Ludlow, "who was then prefent, tho' by long "fickness very weak, and much extenuated, 66 yet animated by his ardent zeal and conftant "affection to the common caufe, upon hearing "thofe words ftood up, and interrupted him, declaring his abhorrence of that deteftable "action, and telling the Council, that being now going to his God, he had not patience to "fit there, and hear his great name fo openly ' blafphemed; and thereupon departed to his lodgings, and withdrew himself from public " employment." 66 Bradfhaw did not pronounce fentence of death against the unfortunate Charles the Firft. The fentence was read by the Clerk (the President of the High Court of Justice, and the rest of the Members, standing up while it was reading, in testimony of their approbation of it). The King objected to the legality of the Court. The Prefident replied," Sir, inftead of answering the "Court, you interrogate their power, which be "comes not one in your condition.' "Thefe "words," fays Lilly, who was present and relates them, "pierced my heart and foul, to "hear a fubject thus audaciously to reprehend his Sovereign, who ever and anon replied with great magnanimity and prudence." The The following original fupplicatory letter from Lord Keeper Williams to President Bradshaw, Then he was Chief Juftice of Chefter, fhews but too forcibly the viciffitude of earthly things, and the uncertainty of the poffeffion of human power and dignity: ORIGINAL LETTER FROM JOHN WILLIAMS, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, LORD KEEPER IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES THE FIRST, TO MR. BRADSHAW, AFTERWARD PRESIDENT BRADSHAW, CHIEF JUSTICE OF CHESTER, AND MR. WARBURTON, HIS ASSOCIATE IN THAT CIRCUIT. "I live here under the favour & protection ❝of both the most honourable Houfes of Parlt: to whom I am much bound in that kynde, & "in the House of Sir Richard Wynne my nere "Kinfman & a conftant Member of the House of Commons. "Where upon my return from Ruthyn "(where I hadd the opportunitye to falute you) "I finde that Sir Rd Wynne is a Patentee for "the Poft Fynes, &c. of the Countyes of "Chefhyre and Flintfhyre, & hath affigned his brother Owen Wynne for the executinge of "that "that place, who by these late distractions & "discontinuance of the Affizes is threatened by "the Attorneys & fome other Officers now in place in those Countyes to be putt off from "the employment & receivinge of the pro"fitts of that Office, the reft accountable unto "the pfent Estate, for the rent reserved upon "the Patent, & (at this inftant) cal'd upon for "the arrears of 4 years rents, wherein, for 66 66 .. want of Circuits and peaceable times, there "hath been little profit, & yeat forced to give "fatisfaction to the Committee for the Revenue, " & all this under a ptext that this fhold be a grievance in those two Countyes wch both you (and myself too upon fome remembrance "of the course heretofore) doe know to be no grievance but a conftant & fettled Revenue to "the Crowne in all England, in the Dutchye "of Lancaster & the feveral Countyes of North "Wales & South Wales. 66 66 "My humble fuyte therefore to you on the "behalfe of my Landlord Sir Rd Wynne & his Affignee is this, that he maye, by your favoure, proceede peaceably in the execution of "his Office (wch he hath under both the "Greate Seale of England & the Seale of the Chamberlayne of that Countye Palatyne) until "fuch time as by any complaynt before the most ઃઃ ❝ honor honorable Houfe or the Committee of the Revenue this fhal be proved to be any fuch "pretended grievance either in point of right or "of execution. And for this juft favoure not "onelye Sir Richd Wynne, the Patentee, & "his Brother the Affignee, fhal be readie in all "thankfull acknowledgement to take notice "thereof, but myselfe, though a stranger & of "late acquaintance yeat much your Servant, for your great care of the Juftice & quietnes of "these partes, in order to theyr obedience to "the pfent Government, shall be obliged to re"mayne to the utmost of my poore Abilitie 4. your "very faithful & Humble Servant Bradshaw died before the Restoration, and fome of his defcendants in the female line were a few years ago in poffeffion of an estate at Chapel in the Frith near Buxton, which had be longed to him. JOHN MILTON. DR. JOHNSON divined with his usual acumen when he supposed that Milton had undergone fome bodily difcipline while he was at College. Mr. Aubrey was told by Christopher Milton, that his brother John was whipped for fome " unkindneffe" by his first Tutor in the Univerfity of Cambridge, Mr. Chapel; and that he was afterwards (though it feemed against the rules of the College) transferred to the tuition of one Mr. Tovell, who died Parfon of Lutterworth. "Ut pictura poefis erit," has been often faid, and pictor ut poeta perhaps occafionally thought. Mr. Garrick ufed to call Salvator Rofa the Shakespeare of Painting, and might not the name of the MILTON of Painting be transferred to our Mr. FUSELI, a man whofe ardent imagi nation, like that of Milton, unites the terribiles vifu forma, as well as the molle atque facetum? Mr. Fufeli has nearly finished a series of pictures from the principal fcenes of the Paradife Loft and of the Paradife Regained of that divine Poet, which he intends to exhibit in a gallery to be called "the Gallery of Milton.". Who appears fo fit to tranfmit and convey the ideas of Milton, as the Painter that seems poffeffed with the fame fublimity and force of imagination which inspired the |