Sir R. Atherton, bart. W. Wakefield, Arc.-Plan; three parts in width and depth; great boldness in the arrangement, and some change evinced therein from preceding methods. In centre, large hall breaking back two-thirds of depth, its end distinguished by an alcove for a statue; at its back, sa loon with stairs and rooms left and right. Elevation; notwithstanding that in this design much similitude is visible to the foregoing ditto, yet some variations occur; to the basement, in its centre a lofty flight of steps, left and right rustics without perpendicular joints or chamfers: first story windows have plain kneed architraves at bottom, and pedestal dados blocks support windows to second story. Upon the whole, we must decide between these two rival mansions in favour of Campbell, that is with regard to elevation; but in respect to plan, Wakefield certainly has the advantage in the latter construction. Rookby-house, Yorkshire, 1724; T. Robinson, esq. W. Wakefield, Arc.- Here Wakefield comes for ward with great superiority and mastership; it is presumed, no conception in architecture can be more satisfactory to the view, although its mass is still continued on the same cons fined scale as those already enumerated. Plau; three parts in width and depth; hall in centre, with a most uncommon centrical tri-formed

colonnade groined; behind, stairs, left, whole depth, three rooms; right, a gallery whole depth. Elevation; flight of steps in the centre, on each side rustics with perpendicular chamfers. The centrical part of upright in two stories, having Corinthian cofumas and pilasters; side parts rise but one story; circular-beaded double Corinthian pilaster door-way; over it square windows to second story; circular-headed windows to side divisions, also rustic quoins; key stones with sweeping dado's to the other windows in centre of this story; in the second ditto, the windows have supporting blocks; balls on each extremity of side divisious: general block cornice and balusters, with vases to centre division; plain cornice to side ditto.

When publicity is given to an objectionable decree (see p. 8), and afterwards pleasing information sucGENT. MAG. March, 1817.

ceeds, reversing such decree, how much is due to that power holding the balance of good and bad, and lets the former quality preponderate. Thanks are at least required from us; most sincerely on our parts we repeat the grateful word, thanks; and for the high satisfaction received, as no doubt can be entertained of our sincerity on this head. Whatever apprehensions might have been conceived, they are visionary all; the "delightful object of domestic architecture at Glastonbury, the Abbot's Inn, is not to fall." "The solicitations of the feeling Antiquary" have been listened to, and "another spot secured for the building project."

If the Society of Antiquaries be disposed, as doubtless they will, to "give credit to the yielding disposition" of him who saves the devoted pile; can other minds, claiming pos session of "taste" and sensibility like them, refrain from heartily rejoicing? We once more cry out in joyful strain, thanks! and conclude with this self-congratulating effusion,-

OUR LABOURS ARE NOT IN VAIN! AN ARCHITECT. (To be continued.)

CATHEDRAL SCHOOLS.

(Continued from p. 12.)

Mr. URBAN,

Crosby-square,

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for

for the constant ministration of divine offices in his Cathedral Church.

He ordained, with the concurrence of the Dean and Chapter, that all who shared in the impropriation of Godelwern should alternately be present in the Cathedral at all Canonical hours, and should chaunt the Service (cum nola) in regular course, according to the direction of the Pre

centor.

It was also ordained, that the Dean and the Prebendaries of Vaynol and Llanufydd should provide three Priests, being good singers and expert in the Science of Music, to assist the Vicars choral, at the time of divine service, and that the Archdeacon should send a person skilled in singing and organ playing.

The Prebendaries of Alt Meliden, and Llanvair are required by the same authority to furnish four boys, being good singers, as choristers for the daily celebration of divine service.

These constitutions were confirmed by Bishop Goldwell and the Dean and Chapter in 1558, when the members of the Church are said to be, a Dean, fourteen Canons (including the Archdeacon, Sub-dean, Precentor, and Treasurer), four Minor Canons, or Vicars Choral, and three Chaplains, officiating for the Dean, and the Prebendaries of Vaynol and Llanufwdd. To these are added the organist and four choristers.

This very simple and inartificial arrangement for the support of the choral service, continued with little variation till near the close of the seventeenth century, the organist, singing men, and choristers being maintained chiefly by subscriptions of the Church members. "If they had not been gentlemen of generosity and zeal," adds Browne Willis, the Church must have lain in ruins, and the inferior members could not have subsisted."

Such was their precarious condition till the year 1669, when Dr. Isaac Barrow was advanced to this See. Through his paternal care the effective members of the Choir were once more endowed, by the impropriation of Llanraiader, a sinecure of considerable value, vested by authority of the Legislature in the Dean and Chapter, for the sole purpose of repairing the fabrick, and affording a maintenance for the individuals officiating

in the service of the Cathedral. I am not able to record any subsequent benefaction to the Musical Department, which at present includes the organist, four singing men, and four singing boys; besides supernumeraries.

The classical instruction of the Choristers has been very recently abandoned, and the boys have no other education than what the Organist and a Parish School afford them. I cannot learn that any of the pupils brought up in the Music-School of St. Asaph's Cathedral have risen to eminence, either as professional men or otherwise.

BANGOR CATHEDRAL.

The early History of this Foundation may be comprised in few words. The two British Cathedrals of St. Asaph and St. Daniel were flourishing communities in the Sixth Century, when the greater part of the Island was sunk in barbarism and idolatry ; and they were both involved in the same calamities during the struggles of a brave people to preserve their national independence. In the reign of Edward the First, the Cathedral of Bangor once more rose to eminence, and the holy offices were revived with additional splendour. Bishop Anian compiled a Missal or Service Book, for the direction of his Clergy in the performance of their sacred duties; and the Preface to the Book of ComMON PRAYER bears testimony to the high reputation which this compilation obtained under the name of THE BANGOR USE.

The Vocal Choir was no less celebrated than their Liturgy. An Ode is still extant, composed in praise of Howel, Dean of Bangor, in the time of Edward III." whose organ and harmonious Choir are unrivalled in performance." It does not, however, appear from any known records whether this" unrivalled Choir" had any settled endowment; and it is probable that the Vicarial Clergy were in a great measure dependent on the optional liberality of the Canons, whose duties they undertook to perform.

At the commencement of the Fif teenth Century the Church of Bangor fell a sacrifice to the unchristiau ven. geance of Owen Glendower, and the ministration of divine offices was ne cessarily suspended for some years. The service was resumed A.D. 1445,

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when "the Dean and Chapter compounded with the Vicars Perpetual of the Parish of Bangor, for the service in the Choir; by the composition granted to the said Vicars for the Choral Service."

But, as the Canons delegated their official duties to their substitutes, the Vicars, so these endowed Vicars, at no distant period, obtained a similar privilege, and the contradictory characters of Lay Clerks, or Singing men, were gradually introduced into the stalls of the Cathedral and Collegiate Choirs, for whom, as for the Lay Brothers in Monasteries, a very scanty provision was made. Prior to the Seventeenth Century, observes Willis in his account of Bangor, "the Cathedral service and fabrick was supported solely by contributions of the Bishop and Chapter; and what they could get by begging from other persons in the Diocese was applied to this use."

The revenues accruing from these sources were gradually diminished; and in the year 1685, Bishop Lloyd and Dean Humphries procured an Act of Parliament for the permanent endowment of the Choir, with a portion of the tithe arising in the parish of Llandinam. Bishop Lloyd died A. D. 1688; and the settlement of the Benefaction was reserved for Dr. Humphries, who succeeded him in the Bishoprick. This Prelate was educated in Dr. Glynn's Free School at Bangor, and immediately after his promotion to the Bishoprick instituted visitatorial enquiries into the situation of the Choristers belonging to his Cathedral Church. The following answers were returned by the Dean to his interrogations:

"As for Choristers, I know of none except the Foundation Scholars, who are obliged on Holidays and Halfholidays to attend in the Cathedral, in their surplices. Indeed I find by Prebend Griffith's answer, and Vicar Rowland's answer (1632) mention of three Choristers belonging to the Cathedral: of what antiquity is uncertain; but, by report, the Archdeacon of Merioneth paid 208. per annum to the one, and the Prebend of Penmynydd 20s. per annum to the other. Of the third I find no mention. Besides, there are two Hutchins Scholars, paid 31. per annum out of Nantporth, of which I can give no particular ac

count, having never seen the will of Bishop Rowland, so that I cannot answer whether they are obliged to wear surplices, or to sing."

To another question the Dean replies, "I cannot certainly find who are obliged to teach the art of singing. I find Prebend Moyth, in his answer to Chapter Articles, to say, that the Vicars Choral ought to keep a Singing School, as he believeth. Vi car Rowlands, in his answer, says, that, according to the composition, the Vicars must sing cum notê, and that Vicar Martyn, while he lived, taught the boys to sing, but why, as now he knows not; Prebend Griffith says that Vicar Martyn did teach the boys Prayers; but whether of his own accord, or ex debitô, he knows not."

"As for Choristers properly so called," adds the Dean, "I know not how many there are, or ought to be. All that I know is, that there are now in being the Ten Foundation Boys (I suppose the full number), the Bethkelert Boy, and the two Hutchins Scholars; but whether all these, or how many of these, are properly Choristers, and obliged to sing, I know not."

The revenues accruing from the Tithes of Llandinam were not applicable to their appointed use till 1898, at which period we may date the settlement of the Choral Establishment, which corresponds with that of St. Asaph.

Exclusive of the four endowed Choristers who are contemplated in the regulations of Bishop Humphries, are Dr. Glynn's Grammar Scholars (the Foundation Boys alluded to by Dean Jones); who are instructed in vocal musick by the organist, and attend in the Cathedral with the Choristers according to the Founder's statutes,

The endowed Choristers are generally chosen from Dr. Glynn's Scholars. They receive a classical education in the Free Grammar School, where they are also taught Writing and Arithmetick; and the Organist of the Cathedral, for the time being, is responsible for their musical at

tainments.

The former Choristers of Bangor Cathedral have usually settled very reputably in life, and do credit to their respective instructors. A great proportion have taken Holy Orders.

Mr.

I

BEG to call the most serious attention of yourself and your readers to the great increase of the offence of Prize-fighting. Formerly it was difficult for the Boxers to elude the vigilance of the Magistracy; but now in the neighbourhood of the Metropolis a fight may be heard of any day by applying at certain public houses, and Prize-fighting is every thing but legalized. When it is considered what idle lives the Boxers lead,-what profligate and abandoned assemblag lages are drawn together at a fight,it is much to be regretted that independent Magistrates have not stepped forward to do their duty according to their oath. Much is owing to the Magistrates who have resided near certain places famous for boxing matches, and who have suffered this evil to increase.

The battle between Turner and Curtis (see vol. LXXXVI. ii. p. 459) was of too extraordinary a nature to be passed over. Curtis had been most dreadfully beaten; indeed so much so, that one of the evidence supposed he must have been partially Idead before he left the field: under such circumstances he was cruelly

suffered to fight on, and in point of fact he did fight on, till he was exhausted, and was carried from the field to die in a few hours.

I must confess, I was very much disappointed in the course taken on this occasion. There never was a fairer opportunity to put an end to Prize-fighting: a purse was made up for an illegal purpose, persons instigated to fight, an illegal meeting, and a man killed in the midst of many, coolly looking on, some hoping to gain if the murderous fight went forward, and others enjoying this most inhuman sport. What was the result? The surviving combatant alone taken up and tried at the Old Bailey, with hardly an observation on the serious circumstances at tending the case and the practice.

The surviving combatant was certainly the least guilty of very many there. Poor unfortunate man! his miserable education had told him little of his moral or religious duties; but those men who could and might have prevented the fatal event, who coolly looked on, who were to gain

their bets by the defeat; they were guilty of a dreadful crime, and yet they were suffered to go unpunished, and, no doubt, will exert themselves to raise new purses for new professors of the noble art of defence.

Boxing indeed has acquired new charms since the death of Curtis: a meeting was some time ago held at the Thatched House Tavern, where a Baronet took the Chair, and a Noble Lord (and I believe a Privy Coun sellor) moved that a club, to be called the Pugilistic Club, be established. In a printed account of this Club it is observed, “Infinite advantage is derived from union-the Society is of inestimable benefit-much difficulty has often been experienced in raising parses - many displays of heroism prevented-but now the funds are always ready-patronage is much more conspicuous than heretofore."

You see, Mr. Urban, the consequences of trifling with Prize-fighting. A Sunday Paper of the 16th of March gave notice of near a dozen intended fights. No BOXER.

Mr. URBAN,

Franklyn, (Devon}
March 8.

THE lateis County, so well known

Mr. Archdeacon Hole is,

to have been the Author of "The Ornaments of Churches considered," that it was not without much surprise that, in Mr. Carlisle's Catalogue of the Library of the Antiquarian Society lately published, I found it ascribed to Dr. Thomas Wilson: and again, within these few days, I observe in Mr. Chalmers's Edition of the General Biographical Dictionary, under the title "Thomas Wilson, D.D." (vol, XXXII. p. 182), that the Archdeacon's Treatise is also stated to have been attributed to Dr. Wilson; and that "another report is, that the Work was chiefly the composition of the late Archdeacon Hole; Dr. Wilson having borrowed a MS Treatise on the subject written by the Archdeacon, and then printed almost the whole of it, inserting here and there a few notes, &c. of his own; but who the late Archdeacon Hole was, we have not been able to discover."

The late Archdeacon Hole was the Rev. William Hole, B. D. a Native,

Work as the one in question should be referred to its true Author. Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN, AVING

JOHN JONES

London, March 6. candid

of Mr. Chalmers.

With respect to the share Dr. Wilson had in The Ornaments of Churches considered," Mr. Carlisle's Catalogue, and Mr. Chalmers's last Volume, have explained to me the meaning of some MS notes in my copy, which, till now, I did not understand; and which, I think, determine the point. In my copy, which belonged to the Rev. John Sleech, the late Archdeacon of Cornwall, who died Feb. 1, 1787, and was the contemporary and friend of Archdeacon Hole, besides various alterations and corrections in Archdeacon Sleech's hand-writing, with which I am well acquainted, he has interlined in p. 15, under the word introduction, by Dr. Wn." And at the end of the Work, p. 143, he has added, "This last section was substituted by the Editor, instead of the one that was sent to be printed." From which it appears that all that belongs to Dr. Wilson is the introduction, extending from

p. 15 to p. 36, both inclusive, and the 7th or last section, extending from p. 136 to p. 143, both inclusive; and that he edited the book.

I conceive it is by no means unimportant that so elegant and learned a

for January, a very flattering eulogium on the character of the late Sir George Prevost, permit me through the same medium to make a few cursory remarks on the leading features of that paper, and to supply some facts which possibly did not present themselves to the Old Soldier, who, it appears, was not engaged in the campaign, the conduct of which he has undertaken to justify.

No man is more ready than myself (who am also an old soldier, and served in the Canadas nearly the whole of the late war) to pay due honour to the illustrious dead; but I cannot approve of that feeling which would rob the living of a well-deserved reputation, to decorate the urn of a departed favourite.

I shall pass silently over several paragraphs, not being inclined to question Sir George's pretensions to the moral excellences therein set forth; and briefly noticing his debut as Governor of the Canadas, proceed to those points which more immediately reflect on Sir J. L. Yeo, and other Officers in both services, high in rank and in the public estimation.

Sir James Craig (whose energy and intelligence are too justly appreciated to need my commendation) had removed from office several Lower Canadians, whose factious conduct served only to excite and exasperate the animosity which more or less has always subsisted between the English and French parties in that province. Sir George Prevost, when he assumed the reins of government, in restoring these persons, did not, I conceive, act either with delicacy or proper deference to the judgment and local experience of his predecessors; and the impolicy of the measure was abundantly manifested in its consequences., Sir George, instead of having gained, as asserted, "the entire confidence and affections of the Canadians," found their Legislators refractory, and was in the course of his administration obliged prematurely to dissolve their House of Assembly.

The