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many disadvantages, under the severe pressure of a lawsuit with the Publisher, and the certain prospect of a considerable loss, which the Author was ill able to sustain*; circumstances, perhaps, more than sufficient to account for suppressed materials, for some deficiencies in style, and for not more inaccuracies as to matters of fact than usually attend a first effort.-The Editor has no such disadvantages to allege in excuse for negligence or error; his time has been uninterruptedly his own, his mind has been long exercised on the subject, and he has met with unsolicited support and attention from every quarter. He fully feels the responsibility which these obligations imply; and, as he feels that the work falls certainly short of his own conceptions, he cannot but fear that it may disappoint the anxiety of his friends, and the just expectations of the publick. There are authors at whose touch the barren withered tree of Antiquity shoots into magic blossom and golden fruit :aurea non sua poma. The spells which the taste and erudition of a Warton or a Whitaker can throw over the darkest and dreariest landscape, may indeed convince the Reader, that

'Nor rough nor barren are the winding [flowers.'

ways

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Of hoar Antiquity, but strewn with -The Editor will esteem himself sufficiently fortunate, if he attain the humbler praise of fidelity and industry, and of such a portion of right feeling, as may prevent him, whilst he strictly adheres to truth, from ever intentionally wounding the feelings of an individual, or betraying the confidence reposed in him by the unrestrained inspection of private It remains to papers and evidences. acknowledge the Author's extensive obligations :-To the Lord Bishop of Durham he is indebted for the most free and unrestrained inspection of the whole evidences of the See of Durham; a favour which, however considerable, forms only one link in a series of unsolicited kindness and attention, experienced during twenty years. The Author's obligations to the Dean and Chapter of Durham will appear in almost every page of the subsequent Work. The whole of the charters in their Treasury, comprising a mass of evidence, superior, probably, to any similar collection in England, extending from the Conquest to the reign of Henry VIII, and relating, not only to the estates of the modern Cathedral, but to the possessions of Wearmouth, Finchale, and the other

* "See Hutchinson's Preface to his Third Volume."

dependent Cells and Monasteries, and te the various properties which chance, change, or the will of Henry VIII. have severed from the Church's Patrimony, have been thrown open without reserve; and the Work has been enriched by a series of Plates of Episcopal and other Seals, taken from a mass of Antiquarian treasure, where the chief difficulty was to set any proper bounds to the selec tion. To the Gentry of the County the Author is indebted, with scarce one single exception, for the unreserved communication of their various title-deeds and private evidences. In the present Portion of the Work, the descent of property and of blood has been completed and illustrated by references to the titledeeds of John George Lambton, esq. M. P.; William Thomas Salvin, esq.; Sir Henry Lawson, bart.; Rowland Burdon, esq.; Charles Spearman, esq.; Edward Shipperdson, esq.; Thomas Wilkinson, esq.; Thomas Wilkinson, esq. (Oswald House); Rev. John Hutton; Francis Mascall, esq.; William Beckwith, esq.; John Goodchild, esq.; Anthony Hopper, esq.; Stephen Pemberton, M. D.; and Richard and John Pemberton, esquires. -For offers of assistance equally liberal, of which the Author has not hitherto been able to avail himself, he returns his acknowledgments to the Earl of Strathmore; Sir Thomas Henry Liddell, bart.; Cuthbert Ellison, esq. M. P.; Robert Eden Duncombe Shafto, esq.; William Hutchinson, of Eggleston, esq.; William Russell, esq.; and Matthew

Russell, esq. M. P.; and it will be his duty to record many similar obligations in succeeding Portions of the Work.To the resident Clergy the Author is indebted, without exception, for the readiest access to the several registers and other records in their custody. In the present Portion, his thanks are particularly due to the Rev. Archdeacon Prosser; to the Rev. Dr. Gray; the Rev. E. S. Thurlow; the Rev. Richard Wallis; the Rev. John Hampson; and the Rev. On these original George Stephenson.

and genuine sources of information the present Work has been principally founded; but the Author is also indebted to the kindness of many valued friends for a large portion of the MS collections already in existence relative to the County. Under this head his first acknowledgments are due to George Allan, of Grange, esq. M. P. for the whole of his late Father's collections, enriched by the MSS. of Randal, and a large portion of those of Gyll and Hunter.-To George Hartley, of York, esq. he is indebted for several of Gyll's MSS.-To Ralph Spearman, of Eachwick, esq. besides a vast mass of oral and popular tradition, of

which he is almost the sole depositary, for several extracts from Mickleton's and Spearman's MSS.-To Chas. Spearman, esq. for that portion of the Spearman MSS. still remaining at Thornley. -To Francis Johnson, of Aycliffe Heads, esq. for above sixty volumes of Law MSS. and abstracts relative to the County, collected during the extensive practice of his relatives, the late J. Dixon and C. Johnson.To Francis Smales, of Durham, esq. for several valuable papers, and for much friendly attention, and much general information.-To William Walker, of Gray's Inn, esq. for the perusal of the Law papers and abstracts of the late Ralph Bradley, of Stockton, esq. -To Francis Trapps, of Nidd in Yorkshire, esq. for a very curious collection of rentals and letters, of the age of James I. relative to the estates of Streatlam, Biddic, Burnhall, and Winyard. To the Executors of the late Rev. John Brand, F. S. A. &c. the Author is indebted for the valuable gift of the two Visitations of Durham, by Flower, 1575, and St. George in 1615 *. To the liberality of the College of Arms he owes the whole of the registered Pedigrees relative to Durham, not already in his possession, and a full copy of the last and scarcest of the Visitations by Dugdale in 1666. His more particular acknowledgments are due to the late lamented John Atkinson, esq. Somerset, and to his steady and zealous friend William Radclyffe, esq. Rouge Croix, whose indefatigable attention to the whole of the genealogical records introduced in the present Volume, has rendered the Author's distance from the press, in this respect, a matter of neither regret nor importance. The Author's obligations do not end here. To the Officers of the Episcopal Courts at Durham he is indebted for the readiest access to the various important records under their respective charge. And he begs to tender his particular acknowledgments to John Griffith, esq. Deputy Prothonotary; to Henry Donkin, esq. Deputy Cursitor; and to John Gregson, esq. Deputy Register of the Episcopal Chancery.-To Wilkinson Maxwell, esq. Deputy Register of the Consistory Court, he is indebted for the inspection of the valuable Ecclesiastical records in his office; and he begs at the same time to return his sincere acknowledgments to Mr. Shireff Middleton, of the same office, for his constant and ready attention.He also owes his acknowledgments to Richard Scruton, esq. Under Sheriff, and

to John Dunn, esq. Deputy Clerk of the Peace. To John Bowlby, esq. he is indebted for the most ready and liberal attention in affording access, at all times, to the valuable records in his custody.— To the Rev. Dickens Haslewood, Librarian to the Dean and Chapter of Durham, for a like measure of kindness and attention. His thanks are also due to the Rev. Patrick George, Keeper of the Episcopal Library at Durham. - To Francis Mascall, esq. the Author owes much general information on every subject connected with the Natural History of the County. To John Brough Taylor, esq. of Bishop-Wearmouth, F. S. A. he is indebted for several Mineralogical notices introduced in the present Volume; and he relies with confidence on the same valued friend for a full and accurate account, which shall appear hereafter, of the whole of the Strata on the Eastern Coast. To the Rev. Thomas Leman, of Bath, he is indebted for some interesting observations on the Roman and British state of Durham, accompanied by Plans of Roman and British Roads and Stations. To John James Wilkinson, esq. of Gray's Inn, for many valuable collections relative to the legal antiquities and Palatine constitution of Durham. To John Wilson, esq. of the Middle Temple, for some similar favours. To Nathaniel Atcheson, esq. F. S. A. for several public papers and Parliamentary documents relative to the County of Durham.- And to Mr. Thomas Woodness, of Durham, for much interesting information, which is reserved for the account of that City. -There are still other favours, which it is difficult, from their varied and extensive nature, to reduce to any particular head; nor is it easy to draw the line where personal acknowledgment should end. Yet it would be unpardonable to omit the names of Thomas Sherwood, esq. and the Rev. James Raine. Without the early and valued assistance of the former, the present Work would never have been undertaken; and it could never have been completed in its present form, had not the Author been able at all times to rely, with perfect confidence, on the unwearied zeal, and indefatigable industry, of the latter, It remains to mention one obligation, of which the extent will be best understood by a reference to the following Resolutions :

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'Durham, June 3, 1812.-At a Meeting of several Gentlemen resident in and near this City, held this day, it was resolved, 1. That it is desirable to preserve by Engravings some of the more curioua specimens of Antient Architecture in "At the suggestion, he believes, of this County, and also the Portraits of a William Bray, esq. F. S. A." few of the most distinguished Men born

in or connected with it. 2. That the County History now preparing for the press by Robert Surtees, of Mainsforth, esq. affords a favourable opportunity of securing these purposes. 3. That the Proposal already circulated, for raising a Subscription to furnish such Engravings to the Author for insertion in his Work, meets the approbation of this Meeting, as a measure calculated to preserve the more interesting remains of Antiquity, and to contribute to the useful embellishment of the Work, without rendering it necessary to impose so high a price upon it as would greatly limit its circulation and utility.-4. That the Castles or other residences of Gentlemen, are not proper objects to be engraved out of this Subscription.-5. That a Committee of Three Gentlemen be appointed to carry the Proposal into execution; and that Dr. Fenwick, Edward Shipperdson, esq. and the Rev. W. N. Darnell, be requested to act as such Committee, and that they be instructed to confer with Mr. Surtees on

the choice of subjects for engraving, the selection of Artists, and, in general, on the measures they may think advisable. -6. That the Committee, when they shall have ascertained the probable amount of the expence to be incurred, be requested to apply to the different Subscribers to specify the sums which they are willing to subscribe.'

"Out of the funds raised by this Subscription, a considerable part of the expence incurred by the Plates in the present Portion of the Work has been defrayed. To the Gentlemen forming the Committee, the Author returns his acknowledgments for unwearied exertion in furthering the object of the Subscription, and, individually, for much personal kindness. Nor can he omit this opportunity of expressing his high sense of obligation to Mr. Blore, for perpetual attention to the whole conduct and progress of the Engravings, and for much more of steady and zealous friendship than can be well acknowledged in this place. In the present Volume, independent of the general Subscription, the Editor is indebted to the Dean and Chapter of Durham for the Plates of the Interior of the Choir, and the North Cloister Door of Durham Cathedral.To the Bishop of Durham, for the engraved Portraits of Bishops Cosin and Butler.-To John George Lambton, esq. he is indebted for the beautiful View of Lambton, from Glover's original Painting. He owes the fine Portrait of Sir

George Wheler to the liberality of his descendant Granville Hastings Wheler, of Otterden in Kent, esq. The View of Houghton Hall is engraved at the expence of the Rev. John Hutton; and the Plate of the Cenotaph at Barnes is contributed by the Rev. Wm. Ettricke."

from the Author's Introduction (and Having given so copious an extract it would have been sacrilege to have abridged it), a further account of this Work must be deferred to another opportunity.

17. The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, in the County of York. The Second Edition, with many Additions and Corrections. By Thomas Dunham Whitaker, LL. D. F. S. A. Vicar of Whalley in Lancashire. 4to. pp. 529. Nichols, Son, and Bentley.

THE warm but very faithful report which we made of the former Edition of this Work, vol. LXXV. p. 1129, would fluous, did not the celebrity acquired render any further notice of it superby its Author again recall it to our attention. It may be proper, however, to extract his manly Advertisement.

"By the candour of an indulgent publick, this Work has in five years been enabled to pass through a Second Edition. The circumstance is not usual, at least so early, in works of a local nature: but it becomes the Author to remember in how small a degree it is to be ascribed to himself; for the subject was interesting, the materials original, and the decorations numerous and beautiful.-In correcting the former Edition, he has attended to every hint which could reasonably claim attention, and has expunged every remark which, however unintentionally on his part, may have hurt the feelings of any respectable person. But this complaisance could not be permitted to extend to contested truths. On such topicks he waited for reasons, he invited conviction; but he was not to be silenced by authority.Experience had taught him that in the genealogies of old families there are many vestiges of error, and some of fraud, which time and vanity bave rendered sacred; and Rumour whispered in his ear that some Topographers had been required to adopt Pedigrees unexamined, as the price of a subscription or an engraving *. It is however equally due to his own feelings, and to the an

*For the credit of our Topographical Brethren, we hope that the many-tongued Monster is in this instance fallacious. "Our withers are unwrung." Edit.

tient families of this District, to say, that no proposal so humiliating was ever made to him; as in truth it never will be made to any man who is known to respect himself. Such baseness, indeed, while it degrades an useful and amusing department of literature, though in its lowest branch, never fails to be visited upon the receiver of these fabrications with the in

famy which it deserves On the other hand, there are works, which scrupulous accuracy, united with stubborn integrity, has elevated to the rank of legal evidence. Such is Dugdale's Warwickshire! But, independently of all consequences, Truth on the most trifling subjects (and, after all, Genealogies are very trifling) is sacred for its own sake. It may sometimes, indeed, be suppressed, but never compromised. Yet, in subjects like these, why suppress it? Of the ancestors of old families, it is no libel on human nature, or even on their posterity, to suppose that some were kuaves, and others were dunces; and surely to rectify the blunders of the one, and expose the impostures of the other, while it affords some exercise to the per

spicacity of the inquirer, ought, at the distance of centuries, to excite no displeasure in the descendant. Nulli gravis est percussus Achilles. — Do not the representatives of the first families in the Kingdom read with endurance, or even with pleasure, a faithful exposure of the crimes and follies of much nearer progenitors in the history of their Country? Nay, have not the posterity of some of the most ridiculous characters in Shakspeare been seen, at the distance of less than two centuries, convulsed with laughter at the representation of their ancestors' absurdities? For the feelings, however, of rank and antient descent, though in some instances not connected with the exactest information, the Writer has always entertained an high respect. Not so for the subjects of the next paragraph. — To low-bred insolence and threatening he has paid no other attention than to reprint certain obnoxious passages verbatim. What he thought of Manufactories in 1805, he said. In 1811 he continues to think what he then did, and therefore says it again *. But enough has been said on such a

* See p. 150 of this Edition; where the Reader will find the following very excellent remarks:

"Before the introduction of Manufactories, the Parish of Kighley did not want its retired glens and well-wooded hills; but the clear mountain torrent now is defiled, its scaly inhabitants suffocated by filth, its murmurs lost in the din of machinery, and the native musick of its overhanging groves exchanged for oaths and curses. Northward from Hawcliff and Holden, the Parish of Kildwick, from the extirpation of its native woods, and the absence of a spirit of planting in the proprietors, somewhat disappoints the expectations of a stranger; yet, in an ornamental view, I am no undistinguishing advocate for this species of improvement. All that Art can do is a contemptible substitution for what Nature has done in the creation of woody scenery, and Man in its partial destruction. It is not the work of one or even two generations to hang the sides of these hills once more with the full and majestic foliage of their native oak; and in the pine-tribe, all the species of which are sufficiently grateful to the planter, there is at once a poverty and stiffness, which deprives them of any higher merit than that of being better than no shade or clothing at all.-If, however, the proprietors will plant, let them reserve every acre of their fertile levels, with the exception of judicious spottings, for the foreground of their landscape: let them leave the tops of the fells to present their craggy fronts and deep purple surfaces as a distance to the picture; but let them remember, that it is the intermediate slopes which Nature has chosen for the growth of wood in large masses, and that by treading anxiously in her footsteps they can alone hope to produce an harmonious or pleasing effect. In defining their outline, let them beware of angular forms, and, if possible, of stone walls, but, above all, of the Scottish invention of belts, which, instead of circumscribing, fairly impound a domain. At Skipton the basis of lime-stone commences, and henceforward Aredale assumes a new face and character. The verdure and fertility of the soil are now unrivalled; and if the oak in its native state disappears, the maple, beech, wychelm, and, above all, the ash, more than compensate the loss; so that the banks of the Are in the parishes of Carlton, Broughton, and Gargrave, as specimens of soft and expanded landscape, have no equals in Craven. Yet this favoured district is. ill adapted to the growth of corn. Even its fertility indisposes it for agriculture, as a luxuriant soil and dripping climate will always produce gigantic straw and a thick-skinned unyielding grain; but Providence distributes its blessings with a more equal hand than we are willing to allow, and the productions of a better climate and inferior soil now find their way into Craven, with a facility which will

ensure

in or connected with it. 2. That the County History now preparing for the press by Robert Surtees, of Mainsforth, esq. affords a favourable opportunity of securing these purposes. 3. That the Proposal already circulated, for raising a Subscription to furnish such Engravings to the Author for insertion in his Work, meets the approbation of this Meeting, as a measure calculated to preserve the more interesting remains of Antiquity, and to contribute to the

useful embellishment of the Work, without rendering it necessary to impose so high a price upon it as would greatly limit its circulation and utility.-4. That the Castles or other residences of Gentlemen, are not proper objects to be engraved out of this Subscription.-5. That a Committee of Three Gentlemen be appointed to carry the Proposal into execution; and that Dr. Fenwick, Edward Shipperdson, esq. and the Rev. W. N. Darnell, be requested to act as such Committee, and that they be instructed to confer with Mr. Surtees on

the choice of subjects for engraving, the selection of Artists, and, in general, on the measures they may think advisable. -6. That the Committee, when they shall have ascertained the probable amount of the expence to be incurred, be requested to apply to the different Subscribers to specify the sums which they are willing to subscribe.'

"Out of the funds raised by this Subscription, a considerable part of the expence incurred by the Plates in the present Portion of the Work has been defrayed. To the Gentlemen forming the Committee, the Author returns his acknowledgments for unwearied exertion in furthering the object of the Subscription, and, individually, for much personal kindness. Nor can he omit this opportunity of expressing his high sense of obligation to Mr. Blore, for perpetual attention to the whole conduct and progress of the Engravings, and for much more of steady and zealous friendship than can be well acknowledged in this place.

George Wheler to the liberality of his descendant Granville Hastings Wheler, of Otterden in Kent, esq. The View of Houghton Hall is engraved at the expence of the Rev. John Hutton; and the Plate of the Cenotaph at Barnes is contributed by the Rev. Wm. Ettricke."

Having given so copious an extract from the Author's Introduction (and it would have been sacrilege to have abridged it), a further account of this Work must be deferred to another opportunity.

17. The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, in the County of York. The Second Edition, with many Additions and Corrections. By Thomas Dunham Whitaker, LL. D. F. S. A. Vicar of Whalley in Lancashire. 4to. pp. 529. Nichols, Son, and Bentley.

THE warm but very faithful report which we made of the former Edition of this Work, vol. LXXV. p. 1129, would fluous, did not the celebrity acquired render any further notice of it superby its Author again recall it to our attention. It may be proper, however, to extract his manly Advertisement.

"By the candeur of an indulgent publick, this Work has in five years been enabled to pass through a Second Edition. The circumstance is not usual, at least so early, in works of a local nature: but it becomes the Author to remember in how small a degree it is to be ascribed to himself; for the subject was interesting, the materials original, and the decorations numerous and beautiful.-In correcting the former Edition, he has attended to every hint which could reasonably claim attention, and has expunged every remark which, however unintentionally on his part, may have hurt the feelings of any respectable person. But this complaisance could not be permitted to extend to contested truths. On such topicks he waited for reasons, he invited conviction; but he was not to be silenced by authority.― Experience had taught him that in the genealogies of old families there are many vestiges of error, and some of fraud, which time and vanity bave rendered sacred; and Rumour whispered in his ear that some Topographers had been required to adopt Pedigrees unexamined, as the price of a subscription or an engraving*. It is however equally due to his own feelings, and to the anBrethren, we hope that the many-tongued "Our withers are unwrung." Edit.

In the present Volume, independent of the general Subscription, the Editor is indebted to the Dean and Chapter of Durham for the Plates of the Interior of the Choir, and the North Cloister Door of Durham Cathedral. To the Bishop of Durham, for the engraved Portraits of Bishops Cosin and Butler.-To John George Lambton, esq. he is indebted for the beautiful View of Lambton, from Glover's original Painting.

He owes the fine Portrait of Sir

*For the credit of our Topographical Monster is in this instance fallacious.

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