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Jttay perhaps deter the Attempters. This I thought fit to testify to all future*’inaes J and subscribe with the same Hand, through which those little oakybli ps past.
It a teftor Christ. Wren, domino Lancelotto a sacris domefticis , ’Autottvic, Andrews ep.tune ; V Carolo regi, patrono opt. Maximo (pojlea) m 'Autozcix, ftdus aj IWinton.Jertor,
Ego Christophorus Wren, ex autographo reverend! avi met, ad amufjim Brownstr an)'cripfi, anno Domini 173 5. ju/ger Errors,
“ On the North-side of Millwood- Ca file in New-Forejl, is the Oak that CamdenVbuds on Chrijlmas-day, and whithers again before Night; which was or- Britannia,fe-" der’d by King Charles II; to be paled round.” pijhfpGk?
“ Agreeable to this is the Hawthorn-tree, at Glafsenbury , which budded son, Vol. I.on Chriftmas-day, as if it were in May. P- * 34 -
<( “ As also the Walnut-tree there, v which never budded before the Feast ° xyacantha 'of St. Barnabas, and on that very Feast-day shot out Leaves in great Dltt0 ’ VoL l 'U Abundance.” . ^ A 79 ‘
^bfervatio sanguinis in occiso, & submerse, ad rei præsentiam,‘efliucntis. Ex ichedis reverendi Chrijlop. fFrcn^ S. T. P.
^Ubmcrfts clam , fubftlire sanguinem ad acceffum inters \ 5 loris cerium ejl ; exbi(lorid toti provincice Oxon , notifjima. Apud Ricot (in parochid de Hafe-e y> cujus cura mihi olim demandata eft) ad barones Norricios fpediantem ; vi-%ci rii cuflos grandœvus , a nepote , in vivarium no 5 lu alleSlus, cum tempusfaffum pr reverses et , sub quercu recumbens, fopore correptus eft ; quern sic re-ctum, nepos accedem , (spe hceredii , cpti poft mortemsenis destinatus eft) excere-r avit, traBumque in profuhdam foffam , lapide ingenti, ad collum appenfo, de-,} ierfjt ; ubi 5, hebdomadis plus minus delitmt cadaver, ftupente domino , totaque^Jcinid, quid de fene aelum eftet ; poft didlum tempus fœnifeciores, ad marginesJpftcz, operas producentes , tarn ingenti a- mujcarum examina confpexerunt , ut adx nqwfttioncm tanti oftenti impellerentur ; tand?pique visum primo obscure , deinde} nulto labore cxtraStum cadaver , • putridum, & vix fibi cohœrens extrahunt, &e xtra Slum recognofeunt ; Jed • de interseStorc nemo mortahum con] 1 cere quicquamP°tuit • interjeeium-Juifte, &, ftimma vt tlltc projedlum indicio suit, saxum adc °llum appenfum ; quod onine'm, de suicidip, dubitationem suftulit prorstts. _
^, Ad fcelus igitur tarn atrox detegendum, Jokrter admodum, impulfu ejm, qui"JndiSiam fibi propriam ej]e vult, dominus juftit putridum' corpus, Jed
Qquis, ab extremis f 'ætoribus pr<efervatum, dominied jam proxund, in cce-terio juxtd portam eccleftæ exponi, ut e'gred'entium oculis <N taSlui pœne ob-"° er saretur. Solus sceleftus ille nepos , jacinons tanti conscius, quasi conspeSlumCar iftimi avunculi ne qui ret J erre, abducere Je, multo dolore quasi oppreftum, cona-fus e Ji ; at dominus Norrieius fufpicatus, illius fuifte facimre Jenem ablatum ,ft 1 hœredii lucrum obventurum er at, eo urgentius detradlantem, accedes e impu-rt ; manumque mortui (quod plurimi fponte fecerant) digito attmgere ; quoto Au {nurum diciu!) Oculi (in cadavere) quasi Dei digito aperti, palam fe^overe vili, & fanguis e naribus effluens, adeo conjlernarunt ftcarium, ut interr ani dilapfus, fateretur fcelus a fe clam patratum, fed juftiftimo Dei judicio^ at Jactum ; ex quo judici prinium, dein carnijici obiatus, dignas tanto fcelerebfnas, i n patibdo dedit. $uod memorandum, meaque ipftus manu Jignandumltx ' 1 - Ideoque it a tejior.
Christqp. Wren, Redior eccle/ia prœdiblœ.
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