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Mr. URBAN,

Dec. 10.
EPORT fays, that thofe vaft

and Snow Hill are to be fucceeded
by others, of not lefs importance
to a large trading City.-There is
probably more than report on this
fubject; but fome of your Country
Readers, as well as others, would
be glad to know how the fact is;
my old friend Transfer, who pafs'd
near 40 years from Blow-bladder-
ftreet to Jonathan's, now enjoys
the sweets of his labour, remote
from cities. Though thus removed
from the bufy fcene of action, he
likes to fee how the world wags.
Wonder not, he "cafts a longing,
lingering, look behind." Were your
defcription accompanied with a
fketch of the plans and defigns, it
would produce information to thou-
fands; it would amufe, gratify, and
delight, all over the globe..

In the Lord Mayor's bill of expences at Putney, in 1744, &c. At the Court of Confervancy, (vol. LXXI. p. 420.) what are we to underftand by the officer in his lordfhip's train, named Common Hunt? Is there fuch an officer now? In old maps of London, we fee the Lord Mayor's Dog-kennel pointed out, where, no doubt, he kept a cry of Hounds, and I warrant you, a mewe of Hawkes alfo. Doghoufe-bar, beyond Old-ftreet, retains the name to this day. This officer may ftill prefide, for any thing I know, over the annual feftivities of Eafter Monday on the Foreft. In your vol. XXII. p. 475, it is called City Hunt; the place being declared vacant Oct. 14, 1752, on the death of Mr. May Hill, to whom it produced nearly sool. a year.' A VETERAN.

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try, for the propagation and promotion of useful arts and fciences;

Medium for informing the publick of the following Society, intended for the advancement of British Extomology, under the name of the AURELIAN SOCIETY.

Any perfon withing to become a member of this Society muft poífefs a collection of British Lepidop tera, from which he must give up to the Aurelian Cabinet, at leaft one fpecimen of every fpecies in his collection which that does not poffefs. This facrifice, confidering the very advanced state of the Cabi net, (the only one which now contains, or ever did contain, all the known British species, of the beautiful genus papilis,) can seldom be great, and must evidently be come lefs and lefs; for it he shall immediately receive, from the poífeffor, the fulleft value of fuch articles, either in rare infects, or me ney, if he choose to accept it; he fhall alfo afterwards receive occa fional duplicates of scarce infects, which will continue to be collected both by purchase and perfonal induftry, to anfwer the claims of fuch Aurelians as may hereafter with to have their names enrolled in the annals of the Society. By there means, the Aurelian Cabinet wil evidently advance toward the ftandard of perfection; and the collection of every member of the Society will likewife become increated both in number and value. members will have a right of examining the Cabinet as often as they pleafe, for the purposes either of pleasure or inftruction.

All

JAFOZI & VAHOTSAV.

Mr. URBAN,

Dec. 15

IN P. 520, col. 1, 1. 26, for "No." Jortiu's miftake, if fuch it be, evidently arofe from the title of No. xiv of the Phenix, which, in p. 548 of vol. i, del fcribes the "Narrative" alluded to as the work of "Samuel Brett, there prefent." It may not be amifs to refer fome of your numerous readers to the "Spectator," No. 495, by Addifon. Yours, &c. SCRUTATOR

read "vol. ii." As to the note, Dr.

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Jan. 26, 1802. ROM Hythe (fee p. 1001), I fought out the cafile of Saltwood; which is fituated about one mile to the Northward of the above town, but is on moft fides fo encompaffed by hills, or rifing grounds, that it is feen but from little diftance on either fide. Gale fuppofes that the Romans had here a fort, and that there was a prætorian way to it from Durolevum, and another from Durovernum; and, indeed, remains of it are full to be feen between it and Hythe. In 1036 it was given to Chrift church in Canterbury, by Halfden, in the prefence of king Chute; and at the Conqueft it was in the poffeflion of Hugo de Montford, who repaired the cafile, which is faid to have been firft erected by Ef cus, or Oife, king of Kent, in 488. By his fon, Robert de Montford, being exiled, this and his other eftates fell into the hands of Henry I. and continued (in general) in the Crown, till it was reftored, by king John, to the fee of Canterbury, and became one of the palaces of its archbifhops. Archbishop Courtney, in the reign of Richard II. repaired, enJarged, and beautified the cafile; and the prefent remains are the work of his hands. Archbishop Cranmer, alarmned at the envyings and murmurs which the poffeffion of fuch fumptuous houfes expofed him to, conveyed it again to the Crown, when it was given by Henry VIII. to Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Effex, on whofe attainder it reverted again to the king, and was granted, the 4th of Edward VI to John Dudley, Earl of Warwick. Afterwards it paffed to Edward Fynes, lord Clinton; and from him to Thomas Broadax, efq.; then to Edward Monins, efq. who alienated it to Mr. Reginald Knatchbull, who finally conveyed it to Wm. Gibbon, gent. of Weftcliff. From him it hecame the property of Norton Knatchbull, of Merfham, efq. who fold it to Robert Crannier, efq. of Chevening, whofe daughter carried it in marriage to Sir Arthur Herrys; his fon conveyed it to Sir Wn. Boteler, whofe grandfon, Sir Philip Boteler, fold it to Brook Bridges, efq. of Goodnefton, in whole family it has continued till now; the prefent Sir Brook Bridges, bart. being the proprietor of it. When I first drew near the cafile, I was amazingly ftruck with its auguft GENT. MAG. December, 1802.

remains (fee Plate I.), covering more than three acres of ground; and when I came to its external gate, how did I with for the pencil and pen of your Architect! that its beauties might be conveyed to pofterity in thofe glowing colours and words, which they fo loudly demand. But, as I could command neither, rather than they fhould fink unnoticed into oblivion, I determined to make the beft ufe that I could of my own, every way fo inferior ones. The ground-plan of the caftle is elliptical; and the principal entrance to the body of the edifice was originally ftrengthened byan out-work,illuing from the fides of the ellipfis, and carried on, in a parallel line, at the diftance of about 200 feet from the grand portal. The greatelt part of this out-work is now demolished, excepting that its connexion with the principal wall, and its Northern gate, till remain to lerably entire. Before we enter this gate, we muft obferve and admire the wonderful moat which furrounded the whole, in breadth not lefs than 150 feet, and in depth more than 30, through which the murmuring brook fill winds its ftream; and for which nothing appears wanting to enable it to encircle its favourite walls, and spread its wide girdle around the whole feene, but its original barrier, which either neglect or ignorance has now. fwept away! This gate, I obferved, was originally defended by a drawbridge, and the grove, in which the ponderous portcullis once glided its frame, is ftill entire. But when I approached the grand entrance (fig. 4,) what veneration and awe thrilled through my veins, to think I was about to afk admittance where monarchs had been fumptuously entertained, and where fome of our greateft prelates had lived in regal ftate! I knocked at the modern door, which, with its puny accompaniments, fafhed windows, ferves to fill up the ftill fpacious arch; how contemptible did its puerile fcreechings found, compared to the late hoarle-founding groans of the original gate when it turned on its ponderous hinge! When entered, my contempt fubfided in admiration, to behold the beautifully engroined arch, fpreading an enriched canopy over the

*Edward 11, in the 17th year of his reign, was entertained for fome time in this caftle. Patent Rolls.

entrance

entrance hall! On either fide are correfponding pointed-arched doors, leading to the apartments where the vigilant guards refted their weary limbs, and from whence, by the loop-holes fill remaining, they could command every approach to the gate. Over the fides of the arch are the arms of Archbishop Courtney, viz. three bezants, with a label of three points; and again, the fame impaled with those of the fee of Canterbury; near the fummit of the towers (little lefs than 70 feet) is a machecollation, and other means of defence. From the entrance hall, we afcend the spiral fair-cafe, which gives us accefs to the different apartments, as well as to the top of the towers. Over the gate-way is a fine fpacious room, probably part of the grand apartments of the governor, or conftable of the cafle. Though depoiled of its original ornaments, yet, as the doors and windows remain as they were firft confiructed, it ftill befpeaks an air of grandeur and fimplicity: adjoining are feveral rooms but, as the whole is now fitted up to form a modern farm-houfe, few of its original characteritiic peculiarities now remain; yet the confideration, that in accomplishing this defign little alteration has been made in its external appearance, and as this will be an inducement for its being kept in repair, I fay, this confideration will convey fatisfaction to the mind of the real Antiquary. The remains of the principal apartments, which were on the Southi fide of the area, inclofed by the walls, are not confiderable, excepting thofe of the grand hall, whofe walls are tolerably entire (fce Pl. I. fig 2) It is evident, from the corbels on either fide, that it had a ground, or under apartment, and that confequently this could not have been the chapel, as fome have fuppofed. This noble room was enlightened by fix beautiful Norman windows; the three on the external fide being walled up, and evidently done on fome particular emergency, from the roughnefs of the materials, and as they are filled in to the whole thicknefs of the wall: thefe commanded the moat and the adjacent country; and pleafing indeed muft have been the view, whilft the venerable prelate was gracing the feltive board, to have beheld the expanfe of the encircling ftream, which, whilft it conveyed the idea of perfect fecurity, added a charm

to the furrounding landscape; over whofe plains, and through whofe enchanting glades, the timid deer might be feen vaulting her fleek body in fucceffive leaps from the eye of the intrufive traveller. The room appears to have been encircled with pointed compartments fupported by tripled columns, from the center ones of which the groining of the cieling took its rife; and, from the fmall part of the ribs full remaining, appears to have been extremely beautiful and light. The remains of the chapel, and very confiderable offices, are now a niere heap of ruins; and, from their prefent ftate, loudly befpeak the infrability of the proude works of mankind! In the centre of the area is a very antient curious wall, being formed fquare, and cafed with quarry fione from the top to the bottom. On the whole, this certainly is a very curious remain, and well deferves the clofe investigation of every lover of our national antiquities. Yours, &c. Z. COZENS.

Mr. URBAN,

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Nov. 6. HE verfes (p. 656) from an old Harleian MS. explain what often amufed and puzzled me when I was a boy, a copy of the fame verfes, fearcely legible and in part mutilated, written on a blank leaf of Butler's Rhetoric, 5th ed. London, 1621. My copy, imperfect as it is, fupplies feveral variations, which thofe who are curious in fuch lore will be gratified in comparing with what you have printed. The title is, "Of the burning of a Schoole in Notinghamshire," I believe; but the firft fyllable of the county is gone in the English, and obfcure in a Latin tranflation fubjoined to the English. They begin thus:

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