"I pity Mr. Langdale exceedingly, as he is a most worthy and respectable character, and has twelve or thirteen children. He is the greatest sufferer of any individual, and his loss irreparable; for his ingenious and large apparatus for his business had been the work of years at an immense expense; nor can again be erected till his extensive business is diverted into other channels. I hope Government will make him some compensation; some estimate his loss at .70,000.

"This will be attended with worse consequences than we are at present aware of; many of the principal Catholics have been so terrified that they talk of disposing of all their property and leaving the kingdom, which will much impoverish us. Among these is my friend above-mentioned, who hopes to have no concern in this kingdom two months hence.

"And now I have been relating our misfortunes to you, which I hope are pretty well over, let me advise you to take good care of yourselves, for it is thought that yours are to come. The culprits let out of the prisons, finding no refuge here, by reason of our force, will fly into the country and commit their depredations; and I fear the villages about town will suffer severely from thein. From yours sincerely, J. C. BROOKE."

67. Mr. GOUGH to Mr. BROOKE.

"DEAR SIR, June 18, 1780. "Will you, if it is not too long, oblige Dr. Nash with a transcript of the funeral of Mrs. Abingdon, a gentlewoman of the Privy-chamber to Queen Elizabeth, and a great favourite with her Majesty, who buried her at her own expense? It is said to be in your office; and if you can send it to Mr. Nichols the first opportunity, he has a sheet waiting for it.

"Yours truly,

68. Mr. BROOKE to Mr. GOUGH.

R. GOUGH."

"DEAR SIR, Heralds'-college, June 21, 1780. "I have looked over the index of Funeral Certificates, but can find none for Mrs. Abingdon, whom you inquire after; if I could you should be welcome to it. The authority which informs Dr. Nash such a funeral is entered here, probably directs where it is to be found; I will send a note of inquiry to him on the occasion.

"John Robartes, the last Earl of Radnor, died at Twickenham, July 15, 1757, æt. 71, s. p. and the title became extinct. He left a considerable part of his fortune, and his fine seat and furniture at Twickenham, to John Atherton Hindly, his steward, who, having imprudently engaged himself in large sums of money with one Ca-r, an East India captain, hath thereby ruined him

self, and his seat at Twickenham, pictures, &c. are now upon sale; but the antient Robartes' estate in Cornwall went to Mary Vere, sister and heir of Henry Earl of Radnor, who married Thomas Hunt, of Mollington in Cheshire, Esq. Feb. 4, 1720, and died Oct. 23, 1758, leaving George Hunt, now of Lanbydroch, and Member for Bodmyn, her eldest son and heir; and Thomas of Mollington, by purchase from his brother, who is married to a co-heir of the family of Bold, of Bold, co. Lancaster. The said George is seised of the remains of the Radnor estate in Cornwall.

"With this letter you will receive a manuscript History of the Devereux Family, put into my hands by an Irish gentleman, now in France, for my opinion whether it would sell well if printed, or so that he might not be above .100 out of pocket by it; the drawings in it to be engraved, &c. As you are a much better judge of these matters than I am, I shall be obliged to you to look it over, and give me your opinion; but pray takc care of it. From yours sincerely, J. C. BROOKE."

69. Mr. GoUGH to Mr. BROOKE.

"DEAR SIR,

Enfield, July 1, 1780.

"I thank you for your several answers to my queries; and if it suits you to call at Mr. Nichols's next Wednesday about noon, will give you my opinion about the Devereux manuscript,

By the copy of the Rowe Mores' pedigree, which Mr. Nichols, with the Rowe monuments in Hackney Church, will send you, you will see some confusion about Henry, younger son of Sir Henry Rowe, and Lord of the Manor of Shacklewell. I wish to continue the Rowes to Lord Hillsborough.

"The Bromley pedigree is also to be submitted to your revision.

"Atkins's Gloucestershire has just been re-published by Rudder, printer, at Cirencester, with additions, I think for £.3. 3s. to non-subscribers. I gave the full price for both editions, and am not satisfied with either.

"John English Dolben, Esq. is to be introduced here to-day. "Yours truly. R. GOUGH."

70. DEAR SIR,

Enfield, July 6, 1780.

“I am sorry you would not let Mr. Nichols send for me from Chancery-lane yesterday, where I was employed with the Committee in taking the stock of the Society previously to their removal to their new apartments.

"I shall resume this business on Saturday next; and if you will give me the same chance of seeing you (for I shall hardly have time to call on you) I have much to say to you, of which I can only tell you thus much, that Mr. Nichols will print and find paper for the Devereux manuscript for forty pounds.

"Yours truly,

R. GOUGH."

71. Mr. BROOKE to Mr. GOUGH.

"DEAR SIR, Heralds'-college, July 15, 1780. "I set out on Wednesday next with Mr. Mawhood's family for Flanders. We shall go by the way of Margate to Ostend, and shall be six in party, viz. Mr. and Mrs. Mawhood, their eldest daughter, a younger daughter going to school at Bruges, and a Mr. Montford, Procurator to the English Convents at Bruges. I have got notes of every thing curious to be seen in our tour, which will be to Ostend, Bruges, Ghent, Brussells, Antwerp, Lisle, St. Omer's, &c.

"I think I told you that I was to spend a day with Mr. Burrell, to see his new addition of Sussex drawings by Grimm, which consist of about sixty, and are very beautiful; many views, and, in the monumental way, all the tombs at Arundel, particularly two elegant drawings of the rich sides of the chapel, monuments of the Lords Delawarr at Broadwater, &c. all highly-finished. He has a prodigious collection of materials for that county *.

"I this week took a thorough survey of Hallywell precincts, Shoreditch; the gate of the Nunnery is pretty intire, but where the Nunnery stood is a perfect jakes; nor can one possibly conceive where the body of the pious Sir Thomas Lovell now lies. Neither could I discover any traces of his house there, which afterwards became the town house of the Earls of Rutland; and there died the Countesses of that family, buried in Shoreditch Church, of whose monuments you have drawings +. Did I ever give you a copy of Sir Thomas Lovell's will? He died possessed of vast property.

"By a letter from Mr. T. Gery Cullum, of Bury, this week, I find Sir John is at Hardwick, and proposes staying there all the summer. From yours sincerely, J. C. BROOKE."

72. Mr. GoUGH to Mr. Brooke.

Enfield, July 24, 1780.

"I should have been glad to have seen you here last week since your voyage is postponed.

"The Berkeley pedigree is, or shall be, sent you to finish before you go, and I will return the Devereux History, which I hope to see in print in the course of this year ‡.

"Yours truly,

R. GOUGH."

*They were bequeathed by him to the British Museum; and have since been employed in the History of Sussex, commenced under the patronage of the late Duke of Norfolk, of which two volumes have been published by the Rev. James Dallaway, F. S. A. and a third by the Rev. Edmund Cartwright, F. S. A. is now (1829) in the press.

+ Engraved in Nichols's Leicestershire, vol. II. p. 29.

This, it is believed, was never brought to pass. Memoirs of the family are now being collected by a gentleman who bears the name.

73. Mr. BROOKE to Mr. GOUGH.

"DEAR SIR, Heralds'-college, July 26, 1780. "I received your letter, and have corrected and sent to Nichols the pedigrees of Bromley and Berkeley. I can do nothing more to Rowe, which is now very correct. I took a

walk to Hackney, and was much disappointed with the Church, as it has been much modernised. The arms on the Rowe monuments, as far as I could observe, are right, but night came on so quickly that I had but an imperfect survey of them.

"To-morrow we set out on our tour. After having been at Bruges long enough to have made observations worth sending to you, I may probably write; the direction to me will be, A Monsieur Monsieur le Chevalier Brooke, chez les Dames Augustines, Rue des Carmes, Bruges, Flanders, per Ostende.'

"I hope Mr. Devereux will print his book; I do not think it is ill drawn up. I will write to him to let him know Nichols's proposals; and, as he is a man of fortune, do imagine he will not grudge a little expense. I suppose, if dressed up with prints, some copies may sell, though probably not enough to bear his charges.

"Dr. Kaye is made Archdeacon of Nottingham, loco Dean of Ely deceased. Yours sincerely, J. C. BROOKE."

74. "DEAR SIR,

Heralds'-college, Sept. 7, 1780. "I arrived from my tour to the continent yesterday, after a most agreeable excursion of six weeks. I have reason to apologise that I did not write to you agreeably to my promise; but we were in such a continual hurry all the time that I really could find no leisure, and must therefore make it up to you with shewing you my journal, and describing things to you by word of mouth. We started for Margate on the 27th of July, being nine in party, and joined another there; just before our arrival the wind chopped to the north-east, directly contrary to Ostend, where it has continued with little variation to this day. We waited a week at Margate, in hopes it would alter; but that not being the case, we were tempted on a fine afternoon to set sail, having engaged a vessel to ourselves, and had a most turbulent voyage over.

"The delay at Margate was not disagreeable to me, as it gave me an opportunity of making a thorough survey of the Isle of Thanet. We every day made parties out, one day to Deal, where we dined; and Sandown Castle, Sandwich, Ramsgate, Richborough Castle, Minster, Dandelion, &c. The Catholics are not disagreeable for an antiquary to travel with, for they exceedingly enjoy the sight of ruined abbeys and churches, as the devastation reformation has made in ours gives them an opportunity of exalting their own pure religion, which has not

suffered such ravages; though by-the-bye we no where see so many grave-stones stripped of their brasses as in Flanders.

"As in the space of a small letter it will be impossible to inform you of all I have seen, I shall only say that we were every where treated with the greatest civility. Though Mr. Mawhood's extensive acquaintance with the English settled abroad, and with the religious of various Monasteries, we had access to the inmost recesses of their houses. At the Nunnery where his daughter is at Bruges, the Bishop of Bruges gave us leave of admittance for a whole day; and we supped with the Lady Abbess at her own table, the nuns being arranged on each side, the laysisters at a table at the bottom, and waited on by the novices; after which we went in procession to the church, and had grace sung with music. I only lamented you was not of the party; you would, I am sure, so much have enjoyed it. Both at the Augustine Convent and the other Franciscan Order called Princen-hoff, the Abbesses gave me leave to copy their registers; and every thing else I chose relative to their houses.

"I have made two very agreeable acquaintances abroad, with whom I shall correspond, Mr. Mumford, Procurator to the English College at St. Omer's, and Mr. Wilkes, a Benedictine Monk at Paris; the latter you may probably have heard of, as he is in some estimation among the learned world.

"We got to Margate on Tuesday morning five o'clock; and after breakfast set out for Canterbury, where we spent the day, in order to see the place. I there met by accident with Mr. Essex, of Cambridge, and his family, who introduced us to Mr. Gostling, with whom we spent the afternoon, and he perambulated his father's History of Canterbury with us. I am quite charmed with the place, and could have spent a week there. "I shall set out for Yorkshire in a fortnight or three weeks' time. Yours sincerely, J. C. BROOKE."

75. "DEAR SIR, Wakefield, Yorkshire, Oct. 27, 1780. "I left London on the 29th of last month, and had a very agreeable journey down in the Diligence with two clergymen who had been to Cambridge to vote at the late election. At Sheffield I met with Mr. and Mrs. Frampton and their family, going on a visit to a gentleman's house in the north, and spent some agreeable time with them there.

A few days ago I paid a visit to Mr. Waterton, of Waltonhall, nephew to my good friend Mrs. Mary-Augustina More, Prioress of the Convent of Augustine Dames at Bruges, and delivered to him and his lady the presents I brought from Mrs. More to them. I mention this visit to you on two accounts, first, to describe to you the beautiful situation of Walton-hall, which is extremely romantic and singular; though I think