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sentiment•, uhich was alto negative& without a di-
vision, and the original Resolution carried.
The third Resolution tended to deprecate the
pointment of Barristers. as Distriti Justices, at an
aggregate expence of 3.0001. a yea,.!. p
The fourth Resolution asserted, mare nntoriet y of
the fatal, that there do not exist any nightly distur-
bances or depredations in the city, which would
call for a new Al, fraught with so many evil cunse-
qtrencer.
Mr. Coe r., adhering to the principle, that the criti-
cal situation of the times renders it both politic and
necessary to strengthen the hands of Governments
moved, as an amendment, 66 that our present tran-
quillity and exemption from notturnal disturbances.
are solely to be attributed to the vigilance and exer-
tions of our military patrolcs." He was in both
amendments seconded by Mr. Kelly, and forcibly
supported by his opinions and observations.
The fifth Resolution tended to the principle, that
if any modification of the present police establish-
ment should be requisite, two additional Magistrates
would answer every purpose of amendment or ame-
lioration.
The sixth Resolution stated the additional expence
of the projeaed new establishment at '5,0001. a year.
The seventh, on the motion of Mr. Stephens, ho-
sier, was an address of thanks to his Excellency
Earl Hat dwicke, for his gracious communication to
them respefling the new Bill.
Eig!lth Resolution-6, That the preceding ones
do constitute a Renott s,f the Committee to the next
Quarter Assembly," Adj..urned.
REMARKABLE PE RSONS.

EXTRACT FROM AN it's roincAt DICTIONAIY
Or Tilt;
►MOST REMARKARI.F. I'F.KS./NS IN ENL:LAND AND
WALE.S.—Publis6e.l in 1692.

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Silt JOHN FASTOLI.
Baron of Seinglein, in France, was truly valiant,
though the stage (with hide variation of the name)
hath made him a hedtoriog puff, and emblem of mock
valour. He was made Knight of the Carter by
King Henry VI.
NATI:Do. TIT? WALTICR,
Surnamed by some the Fair, by others **Chaste,
born in Essex. a knight's daughter, is said to have
been the occasion of the Barons' Wars, in the reign
of King John, who iwialilied her chastity, but still
found her stout in her virtuous reAution. The ki:g
being so baffled, procured one to poison her in a
poached egg. 1'213. l ler anagram on Matilda, the
'Cal Maid, shows her stature.
JOHN rteicetrlts
llotn in Northamptonshile, hal an excellent wit.
Ile, with n. !Teatime it, Esci (like Castor and M-
ins, happy in their conjunifti;a:), s aised the f nglis'i
to equal the Athenian and Roman theatre. Beau-
mont 'wing the hailast of judgment, Fletcher the
sail of fancy. He died, some say of the plague, in
I G 23.
JOHN iLOWIN
Horn at Bristol, was a 'winter, skilful in Greek
and Latin, and a good poet, orator, and divine ;
wrote au Abridgement of St. 'I homas hie $4,0,w.
Having fled fiiti his Roman religion. he eel up at
Antwerp, where he was tel viceable to the Catlaolick
cause. He died 1579.
wictiess rtowarr,
ion at Snow Hill, in Cambridge•hire, bred first
a Munk, became .if.erwarth a Protestant, and, after
many removals, fixed at lasi at Lauthrh There
lie committed an abornioable air by wound'ng
Priest at Mass, dangerously, w;th a knife, so that his
hl vtd spitted into the chatice Tar this barbarous
WI, his tight hand ets cut, off, by order of the
Judges, before he was put to death.
asta4 to roc,
Barn at Grantham, in Lo.‘-loshire, for the public
good, was hied in Cambridge, and afterwards in
Oxford, where he founded she fair College el Cor-
pus Christi, allowing to is J4ll. tes. lid. per ann.
Having been very instrumental in bringing Hairy
VII. to the Crow", he mule him Bishop et Win-
chester ; which Cathedral he also beautified, and
made decent tombs for the bodies of the Sawn Kings
and Bishops there, which were since basilarously
demolished. He died in ISte.
WILT Intl( VOXLICYs
Potmaker for the mint in the 'roarer, fill asleep,
on the lith of April, and slept roentgen days, and
fifteen nights ; and could not M awaked either with
cramping or burning ; and was in all points bound
at his waiting to be as if he had slept but one night,
and lived forty-one years after, till 1357.
sr. fliltiftsWith
Was born in Oxford, being slaughter of the Duke
thereof. said, that one Algarius, a young no-
bleman, was struck blind, upon attempting her chas-
ty. She erns afterwards Abbess of a Monastery,
ereaed by her father in the same city, which since is
become part of Christ Church. where, she died in
739, and her body lieth there buried.
ISAWIS GADAUN.
A lady of remark in blontgomeryshire, was sole
daughter and heir to Owen ap Giyflith, Prince of
Puwis. fler four uncles detained her inheritance
from her. Hereupon Haters complained to King
Edward 11. who, commiserating her case, hid his
servant, John Charleton, a stout Knight, to marry
her, creating him in her right, Baron of Puwis. As-
sisted, therefore, with the King's forces, he took three
of her uncles prisoners, brought the fourth to com-
position, and finally recovered his wife's estate, 1320.
meow GAUNT,

Bordin London, was preferred Bishop of Salis-
bury. He first gave leave to the citizens of Salisbury
to fortify that city with a ditch and walls. No less
WAS his care of that church, making good statutes,
wh by 'twzis ordered even to our age. He died
about 13 l 3.
Cll. DAS, Till; WI t,
Was born at Bath, in bornersetshire. He was
also surnamed the Querulous, because the little we
have of his writing is only an Vstorical complaint
against the sins and sufferings of the age he lived
in. Calliag the Britains generally the Ink of the
Age, the clergy Mountains of He died in
SAL
aiCU SRO courin,
Born in Westmorland, was intvotTed in the Lord•
ship of Kent-mire-Hall, by the liaron of Kendal,
kit his singular deserts. lie killed the wild beer
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