FROM ALEX DAVIS ON ESQ ST JAMES'S SQUARE A TRIBUTE OF REGARD. GOD HAS BLESSED GET ROBOR CLEMTHRO LINEM TIM announced as Edward Nares, rector of Biddenden, in Kent. Hinckleientis, p. 226, will find the arms he enquires after, A. on a bend Az. three bucks heads cabofht O. in Mafters's Hiftory of Corpus Chrifti College, Cambridge, p. 171. The fons ef Francis Stanley, fellow of that college, and vicar of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, were both admitted of the college 1755. Francis had the vicarage of North Weald, Effex, 1764, and the rectory of Eaftwick, Herts, 1781. Richard is a barrifter of the Inner Temple; elected recorder of Hertford, 1780; and poffelles a good manfion-house on the North fide of the church of Great Hadham, of which their grandfather was first curate and then rector. Both are living in much refpect, ability, and brotherly love. P 247, b. l. 47, for engagements r. incidents. Is it not enough that Pie Nic entertainments should be permitted, but reheartals of plays are announced for Sunday evenings, St. James's Evening Pott, March 29! P. 270. I fufpend my belief of the travels of Eleufinian Ceres to England till I fee her. Report faid, the Sigran infeription was coming; but for this alfo I fhall wait. Q.Q. HE medal marked fig. 1, Pl. II. This is one of the honorary medallions ftruck by his fubjects in compliment to JOHN III. king of Sweden, who began his reign in 1568, and died 1592, was eminent for his piety aud learning, and fkilled in architecture and heraldry, as the various cafiles and other public buildings erected by him in different parts of the kingdoni, and the arrangement of the armis of its various provinces on his coins, which was adopted and retained by his fuccellors, atteft. Thefe very beautiful and elegant coins were firuck both in gold and filver, and of different weights, when Sigifinund, hereditary prince of Sweden, was preparing to accept the crown of Poland, which had been unanimoutly and folemnly offered to him by all ranks of people. The king, his father, prefented him with 100 pieces of money, bearing this and other devices, of four patterns and different progref-, five weights, from one ducat to five, weighing all together 5050 ducats, or 10,100 imperial dollars. Bremner, Thefaurus Nummorum Sueo-Gothorum, pp. $8, 91, 92, tab. II. Some other correspondent may better inform you on what occafion fig. 3. was firuck, whether by any of the German Anabaptifis, in commencora tion. Yours, &c. D. H. Mr. URBAN, Clofe of Sarum, June 22. I was firuck in honour of Lord I PRESENT to your antiquarian Nelfon's Egyptian victory, and given to John Scott, feaman, on-board the Minotaur; whofe account of it you printed vol. LXVIII. p. 1139. Fig. 2. is thus inferibed : JOHANNES 3. D. G. SWECORUM. GO TORUM. VAND. & REX. Three-quarter figure, with a long beard, in armour, crowned, fword in righthand, globe and crofs in left. An outer circle of 23 fhields of arms of the provinces, under crowns, firft collected together on the coins of this prince. Reverse on a fhield crowned Az. three ducal crowns O. quartering A. three finifter bends wavy Az. Sweden. over all a lion rainpant G. crowned (. kingdom of the Goths; on a fhield of pretence the arms of Gafiavus, a fafcis with ribbands. "Deus protector nofter. Beneficiendo neminem timemus. Mifericord. et veris, cufted. reg. et robor. clem. thron, eitis." GENT. MAG. July, 1802. correfpondents an impreflion from a curious gold feal-ring, feemingly of great antiquity, and rendered fomewhat interefting from the adventitious circumflance under which it came to light. A fhepherd's boy (not Bloomfield), driving his flock from Salisbury plain, obferved at the foot of White-theet hill, near Wardour cattle, one of his fheep to halt. Upon catching it, to to difcover the caufe, he found one of its claws encircled with this ring. The fheep was infiantly relieved from its lain nefs, and the ring fafely depofited in the boy's pocket. Being brought a few days afterwards to a goldfinith in this place, it was dif covered to be of the purefi gold, maffy (ie. about eight pennyweights), perfectly plain, without any infeription, the feal of a whitifh coloured ftone, bearing the impreflion, Pl. II fig. 4. I have nicely compared it with the Arundel arms, under the idea that it might might formerly have belonged to fome inhabitant of the neighbouring castle of Wardour, but find no affinity to the arms of that family; nor can I, confidering the unfrequented fpot whereon it was found, and the evident characterifticks of its antiquity, form fo probable a conjecture refpecting its origin as, perhaps, fome of your ingenious and more enlightened correfpondents may do. I will, therefore, thank them for any explanation they can give of it, either in heraldry or antiquity. Yours, &c. JAMES WICKINS. gentifque fuæ pofteris fummi D. D. D. qui heic lucem hanc idemque excellentiffimæ dicti regis majefinterioribus facris [tati ab anno Chriftianor' 1674." It is the folio edition printed by Feilde, at Cambridge, 1660, having in the frontifpiece Solomon on his throne of lions. On the cover is the crown over two Cs conjoined, for Carolus a Carolo; and on the edge the rofe and crown. The Common Prayer is the London edition. In it is the autograph of the bishop. The books, cufhions, &c. are kept in a wainscot cheft, which, ftanding on the flone floor, contracts damp and mould. The chapel has a large Weft window over a fmall door; an aile of two arches on clufiered columns. A screen divides it from that part where the monuments are, which were crowded with the furniture of the farm-houses then under repair. This Mr. Bridges calls the North aile, built to answer the South, and ufed only as a place of burial, vol. I. p. 198. The covering for the pulpit, the communion-table, and three arm-chairs, all of crimfon velvet, are remaining in a very torn and ragged ftate. Mr. Henn could not have expected a font if he had recollected this was a private family chapel, though called in Ecton a rectory, and joined with Hinton, the rector or curate of which officiates in it once a month during the fummer months, for which, I am informed, 201. is paid; a benefaction of Bp. Crewe. All that remains of the old manfionhoufe on the South fide of the chapel is the kitchen, which, with the contiguous large farm-houfe, from the road has the appearance of a confiderable manfion. In it is one large lofty parlour, fed as a dairy during the repair, in which are a portrait of Charles I. and another of a lady holding a lamb in her right arm, and in her left hand a book; Hogarth's prints of Hudibras and Marriage à-la-Mode; and the Luxemburg gallery. The prefent tenant of the farm is Mr. Smith, of Charlton. Over the chapel Welt door in ca pitals: Holinefs becometh this houfe, O Lord!” and in the pediment above a fhield infcribed, . UILT BY T C. 162.. probably Serjeant Crewe, who died 1633, and married Temperance Bray, who died 1619. In the pandrils of the South door the arms of Crewe, and three eagles legs*, Bray, by whom the manor of Hinton and Stene came to Crewe. There are fo many gilded vine-leaves and bunches of grapes about the monuments, that I fufpect Polyxena's story, vol. LVI. p. 450. The oldeft monument is that of Sir Thomas Crewe, ferjeant at law, and fpeaker of the Houfe of Commons 21 The fame arms impaled by Crewe are on fix alms-houfes at the North end of Brackley, founded by the Serjeant, and augmented by the Bishop. James - James I. and 1 Charles I. who died 1633, aged 66. His figure, in a ferjeant's gown, lies on a tomb, refting his head on his right hand, and holding in his left a roll; and by him is his wife Temperance, daughter of Reginald Bray, eq. who died 1619, aged $8. Next below this are the monuments of Thomas, Lord Crewe, and his wife, Mary Townfend, his grandfon, and John, Lord Crewe, his fon, 1679, and his wife, Jemimah Waldegrave; of Penelope, daughter of Sir Philip Frowde, knt. wife of the bishop, who died 1699, aged 44; of the bifhop himfelf 1721, aged 88, and of his fecond wife, Dorothy, daughter of Sir Will. Forfter, knt. who died 1715, aged 42. On the oppofite fide, a monument for the ferjeant's third daughter, Temperance, wife of John Brown, efq. who died 1634, aged 25, reprefenting her rifing out of the tomb; made by John and Mathias, fons of Gerard Christmas; of whom fee Walpole's As a fhort fummary of the Bishop's life and preferment, for the ufe of thofe who may hereafter-visit the scene of his birth and death, take the following particulars. not much confidered. By the death of his two elder brothers he became Ba ron Crewe of Stean, and married that year. He protefted againit the impeachment of Sacheverell, and voted him not guilty. He was a great benefactor to Lincoln cathedral, and laid out great fums on his palace at Durham, where he fat 47 years. In his private character he was hofpitable, generous, and charitable; in his public, a rigid high-churchman, and a favourer of popery. See his life in the new edition of the Biographia Britannica; and "An Examination of the Life and Character of Nathanael Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham; wherein the Writings of his feveral Biographers, and other Authors. are critically reviewed, and compared with a Manufcript never before publifhed, containing curious Anecdotes of that Prelate; 1790," 8vo. H. D. Mr. URBAN, June 14, 1801. YOU will join your regrets to mine, for the demolition of Afhridge houfe, the feat of religion, royalty, and nobility, from the reign of Elizabeth to the prefent time; of the Bon Hommes till the Reformation; of Queen Elizabeth; and of the Egerton family, who got it by exchange in the In their carly poffeffion, Milton, who fecond year of the reign of James 1. lived at Horton, near Colnebrook, at no great difiance from it, was a pařtaker; and wrote his celebrated mafk of Comus, to be performed by the younger branches of the family, a copy (now waiting for Mr. King's hammer of which was found in the library to difperfe it for ever *), and published by Mr. Todd 1798 (fee vol. LXVIII. P. 703). How far that intelligent Editor was confenting to the difperfion of a library, it not formed, certainly noticed by the firft earl, one of Milton's actors, who ordered an analyfis to be made of it He was born at Stean, Jan. 3, 1633. He was admitted of Lincoln college, 1652, and was elected rector 1668; inftalled dean of Chichefter 1669, and held with it the præcentorship. He was clerk of the clofet to Charles II.; bishop of Oxford, 1671, holding with it in commendam his headship, which he refigned next year, and the rectory of Witney. He performed the arriage of James, duke of York, with Maria of Este, and through that prince's intereft obtained, 1674, the fee of Durham, which had been kept vacant near three years, and which he took on difgraceful terms at laft. He baptized the daughter of James, duke of York; and on his acceffion was made, 1685, dean of the chapel royal, in the room of Henry Compton, bithop of London, who was rénioved, and against whom and feveral others he acted with feverig in the new ecclefiaftical commiffion renewed till 1688, when it was finally abolished, and the bishop changed fides, voting that James II. had abdicated; and, repenting of his former connexions, he was excepted out of the act of indemuity, and attempted to quit the kingdom, but found means afterwards to preferve his peace, and keep his bishoprick unmolelted, but it, in the beginning of the prefent year. in 24 volumes, one for each letter; how far he witneffed the demolition of a feries of old portraits on wood and canvas in one promifcuous blaze; how far *This MS. (copies of which are carefully preferved in private hands) belonged to one of the household of the Crowes, and was purchased with the Fbiary of a gentleman nearly allied to Mr. Trotter, one of the bishop's domeftics, who furvived him many years. + This letter has been accidentally for fome time miflaid.The file was realle, and the books motfly bought in; but two fales have been made of all talents from |