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money to repair the houfe of God from yeere to yeere, and hafte the thinge; and they made a procla mation thoughout Judah and Jerufalem. 2 Chron. xxiv. 4, 5, 9." At bottom:

"Amore, veritate & reverentia. So invented, and at my cofts, made for me, H Farley 1616 Wrought by John Gipkyn. Fyat voluntas Dei."

On the infide of this leaf is depicted the old church of St. Paul's, without the fpire; a number of rooks flying over it. Against the South wall of the nave without is a gallery with the King, Queen, and Prince fitting, and in pannels under each, infcribed, "Vive le Roy," "Vive la Reine," "Vive le Prince." On their left hand ten Lords, Ladies and Bishops, under whofe gallery is written :

"Mr. William Parker, citizen and merchant taylor, gave 400 poundes towardes repaires of my windowes."

On the top of this gallery ftand 12 choristers in furplices; and in a gallery below fit the Mayor and Aldermen: a croud of citizens of both sexes fit before Paul's crofs, a hexagon building, which appears to be leaded at top, and furmounted by a maffy iron crofs: a bifhop is preaching in it, (an hour glass at his elbow) and feveral perfons appear within it behind him, a verger waiting at the fteps behind. Within the brick wall that inclofes it in front fit feveral perfons taking down the fermon; their inkhorns lying on a step under the preacher, on which one writer is mounted for the fame purpose. By the fide of the crofs is feated in a chair an elderly man, who, to a perfon coming up bowing cap in hand, and afking, "I pray, Sir, what is the text ?" anfwers, "The 2d of Chroni cles, chap. xxiv." At the weft door is a coffer, fuperfcribed, the offering chef; and over the door,

"Therefore the King commanded, and they made a cheft, and fet it at the gate of the house of the Lord without. 2 Chron. xxiv. 8."

The north fide of the nave is built up with houfes, whofe chimnies are fmoaking, and the following lines pafs from them to the King:

"Viewe, O Kinge, howe my wall creepers "Have made mee worke for chimney fweepers."

Round the frame :

Haggai i. 2. Thus fpeaketh the Lord
of bafts, faying, This people fay the
time is not come that the Lord's
boufe fhould be built.
3, 4. Is it
time for you, (0 yee) to dwell
in your feilled boufes, and this house
lay wafe? It is written, my house
is the house of prayer.

On the oppofite or left-hand leaf within, is reprefented the fame church fanes, turrets, images of the King and repaired and embellished, with gilded Queen, &c. the houfes cleared away, and the gallery beautified, with the arms of England, London, and the fees of Canterbury and London, and thefe infcriptions on it:

Bleed be the peace-makers.
Touch not the Lord's anointed, nor
do his prophets any harm.
Peace be within thy walles, and plen-
teous profperitie within thy palaces.
I was glad when they faid, Let us
go up to the boufe of the Lord.

On each fide the fteeple are 4 angels with trumpets, founding thefe verfes : "His roial feed fhall mightie bee and many, And fhall encrease as much as erc did any; Like as the fandes, or fea, or ftarres in skye, So fall his people growe and multiplie. This goodlie kinge fall reigne and rule in peace,

Because by him the Gospel doth increase.
He fhall be profperous in all his ways,
And ball have health, long life, and happy
days:

He shall have conqueftes when he goes to fight,
And fhall put all his enem es to fight.

He shall plant colonies in every nation,
To forward till the Gof, ell's propagation ;
And at the laft to ende our blessed fory,
He fhall be crowned in heaven with endless
glory,

Where angells and archangells ever finges
All praife and honour to the King of Kinges."

Above are the dove and glory.
Round the frame,

Bleffet be the Lord God of our fathers,
which putteth juch things as theje
into the beart of our goed King, to
beautify the boufe of the Lord.
Ezra 7. Vivat, vincat, reg-
natque Jacobus. Amen.

The devifer of this painting was one Henry Farley, who for 8 years folicited and importuned the King and people with his fchemes and applications for the repair of St. Paul's cathe

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dral, which had remained without a fpire ever fince it was burnt by lightning in 1561, and otherwife defaced. The money collected and the timber prepared for its repair lay unapplied till 18 Jan. 1620. when the K. came in proceffion to the church, where a fermon was preached by Dr. King, Bishop of London, from a text chofen by the King himself, and a feaft ferved up in the Bishop's palace. The royal commiffion iffued the year following for the immediate repair; as did another 7 C. I. but nothing was carried into execution till 8 C. I. when it proceeded with vigor, till the civil war not only put a stop to the repairs, but defecrated and ruined the church by every poffible means.

This difplay of Matter Gipykn's art must be confidered only as one of the many efforts of Farley's zeal and invention to prompt his fovereign to this good and neceffary work, which at last brought him to Ludgate prifon. The painting is dated 1616, and James I. did not go to St. Paul's till 1620, and then in great ftate on horseback, with all the lords and great officers of his court; Sir William Cokain, Knt. being then Lord Mayor, who, with the city in their liveries, then alfo gave their attendance. Dugdale's Hift. of St. Paul's, first edition, p. 135. The order of the proceffion may be feen in the Appendix. After hearing an anthem in the Choir, he went to the Crofs to hear the fermon by Bishop King. This fermon was printed by his Majeffy's command, 1620 ; and Mr. Oldys fays, the Bishop fhewed his knowledge of hiftory in it. Mr. Farley published, in 1616, "The Complaint of Paule's to all Chriftian Soules, or, an humble Supplication

To our good King and nation,
For her new reparation." 4to.

And, in 1612, "St. Paule's Church her Bill for the Parliament, as it was prefented to the King's Majefty on Midlent Sunday laft, and intended for the view of that moft high and ho nourable Court; and generally for all fuch as bear good-will to the reflourishing Eftate of the faid Church. Partly in Verfe, partly in Profe; penned and published for her Good, by Henry Farley, Author of her Complaint." 4to. To this farrago of prayers, petitions, dialogues with the Church, and dreams and visions about it, for 8 years together, is prefixt a print of the GENT. MAG, April, 1779.

crofs. In 1622, Farley printed "Portland Stone in Paule's Church-yard; their Birth, their Mirth, &c. Buy or go by." 4to. Bishop Mountaine, who fucceeded King, disburst a confiderable fum to provide ftone from Portland for this work. (Dugd. ib. 137.)

This painting was for many years in the family of the Tookes, of whom 3 had been successively rectors of Lamborne, in Effex, from 1704 to 1776. On the decease of the late rector, it was purchased as a neglected piece of furni ture, which had never quitted the garret, for a few fhillings, by Mr. Webfter, a furgeon at Chigwell, who is the prefent proprietor.

Defcription of CASTLE CALDWELL, the delightful Seat of Sir James Caldwell, on the Barders of Loch Larne, in Ireland. From Mr. Young's TOUR through that Kingdom, lately published. (See the Plate.) REached Caftle Caldwell at night,

where Sir James Caldwell received me with a politenefs and cordiality that will make me long remember it with pleasure.

Nothing can be more beautiful than the approach to Castle Caldwell; the promontories of thick wood, which fhoot into Lough Larne, under the fhade of a great ridge of mountains, have the finest effect imaginable. As foon as you are through the gates, the whole domain lies beneath the point of view. It is a promontory, three miles long, projecting into the lake, a beautiful affemblage of wood and lawn, one end a thick fhade, the other grafs, fcattered with trees, and finifhing with wood: a bay of the lake breaks into the eastern end, where it is perfectly wooded: there are fix or feven iflands among them; that of Bow three miles long, and one and a half broad; yet they leave a noble fweep of water, bounded by the great range of the Turaw mountains. To the right, the lake takes the appearance of a fine river, with two large islands in it. The whole unites to form one of the most glorious fcenes I ever beheld. Rode to the little hill above Michael a Quin's Cabbin (marked 1.): here the two great promontories of wood join in one, but open in the middle, and give a view of the lake, as if a diftin& water beyond are the islands fcattered over its face; nor can any thing be more picturefque than the bright filver furface of the water breaking through

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point on which we ftood, the ground is rough and rocky, wild and various, forming no bad contrast to the brilliant fcenery in view. Croffing fome of this undreffed ground, we came to a point of a hill, above Paddy Maguire's Cabbin (2); here the lake prefents great sheets of water, breaking beyond the woody promontories and iflands, in the most beautiful manner. At the bottom of the declivity, at your feet, is a creek, and beyond it the lands of the domain, fcattered with noble woods, that rife immediately from the water's edge. The house, almoft obfcured among the trees, feems a fit retreat from every care and anxiety of the world: a little beyond it, the lawn, which is in front, thews its lively green among the deeper fhades, and over the neck of land which joins it to the promontory of wood called Roffergole: the lake feems to form a most beautiful wood-locked bason (3), ftretching its filver furface behind the ftems of the fingle trees. Beyond the whole, the mountainy rocks Turaw (4) give a magnificent finishing.

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Nothing can exhibit fcenes of greater variety, or more beauty, than the rides about this delightful feat. The islands on every fide are varied, and of a different character: fome are knots or tufts of wood, others fhrubby; here are fingle rocks, and there fine hills of lawn, which rife boldly from the water. The promontories form equal diftinctions fome are of thick woods, which yield the darkest shade, others open groves; but every where the coaft is high, and yields pleafing landfcapes. Little of the fublime, but the very range of beauty, gaiety, and pleasure, are the characters of the fpot: Nature makes no efforts here but thofe to please the parts are of extreme varicties, yet in perfect unifon with each other. Even the rocks of Turaw have a mildness in their afpect, and do not break the general effect by abrupt or rugged projections. Rode round Roffergole, the promontory in front of the houfe, from which the views are exceedingly beautiful, commanding a noble hanging wood on the banks of Roffinore, and the woody necks that ftretch from the land beyond the house, with feveral islands, which yield the greatest variety. On the point Sir James has built an octagon temple, which takes in feveral views that are exceedingly pleafing. This neck of

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land is a wood of forty acres, and a more agreeable circumstance, so near a manfion, can scarcely be imagined.

Take my leave of Caftle Caldwell, with colours flying, and his band of mufic playing; go on board his fixoared barge for Enniskillen: the heavens were favourable, and a clear sky, and bright fun, gave me the beauties of the lake in all their fplendor. Pafs the fcenes I have defcribed, which, from the boat, take a fresh variety, and in all pleafing.

Mr. URBAN,

HAVING feen in the papers the following Query, you are defired to fubjoin the antwer annexed. Query. "Eafter Day," (fay our Common Prayer books,) "" on which the rett depend, is always the first Sunday after the full moon, which happens upon or next after the 21st day of March." The full moon this year (fay our Almanacks) was on the 20th of March, at 31 min. past two in the afternoon; confequently the next full moon after the 21st of March happens on the 19th of April; why then was not Eafter Day on the 23d of April?

Anfav. This mistake (for fuch it is) arifes from the querift's not diftinguishing between the ecclefiaftical and the true aftronomical full moon, by the former of which the observation of Eafter is always governed. Now the rule for finding the ecclefiaftical changes of the moon is founded on a fuppofition that the moon's motion is always uniform, and that the returns to the fame points of the ecliptic exactly, in the space of 19 Julian years, neither of which are true; for, by later improvements in aftronomy, it is found, that the aftronomical anticipates the ecclefiaftical changes pointed out by the above rule, in that period, 1 h. 27 m. 31. 55 thd. So that in 312 years this anticipation amounts to a whole day, of which no notice was taken from the year 325, when this rule was eftablished in the church by the Council of Nice, till the alteration of the style in 1752, when it amounted to 4 d. 13 h. 34 m. The whole days were then rectified, and the golden numbers placed (allowing for the difference of style) four days earlier, or higher in the calendar, than they were before, but the odd hours, &c. muft go on till they amount to another day, which would be about the year 1885, were it not for a new regulation, pro

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