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Newspaper
Weekly Register
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 04, 1799
Page
2
Obscure OCR fragment presents a religious exhortation about spreading the gospel to all creation. Vague wording mentions going into the world and a warning of damnation, with disjointed phrases and unclear speakers or events. No identifiable persons, places, organizations, or dates are present.
A reflective meditation on mortality and the soul after death, contrasting virtuous endurance with earthly pleasures. It discusses death as final judgment by God, the fate of good men, resurrection hope, and the contrast between innocence and despair in eternal life, urging contemplation of one's moral standing.
An old sermon-like meditation discusses death as an inevitable judge, urging living piety and fear of wrongdoing. It contrasts suicide, murder, and revenge with scriptural warning, urging readers to seek Christian conduct and prepare for eternal life. It cites Marcus Antony and Augustus to illustrate fatal judgments and stresses conversion through gospel teachings.
Roger Ashham in his Schoolmaster recounts how Lady Jane Grey, while at Leicester, bids farewell to the noble Lady as her household gathers. The duke and duchess, with others, hunt the region while Jane reads Greek poetry aloud and listens to a merry tale from Boccaccio before a final salutation and discourse.
A narrator discusses a woman who prefers Plato to park amusements and explains her sharp, taunting upbringing by strict parents and a gentler tutor Mr Elmer. The tale notes how study's lure eclipses ordinary pleasures, leaving only learning as meaningful.
The famed tutor to Lady Jane Grey, Bishop Aylmer, sought by authorities during Mary I’s reign, supposedly hid himself aboard a ship in a large wine butt. Soldiers tapped the barrel to reveal no captive, while the captain served wine to the visitors. On Elizabeth I’s accession, he returned to England and became Bishop of London, later delivering a stirring yet lengthy sermon at St Paul’s where many slept before he read from the Hebrew Bible.
The Worcester prelate urges his clergy to aid victims of the Wellingborough fire in Northamptonshire. He stresses Christian charity especially for vulnerable workers and calls for generous relief efforts and prayer to support the afflicted, signing as J. Worcester.
A fragment recounts a king’s chamber with curtains drawn and the casket open. Haglint the chamberlain had left the room, a courtier seized items from the open casket, then returned to refill his pockets. The scene ends with the king Edward the Confessor resting nearby.
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