lived in the premises at Lilley about twenty-three years, and during
fourteen of them pursued his alchemical researches with unremitting
ardour; but for the last few years shut himself up as a close prisoner,
and lived in the manner I have described.

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Here lyeth wrapt in clay,
The body of William Wray:
I have no more to say.


_Weever's Epitaphs_.

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Notes of a Reader.

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COURT OF CHARLES II.


In the last No. of the _Edinburgh Review_, there is an admirably written
article on Hallam's "Constitutional History," not a mere essay, but