MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-Eudo Dapifer of Domesday Book.-Bishop Van Mildert.-Mrs. Whitlock.--Philo- Byblius.-Library of King James IV.... 450 ON THE TOPOGraphy of Thebes, and GenerAL VIEW OF EGYPT, BY E. G. WILKINSON, ESQ. DIARY OF A LOVER OF LITERATURE.. ETHIOPIA VERSUS EGYPT, MR. HOSKINS' REPLY TO EDINBURGH Review ON NORMAN AND EARLY FRENCH POETRY. NO. I. The Romance of Tristan and the Norman Metrical Chronicles. MEMORIALS OF LITERARY CHARACTERS, NO. XIV. Letter of Mrs. Aphra Behn the Poetess to Tonson the Bookseller. 451 459 463 .... 477 481 485 Monuments to Hooker and Chillingworth, 483; to Dr. Gray, Bp. of Bristol. 484 ...... On the Celtic Language and its assumed Dialects. Ancient Mansion in South Petherton, Somersetshire. The Catalogue of Malone's Library at Oxford Account of Aldfield near Ripon..... On the University Degrees of LL.D. and D.C.L. POETRY.-Sonnets, by Sir E. Brydges, 500.-The Aldine Anchor REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. ib. 485 Ion, a tragedy, by Mr. Serjeant Talfourd, 505.-Sir Richard Hoare's History .... 521 ..521, 522 FINE ARTS.-Designs for the Houses of Parliament, 523.-New Publications, New Publications, 530.-The Emperor Charlemagne's Bible, 531.-Learned ... 533 ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES-Society of Antiquaries, 534.-Roman Road from Silchester to Staines.. ......... HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.-Proceedings in Parliament, 538. — Foreign News, 541.-Domestic Occurrences, 542. Promotions, Preferments, &c. 543.-Marriages.. OBITUARY; with Memoirs of Lt.-Gen. Sir Colquhoun Grant; Admiral Fer- Clergy Deceased, 559.-DEATHS, arranged in Counties. 535 544 545 565 Bill of Mortality-Markets-Prices of Shares,567.-Meteorological Diary-Stocks 568 Embellished with a View of an ANCIENT MANSION in SOUTH PETHERTON, Somersetshire. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. With respect to the names of the Norman Chiefs contained in Wace's poem, T. P. B. further remarks, that "Mr. J. G. NICHOLS (quoted in p. 254), is wrong in calling Eudo cum Capello (the head of the house of Haie) the Eudo Dapifer of Domesday, the latter being quite another person, namely Eudo Fitz Hube.t (de Rie." In reply to this, J. G. N. is enabled (through the kindness of Mr. STAPLETON, to whose communications he was so deeply indebted in the "History of Lacock Abbey,") to make the following statement:-On referring to Domesday Book, and to the monastic history of the founders of Colchester Abbey, quoted by Dugdale in the Monasticon, it must be allowed that the identity of the Eudo Dapifer of Domesday with Eudo filius Huerti (de Rie) is fully established: but that Eudo cum Capello, Lord of Lithare, was also a Dapifer we have first the testimony of that accurate writer, Ordericus Vitalis, who in the third book of his history, (Duchesne, Script. Norm. p. 429), says, that Ernald of Echaufour, son of William Gercie, married Emma daughter of TurstinHaldue; that, after the death of Ernald by poison, she withdrew with her orphan children to her brother Eudo, Normannici Ducis dapiferum, who held the first rank for power and wealth amongst the chief lords of the Cotentin, in which district Lithare is situated. Echaufour is in the immediate neighbourhood of St. Evrcul, and Orderic was thoroughly acquainted with the his tory of its Lords. 2. The charter of foundation of the cell of Boxgrave, the gift of Robert de Haia to the monastery of Lessay, founded by Turstin-Halduc and his son Eudo, in Normandy; printed in the Gallia Christiana, vol. xI. instr. col. 233. It bears date Anno Domini 1115, and in it Robert de Haie is thus described-Ro. bertus de Haia filius Radulphi senescalli, scilicet, Roberti Comitis Moritonii, nepos Hudonis DAPIFERI Guillelmi supradicti Regis: King Henry being called son of King William, a few lines above. In the memoir of Dr. Pearson, p. 359 b. line 2, for unfading read unfailing. The very correct engraving of Dr. Pearson's portrait was executed by Mr. J. Posselwhite. With respect to Bishop Van Mildert's parliamentary conduct on the Catholic Question, we inconsiderately followed a newspaper statement. He resisted to the last what has been commonly called Catholic Emancipation, and a Speech of his against the Bill of 1829 may be found in the Mirror of Parliament, and his sen timents are also briefly stated in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xcix. i. 358.It was also a mis-statement in p. 427, that no previous Protestant Bishop had been buried in Durham cathedral. In the memoir of Lord Stowell, p. 428 b, line 18, for 1657, read 1767; and in p. 430 b. line 32, for 1779 read 1799; also in the note in p. 428, for the Rev. Edward Brewster read the Rev. John Brewster; and in the same page, a fitter is not an owner of colliers, but the intermediate factor or broker between the coalowner and the ship-owner. The term "hoastman," which occurs in Lord Stowell's baptismal registry, is synonymous with "fitter;" and there is an incorporated Company of Hoastmen in Newcastle. In the account of Mr. and Mrs. Whit lock in p. 438, it is stated that Mr. Whitlock died in America in 1799; this is erroneous, Mr. and Mrs. Whitlock returned together from America to England, and he lived at least thirteen or fourteen years after that period, part of the time in Newcastle, and part in London or Bath, or some southern district of the kingdom, and he died, as far as we have been able to ascertain, in England, at some period of time subsequent to 1812 or 1813. W. H. B. remarks: "The expectations which have been holden out by various journals, that the public was soon to be favoured with the entire work of Philo Byblius, from a MS. said to have been lately discovered at Oporto (see our December number, p. 636), must be disappointed by the assurance of a learned and most respectable gentleman in Portugal, that no such MS. has been heard of there, and that there is no such convent as the one named in the notice referred to. JONATHAN OLDENBUCK states: In the "Memoirs of the Ancient and Honourable House of Stanley," 4to, Manch. 1767, p. 46, col. 1, it is asserted that Sir Edward Norres, of Speke, who served under "the Stanley" at Flodden-field, "brought from the deceased King of Scotland's Palace all or most of his princely library, many books of which are now at Speke, particularly four large folios, said to contain the Records and Laws of Scotland at the time, and worthy of the perusal of the learned and judicious reader." These precious folios are not mentioned in the Catalogue of the vast Library afterwards formed at Speke Hall. What has become of them? P. 350, b. line 7 from bottom, for "eldest son" read second. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. TOPOGRAPHY OF THEBES, AND GENERAL VIEW OF EGYPT, &c. BY E. G. WILKINSON, ESQ. 1835. THIS is a work of considerable learning, and very great and curious research. The topography of the Mother of Cities is more fully and accurately drawn, than it has ever previously been: the antiquities are more minutely detailed; the history more correctly developed. It is indeed a work which the historian and the antiquary will alike consult with advantage; and they will gratefully acknowledge the rich materials which are here collected for their scrutiny. Mr. Wilkinson has evidently devoted much time to his subject; has remained long on the spot, pursuing his curious and profound inquiry with zeal and diligence; and has united his own observations, to the knowledge he has gained from ancient and modern authors-from works of history and disquisitions on art. It is obviously impossible for us to abridge such a work as this; but we will extract a few parts, as we pass along, of more peculiar interest, and which will not demand the possession of that erudition, which but few possess. However knowledge may have travelled, it has as yet been given but to few to lift up the mystic veil of Isis, and gaze upon the countenance of the goddess. This work is divided into nine chapters: On the Topography of Thebes -on the Gates of the Kings-Tombs of Priests and Private Individualson Luxor, and Karnak-on the Manners and Customs of the EgyptiansJourney from Alexandria to Thebes-from Thebes to Nubia-Chronology of the Kings of Egypt-Chronology of the Caliphs, and Western Kings of Egypt. In his Topography of Thebes, Mr. Wilkinson observes, that the great Temple of Karnak is the largest and most splendid ruin of which, perhaps, either ancient or modern times can boast; being a work of a number of successive monarchs, each anxious to surpass his predecessor, by increasing the dimensions and proportions of the part he added. At p. 10 he observes, "In this area (of the Temple of Rameses!!) on the right of a flight of steps leading to the next court, was the stupendous granite statue of a King seated on a throne, in the usual attitude of those Egyptian figures, the hands resting on his knees, indicative of that tranquillity which he had retired to enjoy in Egypt, after the fatigues of victory. The foot of this statue, to judge from the fragments, must have been about eleven feet in length, and four feet ten inches in breadth. The statue measured from the shoulder to the elbow, 12 feet 10 inches, 22 feet 4 inches across the shoulders; and 14 feet 4 inches from the neck to the elbow. If it is a matter of surprise how the Egyptians could transport and erect a mass of such dimensions, the means employed for its ruin are scarcely less wonderful. Nor should we hesitate to account for the shattered appearance of the lower part, by attributing it to the explosive force of powder, had that composition been known at the time of its destruction. To say that this is the largest statue in Egypt, will convey no idea of the gigantic size or enormous weight of a mass, which, from an approximate calculation, exceeded when entire, nearly three times the solid content of the great obelisk of Karnak, and weighed about 887 tons, five hundred weight and a half." Mr. Wilkinson here informs us, that the granite Head now in the British Museum, which was taken from a building described by him at p. 13, is |