*18+ The Families of Cockayne and Champneys. [Supp.. day of September, the year of our Lord Below, 12 boys and 4 girls.. Arms. On the dexter fide, Ar. three cocks Gu. for Cockayne. On the fiuifter, a chevron between three padlocks.. On the fecond ftone, the effigies of two women and four children; the infcription gone. On the third ftone, a man in armour, part of an infcription. Quisquis eftis, qua' ficus, sta, plege, plor. On the fourth tone, a man and woman with a crofs between them; below, five boys and five priests; infcription gone. On the fifth sione, a man between ". Orate panimâ Will'mi Cockyń, Two boys and two girls below, with On the feventh stone: 66 Here lyes the body of Elizabeth Cockayne, relict of John Cockayne, efq. of Cockayne Hatley, in the county of Bedford, who departed this life May the 12th, 1739, in the gift year of her age" On the eighth ftone: "Here lyes the body of Elizabeth Cockayne, daughter of John Cockayne, efq. and Elizabeth his wife, (of Cockayne Hatley, in the county of Bedford), who departed this life the 25th day of November, 1736, aged 62 years." On the outside of the church is a fmall flab of marble fixed in the wall, with the following infeription: "Neir this place lieth the body of Rob. Posteus, Cl, lase rector of this parith, who died April the 18th, 1753, in the 49th year of his age." The above inscription is in memory of the elder brother of the present worthy and pious Bishop of London. At the East end of the church flands the old family manfion of the Cockavnes, furrounded with a broad and deep moat, cover which is a drawbridge. The entrance to the house is through an antient porch into a large hall (that occupies the whole height of the building) with a curious timber roof, and a mufick-gallery at one end, built in the reign of William Rufus. The ends of the house are of a more : modern date. The esiate continued in the family of the Cockaynes till about Cockayne Cuit, efq. who left it to Sir the year 1740, when it came to Savile John Cuft, late Speaker of the Houte feflion of Mifs Lucy Cockavne, Cult of Commons, and is now in the pofYours, &c. MAFT. RUGELLY. Mr. URBAN, A Dec. 31. MONG the lit of Marriages in There is no doubt but the feal, en- W. Letter, with the LICHFIELD post-mark, him, his HAND-WRITING and his khack at caricaturing are known; and, if he ladies have Brothers; but shalt leave him 259. The 259. The Poetical Works of John Milton, in Six Volumes with the principal Notes of various Commentators. To which are added, Illustrations, with some Account of the Life of Milton. By the Rev. Henry-John Todd, M.A. MR. T. was invited and encouraged to undertake this variorum of Milton's works in the close of the year 1798, by the promise of affiftance from his literary friends. He began to arrange his materials, and continued his enquiries to the close of the year 1799, when this edition began to be printed, and engaged his confiant and unwearied application till publication. An account is given of Milton's various commentators, whose notes were collected and published together ▲by Dr. Newton, and of fubfequent ditions, fuch as that of the first book of Paradife Lott at Glasgow, the late Mr. Mafon's intended edition of the leffer poems, executed by Mr. Warton 1785, and a fecond edition 1791, and Mr. Dunfter's of the Paradife Regained 1795. To these are added a felection of notes from various authors, and the MS. notes of the late Mr. Bowle, and an interleaved copy of the Paradile Loft by that accomplished fcholar the late Benjamin Stillingfieet, efq. who intended an edition juft as Dr. Newton's was announced, and whose papers were prefented to the late Dr. Dampier, dean of Durham, whose son, the dean of Rochester, communicated them to Mr. T. whose "gratitude can never be fufticiently exprefled for the aids afforded him by his grace the Duke of Bridgewater, as, on a former occafion, for permiffion to print the MS. mafk of Comus, obtained through the obliging application of the Rev. Francis-Henry Egerton, fo, on the prefent, for permiffion to print the MS. mask of Marfion, performed before the Countefs-dowager of Derby, and to make use of many rare and curious books, perhaps not to be found in other collections, and for the opportunity of introducing to public notice the poems of fome forgotten and unknown Eng * Mr. Stillingfleet wrote a truly Miltonic foonet, printed by Mr.Told; who ays, "the literary world is indehted to Thomas Park, efq. for fome of the sweetest fonnets in the English Language." He should not have forgotten Mr. Bowle, whose truly Miltonic ftrains were before commended, and read with renewed pleafure. EDIT. GENT. MAG. Supplement, 1801. lifh bards, as well as other pieces of our antient literature, hitherto overlooked by the most curious inveftigators. The invaluable collection which his grace poflefies has been removed froin the family-feat at Afhridge to Bridgewater-house, Cleveland-courtt." suggestions and materials were furnished by Mr. Reed, Mr. Bindley, and others. The chief purpose of the new notes is, in humble imitation of Mr. Warton, to "explain the allufions of Milton, illuftrate or vindicate his beauties, point out the imitations both of others and himself, elucidate his obfolete diction, and, by the adduction and juxt appofition of parallels, univerfally gleaned from his poetry and prose, to afcertain his favourite words, and shew the peculiarity of his phraseology." A gloffarial index is added, the punctuation of Milton amended, and fome new anecdotes relating to the hiftory of Milton's friends, his works, and his time, are added in his life. Vol. I. contains the life, with additions; lift of editions; tranflation and alterations of the poetical works, and detached pieces of criticism on thein; prolegomena, &c.; commendatory verfes; Mr. Addifon's criticifin on the Paradife Loft; Dr. Johnfon on the 'verfification of Milton; origin of Paradife Loft. Vol. II. Milton's apology for the verfe of the first fix bosks of Paradise Loft. Vol. III. the last fix books of Paradife Loft; plans of it as a tragedy. Vol. IV. Paradife Regained, and Samfon Agonistes, with preliminary obfervations on each. Vol. V. Lycidas; L'Allegro ed Il Penferofo; Arcadia; Comus; Sonnets; preliminary obfervations on each; Martton's MS. mafk; account of Ludlow cattle, the family of Bridgewater, and Heary Lawes. Vol. VI. Odes, mifcellanies, tranflations; Flegiæ, Epigrammata, Silvæ; + The view given of those literary collections by our editor is fufficient to make us regret the neglect with which they were so long left a prey to duft and damp; whereby fo much irreparable damage was done to a teries of portraits of this illuftrious family, that they were better consigned to the flames than preferved at the demolition of the manfion in the fummer: of 1800. EDIT. Appendix, In Mr. T. does not find himself qualified to contradict Aubrey's story of Milton's whipping, though he certainly was expelled, having kept his terms; but he diferedits his interpolation of the prayer in the Eicon Bafilike. like manner he has difcriminated the fpurious writings aferibed to Milton. He has vindicated his mortal remains from the profanation offered by indecent curiofity to thofe of a younger female. The late George Steevens, in his MS. notes on the narrative of this difinterinent, and the pottfcript annex-ed to it, againft nine fubftantial reasons in the St. James's Chronicle, has intimated that " the difinterred corpfe was fuppofed to be that of a female, and that the minutefi examination of the fragments could not difprove, if it did *not confirm, the fuppofition." The inferibed ftone laid over Milton in the erected in chancel of Cripplegate church had been long fince removed, nor were his remains honoured by any other memorial there till the year 1793, when, by the munificence of the late Mr. Whitbread, an animated marble butt, the fculpture of Bacon, under which is a plain tablet recording the dates of the poet's birth and death, and of his father's deccafe, was the middle aile. A new copy of Faithorne's portrait (in crayons) of Milton at the age of 62, by an ingenious young artifi (T. Simplon), from the original in the poffeflion of William Baker, efq. from Richardfon and Tonfon, is prefixed to this life. Peck was guilty of a fbaneful impofition on the public lick in palming on them the portrait prefixed to 10 his "New Memoirs of Milton, 1740." Paradite Loft went through two editions in its author's life-time: but, fince his death, not less than 48 editions are here enumerated, including Bp. Newton's, Mr. Hayley's, and the prefent. It is included in Milton's poctical works, in 3 vols, folio, with an excellent lite by Mr. Hayley, 1794. This magnificent editioti does honour to the tatiezand abilities of those who were engaged in the production of it. It difplays every elegance of typographical excution, and is accompanied with moft beautiful engravings from the defigns of Westall. It is a monument, indeed, worthy of HIM whose works entitle him to that fupereminence among the poets of his country which he has to happily affigned to his own glorious "itle" among the "fea-girt" domains of Neptune. "The greatest and the best of all domains." COMUS, V. 28. " first Ten of these editions were printed at Glasgow and Edinburgh; and, at the latter place, tix books of Paradife Loft, oft, rendering into grammatical construction, the words of the text being arranged at the bottom of each page, in the fame natural order with the conceptions of the mind, and the elliptis properly fupplied, without any alteration in the diction of the poem. By the late James Buchanan, author of the British Grammar. The MS. was left with Dr. James Robertfon, profetlor of Hebrew, who has published it for the benefit of the author's wi dow, Edinburgh, 1773," 8vo. In our vol. XLIX. p. 191, is mentioned a Greek tranflation of Paradife Loft, by Thomas Denny, a literary pedant, pardicularly skilled in Greek, &c. &c. One of our friends recollects being accofied, in walking out of Cambridge with a ftudent there about 1753 or 1754, by a middle-fized and aged man, in his own hair and grave cloaths, in a fuppliant tone for relief, with a Greek fentence or two, purporting that "a fool might fometimes utter a wife faying," but no farther converfation patled. Milton's Paradite Loft, and the language it was written in, were highly admired by Abbate Salvini, of Florence, whofe tranflation of it into Italian has never yet feen the light. Our limits do not permit us to enter into a review of the notes fubjoined to this edition, and principally made up of those of Newton, Pearce, Richardfon, and Warton, Thole of Bentley are jotily characterized in the preface, and that in particular on the two concluding lines, reprobated by a concurrence of criticks. Perhaps we thall not indeed be fevere if we allert that a * Our Northern neighbours are very fond of teaching us how to pronounce and write our mother tongue grammatically We faw in Scotland, about this date, a curious fpecimen of Scotish pronunciation of Englith words, in a cheap form, for the ufc of fchools, which we have never been able to obtain a fecond fight of. Whether it was by Mr. B. we do not recollect. finalier fmaller body of annotations is fufficient to illuftrate fuch an author as Milton, Comparifons are endless; and, when we enter into the stores of memory of a well-read man, we shall affume too much in endeavouring to recollect more for him than he can for himself, and make a greater parade of the critick's reading than of the poet's remembrance. But it is the fate of the favourite writers of this country to be overwhelmed with commentaries which can be confulted only by fuch readers as will recur to the notes of Burman, Drakenborch, and Oudendorp, on claffic authors. Alilton, Shakspeare, Dry. den, &c. will be more perufed in pocket-volumes than in the fplendid bulk ▲of fine paper, printing, and engraving, which confers more immortality on the printer and publisher, if the paper last fo long. In the introductory note on the Arcades Mr. T. fpeaks of Harefield house as pulled down, and the porters' lodges ga each fide the gateway are converted into a cominodious houte. This cannot be collected from Mr. Lyfons's draught of it, who fays it was burnt down 1660, and the prefent houfe formed by uniting the lodges with two an intermediate building." an To Comus Mr. T. has prefixed as particular account of Ludlow caffle as he could colleet, and of the Bridgewater family. To the first he might have added a few particulars from the last edition of Camden's Britannia; and under the latter he leaves us to bewail the fate of Afbridge and its literary treafures. This old manfion was converted from a monafiery of BoxXHOMMES, an order of Augudiin monks, introdaced by Edmund Earl of Cornwall, of which there was not an infiance in the kingdom, by Lord Chancellor Ellefmere. Only the hall, 44 feet by 22, the windows full of arms, the cloífiers, and a back porch leading to the hall, remained of the old ftructure in 1767. The cloitters were arched with Tatenball fione, with the arms of the abbey in the centre; and round the tides was beautifully painted, in water-colours, the hiftory of our Saviour, in 40 compartments, of which 12 were then entirely defaced, and the reft probably foon after; the apartments on the ground-floor, and the portruts in the picture-gallery, fuffering by damp, and the cloitier furrounding refer voir. The church stood in the garden ranging with the cloitters. Several stone coffins have been dug up, and the foundations thew it was a large pile. After falling a prey to damp and neglect, for want of inhabitants, it was taken dowth in the fummer of, 1800, and the materials told to the beft bidder, and the timber applied to embank the adjoining navigable canal, and frame its locks. Previous to this, the family-pictures and other valuable portraits, many of which had fuffered like decay, were configned to the flames; and fuch of the books as were not clotted together by damp and rottennels, among which were many invaluable folios and quartos, were configned to Mr. King's auction-room, a catalogue printed, and a fale advertised, when, on fome suggestion of their rarity and vaIne, they were bought in, and restored to the noble owner. It was fortunate Mr. T. had faca accefs to them, and made fo good an ufe of them. We cannot difiniss this edition of Milton's poetical works without obferving that it would be injuftice to the prefent editor not to acknowledge that he has omitted nothing ing that der it as complete as poffible. that could ren 260. Hiflory, Origin, and Progress, of the Art of Printing, from its firfl Inventior in Ger many to the End of the Seventeenth Century; and from its Introdusion into England, by Caxton, to the present Time: in luding, among a Variety of curious and interesting Matter, its Progress in the Provincs, with chronological Lifts of eminent P. nters in England, Scotland, and Ireland. fogether with Ancedres of feveral eminer Tary lite alfo, the Characters robo bave bonorowe Art by their Attention to its Improve a particular and complete Hifte Walpoleon Prefs, established at Se 2 ber ry-hiil; with an accurate Lift of meisbo lication ifjued therefrom, and the exe's ber primet thereof. At the Concluficgiven a curious Differtation on the often of the Use of Paps; also, a complete Pory of the Art of Wood-utting and engraving an Copper, from its foft Invention in Italy to its latest Improvement in Great Be tain; concluding with the Adjudication of Literary Property; or the Lazos and Terms to which Authors, Designers, and Publishers, are ft. parately subject. With a Catalogue of remarkable Bibles and Common Prayer Books, from the Infancy of Printing to the prefent Tone. Extracted from the veft Authorities, by Henry Lemoine, Bibles, Lond. THE title of this useful little manual, of which we have too long delayed 15 feet high, itsepiftyle to have halfa diameter for its height; and, as he gives to the Ionic column, of which he is in. that place treating, eight diameters and an half, the epistyle then is one seventeenth of the height of column; and as a good medium amongst the various heights for the whole entablature, in the works of the antique, is two diameters, it follows this little column gives one quarter of its own height, and feven and a half minutes over for the height of its entablature; but in an Ionic column of 60 feet high, according to our master's rule, the epiliyle is to have in height one ninth of the whole column, and this will give four ninths for the height of its entablature, which is almoft half the column, and common sense seems to forbid fuch an angle even enormous height; yet, fays our mafter, the eve looking up (he means in a very near station) will fee a proportion apparently like the entablature of the little column, by reason of the great height above the eye. And this is true, for it it will be found at a station distant from the two columns 20 feet, and 5 feet above the ground, the eye will receive an angle from the height of the little entablature of about 8 degrees; and looking up at this station to the large entablature, it will receive an something lefs, and of course the apparent height something lefs, as the angle is but about 6 degrees; but the eve being moved to a flation of 80 feet distance, it will then receive an angle of about 11 degrees, and of course the apparent height is almost double to that which appeared before; and removed to a still more diftant station, it will perceive it to be what it really is, enormously out of proportion. From this one experiment, which may ftand for a thousand, it is evident to demonstration that fuch changes of proportions, to defeat the natural effects of the optics, is useless in regard to the end propofed, fince no Aructure, according to this document, can ever appear to beduly proportioned except in one fingle point of view, and in every other will its members appear deformed and difgufting to all who have any knowledge of the laws of fymmetry. Instead, then, of adopting these rules for the changes of proportions, we may fafely conclude, against our mafier, that the eve, duly difpofed, will not deceive us in the judgment it forms; except in fuch cafes wherein ice he it has had no experience, and fuch are very few indeed; for common obfervation teaches us, from our infancy, to make a due allowance for thote parts of objects that we cannot fee when we perceive they are only properly obftructed from our fight by other objects or fituations.. For example, in the situation in the cafe juti mentioned; when the eye at 20 feet distance looks up to an entablature 60 feet high, before the perfon gives judgment of the proportion this entablature bears to the height of its coheight of it in so near a fiation, he nalumn, perceiving the fimall apparent turally retires to a more diftant point, wherein he knows by experience can difcern the matter with more accuracy: and this proves he was not deceived by the apparent height, and judged it to be of a different height to what the angle on his eye made it appear. In like manner when he approaches to a range of columns on a continued fiylobate, and perceives the height and projecture of the cornice above his eye, he expects not to fee the bases of the columns thus obstructed; yet this would not induce him to conclude, as Baldus fuggefied, that they funk into a trench, or any ways improperly fituated; on the that they were contrary were they really raifed into fight, in the fiation he then ftood in, he would have naturally concluded that they were improperly thus raifed. And the fame reasoning obtains againft that other, prccept of our mafier for changing the attitude of fiatues and the faces of the members of architecture, ordering the facias of epiftyles to overhang, and fiatues to bend forward in order that they may appear to be perpendicular and upright; whereas it is known by experience that in these and in all other changes of the fane kind, the eye foon discovers, and must always be difgufied at fuch unnatural pofitions viewed from a great variety of points, while there is but one folitary point from which they can have even the appearance of propriety; and it is furely unneceffary to argue the folly of providing an apparent perfection in one fingle instance, at the expence of expofing a real deformity in a thousand others. And certain enough it is, that when objects are placed in their proper positions, and the members of architecture in their known customary proportions, an experienced eye will rea |