NOTE O O.

THE PHYLACTERY OF MRS. BLAND.

(See p. 125.)

Among the curiosities of the Royal Society is preserved, in Mrs. Bland's own writing, a Phylactery, in Hebrew. Dr. Grew, (who has given a particular account of it) observes the original use of them to be, for mementoes, grounded on the command, Deut. vi. 8. They afterwards served for spells or amulets:-from whence the use of charms amongst Christians was first derived; and those who gave them were Phylacterii. Prohibited by the Council of Trent.

NOTE PP.

CONSTANTIA GRIERSON.

(See p. 126.)

This prodigy of early talents and acquirements, was one of the most extraordinary women that either that age, or perhaps any other, ever produced.

Her parents were poor and illiterate people; yet,

long before her death, at the early age of 27, she was an excellent scholar, not only in classic literature, but in history, divinity, philosophy, and mathematics. She gave a proof of her knowledge of the Latin tongue by her dedication of the Dublin edition of Tacitus to Lord Carteret, when Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; and by that of Terence to his son, to whom she likewise wrote a Greek epigram.-Biog. Fœm.

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