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THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE,

Mr. URBAN,

For JUNE,

June 13.

ITHER the character of the English E peafantry is much altered, or it has been hitherto exceedingly mifunderceedingly mifunderftood. The idea formed of it feems to have been derived from the engaging defcriptious drawn by poets, painters, novelifts, and dramatifts, rather than from obfervations on real life. Men of genius have combined to adorn it with honefty, induftry, frugality, fimplicity, modefty, cleanliness, and humility; virtues that have, in confequence, been confidered by the inhabitants of the capital and other towns as the characteristicks of the inhabitants of the country; they reflecting not, that fuch evil propenfities as are common to all mankind must exift wherever population does, whether it be in the centre of a city or in the bo fom of a valley. Were townfmen acquainted with the manners of the rufticks, they would know that there is as much craft and wickednefs going on among trees as there is among houfes, only that the 'modes of practice are different and more concealed. Much folicitude and much money has been beftowed of late years, by many well-meaning people, in endeavouring to check the increafing idleneis and immorality of the poor; but, unfortunately, they have erred in the method of their attempt, the principal effort ufed by them being teaching children reading and writing, two acquirements that experience fhows are greatly mifufed. The young fcholars, inftead of confining their reading (as their patrons and patroncifes intended) to the religious

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works, eagerly learn the obfcene fongs hawked by ballad-fingers; and, if they go out to service, become subscribers to the abominable circulating-libraries that are now established in every petty town, from whence they obtain books that corrupt both their moral and political principles. Of writing they make little other ufe than to carry on goffiping and amorous correfpondences; or, what is worfe to commit forgery. Reading and writing promote not their welfare or happinefs; but, on the contrary, make them proud, idle,and difcontented. Scholars are above receiving inftruction, and fcorn handling ploughs and fpades, fcrubbing-brushes or mops. When ignorant of literary acquirements, the lower fort of people were content to apply themselves to agriculture, mechanics, and domeftic avocations; purfuits that procured them fubfiftence, and rendered them ufeful to their betters; who, on their parts, were not behind in rewarding them for their merits. Their hands were then employed, their principles were uncontaminated, and their minds were tranquil. Their labour maintained them, they practifed the advice they received from the pulpit, and they pined not after things unfuitable to their ftation. The evil propenfities of nature were kept under by continued ployment and the awe they flood in of their fuperiours. This is the way of life that thould be encouraged among our poor and the only one that can make them comfortable. The few individuals that purfue it are ufeful and respectable members of fociety; and those who are too idle or too proud to work are of no other ufe in the world

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Mufical Mania in Rustic Life.-Family of Harington. [June

than to increase the enormous burthen of the poor-rates, and, like the drones in a bee-hive, prey on the induftrious. Spelling-books and pens are not the only implements of evil in the hands of the vulgar; the fiddlestick is another. The mufical mania exifting among the higher claffes, and the number of military bands established in the kingdom, have fo much extended a degree of knowledge in mufick, that either fome difcarded foldier, fervant, or player, fcrapes a fiddle in every parish, and promotes drunkennnefs, lewdnefs, and idlenefs, by bringing the lads and girls together to dance, and by teaching other loitering fellows to fiddle alfo; infomuch, that our people feem to be becoming, like the German vulgar, all fidlers and foldiers.

A SOUTHERN FAUNIST.

Mr. URBAN,

June 14.

N anfwer to the queries of your

dent, T. P. p. 420, I beg to fay, that, when I was confulting Collinfon for the article I laft fent, the very difficulty he mentions ftruck me; and as Collinfon's authority was deferving of little credit, I had then little doubt of what I now feel myfelf convinced, that that author had left out a generation in the account of the Haringtons of Kelton. In this cafe, Etheldred (Dyngley) was the poet's grandmother, and Ifabel (Mark ham) his mother. This is ftrengthened by the following palage in the poet s dedication of his Ariofto to Queen Elizabeth: "Whatfoeve I am and can is your Majefty's Your gracious favours have been extended in my poor family even to the third generation, your bounty to us and our heirs.' But this is a point which may probably be afcertained by confulting the pedigrees, particularly the Vifitationbooks of Somerfetfhire, in the Briith Mufeum, &c.; which, perhaps, may alfo fhow the connec

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tion with the Haringtons of Exton and Ridlington, a point which, in the country, at a diftance from public records, I have no opportunity of difcovering. I obferve no mark of branch in the arms an nexed to Sir John Harington's portrait in the title-page of his Arioflo; nor in the pedigree printed in Wright's Rutland hire, p. 51; 'nor in the Baronetege, do I find the Haringtons of Kelfton inferted; nor do I find them in a MS pedigrce which I poffefs; though in this latter I find a remote collateral branch, deduced from Simon Harington, third fon of Sir Robert Harington, of Aldingham, by Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Lord Multon, of Egremond. This Simon lived in the time of Edward II. and married Alice, daughter and heir of John Bifhton, of Bifhton, in Shropshire; rington, of Bifhton, 1633, who from whom defcended John Ha

daughters. It is ftrange that a branch, which at this time were so have been omitted. There was a eminent as thofe of Kelfton, should Sir Henry Harington, knt. a rington of Exton. younger brother to John Lord Hations a coufin of the fame names. The poet menIn the notes to the 12th Book of Ariofto, he says,

land, having taken; in a vile and trea"Rorie Oge, a notable rebel of Irecherous parley, my valiant caufin Sir Henry Haringtom prifoner, had one night his cabin or little hovel, where he lay, befet with 100 foldiers of the feue their captain by force, fith the refaid Sir Henry's band, meaning to rebel's demands for his delivery were fuch as Sir Henry him felf, being his prifoner, would not condefcend unto, but would rather hazard his life, as he knew he fhould: I fay, thefe 100 men, well appointed, befet the houfe ftrongly, being made of nothing but hurdles get in, gat up in his fhirt, and gave the and dirt; yet the villain, ere they could ter gat through them all without hurt, knight 14 wounds very deadly, and afwhere a moufe almoft could not have

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got between them; and I have heard it affirmed in Ireland, that it was with mere witchcraft * !"

As to the title of Lady Mary H. applied to the daughter and wife of a knight, I believe the ufe of the Chriftian as well as the furname after the title of "Lady" was not in the time of James I, as it is now, exclufively appropriated to the daughters of thofe above the rank of Vifcount. Sir John Harington, to whofe wife " Lady Anne," Dray

ton dedicated his Queen Ifabel"

in 1608, was probably another Sir J. H. Sir Henry Harington abovementioned, of Elmefthorpe, in Leicefterfhire (brother to John Lord H.), had a fon Sir John Harington, knt. whofe daughter Sarah married John Lord Frecheville..

I collect from Collinfon the following imperfect deduction of the poet's defcendants:

John Harington, efq. died 1654. He married Mary, daughter and co-heir of Peter Specot, of Thornbury, in Devon, efq. She died Auguft 24, 1660; John, his fon, died Feb. 20, 1674. He married Lady Diones Ley, daughter of James Ley, Earl of Marlborough. She died Aug. 8, 1674:

John died 1700. He married Helena, daughter of Benjamin Goftlet, efq. who died 1718.

Henry died 176. He married Mary, daughter of Richard Backwell, efq. who died 1731.

Perhaps the "Nuga Antiquæ," which I have not at hand, may afford collateral illustration to many of these notices.

The Editor of Philips's

Theatrum Poetarum. P. S. The ftory of Sir William Keyte, of Norton, co. Gloucefter, * In the notes to the toth book, the poet mentions having been a few months in Ireland himself.

He mentions being of Eton college. Notes to book XXII.

In his Preface he mentions his tutor, "Samuel Fleming, of King's college, in Cambridge, a grave and learned man, and of a very auftere life;" brother to Abraham Fleming, the poet; for whom fee Theatrum Poetarum, p. 107.

who perifhed in the flames of his houfe, as enquired after in your Magazine vol. LXVII p. 779, and anfwered p. 1109, is told at length in the third vol. of Graves's " Spiritual Quixote," Book X. ch. xxvi. xxvii. xxviii.

The firft at prefent fuppofed to have a claim to the barony of Zouche of Haringworth, p. 402, is, I be lieve, Sir Cecil Bishop.

Mr. URBAN,

June 7.

AMONGST innumerable books which daily iffue from the prefs, it is fome amufement to confider the variety of ftyle to be found in them. The clear and luminous pages of a Porteus; the, flowing language of a Robertfon; the tur gid defcription of a Staunton; the involved fentences of a Gibbon; the mellifluous words of a Blair; the unintelligible jargon of one; the downright nonfenfe of another; the "not poetry, but profe run mad," of this, and the not profe, but poetry difguifed, of that-author-will fometimes delight, fometimes entertain, fometimes furprize, fometimes excite the rifible facul ties of a reader, and fometimes induce a most friendly and comfortable nap. These thoughts have occurred to me on taking up the truly wonderful publication of the learned Mrs. Piozzi, called by her "Retrofpection." I hope it will not interfere with your Reviewer if I fubmit to your readers a few fpecimens by way of Retrofpect of that charming work. Take then her own words. Speaking of her own book, the fays,

"Border on Truth's utmoft limits, And give a glimple, or fomething like a Of Fancy's boundless reign; [glimpfe, Whilft all agree that Fiction never knows To charm us fo as when the feeks refemWith Reality." [blance

"Such is their character, and fuch their fhape, them, That, clustered clofely, as our book prefents They

I think I fee here fome faint refemblance of the beautiful defcription, given by a learned Profeffor of Poetry, of a robin,

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