Day of llo'clock METEOROLOGICAL DIARY, BY W. CARY, STRAND. Fahrenheit's Therm. 44 29, 77 sl. shs.fr.cly. 12 45 46 76 fair, cloudy 98do. do. 82 rain do. 59 30, 02 cloudy, fair 05do. slight rn. 16 do. do. do. 14 fair, cloudy 29 50 56 30 56 66 56 66.59 62 60 29, 76 65 51 cldy, with rn. 61 66 52 cly.fr.slt.do. 56 49 86 do. cldy. rn. J. J. ARNULL, English and Foreign Stock and Share Broker, J. B. NICHOLS AND SON, PRINTERS, 25, PARLIAMENT-STREET. The new Cemetery Chapel at Cambridge THE PORTRAIT GALLERIES OF VERSAILLES, No. III... Life and Works of Alphonso de Castro-The Marian Persecution Literary Remuneration-Errors in the Quarterly Review-Memoir of Lady Eliza- beth Forster, afterwards Duchess of Devonshire-Annibal Caro-Delille- Errors of the Biographie Universelle-Illustrious Roman Plebeians- Epitaph of Sir Christopher Wren-The Dies Ira-Plagiarisms-Psalter of 1457-Fenelon-Madame Dudevant, &c. Autograph of Rabelais.-Monument to Sir B. H. Malkin RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW,-Roy's Satire on Cardinal Wolsey and the Romish Diary and Correspondence of the Hon. Henry Sidney, 601; Life of Dr. Edmund Cartwright, 603; The Bride of Messina, 605; Neale's Hierologus, 608; Baxter's Hexaplar Psalter, 609; Archæologia, vol. XXX. Part I. 611; Scriven's Odes of Horace, 615; Poems, by R. C. Trench, 616; Churches in Cambridgeshire, 617; Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, 617 Miscellaneous Reviews, 618; THE ANNUALS: Friendship's Offering, 621 ཀ མ ཞ ARCHITECTURE.-The Oxford Society of Gothic Architecture, 632; The New Royal Exchange-Plymouth Breakwater, 634; ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES.-Society of Antiquaries, 636; Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-Numismatic Society, 637; Historical Questions at Angers, 638; City Excavations HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.-Foreign News, 641; Domestic Occurrences 642 Promotions and Preferments, 645; Births and Marriages OBITUARY; with Memoirs of Dr. Bowstead, Bishop of Lichfield; Gen. the Hon. Edward Finch; Rear-Adm. Sir James Hillyar; Lieut.-Gen. Sir Archi- bald Campbell; Sir James Shaw, Bart.; Capt. H. F. Seagram, 'R.N.; Mrs. Marcus Holmes; John Buddle, Esq.; C. E. F. Weyse; Mr. George Maddox; Mr. Orrin Smith; Mr. William Dupe; Mr. John Clay.... 649–660 MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. T. Gordon's History of England. " I have been some years engaged in the History of England, and intend to pursue it. My first intention was to write the life of Cromwell only; but as I found that in order to describe his times it was necessary to describe the times which preceded and introduced him, and that I could not begin even at the Reformation without recounting many public incidents before the Reformation, I have begun at the Conquest, and gone through several reigns, some of them seen and approved by the ablest judges, such judges as would animate the slowest ambition. Half of it will probably appear a few years hence; the whole will conclude with the History of Cromwell." The above is an extract from the introduction to "The Works of Sallust, translated by T. Gordon. London, 1744." It does not appear that any part of the History of England mentioned in this passage was ever published; part of it, written out for the press by an amanuensis, and with corrections in the author's handwriting, is in the possession of Sir John Trevelyan. It contains the reigns of William I. and II. Henry I. II. III. Stephen, Edward II. and III. and James I. The author died in 1750, and it appears that his library was sold to J. Whiston. The MS. came to the late Sir J. Trevelyan from his maternal greataunt Mrs. Gordon, the widow of the author, who was a daughter of Sir Wm. Blackett, of Wallington, and died in 1783. Her first husband was Mr. Trenchard, the great friend and joint labourer with Mr. Gordon in several political periodicals. Together with the above, is preserved a MS. essay, in the same hand, " Upon Persecution, and the natural ill-tendency of power in the Clergy, occasioned by the Trial and tragical Death of Lord Cobham." W. C. TREVELYAN. Our Correspondent Mr. JOHN BELL, of Gateshead, (p. 450,) may find an account (with a portrait) of Thomas Wright in the Gent. Mag. for Jan. 1793, (p. 9-12,) and for Feb. 1793, (p. 126, 127.) It was written by Mr. GEORGE ALLAN, of the Grange, near Darlington. Mr. Wright's description of his villa at Byers Green may be seen in the Magazine for March 1793, (p. 213-216.) Y. Z. is solicitous to inquire from what family of the Moores of Norfolk proceeded a William Moore, who, having received a commission in the army from a Duke of Norfolk, went to and settled in Ireland, near Drogheda. (temp. Car. II. vel Jac. II.) Also if and in what man ner that William Moore was related to either the Norfolk or the Effingham branches of the Howards. BEDFORDIENSIS would be much obliged by any information relative to Sir John Hillersdon, Knt. lord of the manors of Battlesden, Hockliffe, Eversholt, and Elstow, with the monastery, in the county of Bedford, who resided at Little Park, Ampthill, in June 1623, and especially where his will may be found. In reply to J. G. in our number for Feb. 1837, who requested illustrations of the descent of Smith of Campden, Gloucestershire, Mr. G. STEINMAN STEINMAN is able to inform him that the only son of Anthony Smith, Thomas, succeeded to Campden, and left, by Elizabeth his wife, daughter and coheir of Eustace FitzHerbert, esq. a daughter and heir, Grisogon, who married, first, Edward, second son of Sir John Smith, of Cressing Temple, Essex, by whom she had no children; secondly, Andrew Jenour, esq. of Alfreston, in Dunmow, Essex, who died in December 1621, æt. 83, and by whom she had a family. The wife of Thomas Smith, of Campden, was previously the wife of an Edward Smith. A SUBSCRIBER FOR TWENTY YEARS, whilst mowing a few months since, found what appeared to him to be a Roman Catholic Book of Prayers. It is printed in black letter, on vellum, in the Latin tongue, and richly illuminated. The binding is of wood covered with crimson figured satin. On the fly leaf is part of a seal of arms, beneath which is written De Bernaye. Our Correspondent inquires to what family the arms belong. only reply that they are foreign, and are probably those of "De Bernaye." H. P. is ingenious in his interpretation of the Cunetti coin, (though we believe his ingenuity has been anticipated,) in discovering the letters CNVT REX. To do so, however, he looks at the coin in an inverted position. The double cross properly stands with its smaller transept or cross limbs above the longer; and it has been demonstrated by Mr. Akerman, in the Numismatic Chronicle, that the letters which look like T and V, viewed one way, are really imitations of Alpha and Omega, A and L, placed on either side the cross, when correctly regarded, in the position we have already intimated ERRATA.-P. 476, col. 1, for Buger read Bucer. At p. 491, col. 2, for Mr. John Nichols read Mr. James Nichols, who is the editor of Fuller's Church History, as the late lamented Mr. John Nichols was of his Worthies. P. 527, ten lines from foot, omit the word "hundred."" GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes. Tomes III. et IV. 1841-1843. THE great historical movement which has appeared throughout Europe for some years past, has been more active and productive in France than in any other country. The efforts of such men as Guizot and Augustin Thierry have given it an extraordinary impulse which appears destined to continue for some time without losing much of its force. The French government itself has done much towards encouraging the spread of historical research, not only by the numerous collections of original documents published immediately under the directions of the Minister of Public Instruction, but by its subscriptions in aid of private enterprise. The minister generally subscribes for 50, or 100, or even 150 copies of any work of history or science which appears to deserve encouragement, which copies are distributed among the libraries of the departments. We thus see among the list of subscribers to the valuable work whose title stands at the head of our article the name of the Minister of Public Instruction as subscribing for sixty copies. The Ecole des Chartes was established in France in the latter days of the Restoration, with the object of providing scholars who should be capable not only of reading and understanding ancient records and historical documents, but of appreciating their value and importance, and thus, in furnishing workmen, it has had no small influence in extending the taste for historical researches. One of the objects of the foundation of the school was the study of the various historical questions to which the different documents gave rise, and it appears to have been contemplated to publish at the royal press a series of essays, &c. which the studies and researches of the scholars might produce; but this plan was interrupted by the Revolution. The élèves of the school have since formed themselves into a society for attaining this object, and the result is the publication which we have named above, published in parts every second month, forming a large and very handsome voluine yearly. The success which immediately attended this work has enabled the society to publish it at a very moderate rate, but the small discount allowed to the trader has hindered the booksellers from bringing it forward as much as it deserves in this country.* The fourth volume is just completed, and appears to us to contain matter of so much interest that we would not let pass the opportunity of giving some account of it, as well as of the volume which preceded it. The plan of this work differs from anything which we had previously possessed, and of anything which we have in England. It consists chiefly of essays on detached points of national history, (and sometimes of philology, literature, &c.) founded upon original and generally inedited documents, some of which (when they possess sufficient interest) are printed as a supplement to the essay. A small portion of each number is dedicated to reviews of books on subjects of History and Antiquities, and to a Chronicle of Historical and Antiquarian Proceedings. Among the contributors are * The Society has appointed Mr. Russell Smith its agent or publisher in London, some of the most distinguished members of the Institute, such as Fauriel, Victor Cousin, Pardessus, Paulin Paris, Guérard, Lenormant, &c. The essays in this work are generally of a very high character, although we believe they are written without remuneration, or the remuneration (if any) is exceedingly small. But there is in France an incentive to young writers which we do not possess in England: every one who distinguishes himself in this class of literature is sure to obtain ultimately some solid reward from his government. We are the more anxious to call attention to this publication in our own country, because it contains numerous articles which have an intimate connection with English history, and which throw much light on points that were hitherto obscure. The third volume of this collection opens with a dissertation by M. Lacabane on the history of the closing years of the reign of Philippe le Bel, and the commencement of that of his successor Louis X. surnamed Hutin, and more particularly on the execution of the Master of the Temple, Jacques de Molay, and on the character and persecution of the celebrated Enguerran de Marigny. M. Lacabane appears to have proved that the story, discredited by some modern historians, of the prophetic speech of the Grand Templar at the stake, who cited the pope and the king to appear within a very limited period before God to answer for their unjust persecution of his order, is true: it is known that Pope Clement and King Philippe died within the year, both of diseases which the physicians could not understand, and which they could not arrest even for a moment. curious documents, on which M. Lacabane founds part of his essay, are edited for the first time; one shows that the unpopularity of King Philippe was so great, that after his death it was found necessary to send messengers round to the churches of the provinces to enforce the reading of the prayers for his soul; and the other entirely exonerates Enguerran de Marigny from the heaviest charge brought against him, that of having mismanaged and embezzled the royal treasure. Two The article of M. Lacabane is followed by a valuable notice of the historian William de Nangis and his continuators, and by several others equally interesting on different subjects of history and philology, which we pass over to pause at an essay of some extent on the Routiers of the twelfth century. "All the historical documents of that age reveal at every line the fearful excesses which then afflicted society and threatened its dissolution. Under the yoke of the feudal system, public authority was reduced to nothing, arbitrary will held the place of laws, and force was the only guarantee of security for property, or for the person. Till the end of the twelfth century, and even later, the lords of the soil, virtually independent, except a vain formality of faith and homage exacted by the monarch, sought in military expeditions a relief from the tiresomeness of domestic life in their castles. To strip travellers, rob churches, and ravage the lands of their weaker neighbours, were the ordinary pastimes of the great barons. The kings, veritable knight-errants, were always abroad, redressing wrongs, punishing, as far as lay in their power, violence and injustice. Louis VI. and Louis VII. were almost always occupied in this manner.' The crusade in the reign of the latter prince aggravated the evil. During the absence of the great barons who accompanied the king to the East, those whom they had oppressed and injured, and who had often been driven to live as outlaws, joined together in parties to avenge themselves by ravaging their territories. These parties became the nucleus of the terrible bands who subsequently carried destruction and consternation |