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Description of Rendlesham Church, Suffolk.

erected at the same time, very neat, with pilasters and capitals in the Corinthian order, and painted to imitate Sienna marble. On the tables are inscribed the Decalogue, the Apostles' Creed, and the Lord's Prayer, with the following sentences of scripture: "Take, eat, this is my body; Drink ye all of it." Matth. xxvi. 26, 27. "The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ.?" "The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?" 1 Cor. X. 16. "Surely the Lord is in this place," "This is none other but the House of God." Gen. xxviii. 16, 17.

Towards the upper end of the Chancel, on the North wall, stands an old mural monument, with this inscription:

"Here lyeth Simon Mawe, and Margery his wife, by whom he had five sons and six daughters. He was born at Epworth in Lincolnshire, brought up in Suffolk, bore the office of Steward of the Liberty of St. Ethelred 33 years; lived in credit to the age of 79 years, and died in peace the fifth of November, Anno Domini 1610.

"Hospes eram mundo per mundum semper eundo,

Sic suprema Dies fit mihi summa quies."

A little Westward from the last, on the same side, within a niche highly ornamented, lies the figure of a man, with his hands clasped, as in the attitude of prayer. He has a small close cap on his head, attired in a long gown, which formerly was gilt and painted in gorgeous colouring. Two angels support the pillow on which bis head reclines, and a lion couchant is placed at his feet. There is neither date, inscription, nor arms, which can throw any light upon the rank or identity of the person thus represented. I am, however, inclined to think, from the cap on the head, and the long gown, that he was a monk, one of the former Rectors of the Church.

On the South wall, and to the East of the Chancel door, is a niche, either for a vessel of holy water, or for the image of the Virgin, or St. Gregory,

the tutelar saint of the Church.

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the left of the pulpit stairs is a pointed arch, which is the entrance to a narrow stair-case, which the priest ascended to the rood-loft, to elevate the host.

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There are six black marble gravestones in the Chancel, on which are the following inscriptions:

"Ut

omnis lachrymatur marmor, loquuntur et lapides nunc temporis."

"Brianus Smith, et Anna soror ejus non ortu, at interitu Gemelli, Gnati Briani Smith, de Cavendish; et Annæ uxoris ejus, hic jacent uno eodemque die et tumulo sepulti, Mart. 13, Anno D'ni 1648."

"Dominus dedit, et Dominus abstulit: benedictum sit nomen Domini."

On another stone of black marble is inscribed:

"Here lyeth the body of William Redgrave, lately rector of this town, who died Anno Domini 1652, aged 62, The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to beart; merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come."

" M. S.

"Dominæ Elizabethæ D'Oyley, charissimæ Rectoris hujus Ecclesiæ conjugi, quæ obiit 29 die Octobris, Anno 1733, ætatis suæ 44."

"Here lieth the body of Henry Spencer, of London, merchant, who survived his elder brother John, which were all the issue of Edward Spencer, late of this parish, Esq. and of Judith Scrivener his only wife, born Anno Domini 1640, and died the 26th day of Sept. Anno Domini 1731. He acquired a competent estate by the blessing of God upon his honest endeavours, which he distributed in his life-time, and at his death to his relations and friends."

"Here lieth the bodies of John Spencer, of this parish, Esq. who died Anno D'ni 1709, aged 70 years. And also Edward Spencer, Esq. his only issue, who died the 25th day of March, Anno D'ni 1727, aged 48 years."

"This stone is put down by her Grace the Duchess of Hamilton, in remembrance of Dame Anne Barker, the most affectionate of mothers, and best of friends, who departed this life the 26th of Nov. 1764, aged 64. And beneath the same stone are deposited the remains of Elizabeth, relict of Sir James Dashwood, of Oxford, and daughter of the above bart. of Kirklington Park, in the county 1798, aged 80." Dame Anne Barker, who died April 19th,

To be continued (with a view of Rendlesham Church) in our next.

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COMPENDIUM OF COUNTY HISTORY.

RUTLAND.

"Love not thyself the less, although the least thou art;
What thou in greatness wants, wise Nature doth impart
In goodness of thy soil; and more delicious mould,
Surveying all this isle, the Sun did ne'er behold.
Bring forth that British vale, and be it ne'er so rare
But Catmose with that vale for richness shall compare ;
What forest Nymph is found, how brave soe'er she be,
But Lyfield shows herself as brave a nymph as she?
What river ever rose from bank or swelling hill
Than Rutland's wandering Wash, a delicater rill?
Small Shire that can'st produce to thy proportion good,
One vale of special name, one forest, and one flood."
Drayton's Polyolbion, Song 24.

SITUATION AND EXTENT.

Boundaries, North-East and East, Lincoln; North-West and West, Leicester, South, Northampton.

Greatest length, 18; greatest breadth, 15; circumference, 58; square, 200 miles.

Province, Canterbury. Diocese, Peterborough, excepting the parishes of Empingham, Ketton cum Tixover, and Lyddington cum Caldecote, in Lincoln. Circuit, Midland.

ANTIENT STATE AND REMAINS.

British Inhabitants, Coritani.

Roman Province, Flavia Cæsariensis. Station, Bridge Chesterton, but Antiquaries disagree as to its antient name.

Suxon Heptarchy, Mercia.

Antiquities. Oakham Castle and Hall; Church and Hospital.-Churches of Empingham, Essenden (its South door-way the most antient specimen of architecture in this county), Exton (the handsomest church in Rutland), Ketton (spire 180 feet high), Stretton, Tickencote, and Tynwall. Monu ments in Ashwell and (of the Digbys) in Drystoke Churches. Lyddington Hospital, originally a palace of the Bishops of Lincoln. Preston manor

The first time a Peer of the realm comes within the precinct of the manor of Oakham, he forfeits a shoe from bis horse, to be nailed on the castle-gate; and should he refuse it, or a compensation in money, the bailiff is empowered to take it by force. This custom originated at the first erection of the castle in the reign of Henry II. as a token of the territorial power of its Lord, Walcheline de Ferrers, whose ancestor, who came over with the Conqueror, bore, Argent, six horse-shoes pierced Sable; designative of his office of Master of the Horse to the Dukes of Normandy.

At Ryall was buried St. Tibba, a virgin anchorite at Godmanchester, who was the patroness of Falconers; and the present hunter's cry of "Tantivy" is probably a corruption of an old ejaculation for the assistance of "Sancta Tibba."-Ryall was the residence of Waltheof, the powerful Earl of Northumberland and Huntingdon, the first person recorded as suffering decapitation in this kingdom, being beheaded at Winchester in 1075.

Tickencote Church, being in a state of complete decay, was rebuilt in 1792, by Mrs. Eliza Wingfield (buried in it 1794), but many interesting remains of antiquity were scrupulously preserved, and the modern erection is a complete representation of the antient building.

PRESENT STATE AND APPEARANCE.

Rivers. Chater, Cotsmore, Guash or Wash, Little Eye, Welland.

Inland Navigation. Oakham Canal.

Lake. Oakham Canal Reservoir, near Langham.

Eminences

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Eminences and Views. Manton, the highest ground in the county; Preston and Bee Hills; Beaumont Chase; Burley House; Rakesborough Hill; Teigh Village; Wissendine Hills; Witchley Common.

Natural Curiosities. Catmose Vale: Lyfield Forest, including Beaumont Chase: red ochry land about Glaiston, whence by many authors is derived the name of Rutland, quasi Red land: numerous marine exuviæ in the lime-stone: Tolthorpe medicinal water and chalybeate springs between Teigh and Market Overton (the strongest in the county); at Hambledon, Lyndon, Martin's-thorpe, Normanton, and North Luffenham.

Public Edifices. Oakham Gaol; School; Hospital; and Market Cross. Uppingham School, and Hospital.

Seats. Burley-on-the-hill, Earl of Winchelsea and Nottingham, Lord Lieu

tenant of the County.

Ayston, George Fludyer, esq.
Clipsham, John Hack, esq.
Clipsham, Rev.

Snow.

Cotesmore House, Earl of Lonsdale.

Edith Weston, late Robert Tomlin, esq.
Edith Weston, Walden Orme, esq.
Empingham, Thomas Forsyth, esq.
Exton, Sir Gerard Noel Noel, bart.
Glaiston, H. S. O'Brien, esq.
Hambleton, Capt. Gardner.
Ketton, Lord Northwick.
Lyndon, Thomas Barker, esq.
Morcott, Nathaniel Tryon, esq.

Normanton, Sir Gilbert Heathcote, bart.
Oakham Lodge, Sir G. Noel Noel, bart.
Pilton, R. G. Bateman, esq.

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Peerage. Rutland dukedom and earldom to Manners.-Of Essenden, Cecil barony to Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury.

Members to Parliament. For the county, 2.

Produce. Corn, particularly barley. Cheese, some of the rich kind called Stilton (from having been first sold at an inn at Stilton in Huntingdonshire), is made in the parish of Leafield, and in Catmore Vale. Timber. Lime-stone. Building stone.

Manufactures. None of importance. Stocking knitting; a few tammies.

POPULATION.

Hundreds 4, and Soke 1. Whole Parishes 52, and part of Parishes 1. Market towns 2. Houses 3402.

Inhabitants. Males 7931; females 8449; total, 16,380.

Families employed in agriculture, 2025; in trade, 1028; in neither, 505; total, 3558.

Baptisms. Males 247; females 222.—Marriages, 113.—Burials, males 145; females 153.

Places having not less than 1000 Inhabitants.

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1016. Near Essenden, the Danes at first repulsed by the inhabitants and the men of Stamford, under the Baron of Essenden; but the Saxons being disordered in the pursuit, the Danes were finally victorious.

1381. At Burley-on-the-hill, the warlike Henry Spencer, Bp. of Norwich, assembled the troops with which he defeated the Norfolk insurgents under John Litester, during the time of Wat Tyler's insurrection.

1470.

At Horné, April 27, Lancastrians, principally Lincolnshire men, defeated, and 13,000 slain by Edward IV. As the fugitives cast off their coats which impeded them in their flight, this engagement has been styled the Battle of Lose-coat-field. The Lancastrian commander, Sir Thomas Wells,

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and Sir Thomas de Launde were taken prisoners, and shortly afterwards bebeaded.

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EMINENT NATIVES.

Barker, Thomas, philosophical and theological writer, Lyndon, 1722.
Bayly, Thomas, Bp. of Killaloe, editor of Theophylact, about 1615.
Browne, William, benefactor to Stamford, Tolthorpe (flor. 15th century).
Digby, Sir Everard, conspirator in Gunpowder Plot, Drystoke, 1581.
Harrington, John, first Baron of Exton, benefactor, Exton (died 1613).
Hudson, Jeffrey, dwarf to Queen Henrietta Maria, Oakham, 1619.
Russel, Richard, Roman Catholic Bp. of Portalegro (died about 1695).
Tibba, St. patroness of falconers, Ryall (flor. 690).

Wing, Vincent, author of Almanack called by his name, Luffenham, 1619.

MISCELLANEOUS REMARKS.

At Burley-on-the-hill, James I. visited his favourite George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, when Ben Jonson's masque of "The Gypsies" was first performed, all the actors being noblemen. In 1606, when Charles I. was on a visit here, Jeffrey Hudson, the dwarf of Oakham, was served up to table in a cold pie. The park contains 1085 acres. The terrace is 300 yards long, and 12 broad. The front of the house, exclusive of the colonnade connecting it with the offices, is 196 feet long. The painted saloon which extends the whole breadth of the house, is 66 feet long, 36 wide, and 55 high. The house contains many valuable portraits and other paintings*.

In Exton Church are many very sumptuous monuments, of which the most remarkable are those of Robert Keylway, lawyer, 1580; Sir James Harrington, progenitor of very many noble families, 1591; Anne Lady Bruce (in a shroud and coffin), 1627; Baptist Noel, Viscount Campden (by Grinling Gibbons, cost 1000l.), 1683; Lieut.-gen. Noel (by Nollekens), 1766; and Baptist Noel, fourth Earl of Gainsborough, and his lady (by Nollekens), she died 1771. A great part of Exton Hall, which contained a fine collection of paintings, was burnt down, May 24, 1810. The deer park contains 1510 acres.

At Lyndon was buried WILLIAM WHISTON, divine and mathematician, 1752.

North Luffenham was the rectory, residence, and burial-place of Robert Johnson, Archdeacon of Leicester, the founder of Oakham and Uppingham Free Schools and Hospitals. He died in 1616.

Uppingham was the rectory of the excellent JEREMY TAYLOR, afterwards Bp. of Downe and Connor. He was married here to Mrs. Phoebe Laudisdale, May 27, 1639. BYRO.

Mr. URBAN, Wantage, Dec. 21. N Mr. Lysons's Account of the I Town of Wantage, in the county of Berks, forming part of his work entitled" Magna Britannia," there is this notice:

"Round the old Market Cross is the following Inscription; Pray for the good Earl of Bath, and good Master William Barnabe, the builder hereof, 1580, and for William Lord Fitzwarren.""

From this account, the Reader, unacquainted with the local circumstances of the place, would suppose that the Cross at present remained. No vestige, however, of this Cross continued in its original situation, in the market-place of the town, at the period of Mr. Lysons's publication, but the inscription appears to have been copied by him from the MSS.

(preserved in the British Museum) of Captain Symonds, who visited this

The writer of this article has lately recovered several fragments of this Cross, through the kindness of a gentleman residing in a neighbouring village, whose immediate ancestor preserved them on their removal from their antient situation.

The principal of these fragments appears to have been the upper portion of the shaft, and contains, within Gothic niches rudely-sculptured, representations of eight of the Apostles; the four Evangelists having probably occupied some other part of the Cross. No part of the Inscription remains ou any of the mutilated fragments.

Yours, &c.

* See View and Account of Burley Hall, in vol. XC. ii. 393.-Edit.

H. W. B.

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Anacronisms of the "Author of Waverley."

Mr. URBAN,
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p. 320, in vol. XC. has exposed some anachronisms in the "Monastery)," "that one who can write so well should write so carelessly;" I beg to demonstrate, that the "Monastery" is not the only one of those fascinating productions from the pen of the "Author of Waverley," which is liable to animadversion.

For instance, in "Old Mortality" the guards under the Duke of Monmouth, at the Battle of Bothwell Brig, are described as charging with the bayonets; whereas that formidable weapon was not introduced into this country till the reign of William IIL.

In "Ivanhoe," he expressly emblazons the seal of Philip II. as "three fleurs de lis;" the Arms of France at that period were semée of fleurs de lis, and continued so to be borne till the reign of King Charles V. when the substitution of the present bearing took place; which after ation was adopted by our Henry IV. in lieu of the quartering of antient France, borne from the period of Edward the Third's assumption thereof. In the comparison of the crown or coronet worn by Rowena at the tournament, 'to one of "leaves.

and pearls alternately," be designates

the latter a ducal coronet. knight who arrests Albert de Malvoisin, announces himself as "Henry Bohun, Earl of Essex, Lord High Constable of England." Now, the family of Bohun had not the title of Essex till the 12th of Henry III.; nor had Henry de Bohun ever that of Hereford, and consequently not the office of Constable, till 1199, the last year of Richard Coeur-de-Lion; and as the scene is laid at the period of Richard's return from captivity, which was in 1194, De Bohun was not then in possession of the high office assigned him by the author.

As" A. B." asserts, that the assignment of the works in question to Sir Walter Scott, "is strengthened by the liberal employment of that feeble expression, he undid,' which so frequently disgraces the most beautiful passages, &c."-it may probably be deemed further strengthened by the knowledge, that, as the authors are equally fond of displaying "the pomp of Heraldry" in their works, so are

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certainly false heraldry, yet I believe the recurrence of colour on colour, though rare, is sometimes to be met with in old bearings: it might, however, have been avoided, as the Arms of the hero of the "Tale of Flodden Field," are not those borne by the Lords Marmion*. In the 12th note to Canto 4, he says, "If you will believe Boethius and Buchanan, the double tressure, counter-fleur-delised Or, (!) langued and armed (!!) Azure, was first assumed by Achaius, &c." (Probably it was the terrific emblazonry of this bearing that occasioned the Master of the Mint to clip what he imagined were claws, and which drew on him the angry remonstrance of one of your Correspondents).-When to the foregoing is added the decoration of James IV. with the collar of" the Thistle brave of old renown," an order which was only instituted (I beg pardon of our Northern neighbours), or revived by James V., I think the charge of carelessness is not unfounded.

Yours, &c.

W. S.

PROGRESS OF LITERATURE IN DIFFERENT AGES OF SOCIETY.

and contemplative leisure, casts his eye over the wide range of modern Literature, will often find topicks interesting and important in their consideration to the curious enquirer, which yet, to the generality of readers, have never formed a subject of specific notice. Assuming the period of modern Literature to have commenced at the epoch of the Reformation, when men's minds, in most countries of Europe, received a new and a powerful impulse, and their intellectual sight enlarged to higher views of classical Learning, Religion, and Philosophy -he will find that the tastes, genius, dispositions, and capacities of scholars, men of science, and of literary investigation, have exhibited themselves in various departments or spheres of lucubration, and been characterized by features eminently differing from each other in successive ages, as certain circum

HOEVER, with attentive mind

* The Arms of the Lords Marmion were, Sable, an arming sword, the point in chief Argent.

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