Day. Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes Their lot forbad: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.---Gray. VIII. Saint John the Baptist, B. C. Titus Flavius Vespasianus, A.D. Theodore Beza, 1519, Vezelai, Isabel, Countess of Warwick, Obits of the Latin Church. The Martyrs of Rome, under Dr. J. Blair, 1782. St. Bride's. Nero, A. D. 64. Thomas Sandby, 1798. St. Bartholomew, Monk of Dur-Sir Francis Milman, 1821. ham Abbey. He must grow, and I must become less.---St. John. Beside the dewy border let me sit, All in the freshness of the humid air; There in that hollow'd rock, grotesque and wild, An ample chair, moss-lin'd, and over head By flowering umbrage shaded; where the bee Strays diligent, and with th' extracted balm Of fragrant woodbine loads his little thigh.-Summer. Acts. ST. JOHN'S DAY. This great festival of the church was instituted A. D. 488, to commemorate the nativity of the precursor of Christ, and from its importance it has been placed (or misplaced) in the Catholic necrology.-See 6th July. Midsummer Day, with the days of the Purification and Ascension, is the third and last of the three great and solemn holidays during the terms.-See 2d February. The first Christian persecution under Nero, 64.-See 18th June. Vespasian had reigned with popularity for ten years, 79. He was the first of the Roman Emperors who died a natural death; and seems to have merited this exemption, if superior worth be a protection from domestic treachery or open assassination. Vespasian was succeeded by Titus, a prince not inferior in virtue to his father; but his reign was brief. Frederick Barbarossa issues his famous imperial edict, under the sanction of the diet at Constance, restoring the Lombard towns to their primitive rank as independent republics, with all their ancient usages, 1183; a day which, to adopt a sentence, "may be numbered among the most remarkable epochs in the long progress of human society." THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN, in the vicinage of Stirling, 1314.— A proud and bright and a prosperous Monday for Scotland. "The slaughter was immense; the deep ravine of Bannockburn, to the south of the field of battle, lying in the direction taken by most of the fugitives, was almost choked and bridged over with the slain." Edward's great and bloody victory off Sluys, 1340. Nautical knowledge was not yet attended by humanity; for two French Admirals, Sir Nicholas Buchet and Sir Hugh Queret, were hanged,' says Fabian, 'upon the sails of their ships.' Philip was first made acquainted with the defeat by the wit of his buffoon. He called the English cowards; and when the king inquired the reason, replied, that they had not the courage to leap into the sea, like the French and Normans. At Bannockburn I served the Bruce, Of whilk the Inglis had na ruise.-Scotch Broadsword. Day. Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, VIII. Saint John the Baptist, B. C. Titus Flavius Vespasianus, A.D. Cal. 4, Hebron, in Palestine. 24. St. John, of Matha, A. D. 1169, in Burgundy. 79. d. Cutilia. Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Glou cester, 1314. k. Bannockburn. Theodore Beza, 1519, Vezelai, Isabel, Countess of Warwick, 1439. Tewkesbury. drowned, 1630. Nicholas Claude Péiresc, 1637. John Churchill, Duke of Marl-William, Earl of Northampton, 1741, Josephine (of France), 1763, Obits of the Latin Church. Baptist. The Martyrs of Rome, under Dr. J. Blair, 1782. St. Bride's. Nero, A. D. 64. Thomas Sandby, 1798. St. Bartholomew, Monk of Dur-Sir Francis Milman, 1821. ham Abbey. He must grow, and I must become less.---St. John. Beside the dewy border let me sit, All in the freshness of the humid air; There in that hollow'd rock, grotesque and wild, An ample chair, moss-lin'd, and over head By flowering umbrage shaded; where the bee Strays diligent, and with th' extracted balm Of fragrant woodbine loads his little thigh.-Summer. Acts. ST. JOHN'S DAY. This great festival of the church was instituted A. D. 488, to commemorate the nativity of the precursor of Christ, and from its importance it has been placed (or misplaced) in the Catholic necrology.—See 6th July. Midsummer Day, with the days of the Purification and Ascension, is the third and last of the three great and solemn holidays during the terms.-See 2d February. The first Christian persecution under Nero, 64.-See 18th June. Vespasian had reigned with popularity for ten years, 79. He was the first of the Roman Emperors who died a natural death; and seems to have merited this exemption, if superior worth be a protection from domestic treachery or open assassination. Vespasian was succeeded by Titus, a prince not inferior in virtue to his father; but his reign was brief. Frederick Barbarossa issues his famous imperial edict, under the sanction of the diet at Constance, restoring the Lombard towns to their primitive rank as independent republics, with all their ancient usages, 1183; a day which, to adopt a sentence, " may be numbered among the most remarkable epochs in the long progress of human society." THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN, in the vicinage of Stirling, 1314.A proud and bright and a prosperous Monday for Scotland. "The slaughter was immense; the deep ravine of Bannockburn, to the south of the field of battle, lying in the direction taken by most of the fugitives, was almost choked and bridged over with the slain." Edward's great and bloody victory off Sluys, 1340. Nautical knowledge was not yet attended by humanity; for two French Admirals, Sir Nicholas Buchet and Sir Hugh Queret, were hanged,' says Fabian, I upon the sails of their ships.' Philip was first made acquainted with the defeat by the wit of his buffoon. He called the English cowards; and when the king inquired the reason, replied, that they had not the courage to leap into the sea, like the French and Normans. At Bannockburn I served the Bruce, Of whilk the Inglis had na ruise.-Scotch Broadsword. Heaven (that hath plac'd this island to give law, By the rude ocean from the continent, Or thus created; it was sure design'd To be the sacred refuge of mankind.---Waller on Cromwell. Acts. The battle of Seven Oaks, when the rebel, Cade, turning on his pur- The Duke of Buckingham harangues the good citizens from the hus- The Island of Newfoundland is discovered by Sebastian Cabot, 1497. The coronation of Henry VIII. and his Queen, Katharine of Arragon, The anniversary of the great procession at Dunkirk, called Cormass, John (Boccold) of Leyden, the leader of the Anabaptists, is elected Sebastian III. embarks at Lisbon against Africa with one thousand To oppress all his enemies by arms, and all his friends afterwards by artifice; |