vations ‘on Herodes Atticus's infcription, Jan. 11th, N. S. 1743-4. Salmafius fit published this infeription in a feparate wraft; and, after him, Gruter, in his Thef Infer, p. 27; from which laft, with two Latin tranflations, literal and poetical, Chihull copied it in his Antiquitates Afiatica, p. 1. It is alfo in Montfaucon's Palæographia, p. 141. Herodes Atticus was a great grammatical Antiquary in the reign of the Antonines, and infcribed these two pillars, which he erected at his country-house, three miles out of Rome on the Appian Way, with letters of the oldest Greek cut. Mr. Chihull obGerves, that the appearance of the Roman D, L, and R, among the Greek, here, confrms Pliny's obfervation, Nat. Hift. VII. c, 57, 58, that the infcription on the Delphic table fhewed that the ancient Greek letters were nearly the fame with the Latin ones of his time; and Tacitus, Annal. XI. 14; and that the original form of the x was, as here given, +, not, as read by Montfaucon, KATAX0ory. In was a pleafant mistake of Scaliger, that thefe forms of Greek letters continued jo use to the time of the Antonines. The infeription is repeated on each pillar; and the phrafe triopium, for a sample, is in ftrict conformity to the Cnidian dialect; and Philostratus, in his Life of Herodes, tells us Thea-genes of Cuidos alfited him in his orinical ftudies. O R. G. THE PURSUITS OF ARCHITECTU RAL INNOVATION. No. VI. UR ancettols, from their conftant attendance to the religious ceret monies celebrated in our cathedra's and other churches, from their with nerfing the splendour of the various objects which they prefented of fu perb nonumental chapels and tombs; Statues, balfo-relievos, paintings on glass, board, and on the walls; the rich embroidery of tapestry; the shining pavemend of high wrought grave ftones and braffes; the infinity of borning. tapers; from their hatening to the melting founds of the harmo Bious minstrels; from thus,, by turns, having every noble and divine paffion of the fout rarfed to the highest pitch of raptore; it was no wonder that thofe, who had paffed their lives in courts and camps, thould feek the cloitter, there to end their bright career. We find that most, if not all, our monumental chapels and tombs were erected by the very perfons, in their lifetime, whofe memory they were intended to commemorate after death; and we likewife know, that they used to pafs much of their time in thefe chapels in prayer and devout meditation. Our ancestors, thus fo delightfully attached to this laft abject of all their worldly happiness, and ever witnetfing the profound veneration and refpe&t paid to thefe repofitories of mortality, became fo familiarized to the name of death, that they met the awful hour with fortitude and refignation. So much did this holy fervour poffefs their fouls, that we find many noble and royal perfonages, in their dying moments, defied as their laft request to be carried into the church, where, before the high altar, and du ring the office of divine worship, they breathed their last figh amid heavenly founds and pious prayers. Whatever terms may now be af fixed to the customs and manners of former times, they cannot do away this conviction, and which the heart of every one muft own, that to "depart in peace" from this world is the conftant attendant with of all. But thefe ideas cannot be brought about by contemplating at this day our neg lected religious ftrutures and their cemeteries. We there (too often) bear the fervice mumbled over in a hafty and careless manner; we notice in many instances the vestments of the Clergy in a condition, that creates the mirth and pity of the congrega tion: the churches themfelves we find, in general, are unaised, covered with duft and rubbish, the weather fuffered to invade their facred walls at all points; that thousands, I believe, from an opinion that militates against the healthfulness of the structures, are prevented from attending to their duty. We behold the monuments defiled, mutilated, and used for the moft ignoble purposes; the graves violated; and we are informed that the bodies are taken up and ufed in a way Nature fhudders to think on. And do we not continually hear of fome facrilegious act or other committed on the nobleft works of our antient architecture, to make way for an in novating novating falfe taste obtruded on their ruins a falfe and barbarous tafte, which thefe effays have dated to drag before the publick for their difcountenance and abhorrence. If fuch be the change of fentiment at this day for religious memorials, my countrymen, no doubt, have armed themfelves against the thought of what may become of their earthly remains, the immortal part claiming all their care; a holy and upright life affuring them of greater felicity in another ftate than the perishable things of this world. Thefe reflexions induce me to bring before the reader's attention the colle giate church of HOWDEN, Yorkshire. [1790] This church is of the first class of enriched work of our antient pointed arched ftyle of architecture; and thofe parts which remain in a kind of perfect ftate are the nave (ufed as a parish church) and the great tower, dividing it from the choir. This choir is now a ruin; its exterior walls are partly finding, and its E-ftern end prefents one of the moft regular and beautiful defigns that this kingdom has to boast of. It is filled with enriched buttreffes, windows, grounds, nches, ftatues, compartments, pinfels, &c.; and which are fo happily difpofed, that the mind is at a lofs which to admire moft, the skill of the architect, or that noble patron, whose within, yet they are arranged in fo judicious a manner, and varied with. that magic skill, that no defcription can do its extraordinary merits juftice, nor can any defcription convey fufficient marks of cenfure againft those who have fo infenfibly left this charming object to perish. In the ruins of the South aile of the choir are fome veftiges of a chapel be longing to the Saltmaffes. Here, among rubbish and weeds, are yet to be noticed one monument and two tombs belonging to the ancestors of this family. On the tombs are some remarkable ftatues, finely fculptured, two of them are knights armed and cross-legged; and a third, a female in the fame attitude. From commenting on these scenes, my foregoing ftrictures are but too well warranted; and the more fo, as it may be obferved, that defcendants of the Saltmaffes are ftill living; and living in this part of the country in affluence. It was but a very short time before I witneffed this unbal loved fpot, that a relative had been interred without any mark or memorial to point out the awful repofitory, In fhort, the whole appeared a shock ing example of modern inattention, and, neglect to the facred remains of mortality! AN ARCHITECT. (To be continued.) Mr. URBAN, Leicester, Jan, 11, discernment gave him the opportunity ALLOW me to remark a mistake. of thewing the power of his enlightened genius!. Mutt i fay this eminent example of antient skill is left unprotected, left to fail, when a few trifling repairs would infure its existence for many years The chapter-house is alfo a ruin, though great part of its walfs are remaining, and an inhabitant informed me, that in his memory this chapterhoufe was in a very perfect state. I here must own that, although I have feen most of our celebrated chap ter-houfes which have hitherto efcaped the iron hand of Architectural Innovation, I cannot but pofitively affert, that the chapter-houfe of Howden, when perfect, muft have been the very effence of them all; and, notwithstanding the inexhauftible ditplay of antient art which is introduced over the intire face of the defign, as well on the outer parts as on thofe in the Obituary, vol. LXVIII.c p. 1084 In the biographical account of Theobald Wolte Tone, who has lately excited the public curiosity by his daring outrages against the peace of fociety, and by his unhappy death, that perfon is mentioned as the author of a piece, which contains fome pleafant raillery on the wild and childish vagaries of romance-writers: it is called" The wonderful Hiftory of Prince Fanferedin." According to the fame account, Mr. Wolfe Tone was born about the year 1764. I am in pof feftion of a Frenen copy of the abovementioned work (in. which language I fhould fuppofe it was originally writ ten), dated 1735. The full title of my copy, of which I have publish ed a tranflation, is as follows: "Voy. age merveilleux du Prince Fan-Féré. din dans la Romancie; contenant plufieurs Obfervations hiftoriques, géographiques, 1799.] Owen Glyndwr's Sword.-Lord Nelfon's Arms, &c. géographiques, phyfiques, critiques, & morales. A Amfterdam, chez Wetftein & Smith. If the author of the account of Mr. Tone will be fo kind as to inform me, through the channel of your most va luable Magazine, whence he drew his knowledge of Mr. Tone's literary attempts. I fhall feel myfelf peculiarly obliged by his politenefs. If any of your correfpondents, who are fond of fiterary refearch, can afford a hint which might lead to the difcovery of the real author of the lively and laughable publication in queftion, he will likewife highly gratify Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, THE SUSANNA WATTS. Jan. 1. HE annexed fketch (Plate III.) reprefents what is called Owen Glyndwr's fword, on the South fide of Corwen church, co. Merioneth. The Alone, in its prefent ftate, is 4 feet 8 inches long. Probably it was originally 6 feet long, if we fuppofe it lengthened to the dotted lines. It exactly anfwers to the form of a coffinlid or grave-ftone. But, as Owen Glyndwr was buried in Monnington church-yard, this ftone may have covered the remains of fome monaftic. P. Mr. URBAN, Jan. 4. OUR readers in general will be With great deference to two fuch refpectable authorities, I differ from them both. Without being able to refer to a printed authority, I can fpeak of the ufage of the word as be ing quite familiar to me in the fenfe of a hindrance, an interruption; the bufinefs bitches-it does not go on fmoothly, there is fome bitch in the way. This feems to me to give the meaning of Pope; that one who has offended him is fure to be brought into a veffe, though the doing fo should be difficult, and make a hitch in the rhyme. I with fome one of your Northern friends would let you know whether the word ufed by them in the fenfe given by Mr. Wakefield is bitch, or edge. The latter certainly means getting into a place by your own effort, but with difficulty and contrivance; the former implies a difficulty put in the way by another perfon. S. H. JOHN Mr. URBAN, "His fupplication to Father Thames, to tell him who drives the hoop or toffes the ball, is useless and puerile. Father Thames has no better means of knowing than himself.". The fairest mode of answering this Y highly gratified by an engraving captious objection is by the following of the arms of the brave Lord Nelfon, as defcribed in vol. LXVIII. p. 991, and with a fac-fimile of his admirable -left-handed writing; both which are here accurately annexed. (See Pl. III.) Yours, &c. EUGENIO. Mr. URBAN, Jan. 10. Dword which," fays, "to hitch, R. JOHNSON, in explaining the v. n. to catch, to move by jerks." I know not where it is ufed but in the following pallage; nor here know well what it means: "Whee'er offends, at fome unlucky time Slides in a verfe, or hitches into rhyme." Pope, Im. of Hor. b. II. Sat. I. Mr. Wakefield, in a critique on this, fays, that the word in queftion is ufed in the Northern counties for getting into a place fide-ways, with difficuity and contrivance. The proper term, I apprehend, is edge; fo that the diftich would be correctly written, "Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verfe, and edges into thyme." extract from his own Rafielas: "Nekayah and her brother Raffelas commonly met in the evening in a private fummer-houfe on the bank of the Nile, and related to each other the occurrences of the day. As they were fetting together, the Princefs caft her eyes upon the river that flowed before her. Anfwer,' faid fhe, great Father of Waters, thou that vocations of the daughter of thy native rolleft thy floods eighty nations, to the inking. Tell me if thou watereft, through all thy courfe, a fingle habitation from which thou dost not hear the murmurs of complaint," F. S. fyth yt yow to understonde that youre vyfyters hath hene here of late, who hath dyfcharged iij of my fysters) the one ys dame Katheryn, the other ij is the yonge women that were laft profeffyd, whyche ys not a lyttyll to my dyscomforte, neverthelefs I must be co'tent we the kynges plefore; but now, as ..... my nowne parte, I moft umbly befeche yow to be fo fpecyall good mayfter unto me youre poor bede woman, as to geve me youre beft advertyfment and counfeyle what waye thal be best for me to take, feynge there fhal be none left here but myselfe and thys pore madyn; and yf yt wyl pleafe yowre goodnes to take thys pore howfe into youre owne hondes, ether for yowrefelfe, or for my nowne n.... youre fonne. I woyld be glad we all my hart to geve yt into youre mayfterfhype's hondes we that ye wyll co'maunde me to do therin; truffynge, and nothynge dowptynge in your goodnes, that ye wyll fo provyd for us that we shall have fuch oneft lyvynge, that we fhall not be drevyn be neceffyte nether to begge nor to fall to no other unco venyence. And thus I offer my felfe and all myne unto yowre most hygh and prudent wyfdome, as unto him that ys my onely refuge and comfort in this world, befechynge God of his goodnes to put in yow hys holy fprete that ye maye do all thynge to hys Lawde and glory. By yowre owne af fured bedewoman, Margaret VESNON? THE following epitaph is copied from a monument erected in the parish church of Englefield, in the county of Berks, to the memory of three grand-children of Sir Nathan Wrigine, knt. Lord keeper of the •great feal in the reigns of King Wal·liam and Queen Anne. . Sacred to the memory of FRANCIS WRIGHTS, efq. who died Nov. 1, 1751, aged 31; ANNE WRIGHTE, who died the 3d of Oct. 1770, aged 55 years; and particularly of NATHANWRIGHT,&fq. who died the 7th of June, 1789 aged 73 years; grand-children of the Right Hon. Sir Nathan Wrighte, knt. ford keeper of the great feal, and great grand-children, by the mother's fide, of the moff noble and renowned John Powlett, Marquis of Winchefter. Enzabeth, widow of Nathan Wrighte, efq. hathy erected this monument." Nathan, third* (on of Sir Nathan • George, the lord keeper's eldest fan, was many years clerk of the crown, and died March 6, 1724-5; and William, the Wrighte, entered into holy orders. He left four children by his wife Lord Francis Powlest, of EnglefieldAnne, fole daughter and heiress of houfe, one of the fons of John Marquis of Winchester, by his fecond wife, Lady Honora, daughter of the Earl of Clanrickard. Powie t, the eldest fon of the Reverend Nathan Wrighte, married Mary, daughter of Richard Tyffen, of Hackney; by whom he left an only fon, Powlett, but nine months old at the time of his decease. Anne and Francis died unmarried. Nathan, upon the death of his nephew, Powlett Wrighte the younger, July 22, 1779, tacceeded to the estates at Englefield, &c. He married, firft, Elizabeth Dowle, of Cricklade, co. Wilts; and, adly, Elizabeth Frewen, widow of the Rev. John Frewen, rector of Tortworth, co. Gloucefter. By the decenfe of Nathan, June 7, 1789, without iffue, the family of Sir Nathan Wrighte's fecond fon became extin&t, and the Englefield cftates devolved, according to the direction of the la Powlett Wrighte, to his halfGidea-hall, fon of Governor Benyon, brother, Richard Benyon, efq. gf by Mary, the widow of the first Pow lett Wrighte, elder brother of the perfons to whom the above mentioned monument has been erected. A fimilar monument has been erect ed by Mrs. Wrighte, to the memory of her first husband, in the church of Tortworth, Frewen was all the younger fun of co, Gloucefter. Mr. a refpectable Leiceßtershire family, which has taken the name of Turner, ..and has been feated at Cold Orton,,in that county, and at Northiam, co. Suflex. He died 1767, aged 35, leaving Selina, his only child, who married, 1794, to the Rev. James Knight Mour, under-master in Kug Edward the Vlth's fchool at Sherborne, co. Dorfer. Englefeld house is situated about a mile from the Weft end of the village of Theale. Some of Mr. Urban's correfpondents may, perhaps, be ab e to fay at what period it was erected; and whether it was ever the refidence of the illuftrions Marquis of Winchester, fith fon, was recorder of Leicester 17291763. We should be glad to receive any menioirs of the family of either. EDIT. * Another Nathan Wrighte died Dec. 7, 1793, aged 86. Whofe fun was he? who who so nobly diftinguished himself in I Mr. URBAN, * Jan. 8. SHOULD be much obliged to your correspondent R. G. if he would inform me how I can procure a, print of the Old Peterborough house at Parfon's green, which is now pul. led down. I have made every en quiry poflible. I have fearched the Vitruvius Britannicus, and cannot find any account there. I should farther be obliged to him to inform me by what means it came into the Peterborough family, as I cannot trace any account in the hiftory of the family and their poffeffions, published by Lord Peterborough; and the title. deeds are deficient in that refpect, notw thitanding the account by Mr. Lyfons. Mr. URBAN, A. Z. Jan. 9. pamphlets, I found two old maps, North-eaft corner of Pell-mell two houles; thence nothing but a row of trees; nothing at all on the South fide to St. Jameses. From what I take to be Spring-garden few houfes to King's feet. On the South fide of the Strand there is a row of houses from Temple bar to Whitehall, be had thefe all the fpice down to the river is occupied by Noblemen's bou les and gardens, with the Savoy, About Weltminster abbey and Old Fallas-yard the buildings are more numerous to Tuttle church, which ends the’map. The map of London more neatly executed, I fuppofe from the royal arms which decorate it, as well as those of the cittie, to be of James or Charles the First's time. It confines that proud town within much narrower bounds than it now boats. Ifington church stands quite detached at a distance beyond Clerkenwill: nothing beyond Gray's lun laue or the Charterhouse, and the buildings beyond Houndfditch and the Minories quite downe to the Tower and S. Catherine's, are inconfiderable. On the South fide of the river, be higd St. Tonkie's Greete, it is much the fame. On the Weft fide of the Borough, in the middle of which stands fomething that looks like a conduit, is a kind of fquare, at the North corner of which, near St. Mary. Overy's church, appears a confidera ble building. On the Bank-fide, near the river, is a row ginning nearly appon of hours be Wharfe, and reaching over against White Friars; behind thefe is another row, beginning oppofite to the Steelyard, and extending nearly as far as the other. From the fquare beforementioned, except a short row of houfes juft by it, there is not a building quite to Lambeth, but ose at a lit le distance from the outer Bankfide row, and nearly oppofite to Queen-bithe. It feems of an oƐtagomal form, and has the appearance of a fort with a large flag Aying. Cam you, or any of your correlpondents, inform me of the design and ufe of it? Many places in this map are numbered; but there are no marginal references. You will obferve, I have retained all the old fpellings, R. B. Mr. URBAN, Jan. 19. AS you often admit Hebrew criti cifms in your learned Magazine, I fhall make no apology for troub.ing you with the following remarks. I obferve then, Sic, that Dr. Blaney, in his very mafterly Differtation on Dan. ix, 20, to the end, Oxford, 1775, 19 upon the joint authority of the verhons of the Seventy, Aquila, and the Arabic, rettored the genuine reading of the text, thus tranflated, ver. 26, in our Bibles, and stier tareefcore and tvo weeks," and rendered it," "and after the times eventy leven, and 3 threes |