On this day the lord mayor, aldermen, sheriffs, and governors of the several royal hospitals in London, attend divine service, and hear a sermon preached at Christ church, Newgate-street; they then repair to the great hall in Christ’s hospital, where two orations are delivered, one in Latin, and the other in English, by the two senior scholars of the grammar-school; and afterwards partake of an elegant dinner.
FLORAL DIRECTORY.
Cilcated Passion Flower. Passiflora cilcata.
Dedicated to St. Matthew.
September 22.
St. Maurice, and his Companions, 4th Cent. St. Emmeran, Bp. of Poitiers, A. D. 653.
“Now soften’d suns a mellow lustre shed,
The laden orchards glow with tempting red;
On hazel boughs the clusters hang embrown’d,
And with the sportsman’s war the new-shorn fields resound.”