kyndneffe: and that methynks ye schuld not do in no wyfe for my fake: for and ye did, the faid Sir John wold thynke ther were litull focour or help in my lordship; the whech myght fortune in fewe days to turn me to more hurt and hevyneffe then all the patronage of the church of Wynwyk is worth, as ye shall mor playnly knowe

at oure next metyng.

"Infruccio pro materia de Wynwik. "Item, if ye wilnot admitte my faid clerk at this prefentacion, ye putte this jopardve theropon, that is to fay opon the faide Sir John to lefe the faid patronage for him and his heires † for ever; or elles, at the left way, to lefe this avoidaunce, and youre felf to lefe a mile marc in damage, and perpetuell warre betwene yowe and hym to the end of your lifes: and that wold not I fel for no litull gode; havyng reward to the fpeciall love that I have to him and yowe both. Lettyng yowe wete, that if ye wold thynke that ye fhuld not admitte my faid clerk unto the tyme that ye had made your e'querre aftir the ftraytneffe of your ufe; the whech ye nede not to do. But gif yowe luft, that is a playn refufer of his prefente, and ye demed in temporall lawe a veray diftourbour therby; and fo renne in the damages of the faid mille mare, and thonkles of all men for the doying therof. Alfo hit wold be thoght with all men that my prayer were ryght Littell tender w yow; and fpecially now, wen all parties ben acordet.

Item ther as hit es ordeynt the hous of Lych' to have for the paiement of thair penfion by your help and myn fuyrly geten and paid; yet if ye faile to do this at my prayer, truftes never that any payment will be made thereof. For if the faid church fhould be fo mefchiever, then wold no payment be made therof: for thay will thynk thay be not holden therto, and that wer ryght hevy to all parties, confideryng the gode way that hit is nowe fette in.

Item: and as for any drede of any ne admittas, if any be comen to yowe

afore this tyme, ye fhell noght mekull drede hit; for thagth the werft falle, hit is but fmalle; and thereof ye shall have fufficient fuyrte to fave yowe herleffe, and make gode your fyn; for hit will not be mech, as I am lernet here, And if any ne admittas come aftir this, hit to no purpofe, ne no peril thoruwe the lawe §. And if any other lettre or meffage be come to yowe afore this time, ye ther have no dred therof, for my lettres that I fend yowe certifying yowe of all acordes made among all parties, is a playn excufe yow to all manner of perfons both high and logh.

Item if ye be in any dowte of any matter or article comprehendet in my faid lettre, ye shall have the faid Maife George fworne to yowe als highly as ye will defire him for the trewth therof, the whech wold be caufe of his privacion, if he myght be found untrewe: and that peril wold not he putte him in, as ye may wel wete, confideryng that he hath this day as moch ly flode yerly as the chirche of Wynwyk is worth.

"Item that ye gyf als ful fayth and credence to my taid fwyer John Arbraf trer in all that he fhall fay to yow bo mouth in this matter, as ye wold do to myfelf, and I fpake with yow in my propi perfon; truftyng well that he thall noght enforme yow but that is trwe." NUGATOR.

Mr. URBAN,

IF

May 1. F nothing I before advanced can convince your correfpondent Mr. Savage, I fhall clofe the controverfy with obferving, that he has offered no arguments to invalidate the teftimony of Hiftorians and Antiquaries who lived much nearer the time than we do, and the correctnefs of Mr. Carter, which correfponds with other travelling Antiquaries, who have read the actual infcriptions, which must have been clearer to Mr. Leland than to Mr. Hutchinfon or any examiner of the prefent century.

I cannot conclude, however, without expreffing my obligations to Mr. S. for

Qu. mifchieved?

his favourable opinion of my communications. After what he has collected, to which he or his neighbours alone have it in their power to add authentic documents from MS records in the diocefe to which Howden belongs, it would be prefumption in me to think of adding the meagre notes of a travelling Antiquary; for fuch, as far as concerns Howden and Howdenshire, I muft fairly profefs myfelf. I fhall read his book with pleasure, and criticize it with candour; but, after Mr. S's laft remarks, it will not be in the power of myself, or any of my friends, to improve it. Yours, &c.

D. H.

Lincoln, April 25. Mr. Henn

Mr. URBAN,
T may be fatisfactory to

others of your readers, to have fome biographical account of Mr. Jeffreys, who was known to many as a traveller for fubfcriptions to a book which he intended publishing, and who died about a week ago, in great poverty and diftrefs, at this place (fee p. 381). His papers, after his death, were put into my hands; and from thefe the hafty ketch that follows is collected.

He was born March 9, 1749, in the parish of Ruabon, near Wrexham, Denbighshire. Both his father and mother were between fifty and fixty years of age when he was born; and he was the youngest of nine children. His father was particularly fond of agriculture; his farm and gardens were admired for their cultivation and neatnefs by all who faw them. This gave the writer an early tafte for the ftudy of that useful fcience; and from his obfervation on husbandry he derived much rational amufement in his perambulations. On the first unfolding of his faculties, he difplayed a strong natural propensity to Audy his native language, and to the attainment of useful knowledge. He received the first rudiments of his education at Ruabon fchool, under the tuition of the Rev. Edward Jones, then curate of the parith, and vicar of Llangollen. His moft favourite amufement was reading the English Bible, and confiruing it into Welsh, for the entertain. ment of his fchoolfellows. From this place he was removed to Shrewsbury, and there remained for fome years un

*Our correfpondent's sketch is fomewhat amplified from papers long fince given for the purpose by Mr. Jeffreys himself, EDIT.

began his peregrinations to collect materials for the above work. The book, for which he went about collecting fubfcriptions, was called, "Mifcellaneous Elays; or, the Traveller's polite and ufeful Companion." In this bufinefs he had been very fuccefsful; for, I find the fignatures of more than 14,000 perfons, many of them people of eminence and diftin&tion. It is probable indeed that many of these were induced to contribute their fubfcription, rather with a view to relieve his indigence than with any expectation he could ever produce a book on the plan he had laid down for himself. I find no account of any fubfcriptions to his Britib Archeology, nor any Profpectus of the plan among his papers. In his printed Propofals for The Traveller's Companion he ftyles himfelf "Member of the honourable Cymmrodorion and Gwyneddigion Societies of Ancient Britons, London; and of the Society of Antiquaries, Edinburgh."

No materials for either of thefe works are to be found among his papers; they confift merely of a few infignificant notes and fcraps of letters, intermixed with fhort-hand. He fays, however, that the MS. for the Traveller's Companton is in readiness at Oxford, and was to be printed next Spring, as foon as he had concluded his prefenttour. He had been about four months in this town, during which time he was very feverely afflicted with a cold, ague, and fever, which finally put a period to his literary excurfions. He was, in the opinion of thofe who have converfed with him, a man of confiderable learning, particu larly in the antient languages, and was

able

able to talk on philofophical fubjects with great fluency and precifion.

Having already trefpaffed too much, Mr. Urban, upon your patience, I fhall conclude this account with a fentence of his, which I have extracted from his papers

"Human nature has ever been the fame in all ages and nations, and owes the difference of its improvements to a difference only of cultivation, and of the rewards propofed to industry. Where thefe rewards are the most amply provided, there we fhall always find the most numerous and fhining examples of human perfection. Encouragement prompts the wit, and expands the genius."

THE HE Rev. T. Jeffereys, p. 381, was fome years ago minister of the Calvinist meeting in this town, from which he was difcharged for a fuppofed irregularity of moral conduct. He afterwards preached fome time to a part of the congregation which adhered to him at the Long-room in the Caftleyard. In this room he received ordination from the Rev. Noah Jones, minifier of the old meeting of Walfall. This, at the time, was deemed a fingular matter, because Mr. Jeffereys taught the Calvinist doctrine; and Mr. Jones was deemed one of thofe who are called Arians. Soon after this, Mr. Jeffereys took on him to wear a gown; and, when he left Walfall, had the goodwill of his latter congregation, as well as of the inhabitants in general, who thought he had not been well uled by his former bearers, as he had formerly been at great pains in collecting fubfcriptions in various places to enlarge the meeting he firft preached in here.

I cannot fay any farther of him than that it was imagined here that he would never be able to complete the work he propofed to publish. He had many fubfcribers in this town and neighbourhood; but I never heard that he had any money from any of them on

mother of Elizabeth de Burgh, Dame de Clare. Algis is right, where he fays that Elizabeth Burgh was not the widow of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, for the died before him; and he married to his fecond wife, Violante, an Italian lady, who furvived him; Vincent, p. 124. J. G.

Mr. URBAN,

May 3.

is the obfervation of one of your It is the obfervation of one of

Richard Baxter contributed, by his inftructions and his zeal, to promote a fpirit of induftry as well as of religion in Worcestershire, in which he effectually fucceeded. I have been ftruck with this remark, which fuggefts ano-ther, that the fyftem of faith and doctrine which this memorable man inculcated were orthodox and practical, perfectly confonant to the excellent Dr. Doddridge's character of him:

"Baxter is my particular favourite. It is impoffible to tell you how much I am charmed with the devotion, good fenfe, and pathos, which is every where to be found in him. I cannot forbear looking upon him as one of the greateft orators, both with regard to copiousness, acutenefs, and energy, that the nation hath produced: and if he hath defcribed, as I believe, the temper of his own heart, he appears to have been fo far fuperior to the generality of those whom we charitably hope to be good men, that one would imagine God raised him up to difgrace and condemn his brethren; to fhew what a Chriftian is, and how few in the world deferve the character." (Orton's Life of Doddridge, 2d edit. p. 22.)

Your readers are left to inftitute a comparifon between Richard and his brethren in the prefent century. B. P.

Mr. URBAN,

May 4.

I addition & Charter to the Proceedings HAVE perufed the fubftance of the

of the Society for Difcoveries in Africa, inftituted 1788 (fee vol. LIX. 585, LX. 633), as ftated in the Analytical ReView for July, 1792, p. 466; and find that, in confequence of accounts received from Shaban, an Arab, and the

English confuls at Tunis and Morocco, Major Houghton, who, 1779, had acted

*Does not the writer refer to a paffage in the review of Cookfey's Effay on the Life of Lord Somers, Critical Review for 1791, vol. III. p. 119? EDIT.

under

under General Rooke as first major in the island of Goree, undertook to penetrate to the Niger by the way of Gambia. He left England, October 10, 8790; arrived at the entrance of the Gambia, November 10; and was well eceived by the King of Bana, whom he had formerly visited. He proceeded abrence up the river to Guniconda, where the English have a fmall factory; and thence he prepared to pafs with his merchandife to Medina, the capital of the mall kingdom of Woolli. But, being under fome alarm for his fafety, he croffed the river, and went with much difficulty along the oppofite fide to the diftrict of Cantor, where he re-paffed the river, and was hofpitably entertaimed by the King of Woolli at his capital, Medina, which is 900 miles by water from the entrance of the river Gambia. The greater part of it was burnt during his flay there; but the inhabitants were relieved by their neigh. bours in the town of Barraconda. The Major proceeded in five days to the unJahabited frontier which feparates the kingdoms of Woolli and Bondon. Thence he proceeded 150 miles to Bambuk, arriving firft at the river Falerné. The King of Bambuk had been defeated by the King of Bondon, who had derived from the English fupplies, which the other, fince the defertion of Father Jofeph by the French, could not obtain. The account concludes with the Major's preparation for his journey to Tombartoo, to which a re spectable old merchant of Bambuk had undertaken to carry him, and bring him back by the Gambia to Jukilund. His laft difpatch is dated July 24.

On looking into Affley's Collection of Voyages, II. 140-158, I find that the French fent out the Sicur Brue on the fame difcovery, 1698. He proceeded along the Falerné to Bambuk; erected Fort St. Jofeph 1700, which was defroyed 1714, and re-inflated again by him; but the defign finally failed 1727. Our own countrymen, Thompfon and Jobfon, about 1618, went up the Gambia to Barracond; Stibbs, 1724, twenty leagues farther. Capt. John Leach's map of the river, 1732, reaches only to Barrakunda. The accounts of Jobfon and Moore are re-printed in Aftley's Collections, II. 174, 304. In the latter's narrative is interwoven the narra

*This name is not mentioned in older

tive of Job Ben Solomon, high-priest of Bunda, who was fold for a flave, and redeemed and fent home. At this time the English had James Fort in an island not far up the Gambia, and the French and Portuguese carried on a trade for gold, gum, and flaves.

In the fame Collection, p. 304-374, may be feen accounts of Sierra Leone, by William Finch, an English mer chant, 1607; Villault de Bellefond, 1667; Baibot, 1678; Atkins, 1721. Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

Yo

P. T.

May 6. OUR correfpondent, Tho. Blore, feems to be horridly mortified that he cannot perfuade other people to think with him about the ALL of Bp. Tanner's MSS. I will venture to lay that his correfpondent Mr. Nafmith (whofe letter, by-the-bye, he has not communicated to you) will not, from bis own knowledge, affirm that all Bp. T's Collections are not in the Bodleian library. Nor does his obfervation in his Preface to the new edition of the Notitia Monaftica warrant an affertion, that the additional notes were not taken from articles fince lodged there, and there at prefent. I fay no more, but leave the illue to the publick, who are certainly very competent judges of the plans and proposals for publishing county hiftories, as well as the mode of execution adopted by fome writers, among whom Mr. Blore cannot be included, unless fingle bundreds and fingle mumbers differ nothing from whole volumes, or there be no difference between a careful attention to the arrangement of materials between the time of iffuing propofals and that of delivering out the work, and the shifting and changing the proposals themfelves five or fix times over, with which nobody charges Mr. Blore. If Mr. Nafmith fet Mr. Blore right about the reference for Lokhay, it is more than he did for the publick in his new edition of the Notilia Monaftica, where he has left Barrow in the fame county where Bishop Tanner and Mr. Gough found it.

Mr. URBAN,

R. S. G.

May 7. WISH as much as Clericus Cornu bienfis, p. 317, to fee "The prefent State of Queen Anne's Bounty," ir or fecond edition. I prefume his statement is taken from the return made by the Governors purfuant to an order of the Houfe of Lords, 1736, folio; fince which,

which, if I am rightly informed, no returns have been made.

Is not the plan of St. Catharine's chapel, near Guilford, a long fquare? P. 321.

P. 322, col. 1, l. 18, read fite; 1. 20, Hamo; . 21, Brayboef; 1. 44, venerable town; 1. 46, outworks, Archbp. Abbot's portrait.

The figure engraved in pl. III. fig. 3 p. 322, is the common ornament of altars in churches and chapels.

The font at St. Martin's, Canterbury, was not engraved among others, in the Xth volume of Archæologia, because it had already been engraved by Francis Perry, 1769; and, as you obferve, in the Bibi. Top. Br.t. XLV. pl. XIII.: both which views are fo unlike it, and fuperior to Mr. Nixon's, that I am furprifed you admitted it.

P. 324, col. 2, 1. 6, read Bufching. 325, col. 1, l. 13, read an Howard. 329, col. 1, 1. 37 read Polybium and fcribit.

334, col. 2, l. 13, read Antiquity.
Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

D. H.

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the table of contents of "A Selection from the Harleian Mifcellany of Tracts, which principally regard the English Hiftory, of which many are referred to by Hume;" a republication which must be highly acceptable to the reader of Englith hiftory, and of which your reviewers have given a favourable account, p. 159. ADVERTISEMENT.-"The scarcity and high price of the Harleian Mifcellany has induced the editor of the following work to offer it to the publick. It is composed of a felection of thofe pieces which regard our own history, and which have been chiefly arranged in chronological order. The volume contains in quantity one-fixth of the mifcellany, and the price of it is a guinea, only one-twelfth of what the original work now fells for."

CONTENTS."1 he life of King William the First, furnamed The Conqueror-he life of King Edward the Second-The life and death of Edward furnamed The Black Prince-The history of Perkin Warbeck-The life and death of Cardinal Wolley-An epiftle of Henry VIII. on being cited by the Pope and the Emperor to appear before a general council-Love-letters from Henry VIII. to Anne Boleyn; and two letters from Anne Boleyn to Cardinal Wolfey; with her last to Henry VIII. The beggar's petition against popery-The life and death of Robert Earlo. Ellex-Fragmenta regalia;

or, obfervations on the late Queen Elizabeth, her times and favourites-Gowrie's confpiracy-England's mourning garment; to the memory of Queen Elizabeth: to which is added, the true manner of her imperial funeral--The shepherd's Spring fong, in gra tulation of King James I.-Demeanour and lation of Sir Walter Raleigh's troubles-The carriage of Sir Walter Raleigh-A brief reprerogative of parliaments in England, proved in a dialogue between a counfellor of ftate and a juftice of peace-The hiftory of the gunpowder treafon-Difcourfe of the most illuftrious Prince Henry, fon of King James I.

Letter from Sir Charles Cornwallis to Lord Digby, on the marriage that should have beco made between the Prince of England and the Infanta of Spain-The forerunner of res venge-A fhort view of the life and death of George Villiers Duke of Buckingham-The five years of King James; or the condition of the state of England, and the relation had to other provinces-A brief relation of pailages and fpeeches in the Star-chamber, at the cenfure of Dr. Baftwicke, Mr. Ba ton, and Mr. Pryone-Two fpeeches (poken by the Earl of Manchester and John Pym, Efq. as a reply to his Majefty's answer to the City of London's petition-A view of the reign of King Charles I.-The King's cabi net opened; or, certain pacquets of fecret letters and papers taken in the King's cabi net at Nafeby-field-Hiftory of the life and death of Oliver Cromwell-A true narrative of the occafions and causes of the late Lordgeneral Cromwell's anfwer and indignation

against Lieutenant-colonel George Joyce— The Lord-general Cromwell's speech, delivered in the council-chamber, July 4, 1653A narrative and relation of King Charles L's efcape from the battle of Worcester-News from Pembroke and Montgomery-A rela tion of Major-general Sir Thomas Morgan's progrefs in France and Flanders-Ân account of the burial of King Charles I. and of Oliver Cromwell-The world's mistake in Oliver Cromwell-A narrative of the late parliaments, &c.-A fecond narrative of the late parliament-England's joy; or, a rela tion of the most remarkable paffages from Charles 11.'s arrival at Dover to his entrance at Whitehall--The trial and condemnation of the regicides-Two letters by the Earl of Clarendon-The humble petition and address of the Ead of Clarendon-Au account of the reafons which induce Charles II. to declare war against the Dutch-Obfervations on the burning of London-The Papifts bloody oath of fecrecy, &c.—A brief account of many memorable paffages of the life and death of the Earl of Shaftibury-A letter to a perfon of honour, on th King's difavowing the having been married to the Duke of Monmouth's mother-Lord Churchill's letter to the King-The expedition of the Prince of Orange for England-A relation of the proceedings of the forces of King

William