612 Kit's Coity House-Dr. Uvedale?-Ships of War. [July,

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was

a Saxon, bearing the fame affinity to Hengift for the battle fought A. D. 455, three hundred years before the Danes molested this Ifland.

The most popular, I do not fay the beft, opinion is, that Horfa was buried at Hortied, a place a few miles diftant; and that Kit's Coity Houfe was the fepulchral memorial of Catigern; though Mr. King labours hard to prove it a British Cromlech, used for the horrid rites of Druidical worthip, when human facrifices were offered; its fituation being in a beautiful amphitheatre of hills, "from which hills many thousands and even myriads of people might diftinétly fee all that paffed upon the furface of the top stone *."

The late Mr. Boys (whofe death I fincerely lament, having often experienced his friendly counfel on literary fubjects.) thought he had difcovered in the name of Kit's Coity Houfe a corruption of the Saxon Lid carez hops, i. e. the place of contention between Catigern and Horfu t.

This etymology, though rather fanciful, feems better founded than the fuppofition of Horfa's memory being yet preferved in Horfted; as villages of that name occur in feveral counties, and are plainly compounded of two Saxon words, meaning the place for Horfes; as diftinguished from the Cow-ley, the shep-ley, and other allotments of our rural forefathers.

I am alfo forry I cannot praife the correctness of H. C.'s drawing. The top ftone in fig. 3 is too jagged; and in fig. 4 the rules of perfpective and thadow have been fo little obferved, that it is doubtful whether a fide or back view be intended. 1 fhould prefume the

latter.

Erratum, p 408, b. line 14 from bottom, read fine.

Yours, &c. WILLIAM HAMPER.

* Munimenta Antiqua, vol. I. chap. V.
+Archæologia, vol. XI. p. 38.

Mr. URBAN,

July 17.

Na work of Linnæus is the fol
lowing paffage:
"UVEDALIA.

"Polymnia foliis oppofitis haftato-
finuatis.

Ofteofpermum foliis oppofitis pal-
matis. Hort. Cliff. 424. Hort. Üpf.
274. Gran. Virg. 133.
"Chryfanthemum angulosis platani
foliis Virginianum. Plu. Alm. 99, t.

33, f 3.

66

Chryfanthemum perenne Virgini
anuni majus, platani Orientalis foliis.
Moris. Hill. 3. p. 22. f. 6. t. 7. f. 55,
Habitat in Virginiâ.'

Some of your botanical corre fpondents will, I hope, favour me with their remarks on the above paffage; and inform me whether it alludes to the Rev. Robert Uve dale, LL.D. of Enfield, Middlefex, fellow of Trinity college, Cambridge, rector of Orpington, Kent, and father of the Rev. RoDr. Uvedale bert Uvedale, D. D. vicar of Enfield, 1721 to 1731. was a learned Divine and celebrated Botanist, and an intimate R. U. friend of Archbishop Tillotfon and

Sir Hans Sloane *.

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MR. URBAN, Homefield, July 23. Ta time like this, when the exploits of our Ships of War are every day repeated, and our Navy riding triumphant on the feas, one cannot but admire with aftonishment the accounts of fuch wondrous machines; but I with many more living nearly in the centre of our Ifland, and never traveling farther than the London market, cannot have the pleasure of beholding fuch mechanical fabrications without going to fome fea-port.

If any of your correfpondents will favour me by faying where a real and exact model of a Fighting Ship may be feen (if an attendant to explain the utility of the feveral parts to an inquifitive vifitor the better), they will greatly RUSTICUS. oblige Yours, &c.

*Some account of Dr. Uvedale may be feen in Hutchins's Dorfetfhire, vol. ¡J. p. 593, 2d edit. Mr.

THIS

RIVALX ABBEY. (PLATE I.) HIS magnificent remain of antiquity, which is fituated in the North-riding of the county of York, ftands on the eftate of Mr. Duncombe, whofe large domains in this part have acquired him the title of rich; and, indeed, the prodigious expence the predeceffor of the prefent poffeffor was at, to make a bowling-green on the brow of the hill that overlooks thefe ruins, evinces that he had a fuperabundance of wealth; but, at the fame time, fully demouftrates, that he knew the best way of doing good with it, was to provide employment for the in-duftrious. At one end of this green is an elegant pavilion; and, at the other, a beautiful circular temple, which is feen in the annexed view, both which edifices are adorned with paintings Beneath the pavilion, are apartments for the gardener, who has generally a ftore of excellent ale, for the refrethment of fuch as will be at the pains and labour of afcending the fteep and intricate path which leads to this truly 'delightful fpot; from whence, on three fides, are most beautiful profpects; on the fourth, a thick plantation of firs and fhrubs breaks the Northern blatis, which, on fo elevated a fpot, mult otherwife be very fevere. Hence, Mr. Duncombe fometimes liberally entertains his friends, the pavilion being furnished with every conveniency for that purpose. Duncombe-park, his refidence, is about feven miles from this place.

The ruins prove this Abbey to have been of great extent; the fituation of which is not to be furpalled for picturefqne beauty.

The following account of this eftablishment is given in Burton's Mon.fticon.

"St. Bernard, Abbot of Clareval, was a man full of devotion, and chief of many monks, fome of whom he fent into England, who were honourably received both by the King and king dom and particularly by Sir Walter L'Epie, who about A. D. 1181, sitt Hen. I. alotted to fome of theu a folitary place in Blackemoor, near Hemlac (now Helmiley), furrounded by fteep hills, and covered with wood and ling, near the angles of three different vales, with each a rivulet running through them; that paffing by were the Abbey was built, being called Rie, GENT. MAG. July, 1804.

whence this vale took its name, and
this houfe was then called the Ab-
Here William, the
bey of Rievale.
firit abbot, one of those monks ient by
St. Bernard, a man of great value, and
excellent memory, began the building
of the monattery, dedicated it to the
Virgin Mary, which the aid Walter
L'Epie amply endowed. The family
of Roos were patrons of this Abbey in
in 1153, the 18th of Stephen. Walter
L'Efpie was buried in this Abbey."

We are told by Dugdale, that this
Walter L'Epie, who was a noble Ba-
ron, having loft his fon by a tall from
his horfe, devoted a good part of his
He founded the
eflate to pious ofes.
Canon Rugulars at Kirkham, in York-
fhire, anno 1112; that of Rivalx in
1136; and that of Warden, in Bed-
fordshire, anno 1186; and at length
ended his life, in a monaftic habit, at
His dauginer
Rivalx, anno 1158.
Adelina was married to Peter, Lord
Roos, from whom his Grace the Duke
of Rutland derives his pedigree.

The venerable remains of KIRKSTALL ABBEY ftand about three miles N. W. of Leeds, and about 160 yards North of the River Aire, between which and the ruins are the vettiges of two fith-ponds. It is about a quarter of a mile from Kirkstall-bridge, over which lies the road from Bradford to Leeds. The founder of the firucture was Henry de Lacy, who, about the year 1147, being dangeroutly ill, made a vow that, if he regained his health, he would erect a monoliery of the Ciftertian order, to the honour of the Bleffèd Virgin Mary; and, on his recovery, he alligned over this town of Bernoldfwich for the pupae of building and endowing it.

The ruins meafure from North to South 340 feet, and from Eaft to Weft 445; and a quadrangle of 115 by 143 feet is enclofed by the walls. Northweft of this mais fiands a farm-house, which was originally the principal gate of the monafiery.

The church felf is cruciform; and over the interfection of the crofs ailes with the body, which is wih'n 50 feet of the Eali end, ftands a handfime tower; from fome marks in wich,

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feat as a highly finished drawing; walch we thould pl. ly have engraved, but it we have already iven two veus of s Abbey. See LX.103, LXXIII.1198. Ep.

it