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us believe that there is no impropriety tailor at Tannton not beint; infert^d
in calling: the piefent inhabitants of in Mr. Toulmin's Hiftorv cf that town,
Ambrtft)ury houfe BeneiiiSine nuns, nor in Mr. Col inlbn's Hirtory of the
becaufs it was originally intended for county, and perhaps not no'v exiing;
fuch, namely, by the fair Elfrida, in I fliall be obliged to anv of vour cor-
the time of the Saxons, though thefe refpondents who may have nreferved a
were replaced by thofe of the order of copy <.f it. Perliaps Mr. Toulmln has
Fontevraad (o early as the reign of it in his Appendix. K. G.
Henry II. In conclirfion, my anta-
gonift takes new ground, and accufes Mr. Urban, Suaiierland, Aug. 8.
the "CathoHcks, like other religion- TTTT HEN I pro-nir'-ii tofurniih your
» » re-^ders wuii a lift of places of
public worfjiip bel.inging; to the diffe-
rent denominations pf Diffenters ia
England, fronn the Mb. of Mr. Ro- ,
binfon, I was not awrfre that an uoex-
pt6\ed accident-would have prsvented
me From fulhlline: mv engagement. At
that time Mr. Linn, boLkfelkr, at
Cimbiidge, had in his polVtfiion the
MS, alluded to, which he purchaied
fcinie time before with the library oi
Mr. R. Soon attcr thit 1 applied, but
unfuccefsfullv, for this MS. fome per-
fon having juft before taken it. It
was inriniled, as far as 1 recoHcit, "A
general View of the Number and De-
nomination of thi; different Diffenting
Churches in England and Wales,"
ranged alphabetically according to the
counties, and bound in a thui iimo
voliiiiie. As Mr. Dyer feems to feel
him(elf injurt;d Dy the affertion in my
former letter, I trull that the explana-
tion given in fh's wi 1 both fitufy hinn,
of the truth of that affertion, and con-
vince the publick that he h^s not beea
onfaulifiil to the charge with which he
wa« intrufied. CuRlOSUs-
Mr. Urban, Au^. ii.
''S'^O the many hints lately given in
«- your Magazine on the appearance
of the cuckoo, I beg liave to offer the
following; not indeed from my own
obfeivation, but from iht informatioa
of a g ntleman lefident at a feat near
Liverpool, caiied the Sandhills, uho
has frtquently mertioned the circum-
ftance \n converfation, and lately in a
company of no lefs than 20 refpcftable
perfons, at which the following tne-
ntoranda were taken.
The fifft appearance of the cuckoo
has been in a pretty large flock, upon a
plantation adjuining his houfe at the
dawn of day. Tfiat he h:is been awa-
kened with thcii noife, a kind of
chatter, as if in converfation, with
ifts, of endeavouring to make con-
verts." I hope they do, when the oc-
cafion calls for it, in a prudent and
peaceable way, in cafe they think they
have weighty realons for giving a
preference to their own fyftem : if they
do not think fo, I am fure they are
fools for sdhering to it, whilft it fub-
jefls them to fuch low abufe is the
abovementioned poem teems' with.
Does Q^ adopt a religion which he
does not fuppoCe to be the fa fir ft road
to future biifs ? Or, belirvjng this,
has he n't charity enough to commu-
nicate hiS important difcovery to th<;(e
whom he fi:es animated with the fin-
ijerefl defi e of diitoveine die truth ?
Yours, &c. "j. MiLNEE..
Mr. Urban, Aug. i^
I AM at a lofs to know on what au-
ihonty it is faid bytht Ciincon
the new edition mF Camden's Bri-
tannia, ill vour volume LX. p. 314.,
that Eihelred did not die ti'l 1054,
and Canute in 103b; cunfequ-rtly,
ihe la ter could not have married the
widow of ihe former, as fiated in tli-e
Britannia, 'under the ar-icle Saxon
,crins, p. cxvii. Ethclred H. died 1016,
and Canute marrie<4 his wi<low Emma,
daugh t; of Robcir, duke of Norm^;-.!-
dy, Within a year or two after her firll
hufbiind's death. Rapin, IL 25, 38.
Bui it m^ty be affirmed, on the autho-
rity of an alinolt coniemporary writer,
the author of the Saxoi. Chionicle,/;/^
anno, p. 14.S. that Ethshea died 1016,
in whict) Ire i-. followed by Sinicoa
Dunelmenhs, Bronripton, Diceto, :ind
Florence of VVorctfter. Wi liam of
Malmefbury confirms this (De Geftis
Regum Angi. J. p. 40), though he
does not date Eiheircd's death j yet,
after relating it, and that of his Ion
and lucceffor, Ed.mund, he tens us,
Canute began to reign anno 1017.
Ho»eden fays Erhelied died in the
I J4th indiilion.
their ufual note at irjrcivais. About fix
The ep.ta^jh on the ruff-inventir.g o'clock in the niorning they have ufu-
ally