November 25. 1512. Ordered, that Meretrix non laude, fed vituperio digna, Lupanaris feu Bordelli Regina efficiatur, after Leave obtained for it from the Epifcopal Court.

March 11. 1513. Ordered, that the Queen of the Whores fhall draw up a Lift of the lewd Wo men, who live in the honest Streets.

October 10. 1513. The Sindics complain to the Epifcopal Court about the Priefts and their Whores.

March 5. 1518. Ordered, that the lewd Women fhall return to the Brothel.

May 10 1527. The Inhabitants of St. Leger (a Parish of Geneva) complain of the lewd Women, who are in that Part of the Town, and of the Monks who flock to them (Querelaverunt de Putanis & certis Religiofis, qui ibidem affluunt.) They were answered, that if they perceive thofe Monks in the Night, they fhall give notice of it to the Sindics, or the Abbot, that the faid Monks may be apprehended.:

May 25. 1520. Ordered, that the lewd Women fhall be confined to the publick Brothel, and to that end that the Queen of the Whores be fent for.

July 12. 1527. Many Citizens complain of the Priefts of St. Magdalen's, who keep a bawdy Houfe, where there are many Bawds. Ordered, that the Bawds fhall be banished, the lewd Women compelled to live in the Place affigued them, and that the said Priests fhall be feverely cenfured.

April 1. 1530. Ordered by the Council of Two Hundred, That for the time to come the Priests shall leave their Brothels, their Whores, and their Lewdnefs.

April 30, 1534. A new Order to confine publick Women to the publick Brothel.

August 18. 153+ Upon a Report made to the Council, that the Monks, Pimps, and Whores, who live in St. Victor's Suburb, have almost destroyed the Priory of the fame Name, and carried away the Goods belonging to it. Ordered, that the Prio.

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ART. 16. ry, the Church, and Houfes belonging to the faid Priory be pulled down, &c.

The Readers will excufe the plain Words I have ufed in tranflating the publick Records of Geneva. A Tranflation of fuch Pieces ought to answer the Original in every thing.

Ever fince the Reformation no fcandalous Houfe has been tolerated at Geneva. If the Priefts and Monks lived a very disorderly Life in fuch a fmall Town, one may eafily guess that they gave themfelves a greater Liberty in great Cities, like Paris, Venice, &c. Nothing can be more improper, than to forbid the Clergy to marry. When Salvagus, Bishop of Sarzana, and the Pope's Legate at Gratz, where the Archduke Ferdinand made his Refidence, was ordered by Paul V. to vifit the Churches of Stiria, Carinthia, and Carniola, he did not find above Six Priests in thofe three large Provinces, who did not keep Concubines. Most of those Priefts had been educated among the Jefuits, who protected them, because they received Prefents from them. They ufed their utmost Endeavours to prevent that Vifitation *

But to return to Mr. Collier's Ecclefiaftical History of England, I find fo many curious Things in that Work, that I defign to give à further Account of it.

See Art. XVIII.

* Bernardini Giraldi pro Senatu Veneto Apologia con tra Jefuitas, pag. 165. of a Book entituled Arcana Socie tatis Jefu, printed in the Year 1635. That Apology is dated from Padua, Decemb. 1. 1634.

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ARTCLE XVII.

FRANEKE R.

R. Muys has made feveral Discoveries, whereby he unfolds the Mechanifm of the Muf

He has obferved, that the fleshy Fibres of the Mufcles confift of other fmall Fibres, which he calls Fibrilla; that thofe Fibrille do not exceed the Bignefs of a very thin Hair, and that one may reckon about Five or Six Hundred in a fleshy Fibre, the Diameter whereof is fomewhat greater than the Twenty Fourth Part of an Inch; that each of thofe Fibrilla does farther confift of above Three Hundred tranfparent Tubes, fo fmall, that if one should divide a Globule of Blood (which is only the 100ooooth Part of a Grain of Sand, as it has been obferved by Mr. Leuwenhoek) into Fourfcore Parts, each of thofe Particles could hardly get through thofe fimall Tubes.

He fhews, that though the flethy Fibres of the Mufcles adhere to the Tendon, and the Tendinous Membrane of the Mulcle, yet the Tendinous Fibres are not a Continuation of the fleshy Fibres, as 'tis believed by moft Anatomifts. Which appears from this Obfervation; If the fleshy Fibres are feparated from the Tendon, with a Wooden Knife, or merely by drawing them the Surface, of the Tendon, to which the fleshy Fibres were joined, remains fmooth and polished.

Mr. Muys having made feveral Injections of lukewarm Water through the Crural Artery of a young Lamb, the fcfhy. Fibres loft their Rednefs, and appeared perfectly white. The Fibres being thus whitened by an Injection of luke-warm Water, he made an Injection of a coloured Liquor through the fame

Artery; and then, not only the fmalleft Arteries were filled with that Liquor, but he further obferved, that the Liquor went through each Fibre, either wavering too and fro, or making feveral Angles, or joining together by a great many Anaftomofes. Befides, he faw that many fmall Branches of Arteries, which before escaped the Sight, appeared then fcattered round about the fmall Fibrilla, and embibed with that coloured Liquor. Having obferved, that thofe parts of the fleshy Fibres, which were about the laft Extremities of the Arteries, appeared embibed with that Liquor, he examined them with a Microfcope; and he perceived that the fmall Fibrilla were filled and imbibed with the Liquor, and yet there appeared no Sign of that Liquor in the Interftitia of the Fibrilla.

Having made Injections through the Crural Artery, with another coloured Matter, into Mufcles whitened by an Injection of luke-warm Water, he faw not only that all the Fibres in fome Mufcles, and most of them in others, were full of that Matter; but having examined them with a good Microfcope, he obferved that the Fibrille, and even the Imalleft Tubes, were filled and imbibed with that Matter, and yet the fmall nervous Ramifications appeared perfectly white.

The Refult of all these Obfervations is, 1. That thofe fmall Tubes, which make up a Fibrilla, are true Conduits; and that the Extremities of the Arteries reach them, and convey into them Part of their Liquor, which is carried back through the Veins into the Heart. 2. That the Globules of the Blood, muft needs be divided into Particles almoft infinitely fall, before they can get into thofe Tubes. That the Globules of the Blood may be thus divided, and fo go through the fmall Tubes, is moft evident from the Rednefs of the Fibres and Fibrille of those Animals, that have a red Flefh. Thofe who have read in Mr. Leuwenhoek, (Letter 42) that thefe Glo bules are divided in the fame manner to get into the laft Extremities of the Arteries of the Brain; and thofe who know (as Mr. Muys has made it appear

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by Arguments grounded upon very curious Obfervations) that thofe Globules are extremely foft, and may easily be divided, will not wonder at fuch a Divifion.

Mr. Muys has added to thofe Obfervations very accurate Figures, which are a great Help to have a clear Notion of the Structure of the Fibres of the Mufcles, and how the Arteries go through thofe Fibres.

That Learned Man has alfo made many other Difcoveries concerning the Courfe of the Nerves, and their Ramifications in the Muscles.

HALL.

THEY are Printing in Livonia a new Teftament tranflated into the Efthonian Language. Efthonia is a Country fituated in Livonia on the upper Part of the Gulph of Finland.

The Efthonian's grow up to Twenty, Thirty, and more Years, almoft without any Knowledge of the Gofpel. Their whole Inftruction confifts in fome few Forms of Prayer and a Catechism, which they learn from the Clark of the Parish; and then they think themselves fufficiently qualified to be admitted to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. The Clergy are either ignorant, or carelefs in difpenfing the Mysteries of Salvation. For thefe Reasons, Care has been taken of late to tranflate the main Principles of Chriftianity by way of Queftions and Answers into the Efthonian Language, and to adapt them, as much as is poffible, to the meaneft Capacity.

What increases the Unhappiness of that People, is the Scarcity of Schools fet up among them, and the little time Children have to go to School which is only in the Winter: For in the Summer they are obliged to ftay at home, and to keep the

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