212 Compendium of County History-Shropshire. EMINENT NATIVES. [March, Acheley, Sir Roger, Lord Mayor of London in 1511, benefactor, Shrawardine. Adams, William, divine, Shrewsbury (died 1739). Allestree, Richard, loyal divine, Provost of Eton, Uppington, 1611. Arnway, John, divine, author in defence of Charles I. Shrewsbury, 1601. Astley, John, painter, Wem (died 1787). Barnard, Nicholas, Dean of Ardagh, scholar, Whitchurch (died 1661). BAXTER, RICHARD, nonconformist, Rowton, 1615. Baxter, William, antiquary and etymologist, Llanlergany, 1650. Benbow, John, Colonel, loyalist (shot at Shrewsbury, 1651). BENBOW, JOHN, Admiral, Shrewsbury, 1650. Bowers, Thomas, Bp. of Chichester, Shrewsbury (died 1724). Boydell, John, Lord Mayor, patron of the fine arts, Dorrington, 1719. Bray, Thomas, benevolent divine, Marton, 1656. Bromley, Sir George, lawyer, Chief Justice of Chester, Hodnet (flor. 1580). Brooke, Sir Robert, Lord Chief Justice, Claverley (died 1558). Broughton, Hugh, divine, author of "Consent of Scripture," Oldbury, 1549. Burnell, Robert, Bp. of Bath and Wells, Chancellor, Acton Burnell (died 1292). Caslon, William, letter-founder, Hales Owen, 1692. Charleton, Sir John, Chief Governor of Ireland, Apley, 1268. Charlton, Thomas, Bishop of Hereford, Chancellor of Ireland, Apley (died 1344). Churchyard, Thomas, poet, author of "Worthiness of Wales," Shrewsbury (died 1604). Clarke, William, divine and antiquary, Haughmond abbey, 1696. CLIVE, ROBERT, Lord, East Indian Conqueror, Styche, 1725. Cooper, Joseph, nonconformist divine and author, Preston, 1635. Costard, George, divine, biblical critic and mathematician, Shrewsbury, 1710. Davies, Sneyd, divine and poet, Shrewsbury, 1709. Day, George, Bp. of Chichester (died 1556), 'Day, William, Bp. of Winchester (died 1596). Dovaston, John, antiquary and naturalist, Nursery in West Felton, 1740. Edmondes, Sir Clement, commentator on Cæsar, Shrawardine, 1566. Evans, John, topographer, author of "Nine Sheet Map of North Wales," Llwynygroes (died 1795). Farmer, Hugh, presbyterian divine, author on Demoniacs, near Shrewsbury, 1714. Gataker, Thomas, divine, Gaṭaker-hall (died 1593). Gentleman, Robert, dissenter, editor of "Orton's Exposition," Whitchurch (died 1795). Gilbert, Thomas, nonconformist divine and author, Prees, 1613. Glanville, pedestrian (walked 142 miles in 30 hours). Good, Thomas, divine, author of " Firmianus et Dubitantius" (died 1678). Green, Amos, Benjamin, and James, painters and engravers, Hales Owen. Griffiths, Dr. Ralph, 1720, (founder of the Monthly Review in 1749). Hales, Mrs. actress. Harley, Sir William, warrior, at Conquest of Jerusalem, 1099, Harley. HERBERT, EDWARD, Lord Cherbury, soldier, statesman, and historian, Eyton, 1583. Higgons, Sir Thomas, diplomatist and miscellaneous writer, Westbury, 1624. Hill, Right Hon. Richard, statesman, Hodnet (died 1727). Hill, Sir Rowland, first Protestant Lord Mayor of London, Hodnet (died 1561). Holland, Thomas, divine and scholar, near the Welsh border (died 1612). Hyde, Thomas, orientalist, Billingsley, 1636. Ireland, John, illustrator of Hogarth, Cleeve, near Wem (died 1808). Jenks, Benjamin, divine, 1646. Jones, Sir Thomas, Lord Chief Justice, Shrewsbury (died 1683). Kynaston, Sir Francis, translator of Chaucer into Latin, Ockley (flor. temp. Car. I.) Kynaston, Humphrey, "Wild Humphrey," outlaw, Middle (died 1534). Langeland, Robert, author of "Pierce Plowman's Visions," Cleobury Mortimer (flor. 1369). Lawrence, Lawrence, Edward, nonconformist divine and author, Moston, 1627. Lloyd, Edward, naturalist and antiquary, Llanvarder (died 1709). Lutwyche, Sir Edward, judge, author of "Reports," Lutwyche (died 1709). Lyttleton, Edward, Baron Mounslow, Lord Keeper to Charles I. Mounslow, 1589. Mascal, Robert, Bp. of Hereford, Confessor to Henry IV. Ludlow (died 1416). Moore Franeis, author of the well known Almanack, "Vox Stellarum," Bridgnorth, 1657. Mytton, Thomas, Parliamentarian general, Halstone (died 1656). Mytton, William, antiquary, Halstone. Neve, Timothy, divine and antiquary, Wotton, in Stanton Lacy, 1694. Onslow, Richard, Speaker of the House of Commons to Elizabeth, Shrewsbury (died 1571). Orton, Job, nonconformist, friend and biographer of Doddridge, Shrewsbury, 1717. PARR, THOMAS, died 1635, at the age of 152 years 9 months, Winnington, 1483. PERCY, THOMAS, Bishop of Dromore, poetical antiquary, Bridgnorth, 1729. Price, Sampson, divine, Chaplain to James 1. and Charles I. Shrewsbury. Pridden, Sarah, beautiful, but licentious, Shrewsbury, 1690. Rowley, William, gave name to some of the Caribbee islands, Rowley (died 1731). Sadler, John, law-writer, author of "Rights of the Kingdom," 1615. Scofield, Edward, Deputy Clerk of St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, only 3 feet 2 inches high. SHENSTONE, WILLIAM, poet, Leasowes, 1714. Shrewsbury, Ralph of, Bp. of Bath and Wells, Shrewsbury (died 1363). Shrewsbury, Robert of, biographer of St. Winifrid, Shrewsbury (flor. 1140). Shrewsbury, Robert of, Bp. of Bangor, Shrewsbury (died 1215). Stanley, Venetia Anastasia, beautiful wife of Sir Kenelm Digby, Tonge (died 1633). Stedman, Rowland, nonconformist divine and author (died 1673). Stephens, Jeremiah, antiquary, friend of Spelman, Bishop's Castle, 1590. Stretch, Samuel, eccentric miser, Market Drayton, 1732. STUART, the ancestor of this royal family, viz. Walter Fitz Alan, founder of Paisley monastery (whose descendants took the name of Stewart from their office of High Stewards of Scotland) was born at Oswestry, and flourished in the reigns of Stephen and Henry II. TALBOT, JOHN, first Earl of Shrewsbury, of his family, Blackmere (slain at Chattillion in 1453). TALBOT, JOHN, Viscount Lisle, heroic son of heroic father, Blackmere (slain at Chatillion, 1453). Talbot, Richard, Abp. of Dublin, Blackmere (died 1449). Talbot, Robert, antiquary, friend of Leland, Shrewsbury (died 1558). Tarlton, Richard, actor and jester, Condover (died 1589). Taylor, John, "Demosthenes Taylor," classical critic, Shrewsbury, 1704. Taylor, Silas, alias Domville, author of "Antiquities of Harwich," Harley. Thomas, John, Bp. of Salisbury, Shrewsbury (died 1766). Thynne, Sir John, warrior, founder of Longleat-house, Wilts, Stretton (died 1580). Thynne, William, statesman, Receiver of the Marches, Stretton (died 1546). Vitalis Ordericus, historian, Atcham 1074. Wakeley, William, buried at Adbaston, aged 123, Shiffnall, 1591. Walter, Sir John, Lord Chief Baron, Ludlow (died 1630). Waring, Edward, algebraist, Mitton, 1734. Wenlock, Walter de, Abbot of Westminster, treasurer to Edward I. Wenlock, 1307. Whelock, Abraham, divine, Persic scholar, Whitchurch (died 1654). Whichcot, Benjamin, divine, Whichcot-hall, 1609. Wild, Jonathan, infamous receiver of stolen goods, Boninghale, 1682. Withering, William, physician and botanist, Wellington, 1741. 214 Improvements in Worcester & Gloucester Cathedrals. [March, of the whole is good, though by some the cornice is thought rather too Mr. URBAN, Feb. 20. N a late inspection of the Cathe Odrals of Gloucester and Worces ter, I have had great pleasure in noticing the admirable improvement which has been effected in the interior appearance of each, from the erection of a new front to the organ gallery, facing the nave, and forming an appropriate entrance to the choir of each Church. The screens that have been thus judiciously removed, were disgraceful to these fine Cathedrals, being clumsy unsuitable structures, erected in the bad taste of the age immediately following the Reforma tion, in lieu of that beautiful taber nacle-work, destroyed by the blind and indiscriminate zeal of those employed to remove objects of superstition from our Churches. That at Worcester was a pannelled wall with heavy mouldings, and an ill-shaped unadorned arch in the centre, and supported a common wainscot wooden gallery, totally destitute of all pretensions to beauty and fitness. That at Gloucester was of a somewhat later period, and not without some degree of ornament, being divided into three arched compartments, supported by double columns with capitals in something of a Roman design; but it was totally unfit for such a station, and incompatible with the style of any part of the edifice. The screens now substituted are not in deed constructed in that highly-elaborate and complicated style, specimens of which, of the most exquisite and beautiful workmanship, we still see at York, Lincoln, Canterbury, &c. It would have been very difficult, if not impossible, to have found workmen to execute such in these days, not to mention the very great expense which must have been incurred in the attempt. They display, however, a very correct taste, and are of very handsome Gothic designs, suitable to the noble buildings of which they form conspicuous parts. But, though each appropriate, they are not at all similar. At Gloucester, a series of compartments of tracery work rest on a suitable base, and support a beautiful cornice of openwork trefoils, with a very handsome and well-executed groined archway leading to the choir, and equal in length to the span of one arch of the nave. Its interior is ornamented in a suitable manner. The general effect large for the rest. Upon the whole, I confess I prefer the design and proportions of the new screen at Worcester. This is designed from three compartments of the arcades on each side the choir, consisting of three corresponding arches resting on four clustered columos, with foliage capitals, each lateral arch divided into two by a single slender column. The centre one forms the entrance, and has beneath it an ornamental doorway with' bronzed gates, under a depressed arch suitably decorated, and supported on its own columns. The face of the work above is adorned with tracery, and divided by handsome pinnacles ; and the whole is crowned by a quatrefoil cornice resting on a very beau tiful frieze. This frieze is formed from antient carved work taken from beneath the seats in the choir, where it had been concealed and forgotten for ages. The perspective view of the interior of this Church, as it appears from beneath the great West window, is now one of the most beautiful architectural scenes I know. It shows to great advantage the elegant proportions and general uniformity of the edifice. For though the various parts of the structure are in fact of different periods and styles, yet the whole in this view appears so to correspond in simple elegance of design and conformity of parts and proportions, as to produce to the eye of the spectator all the effect of the most perfect harmony. The beauty of this view is greatly increased in grandeur, both by the new screen itself, and by the splendour of the great Eastern window of coloured glass, as seen above and on each side the organ, and through the centre arch opening into the choir. This screen was erected in 1818, under the immediate inspection of a member of the Chapter, and from a design prepared by himself. The same gentleman was the author of the present altar screen and other improvements in thisChurch, noticed in a former volume of your valuable Miscellany *. The screen at Gloucester was also planned by a member of the Chapter there, of similar good taste, and erected not only under his inspection, but partly * See vol. LXXXII. i. 524. at at his own expense. These works may fairly be deemed equal to any specimens we have yet seen of modern Gothic Architecture. And I am convinced you will have pleasure in pointing them out to the notice of the Public. SCRUTATOR.. Mr. URBAN, East Retford, Feb. 28. THE HE Letter of your Correspondent "C." dated the 14th of July (last) giving explanations relative to the Clare Family, in answer to the objections and doubts of another Correspondent, has excited my attention, -some of the former possessions of that antient and illustrious Family (now the property of the Duke of Newcastle) being near to my residence. I therefore turned back to "C.'s" first Epistle of Sept. 1819, and to the answer of "D. A. Y." dated in January 1820; and I then referred to an authority not adverted to by either of those Correspondents, i. e. "Yorke's Union of Honor," 1641, which is believed to be both a scarce and a valuable book, although compiled by a blacksmith, who, however, very modestly owns that he uses the aid and reputation of others, viz. of Stowe, Speed, Milles, Brooke, and Vincent. Ri This account does not support "C." in his appellation of Earl of Tunbridge; but it confirms the Pedigree in making the second son (Gilbert) bear the name of Strongbow. chard Fitz Gilbert, the second Earl of Clare, and Lord of Tunbridge, is stated in the "Union of Honour," to have married Adeliza, sister of Randolph (not Ralph) de Meschines, and Roger. Under the article ChesEarl of Chester. The issue, Gilbert ter, Yorke gives the name of Randolph (surnamed Meschines) as the father of Adeliza, the wife of Richard Fitz Gilbert, Lord of Tunbridge; and calls her brother Randolph de Gernoniis (and not de Meschines), fourth Earl of Chester. This mistake is of but little importance. Of Gilbert, the succeeding Earl, Yorke says, he styled himself Earl of Clare and Hartford, died without issucceed him. Of this Roger, Yorke sue, and left his brother, Roger to observes that he was surnamed the Good, and succeeded his elder brother Gilbert in the honours of the Earldom of Clare and Hartford, and married Maud, the daughter of James St. Hilary, by whom he had issue Richard his eldest son, and others. Richard, the succeeding Earl of Clare and Hartford, married (according to Yorke), Amicia, the second ("C." says the third) daughter and one of the heirs of William Earl of Gloucester, and had issue Gilbert, Earl of Clare, Hartford, and Gloucester (also Joan, wife to Rice Grig, Prince of South Wales). Examining the pedigree as originally given by "C." (vol. LXXXIX. p. 411), and beginning with Gilbert de Clare, son of Richard Fitz Gilbert, Seigneur de Clare en Caux, &c. and ending with Gilbert de Clare, fifth and last Earl of Gloucester of that name (slain in 1314); I find it in general accurate, and supported by the authority of Yorke, who adds other facts and circumstances (omit-right of his mother, also second Earl ted by "C.") which in a controverted of Gloucester), he is twice noticed by statement it may be useful to publish; Yorke; once under the title of Glouand I trust I shall be excused by you, cester (where, by the bye, the coat of Mr. Urban, and by "C." and "D.A.Y." and other your Correspondents, if I enter upon the subject con amore. many The first-named Gilbert de Clare, called Earl of Tunbridge, &c. in 'C.'s" pedigree (the name of whose wife is omitted) is thus described by 66 Yorke : With respect to this Gilbert, sixth Earl of Clare and Hartford (and in arms is the same as under all the titles of Clare [viz. Or, three chevrons Gules] asgiven by "C.” in vol. XC. ii. p. 104, first example); and secondly, under the title Clare, &c. where it is re marked that he married Isabel, sister (not daughter, as stated in the Pedigree) of Anselme Marshall, Earl of Penbrooke, and died in 1230. There seems no reason to doubt the accuracy of Mr. Yorke in this assertion; since, under the article Penbrooke, he describes" Anselme Marshall Deane of Salisbury, and fifth sonne of William Marshall, as succeeding his four bro thers 216 Clare Family-On the Public Funded Debt. thers in the title, marrying Maud, daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, Earle of Hereford, enjoying his title but eighteen daies, and dying without issue, leaving his rich patrimony and inheritance to be divided amongst his five sisters and heirs therein before mentioned." Richard (de Clare), who next succeeded as Earl of Clare, Hartford, and Gloucester, had two wives, though the last only is in the Pedigree, i. e. Margaret (daughter to Hugo de Burgo, Earl of Kent), and Maud (called by "C." Matilda), daughter of John Lacy, Earl of Lincoln. By the last he had Gilbert (who succeeded) Thomas, the second son, Steward of the Forest in Essex (whom "C." calls Sir Thomas de Clare, Seneschall of the King's Forests, &c.), Bevis (Treasurer of York Minster), and four daughters. Gilbert (surnamed the Red), succeeded Richard as Earl of Clare, Hartford, and Gloucester. He had two wives also (although "C.'s" Pedigree mentions only the last), viz. Alice, daughter of Hugh le Brun, Earl of Angolesme (by whom he had one daughter Isabel), and Joan (surnamed of Acres), daughter of King Edward the First, by whom he had issue one son (Gilbert), and three daughters, Eleanor, Elizabeth, and Margaret. Gilbert de Clare, the only son of the last-mentioned Gilbert, is stated by Yorke to have died young, and left the inheritance to his sisters; and that after his death, the title of Clare fell to the Crown: but "C.'s" Pedigree says that he was slain at Bannockburn in 1314, and had a son who died in his infancy; which latter circumstance is confirmed by Yorke himself, under the title of Gloucester and Hartford, where he states that Gilbert de Clare (son and heir of Gilbert surnamed the Red, and Joan of Acres) was the last Earl of Gloucester and Hartford of that surname. Thus you see that "C.'s" Pedigree of Clare is supported in all its material facts by Yorke's "Union of Honor;" and that the fact of Gilbert de Clare being surnamed Strongbow (doubted by "D. A.Y.") is also confirmed by it. For I find under the article Penbrooke, that Gilbert de Clare (surnamed Strongbow), youngest son of Gilbert de Clare, Lord of the Honours of [March, Clare in Suffolk, and grandchild of Mr. URBAN, OBSERVATOR. Summerland-place, Exeter, Feb. 15. Yful Knowledge is the most eliYOUR valuable Repository of usegible for recording facts which may prove useful to posterity. It is of the utmost importance where a sense of self-interest is apt to mislead human kind, constituted as they are, that definite and just views should be taken of the relative bearings of the Funded and Landed property of the Country, in reference to the Public Debt. This is the more requisite at a period when very erroneous doctrines are laid down by characters, from whom fairer and juster estimates of the subject might be expected. It is, fortunately, a branch of political economy that involves little intricacy of consideration, as a little representation may be sufficient to evince. In more early ages, the possessors of landed property held nearly all the wealth of the kingdom; and were called on by the King to defend it against all enemies, or to carry on war where the public interest required it. In process of time, as civilization advanced, and the principles of commerce began to be understood, wealth became divided; and a moneyed interest arose from a rapid progress of trade and manufactures. Hence the formation of bodies-corporate in cities, and their representation in Parliament, in the shape of privi leged boroughs, so variously modified since their original formation. This increase and division of riches, diminished the former power and paramount influence of landed proprietors, and rendered it indispensably neces sary to have recourse to those who possessed the sinews of war-money, where the Landholder was no longer able |