Queen's Injunctions, 1559. "Not thereby meaning to attribute any holiness or special worthiness to the said garments, but, as St. Paul writeth, omnia decenter et secundum ordinem fiant." 1 Cor. 14 cap. Bp. Sparrow, p. 78. - Preface to the Advertisements, 1564. "Not as laws to bind the consciences of her subjects in the nature of them considered in themselves, or as they should add any efficacy or more holiness to the virtue of public prayer; but as temporal orders meer ecclesiastical, without any vain superstition, and as rules in some part of discipline concerning decency, distinction, and order, for the time." Sparrow's Collection, p. 122. +"Vestimentis etiam vel calceamentis nisi quæ honestatem et religionem deceant eis (sc. Clericis) uti non liceat. Si quis autem contra hoc facere præsumpserit, et commonitus emendare noluerit, excommunicationi subjaceat. Conc. Westmonast. 1175, ex Concilio Agathensi." Spelman, Conc. p. 104. Vide Sec. V. div. 4. of this article, to be inserted in a subsequent Number. Vide Sec. V. div. 3. of this article. | Vide Sec. V. div. 1. of this article.

1 read promissis from the Latin edition of the Canons in Dr. Wilkins's Councils, instead of premissis, as it stands in all the other copies I have seen. The marginal note is singular, being the only instance of that kind in the whole body of the Canons. The paraphrase in the English version is—in their doublet or hose, without coats or cassocks.

condemned. The case is this, and is pretty singular:-there are certain places of innocent diversion and entertainment, where Clergymen, without their proper habit, are allowed to appear without offence. But whether their appearing there, habited as Clergymen, might pass without censure, is yet a question. Indeed, their thinking themselves obliged, when they resort to those diversions, to go in a meer lay dress is a presumption, that it would not be taken well, if they appeared in that which is proper to their calling. Now I am not inclined to reflect upon any of my brethren, who think proper to take the benefit of this tacit indulgence, and accommodate their dress so as to entitle themselves to this connivance; but I apprehend it will not be easy to reconcile it with the general and primary intention of the Canon, which is, that all persons in Holy Orders shall use the clerical habit for this reason,

UT EXTRA ECCLESIAM A POPULO DISCERNI POSSENT AC INTERNOSCI' * ; and time was, when the prohibition of the use of our habit was inflicted as a censure +. But although I will not blame others for joining with the Laity in any amusements that are innocent, and in a way that by custom and in common interpretation gives no offence; yet I will not scruple to confess, for my own part, that I never thought any entertainment worth my seeking, or receiving, if I were obliged to disguise myself while I partook of it. For what the world will not allow me to share in publicly, with due credit to my order, I had rather forego the satisfaction of, than take it on the terms of such a whimsical and precarious courtesy. For, as their supposed disallowance of our babit on such occasions, if real, would be very unreasonable, so their apparent civility and favour in the matter, as now conducted, amounts to no more than a temporary connivance at the disguise, under which some of us seek to elude their displeaSIGISMUND.

sure."

(To be continued.) ** Errata in paper 66 on Tippets and Scarves worn by the Clergy:" Vol. LXXXVIII. ii. p. 217. col. 2 1. 1, for

* That they may be known by their distinct habits to be of that vocation. -Preface to the Advertisements.

+"All such persons as have been or be Ecclesiastical, and serve not the Ministry, shall from henceforth abroad wear none of the said apparel of the form and fashion aforesaid, but go as meer Laymen, till they be reconciled to obedience, &c." Advertisement 1564. Bp. Sparrow, p. 127.

preventative, read preventive.-P. 315, col. 2, 1. 32, for Edward III. reud Edward VI.-1. 35, for Edward 111's read Edward VI.'s.-P. 318, col. 1, 1.7, for The words are there,read The words were these. 1

I

HAVE just been informed that a

Print is about to be published by subscription, representing the decisive charge of the Life Guards at Waterloo, to be engraved by W. Bromley, from a Picture by Luke Clennell; and that the following are the singular and heart-rending circumstances which have given rise to this Publication:

Mr. Clennell, the painter, is a native of Morpeth, in the county of Northumberland, and was originally pupil to Mr. Bewick, of Newcastle. Specimens of his talents, as an engraver on wood, will be found in some of the most elegant publications of the day. The beautiful illustrations of Rogers' "Pleasures of Memory," from the designs of Stothard, and the diploma of the Highland Society, from a drawing by the venerable President of the Royal Academy (the largest wood engraving of the age), are both the productions of his hand. But his geniùs did not stop here. He had not been long in London before he was known to the publick as a painter, and one too of no ordinary character. Possessing an active and ardent mind, he saw and estimated the advantages held out by the British Institution- he became one of its most assiduous students, and soon distinguished himself in its annual exhibitions. His rapid progress was marked by the admirers and lovers of Art; and the Patrons of the Institution, ever ready to foster and encourage excellence, early and munificently rewarded his exertions. In the midst of this career of success, at the moment of completing a picture for the Earl of Bridgewater, representing the Fête given by the City of London to the assembled Sovereigns- a picture which had cost him unheard-of labour, and which he had executed in a way to command the admiration of all who saw it, even in its unfinished and imperfect state-he was afflicted with the most dreadful of all maladies-the loss of reason! He has been now for nearly two years se

parated

parated from his family and from so-
ciety. This is but half the melan-
choly tale: his wife, fondly attached
to him, attending him day and night,
fluctuating perpetually between the
hope which the glimmerings of re-
turning reason still held out, and the
almost despair which followed on his
again sinking into confirmed lunacy
-at the moment too when she
seemed to her friends to bave over-
come the severity of the trial, and was
preparing to enter on some business,
by which she might support her chil-
dren, deprived of their father's aid-
became herself the subject of the same
malady, which being accompanied
with fever, soon terminated in her
death. The death of a young mo-
ther of a young family, is always a
most afflicting event. In the present
instance the visitation is singularly
aggravated by the distressing situa
tion of the father, whose disorder be-
comes every day more decided, and
whose recovery is now placed almost
beyond hope. It is to provide for
three young children, the eldest only
eight years of age, that this publica-
tion is undertaken; and though the
Committee who conduct it cannot but
hope that the melancholy circum-
stances in which these little creatures
are left, will not fail to excite the
commiseration of the publick; yet
their main reliance is on the excel-
lence of the Publication as a Work
of Art. The picture selected is a
spirited and splendid composition,
illustrative of a great national event;
which, while it added much to the
military glory of the country, is still
more endeared to all our memories
by its having given peace to a con-
flicting world. The reward conferred
on this Picture by the British Institu-
tion must be considered as especially
sanctioning the selection of the Com-
mittee; and the well-known talents
of the Engraver are the best guaran-
tee that can be offered to the publick
for the excellence of the whole. The
Publication is intended to be conduct-
ed by a Committee: the profits aris-
ing from it will be vested in the hands
of Trustees, for the benefit of the chil-
dren; and the names of the Commit-
tee, will, doubtless, insure its success.
The EARL of BRIDGEWATER.

The RIGHT HON. CHAS. LONG, M.P.
SIR JOHN E. SWINBURNE, Bart.
B. WEST, Pres. of the Royal Academy.
R. BALMANNO, Esq.

ABRAHAM COOPER, A. R. A.
R. H. SOLLY, Esq. F. R. S.
JAMES VINE, Esq.
DAVID UWINS, M. D.
Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

A.

Norwich, Feb. 18. N your Minor Correspondence, p. 2, for January, your respectable friend may be right with regard to Peter Heiwood, so far as his being an assistant under Sir Thomas Kuevett, though among the numerous documents of that antient, noble, and loyal family, I have never met with the name. The following are facts:

When Sir T. Knevett was sent, Nov. 4, 1605, by King James, to search the cellars beneath the House

of Lords, he took Master Doubleday with him; here they found Guy Fawkes vowed, had he been in the Fawkes, with his dark lantern. inner room he would have blown up himself and all the company therein. Master Doubleday lived many years after, loved and respected, and died about 1618. July 4th, 5 James I. Sir J. Knevelt had summons to the Parliament then sitting, by the title of Lord Knevett, Baron of Escrick, and took his seat accordingly among the Peers of the Realm; he died at his house,King-street, Westminster, in 1622, and was buried in the Church of Stanwell, Middlesex; where a noble Monument by Nicholas Stone, (cost 2157.) was erected by order of his Lady, with a Latin inscription upon it.

I have never been able to learn what became of the two daughters of Lord Knevett, as it appears the estates went to Edward Howard, created by Charles II. Baron Howard, of Escrick, a lordship which came to Thomas Earl of Suffolk, his father, by mar. riage with Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Sir Henry Knevett, knt. of Charlton, Wiltshire, as heir to T. Lord Knevett, her uncle.

I suppose these to be sons of Sir T. Knevett, knt. who married Muriel, daughter to Thomas Howard, second Duke of Norfolk, by whom were several children.

Perhaps some of your Correspondents can give me some information respecting Lord Knevett's two daughters. The Knevetts maternally trace their descent from the Plantagenets: the Lady Harriet Knevett was aunt to Anne Boleyn, and great aunt to Queen Elizabeth.

A.B.

Latin Dates.

Mr. URBAN,

FOR

West Square,

March 4. OR a long time, I was utterly at a loss to conceive whence could have originated that predilection of so many of our Latinists for the preterimperfect tense in dating their productions; until at length I thought I had discovered one cause of the practice in the well-known line of Virgil (Geo. 4, 559)

Hæc super arvorum cultu, pecorumque, canebam.

From that line, considered as the date of the Georgics-and from the imperfection of our English grammar, which does not afford such nice discriminations of tense as we find in the French and Italian verbs-seems to have arisen the too prevalent use of the preterimperfect tense in dating prefaces, title pages, &c. as " Scribebam" [I was writing this]-" Dabum" [I was giving it to the printer, or bearer]" Imprimebat," or " Excudebat" [he was printing it.]

The error* appears to have proceeded from a want of attention to the peculiar circumstances and intent of Virgil's date-supposing it to be really his; though its authenticity is of little consequence in the present discussion, since we have, in Martial (9, 85), an exactly similar date, with similar reference to the period of another (contemporaneous) transaction, or series of transactions, viz.

Cum tua, sacrilegos contra, Norbane, furores,

Staret pro domino Cæsare sancta fides; Hæc ego Pieria ludebam tutus in umbrå

i. e. "While you were engaged in defending Cæsar's cause, I was habilually employed in writing." So Virgil's Canebum: i. e. " During the period of Cæsar's Eastern campaign," or," While Cæsar was hurling + the thunders of war," &c. "I contiBued habitually engaged in composing these Georgics."-Had he simply meant to declare himself author of the Georgics, he would have said

Pretty nearly on a par, in point of elegance and propriety, with that of the foreigner, who should say, "I did write this book; and I did give it to the printer; and he did print it."

+ The substitution of the present tense, Fulminat, &c. for the past, makes no difference in this case.

Cecini, as Lusi in verse 565; and as Ovid (Met. 15,871)" Jamque opus exegi," and, in 2 Trist. 549,

Sex ego Fastorum scripsi totidemque libellos.

Not Exigebum or Scribebam, because he barely mentions the complete, finished act, without reference to the period or duration of any stance. Let us now suppose, that, contemporaneous action or circuminstead of "Veni, Vidi, Vici," Cæsar had written, Veniebam, Videbam, Vincebam, [I was coming; I was looking at the enemy; and I was gaining the victory], what could the senate have understood?-They might well have doubted, whether he had completed the business, and actually gained a final victory-or, when on the point of defeating the enemy, he, by a sudden reverse of fortune, was himself defeated. But this victory (it may be said) was the work of a short timea few hours, at most; whereas the writing of an elaborate volume of Latin may have occupied whole months or years. Granting this, the length of the action or performance cannot affect the tense, unless its gradual progress be noted as coincident with the period of some other transaction. For example, let us have to express that the Romans conquered the world; which was the business of several centuries: notwithstanding the length of time, if we mean simply to state the fact, without reference to the period of any co-existing circumstances, we cannot, with propriety, employ any other tense than the preterperfect, Domuerunt, as, in Suetonius, “ Gallias Cæsar subegit"—not Subigebat, though it was the work of several years. These considerations, suggested by me, some years since, to a professed critic much practised in writing Latin, induced him at last to adopt the preter perfect tense for his dates, instead of the imperfect, which he had before been in the habit of using.While on the subject of tenses, I am induced to observe, that young Latinists might easily be taught to avoid a very common twofold misapplication of them in the passive voice, by the observance of this simple direction, which, in the course of my long practice as a teacher, I have generally found effectual for the purpose, viz. "Before you choose the passive tense by which any fact is to be

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