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

a Saxon, bearing the same affinity to Hengift: for the battle was fought A. D. 455, three hundred years before the Danes molested this Island.

The most popular, I do not say the beft, opinion is, that Horfa was buried at Horsted, a place a few miles distant; and that Kit's Coity House was the fepulchral memorial of Catigern; though Mr. King labours hard to prove it a British Cromlech, used for the horrid rites of Druidical worship, 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 distinctly fee all that paffed upon the furface of the top ftone *."

The late Mr. Boys (whose death I fincerely lament, having often experienced his friendly counsel on literary subjects.) thought he had discovered in the name of Kit's Coity House a corruption of the Saxon Lid careg hors, i. e. the place of contention between Catigern and Horfu †.

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

I am alfo forry I cannot praise
the correctness of H. C.'s drawing.
The top ftone in fig. 3 is too jag
ged; and in fig. 4 the rules of
perspective and thadow have been
To little observed, that it is doubt
ful whether a fide or back view be
intended. 1 should 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.

I

Mr. URBAN,
Na work of Linnæus is
lowing passage:

"UVEDALIA.

July 17-
the fol-

"Polymnia foliis oppofitis haftatofinuatis.

"Osteofperinum foliis oppositis palmatis. Hort. Cliff. 424. Hort. Upf. 274. Gran. Virg. 138.

"Chrysanthemum angulois platani foliis Virginianum. Plu. Alm. 99, ta 33, f 3.

"Chrysanthemum perenne Virgini anuni majus, platani Orientalis foliis. Moris. Hift. 3. p. 22. f. 6. t. 7. f. 55. Habitat in Virginia.'

Some of your botanical corre spondents will, I hope, favour me with their remarks on the above passage; and inform me whether it alludes to the Rev. Robert Uvedale, LL.D. of Enfield, Middlesex, fellow of Trinity college, Cambridge, rector of Orpington, Kent, and father of the Rev. Robert Uvedale, D. D. vicar of Enfield, 1721 to 1731. Dr. Uvedale was a learned Divine and celebrated Botanist, and an intimate friend of Archbishop Tillotson and Sir Hans Sloane *.

R. U.

MR. URBAN, Homefield, July 23. time like this, when the

exploits of our Ships of War are every day repeated, and our Navy riding triumphant on the seas, one cannot but admire with aftonishment the accounts of fuch wondrous machines; but I with many more living nearly in the centre of our Island, and never traveling farther than the London market, cannot have the pleasure of beholding fuch mechanical fabrications without going to some fea-port. If any of your correspondents will favour me by faying where a real and exact model of a Fighting Ship may be seen (if an attendant to explain the utility of the several parts to an inquifitive vifitor the better), they will greatly RUSTICUS. oblige Yours, &c.

* Some account of Dr. Uvedale may be seen in Hutchins's Dorsetshire, vol. II. p. 503, 2d edit.

Mr.

RIVALX ABBEY. (PLATE I.)

the

THIS magnificent remain of antiquiny, which is fituated in the North-riding of the county of York, stands on the estate of Mr. Duncombe, whose large domains in this part have acquired him the title of rich; and, Indeed, the prodigious expence the predeceffor of the present poffeffor was at, to make a bowling-green on brow of the hill that overlooks these ruins, evinces that he had a fuperabundance of wealth; but, at the fame time, fully demonftrates, that he knew the best way of doing good with it, was to provide employment for the in- dustrious. 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 store of excellentale, for the refreshment of fuch as will be at the pains and labour of afcending the steep 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 shrubs breaks the Northern blatis, which, on so elevated a fpot, must otherwise be very fevere. Hence, Mr. Dancombe fometimes liberally entertains his friends, the pavilion being furnished with every conveniency for that purpose. Duncombe-park, his refidence, is about seven 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'Efpie, who about A. D. 1181, Silt Ilen. I. alotted to fome of them a folitary place in Blackemoor, near Hemlac (now Helmiley), furrounded by steep hills, and covered with wood and ling, near the angles of three different vales, with each a rivulet running through them; that paffing by where the Abbey was built, being called Rie,

GENT. MAG. July, 1804.

whence this vale took its name, and this house was then called the Abbey of Rievale. Here William, the first abbot, one of those monks tent by St. Bernard, a man of great value, and excellent memory, began the building of the monastery, dedicated it to the Virgin Mary, which the faid Walter L'Eipie 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'Elpie, who was a noble Baron, having loft his fon by a tali fron his horte, devoted a good part of his eftate to pious ofes. He founded the Canon Rugulars at Kirkham, in Yorkshire, anno 1112; that of Rivalx in 1136; and that of Warden, in Bedfordshire, anno 1186; and at length ended his life, in a monaftie habit, at His daugiuer 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 KIRK

STALL ABBEY stand 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 front 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 dangeroufly ill, made a vow that, if he regained his health, he would erect a monafiery of the Cir

tertian order, to the honour of the Blesled Virgin Mary; aud, on his recovery, he affigned over this town of Bernoldfwich for the purpose of building and endowing it.

The ruins meafore 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 mals ftands a farin-houfe, which was originally the principal gate of the monatiert.

The church itfelf is cruciform; and over the interfection of the crofs ailes with the body, which is within 50 feet of the Eat end, ftands a handfone tower, from fome marks in woah,

Of whic

fent os a highly finished drawing: unica wethould el ly have engraved, bui we have already eiven tuo veus of ins Abbey. See LX. 103, LXXII1.1198. Εριτ.