"and a fumptuous table. He never gave the "Queen a kind word, and when she spoke to "him, he used to fay, Que me veut cette femme? "What does the woman fay?"

JOHN SELDEN.

"THE King of Spain (fays Mr. Selden in his "Table-Talk') was outlawed in Westminster"hall, I being of Counsel against him: A mer"chant had recovered cofts against him in a fuit, which because he could not get, we ad"vised him to have his Majesty outlawed for "not appearing, and fo he was. As foon as

"Gondemar the Spanish Ambaffador heard "that, he presently fent the money; by reason "if his mafter had been outlawed, he could not "have the benefit of the law; which would "have been very prejudicial, there being then

many fuits depending between the King of "Spain and our English Merchants *."

Mr.

* When the Ambaffador of Peter the Great was arrested for debt in London, in the latter end of Queen Anne's time, the Monarch expreffed his aftonishment and indignation, that the perfons who had thus violated the refpect due to the Representative of a Crowned Head, were not immediately put to death. His aftonishment was confiderably increased, when he was told, that in England, whatever punishment

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Mr. Selden, on the diffolution of the Parliament in 1629, was brought to the bar of the Court of King's Bench for what he had faid in Parliament; and refusing to submit to the jurifdiction of the Court, he was committed to prifon, from whence he was foon releafed; and in 1631, he was again committed to cuftody with the Earls of Bedford and Clare, Sir Robert Cotton, and Mr. St. John, on account of having difperfed a libel, intitled, "A Propofition for "his Majefty's Service, to bridle the Impertinency of Parliaments *." It was afterwards proved, that Sir Robert Dudley, then refiding in the dominions of the Duke of Tuscany, was the writer.

Lord Clarendon fays of Mr. Selden, that he was a person whom no character can flatter, or tranfmit in any expreffions equal to his merit and his virtue. "If," adds he, "he had fome in"firmities with other men, they were weighed "down with wonderful and prodigious abilities " and excellencies in the other fcale."

(however short of death) the Law fhould think fit to inflict upon the offenders, a procefs of fome length muft of neceffity be gone through, before they could be brought to juf tice; and that the Sovereign of the Country himself had no of dispensing with those laws to which he was himself

power fubjected.

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WILLIAM ΝΟΥ.

"Nov," fays Howell in his Italian Profpective, "a great cried-up Lawyer, put it into the "head of King Charles to impofe an old tax "called Ship-money upon the fubject; which "the faid Lawyer did warrant upon his life to

be legal, for he could produce divers records "how many of his progenitors had done the "fame."

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"With infinite pains and indefatigable study," fays Howell in his Letters," he came to his knowledge of the Law; but I never heard a more pertinent anagram than was made of his name, William Noy, I moyl in laro."

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"Noy," adds Howell, "left an odd will, "which is fhort, and in Latin: Having be"queathed a few legacies, and left his fecond "fon one hundred marks a-year, and five hun"dred pounds in money to bring him up to his "father's profeflion," he concludes, Reliqua

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meorum omnia primogenito meo Edvardo, diffi

pando (nec melius unquam fperavi ego )---I leave "the rest of all my goods to my first born Ed"ward, to be confumed or scattered; for I "never hoped better."

PHILIP EARL OF PEMBROKE.

JAMES HOWELL addreffed a Pamphlet to this extraordinary Nobleman under the title of "A "Sober and Seafonable Memorandum fent to 66 Philip Earl of Pembroke, &c. to mind him of "his particular Secret Ties, (befides the Comsc mon Oath, Allegiance, and Supremacy,) "whereby he was bound to adhere to the King, "his Liege Lord and Mafter, prefented unto "him in the Hottest Bruit of the Civil Wars,' in which he thus addreffes him: "My Lord, I beg leave to tell your lordship, (and the Spec"tator commonly fees more than the Game

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fter,) that the World extremely marvels at cc you more than others; and it makes thofe "who wish you beft to be transformed, to "wonder that your Lordfhip fhould be the first "of your race who deferted the Crown, which "one of your predeceffors faid he would ftill

follow, though it were thrown upon a hedge. Had your princely brother (William Earl of "Pembroke) been living, he would have been "fooner torn by wild horfes than have banded "against it, or abandoned the King his Mafter, and fallen into fuch grofs idolatry, as to worfhip the beaft with heads."

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The two following Letters relative to the manner in which this Nobleman difpofed of his proxy in the House of Peers, at the beginning of the disputes between Charles and his Parliament, were very kindly communicated to the COMPILER by the MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.

"I have receaved two very greate bleffings "these two last dayes, the one yesterday at Be"verley, the other this day at Nottingham, by "Mr. Denham, and cannot expreffe the greate "fense I have of your Ladyfhip's favour and "good opinion in both. I am extreme glad to "heare you are upon a journey to London. If your advice and intereft doe not prevayle with

your father, I have no hope left; 'tis not pof "fible for me to fay more in the argument to "him than I have. Nor can I imagine what ill

spirit can engage him thus to venture his for"tune, his fame, his honour, and the honour of "his house, in a veffel where none but defpe

rate perfons have the government. His car "riage of late hath beene fo well represented to "the King, and well receaved, for God's fake "let him not fall into a relapse; but if the pro"pofitions now fent be not accepted, perfuade "him away hither. Upon my life he will re"pente it elfe, and it will be too late; and fure "no honeft man can thinke any unreasonable