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fliment to the author. It had the honour to be ttmed by the hands of the common hangman at Toulouse, on Friday the 27th of June, 1660, and at Paris on the 9th of July in the same year. Lastly, having been perused by Christina, queen of Sweden, she was struck with the eloquence of the composition, the strength of the reasoning, and the vigour with which he exposed the futility, the sophistry, and contractions of his antagonist, spoke on all occasions warmly in its praise, and from tbfft hour withdrew her faTOur from Sal- masius. This redoubted champion sank under his defeat, withdrew himself into obscurity, and soon after died in Holland. Claudius Salmasius was born April 15, 1588, and died Sept. 8, 1653. 1649. The following work was printed at CoBK : Certain Acts and Dedaratiom made by the eccletiattical congregation of archbishops, bishops, and other prelates met at Clonmacncnse, on 4th Dec. 1649. Cork, 25th Feb. 1649, [1650,] and reprinted in Dublin by W. B. 4to, 20 pages. In 1664, was printed a small work, entitled, Inquisilio in fidem Christianorum Au- jtu sectUi, authore Rogero Boyle, Decano Corca- giensi, 12rao.

1649. Died,EDWART> Raben, who styled him- self »UM(«rjmn<ffr, the first in Aberdeen. (See page 469, ante.) On the 9th of the subsequent month of Januarr, the magistrates and town council, appointed James Brown, minister of Invemochty, to succeed Mr. Raban in the office of printer to the town and university, with the same emoluments which his predecessor had been entitled to receive from the town. Brown printed the works of several authors who nourished at the time. In 1651, he printed The form and order of the Coronation of Charles the Second, as it was acted and done at Scone, the first of January, 1651.

1649. Died, John Gerardus Vossius, a very learned professor of chronology and eloquence at Leyden, and of history at Amsterdam, whose works are frequently referred to as authorities, par- ticularly the following: — De Historicus Gracis, De Historicus Latinus, and Ars Historica. He was born in the year 1577. He was the father of ten children in a very short space of time, and being attended with a wonderful fertility in his pen, made Grutiussay, with some pleasantry, that he did not know whether Vossius had a better knack of producing children or books.

1649, Dec. 4. Died, Wiht-i am Drummond, a celebrated poet and historian of Scotland. He was the son of sir John Drammond, of Haw- thoroden, a retired seat near Edinburgh, where he was born in 1585. He was destined for the law, but Parnassus had more charms than the law. He wrote the history of the five James's successively kings of Scotland; and his poetical works consist of amatory sonnets and madrigals, chiefly expressive of a hopeless passion which possessed his own bosom ; some sacred poems ; few complimentary odes and addresses to the two kings, James I. and Charles I. on their respective visits to Edinburgh ; and a variety of epigrammatic and humorous pieces. In many

of these compositions there are passages of gieat delicacy and tenderness ; but, as with the minor poets of this age in general, it is difficult to fixtd any entire piece which is not degraded by some share of insipidity, or by forced and coid con- ceits, or by that coarseness which, aAer aD, seems to have been the prevailing tone of mind in even the most enlightened portions of society at the beginning of the seventeenth ccntuij. Ben Jonson made a pedestrian pilgrima^ into Scotland, in order to see him. He left a widov and three children. His works were printed at Edinburgh, in folio, in 1711.

Dmmmond's Polemo middinia is the eariiest regular British macaronic poetry,* and was pro- bably written when he was on a visit to his brother-in-law, at Scotstravet, and contains a ludicrous account of a battle between lady Scotstravet under the title of Vitarva, and lady Newbams asNebema. The celebrity of this poem has no doubt been increased from the circum- stance of bishop Gibson having in his earlier years published an edition (Oxford, 1691, 4to.) with Latin notes.

1649, Jan. 1. Mercuriut Melancholicut i com- municating the grand afiaiis of the kingdom, especially from Westminster and the head quar- ters, No. 1.

1649, Jan. 2. Heads of a Diary, collected oat of the Journals of both Houses of Parlianuni.

1649, Jan. 8. The Kingdom's faithfull Pott.

1649, Jan. 26. The Army's modest InUUt- gencer. No. 1.

1649, Feb. 9. The Kingdom's faithful ami impartial Scout, No. 1.

1649, March 7. The impartial Intelligencer, No. 1. In No. 7 of this paper is the first regular advertisement which has been met with. It is from a gentlemen of Candish, in Suffolk, from whom two horses had been stolen. — f^'icholt.

1649, April 7. A modest Narrative of Intelli- gence, fittest for the the Republic of England and Ireland, No. 1.

1649, April 11. Mercurius Eleneticus, No. 1.

written in Latin hexameters, but so as to admit occasioe- ally vernacular words, either in their native form, or with a Latin inflexion ; other licenses, too, are allowed in Ae measure of the lines, contrary to the strict rules of proso- dy. For the origin of this term, different deriratkias have been asigned: the most rational is that of Mr. MasoD Goode, who adduces it from the Italian term, Mtt- cheronef significative of a blockhead, an i^oramns, of an equivalent ^nf\U\\.pudding.patrdfeltow i Maccktrtmem. Macaronics are obviously, therefore, burlesque tTwi^^r^nn^ of the unclas^ical style of such writers, Ooode's lAft 9f Dr. Oeddes. TheophtloPoiengi, better known bytfaenaiDe of Merlin Coccaye, was born iji the Tlctnity of Mantua, !■ UQl, and became a Benedictine; but being of an amocow turn, he quitted his habit, which he resumed after Iw had led a rambling life for some years. He died in 1844, and he Is the reputed Inventor of Macaronic poety. Tbe Ma- caronic productions of tbe English press are not tot numerous, this species of writing having been Utile euld- vated. At the end of vol. vi. of Leland's Jtinmry, (pp. 151 — 156,; Heamehas given a short poem, somewhat m the Macaronic style, relative to a battle at Oxford, between the scholars and the townsmen ; and part of Rug^e*! celebrated comedy of Ignoramus is composed on tiles model.
 * It is the characteristic of a macaronic poem to be

An edition was published by Messrs. Foully gow, 1788, and it is also to be fonnd in a colle Carminvm rariorvm MacuoD, delectus.

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