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White, fen. many years a refpectable gen- At his apartments in Greenwich hofpitleman farmer at Marthborough, in the pa- tal, after a few v days illnefs of a paralytic rish of Woodnesborough, near Sandwich, ftroke, in his 51ft year, Jn. Willett Payne, but who had lately retired from business. efq. rear-admiral of the Red, vice-admiral At his houfe in Manchester, aged 44, of the coafts of Devonshire and Cornwall, Samuel Marfhland, efq.; whofe highly-re- treafurer of Greenwich hofpital, compfpectable character, as a good member of troller of the household of his Royal Highfociety, renders his death much regretted. nefs the Prince of Wales, and lord warden Suddenly, aged 65, Mr. Thomas Dodfon, of the Stannaries. The profeffional and an eminent auctioneer at Stowmarket. private character of this gentleman have Murdered, about 8 this evening, near lorg ftood fo high in the public eftimation Throftle-neft.bridge, on the Stratford road, that they can gain no addition by any euabout a mile and a half from Manchester, logy. He began his career in the navy Mr. James Aldred, a refpectable farmer of about the year 1769, on-board the Quebec, Urmfton. He had been in Manchester of 32 guns, commanded by Lord Ducie: on that day, to receive a large fum of mo- ferved as midshipman on-board the Eagle, ney (8ool.) which, fortunately for his fa- of 64 guns, bearing the flag of Earl Howe, mily, he lodged in the hands of two ref- in the American war; whence he pectahle attornies: and it is feared that his made lieutenant, and promoted to the life was forfeited to his incautiously and im- of post-captain July 8, 1780; and distinprudently mentioning the circumftance of guifhed himfelf on feveral occafions, par-his having fuch a fum to receive in the pre- ticularly by his action in the West Indies, fence of the unknown monfter who com- 1783, with a fhip of very fuperior force, mitted the horrid act. The deceafed, who the Pluto. He alfo commanded the Rufwas upwards of 72 years of age, was thot fell, one of the hips in Earl Howe's methrough the heart, and a part of the wad- morable action on the rft of June, 1794ding of the charge lodged in his breaft ; He was appointed rear-admiral of the Red and, what is very extraordinary, a part of Feb. 14, 1799; and in the following year, a pewter fpoon was found in the body, the on the refignation of Lord Bridport, fuccontents of the pistol. He was a man of a ceeded him in the office of treasurer of truly good and benevolent difpofition; he Greenwich hospital. He had the honour had not more than about 13 or 14 fhillings to convey the Princefs of Wales to Engin his pocket, of which he was plundered. land, in the, Jupiter, of 50 guns. The high 16. In Mortimer-ftr. Cavendish-fquare, ftation which this officer has long occupied Mifs Catharine Thompson, eldest daughter with fo much credit in the Prince's houseof the late Mr. T. of the fame place. hold afforded fcope for the talents and courtefy of manners which he poffeffed in an

Of a nervous fever, in her 26th year, Sophia, fecond daughter of the late Mr. Tho-eminent degree. His judgment was prompt mas Smith, of Prefcot-fir. Goodman's-fields. At North Cockerington, Mr. William Forman; alfa, aged go, Mr. Thomas Forman, his father, of Belleau, co. Lincoln.

Mr. Richard Shipley, of London, who had been refident at Hamburgh for fome time in the commiffion line. Being in a violent paroxyfm, occafioned by a fever of the brain, he jumped out, in a fit, of a two-pair-of-ftairs window, at his lodgings before the Altona gate, and was literally dafhed to pieces.

At Rome, in her 75th year, the Princess Matilda, of Efte, fifter of the late Duke of Parma.

17. At his houfe at Preshute, near Marlborough, John Clai ke, efq. in the commifGion of the peace for Wilts,

In King-street, Bloomsbury, Dr. Wm. Balmain, furgeon to his Majesty's forces, and late principal furgeon to the fettlement at New South Wales.

At Witham common, co.'Lincoln, while on a vifit, aged 65, Mrs. Anne Peach, relict of the late Mr. Jofeph P. of Quorndon, co. Leicester..

In his 55th year, Mr. Wm. Corden, hofier and woolftapler, of Newark.

At Bolingbroke, far advanced in years, Mrs, Elizabeth Rushton,

and correct; his wit, though brilliant, was never fevere; and his benevolence, though unbounded, was never expofed to the glare of day. The prevailing feature in his character was an uniform mildness and goodwill for all. On the 25th, the remains of this worthy and gallant officer were interred in the vault at the North-weft corner of St. Margaret's church, Westminster, with unufual tokens of refpect and marks of honour. The proceffion, from Greenwich hofpital to the place of burial, confisted of an hearse, three mourning-coaches with fix horfes each, and all the customary accompaniments of funeral grandeur. This laft ceremony of respect to the corpse of a departed officer was attended by a very long train of Nobility and Gentry in their carriages, and would have been ftill farther dignified by the perfonal attendance of the Prince of Wales, had nor the anxious folicitations of his friends prevented his Royal Highness, who has, for several years paft, honoured the deceased Admiral with peculiar marks of his royal friendship and esteem. To give every public proof of the intereft taken by the Heir Apparent to the Crown in this laft and feriqus duty, the equipage of the Prince manifefted all the

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figns of royal refpect: it confifted of his Royal Highness's coach (in which were Gen. Hulfe, Col. M'Mahon, and Mr. Tyrwhitt) drawn by fix horfes, and accompa-Aged 73, Mr. Wm. Terrington, of Hully nied by five out-riders, who, with the formerly a refpectable fhip-owner in the coachman and footmen, were all dreffed in trade between that port and London.—Altheir state liveries, and wore the ufual fable fo, aged 45, after an illness of only three infignia of mourning. All the equipages days, Mr. Robert Hodgson, ship-broker. bore fimilar emblems; and the whole ap- At Mayfield, Anne, fecond daughter of pearance of the folemnity was equally dig the late Samuel Baker, efq. nified and ferious. The fervice was performed in an admirable and pathetic manner by the Rev. J. S. Clarke, chaplain of the household to the Prince of Wales. A great concourfe of people crowded the church, and joined in lamenting the loss of a gallant fervant of the publick, and a meritorious defender of his country and the ilJuftrious family on its throne.

At Lofeby-hall, co. Leicester, after a few days illness, Lady Fowke, widow of the late Sir Thomas F. knt. and one of the coheireffes and only furviving daughter of the late Sir Ifaac Woollafton, of the fame place, bart.

3026. At Edmonton, Mrs. Lifter, wife of Mr. L. ftationer and book-binder.

At her house in Upper Berkeley-freet, Portman-fqua. the wife of Jn. Walcot, efq. At Putney, Surrey, John Cormick, efq. Found drowned in the Levant fream, near Chichester, Mr. James Hardham, grazier. He had been many years afflicted with epileptic fits, and is fuppofed, in one of thofe paroxyfms, to have fallen into the, ftream on retursing from his farm, whither

After a long illness, in his 76th year, Mr. Alderman Watts, an eminent brewer, Benjamin Johnfon, who had for Tome of Leicester. Early n life he quitted the time past been occafionally employed tillage of the field for the field of glory, huntsman to Mr. Hetherington, of Hemelfand, during the American war, was fent to gate, near Brampten, was unfotunately Canada, in which province he remained 12 drowned in attempting to cross the river years, and was engaged in feveral pitched Gelt, below the bridge. The river is i battles; was at the taking of Quebec, and row, but rapid; its bed is rocky, and it in the field when the gallant Gen. Wolfe banks abrupt, covered partially with brush fell. On his return to this country he nce wood. The ftream had been much fwoln took a public-houfe, and, by perfeverance by the last week, fo that the GENT. MAG. December, 1803. attempt

attempt might have been confidered as hazardous. The horfe on which he was mounted difengaged himself, and fwam to the opofite fide, while the unfortunate ri der was precipitated down the ftream. At the time this accident happened there was no one prefent; but the appearance of the horfe without a rider attracting the attention of fome of the neighbouring cottagers, an alarm was given, and, though the evening was clefing in, his body was found, car"ried down the fream, at a great diftance.

Dec... As Mr. John Groves, of Look farm, near Bridport, Dorfer, was fhooting rabbits, in company with Mr. J. Luckham and a boy, Mr. L. had fhot one, and, while in the act of looking for it, Mr. G's gun accidentally went off, lodging its whole contents in Mr.L's breaft, who expired on the fpot within an hour. Nothing can exceed the dittrels of the unfortunate furvivor, who is nearly related to the deceased, being both his uncle and brother-in-law.

At Heath, near Southampton, Francis Parry, efq. vice-admiral of the White.

Of a decline, Mifs Aftley, daughter of E. A. efq. of Oddefton, co. Leicester.

At Arnby, Mr. John Blackwall, a refpectable farmer and grazier.

After a few days illnefs,, the relict of Jn. Walker, gent. of Long Sutton, co. Lincoln. Dec. I. In the commune of Boefchepe, in the department of North France, aged 85, Bonaventure Lefayne. He had been married feven times, and was father of 35 children, 17 of whom he had by his feventh wife. He had had a wooden leg ever fince he was 28 years old.

The wife of Mr. John Mouat, of Great Carter-lane, Doctors Commons.

The wife of Mr. Curtis, mafter of the Hoop inn at Cambridge.

adjoining, the feat of Burton the Leicesterfhire Antiquary. Of his fon, Thomas, a particular account has been given in our vol. LVIII p.958, from Shaw's Hiftory of Staffordshire, 1. 67-Mr. Shaw had accefs to Mr. Aftle's library, and the use of feveral manufcripts, &c. for both volumes of his Staffordshire +; his MS library being accounted to exceed that of any private. gentleman in England; and his liberal utility to men of fcience their acknowledgements abundantly teftify.-Mr. A. about 1763, obtained the patronage of Mr. Grenville, then firft lord of the treafury and chancellor of the exchequer, who employed him as well in his public as private affairs; and joined him in a commiffion with the late fir Jofeph Ayloffe, bart. and Dr. Ducarel, for fuperintending the regulation of the public records at Weftminster. the death of his colleagues, Mr. Topham was fubftituted; and both were removed by Mr. Pitt during his adminiftration. In 1765 he was appointed receiver-general of fix pence in the pound on the civil lift. In 1766 he was confulted by the committee of the Houfe of Lords concerning the printing of the antient records of parlia ment. To the fuperintendance of this work he introduced his father-in-law Mr. Morant; and, on his death in 1770, was himself appointed by the House of Lords to carry on the work; a fervice in which he was employed till its completion five years afterwards. He was then appointed, on the death of Henry Rooke, efq. his majesty's chief clerk in the record-office in the Tower of London; and, on the decease of fur John Shelley, he fucceeded to the office of keeper of the records. Mr. A. was feve ral times on the continent on literary purfuits. His publications were, In the Archæologia, vol. IV. p. 195, On the events produced in England by the. grant of the kingdom of Sicily to Prince Edmond, with remarks on the feal of that prince, of gold, weight eight pennyweights, formerly in the Earl of Oxford's collection, then of James Weft, efq. whence it paffed into that of Guftavus Brander, efq. and was bought in at 181. 2s. at the fale of his collection, by Mr. Gerrard, February, 1790." VII. 348, On the radical letters of the Pelafgians, and their derivatives. X. 226, Obfervations on a charter in his library, indorfed, in a hand coeval with it," Hæc eft carta regis Eadgari de institutione abbatis Elienfis et duplicatus;” which he fhews not to be fo old as King Edgar.

At his houfe at Batterfea Rife, Surrey, in his 69th year, of a dropfical complaint, to which he had been for fome time fubject, Thomas Aftle, efq. F. A. S. 1763, F. R. S. 1766, a gentleman well known for his extenfive and accurate acquaintance with the hiftory and antiquities of his Country; keeper of the records in the Tower, and late one of the keepers of the Paper-office; truftee of the British Museum, where, when a young man, he was employed to make an index to the Harleian Catalogue of MSS.; F.R.S. Edinb. Reg. Scient. Soc. Ifland. Soc. Antiq. Caffel. & Soc. Volfcorum Velitris fod.. honorar. He was fon of Mr. Daniel Aftle, keeper of Needwood foreft, co. Stafford, who died 1774, and was buried in Yoxal church, where a neat mural monument is erected to his memory (fee it in Shaw's Hiftory of Staffordshire, L. 101); and who appears to have been defcended from a family of that name refident at, and lords of, the manor of Fauld, in Hanbury parisht His fuccefs at this library may be seen in our vol. LXIV. p. 605.

* See our vol. LVIII. p. 958.

XII. On the tenures, customs, &c. of his manor of Great Tey, Effex, by onziell, i, e, ungeld, an arbitrary tallage act

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to have been compiled in the reign of James I. by fome experienced clerk, who feems to have felected from the records themfelves what appeared to him moft ufeful and intereftting. They fupply many omiffions and deficiencies in the Tower copy; and, after all, this Calendar, though entitled to great merit, is only a felection, various entries appearing on the Patent Rolls not entered here; and therefore, though this work will be found to yield abundant information, no one is to be deterred from an examination of any record mentioned elsewhere as being on the Pa tent Roll because it is not mentioned here." Mr. A's report on the ftate of the records under his care will be found in the Report of the Committee abovementioned.