Mr. URBAN, HOLDON J. J." P. B. Jan. 4. CHURCH, KENT, SHOL (Pl. II. Fig. 1.) ftands to the left of the road leading from Sandwich to Deal; about a quarter of a mile from the church of Upper Deal. It is a fmali ftructure of Hints, the door and window-cafes of Caën ftone; confifting of one aile and a chancel, with a low fquare tower at the Weft end, and contains feveral monuments and hatchments for branches of the Wyborn family, whofe new-built houfe fronts it on the oppofite fide of the road, your For a more particular account of the parish and church, I refer readers to the Ninth octavo volume of Haf ted's Hiftory of Kent. E. TOLAND. Mr. URBAN, London, Jan. 6...SEND you the figure of an old I Bell (Fig. 2) which formerly hung in the belfrey of Quendon Church, Ellex. The fingularity of its form induced me to fend it to you for infertion in fome future number of your interesting Mifcellany. The rude form of the characters infcribed round it, induce me to believe it to be very old. How are they to be interpreted? Is it not, probably, "ORA PRO NOBIS"? I fhall be glad to have the opinions of fome of your Antiquarian correfpondents on this fubject. Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, THE F. T. Auguft 5. HE inclofed fketch (Fig. 3.) reprefents the remains of Wenlock Abbey, in Shropshire, and is fent to accompany its Seal in your antiquarian Mifcellany. The Seal is of brafs, a little larger than Fig. 4. and was found about fifty years back in digging a foundation to the church at Clun, in the fame county. It reprefents St. Michael encountering the dragon, from which circumflance I conclude, the Abbey of Wenlock to have been dedicated to that faint. The legend: "Sigillum) Eccle(fia) conventualis de Wenlo(c)k ad caufas tantum." GENT. MAG. November, ́1806, In the laft word, "tantum," the firft T is a Roman, and the last ta' Sax on one. The fketch of the abbey was taken in the autumn of 1802 by Yours, &c. I Mr. URBAN, E. D. oЯ. 4. SEND you a fketch (Fig. 5.) of a granite font in Landewednack church, which is fituated on the Lizard point, the Southernmoft extremity of Great Britain. For a most learned differtation on our antient faints and religious edifices, particularly on St. Rumon or Ruan, who, probably, converted the heathen inhabitants of this promontory to Chriftianity, and baptized them out of this very font, I need only to refer you to Mr. Whitaker's "Ancient Cathedral. of Cornwall hiflorically furveyed;" but, as this fpecimen of antient tafte feems to have efcaped his notice, I requeft the favour of one of your learned readers to decypher and explain the infcription Fig. 6. C. H. I. Mr. URBAN, Ta O& 5. HE annexed (Fig. 7.) is taken from a grave-fione, found among the ruins of Witlingham Church, in Nor folk. There is a fimilar one in Blomefield's "History of Norfolk," vol. I. p. 104, new edition. , Defcribing Fersfield, in that county, and the monuments, &c. of the du Bois family, he fays, "Upon the ground, clofe to the arch, lies a large raifed coffin-ftone, with a cross on three grieces, the monument, perhaps, of his (William du Bois) father." The fione, which I my felf faw, was placed with the crofs downwards; and the erofs itfelf is in relief; nor is it a different ftone inlaid, becaufe, wheu broken by accident, I found that it was one folid fione. If any of your correfpondents will inform me of what defcription this crois is, and its particular defign, they will oblige Yours, &c. L. H. T. Sir Edmund Sandford, page to Henry IV. in 1402, fon of Sir Edmund S. of Thorpe, in Yorkshire. The public prints have made strange miflakes relative to the brave Gen. Beresford and Sir Samuel Hood. Gen. William Carr Beresford is the fon of the late Marquis of Waterford, and enjoyed every advantage of education in common with the legitimate children of the noble Marquis. Sir Sam. Hood is certainly not the grandfon of Vifcount Hood; but he is a near relation, it is prefumed, as the Barony of Bridport is in remainder to him next after the Hon. Samuel Hood, fecond fon of Henry Lord Hood, only fon of Samuel Viscount Hood, of Whitley. The death of Sir Samuel's father is recorded in vol. LXXV. p. 1083. your No answer has been given to the queftion of the eligibility of Deacons to Parliament; nor of the freedom from arreft of Peers of Scotland and Ireland, not reprefentatives. When were the Irish titles of Knight of the Glin, Knight of Kerry, and Knight of the Valley, firft affumed? Mifs Owenton, in her "Wild Irish Girl," feems to attribute them to Milefiau origin; but the only three families thus diftinguished are of Eng ifh defcent, deriving from Maurice Fitzgerald (ancestor alfo of the Duke of Leinfler, and Earl of Kerry) who went to Ireland in the reign of Henry the Second. AN OCCASIONAL CORRESpondent. St. James's Palace, Mr. URBAN, Nov. 14. HE Review of my account of the TH Convent of Minoreffes, formerly without Aldgate, p. 982, compels me to call on your wonted impartiality for the infertion of the following reply. It is fo far from being “a mere com Inftead of the paltry motive affigned by the Reviewer for drawing up the memoir, mine was a wifh, as a Member of the Society of Antiquaries, to fill up one chafin in our monaftic hiftory, and to add fomething, however fmall, to that mafs of informa tion refpecting our national antiquities, which it is the profeffed and laudable object of that refpectable body to accumulate. pilation from printed books," that by much the soft confiderable part of it was derived immediately from original and manufcript documents, preferved In the Tower of London and other public repofitaries, to which I had accels by favour of the late Tho. Afile, eig. the late Rev. Samuel Avfcough of the Brigith Muffum, John Koling, efy, of the Kobs Chapel, and Thomas Walker, elq, regiftra, of the diocese of London; of whofe politenels on the occalion, I embrace this opportunity making my molt grateful acknoW This tatement I thought due, not only to myfelf, to the Society, and to the Publick, but to Mr. Urban's long-ettablished Mifcellany. Yours, &c. HENRY FLY. Mr. URBAN, London, Oct. 28. HAYING herent which happened The account which I have heard is, ing in a garden at Southgate, Middlethat about the year 1762 a lady, walktraps, by which accident her leg was fex, was caught in one of these broken. The relations of this lady brought an action against the owner of the garden, and recovered very great damages. The decifion which was given in this cafe may, perhaps, determine the legality, or illegality, of placing thefe difgraceful and inhuman chines. ma AN INQUIRER. Mr. URBAN, lowing correction of a paffage in the letter, (p. 919) concerning the Oxford books. The author, at the time of writing that letter, fuppofed that the reading fhod, begirt, inftead of fhould be girt, in George Cranmer's letter annexed to Walton's Life of Hooker, was a modern emendation, the fame not being found in any edition of that life. He has fince feen the first edition of that letter, published feparately, in 1642; where the reading is, fhod, girt; and upon this authority the reading was altered in the.cdition of Walton's Life, lately printed ar Oxford; as alfo before by Dr. Zouch, who follows that edition throughout, as he has fignified in a note. OXONIENSIS. LET ALTHOUGH, upon a moderate calculation, nine hundred and twenty three thousands of our fellowcreatures are daily configned to the grave, yet few indeed claim any memorial beyond domeftic lofs, or difunion of private friendship; but in an individual whofe exertions have been devoted to the promotion of public good, his death becomes a public calamity. Little did I anticipate in introducing into the preceding effay, the brilliant galaxy of Philanthropists, that I fhould fo foon have to récord the extinction of one of its brightest conftellations in the death of Dr. HALL; of which event my friend NEILD, who is now re-vifiting the prifons in Wales, informs me, in pathetic expreffions of grief and regret. In his letter dated Launcefion, Cornwall, Sept. 27th, he fays, I wish I could give you a better account of my felf. For two days past I thought that I was rapidly recovering; and I directed my courfe to Bodmin, through Launcefton, rather than to Plymouth, that I might enjoy the company of my learned friend Dr. Hall a day or two, as well as benefit by his advice. The Doctor was that excellent Phyfician I found in the gaol on my firft vifit there, vifiting and gratuitously preferibing for the fick, which I have before mentioned. Ima gine how I was, and am affected, by hearing that he is no more. pired last night, in confequence of a fall. The news was brought when I was in the Gaol here, and communicated to me by the Rev. Dr. Mayfun, with whom I fhall pafs to-morrow. This fatal event has fo unhinged me, that I know not what to do, nor which way my melancholy will direct my fieps. My affliction is deep, and too ftrong for my philofophy. I am going to bed; I wish I could add to rejt.” He ex In commemorating a difiinguished character, rendered fill more interefting by the teftimony of the benevolent NEILD, may the fentiment of Milton, ad Patrem, ever be impreffed on the furvivors: * Wifdom herself can fcarcely number feven perfons, from among all the fons of men, whom she can honour with fuch a name. The information on the improved fiate of Prifons, communicated in a preceding letter, (Chepflow, Sept. 14,) would afford fome folace to grief, and fubftitute pleafing for the many painful fenfations which the hiftory of Prifons must have excited, were anxious folicitude relieved on account of the precarious fiate of health of my excelcellent Friend, whofe life is important in proportion to the vaft extent of human infelicity. "I am juft returned,” he obferves, from Brecon, and have the pleafure to inform you that the Gaol there has, fince my faft vifit, received every improvement which the original bad confiruction of the building will admit. The old gaoler, whofe cruel treatment and half-harying his prifoners I fo much complained of on my laft vifit, was dif miffed, and a new one is appointed. Women are no longer loaded with irons. When I had finifhed my remarks, I waited on the Magiftrates, and my obfervations will be laid before the Quarter Seffions. It gives me, and I am fure it will give you, great pleafure to be informed, that the City and Borough Goals are every where improv ing, and feem in every place to engrofs the attention of Magifiracy." Whilft this relation is perufed with genuine pleafure, the facred injunetion, "Be not weary in well doing,' is impreffively illuftrated, and perfevering exertion to leffen vice and mifery amply encouraged. When there were only three or four perfons in the world, one of them killed his brother; of twelve Apofles, chofen by Chrift, one became a traitor; and, prominent as wickednefs may now appear, never was public and private virtue more prevalent than in the prefent æra of this favoured Empire, in the judgment of J. C. LETTSOM. |