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ing the drinking and eating in such houses. The forme of this Act, which we herewith send yor. L. hath ben considered by me, the Maior, and all my brethren the Aldermen, and by a great number of the discretest comeners to whome the same hath ben comitted, and in our and their opinions, and generally of good citesens, very well thought of, so as we intend to procede wth offring it to the Comon Counsel if yor L. haue liking therof, which yor good allowance we thought meete herin to haue respect unto not only for yor L. good aduise which we humbly beseche you to geue us, but also for that without yor good meanes for some like order in St. Martin's and Westm" and other exempt and adioyning places, it is by many citesens thought that our proceding here will lack a great part of the frute that is hoped to ensue thereby. For which cause we haue bothe sent yor Honor the Bill, and this bearer or officer instructed in that mater to attend upon yor. L. for yor good pleasure how yor wisdome will aduise us for direction in this behalf, which we beseche you that it will please you to impart vnto vs, whoe shall be redy to follow the same. And so we comitt yor. good L. to the tuition of Almighty God. At London this vjth, of August, 1573

To the right honorable and our singular good Lord, the L. Burghley, Lord Highe Tresorer of England.

Your Lordships humbles

LEONILL DUCKETT Mayor
THOMAS OFFLEY, Alderman
ROW, HAYWARDE Alderman.

Remarkable Days

In JULY 1828.

2.-VISITATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY. THIS festival was instituted by Pope Urban VI, to commemorate the visit of the Virgin Mary to the mother of John the Baptist.

3.-DOG DAYS BEGIN.

By dog days the antients meant a certain number of days, about forty, some before and some after the heliacal rising of Canicula, or the dog star, in the morning. The term is supposed to have originated with the Egyptians. With us, it simply implies the hottest part of the year, which, in this country, is usually thought to be from July 3d to August 11th. 4.-TRANSLATION OF SAINT MARTIN.

This day was appointed to celebrate the removal of St. Martin's bones from a common grave to a

splendid tomb. On the translation of relics, see our last volume, p. 234.

7.-THOMAS A BECKET.

This haughty prelate was born in London, in the year 1119, and was the son of Gilbert, a merchant, and Matilda, a Saracen lady, who is said to have fallen in love with him when he was a prisoner to her father in Jerusalem.

15.-SAINT SWITHIN.

Swithin flourished in the ninth century. He was appointed Bishop of Winchester in 852, and died in 863.

19. 1821.-KING GEORGE IV CROWNED.

Some interesting particulars of this august ceremony will be found in T.T. for 1822, pp. 194-206, and in T.T. for 1824, p. 191.

20.-SAINT MARGARET.

Margaret was born at Antioch. She was first tortured, and then beheaded, in the year 278.

*21. 1827.-ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE Died. By the stimulus which he gave to letters, both in the North and the South, he has conferred lasting benefits upon the literature of his age and country. Mr. Constable was the liberal friend of authors, and brought forward many valuable works, which, but for his generous disposition, would never have been produced.

22. MARY MAGDALEN. This day was first dedicated to the memory of Mary Magdalen, by Edward VI.

*24.-SAINT DECLAN,

A singular account of his festival, as kept in Ireland, in 1826, may be seen in our last volume, p. 240.

25.-SAINT JAMES.

St. James suffered martyrdom under Herod Agrippa, in July 44. He was beheaded with a sword. The

Spaniards regard James as their tutelar saint. For an account of oyster day, see our last volume, p. 243. 26.-SAINT ANNE.

Saint Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary. Her fes-, tival was introduced by the Romish church.

*JULY 1827.-JAMES MILLAR, M.D. Died,

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Editor of a new edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica,' of the Encyclopædia Edinensis,' and author of a 'Guide to Botany,' and of Observations on making Tunnels under Navigable Rivers.' *JULY 1734.-JUBILEE CELEBRATED AT BRUSSELS.

The following lively and entertaining sketch of a festival held once in fifty years at Brussels, on the occasion of some miracle which, the writer says, it is not necessary to explain, is given by the Duchess of Queensberry, in a letter to the Hon. Mrs. Herbert, in the Suffolk Correspondence' (vol. ii, p. 95), and is sufficiently interesting to occupy a place among our Remarkable Days:

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The sight we staid for was well worth seeing; nobody can well describe it, who cannot write a romance: I could never read one; so I doubt you will not edify by my description, unless your imagination can help me out. Let me show you whole streets that appeared like a most magnificent garden; some of the houses all covered with moss from top to bottom, adorned with flowers, festoons, mosaic ornaments of gold and silver; on others moss, on which were hung fine pictures, in other places fine tapestry; the tops of all the houses every where covered with green, where the other ornaments were not; triumphal arches, arcades, fountains, all these adorned by paintings, all sorts of greens and flowers, and in some places, cascades: I have neither time or wit to draw this fine picture as it deserves. The duke hurries me to supper; yet I must proceed to try to make you conceive the Fish market, which was the most extraordinary thing I ever saw: that was en

tirely decked with moss and gilding. Imagine a great place, as it were, wainscotted in pannels, in which were drawings of figures, trees, landscapes, as big as the life; these done in two colours, which, too, were different coloured moss; the great church, the most magnificent thing you ever saw, the altar particularly, on which was a great quantity of wrought plate and cloth of gold. Here I ought to be a good architect. Mr. Herbert can teach you to imagine pillars and arches, architraves, friezes, and cornices, in just proportion; extreme fine figures, as big as the life, in silver, dressed in gold. (I mean metal); very fine pictures; exceeding fine tapestry and carpets in their proper places; the pillars of the church twisted round with green and gold, on which were flowers; between the pillars hung rich festoons of green and gold to represent fruit, leaves, and flowers; at the bottom, large orange-trees; on them birds of all sorts well imitated, the tubs gilt and painted green; the finest and the prettiest lamps I ever saw, between the pillars (to light the church), hung with chains. It is shocking you could not see it! A vast deal of fine carving and gilding: I hate myself that I cannot help you to imagine it a little. The procession is easier to conceive, though that was vastly magnificent. Half the town, I believe, have ruined themselves by dressing out themselves and children to have the honour to represent kings, princes, and princesses, who had, a thousand years ago, some hand in this miracle. They walked or rode on horseback, two and two, all magnificently adorned; Cupids and the Muses kept them company-for what reason I know not, unless to make the sight prettier, which it certainly did. We had fine triumphal cars, intermixed, and drawn by eight horses each; I expect you to range them where they ought to be, but I must tell you that one set were exactly spotted like leopards,— you cannot conceive how beautiful: each of these cars held fifteen children; one was filled by the Vir

tues, and another perhaps by Vices; another by the United Provinces, and others by the Muses; the other by I know not what. After these came monks of different orders, some black, some brown, singing all the way; and then the host, under a fine canopy; and after all a vast mob, composed of all the nations on earth, and in divers dresses.'

STATE OF THE JEWS IN LONDON, A.D. 1662.

The exact time, says Mr. Ellis (Letters, Second Series, vol. iv, p. 3), when the Jews were suffered to return to England, as a people, has been disputed. Burnet expressly says, that a company of Jews was brought over into England by Oliver Cromwell, and that he gave them leave to build a Synagogue'. Tovey, in his Anglia Judaica, denies this; and states, upon the authority of the Rabbi Netto, who, in his time, was the Governor of the Synagogue, that even so late as 1663, the whole number of the Jews in London did not exceed twelve. He expressly adds, that King Charles the Second was their introducer. From a highly curious letter, which Mr. E. has printed, giving an account of a visit to the Jewish Synagogue, but which we regret is too long for insertion in our pages, it appears, that in 1662 the Jews were existing in London, with a synagogue built after the fashion of their own worship; that the congregation which the writer saw assembled consisted of a hundred Jews, besides women; that they were not people who appeared as straggling sojourners, but gentlemen and merchants, rich in apparel, even to the wearing of jewels, and that they had not one mechanic-person amongst them. It expressly states that, in Oliver's time, the Jews had celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles in booths, upon the southern side of the Thames; and has a direct reference to their withdrawing themselves, as much as possible, from public notice, upon the Restoration of King Charles the Second, evidently from the circumstance that the Act for their exile had never been formally repealed.

Much valuable information respecting the bringing back of the Jews by Cromwell, &c. will be found in Mr. Ellis's fourth volume, pp. 4, et seq.

Hist. of his own Time, vol. i, p. 71.

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