1794.] Cromwell's Houfe.-Charnel-houfes and Crypts. Mr. URBAN, OLI July 2. LIVER CROMWELL'S HOUSE (plate III.) is occupied chiefly by Mr. Blackberow. Tradition points it out ftrongly to have been the refidence of Oliver Cromwell, where meetings were held for the purpofe of bringing about the revolution that took place in the reign of King Charles I. The parifh of Clerkenwell is rather remarkable for being inhabited formerly by perfons of high rank. Oppofite Oliver Cromwell's food Newcastle house, belonging to S. J Cavendish, Duke of Newcattle. In Aylesbury-treet ftood the Earl of Aylesbury's houfe; and, by tradition, St. John's church was formerly a chapel annexed to the Earl's manfion. It is remarkable, that the parish have the records before Cromwell's Ufurpation and after, but not during the Interiegnum. Yours, &c. T. P. Mr. URBAN, July 3. WHATEVER was the wew of your correfpondent Cambrienfis in affigning the motive of Dr. Prie@ley's departure from this country, it has been fhewn by Mr Toulmin, p 495, that he miftook the motive. No one, however, can mistake Mr. T's motive for this communication, any more than for his undertaking to republifh Mr. Neal's History of the Puritans, a work compofed by a Calvinistic Independent being now edited by a Socinian Baptift. In regard to what is faid, p. 491; we can offer no apo ogy for Freemafonry, believing it at best to be a filly fecret, yet not doubting that it might be perverted to ferve the wort of purpofes in the hands of danger us men. Yours, &c. B. B. B. "Muniat hoc templum cruce glorifi. cans micrecofmum quem genuit Chrif tum miferis peccatoribus fiar aplum." It is almost impossible to miit,ke the letters as they lie before the reader, The general fenfe feems to be, May this temple pro cết by the c ofs, gify ing the little world! (The difficulty about O, whether gai, ou quem, or any thing elit, renders the next member of the See, howe er, p. 612. EDIT. GENT. MAG. July, 1794. 617 fenfe obfcure). May it be a retreat to miferable finners!" It has not the leaft reference to a lanuary in the fenfe intended by Dr. Pegge; and the letters are much o'der than the time of Henry VI. The flone from Lincoln has traces of a crofs at the upper corners; but, from its fituation, may it not rather have been a boundary than a fepulchral monument? The infcription. Victo in, on the urn, p. 501, can have no relation to the emperor Victorinus, who died at Col gne, and most probably was buried there. It is not unfrequent on other Brit:fh infcriptions. Names on potters are rather of the maker than of the party whofe ahes the urn contained. The arms of Edward the Confeffor, p. 506, were, a cross patonce between 5 murilets. Charne-houfes and Crypts are often confounded. Cryp.s were frequent under chancels and chapels; but their deftination to receive the fuperfluous bones from time to time dug up in church-ards, for a long fucceffion of re time, has led man, to fufpect that they were originally intended to ferve as charnel-houfes. Hence the vulgar error, that the human bones which fill the vaults at Hythe and Waltham-abey were mains of fi me battle, and the lster of the flain by Wiliam the Conqueror at Battle; whereas every circumfiance comcurs to prove they have been put there, from time to time, for the realon abovementioned. A monument of Mr. Wm. Sandys was not to have been expected at Fladbury, p. 503, where he had at laft no property, but rather with his family at Milerden; but perhaps the times prevented it. There feems a little inaccuracy in the account of the parish-clerk of Fladbury being confulted about buildings at Stratford, for fo it fhould have been exprelled. The monuments at Fladbury and Strenf ham may be feen in Dr. Nath's Collections for Worcesteraire, under their icfpective articles. Ph lo-Gothicus, p 513, is much thistaken in une ftanding the acts of Granvi le to be flues, origan-refis, they are refs tor alpear, wich were a kind of bracket, projecting from the bicaft of the armour. Kent and Guil1 m doubt this, and call them Clarion sy an inftrument of muhck to winch [cannot fee the leaft releitblance. R beit Earl of Gloucester temp. Henry I. and Arthur Clopton in Suiciletihire, bear them as well as Granvilic. Newton Newton hall, enquired after pp. 410, 523, is in Little Dunmow parish; and, in Weever's time, there remained in it, "in old painting, two. pofures, the one for an ancestor of the Bourchiers, combatant with another, being a Pagan king, for the truth of Chrift, whom the faid Englishman overcame; and, in memory thereof, his descendants have ever fince borne the head of the faid infidel, as alfo ufed the furname of Bowfer, as I had it out of the collections of Auguftine Vincent, Windfor herald, deceased," pp. 634. I do not find, however, from Morant (II. 424), that it ever, belonge to the Bourchier family. I wish to know if the first volume, complete, of the Hiftory of Cumberland, announced on the cover of your June Magazine as already printed, and fortly will be published," on the 24th of that month, be the fame with that reviewed in vol. LXIII. p. 1197, as an incomplete work, or do we look for anYours, &c. D. H. other? Mr. URBAN, July 14 THE HE ftone called Chalcopbonos, to which C, M. alludes, p. 552. is thus described by Pliny, Nat. Hift. XXXVII. c. 10: 66 Chalcopbonos nigra aft fed illifa aris tinnitum reddit, trage dis, ut fuadent, geflanda." Ifidorus. transcribes this verbatim (Orig. XVI. c. 14). Solinus, c. 37, fays, "Chal coptbongos refonat xt pulsa aëra: pudice babitus ferval vocis claritatem." To the fame purpofe Marbadeus, c. 16. All that we learn from thefe authors is, that it was black and founding. The LADY, in the Index Indicato rius,ay find the folution of the barber's pole in vol. XL. p. 403 *. P. Q. Mr. URBAN, July 7 IN your laft Magazine, in a letter figned John Jordan, is an account of a ftate chair purchased from among the effects of the late Lady-vifcounters Fane, of Little Compton, in Glouceftershire, by Mr. Sands, of Wheel-barrow caftle, in that neighbourhood. The writer of this letter knew the chair perfely well at Litle Compton, and he knows the hiftory of it. It is neither more nor less than the flate chair in which the king (King Charles the Second) fate in the auney, after his cornation, to receive the homage of the peers. This chair was the perquifite of William Jaxon, the arch hop of *Or in p. 612 this month. EDIT. Canterbury, who crowned the king; and either immediately, or after the archbishop's death, which happened the following year, it was fent to Little archbishop from 1649 to 1660, when, Compton, the place of retreat of the in a ftate of extreme decrepitude, he was fent for, and conveyed to town in archiepifcopal fee of Canterbury; which a litter, in order to be promoted to the promotion entitled him to perform the ceremony of crowning the fon of that king whom, eleven years before, he had attended, being then bishop of London, in his prifon of St. James, and on his fcaffold at Whitehall. This is the true history of the chair, which, upon the death of Sr William Juxon, was left, together with his whole perfonal eftate, to his relict, Dame Sufannah Juxon, afterwards Vilcountess Fane. As to marks of blood upon the footstool, the neceffary appendage to a ftate-chair of that fort, I never either faw or heard of any; but they may be there, and they may have come from an hundred quarters, withmoft certainly fhed none of his there. out belonging to the royal martyr. He The bishop of London, even as dean of the chapels, if his privileges had, at the execution of the king, been ever fo much refpected, could have no claim to the block on which the king was beheaded neither is it very likely that that block was covered with purple velvet. : most common materials, there can be Indeed, had it been of the no doubt but that Bishop Juxon, could he have established his right to it, would have preferved it as a relique. I with to have this inferted, and, if you defire it, I will give you my name. Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, VERIDICUS. Crooked land, Jan. 1794. BDURATE muft the heart of that D individual be who can read the fuppofed foliloquy of Louis the Child without fympathizing in its diftrefs, and execrating the infernality of those twolegged tigers whole infatiate maws till thirst for human blood. In the fame Magazine for November is a narrative of a cruelty in the Weft of England, where both the lawyer and his client appear as fit affociates for that diaboli. cal affembly; and pity it is their names thofe of the philanthropic Roberfpierre, are not expofed to as fingular notice as I wish a few of your correfpond &c. ents, 1794.] Tranfatlantic Correfpondence.-Anecdotes of Geo. Piese. 619 ents, who, with concern I observe, on trifling difputes, treat their opponents with dogmatical afperity, would draw forth villany and hard-heartedness, under whatever name or character it may lie concealed; there the cacoëthes opprobrandi may be very laudably indulged. It might much benefit fociety if the worthy committee for relieving prifoners for fmall debts, where the costs fo vaftly exceed the debt, would mention the attorney's name to whom thofe wretches are fo happily beholden, that fuch may be had in everlafting remembrance. Lord Kenyon is much extolled, on this fide the water, for his dextrous excision of fome rotten limbs infefting Weftminster-hall. In the iflands, his lopping-axe might do much fervice. The vitals, not bowels, of thefe heroes of the quill, the war hath made putrefcent. Many poor French and Americans have proved it feelin. ly. The amor patria is tortured, like charity, to cover a multitude of fins. I will fport an opinion, though probably much too late, that "a matter on the carpet" hath an allufion to the antient covering of a table, where bufinefs of importance was difcuffed, fimilar to our Board of Green Cloth, parvis componere magna.-I fear M.fs Seward's ftrictures on Johnson's veracity did not proceed from an exuberance of the milk of hu man kinduefs. 1 fometimes thought him more attentive to the truth than to the propriety of what he afferted. I hope the feeming fanguinary goat of her friend Williams is now fufficiently glutted. What an affecting fubje&t for tragedy would thofe ferocious scenes furnish, provided the united powers of language and of action did not render it too diftrefling for endurance! If our bawlers for a parliamentary and other Utopian reform would exert themselves effectually to investigate the abuses which exift in many charitable inftitutions, the bleffings of the poor would accompany their enquiries, and mens fibi confcia reci would rife fuperior to prevalence of party. In the April Atatement of Queen Anne's bounty, I find, in 30 years there was rece ved, by Tenths, &c. 261.319 17,016 278,335 What a woeful deduction follows! Fees A new book (query?) 6,597 24,076 531 12,317 £.43,521 How much of this, by attention in the first inftance, and how much may yet be faved, and the good refulting, L leave to wifer heads to afcertain; this only I can venture to affirm: that, whatever increases the ability of a worthy clergyman to bring up a decent family adds more to the flock of public virtue than all the money paid to all the petits maitres, or coxcomical clerks, in Chriftendom. Is it now clear to the publick, how the profits arifing from that noble fund for erecting a college in Barbadoes is appropriated? It is rumoured that a scheme, ten times more chimerical, is in contemplation to adopt the bafelels fabrick of a fimilar con ftrution in Bermuda, to teach gent'emen's fons of the Weft Indies to fwim, and those of America to catch fish; the former to be fed upon air, to increase agility; the latter, in a good whale feafon, are to provide for the year. Stationary balloons will be appointed to affift the intercourfe. The profeffors to be furnished from the universities of Old-street and Moorfields. It is prefumed, there being now no other demand for money, the Government will provide libera ly for a pharos to lighten the hoals off Cape Hatteras, and an obfervatory to afcertain, with precifion, whether a full moon be not encircled with a rim, like that of a flat candleflick. They have hitherto been dabbling only as pedlars; this is intended as a coup de main. Mr. URBAN, IN Walker's COTTONIENSIS. Tiverton, June 27. "Sufferings of the Clergy" is a long account of the unparalleled fufferings and hardships that the Rev. George Pierce (who had Pit quarter in this town) and his family underwent. I find he was born at Richmond, in Surrey; educated at Eton, and elected to a fellowthip of King's college, Cambridge, 1623, and admitted to this living in 1634. He had alfo a living in Kent, of the value of 160l. per annum. His father was keeper of the wardrobe to Queen Eli,zabeth, King James, and Charles the Firft. I have heard he had 23 children by |