S no one has answered the in the same Author's Writings may furnish some information; and I shall therefore transcribe them. "The Sabbatarian Doctrines had been broached by Bownd in the same year wherein the Nine Articles had been made at Lambeth; which being opposed by Abp. Whitgift, and never admitted in this Church, were, by the cunning of that faction, and the zeal and diligence of this man, incorporated into the body of the Articles for the A quiries of your Correspondent Church of Ireland; in which it is de Caradoc, in your last Volume, p. 487, after Dr. Nicholas Bound, I am induced to send you such particulars as I have met with respecting him, though they are but slight, and though the interest may now be somewhat weakened by the republication of one of his Works, which was probably intended to be accompanied by some account of the Author. Dr. Nicholas Bounde was of Peterhouse, Cambridge, A. B. 1571-2, A. M. 1575, elected Fellow of his College in 1570, upon the vacancy made by Tho. Binge. On the 3d of Sept. 1585, being then S. T. P. he was instituted to the Rectory of Norton in Suffolk. In 1587 the fellowship which he had vacated was filled up by the election of Thomas Moigne. On the 19th of July, 1577, he was incorporated Master of Arts of the University of Oxford; and died the 8th Feb. 1607. 2. He was the Author of several Works, most of which are enumerated in your last Magazine, p. 429. Of these, "The Doctrine of the Sabbath plainly laid down," &c. first published in 1595, made a considerable noise. In this (which was enlarged with additions in 1606) the following opinions are maintained: 1. That the Commandment of sanctifying every seventh day, as in the Mosaic Decalogue, is moral and perpetual. That whereas all other things in the Jewish Church were taken away (Priesthood, Sacrifices, and Sacraments), his Sabbath was so changed as it still remaineth. 3. That there is great reason why we Christians should take ourselves as strictly bound to rest upon the Lord's Day, as the Jews were upon their Sabbath; it being one of the moral Commandments, where all are of equal authority. New Church Hist. lib. 9. sect. 20. Heylin's Extraneus Vapulaus, Loud. 12mo. 1656, p. 117. The two following passages from clared, for a doctrinal point, that the first day of the week, which is the Lord's Day, is wholly to be dedicated to the service of God; and therefore we are Bound therein to rest from our common and daily business, and to bestow that leisure upon holy exercises, both publick and private."-Heylin's Hist. of Abp. Laud. Lond. fol. 1671, p. 195. The English Puritans having sped so ill in a course of violence, were grown so wise as to endeavour the subverting they had no hope to take by storm or of that fort by an undermining, which battery. And the first course they fell upon, besides the artifices lately mentioned, for altering the posture of the ' Preacher in the Spittle Sermons, and that which was intended as a consequent to it, was the design of Dr. Bound (though rather carried under his name, than of his devising) for lessening, by degrees, the reputation of the antient festivals. The Brethren had tried many ways to suppress them formerly, as having too much in them of the superstitions of the Church of Rome; but they had found no way successful till they fell on this-which was, to set on foot some new Sabbath Doctrine; and by advancing the authority of the Lord's Day Sabbath, to cry down the rest. Some had been hammering on this anvil ten years before, and had procured the Mayor and Aldermen of London to present a petition to the Queen for the suppressing of all plays and interludes on the Sabbath Day (as they pleased to call it) within the liberties of their city. The gaining of which made them hope for more, and secretly to retail those speculations which afterwards Bound sold in gross, by publishing his Treatise of the Sabbath, which came out this year, 1595. And as this book was published for other reasons, so festivals, as appears by this passage in more particularly for decrying the yearly the same, viz. That he seeth not where the Lord hath given any authority to his Church, ordinarily and perpetually, to sanctify any day, except that which be hath sanctified himself.' And makes it an an especial argument against the goodness of Religion in the Church of Rome, that to the Seventh Day they had joined so many other days, and made them equal with the Seventh, if not superior thereunto, as well in the solemnity of divine offices, as restraint from labour. So that we may perceive from this what their intent was from the beginning to cry down the holidays as superstitious Popish ordinances; so that their new-found Sabbath being left alone (and Sabbath now it must be called) might become more eminent. Some other ends they might have in it, as the compelling of all persons, of what rank soever, to submit themselves unto the yoke of their Sabbath rigors, whom they despaired of bringing under their Presbyteries."-Heylin's Hist. of the Presbyterians, Lond. fol. 1672, 2d edit. pp. 337, 338. the vale of Aylesbury, and in the richest part of that pasturage, which ever since the days of Drayton of the Establishment with regard to the condition of their Churches and Chapels. Perhaps, Mr. Urban, the condition of Quarrendon Chapel may not be known to the noble family whose ancestors, although not made food for crows, have their "sconces every day liable to be knocked about with a dirty shovel." But, as your Magazine is very generally read, this notice of the circumstance may possibly fall into the hands of some person who may think it worth while to apply some remedy to this instance of an evil which is rapidly gaining ground amongst us an entire neglect of sacred edifices, and disregard for antient worth! Perhaps, also, some of your Readers will be able to inform me who was Sir Harry Lee, knight, whose lady was buried at Aylesbury in 1584, with the following very singular lines inscribed upon her monument: "If passing by this place thou doe desire [marble lie; To know what corpse here shry'd in The sum of that.which now thou dost require, [descrie. This sele'der verse shall sone to the Entombed here doth rest a worthie Dame, [bloud; Extract and born of noble house and (and perhaps long before) has been Her sire Lord PAGET hight of worthie celebrated for the value of its soil and produce, is now standing, in a melancholy state of ruinous dilapidation, a Chapel, which, from the fragments of old sepulchral stones still remaining, was evidently the burial-place of the Earls of Lichfield for many ages. I am informed that neither the proprietors of the surrounding estate, nor its occupiers, give themselves any trouble about the matter; but that the edifice and its contents are suffered to crumble into dust, without any attempt to restore or preserve them. It is certainly to be lamented, that, when an income of four or five thousand pounds per annum descends to the heir of an antient house, it does not carry with it something like an admonition of the reverence and respect which is due to the ashes of his forefathers; and I hope it may be allowed me to complain, that, when Sectaries are every day increasing in numbers, and evincing that they also increase in riches, by the sums which they voluntarily contribute to the erection of Meeting-houses and Conventicles, none of which do I see falling into decay or disuse, there should be so much carelessness on the part of the Members realme; fame, [floud. Whose virtues cannot sinke in Lethe Tho bretheren had she, Baro's of this [he bight, A Knight her freere, Sir Harry Lee To whom she bare three impes, which [spight: had to name COMPENDIUM OF COUNTY HISTORY. HAMPSHIRE, INCLUDING THE ISLE OF WIGHT. SITUATION AND EXTENT. Boundaries. North, Berks. East, Surrey and Sussex. Channel. West, Dorset and Wilts. South, English Main land. Greatest length 55, greatest breadth 40, circumference 150, square 1481 miles. Isle of Wight. Greatest length 23, greatest breadth 13, circumference 60, square 164 miles. Province, Canterbury. Diocese, Winchester. Circuit, Western. ANTIENT STATE AND REMAINS. British Inhabitants. Segontiaci, who were afterwards dispossessed by the Hide, Winchester was the Saxon Metropolis. The Cathedral was founded by Cinegils, first Christian King of Westsex, and dedicated by St. Birinus in 648. In it were interred the remains of its founder Cinegils, and Cynewulf, Kings of Westsex; of Egbert, the First King of England; Ethelwolf; Alfred the Great, whose body was afterwards removed to Hide; Edward the Elder; Edred; Edwy; Canute the Great; Hardicanute; Emma, “the pearl of Normandy," wife of the two Kings Eithelred the unready, and Canute, and mother of the two Kings Hardicanute and Edward the Confessor; and William Rufus. Among the more eminent of its Bishops who had sepulture here were St. Swithin, the Patron Saint of the City; Heury de Blois, the brother of Stephen; Peter de Rupibus, guardiau of Henry III.; William of Wykeham, the celebrated architect; Cardinal Beaufort, whose death is so impressively described by Shakspeare; William Waynfleet; and the persecuting Stephen Gardiner. The Round Table, popularly attributed to Arthur, more probably owed its origin to Stephen, to prevent disputes for precedency among his attend ants. Hide was a Mitred Abbey, founded in 1110 by Henry I. and to it were removed the bones of Alfred the Great, his Queen Alswitha, his sons Ethelward and Edward. It was also the repository of the relicks of St. Grimbald and St. Judocus. At Whorwell, in a Nunnery founded in expiation of her inurder of Edward the martyr, Elfrida, the beautiful, but infamous Queen of Edgar, was interred. At Beaulieu Abbey, Eleanor Queen of Henry II. was buried. In Rumsey Abbey (founded by Edward the elder, whose daughter Elfleda was the first Abbess) was educated Matilda, daughter of Malcolm King of Scots, and Queen of Henry I. uuder the government of Christina, cousin to Edward the Confessor. Mary daughter of Stephen was its Abbess, but she renounced the veil, and married Matthew younger son of Theodoric Earl of Flanders. GENT. MAG. June, 1817. PRE PRESENT STATE AND APPEARANCE. Rivers. Aloe, Anton, Avon, Auburn, Boldre-water, Exe, Hamble, Itchin, Loddon, Stour, Test or Tees, Tillbill, Wey.-Isle of Wight; Medina, Yar, Wooten, Shankiin. Inland Navigation. Basingstoke (which near Odiham passes through a tunnel nearly 3 quarters of a mile long), Andover, Southampton, and Salisbury canals. Southampton water, Boldre water, Avon,' Itchin, and Stour rivers.-Isle of Wight: Medina and Yar rivers; Brading and Newtown harbours. Lakes. Alresford Pond, head of the Itchin: Alverstoke and Sowley Lakes. ́Eminences and Views. Portsdown hill, on which a fair is held July 26; Wey hill, on which is a large fair, beginning October 9; Danebury hill, the subject of a Poem by Mrs. Duncombe; Sidon hill in High close park. Eaglehurst cliff.-Isle of Wight: St. Catherine's hill, the highest in the island, 750 feet above high-water mark. Culver Cliffs. Carisbrook castle. Pyramid on Ashey Down; Bimbridge Down. Natural Curiosities. Hurst castle Causeway. Shingles, Portsea and Hayling islands. Hengistbury head. New, Alice, Holt, Woolmer, and Bere forests. In Dibdin church-yard a yew-tree 30 feet in circumference. Cadenham oak, remarkable for its early vegetation.-Isle of Wight: Needles rocks; Blackgang, Luccomb, and Shanklin chines; St. Catherine's cliffs. Hermit's hole in Culver's cliff. Freshwater cave. Dunnose promontory. Pitland and Shanklin medicinal springs. Public Edifices. Portsmouth fortifications, the strongest in England; Dockyard, gun-wharf, victualling-office, anchor-wharf and forge, ropehouses, Government-house. Fort Monkton, Royal Hospital at Hasler. Ise of Wight: Newport House of Industry. Freshwater Lighthouse. Seats. Hurn Court, Earl of Malmesbury, Lord Lieutenant of the County. Appuldurcombe (Isle of Wight), Hon. Kempshot Park, J. C. Crook, esq. C. A. Pelham. esq. Ash Park, John Portal, esq. Rushworth, esq. Knighton House (Isle of Wight), M. Bisset, esq. Mottisfont, Sir Charles Mill, bart. Northcourt (Isle of Wight), R. H. A. Nunwell (Isle of Wight), Sir William Paulton, Hans Sloane, esq. Purbrook Park, Lord Keith. Titchborne, Sir H. Titchborne, bart. Members Members to Parliament. For the County, 2; Winchester, 2; Southampton, 2; Andover, 2; Christchurch, 2; Lymington, 2; Petersfield, 2; Portsmouth, 2; Stockbridge, 2; Whitchurch, 2. Isle of Wight: Newport, 2; Newtown, 2; Yarmouth, 2. Total 26. Produce. Cora, Oak and Elm Timber, Hops, Honey, Sheep, Hogs, Fish, Whetstones. Manufactures. Shalloons, Coarse Woollens, Checks, Bed-ticking, Silk, Shipbuilding, Malt, Starch, Hair-powder. POPULATION. Hundreds, 39, and the County of the town of Southampton. Parishes 253. Market Towns 21. Houses 44,240. Inhabitants. Maies, 118,855; Females, 126,225: total 245,080. Families employed in Agriculture, 21,401; in Trade, 18,024; in neither, 11,491 total 50,916. Baptisms. Males, 4,109; Females, 4,020. Males, 2,897; Females, 2,718. Towns having not less than 1000 Inhabitants; viz. Houses. Inhab. Winchester (assize city )1,123 6,705 Lymington.. Marriages, 2512.- Burials, Southampton (county Alton..... to wu) Fordingbridge. Portsmooth, includ 6,960 40,567 Kingsclere. ing Portsea Bishop's Waltham.. Gosport. Havant.... Romsey. Ride (Isle of Wight). Newport (Isle of Wight)..691 3,855 Christchurch.. Cowes (Isle of Wight) ....624 3,325 Hambledo ·B... Fareham. Petersfield. Andover Brading (Isle of Wight)..330 1,218 Ringwood.. Odiham.... Titchfield... Basingstoke.. Total, Towns, 25; Houses, 20,798; Inhabitants, 113,954. HISTORY. A. D. 43, Isle of Wight, Vectis, conquered by Vespasian. 501, at Portsmouth, landed Porta with his sons Bieda and Megla, by whose aid Cerdic established the kingdom of Westsex. 530, Isle of Wight subdued by Cerdic first King of Westsex. 635, at Winchester, Cinegils King of Westsex, and Quicelm his brother, convered to Christianity, and baptized by St. Birinus. `827, at Winchester, Egbert crowned first King of Eugland, 854, at Winchester, Ethelwulf granted his charter for the general establish, ment of Tythes. 871, at Basing, Ethelred and Alfred defeated by the Danes. 934, atWinchester, Colbrand, a gigantic Dane, killed in single combat by Guy Earl of Warwick. 961, at Winchester, Edgar imposed on the Welsh a tribute of 300 wolves' heads to be delivered to him annually at his castle of Wolvesey (whence its name), and commuted offences by the delivery of a certain number of wolves tongues in proportion to the offence; by which laws these destructive animals were extirpated. 994, at Andover, Olaus King of Norway, baptized, Ethelred the Unready standing sponsor. 1002, at Winchester, November 13, began the general massacre of the Danes by order of Ethelred the Unready. 1034, at Southampton, Canute rebuked the impious flattery of his courtiers by sitting, crowned, on the beach, and commanding the tide not to approach his footstool. 1042, at Winchester, on Easter-day, Edward the Confessor crowned with great pomp. 1052, at Winchester, died Emma, the mother of Edward the Confessor, who, according to Brompton and Knighton, being accused of incontinence |