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lor religious liberty from 1637 to the revolution, and which eventually took up arms in defence of the Presbyterian form of church government. GARDEN (that is convent garden) formerly consisted of the garden belonging to the abbot and monks of Westminster. In 1831 the present market buildings were erected by the Duke of Bedford, the owner of the ground. The Covent Garden Theatre sprang out of one in Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields through a patent granted to Sir W. Davenant in 1662. RD ALE, Miles, the earliest translator of the Bible into English, was born in 1487, educated at Cambridge, and ordained priest in 1314. He a isted Tindall in his translation of the Bible, and then in 1535 his own appeared with a dedication to Henry VIII. In 1551 he was made Bishop of Exeter, but was ejected on Mary’s acce ion to the throne, and was thrown into prison. After two years' confinement he went to Geneva, and prepared the Geneva translation of the Scriptures, returning to England at Elizabeth’s acce ion. He died in 1568. FREDERICK, the popular composer, was born in Jamaica in 1852, and was a pupil of Sir Julius Benedict and Sir John Go . He has composed a large number of songs and several symphonies, four operas, and two oratorios. He succeeded Sir Charles Hall£ as conductor of the Manchester Subscription Concerts and the Liverpool Philharmonic Society. Abraham, the English poet, was born in 1618. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, but was ejected as a royalist in 1643, and removecl to St. John’s College, Oxford, and when the queen left England he accompanied her. His poems have not their ancient popularity now, but he still holds a high position as prose writer and e ayist. Love’s Riddle Havideis, and The Mistre are his chief, works. WILLIAM, the English poet, was bom in 1731. He was at Westminster, was articled to a solicitor, and finally called to the bar in 1754. In 1763 he was under Dr. Cotton, and later retired to Hunting don, where he met Mr. and Mrs. Unwin, and it was at the advice of the latter he wrote the Progre of Error, Table Talk, etc. Lady Austen suggested to him the Task and History of John Gilpin. He died in 1800. in the United Kingdom number about 3^ millions, each yielding on an average 400 gallons m of milk a year, a auarter of which is used making no,000 tons of butter and cheese. In Holland, which is only one-tenth the size of the United Kingdom, there are about 7^ million cows. We do not really attempt to provide cheap good milk for the huge infant population of our large industrial centres. loses its claws very easily, and renews them as easily again. The racer-crabs of the West Indies suck the juice of the sugar-cane, but the common crab lives on animal matter. GEORGE, the English poet, was born in 1754. He was educated for the medical profe ion, but being unable to make a livelihood, went to London, obtained Burke’s friendship, published his poem The Library, and soon after entered the church. He wrote The Village, The Parish Register, and Tales qf the Hall. Walter, the poet painter, was born in 1845, and exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy in 1862. He is a famous book illustrator, and a great authority on decorative art. In 1893 he was appointed Art Director to the city of Manchester. THOMAS, Archbishop of Canterbury (famous for his part in the Reformation during the reign of Henry VIII.), was born in 1489. He was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in 1533, and soon after pronounced the sentence of divorce between Henry and Catharine. The Pope threatened excommunication, but an Act of Parliament was pa ed abolishing his supremacy, and Cranmcr promoted the cause of the Reformation most zealously, haying the Bible translated and suppre ing monasteries. He took the side of Lady Jane Grey in the question of the acce ion, however, and was therefore sent to the Tower and deprived of his office. After this he recanted and became a Romish convert, but when brought into church to read his recantation,