The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 470, January 8, 1831

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Various. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 470, January 8, 1831

The Topographer

COUNTY COLLECTIONS

Retrospective Gleanings

GREEK BALLOT.—VOTING AMONG THE ANCIENT GREEKS

CLARENCE AND ITS ROYAL DUKES

SPIRIT OF THE Public Journals

SIR WALTER SCOTT

A CHRISTMAS CAROL.—IN HONOUR OF MAGA. (BLACKWOOD.)

Notes of a Reader

KNOWLEDGE FOR THE PEOPLE; OR, THE PLAIN WHY AND BECAUSE

COMPANION TO THE ALMANAC

The Selector; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF NEW WORKS

MOORE'S LIFE OF BYRON. VOL. II

The Naturalist

DANCING FISH—SEA-SERPENT, &c

The Gatherer

CURIOUS SIGN

ANCIENT PROPHECY

BATHOS AND PATHOS

THE LETTER B

A DOUBLE

PROPHECY OF LORD BYRON

HARDHAM'S 37

PRESTON, LANCASTER

EPIGRAM

COMPLETION OF VOL. XVI

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This prophecy is said to be the reason why so many kings of Scotland, Norway, and Ireland have selected Icombkill for the place of their interment.

The manner of voting privately was by casting pebbles into vessels or urns. Before the use of pebbles, they voted with beans: the beans were of two sorts, black and white. In the Senate of Five Hundred, when all had done speaking, the business designed to be passed into a decree was drawn up in writing by any of the prytanes, or other senators, and repeated openly in the house; after which, leave being given by the epistata, or prytanes, the senators proceeded to vote, which they did privately, by casting beans in a vessel placed there for that purpose. If the number of black beans was found to be the greatest, the proposal was rejected; if white, it was enacted into a decree, then agreed upon in the senate, and afterwards propounded to an assembly of the people, that it might receive from them a farther ratification, without which it could not be passed into a law, nor have any force or obligatory power, after the end of that year, which was the time that the senators, and almost all the other magistrates, laid down their commissions.

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Seated on the banks of Stour river is a priory of the Benedictine order, translated thither from the castle, by Richard De Tonebridge, Earl of Clare, about the year 1315. Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March, converted it into a collegiate church. Elizabeth, the wife of Lionell, Duke of Clarence, was buried in the chancel of this priory, 1363; as was also the duke.

The first duke was the third son of King Edward III. He created his third son, Lionell of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence, in 1362. His first wife was Elizabeth of Clare, daughter of William De Burgh, Earl of Ulster; she died in 1363. His second wife was Violante, daughter of the Duke of Milan. He died in Italy, 1370.

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