“And as at a sheriff’s table, O blest custome! 
   A poor indebted gentleman may dine,
   Feed well, and without fear, and depart so.”]

[Footnote 29:  The chapel of the Virgin Mary, in the cathedral church of Gloucester, was founded by Richard Stanley, abbot, in 1457, and finished by William Farley, a monk of the monastery, in 1472.  Sir Robert Atkyns gives the following description of the vault here alluded to.  “The whispering place is very remarkable; it is a long alley, from one side of the choir to the other, built circular, that it might not darken the great east window of the choir.  When a person whispers at one end of the alley, his voice is heard distinctly at the other end, though the passage be open in the middle, having large spaces for doors and windows on the east side.  It may be imputed to the close cement of the wall, which makes it as one entire stone, and so conveys the voice, as a long piece of timber does convey the least stroak to the other end.  Others assign it to the repercussion of the voice from accidental angles.”—­Atkyns’ Ancient and Present State of Glostershire, Lond. 1712, folio, page 128.  See also Fuller’s Worthies, in Gloucestershire, page 351.]

[Footnote 30:  Then in apiece of gold, &c., 1st edit._]

[Footnote 31:  Whilst he has not yet got them, enjoys them, 1st edit.]

[Footnote 32:  Gallo-Belgicus was erroneously supposed, by the ingenious Mr. Reed, to be the “first newspaper, published in England;” we are, however, assured by the author of the Life of Ruddiman, that it has no title to so honourable a distinction. Gallo-Belgicus appears to have been rather an Annual Register, or History of its own Times, than a newspaper.  It was written in Latin, and entituled, “MERCURSS GALLO-BELGICI:  sive, rerum in Gallia, et Belgio potissimum:  Hispania quoque, Italia, Anglia, Germania, Polonia, Vicinisque locis ab anno 1588, ad Martium anni 1594, gestarum, NUNCIJ.”  The first volume was printed in 8vo, at Cologne, 1598; from which year, to about 1605, it was published annually; and from thence to the time of its conclusion, which is uncertain, it appeared in half-yearly volumes.  Chalmers’ Life of Ruddiman, 1794.  The great request in which newspapers were held at the publication of the present work may be gathered from Burton, who, in his Anatomy of Melancholy, complains that “if any read now-a-days, it is a play-book, or a pamphlet of newes.”]

[Footnote 33:  Bartholomew Keckerman was born at Dantzick, in Prussia, 1571, and educated under Fabricius.  Being eminently distinguished for his abilities and application, he was, in 1597, requested, by the senate of Dantzick, to take upon him the management of their academy; an honour he then declined, but accepted, on a second application, in 1601.  Here he proposed to instruct his pupils in the complete science of philosophy in the short space of three years, and, for that purpose, drew up a great number of books upon logic, rhetoric, ethics, politics, physics, metaphysics, geography, astronomy, &c. &c., till, as it is said, literally worn out with scholastic drudgery, he died at the early age of 38.]