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METEOROLOGICAL DIARY, BY W. CARY, STRAND.
From August 26 to September 25, 1832, both inclusive. ·

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South Sea Stock, Sept. 5, 93.

New South Sea Annuities, Aug. 28, 82.-Sept. 4, 82-7, 83.
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[PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 1, 1832.]

OCTOBER, 1832.

Original Communications.

MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.

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Dryburgh Abbey, the Burial-place of Sir Walter Scott......... ..291 On fragment of the Baccha of Euripides 295 Sonnets of Shakespeare addressed to Wm.

Herbert, afterwards Earl of Pembroke 296 Families of Hungerford and St. Barbe....ib. New Church of St. Dunstan's in the West 297 Ancient Proclamations concerns Archery 302 Account of Newbigging-by-the-Sea,

Northumberland. .......

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Old Tower & Mansion-house of Cresswell 307 On the Sonnets of Shakspeare-addressed

to William Herbert Earl of Pembroke 308 China, and its N. W. Dependencies. 314-325 On the first Founders of Sunday Schools 326 Review of New Publications. Digby's Broad Stone of Honour............329 Thierry's History of the Gauls ..........334 James's History of Charlemagne.

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dicine-Fruits of Solitude, &c...........354 FINE ARTS.-New National Gallery......355 Reviews of Fine Arts, Erard's Pictures,&c.356 LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.-New Works 357 Arctic Expedition, Jacobite MSS., &c. 358 ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES. .359

Historical Chronicle. Promotions, &c.-Births and Marriages. 360 OBITUARY; with Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott; Sir J, Honywood, Bart.; Sir Everard Home, Bart.; Col. Phillips; Capt. G.S.Smith; R. Spottiswoode, &c.361 Bill of Mortality.-Markets.-Shares...391 Meteorological Diary.-Prices of Stocks 392

Embellished with Views of DRYBURGH ABBEY; CHURCH of ST. DUNSTAN in the West;
NEWBIGGING CHAPEL, Co. Northumberland;

Old TowER and MANSION HOUSE of CRESSWELL, Northumberland;
And MAP of WESTERN CHINA; &c. &c.

By SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT.

Printed by J. B. NICHOLS and SON, CICERO'S HEAD, 25, Parliament Street, Westminster; where all Letters to the Editor are requested to be sent, POST PAID.

Mr. URBAN,

MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

I am induced to trouble you with the present communication, in consequence of the observations of M. H. in your last Magazine, p. 194. The word Foy is in common use in the northern counties of England, and also in Scotland. It denotes an entertainment given to a friend or acquaintance about to leave his bome, or any particular place of residence. Those who are attached to him assemble to set his Foy; that is, to drink his health, or to partake of a supper or other treat. Kilian, in his Etymologicum Teutonicæ Linguæ, very correctly defines the term. He interprets voye, Foye,' as signifying Vinum profectitium-symposium viæ causâ;' and derives the word from the French, voye, or way. It is not unusual for the owners of a fishing vessel, to give a supper, called a Foy, to the crew of the season. Hence the sign of the Foy Boat, inquired after by your Correspondent.

JOHN TROTTER BROCKETT.

CORNUBIENSIS says that "the Foy Boat means nothing more than the passage-boat to Fowey in Cornwall" (pronounced Foy); but as our Correspondent has given us no proof that passage-boats between Fowey and Margate ever existed, we are afraid he has been misled by enthusiasm for the quondam greatness of his native county.-In Dyche's Dictionary, the word Foy is explained, as "a treat given by a person to his friends or acquaintance, upon his change of, or bettering his station in life, removing to a new habitation, going or setting out upon a journey, putting on new clothes," &c.A Correspondent, therefore, suggests that "a Foy Boat may have been one given originally to a pilot for uncommon or skilful exertions in some dreadful storm now forgotten."-According to Forby's Vocabulary of East Anglia, Foy is the term applied to the "supper given by the owners of a fishing-vessel at Yarmouth, to the crew in the beginning of the season."-The word is probably derived from the French word foyer, the hearth or hospitable fireside.

Mr. J. S. BURN says, "The practice so long prevalent of marrying at the Fleet Prison, is known to most of your readers, though but few are aware of the iniquitous proceedings which for sixty or seventy years were carried on there, in relation to clandestine marriages. Having perused the whole of the Registers, comprising many hundred volumes, and having for some years past collected all the particulars within my reach, connected

with the subject, I am about to publish a few copies of a History of the Fleet, its Registers, Clergymen, Marriage-houses, &c. &c. with the names of nearly a thousand of the principal persons married there. Amongst the Fleet Parsons are many of whom I should be glad to obtain some particulars through the medium of your Magazine; and I subjoin their names, with the periods at which they officiated. John Gaynam, 1709-1740; Edw. Ashwell, 1734-1743; Jerimus Alley, 1698 1707; Michael Barratt, 1698-1711; Jas. Colton, 1689-1721; Robert Cuthbert, 1723-1734; Thos. Crawford, 1723-1748; Wm. Dare, 1732-1754; John Floud, 17091739; Henry Gower, 1689-1718; James Lando, R. N. 1743; John Mottram, 17091722; Daniel Wigmore, 1723-1754; Jas. Wagstaff, 1689-1730; Walter Wyatt, 17131750."

E. J. CARLOS observes, "It is to be regretted that the very interesting little mural monument to the memory of Gerard Legh, 1563, taken down from the old church of St. Dunstan's in the West, should have been placed in one of the darkest spots in the new building. This monument is a square tablet, but, instead of the columns which are usually seen in coeval works, the entablature is sustained by two cariatides, male and female. The figures are in graceful attitudes, and the sculpture so much above the period, that it is to be hoped the parish committee will even now cause it to be removed to a more eligible spot. There are also two altar tombs, which have not been set up in the new Church. It is, however, probable that they will occupy conspicuous stations at the sides of the altar."

J. C. asks for information as to the descent of the Baronetage of Nova Scotia, conferred in 1630 upon Walter Crosbie, the eldest son of John Bishop of Ardfert in Ireland. The last possessor of the title appears to have been Sir Edward Crosbie, who was executed at Carlow in Ireland for alleged treason in 1798. J. C. requires any particulars as to the intermediate Baronets between the first and the last-as to who claims to be the present representative of the family-and generally as to the Crosbie pedigree.

The articles on Classical Literature, and other Papers, are unavoidably postponed.

In the account of an ancient oak found on Keston Common, Kent, p. 227, lin. penult. for "portions of a carbonaceous substance was formed," read" portions of a carbonaceous substance were found."

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DRYBURGH ABBEY, THE BURIAL: PLACE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.

IN a peninsula of 52 acres formed by one of the great windings of the Tweed, commonly called the Crescent of that river, in the south-west corner of Berwickshire, stand the venerable ruins of Dryburgh Abbey, where repose the mortal remains of the great Minstrel of the North, whose works are a part of the sympathies and the intellectual reminiscences of all men-the immortal WALTER SCOTT.

Dryburgh derives its name from the ancient language of the country, and signifies a bank of oaks. There are narrations, from which it is inferred

that Dryburgh was originally a place of Druidical worship; its name is supposed to come from the Celtic

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Darach-Bruach," or "the bank of the sacred grove of oaks," the settlement of the Druids. * Vestiges of old oaks are still occasionally found in this hill, which joins Clenthill,

Grose's Antiquities of Scotland. This name would apply to the hill behind Dryburgh, on the brow of which the late Earl of Buchan, with patriotic taste, erected a colossal statue of Wallace, the Hero of Scotland.

known to the world by the character of Peter of Clenthill, depicted in the Waverley Novels in a masterly manner. The first notice relating to Dryburgh as a religious house, must have been prior to 522 of the Christian æra, since we find Moden, a Scots Saint, mentioned as Abbot of it at that time, in several works which record the history of the Gospel in Scotland.* The lesser Chapel in the Abbey still bears his name. In an enclosure still called the Chapel Field, about a mile west of the hamlet of Dryburgh, which latter was at one time no inconsiderable town, were found in 1788 the remains of a place of worship, concerning which there is no record more than the traditionary name of the field. On this spot probably was situated the ancient residence of the monks, when St. Moden presided over the Clergy of the district: it is close to the river, where there is still a ford bearing the name of "The Monks' Ford," from the frequent passage of those holy fathers between Dryburgh

and Old Melrose.

Sometime before 1150, Hugo de Morville, Lord of Lauderdale, and Great Constable of Scotland, with Beatrix de Beauchamp his wife, founded the present Abbey; and it afterwards obtained a charter of confirmation from King David the First, who in the deed assumes the appellation of founder, as is usual in ancient times, although patron would have been the more correct assumption.

The first Abbot of Dryburgh was Roger, who brought monks from Alnwick in Northumberland, and made the first establishment of a regular house in 1-152. Hugo de Morville died anno 1162, and with his wife was buried in the Chapter-house of the Abbey. Their bones were found very entire in sarcophagi in the centre of the area, some years ago. His staff as Great Constable of Scotland, was in good preservation, as likewise some beads on the breast of Beatrix de Beauchamp.

In 1322 Dryburgh was burnt by the soldiers of Edward 11. extending to the cloisters of the Abbey, but the beautiful Church was spared. The little town of Dryburgh, adjacent, suffered very severely. It was almost

Chalmers, B. i. p. 142. King's Breviary of Aberdeen.

totally burnt, because the bells were heard ringing a merry peal at the departure of the English, on their overthrow at Bannockburn. The English General, who had passed Lillyards edge, retraced his steps and in consequence fired Melrose and Dryburgh. The animosity of the invaders must have been very much inflamed, as religious houses were almost always respected, and they sprung up on the hostile ground to check the excesses of the victor, and open the sanctuary of the church for the vanquished. In a circle of twelve miles no less than four of these establishments existed, and of the most opulent description; these were the Abbeys of Kelso, Jedburgh, Melrose, and Dryburgh.

Dryburgh was the object again of one of the hostile incursions of the English forces on the borders in 1544, of which the following account is given by Lord Eure.

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at iiij of the cloke at afternoon, Sir Geo: Upon Friday the vii of November, Bowes and his company, Sir Brian LayGray, porter, and the garrison of Barton and his company, Harry Ewry, Liell weck; John Carre, captain of Wark, and his company; Thomas Beamond, Geo: Sowlby, Launcelot Carlton and their companies, to the number of vii hundred men, rode into Scotland, upon the water of Tweede, to a town called Drybrough, with an abbay in the same, which was a pratty town and well buylded; and they burnt the same town and Abbay, savyng the church, with a great substance of corne, and gote very much spoylage and ensight geire, and brought away an hundredth notte, lx naggs, a hundredth sheipe. And they gave to certain Scotshmen of Tyvedale, latelie comen in and laid their pledges to serve the King's magestie, who met them at Kelso in their home comynge xxx or xlti notte; and they tarried so long at the said burnynge and spoilage, that it was Satterday at viii of the cloke at nycht or they com home."+

This accounts for the variation in the style of architecture of the Abbey: on the first conflagration in 1322, King Robert the First contributed liberally to repair it. In both conflagrations the Church was saved, and is consequently the oldest part of the Abbey.

John Stewart, the cousin of Lord Darnley, the husband of Mary Queen of Scots, was Abbot of Dryburgh, the

Cotton MSS. Calig. B. v.

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