Pharaone, that is, the baths of Pharao. Hence, poffibly, hot baths in England are called Hummums."

The Catalogue of Pictures, referred to in p. 123, col. 1, 1. 23, is that of James the Second.

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Not having yet had an opportunity of perufing the work from which the Memoirs of the Bentley family are extracted in pp. 124, 5, Í cannot afcertain, though there can be little doubt, whether the communicative author has duly noticed his uncle's unrivalled poem, intitled, "Patriotifin, a mock heroic in five cantos:" originally published in quarto, 1763; and again in fix cantos, in octavo, 1765, illuftrated by a curious index. It was reprinted in 1802 in a "Collection of modern fatirical poems, written during the prefent reign." In this poem Faclion was reprefented by the famous Lord Mayor Beckford; Ambition by Pitt, afterwards Lord Chatham; Folly by the then Duke of Newcastle; and Pride by the then Lord Temple.

Among the other Conduits," of which the Architect, in pp. 223, 4, defigns occafionally to fpeak," one probably is, that formerly erected at Carfax in Oxford; a view and account of which are given in pp. 533, 4, of your volume for 1771. It was taken down in 1787 so enlarge the High Street, and prefented to the Earl of Harcourt, who placed it in his grounds at Naneham."

In p. 232, col. 1, 1. 25, we should for "1774" fubftitute " 1775."

The confufed account of the Lufh ing on family in p. 274 wants rectification. The late Baronet was a Proctor in Doctors Commons; and it appears, from p. 1021 of your volume for 1798, that his eldest brother Henry was the perfon, who, when in the fervice of the Eaft India Company, was in 1756 confined in the Black Hole at Calcutta, and was in 1763 murdered at Patna " by order of the Nabob Coffim AllyCawn."From the fucceeding page it allo appears, that Dr. Lufkington, their father, married the daughter of the junior Dr. Altham, noticed in p. 208 of your fati volume; in which page, col. 1, 1. 57, inftead of " line antepenult." we fhould read "No. vi. ;" and in. col. 2, 1. 7, we thould read " p. xx.;" and in 1. 40, for 1781" we fhould fubftitute 1801." In this p. 208 it thould have been reniarked, that in p. 255 of the fifth volume of Bp. At

terbury, 1. 2, for "Dean" we should read " Dr. ;" as we should in the next line" Middlefex" for "Eflex." Ja the fucceeding line" the Faft day for a General Peace" occurs again, as in the preceding page. This feeming anomaly is well accounted for by your obliging correfpondent in p. 1404, col. 2.

In p. 281, col. 2, 1. 30, for “ Cam* bridge" we thould fubflitute " Oxford.” Yours, &c. ACADEMICUS.

P. S. The reference in p. 1110, col 1, 1.7, of your left volume, to an 46 int telligent Correfpondent" in p. 667, col 1, of that for 1798, fhould be con fronted with another to the fubfequent pp. 785, 6; 747, 8; wherein the prefent champion," as he is ftyled in p 1110, col. 1, 1. 3, for 1806, is confidered as fully equal to the caufe which he has undertaken." It is beyond a doubt that his wily antagonist, however plaufible, has by his injudicious management, hurt his own caufe paft recovery; and that he may at the fame time be juftly deemed to have at tained whatever merit is to be derived from being

A ftaunch, Polemic, ftubborn as a rock.

MR. URBAN, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, April 8. To the extraordinary hillory of the

Duchefs of Suffolk, vol. LXXVI. p. 691, and the detail of her fufferings in p. 209 of laft month, the following defcription of her monument in Spilfoy church may perhaps be deemed an interefting addition.

Under the arch which feparates the body of the church from the chapel, formerly the burial-place of the families of Berue, Beke, and Willoughby, is raifed a large monument of fione, richly gili and ornamented. In two recelles are the bufts of a man and woman; the man in armour, the woman with a ruff, &c. The monument has a large projecting bafe, on the front of which is the following infeription:

"SEPVL

CHRVM D RICARDI BERTIE ET D CA

THERINE DVCISSE SVFFOLKIE BA

RONISSE DE WILVGHBY ET ERESBY, CONIVGV ISTA OBIIT XIX SEPTEMB. 1580. ILLE OBIIT IX APRILIS 1582."

On the top of the bafe fiand three. whole-length figures; 1. a religious, with beads, &c.; 2. a naked Saracen, crowned; 3. a wild man. Each fathe fupports an eleutcheon bearing the following arins :

1. Quar

1. Quarterly, 1 and 4, fretty of 10 pieces; 2d and 3d, a cross moline.

2. A crofs moline, quartering a crofs engrailed. Willoughby.

3. Quarterly, 1 and 4, three batter ing rams barways, Bertie; 2d and 3d, a caftle triple-towered.

Ou the base of the monument are eight efcutcheons, filled with the different quarterings belonging to the family. The front of the monument that faces the body of the church, is fupported by three pillars, answering to the three figures on the oppofite fide. In fix divisions are engraved paffages from Scripture, beginning with Homo nalus de Muliere," &c. At the bottom are escutcheons, charged as follows:

1. Fretty of 8 pieces, impaling a crofs moline.

2. Quarterly as 1, impaling femèe of crofs croflets, 3 buckles.

3. Quarterly as 1, impaling a crofs engrailed.

4. Quarterly, 1 fretty; 2d, a crofs moline; 3d, femèe of crofs croflets, 3 buckles; 4th, . . . . impaling

..

5. As 4, impaling 2 lions pallant. The blazon of the arms is fo much defaced as to make the colours doubt ful. The other antient monuments in this church belonging to the family are well worth the attention of the antiquary. Since the deftruction, however, of the houfe at Erefby, like many others, they will probably foon be obliterated. Yours, &c.

J.

April 10

Mr. URBAN, R. Malkin, in Scenery, Antiquities, and Biography of South Wales, p. 110,has hazarded a conJecture which I wish to fee afcertained. Concluding, as we all do, that when Chriftianity gained the afcendancy, the objects of Pagan fuperftition and idolatry were thrown down, and that the large were fuffered to remain only because they were too unwieldly to be

overturned, he goes on to fuppofe, that "over thefe podibly they threw a heap of ftones, for that was used by the antient Britons as a punishment of malefactors. When a criminal was condemned to die by the laws, he was fired to a Spot, and a heap of fiones thrown over him; whoever palled by threw a ftone to the heap, in token of deteftation. Hence arites the Welth exprellion of a cummurderer; or a mur

derer who deferves to have a heap of ftones over him. To the fame origin is to be traced an imprecation much in ufe among the people: "May a heap of itones lie upon thy face," or "be thrown over thee." From thefe instances it may perhaps be inferred, that the Chrifiians, delefting the place of heathen worship, might cover it over with flones." All this is plaufible, buť is it founded in truth? Is there any infiance of malefactors being stoned to death firft, and then left under the accumulated floues, the heap of which was gradually increased afterwards? The firft inflance of this punishment we meet with is in the cafe of Achan and his family, his cattle, and the wedge of filver and the garment which he had purloined, whom “all Ifrael ftoned with fiones, and burned them with fire after they had ftoned them with ftones; and they raised over him a great heap of flones unto this day." Joh. vii. 25, 26. We fee here the punishment is as diftinct from the heap of ftones, as in the cafe of the five Kings in the care of Makkedah, who were fir Alain, i. e. put to death, and hanged on four trees; and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening; and at the time of the going down of the fon, Jothua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and caft them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great flones at the cave's mouth, which remain until this very day. Joh x. 26, 27. As fo many tumuli, compofed of Alones as well as earth heaped up, are found round cromlechs, it is therefore much more likely that thefe were the tombs of dead of various ranks and offices, priefis, princes, or generals, in like manner as in Greece Paufanias deferibes the barrows of heroes, poets, and other eument perfonages, fituate near temples. H.D.

SEND you a North Weft view of the antient collegiate and parochial church of St. CHAD, in Shrewsbury, (Pl. 1) which fell down in the year 1788, undermined by graves. The drawing is a faithful copy of one made by me not long before the accident.

As no tolerable engraving has ever appeared of this large church, I am very defirous that a print of it may adorn your valuable Magazine; by which means fome public memorial of its form will be preferved.

pole, then by freely expreffing my ideas of the condition of the buildings, the truth of the restorations going on, and of thofe alterations that have of late taken place under the plea of inprovements. I fhall alfo attempt a particular defeription of the whole pile, and of thofe buildings contiguous, or attached to it. It is poffible the reverend Guardians may, on this declaration, conceive that I have in the undertaking fome private ends to answer, that I am invidious, ungrateful for favours received, and fo forth. But. 1 truft, on ferious deliberation, they will find that I am led to this furvey by no other inducement then veneraion for Antiquity, an indifpenfible duty I owe my Country, and a profeffional obligation the merits of the Church has bound me to; that is, to defend, as much as may be, by my advice (affiftance is out of the quettion) fo much fublimity of defigu, and fo much wonder in conftruction.

The Church food in the cemetery, the prefent indecent ftate of which has been fo jutily reprobated by fome of your Correfpondents, and on the fpot which once contained a palace of the antient princes of Powis. One of the Saxon Kings of Mercia founded this Collegiate Church, for a dean, ten prebendaries, vicars choral, &c. which exifted till the 1 of Edward the VIth, when the College was diffolved, and the Church remained parochial only; ferved by a curate. The Deanery was in the patronage of the Bishops of Lichfield and Coventry, and had been filled by many perfons of eminence. Although unadorned, the exterior af pect of St. Chad's was fately and in terefiing, within, it poffeffed a venerable dignity feldom feen in a parish church. The walls of the nave refted on round Saxon arches, Four noble Pointed arches fufiained, the fquare tower in the centre, in which hung a peal of ten bells. The arches of she choir and tranfept were round, while the windows were marrow and lancet fhaped, adorned with flender (bafts and foliated capitals. In the large Eaft window was the painted glafs, now in St. Mary's church; and at the Western extremity of the nave was a very handfome organ. The length, from Eaft 10 Weft, was 160 feet; of the tranfept, from North to South, 94.

Yours, &c.

PRESENT STATE OF YORK. (Continued from p. 136).

THE CATHEDRAL.

H.

IN N return for the very liberal manner in which I was permitted by the Dignitaries of this Church to furvey and take sketches of every part thereof, I cannot fhew my sense of fo high an obligation better, or more to the purGENT. MAG. April, 1807.

That fuch a fituation as this Cathe dral flands in fhould be crowded upon and furrounded by a numerous line of hovels, and other erections of the fame mean caft, is certainly a lamentable reflection. If real nuifances were upon occation decreed as fuch by doing them away, and if real beauteous pieces of Antiquity were, upon occafion, confidèred as fuch, by letting them fland unaltered and improved, all would be well. I fall, previous to my entering on the Church, defcribe the

BISHOP'S PALACE. This arrangement is in a manner connected with the North line of the Church, from its Weft to Eaft extremity, and extending in width from its fide to the City'wall North. Abutting against the North Weft angle of the Church is a curions and very antient Saxon gateway, entering into the Palace. This gateway is perfect no higher than a few courfes of mafoury above the arch, having been rendered thus in the Tudor times, as a ftory, in the mode of building then practifed, is raifed upon the faid arch. From this gateway runs (Northward)many ruinous elevations in this latter flyle, and evidently worked on the original Saxon basements of the Palace, Adjoining the interior of the gateway are many veftiges of Saxon architec. ture, that are incorporated with the Church; and, probably, give the remains of St. Sepulchre, or Our Lady's

chapel,