L. s. d.
  To musicians, for which, however,
    they were bound to
    perform three nights 0 5 6
  For players, in bread and ale 0 3 1
  For decorations, dresses, and
    play-books 1 0 0
  To John Hobbard, priest, and
    author of the piece 0 2 8
  For the place in which the
    representation was held 0 1 0
  For furniture 0 1 4
  For fish and bread 0 0 4
  For painting three phantoms
    and devils 0 0 6
  And for four chickens for the
    hero 0 0 4

H. B. A.

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ROBINSON CRUSOE’S ISLAND.

The United States ship, Vincennes, visited the island of Juan Fernandez, off the coast of Chili, a few months since, and remained there three days.  There were two Yankees and six Otaheitans on the island.  The former had formed a settlement for the purpose of supplying whale-ships with water, poultry, and vegetables.  The soil is said to be astonishingly fertile.

_—­New York Shipping List, 1366._

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THE LETTER H.

From an old History of England.

  “Not superstitiously I speak, but H his letter still
  Hath been observed ominous to England’s good or ill.”

  Humber the Hun, with foreign arms, did first the brutes invade;
  Helen to Rome’s imperial throne the British crown convey’d;
  Hengist and Horsus first did plant the Saxons in this isle;
  Hungar and Hubba first brought Danes, that sway’d here a long while;
  At Harold had the Saxon end at Hardy Knute the Dane;
  Henries the First and Second did restore the English reign;
  Fourth Henry first for Lancaster did England’s crown obtain;
  Seventh Henry jarring Lancaster and York unites in peace;
  Henry the Eighth did happily Rome’s irreligion cease.

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CHURCH OF AUSTIN FRIARS.

The church of Austin Friars is one of the most ancient Gothic remains in the City of London.  It belonged to a priory dedicated to St. Augustine, and was founded for the friars Eremites of the order of Hippo, in Africa, by Humphry Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, 1253.  A part of this once spacious building was granted by Edward VI. to a congregation of Germans and other strangers, who fled hither from religious persecutions.  Several successive princes have confirmed it to the Dutch, by whom it has been used as a place of worship.  J.M.C.

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DAUPHIN OF FRANCE.