The lines copied (p. 81) from a MS. in the British Museum, not pointed out, feem to put it out of doubt, that the monument in Luton church did not belong to lord Wenlock, but to John le Wenlock, knt. How the portico of the manfion at Luton Hoo can be called "æ very beautiful specimen of that kind of architecture called the florid Gothic *;" let thofe judge who can confult Mr. Sandby's view of it in the Virtuofi's Mufeum, pl. IV. who refers it to fome abbot of St. Alban's before the diflolution. The cross at Leighton Buzzard (p. 86) was erected, like many others, in the centre of the market; but whether the conformity of its grotefque ornaments with thofe in the parith-church is any proof that the two fiructures are coaval, must be left to better judges. P. 37, r. Lygeanburg. Preceding topographers have been rifled to place the fullers-earth pits at Wandon, near Woburn, in Bedfordhire, though really in Buckinghamhire, from the old, and now wornout pit at Afpley being in the former County. (p. 39.) Under Woburn abbey is a good account of the portraits and other paintfugs; the account of thofe of the Ruffel family lately publifhed in the European Magazine, being the only lift we recollect to have feen. It will intereft you, Mr. Urban, to be told that the Lanti vafe, which you engraved vol. LXX. p. 817, is placed in the green-houfe. For Maudlin, p. 66, r. Malden; and for Hotley (p. 71) r. Hatley. It would have been more to the purpofe to have given Dr. Caftell's epitaph than this quaint remark: "Thus perish the fons of fcience. Even the acquirement of knowledge, when purfued beyond the bounds of prudence, is as detrimental to human exiftence as the irrational conduct of the drunkard and the profligate." Was 79+ then too fhort a, term for the accomplishment of his great defigns, on which he lavished fo much time and money? Infamous is fo familiar an epithet This is borrowed from the account of Luton in the Bibl. Top. Brit. No. VII. P. 54*, and the words "in brick" omitted. +68 on his tomb is the year of his life when he put it up, not of his death. It is extraordinary ro tranfcriber has given a verfion of the Arabic line on it. GENT. MAG. April, 1801. ? with the compiler for any object of his diflike, that he bestows it on the miniftry that caufed Admiral Byng to be inade a public example of. (p. 72.) In Northill church fome fpecimens of John Oliver's painting on glats, 1664. (p. 71–78). I always underftood the late Mr. Whitbread demolished Warden abbey (p. 74); which, when I faw it 30 years ago, was a good large farm-house; nor did I ever hear Mr. W. was partial to Antiquities. P. 79, 1. 11, r. the cartulary of Canons Ashby. The account of this county concludes with "mifcellaneous;" from which we learn that the fatis tinctoria, or Woad, is no longer to be found in this county, where it was formerly univerfally cultivated, on the authority of the Rev. Tho. Orlebar Marth, vicar of Stevington, near Bedford, and F.L.S. "who has been long employed in making collections for a natural history of the county, and is daily adding to his flock of information. Where diligent fearch is united with accurate invelligation, a work as nearly perfect as human wifdom will admit is the offured refult." D. H. Mr. URBAN, Coventry, April 10. THE quotation from Hearne, p. 204, agrees with the Town-book; and, as the mayoralty commences in November, "William Smallwood, draper," called by Dr. Thomas "mayor in 1566," is the fame perfon noted by Hearne in 1567; but the circumfiance of the Queen of Scots being confined 66 in the mayoreffes parlour" is probably placed one year too early. It appears by concurring hiftories, that the firft landed at Wokington, in Cumberland, May 17, 1568; was thence removed to Carlile, then to Bolton cafile, and again to Tutbury, in which latter route the paffed through Coventry. It may be new to your readers that the queen was a fecond time a prifoner in this city; as the following unpublifhed extract from the Town-book will demonftrate; "1569, Richard Hawden, mayor In his year was a great rebellion in the North, on which account Mary Queen of Scots was removed from Tutbury to Coventry, and there kept prifoner in the cuf tody of the Earl of Shrewsbury and Earl of Huntingdon, from St. Andrew's tide until Candlemas, during which time the citizens citizens kept watch and ward day and night at every gate, that none paffed by without examination." COVENTRIENSIS. Mr. URBAN, Newport, Salop, Apr.10 for his polite and respectful letter. It gives me great pleasure and happiness to find that my firft attempts to please the publick have met with the approbation of fo learned a correfpondent. I alfo feel much indebted to the Southern Faunift for his obliging intention. With refpect to the error which Mr. Shaw has pointed out, it certainly did not arife from my being ignorant that Forton is in the county of Stafford, but was an omiffion of "Staffordshire" after the word "Forton." Whenever I am guilty of ftating an error, or of adopting any erroneous opinion, I fhall confider it an act of kindness to be corrected by the liberal and the candid. The fame fentiments, I truft, Mr. Shaw will indulge, when I point out two miftakes into which he himself has accidentally fallen. In p. 230, col. 2, l. 51, if by "Norbury manor, &c. in the fame parish," Mr. Shaw means to fay, that Norbury manor is in the parish of Forton, I think, upon enquiry, he will find himfelf under a mistake, Norbury manor being in the parish of Norbury. Again, in p. 231, col. 1, 1. 53—50, Mr. Shaw fays, "in which place of Sutton, or South-town, in this parish, though in the county of Salop"-Sutton is my native place, is at prefent, and has been my place of refidence the greater part of my life, and I always understood that it is in the county of Stafford; nor, upon recent enquiry, have I been informed the contrary. may Any information which be of the leaft fervice to Mr. Shaw, if it lays in my power, I fhall be happy to communicate. With refpect to the memorial which Mr. Shaw requests, I am afraid he overrates my talents; however, if he thinks the following worthy his no tice, which I have made equally appli cable to all pious benefactors of parithchurches, or to public charities, it is at his fervice. Let Pofterity read with reverence the names of men who in their lives poffefs'd charitable minds, and were activeto promote the facred caufe of Virtue and Religion. He who fhuns and retires from Folly and Diffipation's noify fcenes; and, with pious heart and willing mind, employs his wealth to enrich his Parish Church with charitable gifts, to feed the hungry and the naked cloath, to be the orphan's father and the widow's friend; He who gives his purfe to repair fome facred mouldering fane, to adorn or build a new temple to Almighty God, where the village might affemble and hear thofe Holy Oracles, which diffipate the clouds that long, in former ages, darkened the mind of wretched man, wandering in ignorance; which teach Peace on earth, good-will towards man;' pointing to a bleeding Saviour's wounds," pointing to another and a better world: he is God's faithful steward. Such characters deferve the greatest praise, and are a bright example to fucceeding ages. Let every Parith Church record the deeds and names of all her pious benefactors; let Forton place confpicuous the name of THOMAS BOTETOURT, cfq. one of the antient lords of the manor of Mereton; who at his own expence covered anew the roof of this church, and added a few ornaments, which were fpoiled at a fecond reparation by the parish about 17333 and let them acknowledge his liberality with gratitude and esteem. WILLIAM SNAPE, P. 126, col. 1, 1. 30, r. "fearchers into." Ibid. 1. 40, read "Mrs. Honor Darwall," not "Mrs. Honor Danwell," and also in the epitaph. April 11. Mr. URBAN, C. C. C. C. [Caleb Sibly] douros Ince Xpire LT MOVES εἰς ευαγγελιον Θεο - a Deo capimus-in Deo claudimus. 2d 1755C. Sibly. Mr. HAVING been, among others, to view the collection of Antiques at Lord Befborough's houfe, Roehampton, I fend you a brief account of fome of them, which I have not feen noticed by others. In the paffage at the back of the houfe is the following infcription, which Gruter CCCXVIII. 2, defcribes as at Rome in the houfe of Urfo de la Valle, in cippo oblongo duplici. Under two bufts, the one of a lean old man with a beard clofe-fhaved, and his head fhaved and bare, and of a middle-aged bare-headed woman, her hair tied behind in a knot, L. ANTISTIVS, CN . F. HOR. SARANTISTIA [CVLO. SALIVS. ALBANVS IDEM 2 MAC [PATRONAE. PROMERITIS. 4 EORVM Boiffard, III. 137, has these variations: HOR SAECVLO: 2 MAG, Holfteinius, and fo I copied it March 31, 1801; 3 IANTHVS, B.; 4 omitted in B. In the fame collection at Rome Boiffard and Gruter give the following, copied by Smetius and Mazzochi; L. ANTESTIVS. CN. F. HOR SARCVLO. SALIVS ALBANVS ANTESTIA. L. L. PLVTIA 2 FVFIA.P. F. TERTIA. SOROR L. ANTESTIVS. L. L. QVINCTIO L. 3 ANTESTIVS. L. L. 4RVEVS. L. [ANTESTIVS. L. OL. THAMYRIS L. ANTISTIVS. L. D. L. ANTHVS. L. [ANTISITIVS. L.L. SEROS.CAPPADOXS 13 L. ANTISTIVS. Fabretti emend. II. and Mazzochi in erratis. 2 FVFFIA. B. 4 RVFFVS. B. S PROS. B.-Reinefius thought this was eros the Cappadocean, commended by Galen, II. de comp. med. c. 3, and Aetius; but Gudius was of a different opinion. Another fepulchral monument of the altar form, engraved by Boiffard III. p. 81, in the collection of Cardinal Chigi, and by Gruter, DCCCXLIII. was alfo at Roehampton, and offered to fale April 6, 1801. It exhibits in relief a man and woman fitting on a couch, and having before them a table with round cakes on it. Under this relief thefe lines; INGRATAE VENAERI -SVPPLEX EREPTA CONIVX VIRGINITATE TIBI; PERSEPHO JACES CONDITA SARCOPHAGO A pedeftal formed of various frag- On another cinerary urn : Phenicis M. B. M. F." Another from the Chigi collection. Boitlard, III. 71; Gruter, 841, 8. "Dis Manibus C. Vinbricius Veientanus fibi et Unbricia Delphici conjugi fuæ, et Veientoni, filio fao, vixit ann. xir, et Umbricia Didoni vixit an. xx." At the Gides laurel branches and birds picking the berries. Under them, on each fide, a heron; on the right fide catching a lizard, on the left a butterfly. A fmall upright cinerary urn, em blematically fculptured, with a doorway, and the fides ornamented with the lotus in a bold, fiyle, inferibed, "D. M. Titus Clodius. Pulcher conjugi B. M. fecit." Other cinerary urns, infcribed, "Offa Q. J. Licini filius." "D. M. Quinto Terentio. Aurelia Terentia, filia piiffima, fecit." "D. M. conjux, 1 The lines copied (p. 81) from a MS. in the British Mufeum, not pointed out, feem to put it out of doubt, that the monument in Luton church did not belong to lord Wenlock, but to John le Wenlock, knt. How the portico of the manfion at Luton Hoo can be called "a very beautiful fpecimen of that kind of architecture called the florid Gothic *;" let thofe judge who can confult Mr. Sandby's view of it in the Virtuofi's Mufeum, pl. IV. who refers it to fome abbot of St. Alban's before the diflolution. The crofs at Leighton Buzzard (p. $6) was erected, like many others, in the centre of the market; but whether the conformity of its grotefque ornaments with thofe in the parith-church is any proof that the two fiructures are coaval, must be left to better judges. P. 37, r. Lygeanburg. Preceding topographers have been mifled to place the fullers-earth pits at Wandon, near Woburn, in BedfordShire, though really in Buckinghamhire, from the old, and now wornout pit at Afpley being in the former County. (p. 39.) Under Woburn abbey is a good account of the portraits and other paintfngs; the account of thofe of the Ruffel family lately publifhed in the European Magazine, being the only lift we recollect, to have feen. It will intereft you, Mr. Urban, to be told that the Lanti vafe, which you engraved 'vol. LXX. p. 817, is placed in the green-house. For Maudlin, p. 66, r. Malden; and for Hotley (p. 71) r. Hatley. It would have been more to the purpofe to have given Dr. Caftell's epitaph than this quaint remark: "Thus perish the fons of fcience. Even the acquirement of knowledge, when purfued beyond the bounds of prudence, is as detrimental to human existence as the irrational conduct of the drunkard and the profligate." Was 79+ then too fhort a term for the accomplishment of his great defigns, on which he tavifhed fo much time and money? Infamous is fo familiar an epithet This is borrowed from the account of Luton in the Bibl. Top. Brit. No. VII. P. 54*, and the words “in brick" omitted. + 68 on his tomb is the year of his life when he put it up, not of his death. It is extraordinary no tranfcriber has given a verfion of the Arabic line on it. GENT. MAG. April, 1801. with the compiler for any object of his diflike, that he beflows it on the miniftry that caufed Admiral Byng to be inade a public example of. (p. 72.) In Northill church fome fpecimens of John Oliver's painting on glafs, 1664. (p. 71-78). I always underftood the late Mr. Whitbread demolished Warden abbey (p. 74); which, when I faw it 30 years ago, was a good large farm-houfe; nor did I ever hear Mr. W. was partial to Antiquities. P. 79, 1. 11, r. the cartulary of Ca nons Ashby. The account of this county concludes with "mifcellaneous;" from which we learn that the Ifatis tinctoria, or Woad, is no longer to be found in this county, where it was formerly univerfally cultivated, on the authority of the Rev. Tho. Orlebar Marth, vicar of Stevington, near Bedford, and F.L.S. "who has been long employed in making collections for a natural history of the county, and is daily adding to his flock of information. Where diligent fearch is united with accurate invelligation, a work as nearly perfect as human wisdom will admit is the affured refult." D. H. Mr. URBAN, Coventry, April 10. THE quotation from Hearue, p. 204, agrees with the Town-book; and, as the mayoralty commences in November, William Smallwood, draper," called by Dr. Thomas "mayor in 1566," is the fame perfon noted by Hearne in 1567; but the circumftance of the Queen of Scots being confined "in the mayorefles parlour" is proba bly placed one year too early. It ap pears by concurring hiftories, that the firft landed at Wokington, in Cumberland, May 17, 1568; was thence removed to Carlile, then to Bolton calile, and again to Tutbury, in which latter route the pafled through Coventry. It may be new to your readers that the queen was a fecond time a prifoner in this city; as the following unpublifhed extract from the Town-book will demonftrate; "1569, Richard Hawden, mayor In his year was a great rebellion in the North, on which account Mary Queen of Scots was removed from Tutbury to Coventry, and there kept prifoner in the cuftody of the Earl of Shrewsbury and Earl of Huntingdon, from St. Andrew's tide until Candlemas, during which time the citizens |