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

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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$22 3 DESIDERATA CURIOS A. pagorum circumiacentium, confepulta funt. Curiofam nempe in fanando felicitatem fingulari humanitate ita temperavit, ut neque faftum pauperes, neque divites lucrum quererentur *, utrique curam plauderent & fortunam. Erga conjugem, liberos, cognatos, fervos, pius, mitis, officiofus, facilis. Conviva, hilaris, lepidus, jucundus j minime mordax, mendax minus ; amicitiarum tenax, in offenfis inexorabilis; cum nihil [enim] fibi remitteret, omnia aliis ignofceret. De temperantia, de fide, pietate, in tanto viro verba facere, injuria foret virtutum. His egreegiis animi dotibus, gratia & vigor corporis in cumulum cefiere. Doloribus tandem podagricis correptus, quos gangrena (dira comes!) nullis medicabilis herbis, in utroque pede confecuta eft, poftquam per bimeftre fpatium mortem horribiliter ingruentem redta profpexerat acie; caftiffimae conjugis & dulcium liberorum aflidentium, pie & pie collachrymantium, plandlus inter &: ofcula, nec querulus nec trepidus, honeftifiimam vitam claufit, atque ad Deos abiit lexagenarius. NUMBER XXI. A brief difcourfe on the antient divijions of the night & the day, as alfo of the ancient hours of prayer, & the names of each, intermixed with fome other matters of antiquity, as the fame was read at Belvoir inne, before a fociety of gentlemen & clergy there, on the xii. March. MDCCXXX. Written by the publijher. i. The Egyptian, Verfian, Athenian, Roman, day \ when they begun. 2, j. The Jewifh fabath, 4. 0 Chrijlian Lord’s day ■, when they commence. 5, 6. The Saturday night’s fervice in the church of England, touched. 7. Divifion of the night by the antient Romans. 8. Their firft watch; 9. 0 different mufic in the army to dijlinguijh their watches. 10, 11. Afcetics 0 monaftics their canonical hours, or watches •, 12. founded on great abby bells, 13. by order of Pope Sabinian I. 14. The frjl Chrijlian watch, may be called, 15. one part of it folus occafus ; 16. another part of it,'Afx(pi\vxv]; 17. another part of it ’Oipx. 18. The fervice then ufed called the firft Vefpers. 19. The particular bell then rung, called the Ave Maria bell. 20. Dif¬ ferent bells for different fervices. 21. The names of Oufney bells; 22. 0 how rung; 23. The fecond chrijlian watch, may be called, 24. one part of it prima fax 25. another part of it, ve- fperum, or prima nox ; 26. another part of it, concubium; 27. another part of it, fomnus tempeftivus ; 28. another part of it, ad mediam nodtem. 29. The fervice ufed at this watch, called, 30. fometimes the fecond vefpers, 0 31. fometimes the compline. 32. The third chrijlian watch may be called, 33. one part of it, media nox j 34. (Milton’s defcription of a May mid¬ night.)$