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      No. Lxix, Legislators Reproved By A Shep...

      holder , and any other persons other than women , prentices , & c « might read to themselves privately the Bible , & c . But no women , except noblewomen and gentlewomen , ( who might read to them * selves alone , and not to others , any texts of the Bible , & c . J nor artificers ,

      prentices , journeymen , serving men of the degrees of yomen or under , husbandmen , nor labourers , were to read the Bible or New Testament in Englitb to himself or to any other , privately or openly , upon pain of one month ' s imprisonment /'

      Lewis , from whose u History of the English Translations of the Bible , ' ( pp . 149 , 50 , ) the above is quoted , adds this anecdote : €€ On the passing this act was the following remark made by a poor shepherd , in a spare leaf of an English abridgement of Polydore VirgiVs book of

      the Invention of Arts , & c . which he bought about this time , 1546 . When I kepe Mr . LetymerV / £ » jy / r [ sheep ] / bout tbys boke 9 ivben the Testament < zvas obberagatyd [ abrogated ] that sbepeherdys mygbt not rede bit . I prey God amende that hlyndnes , Wryt by Robert Wyllyams , hepfyng sbepe upon Seynbury [ Sunbury ] bill % 154 6 .

      It is surprising that a Protestant'prelate should be found much affected with this blindness , a century after the shepherd wrote . JSramhall , famous for his

      metaphysical controversy with Hobbes , and who died primate of Ireland , in 1663 , gives the followingjudgment ^ against the unrestrained use of the Scriptures , as he is quoted by Marvel , Rehearsal , p . 195 .

      * The promiscuous licence given to people , qualified or unqualified , not only to read , but to interpret the Scriptures according to their private spirits or particular fancies , witnout regard either to the analogy of faith , which they

      underderstand not , or to the interpretation of the doctors of former ages , is more prejudicial , ( I might better gay ) pernicious , both to particular Christians , and to whole societies , than the over-rigorous restraint of the Romanists /*

      242 . Gleanings.

      242 . Gleanings .

      No. Jlxx. Good Counsel* A Poor Woman Who...

      No . JLXX . Good Counsel * A poor woman who was about

      No. Jlxx. Good Counsel* A Poor Woman Who...

      to be tried in Ireland , in the year 1806 , for a capital offence , was asked by the judge if she had any counsel or attorney . She replied very seriously , " She had no counsel but God , and no attorney but his lordship Y

      No. Lxxi. Presbyterian Drug. The Cultiva...

      No . LXXI . Presbyterian Drug . The cultivation of madder [ Smith ' s Wealth of Nations , iii . 276 . ] was for a longtime confined by the Tithe to the United Pro .

      vinces , which , being Presbyterian countries , and upon that account exempted from this destructive tax , enjoyed a sort of monopoly of that useful dying drug against the rest of Europe . The late

      attempts to introduce the culture of this plant in England , have been made only in consequence of the statute which enacted , that five shillings an acre should be re . ceived in lieu of all manner of Tithe upon madder .

      No.Lxxll Algernon Sidney. In The " Poems...

      No . LXXlL Algernon Sidney . In the " Poems on State Affairs , " 8 vo . 1697 , are the following lines on this great man , in the form of

      AN EPITAPH . Algernon Sidnjy fills this tomb : An atheist , by declaiming Rome ; A rebel bold , by striving still To keep the laws above the will ; And hind ' riiig those would pull them down , To leave no limits to a crown ; Crimes damn'd by church and

      government-. Oh ! whither must his soul be sent ? Of Heaven it must needs despair , If that the Pope be turn-key there ; And hell can ne ' er it entertain s For there is all tyrannic reign ;

      And purgatory ' s such a pretence , As ne ' er deceiv ed a man of sense . Where goes it then ? where it ougnt Where Pope and devil haire noug ht to do .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1810, page 242, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02051810/page/26/