ever happened to the Jewish temple. In the mean time, till the world shall be blessed with such a monitor, I have presumed to claim some freedom of thought, and liberty of speech, against the tyranny of prevailing fashion: and you will pardon me if I confess to you, upon this occasion, the mean opinion I have long entertained of some modern refinements; insomuch that I could wish many of them were exchanged for a little of that religious simplicity, which placed the seven works of charity upon the shoeing-horn of the Abbot of Glastonbury. I am, dear Sir, Your's, most faithfully, and affectionately. N. B. An Abbot of Glastonbury was hanged at the place, for denying the supremacy of Henry VIII, when his effects were confiscated; and perhaps this article might have been found amongst them. END OF THE THIRD VOLUME. Printed by Bye and Law, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell, |