METEOROLOGICAL DIARY, BY W. CARY, STRAND, Fahrenheit's Therm. Fahrenheit's Therm. J. J. ARNULL, English and Foreign Stock and Share Broker, J. B. NICHOLS AND SON, PRINTERS, 25, PARLIAMENT-STREET, MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-The New Cratylus and the Museum Criticum- PAGE 458 459 CY COLLARS OF THE ROYAL LIVERY, No. IV.-The Livery of the Duke of 472 Lancaster.-Painted Window in Old St. Paul's (with an Engraving).– Collar of the Earl of Derby.-Theories of the origin of the Collar of Esses.. 477 THE TRUE HISTORY OF KING ARTHUR, Section II.-The Locality of Arthur's Kingdom Reading Desks of great Churches-The Eagle, and the Pelican St. Peter's Church, Maidstone, (with a view).. ...... The Psalter attributed to Julio Clovio at Strawberry Hill 485 488 489 491 493 Royal Arms in Churches.-Arms of Henry VII. at Madron, Cornwall (with a cut) 496 REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Courtenay's Commentaries on the Historical Plays of Shakespeare, 497; Ser***mons, by the Rev. Theyre T. Smith, 500; Crabbe's Natural Theology, 504; Euripidis Iphigenia in Aulide, 507; Beesley's History of Banbury, 511; Halliwell's MS. Rarities of the University of Cambridge, 517; Mrs. Bray's Henry de Pomeroy, 519; Miscellaneous Reviews 521-525 FINE ARTS.-Royal Commission-School of Design, &c. &c... 526 530 531 ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES.-Society of Antiquaries, 532; Numismatic Society, 533; Roman Inscriptions at Habitancum, 535; Wolvesey Palace, Winchester.. .......... 536 HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.-Parliamentary Proceedings, 537; Foreign News 538 Promotions and Preferments, 539.-Births, 540-Marriages.. OBITUARY-with Memoirs of The Duke of Norfolk, K.G.; The Duke of Cleveland, K.G.; The Marquess of Hertford, K.G.; The Earl of Maccles1234 field; The Earl of Munster; Lord Teynham; Sir R. Gore, Bart.; MajorGen. Sir G. Leith, Bart.; Sir F. F. Vane, Bart.; Sir W. H. Martin, Bart.; Sir G. Shiffner, Bart.; Sir J. D. Astley, Bart.; Sir W. H. M'Naghten, Bart.; Admiral Sir John Wells; Richard Hart Davis, Esq.; B. O. Mitford, Esq.; Lieut.-Col. Harvey; D. E. Morris, Esq.; Henry Woodthorpe, Esq.; Mr. Robert Wiles... .... CLERGY DECEASED, 557-DEATHS arranged in counties 540 542-557 561 Bill of Mortality-Markets-Prices of Shares, 567; Meteorological Diary-Stocks 568 Embellished with Views of ST. PETER'S CHURCH, MAIDSTONE; BANBURY BRIDGE; and the WEEPING CROSS, near Banbury; and with Representations of a Window of OLD ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL; the Roman Pavement at WIGGINTON, Co. Oxon; and Royal Arms in MADRON CHURCH, Cornwall. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. MR. URBAN,-In p. 393 of your last Magazine (in the Review of an Edition of the Iphigenia in Aulide, erroneously attributed to Bishop Monk) I find a very gratuitous attack on the author of "the New Cratylus," and, as it is based entirely on an interpolated quotation, I think it just both to you and to him that I should point out the disingenuousness of your correspondent. He insinuates that, in dedicating his Pindar to Bishop Monk, Mr. Donaldson has sought to cure by compliments a wound inflicted by censure; inasmuch as on a former occasion, Mr. Donaldson had sneered at the pert mediocrity of the writers in the "Museum Criticum," to which Bishop Monk was a contributor. Now, as your correspondent very well knew, Mr. Donaldson never predicated pert mediocrity of the writers in the Museum Criticum. The following are his words, (New Cratylus, p. 30)," The influence of foreign intercourse was felt latest in its effect upon classical scholarship; the prejudice against German scholars, which Porson's quarrel with Herman had produced, and his authority with his imitators, kept us for some years after the peace in the same state as before it, and the pert mediocrity of the Museum Criticum was the only representative of our philology." It is generally agreed among scholars, so far as I have heard, that there is much of pertness and flippancy in the periodical here referred to, and that its philology is very mediocre and common place; but surely we may think and say this without calling any individual who contributed to the book, a pert and mediocre scholar. Certain proceedings in the House of Commons have led me and others frequently to speak of it in conversation, as a bear-garden, -but nothing has been further from our thoughts than to speak of Sir Robert Peel or Lord John Russell as bears. The fact is that Bishop Monk wrote very little in the Museum Criticum -a few notes on the Electra of Sophocles, and a biography or two: so that whatever may be said of the book, the Bishop is very little affected thereby. Yours, &c. Philalethes. [Will this Correspondent favour us with his reasons for attributing the Iphigenia to another Editor, and not to Bp. Monk?] In the Minor Correspondence (p. 314) there is a query about Reinekes Vulpecuis a one of the forms of "Reynard the Fox," which was one of the productions of Caxton. Our correspondent may consult Warton's History of English Poetry, and the article "Alkmar," in the Biographie Universelle.us "The twisted serpent round a staff and sometimes a retort, is the usual attribute of healing: it is on the reverse of the coin of Cos and Pergamus in honour of Esculapius, Hippocrates, and Galen, physicians, who were honoured while living and worshipped almost as divinities after their decease. From the creation of the world the serpent had great mystery attached to it, symbolical and allegorical, for many purposes. (See the Rev. J. B. Deane's Observations on Dracontia, in the Archæologia, vol. xxv. pp. 188-229.) This emblem of healing may have derived its origin from holy writ. Numbers, chap. xxi. verse 8. And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole; and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, he shall live.' There is a remarkable coincidence in the Life of Galen, the physician of Pergamus, who cured a malady in Eudemus the philosopher, with the same medicine (theriacum) that caused it.-SUDNIW." To H. H. wishes to state in answer to a Correspondent (p. 346) that his inquiries refer to the Harveys of Ickwell-Bury, and not to the Herveys of Ickworth. W. H. C. inquires, Is there any work published abroad, giving a full account of the Life of Prince Charles Edward Stuart? In our Magazine for Aug. 1839, p. 108, we noticed the apology made in Dugdale's Baronage, 1678, for the absence of cuts, so remarkable in connexion with the history of Wood Engraving in this country. We now add another piece of evidence, showing that the art was at an equally low ebb about twenty years earlier. In Fuller's Church History, 1655, opposite " Century XI." on a plate of the Arms of Mitred Abbeys, is this memorandum Know, reader, the Cutter in wood being sick, and the Press not staying his recovery, the arms of my Patrons omitted in ye body of ye booke are supplied in these quarters." Poems, written in English, by Charles Duke of Orleans, during his * CHARLES, Duke of Orleans, eldest son of Louis, Duke of Orleans, second son of Charles the Fifth King of France, was born May 26, 1391, was taken prisoner at the battle of Agincourt, in 1415, and remained in captivity, principally in the Tower of London, for 25 years, when, at the end of that time, he was ransomed by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in 1440, for 300,000 crowns. It is supposed that he was ransomed in at atonement for the murder of Charles's father, Louis, Duke of Orleans, by Philip's father, John, Duke of Burgundy, in 1407. He was twice married previous to his captivity, first to Isabel, the young and interesting widow of Richard II. King of England, in 1406; † and secondly to Bona, daughter of Bernard, Count of Armagnac. Immediately after his liberation he married Mary, daughter of Adolphus the first Duke of Cleves, by whom he had issue a son, who, on the failure of the elder branch of Charles the Fifth's descendants, by the death of Charles the Eighth, without surviving issue, became King of France as Louis XII. Charles died in January, 1466. He composed, in his native language, a considerable number of poems, amounting to 502 ballads, sonnets, 131 songs, and about 400 roundelays. These MSS. are preserved in the library of the King of France. Some of them have been printed in the Annales Poetiques, or Almanach des Muses depuis l'origine de la Poesie Françoise, Paris, 1776; and in a small volume called Poesie de Charles d'Orleans, Paris, 1809, and Grenoble, 1803. The same poems are supposed to have been repeated by him, in the English language, in the volume before us;§ we say supposed, because a late writer, in the Retrospective Review, considers that the English poems are not by his hand. "There can be little doubt (he says) that not a single line of them was the Charles was first imprisoned at Groombridge in Kent, afterwards in the Tower. Henry refused all ransom for Charles, because he was next heir to the throne of France after Charles the Dauphin. See Strickland's Queens of England, vol. iii. p. † Isabella died in childbirth Sept. 13, 1840, at Blois. Her infant, a little girl, married the Duke d'Alençon. 52. A fine copy of the poems of Orleans is in the Public Library at Grenoble, written from his dictation by his secretary, Antoine l'Astesan. It has been copied from the Royal Library at Paris. See Strickland's Queens, vol. iii. p. 52. The monogram of Catharine de Medicis is in the corner of this MS. See Mém. de l'Académie des Inscriptions, vol. xiii. p. 580, by Mons. L'Abbé Sallier, also t. xv. p. 795, and tom. xvii. Mars, 1742. § Mr. (Sir H.) Ellis discovered this volume among the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum, No. 682, and they were printed by Mr. Watson Taylor for the Roxburghe Club in 1827. || See Retrosp. Rev. New Ser. vol. i. part i. p. 147. This article was written by the late Sir Thomas Croft. * production of that distinguished individual. They are close, and almost literal translations of the French poems. However, to assign them, in their English dress, to the Duke, and to call them, as Mr. W. Taylor does, imitations," are unequalled specimens of critical acumen. We have done what we do not believe that gentleman or the person he employed, ever took the trouble to do, carefully examined a MS. of selections from earlier works in the British Museum, among which are three original rondeaus in English; but they are so decidedly inferior to the translations in the MS. printed by Mr. W. Taylor, that it is scarcely possible that the Duke could be the translator of his own writings," &c. The MS. in the British Museum contains only 152 poems, of which fourteen do not occur in the printed copy: viz. ten in French, three in English, and bone in Latin, while the Harl. MS. consists of 209 pieces, of which the French originals of only 120 appear in the volume printed at Paris. It is most probable that the originals of all the English poems in that MS. exist in the MS. in the Bibl. du Roi, spoken of by the Abbé Sallier. There are other manuscripts in the British Museum which contain imperfect copies of some of Charles d'Orleans' poems, viz. the Lansdown MS. 380, and the Harleian MS. 6916, but the productions of other writers are introduced among them. b' 30' In the London Magazine of Sept. 1823, appeared some very elegant translations of the French poems of the Duke of Orleans, with an interesting account of his life. The author of this article does not appear to have known the existence of these English poems, now printed; for he gives, as a curiosity, three English poems that he found in the MS. of the Museum, which he gives, "not as being particularly good, but because any verses written in our language by a foreigner at so early a time, that is, very soon after the death of Chaucer,† may be regarded as a curiosity." We have only to add that the opinion of Sir Thomas Croft that the English poems now printed in the Roxburgh volume are not by Charles, but are translations from his French poems by another hand, is not, as far as we can learn, received by the learned in these matters. Besides his poems and the speech delivered in favour of the Duke d'Alençon, there are remaining some of his letters addressed to the "good cities" of France or to the king. They were dated from Gergeau sur Loire, July 14, 1411, and are thus described by Juvenal des Ursins, who refers to them in the History of Charles VI. "Lettres longues et assez prolixes et faites en bel et doux langage.' His effigy, which was in a chapel of the Celestins at Paris, has escaped the ravages of the revolution, and is preserved, we believe, in the vaults of St. Denis. It was the second marriage of the Duke of Orleans which ultimately led to his captivity, for his father-in-law, the Count de St. Pol, headed a faction opposed to the Duke of Burgundy, and Charles or his father-in-law sought assistance from the English; this caused the battle of Agincourt, * Royal MSS. XVI. F. 2, a splendid MS. once the property of Henry VII. of England, whose daughter Mary was married to the son of the poet himself. He alludes to Chaucer (see p. 17.) "For all the nyght myn hert aredith round |