most stately and upright, all times of ber age that ever I beheld; of stomach great and haughtie, no way diminishing the greatness of her birth and marriage, by omission of any ceremony, at diett or public prayers, whose book I have usually observed presented to her with the lowest curtesies that might be, and on the knees of her gentlewoman; of great expence and bountie beyond the means of continuance; of speech passing eloquent and ready, whom in many years I could never observe to misplace, or seem to recall one mistaken, misplaced, or mispronounced word or syllable, and as ready and significant under her pen: forty of whose letters at least at several times I have received; her invention as quick as her first thoughts, and her words as ready as her invention; skilful in the French, but perfect in the Italian tongue, wherein she most desired her daughters to be instructed. At the lute she played admirably, and in her private chamber would often sing thereto, to the ravishment of the hearers, which to her knowledge were seldome more than one or two of her gentlewomen; howbeit I have known divers of her servants secretly hearkening under her windows, and at her chamber door, whom her husband hath sometimes there found, and privately stayed amongst them, of which number three or four times myself hath been one.

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"In the first 20 years after her marriage, she was given to all manner of delights beseeming her birth and call. ing, as before hath been touched. But after the beheading of the Duke of Norfolk her brother, and the frowns which ́state government had cast upon the rest, and others of her dearest kindred, with the harsh bereavings, or rather wrestings, of her husband's possessions, as hath been declared, then grown towards thirty-eight or forty years, she retired herself into her chamber, and private walks, which each fair day in garden, park, and other solitaries, for her set hours she constantly observed, not permitting either her gentlemanusher, gentlewomen, or any other of her house, to come nearer to her than their appointed distance: when the weather permitted not abroad, she observed the same order in the great chamber or gallery.

"In her elder years she gave herself to the study of natural philosophy and astronomy; and the better to continue her knowledge in the Latin tongue in reading over the grammar rules, hath three or four times called me to explain something therein, that she seemed not fully

to apprehend; and in Hilary Term in the 37th year of Queen Elizabeth, I bought for her a globe, Blagrave's' Mathematical Jewel,' a quadrate, compas ses, rulers, and other mathematical instruments, wherein she much delighted herself till her death.

"I remember about three years before her death, one of her fingers in the two foremost joints put her to much pain, which caused her to send for an excellent chirurgeon from Coventry, who told her plainly that it must be cut off by the palm of her hand, or else be lanced all along to the bare bone; which latter, though far more painful, she made choice of. At the time appointed her surgeon desired her to sit, and that some of her strongest servants might hold her, for the pain would be extreme; to whom she replied, Spare not you in performing your part, and leave the rest to me: she held out her hand, he did his office, she never blenched, or so much as seemed to take notice of the pain: at which Roman-like magnanimity, and fortitude of mind, the surgeon seemed incredibly to wonder, as often after he told myself and others.

"Being in the 16th of Elizabeth the mother of three daughters, and almost without hope of more children, especially of a son, which she for the continuance of her house, and husband's name, much desired, extremely grieving that the male line of this ancient family should end in her default, as she accounted it, she acquainted Mr. Francis Aylworth therewith, then of Kington Magna, in Warwickshire, a little old queerish man, but an excellent well-read and practised chirurgeon and physician, and for many years a gentleman living in her house: he gave her hope of conception, yea, of a son, if she and her Lord would for a few months be ruled by him. This in a private conference betweene them three was agreed upon, and promised to be observed. Children are given to men. It's God that giveth them. She conceived, and within one year after this communication, brought forth a son called Thomas, father of the Lord George, to her unspeakable comfort; but never conceived after. What time Mr. Aylworth told me this story, about 10 years after at Hallowdon, which I have at second hand heard also that this Lord hath privately told to some others: he added, that some months, or thereabouts, before the time of delivery, she sent for him, and kept him with her; and he, out of what observation I know not, being confident she went with a son, offered to wage with her ten pound to thirty pound that so it was: she ac

cepted

'cepted the offer, most willing, no doubt, to lose, had the wager been thirty hundred. As soon as she was delivered, and understood it was a son, the first word she spake was, Carry Aylworth his thirty pound, which purposely she had laid ready in gold in her chamber, this being the 11th of July, 1575. She also prevailed with her husband to sell him the said manor of Kington Magna, in September following, for 5201, which he then held in lease for years, formerly by me mentioned amongst this Lord's sales of his lands.

"For the awing of her family (I say not regulating the expence according to the revenue) and the education of youth, she had no compeer, which I could much enlarge by many particulars: I will only mention one instance, that as myself, in the 26th of Elizabeth, then about 17, crossed the upper part of the gallery at the Fryars in Coventry, where she then dwelt, having a covered dish in my hands, with her son's breakfast, wherewith I was hastening, and thereby presented her, then at the farther end, with a running leg or curtesie, as loth too long to stay upon that duty, she called me back to her, and to make, ere I departed, one hundred legs, so to call them, at the least. And when I had done well, and missed the like in my next. essay, I was then to begin again. And such was her great nobleness to me therein, then a boy of no desert, lately come from a country-school, and but newly entered into her service, that to shew me the better how, she lifted up all her garments to the calf of her legge, that I might the better observe the grace of drawing back the foot, and bowing of the knee. At this time, the antic and apish gestures, since used in salutations, nor the French garbs of cringing, were not arrived, nor expected in England; but what is worse, in subscriptions of letters, your humble servant hath since that time almost driven your loving friend out of England.

"It cannot be said that any apparent vice was in this lady; but it may be said of a wife, as of money, they are, as they are used, helpers or hurters: money is a good servant, but a bad master. And sure it is that she much coveted to rule her husband's affairs at home and abroad, and to be informed of the particular passages of each of them; which sometimes brought forth harshness at home, and turning off such servants as she observed refractory to her intentions therein. As far as was possible, she had in her middle and elder years a desire to be informed from the grooms of her

husband's chamber and otherwise, of his speeches, dispatches, and purposes: few fines or incomes from his tenants were raised, and never any land sold, but she had a sixth, eighth, or tenth part thereout unknown to him: so strictly held she obliged to her the servants, and officers employed under her husband (I write mine own knowledge for many of her last years, and received the usage of former times from my fellow commissioners, employed in that kind, many years before my observations); by us all disliked, but by none of us to be helped. Most just it is, that all toll should come into the right toll-dish. For the most part it falleth out, that where wives will rule all, they mar all; words I lately heard from wise lords in the Star Chamber, in the cases of the Lady Lake, the Countess of Suffolk, and some others. These verses are ancient:

Concerning wives take this a certain rule: That, if at first you let them have the rule,

Yourself with them at last shall bear no rule,

Except you let them evermore to rule.

"For many of her first years after marriage, she was allowed from her husband's purse and his receivers, what she spent, and called for; but that burthensome than her proved more husband's revenue could beare. After she undertook to amend much that was amiss, and became his receiver-general, to whom all officers, foreign and domestic, made their accompts; but that pro ving more unprofitable, soon blasted; lastly she had 3007. by the year for her apparell, and chamber expences, which allowance continued till her death.

"After this lady had seen her son and two daughters married, growing by degrees into a kind of dropsy, a watry timpany, she departed this life, the 7th April in the 38th of Elizabeth, anno 1596, at Hallowdon aforesaid, then of the age of 58 years or thereabouts, and was buried on Ascension day following, then the 20th of May, in St. Michael's church in Coventry, with the greates state and honour that for many years before had been seen in that city, or in those parts of the kingdom, the manner whereof, by direction of this Lord Henry, for his private satisfaction, (mourning all that time at Hallowdon in his private chamber) I put into writ ing, a labour the more readily under gone, as the last service I could perform to the memory of her who had to my young years and education, both in her house at Oxford, and in the Middle Temple, continued my benefactor by

the

the pension of ten pounds by the year; which I here present verbatim, out of my rough draft, as I delivered it fairer written, to this Lord Henry, the third day after the funeral, viz.

"A declaration of the funeral of the

Lady Katherine Berkeley, as it was performed on Thursday, the 20th of May, 1596, being Ascension-day."

Mr. URBAN,

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May 29.

N inspecting the papers of a ON friend, lately deceased, in Oxford, I found a letter addressed to him from a correspondent in London, containing Anecdotes of the learned Joseph Sanford, of Baliol College, Oxford, well known for his profound learning, extensive library, and sin. gularity in dress; and who is a remarkable instance of neglected Biography; as, I believe, there is no account of him in any publication, except in the Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century," in which he is incidentally mentioned in the Correspondence of the Rev. Mr. Godwyn with Mr. Hutchins, the Historian of Dorsetshire; which work was not published at the time the following Letter was written. In a Note in the "Literary Anecdotes," vol. VIII. p. 260, he is said to have died Nov. 14, which is an error for Sept. 25, 1774, as authenticated by the following In scription on his Monument, in the Church of St. Mary Magdalen, in Oxford. Mr. Sanford wrote his name without a d; this trifle is mentioned, as his name is usually printed Sandford.

"Juxta hoc Marmor requiescit vir Reverendus Joseph Sanford, S. T. B. Collegii Ballousi

annos tantum non sexaginta Socius, felicioris Ingenii, Memoriæ, Judicii,

exemplum singularis; in republicâ literaria esse primas meruit, modestus devitavit; ingenuo cuiq; consulenti se facile adjunxit studiorum simul adjutorem et ducem; ab eruditis in honore,

ab Academicis in veneratione habitus, ab amicis muitum desideratus, die 25 Septembris decessit, anno Salutis 1774, ætatis 84." Yours, &c. W. H.

"DEAR SIR, "YOU have set me a longer task than you imagine, if I am to give you all that I recollect of Joseph Sanford. You seem to remember seeing him in au evening, walking his mile up and down Mr. Fletcher's shop, which was

his constant practice, after he had taken tea at Horseman's Coffee-house, in the High-street; where he used to meet Mr. Cracherode, Dr. Smallwell, and other Christ-Church men, who the Turl. He was a profound scholar, generally used to accompany him to and rendered Dr. Kennicott great assistance in his great work of the Hebrew Bible. When The Confessional was first published, he told Mr. Fletcher that he would not hear the last of that Book as long as he lived; and I am apt to think his opinions coincided with those of the Author of that celebrated work, for he did not take Holy Orders until he could not avoid it for preserving his Fellowship; and I have been told, that he never did any duty, not even in the Chapel of his College. On his application to the Bishop for Ordination, he was introduced to the Chaplain, to whom he was a stranger, and who, as usual, told him he must examine him; and the first Question proposed was Quid Fides? to which Sanford replied in a loud tone (and increasing it at each answer), Quod non vides. The second question was Quid Spes? to which Sanford-Futura res. The third was Quid Charitas? to which he roared out-In Mundo ruritas. Upon which the Chaplain, finding he had an extraordinary character to deal with, left him, and went to inform the Bishop of what had passed below, with a person he knew not what to make of, who had given in his name Joseph Sanford, of Baliol; which made the Bishop laugh, and exclaim, You examine him! why he is able to examine you, and our whole Bench! pray desire him to walk up' when the Bishop made an apology for the Chaplain, and said, he was sorry Mr. Sanford had not applied to him in the first instance.

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"His rooms were in the middle stair-case, on the East side of the Quadrangle: he used to read at the end of a gallery, without fire, in the coldest weather. On every Friday, in all weathers, he never missed walking to some house, four or five miles off, on the banks of the Cherwell, where he used to dine on fish. I suppose there is no old servant left at Baliol, to tell you the name of the place.

"I do not know who succeeded to his property; but suppose his Nephew, a Dr. Sanford, who had been Fellow

of

of All Souls. His extensive Library he gave to Exeter College, by a nuncupative Will, witnessed by Mr. Fletcher. Dr. Eveleigh, of Oriel, who, I think, married a daughter of Dr. Sanford, presented a portrait of him to Exeter College; he is represented with a folio under his arm, which is the first edition of the Hebrew Bible, a book of the greatest rarity, which he bought for a trifle of David Wilson, a Bookseller in the Strand; and as soon as he had ascertained his treasure, he never laid the book down, but took it himself to his lodging, and the next morning set out for Oxford, although he had not I finished the business which brought him to London, and kept the book in his hands the whole journey, until he safely lodged it in his room at Baliol: he was so much pleased with this acquisition, that on Mr. Fletcher's next visit to London, he sent a guinea by him to the Bookseller, in addition to what he had first paid him.—This is all I can send you at present; and which, perhaps, is more than you can get now from any one else."

when they come to reside in any city or place of note, to make inquiry after the Libraries of learned men, and get information of the rare books, medals, paintings, statues, prints, and other pieces of antiquity, that are to be seen there, and who are the proprietors of them.

Having been abroad, and seen the several Cities and Universities in Holland, and the French having given large accounts of their Libraries at Paris, hath put me upon this subject, to give an account in print of our public and private Libraries. Nothing of this nature having been attempted here in England, only the two Universities, the Bodleian Library, and the Catalogue of MSS. in Colleges and Cathedral Churches, and those in private hands that would communicate them; I thought fit to inform the world that in London and

Westminster are not only abundance of rare printed books and MSS. but antiquities, as statues, medals, paintings, and many other curiosities, both in art and nature, which may vie with any city in Europe, Rome excepted. We are not addicted to extol our own country, as the French do; but we ought to let Foreigners know the vast quantities we have of this nature.

I shall not trouble the reader with an account of such great abundance we have of good books, and how well the Conventual Fryeries and Abbeys were furnished with them before the Reformation. My design is only to direct you to the place where they are to be seen; and I shall begin with our Public Records, and the several places where they are deposited.

First, in the Tower of London.— Those in Wakefield Tower deserve a critical inspection, especially since they are new modellized and have new cases. Those also in the White Tower contain vast number of records relating to monasteries, &c. several letters of Emperors, Kings, and Princes, Dukes, &c. in several parts, as Tartary, Barbary, Spain, France, Italy, &c. to our Kings in England, which are and will be in such order as to be very serviceable to the curious: the Building itself, which was à Chapel of the Palace, is built after a rare and uncommon manner, and by the Queen's generosity in time

both

For the Records at Westminster,

there are, first, those in the Exchequer, in the custody of the Lord Treasurer. There are those two most antient books of Records of England, made in William the Conqueror's time, called Doomsday-book, one in 4to, containing the survey of Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk, the other in folio, being all the shires in England from Cornwall to the river Tine. This is well worth the seeing. There are also other antient and valuable records: see Powell's Repertory of Records, 4to, printed in 1631.

The Parliament Rolls are kept in a Stone Tower in the Old Palace-yard.

The Papers of State, from the beginning of Henry VIII. to this time, are kept over the Gate that goes to the Cockpit, and is called the PaperOffice; it was built by Henry VIII. and is one of the best pieces of work

William Hart, bapt. 28 Aug. 1600; buried 29 March, 1639; supposed a Player in London.

Charles Hart, a celebrated Tragedian in London temp. Chas. II. born about 1630; buried 20 Aug. 1683, at Stanmore in Middlesex.

Michael, bapt. 29 Sept. 1633. No issue.

Thomas, bapt. 13

Thomas Ludiate, of Stratford.=

....

Mary, bapt. 18 June, 1641.

George, bapt.18 Sept.1636; mar. 9 Jan. 1657-8;Hester, born in 1634; died 27 Ap. died 29 April, 1702; bur.3 May, 1702: a tailor.

1696; bur. 29 April, 1696.

bury, turner & chairmaker, living 1806.

bury in 1806.

Thomas.

Elizabeth, and other Children, all living in 1806.

....

1778.

Catherine,bap.

bap. 24 Jun.1698.

1728-9; bur. 8 July, 6 Aug.1754.

Bradford of Birmingham. 10May, 1748.

1700; marr. 20 Feb.

ford; buried

bap.10

7Oct.1705;

Feb.

bu. 16 Mar.

1702-3.

1710-11,

George, Mary,bap.

Anne,bap. Phillis, Jemima, William,

WilliamSkin-Fran

29 Sept. 1740; bu. 5 Febru. 1760.

bap.25 bapt.19 Janua. June, 1742-3.

bap. 27

ner, of Shot

ces,

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dead.

1745.

1747.

tery, blacksmith.

Thomas, bapt. 10 Aug. 1764; married 15 Sept. 1791; died at Woolwich in Feb. 1800: a butcher.

1767.

1783.

Mary Kite, died 8 Dec.

1793, aged 26; buried at Clifford.

One daughter only, who died an infant; buried at Clifford.