CHIMNEY PIECES IN THE MANSION OF THE WINDSOR FAMILY, WORCESTER NOW MESS FLIGHT AND BARRS PORCELAIN WORKS GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. MAY, 1837. BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. CONTENTS. PAGE MINOR CORRESPONDENCE-Babylonian Cylinders-Autograph of the Duke of Schomberg?-Quarterings of Brandon-Greek Coins-Hopkinson's Yorkshire MSS.-The Dutch Artist Hobbema, &c. Volcanoes and Ancient Ruins of Italy Remarks on Historical Painting-Pictorial Criticism, by Goethe ..... MEMORIALS OF LITERARY CHARACTERS, No. XIX. Origin of a certain class of Surnames Letters of Sir John Vanbrugh to Tonson the Bookseller Sir Walter Scott-His characters of Father and Daughter Smith's Literary Curiosities, No. V...... The King's Pamphlets in the British Museum Account of Oliver's, in Stanway, Essex Pedigree of the Eldred Family Ancient Mansion at Worcester.... Inventory of the Church Goods of St. Olave's, Southwark, 1558.. Scull of Sir Thomas More-St. Dunstan's Church, Canterbury ...... Osler on the Church and Dissent, 501.-Letters of Runnymede, 502-Wesley's Natural Philosophy; Povah's Sermons, 503.-Doubleday's Caius Marius, 504.-Dyce's Works of Bentley, 505.-Loudon's Architectural Magazine, 511.-Hopper on the New Houses of Parliament, 512.-Richard. son's Treatise on Ventilation, 513.-Hughes's History of England, 514.Tytler's Life of Henry VIII. 515.-Wright's Early English Poetry, 517.Goodwin's Christian Theology; Wilson's Sacred Pneumatology, 518.-Calcott's History of Painting; Jones's Anglo-Polish Harp..... 519 FINE ARTS.-Pictures of the Elysée Bourbon-Sir F. Freeling's pictures .... 520 LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 536 New Publications, 520.-Learned Societies, Literary Institutions, &c. .... 521 ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES.-Society of Antiquaries, 524.-Numismatic Society, 526.-Egyptian Antiquities, &c. 527.—Luxor Obelisk at Paris.... 528 HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. - Proceedings in Parliament, 529.- Foreign News, 531.- Domestic Occurrences, 532.- Promotions, Preferments, &c. 535.-Births and Marriages OBITUARY; with Memoirs of Marquis of Bath; Viscount Kingsborough ; Dr. Burgess, Bishop of Salisbury; Lady de Lisle and Dudley; Mrs. Fitzherbert; Major-Gen. Hon. Sir F. Ponsonby; Lt.-Gen. Hon. W. Stuart; Col. de Lancey; Count De Salis; Sir E. O'Brien; Dr. Beeke, Dean of Bristol; N. R. Toke, Esq.; John Johnstone, M.D.; Rev. Dr. Hawes; John Davidson, Esq.; Mr. Fawcett.... Clergy deceased, 552.-DEATHS, arranged in Counties and Representations of Two CHIMNEYPIECES at WORCESTER. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. MR. BELFOUR has read D. H.'s meagre and supercilious remarks, to which he will make no reply, not because he (MR. BELFOUR) is incapable of supporting the validity of the opinion he advanced in his paper, by additional argument and the corroborating testimony of other engraved cylinders, bearing incontestably on certain incidents reported in Holy Writ, but from the illiberal accusations of D. H. which can awaken no feeling but indignation in every honourable mind. MR. BELFOUR'S object, however, being to direct the attention of the learned to these valuable remains of antiquity, with a view of arriving at a just conclusion of their nature and import, if D. H. will give to the public a more luminous and less exceptionable elucidation of the objects touched upon than the one he has submitted to the republic of letters, no person will be more ready to confer the meed of triumph on D. H. than MR.. BELFOUR. A Correspondent wishes to know where an autograph signature of the celebrated Duke of Schomberg, who fell at the battle of the Boyne in Ireland, may be seen; and whether he wrote his name Schomberg or Schonberg? A gentleman who has for some years been collecting materials for the Life of Lord Eldon, will gratefully receive any communication addressed to B. M. at Mr. Pickering's, Chancery Lane. H. G. remarks, "In the description of Mendham Priory (Dec. p. 603) the shield of Brandon is said to quarter' Beke and Willoughby this is not the case. The quarterings in question were those of the Duke of Suffolk in right of his mother, Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Sir Henry Brune, Knight, whose ancestors had previously intermarried with the heiress of Rokele. See their descent in Hutchins's Dorsetshire. The arms in the shield are, Brandon, quartering 1st and 4th, Azure, a cross moline Or, for Brune. 2d and 3d. Lozengy Argent and Gules, for Rokele, which agree with the tinctures in the engraved plate, when those of Willougby and Beke would not. See also the standard of Sir Charles Brandon, in Excerpta Historica, and the account of the arms at Fonthill, in Gent. Mag. XCII. pt. ii. p. 318, 319. In the same article, p. 602, col. 2, line 29, the total number of monks settled at Mendham was eight. In p. 603 a. line 37, for ff read dd. The Our antiquarian correspondent at Exeter has surely been grossly deceived. idea of Greek coins having been found in such numbers in that city is too prepos terous to require serious refutation. Such few Greek coins as have occasionally been found in England, have been lost or stolen from collections, and not brought here at the time they were current. The SUBSCRIBER (p 226) is informed that Hopkinson's Yorkshire MSS. form part of the valuable library of Miss Currer of Eshton Hall, who is descended from a sister of the collector, John Hopkinson, esq. of Lofthouse. Copies of the pedigrees are current, and if we knew the Subscriber's address we could refer him to a very fair MS. of them now for sale. Will the writer of the Memoir on the family of Carew of Ireland allow us to transfer it to the "Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica?" We shall feel obliged by the communication of his name and address. The article by T. T. is unavoidably deferred. A. B.'s communication on Prior arrived too late for this month. The A CONSTANT READER inquires for "some authentic information concerning that highly appreciated Dutch Artist, Hobbema, a painter of landscape. two best biographers I know (Pilkington and Bryant) speak upon supposition. Now as many of his works are in our Country, and are very highly valued by their possessors, it is not unlikely they may have given themselves some trouble to learn the history of one who has produced such fascinating works." Mr. W. H. SPARROW asks where Brig. Gen. Houghton, formerly Lieut.-Gov. of Pendennis Castle, was buried. He died in September, 1747. Mr. E. S. CURLING remarks, "The following memorandum, in the hand-writing of an Ancestor resident at Ramsgate, is copied from the cover of an old Bible." "On Thursday the 16th of April, 1702. The corpes of one Mr. Grinvill was brought down from London in a hoy in a leaden coffin, to be buried in the sea, a little within the Goodwin Sand; one Mr. White, minister of St. Petters parish, went of in the hoy, and did read the buriall, being in the first year of the reign of Queen Ann. Jno. Curling."-Can any Correspondent of the Gentleman's Magazine identify this Mr. Grenville? ERRATA. The present Duke of Montrose (p. 316) was married, on the 15th Oct. last, to the Hon. Caroline Agnes Beresford, third and youngest daughter of Lord Decies.-The body of the late Duke was temporarily deposited in a vault of the chapel in South Audley st. until the 21st March, when it was removed towards a new mausoleum, erected on an open spot near Montrose. P. 289, for the Devil's Bank, running eastward from Winchester to London, read-Silchester to London. P. 298, a. 28, for Edwards read Edmonds. P. 374, a. 25, for Ashtan read Cohlan. MAGAZINE. GENTLEMAN'S 1. Bishop of Exeter's Charge, delivered at his Triennial Visitation. 1836. 2. Letter to the Bishop of Lincoln. By the Rev. C. Benson. 1837. 3. Letter to Archdeacon Singleton. By the Rev. S. Smith. 3d Edit. 1837. IT is well known that the whole constitution, discipline, revenues, estates, of the Church of England, as established by law, are at the present time put into commission: and that that Commission, to which unlimited powers are granted, is to exist also for an unlimited time. Further, that this Board consists of laymen and bishops, some of whom are irremoveable, and others hold their situations on an uncertain tenure that some of the commissioners are persons of very advanced age, and have passed the active business of life; others are but little acquainted with the history, and antiquities, and constitution of the Church; and moreover, that the following SUPPOSITION has been advanced against some part of the constitution of the body. "If there is in the Commission, or at the Council Board, any secret, or crafty plotter against that body, the Church, which has done more than any other to resist the miserable tendencies of the day, and throw back the torrent of misrule, we can imagine the quiet sneer with which he must listen and subscribe to these preparations of reform." Who this member of that select and sacred body appointed to infuse new vigour into the constitution of our Church is, if such a one really exists, we cannot pretend to guess; but, formed as that Commission is,-some of its clerical members being too advanced in life to act with vigour, some, more active and able, removeable at the will of ministers, the ruling power might fall in great proportion into the hands of these "secret and crafty plotters," and then the Church be delivered, bound like Samson, into the hands of its enemies. But, putting that danger aside, we believe that the strong feeling against this Commission so generally diffused over all parts of the community, both laic and clerical, has been derived, not only from its imperfect constitution, but also from the reports it has published, the innovations which it has made, and the regulations it has attempted to enforce. We are anxious to express ourselves as little as we can in our own words, on this afflicting subject; and, fortunately for us, the higher members and dignitaries of the Church have afforded us the means of conveying our sentiments in their more authentic and commanding language We confess that the objections they have stated, and the strong opposition they have urged to the power and proceedings of the Commission, seem to us too important to be overlooked, if the ancient constitution of the Church is to be preserved at all; and indeed, if the general safeguards to the possession of rights and property under the protection of the law, are not to be sacrificed to the spirit of innovation. The objections may be classed under certain heads : By an Act which bears date, 13th Aug. 1836, the Ecclesiastical Commis sioners obtain a perpetual succession, and are empowered to purchase and hold all sorts of property, &c.-v. Benson's Letter, p. 1. + See Quarterly Rev. No. cxv. p. 231. See Rev. S. Smith's Letter to Archd. Singleton. 1. The first as regards the formation of the Commission, its powers, and its duration. 2. The nature of its acts, as relate-1st. To the Bishops. 2dly. To the Cathedrals. 3dly. The Parochial Clergy. Some of these acts are described as inexpedient, some as unjust, and some as absolutely illegal, and many destructive to the interests of that Church, which they were ostensibly formed to advance and improve."If we," says a sensible and eloquent writer, "were enemies of the Church, we should congratulate its aggressors, as they are congratulating themselves, that they have found a hand within the Church to hammer down its gates and level its walls, without any violence of theirs."* And in another passage, the same writer terms one of the recommendations of the Commission, to be an act of robbery and a sacrifice which can never be retrieved; and in another place he calls it, "an act of spoliation." Now it must strike the most heedless person, that most rash, violent, and precipitate must have been the measures which could provoke from mild, conscientious, temperate men,-men of high station, grave deportment, and serious minds, men of public character, of private virtue, and of indisputed piety,-the strong expostulations we meet with in their animadversions, and it must alarm the most unthinking to find that a Commission exists which has a legal power over the whole body of the Church, by whom, in any propositions they advance, or laws they frame, the Bishops themselves, the guardians of the Church, have never been consulted; but on the other hand, that the most important acts have been hurried through their legal forms, when the Bishops, as legislators, have been necessarily absent in their dioceses, and therefore unable to oppose them; and that new and coercive laws have been framed, and new powers claimed over the body of the clergy, of which they had no previous knowledge, to which their consent was never asked, and to resist which no power nor time was allowed. This tremendous power, such as has not existed in an ecclesiastical body since the days of Laud, if unopposed, may and will affect every part of the Church Establishment. The highest and the lowest will alike feel its effects. It will act upon the well-fed canon, and the hungry curate. It may turn a bishop out of his palace, a dignitary out of his cathedral, a rector out of his house, and a curate out of his profession. It may take the revenues of the church, and bestow them on other purposes for which they were never designed, and with which they have no connexion; in fact it is a power too great to bestow on any body of men, constituted as that body is, and considering the sacred and important interests which its acts may affect. We shall now examine its Reports, confining ourselves at present to one branch of the inquiry, and we sincerely trust that our very humble endeavours may assist that most desirable object, the conviction of the necessity of opposing the proceedings of this Commission by all legal means; and of amending its constitution, by a very extensive alteration of its present structure. Part of the revenue of the See of Durham is to go to the University, and conse. quently to be alienated from the Church. § See Q. Rev. cxv. p. 207, which speaks of the proposed seizure of cathedral property as a "tyrannical robbery and sacrifice of all constitutional principles ;" and advises the trustees of that property to bring the "question to a legal issue."-Who are the robbers ? |