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ing the prison of the Upper or King ' s Bench , both as to debtors and creditors . " William Penn had the merit of legislating on the liberal principle of this committee . In a
constitution for West New Jersey ^ which he projected in 1676 , according to Mr , Clarkson ' s Life of Penn , ( i . 170 . ) u No man was to be
imprisoned for debt ; but his estate was to satisfy his creditors as far as it would go , and chen he was to be set at liberty to work again for himself and family /*
Dr , Johnson , a century after Cromwell ' s committee , maintained their just and liberal sentiments . I refer to the Idlers * Nos . 22 and 38 , published in 1758 , which those should read who are
strangers to them , and those who have read can scarcely have forgotten . VERMICULUS . P . S . The religious house , mentioned in my last number ( p . SfiOj ) was Siori ) near Brentford , now a seat of the Duke of North
umberland . In London and its Environs ( vi . 6 , ) I find the following account . * f When the corpse of Henry the 8 th was to be removed from Westminster to Windsor to
be interred , it laid the first night , not at Richmond , as is commonly supposed , but at Sion ; which , by this means became the scene in which a prophecy was supposed to be fulfilled . For Father Peto
preaching before the King at Greenwich in 1534 9 told him that the dogs would lick his blood as they had done Ahab ' s . Now as the king died of a dropsical
disorder , and had been dead a fortnight before he was removed to Sion , it so happened that some corrupted matter of a bloody colour ran through the coffin at that place .
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Whereupon the incident , though only a natural consequence of th ^ aforesaid circumstances , was niis .. construed into a completion of
Peto ' s pretended prophecy , and considered as a piece of divine justice inflicted upon the king , for having foicrd the Briiigettins from their religious sanctuary . "
Stow in his Annals , p . 562 , under the year 1533 , relates this anecdote of friar Peto ^ fi a simple man j r et very devout , " and de-6 i
scribes him as > preaching at Greenwich , upon the 22 d chapter of the 3 d book of Kings /* and warning the king by the story of Ahab . "
Henry ' s fair monument at Windsor ( p . 360 ) appears to have been designed by him on a scale the most costly and magnificent which the age could invent . In Speed ' s
Chronicle ( ii . 785 ) the plan of this sumptuous fabric is detailed . The following instructions to the sculptor will show what a gross anthropomorphist was the royal leader of the English Reformation . ci
Item , on the top of the highest step of the said 5 steps , on the south side , shall be an image of the Father ^ having in his left hand the soul of the king and blessing with his right hand , with 2 angels , holding abroad the mantle of the Father * on either side .
" Item , in likewise shall be made on the other side , the said image of the Father , having the soul of the queen in his left hand , blessing with his right hand , with like angels .
4 t The height of the same work from the Father unto the pavement shall be 28 feet . " This monument was never com * pleted * but some parts of it re- ? mained till 1642 . The silver
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§ 04 Book-Worm . —No . VIZ .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1813, page 504, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2431/page/16/
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