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M'Cleverty; General Peachy; Cornelius Ives, Esq.; James Mangles, Esq.; Mrs. Grant, of Laggan; John Taylor, Esq.; C. J. Smith, Esq.; Mr. Charles Nesbitt; Embellished with Views of HEVER Castle, Kent, and of the KINGSBOROUGH 2 MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. In the "Memoirs of C. A. Stothard," 8vo. 1823, p. 335, is the following passage, "The camail, and what was called by the French a hourson, to which may be added a strap, was to attach the whole [i. e. ba cinet and appendages] by means of a buckle to the haubergeon or plates." F. M. would feel obliged to any one who could point out to him the authority for this term hourson. The Glossarists have been consulted in vain. W. S. E. sends the following notices of the Wakehurst family, who at an early period had considerable possessions in Sussex, and whose residence was Wakehurst Place, a structure in the Elizabethan style, at Ardingly, in that county; and if any of our correspondents can supply further information, he will be much obliged William de Wakehurst, living 1285-1295, had issue John, who had issue John, who had issue Richard, who had issue another Richard. Notices of John are to be found under 1319, 1332, 1415; and of Richard from 1415 to 1450. Sir Richard Wakehurst was knighted at the siege of Carlaverock. The latter Richard had two sisters, Margaret, married to Edward Sackville, who died 1459, leaving issue Humphrey, his son and heir, under guardianship of Richard Wakehurst & al.; and Ann, who died in 1460, having married J Gainsford. Richard de Wakehurst died Jan. 7, 1457, and was buried at Ardingly, having married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Eckingham, esq; she died 19 July 1464, buried at Ardingly, having had issue Margaret, who married Richard Culpeper, and died 25 July 1509, s. p. (Ardingly Reg.); and Elizabeth, the wife of Nicholas Culpeper, who died in 1510, leaving her surviving, and had issue Richard, living in 1534. There was also an Alicia Wakehurst, married to Adam Walleys, and living in 1373. I. A. R. remarks: "In perusing Mr. Bell's Huntingdon Peerage, 4to. 1821, I find a beautiful engraving of a portrait of Jane Shore, from a drawing by Lethbridge, after an original picture in the possession of the noble family of Hastings, painted in 1484. Perhaps some of your Correspondents, or rather the owner of the picture, can give us some account of it. The authenticity of the picture must be doubtful from the introduction of the two towers of Westminster Abbey, as they were built by Sir C. Wren, and of course did not exist in the year 1484. In the Memoires et Observations en Angleterre, 1698,' there is a print of West minster Abbey, but without the towers. This portrait is subsequently copied as a wood-cut in The Graphic and Historical Illustrator,' but the view of the tower and spire of Old St. Paul's inserted, instead of the towers of Westminster Abbey. So much for humbugging the public with fictitious portraits! This reminds me of an anecdote related by my father, who was present with Burke and Windham at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, when a beautiful female portrait by Michael Angelo (or rather a copy) was exhibited. The parties were puzzled to give a name to the lady→→ when Burke recommended Zenobia. This picture was afterwards engraved, and stuck up in one of the shops in London, with a recommendation of Zenobia Soap'!" Mr. W. S. LANDOR, in his "Pericles and Aspasia," has the following note: "The use of gunpowder, for instance, if not of guns, was known to the priests in countries the most distant, and of the most different religions. The army of the Macedonians was smitten by its lightnings under the walls of the Oxydracians, the army of the Gauls under the walls of Delphi!" We do not know how this assertion would be supported: long after the events mentioned, we know that what was called the Greek fire, Le feu gregois,' was used; but this being inferior in power to gunpowder, was the art of making the latter lost, and recovered afterwards in modern times? 66 C. inquires, from whence arose the custom of tolling the knell on the death of a person? Did not the Roman Catholic Church institute the practice for the purpose of protecting and driving the spirits from the soul of the deceased in its ærial progress? If so, does our Church, I mean the Protestant, recognise the remains of a Popish superstition, or does it substitute any other reasons for admitting the ceremony?" Toll the bell, a solemn toll, Slow and solemn let it be, We beg to acknowledge the receipt of Dr. WALKER's memoir on the Druidical remains in Yorkshire, and hope to have room for its insertion in the next number. P. 612, b, 1. 2, for Venta Silcorum, read Silurum. P. 656 The marriage of George Caswal Newman, esq. is a fiction. There is no such person as the party to whom he is stated to be married. |