Volume 1
Desiderata curiosa: or, a collection of divers ... pieces relating chiefly to matters of English history : consisting of choice tracts, memoirs, letters ... etc / Transcribed ... and illustrated with ample notes ... By Francis Peck.
- Francis Peck
- Date:
- 1779
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Desiderata curiosa: or, a collection of divers ... pieces relating chiefly to matters of English history : consisting of choice tracts, memoirs, letters ... etc / Transcribed ... and illustrated with ample notes ... By Francis Peck. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![oa. 13. 1719. 6. G. x. Ex exemp. quodam MS. penes ante- dia. Tho. Mafon, S. T. P. rec- torem ec- clefiae deCof iterworth. in fuch a manner, that Nothing equall’d his knowledge, except his eloquence; Nothing excelled both, except his juftice. And whether he was greater as an advocate or a judge, is the only caufe he left undecided. As to his life, he poflefs’d, by a natural happinefs, all thofe civil virtues which form the gentleman ; And to thofe, by divine goodnefs, were added that fervent zeal Sc extenfive charity which diftinguifh the perfect chriftian : “ The tree is known by his fruit.” He was a loving hufband, and an indulgent father ; a conftant friend <k a charitable patron; frequenting the devotions of the church ; pleading the caufe, Sc relieving the necefiities, of the poor. What, by example, he taught, throughout his life; At his death he recommended to his family Sc friends : To fear God, Sc live uprightly. Let whoever reads this ftone be wife & be inftruifted. NUMBER XIX. A floort account of the Saxon Lord Longueville (A of his monument at Overton Longueville, in com. Hunt, from a note of the late right reverend learned IVhite lord bifhop of Peterborough, inferted in Gunton’s Hijlory of Peterborough, tranfcribed thence by the very reverend & learned Mr. Thomas Baker, of S. John's College Cambridge, & by Mr. Baker communicated to the publifher. 1. TV /TEmorandum, on Sunday 061. 18. 1719. preaching at Overton Longueville, & dining with the Earl of Lincoln, his lordfhip Sc Mr. Taylor (the minifter) fbewed me a very antient monument in ftone, of a knight lying proftrate in armor, with what they called his pud¬ dings or guts twilled round his left arm. Sc hanging down to his belly. Of whom a tradition is ftill kept up among the people there, that this was the body of the Lord Longueville. who went out to meet the Danes coming to deftroy that place ['for fan anno 870. F. P.] Sc, in his firft conflict with them, had fuch a wound in his belly, that his guts fell out. But he took them up in his hand, Sc wrapped them round the wrift of his left arrn, & fo fought on with his right hand, till he killed the Danifh king: and loon after fell himfelf. W. K. NUMBER XX. Epitaph for Dr. Jofeph Ford, by his fon, the late reverend Mr. Ford. Hie conduntur ofia Jofephi Ford, vetufta gente oriundi, Divifque orti bonis; iratis ac infeftis demortui. Hoc enim fub bufto, una cum infigni medico, Spes, vota, delicise, falus pagorum](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3045637x_0001_0264.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
