mitted to Vulcan's base keeping, without any longer abode, than the leisure of reading thereof; yea, and with no mention made thereof to any other wight. I charge you, as I may command you, seem not to have but secretaries' letters from me, "Your loving maistres, "ELIZABETH REGINA." AS we have given an extract out of Sir James Ware, we shall give another out of Dr. Borlase *: it is a debt to the living and the dead. Imagines majorum ad virtutem accendunt. 66 1575. Sir Henry Sidney, September 18th, returned into Ireland, Lord Deputy; where (having pacified several rebellions, and that not with so much rigour as excellent conduct, having, at several times, been eleven years Justice and Deputy of Ireland, so as that kingdom is much indebted to him for his wisdom and valour) he, September 12, 1578, took boat at the Wood key, in Dublin, for England. He died at Worcester, May 5, 1586, and was buried amongst his ancestors at Penshurst; of whom Dr. Powel, in his Epistle to the Reader, in his History of Wales, writes, that his disposition was rather to seek after the antiquities and the weal public of See the Reduction of Ireland to the Crown of England. I those those countries he governed, than to obtain lands and revenues within the same, for I know not one foot of land that he had either in Wales or Ire land, cujus potentiam nemo sentit, nisi aut levatione periculi aut accessione dignitatis, justly applicable to him, Vel. Pater. f. 109. He caused the Irish statutes to his time to be printed, et sic ex umbra in solem eduxit. And besides many other monuments yet surviving his equal and just government, we must not let pass the great expense and care which he bestowed upon the castle of Dublin, at first built, anno 1213, by John Comin, Archbishop of Dublin, a learned, facetious, and solid person, afterwards beautified and enlarged by Sir Henry Sidney, in memory of whom Stanihurst, that venerable historian, hath left these to posterity: "Gesta libri referunt multorum clara virorum, Laudis et in chartis stigmata fixa manent: Verum Sidnæi laudes hæc saxa loquuntur, Translation, 234 WRITTEN ON AN INSURANCE OFFICE, Translation, by T. D. Esq. IN books the godlike deeds of heroes shine, And stones, long dumb, the bands of silence burst, Thus long as books shall flourish in each clime, And spread aloft through the remotest skies. WRITTEN ON AN INSURANCE-OFFICE, IF you would have your goods secur'd From fire or from water, Step in; all things are here insur'd, Except your wife and daughter, SIR SIR GEORGE SONDES'S TWO SONS, GEORGE AND FREEMAN, THE unhappy catastrophe of these two sons, however unwillingly mentioned, must not be passed over in silence: the elder being murdered by the younger, in August 1655, the most probable story of which is, that the latter, then aged about nineteen years, being of a sulky and un-toward disposition, became envious of his brother, not only for his being preferred for his better qualities, in his father's affection, and the good will of others, but that, being his elder brother, he was an obstacle to the consummation of his wishes with a young lady, to whom at that time he paid his addresses. These appear to have been the motives (for the story of his having committed this horrid crime, on account of a quarrel he had with his brother some months before, in relation to a doublet, for which he had been perfectly reconciled to him soon afterwards, seems to have been made use of by him in his confession before the justices, entirely as a pretence to conceal his real motives for it, as it appears both by his father's and Mr. Boreman's narratives). He committed this foul deed on his brother in an upper chamber in his father's house, whilst he was asleep in bed, by a deadly blow on the head with the back of a cleaver, which he had taken from from the kitchen a day or two before, and had hid for this purpose; which blow he followed by others with a dagger, which he carried about him for the same intent; upon which he was put into the custody of a peace officer, a guard was set over him, and the next day he was conveyed to Maidstone gaol, the assizes being then holding there; the day after which, being Thursday, the gth, he was brought to the bar, having been before examined before Sir Michael Livesey and Sir Thomas Style, and other justices; and his indictment being read over, he pleaded guilty, shewing a great desire to suffer death for his barbarous action, and appeared whilst at the bar with so composed a behaviour, as filled the judges, justices, and the whole court, which was crowded with other gentlemen of the county, with much astonishment after which, being carried back to the gaol, he was put into the dungeon allotted for the condemned malefactors, and next day condemned to die. Judge Crooke, at the time of his passing sentence, seriously admonishing him to consider and repent of the foulness of the deed he had committed, pressing him to declare the motives he had for it, for the clearing of his conscience, and the satisfaction of the country; he replied, that he had already done so before the justices at his examination: and being further pressed, if he had any thing more to say, to |