 1 " 1 John Baliol H 1306 - ■ 1 ___ R-obert I. 23 1307 Edward II 20 1327 Edward HI. 50 1329 - - _ * David IT. and Richard 4^ 1370 - - _ Robert II. 20 1377 Richard 11. "1^ 1390 - 1 -1 John Rol )eit 1 33 472 A CHRONOLOGICAL and ? 7^ A.D. England. n dp" p Scotland. ctq" 3 J 399 Henry IV. '4 H13 Henry V. 9 ' 1422 Henry VI. 39 1423 - — James L '4 »437 - - - — James II. 23 1460 _ - — James III. 28 1461 Edward IV. 22 "483 Edward V. 1483 Richard IIT. 2 1485 Henry VII. 24 1488 - - — James IV. 25 1509 Henry VIIL 37 »5i3 _ - - — lames V. 29 1542 - _ - — Mary Stuart 25 1546 Edward VI. 7 1553 Mary L 5 1558 Elizabeth 44 1567 _ _ _ — James VI. 36 1603 1625 James from 6th to flrft Charles L Fruflla. ~" 2649 Interregnum 4 1653 - - 0. C. 5 1658 - - R. C. 2 1660 Charles II. 25 1685 James II. 4 1689 William III and Mary XL 5 1694 Wiliam III. alone 8 i7oi - - — Frederick WilliAm I. 1702 Ann 12 1713 - - - Frederick William II. iz J4J4 George I. 13 1727 George II. 33 27 1740 - . _ Charles Frederick 1760 'George III. — A L I S T A LIST OF ALL THE KINGS, PRINCES, LORD-LIEUTENANTS, &c LORD-DEPUTIES and LORDS-JUSTICES O F IRELAND. FROM THE YEAR II72, TO I775. 1 172. TjrUgh de Lacy, Robert Fitz-Stephens, Maurice JLJ_ Fitz-Gerald, and Robert de Bruce, governors. 1 173. Richard Strongbow, and Raymond le Grofs, lord wardens. 1 175. Raymond le Grofs, lord procurator. 1 179. William Fitz-Andelni, John de Courcy, governors, Hugh de Lacy, lord procurator governors. 1180. John de Lacy, and Richard Peck, governor*. J 181. Hugh de Lacy, and Robert of Shrewlbury, governors, 1184. Philip de Winchefter, governor. Earl John, fon to Henry IL lord lieutenant. 1 185. John de Courcy, earl of Ulfter, governor. 1190. Hugh de Lacy the younger, and John de Courcy, governor. 1191. William Marlhal, and William Pettet, lord juftices, 1 197. Hamo de Valis, lord juftice. 1 199. Myler Fitz-Henry, king John's fon. 1200. Hugh de Lacy, lord juftice. 1208. John Gray, bifhop of Norwich, lord juftice. i2lo- King John. John Gray, biiliop of Norwich, lord juftice. 1213. Henry Launders, archbifhop of Dublin, lord jufticc- 1215. Geoffrey March, with Sir Edmund Butler, lords juftices. 1 2 19. Henry Launders, and Maurice Fitz-Gerald, lords juftices. 1224. William Marflial, lord juftice. 1227. Richard Bourk, lord juftice. 1232. Maurice Fitz-Gerald, lord juftice. 1245. John Fitz-Geoffery, lord juftice. 1247. Thecb.ald Butler, lord Carrick and Joh.i Coggan, lord juftices. 1257. Geoffery Alan de ia Zouch, lord juftice. 1258. Stephen Longford, lord juftice. 126Q William Dean, lord juftice L 1 1 261. Richard 474 TftE CHIEF GOVERNORS OF IRELAND. 1261. Richard de Repulla, alias Roches 1267. Sir David Barry, lord juftice. 126S. Robert de UfFord, lord juftice. 1269. Richard de Exon, lord juftice. 1270. Sir James Audley, lord juftice. 1272. Maurice Fitz-Maurice, lord juftice. Sir JeofFery de Genevil, lord juftice. 1276. Sir Robert de Ufford, lord juftice. 1279. Stephen Fulburn, bifhop of Waterford, lord juftice. 1280. Sir Robert de Utford, lord juftice. 1282. Stephen FuJborn, archbifhop of Tuam, lord juftice. 1288. John Samford, archbifliop of Dublin. 1291. William Vefey, lord juftice. 1293. William de la Hay, and William Dodingfale, lords juftices. 1*95. Thomas Fitz-Morris, lord juftice. William Wogan, lord juftice. 1308. Sir William Bourk, L. W. Pierce Gavefton, lord juftice. 1310. John Wogan, lord juftice. 1312. Sir Edmund Butler, lord juftice. 1314. Theobald de Verdo, lord juftice. Sir Edmund Butler, earl of Carrick, lord juftice. 1317. Sir Roger Mortimer, lord juftice j lord Birmingham;, general. 1318. William, archbifliop of Caftiei, lord- chancellor of Ireland, lord juftice. Alexander Bignor, archbifhop of Dublin. 1319. Roger Mortimer, again lord juftice. 1320. Thomas Fitz-John, earl of Kildare. 1321. John Birmingham, lord Athenry, and Ralph de Gorges, lords juftices. 1323. Sir John Darcy, lord juftice. 1326. Thomas Fitz-John, earl of Kildare, and Roger Outhaw, prior of Kilmainham, lords juftices. Sir John Darcy, lord juftice, and Roger Outhaw, his deputy. 1331. Sir Anthony Lacy, lord juftice, William Bourk, earl of Uifter, lord juftice. 1332. Sir Roger Mortimer, lord juftice, 1334. Sir John Darcy, lord juftice, and Thomas Bourk, ••eutenant to him. 1337. Sir John Carlton, bifhop of Hereford. 1^40. Roger Outlaw, prior of Kilmainham^ lord juftice. , 1341. Sir John Morris, lord juftice. 1344. Sir Ralph Ufford, lord juftice. 5346. Roger, lord Darcy, lord juftice. Sir John Morris, lord jufticcf 1318. Sir Waiter Bermingham, lord juftice, John Archer, prior of Kilmainham, lord juftice. 1349. Sir THE CHIEF GOVERNORS OF IRELAND. 475 H34.9. Sir Walter Bermlngham, lord juftice. Sir Thomas Rookfbyi lord juftice. 1350. Maurice Fitz-Thomas, earl of Defmond, lord juftice. 1356. Sir Thomas Rooklby, lord juftice. 1357, Almerick de St. Amand, lord juftice. 1359. James Butler, earl of Onnond, lord juftice. 1360. Maurice Fitz-Thomas, earl of Kildare, lord juftice. 136 1. Lionel, eail of Ulfter, firft lord lieutenant of Ireland. 1365. Sir Thomas Dale, lord juftice. 1367. Gerald Fitz-Morrice, earl of Defmond. 1369. William de Windfor. 1372. Sir Robert Afhton. 1374. Maurice Fitz-Thomas, earl of Kildare. J376. James Butler, earl of Ormond. 1378. John Boomwick. 1379. Edmund Mortimer, earl of March, lord lieutenant. 1382. Philip Courtney, lord lieutenant, but the lord Bir- mingham, general. 1384. Robert de Vere, earl of Oxford, 1385. Sir John Stanley. 1386. Alexander, billaop of Meath, 1389. Sir John Stanley. ' 1392. James, earl of Ormond. 2394. William Scroope. King Richard IL firft. 1395. Roger Mortimer, earl of March and Ulfter- 1398. Roger Gray. 1399. King Richard IL fecond. 1401. Thomas, earl of Lancafter. 1402. Alexander, bifiiop of Meath, his deputy. 1404. Stephen Scroop, deputy. 1405. Gerald, earl of Kildare. 1408. Thomas Butler, prior of Kilmainham. Thomas, earl of Lancafter. 1410. Thomas Butler, prior of Kilmainham, 1414. Sir John Talbot, lord Furnival. 1416. Stephen Scroop, deputy. Thomas, earl of Lancafter. 1419, Richard Talbot, archbifbop of Dublin. 1420. James Butler, earl of Ormond, dejputy. John, duke of Bedford. 1423. Edward, earl of March, 1425. John, lord Talbot, deputy. 1426. James Butler, earl of Ormond, deputy. 1427. Sir John de Grey. 1428. Edward Dantfey, bifliop of Meath, Sir John Sutton, lord Dudley.. 3432. Sir Thomas Stanley, deputy, . Sir Chrift. Plunket, deputy. L 1 2 1.^36. Richard 476 THE CHIEF GOVERNORS OF IRELAND. 1436. Richard Talbot, archbifliop of Dublin, deputy. 1438. Lion, lord Wells. J440. Richard Talbot, archbifliop of Dublin, deputy. James, earl of Ormond, deputy. 1442. William Wells, deputy to Lionel lord Wells. 1446. John, earl of Shrewfbury. 1447. Richard Talbot, archbifliop of Dublin, lord chan- cellor, deputy. 1449. Richard, duke of York. 1450. James Butler, earl of Ormond and Wiltflilre. 1452. Baron of Delvin, deputy. 1456. Thomas Fitz-Maurice, earl of Kildare, deputy. 14(50. Sir Rowland Fitz-Euftace, deputy. 3461. George, duke of Clarence, lord lieutenant for life. 1463. Thomas, earl of Defmond, deputy. 3467. John Tiptoft, earl of Kildare, lord deputy. 1475, Biihopof Meath, deputy; Thomas earl of Kildare, deputy; fir Rowland Fitz-Euftace, deputy; William Sherwood, Efq; deputy. 1478. Henry, lord Gray, lord deputy, Gerald, earl of Kildare, lordjuftice. Sir Robert Prefton, lord deputy. 1479. Gerald, earl of Kildare, deputy. Richard, duke of York. 1483. Gerald, earl of Kildare, lord deputy. Prince Edward, fon to Richard III. 1485. Gerald, earl of Kildare, lord deputy, John de la Pole, earl of Lincoln. 1409. Jafper, duke of Bedford. 1492. Walter Fitz-Siramons, archbifliop of Dublin, lord deputy. 1494. Sir Edward Poynings, lord deputy, 1495. Henry Pean, chancellor of Ireland, lordjuftice, 1496. Gerald, earl of Kildare, lord deputy. 1501. Henry, duke of York, afterwards Henry VIII. 1503. Walter Fitz-Simmons, archbifliop of Dublin, lord deputy. 1504. Gerald, earl of Kildare, lord deputy. X513. Gerald, the fon of Gerald, late earl of Kildare, icrd jullice. 1515. Lord vifcount Gormanftown, lordjuftice, 1519. Sir Thomas Fitz-Maurice, lordjuftice. 1520. Pierce Butler, earl of Ormond and Offbry, lord deputy. Thomas Howard, earl of Surry. 1524 Gerald, earl of Kildare, lord deputy. 1526. Thomas Fitz-Gerald, of Leixflip, lord deputy, • Richard Nugent, baron of Delvin, lordjuftice. 1528. Pierce Butler, carl of Ormond and Offcry, lord ycruty. 1530. Sir THE CHIEF GOVERNORS OF IRELAND. 477 1530. Sir William Skeffington, lord deputy Henry duke of Richmond. 1532. Gerald, earl of Kildare, lord deputy. 1534. Thomas, fon 10 the carl of Kildare, lord deputy. Six William Skeffington, lord deputy. 1535. Leonaidlord Gray, lord vifcount Grancy, in Ireland, lord deputy. 1540. Sir Anthony St. Leger, lord deputy. 1540 Sir William Brereton, baron of Lagiin in Ireland, L. J. 1543. Sir William Brabazon, L.J. 1544. Sir Anthony St. Leger, lord deputy. 1546. Sir William Brabazon, L. J. 1547. Sir Anthony St. Leger, lord deputy. 1548. Sir Edward Bellingham, lord deputy. 1549. Sir Francis Bryan, marllial of Ireland, and Sir Wil- liam Brabazon, L. J. 1550. Sir Anthony St. Leger, lord deputy. I 551. Sir Crofts, lord deputy. 1552. Sir Thomas Cufack, and Sir Gerald Aylmer,L. J. 1553. Sir Anthony St. Leger, lord deputy. 1556. Thomas Radcliffe, vifcount Fitz Walter, afterwards earl of SulTex. 1557. Hugh Corwin, archbifhop of Dublin, and Sir Henry Sidney, L. J. 1558. Sir Henry Sidney his deputy. 1559. Sir William Fitz Williams, L. J. 1565. Sir Nicholas Arnold, L. J. and .Sir Henry Sidney, lord deputy. 1567. Dr. Wefton, lord chancellor, and Sir William Fitz- Williams, L. D. I $68. Sir Henry Sidney, lord deputy. 1571. Sir William Fitz Williams, L.J. 1575. Sir Henry Sidney. 1578. Sir William Drury, L.J. 1579. Sir William Pefbain, L.J. 1580. Arthur lord Gray of V/ilton, lord deputy. 1582. Adam Loftus, archbifliop of Dublin, and L. chan- cellor, with Henry Wallop, treafurers of Ireland, L. J. 1584. Sir John Perrot, lord deputy. J588. Sir William Fitz Williams, L. J. 2594. Sir William RufTel, lord deputy. 1597- Thomas lord Boroughs, lord deputy. Adam Loftus, lord chancellor, and Sir Robert Gardiner, L. J. 1598. Robert Devereux, earl of Eflex. 1599. Sir Adam Loftus, lord chancellor, and Sir George Cary, lord treafurers. Sir Charles Blunt, lord Mountjoy, L. J. 1603. Sir George Cary, lord deputy. 1604. S''" Arthur Chichf (ler, afterwards lord Chichefter. 1613. Thomas .78 THE CHIEF GOVERNORS OF IRELAND. 1613. Thomas Jones, archbifhop of Dublin, lord chancel- lor, and Sir Richard Wingfield, L. J. 1614. Sir Arthur Chichefter, lord of Belfaft, lord deputy. 1615. Thomas Jones, lord chancellor, and Sir John Den- ham, chief juftice of the king's bench L. J. 1616. Sir Oliver St. John, L. D. and Richard lord vifcount Powcrfcourt, L. J. 1622. Sir Adam Loftus, vifcount Ely, lord chancellor, and Richard lord vifcount Powerfcourt, L. J. 1625. HjnryCary, lord vifcount Falkland, lord deputy. 1629. Sir Adam Loflus, vifcount Ely, lord chancellor, and Sir Richard Boyle, lordtreafurer, L. J. 1633. Thomas lord vifcount Wentv/ or th, earl of Strafford, lord depury. 1636. Sir Adam Loftus, vifcount Ely, lord chancellor, and Sir Chriftopher Wanderford, mafter of the Rolls, L. J. Thomas lord vifcount Wentworth, lord deputy. 1639. Robert lord Dillon, of Kilkenny Weft, and Sir Chriftopher Wanderford, L. J. 1640. Sir Chriftopher Wanderford, mafter of the rolls, lord deputy. Robert lord Dillon and Sir William Parfons, mafter of the court of Wards, L. J. 1641. Robert Sidney, lord Lifle, appointed, but never came over. Sir William Parfons, and Sir John Borlace, mafter of the Ordnance, L. J. 1643. James Butler, marquis of Ormond. Sir John Borlace, and Sir Henry Tichborn, L. J, 1646. Philip Sidney, vifcount Lifle, was the parliament's deputy in Ireland, 1647. Colonel Michael Jones, for ditto fee. 1649 UlrickBourk, marquis of Clanrickard, lord deputy. Oliver Cromwell. l6t;o. Henry Ireton. 1654. Charles Fleetwood. 1657. Henry Cromwell. 1660. James Butler, duke, marquis and carl of Ormond. Sir Maurice Euftace, lord chancellor, Roger Boyle, carl of Orrery, and Charles Coote, earl ofMontrath. L J.. 1661. Sir Maurice Euftace, lord chancellor, and Roger Bnyie, earl of Orrery, L. D. 1664. Thomas Butler, earl of Oftbry, lord deputy. 1665 James duke oi Ormond, returns from England, L. L. 1668. Thomas Butler, earl of OiTory, lord deputy. }66,g. John Roberts, lord Roberts. 1670 John Berkley, lord Berkley. itJ7i. Michael Boyle, archbifhop of Dublin, lord chancellor, and Sir ArthurForbes, marfhal general, L. J. 167?.. Arthur Cape', earicfElTcx. 1675. Richard THE CHIEF GOVERNORS OF IRELAND. 479 167$- Michael Boyle, archb. of Dublin, lord chancellor, and Sir Arthur Forbes, marllial general, L. J. 1677. James Butler, duke of Orniond. 1682. Richard earl of Arran, lord deputy, * 1683. James duke of Ormond, L. L. 1685. Henry Hide, earl of Clarendon. 1686. Richard Talbot, earl of Tyrconnell. 1690. Henry vifcount Sidney, afterwards lord Romney, and Thomas now lord Coninglby, L. J. 1693. ^''" Charles Porter, lord chancellor, and Sir Cyril Wych, L. J. 1695. Henry Capel, lord Capel, Sir Cyril Wych, and Wil- liam Duncombe, efq. 1696. Sir Charles Porter, lord chancellor, L. J. Charles earl of Montrath, and Henry Moore, earl of Drogheda, L.J. 1697. Charles, marquis of Winchefter, and Henry earl of Galway, L. J. 1699. Henry, earl of Galway, and Narciffus Marfli, abp. of Dublin. Earl of Berkley, and earl of Galway, L. J. 1701. Narciffus Marfh, abp. of Dublin, Henry earl of Dro- gheda, and Hugh earl of Mount-Alexander. Laurence Hyde, earl of Rochefter. 1702. Narciffus Marfli, abp. of Dublin, and Henry earl of Drogheda, L.J. Hugh earl of mount Alexander, Thomas Earl, and Thomas Keightly, efq. L. J. 1703. James Butler, duke of Ormond, grandfon to the above. 1706. Sir Richard Cooks, lord chancellor, John lord|Cuts, L.J, 1707. Dr. Narciffus Marfti, abp. of Armagh, and lord primate of all Ireland, Richard Freeman efq. lord chancellor. Thomas Herbert, earl of Pembroke. 1709. Thomas Wharton, earl of Wharton. 1710. Richard Freeman, lord chancellor, lieutenant-gene- ral Ingoldlby. The lord primate, lieutenant-general Ingoldlby. 171 1. James, duke of Ormond, lord lieutenant. Sir Conftantine Phipps, and lieutenant-general In- goldlby, lords juftices. Sir Conftantine Phipps, and John VeCey, abp. of, Tuam, L.J. 1713. Charles Talbot, duke of Shrewlbury, L. L. 1714. Thomas, abp. of Armagh, Sir Conftantine Phipps, John, abp. of Tuam, L.J. Charles Spencer, earl of Sunderland- William, abp. of Dublin, John, abp. of Tuam, Robert earl of Kildare, L. J, 17 1 5. Charles, duke of Grafton, Henry, earl of Galway, L.J. 1 7 16. Lord chancelloi: Middleton, William abp. of Dublin, and William Conclly, efq. Charles, lord vifcount Townfend. 1717. William 4.8o THE CHIEF GOVERNORS OF IRELAND. 1717. William, archbp. of Dublin, then fworn one of the L. J. Charles Paulet, duke of Bolton, L. L. 1717. William abp. of DubUn, William Conolly efq. ap- pointed and fworn L. J. 17 1 8. Lord Chancellor Middleton, William abp. of Dublin, William Conolly, efq. L. J. 1719. Charles, duke of Bolton, L. L. Lord Chancellor Middleton, and William Conolly, efq. L. J. 1721. CLarles, duke of Grafton, L. L. William abp. of Dublin, Richard vifcount Shannon, William Conolly, efq. L. J. 1723. Lord chancellor Middleton, William abp. of Dublin, Richard vifcount Shannon, William Conolly efq. L. J. Charles, duke of Grafton, L. L. 1724. Lord chancellor Middleton, Richard vifcount Shan- non, William Conolly, efq. L. J. John Lord Carteret, L. L. 1726. Hugh, abp. of Armagh, lord chancellor Well, Wil- liam Conolly, efq. L. J. Hugh, abp. of Armagh, lord chancellor Wyndham, William Conolly, efq. L. J. 1727. John lord Carteret, L. L. on the death of king George I. 1728. Hugh, abp. of Armagh, lord chancellor Wyndham, William Conolly, efq. L. J. 1729. John lord Carteret, L. L. 1730. Hugh, abp. of Armagh, lord chancellor Wyndham, S r Ralph Gore, bart. L, J. 1 73 1. Lionel, duke of Dorfet, L. L. 1732. Hugh, abp. of Armagh, Thomas lord Wyndham, Sir Ralph Gore, bart. L- J. 1733. Hugh, abp. of Armagh, Thomas lord Wyndham, L. J. to aft feveralfy. Lionel duke of Dorfet, L. L. 17^4. Hugh, abp. of Armagh, Thomas lord Wyndham,^ Henry Boyle, efq; L. J. 1735. Lionel, duke of Dorfet, L. L. 1736. Hugh, abp. of Armagh, Thomas lord Wyndham, Henry Boyle, efq; L. J. 1737. William duke of Devonfhire, L. L. 1738. Hugh, abp. of Arnjagh, Thomas lord Wyndham, Henry Boyle, efq; L.J. 1739. William duke of Devonfliire, L L. 1740. Hugh, abp. of Armagh, Robert Jocelyn, and Henry Boyle, efqrs; appointed L.J. The lord chancellor andlpeaker. Hugh, archbiiliop of Armagh, fworn one of the L. J. 1741. William, duke of Devonfl^ire, L. L. Hugh, archbifliop of Armagh, Robert Jocelyn, and Henry Boyle, Efq; lords jullices. 1742. The fame three lords jullice?, or any two to act. John-; THE CHIEF GOVERNORS OP IRELAND. 481 John, archbifKop of Armagh, Robert Jocelyn, and Henry Boyle, Efqrs. lords juftices. 1743. William, duke of Dtwonftiire, lord lieutenant, 1744. Jo^n> archblfhop of Armagh, Robert, lord Newport, and Henry Boyle, Efq; lord^ juftices. 1745. Philip,, earl of Chefterfield, lord lieutenant. 1746. John, archbifhopof Armagh, Robert, lord Newport, and Henry Boyle, Efq; lords juftices. 1747. George, archbifhop of Armagh, fworn one of the lords JHftices. William, earl of Harrington, lord Hetitenant. 1748. George, archbifliop of Armagh, Robert lord New- port, and Henry Boyle, Efq; lords juftices. 1749. William, earl of Harrington, lord lieutenant. 1750. George, archbifliop of Armagh, Robert, lord New- port, and Henry Boyle, Efq; lords juftices. 1751. Lionel, duke of Dorfet, lord lieutenant. 1752. George, archbifhop of Armagh, Robert, lord NeW' port, and Henry Boyle, Efq; lords juftices. 1753. Lionel, duke of Dorfet, lord lieutenant. 1754. George, archbifhop of Armagh, Robert, lord New- port, and Brab. earl of ^elborough, lords juftices. 1755. William, marquis of Hartington, lord lieutenant. 1756. Robert, lord vifcount Jocelyn, James, earl of Kildare, and Brab. earl of Beft)orough, lords juftices. The fame three lords juftices, any two, or one, to adt feparately. 1757. John, duke of Bedford, lord lieutenant. 1758. George, archbifliop of Armagh, Henry, earl of Shannon, and John Ponfonby, Efq; lords juftices. ^759- John, duke of Bedford, lord lieutenant. 1760. George, archbifliop of Armagh, Hen. earl of Shan- non, and John Ponfonby, Efq; lords juftices. 1761- George Dunk, earl of Halifax, lord lieutenant. 1762. George, archbifliop of Armagh, Henry, earl of Shannon, and John Ponfonby, Efqj lords juftices. , 1763. Hugh, earl of Northuniberland, lord lieutenant. 1764. George, archbifliop of Armagh, Henry, earl of Shannon, and John Ponfonby, Efq; lords juftices, 1765. The lord chancellor, John Baron Bowes, and John Ponfonby, Efq; lords juftices. Thomas, lord vifcount Weymouth. Francis, earl of Hertford, lord lieutenant. 1766. Lord chancellor Bowes, Charles, earl of Drogheda, and John Ponfonby, Efq; lords juftices. George William, earl of Briftol. 1767. George Townihend, lord vifcount ToWiifhend, Ijrd lieutenant. 1772. Simon Harcourt, earl Harcourt, lord lieutenant. Mm A TABLE ( 482 ) z 00 o O y N 1 »*I ^1 o^l yi Ol « 1 •oj 2 ^ Jiul 3 CA &3 - 1 0*1 ^1 Ol «i •o 1 XHl p^\ o 1 ot «l *o| «i ?^l o 1 ^1 as to Sunday, f this Table you u fecond, S the th of the night (tha) d the like by the OS j •ol »• ! ^\ ^1 ^1 O 1 «l 00 j ?fl ^1 v^l ol « 1 *o| XH| I^ 1 ^1 ol *=» 1 *o 1 XH| ^\ <«-| vc 1 «l ^ 1 »*! n\ CH-I ^\ Ol v/- 1 xh| ?fl o.| ^1 Ol «l ^1 eral Planets, rft hour, as by nday, j the planetary hour n, Underftan '^ 1 o^l ^1 ol «i ^ j XH 1 ?f| r^ 1 o| « 1 fo 1 x>»| ?^l O-l ^1 N I ^ j x>.| ?tl <>*l ^I Ol « 1 - 1 ?t| o^l ^1 Ol «} ^1 »»l ^ ^CO'S 3 (11 ,. O n 1 < o -a "o CO c OJ J5 1 N 1 ^1 Ol « 1 ^ 1 »»l ^\ -( approprlat let govern! Sun rifing governs t n the fame ~ 1 « 1 ^ 1 «l ?t| o^l ^1 o 1 O 1 ^\ ?t| c*l ^1 O 1 « 1 ^ 1 ^1 o*\ ^ 1 ol « 1 ^1 »»j ?^l , there is e each Plai after the nd fo on Ij ay difcern i CC j Q\ ^I ^1 XHJ 7i\ .\ 6.1 oT -t 1 «I ^ 1 x.\ }*\ o.| y in th . and t the fir etary h e 3, as to 1 XH| ?t| 0+ ^\ Ol «l o> 1 -1 •^1 ol « 1 ^ 1 XHJ 1 NOTE, that to every da Monday. S Tuefday, &c ceive that the Sun governs moon governs the four plan ter Sun-fet) S the 2, O tb - 1 ol <=» ^ x>| ?!■ 0+ ^1 1 1 1 rt -T3 C 3 C/5 « c o 1 1 >-^ rt H 1 « -5 1 1 1 1 1 rt .2 'C 1 < 483 ) / O F T H E PROPERTIES AND NATURAL EFFECTS OF THE SEVEN PLANETS. HAVING now fKewn what Planet rules each hour, it wjU be neceflary to Ihew the natures, qualities, and difpo- fitions of them. t Saturn (Saturday) denotes is general land, houfes, tene- ments, countrymen, antient people, &c. 14 Jupiter, or Jove, (Thurfday) fignifies judges, fenators, divines, riches, law, religion. ^ Mars, (Tuefday) fignifies, foldiers, phyficians, war, ftrife and debate, theft, and all manner of cruelty, &c. O Sol the Sun, (Sunday) fignifies honour, greatnefs, and noble perfons of all degrees. J Venus, (Friday) denotes women, pleafure, paftimes, all kinds of delights, mirth, fweet odours, &c. . S Mercury, (Wednefday) denotes all kinds of fcribes or fecretaries, mathematicians, fervants, &c. J) Luna the Moon, (Monday) fignifies women in general, all common and vulgar perlons. M m 2 A T A B L E ( 484 ) The USE of the TABLE of the PLANETARY or U N E Q^U A L. HOURS for every night and day in the year. To find what planetary hour it is, and alfo what planet feigneth that hour. You muft learn at what hour and minute the fun doth rife upon the day propofed j which you may find in each page of the Almanack, and alfo the true hour of the day at any time propofed : Then obferve how many hours and minutes the faid time is after fun rifing j the number of which hours mul- tiply by 60, and to the produft add the odd minutes, (if there be any) then the aggregate divided by the number of minutes that a planet reigneth, the quotient will fheiv'the number of a planetary hour. E X A M P L E. Suppofe that when the fun rifeth at eight of the clock, as upon Saturday the 20th of January 1770 it doth, and it be re- quired to know what planetary hour it is ai 11 o'clock before noon the fame day j therefore becaufe 11 o'clock is three hours after eight, the fun*s riling multiply 3 by 60, and the product is 18, which being divided by 40, (for fo many minutes are in a planetary hour that day) the quotient is four hours thirty minutes : Therefore you may conclude that thej-e are thirty minutes fpent of the planetary hour. Having found what planetary hour it is, and would know what planet doth reign that hour, do thus. See the day of the v/eek in the precedent Table, and the hour of the day on the top of the Table, and in the common angle of meeting jou will find the planet that governeth that hour : And in the other precedent Table on the right hand, •which is for the night, is the planet that governeth the fame hour by night, EXAMPLE. Upon the aforefaid day, (the 20th of January 1770) it is re- quired to find what planet reigneth at 1 1 o'clock before noon the fame day : Therefore according to the aforefaid rule, you may find there are thirty minutes fpent of the fourth planetary hour, therefore firft find Monday on the fide of the faid prece- dent Table, then look for four in the head of the Table, and in the common angle of meeting you will find $ to be the go- vernor that rules the fourth hour of the fame day. PERPETUAL PERPETUAL ALMANACK. FOR F I H D 1 N G THE DAY OF THE MONTH FOR EVER. January. February. March. April. May. June. At Good Dover Chriftian Dwells Faith Gecr^e Ana Browne , Doaor Enquire Friir. July Auguft Septemb. Ottober. Novemb. Decenib. To find the DOMINICAL LETTER for ever. C I B 2 A 3 E 1 D 2 C 3 G I F 2 E 3 B 1 A 2 C' 3 D I C 2 B 3 F I E 2 D 3 A I G 2 F 3 GF BA DC FE AG CB ED It^OO lOOO 1200 1400 1600 rioo I'-^oo 1700 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 56 ft 40 . 44- 1' 48- — , -^.x. 68 BA52 60 64 92 "2 76 So 84 88 - 96 8 iSooE 4 12 16 20 ' H 28 3^ ■■35 40 2400 1960 2! 00 2300 1800 2 0OO 2200 The USE of the PERPETUAL ALMANACK. This Almanack, is contained In this fliort Diftich ; At Dover Dwells George Browne, Efquire, Good Chriftopher Finch, and David Fryer. By which verfe, with the help of the Dominical Letter, you may find the day of the month, for any time paft, prefent, or to come ; tlie life of which tables and verfe are here under jliewed. The THE USE OF THE TABLES O F T H E DOMINICAL LETTERS, AND Their APPLICATION, for finding the DAY of the MONTH by the Help of the aforefaid DISTICH. Firfl: therefore obferve, that all thofe years exprefled in the tables, are all leap-years; as the years looo, izoo, 1400, 1600, &c. and fo of the reft, which are all leap-years, and have each of them two Dominical Letters, as you may fee in their refpedlive columns over their heads j as for the year 1000, the Dominical Letters were GF, and fo of the reft. The other figure alfo as (1700) 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 44, 48, and ($2) This Julian year (or old ftile) was retained in the Britifh dominions till the year 1752, when the Gregorian account (or new ftile) was introduced, which is at prefent received by all the reft of Europe, the day im- mediately following this fecond of September, is to be called, not the third, hut the 14th of September, for this one year 1752, from the Dominical Letters are ED to B A, now DC 56, 60, 64, 68, 72, 76, 80, 84, |8, 92, 96, are all leap-years ; and 1800 from the Dominical Letters are ED to E, now AG 4, 8, 12, 16, &c. are all leap-years j the ufe of which are thus explained. Firft, fuppofe the Dominical Letter is required for the year 1816 ; loot for 1800 in one of the columns, and in another column for 16 ; and on the head of the faid column, you will find it is leap-year, and the Dominical Letters to be GF, Secondly, fuppofe you would know the Dominical Letter for the year 1825, look in the table for 25, which you lind not there ; therefore look for the year before, which is 24, and that is leap-year, and the Dominical Letters are DC; now C being the Dominical Letter for the latter part of the year 1824, that next letter before it, in the alphabetical order is B, which is the Dominical Letter for the next year 1825 ; which letter you will find on the top of the next column; where you will find the letter B, with the figure of'i by it, which informs you that it is the firft after leap-year. And fo for the year 1824 the Dominical Letter is A, and the fecond after leap-year; the fame is to be underftood of the reft. Thus having found the Dominical Letter, the day of the month may be found by thefe following direi^ions. T O / t o FIND THE DAY OF THE MONTH B Y THE FORE-MENTIONED DISTICH, WITH THE HELP OF THE DOMINICAL LETTERS FOUND IN THE TABLE. For the finding the day of the month by that fliort verfc, you are to take notice, that the firft letter in each word, is the fame week-day letter that always beginneth the month, as A always beginneth January, and fo of the reft, as you may fee in any Almanack, according to that order as you fee in the Diftich : All which will be fufficiently explained in this EXAMPLE. The firft Sunday in June, in the year 1825, I would know what day of the month it is for that year; I find B is the Dominical Letter, and by the Diftich you find the letter E begins the month of June ; therefore count on the natural order of the alphabet, from E, until you come to B, which is Sunday ; thus, E one, F two, G three, A four, B five, which is Sunday, and the fifth day of the month. E X A M T L E 11. I would know what day of the month the firft Thurfday of July is in the year 1825, the Dominical Letter being B, I find by the verfe that July begins the month with G ; therefore I fay, G one, A tv.o, B three, (which is Sunday) C therefore is Monday, D Tuefday, E Wednefday, F Thurfday, which is feven in number from G, (including it) and therefore is the feventh day of the month on which the firft Thurfday falls on. The month begins with a Friday, and fo you may caft your eye down" to a fmall table on the bottom of the faid. Almanack, and there you may take notice, that the firft row of figures on the head of the table, is i, 8, 15, 22, 29, which you may reckon to be always the fame days of the week that the month begins with ; as if the months which begin with a Sunday, then the firft row are all Sundays, and the fecond row all Mondays, the third row all Tuefdays, and fo on. As .for inftance, the month of July, in the year 182 J, begins on a Friday, fo then the upper row all Fridays, and the fecond row Saturdays, &c. So alfo you may fay, Friday and Friday is 8, and Friday is 15, and Friday is 22, and Friday is 29, &c. A TABLE ( 488'.) •^ rr; '^ -d "0 •n !? •^ ? •T) 'T) •^ - -1 •1 ►-1 •-! •-1 »-t •1 o o O o o o o o o o o O 5 5 S »-> 5 3 5 n. n Z c <: 1 6- CO a 1 > c C c *-< > •73 cr c <— 1 3 c fit O 3 ^ z^ m ^ i-r •-' » -1 «-^ cr cr "1 r-— -t V! tr n> ni ft ^ C/l -I •-I ■-1 • r ^H ►^ ^— to to to oo ui UO ^> ',» OS vO K> >-ri CO 1-4 4- -^ O i^ OS t7^ "* w t>> (jO -f- 4- V-/1 'VI a\ -■'• \/^ • -q - "^ ^- to to to <-»J 'OJ vw ft> OS 'O U -J-l CO -^ 4^ --J o ^^ 0\ u» a- H h> K) .c (O ^~i oc m^ 4- ^I O o~> OS to J^ o O ■■'- " to Oj OO 4^ 4^ \yi UJ so t33 > "a M- t— N« tj to to Oj U4 Oo M i-a cc 4- --I O IJO C^ !.>> <-n SO ■" ls> N WJ 4- 4^ >.r, Wl - VO O — M to to Uj tjj OJ g -rl 00 IM 4^ -^ O v>a OS IrfO OS CO to f^j — hJ ^o Oj 4- -■- ^.n O NC o "^ o M K> N to Oi oo Oj M M c >TI -yi 4- •- 1 O oj On '->j OS \o to \.n 3 N K) I.IO <^ 4^ u> Oi ' 1 4^ O Oj OS L»J OS so tvj to K> VM „ „ „ to > c crq ii. •-J O '»>w ON <^ On vD K) •^n 00 UJ o.» -^5' v-n ~ to ' N OO — to Kj CO M (>i ■-^i Ui i-< 1—1 H* to to CO J O L*i Os VW OS KD to ■-n CO •— 4^ ■ "H +- +- *-ri •-.-V "" s> to OJ (.sk 4^ to oo >J UJ j-J OS (^ OS vO tv) ■^ri oc- " 4- -^ ■_> -" . '-^ - to t.^ 4 -p- 4^ vj-t IJO 4^ r A T A B L E A PERPETUAL ALMANACK. 489 A T A B L E for finding the number of days between any two days in a year, confifting of 365 days, whether all the days be within one year, or whether any part of them be in the fucceeding year. Explanation, find the month from which you reckon in the margin, and the month to which you reckon at the top, and in the angle of meeting is the number of days from anv day of the month at the margin, to the fame day of the niontk at the top. Thus, from the i6th of Auguft to the i6th of March are 2iidays ; and from the loth of April to the loth of Sep- tember are 153 days. But if it be a different day of the month, I make ufe of an eafy addition or fubtra6lion. EXAMPLE. From the loth of April to the 20th of September firft I find on before. To the loth of September — — 15 j Add the dtfFerence between the loth of September, and 26th of September, viz. — — iS The fum is the anfwer, viz. — — 169 Again from the i6th of July to the 8th of Oftober firft I find from the i6th of July to the i6th of Odlober — — — 92 Subtract the difference between the 8th of Oftober and i6th of Oftober, viz. — — S Remains the anfwer, viz. — — 84. How are the months divided .? Into four parts, called weeks, each confifting of feven parts, called days. Syftem of feven days, of the moft ancient inftitution ; being appointed and collated by God at the creation. Of thefe months there are 13 in a Julian year, and one day over, of weeks there are 52, and of days 365, as befoie obferved. How are the week days named in other countries, from the 7 planets ? Latin. French. Englifh. Planetary. Dies Lunae Lundy Monday Moon D Martis iVlardi Tuefday Mars S Mercurii Vlecredy Wednefday Mercury ? DiesJovis [eudi Thurfday Jupiter % Veneris Vendredy Friday Venus ? Saturni Samedy Saturday Saturn h Solis Dimanche Sunday Sun N n What 490 A PERPETUAL ALMANACK. What was the original reafon of this dedication ? The Ancients imagined that the planets had their influenca on thefe refpedive days : The Moon on Monday, and fo on. Did nor the Ancients entertain the fame fuperftitious notions of the hours ? Yes, and for that reafon they were called planetary hours ; One of the feven planets was luppofed to prefide over every hour by turns ; the firft hour after fun-rifing, on Sunday, or the day of the Sun, was thought to be influenced by him. The fecond hour was allotted to Venus: The third to Mercury; and fo in order, that the firft hour of the next day was dedi' cated to the Moon, and thence called Monday : Thus by fuccefllon, the feven days of the week were named from the planets that were fuppofed to govern the firft hour in the day. What was the Jewifh week ? An appointment of feven days, commenced on the four- reenth of the firft month at evening, called the week of Paflbver, or Unleavened Bread, in commemoration of the deftroying angels pafling the doors of the Ifraelites in Egypt, while he deftroyed the firft-born of the Egyptians. What was the feaft of Tabernacles ? It was obferved on the fifteenth day of the feventh month, and continued a week, in memory of their fojourning in the wildernefs. ~ What was the week of Sabbaths ? A week compofed of feven Sundays, or Sabbaths, com- mencing after Harveft, containing feven times feven days, or forty-nine days. This great week', or feftival of feven weeks, was introduced by the prieft's waving a fheaf of corn; every man brought a fheaf of corn to the prieft, in token of plenty. What was the week of years ? Every feventh year was obferved, and the whole year was kept Sabbath, free from all labour, fowing or reaping. What was the Jubilee among the Jews ? It was kept on the fiftieth year, after feven times feven years, or forty-nine years were expired : This great year was obferved as Sabbath. A TABLE A. TABLE OF THE LATITUDES Of the principal Cities, Towns, and Islands in and about GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND. ENGLAND. Arundel Berwick Bedford Briftol Buckinsfham Cambridge Canterbury Carlifle Chefter Chichefter Colchefter Derby Dorchefter Dover Durham Exeter Falmouth Gloucefter Guilford Hartford Hereford Huntington Ipfwich Kendal Lancafter Leicefter Lincoln London Monmouth Newcaftle Northampton Norwich Nottingham Oxford Plymouth __ t o i 5'. 55- 54 52. 30 5'- 30 52. 18 52. 17 51. 28 54- 50 53. 20 50 48 52. 14 53- o 50. 48 51. 20 54- 49 50. 40 Jo. 22 52. 14 51. 12 52. 5 52. 7 52. 1 52. 25 54. 24 54-55 42 17 32 8 15 36 45 § o 46 1 36- ENGLAND. < Portfmouth Reading Rutland Salifbury Shrewfbury 5'- 51- 52- 51- 52- 8 40 3» 50 Stamford Stafford Warwick Winchefter York 52. 52. 52. 50. 54- 44 50 10 8 coeceegewwnow wooiKinimiiKtiMi: uduh OOOKOXKOS IRELAND. e«oo«aMeeeoMeee«cccocigeooaoao«eM« W ALES. Anglefey Brecknock Cardiff Cardigan Carniaerthen Carnarvon St. David Der-bigh FJiht LandafFe SCOTLAND. Aberdeen St. Andrews Air Bamf Blair 54- 35 53- »8 53- 33 54- U 52- 23 Duniblain Dumfries Dunbarton Dundee Dunkel 53. 3 I Edinburgh 52. 12 I Elgin 52. 16 I Glafgow 52. 50 I Irwine 51. 51 I Kirkudbright 53- o $2. o 5^- 4S Orkney Peebles Perth Renfrew Sterling oooocooocoaBOcojeoaewcwwuntoatguij ISLES. Guernfey 51. 58 I Jerfey I Lundv Man Mainland 53. 18 52. o 53- >5 1 53. 55 I Portland 51. 36 I Wight 60. 6 55- 35 56. 2S 55- 50 56. 9 49- 3^^ 49- 12 5'- 22 54- 24 59- 45 $0. 30 50. 36 THE NAMES AND NUMBER OF THE CANONICAL BOOKS, THE YEARS THEY WERE WROTE IN, AND THE MOST REMARKABLE PASSAGES IN T H K HOLY SCRIPTURE. Y.W. The Canonical Books. Ended Genefis . _ _ - 2369 2^69 Exodus . _ - _ '45 2514 Leviticus - - - - — — - iS'4 Numbers - - - - Deuteronomy - - - 39 aS^SS 2553 Joihua . _ - _ »7 2570 Judges and Ruth 300 2870 Samuel, I. - - 60 2930 Samuel, 11. - _ - 40 Kings, I. 1 Kings. 11. I . . Chronicles, I. C 2^70 500 Chronicles, II. J 3470 Ezra - - - - - 100 s-;?© Nehemiah 40 wMcon Not Canonical deemed. ^TOtrowttM 3610 Maccabees, I. 7 Maccabees, II. } 260 ^870 The Macedonian 80 39a33BcoQa900o8oe» Of the Apocryphal Books. The hiftory. MDonw ffososa xeeoMs occo ouo M** S t. John the Evangelift put to death aged 96. v/rote his Gofpel;-- Some ACCOUNT of the BOOKS of the OLD TESTAMENT, OF THESE BOOKS SOME ARE STYLED CANONICAL AND OTHERS APOCRYPHAL. TH E Canonical are fo called, becaufe according to rule and order, they have been received into the number of thole excellent writings which are univerfally acknowledged to have been penned by the prophets and holy men (infpired by God) in the Old Teftament, and by the dilciples of Chrift in the New Teftament. The Book of Genefis, which is an introduflion to the reft of xhc Pentateuch, (and contains the hiftory of about 2369 years, from the beginning of the world to the death of the Patriarch Jofcph) is fo called, becaufe it treats of the creation of the world, the beginning and generation of man, and all other creatures. That of Exodus, which relates the tyranny of Pharaoh, and the bondage of the Ifraelites under him, (and contains an hiftory of near 145 years) is lo called becaufe it comprehends the hiftory of the departure of the Ifraelites out of Egypt un- der the conduft of Mofes. That of Leviticus, (which contains about one month's time, has its name, becaufe it gives an account of the Jewifh fer- vice and worlKip, of the offices of the Levites, and the whole Levitical order. That of Numbers, (which contains the hiftory of fomewhat more than 38 years) and relates feveral remarkable incidents in the Ifraelites palfage through the wildern^fs, has its tlenomi- nation from Mofes's numbering the tribes of the people accord- ing to God's order and appointment. That of Deuteronomy, which fignifies a fecond law, (and takes up about the fpace of fix weeks) is a fummary repetition of the laws, both moral, civil, and ceremonial, which Mofes had given the Ifraelites in the former books ; together with fe- veral kind admonitions, and earneft exhortations to better obedience for the time to come, from the confiderations of the many divine favours already received, and the promifes that were in reverfion. This Is the fcope of the Pentateuch, or five books of Mofes : The death of Mofes. The book of jofliua isfuppofed to have been partly wrote by himfelf, and partly by Eleav.er the high prieft. The books of judges and Ruth are generally allowed to have been penned by Samuel. The firft and fecond bocks of Samuel were wrote by Samuel the feer, Nathan the prophet, and Gad the feer. The SOME ACCOUNT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. 495 The firft and fecond books of kings were wrote by Nathan the prophet, Ahiah the Shilohite, Iddo the feer, Jehu the prophet, and Semea. The firlt and fecond books of Chronicles were compiled by Semea, and Iddo the Seer. The book of Ezra, and the book of Nehemiah were wrote by Ezra the prieft, and for that reafon they are both put to- gether in the Hebrew. The book of Efther was compiled byAhafuerus, out of the records of the Medes and Perfians. The book of Job is fuppofed to have been wrote by Elihu, to recommend patience to us under all affliftions, with an en- tire dependance upon God in all adverfities. Job was a good man, a near relation to Abraham, and lived in Arabia, about the time that the Ifraelites were in bondage. The pfalms were wrote by feveral hands, but the principal part of them by David, Mofes, and Afaph ; and v/ere colleAed into a book by Efdras. The Proverbs, Ecclefiaftes, and Canticles (or fongs) were written by king Solomon, OF THE BOOKS OF THE PROPHETS. Thefc holy men -were called. prophets, becaufc they foretold future events by divine revelation. Ifaiah, the fon of Amos, prophefied in the days of the kings Uzaiah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, and ManalFes. He foretold the coming of our Saviour Chrift, and the nu- merous accidents :attending' his divine miflion, in.afull, clear, and diftinft manner. Jeremiah, fon to Hilkiah the prieft, prophefied in the days of Jofiah, Jehoiakim, and Zedekiah. He alfo wrote the book ofiainentations, in the time of the Babyloniih captivity. Ezekiel was a prieft, and compofed his prophecy in Babylon, in the time of Jehoiakim's captivity. Daniel was a captive in Babylon, and propheded in the days of Nebuchadnezzar, Evil-Merodach, and Beliliazzar. Hofea prophefied in the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. Joel prophefied in the days of Uzziah and Jeroboam. Amos was a poor fliepherd, and prophefied at the fame time with Hofea and Joel. Obadiah foretold the deftrudlion of the Idumeans, who were the defcendants of Efau, Jacob's brother. Jonah lived in the reigns of Amaziah and Jeroboam, and prophefied againft Nineveh, the chief city of the Afl^^rians. Micah prophefied at the fame time with Ifaiah, and fore- told the deftruftion of Ifrael and Judah, by the Ailyrians and Chaldeans. Nahum 496 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT- Nahum prophefied in the reign of Hezekiah ; he foretold the deftrudtion of Ifrael and Judah by the Chaldeans. Zephaniah prophefied in the days of Jofiah, a few years before the Babylonifli captivity, and threatened Judah and Jerufalem with utter defolation. Haggai prophefied after the return of the Jews from their feventy years captivity in Babylon, and exhorted them to re- build the temple. Zephoriah was fent to confirm the doflrine of Haggai, and to forward the building of the temple. Malachi prophefied after the temple was rebuilt, and was the laft of the prophets. THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS. Thcfe are fo called, becaufe they are not certainly known to be true I'cripture. They were not penned in the Hebrew language, yet the greateft part of them are excellent writings, and contain manf things worthy cur mod ferious attention, O F T H E BOOKS NEW TESTAMENT, AND riRST OF THE FOUR GOSPELS. THESE books contain the hiftory of the birth, life, adtions, precepts, promife, death, refurreftion, and alcenfion of Chrift. The compilers of them, viz. St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke, and St. John, are called Evangelifts. St. Matthew wrote his gofpel eight years after Chrift's afcenfion. St. Mark wrote his Gofpel, under the direftion of St. Peter, ten years after the afcenfion. St. Luke wrote his gofpel fifteen years after the afcenfion. St. John penned his gofpel thirty-two years after the afcenfion. The Afts of the Apoftles were penned by St. Luke. The Epiftles to the Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, Ephe- fians,Philippians,Timothy,Titus, Philemon, and the Hebrews, were written by St. Paul. The NOTES OR POINTS. 497 The other Epiftles were written by St. James, the fon of Alpheus, the brother of Jude, called alfo the brother of our Lord i St. Peter, one of the chief cf the Apoftles ; St. Jude, one of the Apoftles ; and St. John, the fon of Zebedce, who alfo wrote the Revelation. OF THE NOTES OR POINTS USED IN WRITING OR PRINTING, AFTER fuch an account of letters and fyllables as I thought neceffary, in order to pronounce fingle words aright, we come now to confider how they are to be pro- nounced when they are joined together to make up fentences; and this is what we call reading in the moft proper fenfe. But before I lay down particular directions how to read^ we muft take notice of feveral forts of points and marks, that are ufed in writing or printing, to diftinguifli the feveral parts of a fentence, and the feveral kinds of fentences and ways of writing which are ufed, that the learner may know how to manage his voice according to the fenfe. The Points or Marks, ufed in writing or printing, may be diftinguifhed into three forts, and called Stops of the Voice, Notes of AfFe6tion, and Marks in Reading. The Stops of the Voice fliew us where to make a Paufc or Reft, and take Breath ; and are thefe four. 1. Comma, ac tne toot oi aw or«„ 2. Semicolon, a Point over the Comma. 5. Colon, two Points. |. Period, a ilngle Point at the Foot of 3 W rd. I. A Comma.] There is lot any thing in the world, perhaps, that is more talked jf, and lefsunderftood, than the bufinefs of a happy life. 2. A Semicolon,] Ic is but a curie that makes way loi a blefling ; the bare wifh is an injury ; the moderation of Antigonus was remarkable. 3. AColon.] A found mind isnot to be fliaken withpcpular applaufe : But, anger is ftartled at every accident. 4. A Period, or full Stop, fliews either the fenfe, or thr.: particular fentence to be fully finiflaed, and requires us to reft while we can tell five or fix, if the fentence be long ; or while O o we 498 IN WRITING OR PRINTING.- we can tell four, if it be Tnort : as rejoice evermore. Pray without ceafing. In evjiy thing give thanks. Quench not the fpirlt. The Notes of AfFeftion are thefe two. 1. Intenogatiui 2 F.xrlr,ni^''- - I. A Note of Interrogation requires as long a ftop as a Period, and is always ufed when a queftion is afked ; as. What advantage hath a Jew r or what profit is there in cir- cumcifion ? 2. A Note of Exclamation, (or as fome call it Admiration) requires alfo a tlop as long as a Period, and betokens fome fudden pafTion of the mind, as admiring, wifliir.g, or crying out ; as O! that I might have my requeft ! Alas ! Alas ! How is the city fallen ! The other Marks ufed in Reading, are thefe lixteen. 1. Apoftrophe (or as It may be written in Englifh, Apoftrophy) is fet over a word where fome letter is left out; as, 'tis, thro', lov'd, fear'd. for it is, through, loved, feared. 2. An Hyphen joins two words together, which make a compound, as coach-man, apple-pye ; or if a line end in the middle of a word, 'th ufed to fhov/ that thofe divided fyilables iliould be joined together in reading, and make but one word. 3- A Parenthefis is ufed to include fomething that is not neceflary to the fenfe, but brought in by the bye, to explain or illuftrate it ; as to their power (I bear record) they were willing of themfelves. I know that in me (that is, in my fielli, dv/elleth no good thing. Note, That before and after a Parenthefis, you muft ftop as long as at a Comma ; and the words inclofed in the Paren- thefis, muftbe pronounced with a little difFeTent found of voice fome times. 4. Brackets, or Crotchets, are ufed to include a word or two, which is mentioned in the fentence as the very matter of difcourfe ^ as The little world [man] makes a great noife In ' I. Apultroplitr. - or- 2. Hyphen. ^■ Parenthefis. n 4- Brackets. flor ■5- Paragraph. " 1 6. Quotation. § 7. Se<5tion. or- 8. Elipfis. 55- 9- Index. * 10. Afterilk. t 1 1. Obelifk. A 12. Caret. . . n- pialyfis. A '1- Circumflex. ' ";• Accent. // i6. Accent double. }{ Braces. the world. / Thefe NOTES OR POINTS, 499 Thefe Brackets are alfo ufed fometimes to include a part of a fentence that is cited from another author, fometimes to inclofe a word or fentence that is to be explained, and fome- times the explanation itfelf ; as when David faid [Thou wilt iliew one the path of life] He foretold the refurreflion of Chrift, PfalmXVI. u. Note, That Brackets and Parenthefes [ ] and () are often ufed for one another without diftindtion. 5. a Paragraph is thus marked ^, and is ufed chiefly in the Bible, to diftinguilli a new paragraph, or where another fenfe or fubje^ begins, or fome new matter. 6. A Quotation is marked with reverfed Comma's, thus, '* and is ufed when fomething is repeated or quoted out of another author, both at the beginning of the quotation, and at the beginning of every line of it ; as, an old philofopher faid, *' I carry all my goods about me." 7. Sedlion § is ufed for the fame purpofe in other books, as a Paragraph ^ is in the Bible, Sections are made for dividing chapters of any book into feveral parts. Note, At the end of a Paragraph, or at the end of a Seftion, the reader fliould make a little longer Hop or paufe, than he does at a common Period. 8. Elipfis (or, as fome call it, a blank-line) is ufed when part of the word is left out and concealed, as D — e of B — m for duke of Buckingham: or when part of a fentence or verfe, &c. is omitted or wanting either in the beginning or the end, as — That I may recover ftrength before I go hence. Pfal. xxxix. 13. When part of a book or chapter is left out, it is often marked thus ***. 9. Index or Hand, t^ points to fomething very remarkable, that (hould particularly be taken notice of. 10. Afterifm or Afterifk *, a Star, and, 11. Obeliflc or Dagger, f and other marks, fuch as Parallels II and t, &c. refer the reader to fomething in the margin. 12. A Caret is made thus a, and is fet under the line where fome word or fyllable is left out, which is commonly written above the line, and fhould be read where this note ftands, as and in fear God honour the king. But this is ufed only in A Writing, not in printing ; and is called interlining. It may not be amifs to add here that crooked line wliich is ufually called a Brace r^-'^-n whofe defign is to couple two or more words or lines together, that have a relation to one thing ; thus. fa long ") Jalhort r ^a broad J The letter A has < "^ '""" J- found oad J O 2 and 500 IN WRITING OR PRINTING. and it faves the writer the trouble of repeating the fame vvord» or words. 'Tis ufed alfo fometimes in poetry, when three lines have the fame rhyme or ending ; as Not all the flcill that mortals have, Can ftop the hand of death, or fave Their fellow-mortals from the grave. } There are alfo feme other marks that belong to fingle words, and not to fentences j but thefe are feldom ufed, exc' pf in particular books, efpecially fuch as treat of Grammar, Spell rg, Poefy, &c. (viz.) 13. Dialyfis • ■ over two vowels, to ftiow they muft be pro- nounced in diftindl fyllables, as Raphael. 14. Circumflex a over a long fyllable, Euphrates, ThtfTa- lonica, Ariftobulus. 15. Accent' to ftiow where the ftrefs or force cf the found muft be placed, as con'ftant cont'empt. 16. Double Accent" fliows the following confonant is p:c^ nounced double, as ba"-nifh. A TABLE A TABLE OF NUMBERS akd FIGURES. NUMBERS are ufually exprefled either by thefe feven Roman Capital Letters, L V.X.L.C.DlM. v/hich are called Numerals ; or by thefe ten charaders, (viz.) i, 2,3, 4, 5,6, 7, 8, 9, called Figures, and o,- which is a cypher. Obferve concerning the Nu- meral letters, that if a lefs Nu- meral Letter be placed before a greater, it takes away from the greater fo much as the lefler (lands for ; but being placed after a greater, it adds fo much to it as the leflTer ftands for : as the letter V. ftands for five ; but having L placed before ir, it takes one from it, and makes both ftand but for four, thus IV, But I. being fet after V. it adds one to ir, and makes it fix VI. Take notice of thefe EXAMPLES. Obferve concern- ing the characters or figures, that cyphers at the right hand of figures mcreale their value ten times, as I one, lo ten, loo one hundred, 7 feven, 7000 feven thcufand : but at the left hand they fignify nothing at all, as 01,001, make but one, 002 is but two. I. One I. One V. Five 2. Two X. Ten 3. Three L. Fifty 4. Four C. One Hundred 5. Five D. Five Hundred 6. Six M. AThoufand. 7. Seven Their 8. Eight Signification. 9. Nme L 0. Nothing IV. Four ,V. Five VI. Six IX. Nine X.Ten XI. Eleven XL. Forty L. Fifty LX. Sixty. XC. Ninety C. Hundred ex. Hundred and Ten. I One 1. 25 Twenty-five XXV. 2 Two IJ. 26 Twenty-fix XXVI. 3 Three in. 27 Twenty-feven XXVII. 4 Four IV. 28 Twenty-eight XXVIII. 5 Five V. 29 Twenty-nine XXIX. 6 Six VI 30 Thirty XXX. 7 Seven VII. 40 Fcrtv XL. 8 Eight VIII. 50 Fifty L. 9 Nine IX. 60 Sixty LX. 10 Ten X. 70 Seventy LXX. 1 1 Eleven XI. 80 Eighty LXXX. 12 Twelve XII. 90 Ninety XC 13 Thirteen XIII. 100 One Hundred c. 14 Fourteen XIV. 200 Two Hundred cc. 15 Fifteen XV. 300 ThreeHundred CCC. 16 Sixteen XVI. 400 Four Hui'dred cccc. 17 Seventeen XVII. 500 Five Hundred D. 18 Eighteen XVIII. 600 Six Hundred DC. 19 Nineteen XIX. 700 Seven Hundred DCC. 20 Twenty XX. 800 Eight Hundred DCCC. 21 Twenty-one XXI. 900 Nine Hundred DCCCC. 22 Twenty- two XXII. 1000 One Thcufand M. 23 Twenty-three XXIII. »775 One Thoufand 24 Twenty-four XXIV. Sever.Hundred, Sevenrv&Five. MDCCLXXV. 02 ATABLE OF NUMBERS AND FIGURES. A Figure at every remove from the right hand, encreafcs its value ten times, as 9 nine, 9S ninety-eight, 987 nine hundred eighty feven. Note here, that the Numbers are fometimes exprefled by fmall Roman letters, as i. one, ii. tw^o, xvi. fixteen, Ixxviii. feventy-eight, Sec. Note, That where books, chapters, feSions and verfes are cited, ihe numeral letters are generally ufed to fignify the book or chapter, and the figures to fignit'y the feftions, verfes, or fmaller parts, as Exod. xii. 17. Exodus, the tu^elfth chapter, and the feventeenth verfe. So B. ix. Se£l. 24. fjg- nifies Book the ninth, and the twenty-fourth Seftion. Figures are alfo ufed to exprefs the things following, viz. 1. The order or fuccefTion of things, as ift, zd, 3d, 4.th, lolh, 29th, firft, fecond, third, &c, 2. The fraftlons, or parts of a thing, as f one half, j one third part, i one fourth or quarter, § two thirds, f three quarters, ^ five eighths, &c. 3. The number of aftion, as 2ce, twice, 3ce, thrice. 4. The fize of books, as 410, quarto, 8^ oftavo, 12" duo- decimo or twelves, 24° twenty-four. 5. The months, as 7br. September, 8br. Oftober, gbr. November, lobr. December. A TABLE A B O F E E X P E N C E S BY THE W E E K OR Y E A R, FROM ONE PENNY TO FORTY SHILLINGS BY THE DAY. One One One For one For one For one For one For one For one Day. Week. Year. Day. I. Week. Year. d. Year I. ^\ eek . Year. £ s. d. £■'■ <^. C '■ o> W A Ij- V I i^ 0; At any Number of Feer, from i to to 20 high ; and from i to if Brick thick. The U:SE of the TABLE. n n at I X crq p- Brick thick. I 176 2 3 528 4 704 880 6 1056 7 8 9 10 II 1232 1408 1584 1760 1936 12 21X2 M 2288 16 2464 2640 2816 17 i8 2992 3168 19 3344 2Q 3520 at li Brick thick. 264 528 792 1056 1320 1584 1848 2112 2376 2640 2904 3168 3432 3696 3960 4224 4488 4752 5016 5280 If you would have this Table for |> a. Brick, take the Half of the Table tor I Brick; if 2 Bricks, then double it ; if for 2 bricks and f , then add both thefe together ; if for 3, double that for I Brick and f . If you have any Number of Feet oi^ Brick Work, at | a Brick, i Brick, or 2 Bricks, or more, and you would reduce it to I Brick ar.d f, then fay by the Line of Numbers, as 1245, or 6, is to 3, fo is the Number of Feet, at |, i, 2, 2f, or 3 Bricks to the Number of Feet, at I andf. P p A STRIKING 'A S T^"k I K I N 6 EXAMPLE O F E'l.D E L I T Y AND GRATITUDE IN A DUMB ANIMAL. WHEN wife Ulyfles, from his kingdom tofs'd, Long worn by wars, and long by teiiipefts crofs'd. Full twenty years in exile and in cares. Furrow'^ wifh age his face, and gray his hairs, Arriv'd at Jaft, his kingdom then his own, Both to his fer.vants and his, queen unknown j In his own palace feen to beg for bread, Scorn'd by thofe flaves his former bounty fed ; Forgotten by his own domeftick crew. The grateful dog his former mafter knew : Unfed, uhlious'd, neglected, on cold clay Like an old lervant, now cafhier'd, he lay j Touch'd with refentment of ungrateful men ■■■■! Glad lo behold his antient Lord again : Him, when he faw, he rofe and crawl'd to meet, 'Twas all be cou'd, he crawl'd and lick'd his feet j Seiz'd xvith DtTMB joy, and walking by his fide, Own'd his returned Lord, look'd up, and dy'd. I N I ERRATA. IN THE REMEMBRANCER. Page. Line. 38, ■' 26, for Hofea, read Ifaiah 49, 2> for 3584, read 3548 ' 50, 22, read 3579 55, 30, read 3717 58, 9, for as no engine, read engine 17, for at Rome, read built at Rome 60, 16, for 300,000, read 800,000 88, 30, for fifth, read fourth 95, 32, read 900 A. D. The infefted by Hungarians in* vade Germany 102, 22, for tutor could, read tutor and hiftorian could 23, for thus, 946X80X 13=13 1039. 946x80=1039, read 9464-80+ 13=: 1039. 9464-80 = 1026. 103, 13, read 1050 113,- 34, for fee page 66, read fee page 103. 131, -II, read 135 1 132, 3, for 1347, read 1357 137, 40, for the mendicants, read the pope and th.e men- dicanrs 14^, 13, read 1504 i53» 18, read 1542 J76,— — -36, read 1622 213, 15, for 389, 724— 33ilfe' read ^389, 7*4—311 218, 34, for 183, 325 1. reau 163, 3251. 224, 20, for Cork 38, read Cork 58 234, 21, for7o,2961. Is. 5d. read 70,396!. is. 5d. 286, 23, read 1770 293,' 15, read 1772 297, 26, read 1773 299> 8, for 900,100, read 900,000 300, 18, for 13 hundred 12 (tone 23 pound, read i3Cwt. iqrs. 231b. INDEX. 321, 4^, for 183, read 189, Great Seal of England, 46, for 243, read 245, Fine Omagh, 329, n, for 494, read 194, Scotland Army, 33, for 255, read 235, Shepheard, Joha 35, for 118, read 171, Ship largeft 33'> 22, for 167, read 177, Vefpers 25, for 1236, read 236, Vienna TABLET £ R R A T A. jT A B L E T OF M E M O R Y» Page. Line. 335» 32, for 468, read 168, Antiochus 359> 23, for 330, read 1330, Mark 37i» 2i, for 109, read 1409, Sowing .376,— —15, for 1762, read I77^, Van 379> 59. ^'or i7 54» read 1454, York 390, 22, for Gloucefterfliire, Worcellerniire, &c. read Gloucefterfliire, Herefordfhire, WorcefterlhirCj "393 » 27» ^^'' 200,000, read 20,000 394, 40, after Benfon, in Oxfordfliire, dele 834 398, 16, for 1013, read 1113 The Several Terms ufed in the Almanack, &c. 422, 4, tor Exodus ii. 3. read Exodus xii. 3. SYNCHRONICAL TABLE. 446, 12, for 1579, read 2';79, Arglves 447, 9, for 48, read 38, Eupalus 455, 23, read Lafcus VI. reigned 10 years, Bolefslas Henry Wiadidos, 6 456, 1 , for Y. VV. read A. D. Popes 461,— I, for Y.W. read A.D. Leon & Afturla & Caftile 5, for Y. W. read A. D. Portugal 20, for Y. W. read A. D. Caftile 24, for Y. W. read A. D. Caftile and Portugal 462, !, for Y. W. read A. D. Spain and Portugal 470, 25, laft column, for 30, read 16 26, in the laft column, for Keneth IIL jo, read Ke- nelh III. r6. 40, read acrofs the page thus 103J, Duncan L 7 years reigned in Scotland 471, 5, read thus, 1057 Malcolm III. 36 years reigned in ScoUand 472, 28, in the laft column, read thu.«, under Pruflla 2), Frederick Williarii I. 12 years reigned Frederick VViUiam II. 27 years reigned TFIE NOTES OR POINTS USED. 498, ■ ■ 2, for — or — , read — or ziz:, 2 Hyphen 5, for fl or, read fl' or 1 , $ Paragraph 19, for (that is, in my flefli, read (that is, in my flefli) 499, 9, for ^, read fl or ^ 12, for marked, read mat'kcd 35, for J, read |||, THE C O N T E NTS Page. HEptarchy i 39a England ibid. Rebellion ■ » ' 391 London ■ ■ « 392 Jews 393 A View of the various Prices of Provifions • 394 Rome • ' ib. Battles — — . . ib. Sea-fight ' ■ •' 39^ War and Peace '■ ' 398 Earthquake > — . 39^ Plagues ■ 402 Famine ■ ■ 403 Frcyft -— .^ — . ib. Fire ■ ' Jb. Lightning and Thunder --' • 404 Storms — ^— — • — ^— __ ib. WJieat — 406 A fhort EfTay on the Flux of Time ■ 407 The Ufe of the 56 Year Almanack ■ 411 A Table to find the Moveable Feails for ever by the Dominical Letter and Golden Number ' 413, The Seven Varieties of the Days of the Week for finding the Day of the Month . 414 A New Calendar ■■ " -— ^__ 446 An Explanation of feveralTerms ufed in the Almanaclr, for the Information of the Vulgar ' 421 A Table, by having the Golden Number and Domini- cal Letter, to find when the Moveable Terms begin, 'fit, and end for ever, and Returns ■ ■ ■■ 424 P p 2 Circuit • CONTENTS. Page. Circuit-Roads in Ireland — — — . 425 A Table, fhewing the Dominical Letter, from the firft Year of our Lord, to the Year 4100, and may be continued for ever ■ ■ ' .«»■■'■■ 430 A Table, fliewing the Cycle of the Sun, from the firft Year of our Lord to the Year 4100, and may be continued for ever ■ 1 - 431 The Table for the ready finding of the Golden Number for ever - 432 The Table for the ready finding of the Roman Cycle of the Indjftion for ever » ' ' - 433 A Calendar for tbeYears of the Flood ; a Calculation made by the Author from the Hiftory of the Bible, to prove that the Ark muft have refted in the Year of the World 1656, and 1657 •■ 436 A Chronological and Synchronical Table of the various Monarchies, Kingdoms and States of the World, from their Rile refpeftively, to the prefent Year 1775 . ^ 446 The Marriages and IfTues of the fovereign Kings of England — » 465 Lift of all the Kings, Princes, Lord-Lieutenants, &c. Lord-Deputies and Lord-Juftices of Ireland, from the Year 1172 to 1775 — — — 473 'I'able, fhewing what Planet rules every Hour — 482 Properties and Natural Effeds of the feven Planets 483 Ufe of the Planetary Table •■ 484 Perpetual Almanack — — . ■ 485 Table of Days ^ 488 Divifion of Months, Weeks, &c. with the Names of the Days in different Countries, from the feven Planets ■ ' ■ 48^ Table of Latitudes of the principal Places in Great- Britain and Ireland -__— . — ^-.-. ^^j Nnnies and Number of the Canonical Books of ihe Holy Scripture • ■ ■ - ' 493 Of the Notes or Points ufed in Writing and Printing 497 Table of Numbers and Figures - ■ ■ - 501 Table of Expences by the Week or Year, from One Fenny to Forty Shillings by the Day ■ ■ 5(13 Table CONTENTS. Table of Simple Intereft at fix per cent, per Ann. Value of fevera.1 Gold Pieces, as they pafs in London ■ ■ ■ — — . Value and Weight of Coin in the late War in New- York, Philadelphia, &c. &c. Table of the Number of Bricks in a Rod of Walling, for any Number of Feet high, from i to 20, and i to I f thick « . ■■ ■ Striking Example of Fidelity, &c. n ' i Page. 504 ib. 506 €^^^i)^ ERRATAi A * A B LB OB ERRATA TO THE SUBSCRIBERS' NAMES. Right Honourabie Thomas Emerfon, Lord Mayor of the City of Dublin. ■; George AlcockEfq; 7 j^.,5j^j^^ of the Citv of Dublin. Fielding Ould, Efq; j ^ HEnry Bcvan, Efq; Alderman of Dublin. John Can oil, Efq j Francis Fetherftone, Efq; Alderman of Dublin. Thomas Farris, Efq; fen. of Cam. Captain French, late of the 46th Regiment. Benjamin Gsale, Efq; Alderman of Dublin. "Thomas Green, Efq; Aldsrman of Dublin. Thomas Grove, Efq- Richard Herbert, Efq. David Jones, Efq; Daniel Kanning, Efq, Mrs. M. Maurice. Colonel Zobell. William John Talbot, Efq. Michael Pope, Efq; of London. Revd. Mr. John Smith. Mr. John Tew. Mr. Henry Gonne. Mr. Jacob Silfon.\.. Mr. John Riorteau. Mr. Auth. Mc. Garry. Mr. Lar. Whyte. Mr. William Xentis. , Mr. Matt. Power, Waterford. KCQtco»a) »x)j i a i xa Jin3Kxxtvoote M ii xu K i>3 i oa o»o^^ The AUTHOR alks Pardon for the Errors and Omiflions, which, notwithftandJing his utmoft Endeavours, muft have happened in the List of Subsc rib e rs, from the Car e- leffnefs of Returns, or the total Omiflion of them. A O F SUBSCRIBERS. THomas Batefon, Efq; Mayor of the City of Londonderry Mr. Henry Bsll, Lifburn Brabazon Brabazon, Efq^ Alex. Bradford, Efq; Cork Hiilton Bradley, Efq; Mr. Samuel Brindley Walter Huifey Burgh, Efq; M. P. Rev. Caulfeild Burne Caul- feild Andrew Crawford, Efq; William Magee Crymble, Efq; Bally clare Mr. John Dunkin, Merch. Londonderry Lieut. Dyfart, Britifh Ar- tillery Mrs. Cath. Fenton, Stra- bane John Ferns,Library Dubl in John Wm. Fofter, Efq; Mr. William Grubb Mr. James Hamilton, Car- rick-Ma-Crofs Mifs Ifabella Harrifon, of Londonderry Mr. W.Hughes, Goldfrnith Mr. Pat, Simfon Kennedy Mr. Delany Kingfton. Mr. James King, Mercer Rev. Peter Lefanu Robert Lindfay, Efq; Mr. David M' Cool, Ma- themat. Londonderry Capt. Geo. Marfhal, Derry Rev. Dr. Henry Maxwell Lieut. Col. John Maxwell Mr. Pat. Mead, Carrick- Ma-Crofs Mr. Roger Murray, Attor- ney, Derry James Nicholfon, Efq; Mr. James Corry Nicholfon Robert Powell, Efq; Rt. Hon. Lord Southwell Mrs. Savage, of Meath Fran. Shaw, Efq; Ballyclare Mrs. Simon, Abbey-ftreet Capt. William Span Wmj Stewart, Efq; Lon- donderry Rev.-Jcfeph Stock, B.D.L F.T.C.D. Rev. Ifaac Subremont Mailer John Walfn Mr. Hugh William.fon, At- torney, Frecm.anfliown Mr. Shav/ WilHamion A CATALOGUE of all the ECLIPSES of the SUN and MOON, which will be vifible in Ireland, from the Year 1776, to the Year 1800. Year I Month 1779 1780 1781 1782 1783 1787 1788 1790 1791 1792 1793 1794 Day Hour Lunar. f 30 10 After. Moon 9 After. Sun 23 II After. Moon 10 II Morn. Moon 24 3 After. Sun 4 II Morn. Moon H 9 Morn. Sun 23 6 After. Moon 12 4 Morn. Moon 23 * Sun 17 9 Morn. Sun 12 5 After. Sun 18 7 After. Moon 15 4 After. Sun 4 6 Morn. Sun 14 9 Morn. Sun 28 II After. Moon 22 I Morn. Moon 3 I After. Sun 12 3 Morn. Moon 16 4 After. Sun 25 9 After. Moon 5 I After. Sun 31 9 Morn. Sun 14 9 After. Moon 31 7 After. Moon 24 4 After. Sun 18 3 After. Sun 4 3 Morn. Moon 23 6 Morn. Moon I 10 After. Moon * Near Sun-fet, vi- fible, tho' fmalL 1776 July I777|january January 1778 June June Decemb. June Movemb. Novemb. April Ocitober April March June June April April Odober April October Septemb. February Septemb. January February July June t>Jovemb. Decemb. Novemb. October Sun ftood ftill at the Command of Jojbua, 1454 before Chrifl^ 'tttaljth.t greateft Eclipfe of the Sun that had been feen for 500 Years, happened Jpril 22d, 1 7 i i^fter Cbrijf. The USE of the TABLE of the COMETS. When neareft the Sun, I Leafl Dif- tance from Year 1580 1585 1590 1596 1607 1618 1652 1661 1664 1665 1672 1677 1680 1682 1683 1684 1686 1698 1727 Month Novem . Septem. January July October Odober Movem January Novem April Febr, April Decern, Septens July May Septem. Odtob. Septem. Day >, 28 27 29 31 16 29 2 16 24 14 20 26 8 4 3 29 6 8 16 Hour, the Sun. 15 19 4 20 4 12 16 24 12 5 8 o o 7 3 10 14 17 16 59628 109358 57661 51293 58680 37975 84750 44851 102575 10649 69139 28059 612 58328 56020 96015 32500 69129 99865 Year Periods Years 3960 531 1 1 06 1680 1596 1769 1661 1789 1672 J742 Year 575 531 575 1 106 575 1680 575 173 1769 173 129 129 70 70 ,1742 When to ap- pear again. Year 2255 1942 1789 1918 1812 Years 3960 531 1 104 1 107 mo 1256 1315 1371 1401 1577 1647 1666 1667 Two 1744 1769 1770 * This Comet appeared 1 66 1 ,' and will appear again 1 789, its Period being 1 29 Y«ar6, in y^crtoJ be 11x3 ^ Advertifement. THO' entirely innocent, the Author is afhamed of dehvering his Work with fo many Blunders and Ihameful Errors of his Printer, who is neither DEAF nor DUMB A ^hey are marked thus (*) in the Margin ; and he is forry that it is neceifary, for the Prefer vation of your favourable Opinion of him, thus to mark the Printer. His Bill for Paper, Printing, Binding, and (as he modeftly calls his Blunders) Corre6ting, ^£114 17 4; of which he paid him, by your Bounty, before he be- gan the Work, £io/\. 4 6. • Though he had the Copy of the original Work be- fore him, which now proves how palpable his Negledts have been, yet he refufed to reprint or correCl his own Errors. Nature or Accident has deprived the Author of Capacities neceifary for a Law-fuit ; he therefore prefents to you his Child, (mangled as he is) and humbly hopes, that the fame tender motives which induced you to protedt 'the Father, will plead for the Infant. s-^ fL- f ."^^ % w. .^'