Poetical ESSAYS in JULY, 1753. tr 335 拜 WINTER. INTER rears his hoary head, The trees their leafy honours thed; The flowers withdraw into the earth, Till fpring and zephyrs give them birth : The cattle fhudder in the ftall, Whilft rains, or fleecy fnows do fall. The plowman o'er the froft bound foil, With arms across, does all day toil; But feated by the fire at night, Views his past labour with delight; And, as the nappy ale he quaffs, He outs his joaks, and hearty laughs: The livelong night he fleeps amain, Then chearfully to work again. The youth skim over lakes and ponds, Bound in winter's icy bonds, E'er the fun, at noon of day, Has look'd their pleasure all away. The huntsman now the early morn Salutes with chearful hound and horn Nor hedge nor ditch then stops his course; But foon fhall fmiling fpring appear, } Yet 336 Poetical ESSAYS in JULY, Yet, mixt with keys, and coins among, Canft thou forget when, high in air, Alas, my purfe! yet ftill be proud, Well then, my purse, thy fabbaths keep; Perufing lately the fecond Chapter of the to present the following Paraphrafe to the TH HE wicked reason (thoughtless crew! To day we laugh, to-morrow mourn; Which quenched once, the body must 1753. The fpirit goes-we know not where Then lead the dance in jocund mood, Let's quaff the midnight sparkling bowl, But check, profane! your wild career Occafioned by Reading, in the Papers, that Mr. VERNON had a Flag given him, after many Years Retirement, near Ipswich in Suffolk; and was about being sent with a Squadron to the Weft-Indies. Written in the Year 1739. EXTEMPORE. VICE admiral Vernon !-Ipswich!- VICE love, Another Cincinnatus * from the plough! preft, Late chaplain in the royal navy of THE *A Roman fenator, who, being called from bis rural retirement, was made diftator; and baving performed feveral great actions, refigned that bigb office, after kolding it 20 days only. Livy VI. 28, 29. THE Monthly Chronologer. B Y the act to prevent clandeftine marriages, paffed laft feffion, it is ordered, That the banns of matrimony fhall be publithed on three Sundays sion, in the parish church or chapel in preceding the folemnizawhich each of the parties do dwell; but if either of the parties thall live in any extraparochial place, then the banns shall be published in fome church' or chapel adjoining, and in fuch cafe the minister fhail fign the publication thereof, and the marriage to be folemnized in one of the faid churches. That the true chriftian and furnames of the parties must be delivered in writing to the minifter feven days before the first publication of the banns; as likewise their places of abode, and how long they have respectively lived there. That tho either of the parties be under the age of 21, no minifter fhall be punishable after banns published, where the parents, guardians, &c. give no notice of diffent; but where they do diffent, the publication to be void. That no licences be granted to any church or chapel, but that wherein one of the parties fhall have lived four weeks immediately before; but if either of the parties dwell in any extraparochial place, then the licence may be granted to the church or chapel adjoining. That any perfon folemnizing matrimony in any other place than a church or chapel, where banns have been usually published, (unlefs by fpecial licence first obtained from fuch perfon or perfons having proper authority to grant the fame) fhall, upon being lawfully convicted thereof, be tranfported as a felon for 14 years, and the marriage to be void, provided the profecution be commenced within three years after the offence is committed. That marriages folemnized by licence, (where either of the parties be under 21 years of age, except a widower or widow) without confent of parents, or guardians appointed by the court of Chancery, fhall be abfolutely void where confent is unreasonably with-held, but or parents, &c. beyond the feas, they may apply to the lord chancellor, &c. That churchwardens provide books, in which all banns and marriages are to be registered, and to be figned by the miJuly, 1753 nifter, and the books to belong to the parish, and kept for publick ufe. That all marriages be folemnized before two witneffes, befides the minifter, and properly registered, and figned by the minifter, witneffes, and the parties married. That any perfon convicted of making a falfe entry in the parish register, or forging or destroying, with an ill intent, any thing relating thereto, and the fame with regard to the licence, fhall fuffer death as a felon. The act to be read four times a year in all churches or chapels, and nothing in it to extend to the royal family, quakers, Jews, Scotland, or parts beyond the feas; and that special licences are to be granted as ufual. This act does not take place till the 25th of March, 2754 By the act for licenfing alehoufes in England, the justices, on granting a licence, are to take a recognizance of 10l. with fureties in the like fum, for the li cenfed perfon's maintaining good order; and none are to have their licence renewed without a certificate of good fame, Sellers of ale, and other liquors, with out licence, are to forfeit 40s. for the first offence, 41. for the fecond, and 61. for the third. The act for the amendment and pre- There was an account from Fort-Wil- U u 388 The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER. others furrendered. That on the 28th of May, Capt. Fergufon, of his majesty's fhip the Porcupine, took four in the. Ile of Sky, and had them prifoners on board. That there were feveral companies of the army in different parts, in queft of others, moft cf whom were fculking in the ifland, in order to get off. On June 28 was put up at St. Bartholomew's Hofpital, a curious piece of marble, with the following infcription. St. Bartholomew's Hofpital, for the relief of fick, lame, and poor, was founded by Rahere in 1102, and after the diffolution of monafteries, was granted by K. Henry VIII. to the mayor, commonalty, and citizens of London, in the year of our Lord 1547; but being greatly decayed, was rebuilt and enlarged by the voluntary fubfcriptions and charitable donations of many of the worthy governors, and other pious and well difpofed perfons, given and appropriated for that purpofe only. This building was erected in the year 1730, in the mayoralty of Sir Richard Brocas, Knt. prefident, and Samuel Palmer, Efq; treasurer, On the 29th a warrant was granted by alderman Rawlinfon, for the apprehending Elizabeth Canning, a bill of indictment having been found against her at the laft feffions at the Old-Bailey, for wilful and corrupt perjury. (See p. 291.) When the proper officers went to fee for her among her friends, they were defired to come the next day at eleven o'clock in the morning, which they complied with; and when, according to appointment, they called, they were again told, they must call another time, for that fo ferious an affair as the giving in bail, or furrendering the accufed, required more time to be duly confidered. About this time above a dozen pickpockets were apprehended in Vaux-hall Gardens and other places, and committed to priton, who belonged to a most dangerous and numerous gang of rogues. They were feized on the information of an accomplice, who had been apprehended at Vaux hall, and was carried about in various dreffes, in order to difcover their haunts, and point them out to the peace-officers. A great number of perfons affembled in a riotous manner in the Welt-Riding of Yorkshire, and cut down and destroyed feveral turnpikes, and burnt the tollhoufes belonging to them. The mob grew to fuch a height, that the justices of the peace made application to the commanding officer of general Hawley's regiment of dragoons quartered at York, for a detachment to be fent in order to July fupprefs the rioters. After which the account from Leeds was as follows: The dragoons which were fent from York to affist in fupprefling the rioters, were divided into parties to attend on the feveral turnpikes round about that town, in fupport of the collectors: And on Saturday laft a carter going thro' Beeston turnpike refused to pay the toll, whereupon he was feized by the foldiers, in order to be carried before the trustees of the turnpike, at the King's-Arms Inn in Brig-gate, but was refcued before he got thither. After this the mob gave out, that before ten that night they would pull down the Guard houfe, and refcue three prisoners who had been apprehended the night before, and were then confined there on account of being concerned in cutting down a turnpike: Accordingly, between feven and eight, a body of 500 men affembled in Brig-gate, when, by order of the juftices, the proclamation against riots was read, and they were required to difperfe: But this not being regarded, a message was fent about to defire all perfons to fhut up their shops, and keep in their houfes; after which the officers fent their own fervants with the like caution; but the mob continuing to break the windows and fhutters of the King's-Arms Inn, and tearing up the ftones of the pave ment to throw at the foldiers, and even knocked down the centinel upon guard there, the drum beat to arms, and the juftices gave orders to the foldiers, in number about twenty, to fire, which was first done with powder only; but this no way intimidating the mob, the foldiers fired with ball. According to the return made by the conftables on Sunday morn ing, eight were killed, and about 50 wounded. But the number of killed and wounded has been variously reported. The last account fays, that the number of the flain, and thofe fince dead of their wounds, amount to 10 only; that 24 more were wounded, of which 22 at leaft were in a fair way of recovery. TUESDAY, July 10. A caufe was brought on to be tried in the court of King's-Bench at Guildhall, before the lord chief juftice Lee, wherein a perfon who keeps a publick-house in Leadenhall - ftreet was plaintiff, and a chimney-fweeper defendant. The action was laid for damage done by the defendant in breaking a pannel in a feat in the plaintiff's houfe, the repairing whereof was proved to cost no more than threepence, which the defendant had paid, whereupon the plaintiff was nonfuited; and the lord chief juftice gave a very fe vere reprimand to the attorney, wherein 1753. The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER. 339 he told him, that the fomenting and carrying on fuch trifling, litigious fuits, was a great means of cafting an odium upon the whole profeffion. This day, between the hours of ten and eleven in the forenoon, a fire broke out at Holme's chapel in Cheshire, which burnt down and confumed the whole place, confifting of about 20 houses, except the Old Red-Lion Inn and two other houses. THURSDAY, 12. Was held a general court of the governors of Chrift's Hofpital, for the election of an upper mafter of the Grammarfchool, in the room of the Rev. Mr. Heatherly, preferred to the vicarage of Clavering cum Langley, in the county of Effex; when the Rev. Mr. Townley, one of the mafters of Merchant Taylors fchool, was chofen by a great majority. At the fame court a gratuity of rol. was ordered to the Rev. Mr. Richardson, under master, and it was refolved to chufe him an assistant, with a falary of 401. per annum. WEDNESDAY, 18. The feffions ended at the Old Bailey, when the five following other malefactors received fentence of death, viz. Millicent Clifby, for a burglary; Thomas Buckmore, for a highway robbery; Anne Robertson, for privately ftealing a gold watch from Peter Hendrick Vanfandrick; James Williams, for ftealing a gold watch, &c. out of a dwelling-houfe; and Thomas Twynbrow, for a highway robbery., MONDAY, 23. **Stockdale, Johnton, and Peers, abovementioned, were executed at Tyburn for murder, purfuant to their fentence. Their bodies were carried to Surgeons-Hall, Peers to be anatomized, and the other two to be hung in chains near the place where the murder was committed. (See P. 292.) Johnfon was fo ill at the place of execution, that he could not fpeak. Stockdale, before he was turned off, defired to fpeak with the under fheriff, who coming up, he told him, as he was a dying man, and going to answer for his conduct in this world, he did not intend to murder the penny poftman, but that the piftol went off accidentally: The gentleman afked him concerning a report that was current, whether he did not laugh at the deceafed when he faw him in his agonies; which he denied, but feemed ftartled at the queflion being put to him: He farther asked, whether he and Johnfon did not rob the day after killing the postman, and if he did not fire at a perfon they stopt upon Hounflow-Heath; his anfwer was, not on Hounslow Heath, but near Uxbridge; that he did not fire a piftol, but that Johnfon had in his hand the fame piftol which shot the postman, and that it went off again accidentally as it had done the day before. Peers likewife declared he had no defign to murder, that provocation and abusive language got the better of his reason, and excited him to commit that action which occafioned his unhappy end. There was a further hearing before the lord chancellor, the two chief justices and chief baron, in relation to the difpute between Dr. Schomberg and the College of Phyficians, about their not admitting him as a fellow. The queftion before them was, Whether their lordships had a vifitatorial right over the college, when they gave it as their opinion, that they had not. June 24. MARRIAGES and BIRTHS. R. James Effex, an eminent builder in Cambridge, to Mifs Thurlbourn, daughter of Mr. Thurlbourn, bookfeller. 28. Capt. Killigrew, aid de-camp to the duke of Dorfet, to Mrs Vandewall, of Bourten on the Water, in Gloucesterfhire: William Southwell, Efq; brother to the Rt. Hon. Edward Southwell, Efq: fecretary of State for Ireland, at the Engglish Ambasador's chapel at Paris, to Mifs Pye, fifter of Henry Pye, Eq; knight of the thire for Berks. July 4 John Fleming,, Efq; to the Hon. Mis Jane Coleman, niece to the duke of So.nerfct. |