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1588, aged 45, leaving many MSS and was buried in St. Giles's. Cripplegate. See Weever's Funeral Monuments; Additions to dioc. London; Fuller's Worthies. Kent; Tanner's Bibliotheca; Dr. Smith's life of Camden, &c. &c. The copy of Milles's Catalogue (as it is commonly called), which is in the Bodleian Jibrary, was given to the University by Camden, as appears from a randum in his hand-writing at the bottom of the title page.

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William Camden, who is, as it were by common confent of scholars, univerfally furnamed the Learned, and whofe life has been written almoft as often, perhaps, as that of any literary perfon whatfoever, was created Richmond Herald (for form's fake only) Oct. 22, 1597, and on the following day advanced to the dignity of Clarencieux. The article "Armories," in his "Remaines concerning Britaine," being very long and replete with curious information, fufficiently entitles him to a place among Heraldic writers.

Ralph Brooke, York Herald, a man of a most turbulent difpofition, was author of certain animadverfions on Camden's Britannia, and of a lift of the nobility, which will presently be farther noticed. He died Oct. 16, 1625, and was buried at Reculver, in Kent. (MS lives of heralds, cited in the first volume of Archæologia, Introd. p. xix.). The biographers of our British Paufanias, Dr. Smith, bishop Gibfon, Mr. Gough, &c. inform us, that the real name of this his reftlefs and infidious adversary was Brookefmouth; but that he (Brookef mouth) thought proper to fiak the laft fyllable, having taken it into his wife head that Brooke was a name of more auguft and dignified found. To enter into all the particulars of his quarrel with Mr. Camden would take up more of your room, Mr. Urban, than you could conveniently fpare, and more of my time and trouble than I am inclined to beflow on fo unworthy a fubject. I beg leave, therefore, to refer your readers to the aforefaid biographers; and to Strype's edition of Stowe's Survey, vol. I. b. i. c. 23, where a long account is given of Mr. Brookefmouth's infa mous life and character, and where it appears that the man poffeffed no fingle qualification for his office, except that, having been once a painter, he had an excellent hand in tricking coats of arms" The lift abovementioned was printed in folio, 1619. A curious copy

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of this book is preferved in the Bodleian
library, all filled with marginal MS.
notes, written in a fair hand, and in the
first page is this memorandum, "N.B.
this note, and the rest of the notes in
this book, are the hand-writing of
William Camden, Clarencieux.
teftor Peter Le Neve, Norroy, 1709.
There are fome notes of Vincent's"
Brooke's 2d edition came out in 1621;
and in the year following was reprinted,
not indeed under his infpection or much
to his fatisfaction, with additions, cor-
rections, and this new title," A Dif-
couverie of Errours in the Catalogue of
Nobility, by R. Brooke, Yorke, &c. &c.
by Auguftine Vincent, Rougecroix Pour-
fuivant at Armes." Vincent has cho-
fen for his book this motto from Te-
rence, Pro captu lecloris habent fua fata
libelli. In the fame ftrain he concludes
with this dillich,

Oblectes animun, plebs eft morofa legenda,
Ille bene de te dicit at ille male.
Which he thus tranflates,
Heart take thine eafe,
Men hard to please
Thou haply mayst offend.
Though one fpeak ill
Of thee, fome will

Say better; there's an end.

He might well be indifferent to the opi nion of Mr. Brooke, or of the multitude; for he had the approbation of Selden and of Segar, with half the college of arms, prefixed to his book.

Auguftine Vincent, the worthy purfuivant of whom we have juft been fpeaking, became afterwards Windfor Herald, and keeper of the records in the Tower. He was fon of William Vincent, of Wellingborough and Thingdon, in Northamptonshire, and intended to publifh the antiquities of that county. He had alfo undertaken a Baronage of England, but dying before it was finished, his fon John Vincent enlarged and completed it; but it was never published. Wood thought it "a very flight and trite thing in comparison of Sir W. Dugdale's." Vincent died Jan. 11, 1625-6, and was buried in St. Benet's church. See Ath. Oxon. vol. L. art. Fra. Tate; Faft. Ox. on. vol. II. art. Dugdale; and the various lives of Camden. Weever calls Vincent Rouge-rofe extra, and Rougedragon, (Fun. Mon. Addit. to dioc. Lond.); but, in the title of his book, Vincent writes himself Rouge croix.

Sir William Segar, Kot. was appointed Garter in Jan. 1606, on the refignation of Dethick. Ten years after this,

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he was imprisoned by James I. for ha ving, by the treacherous contrivance of his and Mr. Camden's great though - unprovoked enemy, Ralph Brooke, haf tily fet his hand to a grant of the arms of Arragon, with a canton of Brabant,, to Gregory Brandon, who afterwards ap• peared to be the common hanginan. The faid Brooke was afterwards imprifoned himself for his knavery and treachery; and Sir William was honourably difcharged, upon the officers of arms exhibiting to the king a teltimony of his honey, integrity, and good carriage. He published "Honour, civil and i litary, 1602," folio; and from his MSS Mr. Edmondfon publifhed the five fplendid volumes of "Baronagium Genealogicum." Sir William died in Dec. 1633, and was buried at Richmond, in Surrey. (Archæot. vol. I. Introd. p. xviii, n.) When only Portcullis, he was fert by queen Elizabeth, in 1586, to attend the carl of Leicefter in the Low Countries. When Somerfet he rald, he went with the earl of Shrewsbury to deliver the Garter to Henry IV. of France, and was afterwards employed on the fame errand fucceffively to Chriftiern IV. of Denma k, and to Maurice and Henty, princes of Orange. (Weever's Fun. Mon. ubi fupra.)

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Sir Henry Spelman. This learned knight was born at Congham, Lynn, in Norfolk, A. D. 1562, being defcended from a very antient family. His education was in Trinity college, Cambridge, and in Lincoln's Inn; but, having .ctured into the county, and married, he, in 1604, ferved the office of high theriff of Norfork. King James I. employed him in various public ftations, and knighted him. Befides his celebrated Gloffary (the fecond part of which was publithed after his death by Dugdale), Hiftory of Councils and other elaborate works of which he was author, he wrote a Latin treatife of Heraldry, intituled "Afpilogia," which was published by Sir Edward Byshe, as hath been already related. In the Gloflary, kewife, the article "Heraldus' is very long. Sir Henry died at London, in 1641, and was buried, by the exprefs order of king Charles, with great funeral folemnity, oppofite Camden's monument. Vide, inter alia, Biog. Brit. and the life prefixed to Gibion's Reliquia Spelmannianæ.

"James Yorke, a blacksmith of Lin. colne, and an excellent workman" GENT. MAG. April, 1793.

(faith the facetious Dr. Fuller)" in his profeffion; infomuch that, if Pegafus hinfelf would wear fhoes, this man alone is fit to make them, contriving them fo thin and light, that they would be no burden to him. But he is a fervant as well of Aplio as Vulcan, turning his fiddy into a fudy, and having lately fet forth a book of Heraldry, containing the arms of the English nobility, and the gentry of Lincolnefhire; and, although there be fome mif takes (no hand to steady as always to hit the nail on the bead), yet is it of fin. gular ufe, and induftriously performed: being fet forth anno 1640." (Worthies, Lincolnefhire).

This book is in fmall

folio, and is taken, as himself confeffes, from Milles, Brooke, and Vincent. It is intituled, "The Union of Honour, containing the Armes, Matches, and

flues, of the Kings, Dukes, Marquef fes, and Earles, of England, from the Conqueft untill this prefent Yeere 1649; with the Armes of English Viscounts and Barons now being; and of the Gentry, of Lincolne-fhire." A fhort account of our blackfmith, much the fame as Fuller's, is given in the fecond volume of Granger's Biographical Hiftory, where the author has fubjoined, in a note, the following memorial of another heraldic genius in low-life:

"Thomas Knight, a late fhoemaker, at Oxford, was noted for his extenfive knowledge in Heraldry, in which branch of fcience he made confiderable coileċtions. He, on fight of an achieve. ment, rarely failed of telling immedi ately to whom it belonged. He alfo blazoned, drew, and added elegant or naments to arms. This man, by the force of an heraldical genius, which, if duly cultivated, would have qualified him for a King at Arms, funk in a few years from a thoemaker to a cobler. He died in 1767" To the above it may be added, that Tom Knight was alfo well killed in the Antiquities of Oxford, and for fome years before his death was employed by ftrangers, who vifited the univerfity, as the principal Cicerone of the place; an office, no doubt, of confiderable emolument. Qu. What became of his collections?

Peter Heylyn, D.D. This orthodox and loyal Doctor, who is well known as the author of "Cofmographie," and of many learned works in Divinity and Hiftory, claims a niche in our temple of heraldic worthics, as having written

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a catalogue of kings, bishops, and nobles, of this realm, intituled, "An Help to English Hiftory," &c. which was first published in 1641, under the borrowed name of Robert Hall, gent. and thence continued by the reverend compiler to 1652. Several additions were made to this catalogue by one Chriftopher Wilkinson, a bookfeller, who reprinted it in 1670. It was afterwards revised, and brought down to 1709, "with great care and exactnefs, by a gentleman of character in her Majefty's office of honour [qu. his name?], together with the feals of the archbifhops and bishops feals, as alfo the paternal coats of arms of the nobility blazoned." A farther continuation was published not long fince by Paul Wright, D.D. F.S.A. which, though not remarkable for exactnefs, is a very useful and convenient book. It ought likewife to be mentioned here, that the third part of Dr. Heylyn's History of St. George relates wholly to the most noble order of the Garter. The life of Heylyn has been repeatedly written by various perfons; but the fubftance of all the fe publications may be found in Wood, and the Biographia Britannica.

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a Diffenting minifter"-" a church was advertised to be fold" on the 14th of July; and Dr. Priestley, writing to Mr. Burke, "exults at the near approach of the total fubverfion of the Conftitution and the Etablished Religion of it." Thefe are the plain fimple facts, or premifes, Chriftianus advances; to be sure he ftops fhort at the inference, but it is too plain to be mistaken. Such then is the angular modefty, confiftency, and candour, of a writer who accufes L. L. of illiberality, and affumes a fignature which implies mercy, kindness, humblenefs of mind, meekness, and that godlike charity which doth not bebave itself unfeemly, is not eafily provoked, thinketh no evil.

I shall now, Mr. Urban, beg leave to afk Chriftianus, how he can make it appear probable, that the mob at Birmingham could have conceived fuch furious prejudices against the Diffenters, unlefs fome perfons behind the curtain had previously taken no little pains to inflil fuch fentiments among them? 2. What it was he fuppofes the Dif fenters were about to put in practice," in confequence of their "well-known political principles ? 3. In what part of Dr. P's letter to Mr. Burke can the fentiments Chriftianus has quoted from it be fairly and honeftly collected, with

out having recourfe again to the well

known, though infamous, trick of garbling? 4. Why did the friends of the High-church party appear to shrink from Mr. Whitbread's motion for an enquiry into the caufes of these infernal riots?

not a little galled with the elegant pan, the fpirited ftrictures, and manly indignation, of L. L, it is not ftrange that he should be "forry to fee the fubject renewed, and obtruded again upon your readers." However, upon the whole, he can have no great reafon to As to his fneer at L. L. for ufing the lament this obtrusion of L. L, and his words "free and brave" to people who "railing, unjust, and illiberal, accufa-"publicly and vauntingly profefs Athetion against particular members of the Church of England," fince it has afforded him an opportunity of difplaying his own candid, libera! disposition, and his utter diflike to return railing for railing. L. L. is "unjuft, illiberal, and must have a difpofition of mind not to be envied;" Chriftianus, on the contrary, difplays all the candour and meeknels his fignature implies, and only just infinuates that the Diffenters at Birmingham difcovered "trong indications of an attempt to put their well-known principles into pradice;" adding, at the fame time, left any one fhould mistake the tendency or effects of thefe principles, that "a most feditious libel was put in circulation (by whom indeed he does not fay), the writer of which was

ifm" fuppofing this to be a fact, inftead of a grofs mifeprefentation, it does not feem to render the epithets improper. The amiable, the candid Mr. Wyvill, has done the French nation justice on this head: "the Creed of Rome (fays he) is ftill the Creed of their Etablished Church, and of the body of the nation" But, fuppofing for a moment that this "affertion were literally true, infiead of being a molt extravagant exaggeration" granting the whole French Tepublick were all profeffed A heils; might not fome little apology be made for them if what another clergyman faid many years ago be

* See his excellent manly letter to Mr. Pitt, juft published.

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true;" in Popish countries Chriftianity has difappeared-but the Establishment ftill remains!" If then the foul was departed, is it very furprising that the Convention fhould not think it necef-. fary to embalm and preferve the body? Be this, however, as it may, I fhould imagine our Clergy, inftead of amufing their flocks with tragical declamations or this egregious folly, would do well to exert themselves to the utmost in fuppreffing thofe notorious crimes and violations of the Chriftian religion which now fo peculiarly abound, and which afford a lamentable proof of the truth of L. L's remark. For my own part, I can fee no great difference between a man who profeffes himself an Atheist, and another who, pretending to believe the Gospel, yet fhews by his careless or profligate manners that he "lives as

without God in the world."

AN ENEMY TO PERSECUTION.

Mr. URBAN,

March 22. I MAKE no doubt that, in the world of English sermons, numberless extracts might be found to lay the Pope low, and prophefy the downfal and ruin of the French; because prejudice, and the mortal habit of being rooted ri. vals and enemies, and the English and French having for years paft been at war in church as well as ftate, can but make fuch allegations mutually very frequent.

Whatever very ftriking paffages Mr. DANN, p. 99, may flash away upon, I am far from thinking that the Pope denies the Chriflian religion; or that our focieties for religion are much lefs un prejudiced than his, or more confiderably immaculate. If then, once for all, the Pope does not abfolutely deny the Chriftian religion, how can he be the Antichrift in preference to Mahomet, Genghis Kawn, Tamerlane, the Delay Lama, or the emperor of China, which laft has banished it from his empire?

Why is there fo much tickling in Britain for France? What hath France done for the good of mankind in general, nay, for itself? Does it not pay for an Executive Power more than it did before the monarchy fell? Is their government enriched to be refponfible for its actions? Cannot the National Convention, by its commiffioners keeping the army in dependance, declare itfelf

See Confeffional, third edit. Preface.

indiffoluble? Can the French live now in brotherly love? Are their burthens leffened? Have they abundance of earthly enjoyments? And are they now hap pier than when they had a king? What individual power is there to diffolve criminals who may be in the executive ftate branch?

Let the government be what it may in materials, that which makes men the ' most happy is the best.

Such infinuations brought forward in thefe times argues no good-will to our Conftitution. The French are now become, by their wantonnefs, vain gaiety, and ambition, our enemies. What can 1 fay then about those who anxiously hunt over heaps of old mufty fermons to find out excufes for the crimes of our enemies? Crimes, I fay again; for, though they may deftroy focieties, they have none, except arbitrary right, to feize on the property and eftate which belong to fuch focieties; whether religious or not religious. Crimes, I fay again; and not all that the French Go vernment have recorded (dire difgrace!) and avowed to the whole world.

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therefore fnbmit these things, not to the adherents to and encouragers of Great Britain's enemies, not to the depreffors of the free-born spirit that burns in the hearts of British feamen and foldiers (whom the juft God preferve!), but to those who are wellwifhers to the general good of mankind, to thofe who are friends to a Conftitu tion that difpenfes bleffings and fecurity, and which they have by the law of the land an undoudted right in themfelves to rectify as often as they shall fee caufe. HOOD'S KINSMAN.

Mr. URBAN,

Feb. 25.

HAVING lately met with "The State of Queen Anne's Bounty, laid by the Governors before the Houle of Lords, by virtue of their Lordships' Order, containing the Receipts and Dif burfements of the Society from its Inftitution in 1705 to January 1ft, 1735," I fend you the fubjoined abstract of it.

The laft account, I believe, of the Society's finances was made public by the prefent Bishop of Durham, one of the governors, in his "Letter to the Clergy of the Diocefe of Salisbury," whilft bishop of that fee; but, as this relates to a few particulars only, I am .defirous of feeing a regular abridged ftatement of receipts and disbursements,

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from the inftitution of the fund to the prefent time. I am aware that there is a book called "The prefent State of Queen Anne's Bounty, 2d edition;" but, though I have been in pursuit of it for many years, have never been able to procure a fight, or even the intelligence, of a copy, and therefore am ignorant to what period the accounts have been given to the publick. I my felf have no doubt of the integrity and proper management of the governors; however, I could with a printed account was circulated amongst the Clergy annually, or every fecond or third year, at the archidiaconal vifitations, which might eafily be done without any great expence. This proceeding would obviate the ill-natured, and, I am fatisfied, ill-founded, fuggeftions, which I have heard frequently infinuated, without being able to contradict.

"Received from 1705 to Jan. 1, 1735: By tenths and firft-fruits L S. d. out of the Exchequer 261,319 6 о By benefactions & legacies 17,016 18 5 By fums for the augmenmentation of 465 livings

By improvement of moneys, interest,discounts, fale of stock, &c. &c.

84,593 199

217,996 5 c

Total received in 30 years 580,926 9 2

"Difburfed from 1705 to Jan. 1, 1735; By purchafes to augment 519 livings

By intereft of moneys appropriated to livings

By fees paid at the Treafury and Exchequer

By officers falaries at the Augmentation and Tenths offices, with other petty charges

By perufing titles, and drawing conveyances

By Lady Waldegrave's annuity, and the purchafe of it

By annuities paid out of Mr. Ofboiton's eftate

By repairs of the Governor's houfe, and fixtures

By inrolling and printing the charter

By an act for better collecting the tenths

By making a new book

of tenths

By lofs in the South-fea Company

By purchase of stock

143,164 8 a

81,039 44

6,597 6 12

24,076 5 3

4,758 17 5

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"At the fame time there was remaining, in the Governors' names, in the Old Southfea annuities, principal monev, 152,5001.j which fums were appropriated for the augmentation of feveral poor livings, and the thereof." intereft paid half-yearly to the incumbents

At the end of the Statement whence the preceding abridgement is taken, there is a lift of all the livings, by name, in each diocefe, not exceeding the value of 50 per annum. The diocefe of Norwich contains the largest number, 795; and the diocefe of Rochester the fmallet, 31 only. The whole 26 dio. cefes contain 5666; which number differs, I think, from that given in "Burt's Ecclefiaftical Law."

I have not only been disappointed in procuring a copy of "The prefent State of Queen Anne's Bounty,' but alfo of "Kennet's Cafe of Impropriations.” If both thefe books are fo very scarce, would not new editions of them, with the neceffary additions, be very accept able publ cations? I am perfuaded the editor would receive the thanks of all the clerical part of the kingdom, and be certain of a recompence by the extenfive fale of them.

If any of your correfpondents who have the following pamphlet, printed many years ago, will particularize the plan mentioned therein, i thall be greatly obliged: "A Letter to the Clergy of the Church of England, containing a Propofal for railing the Sum of 8,7501. per Anum, for the Mamte. nance of the Widows and Orphans of the Clergy as die poor. By Richard Goodrick, Curate of Corfley, Wits." CLERICUS Cornubienfis.

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