perienced fo recent a refufal, the Englith Clergy and their congregations (at leaft all whom I have feen) are determined to petition to be heard by counfel against it, and to oppofe it in every ftage of its progrefs; and they have no doubt but that their exertions will be equally fuccefsful as before.

There is no danger of Jacobite principles fpreading in Scotland. Your correfpondent's letter feems to convey a libel upon the country. The Scotch are as much attached to the principles of the Revolution as you are on the oppofite fide of the Tweed. In proof, I might mention the centenary of that glorious event, which was, if not fo fplendidly, yet as warmly and fincerely celebrated in every corner of Scotland as in England, with the exception of a few moping old women.

There is fill lefs danger from their religious principles, which are treated, wherever they are known and thoToughly understood, with perfect abbor. rence and contempt; for they contain fuch a firing of Popish ufages and unfcriptural doctrines as it is really afto. nishing any fet of men, towards the clofe of the eighteenth century, would have the face to attempt to diffeminate in a Proteftant country.

What are the reafons that induced the Inverness and Bamff congregations, with their respective minifters, to depart from their engagements to the English church and unite themfelves to the Scotch communion, who are really more than half Papifts, 1 confefs I do not know; weighty ones, furely, they must be, that could authorize fuch an extraordinary dereliction of principle. And though I profefs myfelf as much a friend to an union of the two orders as any man in Scotland, yet it mu be upon fcripture terms, as I can never agree to communicate at the fame altar, and at the fame time, with a man who, according to my ideas, contaminates the pain and fimple form of our excellent Liturgy with the addition of feveral Popith and unfcriptural doctrines; and I cannot conceive what inftruction fuch an unnatural union can afford to any confcientious Chriftian congregation. A to al abolition of these muft, with me at

leaft, form the bafis of fuch an union. What would you in England, Mr. Urban, fay, were you to tee Doctors Priestley and Horley communicating at the fame table? The difference between the Scotch Epifcopalians and the Eng

lith Liturgy (though many of the deluded followers of the former think there is little or no difference at all) is, though on a different fubject, viz. the Lord's Supper, equally great and important.

If you think, Mr. Urban, that it would afford any kind of inftruction to your English readers, who are probably unacquainted with this particular, I fhall, in fome future letter, communicate the most material alterations of, and additions made to, our excellent Liturgy, by thefe Scotch Epifcopalians; and what name your correfpondent may be pleafed to give thefe communications will, I promife you, be to me a matter of perfect indifference. CLERICUS.

Mr. URBAN,

October 7.

N the fecond part of vol. LX. p. 1189,

P. Q. thinks, perhaps, you can tell a country correfpondent whether the buft of Charles I. is removed from Westminster-hall to a more fafe and hononrable place. More is faid of this bust by D. H. in p. 221 of your prefent volume, but nothing touching the removal thereof; which circumftance, perhaps, you are not acquainted with, or, as I fhould judge from your communicative difpofition, you certainly would by this time have furnished P. Q. with that information.

This buft is fuppofed to have been executed by Bernini. I am not fufficiently acquainted with the performances of this artist to prefume adjudging it to him. I have carefully examined it, but can find no name or mark which can de

termine. Mr. Mazell's engraving is a very true copy of the fubftance; and this gentleman, I think, would do well to reprefent the buft of James II. which is an excellent performance (placed in the pediment over the inner fide of the door to Whitehall chapel), after the fame correct manner.

The former is now under the care of

Mr. Woolfe, in Scotland-yard, Clerk of his Majesty's Works there.

CHARLES THORNDON.

contraction of the outermoft skin of the head, which immediately affects the hair, by removing it from its proper place; this conftantly occafions it to erect or turn the wrong way. If J. A. will take the trouble to ftrip the feather from a quil, and bind the innermoft fide thereof round his finger, he will perceive the fame effect produced on the feather by the contraction of the membranous part of the quill. I therefore prefume, that the expreffion may be fometimes ufed literally. Doubtless an anatomift will defcant more fcientifically on the derivation of this very common phrafe.

J. A. will find a very learned difqui fition on the hair in your vol. LX. pp. 513-14. CHARLES THORNDON.

Mr. URBAN,

Sept. 14.

WHEN a man is living, the bufinefs of effecting exculpation from any unfounded afperfions thrown on him is his own; but when ill-nature is exerted against the dead, a vindication of the deceased may be entered into by any one who will take the trouble, though the office may belong more especially to his neareft furviving relatives. Neither relationship, friendship, nor connexion, entitle me to dub myfelf the champion of the late John Elwes, efq; but common juftice impels me to notice the illiberal mifapplication of the adjective worthless, affixed to his name and character by L. E. p. 693 of your laft number. Left your readers hould imbibe a dread of being furfeited, as they lately were, by a tedious controverly on a matter fomething fimilar, I promife that this fhall be the only letter I will trouble you with on this fubject.

It is easy for your readers to refer to L. E's letter; therefore, I need not trefpafs on your page by extracting the exceptionable part, which is the whole of the last paragraph.

We apply the epithet worthless, Mr. Urban, to perions guilty of crimes, and moft frequently to thofe who infringe the right tuum: a crime more common than any other, becaufe generally ariling from neglect of meum. When a man has wafted all his own, want oftentimes tramples upon principle, and he appropriates to himic in a manner either direct or indirect, the property of others in fubftitution of his own. All that can be alledged against Mr. Elwes it a pat.ial excels of attention to meum ; GENT. MAG. Oktober, 1791.

an allegation which does not come within the definition of wortbleness. He was faving, but not avaricious; he was painfully anxious to keep his own, but never panted for the wealth of another. The defire of hoarding was inftilled into him by the precept and example of his uncle; as he increafed in age, it became a confirmed habit, which appeared the worfe and more confpicuous for his moral character being fo fpot!efs, and his general deportment fo amiable.

He fulfilled, in favour of his fons, the dictates of Nature, confcience, and juftice; he allowed them the use of his name, and accefs to his perfon; he establifhed them in the world, and bequeathed to them, in an equal and impartial manner, his accumulated riches. With the fruits of his unneceffary forbearance he provided for the offspring of his pleafures: in the end, therefore, it cannot be denied but he made a proper and good ufe of them. Many a man, thought refpectable, conceals his illegitimate children in the darkest corners, and configns them to ignorance and penury.

Mr. Elwes's extreme parfimony, contrafted by the extreme profufeness of the age, like a thick cloud, partly obfcured the refulgency of thofe confcientious and benevolent principles which exifted in his heart. Thefe, however, at intervals fhone forth confpicuously, as is both acknowledged and proved even by that ungenerous companion of his domeftic hours, who, for the fake of gain, has expofed the private infances of his foible, and the melancholy weakness of his dotage, to the prefent generation, and preferved the remembrance of them to the future. This fpecies of inhumanity (excufe a fhort digreffion, Mr. Urban,) impreiles the reflecting deeply. The very best of us have foibles; and every year we live thefe foibles gain on us; nay, often with old age come additional ones! We may all have our witty or our neceifitous biographers, however immaterial to the publick our deeds may appear in our own eyes;-deficiency of matter may be fupplied by colouring and wit; a flight foundation ferves the painter or the poet. To return. Never did Mr. E. do the unfair thing. Extravagant as was his propenfity to hoarding, he never increafed his fore by unjult acquifitions; the only means he ufed for accumulating wealth were fuch as himtelt was the greatest fuffered from.

Ridiculous

St. Peter's, and a third of one church, St. Mary's, and a third part of the half ploughland which lies near the church of St. Mary.

In Threekingham, Wido has 2 bovates of this land of Gilbert de Gand, of which the foke is in Folkingham.

In Threekingham, 5 bovates of land, and a fixth part of 2 bovates, at geld. The land confifts of fo many bovates. Ulviet now has it of the king, and there is one fochman with one bovate and one fixth part of two bovates, and 3 villans with half a ploughland, and the half part of one church, St. Peter's, and the fixth part of one church, St. Mary, and the one fixth part of 4 bovates, which lies near St. Mary's church.

Endowment of the Vicarage. In the Regifter-book of Bp. Wells, who began to prefide over the fee of Lincoln in the year 1209, is contained as follows:

1452 Rob. Lord, 21ft Sept. by the fame,

upon the refignation of Wm. Tundies. 1452 Rob. Bax.er, 9 April, by the fame, upon the deprivation of Rob. Lord. 1491 William Doram, by the fame. 1506 John Lancaster, by the fame. 1557 Rob. Nelfon, 4th June, by K. Philip 1561 John Gray, and Q. Mary QElizabeth. by Theophilus, Earl of Lincoln.

1642 William Douglas,

Here the Lincoln Regifter ends.

In the parish Regifter I find, 1597 William Brown died Vicar, June 26. 1610 Henry Hallewell, prefented by 1612 Samuel Atheron. 1623 Richard Exams. 1630 Thomas Lambe.

1675 John Marthel, prefented by Richard 1677 Henry Brerewood, by the fame. Wynue, efq. 1703 Robert Kelham, by the f..me. 1752 Potter, Ric.Guil G. M.B. Wynne. 1758 John Towers, prefent Vicar, the Bifhop, by lapfe.

P. 794, col. 2, 1. 30, r. "the road croffes the Welland river, then to Water Newton." (To be continued.)

annuatim; et valet vicarius v. marc', & eo amplius."

Queen Mary, Feb. 10, 1555, for a fine of 100s. demifed to Anthony Pick eringe, gent. the tithes of Threekingham, with their appurtenances, for 20 years from the feaft of the Annunciation then next coming, at the annual rent of 100s.*

Series of Vicars and Patrons, extracted partly from the Records at Lincoln, and partly from the Church Regiflers. Incumbents or Vicars. Bywhomprefented. 1240 Reginaldus de Wiftow, The Mafter and Brethren of the Hofpital of Burton Lazarus. 1261 Richard de Mackworth, b. the fame. 1262 Tho. de Trikingham, by the fame. 1286 Galfridus de Stretfield, by the same. 1320 Hugo de Toller,

by the fame.

1349 Robert Templer,

by the fame.

Memoirs of the Life of Dr. PORERT HENRY, Awbor of the History of Great Britain, written on a new Plan.

fon of James Henry, farmer at Muirtown, in the parish of Sr. Ninian's, North Britain, and of Jean Galloway, daughter of . . . . . . Galloway, of Burrowmeadow, in Stirling thre. He was born on the 18th of February, 1718; and, having early refolved to devote himfelf to a literary profeflion, was educated first under a Mr. John Nicholfon, at the parish-Ichool of St. Ninian's, and for iome time at the grammar fchool of Stirhog. He completed his courfe of academical ftudy at the univerfity of Edinburgh, and afterwards became mafter of the grammar-fchool of Annan. He was licented to preach on the 27th of March, 1746, and was the fift licentiate of the prefb tery of Annan after its erection into a feparate prefbviery. Soon after, he received a call from a congregation of Prefbyterian Dffnters at Cari fle, where he was ordained, in Nov. 1748. In this ftation he remained twelve years; and, on the 13th of August, 1760, became paftor of a Differing congregation in Berwick upon Tweco. Here he mar ried, in 1763, Anne Baideriton daughter of Thomas Balderiton, furgeon in Berwick; by whom he had no children, but with whom he enjoyed, to the end of

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his life, a large share of domeftic happinefs. He was removed from Berwick, to be one of the minifters of Edinburgh, in November, 1768; was minister of the church of the New Grey Friars from that time till November, 1776; and then became colleague-minifter in the Old Church, and remained in that station till his death. The degree of Doctor in Divinity was conferred on him by the Univerfity of Edinburgh in 1770; and in 1774 he was unanimoufly chofen Moderator of the General Affembly of the Church of Scotland, and is the only perfon on record who obtained that diftinction the first time he was a Member of Affembly.

Soon after his removal to Berwick, he published a scheme for raifing a fund for the benefit of the widows and orphans of Proteftant Diffenting Minifters in the North of England. This idea was probably fuggefted by the profperity of the fund which had, almoft thirty years before, been established for a provifion to Minifters' widows, &c. in Scotland. But the fituations of the Clergy of Scotland were very different from the circumftances of Diffenting Minifters in England, Annuities and provifions were to be fecured to the families of Diffenters, without fubjecting the individuals (as in Scotland) to a proportional annual contribution, and without fuch means of creating a fund as could be the subject of an act of Parliament to fecure the annual payments. The acutenefs and activity of Dr. Henry furmounted thefe difficulties; and, chiefly by his exertions, this useful and benevolent inftitution commenced about the year 1762. The management was entrusted to him for feveral years; and its fuccefs has exceeded the moft fanguine expectations which were formed of it. Dr. Henry was accuftomed, in the lift years of his life, to fpeak of this inflitution with peculiar affection, and to reflect on its progrefs and utility with that kind of fatisfaction which a good man can only receive from "the labour of love and of good works." It was probably about the year 1763 that he first conceived the idea of his Hiftory of Great Britain; a work already eftablished in the public opinion, and which will certainly be regarded by pofterity not only as a book which has greatly enlarged the fphere of hißory, and gratifies our curiofity on a variety of fubjects which fall not within the limits preferibed by preceding historians, but as one of the most accurate and authentic

repofitories of hiftorical information which this country has produced. The plan adopted by Dr. Henry, which is indifputably his own, and its peculiar advantages, are fufficiently explained in its general preface. In every period it arranges, under feparate heads or chapters, the civil and military hiftory of Great Bitain; the hiftory of religion; the hiftory of our conftitution, government, laws, and courts of juftice; the hiftory of learning, of learned men, and of the chief feminaries of learning; the hiftory of arts; the history of commerce, of shipping, of money or coin, and of the price of commodities; and the history of manners, virtues, vices, cuftoms, language, drefs, diet, and amufements. Under thefe feven heads, which extend the province of an hiftorian greatly beyond its ufual limits, every thing curious or interefting in the history of any country may be comprehended. But it certainly required more than a common fhare of iiterary courage to attempt, on fo large a fcale, a fubject so intricate and extenfive as the hiftory of Britain from the invafion of Julius Cælar.That Dr. Henry neither over-rated his powers nor his induftry, could only have been proved by the fuccefs and reputation of his works.

But he foon found that his refidence at Berwick was an infuperable obftacle to the minute researches which the execution of his plan required. His fituation there excluded him from the means of confulting the original authorities; and though he attempted to find access to them by means of his literary friends, and with their affittance made fome progrefs in his work, his information was notwithstanding fo incomplete, that he found it impoffible to profecute his plan to his own fatisfaction, and was at laft compelled to relinquish it.

By the friendhip of Gilbert Laurie, Eq. late Lo. Provott of Edinburgh, and one of his Majefty's Commiffioners of Excife in Scotland, who had married the fitter of Mrs Henry, he was removed to Edinburgh in 1768; and it is to this event that the public are indebted for his profecution of the Hiftory of Great Bri tain. His accefs to the public libraries, and the means of fupplying the materi als which thefe did not afford him, were from that time uled with fo much diligence and perfeverance, that the first volume of his Hiftory, in quarto, was published in 1771, and the fecond in 1774, the third in 1777, the fourth in