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256 unequal, without trespassing on his subjects' purses; and the conservative faction in the council took advantage of his ill humour to whisper that the fault was in the carelessness, the waste, and the corruption of the privy seal. Cromwell knew it well. He required, probably, no information that his enemies would spare no means, fair or foul, for his destruction. But their plots and proceedings had been related to him two years before by his friend Allen, the Irish Master of the Rolls, in a report of expressions which had been used by George Paulet, brother of the lord treasurer, and one of the English Commissioners at Dublin. Cromwell, it seems, had considered that estates in Ireland forfeited for treason, or non-residence, would be disposed of better if granted freely to such families as had remained loyal, than if sold for the benefit of the Crown. Speaking of this matter, 'The King,' Paulet said, 'beknaveth Cromwell twice a week, and would sometimes knock him about the pate. He draws every day towards his death, and escaped very hardly at the last insurrection. He is the greatest briber in England, and that is espied well enough. The King has six times as much revenues as ever any of his noble progenitors had, and all is consumed and gone to nought by means of my lord privy seal, who ravens all that he can get. After all the King's charges to recover this land, he is again the only means to cause him to give away his revenues; and it shall be beaten, into the King's head how his treasure has been needlessly wasted and consumed, and his profits and revenues given away by sinister means.' 'Cromwell,' Paulet added, 'has been so handled and taunted by the council in these matters, as he is weary of them; but I will so work my matter, as the King shall be informed of every penny that he hath spent here; and when that great expence is once in his head, it shall never be forgotten there is one good point. And then I will inform him how he hath given away to one man seven hundred marks by the year. And then will the King swear by God's body, have I spent so much money and now have given away my land? There was never king so deceived by man. I will hit him by means of my friends.'—State Papers, vol. ii. p. 551. It is not clear how much is to be believed of Paulet's story so far as relates to the King's treatment of Cromwell. The words were made a subject of an inquiry before Sir Anthony St Leger; and Paulet meant, it seemed, that the 'beknaving and knocking about the pate' took place in private before no witnesses; so that, if true, it could only have been known by the Two years


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Jack London                              -   1   - Glen Ellen, Sonoma County, California, U. S. A.

Glen Ellen, Sonoma County, California,

July 18, 1906.

Dear Mr.Vance:

The building of the SNARK goes on apace; but the earthquake and fire have sadly de-

layed the work. Much of material and outfit that ordinarily could have been bought in San

Francisco, I have been compelled to send for to New York. Also, freight is slow these days,

because every merchant and builder is ordering new materials and stocks from the East, and

the railroads are congested. Let me give you an instance. The oak ribs for the boat were

ordered from the East and arrived the day after the earthquake. For four solid weeks we

searched California for the freight car containing these ribs before we found it. And so it

has been with everything else.

And now, naturally, you want to know what I am going to do for you---or, rather,

for "The Woman's Home Companion." If we are boarded by pirates and fight it out till our deck

becomes a shambles---I won't write the account of same for "The Woman's Home Companion."

If we are wrecked at sea, and starve and eat one another, I shall not send you harrowing de-

tails of same. Nor will I send you any account, if we are all killed and eaten by the canni-

bals.

Joking aside, as I understand it, what you want me to give is the healthful, and in-

teresting, and strong, and not the unpleasant, decadent, and repellant. I shall try to give what be of interest to your readers. If I go astray, it 's up to you to put me straight again. You 'll be able to catch me by mail or cable. You see, I shall depend upon you for this; for,

while I realize that your readers would not be interested in the reading matter of a sporting

weekly, I have not my finger as intimately on the pulse of your readers as you have. (I hope

this is n't a mixed metaphor).

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I expect to deal largely with the home-life of various peoples, with especial atten-

tion to the part that is played by the women and children. I shall knock around a great deal

in out-of-the-way places, and shall see ways of living undreamed of by your readers.

In addition to home-life in general, a number of topics occur to me, which I present

for your consideration. If you don't like any of them, let me know. Here they are: Domestic

problems; social structures; problems of living; cost of living, compared with same in United

States; education; opportunities for advancement; general tone of peoples, culture, morals,

religion, etc.; how they amuse themselves; the marriage and divorce problems; housekeeping;

charities; and last but not least, the servant-girl problem.

But say, Mr.Vance---now that I have nicely jotted down all the foregoing, sup-

pose I should n't write a line on it! Suppose I should light upon things vastly more interest-

ing to your readers, and write such things up! You see, I want latitude. Will you give it to

me! I imagine you know me well enough to guess that I 'm no Cook's tourist. I have nev-

er like to travel in the well-oiled grooveeven in dealing with editors. I 've got to

see things for myself, in my own way. I remember the way I arrived in Italy. On the train I

met a Frenchman who spoke a little Italian and less English. We grew chummy. At Spezzio we

were delayed by a train-wreck. We went sailing in the harbor, and on an Italian man-of-war

became acquainted with a boatswain. The latter got shore liberty and proceeded to show us the

town. Both he and the Frenchman were revolutionists. Birds of a feather, you know---and

by three in the morning there were a dozen of us, singing the Marseillaise and clashing with

the police. Now I would n't write such an adventure for "The Woman's Home Companion," but

you can bet I saw more in one night of the real human life of Spezzio than could a whole gen-

eration of tourists.

As you know, the SNARK is a small craft. She is forty-five feet long on the water-

line, and at sea is to be propelled solely by wind. Yet she is equipped with a seventy

horse-power engine. When we strike the land, out go the masts, on goes the engine, and away

we go up into the land. For instance, we plan to go up the Seine to Paris; up the Thames to

London; up the Danube from the Black Sea to Vienna; up the Amazon and other big South American

rivers; and in the United States, up the Hudson, along the Erie Canal and Great Lakes, and

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down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. We expect to spend months on the canals of China,

a summer at Venice, a winter at Naples, and certainly a winter at St.Petersburg. And because

the boat is small and able to go up into the land, I consider that I shall get in far more

intimate touch with peoples and conditions than if I merely hung around the ports.

I guess my first article to you will be from Hawaii. Don't judge all my articles

by what this first one may be. It may be infinitely worse than the rest of the series, and it

may be infinitely better. A writer is no more infallible xx than an editor whne it comes to

hitting the bulls-eye.

After Hawaii we sail for the Marquesas. Expect to fool around a lot in the South

Seas. I 'm sure we 'll take in the pearl-fishing. (I 'll wager I 'll be able to give your

readers some new wrinkles in the cooking of fish, meat and vegetables).  Then we 're sure to

go to Samoa, New Zealand, Tasmania, and Australia. There 's a field in itself for you!

I 'm sure we 'll do the Philippines, and I 'm equally sure you 'll be interested in

them. Then there 's Japan, and the women and children of Japan. I 've already been twice to

Japan, and believe me it requires more than two visits to take in all the beauty and wonder of

the women and children. But life 's too short to go on with my whole itinerary.

By the way-fotos. I 'll see that you get plenty of good photographs. Incident-

ally, I am myself taking along only four cameras, and I know how to use them, too.

If you get ideas, or if your readers suggest to you ideas, concerning things to write

about, send them along---the ideas, I mean. Of course, you can't bully me into writing

what I don't want to write---but your ideas will receive serious attention, and I am con-

fident, if you are not parsimonious, that you will be able to give me many valuable sugges-

tions. In conclusion, your readers are your clients, while I am my own client. I under-

stand that you 're a regular Cerberus. That 's all right, but I 'm not going to throw any

sops to you. I 'm not going to ask you not to revise my stuff. If you promised you would n't

I know you 'd revise it anyway---of such stuff are editors made. I 'll deliver the goods,

without swear-words (in the text), and do you fulfil your divinely appointed task of protect-

ing your readers. But for goodness' sake don't turn all my good red blood to water.

Faithfully yours

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the irreverent Mr. Pepper had warmed his hands sufficiently to be able to transfer them from the fire, he lifted the right palm, and with an indecent jocularity of spirits, accosted the ci-devant ornament of the Asinæum, with a sounding slap on his back—or some such part of his conformation.

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48 roast a nit, and a supper too small to fatten him beforehand! But how the deuce should you know how to provender for gentlemen? You thought you were in Scotland, I'll be bound!"

"Perhaps he did, when he looked upon you, Ned!" said Tomlinson gravely; "'tis but rarely out of Scotland that a man can see so big a rogue in so little a compass!"

Mr. Mac Grawler, into whose eyes the palmistry of Long Ned had brought tears of sincere feeling, and who had hitherto been rubbing the afflicted part, now grumbled forth—

"You may say what you please, Mr. Pepper,—but it is not often in my country, that men of genius are seen performing the part of cooks to robbers!"

"No!" quoth Tomlinson, "they are performing the more profitable part, of robbers to cooks, eh!"

"Dammee, you're out," cried Long Ned, "for, in that country, there are either no robbers, because there is nothing to rob; or the inhabitants are all robbers, who have plundered one another, and made away with the booty!"

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706 and at the Return of the warrants,to attend with his officers the Comissioners in order to provide the Service of the Summons;

view the said Lands in their respestive Counties ; and at the Return of such Warrant or Warrants to attend the said Commissioners, with his Bailiffs or Officers, to prove, if necessary, the Summons of the Jurors so to be impanelled and returned respectiveiy, upon Oath, which Oath the said Commissioners, or any five or more of them, shall have Power to administer to the said Sheriff, and his Bailiffs and Officers, or any or either of them :

Sherriff's or Officers neglecting their Duty in the Premesis

And in case the said Sheriff or Sheriffs, Sheriffs or Officers ne- and his Or their Bailiffs and Officers, or any or either of them, shall neglect or refuse, being duly served with such Warrant or Warrants of the said Commissioners fourteen Days before the Return thereof, to impanel, summon and return such Jury of good and lawful Men as aforesaid, or otherwise refuse to execute such Warrant or Warrants, or shall not attend the said Commissioners, with his Bailiffs and Officers, who shall summon the said Jurors, at the Return of such Warrant or Warrants as aforesaid;

may be fined by the Commissoners a Sum not exceding 20 l. nor less than 10 l., for one Offence.

then, and in either of the said Cases, the said Commissioners, or any five or more of them, are hereby authorized and required to impose a Fine on such Sheriff, bailiffs and Oficers, or any or either or them, so making Default, not exceeding twenty rounds, nor less than ten Pounds for any one Offence;

Jurors neglecting their Duty, without lawful Excuse, may be fined in like Manner, in a sum not exceeding 10l.

and in case the said Jurors so to be impanelled, summoned and returned, or any or either of them, shall neglect or refuse to appear at the Return of such Warrant or Warrants, and to be sworn for the Purposes aforesaid; then, and in such Case, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Commissioners then assembled and met, to impose a Fine upon each and every of the Jurors so impanelled, summoned and returned, and without lawful Excuse, (to be allowed of by the said Commissioners then sitting, or the major Part of them making Default or refusing to be sworn, not exceeding the Sum of ten Pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain;

Fines may be entered into the Exchequer and and levied to the Use of his Majesty.

which Fine and Fines so to be imposed and set, the said Commissioners are hereby authorized and required to estreat into his Majesty's Court of Exchequer, to be levied to the Use of his Majesty.

If a sufficient jury shall not be sworn, upon Return of the Warrant,the Commissoners may adjourn the Inquest to some future day not exceeding 14 Days nor less than four; and issus their Warrant for summoning and returning a Number Equal to those making default.

IV. And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That in case a sufficient Jury shall not appear upon the Return of the said Warrant or Warrants to take the Inquest, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Commissioners, or any five or more of them, to adjourn the said Inquest to any future Day, not exceeding fourteen Days, nor less than four Days from the Adjournment thereof, and to issue out their Warrant or Warrants for impanelling, summoning and returning an equal Number of Jurors to those so making Default, who together with the Jurors before returned by the Sheriffs of the respective Counties upon such second Warrant or Warrants afterwards to be issued, or upon any future Warrant or Warrants, Adjournment or Adjournments, which the said Commissioners are hereby authorized to issue and make, from Time to Time, until a sufficient Jury can be had, shall enquire as aforesaid.

Twelve deemed a sufficent Jury

V.Provided always. That twelve good and lawful Men shall be sufficient to take the Inquest aforesaid

The Jury being sworn, the Comissoners are to sit from Day to Day, until the Inquest is taken; and that in case twelve or more (not exceeding twenty-three in the whole shall appear and be sworn to take such Inquest, then, and in such Case, the said Commissioners shall continue and sit from Day to Day, until the said Inquest shall be taken;

and may then adjuorn to some future Day for making their Judgments and Decrees thereon.

and after the Inquest shall be taken may adjourn to some future Day for making their Judgments and Decrees thereon.

VI. And, to the Intent that no Person or Persons may have any Cause or Pretence for not appearing to make out their Claims or Title to the said Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, or any part of parcel thereof;' Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid.

Comissioners to give 20 Days Notice, previous to their meeting for the Purposes aforesaid ; the same to be affixed on the Doors of the Guildhall of Canterbury, Town-hall of Lewes and Portsmouth, and the principal gates and Entrances into the respective Forts and Batteries before mentioned and published in the London Gazettee

That five or more of the said Commissioners shall give Notice in Writing thirty Days at least before their Meeting at each their Meeting for the Place, which Writing shall be affixed at the respective Doors of the Guildhall of the City of Canterbury the Townhall of the Borough of Lewes, and the Townhall of the Borough of Portsmouth, and at the principal Gates of, and Entrances into the respective Forts and Batteries before mentioned;

where Person refuse to appear, or produce their Evidence,pursant to such Notice, the Comissioners and Jurors are to proceed upon the best Information they can get; and the judgments and decrees thereupon made, are declared to be final and conclusive.

and shall likewise be published in the London Gazette : And if any Person or Persons shall neglect or refuse to appear, or when he or they shall appear, shall wilfully refuse to shew his or their Deeds or Writings relating to the Pemisses, that then the said Commissioners, or any five or more of them and the Jurors to be impanelled and sworn upon such Inquest, shall proceed upon the best Information they can get or have, to make such Inquest, Judgments and Decrees as before directed ; and all such Judgments and Decrees, being entered and certified as aforesaid, shall be final and conclusive.

Upon Payment of the Sums decreed to the respective Proprietors, the Trustees before mentioned s be abjudged to stand seised of the Premisses, to the use of the Crown for ever, freed and discharged of all claims, &c.

VII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That immediately from and after the Time that Payment shall be made of the Sum and Sums of Money so to be agreed for or assessled by decreed and the said Commissioners, or any five or more of them, to the Owncrs and Proprietors of the said Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments herein before mentioned, or to any or other of them, the Trustees herein before mentioned, or adjudged to stand seised of such Part and Parcel of the said Premisses as shall be be so paid for, to the Use of his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors for ever, freed and discharged of and from all Manner of Right, Title, Claim and Demand whatsoever, that can or may be made by any Person or Persons, Bodies Politick or Corporate. Ecclesiastical or Civil. VIII. And


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Rh "May the deil catch thee," said Mac Grawler, stung to the quick,—for, like all Scots, he was a patriot;—much on the same principle as a woman who has the worst children makes the best mother.

"The deil!" said Ned, mimicking the "silver sound," as Sir W. Scott has been pleased facetiously to call the "mountain tongue,"—the Scots in general seem to think it is silver, they keep it so carefully.—"The deil, Mac Deil, you mean,—sure the gentleman must have been a Scotchman!"

The sage grinned in spite; but remembering the patience of Epictetus when a slave, and mindful also of the strong arm of Long Ned, he curbed his temper, and turned the beefsteaks with his fork.

"Well, Ned," said Augustus, throwing himself into a chair, which he drew to the fire, while he gently patted the huge limbs of Mr. Pepper, as if to admonish him that they were not so transparent as glass—"let us look at the fire; and by-the-by, it is your turn to see to the horses."

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50 you prove that I groomed the beasts last? I'll give you a crown to do it."

The wise Mac Grawler pricked up his ears.

"A crown!" said he,—"a crown! do you mean to insult me, Mr. Pepper? but, to be sure, you did see to the horses last, and this worthy gentleman, Mr. Tomlinson, must remember it too."

"How, I?" cried Augustus; "you are mistaken, and I'll give you half a guinea to prove it."

Mac Grawler opened his eyes larger and larger, as you may see a small circle in the water widen into enormity.

"Half a guinea!" said he; "nay, nay, you joke; I'm not mercenary, you think I am! pooh, pooh! you're mistaken; I'm a man who means weel, a man of veracity, and will speak the truth in spite of all the half guineas in the world. But certainly, now I begin to think of it, Mr. Tomlinson did see to the creatures last,—and, Mr. Pepper, it is your turn."

"A very Daniel!" said Tomlinson, chuckling in his usual dry manner.—"Ned, don't you hear the horses neigh?"

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Rh, forgetting every thing else, as he thrust his hands in his pockets, and felt the gains of the night; "let us first look to our winnings!"

So saying, he marched towards the table, and emptied his pockets thereon: Tomlinson, nothing loth, followed the example. Heavens! what exclamations of delight issued from the scoundrels' lips, as, one by one, they inspected their new acquisitions.

"Here's a magnificent creature!" cried Ned, handling that superb watch studded with jewels, which the poor Earl had once before unavailingly redeemed; "a repeater, by Jove!"

"I hope not," said the phlegmatic Augustus; "repeaters would not tell well for your conversation, Ned!—But powers that be! look at this ring, a diamond of the first water!"

"Oh the sparkler! it makes one's mouth water as much as itself. 'Sdeath, here's a precious box for a sneezer! a picture inside, and rubies outside. The old fellow had excellent taste! it would charm him to see how pleased we are with his choice of jewellery!"

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52 almost forgotten the morocco case; between you and me, I imagine we have a prize there; it looks like a jewel casket!"

So saying, the robber opened that case which on many a gala day had lent lustre to the polished person of Mauleverer. O reader, the burst of rapture that ensued! imagine it! we cannot express it! Like the Grecian painter, we drop a veil over emotions too deep for words.

"But here," said Pepper, when they had almost exhausted their transports at sight of the diamonds, "here's the purse—fifty guineas! and what's this? notes, by Jupiter! we must change them to-morrow, before they are stopped. Curse those fellows, they are always imitating us; we stop their money, and they don't lose a moment in stopping it too. Three hundred pounds! Captain, what say you to our luck?"

Clifford had sat gloomily looking on, during the operations of the robbers; he now, assuming a correspondent cheerfulness of manner, made a suitable reply, and after some general conversation, the work of division took place.

"We are the best arithmeticians in the world!"

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Rh said Augustus, as he pouched his share: "addition, subtraction, division, reduction,—we have them all as pat as 'the Tutor's Assistant;' and, what is better, we make them all applicable to the Rule of Three."

"You have left out multiplication!" said Clifford, smiling.

"Ah! because that works differently; the other rules apply to the specie-s of the kingdom; but as for multiplication, we multiply, I fear, no species but our own!"

"Fie, Gentlemen!" said Mac Grawler austerely,—for there is a wonderful decorum in your true Scotsmen. Actions are trifles; nothing can be cleaner than their words!

"Oh, you thrust in your wisdom, do you?" said Ned. "I suppose you want your part of the booty!"

"Part," said the subtilizing Tomlinson. "He has nine times as many parts as we have already. Is he not a critic, and has he not the parts of speech at his fingers' end?"

"Nonsense!" said Mac Grawler, instinctively holding out his hands, with the fork dropping between the stretched fingers of the right palm.

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54 "Nonsense yourself!" cried Ned, "you have a share in what you never took! a pretty fellow, truly! Mind your business, Mr. Scot, and fork nothing but the beefsteaks!"

With this Ned turned to the stables, and soon disappeared among the horses; but Clifford, eyeing the disappointed and eager face of the culinary sage, took ten guineas from his own share, and pushed them towards his quondam tutor.

"There!" said he emphatically.

"Nay, nay," grunted Mac Grawler; "I don't want the money, it is my way to scorn such dross!" So saying, he pocketed the coins, and turned, muttering to himself, to the renewal of his festive preparations.

Meanwhile a whispered conversation took place between Augustus and the Captain, and continued till Ned returned,

Souls of Don Raphael and Ambrose Lamela, what a charming thing it is to be a rogue for a little time! How merry men are when they have cheated their brethren! Your innocent milksops

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Rh never made so jolly a supper as did our heroes of the way. Clifford, perhaps, acted a part, but the hilarity of his comrades was unfeigned. It was a delicious contrast, the boisterous "Ha, ha!" of Long Ned, and the secret, dry, calculating chuckle of Augustus Tomlinson. It was Rabelais against Voltaire. They united only in the objects of their jests, and foremost of those objects—(wisdom is ever the butt of the frivolous!)—was the great Peter Mac Grawler.

The graceless dogs were especially merry upon the subject of the sage's former occupation.

"Come, Mac, you carve this ham," said Ned; "you have had practice in cutting up."

The learned man whose name was thus disrespectfully abbreviated proceeded to perform what he was bid. He was about to sit down for that purpose, when Tomlinson slily subtracted his chair,—the sage fell.

"No jests at Mac Grawler," said the malicious Augustus; "whatever be his faults as a critic, you see that he is well grounded, and he gets at once to the bottom of a subject.—Mac, suppose your next work be entitled, 'a tail of woe!'"

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56 Men who have great minds are rarely flexible; they do not take a jest readily; so it was with Mac Grawler. He rose in a violent rage, and had the robbers been more penetrating than they condescended to be, they might have noticed something dangerous in his eye. As it was, Clifford, who had often before been the protector of his tutor, interposed in his behalf, drew the sage a seat near to himself, and filled his plate for him. It was interesting to see this deference from Power to Learning! It was Alexander doing homage to Aristotle!

"There is only one thing I regret," cried Ned with his mouth full, "about the old lord,—it was a thousand pities we did not make him dance! I remember the day, Captain, when you would have insisted on it. What a merry fellow you were once! Do you recollect, one bright moonlight night, just like the present, for instance, when we were doing duty near Staines, how you swore every person we stopped, above fifty years old, should dance a minuet with you?"

"Ay!" added Augustus, "and the first was a Bishop in a white wig. Faith, how stiffly his Lordship jigged it! And how gravely Lovett

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Rh bowed to him, with his hat off, when it was all over, and returned him his watch and ten guineas,—it was worth the sacrifice!"

"And the next was an old maid of quality," said Ned, "as lean as a lawyer.—Don't you remember how she curveted?"

"To be sure," said Tomlinson, "and you very wittily called her a hop-pole!"

"How delighted she was with the Captain's suavity! When he gave her back her earrings, and aigrette, she bade him with a tender sigh keep them for her sake,—ha! ha!"

"And the third was a beau!" cried Augustus, "and Lovett surrendered his right of partnership to me. Do you recollect how I danced his beauship into the ditch?—ah! we were mad fellows then; but we get sated, blasé, as the French say, as we grow older!"

"We look only to the main chance now!" said Ned.

"Avarice supersedes enterprise," added the sententious Augustus.

"And our Captain takes to wine with an h after the w!" continued the metaphorical Ned.

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58 "Come, we are melancholy," said Tomlinson, tossing off a bumper. "Methinks we are really growing old: we shall repent soon, and the next step will be—hanging!"

"Fore Gad!" said Ned, helping himself, "don't be so croaking. There are two classes of maligned gentry, who should always be particular to avoid certain colours in dressing: I hate to see a true boy in black, or a devil in blue. But here's my last glass to-night! I am confoundedly sleepy, and we rise early to-morrow."

"Right, Ned," said Tomlinson; "give us a song before you retire, and let it be that one which Lovett composed the last time we were here."

Ned, always pleased with an opportunity of displaying himself, cleared his voice and complied.

Laugh with us at the prince and the palace,

In the wild wood-life there is better cheer;

Would you hoard your mirth from your neighbour's malice,

Gather it up in our garners here.

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Some kings their wealth from their subjects wring,

While by their foes they the poorer wax;

Free go the men of the wise wood-king,

And it is only our foes we tax.

Leave the cheats of trade to the shrewd gude-wife:

Let the old be knaves at ease;

Away with the tide of that dashing life

Which is stirred by a constant breeze!

Laugh with us when you hear deceiving

And solemn rogues tell you what knaves we be;

Commerce and law have a method of thieving

Worse than a stand at the outlaw's tree.

Say, will the maiden we love despise

Gallants at least to each other true?

I grant that we trample on legal ties,

But I have heard that Love scorns them too.

Courage then, courage, ye jolly boys,

Whom the fool with the knavish rates;

Oh! who that is loved by the world enjoys

Half as much as the man it hates!

"Bravissimo! Ned," cried Tomlinson, rapping the table—"bravissimo! your voice is superb to-night, and your song admirable. Really, Lovett, it does your poetical genius great credit; quite philosophical, upon my honour."

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60 as a bagpipe!—Ah! such a song would have been invaluable to the Asinæum, when I had the honour to—"

"Be Vicar of Bray to that establishment," interrupted Tomlinson. "Pray, Mac Grawler, why do they call Edinburgh the modern Athens?"

"Because of the learned and great men it produces," returned Mac Grawler with conscious pride.

"Pooh! pooh!—you are thinking of ancient Athens. Your city is called the modern Athens, because you are all so like the modern Athenians,—the damnedst scoundrels imaginable, unless travellers belie them."

"Nay," interrupted Ned, who was softened by the applause of the Critic, "Mac is a good fellow, spare him. Gentlemen, your health. I am going to bed, and I suppose you will not tarry long behind me."

"Trust us for that," answered Tomlinson; "the Captain and I will consult on the business of the morrow, and join you in the twinkling of a bedpost, as it has been shrewdly expressed."

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Before the arrival of the Saxons, Germanus, Bishop of Auxerre, came twice into Britain to extirpate the Pelagian heresy, which had taken deep root. He founded several schools, among which those of Dubricius, Bishop of Llandaff, and Iltutus, a learned prelate, were the most famous. Dubricius had two schools, where he himself taught; one at Hensland, and another at Mockrost. Iltutus taught at Llan-twit. There was also at Bangor, in Cambria, a famous monastery where youth were educated. Into the public service of the Church Germanus also introduced the Gaulish rites and ceremonies.

St. Patrick, commonly called the Apostle of Ireland, has the reputation of having converted that nation to Christianity, although there is great reason to believe that Anatolias and Palladius preached the Gospel there before him.

Dubricius, Archbishop of Caerleon, was illustrious for his piety, learning, and connection with the above-mentioned schools; and, lastly, for his synod at Brevi, in Cardiganshire, against the Pelagians.

Petse, a native of Cornwall, was celebrated for his religion and learning; he gave his name to Petse Stow, since corrupted into Padstow.

Gildas of Badon, or Bath, was a scholar of Iltutus, and a monk of Bangor monastery. He was born in the year of the battle of Badon, according to Usher, in 520; other learned authorities contend, in 511. Gildas wrote a treatise, entitled "De Excidio Britanniæ," "Of the Destruction of Britain," wherein he boldly censures the British princes of his time—that is, those who, after the death of Arthur, divided the country into several petty states. From him chiefly it is that we know what passed among the Britons about the time he wrote, in 564. There is another history, or rather romance, under the name of Gildas, who is by some called Albanian, and supposed to be different from the Gildas now alluded to.

There is little doubt that the Christian prelates and priests were compelled to fly, wherever the Saxon supremacy was established; thus we find that Theon and Thodiac, Archbishops of London and York, retreated to Wales. Gildas, speaking of the awful scenes of devastation which ensued, says:—"From the east to the west, nothing was to be seen but churches burnt and destroyed to their very foundations. The inhabitants were extirpated by the sword, and buried under the ruins of their own houses. The altars were daily profaned by the blood of those slain thereon." The Venerable Bede, of the same race as the conquerors, expresses himself yet more eloquently:—"By the hands of the Saxons a fire was lighted up in Britain that served to execute the just vengeance of God upon the wicked Britons, as he had formerly burnt Jerusalem by the Chaldeans. The island was so ravaged by the conquerors—or rather by the hand of God making use of them as instruments—that there seemed to be a continual flame from sea to sea, which burnt up the cities, and covered the surface of the whole isle. Public and private buildings fell in one common ruin. The priests were murdered on the altars; the bishop with his flock perished by fire and sword, without any distinction, no one daring to give their scattered bodies an honourable burial."

In the midst of such harrowing scenes of murder and devastation, it is not to be wondered at that most records and chronicles which could have thrown light upon the early ages of the Church in Britain were destroyed, and that a mutilated and imperfect history alone remains to us. Another and equal cause of the obscurity which exists is the changing of the names, not only of towns, but whole provinces, as they passed under the dominion of the Saxon yoke. The time, however, at last arrived when the conquerors themselves were to be converted to the faith they had trampled on: in little more than half a century all Britain was brought within the pale of Christianity. Austin, or Augustine, as he is generally called, was the first who preached the Gospel to the idolaters in Kent, Paulinus to the Northumbrians, Birinus to the West Saxons, Wilfred to the South Saxons, Felix to the settlers in East Anglia; whilst other missionaries, equally zealous, succeeded in converting the inhabitants of the kingdom of Mercia.

history of the earlier Saxon monarchs of Wessex is exceedingly obscure; of many, little more than the names are known. Cerdic, who arrived in Britain in 495, was crowned King of the West Saxons in 519, and died in 534, leaving his crown to his son Cenric. Cenric, who had greatly distinguished himself in the wars of his father, appears, after his accession to the throne, to have reigned in comparative peace. In 552 he fought a great battle, however, against the Britons, who had taken arms against him. He died in 560.

Ceawlin, his eldest son, succeeded him. This prince greatly added to his authority and possessions. He seized upon the kingdom of Sussex, after the death of Cissa, and was suspected of entertaining the ambitious project of reducing all England under his sceptre. This induced the other kings to form a confederacy against him, at the head of which was Ceolric. Being defeated, Ceawlin ended his days in obscurity.

Ceolric, his nephew, succeeded him; he died in 598.

This last-named prince was followed by his brother, Ceoluph, who defeated the South Saxons, and died in 611.

Cinigisil, the son of Ceolric, succeed him, and divided the kingdom with his brother Quicelm.

The two last-named princes obtained a great victory over the Britons in 614. Before the death of Quicelm, which took place in 635, he became a Christian: after his decease the kingdom was again united under Cinigisil, also a Christian, who henceforth reigned alone.

Cenawalch, his son, had to carry on a succession of wars with the kings of Mercia. Penda, whose sister he had divorced, drove him from his kingdom, and he remained in exile several years, but was afterwards restored, dying in 672. He left his crown to his widow, Saxburga.

This princess reigned little more than a year, when she died. Some historians contend she was deposed by her subjects, who disliked the idea of being commanded by a woman.

Cenfus for some time associated his son Escwin in the government, as well as Centwin, the brother of Cenawalch. On the death of the two former, the last-named prince reigned alone. In 682 he defeated the Welsh.

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Rh yawning also, but with a graver yawn, as became his wisdom, betook himself to the duty of removing the supper paraphernalia: after bustling soberly about for some minutes, he let down a press-bed in the corner of the cave, (for he did not sleep in the robbers' apartment,) and undressing himself, soon appeared buried in the bosom of Morpheus. But the Chief and Tomlinson, drawing their seats nearer to the dying embers, defied the slothful god, and entered with low tones into a close and anxious commune.

"So then," said Augustus, "now that you have realized sufficient funds for your purpose, you will really desert us,—have you well weighed the pros and cons? Remember, that nothing is so dangerous to our state as reform; the moment a man grows honest, the gang forsake him; the magistrate misses his fee; the informer peaches; and the recusant hangs."

"I have well weighed all this," answered Clifford, "and have decided on my course. I have only tarried till my means could assist my will. With my share of our present and late booty, I shall betake myself to the Continent. Prussia

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62 gives easy trust, and ready promotion, to all who will enlist in her service. But this language, my dear friend, seems strange from your lips. Surely you will join me in my separation from the corps? What! you shake your head! Are you not the same Tomlinson who at Bath agreed with me, that we were in danger from the envy of our comrades, and that retreat had become necessary to our safety? Nay, was not this your main argument for our matrimonial expedition?"

"Why, look you, dear Lovett," said Augustus, "we are all blocks of matter, formed from the atoms of custom;—in other words, we are a mechanism, to which habit is the spring. What could I do in an honest career? I am many years older than you. I have lived as a rogue, till I have no other nature than roguery. I doubt if I should not be a coward were I to turn soldier. I am sure I should be the most consummate of rascals were I to affect to be honest. No: I mistook myself when I talked of separation. I must e'en jog on with my old comrades, and in my old ways, till I jog into the noose hempen—or, melancholy alternative, the noose matrimonial!"

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Rh "This is mere folly," said Clifford, from whose nervous and masculine mind habits were easily shaken. "We have not for so many years discarded all the servile laws of others, to be the abject slaves of our own weaknesses. Come, my dear fellow, rouse yourself. God knows, were I to succumb to the feebleness of my own heart, I should be lost indeed. And perhaps, wrestle I ever so stoutly, I do not wrestle away that which clings within me, and will kill me, though by inches. But let us not be cravens, and suffer Fate to drown us rather than swim. In a word, fly with me ere it be too late. A smuggler's vessel waits me off the coast of Dorset: in three days from this, I sail. Be my companion. We can both rein a fiery horse, and wield a good sword. As long as men make war one against another, those accomplishments will prevent their owner from starving, or—"

"If employed in the field, not the road," interrupted Tomlinson, with a smile,—"from hanging.—But it cannot be! I wish you all joy—all success in your career: you are young, bold, and able; and you always had a loftier spirit than I

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64 have!—Knave I am, and knave I must be to the end of the chapter!"

"As you will," said Clifford, who was not a man of many words, but he spoke with reluctance: "If so, I must seek my fortune alone."

"When do you leave us?" asked Tomlinson.

"To-morrow, before noon. I shall visit London for a few hours, and then start at once for the coast!"

"London!" exclaimed Tomlinson: "what, the very den of danger?—Pooh! you do not know what you say; or, do you think it filial to caress Mother Lobkins before you depart?"

"Not that," answered Clifford; "I have already ascertained that she is above the reach of all want, and her days, poor soul! cannot, I fear, be many. In all probability, she would scarcely recognize me; for her habits cannot much have improved her memory. Would I could say as much for her neighbours! Were I to be seen in the purlieus of low thievery, you know, as well as I do, that some stealer of kerchiefs would turn informer against the notorious Captain Lovett."

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Rh turn away your face;—I guess!—Well, love has ruined many a hero before; may you not be the worse for his godship!"

Clifford did not answer, and the conversation made a sudden and long pause; Tomlinson broke it:—

"Do you know, Lovett," said he, "though I have as little heart as most men, yet I feel for you more than I could have thought it possible; I would fain join you; there is devilish good tobacco in Germany, I believe; and, after all, there is not so much difference between the life of a thief and of a soldier!"

"Do profit by so sensible a remark," said Clifford; "reflect, how certain of destruction is the path you now tread: the gallows and the hulks are the only goals!"

"The prospects are not pleasing, I allow," said Tomlinson; "nor is it desirable to be preserved for another century in the immortality of a glass case, in Surgeons' Hall, grinning from ear to ear, as if one had made the merriest finale imaginable.—Well! I will sleep on it, and you shall have my answer to-morrow;—but poor Ned?"

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66 "Would he not join us?"

"Certainly not: his neck is made for a rope, and his mind for the Old Bailey. There is no hope for him; yet he is an excellent fellow. We must not even tell him of our meditated desertion."

"By no means. I shall leave a letter to our London chief: it will explain all. And now to bed;—I look to your companionship as settled."

"Humph!" said Augustus Tomlinson.

So ended the conference of the robbers. About an hour after it had ceased, and when no sound save the heavy breath of Long Ned broke the stillness of the night, the intelligent countenance of Peter Mac Grawler slowly elevated itself from the lonely pillow on which it had reclined. By degrees, the back of the sage stiffened into perpendicularity, and he sat for a few moments erect on his seat of honour, apparently in listening deliberation. Satisfied with the deep silence that, save the solitary interruption we have specified, reigned around, the learned disciple of Vatel rose gently from the bed,—hurried on his clothes,—stole on tiptoe to the door,—unbarred it with a

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Rh noiseless hand,—and vanished. Sweet Reader, while thou art wondering at his absence, suppose we account for his appearance.

One evening, Clifford and his companion Augustus had been enjoying the rational amusement of Ranelagh, and were just leaving that celebrated place, when they were arrested by a crowd at the entrance. That crowd was assembled round a pickpocket; and that pickpocket—O Virtue!—O Wisdom!—O Asinæum!—was Peter Mac Grawler! We have before said, that Clifford was possessed of a good mien and an imposing manner, and these advantages were at that time especially effectual in preserving our Orbilius from the pump. No sooner did Clifford recognise the magisterial face of the sapient Scot, than he boldly thrust himself into the middle of the crowd, and, collaring the enterprising citizen who had collared Mac Grawler, declared himself ready to vouch for the honesty of the very respectable person whose identity had evidently been so grossly mistaken. Augustus, probably foreseeing some ingenious rûse of his companions, instantly seconded the defence. The mob, who never descry any difference

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68 impudence and truth, gave way; a constable came up—took part with the friend of two gentlemen so unexceptionaby drest—our friends walked off—the crowd repented of their precipitation, and, by way of amends, ducked the gentleman whose pockets had been picked. It was in vain for him to defend himself, for he had an impediment in his speech; and Messieurs the mob, having ducked him once for his guilt, ducked him a second time for his embarrassment.

In the interim, Clifford had withdrawn his quondam Mentor to the asylum of a coffee-house; and while Mac Grawler's soul expanded itself by wine, he narrated the causes of his dilemma. It seems that that incomparable journal the Asinæum, despite a series of most popular articles upon the writings of "Aulus Prudentius," to which were added an exquisite string of dialogues, written in a tone of broad humour,—viz. broad Scotch, (with Scotchmen it is all the same thing,) called—perhaps in remembrance of that illustrious knave, Ambrose Lamela—Noctes Ambrosianæ;" despite of these invaluable miscellanies, to say nothing of some glorious political articles, in which it was

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Rh clearly proved to the satisfaction of the rich, that the less poor devils eat, the better for their constitutions—despite, we say, of these great acquisitions to British literature, the Asinæum tottered, fell, buried its bookseller, and crushed its author; Mac Grawler only—escaping, like Theodore from the enormous helmet of Otranto—Mac Grawler only survived. "Love," says Sir Philip Sidney, "makes a man see better than a pair of spectacles." Love of life has a very different effect on the optics,—it makes a man wofully dim of inspection, and sometimes causes him to see his own property in another man's purse! This deceptio visus did it impose upon Peter Mac Grawler. He went to Ranelagh. Reader, thou knowest the rest!

Wine and the ingenuity of the robbers having extorted this narrative from Mac Grawler, the barriers of superfluous delicacy were easily done away with.

Our heroes offered to the sage an introduction to their club; the offer was accepted; and Mac Grawler, having been first made drunk, was next made a robber. The gang engaged him in various

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70 little matters, in which we grieve to relate, that though his intentions were excellent, his success was so ill as thoroughly to enrage his employers: nay, they were about at one time, when they wanted to propitiate justice, to hand him over to the secular power, when Clifford interposed in his behalf. From a robber, the sage dwindled into a drudge; menial offices (the robbers, the lying rascals, declared that such offices were best fitted to the genius of his country!) succeeded to noble exploits, and the worst of robbers became the best of cooks. How vain is all wisdom, but that of long experience! Though Clifford was a sensible and keen man,—though he knew our sage to be a knave, he never dreamt he could be a traitor. He thought him too indolent to be malicious, and, short-sighted humanity! too silly to be dangerous. He trusted the sage with the secret of the cavern; and Augustus, who was a bit of an epicure, submitted, though forebodingly, to the choice, because of the Scotchman's skill in broiling.

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Rh of serious desire; the police was no longer to be bribed: nay, they were now eager to bribe;—Mac Grawler had watched his time—sold his chief, and was now on the road to Reading, to meet and to guide to the cavern Mr. Nabbem, of Bow-street, and four of his attendants.

Having thus, as rapidly as we were able, traced the causes which brought so startlingly before your notice the most incomparable of critics, we now, reader, return to our robbers.

"Hist, Lovett!" said Tomlinson, half asleep, "methought I heard something in the outer cave."

"It is the Scot, I suppose," answered Clifford: "you saw of course to the door."

"To be sure!" muttered Tomlinson, and in two minutes more he was asleep.

Not so Clifford: many and anxious thoughts kept him waking. At one while, when he anticipated the opening to a new career, somewhat of the stirring and high spirit which still moved amidst the guilty and confused habits of his mind, made his pulse feverish, and his limbs restless: at another time, an agonizing remembrance—the

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A.D. 1762 vertheless for such Person and Persons, Bodies Politic or Corporate, Ecclesiastical or Civil, as at or immediately before the Time of making this Act, were the several and respective Owners and Proprietors thereof, according to their several Esates and Interests therein at the same Time, in Possession, Reversion, Remainder, or otherwise, until such Estates and Interests shall be respectively adjudged and determined, and reasonable and just Compensation and Satisfaction shall be made for the same.

His Majesty impowered to issue Letters Patents, appointing Commissioners to hear and determine the Title and Claims of the Several Proprietors of the said Lands, Tenements and Heriditaments, and their respective interests there ntherein: [sic]

II. And be it further enactted by the Authority aforesaid, That for the better ascertaining the several Owners and Proprietors of the said Lands, and their respective Titles and Claims thereto, its shall and may be lawful to and for his Majesty, by one or more Commission or Commissions, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, to authorise and appoint any Number of Persons to be Commissioners to hear and determine all Titles and Claims that shall or may be made to the said Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, or to any Part or Parcel thereof;

They are to proceed therein in a summary Way by the Testimony of Witnesses upon oath, Inspection and Examination of Deeds and other Evidences, or by inquest, &c. and they are impowered to send for any persons, and oblige them to produce their Deeds, &c. relating to the premisses;

Which Commissioners so to be appointed, or any five or more of them, are hereby authorised and required, and shall and may in a summary Manner proceed, and and determine, by and upon the Testimony of Witnesses upon Oath which Oath they, or any five or more of them are hereby impowered to administer) Inspection and Examination of Deeds, Writings and Records, or by Inquest of twelve good and lawful Men to be impanelled and aworn in Manner herein after mentioned and directed, or by all or any of the said Ways, or otherwise, according to their Direction, all and all Manner of Rights, Estates and Interests and all Controversies, Debates and Questions which shall happen and arise between any Person or Persons whatsoever, or any other Matter or Thing relating to any of the Premises, or any Part thereof; and shall have Power to send for any Person or Persons, and oblige them to produce their Deeds or Writings, upon Oath, relating to any of the same Premisses;

and by agreement or Inquest to settle the Value thereof;

and also shall and may, by Agreement with the respective Person or Persons that shall be determined to be the Owners and Proprietors of the said Lands, or by the said Inquest of the said twelve good and lawful Men to be impanelled and sworn, inquire, proceed, act and determine, touching and concerning the true and real Value of the said Premisies, or any Part or Parcel thereof, were or was of at the Time the same were first made use of for the Purposes aforesaid;

They are to cause their Judgments and decisions to be entered in books specifying the Description and Boundaries of the said Lands with the names of the parties interested;

And the said Commissioners, or any five or more of them, are hereby required to cause all their Judgments and Decrees to be entered fairly in Books; which Judgments and Decrees shall expresly mention and specify the respective Number of Acres or Parcels of Land, with their several Abuttals and Boundaries, together with the Name or Names of every Person or Persons interested respectively in the same;

and the sums agreed for, or assessed by the Jury to be paid for the same. The said Judgments and Decrees to be likewise ingrossed on Parchment, and certified to the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, and the Kings Remembrancer in the Exchequer;

and the respective Sum or Sums that shall be so agreed for or assessed by the said Jury to be paid for the same respectively; which Judgments and Decrees shall likewise be fairly ingrossed on Parchment, and certified to the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, and to the King's Remembrancer in his Majesty's Court of Exchequer;

The same declared to be final and conclusive to all Parties;

and such Judgments and Decrees made as aforesaid shall be final, and shall conclude all and every Person and Persons, Bodies Politic and Corporate, Ecclesiafiical and Civil, their Heirs, Successors, Executors, Administrators and Assigns respectively, notwithstanding any Disability or Incapacity whatsoever; any Law, Statute or Custom, or other Matter or Thing whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding;

and Copies thereof are to be laid forthwith before both Houses of Parliament, in order that a reasonable compensation may be made to the several owners.

Copies of which said Judgments and Decrees shall be laid forthwith before both Houses of Parliament, that a just and reasonable Compensation and Satisfaction may be made to the several Owners and Proprietors of the said Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments.

III. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for the better carrying the said Comission or Commissions into Execution,

Comissioners impowered to issue Warrants to the Sheriffs for impanelling and returning a sufficient Jury.

the said Comissioners to be appointed in and by the said Commission or Commissions, or any five or more of them, shall and lawfully may, and are hereby authorised and required to issue forth their Warrant or Warrants under their Hands and Seals, to be directed to the respective Sheriff, of the respective Counties wherein such Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments shall lie, thereby commanding them respectively to impanel, summon and return, before the said Commissioners, at such Times and Places as Oath be appointed in such Warrant or Warrants, a good and sufficent Jury of twenty-four good and lawful Men qualified to serve upon Juries, at the Assizes for the said respective Counties;

Jury to be sworn: Their Duty

who upon their Oaths (which, Oaths the said Commissisoners, or any five or more of them shall have Power to administer) shall inquire into the true and real Value of the said Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, and every Part or Parcel thereof, and who respectively are the Owners and Proprietors thereof, and their respective Estates and Interests, therein;

Six or more of them may be directed to take a View of the Premisses

and the better to enable the said Jurors to make such Inquiry, the said Commissioners shall, and lawfully may, direct in such their Warrant or Warrants to the said respective Sheriff,s a View to be taken by six or more of the said Jurors, of the several Lands in the said respective Counties, at some Time previous to the Meeting of the said Commissioners;

Sheriff to impanel and summon a jury accordingly, &c.

and the Sheriffs of the said Counties respectively, upon Receipt of such Warrant or Warrants from the said Comissioners as aforesaid, are hereby required to impanel, summon and return twenty-four good and lawful Men qualified to serve upon Juries at the Assizes for the said respective Counties, and in the mean Time to have six or more of the said Jurors so impanelled and sworn,


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72 remembrance of Lucy in all her charms, her beauty, her love, her tender and innocent heart; Lucy all perfect, and lost to him for ever, banished every other reflection, and only left him the sick sensation of despondency and despair. "What avails my struggle for a better name?" he thought. "She will never know it. Whatever my future lot, she can never share it. My punishment is fixed,—it is worse than a death of shame; it is a life without hope! Every moment I feel, and shall feel to the last, the pressure of a chain that may never be broken or loosened! And yet, fool that I am! I cannot leave this country without seeing her again, without telling her, that I have really looked my last. But have I not twice told her that? Strange fatality! but twice have I spoken to her of love, and each time it was to tear myself from her at the moment of my confession. And even now something that I have no power to resist, compels me to the same idle and weak indulgence. Does destiny urge me? Ay, perhaps to my destruction! Every hour a thousand deaths encompass me. I have now obtained all for which I seemed to linger. I have won by a new crime, enough to bear

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Rh me to another land, and to provide me there a soldier's destiny. I should not lose an hour in flight, yet I rush into the nest of my enemies, only for one unavailing word with her; and this too after I have already bade her farewell! Is this fate? if it be so, what matters it? I no longer care for a life, which after all I should reform in vain, if I could not reform it for her: yet—yet, selfish and lost that I am! will it be nothing to think hereafter that I have redeemed her from the disgrace of having loved an outcast and a felon?—If I can obtain honour, will it not, in my own heart at least—will it not reflect, however dimly and distantly, upon her?"

Such, bewildered, unsatisfactory, yet still steeped in the colours of that true love which raises even the lowest, were the midnight meditations of Clifford: they terminated, towards the morning, in an uneasy and fitful slumber. From this he was awakened by a loud yawn from the throat of Long Ned, who was always the earliest riser of his set.

"Hollo!" said he, "it is almost daybreak; and if we want to cash our notes, and to move the old lord's jewels, we should already be on the start."

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 Institutions when the time for conducting examinations draw near.

Those who attend Continuation or Night Schools will also if necessary be attached to a company which holds its parades on nights other than those on which they attend classes.

At the termination of each annual training in the Senior Cadets, each Cadet shall be classified by the officer appointed in that behalf as “efficient,” or “non-efficient.”

Those who are classified as “non-efficient,” either for failure to attend during the prescribed period, or because they have not attained a sufficient standard of efficiency, shall be required to attend an equivalent additional training for each year in which they are “non-efficient.”

No employer shall prevent, or attempt to prevent, any employé who is serving or liable to serve in the Cadets or Citizen Forces, and no parent or guardian shall prevent any son or ward who is serving, or is liable to serve, from rendering the personal service required of him, or from attending any camp of instruction appointed to be held by the Headquarters of the Commonwealth or any Military District, and no employer shall in any way penalize or prejudice in his employment, or attempt to penalize or prejudice in his employment, any employé for rendering or being liable to render such personal service, or for attending such camp, either by reducing his wages or dismissing him from his employment or in any other manner:

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74 "A plague on you!" said Tomlinson, from under cover of his woollen nightcap, "it was but this instant that I was dreaming you were going to be hanged, and now you wake me in the pleasantest part of the dream!"

"You be shot!" said Ned, turning one leg out of bed; "by-the-by, you took more than your share last night, for you owed me three guineas for our last game at cribbage! You'll please to pay me before we part to-day: short accounts make long friends!"

"However true that maxim be," returned Tomlinson, "I know one much truer, namely—long friends will make short accounts! You must ask Jack Ketch this day month, if I'm wrong!"

"That's what you call wit, I suppose!" retorted Ned, as he now, struggling into his inexpressibles, felt his way into the outer cave.

"What, ho! Mac!" cried he, as he went, "stir those bobbins of thine, which thou art pleased to call legs;—strike a light, and be dd to you!"

"A light for you," said Tomlinson profanely, as he reluctantly left his couch, "will indeed be a light to lighten the Gentiles!"

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Rh "Why, Mac—Mac!" shouted Ned, "why don't you answer?—faith, I think the Scot's dead!"

"Seize your men!—yield, Sirs!" cried a stern, sudden voice from the gloom; and at that instant two dark lanterns were turned, and their light streamed full upon the astounded forms of Tomlinson and his gaunt comrade! In the dark shade of the background four or five forms were also indistinctly visible; and the ray of the lanterns glimmered on the blades of cutlasses and the barrels of weapons still less easily resisted.

Tomlinson was the first to recover his self-possession. The light just gleamed upon the first step of the stairs leading to the stables, leaving the rest in shadow. He made one stride to the place beside the cart, where, we have said, lay some of the robbers' weapons: he had been anticipated—the weapons were gone. The next moment Tomlinson had sprung up the steps.

"Lovett!—Lovett!—Lovett!" shouted he.

The Captain, who had followed his comrades into the cavern, was already in the grasp of two men. From few ordinary mortals, however, could any two be selected as fearful odds against such a

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76 man as Clifford; a man in whom a much larger share of sinews and muscle than is usually the lot even of the strong, had been hardened, by perpetual exercise, into a consistency and iron firmness which linked power and activity into a union scarcely less remarkable than that immortalized in the glorious beauty of the sculptured gladiator. His right hand is upon the throat of one assailant, his left locks, as in a vice, the wrist of the other: you have scarcely time to breathe; the former is on the ground—the pistol of the latter is wrenched from his gripe—Clifford is on the step—a ball—another—whizzes by him!—he is by the side of the faithful Augustus!

"Open the secret door!" whispered Clifford to his friend; "I will draw up the steps alone!"

Scarcely had he spoken, before the steps were already, but slowly, ascending beneath the desperate strength of the robber. Meanwhile, Ned was struggling, as he best might, with two sturdy officers, who appeared loth to use their weapons without an absolute necessity, and who endeavoured, by main strength, to capture and detain their antagonist.

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Rh "Look well to the door!" cried the voice of the principal officer, "and hang out more light!"

Two or three additional lanterns were speedily brought forward; and over the whole interior of the cavern a dim but sufficient light now rapidly circled, giving to the scene, and to the combatants, a picturesque and wild appearance!

The quick eye of the head-officer descried in an instant the rise of the steps, and the advantage the robbers were thereby acquiring. He and two of his men threw themselves forward, seized the ladder, if so it may be called, dragged it once more to the ground, and ascended. But Clifford; grasping with both hands the broken shaft of a cart that lay in reach, received the foremost invader with a salute that sent him prostrate and senseless back among his companions. The second shared the same fate; and the stout leader of the enemy, who, like a true general, had kept himself in the rear, paused now in the middle of the steps, dismayed alike by the reception of his friends, and the athletic form towering above, with raised weapon and menacing attitude. Perhaps that moment seemed to the judicious Mr. Nabbem

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 when he is absent from employment for the purpose of training.

Penalty: One hundred pounds.

In any proceedings for any contravention of this section, it shall lie upon the employer to show that any employé, proved to have been dismissed or to have been penalized or prejudiced in his employment, or to have suffered a reduction of wages, was so dismissed, penalized, or prejudiced in his employment or reduced for some reason other than for having rendered or being liable to render the personal service required of him or for attending the camp.

Every person, who in any year without lawful excuse evades or fails to render the personal service required by the Defence Act, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall, in addition to the liability to be classified as "non-efficient," be liable to a penalty not exceeding One Hundred Pounds.

Every person who, being a person liable to training under the Defence Act:

shall be guilty of an offence, and shall, in addition to the liability to be classified as "non-efficient," be liable to a penalty not exceeding Five Pounds.

Any penalty under this section may be recovered summarily on the information or complaint of a prescribed officer. In addition to any penalty imposed, or (where the Court is of opinion that the imposition of a penalty would involve undue hardship), in lieu of must pass at either of such examinations, or the one next following, which, however, must exceed a


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78 more favourable to parley than to conflict. He cleared his throat, and thus addressed the foe:

"You, Sir, Captain Lovett, alias Howard, alias Jackson, alias Cavendish, alias Solomons, alias Devil, for I knows you well, and could swear to you with half an eye, in your clothes or without; you lay down your club there, and let me come alongside of you, and you'll find me as gentle as a lamb; for I've been used to gemmen all my life, and I knows how to treat 'em when I has 'em!"

"But, if I will not let you 'come alongside of me,'—what then?"

"Why, I must send one of these here pops through your skull, that's all!"

"Nay, Mr. Nabbem, that would be too cruel; you surely would not harm one who has such an esteem for you? Don't you remember the manner in which I brought you off from Justice Burnflat, when you were accused, you know whether justly or"

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Rh knows you are! Come down, or let me mount, otherwise I won't be 'sponsible for the consequences!"

Clifford cast a look over his shoulder. A gleam of the grey daylight already glimmered through a chink in the secret door, which Tomlinson had now unbarred, and was about to open.

"Listen to me, Mr. Nabbem," said he, "and perhaps I may grant what you require! What would you do with me, if you had me?"

"You speaks like a sinsible man, now," answered Nabbem, "and that's after my own heart. Why, you sees, Captain, your time has come, and you can't shilly-shally any longer. You have had your full swing; your years are up, and you must die like a man! But I gives you my honour, as a gemman, that if you surrenders, I'll take you to the justice folks as tenderly as if you were made of cotton."

"Give way one moment," said Clifford, "that I may plant the steps firmer for you."

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80 lost not the opportunity now afforded him. Down thundered the steps, clattering heavily among the other officers, and falling like an avalanche on the shoulder of one of the arresters of Long Ned.

Meanwhile, Clifford sprang after Tomlinson through the aperture, and found himselfin the presence of four officers, conducted by the shrewd Mac Grawler. A blow from a bludgeon on the right cheek and temple of Augustus felled that hero. But Clifford bounded over his comrade's body, dodged from the stroke aimed at himself, caught the blow aimed by another assailant in his open hand, wrested the bludgeon from the officer, struck him to the ground with his own weapon, and darting onward through the labyrinth of the wood, commenced his escape with a step too fleet to allow the hope of a successful pursuit.

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 imposing any penalty, the Court may, if it thinks fit, commit the offender to confinement in the custody of any prescribed authority for such time not exceeding twenty days, as it thinks fit, or for a time corresponding in duration to the time which, in the opinion of the Court, would be taken up in rendering the personal service required.

Any person committed to the custody of a prescribed authority, in pursuance of this authority, may be detained by that authority at any prescribed institution or place, and while so detained shall be subject to the regulations governing that institution or place, and to training and discipline as prescribed.

It shall not be necessary for the confinement to be continuous; but the person having the custody of the offender may (subject to the regulations) release him for such periods, and call upon him to return to custody at such times, as he thinks fit; to the intent that he may follow his occupation, and that the times and periods of his confinement may correspond, as nearly as practicable, with the times and periods which he ought to have occupied in rendering personal service.

Any person detained in any prescribed institution or place in pursuance of this section who escapes therefrom, or who being released from custody fails to return thereto, may be arrested without warrant by any prescribed person, and taken back to the institution or place, and may on the application of any prescribed officer be ordered by any Court of summary jurisdiction to be detained for such additional period not exceeding twenty days as the Court thinks fit to order.

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 Christie (London, 1896, fol.). Of his other works perhaps the most important are: the editing of Frankfurts Reichskorrespondenz, 1376–1519 (Freiburg, 1863–1872); and of the Leben, Briefe und kleinere Schriften of his friend J. F. Böhmer (Leipzig, 1868); a monograph, Schiller als Historiker (Freiburg, 1863); and Zeit- und Lebensbilder (Freiburg, 1875).

See L. Pastor, Johannes Janssen (Freiburg, 1893); F. Meister, Erinnerung an Johannes Janssen (Frankfort, 1896); Schwann, Johannes Janssen und die Geschichte der deutschen Reformation (Munich, 1892).

JANSSEN, PIERRE JULES CÉSAR (1824–1907), French astronomer, was born in Paris on the 22nd of February 1824, and studied mathematics and physics at the faculty of sciences. He taught at the lycée Charlemagne in 1853, and in the school of architecture 1865–1871, but his energies were mainly devoted to various scientific missions entrusted to him. Thus in 1857 he went to Peru in order to determine the magnetic equator; in 1861–1862 and 1864, he studied telluric absorption in the solar spectrum in Italy and Switzerland; in 1867 he carried out optical and magnetic experiments at the Azores; he successfully observed both transits of Venus, that of 1874 in Japan, that of 1882 at Oran in Algeria; and he took part in a long series of solar eclipse-expeditions, e.g. to Trani (1867), Guntoor (1868), Algiers (1870), Siam (1875), the Caroline Islands (1883), and to Alcosebre in Spain (1905). To see the eclipse of 1870 he escaped from besieged Paris in a balloon. At the great Indian eclipse of 1868 he demonstrated the gaseous nature of the red prominences, and devised a method of observing them under ordinary daylight conditions. One main purpose of his spectroscopic inquiries was to answer the question whether the sun contains oxygen or not. An indispensable preliminary was the virtual elimination of oxygen-absorption in the earth’s atmosphere, and his bold project of establishing an observatory on the top of Mont Blanc was prompted by a perception of the advantages to be gained by reducing the thickness of air through which observations have to be made. This observatory, the foundations of which were fixed in the snow that appears to cover the summit to a depth of ten metres, was built in September 1893, and Janssen, in spite of his sixty-nine years, made the ascent and spent four days taking observations. In 1875 he was appointed director of the new astrophysical observatory established by the French government at Meudon, and set on foot there in 1876 the remarkable series of solar photographs collected in his great Atlas de photographies solaires (1904). The first volume of the Annales de l’observatoire de Meudon was published by him in 1896. He died at Paris on the 23rd of December 1907.

See A. M. Clerke, ''Hist. of Astr. during the 19th Century (1903); H. Macpherson, Astronomers of To-Day'' (1905).

JANSSENS (or ), VICTOR HONORIUS (1664–1739), Flemish painter, was born at Brussels. After seven years in the studio of an obscure painter named Volders, he spent four years in the household of the duke of Holstein. The next eleven years Janssens passed in Rome, where he took eager advantage of all the aids to artistic study, and formed an intimacy with Tempesta, in whose landscapes he frequently inserted figures. Rising into popularity, he painted a large number of cabinet historical scenes; but, on his return to Brussels, the claims of his increasing family restricted him almost entirely to the larger and more lucrative size of picture, of which very many of the churches and palaces of the Netherlands contain examples. In 1718 Janssens was invited to Vienna, where he stayed three years, and was made painter to the emperor. The statement that he visited England is based only upon the fact that certain fashionable interiors of the time in that country have been attributed to him. Janssen’s colouring was good, his touch delicate and his taste refined.

JANSSENS (or ) VAN NUYSSEN, ABRAHAM (1567–1632), Flemish painter, was born at Antwerp in 1567. He studied under Jan Snellinck, was a “master” in 1602, and in 1607 was dean of the master-painters. Till the appearance of Rubens he was considered perhaps the best historical painter of his time. The styles of the two artists are not unlike. In correctness of drawing Janssens excelled his great contemporary; in bold composition and in treatment of the nude he equalled him; but in faculty of colour and in general freedom of disposition and touch he fell far short. A master of chiaroscuro, he gratified his taste for strong contrasts of light and shade in his torchlights and similar effects. Good examples of this master are to be seen in the Antwerp museum and the Vienna gallery. The stories of his jealousy of Rubens and of his dissolute life are quite unfounded. He died at Antwerp in 1632.

JANUARIUS, ST, or, the patron saint of Naples. According to the legend, he was bishop of Benevento, and flourished towards the close of the 3rd century. On the outbreak of the persecution by Diocletian and Maximian, he was taken to Nola and brought before Timotheus, governor of Campania, on account of his profession of the Christian religion. After various assaults upon his constancy, he was sentenced to be cast into the fiery furnace, through which he passed wholly unharmed. On the following day, along with a number of fellow martyrs, he was exposed to the fury of wild beasts, which, however, laid themselves down in tame submission at his feet. Timotheus, again pronouncing sentence of death, was struck with blindness, but immediately healed by the powerful intercession of the saint, a miracle which converted nearly five thousand men on the spot. The ungrateful judge, only roused to further fury by these occurrences, caused the execution of Januarius by the sword to be forthwith carried out. The body was ultimately removed by the inhabitants of Naples to that city, where the relic became very famous for its miracles, especially in counteracting the more dangerous eruptions of Vesuvius. Whatever the difficulties raised by his Acta, the cult of St Januarius, bishop and martyr, is attested historically at Naples as early as the 5th century (Biblioth. hagiog. latina, No. 6558). Two phials preserved in the cathedral are believed to contain the blood of the martyr. The relic is shown twice a year—in May and September. On these occasions the substance contained in the phial liquefies, and the Neapolitans see in this phenomenon a supernatural manifestation. The “miracle of St Januarius” did not occur before the middle of the 15th century.

A great number of saints of the name of Januarius are mentioned in the martyrologies. The best-known are the Roman martyr (festival, the 10th of July), whose epitaph was written by Pope Damasus (De Rossi, Bullettino, p. 17, 1863), and the martyr of Cordova, who forms along with Faustus and Martialis the group designated by Prudentius (Peristephanon, iv. 20) by the name of tres coronae. The festival of these martyrs is celebrated on the 13th of October.

See Acta sanctorum, September, vi. 761–891; G. Scherillo, Esame di un codice greco pubblicato nel tomo secondo della bibliotheca casinensis (Naples, 1876); G. Taglialatela, Memorie storico-critiche del culto del sangue di S. Gennaro (Naples, 1893), which contains many facts, but little criticism; G. Albini, Sulla mobilità dei liquidi viscosi non omogenei (Società reale di Napoli, Rendiconti, 2nd series, vol. iv., 1890); Acta sanctorum, October, vi. 187–193.

JANUARY, the first month in the modern calendar, consisting of thirty-one days. The name (Lat. Januarius) is derived from the two-faced Roman god Janus, to whom the month was dedicated. As doorkeeper of heaven, as looking both into the past and the future, and as being essentially the deity who busied himself with the beginnings of all enterprises, he was appropriately made guardian of the fortunes of the new year. The consecration of the month took place by an offering of meal, salt, frankincense and wine, each of which was new. The Anglo-Saxons called January Wulfmonath, in allusion to the fact that hunger then made the wolves bold enough to come into the villages. The principal festivals of the month are: New Year’s Day; Feast of the Circumcision; Epiphany; Twelfth-Day; and Conversion of St Paul (see ).

 JANUS, in Roman mythology one of the principal Italian deities. The name is generally explained as the masculine form of Diana (Jana), and Janus as originally a god of light and day, who gradually became the god of the beginning and origin of all things. According to some, however, he is simply the god

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 fails to render the personal service required, shall, unless and until he has performed equivalent personal service as prescribed, be and remain ineligible for employment of any kind in the public service in the Commonwealth.

Any member may be dealt with by his Commanding Officer for absence from even a single parade, under the disciplinary clauses of the Acts and Regulations, if it should appear to him that the circumstances of the absence constitute a breach of discipline.

Senior Cadets shall wear such uniform as is prescribed.

Uniform will be issued free, and will be given out as follows:—

Uniform will be worn at all parades and drills.

The wearing of uniform except when on military duty or when proceeding to or from parade is prohibited.

Badges and chevrons of rank will be prescribed for similar ranks in the Citizen Forces, and will be in accordance with patterns approved by the Military Board.

Belts, Pouches and Numerals will be issued to Cadets for use only in the Area in which they


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 train; on removing to another Area these must be at once returned to the Area Office from which the Cadet obtained them.

Belts.—Must not be darkened with stain.

When properly put on the end without the buckle should point to the left.

Shirts.—All pockets should be buttoned up, also front of shirt.

Putties.—These must be carefully put on and not turned down at the top.

Pouches.—Must always be worn when in uniform.

Hats.—The left side may be hooked up or not as may be ordered.

The crown is not to be indented.

Numerals.—To be affixed in the centre of the front of the hat; the bottom edge of the numeral is to be one inch above the top edge of the band.

Buckle, numeral and stud on pouch to be kept bright and clean.

Members of the Senior Cadet units shall, at all times when on duty or in uniform, be subject to military law.

For purposes of discipline a member of a Senior Cadet unit shall be considered to have been on duty although not in uniform, in respect to any act done, or omitted to be done, by him in a military capacity, or with intentional reference on his part to his military capacity.

The regulations dealing with military offences and scale of punishments prescribed for the Citizen Forces shall, as far as they may be applicable, be applied to


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Hastings Saint André in Spain, where he remained a prisoner, and was subjected to much ill-treatment for about three years. At length Henry of Castille, wishing to have back the territory of Soria, which he had given to Duguesclin, offered to deliver up Pembroke to Duguesclin in return for the territory. Duguesclin estimated the amount of Pembroke's ransom at 120,000 francs, of which sum it was stipulated he was to receive fifty thousand at the time of the prisoner's release, and the remainder six weeks after his arrival in England. But Pembroke died on the road between Paris and Calais 16 April 1375; Walsingham mentions a story that he had been poisoned by the Spaniards (Hist. Angl. i. 319). This led to a long dispute, which was ultimately settled by the king of France granting fifty thousand francs to Duguesclin for all claim that he had in the matter. Pembroke was known as a protector of Froissart, who frequently mentions him. In his 'Buisson de Jonèce' he refers to him as 'de Pemebruc, voir, en a moult bien fait son devoir.' He married (1) Margaret, fourth daughter of Edward III, and (2), in 1368, Anne, daughter of Sir Walter Manney, on account of whose consanguinity with his first wife he was obliged, prior to the marriage, to obtain a dispensation from the pope. By his second wife he had a son John (1372-1380), who succeeded him as third earl of Pembroke, who was killed in a tournament 30 Dec. 1839, when his earldom became extinct, while the succession to the barony was disputed [see ].

 HASTINGS, LAURENCE, first (1318?–1348), son of John, third baron Hastings by writ and ninth by tenure [see under, second baron], and Juliana, granddaughter of Thomas de Leyburne, was probably born in the latter part of 1318, since he was six years old when he succeeded his father as Baron Hastings and Bergavenny in 1325. Soon after Trinity Sunday, 29 May 1328, he was married at Hereford to Agnes, third daughter of Roger Mortimer, earl of March (, p. 42;, p. 57). In 1339 he served with Edward III in Flanders (, ii. 347), and on 13 Oct. he was created Earl Palatine of Pembroke as representative of his great-uncle, Aymer de Valence (d. 1324) [q. v.]; neither he nor his successors were styled Palatine in their later summonses (, Titles of Honour, 3rd edit. pp. 644–5). His first summons to parliament was dated 16 Nov. 1339; in 1340 he was summoned to the Scottish war for the defence of Stirling (Rot. Scotiæ, i. 601), and in the same year served in the fleet at the battle of Sluys on 24 June (, ii. 37). He accompanied the king in his Scottish expedition in 1341, and was present when Edward paid his famous visit to the Countess of Salisbury (ib. ii. 342; Report on Dignity of a Peer, iv. 536–7). In 1342 he was present at a tournament at Dunstable on 11 Feb., and in March accompanied the expedition to Brittany, where he remained till the following year. In July 1342 a warrant was issued for the payment of wages to him and to sixty men-at-arms and a hundred archers (Fœdera, vol. ii. pt. iv. p. 132). According to Murimuth (Appendix, p. 232) he was one of the Knights of the Round Table in January 1344; he was not, however, included in the regular foundation of the order of the Garter. Pembroke took a prominent part in the French campaigns of Henry, earl of Derby (afterwards Duke of Lancaster), whom he accompanied to Gascony in June 1345 (Fœdera, vol. iii. pt. i. p. 142). He was present at the siege of Bergerac in July, and marched with Derby to Auberoche; he was then sent to take command at Bergerac, where he was when the French laid siege to Auberoche. Derby marched to the relief of the town and summoned Pembroke to join him, but Pembroke's coming was delayed, and he did not reach Auberoche till 22 Oct., the day after the battle. He was much hurt that Derby had not awaited his coming, and plainly expressed his feelings (, ii. 67 sqq.) During the winter he was present at the capture of Aguillon, La Réole, and other towns, and when the French threatened Aguillon in March 1346, Pembroke was one of the principal captains sent to defend it. The siege lasted from the end of March till early in August (, iii. xxxiii); when on one occasion Sir Walter Manny was hard pressed during a sally, Pembroke led a party to his rescue. Pembroke returned with Lancaster to England in December, when they were in great danger from a severe storm (, 2592). He then went to take part in the siege of Calais, and in June 1347 was appointed with the Earl of Northampton to command a fleet which was to prevent the introduction of provisions into the town; on the 25th they won a complete victory, and dispersed the French near Crotoy (, pp. 384–6). This was Pembroke's last exploit, and he died 30 Aug. 1348, leaving a son John, second earl of Pembroke [q. v.]


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 washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it. Matth. 27, 24.

Luke 23, 14, 15. John 18, 38. John 19, 4.

Yes: for thereby I am assured, that He took on Himself the curse which lay upon me; because the death of the cross was accursed of God.

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree. Gal. 3, 13.

Deut. 21, 22. 23.

Because, by reason of the justice and truth of God, satisfaction for our sins could be made no otherwise than by the death of the Son of God.

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Gen. 2, 17.

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It shall be an offence for a Senior Cadet to have in his possession any intoxicating liquor, cigarettes, or material for making same, when in uniform, on duty, or on parade, or in any place used for military purposes; nor shall any Senior Cadet be permitted under the like circumstances to use tobacco in any form, or have it in his possession, unless the parent or guardian of such Senior Cadet has notified his consent in writing to the Commanding Officer.

It shall be a punishable offence for any person or persons who shall in any way supply a Senior Cadet whilst in uniform with intoxicating liquor.

Promotion to the rank of non-commissioned officer and 2nd Lieutenant shall ordinarily be from those who are serving in the ranks of the Senior Cadets, and the appointments and promotions allotted to those in the next lower grade who are the mustmost [sic] successful in competitive examinations.

Candidates with less than two years’ service in the Senior Cadets shall not be promoted to corporal, or to sergeant and 2nd Lieutenant with less than three years’ service.

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 Non-commissioned officers will be appointed by Officers commanding battalions.

No non-commissioned officer shall be appointed or promoted until he has passed such competitive examination as may be from time to time authorised, provided that in cases of necessity appointments or promotions may be made temporarily, pending the holding of the examination.

In the event of there not being a sufficient number of qualified candidates for the rank of 2nd Lieutenant, and in the case of all higher ranks, the following regulations for appointment shall apply.

Applications for first appointment to first commissions in the Senior Cadets should be made by candidates on Form A 22 to the Commanding Officer of the Battalion to which appointment is sought, the Commanding Officer will forward same with his recommendation to the District Commandant for submission to the Military Board.

First appointments will, as a rule, be made to the rank of Lieutenant.

Officers shall not be usually appointed to the Senior Cadets until they have passed the prescribed examination, but persons who have not passed that examination may be appointed “provisionally” as an officer of that rank.

Officers provisionally appointed must present themselves for examination at the first or second half-yearly examination subsequent to their provisional appointment, except under special circumstances approved by the Military Board, or where a less period is prescribed in these regulations. They


text: The Cadet Hand Book and Section Roll/Promotion


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 * "Laud's Position in the History of the Church of England in Historical Lectures and Addresses (1903), by Mandell Creighton
 * "Laud's Position in the History of the Church of England in Historical Lectures and Addresses (1903), by Mandell Creighton

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 period of eighteen months from date of provisional appointment. If successful, and if satisfactorily reported upon by their respective Commanding Officers, the provisional appointments may then be recommended for confirmation.

Officers who fail to qualify, as above shall be recommended by District Commandants to be retired, having failed to qualify under Section 15 DA.

1. Boards will be appointed as directed in U.T. Regulation 33.

2. Examination will be practical and oral only.

3. At the conclusion of the examination the Board will forward to the Battalion Commander the result of the same, showing the names of all the candidates in the order in which they passed for each rank.

4. The results of the candidates who pass will be published in Battalion Orders.

5. In recommending successful candidates for Commissions as 2nd Lieutenants, Battalion Commanders will certify on the C.M. Form A 22 that the provisions of Universal Training Regulation 33 have been complied with.

6. The subjects of the examination for the various ranks and the maximum marks allotted to each will be—


text: The Cadet Hand Book and Section Roll/Officers