410 Compendium of County History-Somersetshire. [May, Hall, situate over Bishop Bubwith's Hospital. Wiveliscombe Almshouse, founded by Sir John Coventry. Yeovil Church, fine Gothic structure; Market House, very commodious. Seats. Longleat, Marquis of Bath, Lord Lieutenant of the County. Alcomb, Sir George Hewett, bart. Alston Court, Huntspill, late R. Buncombe, esq. Ammerdown, Samuel Jolliffe, esq. Berkley House, Frome, Rev. J. M. Rogers. Castle, Earl of Egmont. Farley Park, Duke of Somerset. Halsewell House, C. K. K. Tynte, esq. Hatch Court, Thomas Clifton, esq. Charterhouse, Sam. J. Day, esq. Samuel Doddington, esq. Huntspill, G. Saunders, esq. J. Jeffreys, esq. King Weston, W. Dickenson, esq. House, East, J. Lock, esq. Marston Biggott, Earl of Cork and Orrery. Mells Park, T. Horner, esq. Mellyfont Abbey, Sir James William Wes- Rev. W. Phelps. Midford Castle, Charles Conolly, esq. Newman, esq. Nunney Castle, Thomas Theobald, esq. Orchard Wyndham, H. Tripp, esq. Egremont. near Watchet, Earl, of Parrett, near Crookhorn, Mrs. Hoskins, Pennard, East, Park, G. M. B. Napier, esq. Pitcomb, Rev. Mr. Dalton. Pixtou, Earl of Carnarvon. Plash House, R. J. S. Escott, esq. Redlynch Park, Earl of Ilchester. Sand-hill Park, Sir T. B. Lethbridge, bart. Stratton House, Chilcompton, C. G. Gray, 1823,] Compendium of County History-Somersetshire. Wilton Batts, J. Snork, esq. 411 Wootton, near Glastonbury, Sir Alexander Woodbarrow House, Purnell, esq. Woolston House, Rev. A. Askew. Peerage. Dukedom of Somerset, and Barony of Hacché to Seymour; Bath Marquisate to Thynne of Warminster: Beauchamp of Hacché Viscounty to Conway, Marquis of Hertford; Bridgewater Earldom to Egerton; Bonville of Chewton Barony to Grey, Earl of Stamford; Boyle of Marston Barony to Boyle, Earl of Cork and Orrery; Lovell and Holland of Enmore Barony to Perceval, Earl of Egmont; Chewton Viscounty to Earl of Waldegrave; Cooper of Pawlett Barony to Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury; Glastonbury Barony to Granville of Butley; Mendip Barony to Ellis, Viscount Clifden; Pitt of Burton Pynsent Viscounty to Pitt, Earl of Chatham; Poulett of St. Hinton St. George, Earldom, Hindon Viscounty, and Poulett Barony to Poulett; Ilchester Earldom, Ilchester and Stavordale, and Redlynch Baronies to Strangways; Rodney of Rodney Stoke Barony to Rodney; Wellesley Barony to Wellesley, Marquis Wellesley; Wellington Dukedom, Marquisate, Earldom, and Viscounty to Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, Members to Parliament for the County 2; Bath 2; Bridgewater 2; Ilchester 2; Milborne Port 2; Minehead 2; Taunton 2; Wells 2; total 16. Produce. Stone, iron, salt, manganese, bole and red ochre. Cattle, corn, oxen, fruits, copper, lead, marl, coal, hemp, crystal, coral, sea liverwort, lapis calaminaris. Fuller's earth, alabaster, sea-weed for glassmakers, and woad. Manufactures. Woollen cloths, hats, gloves, serges, druggets, sagathies, duroys, stockings, Spanish medly-cloths, dowlas, ticking, kerseys, baize, bone lace, knitting of hose, pottery, Chedder cheese. POPULATION. Hundreds 40. Liberties 7. Whole Parishes 472. Parts of Parishes 2. Market towns 34.-Inhabitants. Males 170,199; Females 185,115; total 355,314. Families employed in agriculture 31,448; in trade 27,132; in neither 14,957; total 73,537.-Baptisms. Males 48,777; Females 47,025; total 95,803.Marriages 24,356.—Burials. Males 27,867; Females 28,944; total 56,811. Places having not less than 1000 Inhabitants. Total places 75; houses 35,901; inhabitants 200,063, 178 1216 Stokelane 230 1000 219 1215 Nicholas 208 1281 Bishops Ly 212 1068 206' 1046 (To be continued:) EPITAPHS 412 Epitaphs on Englishmen buried at Rome, (Concluded from p. 218.) 0)) ((May, tis in Seminarijs ad Salutem Patriæsinstituendis, fovendis; periculis plurimis, ob ecc. Rom. opere, scriptis, omni corpore, animi contentione defensam: hic in ejus et N the cemetery of the English Col- gremio, scientiæ, pietatis, modestia, integrilege at Rome. IN 28. D. O. M. D. Hugoni Odoeno, nobili Cambro Britanno, Carnaviensi, qui florente adhuc ætate, patria heresi infecta fugiens L. annos, in Gallia, Hisp, Belgio, Italia, vivens exilio, consenuit, cujus opera et consilio uterque Philippus Hisp. Reges, Albertus Austriæ et Burgundiæ, et Alexander Parmæ duces, in rebus gravissimis, sunt usi. Catholicam contra Sectarios fidem semper pro virili adjuvit, provexitque usque adeo, ut illius zelo exagitati heretici insidia struere, calumnijs traducere novas in dies illi molestias, usque ad extremum vitæ spatium non desisterint, quas o'es erecto semper et infracto a'i'o, vel contempsit, vel superavit, cuius in Deum pietas, liberalitas in pauperes, in bonos o'es benevolentia, ereptum terris, coelo dignum, reddiderunt. Romæ Octogennarius, Romanæ fidei propugnator acerrimus, maximo Catholicorum Anglorum dolore, moritur iii. kal. Junij, anno MDCXVIIII. Collegium Anglorum insigni benefactori, et Carolus Guineus, ex sorore nepos, ex testamento hæres, amantissimo avunculo po suere. 29. D. O. M. Patri Roberto Personio, Anglo, Somesetano, Societatis Jesu Sacerdoti integerrimo, atque doctissimo et huiusce collegij op timo moderatori, qui ad animi cultum, ad studium pietatis, ad Angliæ conversionem collegiorum domicilijs, ac diversarijs per opportuna loca qua per ipsum ex integro constitutis, qua collocupletatis ab ipso magnæ spei convocauit, magnis laboribus instituit juventutem hispali Vallidolid Gadibus Vlisippone duæci Audomari Romæ, quo duce, eo Socio pater Edmundus Campianus Catholicæ Reipublicæ propugnator acerrimus in Angliam, primus ex Societate trajecit, quoque vindice et patrono veritatis hostium passim exagitata temeritas libris, scriptis, sermonibus, litteris, exemplis, defensa religio, recreata sanctitas, cum inter hæc ipse nullam caperet partem concesse quietis nullum suo capite recusaret discrimen honestissimæ defensionis semper paratus, semper erectus, semper in mediam flammam periculosissime consecrationis irrumpens, animæ magnæ prodigus omnino vir, LXIII explevit annos, ex queis sex ex triginta in Soc. Jesu per omnia virtutis exempla transegit. Obijt xv. Ap❜lis MDCX. 30. Deo Trino Vni. Gulielmo Alano, Lancastrensi, S. R. E. presb. Card. Angliæ, qui extorris a patria, perfunctus laboribus diuturnis in orthodoxa religione tuenda; sudoribus mul tatis fama, et exemplo clarus, ac piis omnibus charus, occubuit xvII. Kal. Nov. an. Inter lacrimas exulum pro religione, ciæt. LXIII. exilij xxx111. Sal. Hum. MDXCIV. vium perpetuum illorum effugium, Gabriel Alanus frater, Thomas Heschetus sororis filius, fratri avunculo chariss. mærentes posuerunt. 81. D. O. M. Audoeno Ludovico, Cambro Britanno, V. S. D. ac Professori Oxonij in Anglia, ac regio Buaci in Flandria, Archidiacono Annoniæ, et Canonico in Metropolitana Cammeracensi, atque Officiali Generali utriusque Signaturæ, referendario Caroli Cardinalis Borromei Archiepiscopi Mediolanensis, vicario generali Gregorij xIII. et Xijsti v. in congregatione de consultationibus Episcoporum et regularium a Secretis, Episcopo Cassamensi Gregorij XIV., ad Helvetios nuntio Clementis VIII. apostolicæ visitationis in alma urbe adjutori; Anglos in Italia, Gallia, ac Belgia, omni ope semper juvit, atque ejus inprimis opera hujus Collegij ac duacensis et Rhemensis fundamenta jacta sunt. Vixit annos LXI. menses IX. dies XXIX.; exul a patria xxxIIII.; obijt XIV. Octobris MDXCV. Ludovicus de Torres Archiepiscopus Montis Regalis amico posuit. of the Dominican Friars called the MiInscription in the vault of the Church nerva at Rome. 32. D. O. M. Philippo Thoma Houuardo, de Norfolcia et Arundelia, S. R. E. Presbitero, Cardinali tit. B. Mariæ supra Minervam, ex sacr. familia FF. pred. S. Mariæ majoris Archipresbitero, Magna Britanniæ protectori, magno Angliæ Elemosinario, Patriæ et pauperum patri, filij Prov. Anglicanæ, ejusdem ordinis, parenti, et restauratori opt. Heredes inscripti moerentes posuere, annuentibus S. R. E. Cardd. emm. Palatio de Alteriis, Francisco Nerlio, Fabritio Spada, supremi testamenti executoribus: obijt XIV. Kalend. Jul. An. Sal. MDCXCIV. etatis suæ 1893.] On Englishmen buried abroad. pietatis existimatione decessit. Hoc monymentum Golfridus Vachanus, et Thomas Fremannus, amici, ex testamento pos. Obijt anno Salutis MDLXI. XIIII. Kal. Febr. 34. D. O. M. Roberto Pechamo, Anglo, Equiti Aurato, Philippo et Mariæ Angliæ, et Hispan. Regibus, olim a consilijs, genere, religione, virtute, præclaro, qui, cum patriam suam a fide catholica deficientem adspicere sine summo dolore non posset, relictis omnibus quæ in hac vita carissima esse solent, in voluntarium profectus exilium, post sex annos, pauperibus Christi heredibus testamento institutis, sanctissime e vita migravit Idib. Sept. ann. MDLXIX. ætatis suæ LIV. Thomas Goldouellus, Episcopus Asaphensis, et Thomas Kirtonus, Angli, Testamenti procuratores pos. Φ Mr. URBAN, May 12. N addition to your Correspondent, "J. B." p. 216, upon the subject of Englishmen buried in the cemetery for Heretics at Venice, allow me to send the following particulars of the family of the Westons, Earls of Portland. The daughter of the 1st Earl of Portland, viz. Anne Weston, married the Earl of Denbigh, a nobleman in favour of the restoration of Charles II. She died at Venice, March 10, 1634, and is most probably the person who says is buried there; but I have not been able to ascertain whether her father, mentioned by " J. B.," either died or was buried at Venice. He was son of Sir Jerome Weston, of #Roxwell, and Sheriff of the county * of Essex, in the 41st of Elizabeth; he was made Chancellor of the Exchequer; created Baron Weston of Neyland, co. Essex, 1628; appointed Lord Treasurer of England, upon the removal of the Earl of Marlborough; and, February 17, 1632, Earl of Portland. He died only two days after his daughter Anne. Catharine Weston, who died Nov. 6, 1645, aged 39, lies buried in the cemetery of the English College at Rome; see p. 217, where the inscription to her memory is given. He was succeeded by his son, Jerome Weston, who died 16 or 18 March, 1662; and was succeeded by his son and heir, Charles Weston; who was slain in a sea-fight against the Dutch, June 3, 1665, s. p. These Earls of Portland bore for their arms: Or, an eagle, regardant and displayed Sable. Thomas Weston, 4th Earl, and uncle to Charles Weston, 3rd Earl, married Anne, daughter of John, Lord Butler In addition to "CARADOC," p. 217, and "AN ANTIQUARY," p. 296, I send the following notices of Englishmen buried abroad. Richard de Placetis, or Richard de Barbafluta (from the town of Barbefleure, now Barfleur, in Normandy) son of William de Placetis, of the noble family of Placetis, of Newton, co. Somerset, Earls of Warwick, died "beyond sea," and ordered his body to be buried in some foreign Church, near the body of Madelina de Clerby, his first wife, with whom he lived abroad, and gave several parcels of land in Normandy and Poictu to religious uses for the health of his soul. John de Wrotham, a person of great quality, bred up in the Courts of Edw. I. and II. who recommended him to the Popes Benedict XI. and Clement V. as a person of great learning, probity, and courtesy," and in 32 Edw. I. he was recommended, under the same character, to Charles King of Sicily. He died at Bolonia in the year 1323, and was there buried. Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, N STEMMALYSMU. May 13. the Quarterly Review, published in Feb. last, (No. LV. PP. 181 -183) are some severe remarks upon a Society denominated the "Royal Society of Literature," in which it is called a Society lately erected for the Manufacture of Poems and Essays." Having a friend, certainly not one of those" deaf and dumb authors," or "a wretched author, who has never been fortunate enough to hit the publick taste," or an usher of a school, or an attorney's clerk, which the Reviewers designate as the most likely persons to obtain the patronage of the Society, but, on the contrary, a man of acknowledged talent and recondite learning, with a large family, I was in hopes, as his friends had proposed him, with the best recommendations, that he would have been elected one of the associates. No proceedings of the Society have been, however, made public subsequent to the com 414 Royal Society of Literature.-Alderman Smith's Charities. commencement of The remarks of the Reviewers are evidently hypothetical, and can be sound only, as their predictions are verified, with regard to election of the characters presumed. But the case ought to be otherwise, and I hope is so in intention at least: for I cannot suspect that the high character who is understood to be the author of the Institution had any such objects in view, as private friends or mere lite rary butterflies. It must be manifest that there are scholars, whose works are of too learned a character to be purchased by Booksellers, and yet require talent and labour far superior to the compilation of books of general currency. Does it follow, that such men meet with preferment? If they are members of a University, that may reward them, and often does. But where else will they even find readers? These are the men upon whom the Royal Bounty would very properly be bestowed; viz. learned inen, properly so called, who have acquired public favour by merit, but whose studies have not, nor can remunerate them, on account of the peculiar direction of their pursuits. Theology, Antiquities, Philology, Mathematics, and many other abstruse enquiries, have only a limited class of readers, and Messrs. Murray, Cadell, or Longman, would not even print their works for nothing, as being scholar's books, much more purchase them of the authors. I must therefore think, that such elaborate and learned authors are proper subjects for patronage; and that the propriety of the Institution in question ought not to be prejudged by a presumption of misapplication. I speak with regard to my own friend, who is known to be an elaborate writer, on a subject certainly limited, who has however found favour from the publick, and who is also a man of character, with a large family, and [May, who has not found, in the language Mr. URBAN, IN. E. May 12. N page 295, your Correspondent, "W. WRIGHT," has mixed up with some truth, and more mistakes, the idle, vulgar, and groundless story of Henry Smith, Esq. so eminent for his extensive charities, having been a beggar, followed by a dog*. I wish to set him right. Mr. Smith was a Silversmith and an Alderman of London. He lived in Silver-street, Cheapside, and having acquired a great deal of money, he' purchased estates in different counties, and in the latter part of his life, 1620, he conveyed the same, and all his personal estate, to trustees for charitable purposes. The trustees were chiefly of the most respectable rank and character." But he became dissatisfied with some of them, and he applied to the Court of Chancery for assistance. He filed a bill against his trustees, alleging that some of them were indebted to him in large sums; that having no child, and” having purposed to bestow great part of his estate in charity, and reposing great confidence in his trustees, but not intending to discharge the debts due to him from some of them, he had ' executed the deeds, but continued in quiet possession of his estate and property, and continued to inhabit his house in Silver-street, and to receive the interest of his money; that those deeds contained a power of revocation, which power two of his trustees had induced him to release; that he was desirous of having a reconveyance, that he might himself settle the uses for which he intended to apply his 'property, with which most of his trustees were willing to comply, if they could, safely do so, but were dissuaded by the The idle story about Mr. Smith and his dog, probably took its rise from a benefactor to the parish of Lambeth, who, prior to Mr. Smith's benefactions, is understood to have been a Pedlar, and to have given to that parish an acre of ground. His portrait is represented in a window of Lambeth Church, walking with a pack on his back, a staff in his hand, and followed by a dog. This portrait was there previous to the year 1607, as appears by the parish books. The idle story about his dog is, that the Pedlar gave the acreni for leave to bury his dog in the Church-yard. This acre is to this day called Pedlar's Acre; it was long let at a few shillings rent, but the building of Westminster Bridge, the Surrey abutment of which stands on part of it, has made the remainder of great value to the parish.-Manning and Bray's Surrey, vol. III. pp. 465, 503. others. |