254 NOTES TO THE LETTERS. bede.-Bezoars : concretions met with in the bodies of ruminant animals. They were celebrated for their supposed medicinal virtues, and considered as highly alexipharmie so much so, that other medicines supposed to possess the same virtues obtained the name of bezoardics. So efficacious were they once thought, that theywere eagerlybought for ten times their weight in gold. Besides being exhibited internally, they were worn round the neck, as preservatives against contagion. For this purpose, it is said, in Por- tugal it was customary to hire them at about ten shillings per day. It is needless to add, that the accounts of their extrordinary virtues must be now considered imaginary. See a further account in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana. Orampotabely.-Aurum potabile. Another medicine rejected from the MateriaMedica, but formerly much vaunted by empiries as a most powerful tonic. (Encyclopedia Metro - politana.) P. 49. Mr. Simons, a worthy minister, and three or lower more are gone into the Low Contreyes to shift for themselves.-Escaping from the contributions required from ministers towards supplying the army : before alluded to in p. 37. P. 51. 1 thanke you for the King's booke. -The large declaration concerning the tumults of Scotland, by the King, 1639, written by Dr. Balcanquall, Dean of Durham. P. 63. Letter xrviii.-Terminating the first series of Letters addressed to Edward Harley at Oxford. P. 64. Letter xrax.-Edward Harley returns again to Oxford. P. 66. I thanke you for the relation of the seae fight. -A relation of the engagement between the Dutch and Spanish fleets in the Downs, which took place early in Sep- tember. P. 68. Sir Richard Newport. - Created Lord Newport 1642. Brother of Sir Robert Harley's second wife. P. 69. If the venter of the Corrantes be in prison.-Vendor of foreign news. P. 72. There is a Duch imbasodr, Mounsire Arttson, come over to excuse the fighting of the Duch ships 'upon the Inglisch cost.-Van Aersen, Lord Somnelsdyke. Another object of this embassy was the marriage of the Prince of Orange with the Princess Mary. (Baillie's Letters, 29 Jan. 1640 -1, vol. i. p. 294.) P. 81. Sir William Pelham hath refused to be knight of the shire.-For Lincolnshire, in the first parliament of 1640, which met on the 17th April, and was dissolved on the 5th May following, P. 84. Mr. Blineman is goon into NewIngland. -One of the Puritan ministers.
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