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THE

GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

APRIL, 1835.

BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT.

CONTENTS.

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MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-Lines from Hudibras ?-Rev. John Walters, B. D.
Rev. E. Bromhead.-Pavement Tiles in Churches.-Privy Tithes, &c.
THE HISTORY OF BOROUGHS AND MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS, BY MERE-
WETHER AND STEPHENS

PAGE

338

339

DIARY OF A LOVER OF LITERATURE

350

HISTORICAL CHARACTERS, by SIR J. MACKINTOSH.—Character of William the Third, 356.-Charles the Second; Dr. Robertson; Grotius....

358

Description of Clevedon Court, Somersetshire.

359

Description of the Glyptotheca at Munich

360

Letter written from Athens, in 1675, by F. Vernon, Esq.

366

Rare and unpublished Coins of Roman Emperors, &c. struck in Greek Cities .. 369 Extracts from the Ledger-book of the Gilde of Holy Cross, Stratford-on-Avon.. 375 Remarks on the Currency, in a letter to Sir Robert Peel

Mr. Sturges Bourne's Reply to the Rev. Peter Hall

The Character of Bishop Lowth defended

On the Character and Writings of Micyllus, the friend of Melancthon
Explanation of the term "Betar "

REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Bennett's New South Wales, 393.-Jacquemont's Letters from India, 397.Swainson on Natural History, 399.-Carrington's Poems, 401.-Billington's Architectural Director, 403.-Chinese Repository; Gutzlaff's China, 404. -Fell's Sermons; Ragg's Poem; Appleyard on the Liturgy, 406.-—Beesley's Japheth; Willett's Traits of Science; King's Metrical Exercises, 407.Hughes on Baptismal Regeneration; New Interpretation of Genesis; Haly on Impressment; Bish's Plea for Ireland, &c. &c.

FINE ARTS.-New Publications......

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE.

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Design for Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Public Press in Spain, &c. 418 ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES.-Society of Antiquaries, &c...... POETRY.-Rev. W. L. Bowles on the Anniversary of the Salisbury National School.-Hymn to Peace

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HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. Proceedings in Parliament, 422.-Domestic
Occurrences, 425.-Theatrical Register

427

Promotions, &c. 427.—Births and Marriages

428

OBITUARY; with Memoirs of the Earl of Darnley; Lord Napier; Mr. Justice Taunton; J. B. Monck, Esq.; Edward Stevens, Esq.; Alexander Logan, Esq. F.S.A.,; Rev. Dr. Morrison, &c.

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CLERGY DECEASED, 441.-DEATHS, arranged in Counties......
Bill of Mortality-Markets-Prices of Shares, 447-Meteorological Diary-Stocks 448

Embellished with a View of CLEVEDON COURT, Somersetshire;
and Engravings of IMPERIAL GREEK COINS.

MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.

A CONSTANT READER remarks, that in the last Catalogue published by Mr. Thorpe, the eminent bookseller, and in Lowndes's Bibliographer's Manual, in a note on Sir John Mennis' and James Smith's Musarum Deliciæ," 1656, it is stated that in it occurs the celebrated lines:

"For he that fights and runs away

May live to fight another day," which have been generally supposed to form a part of Hudibras -Having a copy of the second edition of the Book, which is that noticed by Mr. Lowndes and published in the year 1656, I have carefully read it through, but have not been able to discover these lines nor any thing at all like them. The verses on "Sir John Suckling's most warlike preparation for the Scotish warre," may be understood to convey the same idea, but in entirely different words.

The Poet mentioned by Matthew Stevenson, under the name of Replie (see p. 280) was George Ripley, some account of whom will be found in Ritson's Bibliographia Poetica.

In p. 234, the name Walton should have been J. Walters, B.D. at one time Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, a native of Cowbridge in Wales, of which school his father, Editor of a very valuable Welsh Dictionary, was Master; as was also his brother David Walters, a very superior classic, who died young. John Walters was appointed to Ruthin School by Dr. Warren, Bishop of Bangor, a very old establishment of considerable repute, having produced in modern times those eminent Judges, Kenyon, Maddox, Lloyd, and the late Chief Baron Richards. Dean Tucker, and the late good man, Dr. Hughes, Prebendary of Westminster, and subsequently Canon of St. Paul's, were educated there.-John Walters was a person of extraordinary abilities and eccentricity, in some measure heightened by a love affair; an Oxford lady of considerable fortune having discarded him for a brother Fellow. He married a Miss Davies of Wrexham, but left no children. RUTHINIENSIS.

There are some inaccuracies in the Obituary of the Rev. Edward Bromhead (p. 329) He had two daughters: the eldest, Catharine, was married a second time in 1820 to the Rev. Thomas Butt, Rector of Kynnersley, Shropshire, and Domestic Chaplain to the late Duke of Sutherland. As this clergyman has never been engaged in the useful labours of tuition, public or private, our informant must have confounded him with some other person. Mr. Bromhead's second

daughter, Maria, was married to Major
Brackenbury, of Skendleby, Lincolnshire.
She died in 1834, leaving two sons, the
youngest of whom died a few days after
his mother. The family of Bromhead is
a very ancient one, established first in
Nottinghamshire and afterwards in Lin-
colnshire.

Mr. HARVEY EGINTON remarks, on
the statement of our reviewer in p. 182,
with respect to the pavement tiles found
in churches, that the pattern is indented
in the tile and then filled up with clay of
a different colour,-that "the contrary, as
far as the Malvern tiles are concerned, is
the fact; in these the pattern is painted
on the surface, and in this respect are
different to any I have elsewhere examined.
I may here remark, in addition to the
printer's error of inserting the word "Ro-
man" in Dr. Card's work, two sentences
are curtailed, which ought to have read
thus, "from the circumstance of a quan-
tity of horns and charcoal being found in
the immediate vicinity of the kiln, it is
not unlikely the former was used in the
preparation of the clay, and the latter in
the process of burning them; " and again,
in the concluding sentence, "it is proba-
ble that the same taste and skill which
designed this church, has discovered this
means of ornamenting it at a less expense
than importing them."

B. would feel obliged to any of our Correspondents who could refer him to a portrait, either painted or engraved, of Sir Christopher Yelverton, one of the Judges of the King's Bench, in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. or of Sir Henry Yelverton, son of Sir Christopher, who was also a Judge in the reign of Charles I.

P. Q. remarks: "In your July number, VICARIUS Solicited information on Privy Tithes. I beg to state that at Eling in the new Forest, Hants, the living is a vicarage, embracing an extent of about 28,000 acres of land, and it is an almost universal practice with the farmers there, to pay the Vicar a stipulated sum per acre in lieu of his taking the tithes in kind; this is called settling the Privy Tithe, and each person who so compounds is assessed in the poor-rate book, in addition to the land he occupies, a proportionate charge according to value for the Privy Tithes, and, if the Vicar takes the tithe in kind, he then is assessed to the poor for such Privy Tithe. I am not able to inform your correspondent as to the origin of the term; but it appears in records at Eling of old date. I am not aware of its being used in any of the adjoining parishes, neither did I ever hear of it elsewhere until noticed by VICARIUS."

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THE

GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

The History of the BOROUGHS and MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS of the UNITED KINGDOM, from the earliest to the present time: with an Examination of Records, Charters, and other Documents, illustrative of their Constitution and Powers. By HENRY ALWORTH MEREWETHER, Serjeant-at-Law, SolicitorGeneral to the Queen; and ARCHIBALD JOHN STEPHENS, M.A. F.R.S., Barrister-at-Law. 3 vols. 8vo.

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FROM the Saxon period of our history, there have existed amongst us various towns distinguished by the appellation of boroughs.' Whether we are to assign a Greek or a Teutonic origin to this appellation, is a matter of dispute; and equally disputable is it whether the Saxon bypig,' or 'buph,' was so called from the possession of some peculiarity either of situation or of privilege, or whether it was not a general name applied to every city and town of importance. Of the Saxon towns some were at once indicated to be boroughs' by their names, as Cantwarabyrig, Eadmundesbyrig,' Searobyrig,' Beranbyrig; others are stated by Saxon writers to have been boroughs,' although there is nothing in their names to denote the fact. Of the latter class were 'Oxford,' 'York,' 'Cambridge,' and very many other cities and towns. All foreign cities were called indiscriminatelyburghs; thus Rome was 'Romeburh; Athens was described as a 'burgh' of Greece; and mention may be found in Anglo-Saxon writings of the venerable burghs' of Troy, Tyre, Syracuse, and Babylon. The modern names of Saxon towns ending in byrig, have been changed either by the conversion of byrig' into 'bury, as Canterbury, Edmond'sbury, Salisbury, Banbury; or by casting off the termination byrig altogether, retaining only the preceding, and, generally speaking, the more ancient portion of their Saxon names thus the metropolis was termed 'Londonbyrig,' Bangor Bancoronabyrig,' and so on.

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The people of the 'burghs' are indicated in the Saxon Chronicle by the general title of 'burghwaru;' the burghers,' a title which in that work does not seem to denote an exclusive class, possessed of any peculiar legal rights, but the general body of the people of the town, comprehending all descriptions of persons. It is difficult to discover the exact standing of the burghers' in Saxon society; but probably they were originally a very inferior class of persons, possessed of little personal freedom and few privileges. Increasing commerce brought with it considerable wealth, the possession of which raised the burghers' into persons of importance, and enabled them to purchase from their lords many valuable privileges, and exemption from many servile duties. In this manner they became lawworthy; were answerable to the law for themselves, and not their Lords for them; and were admitted into the general system of pledges, by means of which freemen became responsible for the conduct of each other. In one word, they were raised to freo-dom,' or 'freedom,' which amongst the Anglo-Saxons meant the state, dignity, or condition of a freeman in opposition to that of a slave; in the same manner Cyne-dom' meant the dig

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