(plinth square), and enriched capitals; enriched architrave to arch; clus tered columns rise from the capitals to the height of second or gallery story. Second story. Clustered and single columns, capitals enriched: architrave to small arches plain, the larger ditto enriched. In the side aile, columns with semicircular arches recessed: window; columns and semicircular head. Third story: This being an alteration in the reign of Edward III. any illustration on this occasion would be altogether unnecessary. A. Plan. B. Side aile. Detail: c. Base. D. Capital. E. Architrave. F. and F*. its continuation; in the torus, oblong diamond compart ments, and to the sweeping cornice dragons' heads. G. A dragon's head in the centre of the sweeping cornice (devices ever found in the primæval Saxon erections). H. String, having a fret. 1. J. and K. Base, capital, and architrave to single column. L. Base. M. Capital; and N. architrave to clustered columus. o. Capitals; and P. string to second story. Q. String. R. Base. s. Capital. T. Architrave to recesses. u. String. v. Base. w. Capital; and x. Architrave to window in side aile. The diagonal (vulgarly zigzag) enrichment in the mouldings very general. deposited.) c. Continuation of ditto ailes (now a hall to a prebendal residence). D.Avenue. E.Ditto.-Henry's church. F. East cloister. G. South ditto. H. North ditto. I. Portions of other arragements. J. Avenue to Little Dean's-yard. K. Little Dean'syard. L. Avenue to Little Cloisters. M. Little Cloister. N. Grand avenue to Chapter-house (now partitioned into cellars, &c.). o. Ascent to ditto. P. Chapter-honse. Q. South aile of church. R. South transept. s. East aile of ditto. T. St. Blaize's chapel. —v. View of plain arch and piers of tower at A.-v. View of double ailes at B. looking East; wherein is seen the altar and piscina. W. Capital in ditto view; singular variety in the lines. x. Base and capital in portion of ailes c, capital highly enriched.— Painted Chamber, Westminster; period, Henry II.'s reign; style, Pointed architecture, plain, and of the most pure masonry, accompanied with its peculiar detail. This elevation gives one of the windows recessed, within an arch with corbels; column, &c. lately cut out (similar window remains unhavocked on North front). Y. One of the two semicircular headed Saxon doorways in crypt under the House of Lords. z. One of Edward Confessor's Saxon windows, at South front of remnant of his Palace (another also accompanies it); now converted into the new House of Lords, A2. Pointed doorway, 16th century, in the above crypt.-Glastonbury, 954. Pointed archway in North transept of the Abbey church; mouldings, enriched with diagonals, proving the occasional use of the Pointed arch previous to the Confessor's reign. B2. Theoretic example to prove how easy it is to convert à Semicircular arch into a Pointed one, as at c2 not that I wish to insinuate that Mr. Hawkins's Clugny arches have been so tampered with, or any other antient objects of the same nature, either in France or England, but merely to shew its practicability. J. CARTER. Description of the Plate annexed to the present Essay. Lindisfarne, 635. Clustered columns in centre aile of the Cathedral; style, the most remote Saxon; arches, semicircular.Malmsbury, 675. Clustered columns in side aile of the church; style, ditto; arches pointed. -Winchester, 963. Clustered columns in North transept of the Cathedral; style ditto.-Rumsey, 967. Clustered columns in the Eastern aile of choir, or ambulatory, with one of the chapels to side aile; style ditto. Peterborough, 970. Clustered columns in centre aile of the Cathedral style ditto.- Waltham, Essex, 1062. Clustered columns in galleries to nave of the Abbey church; style ditto; mouldings enriched. Westminster, 1066 (Edward Confessor) and 1245 (Henry III.) Plan of part of the Abbey church, cloister, &c. walls tinted dark, remains, 1066, ditto, tinted fainter, work, 1245.Work, 1245th Edward's Church. arch of centre tower. B. Part of South transept in a double Eastern aile. Altar. Piscina. (In this portion of the ailes the Pix is now (To be continued.) Mr. URBAN, Shrewsbury, Jan. 6. survey of the curious and beautiful ruins of Haughmond Abbey, now embosomed in the woods of the fine demesne of Sundorne House near Shrews bury, bury, with some notices of those of Selby and Worksop, which appeared ia your Magazine for December last; I am induced to offer you the subjoined List of Conventual Churches, which are still made use of, either wholly or in part, for divine service; hoping that it may afford some assistance to the Lover of Sacred Architecture in his researches amid the venerable remains of our Monastic structures, many of which, though highly Canterbury deserving attention, have, as the writer of the article justly laments, long lain in obscurity. As I believe this is the only List that has been given of the Monastic Churches which have in some degree been preserved to us as useful religious structures, I am aware that it may be be imperfect, and shall be much obliged to any of your Correspondents who will honour it by correction or addition. HUGH OWEN Cathedral Priory Churches of Benedictines. ..Perfect. Durbam Ely Worcester Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. Bath.. Carlisle. Westminster Gloucester Lady Chapel destroyed. Perfect. Perfect, now Parochial. A complete specimen of the last age of Pointed Architecture. Cathedral Priory Church of Augustine Canons. Greater part of Nave, Transept, and Tower, destroyed. Abbey Churches erected into Cathedrals by Henry VIII, Perfect. .Perfect. . Perfect. Nearly perfect, vaulting never finished. ..Two arches of Nave destroyed. [used .Nave destroyed; beautiful Choir and middle Tower Mitred Abbey Churches, now Parochial. Perfect; Lady Chapel desecrated. A most curious and noble Church. ..Nave in use; part of West front and great central arches standing. .... Great remains of Nave, and fine West front; North aile only used. Perfect, excepting Lady Chapel; antient Nave match less in its kind. Much of this noble Church is used. Nave, though mutilated, and West Tower, used; West window fine. .Nave, which is very antient, used. .Nave, without its side ailes, used. Benedictine Abbey Churches, now Parochial. . Beautiful Choir, South Transept, and middle Tower, used. .Nave, West and middle Towers, used. Benedictine Priory Churches, now Parochial. Nave, with ruinous side ailes, used. Early Norman. Part of Choir and Tower used. The two Naves remain; the Southern Nave used. ..Nave and two West Towers used. Choir, middle Tower, and part of Nave, used. ....Nave used, fine Saxon arch West end standing. ...... ........ Tutbury, Staffordshire ..Nave and South-west Tower used; rich Saxon West St. Bee's, Cumberland ......Nearly perfect. Lancaster Churches of the Regular Canons of St. Augustine, now Parochial. St. Mary Overy, Southwark.. Perfect. St. Bartholomew, London.. Antient Choir used. Christchurch, Hants...... Cartmel, Lancashire .... .... Perfect; a very noble Church. Nave early Norman. Perfect. Nave and part of Choir used. . Choir, Transept, and middle Tower, used. Nave used; West front with two Towers perfect. Nave with two West Towers used. Nearly perfect. Nave, though mutilated, and West Tower, used. Church of the Cistercian Monks, now Parochial. Dore, Herefordshire .. Cardigan, Priory, Benedictine Choir used. Bethkelert, Carnarvon, Priory, Nave probably used, but very rude. Brecon Collegiate Church, formerly the Church of the Choir occasionally used, rest in ruins. Early lancet Dominican Friars Mr. URBAN, architecture, and plain. Dec. 22. YUM. She rendered numer learned Correspondent valuable contributor to your excelJent Miscellany, by his curious selection of extracts from the Patent Rolls; and it is much to be regretted that he has not leisure to go through Rymer's Fœdera. It was an idea that occurred to me some time since, at which I was about to make an attempt; but, being aware that a new Edition of that noble work, with many valuable acquisitions, is brought to a state of great forwardness by that indefatigable and Justly admired scholar Dr. Adam Clarke, under the direction of His Majesty's Commissioners on the Publie Records (to whom unbounded credit is due for their exertions in arranging and publishing the records of the realm), I thought it would be advisable, in order to make the thing complete, to wait for its publication; but, as E. M. S. has requested extracts from Rymer, I have niade a feeble attempt to commence that task, though not after his plan. Should this portion be deemed worthy insertion, I propose continuing a regular series from the most remarkable documents in that work, and where I meet with any A. D. 1101. A. R. 1 Hen. I. By a convention made between King Henry I. and Robert Earl of Flanders, the said King agreed to pay an annual fee of 400 marks of silver to the said Earl, for which he was to provide 500 Knights for the King's service. A. D. 1141. A. R. Steph. 6. The Empress Matilda, by charter * bearing date at Oxineford the day of St. James the Apostle, created Milo de Gloucester Earl of Hereford, and gave him the Mote and Castle of Hereford, also the third penny of the rents of the borough, and the third penny of the pleas of the county. She likewise gave him the three Manors of Mawerdine, Luggwordine, and Wilton, the 66 Hays" of Hereford, and the Forest of Trineley, &c. as a reward for his services against King Stephen, who, "by the mercy of God, and by the aid of Robert Earl of Gloucester my brother, and the aid of the said Milo and other my Barons, was taken in the Battle at Lincoln on the day of the Purification of St. Mary" next before the day aforesaid. A. D. 1144. A. R. Steph. 9. Pope Lucius rendered void all charters by obtaining which Sons became successors to their Fathers in Churches. A. D. 1153. A. R. Steph. 18. King Stephen by charter adopted Henry Duke of Normandy, son of the Empress Matilda, as his son and heir; and appointed the said Duke and his beirs to succeed him in the kingdom of England, on account of which the Duke did homage to the King, and received the fealty of William the King's son, and granted him all the possessions which his Father had before he attained to the dominion of England. The King also promised to consult the Duke in matters of state, and exercise regal justice throughout the realm. A. D. 1154. A. R. 2 H. II. Pope Adrian granted leave to King Henry to go into Ireland and subdue that people to the laws, to extend the limits of the Church, restrain the vices and reform the manners of the habitants, and to augment the Christian religion, &c.; and ordains that they should receive him honourably, and acknowledge him as lord, on condition that an annual pension of one penny for every house be paid to the Blessed Peter and the Holy Church of Rome. A. D. 1162. A. R. 8 H. II. Pope Alexander wrote to King Henry, to incline him to Peace with the King of France. A. D. 1169. A. R. 15 H. II. King Henry wrote sharply to the Pope, requesting him to make an end of the quarrels between him and the Archbishop of Canterbury (Thomas à Becket). The King informs him, that he has given the Archbishop liberty to return in peace, and have all the pos sessions which he enjoyed before he left the kingdom. He likewise reminds his Holiness of the honour and advantage he had brought him and his court, and which he hereafter might, should he not be hindered by his perverseness; and demands absolution for all those whom the Archbishop had before excommunicated. The title Earl is the most ancient in the English Peerage, and its origin has not been clearly traced. It was in use amongst the Saxons, and usually applied to the first of the Royal line. It was afterwards by our Kings given to such as they associated with them in their councils and martial actions. The Conqueror gave it to his Nobles in fee, annexing to it a shire or province, which is now called a County from the word Count or Comte, for which he changed this title (but it was not long retained): the third penny of the pleas of the County was allotted for his maintenance, and, it appears, was considered necessary to constitute an Earldom. The mode of investiture was by girding them with a sword without any formal charter of creation; and this is supposed to be the first by which this dignity was conferred. + It does not appear that he availed himself of the liberality of his Holiness before the year 1171. * Commonly called "Peter Pence," which was a tribute paid at a very early pe riod to the Apostolic See. In the year 725, it was given by Ina, king of the West Saxons, when on his pilgrimage at Rome. Offa King of the Mercians also gave it 94 through all his dominions. Edward III. prohibited it, as did Henry VIII. by statute. It was renewed by Philip and Mary, but entirely abolished by Elizabeth. AD. A. D. 1173. A. R. 19 H. II. King Henry wrote a most sorrowful letter to Pope Alexander, complaining of the rebellion of his sons, and imploring his aid. A. D. 1174. King Henry, by his charter bearing date 26 May, ordained that if any ship should be distressed on either of the four coasts of England, Poictou, Oleron, or Gascony, and either man or beast should escape or be found in the same alive, the ship should not be forfeited in name of a wreckt, but that all the goods therein should remain to the owners, provided they were claimed within three months; otherwise they should belong to the King or other Lord of the franchise. Mr. URBAN, Jan. 1. THE HE recent robbery of St. Paul's was duly noticed by you at the time it occurred ‡; but I believe my “Londinium" is the only work which contains a description of the articles used at the Altar then stolen (unless any subsequent author has quoted my account of them). I therefore hope you will indulge me by inserting the following extract from Vol. III. p. 144. as I am certain no other individual had access to the Muniment-room than myself, for the above purpose, and consulting the records there preserved. J. P. MALCOLM. "A silver gilt chalice, with the paten, and another of the same materials, are embossed with a saint bearing the Agnus Dei, and inscribed Bibite ex hoc omnes; est hic enim Calix Novi Testafnenti sanguine meo.' A pair of patens: Benedixit, fregit, dedit; accipite, comedite; hoc est corpus A Bible, edition 1640, with a silver gilt cover, representing a temple, with Moses and Aaron in the intervals between the columns, and Jacob's dream on one side, with the inscription ❝ Verbum Domini manet in æternum.' On the other leaf, the Prophet fed by a raven, and, Habent Moysen et Prophetas ; audiant illos.' Two large silver gilt plates, on which are engraved the following inscriptions: "The Rev. Mr. Charles Smith, fourth son of Sir Thomas Smith, of Hill Hall, in the county of Essex, bart. late prebendary of St. Paul's, and archdeacon of Colchester, gave this plate for the use of the church 1699." Ex hoc non manducabo donec illud impleatur in regno Dei. Modicum et jam non videbitis me. Iterum, modicum et videbitis me, quia vado ad Patrem.' 'Qui parcè seminat, parcè et metet. Si voluntas prompta est secundùm id quod habet, accepta est; non secundùm id quod non habet.' The bottoms of those plates are embossed with representations of the last Supper: and the widow bestowing her mite. The rims are adorned with his arms and crest, cherubim, and scrolls. A very large silver-gilt plate; plain, except that the centre contains an angel, exhibiting a label, on which is engraved Τοιαύταις θυσίαις εὐαρεστεῖται ὁ Θεός. The arms of the Deanery are on the back. the Lord's Supper, extremely well done, Another very large silver-gilt plate has on it; and a rich border of cornucopiæ and emblematical figures. There are large tankards of silver-gilt, very much (but clumsily) embossed. A large silver-gilt plate, with I. H.S. in a glory. Two enormous tankards, finely embossed, given by the above Rev. Charles Smith, with the inscriptions, Verbum caro factum est; et habitavit in nobis," Si mihi non vultis credere, operibus credite.' Qui biberit ex aquâ quam ego dabo ei, non sitiet in æternum." Ecce Agnus Dei, qui tollit peccata mundi; hic est qui baptizat in Spiritu Sancto.' These words all refer to the embossings over them. * This is a curious instrument; and I shall at some future period present your Readers with a translation. + Before the time of Henry I. if any ship was lost at sea and any of the cargo cast on shore, such goods were seized as belonging to the King; and the cause assigned was, that by the loss of the ship all property was gone out of the original owner; which was repugnant to all reason and humanity. A similar law was in force in the time of Constantine the Great; but he forbad it by an edict, and with this humane expostulation, directed they should remain to the owners: "Quod enim jus habet fiscus in aliena calamitate ut de re tam luctuosa compendium sectetur?" It is pleasing to reflect how much the distressed condition of these unfortunate persons has been' ameliorated by the many salutary laws which have been made since those days, See our vol. LXXX. Part II. p. 655. |