Miscellanea Antiqua Anglican

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AN Account of a Quarrel BETWEEN ARTHUR HALL, ESQ. MELCHISEDECH MALLERIE, GENT. WITH THE PROCEEDINGS IN THE SUITS WHICH AROSE THEREFROM: AND A LETTER ON THE ORIGIN AND ANTIQUITY OF PARLIAMENT, WITH ADVICE TO A MEMBER FOR HIS CONDUCT THEREIN. THE WHOLE WRITTEN BY ARTHUR HALL, ESQ. MEMBER FOR GRANTHAM IN...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AN Account of a Quarrel BETWEEN ARTHUR HALL, ESQ. MELCHISEDECH MALLERIE, GENT. WITH THE PROCEEDINGS IN THE SUITS WHICH AROSE THEREFROM: AND A LETTER ON THE ORIGIN AND ANTIQUITY OF PARLIAMENT, WITH ADVICE TO A MEMBER FOR HIS CONDUCT THEREIN. THE WHOLE WRITTEN BY ARTHUR HALL, ESQ. MEMBER FOR GRANTHAM IN SEVERAL PARLIAMENTS OF Q. ELIZABETH, AND TRANSLATOR OF TEN BOOKS OF HOMER.S ILIAD INTO ENGLISH VERSE. LONDON: REPRINTED FOR ROBERT TRIPHOOK, 37, ST. JAMES'S STREET. ADVERTISEMENT. In the present portion of our Archaeological Miscellany we have the satisfaction of rescuing from oblivion one of the most curious and lively pictures of ancient manners perhaps in existence; and if it were fair to estimate the value of things by their rarity, the following tract might on this score lay claim to a high degree of consideration: we should not, however, have thought ourselves warranted in reprinting it, had it only this recommendation j but it has a much more powerful title to the place it holds in this work, and the curious inquirer into ancient manners will be highly gratified with the singularly interesting view which it affords of the habits and manners of the young men of family and fashion who formed the court of our maiden Queen. The author of this literary rarity, Arthur Hall, is well known to those who are curious in our poetical antiquities, as the author of the first attempt to render Homer's Iliad into English. He appears to have been a travelled and well educated man; and the following performance, though it sometimes exhibits him in an unamiable point of view, yet has a discrimination and show of candour pervading it, which speaks loudly in favour of his judgment. In his translation of Homer he has, however, entirely failed. The at.