In the biographical clafs, the district under confideration claims for natives, Richard Baldwen, provost of Dublin college, died 1758. John, father of Sir William Dugdale. William Heatley, abbot of the Eng. lifh Benedictine monaftery of Lamb Spring, to which an independent principality is annexed. "While the great fpiritual electors of Germany have been borne down by the tempett which now rages over Europe, it is the privilege of the abbot of Lambfpring, infulated by the barren plains of Weftphalia, to have little but the primitive wealth of maft and hogs to attract the plunderers of mankind; and, while the fertile banks of the Rhine continue from year to year a field of blood, this diminutive prince remains unditturbed, and may end his days in the peaceful retreat of his own cloifter." The Chriftian hero of Whalley is Alexander Nowell, efq. fecond fon of John N. efq. by his fecond wife*. "This is merely fuch a sketch as could be expected in a work like the prefent; but a more expanded life of Alexander Nowell may foon be expected from the excellent biographical pen of the Rev. Ralph Churton." (463.) Sir, if this will confift with your conveniency, I will either pay you what you pleafe for it, or will fend you the fame quantity as foon as I can procure it. If you cannot furnish me, yet if you thought they had as much at Waddow, y they would fpare it if you would write to Mr. Wilkinfon by this bearer it would be a great favour; but Im very much afraid we muft ule (ye practice of) the Greek and Arminian churches, and mix water in our wine. God will have mercy, and not facrifice; therefore, doubt not he will pardon us, neceffity pleading our excufe. So, dear Sir, with my fer ice to your father, &c. I am your obliged humble fervant, E. Townley. S'aidburn, April 10, -91.” (p. 457.) His only for, Roger, by the fift wife, from whom the prefent family are defcended, was a very irreligious man, and never attended any public worthip. This may illustrate Dr. Paley's remark, that the English prejudice, of leaving the whole eitate to the eldeft fon, foils only one in a family: but when it is confidered that the younger brother of this man was one of the aft eniment Chriftians which the Church of England ever produced, it is imromide to feigst more feruus paling - ; "There Ball be two men in one bad, the one fhall be taken, the other left." Luige xxvii. 34. Lawrence, the dean's brother, a great reftorer of Saxon literature. Tho. Talbot, an eminent Antiquary. John Townley, a martyr to the Koman-catholic religion. Chriftopher, his brother, who tranfcribed not lefs than 20 folio volumes, now in the library at Townley. Charles, killed at Marltonmoor 1644. Richard, his eldett fon, of a philofophic turn, died at York 1706. John, knight of St. Louis, died 1782. William Whitaker, fon of Thomas W. and Elizabeth, fifter of the two deans Nowell, born, 1 Edward VI. in the manor-houfe at Holme, “where, after an interval of more than 250 years, the defcendant of his elder bro ther is now recording this hiftory." (p. 467.) Admitted of Paul's fchool 1553; and, 1563, B. A. and scholar of Trinity-college, Cambridge. He tranf lated his uncle the dean's Latin into Greek. Regius profeffor of divinity be fore he was D.D. Mafier of St. John's college 1586-7, where his zeal for Puritanifm foon diftinguifhed him, and he, with Dr. Tindal, mafter of Queen's, with the acquiefcence rather than ap probation of the archbishop, drew up the nine famous propofitions, which Bp Warburton, who was far gone in the other extreme, calls the horrible Lambeth articles. He died 1595, aged 48, and was buried in his college chapel. The laft chapter of this work is a differtation on the origin and progress of domeftic architecture, claffed under, 1. cafiles; 2. caftelets, piels, or towers; 3. antient unembattled manor-houses; 4. greater and lefs embattled manfions of Elizabeth or James I.; 5. ordinary hall-houfes; 6. farm-houfes; 7. cottages. The two firft were fortifications against enemies, the third was quadrangular, and emulated by many of the moft opulent parfonage-houses, emulating at an humble diftance the monaftic or college flyle; the fifth were of two kinds, large and finall, continued till the Refioration, when, in the reign of Charles II. the fath-window and model of the fquare modern house were firft imported from Italy*. The The ranfion-houfe at Baiks, co. Herts, built by Govenor Harrifon in the beginning of the Laft cen my, had a quadrangu lar court in the centre of fuch reatonable dissenfions, that the prefent noble Prefi dent of the Society of ARcquiries, while it was in his poflefion, covered the whole court with a dome. EDIT. ordinary ordinary hall-houfe of the middle or lower rank of gentry, 200 years ago, of wood, with apertures fix inches wide, not originally intended for glafs, clay floor, chimnies wide and open, partitions of rude oak, and all the rooms but one low and narrow. In the reign of Elizabeth a general fpirit of ftone building in this rank began. The principal apartments of many of thefe have been modernized. The interior economy of the inhabitants is drawn in the pleafing and unpleafing lights. The old family-houfes and their furniture fill the mind with pleafing ideas of ruftic plenty and antient fimplicity. Laftly, the antient cottage, many prior to the Reformation, not fo comfortable as modern ones. "Yet even then what fams ware levied upon the frugal induftry of the farmer by idlenefs and excels! evils which nothing but an attentive and vigilant execution of the laws will ever palliate. Improvidence combined with indocility is another feature in their character; and a gene ral averfion (which nothing but the horrors of fainine have been able to fubdue) to cheap foups and other frugal preparations of animal food, together with an obftinate neglect of the old gardens and orchards, which often die unfenced and trodden down before their doors, oppofes another obftacle to the improvement of their condition. Some indeed will every where be found of more flexible natures and more teachable understandings; but fuch, I fear, is the general character of our pealantry, that, excepting at a feafon like the prefent, which compels them to do what they are enjoined, and to receive what is provided for them, he who fall undertake to feed or to inftruct them in ways to which they have not been accuftomed, may applaud his own good fortune if he meet with no other return than neglect." (p. 480) Pertinent reflections follow on the Jong uninterrupted defcept of fo many eftates in the fame family, "by the univertality of marriages (a certain effect of chaflity), want of curiofity or ambition, and therefore confiant refidence at home, domeftic amufements, more grofs than cofily, and an indifpofition to change of habits. In thefe defcents we may obferve the frequency and facility of divorces before the Reforma tion from the craft of the Canonifis, GENT. MAG. January, 1802. who bound hard that they might be paid for loofing again; fuch marriages being frequently in the prohibited degree, or merely elpoufals formed in childhood, which fubfequent attachments inclined the parents to diffolve. Thofe opulent houfes, whofe property is not to be traced to a feudal origin, have been gradually railed by the profellion of the law. Some indeed have grown to confequence by habits of œ conomy and gradual accumulation. But a new principle is now introduced, which threatens gradually to abforb the whole property of the diftrict within its own vortex; mean, the principle of manufactures, aided by the difcoveries lately made in the two dangerous fciences of Chemistry and Mechanicks. The operation of this principle is accompanied with another effect, of which it is impoffible to fpeak but in the language at once of forrow and indignation: indeed, it can only be confidered as fo much pure unmixed evil, moral, medical, religious, and political.. In great manufactories, human corrup tion accumulated in large maffes feems to undergo a kind of fermentation, which fublimes it to a degree of malignity not to be exceeded out of hell. On the other hand, fociety languifhes by difperfion. In thofe parts of the district before us, of which the population is . feattered in inconfiderable villages, ci`vilization is in a very backward ftate. Farmers and hufbandmen are of all mankind leaft imprelible with the truths of religion. Selfith, fraudulent, unfeeling, intemperate, with rigid nerves and frm health, the hour of fieknels, accident, or diftrefs, is to be awaited, and that generally in vain, to awaken them to a fenfe of their real fate. Befides, in fuck fituations religious oflices are feldom performed with animation or effect. The practice of medicine, from difiance, want of adequate rewards, and other caufes, laboars under equal difadvantages. In cafes of fudden alarm, thole only who have refided in fuch fitnations know the diftrefs arifing from the want of prompt and fkilful medical aflifiance. I have heard of an infiance, with the compats of this work, in which a blackfmith was called to bleed a dutchess. The police of thefe diftricts is next to nothing; for the lower order of people, educated without domestic difcipline, have no conception of exerciting or Tubuutting fubmitting to authority in civil life. In manufacturing towns and districts, of which we have feveral, there is more religion, but there is more fanaticifm; the fedentary habits and feeble conftitutions of artizans or mechanicks predifpofing them to religious impreffions, while the weakness of their underftandings expofes them to every delufion which it requires any powers of difcernment to detect, How delicate and difficult is the office of the Eftas blithed Clergy in fuch fituations¦ how diligently ought they to watch over the multitudes of fouis committed to them! how carefully to feed them with food at once whole fome and palatable at home, that they may not feek the late ter without attending to the former abroad! Such fituations, however, ou the whole have greatly the advantage; religious offices will be better performed and attended, the other profeflions more kilfully exercited, the police more exactly regulated, and charity more liberally and fy tematically adini nifiered. Perhaps focięty will be found in its moft perfect ftate in large provincial towns which enjoy an internal municipal government without the pernicious privilege of fending members to parliament. One fuch inftance I know, but it falls not within the compais of the Hiftory of Whalley." (p. 480-482.) We flatter ourselves our readers will not be difplcafed with this extended review of a work, whofe author has fhewn himself mafier of all that general knowledge which Cicero's friend Craffus requires in an Orator, and qualified to difcuts more at large the various topicks which he has handled fo judicioully on a finalier fcale. 3. A Comment upon Part of the Fifth Journey of Antoninus through Britain; in which the Situation of Durecobrica, the Seventh Station there mentioned, is difcuffed; and Caflor, in Northamptonthe, is bewn, from the various Remains of Roman Antiquity, to have an undrubted Claim to that Situation, To which is added, a Differtation on an Image of Ju; iter found there. By the Rev. Kennet Gib on, late Curgte of Caltor. ·Printed from the Original MS.; and enlarged with the Parochial Hiftory of Caltor and its Dependencies to the prefent Time. To which is fubjoined, an slecount of Marham, and feeral other Places in its Neighbourhood. THE work here prefented to the publick is the whole which could be found among the papers of the Rev. Mr. Gibfon, who offered propetals for printing it by fubfcription in 1769. Death intercepted his defign; and his MSS. after patling through various hands, upon the fale of his effects, were, when the fearch after them was given up as fruitlefs, found, 1795, in thofe of the Rev. D. Bayley, fellow of St. John's college, Cambridge, of whom they were purchased by Mr. Nichols, the prefent editor. The Rev. Kennett Gibson, clerk, B.A. formerly of Chrift's college, Cambridge, was rector of Marholm, and curate of Caftor many years; and, it may be prefumed, his refidence on fuch a spot gave him opportunities which he did not fail to improve. The refult of his enquiries feens therefore an incontrovertible eftablishment of the Roman ftation DUROCOBRIVA at Caftor, in a neighbourhood to fertile in Roman remains. If reads and camps, coins and pavements, on every fide of Caftor, do not prove its Romanity and its eminence in the time of that great people, what farther evidence is required? Thefe evidences, however, do not feem fufficient to entitle it to a place in any aatient Itinerary. In a very learned illuftration of that part of Antoninus's Iter which relates to Britain, which after long expectation has juft made its appearance, the name of DuROBRIVIS is transferred to Weft or Old Lynn, in a very different direction from that which has hitherto been given to the fifth Iter of Antoninus, and in a courfe lefs direct than is commonly aligned to the great Roman ways. If, however, the claims of towns to Roman fiations are to be determined on fuch light evidence as a few coins, or a few inconfiderable banks, the claims of Caftor, Chesterton, and Alwalton, must be incontrovertible. To put it out of doubt, we might produce a MILLIARY, other Roman coins, &c. now, if we are not misinformed, at Trinity college, Cambridge, found in this very tract; and though it does not, like that at Leicester, exhibit a diftance, M. P. L. In p. 76, Mr. name, like that it perhaps determines a Reynolds admits, that the Erminetreet is very yilible before Stilton; and that Caftor is an old Roman ftation upon the river Nen, where this road again divides. So that, "if the new fituations affigned in this prefent work to Duroliponte, Durobrivis, and Caufennis, are admitted, a branch from this road mut have left it at Huntingdon, and. and, paffing through Ramfey and the Fens to Weft Lynn, returned into the Eaftern line of it by the Wafhes and Bofton at Sleaford." But, leaving the difcuffion of thefe matters to other inveftigators, we proceed to give an account of the additions to Mr. Gibfon's work. As it is plain from what he fays, p. 19, note, that he intended to purfue the hiftory of Caftor during the Saron times at leaft, and perhaps as ing, his editor has to the best of his abimuch later as he had opportunities of dolity attempted to fupply the deficiencies, not only for the town, but its ap pendages; and, Milton being one of them, he could not pass it over without due attention to the noble family whofe refidence it has been for three complete centuries, and whom he has followed to their filent manfions in the adjoining church of Marholme, of which Mr. Gibfon was rector. A curious portrait of an unknown artifi prefenting itself in Milton houfe, permiffion was obtained from the noble proprietor to have it engraved, in hope that it may be afcertained and added to the Catalogue of British Artists of the Elizabethan age. With a view to ilInftrate the mauners of that period, extracts are added from a Household book of the fame family from 1605 to 1612; and from the old manfion of the Dove family is produced a fione dial, which, if it does not compare with that erected at Whitehall by Edmund Gunter, is at least a curious monument of fcience for its time. "The reader, judging from what is here brought forward as the refult of a temporary vifit at a friend's houfe, will conclude how much remains to be done for the county of Northampton in addition to Mr. Brydges's labour, and for that of Huntingdon, of which Mr. Hutchinfon has fo long promifed an account, whenever the circunftances of the times thall permit perfons of equal property and tatie to afford their patronage." the Year 1600 to 1800; and the Matriculum and Regents, from 1701 to 1300. THE two Univerfities of this ifland have Graduates for a century and a half. now a complete catalogue of their The firft catalogue for Oxford was. compiled by Richard Pcers, fuperior 1688, printed at Oxford 1688. It was bedel, from Oct. 10, 1659, to July 14, continued by his fucceffors in office to 1705 and 1718, particularly by Gerard Oct. 10, 1726, and Oct. 10, 1727; likeLangbaine, and fince by others to Oct. 10, 1726, with the proceeders betwee wife the chamberlains, high fiew ards, vice-chamberlains, and proctors, from 1650 to 1727; alto the parliament men for the univerfity from 1603 to 1727; a third editor continuing the whole to 1735; a fourth to 1747; a fifth to 1760; John's, continued them to 1774, in one a fixth to 1770. Dr. Chalmers, of St. regular alphabet. The prefent edition, comprehending the whole of thefe fe veral periods in one alphabet, and correeting and fupplying the errors and omiffions of his predeceffor, Dr. Forfter, is published by the indefatigable Oxford antiquary, and univerfity regiftrar, Mr. Gutch, to whofe industry we have had to many opportunities of paying due tribute of praife. The first catalogue of Cambridge graduates, from 1659, appeared in 1787, with the omillion of as many as filled a fopplementary page; and were reinstated in a fecond edition, 1800, contiming all to that period. The Cambridge editor pa rades with a Latin title; the Oxford one prefers a plain English one, with preface in the fane language. INDEX INDICATORIUS. As Views of Churches, Seats, and other Antient Buildings, are from. time to time given by Mr. URBAN; Mr. DAV. PEAR SON HARNDEN hopes, at me future time, to fe a view of the antient Church of THROWLEIGH, in Kent, S. S, (who dates from "Me Datron's library, Birchin lane, Jan,20) folicits from any of our readers the loan of a tmall pamphlet, published fome years since by Mr. Lowe, under the titleef" Murumonicks delineated;" or to learn where it may be purchaled. 4 A Catalogue of the Graduates in Divinity, T. M.'s BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH in our next; with Obfervations on the NAVIGATION LAWS; Mr. Cowe's Charge, &c. We could have wifhed for a continua. ODE ODE FOR THE NEW YEAR, 1802. By HENRY-JAMES PYE, Efq. P. L. O, from Bellona's crimson car, At length the panting steeds unbound; At length the thunder of the war In feftive fhouts of Peace is drown'd. Yet, as around her Monarch's brow Britannia twines the olive bough, Bold as her eagle eye is caft On hours of recent tempeft paft, Thro' the rude wave and adverfe gale When free the spread her daring tåt), Immortal Glory's radiant form, Her guiding Load-ftar thro' the ftorm; Directed by whofe golden ray, [wayThro' rocks and fhoals fhe kept her fteady 66 My fons," the cries, "L can Honour's guerdon claim, [Sovereign fame?" Unfoil'd my parent worth, unftain'd their Albion, tho' oft by dread alarms Thy native valour has been tried, Shine forth with more refulgent pride Than when, while Europe's fons, difmay'd, Shrunk recreant from thy mighty aid, Alone, unfriended, firm yeu flood, A barrier 'gainft the foaming flood! Wheh mild and foft the filken breeze Blows gently o'er the ripling feas, The pinnace then may lightly fweep With painted oar the halcyon deep; But, when the howling whirlwinds rise, When mountain billows threat the skies, With ribs of oak the bark muft brave The inroad of the furious wave; The hardy crew must to the raging wind ppofe the finewy arm, the unconquerable mind. In ev'ry clime where Ocean roars,. High the thy naval banners flew, From where, by Hyperborean fhores, The frozen gale ungenial blow, To fultry lands, that Indian furges lave, Atlantic itles, and fam'd Canopa's wave; Tho' from infulted Egypt's coast Thy armies twept the victor host; From veteran bands, where British valour won Their antient rights and laws reftor'd, The Royal Patriot fheaths the avenging fword: By Heav'n-born Concord led; while Plenty fmiles, [Sifter Ines. And sheds her bounties wide, to bless the THE NEW YEAR. AN ODE. Purpurea velatus vefte fedebat In folio Phoebus claris lucente [marag.lis. A dextra læváque, dics, & menfis & anmes, Seculaque, & pofitæ fpatiis equalibus boræ. Ovid. IME, always on the fwift career, Hath flung behind another year, And ufher'd in the New : What 's past no more-and what's to come Lies in Eternity's dark womb, 'Tis doubtful who may view! Back on paft time we look—replete With pain, with pleasure, or regret, As we the fame have spent ; Where all our thoughts are bent. The wretch who doats on treasur❜d ore, Th' ambitious man will fay, Shall bend, and own my tway. Comparison our guide; And learn what Heav'n deny'd. Whence fprings the powerful thought? Some unexpected chance, our dreams Of temp'ral blifs, and high-built schemes, May even turn to nought. Wifer, and better than to-day, The lofty walls of Ammon's godlike fon! May ev'ry New-year me furvey Not, fired by fierce Ambition's flame, To fuccour and protect his noble aim: His guardian arm, while each Hefperian vale, While Lufitania's y.nc-clad n.ountains hail, Till Heaven's mandate calls me hence, The Curiofity of our Readers, which has been excited by the Verfes on the Peace, written by a Boy of Eight Years old, *Concerning this felf-educated Poet, fee our Magazines for November, 1801, p. 1030, and for December, p. 1125. printed |