After the usual introduction, and mentioning the outrage which gave occasion to the anathema, it runs thus:

"Obtenebrescant oculi vestri qui concupiverunt; arescant manus, quæ rapuerunt; debilitentur omnia membra quæ adjuverunt. Semper laboretis, nec requiem inveniatis, fructuque vestri laboris privemini. Formidetis, et paveatis a facie persequentis et non persequentis hostis, ut tabescendo deficiatis. Sit portio vestra cum Judâ, traditore Domini, in terrâ mortis ac tenebrarum; donec corda vestra ad satisfactionem plenam convertantur. Ne cessent a vobis hæ maledictiones scelerum vestrorum persecutrices, quamdiu pennanebitis in peccato pervasionis. Amen. Fiat, fiat."-Bouquet ; Recueil des Hist. tom. x. P. 517.

(Translation.)

"MAY your eyes, that have coveted, be darkened! May those hands, that have robbed, be withered up! May all the limbs, that have helped, be enfeebled! May ye always labour, but never find rest! and may ye be deprived of the fruit of your labour! May ye be in fear and dread from the face of the enemy, whether he pursue, or do not pursue you, that by wasting away you may at length be consumed! May your portion be with Judas, who betrayed our Lord, in the land of death and darkness, 'till your hearts are converted to make full satisfaction! May these curses, taking vengeance on your wickedness, never cease their effect on you, as long as you remain in the sin of robbery. Amen. So be it, so be it."

KNIGHTS ROBBERS.

IN the Dictum de Kenilworth, made in the fifty-first year of the reign of Henry III. there is the following curious clause: "Knights and esquires who are robbers, and among the principal robbers in wars and plunderings, if they have no lands, but have goods, shall pay half of their goods for their redemption, and find sufficient surety henceforth to keep the peace of the king and kingdom."

ADDITION TO THE APOCRYPHA.

THE following very curious document is taken from a small volume, entitled, "The Thyrd Boke of the Machabees, not found in the Hebrew Canons, but translated out of the

Greke into Latyne, and taken in the steede of one of the Bookes of Holy Scripture, worthy to be reade by all godly men; never before set forth in the Englesh tounge." It is dedicated "to the ryghte noble and virtuose lady, lady Anne Douchesse of Somerset, &c. by her most bounden and daily oratour, Gwalter Lynne, wyshedd aboundance of all grace and godlyness; with a lounge and prosperous estate to God his honour, and your grace's health and salvatyon." The title page states it to have been "imprinted at London for Gwalter Lynne, dwellyng in Somers Keye, by Billynsgate, in the year of our Lord, MDL. cum priv. ad imprimand. solum." The book consists of seven chapters, of which the following is a specimen :

"Herein it is declared, the fearfull punyshmente of the blasphemous tyranny of Ptolemeus.-Item, What myschefe he dyd afterwards enterpryse againste the Jewes, whiche God nevertheles dyd gracyously withstand, and brought it to a good ende, thereby sygnyfying unto us, that the hartes of kinges and princes, and of all men, are in his hande.-Proverb xxii. Regum 1. c. d. i. Hester vi. 6.—And that no man shall be confounded that putteth his trust and confidence in hym, Esaye xlix. c. xxviii. c. lvii. 6.—Psal. xxv. a. 31. a. xxvii. c, lxxi, a. Roman ix. d. v. a. &c.

66 CHAP. I.

"When Philopater had understood by thoos that were comen agayne, that Antiochus had taken from hym suche holds as he had, he raysed all his army, as well foot as horsemen, and taking with hym his sister Arsinoe, he ranne out even as farre as the countries of Raphia, that were borderinge upon hym, where Antiochus' host camped; and one Theodotus, thynkynge to brynge the matter to pass, by crafty traines, when he hadde taken the strongest men of armies that were put unto hym by Ptolemeus: in the night, he gat him to Ptolemeus tent, to kill him unawares, and so make an end of the battel. But Dositheus, called the son of Drimilius, a jew borne, and afterwards forsaking the law, and tourned from his father's ordinances, which was hired for the purpose, put in his stead, in the tent, another poore man, which chanced to be slayen, for hym; and as they fought fiercely together, but Antiochus moare, Arsinoë went diligently about her men, weeping pitifully, her heare about her shuldars, and desired them that they would helpe her valiantly, promysing to give to every of there wyfes and children, yf he had the victory, two pounds of gold. Thys it chaunced that their enemies

were overthrown, and many taken. Then whan he had thus disappointed their traines, he went about their cities that were next, and thought to comfort them with words, which, when he had done, he gave gifts unto their churches, and comforted their subjectes hartes; and when the Jews had sent the elders of their counsellours to Philopater, to salute him, bearynge gifts, and to shewe these for the things that he hadde done, it fortuned that he had a greater desyre to go to them as sone as might be. So he came to Jerusalem, and dyd sacrifice to the most mighty God, and when he hadde done, he dyd to the place as was convenient. And after when he was come in, he wondered to see the costly worke, and marvylling at the fine buyldynge of the temple, he desyred to go also into the innar tabernacle, that was the holiest of all, but when they denyed him, sayinge, it was not leaful, no not to eny that were borne there, to go in, no not so much as for the priests themselves, save only for the cheafe bishop, and that but onse in the yeare onlye, yet would he not be turned one wyth. And when they read unto him the law, yet would he not cease, but said he must needs go in; and although this honer was denyed unto them, yet that it ought not to be so unto hym, and axed them why no man stopped hym from goeing into eny temples. And when one had made answer unadvysedlye, that they dyd well because they dyd not; but this, quoth he, shall be done, and let the cause what so eny the lyst, he would in, whether they would or not. And when the pryestes hadde fallen to their faces upon the ground, and were in all theyre vestements, and prayed unto the hyghest God, to helpe them in theyre most nede, and that he would put away his strength, that threatened to hurt them, and had filled the temple with crying and weepinge, the rest that were in the citie being greatly amased, and not knowing what had happened, came out as fast as they could. Virgens that were in the chambers, and women in child-bed, ran forth, casting dust upon their heedes, and filling the streets with mourning and lamentation. And the banners that they hadde little before proposed to go meet hym, being forgettynge, the manner that he came them, they bare them about the citie, and forsakinge ye young infants, bothe mothers and nurses ran wandering about the streates, some one way, some another, unto the high temple, and being gathered together, strived diversly against these thinges whiche he wickedly went about. Besides this, the citizens moved with boldnes, would not suffer him to rush in and accomplish his purpose, but tooke them to theire weapons, and with great cryes, ready to suffer death, they stirred up a great business in that place, but yet removed back by the priestes and seniores; they came again to theire old place of prayer,

and the common people, as they had begonne indeed, were set to prayer; but the elders sendinge to the kinge, assayed many wayes to remove his proud minde from his purposed intent; but he, stifly against them all, purposed to go in, thinkinge to perform that he had onse saide, which thinge, when the onse sawe, thei hilde againste him, tornynge them to Him, with whom all power is, called upon Him, they and the people, to helpe them at that poynt, and not to wincke at that proude and mischievous dede; insomuch that, for the great noise that was among the careful people, the crye was incomparable, for it seamyd as though they had runne thorow not only the enemies heddes, but thorow the walls also, and all the pavemente; al men rather wishinge to die, than have the place defyled and unhalowed," &c.

DESCRIPTION OF QUEEN ELIZABETH.

(By a German Traveller.)

MUCH as has been written respecting " England's maiden queen," there is is not one of our native chroniclers gives such a striking picture of her court, as is conveyed in the following description, by a German traveller. It is translated from a rare work, entitled, Itinerarium Germania, Gallia, Anglia, Italia; scriptum a Paulo Hentznera, J. C.-Breslæ, 1627.

"We arrived next at the royal palace of Greenwich, reported to have been originally built by Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, and to have received very magnificent additions from Henry VIII. It was here, Elizabeth, the present queen, was born, and here she generally resides, particularly in summer, for the delightfulness of its situation. We were admitted, by an order Mr. Rogers had procured from the lord chamberlain, into the presence chamber, hung with rich tapestry, and the floor, after the English fashion, strewed with hay, through which the queen commonly passes in her way to the chapel. At the door stood a gentleman dressed in velvet, with a gold chain, whose office was to introduce to the queen any person of distinction, that came to wait on her. Sunday, when there is usually the greatest attendance of nobility, In the same hall, where the archbishop of Canterbury, the bishop of London, a great many counsellors of state, officers of the crown, and gentlemen, who waited the queen's coming out, which she did, from her own apartment, when it was time to go to prayers, attended in the following manner:

It was

-First were gentlemen, barons, earls, knights of the garter, all richly dressed, and bareheaded; next came the chancellor, bearing the seals, in a silk purse, between two, one of which carried the royal sceptre, the other the sword of state, in a red scabbard, studded with gold fleurs-de-lis, the point upwards; next came the queen, in the fifty-sixth year of her age (as we are told), very majestic; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant; her nose a little hooked, her lips narrow, and her teeth black, (a defect the English seem subject to from their too great use of sugar).

"She had in her ears two very rich pearls, with drops; she wore false hair, and that red; upon her head she had a small crown, reported to have been made of some of the gold of the celebrated Lunebourg-table; her bosom was uncovered, as all the English ladies have it, till they marry; and she had on a necklace of exceeding fine jewels; her hands were small, her fingers long, and her stature neither tall nor low; her air was stately, her manner of speaking mild and obliging. That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk, shot with silver threads; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness; instead of a chain, she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels. As she went along, in all this state and magnificence, she spoke very graciously, first to one, then to another, (whether foreign ministers, or those who attend for different reasons) in English, French, and Italian; for, besides being well skilled in Greek and Latin, and the languages I have mentioned, she is mistress of Spanish, Scotch, and Dutch. Whoever speaks to her, it is kneeling; now and then she raises some with her hand. While we were there, William Slaywater, a Bohemian baron, had letters to present to her, and she, after pulling off her glove, gave him her right hand to kiss, sparkling with rings and jewels, a mark of particular favour. Wherever she turned her face, as she was going along, every body fell down upon their knees. The ladies of the court followed next to her, very handsome and well shaped, and for the most part dressed in white. She was guarded on each side by the gentlemen pensioners, fifty in number, with gilt battle-axes. In the antichamber, next the hall where we were, petitions were presented to her, and she received them most graciously, which occasioned the exclamation of God save the queen Elizabeth!' She answered it with, 'I thanke you, mine good people.' In the chapel was excellent music; as soon as it and the service were over, which scarce exceeded half an hour, the queen returned in the same state and order, and prepared to go to dinner.

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