The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 17, No. 471, January 15, 1831 by Various
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similar to that of a pendulum, which at each motion of going and
returning gives me the space of three seconds, so that twenty of them make a minute--and these I add to others continually." * * * * * HISTORICAL FACT. During the troubles in the reign of Charles I., a country girl came to London, in search of a situation; but not succeeding, she applied to be allowed to carry out beer from a brewhouse. These females were then called "tub-women." The brewer observing her to be a very good-looking girl, took her out of this low situation into his house, and afterwards married her. He died, however, while she was yet a very young woman, and left her a large fortune. She was recommended, on giving up the brewery, to Mr. Hyde, a most able lawyer, to settle her husband's affairs; he, in process of time, married the widow, and was afterwards made Earl of Clarendon. Of this marriage there was a daughter, who was afterwards wife to James II. and mother of Mary and Anne, queens of England. ZANGA. * * * * * LAWYERS. In 1454, an Act of Parliament notices, "that there had used formerly six or eight attorneys only, for Suffolk, Norfolk, and Norwich together; |
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