Winchellea, Bartholomew Lord Badelefmere, in right of the manor of Hatfield, near Charing, fupported his claim to the office of chamberlain for that day. Mr. Batteley was, however, mistaken in the name of the manor, for it was not Hatfield, but Hothfield, in the hundred of Charing, &c.; which, fays Phillipot (Villare Cantianum, p. 193', was held in grand ferjeanty of the Archbishop, and the condition was, to ferve up water to the Archbishop at his inthronization, and to be likewife his chamberlain on the night of his inftallment, Bartholomew de Badelefmere, writes the fame author, who was poffeffed of this manor in the reign of Edward the Third, dying without iffue, his four fifters became his co-heirs; and Margaret, who was one of them, being married to Lord William Ros, of Hamlake, the eflate thus paffed into the inheritance of that family. This will account for Sir Ro bert de Ros's being deputed (as obferv. ed by J. N. p. 980) to officiate as chamberlain, in the minority of his nephew, when Abp. Stafford was inftalled. The manor of Hothfield was granted in the reign of Henry VIII. to John Tufton, efq.; and the Earl of Thanet is now the proprietor of it. The fecond wife of Francis, Earl of Rutland, was Cecily, daughter of Sir John Tufton, and widow of Sir Henry Hungerford. To the memory of Richard, third fon of Sir John Tufton, there is a monument in Westminsterabbey between the chapels of St. Edmond and St. Nicholas; and, in the infcription, Cicely, Countefs of Rutland, is enumerated among the children of Sir John Tufton 15. It appears, by Collins, that he was buried in that church in 1653, after having 21 years furvived her husband, who died in December, 1632. Collins (Earls of Stratford, p. 596,) informs us, that John Lord Rofs was flain with the Duke of Clarence at a battle in Anjou, Eafter eve, 9 Hen. V. Is it very improbable that he might be le bon compagnon concerning whom J. N. makes an enquiry? The contreres be an imaginary furmife, it is certain that he had landed property in Stoke Daubeny, becaufe Margery, his young widow, held in dowry, with other eftates, a third part of the manor of Stoke Daubeny; and perhaps it may not be unknown to the Hiftorian of Leicester, hire, that he had, by the fame tenure, two ports of the manor of Redmylde, in that county. Baugy, or Little Baugie, is ftyled by Weever the name of the battle in which the Duke of Clarence was the first perfon killed; and it appears, from the verfes he has cited from Harding, that Lord Roos and the other English officers who were flain were brought to England to be buried. To fave the trouble of turning to the Funeral Monuments, pp. 212, 213, 2 copy of the lines alluded to is given: The Lord Roos, and Syr John Lumley,`. And many other were with him flayne that An brought the Lordes home fro thens full [daye, fone: That there lay flayne upon the feeld that daye The ingenious and learned Mr. Milner, when writing of himfelf and of a prelate of his communion, ufes, I obferve (p. 997), the term Catholick, without a prefix; but very, very much difinclined am I to believe that a clergyman of his liberal turn of mind can harbour an idea that Proteftants are not, according to the obvious and true meaning of the word, Catholic members of the Church of Chrift univerfal. See p.811. P. 1042. As not any place denominated Suteley occurs in Adams's Villare, may it not be reafonably prefumed that, in Leland's Itinerary, there is an error either in the MS. or of the prefs? and is it not likely that Sulby, a Premonftrarenfian abbey, might be the religi ous house he meant to notice, as being in fome degree in the patronage of the Earl of Rutlaud? To give the more plaufibility to this furmife, it may be remarked, that, in Britan. Antiq. et Nov. III. 579, the word Sulby is laid to have been fometimes fpelt Suleby. W. & D. of the order of the Garter are called knights-companions; and was not a companion applicable to knights in general? That John, Lord Rofs, was a 16 We are inclined to think that the "bon knight as well as a warrior, there can compagnon" is the earlier John pointed out hardly be a doubt; and, as he died in in p. 1075. The Lord Ros who was killed the bed of honour, he merited the epi-Q Who was the "John Roofe," whote donain 1421 was buried in Belvoir Priory.thet of le bon. But, fuppofing this to tion to the "Friars de Sacco," at Cambridge, 46 pro areâ elarganda," was confirmed m 15 A.C's Antiquities of Westminster, p.207. 1627, by Pot. 5a Hen. IlI. m. 122. EDIT. Mr. 1078 Original Letter of Lord Clarendon to Lord Carbery. [Dec. Mr. URBAN, SEND Ludlow, Dec. 8. I you an original letter of Lord Clarendon to Lord Carbery, Prefident of Ludlow caftle. You may depend upon its authenticity, as I copy it from a book of undoubted authority, happily refcued from the plunder of the old caftle. I have preferved the original orthography and abbreviations. PASTOR CORVENSIS. Copy of a Letter from Lord Clarendon, Lord "High Chancellor of England, to Lord Carbery, Lord Prefident of the Marches of Wales. "My very good Lord, "I am accomptable to your Lopp for two letters, the first of the 27th of the last month, the last of the 15th of this, in which are many examinacons concerning Mr. Danvers, though no great matter in them; wthout doubt yr Lopp will hear of other difcoveryes fhortly concerning him. Yr Lopp had not left London many days when Mr. Attorney Gene rall inform'd me of the death of Mr. Griffith, and defired me to move his Majefty to depute Mr. Robert Milward, who is a person of very fignal affection to his Majesty's fervice, and of good abillitys in his profeffion, to fucceed him in yr Marches, for wh he is the more fit by being already one of the Juftices in the Great Seffions in that circuit wch the Chiefe Juftice rides; wch I did accordingly before I received your Lopp's letter; and his Majefty willingly granted it, as yr Lopp may perceive by the inclofd warrant under his Majesty's hand; and I am confident you will find him of great ufe in that fervice, and will have caufe to thank me for helping you to fo good an affiftant. Yr Lopp will not take it ill that I tell you yt I have very great complaints yt the councell at the Marches have comitted feverall gentlemen and attorneyes for fending and bringing prohibitions granted by the King's Courts above. I hope it is not true; if it is, it will produce ill effects. I with yr Lopp your heart's defire in all things, and am, my very good Lord, yr Lopp's most affectionate humble fervant, CLARENDON C. "Twisenbam, this 22d July, 1662." Mr. URBAN, THE Dec. 15. HROUGH the refpe&table medium of your Monthly Regifter, I defire to acquaint the lovers of Nature, and of Thomjon, "Nature's child," that, after the laple of almoft half a century, during which the Poet's afhes have been mingled in the undiftinguished mafs of common clay, they are about to be rescued from oblivion by his illuftrious countryman the Earl of Buchan; a Nobleman, whofe ardour to excite the emulation of the living, by giving celebrity to the dead, is en every occafion eminently confpicuous. The following infcription, engraven on a In the earth below this tablet JAMES THOMSON, author of the beautiful poems, intituled, The Seasons, Castle of Indolence, &c. &c. who died at Richmond on the 27th day of August, and was buried here on the 29th, Old Style, 1748. The Earl of BUCHAN, unwilling that fo good a Man, and (weet a Foet, fhould be without a memorial, has denoted the place of his interment, in the year of our Lord, 1792. "Father of light and life! thou Good Supreme! teach me what is good! teach me Thyjelf! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low purfuit! and feed my foul With knowledge, confcious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!" Mr. URBAN, You WINTER. Dec. 16. OU will allow me to inform the "Country Bookfeller," p. 1017, that, fo far from making ufe of, I never had the pleasure of either feeing or hearing of the copy he mentions of the fong "in praife of ale;" and that this, as well as every other fong in the Collection he accidentally looked over, was printed, with fcrupulous fidelity, from procured. The oldeft edition I am at the most authentic copies that could be prefent able to refer to of the song in queftion is in "The Academy of Com pliments," 1663; but I well remember having made ufe of a ftill earlier, prints ed, I think, in, or foon after, 1630, which was naturally preferred, as moft likely to contain the original words. Your correfpondent's criticisms may, pevertheless, for any thing I know, er, indeed, care, be perfectly jutt; but they concern the author of the forg, and not Yours, &c. J. R. Mr. URBAN, Adderbury, Sept. 21. AS you frequently favour the curious Naturalift with the hiftory of trees, which, from great age, fize, or other res markable cire miflances, have become worthy of notice, I cannot refrain expreffing the pleasure I feel in contemplating thofe venerable and gigantic plants, plants, whenever I meet with any of uncommon fize or beauty. I, among many other of your readers, beg you will accept my thanks for your curious records of that kind; and if you will indulge me in propofing a request to your readers upon this fubject, you will farther oblige me.-Some years ago, as I was travelling betwixt Weldon and Oundle, in Northamptonshire, going over a piece of foreftland to a village called Benefield, I obferved a large ftone fet up, with an infeription upon it, which was very legible, as near as I can remember, thus: "Near this place food Bocafe tree" (or Borcafe, I cannot remember truly which). I paid but little attention to it at that time'; but I have often reproached myself that I did not make fome farther enquiries about it, as there must be fomething particular in the hiftory of a tree, I should think, to render it worthy of having a memorial of it preferved in that manner. Now if any of your correfpondents or kind readers, who love to unbend their mind by enquiries into fuch things, would give theinfelves the trouble to flate the hiftory of this tree in your entertaining Mifcellany, it would, doubtless, please many of your readers as well as it would, Yours, &c. THO. WOOLSTON. P.S. I could not help lamenting the fate of the fine old oak which one of your correfpondents tells us was felled laft May in Sir J. Rufhout's park, at Blockley. I knew almost such an one at Pilckley, in Northampton fhire, wherein a large fork had been the fecure nefting-place for a pair of ravens, I fuppofe for generations, at least longer than any perfon in that neighbourhood could remember. I used to look for them as the harbingers of fpring, and took great pleasure always in remarking their economy; and once I obferved them bufy in repairing their neft as early as on New Candlemas-day but, alas ! this, like the oak abovementioned, has yielded his Jeafy honours to the axe I T. W. the fummer. Dr. Cramer, in his Natural History of Austria, I think, mentions the woodcock to breed in the Auftrian woods, and to remove on the approach of winter to Italy, &c.; and then, like the woodcock of Sweden, in the fpring to return to its native forests. The writer of this faw, fome years fince, at Challon, in Burgundy, fome woodcocks fo late in the season as the beginning of April. Now, as Dr. Cramer obferves, if this bird breeds in the woods of Auftria, it may probably do the particular in that vaft wild tract, the fame in others in Germany, &c. and in Sylva Hercynia, or Hartz Forest, though perhaps at prefent unnoticed by any author or Naturalift; and it is likely the woodcocks feen as above in France, as well as thofe that vifit Italy, confine their emigrations Northward to thole receffes abovementioned, without ever crossing the German or Baltic feas. Several proots have been allo adduced to fhew that woodcocks have fometimes bred in England, from whatever caufe originat ing, though very rarely, and that their nefts were remarked to contain two, or at moft three, eggs, or young ones. Further obfervations on the hiftory of this harmless, and, for its delicacy, perfecuted, friendlefs viitor, now approaching our coafts, in addition to the prefent flight and imperfect sketch, may prove acceptable to fome other of your nume rous readers, as well as, Sir, to your occafional correfpondent *, Mr. URBAN, Dec. 12. YOUR correfpondent Antiquarius, p. 995, afks, whether," from the of Edenhall is charged," it may not be letters with which the [cafe of the] Luck conjectured that it was originally defignyou may tell him, the canons of the ed for a facramental chalice?" This, church, which he will find in Lyndewode's Provinciale, render impoffible. But I have no objection to think that it has been used as a drinking-glafs by the fuperior of fome religious houfe. My and glass (both which I have feen) alone inability to procure drawings of this ball prevents me from giving a new and hand❤ Tome edition, with curious notes, of the aoleful drinking bout, which, I have good authority to lay, was not written by the Duke of Wharton, To the information given by W. M. *See vol. LVII. pp. 35, 36, 573, 574, 575; vol. LVIII. p. 834. (p. 991) * 1080 Arthur's Seat.-Regalia of Scotland.-Catching Larks. [Dec, (p. 991) about King Arthur and his round table, I fhall beg leave to add, that the feat of this fabulous monarch was at Carlife, and that Tarn Waling, a fpacious lake near Armanthwaite, is frequently mentioned in our old poetical romances concerning him. It is faid, I think, that there is a city at the bottom of it. The origin of thefe local traditions is to be attributed to the Cambrian Britons, who kept poffeffion of this part of the country long after the Saxons, and even Normans, were in poffeffion of the reft. One feldom hears of King Arthur but in or near Wales, Cornwall, or Cumberland. The ballad, which I fufpect your correfpondent had not immediately from Percy's Reliques, is incorrectly printed; but it is neither very antient nor very rare. He has taken it, I am perfuaded, from Clarke's Survey of the Lakes. It is always candid, however, to cite the true authority, though it may not happen to be the most refpe&table. Eamont (or Eimot) is a flight corruption of the Saxon Ea-muth, i. e. the wa ter's mouth, meaning Uilefwater, whence this river flows. A Saxon name for a river is fo uncommon a circumftance, that I fhould be glad to know whether its irruption might not have taken place fub fequently to the fettlement of that people. P. 1966. That the regalia of Scotland have never been feen fince 1660 is not true. They were seen, examined, and a very minute defcription taken of them, in the prefence of a confiderable number of perfons, on the 26th of March, 1707, when they were formally depofited in a cheft within the Crown-room in the caftle of Edinburgh. This, however, was actually the last time of their being feen, though they are strongly fufpected not to be there at prefent. And, indeed, if it be true (as the old Earl of Surrey feems to have thought when he talked of fighting for a thorn-bub), that it is the crown which makes the king, there appears good reafon for their removal, fince that fortrefs might not always hold out fo well as it did in 1745. Some people, I know, think that the Act of Union which ordains, that the crown, fceptre,, and word of fate, continue to be kept, as they are, within that part of the united kingdom now called Scotland, and thall fo remain in all time coming notwithflanding the Union," has rendered fuch a ftep impoffible, which may be a fufficient anfwer, indeed, to a bare fufpicion. But I confefs I have often wondered how Mons Meg, a large old-ulelets cannon of the kings of Scotland, and almost the only public monument remaining of her antient monarchy, comes to be at this moment in the Tower of London; which has led me to doubt whether Scoon or Holyrood-house would be fuffered to ftand if they could be tranfported with fo little noife or difficulty. Dannotyr belonged to the Keiths, Earls Marifchall, who were heritable keepers of the Scotifh regalia, and had, in faЯ, a right to keep them where they would. It is, therefore, lucky that the then Earl Marifchall con. fented to this depofit; as we mav guess which way they would have gone in 1715. DEIRENSIS. Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, Bath, Dec. 17. BEING in the country one of the fine frofty days we have lately had, and riding with a gentleman through fome open fields, we were Bruck with the appearance of fomething at a diftance uncommonly luminous on the ground, furrounded by feveral well-drested dam. fels. Upon a nearer approach they beckoned us to keep aloof, as a short fpace of time would unriddie their amule ment; when, to our aftonishment, we beheld a large net taken up, inciofing a number of larks. Taking it for granted we might now congratulate them on their good fortune in having entrapped fo many of thefe little fongfters, we advanced towards them, and found three very pretty lafles, two of them daughters of a neighbouring clergyman, with all that glow of health on their counte nances for which his family are foremarkable. As I had not the honour of being known to these ladies, my friend introduced me; when I found this had been their favourite amulement for fe veral days, during the fine mornings. "It may appear fingular to you, Sir, no doubt," faid a lively girl," to fee us thus employed; but we keep our health by it, and have longed for a froft to try our skill." Returning to my friend's houfe, I remarked to him, that I remembered but one inftance before of this fort in which a lady was concerned; this was the late Dutchefs of St. Alban's (when Lady Catherine Beauclerk), who told me the was fond of the amulement, and defired I would pro cure her a net and glafs, A hint of this kind to the fons as well as daughters of your country readers may be acceptable, perhaps, at this feafon, as the exercife as well as amufement is certainly conducive to health. J. ELDERTON, Mr. JA AMES CAWTHORN, author of the Poems published under his name, was the fon of Mr. Thomas Cawthorn, upholsterer and cabinet-maker in Shef. field, by Mary, the daughter of Mr. Edward Laughton, of Gainsborough ; and was born at Sheffield, Nov. 4, 1719, and baptized Dec. 22. He early difcovered a ftrong inclination to letters, accompanied with great vivacity, and a quick apprehenfion, which induced his parents to give him a literary education, by placing him under the care of the Rev. Mr. Robinfon, mafter of the grammar-fchool in Sheffield. Here he foon made a confi. derable proficiency in the Clafficks, though not without an attention to his own native language; for he attempted to publish a periodical paper, called "The Tea-Table 3," but was early difcouraged by his father, from a reafonable fuppofition that he had not a fufficient fhare of prudence and know. ledge of life to conduct fuch a publication with propriety. In 1735 he was removed to the grammar-fchool at Kirkby Lonsdale, in Weftmorland, where he wrote fome pieces of poetry, which fhew the dawnings of his genius, feveral of which are fill preferved in his own hand-writing, with the dates annexed to them 4, viz. July 23. Non omnia vincit Amor. 24. Ignis Fatuus. Aug. 3. Ineft fua Gratia Parvis. 14. AnNatura intendat Monftrum? Sept. 13. Horace, Ode IV. Book I. tranf lated. O&. 3. On Steele's "Chriftian Hero 5." I "James was born Wednesday, Nov. 4, 1719, 2 hours and 40 minutes A. M." Entry, by his father, in a book of Annotations on the New Testament, published by H. Overton, without date. 2 Parish-regifter of Sheffield. 3 From the information of his fitter. 4 Penes E. Goodwin. 5 May we beg a copy of it? EDIT. GANT. MAG. December, 1791. 15. Poverty and Poetry, a Satire, in Hudibraftic Metre. Dec. 13. Inkle and Yarico". 15. CXXXIXth Pfalm paraphrafed. 25. God's Omnipotence. Jan. 17. Spring, a Paftoral. 19. Meditation on the Phyfical Operations of Providence. 30. Meditation II. publifhed in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. V. p. 549: Feb. 12. Horace. Ode XXII. Book I. tranflated. 14. Mofes' Soug paraphrafed. 16. Pindar. Mar. 1. Creation, a Pindarique Ode. His next poetical pieces are dated at Rotherham, where it is reported that he was employed as an affiftant under the Rev. Mr. Chriftian. De Confolatione Philofophia. 1736. July 5. Imitated from Boetius, rected fome Verfes for me. Aug. 6. To a Gentleman who cor Aug. 19. The dying Swan, Lat. redd. 1738. July 8. He was matriculated at Clare-hall, Cambridge; but whether he took a degree does not appear from the College-regifter, though, in the title of a fermon published in 1748, he is ftyled M. A. After he left college, he was for fome time affiftant to Mr. Clare, author of a treatife on fluids, and master of an academy in Soho Square; whofe daughter Mary he married, and by whom he had feveral children, who all died in their infancy 7. When he took holy orders is uncer tain; but the earlieft date upon his manufcript fermons, now in being, is "St. Anne's Westminster, Au. 15, 1743." 1743. Oct.... Upon the refignation of Mr. Spencer, he was elected mafter of Tunbridge-fchool. 6 Upon the ground of this he published a field, printed by John Garnet, 1736;" a copy poem intituled "The Perjured Lover, Shef of which penes E. G. 7 See his Poems, p. 209. "Anne, first daughter of James and Mary Cawthorne, born Feb. 8, 50 minutes past 9 at night, died Feb. 11, 50 minutes past 10 morning, 17456. Mary, fecond daughter, born at the fame time, died Feb. 11, 1745-6, 10 minutes past one in the afternoon. Mary, third daughter of James and Mary Cawthorn, born Feb. 20, at 5 in the morning, died the fame day, paft one in the afternoon." Mr. Cawthorn's MS. penes E. G. 2745. |