ingly pleasant seat about four miles off, which, with a very good estate around it, came to him by his lady, who is a most agreeable woman. The Bishop of Ely, it is said, made his addresses to her whilst Dr. Gooch and Residentiary of this Church, before he married Cæsar's wife. The courtship came (says report) to this short poetical issue, 'Madam, will you please, To have and to hold the Master of Keys?' This was cut with a diamond upon a glass; for which another was returned, thus inscribed: 'Dr. Gooch, I should please, (Was you not so old) To have and to hold With the Master of Keys.' "My communicative correspondent, Mr. Archdeacon Law, tells me, 'The contest about the See of Chichester is terminated; and St. Giles's is to be holden in commendam. The Bishop* was consecrated last Sunday; Dr. Napleton, a man of literary character, was the Preacher on the occasion t. You have doubt zine, vol. LXXIX. p. 529.) The lady was Miss Mary Smyth, his second wife, who was the heiress of Apuldram near Chichester, and died s. p. in 1755; but bequeathed the estate to her celebrated stepson. See Dallaway's History of Sussex, vol. I. p. 97. * Dr. Buckner. + The family of Napleton probably derived its name from a hamlet in the parish of Kemsey, Worcestershire. Marsh Napleton, Esq. of Tenbury, in that county, died in 1768; as about the same time did Neal Napleton, Esq. merchant in London. There was a Stephen Napleton, a physician, of All Souls'-college, Oxford, M. A. 1688; M. B. 1697; M. D. 1700; and a Thomas Napleton, of Oriel-college, M. A. 1712. There have been also of the same University three bearing the name of John; the first of Magdalen-college, M. A. 1676; the second of Corpus Christi, M.A. 1712; B. D. 1721; the third of Brazenose, M. A. 1761; B. and D. D. 1789. The last is the literary man mentioned in the text. He was for some time a Fellow of Brazenose; and was presented to the Rectory of Wold in Northamptonshire by that Society in 1777. He became Chaplain to Dr. Butler, Bishop of Hereford, who preferred him to a Canonry of Hereford, and he was possessed of that dignity when called upon to deliver "A Sermon, preached in the Cathedral Church of Hereford, at the Meeting of the three Choirs of Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester, September 9, 1789," afterwards printed; as was "A Sermon, preached in St. Mary's Church in the University of Oxford, at the anniversary meeting of the Governors of the Radcliffe Infirmary, June 19, 1792." Dr. Napleton married Dec. 4, 1793, Miss Daniell, of Truro. In 1795 he published, in an octavo volume, “Advice to a Student in the University, containing the qualifications and duties of a Minister of the Gospel in the Church of England;" a work excellently adapted to its object, and which is noticed in the review of the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. LXVI. p. 136. In 1796 he was collated by his friend Bishop Butler to the Chancellorship of the Diocese of Hereford. In 1798 he published, by command of the Archbishop, the Sermon be preached at Lambeth on the Consecration of Dr. Buckner to the See of less heard, that the Bishop of London* gives Lectures at St. James's Church on each succeeding Friday in Lent, Good Friday excepted. Our Dean means to be a regular attendant. With the introductory Lecture he was highly pleased; it contained a summary of the contents of the Bible from Genesis to the Revelations, and he describes it as being peculiarly neat and clear, and as far exceeding his expectations. I have had no other account of the second Lecture than that it was numerously attended, not only by the Clergy, but by many of the high orders of laity. I remain, dear Sir, yours truly, S. DENNE." 83. "DEAR SIR, Wilmington, March 20, 1798. "To Mr. Ord's doubt whether the Speaker's kitchen was ever the Chapel of our Lady la Pieu, I cannot readily subscribe, because, if Froissart's evidence is to be relied on, there was a little detached Chapel in which Richard the Second was present at Mass, and made his offerings to the image of our Lady that worked miracles; and because, if Weever was not misinformed, this Chapel was re-built by Antony Earl Rivers. Obliged am I to you for your citation from Tanner's Monasticon, p. 320; and I shall be obliged to Mr. Ord to examine whether Pat. 16 Rich. II. be correctly cited. "Your not finding in Butler or Villegas the devout Mary, as well as the much cumbered Martha, enrolled among the Popish Saints, has again, as you express it, put us out to sea; I there. fore propose a question to be answered by you or Mr. Ord, either from printed evidence, or from the viva voce evidence of sume emigrant Priests,-whether there are, or rather whether there were not lately, in France and in Flanders Churches and Chapels, Chichester (see Gent. Mag. vol. LXIX. p. 967); in 1800 "The Duty of Churchwardens respecting the Church," 12mo. (ibid. LXX. p. 645); in 1804 "Advice to a Minister of the Gospel in the United Church of England and Ireland; being a continuation of Advice to a Student in the University. To which is added, A Sermon on the Pastoral Care," (ibid. LXXIV. p. 1039); and in 1806 "Sermons for the use of Colleges, Schools, and Families," two vols. 8vo. In 1810 Dr. Napleton was presented by the Dean and Chapter of Hereford to the Vicarage of Lugwardine; and in the same year he was collated by Bishop Luxmoore to the office of Prelector in the Cathedral of Hereford. He died holding those preferments, together with the Rectory of Stoke Edith, and the Mastership of Ledbury Hospital, Dec. 9, 1817, in his 80th year. His sister, Miss Napleton, of Hammersmith, died at Newbury, July 13, 1807, aged 60; another died unmarried at Tockington, Gloucestershire, in 1822, aged 80; (a third, it is presumed) Elizabeth, wife of William Mullen, Esq. of the Bank of England, and third daughter of the late Rev. John Napleton, Rector of Pembridge, Herefordshire (the member of Corpus Christi-college named at the commencement of this note), died March 20, 1805.-There was another clergyman of this uncommon name, Timothy Napleton, of Trinity-college, Cambridge, M. A. per saltum 1785, Rector of North Bovey, co. Devon, 1802, and also Rector of Powderham, where he died Jan 16, 1816, aged 59. • Dr. Porteus. or Monasteries for Monks or Nuns, or Hospitals, dedicated to St. Mary the Pious. When Mr. Wrighte was abroad, he understood that the said St. Mary was revered as the Patroness of some religious edifices, or of some charitable institutions; and he imagines, that the Mary here meant might be the sister of Martha and Lazarus. "Before I had your letter, Mr. Clarke had apprised me of the order of the Council for a less liberal use of the books in the library, or rather out of the library of the Society of Antiquaries, than the members of the Society had been accustomed to for some years; and the revival of such an order, I must own, has not my approbation, as it must prevent my taking any book to my lodgings, if in town, from a Monday to a Thursday evening, and that was often my practice. 'Till you reminded me, it had slipt my memory that Bishop Gooch's first wife was of the house of Sherlock; and I have no doubt that she was the wife of Cæsar alluded to in my father's letter. From what circumstance she acquired the appellation, I may have heard, and probably often did hear my father and mother relate; but here is another lapse of memory, nor does my brother recollect, though very frequently he is an assistant to me when chatting on the days that are past. "I remain, dear Sir, yours truly, S. DENNE." 84. "DEAR SIR, Wilmington, March 31, 1798. "Mortifying is it, that four investigators antique should be foiled by a monosyllable; and yet it should seem that you begin to despair lest la Pieu should not be traced to its origin. Secretary Wrighte spoke confidently of his having, while in France, heard of Religious Houses and Hospitals, which had for their Patroness St. Mary the Pious. In my proposed return through Rochester on Thursday, it is probable I may not have it in my power to wait upon him. "From Mr. Archdeacon Law I have had this piece of Cambridge intelligence, that the late Dr. Peckard * bequeathed to The Rev. Peter Peckard, D. D. was educated at Oxford, as a scholar of Corpus Christi college, where he attained the degree of M. A. in 1741, and was elected Fellow. In 1766 he was appointed Chaplain to the first troop of Grenadier Guards; he served with the army in Germany, and was then a convivial man; but when, through the patronage of Lord Carysfort, he had become Rector of Fletton in Huntingdonshire, he resided there with the strictest economy, and, after his elevation to the Deanry of Peterborough, only gave one annual dinner to his Chapter. The Deanry was then valeud at £400, the Rectory at £.100. In 1777 he had a dispensation to hold the Rectory of Fletton with that of Tansor in Northamptonshire, to which he was presented by the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln; and he appears as a Prebendary of that Cathedral, when admitted in 1781 to the Mastership of Magdalen college, Cambridge, on the nomination of Sir John Griffin Griffin, K. B. He served the office of Vice-Chancellor at Cambridge in 1784, and was admitted D. D. per lit. Magdalen-college, the chief, if not the whole, of his fortune, after the death of his wife, who is aged; and that there is to be a Reg. in 1785; and was appointed Dean of Peterborough in 1799. Dr. Peckard was author of the following works: The popular Clamours against the Jews indefensible; a Sermon, preached at Honiton (1 Cor. ix. 20), Oct. 28, 1753, 8vo.: A Sermon on the Nature and Extent of Civil and Religious Liberty (1 Pet. ii. 16), 1754; A Dissertation on Rev. xi. 13, in which there is attempted to be shown that there is some reason to believe this Prophecy completed by the late Earthquake at Lisbon, 1755, 8vo (a review of which in the Gent. Mag. vol. XXVI. p. 138, was answered by Dr. Peckard in a subsequent number, p. 213); Observations on the Doctrine of an Intermediate State between Death and the Resur rection, with some remarks on Mr. Goddard's Sermon on the Subject, 1756; Further Observations on the doctrine of an Intermediate State, in answer to the Rev. Dr. Morton's Queries, 1757; Observations on Mr. Fleming's Survey, &c. 1759; The proper style of Christian Orations, a Sermon at Huntingdon (1 Cor. i. 21), Jan. 7, 1770; A Sermon at the Visitation of Archdeacon Cholwell, at Huntingdon (Rom. ix. 28), May 19, 1772; A Sermon on the unalterable nature of Vice and Virtue, against Lord Chesterfield's Doctrines (Isaiab, v. 20), preached at St. James's, Westminster, April 4, 1775, (see Gent. Mag. vol. XLVI. p. 132); The nature and extent of Civil and Religious Liberty, a Sermon, preached before the University of Cambridge, Nov. 5, 1781; Piety, Benevolence, and Loyalty recommended, another Sermon before the same University, Jan. 30, 1784 (Gent. Mag. vol. LIV. p. 611); A third Sermon before the same, intituled, Justice and Mercy recommended; and a fourth, The neglect of known Duty is Sin (on James, iv. 17); these were directed against the slave trade; and, on Dr. Peckard's becoming Vice-Chancellor in 1785, he proposed the ensuing question: "Anne liceat invitos in servitutem dare?" Memoirs of the Life of Mr. Nicholas Ferrar, 1791 (see a long review in Gent. Mag. vol. LXI. pp. 456–460). In the fifth volume of Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Biography is a life of the same personage published, but not without some omissions, from Memoirs of the Life by Peckard. "The present edition," however, "it is presumed, is greatly increased in value by a large accession of very interesting papers, transcribed from the Lambeth library, which appear to have been written by Mr. John Ferrar, eldest brother of Nicholas, and the compiler of the original MS. from which Dr. Peckard's Memoirs are taken. They were written probably in the year 1653, but to whom they are addressed it does not appear." National Crimes the cause of National Punishment; a discourse delivered in the Cathedral Church of Peterborough, on the Fast-day, Feb. 25, 1795 (reviewed in Gent. Mag. vol. LXV. p. 496). Dean Peckard lost his life by imprudently, three years before his death, cutting off a small wen on his cheek when shaving himself, after baving for many years endured the trouble of avoiding it with his razor. It turned to a cancerous complaint, which the advice of London surgeons, and Dr. Kerr, of Northampton, could not relieve. He died Dec. 8, 1797, in his 83d year, being then Master of Magdalen college, Dean of Peterborough, Prebendary of Southwell (and Lincoln ?) and Rector of Fletton and Abbot's Ripton, Hunts. Lord Carysfort, the patron of Fletton, permitted him to name for his successor there the Rev. Richard Buck, Fellow of Magdalen college; who allowed Dr. Peckard's widow to reside in the house, and enjoy the gardens, which she had much improved. She died at Fletton, Jan. 14, 1805, having in perfect health entertained a large party of friends on the preceding day. After the death of Mrs. Peckard, the Dean left his fortune to augment the incomes of the Master and Fellows of Magdalen college. The two Scholarships he founded are called the considerable accession to the revenue of the Master, and two Scholarships instituted of fifty pounds a year each. I had not imagined that it was in the power of the Doctor to amass so much wealth as is here suggested; and I imagined that he was a widower. The widow certainly cannot be on the bright side of threescore and ten, as pretty Miss Farren was a fashionable toast among the Cantabs above half a century ago. 66 "I am, dear Sir, yours truly, S. DENNE." 85. "DEAR SIR, Wilmington, May 10, 1798. "Further inquiry after Mary the Pious, sister of Lazarus, and averred by Baronius of the Church of Rome, and Lightfoot of the Church of England, to be the same with Mary Magdalen, and of the number of religious and eleemosynary buildings dedicated to her honour, is, for the present, needless; but I am much inclined to believe, that my correspondent at Gravesend will not relinquish la Pieu for de la Peur, the holy well near the scullery, for what is styled by Dr. Wells, in our Saviour's jour neyings, the Mountain of Precipitation; upon which, writes Maundrell, the Empress Helen, mother of Constantine, built a church. Ferrar's Scholarships; they are worth £.65 per annum, and are perfectly open. In the Gentleman's Magazine for April 1799, appeared the following poetical "Essay towards a characteristic Epitaph on the late Dean of Peterborough: "If peace on earth, good-will tow'rds men,' may claim The tale of Freedom, nor his name conceal'd Who plann'd the glorious scheme,) and tow'rds this tomb Here shall he stop-while grateful sorrows break |