The Etymological Compendium

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ...forth of the company to seek his adventures, without all hope of return to his fellows." LAW OF SHIPWRECK. By the Act of 3d Edward I., cap. 4, and 4th of the same king, cap. 2, it is enacted, that if a man, a dog, or a cat, escape alive out of any ship, such ship shall not be deemed a wreck. On the 6th December, 1824, the ship Dart, of Sunderland, drifted into Portsmouth without a soul on board; a live cat, however, being found in the cabin, she escaped becoming a droit of the Admiralty, and was given in charge of the sheriff, to be delivered to the owners. SPITAL SERMON. This sermon, yearly preached on Easter Monday at Christ Church, Christ's Hospital, derives its name from the priory and hospital of our blessed lady, St. Mary Spital, situated on the east side of Bishopsgate Street, with fields in the rear, which now form the suburb called Spitalfields. This hospital, founded in 1197, had a large churchyard, with a pulpit cross, from whence it was an ancient custom on Easter Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, for sermons to be preached on the resurrection, before the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, Sheriffs, and others, who sat in a house of two stories for the purpose, the Bishop of London and the prelates being above them. In 1594, the pulpit was taken down, and a new one set up, and a large house for the governors and children of Christ's Hospital to sit in. In April 1559, Queen Elizabeth came in great state from St. Mary Spital, attended by a thousand men in harness, with shirts of mail, and croslets, and morris-pikes, and ten great pieces carried through London unto the court, with drums, flutes, and trumpets sounding, and two morris-dancers, and two white bears in a cart.t The Spital sermons were, after the restoration, preached at St....