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collection of ballads of the day, is one entitled "A true British Hero, or Benbow the Brave," it contains six stanzas, beginning with

"Sound thy trumpet, O Fame! let the Nation attend,

To Benbow the Brave, each Englishman's friend;

He has sail'd-he will fight, and he'll conquer again, [the main. And the flag of old England o'ershadow Oh! push the bumper about, drink his bealth, each brave Tar,

To Benbow the Brave! our firm bulwark in war!"

This appears to have been written about the time he sailed for the West Indies in 1701.

He had several children; one of his sons was brought up in the sea service; he died in 1708, without issue, and left a MS account of the island of Madagascar, on which he had suffered shipwreck. His eldest daughter married Paul Catton, esq. of Milton, near Abingdon, co. Berks, who assisted Dr. Campbell in recording the exploits of his father-in-law. Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

BROAD

D. PARKES.

June 4. ROADWATER Church (of which a small, but neat, view is given in vol. LXXIV. p. 201), situated near the entrance of the parish of that name, is a venerable Gothic edifice, "The pious work of names once fam'd, Now dubious or forgot.."

It forms an extremely picturesque object from the road, from which it is separated by a row of lofty trees. The Tower is in fiue preservation, being nearly as fresh as at the time of its erection. The Church itself is evidently the work of different periods, being partly of Saxon and of early Pointed architecture *.

Before the present Incumbent came to the living, the only entrance to it was by a low portico, which faces the North, and which consequently rendered the Church damp; but since that period the Western door has been opened; on entering which, the interior presents an imposing effect.

The nave is supported by massy stone fluted columns, from which spring the arches that sustain the

* See the Remarks of Mr. John Carter on this Church, and that of Lancing, in our vol. LXXVIII. p. 316.-Edit.

sloping roof. Four columns placed quadrangularly in the centre of the building are connected by elegantly turned arches, upon which rest the walls of the tower.

The Chancel still exhibits fragments of an old Mosaic pavement. These consist of small square bricks of a deep red colour, having on their sur face, in bright yellow, the figure of a fleur de lis. With these the whole of the Chancel-floor appears to have been originally covered.

At the end of the Chancel stands the Communion-table, surrounded by heavy bannisters, profusely carved, and bearing the marks of extreme age; in the centre of the Communion floor is a long flag-stone, on which is the following Inscription :

HIC SITUS EST. EX. ANTIQUA
BURTONORUM PROSAPIA. ORIUNDUS

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MALLEUS SINE LUCTA MARTIS.
SUAVITER OBDORMIVIT. IN. DOMINO
AUG. 9, ANNO DOMINI 1661,
ÆTATISQUE. SUÆ 67.

In the centre of the Chancel floor is a long flag-stone, inlaid with a curious brass figure of an early Rector, with his hauds folded in attitude of prayer, encircled by a lofty Gothic arch, highly ornamented. Under his feet is a Latin inscription.

On the right side of the Chancel is a superb monument belonging to the De la Warr family, formed entirely of free-stone, and covered with sculp ture. Near is a plain stone, bearing the following Inscription:

"Here lies the body of the Rev. C. Smith, who was deprived of his livings, Combes and Sompting, in the year 1689. He departed this life Jan. 4, 1724, aged 72."

In the Nave is a small stone, with a Latin inscription to the memory of John Mappleton, a former Rector of this place.

The transverse ailes of the Church (which is built in the form of the cross)

cross) are particularly curious. They contain, under a sloping roof on the Eastern side of the ailes, stone seats, or stalls, for the officiating priests; three in each. In the side of each is a piscina, and by its side a curiously wrought niche of stone.

These ailes are now used as a Cemetery. The oldest legible inscription is 1641.

There is still preserved an old iron helmet, supposed to have been that of Lord De la Warr, and hung as a trophy on his monument; it was afterwards ingeniously converted into a poor's-box, and fixed in front of the

pulpit, which may account for its preservation.

The Church-yard contains the tomb of Ambrose Searle, esq. author of "Horæ, Salutariæ," and many other works well known to the religious world.

A fine old Gothic building, belonging to the Rectory, and called Parsonage-hall, is now used as a School-house.

Broadwater is a lay impropriation vested in the College of Arundel, and is a valuable living. The present excellent Rector is the Rev. Peter Wood. He was presented to the Rectory in 1811. J. F.

COMPENDIUM OF COUNTY HISTORY.

ADDITIONS TO DERBYSHIRE, Vol. LXXXVI. Part ii. p. 601.

"Oh for a Shakspeare's pencil, while I trace
In Nature's breathing paint, the dreary waste
Of Buxton, dropping with incessant rains,
Cold and ungenial; or its sweet reverse,
Enchanting Matlock, from whose rocks sublime
Komantic foliage hangs, and rills descend,
And Echo's murmur. Derwent, as he pours
His oft obstructed stream down rough cascades
And broken precipices, views with awe,
With rapture, the fair scenes his waters form."

WILLIAM WHITEHEAD, Poet Laureat.

ANTIENT STATE AND REMAINS. Roman Stations. Ad Trivonam, Berry farm; Aquæ, Buxton; Lutudarum, Chesterfield.

Antiquities, British, "Cair's work," or "Carle's work," rude fortification on Hathersage moor.-Roman, Melandra-castle camp; Altar at Haddonhall: Inscribed pigs of lead found near Matlock.-Melbourne, Sandiacre and Steetley Churches. Ashover leaden font. Bakewell and Eyam crosses. "Anchor church," excavation in a rock near Foremark. Barlborough and Hardwick halls.

PRESENT STATE AND APPEARANCES. Rivers. Amber, Ashop, Barbrook, Burbadge, Crawley, Ecclesburn, Ethrow, Goyte, Gunno, Headford, Ibber, Idle, Lathkill or Larkill, Martin-brook, Mersey, Morledge, Now, Schoo.

Inland Navigation. Nutbrook canal. On the Cromford canal is a tunnel (at Butterley) 2978 yards long; an aquæduct bridge over the Amber 200 yards long, and 50 feet high; and another of the same length, and 30 feet high, over the Derwent. On Peak forest canal is an inclined plane of 512 yards, and an aquæduct bridge over the Mersey, 100 feet high, having 3 arches, each of 60 feet span.

Eminences and Views. Holme-moss or Kinderscout 1859 feet; Axedge 1751 (erroneously stated at 2100 above Derby town); Lord's seat 1751; Hathersage 1377; Alport heights, 980. The High Tor in Matlock dale rises almost perpindicularly from the river above 300 feet. Bolsover Castle. Chatsworth hunting town.

Natural Curiosities. Groupe of grit-stone rocks called "Robin Hood's Stride," or "Mock Beggar's hall," on Stanton moor. Reynard's hall, a cave in Dovedale. Elden hole was ascertained by John Lloyd, esq. to be a shaft of 62 yards deep, at the bottom of which are two caverns, as described by him in Philosophical Transactions," vol. 61.-Tepid springs, Buxton

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82o, Matlock, 68°, Stony Middleton 63o, Bakewell 60°, Brough near Hope, Cromford, and Stoke.-Sulphureous, at Agnes and Mudge meadows, Bakewell; Bradwell, Brassington, Cowley near Dronfield, Kedleston, Kniveton, Millington Green near Kirk Ireton, Shottle in Duffield, Shuttlewood near Bolsover, West Hallam, Whittington, and near Wirksworth.—Chalybeate, most celebrated, at Asbover, Birley in Eckington, Bradley, Buxton, Chesterfield, two at Duffield, Eccleston in Youlgrave, Heage, Hope, near Kedleston, Matlock, Morley park, Quarndon, Shottle, Stanley, Tibshelf, and Whittington.-Saline, at Donisthorpe, and between Hope and Bradwell.-Ebbing and flowing, at Barmoor, and Tideswell.-At Overton, seat of Sir Joseph Banks, are two gooseberry trees, of the smooth red or Warrington sort, remarkably good bearers, the extreme length of one, measured in 1816, was 54 feet 7 inches; the other, which was planted in 1794, measured in 1808, 41 feet 5 inches.—At Bretby, the Earl of Chesterfield's, is a cedar of Lebanon, 13 feet 9 inches in circumference, planted in Feb. 1676-7, and is probably the oldest tree of its kind in this kingdom. The Enfield cedar was planted nearly at the same time; those in the Physicgarden at Chelsea, in 1683.

Public Edifices. Ashborne school founded 1585.-Burton upon Trent bridge will be noticed in the Compendium of Staffordshire.-Buxton baths; crescent built by the late Duke of Devonshire in 1785 and 1786; Stables, a circular area of 60 yards internal diameter, with coach houses for 60 carriages.-Cavendish bridge, near Wilne, built by the Cavendish family about 1750.-Chesterfield town hall, erected 1790; architect, Carr.-Derby Alms-house, built by Elizabeth Countess of Shrewsbury, 1599: County-hall erected in 1659: All Saints church, architect Gibbs, finished 1725: Guildhall 1731: County gaol 1756: Theatre 1773: Assembly rooms 1774: Ordnance depôt, Wyatt architect, completed 1805: Infirmary, William Strutt, esq. architect, cost 2.30,000 opened 1810: Schools.-Etwall Hospital.-Harrington bridge at Sawley, begun 1786, finished 1790.-Measham town-hall.-Ravenstone hospital, founded by Rebecca Wilkinson 1712.-Repton school.-Swarkston bridge, span over the river 138 yards, but its whole length over the low grounds 1304 yards.

Seats. Alfreton, Rev. H. C. Morewood..

Aldercar, Rev. John Smith..
Allestrey, J. C. Girardot, esq.
Aston, Rev. Charles Holden.
Bank-hall, Samuel Frith, esq.
Barlborough, C. H. Rodes, esq.
Barrow, John Beaumont, esq.
Barton Blount, Francis Bradshaw, esq.
Beauchief Abbey, P. P. Burnell, esq.
Bolsover, Duke of Portland.
Bradley, Godfrey Meynell, esq.
Breadsall priory, Mrs. Darwin.
Bridge-end, J. B. Strutt, esq.
Castle field, John Burrow, esq.
Catton, Eusebius Horton, esq.
Croxall, late Thomas Prinsep, esq.
Darley, Walter Evans, esq.
Duffield, John Balguy, esq.
Dunston hall, Mrs. Smith.
Durant hall, A. B. Slater, esq.
Ednaston lodge, Hon. W. Shirley.
Etwall, William Cotton, Esq.
Ford, Mrs. Holland. '

Foston, Charles Broadhurst, esq.
Glapwell, Thomas Hallowes, esq.
Glossop hall, Duke of Norfolk.
Haddon hall, Duke of Rutland.
Hasland, Thomas Lucas, esq.
Hassop, Earl Newburgh.

Hathersage, A. A. Shuttleworth, esq.

Highfield, V. H. Eyre, esq..
Hilcote hall, John Wilkinson, esq.
Holme hall, Robert Birch, esq.
Holt house, George Mower, esq.
Hopwell, Thomas Pares, esq.
Ingleby, R. C. Greaves, esq.
Langley park, Godfrey Meynell, esq.
Leam, M. M. Middleton, esq.

Little Longsdon, James Longsdon, esq.
Little Over, Bache Heathcote, esq.
Mearsbrook, Samuel Shore, esq.
Measham-field, Edward Abney, esq.
Mellor, Samuel Oldknow, esq.
Millford, G. H. Strutt, esq.

Newton Solney, Abraham Hoskins, esq.
Norton hall, Samuel Shore, jun'. esq.
Norton house, John Read, esq.

Oaks, The, Sir W. C. Bagshaw, knt.
Ogstone, William Turbutt, esq.
Pastures, The, late John Peel, esq.
Radborne, E. S. C. Pole, esq.
Renishaw, Sir George Sitwell, bart.
Risley, Rev. John H. Hall.
Romeley, Rev. Thomas Hill.
Shardelow, Leonard Fosbrooke, esq.
Smalley, John Radford, esq.
Stainsby, E. S. Sitwell, esq.

Stanton Woodhouse, Duke of Rutland,
Stoke hall, Hon. John Simpson.

Stretton,

cross) are particularly curious. They contain, under a sloping roof on the Eastern side of the ailes, stone seats, or stalls, for the officiating priests; three in each. In the side of each is a piscina, and by its side a curiously wrought niche of stone.

These ailes are now used as a Cemetery. The oldest legible inscription is 1641.

There is still preserved an old iron helmet, supposed to have been that of Lord De la Warr, and hung as a trophy on his monument; it was afterwards ingeniously converted into a poor's-box, and fixed in front of the

pulpit, which may account for its preservation.

The Church-yard contains the tomb of Ambrose Searle, esq. author of "Horæ, Salutariæ," and many other works well known to the religious world.

A fine old Gothic building, belonging to the Rectory, and called Parsonage-hall, is now used as a School-house.

Broadwater is a lay impropriation vested in the College of Arundel, and is a valuable living. The present excellent Rector is the Rev. Peter Wood. He was presented to the Rectory in 1811. J. F.

COMPENDIUM OF COUNTY HISTORY.

ADDITIONS TO DERBYSHIRE, Vol. LXXXVI. Part ii. p. 601.

"Oh for a Shakspeare's pencil, while I trace
In Nature's breathing paint, the dreary waste
Of Buxton, dropping with incessant rains,
Cold and ungenial; or its sweet reverse,
Enchanting Matlock, from whose rocks sublime
Romantic foliage hangs, and rills descend,
And Echo's murmur. Derwent, as he pours
His oft obstructed stream down rough cascades
And broken precipices, views with awe,

With rapture, the fair scenes his waters form.”

Roman Stations.
Chesterfield.

WILLIAM WHITEHEAD, Poet Laureat.

ANTIENT STATE AND REMAINS. Ad Trivonam, Berry farm; Aquæ, Buxton; Lutudarum, Antiquities, British, "Cair's work," or "Carle's work," rude fortification on Hathersage moor.-Roman, Melandra-castle camp; Altar at Haddonhall: Inscribed pigs of lead found near Matlock.-Melbourne, Sandiacre and Steetley Churches. Ashover leaden font. Bakewell and Eyam crosses. "Anchor church," excavation in a rock near Foremark. Barlborough and Hardwick halls.

PRESENT STATE AND APPEARANCES. Rivers. Amber, Ashop, Barbrook, Burbadge, Crawley, Ecclesburn, Ethrow, Goyte, Gunno, Headford, Ibber, Idle, Lathkill or Larkill, Martin-brook, Mersey, Morledge, Now, Schoo.

Inland Navigation. Nutbrook canal. On the Cromford canal is a tunnel (at Butterley) 2978 yards long; an aquæduct bridge over the Amber 200 yards long, and 50 feet high; and another of the same length, and 30 feet high, over the Derwent. On Peak forest canal is an inclined plane of 512 yards, and an aquæduct bridge over the Mersey, 100 feet high, having 3 arches, each of 60 feet span.

Eminences and Views. Holme-moss or Kinderscout 1859 feet; Axedge 1751 (erroneously stated at 2100 above Derby town); Lord's seat 1751; Hathersage 1377; Alport heights, 980. The High Tor in Matlock dale rises almost perpindicularly from the river above 300 feet. Bolsover Castle. Chatsworth hunting town.

Natural Curiosities. Groupe of grit-stone rocks called "Robin Hood's Stride," or "Mock Beggar's hall," on Stanton moor. Reynard's hall, a cave in Dovedale. Elden hole was ascertained by John Lloyd, esq. to be a shaft of 62 yards deep, at the bottom of which are two caverns, as described by him in Philosophical Transactions," vol. 61.-Tepid springs, Buxton

82o, Matlock, 68°, Stony Middleton 63o, Bakewell 60°, Brough near Hope, Cromford, and Stoke.-Sulphureous, at Agnes and Mudge meadows, Bakewell; Bradwell, Brassington, Cowley near Dronfield, Kedleston, Kniveton, Millington Green near Kirk Ireton, Shottle in Duffield, Shuttlewood near Bolsover, West Hallam, Whittington, and near Wirksworth.—Chalybeate, most celebrated, at Asbover, Birley in Eckington, Bradley, Buxton, Chesterfield, two at Duffield, Eccleston in Youlgrave, Heage, Hope, near Kedleston, Matlock, Morley park, Quarndon, Shottle, Stanley, Tibshelf, and Whittington.-Saline, at Donisthorpe, and between Hope and Bradwell.-Ebbing and flowing, at Barmoor, and Tideswell.-At Overton, seat of Sir Joseph Banks, are two gooseberry trees, of the smooth red or Warrington sort, remarkably good bearers, the extreme length of one, measured in 1816, was 54 feet 7 inches; the other, which was planted in 1794, measured in 1808, 41 feet 5 inches.—At Bretby, the Earl of Chesterfield's, is a cedar of Lebanon, 13 feet 9 inches in circumference, planted in Feb. 1676-7, and is probably the oldest tree of its kind in this kingdom. The Enfield cedar was planted nearly at the same time; those in the Physicgarden at Chelsea, in 1683.

Public Edifices. Ashborne school founded 1585.-Burton upon Trent bridge will be noticed in the Compendium of Staffordshire.-Buxton baths; crescent built by the late Duke of Devonshire in 1785 and 1786; Stables, a circular area of 60 yards internal diameter, with coach houses for 60 carriages.-Cavendish bridge, near Wilne, built by the Cavendish family about 1750.-Chesterfield town hall, erected 1790; architect, Carr.-Derby Alms-house, built by Elizabeth Countess of Shrewsbury, 1599: County-hall erected in 1659: All Saints church, architect Gibbs, finished 1725 : Guildhall 1731: County gaol 1756: Theatre 1773: Assembly rooms 1774: Ordnance depôt, Wyatt architect, completed 1805: Infirmary, William Strutt, esq. architect, cost 2.30,000 opened 1810: Schools. Etwall Hospital.-Harrington bridge at Sawley, begun 1786, finished 1790.-Measham town-hall.-Ravenstone hospital, founded by Rebecca Wilkinson 1712.-Repton school.-Swarkston bridge, span over the river 138 yards, but its whole length over the low grounds 1304 yards.

Seats. Alfreton, Rev. H. C. Morewood..

Aldercar, Rev. John Smith..
Allestrey, J. C. Girardot, esq.
Aston, Rev. Charles Holden.
Bank-hall, Samuel Frith, esq.
Barlborough, C. H. Rodes, esq.
Barrow, John Beaumont, esq.
Barton Blount, Francis Bradshaw, esq.
Beauchief Abbey, P. P. Burnell, esq.
Bolsover, Duke of Portland.
Bradley, Godfrey Meynell, esq.
Breadsall priory, Mrs. Darwin.
Bridge-end, J. B. Strutt, esq.
Castle field, John Burrow, esq.
Catton, Eusebius Horton, esq.
Croxall, late Thomas Prinsep, esq.
Darley, Walter Evans, esq.
Duffield, John Balguy, esq.
Dunston hall, Mrs. Smith.
Durant hall, A. B. Slater, esq.
Ednaston lodge, Hon. W. Shirley.
Etwall, William Cotton, Esq.
Ford, Mrs. Holland.

Foston, Charles Broadhurst, esq.
Glapwell, Thomas Hallowes, esq.
Glossop hall, Duke of Norfolk.
Haddon hall, Duke of Rutland.
Hasland, Thomas Lucas, esq.
Hassop, Earl Newburgh.

Hathersage, A. A. Shuttleworth, esq.

Highfield, V. H. Eyre, esq..
Hilcote hall, John Wilkinson, esq.
Holme hall, Robert Birch, esq.
Holt house, George Mower, esq.
Hopwell, Thomas Pares, esq.
Ingleby, R. C. Greaves, esq.
Langley park, Godfrey Meynell, esq.
Leam, M. M. Middleton, esq.

Little Longsdon, James Longsdon, esq.
Little Over, Bache Heathcote, esq.
Mearsbrook, Samuel Shore, esq.
Measham-field, Edward Abney, esq.
Mellor, Samuel Oldknow, esq.
Millford, G. H. Strutt, esq.

Newton Solney, Abraham Hoskins, esq.
Norton hall, Samuel Shore, jun1. esq.
Norton house, John Read, esq.

Oaks, The, Sir W. C. Bagshaw, knt.
Ogstone, William Turbutt, esq.
Pastures, The, late John Peel, esq.
Radborne, E. S. C. Pole, esq.
Renishaw, Sir George Sitwell, bart.
Risley, Rev. John H. Hall.
Romeley, Rev. Thomas Hill.
Shardelow, Leonard Fosbrooke, esq.
Smalley, John Radford, esq.
Stainsby, E. S. Sitwell, esq.
Stanton Woodhouse, Duke of Rutland,
Stoke hall, Hon. John Simpson.

Stretton,

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