Nov. 15. At Scarborough, aged 54, Mrs. Jane Dale Fowler, dau. of Mrs. Jane Smith, and widow of Benj. Fowler, esq. formerly port surveyor. Nov. 22. At Cleasby, Capt. Wray, of the Bengal European regiment. Nov. 24. At Beverley, aged 27, Charlotte, third dau. of the late John Lockwood, esq. Dec. 6. Elizabeth Mary, wife of the Rev. Wm. Henry Smith, Rector of Hinderwell, and dau. of the Rev. Robert Howard, of Throxenby, near Scarborough. Dec. 12. At Hanging Heaton, aged 18, Sarah, wife of Charles C. Kemp, esq. of Queen's coll. Camb. WALES.At Pembroke, aged 41, Hugh Phillips Beavan, esq. Nov. 29. Dec. 3. At Knighton, Radnorshire, aged 37, Elizabeth-Lawrence, third dau. of the late R. L. Townsend, D.D. of Bishop's Cleeve, Glouc. Dec. 12. In Brecon, in her 96th year, Mary, relict of the Rev. Henry Allen, D.D. of Almeley, Heref. dau. of the Rev. Richard Davies, Archdeacon of St. David's. SCOTLAND. - Oct. 18. At Glasgow, Major O'Keefe, 78th reg. Oct. 21. At Edinburgh, aged 19, Mr. A. O. Anstey, third son of the Hon. T. Anstey, of Anstey Barton, Van Diemen's Land, Member of the Legislative Council of that island. Nov. 13. At Edinburgh, Mrs. Mary Pringle, relict of Andrew Plummer, of Middlestead, esq. Sheriff Depute of Selkirkshire. Nov. 23. At Perth, Mr. Weekes, the Irish comedian, in consequence of inju ries received in the overturn of the Perth mail. At Edinburgh, Mr. Andrew Johnston, son of the late Rev. A. Johnston, of Salton, some time Rector of the Academy of Montrose, and afterwards for several years teacher and acting in. terpreter of her Majesty's ship Castor, commanded by Commodore Lord John Hay, while on the coasts of Spain and Portugal. At the manse of Kirkowan, near Newton Stewart, Abel Anthony, second son of R. F. Gower, esq. of Devonshire-pl. London. Nov. 24. At Edinburgh, Dr. Andrew Murray, of the Hon. East India Company's service. Nov. 25. At Edinburgh, Adelaide, dau. of the Ven. Archdeacon Williams. Lately. At Edinburgh, Lieut. John Coxetter Snell, R.N. Dec. 7. At Edinburgh, aged 39, the Hon. Amelia, wife of William Young Herries, esq. of Spottes, Kirkcudbrightshire, and dau. of the late Adm. Lord de Saumarez, G. C.B. She was married in 1822. IRELAND.Nov. 30. At Earlsgift, co. Tyrone, the seat of the Marquis of Abercorn, Lady Isabella, wife of the Hon. and Rev. Charles Douglas, brother to the Earl of Morton. She was the ninth dau. of Arthur Saunders, second Earl of Arran, was married in 1816, and has left a numerous family. At Lisburn, aged 78, the widow of the Rev. Archdeacon Trail. Lately. At Rosefield, co. Monaghan, Capt. R. Dudgion, Paymaster 29th reg. ADDITIONS TO OBITUARY. Vol. V. p. 550.-The late Montagu Burgoyne, Esq. was endowed by nature with unusual vigour and activity of body and mind; and being of a benevolent disposition, he engaged in several plans for ameliorating the condition of the poor in various ways. Always encouraging industry, he adopted the system of small allotments of land to cottagers, as one of the best means of promoting their com fort, by affording them and their families employment both healthy and profitable; thus preventing frequently their resort to public-houses and beer-shops, where they too often waste their time and spend their money in idle and vicious company. At Dover, Brighton, &c. he rendered great assistance in the formation of schools, which are prosperously continued. At the village of Sutton in Bedford. shire, which has belonged to his family for upwards of 400 years, he established a school, and has left by his will some small charities there, and appointed as trustees his distant relation ThomasJohn Burgoyne, esq. and the Rev. William Otter, Principal of King's College, London, who has since been deservedly raised to the Bishoprick of Chester. One of these charities is, to pay ten shillings a piece to three industrious old men, and three old women, of Sutton, to be recommended by the officiating clergyman of that parish for their good character and constant attendance at divine worship in Sutton church. The ancient parsonage house at Sutton is still existing, in which the celebrated Stillingfleet (afterwards Bishop of Worcester) wrote his "Origines Sacra," when rector of that parish, and dedicated that work to his friend and patron Sir Roger Burgoyne the second Bart. 5th June 1662. Mr. Montagu Burgoyne was uncle to Frances Lady Ongley, and to FrederickWilliam Burgoyne, esq. Captain in the Royal Navy, who are the only two surviving children of his elder brother the late Sir John Burgoyne the seventh Bart. His father, Sir Roger Burgoyne, was born in 1708, at Wrexhall in Warwickshire, which was then part of the family property. The mother of Sir Roger, Dame Constance Burgoyne (daughter of Sir Thomas Middleton), having been left a young widow, remarried about 1715 Christopher Wren, esq. son of the celebrated Sir Christopher Wren; on which occasion the estate at Wroxhall passed into that family, and still remains in the lineal descendants of Sir Christopher. Sir John Burgoyne the third Baronet, the grandfather of this Sir Roger, married Constance, daughter of Richard Lucy, esq. of Charlcote, and died in 1709, being then the proprietor of Wroxhall, Rowington, Hatton, and other large possessions in Warwickshire. His second son, John Burgoyne, esq. lived at Sherburn near Warwick, and was the father of Lieut.Gen. the Right Hon. John Burgoyne, M. P. for Preston, who married Lady Charlotte Stanley, daughter of Edward eleventh Earl of Derby, and led the Bri tish army in America in 1777. He was a Privy Councillor and Commander-inChief in Ireland in 1782, and is well known as the author of "The Lord of the Manor," "The Heiress," "The Maid of the Oaks," &c. BILL OF MORTALITY, from Nov. 27 to Dec. 25, 1838. AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN, by which the Duty is regulated, Dec. 24. Farnham, 61. 10s. to 10%. Os.-Kent, 21. 10s. to 61. 6s. PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW AT SMITHFIELD Dec. 24. Hay, 47. Os. to 51. 12s. 6d. Straw, 17. 14s. to 17. 18s.-Clover, 41. 10s. to 51. 15s. SMITHFIELD, Dec. 24. To sink the Offal-per stone of 8lbs. Beef.............. Mutton.. Veal..... Pork...... ..3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d. Head of Cattle at Market, Dec. 24. Beasts............ 1,070 Calves 40 7,630 Pigs 170 Sheep COAL MARKET, Dec. 22. Walls Ends, from 19s. Od. to 25s. 6d. per ton. Other sorts from 16s. Od. to 27s. 6d. TALLOW, per cwt.-Town Tallow, 63s. 6d. Yellow Russia, 60s. 6d. CANDLES, 9s. Od. per doz. Moulds, 10s. 6d. PRICES OF SHARES. At the Office of WOLFE, BROTHERS, Stock and Share Brokers, Birmingham Canal, 218.- Ellesmere and Chester, 81. Grand Junction, 208. Kennet and Avon, 264.Leeds and Liverpool, 740.- Regent's, 164. -Rochdale, 109. London Dock Stock, 62.-St. Katharine's, 108.--East and West India, 112}.. Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 203.--Grand Junction Water Works, 70.-West Middlesex, 105.- -Globe Insurance, 1464.Guardian, 36}. Hope, 6.- Chartered Gas, 53. Imperial Gas, 49.Phoenix Gas, 23.- -Independent Gas, 481. General United Gas, 28.--Canada Land Company, 26.-Reversionary Interest, 136. For Prices of all other Shares inquire as above. METEOROLOGICAL DIARY, BY W. CARY, STRAND. J. J. ARNULL, Stock Broker, 1, Bank Buildings, Cornhill, late RICHARDSON, GOODLUCK, and ARNULL. J. B. NICHOLS and son, 25, pARLIAMENT-STREET, GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. FEBRUARY, 1839. BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. CONTENTS. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-History of Tiptree Priory-The Pilgrims' Tombs at Lanfihangel aber Cowin-Kimmeridge Coal Money-Lord Carrington's Achievement-Scotch Peerage claims.... PAGE 114 Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada. By Mrs. Jamieson.. 115 128 The Druidical Remains of Yorkshire, by J. K. Walker, M.D.. 133 Letter to Mr. Loudon, with extracts from Hartlib's Legacie on Husbandry.. 140 THE HOTEL DE SENS, AT PARIS (with a Plate)...... 145 146 148 .... Remarkable modern Epitaphs at St. Mary Abbat's, Kensington.. Mr. Wilberforce and the character of Archdeacon Coxe..... Prayers for the Soul-Prayer used at Isbury Almshouses, Lambourne. The Gaelic not Celtic, 155.-The Welsh not Celtic ?.. Site of the Battle of Pen, A.D. 658, Pen Domer, near Crewkerne RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW.-Dixon's Canidia; or the Witches, 1683. REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. ..... Martin's History of the British Possessions in the East Indies, 161.- ... FINE ARTS.-Carvings in Wood, The Daguerotype, 185.-Knight's Norman ..... ...... 150 152 153 156 156 ib. 157 159 184 187 196 198 202 New Publications, 187.-Prologue and Epilogue at Westminster School, 189. Bill of Mortality-Markets-Prices of Shares, 223.-Meteorological Diary- ... Embellished with a View of the HOTEL DE SENS, at PARIS. 205 215 224 MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. Mr. URBAN,-As I have long been sedulously collecting materials for a History of the ancient Priory of Tiptree, in Essex, on a much more extended scale than my little History of Totham (printed at my private press), permit me, through the medium of your highly valuable periodical, to state, that I should feel particu larly indebted to any person who will obligingly point out the existence of any ancient or curious documents relating to the same. Also, if there is still to be found any View of the said Priory of Tiptree, in its former or modern state. In short, I should very gratefully receive the most trifling contribution from any of your numerous readers who may happen to possess anything of interest relating to the subject not to be found in the commonly referred-to authorities, and will most cheerfully defray any little charge for postage, carriage, &c. that may be necessary. Any similar documents or information relating to Tiptree Heath would also be most acceptable. Yours, &c. Great Totham Hall. CHAS. CLARK. A. J. K. since writing his account of the Pilgrims' Tombs at Llanfihangel-abercowin, (vol. VIII. p. 576) has ascertained that the centre grave of those memorials was opened last summer by some gentlemen resident at St. Clear's, in the neighbourhood; at the depth of four feet they came to a sort of kistvaen, composed of six slabs of stone arranged in the shape of an ordinary coffin, two more slabs formed a bottom and a top for the sepulchral chest. In it were some small bones apparently of a youth or female, and half a dozen shells, each about the size of the palm of the hand, by description precisely answering to the cockle-shells adopted on the garments and hats of the wearers, as insignia of Pilgrimage. The parties did not advert to this circumstance, and were exceedingly puzzled to account for the appearance of these marine productions in such a locality. That these monuments are relics of the superstitious period is certain, and that they commemorate some persons under a vow of pilgrimage, performed or attributed to them as such, appears equally to be proved. Mr. W. BARNES remarks: "It has long been my stated opinion, that the circular pieces of Kimmeridge coal, called Kimmeridge coal money, evidently turned in a lathe, out of the shaley kind of stone coal of Kimmeridge, in Dorsetshire, where most if not all of them have been found, were never used as money, but were waste pieces of stuff from the chuck of a lathe, used on the spot at some remote time, in turning vessels or orna ments, for which there was then a considerable demand. I thought so from observing that, although turned in a lathe, they were not carefully wrought up, and that they had through them, either a square hole in the middle, or two or three round ones at some distance from it; so that the piece of stuff from which they had been cut, might be kept in revolution under the tool, by being put on two or three points of a chuck, or on a square mandrel head, and within a few days my opinion has been greatly strengthened, if not completely verified. As some men were, last month, lowering Fordington hill in Dorchester, they exhumed several skeletons, and with them, two or three urns, a finely wrought necklace of beads of glass and amber, connected by fine brass chainwork, and two other articles, a barrel-shaped amulet about an inch and a-half in diameter, and a bracelet, both turned in a lathe, of Kimmeridge coal. An antiquarian neighbour of mine suggests that many such ornaments, which have been exhumed from barrows and elsewhere, and have been stated to be of jet, may also be of Kimmeridge coal.”Of this discovery, see further, p. 196. SCRUTATOR wishes to know who can have dished up the hash of heterogeneous heraldry exhibited on the funeral achievement of the late Lord Carrington at Whitehall. First we have the Crest of his Lordship's family of Smith, a highly respectable one for some generations in the county of Nottingham, viz. an elephant's head. Then we find, what ought to be his Lordship's coat between the coats of his two wives, but which is the coat of the old Lords Carrington of Wotton, in the county of Warwick, viz. Argent, a cross Gules between four peacocks, quarterly with another coat and his own coat of the demi-griffons. we discover as the dexter supporter a griffon semée of fleurs-de-lys (and which is the proper one) while the sinister is a lion Gules, gutty Or. It surely cannot be intended as a half-way house to the assumption of the old coat, it is too blundering a performance; better to " go the extreme animal," than appear like Mat. thews in the farce with one ruffle, or like an Irish postboy, with a boot on one side and a bare leg on the other. Anon L. inquires," whether, since the publication by Robertson, of accounts of proceedings relating to the Peerage of Scotland, in 1790, there has been any similar publication? or where there is to be found any catalogue, or collection of cases, referring to claims of Scotch Peerages?" |
