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The Every-day Book and Table Book, v. 1 (of 3): or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the AlmanacHone, William

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The Every-day Book and Table Book, v. 1 (of 3): or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac

Name: The Every-day Book and Table Book, v. 1 (of 3): or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac
Author: Hone, William

Hone, William

Days; Great Britain -- Social life and customs

A correspondent, LECTOR, communicates that there is against the south
wall of Camberwell church, an inscription commemorative of “Bartholomew
Scott, esq. justice of peace in the county of Surrey,” in which he is
said to have married “Margaret, the widow of the right reverend prelate
and martyr, Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterburie.” Strype, (Life,
p. 418. b. iii. ch. xxviii.) says, that the name of Cranmer’s last wife
was Ann; and that she survived him, was living towards the latter end of
archbishop Parker’s time, and “for her subsistence enjoyed an abbey in
Nottinghamshire.” He does not seem very sanguine on this head, but gives
the passage on authority of “a very angry book, writ against the
execution of justice in England by cardinall Allen.” Fox, in his “Actes
and Monumentes,” says, that Cranmer’s wife was “a Dutchewoman, kynne to
the wyfe of Osiander;” and that Cranmer having “sold hys plate, and
payed all his debts, so that no man could ask him a grote,” left his
wife and children unprovided. The marriage of “Bartholomew Scott, esq.”
with Cranmer’s widow, was certainly an act of noble disinterestedness.
He is celebrated for his never-dying virtues, and described as a
“valiant, wise, and religious gentleman,” of “right worshipful and
ancient familie.”

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FLORAL DIRECTORY.

  Bulbous Fumitory. _Fumaria bulbosa._
  Dedicated to _St. Bennet_.

  [37] Alban Butler, the English biographer of St. Benedict, and the
  rest of the saints, died in May, 1773, aged 63.

  [38] Pope St. Gregory’s labour is translated under the title of “The
  Life and Miracles of our Holie Father St. Benedict--_Permissu
  Superiorum_. Printed an. 1628.” 18mo.


~March 22.~

  _St. Basil_ of Ancyra, A. D. 362. _St. Paul_, Bp. _St. Lea_, A. D.
  384. _St. Deogratias_, Bp. of Carthage, A. D. 457. _St. Catharine_ of
  Sweden, Abbess, A. D. 1381.


CHRONOLOGY.

1687. John Baptist Lulli, the celebrated musician, died, aged 54. He was
born at Florence, in 1634, and from being page to madame Montpensier,
niece to Louis XIV. became superintendent of music to that monarch.


_The Plague in London._

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