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For the YEAR MDCCXCIV. Volume LXIV.

PART THE, SECOND.

By SYLVANUS URBAN, Gent.

LONDON, Printed by JOHN NICHOLS, at Cicero’s Head, Red Lion Pajfage, Fleet-Street :

And fold by ELTZ. NEWBERY, the Corner of St. Paul's Chitnh Yard, Ludgate- Sired. 1794.

ELEGY (tn fheBcr.th of LLYWELYN.thelaft Pdncsof Whiles (previous to the Sahjusatlora of that Princip.ilily hy Eilvvard the FirH;), vvlio was killeil uear Biiiltli, in Bi eckiiock- fnire, ti aufcrihed from t!ie late Rev, Evan Evans's (the Antiquary) valuable MSS, now in the PollelTion of Paul Paii'.on, Efq. of Angleiey.

Hie Leolinu'; ultimus Carnhrise fuit Pr'uceps, et occifus fuit juxta Buellt iimo, die D;'cembris anno i iM’U'Jitoribu', Madog Min, etaliis; in MSS. Com it is de Macclesfield, liune Madog Min Epifeopum Bangoiieniem fuilTe dicitnr; fed neque in Godwino, neque alias ullibi, me talem legifie, memini. Hoc faPem verum eft, Epifeopum ilium, quq Leo- lioo regnan'e, mitram tenujt Bangorienfem, illiinfenfum fuiffe, et ab eo in Ang’iam pullum, Marvvnad L^ywYlyn Grutfudd Ty-Tur/og Leoi.iwi Griffini filu Ihrenodia.

■ - “ - - -- - CHRIS TE Domine munifice, donum pero,

Cl-irille fill Dei, fincere, fons fapient lU Chri fie facer, liberals, fortifitme, [lulniiirne, Qni crucis poenam tulifti fevei ithm mi.

Qnte ad hominem ride[l,humauum genus]

' fpedlant loquar,

Qni fert dolorem, fit prudentifTimus,

Cm natura hberal'ter profudit fuas dotes,

Is anlmi fit hvimillimi.

ChriPais venit in mundiim, ne Adamus Et genus humannm etlet in inferno, cum ca- codemonibusmaKimecaptivis, [mum, Ut expleret Coelum circa Creatorem iu,.re- Quod perdidit Angelus fi. didifiimus.

Perdidit Cambria magua hr-roeni virtute incl. tiiiimum, [miifinmnique |

Qni gfadium tenuit, corufeum, rutiium, fir~ Princep'' magiianimns non v'ivtt, hcu ! quid faciam ob e'fus danumm,

Qni fuit Leo ftrunuus, douorum profufir^, munificentifiimus !

Vir pro nobis peiiit ; vir ex nob lilEima profapia oi tus; [loqni non veieor, Vir qui CarUhnam defendir, de quo apei ie Magnanimus L.eoilnus, Cambrorum rnaxime ingenmis ;

Vir cui non pluc iit fugere proxima via, i. e. qui oinmiu) hoihbus lergum date de- dignatus efl,

V^'.r qui virilitereft aggrelTusaciem maxime tbetenfant (i. e. copiufiffimam) ;

Vir cni vu'idia I'uerunl catlra, Itatioque, Validillimus Griliini films, qui in do .is'ccm- mrend s [clams ;

Superab^tt Nudd et Mordavum, iiberab.tate Vir rufa hatia, vir ferius ut Priamus,

Vii dig'/ius, et tiux copiarum fuperbiffima- rum ; [liffimus,

Vir cui ghnaa redundat, vir fumpfuum Ibet Ufque ad eum locum, cjuo I'ol curfum luu.u facit longinquiliimum ; '

Vir in deftruendo iracundus, Princepfqne c'ementiliimiu, [amicus fiditfirrhi.q Vir ob q iem magnus eft iudlus, qnt fuit Vir api r me elegans, fapien^, ei fticdtifiirmis a Mona, (cherrinmm ;

Cfqne ad Caer Idior, locum omnium pul- Vir (u’.t Leolinus juxta Tavi tcimnios,

Vir in j>ublico veifans, vellibus laxiffimis, Vir fuit piaccipuus, lunTniuim Ufque r.d poitum Gv\ygyr, Aquila gererofa,

Ille verc qui afitimpfii a^rumnam angu'dtf- fimam, [graviflimamqnej^

Et moitem pro genere hunia”o, miferam, Accipiat lueurn Principem, nohilifiimi ortiis, Et eum participcm redd.at fuae mifericordisc, qui fummustdl honos.

Bletwikus Bakpus cotr)pofuit,c'uxa izSz.

olaf Gyinru, yr hiun a Inddivyd ym Muelt d''T.vy dwyll Madog Min, yr hwn inedd Llyfr Arglvvy.Ul Macclesfiel 1, oedd Efgob Bangor; Fa! hyn y cantLlywAynabGwliWW.-

Mae Dodlorar Fangor fain Oes Bradvvr Ynys Biydain Brad a wnaeth briw dan eithin Bradog fuwa’th Madog nua Yha d’erhyn Eyvvelyn Iwyd 1 Ehiellt pan ddifawyd &c.

M AR V/ N AD.

C'^Rift Arglwydd 1 livvydd, rhodd a arebaf, ^Crifl f.ib Dinv didwjP, fnmbwoilhonaf Cr.fi ddeddfawl, cedawl, ycadainaf,

Ar ddclw a borthes, ddoiur dtlygnaf.

A berthyn am ddyn, a ddyweda'',

A bortho gofid, bip! bwylUxaf,

A fu gnaws, achaws uchaf, ei feddiant Ei feddwl bid leiaf.

Crifl a dd.ieth ir Byd, rhag bod. Addaf,

A’r bohl yn Ufiern, geihern gaethaf,

J vm'enwi Nef, ynahylch Naf udit;l,

A golles Angel angheifyddafi

Coiles Cymru favvr, gwawr gwreiddaf,

' Cy vvoX. ,ian elgud, giuywddrud, glewaf, Gwrctdd lyw, nid byvq ba wnaf 6 g. lied! Gwreiddlow hyged, rhoddged rhvvyddaf.

Gwr a las drofom ; gwr oedd drofa', Govroedd dios Gymiu, liy y henw/‘f, Gwrawl Lyweivn, gwiriaf o Gymro,

Gwr ni charei fin, Ir lllrJd nefaf.

Gwrgwrd,! yn c. rchu llu, lied exhaf, Gwr gwyrddliw Behyli, gwcrfyll gorfaf,

G wi eiddfab Gruffudd, ddi; ratiuf, am reg Yn nedvifau mawrdeg, Nudd a Mordaf,

GvvT gwayvv-riuUl, gw'r prudd fegis Priaf Gwr gwivv yn frenhin, fyddin falchaf Gwr hvlwydti etglod, g \ r liadaf, — am draul, Jdyd i cerddai haul, i’l- hwyl htllaf,

Gwr dig i ddefiry vv, Ely w ilyleiddaf, Gwr dygn i alar, car eywiraf,

Gwr eywirgoeth, doeth dttliolaf — oEun K}d yng Haerleon y lie tecaf.

Gwr fu Llywelyn ger terfyn Taf Gwr cyhoedd, gwiscoedd gwascarocaf,

Gwr oetld, arbennig, henafovvyr,

Hyci ym liortli Vvygyr*, Eryraraf,

Y g'vr a gymmyrth, engyrth yngaf, Angau dn s bumoes, drvmloes tlvomaf A uymero fy Rhv. yf, i hy wiocaf fonedU Yn rhan trugaredd, fawredd fwyaf. BLSDnYX Fardd ah cant o ddeutn tz8,2.

^ Awfon \V)gyr, medd rhai, yw Cemacs yrn Mbi>.

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■ Pai ticular Defci'ipltonofthe 1 fla.nd of Coi iica 587 Mr. Tlu). Watfnn — The Author of-Chryfal ctpi CaruT'.ir — Proteflant and Catholic Churches ;/> Epr, aph at Mercers Hall on C hauucy Faa'.ily 592

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' Mr. Ai chdeacon Travi.s and ProfelTorPo! fon 594 Letters of Dr. Hildelley and Vir Richardfon 595' . Philofophical Realousror ClericalCtu’puIence 59!) Popular Supeirtition — Cafe of Hyilrd'ph 'hia 598 ScrophulousAhfceT — 3 he Farley liilcript on 599 BriCilh Settlement — Mifcel'an. Ohfervat?on.s 6^ 0 WithernfeyandOwihorne — TheRrownGr b 601 The Garden Infe<ft in Wliite Froth harralefs 602 Mr-ShawL Report of Hiiloryof ''taifordihire 60^ Tlie Progi cfs of an Autlior- — M. Von Fi.iller 6o5

N e v\- ton Fi ai 1 —ChuLzp ‘xtnos Ti an>-;.tLafitic CoiTe'puuilence — Geo. pierce 619 I ,jt..a.4C '.n Bi’.riai Service — Sii' If.ac Newton 620 t/ncoluOiire Loy:dty Ihevs'm in l-ft Centuiy ih. Coiliafon's Somerfet -Aftinny-of Lanri-age 621 A Jui'V’Daaa’s' 1 liouglitf on 1 urttpike !fo.ads (>zx'-

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Inteliigencefromv iViousFm ts o.' theContinent 6^7

The Gallic^in Chuixh — Scat. 28 Flea. VllL -607 ‘mponantinitll.gencefroiri l.oiidouGazcf es6"Q A Two Mouths Tour in Scotland concluded 6 lot On tlie U'mon of CoiTjca with Giera Britain 66^ Ombronnfecer — A Barber’s PoL; — TheCpeed 61,2 Hiftoric.-’lChronide — Dou.elfic Uccurrence.'i 66'i Free-Mafonry— Reliques of Ancient Poetiy 61 3 Marriages, Deaths, t't cfei nie.nt?, k.c. 6yo—6-c Glartouhury Se.al— The Langvvorili Family 615 ' Theati'. RegiBer— MonthT Ei.iof rvL.rtaluy 679 ^Oliver Cromwell’s Houle -On Dr. Pi ieliiey 617 , Daily Variations in the Prices of the StoCkf- 6Sc

j EmbelMlisd with a Portrait of Sx. Wii.t.iam the Lyon, Kin'g of Scots; wHh j PiTUrtfque VTews of tlie Sifter Chu.rcfies of Vvi-therms^y and Cvvihorne ^

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Meteorological Diaries for June and July 1794.

CA >> 0	Wind.	3arom.	Iherm State of Weather in Tune, 1794. jreet in. ^
1	VV calm	30,^3	58	14 2 .0 'dear expanfe, fine day
*	S calm	15	59	i.i rain, moift, fpringing day
3'E calm	13	59	.6 blue Iky, very pleafant
a'E calm	13	57	.9 ’dark Iky, clears up
5	NE calm	13	57	.7 dark fky, clears up, but little fun
6	N moderate	29,88	58	.3 dark Iky, cqld raw day
7	N moderate	65	57	after rain, clouded, fair
8	W briik ate	79	55	.9 clouded, cold without fun
9	NW moder	80	56	.q dark Iky, fun, and pleafant
10	NW raodera	84	59	.8 black clouds, pleafant
11	S briik	62	59	.8 dark Iky, Ihower at night
12	W Cairn	80	6 1	.4 black clouds, flight fhow^er
*S	S briftc	83	61	.7 dark fley, fhower at night
14	W moderate	80	60	.3 clouds, clears up, and flue
*5	S calm	3^2*^	6d	.9 blue Iky, fultry
16	SE moderate	6	60	2 .0 clear expanfe, fcorching
17	E briflc	13	61	.4 clear expanfe, fine day
	SE briik	3	60	' clear expanfe, fine day
19	SF moderate	20 ,81	62	,2 dark morning, fliower in the night ;
20	NW gentle		62	1.8 black clouds, flight fliower P. M'.
21	iS" calm	80	6 1	.6 dark thick morning, fine day
22	jS briflc	9^	64	2 .2 blue Iky, white clouds, fine day
23	S calm	90	^5	1 .1; blue fky, white clouds, flight fhower P.M.
24	S W calm	82	64	.6 /blue fky, white clouds, fine day
Z t	VV ..gentle	75	63	2 .0 blue fky, white clouds, fine day
26	NW briik	82	60	.0 blue fky, black and white clouds, fine (fay
Zl	W gentle	30 ,12	61	.1 clear expanfe, fine day
	'SW erdm	28	^3	,1 overcaft, clears up, fine day
29IS brifk		64	.5 clear expanfe, fine day
30'SVV briik i t	•29,92	64 1	.c clear, thunder and rain P.M. 1

Gathered ripe flravvberries. — 4. Fox-glove in bloom. — 5. CiTckoo-fplf (cicadnla) upon different plants, — 8. Grafs has grown much in the couife of la'ft week. — ii. Gathered a Provence rofe.—ia. Several Fields of hay-grafs cut. —13, Thunder at a diftance. — 14. Bar* ley in the ear.— 16. Bees fwarm. — 17. Wheat in the ear. Thermometer 96 out of doors four o’cU)ck P.M. Hay harveii become general.

Fall of rain, 1 inch 5-ioths. Evapoi atlon to the 23d of the month, 3 inches 7-ioths j ' after that, owing to accident, no certainty,

IVahgn near Liverp'.oly J- Holt.

' Meteorological IaBle tor July, 1794*

Height	of Fabrenb	eit’sTh	ermoinerer. j	Height	of Fa	hrenheit’s Thcrmom,eter.
D. of Month.	>X %	5 C %	0 0	‘3arom in. pts.	W eather in July 1794. j	A ^ 'slj d?:!	.. * C L* ^ 0 00 (c;	a 0 0 is . .	"0 « inE	Barom io. pts	V/eather in July 1794.
^une	0	n	0		1		0	t 0	0
27	66	70	61	30,22	fair	1 2	67	76	63	30 >05	fair
26	60	75	62	>3^	fair	13	69	86	64	,06	fair
29	60	69	63	,28	fair	14	66	78	63	,06	fair
3C>	63	75	6o	,01	iair	15	67	76	64	,18	cloudy
	hz	75	61	29 ,98	cloudy	1 6	64	75	63	,01	fhowery
2	61	76	66	30 >15	fair	17.	66	75	64	,01	fair
3	67	76	61	HI	fair	18	66	79	65	,01	fair
4	6 1	76	61	,26	fair	19	68	79	6 1	29 ,88	fair
5	63	73	62	,20	fair	20	66	76	61	,94	fair
6	64	8z	69	29,98	fair fair	21	64	76	fco	,90	fair
7	69	84	66	,92	22	66	72	64	,89	fhowery
8	67	78	68	30,18	'■air		^5	70	6z	•■>57	ihowery
9	6q	78	62	,28	fair	24	61	73	58	*49	fair
ao	68	78	60	,L9	fair	^5	58	70		,90	(bow'ery
n	643 i	I 79 1 ,	60	,18	■fair	26	58 1	69	1 1 59	,86	ihowery

W. CARiT, Optician, No, i8z, near Norfoik-Street, Stiaitd,

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1794,

BEING THE FIRST NUMBER OF VOL. LXIV. PART JL

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Mr. Urban, Dryburgh Abbey, July iz. -^WHE very lon^ iiitermif- w lion or my correlpond- ^ ence with you h^s been owing to my particular engagements in litera-

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vented me from contri¬ buting to your ufeful undertaking. Be¬ ing of opinion, that the wide dilTemina- tion and extenfion of ufeful knowledge in both fexes, in all ages and tanks, ought to be the primary obje61: of every friend to humanity, I have uniformly, with my illuftrious fiiend the Great Wafhington, been a promoter of cheap and well-digefled periodical publica¬ tions. I have, for three or four years paft, furniflied a good deal of matter for Dr. Anderfon’s Journal in Scotland, called The Bee ; which, from feme dif¬ ficulties in the circulation of it, has been lately fufpended by the Editor. Juft attachment to my own country in¬ duced me to give a preference to that Journal; but now, finding myfelf clif- engagid, 1 chearfully reafl'ume my lite¬ rary connexion with the Gentleman’s IMagazine, that truly chafte and re- fpfc6\able repolitory of erudite and ufe¬ ful information.

As a beginning, I fend you a truly interefting letter of the worthy Dr« Franklin. Nothing, in my opinion, can more furely tend to produce peace, induftry, and happinefs, in Britain, than an interchange of citizens with conge¬ nial America ; and whoever difeou- rages that interchange muft be eonli- dered as no friend to the happinel's of either fide of the Atlantic, or the inte- refts of humanity at large.

Auierica prefents a country founded upon pure princip es of Chriftian cha¬ nty, and untainted morality as /losing

from that charity, fuch as the world ne« ver before exhibited. She, therefore, offers to the refleiffing and inquifitive mind confiderations and hopes that en¬ ter deep and far into a happier futurity. I am, Sir, wich^eftetm, your obedient humble fervant, Buchan. '

Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Minljler Extras - ordinary and Pkni-potentia>r)/ from the United Stages of America to France, to the Earl of Buchan.

My Lord, Eajf, March 17, 1783.

I received the letter your Loi dfliip did me the honour of writing to me the iS:h paft ; and am much obliged by your kind congratulations on the return of peace, Which I hope wnll be lafting.

“ With regard to the terms on wh'ch lands may be acquired in America, and the man’ner of beginning new fettlements on them, 1 cannot give h*;tter information than may be found in a book lately printed at London, under fome fuch title as Letters from a Eennjylvanian Farmer, by Heifoi' St. John. The only encouragement we hold oiK to rtrangers are, a good climate, fertile foil, nvholef jme air and water, plenty of prtwi- font 'and fuel, good pay for labour, kind neigh¬ bours, good laws, and a hearty welcome. I'he reft depends on a man’s own induftry and virtue. Lauds are cheap, but they muft be bought. All fettlements are undertaken at private expence ; the publick conti'ibutes nothing but defence and juftice. 1 have long obferved of your people, that their fobriety, frugahty, induftry, and honefty, feldoni fail of fuccefs in America, and of procuring them a good cftabhlhment among us.

“ I do not recollecfl the circumftance you are pleafed to men ion, of my h.aving fav^d a cit zen at St. Andrew's by giving a turn to ills diforder ; and I am cm ions to know’ what the diforder was, and what the advice I gave wh-oh proved fo faiu aty*. With great reraid, I ha"e the honour to be, my J.ord, your Lordrbip’s nioft obedient and moft humble for 'ant, B. Franklin ”

It was a fever in which the Earl of Buchan, then Lord CardroL, lay ftek ai St An¬ drew’s; and the advice w'as, not to blifter according to the old pradlice and the op.iuun of the learned Dr. Thomas Simfon, brother c'f tlie celebrated geometrician at Glafgow. B.

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Mrs^ Allardyee. — Bljhops and Temporal Peers ^ Isc, [July,

Mr. Urban, July lo.

iN your Magazine for April, p. 352, you mention a monumerjt ere6ieci at Aberdeen to the memory of Mrs. A!\ar~ fiy£( and, in your Obituary for May, p. 484, notice the death of her lou.

1 lake the liberty of fending you a more paiticLilar defcription of the mo¬ nument. It is executed by Bacon in tiiC beft fty’e and tafte, and is a mafteriy performance.

Two figures, Piety and Benevolence, in alto rilic'vo, form the principal part, piety is looking towards Heaven, hold¬ ing the Bible in her hand, on the open page of which is written,

What doth the Lord God reopiire of thee, but to do foiily, and to lovs mercy, and to walk liumbly with. thy God Mi- cah, vi. 8.

Benevolence has a pelican and nek in her hand. Between the figures, on part of a column, is placed an urn riclily decorated wiih flowers; flowers, fimblematica! of beauty, but in their na¬ ture of no duration.

On the fiont of the pedeflal, which fupports the figures, the artift has hap- y>ilv perfonified the idea of Shakfpeare, Patience on a monument fmh.ng at Grief.” On thej^blet is the following i?aj/o rehrVQ : the hiothcr, nearly expi¬ ring, is tornmitfing 10 th? arms of the father their infant Ion ; wiiile he, kneel¬ ing at her bedfide in an attitude of grief, the countenance concealed, is rt-ceivinrr this pledge of (heir mutual afTcfition. In this tender moment, with a Imile of pa¬ tience and refignation, fhe points with pne hand to the chiid, indicative pf comfort here; her othej- hand’ is lifted towards Heaven, expreffive of her con¬ fidence that a hippy union of all their Jpnits flral' take place hereafter.

The inicriptiun is,

f‘ Sacred to the memory of

Ann, *

p-.e wife pf Alexander Alliirclyce, of Dnnottar, daughter of Alexander Baxter, of Gldfel. $he was married the 7th Aug.iif, X7’86 ; * g<ive bh"'(h to het ion Alexander B,.x’er Allaulyca the 23d July, and <'epaij:ed t ns 1-fe at Aberdeen tne ilt Auguit, 178;, agid 28 years.

As a tribute juftly due to the eminent vir¬ tues, gentle rnanuers, and perioual accom- plifhments, of a moO; amiable 'woman, her difcoiifolate hufoaiid dedicates this monu¬ ment.”

Yours, &e. ^ Viator.

P. S, The monDinent is placed m ti^e

Weft end of St. Nicholas’s church,

Aberdeen.

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M r. Urban, J^^lv 2 3 .

E pleafed to accept a few milcella- neons ftiidlures on fome of your precedine IMagazines.

Vol. I^Xin p. 985, col. T. Is not the expreflion, “ the atfiir is on the fa^ pis, or carpet,” borrowed from the Houfe of Peers, where the table ufed to be, and probibly fttll is, covered with a carpet? if lo, it is eafy to fee how “ to be on the iapisA. f e. on the table be¬ fore us, cau'e to fignify, to be under confideration or difculiioii ; w'hich is, I believe, its nif-nning. I underftand it is alfo a Ficnch phrafe.

P. 1078. In contrafling a bifliop and a rernporsl peer, yruir correfpondent L. L. overlooks one mawrua! difference bct'xeen them. The bilhop is inrrufted with an office as well as invefted with dignity ; but the temporal peer is in¬ vefted with dignity only. The bifhop does not ajfume a dominion;” be merelv exercifes, with more or lefs pru¬ dence and dilcietion, what is given him, and it may be ‘Wver thofe who yefler- day were up.m an equal footing with him that is, if they are now part of his charge. But the temporal peer has no authority to “exercile over his for¬ mer comiades;” what he received was honourable rank, accompanied indeed with valuable privileges, but, ftn^tly fpeaking, with no power. 1 will not here enquire into the degree of authority poffeftLd by bifhops; but the faSi, that authority, be it more or lei's, is joined to their office, I hope yotur sorrefpond- ent him lelf will allow,

P. 1188. The rema'k of the Jews (John viii. 57), “ Thou art not yet

fifty years eld,” feems by no means to warrant the ” inference” of your corre¬ fpondent S E. that our hleftvd Lord “ muft have th'-n bren upwards of thirty-three.’’ It is not alw.ays eafy, from the looks of a perfon who is in the vigour of life, to afeertain his age with¬ in fix or eght years; and, if they tiiOLight it even poiiib.e that our blelled Ssviour might be forty, they would na¬ turally take the next round number; and half a century, as Grotius julily oblerves, was noihing to the period in ^ueftion, which was about eighteen centu. ies.

Voi.LXiV. p, 145, col, I. As I have not fee-n Dr. Syinonds’s Obfervations, X cannot imaginsj what puzzles him in

I Cor»

1794-1

Scriptural Crituifm, and Mtfcillaneons Bemarh.

\ Cor. viii. 3 : “If any man love God, the fame is kfio'zvn of him that is, ackno^vl^clged or approved by him : as, The Lord hiovjeib the way of the righteous,” Pl'al. 1. 6. Compare Matt.

XXV. I z. ^

As to Rev. i. m (ib. 146, col, 1), it is no unufual thmg for words belonging to one of the feufes to be applied to another ; as,

“ Et pollquam di^ifis fueranc cum voce Io~ cuti ”

TLe hand

with the tongue.” - Milton.

So too Gen xxvii 27 ; “ See, the fmell of my (on,” &c. where Patrick may be confulted.

But here no words could be more proper than thofe which St. John ufes. He “ turned to fee d' and that which occafioned his turning was “ a great voice” which he heard behind him (ver. 10); but, till he had looked, he did not know whether there was or w'as nor anv perfon ; (o that “to Ice -who ul- tered the voice” wl 1 not do: it might be a voice from Heaven, or aiticuiate words formed miraculoufly in the nir, without any vifible appearance. The meaning, therefore, which the circum- ft.ances require, cannot, I think, any other way be fo well and fo concilely exprefled as it is by the Apoflle, I turned to fee the voice ”

P. 209, col. 2. The “ legendary tale,'’

I believe, is a common one; and it is lingular that a tal£ fo incredible flrould be common.

P. 496. The “ Hiftoria Literaria” was the woik of Dr. C^ve, not of Mr. Cave.

Pp 497, 49^5. 599> 617. The old in- fpripnon prouatily is to be read thus :

Muniat hoc templum cruca g,lonftcanS microcofmum

^se g-^nuit Chi ilium niiferis hoc fiat afilum.” The only doubtful words are the two in Itahcks. It is clearly defigned for verfe ; and it is an inftance of a praffice which the Roman Catholicks of tins country, 1 believe, genera. ly drlavow, prayer to the B eilcd V .rgin. They do not as thev tell us, prav to the (aint, but defire the faint to pray fur them: “ Holy Virgin, pray for us.” But how fuch an addrefs as this, whether they choofe to call it prayer or not, can be made with any profpeef of being heard, unlefs the faint pofTelles one of the in¬ communicable^ attributes of God, his pmnipi efence, it leems impofTible to ex¬ plain or comprehend, R. C,

DESCRIPTION OF CORSICA.

H E ifland of Corfica, now happily uniteo to the Crown of Great Bri¬ tain, is ficuated nearly oppofite to the main-land of Genoa, between the gulph of Genoa and the Ifland of Sardinia, and, according to the be'^ maps which Bufeh- irg had feen*, is in length thirty-two miles, and in breadth twelve miles, divi¬ ded almofl lonjqtudiraHv bv a chain of m' untains ; and indeed the gr^^atefl part of the ifland is mountainous. Tne foil is fruitful even on the mountains, except the highefl, whofe fummits are covered with fnow the greateft part of the year. Corn grows very well, and- much flax, and in many places excellent W'ine, and cik and chefnuts. In the interior part of cl le ifland is plenty of cattle, and the inhabitants drive a great trade with all forts of them, but more efpecially goats, wh.ole fleflr is the common food of Cor- tica. There are feveral mines of iron, lead, copper, and filver, befides ftones and mineral -, and a good coral fifliery on the coaff. Tiie number of parilhes in 1740 W'as 333 ; of villages 427 ; of fires, 46,854 i and of fouls, 120,380; which, in 1760, amounted to 130,000; Mr. Bof- well canies it to 220,000.

The kingdom of Corfica was con¬ quered by the G noeL, who drove out th-e Saracens A. D, 8c6. The Pifan« took it from the Gmoefe in the iitb ceniar", ceded it in die following, and recovered it in the next. Alphoufus V. King of Arraeon, au-empted, u^ithout fuccels, to make himfelf mafter of it 1420. In 15 3 3« the French polTclTed themfclves of the gieatefl part of the iflrfnd, but ceded ir by the treaty of Cainbrefis, iS59' *5^4’ the inhabi¬

tants revttlted from die Genoefe ; and, though reduced to obedience five years after, preftrved an inveterate averfion to the Genoef , who treated them with the utmofl r.gour. An infurretSlion, on oc- cafion of heavy taxes, broke out 1726, vvlrich were ended by the interpofition of the Emperor. In 1 73 5,fiefli troubles broke out and the iflanders chofe Theo-d'ire Baron Nsuhof their king ; who, after fonie exertions, ended his days in prif-.m for debt at London, where in 1753 a fub- feription vv.is raifed for him by pulrlic advertlfcment (XXIII. 99). Peace was at length letlored during the years 1743 and 1744; and, though our fleet bom¬ barded Bahia 1743, and the malcon- _ _ - ■ _ ' - - — - ■ - ■ ■ - ^

* Here is Ibme great miltake ; and Mr. Bofw'ell’s meafures, hereafter given, are more likely to be correil.

3

tents

590 A particular Defcrlpilon of the Jjland of Corfica.

tents feizsd the town, it was foon reco¬ vered from them. May 15, 1768, the Genoefe gave up Corfica to the king of France as a compenfation for the ex- pences that crown had been and was to be at for the redu6fion of the ifland. Jipril 9, 1769, Comte de Vaux arrived at Corfica, and made a progrcfs. May J3, Paoli and his friends embarked at Porto Vecchio on board a velfel carrying Knglifh colours, July 18, France ceded it to the king of Sardinia ; and the Duke gle Chablais, the king’s brother, pre¬ pared to take poli'efiion of it. (Vol.

XLIV. p. 384).

The cbrgy are very numerous, and there are 68 convents of Cordeliers, Ca¬ puchins, and Servites. The revenues of the ifland were applied by the Genoese, in time of peace, to maintain governors, officers, and foldiers : the furplus has never exceeded 40,000 Genoele livres.

The chain ot mcjuntaitts divides the ifland into two unequal parts, and thefe again are fubdivided into dillrlfils or pro¬ vinces of different tribunals and fiefs, and thefeagain intopieves, paiiihes,and psezes.

Thus much from Bulching’s Geogra¬ phy, XII. 297—306. For farther par¬ ticulars we muft refer to a map of the ifland in our vol. XXVIi. p. 441 ; to Mr. Bofw’elPs defeription of it, and of its chief Paoli, publifhed 1778 ^ and our a>bflra£I of it, XXXVIII. lyz.

Mr. Bofvvell makes the length of the ifland 150 miles, the breadth from 40 to 53 miles, and the circumference 322 miles. It is charmingly fituated in the Meditenanean, whence continual breezes fan and cool ic in fummtr, and the fur¬ rounding body of water keeps it warm in winter; fo that it is one of the moff t-*mperate countries in that quarter of Europe. Tlie air is frelh and healthful dxcept in one or two places. It is re- iTiarkably well furniifitd with good har¬ bours. Tiie great divifion of it is into the country on this and on that fide of The mountains, reckoning from Baflia, into nine provinces, and into many pieves, fontarring each a certain number of pa- riflies. Every paeje, or village, e]v6fs annually a and two other magnf-

tiatcs, called padri del commune-^ and rnce a year all the inhabitants of tacb village alTembleand clioofe ■&. procurator e to repreient them in the geneial conjulia f'"- oarh-unent of the nation, made up of feveral who have been fonTieilv members of lire fupreme council, 01 have loft near relations in the fervice of their country. Tlic inagiiii ates of each piovincc fend ,

alfo a procuratore i and two of thofe of the provinces, together with the procu- ratore of their magidrates, are chofen to eltfl the prefident to prefide in the gene¬ ral confulta, and an orator to read the papers fubjeifled to deliberation. Tlie General’s office much refembles that of the Stadcholder. The government ex¬ hibits a complete and well ordered demo¬ cracy. Paoli appeared to Mr. B. to have no great propenfity to an alliance with any foreign povver; but wc trull our na¬ tion have fince been fafficienrly unde¬ ceived in their opinions of the Corficans, and the latter have overcome their ob- jeftions; and that Paoli’s firm perfuafion that God would interpole to give free¬ dom to Corfica, and the prefentiment of Roulfeau, that one day this ifland would allonifh Europe, will be accomplifhed.

Mr. URBAiJ, July

REMEMBER, when the French miniflersvvere treating about Corfica many years ago, that the neutral and hoflile nations dwelt much upon the importance of that ifland to the French as a repofitory of growing naval timber, and more erpecially ad vantageous as be¬ ing in the vicinity of Toulon. Now, Mr. Urban, I have never heard anv au- rhentic folution of that queftion ; and the publick would be obliged if, through your medium, any intelligent carr§- I'pondeut would determine the fame, and in what part the woods (if any) for the fupply of a navy grow. It has a coarle cheap white wine in tolerable plenty, and, I believe, a good l^arbour in St Fiorenza; which, during any pofTeffion of by friends in future, may he looked upon by us both as a negative and politive . good, but not to that amount as to be equivalent to the ex- pence of keeping it ourfelves. I have viewed it mylelf from the fea many years ago, when in the hands of the Genoefe, but faw, what I only thougt t it to have, a barren fuiface devoid of woods.

Whllfl; we are on the wing of enquiry in one article of Natural Hiflory, per¬ mit me to p.fk, whether any informant cm denounce if the Cafpian lake, or lea, as it is fometirnes called, be in any degree fnlc or brackifli ? I have often had thoughts of afking the late good and inquiiitive commijiiontr Jonas Han- way th s queftion, who could have pre- citely lolved it, but as often forgot. I have not his Travels by me ; but others may remember what he fays on this

fubieft,

r *

[ 794*] Watfon. — The Author of ChryfaL — Cafimlr. - 5gs

ubje6^, or fpeak perhaps from their )wn knowledge,

A QjJONDAM Correspondent,

Mr. Urban, July 17*

MUST^ beg that you will be fo good as to give an early infertion in your Vlagazine of my apology for milleading ;our readers about the real author of ‘ Intimations apd Evklences of a future jtate.*' In attempting to correft a mif- ake of yours, Mr. Urban, 1 fell into )ne myfelf. You may remember shat, n one of your numbers, you had inti- nated your conjefturcs that yourcorre- pondent Mr. Thomas Watfon, of Wig- till, was the author of the faid publi- ?ation, which I certainly knew was not be cafe ; and I, trufling to the autho- ity of the Monthly Reviewers, and )ther publications, aferibed the work to he late Mr. Thomas Wation, near Faunton : and now it appears, from Mr. Toulmin’s letter, that I, in my urn, W2S miftaken. I can affure that gentleman, that I had no defire to lub- fitute invention for truth to injure iiis Tiend, nor todifcredit your Mifcellany ay palming my vague tancies upon the jubltck. As the book was aferibed by :reditable pubheations to that author, jnd uncontradiftfcd as far as I knewj ind as 1 was certain that you were mil- :aken in thinking it the production of i^our friend of that name, the miftake was natural enough on my part; and l fhould fuppofe Mr. Toulmin will now be fatisfied that 1 had no intentions of injuring the reputation of his departed friend. ‘

There is another Mr, Thomas Wat¬ fon, a clergyman of the Engiifli church, an acquaintai-ce of mine, refiding neajT Halifax, in Yorklhire, abundantly ca¬ pable of writing fuch a work ; but, whe¬ ther he be ready the author or not, I do not know J . R.

Mr. Urban, July i.

FTER having been a reader of your valuable work for twenty years, and having perufed all your vo¬ lumes in feparate numbers through the flreets of London (for my friends know me to be a t/alking reader mrny years), I am at laft tempted to become a corre- Ipordent by the perulal ot lorne inte- rdting articles in your number for June. 1 fliad, how'-ver, begin by informing your (dd navy olTl.er, p. c^^z, that an

Irifli gentleman, a Mr. Johnflone, is the author of the excellent fatirical novel “ Chryfal.” This information I had fome years ago from an intimate friend of his, Mr. Bonham, a very valuable member of fociety, an Iriflt gentleman, and refident in London many years. I know not whether Mr. Johnflone has added any thing to his literary fame or not lince the publication of Chryfal, which was fo well received.

For the information of a gentleman, who fome time ago enquired about a tranflation of the celebrated Cafimir, I lhall obferve, that there is a fcarce little work, containing only a part of his Odes, tianllated by G. H. /. e. G. Hils, as appears from a fhort Latin Dedications “ Viro veie generofo, et meritiflime a. me colendo, Bernardo Hyde armigero.^’ From the Dedication he appears to have been ti^tor to Mr. Hyde’s fons. The tranflation, being executed 14S years ago, is in the old dry, dole, anti inhar¬ monious ilyle. It would perhaps amule an x\ntiquary, or ai»l a reader not wtli acquainted with Latin lyric poetry. Should the enquirer With to fee a few Odes in Mr. Hils’s antient drefs, I would tranicribe them with pleafure foe a future number.

But now for the chief aim of this let¬ ter, which relates particularly to the hints thrown out in June about a coali¬ tion between the Protc.flant and R man Catholic churches. How ddiiable an. obje6t to all lovers of evangelic concord! But, to conejuer the prejudices of parties fo long divided, bic labor, hoc opus g/?. To follow the allubon of the Poet, re- "jocare gradum fuperafque evader e ai auras, that is, to tread back our fteps, and breathe the free and liberal air of the bed Proteflant wr ters j when, I fay, is that to be expeded from the Clergy of the Gallican Church ? I will venture to affirm, and it is a Roman Catholick that; fays it, that they are not fo well ac¬ quainted with our good writers of every kind as we are witlr theirs. 1 have con- vcrled with many of them, who have emigrated even from Normandy, who never heard of our Dr. Johnfon, and who know nothing of our befl Proteflant divines. Whence then is the light, as a Proreftant would fay, to break in upon them? 1 always tliought that the giand partition between both Churches was their opinion of tlie Sactament, and all the appendages and fupeifrrufturc erett- e<,l on that opinion. Who is to give up the untenable ground ? I am lure there

are

* Tins point is cleared up, p. 6 16. Eba r-

592 Frotejtant and Catholic Churches,-— ^hs Cliauncy Family, f Juty

are points the Proteftants never can, and never will. It (f.tnis vv« want on both fides half a dozen Fenelons to fettle the buhnefs. I have no expedfations fiom the flaffjing and nnfoibearing Boffuefs of eithei fide. Mach may be expelled bom a few Beringtons, did vv.c polUfs them; and fu'ch a man alio as Dr. Geddes might do much, and would go a great wav, with headinefs and prudence, whatever Mr. Milner might iliink to the contrary. I have the honour of kn-iwing Dr. G, and think him an excell nt member of iociety. In company, f;e takes every proper opportunity of throwing out the l)eft maxims for the condudl of both fexes, without the leaft air of dogma- tifin. He is fond of the fociety of young men, who are equally fond of his, not to make profelvtes, hut becaufe he loves the candour, the warmth, and honeliy of youth.

Bat, to return. How lamentable is it, at leafl in my mind, that, fince the Re¬ formation, the Roman Catholic fervice has not been p ^formed throughout Eu¬ rope in the langaage of the country ! Can the repetiri m of a few Pater-nolErs and Ave Marias by a piovis, [ admit, and illiterate audience, be compared to the intelligible and manly lerviceof the Pio- tedanc Chuich, where every heart and voice join in the bme fentiments ? But this would be a great ftndc towards your Church. And vet 1 have heard the Proteftant fervice highly praifeJ by an elegant and liberal member of the CatVioiic Church, Dr. Barret, vicar ge¬ neral of the diocefe of Kiilalo ", and even commended, in a pamphlet written 20 years ago by that gentleman. It will be a wonderful revolution fnould it ever take p’ace, and it feems to be now pre¬ paring, though 1 am fotry to fee it is per damnay per c^edes, but the Reforma¬ tion, though now fixed and trarquiil, has bad its fl'iare of blood and flaaghter to wade through.

Thefe obfervations come, Mr. Urban, from a man who knows much of the 'ar¬ cana of the Roman Catholic religion, having fpent many years in one of the lirii'teh feminaries in Paris, where he faw the unremitting difcipline, the felt- denial, and fan'^liiy (however exploded the term may be to modtra ears), of many doctors of that Chu»ch. But, af¬ ter 30 years rehdence in England, he knows that Protellants can julfly bo.itt of their Jortin, Lowth, Pearce, Porceus, and an iiundred others. What is the confequence ? We individually cry up

the learning and virtue of the merriber of onr own communion, vvhiie collec' tively we lament that fuch great and wor¬ thy men cannot or will not coalefce.

Tire writer of this article is fcniibl ho^v unimportant his fentiments mult b( on a fubjedf of inch magnitude. Pie onh ventures’ to give a modefl: hint, tf) p©in out the tl ffjcuitics of the navigatioi which lead to the harlrour of coalition His maxim has been, wnrh the great rnaf- ter of life and manneis, Hora'fe, to foJlo<A tlie fallsntzs Jemita Since his re-

fidence in England, he has had offer; from a worthy friend of a good living, could he prevail on himfeif to adopt -i new rchg'on with worldly intereft thrown into the fcaie. He could not follow the example of his old fellow-frudent and countryman, the Rev. Thomas O’Beirnej formerly chap.ain to L' rcl Howe, and quondam (ecretary to the Duke of Port¬ land. He d'oes not blame his old friend; he only fays that the fame convidtion hag not flifhed upon his iotelh^ls, though he never was called a Saint the L’ifh col¬ lege like fome of his friends. Unfortu¬ nately, be became a poet and fatirift in a foil then adverfc to freedom, which drove him to the Land of Liioerty (a circum- fraacc which he can never regict) ; and he thus freelv declares that, though a Roman Catholick, all his friends and acquaintance are for the mod: pait Pro- teftants. They know he onlv heks and vviihev for truth, if arij one would kindly’’ point out the way to her temple ; and he has been ever ed!fit"i f)v the candour and iroeralicy of their fcntiment«.

Yours, &c. John Phelan, Libranan to (he CaUr^e oj Phy- jicrans o4 London.

Mr. Urban, July

GAINST the wall of Merctr. hall anti chapel is a muial monument coniilling of a pyramid of frlue marble behind an urn, under which is a bafc w id* this infcfjption :

In t’ne adjoining vault nrg depofite-.l ti-ie remains of rHiLip Chauncy, efq. who died April 30, 1763, aged 63 \ ears ;

of \'I I's. Mary C m a u n c v , who died Jan. 29, 1784, aged. 52 years;

and of Nat h.ani£l Chauncy, elq.

■who died Jan. 29, 1790, aged 73 years.

Arms: Gules, a crols fl n y Or, on a chi' f. Sable, a lion palJant Or.

The wiiole is the work of the late Mr. J. Spiilcr, whofc death is te.crded in your prclcnt volume, p. 48^, Jb Q..

Mr.

9

6re^UzJM}u/. tZuly. ^2^^-

s^ a\"illia:\i king or scots,

Surniimed- Hie ITT ON.

The I^of//u/er the Th' /title -iFeieeu*

^herdee?t, n'here he h(7eh^ hds Chtt^te/., hhe ahi^

JP/ace iReJ /he t/ienP

1794*] William Lion, <?/ Scotland* — Sterne. 593

M r. U R ?• A N’ , 2 O.

HE frvri vert of the Trinity friers, ar Abe’^Hevp, is generally aMf)\ved to have been founded by King WiD'am the Lion, in the twelfth century, where he had a chapel, and nfreu ufed to live the*re him'eif tn r°':irenrient,

•Dr. Wdliam Guild, principal of the king’s college, and one of the minifters of Aberdeen, obtained a of this

fpot, with the premif'es, from Kmg' Charles the Fi'ft, and made them over to the incorporated trades of that burgh. Over the ga^e of the ha!!, which now generally goes by the title of the trades- hall, tlte name of Dr. Guild, Jn letters 01" gold, at this day is to he feen.

The painting, of which a copy is herewith fent vou plate /•), cuts a

confj^icuous figure among the many old p rtiaiis iu tliat ha 1. But Mr. Uiban will not expetfl any fort of prottf that it was taken from. the original, tht ugh there is great reafon to believe that it is a wry aniienr painting, poffibly as o.’d as tlie time of the Trinity friers, or pvlotiiurine rnunks, as they were alfo called. The fiame is of maify oak.

One of thefe monks, by name Huwe, is mentioned in the Ragman Roll, anno 1296; and one would imagine that every thing about this hall was fidl jn- tended t j keep up the appear-tnee of an- tiqu ty 5 the proportions of the great loom, the lengtli whereof is 64 feet, and the breadth only 17; the height is the fame*. Bf en the furniture has preferved the fame llyle of antiquity. There are two carved chairs, the lateft whereof was done in the year 1574*

There was alfo an old chapei ficua'ted near the hall, which was pulled down the other d iv in oider to build a giand church for clie incorporated trades, and of which t Ihali probably have occafmn to give you fome account hereafter. L.

Mr. Urban, M^i*chefer, "June 18.

S notiling tends m-.>re to dtgtade and cx'inguifh real fennment and

* 1 am I old' that thefe are nearly the pro- porlu.ns ot many of the 100ms in VVindfor Cafilv, Hampton Court, and other autient hui’.dii gs, both in England and Scotland ; but tins point, Mr. Urban, I leave to your detf rminaiion entirely either to print or flip;-, refs it. The building of the tradet-hall for ten feet high is veiy old ; and this lower fiory is now divdded into twelve fepoaie spartments for poorpradefmen. The upper Itory IS more modern.

Glnt. Mag. Juh’y » 794-

religion than to aflociate thefe with buf" foonry and obfcenity; hence 1 have al¬ ways looked upon Sterne to be one of the mofi dangerous writers of his time. It is Tii.e, the I'upnofed origiua ity of his iaukhing and crying in the lame breath, and breaking through every rule of or¬ der and common fenfe, at firll diew an audience round this literary mountebank j but it feems now, that even the poor mer t of ra'king nonfenfe in a new way is denied to him. In addition to the proofs of plagiarifm vvhich your corre- fpoirdent, p. 406, has brought ajainlt this wtiter, 1 wiih to lefer the reader to

An Ellay towards the Theory of the Jnitl'igible World, by Gabriel John,’* (uppofed to be Tom D’Uify, piib'ifhed in the firft year of the preient century ; to whirh, I chmk, the author of Trif- tram and the bencimental Journey is greatly indebted for the eccentric man¬ ner of his writing. In this we have a Preface in the middle of the work, fec- tions concerning weathercocks and but¬ ton-holes, a ch-^pter which is announ¬ ced CO be the be ft in the book, and ano¬ ther which the reader is defired not to lo.)k into. And yet, Mr. Urban, 1 am acquainted with men of edusution, who, at the prefent dj»y, are apes of the mi¬ mic Sieriie, and who value themf'elves on pofftlling what they call the Shan- dean ftyle. J. M.

OMM ^

O ! limed foul, that, flruggUng to be fi ee, Alt more engag’d 1” Hami. et^

Mr, Urban, June 30.

I PITY you from my heait. More .2- laft words of the three heavenly wit- nelRs ! The gentleman, who calls him {tii your friend, comes forth in your lad number, and feems defirous to engage in the controvei Ty. His letter, 1 think, may be reduced to three heads.

Firft, he is angry vvith your Reviewer for fuppofing that Mr. Porlon’s letters may be fufficient to confute Mr. I'ravis, even though it lliould be alloi.\ ed that not one of the MbS. now found in the Panfian library lielongs to the lift ufed by R. Stephens in his folio edition.

Sesondly, he alierts that Mi. Poi Ton’s arguments are all borrowed.

'Fhi'd.y, he half piomiles to give a B RE VI ATE of the contioveiTy.

In aniwer to the firft, give my re- Cptftful complui.eius to your Reviewer^ and tell him chat he has made coo hafty a eoncellion. Alt. Travis has done no-

thmg

^OA Remarks on A^r. Travis* — Letters of Dr. HiMefley, ^e.

thing lefs than proved the non-identity of fhe MSS. by the fpecimens already pro¬ duced. Let him publilh his entire col¬ lation, and we fliall be better enabled to fornn a judgement.

The fecond is a form’dable objection truly ! Porfon himlelf having for¬

mally dilclaimed all pretenfions to no¬ velty, as any of your readers may fee by looking at tf s beginning of his fe- cond letter, or in your vol LIX p. loi. In return, I beg to know how much new mat'er Mr. Travis has added, from his own dock, erron exempted?

On the third I obferve, that you feem alieady to have had enough of the controverly. Such too Teems to have been Air. Porfon’s opinion, when he took the rubje6f out of your Miicellany to treat it in a more convenient place and manner. It is difficult to difeufs fuch a quediqn properly with the inter¬ ruptions which your plan rendeis ne- telTary. I fubmit it, therefore, to your friends whether he would not do better to lick that mafs of knowledge, with which his mind teems, into rhe form of a pamphlet, than to extra6l it by piece¬ meal at monthly intervals.

Whether this gentleman be a new- dubbed knight, tvjho Jleeps on brambles till ke kills' his man, or the doughty champion himfelf, who wears his beaver down left bis perfon ffiould be known and his challenge refilled, I am willing to enter the lids with him on the fulfil¬ ment of one indifpenfable previous con¬ dition.

I believe that 1 fliall do no injudice to Mr. Travis and your friend (if they are two), by luppofing that they edeem the defence of R. Stephens, as newly furbifiied up, to be the brighted piece of armour in the hero’s panoplia dogma- tica. In comparing the readings of the Paris MSS. w'th the marginal readings of R. Stephens’s edition, he makes, a- mong other aiTertlon?, the following ;

1. P,^ge 225. That MS. (Par. No.

1 12), reads oi [aoi sv rtj

cnxAiyfsytcr.a otxv in Alait. xix. 28; but the MS £ of R, Stephens read oi awo-

(/.oi hc(.roXr,v oro(.y Iq

the coirefponding p-flage.

2. P. 231. R. Srephens affirms, that

his MS. ^ read ^laroA'/iv Matt,

xix. 28 ; neither of whieh words are found in that pallage in iVtS. 47

3. P. 233. R Stephens allirnis, that

his MS. i read in Matt,

xix. 28 : but the MS. 49 has neither of thofe words in this paffiage.

4. P 227. Rs S-epher.s affirms, that all his MSS. read a,(psc>}v'i<xl ay in Maft. ix. 2: but tfie MS. No. 112, now in quedion, reads ipsunlxl act in this paf- lage.

5. P. 230 That MS. (No. 72) reads octpiccjvlai crot in Matt. ix. 2 : .but R. Ste^ phens affirms, that ALL his AISS. read a^scuUcti ay in this verfe.

6. P. 233. The MS 49 reads onplctjyloii aoi o(,i otiAv^toci in Mutt. ix. 2 ; but all R. Stephens's MSS. read utpicovloii cry in this paffiage.

Now, Sir, I affiert, on the other hand, that every one of thefe fix alfertions con¬ tains a dire6l and abfoiute falfehood. The previous condition, at which 1 juft now hinted, is an explicit anlwer to the follow ing queries :

(Lu I. Has Mr. Travis really com¬ mitted thefe errors or not

Qu. 2. Ought not an author, wffio is capable of making I'uch ridiculous, inch infantine blunders, or of aderting fuch palpable falfehoods, to be deprived ipfo fa^o of all right to engage in a literary wa.-fare }

It is diverting enough to hear Mr, 'I'lavis and his myrmidons exclaim a- gaind the want of candour and Iffi^rahty m their opponents. They always bring to my nr!in,d the dory of the c.onv!6f, who complained bitterly of the unpolite behaviour of the judge in condemning him. U RB ANO Amicior.

Letters of Doctors PIiloeslev,

Hales, Leland, and Mr. Sa-

muelRichardson.

Mr. Urban, Chelfea, June 30. HE ready attention with which vou inferted in your pamphlet'^ Dr, Doddr tlge’s letter to Dr. Hildeft-y is not unnoticed. Aly friend Mr. Gi- berne, no IcL than myfelf, feels encou¬ raged to add the following, which he referved from amidft manyotheis: an.d to fc,e them in the lift of your perma¬ nent publications will be a circumdance of fatisfaSlion to us both.

To colleft a fel of medals, nr of an- tient portraits, lias, at ti.mes, been the eager purfuit of ingenious and good men. What 1 now forward to you are' not unworthy of the like regard ; and to ciais on the fame line a Hildeftey, a

^ See Mag. for May la^, P- 415-

Kichardfon^

>794-]

Original Letter of Dr. Hilcieiley.

Richarclfon, a Hales, and a Leland, is to form a conHellation of no ordinary lulbe. They were all of the btnign afpedt; they did not live in vain j they {’peak forcibly, and from tlse heart ; and thus once more exhibit a proof of the old and an'mating adage,

Great fouls by infllndt to each father turn, Demand aliaance, and in friendihip burn. The good B. (hop’s two letters, and the nanative of his lafi illnefs and de« ceafe. Teemed too interefling to be omit¬ ted. Such of thefe papers as you prefer, or all of them, if approved, are at your fervice. They are genuine; the origi¬ nals are here inclofed for your inlpec- tion ; and I give them to your readers, that, like my relation end myfe'f, they may be at once arnufed and advantaged.

Yours, VVn. Butler.

LETTER I.

Dr. Hii.desley to the Miss Ithells.

Hitchin, 13 Dec. y 754* NOTHING could excuie the liberty I take of intruding a book upon the la¬ dies at the Temple — who, 1 doubt not, are amply fuinifhed vvdth choice of the bell; of every kind — but my thorough perluabon, that what 1 here prelume to recommend to tluir perufal will be quite acceptable to them.

if this he iowked upon as a compli¬ ment, I can only fay, it is a ju-fl one. ’Tis too {ure, tliar, in this age of variety of (elf- filing engagements, ttiere are not many to he found who have a relifli for fuch fuhlime and fpiritual enjoyment as thefe “ Meditations ’ are capable of af¬ fording. It gives me great pleafure to think how you will ootli rejoice in them ; and how ready vou wi1i U: to (ay, with Dr. Young, and feme otheis who ad¬ mire them, that “ they Ihould never be far out of our reach.”

Were this world and its contents de- figned for our chief end and happinel'', right it might leem to be, as anxious, and folicitous, and eager, as we lee the generality of its votaries are, — to obtain and puifue the gratifications peculiar to. our animal frame and mortal condition. But, if our true and permanent felicity is to be had and fought elfewheit,' namely, in a (late as different as earth is from heaven, and time from eternity ; if the dole of a few more revolutions of the fame fort of unfatisfying days, months, and years, we have already pad, will indantly convince us of tins uitier-

ence, when it will avail us little to re¬ member what degree or dation of life vve have filled lure, hut what we have known, and done, of the will of HIM that placed us in it; [then] from the^e corrfiderations we are naturally led to think, farther, That, ag fure as God' is a fpitit,, the joys of heaven muff be fp'ni-- tual\ that even our bodies, with whxh we are to arlfe, are to he Tpiritualiftd, — - for, flcfii and blood cannot inherit, can¬ not partake, or have any fenfe of, tire delights of the ki.^geiom purchafed by the blood of Chrid.

What, then, mud needs he the trued wifcjoin of a rational thinking creature, but to provide in earned for this ctr- taif!, tr.e<v'\tahle change ! that it may be, with all advantage, to eternitv Rut, alas ! how few are there To vviTe an-d To thinking I If rhoTe I am now W'riting to arc, — as I conceive they are, — of the number of the few, I have my end in, and (hall need no apology for, this ad- dreTs. My incapacity, which has of late increaTed, of being To uTeful to, and converTant with, the family I the mod revere of any under my charge, has been one inducement to this unufual manner of application to them, of which 1 pro- mife mvTclf their candid and favourable acceptance; and fubfetibe, with my ear¬ ned prayers for their improvement and perfevtrance in w'hatever may tend to their everlading welfare, Mr. and the Mifs Ithell’s fincerely obedient and ob- ligod humble lervant, M. HildesleY.

%

The above letter, or perhaps the unkuow'n volume referred to, is thus fuperTcnbed ;

To

my worthy and

highly -edeemtd parifhioners, TEliztbeth’l

Mrs. < and > Ithell,

L Martha J thefe Meditations are humbly prefented

their obedient and faithful pador,

M. H.

LETTER IL

Mr. S. Richardson, Author of Clarissa, Grandison, and Pa¬ mela, TO A Lady.

Madam, l-ondoj, Jan. 10,

I AM very lorry that the Bifliop lays, “ He dare not call me his friend.” No one living could value the good ^tcar of

tiilchi

59^ Original Letter of Mr. Richardfon. — Clerical Corpulence. [July,

Jtiitchin more than I (Hfl, for the fake of bi'^ charaf^er, before I had ihe p'eafure of bsine vifited by him as Bijljop of Maf?; and moff heartily I con^rratulateci in my mind the people comioitted to his charge, on the’.r happinefs not fuiTeiing by their change.

To myfelf, in the letters he favoured me with, I always thought him too con- clefcending, too hum bit ; and is he not fo, in the notice he takes of me in the paper !>efore me? 1 thought myfelf verv happy in meeting, at the inn

at Barney the go’'d Mr. Mddtt-n.ev, on l;is return from I^cnt. Dr. You’ g dmed with me there ; and it was with regret that I could not engage him to do ib too ; but he had tpo good rea'ons to deny me that ple.sfure. My InibneU lav al- wa’ s heavy upon me. I never. ,in two or three vears, c'ou'd make n vific to Dr. Y'oung of more t' .•’o three or four days, cut and in; hut. ttad I known that tiie good Vicar of Hiichin had formed but l!.a!f a vvifh t- he me there. 1 would have got Dr. Young (both gcntlemea ! ie(pe£t'.ng each otlt^r greatly) to h^ive ihewed me tlte way.

[ had the favour of a vift, at my boufe in town, from his Lortldiip; and, mectiag him afterwards in the hrect, I knew that he was in movn p’-epaiing for bisdiocefe; and, if I lorget not. 1 was led to hope for another viltt hef >ie h s dt pa'-ture. But little did I know that bis Lordthip was bx wdt'h; weeks tn town, while mv bufinels led me fo near him; if I had. I llv-uld have held my- feif incxcufable not to have paid my duty to him in aii that time.

I have a very bneere lerpe^i: for this worthy Prelate. He has an amiaiile af- pe6f, and a cheay fulntf in his manner, that B-emed to me an affurance that ail nvas ri^ht ^vithtn. 1 had interefled my¬ felf in bis w'eifarr, and fliould have re¬ joiced in an account of it, in Ins new lettlement. His^ Lordihip is very good tome, in. his kind proir.sfe x\Qi to free me, in future, occabonaliy, fiom what be calls hi.s intrufions. He has not, any where, a n.iore buccre well- vvibur. I fhould rake it for a favour to be conb- dered by fo worthv a Divine as mare than cn acquai’riance.

Many h-^ppy returns of ihc feafon at¬ tend your Laclyfhip, and all vou love, prays. Madam, your mob fanhful and obliged fervan^ S. Rj C H A K D S ON.

(Jbf Lorre] panience ^ill be con^

UKued,)

Mr. Urban, Juve i6.

AVING been lately emoloyed in the perufal of Dr. Arl)u hnot’s ju¬ dicious “ ElPay on Aliments,’’ fome re¬ marks, which are made between the 28th and 32d pages of the volume in o6iavo, have gwen rife to a few rhougbts that I tfdnk may, in borne meafure. lay claim to orig^nalify ; at Icaif I have ne¬ ver been tl.ern before 1 and, if you fljou'd think t'ley.mlgfit p-ove not tin n- t'erefti.ng to fame of vour readers, you will be kind enough to give them a co¬ lumn as 'bon as you conveniently can ; 2!ul by fo doing you will fihbge the wri¬ ter of rhefe li ne*., who rh'nk- they may be of fome ufe, in order to invalidate an invidious charge (frerpiently fake) which is efterr iiiade againft the general body of C!e'rick.s.

It not unfreqvienrly happens ihat the piiefts of our iand are “deck’d with health,” and are both c rpu'ent and of a ruddy complex'on. Now, the cenforious part of the tvorld aferibe this to indo¬ lence and luxurious ditc. Tlie ignorant believe the accidati' 11 to be a true one ; a 'd thus are rhut truly valuable part of fociety vilified and lightly eileemed by fuch a large proportion of mankind as are the cenloiious and the ignorant. But, if there i.e any truth in Dw Ar- buihnot’s aberrion of the lungs beirg “ rbe chief inilrument f)f banguification, and that the aniniai, udio has that o'gan fau'ty, can never be duly rourilhed,” then the Anaromifi and PraTjoiogift wi'l be able to accou'nt for clerical obtdrey avid floridnefs on b fs invidious p'iuc'.oles than thobe which airiioetliem to lazinels a; d Iv-gh-li ving. By the periodical du¬ ties of tl.cir profedlion their lungs aie neceffarily put in a6lion, and continued fo lor fome fpace of time. Now it is well known , by all m inkind (however cppof.’e their prailice may be to their knoxvledge) that general mufcular exer¬ tions, as nvalkirtg, riding. See. contritiute to general health, anti that exertions of any pai ricular lei of mulcles tend, in a particular manner, to invigorate and ifrengthen thole muAdes in a lupsrior degree to luch as arc kept in a more (|'deicent flate ; witneB the arms of a VY arerman or Blackimiih, tiie legs of a Dancing- mafter, and the bra wnvfhouhiers of a Porter. Tiius the lungs of a Cler¬ gy man being exerted bv reading and preaching, luch exercile has a natural tentfency to keep that organ in a Hate of

hcrikh;,

1 794-] Philofophicnl P.eafons far Clerical Corpulence, 597

liesich, an<] to removf f.i^bt defers ; and, confcfjU' ntiv, as fan^uification and Kuintion are thereby hettt r obtained than bv rVie lunps heinc^ only emplov*'d in the unavoidable a6t of r':fp!r:>rion, rite riecelTary inference tbeacc nr. uil be. that Clericks are a><)re likely to be florid and fat than other men, wbofe oexupa- tions do not fo qiuch lead them to pul¬ monary exertions for the purpofe of fp^-akir^.

Xhe lame reafon'n^ hobls good wl h rtfpe^f to fuch pesfons, in the. other de¬ partments (b life, as are employed moch in oratorv ; many of tliem approach, in rotunnitv of aop-^arance, to Shakfoeare’s Sir John P.uncii, and often "‘laid the lean earth as' thevVwdk along.” B.'t this (lots not invariably happen; f t, while lome of ih;rn are, bke F'alflaff, “ horfe-back-breakers, and huge hills i.f fljifh,” there are otliers who are “ Oarve- iings, dry’d neats’ tongues, flock-fn'ies, and tailors’ yards.” Tlie ftage aliords proofs of tills ; and the two leading Ipeakers of our fetiare are arguments pro aiid con — Mr. F. is corpulent, Mr. P. is lean.

In obje<flion to tbe fyOem here ad¬ vanced, lome w,ig may archly obferve, that “the under ing« of the Ch.urch, the curates, and fuch as read moft, and eat and dnnk leafl, are genera'ly the leajt cQ'pnlent P' l)ut, as excijfrjs exercife ruay debilitate and weaken the whole frame, inflead of flrengtl'.en ng it, fo loo much fpeaking may impede the nutrinve fundfi 'ins of rite lungs, and thus produce leannei : and, befldes, it is geneially tbe cafe, ih«c perfons much given to oratory are addi£fed to dole budy, \v hich isanothtr caufe that operates ag iinfl: the repletion of the bod/. However, taking the fubjeof in a general view, vye Iliall find that moJeraie exetc'fc of the lungs in e’ocutixrn cont.'^ibures to corpu- lence ; and the ale-bibber, who diinks near a gallon a day, and i-s grown fo fat as to be, like tbe facetious knight, al- moft out of all compafs,” peihaps is not lefs indebted to that loud vocifera¬ tion, that Tinging and roaring, which generally accompanies inebriety, than r© tiie nutritious ([uaiicies of ins cerev/fial potation. "rUc few lafl: words mav in¬ duce fome of your readers, Mr. Urban, to fuppofe the author of this letter to-'be fome Lexiplianic [ edagogue, fond of uflng uncommon terms wlren a plainer rliddion would be more exprellive and n.ore elegant ; but he beg, leave to hint to them, tiiat li.ey mult not corjedure

who lie ; for, if they guefs from week’s end to week's end. they will ftill be ig¬ norant of liim. N^-irher mwfl they fiip- pofw him to he Dr. Lickorifh, Dr. Wil¬ lis, or Dr. Stonhoufe, or an'/ oth r rif their aerpuintanr e, although he flgns liiir/e!r Cr.ERo-'VlEkicus.

I>y way of P. S. g ve me icavc to fug- gefl to medical pratticioners and orhe*'?, that ilicic ate many cafes of Confump- t’on wh'^re the hefi nrefcripuon would be for the patient 10 read aloud fonte hou s in tlie dav, p.articu lar! v an. hour brfoie dinn^'r. No ntaoer liow flow ard deldeiate the ratent reads; Itut Ic is n.it to he dercricd from tbe tii d becau’c it fatigues bun at JirJi . Ha'dr will iu tbi^ c.de, a-, in other , render titat ea'^' wiui.ii was at firfl diflicu’t and weart- fome ; and prohablv it will clftOl fuch a citange in his health, tliar th- peifon, who was reduced to a fate to languid thi-it he could fc^ircely articulate a fen- tence to be audiirle at the diftance of a few yards, will in a fhort lime be able to fpe k in fuch a manner as Dr. Arm- flreng deferibes in his poem on the atc of p'eferving health; that is, to *• nvteld the thunder of Demolihenes V To ail fedentary perfons this exercife is mofl: excellently falutary ; and therefore wo¬ men in tafy hfg Ihould in general he ac- cuitomed to it from an early period, wliich won'id g've, to n any a fallow cem- plc.sion that novv itc^uires rouge, a blouru riic're capt. rating than the nicelt art could poflmlv beflo'vv; and, at the fame time, the mind would be thercliy furnifhtd with i^*eas for profitable converracion. — I could fay much more in praife of itj but, my paper being filled, I am con- ftrained to finun my fentimenrs, in hopes thn your valuable Magaz ne will ire the channel of con ve ting ttiein. to the infpec- tion of others; and thiu^, Itr, 1 bid you, for the prtfen', farewel !

Mr. Urban, July i.

T N an Twer to B. b. p. 4.43, I enn in- ^ form ht,m that, about two years 1 was app'icd ro for fllver to make a ring for a young girl of the place wlierc 1 live (Glouceitt I flili e), l)uc not io the linie way your correlpcndent '■vas. The giil’s n'lOther came to me; and, after a prelude of, “ Sir, I h.<pe you will ex- cuf'e my boidnefs!” “ 1 do not wifh to (•ffend yoia!” “ I beg your pardon for troubling you!” &;c. ikc, with a great many more intiodudtorv phfales, wliicli abnefi put me out of counten . nee, not being able to guefs what dieadlul tale

jtc

5^8 Popular Superftltlon. — Remarkable Cafe of Hydrophobia, [July

fie nvould unfold — t length (be fald, that h< r daughter, a young girl in her teens, was very much troubled with convulfton fits. “ Well 1” cried I, a little recovered from the furorize fl»e had occafU'rned, “ do you mjftake me for a Doftor “No, Sir, but I carne to beg that yt^tJ will colle£f five fix- pence s of five di fife re nt batchelois, which yon will be fo good as to convey by the bands of a Batchelor to a fmith who is a batcheior, for him to make a ring for mv daughter, to cure her fits.” Thus the mighty bufinef'- was out. It was to be kept a profound fecret; not the per- fons who gave the rttoney were to know %vhat for or whom thev gave it to. I did as defired; and, behold I it cured the girl. This I can affirm. Now, Mr. Urban, 1 think with your correlpondent B. b, that it muft be the power of imagination entirely that did this. I have fince ■known more infiances with the lame ef- icSt, though differing as to the number of fix*perices, fome taking three, levtn, or nine, to make the ring’^.

Yours, &c. Bocr.tomensis,

refuarlahle Cufs of HYDROPHOBIA.

Mr. Urban, JuneiS.

A S the {ullowicg Irnfortunare cafe of that dreadful maUdy, the canine TOadnefs, may operate as a caution to praditioners, and prove beneficial to the publi’ck, I beg the favour of you to infert it in your next, and you will ob- iige your humble fervant,

G. North Robin son , Surgeon, Chip-Norton, Oxfordfirire.

Early on Friday morning the 13th infiant I was requefted to fee John Edwards (about 40 years of age), at Swerford, near Chm-N >rton, Oxford- Ihire, who had received a bite orr the band from a mad dog upwards of eight months before. He was then attended by a young gentleman of ihe faculty, who, after the ufe of the knife and caufiick, unfortunately undertook to cure or prevent the fciFe-6ls of the wound by means of faiivation, m preference to the ufua! and mod effcftua! remedy, the fea-water. The means made ule of to promote a free difeharge of fdliva fo far fucceeded ; but, as it ultimately and evidently appeal's, did neither correct nor exterminate the aend virus, or cattle of this deplorable difeale.

O.a Monday the 9'h infiant the pa¬ tient felt a pain and tingling of the

* See ourlM>exIisDicATORius this month.

hand and arm, beginning in the part where the hire was received, and pro¬ ceeding upwards, towards the back part O'! the head. As he had no idea of the caufe nor confequences, no notice was taken of this partial affe5lion, as he confidered it to be only rheumatic, and he with fome difficulty purfued his ulual avocations, until 'VVednefflay the iith infiant, when apparent fymptoms of hydrophobia were perceived, and the gentleman who before attended him was fent for. It was alfo thought ne- ceiTary to confult Mr. Harris, of Hook- Norton, near Swerford, a g-ntlemm who h iS the care of maniacal patients. R ood was drawn from the arm, the ftraight waificoat put on, and a pdl, containing one grain of opium and two grains of calomel, adminiftered every four hours, but without quieting the convulfive motions of the whole I'yfiem in the leafi deprec. Under thefe teni- ble and unremitting afieilions the un¬ fortunate patient laboured the whole of Thurfdav night; and, as before-men¬ tioned, I was requefied to fee him on Friday morning. About feven o’clock I found him in the rneft agitated and commiferating fiate, with a very quick weak pulle, and an intolerable tliirfi, which at this time could not be allevi¬ ated by liquids. As air, and the fight of every kind of fluid, aggravated the dif- eafe, and feemed to occafion an appre- henfion of fufiocation, i tried both oil and milk, by means of a feather nioiftened with the fame, iiut in vain. 1 then mixed a little powder-fugar with freffi butter, which was taken from a fpoon with much avidity, and anfwered the pur- pofe of moiftening the mouth and fauces exceedingly well. I then fcarified the difeafed arm, above the wrift, and both the legs, with the' (canficatcr, and ap¬ plied blifiers'over the fame, as an ex¬ ternal fiimulus, to derive, if polfibie, fome of the morbid matter from the more fenfitive and vital parts. I con- fulted with Mr. Harris, to alter the pills, and to adminifter them more often ; upon which the patient took one of the pills as follows every hour during the violence of the paroxyfms :

R; Camphor ^ ifs Opii ^ fs Calo¬ mel gr. X. ft, m^iifa in pil. xxx.

The good effefts of this plan were evidently demonftrated by fooq dimi- niffiing the irritability and violence of the convulhons ; for, by two o’c'oek in the day, thefe commotions were in a

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599

great meafure quieted, and the patient began ro take thin liquuls freely, as gruel, &c. and made conliderable quan* tiftes of high-coloured urine at inter¬ vals. I law him again in the evening, and found him very calm and quiet, and perfe6\ly fenfible, but extremely faint, and he Teemed to entertain hopes of recovery. Upon this remiffion of the paroxvfms, I thought no time lliould be loft in adminiftering the bark, there¬ fore ordered the following mixture :

Pulv. Cort. Periiv, ^ is — — • Rad. Serpent. Viig.

Aq. Menthae Vulg. ^ viij Sp. Sal. Marinse ^ j niift. fu- mar. Cochl. iij laVga tertia qua- que hora.

The pstient larguiflied until 8 o’clock «n Saturday morning, without any vio¬ lent return of the parr xyTms; To that he had a more caiy and quiet paflage out of th's world than could be expe6t- ed ttnder the foregoing circumdances.

Though this cafe proved irrecovera¬ bly loft, from the patient’s ilrength be¬ ing ft) nearly exhaufted, which he had not perfe£lly recovei ed fince the procrTs of falivation, and from the unremitting violence of the difeafe, until the opiun>, united with camphor, by being more r>'^ten adminiftered, abated the Tpafnao- dic convu'ftons of Nature ; ycr, had this been Tooner effefted, I fiiould have flattered myfelf with a more favourable iftue.

N. B. As going to the Tea, in acci¬ dents of this kind, is by Tome defpiled, and the ufe of the knife and cauftick may, in many cafes, be precarious, par¬ ticularly in deep wounds of the tendi¬ nous or vafcular parrs, — query, to ob¬ viate fuch difficulties, without the ex¬ tirpation of the limb, would not rubbing a moderate quantity of Ung. Hydrar- gyrus upon the injured pirt, together with an internal medicine, fuch as the mixture prefcribed in the aforefaid cafe, be a very likely means to obviate or eradicate the caufe of ths difeafe ?

eafv and fuccefsful Method of treating Scrophulom or Sinus Abfceffes.

Having, in feveral inftances, found the following method fuccefsful in the cure of fcrophulous and finus abfctfles, particularly in a cafe of long (landing, with three excenftve finufes, one in the thigh, another in the hip, and the tuird over the fuperior part of the os facruna, attended with a confiderable difeharge,

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and which had been turned out of an infirmary incurable, 1 take this oppor¬ tunity to offer it to the publick.

Dry lint applied to the orifice of the wound, and a comprefs moiftened with Aq. Z nc! VitiioUri Camph- twice or thrice a-day, and a proper bandage, were the oftiy outward applications,; and inrernally, to adults, four large fpoonfuls of the following infufion every morning about ii o’c'oek, and again about 4 in the afternoon ; and every night and morning ten drops of Acidum Muriaticum in camomile tea.

The infufion:

R Cort. Ulmi & Cort. Qjuerci aa Ibfs

Rad. Liquor ^ 4

Aq. Calcis lb ix. Infunde pti dies uj, et cola.

IVfr. Urban, Jtefy 7.

DISSATISFT.D with the manner in which your correfpondent F. M. reads the old infenption at Farlev church, p. 497, I had a mind to try if I could not ftiike out fomerhing that would at lead afford a ineaning, which cannot well be elicited from the words he gives us. Whether I have fuc- ceeded muft be left to the judgem&nt of your re iders.

In looking at the infeription as deli¬ neated in plate f. fitj. j, h ftruck me diie^ily that the words, though ranged like profe, wete real y two hexoneter verfes, vvhich I read thus:

“ Mimiat lioc templum cruce glorificans mk crocofmum : [lum.’"

Qua genuit Chriftum miferis prece fiat afy-

Of which, for want’of a better, accept the following tranflation :

“ May he, whofecrofsfor man has glory won. Far from this church all harm remove ; And may her prayers, who calls tliat Saviour A refuge to the wretched prove!” fSo>',

Yours, &C. POLYPRAGMON.

Mr. Urban, June 24.

The letter in p. 30, figned S. A. is ft) obfeure, that, tiil an anfwer was begun at p. 127, I was at a lofs to- know what it meant. * Inconfiftent and abfurd in other refpe6ls, it would pro¬ bably have pjffed unnoticed by your readers, if one, who feems to be touch¬ ed, had not called for fbrne attention to it.

As far, however, as his letter goes in that number, he leaves the matter as much in the daik, to the generality of

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the refiners, as it was before he be'^an. lie fpeaks o'' a p'an which he means to c'rculate through vour extenbve con- ireyance, a plan wh'CM it is his t'utv to pioniote — of a perpetual warfare rhat has been carried on for the deitru.ffion of the dcfign— that it will be bis duty to bring the a6fois before the judgement of tfieir country— that S,. A. is not ig iroiant of the calumny that has been made the inllrument of fo much mtf- chief — ihat the party whofe catsfe he cfpoufes have abandoned their pofr, and jttirtd from the field, adding to a dif- gracefu! conttft a more difgracefut de¬ feat. Hr ilien enters wno a phimloph'- cal dirquifition, and there he breaks off for the time, leaving us juft whee we were as to noy intornration retpefling ihe plan, the nature or the nppohtion, of the ai'fo'S in it, or of the calumny.

in p. 29S, Mr. Yi ung pu.s^his name to thie ccncl ution of the letter, the Bift p3'. t of which had no Bgnature. We now are get a little faither; \\e find at ieaft wh.o it is that frit (ore. He talks of the aceju fit on of a trafil of Wc<fie land for the purpole wf a B’itifi) !et?!e- ment; but where this wafie land lies, or what \s mea^'^y a Bnt'tfi (ettlement, ire forgets to tell us. He makes fiuiae pertinent obfervai ions on S A’s incou- fillencies whuh ;o be fure are g aring enough, tot' ch e s .] i ghtl v on being char¬ ged wiih iifiug cler ov-ducks, makes home geneiai rt flrxi■''n^, and ends hts letter; but,' having forget wiiat he fat down to expLin, namely, his plan, the nature of the opp-rfition to u, and the atft- 0(S, he adds a PS, bv which a h uit is j>iven of fume place of reformation wh ch might have been letn at \Va!. worth in 1791. W'hether it is how to be (etn any where we know no more than we did when wt frit our.

If the writer of this is the M'o Y. who w'as foriiter'y feeretary to tfie Ph.i- lan'-hropic Society, and I'or whofe di{- in (bon the governors of that Society gave realons to the publick ligned with their names, it will throw lome light on tlie bufintfs, which (might to be ex- p)a ned.

F. K-’s obfer vations. p 304. are very jutt. Let me add iliat, wiien a gentle¬ man has taken lubfci q tions for a book, be ounht net to publifh a part of that woik /eparateiy. I allude to Mr. Blore’s publifhing fmgiy a li ftory of Wiefi.id, in Dctbylhi.'e, when his liilloiy ot that touaty m going on.

Y uui s, &1C. CL X#

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Mr. IJrsan, yune

CAN the dates of the yeais in the epitaph on George Felton and E'f- zabeth his wife be right in p. 297, col. I r” In col. Z- of the preceding pags» I rq, we fliould read “ p. 198 and, 1 . 6 i , “ p • 9 9 ”

In p. 306, col. I, !. 7» me fhould read Forburv, Reading as in p. 485, col. 2, I. 58.

In the t tie-page of your Magazine for laft month the name of “ Porfon” is errcneoufly fubfiituted for that of “ Gibbon.”

Pp. 402, 403. L. L’s fatisfaflory no¬ tice or the enquiry relative to Doletus, irt p. 1985 merits acknowledgernenr. Neither the “Ode on Lrafni us’s Death,’’ nor the “ Eoiitie to C.ardinal Tc'urnon,” occurs in the (carce edition, wiih which, he is “acquainted on'y by report.”

Ml'/ Hildeflcy’s anfvver to Dr. D )d- (Pidge’s letter, in p. 415, 16, is pui)- iiihed in Mr. Sredntan’s valuable col- l-6lh)n of “ Lecfer.s to and from Dr. Doddridge,” p. 460 — 465 ; vvlience it appems th.rt the prefennent, p.jf-

feifed by hiin, came to him “ by lot in rh" rotation (.f vacancies of the college livings,” It was Hicchin, in Hertford- fhue, one of tlie livings in the gift of T'nnity college, Cambr. [See p. 595.] Tite ingenious conjeCfure ’ of E. E. A, in p. 42.6, will not be admit¬ ted by thofe who recollecff, that the paf- fages produced from “Common Senlc” are to be found njerhatim atrsonti the “ Mi fcellaneous Pieces” of Lord Cbet- terfield ; who, with Lord Lyttelton, had tlie principal fliare in this per odical paper, which commenced on Feb. 5, 1737, and was continued to J >n, 27, 1719. Lmtot does not appear to have “ hid any fiiare in the coiidu6i” of it. Two volumes in (mail o61a‘’0, contain¬ ing thefe papers, with the tfiiee num¬ bers of Frog’i Journal by Lord Chefier- field, were printed in 1738 and 1739, and lold by J. Purfer, in VVYaite Friers, and G, Hiukins, in F eet-freet — W’ould jciinfon have exprclfcd bimifeif io lightly as his Loidih.p does in the la!l words of Canidia’s cuaracfer in p. 427.^ The “internal evidence” - here (urely po nts out the Peer, and not the “ Moralift” or the “ Divine.”

P. 441, col. 2, i. 10, for “ 4u>” read “ folio.” Ruddiman was a!(o the edi¬ tor of two o6lavo volum-s of Latin ep files of Kings J^,me.s 1 Vk and V, and of Qu"^^ Maiy, of Scotland, printed at Eumburgh in 1722. Scrutator.

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Mr. LTrbak, June 26.

X has been well obfervcd by the Hif* torian of Durham, tliat, “to pre- ferve to after-times the mcmones of thole buildings, of which not even the names will remain to denote their fitua- tion, is no infignificant puifu'.t in the traveller; who thereby confiens to pof- terity the evidences of thole circum- flances which will be momentous to a’l apes.” Influenced by this opinion, I take the liberty of giving, in your va¬ luable Repofltory, “ a local habitation” to a building of which the exidence will be of very fliort duration ; of perpetua¬ ting the memory of two churches, which wi 1 foon ceafe to exiil even in the re¬ membrance of the parifliioners^ f/*/. //.) Xhey are the two little churches of Wi¬ the rn fey and Owthorne (or Overthorne), mentioned by C'itnden, called, from the fillers who buili them, Sifter-kirks, and not far from Conftable Burton.

Qvvthorne is fituated on the very edge of the cliff on the Eaflern fide of Holder^ nefsj and fo dangeroufly expofed to the violence of the fea as to induce the pa- rifhioners to take it down k)r the pur- pofe of ere6ling a new one in a more fe- cure fl;uation. EborACENSIS,

Mr. Urban, June

N your April Magazine, p. 3i7> a correfpondent requetls a method of deftroying the dirty brown Grub. As I find no anfwer returned in yours for May, I will give him fome information that may be of ufe to him. Some years ago, I broke up fix acres of old lay ground, and lowed them with peas. Walking in the field fome time after the peas were up, 1 obferved a great number of them gnawed off juft above the ground; and, immediately recogni¬ zing my old acquaintance the Grubs, I tuined up fome pieces of the turf that were left, and found one or more of them under every piece ; on which I lent for fome women and children to pick the field over, and ordered them to bring me what they had gathered in the afternoon, which was about a peck ; afterwards they threw them into the ri¬ ver that ran clofe by. 1 had the field picked ovei twice, and fuppofc J might dtftroy a bufliel and a half, or two bufhels, of the Grubs; by which i laved my peas, and had a decent crop.

Some time after, my gardener told me, that one of his melon plants in a frame had been gnawed off the precs- Gent. Mag. Julyt 1794.

ding night ; which I foon difeovered had been done by my old enemy; on which I t!ire61:ed him to cut a turf, and lay it, grafs dov\nward, near the plants ; and in the morning the marauder was caught in the trap. I would, therefore, recommend to him to lay fevera! pieces of turf where he thinks the enemy is likely to make an attempt; and 1 doubt not but he will fucceed in his ambuf- cade. Yours, &c, R. B.

Mr. Urban, June 6.

IN anfwer to J. O. p. 435, who wifties to be informed refpefting what ihofe antmalcula are engendered from, which appear at this feafon upon flirubs and flowers enveloped in froth, be pleafed to inforn him, that they are engendered (like moft animalcula) from the eggs of the parent animal. The infedl in queftion belongs to the Linnean genus Cicada^ of the order hhmiptera, a ge¬ nus containing feveral lingular fpecies, and particularly the fly called in France la Cigale, which is fo remarkable for the apparatus by which it produces founds, which apparatus has been accurately in veftigated, and admi¬ rably deferibed, by the indefatigable Reaumur, in his Hijioire des I'lJeStesd* The fpecies of which J. O. defiies the hiftory is Cicada Spumaria Linn, of which the Larva (or infedi: in its firffc ftate) is polfeffed of the lingular pro¬ perty of emitting from different parts of its body the frothy fubftance in which it is found, and under the llielcer of which, it undergoes its metamorphofes, till it emerges from its more humble ftate of exiftence in the form of a fly. To a philofophic inveftigator of the works of Nature, there is nothing more admirable than the means provided by the all-wfife Parent of the Univerfe for enablingf animals either to refill or efcape from their enemies; and the wonderful man¬ ner in which thefe means are appor¬ tioned to their multiplying power, the number of their enemies, ^leir ftrength^ agility, &c. The lion has its teeth and fangs, and the floth its cry of diflrefs, which has been faid to conquer tiie fiercenefs of its enemies. Among tlis moft defencelefs animals, the tribe of infers may generally be reckoned ; and particularly that part of them which, in their earlier ftages, are pofTefTcd of few locoiflotive powers, and are nor provided with any w'eapons of defence. It is amoDgft this tribe of animalS; therefore,

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6o2 The Garden In feB, enveloped In White Frolh, harmlefs. []uly^

that we {liall meet with the greateft va¬ riety of thofe contrivances by which the weak and defencelefs are enabled to efcaire the fight and elude the vigilance of the more powerful, of whom they would otherwife be the prey. It is, no doubt, with this view, that this dimin'u- tive infcft is provided with the power of concealing itielf in its own froth; which may likewife ferve the purpofe of preferving from the too vivid rt^ys of the Sun its very delicate and tender frame. The Cicada Sputnaria in its dy ftate is thus delcrib'^d by Barbut (Gen. Inf p. 12c;), or rather by Geoffroi, of whofe woik upon Infefls the former is litt'e more th m an abftra^f.

‘‘ Amongil the fpecies of this country th’S is one of the largeft ; it is of a brown co¬ lour, often inclining to green ; the head, thorax, and clyflra, are finely dotted ; on ttiefe lafl are fetn two white fpots, ohlong and tranfverfe, arifing from '.he outer edge oi the elytra, the one higher, the other lower, but not quite reaching to the inner edge ; fo that the bands by them formed acrofs the elytra are interrupted in t!ie middle. The under part of the infedl is of a light brown,’^

J. O. may make h’tnfelf quite eafy with refpeft to any mifehief to be ap» prehended from this inlt^f, which, in all ftages, is believ-d to be pcrfeftly in¬ nocent. Many of the circumliances hinted at in this llioit account might furnifli materials for long and curious invsRigations refpe^fing the nature of animals; if they ferve the purpofe (f exciting the curiofity of lome amohgfl; thofe who are opprelfed by the weight of time, and rendered unhappy by a leifure which- they know not how to employ ; if they are the means of draw¬ ing any from idlenefs and inanity to the fludy of the philofopby of Natural Hi!- tory (a ftudy which muih be highly gia- tdying to all who are endowed with the bitfliug of curiofity, and have minds capable of intellhftual enjoyment), my purpofe m writing, this will be fully anfwered. En TOMQioGUS.

Mr. Urban, lum 1 3.

N p- 435, I obferve a very ingenious correipondent enquires into the na¬ ture of that fpeciesof infe6isv which pro¬ ceeds from the white froth fo frequentiy to be feen in the Spring months on all all kinds of vegetables in every part of England. Many writers have imagined the fpume to proceed from the exhala¬ tion of rhe earth. Some elleemed it the faliva ©f the cuckoo; whence, its vulgar

denomination “ cuckoo-fpit others, the extravafited juices of plants, or an hardened dew. But all thefe opinions are equally erroneous. The froth pro¬ ceeds from a frnal'l infefi, wh'ch inciofes itfelf within it, with an oblong obtufs body, a large bead, and fmall eyes. The animal emirs the fpurne from many parts of its bcKly, iinde>goes its changes witliin it, then burlls into a winged Bate, and flies abroad in fearch of us mate. It is perfecllv innoxirms; has four wings; the two external ones <>f a dufky brown maiked with two white (pots.

A Derbyshire Entomologist.

Mr. Urban, Hart/horn, June 14.

OUR excellent Mifcellany has long and very juftly been efteemed a moft extenlive vehicle for the fugitive fentiments and remarks of your nume¬ rous correfpondents, as well as a great variety of literal y, hiftorical, and other articles of real value, which the late learned hiftorian, E. Gibbon, well ob- ferves in your prefent voiume, p. 6-. And let rne add, ihat it is a!fo an ad¬ mirable court of literary judicature, where the merits of all writers are weighed in a fair and eejuitabie fcale,, and the pleadings of all pa-iies are faithfu ly* and liberally recorded.

As the truth of theie obfervations is grounded upon experience, I hope once more to be indulged with a place when convenient, that I may, through this difFufive channel, inform any diftant friends and fubfsribers of my progrefs fince they lafl heard from rne, after the fortunate recovery of the long-Iofl trea- fnre colle^fed by Dr. Wilkes and the Rev. T. Feilde*.

The ftrft occurrence to which I wifli to call their attention was the purchafe of thirteen volumes, folio, of “ Stafford MSS.” fo lettered on their handlome old binding. Thefe confift of tran- feripts of all the antient deeds, court- rolls, and other curious evidences, formerly belonging to the great barony of Stafford, The perfon who firft took, upon hinu that name, and built his caftle there, was Robert de Tonei, or Todeni, a Norman, a great favourite and rela¬ tion of William the Cbnqqeror ; to whom that king, for his fervices, when he had fub'dued this kingdom, gave an imrnenfe fortune, and made him lord of no lefs than 131 townfliips, whereof 81

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1 794*1 Shaw’s Report of Pro^rffs for StafFordfliire.

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lav in this county, as appears from Domefclay Book.

His defceiidants were crested earis of Stsffot d and dukes of B ickint;ham ; the ]a(l of which, named F-dwaid, was at¬ tainted of high tieafon, and beheaded May 17, i^zijiipon Tower- hill, whofe fon Henry was rcfiored in blood two years after by the title of Lord Stafford, lie was a man of preat learning, and an Anriquary, being keeper of the re¬ cords in the Tou'er, according to Stoyv, in the time of (Lneen Elizabeth. And I have the fatisfadtion to Snd, from a va¬ riety of evidence, that he was the chief colleftor of the above corious volumes, which, from their bulk and nature, could not have end iefs than 150I. tran- fcribing. But they came to me at a mo¬ derate price in Mr. King’s auction- room, K'og-llreet, Covent garden, April 20, 1793; and, being then too much elated with my accidental purchafe to make any cool enquiries, ] only now imper- fedlly recolledt that they were in a cata¬ logue of the joint librants of Dr Speed j(I think, of Southamjrton ), and ano¬ ther gentleman. I fiiould, therefore, be glad to receive farther information refpedfing them, and how they puffed in fuch good prereryation from their no¬ ble repofitory, Thorn bury caftle, in Gloucefterflui e, the feat of the dukes of Buckingham ^ of which honour three of my volumes contains many cu¬ rious illuftrations from Inquifuions, Court-rolls, &c. at the fervice’ of Mr. Biglaod, if fuicahle to his plan, or any ocher hiflorian of that county.

Permit me here to offer my beft thanks 10 that rerpedtable lociety, the College of Arms, for the very liberal indul¬ gence of accefs to the valuable collec- iions of MSS there depofued*, particu¬ larly Sir William Du’gdde’s Vifjtation of Statfordlliire, whence 1 copied a great vaiiety of church notes, inlcrip- fions, , nd drawings of arms and monq- mtnisj clpecially thpfe beiutiful ones xvhich (o richly ado ned the cathedral of Lichfield helore-the fad deflru&ion made by thole laciilegious fanaticks in the civil wars. At the fame lime, with mucli furrow and regret, let me add my poor tribute of condulance at the late- IhoTing fate of the two worthy mem¬ bers, j. C Brooke and B. Pingo, efq. who were arnongfl the fixceeri untori?u- nate fuflerers at the theatre in the Hay- maiket (from *tfie former of whom, as an eminent Antiquar v Herald, and

* :>cc the obituary for February, p. 1^7.

very promifing friend, I had flattered myfelf with the hopes of much aflifl- ance) ; an event which muff ever be rem.ernhered with horror while huma¬ nity exiffs, and will doubtiefs be a fub- jedf of future dread rill fome plan, like Captain Project’s in your laft Magazine, p. 12 2, be adopted, to render the ac¬ cefs to public places fafe and “commo- d lous.

Bu‘, to return to the main defign of my letter; I muff acknowledge mv obli¬ gations to the right honourable the Earl of Lticefter for the ufe of his copy of the antient Regifter of Totbury pnory, Irkewife for an elegant plate of that cu¬ rious church.

By the right honourable the Earl of Uxbridge I have been bonouied with the moff flattering patronage, and libe¬ ral accefs to his very noble and curious archives j whence I have procured the original Regifier of Burton abbey in the higheft prel’ervation, together with an abundant variety of antient roils, Saxon and other charters, &c. illuftiative of the immenfe property uhich, on the riiffolution of that religious houfe, was granted to William Lord Paget. Thefe are certainly of the utmofl confequence to, and will with fidelity and care be incorporated in, the firfl volume. To the Hon. Earl Ferrers I am alfo

obliged for accefs to his curious ar¬ chives, which greatly illuffrate the an¬ tic nc baronial feat of that family at Chartley, and other manors in the .countv of Staff rd'. By the Right Hon. Lord Dudley 1 am promiled a plate of Ills antient and mofl pidlurefque caflle, from an excellent drawing in my col- ledfion, taken by an eminent artift for Dr. Wilkes. Nor can 1 omit this op¬ portunity of exprelfing my grateful obli- gaiions to the honourable and right re- vsrepd the biflaop, and to the dean and chapter of Lichfield, fof their generous contributions to perpetuate that beauti¬ ful cattiedral, and other diflinguilhed maiks of their wifhes to promote the undertaking. And particulatly am I obliged to the Rev. DrT Falconer for having declined a fimilar publication, and liberally given me his colledlions and interefl in the county. L'kewife to the Rev. Theophili^s Buckeridge, a well-known Antiquary, and correfpond- ent in your Magazine, I have the fatis* fadfion to add my beft acknowledge¬ ments for a curious engraving, and other favours. From the Muleum of the late Mr, Greene I am indulged by

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his fon with the ufe of fome MSS. con- cerninor Lichfield, and a plate of Bi(hop Hacket’s monument, engraved by Hol¬ lar. Mv thanks arc likevvife due to the Rev. Henry White for his friendly aids ; and to S. Simpfon, efq. town- clerk of Lichfield.

To jof. Loxdale, of Lythwood, near Shrewil)ury, efq. 1 am greatly obliged for all the original MSS. (chiefly relating to the hundreds of Pirehill and T otman- How) written by his relation the Rev. Thomas Loxdale, vicar of Leek ; which preferment he refigned 1735, afterwards reftor of Tixall, as appears by his own very ufefu! and entertaining parochial accounts. To Sir Nigel B. Giefiey, hart 1 am obliged for the ufe of man V curiousi records, &c. By Ri¬ chard Gough, efq. author of that fplen- clid work, “ Sepulchral Monuments,” the new edition of Camden’s Britannia, &c. I have been honoured with peculiar favours. To Thomas Pennant, efq. I am much indebted for many excellent remaiks and deTcripcions in this county, as well as for the piomife of fome vahi- able drawinicJS in his poireflion. Mt, Blore and Mr. Nichols, the Hiftorians of Derbyfhire and Leiceflerflure, have my bell acknowledgements for their d.'flinguiflted lervices; likewife the Rev. Dr. Nalh, the Worcefterfliire Hifloiian, for a very full account of the partflies of Clent and Arlev, written by the learned Bifhop Lvttehon. To Edward Croxall, efq. 1 mull exprefs my watm- eft tlianks for the very liberal ufe of bis old deeds and court-rolls, lllullrative of the manor of Aldridge, &c. Alio, to Richard Dyott, efq. for a copy of the large and carious furvey of the honour of Tutbury in the time of Queen Eli¬ zabeth, and for other elTentiai ierviccs. Likevvife, to Samuel Steele Perkins, efq. for the ufe of an excellent cFiartu- 1 iry from the library of W- H. C Flo- yer, efq. relating to Hints and Weftoa under Lizard. To Richard Wilkes Unett, efq. the heir to Dr. Wilkes’s MSS. 1 am under particular obligations.

The Rev. Thomas Shaw Heliier has very k nd y lent me his excellent copies of [’uinbach’s incomparable MSS, which fo fully and clearly record tlie manetiai hifiory, antient ped'grees, arms, and inonufi.entai ink riptionc, of every pa- rifli in the hundred of Seifdon, &c. George Molineux, efq. late fpenff of the Ihiic, alfootleied me libeiai accefs to fome curious Colledions in iiis pol- fcliion.

To my very good friend P. T. Hinckes, efq. 1 am indebted for much affiflance in the antient parifli of Bifli- bury, &c. ; and to Thomas Fowler, efq. for the inrpe61ion of his valuable chartulary at Pendef'ord ; likevvife, to Flenry Vernon, efq. for feveral favours* By Richard Whitworth, efq. I am pro- mifed every necelTary information from the principal proprietors. In the agri¬ cultural department, F. P. Eliot, efq. will lend me his clefirahle aid, together with fome other friends well verted in that moll ufeful fcience. And, in the whole cecenomy of Statifiica! as well as Natural Hiflory, I have been favoured with fome excellent papers by Mr. W. Pitt, and fliall foon receive more fully his ingenious oblervations in this county through the medium of that fpirited and laudable inflitution, the Board of Agriculture. To Jofephi Scott, efq. I am much obliged for the contribution of tevera! pl.ates, and other favours j alfo, to ray friends S. Egerton Brvdges, etq. and Peter Vere, efq. for fimilar contributions, and to the former for various afliflance. To Sir Robert: Burdetr, bart. I am greatly obliged for the prefentofan engraving; likewife to Robert Pyott, efq. for a p ate of Street- hav old ha!!, &c. 'I'he Rev, Dr,

Booker has polueiv given me his affift- ance in the vicinity of Dudley, From F. Dugdale Aiiiey, efq. I received aU excellent MS. copy of B'rdefvvick. F. B Finney, tfq. has prumded me his aid in the parifhes of Leek and Chedle- ton. And by Mr. j. Gee, [ have been favoured with a very cOpious account of WaKall, a plate of which fine old church and town will be engraved at the txpence of the corporation. D. B. Curvveu, efq. has my thanks for fome records relating to Kinver. To the Rev. W. Gicfley I had occafion to ex- prefs my bell acknowledgements in your lad Mtgazine, p. 431; and to Charles d’oliet, efq in vol. LXliL p. zro; al¬ fo to C. E. Repmgton, efq. in rny lafl: Piopofals.

F naliy, let me offer this fmall tribute of thanks to my excellent frientL, S- P. Wolfeiftan, efq. for his conti ibarioii of a plate, and valuable aid ; Col. Chadvvitk, and C. Chadwick, efq. for the u(e of their admirable leries df old deeds, lllullrative of the ma¬ nor of Mavefyn Ridware from the time of Henry I, and for their other great afliftance and contributions; efpecially to the latter for a very curious tenure-

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^7Q4'i Shaw’s Report of Progrefs for StafTordfhire.

roll of Offlow hundred (time of Henry tranfcribed for him by the inde- fatigab’e Mr. Avfcough from the Har- leian MSS. To trouble you with a far¬ ther lift of obligations would be intru- ftve and improper, as I (hall foon, 1 truft, have an opportunity of expreding them more fully in my intended Preface.

The laft acquifition, and by far the leaft, is a recent purchafe of two vo¬ lumes of MSS. from the library of an opulent Antiquaiy, and a perfon of reputed benevolence, from whom I had flattered myfelf with the hopes of ob¬ taining affidance upon more liberal terms. But, what makes them of little value, 1 had previoufly copied moft of the Staffordfltire articles by favour of J. Meyrick, efej. Weftminfter, and that ufeful col!e6for, Mr. Simeo, Great Queen fireet. To thefe were attached two lefler volumes (of much greater value than the former, and plainly writ¬ ten by the fame hand, by BalTano,

of Derby, formerly an ingenious heral¬ dic painter and colle6for), which confift principally of rr.onumental inferiptions in Deibyfliire, now at Mr« Blore’s fer- vice ; to whom if they afford any thing uleful, it will be fome confolation to me in the unfortunate bargain.

Very far, Mr. Urban, has itever been from my (entiments or intereft' to have given the leaft offence to any one in my prefent undertaking, much lefs to — ca- iera dtfunt. I was proceeding to trou¬ ble you with the particulars of fome extraordinary inimical condu61, vvhich I lhall now omit. For, the great en¬ couragement 1 have at lengtli met with, in (pite of all oppofuion, prefents to my light as well as iinaginatinn a pi6\ure, whole fore- ground is replete with tiie moft agreeable features; fo that the few remaining objf els, which once call much gloom upon the Icenc, are now thrown with indifterence into the back-ground, and alrnod obfeured in their o\Vn faint and ciiflant fliddow. Yet, many are the extraneous difficulties I have had to en- countei (as if the care and labour naiu- rally attending fuch works, even under the greateft patronage and moft benign aufpices, were nrit fuffciently eppref- ftve!), befides the angry ftorms of ad- verfe wind', enough to have furled the fails of a much ft longer vell'el than mine, and driven it back into its tran¬ quil port again, but that (ome gentler and more piofperous gales have occafi- onally rilen to keep it fteady on its couife; and, if I may be allowed lo

purfue the metaphor, T am now far em¬ barked, with ample proviftons, on a long and perilous, though, I hope, at laft a profperous, vovage, unhurt by the fmall-lliot of thofe piratical frigates vvhich are continually gliding on every ocean ; the motto pendant on my fore¬ fail having always been, what I would wifti my enemies to adopt, “ Nothing extenuate, or fet down aught in ma¬ lice.” Yet, as life is ever an uncertain!, tenure, and that of your humble ferv?int tire pilot (though, 1 truft, full as good as for fome years paft) is not of the longed leafe, he h!rs ftill the fpirit, though not authorifed by mucfi inde¬ pendent fortune, to take care that his cargo, fuch as it is, fliall not be degra¬ ded by a public au6lion, nor hawked for fale in a Boohfeller's Catalogue^ but be fafely depoftted (after it has done its duty to the intended Hifiory) in that noble repofitory the Brinfh Mufeum; where it will fiand, in at leaft zo vo¬ lumes folio, as authorities for w'hat may be printed, and for more minute infor* mation to the curious.

Yours, &c. S. Shaw, jun.

Mr. Urban, Richmond ^ April lo,

fable gbo/lp’ of ninety-feven of my pamphlets “ njuere flitting up the chimney" when it occurred to me, that the hiftory of them would not be unentertaining to the generality of your readers, nor unufeful to fuch of them as are under circumftances limilar to my own.

You muft'know then, Sir, that I came into the world with the feeds of a diforder the moft troublefome and in¬ curable of any; nothing lefs than the cacoeibes fcribendi^ a malady unfortu¬ nately far removed from the vortex of thole panacea which, on other occa- ftons, have lo happy an effc£l. The firft fymptom of this difeafe, if I rightly remember, appeared on the blank-leaf of a Fr opria qua martbus \ , iht fecond, on -the window of an inn ; it afteruaVds made its appearance on tfse Poet’s Cor¬ ner of a news-paper; and, finally, broke out in the full fever, the delirious rage, of a political pamphlet. To drop the metaphor : after having been employed all the former part of my life as an un¬ profitable Icribbler, I at laft took up the employment of an author in a pro- felfional manner, and as a means of procuring a livelihood. The bud at length burft into a flower; the caterpil¬ lar g^ot wings, and ibrtied in all the ma-

jefty

6^6

^he Pr ogre/s of an Author. — M. Von Haller.

jefty of—a butterfly. The Rambler in¬ forms u8, tliat, before a man can ^wrue, it is neccflary that he flioulcl read, T. hiS 1 h-.d done; but, unfortunately, my readme; bad pafTed over like a delightful dream that leaves no lading impreifion behind it; and, unfortunately ngain, except the tliitd volume of ’Tfijiram Shandy Bath Cutde^ and a tra6f; of S-iJuedefihorgs, my, library confified of few bo^ ks of anv value or importance, or that were likely to afford me any confiderable aifillance. To this and the peculiar u »f a^onur ohlmf of my fvdy, as ■well as the narraucnejs of my circumr faxioes, F attribute the melaiicholv luc- cefs of my labours ; for, To far from be- ie-g procul a turhd firepBuque remotus, i svas fituate in the very centre of a crowd of g'gglmg girls; and, fo far from being anxie'ate carens nec dft io^r tioice faranda Joi'hciiu/, my levee was daily attended by a hoft of wafherwo- men, ttilors, and paflrycooks : the former defe6t, however, I in fome mea- I'ure fup.plied by conflantly employing SETiy imaqinaiion tvhenever information failed ; and I cotilbled myfelf under the unfavout ablenefs of firnation and cir- cumilances by recoliebiing that Apollo bad fwept the lyre in the midft of the nine fillers; that ?liny had vvikten du¬ ring an eruption of Vefuvius; and that Dry deny Shakfpeare, Hooker , CajlaliOy ^nd a long lot of other writers, had found never-dying laurels for their brows even in the baned wafte of indi¬ gence. Cverloi king every diCadvan- Sage, tlieieiote, I plodded on; at one hour wooing with ardour the Mufe of Shakfpeare; at the next, engaged in all the fubtleties of theological contro- ^etlv; now weaving bonnets and rasdri- gals, then fuddenly “leaving all meaner ihmgs” to fiem the torrent of reirellion, or to fix the bafanre of power. N ji very long timeeiapfed beiore three pamphlets weie ready (or the p els ; they were im¬ mediately punted, and loo cop es of them delivertd to niy neighbour the bookfciltr. You, Mr. Urban, who ere a hroi'ier in tlie trarle, will e lily conceive the iolicitude w.th whii.h 1 Waited for the illue of iheir faie. I formed a reloluuon, however, to make liu enqui.RS oil the expiration of fix months; for, I very juflly xealoned, thot ihe larger tfie lorn which 1 had to receive, the greater would be the flirnu- lus to my future undermk ngs. The grer.t and important day however, at length arrived, and I was told b^- the

fhop-bov, with a friendly fmile on his- countenance, that his mafter had fold no iefs than three of them, and was in great expedfations of difpofing of a fourth.

Sic iranfit gloria mundi I — Congratu¬ late me, however, Mr. Urban, on having found aeon fokirion under this mi.sfortune, great as it is. I'lie honours of Fame 1 rie- ver defired. To fee my portrait flaring from a fliop windo-w, painted by Lau¬ rence, and engraved bv Birtolozzi; to fee ^variorum editions of mv works; to have my hallowed bones laid with re¬ reverence in Wefttninftcr-abbey ; to have my anecdotes, letters, and the Lveepings of my ftudy, GolU6led into an elaborate quarto, and fold, like tlte “ filthy excretion of the civet cat,*’ at an es'ravagant price; this, believe me. Sir, made no part of my expediqdionsy and, confequentl V, 1 cannot be faid to be difappointtd. Befidcs, a durable re¬ putation always fprings from fmal! be¬ ginnings; and it gives me exquifite pleafure to reft-ul that, although no-voy by the independency uf mv pen, and the partiality of the times, like the bac in the fable, ] am received by neither fide, and damned bo h by Monthly and Critical Reviewers, yet tli/it it is pojjible {however improbable) that at fome fu¬ ture period, when the fever of p.artv has in fome meafure fubfided, my writings will emerge from their obfeurity, and afford a cojpfortable fubfifience to the children of rny great gieat grandchil¬ dren’s children. Such of your readers, however, Sir, who think to reap an 7nediaie haivefl by the labouisof their pen, let me earneflly advife to lay it down in time, iefl, hke me, they fnould find themfelves nrioft milt- rabiy miflaken j and / to appeafe tiie wra'h of their fta- lioner and printer, fliould be under the nectliity of pieparing themfe.ves for a curacy of 50/. per annum. A. IJ.

Mr. Urban, June 26.

I N the year lySt, a duel whs fought at Avignon between a M. von Er¬ lach and a M. von Haller, in which t!.e latter was koled. He was ion of tlie famous Ada Her, and an officer of a Swifs regiment feivingin France. He was a great genius, and, as fuch men fome- timcs ate, a great oddity; in Ihoit, a rnofl cxcrnordinai V man. In him weie

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unitetl tlie liappiefl gifts and endowments of naiu'e. which he had cultivated to an uncommon decree. His charadler was humane and honefl, of a moll cap-

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1794*1 Haller.- — Union with the QdXWcTin Church. 607

tirating: gaiety in converfation, in con- juDwlion with great drollery of humour, and an invincible obftinacy. His fa¬ ther, having high notions <»f his pater¬ nal defcent, and of his own fatherly au¬ thority, one day made him Tome difa- grt-eable reproaches, and Hronglv infill¬ ed on being the direilor of hts condu6l, evtn after his arrival at man’s eftate ; his Ton repaid him all the expences he had been at in bringing him up, even to the fees of the clergyman who baptized him, and the nurle that futkied him; and never after would dine or fup with him but he paid for his meal. He ufu- ally travelled on foot, and always went ftrait foi wards. If he came to a river, he Iwam across it ; if to a mountaita, he climbed over it. His whole baggage never confided of any thing more than a couple, of fiiirts. He was very fond of pUy, and commonly pUved with fuc- ceis. His quarrel with M. von Eilach arofe about a pod of honour, for which they had both been candidates, at Bern. Hts numerous friends and acquaintance itill chcrifh and revere his niemorv.

Yours, &c. M. M. M.

Mr. Urban, July

CANNOT but own rnyfelf gratified by the favourable regards which two of your correfpondent-s have bedowed on my letter, p. 204, concerning the practicability and deiirablenefs of an union between the Englidi and Gallican chttrehes.

On examination of that letter, 1 be¬ lieve, it will be found that I have there exprefled my fentiments with fufficient clearnefs and perfpicuity. In one in¬ dance, notwithdanding, my friend Ci- prian, p 511, has mifunderhood me. If he will take the trouble of turning to the uorks of Mr. Leflie, he will fee that thole treatifes which I ventured to recommend are not fo much conrrover- fial as conciliatory; and that one of them, which I more particularly point¬ ed out, is profefTedlv (o.

The ufage which 1 have received from another correlpondent, p. 512, has not been altogether fo gentle; but his animadvei fions are fo far from carrying force enough to fliake my fettled opi¬ nions, that they are too unimportant to defeive a ferious coafideration, too in- flgnificant to provoke an indignant re¬ ply. V/heiher they are reconcilable with that charity which he fo jurtly confiders as the elfence of our holy reli¬ gion, let his own confeience deteimine.

On the learning, the judgement, the temper, of this Confident Proieilanr, 1 have only to remark, that I do not think it necefiary to anfwer quediorrs which evidently proceed rather frwn a puritanical peevifhrcfs of fjorit rha« f»om a real defi e of obtaining inform-t- tion and in(lru6lion.

Extra.&s /ind Abridgements from the

“ Reafons for the A meniiment of th$ ‘‘ Steht. 28 Hen. VI! !. Cap. it.” ECULIAR are the hatdlhips fuf- feied by the family by the death of the incumbent at the eve of harved.

T^'O-thirds of the charge of building and rebuilding parlonage- houfes revert, in Ireland, to the family of him who in¬ curred the hrd expence; yet thjat juft politic law was never introduced into this kingdom.

It was a condsnt ufage of this church (when fettled does not appear), that, if a mini'der of a paridi lived til! Lady- day, or a few wseks after, he had a right of difpofing by will of the fruits of the next harved; and it was confirm¬ ed by Edmond of Abington. Aichbi- fhop of Canterbury, 1236, and received as an edablilhed law. The reafon was, becaufe the incumbents, having difehar- ged the du'y all the winter, when little or no profit accrued from the prefer¬ ment, mud otherwife receive a very fmali rtcompence; the confequence whereof would be an inability to pay their debts. A fynod of the diocefe of Norwich, 1255, declared a breach of this culloin to be very unjud, and threat¬ ened excomrriunicatum to the violators of fo valuable a privilege. A fimilar conditution was confirmed by Cardinal Wolfey for the clergy of the province of York, 1518. By the conditution of Thuidan, Archbidrop of York, the prebendaries of all the collegiate churches in that diocefe were allowed to difpoi'e of a year’s profits of their pre¬ ferments after their death. The mem¬ bers of the church of Lincoln have en¬ joyed for upwards of z,oo years the be¬ nefit of this rule. Pope Honorius HI. confirmed an old law of the fame kind to the dean and chapter of Lichfield. There was the fame rule and pradlice ia feveral parts of Ireland.

The Clergy refoluiely maintained their own cudom in oppofition to the canon law, by which not only the fub- fequent profits, but what an incumbent had faved from the fruits of his benefice, were to rev^ert to the Church, till the

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6o8 Reofons for an Ammdnient of the Stat* 28 Hen. Vllf. [July

rei^n of Henry VIII, when it was fu- perl'eded b) ihe a6l of which we corn- plain.

One profelTed defign of this bsU, gi- ■«ring the prohts from the time of avoid¬ ance, was, to enable the fucceflor to defray the heavy charge of fisll fruits which were highly railed after they were takeii from the Pope and annexed to the, Grown, and to enable liini to be more expeditious in the payment of them. But, in' many cafes, the realon remains in part only, and in a greater Dumber does not at all fubfift. The firft- fruits of moO; parochial livings are much lefs in proportion to the real pro¬ fits than thev were fome years ago; and, by the ift of Elizabeth and 5th of Anne, the much greater number of livings in England are difchaiged. Of twenty- eight principal cathedral and collegiate churches, thirteen only are rated, four¬ teen were never in charge, and Wind for was difeharged by aft of parliament. Under thef'e circumllances, if we are guided by the declared intentiqn of the Legiflature, more than half the Clergy who fucceed to vacant benefices ought not to afl'ume the privilege given them bv this (latute j and, with relpeft to the reft, the cafe is fo materially altered, they ought in equity to forego it. For, befides the advantages which they re¬ ceive from the improvemept of their livings, they are no: under the fame difiiculties in the payment of their firft- fruits with thofe whom the bill had in view ; and, as to the fees for inftitution and induftion, they have not been much augmented for near 200 years.

The profeffed reafon no longer re¬ maining, for which the claufe of the flatute of Henry Vilf. was enafted j why ftiould not the Clergy be relieved from the partial and inequitable effefts of it ?

If an incumbent dies before harveft, he has but a fmall compenfation for his labours during the greater part of the year. Bendcs, his tithes are lubjeft to the land-tax, to aflfeirments for the relief of the poor, and the repair of the highways, &c. and they mull all be paid to the hour of the death of the in¬ cumbent; though, as the law now ftands, the greatcfl part of the revenue for which he is charged becomes from that time the property of another.

The ftatute of the nth of the late Icing gives to the executors of tenants for life a title to the proportion of the annual rent to the lime of their deeeafe j

and a fubfequent aft of parliament vir¬ tually repeals a former aft in every in- flance where they are contrary to each other.

Upon a fiippofition we flmuld grant the bill of Henry VHL not to have been extremely partial at the time of its commencement, yet, from a variety of caufes, it may be now mofl injurious and oppreffive ; for, as the fevefi.! dues for offerings, furplice-fees, &c. &c. had a much greater proportion to the tithes than they have at prefent, and were re¬ ceived in different parts of the year, an incumbent who died a little before har¬ veft; was not equally aggrieved j and, though they are now trivial fums, they would at that time purchafe many of the neceffaries of life; for, Lord Mans¬ field laid, that a fee of two fhillings in the iff of Elizabeth would novv.amouiit to 203.

A faint attempt was made at the be¬ ginning of this century to effeft an al¬ teration of the bill in queftion, by fecu- ring a proportionable ftiare of the an¬ nual profits of livings to the executors of incumbents according to the time or their poffeftion. The want of fuccefs was attributed to Dr. P - , yet he al¬

lows that the profits fiiould accrue to him on whom the fervices and burden fail ; and every equitable man muff grant, that the perfon who has perform¬ ed the duty, and fupported the incum¬ brances for ten, perhaps elever^months, has a prior right to him who cannot be charged with them for the fame number of weeks ; but, by appropriating to each according to the time of pofieffion, each perfon is paid for his labour. And why ought a hazard to be permitted in a cafe of luch great confequence, on vvhicli the maintenance of many perfons de¬ pends, when a fair and equitable me¬ thod of divifion may be with e,jfe adopt¬ ed ? And fi-irely the alteration of this aft would leffen, if not put an end to, the differences which too frequently anfe between the fucceffor and the re- prefentative of the laft incumbent, by fettling the fums due to each according to the time of the incumbency. The Clergy of Exeter, it is faid, convinced of the equity of this rule, endeavour to make it a general one.

A plea indeed has been ufed by feve- ral, that, in former inftances, they had to their detriment been obliged to fub- mit to this claufe of the ftatute, and they thought it very fair to reimburfe their Ioffes when a favourable opportu-

nity.

^794*] Reafons for an Amendment of the Stat, 20 Hen. VIII.

nltv offerefL What is this but to main¬ tain ti'nr, hfccaufe ore man hath dealt rigarouflv by me, it is aUowabie fnr me to aS in the fame harfh nianner bv an- other; in dut6h violation of that golden rule of tquirv, which requires us to do as 'Tvif nMOuid hft and nut as we have been, dune by ?

A dread of promoting and encoura¬ ging fimonidca! c< ntr.i6fs feems princi¬ pally to have occaboned the Dean’s vi¬ rulent oppofu’.on to an alterat on of this af\ of Henry VHi. Ftom the warm expreirioiis uftd by hinr>^ it is mofi pro¬ bable he had received frequent intima¬ tions of patrons infiding on bonds or promifes of making allowances to the family of the predecrfioi cut of the fruits of the following hatveii. But, if a proportionate div.jion of the profits were the rule obfe.ved, the teprefenta- tives of the lad. incumbent would be lefs objeclsof compalbi n than they now are. Behdes, too many pations in thefe days confult their own profit, and not the mtereft of the widows and cliildien of dccealcd clers?. vrnen, in the execution of t.heir troft. When livings are adver- tifed to be fold upon an immediate re- fignation, or a profpeif of the fpeedy death of fuk o. aged incumbents, can we doubt whether thole preferment- brokers calculate exadily what quantity of tithe is likely to icuiain not levered from the ground at the time of the va¬ cancy, and e>pefl an adequate price for the chance ? Tlrts abule of the indul¬ gence given by the a6f is of itlelf a luf- ficient teafon for its alteration.

The payment to the clergy of Can- terbuiy according to the rent of houfes is quarterly. A pound- rate, due at the four quaite^s of the year, is afiwflcd upon Coventry, Jpfwich, and North¬ ampton, by particular afts of parlia¬ ment. In lome or all the new-eda- b ifired panOits in and neat the metro¬ polis, the nmney levied on the tenants of houfes fur ifie lupport of leflors is to be paid quarterly. The lame is the cafe in leveral paiillics in tlie city, in which, after tlm dieadful fire in 1666, the income of the mirilters weie lettkd by Stat. 22 and 23 of Cliaries 11. The method puilucd by tliele leveral ails, to It-cuie ro each clergyuian, who dilcbar- ges the duty, h’.s juft lliare of the profits, mav encourage us to hope for lucctls, fliould an application be made to the Le- gillati.re for mitigating the I'eveiiiy of tije ht\ of Henry \ 111.

Gent. MJ^G. juij^ ‘794*

If wc examine the nurricrous afts of parliament which Twel! our llatute- books, we ffjal! find few thar more re¬ quire an aiteration than thofe which palled in tire reign of this capricious and arbitrary monarch. And few probably of our coumrymen lulFered more uo- jjftiy (the fcditious monks and bigoted priefts excepted) from his fevere decrees than thofe of our proftlfion. He re- firained them from rriarrying, and even made it a capital offence for them to en¬ joy a natural right of mankind. And, by the ft itute which gave all future p'ofits to CuccelTors on benefices, befides thus enibling them to pay fpeedily the firft fruits, iie probably intended tocheck, if he could nor prevent, the common prailice, by cutting off a refoui ce for the maintenance of the wives and children of clergymen after their death, thus “heap- ' ing forrows upon fimrows on the wi¬ dows and fathei lefs.” At leaft, the con- fiderdtion that the law was enaited when the members of our order were under a reilraint of celibacy is a good reafon for an amendment of it; and that, under luch a change of circumftances, this claule Ihould remain in force, is ano¬ ther of the griLvarces of which we juftly complain ; for, how great mult be the embarraiftnent to receive not much more than a tenth part for the lervice of ten months, and thus to be deprived of almoft a year’s income of the benefice !

The'e were probably the reafons why Bilhop Buinet, that zealous promoter of the interefts of the parochial clergv, earnellly pieft an amendment of t.his a61, and which prompted Bilhop Glbfon to expiefs a w'ifli, that a claule had Uten added to a bill of the 12 h of Queen Anne, to enfuie an equitab e conlidcra- tion, for ftrvtng the cure of parilhts, to the wives and ch ldren of fuch incum¬ bents who died a liir'e'before harveft. This requires alteration more than the cl.aufe fo complained of by Burn, which obliges the family to quit the hcule on a month’s notice; for, the forms of law will peimit them to keep pofi'elfion f.ir a fufficieni time, whereas they can Irave no redrels if the lucceffor is determi¬ ned to Icize to his ul'e all the lublequen: profits.

If the charges of the fuccelTor’s fet¬ tling on his new pieferment are high, the piolits of it are hkewile riling to hun j but this law is to the widow and fatherltls a deprivation of folatia luHns.

“ Exigua

6 10 Conclufion of a Tvjo Months Tour in Scotland,

** Exigua ingentis, mlfero fed debira patri.”

^11. lib-. XI.

The ftipends of the clergy of the Church of Scotland are payable at Wliitfuntide and Michaelmas; and, in ca<e of death before the flipend becomes due, the family has a right, bv a fpecial law, to half a yeas'* sent of the ftipend, befides what the deeeafed was to re¬ ceive for the time of his incumbency.

And, with us, ought not the family to receive what is in ftri6i juHice due to them, what their departed friend had earned by his labour^, and what he had even purchafed by payment of taxes and affefTments for profits to be received by the fuccefior?

The a6l in queftion pafTed in a reign when thoufands, who are now injured by it, were never intended to have an exiftence.

The Clergy are now fubjeft to the fame mode of taxation with the laity. Ought then one to be debarred of a be¬ nefit which the other enjoys ? And yet th e heirs of all tenants for life, except clergymen, are entitled to a proportion of the rent of the eftate according to the time for which it is charged.

Equitas fequiiur legitn ought to be an invariable rule. In this inftance juftice and equity, and the law (the jlri^ and biting ianju)^ mpve in lines very different and far diftant. The deviation ought to be re6fified.

A6f 28th of Henry VIII. 'the tithes, fruits, &:c. &c. belonging to any par- fonage, vicarage, &c. &c. growing, ri¬ ling, or coming, during the time of the" vacation of the fame promotion fpiritual, lhall belong and adhere to fuch perfon as fliall be thereunto next prefenred, &c. Sec. tOTvards the payment of the firfi- Jruits to the king’s highnefs.

Two Months Touh in Scotland. {Concluded jrom p. 523. >) HATEVER was at tiiat time the appearance of the town of Falkirk, yet, growing wealthier, as we were informed it daily did, by the trade which paifes through it betwixt the Carron works and Glafgow, it can Icarcely fince have failed to acquire the means of greater cleanlinels and beauty.

In th s neignboui hoorl, in the end of the thirieenth century, a fierce encoun¬ ter tt)ok place between the Engiiih, un¬ der Edward the Firft, and the Scottiili fo rces, led by Comyn, lord of Badenoch, and james, tiie lie ward of the king. 4

dom (of the line of Banquo, and foun¬ der of the royal houfe of Stuart), in which the latter weie defeated and dif- perfed ; when the intrepid W'^illiam Wallace, having efftfted for the troops under his command a fafe retreat be¬ yond the Carron, is faid to have held acrofs that fiream with Robert Bruce, the grandfon of the iate claimant of the crown, and ferving at that time under the banners of the Englifh monarch, a conference fo patriotic and in (pil ing, as to have aroufed him to tho^e noble and fuccefsfui ftruggles which he rriade af¬ terwards to emancipate, and eftablifh the independence of, his country.

At Linlithgow, the next plate of note occurring to the traveller, a confiderable part of the royal palace ilill remains, which, together with a handfbrne church, gives an air of iroportance to a town in other refpebls of an afpeit de¬ caying, dull, and dirty. Along the fronts of many of tlie houfes here (a cumberfome mode of architeblure pre¬ vailing in many parts of Scoiland) runs a kind of gallery framed of wood, by which the firft-floors may be afeended inimediaiely from the ftreet without en¬ tering the rooms below. It was from one of thel'e that, in the year 1570, ’the regent Murray was fhot, in his way to Edinbuigh from Stilling, by Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh, whom he had much lefs obliged, ir leems, by having fpared bis life when forfeit, than exdfperated by btttowing a part of his ellate upon a favourite, who took poflellion of it with circumfiances of unfeeling eagernefs.

In the courfe of this ftage the Firth of Forth, on the left-hand, bounded by tiie bold hills of Fifefhire rifing one above another, and having its hither fhore finely wooded, enriched by culti¬ vation, and adorned with rriany ftately feats and cheerful villas, furniflies a fuccefTion of interefling views Night, however, dropped her envious curtain over them whilfl we were yet fome miles fhort of Edinburgh, towards which we pufli.ed with a degree of acceleration in- verfely proportionate to our difiance from it, from an increafing eagernefs to obtain letters from our Southern friends, from whom we had had no opportunity of receiving any communications fince we quitted i livv'^nefs.

Entering Edinbuigh rather late, we advanced towards our inn in the higher part of that noble city along feverai nar- lovv lanes and iiieets, not witnout ap-

piehenfiunSf

1794 ] Conclujton of a Two Months Tour in Scotland, 6i I

prehenfions, well or ill founded, of cer¬ tain falurations from aloft j which, how¬ ever, we had the fortune to elcape.

After an ablence of fome” weeks, and, undoubtedly, an intermixture of fa¬ tigues and pleafures', not fmai! was our latisfaStion to congratulate each other on the return of our whole party (with the exception of our poor fpaniel be- forementioned ) in perfeff ibfeiy, health, and rp;rits, to the fame apartments we had occupied in the outfet of our journey. Comparing them with many which we had met with fince, they feemed to have increafed in elegance and fize ; and, indeed, fo comfortably did we find ourfelves accommodated, that we agreed to halt here for a day or two, as well for the purpofe of attend¬ ing the court of fellions, at that time fitting, and of revifiting many feenes and obje£ls which had interefted us before, as for an interval of repofe after a pretty long' continued courfe of a£tiviiy and exertion.

In vifiting the principal, if not the only, colfee-houfe in this city, for a fight of fuch Englifh news-papers as had arrived fince our departure, we were furprized to find a room fo little correfpondent either to the population or magnificence of the metropolis of the INorth, being only of very moderate di- menfions, with whited walls, and floor¬ ed, 1 think, with fione ; not divided in¬ to boxes, nor adorned with any other- furniture than an old clock in a wooden cafe painted blue, with a few' chairs and tables of a very homely kind.

Leaving Edinburgh, in our way to¬ wards Carlille, we at firfl fimnd the country in a good flate of tillage, and rot ungrateful to the farnrier’s toil, ex¬ hibiting plentiful crops of potatoes, oats, and here, or barley ; feme handfome, and many comfortable, houles prefent- ing themlelves in various places. But, having palTed the village of Middleton, the face of things changes for the worfe, dreary hills snd dufky moors fucceeding to the brighter feenes of cul¬ tivation ; nor IS it much amended at Bankhoufe, a folitary inn by the way- fide. Hence to Selkirk the road occa- fionally fkirts upon, or overhangs, the Tweed; but neither here, nor near Berwick, as has already been remarked, do the banks of that river prefent any confiderable (hare of thofe exquifite beauties wh ch the compofitions ot fome of Its native poets had taught us to ex- pe6t, Selkiik is an old decaying town

on the Southern border of the Tweed ; nor is the way in any particular degiee either remarkable or interefling thence to Hawick, beyond which, almoft to the Englilh borders, the whole tra£l of country is the property of the Duke of Buccleugh, aftbrding in feveral places very refpe61able fa'mples of hufl)andry, but being generally defe£live in the pro¬ fitable and pi^lurefque accompaniment of wood. Proceeding towards Lang holme, we rode chiefly along the depth of glens, narrow, and inclnfed by hills moderately high, and of a fine and ver¬ dant turf, refembiing fome in^the neigh¬ bourhood of Petersfield, on the road to Portfmouth.

Crofnng the Efk at Longtown, in ad¬ vancing to Carlifle, on the right, is fitu- ate the famous Solway mofs, which ha¬ ving a few years before either difTolved, and borne down by its weight, the fide of the mountain which confined it, burft forth, and defeended in a rnoft alarming and overwhelming current of black and fetid Dime upon whatfoever lay within its courfe. The havock and difmay at¬ tendant on this unlooked-for invafion had left an impreffion upon the minds of thofe who law or fuffered bv it fcarcely to be obliterated, and not to be deferibed ; whiifl; much of the devafla- tion it occafioned -v^as flill apparent, though a large tia61: of land had air^adv been recovered, or dug out, at an ex¬ pence to Dr. Graham, the proprietor, equal almoft, as he hinifelf informed us, to Its worth.

At a little diftance on the left-hand of the road, and feparated from it by the intervention of the river £flc, ftands Netherby, once a military ftation (the caftra exploraiormn) of the Romans, and at that time the elegant and hofpi- table refidencu of the abovementioned reverend gentleman, to which his fon. Sir James Graham, bart. has fucceeded fince. Many feudal fcrvices and cuf- toms ftill obtain here ; and, though per¬ haps nor neceflfary, it may be aftowable to add, that many curious fpecimens and proofs of Roman arts and inhabita¬ tion, having been from time to time difeovered and collefted here, are at all times moft liberally open to the infpec- tion of the curious traveller.

So truly ideal, in the mean time (to adopt an exprtflion in the beaut. ful tra¬ gedy of D' uglas), IS the line of fepara- tion betsvixe the fifter kingdoms, that we had a6lually paflb-d from that to this Without being confeious of our change ;

but

6i2 Omhwmttcv^—Barhrs Pole!. — Applies Creed. [July

buf not, however, without bearing back with us a Lifting (enfe of much amufe- ment received, and many accormnoda- ting, kind, and hofpit.nble offices, per¬ formed towards us wiiilft in Scotland.

July 8, 17(^4. \V. Gibson.

Mr. Urban, July

TNGENUUS, p. 295, exprefles his (ufpicion of the word ombrometer in Chambeis’s Di^i ionary, which, he thinks, muft fi^nify an infirument to rneaCure ffiade. i beg leave to allure him that the word is jnrftcily right. It is rather lurprizing that he fticuld have fallen into a miftake refpediing a word which is ent rely analogous to others which, I prelume, he is not un- acqua nted with. Barometer, tbetme^ jneter, hygrometer j are all derived from the Gitek, like ombrometer, and com¬ pounded in the fame manner, logenuus is furprizecl not to find in that D.ilio- rary the vvoid FluXiiatneter. The rea- fon is very plain- The word is a mon¬ grel, ablurd, uncbiffical w'osd, fortned (Contrary to analogy, and fuch as no fcholar can make ufe of And 1 hope, M-. U ban, your urbanity will not fo far get the better of your rtgaid to p'O- priety of language as to induce you to countenance the Imall ph .loiopbOrs in the ufe of their jargon. Pope le is us, witli rerpe6t to ne>v words, that

Ufe will father what ’s be^oi by Seufe.”

The word plunjiametir was begotten by Nonlenfe upon Ignorance, and can never be introduaed into a work that has any pretenfions to clafiica! iangu qye.

In voor review of Payne’s “Epiiome of Hifterv,” p. 359, the niotto, rneri- tioned as written under the porcr&it of a great American ftateiman, is ftrangely quoted, Eripmi ccelo Julmen tyranneque jeeptrum. I i.>eg leave to iav, that, the words form an hex:amtcer veifc, and aie written thus :

pripuit cceIo fulmen, fceptrumcpie tyrannis,

yours, &c. PfiiLOBOous,

Mr. Urban, juh; c.

ALAUV, p. 552, enquires the par- licLilars of that general cufioju of

o

barbers fixing pt)!es befoie their ffinps, in Brand 'b Onier various on Mr. B'mrne’s I’opular Antiquities, p. 389, the following note -ppears ;

The barber’s pole h:.s been the firbjedf of many conjcfituies ; Ibme conceiving it to h tve originated from the word foil or head, with feyeral olfier conec-its as far-feiciied au<4

as unmeaning : but the true intention of tJiat party-coloured ftaff was, to fhew the mailer of the fliop pradiifed forgery, and could breathe a vein as well as mow a beard ; fuch a ftaff bcii g to this day, by eve y vil- laye pradlitioner, pul into the hand of a pa¬ tient undergoing phlebotomy. The white band w'hich encompaffes the ffaff' w'as meant to reprefent the fillet, thus elegantly turned round it.”

y.'Urs, &c. A. Y.

Mr Urban, Temple, July 6.

your unwearied a'tiention in -®- gratifying the publick with every thing rur ous, permit to lay before you the Apojibs Creed, copied verbatim from an antient Englijh MS. (in the p irelfton of Air. Sae-, booklelltr),'^ confiftnig^of Prayers, &c. vvritren in the reign of Ri¬ chard II. A [.OVER OF Antiquity.

I bilevie in God Farlre alle mygty. cha- pere of lieuene and of enlie. and in Jhefu Clift his f'onle fone cure Lord ocn vchiche was conceyuede of ilie Holy G«>oft. borne of the mayden Marye. luffrede undir the Pounce Pil ite: cnicifyede and dede. and is biriede. Cometh down to iielles : tiie tliridde day he roos from deeftiis. lieyede up to heueues. fitteth on his fadrerigte fide G('d alle mygty': and fro thenne he is to come for to deemc the qwyice and dede. i bih ue in the Holy Spi¬ rit. holy chirche, corannyng of ftyntvs. for- geutnede of fv nnes. niyng of fieishe. unto ay lafly ne 1ft. So mote it be : Amen.”

. M o U R E A N , MMtvg, July 7.

j READ witn s fi o t.i 1 fh m c n t and in-

dignation, p. 491, an attack on Fiee- mafonry, infinu it ng it in great mea- fure to have been the caufeof the French Kc‘Z)CiU', tot! , wbicn IS (ec for th by feme frantic vifionary with a view to debafe thQ pureJi and moft imrAuculate hi(iiLiiiion that the world ever produced ; an miii- tution founded on eternal Reafon and i * which has for iis deep bafis the civiiizjtion of mankind, and whole ever- lading glory it is to have the immove¬ able lupport of thoie two mighpy pillars ^cieijce and Muiaiiry, co eval with. Creation 1 he G and A’'chite6l cf the Univerfe raifed on A'lalonic principles Hus beaureous globe. Bjt what fociety E fafe from the attacks of Ignorance, MHice. or Envy? I am, Mu Urban, an old Mafon, and have been at a con- iiderable number of Irrdges, but never once in my life heard the leaft dilcour/e of Parties or Politicks-, nor is it ever fuflcred to form the leaft part of Mafo- nic con verfaiion, which always confifts pf Morally^ Sets nee, and Truth ; nor is

there

1794'] Free-Mafonry. — The ReViques cf AncUnt Poetry. 6i:j

there a Myftery belonging ro the Royal Art that can bear the leaft affinity to the wicked conclufions and impajtations of your correfpondent from M.'incheher; to whom I wcfUld recommend candour, and to become a Mafon, as a fure means of refuting every niifconception he may have fornned of the brotherliood, who'e j grand tenets are, to do their duty to God I ar;d their m ig hhours, to preferve and re- I commend peace on earth, and good-wili to all men. RusTiCUS.

Remarks on the Reliq^ues of Ancient Poetry, continued Jrom p. 528.

PAGR 2S0. Another inftance of (Pteen E'’Zibeth’b piiittice of fw^aiing i ex- traft from her fecretarv Dav\fi-n’s “ A- pologv.” PI r Majefiy to’d him, fhe had had a (beam that the Scots Q^een had been executed, pretending to be fo troubled with the new , that, if fhe had had a fwoid, fne cuuid have run him through; upon whicii “ I aflced her lyhat jt meant, and wheilier, havinii proceeded thus far, fire would not go brnward with the executiopi r” Confirming tlds with a folemn oath, and fcnne veliemency, f3ie' an'wered ‘'Yes,”&c.

P. 296, To the account of William Warner, a poet of no mean note in the age of Elizabeth, may he added, that it appears, ftom the rtgifier of Amwell, CO. Herts, tiiat he died theie 9t’h March, 1608-9, “ fi'ddenly in the night in his beddc, without any former complavnt or ficknefi'e;” and that he v/as “a man of good yeares anti honeld reparation ; by ids proftfiion an atturnev at the com¬ mon pleafe,” Scott's Amwell, p. 22, not.

P. 349 :

“ Mark ! I hear my father ftorming!

PJark. ! 1 hear my mother chide !” —

Similar to that ipirited palfage of Horace (Carm.III. xxvii. 57) vvhere Eur 'pa, accufiog hi-r.'elf for having eloped fiom her father’s roof, figures to herlelf what he will fay when he mifies her:

‘ Impudens liqui patrios penates,,

Impudens Orewm moror -

Vi Hi Fu'-ope pate> urget abfens

Vluid men' culfas V'

VOL. II.

P. XV. Though fome make flight of libels, yet you may fee bv them liow the wind firs ; a-, take a draw and tf.row it up into the air, you may fee by that which way the wind is, which you fliall not do by calling up a done,” SeUlen’s Table Talk. This palfage has been imi¬

tated by the late phiioGnhi'' al and ele¬ gant Piefident of the P o- al Academy: “ In ornament's we find the diarailiVerif- t Cil maiks of a national tafie, as, by throuinji up a feather into the air, we know which wav the air blows, better than bv a numc heavy matter,” Sir Jo- dtua Reynolds, Dife. VI L p. 306. Per¬ mit ffie to dinrefs for a momenr, to ob- ferve how luptrior Selden’s Table Talk, is to all the other Ana ; 'and how exalt¬ ed an idea it gives one of the converf.i- t on of thi'-; great man, whole colloquial powers, if he ha<l had a Bofwell to re¬ cord tiiem, would have appeared as mmich to exeteti t!iofe of the late Dr. Johnfon a- the converlation of this lafl did the infipidity of a modern conver- fazione.

P.4:

He weiule that the faylesivere inarigonel.’*

'I'he anonymous author of the curious narrative of the fird croifade relates, that the Tu! ks at the fiege of Antioch diot the Cl'iridians’ heads out of mangonels. “ Nofile autem fuperveniente, reverte- runt retto Turci, ablcivlerunt capita mortuorum Chridianorum, & detulerunc ea in civita'-em : aha vero ede, fummo mane, ejecerunt ilia fo’^as cum manga- nellis.” Belli Sacri HiUoria, cap. 54, apud Alabiilon Mufeum Itahcum, voi. 1 part li. p. 172. This palfage is in that part of the hidory which appears to have been written by an eye-wficiiefs. From about the" 100th chapter it mani- fediy is continued by another liand.

P. 6. Dr. Bcrney obierves, that, if this elegv, which is in ottan)a rima, was written at tlie t me of Edward I’s death (as It feems to have been), it proves that we are not indebted to Italy for that danza. Kidory of Murick,wol. II. p.

34'>-

P. >3. “The turnament of Totten¬ ham” appear.-, to be a very aniient bur- lelque upon the old feudal cufiorn of marrying an hcirefs to the knight who Ifiould vanf|uifb all his opponen's at a folemn allemolv hoiden for that pur- pefe. I do not know of any in dance of this fo late as the a- e of Edward III. (the date of this poem.), when tue ita- lons of tile fcodal policy were worn away, and focicty had advanced to a dage at which luch means of lupplving the kingdom wfith able defentitrs were no longer requifite. But that this had been a prevailing ulage in more early times appeals fr*m th>. frequent abufions to it in the oid romances, which reprr-

lent

6i4 Remarks on the Reliques of Jacient Poetry, [July,

fent the manners of that remote period. Ltland I’.as ptvfervecl, from an old Enj^- romance ot the “ Gefies of the Fitz Warines^’ (of which, if it be extant, an account would be very acceptable), an example in our own coun'ry. Paine Peverel, who died (ns far the grenter jvart of the Norman’s companions did) without ifTae, left an onlv fiiier, married So a noble knight William, who “worn Ei'efmere, and Max'or, and otiier mo.” Of his daughters and coheirs, Helen, the eldefl, married the fan and heir of Fitz but Melbt, the voungeft, with the trvte ipirit of a (eodal heire's, “ w >1 -i Bon but a kniglre wherefore her fa¬ ther William proclaimed, “by crye, that noble yong men fliouhi meete at Peve- rei’s Place in the Peake, and he that provid himfelf in feates of armes, (hold hav'e Mellet his daughter, with the caf-' tie of Whittington” in Shrnpihire. To this enterprize came Guarine, with “ a fhield (jf iilver, and a proude peacockt” (i. e. a peacock in his pride, as the he¬ ralds term it,) “ in his heauime creft and, after having fubdued all his com¬ petitors, wedded the ladv, and became progenitor of the Fitz Warins, who Were long feated at Wliiciington. Le- laad’s CoUe'ftanea, vol. I. p. 23. This rs'iay be added ro the circumOances of Egreement between the Heroic a^d Go¬ thic mann rs, which Bifhop Flurd has drawn out in fo agreeable a manner, and accounted for with fo philofophical a fpirit, in his 4th letter on Chivalry. For, Herodotus relates a fimilar tranfaftion in an early period of the Grecian hif- tory. Clilihenes the Sicyonian, being vi£for at the Olympic games, proclaimed that he would give his daughter Agarifte CO the worthttff j and therefore defiied that all fuch as afpired to her hand would c me to Sicyon. At the time appointed a great number of fuitors esm?* from the different ilates of Greece; slLof win m Herodotus enumerates in a rnarjm r very like the I Ps of warriors in an old romance, and in a ftyle which fli -ws that his hilfory was founded upon loiue antient memorials, not entirely of the traditional kind. G imes are pre¬ pared ; and Chfihenes, with an hetfpita- luv vvhich conlfituted an ell ntial leature both of the Heroic and Gothic charac¬ ters, entertained his guefts for a whole year; at the end of wliich, after a va¬ riety of adventures, nanated by the fa¬ ther of hillory with his agreeable cir- cumftantialicv, Megaclcs lire Athenian, fen of AUmaijn, .won the lady, and be¬

came anceffor of the famous line of the 7\Icm;r;onidae. lierodot. Erato, cap. ’26. It was on thi occaGou that Clif- thenes made the celebrated bon mot upon Hippoclides of Sparta, wlio, in "order to ingra'iate IdmElf writh his inten.ded fa¬ ther-in law, danced ’nefore all the com¬ pany : “ O fon of TiUnder, vou have danced away your weddmg.” 'fbe Greek is rrOich better: O 'nsxi T*cray(N>f,

a7rct}p'^r,7Cio "yH ro'i yxy.oii,

P. 14. Lillr the aflroioger, in his cu¬ rious “Life,” relates (p 34), that, lorne time about 1632, be isougne lome aflro- logicai books, out of the librarv of Mr. A. lEdwell, lately deceafetl, miniiter of Tottenham High Crols, who had been ch.iplain to Sir Henry Wocton, when he was ambalfador at Venice, and alfifted Pietro Soave Polano in writing the tlif- tory of the Council of Trent.

P. I 7 :

“ He that had no gode hor^,

He gat liim a mare.”

In order to apprehend the humour of this palTage, we muft recoke^f, that, in the days of chivalry, it was efteemed de¬ grading to ride on a mare. “ Lcs ju- rnens,” fays an exquiii.e mafter of this fubjedf, “ etoient une monture dero- geante, affedlee aux roturiers A aux che¬ valiers degrades,&, peuretre par un uiage prudent, on !es avoit relervees pour la culture des rerres, & pour multiplier leur efpece,” Memoires fur Pane. Che- valerie, par M. de la Cprne de Ste-Pa- lave, part i. vol. T. p. 20. He confirms this by a quotation from Perceforeft : “ Ne on ne pouvoit ung Chevalier plus deshonnorer que de le ^aire chevaucher unc yument pour le blafme, & tenoit-on depuis que e’eftoient chevaliers necreus

de nuiie valeur, ne ja plus chevaliers qui ayma fon honneur, ne joufioit a lui, ne frappoit d’epee non plus que un fol tonclus.” The Bedouin Ar.rbs, on the contrary, as M. Volney informs prefer mares to horfes. Travels, vol. 1. p. 406, Englilh rranflation.

Mr, Urban, 7^^ 7*

^HE houfe which has a room pro¬ jetfling nearly crols the North aile of Bicknor church, as deferibed by In- dagacor Roffenfis, p. 414, is termed by Mr. Hafled the re£tot’s tioufe, or hovel. My reafon for noticing it is a wifh to be infornied, whether this be not a fingle' inftance of an incumbent’s manfion be¬ ing placed under the roof of his church.

The incontrovertible plagiarifmswhich

have

1794- 1 Glaftcnbury Seaf. — Monuments of the Lajigworth F:tmUy. 615

have been (^etei^ed in the writings of the f'lcetiour. Sterne, p. 406^ niay have brought to the recolleStion of ievera! of yr)ur readers the obfervation of Arch- b’.fho'p Herr ng (Preface to Sermons, p. x^xvii.), that “ the wits of Qj.}een Anne’s reign had made great ufe of that forgotten l)0()k. Barton’s Anatomy of Melancholy, ” Qit. VViil his Gr-^ce’s remark apply to tiie Alemoirs of Scri- blerus >

It appears, from the h-^Tforv of Baro¬ nets, that Sir George Slingfby, knt. comptroller of the n^.vy in the reign of James the Fnft, had by Margaret, daiiehrer of VVMliam Walter, alderman of York, eight hms. Should any of your readers be apprized of the vear of the b rtli of George, the fifth fon, a ■communication of it will oblij^e.

Yours, cSec. W. and D.

Mr. Urban, Sha, Juh 8.

PERMl r me to trouble you once more on the fubjedf of the Glafion- bury leal, engraved in your p'ate I. fig. 5, for April. An explanation was re- qitedtd j which D. H, p. 42-I, has thus given; S(ip^rUum Jans de E‘’mart^r. Xhis, N5r. Urban, may be clear and intelligible polfibiy to you; at leaft, I ihould (uppofe { >, to D. H. ; but poor Obadiah is as much in the dark as ever, cind to his dull comprehenfion it. appears more incompreheiilible than the leal it- felf. D H. lee ms lo liave niifl iken the letters, which are evidently s : SANS DF, E ENM.ARTIN. It iTiav be i . ad thus Sigilium fandium de E. Enmartin, If this be the true reading, can D. H. inform me what, or vvho, Enmartin was ? It IS alfo (aid, that it “ reprelents a pair of compalTes. Hence I am indu¬ ced to alk your mafonic eorrefpondents if they can fiy whencr* it cvime, and whole luperfcMpti'in it bears? It has no handle, but on,y a loophole on the back, and appears to have been worn (ulpended to loine part of a dreis. D.A guihtions of this kind are, I doubt nor, received by no Imall part < f your read¬ ers with a frnile; others may think with me, kisc non funt nugee. OaADiAH.

Mr. Urban, July 9.

EORGE LANGWORTH, or St. f iiomas Apolile, Lcuidon, gentle- nan, by his will, da ed Mav 11, 170S, Hid proved in the P erogative Cojit of he Archbilhopof Canterbury, October 17, 1714. bequeathed three pounds and iye liiiilings a-year, cliarged upon his

efiate in Wilmington, in the countv of Kent, t-o the following ufes; — N.ifneiy, twenty fhiliings to be difinbuted < n Chrifimas eve to the poor of the pirilh of Wilmington, by the vicar and cburchvs ardens ; a’fo forty Ihillings to the vicar, pavab'e on the feafi of St. Thomas, and five lliillings moie to be expended in cleaning ahd keeping in tepiir the tombs belonging to the Lan^iworths, his ancefiois, in the church-yard and veftry-houfe.

The tombs referred to are four cf the kind commonly called Altar or Table Monuments. One of them ad¬ joins to the Eafl wall of the chancel, and the other three placed in a row at a little diilance from it to the Eaft ; and there is alfo a fmail mural monument of black marble, fet in an elegant f<ame of Portland Hone, furmounted With an u.n, which is luppofed to be what IS alluded to in the will, as being in the vaJirj-bQuJ'e, .whttt it might have been onginVdly intended to be placed; but it is fixed agamfi: the E ill wall of the chancel, and not far from the vef- trv. TtieJedger, or covering Hone, of the tomb contiguous to the church is of black marble, and the red of the nmte- rials of Portland (tone. Of the three oth-er aJtar-monuments, the ledgers are of Purbeck, the Well ends of bUck. marble, bur the fides and Eaft ends of P-utland done.

On thefe tombs are the following infer’ ptions,

I. Oil the tomb towards the Noith.

U pen the ledger ;

Here L3/eih Interred The Bodyes of Sarah and B ar t ho lomew La ng wo r. th. She died the 5th of September, 165c, Aged 19 Yeares 9 Monerhs. He April 24th, 1653, At the Age of Eight Yeares r Moneth 22 Dayes.

She The Eldefl Daughter Efe The 6th Son of Francis Langw rth, Gent, Here Refts the Body of Emz Sedley, D.iughter of Francis Languoith, Gent, of tiiib, Fariib, Relief of George Sedley, Citizen of London. By whom Die had dfue 2 Sons and 5 Daugliters. Siie Died the 8ch of Odlober, 1693, Aged 6i Years 1 5 D.iyes. -

At the \y efi end ;

Earth That in Eaith Intomb’d Here Lyes, lirrnoi taliz’d Again Shall Rife,

And Death That Lay’d us in this Grave ItCelf t Lengtii a Grave Shall Have.

Then Sliail Our Soules and Wee iii Triurriphi Sing,

Whsr’s Now Thy Conquell Grave, O Death thy Sting?

i. The

6i6 Monuments of the Langwortlis. — -Mr. Tlio. Watfoii. [JuItj

The tomVj in the middle.

Upon the ledger :

Here Rells the Remainder of M A R V L AN G w 0 R T H j third Daughter of Francis Languorih^ who Departed this Life Anvil 3c th, i66o.

At the Age of 19 Years 3 Months And 20 Days.

At the W efl end :

Who Liv’d And Dyed A Virgin Here She Lye'^,

And Shall Again A Glorious Virgin Ri^e. Her Now Biefl Soule Longs For Tliat Joy- full D lye

V/hen her Dear Chrift Shall Bldd Her Come Away.

To Weare Her Then Triumphant Crovvne Wlien He To judge the World Comes Dowme.

-j. The to.Tib towards the South,

, U pon the ledeer :

Here Lyeth Ljtirr’d The Body of Dante LL Lanoworth, youn ^ell:

Son of Francis La"gv,'oi th, who Bnded This Life 061( her 13th, t66c', Aged 17 Yeaies 3 Moneths 7 Dayes.

At tlie Wed fend :

0 Earthe, Earthy What Thoir Do.fl Srelvlee, Now

E’reLoong As Now 'im I Soe Shalt Be Thou. ElyThrid of Sevenceene Yt ares At, Length Is SpuniTj [riinn.

And Thy GiafsToo At Lengtli Shall Out Be Whiifl; Here So Feare Thou God And 111 VVav s Shunn, f Done.

That Thou Mayll I-ia[^py Be That Weil Hall;

4. The tomb contiguous to the wall of the chancel :

Married the ytb or ful;. , 162,8.

Here Reds the Bodyes of Francis Lang wo r t h , Gent. And Mary his Wife, ho Lived in Wedlock Sixty Ycarr, And Were Tlie Parents of Seven Sons and three Daughters.

Born

Feb, 25th,

1597.

Borp

March i8tb^ 1602.

He Died he id Day of June, 1688, Aged 91 Y tai> and 3 Months, being the 5' h Son of John

I.angwo th, D. D. Dece’d.

.She Dyed the 29th Day of Janurrv, 1701, Aged 98 Years and 10 Months, Being the Second Daughter of G( orge Tucker, Efq. Milton Juxta Giseve End, Dec’d.

On the tablet fixed near the veftry :

This Race all run, ‘but Crown'd al ,ne is He YVhofe Dayes conclude in Grace and Pietiie, Then Feary Lo e. Hate, Attend,

God, Goof.iiefs, Sinn, The End.

Above the lines there is a fliield of armt, quarterlv,

1. (Langwoith) three wolves heads.

2. A chevron betwee-P

three di'agons.

3. A lion rampant.

4 (Tucker) a chevron between thr ee fea- horfes.

It appears from the regider, that Mr. George Langworth was buried 061ober I, 1714; but there is not any done, with his name inferibed on it, that marks the place of interment. If the marble tablet be not referred to in the wiii, it ma^ be a memorial of the tella- tor himfelf.

As thefe epitaphs are not in the church, they are not noriced among the Monumen a! Infcriptions within the D ocele of Rochelter, adjoined by Mr„ Tiimpe to ‘‘ Rpgiflrum R fftnfe nor am 1 aware of their being printed in any other col!tction. The very ad¬ vanced ages of Francis and Mary Lang¬ worth may be recorded among the in- ftances of longevity of man and wife: of the relative pofuron of verbs and fub’'iantivc.s in different verf-.s there are examples in tfiu Latin infcriptions at Delft, and at Sp ttle Street, co. Lin¬ coln (fee pp. 219, 319, 427) and I'lch an anangemenc may nor be un¬ common ; and, with relpe6f to the other veiles, I fliall only add, that, though it be church- yard poetry which i have tranluiuttd to you, the rliimes are not uncouth, and that molt of the lines are adapted

— to teach the ruflic raoralifl to die.”

Yours, &c. S. D.

Mr. Urban, Ne-w Crane, July 11, author of the “ Intimations and Evidences of a future State” (ir.entioned in p. 405) is Mr. T. Wat- fon t, a DifTenting Minifier at Whitby, in Y orkfliire. I had once the pleafure of his company at my houfe, and the work was lent Die by a parr*icular friend of us both. The au'hor is much eftterned with¬ in rhe circle of hrs acquaintance. J. W.

As alfo in the encomiaftic motto on the city of Brillol, tire latter couplet of which may be thus lets diffufely rendered, and with ail arrangement of words more correfpon- dent than that given in the tranflation of them in the Magazine of June, p. 542 : God, King, tlie Laws, adores, reveres, obferves, [preferves.

Country, Crimes, Peace, defends, abhors, •f So alfo fays H. W. of Mile-end. Eoii'.

^Mr.

1794’1 Cromwell’s Houfe, — ChartieUhoufes and Crypts*

Mr. Urban, 'July t.

OLIVER CROMWELL’S HOUSE (plaielU.) IS nrcupied chiefly bv Mr. Blackberovv. Tiaclition points it out ftionglv to have been the refidence of Oliver Cromwell, where it ertings were hjcM for the purpofe of bringing about the revolution that took place in the re'gii of King Charles I The pa- rifli of Cleikenweil s rather reniarkable for being inhabited for met I- by perfons of high rank Oppofire OI ver Ciorn well’s fi- od Nev\cifl'e houfe, belonging to S. J Cavcndifli, Duke oi Newcaiile, In Ay! tfbury-ftreet Rood the Earl of Ayhlbury’s houfej ard, by tradition, St. John's church was fornriCrly a chapel annexed to the Earl’s manfion. It is remat kabicj that the panfli have the re¬ cords before Cromwell’s Ufurpation and after, but not during the Intertegnum. Yours, See, - T. P.

Mr. Urban, Julj; 3.

AE tL V£R was the view of Xv your correlpondent Csnibnenhs in aligning the motive of Dr. Priefiley’s clepaitute from this couniry, it has been fhewn by Mr Toulmin, p. 495, 'hat he miflook the motive. No one, however, can midake Mr. T’s motive for this communication, any more than (or his undertaking to republifli Mr. Neal’s Hiftoiy of tlie Puiitans, a woik com- pofed by a Cal'vinifii: Independent being now eciited by a Sccinian B^puji.

In regard to what is (aid, p. 491 ; w'e can offer no apo ogy for Freemafonry believing it at belt to be a hlly lecret, yet not doubling that it might be per¬ verted to ferve the vvorfl of pui poles in the hands ot danger us men.

Yours, ^c. B. B. B.

IVIr. Urban, 4.

rOUR correlpondent F. M. p. 497, is totally inift<jken in h's leacnng of the Fdtlev inlcription, which, icfer- ring to the figure of the crofs over it, iins thus :

“ Muniat hoc templum cruce glor\fi. cam micrc-cofmuni quern genuit Cl.iil- turn mifex\% pcccatoiibus fiat ujtium."

It is almoft impoHitdt to miliake the letters as they Lie before the reader. TUc gtntTal icnfe feenis r-i be, “ May this temple prott6l hv the c ofs, g oiify ing rht lilt. eWorld ! (7 he oifiicuji y about C, whether qiity 01 (jutm, . r an\ thin die, lerriers the n^xr oicmi>tr rf h.

^ See, howe.er, p. 6iz. Ei'IT.

Gent. Mag. *794»

fenfe obfeure), Mhv i lie a rer''enr to miferabie finners !” It lias nor the lead reference to a fanSnary in tne lenfe in¬ tended bv Dr. Pegge; and he let rets are much o der tfian the time o' Henrs VI.

The done from Lo.coln has traces of a crofs at the uppei a rnns j but, from i's fi uation, may ir not raiher have been a boundury than af pu'chtal monument?

Tij in'ciiption to in on the urn., p, 501, can have no le.ation to ihtiem- ptror VuSior nus, wlio died at Col gne, and moll probably was buried there It is not unfr^quent on other Brit fh in- feriptions. N.^mes on potterv are rather of the maker than of the party whofe 'alhes the urn contained.

The arms of Edward the ConfefTor, p. 506, were, a crofs patonce fietween 5 martU'ts. Ciiarne!-hou fes and Cr pts are often confounded. Crypts were fre¬ quent under chancels and chapels ■, but their deflination to receive tlie faper- fluous bones fiom time to time dug up in cimrch- vsrds, for a long fucceffion of time, has led many to fufped; that they were originallv intended to feive as char- nel-houfes. Hence the vulgar error, that the human bones w hich fill the vaults at Hythe and Waltham- alibey were re¬ mains of fume batde, and the bt'er of the fiain by William the Conqueror at Battle; whereas every circumfiance con¬ curs to prove they have b-en put there, from time to time, for the realon above- mentioned. c

A monument of Mr. Wm. Sandys was not to have been expe^ied at Fla«^burv, p. 500, where he had at laft no propertv^ but rather with his family at Miftnlen ; but perhaps the times prevented it. There ieems a Inile inaccuraev in the account of the paiifii-cltik of Fladbury being confulred db ut builoings at Stiac- ford, for fo it flioulu have tieen exprei-kd. The monuments at Fladhruy and Strenf- ham may be feen in Dr. N.iflps Collec¬ tions for Worcefienhne, under their le- fpeoiwe articles.

Ph lo-Gothicus, p 513, is itiucli mif- taken in uiu'Ci Handing the arms of -Granvi le to be fuffiues^ or organ-refis ; they zxc refs tor a Ipt; r, which were a kind of bracket y p.ojefting fiom the bieafi of’the aimour. Kent .mri Guil- liP) d ,ubt this, a.id call them CluriohSt an inliiument of iiiulick to wdi ch 1 can¬ not (ee the lead .eleuibljiice R ihert Ear of Gio. C'fter temp. Henry I. and Art;. or \ Clodion \\\ SoiiuiUtfhire, bear them as well as GianviUe.

5

Nevuion.

6i8 Newton Hall, — Chalcoplionos. — K. Charles’s Chair. [July,

hall» enq,uirecl after pp. 410, 523, is in £?///(? parlfh ; an^l,

in Weever^'s time, there remained in it, “ in old painting, two the one

for an ancefior of the Bourchiers, com¬ batant with another, being a Pagan king, for the truth of Chrift, whom the faid Englifliman overcame; and, in memory thereof, his defcendants have ever fince borne the head of the faid infidel, as alfo ufed the furname of Bo<wfer, as I had it out of the colle^fions of Auguftine Vin¬ cent, Windfor herald, deceafed,*' pp. 634. I do not find, however, from Morant (II. 424), that it ever belonged to the Bourchier familv.

I wifh to know if the firfi; volume, complete, of the Hiflory of Cumberland, announced on the cover of your June Magazine as “ already printed, and Jhortly njoill be publijhed,'* on the 24th of that month, be the fame with that re¬ viewed in vol. LXIII. p, ri'97, as an incomplete work, or do we look for an¬ other ? Yours, &c. D. H',

Mr. Urban, July 1-4.

The flone called Cbalcophonos, to which C. M. alludes, p. 552, is thus defcribed by Pliny, Nat. Hift. XXXVI'I. c. I’O ; ** Cbalcophonos nigra eji fed illifa arts tinnitum reddit, trogcs ^ diSf ut fuadent, geflandad* Ifidorus tranfcribes this verbatim (Orig. XVI. c. 14). Solinus, c. 37, fays, “ Chnl~ teoptbongos refonat ut pulfa a'ira ; pudice habitus fervcit 'vocts clarifaiem.” To the fame purpofe Marbadeus, c. i5. All that we learn from thefe authors is, that it was black and founding.

The Lady, in the Index Indicato- rius, may find the folution of the bar¬ ber’s pole in vol. XL. p. 403,*. P.

Mr. U r ban, 7.

IN your laft Magazine, in a letter figned John Jordan, is an account of a Hate chair purchafed fiom among the effe6Is of the late Lady-vifcountefs Fane,, of Little Compton, in Gloucef- terfliire, by Mr. Sands, of Wheel- bar- row caftle, in that neighbourhood. The writer of this letter knew the chair per- fe6fly well at Little Compton, and he knows the hiftory of it. It is neither more nor lefs than the date chair in which the king CAdng Charles the Se¬ cond) fate in the abocy, after his ci ro- iiation, to receive the homage of the peers. This chair was the ptrqu'fite ef W iliam Tuxon, the archbifhop of

in p. 611, this raoiUli. Ldi x.

Canterbury, who crowned the king; and either immediately, or after the archbilhop’s death, which happened the following year, it was fen-t to Little Compton, the place of retreat of the archbifliop from 1649^ to 1660, when, in a Hate of extrera*e decrepitude, he was fent for, and con veyed to town in a litter, in order to be promoted to the archiepifcopal fee of Canterbury ; which promotion entitled him to perform the ceremony of crodvning the fon of that king whom, eleven years before, he had attended, being then bifhop of London, in his prifon of St. James, and on his fcaffold at Whitehall.

This is the true hiftory of the chair, which, upon the death of S r William Juxon, was left, together with hi& whole perfonal eftate, to his reli£f. Dame Sufannah Juxon, afterwards Vil« countefs Fane. As to marks of blood upon the fooiftoof, the necelfary ap¬ pendage to a ftate-chair of that fort, I never either faw or heard of any ; but they may be there, and they may have come from an hundred quarters, with¬ out belonging to the royal martyr. He moft certainly Ihed none of his there. The bifhop of London, even as dean of the chapels, if his privileges had, at the execution of the king, been ever fo much reTpeifed, couid have no claim to the block on which the king was beheaded neither is it very likely that that block was covered with purple velvet. Indeed', had it been of the moft common materials, there can be no doub< but that Bifliop Juxon, coulds he have eftablifhed his right to it, would have preferved it as a r.eliqr.ie. I wifK to have this inferted, and, if you- defire it, i will give you my nam-e.

Yours, &c. ^ Vei^idicus,

Ml-. Urban,

Crooked Ifland^ Jan. 179^

iBDURATE muft the heart of that individual be who can read the luppofed foliloquy of Louis the Child without fympathizing in its diftrers,''and execrating the infernality of thofe iwo-^ legged tigers whofe infatiate maws ft ill thirft for human bieotl. In the fame Magazine for November is a narrative of a cruelty in the Weft of England, where both the lawyer and his client appear as fit alTociates for that diaboli- ca: aftf-mbly and pitv it is tlieir names a e not expoled to as fingutar notice as thofe of the philanthropic Roberfpierre, &c, I wifti a few of youi" corrslpond-

eats,

1794*] Tranfatlantlc — Anecdotes of G to. VltxcQ. 619

tnts, who, with concern T obferre, on trifling difputes, treat their opponents with dogmatical afperity, would draw forth villany and hard-heartedneft, under whatever name or charafter it may lie concealed ; there the cacoilhn opprobrandi may be very laudably in¬ dulged. It might much benefit fociety if the worthy committee for re;Iieving pri'foncrs for fmall debts, where the colls fo vaflly exceed the debt, would mention the attorney’s name to whom thofe wretches are fo happily beholden, that fuch may be had in everlafting re¬ membrance. Lord Kenyon is much extolled, on this fide the water, for his dextrous excifion of Tome ro-tten limbs jnfefling Weftminfter-hall. In the iflands, his lopping-axe might do much fervice. The vitals, not bowels, of thefe heroes of the quill, the war hath made putrefeent. Many poor French and Americans have proved it feelin.- ly. The amor patriae is tortured, like charity, to cover a multitude of llns. I will fport an opinion, though probably much too late, that “a matter on the carpet” hath an aJIufion to the antient covering of a iible, where buflnefs of importance .was difculled, fimilar to our Board of Green Cloth, parvis cotnponere tnagna — I fear Mifs Seward’s ilriftures on Johnforr’s veracity did not proceed from an exuberance of the milk of hu¬ man kindnefs. I fometimes thought him more attentive to the truth than to the propr.ety of what he afferted. I hope the Teeming fanguinary go^t of her friend Williams is now I'ufficiently glutted. What an affe6fing fubjeft for tragedy would thofe ferocious feenes furnifh, provided the united powers of language and of affion did not render it loo dutrelling for endurance ! If our bawlers for a parliamentary and other Utopian reform would exert themfelves effeiluaily to invefligate the abufes which exift in many charitable inftitu- tions, the bleffings of the poor would accompany their enquiries, and mens Jibi confeia reBi would rile fuperior to prevalence of party.

In the Apiil (iaiement of Queea Anne’s bounty, I find, in 30 years there was rece'ved, bv

Tenths, 26 1,3 19

Legacies 17,016

^7^,335

What a woeful deduitiou follows!

Fees 6,597

Salaries, &c. 24,076

A new book (query?) 531

iVcm« Commiliion, &c, 12,317

How much of this, by attention In the firft inflance, and how much may yet be faveci, and the good refulting, I leave to wifer heads to afeertain ; this only I can venture to affirm : that, whatever increafes the ability of a wor¬ thy clergyman to bring up a decent fa¬ mily adds more to the flock of public virtue than all the money paid to all the Petits maitres, or coxcomical clerks, in Chriftendom. Is it now clear to the publick, how the profits arifing from that noble fund for erefting a college iq Barbadoes is appropriated ? It is rumoured that a fcheme, ten times more chimerical, is in contemplation to adopt the bafelefs fabrick of a fimilar con- ftruotion in Bermuda, to teach gentle¬ men’s Tons of the Weft Indies to fwim, and thofe of America to catch fiffi 5 the former to be fed upon air, to increafe agility; the latter, in a good whale (eafon, are to provide for the year. Stationary balloons will be appointed to affill the iniercourfe. The profefifors to be furnifiied from the univerfities of Old-fireet and Moorfields. It is pre- lumed, there being now no other de¬ mand for money, the Government will provide liberally fora pharos to lighten the fiioals off Cape Hatteras, and an obfervatory to afeertain, with precifion, whether a full moon be not encircled with a rim, like that of a flat candle- flick. They have hitherto been dab¬ bling only as pedlars; this is intended coup de main. CoTTONlENSlS.

Mr. Urban, ^iverton^ June z'].

N Walker’s Sufterings of the

• Clerg\” is a long account of the unparalltUd fufferings and hardfhips that the Rev. George Pierce (who had Pit quarter in this town) and his family undeiwent. 1 find he was born at

Richmond, in Surrey; educated at Eton, and elefted to a fellowfiiip of King’s college, Cambridge, 1623, and admitted to this living in 1634. He had alio a living in Kent, of tne value of 160I. per annum. His father was keeper of the wardrobe to Queen Eli¬ zabeth, King jaines, and Charles the Full. I have heard he had 23 children

by

6^0 Bunal Sermce.-^^ir L Newton. — Lmcolnlliire Loyalip [July,

b' his fecond wife ; fixteen of them j' cd fo i'.e men and women ; and that Ki'iy J<me feiv ei^hr of them to K’n ’s college. C mbtdne, one of wh rh wa*; 'he beforemeniioned George" P.tice Pr 'CO the firif^^eh cncjui y t can m ke, 1 cannot find out any de- Prndai'is of this nu ne ous familv, un- lefs It is an oM ma'den ^'entlewoman, a great grand dau, ' terof thefaui George p! rce If anv of your coj relpondeurs could inform me, through the channel cf -he Gentle man’s M garine^ if any of the lineal defcend nts ;'fe nf)W li^ ving, and wheie, ir o-i'*' r' nfera i vour' on Yours, &c* Tiverton iensis.

M r. I’ ' B A v ,

R. BOS^' RLL M:) J Hrd n, ’ ohjeifs to a p ffa e

Ji^^y lO

, in his “ Ldc of voi 11. p 4!;o, ID on , R uri • ' Ser¬

vice, as Ipeak ng o " denfivelv o' the future conditi' n of the deteaitd. Wiitn he ve c nfide-s this paiTage, he wil* ice thit his renf .re is tinto tided, “ We comrri! his bv)dv to the ground — “ in fu<e and certain hope ',1 be refurrec- tion,’’ &;c. ^ thit is, of the general 'C- furre6iion. N u a fy ! bic is cxprelfed concerning the oeceaftd peilon in par¬ ticular ; a -ha liable and footh ng hope is only impli<d T. W.

Mi. Urban, ^ ^ •

AS wh t € attS to perfons of enni- - I enct hndi> ready ac-ds to your IVluit um, 1 hatter rndelf it will nor be unacceptable to your readeis to learn that Sir Ifdd’C Newttm, 26 and 27 Sept. 1720, pi rchaled, fiom Paul CaTon, f<n. r.f Melton, CO, Bucks, gent and PiiU* Cilton, his foil, a cajutai eftare, pr ncip.illy lands, at B den, Wilts, for jugjR 6 • fed, ; which, in 1726, 14 and 15 Match, tie fetded on N-wton Btr- ton, Ca h. Barton, and Roliert B trton, his iitphew and nieces, H s hand¬ writing in 1726 was become exttemely tremulous. M Grh.en.

Mr. Urban, July

1HAVE been an admirer of your (yentieman’'' Magazine for m.-uy years; and oDferving tiiat, though you treat the nioO learned lubjciBs, you do not defpirc (ucli as are infling, i t-ke courage to tell you, that 1 am a g'reat lover of tliat ufeful part of the featheied creation caNed, Poultry, 1 take plealure in attending them myfeif, b.ut often find that I am puzzled to know how to tieat Shetr dtflempers. I often vex them by

igncrance of their natural particulari¬ ties, and I Tearcb in vain for books to inftruft me. If, through your Maga¬ zine, I could be informed of any trea- tif<s publi fifed on the methods of ma¬ naging them ; or if, by reading my com- {jilainr, fome good-humoured lorer of the tribe would communicate fome of their experience in your monthly publi¬ cation ; it would much pleafe

Y'ours, 5cc, Hannah.

Mr. Urban, July 15.

As Lincoln fbire wa’ the fi’-ft county which has flood forward in fup- pori of f)ur ex eih in Coofiirution, againft the dtiigns of wicked men I'oth at home and abrf'act it may nor he amrf’s to pre- ferve, ia your v.Juable Rcpofit^'iy, a former manifeftation of their zeal in fupport of the juft prerogative, and tlie p- efeiVation of the public peace, in 1642 It IS faithfully c -pied from a hio'e Iheet of paper pr nted at the time, and txtreourly Icirre. D. R.

1642. Th.e refolution of the gentry of Lin- colrifhiie to provide 168 horfe ^or tlie maintenance and defence of his Maje.ty’s juft prerogative, and the prefei vative of the public peace ; f e fa d iior'e to tie dif- pofen Within the county of Lincoln for three months after the 20th of ihis inflant ju’y, at fuch time, and in lucli v/ay, as ills M,, jelly fhall by his commillion direct.

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