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396 all the legal arguments in that book, Milton was furnished by the celebrated, president of the court that put Charles I. to death.

Dr. Donne, the poet, in 1602 married the daughter of privately against her father’s consent, who was so enraged that he not only turned him and his wife out of his house, but got  to turn him out of his office as Secretary to the Great Seal. Donne and his wife took refuge in a house at, in the neighbourhood of his father-in-law, who lived at Lothesby, in the county of Surrey, where the first thing he did was to write on a pane of glass—

These words were visible at that house in 1749. It should be remembered that Donne’s name was formerly pronounced Dun.—(From a similar notice found by Mr. Neve in an old book.)

, who was well acquainted with the late, Bishop of Raphoe, assured me at the ’s about a month ago, that the strange story which has been long current in Ireland, of the bishop being shot in attempting to rob on the highway in England, was an absolute falsehood. Mr. Ellis said he saw the physician who attended him, who told him he died of a fever. The stories which are told of this bishop’s levity or vivacity are probably however true; for Mr. Ellis