his shield, the arms of that great family. Gilbert was brought up to the church, and, notwithstanding he was totally unskilled in the exercises of chivalry, would enter into the gallant lists; but mounting a fiery courser was run away with, flung, and killed, at a tournament at Ware, 1242. "The being represented cross-legged is not always a proof of the deceased having had the merit, either of having been a crusader, or having made a pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre. I have seen at Mitton, in Yorkshire, two figures of the Sherbornes thus represented: one died in 1629, the other in 1689, who, I verily believe, could never have had any more than a wish to enter the holy land. "To these ancient monuments may be added, that of a bishop, in his episcopal dress, a mitre and crosier, well executed in stone." The opinion expressed by Mr. Pennant, that the being represented cross-legged is not a proof of the deceased having been a crusader, can scarcely be conceded as borne out by the proofs which he adduces of two monuments erected in the seventeenth century, where the same position is observed. The authority of Stowe, Camden, and other antiquaries, is against Mr. Pennant. The church likewise contains several more modern monuments, amongst the most remarkable of which are those of the celebrated John Selden, who died in 1654, of his friend, Sir John Vaughan, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, in the reign of Charles I., and author of the Reports which pass under his name, and of Plowden. The superior clergyman of the Temple Church, is called the Master, a title which was known in the time of the Knights Templars, in whose histories we read of ο μαιτρος τ8 τεμπλ8. He is appointed by the King's Letters Patent, without institution or induction; there is besides a reader and lecturer. "In Stowe's time it had four stipendiary priests, with a clerk, who had stipends allowed them out of the possessions of the destroyed monastery of St. John of Jerusalem. But the establishment was still greater in the Romish times, when the several priests had a hall and lodging assigned them within the house, as appears by testimonials in the reign of Henry VII. The charges of the present church are jointly paid by both societies, who have each their side at divine worship." (Herbert's Inns of Court, 262.) Some mean buildings, which hid a part of this venerable structure, have been lately pulled down. THE LATE GEORGE HARDINGE. The name of Mr. Hardinge is fast fading away from the recollection of the public. The following pleasing little notice of him has been pre N served by Miss Hawkins, in her Memoirs, (vol. i. p. 361.) "Of George Hardinge something may be said. That he was a man of most brilliant talents, those who were at all acquainted with him must confess, but it is scarcely possible to conceive talents less adapted to legal pursuits than his. His conversation, and, in many instances, his speeches at the bar, were replete with wit and merriment. By the concurrence of fortunate circumstances, which no man, even with the greatest pretension, can command, and scarcely ever happen to any one, he found himself, more than once, at the very head of his profession, with profit and honours thrust upon him; but the vivacity of his temper, habits, and appearance, would not permit him to avail himself of the proferred good, and others more sedulous, were permitted to supplant him, contented to represent himself in the court where he was acting as counsel, as a very idle fellow,' and to verify the assertion by a professional life of the grossest negligence. It was, to all who observed it, a matter of deep regret, to see talents thus lost, for Lord Camden, a near relation of Mr. H.'s, is reported to have confessed, that his talents were far superior to his own, and that, if he had had steadiness, every thing was in his power; but neither what he owed to his own reputation or interest, nor all his classical remi niscences, could teach him, that the siren, sloth, was to be shunned; and at last he closed his reckless life in very confined circumstances. "The lady to whom I owe Mrs. Piozzi's anticipated review, possessed very early, and allows me to print, the following improviso of Mr. Hardinge, written, it may very truly be said, on the spur of the occasion. It needs a few words of introduction. I give those which were given me. "Messrs. Triphook and Company having directed a letter 'To George Hardinge, Esq. if liv-ing: if dead, to his Executors,' beginning, Sir, or Gentlemen,' and stating, that not having heard from Mr. Hardinge, after repeated applications for settling an enclosed account, they concluded he must be dead; and if that melancholy circumstance was true, requesting that it might be settled by his executors. Mr. Hardinge immediately wrote: "Oh! Messieurs Triphook, what is fear'd by you, So, gentlemen, I'm yours, without a farthing, GEORGE HARDINGE. P.S. Excuse the postage which these lines will cost, The dead their franking privilege have lost.” MR. JUSTICE CATLINE. "Mr. Bromley, Solicitor, giving in evidence for a deed, which was impeached to be fraudulent, was urged by the Counsel on the other side with this presumption, That in two former suits when title was made, that deed was passed over in silence, aud some other conveyance stood upon.' Mr. Justice Catline taking in with that side, asked the Solicitor, I pray thee, Mr. Solicitor, let me ask you a familiar question :—I have two geldings in my stable; I have divers times business of importance, and still I send forth one of my geldings and not the other; would you not think I set him aside for a jade?' No, my lord,' said Bromley, 'I would think you spared him for your own saddle.'" (Bacon's Apothegms.) DELIBERATIONS OF JURIES. The rule of law which compels a jury to be unanimous, however various their opinions may originally be, has doubtless given rise to many singular scenes. On the trial of the seven Bishops, in the reign of James II., the jury withdrew and remained in deliberation the whole of the night, owing, as it is supposed, to the obstinacy of one Arnold, the King's brewer. (See |