velling quack, with whom originated the term of "Merry Andrew." The tale most celebrated is a pretended attempt to hedge in a cuckoo; and there is still a bush at Court-field, in this parish, called the "Cuckoo Bush." "Gotham" is the title of one of Churchill's satires. It was the rectory of John Lightfoot, the botanist, author of " Flora Scotica."

Gryesley parish is the largest in this county; it is said to be 20 miles in circumference. The vicarage was the first ecclesiastical preferment of the learned Bishop Warburton.

In Holme Pierrepoint Church are monuments of the noble family of the Pierrepoints, and a memorial of John Oldham, satiric poet, 1682.

In Houghton were buried its illustrious natives, John Holles, first Earl of Clare, 1637, and Denzil Lord Holles, one of the five members demanded by Charles I. 1680.

In Hucknall Torkard Church are monuments of the Byrons, of whom the brave Richard first Lord Byron, with his seven brothers, all bore arms for their unfortunate king.

In Kilham Church is a richly-wrought monument of the last Lord Lexington and his lady; but their effigies are strangely placed back to back.

At Kingston upon Severn was the seat of Anthony Babington, conspirator against Elizabeth, executed 1586. In the Church is a curious monument of one of this family, adorned with upwards of 200 heads of a babe in a tun. Langar was the seat of the brave veteran, Admiral Earl Howe. In the Church are many monuments of the Scroopes, one of which, for Lord Scroop who died 1609, is very elegant.

In Lenton and Wilford, the Churches, and almost all the houses, were swept down by a tremendous hurricane, accompanied by thunder and hail, July 7,

1558.

Mansfield was the frequent residence of our early Norman Kings, who were extravagantly fond of the pleasures of the chase, which they enjoyed in the surrounding forest of Sherwood. A ballad of "The King (said to be Henry II.) and the Miller of Mansfield," is preserved in Percy's" Reliques," and is the subject of two dramatic entertainments by Dodsley. The Church was considerably injured, and the greater part of the town destroyed by a fire in 1304. In Markham East Church is the inonument of the upright judge Sir John Markham, 1409.

In Newark Church is a curious brass, engraved in Gough's "Sepulchral Monuments," of an ecclesiastick, supposed to be Alan Flemyng, the founder of the Church in the time of Henry VII.

Nov.

Nottingham, softened from the Saxon Suottingham, denoting the place of caves, gives name to the county, and the town is also a county in itself. 1, 1785, here was observed one of the largest water-spouts ever seen in England. Feb. 7, 1795, a great flood, when the damage done on the river Trent was estimated at above 1,000,000l. The present castle was founded by the Duke of Newcastle in 1674. Over the principal entrance is a fine equestrian statue of the founder, sculptured by Wilson out of one solid block of stone brought from Donnington, in Leicestershire. Marshal Tallard, taken prisoner by the Duke of Marlborough at Blenheim, Aug. 13, 1704, resided in this town; and here Gilbert Wakefield vainly endeavoured to establish a school. St. Peter's was the rectory of John Plough, author of the "Apology for Protestants." In the Church was buried John de Plumtre, founder of the hospital that bears his name; and in the church-yard, Charles Dering, physician, and historian of the town.

Ordsall was the rectory of Dr. Marmaduke Moor, whose living was sequestrated by the Parliament in 1652 for the heinous offence of playing at cards three several times with his own wife!

In Ossington is a magnificent mausoleum to the memory of the late Mr. Dennison, who acquired a very large fortune by the woollen trade at Leeds. Owthorpe-hall was built by, and was the residence of, the regicide Colonel Julius Hutchinson, Governor of Nottingham Castle, whose "Memoirs," written by his interesting wife, have been published by one of his descendants. In the Church are several monuments of this family.

At Papplewick, the seat of his friend Mr. Frederick Montague, Mason composed a great part of his "English Garden."

In Radcliffe on Trent Church is a wooden effigy of its founder, Stephen Radcliffe.

Rufford Abbey was often visited by James I. and Charles I. and was the residence of the patriotic Sir George Saville, member for Yorkshire. It contains numerous portraits and other paintings.

Screveton was the residence of Dr. Thoroton, the historian of this county. At Scrooby was a palace of the Archbishops of York.

Sherwood forest was the principal haunt of the famous outlaw Robin Hood, with his " merry men." The collection of ballads, entitled "Robin Hood's Garland," is universally known. Ritson has displayed his usual acumen and research in illustrating his history.

At Southwell are held two annual synods of the clergy of this county. Stapleford-hall was rebuilt about 1797, by its gallant proprietor, the Rt. Hon. Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren, Bart. G. C. B.

Sutton in Ashfield was the vicarage of the facetious and pathetic Lawrence Sterne.

Thoresby-park house, burnt down March 4, 1745, was shortly afterwards rebuilt by the Duke of Kingston. The park is 13 miles round.

Tuxford town was almost entirely destroyed by fire, Sept. 8, 1702.

Warsop was the rectory of Dr. Samuel Halifax, afterwards Bp. of St. Asapb, and Richard Southgate, numismatist.

Welbeck Abbey contains many interesting portraits. The riding-house was built in 1623 by the brave and loyal William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, author on horsemanship, who also erected the stables, 130 feet long, by 40 broad, in 1625. The park is eight miles round.

In Whatton Church, is the monument of Thomas Cranmer, father of the martyred Abp. of Canterbury, 1501.

In Wollaton Church are several ancient and handsome monuments of the Willoughbys. The hall was built from his own plan, by Sir Francis Willoughby, in the reign of Elizabeth, with stone brought from Ancaster, in Lincolnshire. It contains several fine paintings and interesting portraits.

Worksop ancient manor-house was burnt down in 1761, when the loss in paintings, statuary, books, and furniture, was estimated at more than 100,0007. It was quickly rebuilt; architect Payne; its front 318 feet long. It contains many valuable paintings, and the bed, of silk damask, on which his present Majesty was born in Norfolk-house, London, May 24, O. S. 1738. The lord of this manor presents an embroidered glove, which the King puts on his right hand immediately before he receives the sceptre at his coronation.

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Remarks on the Signs of Inns, &c. (Continued from p. 216.) ARRICK'S HEAD. In almost every considerable town, near to the Theatre, is to be found a "Shakespeare" Coffee-house, and oftentimes a "Garrick's Head."

As the life of this most celebrated of English actors is to be met with in every Biographical Dictionary, and has been written at large by Davies, a contemporary performer, I shall confine myself to a mere chronological relation of the principal events, relieving the dryness of such a detail by inserting some occasional jeux d'esprit and short poetical pieces.

David, the son of Captain Peter Garrick, was born at the Angel Ion, Hereford, where his father was recruiting, in February 1716. placed under the care of Mr. Hunter, master of the Free Grammar-school

Was

at Lichfield, 1726. Acted at school the part of Serjeant Kite, in "The Recruiting Officer," 1727. Became a pupil to Johnson, at Edial in Staffordshire, 1735. Travelled to London with his great and good tutor, and was entered Student of Lincoln'sinn, 1736. Finished his education under Mr. Colson at Rochester, 1738.

Having visited an uncle at Lisbon, by his advice he entered into business with his brother Peter Garrick, as Wine Merchants, in Durham-yard, London; but soon relinquishing this employment, he joined a company of performers at Ipswich, and made his first appearance under the assumed name of Lyddel, in the character of Aboan in Oroonoko, in the summer of 1741; and on Oct. 19th of the same year he first trod the London boards at Goodman-fields Theatre, under the management of Mr. Gifford,

in the character of Richard III. His
performance being rapturously ap-
plauded, and the great theatres of
Covent Garden and Drury Lane being
deserted by crowds who flocked to
witness the exertions of this theatrical
phænomenon, Quin sneeringly ob-
served, "that Garrick was a new re-
ligion; Whitefield was followed for a
time; but the people would all come
to church again," which being told to
Garrick, he replied in this epigram:
"Pope Quin, who damns all churches
but his own,
[town :
Complains that Heresy corrupts the
That Whitefield Garrick has misled the
age,
[stage.
And taints the sound religion of the
Schism (he cries) has turn'd the nation's
brain,

But eyes will open, and to church again!
Thou great Infallible! forbear to roar,
Thy bulls and errors are rever'd no more;
When doctrines meet with general ap-
probation,

It is not Heresy, but Reformation."

Quin and Garrick were afterwards

good friends; though the latter, in

allusion to his own diminutive sta-
ture, and to a well-known print in
Hogarth's "Harlot's Progress," on
first undertaking the part of the Moor,
said to a friend, "When I appear in
Othello, if Quin be in the house, I
suppose he will say, here's Pom-
pey-where's the tea-kettle'." It is
certain that Quin used to ridicule
Garrick's size in the principal charac-
ter of "The Provoked Wife," calling
him always" Master Jackey Brute,'
instead of "Sir John." Yet on Quin's
death, Garrick pathetically alluded to
him in his Prologue to "The Clan-
destine Marriage,” and wrote his epi-
taph in Bath-abbey Church :
"That tongue, which set the table in a
[more!

roar,

And charm'd the public ear, is heard no
Clos'd are those eyes, the harbingers of
wit,
[Shakespeare writ.
Which spoke before the tongue what
Cold are those hands, which, living, were
stretch'd forth
[worth.
At friendship's call to succour modest
Here lies James Quin. Deign, reader,
to be taught,
[thought,
(Whate'er thy strength of body or of
In Nature's happiest mould however
cast);
[last."

To this complexion thou must come at
In 1742 Garrick performed in Ire-
land, and on his return engaged with
Mr. Fleetwood at Drury Lane, where

he continued till 1745, when he again visited Ireland, and in the following year performed at Covent Garden, under the management of Mr. Rich. In 1747, he and Mr. Lacy jointly purchased of Mr. Fleetwood the property of Drury Lane Theatre, and having obtained a new patent, the house was opened with an inimitable prologue, written by Dr. Johnson.

June 22, 1749, Garrick married Madam Eva-Maria Violetta, who still survives. In the same year the play of "Romeo and Juliet" was revived at the same time at the two rival theatres, Romeo, Garrick; Juliet, Mrs. Bellamy; and Mercutio, Woodward, at Drury Lane; opposed in the same characters by Barry, Mrs. Cibber, and Macklin, at Covent Garden. The rivalry commenced Oct. 1, and was continued for twelve successive nights, when Covent Garden gave up the contest, and Drury Lane in triumph performed it one night more. After both houses had acted this play many times, the following anonymous epigram appeared:

"Well, what's the play? quoth angry
Ned,

As from his bed he rouzes;
Romeo again! he shakes his head,
A plague on both your houses!"

On Garrick's and Barry's performance of Lear, the Rev. Richard Kendal, of Peterhouse, Cambridge, wrote these beautiful lines:

"The town have found out different ways
To praise their rival Lears;
To Barry they give loud huzzas,
To Garrick only tears."

In 1758, Dr. Hill's farce of the Rout was acted, when Garrick produced this epigram:

"For physic and farces

His equal there scarce is,
His farces are physic,
His physic a farce is."

In the ensuing year Hill wrote a
pamphlet entitled "To David Gar-
rick, the petition of I in behalf of
herself and her sisters," charging him
with substituting U for I, in pronounc-
ing firm as furm, virtue as vurtue, &c.
to which Garrick thus replied:
"If 'tis true, as you say, that I've in-

jur'd a letter, [for the better. I'll change my notes soon, and I hope May the right use of letters, as well as [pen! Hereafter be fix'd by the tongue and the Most

of men,