BILL OF MORTALITY, from March 26, to April 24, 1821. Christened. Buried. Whereof have died under 2 years old Salt £1. per bushel; 44d. per pound. AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from the Returns ending April 14, 1821. INLAND COUNTIES. Wheat Rye Barly, Oats (Beans S. d.ls. d\s. d. s. d. s. d. Middlesex 56 733 025 Districts. 1 London 3 Norfolk Rutland 59 6:00 025 6 22 331 Cambridge} Lincoln Northum. Westmor. 7 Lancaster Chester 8 Flint Denbigh 51 1028 53 740 525 521 59 041 4 26 320 54 034 324 120 53 934 325 416 6 9 Cardigan Montgomery 54 100 Radnor 818 900 0 45 1000 0125 Pembroke Carmarth. 10 Gloucester Somerset 11 Devon Cornwall 12 Dorset PRICE OF FLOUR, per Sack, April 23, 48s. to 50s. AVERAGE PRICE of SUGAR, April 18, 35s. 1d. per cwt. PRICE OF HOPS, IN THE BOROUGH MARKET, April 23. Kent Bags........... 21. 10s. to 41. 4s. Kent Pockets. 21. 16s. to 4l. 15s. Sussex Ditto ............................... 21. Os. to 21. 5s. to 31. 4s. Essex Ditto.......... ....... 21. 5s. to 21. 16s. 3. 10s. Sussex Ditto 8 PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW, April 23: 21. 10s. to 41, 4s. St. James's, Hay 4/. 15s. Straw 17. 13s. Od. Clover 51. Os. Whitechapel, Hay 47. 10s. Od. Straw 17. 14s. Od. Clover54, 5s.---Smithfield, Hay 4l. 10s. Od. Straw 11. 12s. Od. Clover 51. 5s. SMITHFIELD, April 23. To sink the Offal-per stone of 8lbs. Beef......... .............35. 4d. to 4s. 8d. | Lamb......... ...............6s. Od. to 8s. Od. Mutton....................3s. 4d. to 4s. 8d. Head of Cattle at Market April 23: Beasts ..... 1,892 Calves 130. Sheep and Lambs 12,660 Pigs 240. COALS, April 23: Newcastle 30s. 6d. to 41s. 6d.—Sunderland, 31s. 6d. to 42s. 6d. TALLOW, per Stone, 8lb. Town Tallow 59s. 6d. Yellow Russia 54s. SOAP, Yellow 82s. Mottled 92s. Curd 96s.-CANDLES, 10s. Od. per Doz. Moulds 11s. 6d. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. Mr. SHEPHARD, of Doctors' Commons, informs us, that the Government has lately, with its usual liberality and attention to the public interest, purchased the remaining Books, containing the original Entries of Marriages and Births, solemnized in the Fleet Prison, and its Rules, from the year 1686 to 1754, together with those celebrated at the Mint and May Fair Chapel; and it having been determined to deposit them for safe custody and easy reference, in the Bishop of London's Registry, where the others have been for some time placed, they have been lately transmitted there, under an Order from Lord Sidmouth, the Secretary of the Home Department. As an order has been issued prohibiting Jewels in the Coronets of Peers, and as certain regulations appeared a few days ago to prevent Knighthood being surreptitiously obtained, an Advocate for adhering to strict propriety in all matters of this kind, suggests the necessity of issuing a similar order or injunction to put an end to the unwarranted assumption of bearing family mottoes in gold letters and edges on a deep blue circle, with a gold buckle, &c. in imi"tation of the Order of the Garter. The circular, or oval method, should be restricted to the Orders of Knighthood. See vol. LXXVII. ii. p. 627. A CORRESPONDENT states, "In a little volume, entitled Percy Anecdotes, p. 8, comprising Memoirs of George III. is the following paragraph: The King was a seven months' child, and from that circumstance, so weakly at the period of his birth, that serious apprehensions were entertained that it would be impossible to rear him. It was, in consequence, thought advisable to waive the strict etiquette hitherto maintained, of having for the royal infant a nobly descended nurse, in favour of one in the middle ranks of life, the fine healthy freshcoloured wife of the head-gardener of one of the palaces. The Querist knows the etîquette of a Lady Governess, as was Lady Charlotte Finch (Ordinances of Royal Households, p. 127. Lel. Collects a po 188), but he has never heard of dry and wet-nurses being (according to etiquette) strictly required to be of noble descent. The query is then, whether the paragraph is founded upon actual precedent?" Mr. V. YONGE remarks, "that in looking over some family records, he discovered a Grant of Free Warren, by Edward the Second, to Reginald (Yonge) de Chavernes, alias Charnes, in the County of Stafford. Likewise a Grant from Henry the Eighth, to fish in Copmere, as far as a man can throw a twopenny batches. Should any of qur ingenions and Antiquarian Correspondents possess information respecting that family, or point out the source of obtaining it, they would oblige our Correspondent. A YORKSHIRE FEMALE CORRESPONDENT would be obliged if any Antiquary could his named Col. Careless. inform her what is the reason of the Cornish Fishermen's Wives A mark of royal Husbands are gone to was Careless be E. I. C. says, "permit me to correct an error in the Compendium of the History of Shropshire (p. 211). My ancestor, Col. William Carlos, who was a partner in his Sovereign's misfortunes after the battle of Worcester, is The truth is, name was altered, and a after their coat of arms conferred as Sea, calling out, favour, but his name never w Eve to the lea, the boats are gone to fores that event. The book entitled Bos- Sea?" It appears a relic of some antient cobel,' contains some account of the Co- custom, the origin of which is now lost. lonel. Any information of the life of this A custom also prevails in the Western parts Gentleman, or particulars of his family, of Cornwall, of making large bonfires in which formerly resided at Broom-hall, co. some principal part of the Town, parading Stafford, would be esteemed a favour." the streets with lighted torches, and with garlands of flowers on the head, and thrown as a scarf over the shoulders, on the Eve of Midsummer and St. Peter's day. It was some years back the custom to swing children over the bonfire when it was nearly out, in order, as the old people said, to make them grow, also to make them fortunate throughout the following year* A CORRESPONDENT, actuated by a compassionate regard for the sufferings of the brute species, and lamenting in common with every feeling mind, the wanton cruelties which are so frequently practised with impunity, earnestly suggests the formation of a Society, by whose united exertions, some check may be applied, if practicable, to an evil which is equally repugnant to the A CONSTANT READER would be greatly dictates of humanity, and to the benevolent favoured by obtaining a borrect descent of spirit and precepts of the Christian religion. Persons whose sentiments accord with those of the writer on this subject, and who are willing to aid the cause he recommends, are requested to address a few lines to CLERUS, 25, Ivy Lane, Paternoster-row. the family of Scudamore of Wilts, before the younger branch of that family married the heiress of Ewyas, and settled at HomeLacy; and also of the elder branch, which remained in Wilts. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, તે 23 વર For MAY, 1821. es MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE. avid and to buyer Mr. URBAN, AS May 3. S your Reviewer of the admired Novel of Kenilworth' has contented himself, like most others, with laudatory remarks upon it, I trust that a few observations, relative to its errors, as well as to the real bistory of its persons, may be interest ing and serviceable to your readers. Posterity will perhaps wonder, in recurring to your pages, that research should have been employed to elucidate a Novel; but the wonder will cease when they consider its merit, and the fame of of its principal charac Forster, Esq. of Iplethe, in Salop; at what time he removed to Cumnor is not known, but the death of Amicia, Lady Leicester, happened in 1560, and is stated by all authori ties to have taken place in his house there. Ashmole says, that, after that event, he "being a man formerly addicted to hospitality, company, mirth, and musick, was afterwards observed to forsake all this, with much melancholy and pensiveness (some say with madness) pin'd and droop'd away." If this is true, he must have lan guished for fifteen years, as he was htrays however otherwise elaborate, and no one can find fault with the exposure of wilful misrepresentation. In the course of this letter I shall endeavour to point out mistakes in the biography, genealogy, and time of which the author treats. To commence, therefore, with that abused and calumniated gentleman, Anthony Forster, of Cumnor Hall. One of your Correspondents has endeavoured to trace his descent, for which the thanks of every reader are due; but, although the name of Anthony occurs in the pedigree of the Forsters of Harpden, that person is not the Tony' of the Novel. From that family were descended the Forsters of Aldermaston, of whom Humphrey Forster, esq. was created a baronet, May 20, 1620; he joined the Parliament in the succeeding troubles, and was active in promoting their cause in Berkshire. The author of Kenilworth' has unfairly stated, that "Tony's father was Reeve to the Abbot of Abingdon," a fiction not immediately detected, because it adds to the supposed attachment of that man to the Catholic Reliogion. The story of bis kindling the Martyrs' pile must be false. thony was fourth son to Richard Pedigree, Harl. MSS. 1081.5 An He married Anne, daughter of Reginald (or Rainold) Williams, elder brother to John, Lord Williams of Thamet; by whom he had three sons, John, Robert, and Henry his daughter Janette, mentioned in the novel, appears to be the creation of fancy, as no mention whatever is made of her. Mr. Forster was buried in Cumnor Church, near the North wall, under a monument of grey marble, with the brazen figures of a man in armour, and his wife, and three sons kneeling behind her. His epitaph, which does not mention the time of his death, is as follows: "Antonius Forster, generis generosa pro |