period afforded a suitable opportunity of. consulting the Doctor on this important bubject. Accordingly he introduced it In a solemn, weighty, manner, inquiring

of the Doctor what were his sentiments as to the truth of the Scriptures. On the question being put, although he was in a very weak state, and near his close, he replied, Young man! my advice to you is, that you cultivate an acquaintance with, and a firm belief in the Holy Scriptures: this is your certain interest"."

Mr. URBAN,

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Jan. 18.

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HE attention of the publick being a good deal turned to William Greatrakes, I send some particulars relative to his family, drawn up from papers in my possession. Allen Greatrakes, of Clashdermot, in the Barony of Imokilly, and county of Cork, Gentleman," (so styled in a lease dated March 9, 1755, granted to him by Richard Supple, Esq. * of the lands of Monelahan, co. Cork,) had three sons and a daughter, Elizabeth Greatrakes, wife of Courtenay, of Lismore, co. Waterford, and Dow living at an advanced age. The sons were Osborne Greatrakes, Willium Greatrakes, Edmond Greatrakes, mentioned in the above lease, but supposed to have died young, as no farther account of him occurs. Allen Greatrakes, the father, devised the Jands of Clashdermot and Monelahan to his sons Osborne and William, of which they made a division, Osborne taking Monelahan, and William Clashdermot.

Osborne Greatrakes, the eldest son, resided at the town of Youghall, co. Cork; he is described in the Papers sometimes as "Osborne Greatrakės, Merchant," at others, as "Osborne Greatrakes, Mariner." By his wife, who was named Mary, he left four daughters and coheiresses, viz. 1. Frances, wife of Anthony Sampis, Esq. 2. Mary; 3. Catherine; 4. Sarah. This Osborne Greatrakes mortgaged his leasehold lands of Monelahan and premises in Youghal to Richard Hutcheson, Esq. by whom the Mortgage was assigned to Colonel Richard Tonson, M. P. for the borough of Baltimore, whose descendant the Right

* Richard Supple, Esq. of Ahadoe, .co. Gork, (the lessor of Allan Greatrakes,) was father of Sir Richard Brooke, Bart, of Northamptonshire.

Hon. William Lord Riversdale ob-* tained a decree of Court for the sale of the mortgaged premises. They were accordingly sold to Mr. Adderley Willcocks; and in the deed of convey ance the before-mentioned William Baron Riversdale, Mary Greatrakes (widow of Osborne Greatrakes), An; thony Sampis, Esq. and Frances Sam, pis (otherwise Greatrakes) his wife, and Mary, Catherine, and Sarah Greattakes, daughters and coheiresses of the late Osborne Greatrakes, are stated to be consenting parties.

William Greatrakes, of Clashdermot, the younger son (the supposed Junius) is styled usually in these Papers, "William Greatrakes, of the city of Cork, Esq." He appears to have bad a property (I believe under a lease) in the barony of Duhallow, co. Cork, which he conveyed to Tho mas Chatterton, Gent. of the city of Cork, viz. “ all that and those the lands of Knockanerobart, Nancy's Farm, Keel, and Milleen, situate in the parish of Culleen, barony of Duhallow, and county of Cork, containing 328 plantation acres, and also the lands of Knockigillane, in the same barony."

Of Mr. William Greatrakes's claims to the authorship of Junius's Letters, I do not feel myself entitled to give any opinion.

Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

G. H. W.

Jan. 19.

IN vol. LXXXIV. Partisan 201

are some lines "Ad Elisam Popi borto lauros carpentem," also a trans lation of them, both sent by a Corespondent, signed Oxoniensis. I need not tell you, Mr. Urban, that the Eliza so celebrated, was the late learned and excellent Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, the translator of Epictetus. But, on turning to the Memoirs of that lady, by her Nephew the Rev. Montagu Pennington, p. 25 of the quarto edi tion, I was induced to refer back to the year 1738, of your valuable Miscellany, and there found not only the original Latin verses, p. 372, but three several translations, or rather imitations of them. Also a Latin answer, to the Epigram, and a translation of the same, both I believe from the pen of the learned and modest object of the first well-merited compliment.

Yours, &c. A CONSTANT READER'.

Mr. URBAN, Jun. 2. AREFIELD PLACE (a view of which forms the Frontispiece to our present Volume) is so ably described by Mr. Lysons, in his Middlesex Parishes," that I beg you to insert his own words:

"In the survey of Domesday, the name of this parish is written Herefelle; In other antient records, Herfeld, Herefelde, and Herfield. Harefeld in the Saxon is literally the hare field.'

"The parish of Harefield lies in the hundred of Elthorne, and forms the North-west angle of the county of Middlesex, being bounded on the North by Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire; on the West by the river Colne, which separates it from Denham in Buckinghamshire; on the South by Hillingdon; and on the East by Ickenham and Rislip. The village is pleasantly situated on rising ground, three miles from Uxbridge, and eighteen from London.

"The manor of Harefield is thus described in the survey of Domesday

Richard, son of Gilbert the Earl (of Briou,) holds Herefelle, which is taxed at five hides. The land is five carucates. Two bides are in demesne, on which there are two ploughs. The villans have three ploughs. The priest has one virgate; there are five villans, who hold a virgate each; seven bordars, who have five acres each, and one bordar, who has three acres; there are three cottars, and three slaves, two mills yielding 15s. rent, four fisheries yielding 1000 eels, meadow equal to one carncate, pasture for the cattle of the manor, and pannage for 1200 hogs. The total annual value is 127.; it was only 81. when entered upon by the present owner; in King Edward (the Confessor's) time (being then the property of the Countess Goda,) it was 141.'- Richard, son of Gilbert Earl of Briou, was sometime called Richard Fitz Gilbert, sometime Richard de Tonbridge, and sometime Richard de Clare: from him it seems to have descended to Alice, daughter of Geoffrey, and grand-daughter of Baldwin de Clare,

"By a quo warranto, bearing date 1284, it appears, that Roger de Bacheworth was then lord of the manor of Harefield, and that he and his ancestors had enjoyed it, with all its rights and privileges, from time immemorial, paying a small quit-rent to the Honour of Clare.

Sir

Richard de Bacheworth, in the year 1315, granted this manor to Simon de Swanland, who married the elder daughter and co-heir of his brother Roger. This Sir Richard afterwards took upon him GEIT. MAG. January, 1815.

the habit of the Knights Hospitallers; and his wife Margaret, who had dower assigned her in Harefield, took the veil. William, son of Sir Simon de Swanland, had three sons, two of whom died in Joanna, the only daughter, married their infancy, and the third left no issue. John Newdegate, who was afterward knighted, and served in the wars in France under Edward III. In the year 1585, John Newdegate, esq. the eighth in lineal descent from Sir John, who married, Joanna Swanland, exchanged the manor of Harefield, with Sir Edmund Anderson, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, for the manor of Arbury in Warwickshire, which has ever since been the principal seat of the family. Sir Edmund Anderson, in 1601, sold Harefield to Sir Thomas Egerton, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal; his wife, Alice Countess Dowager of Derby, and Lady Anne, Lady Frances, and Lady Elizabeth Stanley, her daughters. The Lord Keeper died in 1617, being then Viscount Brackley; the Countess of Derby, in 1637. Lady Anne Stanley, the eldest daughter, married Grey Lord Chandos; and after his death, Mervin Earl of Castlehaven. She survived her mother only ten years; and on her death, George Lord Chandos (her eldest son by her first husband) inherited the manor of Harefield, pursuant to the deed of 1601. Lord Chandos died in February 1655, having bequeathed it by will to his wife Jane. In the month of October following, Lady Chandos married Sir William Sedley, bart. Sir Wil liam died in 1656; and in 1657 his widow took a third husband, George Pitt, esq. of Stratfield Say, in the county of Southampton. Having vested all her estates, by a deed bearing date 1673, in Mr. Pitt and his heirs, he, in conjuncti on with his trustees, in the month of February 1675, (his lady being still living) conveyed by bargain and sale the manors of Harefield and Morehall to Sir Richard Newdegate, bart. Serjeant at Law, younger son of Sir John Newdegate, and grandson of John Newdegate, esq. who had exchanged them with Sir Edmund Anderson. Having been thus restored to the Newdegate family again, they have continued in it ever since, and are now [1800] the property of Sir Roger Newdigate, bart. who is the thirteenth in de scent from Sir John Newdegate first mentioned. It is remarkable that this manor (with the exception of a temporary alienation) has descended by intermarriages, and a regular succession (in the families of Bacheworth, Swanland, and Newdegate,) from the year 1984, when, by the verdict of a Jury, it appeared

that

that Roger de Bacheworth, and his ancestors, had then held it from time immemorial. It is the only instance in which I have traced such remote possession in the county of Middlesex.

"Harefield Place, situated near the Church, [of both of which a good view is given in Mr. Lysons's Work,] was the antient Mansion-house of the Lords of the Manor, and for many years a seat of the Newdegate family. After the alienation before mentioned, it became the successive residence of Lord Chief Justice Anderson, and the Lord Keeper Egerton. The Countess Dowager of Derby, wife of the Lord Keeper, (and with him joint purchaser of the manor,) continued to reside here during her second widowhood. Here she was honoured with a visit from Queen Elizabeth, whom she received with all the pomp and pageantry of those days *. Sir Roger Newdigate was once possessed of an account in MS. of this visit, with a collection of the complimentary speeches with which, as was customary upon those occasions, she was addressed. The MS. is unfortunately lost+; but Sir Roger Newdigate recollects, that she was first welcomed at a farm-house, now called Dew's farm, by several allegorical persons, who attended her to a long avenue of elms leading to the house, which obtained from this circumstance the name of The Queen's Walk. Four trees of this avenue still remain, and the greater part were standing not many years ago. It was at Harefield Place also that Milton's Arcades was performed by the Countess of Derby's grandchildren. That great Poet, during the time he lived at Horton with his father, (viz. from 1632 to 1637,) was, it is probable, a frequent visitor at Harefield. After the death of the Countess of Derby, Harefield Place was inhabited by George Lord Chandos, her grandson. This Nobleman, during the civil war, attached himself to the royal cause, and behaved with great gallantry at the battle of Newbury, having three horses shot under him. When the republican party had

The Queen was twice at Harefield. In 1601 she visited Sir Edward Anderson there; and in 1602 Sir Thomas Egerton. See the Queen's Progresses, vol. II. 1601, 1602, pp. 20, 21; and Vol. III. Preface, p. xviii. EDIT.

Not long before the death of Sir. Roger Newdigate, this curious MS. (which had for many years been missing) was found in a volume of "Strype's Annals;" and a transcript of it was made (see LXXVI. 1074; LXXVII. 633.) But both the original and the copy were soon after again mislaid; and neither of them has since been found. EDIT.

established themselves in power, he was⚫ obliged to pay a heavy composition for his estates. He then retired to Harefield, where he spent the remainder of his days in great privacy. Dr. John Conant, a celebrated preacher and divine, resided with him as his domestic Chaplain; and, during his residence there, preached a voluntary lecture on a week-day to a numerous congregation at Uxbridge. Harefield Place was burnt down about the year 1660. Tradition says, that the fire was occasioned by the carelessness of the witty Sir Charles Sedley, who was amusing himself by reading in bed. It is probable that he was on a visit to his sister-in-law Lady Chandos. The foundations of the old mansion may be traced at a little distance above the site of the present house, which was formed by uniting the two lodges with an intermediate building. This was done by Sir Richard Newdegate, the second Baronet, whose widow resided in it several years, it being her jointure house: it was for some years also the residence of Sir Roger Newdigate, the present Baronet [1800], who, in 1743, was unanimously chosen Knight of the shire of Middlesex. In 1760, having fixed his residence in Warwickshire, he sold Harefield Place (retaining the manor and his other estates in this parish) to John Truesdale, esq. In 1780 it was purchased of Mr. Truesdale's executors by the late William Baynes, esq. whose son, Sir Christopher Baynes, bart. is the present proprietor and occupier.

"Evelyn, in his Sylva, mentions a silver fir, which having been planted at Harefield Place in 1603 at two years growth, had, in 1679, attained the height of 81 feet, and measured 13 feet girth."

The Church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, is a Gothic structure of flint and stone, consisting of a chancel, nave, and two ailes; at the west end is a low square tower embattled. It contains a very handsome monument to Alice Countess of Derby, engraved in Mr. Lysons's work; several monuments of the Newdegate family (one of which, to the memory of Mary Lady Newdegate, is also there engraved; monuments in memory of the Ashbyes, Bishop Pritchett, &c. &c. all of which are fully described by Mr. Lysons; to whose valuable Work I refer your Readers.

B. N.

Mr. URBAN,

Jan. 2.

Assignance, and CranioS Physiognomy is now laughed logy has taken it into his head to supply her place, I cannot forbear to address a few lines to you upon that event; though I must confess, I do it with fear and trembling, lest I should expose myself, by attempting that for which my head was not originally formed.

If your head, Mr. Urban, has the same defective organization, which I rather suspect, and you have not yet attended the Lectures in Rathbone Place, you will probably be unable to comprehend the nature of my alarm: I will therefore explain it.

The learned Lecturer (for so I am compelled to style him by the etiquette of literary intercourse) declares that no person can understand bis Lectures, unless he has the organ of Craniology in perfection.

If I could admit this dictum in its full force, I should not have presumed to offer any opinion upon the subject; but I rather suspect it to be a little stroke of art, which has amply answered the intended purpose.

This age, it is well known, pretends to a more general diffusion of knowledge than any which has preceded it, insomuch that ignorance upon any subject whatsoever is now considered as disgraceful. To avoid the imputation, therefore, of an imperfection in the headpiece, and of that want of knowledge which has been denounced as the necessary consequence, inen, wo, men, and children, crowd the Lecture Room; for that want of the organ of Craniology which incapacitates them from understanding what is there delivered, does not preclude their entrance, provided they have previously paid their subscription.

This plan of operating upon the feelings of pride, in order to fill the Lecture Room, brings to my recollection a similar attempt, to excite the benevolence of a congregation, which was equally successful. A Methodist Preacher, after expatiating on the excellence of the charity which he was then recommending, declared it to be of a nature so superior to all others, that no person could refuse to put money into the plate, unless he were actually in debt. The effect of this upon his auditors may easily be conceived. No one was willing that

his neighbours should suspect that he was in debt, and consequently every one subscribed.

These ofatorical kinds of swindling are not, as I believe, yet provided against by any existing Statute.

The Lecturer labours hard to free his system from the imputation of Materialism; but he does it in such a manner as evidently proves, that either he does not understand the force of his own argument, or that, having craniologically examined the heads of his subscribers, he is con vinced they will not detect him. Не reasons thus My system is not Materialism, because man, being a free agent, has power to correct those evil. propensities to which the formation of his skull naturally determines him.:

Here the Lecturer wisely keeps back one half of the argument; and for this plain reason, that the whole would at once reduce his boasted dis covery to the baseless fabrick of a vision. For if man, by his free agency, can correct the evil organs,. he unquestionably has equal power to pervert the good ones; and in either of these cases the craniologist cannot by any examination of the skull, which will necessarily remain up. changed in its form, learn whether the good or evil propensities are unaltered, or still retain their pristine tendency; and consequently, as the Lawyers express it, he will take nothing by the examination.

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That his Lectures are well attended, does not in the least surprize me, who perfectly recollect what numbers flocked, in former days, to another learned Lecturer, in order to be in structed in the Science of Animal Magnetism.

If I were worthy to offer advice to the present learned Lecturer, I would recommend the skull of that profound Physician to his consideration; and I have no doubt but that the examination will somewhat startle the Professor of Craniology.

I have myself, Mr. Urban, some little judgment in heads; but, being a native of the Highlands, and gifted with second sight, I do not require to handle men's skulls in order to judge of their character; and, conse quently, I can, without ever having seen the aforesaid Doctor, tell the Professor some things which will occur in his examination of the skull.

He

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He will find the organ of Calocagathy outwardly so perfect, that, without looking any further, he will at once pronounce the Doctor to have been incapable of giving his pupils nonse..se as an equivalent for their money.

But, if he extend his inquiry, he will discover that the organ of Covetiveness is of a capacity equal to that of Calocagathy; and the real history of the Doctor's life will inform him, that he, being a free agent, perverted the good tendency of the latter, and yielded to the evil tendency of the former, until he persuaded himself that he might honestly take money for instructions in an art which never had existence."

The Lecturer must be aware that it is by no means uncommon for men thus to deceive themselves.

The above is humbly submitted to the Professor's consideration, upon the supposition that the profound Lecturer upon Animal Magnetism is actually dead. If that be not the case, I must apprize him as a Foreigneɛ,

that it is not quite sale in this country,

to handle living skulls in order to prove dishonesty, excepting perhaps in Westminster Hall, the Old Bailey, and other Lecture Rooms of the same kind.

This, however, need not prevent the Professor from paying due attention to his own skull, and especially to those organs which I have particularly pointed out; and I am clearly of opinion, that a candid examination of them will give him an idea of the state of those organs very different from that which he at present entertains.

I remain, Mr. Urban, with the highest consideration for the learned Lec turer, your very humble Servant,

PERICRANIUM.

testimony, we may consider Physical Phenomena as divided into two classes: the one comprehending all those of which the course is known from experience to be perfectly uniform; and the other comprehending those of which the course, though no doubt regulated by general laws, is not perfectly onforma ble to any law with which we are acquainted: So that the most general rule which we are enabled to give, admits of many exceptions.

"The violation of the order of events among the Phenomena of the former class the suspension of gravity, for example; the deviation of any of the Stars from their places, or their courses in the Heavens, &c. &c. these are facts, of which the improbability is so strong, that no testimony can prevail against it ; and it will always be more wonderful that the violation of suen order should have taken place, than that any number of witnesses should be aeceived themselves, or should be disposed to deceive others."

From the Edinburgh Review for
Sept. 1814, pp. 328-9.

Mr. URBAN,

CONSIDERING the & Essai Philosophique sur les Probabilités” of M. L. Compte Laplace, as by no means likely to obtain a general circulation in this country, and the once much vaunted reasoning of Mr. Hume in his Essay on Miracles, as already sufficiently confuted; I certainly should not have deemed it necessary to notice the sceptical opinions of either of those Writers, on the momentous subject referred to in the preceding extract, were there not perceptible, throughout the whole critique of the Edinburgh Reviewer on the former work, a more than tacit approbation of the Deistical doctrines therein maintained. It is true, indeed, that the Reviewer, when speaking of Mr. Hume's Essay on Miracles, has been pleased to qualify the high eulogium pronounced upon its Author, "for his deep thought and enlarged views," by piously admonishing us not to stretch the principles contained in it so far, as to interfere with the truths of Religion.' But how we are to avail ourselves of this friendly caution; or by what kind of mental ingenuity we can possibly contrive to admit at the same time, both the soundness of Mr. Hume's philosophy, and the divine pretensions of the Gospels I have,

for