one revolution for soldiers, and another for gownsmen and merchants. The good father, to whom I am indebted for my instructions, has, above all things, earnestly recommended the forgiveness and forgetfulness of injuries, assuring me, that it was the very characteristic of a Christian to love even his enemy, and by no means to retaliate an offence of any kind." "The lessons which the good father gave you,' said the friend, t σε may fit you for a monastery, but they will not qualify you either for the court or the army in a word," continued he, "if you do not call the Colonel to an account, you will be branded with the infamous name of a coward, and avoided by every man of honour; and, what is more, your commission will be forfeited."" I would fain," answered the young man," act consistently in every thing; but since you press me with that regard to my honour which you have always shewn, I will endeavour to wipe off so foul a stain, though I must confess I gloried in it before." In consequence of which, he immediately sent a challenge by his friend to the aggressor, to meet him early the next morning. They met and fought; the brave African disarmed his antagonist; the next day he threw up his commission, and requested the royal permission to return to his father. At parting, he embraced his brother and his friend, with tears in VOL. I. S his his eyes, saying, he did not imagine the Christians were such unaccountable persons, and that he could not apprehend their faith was of any use to them, if it did not influence their conduct. "In my country," said he, "we think it no dishonour to act up to the principles of our religion.” IGNORAMUS COMEDIA. AUCTORE MRO. RUGGLE, AUL. CLAR. Corrected from Archbishop Sandcroft's Copy, with the Actors' Names, viz. THEODORUS (Mercator) senex. Mr. Hutchinson, Clar. H. Antoninus (F. Theodori) juvenis. Mr. (afterwards Lord) Hollis, Chr. Coll. Ignoramus (Anglus) Causidicus, Mr. Perkinson, Torcol (Portugallus) Leno, Mr. Bargrave, Clar. H. afterwards Dean of Canterbury (Bargan MSS. A. C. Car.) Rosabella (Virgo), Mr. Morgan, Regin. Surda, nana Ancilla, Mr. Compton, Regin. afterwards Earl of Northampton. Trico (Theodori) Servus, Mr. Lake, Clar. H. af terwards Secretary. Banacar Banacar (Theod. Servus) Maurus, Dr. Love, Clar. H. Cupes (Bibliopola) Parasitus, Mr. Mason, Pemb. Vince (a Page Dorothea), Puer, Mr. Compton, Nell (Angla Dorothea) Ancilla, Turner, Clar. H. Richardus (Theodori) Servus, Grame, Clar. H. Pyropus (Vestiarius), Mr. Wade, G. C. Fidicen, or Tibicen, Rennarde, Clar. H. Nautæ { Gallicus, Thorogood, Clar. Anglicus, Mr. Mason, Pembr. (Campo) Thorogood, Clar. H. Personæ mutæ, quarum sit mentio. Prologus prior, Mar. 8, an. 1614. Prologus posterior ad secundum regis adventum habitus, May 6, 1615. Archbishop Sandcroft's copy is at Emanuel, amended and supplied from three MS. copies, and from the printed edition, an. 1658. The list, or catalogue of names, I compared with a MS. copy at Clare Hall, possibly Mr. Ruggle's copy; but it is not in his hand, nor the qualities of the actors mentioned. ACCOUNT OF THE BARBAROUS MURDER Committed on his Grace JAMES SHARPE, Archbishop of St. Andrews, Primate and Metropolitan of all Scotland, &c. on the 3d of May 1679. JAMES Sharpe, son of William Sharpe, sheriff clerk of Banffshire, was born in the castle of Banff, May 13, 1613. He was educated in Aberdeen, and professor of philosophy and divinity, successively, in the college of Aberdeen. He was afterwards appointed minister of the town of Crail. During the troubles in his native country, he visited England, and passed much of his time at Oxford, in conversation with the learned in that university. On the restoration of the royal family and episcopacy, he was promoted to the archbishopric of St. Andrew, and was consecrated in Westminster Abbey, on the 15th of December 1661: he possessed that see till the day of his murder. The following narration was drawn up a few weeks after the commission of that horrid deed: "After that God had restored to these kingdoms their king and liberty (mercies never to be forgot, till by our ingratitude for them we have deserved to be thrown back into those miseries that that we have so lately escaped), reasonable men might have concluded, that we would have rested with much satisfaction under those great blessings, for which we had so much longed. But that restless bigotry, which had in the late rebellion distracted our religion, dissolved monarchy, unhinged our property, and enslaved our liberties, did soon prompt the execrable authors of Naphthali and Jus Populi, who in those books endeavoured to persuade all men to massacre their governors and judges by the misapplied example of holy Phineas, and did in specific terms assert, that there could be no greater gift made to Jesus Christ, than the sending the Archbishop of St. Andrew's head in a silver box to the King; which doctrine prevailed with Mr. James Mitchell, a zealous Naphthalite, to attempt the killing of the said Lord Archbishop, upon the chief street of Edinburgh, in face of the sun, and of the multitude; and he having died, owning his crime as a duty, and others having writ books, comparing him in this crime to Sampson, twelve, or more, of the same sect did, upon the third day of May last, murder the said Archbishop in this ensuing manner. "After his Grace had gone from the secret council, where, to aggravate their crime, he had been pleading most fervently for favours to them, having lodged at a village called Kennoway, in Fiffe, S3 |