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ANTIQUARIAN REPERTORY;

MISCELLANY,

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VOL. II.

LONDON:

Printed for the Proprietors, and Sold by F. Blyth, No. 2, ^uerC s-Head-PaJJ'age^
Patef-mJier-Rozv; J. Sewell, No. 32, Cornhtll ; and T. Evans, No. 32,
Pater-noJier-Rovj,

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ANTIQUARIAN REPERTORY,

WHITE KNIGHTS.

WHITE KNIGHTS, the feat of Sir Henry Englefield, Bart, was one
of the firft examples of the ferme ornee. It is a real farm under the
higheft degree of culture, drelTed the mean while in every ornament which
nature in her beft country garb can wear ; while other feats of greater extent
and more enlarged defign, have each fome one ftriking feature for which
they are admired, this place, an harmiOnized afiemblage of pleafing parts,
has the Angular merit of being a one whole, and becomes as fuch a model
to this fafhionable tafte of a country feat.

It is about two miles from Reading in Berkfhire, and ftands upon a
knowle of that range of hills, which form the fouth-fide of the vale through
which the Thames runs.

Coming from Reading, and turning out of the country road, as you draw
near to White Knights, you perceive from the neatnefs of the hedges, from
the degree of culture, and from the air and character of the grounds, that
you are on the approach to the refidence of fome gentleman, where the fpirit
of hufbandry dwells, and .works its own lands. As the road and pathway
kept clean and clear from weeds advances along a lane, rows of healthy elms

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2 The ANriCiUARlAN REPERTORY.

range on each fide : feathered up to a height that bears an agreeable propor-
tion to the breadth of the lane, they bower over head into an arch and form
a plcafing aile-like avenue, which leads up to the park gate. This is a
white rultic portal of one large arch for the pafl>ge of carriages, and two
lefler ude arches for that of foot paflengers : the gates are of open iron rail-
ing, whofe concave top with the arch of the portal, forms an oval aperture.
From under the brown flaade of the avenue, through this portal, the eye
catches a glimpfe of the park, which, in a contracted gleam of light, gives
a kind of foretafte of the pleafing fcene you are approaching to.

Pafilng through the portal, the road runs under an open grove between
fonie tall elms on one hand, and poplars on the other. As you advance
from under thefe, the main and principal view of the park, an ample fpace
of cultured land, belted round with wood opens to viewj fields, diftinct but
not feparated, of tillage, pafture and meadow ; open groves and clumpts of
foreft timber ; with here and there a proud old oak ftanding by himfelf, are
the firft gener.il objects which ftrike the eye. The vigorous and manly old.
age of thefe forcfters, gives an air of antiquity, and forms the charaderiftic
of the domain.

Towards the right hand on the rifing of the ground, about half way be-
tween the center and circumference of the park, a Vvood of thefe old patri-
cian forefters becomes a principal objeft. The nature and fcite of this object
has a fine effect : the interpofition of it in this very fpot, prevents the eye
from feeing with an unvaried trace of viev/ the whole tour of an enclofed
place ; and yet from its being cleared and opened at its fkirts, and from the
form in which the grounds lie about it, the mind's eye is led, following the
bendings of the lands round this tour, and is engaged with a more curious
attention than if j'ou actually faw the whole.

A valley entering the fcene on the right hand, and coming from within
■this wood, winds with foft and graceful flexures acrofs the park ; a flowing
train of waters attends the windings of this valley ; the continued fuccefiion
of thefe waters is contrived with fuch maftery of defign, that it forms in one
view the appearance of a refpeftable river ; thefe clear and pellucid waters,
pleafed with the fcene whofe image is in their bolbm, feem to loiter, as ra-
ther willing to dwell in, than pals through the valley j the teeming plenty
and variety of the produce ; the glow of the flowering grafles ; the bufy
grazing of the ihecp and cattle ; the verdwre of the meads, and the clear

mirror

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mirror of the waters in the valley, all grouped up amongft open groves and
dumps of trees, and feen through, amidft, and under their fhades, ftudded
with many a pretty building interfperfed about, make a fine compofition of
paijfage. The harmony of light and fhadow, and the tone of colouring arifino-
from the whole, finifhes the piece, and forms a landfcape tlie moll pifturefquc
that can meet the eye.

The road advancing down an eafy Hope defcends into the valley, and
eroding it pafles over one of the heads of the waters, bearing the femblance
of a bridge. A little diftan.t from this, within a grove of tall poplars, one
fees a tabernacle of pure white dedicated to the refidence of one of the
nayades of the waters whofe font is here. The road following the fwelling
of the ground afcends up the further fide of the valley, and pafSng by a
ruin (which feems as if it had been in old times fome religious cell) lofes
irfelf behind a copfe of trees that have grown up amidft the moulderinc walls
and broken arches ; hence running through plots of various tillage, comes
to the eaftern gate of the park, which is of plain iron railing, between two
fimple elegant pavilions.

This gate is the entrance of the park from Early common, a wild wafte of
heath. The coming at once by this entrance from this barren fcene into a
farm of high culture, in a rich, yet ruftic form of dreis, ftrikes the mind
with a mod ao;reeable contraft. ; > .

Having thus taken a general view, and formed a general idea of this
place, we will commence again from the weftern entrance. Advancing
along the carriage road, as it wheels round with a parade fweep to the left
acrofs an open court, we are led up to the houfe. This is a fimple, plain,
modern building, affefling no parade of front, yet having and profitting of
every conveaience within, to every purpofe of hofpitality and chearfulnefs.
It appears to Hand at the end of a clofe grove, which is a plantation formed
to cover the court of offices, the ftables, and kitchen garden. As you ad-
vance along this approach, you fee that the houfe, backed by this plantation,
forms the left hand foreground of a very flriking view of the watery valley
of the park, as it feems to defcend into the vale of the Thames. The lines
of the ground on each fide of the valk-y flope down to the water in gently,
undulating curves, varied yet confpiring ; and the whole fo coincides with
the general contour of the adjacent hills and vale, continued through the
country without, that it unites into a one whole, a complete landfcape.

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4 The ANTIQUARIAN REPERTORY.

The grounds on each fide are cloathed with large and venerable groves of
oaks and poplars, and at various points along the brinks, the drooping wil-
lows hang over the v/ater: the groupes of trees ftanding at a diftance on a
rifing ground, from whence the nafturcs flopc down to the meads at the
water's edge, give an air of free fpace and iichnefs to the valley. The eye
pafling over the head of the waters wliere they feem to wind away at the
feet of two old oaks, under a grove of willows, fpatiates acrofs the vale of
the country. The high point of the hill of Sunning, on which is a building
bufked up with trees, clofes the view of the vale in that part ; while the
hills of Oxfordfhire and Berkfhire, ftudded with many a pleafing objed
(that of * Park-place in particular) and rifing by gentle gradations of coun-
try, like an amphitheatre, form the lointc.in in a moderately elevated
horizon.

Quitting now the houfe to make the tour of the park, a gravel foot walk
winding off to the right, with a fide-way path along the edge of the planta-
tion that covers the offices, leads under an open grove of limes, acafia, pines,
cedars, cyprefles, and firs ; and crofTing the carriage road at the gate, con-
ducts you along a kind of country-drefied alley, formed by the bounds of
the park on one hand, and by ranges of trees ftaiiding on the banks of old
fences on the other. The fides of this alley, thickened more and more by
degrees with firs, pines, laurels and flirubs, gives, as you advance, an idea
that this path is leading to fome more covert and retired fcene ; and it does,
as it were by Health, withdraw itfelf into the moll pleafing, fecluded green
lane, that the quietude of meditation could defire for its retreat. This lane
is a kind of hollow way, in the very form in which nature and the wear of
ages hath left it, except that being of long time forfaken as a road, and now
fmootlied for the footftep of contemplation, the mofs growing undiflurbed,
has fpread a continued carpet throughout the whole, over which that foot-
fl:ep paflTes, foft and fiknt. The banks on the fides are covered with wild
fiirubs, natives of fuch fpots ; and where they fail, they are cloathed with
laurels, laurufi:ines, box, perriwinkles, and various evergreenr. On the
tops of thefe banks, ranging along on each fide, is many an old oak and
elm ftn tching over head their rough arms from fide to fide. The thorn
hedges are trimmed up (yet in a manner rather as though worn than clipped)
to a piopcr height, and then arch over and cover in the whole. You pafs

• The feat of General Conway, on a hill above Henley.

under

The ANTIQ^UARIAN REPERTORY. 5

under cover of this verdant arch fome way, the lane then widens and riles to
a greater height; an open grove of lofty firs and pines forms this enlarged
fpace, through which the pathway winds its courfe till the lane contrafts
iticlf again : hence it pnlTes on, varied by a thoufand natural circumRances
which defign could never have thought of, and is wild and amufing beyond
what imagination in its moft fertile fpirit could have conceived. The light
piercing through the accidental breaks, and paffing through the tranfparent
foliage of the fides and verdant arch, forms a chequered and golden-green
gleam, that illumines this repofed fcene. What gives a contrail, and makes
this feclufion the more reliflied is, that often at a turn of the lane, one fees
at a dillance a ftrong glare of light breaking in with ail the glow of day.
After having been thus led on for half a mile, the path emerges from its
covert retirement, and comes all at once into a fcene of country bufinefs and
tillage improvements. The fields which compofe this fcene, are not divided
by rails or hedges, but by ditches covered from the eye, with green meer
balks tracing along their fides j thefe all point to the wood, and paths lead
down to it. The tour of the park continues round thefe fields along a green
way clofe under a thick high thorn hedge, full of large hedge row trees ;
feats and benches fet down along the way, mark that a contemplative enjoy-
ment of thefe rural objeds, and the ideas that they fuggeft, form one of the
pleafures of this quiet home fcene. From one of thefe benches, which Is
placed at the foot of an old oak, the eye paffing along a green meer balk,
commences its view from the wood, which forms here the left foreground of
the landfcape, and looks down through the whole finuous length of this lux-
uriant vale of meads, rich, placid, and repofed as in the lap of peace,
amidft its Iheltering groves.

The wood is a kind of labyrinth through which feveral intricacies of walks
are cut ; thefe are edged and clofed in with laurels and every other evergreen
Ilirub. There are fome buildings in this wood, and in the center is a large
circular bafon, round the banks of which encircling rows of pines, firs and
larches, rifen to an immenfe height, are growing.

Continuing the tour of the park, the road enters into an enclofed alley of
a very different fort, formed of pines, cedars, firs, cyprefs, laurels and
flirubs of every kind. This alley is at intervals opened to views either of
the park within, or of the country without ; thefe openings are planted as
open groves of exotic forefl: trees : the planes, the tulip trees, the acafia.

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« The antiquarian REPERTORY

and every fpecies of American growth are found here. The opening of this
part of the tour is conduded with great judgment, and an experienced atten- ■
tion to the merits of the park fcene, and to the objedts of the country.
From one of thefe openings there is a view of the houfe, and of the grounds
of the park, feen acrofs the valley in quite a new light ; from anotlier, * Ca-
verfliam houfe and woods, feen acrofs the park through an opening between
two o-roves, becomes a pleafing and noble objed. From another of thefe
openings, under a remarkable large old oak, the view is let direftly out
from the park acrofs the heath common to Mr. Burt's houfe and place at
Maiden Early. In this manner the path continues its round till it crofTes the
o-reat carriage road at the pavilions, and paffing on enters again into a walk
of the fame kind, but not of equal difpofition, and continues along the
north-eaft quarter of the park. The grounds here, though delivered fronfi
the bonds of hedges, yet feem to own the reftraint of enclofures under the
lines of trees : the land at the end of this part defcends to the valley : the
walk is open on all fides, the bounds of the park being here a covered,
fecreted fence. Defcending down this Hope you pafs under a grove of weep-
ing willows, which cover the head nf the w.irprs, at the valley's extreme end.
Fading from under this, the way leads up an eafy afcent (open likewifs on
all fides) to a plain country-looking hedge-row of thorn and elms, which
(as you can juft difcern) enclofes a farm-yard. This objeft, thus perceived
rather than feen, revives again the idea of the country fcene, which the beau-
ties of the park had almoft made one forget : this hedge is thickened with
laurels and (hrubs at the foot, and is cut ciofe up to a great height, whence
the elms hang in a pendant femi arch over head. The pathway keeps dole
under the line of this fence, fcreened from the north and weft; while a
pleafing view of the valley up to its rife, within the wood, a fcene formed
for an evening landfcape, opens on the Ibuth. As you come round this
hedge, and pais under an open grove, the profpedl of the town of Reading
with all its towered fteeples and concourfe of habitations, burfts upon the
view at once. The brilliancy of the objeds, and the fudden rifing of it zq.
view, produces always a furprifing and pleafing effed.

You find yourfelf here advanced upon a broad green terrace, whence the
land Hopes off both ways, into the park on one hand, and into the great vale
of the country on the other. From hence you have a home view into the

f Tte feat of Lord CaJogan, on the hill above Reading^*

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park, acrois a fine broad lawn, riling at the further fide up to the houfe ;
this lawn is edged on one fide with the water of the valley, and a fine old
grove of oaks •, and on the other with the young rifing plantations that fur-
round the park. The view into the country from hence is that of the vale
of the Thames, filled at the upper or weft end with the tcrwn of Reading,
v/hich from hence feems to ftretch its buildings quite acrofs that vale. The
high point of the hill of Sunning, here feems to clofe the vale at the lower
or eaftern point, except that a glimpfe of the Thames feen gliding at its feet,
around the point, marks the continuation. Caverfham houfe and woods,
and the groves of Shiplake, form the objeds of the oppofite hills. Over
Reading, the eye is led by high points of land, which ftand in fuccelTion be-
hind each other, far up into the vale, down which the Thames comes. On
the right hand, the lofty fwelling height of A(hy-hill clofes up the horizon
in the eaft, and the diftant hills of Oxfordfhire and Berks, form the lointain
cf the north-weft.

Tl;e contraft of thefe two different views ; the idea of buftle and travel,
and of the concourfe of a bufy multitude of men, which arifes from the one,
gives a relifti of enjoyment to the compofed quietude and repofe of the other.
The mind turning away from the turmoil and trouble that it fees abroad,
finds a content in the eafe and quiet, which this home offers and gives. A
green walk of pines, mixed with Italian poplars, which fliirts along the
weft of the lawn, brings you to this houfe and home, where happinels will
find a refting-place for its foot, if it be in the heart of man to enjoy it.

T. POWNALL,

The welch BRIDGE at SHREWSBURY.

THE Writers who have defcribed the town of Shrewfbury, fay nothing
refpefling the age or builder of this Bridge-, its appearance, however,
befpeaks it of rcfpeclable antiquity : as a piclurefque obje<5t it is equalled by
few, and furpafiTed by none.

Leland, in his Itinerary, juft mentions this Bridge in the following words :
« Ther be 2 greate maine Bridges of Stone on the whoU River of Severne at

« Shrewf-

8 The ANTIQJJARIAN REPERTORY.

" Sh'rewfbury, the greateft, fayreft and higheft upon the Streame Is the
" Walch Bridge, having 6 greate Arches of Stone, foe called becaufe it is
" the way out of the Towne into Walles. This Bridge ftandeth on the
*' weft fyde of the Towne, and hath at the one End of it a great Gate to
*' enter by into the Towne, and at the other end towards Wales a mighty
" ftrong Towre to prohibit Enimies to enter into the Bridge."

Over one of the arches of the gate is the ftatue of Llewellyn, the laft
prince of Wales. He was flain in the reign of king Edward I.

From this figure it feems probable that the gate was built or repaired in
the life-time of that prince, as it is not likely king Edward the Firft would
have permitted it to have been fet up after his death, as he was then deemed
a rebel, and his head had been fct up on the tower as fuch. Shrewfbury
was once the refidence of the Welch Princes.

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FONT OF ALPHINGTON CHURCH.

TH E Font of Alphington Church in Devonfliire, is generally allowed
to be of great antiquity. Hunting monfters and other grotefque or-
naments occuring more frequently in ancient fculpture, even on buildings
appropriated to religious ufes, than fubjefts from facred hiftory, or the fym-
bols of chriftianity : inftances of this may be obferved in the decorations of
the capitals of the columns in Grymbald's Crypt, thole of the French
Church or Undercroft in the Cathedral at Canterbury, publifhed in this
Work, and in many of the ornaments on the door of Barfrifton Church in
Kent, engraved in the Preface to Mr. Grofe's Antiquities.

As to the particular age of this Font, or by whom it was made or given,
there is neither record nor tradition, nor is there fufBcient data, whereon to
form a probable conjedure.

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For the A n t i qjj arian Repertory.

THE Delcriptions of England, by Meflieurs Perlin and De la Serre, piib-
Jiflicd in the former Volume, (liew the Opinion Foreigners entertained of
this Country in the Reigns of Edward VI. and Queen Mary, as well as fome
of the prevailing Manners and Cuftoms of thpfe Times -, — tiie Reader,
it is more than probable, will be glad to fee the Obfervations of other Tra-
vellers on the fame Subjedls at a later Period. Under this Suppofition, a
Tranflation is here prefented of the Travels of Monfieur Jorcvin de
Rocheford; at leaft, that Part which treats of England and Ireland. This
Book was printed at Paris in the Year 1672, in three Volumes duodecimo,
and is now extremely rare.

Monfieur Jorevin, though far from a Writer of the firft Rank, appears to
have been rather fuperior to either of the Gentlemen above-mentioned ; his
Abftraft of our national Hiftory is falfe and ridiculous, even beneath Cri-
ticifm, but his Defcriptions of Places, Buildings, &c. feem to have been
accurate, as they ilill retain ftriking Likenelles of the refpedive Subjects,
notwithftanding the Alterations which muft neceflarily have happened in the
Space of above an hundred Years. In a word, though he is a bad Hifto-
rian, he is a tolerable Topographer.

DIEPPE is one of the mofl famous fea-ports in Normandy that we
had feen in our travels through France, to which I will refer the reader,
who will there find what is moft remarkable and worth feeing. During that
time, walking upon the quay, I obferved a little galliot which within a few
days had been loaded for England, and only waited for a proper time and
wind to kt fail ; there were many pcrfons waiting to embark in it : but the
wind proving contrary for two days, we amufed ourfelves in walking about
Dieppe to fee the town and its port, which, as I have remarked of all the
fea-coaft of Normandy, is high and fleep, like thofe kind of walls called
Falaizes. I perceived, afar off", on a great fand-bank which is bare at low
water, many nets, great and fmall, belonging to the fifhermen, fo arranged
and difpofed, that on the flowing of the tide the flfh enter them eafily, but
cannot retire with like facility. I was curious to fee this fifhery, the tide
being out, and I never had fo much pleafure as in feeing a quantity of fi(h
of all forts and all alive, which gave us a great defire to eat them ; in fad,
we bought fome of the bed and fineft, which we had drefled at our inn, the
fign of the Scottifh Arms.
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I met with a merchant, who intended to pais over into England, and to go
to London ; he perfeftly underftood the language, which reafon induced mc
to accompany him, and to embark with him. There wa? then in the pore
a veffel which w3s fhortly to fail for the Eaft-Indies, loaded with all forts of
merchandize : having made an acquaintance with the clerk, we went on board
of her, when he n>ewed us every thing, and gave us much infight refpeding
tlie defign of the voyage, which he faid he had before perforhied in the fame
fhip: He related to' us many ftories and hardfiiips he had fufFered at fea,
vJhich made us pafs an afternoon very agreeably. He treated us v/ith a ma-
rine collation, and we entertained him in the evening with a fupper at our
inn, where we returned him thanks for his agreeable converfation and civi-
lities -, and in the morning the captain of our veffel gave us notice to get
ready to fail in twd hoursi the wind being fair for England, whither he was
to tranfport' us, and^ tO' carry us to London ; alfo to lay in fome few provi-
ftons for the paffage. It is to be noted, that paffengers from France to Eng-
land are prohibited from carrying more gold or filver than is neceffary for
their immediate expences, or a' Very little over. It is true, they will not
fearch you, unlefs they either 'know or fufpeft that you have much about
youi ^4'-<

On this fiibjeft they related to us, that a young man, ignorant of this
cuftom, attempting- to pafs from Dieppe to England with fome diamonds^
and other precious {tones, of •yvhich fome perfons had heard him fpeak,, hfc
was, immediately arrefted, and air his merchandize confifcated. We embarked
about three of the clock in the afternoon, with a wind which was tolerably
fair, but too violent, in fo much that we had a difficulty to get on board the
galliot which was in the road. We were in a little boat, which the angry
waves filled with water j and though we had much inconvenience and danger,
they neverthelefs made us pay twenty fols each, which is a cuftom and an
ordinary tax paid by- all paffengers fetched from or carried to the veffels in
the road ; fo that let the danger of the fca be ever fo gteat, the people of
this boat are obliged to carry you to your veffel, or fetch you from it in all
feafons and at all hours, whether night or day, whieh makes me fay, like the
Italian, Che camina par il-mondv^ hifogna d'havere patientia e q^uatrini, which is,.
He that travels has need of much patience, and ftill more money. Thofe-
who are not accuftomed to the fea are fubjedl to licknefs, and to throw up at
the fame time all they have in their body ; but fo far from being hurt by it,.
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on laftding the patient finds hiinfelf remarkably well, with a thorough good
appetite for a hearty meal. The wind, though fair, was fo ftrong and
boifterous, that we were obliged to furl our fails during the whole night,
•which prevented our fleeping. It was fo dark that the faiiors loft their way,
for. early in the morning we perceived fomething like a fleet of vefiels in the
fine road of the Downs, which were the three caftles of * Ovalmer, -f Dal,,
and j: Sandone, diflant from Dieppe, by fea, thirty-five French leagues.
Thofe who pafs from Calais to England in the French packet-boat come to
Dover, which is only crofs an arm of the fea feven leagues over, calhd the
pafiage of Calais, which is the narrovveft fea between France and England.

Before we enter, let us give a little idea of the form of this kingdom,
which pafies for the moft powerful on the fea of any in Europe. Under the
name of England, we underfland all that is pofiefTed by the king of England,
■which was formerly divided into three great kingdoms, in two iflands. The
largeft is called Great-Britain, it comprehends the kingdoms of Scotland and
England, and the fecond contains the kingdom of Ireland, and thefe three
kingdoms make the form of a delta a, which has three angles, and from
tJiis fimilitude it takes the name of Angle-land or England, to which we
may add the Orcades and many other little iflands round about them, to the
number of upwards of three hundred and fifty. This kingdom is, in gene-
ral, under a colder climate than France, fince we find it between the 50'"*
and 59"" degree, which is the length of this kingdom, which makes about
two hundred leagues. From Dover to the point and cape of Dungefby, at
the end of Scotland, and its breadth is nearly as much, reckoned from Do-
ver to Ingle, which is a city at one end of the ifland of Ireland ; that being
premifed, we will fay that this is one of the greateft kingdoms of Europe,
and one of the beft fituated, fince it is entirely furrounded by the fea, which
ferves it for a large and deep ditch, and all its coafts being bordered by in-
acceffible and frightful rocks, which form its ramparts and ftrong walls,
affording at the fame time a number of harbours and good fea-ports, in fo
much that it can traffick with all foreign nations, as well as the neighbour-
ing kingdoms, and may with reafon be called the king of the kingdoms of
the great ocean ; for in effedl it is a conveniency to have from elfewhere
that which is not produced in the country, where, I believe, if we except
wine and filk, every thing may be found in abundance, fo as even to furniOa
foreign countries, for there are mines of all fores of metal, thofe of tin and

* Walmer, t Deal. J Sundown.

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lead are in fiich great quantities, that they fiipply almoft all Europe: Fwill
not fpeak of thole of iron, of coal, of copper, and in fome places of filver.
In fine, there is nothing necefifary for the lubfiftence of man, but is produced
in this ifland, as we fliall fee in the fequei of our travels.

The origin of the firft inhabitants of England is attributed to fome Frenchr
men defcended from the Cimbri, who pafled over from Normandy to Eng-
land, where they were retained by the goodnefs of the country ; they,
after they had remained there fome time, clefted kings, according to the
cuftom of their ancelfors ; of thefe little is faid in hillory till the time of
Julius Ca^far, who, in the year of our Lord fifty-four, having brought all
France under his dominion, crolTed over into England, not without great
refiftance from the four kings then reigning there ; that is, Cingetorinus,
Carvillius, Laximagulus and Sagonax, who, on the firft encounter, ftoutly
refilled him, he being then much fatigued with the late wars he had made
with the French, before they fubmitted to him ; wherefore it was with great
difficulty that he was able to gain only a few ftrong places along the fea-
coafts in the neighbourhood of Dover, which he llrongly fortified, in order
to be mafter of that palTage which is the fhorteft between France and Eng-
land. In the mean time fome difturbances happened at Rome, which
obliged him to leave England and make a voyage thither, which detained
him fo long, that Caefar Auguflus fucceeded him and came into England,
where things did not fall out more favourably to him than they had to his
predecefibr, until a difcord arifing among thefe four petty kings, who were
for elefling from their number one whom ail England fhould obey. During
this difpute the Romans penetrated far into England, of which they eafily
conquered a great part, which was made a province under the empire of
Domitian ; for the other part, v.'hich is Scotland, remained a long time un-
known and neglefted, as being filled with vaft forefts, inaccelTible mountains,
great lakes, and inhabited by a ferocious people, who lived like wild beads,
and who neverthelefs aflembled together, and made horrible devaftations
over the whole province, which obliged them to build a ftrong wall to
obftruft the paflage of thefe enemies, of which there are at prefcnt fome
remains to be feen.

. Thus this part of England was brought under the dominion of the Ro-
mans, under which it remained four hundred and feventy-fix years, from

--^Juiius-Caefar to the reign of Valcntinian III. under whom almoft the whole

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world was in arms, which gave an opportunity for the Saxons, the Picls, and
Scots, to fall upon England, of which they eafily made themfclves maftcrs,
the Romans having abandoned it in order to repair to Italy to appeale the
troubles rifen there, which threatened the ruin of tlie whole weftern empire,
occafioned by a difference between the chiefs /Etius and Boniface ; durino-
which time England, finding itfelf the prey of its enemies, chofe for their
king Conftantine, a Frenchman by birch, whom the count of Cornwal, Vor-
tegernus, put to death, in order to fucceed him, at which the people were
fo incenfed, that they took arms to avenge this tyranny ; this obliged him
to call in to his afliltance a great captain, named Hortius, who caufed his
army of Saxons to pafs over into England, and with them fucceeded fo well
in all his enterprizes, that Vortimerus gave him as a recompence all the
county of Kent ; his fon, Vortimerus, fucceeded him, and at length Aure-
lius, fo that there were feven kings from Condantine, of whom the lafl: was
Cadwalladar, who abandoned his kingdom to become a monk at Rome :
this gave occafion to the Saxons, who came to fuccour him (finding them-
felves the ftrongeft) to feize the kingdom, which they divided into feven
parts, over which they eleded as many kings, who made war with each
other, one of whom, who was named Egbert, having gained three provinces
of this heptarchy, was proclaimed king of England, which happened eight
hundred years after the nativity of our Lord. Under his reign England did
not remain long in peace, for the Danes raifed a fleet and army under their
chiefs, Angarus and Hubbo, with which they entered England, where they
pillaged every thing that refilled their fury, without regard to age or fex,
and rendered themfelves mailers of Northumberland, where they remained
till driven out by Edelvolphus, the fon of Egbert, and his fuccefTors •, thefe
were Edelbert, Edelfred, who founded the univerfity of Oxford, and Ed-
ward the Firft, whofe daughter Edgine married Louis the Simple, king of
France.

From that time to the reign of Edward the Second, who was martyred
and placed among the faints, England was tolerably peaceable, but this
ti-anquility was interrupted for the fecond time by the Danes, who came over
in great numbers, and who would, without doubt, have ruined every thing,
if the Englifh had not, by a confpiracy, flain them all in one night ; at which
Sueno, king of Denmark, being incenfed, came into England with a great
army, where he defeated Edelredus (a cruel man) brother of Edward the

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Second, who retired into Scotland for the fpace of twelve years. In the:
mean time all things being reinftated in England, he returned and died at
York, without having been crowned king of England. Canute, king of Nor-
way, fiicceedcd him, after having fiain Edmond in a duel, and driven away
Edward III. fon of Eldred, but he did not reign long. He married the
widow of king Alfred, by whom he had two children •, namely, Harold and
Canute II. they died without children, after having reigned one after the
other a fhort time ; therefore Edward III. the fon of Eldred, who had been
expelled by Canute, returned to England, where he died without children,
but by his laft will bequeathed his crown to William, duke of Normandy,
from whom he had received many favours during his exile, and for that time
the race of the kings of England finifhed in the year 1065.

This Harold having learned who was the fon of the fifter of king Canute,
he feized the kingdom before William, but did not hold it long, for Wil-
liatii entered into England, where he defeated his enemy, and at the fame
time introduced many of the French laws. It was he who gave the three
lions for the Englifh arms ; he commanded all pleadings at the bar to be in
the French language-, he reduced feveral of the provinces of England to
obedience ; he made Malcolm, king of Sueden, his tributary -, and averted,
by money,' a great war with which England was threatened by the Danes.
At length, there being a difturbance between Henry and Louis the Dauphin
of France, occafioned by fome differences about Normandy, he crofled over
and made war againfl: France, and died at Rouen ; he had three children,
William, furnamed Rufus, or the red ; Henry the Firfl, and Robert. This
eldeft fon was a prince of great courage, but he did not live long ; his bro-
ther Henry the Firft fucceeded him, who caufed his brother to be flain for
fome words they had together ; he was duke of Normandy, where this cruel
brother entered as heir to the province, which he ravaged entirely exceot
Rouen, from whence he returned to England, to have it fettled that the
eldeft fons of the kings of England fhould be tlukes of Normandy ; but Ro-
bert, duke of Normandy, having left two children, of which one was Charles,
earl of Flanders, who was unfortunately flain at BruflTels ; the other, Wil-
liam, having learned the death of his brother, raifed a great army to make
war with his uncle, Henry the Firft, for the recovery of Normandy, which
that king had ufurped from his father j this he recovered, being affifted by

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ft was Henry the Firfl: who eftabliflied the parliament of England j he
loft his two fons and his daughter, who were drowned, for the grief of which
he died by a jiift punifhment of God ; for he had married, by force, Mac-
tilda, a Scottifli lady, who had made a vow of virginity in a cloiftcr, and
who, on that account, predi<5led to him a curfe en all the children Ihc Ihovild
produce him, whicii happened to him by that fatal accident which caufcd
his death, and the end of the Norman kings.

His nephew Stephen, earl of Champagne, fucceeded him, againft whom
Machtilda, daughter of Henry the Firft, wife of the emperor Henry the
Fifth, and by a fecond marriage of Gothofred, earl of Anjou, made war,
wherein he loft Euftace his only fon, wherefore he adopted Henry the Se-
cond, fon of Machtilda, who, during thirty-three years which he reigned,
reformed all thofe laws in England, which had been altered during the wars;
he appeafed the troubles of the kingdom, retook Northumberland from
Stephen David, king of Scotland : he took king William prifoner in a battle,
from whom he received feveral cities for ranfom : he even added Ireland to his
kingdom without war or bloodflied, where he caufed the great and flrono-
caftle * du Blin to be built. He had a fon, Richard the Firft, who married
Berangere, daughter of the king of France -, he, with the fuccour lent him
by Philip, king of France, made war againft the Turks. Fle pafled over
into the eaft with thirty-five thoufand men, with whom he firft attacked
Tancred, who had done him fome injuries ; there he took feveral towns, of
which Mcftina was tlie moft confiderable. At length he took the ifte of
Cyprus, which he gave to Guy Lufinian, in exchange for the city of Tyr,
and likewife affumed the title of king of Jerufalem, whence the kings of
England have ever fince borne that title.

So much fuccefs gave jealoufy to Philip, king of France, who was, in
fome meafure, the means thereof, by the alTiftance he had lent to Richard
the Firft, who returning to England, where he had left Arthur to govern in
his ftead, his brother John (a cruel man, and full of tyranny) drove him out
of the kingdom, and feized upon Normandy, which was the fubject of manv
great wars with France, which could no other ways be pacified, but by the
kings of France becoming pofTeflbrs. He made war likewife in Scotland, in
Ireland, and even in England againft his own fubjed:s, who revolted againft
his tyranny in fuch fort that he was obliged to borrow fuccours from Louis

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the Ton of Philip the Second, king of France, who only fought feme fiich
opportunity to enter England, of which he thought he ought to be made
king after the death of John, on account of the ailiitance he had given to
Richard in the eall ; but he was much deceived, for they rewarded him in
another manner for his trouble, in fending him back to France," wS.cri mat-
ters were a little fettled in England.

Edward the FirPc having learned at Ptolemaide the death of i.is father,
returned to England to fucceed to the crown •, to whom Alexander the
Third, king of Scotland, dying without ifilie male, left his crown, which
the Scots would not agree to, from whence there were great wars, during
which he died of a dykntery. His fon Edward the Second took his place,
and had Gaveftonius for his great favourite j he was hated by ail the nobility
and the parliament, who expelled him from the kingdom contrary lo the
will of the king, who had much trouble to allay the anger of the Scots, ex-
cited by the king his father. They entered England with thirty thoufand
men, under the command of Brufius their chief, where they kiiled more than
an hundred thoufand men. He married the daughter of Philip, king of
France, who brought liim in marriage Guyenne, which he did not long
enjoy, for there arufe fome dilfenficns between him, the parliament, and the
nobility, who flew him in his bed. His fon Edward the Third was then only
fifteen years of age; tutors were afllgned him to govern in his place till he
become of age ; at which being arrived, he went over to France to make war
againft Philip, who would not yield him up Guyenne, which was the mar-
riage portion of his mother, which he had gi^en with her at her efpoufal of
Edward the Second his father -, wherefore he came at the head of a great
army and plundered all Guyenne, Gafcony, the cities of Bordeaux, Thou-
loufe, Xantonge, and Poidou, from whence he returned to England loaded
with the fpoils and booty which he had taken -, he alfo took the city of Calais,
during which Philip king of France died.

His fon John was not more fortunate againft the Englifh, who took him
prifoner in a battle and carried him to England, where he exacted fuch
ranfo.ni as they thought proper ; this, was a part of France with a great fum
of money, which fcrved Edward the Third to make a number of knights of
the order of the garter. Edward likewife experienced a reverfe of fortune as
well as the king of France, for the Prince of Wales, chief gt.;ieral of his
army, dying, Charles the Second, king of France, retook from the Englilh

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all the provinces they had in France, at which he v/as fo much grieved that
it caufed his death. He made Edward the Black his hrir, who was fon of
the Prince of Wales, and then but eleven years old. During his minority
the Scotch on one fide, and the French on the other, gave the alarm to all
England, but neither the one nor the other v/ere fucccfsful in their enter-
prizes. In fine, there were civil wars all over the kingdom, where there
was never more blood fpilt ; this was the cafe till his majority, after which
he did not reign long, for he was killed in an engagement ; his fucceflbr was
Henry the Fourth, his coufin german, who gave his crown to his fon Henry
the Fifth, who led an army into France to take polTeflion of what he faid
was the marriage portion of his wife Catherine, the daughter of the kino of
France ; he conquered a great part of the country, and at the fame time
coined money in all his ftates, upon which he caufed the arms of Encrland
and France to be difplayed, and fince that time the kings of England have
ililed themfelves kings of France, and ftill continue to bear the arms.

The Englifli never appeared more powerful in France than at this period,
nor for a longer time; but Charles the Seventh, king of France, fliewed
them clearly that for their fuccefs they were more indebted to fortune than
their arms, for he retook all that Charles the Sixth his father had loft, and
drove tliem firft from Paris, and afterwards from many cities and provinces
they occupied, principally along the coafts of the river Loire. Here hiftory
records the courage of a poor country wench, who having dreffed herfelf
like a captain, conceived a means to expel them ; and putting herfelf at the
head of the army, went and attacked them, and put them to flight. Flenry
the Seventh having been accufed of lofing France by treafon was dethroned,
in order to beftow his crown on his fon Edward the Fourth, who made war
againft him, and having taken him in a battle caufed him to be kept prifoner.
Edward the Fifth, his fon, who fucceeded him, did not reign long, where-
fore Henry the Seventh came out of prifon to mount the throne. His fon
Henry the Eighth fucceeded him, who efpoufed Catherine, his brother's
widow. He afllfted the Spaniards in driving the Moors out of Spain.

At that time Francis the Firft, king of France, was taken by the emperor
Charles the Fifth at the battle of Favia ; at length peace was concluded
between the French, the emperor, and Henry the Eighth, who having
efpoufed Catherine, his brother's widow, was doubtful whether his marriage
was legal, wherefore application was made to Rome, whence the pope wrote
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to Henry that his marriage was not valid, but he defpifing the pope, infifted
on being acknowledged for the head of the church in his own dominions ; he
even did worfe, for he made himfelf pope of England, and then there arofe
great revokuions upon the diverfity of religions -, for until that time England
had always been of the catholic religion, which was then reformed accord-
ing to the fancy of Henry the Eighth. The pope excommunicated him, and
he in revenge caufed his wife Catherine to be imprifoned, in order to marry
to the number of fix wives, one after the other, of whom he had three chil-
dren, Edward the Sixth, Mar)', and Elizabeth. This Edward the Sixth
fucceeded him, and caufed the pretended reformed religion to be promulgated
throughout his kingdom. The French bought back of him the city of
Eouloo'ne that his father had taken •, he died at the age of feventeen without
iffliei his fifter Mary fucceeded him : fhe married Philip, the fon of Charles,
the Fifth. At that time the town of St. Quintin was taken by Philip the Se-
cond, king of Spain ; and at the fame time the French took the city of Calais
from the Englifh, who had held it upwards of two hundred years. The
queen Mary died of chagrin thereat. Her fifter Elizabeth mounted the
throne in her place ; fhe was the daughter of Anne Bolein, who was the
fecond wife of Henry the Eighth. In the mean time the French endeavoured,
by means of the Scotch to whom they had given affiftance, to conquer Eng-
land, on account that Mary Stuart, who was heir to Henry the Seventh, and
daughter of James the Fifth, whofe wife was alfo heir and near relation to
that king, had married the king of France ; but Elizabeth refifted them fo
v/ell, that king Francis being dead, Mary Stuart returned to Scotland, and
cultivated a friendfhip with Elizabeth, until fhe married Henry Stuart, who
died foon after •, and fhortly after fhe re-married to Bochuel, contrary to the
will of her relations, who caufed her to be imprifoned, from whence fhe
efcaped, and came to feek Elizabeth in England, in order to betray her,
which ihe having difcovered, caufed her to be beheaded. At the fame time
fhe fent men and money to the Dutch, to make war againft the Spaniards,
who being informed thereof raifed a naval armament to invade Ireland, that
people defiring nothing more than to be governed by a catholic king.

In effeft the Irifh rebelled againft Elizabeth, and a change of religion
would have taken place, had not the duke of Effex arrived with a ftrong
force to bring them back to their duty. Before her death, fhe named James
the Sixth for her fucceffor ; he was king of Scotland, and Ion of Mary and

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Henry Stuart, and grand nephew to Henry the Seventh -, and thus Scotland
was joined to England under the reign of James the Sixth, who gave them
the name of Great-Britain. He made peace with the Spaniards, and married
one of his daughters to the palaiine Frederic. Charles the Firft fucceeded
James the Sixth, his brother. He went over to Spain, and in pafling through
France in his return, married Henrietta Maria, daughter of Henry the
Fourth, and fucceeded to the crown of his father. At the beginning of his
reign he made war with the Spaniards, being afTuled by the Hollanders, who
during th^t time took many (hips from the Spaniards, which were returning
from the Indies richly laden. Fie afterwards attacked the French, He
alTifted the Rochellier rebels againft their king Louis the Thirteenth, who
knew well how to punifh them, after entering vidorioufly into the town of
Rochclle. The EngUdi then accufed Charles of holding an undue inrelli-
gence with the king of France, to whom they faid he had delivered the place.
At length peace was concluded between both crowns. The queen was deli-
vered of her firft born, Charles the Second, and there arole great wars about
matters of religion, on account that king attempted to eftablifh bifliops all
over his kingdoms, to which the queen, who was a catholic, incited him
with all her power. Matters were carried to that height, that (hortly two
parties were feen to arife in tlie kingdom, one for the king and the other for
the parliament, both raifed troops, and foon came to blows ; the parliament
was the ftrongeft : they attacked the king's party, which was vanquifhed,
and the king taken and put in prifon at London, he was brought feveral
times before a tribunal, v.here he was accufed of treafon, of tyranny, and of
being an enemy to the republic, and condemned by the parliament to lofe
his head before the palace at * Ouithal, in prefence of his two fons, who he
embraced wich tears in his eyes in leaving them, to receive the mortal flroke,
the thirtieth of January, in the year 1649.

Then this monarchy became a republic. Ireland demanded for kino-,
Charles the Second, fon of Charles the Firft, who had then retired to Holland,
his filler having married the prince of Orange. All England was in a terrible
confternation, on account of the cruel death of its king. The parliament
fent Cromwell into Ireland to quell thefe difturbances ; he was then intendant
for Fairfax, conrmander of the parliamentary forces. Fie entered that coun-
try with a confiderabie army to chaftife the rebels, who had fortified thcm-

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felves in Dublin and fome other towns, which he befieged and took, where
after having put feveral of the rebellious ringleaders to death, he was obliged
to return to England with the utmoft expedition, for the Scotch had equip-
ped feveral vefiels to fetch Charles the Second from Holland to Scotland,
where he was unanimouny declared king. Cromwell advanced with his
army, and gave battle to the Scotch, who were vanquiflied, which obliged
Charles the Second to return to Breda in Holland, and was the means by
which Cromwell gained the good graces of the parliament, who conftituted
him proteiftor of England. Ele being dead, they recalled Charles the Se-
cond, eldeft fon of Charles the Firlt, to fucceed to the kingdom, and
crowned him king of England, Scotland, and Ireland, the fixteenth of Fe-
bruary, in the year 1661, in the city of London, where he at prefent
reigns.

After having betimes in the morning difcovered the coaft of England near
the caftles of the Downs, we found the wind diredly againlt us, which
obliged us to take fhelter in the harbour of * Margat, which is within eight
leagues of the Downs, and at the firfl: entrance of the mouth of the river
Thames ; and the wind not changing, we were obliged to leave our cloaths
on board our galliot, and to fet out by land to London. We were many in
company, all paflengers in that galliot; we pafied through -f- Stoie, upon
tlie river. They reckon by miles, which are a little larger than thofe of
Italy, fmce two make a fmall French league ; they are fhort in England,
middling in Ireland, and long in Scotland. The way to Canterbury is
tlirough marfhes. Here we found the high road from London, to go by
the packet-boat from Dover to Calais, and other fmall fea-ports on the coaft
of England oppofite France, of which five are the moft frequented, and are
obliged to furnifh the king, in time of war, each with two veflels well armed .
thefe are Haftings, Rye, Romney, J Heyt, and Dover. It is fifteen miles
from the town of Margat to Canterbury.

CANTORBERY.

Cantorbery is one of the moft famous cities in England, and although it
is of no great extent, it is a handfome place, fituated in a low ground, hav-
ing the little river Stour paffing through the middle of it. We arrived
/through a great fuburb : the gate of the town by which we entered has two

* Margate. f Slurry, fituatc on the rjver Stour. J Hythe.

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very large towers, thefe form the beginning of a large and liandfome ftreet,
the houfes of which are well built, and painted after the Dutch fafliion; far-
ther on we found the town-houfe, with its clock, near the grand place : from
thence we went by a fecond great llreet to fee the archiepifcopal church. In
England there are only two archbiflioprics, that of York, and that of Canter-
bury ; for although this great kingdom has quitted the catholic religion for
an hundred and twenty years, to embrace that of Calvin, that has not pre-
vented there being bifhops and archbifhops according to their fafhion, who
wear in their aflemblies the fame habits formerly worn by the catholics, and
the churches are the fame as in thofe times. This church we found very fine ;
it is ornamented with three high towers, although there Is no other altar
than that in the choir : it is faid its windows were formerly of cryflal. The
archbifliop is commonly fome prince, or great lord of the kingdom. We
went alfo to fee the college ; walking over all the different parts of this fine
town. We all took the ordinary coach for Gravefend, in order to embark
there for London, and we pafl!*ed by * Abertoon : from thence we found
fome woods, near f Baten and Afberry. There is no part of Europe where
there are more rivers tlian in England, but they are reduced almolt all to
three principal ones, which are the Thames, the Humber, and the Severn ;
thefe render the meadows and environs through which they pafs very ac^ree-
able and fertile, as we here began to difcover. We pafied through J Gren-
flrit, Sitingborn, § Nievetoon, and l| Renem, which has a fine tower to its
church. We faw all along this road long poles, on the tops of which were
little kettles, in which fires were lighted to give notice when there is any
danger in the country, and robbers on the way. The towns and neighbour-
ing villages are obliged to fend guards to drive them away, or take them, and
to keep the highways fafe and fecure for paflcngers •, thefe likcwife ferve, as
I imagine, in time of war, to give notice to the neighbouring towns of the
niarch of the enemy and of his defigns : thefe poles are about a mile diftanc
one from the other, and to every one there is a fmall hut for thofe perfons
whofe bufinefs it is to light the fires. I have ken the fame things in other
quarters of England. We pafTed afterwards through ^ Schaten, the ftreet
of which is paved, and almoft entirely bordered by houfes quite to Rochefter.

ROCHESTER.

Rochefter is fituated at the influx of the river Medway into the Thames,

where the fea has a reflux of more than two fathom.s, which renders this town

a good fea-port, and has made it chofen for a fea arfenal, where there are

* Harbledown. t BoughtQii. J Greenjlrecj. § Perhaps Newenham. H Rainham. «[ Chatham.

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built every year many fhips of war. Vv'e there pafied over a ilone bridge^
one of the fineft in England, where it is elleeined among its greateft curiofuies.
This bridge is built on a rock, and is much elevated ; it is encloied with iroa
ballaftrades above its walls ; I fliould like to know whether theie iron balk-
{trades .ire meant for ornaments, or to prevent perfons falling over in the
nicrht ; be it as it may, we went to walk near the caftle, at which place is the
port ; it will contain many veffels, on account of its vicinity to the Thames,
where there is a good road, Wc alfo faw an open fpace, or place, from
which the cathedral and epifcopal church is not far diftant, enriched with two
high towers rifing above its portal. The ftreets are ftraight, as if defcribed
by a line, and filled with feveral fliops and merchants. We did not remark
any fortifications capable of holding out againil a fiege, but its caftle, and
the number of veffels there might ftop an enemy. Ten miles from Rochel-
tcr is to be feen the royal caftle of Otford. We departed for Gravefine.

*GRAVESINE.
Gravefine is a little town without walls on the bank of the Thames, where
there is a great reflux of the fea, on which account there are boats which fet
off for London every tide, which is a great convenience. Whilft waiting we
Walked about the town, where we fav/ its ftrong caftle defended by ramparts
and baftions of earth, furniffied with a good number of canons, and a great
garrifon within it, as being a place of confequence, for it defends the paffage
of that river, there being on the other fide a great low tower of brick, in
which appear under cover fome great guns mounted, on a level with the fur-
face of the water, to defend the paffage of the rivei-, which is here about five
hundred paces broad, almoft always covered by a number of large veffels,
which lie here at anchor in waiting for a proper wind to depart. There was
there a thick chain fuftained in the middle by fome well armed veffels, that
fhuts up the entry of this river, which lies between thefe two forts ; but the
. Dutch, in the war they had with the Englifli, forced them and broke it, to the
great damage of many of the neighbouring towns, and the lofs of many vef-
fels which they funk in this river. It was at that time even feared that they
would foon reach London, as I was informed in the country. It is a remark-
able thing in England, that in the cities and towns, and even in every ftreec
of the villages, they ftrike a particular fmall piece of copper or brafs money,
called zfardin, which will not pafs beyond the ftreet or quarter wherein it was
coined. Thefe are generally marked with the name of fome citizen or of
fome Ihopkeeper, fuch as a grocer, a chandler, or a mercer, who buys that

• Gravefcnd.

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permiflion from the king ; fo that it is a great inconvenience to travellers,
fince on quitting a town or village, or any city, all this fmall money ceafes
to be current ; but that is not the cafe of the filver coin, which is received
every where at the fame price ; of thefe there are fo many of different values,
that one may change a large piece, and receive this fmall coin almofl without
any of thofe farthings. We embarked then at Gravifine at eight in the even-
ing, when it was dark, and rowed all the night by the light of the full moon,
•which afforded us fufficient light to fee a great number of fine houfes and
caftles, v/hich bordered this beautiful river. We arrived at London at about
two in the morning. [To be continued.]

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THE following Order of Council, delcribing the Drefs of a Page in the

Reign of Qiieen Elizabeth, was copied from the Original in the Library

of Thomas Aftle, Efq.

THESE are to praye and requier you to make pfent fetch within your
ward and charges pfently to macke hew and cry for a yong ftripling of
the age of xxij yeres, the coler of his aparell as foloweth One Doblet of yelow
million Fuftion th'one halfe therof buttoned with peche colour bottons and
th'other halfe laced downewardes One payer of Peche Color Hofe laced with
fmale Tawnye lace a graye Hat with a Copper edge rounde aboute it with a
bande pcell of the fame Hatt a payer of * watched Stockings. Likewife he
hath twoe Clokes th'one of Veffey Collor garded with twoe gards of black
Clothe and twiffed lace of Carnacion Colour and lyned with Crymfone Bayes
and th'other is a Red Shipp ruffet Colour ftriped about the Cape and downe
the fore face twifted with two rows of twifted lace ruffet and gold buttons
afore and uppon the Sholdier being of the Clothe itfelfe fet with the faid
twifted lace and the buttons of ruffet fiike and golde. This youthes name is ,
Gilbert Edwodd and page to S' Valentine Browne Knight who is run awaye
this fowerth daye of Januarie with theis parcells followeing viz. A Chaine
of Wyer worke golde with a button of the fame and a fmall Ringe of Golde
at it two flagging Chaines of golde th'one being marked with theis letters
V. and b. uppon the lock and th'other with a little broken Jewell at it. One
Carkanec of Pearle and Jafynits thereto hangeing, a Jewell like a Marimade
of gold enameled the tayle therof being fett with diamonds the bellye of the
made with a Ruby and the (hilde a Diamond the Cheine of golde whereon it
hangeth is fet with fmale Diamonds and Rubyes and certeyne Money in golde
and white Money.

BURGHLYE WARWICK. To all Conftables BaylifFs & Hedboroughs & to

all other the Qucne's Officers whatlbever to
HUNSDONE HOWARPE whorae the fame belongeth & apperteyneth.

» blue. VALENTINE BROWNE,

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Tranjlation of the Latin Epitaph on Evan Rice,

YE votaries of Hubert come
(Saint Hubert he is ftiled at Rome)
Ye who deHght the Horn to wind
Which he to leave you was fo Kind
Change all your Jolly hunting Cries
To Lamentations, Sobs, and Sighs,
For who the lofs will not bemoan
Of a Keen Sportfman, dead and Gone
Or who the Tribute of our Eyes
May better Claim than Evan Rice
Over the Hills & through the Plain
With feet not flow and hopes not vaia
AH forts of Game that fly or Run
He would purfue with Dog & Gun
At break of Day e'er Phoebus fliin'd
Swifter than Deer fwifter than wind
Intent on fport he would be Gone
Nor did he mind the heats of noon
Unwearied till the want of light
Would force him home to refl: at nighr
But all muft now his death deplore
He'll call you out to fport no more
The More unwearied Hunter Death
Who runs down all things that have breath
Who fpares no creature under Heaven
Alas hath overtaken Evan
No more Ihall you at Noon or Morn
Behold his face or hear his Horn
He's gone to his perpetual fleep
While for him Ye that knew him weep
He finifli'd decently his courfe
Left Hound & Horn, left Dog and Horfe
Of Characters he bore the befl:
Long may his bones in Quiet Refl;

Sir Thomas Manfel credled this Monument to his faithful Servant
Evan Rice.

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ACCOUNT OF ABRAHAM COWLEY.

A BRAHAM COWLEY was the pofthumous fon of a Grocer in Lon-
■*- •*- don, where he was born in the year 1618. His mother put him early
to the King's School at Wefhminfter, whilft there, it is faid, he could never
learn the common grammar rules, owing to a defeat in his memory ; he never-
thelefs afterwards made himfelf mailer of both the Latin and Greek languages,
by applying to thofe books from whence the rules were drawn, and obtaining
thofe languages as he did his own, not by precept but by ufe. Spenfer's
Fairy Queen, which accidentally fell into his hands almoft as foon as he
could read, firft gave him a turn for poetry, for which he very foon gave
proofs of an extraordinary genius, and publiflied a colleftion of poems in
the year 1633, ^vhen he was but fifteen years of age. He was llrongly at-
tached to the royal caufe, and fpent ten or twelve years abroad moftly in
that fervice. He returned to England about the year 1656, in order to give
notice of the ftate of the nation at that time. To cover his real bufinefs, he
publifhed an edition of his poems, but his errand being fufpefted he was
feized and confined for fome time ; at length, pretending to fall in with the
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reigning party, he was taken into favour, and had by a fpecial mandate the
degree of doftor of phyfic conferred on him •, after which he went to France.
He wrote a copy of verfes on the death of Oliver Cromwell, and in 1662
he publiflied two books of plants, and alfo fome Latin poems. After the
reftoration, no: receiving the rewards he thought his fervices merited, he
took a difguft to the bufy world, and retired to a fmall houfe at Chertfey in
Surry, where he pafled the remainder of his life in privacy and ftudy. He
died July the 28th, 1667, aged 49 years. He was buried in Weftminfter-
Abbey, near Chaucer and his favourite Spenfer, many perfons of quality
actending his funeral, A monument was erefted to his memory by George
duke of Buckingham, on which was a Latin infcription written by his friend
Dr. Spratt, bidiop of Rochefter.

King Charles, on hearing of his death, faid, he had not left a better man
behind him in England. His private charafter was indeed truly amiable, his
genius admirable.

" The piclure frorn which this plate is engraved, was painted by the cele-
brated Mrs, Mary Beale, daughter of Mr, Cradock, minifter of Walton upon
Thames ; flie was the pupil of Sir Peter Lely, who was, it is reported, an
admirer of her perfon as well as genius : fhe painted both in oil and water
colours •, her prices were, for a head five guineas, and for a half length ten.
Mr. Grainger lays, Ihe painted more portraits of the dignified clergy than
any of her contemporary artills.

This portrait, which is the property of Mr, Hingefton, Bookfeller, near
Temple-Bar, is an excellent fpecimen of Mrs, Beale's abilities. Indeed few
fuch fubjefts occur as Mr, Cowley, who feems to have been about eighteen
when this pidlure was drawn : his countenance is foft and beautiful almofl:
to effeminacy, and at the fame time replete with dignity and expreffion.

Mr, Grainger mentions only two Engravings of this poet, one prefixed to
his Poetical BloiToms in Twelves, drawn when he was thirteen, and another
ferving as a Frontifpiece to his Juvenile Poems, but gives neither the names
of the Painters nor Engravers, The Hon'"'' Horace Walpole has likewife a
pifture painted by Sir Peter Lely, which was finely copied in enamel by the
late Mr. Zinks, and engraved by Hall j it is prefixed to Hurd's life of
that poet.

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T H E following ancient Poem, faid to be written in the Reign of Edward
tiie Third, is preferved in the Illand of Giiernfey. If you think it worth a
Place in your Repertory, it is much at your Service.

F. G.

Prife de I'lfle de Guernefey par Yvon de Galles I'An 1372 fous le Reigne
du Roi Edouard troifieme.

Or entendez grands & petits
La douleur fort envenimee
D'un nombre de Gens ramafies
Qui vont filant la mer falee
Du Roi de France ramafles
Par Yvon de Galles guidcz
Qui etoit niauvais fiers a mort

2
Par un mardi fe comparut
L'Armee de fa Gendarmerie • .
Faite de grands Sarragoufes
Gens enrages a 1' abordee
Dans le vafon fut addreffe
Cette piteufe Journee
Penfant nous mcttre tous a mort

3
Un Jean L'Etoc fi fe leva

plus matin qu'a I'accoutimee

A fa Bergerie s'en alia

fur la Journant d la Brunee

Telle compagnie a trouvee

Sur le Grand Marais arretee

Laquelle grandement I'eronna

Sur le chemin voit un Cheval
Faifant JVIarche de Haqucnee
Qui pour vrai etoit un Guildin
Qui leur echappa de I'Armee
toute rifle en a chevauchee
criant a la Defefperee
Sur haut les Armes en un mot

Vous trouverez fur le Vafon
L'Armee la delTus arretee
Diligentez vous bons Garfons
Ou toute la Terre eft giitee
Mettez tout au Fil de I'Epee
Hazardez vous a la bone heure
Ou vous mourrez de grieve mort

6
Yvon de Galles vrai guerrier
Etoit conducleur de I'armee
Homme grandement avanturier
DclTus une Terre ecrangere
Ne fe donnant de garde en arriere
Qu'il ne recut la rouge Jarretiere
Qlii n'etoit ni foye ni velours

7,
C'eft qu'il fut frappe d'un Garcon

D'une halebarde meurtriere

Qiii fe nomoit Rich"" Simon

Sur le Moulin en la Carriere

Tant qu'il eut la Cuifl'e coupee

Auffi la main dextre coupee

Par ce brave compagnon

Sur le mont S' Pierre port

Fut la dure Guerre livree

Cinq Cents & un furent Mis a Mort

Tanc de I'lfle que de I'Armee

C'etoit pitie cette Journee

D'ouir les Pleurs de L'Affemblee

Des Dames de S' Pierre Port

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Thommi le Lorreor fut pour vrai
Tout le Jour notre Capitaine
Rof HoUan Je fut le plus fore
II eut I'honneur de la Journee
Sa pauvre Vie fut hazardee
Car il eut les Jambes coupees
Dont il fallut qu'l foufirit More

Frapper a Tort & a Travers

Le Sang couloit par les valees

On marchoit deflus les Corps Morts

Qiii tomboient au Fil de L'Epee

Une meurtriere fut tiree

Qui a grand Fort fut pendee

Et aux Etrangeres fit grand Tort

II
Quatre Vingt bons marchands Anglois
Arriverent fur la Vefpree
Mais I'Armee etoit fort cafiee
Tout a I'heure leva le Sit-ge
Ne fachant quel remede faire
Si noa crier Merci a Dieu

Furent contraints a s'enfuir
prenant leur Chemin irremeiit
Par les Bordages font alles
Pour paffcr par dedans la Rue
Mais les Anglois I'ont retenue
Et remplis de Corps morts la Rue
Sur cette troupe de Babillots

Par force prindrent le Chateau
La Mer etant fort retiree
On ks tuoit a grands Monceaux
taillant tout au Fil de L'Epee
La Mer etoit fort enfanglantee
De cette Troupe ainfi navree
Laiflant la Chair & les Os Morts

14
Les Navires & les Batiaux
Enfeignoient I'llle par derriere
Nos Paiflans leur firent grand Tort
Par le Chateau de la Corbiere
vindrent par le Bee a la Cheare
Pour alors faire leur traverfee
Parmi la refte des Lourdeaux

Rembarquerent leurs Matelots
Puis foudain mirent a la Voile
tous irrites come Lionceaux
D'avoir perdu telle Bredelle
Le General fort rebelle
commandant de remettre a Terrc
Dans le Havre de S^ Samfon

16
A L'Abeye S' Michel s'en vont
Ou Bregard ecoite comiflaire
les Recut a grande Chere

Qui etoit dame dans L'Armee
Nomme la princeffe Alimon

Car Yvon epoufee I'avoit
de France au Pays de la Gravelle
Ou il fut riche a grand Monceaux
Des biens de la grande Mariee
L'Abbe fit a I'Armee grand Joye
D'or & D' Argent & de Monnoye
Qu'il leur donna fore largement

18
Yvon I'Ennemi s'en alia
Sur une Montagne voifine
Du pauvre Chateau S' Michel
La ou Yvon faifoit fes Mines
Frere Bregard par Courtoile
s' addrefferent au Chateau par Envie
Pour faire croitre fes Trefors

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Edmond RofTe Gouvernenr Le pavre peuple fe rendit

Du Puiflant Chateau de L'Archange A' cet Abbe pour leur perte

Dit qu'il leroic avant tranche Qui avoit pour eux accorde

Que de fe rendre a Gens Etranges Aux Ennemies par fes Fineffes

Mais fi fes Gens fe vouloienc rendre Done afliijetiflant leur Terre

A Bregard pour leus Terre vendre La plus part a payer deux Gatbes

ParCamparr, qu'ils etoient D'accord Nommee aujourdhuL les Campards,

A Ttanflation will be given in a future Number.

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St. GEORGE'S or NEV/INGATE, CANTERBURY.

THE Gate here reprefented was built about the year 1470, on the fite
of a more ancient one bearing the fame name, mentioned in records as
early as the middle of the eleventh century •, it is fuppofed to have derived
the name of St. George's Gate, from its vicinity to the church dedicated to
that faint, and that it was called the Newin Gate, as being a new erection
compared to the other Gates of the city.

This building is conftrufled nearly on the fame plan as the Weft Gate,
biJt on a fmaller fcale ; in each of its towers is a cittern, which ferves as a
refervoir for fome moft excellent water, originally brought from St. Auftin's
to the city, at the expence of Sir John Hales, Anno 1733, which benefac-
tion is ftill continued by his defcendant Sir Edward Plales. Infcriptions,
commemorating the original benefaction, and the continuation thereof in
1754, are placed on the front of the Town-hall ; from thefe cifterns there
are pipes and public cocks in all the markets, and alfo to the Town-hall.

This View fliews the outfide of the building, near which is a market-
place where live cattle are fold on every Saturday.

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The Defcriptions (p/ England continued from Page 23.

ONDON is the capital city not only of all England, but alfo the-'
J largeft, after Paris, in all Europe, fituated on the bank of the Thames,

the larccft and moft convenLent river in the kingdom. It is the refidtncc of
the kings of England, and confsquently that of all the nobility, which ren-
ders it an epitome of all that is fine in the whole kingdom. It is in the mid-
dle of a great plain, where it takes the farm of a harp, the length of which
extends along the fhore of this navigable river, almoft entirely bordered by
beautiful palaces, principally towards Weflniinfter, which is a fuburb, where-
in ftands * Withal, the palace and dwelling of the king ; it confifts of a
great court furrounded by buildings, without either fymmetry or beauty
worth mentioning, having a chapel which occupies an entire face of that
court, and looks towards the gate through which one enters, where on the
rin-ht hand there is a great pavillion with many windows, which feems newly
buiic, and fronts towards the place before the palace : but on the fide look-
ing to the river there is a garden, in which is a parterre, many ftatues of
marble and bronze well executed, and a terrace by the fide of the river ; thefe
would be the moft ftriking parts of this palace, were it not that on the other
fide there is this advantage, that one may from thence pafs, by the means of
a gallery which goes under the ftreet, into the great park, and the beautiful
warden of St. James's, where fliands the palace of the duke of York, the
only brother of the king of England, whom v/e frequently faw walking with
very few attendants ; he was dreffed nearly in the French falhion, as the
Englifh generally are. He wore a kind of furtout coat, and under it a.
waiftcoat with a belt, wherein hung a fabre by his fide, and on his left leg
\7as a garter of blue taffaty, which is the royal order •, the whole was without
much Ihew and with little ceremony, fince we remarked that he faluted.
alnioft: all thofe who flopped to look at him whilft walking in the garden.
He has refided long in France and Holland, during the civil wars in Eng--
land, on account of the death of his father Charles the Firft, who was un-
juftly executed on a fcafFold, under the denomination of an enemy to the
republic, through the intrigues of Cromwell, a man of low extradlion, that
gained the favour of the people, who elefled him king in the room of Charles
the Firft ; but he did not reign long, though fufficiently, to exercife his

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tyranny and cruelty over the v/hole kingdom. He was no fooner dead than
they recalled Charles the Second, who at prefent reigns, and is generally
beloved by all ranks for his birch, for his virtues and his knowled'^e, and
for the gentlenefs with which he treats iiis people. He at length married the
daughter of John, king of Portugal, by whom he has not yet had any chil-
dren : Ihe is a catholic, on which account we often faw her at fcrvice, and at
mafs on Sundays in her chapel, which is in the palace of St. James's, where
fhe entertains feveral Porciiguefe monks of different orders, who ling and
officiate in the chapel according to the Portuguefe fafliion : fhe was drelTed
in the French mode, although fhe has much of the Portuguefe colour and
make v flie was not above twenty-fix years of age, and the king about
forty.

This garden is of a great extent, fince it includes a park filled with all
forts of deer J a mall above a thoufand paces long, bordered on one fide by
a great canal, on which are to be feen water-fowl of all forts, and an aviary
near it, where are birds of diverfe countries and different plumage, which
ferve to divert the king, who frequently vilits them. There is at the begin-
ning of that canal, upon a pedeftal, a brazen figure of a gladiator, holdino-
his buckler with one hand, and with the other a fword ; the attitude of this
ftatue is much efteemed. The palace of general Monk, who is the kincr's
favourite, looks into this great garden. Moreover, there is to be fcen in
this fuburb the palace wherein they deliberate on the affairs which regard the
kingdom. It is a great building, which they fay was formerly the dwellinor
of the kings of England -, before it is a handfome area or place ; its entry
and fa?ade are ornamented with many figures and other uncommon pieces of
fculpture. One next fees a large hall, like that of the palais at Paris, round
about it are tradefmens fhops and thofe of fome bookfellers, from which a
great ftair-cafe leads into two or three large rooms hung with tapiflry, and
ornamented with very rich furniture and fine pictures.

Near to this palace is the church of Veftminlter, which was formerly an
abbey of the order of St. Benedid, at prefent it ferves as a temple for that
town, and a maufoleum for the kings of England. The moft remarkable
monuments are in the chapels behind the choir ; in the firft they fliewed us
the white marble tomb of the father of the duke of Bukinkam, and that of
king James's mother. From thence we afcended into that of Henry the
Seventh, which for its magnitude merits the name of a church, where in

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the middle appears his tomb and that of his wife, with a balluftrade enclofing
them ; thefe tombs are of bronze or caft brafs, and on the right hand are thole
of the duke of Bukinham and his wife, likewife of bronze j on all thefe
tombs the figures of thofe perfons they contain, are reprefented in a recum-
bent pollute. I do not mention many others of princes and great lords
whicli are in the fame chapels, in order to avoid prolixity in defcribing my
travels, contenting myfelf with faying that there are many fine tombs to be
feen, without entering into a particular defcription, unlefs fometimes of thofe
mod worthy obfervation, as of other things which I fuccindly remark. We
were afterwards conduded into another chapel, where are many tombs of
dukes, wi:h their epitaphs ; from whence we afcended to another, where was
the tomb of St. Edouard, and Jacob's ftone, whereon he relied his head,
when he had the vifion of the angels afcending and defcending from heaven to
earth on a long ladder. This flone is like marble, of a bkieilh colour; it
may be about a foot and a half in breadth, and is enclofed in a chair, on
which the kings of England are feated at their coronation ; wherefore, to do
honour to Ilrangers who come to fee it, they caufe them to fit down on it.
We were fiiewn into another chapel, in which is a remarkable tomb of a
king's favourite and of his wife, and all the figures of the lad kings and
queens reprefented from the life, with all their royal robes and ornaments.

This church of Weflminfter is one of the bell built and largefl in the
kingdom, we v/ent to fee its large cloyfters, which are ftill paved with the
tombs of the monks buried whilfl: it was an abbey. Here begins the great
llreet of* King-llrift, which palTes before the king's palace, and joins at the
crofs-ftreet of + CaringfcrofF. One may from hence in one continued ftreet
crofs the whole city of London, -beginning at the palace of the duke of York,
near to which is to be feen that of the great chancellor, it is a great
building, with four pavillions united by the body of the houfe, which have
no other covering than a large and fine terrace, from whence there is a view
over the neighbouring country and over many gardens, among thefe, at
the diftance of a mile, is J Ay parte, which is the common walk and jaunt
for the coaches of London, where we plainly perceived that the Englifli
ladies are very handfome, and that they know ic very well.

All the houfes of this great ftreet in the fuburbs of Weftminfter arc almofl:
as many palaces, principally thofe on the bank of the river : that of § Nort
• KiBg-ftreet. -f Charing-Crofs. J Hyde-park. § North Hampton.

Ampton

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Ampton is quite a royal edifice, with a garden that joins to the "^harries ;
thole of Durham, of Vorhter, are among the handfoimit. The Fpanifn
ambaflador has his palace hereabouts, near the little exchange ; in all trading
towns there is a place at whicli the merchants affemble to treat of their affairs
and their traffick, in which are the fhops of different tradefmen, who 1;!1 rare
and extraordinary goods, as at a fair, like this little exchange, which is a
kind of hall, adorned with many columns, great portico's, diflinguiffied by-
figures and ftatues of different forts, and farther on the palace of Savoye-,
which ferves for a church for the French Calviniffs. They reckon above
twenty forts of religions in London, every one having liberty of confcience
to live according to his fancy. I was there in Lent, but litile appearance of
it was to be feen, unlefs in the palace of St. Marcel, which belonged to the
deceafed queen mother of England, in the chapel of which there are fome
capuchins, who fay many mafles every day, and on Sundays the fervice is
performed there with great devotion. Thefe capuchins baptife and marry
the catholics of London, and when they go to carry the facrament to any
one in the town, they are drefled like gentlemen, and you would fometimes
rather take them for captains than capuchins, but they are obliged to this
to avoid the infults of the paflengers and lower citizens.

This palace and the church of St. Marcel are in the fame ftreet, which
changes its name according to the different quarters through which it pafles,
here it is called the Strand, which is a great market-place, and an open fpace
or place. There is alfo a hall, in which they plead ; from thence one may
go to fee the Coman Giardin, which is a royal market-place, in the environs
whereof almoft all the foreigners refide, as being t!ie handlbmeff quarter of
the town and nearefl: to the king's palace. In the middle of this market-
place is the king's ftatue upon a pedeftal, and a church, the frontifpiece of
which is fuftained by many thick columns, like the Pantheon at Rome.
There are five or fix great ftreets defcribed by a line, that lead to
L'Lncoln Infields, the fields of Lincolne, which is a fquaic larger than the
place royal at Paris •, the houfes that encompafs it are all built in the fame flile ;
the king has given them to the nobility for their refidence ; the middle is a
field filled with flowers, and kept in as good order as if it was the parterre
of fome fine houfe. * The College of the Univerfity is here to be feen,
which has a garden with a fine terrace, from whence there is a view upon
this fine fquare, which is the ordinary walk of the citizens, f The College

• By this he in all likeliliood meant Lincoln's-Inn, f Gray's Inn.

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of Grezc is a handfome building, it ftands in the ftreet of Holborne, wnich
is one of the largeft in London, fmce it crofles it from end to end, but it
changes its name in the different quarters through which it paflfes. One
cannot better figure the fuburbs of Weftminfter, than in reprefenting to one-
felf the fuburbs of St. Germains at Paris, if the king refided in the palace of
Orleans •, for as to what remains of the walls and ditches of London they
are fcarccly to be perceived, they do not enclofe one fourth of its extent j
it is this center of the town which was burned fome years ago with a very
confiderable lofs of rich merchandize ; the ruin of many palaces, and of
more than fifty churches. It is an altonifhing thing to hear how this general
conflagration happened, which at the diftance of more than ten leagues
feemed like a deluge of fire coming to burn the whole earth ; neverthelefs,
by an order from the king, all the proprietors of houfes which had been
burned were obliged to caufe them to be rebuilt within the fpace of three
years, in default of which, their fites were to be confifcated ; fo that when I
arrived in London, almoft all was finiflied, where, in fome meafure, they
attempted to make the flreets ftraighter and wider. There was a man who
laid a wager, that he would caufc his houfe to be built up from the founda-
tion to the roof in two days, which wager he won : it is true, all thefe houfes
are built only with bricks one upon the other ; they have however fomething
fo handfome in their architeflure, that they feem like little caftles.

It is certain, that if there are as many houfes in London as in Paris, Lon-
don is the moft populous ; principally from the number of hands employed
in the filk and linen manufadlories, and other works of that kind ; not to
fpeak of the fea-faring people, v^ho here are as numerous as the manufac-
turers. In walking through the great ftreet of* Solborne one may obferve
many things. In beginning to leave the fuburbs, you pafs a fmall river,
which formerly ferved to fill the ditches of the city, where there are ftill to
be feen its ancient gates, garnifhed with large towers ; thefe are at prefent
the city prifons. There is a crofs-way ornamented with a fountain, after
pafiing the bridge, to which adjoins the great ftreet leading to the -f- hay-
market ; this is one of the greateft markets in London. Here is the ancient
Hofpital of St. Bartholomew, which at prefent ferves for a kind of Exchange
for tradefmen who have their fhops therein ; and near it the church of
J St. Jones, which was formerly a commandery of the knights of Maltha j

• Holbourne, -f Smithfield, X St. Johns

The antiquarian REPERTORY. ~ 35-

it is not far from the palace or court of juftice, where public aFfairs are regu-
lated. The ftreet of Holbourne begins at this cn.fs-way to take the name
of * Chipfayde, which is the handfomeft ftreet in London, enriched with
many fountains, and with the great Exchange, this was entirely burned,
but at prefent is almoft re-edified, and handfomer than it was before,
for it had a great court furrounded by galleries and great halls, fupported by
columns, with all the figures of the kings of England carved in marble.

It was remarked, that when the fire deftroyed this great edifice, of all
the figures of the kings, there remained only entire the ftatue of him who
caufed this Exchange to be built, and that received no kind of injury. It is
on this Exchange that the merchants commonly alTcmble, to treat of their
affairs reTpefting their commerce to foreign parts -, they, whilft it was re-
building, afiembled at the Change. Here one may meet perlbns afiembled
from all parts of the univerfe, either to procure bills of exchange, to hire
fliipping, to learn news from the army, or the failing of fome particular vef-
fel. In fliort, at London is known every thing that paffes on the fea, and
almoft in all parts of the world, to which they trade ; for it muft be allowed,
that the Englifli well underftand the maritime art, and that they are the true
merchants on all feas, with a marvellous fuccefs and profit. We went to fee
the India-houfe, filled with the great riches of that country, whither the
Englifn go every year, with a fleet of many veflels, which renders this king-
dom one of the moft flourilhing and richeft in Europe.

There is a caftle in London called the Tour ; i. e. the Touver •, it ftands
on the bank of the Thames, which, at high water, fills its ditches, and ren-
ders it very ftrong. This caftle is of a great extent, for it contains many
houfes, and even entire ftrects. We there faw them coin money : there is
none better made, or handfomer, than what is at prefent ftruck in Enaland.
I fhall mention it in the treatife of monies at the end of this voyage. The
great arfenal confifts of feveral great halls, and magazines filled with arms
of all forts, fufficient to equip an army of an hundred thoufand men. Our
conduftor fliewed us a great hall hung with cafques and cuirafies for arming
both infantry and cavalry -, among others were feme which had been worn
by difftreni kings of England in their wars ; they were all gilded and en-
graved in the utmoft perfedion.

We faw the araiour of William the Conqueror, with his great fword ; and
the armour of his Jefter, -to whofe cafque was fixed horns j he had, it is faid,

* Cheapfide,

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an handfome wife. Moreover they fhevved us a cuirafs made with cloves,
another of mother of pearl ; thefe two were locked up in a feparate clofet.
\Ye pafTed into another hall, where there were nothing but mufkets, piftols,
muflietoons, bandeliers, fwords, piques and halberds, arranged in a very
handlbme order, fo as to reprelent figures of many forts. We faw William
the Conqueror's mulket, which is of luch a length and thicknefs, that it is
as much as a man can do to carry ir on his fliculders. We defcended from
this room into another place, where there are the magazines of canons, bul-
lets, powder, and match, and other machines of war, each in its particular
place 1 but after all, this is nothing when compared to that of Venice. It is
true, that I faw in a cabinet in the king's palace, many arms, which for their
beauty and exquifite workmanfhip, furpafled the rareft in the arfenal of Ve-
nice. This was by the permiffion of Monfieur de la Mare, the king's
armourer.

From thence we went to fee the wild beads of all forts, kept in the fame
caftle. Near a great ditch and pit of water, is the place where they precipi-
tate the traitors of the city and country. Cromwell, that mock king, was
thrown there, although it was a long time after his death, for they digged
him up when they difcovered his tyranny and cruelty, as having been the
caufe of the undeferved death of Charles the Firft, father of Charles the
Second, at prefent reigning, as alfo of the civil wars throughout the king-
dom, which has almoft ruined it, as the hiftory of the country relates. But
what is the mod curious thing in this caftle, is a treafury, which is kept
locked up in a large fquare tower, at the four corners of which rife four lit-
tle turrets, as fo many pinnacles, ferving to adorn it. This, as being the
nobleft part of the caftle, is ftiled the Tour, or Touver.

The object moft worthy of being remarked in this treafury is a crown of
maffif gold, covered over with precious ftones, which is ufed for the cora-
nacion of the kings of England ; among thefe ftones is much efteemed an
emerald of great price, of the fize of a fmall egg, * which is in the place
where the crown clofes, like that which is under the globe, reprefenting the
world, which the kings carry in the fame ceremony ; and two royal batons,
or fcepters, one having on it a dove, and the other a crown. We likewife
faw a great bafon of gold of exquifite workmanftiip, which was given to the

* Qui eft au lieu ou fe ferme la Couronne, femblable a celle qui eft delTus du Globe qui
reprefente le mondc que les rois portent dans cette mefme ceremonie.

king

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Icing by a great lord : a little caftle of gold, with all its fortifications and
artillery, which was feven years in making, with feveral other pieces, more
curious to fee than to defcribe. Here is likev/ife to be feen the riches of the
treafury of the kings of England, but for this we muft have acquaintance and
friends of great authority at court. At the gate of this caftie is a Quay,
where we faw many large cannon, as in a neighbouring place to this caftle,
where there were more than two thoufand, to furnifh the frontier garrifons
of this kingdom and the fliips of war.

At the end of this Quay is a long fuburb, which ftretches along the
Thames, and is the refidence of the fea-faring people, waicing for a wind, or
for the loading and unloading of their fhips, which arrive in this fine river
from foreign parts in fuch numbers, that one may call London the moft
famous port in the univerfe. What difpleafes me in London is, that there
are next to no Quays along the river fide, owing to which one cannot have
a view of all thefe veflels, there being only fome fmall ftairs and plat-forms
for loading and unloading the merchandize into and from the (hipping ; for
befides the great depth of the Thames, the water rifes here more than two
fathoms, which affords a fubjeft for admiration, how they have been able to
build London-bridge, which is of ftone, and is in length upwards of four
hundred paces, with nineteen arches ; the houfes that cover it have been
burned and rebuilt ; they are inhabited by many rich merchants. At the
entry on this bridge there is a machine, like the Samaritane of Paris, which
raifes a quantity of water to furnifli the fountains in the fquares and crofs
ftreets of the city, from whence, by means of this bridge, lies the palTage to
* Sodoark, which might pafs for a great city was it encompafled with walls.
We went to fee the -j- Bergiardin, which is a great amphitheatre where com-
bats are fought between all forts of animals, and fometimes men (as we once
law). Commonly when any fencing-mafters are defirous of fliewing their cou-
rage and their great fkill, they ifTue mutual challenges, and before they en-
gage, parade the town with drums and trumpets founding, to inform the
public there is a challenge between two brave mafters of the fcience of de-
fence, and that the battle will be fought on fuch a day. We went to fee
this combat, which was performed on a ftage in the middle of this amphi-
theatre, where, on the flourifhes of trumpets and the beat of drums, the

* Southwark. t Bear-Gardcn.

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38 The ANTIQUARIAN REPERTORY.

combatants entered, ftripped to their fhirts. On a fignal from the dratT5
they drew their fwords, and immediately began the fight, fkirmifliing a long
time without any wounds ; they were both very fkilful and courageous : the
taliell had the advantage over the leaft •, for according to the Englifh fafliion
of fencing, they endeavoured rather to cut than pufh in the French manner,
fo that by his height he had the advantage of being able to ftrike his antago-
nift on the head, againft which the little one was on his guard -, he had in his
turn an advantage over the great one, in being able to give him the jarnac
ftroke, by cutting him on his right ham, which he left in a manner quite
unguarded, fj that, all things confidered, they were equally matched ; ne-
verthelef', the tall one ftruck his antagonifl on the wrift, which he almoffc
cut off-, but this did not prevent him from continuing the fight, after he had.
been dreflcd, and taken a glafs or two of wine to give him courage, when he
took ample vengeance for his wound ; for a little afterwards making a feint
at the ham, the tall man (looping, in order to parry it,, laid his whole head-
open, when the little one gave him a ftroke which took off a flice of his head,,
and almoft all his ear. For my part I think there is an inhumanity, a bar-
barity and cruelty, in permitting men to kill each other for diverfion. The
furgeons immediately dreffed them,, and bound up their wounds, which being
done they refumed the combat, and both being fenfiblc of their refpeftivc
difadvantages, they therefore were a long «-ime without giving or receiving a
wound, which was the caule that the little one, failing to parry fo exaftly,
being tired with this long battle, received a ftroke on his wounded wrift,
which dividing the finews, he remained vanquiftied, and the tall conqueror
received the applaufe of all the fpeftators. For my part, I fliould have had
more pleafure to fee the battle of the bears and dogs, which was fought the^
next day on the fame theatre.

There is at one end of this fuburb two large hofpitals for the poor, near a
field where St. George, with his lance, killed the dragon that ravaged all
the country. In the environs of this place are feveral beautiful pleafure-
houfes •, that of * Pringiardin, is a place of paftime and diverfion for the
young people of London. Near it is the little village of -|- Lambermark, in
which ftands the great caftle of the archbifliop of Canterbury, and the houfe
of a citizen, who has a cabinet filled with all forts of rare and curious things,
generally vifued by ftrangers. London appears on the other fide of the Riverj

I..;- f Spring-Gardens. "; -J- Lambeth-Marfli,

and

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and alfb many fine palaces, vvhich are highly ornamental. I could widi here
was a fine Quay^ that being ordinarily the beauty of and the fineil: walk of mari-
time towns. It was propofed one fhouid be made, and the tiling would have
been done, had it not been oppoled by the owners of the houfes and gardens,
who were fearful of lofing them -, but it would have beea better to have
bought them, as they will do j fince it feems at prefent, that having almoft
rebuilt the whole town, they are defirous of embellifhing it with all the orna-
ments of which it is capable. The River here may be five hundred paces
broad; it is a pleafure to fee the paffing and repaffing of a number of little
barks, that they call bots, fomewhat refembling the gondolas of Venice
which are convenient to fhorten the great diftance by land from one end of
the town to the other, and they go fo fwiftly even againft the ftream, that it
would be impoffible for a poft-horfe to keep pace with them.

Of the many churches there are in Europe, I have not feen a longer, except
St. Peter's at Rome, than that of St. Paul's at London. It has been much,
damaged by the fire, which has deftroyed all the vaults and the top of the
great tower in the middle of the church. It is in length two hundred and
twenty-two paces in the infide, and St. Peter's church at Rome two hundred and
thirty. The portico remains entire, aad is fupportedby eight thick columns
in the manner of that of the Pantheon at Rome, with this infcription, * Ca-
rolus D. G. Magnas Brittanice, Francice & Hybernise Rex. F. D. Tcm-
plum Sancli Pauli vetuftate confumptum reftituit & porcicum fecit. This
church (lands in the middle of the city. In one of its handfome ftreets near
this church ftands -f Londonchton, which is a ftone, in the middle of the
ftreet railed about a foot and a half above the ground -, this it is faid was
placed by William the Conqueror, as a boundary to his conquefts ; others
fay it grew tliere fpontaneoufly. Be that as it may, the coaches, by Ibiking
againft it in paffing, have much diminiflied it •, one muft not fail to obferve
it well, for it is faid, that He has not feen London who has not feen this
ftone. One may alfo go and walk in Moorfields ; thefe are certain meadows
near the town, where there are always Juglers and Merry Andrews. We
•went a mile from thence towards Common Giarden, to fee a little river
called Nieu River, a pare of whofe waters are conduced by fubterraneous

• Charles, by the Grace of God, King of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of
tlie Faith, rebuilt the Church of St. Paul's, confumed by Age, and conftruftcd the Portico,
t London Stone.

40 The ANTIQ^UARIAN REPERTORY.

pipes into the fountains of the city -, near it is a pit or gulf, of which no bot-
tom can be found. Not far from this we were fhewn a fpring, faid to yield
the beft water in London ; the king drinks it at his meals.

There is no kingdom wherein Sunday is better obferved than in England,
for fo far from felling things on that day, even the carrying of water for the
lioufes is not permitted, nor can any one play at bowls, or any other game,
or even touch a mufical inftrumentj or fing aloud in his own houfe, witliout
incurring the penalty of a fine.

[To be continued.]

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THE Tomb of Jenkyn Wyrrall flands in the church-yard of Newland
in Glocefterfliire, a fmall diftance north-eafl: of the Church. He is
reprefented lying on his back, on a fquare or table monument ; his hands
joined, as in the adlion of praying. He has on his head a fort of cap tied at
the top ; on his right fide is his horn fixed in a belt, and on his left a ftiort
crooked fword. The toes of his fhoes are remarkably long and pointed; at
his feet lies a hound with his mouth open, as if juft giving his tongue;

Round about the Tomb, and on the fouth fide, is the following Infcrip-
tion, which is ftill tolerably legible :

Here lyeth Jen. Wyrrall Forfter of Fee the whyche dyflesyd on the
viii daye of September in the yeare of cure Lorde MCCCCLVII On hys
Soule God have mercie. Amen.

Sir Robert Atkyns, in his Hiftory of Gloucellerfliirer gives another
Infcriptipn, which, if it ever exifted, is now totally obliterated. As at pre-
fent there are not the leaft traces of it, probably Sir Robert took it upoa
truft from fome vulgar tradition. His Infcription runs thus :
Here lieth Jenkin Wyrral, Chief Forrefler in Fee
A Braver Fellow never was, nor never will be
He died 1457.

North of this Tomb are two others, of very rude and ancient appearance,
tone faid to contain two daughters, and the other the wife of Jenkyn Wyrrall,-
Two female figures, with their hands in a praying pofture, being carved on
the firft, and a fingle one, in the fame attitude, on the fecond or northern-
moft. They are coarfely cut out of thick grave-ftones, very little elevated
above the ground, and much defaced by time and weather. Thefe are re-
prefented under Wyrrall's Tomb, of which a fouth view is given j the
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A -hrief State of the Account of all Monies Received as well for and towards the Reparation of the Cathedral Church of St. PAUL .n London, after
the Reftauration of King Charles the Second, before the great and dreadful Fire, as for and towards the Rebuilding thereof after the laid Fire, with other
neceflary Works and Expences done and difturfed, in Order to the Beginning of the faid Vvork of Rebudding, to tne \car 1723.

RECEIVED by. Kmg Charles the Second's Gifts i
ofArresrs; of Impropriaiions ; by Fincj and Forfeitures
upon Green Wax, and by Commutation upon Penances ;
by Gifts, Legacies, and Subfciiptions of the Nobility,
Clergy, and Gentry;' by King Charles the Second's
Letters Patents; by old Materials fold, and by ether
Cafualties.

From the i il of Auguft
to the 30th of September

From the i II of Oitober
to the 30th of Aprd

From the id of May
to the laft of September

From the ill of Oflober
to the 4th of February

From the 3d of February
to the 24th of June

Twm the 24th of June
to Michaelmas

prom Michaelmas
to the 24th of Jime

. 1663 I

■ 166SJ
166S [

■ 'p-il
1674 1
■67!]
1676
1677
1678
J679
1680

1683

1684

1685

1M5I

l6S7f

1687 1

1 688 J
t689
1690
1691
1692
1693
1694
1695
1696

'1697
1698
1699
1700
1700 1

1700 I
1700)

1701 J
1702
1703
1704
1705
1706
1707
1708
1709
1710
1711
1712

'T3
1714

1716

■7'7
1718
1719
1720
1721
1722
1723

4,000
7,joo
7,000
8,500
5,000
3. 455
3.745
5.84»

By an Impofition
I Coab by Ad of

Parliament at 4'd
per Clialder, which
commenced lil of
May, i6~o, and
expired at Michael-
mas, 1687.

3,000

7,000
10,000
10,000
7,000
5,000
3,500
3,000

9.9+5

3,000
3,000

2,969 5 4

538 o o

616 o o

I95 18 S

360 o o

!20
3
51

9
5S

141 8

480

436

By an Impofition
on CoalA by Ad of
■liament at l8d
per Chalder, which
commenced at Mi-
chaelmas, 1687, &
expired at Michael-
mas. 1700.

5,410

By Money bor-
rowed on the Cre-
dit of the i8d Adl.

By an Impofition
on Coals by Atl of*'
Parliament at jzd
per Chaldcr, which
commenced at Mi-
chaelmas, 1700, ana
expired at Michael-
mas, 1716.

13.500
22,400
14,600

12,400
21,400
i6,ouo
20,000
It), 200
19,600
17,100
25,800

19.550
19,650

250
50

7.075
6,500

^5,900

9.575

600

By an Impofition' By Money bor-
Coali by Ad of rowed oa the Cte
Parliament at zs dit of the izd Ad,
per ChalJer, which
commenced 15 th of
May, 1708, and
expired 15 th of
May, 1716.

4,100 o

13,058 17

8,370 o

10,191 O

10,4^0 12

14,508 6

a,947 4

10,690 12

10,823 12

11.758 9

13,844 9

5,952 10

12,350 o

12,150 o

16,500 o

^12,568

S.79S

By Money bor
rowed on the Cre-
dit of the 25 Ad.

— J

6,039
36,414
35.045
33.436
23,416

35.35'
31,426

5 i.3°°
39.731

1.400
i.350

2,209

1,392
814

872

500
2,321

2,500

7,500
19,500
28,020
33,620
1^,330
37,020
29,780

i6,6;o

3,700

6.35°

6,200

—

8,500

i|,oeo

10,500
1,000
f.coo

14, 00
2,000

3,000

S,ooo
I ; ,400

*'-745
8,840

15,03s
23,016

5-79;
12,760

504
16,270
20,053

33.395
26.IOJ
17.151
41.709
29,180
20,295

873
501

=.363

9,616 5 iol

7,000
16,966
15.779
29.703
38,980
43,129
27,278
44.351
77.018
63.910
50.982

3°, 769
66.402

49.777
69,801

ne<

r St. PAUL ill London, after
of after the laid Fire,' with other
ir 1723.

All., ,

inclu»d for
of L( wed on
whic'the 2s
beindng '''^
out d to the
Houif.Dean
takinj Minor

WallH ^'-
Wayiie Pur-
the liofthe
]av afoufes.

From tn"
to the!

From th
to the!

From til
to the

Payments for Pur-
chafe of Houfes to
be dcmohlhed.

rotaL

From th^
to the ""

From th«
to the '-

iz9'347 H lOi
28,182 o 4

From thei
to IVi!--

From M..
to the

3,848 o o

6,184 10 o

596 7 o

879
600

14.414 I

23,487 II

14,640

13.734 »2

22,013 4

16,725 7

•i

19,886

33.302 5

25.979 J3

16,899 7

«i-

37.643 8

33,642 14

Si.

20,078 19

10,255 15

6,974 18

16,482 14

'3.9 '9 5

loi

32,084 17

+ ,

36,940 18

iii

44,266 11

loL-

32,223 3

39,840 7

+ .

67.834 H

' r

77.421- '5

1 +

41,908 18

2I-

42.3°' 3

64,426 19

49.763 4

53,885 I

12,686 19

1 • i

5,582 13

"4-

3.939 «•

65-

5,788 19

9i:

PAID for Work, Materials, Salaries, and Incidents,
including the Reparation of tlie Church before the Fire
of London, Repairing the Well-End after the faidFire,
which fucceeded not but fell down, the Walls and Pillars
being perilhed by the Fire. Relineing 194 Tons of Lead
out of the Rubbiih. Repairing the old Convocaiion-
Houfe, building OiRces, making Defign sand Models,
taking down the great and ruinous Tower, and the
Walls and Pillars of the Church, and maintaining the
Ways and CraJnes in the Ifle of Portland. Removing
the Materials, and clearing the Ground, in order to
lay a new Foundation.

from the iH of Auguft

to the 30th of September ■

From the ilt of Oftober
to the 30th of April

From the ill of May

to the lall of September •

From the ill ofOiflober
to the 4th of February

From the 3d of February
10 the 24th of June

From the 2^ih of June
to MIi:h..i.]mas

From M:^;Iiaelm.is
W the 24th of Jun«

16631

i66ti;
- 1668 1

- 1674 J

■ 1674 1

■ >6;5i

1676

1677
1678

1679
I6S0
1681

i63j

1683
168+
1685

1685)

I6S7}
16871
1688 J
1689

1690
1691
1692

1693
1694
169s

1696

1S97
1698
1699

1700

1700 1

1701 1
1702
1705
1704

1707
1708
1709

1710

1711
1712
'713

'7H

■ 715

I7I6

'7'7
1718
1719
1720
1721

S.9°3 4

8,592 8

S.005 12

9.44S 9

9
Hi

12,419

I3>"21 9

14,019 19 o^

10,373 17 loj

2,784

0,710 2

6,651 4

3,153 4

7,164 13

27,687 o

0.464 1

,917 2

,405 17

,647 z

,423 12

,500 7

736 O

463
390

2SS '4
'715 13
,89s 8
,246 19

Principal Money
paid ofF; borrowed
on the Credit of the
i8d Aft.

6.343 13 oj

1722

14,833
12.140

29.43s
33,428
39.S25

25.639
29,199

31-935
27."9
18,879
1,471
18,836
7.788
4.876
2.307
4,231
3,371
5,788
2.372
1.993
3.270
6,57

SJ
loj

3,900

3,5°°
1,000

500

1. 000

3.38°
960
2,960
1,500
12,850
2,200

500

Intereft Money
paid for Money
borrowed on the
Credit of the
Aft.

234
87
89

225
150
458
629
1,683

2,427
1,894
1,632

Principal Money
paid off ; borrowed
on the Credit of the
I2d Aft.

'Principal Money
piid off; borrowed
01 the Credit of the
21 Act.

S"5
950

9;-
4i
4i
9i
9j
31

°1

o J

Intereff Money

paid for Money
borrowed on the
Credit of the iz&

500

800

7,300

3,000

9,200

0,300
10,100

SoSO
2,000

,500

2{,100

zi,430

11,900

24,720
Z[|,8lO

27,740
41,200
5,900

631

1,648

1,778

1.75"
1.74;

■.767 IS 3

1,746 5 o

2,800 12 4

1,558 11 6

1,180 16 8

1,048 5 6

802 14 2

661 5 o

302 10 o

33 6 8

Interclt allowed on Ex
chequer Bills before chi
Time of Purchafe.

Intereft paid foi
Money borrowed or
the Credit of the 2s
Adt, including thi
Interell paid to the
Bifliop, Dean, Dean
and Chapter, Minor
Canons, and Al-
moner, for the Pi
chafe Money of the
demolilhed HouCt

Payments for Pur
chafe of Houfes ii
be demolilhed.

129,347 14 10'

3,848

6,184

596

S79

600

2,45°
100

14,414
23,487
14,640

13.734
22,013

16,725
19,886
33.)02

37.643
33.642
20,078

10,253

6,974
16,482

13.919

32,084

36.940

44,266

32.223

39,840

67,834

77.421

41,908

42,301

64.426

49.763

53.885

12.686

5.i82

3.939

5.;88

4.!82

2.I93

}'i

91
5J
•i
Si

8'.

91
55.

■ 8 si

St
loJ

6£

9J
9i

3£

THE

ANTIQUARIz^N REPERTORY.

To the Editor, of the Antiq.uarian Repertory.

SIR, , -:

I F you think the following Defcription of Auckland is worthy to attend
Mr. Bailey's Drawing, it is much at your Service, from,
Barnard Caftle, Sir, your moft humble Servant,

Nov. 23, 1776. \V. Hutchinson.

THE Callle of Bifhop Auckland is erected on a lofty eminence, at the
confluence of the rivers Wear and Gaundkfsi the acceis from the
town of Auckland being on the weft.

The ground on which this Town and Caftle are placed is of an angular
form, the ftreets are extended on the fides of the angle, and terminate in a
point at the Caftle, the interior fpace being a regular plain, forming a very
fpacious market-place. The northern fide of the town is walhcd bv the
river Wear, the Ibuth-eaft by the river Gaundlefs. The banks are formed
into hanging gardens, and the whole afpeft is extremely beautiful. The
eminence on which the town ftands is near 140 perpendicular feet from the

Vol. II. N" III. M level

46 The A N T I QJUxV R I A N REPERTORY.

level of the plain below : the buildings are erected on the very brink of the
hill pn each fide, which is tteep, in ib much that the roads, leading from the
town northward, are both difagreeable and dilHcult to be defcended on
horleback.

The approach to the Caftle is by an elegant Gothic gate, erected by the
late Lord Bifhop Trevor ; the fouth point opens upon a fine plot, enclofed
on each hand by an embattled wall, terminating in fquare pavilions or turrets ;
the chief buildings in this front confift of fome new apartments, erected by
the late Lord Biiliop, and the elegant Chapel built by Bifliop Coufins : the
Chaoel is in length 84 feet, and in breadth 48 feet ; the outfide is highly
ornamented vj\:h buttrefles and pinnacles of rich tabernacle work -, the infide
of the Chapel is not gaudy, but folemnly magnificent ; the roof is of framed
work in wood, fupported by two rows of round columns, free-ftone and mar-
ble alternate ; the (hafts of the marble pillars 16 feet in length. A plaia
marble on the floor diftinguiflies where reft the remains of the munificent
prelate who ereded the Chapel. Lately a fine effigy of the late Bifhop Tre-
vor has been placed here ; his fine tafle, his erudition, his public and pri-
vate virtues, have left a Lifting and amiable memorial in the minds of thofe
who had the happinefs to know him.

Auckland was anciently a manor-houfe of the Bifliops of Durham, and,
accordino- to Leland's hiftory, firft gained the denomination of a Caftle, in
the time of Biftiop Anthony Beck, but the name of the original founder is
not known, or when it firft became the poflrftion of the Biftiops of Durham,
No part of the ancient edifice remains, bifliop Coufins having fuch an abhor-
rence of the memory of Sir Arthur Hezelrigg, who had poftefled himfclf of
this place, and made it his chief refidence, that as being the houfe of fanati-
cifm and iniquity, he rafed it to its very foundation, and eredled a new palace
after his own plan.

The park afibrds fome of the moft beautiful fcenes the county of Durham
can boaft. The ground near the Caftle is laid out with infinite judgment
and tafte in flopes and terraces, fo applied as to command the greateft variety
of profpeds. The nearer landfcapes are compofed of wild and irregular
woods, bold clifts and eminences, mingled in a pifturefque manner, holding
forth the fimple and unafi'ected beauties of nature : the more diftant are
compofed of rich cultivated grounds, through which the Wear winds its
cojrfe. . . .,

The ANTIQ^UARIAN REPERTORY. ^7-

As you enter upon the park the view is moil confined ; fiately trees arc
fcattcred over tlie inclining lawn, at whofe foot runs the river Gaundlefs
the oppofite bounds of the Itream being formed of a liigh perpendicular cliiT
over whofe brink venerable oaks fufpend their branches •, the hills are broken,
and afford many deep graffy dells and Ihady coppices, the favourite haunts
of groupes of deer.

As you advance, and pafs the fouth-eafl: corner of the bowling-green wall
entering on the north terrace, the country opens upon you, and the landfcape
is excellent. The chief object in the nearer vale is a deer-houfe, beino- a
fquare piazza or cloifter, v/ith a tov.er in the center built of hewn ftone ; in
this the deer have their food in winter. A road winds through the vale, and
by a ftone bridge pafles the Gaundlefs, whofe banks are throneed with a
grove of venerable oaks and alders. To the right the park hangs on a fwifc
defcent : in front, at the diftance of a mile, on a fine lofty fituation, is
Binchefter, the manfion-houfe of Farrer Wren, hfq. built on the Roman
ftation Vinovia, whofe foot is wafhed by the river Wear : the ragged and
fhaken fides of the hill give a piilurefque beauty to this landfcape, contraft-
ing highly with the vale, which is compofedof fine cultivated lands, fcattered
over with coppices and hamlets, opening upon the view for the length of
feven miles, through which you fee the meandring ftreams of Wear in innu- t
merable places, interfered by projecting promontories and little groves. To
the left the lands rife gradually, and are in high cultivation. Here Newton
Cap BriJge, of two arches, crofTes the Wear, above which is feen the man-
fion-houfe of the Bacon family. The moft diftant lands are of a ruder afpect,
being lately inclofed, forming an horizon a painter would choofe, to givp an
advantage to the high colouring of the nearer vale.

The prefent Lord Rifliop is completing and adding to the works of his
predeceflbrs with a princely magnificence.

T M E

48 The AN T I QJJ A RI A N^RE P E R TOR Y*

THE following Letter was communicated by Thomas Aftle, Efq."

Harl^Lib. ■ Sept' ii'\ 1,58—

416.

Sir Christopher Hatton to Sir Thomas Smith. *

MY good Sir Thomas, I thank you much for your happy Letters,
afluring our dear Miftrefs her prefent Health unto me -, pray God
continue it ever. I have one Servant yet free of Infe6lion, which I truft I
may ufe to deliver my care and duty, to my fingular comfort and fatisfaftion,
I have prefumed to fend him, that I may daily know, cither by my own or
yours, the true State of our Miftrefs, whom thro' choice I love no lefs
than He, that by the greatnefs of a Kingly Birth and Fortune, is mofl fit to
have Her. I am likewife bold to commend my moft humble Duty by this
Letter and Ring, which hath the Virtue to expel infectious Airs ; and is, as
it telleth me, to be worn betwixt the fweet Duggs, the chafte Neft of pure
Conftancy. I truft, Sir, when the Virtue is known, it fliall not be refufed
for the value.

Since my coming to this Town, two others of my poor Servants are fallen
fick ; what their Diftemper will prove, is not yet difcerned, but the Phy-
fician feareth the Small-pox. By this occafion I am determined to difperfe
my little Company, and to take my Pilgrimage to Sir Ed. Bricknell's, to
view my Houfe of Kirby, which I yet never furveyed ; leaving my other
Shrine, I mean Holdenbye, ftill unfeen, until that holy Saint may fit in ir>
to whom it is dedicated. I befeech you. Sir, acquaint her Highneis here-
with. I will begone in the Morning betimes, and fo pafs on a folitary Pil-
grimage for my Folk's health, until all peril of Infeftion, may with the open
and be thereby purged out of my difconiblate Body. Within

fix days I will return to Eitham, and there abide the good Call in time
opportune my Commendations to yourfelf, are moft abun-

dant in good will. I pray you therefore impart of them to fuch of my
Friends as you think worthy of them. And fo a thoufand times farewell,
my good noble Friend.

Yours moft aflured,

Chr. Hatton.

* Sir Chriftopher Hatton was Lord Chancellor, and Sir Thomas Smith, Secretary of State.

The antiquarian REPERTORY.

The Defcription of Exglakd continued from Page 40.

IT is not cuflomary to eat iupper in England ; in the evening they only
take a certain beverage, which they call Boctcrdel; it is compofed'of fugar,
cinnamon, bLicter, and beer brewed without hops ; this is put in a pot, fct
before the fire to heat, and is drank hot. The Engiifli have this peculiarity,
that they do not fpeak when any one drinks in their company. Tliis nation
is tolerably polite, in which they have in a great meafure a refemblance to
the French, whofe modes and fafliions they ftiidy and imitate : they are in
general large, fair, pretty well made, and have good faces ; they have a
great refpedlfor their women, whom they court with all imaginable civility.
It is true, they are handfome and naturally k-rious, neverthelefs, they rather
choofe to walk with a young man or batchelor, than with one that is married,
as I have many times obfcrved. They always let at the upper end of the
table, and difpoie of what is placed on it, by helping every one ; they enter-
tain the company with fome pleafant conceit or agreeable ftory. In fine,
they are refpedted as miftrefles, whorn every one is defirous of obeyin^f -, and
to fpeak the truth, England is the paradife of women, as Spain and Italy is
their purgatory. Strangers in general are not liked in London, even the Irifh
and Scots, who are fubjefts of the fame king. The Englifli are good foldiers
on the land, but more particularly fo at fea ; they are dexterous and coura-
geous, proper to engage in a field of battle, where they are not afraid of
blows. By the Spaniards they are more feared than loved, and the Englifli
love the Spaniards, particularly the Portuguefe, more than they fear them.
The eldeft fons of the kings of England bear the title of Prince of * Wall,
which is a province of England, long governed by its own fovereign princes.
The inhabitants of this province are the leaft efteemed of all others in Eng-
land, in fo much that it is an affront to any man to call him -f Vvelchmcn,
that is to fay, a man of the province of Wales ; firnilar to the appellation of
Norman in France, Calabrian in Italy, Galieguan in Spain, Finlander in
Sweden, Swifs in Germany, and Corach in Poland.

There are feveral caftles and royal manfions in the environs of London. I
began feeing them with that of J Hapcancourt. The road is from London
by Chelfea, where there is a caflle, ufed as a prifon for perfons of great qua-
lity. At § Foulon you muft crofs the Thames to y Potne, and from thence

* Wales. f Welchman, J Hampton Court. § Fulhaxn. |] Putney.

YoL. II. N°. III. N afcend

so The ANTIQUARIAN REPERTORY.

aicend over a warren and down a hill to a wooden bridge, near the entrance
of Kingfton, which you muft pafs, and then keep along the park wall of the
royal caftle of Hampton Court. Here ?,;e two great courts, with a large
pavillion on the bank of the Thames, almoft environed by a great park,
filled with all forts of beafts of the chace. Fifteen miles from this is * Vindfor,
and farther on Reding ; thefe are both fine pleafure houfcs on the fame river.
Another day I went from London five miles down the river to fee the arfenal
of t Grenuch, where every year are built many of the largeft fliips of war
conttruded in England. I went exprefsly to fee the launch of that called
Charles the Second ; the king and the queen were both prefent. I had
already feen it on the flocks, and had great pleafure in confidering it in all
its parts ; at the fame time admiring t'le invention of man, who, though (o
diminutive, could make i'o large a n^achine, capable of being fo eafily ma.
nacred on the water by lb fmall a piece of wood as the rudder. The honour
of underftanding the art of fliip building beyond all the nations of Europe,
muft be allowed to the Englifh. I went alfo a mile farther to fee the queen's
caftle at Dertford, which is one of the handfomeft in England, fituated near
the Thames, and on a little river full of large eels. I returned to London,
coafting along the ftiore, where, on the other fide, appears Limehoufe, which,
is at the mouth of a little river, which forms a very good harbour, where
fome veflels are built, as alfo in the fuburb of St. Catherines, which lies on
the Thames fide. One may vifit the caftle of Nieumarket, whither the king
often goes to divert himfelf in walking and hunting. To fee fine works in
linen and filk, you muft go to the ancient convent of the fathers of the Char-
treufe -, but I would not advife you to go to :{: Bridoye, which is near it, for
fear they (hould detain you, unlefs you are defirous of feeing the means ufed
to difcipline and reduce, by force, to good manners, thofe that will not be
kept within bounds by reafon and gentle ufage.

I propofed to myfelf to have meafured the circumference of London, but
•when I faw that the city did not contain half the houfes, and that it v/as greatly
exceeded by the fuburbs, which extended by an infinity of different branches
into the country, fo that it would have taken up feveral entire days in the
doing, I contented myfelf with knowing, that in fix hours one might per-
ambulate its circumference and length ; beginning by St. James's palace, the
dwelling of the duke of York, to the fuburb of St. Catherines, near Lime-
houfe, was two good hours work.

• Windfor. f Greenwich. % Bridewell.

Its

The ANTIQ^UARIAN REPERTORY. 51

Its breadth, which is through that fine ftreet called * Bichoftritrffocr, and
over London-bridge, with the adjoining fuburb of Southwark, may be walked
in lefs than an hour. You will pleafe to obferve, that the greateft part of the
ftreets of London are handfome and ftrait, and their plans eafily to be con-
ceived. There are fix great ftrects which go from eaft to weft, in the center
"of the town, thefe are croflcd by nearly as many otiicrs whofe diredlions are
from north tofoiuh, terminating on the bank of the Thames. There are no
great rejoicings made in London, except on Chriftmas-day, and fometimes
alfo after Eafter. In England, they make ufe of the ancient Calendar fornied
by the emperor Julius, wherein the year begins with the firft day of March,
which firft day of March anfwers to the tenth of March of our Calendar,
inftituted by pope Gregory, and followed by all the catholic kingdoms ; as
is the ancient one, by all thofe profeffing the Calvinift and Lutheran reli-
gions, by which means many great holidays do not fallout at the fame times,
in thefe different almanacks, as was the cafe when 1 was in London, when
Eafter happened many days after it was over in France.

I left London in the common Oxford waggon, which paftes through
Afton, Saihal, where the woods reach to Helenden, Uxbridge ; this town is
the laft in the kingdom of ElTex. The kingdom of England is commonly
divided into feven kingdoms and one principality : thefe are the kingdoms
of Northumberland, of Mercia, of the Eaft Angles, of Eftex, of Kent,
of Suflex, of Weft-fex, and the principality of Wales, which is divided into
two parts, and all thefe kingdoms and parts are divided into fifty-two coun
ties, called f Shireries ; from this laft town, we found a woody country to
Beconfield, and further on we defcended to the fide of a little river, and fol-
lowed its courfe, by a number of mills for fulling fluffs (made in great
quantities thereabouts) to Wickham ; and ftill following this little river,
entered among mountains covered with wood, and paficd by Wikferham,
where leaving the river we afcended fome woody mountains to Odfock ; here
are a chain of mountains of great extent, which we defcended to Pofcomb
and Scretford ; from whence we pafled a great bridge over the Thames near
Watlir ; leaving which, we muft pafs a high mountain covered with wood
and heath, in defcending of which the town of Oxford appears, but before
you enter it you muft pafs the river over a great bridge.

• Bilhopllreet Gate, t Perhaps, Shires.

OXFORD.

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OXFORD.

Oxford is fituated by the fide of the Thames, and in the middle of large
meadows, which render its environs very pleafant. There are but two
Univerfuies in England, thefe are at Cambridge and Oxford, but the Colleges
of the latter are the handfomeft and bed endowed. On my arrival, I pafled
by the phyfic garden, enclofed by ftrong walls of hewn ftone -, it is filled with
uncommon plants and fimples, which were given to the Itiidents in phyfic
by the Earl of D'Amby, as appears by an infcription over the great gate. I
made an acquaintance with a young phyfician, who feeing me walking in
the garden came and joined me, an<ing me, if in my country there was a
handfomer or better kept ; but having anfwered, that that at Paris greatly
furpalTed it, he begged me to defcribe it to him, as well as that famous city.
He condudled me over the whole p:arden, pointing out to me what was mod
remarkable and curious, and afterwards would fhew me the fineft Colleges
of that Univerfity : they reckon eighteen, among which four are much
efteemed ; thefe are, Univerfity College, tliat of Magdalene, of St. John,
and * Chriftdchoidh, which is the handfomeft of the four, for it is more like
fome fine caftle, or great palace, than a College ; it is built with great hewn
ftone, and has a large court, furrounded by great buildings, with a terrace
on the top, and a fine walk encompafled with balluftrades. When the king
comes to Oxford to divert himfelf, he lodges in this College.

Two great principal flreets, in a manner form the plan of this town ; that
of -f- London-root is the largeft ; it begins near the Phyfic Garden and Mag-
dalene College, which was built and endowed by a bifliop. It is not the
largeft in the town, but it is the handfomeft, and the moft ornamented with
portico's, figures, and columns, which fuftain the galleries furrounding the
great court; not to fpeak of its church, one of the beft built in the town.
In this great ftreet are feveral of thefe Colleges, and the great Market-place
before the Cathedral Church, which has a high bell tower of ftone, making
the corner of a ftreet, where ftands Univerfity "College. This young phy-
fician Ihewed me the Library •, I never faw a larger or handfomer, nor books
arranged in better order. All the fcholars and ftudents of the town are per-
mitted to make ufe of it, but left any of the books might be taken away
they are made faft by a chain fixed to the llielves. I was ftaewn in the fame

• Chrift-Church. f London Road,

Library

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Library fome Manufcripts, written by many ancient philofophers, fome of
them adorned with gold and filver ; and alfo fome books, in which were
painted the arms of all thole who had contributed to the embcUirnment of
this great Library, to which not long ago a doctor had bequeathed his Li-
brary, which was filled with many exceeding fcarce books. By the fide of
this Library is a great Hall, hung with maps of all parts of the world, and
where are to be feen piclures of all the philofophers, whofe works are to be
found in this Library, Behind this Library is to be feen the great amphi-
theatre, which the archbilhop of Canterbury has caufed to be built at a great
expence ; this great llreet pafles to a crofs-way, where is a fountain with
four faces, called * Kaifex, and the Town-hall with its clock.

At this crufs-vvay begins the ftcond great llreet, that pafles before the
College + Chriftdchiofdh, and terminates at the bridge over the Thames,
which is navigable from London for boats, that brins hither diverfe mer-
chandizes. There are fcarcely any walls about Oxford, but there is to be
feen a Itron" Caftle, elevated on a little hill at one of the ends of the town
having large ditches on one fide, and the river on the other, with ftrong
ramparts and thick walls, but nothing within them but the high fquare tower
of the Donjon, made of large fquared ftones, it having been ruined at the
time of the wars of Cromwell, who ravaged all England, and filled it with
cruel feditions. There is a pretty good Church in the llreet of Stoolftrit,

Leaving Oxford, you pafs the Thames over a great bridge, and afterwards
over a caulcy in a large meadow -, from hence you afcend to a woody and
defart country, where there is a warren, in which are more rabbits, than
leaves on the trees ; for generally througliout England, rabbits are fo plenty
as to be worth only J five Ids a-piece. In this warren there is a CaUle, and
farther on Faifil and Forington. In leaving this town, I got fo much out of
my road to Briftol, that 1 was loft in the fields and meadows a long time,
until I found a man whj, for my confolatton, told me I ihould have great
difficulty to get again into the right road.

* Carfax. t Chrift-Church. J About two-pence halfpenny,

[ To be continued. ]

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To the E D I T o R of the A n t i qjj a r i a n R e p e r t o r v»
SIR,

TH E Article of Sir Francis Walfingham in the Biographia Britaiiaica,
as well as all the other more ancient Hiftories and Accounts of this
great minifter, are defedive in a material point. None of them inform us
of the date of the year of his birth, or his age at the time of his death. Dr.
Johnftone, an eminent phyfician in Kidderminfter, is poflefled of an ancient
Portrait of Sir Francis Walfingham, which fupplies that dtfeft in his Hiftory,
and afcertains that point. The following dates are printed on the Portrait :
^Etatis fu£E 42. Anno Dom. 1578.
The Portrait is highly finifhed and in excellent prefervation, and is be-
lieved to be one of the capital performances of Zuacharo, who painted for
the court of Queen Elizabeth. The infi^rting thefe dates belong to your
plan, and I fhould be glad to fee a good Engraving of the Portrait given in
your Work, being your conftant reader,

HISTORICUS.

Sir Francis died in 1590, only 54 years old.

JEDDEWORTH MONASTERY.

THE Monaftery of Jeddeworth in Scotland being fo wafted and impo-
veriflied by the Scottifti wars, and incurfions of enemies, that it was
unable to maintain the canons thereof, nor they able to refide there in fafety
to ferve God. The king 'Ed. I.) thereupon, out of his piety and eccle-
fiaftical prerogative, fent fome of them to other religious houfes of the fame
order in England, to be there received and maintained, till that Houie was
repaired and reftored to a better condition, as this writ for Ingerim de Colonia
to the Prior and CoQvent ot Bridlington, aflfures us.

Rex

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Claus 28 Ed. I. m. 17. 1
intus pro Ingelramo
de Colonia Canonico
domus de Jedde-
wOrth.

Rex diledis fibi in Chrifto Pdori & Conventui de
Bridlington, falutem. Mittimus ad vos fratrt-m, Ingel-
rarum de Colonia Canoniciim Domus dc Jeddeworth
in Scotia ordinis veftri, prslentitim portitorem -, inqua
quidem Dome idem Ingelramus ad famulandum ibidem altifTimo, ut deceret
hiis diebus, facere moram nequir, turn propter incurfus hoftium, turn quia
Domus ilia per frequentes guerras Scotia habitas adeo lapfa eft facultatibus
et deftrucla, quod ad lliftentationem Canonicorum ejuidem ipfius non fuppe-
tunt facultates : Devotionem veilram rogantes attenti, quatinus Jikclum
Ingelramum in Domum vcftram ad defervicndum ibi Deo, Tub habitu veftro
inter vos, juxta proftfTionis fujE votum, Dei intuite noftrifque precibus ad-
mittatis et fraterna charitate in Domino pertradletis lakim quoufque didta
Domus de Jeddeworth relevetur et in melius reformetur. Telle Rege apud
Ebor. 16 die Novembris. An. 28 E. 1. A. D. 1300.

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HARROW ON THE HILL.

HARROW on the Hill is well known for its very elevated fituation,
which makes it a fti iking point of view in many parts of the adjoin-
ing counties. King Charles the Second, hearing or reading of fome fcho-
laftic diiputes refpedting which was the vifible Church, merrily decided it in
favour of Harrow.

It ftands in Middlefex, about fifteen miles north-weft from London. Tlie
Church is a very ancient and handlome building, and had two Chantiies
founded in it, one by William de Colco, and the other by one Kynton •,
the firrt was endowed with a mefTuage and ninety-four acres of land, and
four fhillings and four-pence farthing rent, for a Chaplain to celebrate mafs
daily for ever, for the good eftate of himfelf, the ArchbiOiop of Canterbury,
the Rectors and Vicars of this parifh, and all the Parifliioners. Here are
interred divers of the Flamberds, lords of the Hamlet of that name; and
here are feveral ancient funeral brafTcs. Harrow is likewife famous for its
excellent Grammar School, founded by Mr. John Lyons in the reign of
Qutcn E'izabeth, which atthis time almofl: vies with thofe of Eaton, Weft-
tninller, and Winchefler.

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The fcholars of this School had an annual ciiftom, on the fourth of Augufl-,
of fliooting for a filver arrow, at which time they were drefled like archers ;
this cuftorn has within a few years been difcontinued.

The manor of Harrow was given to the Church of Canterbury at a very
early period, but by whom is not recorded ; it was taken away from them
by Kenulfe, king of the Mercians, and recovered in the year 822, together
with feveral other lands, by V/ilfred, Archbifhop of Canterbury, and con-
tinued in that fee till the reign of King Henry the Eighth, when Archbilhop
Cranmer, in the thirty-feventh year of that King's reign, afligned it to him
and his heirs for ever, in exchange for fome other lands and parfonages. It
was afterwards fettled by the King on Ch. id's Church, Oxford, which he
was then building and endowing •, but this difpofition was not permanent,
for King Edward the Sixth, in the firft year of hi s reign, gave the advowfons
of the reftory and vicarage to Sir William Herbert, knight, and the manor
to fome other perfon ; but the manor and vicarage were lately in Sir John
Rufhour, and the impropriation of the reclory in Sir Charles Gerrard.

The Church here was both a reflory and a vicarage •, the reftory was a
fine-cure, to which the Archbifhop collated a redlor, who thereupon became
patron of the vicarage, which was endowed by St. Edmond, Archbifhop of
Canterbury, with the bread, candles, and all other things, which are wont
to be offered at the altar ; as alfo with the whole tithes of lambs, wool,
cheefe, butter, milk, colts, calves, goats, bees, certain portions of hay,
pawnage, mills, flax, hemp, bark, eggs, merchandizes, and other fmall
tithes, referving to the faid reftor the tithes of corn, pulfe, hay, patlure, &c.

A remarkable ftory, refpedling this place, is told of one William Bolton,
Prior of Great St. Bartholomew in Smithfield, who, it is faid, being greatly
afraid of a fecond deluge, which fome aftrologers had foretold would happen
in 1524, built himfelf a houfe on the highcft ground in this village, and
vifluailed it for two months, his pxample being followed by many perfons
of all ranks.

In this View the Church and School are both feen.

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TO perfons unacquainted with the unpoliflicd manners of this country in
ancitnt times, accounts of che rude fports and low buffoonery formerly
relifhed, and even rewarded, by people in high rank, ieem hardly credible ;
neverthelcfs, ancient records irrefragably prove, that lands were held, by
royal charters, under fuch conditions, and by fuch feats, as would now be
reckoned infufferably low even in St. Giles's, Billingfgate, Wapping, or
Rag Fair.

A ftriking inftance of thefe rude manners occurs in a very curious and
authentic manufcript, a copy of which is in the pofi'efTion of Thomas Aftle,
£fq. containing, among other things, the private cxpcnces of King Edward
the Second, wherein it appears that crofs and pile, or toHlng up heads or
tails (as it is now called) was a royal diverfion -, that the King travelled in a
returned barge, which had conveyed faggots to his court, and was not only
highly delighted with the coarfe humours of a buffoon dancing on a table
and another falling feveral times from his horfe, but alfo deemed them worthy
of a reward.

All thefe fadts are mentioned in the above cited Record, a tranfcript of
which here follows ; it is written in the French of that time, which as it may
not be underftood by many even converfant in that language as now fpoken,
a tranflation is annexed :

Item paie a Roi mefmes pur Jewer a Cros et pil par les meins Richard de
Mereworth refcevivant les Deniers xij"*. •

Item paie illoq a Henri Barber le Roi pour Den" qu il a prefta au Roi pur
Jewer a cros a Pil de Donn v s.

Item paie illoq a Peres Barnard Huifffherde la Chambre le Roi, qui prcda
au Roi, Deniers quil perdift a Cros et pil cd Mons. Robt Wattewylle de
Donn. viii. s. ^

Item paie au Roi mefmes poor jewer a cros et pil od Peres Barnard ij*.
Item paie a Sire Will de Kyngeflon pour cheux qu'il achata pour foire er.t
Porage en la Bat.

Jecdi le xvij"' Jour d'Oiftobre a Walton, Paie a Shene a Jake de Hoggef-
v/orth. Henr. de Huftrete. Rob' Sea-lour Hen'' May, Robyn Stronball,
John Warwyn, Henry Smallfponne, pour les Gages de fes vij Shouters vad-
lets en la flioute. Thome atte Lefe prenant chefcun iij''. le Jour del Mardi

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le XV, Joiir d'Odl''. tantque Vendredi le xriij Jour de mefme le mois pour
iiij Jours accomptez amenantz de Byflete tantque Shene XV' xl. Fagot en un
Baat pour ma Dame !a Defpenfer fojournant au dit Shene, et amenant le Roi
de dit Shene par Ewe en la dite Shout tantq. Cyppenham vij'.

£ xi Jour de March. Item paie a Jak de Scint Albon Peynt'. le Roi qui
daunfa devant le Roi fur une Table et lui fifl: tres grantement rire de Donn
par les meins propres le Roi, en eide de lui fa feme et fes Enfauntz. 1. s.

Item paie a la logge de Wolmer quant le Roi chacea illoq au Cerf a Morris
Ken de la Kcfine parceqil chevauchaft illoq devant le Roi et cheuft fouvenc
de fon Chival de quex le Roi rya grantement de Don par Com. xx%

In Englilh.

Item paid to the King himfelf to play at Crofs and Pile by the Hands of
Richard de Mereworth the receiver of the Treafury 12 pence.

Item paid there to Henry, the Kings Barber for Money which he lent to
the King to play at Crofs and Pile 5'.

Item paid there to Peres Barnard U (her of the Kings Chamber money which
he lent to the Kino; and which he loft at Crofs and Pile to Monlleur Robert
"Wattewylle eight pence.

Item — paid to the King himfelf to play at Crofs and Pile by Peres Bar-
nard two Shillings, which the s"* Peres won of him. Item paid to Sir Wil-
liam de Kyngefton, for Cabbage which he bought to make Potage in the
Boat.

Tuefday the 17"' day of Oflober at Walton, paid at Shene to James
Hoggefworth, Henry de Auftrate, Robert Sealour Henry May Robyn
Stronball, John Warwyn and Henry Smallfponne for the Wages ofthefeven
Bargemen working in the Barge or Boat, and Thomas Atte Lefe, each taking
2^ per day from Tuefday the 15"* day of 06tober to Friday the 18''' day of
the fame Month, reckoning four days, and bringing from Byflete and Shene
15,40 Faggots in a boat for mf Lady la Defpenfer refiding at the faid Shene,
and bringing the King from the faid Shene by Water in the faid Skoot or
Barge to Cyppenham vi]'".

The n"* day of March, Item paid to James de Saint Albans the Kings
Painter v.'ho danced before the King upon a Table, and made him laugfi
heartily, being a Gift by the Kings own hands, in aide to him, his wife and
Children 1 s.

Item

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Item paid at the Lodge at Wolmer when the King was Stag Huntino-
there, to Morris Ken of the Kitchen becaufe he rode there before the Kin"-
and often Fell from his Horfe, at which the King laughed exceedingly.
A Gift by command 20'.

To the Editor of the A n t i q^u arian Repertory.

SIR,.

THE following I have tranfcrlbed from fome manufcript Trafts lately in the
Poffeffion of Anllis, Garter King at Arms; if it comes within the Plan
of your Undertaking, give it a Place, and you'll oblige,

Yours,

T. N.

*' ' I ^ HE fimple ruftic, who ferves his fovereign in the time of need to
A the utmofl extent of his ability, is as deferving of our commenda-
*' tion as the vidorious leader of thoufands," was a faying of king Charles
to Richard Pendrell, at the time he was introduced to his Majefty after the
reftoration. " Friend Richard," rejoined the King, " I am glad to fee thee,
" thou were my preferver and conductor, the bright ftar that fhewed me to
" my Bethlehem, for which kindnefs I will engrave thy memory on the
" tablet of a grateful heart." Then turning to the Lords about him, the
King faid, " My Lords, I pray you refpefb this good man for my fake."
After this kind treatment, becoming his Majefty's greatnefs, he very merrily
faid, " Mafter Richard, be bold and tell thefe Lords what pafled amongft
" us, when I had quitted the Oak at Bofcobel to reach the Pit-Leafow."
— " Your Majefty muil well remember," replied Richard, " that night when
" brother Humphry brought his old mill-horfe from * White-Ladies, not
" accoutred with kingly gear, but with a pitiful old faddle and a worfe

• White-Ladies, fo called from its having been a monaftery of Ciftertian nuns, whofe habit
was of that colour. This houfe is twenty-fix miles from Worcefter, and half a mile from
Bofcobel; and for many years a feat of the Giffards, of the antient and loyal family of Chil-
Jington. To this GifFard the King was much indebted for his fafety, when fought after by the
regicides.

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*' bridle ; not attended with f royal guards, but with half a dozen raw and
" iindilcipiined ruftics, who had little elfe but good will to defend your
" Majefty with-, 'twas then your IMajefty mounted, and as wejournied to-
" wards Mofeley you did moft heartily complain of the jade you rode on,
" and faid it was the dulled creature you ever met with : to which my bro-
" ther Humphry replied, ' My Liege, can you blame the horfe to go hea-

• vily, when he has the weight of three kingdoms on his back?' " at which
" your Majefty grew fomewhat lighter, and commended brother Humphry's
" wit." In like manner did this poor peafant entertain Charles and his
courtiers until his Majefty thought proper to difmifs him, but not without
fettling a fufficient penfion on him for life, on which he lived within the
vicinity of the .court until the eighth of February, 167 i, (twenty years after
the fatal battle of Worcefter) when he died much lamented by his Majefty
and other great perfonages, whom he had prote6led from favage barbarity
and fanatical perfecution. His royal mafter, to perpetuate the memory of
this faithful man, out of his princely munificence, caufed a fair monument
to be railed over him in the church-yard of St. Giles's in the Fields, near
about the eaft end of the church, on which ftone is engraven as follow:

Here lies Rich* Pendrell, Prefervcr and Conduftor to his Majefty Kincr
Charles the Second, after his Efcape from Worcefter Fight, in the Year

• 1651, Diedfeb. 8"^ 167 1.

Hold Pafl'enger here's Shrouded in this Hearfe,

Unparrallell'd Pendrell, thro' the Univerfe

Like when the Eaftcrn Star from Heav'n gave Light

To Three loft Kings, lb he in fuch Dark Night,

To Britain's Monarch, tois'd by Adverfe Wars

On Earth Appear'd a fecond Eaftern Star,

A Pole, a Stern, in her Rebellious Main,

A Pilot to her Royal Sovereign.

Now to Triun>ph in Heav'ns Eternal Sphere

He's hence Advanc'd for his juft Steerage here

Whilft Albion's Chronicles with M^ttchlefs Fame

Embalm the Story of Great Pendrells Name.

• \ The King's attendants were, William, John, Richard, Humphrey, and George Pendrell ;
r.nd Francis Yates, a fervant to Mr. Giffard,

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^ntiqm'tiejs Cornu-ljn'tanm'cB ; Or

Obfervations on an ancient Manufcript written in the Cornifh Language,

Viz. On the Manufcript itfelf. On the Defcriptian of the Pafp.on contained
therein. On the Tongue in which the Paffion is defcribedy and the Properties
thereof, and kow it relates to, and concerns the People and Places of
Cornwall.

CONCERNING the Manufcript itfelf, (which is the ground of the fa-
brick) the firft thing that prefents itfelf is the outfide, which is not polifli-
ed, but in a homely, humble fimplicicy, and written upon a rough old vellum,
which may be fuppofed to be before parchments here came much into ufe;
and by the rude piftures fet out therewith, it may feem to be before the art
of painting became better amongft us.

Next to behold the Chyrography thereof, written in no other than the
old Court Hand, not of the bell form, but feeming fomewhat older than we
find it in other places, and fome of the letters and charafters different from
the common Court Hand.

As to the Speech itfelf, it is fuch as the common fpeakcrs of the Cornifli
now ufed here do not underftand, nor any but fuch as will be at the pains to
ftudy it, no more than the common fpeakers of the vulgar nation of the
Greeks do at this day Homer's Iliad. So the Lord's Prayer in the year 700
was thus in Englifh : Vren fader thic arth, &c. In 900, Thu ure fader the
cart on heofenum.

As to the Antiquity thereof, we obferve the name of our Saviour is all
along written IHS, after the old form ufed in crucifixes, and then alfo the
name written Chrell, not Chrift. So we find it written in Tacitus, Suetonius,
and in fome other Roman authors it may be found. So Chriftians were called
Chreftians, as Tertullian obferves, Apol. c. 3. * and fo the vulgar in Cornifh
fpeak it Chreft, and not Chrift.

In tliis old Piece are no words antiently interniixt of the Saxon tongue

or Angles, which faevvs, in all probability, that it was written before their

time at leaft, if not much farther oft ; whereas the common fpeech of it now

carries much of thofe latter figures, to the disfiguring of the face thereof.

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But of all other iiitermixions, it feems to receive in it (with a kind of de-
light) the tongue of the Romans, by whom the people were eafily brought
to take up that tongue which they brought with them, and afterwards more
and more by degrees in fucceeding times. The Roman fpeech was inter-
woven with the Cornifli, out of a natural propenfity to it, as that tongue
came to be ufed of all other nations afterwards, as was obferved before.

Another argument there is (and that which is to be admired and rejoiced
at) that in this old piece of the Paffion, there is nothing heretical, little of
error to be found, or favouring of ill opinions, which is ftrange, fince it has
pafled through fo many ages, in which fo many ill broods have been hatched,
and, amongfl: others, one of our own, the Pelagian herefy ; a brat bred here
amongft us at Bangor. Nor is there any mention made of any monaftical
perfons, or feveral orders of men fo living. Nothing that refers to Monks,
Friars, Priors, or to any other orders, fecular or facred ; nor any thing faid
in approbation or diflike of any fuch thing.

There is nothing in it favouring of the old bards or their poetry, nor hav-
ing references to Merlyanifmes, but a bare and fober relation of matter of
fa£t. II. As to the defcription of the Paffion and RefurrecStion of our Saviour,
I cannot again but admire, that it is fo unpolluted with the Arian or Pelagian
herefies. There are, it is true, fome inoffenfive and harmlefs traditions, and
a word may be let flip of the Virgin Mary ; and in thofe traditions you
may obferve the concurrence of others. And, firft, concerning this Longis :
it is to be enquired whether he be not that Longinus mentioned in our Ca-
lendar on the fifteenth of March, or that Longinus on the firft of Decem-
ber: for of Longinus there is the fame hiftory to be found in Picinellus his
Mundus Symbolicus* ; whofe words are : D. P. Comeftor ad Longino vitio-
fos et caligantes fuifle oculos, cum vero fluente.m in Chrifti latere fanguinem
cafu illis admovilTet, videndi acumen recepiffe. In eandem Sententiam canic
S. G. Nazianzenus +

Ubi fixit haftam, defluentis fanguinis
Tinftam liquore et ecce ! ut utraque manu
Haufit, oculofque hoc ungit hinc ut fcilicet
Detergat oculum nofle, que cera legit, &:c.

When into Chrift he thrud his tainted fpear
Loe unto both his hands the blood flow'd there
"Wherewith he anoints his eyes and then faw clear
Which like the night till that time blinded were.

* Tit. Dij. et Homines, 1. 3. p. 457. cap. 163. f Gi. Naz. in Trag.

Mr.

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Mr. LafTclls, in his Voyages into Italy, tells us, that the pidure of Lon-
ginus {lands under the top of the fpear with which Chrift's lide was pierced,
in the cupola at St. Peter's church at Rome. It may be conjeftured, that
this tradition owes its origin to the literal fenfe of that prophecy ; They fliould
look on him whom they had pierced.

For the wood of the crofs, (another of the traditions) Genebrard's account
thereof, as reported by Purchas in his Pilgrimage, p. 30, comes fomewhat near
it, which is, that Seth went to the Cherub which kept Paradice, and received
three grains of the Tree of Life, whereof we read in the Apocalypfe, The
leaves fhall heal the nation. With thefe three grains was an oil made, where-
with Adam was anointed, and the ftones put into his mouth, v\ hence fprang
the tree whereof the crofs of our Lord was made, hidden by Solonon in the
Temple, and after in the pool of Bethefda ; according to which, in a church
•window at St. Neott, is one piftured putting fomcthing under another's
tongue, with this infcription, Hie Seth ponit tria Grana fub lingua Ads,
If any one lift to fee farther about the timber whereof the Crofs was made,
let him read Mr. Evelyn's Sylva, c. 3. Num. 17. As to that of the S.nich's
wife, in forming the nails for the crucifixion, perhaps they might think,
that as the firft woman had the firfl: hand in the tranfgreffion, fo a woman
muft be employed in the laft a6l of this tragedy. We may obferve, i. What
true and manifell notions thefe antient people had, and faithfully retained, of
the Trinity, and the reverence they gave them.

2. How diftinftly and clearly they did fet forth, in thofe dark days they
lived in, the fcveral diftinfl attributes of the Deity, affigning power to the
ther, Wifdom to the Son, Goodnefs to the bleffed Spirit.

3. How well they agree and adhere to the doftrine of the true church of
Chrift, in the points maintained by us concerning thelofs and fall of man
and mankind, and the reftoration of him, and concerning the eternal decree
and purpofe of God in the falvation of man, notwithftanding his fall.

W'e may obferve by the Refurredlion, thus fhortly declared as it is, that ic
appears plainly that thofe people were not Nullyfidians.

Nor were they Solyfidians.

They placed the foundation of their happinefs in belief.

And the fuperftruclion thereupon in good works.

Laftly, we cannot think, they were any way inclinable to the minds of thofe
fcoffcrs at the day of judgment, which St. Peter meets with in his fecond

Epiftle,

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Epidle, 2. 9 and lo. Our people acknowledged, that at the great day of
account a piiniOiment ftiall be upon the wicked, and a glory expeded to be
eiven to the godly. Thus far as a tafte only of what is contained therein.

in. On the Tongue in which the Paflion of our Saviour is thus
defcribed, we have, among other things, fuch as thefe obfervables :

1. The Idiom

2. The Innocency and Cleannefs.

3. The Wildom

4. Significances of it.

I. For the Idioms. They put the fubftantive before the adjun£l or adjeftivc.
2. The prepofuion fometimes comes after the noun. 3. It is ufual to change a
letter in the beginning, middle, or end of a word or fyliable, and fometimes
to omit in each for found fake. 4. They contradl feveral words into one for found
fake, and that very fliort alio, with many other changes, of which it is
hard to know or find any certain rule now, but fome may be made out upon
readincr, due obfervation and experience had on this that follows ; and for
the pronunciation, the Cornifli is not to be gutturally pronounced as the
Welfh for the moil part is, nor mutteringly as the Armorick, nor whiningly
as the Irifli (which two latter qualities leem to have been contradled from
their fervitudes) but muft be lively and manly fpoken, like other primitive
tonaues. 11. For the Innocency of it, what is moil remarkable is, that it hath a,
moil excellent defective qualification in it peculiar to itfelf; for whereas
all other tongues abound in execrable oaths, the old Cornifli have none at
all, not ib much as reproachful terms. The word that comes neareft to an
oath with them is Areire, Areiaree, which is Mary, Mary, fpoken by way
of wonder. The next good defedive qualification is, that there are no great
titles in it, which Nutricule Tyrannidis. iii. FortheWifdom. Proverbs (which
contain ufually the wifdom of a nation) they have had, but we cannot find
them in any great plenty. Yet fome there are worthy obferving, as thefe :

Cows nebas Cows da ncbas an yeveren an gevella.

Speak little, fpcak well, little of public matter is beft.

Cows Nebas Cows da hada Veth Cowfas arta.

Speak little, fpeak well, and well will be Ipoken again.
Taw Tavas, Be filent Tongue. To call one Tavas Tavas, Tongue Tongue,
is as great a reproach as you can put upon any one.

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Reys yw meeras dueth ken lemmell uneth.

Look twice before you leap once. '

Neb na gare y gwayn coll reftewa.

He that loves not gain, lofs befall him.

Neb na gare y gy an gwra deveeder.

He that loves not his dog will make him a choak flieep.

Nyn ges goon heb lagas na kei hebs fcovern.

There is no down without eye nor hedge without ears.

Na reys gara anvor goth ragan vor noweth.

Do not leave the way old for the way new.

Howl footh tor lean paravy's an guaynten.

A South fun full belly full belly pleafure of the fpring.

Guel gw gwetha vel goofen.

Better keep than afk. — This is fpoken of a warinefs and precaution
concerning lending.

Grova da rag tha hannen te yn gurd.

Do good for thyfelf thou dofh it.
4. Significancy of the Tongue. Adam gave names to the creatures, ac-
cording to their natures : but the people of this land, having no better guide,
have given names upon long experience had, and much obfervation made,
of the nature of things, and thole do moftly appear now as to places and
families. I fhall adventure upon fome inftances :

Lancefton, alias Dunhevet. Cambden would fain have it to be Fanum Ste- Lancepn.

phani ; indeed St. Stephens, which is a mile off, feems to be the Mother

Church ; Lancefton the Daughter Church. Otherswouldhave it to be Lancelot's

Town, one of the Champion Knights of King Arthur, but that is farther from

truth. The Chief Juftice Fofter, talking with me about it, would fain

have Dunhevet to be the moftantient name, from Dune a town, and Hevet

above it, which there is accordingly. I told his Lordfhip we muft fetch the

derivation higher, from the Cornidi original, (and not from the Saxon) and

that is Leoftofen, which is a place of large extent, or a broad end, which is

properly fo according to the fituation thereof, at the broad end of the

county, from whence it grows towards the wefi: ftill narrower, like to the

point of a wedge. I read in a good author, that Radulj-hus, brother to

Alfius, Duke of Cornwall, was founder of Lancefton. I think he means the

Caftle there, not the Town.

Vol. II. N? III. R -The

Laivitlcn.

LanJue.

LeKant.

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The names of places above, and from thofe places downwards, have
fiiffercd much violence along the river from Devon fide, by reafon of the
mutations formerly fpoken of, but from thence we fhall take noiice of fome
that have received their names anciently, paffing down the river ofTamar
(and on fome of the branches thereof) where, by the way, I may fay I am
offended at fome of our late Geographers, who, in enumerating the famous
Bridges in all this land, have omitted altogether ours in Cornwall, of which,
among other leffer, we have three that are very eminent, one of which,.
Wardbridge, (lands farther welt ; the two others, befides many fmaller, are
on the river of Tamar ; one Horfbridge, the other called Newbridge. But
much more I wonder at their omiffion, among the Rivers, of the famous
river of Tamar, a river, after the Thames, is not behind any of note in this
kingdom, wliich I mention the fooner becaufe it is mod properly ours in
Cornwall •, for though it be great and very navigable far up, yet it arifes in
and floats only in this little county of Cornwall, and its whole courfe con-
tains within the fame, and it is the boundary thereof from other parts,
wherein other ftreams do flow Linnar, Fiddy, &c. and before it falls into the
Efl:uarium, where it gives entertainment from Devon on the other fide to
Tavy, Plym, Yeom, and others, where they all lofe their names in Tamar.
And I do much more wonder, that it fhould be printed by fome others, that
this famous river Ihould fall into the fea near the Land's End, whereas this
alone poflTefl^es the whole honourable harbour of Plymouth (more than fixty
miles diftant from the Land's End) and ftand appropriated to the intereft of
Cornwall, belonging to the Duke thereof, the Prince of Wales. And to
return to what I faid laft, in coming down from this broad end of the county
to that famous harbour, though our next bordering neighbour, Devonfliire,
and the Saints, have (lolen away from us many of the antient Britilh names,
and intruded upon us many ftrange ones, yet fome are left us here and
there of the antient fpeech all along upon the River, and the branches
thereof, which I am obliged to memorize.

Lawhit in Glamorganfhire is faid to be Fanum Iltuti, to which the Ton
being added, in Cornifh makes it up lltutus, an antient Britifh monk in
King Arthur's time ; Landue may be the Church or Chapel of St. David,
though Landuan in Cornifh is the black Church, or Chapel. And foir
Lezant, that is the holy Saint, meaning St. Michael, to whom that
Church was dedicated.

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As Cargref ne, which is a rock in the gravel ftanding in a green place. C«r^/-/-fl.*.
Carbeele, or Carbilly, a rock like a man's yard, Carkcele, or the famcC«r^<v/^.

fignification. CarkeeU.

Landulph, where St. Diilpho is memorized by the church's name, nr\^ Landulpli.
the well there fo called St. Dulpho's well. Halton, i. e. tiaelton, a green //«//<>».
place near the water.

Pillaton, a round or clue by a green. PHIaton.

Larrake, I did formerly fuppole to have been from Laun, or Lun, v.hich^^''-<"f'-
is ufually fet for a Church or Chapel; but on better confideration I "think
otherwife of it now, becaufe I find feveral other places hereabouts written
Larrake, which have no reference to Church, and becaufe the Manor an-
tiently was written and called Larrake, which is antientcr than the Church,
and it fignifies a place of Content in Cornifli. '^

Blerrake, I take to be of the fame fignification too, a little from which l^len-ah.
latter place, if Content may be had from a profpedl:, ic is there in my opi-
nion. A place formerly called Ballahow, now the faireit and ampleft I
know any where, excepting fuch as are dignified by the fight of a metro-
polis, or fuch places of eminency, though it ftands not on a promonta:y, and
but a little from the fea in a plain, though but a rough one, and from it you
may look direftly into the Tea, as far as human eyefight can enable you.
Towards the fea-fhore, on the one fide, you have in eye the Start in Devon,
and weftward the Lizard from your boundaries. Towards the land northward,
the wild moors of Devon, called the Eaft Moors, and on the other fide the Wefl:
Moors in Cornwall. Between thofe you may obferve the vale countries of both,
two rich valleys, one in Devon fide, and the other in Cornwall, and take the
fightofTamaras their boundaries, and you will wonder looking on it from above,
to know how to think that river fliould find a way through thofe countries to the
fea, efpecially if you confider that you feldom fee water in all thofe tradls of land
by which it paflts, yet you fee alio as it pafl^es Plymouth the royal citadel,

• Here paffing down the River, I would willingly have given by the way an account of the
antient Cornifh name of that eminent place now called Mount Edgecombe, but by reafon that
the prefent, and fome other generations, have been fo much inclined to the name it now bears,
and the other generations before them had given it the name of Weft-Stonehoufe, as in rela-
tion to that on the eaftern fide of the River Eaft-Stonchoufc, where the manfion of thofe Gent,
formerly was, (according to which I have feen an entry of it Cum Perco et Paflagio, in jin
antient Oufter le main) I could not attain to it. . .

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Plymton, Millbrooke, and abundance of fmall Villages and Burroughs, in a
country on each fide pleafant, and the whole proipedl not obfcured by hills,
or any thing elfc by which you may be hindered from the fun in any part of

Edyrock. t^g (jjy . befides this overlooks the Edyrock or Stone, a dreadful place
about a league out in the fea, where many hundred of Ihips have been
wrecked, being in the trade way to the harbour from the weft, yet I have
heard fome antient fkilful mariners to aver, that if a good artift fliould go
about to ftrike upon this rock purpofely, he would not be able to do it,
fo far doth chance go beyond art.

Cuttvihrake. Cuttenbrake, is a conceakd head, and E. Trematon, a place on three
hills.

Ir.efu;orth. Incfworth, which is Inefwartha, the ifland above, or the higher ifland, in

refpect to tiie fituation of the ifland of St. Nicholas below, where the Saint
hath gotten the maftery again.

Ints or Ince. Ints, Or Ince, which is a proper name for an ifland, though this be joined,
as Iniworth is, by a fliort neck to other parts of the parifli of St. Stephens.

Femhernofe. Here palling we come by the mouth of the River to Pembernofe, which
is in Cornilli the head of the Night, or Midnight, as if it were faid
that there is fafe coming in there at any time ; and from thence we pafs to

Fcnhe. the uttermofl: point weftv/ard, called Penlee, which is the head land to the

, leeward, and fo failing along by the fea fide to the two Gayers, the eaft and
weft Gayers, near Ramehead, which may give nomination to families of that
name in the Weft, which are now worn out there, and have had a good recruit
in Plymouth, and from thence a better in London, by a late Lord Mayor
there fo called, but taking his defcent from Cornifti original according to
the word.

^Fiame. Rame, is a long ridge of rocks, and here called Ramehead, becaufe it is

fo formed towards the fea like a Rams-horn, which hath turnings in it to

, put mariners in mind thereof : in Cornifti, it is Peudenhar. Sailing along

from thence by the fea fide, we come to Millan Drefh, that is, a Mill on

1m. the lea fand at Loo *, or Lough, which is a common name with moft na-

tions, for a low or watry place, and fo to Port-loo and Port-pinnion, the

Denhe, little port, nigh to whicli alfo is Denloe, or Delough, and ftepping a little

■ Off from Seaton, a valley between Ramehead and Loo, there is to be feen in a clear day
in the bottom of the fea, a league from the Ihore, a whole wood of timber on its fide uncor-
Tupted.

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from thence in the land is Minhinnitt, which is a hill on a highway, and lb Minhinnitt.
indeed it is rightly ftiled : and the well of St. Lollo at the foot of. Near to it is
Lifkeard, (a near neighbour thereto) is fbme fay a place afFedcd ; others takcLipard.
it trom the Cornifli word I.eflcc-veres, like Icngtii, like breadth, a fqiiare, fo
it anciently was, and fo fortified, as the caflle walls yet in part remaining
fhew; fome would not have us go fo far back, but would have us take it
trom a phyfician fo named, and a miracle fuppofed to be wr-ught by him
there, and this may be right alfo ; but then we muft fuppofe that to be
St. Luke the Phyfician, and fome ground there is for that alfo, for the mod
antient ftreet thereof is to this day called St. Luke's-ftreet : Luke's Day
alfo is their day of feafting, and for choice of their Governor. This agrees
well enough with the former, as the fortification of it, and towards the fca
again we come to Leftv/ithiel. Some hold that to be Lyon's Tail or Lyon's Lejl-Mithul.
Traine ; others take it to be enough together. The place, though now
grown much in decay, hath formerly been held the only Shire Town, and
where the Knights of the Shire have been ftill chofen, and the Convocation
of the Stanneries held, &c. A great hall was lately there, which was ufed
thofe purpofes in my knowledge, belonging to the Dukes of Cornwall, who
did the like when under them ; and here they alfo kept their court and refi-
dence •, near to which ftands yet their caille Roftormell, in Cornidi, a heWy ^"/""""l^' '
full of honey, a place of honey : befides which, the Dukes had feven others,
Lifkeard, Tintagell, Laucefton, and Trematon, which is in Curnilh, Three
Hills on a green Top, though that came to the crown by attainder. As for
the river Vz or Vzell, which fome fpealc of, I fuppofe is a m.iflake ; the
river there is the river of Fowey, in Cornifh, Foath, which hath its head Frnvy.
fpring in the moors far above it. Venton Foath, in Englifli called Foycomb.
well, and Aqua de Fowey. As it comes farther down near to Foath is a
town or place called Trewardrech, in Cornifli, a town on the land, oxTrevjardreth,
above the land, which agrees well with its fituation, where heretofore there
ftood a Priory, the buildings whereof are now decayed. I may not forget as
next to Foath the town of Polruan, which is now a fmall village of fifning, /'c/r^tf;;,
but heretofore famous, ftanding on the top of an ancient hill, where are the
ruins of a fpacious fair Church, called yet by the name of St. Saviours Pol-
ruan, is in Cornifh, a frofty bottom, or frofty pool, this being feated over
againfl Foath ; between thofe two towns heretofore there went athwart the
river a chain of iron from a fmall caftle on each fide, for their fecurity againfl
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foreigners by fea, but by their negleft of preferving it in time of peace was
ftollen away from them by fome boats that came from Dartmouth in Devon,
and carried there, where the river is of equal breadth, and the harbour is
much like that of Fowey, and hath over againfl: the town of Dartmouth a
little town called King's Way, which anfwers to Polruan againft Fowey.
The Fowey men have attempted the reftitution of their chain, but never
could obtain it, becaufe they had been fo carelefs, it being the means of their
own prefervation formerly. Between thefe two ueighbouring towns of Fowey
and Polruan, Handing one againft the other in the harbour between them,
there ufed to be antiently a folemn contention of Jufting performed upon the
River every May-day, upon two boats fingled out of equal ftrength, from
the one fide and from the other, to encounter each other upon the water,
there being a ftage made on each of them upon the end of the boat of each for
the feveral champions to ftand on. Several boats were to row with fix oars
a-piece, rowing fiercely againft one another. The champions were arrayed only
in white, flightly but better armed about the breaft and neck, and holding a
lance rebated in the form of an oar, (according to their trade) but a fierce
attempt they make upon each other, and one or both of them is ufually car-
ried by the pufh to found the depth of the harbour; and then a new fupply
of others for frefh encounter is called for again. This I have feen to be per-
formed in my time, and it ufually drew abundance of people together to
behold the fport from the hills on both fides and from the town, with many
others in boats likewife upon the river, and not without need, to receive up
and recover their dejeded champions who end their encounters in peace, not
without liquor, the element of their contention.

Uemgify, or Menagifly, or Menagifl^ey. A hill to keep mares in.

MenagiJ/ey. Penwarn. A head beloved.

Bodrhan. Bodrigan. A hill by the ebbing of the fea.

Dudman, Or Dudman, or Gubman. A place where much oar is caft in.
" '"^"' This fpot of land called Bodrigan, a fpacious fair Barton, looking towards

the fea, was not very long fince poflelTed by Gentry of the fame name,
whofe eftate was great, and being forfeited to King Henry the Seventh, part
thereof was given to Trevanion, a noble family of this county ; but this
Bodrigan, with many other lands, to Edgcombe, that Sir Richard Edgcombe
of whom let me deliver my judgment, that he was a witty, valiant, wife,
good man, and a good commonwealth's man. Witty, as appears by his

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hiding himfelf and throwing his cap and coat away for his preftrvation,
O quantum eft fubditis cafibus ingenium. Valiant, in that he was made a
Knight Banneret at Bofworth field. Wife, in that he was made choice of
for one of the CommifTioners for the happy treaty of marriage of Margaret,
the King's eldeft daughter, with James the Fourth, King of Scots, a
happinefs to the kingdom at this day. A good man, and not a pilferer of
the people (as many were in thofe days) otherwife he would be named in
Perkin Warbeck's Declaration, fet down by Chancellor Bacon. A good
commonwealth's man, as appears by that ftately and coftly fabrick of New-
bridge built by him.

Peale, a fpire, lies to the north of Tolpenpenwith, a mile, and it hpeaU.
the true Lands-end. This fpire, called the Pele, flood on a little ifland,
between it and the fliore there is room for a boat to pafs with oars ; the fpire
•was ten fathom or more above the ordinary flux of tiie fea, very narrow on
the top, hardly room for a man to fit on it; in the floor it was and is four-
teen feet fquare. In the year before King Charles the Firft was beheaded it .
was prodigioufly cut off in the floor by a ftorm, and falling broke in three
pieces.

Herles, truly interpreted Hercules Pillars, are a ridge of rocks a quarter /fi-,7w.
of a mile in length, ftanding like pillars divided into fmall iflands, and dif-
tant from the Pele a mile. From thefe by the north coaft we come to
St. Jves, in Cornifh Port Eer of Geer, a Port with a Pool. Paddeftow, fo St. Ives.
called by Saxon Anglt^, being Patherickftow. Another place near by, ^'"^'^^''''"'^'
called Little Petherick, which partakes not of the Cornifh at all, for in the
Cornilh it is Lethanneck, a place of much fea-fand, which agrees well with
the fcite, much fea and much fand there is driven. A little above which is
the houfe of Edmund Prideaux, Efq. my kinfman, now called Place, for-
merly Guarandre, or Warthantre, i. e. above the Tov/n or above the Sand-
But that we may do right to latter times alfo, we find much mention to hi
made alfo of Patrickftow, and that St. Patrick, after much time fpent in
Ireland, and endowments of learning, by long ftudy there obtained, he
came into Cornwall, and built a Monaftery there not far from the river of
Severn, which comes home to that which is faid by Archbilliop Vfs, as alio
to the name of the place. Locas ubi Patrocus confedit in Cornubia Petra-
eftow hodie Padftow nominatur prius Laffeneck. Antiq. p. 292. And
after thirty years went to Rome, &c. By other Authors it is faid, that at

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Bodmyn his body was buried, but ftolen from thence, and earned by one
Martinus to the Abbey of Menevy, or Mein, in Little Brittany, but upon
complaint to the King it was reftored, and brought back undiminifhed to the
Prior of Bodmyn. YiT. p. 293. But whether this were to be underftood of
St. Patrick, the apoftle of Ireland, it is altogether to be doubted, fince as
to the burial of his body there hath been fo much contention that that fhould
be at Glaftonberry •, but another Patrick there was, perhaps a third, and
one of note too, ftiled Ssenor Ssenex Patricius, as appears by the learned
Primate. He is faid to be at the fame time, and that he was Domefticus
Sandi Patricij. Another there was alfo at fome hundred years diftance.
With one of thefe it may better accord than with the great Patricius, who,
it may be faid, had his name Dignitatis caufa, as was ufual with the Romans
and Athenians. His parental name being Moun, or Muun

* Stratton, in Cornifh Straneton. A green difperfed witii houfes. Near this
town is the place where the Cornilh forces, on behalf of King Charles the Se-
cond, obtained the glorious vi6lory over the rebellious army, Anno 1643.
In memory of which battle Sir Ralph Hopton was created Baron of Srratton,
who afterwards dying without iffue, the fame title was conferred upon Sir
John Berkley, both which Lords were commanders in the Cornilh army at
that rime.

There is a pretty vulgar fidtion, that Tamar, or Tamara, being a fub-
terraneous nymph, was courted and fought after by Tavy and Tawrage,
who found her fitting under a bufli at Morewinftow, the fartheft part of
Cornwall in the North. They being weary in fearching after her, fat down
by her and flept ; fhe perceiving them to be fallen afleep, fteals away from
them fuddenly and goes direftly to the South. Tavy, being firft awakened,
goes away filently after her, not acquainting his co-rival therewith, Taw-
rao-e, that awakened laft, finding them both gone, in hafle rulheth cut,
and angrily runs away towards the North, foaming and fretting all along as
he o-oes, till he lofes himfelf in the Sabrina : whilft Tavy, on the Devon
fide, fends out fome of his fmall ftreams to vifit and court her, and to ob-
ferve which way the nymph went, but (he having got the ftart of him, leaves
not of her fpeed till Ihe comes into the Sound.

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Slntiquitiejf Cornuontantc.

The Caufes of the Cornifli Speech's Decay.

I. The firfl: and greatefl: caufe of the decay of the Cornifh fpeech was their
want of a charader, which not only contributed to the decay of the tongue,
but to the vanquifliing of the nation of the Britons, they being thereby dif-
Tibled upon emergent occafions to write or communicate with one another
againft their invaders, and fo Dum pugnabant finguli vincuntur Univerfi, as
Tacitus faysj and he alio obferves, Non aliud adverfus validiffimas Gentes
pro Romanis utilius quam quod incommune nonconfulebant.

What would have become of the Roman tongue, when the Goths and
Vandals broke in upon Rome and all Italy, mixing the Roman Tono-ue with
their Runa Gothica, if there had not been learned men (amounting to 160
elegant clafTical authors in Auguftus his time) who prefervcd the tongue in
their works ?

I know it hath been, and yet is the judgment of learned men, that the old
Britons never had any charadter, yet I hope they will give me the liberty -f
declaring the realbns of my diffenting. i. It hath always been fupuoll'd that
Ireland had a charadter ; now Ireland was always accounted a Britilh ifldnd,
however yet I cannot pofTitively affirm that the charafler which the Bilhop
of Tuam lets forth as Britifh be really lb, there feeming to be little difference
between that and the old Saxon, neither can I confent to what he faith, that
the Saxons, whom he calls their neighbours, learned their very charaders
from Ireland.

2. Though we may depend on Ccefar's authority, that Druidum Doftrina
non fuit Uteris mandata, fed memorie fuit ne aut in Vulgus proficifentur
aut Jnventus que earn perdifcebant negligentia auc in curia re.riitterent, which
reafons, in my judgment, rather demonftrate that they had a character to
communicate their doftrines by if they had pleafedto ufe it. II. The great
ufe made of the Roman tongue, the laws of their conqueft extending to
letters and fpeech as well as to territory, and where there is a delight,
there are things beft retained. Romanam Linguam Brittanni non abnue-
bant ut eloquentiam concupifferent. Tacit.

Fertur habere meos, fi vera eft fama libellos
Inter delicias pulchra Vienna tuas

Dicitur et noftros cantare Britannia verfus. Martial,

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Afri Galli Hifpani Britanni avido arripuerunt et indufto novo paulatinr-
obliturum veterurn Sermonem. Lips.

III. The great lofs of Armorica, near iin:o us, by friendlTiip, by cognation,
by intereft, by correfpondence. Cornwall has received Princes from thence,
and they from us. We had heretofore mutual interchanges of private fami-
lies, but as to our fpeech we are alike carelefs. We can underlhnd words
of one another, but have not the benefit of conferences with- one another in
our ancient tono-ue. I have met with fome Friars born and bred there, who,
one would think, fliould be able to difcourfe of their own priftine tongue
and of their own birth places, yet found them, though not totally ignorant
that fuch things had been, yet infenfible and carelefs of their former condi-
tion. They could tell me that my name, Scawen, was in their tongue Elders,
as here it is ; that there are thofe that bear the fame name, and one of them
a Bifhop, but when he writ it he changed it to Sambucus, (hewing thereby
a mind declared to a new, rather than an inclination to his old name, and
relation to his country fpeech.

IV. But leaft the tender lamentations of thofe lofles fhould be thought to
put us out of memory of the lofs of our tongue, the matter which we have in
hand we are here to mention a fourth caufe, and that which moft concerns this
Peninfula of Cornwall, which is the giving over of the Guirrimears *, which
were ufed at the great conventions of the people, at which they had famous inter-
ludes celebrated with great preparations, and not without (hews of devotion -f
hi them, folemnized in open and fpacious downs of great capacity, encom-
pafled about with earthen banks, and fome in part ftone work, of largenels
to contain thoufands, the fhapes of which remain in many places at this day,
though the ufeofthem long fince gone. Thefe were frequently ufed in moft
parts of the county at the conveniency of the people for their meeting toge-
ther, in which they reprefented, by grave aftings, fcriptural hiftories, per-
fonating patriarchs, princes, and other perlbns, and with great oratory pro-
nounced their harangue, framed by art and compofed with heroick ftile,
fuch as have been known to be of old in other nations, as Gualterius :{:, an
ancient father, hath been mentioned to be. This was a great means to keep

* Signification of which word in Cornifh is Speeches great.

f And fo were the other devotions exerci fed, fub Dio, as you may fee by the difcourfe of
Ed. Jones.
■^ GuaUerius, mentioned by Archbiffiop Laud in a fpeech in the Star Chamber.

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in ufe the tongue with delight and admiration, and it continued alfo friend-
fhip and good correfpondency in the people. They had recitations in them
poetical and divine, one of which I may fuppofe this fmall relique of Anti-
quity to be, in which the Paflion of our Saviour and his Refurrcdtion is de-
fcribed. They had alfo their Carols at feveral times, efpecially at Chriftmas,
which they folemnly fung, and fometimes ufcd, as I have heard, in their
churches after prayers, the burden of which fongs, Nowell, Nowell, Good
news. Good news of the Gofpel, by which means they kept the ufe of the
tongue the better. V. I cannot find that the Britifli have boafted of many mi-
racles done among them, if any fuch antiently there were, they were deprived
of the memory of them by the Romans. I cannot affirm with fo much rea-
fon (as fome of our neighbours have done with confidence) who fay, that at
the laft digging on the Haw for the foundation of the citadel of Plymouth,
the great jaws and teeth therein found were thofe of Gogmagog, who was there
faid to be thrown down by Corineus, whom fome will have to be the founder
of the Cornifli ; nor am I able to afTcrt, that fome great inflruments of war
in brafs, and huge limbs and pourtraitures of perfons long ago, as fome fay
that have been feen in fome of the weltern paridies, were parts of giants, or
other great men, who had formerly had their being there. But we may ra-
ther think thofe to be imaginary things or devices of old bards, faid to be
there, though we have no certain memory of them neither. Nor may we
think it ftrange that fuch things may be fpoken of, frnce we may well credit
fome good hiftorians, that write that Alexander, after that he had returned
from his journey into India, caufed a great reprefentation to be made on the
ground on the weftern fide of the river Indus, of a huge campagne almoft
imm.eafurable, with tents, cabbins and platforms, and arms alfo, for horfes
racks and mangers, of fuch height as were not to be reached at, and that
there were alfo fcattered about the ground bits and bridles for horfes, of ex»
traordinary length and bignefs, and all this ut de magnis majora loquantur,
and to make men think upon him and his miraculous ads with the more
admiration. VI. The fixth caufe is, the lofs of the ancient Records, not of the
Dutchy or the Earldom of Cornwall, (which fome affirm were burnt, and
others loft in the ancient ruins of the caftles of Roftormell, and other fuch)
but of thofe of whole Cornwall, whilft one of the four Dynafties of this ifland
(or as PanciroUus) one of the five. VII. The feventh caufe is Defuetude, or
want of a continued ufe; and it is no wonder, if after fo many lofles, the

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true ufe of the tongue vanifned away or grew not into contempt. Speeches
are compounded of words, and both of them of one nature, and continued
according to their ufe, and of one of them it may be faid as of the other:

Multa recenfentur que nunc cecidere cadentque

Qtiae nunc funt in honore vocabula fi volet ufus.

Words many and tongues we recount,

Which being fallen do oft remount.

And thofe that are now priz'd by us,

May fall to ground for want of ufe.
VIII. A general flupidity may be obferved to be in the whole county. As
to other matters monumental, there is little mention made of ourantient ftately
fabricks amongil us, now rui.utcd ; as to the founders of them, caftles, bat-
tles fought, a'.-;d other things : and as to churches, (though we have abun-
dance of fair ones for fo hnall a county, where tliere is no city nor any great
town in itj excellent foundations, but who the builders were we have no
intelligence, only a great many falfe tutelaries of them we hear of. Little of
the monafteries hath been Aiid by thofe that have written copioufly of others
elfewhere. Scarcely any thing of the ancient Bidiops here, or of the Bifhop's
See, only we know it to be faid antiently, that it was removed from Bodmyn
to * St. Germans, and that it was about Anno looo, Danorum turbine,
from a country more open to a place more woodland. The Cathedral indeed
mi"ht have been better memorized by Godwin, in his Catalogue of Bifhops,
and enumeration of all the Bifhopricks, yet little is faid of it or the four feveral
Chapels in feveral diftinft places of the parifh thereto belonging. And as for
the Monaftery nothing at all. It is ftrange too that Mr. Cambden fhould
fay, German! viculum nihil aliud eft hodie, quam Pifcatorum cafulse :
whereas there are no fuch things belonging to fuch a trade there feen, but
inftead thereof a Cathedral, maintained at the great coft of the inhabitants,
(though a great part, by an accident, about loo years fince fell down) a
goodly monaftical Houfe yet undemollfhed, and hofpitably inhabited, to the
relief of poor people. I'he Bifhop's feat and houfe are yet eminently extant
in a Cornilh name. The Burrough of St. Germans enjoys ftill the privilege
of fending Bur-gefles to parliament by prefcription. Pity it is that St. Ger-

• At St. Germans, the place of the Author's nativity, endowed by King Etheldred witl}
lands, liberties, and privileges, but what or where non patet.

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man, who came hither to fupprefs the Pelagian herefy, (houlJ have fo bad a
going off, for an old fable remains yet in report, that St. German beino ill
ufed fled away, leaving a fad curfe behind him to the Cliffs at Rame near the
head, where bewailing his misfortunes, the compaflionating rocks in the
Cliffs fhed tears with him, at a place ever fince called St. German's well-
True it is, fuch a ipring there is, but the occafion of it cannot b= more truly
affirmed than the other part of the ftory that follows, viz. That he fhould
be carried thence into remote countries by angels in a fiery chariot, the traft
of whofe wheels were faid to be feen in thofe Cliffs, but they are invinble.
Thus much for the fite of the place. As to the perfon of St. German, who
perhaps never faw the place, I need not turn over old fabulous legends, nor
a better fort who have written his life heretofore, but I may have liberty to
relate what I have from the better hands of * learned perfons. That befides
his difputation and confutation of Pelagius at Verulam, and thereby freeing
the church and nation from thofe herefies by a public edift from the empe-
ror Valentinian, whereby ihey were no more troubled with them afterwards,
he the faid St. German did other great works for this land, viz. ifl:, the
inflitution of fchools of learning among the Britons ; Dubritius and Iltu-
tus being both of them his dilciples. Dubritius was made Archbifhop of
Carlehon, Iltutus fent to Lan Iltut, a church bearing his name to this day,
and one Danlell made Bifhop of Bangor ; from thele famous men the Monaf-
tery of Bangor, and other Monafteries in this land, were lb well furniilied
with learned men, at the coming in of St. Auilen from the Pope, they flood
iipon dil'creet and honourable terms.

2. The introduflion of the Gallican liturgy into ufe in the churches of
Brittany, which was ever different from the Romans, and thereby a happy
means to have kept this nation from fo much acquaintance with the Pope,
as they had with him afterwards, to their great trouble. It is alfo faid that
St. Patrick, who carried over into Ireland the education monaftick, and good
principles therewith, and is held to be the Apoftle of Ireland, fpent many
years under the difcipline of St. German when he came hither, who, after
he had been employed in the embaffy to the Emperor at Ravenna, died
there one year before the Saxons arrival.

All this time we are left in the dark concerning the fabric of the Monaf-
tery of St. Germans, which could not be built till two or three hundred years

• Archbifliop Ulher, in Primordijs. Bi&op of St. Afaph. Dr. Stillkgfleet Orig. Britt.

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perhaps after the Saxons got a perfe(5t dominion here over the land, but we
may believe that that and the Cathedral might be dedicated to his memory
afterwards, in rcfped of the many good works he had done elfewhere.

IX. As we have had an ill regiftry of monumervtal matters, fo for five or
fix centuries pad (before the two laft) I doubt we had but few learned men
here, which induces me to put that to the ninth caufe of the decay of the
Cornifh tongue. After the fuppreffion of the Druids, and that chriftianity
was received, yet learning decayed fome while amongft the people, the beft
of them being carried abroad by the Romans and never returned, and then
the fuppofed Saints coming in after them made no reparation thereof, but
by their fuppofed miracles, with which they entertained the people. So they
had very few learned men amongft them, places of breeding and obtaining
learning being remote, fcarcely approachable, and the nation in continual
troubles and dangers, and for latter times fuch learned men as came to us,
feeing our own negledt of our tongue, have thought it not fit to take the
pains to enquire into it, as a thing obfcure and not fit to be ftudied by them,
and h fuffered to decay infenfibly by them and the inhabitants.

X. The Cornilh tongue hath moftly refided for fome ages paft in the names
of the people, the gentry chiefly, and in the names of places, obferved to be
ficrnificant moftly as to the fcite, &c. or for fome things eminent about them.
Concerning both thefe I muft crave liberty to ftiew how the fpeech has been
invaded, and eaten up by intrufion, much of which hath been about churches
in their fcites, as well as by negledtful inobfervation, for thofe Saxon faints
have hungrily eaten up the antient names, which when they could not well
di^eft for hardnefs of the words, many catched up others from thofe whom
they feigned to be the tutelaries of thofe places, churches and fountains, and
fuppofed miracles wrought thereabouts, as St. Kaine, St. Gurrion, St. Tu-
dy, St. Ive, St. Endellion, St. Kue Landulph, St. Lift, St. Juft, St. Mar-
thren, &c. of St. Mardrens Well*, (which is a parifti weft to the mount) a
frelh true ftory of two perfons, both of them lame and decrepit, thus reco-
vered from their infirmity. Thefe two perfons, after they had applied them-
felves to divers phyficians and chirurgeons for cure, and finding no fuccefs

• Bifhop Hall, in his Myftery of Godlinefs, fays, that a cripple who for i6 years together
was fain to walk upon his hands by reafon the finews of his legs were contrafted, upon monitions
in his dream to wafh in St. Mardrens Well, was fuddenly fo reftored to his limbs, that he faw
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by them, they relbrted to St. Mardiens Well, and according to the ancient
cuftoin, which they had heard of the fame, vvhicli was, once in a year, to
wit, on Corpus Chrifti evening, to lay fome fmall offering on the altar there,
and to lie on the ground all night, drink of the water there, and in the
morning after, to take a good draught more, and to take and carry away
fome of the water, each of them, in a bottle, at their departure. This courfe
thefe two men followed, and within three weeks they found the effcdt of it,
and by degrees their flrength increafing, were able to move themfclves on
crutches. The year following they take the fame courfe again, after which
they were able to go by the help of a (tick, and at length one of them, John
Thomas, being a fifherman, was and is able at this day to follow his filhinc
craft : the other, whofe name was William Cork, was a foldier under the
command of my kinfman. Colonel William Godolphin, (as he has often told
me) was able to perform his duty, and died in the fervice of his majelly
King Charles I. But herewith take alfo this : one Mr. Hutchens, a perfon
well known in t!iofe parts, and now lately dead, being parfon of Ludgvan,
a near neighbouring parifh to St. Mardrens well ; he obferving, that
many of his parifliioners often frequented this well fuperftitioufly, for which
he reproved them privately, and fomctimes publickly in his fermons ; but
afterwards he the faid Mr. Hutchens, meeting with a v/oman coming from
the well with a bottle in her hand, defired her earneflly that he might drink
thereof, being then troubled with cholical pains, which accordingly he did,
and was eafed of his infirmity. The latter ilory is a full confutation of the
former, for if the taking the water accidentally thus prevailed upon the
party to his cure, as 'tis likely it did, then the miracle which was intended
to be by the ceremony of lying on the ground and offering, is wholly fled,
and it leaves the virtue of the water to be the true caufe of the cure. And
we have here, as in many places of the land, great variety of falutary fprino-s,
which have diverfity of operations, which by natural reafon have been found
to be productive of good effects, and not by miracle, as the vain fancies of
monks and friars have been cxercifed in heretofore.

Howbeit, there are fome old names yet remaining of places of prayers or
oratories, and the ruins fhewing them to be fuch, as V. Gr. Paderda, which
is prayers good (of which many places are fo named) Eglarofe, the church
in the vale fuppofed antienter than the names of their churches. Their fcices
are eminent and ancient, ftanding towards the eaft, though no mention made

how

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how they came to be in decay, but fuppofed to be after the Saxon churches
came to be erefted, and miracles fuppofed to be wrought by thofe whofc
names they bear -, churches fcites took new names, whereas the old Cornilh
names remain in all other places of the parifhes generally, yet the names of
the four old caftles remain, and of manors alfo for the moft part, and fome
other thino-s in the Cornifh, and do fo continue the better, by reafon of mens
particular intereft in them, and fo are the eminent hills likewife, efpecially
towards the fea, and the hundred or hamlets names of the country remain fo
chiefly in the weftern parts-, thofe on the eaftern, ftanding towards the bor-
ders, have their names wrefted away by neighbourhood, as are other things
by like accidents in the eaftern parts of the county -, other names have been
encroached upon by fantaftical or vain- glorious builders calling their houfes
after their own name, and others upon vain toys, but thefe are not many.
Moreover, concerning the lofs of our fpeech, and the names of families, I
muft here (but tenderly though) blame the incuriofity of fome of our gen-
try, who, forfaking the etymologies of their own fpeech, have lludied out
new derivations of their names, endeavouring to make themfelves, as it were,
defcended from French or Norman originals, in adopting or adapting their
names thereunto, whereas their own names in the Cornifh are more honour-
able, crenuine and true-, from the conqueft forfooth thofe would have their
defcent, (no illuftrious thing in itfelf) whereas the anceftry of many of them
have been here long before. How finely many of them have cozened them-
felves thereby, might be fhewn, if it would not be offenfively taken, by
takino- up of coat armour as from French originals. The art of heraldry
hath been drawn out to us in French terms and trickings, moftly begun when
our kings had moft to do in thofe parts, and fo from thence it hath continued
ever fince : and our Cornifh gentry, finding the Englifh fo much addifted
thereunto, have followed in that tra6l the fame mode, and would fain have
themfelves underftood fuch, when they were much better before than thofe
French or Latin terms could make them, in which many of the Englilh may
be blamed as well as we, for the heralds art hath many myfteries in it under
their French and Latin terms-, and many miftakes may be thereby to us and
others who are not well acquainted with them, but in thofe that concern our
own tongue ^tis evident many have wronged themfelves, and more may do
fo if not well heeded.

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The grounds of two feveral miftakes are very obvious •, ift, Upon the Tre
or Ter. 2dly. Upon the Rofs or Role. Tre or Tcr in Cornilh commonly
fignifies a Town, or rather Place, and it has always an adjiinft with it. Tri
is the number 3. Thofe men willingly miftake one for another. And fo
in French Heraldry terms they ufe to fancy and contrive thofe with
any fiich three things as may be like, or cohere with, or may be adapted to
any thing or things in their fur-names, whether very handfbme or not
is not much ftood upon. Another ufual miftake is upon Rofs, wliich, as
they feem to fancy, fhould be a Rofe, but Rofs in Cornifli is a Vale or
Valley. Now for this their French-Latin tutors, when they go into the
field of Mars, put them in their coat armour prettily to fmcil out a Rofe or
flower, fa fading honour inftead of a durable one) fo any three fuch things,
agreeable perhaps a little to their names, are takeri op and retained from
abroad, when their own at home have a much better fcent and more laitino-.

Some among us, however, have kept themfclves better to the antiquities
of their Cornifh names in their coat armour, as that honourable family
Godolphin, * in keeping flill difplayed abroad his white eagle, from the Cor-
nifli Gothulgon. Richard, king of the Pvomans, Emperor elecb, fupplied
his Cornifh border wich filver (perhaps tin) plates, deducing them from the
ancient earls of Cornwal, as born by them before the Norman conqueft, and
in honour to them and himfelf, Itill bearing the fame afterwards. Chiverton,
whofe name in Cornifli is a houfe on a green place or hill, he beareth a coat
thereunto accordant, A caftle with a green field under it, which may be well
thought on, as to the name in -f Cornilli, though in the Heraldry it had been
more complete V. a Caftle A. as I apprehend. Scaberius, which is
Sweepers, or Sweeping-, A, 3 Broom Befoms V. Gavergan, a Goat ;
Keverel, a He-goat, or He-goats ; that creature taking moft delight, as 'tis
obferved, in the cliffs thereabout. Thefe are better fjgnificancies taken from
home, than the other that are foreign ; and yet the aflumption of a coa^
from any particular adt of a man's own, is better than luch as have reference
barely to names, without fome fpecial fignification therewith.

I had thoughts formerly, and made preparation to give many more in-
ftances where many amongft us have been miftaken in thofe two particulars,
but fince it is a hard thing to convince men of old errors, and a harder to

• Godolanac, in the Phoenician, ij a place of Tin.

f So MoUeneck, fignifying Gold/inches, a Chevron, S. between 3 Goldfinches, proper.

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make a queftion againll any concerning their gentelicions, and the old fonns
thereof, though intended more for their honour, I fnall forbear the further,
profecution thereof; but in this however I ihall do them right, that they, i. e.-
their anceftors, in this way thus trodden have walked generally as antiently
as any other gentry of this nation, and to my feeming, it had been better if
they had flood Hill fuper vijs antiquis avoriin fuorum, fince moft ofthofe
ancient families who have ftrayed abroad as aforefaid, have yet fomeof them,
and many more had, lands and places of their own names in their pofieffions
long enjoyed, and a nearer paflage it had been to their journies end, viz. their
honour, if they had not adventured abroad •, a teftimony whereof we have in
that greaL contention which happened in the time of king Edward III. be-
tween Carminow of this county (a family to which moft of the ancient gen--
try here have relation) and a * great perfon of the nation, for bearing of one
and the fame coat armour, Az. a bend Or. After many heats about it, a
reference was made of it by the King to the moft eminent Knights of that
time, of which John of Gaunt, King of Caftille was one, before whom
Carminow proved his right by the continual bearing thereof, and that before
the conqueft, which was not difapproved nor difallowed, but applauded ; yet
becaufe the other Contendant was a Baron of the realm, Carminow was
adjudged to bear the fame coat ftill, but with a File in Chief for diftinftion
fake. The decifion was no way diftionourable, and the remembrance of
the contention continued to the glory of his pofterity. To which his motto
in Cornifti feems to have an allufion. In Englifti, A Straw for Whifflers or
Diffemblers, or as fome have faid it to be, A Fig Cala Rag Whetlow •, but we
may take the fame better, I think, from the very name of Carminow, be-
ing in Cornifti a Rock immoveable, as a fign of his refolution, from thence^
or formerly taken up.

Having gone through this paftage, which I know not how it may be
taken by my countrymen, let me make this obfervation, that fince the Gen-
iry here have thought fit or endeavoured by miftake to forfake the antiquity
of their own Corniih names, and thereby their greateft intereft, it might per-
haps prognofticate that their language, which was their ancient glory, ftiould
in revenge forfake them, as now it hath almoft done ; and I fliall proceed
to alTign fome other caufes of the decay thereof.

XI. The vicinity, or near neighbourhood with Devon. I may fay that
vicinity only with the Devonians, we having none elle, which next to the

* Lord Scroopc.

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corruption of tongues by tirre and fuperftition to faints, haih moft devoured
the names of places, efpecially on the borders of Cornwall with Devon, and
there is the worfl language commonly fpokcn, and fpokcn rudely too, which
corrupts not only their own country tongue but ours alio, in the places that
are neareft to them, and thofe infcft others next to them. The names of
the places are thereby alfo much altered in the Cornifli, which antitntly
they had generally, and the particulars that do yet appear do (land as marks
only to fliew that what were formerly had is now much eaten away, on the
borders efpecially. 'Tis obferved alfo elfewhere in this county farthefl: weft,
•where the Cornifh hath been moft fpoken, that the Englilh thereabouts
fpoken, is much better than the fame is in Devon, or the places bordering
on them, by being moft remote from thence, from whence the corruption
proceeds.

XII. Our gentry, and others, antiently kept themfclves in their matches un-
mixt, commonly at home in their own country, both fons and daughters dcfirino-
much to do fo, whereby they preferved their names here, and races the bet-
ter, and when their names changed, it hath been obferved to be to the places
of their abode, fometimes willingly, fometimes by accident. So it hath
continued the Cornifh names to the places, and confequently the
tongue. But indeed of late our gentry have frequently fought out foreign
marriages in other counties, whereby though it may be confefted they have
brought in much wealth, and have had goodly inheritances abroad, yet their
offsprings have been dilTipated, and their affedlion lefs intire to the county,
the country-men, and country fpeech ; yet it is to be obferved, that not
many of them have been very profperous or of long continuance in other
counties, where they cannot mufter up very many of our names of Gentry,
Prideaux, Trevilian, Tregonwell, Penruddock, and a few others excepted,
which Ihews that our Cornifti are like thofe trees that thrive beft and live
longeft in their own peculiar foil and air, which yet is fruitful and durable to
thofe that come in amongft us. Not only gentry, which are very many, that
have great inheritance by their matches here with CorniOi families, but many
others alfo, which feldom leave this country when they have been planted here.

XIII. The coming in of ftrangers of all forts upon us, artificers, traders,
home-born and foreigners, whom our great commodities of tin, (more profit-
able to others than ourfelves) and fifliing, have invited to us to converfe
with, and often to ftay with us ; thefe all as they could not eafily learn our

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tongue, for which they could not find any guide or direflion, efpeclally in
thefe latter days, nor the fame generally fpoken or afFeded amongft ourfelves,
fo they were more apt and ready to let loofe their own tongues to be com-
mixed with ours, and fuch for the novelty fake thereof, people were more
ready to receive, than to communicate ours to any improvement to them.
But minifters in particular have much decreafed the fpeech •, this country
being far from Academies, ftrangers from other parts of the kingdom have
fousht, as they ftiil do, and have had their promotions here, where benefices
are obferved to be very good, and thofc have left their progenies, and there-
by their names remaining behind them, whereby the Cornilh names have
been diminilhed, as the tongue alfo. So that as the reputed faints hereto-
fore where they fcnted themfelves, have robbed the places where their
churches now Hand, for the moft parr, of the Cornilh names they had before,
fo the minilters fince thofc times coming from other places, and other ftran-
gers, have filled up in many places the inhabitants and places here v/ith their
new names, and titles brought amongft us to the lofs of many of the old.
Here too wc may add what wrong another fort of ftrangers have done to us,
efpecially in the civil wars, and in particular by deftroying of Mincamber, a
famous monument, being a rock of infinite weight, which, as a burden, was
laid upon other great ftones, and yet fo equally thereon poifcd up by nature
only, as a little child could inftantly move it, but no one man or many re-
move it. This natural monument all travellers that came that way defired
to behold, but in the time of Oliver's ufurpation, when all monumental
things became defpicable, one Shrubfal!, one of Oliver's heroes, then go-
vernor of Pendennis, by labour and much ado caufed to be undermined
and thrown down, to the great grief of the country, but to his own great
glory as he thought, doing it, as he faid, with a fmall cane in his hand. I
niyfelf have heard him to boaft of this act, being a prifoner then under him.

XIV. Another caufe I (hall mention as a great lofs of the "longue, though
it be a great and wonderful advantage to the people otherwife : the orders
of the church and ftate, commanding all the people young to learn the
Lord's Prayer, Belief, &c. in the vulgar tongue, fuppofing that to be in-
tended the Englifh ; if a mother, furely a ftep-mother to us. Younglings
take in that moft, and retain longeft, wherewith they are feafoned and bred
up in their education.

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Herein we muft complain alfo of another new neglect to our fpeech, that
the like care was not taken for us as for our brethren in Wale?, in the making
of the late aft of parliament for the uniformity of the Common Prayers, by
which the five Bifhops for Wales were commanded to fee the Service Book
to be printed in the Welch tongue. If it had been done fo here it had been
a good counterpoife for the lofs formerly mentioned concerning the young
people ; this might alfo perhaps have faved us fome labour in this our under-
taking, and it would have been of good ufe for fome of our * old folks alfo,
for we have fome among thefe few that do fpeak the Cornidi who do not
underlland a word of Englifli, as well as thofe in Wales, and thofe may be
many in fome of the weftern parts, to whom Mr. Francis Robinfon, parfon
of Landawednack told me, he had preached a fermon not long fince in the
Cornilh fpeech only well underftood by his auditory. This fhould have been
taken into confideration by our gentlemen burgeiTes in that and other parlia-
ments, and by our bifliops alfo ; but better it had been if our ancient bifliops
when they fled liither from their invaders, had brought with them a charadler
of their ancient fpeech, or left books written therein ; or if in defedl thereof,
they or any other had done for us as Ulphius the billiop did for the Goths v;hen
they came to be feated in Italy, who there invented new Gothic letters for his
people, and tranflated the holy fcriptures into that language for them. This
indeed had deferved our great thanks from our bidiops, as no doubt they had
them from thofe perfons who received fo great a benefit by their former and
latter kindneis therein ; nor let that good old bifhop Ulphius be cenfured (as
he feems by fome to be) for doing a fuperfluous work, becaufe he might per-
haps know that the then fervice of the church was celebrated in the Greek and
Latin tongues, but rather let him be commended for his zeal in religion, and
his love to his country and country people then with him, dwelling with
ftrangers in another land, that continued fo mindful of them and their fpeech,
as we have been negledful of ours. He by that means continued that tongue

• Amongil which, as one of the frefti antiquities of Cornwall, let not the old woman be for-
gotten, who died about two years fince, who was 164 years old, of good memory, and health-
ful at that age, living in the parifti of Guithian, by the charity moftly of I'uch as came purpofely
to fee her, fpeaking to them (in default of Englifli) by an interpreter, yet partly underilanding
it. She married a fecond hulband after fne was 80, and buried him after he was 80 years of age.
Her maiden name no one could remember, nor perhaps flie hert'elf ; flie was ufually called
after her two hufbands feveral names feverally and fom<^timcs together, as it is ufual for the
meaner fort of people to do. As for her maiden name, Ihe might fay with a wench in Petro-
nius, Junonem meam iratam habeam ft uiic^uam meminerim me virginem fuiflc.

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in life, we, by his example, might have regained ours, if the like care had
been taken-, but our people, as I have heard, in Qiieen Elizabeth's time
defired that the Common Liturgy fhould be in the Englifh tongue, to which
they were then for novelties fake affefted, not out of true judgement defired
it. But befules negligence fatality is to be confidered ; fatality is a boundary
beyond which nothing can pafs ; it hath been eminent in kin gdoms and dates,
and thole have had commonly fatal periods, as to a time determined five hun.
dred years commonly. But more ufual it is, that upon fuch mutations of
kingdoms there have happened lofles and mutations of tongues, it may there-
fore be the more wondered at, that this of the Britifli being none of the learned
tongues to which the Lord had intruded the writing of his facred Scriptures,
fliould have here lafted lb long through fo many mutations, and that there is
yet fuch a record thereof, as our old manufcript imports, with the purity of
the doftrine therein contained, and fome other fmall things in the Bodleiaa
Library.

XV". The little or no help, rather difcouragement, which the gentry and
•other people of our own have given in thefe latter days, v/ho have lived in
thofc parts where the tongue hath been in fome ufe. In the time of the
late unhappy civil war, we began to make fome ufe of it upon the runna-
gates that went from us to the contrary part from our oppofite works,
and more we Ihould have done if the enemy had not been jealous of
them, and prevented us. This may be fit to be improved into fomewhat, if
the like occafion happen, for it may be talked freely and aloud to advantage,
to which no other tongue hath reference. The pooreft fort at this day, whea.
they fpeak it as they come abroad, are laughed at by the rich that underftand
it not, which is by their own fault in not endeavouring after it.

XVI. The want of writing it is the great caufe of its decay, for though,
there wanted a proper character for it, yet we might have written it in the
charafter now in ufe, but I never faw a letter written in it from one gentle-
man to another, or by any fcholar, which is to be wondered at, and blamed
as a thing unbecoming fuch as ought to be ftudious in every thing that is
ancient-, but fince I began to fet about this work I prevailed upon thofe
that tranfiated it to write me feveral letters, which they at firft found very
hard to be done, but after fome practice it feemed eafier.

Here I cannot but lament the want of fuch perfons, books, records and
papers v/hich were late in being, and not now to be had, and my misfortune

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in not having tranflated them, that moft unhappily efcaped me ; one was the
Manulcript of Anguin, who had tranflated out cf Cornifli into Englifli - - -
his relations, after his deceafe, (having fuits before me as vice warden of the
Stanneries for tin bounds) promifed me the favour of thofe tranflations, but
before their return to their houfes their people tearing all about for tlicir con-
troverted goods, had torn to pieces all thofe papers. In another place I was
promifed the fight of a Cornifli Accidence,but that by another fuch like accident
was totally fpoiled by children before it coulJ be brought me. 1 have heard
alfo that a mattins in Cornifli was amongft: the books of Dr. Jofeph Maynard,
but I could never attain to it. But befides the no helps by which I lie in
this labyrinth, I have likewife had dilcouragements from among ourfelves at
home; I have been often told that befldes the difficuh.y of the attempt, it
would be thought ridiculous for one to go about the rcftoring of that tonoue
which he himfclf could not fpeak nor underftand truly when fpoken : to
which I have made anfwer with thefe two following infliances : one is of
a countryman of ours, Langford by name, who being blind was yet able to
teach others the noble fcience of defence, only he defired to know frill the
length of the weapon of his fellow combatant, with a guefs of his pofture,
and this he pradtifed with good fuccefs. The other is of one Grizling, of
whom Mr. Camden fays, that he being deaf could fee words, that is, that not-
withftanding his deafnefs he could anfwer any man's quefl;ion that fct at table
with him by the motion of his lips. This man I have feen alfo, and he
would complain of fuch men as in thofe days wore great munchadoes, as
they then called them, i. e. nourifliing of much hair, by which he was hin-
dered fomewhat of tlie obfervation of their lips.

I may place thefe two men, one blind, the other deaf, for thofe qualities
among the obfervable things of the county, knowing them to be true, if
the mentioning of thefe examples in their comparifon do not excufe me of
being laughed at by thofe men that have cenfured nie for my attempt.

Hie facit Adam et Dicit Deus.

Dol ony oneii ha tr\', Tas ha map yn trynyte
Ny ad eura ty then abry, haual dagan fare whare
Ny a euhyth yn the vody fperys fans hylly beene
Han been nans pan yn kylly, then dozty a del arte.

Adam faf yn van yn dor, ha tryt the gyk ha the woys
Preder my theth wuU a dor, haual theym an pen then troys
Myns us yntryr hag yn mor, evarnethc kemer halloys
Yn byfma rag dry aftor ty a veea bys mafy toys,

Adam

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Adam del of Den aras, bos guythys a wronty af thys
Kybar Paradyt myathas faen gara un dra a govys
War bup, frut lofoen ha ha«, avo hynny hy teays
Sacu yn frut ny fyth kymmyas, yea proen aikyens hyulkis.

Nara tybbryth a henna, yen hyneuis pren aikyens
Ynnes a lena tya, hag a fyth marroeii vernens.

In EngH(h thu» :

So are we one and three Father and Son in Trinity
We make thee to us of clay like to our face anon
We will breath in thy body fpirit holy and ointment on his head
• And life when loft to the earth thou muft again.

Adam rife thou up in ftrength and turn to flefh and blood
Think I came all of earth like me from head to foot
All that's on land and fea upon them take thou authority
In this world from bring forth thou fhalt have thee allowed.

Adam fo of God's grace but keep whats granted thee

Take Paradice I appoint only leave the thing thou ought

On each fruit herb and feed that in it is growing

Except the fruit thou flialt not take that's the tree of knov>'Iedge forbidden.

Do not eat of that that's named the tree of knowledge
Out from thence thou mull and ihalt die the death.

By this fmall part of a greater piece given (as I conceive) for Welfli, by a Welfh gentleman,
it appears how near the Cornilh and Welfh tongues are affined.

Anglick.
Our father which art in heaven, hallowed
be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be
done in earth as it is in heaven, give us this day
our daily bread and forgive us our trefpafTcs as
we forgive them that trefpafs agalnft us and
lead us not into temptation but deliver us
from evil.

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Sic.

I believe in the Holy Ghoft. the Holy Ca-
thoUc Church, the forgivenefs of fins, the re-
furreiilion of the body, and the life everlalt-
ing.

N. B. The above, DiiTertation was written by

Cornwalleck.
Ny Taz oz yn neau bonegas yw tha hanaw,
Tha Gvvtakath doaz Tha bonogath bo gwrez
en nore porarag en neau, roe thenyen dyth-
ma gon dyth bara giuians ny gan cabu weecy
cara ny giuians mens o cabu wra chen. Ledia
ny nara idn tentation buz diluer ny thad
deog^

Me a grcez en du taz olgologack y wrig en
neuhan noare. Ha yn Jefu Crefl; y vabe hag
agan arlyth avy, confeviys dazan SpeiizSanz,
geniz thurt an voz Mareea SufFerai dadn Pont
Pilatt, ve gocis dan vernans ha bethis, ha thes
kidnias the yffarn, y fauas arta yn Tryfa dyth,
ha deriffians da neau ha feth war dighow dor-
nyndue taz olgologack, Thurt ena eu za
doaz tha juga yn Beaw han Vazaw.

Me a greez yn Spiriz Sanz, Sanz Cathalick
Eglis, yn Communion yn Sanz, yn giuyans
an pegh, yn derivyans yn coriF, han Bowians
ragneuera andellazobo.

Scawen, Efq. Vice- Warden of the

Stannaries, and was communicated by Thomas Allle, Efq.

BAR

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BAR GATE, SOUTHAMPTON.

THIS lundfome Gate was in all likelyhcod built at the fame time as the
Walls and other Gates of the Town, foon after the year 1339, when
the old Town was plundered and burned by Pyrates.

It ftands on the North fide of the Town, is large and both machicolated
and embattled ; over it was formerly the Town houfe, and under it the Pri-
fon, now removed to a building called the Tower, adjoining to the South
Gate.

On its outfide or North front, are painted two gigantic figures, one on each
fide of the Gateway, reprefenting Sir Bevis, ftiled of Southampton, a Knight
famous in Romance, and Afcupart, alfo a valiant Knight, or Giant, con-
quered by Sir Bevis, as is recorded in the following couplet :
Bevis conquered Afcupart, and after flew the Boare,
And then he crofled beyond the Seas, to combat with the Moore.
On the Infide this Gate makes a very handforae termination of the
ftreet.

The Defcriptjon of England, continued from Page 53.

I THEREFORE thought it necefTary to give him a fliilling to dire(ft and
condud: me. Pafling by a mill on a little river, I came to Ayo, where I
left my guide ; I faw on the left hand the great Caftle of Lediardgofe, whence
I defcended to a river, and foon after again defcended, and once more loft
my way in fome meadows, in which are the fources of the Thames, the largefl:
river in England. I afterwards paflTed through feveral woods, and large
fields, enclofed with hedges, and faw a caftle, where going to enquire my
way, I found a gentleman who fpoke French, having lived a long time at
Paris, in order to learn his exercifes, where he had acquired that language;
he direding me on my road, told me I muft pafs through Malmfbury, which
fi:ands on an eminence between two fmall rivers : from thence I reached Flag-
lin, and Lokingfton, fituated in a defert country, in which are Intorvil, and
Temern, then proceeded through meadows to Pocchelh, and Maguenfild,
and a litde after came into a mouatainous and almoft defart country, where
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there are pits of coal, which is here burned inftead of wood, as in many other
parts of England, where this coal is found, particularly in the principality of
Wales, which furnifhes almoft all Ireland ; very little coal is however to be
found in the neiahbourhoad of Briftol, but about Newcaftle it is in fuch
quantities, that from thence many foreign kingdoms are fupplied, and even
the whole city of London, where more coal than wood is burned. This has
caufed. many perfons to aflert, that in London, the ftreets and lioufes were all
blackened with the fmoke of coals, that befides emitted an almoft infupport-
able ftench, whereas the faiSb is quite the contrary, no fuel being lefs offenfive
in a chimney than coal, which being enclolcd in a kind of iron cage, when
once lighted keeps burning without requiring to be blowed, yielding agreatec
warmth than wood. From thence I arrived at Briftol.

BRISTOL.

Briftol, is the third city, and after London, the beft Sea-port in all
England, it is fituated in a mountainous country upon the river Avon,
fix miles from its influx into the Severn, the tide rifes above two fathoms, ib
that vefiels come up to the middle of the city, where are two ports, the great-
ter and the lefler. The fmalleft extends along a quay, which borders the ri-
ver Avon, and ferves chiefly for coafting veflTels loaded with Englifli goods,
but the great port is formed by the embouchure of the little river Froome,
which likewife pafTes into the Town, it is deeper than the fmall port, and ca-
pable of receiving larger vefiels, which lay along a large quay. This little ri-
ver joining the greater below the Town, renders it a kind of Peninfula, and
fo much the more agreeable and proper for commerce, as having thefe two
ports. Moft of the towns of England fituated in the internal parts of the
country, are almoft without walls or defences, which are to be met with only
about thofe on the fea coafts. Briftol does not derive muchftrength from its
walls, except the fide towards Bedminfter, which the river Avon feparates
from the Town ; on this fide there are three great ftreets, wherein are fome
rich merchants, and a very handfome church of our Lady of ReidclifF, built
with a red ftone, and ornamented round about, with the figures of faints,
and bas relievos ; its bell tower is high and very well finifhed, one may walk
on the top of the church, there being a platform furrounded by a balluftrade.
Thefe three ftreets begin at the bridge over this river, it is covered with houfes

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ffnd {hops, and here dwell the richen: merchants of the Town. Near this
place is a pleatanc walk in a beautiful meadow by the river fide. Having
palled the bridge you come to a great arcade, fupporting a little church with
a clock tower on it, which maJces the entry into feveral handfome ftreets,
leading to all parts of the Town, that in the middle is the principal, and
forms an open area, or market place, wherein (land the Town-Houfe, and
Exchange. The ftreet named Moniltret, is of equal magnitude, it palTes by
an area, where fome markets are held, and wherein are feme covered market
houfes •, this croflcs another ftreet, which runs behind the grand port and
quay. I lodged in the houfe of a Flemming, where I was pretty well enter-
tained, both man and horfefor two Ihillings ; indeed all over England, living
is very reafonable, provided you drink, but little wine, which in this country
is very dear.

The little river which makes the great port, feparates a fmall part of the
Town, to which the way lies over a fton; bridge •, it is fituated on the de-
clivity of a mountain, where formerly ftood a ftrong caftle, commanding the
whole Town ; at prefent its place is occupied by the cathedral church of St.
Auguftine, ornamented with a high tower.

I walked from thence to the port of Congnerol, in the village Depil, where
thofe large velTcls ftop, that for want of water cannot come up to the Town,
from which it is diftant three miles. By the v/ay, on the banks of the river,
I found a m.edical fpring, near a fmall houfe, in which dv/elt a man, who
explained to us its wonders and qualities, which made me recoiled thofe at
Bath, a Town only fix miles from Briftol, and fituated on the fame river,
where are baths, whofe waters are hot in fome places, and cold in others. The
King has a place there appropriated for his bathing, round about which are
feveral admirable pieces of fculpture. The Metropolitan Church in the fame
city, is among the fineft in England, it is reprefented in the forty wonders
of this kingdom. The ordinary walk of the people of Briftol, is in a mea-
dow at the end of the Peninfula of the Town,, where the two ports join, on
account of many fine rows of trees, and its being a place proper for fliip build-
ing. One of the largeft fliips on the ocean was then nearly finiftied here, it
carried eighty pieces of cannon, and meafured on its keel fixty five paces. In
the evening, walking by the water-fide among thefe fine rows of trees, I faw
arftiip under repair, almoft torn in pieces by cannon fnot, it was a Portuguefe
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a flout refinance, as I was informed by a Portugiiefe, whofe language I un-
derftood tolerably well •, he farther faid that the wind having increafed, flie by
out-failing them efcaped from the hands of her enemies, being light an J a bet-
ter failor than the two fliips of war by whom fhe was attacked, fo that fhat-r
tered as (lie was, flie arrived at Briftol, loaded with rich merchandize, fuchas
oil, wine, filk, dried froits, oranges, lemons, tobacco, fugar, and other va-
luable commodities; only one merchant, and one failor were killed in the
whole fight, and five or fix wounded by the fplinters of a plank, between two
ports that they fhewed me, which was fufficient to have demolilhed the whole
vefi"cl.

The Fleming, at whofe houfe I lodged, long kept a priefl:, who fecretly
faid mafs in his houfe, but it having been difcovered, he was forbidden to do
it, fo that at prefcnt one cannot hear mafs atBrillol, although it is a port fre-
quented by many Catholicks, Flemifli, French, Si^>aniards and Portuguefe.
At Briftol one may procure apafiage to Ireland ; vefiels loaded with coal, or
corn, frequently failing from that place to Cork, or Kinfale, which are good
fea-ports in Ireland. I was defirous of feeing, before I went thither all that
part of England watered by that beautiful river the Severn, which paflTes
through fome of the mofl: confiderable towns in the kingdom. I left IJriRol to
go to * Glochefter; on leaving the town which lay through meadows, by the
fide of a fmall river. Fom whence I entered into the mountains, where I
found Stebleton, Embrok, Terenton, Stoon, Nieuport, Kembrig, and af-
terwards come to a river at Eftminfter, and, from thence I arrived through
meadowes at Glochter.

• Glocefter. [To be continued.]

STANV/ICK IN YORKSHIRE,

The Seat of the Right Honourable Earl Percy.

THIS elegant manfion has been the chief feat of the Smithfon's, ever fince
the reign of Chicen Elizabeth, when it come into that family, by the
marriage of Anthony Smithfon, of Newfome, Efq-, with Eleanor, the heir
of Anthony Catherick, Efq. A further account of it fliall be given in a fu-
ture number.

THE

ANTIQUARIAN REPERTORY.

The new BRIDGE at EDINBURGH and Part of the CASTLE.

THIS Plate exhibits a view of the New Bridge and the Caftle of Edin-
burgh. The firft was built of late years over the North Loch, now
drained in order to conned the city with the new buildings and fquare that
lie on the oppofite fide. This Bridge confifts of three lofty arches ; the
height of the greatelt is ninety-five feet : the approach at each end is alfo
arched. In the fummer of 1769 one of thefe arches gave way, and buried
in its ruins five perfons who were unfortunately pafling over. Some hun-
dreds had gone the fame way but a fliort time before, part of a crowd who
had attended a popular preacher on a neighbouring eminence ; had he pro-
longed his difcourfe a quarter of an hour, multitudes would have been in-
volved in this calamity. I take the liberty of tranfcribing from Mr. Pen-
iiant's Tour in Scotland the following Hiftory of the CalHe.

' This forcrels is of great antiquity. The antient 5;77//2) name was C^//^//
' Mynydd Agned. Our long-loft Arthur, if Nennius * is to be credited,
' obtained one of his victories in its neighbourhood. His name is ftill re-

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' tained in the great rock impending over the city, literally tranflated frOfh
' the Britijh, Cader, the feat of Arthur. Maitland, who gives the moft
' probable account oi-" the derivation of the name, attributes it to Edwins

♦ kino- of Northumherhnd, who, from the conquefts of his predeceflbrs, was
' in pofleffion of all the traft from Number to the firth of Forth. Accord-
' inoly we find, in very old writers, that the place was called Edwhifi-urch.,
' and Edzvhijlurg". It continued in the hands of the Saxons, or Englijh^
' from the invafion of 05^ and Ebufa, in the year 452, till the defeat of

• Elfrid, king of Northumberland, in 655, by the Picfs, who then repoflefTed
' themfelves of it for about four centuries. The Saxon kings of Noj-ihumber-
' land reconquered it in the ninth century, and their fucceffors retained it till

* it was given up to Indulfus, king oi Scotland, about the year 956. All the
' names in this trad are of Saxon origin, and the language now fpoken is
' full of old Englijh words and phrafes.

' The caftle is of great ftrength ; and, as it was for a long time fuppofed
' to be impregnable, was called the Maiden caftle. Edward I. in 1296, made
' himfelf mafter of it in a few days : but in the reign of his fucceffor, it was,
' in 1313, furprized and taken hy Thomas Randolph, Earl of Murray. It
< fell again into the hands of the EngliJIo, who, in 1341, lofl: it by a ftrata-
' gem contrived by Sir William 'Douglas. He entered the harbour oi Leith,
' with a veflel loaden with provifions, and manned with about two hundred
' highlanders. He difguifed twelve in the drefs of peafants, and placed the
' reft in ambufh amidft the ruins of an abby. He led the firft up to the
' caftle, accompanying twelve horfes, laden with oats and fuel : he offered
' thefe to fale to the porter, who telling him, that the garrifon ftood in great
' want of them, let Sir IVilliam into the gateway. They flew the porter^

* blockaded the gate, by killing their horfes in the midft of it, and affem-
' bling their other party by found of horn, made themfelves mafters of the
' place.

' The hero Kirkaldie, diftinguiflied the year 1573 by a gallant defence of
' this caille, which he kept, in hopes of mending the fortunes of his unhappy
' miftrefs, then imprifoned in England. For three and thirt}' days he refifted
' all the efforts of the Scots and the Englijh, excited by courage and emula-
' tion. At length, when the walls were battered down, the wells deftroyed,
' and the whole rendered a heap of rubbifh, he propofed to perifh glorioufly

* Vide Maitland Hift. Edinburgh, 6.

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' in tRe laft entrenchment ; but the garrifon, which wanted his heroifiri, or
* had not the lame reafon for defpair, mu:inied, and forced hirn to I'lir-

rend

' In 1650 it ruftained a fiege of above two months, againft the parliament

* army, commanded by Cromiael, and furrendered at length on very hono-

* rable terms -f .

' At the revolution, it was held for fome time by the Duke of Gcrdou, for
' the abdicating prince. When his grace furrendered his charge, he made
' terms for every one under his command j but with uncommon fpirit and
' generofity, fubmitted his own life and interefts to the mercy of the con-
' queror J. After the city was pofTefled by the rebels, in 1745, it under-

* went a fliort and impotent fiege. The royalifts, under general Gueft, kept

* quiet pofieflion of it, after a few weak and unavailing hoftilities.

* Beneath the floor of one of the paflages, were interred, the remains of
' William, Earl oi Douglas, and his brother. Thefe noble youths ^too pow-
' erful for fubjedts) were enveigled here, on the faith of the royal word, and,
' while they were fitting at table with their prince, were feized, and hurried

* to the block. Hiftory mentions an uncommon circumftance. A bull's
' head was ferved up, a fignal, in thofe days, of approaching death. The

* Douglafes grew pale at the fight, accepting the omen.

' In a fmall room in this fortrefs, Mary Stuart brought into the world

* James VI. an event which fome uncouth rhymes on the wall inform the

* ftranger of.

' The Regalia of Scoland are faid to be preferved here, and a room in which

* they are kept, is pointed out, but made up and inacceflible. According

* to Maitland, they were acknowledged to have been here in 1707, as ap-
' pears by a formal infirument preferved by that hillorian.

' The great cannon called Mcunts-meg, made of iron bars, bound toge-
' ther by iron hoops, is a curiofity preferved in this place.'

This Drawing was communicated by T. Pennant, Efq.
* Robertfon, II. 48. t Whitelock, 485. X Hift. Gordous, II, 606.

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To the Editor of the Antiqjtarian Repertory.'

SIR,

IF you think the following Letter comes within the Plan of the Repertory,

it it much at your Service.

Copy of Sir John Lessley'j Letter to Sir Thomas Riddle, of Gate/heady upon
the Siege of Newcaftle, by the Scots, in the Tear 1640.

Sir Thomas,
>ETWEEN me and God, it males my heart bleed bleud, to fee the
warks gae thro' foe trim a garden as yours. I hae been twa times. .wi*
my coufin the General, and fae Ihall I fax times mare afore the wark gae
that gate ; but gin a' this be dune Sir Thomas, yee maun macke the twenty
pound thretty, and I maun hae the tag'd tail'd * trooper that (lands in the
flaw, and the little w«e trim gaeing "* thing that ftands in the neuko*the ha'
chirping and chiming at the noun tide of the day, and forty "^ bows of "* beer
to faw the " mains witha' ; and as I am a Chevalier of fortune, and a limb
of the Houfe of Rothes, as the muckle maun kill in Edinburg, auld
kirk can weel witnefs for thefe ' aught hundred years bygaine, nought fhall
fliaith your houfe within or without, to the validome of a twapenny
chicken.

I am your humble Servant,

John Lessley,

Major-General and Captain over fax fcore and twa men and fome mare ;
Crowner of Cumberland, Northumberland, Murrayland and Fife;
Baillie of Kirkaldie; Governdur of * Burnt-Ifland, and the Bafs
Laird of Libertine, Tilly and Wolly; f Siller Tacker of Stirling,
Conflable of Leith, and Sir John Lefsley, Knight to the Boot of
a' that.

^ Horfe. >> Clock. ' Two bufhels. '^ Barley. « Low lands. f Eight.

* Two rocks of the coaft of Scotland. For a Defcription, fee Pennant's Tour.

t Colleflor of the Land Tax.

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GLOCHTER. *

GLOCHTER has fomething pleafing in its fituation, which is in the midft
of a moft agreeable and fertile country, with the convenience of the
river Severn, where the tide rifes quite to the town, fo as to bring up large veffels
that go to Briftol, or any where elfe on the Gulf of the Severn, which is called
St. George's Channel, where this river enters into the Irifh fea; boats loaded
with diverfe forts of merchandize, brought by fea from foreign countries,
pafs on this fame river up to the town of f Chrofbery. I entered through a
large fuburb, at the end of which is a great ftreet that runs quite through the
Town, it is crofled in the middle by another of the fame fize, forming an area
orcrofs way, on which are fome handfome fountains, making the entry into
as many different ftreets. There are alfo fome places which ferve for markets,
with their large covered market houfes. From hence I went to fee the bridge
over the Severn, among feveral large meadows, alfo the quay, where wero
fome veffels ; on the other fide of the river appear many high mountains,
which moftly belong to the principality of Wales. It is neverthelefs one of
the moft valuable parts of the kingdom from the quantity of cattle bred
there, for its fruits, its mines of iron and lead, as alfo of coal, with which
it furnifhes almoll all Ireland.

Near this Bridge is a fmall fuburb, from whence I went to fee the great
Church, one of the fineft in England, ornamented with a high tower built
with large fquared ftones of a reddifh colour, as is general over this king-
dom.

Leaving Glochter I followed the river, where, after having paffed a moun-
tain, I came again to its banks, when I perceived a large Brett fifh fwim-
ming above water •, I immediately difmounted to catch it, but the cunning
fi(h baffled all my endeavours, for as foon as it perceived me, it gained the
middle of the river, without going under water, as if to make game of me.
I afterwards paffed the Severn in a ferry-boar, this is not the common way,

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but it was pointed out to me as the fhorceil -, I ought to have gone by
Teukfbury, where leaving that town the v/ay lies over a large bridge on the
river Avon, which joins the Severn, the river 1 was coafting. I faw the
town on the other fide in pafling through woods and feveral Imall villages,
in meaJovvs full of rivulets, which rendered the road difficult till I got to the
banks of the Severn, where I found fcveral loaded boats, which worked with
fails, and others which were diawn by horfes, when the wind proved contrary.
I coafted it to Upton, where I pafTed over a large ftone bridge, and flopped
to refrefh myfelf -, here was fo great a quantity of fruit, particularly apples,
that they make cyder of, which is the chief beverage of the province ; they
brought me fome inftead of beer, of v;hich not being previouQy advertifed,
I did not know what to think, even after the firft draught ; the colour re-
fembled that of Englifh beer, it was likewife as clear and beautiful ; the
tafte alone caufed me to afk my landlord where they made that beer; he
anfwered me, it grew upon trees, and was cyder. One is as well treated
here, in the taverns and inns, as in France, and as neatly lodged, the man-
ner of this country being pretty much like our own. After this village I
pafled by Sto Kemefi to Worcefter.

WORCESTER.

Worcefter is one of the great cities of this kingdom, as well for the plenty
of provifions in the country which environs it, as the navigable river Severn
which pafll's through it, and enriches the neighbourhood of its courfe. I
lodged at the Stag in the High-ftreet, where, calling for the oftler in coming
in, I met a gentleman who knew me by my fpeech to be a foreigner ; the
landlady of the inn to whom I was fpeaking, thinking he underftood French,
called him to fpeak to me, but he having anfwered me in the Latin tongue,
was defirous of making the woman believe we were difcourfing together in
French, becaufe he had long commanded in the armies in the Low Countries.
We fupped together, during fupper he lent for a band of mufick, confifting
of all forts of inftruments ; among thefe the harp is the moft tfteemed by the
Englilli. According to the cuftom of the country, the landladies fup with
the llrangers and paflengers, and if they have daughters they are alfo of the
company, to entertain the guefts at table with pleafant conceits, where they
drink as much as the men ; but what is to me the moft difgufting in all this

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is, that when one drinks the health of any perfon in company, the cuftom of
the country does not permit you to drink more than half the cup, which is
filled up and prefented to him or her whofe health you have drank : more-
over, the fupper being finifhed, they fet on the table half a dozen pipes and
a pacquet of tobacco for fmoking, which is a general cuftom as well among
women as men, who think that without tobacco one cannot live in England,
becaufe fay they it diffipates the evil humours of the brain. The next day
this gentleman fhewed me every thing worth feeing in the town ; and from
the great ftreet wherein I lodged we pallid by the market-plaie, where ftands
the town-houfe and a fountain j farther on we found a flrong gate between
two large towers, where begins the ftreet which goes to the bridge over the
Severn. On that fide by which I entered Worcefter there is a great fuburb,
where v/e v/ent to fee the epifcopal church, which has a high tower. This
gentleman made me remark the tomb of a bifliop, when England profefled
the catholic religion, and that near it was a very ftrong caftle, of which he
fliewed me fome ruins.

Whilft we were walking about the town, he afked me if it was the cuftom
in France as in England, that when the children went to fchool, they carried
in their fatchel wirh their books a pipe of tobacco, which their mother took
care to fill early in the morning, it ferving them inftead of a break faft ; and
that at the accuftomed hour every one laid afide his book to light his pipe,
the mafter fmoking with them, and teaching them how to hold their pipes
and draw in the tobacco ; thus accuftoming them to it from their youth, be-
lievincr it abfolutely neceflary for a man's health. This put me in mind of a
Spaniard, who being accuftomed to take tobacco, I found him at a lea- port
of Calabria in Italy, where we were detained by bad weather in our return
from Maltha, here he not being able to procure tobacco cut off a piece of
the cable, with which he filled his pipe to draw and fuck down the finoke
thereof inftead of that of tobacco. I have alfo feen an Iriftiman, twenty-four
years old, who during his whole life had fmoked tobacco > he having fallen
fick was forbid the ufe of tJnat plant, as being too great a dryer of the body ;
this he fubmitted to for fome time, but he became fo low and fo melancholy,
that he could at length take nothing but a little tobacco, which was at laft
permitted him, and he in a ftiort time recovered his perfeft health. I have
known leveral, who not content with fmoking in the day went to bed with
their pipes in their mouths, others who have rifen in the night to light their

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pipes, to take tobacco with as much pleafure as they would have received in
drinking either Alicant or Greek wines. Tiiis gentleman told me a hundred
divertin<^ {lories on different fubjefts, and would accompany me on the mor-
row till breakfaft time.

V/e let out from Worcefter, paffing through a fuburb of half a mile in
lenmh to get into the country, and to Amerli Harclbery on a river. In
this villao-e he had a farm, where he fo courceoufly received me that it was
impoffible for me to get away that night, I was therefore obliged to fleep
there; and after thanking him the next morning I continued my route by
Kedminfter. In entering it I paffcd over a large bridge, which forms the
beo-innino- of a great ftreet, where are feveral workmen making fluffs ; every
body knows that the Englifh v/ool is very fine, of which very fine and beau-
tiful cloth is made. I afterwards came to fome woods, after having paffed a
hioh mountain, at the foot of which -were two ponds, which form an agree-
able landfcape, till 1 reached the fmall part of the town of Brignart, which is
feparated from the greater part by the Severn. I paffed over a great ftonc
bridge to afcend the town, where there are feveral houfes under the mountain,
which are cut in the rock, from whence defcending to go along a river, where
is Marvelle and Caftel.

* Menchouenlat, at the foot of a high mountain, which I paffed, and de-
fcended to Harlai, and thence to Crefreth, following the Severn on ones
rioht hand, where appear very high mountains on the riier fide. Come to
Card, there is a caftle on a river. Pafs another little river which communi-
cates with the Severn. Enter over Schrofbery bridge,

SCHROSBERY.

The Severn is navigable to Schrclbery, I paffed it over a large ftone bridge,
at the entrance there is a fuburb, the church of which appears to me to hare
formerly belonged to fome fine abbey. I afcended from thence to the town,
which is mounted on the platform of a rock, fcarped on almoll: every fide,
which renders its fituation naturally ftrong; befides which, the wall that
enclofes it made it difficult to befcaled ; the environs confift of large woods
and high mountains, neverthelefs this town is filled with people and rich
fliop-keepers, who dwell in two large ftreets, one leading to the market,
place, and the other turning from this place towards the left. Near which

* Much Wenlock.

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are the Great Church, the Exchange, and Town-hall, they are in a ftreet
called -f- Ayftrit, which is lb broad that it feems a long market-place, ter-
minating at one of the ends of the town, where itands the Caftle and com-
mands it, being more elevated, and by fo much the ftronger as it is envi-
roned on one fide by broad ditches, clofed with good walls, and on the other
there is no approach to it, on account of the fteepnefs of th^ rock, but it
has been ruined by the late wars, in fo much that excepting a few towers and
fome lodgings within, I fee nothing remarkable.

I met nothing more pleafing to me than the funeral ceremonies at the in-
terment of a My Lord, which mine hoft procured me the fight of. The re-
lations and friends being aficmbled in the houfe of the dcfut;(5t, the minifter
advanced into the middle of the chamber, where, before the company, he
made a funeral oration, reprefenting the great adions of the deceai'cd, his
virtues, his qualities, his titles of nobility, and thofe of the whole family, fo
that nothing more could be faid towards confoling every one of the company
for the great lofs they had fuftained in this man, and principally the relations
who were feated round the dead body, and whom he alTured tha. he was gone
to heaven, the feat of all forts of happinefs, whereas the world that he had
juft left was replete with mifery. It is to be remarked, that during this ora-
tion there ftood upon the coffin a large pot of wine, out of which every one
drank to the health of the deceafed, hoping that he might furmount the diffi-
culties he had to encounter in his road to Paradice, where, by the mercy of
God, he was about to enter, on which mercy they founded all their hope,
without confidering their evil life, their wicked religion, and that God is juft.
This being finiflied, fix men took up the corps and carried it on their fiioul-
ders to the church ; it was covered with a large cloth, which the four neareft
relations held each by a corner with one hand, and in the other carried a
bough; the other relations and friends had in one hand a flambeau, and in
the other a bough, marching thus through the flreet, without finging, or
faying any prayer, till they came to the church, where having placed the
body on trefiels and taken off the cloth from the coffin, which is ordinarily
made of fine walnut-tree, handfomely worked and ornamented with iron
bandages, chafed in the manner of a bufiet. The minister then afcended his
pulpit, and every one beir.g feated round about the coifin, which is pl.?:ed
in a kind of parade in the middle of the church, he read a portion c/ the

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Holy Scripture concerning the refurreclion of the dead, and afterwards fang
fome pfalms, to which all the coinpany anfwered. After this he defcended,
having his bough in his hand like the reft of the congregation ; this he thresT
on the dead body when it was put into the grave, as did all the relations,
extinguiOiing their flambeaus in the earth with which the corps was to be
covered. This finiflied, every one retired to his home without farther cere-
mony, and I departed from Schrofbury for Chefter, and having pafled ovtr
a large defart plain, I reached Addar, Morton, and a Callle. The country
liere is barren •, pafl!ed a river near a windmill ; from thence to Pries and
Vitechurch on a river. Here is a manufadory of woollen cloth. The road
lies afterwards over fome mountains, where are feveral good inns all alone •,
Empoft is one. Came to Anlai, and fome fmall woods, having the river on
the right, which runs to Chefter.

CHESTER.

Chefter lies at the mouth of the river Dee, where it enlarges itfelf into the
form of a gulf, in which, by the afTiftance of the tide, veflels may come up
to the town, on this account it may be reckoned among the good fea-
ports, fince it is the ordinary paflage of the packet-boat, melTengers and
merchandize going from England to Ireland.

The plan is nearly formed by two great ftrcets, which crofs each other in
the middle, and as they are very broad at this croffing, they make a fine
and fpacious area, which ferves for the market-place, in which is the Town-
houfe. Turning on the right hand, the way leads to the Great Church,
where I faw a tomb worth remarking. The walk on the Bridge is very
ac^reeabie, the gate which fhuts it in is like a ftrong little caftle ; there is
then a fuburb, Chefter is efteemed one of the ftrongeft towns in England,
on account of its fine high walls, the many towers by which it is defended,
and its ftrong caftle, ftanding in the higheft part of the town, which it com-
mands. It has been much damaged during thefe laft wars. Under the ufurp-
ation of Cromwell, the town was almoft entirely ruined, after having fuftained
a loner fiege. The firft thing I did on my arrrval at Chefter, was to learn
when the packet-boat would fail for Dublin; it had fet off" fome days before,
but I found a trading veflel laden with diverfe merchandifes, in which I took
my pafiage for Ireland. This veflel was at anchor in the gulf, near the little
village of Birhoule, eight miles from the town ; here are fome large ftore-

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houfes for the keeping of tiie merchandife to be embarked for Ireland, as is
generally done every month from hence to Ireland, and reciprocally from
Ireland to England, from whence all the letters, the meffengers, and veflels
that are to pafs, go firft to the village of* Holeyd, which is in the ifland of
Mona or Anglcley, as a place of rendezvous, there being a very good har-
bour, from whence a boat commonly fees out for Dublin. I embarked then
in this veflTel, which fet fail at four in the afternoon, the weather bad and
rainy, on account whereof, after we got out of the gulf and the mouth of
this river, within fight of the town of Flint and its ftrong caftle, we chofe not
to expofe ourfelves much to the fea, when the wind was lb furious and fo
contrary that it fplit all our fails, and obliged us to put out all our anchors,
one of which broke as the ftorm augmented -, this, together with the horrid
fpeftacle of furrounding rocks, which feemed to threaten our deftruction,
threw us into great terrors, the fea feeming opening to fwallow us up with-
out any reiource : this lafted all the night, but the dawn of day brought us a
ftark calm attended with rain, which ceafed when the wind became fair,
although this did not laft long ; for as we could not (for want of depth of
water) pafs the Streights that lie between the land and the ifle of Anglefey,
we turned round about to go to the village of Holeyd, diftant from Chefter
more than fixty miles, to embark the merchandize and paffengers who come
to this place as a rendezvous from England to go to Dublin, the capital
town of Ireland. We anchored in this port, during which time we went to
walk in the village and about the iQand, which feemed fruitful in corn. We
faw the poll: arrive, who gave his packet to the captain of our fhip v there
were a good many perfons who waited for a pafTage to Ireland, among them
was a young man who fpoke a little French ; he was a clock-maker, and had
worked in the galleries of the Louvre in Paris, with whom entering into
fome difcourfe touching the fkill and valour ot the Englifh, he faid he fliould
not fear two Frenchmen. ' It would not be, faid I, (in anfwer to him) a man
of your ibrt that could terrify me fword in hand ; when, all on a fudden, he
drew his fword, crymg out, defend yourfelf. Whilft I learned to fence at
Rome there were feveral Englilh with whom I praftifed, whofe faults I eafily
dilcovcred ; and, in fine, obferving this young man alTaulted me precipi-
tately, by keeping always on the defenfive, and confidering his default I re-
tired a long way, which cauled this young giddy-headed fellow to throw

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himfclf almoft out of all kind of guard ; he had a fword of the French fafhion,
long and flender, that would not cut, which is the ordinary way of ufing the
fword in England ; flopping then all on a fudden I gave him a thruft in the
under part of the right arm, which made him cry out to me, in the prefence
of many perfons, who prevented me from killing him in the rage I was then
in at being attacked by fuch a young coxcomb. I broke his fword on a rock
after having dilarmed him, and he was blamed by all for having attacked
me without caufe. This did not prevent our embarking with a very favour-
able wind, which carried us that day to Dublin, a diftance of fifty miles.

DUBLIN.

Dublin is the capital city of the kingdom of Ireland, fituated on the river
* LefFer, where the tide rifes near two fathoms, by which large barques are
brought up to a quay in the middle of the town, and loaded vefTels remain
at anchor at its mouth under cover of fome high mountains, which run out
into the fea in form of a promontory. We landed at the little village of "t"
Ranefin, which is on the borders of that little gulf, from whence we entered
into a great fuburb, where ftands the college of the Univerfity, which I
vifited after having found an inn at the Mitre, in the little part of the town,
feparated by the river which runs through it. On the morrow, being accom-
panied by a French merchant who lived there, I went to fee this grand Col-
lege. I was introduced to the principal, who was a man of great wit and
learning : he fhewcd me a fine library, in which were many very fcarce books,
among others he lent me that of Camdenus Brittannius, who has written the
Hiftory and Defcription of England, enriched with maps of every county,
and the plans of all the cities. This man was curious to hear me ipeak of
the city of Paris and of the French cufloms, and leemcd aftoniflicd that out
of mere curiofity I fhould come to fee Ireland, which is a country lb retired,
and almoll unknown to foreign travellers He likewife Ihewed me a fine
garden, very well taken care of, wherein was a great parterre reprcfenting a
fun-dial, and in the middle a tree that lerved for the Gnomon. There was
a vine nailed againft the back part of a chimney expofed to tne mid-day fun,
and yet neverthelefs its grapes never would ripen, the climate being too cold,
which is the cafe with many fruit trees that cannot live here, or at leaft bring
their fruits to maturity. In this garden is a very fine terras, from which is

* Liffy. + Rjngfend,

a view

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a view of this great fea-port. I was fhewn from this terras the mountain of
Plinlimont, which is in the principality of Wales in England ; the weather,
it is true, was then very fine and clear. This grand College has two large
courts encompaffed with lodgings ; the fchools are in the fecond, as alfo the
church, where he Ihewed me the tomb of a Doftor who founded and endowed
this Univerfity. He afterwards invited me to dinner, where I had great
pleafure, not fo much for the good cheer, as becaufe during that time he
entertained me with the account of many fine things reipefting the kingdom
of Ireland. I returned him thanks in leaving him to fee the palace of the
viceroy, Monfieur the duke of Ormont, uncle to the king, who has a fine
court and a fuit altogether royal ; among them are feveral French gentlemen.
This cattle is at one of the ends of the town, and within its ancient walls,
which at prefent do not contain one third of its extent. The cattle is ftrong,
enclofed by thick walls and by many round towers that command the whole
town, on them are mounted a good number of cannon. The court is fmall,
but the lodgings, although very ancient, are very handfome, and worthy of
being the dwelling of the viceroy. The principal gate is in a great ftreet,
called Caflelttrit, that runs from one end to the other of the town, in the
middle of it is an open fpace, in which the principal ftreets of Dublin
meet, that of Ayttrit is fine. In it is the town-hall with a fine clock, which
is before Chrift-church. This great church feems to mc to have been fome
abbey, the cloitters are converted into ftiops of tradefmen, and the abbey-
houfe ferves for the court in which pleadings are held. This fame ttreec
pafTes by the open place called Fichtterit, which is the fifh-market, that
terminates at one of the ancient city gates between two great towers, where
are the town prifons : beyond this is a great fuburb, which is at prefent both
the beft and largeft part of Dublin. A little river runs through the largeft
ftreet, called Tomftrit, wherein dwell feveral workmen of difterent trades,
for the conveniency of this rivulet, of which they make ufe, and that waters
and cleanfes all the fuburb, the houfes of which are fine and ftrait. I went
to fee the metropolitan church of St. Patrick, tutelar of all Ireland : it has
been much damaged by thunder, and principally its high tower. There
is an open fpot ufed for the market-place, like that called the Hay-
market. Here is a large covered markct-houfe, fo that Dublin, with its
fuburbs, is one of the greateft and beft peopled towns In Europe, and the
refidence of all the nobility of the kingdom of Ireland. There is a ftone
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bridge which joins thatfmall part of the town called Oxmonton to the greater.
On that fide which lies by the water is a great quay, where are the fineft
palaces in Dublin. I v/as there Ihewn the ancient abbey of St. Mary, for-
merly after that of Armagh, the richeft in the whole illand, of it at prefent
only the ruins are remaining. I lodged in this fuburb, from whence I often
went to walk in the great meadows by the fide of the river, contemplating
the country and the fituation of this famous town, which feemed to me to
be near high mountains on one fide, and on the other adjoining to a fine
country, with this advantage, that it is in the middleof the ifland of Ireland,
fo that the produce of the country may be conveniently brought thither from
every part as well as what comes by fea from foreign countries, with which,
by the means of its pcrc, it may traffick. One may go to the town of Kil-
kenny, which lies fifty miles from Dublin, to fee the fine caltle of Monfieur
the Duke of Ormont, rich on every fide with marble, and ornamented with
many things fo curious, that thofe who have {cen it fay that itfurpafll:s many
palaces of Italy. It is only ten leagues from Waterford, which is one of the
good fea-ports of this kingdom, as are thofe of Wexford, Cork, Kinfale
Lymerick and Galway, from whence fail every year many veffels loaded
with leather, butter, cheefe, tallow, fait meat, and fiih ; as alfo with a kind
of cloth manufa£tured in the country, which is very cheap, and is carried to
Spain, Italy, and often to the American Iflands, from whence a return is
madeof diverfe merchandifes of thofe countries, as I have obferved in feveral
fea-ports of that kingdom, which is the richeft of all Europe in things ne-
cefiary for human life, but the pooreft in money -, this caufes provifijns to
be fo cheap, that butter and cheefe are commonly fold at * a penny the pound ;
a pound of beef a: the butchery for eight -j- deniers ; veal and mutton a
penny •, a large falmon juft cut of the fea, three-pence ; a large frefh cod,
two-pence •, a pair of foles, or quaviver, above a foot broad, a penny ; an
hundred herrings, three pence ; fo that one is ferved with flefh and fifh in
the bell manner for J twelve-pence a day. In fine, this is the land of plenty j
and moreover on the road, if you drink two-penny worth of beer at a pub-
lic-houfe, they will give you of bread, meat, butter, cheefe, fiCh, as much
as you chufe, and for all this you only pay your two-pence for the beer, is
being the cuftom of the kingdom, as I have experienced wherever I have been.

* If he means French money, this is little more than a halfpenny. f A denier is the
twelfth part of a French penny. % About fix-pence.

[To be continued.]

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THE
SIEGE

O F

KARLAVEROK,

In SCOrLAND.

An ancient Heraldic Poem, enumerating the Barons, Knights, and Gentle-
men who attended King Edward the Firft to that Siege, Anno 1300 ;
together with a Blazon of their Arms, collated with the Copy preferved
in the Britilh Mufeum in Bib. Cotton. Caligula. A. XVIII.

Alfo a free Tranflation thereof into Englilh, for the Ufe of thofe unac-
quainted with the antiquated French in which it is written.

EL millime trefcenteifime an TN the year of Grace one thoufand

Grace, au jour de faint * John A three hundred, and on St. John's
Tint a Carluel Edward grante Courte Day, Edward held a great Court at

Eccommanda q a terme court CarliQe, and commanded that in a

Tont fi home fe appareillaflent fl:iort time all his men Ihould make

Enfemble aveoc li alaffent ready to go with him againft his ene-

Sur les Efcos fes enemis. mies the Scots.

• Knighton, col. 2523 Circa feftum Sandli Johannis Rex (Ed. primus) tranfivit in Scotiam,
et faftse funt truga: inter Anglicos ct Scotos ufque ad feftum Penticoftis proximuni fequens.

Hift. Peter Langtoft, vo!. 2. P..310. after the n.irrative of the Qneen's being brought to
bed at Brotherton, her purification, and the meeting of Ed. I. with his Earls and Barons at
Carlide. He mentions the taking Karleverok, and afterwards the parliament at Lincoln in
1300. Robert, Archbifhop of Canterbury, writes to Pope Boniface on the 8th of the ides of
Odober, 1300, that he had received his Bull direded to Ed. I. with his commands to prefent
it J that thereupon he proceeded to the King, " verfus caftrum de Carlandrok quod prius
ceperat." Leibn. Cod. jur. Gent. vol. 2. p. z8o. But Walfmgham places it in 1301.

Dcdeins

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Dedeins le jour que leur fu mis

Fu prefte tout le oft banne
E li bons Roys o fa maifine
Tantot fe vint vers les Efcos
■f Non pas en cotes et furcos
Mari fur les grans chevaus de pris

Por ceo q il ne feufTent furpris
Arme bien et feurement.

La ont meinte riche j: garnement
Erode fur cendeaus et § famis
Meint beau penon en lance mis
Meint baniere defploie.

Elong eftoit la noife oie
Des heniflemens des chevaux
Par tote elloient mouns et vauls
Pleins de fommers e de charroi
Que la vitaile eft la couroi
De tentes et de pavilions.

E li jours eftoit beaus e longs
En quatre efchieles ordinees
Les quels vous deviferai
Qtie nuUe n'en trefpalTerey
Ains vous dirray des compaignons
Toutes les armes et les noms
Des banieres nomement
Si vous volies oier coment.

On the appointed day the whole
army was ready, and the good King
and his houfhold fet forward againft
the Scots, not in coats and furcoats,
but on coftly chargers, and that they
might not be talcen at an advantage,
well and fecurely armed.

Then might be feen many rich ca-
parifons embroidered on filk and fa-
tins, many a beautiful penon fixed
to a lance, and many a banner dif-
played.

Then afar off might be heard the
neighing of horfes, and both moun-
tains and vallies were every where
covered with fumpter horfes and
waggons conveying provifions, tents,
and pavillions.

The days being long, and the
weather fine, the army proceeded by
eafy marches, and divided into four
fquadrons, which I (hall fo difplay
that none fhall be omitted, and if
you will attend I will relate the nameg
of the companions, the arms on their
banners, and their names.

f Non pas en cotes et furcos. Not in the drefs of travellers or -lifitors.
J Garnement. Furniture, accoutrements. Here, poffibly meant horfe furniture.
§ Samis, or Samy. A half filk ItuiFwhith has a^lofs like fatin; it is narrower but more
lafling. Cotgrave.

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ALNWICK CASTLE.

npHIS Caftle, which was the great Baronial Seat of the Earls of Nor-
-*- THUMBERLAND, having fallen to decay, has been within thefe twenty-
years moll nobly repaired by the prelent Duke of Northumberland ; who
has with great tafte and judgment chaftly adhered to the ancient Gothic ftyle
of the primitive fabric, and reftored it as much as poffible (confiltently with
prefent convenience, and the more improved ftate of the . arts) to what it
anciently was, or would necefiarily have been at prefent if it had never fuf-.
fered by the ravages of time. The Plate here given, which reprefents the
Caftle before it was repaired, is engraved from a Drawing made by Tho.mas
Butler, Efq. F. S. A. Clerk of the Peace for the County of Northumber-
land, and principal Agent to his Grace.

This View, which was taken from the fouth-wcfl, reprefents the Caftle as
it nearly was, before it was repaired ; the only alterations then made, had
been in the enlargement of the windows in the main body of the Caftle, and
in erecting an additional building for offices (marked [^] in the Plate). We
are glad to prefent it to the curious traveller, as by comparing ic with the
Caftle in its prefent ftate, he can bcft judge of the merit of the improve-
ments.

In the Antiquities of England and Wales, by F. Grofe, Efq. F.S A. may
be feen a very curious ancient Survey of this Caftle, taken in the reign of
Queen Elizabeth : and alfo a very exa6l Defcription of it in its prefenc
ftate : to which we beg leave to refer the readers.

As our plan does not allow us to reprint articles, which have been fo
lately publiftied -, we ftiall endeavour to gratify the curious by prefentincr
them with what has never yet been offered to the public, viz.

AN ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE PERCY FAMILY.
[This curious Memoir, which is only prefaced with thefe words :

Ex Regiflro Monafterij de Whitby e.

Is copied from a Manufcript in the Harleyan Colledion, N** 692. (26)
fol. 235.]

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William Lord Percy the fyrft founder of Whitbj'e his Armes, " Field Azursr,
5 Mill Pykes Or." He begatt of Emme of the Porte Lady Percy, Alayne Percy :
Who by Emme of Gawnt his Wife begatt William that fucceeded him, Walter,
Jeft'rcy, Henry, and Alayne : and he lyeth buried in the Chapter-houfc of Whitbye,
and his Mother Emme of the Porte. Which Emme fyrft was Lady of Semer befides
Skarburgh afore the Conqucft, and of other Landes, William Conqueror gave to Syr
William Percy for hys good fervice : and he wedded hyr that was very heire to them
in difcharging of his Confcience,

The fecond William Lord Percy, the Sonne of the firft Alayne married Aliza
that lyeth at Whitbye, by whom he had Alayne his firft begotten fonne that dyed
without Iffue, Richard the firft Lord Percy, Robert Percy who begatt John Percy.

In the year of Grace 1120 and in the 20th yere of King Henry the Firft, William
the Prince of England was at Barkeflete in Normandye, and was purpofing to follow
into England his father, and he was drowned in the Sea, and many mo noble folkes
not farrc fro the Land ; among whom was Richard a Baftard Sonne of the King, and
alio his Baftard Sifter the Countyes of Percy *, Richard the Erie of Chefter, and
his Wyfe the King's Nefe ; and the Archdeacon of Hertford, and many other to the
number of 140 : and none of them efcaped but one rude fellow a Bocher, and he
fwamme all night upon an ore, and in the morning he was dryven to the Land fide
and he told all the matter and cafualtye.

The firft Richard Lord Percy had the 3d William Lord Percy who founded the
Abbey of Handell in the honor of our Lady, Anno Chrifti 1133°. And, Anno 1147
he founded the Abbye of Salley in Craven of White Menkes ; and he gave to the
Monkes of Whytbye the Churche of Semer ; and to the Monkes of Fowntaynes Mal-
mor and Malwa'ter ; and he gatt on Mary his Wyfe Walter the fyrfte Sonne, Alayn
the fecond Sonne, Richard the third Sonne, and William the fyrft Abbott of Whyt-
bye, Maud and Agnes, and when he dyed he was buried at Salley in Craven &c.
William the fyrft Abbote of Whytbye ftode Abbote 26 yeres, and is beried in the
Chapter Houfe of Whytbye.

Maude the elder Daughter, Countefs of Warwyke, maried William Erie of
Warwyke, Agnes Lady Percy maryed Jocelyn Luvain called Percy by hys
V\''yfe. This Jocelyn was the Sonn of Godfrey Lovain Duke of Brabant and brother
to Adelyne Queen of King Henry the first King of England, and he wedded
this Dame Agnes Percy upon condition that he fhold be called Jocelyn Percy, or
els that he (hold bare the Armcs of the Lords Percy, and he toke the counfell of his
Syfter, and he chofe rather to be called Jocelyn Percy then for to forfake his owne
Armes, (which be, " Feld Ore, A Lyon Rampant Azure") for fo fhold he have had
no right Title to his father's Inheritance ; And fo of right the Lord Percy fhold be
Duke" of Brabant, though they be not foe in dede. And to this Jocelyn Percy King
Henry the Second gave and conferved the Honor of Petworth, as William Erie of
Arundel and his fifter gave the fayd Honor. And this Jocelyn gatt of Agnes his Wyfe
Henry, Alianor, Adalice, Robert, and Richard, and the fayd Agnes is beried in the
Chapter Houfe of Whytbye.

The firft Henry Lord Percy maryed Isabell Brush, to whom Adam of Brufe
gave in full mariage with his daughter, all the Towne of Leuenton with the Appur-
tenances by the aflent and confent of his heires. And the Erie gatt on his Wife Wil-
liam and Henry.

• This is a miftake ; ftie waa not Countefj cf Pjrcv, but of Pjrchb ia France.

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The fourth William Lord Percy after the death of Agnes his Grandame, and
Henry his Father, and Richard his Uncle, came to the whole Inheritance of his elders,
and he gatt of Helyn his Wyfe, Henry his eideft Sonne, Jeffrey Lord of Semer,
Walter Lord of Kildale, that lyeth at Gifburne, William Lord of Dunflc, Ingelram
Lord of Dalton ; and he dyed in his good Age, and is buried at Salk-y in Craven, &c.

The fecond Henry Lord Percy of the Daughter of the Erie Warren gat William
and John that dyed without IfTue, and the third Henry that was his Succcffur ; and he
dyed in his good Age and is buried by his father in the Abbey of Salley in Craven.

The third Henry Lord Percy gat on Alianour the Dawgter of the Erie of
Arundell Henry and William , and he dyed in the Yere of Grace 1268, and is buried
at Fowntaynes afore the high Alter. Alianour Arundell Lady Percy buylded the
Chappell in the Manner of Semer, and (he dyed afore hyr Hufband, Anno gratia
1263.

The 4th Henry Lord Percy was Lord of Alnewyk and he repaired the Caflell of
the fame; and he by the Lycenfe of King Edward founded a Chauntrie of 2 priftes in
the Chappell of Semer ; and King Edward gave to him the Countye of Cariyk, and
the Countye of Bowgan*, and he gat on Idonn Clyfford, Henry, William,
Richard, Maude, Alianour Fitzwater, Ifiibcil, Thomas Bifhop of Norv/iche, Roger,
and Margarett, that was maried to the Erie of Angus fonne, and his Heire.

The 5th Henry Lord Percy maried Mary the Dawgter of the Erie of Lancaftcr
Annogratias 1334° and hegat on her Henry the fyrlt Erie of Northumberland, Thomas
the Erie of Worcefter, and Ifabell maried to Gilbert of Aton. A.nd King Edward the
third in the 5th Yere of his Reigne in his Parliament by his Letters Patents gave to
the fayd Henry and his Heires for his good Service the reverfion of the Mannor and
Caflell of Warkworthe, and of the Mannor of Routhbery, and of other Landes and
Tenements, which John of Clavering held in the Countye of Northumberland to him
and to his Heries Male of the King, and other thinges, which after the deth of the
fayd John fhold revert to the King, yf the fa} d John dyed without Herie Male.

The 6th Henry Percy was made Erie of Northumberland by King Richard the
Second on the day of his Coronation ; and he gat on Margaret the Dawghter of
RafFe Lord Nevyll, Henry [Percy] Knight, Thomas [Percy] Knight, and Rafte
[Percy] Knight; and after her death he weddet the Countes of Angus Dawghter and
Heire of the Lord Lucy (whofe Armes be " Feld Gules, three Fyflies Argent") .ind
file gave to hyr hufband and his Heires by Deed and by Fine, the Honor of the Cartel
and Lordfhippe of Cokurmuthe.

Edmond Mortj'mer the firft Erie of Marche, of Leonells Dawghter and heire got
Roger the fecond Erie of Marche and of Vlneflre which was flayne at Trym in Ireland ;
and Edmond his Brother that dyed in piifon of Owen of Glendore; and Elizabeth
that was wedded to Syr Henry Percy Sonne and Heire to the Eric of Northumber-
land, that was flayne at Shrewefbury of King Henry theFouith; And this Roger
that was flayne at Trym, gat on the elder Dawghter of the Erie of Kent the Noble
Edmond the laft Erie of Marche, and Ulneftre; and Roger his Brother, which dyed
in coming from France ; and Anne the Countes of Cambrige Mother to Richard the
thiid Duke of Yorke and Lady Bowiler.

* ScU'. in Scotland.

Henry

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Hekry Percy Knight, the firft Sonne of Henry the Erie, of Elizabeth the Eries
Dav.o^hter of Marche gate Henry the fecond Earle of Northumberland, & Elizabeth
Clyftarth [afterwards] the Countes of Weftmerland. He was flayne at Shrewefbery
by King Henry the Fourth. Alfo Henry Erie of Northumberland, Father to the fayd
Syr Henry Percy, in the yere following coming from Scotland towards London for
to aflce the Kings grace, bcfydes Yorke of the Sheryf of Yorke there was flayne on
Bramham More, and he was buryed in the Cathedrall Churche of Yorke with Syr
Henry his Sonne. Elizabeth Percy the Daughter of the forefayd Syr Henry Knight,
firit was maried to John Lord ClyfFord (whofe Armes " Feld Cheker Ore & Azure,
A Bar Gules") who by her had Thomas Lord ClyfFord, and 1 homas had John the
Lord Cb.fford. Hyr fecond Hufband was RafFe Erie of Wefrmerland (whofe Armes
be " Fcld Gules ji Saltier Argent") who had by hyr John Nevyll that dyed.

Henry Percy the Son of Sir Henry Percy that was flayne at Shrewefbery, and of
Elizabeth the Daughter of the Erie of Marche, after the death of his father and
Grauntfyte was exiled into Scotland in the time of King Henry the Fourth : but in the
time of King Henry the Fifth, by the labour of Johanne the Countes of Wefvmerland,
whofe Daughter Alianor he had wedded in coming into England, he recovered the
Kings Grace, and the Countye of Northumberland (fo was the fecond Erie of Nor-
thumberland). And of this Alianor his Wyfe he begate IX Sonnes, and HI Daugh-
ters, whofe names be Johanne, that is buried in Whytbye ; Thomas Lord Egremont ;
Katheryns Gray [of] Rythyn ; Sir Raffe Percy ; William Percy a Byfliopp ; Richard
Percy; John that dyed without Issue; George Percy Clerk; Henry that
DYED without Issuej Anne; but in the yere of Grace 1452 there arofe for dyverfe
caufes a greate difcord betwixt him, and Richard the Erie of ftalifbery, hys Wyfes
Broriier; in fo much that many men of both partes were beten, flayne, and hurt.
And in the .yere of Grace 1453 at Staynforde Bridge befydes Yorke, there was a Bat-
tayl fet betwixt Thomas Lord Egremont and Richard hys Brother, the Sonnes of the
fayd Erie of Northumberland on the one partie, And Two Sonnos of the fayd Erie of
Salifbcry on the other partie ; that is to fay Syr Thomas Nevyll, and Syr John Nevill ;
but through the Treafon, and withdrawing of Peris of Lounde, the faid Lord Egre-
mont and his Brother were taken, and put in prifon at London. And in the year fol-
lowing, that is to fay in the yere of Grace 1454, on the 22th day of Maye at Saint
Albons was the fayd Henry Erie of Northumberland, and Thomas Lord ClyfFord his
Nephew, and many other flayne.

Henry Percy the third Erie of Northumberland, by the meane of Henry Cardi-
nall of England, and of the Tytle of Saint Eufebii, wedded Alianor the Dawghter
and Heire of the Lord Poinings, Fytzpanc, and of Bryane (whole Armes he quartered
the firfl: Cote " Six Peeces Barrewayes Ore & Vert A Bendlet Gules." The fecond
Cote " Gules a Bendlet Azure upon three Lyons Argent PafFaunt, Gardaunt"). And
he gate on hyr Henry the fourth Erie of Northumberland, Alianor, Margaret, Eliza-
beth & others.

Henry the fourth Erie of Northumberland maried the Lord Hareerts Dawghter
by wliome hee had Henry the fifth Erie of Northumberland.

AH this I tojce out of A fayre Rowle conteyning a Pedegree of the Kino-s and of
other Noble Men : Which Rowle hath John Stowe of London ; Which as It ihould'
feem was made by a Monke of Whitbye

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The monument of Sir ANTHONY BROWN,

Knight of the Garter.

In the Chancel of the Church of Battle in Sussex.

THIS Monument appears to have been made in the hfe-time of Sir
Anthony, and is a very early fpecimen of that mixed ftile of architec-
ture which fucceeded the Gothic, and, by degrees, in the reigns of Edward,
Mary, Elizabeth, and James, totally fupplanced it. The figure of Sir An-
thony is reported to be a ftriking likenefs of chat Knight, and indeed agrees
with the feveral portraits of him ftill in being.

Sir Anthony Brown was the third fon of Sir George Brown, of Beechworth
Caftle, in the county of Surry, Knight, of whom Collins, in his Peerage,
gives the following account :

" The faid Anthony Brown, third fon, in the firfl year of King Henry VII.
was made Standard-bearer throughout the whole realm ot England, and
elfewhere ; and in 2 Henry VII. being one of the Efquires for his body, was
conftituted Governor of Queenborough Caftle in Kent ; and the fame year
being in the battle of Newark on Trent, June 16, when the Earl of Lincoln
and Lambert Simnell were defeated, he was knighted for his gallant beha-
viour. In 18 Henry VII. being Conftable of the caftle of Calais, he, and
Sir Richard Nanfan, Deputy-Lieutenant of Calais, were commiflioned, in
confideration of their loyalty, induftry, forefight, and care, to receive the
fum of 250CO franks in gold, due November i, 1502, being an annual pay-
ment from Lewis the French King, according to an agreement concluded
November 3, 1492. Alfo in 20 Henry VII. being Lieutenant of the caftle
of Calais, was again commiflioned to receive the annual payment due that
year.

" His laft will and teftament is dated at Calais, September 25, 1505, and
■was proved November 19, 1506, wherein being wrote Sir Anthony Brown,
Knt. Lieutenant of the caftle of Calais, he orders his body to be buried in
the Refurredtion church in St. Nicholas chapel, by his wife ; and bequeaths

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to every brotherhood within the faid church los. and to the Lord Prior of
Chrift-Church, Canterbury, a {landing cup of filver gilt-, alfo two others
to Sir Edward Poynin^ and Sir Hugh Conway, whom he conftitutes overfeers
of his will, with Lucy his wife executrix j whereby it appears that flae was
his fecond wife.

" He had ifliie by the faid Lucy, one of the daughters and coheirs to John
Nevill, Marquis of Montagu, and widow of Sir Thomas Fitzwiliiams, of
Aldwarke in Com. Ebor. Knt. Anthony, his fon and heir, and two daugh-
ters ; Elizabeth, the wife of Henry Somerfet, Earl of Worcefter, ancellor
to the prefent Duke of Beaufort; and Lucy, married to Sir Thomas Clifford,
Knt. anceftor to the Lords Clifford, and Earls of Cumberland.

" Which Anthony was with the Earl of Surrey, Lord High Admiral, at
Southampton, in 14 Henry VIII. when he convoyed the Emperor from
that port to Bifcay ; and after landing at Morleis in Britanny, he was knighted
for his valour in the affaulr, and winning of that town. In 16 Henry VIII.
being one of the Efquires of the King's Houfliold, he was one of the Chal-
lengers in feats of arms againft the feaft of Chriltmas, at Greenwich, before
the King; and the year after was made Lieutenant of the ide of Man, and
thofe other iOands belonging thereto, during the minority of Edward Earl
of Derby. In 19 Henry VIII. he, with Arthur Plantagenet, VifcountLifle,
Knight of the Garter, and others, were fent Ambaffadors to Francis the
French King, to invefl him with the order of the garter ; as alfo to take his
oath that he fhould not violate the league made with King Henry. In 24
Henry VIII. he was again fent into France with the Duke of Norfolk, the
Lord Rochford, brother to the Queen, and Sir William Paulet, Comptroller
of the Houfhold, in embaffage to the French King, and to accompany him
to Nice ; as alfo to commune with the Pope there, concerning his flay in
the King's divorce.

" In 30 Henry VIII. he obtained a grant of that eminent OfBce of Mafter
of the Horfe, with the yearly fee of 40I. for that fervice ; and on the 15th,
of Auguft the fame year, had a grant of the houfe and fcite of the late mo-
naftery of Battle in Com. Su/Tex, to him, his heirs and afTigns for ever. Alfo
on the 12th of March, the year following, was made Mafter of the Horfe for
life ; and on the 23d of April enfuing, he, and the Lord Audley, Lord
Chancellor, were elefled Knights of the Garter, His inftallation plate is the

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fifth in the twenty-firfl: ftall in St. George's chapel at Windfor, as foilo*vs :
" Du Vaillant Chevalier, Anthony Brown, grand Efquier du Roy nre. So-
" veraigne-Sire, ferer ct Compaignon du refpltndiilant Ordrcr du Gartitr, ,
" fuft inftalle a Windcfovre, le 8 jour de May en I'an du regne du Noibe
*' Soveraigne Henry le 8 par le Grace de Dicu, Roy 'd Angleterre et de
" France, Seignr. D'Irclandc, Defenleur de la Foy, et en Terre llipreme
" Chief de TEglife AnglicaniE, 32".

" In 34 Henry VIII. he accompanied the Duke of Norfolk, then Lieute-
nant-General of the Englilh army, in that expedition made by him with
above 20,000 men into Scotland. And in 36 Henry VIII. was with Charles
Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, the King's Lieutenant, in that voyage to Bo-
loigne, where they encamped on the eaft fide of the town, the King himfclf
fhortly following. And the town being brought almoft to the terms of yield-
ing, and certain Ambafladors from the French King arriving at Hardloe caf-
tie, to treat of a general accord, the Duke of Suffolk, and this Sir Anthony
Brown, were fent to confer with them.

" In 37 Henry VIII. the King, confiding inhis loyalty, valour, induftry,
fouefight, and care, being Mafter of the Horie, and Knight of the Garter,
commifiioned him, with Sir Thomas Wriotheflcy, Lord Chancellor, Henry
Earl of Arundel, and William Lord St. John, Chamberlain of the Houf-
hold, to levy, array, and try all men able to bear arms in the counties of
Surry, Suffex, Southampton, Wilts, Oxon, and Berks, and to arm them
according to their degrees, and to mufter them in proper places •, and to
march all his liege fubjecls, lb arrayed and tryed, as well men at arms and.
archers, as other horfe and foot, by themfelves, or others by them deputed,
to fupprefs his enemies, as often as occafion fliall require. The fame year
(37 Henry VIII.) he was made Juftice in Eyre of all the forefts beyond Trent;
and in 38 Henry VIII. was conftituted Standard-bearer to the King (as his
father had been to Henry VII.) And was in fuch favour with his Sovereign,
that he appointed him one of his executors, with truft: likewife to be of the
council to Prince Edward his Ion, and left him a legacy in his will of 300I.

" This Sir Anthony died on the 6th of iVIay, 1548, 2 Edward VI. at By-
flet-houfe in Surry, by him builded, being then iMafter of the Horfe to that
King ; and was buried at Battle- Abbey in Suffex, where in the chancel he
has a noble altar-comb erected to his memory, whereon is a figure of a man

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in armour, lying on his back, habited with the mantle, collar, &c. of the
noble order of the garter •, his head refting on a helmet, and at his feet an
eagle (the creft of his family): By him lies his Lady, in the habit of the
times, repofing her head on a cufliion, and at her feet a wolf with a collar
about his neck. Underneath are feveral cherubs, and uoder them efcutcheona
of arms, curioufly cut in marble, and painted, but now worn out. The
infcription gives an account of her death, whom he furvived eight years^
which fliews the tomb was ereded by him in his life-time, the date of his
deceafe being not mentioned. It is as follows ;

" Here lithe the Ryght Honourable Sir Anthony Browne Knyht of the
" Garter, Marter of the Kings Majeftis Horfys And one of the mofte hono-
" rable Prive Cownceel of our moll Dread Sovereyne Lord And Valiant
" Kyng Henry the Eyght ; and Dame Alis His Wyfe.

" Which Alis decefid the 31 Day of Marche Ao. Dni. 1540. And the

" fayd Sir Antony decefid the Day of Ao. Dni. On whofe Sowls And

" all Chriftens IHV Have Mercy Amen."

" He had iffue, by Alice his wife, daughter of Sir John Gage, Knight of
the Garter, four fons, viz. i. Anthony, his fon and heir; 2. Thomas;
3. Wilfiam Brown, Efq; who married Anne, daughter and coheir of Hugh
Haftings, and attained by his marriage Elfing in Com. Southamp. from
whom the Browns of Elfing defcend ; and 4. Francis ; and three daughters ;
Mary, married to John Grey, fecond fon to Thomas Marquis of Dorfet;
Mabel to Gerard Earl of Kiidare in Ireland, and Lucy to Thomas Roper
of Eltham in Kent, anceftor to the Lord Teynham."

This Drawing was communicated by William Burrell, Efq. LL. D.

and F. A. S,

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To the Editor of the Antic^jjarian Repertory.

SIR,

LAST fummer feme bufinefs drew me to Glafgow, from v.-hence I had
an opportunity I could not refill of vifiting the iflands in the Frith of
Clyde. As I have a tolerable knack at drawing, I took a iketch of Mount
Stuart in the ifle of Bute, the family feat of the Earl. I do not doubt but
that it will be an acceptable prefent to you, as you will now be able to gra-
tify the curiofity of numbers whowilh to know, how that philofophic ftatef-
man was lodged in his native foil. I refer you to Mr. Pennant's Voyage to
the Hebrides for the defcription. Several drawings of places which he de-
clined to caufe to be engraved, by accident have fallen into my hands j if
they will be of any ufe to your excellent Repertory, command them.

I am, Sir,-

Your mod obedient humble fervanf,

A. B.

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'' Mount-Stewart, the Teat of the Earl of Bute ; a modern houfe, with a'
" handlbme front and wings : the fituation very fine, on an eminence in the
" midll of a wood, where trees grow with as much vigour as in the piore
" fouthern parts, and extend far beneath on each fide ; and throftles, and>
" other birds of fong, fill the groves with their melody. The ille of Bute
" is about twenty meafured miles long ; the breadth unequal, perhaps the
*' greateft is five miles ; the number of acres abodt twenty thoufand ; of in-
" habitants about four thoufand, Here are two pariflies, Kingarth and
" Rothefay ; at the laft only the Rrfe language is ufed. It mufl: be obferved
" alfo, that in the laft church were buried two of the bifhops of the ides,
"• but whether it was at times of the refidence of the prelates, does not
" appear.

" The country rifes into fmall hills, is in no part mountainous, but is
" higheft at the fouth end, the ftrata of ftone along the fliore from Rothe-
" fay bay to Cil-chattan, is a red grit, mixed pebbles ; from the firft, tranf-
" verfe to Scalpay-bay, is a bed of Hate, which feems to be a continuation
" of that fpecies of ftone riQngnear Stonehive, on the eaftern fide of Scot-
*• land, and continued, with fome interruptions, to this iiland; but is of a
" bad kind, both at its origin and termination. In the fouth end is fome
" limeftone ; fome fpotted itone, not unlike lava, is found near the fouth
" end. The quadrupeds of this ifland are hares, polecats, weafels, otters,
" feals, and as a compliment to the foil, moles. Among the birds, grous
" and partridge arc found here.

*' The cultivation of an extenfive traifl on this eaftern fide is very confi-
" derable. In the article of inclofure, it hath the ftartof the more fouthern
" counties of this part of the kingdom: the hedges are tall, thick and vigo-
" rous : the white thorns and wicken trees now in full flower, and about
" two thoufand acres have been thus improved. The manures are coral and
" fea fhells, fea weeds, and lime. I obferved in many places whole ftrata
" of corals and ftiells of a vaft thicknefs, at prefent half a mile from the
" fea, fuch lofifes has the element fuftained in thefe parts. The ifland is
" deftitute of coal, but ftill much lime is burnt here, not only for private
" ufe but for exportation at a cheap rate to the ports of Greenock and Port
" Glafgow.

" The produce of the ifland is barley, oats, and potatoes. The barley
" yields nine for one ; the oats four. Turneps and artificial graflTes have

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-* been lately introduced with good fuccefs : fo that the inhabitants may have
" fat mutton throughout the year. A great number of cattle are alio reared
" here. The highefl: farm here is fixty pounds a year, excepting a fingle
" fheep farm which rents for two hundred ; but the medium is about twenty-
*' five. Arable land is fet at nine or ten Ihillings an acre. The price of la-
" bourers is eight-pence a day. Rents are at prefent moltly paid in money.
" The rent-roll of the idand is about four thoufand pounds a year. L,ord
*' Bute pofTefies much the greater fhare ; and two or three private gentlemen '
''- own the reft. — The air is in general temperate ; no mifts or thick rolling
" fogs from the fea, called in the north a harle, ever infeft this idand.
" Snow is fcarcely ever known to lie here ; and even that of Lift v^inter, (o
" remarkable for its depth and duration in other places, was in this ifland
" fcarce two inches deep. The evils of this place are winds and rains, the
*' laft coming in deluges from the vvefl.

" When the prefent Earl of Bute came to his eftate, the farms were pof-
" feffed by a fet of men, who carried on at the fame time the profcfllon of
." hufbandry and fifhing, to the manifeft injury of both. His lordlhip drew
" a line between thefe incongruent employs, and obliged each to carry on the
" bufinefs he preferred, diftinfl: from the other: yet in juftice to the old far-
" mers, notice muft be taken of their fkill in ploughing even in their rudeft
" days, for the ridges were ftrair, and the ground laid out in a manner that
" did them credit. But this new arrangement, with the example given by
" his Lordfhip of inclofing; by the encouragement of burning lime for
*' fome, and by tranfporting gratis to the neareft market the produce of all,
*' has given to this ifland its flourifhing afpedt."

To the Editor of the Antiq^uarian Repertory.
SIR,

LATELY looking over that ancient code of Welch laws publifhed by
the Rev. Mr. Wotton, I found, among a number of curious p..rLicu-
lars, fome regulations concerning Cats, which feem to make thofe animals
of greater confequence and value than might be fuppofed from their great

fecundity.

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fecundity, fince they are there eftimated at the fame price as a young calf, or
a pig weaned from the fovv. The particulars I allude to are to be found
Page 247 of that Colleftion, and in Englifh are in fubftance as follow :

A Cat is valued at four-pence.

A Kitten, from the night of its birth till *it begins to fee, is valued at one
penny; from that time till it begins to moufe, at two-pence-, and after it
has killed Mice, its value is four-pence, all lawi'ul money. Farther its
price fliall not be increafed,

The qualities of a Cat are, that-lhe fliali have her ears, eyes, teeth, claws,
and tail entire, and that no marks of fire fliall appear on her fkin*: thatflie
fhall hunt Mice ; that ihe {hall nouridi and not devour her Kittens, nor cat-
^erwaul or feek the male every month. A Cat being fold, and found defi-
cient or faulty in any of thefe points, a third of her price fhall be refunded
to the purchafer.

If any one fhall fteal or kill the Cat belonging to the royal barn, the ani-
mal fliall be ilifpended by the end of the tail, with her head reaching to fomc
plain and clean fpot on the floor, when wheat fhall be poured out upon her
until the tip of her tail is covered with that grain, and if the party offending
has no wheat, then compenfation to be made by the payment of a milch ewe
having her fleece, and a lamb ; that is, if the Cat guarded the royal barn,
otherwife the price not to exceed four-pence of lawful money.

Any one wlio confiders the difference of the value of money between the
time when this law was made and the prefent period, mufl: infer, that Cats
were at that time very fcarce, or Mice more than ordinarily numerous.
Jokers might be tempted to have attributed it to the great quantities of cheefe
to be found in that country, and had Mr. Holdlworth known thefe laws, he
would not have failed to have introduced them into his pieafing Poem, fliled
Mufcipula. There is however a tradition I have fomewhere met with, that
Cats were brought from Cyprus by fome foreign merchants who come hither
for tin. Perhaps it might be about this time thefe laws ^ere made, and that
at firll they might not be fo far naturalized to the climate, as to enfu.'-e a con-
tinuation of the breed. I wifh fome one of your correfpendents verfed in this
antiquarian part of natural hiftory, would favour you with fome elucidations
rcfpe6ting thefe animals, and the fpirit of the above cited law.

* Probably, becaufe Cats ufed to lye near the fire are generally lazy and bad moufers.

The

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The Defcription of England, continued from Page 106.

THIS iQand is between the degrees 51 and 56; it may be about 200
French leagues in length and fifty in breadth : it has feveral large
towns, great caftles, and good fea-ports ; they have fufi'ered much in thefe
laft civil wars on account of religion, when they were almoft all ruined, the
inhabitants punifhed, and the reil banifhed from t!ie kingdom, for having
refifted the will of their king, and perfifted in following the catholic religion,
which was rooted in the hearts of many. Thefe have been forbidden, upon
pain of death, to return, for fear that the religion might in time revive, and
little by little increafe in the kingdom. In truth, the Irilh are naturally in-
clined to the catholic religion; there are even in Dublin more than twenty
houfes where mafs is fecretly faid, and above a thoufand places, and fubter-
raneous vaults and retired fpots in the woods where the peafants aflemble to
hear mafs celebrated by fome priefts they fecretly maintain ; for I confidcr it
as a fad:, that one third of the Irifli are catholics, wherefore if any catholic
prince was to attempt the conqueft of Ireland, I believe he would be readily
feconded by the inhabitants, on this account perhaps it is that there are gar-
rifons in all the maritime places, and the entries and ports are always guard-
ed. There are feveral great lakes, and large bodies of {landing water in the
middle of this kingdom, all full of filli, and in fome places very high moun.
tains, fuch as thofe of Torne, Anna, and thofe near the town of Armagh,
which was formerly the capital of the kingdom, but has been ruined in the
wars between the proteftants and catholics, when it was burned, fo that at
prefent it is but a kind of deferted village. There are however among thefe
mountains many great meadows, where a number of cattle are fed, for which
the country feems more proper than for the growing of corn, fo that many
perfons live on the produce of their lands without having any intercourfc with
the towns, on which account it is faid by many, that in Ireland there are
provinces inhabited by favages.

Ireland is commonly divided into four provinces, thefe are Ultonia*, Con-
nacie f, Lagenie and Momonie J, fubdivided into their counties. There is
but one principal and large river in all the kingdom, which is called Shcnnon.
Thofe who would go from Dublin to London mull take the great road from

• Ulfter. t Connaught. % Linfter and Muniler.

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London to Bornek, to St. Alban, Dunfta, Brigil, Staniltritford, Daventry,
Couentru, Colfid, Lechefild, Strone, Nantich, Chefter ; here is the pacquec-
boat and ordinary pafTage to Dublin, which is 120 miles, fo that from Lon-
don to Dublin it is 270 miles, or 120 common French leagues. Thofe who
go from Dublin to Edingbourg, the capital of the kingdom of Scotland,
mult take the way 1 did along the fea-coaft by feveral little ports, where one
may often meet with a pafTage for Scotland, although they fay the packet-
boat, which is the ordinary one, goes from Portpatrick, that confifts of five
or fix houfes near Oderflet, fix miles from Knock Fergus, and arrives at Do-
nocady, crofTing an arm of" the fea about fifteen miles broad. From thence
one miy go flreight to Edinbourg without going through the town of Glafco j
this is the fhortefl way from Dublin, the capital of Ireland, to Edinbourg the
capital of Scotland, being 200 miles, or 100 common leagues of France.

I left Dublin in my way to Scotland, and on my route pafTed through an
agreeable country, having a view of the fea-coafV, and the towns Sandre and
Souldres, where is a ruined caftle. On the way we faw feveral of thefe fmall
caflles, all ruined in the laft wars. I found afterwards fome meadows, and
many herds of oxen, cows and calves, which are not naturally large, the cli-
mate of this country being too cold, but when tranfported into a warmer
country they become large and robufl. From thence the road lies by Ardof,
and a caflle near Bardelet. In the inland parts of Ireland they fpeak a par-
ticular language, but in the greatefl part of the towns and villages on the
fea-coaft only Englifh is fpoken. I arrived at Drodaph.

*DRODAPH.

Drodaph is one of the biggeft and moft populous towns in the kingdom,
occafioned by her traffick on the fea, as well on account of the goodnefs and
fafety of its port, as of its being placed in a country full of all kinds of pro-
vifions, and fituated on the river Boyne, bordered by two hills, whereof it
occupies the greateft part, which makes it a very ftrong place, with a caftle
in the higheft part of the town, on the fide by which I entered, where it ap-
peared almoft in ruins, but the walls of the town are ftill entire and defenfi-
ble : here is always a garrifon, as in the moft important place of the king-
dom. PafTing over a bridge which joins this part of the town to the larger,
you come to a great quay bordered by velTels, which come hither from all

* Drogheda.

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parts of Europe. The tide here riles near a fathom and a Iialf, and the river
would be deep enough, and capable of bearing large veflels, if the entrance
had not been greatly damaged, and almoft flopped up by the fands which it
brings with it from the mountains wherein it rifes. From this bridge you
come to a fine and broad flireet, which forms a fquare in its center, which
ferves for a parade : here is the town-houfe, towards which tend moft of the
bell: ftreets of the town. I was there on a Sunday, and was told that if I
was defirous of hearing mafs, one would be faid at two miles diftance from
the town. It would be aftonifhing to relate the numbers of Catholics that I
faw arrive from acrofs the woods and mountains to aflemble at this mafs,
which was faid in a little hamlet, and in a chamber poorly fitted up. Here
I faw before mafs above fifty perfons confefs, and afterwards communicate,
with a devotion truly catholic, and fufiicient to draw thefe blind religionills
to the true faith. The chapel where the prieft celebrated this mafs was not
better adorned than the chamber; but God does not feek grand palaces, he
chufes poverty, and purenefs of heart in thofe that ferve him. This prieft
informed me, that the Irifh were naturally inclined to the Catholic faith, but
that there were many in different parts of the kingdom who found great
difficulty to perform freely the funftions of their religion. He had ftudied
long in France, and fpoke the French language well ; he told me the Irifh
Catholics did not eat either flefh or eggs on Wedncidays, Fridays, or Satur-
days •, that they followed the commandments of the church and of our holy
father the pope, whom they acknowledged for chief of the Catholic, Apofto-
lic, and Roman church. This good man difcourfed with me touching many
difficulties there were in exercifing the Catholic religion among the Protcftants.
For the fpace of the half day he kept me with him. From thence I returned
to lodge at Drodaph. I left it on the next morning, and came into an open
country, by a road almoft all paved, to Doulers and Keltron, on a river,
from whence you approach the fea-fide, which you muft follow, and after-
wards pafs over a river near Dondalk.

[To be continued.]

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To the E D I T R of the AnTIQJUARIAN REPERTORy.

S I R,

THE Rules obferved by ancient Sculptors in ornamenting fepulchral
monuments are but little known, and yet there is room to believe the
decorations, drefs, and even attitude of the defund, all had fome allufion to
the flate of the perfons when living, to fome remarkable accidents of their
lives, or the manner of their deaths. This is partly inttanced in thofe figures
of Knights reprelented on tombs with their legs croffed, which is generally
agreed to have betokened that the party fo reprefented had either ferved per-
fonally in the crufades, died under the vow of repairing to the Holy Land for
that purpofe, or (as I think I have fomewhere read) had largely contributed
towards the carrying on of that war.

This idea is farther confirmed by a paiTage In Anfelmes Palais de L'Hon-
neur, publiflied at Paris Anno 1 663, faid to contain Rules for fepulchral
monuments, made by fome of the wifeft of the Ancienqs, to procure reve-
rence to the afhes of the dead, and to mark as well the difference of their
rank, as the various circumftances of their death, of which I here fend you
a literal tranflation.

It may be urged, that thefe Rules immediately regard only the French
nation, yet when the great intercourfe and former intimate conneftion is con-
fidered, it feems highly probable they might have been common to both
countries, efpecially as it is certain we derived moftof our heraldic regula-
tions and terms from the French. The Rules given are as follow :

1. Kings and Princes, in what part or by what means foever they died,
were reprefented upon their tombs clothed with their coats of arms, their
fhield, bourlet or pad, crown, creft, fupporters, lambrequins or mantlings,
orders and devices, upon their effigies and round about their tombs.

2. Knights and Simple Gentlemen might not be reprefented with their
coats of arms, unlefs they had loft their lives in fome combat, battle, or ren-
counter, with the perfon of their prince, or in his fervice, unlefs they died
and were buried within their own manors or feigneuries ; and in that cafe to
fliew that they died a natural death in their beds, they were reprefented with
their coat of arms ungirded, without a helmet, their heads being uncovered,
their eyes clofed, and their feet refting againft the back of a greyhound and
without any fword.

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3. Thofe who died on the day of battle, or in any mortal conflift on the
fide of the vidlorious, were to be reprefented with a drawn fword in their
right hand, the fhield in their left. Their helmet on their head, which fome
think ought to be clofed and the vifor let down, as a fign that they fell fioht-
ing againft their enemies ; having their coats of arms girded over their armour»
and at their feet a lion.

4. Thofe who died in prifon, or before they had paid their ranfom, were
figured on their tombs, without fpurs or helmets, without coats of arms, and
without fwords, the fcabbard thereof onlv. girded to and hanging at their
fide.

5. Thofe on the fide of the conquered, who fell in a rencounter or battle,
were to be reprefented without coats of arms : the fword at their fide and in
the fcabbard ; the vifor railed and open ; their hands joined before tlicir
breafts, and their feet refting againft the back of a dead and overthrown
lion.

6. The Gentleman who had been conquered and flain in the lifts in a com-
bat of honour, ought to be placed on his tomb, armed at all points, his bat-
tle ax lying by him, the left arm crofled over the right.

7. The Gentleman vidlorious in the lifts, was exhibited on his tomb armed
at all points, his battle ax in his arms ; the right arm crofled over the left.

8. As to what concerns the tombs of Ecclefiaftics, it is cuftomary to repre-
fent them clothed in their facerdotal habits. The Canons with the furplice,
fquare cap, and aumafle * or amice.

9. The Abbots with their mitres and their crofiers turned to the left.

10. The Bifliops with their great copes, their gloves in their hands, hold-
ing their crofiers with tneir left hands, and feeming to give their benediction
with the right ; their mitres on their heads, and their armorial bearings round
about their tombs fupported by angels.

11. The Popes, Cardinals, Patriarchs and Archbifliops, are likewife all
reprefented in their official habitSj

• The undermoft part of the Priell's habit.

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THE Groffierete of the manners of onr Anceftors has been inftanced In
the account of the coarfe buffooneries and vulgar amufements encou-
raged and ufed by King Edward the Second, publifhed in a rbrmer Number.
The following jocular letter written by Elizabeth, Qiieen of Bohemia, eldeft
daughter of King James the Firft, to James Hay, Ean of Carlifle, will fliew
that elegance and delicacy, at leaft of exprefliort, liad not made any great
advances even at a much later period.

This lady was born in Scotland, Auguft 19. 1596, and was married Fe*
bruary 14"", i6{-^, to Frederick the Fifthj Count Palatine of the Rhine
Duke of Bavaria, Silefia, &c. Eledlor, Cup-bearer, and High Steward of
the empire, and titular King of Bohemia.

After the death of her hufband in 1632 (he went to refide at the Hague,
where flic continued till after the reftoration of her nephew King Charles the
Second. She arrived in London, May 17, 1661, and died at Leicefter-
houfe, Feb. 13, i66i.

My Lord,
This great fat knave * hath fo carried himfelf here, as i cannot but com.
plain of him ; you gave him a true name in calling him a villain, I pray let
him know that I do tell you fo ; the King had done better to have fent a
fnjaller timber'd man over, for this great fellow fhews fo big, that he fills up
half the Hague, and goeth for the bodie of the voluntiers in the armic;" he
can tell you all the news both of that place and this, and without jeft he is
ftill the oulde man, though he can better travel than he did in your dear
friend's time, who fent him with a pacquet. I find no change in him^ but
ftill true and honeft ; he hath payed you for your villanies, he tells me how
much you are mine enemie, which to be revenged of, I will loofe no means
whereby I may fhew your ouglie camel's face that I ame

Your moft conftant Frend,
The Hagh this 44- May. ELIZABETH.

* Sir Robert Anftruther, Ambaffador at the Hague.

Communicated by Thomas Aftle, Efq.

Thi

The ANTIQJJARIAN REPERTORY. 127

The market -HOUSE, &c. of WOODSTOCK.

"1 71 WOODSTOCK is fituaced about eight miles north-weft from Oxford.
'^ ' It was a place of note in the Saxon times, deriving its name from its
great woods. Wudeftock in the Saxon language fignifying a woody place.
Here was a royal palace, in which King Alfred tranflated Boetius de Conib-
latione Philofophis. A parliament was affembled here by King Edielred.

After the conqucft. King Henry the Firft took great delight in this palace,
and made fom.e additions to it ; and here Henry the Second received the ho-
mage of Rice Prince of Wales, in the year 1163. It was more particularly
famous in hiftory for a labyrinth built by that King, called Rofamond's
Bower, to fecrete his beautiful mirtrefs Rofamond Clifford.

Qi-ieen Elizabeth was kept prilbner for fome time in this palace, on this
account flie took fo great a diftafte to it, that fiie could never be prevailed
upon to keep her court here, this caufcd the town to fall to decay ; to re-
medy which, the Queen dircfted an adt of parliament to be pafTcd in the
eighteenth year of her reign, by which it was made a ftaple of wool.

The town of Woodftock is governed by -a Mayor, Recorder, four Alder-
men, and fixteen Common-Councilmen, and fends two members to parlia-
ment. The ftreets are well paved, and here are very good inns, which are
creatly fupported by the perfons who come to vifit Blenheim-Houfe. Here
is a manufacture of fteel chains for watches, and other high polifhed work ;
and the bell wafh-leather gloves in England are faid to be made in this town -,
in both thefe a number of hands are employed. The market-day is onTuef-
day, and there are annually five fairs held on the following days, 25"' of
March, and Tuefday in Whitfun-week, for all forts of cattle. The Tuef-
day after the firft of November, and on the fecond of Odober, for cheefe
and all forts of cattle, and on the 17th of December, for cheefe and hogs.

The honour and manor of the town and hundred of Woodftock were, in
the reign of the late Queen Anne, fettled by parliament upon John Churchill,
Duke of Marlborough, who commanded the allied army againft France and
Spain, and on his defcendants male and female, as a monument of national
gratitude for his bravery and conduct j on which a palac€ having been alio
erefted for him at the public expence on a beautiful fituation about half a
mile diftant from this town, was to commemorate the important vidlory he
obtained over the French and Bavarians at Blenheim, called Blenheim Houfe.

128 The ANTIQ^UARIAN REPERTORY.

It was built by Sir John Vanbrugh, and though a heavy building, is by no
means deftitute of magnificence.

In this park, Dr. Plot fays, was one of the bed and ftrongeft polyfyllabi-
cal echoes he ever met with. In day time, when there is but little wind ftir-
ring, it returns very diftindly feventeen fyllables, and in the night twenty,
as he found by experiment.

A Tranjlation of the Fragment of Ancient French Poetry ^ given in

No. XIV. Page 28.

NO W -liften, both great and fmall, to the dreadful tale concerning a
number of men coUefted together, plowing the fait feas, aflembled
by the King of France, and commanded by Evan of Wales, a man of moll
dreadful ferocity.

On a Tuefday appeared this army of his foldicrs, compofed of lufty Sara.,
goffians, a people furious on an attack. It was direfted for the Vafon, on
that dreadful day when they propofed to put us all to the fword.

One John L'Etoc, who had arifen earlier than cuftomary, going to his
fheepfold in the grey of the morning, faw this conipany halting on the great
marfli, at which he was extremely aftonifhed.

4-
Seeing in his road a horfe ambling along, which, in faft, was a gelding
that had efcaped from the army ; he mounted it, and riding all over the
ifland, cried, like one in defpair, in one word. To Arms, To Arms.

5-
For you will find an army refting on the Vafon.j haften therefore my brave
boys, or the whole country will be plundered. Put all to the fword, and
rifque yourfelves in time, or you will die dreadful deaths,

6. Evan

The antiquarian REPERTORY. 129

Evan of Wales, a true warrior, was the leader of tliis army : a man famous
for adventures in foreign countries; he did not look behind him till he re-
ceived the red garter made neither of filk nor velvet.

For he was flricken with a murderous halbert by a youth named Richard
Simon, of the mill in the quarry, fo thart both his thigh and right hand were
cut off by this brave comrade.

On tlie hill of St. Peter's Port the dreadful conflict raged, wherein five
hundred and one men were (lain, including thofe of the ifland with the army.
Piteous it was that day to hear the lamentations of the affembly of ladies of
St. Peter's Port. .

Thomas le Lorreur was indeed our captain that day, but Rof Hollande

was the warrior, and bore away the honour of the field. His poor life waj
endangered, for he had his legs cut off, of which he was near dying.

10.
Blows were every where dealt furioufly about, the vallies ran with blood,
and the dead bodies of the flain were trampled under foot ; a * murdering
Ihot was dil'chargcd from the great fort which much injured the ftrangers.

II.

Eighty brave Englifh merchants arrived in the evening, but the army was
much difordered and fuddenly raifed the^fiege, having no other refource but
to cry for mercy to God.

12.

They were conftrained to fly, taking their way angrily by the bordage to
pafs into the ftreet, but the Englifli flopped them and filled the fl^reets with
the dead bodies of thefe praters.

By force they took to the caftle the tide being very low, where they were
flain in great heaps, being all put to the fword. The fea was dyed with the
blood of this troop, whofc dead bodies was thus immerfed therein.

* Une meutriere fut tire. This may be either from a canon or machine of tlie Balifta kind,
which is not expreffed.

Vol. II. N'' VI. K k The

I30 The ANTIQUARIAN REPERTORy.

14.
The fhips ai>d boats encircled the back part of the ifland, thele were by
our peafants treated very roughly. They came from the caftle of the Cor-
bicre by the bee to the cheare, to make their traverfe amongft the reft of
thefe loobies.

1 heir failors re-embarked and fuddenly fet faiU irritated like young lions
at having loft fuch a booty -, the General very much difpleafed, command-
ing them to land in the harbour of St. Sampfon.

16.
They repaired to the abbey of St. Michael, where Bregard was commif-
fary, and received them heartily - - - - - - .

which v/as a lady in the army named the princefs Alimon.

17-
For Evan had married her in France in the county of Gravelle, where he

enjoyed mountains of riches, the goods of this great match. The abbot

caufed great joy in the army by the gold, filver, and money, which he

largely diftributed among them.

18.

Evan the enemy afcended the neighbouring mountain of the poor caftle

of St. Michael, where Evan made his mines. Brother Bregard out of cour-

tefy addrefled himfelf to the caftle with a defire of increaftng his treafures.

Edmond Rofle, governor of the powerful caftle of the Archangel, declared

he would fooner be cut in pieces than yield it to foreigners. But if his people

would agree that Bregard ftiould difpofe of their lands b^ campart, * he would

confent to it.

20.

The poor people, greatly to their lofs, yielded to that abbot, v/ho,. by his

artifices, had agreed with the enemy for them, whereby they fubjefted the

greateft part of their lands to pay two Iheaves, named at prefent the Com-

pacds.

• It is quils eitoient D'accord, in the original ; but to make fenfe cu^ht to be q'uil etoit
D' accord.

The antiquarian REPERTORY. 131

To the Editor of the A n t i c^u a r i a n Repertory.

SIR,

HEREWITH 1 fend yoa the Charter of Wichred, King of Kent, whereby
he gave Lands to the Church of Liming in that County,

IN times preceding the feventh century, property was ufually conveyed
without any Writing or Charter, by oral declaration, made by the.Grantor
in the pre fence of a great number of refpedlable WitnefTes -, and the better to
perpetuate the memory of the tranfa6lion, it v/as cuftomary upon thofe oc-
cafions for him to deliver to the grantee a cup, a horn, a fword, a helmet,
or Tome other valuable moveable, which was known to be his property.
■ Sir Henry Spelman in his Difcourfe upon ancient Deeds and Charters *,
fays, anciently, where the Saxons gave or fold lands abfolutely, they ufually
did it without Deed, but when tliey gave them in a fpecial or limited manner,
then they did it by Writing.

Many Charters of more ancient date than the prefent, are entered in the
Leidger Books of Religious Houfes, but the authenticity of feveral of them
hath with reafon been doubted.

This Charter of King Withred, may be accounted one of the mofi: ancient
original Charters or written Inftruments now extant, whereby property in
this kingdom was conveyed. The charafiers much refemble thofe of the
four Gofpels written about the year 686, now in the Cottonian Li-
brary, (Nero D. 4.) and called St. Cuthbert's Gofpels ; and are very fimiiar
to the Gofpels preferved in the church of Durham, which was written about
the fame time. Other inftances might be produced of the fimilarity of the
characters in which this Charter is written, to the MSS. of the feventli cen-
tury, but let it fuffice to obferve, that the prefent Charter is v/ritten in the
hand which was ufed in England at the time it bears date.

This Charter is not only mentioned in the annals of the church of Canter-
bury, but by moft of the authors who have written concerning the affairs and
poflcflions of that church ; in Chronico Gervafii Dorobernenfis MS. in Bib),
Cotton, fub titulo, Donationes Maneriorum & Ecclefiarum Ecclefise Chrifti
Cantuarien. & nomina donantium una cum privilegiis 6c libertatibus eidem Ec-

:' P. 253-

clclia?

J32 The ANTIQ^UARIAN REPERTORY.

cleli^ conceffis ; fie continetur. " Anno Domini 693 Withredus Rex Cantiae
" dedit terram quatuor aratrorum, pro amore Dei & Brithwaldi Archiepifcopi
" Ecclefise beatje Marise, quae fica eft apud Liminge, quas terra vocatur
" Nunhelmeftun." *

There is in the Cottonian Library (Galba E. 3.) a catalogue of the bene-
fadlors to Chritt CJiurch, Canterbury, which mentions at what time comme-
morations were made for each benefadtor. From this MS. it appears, that
King V/ithred was annually commemorated upon the day of his death, for
having given the lands conveyed by the prefent Charter : -f- the words are,
*^ 9 Kal. April, obiit Withredus Rex Anglorum, qui dedit Wyelmeftone."
With refpeft to the church or convent of Liminge J, in favour of whom
this Charter was made, it appears that in the year 633, Ethelburga, daugh-
ter of King Ethelberr, the firft Chriftian King, after the death of her hufband
Edwin, King of Northumberland, returned into Kent, and by the favour of
her brother King Eadbald, built a monaftery at this place, which (he dedi-
cated to the Virgin Mary, placing therein Nuns-, but afterwards, this houfe
came under the government of an Abbot, and continued till about the year
964. But having fuffered very much by the Danes, it came foon after,
with all its poITefiions, into the hands of the Archbifhop or Church of Can-
terbury, by whom they v/ere enjoyed till the reign of King Henry VIIL in
the twenty-ninth year of whofe reign Archbifhop Cranmer exchanged them
for other lands with the crown ; and King Henry VIII. in the thirty-fixth
year of his reign, granted the manor of Liming, &c. to Sir Anthony

Aucher

The CHARTER is as follows :

f In Nomine Dni Di noftri IhtiXpi, Ego Uihtredus RexCantuariorum,
providens mihi in futuro, decrevi dare aliquid omnia mihi donanti, et Con-
filio accepto, bonum vifum eft conferre, Baffilicae beatae Mariae genitricis Di
quae fita eft in loco qui dicitur Limingae. Terram iiii. Aratrorum quae
dicitur Wieghelmeftuh, cum omnibus ad eandem Terram pertinentibus,
juxta notiflimos Terminos, id eft, Bereueg et Meguines Pae^, et Stretleg.
Quam donationem meam volo firmam efle in perpetuum : ut nee Ego, feu
heredes mei, aliquid minuere praefumant. Quod fi aliter temptatum fuerit a

* See more concerning this Charter in Men. Angl. Vol. J. p. 19. Hickes's Thef. Vol. II.
p. 263. An ancient-Copy is-preferved in the Cotton Library, Aug. 2. Sy.

f This King built the Monaftery of St. Martin in Dover, and was buried at Canterbury
within the porch, on the fouth-fide of the church of St. Mary, whicli had been built by his
n-reat grandfather King Eadbald.

I This place was called Nunlborough, from its being the habitation of the Nuns.

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The ANTIQ^UARIAN REPERTORY. 133

qualibet perfona, fub Anathematis interdiftione fciac fe praevaricari, ad ciijus
confirmationem, pro Ignorantia literarum -f Signuin ScuU Crucis expreffi et
Teftes idoneos ut fubfcriberent rogavi, id ell Berichtualdum Archiepifco-
pum*, virum venerabilem.

-}- Ego Berichtualdus Epifc. rogatus confenfi et fubfcribfi.

ignum manus Uihtredi Regis.

ignum maiujs Aechtburgae Reginae.

ignum manus Enfridi.

ignum manus AE'^ilfridi.

ignum manus Hagana.

ignum manus Botca.

ignum manus Bernhaerdi.

ignum manus Theabul.

ignum manus Frodi.

ignum manus Aehcha,

ignum manus Aeffica.

ignum manus Adda.

ignum manus Egifberichti.
Aflum in Menfe Julio. Indiftione Xina.
With refpeft to the lands granted by this Charter, they are, as I conceive,
four aratra or plough lands, fituate at Wilmington in the lathe of Scray and
hundred of Wye in the county of Kent.

It appears by an indorfement upon this Deed, that the ancient name of
this place was Berdelhamefwic ; the words are 'fioej- landejr boc oet Berdel-
hamej jjicum boc nunc jjigelmignetun. This place was afterwards called
Nunhelmftun, probably becaufe it belonged to the Nuns of Liming. As
to the orthography which was in ufe when this Charter was written, it is
obfervable that the letters a and e are written feparately ; the letter r is writ-
ten like the letter «, which was not unufual in the feventh and eighth cen-
turies f. Crofles inftead of Seals were ufed by the Ecclefiaftics, who intro-
duced the pradicc of conveying property by written inftruments, and this
cuftom prevailed invariably till the conqueft, and occafionally for near a
century afterwards.
April 29, 1777. T. A S T L E.

• Archbifhop Bratliwald's feftival was celebrated at .Canterburj' the 9th of January. He was
confecrated in 693, and died in 731.
t V. M S. inBibl. HarL No. 2965.
Vol. II. NS VI. LI Par!

134 The ANTIQUARIAN REPERTORY.

Part of r.ft O LD SONG ufed to he fung at Wakes and Christmas in

the North of England.
* * * **********

* * * *******#»«r

THIS ean night, this ean night.
Every night and awle ;
Fire and * fleet and candle-light.

And Chrift receive thy fawle.
When thou from hence doft pafTe away.

Every night and awle ;
To Whinny-moor thou com'ft at lafr.

And Chrift receive thy fawle.
If ever thou gav'Il either hofen or Ihune,

Every night and awle ;
Sit thee down and put them on,

And Chrift receive thy fawle.
But if hofen nor fliune thou never gave nean,

Every night and awle ;
The whinnes fhall prick thee to the bare beane,

And Chrift receive tliy fawle.
From Whinny-moor then thou may'ft pafle.

Every night and awle;
To brigg of dread thou com'ft at laft.

And Chrift receive thy fawle.
From brigg of dread that thou may'ft paflej

Every night and awle ;
To purgatory fire thou com'ft at laft.

And Chrift receive thy fawle.
If ever thou gav'ft either meat or drink,.

Every night and awle ;
The fire ftiall never make thee ftirink,

And Chrift receive, thy fawle.
But if meat and drink thou never gav'ft nean.

Every night and awle ;
The fire ftiall burn thee to the bare beane.

And Chrift receive thy fawle.
* Fleet, in Saxon Fl«e, is Cremor LaSis ; hence Flett or Flit-Mili,

The

The, ANTIQUARIAN REPERTORY.

^23

The SIEGE of KARLAVEROK in

continued from Pnge io8.

SCOTLAND,

HENRI le bon Conte de Nichole
De prowefle en braffe y a cole
E en- fon coer le a fouveraine
Menans le efchiele primeraine
Baniere ot de un cendall fafFrin
O un lion rampant porprin.

Oue li Robert le Fitzwauter
Qe bien fiet de armes le mefticr
Si en feroit quanqs il devoit
En la jaune banier avoit
Fcfle entre deus chevrons vermaus.

E Guillemes li Marefchaus
Dent en Irelande ot la baillie
La bende de or engreillie
Portoit en la rouge baniere

Hue Bardolf de grant maniere
Riches horns preus e courtois
En afure quint fueilles trois
Portoit de fin or efmere,

Un grant feigneur mout honore
Puis je bein nommer le cikime
Phillipe le Seigneur de Kime
Qui portoit rouge oue un chevron
De or croifelle tout environ.

HENRY the good Earl* of Nichole
led the firll: fquAdron, he was of
great prowefs and valour both in arm
and heart ; he had on a banner of taffety
a lion rampant pourple in a yellow or
field.

With him came Robert de Fitzwal-
ter, well fitted for the profeffion of
arms, wliich when called on by duty
he right worthily exercifes ; he bore
on a yellow banner a fefs between two.
chevrons gules.

And William le Marefchal who led'
the army into Ireland, he carried in a
red banner a golden bend engrailed.

Then in great magnificence Hue
Bardolf, a rich, valiant and courteous
gentleman ; he bore three azure cinq-
feuilles in a field of pure gold.

I may name in the fifth place a great
and much honoured Lord, Philip .
Lord of Kimes, who bore gules, a
chevron furrounded with, croffelets of
gold.

• Lincoln. Henry Lacy, grandfon to John, Lacy, Earl of Lincoln. He was the fecond
Earl of Lincoln of this family, Baron of Houlton, Lord of Pontifraft and Blackbournfhire ; he
was alfo Lord of Rofs in Wales and Rouvennohe ; he bought the houfe in London, wliich from •
kis refiding there has ever fince been called Lincoln's Inn. He died Anno 1 3 1 o,

Henry

136 The ANTIQ^UARI

Henry de Grai vi je la
Ki bien & noblement ala
Ovec fon bon Seigneur le Come
Banier avoir e pardroic conte
De vi pieces la vous melur
Barre de argent e de afur.

Robert de Montant y eftoit
Ki mout haute entente i mettoit
De faire a haute honeur ateinte
Baniere avoit en afllire teinte
Que un lyon rampant dargent.

E compagnes a cele gent

Thomas de Multon fe fu

Ke avoit baniere & efcu

De argent oue trois bars de goules.

Ces armes ne furent pas fcules
De fiente en la parellement
Car telles ou refemblement
John de Langcafter entre meins
Mais ki en lieu de une barre mieins
Quarter rouge e jaune luppart.

E de celle mefme part
Fu Guillemis li Vavafours
■f Ki darmes neft muet ni fours
Baniere avoit bein connoiflable
D'or fin oue la daunce de fable.

Johan de Oldefton enfement
Ki bien e adeflement
Va darmes toutes les faifons
Au Counte eftoit fi eft faifons
Ke nomes foit entre fa gent
Rouge portoit frette dargent.

* His arms were argent, two bars in a quarter gules, in the quarter a leopard, or.
f Who refpeding arms is neither dumb nor deaf.

AN REPERTORY

I faw there Henry de Grai, whs
made a noble appearance with his good
Lord the Earl ; his banner being rightly
reckoned was barry of fix pieces ara
.gent and azure.

Robert de Montalto was alfo there,
a ftrenuous candidate for fame ; he
had on a banner tinged with azure, a
filver lion rampant.

And in this noble company was
Thomas de Multon, who on his ban-
ner and ftiield bore argent three bars
gules.

Thefe arms were not fingle, for fuch
or much refembling them were in the
hands of John de Lancafter, * who
bore a bar lefs, and in a red quarter a
yellow leopard.

Likewife in this body was William
de Vavafours, ever fenfible to the call
of arms j he had a very diftinguifhable
banner of fine gold with a dauncet
fable.

Next John de Oldefton, who ap-
pears at all times well and adroitly in
arms ; as he was with the Count it is
proper he fhould be named in his com-
pany ; he bore gules a fret argent.

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Le bon Robert le Fitz Roo[ier
Vi je fa baniere a rengier
Les cele au Counte en cele alee
De or et de argent efquarcelee
Que une bende taint en noier.

A Johan fon filz et fon heir
Ki de Clavering a fur noni
Nelloit diverfe de rien non
Fors de un label vert feulement
Se eftoient du retenement.

137

I faw in this march ranged with the
banners of the Count, that of the good
Robert Fitz Roger, quarterly or and
argent charged with a bend fable.

Alfo John his fon and heir, who
has the furname of Clavering -, his
arms were not in any ways diiFerent
faving a label vert.

Au bon Conte et au bien ame
Suit cil ke ci vous ai nomme
Ses companis fu li coneftables
Joefues homes riches e metables
Ki Quens eftoit de Herefort
Baniere et de Inde cendal fort
O une blanche bende lee
De deus coftices entre alee
De or fin dont au dehors allis
Or en rampant lyonceaus fis

Nicholas de Segrave o li
Ke nature avoic embeli
De corps et enrichi de cuer
Vailliant pere et qui jetta puer
Les garbes et le lyon prift
A fes enfauns en fi a prift
Les corageus a refembler
Cels ot la baniere fon pere
Au label rouge par fon frere.

The good and well-beloved Earl
was followed by thofe I have named, in
his company was the conftable briflc,
rich, and valiant; he was Earl of
Hereford. * His banner was of azure
taffety with a filver bend, having
two cotifes and fix young lions ram-
pant, all of fine gold.

With him Nicholas de Segrave,
whom nature had embellifhed in per-
fon and enriched with courage ; a va-
liant and redoubtable father. He took
the lion and wheat-fiieaves, and taught
his children to refemble him in cou-
rage ; thefe had their father's banner,
his brother bore it with a red label.

.+ Humphrey Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Eflex, Lord of Brecknock and Conllable of Eng-
land, flain at Burrowbridgc in Yorkflure by Andrew de Harcia, Anno 1322,

Vol. II. m VI,

M m

Johan

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Johan he li aifiies elloit
E ki entire la porcoit
Li peres et de la meillicr
Cinq filz eftoient chevalier
Preu et hardi et defenfable
O un lyon de argent en fable
Rampant et de or fin coronne
Fu la baniere del aifne.

Ke li Quens Marefchaus avoic
Mis el fervice kil devoit
Por ce ke kil ne i pooit venir.
II ne me puet pas foutenir
• Ke baneret i fuiflent plus
Mes fi le voir vous en conclus
Bons bachelers i ot bein cent
Dont mils en oftell ne difent.
Nulle foiz tant ke il aient tour
Cherchies les paffages doutour
O ens che vouchent chefcun jour

Li marefchal li herbergours
Ki livrent places a logier
A ceus ke doivent herbergier
Par tant ai dit de vant garde
Ki font dedeinz et ki la garde.

Johans li bons Quens de * Warene
De lautre efchelle avoit la rene
A jufticier et gouvorner
Com cil ki bien fcavoit mener
Gen feignourie & honnouree
De or et de afur efchequeree
Ffu fa baniere noblement.

John, who was the eldeft, bore it
entire, he the bell of fathers of five
fons, was a gallant and hardy knight.
The banner of the eldeft was a filver
lion rampant crowned with fine gold
in a fable field.

He who was fent to perform the fer-
vice due from the Earl Marfchal who
could not attend, nor I cannot recoUeft
what other banners there were, but you-
fhall know them in the conclufion..
There were an hundred good bachelors^,
none of whom efteemed themfelves in
their quarters, until they that reconni-
tred the environs about which they
daily patrolled.

There were alfo the marfhal and har-
bingers, who diftributed the lodgings:
to thofe who had a right to quarters.
I have now defcribed the vanguardj
with thofe that compofed it.

John the good Earl of Warren held
the reins to regulate and govern the
other fquadron, as one who well knew
how to lead a noble and honourable
company. His banner was nobly che-
quered with gold and azure.

* John Plantagenit, Earl of Warren and Surry, and alfo by King Henry III. created Earl
of SufTex. It was this Earl that on fome trial refpefting his property, was cited before Allen
Lord Zouch, then Chief Juflice of England, when fuddenly drawing his fword, he faid, " By
this my grandfather held his lands, and with this I will keep them." He died Anno 1304.

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It ot en fon aflemblemenc
Henri de Perci fon nevou
De ki fembloit ke euft fact vou
De aler les efcos de rampant
Jaune o un blew lyon rampant
Ffu fa baniere bien vuable.

He had in his company Henri de
Perci his nephew, who feemed to have
made a vow to humble the Scots -, his
banner was confpicuous with a blue
lion rampant on a yellow field.

Robert le Fitz Payne fievable
Or fa baniere fianc a flanc
Rouge a paflans lyons de blanc
Trois de un bafton bleu furgettez.

Gautiers de Monci ajouftes
Eftoit en cele compaignie
Car tuit furent de une maifine
Cils ot baniere efchequeree
De blanc et rouge couluree.

Le valence* Aymars li Vaillans
Belle baniere i fu baillans
De argent et de aUire burlee
© la bordure poralee
Tout entour de rouge merolos.

Un vailliant hom er de grant los
O lui Nichole de Karou
Dont meinte foiz orent paru
Li fait en couuert et en lande
Sur la felloune gent D'lrlande
Baniere et jaune bien pafTable
O trois paflans lyons ek fable.

Robert de Fitzpayne cognifable by
his red banner and three white paflant
lions, furcharged with a blue battoon.

Add to thefe Walter de Monci, who
was in this company, for they were all
of one houfe ; they had their banner
chequered with gules and argent.

The valiant Aymer de Valence bore'
a beautiful banner, barry, argent and
azure, with a bordure encompafled
with red martlets.

And Nicholas de Karru, a valiant
man of great fame, as had frequently
been fliewn both in cover and on the
plains, againft the rebellious people
of Ireland -, his banner was yellow,
charged with iliree lions paflant fable.

•J- Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke and Weifliord, Lord of Montigniac, Lord Go-
vernor of the realm of Scotland. He died without iffue, Anno 1328. His arms barry, argent
and azute, an oile of martlet gules.

Rogier

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Rooier de la Ware avec eus With thele Roger de la Ware a wife

Ung Chivaller lage et preus and gallant knight, whofe arms were

Ky les armes et vermeilleftes " 'gules, with a white lion and crofslets.
O blanc lyon et croifleleftes.

De Warwick le Count + Guy
Coment ken ma rime de Guy
Ne avoit voifin de lui mellour
Baniere et de rouge couleur
O fealTe de or et croiflilie.

Jaune o Crois noire engreelie
La portoit John de Moun.

Cele de Tatefhale a oun
Por fa valour o eus tirce
De or de rouge efchequeree
Au chief de ermine outrement.

Guy Earl of Warwick, ^o whofc
name I have not been able to find a
better rhime, bore a red banner with
a fefs between fix crofslets, or.

John de Moun bore there or, a crofs
engrailed fable.

Taterfhal had a banner, for valour
he might have borne three •, it was
chequered gold and gules, with a chief
ermine.

Rauf le Fitz Guilleme autrement Ralph de Fitzwilliam bears different-

Ke cil de Valence portoit
Car en lieu de merles metoit
Trois chapeaux de rofes vermeilles
Ke bien feoient a merveilles.

Guillemes de Ros aflemblans
I fu rouge a trois boutz blans,

E la baniere Hue Pointz
Eftoit barre de viii poinz
De or et de goules ouelment.

ly from him of Valence, for inftead of
three black-birds he has three chaplets
of red rofes, which became his mar-
velloufly.

William de Rofe had gules three
v/ater bougets azure.

And the banner of Hugh Pointz
was barry of eight or and gules.

t Guy Beauchamp, the thirteenth Earl of Warwick. He was one of the n«blemen wka
caufed Piers Gavefton to be beheaded. He died Anno 131 J.

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DUNBARTON CASTLE.

DUNBARTON CASTLE ttands on a bitopped, infulated rock, of a
ftupendous height, rifing abruptly out of the fands, forming one of
the flrongeft pafles between the Low Country and the Highlands. It is
bounded by the river Lever to the weft, by the Clyde to the fouth, by
marfhes overflowed every tide to the eaft, and towards the north the rock is
perpendicular. On one of the fummits are the remains of an ancient build-
ing, fuppofed by many to have been once a Roman Pharos ; on the other,
the powder magazine : in the hollow between is a large well of water, ac-
cording to Mr. Pennant, fourteen feet deep ; the fides of the rocks are im-
menfe precipices, and often over-hang, except in that fide where the go-
vernor's houfe (lands, which is defended by walls and a few guns, and com-
monly garrifoned by invalids.

The Britons, it is faid, kept this caftle for three hundred years after the
Romans left the ifland, and according to Bede, it was in his time the beft
fortified city belonging to the Britons, and was the laft held by them againit
the Saxons. In 756, reduced by famine, it furrendered to Edbert, king of

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J42 The ANTIQ^UARIAN REPERTORY.

Northumberland. Ever fince it has been in the pofleffion of the Scots, it has-
at times been very ufeful to them. It held out long againft the Englifli un-
der king Edward the FirfV, and on the defeat of David the Second, it
ferved him for an afylum, until the governor, Sir Michael Flemming, could
convey him to France. From hence too Mary queen of Scots was fhipped
off for France, when tlie Englid-i army came as far as Edinburgh to demand
her for Edward the Sixth. Its antient name was Alcluid or Arcluid, the
place on the Cluid ; but in after times it obtained the name of Dunbritton..
Boetius makes the Scots poffefiTed of it fome ages prior to the time here men-
tioned, and pretends that it refifled the efforts of Agricola, by whom it was-
befieged.

From this its natural ftrength it was deemed in former times impregnable.
The following daring furprize of it in 1571, may, as Mr. Pennant obferves,
be compared with the capture of the Numidian fortrefs, in the Jugurthine
war, by Marius, or the more horrible furprize of Fefcamp in Normandy, by
the gallant Bois rofe, related in Sully's Memoirs.

" On the day after the expiration of the truce, (fays Robertfon in his Hif-
" tory of Scotland) which had been obferved with little exaftnefs on either
" fide, captain Crawford, of Jordan Hill, a gallant and enterprizing OiScer,,
" performed a fervice of great importance to the regent, by furprizing the
" caftle of Dunbarton ; this was the only fortified place in the kingdom of
" which the queen had kept polTeflion, ever finee the commencement of the
*' civil wars. Its fituation on the top of a high and almoft inacceffible rocks
•* which rifes in the middle of a plain, rendered it extremely ftrong, and in
" the opinion of that age impregnable ; as it commanded the river Clyde it
" was of great confequence, and eflcemed the moft proper place in the king-
" dom for landing any foreign troops that might come to Mary's aid. The
" ftrength of the place rendered lord Fleming, the governor, more fecure
" than he ought to have been, confidering its importance. A foldier who
*' had ferved in the garrifon, and had been difgufted by fome ill ufage, pro-
" pofed the Icheme to the regent, endeavoured to demonftrate that it was
*' prafticable, and offered himfelf to go the foremoft man on the enterprize.
" It was thought prudent to rifque any danger for fo great a prize : fcaling
♦' ladders, and whatever elfe was neceffary, were prepared v/ith the utmofb
" fecrecy and difpatch. All the avenues to the caftle were feized, that no
« intelligence of the defign might reach the governor. Towards the evening

" Crawford

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*" Crawford marched from Glafgow, with a fmall but determined band ; by
" midnight they arrived at the bottom of the rock : the moon was fet, and
" the flcy, which hitherto had been extremely clear, was covered with a thick
" fog. It was where the rock was highell, that the aflailants made their at-
*• tempt, becaufQ in that place there were few centinels, and they hoped to
** find them the leaft alert. The firfl: ladder was fcarce fixed, when the
*' weight and eagernefs of thofe who mounted, brought it to the ground.
" None of the afTailants were hurt by the fall, and none of the garrifon
" alarmed by the noife. Their guide and Crawford fcrambled up the rock,
*' and fallened the ladder to the roots of a tree which grew in a cleft ; this
*' place they all reached with the utmoft difficulty, but were ftill at a great
" diftance from the foot of the wall. Their ladders were made fafl; a fecond
" time, but in the middle of the afcent they met with an unforefeen difficulty :
" one of their companions was feized with fome fudden fit, and clunc'
" feemingly without life to the ladder ; all were at a Hand. It was impot-
" fible to pafs him v to tumble him headlong was cruel, and might occafion
" a difcovery •, but Crawford's prefence of mind did not forfake him, he
" ordered the foldier to be bound faft to the ladder, that he might not fall
" when the fit was orcr, and turning the other fide of the ladder they moun£-
" ed with eafe over his belly. Day now began to break, and there ftill re-
" mained a high wall to fcale ; but after furmounting fo many greater diffi.-
" culties this was foon accomplifhed. A centry obferved the firft man who
*' appeared on the parapet, and had juft time to give the alarm before he was
*' knocked on the head. The officers and foldiers of the garrifon ran out
" naked, unarmed, and more folicitous about their own fafety, than capable
" of making refiftance. The afiailants rufhed forward with repeated fliouts,
" and with the utmoft fury, took pofteffion of the magazine, feized the
" cannon, and turned them againft their enemies. Lord Fleming got into
" a fmall boat, and fled all alone into Argylefhire. Crawford, in reward of
" his valour and good condutt, remained mafter of the caftle, and as he
" did not lofe a fingle man in the enterprize, he enjoyed his fuccefs with
" unmixed pleafure. Lady Fleming ; Virac, the French envoy ; and Ha-
" milton, archbiftiop of St. Andrews, were the prifoners of greateft dif-
" tindlion."

From the fummit of this rock is a fine view of the country, of the town of
Dunbarton, the river Levin, the Frith of Clyde, (the Glota of Tacitus) here
a mile broad, and of the town of Greenock and Port Glafgow, on the oppo-
fite fiiore.

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1'he Defcription of Ireland, conimued frtm Page 123.

DONDALK is a fmall town, confifting almoft of one great ftreet, fitu-
ated near the bank of a fmall river, which at high water has fufficient
depth to bring vefiels nearly up to the town, if the fands did not choak up
the entry. Near it are to be feen a chain of high mountains, which run out
into the fea, where they form a promontory feen in front on leaving the
town, after paffing this river, over which there is no bridge. I never faw
finer fifh, and fo great a variety, as in the market of this litde place ; for it
mult be owned, that the coafts of Ireland and Scotland are the moft
abundant in fifhof any in Europe; and water-fowl are frequently here taken
in fuch quantities, and fold fo cheap, as to take away the pleafure of fport-
incr for them ; for my part I will fay, that I could never have believed ir,
however it might have been affirmed to me, if I had not feen them in flocks
on the fea-fhore, and fom.etimes the air for leagues together darkened by thefe
fowl : befides that there are in the interior parts of the country feveral large
lakes and pools full of filh, among which in the province of Ultonie, that
of St. Patrick's Purgatory is remarkable : it has a little ifland, where near a
conve<nt the voices of divers perfons may be heard under a rock, groaning
and lamenting like the fouls of perlbns fufFering in purgatory ; therefore the
inhabitants of the place fay, that St. Patrick, the apoflle of Ireland, be-
fouo-ht God that he would caufe the cries of the fouls in purgatory to be
heard here, in order to convert the people to the Chriftian religion, whence
this lake has been named St. Patrick's Purgatory, or the Purgatory of the
Ifland. One may from this judge, that in general fifli is as plenty in the
middle of the ifland as on the fea-coafts which furround it. It is faying
everv thing, to relate that navigators who frequent thefe parts, complain
that their veflcls are fometimes obfl:ru(51:ed by tlie quantities of fifli they meet
with in their courfe.

It is a peculiarity in this ifland, that there are no venomous animals, not
even frogs, toads, lizards, fpiders, nor any other kind, which is a mark of
the purity and goodnefs of its air. Some perfons have tried the experiment,
whether any creatures of this fort brought from other places would live here,
but it is a certainty, that they die as foon as they arrive in the country -, and
farther it is faid, that the touch of a native of Ire l?r,c proves monal to any

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of thefe animals in any fopcign country whatfoever, and that a circle bein*
made about any venomous creature with a flick, which grew in this iflmd,
the animal will inftantly die. Let not then the ilbnd of Maltlia boalt of be-
ing the only illand in the world, which neither nouridies nor fufiers any ve-
nomous animals, fince we have that of Ireland fo near to us v/hich has this
natural virtue, enjoyed by Maltha only fome little time, and that by a par-
ticular miracle of St. Paul, as the facred hiftory informs us, and as we have
related in the voyage to Maltha.

After having pafTed the little river at the end of Dondalk, you muft afcend
the high mountains which enclofe the fmall town of Carlinfort, thefe I left
on my right, and on the kft hand Armagh, diftant about twenty miles from
thence. It was formerly the capital town of this kingdom, and in Catholick
times had an archbifhoprick, one of the four which are in this ifland, over
fiine-and-twenty bifliopricks : at prefent it is only a village, remarkable for
the fine antiquities of an abbey and its handfom.e church, equal in fize to
the largeft in all England. The way by thefe mountains is through a defart
ftrewed with flint and other ftones, from whence one fees on the left hand
fome valleys filled with cattle, where I paiTcd a river, and farther on I came
down over a large wooden bridge and arrived at Newry. A great gulf is
formed here that brings veflels up to the town, which is fituated on an emi-
nence, extending to the river's fide. Here I feafted on filh, which made
jne halt here for the fpace of two days, during which time I diverted myfelf
with walking and vifiting the environs. From hence I fet out for the moun-
tains by a defart road covered with flint-ftoncs to Braklen ; continuing fiill
by the mountains, come to a river, from whence I arrived at Dromore upon
a river. They pretended to me that it was a good tow.n, and had former y
a bifhoprick, but there is no appearance of it. I remember I eat of a Lliad
made according to the mode of the country, of I know not what herbs ; I
think there was forrcl and beets chopt together-, it reprefented the form of a
fifli, the whole without oil or fait, and only a little vinegar made of beer,
and a quantity of fugar ftrewed over it, that it refembled Mount ./lltna
covered with fnow, fo that it is impofTible to be eaten by any one not accuf-
tomed to it. I made my hoft laugh heartily in the prefence of a gentleman, a
lord of this town, on afking for oil to feafon this fallad, according to the
French fafliion •, and after having drefled it I perfuaded the gentleman to
xafte it, v.ho was pleafed to hear me fpeak of the ftatc and cuftoms of France^
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He had ftudied ar Dublin, and told n-.e he was extremely defirous of feeing'
France, and that before he died he would certainly make that voyage ; he
begged me to ftay only eight days m his houfe, promifing that I fhould pafs
my time in all forts of pleafures and diverfions, both of walking and the
chace ; that he rarely faw any Itrangcrs or Frenchmen pafs through thofe
parts : and he was ftill more aftonillied when I informed him, that I came
only out of curiofity after having vifited the moft foiuhern parts of Europe.
He fhewed me many curiofities in the cabinet of his caftle, of which he
fhewed me all the apartments -, they were well furnifhed, and hung with
tapcliry. He knew not how fufiiciently to entertain and make me welcome,
in order to induce me to remain with him fome days, but as I had refolved
to profecute my journey, I was obliged to thank and take leave of him. He
condufted me a mile on the way, after which I got to Hildbara, otherwife
Tilburg, where there is a large caflle, one of the finefl: in Ireland, fituated
on a river which runs out of a large pool, where I pafied over a great caufey,
which finiflied where the mountains begin, near Lenegiardin, whofe large
caftle and its garden are filled with wonders, like many others in the fame
town, which is on an eminence, the foot whereof is wafhed by the river.
After this the country is but ill cultivated, and corn dear.

Few windmills are to befeen in Ireland, they eat here, as well as in fome
parts of Scotland, cakes called Kets, that they bake on thin iron plates,
under which they make a fire ; thefe being fufiiciently baked on one fide,
they turn them on the other, till they become as dry as a bifcuit; they are
made without leaven, and fometimes fo ill baked, that a perfon who is not
ufed to them, cannot eat them •, although throughout all the inns on the
road they eat no other fort of bread than thefe cakes ; thefe they however do
not fpare to cover with butter, and thick cheefe, here very cheap, coftino-
only a penny per pound ; the common people therefore live chiefly on this,
cfpeciallv in places diftant from the rivers and lakes. Afterwards I arrived
at Bclfaft, fituate on a river at the bottom of a gulf, where barks and veflels
anchor on account of the fecurity and goodnefs of the port, wherefore feve-
ral merchants live here who trade to Scotland and England, whither they
tranfport the fuperfluities of this country. Here is a very fine caftle, and
two or three large and ftraight flreets, as in a new-built town. Here one
may often procure a paflage for Scotland, but as I could not meet with one
I went to Knockfergus, which is at the entry of this gulf, and within eight
miles of Belfaft.

KNOCK-

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KNOCKFERGUS^

Knockfergus is a ftrong town, and one of the moft ancient in the king-
dom i it is fituated, as it were, at one of the ends of the ifland, at tlie entry
of a gulf environed by mountains, whereby it is lliehered from the winds,
having befides a port enclofed by a great mole built with large flints, com-
"pofing a large quay in the form of a femi-circle, by the fide of which there
are always a number of vefTels ; the entrance is defended by a large callle on
the fea-fl:ore elevated upon a rock, that renders it difficult to be fcaled -,
there arc garrifons in both the town and caftle, as there are in all the ftrong.
places in Ireland. I was not difappointed in procuring a paflage for Scot-
land, but the wind being contrary obliged me to wait eight days, during
which time I walked about all the environs of the town and upon the fea-
Ihore, which are very agreeable. I was well entertained here both on fidi
and flefh for a fhilling a day, exclufive of my horfe, which I had fent back
to Dublin, where I hired him to this place. I neverthelefs began to tire,,
being without company, or any perfon to difcourfe with, unlefs in the Eng-
lifh language, in wliich I had great difficulty to make myfelf underft^ood in
a long difcourie, as well as to underftand what was faid to me in the fame
tongue, wherefore my whole amufement was to walk and fee the town, ex-
pefting the change of wind and weather. They took me into the great caftle,
which is enclofed by very thick walls, and defended by round towers placed
all about it, having in the middle a large keep or donjon, over whofe eate
are many pieces of canon •, thefe command the city and alio the port. About
a month before my arrival, the garrifon was in arms againft the viceroy, who
had not payed them ; he being informed of this, equipped fix large fliips of war
and three thoufand land forces, with which he befieged this caftle, it refiftcd
three months, v/ithout the guns being able to do any thing, but the provifions
and ammunition failing, they were obliged to make conditions with tlie vice-
roy, who caufed five or fix of the moft guilty leaders to be punillied. At the
diftance of about an hundred paces in the city, near the fea-fide, are ftill to
be feen fome old towers, of an ancient caftle. Another day I went to fee the
great palace, which is at one of the ends of the town ; it is a great fquare
pavillion, having, I think, as many windows as there are days in the year.
The top is terraflTed, and furrounded with baluftrades : the entry is hand-
fome. You firft come into the outer great court, furrounded with the officers

lodgings.

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lodgings, having a gallery over ir, from wiience there is a view of the fea
and all over the town ; then you advance to a draw-bridge between two lit-
tle turrets, which accompany a fmall pavillion rifing over the gate of the
draw-bridge ; this leads from the firft to the fecond court, and faces the grand
edifice. Its ftair-cafe is admirable, and its gate, or door, much more fo, on
account of many pieces of fculpture and engraving with which it is orna-
Tnented. The town has properly but tv/o principal flreets, in tlie largeft
there is a market-place, where are the town-hall and parade ; a fmall river
runs through the middle of it, and empties itfelf at the port, v/hithcr I oftea
went to fee if the wind was changed.

The etymology of Knccfragus, according to the opinions of many of the
natives, comes from the embarkation made by the King Fragus forScotland^
from near that rock on v/hich the caftle ftands; a rock being in the Irifh
tongue called Knock, or Karrick, which added to Fragus, the name of the
-King, gave the name of Knok Fragus, or Karrick Fergus, to this town.

I knew that the common paflage for the poft and packet-boat was fix miles
above this town, at a little village called Larne, and that formerly this paflage
was to Arglas and to Denocadi, villages below Belfaft, but for iecurity, and
binding an opportunity of pafi~mg from Knocfragus, or Karrickfergus, in
Scotland, I would wait for proper wind and weather to do it. During my
Hay, I faw the burial of the governor of the town, who was carried in pro-
cefllon about all the ftreets, followed by all the officers and foldiers of the
garrifon, and the mod confiderable burghers of the town ; the arms trailing
on the ground, with many trumpets playing forrowfully and in a difmal tone,
until they came into the church, where after all thefe ceremonies, before he
was put into the grave, they fired a general difcharge on the fpot where he
was placed in the middle of the church.

As the water throughout England is in general unfit to drink, they make
a fort of beer they call Smal Bir, or weak beer, for the fervants and chil-
dren, inftead of water. It is m.ade folely of what remains after they have
drawn off the good beer, by the addition of water pafling through the grains,
which is afterwards well boiled up ; this fmall beer is extremely proper to
quench thirft and to refrefh, but has neither ftrength nor nourifhment.

The wind at length became favourable for leaving Knockfergus, from
whence we kept the Iriih coaft for fome time, until it was ftark calm ; this
gave occafion to our failors to obferve, that it was a prefage of our having

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prefently a brifk gale, and in efFed early in the morning fo violent a wind
arofe, that though it was abaft, it obliged us to take in all our fails, and run
into the great gulf of Dombritton, at the entry of which there is the great
rock Aliza. The ftorm increafed fo much that the fea often covered our
veffel, and pafled over it, threatening to bury us in its waves. This gulf
is fkirted by high mountains and bare rocks, whence we faw on the right
hand Yrovien. Towards the approach of night the wind began to abate,
owing to fome clouds which fignined rain and a change of wind, that came
on with a fury, and in fo tempeftuous a manner, that refiftance was impof-
fible, and our failors were obliged to put out all the anchors they had in the
little gulf of Krinock, trufting to the mercy of God, in which were placed
all our hope. We arrived there after the ftorm was over, which both wet-
ted and greatly fatigued our failors, happy to get off fo well. Tiiis town
is the pafTage of the Scotch poft and packet-boat to Ireland. Its port is
good, fheltered by the mountains which furround it, and by a great mole,
by the fide of which are ranged the barks and other veflels for the conveniency
of loading and unloading more eafily. We made good cheer together as
companions of fortune. After which I left this town, and coafting the gulf
of Dombritton, where is Nieuark, with a caftle, from whence may be feen
the town of Dunbriton, and its caftle, elevated on a fteep rock, which ren-
ders it impregnable. This town has been much damaged by the late wars,
and its trade in falmon much diminiftied •, thefe are caught in fuch o-reat
quantities in the gulfs, and among the iflands about this place, ancl the
kingdom of Scotland, that they furniftied feveral foreign provinces : they
ftill continue to catch them every year, and to tranfport them to almoft all
parts of Europe 5 they likewife collecfl many barrels of tar, drawn from the
firs that grow in the mountains which border all thefe gulfs, with which I
have feen feveral veflels loaded, as alfb with fine woods proper for cabinet-
makers.

The kingdom of Scotland is ordinarily divided into two parts, which are
on this fide and beyond the river Tay ; each part is fub-divided into provin-
ces, called Clirifdomes. This kingdom is bounded on the north-fide by the
Orcade ifiands, Schetland and Farro, inhabited only by fiPnermen, and per-
sons who fubfift almoft entirely on fifti, and a little game they take by hunt-
ing in the mountains, with which thefe iilands are generally covered. It is
bordered to the weft by the Ebudes iflands, and divers other fmall iflets,
which are at the entrance of an almoft infinite number of great gulfs advanced

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into the kingdom, which they furnifh with fifh in abundance, but the countr/-
is fo mountainous and fo ingrateful in fome places, that it is not worth cul-
tivation. Join to this the intenfe cold, which will not permit grain to ripen.
On the fouth is the kingdom of England, and on the eafl the German fea,
otherwife the fifhy fea, or Haringzee, becaufe there are caught by the Fle-
mifli and Dutch all the falmon cod, and principally herrings, with which,
after faking, they ferve France and other kingdoms ; this fifhery making the
beft part of their riches.

I know very well that the northern part of this kingdom beyond the river
Tay, is almoft uninhabited, on account of the high mountains, which are
only rocks, where there is no want of game in great quantities, but there
grows but very little corn, which obliges the inhabitants of the interior parts
of the country to fubfifl on fifh, which they dry by means of the great cold,
after having caught theni in the great lakes, which are to be found all over
the kingdom j and fome of the villages by the fea-fide export as much fifh as
furnilhes them with corn and other neceiTaries of life. It is faid, that there
are certain provinces on that fide the country, v/here the men are truly favage,
and have neither law nor religion, and fupport a miferable exiftence by what
they can cateh ; but I likewife know, that the fouthern part of the kingdom
on this fide the Tay contains many fine towns, good fea ports, great trads of
fertile land, and beautiful meadows filled with herds of all forts of cattle, but
the extreme cold prevents their growing to the common fize, as is the cafe
all over Europe. The principal tov/ns are, Edinbourg, Lyth, Sterling,
Glafgo, Saint Andreau, Abernethy, Dunkeld, Brechin, the old and new
Aberdeen. The port of Cromary, Dornok, the town of St. Johnftone,
where are the four fine caflles of Scotland.

After having pafTed through Nieuwark, that is on the fide of the gulf
of Dunbriton, which I left on my- left hand, to enter into a country fur-
rounded almoit on all fides by mountains, I dcfcended into fome very agree-
able vallies, as Kemakoom ; from whence 1 followed a fmall river v/here the
country grew a little better, to go to Pallet on a R. covered with a large
bridge abutting to the caftie, where there is a very fpacious garden enclofed
by thick walls of hewn ftone. It was once a rich abbey, as I difcovered by
a mitre and crofs, that appeared half demolifhed, upon one of the gates of
the caftie, which was the abbey houfe. Thofe who go from Krinock to
Glafgo pafs from Kemakoom by [Reinfreu, but the way is full of marfhes,

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difEcuk to pafs over, and where there is a boat which does not work on Sun-
days, according to the cuftom of England, as it happened when I was tra-
velling that road, which caufed me, in order to avoid thefe difficulties, to
change my route, which was after Paiflet, to enter into a fine country upon
the banks of the river Clyd, which I followed to the fuburbs of Giafgo, ,
joined to the town by a large bridge, this I pafled before I could enter

G L A S G O.

Giafgo is the fecond town in the kingdom of Scotland, fituated upon a .
hill which extends gently to the brink of the river of Clyd, capable to bear ■
velTels, fince the tide rifes here a little from the gulf of Dunbritton, into ■
■which it empties itfelf, fo that veflels can come from Ireland to Giafgo, .
whofe ftreets are large and handfome, as if belonging to a new town, but the
houfes are only of wood, ornamented with carving. Here live feveral rich
fhop-keepers. As foon as I had pafled the bridge, I came to the entry of
twt) broad ftreets ; in the firft is a large building, being the hofpital of the
merchants, and farther on the market-place and town-hall, built with large
ftones, with a fquare tower, being the town clock-houfe, under which is the
guard-houfe, as in all the towns of confequence in England. Although Giaf-
go has no other fortification, that does not prevent it from being very ftrong,
for towards the eafl: fide it is elevated upon a fcarped rock, the foot whereof
is wafhed by a litde river, very convenient to that part of the town through
which it pafles. I lodged in this fine large ftreet ; the fon of the owner of
the houfe was then fhudying philolbphy at the univerfity. He condufted me
every where, in order to point out to me what was mod remarkable in the
town ; he began by the college, of which he fhewed me the library, which
is nothing equal to that I faw at Oxford. From hence I came into a large
and very fine garden, filled with all kinds of fruit-trees deemed fcarce in that
country. At length we entered into the great court, the facade whereof is
the great body of the houfe newly built, under which are the clafies fuftain-
ino- the cralleries and lodgings for the fcholars and lludents. He introduced
me to the regent in philolophy, who afked me many things refpeding the
colleges and univerfities of France, principally of that of the Sorbonne ; up-
on which he told me, he was aftonifhcd that throughout all Europe there
■was not one uniform faith, fince we all fought the lame end, to go to Para-
dice, the road to which we Catholics had made fo difficult, although God

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by his fuffcrings and mercy had rendered it very eafy, and was dcfirousafl
the world (hould enter. — To whom I anfwered, that God was at once botk
merciful and juft, and that we could not arrive at heaven but by the difficul-
ties and labours that he himlelf had fuffered, in order to point out the way
to us.

I was unwilling to continue this difcourfe, whereby I could learn nothing
ufeful in my voyage, wherefore I took leave of him in order to vifit the me-
tropolitan church of the archbifhoprick. k is perhaps the longeft and belt
built in the kingdom, and ornamented round about with many figures of
faints, fome of which have been thrown down and broken, when the Protetl-
ants made themfelves mailers of it, after having driven out the Catholicks.
The chapel behind the choir contains fome very remarkable tombs. There
are two high towers over the principal doors of this handfome church. The
archbifliop's palace is large, and very near it. We went and walked in the
market-place, where a market is held twice a week ; it is a crofs way, form-
ed by the handfomeft ftreets in the town -, on that towards the left hand is
the butchery, and the great general hofpital.

In the environs of Glafgo are feveral pits, from whence they dig very
good coals, which is ufed for fires inftead of wood in winter time, here
fevere and of long duration. One had only need to look at the fphere to
know t' is, and at the fame time that the days in fummer are more than
twenty-two hours long, fince the fun fets only three or four hours at night,
fo that as the days are long in fum.mer, they are proportionably fhort in win-
ter. I left Glafgo to go to Edinbourg, and pafled over a great plain where
ftands Cader, and afterwards Cartelok, where there is a caftle on a river ;
and fhortly after, towards my left hand, I left a great caftle in the bot-
tom of a little valley, at the foot of the mountains, from whence iflues
a little river that I pafled at Fakirk. Here great quantities of fluffs and
cloths of all forts are made. Leaving it, on the left hand one fees the ex-
tremity of the gulf of Edingbourg, where the river of Forchna empties itfelf
near the town of Stirling, fituated at the foot of a range of the higheft moun-
tains in Scotland, to go to Lithquo.

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JOHANS de Beauchamp propre- JOHN de Beauchamp bore hand-

ment J Ibmely a banner vair, azure and

Portoit le banniere de vair argent.
Au doiiz tens et au fouefair

Pretes a bafcier les ventailes
Enfi fe aroutent les batailcs
Dont ja de deus oi aves
E de la tierce oier deues

Thus were the battalions marflial-
ed ; I have already mentioned two of
them, and fliali now inform you con-

cerning the third.

Edward Sires de Irois
De Elcoc et de Angleterre rois .
Princes Galois Due de Acquitaine
La tirce efchele unpoi loingtaine
Conduit e Guye areement
Si bel e fi ferrament
Ke nul de autre ne fe depart
En fa banier trois luparts
De or fin eftoient mis en rouge
Courant feloun fier e harouge
Par tel fignifiance mis
Ke aufli ell vers fes enemis
Li rois fiers felouns et hauftans
Car fa morfure need taftans
Nuls ki n'en foit envenimez
Non porquant tot eft ralumez
De douce debonairete
Quant il requerant fe amide
E fa fa pais veullent venier
Tel prince doit bien avenir
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Edward Lord of Ireland, King of
Scotland and England, Prince of
Wales and Duke of Acquitaine, con-
duifled the third fquadron, the rear
brought up at a fmall diftance by Guye,
they marched fo regularly and clofe
that there were no ftraglers. On his
banner he bore in a red field three
leopards paflant, of fine gold ; fierce,
cruel, and untameable ; thus placed to
fignify, that, like them, to his ene-
mies the King is dreadful, fierce and
haughty, and the effeds of his refent-
ment terrible, not but his gentle "ood
nature is foon re-kindled towards fuch
as feek his friendfliip or protedion in
his kingdom. Such a Prince was well
chofen to be the chieftain of noble per-
fonages.

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Son neveu Johan de Bretaigne
Por ce ke plus eft de li pres
Doy je plus toic nomer apres
Si le avoic il bien defervi
Com cil ki fon oncle ot fervi
De fe enfance peniblement
Ed de querpi outreemenc
Son pere et fon autre lignage
Por demourer de fon maifnage
Kant li Rois ot befoigne de gens
E il ke eftoit beaus e gens
Baniere avoit cointe et paree
De or e de afur efchequeree
A rouge ourle ojaunes dupars
De ermine eftoit le quarte pars

I muft next mention his nephew
John de Bretaigne, as being his neareft
relation, and this preference he has well
deferved, having afliduouOy ferved his
uncle from his infancy, leaving his fa-
ther and other relations to dwell in the
King's houfehold, when there was oc-
cafion for his fervices -, he was hand-
fome and genteel, and bore a ftiewey
and ornamented banner, chequered
gold and azure, with a red ourle and
yellow leopards, having a quarter of
ermine.

Johan de Bar, iluec eftoit
Ke en la baniere Inde portoit
Deus barres de or e fu croiffillie
O la rouge ourle engrellie

Johan de Bar was likewife there,
who in a blue banner bore two bars of
with crofslets within a red bor-

gold.

dure engrailed.

Guillemes de Grant-fon pake
De argent et de afur furalee
De bende rouge o trois eiglefaus
Portoit de or fin bien fais e beaus

William de Grant-fon paly argent
and azure, furcharged with a red bend>
having on it three beautiful eaglets of
fine gold.

Bien doi mettre en mon ferventois I may juftly place in my lift the

Ke Elifs de Aubigni li coiucois courteous Elifs de Aubigny, who had

Baniere et rouge ou entailiifc a red banner with a white fefs en-

Ot fefle blanche engreelie • grailed.

Mais Eurmenions de la Brette
La Baniere ot toute rougettc

But Eurmenions de la Brette had a
plain red banner.

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Apres ceus ei truis en mon conte
* Hue de Ver le filz an conte
De Oxenforc et frere Ion hoir
O le ourle endentee de noir
Avait baniere e long & lee
De or e de rouge efquartelee
De bon cendal non pas de toyle
E devant une blanche eftoyle

After thefe I find in my account
Hue de Ver, fon of the Earl of Oxford
and brother to his heir. He had a lono-
and narrow banner, not of cloth but
tafFety, with a black indented border,
and quartered or and gules, having in
front a v/hite ftar.

-|- Johan de Riviers li appareil
Ot mafcle de or et de vermeil
E partant compare le a oury
Au bon Morice de Crooun

Johan de Riviers, whofe caparifons
were lozengy, or and gules, fimilar to
the arms of the good Morice de
Grooun.

Robert le Seigneur de Cliffbrt
A ki raifons donne confort
De fes enemis encombrer
Toutes le fois ke remembrer
Ki puet de fon noble lignage
Efcofe preyn a tefmoignage
Ke bien et noblement comence
Com cil ki eft de la femence
Le Conte Marefchal le noble
Ki par de la Conftantinople
Al unicorne fe combati
Et de fouz li mort le abati
De li de par mere eft venus
A ki fu bien pareil tenus

Robert, the good Lord of Clifford,
to whom reafon adminiftreth comfort,
J and who always remembers to en-
gage his enemies, who may call Scot-
land to bear witnefs of his noble lineage
that originated well and nobly, as be-
ing of the feed of the noble Earl Maref-
chal, who, at Conftantinople, fought
with an unicorn, and ftruck him down
dead at his feet -, his mother came
from a ftock equally efteemed ; her
father, the good Rog:r, all whofe vir-
tues feem revived in his grandfon. I
well know there is no degree of praife

• Quarterly gules and or, in the firft quarter a mullet argent are the arms of the Earls of
Oxford in all the books of heruldiy,

t Gules, fix msfdcs, or.
5 Probably the family mutt;;.

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Li bon Rogier pere fon pere

Mes ne ot value ki ne opere

Refufcitee el filz del filz

Par coi ben fai ke onqiies ne en filz

Loenge dont il ne foit dignes

Gar en li eft aulli bon fignes

De eftre prendom ke nul ke envoie

Le Roi fon bon Seigneur convoie

Sa baniere moult honnouree

De or et de afiir efchequeree

O une fefle vermeillette

Si je eftoi une puceletle

Je li douroie ceur et cors

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of which he is not worthy, as he ex-
hibits as many marks of prudence as
any of thofe who convoy our good
Lord the King. His much honoured-
banner was chequered gold and azure,
vvith a Vermillion fefs. Was I a young
maiden I would beftow on him my
heart and body, lb great is his fame.

De bon Hue le Defpenfier The good Hue le Defpenfier, who

Ki vaflaument fur le courfier faithfully on his courfer knows well

Savoit defrompre une mellee how to charge in battle, his banner

Fu la baniere efquartelee was quarterly, argent and gules, on

De une noire baftown fur blanc gette the argent a black battoon, and on the
E de vermeil jaune frette gules a fret of gold.

Del bon Hue de Courtenay
La baniere oubliee ne ay
De or fin o trois rouges rondeaus
Et a furins fu li labeaus

I have not forgot the banner of the
good Hue de Courtenay, of gold with
three tourteaux gules and a label ar-

gent.

Et le Aumari de Saint Aniant
Ki va prouefle reclamant
De or et de noir frette au chief
troi rondeaus de or derichief

Aumary de Saint Amand, who goes
demonftrating his prowefs, fretty, or,
and fable, a fable chief charged with
three golden beafants.

Johan de Engaigne le ot jolie
Rouge dance de or croiflillie

John de Engaigne had a handfome
banner, gules, a dancette and crofel-
lets, or.

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Puis i out Wautier de Beaucliamp
Sis merlos de or el rouge champ
O une fefle en lieu de dance
Chevalier felon ma Guidance
Un des mellours fut entre touz
Se il ne fuit trop fiers et eftouz

Mes vous ne orrez parler James
De Senefcal ke ne ait une * mes

Cil ke a tout bien faire a cuer lie
Au fautoir noir engreilie
Jaune baniere ot e penoun
Johan Boutourte et a noun

Baniere bel appareille
Jaune o crois rouge engreelie
La Euftace de Hache eftoit

Adam de Welle la portoic
Jaune o une noir lyoun rampant
Dont la coue en double fe efpart

Robert de Scales bel et gent
Le ot rouo;e a cokilles de argent

Emlam et Thouches chevaliers de

bon los
Le ot vermeillc a jaune merlos

Cele au Conte de Laonois
Rouge o une blanc lyoun connois
E blanche en eftoit le ourleure
A rofes del enchampeure

Then there was Wautier de Beau-
champ, having fix martlets of gold in
a red field, with a fefs inflead of a
dauncette. He was, in my opinion,
one of the beft Knights of the whole,
if he had not been too fierce and vio-
lent.

But you will never hear the Senefcal
fpoken of without a but.

One with a joyous heart, doing good
to all, bearing a yellow pennon and
banner with a black faltier engrailed.
His name is John Boutourte.

The banner of Euftace de Hache
was well appointed ; it was yellow
with a red engrailed crofs.

Adam de Welle bore or a lion ram-
pant fable, whofe tail divides itfelf into
two.

The handfome and ejenteel Robert
de Scales bore gules fix efcalope fhells
argent.

Emlam and Touches, knights of
good fame, had gules with yellow
martlets.

That of the Earl of Laonois, known
by the red field and white lion, having
a white border with rofes coloured like
the field.

• Mes, mais, Lacombe

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Patrick de Dunbar filz le Conte
Ne le portoit par nul aconte
Fors de un label de inde diverfe

The arms of Patrick de Dunbar,
fon of the Earl, bore in no ways dif-
fering from his father except an azure
label.

Richard Suwart ke o eus converfe Richard Suwart had a black banner
Noire baniere o apreftee adorned with a white crofs fleury.

O crois blanche o bous flouretee;

Symon Frefel de cele gent
Le ot noire a rofettes de argent

That of Symon de Frefel was fable
with white rofes.

Le beau Brian le Fitz Aleyn
De courtoifie et de honour pleyn
I vi o baniere barree
De or et de goules bien paree
Dont de chalenge eftoit le poinz
Par entre lui et Hue Poinz
Ki portoit eel ni plus ne meins
Dont marveille avoit meinte & rfieins

The handfome Bryan Fitz Aleyn
full of honour and courtefy, I faw with
his well-adorned banner barry of or and
gules, between whom and Hue Poinz
was a difpute, they bearing the fame
coat, neither more nor lefs, at which
many and many a pcrfon has marvel-
led.

Puis i fu Rogier de Mortaigne
Ki fe poine ke honnour a taigne
Jaune le ot o fis bleus lyons
Dont les coues double dions

Then there was Rogier de IMortaigne,
who fuffers no blemifb on his honour j
he bore on a yellow field fix blue lions
with double taik.

E de Honterecombe li beaux
De ermine o deus rouges jumeaus

E of the handfome Hontercombe
ermine with two red barsjumelles.

Guilleme de Ridre i eftoit
Ke en la baniere inde portoit
Les croiflans de or enluminez

William de Ridre too was there
who in a blue banner bore croiflants
refplendent with gold.

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Avec eus fa achiminez
Li beau Thomas de Fourneval
Ki kant feoic fur le cheval
Ne fenibloit home ke fomeille
Six merles e bende vermeille
Portoit en la baniere blanche

Johan de la Mare une manche
Portoit de argent en rouge ovree

Johan le Eftrange le ot livree
Rouge o deus blancs lyons paflans

Encore I fu je connoifTaas
Johan de Gray ki virree
I ot fa baniere barree
De argent et de Afur entaillie
O bende rouge engreellie

E Guillemes de Cantelo
Ke en honnour a tous tens vefcu
Fefle vaire ot el rouge efcu
De trois fieurs de lis de or efpars
Naiflans de teftes de lupars

E puis Hue de Mortemer
Ke bien fe fcavoit faire amer
O deus fefles de vair levoit
La baniere ke rouge avoit

Mes a Symon de Montagu
Ke avoit baniere et efcu
De inde au grifoun rampant de or fin
Pernoit la tiers efchiel fin

La quarte efchiele ou fon couroy
Conduit Edward le fitlz le Roy
Jouvenceaus de dix et fet ans
Et de nouvel armes portans

With them marched the handfome
Thomas de Fourneval, who when on
horfeback does not refemble a man
fleepingj he bore fix martlets and a
bend gules in a white banner.

John de la Mare bore a manch ar-
gent on a red field.

John le F.fl:range had for his livery,
gules, two white lions paflTant.

There I know likewife John de Grey,
whofe banner was barry of argent and
azure, with a red engrailed bend.

And William de Cantelo, who has
at all times lived in great honour, had
on a red Ihield a fefs vaire, and three
fleurs de lis of gold iffuing from three
leopards heads.

And next Hue de Mortemer, who
well knew how to make himfelf loved,
had a red banner with two fefles vair.

The third fquadron ended with
Symon de Montagu, \sho on an azure
banner and Ihield had a griffon ram-
pant of fine gold.

The fourth fquadron was conduced
by Edward the King's fon, a youth of
feventeen years of age, then firfl: bear-
ing arms ; he was of body ftraight and

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De corps fu beaus et aligniez
De cuer courcois et enfeio-niez
E defirans de bten trouver
Ou peuft fa force efprouver
Si chevauchoit m'arveilles bel
Et portoit o un bleu labell
Les armes le bon Roy fon pere
Or li doint dieus grace ke il pere
Aufli vaillans et non pas meins
Lors porront choir en fes meins
Tel ki nei beent faire oan

Li preus Johan de Saint John
Fu par tout o lui affemblans

Ki fur tonz fes garnemens blancs _ _

El chief rouge et cie or deus molettes and two golden mullets.

RIAN REPERTORY,

handfome, valiant, courteous, and wcR
inftruded, very defirous of finding an
occafion to try his prowefs. He rode
wonderfully well, and bore with a blue
label the arms of the good King his
father. May God grant that he prove
no lefs valiant than his father, then the
evil doers may fall ihio his bands.

The brave John de Saint John was
every where near to him, who on all
Tiis garments bore argent a red chief

Blanche cote & blanches alettes
Efcu blanc et baniere blanche
Portoit la vermeille manche
Robert de Tony ki bien figne
Ke il eft du chevali er au ligne

Baniere ot Henri li Tyois
Plus blanche de un poli lyois
O un chievron vermeil en mi

Prouefie ke avoit foit ami
De Guilleme de Latimer
Ke la crois patee de or mier
Portoit en rouge bien portraite
Sa baniere ot cele part traite

Guilleme de Leybourne auffi
Vaillans homs fans mes et fans fi
Baniere i ot o large pans
De inde fis blanc lyouns rampans

A white coat and white plumage,
a white fhield and banner were borne
by Robert de Tony, with a red manch,
which well point out that he is cf
knightly lineage.

Henry le Tyois bore a banner whiter
than a frefli lilly, having in the midft
thereof a red chevron.

Prowefs had made a friend of Wil-
liam de Latimer, who bore well de-
picted on his banner in a red field a
crofs patee of gold.

Alfo William de Leybourne, a truly
valiant man without buts or ifs, bore
an ample blue banner with fix white
rampant lions.

RUM-

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R U M S E Y.

TH I S veneraRDle Pile was the conventual Church of the Nunnery once
ftanding here. The Hiftory of its Foundation is thus given by
Tanner :

" King Edward the Elder, or Ethelwald, a Saxon nobleman, buik a
" Monaftery here, wherein King Edgar, A. D. 967, placed Benedldine
" Nuns, under the government of the Abbefs Merwenna. It was dedicated
" to the Bleired Virgin and St. Elileda, (fometime a Nun and Abbels here,
*« daughter of the faid Ethelwald) and rated 26 Hen. VIII. at393l. los, lod.'
" ob. per ann. Dagdale, and 528I. Ss. lod. ob. Speed. The fite of this
'' Abbey was granted to the inhabitants of t!ie town, 35 Hen. VIII. and
" afterwards, viz. 38 Hen. VIII. to John Bellow and R. Bigot." Divers
lands belonging to this houl'e, were afterwards given by Edward VI. to his
uncle, Thomas Lord Seymour, then Lord High Admiral of England. Here
were buried King Edward, his fon Alfred, and St. Eadburga, the daughter
of the founder. Browne Willis, in his Hiftory of Abbies, has not only pre-
ferved the name of tiie laft Abbefs, which was Elizabeth Ryprofe, but alfo
that of her chaplain or confeflbr, Henry Warner, who, at the diflblution,
had a penfion of I il. 8s. 8d. per ann. afiigned him.

From the fame authority it appears, that Anno 1553, here remained in
charge 61. for fees, and 54I. os. 8d. in annuities.

The length of the Church ./as, as he fays, a little more than 90 of his
fteps ; its breadth nearl*' 46.

From this Nui'' .y Matthew of Alface, fon of the Earl of Flanders,
found meao" ' ^ convey privately the Princefs Mary, the only daughter and
heir of '.mg Stephen, then Abbefs thereof, whom he married; but by the
an- .lema of the church was obliged to rellore her, even after flie had borne
him two children.

An Old Song on the Praife of MALVERN.

AS I did walk along. The God of fea and land,
Late in an evening ; That rules above us,

I heard the voice of one, Stays his avenging hand, i,

Moft fvveetly finging, 'Caufe he doth love us;

Which did delight me much. And doth his bleflings fend,

Becaufe the fong was fuch, Although we do offend.

And ended with a touch — Then let us all amend —

O praife the Lord. O praife the Lord,

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Great Malvern on a rock

Thou ftandefl: furely.
Do not thyfelf forget

Living fecurely ;
Thou haft of bleflings ftore,
No country town hath more,
Do not forget therefore

To praife the Lord.

Thou haft a famous church,

And rarely builded ;
No country town hath fuch,

Moft men have yielded ;
For pillars ftout and ftrong.
And windows large and long —
Remember in thy fong

To praife the Lord.

There is God's fervice read.

With reverence duly ;
There is his word preached,

Learned and truly.
And every Sabbath-day,
Singing of pfalms they fay,
It's fure the only way

To praife the Lord.

The fun in glory great.

When firft it rifeth.
Doth blefs thy happy ftate.

And thee advifeth,
That then its time to pray.
That God may blefs thy way.
And keep thee all the day.

To praife the Lord.

Thy profpeiSl it is good.

None can deny thee ;
Thou haft great ftore of wood,

Growing hard by thee.
Which is a blefling great.
To roaft and boil thy meat.
And thee in cold to heat —

O praife the Lord.

Preferve it I advife,

Whilft that thou haft it j
Spare not in any wife.

But do not wafte it.
Left thou repent too late.
Remember Henley's fate.
In time ihut up thy gate.

And praife the Lord.

A chafe of royal deer.

Round doth belet theej
Too many I do fear.

For ought do get thee ;
Yet though they cat av/ay.
Thy corn, thy grafs, and hay,
Do not forget I fay

To praife the Lordi-

That noble chafe doth give.

Thy beafts their feeding ;
Where they in fummer live.

With little feeding ;
Thy fheep and fwine there go.
So doth thy horfe alfo.
Till winter brings in fnow —

Then praife the Lord,.

Turn up thine eyes on high.

There nigh thee ftanding.
See Malvern's higheft hill.

All hills commanding ;
They all confefs at will.
Their fovereign Malvern hill j
Let it be mighty ftill.

And praife the Lord,.

When weftern winds do rock,

Both town and country ;
Thy hill doth break the fliock,-

They cannot hurt thee ;
When waters great abound.
And many a country's drown'd,
Thou ftandeft fafc and found —

O praife the Lord..

Out of that famous hill.

There daily fpringeth,
A water pafling ftill,

Which always bringeth.
Great comfort to all them,.
That are difeafed men.
And makes them well again,

To praife the Lord;

Haft thou a wound to heal.

The which doth grieve thee ?
Come then unto this well,

It will relieve thee ;
Noli me tangere.
And other maladies.
Have here their remedies —

Praifed be the Lord.

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To drink thy waters there, A thoufand bottles there

Lye in thy buflies, Were filled weekly.

Many with ulcers fore, And many coftrils rare,
Many with bruifes, For ftomachs fickly.

Who fuccour find from ill. Some of them into Kent,

By money given ftill. Some were to London fent.

Thanks to the chriftian will, Others to Brunfwick went,

Praife to the Lord. Praifed be the Lord. Amen.

DRAWINGS OF TWO ANTIENT CHAIRS, Sec.

THIS Plate contains Drawings of Two Antient Chairs, the firft or up-
permoft (No. 1.) is faid to have belonged to the venerable Bede, It is
of oak rudely fafhioned, feeming as if hewn out with an ax ; it is neverthelefa
kept under lock and key in the veftry of Jarrov/ church near Newcaftle
in Northumberland, once a monadery, wherein Bede pafled much of his
time. The perfon to v;hofe care it was intruded a few years ago, fliewed it
as a very great curiofuy, under the denomination of Admiral Bede's great
Chair, a fmall corruption of the title o{ Admirable , v/hich is fometimes given
him, and very pardonable in an inhabitant of the fea coaft.

The other (No.2.)reprefent3thepatriarchal or archiepifcopal Chair, or throne,
kept in the cathedral of Canterbury, in which the archbifhops of that fee, or
their proxies, are always enthroned with great ceremony. Gervas the monk,
who mentions it, fays alfo, that, according to the cuftoms of the church, the
Archbifhop was wont to fit on ir, on principal feftivals, in his pontifical
ornaments, whilft the folemn offices of religion were celebrated, until the
confecration of the hoft, then he came down to the altar of Chrift and per-
formed the folemnity of confecration.

The age of this Chair is not known, but the circumftance of its beins;
mentioned by Gervas, who was living in the year 1174, fhews it is at lead;
fix hundred years old ; it is of grey marble, and confills of three pieces,
(Batteley, by miftake, defcribes it as one entire ftone) and is adorned with
pannels, having feme plain moldings. The feat is folid from the pavement,
it ftands between the altar and the chapel of the holy trinity. F. G.

Canterlui-y, Dec. 4, 1776.
THE Lituus, or Staff, with a crook at one end, which the augurs of old
carried as badges of their profeffion, and inftruments in the fuperflitious
exercife of it, was fo far from being appropriated to that order, that we.
often fee it on coins and bafs-reliefs, borne by men of all ranks, and of boys
too attending at facrifices and religious procclTions ; but, I think, never by
females. Among

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Among the vaft variety of antique inftruments collefted by the curious, I
don't know that one of this kind and form is mentioned as to be feen in their
cabinets -, from whence I iudge the Lituus was not made of metal, but of
fome more perilliable material.

Whether to cdl it a work of art or nature may be doubted. Some were
probably of the former kind; others, Mr. Hogarth, in his Analyfis of
Beauty, calls la fits nature, found in plants of different forts, and, in plates,
gives a Ipeci-Tien of a very elegant one, a branch or aih.

I fliould rather ftyle it a difteniper or diftortion of nature ; for it feems the
effcd of a wound by fome infeft, which, piercing to the heart of the plant
with its probofcis, poifons that, while tlae bark remains uninjured, and pro-
ceeds in its growth ; but formed into curious ftripes, flatnefs and curves, for
want of the fupport which nature defigned it.

The beauty fome of thefe arrive at might well confecrate them to the
myfterious fopperies of heathenifm, and their rarity occafion imitations of
them by art > fuch I take to be that in the plate, facing page 200, in Ro-
finus's Roman Antiquities, [Letter V.]. copied, it feems, from a coin [k]
in that facing page 230 of the fame work : I find it alfo in Montfaucon, but
not as a Lituus aftually in being.

The Paftoral Staff of feveral prelates in the church of Rome, feems formed
from the vegetable Litui. The name indeed, and their characler, as over-
feers of Chritl's flock, lead us to think of the Shepherd's Crook, but this the
fafliion of them will hardly do. Many years ago I faw one of them in Salter's
coffee-houfe at Chelfea, which, to the bed of my remembrance, might well
be defigned from fomething lil^e what Hogarth's print has given ; and with
many of thofe we fee in pictures of Roman faints may help to countenance
my opinion : fo perhaps may thefe drawings of fome afhen ones collected by
the writer of this letter, who gladly contributes what he can to the {lores in
your curious Repertory. W. Gostlixg.

[No. 3, 4, 5, Carved branches of aflu — 6. Lituus from Rofinus. — 7. Paftoral llafF,

from a print. — 8. Common fhepherd's crook.]

P. S. In page 29, line iS, of your 14th Number, the word originally fhould
have been left out. Canterbury had long ago a fupply from fprings belong-
ing to St. Auguftine's Monaftery, (an eftate of the Hales' family) but the
pipes being decayed by age and negleft, Sir John Hales was at the expence
of laying new ones to a very elegant conduit in the city, built for receiving
thefe waters by archbidiop Abbot, who died 1633.

In 1754 this conduit was taken away, for improving the Areet, and the
water conveyed to cifterns at St. George's Gate.

Orhyru \red Irom (ut '-yroocnaL ^rau/Ln/j

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St. DONAT's castle, GLAMORGANSHIRE.

THIS Caftle ftands on an eminence near Nafli Point, five miles weft of
Cowbridge.

Tlie exaft time of its eredion is not known, but it occurs in hiftory as
early as the fourth year of the Reign of William Rufus, when in the divifion
of the lands in Glamorganfhire by Robert Fitzhamon, among the Norman
Knights who affifted him in the conqueft, Caradoc, in his Hiftory of Wales,
fays, " Item, to Sir William le Eflerling, alias Stradling, he gave the Caftle
*' and Manor of St. Donat's, or St. Denv>it's, being one Knight's fee, now
" parcel of the pofTeffions of Sir Edward Stradling, Kn'." It continued in
the family of the Stradlings for 684 years. - ■

It is not to be underftood that the prefent edifice, as it now ftands, was
the building here mentioned ; it is more than probable, that a new Cafile
was built by Sir William on acceding to it, which might be repaired, altered
and enlarged by his fucceflbrs during their long pofieffion.

As a capital manfion it was very pleafantly fituated, but confidered as a
fortrefs» the choice of its fituation refiefts little judgment on its conftrudlor.

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it beino- commanded from the park much wiihui the diftance to which the-
ancient battering machines would carry. It was neverthelefs uled as a place
of ffii-ength, as its guardroom, ftill (hewn, fuiliciently. tefiilies. Part of tjve
buildings are now inhabited. The park which {lands on its weft fide is^
finely wooded, in it is a watch tower of ancient fafhion, deemed coeval with
the Caftle.

This view fnews nearly the fouth fide of the building fronting towards the
Severn. This Caflle and INIanor is the property of the reprefentatives of
the late Mrs. Tyrwhitt, who died poileiTed thereof.

Copy of a Letter from Robert Duddley to Archbifaop Vakkzk, from the
Original in the Library of Bennet College, Cambridge.

To the right honable, and my fingular good Lorde, my L. of
Cantbries Grace, geve thefe.

1^ /f Y L. The Q^ Ma""'' being abroad hunting yeflerday In the Forreft,
i.'yA and having hadd veary good Happ, befide great Sport, Ihe hath
thought good to remember yo' Grace, with P' of her Pray, and fo
comaunded me to fend yo" from her Highnes a great & fatt Stagge killed
with her owen Hand. Which becaufe the Wether was woght, and the Dere
fomewhat chafed, and daungerous to be caryed fo farre, wowt fome Helpe,
I caufed him to be p'boyled in this fort, for the better p'fervacon of him, w'*"
I doubt not but fliall caufe him to come unto yo". as I wold be glad he
ftiuld. So having no other Matter at this pfent to trouble yo' Grace w'all, I
wyll comytt yo" to th'almighty, and w' my moll harty comendacyons take
my Leave in Haft

At Wyndfor this iiii"" of September

Yo'' G alTured

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ANECDOTE, proving the Longevity of the Tortoise.

IN the Library at Lambeth Palace is the Shell of a Land Tortoife,
brought to that place by Archbifliop Laud, about the year 1633, which
lived till the year 1753, when it was killed by the inclemency of the wea-
ther j a labourer in the gardens having for a trifling wager digged it up from
its winter's retreat, and negledling to replace it, a frofty night, as is I'up-
pofcd, killed it.

Another Tortoife was placed in the gardens of the Epifcopal Houfe at
Fulham, by Bifhop Laud, when bilhop of that fee, Anno 1628 •, this died
a natural death, Anno 1753-4. What were the ages of thefe Tortoifes at
the time they were placed in the above gardens is not known.

EPITAPH on Mr. LevettV Huntfman, interred in Greenhill Churchyard^

near Litchfield, Staffordfhire.

Here's run to ground juft in his prime,
The ftouteft huntfman of his time j
None e'er loved better hound or horfe.
No ditch till this e'er ftopp'd his courfe.
Tho' out at length he here is caft.

By fate untimely hurry'd.
Yet in at Death he'll be at laft,
When Death himfelf is worried.
Who— whoop —

Cut on a Bench in the Road befjoeen Gofport and Fareham,

Anno MDCCLIX.
STOP, Traveller, look round on me,
Sad Emblem of Mortality :
A Prince I was, fed (Fide Bona)
Lubrica funt, Fortuna Dona,
Angola's Scepter once I fway'd.
My Word, my Nod, was then obey'd,

Mars

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Mars forc'd me from my torrid Zones,
On Gofport Beach to leave my Bones ;
But thanks to the Surveyor of thefe Highways,
(Tho' cheap he Bought me by his nighways)
My fliipwreck'd Limbs here reft at eafe
From thund'ring Guns and roaring Seas.

ExiraSl of a Letter from 5/?- Francis Y^'^q\.\.\% to Secretary Cecil, relative
to the ^.een of Scottes, foon after her Arrival at Carlifle.

From the OriginaJ in the Cotton Library, Colig. C.i.

SO that novve here are Six wayting Women, althoe none of reputa-

cion but Myftres Marye Ceacon, who is prayfed by this Q. to be the fyneft
bufker, that is to fay, the fyneft drefier of a Woman's heade and heare that
is to be feen in any Countrye, whereof we have feen divers experiences fince
her corny ngliether, and among other pretie devyces, yefterday and this day
flie did fet fotche a curled Heare upon the Queen that was faid to be a
Perewyke, that fhoed very delycately, and every other Day hightherto fhe
hathe a newe Devyce of Heade dreflyng withoute any Cofte, and yett fetteth
forthe a Woman gaylye well.

Carlyll, zS"" June, 1568, at Mydnight.

BELVIDERE.

ELVIDERE in Kent, the feat of Sir Sampfon Gideon, {lands on
Lefnes, or, as it is called, Leefon Heath, an eminence overlooking tha
village of Erith, and commanding an extcnfive profpedt of the river Thames,
This feat formerly belonged to Lord Baltimore, but -was purchafed by Mr.
Gideon, father of the prefent proprietor, who added a very elegant drawing-
room : all the reft of the houfe has fince been rebuilt by Sir Sampfon, who
has alfo greatly improved the grounds, fo that it is univerfally allowed to be
an elegant, as well as pleafant manfion.

This Drawing was made Anno 1777, by Major Hayman Rooke.

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169

The SIEGE f/ KARLAVEROK in SCOTLAND,

continued from Page 160.

* T~A Puis Rogier de Mortemer
J_> Ki de ca mer et de la mer

A porte quel part ke aic ale

Lefcu barree au chief pale

E les cornieres gyrounees

De or et de alur enluminees

O le efcuchoun vuidie de ermine

Avec les autres fe achemine

Car il et li devant nomez

Au filz le Roy furent comes

De fon frein guyour et guardein

Mes coment ke je les ordein

Li feins Johans li Latimiers

Bailiie li furent des primiers

Ki fe efchiele areer devoient

Com cil ki plus de ce favoient

Car quere aillours ne feroit preus

Deus plus vaillans ne deux plus prens

Ami lour furent et voifin
Deus frere au filz le Roy coufin
Thomas et Henry les nome on
Ki furent filz monfire Eymon
Frere le Roy le miens ame
Ke onques oifie enfi nome

J Thomas de Langcafter efloit
contes
Si eft de fes armes tiels li contes

NEXT Roger de Mortimer, who
bore wherever he went, either
on this fide or beyond the ica, a fliield
barry with a chief in pale, the corners
gyronny. Illuminated with gold and
azure and an efcutcheon of ermine
voided, he proceeded with the reft,
for he and him before named were as
governors and guardians to the King's
fon ; but how fhall I marChal them
without Johans le Latimer ; the direc-
tion of this fquadron being from the
firft entrufted to them, as beft verfed
in fuch matters, for it would not be
prudent to feek elfewhere for two more
valiant or prudent men.

Their friends and neighbours were
two brothers, coufins to the King's
fon, named Thomas and Henry ; they
were the fons of the King's brother
■\ Eymon, his beft beloved of that
name.

This is the account of tlie arms of
Thomas Earl of Lancafter ; he bore
thofe of England with a label of France,

* Roger de Mortymer, barry of 6 pieces or and azure on a chief, in the firft 3 pallets
between two efquires, baft, dexter and finifter ; of the fecond an efcutcheon of pretence argent.

f Edmond Crouch back. Earl of Lancafter, who by Queen Blanch, the widow of the King
of Navarre, had the two fons here mentioned.

X Thomas, Earl of Lancafter, beheaded at Pontefrad, leaving no iffue - ' "

Vol. II. N? VIII. U u De

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De Engleterre au label de France being unwilling to difplay any others*

Et ne veiil plus mettre en Ibuffrance Of Henry there is rro contradicting,

* Ke de Henri ne vous redie that it was his daily fludy to refemble

Ki touz jours toute feeftudie his good father v he bore the arms of

Mill a refembler Ton bon pere his brother, with a blue batoon and

Et portoit les amies fon frere without the label.
Au bleu baftoun fans label

■f Guillemes de Fferieres bel
Et noblement fu remes
De armes vermeilles bien armes
O mafceles de or del champ voidies

Cely dont bien furent aidies

Et achievees les amours

Apres grans doubtcz et cremours

Tant ke diens Ten voiilt delivre eftre

Par la Contefle de Glouceftre

Par ki long tens fouffri grans maus-

De or fin o trois chievrons vermaus

William de Fferiers was nobly ac-
coutred and well armed with Vermil-
lion arms and gold mafcles voided of
the field.

He who had happily accompliflied
his amours after great doubts and fears,
from which he was delivered by the
Coiintefs^of Glocefter, for whom he
a long time fuffered great evils, had
only a banner of fine gold with three
chevrons guleSi

Lot baniere feulement This banner made no baJappeari
Si ne faifoit pas malement ance when ornamented with his pro-
Kant fes propres armes o eftoit per armsi his name was Ralph dc
Se avoit nom J Rauf de Monthermer Monthermer.

Apres li vi js tout premier
Le vaillanl Robert de la Warde
Ke bien fa banier rewarde
Vairie eft de blanc e de noir

After him I faw firfl the valiant
Robert de la Warde, who honours his
banner, which is vairey fable and ar-
gent.

* Henry, after brother's deceafe. Earl of Lancafter, . died at Leicefter, Anno 1345.

f William de Fferieres, gules, feven lozenges or mafcles. 3, 3, and 1.

t Ralph de Monthermer, fecond huiband to Joan of Acre, daughter of King Edward the
Firft and in her right Earl of Glocefter and Hertford ; his arms in York's Union of Honour
are blafoned differently, being there faid to be, or, an eagle difplay'd vert, membered and
beaked, gules,

Johan

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Johan de St. Johaii fon hoir The heir of Johan de St. Jokan was

Lour ot baillie a compaignon there a companion, he bore tift'h'anie

Ki de fon pere avoic le noun of his father, and alfo his arms witir

Et les armes au bleu label a blue label.

* Richard le Cont de Arundel
Beau Chevalier et bien ame
I vi je richement arme
En rouge au lyon rampant de or

j Aleyn de la Souche ti-efor
Signefioit ke full brifans
Sa rouge baniere o befans
Car bien fai kil a defpenda
Trefour plus ke en bourfe pendu

Par amours et par compagnie

O eus fu jointe la maifnie

r,e noble Evefke de Doureaume

Le plus vaillant Clerk de roiaume

Voire voire de Creftiente

Si vous en dirai verite

Par coy fe entendre me volez

Sages fu et bien en parlcz

A tempres droituriers & chaftes

I faw there richly armed that hand-
fome and well- beloved Knight Richard
Earl of Arundel ; he bore gules a lion
rampant, or.

Aleyn de la Souche bore in his red
banner bezants, fignifying perifliable
treafures, but it is well known that his
treafureis not all laki up in his purfe.

With them were joined both irt
company and affedion, the forces of
the noble Bifhop of Durham, the niofl
valiant Clerk in the kingdom, and
truly a true Chriftian ; by which T
would be underftood that he was wife,
eloquent, temperate, ju(t and chafte,
unequalled by any rich man in his re-
gular manner of living. He had nei-

No onques riche home ne aprochaftes ther pride, avarice, nor envy, not that

Ki plus bel orderafte fa vie

Oro'uel convetife et envie

Avoit il del tout gette puer

Non porquant hautain ot le cuer

Per fes droitours maintenir

Si kil ne leflbit convenir

Ses enemis par pacience

Car de une propre confcience

S|l hautement fe confeilloit

KfC chefcuus fe enfemerveiiloit ,

£n toutes le guerrers le Roi

» Richard Fitz Allan, the fLCond Earl of Arundj;!, Jied 30"'' Edward I. Anno 1302.

t Aleyn de la Souche, guies, ten beafantSj or, 4 3 2 1 ,

he wanted a proper fpirit to defend
his rights, when he could not work on
his enemies by gentle meafures, for
he was fo guided by his conlcience as
to make every one marvel. In all the
King's warh he ufed to appear in noble
array, attended by a numerous and
honouiable retinue.

Avoit

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Avoit efte de noble aroi
A grant gens et a grands courtages
Mas je ne fay par quels outrages
Dont un plais li i'u entames
En Engleterre eftoit remes
Si ken Efcoce lors ne vint
Non purquant fi bien li iauvint
Du Roi ke empnfe la voi a
Ke de fes gens li envoia
Cent et feiffante homes a amies
Onques Artours per touz ces charmes
Si bean priient ne oc de Merl)^n

Vermeille o un fer de molyn
D'ermine i envoia fe enfeigne

Celuy ki tot honneur enfigne
Johan de Hailingues a non
Devoit conduire an Ton non
Car il eftoit o li remez
Li plus privez li plus amez
De kanques il en i avoit
Et voir bien eftre le devoit
Car conneus eftoit de louz
Au fair des amies fiers et eftouz
En oftel douz & debonnaires
Ne onques ne fu juftice en aires
Plus voluntiers de droiift jugier
Efcu avoit fort et Icgier
E baniere de oeure pareile
De or fin o la manche vermeille

* Eymon fes frere li vaillans
Le label noir i fu cuellans
A ki pas nc devoit faillir
Honnours dont fe penoit cuellir

But he had I know not in wliat dif-
turbance received a wound, which de-
tained him in England, and prevented
his coming into Scotland j he never-
thelefs knowing the King's expedition,
fent him one hundred and fixcy of his
men at arms, pofrtfild of more ac-
complifliments than Arthur received
from Merlin.

He fent alfo his enfign, which was
gules with a fer de moulin of ermine.

He whom honour direfls, John de
Haftings by name, had the conduct of
thefe forces in his name, for they were
entrufted to his care, he being his
moll trufty and beloved friend, and
well deferving of this preference, it
being well known by all, that as in
the field of battle he was bold and im-
petuous, fo in the hall he was gentle
and debonnaire, and no juftice in eyre
was more upright in his judgment.
He had a light and ftrong fliield, and
a banner of like workmanlhip of fine
gold with a red manche.

The valiant brother Edmond choie
the black label. He could not niifs
of thofe honours which he took fo
much pains to acquire.

* Edmond de Haftings, or, a manche maltall gules, a label with three lambeaux fable.

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Un bachaler jolif et cointe
De amours et d'armes bien acointe
Avoiat il a compaignon
* Johan Paignel avoic a non
Ken la bani-re vcrde peinte
Eortoic de or fia la manche peinte.

He had for a companion a jolly and
fmart batchelor, well verfed in love
and arms, named John Paignel, who
bore on a banner tinged green a manch
painted" with fine gold.

Etkantlibons fEymons Dclncourt The good Edmond Deincourt not

Ne pont mie venir a court
Ses dcus bons filz en fon lieu mift
O fa baniere o eus tramifl:
De Inde coulour de or billetee
O une dance furaiecte

being able to attend himfelf, fent his
two brave fens in his ftead with his
banner of azure, billeted with gold
and furcharged with a dancer.

■^ De Johan le Fitz Marmenduc
Ke tout prifToient Prince et Due
E autre ke li connoiflbient
La baniere rembelliflbint
La fefle et li trois papegay
Ke a devifer blancs en rouge ai

John le Fitz Marmenduc, efleemed
by Princes and Dukes, and all other
perfons acquainted with him. On his
banner was the refemblance of a fefs
and three popinjays diflinguifhed by
white and red.

§ E Morices de Berkelee
Ki compaignes fu de ccle alee
Baniere o vermeille cum fane
CroilTillie o un chievron blanc
O un label de afur avoit
Pour ce q ces peres vivoic

And Morice de Berkelee, who was
prefent at this expedition, he had a
banner red as blood, crofslets, and a
white chevron with a label of afur, be-
caufe his father was living.

•■ Johan Paynell, vert a manche maltall or.

•f- Edmond Deincourt, azur a fefle dancette between eight billets or.
J John le Fitz Marmaduke, gules, a fefs between three doves argent.
§ Morrys de B..rkeley, gules, a chevron between live crofjiets pales argent, a label with
three lambeaux azure.

Vol. II. N" VIII.

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* Mes AlifTandres de Bailloel
Ke a tout bien faire gettoit le oel
Blanche baniere avoit el champ
Al rouge el'cu voidie du champ

But Alexander de Bailloel, ever at-
tentive to do good, had a white ban-
ner, and field with a red Ihield voided.

A ceftui daerein nomme
Ai fans les doubles aflbme
Seiflante et vint et fet banieres
Ki tiennert les voies plenieres
Au chaftel de Karlaverok
Ne pas neert pris de el'chek de Rok
Ainz i aura trait de lancie
Engine leve et balancie
Com nous vous en avifferons
Kant le affant en deviflerons

To thofe lafl: named, without reck-
oning double, were fixty and twenty-
(even banners occupying the ways to
. the caftle of Karlaverok. which was
not to be taken with a chefs rook, fo
that there will be ftrokes of the lance»
engines railed and balanced, as we
fhail Ihew when we defcribe the
aifault.

* Alyfandcr de Bailloelj argent, an urle gules«

End of the firfl: Canto.

LIFE

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LIFE OF THOMAS HATFIELD, BilKop of DOrha

OF this great prelate, whofe monument is prefixed, we meet with few
accounts previous to his promotion to the fee of Durham, except his
being a prebendary of Lincoln and York, and fecretary to Edward the
Third, by whom he fcems to have been much efteemed.

Before this time, the popes had for many years taken upon them the
authority of bellowing all the bifhopricks in England, without ever confult-
ing the King ; ■ this greatly offended the nobility and parliament, who enafted
feveral ftatutes agiinfl: it, and rcftored to the churches and convents their
antient privilege of eledtion.

Richard de Bury, bifliop of Durham, dying 24"' of April, 1345, King
Edward was very defirous of obtaining this fee for his fecretary Flatfield •,
but fearing the convent (huuld not eled;, and the pope difapprove him -, he
applied to the pope to bellow the bifhcprick upon him, and thereby gave
his holinefs an opportunity of reafluming his former ufurpations ; glad of
this, and of obliging the King, and (hewing his power at the fame time,
immediately accepted him : objedions however were made againft him by
fome of the cardinals, as a man of light behaviour, and no way fit for the
place : to this the pope anfwered, that if the King of England had requcfted
him for an afs, he would not at that time have denied him ; he was therefore
elefted S"" of May, and confecrated billiop of Durham 10'^ of July, 1345.

Whatever his former behaviour, on which the cardinals grounded their
objeflions, may have been, is uncertain ; but it is fcarce to be imagined,
that a King of Edward's judgment and conflant inclination to promote merit,
would have railed liim to fuch a dignity, had he been fo undefervino- •, nor
would he have employed him in fo many affairs of coniequence, as he ap.
pears to have done, had he not been capable of executing them.

In the year 1346, David King of Scotland at the head of 50,000 men in-
vaded England, and after plundering and deftroying the country wherever he
came, encamped his army in Bear-park near Stanhope in the county of Dur-
ham, from which he detached parties to ravage the neighbouriog country : to
repel thefc invaders, a great number of the northern noblemen armed all their
vaffals, and came to join the King, who was then at Durham ; from thence
they marched againfl: the Scots in four feparate bodies, the firft of which was

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commanded by Lord Percy and Bifhop Hatfield, who on this occafjon'
affumecl the warrior, as well as fevera! other prelates. After a fevere battle,
the Scots were routed with the lofs of about 15000 men, and their King
taktn prifoner : the viftory being over, the Englilh returned to Durharrs,
and after a folemn mafs, offered the banners there taken at the Ihrine of Saint
Cmhbert.

In 1354 the Bilhop of Durham and the Lords Percy and Ralph NevilF,
were ap^jointed commilTioners to treat with the Scots about the ranibm of
King David, This affair ended in a treaty, which was concluded at New*
caftle 13"" of July, 1354, whereby David was freed, on condition of paying
go,oco marks of fiiver; he was not however fet at liberty till 1357.

In 1355 King Edward went into France at the head of a large army, to
give battle to the French King. He was attended there by his two fons, the
Bifliop of Durham, and a great many northern noblemen, the borders being
fecured by a truce granted the Scots at their own requeft.

In 1359 King Edward agnin went to France, and penetrated as far as
Rheims m Champagne f the ul'ual place where the Kings of France are crown,
ed) here he propofed to be invefted with the royal diadem of France by the
Bifiiops of Durham and Lincoln, who attended him for that purpofe, but
the place being well defended, prevented him from efftfting his purpofe.

To this worthy prelate, Trinity College in Oxford ovies its foundation ;
it was at firil called Durham College. Originally it was intended for fuch
monks of Durham as fhould chufe to ftudy there, more particulars of which
may be feen in Wharton's Anglia Sacra. At the diffolution it was granted
in 1552 to Dodor Owen, who fold it to Sir Thomas Pope, by whom it was
refounded, endowed, and called Trinity College, whi^h name it now
retains.

Before Hatfield's time, the Bilhops of Durham had no houfe in London
to repair to, when fummoned to parliament ; to remedy ihis, this munificent
prelate built a mod elegant palace in the Strand, and called it Durham
Houfe (lately Durham Yard) and by his will bequeathed it for ever to his
fucceffors in the bifhoprick.

This palace continued in poffeflTion of the Bifhops till the reformation,
when it was in the fifth of Edward the Sixth demifed to the Princels Eliza-
beth. In the fourth of Mary, it was again granted to Bifliop Tunftall and
his fucceffors, and afterwards let out on a building leafe, with the referva-

tion

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tion of 200I. a year out-rent, which the Bifliop now receives. On this plat
of ground the Adelphi buildings are eredcd.

He was the principal benefador, if not the founder of the Friery at Nor-
thallerton in Yorklhire for Carmelites or White Friers.

The records of his time give large accounts of his charities to the poor,
his great hofpitality and good houiekeeping, of the fums he expended in
buildings and repairs during the time he held the billioprick.

After a life fpent in an uniform pradtice of virtue and doing good, he died
at his manor of Alfond near London 7"' of May, 1381, and by his will
direded his body to be buried in his own cathedral, and is there entombed
in the fouth aile under a monument of alabafter, prepared by himfelf in his
life-time, which is now remaining very perfeft, though without any infcrip-
tion, and of which the annexed Drawing is a true reprefentation. Mr. Pen-
nant fays, it is ornamented with as many coats of arms as would ferve any-
German prince.

DUNELMENSIS.

To the Editor of the A^fTIQ^uARIAN Repertory.
SIR,

IN (kimming over the fourth Volume of the Archaeologia, I fell upon
" Obfervations on a Coin of Robert Earl of Gloucejier ;" this, it feems, has
been by fome attributed to Robert Duke of Normandy, eldeft fon of Wil-
liam I. but the writer of this article is of opinion it belongs to the Earl of
Gloucefter, baftard fon of Henry I. without producing even the fliadow of
an argument in favour of this hypothefis. For what has the interpretation
of the Saxon Eorl to do here ; and his fuppofition that Robert of Normandy
would have aflumed the title of Rex, inftead of Dux, may be eafily fhewn to
be of no weight. As to the blunders of the Minters, it inclines not the fcale
to one fide more than to the other. But I am afraid the blunders are rather
in the Antiquary than the Minters. The kings and nobles could neither
write nor read ; therefore the minters did not know one letter from another,
nay could not fpell their own, or the moft common names •, particularly
Robert. " In this of Rcdbertus had the D been -put in its proper place, and the
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T left out, it would have hen Roberdus Dux" But with the learned moderii
Antiquarians leave, will the Minter fay, both the D and T are in their pro-'
per places ; as every one, the lead acquainted v/ich the grounds of our owa
language, will allow, the name being compounded of two very comnioa
words, viz. Red, R(sd, Rad, or Rod, counfel ; and Beorht, Berbt, Briht or
Bryht, bright or famous ; thefe joined form Rodbertus as on the coin. In
like manner we have i^rti^i; from i^^^K.^^, more anciently Rodolph; Rogers
Rotgarius, Redganis; E.o%vland, Rolland, Rodland.

DUNELMENSIS.

The Statutes of ELI' H AM, &c. madx ^_y Henry e y\W. for the
Government of his Privey Chamber : JIfo 0/ Edward VI. and ^ Marye •„
together -loith the Oathe admitiiftred bye Drue Drurye, Gent. Vfher to the
Priveye Chamber of ^leene Elizabeth.

The Statutes and Ordinances oF our late Soveraigne Kinge of famoufe Me^
morye, Henry VIII. for his orderingne an gouerninge of his Majeftys
Priuye Chamber, made at Eltham in the i;"" Yeare of his raofte profpe-
roufe Raigne.

T!ic Kinges Priuye Chamber..

N foe muche as in the pure and cleane keepinge of the Kinges Priuye

Chamber, w"" the goode order thereof, confiftech a greate parte of the-
Kinges quyett, refte, comfort, and preferuation of his healthe ; the fame
aboue all other thinges is principallye and mofte heighlie to bee regarded^
And confideringe that righte meane perfones, as well for theire more com-
modity, doe retyre and withdrawe themfelves aparte, as for the wholefome-
nefle of theire Chambers, doe forbeare to haue any greate or frequent reforte
into the fame.

Muche more it is conuenyent, that the Kinges Heighnefle have his Priueye
Chamber and inwarde lodgeinges preferued fecrete, to the pleafure of his.
Grace, without repayre of any greate multitude unto it.

It is therefore ordayned, that no perfone of what ftate, degree or condi^.
trone foeuer he be, frome henceforthe prefume, attempte, or be in any wife

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fiiffered or admitted to come or repayre in to the Kinges Priiiye Chamber^
other than fuche as his Gr. (hall from tyme to tyme call for or commande,
except onlye the minyllers now deputed, or in the lieu of them hereafter to
be deputed for altendaunce in the fame, viz. Marques of Exeter, the Kinges
kinleman, and fixe gentlemen, two gentlemen ulhers, four groomes, the
Kinges barbor and one page, beinge in all fifteen perfons, whome the Kinges
Gr. for theire goode behauioure and quailities hath eledled for that purpofe,
and whofe names hereafter doe follow, viz. Sir Wyllyam Tyler, Sir Thomas
Cheyney, Sir Anthonie Browne, Sir Jo. Rufl^ell,,Mr. Norrye and Mr. Carye,
to be the faide fix gendemen wayters ; Roger RadclifFe and Anthonie Kne-
vett, Gent. Ufhers ; Wyllyam Breereton, Walter Walflie, John Carye,
Hizean Breereton to be the groomes j. Permye to be the barbor, and youngs
Wellon to be the Kinges page.

The Kinges mynde is, the faide fix gentlemen with the ufiiers and groomes,
barbor and page, fiiall diligentlye attend upon his perfon in the faide
Priueye Chamber, in doing humble, reverend, feecrett and comelye fervice,
about all fuche thinges as his pleafure fhall be to depute and put them to
doe, not preffing his Gr. nor aduauncinge themfelves, either in further fer-
uice then his Gr. wyll or Ihall afligne them unto, or intermeddle with fuites
caufes, or matters, whatfoever they be. Of whiche number of fixe Gent,
divers be well languaged, expert in outward partes, and meet and able to be
fent on famyliar mefTages to outwarde Princes when the caufe fhall requier.

Item. The Kinges pleafure and commaundement is. That the four
groomes of his Priuey Chamber fhall from tyme to tyme diligentlye give
their attendaunce in the fame, doingefuch manner of fervice without groudge,
contradidtion or difdayne, as to the groomes tiiereof dothe appertayne. And
forafmuche as the faide groomes fhall not be lodged in the faide Priuey Chamber,,
but fhall have a lodginge affigned to them from tyme to tyme in the courte-,
it is therefore the Kinges flraight commaundement and pleafure, that cverye
daye all the faide four groomes, or two of them at the leafte, fhall repayre
and be in the Kinges Priuey Chamber at the furthefle between 6 and 7 of the,
clocke in the morninge, or iboner, as they fliall have knowledge that the
Kinges HeighnefTe wjllbe earlye upp in the morninge, whiche groomes fo
comminge to the Chamber, fliall not onlye remove the palliatts from the
Chamber, but purgeinge and makinge clcane the fame of all manner of fil-
thineffe, in fuche manner and wyfe as the Kinges. HeighaefT? at .his uprifinge

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and cominge thereunto, fhall finde the faide Chamber pure^ cleane, hole-
fome, and neate, withoute anye difpleafant ayre or thinge, as the healthe,
commoditye and pleafure of his mofte noble perfon doth requier.

And becaufe mannye tymes fuch fervice as fhould be don bye the groomcs
of the Priiiye Chamber, hath been executed bye theire pages and lervants,
and other meane perfons, his Gr. therefore ftridlye chargeth, that from
henceforth no groomes or pages of his outwarde Chamber, or any of the
fervants of the groomes of his Priuey Chamber, doe prefume to enter, or be
fuffered to enter into his fayde Priuey Chamber for doinge anye fervice
therein. But that fuch fervice as is by the groomes to be executed, be don
by the faide groomes only of the faid Priuey Chamber, and no other, uppon
paine of incurringe the Kinges difpleafure and lofinge of their fervice,

Semblablye the Kinge ordaineth and commandeth the two Gent. Ufhers
of his Priuey Chamber, or one of them at the leafte, doe daylie repayre and
be in the fame Chamber bye 7 of the clocke at the furtheft, or fooner, as
his Heighnefle fhall determyne to ryfe in the morninge, there not onlye to
attend and keepe each dore of the fayed Chamber, withoute fufferinge anye
perfonne to enter into the fame but onlye fuche as bee of the fjyed Priueye
Chamber, or the K. pleafure bee to have, but alfoe to fee, veiwe, and con-
trole, that the fayed groomes doe all the premifles before the K. uprifmge
accordinglye, not faylinge hereof, as they vv'ill avoyed the K. difpleafure.

It is alfoe ordained, that the 6 Gent, Wayters by feaven of the clocke or
fooner, as the K. the nighte before determine to arife in the morninge, fhall
bee in the fayed Chamber there diligentlye attendinge uppon his Heigh,
cominge forthe, beinge readye and prompte to apparell his H. puttinge oa
fuche garm". in reverende, difcreete, and Ibber manner, as fhall be his H.
pleafure to weare, and that none of the fayde groomes or ulhers doe approach
or prefume, unleffe they bee otherwife by his H. commaunded or admitted to
laye hande uppon his royall perfon, or intermeddle w'*' apparrylinge or
dreffinge the lame, but onlye the faide 6 Gent. Ulhers, unlcfTc it bee to
warme cloathes, or bringe to the fayed Gents, fuche things as fhall apper-
tayne to the apparrellinge and drefTinge of the K. fayed perfon. It is alfo
ordered. That the K. doublet, hofe, flioes, or anye other garments, w''' his
pleafure fhall bee to weare from daye to daye, (the gowne onlye excepted)
fhall be honefllye and cleanlye broughte by the yeomen of the wardrobe of.
the robes, or in his abfence by fome other of the fame office, to tne K.

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Priuye Chamber dore, w"'oute enteringe into the fame, where one of the
Groomes Ihall receive the ftjyede garm". and apparreli, bringinge and deli-
veringe the fame to one of the fayed 6 Gent, to be miniftred to the K. pcr-
fon, as fhall ftande w"" his pleafure.

It is ordayned that twoe of the fayde 6 Gent, (liall nightlye lye on the pal-
lyate w"'in the K. fayed Priuye Chamber, wh'"" pallyate (halbee everye night
prepared and made readye by the Groomes of the Priuye Chamber, and the
flyers made upp and lights ordered before they fhall departe OLitc of the K.
Priuye Chamber to their lodgings.

Item y' is the K. pleafure. That Mr. Norris flialbee in the roome of Mr.
Compton, not onlye givinge attendaunce as groome of the K. floole, but
alfoe in his bedcliamber, and other priuey places, as fliall Hand with his
pleafure ; and the K. exprefTe commaund' is. That none other of the fayde
6 Gents, prefume to enter or followe his K. into the fayed bedchamber, or
anye other fecreate place, unlefs he flialbee called or admitted thereunto by
his H.

Item y' is ordayned. That fuche perfons as bee appoynted of the Priuye
Chamber fhalbee lovinge together, and of good unitye and acorde, keep-
inge feacreate all fuche thinges as fhalbee docn or fayed in the fame, \v"'ou!:e
difclofinge anye parte thereof to anye perfon not beinge for the tyme prefent
in the Chamber ; and in the K. abfence, withoute they bee commaunded to
goe w"" his H. they fhall not onlye give theire contynuall and diligente at-
tendaunce in the fayde Chamber, but alfoe leave harkeninge or enquiringe
where the K. is, or goeth, be it earlye or late, \v"'oute grudginge, mum-
blinge, or talkinge of the K. paftime, late or early goinge to beddc, or any
thing doen by his H. as they will avoyde his difpleafure. And it is alfoe
ordered, that in cafe they of the Priuye Chamber fliall heare anye of his
fellowes, or other perfon of what eftate or degree foever, befpeake or ufe
any unfyttinge language of the K. he fhall with diligence difclofe and fhewe
the fame, w"" the fpecyakies thereof unto his H. or unto fome of his Priuye
Counfell, fuche as he thinks y' meet to flievve and declare unto his H.

Item. The K. pleafure is. That the fayed 6 Gent. Ulhers fliall have a
vigilante and a reverende refpeiSle and eye to his Matye, foe that by his looke
or countenaunce they maye knowe what lackethe or is his pleafure to bee hadd
or doen. And that as well the ufliers as groomes doe place themfdves in
theire Handings and attendinge in convenyente diflauncc from the K. perlbn,
w"'oute too homelye or to boukle advauncinge theirefclves thereunto, other-
wife than unto theire roomes doethe appertayne.
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Item. Ic is alio ordered, That the K. being abfent out of the Priueyi
Chamber, the fame (hall bee honeftlie kept by fuche as bee appointed to be-
rhereof, without ufinge immoderate or continoall playe of dice, cards, op
tables therein. And that the fayde Chamber be not ufed by frequent and.
intemperate playe, as the groom-porters houfe : howbeit the K. can be con-
tented, that for feme paftime in the faied Chamber in the abfence of his Gr..:.
they fhall and may ufe honeft and moderate playe, as wellatcheffe and tables
as at cardes, forefeing that as foone as they iTiall perceive or have knowledge
that the K. is repayringe to the faide Priuey Ch. they fhall leave and dcfille.
from the faide play, fo as at his faide entrye they be reverently attendant».as
to the office of good, reverend, and humble fervants doth appercayne.

It is alio ordered, that none of the faide Chamber fhall advaunce himfclfe
further in fervice than by the K' Heighnefle he ilialbee appointed unto, nor
prefTe his Gr. in makinge of fuites, nor intermeddle with caufes or matters'
whatfoever they bee, otherwife they fhall bye his Gr. be commaunded.
AKvayes regardinge and rememberinge the more nigher his Gr. has called
them unto his perfon, the more to be humble, reverent, fober, difcreet, and
ferviceable in all their doinges, behaviour and converfations, to th' entent
that not onlye therebye they may deferve the increafe of the K' favoure and
good reporte, and brute may arife therebye to the good examples of others, but
alfoe greate honor and wifedome may be afcribed to the K' HeighnefTe, that
his Gr. hath fo circumfpedlye chofen fuche well qualified, mannered, and;
eleft perfons to be nighe, about, and attendant uppon his noble perfon.

For bringinge in of Bred, Wyne, and other Vyandes into the
K' Priuey Chamber.

It is alfoe ordered, that in cafe the K^ Matye wyll have bred or drinke,
that one of the Gent. Ufhers of the Priuey Ch. fhall commaunde one of the
Croomes of the fame to warne the officers of the buttrye, pantrye, and feller,
to bringe the faide bred and drinke to the dorc of the faied Priuey Ch. where
one of the ufliers takinge the afiay' fliall receive tlie fame, bringinge it to the
cupborde, and attendyn thereof, till he bye one of the faied 6 Gent, fhall be
difcharged thereof. And femblablye fuch mcate as is provided for the K*
breakfafle fhall bye one of the faide Groomcs bee broughte into the borde or
cupborde in the faiede Priuey Ch. where one of the Ufliers fliall, as afore-
faiede, take the aflaye, attendinge and ftandinge, charged therewith untill

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V.t (hall bee dlfchargtd bye one; of the fuiede 6 Gent. Uiliers. And in lyke,
manner when the K. is ferved for all night, after the feme be delyvcrcd, one
of the Gent. Ulheri fhall attende thereupon unt}l! he bee difcharged thereofj
as fliall accorde..

It is allbe ordered, that all fuch fcwell, wyne, beare, ale, bred and waxe»
as fhalbee fpent in the K' faiede Priiicy Ch. fliall from tyme to tyme be re-.
corded bye one of the Gent. Ufhers, caufinge daylie one of the faide Groomed
of the Priuey Ch. to cart} e to the Chaundrye all the remayne of morter,
torches, quarriers, pricketts and fifes, wholelye and entirelye, without em-
bezzleinge or purloynynge any parte thereof. Theife to be employed to the
K' profitt and advantange.

It is alfoe ordeyned, that the K' Barbor fhalbee daylie by the K' upryfinge
readye and attendaunt in the Priuey Ch. there havinge in readineflc his
•water, clothes, bafon, knyves, combes, fciflars, and fuche other ftuffe as to
his rome doeth appertayne, for trymniinge and dreffinge the K' heade and
bearde. And that the faiede Barbor doe take an efpecyall.regarde to the
pure and cleane keepinge of his own perfon and apparell, ufinge himfelfe
alvvayes honelLlye in his converfacion, without relbrtinge to the companye of
vyle perfons, or mifguided women, in avoydinge fuch danger and annoyance
as by that meanes he might doe .to the K' moft royall perfon, not faylincie
this to doe uppon payne of lofinge his rome, and further punifiiment at the
K' pleafure.

And femblablye that the K' Page be before his Gr. uprifinge in the faiede
Priuey Ch. and to give contynuall attendaunce for doinge fuch ferv ice as it
fball pleafe the K' Heighnefle to commaund him.

All whiche articles aforefaide, the K' HeighnefTe ftraight chargeth and
commaundeth to be duelye obferved from tyme to tyme bye the Gent. Ufhers,
Groomes, Barbor, and Page, of the faiede Priuey Ch. without digrefllnge
from any parte of the fame, as they wyll avoyde the punifhment before re-
hearfed, and have the contynuance of his gracious favoure.

And forafmuch as it is not convenyent that anye tyme certayne flialbee
prefixed for the K' goinge to dynner or fupper as is aforefaide, and that it is
requifite the 6 Gent, of the K' Ch. the 2 Ufliers and 4 Groomes, with the
Barbor and Page, (hall attende, fome uppon the K' perfon and fome in the,
Cliamber, bye reafone whereof they cannot obferve the howers of meaks pre-'
fixed for the howfehoulde and chanabers. It is ordeyned therefore, that zU

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lowance and provifyon be fnade for one mefie of meate to be ordinarilye ap-
pointed for the faiede Groomes and Barbor ; and that the 6 Gent, and two
Ufhers frome tyme to tyme to be appoynted for that purpofe as the K. fhall
remove, be ferved with two inefies of meate well and fubftauntially fyrnyflied,
for whiche purpofe a good portyon of meate fhall bye the officers of the
howfehoulde be delyvered to the Cookes of the K' Priuey Kitchen, there to
be well dreffed, and to be ferved at fuche rymes as fhalbee convenyent.

And becaufe that heretofore whenfoever the K' Matye hath gone forthe
oh walkinge, huntinge, hawkinge, and other difports, the mofl parte of the
noblemen and gent, of the courte have ufed to pafTe with his H. by rcafon
whereof not only the courte hathe been leafte difgarnifhed, but alfoe the K.
difporte letr, hindred, an ympeached. It is therefore the K. plealure and
flraight commaundment. That noe perfon of what eflate, degree, or condi-
tion whatfoever he bee, doe from henceforth prefume to pafTe before or after
the K. H. at his fayed tymes of difporte, but fucbe onlye as by the K' com-
maundement fhalbee appoynted and warned from tyme to tyme by one of
the Gentlemen Ufhers of the K. Priuye Chamber, or fome other perfon of
the fame, in avbyedinge the K. difpleafure and avoyedinge frome tlie

courte.

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L 1 T H Q^ U O.

LITHQUO is fituated in a very good country, although it is environed
by high mountains ; it flands on the bank of a Jargc lake, with a
caftle on the higheft part of the town, being on a rock cemmanding its
whole extent. It is flanked by fevcral large towers; thefc render it one of
the flrongeft in the kingdom. There is a very handfome church at one of
the ends of the market-place, in the center of which is a fountain in a bafon
which receives its waters : the chief ftreet croflTes the market-place and the
whole town. Here is a manufaftory of cloth and fine linen. I left this
place, and pafTed through Kalkcfler to go to Edenburgh.

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E D E N B U R G H.

Edenbiirgh is the capital town, and the handfomeft of the kingdom of
Scotland, diftant only a mile from the fca, where Lith is its fca port. It
ftands on a hill, which it entirely occupies. This hiil, on the fide whereon
the caftle Is built, is fcarped down as fteep as a wall, which adds to its
fltength, as it is acceffible only on one fide, which is therefore doubly fortified
with baftions, and a large ditch cut iloping into the rock. I arrived by the
fuburbs at the foot of the cafiile, where at the entry is the market-place,
which forms the beginning of a great ftreet in the lower town, called Ccu.gv.et •,
on coming into this place one is firft flruck with the appearance of a hand-
fome fountain, and a little higher up with th» grand hofpital or alms-houfc
for the poor : there is no one but would at firft fight tr.ke it for a palace ;
you afcend to it by a long ftair-cafe, which ends before a platform facing
ttie entry at the great gate. 1 he portico is fupported by feveral columns,
and the arms and ftatue of the founder, with a tablet of black marble, on
which there is an infcription, fignifying, that he was a very rich merchant,
•who died without children. There are four large pavillions, ornamented
with little turrets, connected by four large wings, forming a fquare court in
the middle, with galleries fuftained by columns, ferving for communications
to the apartments of this great edifice. One might pafs much time in con-
fidering the pieces of fculpture and engraving in thefe galleries, the maf^ni-
tude of its chambers and halls, and the good order obferved in this creat
hofprtal. Its garden is the walk and place of recreation for the citizens, but
a ftranger cannot be admitted without the introduftion of fome inhabitant.
You will there fee a bowling-green, as in many other places in Eno-jand. It
is a fmooth even meadow, refembling a green carper, a quantity of fruit-
trees, and a well-kept kitchen-garden. From thence I proceeded alon" this
great ftreet to fee fome ancient tombs in a large burial ground, and farther
on the college of the univerfity. I was ftiewn a pretty good library, but the
building is not remarkable j there is a court, and the fchools round about it.

This lower town is inhabited by many workmen and mechanics, who,

though they do not enoble the quarter, render it the n'oft populous. Here

are a number of little narrow ftreets mounting into the great one, that

forms the middle of the town, and which from the caftle extends gently to

the bottom of the hill, that feems enclofed on two fides by a valley, which

fervcs for a ditch -, in one is what we have called the lower town, and in the

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other are the gardens feparated from the town by a great wall. I lodged at
Edenburgh in the houfe of a French cook, who direfted me to the mer-
chant on whom I h.id taken a bill of exchange at London. He took me
into the caftle, which one may call impregnable on account of its fituation,.
fmce it is elevated on a rock fcarped on every fide, except that which looks
to the town, by which vi^e entered after having pafled the draw-bridge, de-
fended by a ftrong half-moon, where there is no want of cannon ^ this brings
to my mind one feen in entering the court, which is of fo great a length and.
breadth that two peribns have laid in it as much at their eafe as in a bed..
The people of the caftle tell a ftory of it more pleafant than true : they fay,.
it was made ia order to carry to the port of Lyth againft fuch enemies as
zni^ht arrive by fea j v/e faw feveral of its bullets of an immeafurable fize.
This court is large, with many buildings without fymmetry. There are
fome lodgings pretty well built, which formerly ferved for the refidence of
the Kings of Scotland, and at prefent for the Vice-Roys, when the King of
England fends any, for at the time I was there, there was only the Grand
Chancellor, who had almoft the fame authority and power as a Vice Roy.

Defcending from this caftle by the great ft.'-eet one may fee its palace, and
a little before the gre.it market-place the cullom-houfe, where are the King's
weights. This ftreet is fo wide that it feems a market-place throughout ics
whole extent. The cathedral church is ia the middle, its only ornament is
a high fquare tower; befide it is the parliament-houfe, where the Chancellor
refides. There are feveral large halls well covered with tapeftry, where the
pleadings are held, and a fine court. In the great hall are feveral fhop-
keepers, who fell a thoufand little curiofities. There is beftdes a large pa-
villion, having a little garden behind it, where there is a terrafs command-
ino- a view over all that part of the town called the Couguet, at the foot of
this palace and pavillioa where the Chancellor refides. This fine large ftreet
ferves for the ordinary walk of the citizens, wJio otherwife repair to the
fuburb of Kanignet in the ancient palace of the Kings of Scotland.

This fuburb is at the end of the great ftreet,. where there is another of the
fame fize, and almoft as handfome, which adjoins to the palace called the
King's houfe, faid to have been formerly an abbey, great appearances thereof
being ftill remaining. In entering you pafs the firft great court, furrounded
with lodgings for the officers, and from thence into a fecond, where appears
the palace, compofed of ievcral fmall pavillions, intermixed with galleries
and turrets, forming a wonderful fymmetry ; but it has been much damaged
by fire. There is likewife the church, the cloyftcrs, and the gardens of

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tJiis ancient abbey. This fuburb is feparated from the town by a gate with
a 'bell tower, wherein is a clock j and on one fide appears the little fuburb of
Leyth-oye, the way leading to the port of Leyth. In the middle of the
ftreet is a very fine hofpital, which carries fomc marks of having formerly
been a convent, and clofe to it a handfome church, once belonging to a
priory, when the Catholic religion was prevalent in die kingdom of Scot-
land.

It is difficult to hear mafs at Edinburgh, for it is ftriclly forbidden to be
celebrated, although there are fome Catholics, Flemings, and Frenchmen
•who dwell there, with whom I made an acquaintance, and who vifited me
fometimes in my inn ; they one day begged me to go a fhooting with them,
afTuring me that we fhould not return without each of us filling his bag with
game -, neverthelefs, it was not this confideration that caufed me to go, but
rather the hope of learning fome curiofity of the country and the city of
Edenburgh, where thefe gentlemen had refided a long time.

We let out at four o'clock in the morning, being four in company, with,
three good dogs ; we came to the fea-fide on a great beach, from whence
the tide had retired, where we found fome water-fowl, of which we killed
three, and fix large wood cocks •, and near this place were fome little hills
covered with heath and bufhes, where we went -to beat for hares and rabbets
which frequently ftrole near the fea-fide. Our dogs put out a large leveret,,
which was foon knocked down ; we then v/ent to get fome of our game
cooked for breakfall at a village not far CiF, and afterwards returned to hunt
along that gulf which we coafted in going to Edenburgh, whither we carried
of our fhooting fix young wild ducks, four Vifoodcocks, and two rabbets. I
■was very much fatigued, yet neverthelefs lent my hand as heartily to the
bufinefs as any prefent in getting the fupper ready, in order to have it the
fooner done, when in the combat that enfued every one did wonders, where
the ghfiTes ferved for muflccts, the wine for powder, and the bottles for
bandileers, whence v/e returned from the field all conquerors and unwounded.
Thefe gentlemen invited me feveral other times to go fporting with them,
but I always refufed, on account of the great fatigue I had undergone. I
chofe rather to vifit Leyth, a mile didant from Edinburgh, from whence
coaches fet out every moment to go by a paved road over a large and very
fertile plain. Seeing a gibbet in my way I could not refrain from laughing,
as it brought to my mind the many tricks played at Rome to the hangman's
fervant, who is obliged to carry a ladder from his houfe to the place of
puniQiment, where his mailer is to execute the criminal. He carrying chij

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ladder is mounted on a horfe, led by a man with a drawn fvvord in his hand
to defend him •, but let him do what he v/ill every one will have a ftroke ac
him v fome refrefli him with pails of water which they throw out of the win-
dows, the others embroider his'clothes with handfuls of mud, fome rejoice
his nofe with rotten melons, and others-overwhelm him with ftones, accom-
panied with this reproach, Soya, fo odious among Italians : they alfo pull
his feet and ladder to make him fall, infomuch that it is pleafant to fee in
what a pickle he arrives on the gallows •, but in England it is not fo, for the
executions are performed only every fix months, and it fignifies nothing at
what time the criminal is condemned to death, he being always kept till that
day, and is taken from the gibbet to be interred on Good-Friday.

L Y T H.

Ivyth is a little trading town and a good fea-port, fituated at the mouth of
the little river Lyth in the gulf of Edenburgh, which is above forty miles in
length and twelve broad at its entry, and before Lyth about eight. In the
middle there is a fmall ifland, on whiih is an impregnable fort. There are
many good harbours and large towns along this gulf, witii mines yielding
tin, lead, and fea-coa!, in fuch quantities tiiat the Flemifli, the Dutch, the
Danes and the Swedes, and even the French are ferved from hence. More-
over in this fame gulf they prepare fair, which the Dutch purchale to cure
the fifh catched in the Scotch feas, although many perfons fay this fait will
not preferve them long, and that the things pickled with it are apt to fpoil ;
but without ftraying from Lyth, I can fay it is one of the moil famous fea-
ports in Europe, frequented on account of its traffic by all the nations in
Europe ; and it is at the mouth of this little river, which is ib deep that the
largeft veflels can come up into the center of the town, and lie loaded along
the quay, fometimes to the number of more than fifty. This river forms the
feparation of a large village which lies on the other fide, to which you muft
pafs over a ftone bridge that joins it to the town : this village is the refidence
of fifliermen and failors, and here fometimes large veflels are built. On the
fame fide is a citadel clofe to the fea, which has almoft ruined it by its waves,
having undermined the baflions in fuch a manner, that it is as it were aban-
doned, for there is no garrifon to guard it. Adjoining to the quay is a mole
fafiiioned like a wooden bridge, advancing more than two hundred paces into
the fea, to prevent the land brought by the tide from choaking wp the entrance
of the port, which is extremely neceffary for the town of Edenburgh for the
meichandizes that arrive by fea, or are fhipped for foreign countries, princi-
pally for the north.

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PEMBROKE CASTLE.

PEMBROKE CASTLE was fiift built by Arnulph, foQ to Roger de
Montgomery, Earl of Shrewfbary, according to Caradoc of Lhancar-
van, in the reign of William the Conqueror, Anno 1094. Ocher writers
place its erection in tlie reign of Henry the Firft, among whom is Giraldus
Cambrenfis^ who fays it was only a flight work, compofed chiefly of turf
and twigs, or fafcines.

It was afterwards rebuilt, perhaps on account of its weaknefs, or, as fome
fay, having been defliroyed by fire. Its fecond founder was Giraldus, the
King's Lieutenant in thofe parts, who. Anno x 106, rebuilt it, as Caradoc
has it, in a place called Congarth Fechan. This manner of exprenion feems
as if Geraldus had chofcn a difi'crent fpot from that whereon the former
Caftle ftood ; and yet the word rebuilt, implys that the fame foundations
were made ufe of.

Shortly after its re-edification it was furprifed, plundered, and fet on fire
by Cadwgan ap Blethyn, who carried away prifoners the wife and children
of Giraldus, he himlclf having made his efcape through the privy.

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The fituation nnd ftate of chis Town and Cafile is thus defcribed by Le-
land in his Itinerary :

" Pembroke ftandith upon an arme of Milford, the wich about a mile
" beyond the towne creketh in fo that it almoft peninfulateth the towne, thjit
" ftandith on a veri maine rokki ground.

" The Toune is welle wauUid, and hath iii gates by eft, weft and north,
" of the wich the eft gate is faireft and ttrongeft, having afore hit a com-
" pafied tour not rofid, in the entering whereof is a portcolys exfolido ferro.
. " The Caftel ftandith hard by the waul on a hard rokke, and is veri
" large and ftrong, being double wardid, in the utter ward I faw the
«' chaumbre where King Henri the VH. was borne, in knowledge whereof a
" chcmmeny is new made, with the armes and badges of King Henri the VII.

" In the bottom of the great ftronge rownd tower in the inner ward is a
" marvelous vault caulled the Hogan. The toppe of this- round towr is ga-
" thcrid with a rofe of ftone, almoft in conum, the top whereof is keverid
" with a flat mille ftone.

" In the toune be a two paroche chirchis, and one in the fuburbe."

In the civil wars between King Charles and his parliament, this caftle was
befieged, and made a gallant defence for the King, notwithftanding that,
and the depredations of time, the vaulted ceilings defcribed- by Leland, was
remaining in the year 1772.

The Gent. UJhers Office of the Privye Chamher, accordinge to the Reporte of
Sir Richard Blunt, who was in Office in the Tyme cf K. Edward the 6.

FIRSTE, to bee there att a convenyente hower in the morninge, to fee
thee Groomes ftrowe the Chambers that are to be ftrowed, fweep thofe
that are matted, .to make ftyers in all thofe Chambers where the K. Matye
repeyrethe, and the Chambers to bee drefled upp in all other things, and
made as fweete as may bee. viz. palliats to be avoyeded, the clothe of eftate
and chayres to be fett in order, tlie windowes and the cupbords to be fur-
nillied w"" coftiens.

The Gent. Ufhers dutye is to caufe the Groomes to delyver to the Groom

Porter all the remaynes of torches and quarriers.

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The Gent. UHiers, the Gent, of the Chamber, favinge thofe that bee of
the Bedd Chamber, oughte to goe noe farther than the Privye Chamber,
unlefle they bee called. The Gent. Uiliers diitye is to bee allwayes at the
dore, yf the K. bee prciente.

When theK. Matye is readye, then the Gent. Uilier nnift feeke to knowe
his pleafure what tyme he wyll goe to breakcfade, his pleafure being knowne
then to commaiinde a Groome to warne the Officers.

The Gent. UHier to knowe his pleafure what tyme he will goe to fervice
to the clofett, and to goe in convenyent tyme before to fee that the Mmyfters
be readye, and that the Clarke of the Clofett have provided all thinges that
apperteyneth thereto. The Gent. Ufher to go before him thither, and to
take afiaye of the codiens.

The Gent. Ufher to knowe his Matye's pleafure v/hat tyme he wyll goe
to dynner, he againfte that tyme to caufe a Groome to warne the Officers
to fuffer noe Officer to come in unlefie the K. pleafure were knowne.

The Gent. Ufher to difchardge all Officers, and he to bringe in theirs
fervices himfelfe. Firfte the Ewrye, then the Pantrye, then the Seller.

The Gent. Uffier is not to appointe anye extraordinaye to wayte except
the K. pleafure be knowne.

When the K. fliall wafl:ie, the Gent. Ufher to dely ver the towell and bafon
to the bcfte perfonages that bee prefent, he takinge the affaye to them.

Of all fervices that Officers bringe, the Ufher to dely ver lardge affiiyes.

At breakfafte, dynner and fupper, the Gent. Ullier is chardged with the
cupborde -, alfo his chardge is to fee that no meate be given av/ay unlefTe
the K. commaunde yt.

The G-ent. Uflier maye eommaunde all tymes of the daye bred, wyne,
beare and ale, to the chambers as he fiiall thinke goode bye his difcrecion,
yet in anye v/ife to be verye circumfpeft what and howe he commaundeth.

The Gent. Ufliers dutye is to inalie recorde everye daye of all fuche
breade, wyne of all fortes, beare, ale, fugar, fpices, wood and coles, that
is fpent in the Chamber the fame daye, and to the fame recorde to fett his
hande, and caufe it to be fent the next morninge to the green-cloth when
they fitt, or yf they fut nor, to caufe yt to be delyvered to anye of the
Clarkes of the green-cloth.

At ni"ht the Efquier of the bodye and the Gent. U(her abrode, wyll

brino-e the fervice for all night, and they have beene occafioned to come irv

w'* all.

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The CeJlerer bringethe a fervice, befides w'"" the Gent. Uflier ouohte ta
difchardge, unlefs he knowe the K. pleafure theye fhoulde come in.

If the K. Matye remove to anye ftraunge howfe, althou^he yt be the
Gent. Ufliers dutye abrode to fee thereunto, yet yt fhalbee well done yf the
Gent. Ulher of the Privey Ch. to knowe whither he Ihall goe before, to fee
that all the roofes and flores be flrong and fuer, and that it rain not in anye
of his chambers, and to fee that his bed chamber cfpecyallye, and all other
his privye chambers have noe backdores into gardens or courts, but that he
caufe them to be flopped yf he thinks fo good. And if there be backdores
into anye loJginges, to fee that they be lodgt-d there that be neareft the
Kinge, and yf there be no backdores, fee there be none lodged under the
K. Chanibcrs, and efpeciallye the bed chamber, but fuche as were about
him for difpleafinge hin« If the lodginges under his chambers, efpeciallye
under his bed chamber be not convenyent for fuche as be neare about him,
and that the ftoryes belowe wherebye the K. might bee difeafed let them
be unlodged.

Alfoe to fee that the watch chamber be not nere to the K. whereby he
mi"ht be difeafed.

The Gent. Uilier hath in all places where the K. walketh privilye ; in
parkes, orchardes, gardens, or galloryes, he to goe before him.

If the K. Matye go oute of his Privey Ch. into the Ch. of Prefence any
daye of eftate, hulye daye, or other daye to dynner to fervice, or for anye
other caufe, the Gent. Ufherof the Privey Ch. hath nothinge to doe to goe
before him, or to meddle with anye fervice, unlefie it bee the K. pieafure
he fliall.

The gen' rail rule of the Gent. Uflier in all thinges he doeth to knowe the
K. pieafure.

Geut. JJfoers of the Privey Charaber, their Allcxance.

Firfte, theire chamber, their bouge of courte, two cartes for theire
carriage.

Theire wages fynce the comminge in of the Llady Anne of Cleve 30/.
bye the yeare, and 3 yardes of fatten at Newyeares tyde.

K. Hcnrye S"* did ufe to give the Gent, lyverye of cotes of vclvett x
yardes for a cote. Then the Gent. Ufhers had in all thinges fuche allow-
ance as the Gent. had.

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At the coronacon of K. Edwarde all the Gent, of the Chamber and Gent.
Ulhers had allowed thern for gown es certayne yardcs of trymfon velvett,
and certayne yardcs of tynfliey to lyne them.

Before the cominge of the Lladye Anne of Cleve, the Gent. Ufhers

wages was but xx bye the yeare, but they had there ch allowancyc

in theire Chamber duelye e mefle of meate at dynner, one oth«r

flipper for theire Chamber, keep d fervants and theire doubletts of fat-
ten notwithftanding, and all their other bouge of courte.

Waiters on the Gent, and UJhers bcfides the Pages.

Everye Gent, of the Privey Ch. that wayted that daye, had one man
waited iippon him, everye one of the Ulhers had two men, the w'"" fervants
when theire mafters had dyned tooke the reverfion w"" the pages.

The Gent, oughte to have of everye Byfiioppe that is made v, whiche
the Clarke of the Clofett was to receive and bringe him at 8 of the clocke
in the morninge, a coarfe manchett and a coarfe cheate loafe, and certayne
de, at the faide hower in fummer, 4 faggotte, and everye Sundaye a burthen
■of rulhes at 3 in the afternoon, and 8 at nighte a coarfe manchett and cer-
tayne ale, at the Chaundre in fommer twoo cotton candles, one Iifte, twoo
Jlynckes in the weeke, and everye morninge in the woodyarJc 8 faggotts
and certayne afhen topps in the weeke, how manye I am uncertayne.

Orders made to bee kepte in the frjle Yeare of 9^eeH Marye, accordinge to tbt
Reporte of Mr, John Norrys, Gent. UJher of the Privye Chamber.

IMPRIMIS. That noe man or woeman, of what eftate or degree foever
they bee, (hall prefume to come into the Priuye Chamber other than bee
appoynted by the Q^ H. or fuche as Ihalbee called in by her commaunde-
ment.

Item. Theife Gent, in the Priuye Chamb. viz. 6, Mr. Rice, Mr. Bafiett,
Mr. Kemp, Mr. Walter Earle, 2 Gent. Ufliers, Mr. Norrys, Mr. Higgins,
and four Groomes, in all tenne perfons.

IVhat everye Man oughte to doe in his Office.
Imprimis. Two of the Groomes oughte to bee in the Chamber by 6 of
the clock in the morninge, and rarer yf neede bee, and then to take awaye
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the pallyatrs, and make the ffyers, Averpe the chambers, fet the ci^ffions
and the chayres in theire places, and fee all thinges doen that are needfull.

I:em. A Gent. Ufner to bee in the Chamber by 7 or 8 o'clock in the
norninpe co fee all things doen by the Groomes as is aforefayed, and to fee
thc-m difcharge all the plate and other things of everye office.

Item. A Gent. Ufher to commaiinde a Groome at 8 of the elocke to goe-
to the Yeomen Ufrters, and bidd them goe for breakefaftej and bringe it to-
the Priuye Chamber dore, and there taken in by a Gent. Uflier and a.
Groome. And when breakefafte is doen the Groome to difcharge all tilings-
oute aygane.

Item. The Q. boarde of eftate was allwayes in her Priuye Chamber, and
the fervyce broughte to the dore and taken in by the Ladyes & Gendewomeny.
and Gent. Ufher ftandinge by the AfTayes to fee the difcharge. And like-
wife a Gent. UHier to difcharge all other officers whatfoever they bee.

Item. The Ewrer, the Pantler, and the Sellerer, to biinge the Sirvyce-
in, yf the Q. bee not there ; yf her H. bee there, then to take in fuche forte.-
as the other fervice.

Item. A Gent to carve, a Gentlewoman for the cuppe, a Gent, woman
to keepe the cupborde, a Gent, Ulher to appoynte this to bee doen, z
Groomes to take away diffies and to goe for all thinges needful, a Gent, to
fewer yf they were not otherwife occupyed in the Q^btifynefTe, yf they were
then to take one of the ordinary e fewers withouce, and hee to come to the-
dore, and there to "bee difcharged.

Item. All thofe wayters aforefayed to dyne together, all others to goe to
their ordinarye, as the La. to M" Clarentias, the Groomes in their owne
chambers havinge a mefle of meate for themfelves.

Item. A Gent. Uflier to be alwayes in the Privye Chamber, to fee that.
no man or woman come in but fuche as bee appoynted or called by the Q.
commaundement, and to fee for anye thinge that is needfull for the Q^ or
the Chamber, as he fhall think by his difcretion needfull, beinge noe waftej
as hee will anfwere to being called thereunto.

Item. A Gent, of the Chamber to bee allwayes in the Priuye Chamber>.
or els to leave worde w'*" a Gent. Uflier where he fliall have him if the Q^ at
any tyme (hall call for one of them to fend anye where, or anye els her H,
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T.Ue Oatbe minijlred bye Drue Dnirye, Genl. UJJ:er to the i^. Matye Prhey

Cb, An7io prima Eliz.

You (hall trewlye ferve the heighe and mightye Princefle Elizabeth Q^ o
England, F. ar.d Irelande, defender of the faith, her Graces Heignes and
lawfull fucefibrs trewlye and faithfullye, both in the office you be called
unto, and in all thinges touchinge her honoure and furetye.

You Oiall not doe yourfelfe, nor procure nor confent to be don bye anye
others, any thinge prejudicial to the furetye of her royall perfon, ftate or
hoflor.

And yf you fiiall heare or underftande of anye bodilye hurte, difhonovir,
or prejudice, to be pretended bye anye whatfoever, you fliall doe as much
as lyeth in you to lett the fame, and befides to difclofe the fame either to her
owne perfon, or fuche of her Gr. Privey Counfell attendynge neare her per-
fon, as you may next come unto, and bye all wayes and meanes you may to
procure the fame to come to her HeighnelTe knowledge ; you fhall not knowe
of anye debate or ftrife of accompte within the Privey Chamber, but you
fhall doe the beft to ftaye or utter it to fome of the Privey Counfell, fo that
it may be ftayed : you fhall not difclofe any fecrett concerninge her Matyes
perfon or ftate that you fhall heare w'^in the Privey Ch. And alfoe fhalbee
obedient to the Ufhers of the Privey Ch. in all thinges concerninge the fer-
vice of her Matye, and not to departe the diftance of 12 myles froms the

cowrte withoute licence -her Matj-e, or of the Uihers aforefa i..e. So

help you God and the h contents of this booke.

The TOMB of ANASTATIA VENETIA Lady DIGBY.

This Tomb ftood in Chrift-Church, London, and was deftroyed in the

great Fire.

Mem. Sacrum,

Venetise

Edwardi Stanley Equitis Honoralifs, Ord,

Bakei

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Balnei (Filii Thomaej Edward! comitis Derbi®
Filli) Filias ac cohaeredi, ex Lucia Thomse
-Comitis Northumbri;£ Filia et Coluerede^
Pofuit
Kenelmus Digby Eques Auratus
Cui quatuor Peperic Filios
Kenelmus Nat. VI. Odlobr. MDCCXXV.
Joannem Nat. XXIX. Decemb. MDXXVII.
Everardum (in cunis Mortuum) Nat. XII. Jan. MDCXXIX.
Georgium Nat. XVII. Jan. MDCXXXII.
Nata eft Decemb. XIX. MDC,
Denata Maii. I. MDCXXXIII.

Quin lex eadem monet omnes
Gemitum dare forte fub una
Cognataque funera nobis
Aliena in morte dolere.
The following account of this Lady is given by Mr, Grainger:

Venetia, daughter and cohcireis of Sir Edward Stanley, grandfon of Ed-
ward, Earl of Derby, and wife of Sir Kenelm Digby. Her beauty, which
was much extolled, -appears to have had juftice done it by all the world. It
is not quite fo clear whether equal juftice was done to her reputation, which
was far from efcaping cenfure. The Earl of Clarendon mentions Sir Ke-
nelm's " marriage with a Lady, though of an extraordinary beauty, of as
" extraordinary a fame."* Mr. Skinner has a fmall portrait of her by
Vandyck, in which " (lie is reprefented as treading on Envy and Malice,
and is unhurt by a ferpent that twines round her arm. f Here the Hifto-
rian and Painter illuftrate each other. This was for .a model for a large
portrait of her at Windfor.

There is a portrait of her at Althorp done after (he was dead, by Vandyck.
Mr, Walpole has a miniature of her by Peter Oliver, after the fame pidlure.
He has alfo miniatures of eight other perfons of the fame family. There are
two fine bufts of her at Mr. Wright's, at Gothurft, near Newport-Pagnel,
Bucks, formerly the feat of Sir Kenelm Digby.

Communicated by T, Pennant, Efquire.
* Life of the Earl of Clarendon. f Anecdotes of Painting, Vol. II. zd Edit. p. 102.

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The Defcription of Scotland, continued from Page 18?.

I RETURNED to Edinburgh, and after taking my leave of fome French
people of my acquaintance, departed for Barvick, by the following
route. Leaving the town, I had the gulf on my left hand, and en my
fight, the great road toNewcaftle, near a fmall river atNedrik, where there
is a caftle. Ivlolfburg, where there is another on a river, having always the
agreeable view of this gulf, which one is obliged continually to follow, on
account that the road is bordered by high mountains, which it is impoffible
to pafs. Come to Trenar, where there are mines of very good coal, with
which I faw feveral veffcls loaded. The country where they are commonly
found, is fomewhat mountainous, and covered with bad foil, as hereabouts at
Arington on a river. Here is a large market-place, and a fine ftreet ad-
joining to the principal church, which it is faid the French held a long time,
when they made themfelves mafters of a good part of this kingdom, and from
whence they were at length driven our, as I was informed by my landlord's
fon, in conducting me out of the town. I follov/ed the river, full of good
fifh, particularly trout of a delicious tafte -, on it I faw a large caftle on the
right hand, going to Linton, where I pafied this river, which runs among
the rocks: fhortly after, one has a view of the fame gulf, pafling over a
country covered with fand-hills to Dunbart.

This village is famous for its great fifhery of herrings and falmon, which
are carried into France and other parts of Europe •, the port would be good
for nothing, if the road which is before it was not covered by fome high
rocks, which border thofe coafts ; at the foot of thefe is a part of the village,
the habitation of fifhermen •, and another above it, where there is a very fine
large ftreet. I lodged in the houfe of one who fpoke French, and had ferved
Louis the Thirteenth in the Scots Guards. He related to me many things
that had happened in his time. He had been at the fiege of Rochelle, the
hiftory of which he gave me, with many particulars-, he treated me v;ith fifh
of all forts, among others, with a piece of falmon drefled in the French man-
ner, and a pair of foles of a great fize. The beer ufually drank in Scotland
is made without hops, they call it alej it is cheaper than the Engl ifh beer,
which is the beft in Europe.

From Dunbarton, tlirough a champaign country, I came to Cobrfpech,
whence having pafied fome little mountains, I ftill followed the fea, and went

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ihrough five or fix fmall hamlets, in a plain near a river. The country
hereabouts is but badly cultivated, and full of heaths, till I defcended into
a bortom to Alton, where there is a cafHe on a river, which I crofTed,.
and afterwards pafled a high mountain, adjoining to fome meadows near
the fea-fide and along the banks of a river, following which 1 arrived at
Berwick.

B A R R W I C K.
Barrwick is the firfl: town by which I re-entered England, and being a
frontier to Scotland, has been fortified in different manners ; there is in it at
preknt a large garrifon, as in a place of importance to this kingdom. It is.
bounded by the river Tweed, which empties itfelf into the fea, and has a
great reflux, capable of bringing up large veffels, was it not prevented by
iands at the entrance into its port. I arrived here about ten of the clock on
a Sunday, the gates were then fhut during church time, but were opened at
eleven, as is the cuftom in all fortified places. Here is an upper and a.
lower town, which are both on the fide of a hill, that flopes towards the ri cr.
On its top there is a ruined and abandoned cattle, although its fituation makes
it appear impregnable j it is environed on one fide by the ditch of the
town, and on the other fide by one of the fame breadth, flanked by many
round towers and thick walls, which enclofe a large palace, in the middle of
which rifes a lofty keep or donjon, capable of a long refiftance, and cotn-
manding all the environs of the town.

Tiie high town enclofes within its walls and ditches thole of the lower,
from which it is only feparated by a ditch filled with water. In the upper
town the ftreets are ftrait and handfome, but there are not many rich inhabi-
tants, they rather preferring the lower town, in which there are many great
palaces, fimilar to that which has been rebuilt near the great church, and
in all the open areas are great fountains, and in one of them the guard-
houfe and public parade, before the town-hall or fefllons-houfe, over which
is the clock r.ower of the town ; fo that by walking over Barwick," I difco-
vered it to be one of the greatefl: and moft beautiful towns in England.

The greatell part of the ftreets in the lower town arc either up or down
hill, but they are filled with many rich merchants, on account of the conve-
nience and vicinity of its port, bordered by a large quay, along which the
Ihips are ranged. There is not a ftone bridge in all England, longer nor
better built than that of Berwick, which h^.s fixteen large and wonderfully

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well wrought arches ; it is confidered as one of the moil: remarkable curio-
fities of the kingdom. I pafled over it in leaving the place ; adjoining to it
is a large fubiirb, from whence the country is covered with heath and briars
to Aghton, where there is a caftle -, Bowklin, where the fea appears on the
left, and a fmall ifland net far off, which forms a pretty good harbour near
a village, having a caftle. Ail this fea-coall is covered with large land
banks, and the interior country to Beifort ; an entire defarc as it is tor above
tv/enty miles round about, being only fitted for feeding cattle, occafioned
by divers rivulets which run through meadows, v.'here great herds of all
forts of cattle may be l^en feedins.

They fay, that in Scotland there are fo many wolves, that the inhabitants
cannot go out of their villages without danger of being devoured, but that
is far from being the cafe in England, fince there is not one to be found, fo
that the flocks of fheep are left out all night in the fields \vithout any fhep-
herd to guard them. It is true, they are enclofed in great pens whence they
cannot get out, or ilraggle and lofe thcmfelves. Almoft throughout Eng-
land the fields are encompalTed by hedges, fo that every one may be the maf-
ter of his own property; infomuch that one may fometimes travel half a
day's journey between two hedges, or in an avenue of trees. The country
hereabouts would be the woril and mofl: itcril that I have i^-en in England,
was it not for its mines of fea-coai which are here fo plenty, that it may juft-
ly be called the magazine whence all Europe is furnilhed with that commo-
dity. Thefe coals are ordinarily loaded at Nieucaflel, called Neuechaftel,.
which proves that each country has fome peculiar produce of its own. Thus
England yields fea-coal, lead and tin, Sweden copper, Norway large timber
for building fhips, Germany iron, France wine, Spain filk, and fine linens.

I pafled thefe defarts by Cheberton, Alnwick with its caftle near a river,
^nd farther on divers commons cr heaths to come to Morpet, whofe half
ruined caftle ftands near a river. Staruiton on a river, the fame country
continuing quite to Newcaftle.

NIEUCASSEL.
Nieucaflel is a fea-port, frequented by all the nations of the world, on ac-
count of the quantity and goodnefs of the fea-cftal loaded there, digged from
the mines in the environs of that great town ; as alfo lead and very fine tin ;.
in fo much that it is one of the moft mercantile places in the kingdom : it is-
fiiuated on the banks of the river Tyne, which divides it into two unequal:

parts,.

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parts, both on tiie fide of a hill, decliniiig gently to the great quay, whick
borders this navigab-le river, emptying itf'cif at the diftance of fi^-e miles
near Tinemouth, where is the good harbour of * Chil, for the vefiels ready
to depart and fail ; from thence the tide flows up quite into the town of
Nieucaflcl, rifing there two fathoms, fo that loaded vefTels may come up
clofe along the quay, which is feparated from the town by a thick wall, up-
on vvhich there is a fine walk, it being the propereft place to have a view of
this port, much refembling that of St. Malo in France. To fee Newcaftle
properly one muft begin at rhe place where I entered, which is a broad ftreec
diflinguilhed by a large market-place in the middle gently defcending, where
the houfes are built with great ftones, fuch as are ufed for grindflones for
the Cutlers, and are brought from hence to Paris, being fo remarkable for
their great fize. This ftreet, after paffing over againft the butchery, comes
to the fifli-market, a great covered building ornamented with a fine fountain,
with a handlbme bafon receiving the water. I muft juft obferve, that
butchers meat is no where to be feen finer than in England ; the flieep are fo
large and fo fat as to furpafs little cows in heighth ; befides this, their wool
is extremely fine, of which we fee in Paris, cloth called Englifli cloth, as
beautiful as if made of filk. The great ftreet alfo joins this fifli-market, in
going up it you fee a rivulet made by feveral fountains, and which cleans it
in its defcenr. There is in the middle of this ftreet a meeting of two others,
and a fine fountain, that difperfes its waters into different parts of the
town. From hence you may go and fee the great church not far from the
old market-place, which is a great fpace of a round figure, furrounded by
the houfes of divers workmen. Here a market is held once a week.

One may then vifit the caftle, which is of a great compafs, fince itenclofes
within its walls like a little city, the habitations, as I think, of all the cob-
lers of Newcaftle. There is in the middle a high donjon, which is a large
and very ftrong fquare tower made of large hewn ftone, at prefent it is ufed
for the prifon of the town, but it has no garrifon or foldiers to guard it; it
feems to me, neverthelefs, to be very ftrong, being on the corner of a rock,
enclofed on one fide by thick walls, and fteeply fcarped on the other that
looks to the town, which it commands. The next day I went to fee the
great market-place ; there is not a handfomer or larger in England. Here
is the town-houfe, one of the fineft buildings I law in my travels ; the archi-
tecture of its ftair-cafe deferves admiration : its clock is ornamented with

* Shields.

feveral

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feveral figures : under this great edifice is the Excliange, vvliere the mer-
chants affemble to treat on matters of commerce, in a great hall fijftained
by many columns, having one opening to the quay, and the other towards
the market-place. This part of the town is the chief habitation of the
richeft merchants of Ncwcaftle, which is without difpute one of the richefh
and largeft towns in the kingdom. To go into the lefler part of the town.
Called Gacefend, you muft pafs over a large ftone bridge covered with houres
and fhops : it is inhabited by divers manufadturers employed in making cloth
and worfted ftockings in great quantity, which are' here very cheap, where-
i'bre they are fent all over Europe, even to Paris: they are efteemed for the
finenefs of their wool and the excellence of their workmanlhip. I was told
they ufed here in England machines, whereby they made them in a fmall
rime ; but here they knit them in the fame manner as in France, fomewhat
different from the manner ufed in Turky and Spain, as I have remarked in
thofe countries. One may go down the river at every ebb, by the means of
little boats which they call Bots. To fee its mouth, the great port where
the veflels are loaded with coal, where one may fee a quantity of fait made
from fea-water, which is boiled with fire made of this coal. All along the
banks of this river quite to Newcaftle, are many fine houfes, fo that one
may walk on a quay almoft entirely bordered by large Hones quite to the
town, from whence it appears all environed by mountains. While the cities
of Newcaftle and Carlifle were frontiers toward Scotland, there was a huge
wall which formed the bounds and feparated the two kingdoms. I went
purpofely to fee fome remains of it, which I was told were to be feen in the
country, but I could not find any. It is faid, there was a great wall which
paffed crofs England, from one fea-coaft to the other, which was from the
town of Newcaftle to that of Carlifle, and that within this wall, fortified
with many towers all well garrifoned, there was hidden a tube of lead or
brafs, by the means of which one might fpeak from one end to the other,
and give the watch word to the guards of the wall, who could in an inftant
hear by means of a fmall hole in the tube, to which they were to apply their
ear, any thing faid to them, though ever fo far off, a fignal being firft given
by the difcharge of a cannon.

At leaving Neuchaftel you afcend a hill, and paffing through the woods
leading to Chefter you fee the coal-pits, from thence the mountains and
heathy grounds reach quite to Durham,

[To be coutinued.] \

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To the Editor of the Aktiojuarian Repertory,.
S I R,

IN a roar through Flanders which I made lafl fummer, I met with fome
curiofities which fall within the plan of your Work ; as anecdotes relative-
to Englifh Hiftory. One of them at Antwerp : where, againfl: a pillar in
the church of St. Andrew, is a monument in memory of the unhappy Mary,_
Qiieen of Scotland, of which the following account was given me by a Fle-
mifh gentleman of confequence and learning, refiding there.

Barbara iS'Iowbray, and Elizabeth Curie, both Ladies of the Bed-chamber
to Mary, Queen of Scots, and faithful companions of her various fortunes,
after her execution, were permitted to retire hither, and to take the head of
their miftrefs with them, which they interred near a pillar oppofite the chapel
of the holy facrament, by the entrance at the gr.and door of the church of
St. Andrew, the fpot they had chofen for their own fepulture. On the pil-
lar they placed the portrait of the Queen, of which I herewith fend you a
copy, it is in an oval frame, and is about twenty inches high, well exe-
cuted ; the face extremely beautiful, and much differing from any other
I have feen : her hair is reprefented as bright flaxen. It is faid this portrait
was painted in France foon after fhe firft became a widow. Under it, upon
a tablet of black marble, is the following infcription in letters of gold.

Anno 155S In Angl. refug. Caufa decendens, Cogna. Elifb. Ibern. pras-
vidia Senat. Haeret. Invidia poft XIX Captivat, Annos Relig. ej-go, Capite
obtrunc martyrium confumavit. Anno Dom. iEtat. Reg. 45.

D. O. M.

Noblifs. D.uarum e Britannia MaCronarum Monument, viator fpeftas, qu:E
:id Regis Cath. Tutel. Orthodox^e Religionis a patria profug. hie in fpe
refurcdionis quiefcunt in primis Barbara Moubray. D. Joannis Moubray
Baronis F. qua; Serenifs. Marise StuartK. Reginas Scotite, a Cubiculis ; nup-
tiis datre Gulielmo Curie, qui amplius XX Annis a fecret. Reg. fuerat,
unaque fine querela Ann XXIV. vixerat, Liberofque Otflo fulTiHlerant, fex
Ccelo tranfcripfit, Filii duo fuperftites, in ftudiis liberaliter educati. Jaco-
bus focietate Jefu, fefe Madriti aggregavit in Hifpagnia ; Hypolitus, natii
minori, in Gallia-Belgica Societatis Jefu pro v'. adfcribi Chrilli Militem vo-

.luit

The ANTIQ^UARIAN REPERTORY. 203-

Jiiit. hie moeftus, cum lacrymis optimre Parentis P. C. qui pridic Kal. Au-
gufti 1617, JEnt sy. vitam caducam cum Oeterna commutavit.

Item EHzabetha Curie, amitse ex eorum Nobil. Curkorum ftirpe, Maria:
quoque Regins a Cubiculis, Odo annis vinculi fidei focie, cui moricns ulti-
mum tulic Ilia, ptrpetua coelibi, muribufque caftifs, ac pientiflimse, Hypo-
litus Curie fratris ejus F hoc monumentum grati animi pietatifque erga lib.
merito Pos. h^c dum ukimam vita; clauf;:: A" Clirifti 1620 i^tat 60 die
19 Mail.

D. O. M.

Sub hoc lapidc duarum Feminarum vere piarum conduntur Corpora :
■ D. Barbarse Moubray & D. Elizabethfe Curie uterque Scoc?;. nobiliflima:
Marias Regince a Cubiculis, quarum monumentum fuperiori affigitur Co-
lumnse. Ilia vidua mortalium lege cedit XXXI July A' 161 7 Aetat.
LVII. dum hsc, femper coelebs XXIX Maij iEtat LX A° D' MDC.XX.
R. T. P.

As nothing is faid refpe£ting the interment of the Qiieen's head in either
of thefe infcriptions, and the circumftance of its being brought hither not
being mentioned by any of our hiftorians, it feems molt likely the ftory is
groundlefs. I made thefe objevftions to the Gentleman before-mentioned,
who thereupon invited me to his houfe, where from an ancient Flemifh
manufcript he tranflated to me, the fubftance of what he had before related.

On telling this matter to Thomas Aftle, Efq. he was fo kind as to favour
me with the fight of an original letter from Sir Amias Pawlet to Sir Francis
Walfingham, dated Fotheringhay Caftle, Feb. 25, i5§6, containing an ac-
count of the jewels, plate, &c. of Mary, late Qiieen of Scots. In it Eli-
zabeth Curie appeals to have had in her cuftody, befides many other valu-
able effects, a book of gold, enamelled, containing the pictures of the
Queen, her hufband and Ion. Poffibly the Original from whence that on
the Monument was taken.

In the fame letter it is fsiid, that the body was embalmed and ejjclofed in
lead, under the direftion of a phyfician at Stamford. Had the head then
been v/anting, the deficiency would in all probability have been taken no-
tice of.

The next is in the window in the Chapel of the Circumcifion in the Ca-
thedral Church at Antwerp, which is laid to have been given by Henry the
Seventh, where is the following infcription :

Seotinms

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Septimus Angloram Rex prudens, Resque benignus
Henricus regnum belli virtute recepit,
Crudeli Brito fiiperato Mane Tyranno,
Connubieque domum clarus conjunxit utramque.
Elizabetha fuit conjux &: R.egia proles,
Nobilis Eduardi Regis pia filia qiiarti,
Fcemina progenie illuftris decoraque forma
Perpetuo in Miferos clemens cunctifque benigna,

Anotlier occurs in the Cathedral Church at Ghent, where are four grand
brafs candlefticks of two different fizes, formerly ufed at the altar in St,
James's Chapel, London. They were bought by Bifhop Triefte, foon
after the death of Charles the Firfl:, when many other articles of his furni-
ture were difpofed of. They are now ufed in common at the altar, the
tailed meafures between five and fix feet, the loweft between four and five j
on them are embofisd a crown with the letters C. R.

If you think thefe trifles worthy a place in your Work, you m.ay make
what ufe you pleafe of them.

I am, Sir, yours, &c,

J. B U L L M A N.

SHEFFIELD PLACE, SUSSEX.

SHEFFIELD PLACE was formerly the Manfion of the Lords Delawar,
and is now the property of J. Holroyd, Efq. who lias, with great tafte
and at a very confiderable expence, fitted it up in its prefent Gothic ftile,
.and is making great improvements on the furrounding grounds, which are
by nature extremely beautiful. This elegant feat ftands in the pari fh of
jFletching, about twelve miles north of Lewes.

The View here prefented was drawn Anuo 1777.

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continued from Pnge 174.

Si fort ke fiege nc doutoit
Ainz ke li Rois iluec venifl:
Car rendre ne le convenift
James mes k'il fufl: a Ion droit
Garniz quant befoigns en vendroit
De gens de engins et de vitaille
Com uns -f- elcus eftoit de taiie
Car ne ot ke trois coftez entoiir
Et en chefcune angle line tour
Mes ke le une eftoit jumelee
Tant haute tant longue &; tant lee
Ke pardelouz eftoit la porte
A pont touinis bien faite et forte
Et autres defenfes aftes
Le aufli bons murs et bons foflez
Tre tous plcins de eawe rez a rez
Et croi ke James ne verrez
Chaftel plus bel de lui feoir
Car al vules puet on veoir
Devers le weft la mere d'Irelande
Et vers le north la bele lande
De un bras de mere environnee

KAR]
ftr

ARLAVEROKcafteauseftoicTT'ARLAVEROK was a caftie fo

ronw that it did not fear a

fiege, therefore on the King's arrival
it refufed to furrender; it being always
againft fudden occaficns well furnifhed
with foldiers, engines and provifion.
Its figure was like that of a (hield, for
it had only three fides, with a tower
on each angle, one of them a jumel-
led or double one, fo high, fo long,
and fo fpacious, that under it was the
gate with a turning or draw-bridge
well made and ftrong, with a fufii-
ciency of other defences. There were
alio good walls and ditches filled to
the brim with water.

And it is my opinion no one will
fee a caftie more beautifully fituated,
for at one view one might behokl to-
wards the weft the Irifh land, towards
the north a beautiful country cncom-
pafled by an arm of the fea, fo that
no creature born could approach it on

* Mr. Pennant, who viiited this Caftie, and has given an elegant view of it in his tour in
Scotland, 1772, fpeaking of this poem, fays, " The poet then defcribes this Calile and its
fituatlon with great exaftnefs, and gives it the very fame form and fite it has at prcfent, fo that
I cannot help thinking that it was never fo entirely deftroyed, but that fome of the old towers
ftill remain."

The Caftle-yanl is triangular : one fide which foems to have been the refidence of the fami-
ly, is very elegantly built ; has three ftories with very handfome window cafes : on the pedi.
ment of the lower are the coats of arms, over the fecond the legendary tales ; over the third
I think OviJian fables, all neatly cut in ftone, the oppofitc fide is plain. In front is a hand-
fome door cafL-, leading to the Great Hall, which is ninety-one feet by twenty- fix. The
whole internal length of that fide a hmulrcd and twenty-three.

f Shields were moll of them at that time triangular, as may be feen by ancient tombs.
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Si k'il ne eft creature nee
Ki dc deus par puift aprifmer
Sans Ibi mectre en peril de mer

two fides, without putting himfelf in

danger of the fea.

Devers le fu legier ne'ft pas
De bois de more et de trenchies
Si com la mere les a cerclies
Ou foLik la riviere encontrer
Et par ce convint I'oft entrer
Vers le eft on pendant eft li mons

Et ikiec a li Rois fomons

Ses batailes arrengier

En trois com devoit herbergier

Lors fc arrengierent baneour
Si veeft ou meint * poigneour
Iluec fon cheval efprouver

Et pueft ou iluec trouver
Troi mil homes de armee gent
Si vift ou le or et le argent
Et te tous riches coulours
Les plus nobles et les mcillours
Ires tout le val enluminer

Parcoi bien croi ke a deviner
Cil du chaftell peuITant donques
K'en tel peril ne furent onques
Done il lour peuft fouvenir
Kant enfi nous virent venir

Etant com fumes rengie
Marefchal orent herbergie
E tout par tout places liurees
Lors veift ou mailbns ouvrees
Sans charpentiers et fans mafons
De mult de diverfes facons

Nor was it an eafy matter towards
the fouth, it being as by the fea on
the other fide, there encircled by
woods, bogs, and trenches -, where-
fore the army was obliged to attack it
on the eaft, where there was a mount.

There the King commanded his
troops to arrange themfelves in three
bodies, as they were to be encamped.

Then did the banners arrange them-
felves, when one might obferve many
an Efquire trying of his horfe.

There might one find three thou-
fand brave foldiers, and fee gold and
filver, with the moft noble and beft of
all the rich colours, illuminate the
valley.

From whence the garrifon of the
caftle on feeing us arrive, might, as I
conceive, judge they were in greater
danger than they could ever before
remember.

And the marefhal having diftributed
us as we were drawn up, and appointed
them the ground, then might be ken
houfes of many different fafliions made
neither by carpenters nor mafons

* Poigneour. Pugnator. Combattant. Alfo Efquire.

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De toile blanche et toile teinte
La et tendiie corde meinte
Meinte poiflbn en terre fichie

But of white and died cloth. There
was ftretched many a cord, and many
a pin driven into the earth.

Meint grant arbre a terre trenchie Many a great tree cut down to make
Por faire loges et fuellies huts, and leaves, herbs and fiowers

Herbes et flours es bois cuellies gathered in the woods, which were

Dont furent joinchies dedenz ftrewed within on the floors. Then

E lors delcendirent nos genz our folks difmounted.

A ki tantoft fi bien avint
Ke la navie a terre vint
O les engins et la vitaile
E ja comencoit la pietaile
Au devant du chaftel aler
Si veift ou entre eux voles
Pierres fagettes et quarreaus
Mes tant chier changent lour * meraus
Cil dedenz a ceux dehors-
Ke en petite heure plufoures corps
Jot et blefciez et narirez
E ne fai quanz a mort livrez

At this conjundure ic happened for-
tunately, that the navy arrived with
the engines and provifion, and the
infantry already began to move for-
ward againft the caftle, then between
them might be feen to fly ftones, ar-
rows, and J quarrels, but fo dearly
did thofe within exchange their tokens
with thofe without, that in one fmall
hour there were many perfons wound-
ed and maimed, and I know not how
many flain outright.

Kant les gens de armes percurent When the men at arms faw the

Ke li t fergeant tels maus recurent lofTes their infantry had fuftained who

Ki comencie orent le aflaut had began the afl'ault, many ran, and

Meint en i court meint en i faut many a one leaped to arms, many of

E meint fi hafte fi de aler them in fuch hafte that they did not

Ke a nul i n'en daigne parler deign to fpeak to any one.

• Mereaus, Counters ufed in play

■f Sergeant, is old French for a foot foldier.

J Quarreaus. Darts fhot from crofs bows, headed with folid fquare pyramids of iron.*

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Lors i peuft on revoir
Aufli efpes pierres chaoir
Com fi on deufl poudrer
E chapeaus et heaumes offrondrer
Efcus et targes depefcier
Car de tiier et de blefcer
Eftoit li ju dent cil juoient
Ki a grand cris fe entre huoient
Quant nial veoient avenir

Then might one fee ftones full as
thick as if they meant to beat hats and
helms to powder with their flings, and
break fhields and targets in pieces .
for to kill and wound feemed the game
at which they were playing. Great
fiiouts arofe among them when any
deadly mifchief happened.

La vi je tout premier venir There firft of all I faw come the

Le bon Bertram de Montbouchier * good Bertram de Montbouchier, on
De goules furent trois pichier whofe fhining iilver (hicld were three

En fon efcu d'argent luifant pitchers gules, with befants in a black

En le ourle noire li befant ourle.

Gerard de Goundronvile f o li
Bacheler legier et joli
Le efcu ot vair ne plus ne meins
Cill ne orent pas oifeus meins
Car meinte piere amont ofFrirent

And that a<5tive and handfome
batchelor Gerard de Gondronvile, who
bore a fliield neither more nor lefs than
vary. He was not idle, for many a
ftone he fent to the mount, and bore
many a heavy blow.

E meinte pefant coup fouffrirent
Bretouns eftoit li premerains
E li fcconds fu Loherains
Dont nuls ne troeue lautre lent
Ains dorinent baudour e talent
E autres de fe i acuellier

The van was compofed of Bretouns,
and the fecond body were of Lorain,
nor did they find each other tardy,
each mutually giving opportunity for
the others to rally or attack.

• Batram de Montbouchier. A ig. 3 fufilles in fefle gules, on a border fable ten befants.
f "Gerard de Gondercombej varrey, arg. at ""

az.

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Lors -vint le chaftel aflailler
Le fils Mermenduc a baniere
O une grant route e pleniere
De bons * bachelers eQeus

Then come to aflail the caftle Fitz.
Mermenduc, with a banner and a great
and full troop of good and chofen
bachelors.

•f- Robert de Wileby v«us
I fu en or de Inde frette

Alfo Robert de Wileby, bearing or
a fret azure.

J Robert de Hamfart tout apprefte I faw that handfome gentleman Ro-
I vi venir 6 bele gent bert de Hamfart, well appointed, bear-

Rouge trois eftoiles de argent ing on his fliield gules charged with

Tenant lefcu par les en armes three filver ftars.

Henri de Graham unes armes
Avoit vermeilles come faunc
O une fautour et au chef blanc
Ou et trois vermeilles cokilles

Henry de Graham had the field of
his arms as red as blood, with a white
faltier and chief, on which were three
red efcallop fhells.

Thomas de Richemont ki killes
Feafoit de lances de rechief
O deus jumeaus de or et au chief
Avoit vermeilles armeures
Ceft ne vonc com gens meures
Nc com gens de fen alumees
Mes com arfes et enfumees
De orguel et de melencolie
Car droit ont lour voie acuellie
Juk a la rive du foffe

Thomas de Richemont, who brought
up again a body of lances, bore two
jumelles and a chief of gold in a Ver-
million field. Thefe did not aft like
perfons of mature reafon, or illumina-
ted by their fenfes, but like men fired
by pride and clouded with melancholy,
for they made; their way right forwards
to the very brink of the ditch.

• Batcheler, a title inferior to a Banneret, but fuperior to an Efquire. A young gentleman
afpiring to Knighthood, and the privilege of bearing a banner in the field. A Bachtler had
twice as much pay as an ETquire. Vide Cotgrave.

f Robert de Wileby, 01 Wyllyby, or, frettie of eight pieces, az.

J Robert de Hanfard, gules, 3 moletts argent.

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Et eel de Richemont pafle
A maintenant juques au pont
Le entre demande ou li refpont
De grofles pieres et * cornues
Willeby en Ics avenues
Ot un piere en mi le pis
Done bien devroit porter le pis
Son efcu fi le daignoit faire

Richmont's troop pafled quite to
the bridge and demanded entry, they
were anfwered with great Hones and
battle axes. Willeby in his advances
received a ftone in the middle of his-
ftomach, which the middle of his
fhield ought to have received, had he
deigned to cover himfelf therewith.

Le Filz Mermenduc tel afFaire
Tant entreprift a endurer
Com li autre i porent durer
Car il eftuit com une eftache
Mes fa baniere ot meinte tache
E meint pertuis mal a recouftre

Fitz Mermenduc had undertaken
to fuffer fuch evils, as long as any one
could endure them, for he raged like
one mad ; but his banner received
many a ftain and many a rent not eafily
mended.

Hamfart tant noblement fe e monftri
Que de fon efcu mult fouvent
Volt on voler le taint au vent
Car il et cil de Richemont
Ruent lour pieres coiurement
Com fi ce full es enviales
E cil dedans a deffiales
Lur enchargent teftes et cous
Del encombrancc de grans cups

Hamfart carried himfelf fo nobly,
that from his fhield many fragments
might be feen to fly ; for he, and
thofe of Richemont's party, rufhed
forwards againft their voliies of ftones
with great confidence and emulation,
whilft thofe within vied with each
other in charging their heads and
necks with the encumbrance of weighty
blows.

Cil de Graham ne fu pas quites
Car ne vaudra deus homes quites
Quanques entiere enportera
Del efcu kant fen partira

Thofe led by Graham did not efcape
free, for there were not two men who
returned unhurt, or brought back their
fliields entire.

Baftoa comu, a battle a.x of ancient falhion. Cotgrave;

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To the Editor of the Antiqjjariam Repertory.

SIR,

IN the year 146^0, on the 14th of December, in the firft year of the reign
of Edwaid IV. the citizens of Rochefter obtained a charter, which em-
powered them inftead of a Bailiff to have a Mayor, to be chofen on the
Monday after the fuccecding Michaehnas-day for ever. William Myngham
being the " fyrft Mayer as for the cety" (fo it flandeth in the city Record)
gave an entertainment to his fellow citizens. As every article neceflary for
our fubfiftence and luxury is at this time (o extravagant, I doubt not but a
tranfcript from the Records, of the expences he was at upon the occafion,
will be acceptable to your readers ; fo proceed to give them you as they
ftand upon that antient Book.

Fyrft he payde on the fame nyte thatt he was fworon, & toke hys charge $
for the fowper thatt was made for all ihe borgyfe of the cety ; thatt ys to faye,
for brede xiid ; for 2 nekys of moton, for 2 fohollderys and for 2 bryfl: of
moton xiiid •, for 3 capanys xvid ; for 3 dabys, vid •, for 4 conyys xd ; for
6 peyyr of pejoyns viiid ; for 6 paftyys of guyfye xiid ; for 16 galonys of
here and ale iis ; for a pottell and a quarte of red wyne ixd •, alio Y payde
for Harry Maryotty's labor, for he was coke, iid. — Sundry other payments

as they (land upon the Records. Alfo he payd on y' 17 day

of Nowembyr for the dyner thatt he had on the fcconde corte day yn
hys yere -, for brede viiid ; for II galonys of bere and ale xvid -, for befe
and porke for to fethe aPid for to rod ixd ; for won gofe and for 2 pyggs
xviiid ; for 7 coftards xd ; — ^alfo he payde on the 26 day of Apryll for the
dyner thatt was had at the feflthonys daye : for brede viiid ; a leg and loyne
of wele and for 2 rybbys of befe xivd ; for a cowpyll of chekenys & for a
capon xiiid ; for 3 coftardys & for fpyfery ixd. On y' 23 day of Octobyr,
for a pottell of rede wyne thatt he fente on to my lord of Rowchefter yn to
the palyfe vid. — for a pottell of raynylh wyne thatt was fente on to the hondyr

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fchrewe of Kente, thatt he maye be frendely on to the felyng of the enden-
torys for the borgegys of the parlemente vd. — he payde on to the clerke of
the marken for bycawfe that he fohvvlde be frendly on to the towne, and
thatt he myte havve of hym fwnd hondyrftandyng of hys hofyfe by hys cokys

& for knowlech of hys weytys and mefurys iiis. iiiid. he payde on to my

lord of Warvvyke whatt tyme thatt he wente on to Sandewech for to take
hys charge of y" wardeync fchyppe of 5 porcys, 2 galonys of rede wyne lis.
— alfo he payde on the 8 day of Apryll for a g.ilon of rede wyne on to my
lord Abergavayne & my lord of Cobham when yey fatt here for hoyfthers
xiid. — for my expenfys and my manys yn and owte to London & agene to
axe ownfeyle agenyfte the fchrewe of Kentt, for lewe of the fraye thart was
yn Strode for the reflcyng of John Sehztarde yn owr frawnchyfe xxiid —
he payde on faynte Lawrans hewen yn Awguft for the dyner thatt we had,
for brede and ale and beie viiid ; for halve a bofchell of hoyfterys iid. for
a fyde of fallte fyfch iiiid. for 4 paftyys of helys viiiid. for 4 coftards vid.
for bettyr and for heggs iiiid. for perys, and for appleys and nottys iid. for
,a pottell of rede wyne, for by cowfe of John Arowe and hodyr learnyd
men thatt were there att thatt dyner vid. — payde on to Margery Rowlands
for the heyre of all the yere for the mafe thatt he had of her iis. — he payde
to John Ryponden of the heyllde hall yn London, for his labore to make
us a boke owte of frenfch yn to latyne, and owte of laryn yn to hyng3:!yfch
for the yn qviery of all manner of thynggys thatt longere on to the juftyfe
of pefe, for to yn query upon vis. viiid. — for 3 caponys the whych was
yewe on to Thomas Amore, for a prefente thatt he fcwwUde be owyr frcnde

yn getying of owyr frawnchyfe xviiid. payde on the 23d of No-

weinbyr, the tyme thatt Y went on to London for the frawnchyfe,
for a dyner thatt was made in brcde fcrete, att the whvch dyner
Thomas Amoiie and Sweranden of the chawnfcry, and all owyr
mene where •, there was take at thatt dyner a wyfc amonge them all of the
Swpplycatonye thatt was made on to the Kynge for the frawnchyfe. whe-
thyr they were fewerly made, or note; and for to carre tiieym v.'here thatt

any fawte was, where Y payde at thatt ty.me for theyre dyner iiiis x'v

To Sweranden for the makyng of a copy of owyr frawnchyfe, to put up
on to the Kynggys hynelle iiiis. iiiid.

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MANNORBEER-CASTLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.

THIS Caftle was built, as is fuppofed, a-Sout the time of Williain
Rufus, and continued in the crown from the time of King Henry the
Firft to the reign of King James the Firft, when that King granted it to the
family of the Bowens of Trelogne, which grant was afterwards confirmed
by King Charles the Firft. From the Bowens it came by marriage to the
family of Philips of Piilon Caftle, and Armo 1740 was the property tx Sir
Erafmus Philips, Baronet.

It is by Giraldus Cambrenfis ftiled, " the Manfion of Pyrrhus," be fays
it was in his time adorned with ftately towers and bulwarks ; having on the
weft fide a fpacious haven , and under the walls, to the north and norch-
weft, an excellent filh-pond, remarkable as well for its neatnefs as the depth
of its water. ' •

Leland, in his Itinerary, defcribes this Caftle, and its fituation, in tiie
following words: " A little beyond this, and more than halfway betwixt
*' Penbroke and Tinbigh, apperd the Caftel of Mainorpirrhe, a mile on the

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" right hande. It llondith as it were, betwixt to pointing hillettes, be*-
" twene the which the Severn Se gulfith in almoft the length of a quarter
" of a mile."

'The Bsfcription of England, continutd from Page 201.

DURHAM

T^URHAM is agreeably fituated, {landing on an elevated rock, like
-*-^ a kind of peninfula, furrounded by the river Veerre on. all. fides,
ferving as a ditch, and rendering it a very ftrong place.

I pafled it in entering, and mounted up feveral twifting ftreets till I came
to a market-place, where there is a large covered hall, with a conduit, de-
livering a great deat of water, which feemed wonderful to me, upon lb
fmall a rock. Near this fountain begins the great ftreet leading to the
cafble, the moft elevated part of the town, and on that account makes a
great appearance, as well as from two ranges of lodgings pierced with many
windows, but principally from its vicinity to the epilcopal church, one of
the largeft in the kingdom, ornamented with two high towers on iis portal^
and a larger over the center of the choir, infomuch that the palace,, which
I take to be the habitation of th« Bifhop, and this great church, give a
handlbme appearance to the town when viewed from afar off, fituated as it
is on fuch an emimence. Here are fome large meadows, through which
runs the river Veere. I defcended to pafs over a large flonc bridge, where
is a fuburb inhabited by many workmen employed in the woollen manu^
factory, and in making cloth. I. came afterwards to Peril, Aclif, Darling-
ton on the river Nifen, and the river Tees, which muft be paffed in a. ferry
boat. From thence to Smiton, Alverton, Sorlli on the river, Lermbi, a
flat country without hills, to Efmond, the high road lies by way of Darling.^ .
ton to Toklife, but I left it on the left to go by Chip and York.

When the King of England is mentioned, Scotland and Ireland are alfo •
underftood, for Scotland and England make but as it were one kingdom,
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of the King of England are, « Carolus II. Dei Gratia Magnse Britannia,
Francis et Hiberniae, Rex." " Charles the Second, by the Grace of
God, King of Great-Britain, France and Ireland." It was Henry the Fifth
that caufcd the title of King of France to be added to that of England, on
account of his having gained a part, which the Englifh long occupied, and
of which they left marks, fuch as the Baftiie and Notre-Dame at Paris, the
Caftlc of Vincennes, &c. and from which they were driven on the day we
ftile the reduction of the Englifh. Juft as Sicily is the greateft ifland in the
Mediterranean fea, fo England is the greateft in the ocean, as alfo the mod
fertile, although not in fijk, wine, fugar, and corn, as in Sicily, but in
mines of lead, tin, fea-coal, land, and cattle, whofe wool is extremely fine,
and of as much ronfequence as the filk of Sicily. We have before faid,
that formerly this kingdom was divided into feven, thefe were Northumber-
land, Mercia, Aftangles, Kent, Eflex, SufTex, and Weft Sex, with the
principality of Wales, v/hich are now fubdivided into fifty-two counties or
ftiires, as they are called, bearing almoft all of them the names of their capi-
tal towns : they are, Berkftiire, Surry, Bedfordfhire, Bukinhamftiire, Cam-
brigfhire, Chefhire, Cornwa], Comberland, Darbylhire, Devonfliire, Dor-
cetftiire, Durham, EiTest, Glocefterfliire, Hamftaire, Hartfordfhire, Here-
fordftiire, Huntingtonfliire, Kent, Lancafliire, Lecefterftiire, L'Incolnfhire,
Midlefex, Northamptonftiire, Nottinghamfliire, Northumberland, Norfolf,
Oxfordfkire, Rutland, Shropfhire, Somerfetfliire, Statfordftiire, Suftblk,
Suffex, Warwickftiire, Weftmorland, Wiltfhire, Worcefterftiire, Yorkfhire.
Thofe which follow are of the principality of Wales, namely, Anglefey,
Breknokftiire, Cardiganfliire, Carmarthenftiire, Merionethfhire, Petnbrok-^
{hire, Radnorftiire ; this is the divifion of the kingdom of England. We
have already made that of Scotland, and of the kingdom of Ireland, which
is an iOand feparated from Great-Britain by an arm of the fea, in fome places
fifty miles wide, and in others only half as much : it is often very rough and
dangerous to pafs, but alfo full of fifh : in it are the iQes of Man and An-
glefey. I only mention this en fa[[ant, to return to our journey, which I'
left at Yorck..

Y O R C K.
Yorck, after London, is the largeft town of all England, fituated in a.
county the moft fertile of any in the kingdom, on the banks of the river
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open country, where the air is fo pure and wholefome, that many Kings
have cholen it for their refidence. It bears the title of a dukedom, of which
the King's brother is Lord, and often comes here to divert himfelf. His
palace is behind the great Church of St. Peter ; his garden is the fineft thing
I faw there? but this metropolitan and archiepifcopal Church requires a
•whole day to confider it in all its parts ; it is newly built entirely of large
hewn {tone, and is in length two hundred and twelve paces, confequently
more than forty paces longer than the Church of Notre Dame at Paris, and
forty-three in breadth: two high towers rife over its portal, and a third and
larger over the middle of the Church, I was fliewn the treafurc in the Sa-
crifty, where were great vafes of gold, holy chalices, books enriched with
precious ftones, great batons, beautiful ornaments for the altar, the whole
of great value. Near it they gave me to drink water from St. Peter's well,
which is faid to have great virtue for thofe who have faith : they then led
us behind the choir to fliew us the tombs of the Dukes and Archbifliops of
York, and from thence we afcended the great tower by as manyfteps as there
are days in the year.

It was from this height that I confidered at my Idfure the plan of this
great town, where I remarked that all its ftreets are broad and llraight, as
in a newly eredted town, and that it might be a ftrong place, being no where
commanded except from its caftle, which ftands at one of the ends of the
town, elevated on a fmall eminence, and enclofed with thick walls and
broad ditches, filled by the waters of a little rivulet which runs through
them, that renders the accefs by fo much the more difficult, as it overflows
and renders marfhy a large trad: of land leading to it. This caftle, although
it is very ftrong, has only a fort of large donjon or keep, furniftied on the
top with a good number of cannon : befides this there are fome fmall lodg-
.ings for the officers of the garrifon. Having confidered all thefe things,
from that high tower I defcended, and at the foot of thefe ftairs in the
church, I was made to remark a tall marble column, which reprefented the
meafure, I no longer remember of what, and at the face of the lobby or
divifion, between the body of the choir, figures of the height of a man of all
the Kings of England. I faw near that place on the pavement a little fpot
-which is always moift, owing to a perfon having been there (lain •, and far-
ther on a table of black marble, as a fort of tribunal of juftice. They
fliewed me a tomb within the thicknefs of the walls, of a holy perfonage

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who thought himfclf unworthy to be buried in the church. The hiftory is
pleafant to hear : but what I thought moft curious, is, that in the nave of
that great church there are fmall circles engraved on its pavement, marking
•each pace in the length of that nave, which twelve times repeated, make
cxaftly an Englifh mile. They Qiewed us twelve little holes againft the
great door with a little peg, which ferves to mark the miles to any one chuf-
ing to meafure them, changing every time this peg into a frefli hole, in
order not to mifreckon. One nniil not mils to fee the Chapel, which ap.-
pears without the Church, built in the form of the Pantheon at Rome, fo
large that it feems fomething wonderful how the vault can fuftain itfelf with-
out pillars, feem.ing as it were fuipended in the air.

Although the town of York is very large, it is not the Id's handfome •, its
houfes are well built, its ftreets are wide and well formed, and all filled
•with rich dealers, on account of the convenience of the river, the tide rifing
fo as to bring large barks into the middle of t!ie town, along a great quay '
which borders the river, where there is a (lone bridge of a moderate length
covered with fome houfes and tradefmens fliops ; over this you pals to go
into the lelTer part of the town, called Milkguet, which is in the valley
near a hill ; there in a great ftreet near the quay is a handfome area with a
fountain ; alio the great palace of the Dukes of Buckingham. Leaving the
town on this fide, there is a pleafant walk on the bank of the river, where '
at the diftance of a mile in the village of Bickaltorf, is a fine palace of the
Archbilhops of York, built in the modern tafte. But without ftraying from
the town we went to fee the royal palace, which is of a great extent ; feveral
Kings have here held their courts : it (lands in the fuburb on the bank of the
river near an ancient abbey, whofe church and ruins of the convent a^^^peared
to me magnificent. Speaking of the King's palace brings to my mind a-
pleafant ftory told me in England ; The King bi.ing purlued by his enemies
in a wood, during the civil wars, where he was abandoned by his fuite,
quitted his horfe, and dexteroufly mounted an oak without being peiceived
by his purfuers, who not fufpe(Sing this, in vain fought him a long time;
from hence he returned to his army, to the great afionifnmeni of thofe who
had left him, as it were, in the hands of his enemies. Of the fifty-two
counties of which England confifts, York is the largeit, and Rutlrnd the
fmalleft ; its capital town is Oakham. Its caftie is remarkable for a hall
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alfo about a hole near the great bridge of Boroubrigge in the town of Rip-
pen, through which women are made to pafs, in order to know whether
they have been faithful to their hufbands. In the neighbourhood of this
town appear feveral high mountains, thefe divide the Eaftern from the
Weftern parts of England, from them flow almoft all the branches of the
rivers that compofe the great river Humber, one of the three principal of
the kingdom of England, whofe mouth is very broad and deep, fince that
through it the largeft vefTels pafs to go up with the tide into all thofe rivers
■which empty themfelves into it, and to the towns which they wafh, as that
of York. The battle fought near the town of Lancafter was extremely re-
.markable and bloody, for it is faid that there died three Kings, a Prince,
twelve Dukes, many Earls, and an infinite number of the nobility of the
houfe of the Dukes of Bourbon and Valois,

I left York to go to Lincoln, and at firft pafTed through a fine open
country by Sonds. In the environs of York there are large meadows where
they feed very fine horfes, which v;e call Guildains. From thence I reached
Aiftrit, Noidofil, and Menfarf; here a little river is to be pafled in a ferry
boat, and after having followed it a fhort time, I arrived at Oyflen, where
is a ftrong caftle, and Honden, where fo great a number of crows was aflem-
bled, that they darkened the air like a thick cloud. There is no place in
Europe where there are fo many as in England. From hence following one
of the two greateft branches of the river Humber to Scetlen and Eidnes :
here one muft ferry over in a boat to the other fide where lies Oitgif. Here
the river is above three hundred paces broad, the tide rifing more than four
fathom, fo that I law here feveral large fliips. It is true that the fea is not
far diftant. Here is the ftrong town of Hull, which defends the entry of
thofe rivers into the Humber. Shortly after I pafl^ed the fecond large arm
of the river, called Trent ; but firft I pafted on my way through the vil-
lages of Atleimfit J here is a high road raifed all along the fide of the river,
which would otherwife overflow all the country, it being low land. Came
to Gafs, near which one muft pafs this river Trent in a ferry boat ^ it is one
of the principal branches of the river Humber. On the oppofite fide is a
little village, and fome inns before ; afcending to Boten is Scrofby, and a
little af'.er Scontrcup, where a warren full of rabbets reaches to Kentern,
At Spitl is a caftle, and a plain quite to Lincoln.

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LINCOLN.

, Lincoln is one of the moft famous towns in England, aldiough not one of
the large 11. It is fituated on the declivity of a hill, by the fide of a fmall
river, which runs through its fuburbs ; this caufes it at a diftance to appear
like a theatre, rendering it naturally ftrong: here there is added a ftrong
caftle, near which I entered, flanked by feveral towers, and having thick walls
defended by a broad ditch, which ferves alio for the town, where on the
lame fide are ftrong ramparts and large baftions, the town there appearing the
moft liable to an attack. On my entering I came into a great ftreet, which
conduded me to the area before the cathedral church : in the middle of thisr
fpace i§ a fountain. The face of this cathedral is ornamented with feveral
fmall pyramids, interlaced with columns, and feveral figures well-wrought i
here rife two towers, and in the middle of the church another much larger.
It feems as if the nave was built at two different times, it being extraordinarily
long, and there being two figures of the crofs which make two parts of the
nave : one of thefe feparates the choir, which is of a length proportionable to
that of the Have, infomuch, that this church is one of the largeft and moft
finiftied in Europe. It is built of fine large ftones, like marble, of a blackilh
colour. Its organs, and the tombs of fome great lords in a chapel behind
the choir, are worth remarking ; they were placed there when Lincoln was
in its fplendour: for it is proverbially faid, that Lincoln has been the moft
famous town in the kingdom, that London is at prcfenr, and that York will
be fo hereafter.

Behind this great church is the palace of the Bilhop, fituated in the high
town, and feparated from the lower town by an old wall and gate, which
cnclofes it. Here are feveral rich merchants, for Lincoln has always been a
trading town, by means of the canal which joins the river of Whitham to
that of the Trent, one of the largeft branches of the Humber, whereon the
largeft veflels may come with the tide, from whence the barks bring their
lading to Lincoln by the canal, which enters that town with the river of
Whitham. I do not fay that they do not ufe this conveniency at prelent :
it is, however, but feldom, and with little fuccefs. From the lower town
there is a long fuburb through which this river paffes, dividing itfelf into
jfeveral branches. Here are fome manufacturers who make cloth and other
woollen goods, the river affifting them in this manufadlory. Hence I

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afcended into an open country, covered with good pafture, and flocks of
fheep and oxen, which reached to EJlepford on a river, and Forkengham i
the^country is without mountains. Came to Maken and Borne, on a river,
and Abtier, and over a bridge, near fome meadows to Dipin. Near a river
hereabouts are feen fcveral villages, which fhew the goodnefs and the fertility
of the country. Near here I pafled over a river in a ferry-boat, and from
thence proceeded to Atten, leaving Peterborough on the left hand. Its grear
caftle and handfome church are fcen, as alio fome lakes in the neighbourhood
of that town, going to Stilten, Here is a toll-houfe for merchandife,
fcveral great roads meeting here. The way to Tucle is through woods to
Hontington.'

H O N T I N G T O N.

Hontington is in the center of a beautiful and moft fertile country, fituated
on tlie bank of a great river, which makes very large meadows and fine
pafturagt near its courfe. This town is the capital of a county, which is
the moft remarkable circumftance attending it. It has a large ftreet, and in
the middle a market-place ; the houfes are well built according to the Englilh
tafte. This river is to be paffed over a great bridge, and the meadows on
a lorg caufeway, which terminate at Compchcfter. Here many fine woollen
ihifts are made. Here is a river ; and farther on Feriftad, and arable lands
.to Cambridge.

CAMBRIDGE.

Cambridge, after Oxford, is the moft famous univerfity of England, alfo
one of the greateft towns and the moft peopled with rich merchants; although
its ficuation does not feem the moft advantageous on account of the many
rivers and great marfties in the neighbourhood, which make it refemble one of
tlv;- towns in the Low Countries, but on the other hand it is the moft agree-
able and convenient, as one may, by this means, brings from afar off iiich
things as are wanted. But above all, what I think the moft remarkable, is
its colleges ; for there are no fortifications, nor is it enclofed by walls : one
fees only on that fide through which I arrived a caftle fomewhat ele-
vated, having in the center a large dungeon corrmanding over a.'' its environs.
This qiiirter is properly a fuburb, diftinguiftied from the town by the river
Cam, over which is a great bridge, where the two great ftreets meet which
crofs iiie whole town. They reckon here twelve colleges, among which are

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fom- worth going to fee; tliefe, for the moft part, are in one ofthofc fine
ftreets on the right hand of the bridge foot. That of the Trinity is the fineft;
there is a great court, and in the midft thereof an admirable fountain, alfo its
garden and a fine library. That of St. John has two fine courts, both en-
clokd by large and weli-conftructed buildings.

I was introduced to the Principal of this college, who had refided a long
'time in Italy, and fpoke Italian wel' ; he would not quit me till I had feen
every thing worth notice in the town, .hl:] all the colleges : during five days
whilfl: I remained at Cambridge, he conduced mc over ail that college, and
made me obferve curiouQy ttie library and the garden, which extends along the
bank of the great canal of the river, where there is a long walk of feveral
rows of trees. That of King's college, and that cf the univerfity, called
Clerhal, whofe church is remarkable, and the handfomeil in the town : Its
outfide is ornamented with many little i:-!ignatures, and v^ith pyramids, which
make it appear as if crowned with flowers. All the windows feem to be of
chryftal of all colours, reprefenting the hiftory of the Old Teftament, and
under them are in bas relief, the blafons of the greateft lords of the country,
which ferve round about tliat fine church like tapiftry. Its lobby, or in-
terval, between the nave and choir, is in the fafnioa of a lattice, covered
with leaf-work, accompanied by all forts of fruit and birds, reprefented ac-
cording to nature, and fo well, that the Principal who had, as well as I,
made the voyage of Italy, obliged me to acknowledge that nothing more
beautiful, or of better workmanfhip, was to be feen there. The whole of
divine fervice is lang there every day to mufick. I thinly I there counted
more than fifty muficians, as many clerks, and the like number of minitters j
we afcended to the top of the church, which has a platform furroundcd with
balluilrades, with four fmall turrets at the four corners, which gives much
grace to this great edifice. The fourth college to fee is Chiiil Chur;.'; ,
fituated almoft at one end of the rown. Its fountain is toierably hanuic. - ■
What is the moft wonderful to 1 re in Cambridge is the many fountains,
though the town is fituated on a low fpot, ami that there are fo many peopk
and fo many rich fhop-keepers, that the fcholars are fcarcely perceived rn the
town, although they are in great numbers. Befides the tv/o great. ftreets,
there is the large market-place where a market is held feveral days in the
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houfes, in one of which was my inn, where I treated that head of the eollege^
with feme good French wine.

There are many pleafant walks in the environs of Cambridge, to whidi
one may go on the river, the barks from the fea coming up to the great quay
in center of the town. I departed, after having fatisfied my curioficy, and
thanked that head of a college and fome profeiTors, who had accompanied me.

Leavino- the town we come to Barer, the road quite to Batfcm is very
ao-reeable. I pafled a river a little farther on, and came to a ditch which
interrupted my way : it was above three miles long, and as broad and deep
as the ditch of a town : I fuppofe it was made during the wars, to defend
the paflage againlt the enemies. The foil is good, and proper for hulbandry.
Newmarket, Kinford, Burye, on a river. Here are fev^ral workmen who
make pins : the Englifli pins are efteemed for their polifh and fincnefs. I
afterwards came into a defert country, with fome little wood, to go to Spam-
boul, a covered and agreeable country, where the road is bordered by alleys
of trees like a vvalk -, paffing by O.ulpis, faw there many fruit-trees. Sto-
market, v;here I lodged, a young man, a friend to the people of the houfe,
entertaining me with feveral pleafant difcourfes, aiked me whence I came, and
of what country I was, he well knowing, by my manner of fpeaking Englifh,
that I was a ftranger, and by my clothes, that I was a Frenchman, and
telling mc he was aftonifhed at my travelling the country alone.

After this difcourfe he went out and gave notice to feveral burgers of the
town, that I was at fuch an inn, and that it would not be improper to know
on what defign I came to England, by a way not ufually frequented by paf-
fengers. In fhort, a little after I had fupped, he brought up into my
chamber the parfon of the pariih and his curate, who gave rrie to underftand
they would be gkd to fpeak to me, and to learn fome news from me :. after
which the minirter fpoke to me in Latin, declaring that he came on the part
of the townfmen to know who I was, and what bufinefs brought me among
them. Whereupon I informed him that I came to England to fee the Court,
and London, fo much in reputation at Paris, and that from thence I had
been to fee Oxford and Cambridge, thofe two famous univerfities of Eng-
land, from whence I was on my way to return by the Harwich Packet-boat,
by which I fliould pafs over into Holland. Having contented them by this
anfwer, they told me they were jealous of the French in England ever fince
the fufpicion of their hiiving fet the city of London on fire, whereby it had

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been lately almofl: deftroyed It was, however, neceflary to drink two or
three pots ot beer during our parley : for no kind of bufinefs is tranfafted in
England, without the intervention of pots of beer. This being finifhed, the
miniftcr gave me all the abfolution I could defire, and early in the mornino-
r fet off for Olmefo, which is not far off; from thence I pafied tlirough
woods to Nidem, Claine, and Ipfviche.

I P S W I C H E.

Ipfwiche, though not enclofed by walls, is neverthelefs a good town, and
very mercantile, on account of the convenience of the river which paffcs it,
the tide rifing above fix feet, and bringing up large loaded barks to its greax
quay, where is an area in which are the Town Hall, the Exchange, and
Cuftom-Houfe: the beft ftreets meet here, in one of which is a fine fountain,
, and many fhops of rich merchants. Every tide a boat goes down the river
to Harwich, fituated at its mouth.

H A R W I C H.

Harwich is a fmall town, fortified with ramparts and earthen baftions,
fituated at the mouths of the rivers Orwell and Stoure, which form here ?.
fine port and harbour ; on which account in bad weather, foreign vcflels
come hither to feek flielter till it is over: it is the common port for the
packet-boat from England to Holland, that is to fay, where the port and
meffengers embark, who pafs from England to go to Holland and all parts
of Germany. This packet-boat goes over once a week, and was failed before
my arrival ; wherefore, wliilfl: I waited its return, I walked Rot only over
the whole town, but vifited alfo all its environs, which are perhaps the moft
agreeable of any in all England. On the other fide of the mouth of thefe
rivers, appears an earthen fort, where was a garrifon and plenty of warlike
munitions to defend it againfl: the Dutch, who during thefc iaft wars befif"ed
it for a confidcrable time without fuccels, it being a place of importance,
and the key of this part of the kingdom-.

Wherefore the better to preferve it, the town of Harwich has alfo been
fortified, from which, if attacked, it may be fuccoured. I paffcd fome
time in feeing the workmen in the dock-yard fitting out a fliip. One day I
went out on a fifhing party with fome fidiermen, when we took a boat-load
of fifli. I think there were above thirty cod, as many rayes, and an almofi;

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infinite number of flounders and fine foles, and other fiflies, whofc names'!
did not know. I never enjoyed greater pleafure than in catching them, prin-
cipally when' I had taken a cod or large raye, with the hook, as long as ones
hand, refembling a fiiiall anchor, which I drew up with for^e, as if loaded
with fome fea-monfter.

Coaches fet out every day from London for Harwich, and from Harwich
for London, the diftance being fifty miles. The packet-boat for Holland
.commonly fails every Monday from Harwich, if the weather is not fo fliormy
as to render the pafl"age dangerous. A French veflel came into this port to
wait for a favourable wind. It was loaded with fifty large mafts, and other
timber, for jbip-building : it came from the town of Gottenbourg in Sweden,
and was returning to Rochelle. I went on board it, and v/alked all over it
to fee what it carried. The clerk told me that there were three veffels who
fet out in company from Rochelle for Dantzick to fetch wood of this kind,
but that en the eiivirons of the coaft of Norway fuch a dreadful florm had
arifen, that they were fepcrated, and that one of them was ftranded on the
coail, where it was beaten in pieces, without lofing any of its men, they
havino- feveral times difcharged all their artillery, thereby afking afTiftance of
thole ports to which they could not attain. The vefixrl filled fo much with
water, that on the arrival of fome barks they abandoned it to fave their lives ;
their defign of going to Dantzick being thus fruftrated, they were reduced to
oo only to Gottenbourg, from whence they then came. This hiftory was in-
terrupted as loon as I faw the packet-boat arrive from Holland, and the next
.mornino- I bid adieu to England, embarking for Holland, although the wind
was not over favourable, as we remained two nights and a day feverely buf-
feted about by a furious tempeft, which made us ftand in for the coaft of
prance, from whence we bore up to the Brill, forty leagues from Harwich,
in a regular line, although in our courfe we made it double that diftance.

It is to be noticed that Englifti money will not pafs current in Holland,
unlefs to great lofs in the exchange. Likewife, that before embarking, a
bargain ftiould be made with the mafter of the veflel -, the common price is
only an Englifti crown, which is about a crown and ten fols of France : but
thele feamen are fo diflioneft, that if you have not made an agreement before
departure, they will make you pay five or fix ; but for this price they are
only to give you your paflTage, I mean without furnifliing you any provifions,
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by purchafing fome provifions before departure ; there need not be any great
matter, and when on board, one may agree with them for the loan of fome-
thing to reft on for that night. I warn the traveller of this, becaufe there
happens daily difturbances on thofc fubjefts, which even fometimes arife to
blows, whicii may be avoided when informed of the manner of afting. More-
over, it would be right to fti.^ulate the ki;,d of money in which they are to be
paid, and would not be amifs to fliew them .what you propofe giving for your
paflage to the Brill.

[To be continued.]

A F I G U R E /« TROMPINGTON Church.

THIS figure, which is engraved on a brafs plate of uncommon thick-
nefs, lies on an Altar Tomb in the North Chantry of the I'arifh
Church of Trompington near Cambridge : both trauition and the arnrorial
bearings with which it is decorated, point it out for one of the ancient Lords
of that village, who, as was ufual, bore for his furname that of his feig-
neurie, or place of habitation.

The Trompingtons, or Trumpetons, as it was fometimes fpelt, were an
ancient family, having poflcfllons in Cambridgcfhire and Efilx. Sir Giles
de Trompington is recorded among the Knights of Cambridgefhire in the
camp of Henry the Third.

In the thirteenth of Edward the Firft, Robert de Trompington held the
manor of Trompington in Effex, a manor within that of great Tay, confift-
ing of half a carrucate of land, worth fixty fhillings per annum, by the fer-
vice of finding one fack of canvas fattened with a thong, a broche or jug to
carry drink, and alfo a man and horfe to be maintained forty days at his
expence, and to ferve in the King's wars in Wales whent." er they fliould
happen. The firil of this reign, the manor of Trompington in Cambritlge-
fhire, according to Blomfield, belonged to Simon de Coiley, and Sir Roger
de Trompington, Knight, held only a water-mill and lands at forty Ihil-
lings per annum. Sir Giles de Trompington, Knight, was with Edward
the Firft in his wars in Scotland. A Sir Giles de Trompington is returned
as one of the lords of the manor of Trompington, in the record called no-
mina villar, made 9 Edward II.

In the reign of Edward III. Sir Hugh de Trompington was one of the
partizans of Mortimer Earl of March, and was, as Lelmd has it in his
Colledtanea, flain and brained with a mace at the caftle of Nottingham.

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Sir Roger de Trompingcon, Knight, engaged to ferve under Henry the
Fifth in his wars in the dutchy of Guienne in France, with three men fft
arms and nine archers, by indenture dated 29th April, in the third year of
that reign. A Monfieiir de Trompington is mentioned in an ancient MS
of the names of the Knights prefent at the fiege of Roan, under that King.

Walter de Trompington was Sheriff of the counties of Cambridge and
Huntington the 27ch of Henry VI. and is faid to have refided at Trom-
pington in Cambridgefliire.

Henry de Trompington, called the Loverd, or Lord, with his fon Wal-
ter, and grandfon John, are mentioned in Blomfield's Colleftanea Cantabrr-
gienfia. The above Sir Walter, with his wife Anne, was buried in the
priory church of Babewall, near St. Edmond's-bury.

Which of this ancient family is here reprefented is uncertain, though the
circumftance of the attitude, i.e. being crofs-legged, makes it probable that
it was not put down later than the year 1312, for the following reafons :

Although the figures reprefented on tombs with their legs crofled, are com-
monly ftiled Knights Templers, there are divers circumftances which intitled
other perfons to be fo reprefented. The firflr, havfng ferved perfonally,
jJiough for hire, in the Holy Land. Secondly, having made a vow to go
thither, though prevented by ficknefs or death. Thirdly, the having con-
tributed to the fitting out foldiers or vefleis for that fervice. Fourthly,
having been born with the army in Paleftine. And laftly, by having been a
confiderable benefaftor to the order of Knights Templers, perfons were ren-
dered partakers of the merits and honours of that fraternity, and buried
with their diftindions, an idea which has been more recently adopted abroad
by many great perfonages, who have been interred in the habits of capu-
chins. Indeed, the admiffion of laymen to the fraternity of a religious or-
der, was no uncommon circumftance in former days.

So long as this order remained in eftimation, it is probable that perfons
availed themfelves of that privileged diftinction ; but as at its difTolution
the Knights were accufed of divers enormous crimes, it is not likely any one
would chufe to claim brotherhood with them, or hand themfelves or friends
to pofterity as members of a fociety held in deteftation all over Europe ; fo
that crofs-legged figures, or monuments, may pretty f^fely be eftimated as
prior to the year 1312, when that diffolution took place, or at mofb they
cannot exceed it by above fixty or feventy years, as perfons of fufficient age
to be benefactors before that event, would not, according to the common
age of man, outlive them more than that term.

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The SIEGE of KARLAVEROK in SCOTLAND,

continued from Page 210.

OS vous la nolle comencier
Ovoec eus fceft entre lancie
Des gens le Roi une grant mafle
Dont fi je touz les noms nomafle
Ec recontaifle les bons fais
Trop men feroit pefans li fais
Tant furent et tant bien fe ferent

NOW began the tumult to rage, for
with them were intermingled a
great body of the King's troops, whofe
names if I fhould attempt to repeat,
and recount their brave aftions, the
labour would be too heavy, fo many
were there, and fo gallantly did they
behave.

E pen porquent pas ne fouffirent
Sanz la maifnie au filz le Roy
Ki mult i vint de noble aroy
Car meinte targe frefchement
Peinte et garnie richement
Meinte heaume et meinte chapeau

burni
Meinte riche * gamboifon guarni
De foie et cadas et coton
En lour venue veift on
De diverfes talks et forges

Nor would this fuffice without thofe
of the houfehold of the King's ion,
who came there in noble array, for
many a targent newly painted and
richly adorned, many a helmet and
many a burnilhed hat, many a gam-
boifon garniihed with filk-|-, towe,
and cotton, were there to be feen of.
divers forms and fafli ions.

Iluoeques vi je Rauf de Gorges
Chevalier nouvel adoube
De pieres a terre turnbe

There- faw I Ralph de Gorges, a
new dubbed Knighr, more than once
beaicn down to the earth with Hones,

• Gamboifon, a long velbnent worn by horfemen, reaching to the thighs, and quilted on
Both fides, worn under the coat of mail.

t Cadas, or Cadarce, the towe, or coarfeft part of the fiik, 1- > .s ufed with the cotton
hi ftuffing,

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Ec de foule plus de une fois
Car tant eftoit de grant buffolz
Kel ne fen deignoic de parcir
Tout fon harnois et fon atire
Avoit mafcle de or et dc afur

for he was of fo great a fpirit as not
eafily to deGfl: •, all his harnefs and
attire was mafcled with gold and
azure.

Ceus ki eftoient fur le mur
Robert de Tony nnoult grivoit
Car en fa comp gnie avoit
Le bon Richard de la Rokele
Ki ceus dedans fi enparkele
Ke mule fouvent les fait retraire
Cil ot fon efcu fait portraire
Mafcle de goules et de ermine

Thofe on the wall were much dif-
trefled by Robert de Tony, for he had
in his company the good Richard de
la Rokele, who fo wtU plyed thofe
within as frequently to oblige them to
retreat. He had caufed on his fhield.
to be portrayed mafcles of gules and
ermine.

Adam de la Fforde au mur mine
En tcl manere com il putet
Car aufli dru com pluie pluet
Volent fes pieres ens et hors
Dont mult fu de foules li ors
De trois lyonceaus couronnes
Kil et rampans en inde nez

Adam de la Fford mined the walls
as well as he was able, for the ft'oneg
flew in and out as thick as drops of
rain, by wh ich many were thrown to
the ground. He bore or three lionels
rampant crowned, in an azure field.

Le bon Baron de Wignetone
Merveillis eft ke tout ne ellone
Li fais de coups ke il i recoit
Car ja ce ke venus i foit
Sanz Seigneur hors de rctenance
Ja plus nen a la contenance
Efbahie ne efpoentee
Cil portoit bordure endentee
O trois eftoiles de or eofable

The good Baron of Wignetone per-
formed aftoniihing wonders. Such
were the blows he received, and the
aftions he performed, for without ex-
cepting any Lord prefent, none (hewed
a more refokite or unembarrafled
countenance. He bcre within a bor-
dure indented, three golden ftars on a
fable field.

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Meinte pefant piere et qaiflable
Cil de Kirkelbride i porta
Mes les efcu blanc devant bonta
O la crois verde engrielle

Se ke mult fu bien alTailie
De lui la porte du challel
Car onqucs feurcs de martel
Si fur fon fer en martela
Com il et li fen firent la

Many a heavy and bruifing (lone
bore him of Kirkelbride, who covered
himfclf with a white fhield, havin

green crofs engrailed.

The gate of the caftle was ftoutly
aflailed by him, for no fmith ever
beat more furioufly on his anvil than
did there he and his.

Non porquant tant i ont efte
De grofles pieres rempefte
E de * quarreaus e de fagettes
Ke de bleflures et plaiettes
Sont fi las et fi amorti
Ke a mult grant peine en font parti

Mes ainz kil fen fuflent partiz
Cil de ClifFort com avertiz
E com cil ki ne a au pourpos
Ke cil dedenz aient repos
Ja fa baniere envoie
Et tant com bien le a convoie

De Badelefmere Bartholmeus
Johan de Cromwelle au miens
Que puet i a mife fe entente
Car nuls de cens ne fait atente

Not but during their aflault there
were fliowered upon them flights of
quarrels and arrows, which fo wounded
and hurt them, that it was with diffi-
culty they were able to retire.

But no fooner were they departed,
than Clifford, as if advifed thereof,
and refolving that thofe within fhould
have no reft, fent his banner well ac-
companied.

By Bartholomew Partholomcus,
John de Cromwell who well perform-
ed his attack, for no'.e of them at-
tempted to ftoop to pick up itones

» Quarrels. Square-headed darts fliots from crofs bows.

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De abeflier et pierres cuellier

Et de rusr et de affaillier

Tant com durer lour puet aleine

and to throw them, and to (land toj
the affault as long as their breatb
lafted.

Mes les genz a la chefteleine
Ne lour laiflent avoir foujour
Badelfmefc ki tout le jour
Iluec fe contint bien et bel
Portoft en blanc au bleu label
Ffefle rouge entre deus jumeaus

But the people of the caftle would
not permit them to remain there long.
Badlefmere, who all that day com-
poned himfelf well and gallantly, bore
in a white fiiield with a blue label a
red fefs between two jumelles.

Cromewe\le li preus li beaus
Ke entre le pieres va tripant
En inde et blanc lyon rampant
Couronne de or ou double coue
Mes ne croi pas ke il la refcoue
Ke iluec ne li foit recoupez
Tant fut de pieres eftampee
E broie ainz kil fen a la

The brave and handfome Cromwell,
who goes tripping among the ftones,
had azure a white lion rampant double
tailed and crowned with eold, but I
believe he did not bring it away, fo
much was his Ihield broken and de-
faced by ftones before he retreated.

Apres ces deus revindrent la
La Warde et Johans de Gray
Ki de nouvel ont envay
Ceus de dedenz ki bien attendent
Et arcs et arbaleftes tendent
Et traient de lour* efpringant
E bien fe tiennent paringant
Et au jedter et au lancier.

After thefe two came there La
Warde and Johans de Gray, freflily
difpatched. Thofe within who were
expefting them bent their bows and
crofs bows, and fliot from their cf-
pringalls, and kept themfelves well
prepared to throw a lance.

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The palace at ENFIELD.

THIS old brick ftructure, fuuate on the foiuh-fide of the town of Enfield,
and oppofice to the church and maiket-place, was a royal retreat, ori-
ginally built, according to Mr. Camden, " by Sir Thomas Lovcll, Knight
of the Garcer, and Privy Counfellor to Henry VII. as one may gather from
the arms." It is true, none of theie arms are now extant here ; but Camden
lived too near the time for us to queftion his authority. Sir Thomas died at
Enfield, May 25, 1524. Henry VIII. probably purchafed this houfe, as he-
did one at Hunfdon, for a nurfery or retreat for his children. Here Ed-
ward VI. received the news of his father's death, and went from hence next
day to the Tower. Queen Elizabeth was here in 1568 and 1569, and in the
latter of thefe vifits amufed herfelf with fliooting at bucks in the park, and at
the fame time received here in a molt gracious manner, her kinfman, Robert
Gary, appointing him Warden of the Eafl March, with a handfome lalary.

Vallance, in his tale of Two Swannes, mentions

" Enfield houfe, that longs unto our Queene ■" and Weever ranks if
among the " princely houfes inheritable to the crown of England."

In the Bodleian Library (Arch. D. 115. 8vo.) is a trand.ition by the
Princefs Elizabeth of an Italian fermon of Occhine's, written on vellum with
uncommon elegance in her own hand, and dedicated to her brother Edward,
to whom fhe fends it as a new year's gift. The dedication is dated Enfield^
Dec. 30.

Norden fays " Enfielde houfe Qiieene Elizabeth's builJed by an Earle of
Worcefter*" This muft have been "John Tiptoft., beheaded by Edward IV.
the only Earl of Worcefter who had any poffeflions here. From him the
Manor of Worcefter here takes its name, having dcfcended to him from his
father Sir John Tiptoft, v/lio died in the reign of Henry VI. It is enjoyed
B. prefcnt by Eliab Breton, Efq. of Fourtree-hall in this parifh, in right of
his wife, coheirefs of William Wolftenholme, Efq. whofe mother was the
leprefentative of the Raynton's, and great grand-daughter of Sir Nicholas
Raynton, Knt. Lord-Mayor of London, 16.^0, to whofe memory, and that
of his Lady, is erefted a fplendid monument at the upper end of the north
aile of Enfield church, now the veftry.

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The pakce is at prefent the property of Mr. Breton, and leafed out to
feveral tenants. The middle part, which ferves as a lodging-houfe, has a lofty
fquare parlour, wainfcotted with oak, of curious pannelling in relief. Thft
chimney-piece is decorated with three compartments of the fame work, fup-
ported by four pillars. In the middlemoft are the arms of England in a garter,
-fupported by a lion and grifBn. Motto, Dieu (i mou droili and under it.

Sola falus fervire Deo

Sunt cetera fraudes.

At ihe fides the rofe and portcullis crowned, and under them E. R. for
Elizabetha Regina. The mantle-piece is ftone, charged with foliage and birds,
and iupported bv two fimilar pillars. Above are four or five good rooms with
ceilings Ituccoed like the parlour : over the chimney of one are the arms of
England, unfupported.

On the outfide of the front are, in ftucco, the fame arms, fupporters and
initials as already defcribed. The coins of this houfe appear white like ftone,
but are only plailler.

Behind the houfe are remains of offices and ftables.

In the gardens, which are let out to a gardener, with a principal part of
the houfe, are a fine cedar, and feveral curious trees planted by Mr. Uvedale,
who kept a very flourifhing fchool in this palace fifty years ago.

The following fabulous or legendary Account of Ireland is contained in the Speculum
Resale, a Book fuppofed to have been written abtut the Middle of the Twelfth
Century, by a Minifler to one of the early Kings of Norway, for the Ufe of his
Son. It contained originally four Parts, or Rules for the Conduct of Merchants^
Courtiers, Clergy, and Hufbandmen ; but of thefe only the two former retnain.
It is written in the Iflandifh Language, and publifloed by the College of Copen-
hagen, Anno, 1768, with both a Danifh and Latin Tranflation. Many of
.the Stories here related are to be feen in Ciraldus Cambrenfis Defcription of
Ireland.

IRELAND is fituated in that part of the globe, where heat and cold are
fo mutually tempered, that it is neither too hot nor too cold : lb that
the produce of thole lands, are neither damaged by an excefs of hcic ia the
furnmcr, nor cold in winter; and the domeftic flocks of fheep and oxen are

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continually fed out of doors, not but the inhabitants are clothed as well in
fummer as winter.

This land excels all others fo much in holinefs, that venomous animals,
fuch as ferpents and toads, cannot exift therein ; and although brou"ht from
other region?, fo foon as they touch any of this earth, or its ftones, they in-
ftantly expire ; and if any of the wood, duft, or fand of this country, is
tranfported to places where any venomous animp.Is are to be found, and fucli
duft or earth is fprinkled round about them, thofe animals will never be able
to crofs the enclofure, but will die within that circle. So alfo if wood cut
from this holy region is cleft on any fpot where uhere are venomous animals,
tliey alfo being enclofed within a circle of the chips, will die therein.

Of Ireland, it is moreover faid, that fcarce any lan'I, confidering its fize,
has fo many faints ; and, although the inhabitants are deemed fierce, cruel*
and idle, yet how cruel foever they may have been, they have not (lain any
of the many faints with which that iQand abounds, they having all fallen by a
natural fate, and finilhed their lives by a bloodlefs death ; for thoup:h the
inhabitants have been barbarous to each other, they have maintained a friend-
fhiu with all the faints and holy men.

There is a remarkable lake in this country called in thelrifh tongue Loge-
cbag, of whofe properties wonders are related ; for it is the nature of this
water, that the wood called in Latin Jcrifohum, and by others, Binvidi, or
Hulfur, being fo dipped in it, that part may penetrate to the bottom, part
be encompafled by the water, and iaftly, a part remain above, then that part
which reached the bottom will be tranfmuted into iron, that in contact v/ich
the water, to ftone ; and Iaftly, that part not wetted, will remain unaltered.

There ate alfo two fountains of a miraculous nature fituated in the moun-
tain Blandina, which is almoft a defert. One of thefe fountains has this
property, that a fheep, an ox, a horfe, or man, whofe wool, hide or hair is
white, being wafhed in its waters, it will immediately become black. The
quality of the other fountain is, that if any one having flaxen, red, or black
hair, (hall wa(h the fame in that fountain, fuch hair will be whitened like the
hair of a decripit old man.

There is, moreover, in that kingdom, a lake called Loghickt, in which a
fmall ifland feems, as it were, to fwim backwards and forwards to the dif-
ferent fhores, (this happens chiefly on a Sunday) fo that men may go upon it.
This iQand has fuch virtue, that a perfon labouring under any difeafe what-

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foever, who fhall eat any of the herbs growing on it, will be entirely cured j;
and as only one perfon at a time can be on it, although many attempt it as:
foon as one has got on it, it leaves the bank •, there is alfo another property of-
this ifland, that for feven fuccefTive years it fwims about the lake, but thefe
being accompliflied, it moves to fome fiiore, and there unites with the mairv
land. During this time, great roaring of thunder is heard, and foon after a.
new ifland appears, in figure, fize, and nature, refembling the former, and
this has happened for a feries of timr, fo that when one ifland has united itfelf
to the continent, it is lucceeded by another : but from whence the new one
comes, is unknown.

There is befides another fmall ifland, called in the Irifli tongue, Hifglum, .
well inhabited, in which is a temple-, the number of inhabitants fcem to anfwer
to that allotted to a parifh ; although perfons die there, they are not buried^
but fet up round about the temple, or againft: the fence of the church-yard,,
where their bodies being dried, do not lofe their hair or nails ;. and thofe
bodies which are not deflroyed by the fowls of the air, being exempted
from putrefaftion,- remain like living men, fo that a defcendent may there,
fee, and confider his anceflors.

There is moreover a large lake called Loghri^ and in it an ifland, where
are perfons called Canons and Hermits, who have made a vow of chaftity ; o£
theft there are a great number in the ifland, which neverthelefs neither en-,
creafes nor diminiflies. It is faid of this ifland, that it is fo healthy, that its
inhabitants live to a greater age than thofe of the continent, and that as often
as any one is by old age or difeafe about to die, he has a prefage that his laft
day is fixed by God, and leaves the ifle to feek fome place on the continent
where he may die, no one dying in the ifland, although they there contraded
their diforders.

There is another great lake called by the inhabitants Logherne, in which
there are fuch quantities of the fifli called Laxes, that they afford fufficient
food for the whole ifland.

There are many ifl-ands in this lake, one of the mod: notable is called by the
Irifli Kiartenag, which confidering its fize, might be well inhabited, did not
fear forbid. For of it, it is reported, that devils and evil genii have an equal
power over half this ifland, fo that as often as fome daring men Have ven-
tured to remain in it, they are faid to have been fubjeifl to fo many calamities^
that they would rather have been in hellj in the other half of the ifland, is a

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temple and church-yard -, both parts, however, of the ifland are uninhabited,
although it is related that the demons have no power in that part wherein
the temple ftands.

In that kingdom, likewife, a wonderful thing happened : a certain wild
animal was taken in a wood, concerning which no one could decide whether
it was a human creature or a brute -, for it could not pronounce any words, it
being doubtful whether it underftood the human fpeech, and yet its make
accurately refembled the human form : his hands, feet, and face were human,
the reft of his body like that of any other beaft, having a perfefl mane on his
back ; he went with his face downwards, grovelling on the earth.

There are many things worthy of admiration, which may be derived not
from the nature of the place, but from the miracles of the holy men, which
we know for certain truths ^. there are others, ia the mean time, whofe truths
are not equally eftabliflied, although in the mouths of all the inhabitants,
Fxom the following, however, we cannot withold our belief.

In the lake called hogkerne, which we have already mentioned, there
is an ifle, called Mifdredcn, wherein was the temple and habitation of one of
the faints, named Diermicius : Into this temple, or the adjoining church-,
yard, it was not lawful for any female creature to enter, and this prohibition
extended to birds, and all other kinds of animals with a fort of human rea-
fon, no female of any of thefe creatures being able (even though they at-
tempted it) to enter this temple or church-yard.

There was in that kingdom one among the body of faints named Kavinus,-.
a kind of hermit^ inhabiting the town of Glumelhagam, who when that
happened which we are about to relate, had in his houfe a young man his
relation, greatly beloved by him : this young man being attacked by a
difeafe which feemed mortal, at that time of the year when difeafes are the
nioft dangerous, namely in the month of March ; and taking it into his
head that an apple would prove a remedy for his diforder, earneftly be-. -
fought his relation K^vinus to give him one •, at that time no apples were
eafily to be had, the trees having juft then began to put forth their leaves ■.
but Kavinus grieving much at his relation's ficknefs, and particularly at not
being able to procure him the remedy required, he at length proftrated
himfelf in prayer, and befought the Lord to grant him fome relief for his
kinfman. After his prayer he went out of the houfe, and looking about
him faw a. large tree called a Salix or Willow, whofe branches he examined

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as if for the expeded Remedy, when he obferved the tree to be full of a
kind of apples jiift ripe, three of thefe he gathered and carried to the young
man : when the youth had eaten part of thefe apples he felt his diforder gra-
dually abate, and was at Ifength reftored to his former health. The tree
feemed to rejoice in this gift of God, arid bears every year a fruit like an
apple, which from that time have been called St. Kavin's apples, and are
carried over all Ireland, that thofe labouring under any difcafe may eat
them ; and it is notorious frorn various relations, that they are the moft
•ivholefome medicine againft all diforders to which mankind are liable ; and
it mufl be obferved, that it is not fo much for the fweetnefs of their favor as
their efficacy in medicine, for which they are efteemed, and, as at firfl, for
which they are fought.

There are many things which vyere fuddenly efFefled by the virtue of this
holy man; we lliall only cite thofe that have reached the prefent times, in
the fame ftate as that in which they were firll fafliioned ; others likewife true
and commonly known we could alio relate.

In that kingdom there is alfo a place called Themas, once a principal city,
the feat of royalty, now deferted through the fears of men, and not inha-
bited on account of the following occafion. All the inhabitants of that
place, although not endowed with the chriftian faith, had fuch confidence
in their King, that they firmly believed he would not by any motive be in-
duced to give an unjuft judgment ; and that all fuits and difputes were de-
termined by him with the ftridleft impartiality and juftice. This King had
in the higheft part' of the city a fpiendid and almoft Daedalion caftle, and
within its walls a palace of the moft fuperb and beautiful conftrudion,
where he ufed to fit and determine the fuits of his fubjefts. Once when cer-
tain fuits were brought before him for determination, the parties on one fide
being his friends, whom he wifhed to favour, and thofe on the other fide
his enemies, to whom he bore an ill-will. The King following his propen-
fity, gave an unjuft fentence. The people of Tbemas, contrary to expecta-
tion, feeing fuch injuftice occupy that facred edifice, fuddenly, on account
of the religious faith of the people, the tribunal, palace, caftle, with its-
foundations, and the ground whereon it flood, were overwhelmed and de-
moliflied, the traces of which are ftill to be feen. Terrified by furh a pro-
digy, neither the fubfequent Kings nor inhabitants have ventured to fix them-
felves there, although it is a moft delightful fituation. It is faid, that if any
,-one Ihould prefume to inhabit it new prodigies would daily happen.

[To be continued.]

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To the Editor, of the Antiqjuarian Repertory.

S I R,

I HAVE fent you a Drawing of Little Saxham Church, in my neighbour-
hood, taken laft autumn by the happy pencil of my friend Mr. Tyfon ;
and have added a fhort account of it. If you think them worth making
ufe of in your Repertory, they are at your fervice.

I am, Sir, your humble Servant,

Hardwick Houfe, JOHN CuLLUM.

April 18, 1778.

THE parochial Church of Little Saxham Hands about four miles N W
of Bury St. Edmunds ; it has been much noticed for its circular tower,
which was fuppofed by the late Sir James Burrough (in Brit. nov. et antiq.
Suff.) to be a Danifh building-, however that be, its whole appearance be-
fpeaks a very confiderable antiquity. There are two or three more of thefe
towers in the neighbourhood, but much inferior in beauty to this. It is
Vol. II. N« XI. 3 O built

238 The antiquarian REPERTORY.

built of flint, and appears to have been plaiftered without, as it ftill is with-
in. Its height is 55 feet-^ its circumference 59 -, its infide diameter at bot-
tom II ; fothat its walls there are about 4I feet thick; the upper parts are
lefs fubftantial. Its door- way within, fronting the middle aile of the church
is 15! feet high, with a circular arch, and is 4I: wide. There is another
door-way near it, with a fimilar arch, 6 feet by 4, in the S W corner of
the church •, this is walled up with flone-, nor does it appear to have open-
ed into the tower : I know not what the ufe of this was •, it might lead to a
fouterrain. The S door of the church is circular, with an ornamental
moulding; the N one is pointed. The S one might belong to the original
building, and being found entire might be wrought up in the prefent one».
This I have fometimes thought might be the reafon of our often finding
what is called a Saxon door-way in a church not above two or three centu-
ries old.

In a chapel on the N fide of the church is a handfome monument for
William lord Crofts, and the Lady Elizabeth his wife, with their figures,
large as life, in marble, well executed by Story, an artift omitted, I believe,
by Mr. Walpole. Lord Crofts was a great favourite of Charles the Se-
cond, who created him a Baron in 1658, and paid him a vifit at his feat
here after the reftoration : he died in 1677. The patronage of this church
is in Richard Crofts, Efq; one of the members of parliament for the Uni-
verfity of Cambridge, who is going to embellifli the E window of the chan-
cel with the arms of Edward IV". Hen: VII. Jafper Tudor, Duke of Bed-
ford, and feveral other efcutcheons, which were in a bow window in the
venerable manfion in this parifh, which was one of the oldeft brick build-
ings in the kingdom, and taken dov/n in 1772.

'The fabulous or legendary Account c/ Ireland, continued from Page 236.

THERE remains ftill fomething that feems flupendous, and which de-
pends on the faith of the inhabitants, and is afcribed to the anger of
a certain faint.

When

The ANTIQ^UARIAN REPERTORY. 239

When Sr. Patrick firft began to propagate the Chriftian religion in this
kingdom, here'were Ibme of the more obtlinate infidels who rclblved pub-
licly to infiikboth God and' St. Platrickj and for that purpole agreed, when
he attempted to preach the Chriftian doftrine to them, and the other inhabi-
tants, they would receive him with howlings like thofe of wild beads. The
faint feeing how little he was like to prevail, was greatly incenfed thereat,
and befought God that he would affiicl them wrth a punifhment that might
for ever bring their contumely in their minds. On this they were wonder-
fully and delervedly punifhed ; and it is generally faid, that for a certain
fpace of time they, and after them, their pofterity, put on the nature of hearts,
wandering about the woods, and living like them, and that they are even
more pernicious than wild beafts, as being indued with human intelleds,
they are the more cunning and deceitful, attacking with equal ferocity both
man and other animals. It is likevvife related, that every feven years fome
of them undergo this metamorphofis, being reftored to their humanity dur-
ing the intervening years; others labour for feven whole years under this
diforder, butthtfe are never more affliifted with it during their lives. There
is a wonderful ftory told of thole liable thus to exchange their human for the
brutal nature, which is, that when two armies, ranged in order of battle,
begin the charge, and the clamour rages with the greateft fury^ youno- and
effeminate perfons, never before prefent at an engagement, itruck with a
panic, lofe their fenfes, and fliunning the company of men, fly to the woods,
where they adopt the manner of living of the wild beafts ; and, as fame re-
ports, if they -continue in this way for twenty years, feathers like thofe of
birds grov/ on their bodies, not of the greater fort, fufficient to enable them
to fly, but of fuch as ferve for a covering to guard them again!!: the incle-
mency of the weather. Their fwiftnefs is fuch, that hunting doo-s, much
lefs men, cannot equal them, and they wander over high places with a cele-
rity equal to that of monkeys and fquirrels.

To thefe may be added, a wonder recorded to have happened at Kloen, a
city of Ireland, in which city is a church dedicated to Saint Kiranus. It
happened on a certain Sunday, when the pariflfioners were affembled to ce-
lebrate mafs and the offices, an anchor fixed to a cable was feen gradually
defcending from the heavens, as if thrown from a fliip, one of its crooked
hooks hitching to the threfhold. Some men coming out of the church faw

not

240 The A N T I QJJ A R I A N REPERTORY.

not without great aftonifliment, pointed out by the rope, a fliip manned
with failors and held by an anchor, and one of the failors, who having left
the fhip, feetned by the motions of his hands and feet to be diving down to
the anchor, fixed to the threthold of the church ; when he had arrived at it,
and was cflaying to raife it, the parifliioners ran out, feized their new vifuor,
the epifcopal feat being fituated near the church, the chief pried was pre-
fent, who commanded the man to be releafed, the rather, as if retained,
he feemed in danger of immediate death, as if fuffocated with water. On
being fet at liberty he haftened upwards towards the fliip, where being re-
ceived by his companions, they immediately cut the cable, and proceeding
on their voyage, vanilhed out of fight. In teftimony of this wonderful
event, the anchor is ftill preferved in the church.

Having thus mentioned moft things deferving notice in this kingdom, one
however remains, that for mirth's faice mufl not be omitted. There dwelt
in this idand a comic aftor, or minftrel, by name Clepfanus, and faith a
Chriftian. It is faid of this man, that whilft living, he, by his comic inter-
ludes, could make all perfons laugh, even though labouring under the
greateft grief. Being feized by fome diforder, he died, and was buried in
the church-yard, and remained fo long in liis grave that his flefli and moft of
his bones were rotted. It happened afterwards, that the body of a certain
man being buried in the fame part of the church-yard, the fkuU of Clepfanus
being digged up, was, by fome one, placed on a large ftone ftandieg there,
which to this day may be feen. Whofoever came to this fkull, and looked
at that part where the tongue and face once grew, fuddenly burft into a fit
of laughter, although before he had feen the head he was as it were deprefled
by care. By this means his fkeleton excited as much laughter as he had done
whilft living.

The ANTIQ^UARIAN REPERTORY. 241

To the E D I T o R of the Antiqjjarian Repertory.
S I R,

TH E Wardrobe account of the year 1483, which contains the appoint-
ments for the coronation of King Richard the Third and his Queen,
having engaged tiie particular attention of the learned and ingenious author
of the Hiftoric Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third,
and of the learned Preiident of the Society of Antiquaries -|-, wlio very juflly
obferves, that this record is not without its curiofity and ufefulnefs, I think
a tranfcript of it, fo far as the fame relates to the delivery of robes, &c,
previous to the coronation, will be acceptable to many of your readers.

I am yours, &c.

T. ASTLE.

Particule computi Petri Courteys cuftodis magne garderobe Dni nri Re-
gis nunc Dni Ricdi Regis Anglie tercii, tarn de omnibus et fingulis denar.
fummis per ipfum receptis et habitis, ac de omnibus et fingulis emptionibus
et provifionibus ftufFur, quam de omnibus et omnimodis folutionibus, ex-
pends et liberationibus ftuffurarum, ac denariorum fummis, per ipfum
fimiliter fadis et habitis in officio predido; videlicet, a nono die Aprilis,
Ann. Dni 1483 ufq; feftum purificationis beate ^iarie virginis proxime fe-
quent; fcil, per 298 dies, facientes 3 quarter, et 25 dies.

Appoyntement for the Coronacon of Kyng Ric'' the iii**" and Quene

Anne his Wyff.

This Indenture made the twenty-eighth day of Juyne, in the firfl: yere of
the reigne of oure foveraigne Lorde Kyng Rychard the Thirdc, Witnefiith
that Piers Courteys the Kyngs warderober, hathe taken upon hym to purvey
bv the thir'_'.; day of Juyllnext comyng, the parcelis cnfuyng, againfl the
Coronacon of our fayd Soveraigne Lorde.

t Archaelogia, vol. i. p. 361.

Vol. II. N°XI. 3 P Tbt

42 The A N T I Q^U A R I A N REPERTORY.

The Deliver ee of Stuff delivered to for and ayenjl the grete Solempnitee of th^
m'-joji noble Coronations as "wsl of oure Souverayne Lorde Kyng Richard the
Thyrde as of oure Souverayne Lady the ^ene as hereafter feverally is noted and
fpecijicd in two divers Places,

To oure faide Souverayn Lorde the
Kyng for his apparaill the vigile afore
tic day of his iiiooft noble coronation,
for to ryde in from his Toure of London
iNito his Palays of Weftmynfter-Adou-j
b!ec maadc of ij yerds a quarter di' of
blue cloihe of gold vvroght with netts andj
pyne .ppels with a ftomacher of thej
fame lyncd with oon elle of Holandj
clothe and oon elle of bufk inilede^olj
grene clotli of gold and a longe gownc
for to ryde in made of vii) yerds of pur
pull velvet furrid with viij tymbr dT
xiii baliks of ermyns and iiij lymbres xvij
woombes of ermyns & powdered with iij
MMIVI. CCC. powdery ngs made of
bogy {hanks and a payre of fliort fpurres
gik.

viij yerds

ij yerds i q' di'

blue wroght with

netts and pyne

appels

Oon elle

viij tymbr di' xiij ■

bakks iiij tymbr ]

xvij woombes

iij MMM. CCC. ■

made of

(hanks

Oon pair fhort

bogy

Velvet purpull

Cloth of gold

Holland cloth
Bufke

Ermins

Povvderyngs
Spurres all gilt

As yit for the Kyngs Coronation.

Delivered for to make of iiij canapies
that is to wit oon made of iij pec* of im-
perial Bokeram and garnyssht with iij lb
vii unces di' frengc of Vcnys gold atter
xvi unces to every lb and with ij lb xj
unces di' frenge of filk and iij other ca-
napies maade of vii double peces of bal-
dekyn rede and grene with luks gold
Ivned with ij peces of longe bokeram and
oarnyrsht with vij lb frenge of Venys
cTold after xvj unces to the lb and vj lb ot
frenge of fills, and for to make of iiij
hattes of alfate iiij yerds of crymyfyn,
cloth of gold made with rounde roUesi
behynd and lliarp becks before and fur-

iiij yerds

iij peces

vij double peces

rede and grene

iij peces

X lb vij uncs di' of '

gold afterxvi unces

CO the lb viij lb xj

unces di' of filk

Oon unce

I lb xi unce

{Crymyfyn
cloth of golil
Imperial
Baldekyn with
luks gold
Bokeram longe

Frenge of gold
and fylk

Sowing filk
Of threde

rkl

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rid with iiij tymbr bakks crmyne and iij'|
tymbrotermyn wombes and iiij mantels:!
of ellate furrid with xxij tymbr di' xiiPxxvj tymbr di' ~)
bakks of ermyns andxxv tymbr of ermynj xij bakks (

w'ombz the forcfaide canapies fowed withlxxviij tymbr of^
oon unce of filk and lyced with i lb xj |wombcs )

unces of grene threde and tiie furr of the M UC. made of ]
faid hattes and mantels of aftate pow-;|bogy fhanks i

dered with M.DC. powderings made of |
bogy flianks.

2+3^

rmyns

PowderingS'

As yic for the Kyngs Coronation.

Delyvered unto Thomas Tyrol! occu
pying the office of maifter of the Kyngs
Hors for to cover with a fadell and a har
neys for the Kyngs own perfon, a fadelk
and a harnevs for his fwordberer and a
hakeney fadelle a harnevs thereto, all iij
fadels and harneys covered in xiij yards
of crymyfin cloth of gold wroghc with
netts and roofes agen(t th.e tyme that
they fhuld take poflcfTion of his courts at
Wellm. The faidc fadels and harneys
pvirfiied with xvj tymbr of Letens pow-
dered with viij M; powderings made of
bogy fhanks and garnyssht with i lb xj
unces 1 qr: frenge of Venys gold and
for to cover with a fadel, and a faddel of
aftate all covered in iij yerds and iij quar-
ters of rede cloth ot gold wroght with
netts ag-enft tiie coronation and gar-
nyssht with V unces di' frenge of Venys
oold and for to cover with vij courfer
fadelles xv yerds a quart di' of crymyfyn
velvet garnyssht with a lb iij uncs di'
ffrenge of gold of Venys and witii ij lb
iij unces iij quarterons frenge of filk and
for to make of a trappur xvi yerds of
crymyfyn velvet bourdered with viii
yerds of white cloth of gold lyned with
a pece and half a yerde of longe boke-

[liij yerds di'
Ixxxviij yerds & iij
[quarters of div^ers
[works and divers
forts

iij lb V unces i qr.
ffrenge of Venys
gold ij lb i unce iij
qrs frenge of filk
M. xvi tymbr
xi.M.VI.C. XLV. I
of bogy fhanks J
ij peces and a yerd
Iij tynibres and i i
wombes j

Velvet crymfyn

Cloth of gold

FrengeofVenyi
gold and filk

Letens
Powderings
Bokeram longe. .

Ermyns

ratn

:*44 The ANTIQUARIAN REPERTORY.

ram and garnyssht with garters, and for
to make ot oon other trappour svj yerds
velvet white and grene bordoured with
viij yerds ofcrymyfyn cloth of gold gar-
nyssht with oftriche feders made of vi
yerds of crymyfyn cloth of gold and ■
lyned with a pece and half a yerde of
long bokeram; and for to furre with the
greete bordour and purfile of a trappour
of purpul cloth of golde receyved of the
Kings highneffe and good grace xliiij
tymbr lij tymbr and wombes of ermyn
powdered with iij M. C. C. x lb pow-
dering made ot bogy (banks, and for
to make of ij foteclothes of velvet oon
blue and oon other grene v yerds iij qr?
of velvet.

Yit for the Kyngs Coronation.

To oure faid Souverayn Lorde the
Kyng for to have unto and for his mooft
honourable ufe the day of takyng of
poffelTion of his courtes at Wcftm. ryd-
ing from his paloys of Weftm. unto his
cytee of London the faide fadels and
harneys for his own perfon and the faid
fadels and harneys for his fwordeberer
and the faid hakeney fadell and harnefs
all covered in crymyfyn clothe of gold
wroght with netts and roofes and furrid
with Letene. And the forfaid fadell for
his own perfon and the fadell of aftate
boothe covered in rede cloth of gold
wroght with netts and garnyssht with
frenge of Venys gold for the vigile afore
the day of his moofte noble coronation
ryding from his Toure of London unto
his paloys of Weftm. boothe the faid
fadel for his own perfon and the faid fa-
del of allate trapped in riche trappours
that oon in atrappoure of purpul cloth of
gold with a grete bordure and purfyle

Oon

cloth

covered in
of gold
jV/ro^ht with netts
and roofes for the
Kyngs own perfon

Oon cover'd in cloth
■of gold wroght
[with netts & roofes
'for the fwordberer

Oon cover'd in cloth
of gold wroght
with netts & roofes
for a hakeney

Oon for the Kings
own perfon cover-
ed in cloth of gold
wroght with netts

Oon of aftate co-
vered in cloth of
gold wroght with
netts

Sadeliss

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•of ermyn wombz powdered with pow-'
derings made of bogy flianks and that
other with con other trappoure of the
Kyngs ftoore.

*45

'Oon for the Kings'!
ownperfoncovere
gold

in cloth of

wroght with nctts
and roofes
Oon for the fword- .
berer covered in j
the fame cloth of |
gold

And oon for a
hake cover'd in the
fame

Oon made of pur-')
pull cloth of gold
with a greete bor-
dure and purfile of
ermyne wombes
powdered with
jpowderings made
I of bogy flianks

Harneys.

Trappours.

Yit for the Kyngs Coronation.

To oure fayd Souverayn Lord the
Kyng for to the fame vigile afore the
day of his moofte noble coronation for
his vij henxemen the fayd vij ladelles
covered with crymyfyn velvett and gar-
nyssht with frenge of gold of Venys and:
frenge of fylk trapped in trappours of^
divers making, that is to fay, Oon made
of crymyfyn velvet bordured with white,
cloth of gold and lyned with bokeram,'
one other trappour made of velvet white!
and grene and bordured with crymyfyn^
clothe of gold garnyssht with oil:riche
feders made crymyfyn cloth of gold and
and other v. trappours of divers forts
divers making ot the Kings (lore.

And to the Maifter and to cache of
the fame henxemen a paire of blac fpurres
and for ledyng rayns xxij yerds of broodc
riban filk.

Vol. II. N" XI. 3 Q.

xxij yerds broode
ryban of filk
Oon maade of
crymyfyn velvet
bordured with
whyte cloth of
gold

Oon maade of vel-
vet white & grene
bordured with cry-
myfyn cloth of
gold and garnyssht
witholtrichet'eders
maade of red cloth
of gold & other v.
trappours of divers
forts of the Kings
ftore

Trappours.

Yit

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vij cevered in cry-'
myfyn velvet and
garnyssht v/ich
frenge of gold of
venys and frenge
of filk J

vij pair
viij pair blac

Sadells trap-
ped with the
faid trappours,'

Boots.
Spurres.

Yit for the Kyngs Coronation.

To the fayde vij henxemen of our
faide Souverayn Lorde the Kyng for to
have for thaire apparell the laid vigile
afore the day of the Kyngs moofte no-
ble coronation, vij doiibleccs maadc of
XV yerds and iij quarters of crymylyn
fatyn lyned with viij elles of Holand
cloth, and enterlyned with vj elles of
canvas, and vij gowncs, made of vij half
gownes of white clothe of gold, and of
vij yerds and a quarter of newe white
cloth of gold, lyncd with x yerds of longe
bokeram, and to their maifter and to
eiche of theyme ij pair of fhoon

To oure faid Souverayne Lord the
Kyngc for to have borne over his bare
heade, from his toure of London unto
his paloys of Weftminrter, the vigile be-
fore the day of his moofte noble coro-
nation, a canapie of baldekyn with luks
gold borne with iiij banerftavcs, and with
iiij belles of filver and gilt.

iiij

vij half gownes of

white cloth of gold

vij yerds j quarter

white cloth otV

golde

XV yerds and

quarters

X yerds

viij elles

vj elles

xvj pair

Oon of baldekyn 1

with luks gold J

iiij

iiij of filver and gilt

Cloth of gold.

Satyn.

Bokeram long.
Holand cleoth.
Canvas.
Shoon.

Canapie.

Banarftaves.
Belles.

Yit for the Kyngs Coronation.

To oure faide Souverayn Lord the||ix yerds and di'
Kyngc, for to have unto his mooft ho-|jij furrid with ermyns
nourable ufe the vigile atore the day ofi'ij made of crymy-"]
his mooll noble coronation, two of thejfyn cloth of gold I
forfaid mantels of aitate furrid with er-: and furrid wither- [
myns, worn afore his Highnefle bawde- jmyns J

Velvet crymyfyn
Mantels of anatc.

Hatts of aftate

ryke-

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ryke-wife. The fame even afore the
day of his moofte noble coronation, and
alfo the faid two hatts of aftate furrid
with ermyns with rounde roUcs behynde
and fharp becks before, both mantels of
aftate and hatts of aftate worn and borne
by John Sapcote and Vv'illiam Catcft»y,
Squires, for the body of our faydc Sou-
v£raine Lorde the King before his High-
nefle, and for the apparaill of the faid
John Sapcote and William Catefby the
fame day and tyme, ix yerds di' of cry
myfyn velvctt.

Yit for the Kyngs Coronation.

To oure faide Souverain Lorde the
Kvng, for to have borne afore his Hygh-
nefte the even afore the day of his moofte
noble coronation, from his tour of Lon-
don, unto his paloys at Weftminfter, a
fwerde covered in j quarter of a yerde of!
crymyfyn cloth of gold, garnyssht with a|
yerde of corfe, with gold for the tiflue of|
the fame fwerde.

A quarter of a yerde

A yerde for thei
tiflue of the fayde i
fwerde J

Oon

Crymyfyn cloth
of gold.

Corfe with gold

Swcrde,

xviij peces of the 7
myddeJ afiflze J

XV unces di'
ix lb. V unces of?
threde J

To oure fayde Souverame Lorde thel! •• ,, ,.,
T^ r • L n. n. l^xii eJles di

Kyng, for to cover with ftappes, ftayres > -^

and the ftage, otherwife called the pul-

pitt in Weftminfter, chyrfhe poltcs, pil-

lours, rayles and the barr there, and to

ly under the fete of oure faide Souve-

raine Lord the Kyng, and oure faide

Souverayne Ladye the Quene the day ofj'xiij M

their moofte noble coronation, xviijj xxiiij M

peces of rede worfted of the inyddell

aflizc, the faid ftappes, Itayres, ftagcpods,

pillours, raylles and barres, garnyssht

with xiij M gilt naelles, xxiiij M of la

tilnails, xv unces di' ryban of filk,and ix

lb. V unces ryban and lyoure of threde,

and for to cover with his bayne, xxij ells

7 jChampaigne

J rlnrhe.

uij lb. xi unces di
of divers colours

Worftede rede.

Ryban of filk.
Ryban and
lioure.
Gilt nailles.
Latifnaills,

'} Threde.

di'

448 Th£ ANTTQJJARIAN REPERTORY.

di' of champaigne cloth, and for to cover
with the faid ftappes, ftayres, ftage pil-
Icurs, pofle?, raylcs and barres, iiij lb. xi
unces di' of ihrede of divers colours.

Yit for the Ivyngs Coronation.

Delivered for to make of and to co-
ver withe XXXV quysshons covered in
divers wife, that is to fay, ij long quys-
shons, and iij (horte quysshons, covered
in viij yerdes of crymyfyn velvet, a longe
cuysshon covered in ij yerdes di' quar-
ter of crymyfyn cloth of gold uppon
fatyn ground, v fnort cuysshons covered
in vij yerds of crymyfyn cloth of gold
emayled, ij lortg quysshons and iiij fliorte
quysshons covered in x yerds ] quarter
of crymyfyn damafk, ij longe quysshons
and ij fhorte quysshons covered in vij
yerds j quarter of crymyfyn tisshue
clothe of gold, ij longe quysshons and
vj fhorte quysshons covered in xiiij yerds
of vvhyte damafk with floures of gold, ij
Jonse quysshons and iij fliorte quysshons
covered in viij yerds of white cloth of
gol 1, and a fliorte quysshon covered in
baldekyn with luk gold, of the remanent
of the makyng of a canapie, and to'fowe
with the fame quysshons viij unces of
filk, and to make of the faid xxxv quys-
shons V tykk and iij quarters of a tykke,
and for the fylling of the fame xxxv
quysshons C di' xxvij lb, a quarteron of
lyving fcders.

viij yerds j

ij yerds di' quarter
uppon fjjtyn
ground
vij yerds of crymy-
fyn em ay led
vij yerds j quarter
of crymyfyn tis-
shue
viij yerds of whyte,

xiiij yerds (

X yerds j quarter >

And a quysshoi)
covered in balde-
kyn wich luk gold
viij unces

V and iij quarters?
of a tikk 5

C di' xxvj

Velvet crymy-
fyn.

Cloth of gold
of divers works
and divers ma-
kino-.

White damafk
with floures of
gold.

Damafk cry-
myfyn.

Sowing filk.
Tikk.
Lyving feders.

Yit for the Kyngs Corouation.

To oure faide Souverain Lorde the
Kyng for to have unto his mootle ho-'
nourable ufc for to make of divers foote-|
fhets, xxviij clles of champaigne clothe,!
and for to make of divers Iherts and;
ftietes xxxiiij elles of Holand clothe. I

xxxiiij elles
xxviij elles

Holand cloth.

Champaigne

clothe.

Yit

The ANTIQ^UARIAN REPERTORY.

Yit for the Kynffs Coronation,

449

To oure faid Souverain Lord the
Kyng for to have for his moofle honour-
able ule xxj quysshons of divers fortes,
that is to fay, a longe quysshon covered
in crymyfyn tisshue cloth of gold for the
anoynting of oure faid Souverain Lorde
the Kyng and xx other quysshons occu-
pyed as wel in the chirche of Weftmyn
Her in divers places, as in Weftminfter-
hall and in the office of the warderobe
of his roobes within his faid moofte ho-
nourable houfeholde, that is to witt, a
fliorte quysshon covered in crymyfyni
tisshue clothe of gold, a longe quysshon^
covered in crymyfyn cloth of gold upon,
fatyn grounde, iij fliort quysshons cover-'
ed in crymyfyn cloth of gold emay led, a^
long quysshon and ij fliorte quysshons'
covered in crymyfyn damafk, a long
quysshon and iij fhorte quysshons co-J
vered in white damafk with floures of|
gold, iij long quysshons and iij fhortej
quysshons covered in velvet of divers
colours, and a fliort quysshon covered in
grene velvett clothe of gold, ayenft the
faide moofte noble coronation of oure
faid Souverayne Lord the Kyng.

lOon longe covered "
';n crymyfyn tisshue
|cloth of gold
Oon fliorte cover-
ed in crymyfyn
tisshue cloth of
gold

Oon long covered
in crymyfyn cloth
of gold uppon fa-
tyn grounde
iij fhorte covered
iin crymyfyn clothe
|of gold emayled
Oon fhort covered '
in crymyfyn da-
mafk

Oon longe and iij
fhort covered in
white damafk with
floures of gold
iij longe and iiij
fliorte covered in
velvet of divers
colours and oon
iliorte covered in
o;rene velvet cloth

of gofi

Qtiysshons

nge & fliorte
covered in di-
vers wife.

To oure faid Souverain Lorde the
Kynge for to have for his ofFeryng at
his faide moofte noble coronation, a dou
ble pece of baldekyn with luks gold, and
to be holden over his hede the tynie of
his inunftion a double pece of baldekyn
with luks golde, and for to cover with
Saynt Edwards chayere ftanding uppon
the pulpit in Weftmynfter chirche, and
other divers chayers and feetcs as well in
Weftminfter chirche as in Weftminfter-
hall, vj double peces of baldekyn with
luks golde, and a pece of imperial! ; and
for to garnyssh with the Kyngs gloves
xij tufts of filk and venys gold. '

Vol. II. N« XI. 3

viij double peces
with luks gold
iOon pece
xij of fylk and ve-
Inys gold

J Baldekyn.
Imperial.
Tufts.

Yit

250 th5 antiquarian repertory.

Yit for the Kings Coronation.

To cure faid Souverain Lorde the
Kyng for to have unto his moofte ho-
nourable ufe the day of his moofte no-
ble coronation, agenft the grete folemp-
nitee thereof maade and doon the vi day
of Juyll, the yere of our Lord God
MCCCCixxxiij two fherts, oon made
of ij els di' of reyns, and the other large
made of ij yerds di' ot farfynet crymyfyn,
boothe open afore and behinde, under
the brefte deppeft bitwenc the Ihulders,
and in the fhulders and bitwene the
binding of the armes for his inunflion a
large brechc myd thigh depe, lolen afore
and behinde, maade of half a yard of
farfynette bounde with a breche belt,
made of a yerd di' of crymyfyn velvet; a
paire of hofen maade of a yerde and a
quarter of crymyfyn fatyn, lyned with a
quarter of a yerde of white larfynett, a
payre of fabatons covered in a quarter
of a yerde of crymyfyn tisshue cloth of
gold, lyned with a quarter of a yerde of
crymyfyn fatyn^ garnyssht with oon unce
of ryban of gold, a roobe of crymyfyn
fatyn to be anoynted in, conteigning a
coote, a furcoote cloos, a long mantel and
a hoode,all iiij garments maade of xxxviij
yerdes of rede latyn, the faidecoore lyned
•with ij elles di' of Holand clothe, and
open afore and behynd under the brefte,
deppefl bitwene the fliuldcrs, and in the
ihulders and bitwene the bynding of the
armes. The openyng of this coote faf-
tened togider with Ixxuj amuletts of fyl-
ver and gylte, and laced with ij laces of
ryban and laces of fylk, and with liij age-
Ictts of lylvcr; and above that coote a ta-
berde lyke unto a dalmatyke, maade of
iiij yerdes di' of wliite fariynett, put up
pon the faide coote of crymyfon fatyn
and the faid mantel funed with Ix timbr

}

V M. cccclxxxviij 1
ftaves J

xxxiiij tymbr
viij bakks
xxxi tymbr di'
XV wombes
Cxlij tymbr di'
wombes

X M. DCCC and
oon made of bogy
flianks
L yerdes iij quar- •)
ters of divers co- ^
ours

A yerd iij quar
ters of divers co
lours

Oon maade of bal-
dekyn with luks
gold garnyssht with
snge of venys
golde and of fylk
xxxiiij yerdes di'
vi^ yerdes iij quarters
ij beten with ima-"
ges of the Trinitee
ij beten with ima-
ges of Oure Lady
Oon beten with
Saynt Georges
Armes

iij beten with Saynt
Edwards Armes
iij beten with the
Kyngs Armes

ij beten with white
Lyons

Ray cloth,

Ermyns.
Meneverpure.

Powderings.

Velvet.
Cloth of gold.

Canapie.

Satyn of (ilk.
Sarfynett.

Baners maade
of fariynett and
frenged with
frenge of filk.

Standards of
farfynet frenged
with frenge of
lylk.

wombes

The ANTIQJJARIAN REPERTORY.

wombes of menyvere pure, and gar-
nyssht with oon unce of ryban of gold
of venys by the coler, and laced afore
the brefte with a longe lace of rede fylk,
with knopp and tafiells of rede fylk and
gold. The faid furcote cloofe garnyssht
with oon unce of ryband of gold of ve
nys, & furred with xxxi timbres wombes
of menyver pure, the color and (leves
purfiled with ij ermyn bakks ; the faidt-
hoode furred with ij timbr of ermyn!
bakks, and ij timbr di' and viij ermyn
wombes, and a coyfe made of a plyte of
lavvne to be put on the Kyngs heede
after his inunction, and loo to be kept on
by viij dayes afccr the Kyngs coronation.
A roobe of purpul velvet, conteignyng
vj garnets, that is to wir, a kyrtcl m.aadc
of vj yt-rds di' of purpul velvet, furred
with XX tymbr di' of v>/ombes of meny-
ver pure. A taberd maade of iij yerdsj
di' of purpul velvet, furred with xxiij'
tymber wombes of menyver pure, andi
the labels of the fune taber purfyled
with xviij new ermyn bakks. A furcotej
overt maade of vj yerds di' of purpull
velvette, fur.'-ed with xx tymbre di' oon
cfermyne wombes, A mantle with a
traague, maade of xv yerds of purpul
velvetf, furred with xxvj tymbr xviij
retteermyne bakks, and powdered with
vj M viij C di' of powderings maade of
bogy flianks ; a hoode maade of ij yerds
of purpull velvet furred with iij tymbii
and xij ermyn bakks, ant! a cappe otj
aftate maade of half a yerde of purpuilj
velvet and furred by the rul. thereof
with xvj of newe erm.yne bakks, andj
powdered with C di' or powderings!
made of bogy fhanks, and the (Icves of
the faidc furcote overt furred with ijl
tymbr di' of wombes of menyver pure,'
and powdered with M M M. D C C C.l
and oon powderings maade of bogy
fhanks and the Hud roobe of purpull'

xiij beten with the
ings armes

viij beten with the .

kings armes and/

lyned

xvij beten with the

kings armes fengle
A pece iiij yerds d;
ij ells di'
Lawne
ij ells di'
j unce di'

iij unces

xxvij yerds weigh-
ing by unces
ij of ryban of fylk
ij ot" fylk and ve- -
nys gold with bo- >
tons and taffels 3
Oon grete weying [
iij unces

Oon grete

iiij yerds di' quar- |
ters of filk & gold J

«5»

Trumpet ban-
ners made of
farfynett and
frenged with
fteiige of filk.

Coots of armes
and coots made
of farfynett.

Bokeram long,

Rayns.

Iplyte.

Holand cloth.

Sowing fylk.

II Ryban ot ve-

1 1 nys gold.
IJRyban of da-
J 'mafk gold.

Double lace.

Mantel lace.

Taffell of ve-
nys gold.
jBetonofplate.
t of gold,

Corfe.

ix lb ij unces of I

divers colors -I

iij wherof oon with

ailat poynte called

curtana

ixxiij of filver & giltjAmulettr,.

;iij of filver & gilt LAgeletts.

xliiij of filver & gilt Bolyons.

Chapes.

S Garnycshino;

iThredc.

Swerds,

iij of filver & gilt
Oon of filver & gilt

ij paires all gilt
Oon of pytthes of 1
rysshes i

iiij

iof a Iwerdc.
Spurres longe.

Rolle.

Banerfiaves.

velvet

iJ52 TyE ANTItTUARIAN

velvet enlarged and purfeurmed with ijl
yerds and iij quarters of velvet purpiil,!
and the furre of the faide roobe pur-
feurmed with atymbre of ermyn bakks,
and ij tymbr of ermyn wombes, with a
mantel lace with knoppes and taflels for \
the lame roobe. A bonnet made of iij
quarters of a yerde of purpuU velvet,
and delivered for the faid grete folemp-
nitee of both the Kings and alio the
Quenes moofte noble coronation, i fian-
darde maade of farfynette beten with;
vvhyte lyons and frenged with frenge of|
lylk, XV banners of farfynct beten in di-
vers wife, that is to witt, ij beten upon]
farOnet with ymagcs of the Trinitee. iijil
beten with ymages of oure Lady, oon|
beien with Saync Georges armes. iiij;
beten uppon farfynet with the Kings
armes and iij of farfynet beten with Saint'
Edwards armes, all frenged with frenge;
of filk. I ftandarde beten with whytei
lyons uppon farfinet and frenged withi
frenge of filk. xiij trumpet baners betenj
upon farfinet with the kinges armes. viij
coots of farfinett beten with the kinges
armes and lyned, xvij coots fengle of
farfinet and beten with the kinges armes,
and for the garnysshing of <£he faid roobe
of purpull velvett xxvij yerds of ryban
ofdam.dk golde, wcying vij unces, and a
grete boton of plate of gold, and a greete
taflel ofvenysgold, weying iij unces ;
and for to make with the laid roobes oon
unce di' of filk and ixlb and ij unces
threde of diveis colours: and for the
cappe of faid roobe a roll of pytthes of
risshes and iiij banerftaves for the faide
canapie of b ildekyn with luks gold ; and|
for to cover with the pavyment wherej
the Kyng and ihe Qiiene fhuld goo up
pon at theire moofte noble coronations,
from the greete Hall of Weilminiler
.unto the Munafterie Chirche of Wed-
minfter unto the pulpite or ftage there,

REPERTORY.

vM.cccclx

xxviij

The ANTIQ^UARIAN

vM.cccclxxxviij ftaves of raye clothej
ilj fwcrdes, whereof oon with a flatr
poynte called ciirtana, and ij other}
fwords, allij fwords covered in a yerde!
di' of crymyfyn tisshue cloth of gold,
and for the tisshnes and gyrdles of the
fame iij fwerds, ij yerds of corfe wroght
with gold, ij paire of longe fpurrs all
gilt, and for the tisshues of the fame a
yerde and iij quarters of blue corfe -with
gold, and iij quarters di' of a yerde of
crymyfyn corfe with gold, and a cana-
pie maade of baldekyne with kiks gold
garnyssht with frenge of venys gold and
frenge of fylke, and for the covering
and bynding of a fworde in the handell
a quarter of a yerde of velvet, for the
bordure of a trappour viij yerds di' of
purpul velvet for the lyning of the fame
trappoure, iij yerds of bokeram for the
lyning of a trappour of purpul velvet
cloth of gold and other divers trap-
pours a pece, a yerde di' of longe bo-
keram. The grete bordure and purfile
of the fame trappoure enlarged and per-
fourmed with vj tymbr. vj of ermyne
womes and counterlyned with iij elles
of canvas ; and the furr of the fame
trappour perfourmed with xxij ermyn
bakks, and for the garnysshing of iiij
fwerdes iiij chappes of fylvyr and gilt,
and xliiij bolyons of filver and gilt
weying and the garnysshing

of a fwerde of filvcr and gilt weying ij
unces di' a peny weight.

To oure faia Souverain Lorde the
Kynge for to have unto his mooft ho-
nourable ufe the morne after his moofte
noble coronation, a longe gowne made
of viij yerds and a quarter of crymyfyn
cloth of gold wroght with droopes
lyned with vj yerds di' of grene da-
mafk.

Vol. II. N<? XI. | S

REPERTORY.

»5S

viij yerds i quar-
ter of crymyfyn

roght with
droopes
vj yerds di'

Cloth of gold.

D-imalk.

254 The A N T I QU A R I A

To oiire faid Soiiverain Lorde the
Kvng for to have unco his moofie ho-
nourable uie, a long gowne made of
viij yerds iij quarters di' of crymyfyn
cloth of gold chekked, lyned with viij
yerds iij quarters and iij nailles of grene
iatyn, and a longe gowne made of viij
yerds di' di' quarter of purpul fatyn
lyned with viij yerds di' of white cloth
of gold.

To oure faid Souverain Lord the
Kyng cor to have unto his moofte ho-
nourable ufe, a fliorte gown made of iij
yerds and a quarter of purpul velvet
lyned with iij yerds iij quarters of plun-
ket cloche of gold -, a plakert maade ofj
half a yerd and half a quarter of blacj
velvet lynca with half a yerd half quar-j
ter of white damafK, a doublet made of
ij yerds and di' quarter of grene fatyn
tnterlyned with iij quarters ot' oon ell
and iij nailles of bull-:, and lyned with
oon ellofHoland clothe, a longe gowne
maade of viij yerds di' of purpul velvet
lyned with viij yerds di' purpul fatyn,
and for to lync with a longe gowne of
purpul cloth of gold wroght with gar
tiers and roofes of the gift of oure Sou
verain Lady the Quene viij yerds of
white damaflc.

To vij of our fayde Souverain Lorde]
the Kyngs henxemen, that is to wit. The
Lorde Morley, Thomas Dane, John
Beaumont, John Barkeley, Edward
Welles, Thomas Paton, and John Croft,
for theire apparaill agenft the day of the
grt-ce folempnitee of the noble corona
tion of oure faid Souverain Lord the
King, viij doubletts made of xv yerds
iij quarters of greeiie fatyn lyned with
viij elles and iij quarters of Holand
clothe, and enterlyned with vj elles of^

N REPERTORY.

viij yerds iij quar-
ters dr of crymy-
fyn chekkecl, viij
yerds di' white
xvij yerds di' and
a naill

xij yerds j quar- 1
ter di' J

iij yerds iij quarter 1
plunket -I

viij yerds di' di* 1
quarter J

X yerds di' di' 1
quarter '

elle
iij quarters and iij 1
nailles J

xlj yerds di'
xviij 'yerds j quarter
xxvj yerds j quarter
vij D di'of ryban 1
of venvs filk ■*

or venys
xvj of ryban of I
venys filk •»

xiiij yerds of venys 1
filk ^

viij elles iij quarters
vj elles
viij pair

Cloth of gold
of divers mak-
ing.

Satyru

Velvet of divers
colours.

Cloth of gold.

Damafk of filk.

Satyn of filk.
Holand cloth.
Bulk.

Velv. crymyfyn
Satyn of filk,
Sarfniet.
Poynts weying
ii) unces.

Laces.

Ryban.

-ioland cloth.
Canvas.
Ho fen.

canvas.

The ANTIQJLJ ARIAN REPERTORY.

canvas, and vij long gownes maade ofi
xlj yerds and dl' of crymyfyn velvet
lyned with xxvj yerds and a quarter ofj
white farfnict, viij blac bonnets, viijj
pair of hofen, vij D di' poynts of ryban
of filk of venys weying iij unces, xvj
laces of ryban of filk. of venys, and xiiij
yerds of ryban of venys filk, weying in
all vj unces, and viij D di' points of
leder, and for ftomacke a yerde and iij
quarters of grene latyn, and iij quarters
of a yerde of crymyfyn fatyn ; and to
eaiche of theyme, and alfo theire mafter,
ij pair of (hoon, ij pair of flops, and viij
paire of botev/s of Spaynyfli leder a-
mong theyme.

To my Lady Lovell, my Lady Fitz-
hugh the elder, and my Lady Fitzhugh
the younger, to everiche of them vj yerds
of fcarlet, to be had of the efpecial gift
of oure faide Souverain Lorde the Kyng.

VIIJ

viij D di'

xvj pair

viij pair of Spay-:

nyfli leder J

xviij yerds

Bonnetts blac.
Leder poynts.
Shoon.
Slopps.

Botews.

Scarlett.

Stuff delivered to, for, and agenji the grete Sokmpnitee of the moofte noble Coro-
nation of our Souverayne Lady the ^ejie^ the Vigile afore the fame Coronation
and after.

To oure fayde Souverain Lady the
Quene, for to have unto her moofl: ho-
nourable ufe agenft the grete folempni-
tee of her moofl: noble coronation, a
kyrtle of white clothe of gold, and a
mantell with a trayne of the fame white
cloth of gold, boothe kyrtel and man-
tell made of xxvij yerdes a quarter di'
of white cloth of gold -, the fayde man-
tel with the trayne furrid with xxx timbr
of ermyn wombes and purfiled with
xxxviij of ermyn bakks. The fayde
fui re and purEle powdered with C povv-
derings made of bogy fhanks, and the
faid kyrtell furred with xxvj timbr di'
of wombes of mcnyver pure. The faid

xxxix yerds and a 7
quarter J

I viij yerds j quarter
Oon made of cry-
myfyn velvet for
the fecond chare
Clviij yerds di'
quarters of divers
colours

C yerds and iij
quarters of divers
colours

Oon maade for
the third chare of
damafk

Rede clothe.
Velvet.
Upper cover-

ing.

Clothe of gold.

DamaDi.

?|Upp

er cover-

mantel

256 The A N T I QJJ A R I A N REPERTORY.

mantel of white cloth of gold garnyssht
with a mantel lace of whyte fiik and
vcnys gold, with botons and tafiels unto
the fame, and the roobc was garnissht
with ij unces of ryban of gold ot venys,
and the faid kyrtel was garnysshte with
hx anuletts of filver and gik, for the
vigile afore thv^ daye of her moofte noble
coronation, for to ryde in within her
lyter from the Toure of London unto
the Paloys of Weftminfter, covered in
xvj yerds and iij quarters of white cloth
of gold, and lyned within with iij yerds
of white damaflc of fylk garnyssht withj
ii) unces di' of ryban of gold of venys,
and ix unces of ryban of filk, and ij lb.
xij unces of frenge of white filk, and the
fadels of the fame liter covered in the
fame white cloth of gold, and a matras
put in the bothom in the fame liter co-
vered in ij yerds di' and quarter of white
damafk and a cered cloth •, two trap-
pours for two courfours conveying the
faid liter, made of xxxiiij yerds iij quar-
ters of white damafl-i of filk lyned with
xxxiij ells of Holand clothe. The chiefc
chare of oure faid Souverain Lady the
Qiiene, covered aforehand with cloth of
gold crymyfyn of the Kyngs own ftore,
with V paire of draughts iiewe covered
in XXX yerds of crymyfyn cloth of gold,
iij fadels for the fame cheif chare cover-
ed in vj yerds of crymyfyn cloth of gold,
viij fadels for Ladyes covered in xx
yerdes of the fame crymyfyn cloth of
gold *, V other womens ladels covered in
xij yerds of the fame crymyfyn cloth of
aoid for the henxemen of oure faid Sou-
verain Lady the Quene, for to cover
with the colers and ftyrup leders, ij yerds
di' of crymyfyn cloth of gold, vij har-
neys for Ladyes, and a harneyfe for a
fpare fadelle, and v harneys for the faid

XXX viij bakks ?
XXX tymbr di' J
li) wombcs tymbr
XX vj tymbr wonbes
xxvj M cccccxxiiij
xxxiij elles

xiiij unces di' I

ij lb. xj unces 7
i quarter i

Silk and venys
gold v/Mh botons
and taffels unto
the fame
ix lb. ij unces
ij furred with
ermyns

ij maade of cry-
myfyn clothe of
gold and furred
with ermyns
a pece long
vj peces fliort

'i'j
"ij

Ixx of filver and gilt
xlij M fmall
xxiiij grete
White clothe of
gold and garnissht
with ryban of ve-
nys gold and filk
and frenge of filk
ij covered in white'
cloth of gold and
garnyssht in lyke-
vvife

ij for courfours
maade of white
damafk and lyned
with Holand cloth

Ermyns.

Letens.

Menyver pure.
Powderings.
Holand cloth.
Ryban of venys
gold.

Ryban of filk.

Mantel lace.

Frenge of filk»
Mantels of
altate.

Hatts of aftate.

Bokeram.

iMateras.
Cered clothe?.
Anuletts.

Gilt nailles.

Lytters.

Sadels.

Trappours.

V womens

The ANTIQJJARIAN REPERTORY. 257

V womens fadels for the faid henxemen
all covered in xlij yerds di' of crymyfyn
cloth of gold, and for the lyning of the
faid harneys vj peces of rede fnorce bo-
keram. For the garnysshing cf the faid
chief chaire, iij unces of ryban of veny^
gold, and ix unces j quartern of rybun
of fylk, and ij lb. ij unces frenge offilk
purpull. The feconde chare of oure
laid Souverain Lady the Quene, the bo-
dy covered in vij yerds di' of cryniyfyn
velvet, and v pair of draughts of the
fame fecond chares, covered in xxx
yerds of crymyfyn velvet for the upper
covering or' the fame fecond chare xiij
yerds of velvet crymyfyn, and for the
lyning of the fadel houfes and the panels
of the fadels a pece of longe bokeram,
for the lyning of the chare harneys, for
the lyning ot the fecond chare within ;
and for iij covertours of the faid chief
chare, the fecond chare, and the third
chare, xxxix yerdes and a quarter cloths.
The third chare of oure faid Souverain
Lady the Quene, and the iij fadels,
draughts of the lame, covered in xxxix
yerds and half a quarter of crymyfyn
damafk. And for the upper coverying of
the faid thyrd chare vj yerds and iij
quarters of crymyfyn damafk; for the
garnysshing of the faide feconde and
thyrd chares
gold, and

iiij lb. iiij unces frenge of filk, and for
to cover with the faid chief, fecond and
thirde chares for the weder iij cered
clothes, and to lye in the bothams of
them in materas, and to cover with ij'
broode raines a yerd of purpull cloth ot;
gold, and for to cover with divers rayns
for brydels ij yerds and iij quarters of
velvet crymyfyn, and for the garnvssh-
ing of the forfaide chares xly M of
Vol. n. N° XI. c

vj unces ryban of venys'
ix unces ryban of fylk, and

Oon aforehand co-
vered in crymyfyn
cloth of gold, and]
garnysr.ht with ry-
ban of venys gold
and fill', and frenge
of fylke

iij covered in cloth '
of gold crymyfyn
and garnvsshtwith 1
frenge of filk and ,
venys gold, and
ryban of filk and
venys gold
r pay re for the
ame chief chare
covered in lyke-
wile

Oon covered in
crymyfyn velvet
and garnissht with
ryban of venys
gold and fylk and
frenge of filk
iij covered in like-
wife for the fame
fecond chare and
iij fadels
V paire for the
lame fecond chare
covered in crymy-
fyn velvet
Oon covered in
crymyfyn damafk
and garnysshtwith
ryban of venys
gold and fylk and
frenge of filk
iij for the fame
third chare cover-
ed in lykewyfe

Chief chare.

Sadels.

Draughts.

Second chare.

Sadies.

Draus;hts.

Thyrd cliare.

Sadels.

fmall

258

The antiquarian REPERTORY;

grete

gilt

fmall gilt nailles, and xc
Dailies: and the forlaide viij fddellesTor
Ladyes covered in crymyfyn clotli of
gold, and the faide v other v.omens la-
dels in lykewife coveted ; and the faid
xiij harneys of the fame fuite in lyke-
wife covered. To the furring of every
harneys and purfiling of every fadell iiij
tymbr letens com' lij tymbr of letens,
and powdered with xxvj M cccclxxx
powderings made of bogy flianks, and
ij of the fayd mantels of aftate furrid
with ermynes, and ij of the faid hatts of
ailate with rounde rolles behinde and
fliarp beks before, covered in crymyfyn
cloth of gold and furrid with ermyns,
and delivered and to William Jofeph^
and John Vavafer, gentilmen usshers ofj
oure faide Souverain Lady the Quene's
Chamber, ryding afore her the even
afore the day of her moofte noble coro-
nation, from the Toure of London un-
to the paloys of "Weftminfter, bering
and wering the faid ij mantels of aftate
covered in crymyfyn cloth of gold with
round rolles behind and fharp beks be
fore furrid with ermyns, for to have for
theire apparaill ij yerds of crymyfyn
damafk, agenft the faid greete folemp
nitee of the fiid mooft noble coronation
and for the panes of iij mantels of her
roobes vj yerds of fuftian

To V henxemen of our faide Souve-
rain Lady the Quene, ryding in the
faide v womens fadelles covered in cry-
myfyn cloth of gold and garnyssht with
frenge of venys golde, and in v of the
faid harneys furrid and purfiled with
letens, alio covered and garnyssht in
Jykewife, after the Quene ryding in her
litter the vigile afore the day of her mooft
noble coronation, from the Toure of
London unto the Paloys of Weilminfter

!v payre for the
fame third chare
|Covered in crymy-
jfyn damafk

Draughts.

A yerd

xviij yerds and iij J
quarters y

viij yerds i quarter
viij yerds i quarter

V Elles
iij Elles

V pair
X pair

Cloth blac.

Velvet blue.

Satyn of filk.
Bokeram longe.
Holand clothe.
Canvas.
Spurres blac.
Shoon.

for

The ANTIQ,UARIA

for their apparaill and ariay v doubletts
maade of viij yerdsj quarter of crymyfyn
fatyn, and lyned with v elles of Holand
clothe and enterlyned with iij elles of
canvas, and v flioite gownes maade of
xviij yerds and iij quarters of blue vel-
vet lyned with viij yerds j quarter of
longe bokeram, and a yerde of. blac
clothe, and to everiche of theyme a pair
of blac fpurres and ij pair of fhoon.

To vij Ladyes for theire ryding, and
a fpare hors, viij of the faide fadels co-
vered in crymyfyn cloth of gold and
garnyssht with ryban of venys gold and
frenge of venys gold, and the faid viij
harneys unto them alfo covered in cry-
myfyn cloth of gold and garnyssht with
frenge of venys gold and furrid with le-
tens, and to perfourme the lyning of the
faid ii) chares harneys xxxj yerds and a
quarter of rede clothe.

N REPERTORY.

»59

To oure faid- Souverain Lady the
Quene, for to have for the garnysshing
of her faide lyter and chares the parcels
of ftuff here in the inner margyne noted
and fpecified.

V covered in cry- 1
myfyn cloth of
gold garnyssht
with frenge and
riban of gold of
venys

V covered in di'
cloth of gold gar-
nyssht with frenge
of venys gold and '
furrid and purfiled
with letens

xxxj yerds j quar- 1
ter J

viij covered in cry-")
myfyn cloth of
gold and garnyssht
with ryban of ve-
nys gold & frenge
of venys gold
viij covered in cry-
myfyn cloth of
gold & garnyssht
with frenge of
venys gold and
furred with letens

Sadels.

Woollen cloth
rede.

Sadels.

Hors harneys.

iiij covered in
white damafk lyn-
ed in lynnen cloth,
ij of rede leder
V covered in cloth i
of gold

Belles of leder.

^jBroode rayns.

ix covered in velvet
X chaaft and gilc
vij of cooper & gilt

Brydel rayns.

Bafyns.

Pomels.

vj with

And for to have for the Quenes
chares and her lycer xij D di' poynts of
ryban of filk weying viij unces di'.

Brydeis.

260 The antiquarian REPERTORY.

vj with bytts bof-
fed with broode
rayns and chayns.
The fame bridels
covered in cloth
of gold and gar-
nyssht with crowns j
and flour de lys, J>
chaaft and gilt,
and with faux-
rayns; and vj o-
ther brydeis gar-
nyssht in lykewife
and covered in
velvet

Oon covered in
cloth of gold
Oon covered in
crymyfyn velvet
Oon covered in

cloth of gold
Oon covered in
velvet crymyfyn
Oon covered in
cloth of gold
Oon covered in
velvet crymyfyn
ii) of leder
xviij fadom
xxxvj of laten
with latchetts &
bokels

Oon covered in
velvet
Oon covered in 7
velvet J

V covered in cloth 7
of gold J

Lymour

crovvps.

Lymour coles.

Dofers.

jLymourpilows
iGuydinglyne.

Guyding rings.

Rayne.

Leding rayne.
Colers.

xij D di' maade "
of ryban of fylk
weying viij unces
di'

>, Poynts.

The ANTIQ^UARIAN REPERTORY. a6i

Velvet purpul.
Ermyns.

vj yerds

XXV tymbr, v 7
bakks, vli) wombs *
Oon of filk andl
;old with botons
nd taflcls urro
tae fame

Oon unce

'iij Mcccccxxv

made of bogy

fhanks

iii) ellcs

Ixxv of filver and

gilt

To our faide Souvrain Lady the
Quene, for to have unto her moofl ho-
nourable ufe the day of her moofte no-
ble coronation, fo foiempnized the vj
day of Juvll the yere of our Lord God
MCCCCLXXXIII ; a roobe of purpull
velvet cont' a kyrcel, a furcote overt and
a mantel with a trayne, all iij garments
maade of Ivj yerds of purpul velvet, the
fayde furcote overt furred with iij tymbr
di' and v ermyn bakks and viij ermyn
wombes, the faid furre powdered with
ccccxxv powderings maade of bogy
Ihanks, and the fayde furre lyneth per-
fourmed with xxxij tymbr of wombes
of menyver pure. And the faide man-
tel furred with xxj tymbr di' of ermyn
bakks, and powdered with viij M C
powderings maade of bogy flianks ; and
the faide kyrtel lyned with iij elles of
Holand cloth and garnissht with Ixxv
anuletts of filver and gilt. The faide
mantel garnissht with a mantel lace of
filk and gold, with botons and taflels
unto the fame, and the fame roobe gar
nyssht with oon unce of ryban of gold.

To our faide Souvra'n Lady thi
Quene, for to have unto her moolte
honourable ufe agenft the fame her
moofte noble coronation, a roobe of
crymyfyn velvett, conteyning mantel/
with a trayne, a furcote, and a kyrtell,
maade of xlviij yerds of crymyfyn vel-
vet. The faide mantel with a trayne,
furcote & kyrtel, furred with cxxj tymbrjl- ^^^^ ■ amrter
of wombz of menyver pure. And the r
furcote garnyssht with oon unce j quar-
ter ryban of gold of venys : and tlie
faide mantell garnissht with a mantel
lace of filk and gold, with botons and
taflels of filk and gold. And for to
make of iij panes for iij roobes vj yerds
of white fullian ; and for the kyriil of|
the 'faid roobe Ixx anulets of filver and
Vol. II. N° XIL 3 U

Menyver pure.

Ryban of gold
of venys.

Powderings.

Holand cloth.

Anuletts.

xiviij yerds |Velv, cryfhyfyn

cxxj tymbr wombes Rajen pure.

Oon of filk and"^!

!gold with

and taffels of fi!k^|Mantel lace.

and

fame

gold unto the

K ana^
boton /
of filk >

unce di'

vj yerds

Ixx of filver & gilt

iiij of filver & gilc

Sylk.
Riban of
.f venys.
F'uftian.
Anuletts.
Ageletts.

gold

ilti

A quarter of a yerde
A quarter of a yerde
Oon iince and a ,
quarrer and ij pe- >
ny weights ^

Oon pece with
Inks gold
Oon longe and a
Ihorte covered in
tisshue clothe of
gold, ij Ihorte co-
vered in crymyfyn
cloth of gold e-
mayled, a longe
and ij fhorte co-
vered in erymyfyn
damafk, a long
and iij fliorte co-
vered in white
damask, with
flovires of gold J

262 The antiquarian RE PER TORT.

gilt J and for to lace with the kyrtels oti
her roobes iiij ageletts of filver and gilt,!
and for to make with the fame roobe
oon unce di' of filk.

To oure faide Soiivrain Lady tht
Qiiene, for to have unto her mooftt-
honourable ufe agenft her moofte noble
coronation, a paire of fabatons covered
in a quarter of a ycrd of crymyfyn cloth
of gold, lyned with a quarter of a yerde
of ciyniyfyn fatyn, and garnyssht with
oon unce j quarter of ryban of gold of
venys and two penyweights.

To oure faide Souvrain Lady the
Qiiene, for to have unto her moofte ho
nourable ufe at her moofte noble coro-
nation, a pece of baldekyn with luks of
gold for to offer at the high mafie : and
for to have the vigile and day of her
moofte noble coronation ij canapies, oon
maade of imperial and the other of bal-
dekyn, with luks gold garnyssht with
frenge of venys gold and frenge of filk
and for to have divers quysshons for the
faide moofte noble coronation ; that is
to wit, a Icng quysshon covered in cry-
myfyn tisshue clothe of gold; a fhorte
quysshon covered in tisshue clothe of
gold, two fhorte quysshons covered in'
crymyfyn clothe of gold emayled, a
longe quysshon ond ij fhorte quysshons}
covered in whitedamafk, alongquysshonj
and iij fliorte quyssyons covered in whitei
damafk, with floures of gold, and viij!
fperefhaftes with their chapitrells. I

To oure faide Souvrain Lady the!
Quene, for to have of the efpecial gift|
of ouie faide Souverain Lorde the Kynge,
iiij yerds di' of purpull cloth of gold.

To oure iaicle Souverain Lady the
Quene, for to have of the efpecial gift
of our faid Souverayne Lorde the Kinge
at his moofte noble coronation, xx yerds

Cloth of gold.

Satyn,

Ryban of gold
venys.

Baldekyn..

ai, 1

"■5

Oon of imperial,

oon of baldeky

with luks gold

viij with their cha-'

pitrels

viij for oon of the

faid canapies

iiij yerds di' J

XX yerds wroght 7
with gartiers I

Quysshons co-
vered in divers
wyfe.

Sperelhafts.

Belles of filver
and gilt.

Purpul cloth
of eoid.

Cloth of gold;

The antiquarian REPERTORY. 263:

of purpuU cloth of gold wroglit with
gartiers and vij yerdsof purpull velvet.

To oure faid Souverain Ladye the
Quene, for to have unto her moofte
honourable ufe xvj horfhoufes, maade of
xxxvj yerds di' of rede clothe engreyled
with vj yerds of white woolkn clothe,
and lyned wi:h xxv ells of canvas, and
for to Ibwe with the fame horflioufes v
lb of threde, and for to cary in to York
divers horlhneys vij elles canvas.

vij yerds

xxxvj yerds di' j

j yerds I

xxxij elles

vlb

xvj maade of rede")

wolien cloth en- \

greyled with white }

wolien clothe and \

lyned with canvasJ

Velvet purpull.

Wolien clothe

rede.

Wolien cloth'

white.

Canvas.

fhrede.

Horfhoufes
within writen. .

To V henxemen of oure fayde Souve-
rayrt Lady the Qiiene, for to have for
their apparaill and array agenll the day
of her moofte noble coronation, v dou-
bletts maade of x yerds iij quarters of
grene faryn, lyned with v elles of Ho-
land clothe, and enterlyned with iij ells
of canvas •, and v long gownes maade of
xxviij yerds j quarter di' of crymyfyn
velvet, lyned with xxviij yerds of white
farfinet, and to everiche of theym a pair
of hofen, v D di' poynts of riban of ve
nys filk weying ij unces iij quarters ; x
laces of riban of venys filk. and x yerds
of riban of venys filk, all weying iiij un-'
ces and iij quarters v D di' of leder!
poynts, v bonnetts blac •, and to them
all V among them for ftomachers a yerdi
and a quarter of grene fatyn, and half a'
yerde di' quarter of crymylyn fatyn, and
to everiche ij pair of Ihoon, a pair of
flopps, and a paire of botowes of Spag
nyssh leder.

To oure faide Souverayn Lady the'
Quene, for to have unto her moofte
honourable ufe agenft her faide moofte
noble coronation, for truGing and ca-
riage of divers of her roobes at the fame
her moofte noble coronation, vij pair of

xxviij yerds j quar-?
ter di' i

xij yerds di' di' I
quarter
xxiij yerds
X of ryban of ve-
nys filk

X verds of venys
filk

V D di' of venys
filk, weying ij un- (
ces iij quarters ■'

V els
iij els

V pair

vDdi»

X pair

V pair

V pair of Spag- 7
nyssh leder ^

Velvet crymy-
lyn.

Satyn,

Sarfynet white. .

Laces.

Ryban.

Poynts.

Holand cloth. .

Canvas.

Hofen.

Bonnetts.

Leder points.

Shoon.

Slopps. .

Botows.

vij pair everiche of i
ij breds of Brufel ?
cloth J

Shets.

ihets

264 The ANTiaUARIAN

Ihets of ij breds of Brufel clothe whiche
rain nevt;r ayen ; ij foldyng chayers.

To the Lady Brygitr, one of the
daughters of Kyng Edward the iiijthe,
beying feek in the faicie wardrobe, for
to have for he:e ufe at that tyme, ij long
pilowes of i'uftian ftuffed with downe,
and ij pilowberes of Holand clothe unto
they me.

REPERTORY.

[Folding chaiers

lon^ of fuftian

(luffed with down
ij long of Holand
clothe

Pilows.

Pylowe Beres.

The Lyverees of Clothyng, and the Lynings delyvered agenft the faid moofie noble
Coronation of our fayde Souveraine Lord the Kyng, as well unto the hordes
Sprituall and I'mparall, as to other divers Perfones hereafter named and
fpecified.

To the moofte Reverend Fader in
God, Lorde Thomas, Archiebysshopof
Canterbury and Cardynall of England,
for to have for his liveree of clothyng
agenfl the faide mooft noble coronation
■of our fayde SouveraineLord the Kyng,
xviij yerds of fcarlet and xviij yerds of
-grene damafk.

To the Right Reverend Fader in God,
Lorde William Bysshop of Durem, for
Jiis liveree of clothing agenft the faide
moofte noble coronation of our faide
Souveraine Lord the Kyng, xvj yerds of
fcarlet, and for the lyning two peces of
tartaryn.

To the Right Reverend Fader in God,
Lorde Robert Bysshop of Bathe, for his
liveree of clothing againft the fayde
mooft noble coronation of oure faid
Souveraine Lord the Kyng, xvj yerds
fcarlet, and for lyning a pece of tarta-
ryn.

To the Right Reverend Faders in God,
Lordes Thomas, Bysshop of London ;
Piers, Bisshop ot Exceftre-, — Bysshop of
Saint Afle, and to my Lorde Privee Seal,

Xviij yerds
Xviij yerds

xvj yerds
ij peces

xvj yerds
A pece

xlviij yerds

jScarlet.
Damaflv grene.

Scarlet.
Tartarvn.

Scarlet,
Tartaryn.

Scarlet,

The ANTIQ^UARIAN REPERTORY. 265

fo everiche of tliem, for theyre lyvereei
of clothing agenft the faide moofte noblej
coronation of cure faid Souverain Lorde
the Kyng, xij yerds of fcarlet. I

Lordes temporal^ JugeSy and other Peyfons.

To my I.orde Treforer of England,' x yerds
and to Piers Courteys the Kyngs ward-i
rober ; to eyther of theme for theire
lyveree of clothing agenft the faide]
moofte noble coronation of oiire fayde
Souveraine Lord the Kyng, x yerds of
fcarlet.

To Sir William Hufy, Chief Jiiftice xlix yerds
and Juge of the Kyngs Benche ; to Guy xlviij yerds
Fairefaux and William Genny, Jugesl
of the fame Benche ; to Sir Thomasj
Bryan, Chief Jiiftice and Juge of the'
Comon Place, and to Chokk, Rich-
ard Nele, and Catefby, Juges of]
the fame Benche, for the lyverees of
clothing agenft the faide mooft noble
coronation of oure faide Souveraine
Lorde the Kyng, to everiche of theyme
vij yerds of fcarlet.

To Humfrey Starky, Chief Baron of xxviij yerds
oure fayd Souveraine Lorde the Kings
Exchequier, and to Brian Roucliff, Ed-
ward Goldefburngh, and Rauff Wol-
lefley. Barons of the fame Exchequier,!
for theire lyveree of clothinge agenft the
faide moofte noble coronation of oure
faide Souverain Lorde the Kyng, to
everiche of theym vij yerds of fcarlet.

To John Vavafer, Townefeende, xxj yerds

John Tremayle, Sergeaunts of the Lawe,
for theire lyverees of clothing agenft
the faid moofte noble coronation of oure
faide Souverain Lorde the Kyng, to
everiche of theym vij yerds of fcarlet.

To Morgan Kydwelly, the Kyngs y yerds
Attourney, for his lyveree of clothing'
agenft the faide moofte noble coronation]

Scarlet.

Vol. II. N« XII.

3 X

The ANTIQJQARrAN
oure faide Souveraine Lorde the

2 56

of
Kyrg.

To Treforer of

Ploufehold, and to John Kendal, Se-
crttarie unto oure fiide Souverain Lorde
the Kyng, for theire liverees of clothing
agenft. the layde moofte noble coronation
of oure faide Souveraine Lord the Kyng,
to either of them vj yerds of fcarlct.

To Counterollor of

the Kings Hous, for his liverce of cloth-
ing agenft the faid moolle noble corona-
tion of oure faid Souveraine Lorde the
Kyng, iiij yerds di' of fcarlet.

To Robert Scrope, Kerver unR?,our
Souverain Lady the Qiiene, for his ly-
veree of clothing agenft oure faide Sou-
veraine Lorde the Kyngs moolte noble
coronation, vij yerds of fcarlet.

To William Lacy, Clerc of the Kyngs
Counfaiil, John Belle, Coferer of the
Kyngs Hous, Robert Nicholl, Avener
of the Kings Hous, William Herbert,
Squire, John Frifley, Clerc of the Kings
Stable, Nicholas Rygby, Yomanofthe
Kings Hors, William Danyell, Yoman
of the Qiienes Horfe, John of the Ew-
ary, and Thomas Kopton, Gentleman
of the Qiienes Chare, for theire lyveree
of clothing agenft the faide moofte no-
ble coronation of oure fayde Souverain
Lorde the Kyng, to everiche of theym
iij yerds of Icarlet.

To William Page, William Mifter-
ton, Richard Huntyndon, Thomas
Dancalfer, Laurence Govver, Robert
Boyltt, John Carter, John Kendall,
Bengemyn Sydal), Philipp Sherley, and
John Wiltowe, to everiche of them iij
yerdes of rede clothe.

To William Hene the younger, and
Edmond Trcmpat, Mynltrals ; John
Hert, William Hert the elder, William

REPERTORY.

vj yen

Scarlet.

iiij yerds di

Scarlet,

xxvij yerds

Scarlet.

xxx'iij. yerds

xxiiij yerds

Scarlet.

Rede clothe.

Mayhiie,

The antiquarian REPERTORY,

Mayhne, James Hylle, Thomas Pre- 1

man, "William Wright, Edward Scar-!

ler, Robert Trumpett, William Scar-I

let, John Biilfon, John Browne, John!

Marfhall, John Talbot, Henry Swan,'

Watkyn Palvyn, William Davy, Wil-
liam Scarlet the younger, Rauf Hubert,j

William Wortley, Richard Dalamare,j

Henry Gyles, and Janyn Taberetts and

Trumpetts, for theire liverees of cloth-
ing agenft the faide moft noble corona-
tion, to everiche of theym.e ij yerdes of

rede clothe. To John Crowland, Mar

fhall of the Mynftrels, for his liveree of

clothing agenft the faid moofle noble

coronation iij yerds of rede clothe. Rich-
ard Hylles, John Pryoure, John Pay-

nett, Thomas Paynter, John Hatche,

William Clyfton, Nicholas Dennis, Pe

tri de Cafa Nova, Sounder Marlhall,

Robert Grene, Thomas Mayhne, Wil

liam Barley Johannes, William Mya

ftral, Lyefart Wyllerkyn, Walter Myn

ftral, and Sylkyn Cowp, to everiche of

they me for theire liverees of clothing

agenft the fayde moofte noble corona-
tion of oure faid Soiiveraine Lorde the

Kyng, ij yerds of rede cloche.

To Henry 1 aberette, Thomas Craw- x yerds di' Rede clothe,

thorne, John Hawkyns, William Grene,
and Wiiliam Botiller, to everiche of
them ij yerds of rede clothe togider, and
half a yerde over amongs them.

To William Crefwell and vij other xxiiij
perfons of the office of the ftable, for xxvij yerds Rede clothe,

theire lyverees of clothing agenft the
fayde moofte noble coronation of our
faide Souverayn Lord the Kyng, to
everiche of iheyme iij yerds of rede
cloche,

267

Tbt

268

The ANTIQJJARIAN REPERTORY.

The BeHveree of Scarlet delivered unto divers Aftates of Ladyes, and unto divers
Genti/zvomen, at the moojle noble Coronation of oure faid Scuverain Lady the
^cne.

xiiij yerds

To tlie Ducliefs of Suffolk for her
lyveree of clothing agenfl the faid moofte
noble coronation of oure favde Souve-j
rayne Lady the Qiiene. |

To the Duchcffe of Norfolk, the el-
der wydowe, for her liverec of clothing
agenil the iaide moolle noble coronation
of cure faid Souveraine Lady the Qucne.
To the Duchefie of Norfolk, the|
yonger wydowe, for her livcree of cloth-j
ing agenil the faid moode noble corona-l
. tion of oure faide Souveraine Lady the,
Qiiene. !

To the DuchefTe of Norfolk, wyfc'
unto the Duke of Norfolk that now is,'
for her liveree of clothing agenil the
laid moofte noble coronation of our faid
Souveraine Lady the Qiiene.

To the Countefie of Rychemonde for
her liveree of clothing agenil the famej
mooile noble coronation of oure fayde
Souveraine Lady the Quene, 1

To the CounteiTe of Surrey, for herj'x yerds
liveree of clothing agenft the fame mooft'
noble coronation of our fayde Souve-'
rayne Lady the Quene. j

To the Countefie of Notyngham, for]
her liveree of clothing agenil the fame
mooft noble coronation of oure faid
Souveraine Lady the Quene.

To my Lady Lovelle, for her live
ree of clothing agenft the fame moofte
noble coronation of oure faid Souveraine
Lady the Quene.

To my Lady Fitzhugh the elder, for

xiiij yerds

yerds

X yerds

viij yerds

her livcree of clothins; asrenft the famel

mooft noble coronation of oure
Souverayne Lady the Quene.

faide

yerds

Scarlet.

Scarlet,

Scarlet.

Scarier.

Scarlet.

The ANTIQ^UARIAN REPERT

viij yerds

To the Lady Fytzhugh the yonger,
for her lyveiey of clothing ayenft the
fame tnoofte noble coronation of cure
faid Soiiverayne Lady the Quene.

To my Lady Scroope of IManiminll.
for her lyverey of clothing ayenft the
fime mooAe noble coronation of oiire
faid Souverayne Lady the Quene.

To my Lady Mountjoy, for her ly-
verey of clothing ayenft the faid moofte
noble coronation of oure faide Souve
ram Lady the Qiiene.

To Dame Elizabethe Paree, Dame
Margarete Hudlefton, Dame Anne
Tempeft, Dame Elizabeth Malyverey,
and Dame Joyes Percy, for theire lyve-
ree of clothing ayenft the fame moofte
noble coronation of oure faide Souve-
raine Lady the Quene, to every of them
vij yerds fcarlet.

To Kateryne Scroope, Elizabeth
Babbethorp, Alice Skelton, ana Grace
Poleyn, Gentilwomen, for theire lyve
rees of clothing ayenft the faide moofte
noble coronation of oure faide Souve
raine Lady the Quene, to everiche of
theym vij yerdes of fcarlet. I

To Sir John Wod, Knyght, Treforer
of England, and to Piers Courteys,
Keper of the Kings grete wardrobe, for
theire liveree of clothing for the mooft
noble coronation of oure faid Souveraine
Lady the Quene, to either of theym|
X yerds of fcarlet.

xij yerds j quarter
viij yerds
XXXV yerds

ORY.

Scarlet.

Scarlet.
Scarlet.
Scarlet.

369

xxvlij yerds

XX yerds

Scarlet.

Vol. n. NO XIL

The

270 The ANTIQUARIAN REPERTORY.

The Deliveree of divers Clothes of Gold and divers Sjlks delivered uutc divers
JJlates of Ladies, and alfo unto divers Degrees, of the Kyngs efpecial Gift ly
his high Comandement, by the Advis of the hordes of his tnoojl honorable Coun^
faille, agenft the f aide moofi noble Coronation of our e f aide Souverayne Lady the
S^uene.

To the Duchefle of Suffolk, a longe
gowne maade of vj yerds of blue velvet
and purfilled with vj yerds of crymyfyn
cloth of gold ; and a longe gowne made
of vj yerds of crymyfyn velvet and pur-l
filed with vj yerds of whyte cloth of;
gold. I

To the DucheflTe of Norfolk, the el-!
der wydow, a long gowne maade of vj|
yerds of blue velvet and purfilled with
vj yerds of white cloth of gold, and a
long gowne maade of vj yerds j quarter
purpul velvet and purfiled with vj yerds
of crymyfyn cloth of gold.

To the Ducheffe of Norfolk, the
younger wydowe, a long gowne maade
of vj yerds and a quarter of blue velvet
and purfiled with vj yerds and a quarter
of crymyfyn cloth of gold ; and a longe
gov.'ne made of vj yerds of crymyfyn
velvet and purfiled with vj yerds of
white clothe of gold.

To the Ducheffe of Norfolk, wyfe
unto the Duke of Norfolk, nowe lyving,
a longe gowne maade of vj yerds and'
a quarter of blue velvet and purfiledi
with vj yerds of crymyfyn clothe of gold;]
and a longe gowne maade of vj yerds ofl
crymyfyn velvet and purfiled with vj
yerds of whyte clothe of gold.

To the Counteffe of Richemonde, a
longe gowne maade of vj yerds of cry-
mylyn velvet and purfiled with vj yerds
of white cloth of gold ; and a longe
gowne made of vj yerds di' of blue vcl-
vett and purfiled with vj yerds di' of
crymyfyn cloth of gold»

xij yerds of divers

colours

xij yerds of divers

colours

xij yerds j quarter
of divers colours
xij yerds of divers
colours

xij yerds j quarter ?
of divers colours J
xij yerds j quarter!
of divers colours J

xij yerds j quarter 1
of divers colours -1
xij yerds of divers 1
colours i

xij yerds di' of di-'
vers colours -

xij yerds di' of di-
vers colours

Velvet.

Clothe of gold.

Velvet.

Clothe of goldo

Velvet.

Cloth of gold, .

Velvet. .

Cloth of gold.

Velvet.

Clothe of gold.

The. ANTIQ^UARIAN REPERTORY, 271

To the CountefTe of Surrey, a longe!
gowne maude of vj yerds di' of bluej
velvet and purfiled with v yerds and iijj
quartets of crymyfyn fatyn ; and a long^
gowne maade of vj yerds di' of crymyfyn
velvet and purfiled with vj yerds and iij
quarters of white damafk.

To the Countefle of Noryngham, a
longe gowne maade of vj yerds di' of
blue velvet and purfiled with vj yerds
and iij quarters of crymyfyn fatyn; and
a long gowne made of vj yerds di' of
crymyfyn velvet and purfiled with v
yerds and iij quarters of whyte damafk.

To my Lady Lovell, a longe gowne
maade of vij yerds of blue velvet and
purfiled with v yerds and a quarter of
crymyfyn fatyn ; and a longe gowne
maade of vij yerds of crymyfyn velvet
and purfiled with v yerds and j quarter
of white damafk.

To my Lady Fitzhugh the elder, a
longe gowne maade of vij yerds of blue
velvet and purfiled with v yerds and a
quarter of crymyfyn fatyn •, and a longe
gowne maade of vij yerds of crymyfyn
velvet and purfiled with v yerds and a
quarter of white damak. ,

To my Lady Fitzhugh the yonger,
a longe gowne maade of vij yerds of
blue velvet and purfilled with v yerds
ajid a quarter of crymyfyn fatyn; and a
longe gowne maade of vij yerds of cry-
myfyn fatyn and purfyled with v yerds
and a quarter of white damafk.

To my Lady Scroope of Upfale, a
longe gowne maade of vij yerds of blue
velvet and purfiled with v yerds di' of
crymyfyn latyn •, and a longe gowne
made of vij yerdes of crymyfyn velvet
and purfiled with v yerds and di' of
white damafk 1 a tymbr di' of ermyn
baiiks, a tymbr di' of ermyn wombes,
and xxxiiij tymbr di' wombes of meny-
ver pure.

ciij yerds of divers ?
:oIours J

XII

coI(

V yerds iij quarters

xiij yerds of divers 1
colours J

V yerds iij quarters

xiiij yerds of divers 1
colours ^

V yerds j quarter

xiiij yerds of di-
vers colours
V yerds j quarter
v yerds j quarter

Xiiij yerds of di-
vers colours

V yerds j quarter

xiiij yerds of di-
vers colours
v yerds di'
v yerds j quarter
a tymbr di' of bakks
a tymbr di' wombes
xxxiiij tymbr di'
wombes

Velvet.

Damafk whyte.
Satyn crymyfyn.

Velvet.

Damafk white.
Satyn.

Velvet.

Damafk white.
Satyu crymyfyn

Velvet.

DamafK white. .
Satyn crymyfyn

Velvet.

Damaflc whyte. .
Satyn crymyfyn

Velvet.

Damafk white.

Satyn

Ermyns.
Menyver pure.

Ta,

272 Tk e a N T 1 QJJ A R I A

To my Lady Mountjoy, alonggowne
made of-vij yerds of blue velvet and
puifiled witli V yerds ?.nd a quarter of
crymyfyn latyn ; and a longe gownc
made of vi) yerds of crymylyn velvettt
and purfyled with v yerds and a quarter
of white damafk.

To Dame Elizabeth .Parrc, a longt
gowne maade of vij yerds di' of blue
velvet and purnled with iiij yerds di' of
Crymyfyn fatyn •, and a longe gowne
made of vij yerds di' of crymyfyn vel-
vet and puifiled with iiij yerds di' of
white damafK.

To Dame Margarete Hudlefton, ?.
long gown maade of vij yerds di' of
blue velvet and purfiled with iiij yerds
di' of crymyfyn fatin -, and a longe
gowne made of vij yerds di' of crymylyn
velvet and purfyled with iiij yerds di"
of wiiyte damailc.

To Dame Anne Tempeff, a long
gowne made of vij yerds di' of blue vel
vet and purfyled with iiij yerds di' of
crymyfyn fatyn; and a longe gowi
maade of vij yerds di' of crymyfyn vel-
■vet and purfiled with iiij yercls di' of
-white damafic.

To Dame Elizabeth Malyverey, a
longe gowne made of vij yerds di' of
blue velvet and purfiled with iiij yerds
di' of crymyfyn fatyn ; and a long gownt
maade of vij yerds di' of crymyfyn vel
vet and purfiled with iiij yerds di' of
white damafk.

To Dame Joyes Percy, a long gowne
maade of vij yerds di' of blue velvet
and purfiled with iiij yerds di' of cry
myfyn latyn -, and a longe gowne maade
of vij yerds di' of crymylyn velvet and
purfiled with iiij yerds di' of white da
mafk.

N REPERTORY,

xiiij yerds of di-
vers colours
v yerds j quarter
V yerds j quarter

sv yerds of divers

colours

iiij yerds di'

XV yerds of divers
colours
iiij yerds di'
iij yerds di'

XV yerds of divers

colours

iiij yerds di'

XV yerds of divers 1
colours J

iiij yerds di'
iiij yerds di'

XV yerds of divers 7
colours J

iiij yerds di'
iiij yerds di'

Velvet.

Damafk white.
Satyn.

Velvet.

Damafl-: white.
Satyn crymyfyn

Velvet.

Damall< white.
Satyn crymyfyn

Velvet.

Damafl^ white.
Satyn crymyfyn

Velvet.

Damafk whyte.
Satyn crymyfyn

Velvet.

Damafk whyte.
Satyn crymyfyn

The ANTIQ^UARIAN REPERTORY.

273

To Kateryne Scroop, a longe gownejjxvj yerds of divers
maade of viij yerds of blue velvet andi|colours
purfiled with iiij yerds j quarter of cry-
mylyn fatyn ; and a longe gowne maade
ot vii] yerds of crymylyn velvet and
purfiled with iiij yerds and a quarter of
white dam.ifk.

To Eliz.ibeth Babthorp, a longe
gowne nude of vij yerds of blue velvet
and purfiled with iiij yerds of crymyfyn
fatyn ; and a longe gowne maade of
viij yerds of crymyfyn velvet purfiled
•with iiij yerds of white damafk.

To Alice Skelton, a longe gowne
maade of viij yerds of blue velvet and
purfiled with iiij yerds of fatyn crymy-
fyn; and a longe gowne maade of viij
yerds of crymyfyn velvet and purfilled
with iiij yL-rds of white damafk.

To Grace Poleyn, a longe gowne
maade of viij yerds of blue velvet and
purfiled with iiij yerds of crymyfyn fa-
tyn; and a longe gowne maa.ie of viij
yerds of crymyfyn velvet and purfiled
with iiij yerds of white damafl^. I

To two Chamberers of oure faidej
Souverayne Lady the Quene, ij longe!
gownes made ofxv yerds of tawny da-|
mafic and purfiled with vij yerds of bluei
fatyn. j

To many divers perfons, for to have

iiij yerds j quarter
iiij yerds j quarter

xvj yerds of divers
colours
iiij jerds
iiij yerds

xvj yerds of divers
colours
iiij yerds
iiij yerds

xvj yerds of divers '
colours
iiij yerds
iiij yerds

XV yerds
xij yerds

xxxiij yerds di'

in hafte by my Lorde of BukkinghamjiXxx yerds of divers

commaundement, whos names were noti
remembered delyvered in grete.

colours

XXX jerds of divers

colours

Velvet.

Damafk white.
Satyn crymyfyn

Velvet.

Damask white.
Satyn crymyfyn

Velvet.

Damask white.
Satyn crymyfyn

Velvet. :.

Dtmask white".
Satyn crymyfyn

Damask tawny,
Satyn.

Cloth menyver.
Velvet.

j iSatyn.

The Deliveree of divers i>ttiff delivered for the Ufe of Lords Edward, Son of
late Kyng Edward the Fourthe, and of his Henxcmen.

To Lorde Edwarde, fon of late kyngjl . ^^^^^^

Edward the fourthe, tor his apparaiii j ^ -^ ^
and array ; that is to fay, a Ihorte jxxiiij yerds di' of
gowne made of ij yerds and iij quar:ersl|divers colours

Vol. II. N° XII. 3 Z of

Blac wollen
cloth.

Velvet.

REPERTORY.

274 The ANTIQJJARIAN

of crymyfyn clothe of gold, lyned withi xij yerds 1 quarter J |^j^^j^ ^^^^^^

i] yerds iij quarters of blac velvet; ajjof divers colours y °

lonaie gowne made of vi yerds di' of'lviii verds di'

crymyiyn cloth of gold, lyned with vj;;xxx yerds j quarter

yerds of grene damaske ; a fliortegowne'ivj yerds long

made of ij yerdes iij quartrrs of purpullji : -^ a \

velvet, lyned with ij jerds di' grene;; ^J ' J

damask. A doublet and a ftomacher. x unces of vcnys?

niaade of ij yerds of blac fatyn : a ryding gold -•

govvne maade of ij yerds iij quar;ers oi x pair

blue velvet, lyned with ij yerds and iij- vij pair of Spaig-

quarters of blac fatyn : a longe govvne nyfh Icder double

and a di' gowne maade of x yerds di' ot

blue velvet, lyned with x yerds di' of

blac fatyn : a doublet maade of a yerde

and iij quarters of grene fatyn : a longi.'

gowne maade of vj yerds di' of purpull

velvet, lyned with vj yerds di' of rullet der

fatyn : a longe gowne maade of vj yerds |Oon paire

di' of blue velvet, lyned with vj yerds' joon pair

foled

iiij pair

ij pair of Spaig-

nydi leder

ij pair of blac le-

Damafl<.
Satyn.
Bokeram.
Corfe of filk
and gold.

Caft botons.

Mofen.

di' of blac fatyn : ij foteclothes maade
of V yerds and iij quarters of velvet,
lyned with vj yerds of bokeram : a bo-
net made of iij quarters ot a yerde of
purpull velvette : a doublet made of a
yerde and iij quarters of blac fatyn : a
long quysshon maade of ij yerds di' of
grene cloth of gold for to cover with a
paire of fabatons : half a yerde of cry-
myfyn cloth of gold, and half a yerde
of crymyfyn fatyn for the lynyng of the
fame -, ix hors harneys and ix fadell
houfes, all made of xxxvj yerds of blue
velvet, the faid hors harneys garnyssfbt
with frenge of filk : a hors harneys call-
ed a dymy feute maade of xxvj yerds of
corfe of filk purpull and blue with gold,
garnyssbt with xviij cafl. botons of venys
gold, weying x unces, and a pair of
ftirop leders covered in iij quarters of a
yerd of blac velvet, and ij pair of hofen
made of a yerde arid a quarter of broode
meigMyn blac: x:ij bonetts ; v hatts ;

white
blac

parcel gilt
Oon pair
parcel gilt
xiij

vj paire
xij pair

X D di' of blue'
ryban of filk
ij of velvet of blac
Oon of ftele cover-^
ed in blac velvet
ij for courfers co-
vered in crymyfyn
Velvet

ix of blue velvet
garnyssht
ix of blue velvet

Shoon.
Slops.

Slippers.

Patyns.

Spurres.

Bonetts.

Hatrs.

Gloves.

Shets.

Foynts weying

iij unces.

Fotecloth.

Sadels.

Hors harneys.
Sadel houfes.

a paire

The antiquarian REPERTORY.

a paire of white fpurres parcel gilt, a'
pair of blac fpurres parcel gilt; ix
pair hofen, vj pair of gloves, vij pair ot
fhoon of Spaignylh leder double fokdj
ij pair of flippers of blac leder, ij pair
of flippers of Spaignyfli leder, and a
pay re of patyns : and to trufle
his plate, xij pair of fhets and x D di'
poynts of blue riban of filk. wcying iij
unces ; iiij pair of flopps : and for to
cover with a ftele fadell ij yerds di' of
blac velvet : and for to cover with ij
courle fadels v yerds of crymyfyn vel-
vett.

To the heiixemen of the faid Lord
Edward for theire apparaill and array,
vij (Townes maade of x yerds and iij
quarters of grene cloth of gold, and xj
yerds di' of white cloth of gold lyned
with V) yerds di' of bokeram ; and vij
doublets maade ot xv yerds of blac da
mafk. ; viij gownes and viij hoods of
blac clothe ; viij bonetts, viij hatts, xvj
pair of hofen, xvj D di' poynts, xiiij
pair of fhoon, viij payre of flops, viij
pair of boots, and viij payre of fpurres.

*1S

XV yerds iij quar- ?

ters J

xxij yerds j quarter?

of divers colours J

XV yerds

vj yerds di'

XV) payre of div^ers?

colours

xiiij pair

viij pair

XVJ D di'

viij

viij of woll

Blac wollen
cloth.

Cloth of gold.

Damafk blac.
Bokeram long.

Hofen.

Shoon.

Slops.

Boots.

Spurres,

Leder poynts.

Bonetts.

Hatts.

1'be Deliver ee of divers Clothes of Gold and Sylks delivered by the Kings high Co-
maundment, of his efpecial Gift unto the Mc-tes of Lordes and -j: crflnpfiil
Kjiyghts, and other divers Perfons agenfl the f aide moofie noble Coronation of
cure faide Scuverayne Lady the ^ene.

To the Duke of Bukks, by the Kings!
high comaundment, having chief rulr,
and divifing of the ordenance, for oure
faid Souveraine Lorde the Kyngs moofte]
noble coronation, for to have of his
efpyciall gift, viij yerds of blue clotli
of gold wroght with droopes, and viij
yerds of blac velvetc and xij yerds vel-
vett crymyfyn.

viij yerds
viij yerds wrO;
with droopes
xij yerds

Velvet blac.
S^^lciothofgold.
Velv. crymyfyn

276 The antiquarian REPERTORY.

Velvet.

To my Lorde Scroope of Bolton, for
to have of the efpeciall gift of oure faid
Souvrain Lorde the Kyng, by his high
comaundment, agenft the faide moofte
noble coronation of oure faide Souvrain
Lady the Quene, vii] yerds di' and di'
a quarter blue velvet, and viij yerds di'
and di' a quarter of crymyfyn velvett.

To my Lorde of Audeley, for to
have of the efpeciall gift of oure faid
Souverain Lorde the Kyng, by his high
comaundment, ix yerds of crymylyn
velvet.

To Sir Thomas Saint Legier, for to
have of the efpeciall gift of oure faid
Souvraine Lord the Kyng, by his hygh
comaundment, x yerds iij quarters of
tawny velvet.

To Sir Thomas Montgomery, for to
have of the efpecial gift of oure fayde
Souverayne Lorde the Kyng, by his high
comaundment, x yerds di' of velvet
crymyfyn.

To Sir Thomas Borough, for to
have of the efpeciall gift of oure faid
Souverayne Lorde the King, by his
high comaundement, iij fliorte peces of
blac chamelet, and iij yerds iij quarters
of blac fatyn.

To Sir Robert Dymmok, Knyght, the
Kings champion, for to have of the
efpecial gift of oure faid Souverayne
Lorde the King, agenft his moofte no-
ble coronation, vij yerds of crymyfyn
damask, and a paire of fpurrcs parcell
gilt.

To Sir Edmonde Haftyngs, and to
Sir John of Myddelton, Knyghts, for
to have of the efpeciall gift of oure faid
Souyeraine Lorde the Kyng, betwixt
theyme x yerds and iij quarters of vel-
vet grene.

ixvij yerds j quar-
ter of divers co-
lours

ix yerds j quarter

X yerds iij quarters

X yerds di'

iij fliort peces

iij yerds iij quarters

xij yerds

a pair parcel gilt

X yerds iij quarters

Velv. crymyfyn.

Velvet tawny.

Velv. crymyfyn.

Chamelet blac.
Satvn blac.

Damask crym;.
Spurres.

Velvet grene.

The antiquarian REPERTORY. 277

. To John Cheyne, and to
fqr to have of the efpecial giftofoure
faid Souvrain Lorde the King, xij
yerds j quarter di' of clothe of filver.

To William Catefby, for to have of
the efpecial gift of oure I'aide Souvrain
Lorde the Kyng, for a doublet to be
maade of ij yerds di' of crymyfyn fatyn.

To the Erie of Surry, for to have of
the efpecial gift of oure faide Souvrainei
Lorde the King, a mantel lace of blue!
fillc with botons unto the fame for a'
mantel of blue velvect. I

xij yerds j quarter di'

ij yerds di'

Oon of blue filk-j
with botons unto >
the fame J

Cloth of filver.

Satyn crymyfyn

Mantel lace.

STREATLAM CASTLE,

IS fituate in the weflern part of the county of Durham, within two mile,
of Barnard Caftle ; is a modern ftrudlure, built of excellent free (tones,
and after an elegant plan.

Nothing but a veneration for the ancient feat of the, family, could induce
the proprietor to ereft fuch a manfion, in fo ineligible a fituation. It (lands
in a deep vale, a imall brook runs clofe to its front, high and irregular hills
arife on every fide, in fome parts covered with a fored: of oaks ; and the
whole afpecb is folemn. The oppofite grounds are occupied as a park for
deer, and afford a narrow profpeft ; there is (omcthing romantic in thefe
fecluded fcenes, which pleafe the contemplative mind ; but they arc better
adapted to the vicinity of a cottage than a palace. The purling brook, the
broken cliff, from whofe fnaken fides old oaks impend, and caft a long
extended fhadow over the narrow dell -, the ivy-twifted elm, the molTy cove
and primrofe bank, are pretty objedts in paftoral life, but correfpond not
with the gaiety of the great j fuch are the beauties of Streatlam.

Streatlam was part of the pofTefTions of Bernard Baliol, grandfather of John,
King of Scotland j he was Baron of By well in Northumberland, and founder
of Barnard Caftle. He gave this caflle and lorddiip, with divers adjoining
lands, in dowry with his niece Agnes, who married Sir John Trayne. Sir
John's fon, and immediate fuccelTor, having one child, Alice, his heirefs ;
fl:e married Sir Adam Bowes, Kniglit, Juftice in Oyer of the liberties of
Durham, aqd Steward of Richmondlliire, about the year 1310, when Streat-
lam became the pofleflion of the family of Bowes, who are owners of it at
this time. In what (tate the caftle was at that period is not known. After
fevcral regular defcents, Streatlam became the pofTcfTion of Sir William

Vol. II. N*^ XII. 4 A * Bowes,

iy$

The ANTIQjaARIAN REPERTORY.

Bowes, who received the order of knighthood at the battle of Vernoyle in
France, in the year 1424, He was Chamberlain to John, Duke of Bedford,
Regent in France, during the minority ot King Henry VI. and was by him
made Governor of the Caftle of Gallyard in Normandy ; he continuing in
France about twenty years. During this time he fent over a model for re-
building his caftle of Streatlam, in which he afterwards lived to a great old
age. The caftle built after fuch model, remained to the beginning of this
century, when the prefent ftrudlure was erefted on the fame ground. Some
of the old fteps in the afcent are yet remianing.

THE following illuminated Manufcript may be deemed curious, being wrote before
the fuppteffion of the Monafteries, and was difcovered in the year 1776, by a Far-
mer's Servant in removing fome ftraw at Burnham Abbey in the County of Bucks,
a ruinous editice, under one of the joifts that fupport a floor; arvd by its pofition,
togetlier with a very cufious lace with tags that furroundeJ the Manufcript, there
remains no doubt but it has lain, without being difturbed, before the fuppreflion
till the above date. It has been much admired by many curious perfons, as well as
by the Society of Antiquaries, who once had a fight of it, and is now in the
poflefiion of iMr. Jofepb Trone, of Maidenhead, who has had it ever fmce the
difcowy..

Beati qui non viderunt et
crediilerunt Johis XX.

Figure of

Our SAVIOUR

Illuminated.

Hoc eft corpus meum quod
pro vobis datur
qui manducat hunc
metermu..

Therteeneth Vertues of the MafTe.

Fiift, Saynte Auften fayeth, that the Vertu of the MafTe is more profytt to hym that
heryth yt than yf he went all his lyffe dayes, and gaue all hys goodys in almes ; allfo
that day he feeth the blyffyd body of Cryft fchall be gyuyn to hym neceffary foode,
and ydyll wordys & ydyll othes fpoken or fworne ar forgyuyn ; and that day he fchall
nott dy of no foden deth, for yf a man fodenly dy hitt fchall ftonde for hys houfell.

Saynt Gregor fayth, the fecond Veitu ys that the fowles of them whom the herer of

the Maffe intendyth to pray for in tyme of the Mafle by fauyd from payn.

Saynt

The ANTIQ^UARIAN REPERTORY. 279

Saynt Bedc fayth, the third Vertu is that whatfccver a man that day is

more convenyent for hys nature after tiie herying of the Mafll- than hyt is afore.

Saynt Crilollum fayth, the fourth Vertu is that a man in heryng of Made agyth nor
febylyth nott, butt as Adam and Eve dyd bei'ore the etyng of the apull of the tre of
lyffe noder agyd nor fynnyd, Allfo the chyllderyn of Yfrael agyd nott as longe as
they etyn manna in deferr, nor that foode wente never to dygeftion, and he fchall nott
be depryuyd of hys foode.

Saynt Powle fayth, that the fyfte Vertu is that more avaylyt the hedd or chefFe
prayer than all oder prayers, y' ys to fay, the Mafle is the prayer of Cryft who is our
hedd, and we be hys membyrs, therefore the Maffc more than all prayers avaylyth.

Saynt Bernard fayth, that the fyxte Vertu is, that yf a woman be with chylde, and
devoutly here the A-Iafle, yf fche trauyll that day fchall have the leflc dyfieafe and
payne in comparyfon.

Saynt Mathew fayth, that the fevende Vertu is, that a man wyche is penitent of hys
fynnes and devoutly heryth the Mafle, whatfoever he afkyth ryghtfully hytt fchall be
grauntyd to hym.

Saynt Ancellme fayth, the eyghte Vertu is, the pacys going or comying for to here
Malle haue nombryd of God and fchall be rewarded.

Saynt Bede fayth, the ix"" Vertu is, that for every Mafle devoutly harde, a fynner
is convertyd and a fowle del)uered owte of payne, and allfo a ryghtfuU man nott
fybylyd of hys way of ryghtwyfenes.

Saynt Bede fayth, the teiide"' Vertu is, that a Mafle avaylyth more in a manes lyffe
than a thowfand after hys deth, and hytt avaylyd more for forgyfi^nes of fynne than
any other prayer.

Saynt Bede fayth, the xi''' Vertu is, that whyle the Mafle in faying the fynnes of
them that lyue and that ben ded.

Saynt Bede fayth, that the xii"" Vertu is, that the faying of a Mafle is as moche
in valor as the Then releafyd deth of Cryft on the crofle, for as the deth of Cryft
hath redemyd us from owre fynnes, fo fayeng of a Mafle lofyth and delyueryd fowles
from thefe paynes thcrfore the Mafle fchulde be gladly fayd and deuoutly harde by the
wyche a man may be hehhfully favyd, and the fowles from ther paynes to be
delyueryd.

Saynt Bede fayth, that a Preft beyng out of dedly fynne and in good porpes, yf he
fay nott hys MalTe when he is dyfpofcd, he depryuytii as moche as in hym the bleflcd
Trinitc from hys glory, the Angels of hevcn from their joy, and IVIan laboryng here
in erth from the benefyttys and gyftys of grace, and the fowles that bene dcpayrted
abydyng of thcr paynes for yefenes. And therefore the worfchyppful and reverent
Preftes whofe order paflyth all odcr orders, remember thys aforefayd to your laude and
nieryte.

A", D'. A" I ccccc xxxij.

Thi

ago The ANTIQ^UARIAN REPERTORY.

The hunting TOWER, or STAND at CHATSWORTH.

CHATSWORTH has often and dcfervedly employed the pens of feve-
ral ingenious men, by whom it has been elaborately defcribed, but the
objeft now before us remains unnoticed, nor is any account of it to be
found, more than tradition gives us. The Stand at Chatfworth is fuuated
on a hill in the Park, comrnanding a very extenfive view, and fuppoled
to be built about five hundred years, for the convenience of the ladies
feeing the ftag hunting. This Drawing was made Anno 1773.

MARY Q^UEEK OF SCOTS BOWER.

BISHOP Kcnnett, in his Memoirs of the Cavendilh family, has the
following anecdote concerning this place :
" It mull not be forgotten, that this * Lady had the honour to be
Keeper of Mary Qiieen of Scots, committed prilbner to George Earl of
Shrewfbury, for feventeen years. Her chamber and rooms of itate, with
her arms and other enfigns, are ftill remaining at Harwich •, her bed was
taken away for plunder in the civil wars. The nev/ lodgings, that anlwer
the old, arc called the Queen of Scots Apartment, and an Ifland Plat on the
top of a fquare tower built in a large pool, is called the Queen of Scots
Garden."

This Drawing was made Anno 1773.

Communicated by Major Hayman Rooke.

* Elizabeth, Widow of the late Sir William Cavendifli, and then Wife, of George Earl
«f Shrewlbury.

MANNORBEER CASTLE, PEMBROKESHIRE, Pl&te IL

THIS Plate exliibits the Weft afped of the infide of Mannorbeer Caftle,
and imprefTifs the mind with a ftriking idea of this once extenfive and
magnificent ftrudture, which, nocwithftanding the ravages of time, ftill ap-
pears a venerable objeft, and claims the attention of the Antiquary and
Traveller. The prefcrvation of this Drawing made by the hand of a.n Artift
whole works do honour to this country, will, we hope, be a fufficient
apology for the inferting a place fo little fertile in hiftorical events.
Drawn and communicated by Paul Sandby, Efq. R. A.

Tht

^ The AN TIQ.U ART AN REPERTORY. 281

fhe SIEGE of KAR LAYER OK in SCOTLAND,

continued from P^.ge 230.

THEN began the followers of my

|UIS vont li afTault recomencier
Lesgensmon Seigneur deBieuigne J. Lord of Bretaigne to renew the
Com li lyons de la montaigne aflauk, fierce and daring as lions of

Courageufes et empernans the mountains, and every day im-

Et font checun jour afpernans proving in both the theory and .prac-

Le fait de arms et le meftier tice of war. 1

Mult toft couvrent li portier
Du chaftel lour acointement
Car autre plus felounement
Ains ne les orent affailli

Non porquent ne ont mie failli
Ki ke pres viegne ne ait part
De lour livree ainz quil s'en part
Tant ke plus ke aflTez li enfemble

A pres ceus iluce fe aflemble
La gent mon Seigneur de Haftingnes
Ou je vi Johan de Cretinques
En peril de perdre un cheval
Keant fur li un vint centre val
Efperounant au Sagettez
Mes pas ne femble eftre faintiz
Ke tant fe hafte au fait atteindre
En fon blanc efcu on fait atteindre
Un chevron rouge o trois molettes

Cil ki porte dance et bilettes
De or en afur al aflaut court
Johans avoit a nom Daincourt
Ki mult bien i fift fon devoir

Vol. II. N°xn.

The gate of -the caftle was foon co-
vered with their volleys, none having
affailed it more furioufly.

Not that it was fo far atchievcd as
to leave nothing for their followers,
every one of whom might meet with i
very fufHcient reception.

After thefe the elegant Lord Haf-
tingnes was here afiembled, where I
alfo faw Johan de Cretinques in danger
of lofing a horfe - - - - . .

my fteps feem to mc not faint, when
thus haftened to the adventure, In
his white fhield he had caufed to be
ftained a red chevron with three mo-
lettes.

He who bore dancettc with billets
of or and azure, Johan Daincourt by
name, ran to the afiault, and there
extremely well performed his duty.

4 * Aul5

if2 The ANTIQUAIHAN REPERTORY.

AufTi 11 firent bien por voir
En recevant meinte colee
Li bon frere de Berkelec

Et li frere Baficc aufli
Done li aifnez portoit enfi
pe ermine au chief royge endente
De trois molettes de or ente
Li autres de cokilles trois
Chemlns trouveroient eftrois
Se or feu alaflent
Car tous jours com li un fe lafient
Autre fe revientfres & fore
Mes pourquanques au lour ofFrit
De tels affaus ne fe rendirent
Cels de denz ainz.fe de fendirent
E.fe tindrentki k^ il annuit
Tout eel jour &:touEe la nuit

Et lendemain juques aterce
Mes. duremenc ens et lour fierce
Entre les affaus efmaia
Frere Robert ki envoia
Meinte piere par Robinet
Ivk au foir des le matinee
Le jour devant ceffe ne avoit
De lautre part encore i levoit
Trois autres enginz mult plus grans
Et il penibles et engrans
Ke le chaftel du tout confonde
Tent and retent met piere enfonde
Defchocke et quenques ateint fent
A fes coups rien ne fe deffent
Bors de Bretfche ne gros fus
Non porquant nen firent refus

And his good brother of Berkeley
made a good appearance, receiving
many a blow.

And alfo his brother Baffet, of
whom the elder bore as follows : er-
mine a red chief indented, with three
golden inolettes, the others three
cockle fhells ; and though the paffages
were narrow, they found means to
pafs them conftantly, when one was
tired the other returned frefh and flout,
yet notwithilanding thefe afTaults the
garrifon would not furrender, but de-
fended themfelves all that day and
night.

The afJauk was carried on by them -
until the third hour on the morrow.
In thefe attacks brother Robert diftirt-
guifhed himfelf, throwing many a
ftone from the * Robiher, even from
the evening to the morning without
ceafing ; and befides he had raifed
in another part three other en-
gines, much larger, more forcible and
deflruftive, againfl vvhofe efforts the
cafble could not withftand, every flroke
piercing, rending, and overturning
the walls j although the breach was,
not large, yet the alTault was not de-
ferred.

* Robinet, a machine of the linaller kind for throwUg ftonej*

Ain^

The ANTICt.UARIAN REPERTORy. 483

Ains tindrent tous fes cnvians
Gil de dedens tant kc en rai ans
En fus vus ferus a la more
Mes lors checuns de ens fe remort
De fon orguel et fe efbahi
Car aufn li combles chay
Ear tout par ou la piere eatra.
Et quanc afcun de eus encontra
Ghapeaus de fer targe de full
Ne lauva ke blefciez ne fuft

And the garrifon prepared to defend
it, when one of them was (lain ; thea.
they began all to tremble and repent:
of their pride, for ruin marked the
pafFage of the flones, and when they
encountered any of the garrifon, nei-
ther an iron hat nor target could pro-
ted him from a wound.

Equant virent ke plus durer
Ne porent ne plus endurer
Pas requiftrent li compagnon
Et bouterent hors un penon
Mais celuy ki hors le bouta
Ne fcai quels fergeans fageta
Parmi le mein iuk en la face
Lors requifl. com plus ne li face
Car le chaftel ou Roy rendront
Et en fa grace hors viendront

When they found it impra6licablc
to hold out any longer, one of them •
as a fignal for a parleys thruft out a.
pennon, but he was (hot with an arrow
by fome one of our footmen througn
the hand into the face, whereon quar-
ter was demanded. The caflle then
yielded to the King, and . was taken
into his proteftion.

Et marefchaus e coneftablea
Ke a des iluec furent eftables
A eel mot le affauk deffendirent
Et cil le chaftel lour rendirent

And the marefchals and conftables
who were there eftabliflied at that
word, forbad any farther afTault, and
thereupon the caftle furrendered to
them.

Lors fen eflirent ce eft la fome
Ke de uns ke de autres fciflante home
O grant merveille refguardes
Mes tenu furent e guardes
Tant ke li Roy en ordona
Ke vie et cofmbre lour donna

And this is the fiim of thole wh6>
come forth from it, of perfons of dif-
ferent forts and ranks fixty men^ who
were beheld with wonder, but ail kept
under guard till the King pardoned ;
them life acd lirab, and. ordered to >

eacb.'i

iU The ANTIQja.A.RIAN REPERTORT.

E a chafcun robe novelle
Lors fu joieufe la novelle
A toute le oft du chaftel pris
^i tant eftoit de noble pris

Puis fift le Roy poftes a mont
"Sa baniere et la Saint Eymont
La Saint George et la Saint Edwart
-Et o celes par droit erwart
La Segrave et la Herefort
Et cele au Seigneur de Cliffort
A ki li cliafteaus fut donnes

each of them a new jrobe, then did the
whole army rejoice at the news of the
furrender of the caftlc, which was fo
noble a prize. ' •

Then the King caufed to be carried
to the mount his banner, that of St.
Eymont, St. George, and St. Edward,
and to thefe as by right, thole of Se-
grave and Hereford, and that of the
Lord Clifford, to whom the caftle was
given.

E puis a li Roy ordenez And moreover the King, who is

Com cils ki de guerre eft mult fagcs well verfed in war, ordained che ways

Tous fes chemins et fes paflages and paflages by which the whole army

Coment ira par mi gawee • was to return.
Ce le fort terre loee.

Icifinift le Siege of Karlavcrok. Here ends the Siege of Karlaverok,

^■^■^■^■■^'■^■^■^■^■^■■^4'if-4'^--^-!i^-^-if--^-ifr-^

TH E Old Bell, called Oreat Tom of Weftminfter, that did hang in
the Clock Tower, oppofite Weftminfter-hall Gate, was bought for the
ufe of St. Paul's, London, but being crackt, was new caft, with an addition
of metal. Anno XII. Guli. III. weighing 4 ton 40olb. (8,40olb.) and in
this form made by Philip Wightman, Dec. 15, 1708. — J. Talman, del.

The clapper was broke by announcing the death of the late Princefs
Dowager of Wales, Feb. 8, 1772, and a new one, weight 186 lb. placed ia
its ftead, which was firft ufed at her funeral.

For a more particular account of iht Okl Bell, fee Vol. I. page 280.

The print was copied from a Drawing now in the pofleflion of Dr. Du-

acaretl, F. R.S. ^ A. S. and communicated by him.

INDEX,

GGCIM^L^

hm^mMm&^^

^ ^^^^^^Smis m

=!;;,

27
128

ALNWICK Caftle, View of - 109
Alphington Church, Devon-

Ihirc, Font, Print and Defcrip-

tion of ■ 8

Antient French Poem, written in

the Time of Edward III. —

■ tranflatcd

Antiquities Cornu- britannick, or

Obfcrvations on a M.SS. written

in the Cornifh Language

Antiquities Cornu-ontanic, or the

Caufes of the Cornifh Speech's

Decay ■ ■ ■

Anecdotes relating to Mary Queen

Queen of Scots, and Print of — 202
B
Bar Gate, Southampton, Account

smd \'iew of 89

Bell (Old; at St. Paul's, Print of 284
Belvedere, in Kent, View of — 168
Bower of Mary Queen of Scots at

Chatfworth, View of 280

Brown Sir Anthony, Monument in

Battle- Church, Suffex, Print of,

and Account of his Family — 113
Bute, Earl of. View of his Seat at

Mountftuart, and Accbunt of 118
C
Cats, Anecdotes relating to them,

from the Code of Welch Laws 1 19
Chairs (Ancient) Prints of — 163
Church, Little Saxham, View and

Dcfcription of — — 237

Cowley, Abraham, Account and

Head of 25

Cornifh Language, Obfcrvations on 6i

Dunbarton Caflle, Scotland, Ac-
count of Sitge, and View of — 141

Durham (Bifhop of) his Palace at
Bifhcp Auckland, Defcription and
View of 45

in Greenhill Church-yard, Staf-

fordfliirc ^— 167

Expenccs of the Entertainment in

the Year 1460, of the Mayor of

Rochefter — . ■

F
Font, in Alphington Church, De-

vonfhire, Account and Print of
Fragment of Antient French Poetry,

Tranflation of ■

G
Gent. Ufher of the Privy Chamber

in the Time of Q. Elizabeth, his

Oath

Gentleman Ufher in the Time of

Edward VI. Office of —
H
Hatton, Sir Chriftopher, Letter to

Sir Thomas Smith — '■ —

Hatfield, Thomas, Bifhop of Dur-
ham, his Life and Monument -
Harrow on the Hill, View of
Hunting Tower or Stand, at Chatf-

worth, View of

Jeddeworth Monaftery, Account

and View of

Infcription on a Bench in the Road
between Gofport and Farehani

Account of

232,

K
Scotland, temp,
curious Poem on

Ireland, Legendary

211

12S

195
190

17s

5-f

280

54-
167

238

Karlaverok, in

K. Edward I.

the Siege

— — continued

135.

i53>

205,

107
169,
227.

Edinburgh, New Bridge at, Defcrip-
tion and View of

Elizabeth, Qiieen, humorous Let-
ter from her to James Hay, Earl
of Carlifle ■ ■

Letter from Sir John Lefslev to Sir
Thomas Riddle, at the Siege of
Newcaftle in 1640

— from Robert Dudley to

Archbifhop Parker

i Extradl of.

from Sir
— — 93 Francis Knollys to Secretary Cecil

126

Enfield, Palace at, View and Ac-
count of — — — — 231
Epitaph on Evan Rice, Tranflation of 24
■ on Mr. Level's Huiitfman

Lord's Prayer in Cornifli and Eng-
lifh —

Little Saxham Church, Dcfcription
and View of _— .

Malvern, Old Song in Praife of -

96
166

168

237

i6j

M
Mannorbeer Caftle, Pembrokefliire,

Defciiption and Views of 213,
Monograms and Signatures of the

Kings and Queens of England,

Prints of

Monument of Anaftatia Venetia,

Lady Digby, Piint of

M.SS. Illuminated, difcovered at

Burnham Abbey

N
Newingate, or St. George's, Can-
terbury, Defcription and View of
O
Ofith of the Gentleman Uflier of the

Privy Chamber in Time of Queen

Elizabeth

Obfervations relative to a Coin of

Robert Earl of Gloucefter —
Order of Council, defcribing Drefs

of a Page in Queen Elizabeth's

P.eign

Office of Gentleman Uflier in Time

of Edward VI.

2S0

195
27.8

177
190

— in Time of Queen Mary 193

Pembroke Caflle, Wales, Defcrip-
tion and View of 18.9

Pendrell, Richard, Preferver of King
Charles II. Account and Epitaph
of "'— " 109

Percy Family, Antient Hiftory of log

Paftoral Staff's, &c. Defcription and
Print of 163

Palace at Enfield, View and. Account 231

Rules obferved by Antient Sculptors
in the Monuments of Kings,
Knights, Bifhops, &c. 124

Rumfey Monaftery, Account and
View of — i5i

Shenfield Place, Suflex, Seat of J.
Holroyd, Efq, View of

Shrewlbury, Welch Bridge at. De-
fer! jition and View of

Son^ (Old) fung at Wakes at
ChrLftmas in the North of England

— 206

134

Stanw4ck in Yorkfhire, Seat of Earl
Percy, View of 92

St. George's, or Newingate, Can-
terbury, Account and View of 29

St. Donat's Caftle, Glamorganfhire,
Defcription and View of — 165

State of the Account of the Monies
received and paid for the Repara-
tion of the Cathedral of St. Paul's
after the Fire to the year 1723 - 41

Sports (rude) in the Time of Ed-
ward II. — 57

Statutes of Eltham, in the Time of
Henry VIII. for Government of
Privy Chamber — — 178

Streatlam Caftle, Defcription and
View, of — 277

Tomb of Jerikyn Wyrrall, in New-
land Church, Gloucefterfhire, De-
fcription and Print of — 40

Tortoife, Anecdote refpeding its
Longevity 167

Travels of Monfieur Jorevin de
Rocheford, in England, in the
Reign of Edward VI. and Queen
Mary, Account of

— — continued —

— . 97i

in Ireland
in Scotland

30, 49»
121, 198,
104, 123,
149, 184, 197
Figure in.

89,
214

144

Trompington Church,

and Account of the Family of that
Name 225

Welch Bridge, at Shrevvfbury, De-
fcription and View of — 7

White Knights, Seat of Sir H. En-
glefield, Defcription and View of i

Walfuigham, Sir Francis, Account
of his Age — — 54.

Withred, King of Kent, his Charter
to the Church of Limiivg, Kent

Woodftock Market-houfe, View of,
and Account of the Town — 127

Wardrobe Account of the Appoint-
ments for the Coronation of King
Richard III. and his Queen - 241

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