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RICHARDSON, GOODLUCK, and Co. Stock Brokers, at their Old Established Office, Bank-Buildings, Cornhill.

JOHN NICHOLS AND SON, 25, PARLIAMENT STREET, WESTMINSTER.

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MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.

Mr. SHEPHARD, of Doctors' Commons, informs us," that the Government has lately, with its usual liberality and attention to the public interest, purchased the remaining Books, containing the original Entries of Marriages and Births, solemnized in the Fleet Prison, and its Rules, from the year 1686 to 1754, together with those celebrated at the Mint and May Fair Chapel; and it having been determined to deposit them for safe custody and easy reference, in the Bishop of London's Registry, where the others have been for some time placed, they have been lately transmitted there, under an Order from Lord Sidmouth, the Secretary of the Home Department.'

As an order has been issued prohibiting Jewels in the Coronets of Peers, and as certain regulations appeared a few days ago to prevent Knighthood being surreptitiously obtained, an Advocate for adhering to strict propriety in all matters of this kind, suggests the necessity of issuing a similar order or injunction to put an end to the unwarranted assumption of bearing family mottoes in gold letters and edges on a deep blue circle, with a gold buckle, &c. in imitation of the Order of the Garter. The circular, or oval method, should be restricted to the Orders of Knighthood. See vol. LXXVII. ii. P. 627.

E. I. C. says, permit me to correct an error in the Compendium of the History of Shropshire (p. 211). My ancestor, Col. William Carlos, who was a partner in his Sovereign's misfortunes after the battle of Worcester, is there called Col. Careless. The truth is, his name was altered, and a coat of arms conferred as a mark of royal favour, but his name never was Careless before that event. The book entitled 'Boscobel,' contains some account of the Colonel. Any information of the life of this Gentleman, or particulars of his family, which formerly resided at Broom-hall, co. Stafford, would be esteemed a favour."

A CORRESPONDENT, actuated by a compassionate regard for the sufferings of the brute species, and lamenting in common with every feeling mind, the wanton cruelties which are so frequently practised with impunity, earnestly suggests the formation of a Society, by whose united exertions, some check may be applied, if practicable, to an evil which is equally repugnant to the dictates of humanity, and to the benevolent spirit and precepts of the Christian religion. Persons whose sentiments accord with those of the writer on this subject, and who are : willing to aid the cause he recommends, are requested to address a few lines to CLERUS, Ivy Lane, Paternoster-row.

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A CORRESPONDENT states, "In a little volume, entitled Percy Anecdotes,' p. 8, comprising Memoirs of George III. is the following paragraph: The King was a seven months' child, and from that circumstance, so weakly at the period of his birth, that serious apprehensions were entertained that it would be impossible to rear him. It was, in consequence, thought advisable to waive the strict etiquette hitherto maintained, of having for the royal infant a nobly descended nurse, in favour of one in the middle ranks of life, the fine healthy freshcoloured wife of the head-gardener of one of the palaces.' The Querist knows the etiquette of a Lady Governess, as was Lady Charlotte Finch (Ordinances of Royal Households, p. 127. Lel. Collect. iii. p. 183), but he has never heard of dry and wet-nurses being (according to etiquette) strictly required to be of noble descent.The query is then, whether the paragraph is founded upon actual precedent?"

Mr. V. YONGE remarks, "that in looking over some family records, he discovered a Grant of Free Warren, by Edward the Second, to Reginald (Yonge) de Chavernes, alias Charnes, in the County of Stafford. Likewise a Grant from Henry the Eighth, to fish in Copmere, as far as a man can throw a twopenny hatchet." Should any of our ingenious and Antiquarian Correspondents possess information respecting that family, or point out the source of obtaining it, they would oblige our Correspondent.

A YORKSHIRE FEMALE CORRESPONDENT would be obliged if any Antiquary could inform her what is the reason of the Cornish Fishermen's Wives, after their Husbands are gone to Sea, calling out,

Eve to the lea, the boats are gone to Sea?' It appears a relic of some antient custom, the origin of which is now lost. A custom also prevails in the Western parts of Cornwall, of making large bonfires in some principal part of the Town, parading the streets with lighted torches, and with garlands of flowers on the head, and thrown as a scarf over the shoulders, on the Eve of Midsummer and St. Peter's day. It was some years back the custom to swing children over the bonfire when it was nearly out, in order, as the old people said, to make them grow, also to make them fortunate throughout the following year."

A CONSTANT READER would be greatly favoured by obtaining a correct descent of the family of Scudamore of Wilts, before the younger branch of that family married the heiress of Ewyas, and settled at HomeLacy; and also of the elder branch, which remained in Wilts.

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THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE,

For MAY, 1821.

MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE.

Mr. URBAN,

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May 3. S your Reviewer of the admired Novel of Kenilworth' has contented himself, like most others, with laudatory remarks upon it, I trust that a few observations, relative to its errors, as well as to the real his tory of its persons, may be interesting and serviceable to your readers. Posterity will perhaps wonder, in recurring to your pages, that research should have been employed to elucidate a Novel; but the wonder will cease when they consider its merit, and the fame of its principal character. But the work betrays carelessness and error, however otherwise elaborate, and no one can find fault with the exposure of wilful misrepresentation. In the course of this letter I shall endeavour to point out mistakes in the biography, genealogy, and time of which the author treats.

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To commence, therefore, with that abused and calumniated gentleman, Anthony Forster, of Camnor Hall. One of your Correspondents has endeavoured to trace his descent, for which the thanks of every reader are due; but, although the name of Anthony occurs in the pedigree of the Forsters of Harpden, that person is not the Tony' of the Novel. From that family were descended the Forsters of Aldermaston*, of whom Humphrey Forster, esq. was created a baronet, May 20, 1620; he joined the Parliament in the succeeding troubles, and was active in promoting their cause in Berkshire. The author of 'Kenilworth' has unfairly stated, that "Tony's father was Reeve to the Abbot of Abingdon," a fiction not immediately detected, because it adds to the supposed attachment of that man to the Catholic Religion. The story of his kindling the Martyrs' pile must be false. Anthony was fourth son to Richard

Pedigree, Harl. MSS. 1081.

Forster, Esq. of Iplethe, in Salop at what time he removed to Cumnor is not known, but the death of Amicia, Lady Leicester, happened in 1560, and is stated by all authori ties to have taken place in his house there. Ashmole says, that, after that event, he "being a man formerly addicted to hospitality, company, mirth, and musick, was afterwards observed to forsake all this, with much melancholy and pensiveness (some say with madness) pin'd and droop'd away." If this is true, he must have languished for fifteen years, as he was living in 1575.

He married Anne, daughter of Reginald (or Rainold) Williams, elder brother to John, Lord Williams of Thamet; by whom he had three sons, John, Robert, and Henry: his daughter Janette, mentioned in the novel, appears to be the creation of fancy, as no mention whatever is made of her.-Mr. Forster was bu ried in Cumnor Church, near the North wall, under a monument of grey marble, with the brazen figures of a man in armour, and his wife, and three sons kneeling behind her. His epitaph, which does not mention the time of his death, is as follows: "Antonius Forster, generis generosa propago,

Cumneræ Dominus Bercheriensis erat. Armiger, Armigero prognatus patre Ricardo,

Qui quondam Iplethæ Salopiensis erat. Quatuor ex isto fluxerunt & stemmate nati, Ex isto Antonius stemmate quartus erat,

+ Sir John Williams, of Burfield, married Elizabeth, daughter and coheir to Richard More, of Burfield, Esq. by whom he had two sons, Reginald, and John, created Lord Williams by Queen Mary, Lord Chamberlain of the Household to Philip II.; he was also appointed, 1569, President of the Council in the Principality of Wales, in which year he died at Ludlow Castle.

Mente

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Historical Errors in "Kenilworth."

Mente sagax, animo precellens, corpore promptus;

Eloquii dulcis, ore disertus erat,

In factis probitas; fuit in sermone venustas,

In vultu gravitas, religione fides,

In patriam pieras, in egenos grata vo-
Juntas,

Accedunt reliquis annumeranda bonis.
Si quod cuncta rapit, rapuit non omnia
Lethum ;

Si quod mors rapuit, vivida fama dedit."

Although the above character is absurd, (for who ever approached so near to the character of Sir Charles Grandison) it warrants our rejection of the name of "Tony-fire-thefaggot."

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Then follows the epitaph of his wife; from her relationship to the courtier of Queen Mary, there is some reason to doubt whether she was the puritan the novel represents her to have been:

"Anna Rainoldo Williams fuit orta pa
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Evasit meritis Armiger ille suis,
Sed minor huic frater, præstante laude
Baronis,

Thamensis viguit gloria magna soli. Armiger ergo pater, Dominus sed avunculus Annæ,

Clara erat his meritis, claruit Anna suis, Casta viro, studiosa Dei, dilecta propinquis,

Stirpe beata satis, prole beata satis. Mater Joannis, mediaque ætate Roberti, Et demum Henrici nobilis ille Parens Cynthia Penelope tumulo clauduntur in isto.

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The author of 'Kenilworth' states. that Amy, Lady Leicester, was daughter to Sir Hugh Robsart, of Lidcotehall, Devon; the family is correct, but not the immediate father: this was Sir John Robsart, knight, if the concurrence of all genealogists be authority. James Yorke (the blacksmith of Lincoln), in hisUnion of Honour,' 1640, (a work, says Fuller, ' of singular use, though he has not hit the nail on the head in every particular therein contained,') speaking of Lord Leicester, has these words

He married two wives, the first was Anne, daughter and heir of Sir John Robsart, knight, who died without issue.' Aubrey calls him Sir John Robersett; and Dugdale expressly says, he first married Anne, the daughter and heir to Sir John Robsart, knight.' So much for the Amy and Hugh of the novel.

It is remarkable that Anthony Forster is no where directly charged with the Countess's death; the whole

falls on Varney. In Leycester's Commonwealth,' 1641, 4to, is an account scarcely differing from that of Ashmole; it is as follows:-" When his Lordship was in full hope to marry her Majesty, and his owne wife stood in his light, as he supposed: hee did but send her aside, to the house of his servant Forster of Cumner by Oxford, where shortly after sbee had the chance to fall downe a paire of staires, and so to break her neck, but yet without barting the hood that stood upon her

Anna sed hoc tumulo sola sepulta head. But Sir Richard Varney, who jacet."

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by commandment remained with her that day alone with one man onely, and had sent away perforce all her servants from her, to a market two miles off, hee (I say) with his man can tell how shee died, which man being afterward [taken] for a fellony in the Marches of Wales, and offering to publish the manner of the said murder, was made away privily in prison." Varney died about the same time in London, crying out piteously and blaspheming, saying that "all the Devils of Hell did tear him in pieces."

In Leycester's Ghost,' 4to, 1641, is this poetical account of the Lady's death:

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