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the North Side of the Thames, a confiderable Distance from the Sea, and by Computation contained within the Walls, before the dreadful Fire in the Year 1666, above 20,000 Houfes, which is not now above a fixth Part of that which is commonly. called London.

Q. What Buildings are moft remarkable in London?

A. There are many magnificent Churches, and St. Paul's that is now rebuilt is a most sumptuous: Piece of Work. The Royal Exchange is most ftately, fo is Bedlam, and the Pillar on Fishfreet-bill, that was fet up in Remembrance of the Burning this City. The Bridge, Guildhall, the Cuftom-Houfe, and many other ftately Halls.

Q. Which are the three moft noted Churches in England?

A. St. Paul's, Weftminster, and Salisbury; St. Paul's for Antiquity, Westminster for her curious Workmanship, and Salisbury for a Spire, and Variety of Pillars, Windows, and Gates. St. Paul's, before the great Conflagration of Fire, was renowned for her continual Society of the Living: Westminster is renowned for her Royal Sepulchres of the Dead; and Salisbury, for her tripartite: Calculation of the Year, having as many Windows, Pillars and Gates, as there are Days in the Year, of which Mr. Cambden, the famous Antiquary, thus writes:

"How many Days in one whole Year there be,
"So many Windows in one Church we fee;
"" So many
marble Pillars there appear,
"As there are Hours throughout the flitting

"Year;

"So many Gates as Moons, one Year doth view, Strange Tale to tell, yet not fo ftrange as true.

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And for our other Churches, the most renowned are, firft, the Cathedral of Lincoln; fecondly, for a private

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private Parish Church, that of Radcliff in Brifto!; third, for a Chapel, that of King's College in Cambridge; fourth, the Minfter of Ely; fifth, for the curious Workmanship of the Glafs, that of Chrift-Church in Cante bury; fixth, for the exquifite Beauty of the Fronts, thofe of Wells and Peterborough; feventh, for a pleafant and lightfome Church, the Abbey Church at Bath; eighth, for an ancient and reverend Fabrick, the Minster of York.

Q. Which are the three chiefeft Rivers in England?

A. Thames, Severn, and Trent, Thames renown- . ed for the stately Buildings fhe paffeth by, and for Swans and Ships fhe beareth; Severn for her Swiftnefs, and beautiful Shores; Trent for her variety of Floods and Fish; which some think to be fo called from Trent, a French Word which fignifies Thirty; because fhe beareth thirty feveral forts of Fish, and thirty Rivers fall into her Flood.

Q. What Foreft is that which was erected out of the Ruins of most Churches, Towns and Villages in England?

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A. New-Foreft in Hampshire, which William the Conqueror to erect, pulled down thirty-fix Churches, and brought all the Towns, Villages, and Houses, within the Compass of thirty Miles, for a Forest for wild Beafts: For which heinous Offence, the Judgments of God foon overtook his Pofterity; for William Rufus, his fecond Son, was there fhot with an Arrow by Walter Terril, and thereby loft his Life: One of his other Sons was there blafted with a peftilent Air: His Grandchild, purfuing his Chale, was there hanged amongst the Boughs. And thus much of this large Forest, in this fhort Difcourfe for Example and History.

Q. Who was the first that brought Tobacco into England ?

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A. It was firft brought into England by the Mariners of Sir Francis Drake in 1585; but brought into more Requeft by Sir Walter Ra. leigh, who is faid to have taken two Pipes thereof, as he was going to Execution.

Q Who erected Charing-Cross?

A. King Edward the Third, in Honour of his Wife Queen Elinor, whom he loved fo dearly, that dying in his Company in the North Country, and intending to bury her in Weftminfer-Abbey, in every Place where her Corpfe refted, he erected a moft magnificent Crofs; the laft of all was that at the End of the Strand, commonly called Charing-Crofs.

What four Counties are thofe in England, which are fam'd for four principal Qualities? A. Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Cheshire, and Lancafhire.

Staffordshire for Beer and Bread,
Derbyshire for Wool and Lead,
Cheshire for the chief of Men,
And Lancashire for fair Women.

Q. How many Kings did formerly Reign in thefe Countries, whereof our Sovereign King George

the Second is Monarch?

A. In England were feven during the Saxon Heptarchy; in Wales three; in Ireland five, till it was fubjected to England by King Henry 11. Scotland had formerly two Kings, one was of the Scots, the other of the Pias: Befides these there was a King of the Ifles of Scotland, and one of the Isle of Man; and Henry VI. created Henry Beaucamp, Earl of Warwick, King of the Isle of Wight, fo that, reckoning them one with another, you will find them to amount to twenty Kingdoms.

Q. Whereupon did the Antients Name England?
A. England, ab Angulo, as being an Angle of

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the World, engirdled round about by the Sea, having within it Plenty of all Things, and comely Perfonages the Poffeffors thereof, as St. Gregany on a Time faid, feeing certain English Youths at Rome, Well may they be called Angli, English, because their Faces fhine like Angels.

Q. Why was it called Britannia ?.

A. Either from Brutus, or Britto, a King; or rather, as Mr. Cambden hath it, from Britt. Q. Who taught the English to make BroadCloth?

A. The Flemings, who at the Invitation of King Edward III. came and fettled in England: Afterwards that wife Prince, Henry VII. encouraged it by lending Money to young Merchants and Tradefmen, the better to enable them to carsy it on, till he found anfwerable Amends in the Ádvance of his Cuftoms; thefe Foreigners being afterwards perfecuted, Queen Elizabeth tenderly preferved them, to the very great Improvement of our Woollen Manufacture, and Relief of the Poor.. We are also indebted to Foreigners for the making of Arras, Dornix, and worsted Says; they allo reftored Mufick, and found out divers Mufical Inftruments, befides the laying on of Colours with Oyl, and the working of Pictures in Glass.

Q. What Answer gave Queen Elizabeth when her Opinion was afk'd concerning the real Prefence of Chrift in the Sacrament?

A. Chrift is the Word that fpake it,
He took the Bread and brake it,

And as the Word did make it,

I do believe and take it.

Q. How long did Queen Elizabeth Reign? A. This excellent Queen was renowned all over the World, for her Wifdom, Prudence, Courage, ard Learning; fhe could speak five or fix Lan

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guages, and delighted in the Mathematicks, Geography, and Hiftory. After the Defeat of the Spanish Armado, in 1588, fhe was a Terror to that King, and Nation. She reigned 44 Years four Months and odd Days, and died being much lamented, in the 70th Year of her Age, on the 24th of March, about Two in the Morning, 1602. She had many flately Tombs built for her in Wefiminfter-Abbey, and many other Places.

If royal Virtues ever crown'd a Crown,
If ever Mildness fhin'd in Majefty,
If ever Princess put all Princes down,

For Temperance, Prowefs, Prudence, Equity;
This, this was fhe, who, in defpight of Death,
Lives ftill ador'd, admir'd Elizabeth.

In the Figure of a Book over her Effigies were written thefe Words:

They that truft in the Lord shall be as Moùnt ·
Sion, which shall never be removed.

On one Side:

Spain's Rod, Rome's Ruin, Netherland's Relief, Heaven's Gem, Earth's Joy, World's Wonder, Nature's Chief.

On the other Side::

Britain's Bleffing, England's Splendour,
Religion's Nurfe, the Faith's Defender.

Under her::

I have fought a good Fight, I have finish'd my Course,

Read but her Reign; this Princess might have. been

For Wisdom call'd Nichalious, Sheba's Queen
Against Spain's Holofornes, Judith, she
Dauntless gain'd many a glorious Victory;

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