Bothing more than mere unfounded chit-chat, I will gladly laud that man who corrects my odlicious care, in this instance, when he, in answer to this communication, informs the world, that the Architectural appendages to the Abbey Church at Westminster, are to remain safe and undisturbed!

GREENSTEAD CHURCH. (Continued from vol. LXXVIII.1162.) History informs us, that the body of St. Edmund, on its way from London, about the year1010, rested in this Church. So far we may count upon its antiquity, as to a precise period; thus it will be on a kind of historic basement that I shall erect my theory, in regard to the construction of the original design.

Plan. Gives one Aile 28 feet by 16. West end, and the two sides, North and South, made out by trunks of oaks, sawed in half, and placed in perpendicular positions, within one inch of each other, their sawed faces standing inward. There is no appearance of any entrance, or window, coæval with the arrangement of the trunks themselves; therefore, it may be supposed, the light obtained was through the small interstices between each trunk; and whatever door-way there may have been, it must have shewed where the present one is set up within the porch inclosing it, (which is on the South side of the church,) in the 15th century. The Eastern end of the erection is now an open space, entering into the Chaucel, 17 feet square; which Chancel is worked with bricks, done at the same time as the Porch was contrived, having a doorway and two windows on the South side, one window on the East, and one on the North. Against the West end of the Church a common modern wooden square Tower has been affixed. Against the South west, the South-east, and North-east angles, are paltry brick buttresses; a recent palching up, to keep, as it is said, the modern common roof from falling. In the South-east angle of the Chancel is placed a very curious holy-water bason, in the style of the 13th century; a decoration that must evidently have been brought from some other religious edifice."

Elevations-West end. On the ground is laid an horizontal piece of timber properlysquared and smoothed, in which stand 17 trunks of trees, at a mean of one foot diameter each;

those placed at the angles, North and South, in height six feet; the others, in continuation to the centre one, rise gradually pediment-wise to a height of 14 feet. It is to be observed, an opening has been cut in the centre trunk, as a doorway from the Church into the wooden Tower. The origi nal mode of securing the top of these trunks does not appear; but, judging from the side sustainments, it must have been by squared pieces of timber (such as form the plinth tim bers,) laid in an inclined direction, s as to give the pedimental line of th roof, whatever may have been it manner of finishing. The present ro is of the common barn turn.

North and South sides. Being near similar, we may reckon to each ther 23 or 24 trunks; nothing po tive in this respect, as the mode porch, brick buttresses, and a f patchings-up to the trunks, obstr the regularity of their numbers. Ti are likewise set in an horizon squared piece of timber; mean, foot diameter: they rise six feet; are sustained at top by a second squ piece of timber. As the roof is c late a date, done with dormer or ret windows, little or no idea can us to guess at the first coveri the building. Still, as opinion liberty with us all, I shall conje that it is possible sawed trun trees, resembling those in the up might have been laid over the from wall to wall, meeting to at the ridge, in manner like the coverings to roofs with their ings, as yet to be seen on our drals and other structures.

To mention the doorway, & of the windows to the Chance are of the flat-arched Tudor and no way remarkable. TI windows are merely commo shift frames for containing qu glass. On the wooden tower wooden spire, covered with s

Construction of the trun' to form uprights, or wallbuilding.

An horizontal regular-wo' ber, by way of phuth, leng the front or sides of the width one foot, height sev in which a groove is cut two inches, is width two in trunk, or half of the tree, e a section, cut away at bo'

On the top of the tomb lie the effigies of Sir R. Townshend and his lady; and the sides and ends of the tomb are divided into compartments by small neat pillars, within which are the effigies of their children. The inscription is,

Heare lieth the badges of Spr Hobart Towneshend Knyght, Chief Justes of the Counsell in the Marches of Walles and Chester; and Jaine his Wyfe, doughter and one of the hepres of Robert Powpe Esquier; who had betwyne them twoo rii children, vi sounes and vi doughters lawfully begot.

10.

Opposite the above, adjoining the South wall, is a tomb to the memory of lady Eure, whose effigy is on the top in a recumbent posture; above which, a black stone fixed on the wall is thus inscribed in gilt capitals:

Here lyeth expectinge a joyfvll Resvrrection, the body of Dame Mary Evre, late wife to the Ho. Ralphe Lord Evre, Baron of Malton, Lord President of the Principallitie and Marches of Wales, and Lievetenant of the same, and Davghter of Sir Iohn Dawney, of Sessey, in the County of Yorke, Knight. She departed this mortall lyfe the 19 day of March, Anno Domini 1612, ætatis svæ 55,

11.

Below the second window on the South side is an antient plain tomb to the memory of Ambrozia Sydney, whose sides have been adorned with armorial bearings, &c. Above the tomb on the wall are three coats of arms, and underneath the middle one, on a plain stone painted black, is inscribed in gilt letters,

Near to the above is a modern mural monument of white marble, the tablet of which is inscribed,

In memory of Theophilus Salwey, Esq. who was the eldest son of Edward Salwey, Esq. a younger son of Major Richard Salwey, who in the last century sacrificed all and every thing in his power in support of Publick Liberty, and in opposition to Arbitrary Power, The said Theophilus Salwey married Mary the daughter and heiress of Robert Dennet, of Waltham

stow, in the county of Essex, Esq. but

left no issue by her. April, 1760, ætat. 61. pro Republicâ semper.

13.

Obiit the 28th of Pro Rege sæpè;

Near to the above is a handsome marble altar-tomb, standing in part within an ornamental circular-arched niche in the South wall, having on the top the effigies of Justice Walter and his Lady: its sides are divided into compartments, by small columns, containing the figures of their chil dren in the attitude of kneeling. The tomb is inclosed by iron palisades. Within the niche on a black stone in gilt capitals is this inscription

Heere lye the bodies of Edmvnd Walter Esqvier, chieffe Ivstice of three Shiers in Sovth Wales, and one of His Majestie's Covncill in the Marches of Wales; and of Mary his Wife, davghter of Thomas Hacklvit, of Eyton, Esqvier, who had issve three sonnes, named' Iames, Iohn, and Edward, and two davghters, named Mary and Dorothy. He was buried the 29th daye of Ianvarie, Anno Domini 1592.

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The following is on a slab in the chancel.

Here lieth Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Lord Folliott, Baron of Ballishannon, in the Kingdom of Ireland, married first to Samuel Powell, of Stannage, in the county of Radnor, Esq. afterwards to Thomas Jones of Goodrich, in the county of Hereford, Cler. She died the 12th day of May, A. D. 1725, aged 64 years.

The Living is a Rectory, valued in the

the King's books at £19. 12s. 6d: its reputed value is upwards of £200 a year.

It is in the Bishoprick of Hereford and Archdeaconry of Salop, and gives name to the Deanery in which it is situate. The King is Patron; and the living, being under £20. a year in the King's books, is, of course, at the disposal of the Lord Chancellor.

Near to the Church is a well-built Alms-house, containing, as I understand, thirty-three comfortable apartments; over the door of which is the following inscription:

Domum hane Eleemosynarium munificentiâ Johannis Hosyer mercatoris, anno Salutis MCCCCLXXXVI primitùs extructam, temporis injuriâ labefactam dein et ruituram; in Dei Optimi Maximi gloriam, pii Fundatoris memoriam, et com'odiorem Pauperum receptionem, ab ipsis usque fundamentis propriis sumptibus. resuscitârunt, ampliârunt, ornârunt, Balfivi, Burgenses, et Communitas villæ hujus de Ludlow, Anno Domini MDCCLVIII, augustissimi Regis Georgii Secundi tricessimo primo."

Ludlow Castle is a fine ruin, standing on the West side of the town, upon a high rock, at the bottom of which flows the river, after meandering through a rich vale north of the Castle. Over a gateway which leads into the interior are the arms of Queen Elizabeth and the Sidney family, with the following inscriptions, in capitals:

Hominibvs ingratis loqvimini lapides., Anno Regni Reginæ Elyzabethæ 23. The 22 year co'plet of the Presidency of Sir Henri Sidney, Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, &c. 1581.

Anno Domini Milesimo. Qvingentesimo Octuagesimo Completo. Anno Regni seremissinæ illustrissimæ Regina Elizabethæ vicesimo tertio cvrrente, 1581.

In regard to the last inscriptions, I should be obliged to Mr. Urban's Correspondents to state the cause why the charge of ingratitude is so strongly preferred against the inhabitants of Ludlow in time past: for to whom else are we to suppose the ingratis hominibus to allude ?

Stepping down into a cellar some: few nights ago, my legs plunged calfhigh into water cold as snow: this was quite unexpected. Hurry seldom but impedes; and the wine I wanted kept me paddling more than twice. the time it ought, without a glow of warmth re-acting in the end.

Being engaged for the next day in London, breakfast was ordered at half past 6 in the morning, but, on awaking, a sore throat gave serious alarm, with internal pain as well as swelling. The complaint would prevail certainly for some days, unless made to yield immediately. A bit of Horse-radish was chewed, and passed to the root of the tongue, which occasioned a general watery discharge. After 5 or 6 minutes a second slice was used with the same effect, and in 10 minutes more a third. Great relief followed the first use of the Horseradish, and the repetition gave a perfect cure.

This remedy is quick and certain in all catarrhal affections; and families should keep some through the Winter in a cellar secured from frost. In hoarseness and loss of voice, transverse sections are the lozenges of Nature, and infallible without any patent.

With all its excellence, however, it produces nothing for the Apothecary, nothing for the Nurse, nothing for the Doctor, nothing for the Undertaker--and, worse than all these nothings, most likely not even thanks for your insertion of the above. Yours, &c. A VOLUNTEER M.D,

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AM told a Brewer of Hertford has published a Pamphlet complaining bitterly of the high Composition for Tithes demanded in some instances by the Beneficed Clergy. I have not seen it, but I presume it may be auswered in four words; viz. Experience confutes his assertions. For it is a known fact, that in those places where the Tithes are set out by the Growers, and taken in kind by the Tithe-holders, the Farms are as well cultivated, and the Farmers in as good circumstances, cæteris paribus, as in any other parts of the kingdom. It is much to be lamented, that the antient custom of taking Tithes in

instances. Much jealousy and discontent, and imposition, would thus