I Mr. URBAN, March 2. TRANSMIT the following original Pedigree of the Princess Elgiva of England, and her descendants (with various notes). It relates chiefly to the Nevilles of Rolleston, a branch very little known, and hitherto inac curately deduced, not only as to the individuals themselves, but also in regard to the acquisition and inheritance of their property. Conceiving, from Pedigree of the Princess Elgiva, and her Descendants. Ethelred II. King of Eng--Elfgina, dau. land, 1016, the 7th in suc- of Earl Thocession from Egbert. rald. Waltheof, Earl of Judith, dau. of Lambert, Count of Lens, in Artois. Elgiva (Hoved. p. 424, Francf. Uthred, Earl of Northumberland, surnamed the Bold. edit.) (Ibid.) Algith, heiress of Raby, co. Durham. (Ib.)Maldred Fitz Crinan, an eminent Thane. (Ib.), Cospatric, Earl of Northumb. Lord of Raby, 1070. (Dougl. Peer. Scot. p. 437.)—• Maldred Fitz Dol-.... phin, Lord of Raby. (Char tulary of Coldstream.) Waldevus. ...... Ethelreda mar. King Duncan, son of King Malcolm Canmore. (Ibid.) Geoffrey de Nevill, Lord of Brancepath Rob. Fitz Maldred, Lord of Raby, Stand-Isabel Nevill, Off. Arm.) r Geoffrey Nevill (Fitz Robert), I.ord of Raby, &c. (Ibid.)Marg, dau. of John Longvillers. The History of Sheffield describes him as son of Siward the Dane, who led the armies of the Confessor against Macbeth, the usurper of the Throne of Scotland. Hallamshire was a large district comprising the manor of Hallam, Sheffield (the Caput Baroniæ of De Lovetot), and the surrounding country. It was held under the Countess Judith, by Roger de Busli; on the death of him and his son, it passed by marriage to the family of Lovetot. 2 In Whitaker's Richmondshire, vol. I. pp. 109, 114; II. p. 137; her grandfather Alan is described as a descendant of Roaldi, the founder of the magnificent Abbey of St. Agatha, GENT. MAG. March, 1827. a Sir Thomas Nevill, knt. Lord of Rolleston, Pikal, &c. Cicely 3, dau. and heiress of (Woodford Chartulary, Mus. Brit. Bibl. Cot. Claud. A. Sir Guy Blanchminster, knt. XIII. p. 270.) (Ibid.) Randolf Nevill Isa-Sir Robert Woodford, knt. Lord of Ashby Folville, co. Leic. warrior at Agincourt. (Ibid. p. 275.) at Easeby, the beautiful and interesting remains of which are finely delineated. Her mother married Jollan de Nevill of the Anglo-Norman branch, second son of Hugh, son of Ralph, founder of the Cistertian Nunnery at Hoton in Yorkshire, A.D. 1162. This Hugh, says Matth. Paris, 315m. 1. 2, being in the Holy Land with King Richard, slew a lion with his own hand, wherefore it was said: Viribus Hugonis vires periêre leonis. A fine engraving of a seal, displaying the contest with the furious animal, is in Thompson's History of Boston, p. 215. It represents a knight in mail armour, raising his sword to strike a rampant lion,-which bearing, it may be remarked, is also depicted on his shield. A tree placed near the combatants indicates that the scene of action is a forest. The legend is, OR, A GARDEZ. BEL AMI TROP. FORT. BAAILLE. I. A. CI. words evidently addressed to the lion by his opponent. Returning to Jollan, he was a Justice itinerant 18 Hen. III. and the compiler of the manuscript book in the Exchequer, containing the Knights' fees, then certified, which still bears the name of TESTA DE NEVILL. With Amphilicia Jollan had the lordship of Rolleston (see the Testa de Nevill, p. 13), and Pikal (Picala), as appears by a charter containing these words: "Alanus, Constabularius Richmondiæ, omnibus suis hominibus et amicis Francis et Anglis sal'. Sciatis quod ego do Jollano de Nevilla filiam meam Amfelisc ad sponsam, et cum ea do ei Pikale et Monasterium et pertinentias, &c." Amphilicia had also a son, called John, whose two sons, Andrew and Jollan (the former living 9 Edw. I. the latter 3 Ed. III.) died s. p. The lordships of Rolleston and Pikal then passed to Sir Thomas Nevill, her grandson, in whose posterity they continued several generations. 3 The family of Blanchminster, De Albo Monasterio, earlier than the reign of Edw. I. dwelt at Ennor Castle in Scilly, of which island they were Lords, and at Binamy Castle in the reign of Edw. III.; and, according to Lysous's Cornwall, p. lxviii, were descended from Champernon and Joan Plantagenet his wife, natural daughter of Richard, King of the Romans. The arms of Blanchminster given by Lysons, are: Argent, three bendlets Sable, over all a chevron Ermine. Richard, says Matthew Paris, p. 312, u. 10, was created in 1225, by his brother Hen. III., Earl of Poictou and Cornwall, where he had a seat called Tindagel Castle, a place of great antiquity and note, the description and remains of which are introduced by Borlace in his History of the Duchy, and more recently by Lysons in his Magna Britannia. 4 His ancestors, it is already shown, in earlier times resided at Holt. William Nevill, his grandson, married Catherine, daughter and heiress of Thomas Palmer, esq. of Holt, which circumstance, says Thoroton, p. 324, occasioned the removal of this family to that place. 5 His bearing was: Sable, three leopards' heads Gules, jessant fleurs de lis Argent. The following curious memorial of him is recorded in the Woodford Chartulary. "Kyng Herry the Fyfte reyned Kyng of Yngland ix yere and more; and in the third yere of his regne he wan hareflyght by a sege; and on the friday, in the fest of Saynt Cryspyn and Crispynyam, erly in the mornyng, he dubbyd Sr Rob Wodford knyght, And many odure at that Sege beyng p'sent; And a non aftr that same friday he faught manfully a gens a C thowsand of frenchmen at Agyng court, And had the victory of he. And toke the Duke of Orlyaunce and od dukis and grete lordys of F'nce, And ther was slayn of frenchemen yt day xiij thowsaund. And aftr he wan the Cyte of Roon and Cane and all wholle Normandy and ye Cyte of Paryse, and mykyll of all F'nce. And he made his brod Sr John the Duke of Bedford Regent of all Fraunce. And aftr that at the ix yere of hys Reyngne, he passid to God Almyghty, on whas soulle J'hu have m'cy, Amen." Mr. URBAN, Cork, Feb. 23. N my former Letter I offered some remarks on the coins attributed to E.helbert and Egbert, Kings of Kent; and before I proceed to make some observations on the coins of the other kingdoms of the Heptarchy, I think it may not be unnecessary to notice the coins of Edbert II. of Kent, A.D. 794. These coins are, I believe, very properly given to Edbert II. of Kent, but their claim to a place in the Kentish series, or their appropriation to Edbert II. in particular, does not appear to rest on so strong a foundation, as to make any further evidence unnecessary; there is nothing in the types of the coins which denote any particular kingdom or period of coinage, or give any reason for attributing them to Edbert II. in preference to Edbert I. 725, or Edbert of Northumberland, 738. The name of one of the moneyers, Ethelmod, which occurs also on the coins of Offa, Coenwulf, and Baldred, certainly affords strong grounds for supposing them to belong to Edbert II. of Kent, but perhaps the following may be a still stronger. On the reverse of one of his coins we find the name IANBERH. (see Ruding, pl. 3, no. 2.) This I am strongly inclined to think was intended for Archbishop Jaenbert; and if it be so, it will, I think, decide the question at once; for Jaenbert succeeded to the see of Canterbury in 764, several years after the reigns of the other two Edberts: nor would his name appear on any coin of Northumberland, which was then under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of York. It may be objected that neither could his name appear on any coin of Edbert II., as Jaenbert, according to historical accounts, died in 793, and Edbert did not ascend the throne until 794; but, if we examine the Anglo-Saxon records, we shall often find a greater variance than the difference of a year, and that very little was known of the history of this Edbert, may be presumed from the fact that he is called Ethelbert by Speed, Egbert by Hume, and Edbert by Rapin. AETHELWEARD, King of the WEST SAXONS. The opinion of the late celebrated Antiquary Mr. Combe, that these coins belong to some unknown King of the East Angles, is beyond all doubt correct; the types and formation of the letters are similar, and out of five moneyers whose names appear on Aethelweard's coins, four are to be found on the coins of Eadmund, King of the East Angles. Mr. Woolstone says, none of Aethelweard's moneyers' names occur on any other coins, except the name of Dudda, which is found on the coins of Cuthred, King of Kent, and seems to think that the same man was moneyer to both; but this is exceedingly improbable, for there were 58 years between the death of Aethelweard, King of the West Saxons, and the accession of Cuthred; and it is evident that Mr. Woolstone did not compare the moneyers of these coins with those of Eadmund, or he would have found that four of them were common to both. These coins, therefore, clearly belong to some King of the East Angles, or if not, to some other King contemporary with Eadmund; but the former is much more probable, as the only other kingdoms of the Heptarchy which remained at that period were Mercia and Northumberland, the succession of whose princes is pretty well ascertained. We must therefore examine the history of England, to discover whether any prince of that name can be found at that period. We there find a prince called Ethelwald by most historians, but whom Rapin, vol. I. pp. 286, 327, calls Ethelward, which probably was his right name. This prince was son to Ethelbert, King of England, but was deprived of the throne by Ethelwulf's will, which limited the Crown to the sons of Ethelwulf in succession. This prince, after the murder of Eadmund, King of the East Angles, in 870, might possibly have been appointed to the vacant throne of that kingdom by his uncle Ethelred or Alfred. The Danes were, according to the accounts we have, in possession of East Anglia, or the greatest part of it, from the year 870 to 878, when Ethelstan the Dane was from motives of policy established on the throne by Alfred; but in some part of the eight years above mentioned, during one of those intervals of success which then occasionally attended the English arms, Ethelward might have for even a short time enjoyed the kingdom of East Anglia, and coined money. We also find that this Ethelward afterwards, on the death of Alfred, the last of the sons of Ethelwulf, disputed, the throne of England with Edward the elder, and was elected King of East Anglia and Northumberland by the Danes; but, as this was 30 years later than the time of Eadmund, it is much more probable that the coins bearing his name were struck between 870 and 878, particularly as none of his moneyers' names occur on the coins of Ethelstan, King of the East Angles. KINGS OF THE EAST ANGLES. BEORNA.-These sceattas have on the reverse three E's, by reading the centre of which an F, a moneyer's name is attempted to be made out; it is much more probable, however, that the letter E was intended to denote the initial of some name; it may be that of the moneyer, or perhaps that of Ethelbert Beorna, partner in the kingdom, or of Eadilfred, who was then Bishop of the East Angles; or perhaps the three E's may be intended for the three crowns, which, according to Speed, was the ensign of the East Angles. Which of these conjectures is most probable, I leave to the decision of the learned. ETHELRED.-This coin has been appropriated to the East Angles by Mr. Woolstone; the fallacy of his reasoning, however, has been well shewn by a very ingenious and learned Correspondent in page 308 of the first Part of your last year's Volume. Mr. Woolstone's error will be more apparent, if we consider the coins bearing the names of Egbert, Eadbert, &c. to belong to Northumberland, and Mr. Woolstone in such case would himself, perhaps, have assigned this coin of Ethelred to that kingdom. I confess, indeed, I am myself strongly inclined to attribute this coin to Northumberland, not because sceattas have been found of this or that kingdom, but because, from the account given of it by Mr. Woolstone, it appears to resemble the stycas, and also because the word rex, which is wanting on this coin, is to be found on the sceattas of Beorna, the predecessor of Ethelred, and on all the coins of Mercia, but does not appear on the sceattas bearing the names of Eadbert and Alcred, or the stycas of Eardulf, whose coins Mr. Pinkerton and Mr. Woolstone have put at the end of the series of stycas; whereas I think they belong to Eardulf, 796. As to the styca of Egfrid, on which the word rex is found, I think it not unlikely it belongs to Mercia, as I shall endeavour to shew, when I come to the coins of Northumberland. ETHELSTAN. In plate 17, no. 5, of Ruding, we find a coin which has been given to Ethelstan, King of England, but which I think it highly probable belongs to this King, and Mr. Woolstone was clearly of the same opinion. The bust is very rude, and totally different from those on the other coins of Ethelstan, King of England. The letters also bear a resemiblance to those of Ethelstan, King of the East Angles; and the reverse is almost the same as that of Berhtulf, King of Mercia, and other princes, who reigned about the same time. If to these reasons are added, that the moneyer EADLAR was actually one of those of Ethelstan, King of the East Angles, I think there can be little doubt that it belongs to that prince. ST. EDMUND.-These coins were thought by Mr. Woolstone to have been struck between 870 and 878; that this opinion is erroneous, has been clearly proved by your learned Correspondent in page 308 of your last year's Volume, Part i. I think, however, it is not quite so clear that they were struck at the Bury Mint in the reign of the Confessor; I should rather suppose them to have been struck about the time of Edward the Elder. In my next letter I shall offer some remarks on the coins of Mercia and Northumberland. Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, THE JOHN LINDSAY. March 8. HE following stanzas, to which my attention has been called by a literary friend, were written about the middle of the sixteenth century, and are copied from the Harleian MSS. 1840. From their poignant severity on the doctrine of Transubstantiation, they will doubtlessly be acceptable at this moment. *X* UPPON POPISHE TRANSUBSTANTIATION. Priests make Christ's boddy and bloud Yow must not doute, They eate him, drink him, box him, Beare him aboute; Are priest's mouthes the Virgin's wombe? Are their words the Holy Ghost? One Christ bides, the rest do fly; FLY LEAVES.-No. XXXVI. J. S. Gent. A Brother of the Angle. AT T the close of the seventeenth century, under the above initials, flourished a humble but useful compiler for the press, whose principal work known was called "Profit and Pleasure united, or the Husbandman's Magazine, &c. illustrated with copper cuts. By J. S. 1684," 8vo. The contents of the volume are multifarious, and many directions are given in the mystery of husbandry" for the treatment of animals and improve ment of agriculture. There is added the Art of Angling, Hunting, Hawking, noble recreation of ringing, and also making fire-works. One of these treatises appears the foundation of, and many times printed as "The compleat Fisher, or the true Art of Angling. By J.S. a brother of the Angle." 16mo. Another portion of his labour, and somewhat rarer, was "The experienc'd Fowler or the Gentleman, Citizen, and Countryman's pleasant and profitable recreation. By J. S. Gent. 1697." 16mo. But his pretensions as author of the following poem, are now for the first time noticed. " The Innocent Epicure: or the Art of Angling; a poem. 1697." 8vo. The preface is subscribed "N. Tate," and the poem is therefrom commonly given to that author, though declared in the preface to be the production of "a gentleman who wrote it for his diversion;" and the initials of our compiler head the introductory epistle as from "J. S. to C. S." It may be fairly inferred, therefore, that J. S. Gent. on Fowling, and J. S. a Gentleman on Angling, with both works printed in the same year, could have but one common origin. The directions to the Husbandman prove the author practically experienced, and our author tells C. S. "who loves the town," that he himself “laughs in Kent from care and business free." The scenes of his sport were still more wide, as drawn from "the rough Dee," from "Witham and fair Thames's higher streams," as also "Norwich plenteous stream," the "sacred Cam," and fair Trent," with other rivers, as Wellin, Idle, Dun, and Dern, forming a wide circle for amusement and a variance of society to which he must have been generally known, although the above initials still remain unapwith the usual unambitious pursuit of plied, and were probably persevered in an angler seeking no higher trait of character than "the Innocent Epicure." Thomas Lodge. The information respecting this author's works is probably imperfect, His biographers name, as the earliest piece in print, Euphue's Golden Legacy, 1581, and it is the only one known before the Alarum against Usurers, 1584*; but, as in the dedication to the last he declares he hath long time slept in silence,' it seems to imply he had been oftener before the public than could be allowed in the vaunt of a single publication. That dedication is now reprinted as an interesting proof of what forbearance and consistency can accomplish in confuting the ostentatious bitterness of a critical antagonist, who, avoiding the real question, labours to impress his readers with a belief that personal abuse is reasoning, and an attack on character a reply argumentative and incontrovertible. Stephen Gosson published the School of Abuse, containing a pleasant invective against Poets, Pipers, Players, &c. 1579t; and in the same year appeared The Ephemerides of Phialo, having a Defence of the School of Abuse! There, it is said, the players * There is some discrepancy in the dates, not easily to be corrected. Lodge speaks of the School of Abuse, in his dedication, as being circulated about three years ago,' and therefore it must be supposed he wrote in 1582. Time may discover a copy of the Alarum against Vsurers, with such a corresponding date. + Reprinted in Lord Somers' Tracts, 1810, vol. iii. ‡ See British Bibliographer, vol. iv. p. 289. |