Miscellaneous Correspondence, &c. - An original Letter of Sir Isaac Newton....3 Description of two antient Packs of Cards..ibid. The Clergy. Ten-Year Men.-Alg. Sydney.2 Mr. Hawkins on his "Gothic Architecture."...5 Mr. Carter's Remarks on Mr.Hawkins's Work,9 List of Conventual Churches still in Use......13 Interesting Extracts from Rymer's Foedera...15 The late Sacramental Plate at St. Paul's......16 Radcliffe-upon-Wreke, co. Leic. described... 17 FRAGMENTS OF LITERATURE, NO. VI.....37 "Complaints of divers of our Countrymen,"ib- 2d Edition of the Bodleian Catalogue, 1620.ib. Mechanical Power-Architect, Innovation. 38 Review of New Publications, viz. [with Particulars of the Life of Glover]....47 .18 Moonlight, a Poem, by Edward Lord Thurlow53 Narrative of Occurrences at Leipzig, &c....56 REVIEW of NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS......59 Dr. William Lewis.-Dr. John Harris.........19 On instructing Poor Children in Drawing....20 Anecdotes respecting Pichegru, Moreau, &c.23 4 Protestant Sultana.-Haunted Houses,&c.24 Romish Discipline respecting the Scriptures.25 On the unrestricted Perusal of the Scriptures26 Catholic Versions of New Test, without Notes.27 Catholics desirous of circulating the Scriptures 28 English Catholic Versions of the Bible...... 30 Aristocracy. Commercial Interests. -Mr. Pitt.31 Licence to use the Game of "Closing"......32 The Cause of the Bibliomaniacs defended...33 Interesting Intell. from London Gazettes......65 Abstract of principal Foreign Occurrences...81 Country News,85.-Domestic Occurrences...8 Eccl. Preferments.-Births and Marriages...8 Memoir of Col. Havilland Le Mesurier......( Obituary, with Anecd.of remarkable Persons.9 Met. Diaries for Dec. 1815, & Jan. 1814. 2.10 Embellished with several beautiful Specimens of a nares.-Prices of Stocks English Architecture, b JOHN CARTER, F. S. A.; and with a View of the Church of RADCLIFFE-UPON- Priated by NICHOLS, SON, and BENTLEY, at CICERO'S HEAD, Red Lion Passage, Fleet-str. Londorg INDEX INDICATORIUS., intituled Clavis Calendaria." Brady's very useful and entertaining work, we refer our Correspondent Civis to Mr. July, and ending on the 11th of August;" "the Dog-days beginning on the 3d of For satisfactory information respecting Church of Cottered, in the same county. in a Chapel North of the Chancel of the Epitaph for Henry Etough is engraved upon a mural tablet in the Chancel of the HERTFORDIENSIS informs B. N. that the. for Pulter Forrester, upon a similar tablet, Church of Therfield, co. Hertford; and that 29.84 26 Ditto.. 29.62 31 Ditto; wind, wet haze. 29.32 491 Fair; rain. .29.04 51 Wet haze. Fair. 29.45 31 Frost. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, For JANUARY, 1814. Original Letter of Sir ISAAC NEwton. "For Mr. Fatio, at Mr. Brent's, next door but one to the signe of ye Dolphin, in King's Square Court, near Soho Square, in London. "SIR, I HAVE now received ye box of rulers, wth yor receipt of 14b. I sent you that money, because I thought it was just; and, therefore, you complement me if you reccon it an obligation. The chamber next me is disposed of; but that wch I was contriving was, that since yo' want of health would not give you leave to undertake your designe for a subsistence at London, to make you such an allowance as might make your subsistence here easy to you. And, if your affairs in Switzerland be not so pressing but yt wthout dammag to them you may stay still some time in England (as yo last letter gives me hopes), you will much oblige me by returning hither. I hope you will have good advice before you venture upon ye operation you speake of. I am, Sr, yo' most affectionate friend and humble Servant, IS. NEWTON. Cambridge, March 14, 1692–3.” MR. URBAN, Tredrea, Jan. 14. HAV Cards, which appear to me curious specimens of the Times of old, I am persuaded that a short description of each will not be unacceptable to your Readers; as the first exhibits a plau for uniting instruction with amusement, invented long before such contrivances are supposed to have been in use; and as the second discloses a singular method of exciting Party zeal, practised on a very extraordinary occasion. These Cards bave long been preserved in the respectable family of the late Mr. Hodson, a gentleman farmer of Sussex. AVING recently seen two Packs The first Pack bears the date 1590. The Cards are charged with Maps of the fifty-two Counties of England and Wales, arranged in four series of thirteen cach, distinguished by North, South, East, and West. The Coun ties follow in each division, according to their estimated magnitudes, No. I. being the least. Within a square occupying the middle of each Card, is delineated the County; the Number is placed in a corner, both above and below in the other upper corner stands a Compass; and in the lower one a Scale of Miles. Over the square and below it are four lines descriptive of the County. For example: "Sussex the 10th of the South, hath miles In Quantite sup'ficiall 900,inCircuite172, In Lengthe from Hamshire unto Kent68, In Bredth from Surrey to ye Brittaine Sea 25." "Sussex plesaunt pastures and dow'es full of Sheep, [Yron, Store of Wood, Rivers, and Vaynes of Havinge the Narrow Sea East, Hantshire [Sea South." Surrey and Kent North, and the Britt. West, As another instance: "Cornwall the 8th of the South hath Miles In Quantite sup'ficiall 837, in Circuite 262, [taine Sea 66, In Lengthe from Denshire to the BritIn Bredth from the Seaverne to the Sea 40." "Cornwall ye sea-coste full of tow'es well shipped, [serveth all Europe; Full of Mettal, especialli Tynne, which Having Denshire East, the Maine Sea West, The Irishe Sea North, and the Brittaine [Sea South." There are with the Pack eight additional Cards; but these are stated, in a little accompanying book, to be intended for ornamenting two boxes, that may be made to hold the Cards themselves, and also some counters, which, however, are not preserved. One has a general Map of England; another a Portrait of Queen Elizabeth; a third contains a Plan of London; a fourth, Armus, &c.; the two others are filled with short accounts of the History and Constitution of the Country. The Author, in his little book, which is very imperfect, pays many compliments to the Inventor of Com mon Cards; declaring them to be excellent against melancholy cogitations, and for breeding contents in all necessities. He then goes on to say "Now in this latter age, wherein are so many new inventions, let this pass for one: as a necessare, recreation, in a time of such troubles, having no leasure to spend any time vainelie; but conti, nually it behoveth us to search for know ledge, eve' in the least things, for that we remember our Creation, Redemption, and Sanctification. In the first, beholding the Omnipotence of God the Father, in all his Works, thereby reverently to feare, honor, and glorifie him; in the second, his unspeakable mercy in re deeming us, by the precious death of his deare Sonne, our Savior Christ Jesus, from the thraldome of sinne, death, and hell, thereby to love, beleeve, and hope in him; and by the third, these his gratious and infinite blessings, which yearly, daylie, howrely, and every minute, we have, dne, or shall receive, both in soule and body, through the Almighte Power of his Holy Spirite, to praise, give thanks, and rejoyce, onely and ever in so blessed a Trinity of power, mercy, and love, which in a most glorious Unity hath so blessed us with all his blessings; unto which Eternall God, I say, let us ever be giving of all thanks without ceasing. Amen." The Second Pack is distinguished into the usual suits, by a Heart, a Diamond, a Club, or a Spade, placed in one of the upper corners; numbers from one to ten, or the names of the Court Cards, occupying the other corner. The middle part of each Card contains a print, representing some supposed scene in the Popish Plot; at the foot is an explanation. Thus the Ace of Hearts has a table, surrounded by the Pope, some Cardinals, and Bishops. Beneath the table is a Fiend, and the explanation states, The Plot first hatcht at Rome by the Pope and Cardinals, &c." The Deuce of Hearts has" Sir E. B. Godfree taking Dr. Oates his deposition." The Three of Hearts-"Dr. discovereth Garner in the Lobby." The Four of Hearts Coleman giving a Guina to incourage ye 4 Ruf tians." On the Deuce of Clubs is seen a Town in flames, and underneath "London remember The 2d on September Mr. URBAN, To 1666." DAVIES GIDDY. Jan. 14. O relieve the minds of some of your Clerical Readers, permit me to inform them, that no penalty, in any action where part goes to the King and part to the Informer, can he recovered for more than one year after committal of offence. This applies to all the present suits instituted The Statute is 31 Q. Eliz. c. 5, sect. by Mr. Wright against the Clergy. 5. Also by 18 Q. Eliz. c. 5, sect. 4, made perpetual by 27 Eliz. c. 10, it is enacted, that if the informer shall receive any money, or other reward, or have promise of such, to stop process in any penal action, the party receiving such reward or promise, shall upon conviction stand in the pillory for two hours, be fined 10%. and ever after be incapable of being plaintiff or informer in any suit or action. Ten Year or Four-and-Twenty Men; In answer to a query relative to the following extract from p. 13, Cambridge Calendar, will, I hope, afford the information required. "They (i. e. the Ten-Year Men) are tolerated by the Statutes of Q. Eliza mitted, at any College, when Twentybeth, which allow persons who are adfour years of age and upwards, and in Priest's orders at the time of their admission, after Ten years (during the last two of which they must reside the greater part of Three several terms), to become Bachelors of Divinity, without taking any prior degree." Bachelors of Divinity, however, who obtain their degree in this way, are not Members of the Senate, since the Members of that body, who are B. D. deduce their right from their prior degree of M. A. Now I am writing on College matters, permit me to support the opinion of Dr. Symmons in his Life of MilOateston-that Milton was not a Sizar. In the entry of Milton, he is described as Pensionarius Minor. Some Gothamites have argued from this, that as Pensioners forin, the class immediately above the Sizars, Pensionarius Minor must signify the class below, viz. Sizars. If these gentlemen had, however, taken the trouble of inquir ing, they would have found in Par The Five of Hearts-"Dr. Oates receives letters from the Fathers, to carry beyond Sea." The whole suit of Spades is given to the Murder of Sir E. B. Godfree. ker's History of Cambridge, or even in Carter's, that the Pensioners are divided into two classes, viz. the greater (Pensionarius Major), now called Fellow Commoners; and the lesser (Pensionarius Minor), the Pensioner of the present day. Of this rank was Milton. LAICUS. I Mr. URBAN, Jan. 5. HAVE read the original letter of Algernon Sydney in your Magazine for December last, p. 531, with equal interest and satisfaction, and heartily wish that the contributor, or any of your readers, would favour the publick with a further supply of the correspondence of that eminent man. The letter in question bears the strongest marks of authenticity in matter as well as in style. It must have been written in November 1659, when he was actually residing at the Sound, and not in November 1660, when, in consequence of the Restoration, he had proceeded, as an exile, to Rome. But there must surely be some error in his having addressed it to Lord Whitworth. I suspect it to have been really addressed to the Lord Commissioner Whitelocke, who, although he declined the appointment, had, in the first instance, been joined with him in the mission to the Northern courts.-A large proportion of Sydney's Letters to his Father, and the whole of his correspondence with his Uncle the Earl of Northumberland, Sir John and Sir William Temple, and William Penn, have hitherto escaped research. If any part of them have been luckily preserved, the possessors will confer an important obligation by communicating them to the publick, or at least stating where they lie concealed. G. W. M. Mr. URBAN, Jan. 14. me by your Correspondents " An Ar- draughtsman, and sometimes, it is said, painted scenes of landscapes for one of the Play-houses. How such a person can be entitled to the appellation of an Architect, which he assumes, I confess myself unable to discover: and the latter person is only a mere draughtsman. They have shewn themselves no competent judges of evidence, by denying, as they do, the strongest possible modes of proof; and I am confident no intelligent man will pay any attention to their observations. My adversary An Architect is peculiarly unfortunate in asserting, as he does, that my pursuits were not allied to the labours of au Artist, as Mr. Carter himself could have informed him to the contrary. The profession of the Law, for which I was educated, and which I afterwards followed, I have quitted above fifteen years; and while I continued in it, my pursuits, as Mr. Carter knows, were also directed to Antiquarian subjects. For I wrote for Mr. Carter several papers, for the express purpose of explaining some plates of historical subjects in his first publication, containing Specimens of Ancient Sculpture, &c. These papers were accordingly inserted in that work with my name to them, as may be seen on referring to the book itself; and you, Mr. Urban, may besides probably recollect the circumstance, because you were the printer of the letter-press *. Whether or not I am sufficiently skilled in the subject, the book I have published will best shew. But I know, from the testimony of those persons on whose judgment I can rely, that the book has already obtained a considerable degree of credit; and it should seem from their conduct, that my adversaries had found themselves hard pressed by facts in attacking it. One declines the task of controverting my opinions, and transfers it to the other that other denies mathematical proof, conclusive evidence, and self-evident propositions; and refuses to admit that very species of proof, which he himself, in his observations, and elsewhere, has actually used. Leaving, therefore, the useless undertaking of vindicating myself against charges of which, from my adversaries' own state of the case, every mau of sense will perceive I am not guilty This is " a True Bill." EDIT |