*Pulpit and Carvings at Nailsea Church, Somerset.... Lunar and Solar Eclipses of July ..... .29, 30 60 Arched Canopy, ancient Barn, and Cross at Chelvy, Somerset .209 *Runic Gravestones found at Hartlepool...... ....219 Two Views of Charing Palace, Kent..... .....297 Brass Chasing, representing three Military Figures of the 12th Century...305 Seals of the Hospital of Jerusalem ib. *North Chapel Church, Sussex.......... ..307 Views of Grove House at Woodford, Essex, and German Fresco Paintings 393 *Motto inscribed in his books by Henry Earl of Arundel........... .491 *Seal of Philip Earl of Arundel....... ib. *Autograph of John Lord Lumley ...... ..495 154834 PREFACE. The Proprietors of the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE feel anxious to address a parting word, at the close of their old Series, to their long friendly and valued Correspondents. 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Preston, Sherb., Shrewsb., Southampton,Truro, Worcester 2Aylesbury, Bangor, Barnst., Berwick, Blackb., Bridgew., Carmar., Colch., Chesterf, Devizes, Dorch., Doncaster, Falmouth, Glouc., Halifax, Henley, Hereford, Lancas ter, Leamingt Lewes, Linc., Lichf. Macclesf. Newark., Newc. on-Tyne, Northamp. Reading, Rochest., Salish.. Shields, Staff., Stockp., Sun derl., Taunt.,Swans., Wakef.," Warwick, Whiteh., Winches., Windsor, Wolverha., 1 each. Ireland 61-Scotland 37 Jersey 4-Guernsey 3 Bray's Visitation Sermon...... ......65 .2 FINE ARTS.- Sale of Erard's Pictures ...57 LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.-New Works. .58 Musical Commemoration of Sir T. Gresham59 The Solar and Lunar Eclipses...............60 Foreign Literary Intelligence. ..6 .7 NEW CHURCHES.-St. James's Chapel, ..61 .19 Life of the last Fitz-Alan, Earl of Arundel 10 .21 Neglected state of the Fitz-Alan Monum1. 23 Review of New Publications. ....... 32 .37 Clarke's Young Cricketer's Tutor..........41 Sharpe's British Peerage.. Dr. Chalmers's Bridgewater Treatise......54 || Meteorological Diary.-Prices of Stocks. 96 Embellished with Views of ST. JAMES'S CHAPEL, CROYDON; With Representations of the PULPIT and CARVINGS at NAILSEA CHURCH, Somerset, By SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. Printed by J. B. NICHOLS and SON, CICERO'S HEAD, 25, Parliament Street, Westminster; where all Letters to the Editor are requested to be sent, PoST PAID. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. The Rev. Mr. Archdeacon WRANGHAM remarks, "In the last word of the inscription on Napper's Mite, Dorchester (noticed in your Magazine for May last, p. 423), Mr. Barnes will permit me to point out the concealed Chronogram, which I was led to suspect by the circumstance that no year is attached to the word Ann. Xeno Do ChIVM will furnish Roman numeral letters amounting in the aggregate to 1616; the precise date, I conclude, of the year when the building was completed, and the inscription put up. As I am troubling you with these few lines, I may add, with respect to Mr. Prickett's valuable work on Bridlington Priory, which I am proud to find inscribed to myself, that since he wrote, the Church at Grindel (see Mag. for April, p. 332), has been re-built, and that of Speeton nearly so; and that in numerous other churches of my archdeaconry, great and costly repairs have been made (subsequently to my parochial visitation) most ungrudgingly throughout the whole of the East-Riding of Yorkshire; a circumstance which I am bound in justice to the agricultural population to state also, with regard to their neighbours in the Archdeaconry of Cleveland, of which I was Archdeacon from 1820 to 1828." W. S. B. observes, " In the Number for May (p. 447), noticing a picture of Cromwell looking at Charles I. in his coffin, it is said, we cannot detect an anachronism.' The date is obviously one; for the year 1649 did not commence till 25th March. And in fact, Sir Henry Halford's Memoir, on opening the vault at Windsor,' states that a leaden coffin bore the inscription King Charles, 1648.' Respecting the design, I submit that it is not possible for any one to hold a heavy coffin lid with the left hand, in the position there represented: it is on the slope, and would require support from below. When the painting was exhibited at the Louvre, its masterly execution would have obtained a prize for the artist; but the subject gave offence, and deprived M. Delaroche of that honour." WROXTONIENSIS remarks, "The Editors of the new edition of the Monasticon, give an imperfect list of the Priors of Wroxton Priory in Oxfordshire. To the ten names they have catalogued, the following are to be added: Hugo, supposed to have been the first Prior (see an instrument printed in the note to p. 369 of Warton's Life of Sir Thomas Pope); Richard, occurs in 1410 (see p. 370 of the same work); John Adderbury, in 30 Henry VI. 1452; William Braddenham, 5 Hen. VII. 1490 (see Warton's Pope, 371), he is elsewhere called William Bradnam; Richard, in 1504 (see Warton, ibid.); and Thomas Smith, or Smyth, who continued Prior till the Dissolution, ibid. A hospital for lepers, at Tavistock, is only slightly mentioned by Tanner, and in the Monasticon, but more fully noticed in your vol. c. i. 489. What appears to be the matrix of its seal, is now found in the Ashmole Museum at Oxford; and represents a female figure, perhaps Mary Magdalene, under a tabernacle, with a legend as follows: Di gillum hospitalis de sca marie magdefini de tavistocke." In Mr. Lodge's useful and generally accurate Peerage, the Countess of Mansfield's issue by her second marriage with the Hon. R. F. Grevile, are styled Ladies, &c. notwithstanding that in the second or genealogical volume, the title was granted as there stated, to her and her issue male, by David Viscount Stormont only; if so, the issue of the second marriage would surely not be entitled to any honorary designations in right of their mother's peerage. Beatson, in his Political Index, however, does not mention the limitation to the male issue of Lord Stormont, but to the male issue generally of Louisa Viscountess Stormont. Sir Harris Nicolas, in his Synopsis of the Peerage, states the limitation to be to the male issue by Lord Stormont.-That the present race of the Montagu's are not descended legitimately from the Montagu's Earls of Salisbury, must be quite obvious to any genealogist. Sir E. Brydges has pointed out the fact that the bordure to their arms is an ancient difference signifying illegitimacy. Mr. W. WILLIAMS requests information respecting William Kerwin, of London, Freemason, who died in 1594, and was buried in St. Helen's Church, where a monument still exists to his memory, with the following inscription: Edibus Attalicis Londinum qui decoravi One of his daughters was married to the The same Correspondent will also feel obliged by information on the following subject:-Stow states that on the incursion of the Danes in the year 1010, the bones of St. Edmund the Martyr were brought to London and deposited for three years at the Church of St. Gregory, near St. Paul's. Dr. Yates, in his History of Bury St. Edmund's, says, they were placed at Christ Church; and Entinck, in his History of London, states that the Church of St. Helen was the place where they were deposited. Which is correct? |