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27. Near this place are interred | the remains | of | John Wilkes, | a friend of Liberty : | Born at London, Oct. 17, 1727, O.S., | died in this parish, Dec. 26, 1797.

28. Mary, only child of John Wilkes, Esq., and Mary, his w., d. Mar. 12, 1802, a. 53.

29. Col. Mark Wilks, H.E.I.C.S., late Governor of St. Helena, d. Sept. 19, 1831, a. 73. His ^r. s., Mark Wilks Buchan, only surviving child of Major-General Sir John and Lady Buchan, d. Sept. 10, 1836, a. 17.

SOUTH GALLERY.

30. Stephen Bolleston, Esq., ma.ny years Assistant Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Office, d. Nov. 19, 1828, a. 73. An affectionate husband, &c.

31. John Andre, Esq., late of Sloane Street, <d. Jan. 5, 1804, a. 51.

32. The Bight Hon. Lady Lucy Elizabeth fJmith Stanley, dau. of the Earl of Derby, d. April 25, 1809, a. 10.

33. Mrs. Margaret Farran, d. June 5, 1803, a. 70.

34. Mabella, w. of Edward Dale, jun., of Cleadon, Durham, Esq., d. Nov. 8, 1810, a. 28.

INDEX OP PERSONS.

Andre, 31 Bernard, 10 Bishop, 8 Brewer, 11 Buchan, 29 Burt, 24 Campbell, 19 anning, 23 Cartwright, 22 Charlton, 21 Clavering, 18 Coghill, 16 olvill, 12 Crewe, 25 Crowle, 2 Dale, 34

Derby, Earl of,

32

Dinwiddie, 7 Edwards, 25 Elphinstone, 18 Farran, 33 Hamilton, 7, 17 Hinde, 16 Hunter, 26 Lascelles, 6 Ludlow, 1 Madan, 15 May, 11 Nepean, 14 Nightingale, 8 Ord, 4

Pole, 5 Rich, 1, 9, 13 Robertson, 10 Rolleston, 30 Somerset, Lady

Fitzroy, 5 Stanley, Lady

Lucy, 32 Westmorland,

Countess of, 5 Wilkes, 27, 28 Wilks, 3, 29 Williamson, 19,

20 ? 14

INDEX

Ardsalla, Meath, 1 Cannington, Som., 24 Cleadon, Durham, 34 East Indies, 10 <5arvagh, Ireland, 23 Ireland, 12 Jamaica, 25 .Kneesworth Hnll, Cambs, 8

G.

17 Ashley Mansions,

OP PLACES.

Mpntpellier, 1 Richmond, Yorks, 2 Roby Hall, Lanes, 19,

20

St. Helena, 29 Sunbury, MX., 8 Ticehurst, Sussex, 11 Virginia, 7 West Farleigh, Kent, 11

S. PABBY, Lieut.-Col. S.W.

FOREIGN BOOKS OF FORTUNE. (See ante, pp. 144., 165)

III.

OLD John Booker, the English astrologer, evidently noticed the objection to substitut- ing two dice for the dodechedron, and also what an unusual device a dodechedron really was. So he boldly discarded the latter and provided in his folio, ' The Dutch Fortune- Teller ' (London. 1650), for throws with two

dice from 2 to 12 only, omitting 1. Taking the sum of the points on the two dice instead of their combinations further simplified matters.

His book " discovers " 36 " several ques- tions, which old and young, Married men and Women, Batchelors and Maids, delight to be resolved of." He tells the reader that

" this Work was brought out of Turkic by the Chaus or Turkish Ambassador that arrived on

the Germane coasts The same was left among the

Germans ; and many of them, together with Doctor Starzern that came out of Turkic caused it to be seen and plaid. It was translated out of the Turkish into the Germane language by a Germane patriot."

We are told something more about the history of the book, which, according to the title-page, was ultimately " brought into England by John Booker " himself. Like Fanti, he uses wheels (36) and lesser globes or balls (36), but of a much simpler construction than the Italian prototype's " rote " and " sphere." There are 16 " questions in General," 13 " merry questions for men and batchelors onely," and 7 " for women and maidens." The use of his book is very simple. Having settled upon a question, say, " Whether you shall get her or not, whom you do love (noted with this character Xo)," the amorous swain is sent to " Wheel 24 " (also marked Xo), with 6 spokes, the spokes being numbered with even numbers (2 to 12), the spaces between them with odd numbers (3 to 11) ; one space is left unnumbered. " Mark then how much you threw that cast with both the Dice." Then, supposing the sum of " your cast were 6," find this number on the wheel, where the spoke thus num- bered is marked with the word " Fountain," and points to No. 64 on the rim. This number will show you to the " lesser globe or ball " 64, marked Nymphse 98, which in turn " sends you to the hindermost written number 98," where " under the title Nym- phse. . . .under No. 6 you will find the reply " to the following effect :

6. If thou dost expect to have her For the purchase of her faver, There is requir'd much cost and pains ; First sit down, and cast the gains.

The wheels are engraved on three double- page tables, and the globes on two tables, also double-page size. The answers are in quatrains, as the above, 11 on a page, and numbered consecutively from 2 to 12. The bottom of the last page marked " Satyri 108 " (which is not the number of the page, but an arbitrary figure) is marked " Finis," and the text is, therefore, complete. There are only 36 pages of answers.