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ms the sign of the George next to St. Dunstan's church, in the house formerly occupied by Rich. Pinson, Rob. Redman, and William Middleton. Richard Watkins and Thomas Cadwell were his approitices. Tweuty-fbur works bear his imprint. 1567. William Lambe, cloth-worker, gave to thestationers' company an annuity of £6 13*. 4d. for the perpetual relief of the poor in the parish of St. >utii, under Paul's. Out of the annuity, the company undertook to pay 6(. M. for a ser- ■Mm at St Faith's, on the 6th of May, and also to gire ireekly to twelve poor men or women of that parish, one penny in money, and one penny in bread; leaving to the company £\ 2t. 8a. towards a dinner. The sermon is still preached, agreeably to die will of Mr. Lambe, on the 6th OT May, when the twelve pensioners are repii- larly required to attend. Mr. Lambe died between the 1st of April and the beginning of Jane, 1580, and was buried in the church of St. Faith; and near his grave a brass plate on a pillar w^as thus inscribed :
Aa I WM, BO are yc i Aa I am, you shall be ; That 1 bad. tbat I ^ve ; Tliat I gvi, that I barej Thoa I end all my cost : That I left, that I lost.
mUaiii Lambe, so lometime waa my name,
Wliiles alire dyd run my mortal race. Serving a prince of most immortall fame
Henry the Eisht, who, of hia princely grace,
lo his chapell allowed me a place. By whose favour, from gentieman to esquire 1 w^LS preferred, with worship for my hire. With wives three I joyned wedlock band.
WUch (all alive) true lovers were to me, Josuie. Alice, and Joaoe ; for so they canie to hand,
"What needeth praise, rc^ardln^ their degree.
Id wifely troth none stedfast more could be, Who though in earth Death's force did once dissever. Heaven yet I trust, shall Joyn us altogether. O Lambe of God, which sinne didst take away ;
And aa a lambe waa offered up for sinne, Where I (poor Lambe) went from thy flock astray,
Yet thou, (rood Lord, vouchsafe thy Lambe to wione Home to thy folde, and bolde thy Lambe therein j That at the day, when Lambej and Gnates shall sever, Of thy choise lambes, Lambe may be one for ever.
Under which remembrance two lines are added> containing both a petition, and an injunction of duty to the poor, who weekly receive their allow- ance at the hands or appointment of the company of stationers; the which Mr. Lambe, bearing grreat affection, and having also a reasonable assurance in them, made them his disposers and steTvards in that behalf.
I pray yon all that receive bread and pence. To say the Lord's Prayer before ye go hence.
1567. The first Saxon types that were cut in England was by John Daye, under the patro- nage of archbishop Parker, for his editions of Asaeriut Menevensii, JElfric't Batter Humily, and the Saxon Gotpelt. Mr. Astle prefers the shape of these early Saxon types to any which have since been cast.
1568. Mr. Arthur Pepwell, son of Henry Pepwell, noUced at page 270, ante, gave JEIOO for the use of the poor of the stationers company.
1667-8, Jan. H, Robert I^kprevik was em- powered, by writ of privy seal, to print exclu- sively, the " buikes callit Donalut* pro Puerit, RudimentU of Pelisso, togedder with the gramer to be set furth callit the general gramer to be usid within scolis of this realme lor eruditioun of the zouth." Such were the popular school- books at that epoch in Scotland.
In the records of the town council of the city of Edinburgh, under the date of Jan. 10, 1519. occurs the fuUouiiig notice : "The quhilk day, the provost, baillies, and counsall, statuts and ordains for reasonable cause moving thaime that na maner of neighbour nor indweller w'in this hurt [burgh] put their bairins till ony pticulare sculef within this toun but to the principal grammer scule of the sainyu to be teichit in ony science hot alanerlie grace buie, prymar, and plane donat, under the pane of X sh : to be tane of ilk ny'bo' [neighbour] thet breke, or dois in the contiair heirof." The Prymar, and the Plane Donat, were the grammars, it appears, which were first used in the greater schools of Scotland, as they had equally been in England. 1568, May 20. Died, NIiles Coverdale, bishop 'of Exeter, a man universally esteemed for his piety, his scriptural knowledge, his dili- gence in preaching, and above all lor his emi- nent services in the cause of biblical literature, by his translation of the scriptures. He was bom in Yorkshire about the year H86, and became an Augustine monk. He was an exile for the sake of religion, having embraced the principles of the reformation. Being permitted to return to England, he was made almoner to Catherine Par, the last wife of Henry VIII. During the reign of Edward VI. he was pro- moted to the bishopric of Exeter ; but on the change of religion in queen Mary's reign, he was deprived of his see, and thrown into prison, out of which he was released at the earnest request of Christian III., king of Denmark, and as a very great favour, was permitted to depart out of the kingdom. Soon after Eliza, beth's accession to the throne, he returned from his exile, but would not accept of his bishopric. The cause of his refusal was his attachment to the principles of the Puritans. Grindal, bishop of London, gave him the small living of St.
- The Donat, which is mentioned in this record, was a
grammar : from Donatus, a celebrated grammarian, who was the preceptor of St. Jerome, and lived at Rome, in the year of the Christian sera m. By an easy transition, the Donat came to signify the elements of any art.—" Then drave I me among drapers, my Donat to lerne," said Chancer. Wiotown, who may be considered as the oo- temporary of Chancer, has the following passage, (in hia Cronykil, b. v. c. x. I. "04,) with regard to the use of the Donat, in the seminaries of Scotland, during his time. Donate than wes in his state. And in that tyme hys libell wrate That now Bamys oysys to lere At thaire begynnyng of gramere : And Saynct Jerome In thai yheria The best wes callyd of his scolerls. t In 1S98, the principal master of the high school at Sdinborgh, was allowed an annual salary of iS\ I3«. 4rf. sterling. In 1709, his salary was settled at jri8 I3>. 4d.; such was the intermediate progress, both in the depreda. tion of money, and the dilHcalty of subsistence.
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