fignature with his right hand, from an official paper; together with that of the celebrated Sir Hugh Pallifer (fec Plate II.) Yours, &c. NAUTICUS. Mr. URBAN, Jan. 12. T THE inclofed original letters, from the Duke and Dutchefs of Marl borough, and the Marquis of Dor chefter, to the Lord North and Grey, were found at Kirtling (commonly called Catlidge) by Mr. Davey, for merly fteward to Lord North's family, fee the autographs in Plate H.). Yours, &c. M. GREEN. a's 66 ! Camp at Herentals, the 29th September, 1705. "My Lord, "I have received the favour of your Fordfhip's letter, and had one yefter day from Monf. Van Ellemect, to whom I now return an anfwer; and you will have a fight of it, I fhall refer your Lordship to what I write to him, and will only add, that in cafe he fhould infift upon having every thing fettled before the marriage, which, I find by Mr. Guidet's letter, cannot be done till next term; yet, in that cafe, your Lordfhip might go over to England, and come back again to confummate the marriage time enough in all likelihood to return with me; and you may be fure I fhall be glad of your company. I forgot whether your Lordship defred Breda, or fome other place for your quarters, wherein I pray you will Inform me by your next. I am, my Lord, your Lordship's most faithful and moft humble fervant, "I know not by what accident, but, I affure you, I had not the honour of yours of the 21ft of the last month till yefterday, notwithstanding that we had five days ago thofe of the 24th, which brought the news of Lord Hatton. At the fame time I was informed, that the Queen remembered her promile to my Brether, and that the was refolved of making a confiable of the Tower, which could not agree with your de Gre; fo that I did, by that poft, write what had palled between us the laft winter, and as foon as I have an aufwer, I fhall acquaint you with it, being, my Lord, your faithful friend and humble fervant, MARLBOROUGH." "I beg my moft humble. may be given to my Lady Northy" "Monday morning. you ex I received your Lordship's letter, All I can fay to the matter it concerns is, that, having had lately occafion to talk feriously to o my daughter of marriage,. I find the is in very good earnest when the declares against it, which I am very forry for. What more I can affure your Lordship from her own mouth is, that the has not forgot the zeal prefled for her deliverance once upon time, fo that the heartily wifhes you a long and perfect happinefs, and hopes you will meet it in fomebody who deferves and can return your affection. Could I have told you with fincerity any thing you defired more to hear, I had fooner anfwered your letter; for I am, with all imaginable eftcem, my Lord, your humble fervant, DORCHESTER My Lord, Morch 26, 1724. "I don't know whether your Lordfhip was at the houfe yesterday; but if you were not, I beg of your Lordship that you will go to-day, to aflift in doing the greateft piece of juftice and coinpaffion that ever you did in your life. The lawyers have fpoke on each fide but you will hear the fame argutinents again to-day; and indeed, if you heard only the appellant's fide, it would be fufficient to judge against them; for my Lord Mohun, who was only an adopted heir, has kept the family of the Fittons out of their eftate near 50 years; they are of a good family, and if they had. not gone to fervice, they must have fiarved. I don't doubt but that Lordship will take a pleasure in affifting the unfortunate. I am, your Lordfhip's most faithful, and noft obliged humble fervant. S. MARLBOROUR." your "I am much obliged to my Lath North and Grey for the honour the did me; and I will be fure to wait upon her, with my humble thanks, as foon as I have any liberty." kerton has mentioned and figured the quarter florin in his effay on medals; but he has not defcribed (and for the belt of all poffible reafons) the half florin in any publication whatfoever. The half florin recently difcovered, and lately in the poffeflion of Mr. Sharpe, of Coventry, and the quarter florin now contained in the cabinet of the late Dr. Hunter, are prefumed, by perfons moft intelligent in English coin, to be the only genuine fpecimens extant. Of the firft no counterfeit has yet appeared; of the fecond, two fpurious ones are known to be in exiftence The quarter florin long fince has been engraved, and is printed in every work on English coin, publifhed with in the laft fifty years. Your print of it in the Magazine for December is lamentably incorrect t. Mr. URBAN, Maldon, Jan. 14. Fried letter, addrefled by Mr. Polyour vol. LXI. p. 308, is a fpihele to Benjamin Incledon, efq. in which he very properly reprehends that gentleman for withholding information refpecting the Hiftory of Devonshire; and more efpecially for not returning an anfwer to feveral letters which he had written to him. Your readers, who happen to recollect the contents of that letter, will forcely believe, that Mr. Polwhele now thinks it becoming in him to adopt that conduct which he there fo feverely cenfures that he has withheld information, and has not anfwered letters. But, however incredible it may appear, the fact is, that he has forgotten how andignantly he himself fpurned at unworthy treatment, and has forced others to feel the humiliating nature of fuch folicitations" I have long employed my leifure hours in preparing for the prefs an Hifiory of the Mints and Coinage of this king dom, and am, in courfe, anxious to collect every information on the fubject. When I read in the fecond vo Hume of the Hiftory of Devonshire, p. 35, an account of a Mint in the ...manfion-houfe of the Great Coplestone, The two fpurious quarter florins, we have Mr. Mil-s's authority for faying, are now in his poffetlion. EIT. +We can only fay, having never feen the rain, that it was an exact fac-fimile of the daring fent to us. EDIT. my curiofity was much excited by fo fingular a circumftance; and I took the liberty to requeft from Mr. Polwhele his authority for that particular. My firft letter, I concluded, muft neceffarily have mifcarried, as it produced no anfwer; but a fecond and a third having proved equally unfuccefsful, I am convinced that Mr. Polwhele, like his great archetype Mr. Incledon, is determined to perfevere in a dignified filence. If the Hiftorian of Devon was urged to fuch lamentations on the wretched fate of Authors, by a fingle inftance of inattention of his applications, (I fay a fingle infiance, for, if more had occurred, at that time we fhould unquestionably have heard of them,) what have not I a right to fay, who have not only chofen him for a correfpondent, but also another gentleman who is likewife in the habit of not anfwering queftions. An unfortunate paffage in day, (No. 1. p. 221), where he speaks Mr. Henfhall's tranflation of Domefof Greek being ufel on Saxon coins, led me to addrefs a letter to him for farther information; but, though it was written fome months fince, he has not been pleafed to take any notice of it. This is the more mortifying, as I have copies of above 2000 legends of Anglo-Saxon coins; but have never been fo fortunate as to difeover thote very interefting ones which Mr. Henfall either has, or ought to have, feey, ་ nu I cannot conclude without declaring, that thefe inftances of incivility have been ftrikingly contrafied by the most liberal and polite behaviour in the r merous perfons to whom I have 'applied for information. This is by no means the proper place to exprefs my gratitude to them individually; but I hope hortly to do it, when I fhall fubmit to the publick eye that work, which their generous communicatious will be found to have fo greatly af fifted and embellished. Yours, &c. ROGERS RUDING. P.S. I fhall efteem it a favour if any of your correfpondents will inform me whether the following work was ever published. 66 Brief Menoirs relating to the Sitver and Gold Coins of England, with an Account of the corruption of the Hammered Monies, and of the reform of the late grand Coinage at the Tower and County Mints, in the years 166, 97, 98, and 99, by Hopton Hynes, Efq. London, 1700." Snelling Snelling made large extracts from it, which are now in the library of Richard Gough, efq. by whom I have been permitted to сору them. I likewife with to know what is be come of a MS. which, in 1732, was in the hands of Mr. Peck, rector of Godeby in Leicestershire; but whether drawn up by himself does not appear from the memorandum. It contained, A brief Collection of the alterations which have been made in the Moneys of the Realm fince the time of Edward I. &c. &c. This MS. is mentioned by Sir Charles Frederick in a note written in his copy of Leake on English Coins now in the polletion of Mr. Gough. Qu. What is meant by Mr. Hawkes's Book of Coins? which occurs in another MS note by Sir C. Frederick. Mr. URBAN, Upper Thornhaugh- YOUR correfpondent, R. G. P. 1153, will find that his difficulty difcovering Kiel in Staffordshire was owing to a defect in its orthography; and that the place he enquires after is not written Kiel, but Keel. It is to be found in Spelman's Villare Anglicarum, Adams's Index Villaris in Pirchill hundred, and the map of Staffordshire in the laft edition of Camden, about two miles to the South-weft of Newcaftle-under-Line. Keel manor was parcel of Tutbury cafle Edw. III. Hiftory of Staffordshire, I. 40; and Keele houfe was ordered to be forthwith demolished by Capt. Barbar's foldiers, Feb. 29, 1643; Ib. Gen. Hift. p. 64. Gilbert Rollef ton, of Rollefton, married to his first wife, Jane, daughter of Ralph Sneyd, of Keel, efq; Ib. 30. The principal branch of the family of the Sueyds have been feated there many generations, and the prefent poffeffor is Walter Sneyd, efq. lieutenant-colonel of the Staffordshire militia. Their curious old manfion, built 1581, as engraved in Plot, tab. 28, ftill remains with few external alterations, and, no doubt, contains the portrait mentioned by R. G.; whien, if not anticipated by any other publication, will be particularly defcribed, or engraved, in the latter part of the Hiftory of Staffordfhire; a fecond portion of which is now finifning at the prefs for publication early in the fpring, as will be more particularly fpecified on the cover of your next Magazine. Mr. URBAN, S. SHAW. Hampton, Jan. 6. A chiefly devoted to literature, I flatter myself that this fhort article will In the fupplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. II. part i. p. 383, we meet with the following paffage : “ Punctuation, in gramniar, is an árt, with which we have faid, in the Encyclopædia, that the antients were entirely unacquainted. Candour obliges us to confefs, that this was faid rafhly. A learned writer, in the Monthly Magazine for Sept. 1798, who fubfcribes J. WARBURTON, after having proved, we think completely, that the art is not wholly modern; adus, that "The beft treatife upon punctuation, that he has feen, was publifhed fome. years fince by an anonymous author, and dedicated to Sir Clifton Wintringham, bart. With this treatise we are not acquainted; but we do not think that the art of punctuation can be taught by rules," Ifhall take the liberty to make two or three obfervations on this extract. 1. Mr. Warburton's proofs are taken verbatim from the Eflay on Punctuation, by that, anonymous author. 2. The author of that cffay is no longer anonymous. The name of J. ROBERTSON is affixed to the dedication of the fourth edition. The fame gentleman is the author of the Differtation on the Parian chronicle; a new edition of Telemachus, with notes; an Effay on the Nature of the English Verfe; and other publications. He is, I be lieve, yicar of Horncastle in Lincolnshire, 3. The authors of the Encyclopædia are of opinion, that the art of punctuation cannot be taught by rules. If I am not deceived, the author has clearly proved, that "the art of punctuation is no arbitrary and capricious invention; but an art,. founded on rational and determinate principles," and confequently may be tauglit by rules. C. D. H. |