November is so called from its having been the ninth month. There was a ridiculous procession and a great civic feast early in the month. At the banquet the chief magistrate presided, and much intolerable folly was talked. We ought to be thankful that there is nothing of this kind in November. The Romans had the grace to be ashamed of the misdeeds of their fathers, and in this month there were expiatory ceremonies in remembrance of four persons who had been cruelly buried alive in the ox-market of London many persons were cruelly burned alive, but the stupid and ignorant Fathers of the City have never thought of erecting a martyrs’ memorial, like that at Ox-ford.
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