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the beaft, who nevertheless continued his prayers; and, upon the king's offering him money and other prefents, to indem nify him for the injury he had received, refufed them all. It is true, in the picture under confideration, as well as in other pictures of St. Giles, the hind is reprefented as wounded inftead of the faint; but in this particular painters are at variance with biographers. It is not to be fuppofed that the fupplicating figure on the other fide is the king we have been reading of, as there is nothing that appertains either to royalty or hunting about.it; nor are we to look for unity of fubject in fuch performances. It relates to quite a different incident in the life of St. Giles, when he is reported to have brought the famous warlike mayor of the palace, Charles Martel, to a fenfe of remorfe for a certain great crime he

had committed.

It may be of consequence, Mr. Urban, to advertife you of a mistake you have fallen into. p. 747, in confounding your old correfpondent Mr. Berington, who declined preaching in his friend Dr. Prifticy's meeting houfe, with another gentleman of the fame name, who is a Catholic prelate; the latter, though a perfon of firft-rate abilities, never having yet difplayed them to the publick. The mention of the former of thefe gentlemen reminds me of a literary account I have to fettle with him, and which has flood upon your records against me ever fince November laft.

Moft of your readers will remember the controverly in your Magazine two or three years ago, which began with Macaw's eggs, and ended with Tranfubftantiation. In this difpute I had the honour of being fecond to Mr. Berington; and it has fince appeared, that one of the gentlemen with whom we were contending was the Rev. Mr. Williamfon, prebendary of Lincoln, and rector of Winwick, who published a pamphlet, intituled, "A Defence of the Church of England against the Charges of the Rev. Joleph Berington and the Rev. John Milner." As to Mr. W's publication, I do not find myself hurt by any part of it except by the title-page, which infinuates what neither you, Mr. Urban, nor your brother Reviewers, who honoured my fermon on his Majefty's happy reco very with their notice, could difcover, and what even Mr. W. has not attempted to fhew in the body of his work, namely, that it does contain any charges against the Church of England. With refpect to those

paffages which he actually comments upon, I am contented they fhould undergo their fate even when placed befide his ftrictures. It must be owned that Mr. W. appeared in confequence of the challenge of Mr. B. calling upon him. like Ajax, to come from behind the mist of an anonymous fignature, and to prove himself to be an adverfary of fome worth" nor can it be denied that Mr. W. has fulfilled the conditions prescribe ed, or that his urbanity, character, and titles, whatever may be faid of his arguments, entitle him to refpect. Neverthelefs, Mr. B. declines the conteft he had provoked, and turns it over to his fecond, "as to a flout polemick and antiquary, who wages war with friend and foe." I have very often appeared, Mr. Urban, in your variegated pages; but I do not think I have entitled myself to the character that my confederate here draws of me; nor do I remember that I have once come forward in martial array except on the fingle occafion abovementioned, in defence of Mr. B. h melf. I have ne ver yet read a production of Mr. B's, nor, I believe, has any other Catholick, without finding many opinions which I was obliged to diffent from; but never have I expreffed that diffent in publick, except with regard to one pofition, extracted from a work that holds up all thofe of our common perfuafion, in their feveral ranks and descriptions, to the contempt of the publick. So delicate are often the feelings of those who are in the habit of inflicting pain upon others.

But fuppofing, Mr. Urban, I were to take up the gauntlet against Mr. W. in Mr. B's ftead, how would that ferve the purpose of the latter? for, can he imagine that I, or any other Catholick, will fubfcribe to the doctrine contained in his

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Right of Diffenters," the work Mr. W. attacks, particularly in what he advances against Church-ettablishments in general? So far from giving up those of my own communion, as being detrimental to the interefts of Chriftianity, I am perfuaded the explofion of the mine, which we have often heard is forming under that of our own country, would almost efface the name of Jefus Chrift from this Chriftian island, and would bring it back nearly to that state of philofophic Paganifm the world was in when the Meffiah appeared. JOHN MILNER.

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Epitaphs on the Bournes at Afhover.-Bp. Newton. [Nov.

the other monumental inscriptions in Afhover church relating to the family of the BOURNES, formerly refident in that parith.

The church at Afhover is a large, handsome fructure, and, much to the credit of the prefent verv relpectable curate, the Rev. James Mills, and the inhabitants of the pari, it is kept in a fuperior degree of neatuefs to molt village churches in the kingdom. It contains two other curious monuments, the one for Thomas Babington, Efq. of Dethick, the great great-grandfather of Anthony Babington, Efq. who was attamted of treafon, and executed in 1586, for the share he took in Ballard's confpiracy against Queen Elizabeth; and the other for James Rollefton, Efq. of the Lea (both in this parish): which monuments, together with the church, are well deferving of a minute defcription; but as a gentleman, eminently qualified for the defign,. has undertaken fhortly to give the publick a full and particular account of the hiftory and antiquities of the county at large, I think it unneceffary at leaft, if not im proper, now to attempt fuch a defcription.

non immerito chariffima
Piam animam efflavit hæc
Aprilis 11°.

Anno Salutis humanæ 1710.
Hratis fuæ 64°.

Ille ipfam fubfecutus eft Januari 19°.
Anno proxime fequenti,

tatis fuse 81".

Monumentum hoc juftæ gratitudinis ergo pofuerunt filii.

On a marble slab, within the rails of the altar:

LAURENTIUS BOURNE,

de Marth Green
Chirurgus haud fruftra
inter primos habitus,
Ob. 19° Decembris
A. D. 1749, æ. 73.
Martha conjux pia
ob. 12° Februarii

A. D. 1751, at. 6 j.
Maria filia ob. 10° Martii

A. D. 1743, 24, 2

On a freeftone flab on the North fide

of the altar, the letters run with lead: Here lyeth the body of ANNE WIGLYE, wife of Joshua Wiglye, Gentm. Grandchild to Immanuel Bourne, late Rector of this Churchi, who departed this life May the 19o. 1674.

On a marble flab near the middle of

GEORGIUS,
filius

Obadiæ et Rebecca Bourne,
obiit Julii primo, 1748,
ætatis vicefimo primo,
Magnæ fpei juvenis.

On three different flabs of marble
near the middle of the chancel:
1. REBECCA BOURNE, died August the 31,
1764, aged 33 years.

In a manufcript volume of Collec- the chancel: tions relating to the Hiftory of Derbyhire, made by Thomas Brailsford, gent. of Seynor, in this county, about the beginning of the prefent century, frequent references are made to the Chartulary of William Briewer, the great favourite of King John, (or of his fon, William Briewer, jun.). Permit me to enquire of your numerous antiquarian and topographical readers, whether this Chartulary is known to be at prefent in existence, and, if fo, where it may be reforted to. Permit me alfo to enquire where the manufcript collections of the late Dr. Vernon, icctor of St. George's, Bloomsbury, are now depofited: likewife whofe property the collections of St. Lo Kniveton, which lately formed a part of the Yelverton MSS. are now become.

D. O.

On a very heavy and ill-executed
mural monument on the North fide of
the altar, in the chancel of Afhover:
M. S.

Hic jacente propinquo
OBADIAH BOURNE, A. M.
Patronus et Rector
fidelis.

Et Elizabetha conjux illi

Thefe form a part of the magnificent collection of the Marquis of Lanfdowne. EDIT.

2. REBECCA BOURNE, August 31, 1754. 3. OBADIAH BOURNE, died October the 6th, 1763, aged 80 years.

Mr. URBAN,

Nov. 8. SHOULD be glad to know if the Life of Bishop Newton, quoted by your valuable correfpondent W. & D. p. 888, as printed in octavo, is a fingle volume, or connected with an edition of

his works in the fame fize.

You have given very proper circulation to the fignals at Bamborough, p. 889, which before were confined to a folio half-fheet in their own county.

P. 962, col. 1. The fire mentioned from Cambridge was in the village of Barnwell.

The Museum of the late M. C. Tuntall, efq. whofe death you announced vol. LX. p. 959, is to be fold entire, confifting of a large collection of British

and

and foreign birds, reptiles, &c. properly claffed.

Mr. URBAN,

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IF the following account will convey
any useful information to your corre-
fpondent concerning the Wifeman fa-

will oblige me by inferting it in your
lication.
very edifying and entertaining pub-

YOUR correspondent Indagator Rof-mily, it is much at his fervice; and you fenfis enquires after the family of Wifeman in Effex. I believe there are no remains of the family left in the County, except a portrait in my poffeffion, painted upon wood, which formerly came from Broadoaks, in the parish of Wimbish, a manfion belonging to the family.

The portrait, I imagine, from the date upon it, was intended for John Wifeman, Elq. who married Margery, daughter of Sir William Waldegrave, and fon of John Wifeman, Efq. one of the auditors of the king's revenue *.

The painting reprefents him as a fine perfon, with his own dark hair and thin beard, flightly powdered by age. He is dreffed in black, with a gold chain of five rows appendant from beneath a large ruff, the fashion of Elizabeth's reign: upon the fore-finger of his right hand, which grafps his walking-cane, is a feal-ring, with the arms of Wile

man.

Is not the gold chain a badge of fome office in the city? I think it was intended to indicate his being an alder. man of London; but as I am not converfant with the drefs of that refpe&able body, I thall leave Indagator Roffenfis to form his own judgement, if he has any with to poffefs the original, or a drawing of it. The picture is very much defaced, but not fo as to prevent its being repaired or copied. At one corner are the family arms, properly emblazoned; at the other,

"Non folum fibi, fed omnibus;
Etatis fuas 76,

An°. 1599."

An account of the Wifemans, of Great Canfield, may be feen in Morant, 11. 461. The last baronet there mentioned was Sir Charles, who died single, 1751, having previously fold this eftate. Other pedigrees of this family fee in Morant, II. 64, 77, 87, 132, 149, 235, 308, 313, 346, 536, 559. And in the Svo hittory of Elfex may be feen feveral epitaphs, by turning to the parishes where the family refided, or had property. I shall foon vifit a village once their refidence: if I find any thing in the regifter worth communicating, it shall be immediately fent, you by CLARENSIS.

Morant, vol. 11. p. 283.

In 1559 Thomas Wifeman was called, on to thew by what title he held the Byfchet, in the counties of Leicester and granges of Burton Preftwold and Old Suffolk *.

the title became fo upon the death of The male line is totally extinct, and the late Sir William Wileman, who died Thomas Srifted, Efq. late of Ipfwich; to at Bristol in 1784. His heir at law was whom he left by will all his landed proStifted, Efq. and his heirs, for ever. The perty for life, with remainder to Charles grandfather of the latter, married a fiffather of the former gentleman, and the baronet), in 1709. Sir Charles died ter of Sir Charles Wifeman (the third without iffue, and his title and eftate went to the late Sir William, who was the fon of a younger brother, and died alfo without iffue: fo that Charles Stif ted, Efq. is now the lineal reprefentative of the Wiseman family, in the fe male line, by defcent from his paternal grandmother. S. R.

Mr. URBAN,

Nov. 1.

N an oid Leet-book, belonging to the corporation of the city of Coventry, is ficiently evinces the popularity of the the following memorandum, which fufHenry VI.; who, in the year 1428, great Lord Talbot in the reign of was taken prifoner in France, with the Lord Scales and Hungerford (by the Duke of Alançon), as they were going to fortify the town of St. Meum.

"1429. Thomas Paynell, Mayor - Hit is to have in mynd that for the rawnsome of the Lorde Talbote the gode men of the citie of Coventrie followyng hav gyven to his rawnfome with all ther gode hertes, John Briftow John Leder

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John Braunfton

Ric. Sharp

xiijs. iiijd. xiijs. iiijd.

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the apples may be placed in order to be fweated. The apples on the groundfloor fhould be laid on a bed of itraw, and covered with hay, if there is no other covering at hand. The heaps on the wooden floors need only be covered. When they begin to prefs the apples, they are easily conveyed from thence to the preffing rollers; and, when the juice is fermented, it will prove a much more palatable, as well as a ftronger liquor, than in the common way.

The expence of this additional building will be objected to; but if they attend to the improvement of the cyder, which will confequently give a higher price, they will find the expence of the additional building will in a few years be re-paid. AGRICOLA.

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ment to undertake it. I own, for one, with him to purfue his plan, as Reading may furnish materials for a work of this kind, both from its antiquity, its natural and provincial situation, and the confpicuous figure that it has made at different æras, as well as from the many eminent perfons to whom it has given birth or confequence within its walls.

If any of your numerous correfpondents can contribute any useful or orna. mental obfervations upon this fubject, it will oblige, among others, L. A.

Mr. URBAN,

Nov. 5.

THE taking of a new furname only, addition to the paternal name, by a warrant under the King's fign-inanual, or by act of parliament, is very common; but the affumption of a new Chriftian name by licence from the bishop of the diocefe, as the prefent Sir Brooke* (William) Bridges is mentioned to have done, p. 876, is an incident that now rarely occurs. In former days, to have made this alteration without the confent of the ordinary, would have exposed the offending party to ecclefiaftical cer.fures; for in the Confiftorial Acts of the Bishop of Rochefter it is recorded, "Oct. 13, 1515, that Agnes Scharpe appeared, and conteffed her having, of her own motion and counfel, voluntarily changed at Confirmation the name of her infant fon to Edward, who was, when baptized, named Henry; for which the fubmitted to penance. The penance enjoined was, to make a pilgrimage to the rood at Boxley, and to carry in proceffion, on five Lord's days, a lighted taper, which he was to offer to the image of the Bleffed Mary.

"Agnes Scharpe comparuit et fatetur, quod voluntariè mutavit nomen infantis filii fui qui in baptifmo nominabatur Henricus, et in confirmatione fecit vocari Edwardus pro motione et confilio fuo, pro quo fubmifit fe poenitentiis-Cui injungitur quod peregre tranfeat ad Salvatoris ymaginem in Boxley, et quod quinque diebus dominicis in proceflione loco fuo deferat candelam illuminatam, quam offerat ymagini, B. Mariæ." Fol. 1256.

In the Life of Prynne, in the Biographical Dictionary, it is noticed from Whitelock, that the Hiftriomaflix by Prynne was licenfed by Archbishop Abbot's chaplain. The name of this chaplain is defired; and I fhall be obliged to any of your readers, who may have an

Sir Brooke Bridges, the grandfather, was high fheriff of Kent in 1733, and died in that office in the 24th year of his age.

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