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Portrait described in Gent Mag. for Sept.1787, p.759.

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Remarkable Portrait.-W. de may enable me to profecute my experiments, and complete my tables. Z. W. (To be continued.)

Mr. URBAN,

Oxford. Aug. 5.

WITII this I fend you a drawing,

which a friend of mine, who lives here, has obligingly fuffered to be taken from a picture in his poffeffion. It is on wood. At top is "An°. 1623. æt. fuæ 12." In the hands of the figure is a book with "Homer's Hiads" on the leaves. The hair is red. This

drawing is very like, only perhaps, fomewhat older than, the picture.

It has been fuppofed to be a picture of Milton, whofe portraits it feems to refemble but Milton was born 1608; confequently, in 1623, Milton' was 15 years old. Perhaps, by means of your Magazine, the engraving may come in to the hands of fome one that can tell for whom it was defigned. At any rate, your publication will not be difgraced by the portrait of a perfon whofe claffical hands turned over Homer at 12 years old.

Mr. URBAN,

.Z. Z.

Aug. 27. THE HE infcription aunexed is from a brafs plate under the figure of a prieft in the area of the chancel in Rothwell church, in the county of Northampton. It commemorates William de Rothwell, who was archdeacon of Effex, 1351, on the prefentation of Edw. III. during the vacancy of the fee of London. Newcourt (I. 72.) fays, he was chaplain to that prince, who gave him the eighth prebend in St. Stephen's collegiate church at Weftminster, 1351, and that of Croperdy, in the county of Oxford, in the church of Lincoln, the fame year. Browne Willis confirms (Cath. II. 260, 262), Newcourt's account; and adds, that he died in the reign of Edw. III. and was buried at Rothwell, his native town, with this epitaph undated. Mr. Bridges, in his Hiftory of Northamptonshire, by a strange overfight, fays, William de Rowell was chaplain and vicar of this church when the vicarage was firft ordained 1220, and fucceeded 1222 by another vicar (11. 62. Reg. Hug. Wells Ep. Linc.) But, not to mention that this is too early a date for brass plates, the above extracts clearly fhew, that the perfon for whom the epitaph was intended lived above a century later.

Mr. Gough, in his Sepulchral Monuments, p. 103 (a work which, as well as Mr. Willet's Defcription of his

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Library at Merley, feems to have efcaped the notice of the Reviewers, both Monthly and Critical), has given this infcription; but whether he had not obtained the copy which he has engraved before he printed the copy from Mr. Bridges, we find a difagreement between his two copies: his engraved one, however, is right, and corresponds with this here exhibited, and has the addition of fome precatory lines. J. P.

Mr. URBAN, Sheffield, Julv 34. YOU have herewith a South pio

spect of Trinity church, in Sheffield (fee vol. XXXIV. p. 157), which may, perhaps, be deemed, not unworthy of a place in your Magazine (fee plate II. fig. 2). But my principal motive for tending it was, on account of fome traditional information which I have lately received relative to the place of interment of William Walker, the executioner of King Charles I. See vol. XXXVII. p. 548. and vol. XXXVIII. P. 10.

Thomas Hunt, late a reputable inhabitant of this town, informed the prefent parifh-clerk, Mr. J. Lee, "that W. Walker was interred near the chancel door of this church, where the letter W is in the draught; that he remembered a ftone over his grave; and that (to ufe his phrafe) it was written upon from top to bottom."

No relicks of this ftone, however, are now to be found, owing probably to the carelefinefs of the workmen when the church was in part new-fronted fome years ago, and becaufe W. Walker left no relations that might be folicitous for its prefervation.

In a late converfation with John Bradley, an old inhabitant of Darnall, the place of W. Walker's birth and laft refidence, he informed me, that he had often heard his mother fpeak of W. Walker; that he was traditionally reported to have been the fecretary of Oliver Cromwell; and that one of the perfons who, after the Reftoration, were fent to apprehend Walker, gave him intelligence of the defign, and an opportunity of efcape and concealment.

I have feen the fite of his houfe; but there is now upon it a modern edifice : and his eftate has paffed, fince his death, through feveral families, into the hands of the prefent poffeflor, who is no relation to him.

Perhaps the tradition of his having been fecretary to Cromwell may help to explain

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