three new apertures have been opened, out of which smoke and ashes still continue to be occasionally thrown. The population of the province was calculated at 20,000 souls; and all who have survived the eruption have been ruined, or deprived of every thing they possessed." Mr. URBAN, Coventry, Dec.13. forming a repository for tracts which have been or may be written on this subject by, those who have made it the object of their research. Had this been adopted only at the beginning of the last century, how great a mass of Druidism would have been transmitted to the present generation, which is now irrecoverably lost by its tremendous enemies, AMONGST the number of Institu- agricultural innovation, and wanton tions formed for the preservation of ancient, and accumulation of modern knowledge, it is much to be regretted that, at this momentous period, when the astonishing progress of science seems rapidly approximating that period when (in the words of the Inspired Writer) “the earth shall be filled with the know ledge of the goodness of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea;" that no Society has been formed for transmitting to posterity an account of those antique relicks which almost exclusively belong to this Island-the long neglected and almost forgotten remains of the ancient Druids. To those who consider them as a race of men somewhat advanced beyond a savage state; or, as others, who rest satisfied with Julius Caesar's description; enough has already been said by various writers: but those who conceive Druidism to have been of divine antediluvian origin, and will patiently investigate the remains of Abury, Stone Henge, and Rowl drich, and endeavour to develope their mysterious construction, must be convinced that the little which is known of their early scientific acquirements serves only as a distant beacon, pointing out a path at whose termination the astonished spectator will be overpowered by their longconcealed light bursting on his senses destruction! Much, however, yet remains undescribed and unnoticed; and a vast field still presents itself to those who are inclined to explore the apparently exhaustless subject. Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, AN EUVATE. Piermont, Thanet," HAVING observed in a late Magazine a request from Biographicus, to be informed of the issue of Sir Watkinson Payler, who was living in 1698, I (who succeeded to the Thoralby estates, in the East Riding of York,) have to inform you, that Sir Watkinson left one daughter, "Mrs. Mary Payler," who left my father (her brother) the above-mentioned estate, and entailed it on me, requesting that I might be christened Watkinson, in hopes that the title might be recovered and continued. This has never been done, although often thought of, in compliance with her wish. The Lady Staughton, mentioned by Biographicus, was my grandmother. My father was her only child. I mean to make an immediate petition for this baronetcy, having a right to the revival in my family; and am bound so to do by the consideration of Mrs. Mary Payler's most earnest wish. T. W. PAYLER. Dec. 15. Mr. URBAN, with effulgent splendour; and irre-served celebrity as Leland's Hisfragably convince him that numerous modern discoveries are only a renovation of their doctrines as communicated in an enigmatical shape to the initiated. May I presume to recommend an attentive consideration of this subject to some one whose rank in life, talent, and abilities, are sufficient to insure success in the establishing a Society for the preservation of the little that now remains of their works be drawings and description, and tory of Ireland, I was surprized to meet with the following inaccuracies: viz. in Vol. II. p. 182, where he speaks of Murrough O'Brien, first Earl of Thomoud, he adds, "his son Connor, to whom the Earldom was limited, was by another patent created Baron of Ibrackan." Now this is manifestly erroneous. Murrough O'Brien, Chieftain of Thomond, was created Earl of Thomond, for life, and Baron of Inchiquin, with re mainder mainder to his male issue. His nephew, Donogh O'Brien, (the son of his elder brother) was at the same time created Baron of Ibrackan, and Earl of Thomond; the latter title to take place on the death of his uncle, Earl Murrough. The reason of this limitation was, that Murrough had, according to the custom of Tanistry, assumed the principality of Thomond, though his elder brother Connor, Prince of Thomond, had left a son Donogh, an infant; and on his submitting to Henry VIII. was rewarded with the Earldom of Tho mond, with reversion to the right heir, Donogh, whose possessions he had usurped. On Earl Murrough's death, the Earldom devolved to his nephew Donogh (from whom sprung the Earls of Thomond in Ireland, Viscounts Tadcaster of England, extinct in 1741 in Henry eighth Earl of Thomond and Viscount Tadcaster); but the Barony of lnchiquin devolved to his son, Dermod, second Lord Inchiquin, whose descendant Murrough, sixth Baron of Inchiquin, was created Earl of Inchiquin in 1654, and was ancestor of Murrough, fifth Earl of Inchiquin, created, in 1800, Marquis of Thomond, and Baron Thomond in the English Peerage, thus uniting the honours of Thomond and Inchiquin. The other inaccuracy in Leland is in page 232, where he speaks of M' Carthy, chieftain of Desmond, being created Earl of Clancarty. This chieftain was created (vide Beatson) Earl of Clancare, and Baron of Valentia. The Earldom of Clancarty was not conferred until more than half a century afterwards, on another branch of the Macarthy family. Yours, &c. H. M. ber father, certainly becomes entitled to the Viscounty as "heir general of the body of Sir John Clotworthy." I conceive also, that the Viscounty of Massereene thus devolving on the heir general, will in future descend, like a Barony in fee, to the heir ge neral, being a female, in preference to the collateral heir male;- and that Lady Harriet's grand-daughter (through her eldest son) would take the precedence in succession from her second son. G. H. W. Mr. URBAN, N Dec. 17. Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, Vol. II. p. 71. for Edward, third son, read Ewan, third son. In the same Volume, p. 715. for Massareene, read Massereene. pow Elizabeth Tonson, (see Geut. Mag. for Sept. p. 293.) was first married to Major John Reading, of Saintoff, in Yorkshire, (see Smith's History of Cork): the Rev. Percy Meade was her second husband. She was the eldest daughter of Henry Tonson, esq. of Spanish Island, co. Cork, who died Nov. 25, 1703, ætat. 37, (by Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir Richard Hull, knt. of Leameon) the only son of Richard Tonson, esq. of Spanish Island, temp. Charles II. who had a grant of lands from that monarch for his services during the civil PROCEEDINGS AGAINST STATE CRIMINALS WITHOUT TRIAL. Proceedings against ELIZ. BARTON, the Nun, commonly called THE HOLY MAID OF KENT, and the Monks her accomplices, for High Treason, 1533 and 1534, the 26 Henry VIII. THE prisoner, Bliz. Barton, was charged with pretending to prophecy that if the King pretended to divorce his Queen and marry another wife, he should not survive it a month, but die a villain's death; and several Franciscan monks were charged with countenancing and encourag ing these dangerous speeches; and particularly that one of them, preaching before the King at Greenwich, denounced denounced Heaven's judgment against him to his face; telling his Majesty, that many lying prophets had deceived him, but he, as a true Micajah, warned him that the dogs should lick his blood, as they had done Ahab's: they also encouraged Queen Catherine to stand it out, and not submit to the King. The King hereupon, in November 1533, caused the said Eliz. Barton and her accomplices to be apprehended, and brought before the Court; among whom were the following monks, viz. Richard Master, Dr. Bocking, Richard Deering, Henry Gold, Edward Twaites, and Thomas Laurence; and here, before a great appearance of Lords, they all confessed the cheat, without being put to the torture; whereupon they were all ordered to stand exposed in St. Paul's during Divine Service, and read their respective confessions, which they did, and were afterwards committed to the Tower; but the Nun and the rest pretending afterwards that they were terrified into those confessions, the King brought the matter before the Parliament; and the Nun, with Master Bocking, Richard Reily, and Henry Gold, were attainted of High Treason; and Thomas Gold, Thomas Laurence, Edward Thwaits, John Addisson, and Thomas Abel, her confederates, were adjudged guilty of Misprision of Treason. Sir Thomas More, and Dr. Fisher Bishop of Rochester, had so far countenanced the impostor also as to converse with her in person, and send their chaplains to attend her, for which 'the Bishop of Rochester was attainted of Misprision of Treason by the same Act of Parliament, and Sir Thomas More's name was at first inserted in the bill of attainder, but struck out at the instance of his friends. The Nun, with the said Master Bocking, Deering, Reily, and Gold, were executed at Tyburn on the 20th of April, where the Nun declared, that she justly deserved to die, though those who suffered with her, she said, were more to blame: they were learned men, but she a poor illiterate wench, whom they praised beyond measure, because they profited by what she feigned, and suggested to her that it was the Holy Ghost, and not she that spake; that she, being puffed up with their praises, thought she might feign what she would, and that had brought her into this condition; she begged God's and the King's pardon, and desired the prayers of the multitude. The King also, to shew his resentment against the Observant Friars who principally encouraged this imposture, expelled from their houses those of Richmond, Greenwich, Canterbury, Newark, and Newcastle. And the insolence of those friars is supposed to be one of the principal inducements the King had for surpressing the rest of the monasteries, where visions and miracles were too often pretended, to advance the interest of the monks in general, or of their respective houses. This Nun was originally an inhabitant of the village of Addington in Kent; and, being subject to hysterical fits, which distorted her limbs and features, she said many things that carried an air of piety and devotion in those fits; and was generally taken by the people of the neighbourhood to be inspired, of which the said Richard Master, Vicar of the parish, being informed, proposed to make great advantage, as it is said, and taught her to counterfeit trances, and inveigh against the wickedness of the times, and particularly against heresy and innovation in religion. Master afterward confederating with the abovesaid Dr. Bocking, a canon of Christ Church in Canterbury, they persuaded her to chuse Bocking for her confessor, and to remove to the Nunnery of St. Sepulchre, in Canterbury, where she took the habit, and pretended to prophesy, as related already. Mr. URBAN, Dec. 26. N general I hate the pedantic af fectation of a formal query; but a satisfactory answer to my present question, your Readers will find neither unamusing nor uninstructive. No Author or Antiquary has yet, I think, decidedly mentioned for what precise pnrpose the Holly and Evergreens are placed in houses and churches at Christmas. One vener able Autient assures us, with an excellent grace, that the "misletoe was hung in houses and churches at the end of the year, to disperse the Evil spirits which at that time assembled." Another wisely informs us, that "it E be K OUT the the is a custom copied from our Pagan ancestors;" but keeps us quite in the dark with respect to their intentions in making use of it. From another Reverend Father we learn Then they use the Bacchus weed, Because they mean then Bacchus-like to feed." situated a few miles Northward of Montgomery, and bounding on the West side of Shropshire. The town of "Forden" is therefore most undoubtedly the true reading; and I have great pleasure in communicating this restoration of the text to the Editor of the late edition of "The Old Ballads." Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, GAVEN CROOM. Duke-street, Portland-place, Dec. 10. Dr. Chandler says, "the houses were decked with evergreeus in December, that the Sylvan spirits might repair to them, and remain unnipped by the frost and cold winds, until a milder season renewed the foliage."HE following List of Clericul All these learned and ingenious surmises are equally likely, and equally fantastic. Bourne, Stow, Dekker, Coates, and Herbert, are good authorities, that it has been a custom time immemorial; but they are all silent with respect to its origin and intention: at least I can collect from them little else than that it was more used in the Universities and the Southern parts of Britain than in the North;and that the misletoe was not allowed to be used in Cathedrals and Churches, because it was considered to be a prophane plant, on account of the uses to which it was applied by the Druids. Now, Sir, I am well assured that your Correspondents are both numerous enough, and sufficiently skilled in ancient lore and antiquarian research, to solve all the doubts, and answer all the questions (which will admit of solutions or answers) that can be put to them upon the subject of the manners and customs of our forefathers. Some one of them will perhaps give himself the trouble, and me the pleasure, of a satisfactory answer to this hitherto unanswered question. W. D. W. Peers, and of heirs presumptive to Peerages, who are in holy orders, you may, perhaps, deem worth preserving in your lasting columns. Yours, &c. INDAGATOR C. * Nephew of the Hon. and Right Rev. Shute Barrington, Lord Bishop of Durham. Rev. Will. Crosbie. To the Barony of Bandon. Hon. and Rev. Fr. P. Stratford. To the Earldom of Aldborough. * Hon. and very Rev. Richard Bourke, Dean of Ardagh. To the Earldom of Mayo. The Hon, and Rev. Hamilton Cuffe. To the Barony of Desart. P. S. I should be glad, in my turn, to learn from some Correspondent who may be considered the heir presumptive to the Marquisate of Sligo, none being given in Debrett, or the other Peerages of the day? Upon the Coronation of his preWasdole, (who was then a medical sent Majesty, the late Doctor John practitioner at Carlisle, but latterly resided inSpring-Gardens), travelled on horseback from Carlisle to London, being a distance of 306 miles, in 28 hours; and immediately after the conclusion lisle, also on horseback, and arrived of the ceremony, he set off for Carat home in less than 29 hours; being a distance of 612 miles in 57 successive hours, and at the rate of about 11 miles an hour the whole way. What rendered the expedition of this arduous journey the more remarkable was, that the Doctor eucountered much difficulty in procuring posthorses, owing to the number of carriages that were passing along the road on that memorable occasion. |
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