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Day.

Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast
The little tyrant of his fields withstood;
Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest,

Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.
To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land,

And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes

Their lot forbad: nor circumscrib'd alone

Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd;
Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne,

And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.---Gray.

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VIII. Saint John the Baptist, B. C. Titus Flavius Vespasianus, A.D.

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Theodore Beza, 1519, Vezelai, Isabel, Countess of Warwick,

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Obits of the Latin Church.
The Nativity of St. John the
Baptist.

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The Martyrs of Rome, under Dr. J. Blair, 1782. St. Bride's.

Nero, A. D. 64.

Thomas Sandby, 1798.

St. Bartholomew, Monk of Dur-Sir Francis Milman, 1821.

ham Abbey.

He must grow, and I must become less.---St. John.

Beside the dewy border let me sit,

All in the freshness of the humid air;

There in that hollow'd rock, grotesque and wild,

An ample chair, moss-lin'd, and over head

By flowering umbrage shaded; where the bee

Strays diligent, and with th' extracted balm

Of fragrant woodbine loads his little thigh.-Summer.

Acts.

ST. JOHN'S DAY. This great festival of the church was instituted A. D. 488, to commemorate the nativity of the precursor of Christ, and from its importance it has been placed (or misplaced) in the Catholic necrology.-See 6th July. Midsummer Day, with the days of the Purification and Ascension, is the third and last of the three great and solemn holidays during the terms.-See 2d February.

The first Christian persecution under Nero, 64.-See 18th June. Vespasian had reigned with popularity for ten years, 79. He was the first of the Roman Emperors who died a natural death; and seems to have merited this exemption, if superior worth be a protection from domestic treachery or open assassination. Vespasian was succeeded by Titus, a prince not inferior in virtue to his father; but his reign was brief.

Frederick Barbarossa issues his famous imperial edict, under the sanction of the diet at Constance, restoring the Lombard towns to their primitive rank as independent republics, with all their ancient usages, 1183; a day which, to adopt a sentence, "may be numbered among the most remarkable epochs in the long progress of human society."

THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN, in the vicinage of Stirling, 1314.— A proud and bright and a prosperous Monday for Scotland. "The slaughter was immense; the deep ravine of Bannockburn, to the south of the field of battle, lying in the direction taken by most of the fugitives, was almost choked and bridged over with the slain."

Edward's great and bloody victory off Sluys, 1340. Nautical knowledge was not yet attended by humanity; for two French Admirals, Sir Nicholas Buchet and Sir Hugh Queret, were hanged,' says Fabian, 'upon the sails of their ships.' Philip was first made acquainted with the defeat by the wit of his buffoon. He called the English cowards; and when the king inquired the reason, replied, that they had not the courage to leap into the sea, like the French and Normans.

At Bannockburn I served the Bruce,

Of whilk the Inglis had na ruise.-Scotch Broadsword.

Day.

Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast
The little tyrant of his fields withstood;
Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest,

Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.
To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land,

And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes
Their lot forbad: nor circumscrib'd alone

Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd;

Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne,
And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.---Gray.

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VIII. Saint John the Baptist, B. C. Titus Flavius Vespasianus, A.D.

Cal.

4, Hebron, in Palestine.

24.

St. John, of Matha, A. D. 1169,
Faucon.

in Burgundy.

79. d. Cutilia.

Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Glou

cester, 1314. k. Bannockburn.

Theodore Beza, 1519, Vezelai, Isabel, Countess of Warwick,

1439. Tewkesbury.

drowned, 1630.

Nicholas Claude Péiresc, 1637.
Aix in Provence.
John Hampden, 1643. d. Thame.
(Hampden, in Bucks.)
Bishop (Isaac) Barrow, 1680.
St. Asaph.

John Churchill, Duke of Marl-William, Earl of Northampton,
borough, 1650, Ashe, Devonsh.
Dr. D. Gregory, 1661, Aberdeen.
Francis (Lord) Gardenstone,
1721, Edinburgh.
Dr. Treadway Russel Nash,
1725, Clerkenleap.
Dr. Alexander Adam,
Rafford, near Forres.
Deodatus de Dolomieu, 1750,
Dauphiné.

1741,

Josephine (of France), 1763,
Island of Martinico.
General (Lazarus) Hoche, 1768,
Montreuil.

Obits of the Latin Church.
The Nativity of St. John the

Baptist.

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The Martyrs of Rome, under Dr. J. Blair, 1782. St. Bride's.

Nero, A. D. 64.

Thomas Sandby, 1798.

St. Bartholomew, Monk of Dur-Sir Francis Milman, 1821.

ham Abbey.

He must grow, and I must become less.---St. John.

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Beside the dewy border let me sit,

All in the freshness of the humid air;

There in that hollow'd rock, grotesque and wild,

An ample chair, moss-lin'd, and over head

By flowering umbrage shaded; where the bee

Strays diligent, and with th' extracted balm

Of fragrant woodbine loads his little thigh.-Summer.

Acts.

ST. JOHN'S DAY. This great festival of the church was instituted A. D. 488, to commemorate the nativity of the precursor of Christ, and from its importance it has been placed (or misplaced) in the Catholic necrology.—See 6th July. Midsummer Day, with the days of the Purification and Ascension, is the third and last of the three great and solemn holidays during the terms.-See 2d February.

The first Christian persecution under Nero, 64.-See 18th June.

Vespasian had reigned with popularity for ten years, 79. He was the first of the Roman Emperors who died a natural death; and seems to have merited this exemption, if superior worth be a protection from domestic treachery or open assassination. Vespasian was succeeded by Titus, a prince not inferior in virtue to his father; but his reign was brief.

Frederick Barbarossa issues his famous imperial edict, under the sanction of the diet at Constance, restoring the Lombard towns to their primitive rank as independent republics, with all their ancient usages, 1183; a day which, to adopt a sentence, " may be numbered among the most remarkable epochs in the long progress of human society."

THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN, in the vicinage of Stirling, 1314.A proud and bright and a prosperous Monday for Scotland. "The slaughter was immense; the deep ravine of Bannockburn, to the south of the field of battle, lying in the direction taken by most of the fugitives, was almost choked and bridged over with the slain."

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Edward's great and bloody victory off Sluys, 1340. Nautical knowledge was not yet attended by humanity; for two French Admirals, Sir Nicholas Buchet and Sir Hugh Queret, were hanged,' says Fabian, I upon the sails of their ships.' Philip was first made acquainted with the defeat by the wit of his buffoon. He called the English cowards; and when the king inquired the reason, replied, that they had not the courage to leap into the sea, like the French and Normans.

At Bannockburn I served the Bruce,

Of whilk the Inglis had na ruise.-Scotch Broadsword.

Heaven (that hath plac'd this island to give law,
To balance Europe, and her States to awe,)
In this conjunction doth on Britain smile,
The greatest leader, and the greatest isle!
Whether this portion of the world were rent,

By the rude ocean from the continent,

Or thus created; it was sure design'd

To be the sacred refuge of mankind.---Waller on Cromwell.

Acts.

The battle of Seven Oaks, when the rebel, Cade, turning on his pur-
suers, put them to flight, killed Sir Humphrey Stafford, their commander,
and arrayed himself in the knight's panoply and spurs, 1450. This
hog in armour' took possession of Southwark on the 1st of July, and
two days later entered London, cutting with his sword the ropes of the
drawbridge as he passed.

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The Duke of Buckingham harangues the good citizens from the hus-
tings at Guildhall, and Richard III. is proclaimed King by hireling
voices. The corporation waited the next morning upon his Highness at
his den, Baynard's Castle, and tender the crown, which he reluctantly
accepts, 1483.

The Island of Newfoundland is discovered by Sebastian Cabot, 1497.
It was the first European expedition that reached the American continent.
-See 11th June. The license of Henry VII. (for he, like Vespasian,
loved money for its use) is dated the 5th day of March, 1496.

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The coronation of Henry VIII. and his Queen, Katharine of Arragon,
at Westminster, 1509. A dazzling prince, but even Cardinal Pole ob-
serves, that he was then "indoles, ex qua pæclara omnia sperari possent.'
The lady was dressed in white, with her hair loose, and the ceremonies
were appropriated to the nuptials of a maiden.

The anniversary of the great procession at Dunkirk, called Cormass,
during the dominion of Charles V. This place capitulated to Cromwell,
when at the summit of his greatness, upon the present day, 1658.

John (Boccold) of Leyden, the leader of the Anabaptists, is elected
King of Munster, called Sion, in Westphalia, 1534.

Sebastian III. embarks at Lisbon against Africa with one thousand
sail, 1577. The garrison of Oxford surrenders to the Indep pondents, 1646.

To oppress all his enemies by arms, and all his friends afterwards by artifice;
to bequeath the estates and lives of three kingdoms with one word to his posterity;
to die with peace at home and triumph abroad; to be buried among kings, and
with more than regal solemnity; and to leave a name behind him not to be extin-
guished, but with the whole world.
Cowley on Cromwell.

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