Mr. URBAN, A 08. 7.. bed furnished by the keeper, he pays LLOW me a few words upon Mr. Phillips has fpared no expence in the work alluded to; the prints are heautifully delineated; and the typographical care with which it is brought out is greatly to the Publisher's credit, and to thofe who overlooked its progrefs. A. R. frugal, was declined, upon the reafon"that he never frequented any but the Established Church of England." The cause of her affuming the name of Roberts," while travelling in England for a fhort time, was to avoid perfecuting applications for money from the nephew the mentions, in whom he met a bitter difappointment. He diffipated a large eftate in lefs than two years; lived a profligate, and died a beggar. Villa Ruffa, as he calls it, or Rufh-houfe, was purchafed by the family into which her daughter married; and that fine domain is now in the poffeffion of Lady Echlin's grandfon. Both those who have, and thofe who have not feen it, must be greatly delighted with her Lady fhip's defcription; I never read any thing in which truth and fimplicity of ftyle are more naturally blended. She died at Haigh, the refidence of her fifter, the ever-beloved and ftill-regretted Lady Bradfhaigh, who furvived her a few years, and died too foon, in the 81ft year of her age, eminent in every Chriftian and moral virtue; above all, "in the greatest of thefe," in Charity*, which the practifed in its most extenfive fenfe, and in all its various meanings. Lady Bradfhaigh was alfo richly ftored in information, and might be deemed a very well-bred woman, "Polite as all her life in courts had been, Yet good as the the world had never feen." She managed, indeed, to make an appearance proper to her ftation upon a firaitened income, till the debts of Sir Roger Bradfhaigh's father, incurred by a parliamentary mania, were paid to the uttermoft farthing, though not fubject to thofe debts by any law but the law A few years before her death, the built and endowed a receptacle for 20 poor. people above the age of 60. The miners in the coal and canuel pits upon the eftate of Haigh, and their wives or widows, are the preferred, but not the exclufive objects of this charity. This afylum ftands within view of the manfion,a lafting monument! -if fuch were wanting. A. R. of confcience. Sir Roger's good inclinations were earnestly seconded, and brought to effect, by Lady Bradfhaigh's prudent economy; and with the fame good fenfe and found integrity the acted through every scene of her mortal career. Such, and much more than can be expreffed, was Lady Bradfhaigh, enlivened by the fpirit of that charming Mifs Do, upon whom Mr. Richardfon is, I think, fomewhat fevere, more fo than fuccefsful in his attacks on her in that character; for certainly, living, it rendered her virtues more impreffive-endears her memory; and it enhances her general merit to say, that Lady Bradfhaigh carried a dafh of Mifs Do to the latest period of her valuable exiftence. The eldest fifter of these ineftimable women, by the fame mother, married Sir Edward Stanley, who afterwards fucceeded to the title, and became Earl of Derby; from whom they ever experienced the most affectionate regard; and at Knowsley they always met the kindest reception from relations who were confcious thefe ladies derived not more honour than they reflected upon all connected with or allied to them. "And by their works ye shall know them." To this criterion, without comment, I could have wished Mrs. Barbauld had entrusted thefe ladies' fame; when, I think, by all readers of tafte and feeling, they would have been allowed great pre-eminence amongft the heterogeneous collection with which they are jumbled. Mr. URBAN, BETHA. Oct. 2. P 855, Nanfwer to an enquiry in withing to know where the paintings of the late Daniel Bond are depofited, I have the pleafure to inform you, that the works of that great artist are at prefent in his widow's poffeffion, at Hagley-row, near Birmingham; but will, early in November, be removed to London, to be exhibited and fold. Catalogues in due time will be diftributed, giving an exact description of them, aud laying where they are to be exhibited. Yours, &c. R. H. Mr. TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF (Concluded from p 833.) Church dedicated to St. Peter and Paul. In it are, or were, memorials of the interment of Walleys above 200 years ago. Ilarris's Kent, 1719, fol. 90. CUDHAM. Hafted's Kent, vol. 1. fol. 118. de Ahway, who had a free chapel annexed to it. 16 Edward III. Aug... Patent-roll in the Tower granted to John at Well and Robert William licence to give four marks, iffuing out of tenements called La Rye, in Otteford (which were held, as it is faid, of the archbishop), to Adam Fleming, the chaplain in the chapel of Apuldrefeld. This manor continued in the name of Afhway for many generations, till it came, by purchafe, the eftate of Denny, who were poffeffed of it in the reign of Henry VIII. 35 Henry VIII. it was fold to George. Dacre, who exchanged it with the Given by William 1. to Odo, bifhop Crown, which granted it to John Lenof Baieux, of whom it was held by nard, and paid 31. 11s. per annum to the Gilbert Mamino Taxed at 4 fulings. guard of Dover cafile, in which family Arable land, 10 carucates. In demelne it continued till 1707, when the Earl there are four, and 15 villains, with 6 of Suffex conveyed it to Thomas Know, bordurers having 6 carucates. A church who, in 1737, devifed it to his coufins, and 11 fervans, and two mills of 14s. the Bartholomews; and it was, in 2d. value. in Wood for the pannage of 1757, bequeathed to the Gearys: 40 hogs. In the time of Edward the which family it fill remains, 1804. Confellor, 201.;' after, 161.; now, 241. It now pays a fee-farm rent to the William Gilbert Maminot held Crown of 31. 11s. as knights' fees, parcel of the barony of Maninot, and held of the king in capite by barony. it 1191, 3 Richard 1. came to Geoffry de Say by marriage. 19 Edward III. Geoffry de Say had charter of free warren. Richard II.- -came to Sir W. Heron by marriage, with a tenement called North Barden. 1404, 6 Henry IV. allotted to Roger de Fienes by marriage. marriage. came to Sir Thomas Dacre by 18 Elizabeth, came to Sampfon Lennard by marriage. 1707, came to Thomas Streatfield; in which family it remains 1804. APPULDREFIE! Dt Manor in CUDHAM. Hafted's Kent. 38 Henry III. a grant of a fair and market to Henry de Apuldrefeld. 11 Edward II. John de Infula had BERTREY, formerly called a manor, given by William L. to Gilbert Maminot, from whom it went, by marriage, to the Says. A yearly fair on the 10th of Auguft. In the beginning of Richard II. it was joined to the manor of Apperfield. Hugh de Maminot, fon of Gilbert de Maminot, gave the tithes of Ber trey, in Cowdham, to the church of St. Andrew, in Rochefter. The prior of Rocheller, 5 Edward III. demifed all their tithes of fheaves, for the term of five years, at the rent of 8 marks, to Sir Henry Ridlington.-[This portion of the tithes is not at this time part of the poffeffions of the church of Rochefter.] 10 Richard II. the prior of the cathedral demifed the tithes for feven years at the rent of 6s. The Names of the Fields of the Tithe of Bertrede, in Codham. Nickolin's croft, two acres, of which 48 Edward III. renewed to Stephen one moiety belongs to the rector. grant of a free warren, • Thefe must have been windmills, as there is no water whatever in the whole parish, + Now called Aprefeld, and confifts only of a good farm-house and a few cottages. From this account it appears to have been a place of more confequence, from the grant of a fair, market, a free warren, and a free chapel. But all thefe I rather fuppofe to be mistakes, as I find fuch privileges granted to Apuldrefield, which I think to be in a different part of the However, an old ruinated houfe ftill retains the name of the gaol, but this may GENT. MAG. October, 1804, Brodefielde, Coueant for the goal or boundary of the manor. i |