I VINGHOE, or Ivingo, co. Bucks, seven miles South East from Dunstable, near the Chiltern Hills, is a vicarage in the hundred of Cotslow and Deanery of Muresley, in the presenDeanery tation of the Bridgewater family; rated in the King's books at 12/. 165. 1d. and is a discharged living, of the clear yearly value of 367. 16s. 6d. The old Roman road, called the Ikenild Way, which runs through the kingdom from Portsmouth to Tynmouth Haven, passes very near this place, but is impassable in winter or very wet weather for carriages. Ivinghoe is seated low, but dry, on a rock of ragstone, an uninclosed, open track of land extending from Dunstable to Tring. The air is pure, blowing continually fresh from the Downs. The town has evidently been of much larger extent than at present. On removing some earth lately by the plough, a scull and bones were dug up on a place called Windmill Hill; and some have been found in cellars in all parts of the town when digging. Henry of Bloys, in France, or Henry de Blois, bishop of Winchester, made this, among others, his place of residence, as we find on record. He built a seat here called Berrystead House, which has long been converted into a farm-house; and all that remains is an old kitchen with a two-tunnel fire-place, the tunnels built lozenge ways. It being the manor-house, the court leet and baron is held in a large room in it, twice a year. It is situated in the South East corner of the church-yard, and is now the property of the Earl of Bridgewater, lord of the manor. The above De Blois had the grant of a Market on Thursdays for this town in 1318. The present market, if it may be so called, is held on Saturday, for butchers' meat and straw plat, with two or three stalls. The Market-house is not much superior to a large tiled cow-crib! The first fair, on St. Margaret's, was granted in 1227; and another, on the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, by the charter of 1318. The present fairs are held on May the 6th and October 17th for cattle, and several good drapers, shoes, clothes, and other stalls. It had originally a gaol, and criGENT. MAG. March, 1812. minals were executed at a place. called Gallows Knot.-A large roundhouse, which stood in the middle of the town, was pulled down about 20 years ago, with a cage and stocks beneath, in consequence of a fire in the town, and has not since been erected. The Church (see Fl. 1.) is an antient Gothicstructure, ofthe cruciform plan, standing, originally, in the centre of the houses. It is a lofty building, but small. At a distance it looks like a small cathedral, the shell being a fine piece of good-proportioned architecture, as observed by Browne Willis when he visited it. The side ailes are not so long as they are high, being nearly the height of the nave. It consists of a nave, two side ailes, North and South aile, and chancel, with a strong square embattled tower in the intersection of nave, North and South ailes, chancel, &c. surmounted with a moderate spire covered with lead; a handsome lofty porch at the West end, having an embattled parapet crowned with the arms of Edward, France and England quartered on a plain shield, with crown and supporters, two lions apparently, placed in the front, carved in stone, as also a cross over it. Above this porch is the large West window, containing four lights, with lofty mullions and ramified head, over which is a niche for the Virgin, &c. and above that another stone cross, neatly wrought, and porch North and South. The nave has a series of five windows of three lights each. The whole pile has an embattled parapet, except the side ailes, which are plain, most of them leaded for preservation, as is the roof entirely, buttresses, projections, &c. The tower rises two stories above the nave, of good proportion, with a small square tower at the North West corner, called by the inhabitants the Bushel Tower, having had a bushel measure placed on it, containing a fruit tree. On the spire is a gilt ball and weathercock. The tower story on the East side has two lancet windows, and several circular ones are stopped up. There are four entrances to the church, North, West, and South porches, and small door in the channel. The whole is built with flint and stone grouted; and free stone internal and external angles, windows, frames, and door-cases, all rough cast. The internal architecture is not inelegant. The nave is separated from the side ailes by two rows of octagon columns with foliage capitals, four on each side, five pointed arches, plain mouldings, but bold. The nave is open to the roof, and all other parts of the church. The timbers and raf, ters are ornamented with pendant angels, particularly over the part where the rood-loft was, with a block and puiley, originally, I suppose, for a lamp to be suspended. The roof rests on long posts, set on corbels of stone, curiously carved into wry faces, as if they were sensible of the weight of the roof on their shoulders. The posts are between the windows, and are carved to represent the twelve Apostles, not badly executed. The pulpit is against one of the South pillars near the transept, being handsomely carved oak, with the Resurrection on the back; a thick sounding board carved into tracery or fretwork, a reading desk and clerk's ds k decreasing in height. The iron crane and frame to place the hour-glass in still remain. There are but few pews, being chiefly very antient stalls, the tops of which are carved in a rude and irregular manner. There is a newly-erected gallery at the West end; on each side of the window over it are two remarkably fine stender columns at the edge, from the springing of the arch to the bottom, with capital and base. A stone seat ruus round the back of the side ailes. A very antient stone font stands near the South West corner of the nave; it is of an octangular shape, and has formerly had one round pillar at each corner, as the tops and bottoms plainly shew; they stood clear of the octagon foot it now rests on. The whole of the church is neatly paved, but wants a thorough repair. Yours, &c. J. S. B. (To be concluded in our next.) Toddington, In the time of king Edward the Confessor, Leofstaue Abbot of. St. Alban's gave this manor to three knights, Turnoth, Waldof, and Turman; but in the tine of William the Conque ror, Ralph de Thony, Todeny, Tony, or Toni, his standard-bearer at the battle of Hastings, held it, as appears from Domesday Book: "In Danais Hund. Ralf de Todeny holdeth Flamstede for two hides of land." Camden states it to have been granted to the father of Ralf. It was the chief place of his residence. He married the daughter of Simon de Montford, and dying left a son Ralf, who married the daughter of the Earl of Huntington and Northumberland, his heir. Roger was his heir, and married the daughter of the Earl of lainault. Ralf was disinherited by king Joha for assisting the Barons, yet came into favour again, and was restored by Henry III. Robert, his successor in the sixth generation, 27. Edward I. obtained a charter of that king for a market on Thursdays, and a fair on the eve, day, and morrow after the feast of St. Leonard, and five days following. The present fair or feast is kept eleven days before, the market has been long disused. To the manor, as Robert died 3 Edward II. without issue, Alice his sister, widow of Thomas Leghorn, was found heir, and married to Guy de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick, whose heir was the famous Guy, who died near Calais 43 Edward 111. His beirs enjoyed this a long time; but male issue failing, and Anne daughter of the duke of Warwick dying young, his sister Anne inherited, who was married to Richard Nevil Earl of Salisbury, who had with her the title of Earl of Warwick. This Richard dying at Barnet field, temp. Edward IV. the estate fell to the Crown. His Countess, 3. Henry VII. possessed it again, after the death of her daughters. Henry VIII. granted it to George Ferrars and his heirs, from whom it came to Sir John Ferrars Mr. URBAN, Bedfordshire, March 4. and Knighton Ferrars of Beyford, T once HE small remains of the market-town of FLAMSTED are pleasantly situated on a holl about twenty-seven miles on the turnpike road, leading from London to Dunstable; antiently called Verlamstedt, owing, it is supposed, to the river Vere, or Verulam, or Verlume, washing the foot of the hill.. whose daughter, Katharine, married to Thomas Lord Fanshawe. Lord and Lady Fanshawe sold it to Serjeant Edward Pecke, from him it descended to William his son, of Stamford in Essex, who left a son William, and he disposed of it to Mr. Pearce, whose second son is the present lord of the manor. The The Church (see Plate I.) is dedicated to St. Leonard. It is in the hundred of Dacorum and deanery of Berkhamsted, valued in the King's books at 411. 68. Sd. a rectory impropriate, antiently in the Crown, part in the University of Oxford, and part in the Sebright family of Beechwood Park; the former granted it by lease to them that they should find a curate to officiate in the church. King James I. granted the reversion to trustees for Mr. Gunsty, curate therein, in 1618, by lease for forty-two years. The Church stands high. Leland, says, that "riding through a thorough fair on Watling street, not far from Mergate (Market Street) he saw in a pretty wood side St. Leonard's on the left hand, &c." It is built in the Gothic style, of flints and courses of tiles (supposed to be Roman) alternately, part plastered, with a square tower at the West end, surmounted with a high leaded spire and vane; and a clock dial on the North side. The building is uniform, consisting of a nave, two side ailes, North and South porch, and a chancel at the end, with a vestry on the North side, lofty ceiling, formerly two stories, in which is a piscina, door into the chancel, near which is a handsome monument by Flaxman, close to the altar, Faith and Hope at top, and an urn in the centre, inscribed as follows: "Sacred to the memory of Sir Edward Sebright, third baronet, descended from William Sebright of Sebright Hall, in the county of Essex, and of Blakeshall, in the county of Worcester, in the reign of Henry II. He died December 15, 1702, aged 36 years, and was interred in a family vault at Besford Court, in the county of Worcester. He left issue four children, Thomas, Edward, Anne, and Helen." "Dame Anne Sebright, only surviving daughter and sole heir of Thomas Saunders, esq. of Beechwood, in the county of Hertford, and Helen Sadler, of Sopewell, in the same county, relict of Sir Edward Sebright, third Baronet. She died December 25, 1719, aged 49 years. Her remains are deposited in her family vault in this church." "Sir Thomas Saunders Sebright, fourth Baronet, died April the 12, 1736, aged 44. His remains are deposited in the family vault in this Church. He left issue two sons, Thomas and John." "Dame Henrietta Sebright, relict of Sir Thomas Saunders Sebright, Baronet, and daughter of Sir Samuel Dashwood, knight, died March 21, 1772; and her remains are deposited in the vault in this church." "Edward Saunders Sebright, esq. second son of Sir Edward Sebright, bart. travelling through France, was murdered by robbers near Calais, December 12, 1723, aged 25. His remains were brought to England, and are deposited in the family vault in this church." "Sir Thomas Saunders Sebright, fifth Baronet, son of Sir Thomas and Dame Henrietta, died unmarried, October 30, 1761, aged 38. His remains are deposited in the family vault in this church." Yours, &c. (To be continued.) J. S. B. Mr. URBAN, March 1. Y an extract from the Oxford your last Supplement, p. 601, you have given some account of Clarendon House, in which it is stated "that the only trace which the curious Antiquary will now find upon the spot, to indicate the immaculate Clarendon once had possessions there, arises from the modern adoption of a possessor of a small piece of the land lying towards Bond Street, now distinguished as Clarendon Hotel." From some papers which I have seen, I am enabled to state why this house is so distinguished. At the beginning of the last century it was the property of Henry Lord Dover, and was conveyed by him as a security for money to John Chamberlain, and described as " part of the ground whereon a Capital Messuage or Mansion House, formerly called Clarendon House, and afterwards called Albemarle House, did then lately stand, or of ground to the said late capital messuage belonging, lying and being in the parish of Saint Martin the Fields, on the West side of a certain street there call ed Bond Street," and is mentioned as abutting on other grounds of the said Henry Lord Dover, part of which were let to the said John Chamberlain. It was afterwards conveyed to Henry Edward Earl of Lichfield, in trust for Barbary, Duchess of Cleveland, and by her to Charles Duke of Grafton. In 6 George III. an act was passed to enable the Duke of Grafton to sell the above premises, the same having been intailed by the will of his father, and they were in consequence purchased by John Earl of Buckinghamshire, shire, who also had an under lease of part of a piece of ground adjoining, formerly called Conduit Mead, which the City of London had agreed to let to the said Duke for 61 years, renewable every 14 years for ever. The Earl made it his town residence for many years, and died in the year 1793; by his will he directed the same to be sold, which was done by his executors, and it was converted into a Subscription House, since which it has been known as the Clarendon Hotel. A. B. Mr. URBAN, Louth, Feb. 15. N your LXXIXth Volume is a letter from Mr. Banks, in answer to another of your Correspondents, respecting the antient barony of Zouche of Harring worth. Mr. Banks; I find, has stated in his valuable publication, that "the descendants of the last Lord Zouche, in the line of Tate, are illegitimate," and for proof of their illegitimacy he refers to my letter on the subject, (Gent. Mag. Vol. LXXI. p. 402) in which I have shewn, from the most respectable authorities, that there is very great reason to conclude that Zouche Tate was illegitimate, In Vol. LXXVIII, p. 506, Mr. Banks says respecting the Tate family, "had F. T. ever travelled the counties of Buckingham and Northampton, he might have heard a current report which concurs with what, he states, I mean to insinuate." What is the report to which Mr. Banks alludes ? It should seem from the letter of your Correspondent, W-ds-r (Vol. XIX. p. 1013) that there is no issue from Mary, second daughter and coheir of the last Lord Zouche. Exclusive of the descendants of the Jast Lord Zouche, can any of your Correspondents inform me whether there is any issue from George Lord Zouche, who died in the year 1560, or from Richard Lord Zouche, whose sister, Catherine, married Francis Uvedale of Horton, Dorsetshire, second son of Sir William Uvedale, of More Crichel, in that county. Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, R. U. Feb. 6. having accidentally called at the White Swan at Stockwell, I saw in the parlour, what I suppose to be the very picture to which he alludes. It was an oil painting, composed of characters dressed in the costume of thetime of Queen Elizabeth. In the centre was a lady sitting with a gentleman reclining his head on her lap, apparently sleeping; on the right three persons were approaching from an antient building in the back ground; and on the left was a gentleman who appeared to be the first speaker in the following colloquy, which was inscribed in letters of an old character underneath, and which I have now copied from a memorandum hastily made at the time. The words omitted were not legible, but may be easily gathered from the context. "Madam, I pray you this one thinge me showe, Who yon three bee, if you them knowe, Comming from the castle, in such degree, What is their descent and nativitie? was tion of truth; to the hypocrite hypocrite a bitter, a determined foe; his imagination vivid and quick; his mind independent, disdaining servility equally to all; to his parents his affection was warm and constant; and in the cultivation of letters elegantly and actively his life past away: even to him no small praise is due, for the classical productions of his pen. But, alas! age, at length, without disease, weakened and exhausted his wail the miseries of man! the frailtics of our nature pardon and forget. Farewell." Mr. Nanswer to CIVIS, who, in p. 30, 1 makes inquiry respecting a remarkable family picture, noticed in your vigorous mind. Stop, traveller! and be Magazine some years since, I have to inform him that about six years ago, Mr. UREAN, Liverpool, Feb. 5. through the me PERMIT me, dium of your Magazine, to offer a few remarks on the Phoenissæ of Euripides, as lately edited by Mr. Burges. Your Readers, who have perused this edition, must have observed its principal features : which are a bold departure from several received and well-authenticated readings, and an innovation in some of the choral songs hitherto considered monostrophics; but in Mr. B's edition fashioned into strophes and antistrophes. I am not about to dispute the purity of diction which may exist in some of Mr. B's alterations; some of them may seem more intelligible than the received text: but I shall attempt to shew that, to make room for unwarranted conjecture, phrases and words have been expunged, which are not so unworthy Euripides, as Mr. B. appears to consider them. We may ramble in the devious wilds of conjecture, and perchance approach the excellence and catch the spirit of this admirable Tragedian, but, at the same time, we must not lose sight of venerable authorities before us; we must reject the illusions of fancy, and search for the fragments of the Poet's mind, sparkiing here and there among the dusty heaps of timeworn manuscripts and scholia; this I humbly conceive is a surer clue to purity of text. Thus we may, as it were, raise him from the shades, arrayed in all the splendour of his appropriate diction. But to proceed. First let us notice verse 145; Σπονδὰς ὅτ ̓ ἦλθον σῷ κασιγνήτω Φέρων. We observe the same words precede in verse 95: Mr. B. wonders this has escaped the notice of former editors and the celebrated Porson himself. Valckenaer, however, does appear to suspect the verse as an interpolation. But this is not the only repetition that occúrs in Euripides; and if we dismiss the verse in question, what must be the fate of many in his Medea and the other tragedies: yet suppose it away, and a dismemberment of the context directly shows the violence committed. Thus we see in the verse before, Σημεῖ ἰδὼν ΤΟΤ ̓ ἀσπίδων ἐγνώρισα then, Σπονδὰς ΟΤ ̓ ἦλθον σῷ κασιγνήτω Φέρων. so, if we take away the former verse, TOT' loses its correlative Oт'; hence it is very plain that the Poet wrote both the verses, or neither! To save the former, Mr. B. proposes to read τόδ' for τότ': this, however, completely mars the sense. He has no objection to τότ' signifying " olim," "formerly." But, unfortunately for him, Jocasta in the prologue intimates this messenger to be lately on his return from the Argive camp. Verse 81, Ἥξειν δ' ὁ πεμφθείς φησιν αὐτὸν ἄγγελος. Let us then exclude τότε; but I want the authority; for though two MSS. furnish us with ἐπεγνώρισα, yet Mr. Β ́ς ἀσπίδων ἐπὶ (a great liberty taken with the common reading) rests on no authority whatever. The mutilated writings of the Antients are not to be supplied by hardy transpositions of entire words, without the least regard to manuscripts, but they often are by a slight change in the letters of a word, or in the connexion of one word with another. Many of the manuscripts being written in capitals, and the words close together, copyists may have committed many and great blunders by the annexion to a word of a letter belonging to the next. We will now endeavour to protect the Poet from the charge of useless repetition. The scene, which is supposed to be in Thebes, beautifully exhibits to us Antigoné in conversation, on the roof of the palace, with her tutor, who had been to Argos as ambassador between her rival brothers. Not far from the walls of the city are the encampments of the enemy, and in verse 101, |