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 Mrs. Sawyer s Poem, 
 
 FIVE SHILLING'
 
 POEMS 
 
 ON 
 
 I A BIOUS SUBJECTS. 
 
 BY ANNA SAWYER. 
 WITH NOTES, HISTORICAL AND EXPLANATORY. 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 BY A FRIEND. 
 
 IN addreffing the public on the part of an amiable 
 Lady, and the firfl production of* her unpra&ifed Mufe, 
 lelicaey becomes a duty, and retrains the pen of 
 iViendfhip. But, in order to mitigate the feverity 
 of Criticifm, it is neceffary to remark, that fome of 
 the following little Poems were written " in the days 
 A other vcars;" partly for the amufement of a private 
 circle, but chiefly to diflipate unavoidable l'orrow. Il 
 is a melancholy fact, that the firings of her iEolian 
 harp too frequently warbled to the winds of woe. I 
 beg leave to refer the reader of fentibility to the Lines 
 on her Hufband's Picture, which tell in artlefs, but 
 highly pathetic drains, the ftory of domeftic affliction. 
 Pieces written in this defultory way gradually fwelled 
 to fome magnitude, and (he was induced, by the 
 advice of her friends, to amplify fome Poems, compofe 
 others, and publifh the whole, in the fond hope of 
 difperfing the clouds that hovered over her worth v 
 Hufband in his declining years. 
 
 In the general execution of a work thus laudably 
 undertaken, in polifhing what was conceived to be 
 rugged, and fupplying what was defective, in occa- 
 lionally expanding an image, and interpolating a 
 fentiment, and particularly in contracting the Notes:., 

 
 VI 
 
 the was afiifledby a Gentleman of erudition andtauV, 
 whole liberal fervices (he acknowledges with pride and 
 pleafurc. 
 
 In appreciating the merit of tins production, I beg 
 it may be underftood that mine is the Criticifm of 
 Friendihip; and, of courfe, may differ much from that 
 of the more learned and more impartial Reviewers. 
 But, I may fpeak with confidence, that Mrs. Sawyer's 
 chief excellence confifts in her happy adaptation of 
 the Style to the Subject. Her ftep, though varied, 
 is in general graceful, eafy, unaffected. Tinged with 
 the colour of her prevailing thoughts, many of the 
 Poems have a melancholy caft. In fome places (he 
 is beautifully fimple, in others elegantly defcriptive .; 
 and in her Elegy on Mortality, and the Verfes on 
 Mil's Wearden's monument, we find traces of awful 
 fublimity. 
 
 An Apology may be due to the Subscribers for the 
 finallnefs of the volume: the unexpected duty on 
 paper obliged her to contract her original delign; but 
 whatever may be its merits, both with refpect to 
 quality and quantity, me fubmits it to her Subfcribers 
 with fentiments of unfeigned gratitude ; anxioufly 
 hoping, that thole who cannot refpecl her talents, will 
 approve her motives, and that in a liberal Public (he 
 will tiiid a Protector as well as a Judge.
 
 
 ADDRESS TO THE BRITISH PUBLIC 
 
 By CharJi 3 C :iins,F.fq. of Ch. Ch. Oxon, I ; ,0. 
 
 \v HEX erft, in Greece, to fmg the Mufes choi 
 J'heir firil-born fon, immortal Homer, rofc ; 
 In Beauty's, caufe he fang, how warring hods 
 Of Gods and Heroes mixt on Phrygja's coalts ; 
 From Ilium won, the wandering fage he led, 
 fofs'd o'er the rude imperious ocean's bed, 
 Himfelfa Wanderer! doom'd by fate to tread 
 Admiring cities, that deny'd him bread. 
 
 Nor leis the plaint, \hcn Maro liv'd to fing 
 J he world at reil beneath Rome's eagle wine, 
 Of arms to arts by blindnefs ill II preferr'd 
 
 i'he poet lingered, till Mkc.enas heard. 
 i ain, in my native land, would I forego 
 i u trace the records ot poetic woe ; 
 ^ et C) ' tor OrwAv's doom one tranfient tear, 
 I ho' it bid Britain bluih the name to hear. 
 From the fad leene I turn to happier days 
 And pec:- grae'd with more than emptv Lav- * 
 By Freedom's hand, in annual tranlport, v cw ; 
 " . then, ihall merit plead, in vain, to you? 
 
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 Triumphant Britons ! tho' the trump of wa: 
 
 Sound in your ears ; amid the direful jar, 
 
 To milder notes awhile attentive prove, 
 
 And the foft forrows of connubial love. 
 
 Of wanton flames the Grecian Sappho fung, 
 
 To nobler aims our Sappho's harp is ftrung ; 
 
 To worth, neglected, your attention draws, 
 
 Nor dreads your cenfuie 'tis a Husband's cauf" 
 
 From life's gay morn, to fober evening gray, 
 
 Contented has flie trod his lucklcls way. 
 
 Children of woe ! yet bear ye on awhile, 
 
 And fortune's frown forget in friendfhip's fmile ' 
 
 For, truit. me, Heav'n a tale of forrow heeds, 
 
 And Britons hear, whene'er a Woman plead
 
 'vV^^te 
 
 POEMS 
 
 VARIOUS SUBJECTS. 
 
 CHEDDER. 
 
 A IIY cliffs, majeure Chedder, wou'd require*' 
 Salvator's daring tints, and Milton's fire; 
 Such rocky grandeur, fuch ftupendous views, 
 Check my unprachTed wing, and awe my Mufe ; 
 My leeble Mufe, that ever loves to play 
 On the green fward, and trill the woodland lay. 
 
 * This prodigious chain of rocks ii fituatcd on the South fide of Mendip 
 [Ihls in Somufetihire, near the town <A I nedder, which has long heen 
 
 ] r\:.v.' ij fi r .; ; excellent ^ncfe.
 
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 Trickling beneath the rock's tremendous brow 5 
 As chryftal clear, five lucid ftreamlets flow ; 
 In darknefs doom'd five dreary miles to ftray, * 
 Sparkling they rife, and, bubbling, blefs the day. 
 From Wokey Hole the truant waters flow, 
 The Witch of Wokey all the neighbours know : 
 The wrinkled hag, as ancient ftories tell, 
 By potent magic form'd her fparry cell ; 
 And ftill the ruftics her utenfils name, 
 And ftill they (hew the alabafter Dame : 
 Her chair, where, mutt 'ring backward pray'rs, (he fate, 
 Her ftone gridiron, and her crony cat. 
 
 * This is faid to be proved by colouring the water in Wokey Hole. Wokey, 
 or O'.scy Hole, which lies live miles to the eaft of Chcdder, near the city of 
 Weils, opens from a narrow entry into a large vault, whofe roof can only be 
 feenby light of candle; its grcateft height is 40 feet, grcatcft breadth 20, and 
 length 2co. Among the various configurations formed by the petrifying 
 quality of the water continually dropping, the people heic about fancy many- 
 apartments, utenfils, and animals, belonging, as they pretend, to the Witch, 
 whofe refidence this cave was, and whole figure, in a fparry alabaflci mafs, 
 Shey (hew here. A plcafing Poem, called the " li'it.b cf JVokcy ," written by 
 Dr. II:arington,of Bath, i infert-rd in Percy's Relics oi Anliezit Poetry.
 
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 boon, with glad hafte, thefe lucid flreamlets meet, 
 And form, round fhatter'd rocks, a foaming (beet ; 
 Rocks, on whole furface amber limpets gleam, 
 And floating foliage flutters in the dream. 
 Confervas tremble as the waters drive, 
 And all the chequer'd landscape feems alive.* 
 
 A pile of fragments tumbled to the fpot, 
 Here forms a curious and fantaflic cot : 
 Stranger! if weary, lift the latch, and (hare 
 All cots can give, kind looks and ruflic farcf 
 
 * The bed of this river is fand mixed with fhingles, and in many places 
 lhnoft covered with broken fragments of ftonc, and fmall rocks riling above 
 :iie furface. On thefe are many curious aquatic plants, Po'ypoJiis, sjj'pkr.~:ut::< t 
 and Confervas, which being kept in continual motion by the ftrcam, broken by 
 many little ledges of natural rocks, render the fcenc inexpreffibly bcautif.d. 
 On many of thefe rocks is found a curious kind of f re ft water PatJlj, or Lit-/ .-, 
 fhaped like a truncated cone, of a bluifh and amber colour, pelluci 
 beautifully ftriatcdwith lines of bright purple. 
 
 j Vifitors ufually bring with them tea, wine, Sec. and a:e neatly ace 
 dated. On their benevolence tl>i. pool fcqucftered fami's chiefly i. '.':".. .. 
 
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 Great God of Nature! what convulfive fhock 
 Cou'd rend thofe pond'rous piles of folid rock? 
 Say, did an earthquake, heaving from below, 
 Split the vaft mountain with tremendous blow? 
 Or, were the maffy crags afunder hurl'd, 
 By that dire deluge that o'erwhelm'd the world r* 
 
 A fcene of wonders rufhes on the eye, 
 Infpiring awe, and yet infpiring joy ; 
 Projecting, high, the Eaftern Cliffs afpire, 
 While, hollow'd deep, their counterparts retire ; 
 But, faithful as th' impreflion to the feal, 
 Their ancient unity they both reveal. 
 A mile, and more, the yawning ruins wind, 
 And frill, with varying grandeur, charm the mind 
 
 * Thefe cliffs rife above 800 feet in height, and extend in length a mile 
 and a half. Thofe on the right, or eaftern fide, out-top their antagonifts ; 
 and, from their upright fituation, feem to have fuffcred lefs from the 
 convulfion that broke their former connexion. They are generally inacccffiblc, 
 and awfully fublime.
 
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 VAVVM 
 
 Chaos of crags ! here fome grotefque and bold, 
 Stem fhatter'd battlements of catties old; 
 Others, that fright with their enormous fize, 
 Form craggy cones, and leflen as they rife ; 
 While fome lean forward with terrific brow, 
 And proudly frown on pigmy man below. 
 
 Vet, here coy beauty praclifes her wiles, 
 Peeps from the lofty cliffs, peeps out and fmiles : 
 And as in air the rocky monfler tow'rs, 
 His giant features arc inwreathed with flow'rs ; 
 Ivy and wild thrubs clothe each vacant fpace, 
 Shade every fleep, and every fiffure grace. 
 Benignant Flora decorates the fcene, 
 And fpreads her mantle of eternal green ; 
 The fhapcly hart's tongue, from its oozy bed, 
 Points its green fpire, and nods its humid head ; 
 The mountain pink, the eye delighted fees, 
 Wave its pale crimfon to the pafling breeze, 
 Artlefs and elegant on cliffs fublime, 
 Where no rude, ruftic, pilfering hand can climb,
 
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 Thofe flov/'rs that fcorn in other foil to grow, 
 Dangle in gay feftoon.s, and, cluft'ring, blow ;* 
 And here, in vaft variety, we view 
 Pale fhrubs, contrafted with the darkfome yew : 
 She o'er the whole difplays her mournful charms, 
 Enjoys the dizzy heights, and waves her airy arms. 
 
 Smooth are the breezy fummits, fmooth and green, 
 Where breaks abruptly the tremendous fcene, 
 And the fhock'd eye (brinks at the gulph between. 
 Huntfmen and hounds, advancing to the bound, 
 Start, while the echoing rocks their cries refound ; 
 Beneath, how little lordly mortals feem ! 
 Remote and dim, flow rolls the puny team. 
 
 * The fcenery is interfperfed with ivy, fhrubs, yews, and other trees 
 which grow out of the fiflures of the rocks up to their very fummits in an 
 elegant diforder, far beyond the reach of art. There are found many curious 
 plants, U-veriuort, Aj "planum, Scolcpertdr'ium or hart's tongue, Sergrecn, Polypody, 
 and ThaliEIrum or Meadow Rue, and particularly the Dianthus Glaucus, or 
 Crimfon Mountain Pink, called the Chcddcr Pink, being peculiar <to that place, 
 X;id the rocky fummits of Mendip.
 
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 S.YV,\ 
 
 With wonder and with awe I trace the ftecp, 
 And, thro' the rocky vifta, long and deep, 
 View diflant day, view funny fcenes expand,* 
 Long ftreaks of yellow meads, and gleams of watry land. 
 
 But oh ! my warmeft eulogy is cold, 
 Nor pencil can pourtray, nor tongue unfold, 
 Nor ev'n creative fancy can combine 
 A group lb llriking, colours fo divine, 
 As from the fummit to the bafe adorn 
 Thofe glorious cliffs, when breaks the rofy morn 
 
 Nor yet, O Cjiedder, end thy wonders here. 
 For thine are ll antres vafl" and caverns drear 
 The mighty Power that rear'd the craggy fteep, 
 Iias wrought below in excavations deep, 
 
 When from the level top of thefe terrific cliffs you view the depths below, 
 new fcenes of grandeur rife in wondrous pcrfpec'tive. A friend of mine made 
 ;i drawing from this point of view, which exceeded, in magnificence, ali the 
 others, taking in part of the town of Chedder, with the rnarfhc then under 
 v.ater, and a f.nc diftant country towards Exeter. It i> r:m?.r>v.' :. :.".' 
 : rc-gh this ' h-;gc Chin- '* : r.. '' ; t rnri :: r id to Bilftoi-
 
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 Scoop'd into form the fubterraneous pile 5 :, 
 Form'd Gothic arches, and high vaulted iiles ;* 
 Where the rocks gliften viiihftalaElic beams, 
 Sparkles the fpar ; the chryftal coldly gleams. 
 Here jealous Silence guards the fhadowy halls, 
 Save where the lone drop tinkles as it falls ; 
 But fhou'd a found difturb the tranquil caves, 
 Repeating, long and loud, their angry echo raves- 
 Yet, with fublimcr fweep, and higher {till, 
 Rifes the proud top of old Mendip Hill ; 
 Commanding counties in its wide furvey, 
 Rocks, dales, and fpiry fanes, and Severn's winding 
 way. 
 
 * On the fides of the cliffs are five confidcrable caverns : one of them, the 
 entrance of which is one hundred feet high, contains many curious ftalaclicai 
 productions, fpars, and chryftallizations, and alfo the Lac Lurne, growing like 
 a fungus, extremely light and friable. The cavern is very rugged and uneven, 
 but contains fome very fpacious vaults of a vaft height, the natural arches of 
 which prefent an awful afpcc't, and fine echoes are reverberated within the 
 walls. There is another fmaller cavern, in which an old woman f( me years 
 ago held her folitary rchdenr".
 
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 >mH8 <|> 69att 
 
 LINES, 
 
 Written near Rowberrcm-, in Somerfetfhire, where the Author lately reOdcd, 
 
 ]De AR regions of paftoral joy, 
 
 For ever to memory dear ! 
 Your name I repeat with a figh, 
 
 And pencil your fcenes with a tear- 
 Mine, mine, was the bofom fercne, 
 
 When the wind o'er the wild brier blew ' 
 No groves had fo charming a green, 
 
 No Ikies inch a beautiful blue. 
 
 The woodlands fuch harmony breathe, 
 
 So fwect is the dog-rofe in bloom ; 
 The linnet lings wild on the heath, 
 
 And the bee buzzes over the broom.
 
 Iff 
 
 But fweeter than linnet, or rofe, 
 Or the ftores of the pilfering bee, 
 
 Is the {train that from Gory don * flows, 
 From Cory don, graceful and free, 
 
 'Twas his elegant tafte that refin'd 
 
 The ruftical beauties around ; 
 Humanity glows in his mind, 
 
 And the Mufes his temples have crown'd, 
 
 Correded by CoRYDON r s hand, 
 Old Nature enchantingly fmil'd ; 
 
 The lovely combin'd with the grand, 
 And Paradife rofe in the wild. 
 
 * The Rev. Mr. T. S. Whallcy, a favoured Son of the Mufes, who, from a 
 tiXIlcnfcar on Mendip Hills, Somcrfetfhire, has formed, or rather created, one 
 of the molt delightful places in this Ifland, commanding an extenfive view of 
 the Briftol Channel, with a vaft variety of beautiful home objects, and the 
 cloud-topt mountains of Wales in the back ground. This pa floral is humbly 
 offered as a grateful tribute for former favours received from that gentleman.
 
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 Oh the flope of the high climbing hill, 
 He fafhion'd the terrace fo bold ; 
 
 Where vifion may wander at will, 
 And beauties, unnumber'd, behold. 
 
 Grey rocks at a diftance are ieen, 
 With Severn's wide billowy fhore ; 
 
 Sweet lawns, and the fam'd Cowslip Green, 
 Where Poetry dwells with her More, 
 
 Ve Gods, how delightful to view 
 
 Gay villas embofom'd in trees ; 
 Huge mountains, by diftance made blue, 
 
 And the fails gliding dim in the breeze, 
 
 Jj-jt, fore'd by my fortune, forlorn, 
 Thefe regions of beauty I leave : 
 
 Adieu to the lark in the morn, 
 
 And the red-breaft's fweet hymn in the eve ! 
 
 The fummcr retreat of the celebrated Mrs. Hannah Mo:e. 
 
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 To thy cliffs, awful Chedder, that rife, 
 So pleafingly fhaded with yew, 
 
 To thy fummits, half loft in the fkies, 
 Breezy Mendip ! for ever adieu ! !
 
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 >eeesj<j>|#es<i 
 
 GLASTONBURY ABBEY. 
 
 A POEM. 
 
 ILLUSTRIOUS feats of piety and praife, 
 
 Where fleep the mighty dead of antient days ! 
 
 Renown'd in many a legendary tale, 
 
 Mother of Saints, O Avalonia,* hail ! 
 
 The Mufe, with grief, thy priftine glory fmgs, 
 
 Thou tomb of Heroes, burying-place of Kings ! 
 
 * The antient Iflc of Avaion now forms the hundred of Glaftonbury. It 
 feems to have been mif-named Glajfy (or glafi-colsured, that is verdant, from 
 glaji, which, in Britifh, fignifics green or blue. It was called the Iflc of 
 Avaion, becaufe, in diftant days, the fea flowed up, and covered all the flat 
 lands furrounding'it.
 
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 Where now thy radiant fhrines, thy altars blaze, 
 Thy fretted roofs, that rang with peals of praife ? 
 Forlorn and filent are thy poor remains, 
 In all thy cloifters Defolation reigns ; 
 Beneath the fractur'd arch fhe fits reclin'd, 
 And hears the grey mofs whittle in the wind. 
 
 'Twas here Religion fhot her earlier! ray, 
 Andpour'd, on Pagan gloom, refiftlefs day, 
 Long ere the blue-ey'd Saxons fought our more, 
 Or Danish robbers bath'd the fand in gore. 
 Departing, weft ward, from the 3yrian clime, 
 (So hng the chronicles of hoary time,) 
 The far-fam'd Joseph,* he, who rich and good, 
 Sepulchral honours on our Lord beftow'd, 
 
 * This famous Abbey is faid to have been founded by Jofeph of Arimathea, 
 who buried the body of Chrift, and whom Philip the ApolUc, of Gaul, fent 
 to preach the Gofpel in Britain. The moll antient monuments evince this 
 to have been the firft Chriftian Church upon this Ifland, and to have bec:> 
 built in the earlicft infancy of Chrift ianity, about the year 60.
 
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 avwvM 
 
 f irfl landed here ; lor thcfe flat marfhy plains, 
 
 Form'd, then, a part of Ocean's green domains, 
 
 Arriving fai'e, to Israel's God he rear'd 
 
 His pious arms : the painted favage ilar'd. 
 
 He plants his Staff;* the Staff, by God's decree, 
 
 Infhmt takes root, and branches to a tree: 
 
 A tree that blooms amidit the winter cold, 
 
 Ere fnow-drops dare their icy leaves unfold : 
 
 For, itill obfervant of the facred hours, 
 
 On Chrifhnas-Eve the hallow'd hawthorn flow'rs 
 
 * The original hawthorn tree grew in the fouth ridge of W ferial Hi::, 
 which, by a poor pun, Warne: calls IV 'c -ai y- all-Hill \ and was cut down in th: 
 civil wars ; but fome of its branches are itill growing in the garden behind the 
 Abbey Houfe. It was brought, originally, from tlie Holy Land, of which it is a 
 native. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, an over zealous proteftant, not having 
 the fear of God before iiis eyes, hewed down one of the branches of this holy 
 thorn, and having brought his deftroying axe to another, -imed a dreadful blow. 
 which, happily, did not efcapc with impunity, for ne of the chips, we ar* 
 told, flew into his eye and blinded him, while th.' axe : s\-'S, as in revenge (.:: 
 being put to fuch horrid purpofes, fell on his foot, 2nd v.-o.-rJ- d i: in a t?rriL: < : 
 a'inr.c
 
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 Now Joseph's holy family prepare 
 To build an humble Ozier* houfe of prayer ; 
 (Unlike the fplendid dome they left behind, 
 Built by the greateit, wifeft of mankind ; 
 Where beams of cedar the high roofs uphold, 
 Enrich'dwith Tyrian tints, and bright with Ophir's 
 
 gold.) 
 But, " He who fills infinitude," with fmiles 
 The building faw, and blefs'd the builder's toils. 
 Here pious Joseph never fail'd to raife 
 His morning pray'r, his evening hymn of praife : 
 Swift thro' the Ifle the bleft contagion ran, 
 
 The natives crowd around the holy man ; 
 Eager to hear how God refign'd his breath, 
 And, dying, fav'd an univerfe from death. 
 
 * The little anticnt chapel built by Jofeph, is f:ud to have been conftructcd 
 of twigs. When this decayed, Devcy, Bifhop of St. David's, built a new one 
 in 520; and in the beginning of the ;th century, the church was rebuilt with 
 timber, covered with lead, by Paulinas, Archbifhop of York and St. Auilin.
 
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 Salvation's tidings were with joy received, 
 They came and wonder'd, liiten'd and believ'd ; 
 The day-fpring from on high began to chear 
 Britannia's mud-wall'd huts, and forefts drear: 
 While, to confirm their faith, the facred Thorn 
 Still mark'd, with winter-blooms, the Saviour's natal 
 mom. 
 
 Rugged and rude the antient pile appear'd, 
 By artlefs zeal and infant fcience rear'd; 
 But, nobler rofe the ftrudlures when decay VI, 
 And all the pomp of fanctity difplay'd. 
 Untir'd Devotion, glorying in her toils, 
 Points the high arch, and ftretches out the ifles. 
 Dim are the cells where gloomy monks retire, 
 And grand, to heav'n, high tow'rs the gradual fpire: 
 Fretted the roof, and fculptur'd ev'ry part, 
 With all the little niceties of art; 
 rhe painted windows fhed a twilight gloom, 
 While fplendid fhrincs irradiate all the dome.
 
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 The ftony monuments of death look cold, 
 Silver the faints, the a*far flames with gold; 
 The choral band, by taper's holy blaze, 
 Chaunt the (low dirge, or fwell the notes of praife. 
 Religion fmiles : within, without, appear 
 All that can leaf! the eye, or charm the car. 
 
 Here fleeps the dull of Arthur,* great and good, 
 Arthur, whole fword was drench'd in Saxon blood; 
 
 * Arthur, the Critiih champion, and Chrifihn hero, was borne to this 
 abbey a ft i Lite fatal battle of Camlan, in which he periihed, about the year 
 520. lb., is faid to have worded the Saxons in twelve different engagements, 
 ' nd in gh< ; . 1 1 have llain two hundred and fifty with his own ban 
 yet the ignorance of the times in which he- wrote was extreme, as is proved by 
 the barbarous and Gothic app arance of the hiferiptions on the leaden crefs 
 which was fomubiyer his coffin. 1 his con'in. formed of the hollowed trunk 
 of an oak. was duj up here by order of King Ilemy the Second, v.. 
 directed to the p,..._ where the warrior' ncS were depofited, by - 
 
 legend recited to him by one el the Welch bards. -In u beautiful Poem, by 
 the- Grave of Kirg Arlhw, are the f. !o\ ics : 
 
 * : When AkThvk Low'tl hi.-, hdught) cri it, 
 ir,.-. 
 Si ' hVl him by Mssn , :i! ! !.. 
 ' liiji , blil s to dwell : 
 
 ere, rrc ' r/d with v. eali , 0! ::, ., . ' 
 ' .'.,. .e.'.- tct'd Kb -, in 'let
 
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 ] lis country, wafted by the northern fwarm, 
 Found a firm bulwark in his fingle arm. 
 Me and his knights, in many a bloody fray, 
 Fought from the peep of dawn to letting day. 
 The battle ended, in the feaft they join'd, 
 They lbught like heroes, and like heroes din'd; 
 Drain'd the deep goblet, while the minflrel's fti 
 To deeds of glory rous'd the hardy train. 
 Accural ambition fn'd young Ammon's mind, 
 C.-;s.\r entlav'd, or buteher'd half mankind; 
 While gallant Arthur rais'd his patriot hand, 
 To five from plundering hordes his native land 
 
 " Cut, when he fell, with winged fp:ed 
 " His champions, on a milk white fleed, 
 " Ft mi the '.aide'., hurricane 
 
 : . : : him to Joseph's lowci'ci fane, 
 ' In l!: e ia'n I lie of Av .\ I. on ; 
 
 " Whiore, with ei;jutjted oriion, 
 
 And the long bla/c of topers tie .: , 
 
 1 he lioied fathers met the bit 1 .- 
 
 " 'I hrriijih the dim iiles, in ordei dre.d 
 " Of martial woe, toe Chief they led, 
 ' And deep entoinb'd, in holv ;';ionnd, 
 " Before th altar's lolcimi bi u.h!, 
 
 : . ms very i xp;cffive : for, according tu Nciimtb, n 
 i h.unm : : ) breah ; ic hi es of lions."
 
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 Yet thoje found poets to record their name, 
 And on their murders fix the ftamp of fame , 
 While none were thine, fave perilhable lavs, 
 The bards who pruis'd thee could not write thy praiie 
 Thy great atchievemcnts, Britain's brighteft boait, 
 In loofe tradition float, or are in fable loft. 
 
 Here the fam'd Dunstan pin'd on meagre fare, 
 Counted his beads, and mutter'd midnight pray 'r : 
 Dunstan,* of memory auftere ! who broke 
 Reluctant princes to his monkith yoke. 
 
 * Hiftory informs us, that, in thofe days, the Monks had the fupremc 
 direction of affairs. They pretended to work miracles; crucifixes, altars, and 
 even horfes, were heard to harangue in their favour. But Dunftan had no 
 fmall power over the hoits of heaven: his illuminations were frequent, his. 
 temptations flrong, yet he always refilled with bravery. The devil, fay the 
 Monks, and that ferioufly too, once tempted him in the fhape of a fine woman ; 
 but the faint foon fent him off, by catching him by the nofe with a pair of red 
 hot tongs, and leading him about in public derifion. By the afliftance of 
 fictitious miracles, Edwy was dethroned, and his brother, Edgar, placed in his 
 room. Edward the Martyr, who had not the leaft title to fo glorious an 
 appellation, was crowned King by the fole authority of Duftan. In fhort, 
 every thing gave way to monkifh power.
 
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 A man of gloom, yet fo fupremcly wife, 
 He trick'd old " Sathanas with faucer eyes ;' 
 To wiles infernal frill fuperior rofe, 
 And feiz'd the roaring Devil by the nofe. 
 
 Within thefe cells, in coarfeft garb array'd, 
 The patron Saint of Ireland watch'd and pray'd; 
 Immortal Patrick ! far too good to dwell, 
 Immur'd for ever, in monaftic cell. 
 'Twas his, with active piety, to raife 
 The fteady torch of Truth, and fpread Religion's blaze. 
 
 Once more, illuftrious Avalonia, hail ! 
 Where lonely Learning walk'd her cloiiTers pale,f 
 Handmaid of piety, thro' Gothic night, 
 Her lamp diffus'd a ftream of lovely light. 
 
 * In the year of our Lord 44S, Mac Eacherd, King of Dublin, and all his 
 iV'^ects were converted to Chriftianity by the fervent and intrepid zeal of this 
 ;iiuftrious preacher of the gofpe!. 
 
 f LcSand, who wrote in the time of King Henry the Eighth, fpeaks with 
 . ,j ture of the library l:".c as the be ft in the kindom,
 
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 Hail holy glooms ! where poverty was bleft, 
 Sicknefs found eafe^ and weary pilgrims* roil ; 
 Whore mute Repentance rais'd her humid eye. 
 And penfive Piety retir'd lo die. 
 
 Oft let me wander, at the elofe of day, 
 Amid your glimm'ring ifles, and ruins f grey; 
 
 * As many pilgrims vifited Glaftonbury, the Abbots found it neceffary t;i 
 bui'd an inn for their reception, where they were furnifhcd with all the nccef- 
 faries of life in a truly royal flylc. It is ftill ftanding in the town, and known 
 by the fign of the George, having the Arms af the Saxon Kings o\ cr the gate. 
 The fummit of this Inn is turretted, and the fpaces between the battlements 
 feem formerly to have been adorned with human figures in ftone. Only two 
 of thefe arc remaining, their heads inclining downwards, as if they were 
 obferving the guefts as they entered the gateway. 
 
 f The relics of this once fuperb edifice are fome of the fouth walls of the 
 choir, with thofe of St. Edgar's, St. Andrew's, and our Lady's Chapei, 
 adjoining the two caft pillars of the tower, and a wed arch leading into St. 
 Joieph's Chapel, which is entire, except the roof and the lloor. The church, 
 with St. Jofeph's Chapel was five hundred feet in length, and exceeded all 
 our Cathedrals, except St. Paul's. This Abbey was valued at the diffolation, 
 atjCiin per year, and the prefent rental of its demefnes is above A', v y." o 
 (r was granted to Edwa ' k; i ' S..::ierfet, who only cj 
 ; uli it to nieces.
 
 M 
 
 Where, chonk'd with earth,* the pointed arch feaic 
 
 peeps, 
 And o'er the moul'dring wall pale ivy creeps: 
 
 'I ."ii is!.; rally tru . Tb i irt'n, in feme pin .-.!::" tlf-.-n fo high, tha' 
 ' / top? of the Gothic arch :s arc fcarcely difct r 
 
 : = King Arthur and his Que ". ( in were buried. 
 
 :,Ki itwyn.Kinjof the Well Saxons, Ei'.niundth: Fir."h Echar, ar.J 
 ui Cithops, thirteen Abbot.-, and other cm:. 
 rv.nt perl nr.jcs ; all v.-h :" m nmnent; p.rc totally deiln . J, or c-.r.c li 
 under the ' ibbifh. 
 
 The I ; ! t 1 m: nine 
 
 create J :*) bit; cicfl u time, is tin 
 
 ifil'ine; but . to an ufc f.i wh h it wa nc in! 
 
 f 5t. M.r.y, on th nr rth flcit.- of" th ehurrb 1 i proftituti J 
 
 in: > a fi.tbl.-. :. i:u rao:t pn. r . Ly pi: . : . ... Cud;-, ll 
 
 . .iiuch, v/hieh iitv w; 
 
 1 '' d, v, been taken av.rrv. md lniiteu into ciucrn-. 
 
 :i additional p.... if t'.ie priilir.e erar.d.u: r. 
 
 ed. it it. : :. extenfr.c plot of fi>.t> ... 
 
 k-id'im 1 i"s th i three hundred do :r.c Ah . man; i - hi .. . : 
 
 : .::.'.'.. 
 
 went a 
 
 On ! ' ' ; ' .. Et lj ::;:... . j , 
 
 Abb t, lcr \v hj; tv. i his ' i . 
 
 itll. ..... ;:. J. ;.d to let I -..:, I:.*
 
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 Where, as I ftep, the clam'rous jackdaw fprings 
 And in the Holy Thorn the redbreaft lings. 
 To fee the dire effects of wafting years, 
 The eye of contemplation fwims in tears: 
 O'er fainted duft the noxious nettles fpread, 
 The thiftle nods above the mighty dead ; 
 And not one folitary fragment* fhews 
 Where heroes moulder, or where kings repofe. 
 
 thofe of Canterbury or Durham. The hofpitality of this Abbot was fuch, that 
 he often entertained five hundred horferaen at a time. Since the difiblution 
 of religious houfes, the chief fupport of the town was the great number of 
 viators; but the inhabitants having, with Gothic ftupidity, removed many ol 
 the ftones to repair their houfes, the number of vifitors is much diminished. 
 
 * Speaking of thefe ruins, the Rev. Mr. Warner, in his " Walk through fine 
 of the Wijlern Counties," fays " Though time has fpared but little, that 
 little exhibits cxquifite fpecimens of fculptural fit ill." He fays, that St, 
 Jofeph's Chapel carries architectural elegance to a pitch beyond what his fane ;. 
 could conceive. Its ftyle is mixed, partly Anglo-Norman, or what is vulgail} 
 .ailed Saxon, and partly Gothic, both perfect in their kind. Nor is it poffiblc 
 to pafs the northern entrance without admiration, for here the builder feen:^ 
 ?: have exerted all his efforts to produce an architectural wonder.
 
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 Yet thofe, there are, I pity from my foul, 
 Who with light fneer, or philofophic fcowl, 
 Can view the dreadful havoc made by Time, 
 On ftructurcs once fo facred and fublime. 
 For me, I venerate the very place 
 Where firft Religion fhew'd her radiant face: 
 Heart-ftruck, I view thefe defolated piles, 
 Thefe brambled cloifters, and thefe weedy ifles. 
 The wife and good will fympathizc* with me, 
 And feel, O Avalonia, feel one pious pang for tb.ee! 
 
 The tranfepts of the great church fpread to a breadth of 135 feet, riling to a 
 fublime height, adorned with innumerable fhrines, *' antic pillars," fculptured 
 windows, and painted glafs ; the whole executed in the pureft Gothic taite, and 
 finished with the moft elaborate art. It is impoffiblc to quit this fubjee! 
 without moli ferioufly regretting the grofs inattention paid to thefe venerable 
 rr-mains, and fcandalous violation of the aflies of the dead.
 
 34 
 
 >25>IS><i 
 
 ON A PAINTED WINDOW, 
 
 Which exhibits an amiable young Lady rifing from the Dead. 
 
 Wijejec 
 
 JoEHOLD that lovely form, from fleep profound 
 New-wak'd, andfpringing from the fra&ur'd tomb! 
 
 While worlds, unheeded, fall in ruins round, 
 And the dread trumpet founds the note of doom, 
 
 In holy trance, with fix'd extatic gaze, 
 
 She views the realms of light that opening glow: 
 
 .She hears the hymns of " inexpreffive" praife, 
 And fpurns at worldly vanity below. 
 
 She hears the voice of welcome horn above, 
 " Come, fainted maid, celeflial filler, come!" 
 
 Supporting angels, with a fmile of love, 
 
 Wart 'he " accepted" to her heav'aly home.
 
 O ye v, ho wept upon the hajlow'd clay, 
 
 And law, with anguifh, her meek head laid low, 
 
 Look on the glory thefe bright fcenes dilplay, 
 And, if ye can, indulge one moment's woe! 
 
 What are the pageants that (he left behind ? 
 
 The pride of birth, and fortune's glitt'ring toy?, 
 And youth's warm bloom? ferenely (lie reiignd 
 
 'The painted fhadows for fubftantial joys. 
 
 When the low fun dreams through the pictur'd glafc, 
 And gives the traits a more etherial hue; 
 
 Th' exprerlive fcenes all fallacy furpafs, 
 
 And the foul, darting, thinks the vifion true 
 
 Full oft Devotion here ihall turn her eyes, 
 
 Awhile forgetful of the facred fhive; 
 And view, with thoughts that kindle as they rile 
 
 The Chriilian triumph o'er the greedy ^ravc 
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 O never may thefe radiant tints expire, 
 But feel the mellowing pow'r of foft decay! 
 
 Till the fkies glow with no diiTembled fire, 
 And flames, in earner!, the tremendous day ' 
 
 The much-admired window, which is the fubject of this Poem, decorates 
 the Church cf Afton, near Birmingham, and was executed by the celebrated 
 Mr. Eginton. The defign is as follows : 
 
 In the opening of a Gothic arch, executed in ftatuary marble, the lady is 
 reprefented as juft rifing from the mattered tomb, amidft a mafs of clouds, and 
 .group of angels. She is in an attitude of adoration, and looking, with rapture, 
 towards a descending gloiy. On one fide of the fepulchre is the imperfect 
 form of a fhield, which once contained the armorial bearings of the family, 
 emblematical of the inftability of all earthly grandeur. 
 
 This window is in commemoration of the good, the fonder, the accom 
 plifned, and pious Mil's Wearden, of Solihull, Warwickshire. 
 
 ^^ 
 
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 37 
 
 LINES, 
 
 Written on feeing my Hufband's Pidure, painted when he was young, 
 
 [Written in 179S.3 
 1. 
 
 I HOSE arc the features, thofe the fmiles, 
 
 That firft engag'd my virgin heart: 
 I feel the pencil'd image true, 
 I feel the mimic pow'r of art. 
 
 2. 
 For ever on my foul engrav'd 
 
 His glowing cheek, his manly mien; 
 1 need not thee, thou painted (hade, 
 
 To tell me what mv Love has been.
 
 38 
 
 clearer now, tho' bent with age, 
 Than in the pride of blooming youth ! 
 
 1 knew not then his conftant heart, 
 
 I knew not then his matchlefs truth. 
 
 4. 
 Full many a year, at random toft, 
 
 The fport of many an adverfe gale, 
 Together, hand in hand, we ? ve ftray'd, 
 
 O'er dreary hill, and lonely vale, 
 
 5. 
 Hope only flattered to betray, 
 
 Her keener! (hafts misfortune fhot : 
 In fpite of prudence, fpite of care, 
 
 Dependence was our bitter lot. 
 
 6. 
 
 Ill can'il thou bear the fneer of wealth, 
 Averted looks, and ruftic fcorn; 
 
 For thou wert born to better hopes, 
 And brighter rofe thy vernal morn,
 
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 7. 
 
 Thy ev'ning hours to want expos'd, 
 I cannot, cannot bear to fee: 
 
 Were but thy honeft heart at eafe, 
 I care not what becomes of me. 
 
 S. 
 But tho', my Love, the winds of woe. 
 
 Beat cold upon thy filver hairs, 
 Thy Anna's bofom ftill is warm; 
 
 Afifeclion ftill fhall foothe thy cares. 
 
 9. 
 And Confcience, with unclouded ray, 
 
 The cottage of our age will chcar 
 Friendship will lift our humble lately 
 
 And Pity pour her healing tear. 

 
 40 
 
 iir,illlllinm 
 
 On the Death of a favourite Spaniel, 
 
 [Written in 1794.] 
 
 BENEATH this humble graffy fod, 
 
 O'er which the woodbine fondly twines, 
 
 And the lov'd robin neftles near, 
 Fidelity herfelf reclines. 
 
 When Fortune's terrifying blafts 
 
 Drove ev'ry funimer- friend away, 
 
 Thee, faithfol Fannv, ftill I found, 
 Companion of my woe-worn way. 
 
 Nought, fellow-rambler, couldft thou know 
 Of woes that rent my aching breaft ; 
 
 Oft did thy bark of joy difturb 
 
 The fluttering fky-lark from her nefi, 
 
 Oft did thy rude unconfcious paws 
 Dare my unfpotted robes to foil ; 
 
 Yet ftill thy tender, artlefs whine, 
 Converted anger to a fmilc. 
 
 Farewell ! O could the grateful Mufe, 
 
 With tears of genius bathe thy tomb! 
 
 Bid the poetic myrtle there, 
 
 And there the dog-rofc ever bloom !
 
 41 
 
 : ej<Jg>|8e< 
 
 KEMLWORTH CASTLE. 
 
 A POEM. 
 
 iS this the Caftle * once extol I'd fo high, 
 That Hiftory feems a fiction, Truth a lie? 
 Did princely fplcndour once thole walls adorn, 
 Joy wave her torch, and Plenty pour her horn? 
 Ami great Eliza, with her courtiers gay, 
 Spend nights in revels, and in fports the day? 
 
 This famous Caillc. once the relidencc of Kings, and pride of Warwick- 
 shire, is accurately def-ribed in alette* from an attendant in Court, to his 
 friend, a citizen of London, and dated from the Court of Worcefler, the 2oth 
 f Aujuft, 1 57 j. This account is rendered curious by its antient orthography, 
 and quaintnefs of defcription ; foi which icafon, I hope I (lull be c: 
 i >g copious extract" fv.ni i; 
 
 I-
 
 42 
 
 Whole weeks indulging in each colli y joy, 
 That genius cou'd invent, or wealth cou'd buy ? 
 Alas! how chang'd! high grai's o'crtops the wall, 
 Brambles and weeds choak up the mould' ring hall : 
 O'er the green fofle the favage fragments low'r, 
 And robes of ivy clothe the (hatter' d tow'r. 
 
 Where yon broad meadow fpreads its graffy pride, 
 Once roll'd a mafs of waters,* deep and wide; 
 
 " This Caftle," fays the aforefaid letter, u was firft reared by Kcnulph 
 and his young fon Kenelm, of the race of Saxons, who firft reigned Kings of 
 March-land (MerciaJ from the year of our Lord 798, too 23 years toogyther, 
 about 777 years ago." [This is not correctly right : the Caftle here alluded to, 
 was fituated in the woods oppofite Stoncleigh Abbey, in this parilh, and was 
 demolifhcd in King Edmund's wars with the Danes. The prcfent fabric was 
 erected about the year 11 20, by Geoffrey de Clinton, a Norman, who was Lord 
 Chamberlain and Treafurer to King Henry the Firft.] " It ftands in 
 Warwickfhire, feventy-threc myle north-weft from London, and, az it werc> 
 in the navel of England, foure myle fomewhat from Coventrec, a proper 
 citee, and a lyke diftance from Warwyk, a faire fheere town, in ayr fweet and 
 holfum, raifed on an eafy mounted hill," &c. 
 
 * " Too advantage hath it hard on the weft a goodlie pool, of rare beauty, 
 breadth, length, and deph, and ftore cf all kinds of frefh water fifti, delicat, 
 great, and fat ; and alfo of wild foowl befides. Ey a natural arnitce feemz thir
 
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 A guardian lake, that in its lucid fold 
 Wrapt the embattled walls, and, quiv'ring, roll'd. 
 With filh and 1'owl the furface fecm'd alive, 
 Proud rows the fwan, the fpeckled wild-ducks dive 
 The plunging fiih a thoufand circles make. 
 Dimpling the glafTy bolbm of the lake. 
 Along the banks a tall majeftic wood 
 Cafls its brown umbrage o'er the filver flood ; 
 And next a wide extended park appear'd, 
 Where {lately deer their branching antlers rear'--! .; 
 Gardens that Flora's lovelieft tints unfold, 
 Orchards that glow with vegetable gold; 
 Delightful fhrubb'ries, interfpers'd with thefc 
 Gay bow'rs of pleafure, and cool grots of eafe 
 
 pool conjoined to the Caftle, that on the weft hyz the head, as it wear, upon 
 the Caftlz bofom, cmbraecth it, fouth and north, with both arms, ft retching 
 fvorth body and legs a myie or too weftward, between a fayrc park on the 
 one fide, and on the oother a goodlie chafe, full of red deer, and other ftatcly 
 gama for hunting ; beautified with many delectabie, frefh, and umbiagiaous 
 boowz, arberz, featz, and w..i.- 5, that with great art, coft, and diligent, wear 
 very pieafantly appointed." Tic fame Letter. 
 Tas pool covered one hundred and eleven acres c-fland. 
 F 2
 
 44 
 
 Charm the wild- roving eye but where, ah where? 
 The fairy virion is difTolv'd in air: 
 Woods, lakes, and parks no longer ftrike the eye, 
 Reflection fickens, Hift'ry heaves a figh. 
 
 Ere the ct deep-throated" cannon learnt to roai, 
 Or murd'rous bombs their way, refifUcfs, tore; 
 This vet'ran fortrefs, rough with many a fear, 
 Laugh'd at the idle implements of war. 
 Edward,* with all his might, the walls aflfails, 
 Edward, the fcource of Scotland and of Walls.; 
 
 * W r hen the famous Simon Montfort, Earl of Leiccfter, who headed the 
 *-ebel Barons in the reign of Henry the Third, v as defeated and (lain at the 
 battle of Evefham, by Edward Prince of Wales, (afterwards Edward the Firft,) 
 the mattered remains of the rebel army took refuge in this fortrefs. Henry de 
 Haftings, the Governor, made a moil gallant refiflance againft the. united force". 
 of the victorious Prince. Being provided with engines to throw ftones of 
 a prodigious fize (forne ol which have been found; and making frequent and 
 bold fallies, lie baffled all the efforts of the befiegers for fix months ; when 
 famine and difeafe having made great havoc in the garrifon, he furrendered on 
 the mofl honourable terms. This ficge was productive of much mifchief to 
 tho Monaftcry f"! Black Canons founded by the above named Geoffrey dc
 
 45 
 
 Asainft them the whole nation's ftrength lie drew, 
 Then whizz'd the fpear, and twang'd the bow of 
 
 yew. 
 In vain huge balls ol" (lone were taught to flv, 
 The inafiy bulwarks all aflaults defy; 
 The neighb'ring convent hears the dire alarms, 
 \nd the pale priefls Hart at the din of arms. 
 At length, when fix long mom lis were {pent in vain 
 Famine effects what valour could not gain; 
 And fhouts of triumph echoing to (he ikies, 
 On C.iSARs tow'i * the royal (landard flics. , 
 
 Penlive we view von walls with mois o'ergrown, 
 Walls that once echo'd with a monarch's moan: 
 
 i and >.:..:...:.. ,...:::.. h. the eater.-:; a'.id part cf the chaprl ;: 
 w.i rem: in. 
 
 u T:u C.u'tle hath one auncirnt. nrong, and large keep, that u called 
 t .':.:/ Towr; rather, az 1 have good cauz to think, for that it is fquare and 
 
 ormed after the manner of Cxfarz Fortz, than that ever h; bylt w 
 ' above mentioned letter. Th"^ teve: '' the ."t r- -nc :'" and m " 
 
 ' :.' Dart of the f.tV.ic.
 
 46 
 
 The royal wretched outcaft of mankind, 
 The fecond Edward,* here in thraldrom pin'd 
 Degraded lower than the lowed clown, 
 Here he refign'd his fceptre and his crown. 
 
 * This unfortunate Prince was certainly unfit to hold the reins of govern- 
 ment in thofe turbulent times. lie had no vices ; but was unhappy in a total 
 incapacity for fcrious bufmefs. His chief fault was, the violence of his 
 attachment to favourites at once infolent and rapacious. Inftigated by his 
 Queen Ifabella, and Mortimer, with whom ihe carried on a criminal intercourfe, 
 the whole kingdom rofc againft him. Endeavouring to hide himfelf in the 
 Mountains of Wales, he was difcovercd, put into the cuftody of the Earl of 
 Leicefter, and confined in this Caftlc, where a rellgnation was extorted from 
 him by terror. But the treatment he experienced here being confidered too 
 humane, he was removed to Berkley Caiue, where he met with every fpecies 
 01 indignity. 
 
 It is reported, his mercenary keepers fhaved him for fport in the open fields., 
 with water from a neighbouring ditch. On this occafion his firmnefs forfook 
 him; he looked upon his mercileis perfecutors with an air of fallen majefty, 
 and fhed a torrent of tears. But this method of laying him in his grave being 
 thought too flow, he was at laft diipatched by thrufting a red hot iron, inferted 
 through a horn, into his bowels. To this horrid tragedy Gray alludes in his 
 celebrated Welch Ode .- 
 
 " Hark to the fhricks, through Berkley's Tow'rs that ring, 
 " Shrieks of an agonizing King. 
 
 lie very properly and poetically calls Ifabella, 
 
 " She-Wolf of France."
 
 4 7 
 
 (Alas! that iccptre he could not fuftain, 
 
 That crown, too pond'rous, hurt his feeble brain.) 
 
 Vet ftill his faults o'erbalanc'd by his woes, 
 
 His fate we pity, and detett his foes. 
 
 By infult goaded, till thofe foes were tir'd, 
 
 At length, in agony, the wretch expir'd. 
 
 Still be thy name, O Isabel, abhor'd, 
 
 Thou bale adult'rous murd'rcr of thy lord ! 
 
 Ah ! fee that mould'ring hall ! ronown'd of yore, 
 For rofy revels and convivial roar! 
 Plenty, which none but Princes cou'd afford, 
 Enormous plenty, fmoak'd upon the board. 
 Compar'd with this how fneakingly wc dine ! 
 How poor, how puny is our fam'd firloin ! 
 Quarters of oxen, moieties of fheep, 
 Wafh'd down with large potations, ftrong and deep, 
 Strike our degcn'rate guttlers with amaze, 
 Vet form'd the boa ft of thofe heroic days. 
 rho' coarfe the joke, " the merry beards wagg'd all, 
 \nd peals of laughter (hook the vaulted hall.
 
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 The Minftrel's carol,* while, -it every pa ule, 
 The woods and lake re-echo hoarfe applaufe. 
 
 * We do not meet with the term Minftrel until after the Norman Conqueft, 
 This order of men fucceeded the antient bards, and retained many of the 
 honours fhewn to their illuftrious predeceffors, who, according to Offian, fang 
 the " battles of heroes, and the heaving breads of love." The following 
 curious defcription is given of the Minftrel who entertained Queen P'lizabeth 
 in this Caftle ; " A perfon very meet for the purpofe, of about forty-five 
 years old, his cap off, his head feemingly rounded tonfterwife, fair kembed : 
 that, with a fponge daintily dipt in a little capon's greafe, was finely fmoothed 
 to make it fhine like a mallard's wing ; his beard fmugly (haven ; and his fhirt, 
 after the new trink, with ruffs fair ftarched, flecked, and gliftening like a pair 
 of new fhoes, marfhalled in good order with a fetting ftick, and ftrut, that 
 every ruff flood up like a wafer ; a fide (/. c. a long) gown of Kendal Green, 
 gathered at the neck with a narrow gorget, fattened afore with a white clafp, 
 and a keeper clofe up to the chin. Seemingly begirt in a red caddis girdle ; 
 from that a pair of capped Sheffield knives hanging a' two fides ; his gown had 
 fide (/. e long) fleeves down to mid-leg, flit from the moulder to the hand, and 
 lined with white cotton ; his doublet fleeves of black worded, upon them a pair 
 of points of tawney camlet, laced along the wrill with biue threaden points ; 
 a wealt towards the hands of fuftian-a.napcs ; a pair of red nether focks ; a pair' 
 of pumps on his feet, with a crofs cut at his toes for corns, not new indeed, 
 yet cleanly blackt with foot and fhining as a (hoeing horn; about his neck a 
 red ribband, fuitable to his girdle ; his harp in good grace, dependent before 
 him; his wreft tyed to a green lace, and hanging by; under the gorge! 
 of his gown, a fair flaggon. chain, pewter for filver; as a Squire Minftrel of 
 Middlefex.
 
 49 
 
 The cattle bell, with hofpitablc found, 
 
 Daily invites the neighbourhood around, 
 
 To noble Grangers,* journeying from afar, 
 
 The furly porter fmiles, the pond'rous gates unbai 
 
 And hark ! what (bouts of revelry abound, 
 Float on the lake, and thro' the groves refound ! 
 Unnumber'd pageants crowd upon the eve. 
 Attention wanders in a maze of joy. 
 The trumpet's clangor. f and the torchs' blaze. 
 Set all the flutt'ring courtiers on a gaze. 
 
 * The arts of a refined, fequeftered luxury, -was then unknown ; and, befiJes 
 this fort of hofpitality, there was another, ftill more noble and difinterefted 
 which diftinguifhed the early times, cfpecially the purer ages of chivalry : it 
 was cuftomary, according to Dr. Hurd, in his " Moral and Poetical Dialogues," 
 for the great Lords to fix up helmets on the roofs and battlements of their 
 caftles, as a figrul of hofpitality to all adventurers and noble paffengers. 
 
 f This alludes to the fanciful and magnificent entertainments given to 
 Queen Elizabeth, and her whole Court, by her favourite Earl of Leiccfter, and 
 which continued, with intercfting variety, for fouiteen d.iys. 
 
 ' Mx trumpetours flood upon the w:.I: of the g:te too found a tune cf 
 welcome, every one an eight \jj' hye, ill m iong garments of filk fuita't 
 *: 'h with his Uivcry t'.umo"' of a five i >ot : .o">r "Abcie n;r.:\,r;J L:'.'c- ,
 
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 Beauty and Fafhion, in their belt attire, 
 The lake all peopled, and the ikies on fire ; 
 The martial tournaments, the gorgeous dance, 
 Bring fiction home, and realife romance. 
 The Gods themfelves are actors in the fcene, 
 And Goddefies acknowledge Albion's Queen. 
 Nereids, in fea-green vefl, in homage bow, 
 Their wrinkled (hells the mimic Tritons blow ; 
 The Dolphin gambols, and Anon* plays, 
 The lake, in rapture, quiv'ring to his lays. 
 The rofy Bacchus, flufn'd with grace divine, 
 Prefents his cluft'ring grapes and fparkling wine 
 
 u In the midft of the pool was a rnoovcable ifland, bright blazing with 
 torches. There was abrode fundry kindez of ficr works, compel'd, by 
 cunning, to fly too and froo, mount very hye, and alfo to burn ur.quenfhabk 
 in the water." The fame. 
 
 * " A rion riding aloft upon his old friend the dolphin, that from hed t 
 tayl waz a foour and twenty foot long, began a delectable ditty, well adapted 
 to a melodious noi/, compounded of fix fevcral inftruments, all covert, 
 calling found from the dolphin's belly, Arion fitting thus ringing without.'' 
 
 ,?..- LetW.
 
 51 
 
 Sylvanus offers his wild flutt'ring fowls, 
 Pomona, golden fruit in filver bowls: 
 Ceres prefents her flieaves of 1 carded grain, 
 Neptune, the finny tenants of the main. 
 Appollo, grae'd with lutes ami harps, appears, 
 And courteous Mars extends hi glitt 'ring fhields an i 
 1 pears. 
 
 Young Knights, the flow'r of Chivalry, advance 
 rhelr mettled (reeds, and couch the quiv'ring lance : 
 While Tome, the hardiell of the vulgar throng, 
 Tilt at a pony : and tumbling, fprawl along. 
 
 ' This ciiverlion was culled " running at the Quintyn,*' which was 
 
 d by " a br.de-a'e."' " After tlie bridegroom had his coois, ran the 
 
 re it ill lam oiuer; but foon after tag and rag, cut and long tail, where the 
 
 fpecialty of the fport was, to fee how fome, for his llacknefs, had a good bob 
 
 with the bag; and fome, for his hafte, too topple down right and cam 
 
 tumbling to the poft." Runningat the Quintin was a ludicrous kind of tilting, 
 
 performed in the following manner: A polt, as huh as a man on liorfeback, 
 
 ' ipright in the ground, with an iron pivot on the top, on which, turned 
 
 j long horizontal beam, unequally divided. To the upright poll was fixed 
 
 .;' lij'.hc of a man, tlie horizontal beam reprcfentin~ his arms ; the (h :te:i 
 
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 52 
 
 And now, refponfive to the tabor's found, 
 The antic morrice,* jingling, beats the ground. 
 Nor did her Virgin Highness fcorn to view, 
 Ban-dogs and bearsf their old difputes renew; 
 
 end had a target nearly covering the whole body, with a hole in the fhape of 
 a heart, on a ring cut in the middle of it; and the longed was armed with a 
 wooden fvvord or a bag of fand. Peafants, mounted on cart horfes, ran full 
 tilt at this figure, and endeavoured to ftrike the heart with a pole, made like a 
 lance: if they fucceeded, they were greatly applauded; but if they ft ruck the 
 fhield inftead of the heart, the fhort arm of the lever retiring, brought round 
 the wooden fword, or the fand bag, with fuch velocity as generally to unhorfe 
 the awkward alTailants. 
 
 * ** A lively morifdauns, according to the auntient manner, fix daunccrz, 
 mawdmarion, and the fool." 
 
 j This diverfion is very graphically defcribed in the above letter .- " On the 
 fixth day of her Majefty's cumming, a great fort of ban-dogs wear tyed in the 
 utter court, and thirteen bearz in the inner; it waz a fport veryplezaunt to fee, 
 the bear, with his pink nyez, leering after his enem'ez approach, the nimble- 
 nefs and wait of the dog to take his advantage, and the force and experiens of 
 the bear agiyn to avoid the alTaults ; if he were bitten in one place, hoow he 
 would pynch in anoother, to get free ; that if he wear taken onez, then what 
 fhyft, with byting and clawing, with roring, tofiing and tumbling, he would 
 woork to wynd himfelf from them ; and when he was 'ofe, to make his earz, 
 twyfe or thrys, wyth the blud, and the flavcr about his fiznamy, was a matte; 
 ot goodlie relief.'-
 
 Our ancient beaux enjoy the funny fight, 
 Forget their gravity, and laugh outright; 
 Nobles and bumpkins join in one loud roar- 
 But ah! the reign of revelry is o'er: 
 The fcene of fplendour like a day-dream flies, 
 And deep'ning (hades of melancholy rife. 
 The dreadful whirl of fate my foul appalls, 
 Methinks, within yon lacerated walls, 
 Departed grandeur's penfive ghofl I view; 
 Time-batter'd tow'rs,* and moffy piles adieu! 
 
 Again " When the bearz wear brought foorth, the dogs fet too them ton 
 ..rgue the points even face to face ; they had 'earned C:unfel a both parts : if the 
 dog, in pleading, would pluk the bear by the throte, the bear, with travers, 
 would claw him on the fcalp. 
 
 Butler feems to have adopted this idea in his Hudibras, when h talks cf 
 the plaintiifdog, and bear defendant,'' Jcc. 
 
 Such were the royal amufements in the '' golden days" of the great 
 Elizabeth ! ! 
 
 * Though the Poem concludes with an air of poetical melancholy, infpircd 
 by a comparifon of the prefent Ante of the fabric with its priftine magnificence ; 
 yet the ruins, in fpite of the great havoc made by time, and the (till greater by 
 -v-irice, exhibit an appearance pleaiing, though awful, and though Chattered,
 
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 Alas! your tenants now are inmates foul, 
 There flits the bat, and mopes the moufing owl; 
 
 picturefque. You enter, from the north, by the fide of the great gate houfe, 
 now ufed as afarmboufe. The wall and ditch formerly joined it, and the 
 entrance then was under an arched way, between four turrets, which, on its 
 being made a habitation was walled up, and converted into two large rooms. 
 One of thefe rooms is decorated with an elegant chimney piece, and oak 
 wainfcot, taken from Leicefter Buildings, and well worthy of the ftranger's 
 attention. The large pile of buildings on the right hand (abfurdly called 
 Cxfar's Tower) is the ftrongeft and raofl antient part of the caftle. Three 
 fides, over-grown with ivy, are now entire, the fourth having been demolished 
 by Oliver Cromwell's foldiers. The three kitchens lie beyond it, nearly up 
 to Leicefter Buildings. Thefe were very fpacious ; but now fome traces of 
 foundations on the green fward only ferve to mew their fituation. Leicefter 
 Buildings come next. 
 
 They were very ftrong; the three ranges of arches, one over another, are ftill 
 to be feen. Over thefe you may climb to the top of the wall, from whence you 
 have a fine view of the country. What a glorious fcene this mult have been 
 when the vallies, on either hand, were filled with the tranfparent waters of 
 the lake, furrounded with a beautiful variety of pleafure grounds laid out in 
 lawns and woods. 
 
 In coming clown again, you have the remains of the great hall on your right 
 hand, a noble room, eighty-fix feet long by forty-five feet wide, well adapted 
 to the hofpitable clays of our forefathers. Underneath was a room of the fame 
 dimenfions for domeftics, and the fecond clafs of viiitors. A flight of ftone 
 fteps from the court, over an arch ftill remaining, formed the grand approach 
 to the hail, through a noble Gothic gateway, very curioufly ornamented, with
 
 .S3 
 
 There, on his couch of weeds, pale horror reigns, 
 Triumphant matter of thefe drear domains: 
 There, low in dufr, the fmokelefs kitchen lies, 
 And round the rooflefs hall the fhiv'rins; ivy fiidis. 
 
 twining vine and oak leaves, interchangeably wrought in ftone, up the flutings 
 of the arch. The beauties of the carved foliage challenge the admiration of the 
 artift. You now come to the range of apartments that formed the fouth fide 
 cf the inner court, confifting of the White Hall, the Prcfence Chamber, and 
 tiie Privy Chamber, of which there is nothing remaining but the fragments of 
 walls and ilair cafes, and part of two large bow windows. LeiceAer Buildings, 
 though the laft erected, fcem likely to fall the fooneft into total decay. This 
 fabric has been robbed of vail quantities of materials for repairing roads, Sec. 
 and to the benevolent attention of the late Earl of Clarendon we owe what 
 now remains. 
 
 The fpot from whence the caftle appears to the bell advantage, is on the 
 road from Ilonily to Warwick, where it is feen in the midft of a noble wood, 
 
 and appears " befom'd high in tufted trees." N. B. Six Views of theft 
 
 interefting ruins, executed in Aqua Tint, by the beft Artifts, are intended to br 
 'omc time publifbed by W,v. Sawvfr. provided due encouragement is give-:. 
 

 
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 e*K3>|e 
 
 SUNDAY SCHOOLS. 
 
 1. 
 
 U BRING little children unto me," 
 The God of our Salvation cries: 
 
 The good and wife obey the call, 
 And lay up treafures in the Ikies. 
 
 2. 
 Oft have I feen, with penfivc eye, 
 
 Children, in groups, our ftreets difgrace 
 Expos'd to infamy and vice, 
 
 With fhamelefs, yet with ruddy face. 
 
 3. 
 Along the fields, along the lanes, 
 
 Rambled the giddy, giggling throng, 
 Eager to ftrip the flow'ring thorn, 
 
 Or rob the poor bird of its young.
 
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 4. 
 No fears had they of Gop above, 
 
 No rev'rence for the fabbath Day; 
 But thought thofe hallow'd hours were meant 
 For nought but frolic nought but play. 
 
 5. 
 For play and mifchief : out they flew, 
 
 The plague of many an honed clown, 
 Who, mutt'ring, mourn'd his broken fence, 
 
 And clover'd meadow trampled down, 
 
 6. 
 Their toil-worn parents fore diftreft 
 
 To feed and clothe each lucklefs child 
 
 No fchooling cou'd afFord ; their minds 
 
 Were like the weedy garden wild. 
 
 7. 
 
 No hounds their infolence retrain, 
 No check the little urchins know; 
 
 None, fave the beadles lifted ftaff, 
 Or Hern church-warden's angry brow.
 
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 aWYtts 
 
 8. 
 Compaffion bled at every pore, 
 
 To hear their rude noife rend the Iky : 
 
 Oh! have not thefe immortal fouls? 
 
 For thefe did not a Saviour die? 
 
 9. 
 Celeftial Charity advanc'd, 
 
 Inftant their idle clamour ceas'd ; 
 Smiling, (he feiz'd each vagrant's hand, 
 
 And led them to the " paths of peace." 
 
 10. 
 How chang'd the fcene! in decent garb, 
 
 With fober ftep, and ferious air, 
 Obfequious to their tutor's voice, 
 
 To church the cherub-train repair. 
 
 11. 
 The pow'r of difcipline has check'd 
 
 The wild-fire of impetuous youth j 
 And heav'n-t aught Charity difclos'd 
 
 The facred Oracles of Truth.
 
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 12. 
 
 What joy to view the infant tribes, 
 
 With eyes that gliften, cheeks that glow, 
 
 Fix'd fteady on their bible-talks, 
 
 Or hamm'ring out the chrifs-crofs row! 
 
 13. 
 
 Ye more than parents of the poor, 
 
 How great, how god-like is your plan! 
 To fnatch from fire the " flamimi brand," 
 And hew the rougli block into man. 
 
 ] 1 . 
 
 And oil! 'twill foothe the hours of pain, 
 
 And brighten your declining days, 
 That ye have taught the poor, forlorn, 
 To know their God, and hymn his praife. 
 
 I am favoured with the following note upon this fuhjecl by the Rev. Mr 
 Bux.v, of Birmingham, Chairman of the Committee of Sunday Schools intiut 
 [own; a gentleman equally difiineuifhedfor ."?-\ and ability, for fervid pirtv-, 
 , ,.; imprcilive eloquence 
 
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 60 
 
 SUNDAY SCHOOLS. 
 
 The interefts of fociety, and thofe of public morals, are fo 
 infeparably conne&ed, not only in the plan of Providence, but, in 
 fact, whatever contributes to reftore and ftrengthen the latter has a 
 fair and juft claim on public protection and public gratitude. That 
 Sunday Schools poflefs this claim will fcarccly now be difputed, 
 except by the few who, overlooking the evidence of facts, allow them- 
 felves to be impofed on by the maxims of an illiberal and churlifh 
 policy. It was referved for thefe Inftitutions alone to embrace and 
 to provide for an extent of religious and moral wrctchednefs, which 
 no other exilting Eftablifhments, however excellent, could reach. 
 By impreffing an early reverence for the fabbath, and its facred 
 appointments, by inculcating the firft and effential principles of 
 Chriftian doctrine and morals, a foundation is laid for perfonal 
 happinefs ; and the Divine principles which may thus be expected 
 to govern the individual, in the more retired acts of perfonal 
 devotion, will gradually blend and diffufe their falutary influence 
 through the various and intcrefting combinations of relative, focial, 
 and public duty. The favage, refractory, and felfifh paffions, will 
 bend to the gentle, liberal, and benevolent fway of Chriftian love ; 
 and the numerous victims of ignorance and vice thus refcued, inftcaJ 
 of growing up the plunderers and the pefts of fociety, will, with 
 God's bleffing, become its riches and itsftrength. If fuch, then, be 
 the object of Sunday Schools, the original projeclors of this noble 
 defign will deferve to rank, with the brightefl ornaments of Britifh 
 vifdom and Britifn philanthropy '
 
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 ** ^ #> 
 
 O;/ /<? prefcnt fajhionable Female DreJJes, 
 
 [Written at th clofe of the laft year.] 
 
 :seis<: 
 
 1. 
 
 r ii * 
 
 1 HE muflin garb, in which the fair 
 
 Are pleas'd to take the winter air, 
 Has all th* appearance of a uoinding-jheet : 
 
 So thin the gown, and drawn fo tight, 
 
 It puts me in a perfect fright, 
 Like Marg'ret's ghoft that flood at William's feet. 
 
 2. 
 
 'Tis faid, the British* dames of old, 
 
 Dames of an amazonian mould, 
 Inftead of garments wore a daub of paint: 
 
 Like them our modern belles difcover, 
 
 A iirange averfion to all cover, 
 And lay on rouge enough to vex a faint! 
 
 Ilhlorians inform us, that the anticnt Briton'; went naked, and painted 
 their bodies with won J. Frum this circumftancc they are flippofed to have 
 derived their name, the word brif, in the Celtic language, fortifying faintcJ-
 
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 3. 
 
 Sure 'twas fome high-bred Cyprian* fair 
 Contriv'd this mode of going bare, 
 
 In all probability this hardy race, like many of the wild American tribes at 
 prefent, adopted this cuftom with a view to ftrike terror into their enemies ; 
 and the artlefs beauties of thofe days had recourfc to pigments, for the double 
 purpofe of looking handfome in the eyes of their favage admirers, and 
 preferring their expofed bodies from the effects of cold. But our modern 
 belles, in plaiitering their necks and faces, have no title to this apology* 
 Befides, modern cofmetics are proved to be fo very pernicious, that many a 
 iilly girl, in attempting to attract the eyes of others, has loft her own . Paris 
 zvbke t fo much in vogue, is made of bifmuth dilTolved in the nitrous acid, and 
 muft, of courfe, be highly corrofive and injurious. The French ladies may 
 have fome excufe for difguifing their tawny fkins by artificial application; 
 but the complexion of my fair countrywomen needs not fuch dangerous 
 auxiliaries. Mere, at leaft, " God never made his work for man to mend." 
 Banifh, ladies, Ibefeechyou, from your toilettes, theboafted " Milk of Rofcs," 
 and " Olympian Dew." Poifons lurk in fine-founding epithets. Remember, 
 t hat whoever in this ifland of native beauty, puts on fuch hypocrify of 
 countenance, and attempts to deceive by hijiing falfe ce/curs, deferves, and will 
 experience, perfect detection and contempt, unmingled with the flightcft 
 pity for lofs of beauty or even lofs of health. 
 
 - This ludicrous thinnefs of drefs, fo near akin to nudity, is certainly in the 
 higheft degree meretricious. I am informed by a claffical friend, that a iimilar 
 faaiion prevailed among the Impuret, of antient Rome, whofe vcftments weie 
 thin, even to tranfparency, and were aptly denominated " ventus textilli-;,"
 
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 aWWM 
 
 For drefs I cannot fuch poor cov'ring call ; 
 I care not, girls, one fingle pin, 
 What clothes ye wrap your beauties in, 
 
 Provided, mark me, ye are cloth 'd at all! 
 
 4. 
 Your grandmothers, both maids and wive< 
 Wore petticoats by fours and fives, 
 
 Whole loads of drap'ry did their limbs infold; 
 They ftrove to keep the ague off, 
 While, Lard, ye care not for a cough, 
 
 But laugh at the whole family of cold, 
 
 5. 
 
 Confumptions* fweep ye off by dozens, 
 And yet, my pretty carelefs couhns, 
 
 * I believe it is agtecd among phyficians, that cold is the chief predilpoih.i 
 caufc of confumptions, which, as Ihaveeifewhereobferved,deftroy one-fou:f: 
 and in bad years, one-third of all that die within the bills of mentality. Nothing 
 is fo likely to generate colds as fuch prcpoitcrous fiimfinefs of drefs, particularly 
 in the winter feafon, " when wind and rain beat dark December;" and. to 
 add to the mifchicf, the prevailing colour is ivblte, which is proved by variou' 
 philofophical experiments, to be, of all others, t'.u: leaft capable of prefer vine, 
 the warmth of the human frame. Ladies, I beiW ch v.-.u ..iiii ;:! i:ain, t; 
 ponder in your, hearts " thefe imp t mt :,: , ':\ "
 
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 Danger and death ye ftill delight to dafh on ; 
 
 But what is health, or what is eafe, 
 
 Or decency, or what you pleafe, 
 Compared with that bewitching thing call'd Fafhion? 
 
 6. 
 Your robes of fnow, and eyes of glee, 
 
 Afford the ftrangeft fimile 
 Of laughing May difguis'd like winter hoar ; 
 
 Each female, as (he walks the ftreet, 
 
 Seems doing penance in a fheet, 
 Each milk-white nymph reminds me of Jane Shore. 
 
 7. 
 
 Ladies, 'tis thought by all beholders, 
 
 Ye wear your heads beneath your moulders, * 
 Thus to disfigure and expofe your bodies : 
 
 The men are laughing in their fleeve, 
 
 And none but boobies can believe 
 A painted doll, half naked, is a goddefs. 
 
 * That is, the ladies' brains are difplaced by the daemon of folly. We read 
 fomewhere of a fabulous r2ce of mortals, -who carried their heads beneath their 
 fhoulders.
 
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 8. 
 The Pope,* of Chriftian choler full, 
 
 Has publim'd a tremendous Bull, 
 Oi'fueh unchrifHan vanity to ftrip ye: 
 
 Wifely, the good old man explodes, 
 
 Of drefs fuch fin-provoking modes, 
 And, were ye Catholics, fweet girls, would whip ye< 
 
 9. 
 
 Ves, fiuners, were it now your doom 
 
 To live within the reach of Rome, 
 (lis Holiness would tear your muflin graces: 
 
 His ugly beadles would not fail 
 
 To lay your gentle limbs in jail, 
 Would thump you well, and claw your pretty faces. 
 
 * The new Pope, Pius VII. has launched his ecclcfiaftical thunder againft 
 the loofenefs of female drefs. To this diforder he attributes all the evils that 
 lave ajflifietl Eur:j>e, and defreflld tke Cbuicb. He fays " The eye of a Chriftian 
 can no where turn i tie if without encountering, abafhed, the difplay of 
 feducUve charms, in pubiic and in private; nay, even the Temples are 
 profaneJ i.y ihefe indecencies'' Sj<\ Bv a Bull kt< ly publiihed, he endeavour''
 
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 10. 
 
 Old mother Eve, we all allow, 
 Went naked, with majeflic brow, 
 
 No harm flie knew, and therefore knew no fhame 
 Yes fhe in innocence was dreft, 
 Pure, fpotlefs virtue was her vejl y 
 
 But, are our Evi/b females quite the fame? 
 
 11. 
 
 Unnumber'd groups ye daily fee 
 
 Half naked thro' Necejfity, 
 While ye, thro Choice, go ihiv'ring in the breeze: 
 
 On ragged Want and real Woe 
 
 Your cart-off drapery bellow, 
 Then be as much in Falhion as yc pleafe. 
 
 to rcprefs fuch enormities by fines and corpokal punishment ! ! The ladies 
 in this country may congratulate thcmfelves on belonging to the reformed 
 religion, and living in a land where there is freedom of drefs, as well 23 
 freedom of opinion.
 
 67 
 
 UulllOllUllix 
 
 ELEGY ON MORTALITY. 
 
 OCX 
 
 The aggrejate population on the furface of the known habitable globe, is 
 estimated at 895,300,000 fouls: if we reckon with the antients, that a 
 generation lafts 30 years, then in that fpace S95,3oo,ooo human beings 
 will be born and die, confequently S 1,762 muft be dropping into 
 eternity every day, 3,407 every hour, or about 56 every minute !" So 
 fays the great and good Dr. Watts; but according to Guthrie, the 
 mortality is ftill greater : he reckons the inhabitants of the terraqueous 
 globe at 933 millions; of courfe 87,0^2 expire in one day, 3,626 in one 
 hour, 63 in one minute, or one every fecond. 
 
 HEAR this dread truth, ye giddy and ye gay, 
 Daughters of Faihion, Sons of Riot, hear ! 
 
 Can ye on ruin's flow'ry margin ftray, 
 
 The knell of thoufands echoing in your ear ? 
 
 While Folly celebrates her midnight rout, 
 
 Legions emit the agonizing figh ; 
 And ere the drunkard's frantic bowl is out, 
 
 Thoufand.s of fellow-beings groan and die, 
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 68 
 
 While Phillis counterfeits health's rofy bloom, 
 And bids, at will, her borrow'd blufhes glow, 
 
 Unnumber'd cheeks Death's pallid tints affume, 
 Unnumber'd beauties are in duft laid low. 
 
 Not for an inftant paufe the fhafts of death, 
 Each puny moment for its victim calls: 
 
 Fall'n is a mortal fince I took my breath, 
 And, ere I write, another victim falls, 
 
 From every fide immenfe deftruction pours ; 
 
 Volcanos fpout, and earthquakes rock the ground ; 
 Floods overwhelm, the crackling flame devours, 
 
 And mad tornados fcatter ruin round. 
 
 The fcourge of God, fell peflilence, prevail?, 
 
 And fweeps uncounted myriads to the grave : 
 Ev'n now the demon rides the weftcrn gales, 
 Beyond the roar of the Atlantic wave.
 
 69 
 
 in Philadelphia's fpacious ftreets, the found 
 Of Trade is dumb, her Sons of Wealth are fled ; 
 
 And nought is heard, fave dying groans around, 
 Or midnight cars flow rumbling with their dead. 
 
 Via? ! of maladies, a ghaftly train 
 
 Againft our youth, againft our age, confpire; 
 But moil I mourn Britannia's fpreading bane, 
 
 The flufhing Hectic's* flow confuming fire. 
 
 * By He&ic it is evident the lair Author here means Pulmonary Phthisis, 
 vulgarly called Confumption ; for though the Hectic Fever accompanies fomc 
 other diforders, the addition of " flow confuming fire" not only afcertains the 
 meaning, hut is by no means an inelegant peripbrajis of the above-mentioned 
 difeafe. It is not without reafon this cruel malady has been feledtcd as a 
 theme of elegiac complaint: ninny other difcafes arc induced by folly, intem- 
 perance, or vice; but this makes its devastations among the young and the 
 innocent, the beautiful and the blamclefs. Well may it be ftylcd the 
 " Shame of Phyfic," the " Opprobrium Mcdicorum" for its increafe, in fpitc of 
 the boafted power of the Digitalis, is truly alarm jag. It appears from Dr. 
 Willan's Obfervations, (vid. the Medical and Phyfical Journal, p. 30J,) that 
 one fourth, and in very unfavourable fcafons, one third, of all the deaths m 
 London, according to 'lie Bills of Mortality, is caufcel by difcafes of the
 
 70 
 
 Hectic, the fhame of phyfic, parent's fear, 
 
 That nips the buds of joy, and blafts the bloom ; 
 
 And fteeps the couch with many a bitter tear, 
 For youth and beauty hurried to the tomb. 
 
 Yet man, alas! the deadlier! foe to man, 
 Murders his brethren in inhuman fight ; 
 
 To wafte creation is his favage plan, 
 Havoc his glory, Ruin his delight. 
 
 O ceafe, in mercy ceafe, the fierce affray ! 
 
 Nations, no longer bathe the world in gore ! 
 Sick are the vultures of their human prey, 
 
 And the gorg'd raven croaks for blood no more. 
 
 The account is as follows: In the year 1796 there died of pulmonic 
 diforders, 5,910 out of jS,2j8 ; in 1797, 5,439 out of 1 6,714 ; and in i~99 
 t ,2 1 o out of 1 7,285. Note by a Medical Friend.
 
 71 
 
 To me life feems a promontory dark, 
 
 Round which the thunder- ftorms incefiant roll; 
 The fun mines dimly, and the fprightly lark 
 
 Is difcord to the feelings of my foul. 
 
 Sad fighs the vernal gale to hearts like mine, 
 The faireft forms of pleafure ceafe to pleafe; 
 
 I fee the fun on human groan? decline, 
 
 And human fighs increafe the morning breeze. 
 
 Sure man is born (the fad reflection fills 
 
 My heart with horror, and with tears my eve) 
 
 Diftempcr's prey, the (port of endlefs ills, 
 In fear to live, in agony to die, 
 
 Oh no! replies Religion's feraph voice, 
 Her radiant finger pointing to the ikies : 
 
 Man mourns awhile, for ever to rejoice, 
 He yields to conquer, and he falls to rife
 
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 No longer, then, deplore his haplefs doom, 
 In darknefs deftin'd for awhile to flay, 
 
 He burfls the gloomy portals of the tomb, 
 
 Claps the triumphant wing, and tow'rs away ! 
 
 W%f 
 
 W
 
 ;-*> 
 
 AN ADDRESS 
 
 To Millers, Badgers, and the whole Fraternity of Dealers in Corn andFlc 
 [Written loon after the pafling the Brew:'. Bread Aifts.] 
 
 1. 
 
 -tf 7 
 
 L E miller.-, and vc rogues in grain, 
 Who drive, with wicked might and mail 
 
 To vrind die iaccs of the noor around :z ! 
 Dealers in chaff and barley hulk-,* 
 Scarce fit to greet a wild boar's tuik:, 
 
 May all the powrs oi' villany conl'jund ve ! 
 
 " Th: Brown Bread Ait, now no more, was framed upon humane, but 
 :: : idicious principles, and it well became the wifuom of the Imperial Parlia- 
 ment to put a fpcedy end to its exhtence. I:.::; been filled by one c: the 
 Members of the Iloufe of Commons, a " poifoning act ;" and, loon after it 
 was paffed, the London Cake;,, complained, that the Mliicrs, .. : c intent w i:h 
 introducing honeft bran, balderdafhccl their rl lur with hufks of barley an J oats, 
 and other unwholefome ingredients, fo as to threaten abfolutc perdition. 
 C >mpiaint3 were founded in th fame key from various parts of the ecu-try- 
 Peace to the manes of this unfortun ? ' u\ < -". next erTott / 
 
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 74 
 
 2. 
 We know ye well from antient tfory, 
 To filch and gripe is all your glory, 
 Tho' fatire prick you with her fharpefl rowels ; 
 A year of plenty gives ye pain, 
 Famine, to you, is gladfome gain, 
 Hard as the nether millftone are your bowels. 
 
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 More honeft was your fathers' plan, 
 (But foes ye always were to man,) 
 
 Some u learned Clerk of Oxenford " to choufe :* 
 'Twas far more honeft, let me tell ye, 
 Than thus to rot the poor man's belly 
 
 With food that's iirinn'd at by each hungry moufe. 
 
 * Their knaveries, and particularly their dextrous management of the toll- 
 difh, have given birth to much jocularity. Chaucer, and other antient writers, 
 tell us fome pleafant itories of Millers and young Oxonians trying to outwit 
 e. ach other ; but the modern Miller? are fo much improved, that they infinitely 
 exceed both our learned Univcrfitics in what Lord Bacon calls lt crooked 
 wifdom." Indeed they have far greater fcopc for genius ; for they were wifely 
 prohibited in the days of our anceftors from being corn-dealers, upon the fame: 
 principle that a tanner is not differed to be a cirrier.
 
 4. 
 I'he people's agonizing fighs, 
 
 Their flaring bones, their hollow eyes, 
 Are fure enough to melt a heart offtone; 
 
 But Pity, cherub-born to feel, 
 
 Ne'er faw the infide of a mill, 
 Your noify clappers drown her feeble moan. 
 
 5. 
 The great folks fill me with furprize, 
 
 (But great folks are not always wife,) 
 
 To fuffer you to rob with fuch impunity : 
 
 To fell, without reftraint, your train, 
 
 Chopt ftraw and bran for honeft cam, 
 
 To poifon, or to ftarve, the whole community, 
 
 6. 
 Ye worthy framcrs of our laws, 
 
 In mercy pare their vulture claws, 
 
 Nor let the blood-hounds rend their helplefs pre\ 
 
 O fave from monfters, callous grown 
 
 Our poor remains of (kin and bone. 
 
 And your petitioners (hall ever prav 
 
 k 2
 
 / 1) 
 
 And oh ! in pity to the poor, 
 
 The Badgers'* fecret haunts explore, 
 
 With legal terriers hunt the fkulking brood : 
 Their tricks detect, their dens furprize, 
 Where corn, in mufty mountains, lies, 
 
 And rats and mice grow fat with human food. 
 
 8. 
 Asainft rich rogues that talk fo big, 
 O Kenyon ! make thy dreadful wig, 
 
 * Though the prcfent high price of corn may be owing to a variety of 
 concurring caufes, yet candour herfelf mufl allow, that no inconfiderable part 
 cf the calamity is attributable to the juggling of this crafty race. If without 
 their medium the markets cannot be regularly fupplied ; if, like pawn-brokers, 
 they arc to be confidercdas ncceffary evils, like them they fhould be fubjeclcd 
 to fome fort of parliamentary regulation. I have been told that, by an aft 
 palled in the reign of Edward the Sixth, but unfortunately repealed, all 
 badgers and corn-dealers were obliged to be licenfed by three Jufiiccs of the 
 Peace, and to enter into recognizances again ft forcflalling, cngroffing, &c. The 
 fa (St is, they are a fpecies of animals that, according to circumffances and 
 management, may cither be ufeful cr noxious : if fuffercd t.. grow too numerc 
 or to roam without reftraint, they become public nuif.nces, ar.d laagc: bur.t-j:* 
 v/il! not difgrace our graved Scr.atois.
 
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 And ilrikc them dumb with thy tremendous frown! 
 
 Purfue, moil righteous Judge, purfue 
 
 The vile monopolizing crew, 
 And hallow'd be the furs that fringe thy gown ! 
 
 9. 
 Did not the culprit now in limbo, 
 ^\ ith fancy flare and arms-a-kimbo,* 
 
 Prate to your Lordfhip and your learned brothers? 
 Freedom of trade is all their cant, 
 But what's the freedom that they want? 
 
 Whv onlv to net rich bv ftarvin^ others. 
 
 * Though :i poetical licence may have been affumed i'i describing the 
 
 ' fpc ft an;! attitude of Mr. W -, the gentleman here alluded to, yet it 
 
 is .. veritable fact, that he addreflfed the Court of King's Bench with no fmall 
 degree oi auurancc and audacity; sfiurancc in i. ','- doivr. tie !jvj to thofe 
 ver.t ra; i Judge?, and . ndacity in inlifling that they had no right to inflict a: y 
 other than a it minr.1 punifliment. Poor man ! id? intentions w re innocent, 
 
 n la; lab! , and he has fallen the victim of thjf.* m :':: . ; 
 
 "'. ' :.'. :. \hn\ m Jir-p >Iy andyJ . .<-'.
 
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 10. 
 Who fays our aileeflors were wrong heads 1 
 Woeful experience proves them long heads, 
 
 In corn and cattle and fuch trifling matters : 
 'Tis modeft, truly, to defpiie, 
 Their wholefome rules, and ftatutes wife, 
 
 And tear them, like old almanacks, to tatters.* 
 
 * I have been informed, that various valuable Acts of Parliament, framed 
 by the good fenfe of our forefathers, againft the crying fins of engroffing, 
 forcftalling, and rcgrating, were repealed at one ftrokc in the 12th year of 
 his prefent Majefty ; a circumftance, which the worthy Lord Kenyon has 
 more than once molt feelingly lamented. Though this great Oracle of the 
 Law confeffes his inability to account for rafhly repealing ftatutes of approved 
 utility, I may be permitted to conjecture, that it originated in thofe new- 
 fangled principles of liberality, which are more talked of than underftood. 
 We owe fo much to the wifdom of our anccftors, that it is vile ingratitude, 
 I had almoft faid, impiety, to treat fo irreverently thefe venerable, elaborate 
 monuments of their wifdom. It requires no great length of reafoning to prove, 
 and indeed it is too fatally proved by experience, that it is highly pernicious 
 to permit an unbounded liberty of trade in the neceffarics of life, and leave the 
 unprotected poor to the combinations of opulent and unprincipled fpeculators. 
 In vain may the God of Seafons fend plentiful harvefts : unlefs wc revert to 
 the policy of our anccftors, the bounty of Providence may and will be defeated 
 
 by the machinations of man. Let not gentlemen of Mr. W 's kidney 
 
 complain of parliamentary muzzles: in tendcrnefs to the growling lamentation? 
 f the noble favages. it would not furely be wifdom to let lool'c the wild bolts 
 i:sm the Tower.
 
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 11. 
 
 The plain good men (God reft their fouls) 
 Never fold hops upon the poles, 
 
 Nor kept, till mouldy, hoards of precious grain ; 
 Selling by famples was unknown, 
 Their jocund teams, to market town, 
 
 Whittling, they drove along the deep cut lane, 
 
 12. 
 
 Ye care not how the people fare : 
 
 Let rag-a-muffins feed on air, 
 Get drunk with tears, and fatten on their groan- 
 
 'Tis true, and pity 'tis, 'tis true, 
 
 They are notflcft and blood, like you. 
 But loathfome, defpicable, bags of bone-. 
 
 13. 
 Farmers, no more an honeft race. 
 
 Loft to all feeling, loft to grace, 
 In this fame nafly puddle muft be ftirring '. 
 
 Nor wheatcn bread, nor butchers' meat, 
 
 The ions of poverty muft eat, 
 But thank our Parliament for pickled herring-
 
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 14. 
 
 Eternal bleffings wait on all, 
 
 Who, ftarting at pale hunger's call, 
 With Soup, nutritious, warm the poor man's heart! 
 
 The wife, the heav'n-direcled, plan 
 
 Baffles the villany of man, 
 Baffles the winter's rage, the badger's art. 
 
 15. 
 
 Turkey, where pow'r defpotic reigns, 
 
 (Avert fuch pow'r from Britifh plains !) 
 Wou'd, in fuch cafes, act with defpot fury : 
 
 Each naughty miller wou'd be flak'd, 
 
 Bakers in their own ovens bak'd,* 
 And badgers hang'd without a judge or jury. 
 
 * The Turks puniili knavery in bakers with peculiar feverity. It is faid, 
 that in cafe of a deficiency in weight, they are hung up at their own doou 
 without ceremony ; and that, though the punifhment is fo fevere, it is no 
 unufual thing for people walking the ftrcets of Conftantinoplc to encountei 
 the legs of culprits fo fufpended. I have read a ftory of a baker being thrown 
 into his own oven by order of a Turkifh Magistrate, who, being rcmonftratcd 
 with for the apparent cruelly of the punifhment, replied, with great favgfroid. 
 " talk not of cruelty ; it is a good policy, for I trull it will be a confiderabh 
 time before we (hall have occafion to bake a laker again."
 
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 \N INVOCATION TO PEACE 
 
 [Writ ten in March, i':.-.; ] 
 
 v/ HEX now (he rofy-bofoni'd hours, 
 J hcirtrefles bath'd with genial fhow'rs, 
 On tiptoe {land to paint the fl.nv'rs, 
 
 Return, bleft Peaee, return ! 
 Oh ! may the gale, whofe tepid wing 
 Now fans the blowing crocus, bring 
 Thou, fweet companion of the i'pring. 
 And friend of all that mourn ! 
 
 A Northern fiorm* hangs o'er the main, 
 Plenty ibrfakcs the rural reign, 
 And Commerce mourns her broken chain, 
 I hat bound the willing world. 
 
 * I i, alludes to t'.i: Northern Confederacy. It is ci vovvt ; I 
 what fi:n" r. to be true, that it may dii'.ui \ i'.h t'. 
 
 Che Bait. c: and that. b:ir.- T , frozen ir.t ah rit< a ruptuv:
 
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 Offspring of Heav'n ! oppofe thy bar 
 To mad ambition's trophy'd car, 
 Strike the red flag of horrid war, 
 By thy foft fingers furl'd ! 
 
 Purfuing hope's delufive fpark, 
 
 Long have we tofs'd in tempefts dark ; 
 
 O, haften to our fhatter'd ark, 
 
 Thou olive-bearing dove ! 
 Silence, ye drums, parading round ! 
 Ye martial fifes, forget to found ! 
 Hufh all ye favage notes, that wound 
 
 The ear of focial love ! 
 
 To thee, divineft Peace, belong 
 
 The fhepherd's pipe, the milkmaid's fong, 
 
 The ploughman's whiffle, loud and long, 
 
 That echoes o'er the. plain : 
 And thine the Poet's warmer!: lays, 
 While, pleas'd, he marks the lengthening day 
 The building rooks, the budding fprays, 
 
 And blackbird's mellow ftrain.
 
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 ADDITIONAL STANZAS, 
 
 WRITTEN ON THE GLORIOUS VICTORY NEAR 
 COPENHAGEN, APRIL 2t/, 1801. 
 
 Intriguing Kings combine in vain, 
 The favage Rues, the Swede, the Dane, 
 Britannia ftill mall rule the main, 
 
 And triumph fwell the gale : 
 For hark ! on Denmark's (battered fhores, 
 The thunder of the battle roars, 
 And Nelson, VicTry's darling, pours 
 
 The norm of " iron Hail." 
 
 From Zembla to the burning Line, 
 Still to thy glory nations join, 
 More radiant ftill thy virtues fhine, 
 
 Heroic Queen of Isles ! 
 Thy Warrior o'er the proftrate foe, 
 Sufpends the dire denroying blow, 
 And while the fires of Vengeance glow. 
 Vngelic Mercy fmiles.
 
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 Before thy Navy's fiery blalT, 
 Old Nile, along her fandy wafte, 
 Trembled, and Egypt flood aghafi, 
 
 Shudd'ring with new alarms : 
 Aw'd by thy pow'r, humanely brave, 
 The Baltic rolls an humbler wave, 
 Yet great to conquer, great to fave, 
 
 Repofe upon thy arms. 
 
 No longer let thy thunders roll, 
 
 From South to North, from pole to pole 
 
 Reftrain thy Warrior's ardent foul, 
 
 And bid Definition ceafe ! 
 O let our bells their clamours raile. 
 Our cannon innocently blaze, 
 And greet once more our grateful gaze. 
 
 With lovely, 1 ailing Peace !
 
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 DA.MS,Mifs, Cakemorc, near Alkey, Mr. Birmingham 
 
 Hales Owen Afpinall, James, Ditto 
 
 \ddington, Mi. Afpinall, Alexander, Ditto 
 
 Addimton, Mis. Aftbury, M:s. Ditto 
 
 Allen, Edward Aftbury, Mr. Ditt , 
 
 Allen, William, Birmingham Aftbury, Thomas* Ditto 
 
 Alport, James, Afhted Aftbury, William, Dittu 
 
 Alfton, James, Birmingham Athww, Mr?. London 
 
 Anderton, William, Mofeley Atwood, Mrs. 
 
 Andrew.-, Thomas, Briftol Aynfvvorth, Mifs, Caftle Bromwi 
 
 Arden, Mrs. Sutton. 2 r pics Alton, Samuel, Birmingham 
 
 \i titans, Society of, Birmingham Afton, Thomar, Ditto 
 
 Baynes, Stanhope, M. D. Leeds Belfleld, John 
 
 Baynes, Mrs. Ditto Bclriehl, William 
 
 Bailey, Mrs. London Bell, Mrs. Ravenhurft 
 
 Bains, Mrs. Greenwich, 2 copies Bellamy. Mrs. Birmingham 
 
 Baker, Samuel, Birmingham Bennett, Mil';, Coventry 
 
 Baldwin, William, Ditto Bernccker, Conrad, Birmingham, 
 
 Baldwin. Mifs, Ditto Letts John, Ditto 
 
 Banbury, Mifs, Brandon Letts, William, Ditto 
 
 Barker, George, attorney. Birmingham Bingham, fames, 2 copies, Seliyoa:< 
 
 Barker, Thomas Springfield Bifhtoa, Mrs. 
 
 Barn , Mrs. Lonii'>n Bilhton, William, Efq. 1 copies, Keif 
 
 Bains, Mifs, Birmingham Bilhton, John, Dittu 
 
 Barn-, the Rev. , Coventry Blackham, Mifs, Birmingham 
 
 Bar: i\v, Mrs. Briftcl Black-vll, Mifs LmiJ ,11 
 
 Bat-. heior, T. Ditto Blak-m >re, ,1k mpton 
 
 B.it , Brownlow, Efq. Birmiru'ham Blair, David, Birmingham 
 
 B.v, i v, H. T. Ditt 1 Bl.ndy. Adam, Efq. 
 
 P v, James, Ditto Blood, Riehaid, Birmingham, 2 : r 
 
 B.iyiis M Brillol Blount, T,.hn, Surgeon, Ditto 
 
 B aum.mt, , f.fj. Blunt, [e.f-.p'.i Di r to 
 
 1 >nt, Mifs B elling, M Ditt > 
 
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 Bouiton, Matthew, Efq. Soho, 2 copies Biunton, Mr. Ilagley 
 
 Boulton, Mifs, Ditto Buckle, Mis. London 
 
 Bradihaw, Mrs. Coventry Bund, Cornet 25th Light Dragoon? 
 
 Brailsford, Mifs, Crefcent, Birmingh. Bunney, Jofeph, Birmingham 
 
 Brant, Mrs. London Burchel, Captain, Afhted 
 
 Bratt, William, Handfworth Burge, John, Briftol 
 
 Bree, Robert, M. D. Birmingham Burn, the Rev. Edward, Birmingham 
 
 Bridgrnan, James, Ditto Burns, , Efq. London 
 
 Brock, Mr. Briftol Burns, Mrs. Ditto 
 
 Bromwich, Mifs, Ilagley Buller, Mr. Birmingham 
 
 Brooks, the Rev. , Coventry ' Blyth, Samuel, Birmingham 
 
 Bruokihaw, Mrs. Handfworth Blyth, Rev. Thomas, Solihull 
 
 Broom, Samuel, Kidderraiiilter Mrs. M. and D. Butlers, Kenilworth 
 Broom, T. S. Efq. Woolelley Bridge 2 copies 
 
 Browr, Mis. London Butler, S. Kenilworth, 4 copies 
 
 Brown, James, Birmingham A Friend 4 ditto 
 
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 Chedworth, Right Hon. Lord, Ipfwich Colmore, Samuel, Smallheath 
 
 Cairns, Edward, Birmingham Colmore, Thomas, Balfalheath 
 
 Caliey, George, Ditto Colmore, Wm. George, Birmingham 
 
 Calvett, Captain, Devon, 2 copies Colquitt, Captain, London 
 
 Capper, Walter Wm.Efq. Birmingh. Colquitt, Mia. Ditto 
 
 Capper, Mrs. Ditto Conqueft, Richard, Birmingham 
 
 Cailefs, Mrs. Harborne Conqueft, Mrs. Ditto 
 
 Carmichae!, John,M.D. Birmingham Conft, , Efq. London 
 
 Carver, Lieutenant Colonel, 2 copies Conway, Thomas, Birmingham 
 
 Chambers, William, Birmingham Cook, the Rev. FreeGiammar School, 
 
 Chance, William, Ditto Birmingham 
 
 Charley, Mis. Coventry Cooper, Mifs, the Crefcent, Ditto 
 
 Chefton, Thomas, Birmingham Cooper, Thomas, Ditto 
 
 CDrk, Jof. Efq. Northampton, 2 cop. Cooper, Mr. Henley 
 
 Clark, Charles, Worcefter Cope, John, Birmingham 
 
 Clarke, John, Birmingham Cope, John, Ditto 
 
 Clarke, John, Paradife-ftreet, Ditto Cope, John, jun. Ditto 
 
 Clav, Henry, Efq. Ditto Cope, Richard, Ditto 
 
 Clifie, Waftel, Efq. Wellbromwich, Cottell, Mils 
 
 2 copies Cottell, Mifs Mary 
 
 Coales, Robert, Efq. Birmingham Cottertll, Clement, Birmingham 
 
 Collier, Mrs. London Cotton, Mifs, Ecclelhall 
 
 Collins, William, Efq. Gieenwich Covey, William, Surgeon, Birmingham 
 
 Collins, Mrs. Ditto Crew, R. II. Efq. St. Margaret-ftrce', 
 
 Collins, Charles, Efq. Gower-ftreet, Weftminfter 
 
 London Croome, Mifs, Briftol 
 
 Collins, Mis. Ditto Crofs, Charles, Birmingham 
 
 Collins, Edward, Greenwich Croft, the Rev. Dr. Ditto 
 
 Colmore,. Mifs, Camphill Corrie, Mrs. Erdington 
 
 Colmore, John, Camphill Curtis, Mis. Solihull 
 
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 .: (mouth, the Rt. IJpri- Counters of Dawes, William, 2 copies, Birmingham 
 
 Dallaway, John, Birmingham Dawes, Samuel, 2 copies, Ditto 
 
 Darby, Mifs, 'Ditto Dawes, John, Surgeon, 2 copies, Ditto 
 
 Davis, pavid, Pipehaty, 2 cupi^s Ueakin, Thomas, Edmund-ftrcc*
 
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 in, J^.feph, Birmingham Do 1 / ... Kir, ,'-. Norton 
 
 ins, Mr. Dolphin. Jiiines, Attorney , Birmingham 
 
 .infon, William, Efq. Fd5b.1ft.or1 Duncum'), Mrs. Sutton, ?. copie.- 
 
 i. ../.;;. fo;i, Mrs, Ditto Durnall, Edward, Birmingham 
 
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 T i'-'C3, M ' r.-mJ-n liiv'ins Thomas, Birmingham 
 
 ' ,'' . r.ni'tn] Evtreft, , F.fq. Greenv,.;;.. 
 
 Fives, Richaid, Belmont-Row F.verefl, Mrs. Dim 
 
 ] .'.mron, Francis, Poho Edwards Rev.Eufebius. Hal! rice;, 
 
 F ./niton, Mifs, Ditto Howard:', Captain John, R. y..l N:.v;, 
 
 ' 11, Raphael, Ditto Eyre, Rev. James, Solih.ili 
 
 Hj' y. th: Hon. Mrs. Forrmn, Captain, Greenwich 
 - ili v.vs, ?tratten Tiiomas, Attorney, Porter, Robert, London 
 
 Birmingham FWler, Mr. Ditto 
 
 Fidgeon, Mis. Erdington Foxe's. Mifs, Dunton, ; c >p'e- 
 
 Fletcher, Wiliiim, Efq. Aflon Fox, Thomas, 4 ditto 
 
 Fletcher, Mis. Birmingham Frears, William Birmingham 
 
 Fletcher, Mifs, Ditto Freeman, Mrs. Pedmore 
 
 Fletcher, Mrs. Ditto Freeman, Mifs, Coventry 
 
 Fl' rry, Mrs. Hagley-row Freer, Thomas, Birmingham 
 
 Fi-iyer, , Efq. flints Freer, Mrs. Ditto 
 
 Fl yer, Mrs. Ditto Freer, George, Surgeon, Ditto 
 
 Foa'.kes, Efq. Hants and Bloomibury, Freer, Mrs. Ditto 
 
 4 copies Freeth, Mifs, Ditto 
 
 Forman, Henry, Efq. Woolwich, 2 French, Rev. Mr. London 
 
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 F"o! man, William, Greenwich Freeman, James, Briftol 
 
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 Gibbons, Mil . >a r : n, 2 copies draff, M:s. Stomcigh Ibbey, 4 copic 
 
 Gibb , Joleph, Birmingham Gravenor, Mrs. Coventry 
 
 Gilbcit, Mr. Ditto Grcathead, , Ffq. Bnfto!, ; .-. pi 
 
 Gilliy, William, M. D. Ditto Green, Fhomas, Efq. Haibornc, e. nit 
 
 Giles, David, Warrtonc Gt-cn, Mis. Ditto ; J.( 
 
 . William, London, 1 copies Green, i'.h mis , Birnve.gh m 
 < iii!, Thomas, Birmingham, z c ;p.ics Green, Thomas, Kir.' No: ton 
 
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 Hackct, John, Efq. Sutton. 2 copies Hicks, Mrs. Wilbraham, C.imbridgelh. 
 
 Haden, Henry, Balfal-heath Hinckley, Mrs. 
 
 Hadley, Thomas, Camden hill, 2 Ilipkifs, Mrs. Birmingham 
 
 Hadiey, Henrv, Weftbromwich, 2 Hobday, Mrs. Ditto 
 
 Hall, Mifs, EcclefhaJl Hodgetts, T. Briftol 
 
 Hall, the Rev. Mr. London Hodgkinibn, Mr. Birmingham 
 
 Halworthy, Mr. Tarn worth Ilolden, William, Ditto 
 
 Hammond, Samuel, Birmingham- Ilolden, Mrs. Ditto 
 
 heath, 2 copies Hollier, Mifs, Haglcy 
 
 Harrington, the Rev. R. Hagiey Holmes, John, Birmingham 
 
 Harris, John, Birmingham Homer, Edward, Weft Town 
 
 Harrifon, John, Erdington, 4 copies Honeyborn, , Efq London 
 
 Hartihorn, Benjamin, Birmingham Honeyborn, Mrs. Ditto 
 
 Hafkins, Henry, Efq. T.angford Hooper, Mr. King's Norron 
 
 Hafwell, Mifs, Birmingham Hoifley, Mifs Anne, Brifnalls end 
 
 Haughton, William, Ditto Horton, John, Deritend 
 
 Hawker, Mrs. Birmingham heath How, Mr. Briftol 
 
 Hawkes, T. L. Mofeley Howell, James, Efq. Strand, London, 
 
 Hawksford, Mifs, Bath 2 copies 
 
 Hay, Mrs. Hull Howel!, the Rev. Mr. Swanfea 
 
 Haydon, Mrs. Camden-ftreet Hudfon, , Efq. Greenwich 
 
 Hart, Thomas, Briftol Hudfon, Mifs, Ditto 
 
 Haynes, Richard, Birmingham, 2 Hudfon, Richard, Birmingham 
 
 Hayward, Mr. Ncwington, 3 copies Hughes, Benjamin, Ditto 
 Heaton, Bernard Shephard, Birmingh. Humphrys, Geoige, Efq. Ditto, 2 copies 
 
 Heaton. Mrs. Ditto Hunt, William, Efq. Brades, 4 ditto 
 
 Heely. J. hjplloway-head, 2 copies Hunt, Mrs. Ditto 2 ditto 
 
 Uenryfon, Mrs Batheafton, 4 copies Hunt, Harry, Crefccnt, Birmingham 
 
 Hefketh, Edward, Efq. Briftol Hunt, Mrs.' Ditto Ditto 
 
 Hewitt, Mifs, Coventry Hunt, John, Ditto Ditto 
 
 Hewitt, the Rev. J. Dyer, A. M.Fil- Hunter, Charles, Birmingham 
 
 loogley Hurd, John, Ditto 2 copies 
 
 Hewlett, Mr Birmingham Hurd, James, Ditto 
 
 Ilicks, William, Efq. Moneyhill-hall Hutton, William, Ditto 
 
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 Jabet, Richard, Birmingham Johnftone, John, M. D. Birmingham 
 
 Jam:s, William, Efq. Jones, Mrs. Alceftcr 
 
 Jefcoat, Richard, Birmingham joncs, Mifs Anne, Birmingham 
 
 Jenner, Dr. Bond-ftreet, London, % Jones, Mifs, Briftol 
 
 Tenner, Mrs. Ditto 2 Jones, Mr. Crefcent, 2 copies 
 
 Jennings, Mifs, Greenwich Jordan, J. S. Birmingham 
 
 Ingram, Thomas Efq. Tickenhall, 2 Jukes, Jofeph, Birmingham, 2 copies 
 
 Ingram, M 5. London, 4 copies Iddins, John, Birmingham-heath 
 
 Job ifjn, Ciau i. Birmingham Ireland, Mrs. Ditto 
 
 Johnfon, Mrs. Burleighfield Ireland. Abraham, Ditto 
 
 Job iftone, Kdward, M. D. Mofely, 1 Ifaacfon, , Efq. London 
 
 Johnftonc, Mrs. Ditto, 2 
 
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 Keir, James, Efq. Tipton Ketland Thomas, Birmingham 
 
 Kempfav, , Birmingham Kettle, William, Efq. 2 copies 
 
 Kcmof.a, Mifs, Sandpits Kettle, Mrs Overfeal 
 
 Kcmpfon, Henry, Spiinghill Kendall, John, Birmingham 
 
 Kennedy, Rev. Harm, Birmingham Kindon, Charles, Birmingham 
 
 Kennedy, George, Surgeon, Ditto Kindon, Mr. Eafy-row
 
 
 Lawk}*, the Dowager Lady, 4 copies Lewin, Mrs. Solihull 
 
 Lawley, Mifs, 1 copies Line, Mr. Charity-fchool 
 
 Lewis, H. G. Efq. Malvern-hall Link, Mifs, Briftol 
 
 Lewis, Hon. Mrs. Linwood, Mrs. Birmingham 
 
 Lander, Mr. Lloyd, Sampfon, Birmingham 
 
 Lander, George, Birmingham Lloyd, Sampfon, jun. Small-heath 
 
 Lane, John, Efq. Mofeley Lobrott, Frederick, Five Ways 
 
 Laugh: r, Charles, Birmingham Lord, J. Efq. Stratford 
 
 Law rence, John, Ditto Lord, Mrs. Ditto 
 
 Leamon, , Efq, Greenwich Lovell, James, Efq. 
 
 Lee, Mr. King's Norton Lovell, Mifs, Kingfton 
 
 Ec-e, Tiiomas, Ed-bafton, 2 copies Lowe, Mifs, Camphill 
 
 Legge, Heneagc, Efq. Afton-hall Lowe, Mifs Eft her, Ditto 
 Leonard, Mis. Weftbromwich 
 
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 Madan, Rev. Spencer, Birmingham Millington, Mifs, London 
 
 Mainwaring, Ambrofe, Ditto Mills, Mrs. Sarah, Birmingham 
 
 Male, James, Efq. Bellcvue Molefworth, Thomas, Ditto 
 
 Malkin, Samuel, Winfon-grcen Moor, Jofeph, Ditto 
 
 Mander, , Birmingham More, Mrs. Hannah, Bath, 2 copies 
 
 Marindin, J. P. Ditto Morfit, John, Barrifter, Birmingham 
 
 Marfh, Mrs. Crefcent, Ditto Morgan, , Attorney, Briftol 
 
 Marfhall, Mifs, London Morris, Mrs. Birmingham 
 
 Marfhall, William, jun. Birmingham Murcott. Andrew, Warwick 
 
 Marfton, Jofeph, Ditto Murduck, 
 
 iMafon, Mrs. Stratford Murgrave, Mrs. Cambridge 
 
 Mafon, William Wallis, Birmingham Mynd, Mrs. Birmingham 
 
 May, Mis. Summerhill Mynors, Mifs, Ditto 
 
 Menyweather, , Efq. London Mynors, Robert, Surgeon, Ditto 
 
 Millar, James, Limner, Birmingham 
 
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 Newbv, , Birmingham Nicklin, Captain, 2 copies 
 
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 Ofbornc, Jamci, Birmingham Oughton, Jonn, Efq. Berwood-hcath 
 
 Parkyns, Lady, Rur.r.y-pail*, 4 copies Pattefon, Edmund Wacc, Hagley row 
 
 Paine, Thoma r , Birmingham Pattefon, the- R:-v. , Richmond 
 
 Paint'-r, John, Ditto Paylcr, Tlruibs. I I'm. Eondon 
 
 Palm: r, f. J. Biiftl Pe.irfon, Richard, M. D. Ditto 
 
 Palmer, Edward, I fq. Birmingham, 3 Peaifi >, Mrs. Ditto 
 
 Parker, Thomas, Cm ..;;/ Pearfoi:, Richard, Birmingham 
 
 Parr, , !>. 1). Itatton Pen \ Mrs. Ditto 2 copies 
 
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 Perkins, Mrs. Sutton, 2 copies Pratchett, Richard, Birmingham, 2 
 
 Perkins, Mrs. Birmingltam Price, Theodore, Efq. Harl)ornc, 2 
 
 Perkins, Mifs, Ditto Price, Mrs. Ditto 2 
 
 Philp, Mr- So-io Price, Philemon, Birmingham 
 
 Phillips, Mr. John, Ditto Price, Lieutenant W, P. in India 
 
 Phillips, Mr. Birmingham Price, the Rev. , Abbots Bromley 
 
 Phipfon, Thomas, Ditto Price, the Rev, Henry, Magdalen Coi- 
 Pickard, James, Ditto lege, Oxford 
 
 Pickering, Mr. Luddington Price, Richard, Briftol 
 Pixel], the Rev. Charles, A. M. Ec!g- Pritchitt, Rice, Birmingham 
 
 barton Prottor, Mrs. Ditto 
 
 Pixel!, Mrs. Ditto Proffer, Mr. Sutnmerhill 
 
 Pickering, the Rev. , Smethwick Prout, T. O. Efq. Holliwell 
 
 Player, Mrs. London Powel, Mifs, London 
 
 Potts, Mrs. Birmingham Pyc, Rev. Henry, Lapworth 
 Powell, Edward, Brirtol 
 
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 Rabone, Richard, Birmingham Rogers, John, Birmingham 
 
 Rabone, Jofeph, Ditto Rogers, Herbert, Worceircr 
 
 Rabone, Samuel, Ditto Rolfe, William, Birmingham 
 
 Ravee, Anthony, Ditto Rollafon, Mrs. Hagley 
 
 Redfern, Bartholomew, Ditto Roper, Jofeph, Crefcent, Birmin3h.11 
 
 Reynolds, , Efq. Coppice-houfe Rofe, Mifs, Davent'y 
 
 Reynolds, Mifs, Brewood Rofe, Mifs, Haymill-brook 
 
 Reynolds, James, Birmingham Rotton, John, jun. Belmont- row 
 
 Richards, Mrs. Camphill Rowlinfon, Daniel, Birmingham. 1 
 
 Richards, Theophilus, Birmingham Ruifell, Thomas, Efq. Birmingham 
 
 Richards, Mrs. Ditto Puffell, Samuel, Efq. Ditto 
 
 Richards, Thomas, Ditto Ruffell, , jun. Ditto 
 
 Richards, George, Sheldon Rufton, Mrs. Ditto 
 
 Richards, Mrs. Ryder, Mr. London 
 
 Riggs, Mrs. Ruffell-place, London Ryland, John, Efq. Birmingham 
 
 Roach, Mr. Birmingham Ryland, Samuel, Ditto 
 
 Robinfon, the Rev. , Halesowen Ryland, Mifs, Birmingham 
 
 Robinfon, Mrs. Birmingham Ryland, Samuel, jun. Ditto 
 
 Rock, Mr. Walfall Ryland, William, Ditto c copies 
 
 Rock, John, Birmingham Ryland, Mrs. Sutton 
 
 Rock, Mifs, Ditto Ryley, Mrs. Coventry 
 
 Rogers, Mrs. Samuel, Ditto Ryley's, Mifs, Hamftall, 4 copies 
 
 Rogers, Mifs, Ditto 
 
 Sanders, Mark, Birmingham Short, Rev. John, Temple I'alfal! 
 
 Sanfom, Mrs. Afhted Silvciter, James, Manchelter 
 
 Sargent, Mr. Birmingham Simcox, George, Efq. Birmingham 
 
 Seaton, Mifs. London Simcox, Mrs. !>itto 
 
 Seward, Mifs, Lichfield, 2 copies Simcox, Mifs, Ditto 
 
 Scott, Jofeph, Efq. Great Barr Simcox, Mifs Mary, Camphill 
 
 Tcott, Mrs. Greenwich Simpfon, Edward, Efq. 
 
 Scott, Mrs. Birmingham Skry, R. S. Birmingham 
 
 Sheffield, William, F.fq. London Skey, Mrs. Ditto 
 
 Sheldon, Jofeph, Wafh wood-heath Smalhv^od, Thomas, Ditt^ 
 
 Shore, Jofeph, Birmingham Small, Mrs. Soiihuli
 
 -vi-.nrt, James, Birmingham Spencer, the Rev. Benjamin, Afton 
 
 Smith, , F.fq. Spencer, Mis. Ditto 
 
 Smith, Benjamin, Birmingham Spencer, Mifs, Ditto 
 
 Smith, Thomas, M. D. Ditto Spilfbury, , Efq. London 
 
 Smith. William, Ditto Spilfbi.ry, Mis. Ditto 
 
 Smith, William, Sand-pits Stanbridgc, Mr. jun. Birmingham 
 
 Smith, William, HarooriiC Stancliffe, Joiin, F. L. S. Cam-, College, 
 
 Smith, Lilly, F.fq. Warwick, 2 copies Cambridge 
 
 Smith, Edward, Birmingham Startin, John, Springhill 
 
 Smith, Mifs, Ditto Steward, Mrs. Stourton Caftle 
 
 Smith, William, Attorney, Ditto Stiff, J. Briitol, 2 copies 
 
 Smith, J.R. Elq. Kiu_;-ilreet,Covent- Stokes, Benjamin, F.fq. Hagiey-row 
 
 Smith, Mrs. DiUo [garden stokes, Thomas. Elq. 
 
 Smith, Mils, Ditto Story, David, Birmingham 
 
 Smith, M;l"s Eliza, Ditto Stuait, Charles, Attorney, Birmingham 
 
 Smith, Samuel, Birmingham Scubbs, George, Ditto 
 
 'nape, John, Land-furveyor, Ditto Sutherland, Richard, Ditto 
 
 Snow, Captain, Greenwich Sutherland, Ramfay, El'q. 
 
 Southern, Mr. Soho Sutti n, Benjamin, Birmingham 
 
 Southern, Mis. Ditto Swinncv, Mrs Birmingham 
 
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 Tayler, , Efq. Keni! worth, 6 'I hompfuii, Mifs, London 
 
 Tayior, John, Surgeon, Birmingham 'I immins, James, Birmingham 
 
 Taylor, , Ditto, Wednefoury '1 inur.ii>, George, Ditto 
 
 Taylor. Mrs. Birmingham Tomlinfon, Th< mas, Surgeon, Ditt 
 
 Terry, , Sutton, i copies Torkington, JelTc, Ditt 
 
 L'erry, , M. D. Cover. try Townfhend, Mrs. Sutton, 2 copies 
 
 'I horn.:-, Henry, Birmingham Townlhend, Jofeph, Birmingham 
 
 . ;. imas, William, A'.hted Townfhend, Mrs. Ditto 
 
 Ihompfon, Mrs. jane, London Turner, Mrs. Ditto 
 
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 ' ale, Humphry, Birmingham Villers, Mrs. Mofeiey 
 
 Va.e, Mis. Ditto Villers, John, Efq. Coventry 
 
 Vale, M:-. Coventry Villers, Mrs. Ditto 
 
 Vauglitun, Rodger, Efq. AfhfoHand Villers, Mifs, Ditto 
 
 hton, Mrs. Ditto Villers, James, Efq. Handfwo: 
 
 Caughton, Humphry, Eirmii.gl-.am Villers, Mrs. Ditto 
 
 Vaux, Jeremiah, Surgeon, Ditto Undei hill, John, Cainphiii 
 
 Vilicrs, William, Efq. Mofeiey Lnett, , Attorney, ><:.;.: 
 
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 Wadfworth, M.. I::.,;, n W.vkcr, Zaccheus, Birming! ;. 
 
 Waiford, Mrs. Hagiey-row V, .,;!!., William, Ditt.) 
 
 Wal ford, Mils W, : d, Robert, Surgeon, Ditto 
 
 W:.i\ i, Wiiii;.m : Birmingham W;.:; J . John. Five Wa-, , 
 
 v', -Ikct, M;s. Ditt ) Wardroper. Mr. I.ond in 
 
 ;er, Alexander, Smcthwick Wain r. Ih ma , hirmii .: 
 
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 Watt, James, Eiq. Heathfield 
 Watt, Mrs. Ditto 
 
 Watt, James, jun. Ditto 
 Watt, Gregory Ditto 
 
 Watts, William, Briftol 
 Webb, Mr. Sutton 
 Webb, Mr. Attorney, Birmingham 
 Webb, Mifs, Ditto 
 
 Webb, Mifs, Kingfton 
 Webfter, Mrs. Birmingham 
 Wedge, Mr. Packington 
 Welch, Mifs, Birmingham 
 Welch, Thomas, Attorney, Ditto 
 Wefton, Mr. Jofeph, Solihull 
 Whalley,the Rev. J. S. Langford, 4 
 Whalley, Mrs. Ditto, 4 
 
 Whateley, Thomas, Birmingham 
 Wheeler, Robert, Ditto 
 
 Wheeler, S. A. 
 
 Wheeley, Francis, Birmingham 
 Wheeley, John, Worcefter 
 White, Mrs. 
 
 White, the Rev. Henry, Lichfield 
 "Whitehead, Mr. London 
 Whitmore, Mrs. Birmingham 
 Wigan, Mrs. Fletchamfted 
 Wiggin, Henry, Birmingham 
 Wigon, Mr. Kenilworth 
 
 Wilkes, Mrs. Mofelev 
 Wilkes, Rev. R. Reft'or of Envil 
 Wilkinfon, Mrs. Birmingham 
 Willetts, Mrs. Wcdnefbury 
 Williams, Benjamin, Birmingham 
 
 Williams, , Ditto 
 
 Willington, Mrs. London 
 Willington, Mifs, Ditto 
 Wilmore, Thomas, Birmingham, 2 
 Willis, Mrs. Pipe-hall, 2 copies 
 Winfield, John, Hagley-row 
 Withering, Mrs. the Larches 
 
 Woodcock, the Rev. , Birmingham 
 
 Woolley James, Ditto 2 
 
 Woolley, Mrs. Soho 
 
 Worth, , Efq. Erdington, 2 copier 
 
 Wrench, Captain, Fillongley 
 Wright, Mrs. Hawkefbury 
 Wroughton, Mrs. 
 Wilmore, James, Birmingham 
 Wilmore, Jofeph, Ditto 
 Wilmore, Thomas, jun. Ditto 
 Wyatt, Mifs, Bellefield 
 Wyatt, Samuel, Burton, 3 copies 
 Wyatt, Mrs. Mofeley 
 Wynne, William, Birmingham 
 Wynne, Cornelius, Ditto 
 
 Yates, Rev. R. W. Solihull 
 Yates, Mrs. Ditto 
 
 Yates, Mifs Catharine, Ditto 
 Young, Rev. Wm. Toy, Birmingham- 
 
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