the winged globes were, in fact, recorders of the cometary influence at the Deluge; and it is well known, that the best observations show that comets in perihelion very frequently appear with phases, the same as the moon does, and as, likewise, some of the other planets do; Juncta juvant, and on this maxim I agree that very probably (as N-м surmises) the comet which caused the Deluge, being in perihelion, and coming from a long period far removed from the Sun, has induced cold to such a degree, far surpassing any calculation we can make, and passing near the North Pole of our Earth to the North-east, and has probably not only drawn over the axis towards itself, but, by sudden congelation of the Arctic Circle, has imbedded in ice those remains which have lately been found, nearly entire, even as to flesh, skin, hair, &c., and for which I defy any probable cause to be given, different from the easy one 1 assign; a cause upon which so many powerful facts all accumulate and coincide, that I think the wonder is, that what must soon, if it does not now, appear plain and easy, has been so long disregarded, and many impossible agents argued upon, when the real one is so apparent and well supported and it may add to the probable hypothesis of the winged globes being the types of the cometary Deluge, that, if a comet came right towards the Earth, its tail would be furthest from both the Sun and the Earth, and so the comet like bearded or winged globe, and, indeed, it is in possible to peruse the narratives in the Bible, without perceiving that the Spirit by which they were dictated, was aware of the cause of the catastrophe being such as has been presumed, by which the fountains of the great deep were broken up, &c. N-M alludes with great justice to the progress made in Astronomy by the early nations soon after the deluge, and to the decay which took place at a subsequent period, and indeed till within these last two centuries, in that science ;-now this fact greatly tends to establish the hypothesis I have so strenuously endeavoured to elucidate. When those persons who escaped the great catastrophe of the deluge perceived that so vast an event bad proceeded from the influence of one of the heavenly bodies, their [May, attention must have been naturally directed to the science of astronomy, with a view to ascertain the chances of any future similar interference; hence the Egyptians and Chaldeans, &c., seem to have made an advance far beyond what might be expected, from their progress in learning and sciences, and arts, in other respects; and for many ages, during which the remembrance of the deluge was fresh, to have obtained an astonishing ascendancy (considering their limited means of observation) as to planetary revolutions; and as they easily foresaw that what had happened might from similar cause again take place; hence the type, or hieroglyphic of the Phoenix, which returned (as variously thought,) in 600 or 540 years to the sun, its denoting inundation, renovation, and destruction; the attempt to build the tower of Babel, and many other endeavours to transmit the knowledge of so great a cause, or to avert its consequences, may be traced, through the still eloquent remains of antiquity; which, after the original facts had become dim from age, and the changes incident to human affairs, still arrest our attention, and at the end of so many ages of darkness and oblivion, attest the great catastrophe, which the primeval sages wished to commemo rate. H. R. D. ORIGINAL LEtters. Tare the wing characteristic Letters both of considerable notoriety in their day; the first of Elizabeth Duchess of Kingston, and the second of the late Helen Maria Williams. It will be remembered that, after her trial by the House of Peers, in April 1776, the Duchess of Kingston retired to St. Petersburgh. The following letter was written from that city, how soon after does not appear, since in her dating she neither mentions the month nor year, and although we learn from the post-mark it was in March, the post-marks of that period do not record the year as now. The lady to whom the letter is addressed was a relation of her own, the direction being "To Miss Chudleigh at Abbey house, Bath." This is believed to be her sister; although in the obituary memoir of the Duchess, in vol. LVIII. p. 838, 1829.3 Letters of Duchess of Kingston, and H. M. Williams. she is called" sole daughter and heiress of Col. Tho. Chudleigh." MY DEAR BELL, The concern I am in at the bad accounts I have of yr health, gives me moments of pain beyond all expression. I shall set out on Monday; the frost is hard here, but I am told the roads a hundred miles from here are very bad. Courland is a bad swaby country, very flat, and Prussia the same. The Master of the Horses to her I. M. has sent his son to Paris. He has wrote from Courland that with his light cariage he was obliged to have 15 horses and 50 hegoats, in consequence of which Lady Countesse Bruce has put off her journey for six weeks; but I have more courage, and will set out, and if the roads are too bad, I must return for that short time, but it will be a great satisfaction to me to be near you in case you want me in y sickness. I would brave any dangers to comfort you, my dear friend; the sea, Dutch, American, nor pirates, cannot fright nor terrifie my soul, when you my true friend calls upon me. Adieu. I am in hast; farwell, faithfully and affectionately yours, E. KINGSTON. From St. Petersbourg, the 12 English stile 23 [March]. To Miss Chudleigh at Bath. 411 my sister is gone to visit in Normandy, have some thoughts of going to see the solemnities at Paris on the 14th of July. You are too well acquainted with my devout admiration of the National Assembly, to wonder that I, who think myself happy in living at a period when such an assembly exists, intend to set off for Normandy next week, in the blessed expectation of this glorious spectacle at Paris. We shall probably stay a week or ten days in that grande ville, and I shall be very desirous to have a glimpse of Parisian society; but I do not imagine that our friend, a provincial Baron, can introduce us into any company at Paris. If therefore you could, without much difficulty, obtain any letter of introduction for us, it would afford us a very great satisfaction, as well as confer on us a singular obligation. When I went to Streatham, I said to Mrs. Piozzi (not all which you, who are a man of eloquence, would have said for yourself) but all which in my simple phrase I could say for you. You are very high in the list of her favourites, and when you return she will be happy to see you at Streatham, where time passes in a manner I believe very congenial to your taste; for we have literary conversation, a fine library, charming music, and sweet walks; but soothing as those enjoyments are, I must renounce then a little while for the sublime delights of the French Revolution. I saw Miss Trefusis and Miss Weston yesterday; we talked much of Colonel Barry, but what was said I shall leave him to guess. My mother desires her best compts. I am, dear Sir, with great esteem, Obedient Servt, June 25th, 1790. H. M. WILLIAMS. No. 78, Wells-street, Oxford-street. 412 Pedigree of Meller, of Long Bridy, Dorset. not to be great; that in the reign of Queen Elizabeth they made purchases of abbey lands in villages, and were Robert. Thomas [May, remarkable for depopulating most of Ann, dau. of John Wolley John Miller of Jane, dau. of Rob. Cockram, of Cullhampton, co. Devon! John Meller 2 of Wint'Ann, dau. of Giles Winterhay of Chetnole, co. Dorset, b. ... ob. 25 March, 1510. Came, esq. b. ob. 1594, buried at Came. Edward Meller of Cheney, co. Bucks, ob. 1699, buried at Came. Strangways, Herring, Mohun, Horsey, If any of your correspondents can B. 1 In 1567, Wint' Came was held by John Miller. 2 In 1567 this man had the advowson of Came. In 1598 he also possessed Littlebridy and Kingston Russell, and died seised, leaving his son Robert, afterwards Sir Robert, in possession, and it continued in this family until sold to John Meech, esq. in 1730, by the heirs of Edward Meller (note 8), who is said to have died without issue. 3 4 Jac. I. 1606. The tithes of Up Loders conveyed to Sir Robert and Jasper in fee. In 1610 assigned to Sir Robert and his heirs. In 1620, Sir Robert and Dame Margaret his wife gave by deed 20 March in that year, the yearly sum of 401. out of the tithes of Up Loder and Upton, co. Dorset, in trust to their sons Wolley and John (notes + and 6), and to their posterity for ever, in the following proportions, viz. Cerne Abbey and Up Cerne, 201.; Came Wint' and Farringdon Wint', 107.; Littlebridy, Longbridy, Kingston Russell, Up Loders, and Upton, 107.; in all 40l. This deed is in the parish chest at Černe Abbas.-Hutchins, vol. I. p. 592. In 1607, 5 Jac. I. chapel and advowson was sold to Miller. 4 In 1662 this person served the office of Sheriff. In the Subsidy Roll he held lands in Leigh and Yetminster, and was able to dispend 1000l. per annum. This is supposed to be the Dame Dorothy Gorges, who gave a sum of money to her executor in trust, Woolley Meller, esq. her brother, to the poor of the parish of Yetminster, co. Dorset. 6 In 1630, this person served the office of Sheriff. In 1645, lands in Came and Kingston sequestered. 7 A writ for the division of lands in 1654 in Cripton. 8 The 1st Jac. II. c. 7, 1685, an Act passed to enable this person to sell lands and pay debts. He is not mentioned in the pedigree by Hutchins; but it appears he lived at Cheneys, co. Bucks. Qu. if this was the same person buried at Came, 3 Sept. 1699, and said to be of Littlebredy? 1829.] Mr. URBAN, Eminent Welshmen who have emigrated. April 11. Tthe Cymmorodorion have adopt ed for their motto), to this purpose, that a wise mun will value fragments. As your Miscellany has always been conducted on that principle, you will readily allow the following particulars a place in its pages. The history of a nation is not to be learned from its domestic and military transactions alone, but the annals of other countries must be searched to furnish accounts of such individuals as have carried its name into distant scenes. M. Thierry, in his valuable work on the Norman Conquest, observes, that " after the subjugation of Wales by the English, many of its natives emigrated to France; and perhaps it was the great number of those refugees, that made the names of Gallois and Legallois, so common in France as family_names." He mentions one, from Froissart, Owen, who was brought up in the palace of Philip the Fair, and being considered as the nearest heir to the Welch crown, was called Yvain of Wales. He made a descent on the island of Guernsey, was present at the battle of Poitiers, and took a part in the Spanish war of succession. To the English who were made prisoners, he asserted his right to the principality, and claimed homage from the Earl of Pembroke for the lands he held in Wales. He was assassinated by one of his countrymen in Spain. Mr. Blackwell of Mold once remarked to me, in a conversation on this subject, that this person was probably the same with Owen the Sanguinary, whose name is so frequently mentioned by the bards of the fourteenth century, and concerning whom no particulars were supposed to have been preserved. It is unfavourable to this conjecture, that Camden, in his account of Guernsey, calls him Evan; but that may be an erroneous way of expressing Yvain; though one might imagine that the French, with the name of Ouen occurring in their list of saints, would have been at no loss to adapt Owen to their mode of speech. Froissart also mentions a Welshman named Rufien (qu. Riewan? says M. Thierry), who commanded a celebrated band of plunderers in the interior of France, in the fourteenth century. Another Cambrian is mentioned by 413 M. Simond, in his History of Switzer Some of your readers may perhaps be able to elucidate these particulars farther, in hope of which I remain, Yours, &c. CYDWELI. Mr. URBAN, Grimsby, March 10. of the village of Clee, near Grimsby, which for its antiquity and singular customs may merit the publicity which is afforded by your amusing and instructive Miscellany. It anciently contained within its parochial jurisdiction, six hamlets, viz. Clee, Weelsby, Holm, Itterby, Hole, and Thrunscoe, the three former lying within the Soke of Grimsby, and the rest in the Wapentake of Bradley Haverstoe. Of these the hamlet of Holm is gone to decay, and Itterby and Hole have lost their primitive name in the modern appellation of Cleethorpes. The name of Clee was derived from the Celtic Cleis, chalk, of which article its shores formed an extensive depository in Roman times for exportation, at a haven half way between Grimsby and Itterby, but now wholly filled up and obliterated. The parish occupies a conspicuous place in Domesday; whence it appears that the Bishop of Bayeux held the manor of Clee; Ivo Tailbois that of Thrunscoe and Hole; Drogo de Beurere that of Weelsby and Holm; and Waldo Ingeniator that of Itterbyt. A Church was certainly in existence here before the Norman Conquest, al * I once thought this Jevan, or Ieuan, as the name properly is, to be the same with Froissart's Owen, but the death of the latter marks them for different persons. There is no such name as Ysso, nor do I perceive any that approaches to it. Nearly the same manorial division still remains. Mr. Heneage claims the manor of Weelsby and Holm; the Corporation of Grimsby that of Clee; Lord Yarborough that of Cleethorpes; and Mr. Nicholson the manor of Thrunscoe. 414 Account of Clee, Lincolnshire. though not mentioned in Domesday, because it was assigned to the Abbey of Wellow by charter, a copy of which is in my possession, a little more than ten years after that record was taken; and it is highly probable that the tower, or campanile, is the remains of that original structure, with the exception of the crown, or battlement, which is evidently an introduction of a later period. This opinion is corroborated by the peculiar style of the lower part of the tower, which is an edifice built principally with rubble stones, but of remarkable strength and solidity, and indicates the Saxon period of architecture. The west door, which opens into the tower, is surmounted by a semicircular head, composed, together with the door frame, of large, rough squared stones; above which is a very narrow loophole window, with a circular head; and in the next story is a double bell window of the same character, separated by a cylindrical baluster, a description of light which appears uniformly on every face of the tower at the same elevation. The nave and ailes are decidedly Norman, and the transept with its lancet arches, is of the very beginning of the early English period, as the following description of their respective styles of architecture may rationally determine. The north front has a low pointed door near the west end of the nave aile, and two square-headed windows, each of two lights, with stone mullions, having trefoil heads and quatrefoils in the recesses. The end of the transept has a pointed window of three lights, stone mullions with cinquefoil heads and perpendicular tracery; a decisive proof that it was a subsequent introduction. This face of the chancel has been repaired with brick in modern times, and only one plain window remains. The east window has lost its tracery, [May, and by repairs in the seventeenth century was made squareheaded, and divested of its ornaments. The south face of the chancel has a window of two lights; and there is another of three lights at the end of the transept, over which the date 1658 shews the year when the Church underwent a thorough reparation. The nave aile has two good windows of three lights each, with obtuse-angled heads, the tracery trefoil and quatrefoils in the recesses. The porch is triangular, with a square doorway, and displays obvious marks of the parsimo nious policy which superintended the repairs in 1658. The massive entrance door is primitive, being composed of oak and driven full of nails with large heads, at equal distances; the hinges and latch being in the ancient ornamental style. Fixed in the wall of the porch is a white marble tablet, which has evidently been removed from some other situation, containing the following inscription in old Church text: "Hic iacet Tho's kpgger & Alicia uror eius olim mane'tes in bowle qui obieru't rro die me's dece'bris anno 'ni mo cccc° xl vo Henricus Kogger fili tho'e Bygg predicti, oblit xvo die me's marcii anno d'ni m° cecco vii Alicia uror b'rici pgger predicti obiit rrii die me's decebris ao d'ni mo cccc® lxxx q'ru' a'i'ar' p'pier' d ́§.” The nave has three Saxon arches on the north side, profusely ornamented with various mouldings, the zigzag, the cable, the nail head, and the enbattled fret, and supported by square piers clustered with cylinders; and on the south side two noble semicircular arches, with similar ornaments, supported at each extremity by piers of masonry, and in the centre by sive cylindrical column, in which is the following inscription in Saxon capitals: mas |