“Six hours in sleep, in Law’s grave study Six,
Four spend in prayer, the rest on nature fix.”
For which Sir William Jones is said to have substituted the following,
“Six hours to law, to soothing slumber seven,
Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.”
[177b] The worshipful kindred of John Reeves, and John Bowles; alias the pretended Antijacobins, who have been of late years such monstrous benefactors to this country, and to the world.
[178] A curious circumstance that attended Sir E. Coke’s second marriage ought not to pass here unnoticed.—That marriage was solemnized in a private house, without banns or licence, in consequence of which the married couple and the officiating clergyman, together with Lord Burleigh, who was one of the company, were prosecuted in the archbishop’s Court; but upon their submission, they escaped excommunication, and the consequent penalties, because, says the record, “they had offended not out of contumacy, but through ignorance of the Law in that point.”—So then the Lord Chief Justice of England, even Sir Edward Coke, transgressed the law through ignorance.
[179] Which must have been about as reasonable as the old woman’s advice to leave off thinking, for fear of thinking wrong.
[189] For the sympathies of his nature and qualities of his heart, see his Letter to Simon Taylor, in Flower’s Pol. Rev. Mar. 1807, p. xxxvi.
[192] See the Memoirs of Dr. Priestly, Vol. 1. and also the London Magazine, for November, 1783.
[196] The late Mr. Carr, a merchant of Lynn, used to say, that his father once killed six Bustards at one shot.—They were probably much more numerous then, than they are now.—A respectable gentleman of Lynn, however, assures this writer that not many years ago, he saw no less than eight or ten of them together, in the neighbourhood of Stanhoe.
[199] The fen-fowlers, with their long guns, make terrible havock among them, killing sometimes between 20 and 30 at one shot; and of Coots twice that number; which however, is nothing like the number of Starlings which they have sometimes slaughtered:—a person of veracity, who has lived long in the fens, assures this writer, that he knew, an instance, near Coningsby, in Lincolnshire, of 36 dozens of Starlings being killed at a single shot, by one Thomas Hall.