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"And so Cumin is justly set down among things of vulgar and common use, when it is said in Matthew xxiii. 23, Ye pay tithe of Mint, and Anise, and Cumin.'"* This passage tends to shew, that this plant was in extensive cultivation and use in Judæa.

The Romans conceived, that the seeds of cumin, infused in drink, or the liquid being used as a wash, would have the effect of creating a pallor of countenance. Diascorides affirms as much. By this they sought to give themselves an aspect worn down by length, and depth, of study; and Pliny thus alludes to this circumstance: "Veruntamen omne pallorem bibentibus gignit. Ita certa ferunt Porcii Latronis clari inter magistros dicendi adsectatores similitudinem coloris studiis contracti imitatos: & paulo ante Julium Vindicem adsertorem illum à Nerone libertatis, captatione testamenti sic lenocinatum.” † Allusion to the same opinions are made both by Horace and Persius, as

"Proh! si

Pallorem casu, biberent exsangue cuminum."

Hor. Epis. Lib. 1, Ep. 19, l. 18.

"Mercibus hic Italis mutat sub sole recenti

Rugosum piper, & pallentis grana cumini.”

Auli Persii Satyr. v. l. 55.

From the above passage of Persius I draw the inference, that the Ancients attributed this property, viz. that of creating pallor, generally, to products of a hot nature.

ADDENDA.

In p. 358 I intimated to my readers, when speaking of the • Inquisitiones post mortem of John Halle, that I would append them in their original language to my notes. They are as follow:

"Inquis: p. m. 19 Edw: 4. No. 33

"Wilts

"Inquisitio capta apud Novam Sar. ultimo die Octobris anno regni Regis Edwardi quarti decimo nono coram Willielmo Haket, Eschaetore, &c.

Browne's "Certain Miscellany Tracts," p. 22.

+ Plinii Nat. Ilist. Lib. xx. cap. xiv.

"Johannes Halle-fuit seisitus in dominico suo ut de feodo die quo obiit de duobus messuagiis & duobus virgatis & dimidia virgata terræ cum pertinentiis in Bedesdon'-necnon de uno mesuagio & una virgata terræ cum pertinentiis in Newton' Tony-Prædicta duo mesuagia & duæ virgatæ & dimidia terræ in Bedesdon' prædicta tenentur de domino Rege ut de ducato suo Lancastria per fidelitatem & redditum v solidorum per annum pro omnibus servitiis-Et valent per annum in omnibus exitibus ultra reprisas xxxiij solidos & iiij denarios. Et prædictum mesuagium & una virgata terræ in Newton' Tony tenentur de Thomas Noreys per fidelitatem & redditum ij solidorum per annum pro omnibus servitiis. Et valent per annum in omnibus exitibus ultra reprisas viij solidos-Johannes Hall' obiit xiij die Octobris ultimo præterito. Et Willielmus Hall' est filius & hæus ejus propinquior, et ætatis viginti quatuor annorum et amplius.

"Suthampton'

Et

"Inquisitio capta apud Basyngstoke tertio die Novembris anno &c. xixo. coram Will. Haket &c-Johannes Hall' fuit seisitus in dominico suo ut de feodo die quo obiit de manerio de Shipton' Berenger cum pertinentiis in Snodyngton'-manerio de Swathelyn' cum pertinentiis de Swathelyn'-Maneriis de Alyngton' & de Nursheling'-necnon de uno messuagio & duabus carucatis terræ cum pertinentiis in Gratley-Dictum manerium de Shipton' tenetur de Will. Stonour Militi in socagio per fidelitatem & redditum v marcarum per annum. valet per annum in omnibus exitibus ultra reprisas xl. solidos. Et dictum manerium de Swathelyn' tenetur de domino Regi in socagio per fidelitatem & redditum xl. sol: iidem domino Regi annuatim in scaccario suo per manus Vicecomitis dicti comitatus solvendorum. Et valet per annum in omnibus exitibus ultra reprisas xxxiij. solidos, iiij. denarios-Prædictum mesuagium & duæ carucata terræ in Gratley tenentur de Johanne Grene Milite in socagio per fidelitatem & redditum unius libræ cimini per annum. Et valent in omnibus exitibus ultra reprisas per annum xx. solidos-Johannes Hall' nulla alia terras seu tenementa tenuit, &c."

I HAVE now, gentle reader, closed the first volume of my illustrative Essays on the Halle of John Halle. In its com

pilation it has amusingly filled the chasm of my leisure hours, and it will afford me much pleasure, if, when perused, I should hear, that—it hath amused you. It was said (as I have observed in my preface) by the facetious Sterne, that to write a book is one of the cardinal duties of every man's life. Impelled onward by the resistless desire to fulfil that duty, I have written a book, which has long since struggled to escape from my hands, and to emerge into the wide, and perilous, world; and now" Oh! my book, what shall I say unto thee? Oh! mi ocelle! thou apple of mine eye! thou little knowest the troubles, which too probably await thee! Thou art about to enter into life-about to encounter the passing remarks of those, who might meet thee in thy wandering path; and, whilst, mayhap, some may kindly take thee by the hand, and send thee on thy way rejoicing, others may be more intent on spying out all thy faults, and yield thee a more unfavourable reception. Thou mayest, in thy adventurous course, fall in with the grim critic, who, eyeing thee askaunt, torvo vultu, truculentoque corde, may cleave thy skull with his literary tomahawk, or mercilessly plunge his sharpened knife into thy very heart. Thou art about to sail on a sea beset with rocks, and quicksands, and liable to encounter the tempestuous gale, which may hurl thee to inevitable destruction. Oh! my book! my anxious heart beats heavily for thy fate. I can only add, in the words of Martial,

Fare thee well!

I, fuge, sed poteras tutior esse domi.""

END OF VOL. I.

SALISBURY:

W. B. BRODIE AND CO., CANAL.

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