being boxed, pro colapho Judeorum. That Donation may be feen at large in our Author. He tells us, pag. 523. that the Jews were formerly fo odious in France, that the Chriftians abufed and beat them upon all Occafions, efpecially upon the most folemn Holidays; fo that in order to avoid fuch Violences, they were obliged to put themselves under the Protection of the Bifhops or Lords of the Towns where they lived, and to pay them a yearly Rent to be employed for the Ufe of the Church. The Inhabirants of Beziers ufed to throw Stones at the Jews from Palm-Sunday-Eve, till Tuesday after Eafter. To prevent this ill treatment, they were forced to pay a certain Sum to the Bishop, befides a yearly Rent. This Agreement, which may be feen in the Author, was made in the Year 1160: It has been extracted from the Archives of the Church of BeZiers. * 6. Reinier a Dominican Monk, and Bishop of Maguelone, fucceeded John de Monlaur in that Bishop. rick, who died in the Year 1248. This Reinier was a Native of Lombardy, and died a Year and a half after he had been made Bishop. Arnaud de Verdale, who was Bifhop of Maguelone in the Year 1330. fays in his MS. Catalogue of the Bishops of that Place, that Reinier had been poifoned with a Confecrated Hoft; which was the Reafon why it was ordered, that for the time to come the Deacon and Subdeacon, who fhould affift the Bishop at the Great Altar of St. Peter's fhould receive the Com munion from his Hands, and partake of the fame Hoft, and of the fame Calice. Since I am giving an Account of a Book that concerns the Province of Languedoc, I fhall occafionally take notice of a Paffage which I have read in a † Work of Father Merfenne. He fays that he faw *Pag. 991. See alfo pag. 993. In bis Reflexiones Phyfico-Mathematica, at the End of the XXIV, Chapter Pag. 215, Faris, 1647. in 4to. in the Church of the Dominicans at Toulouse, a Piature of Thomas Aquinas, holding a Flaming Sword in his Right-Hand, over that part of the Altar where the Hoft is kept, with thefe two Latin Vertes: Nixus Evangelii folio Cherubinus Aquinas Thus the Angelical Doctor has been raised to the Dignity of Keeper and Protector of the Holy Sacrament: The Dominicans according to their Notions could not have bestowed a more glorious Office upon that Schoolman, The End of the Eighth and laft Volume A TABLE OF THE MATTERS Contained in the Memoirs of LITERATURE. A A BARBANEL, a new Edition of his his Commentary upon Habakkuk III. 36 Abbeys of England, an Account of them, and their Re venues. VIII. 126 Abbots, their Number in England, before the Reforma tion. VOL. VIII. V. 280 Abel. How he came to know that his Sacrifice was Academies of Paris, an Account of them. I. 372 Academy (Royal) of Sciences. An Account of the Me- for the Year 1711. VII. 76 VIII. 288 Acker (John Henry), Selecta Poetica, quibus continentur - II. 349 Methodus fcribendarum Epiftolarum ad fontes pu- rioris Latii confirmata, &c. Opufcula Eloquentia, Acta Literaria. I. 277 V. 229 VIII. 246 III. 180 VI. 51 VII. 31 Adam, how he was created, according to the Perfians. Obfervations upon his Nakedness. A Turkish Tradition concerning that Subject. ibid. why God caufed a deep Sleep to fall upon him, 109 III fome. Rabbinical Imaginations about Adam re- tur." Ï: 396 IV. 151 Adonis. Why the River fo called was of a bloody Co- lating to Love. Counfel re- Advice to thofe Husbands, who have got bad Wives, V. 374 Aelian. A new Edition of that Author. III. 359 Agaffe, the Etymology of that Word. V. 161 I. 326 Air, heavier in clear Weather, than in cloudy and rainy IV. 91 VIII. 289 Obfervations upon the Communication of the I, 121 I. 250 Albano (Francis). A Defcription of his fine Picture, VII. 401. II. 444 Alchymifts. Their Principles concerning the Philofo- Alcoran, Obfervations upon it. Alcoran des Cordeliers. 333 VIII. 187 Alefius (Alexander), fome Particulars concerning that Divine. IV. 242 I. 150 Alexandre (Noel), his Commentary upon St. Paul's Ė- II. 36 Allatius (Leo), Apes Urbane. A new Edition. III. 298 Alleluia, an Herb so called. 107 See Francus (John) Alpinus (Profper), De præfagienda vita & morte agro- I. 335 IV. 408 Altingius, Burgomafter of Groningen, his Death. VI. 228 nius. II. 12 that Book. Anabaptifts, Reflections upon their extravagant Under- Anacreon, tranflated into French Verfe. VIII. 77 Emendations upon an Öde of Anacreon, by Dr. Bentley. Ancients, are above the Moderns. 286 377 |