week, 15s. at Christmas, a chaldron of coals, and a gown yearly; and one of the pensioners, who reads prayers in the chapel, has an additional annual allowance.

Twenty poor men and women, are accommodated in Mr. Hulbert's almshouses with two neat rooms, an allowance of 3s. per week, a chaldron of coals, 10s. at Christmas, and a gown every year.

NEWINGTON BUTTS, extends from the end of Southwark to Kennington Common, and is said to have received the name of Butts from the exercise of shooting at butts, antiently much practised here, and in other towns of England, to fit men to serve as archers.

Though this place is not mentioned in the Domesday Book, a church at Walworth is mentioned; and it is not improbable, but that upon the removal of that church to another situation, the houses by which it was soon surrounded took the name of Neweton, and by corruption Newington.

The only manor in the parish is that of Walworth, called in the above record, WALEORDE, which at that period was held by Bainardus, of the archbishop of Canterbury, and appropriated to the support of the monks of Canterbury, to whom it had been given by Nithardus, jester to king Edmund, who had bestowed it on him; but in the reign of St. Edward, having determined to make a pilgrimage to Rome, he had obtained a licence from that monarch to vest it in the monks. It was then worth 37. and in 1991 was taxed at 10. It now belongs to the dean and chapter of Canterbury.

It is not improbable but that this was the birth place of the famous Sir William Walworth, lord mayor of London,

The church of St. Mary, Newington, was rebuilt, on a larger scale, but on the same inconvenient spot, by the side of a great road, in 1793. It has in its church-yard a remarkable tomb raised over the body of WILLIAM ALLEN, a young man killed by the firing of the soldiers at the time that John Wilkes was in the King's Bench prison. There are several singular inscriptions round the tomb.

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The parsonage is an antient building of great curiosity, and is surrounded by a moat, over which there are four bridges.

RECTORS OF EMINENCE. NICHOLAS LLOYD, Compiler of a Dictionary. Dr. SAMUEL HORSLEY, afterwards bishop of St. David's, of Rochester, and of St. Asaph; a learned, prelate, and a firm defender of the doctrines of the church of England.

Passing through the hamlet of Walworth, the road lined by elegant mansions, we arrive at CAMBERWELL, in Surrey,. two miles from London, an extensive parish, including Peckham and Dulwich. Its village reaches through a considerable extent; and the parish contains the manors of Camberwell Buckingham's, Milkwell, Camberwell Frerne, Dowdale's, Camberwell, Colde Abbey, and Deptford Strond; part of the latter being in this parish.

The church, dedicated to St. Giles, appears to have been erected in the reign of Henry VIII.; the date 1520, appearing in the east window of the north aisle. Some of the monuments are curious, particularly those of the Mus champs, who came to England with William the Conqueror, and resided at Peckham; of the antient family of Scott, one of whom was appointed a baron of the Exchequer in 1332, and whose descendant married archbishop Cranmer's widow. On the ground are the following lines on one of this family:

Here might be praises, but he needs not them;
Such puffs the virtuous and the dead contemn,
For such are better pleased good to be,
Than to be called so and such was he.
This then for ostentation raise we not,
Nor out of fear his worth should be forgot;
But that the readers and the passers-by,
Reflecting on the shrine of death an eye,
May mind their own-so neither will the cost,
Seem vain, nor the beholder's labour lost.

In the year 1786, this church, on account of being too small for the accommodation of a large congregation, un

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derwent a thorough repair, and a considerable addition was made on the north-west side; but the improvement has been disadvantageous to the appearance of the fabric, in conse quence of the plaister with which the flints and rough stones, that formed the outside walls, have been covered, to the destruction of its picturesque beauty.

The benefice is a vicarage, the rectory being a lay im propriation, and was part of the possessions of Bermondsey Abbey, by grant from William de Millicent, earl of Glocester, in the year 1154.

Dr. Lettsom, in his "Village Society," has described the situation and advantages of Camberwell in a very lively manner. He says, "that in this village there are few poor inhabitants, and not many overgrown fortunes. Among those who may be deemed of the superior class, a general cquality prevails, both as to exterior appearance and mental cultivation. They chiefly consist of respectable merchants and tradesmen, and of those holding eligible situa tions in the public offices."

Having mentioned this highly respectable, humane, and liberal character, we are necessarily induced to visit his beautiful house and classic grounds at GROVE HILL.

The gradual ascent to the summit of Grove Hill is nearly a mile, through a lofty and shady avenue of trees, from which originated the name of this beautiful hill.

On the left side of the Grove, a neat lodge opens the road, that leads to the residence of the proprietor.

Although Grove Hill afford a kind of insulated eminence, yet, looking from its summit, it seems to be placed in the centre of an amphitheatre of surrounding and loftier hills, which naturally shelter it from the severity of cold, and the violence of storms; and thus render it eligible for a winter, as well as for a summer residence. On the north it is protected by the Hampstead and Highgate nills; and on the south, by those of Forest and Sydenham hills, not unaptly answering the sketch of a spot, delineated by the author of "The Faerie Queene*"

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As this picturesque hill commands the most gratifying views, in which the whole of the metropolis, and the shipping in the Thames are conspicuous, it may be agreeable to see delineated the more striking circumstances of a place, occasionally visited by persons of taste and curiosity.

The garden is an oblong square of about an acre, situated on the south side of the dwelling house, and enclosed by a wall, well covered with fruit-trees, and the extremities ornamented with shrubberies. In the upper part is a statue of Urania, supporting a globe, and a dial, with this inscription,

Post est occasio calva.

["Time is bald behind," or, "Take Time by the Forclock."]

Near this is a group in statuary, representing the Fates; Lartho holding the spindle, and pulling the thread, which Lachesis winds up. Atropos in a kneeling posture extends the right hand, holding an open scissars, intent upon immediately dividing the thread, figurative of human life: on the back ground appears Hygeia, the priestess of health, near a column encircled by a serpent, the emblem of medicine and of renovated life, and laying hold of the hand of Atropos, prevents the fatal division of the thread.

At the lower extremity of the garden is a figure of Contemplation, standing on a stone pedestal; bearing this inscription from the Psalmist:

O JEHOVA!

Quam ampla sunt tua opera!

Quam sapienter ea fecisti!

Quam plena est terra possessione tua!

[O LORD!

How manifold are Thy works!

How wisely hast Thou formed them;

How full is the earth of Thy riches!]

Adjoining to the east wall is the kitchen garden, of about half an acre in extent. Over the entrance from the pleasure garden is a figure of Flora, standing on a pedestal.

Above the kitchen garden are the wash-house, laundry, The left or castern wall brewhouse, and other offices.

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of this garden opens into the succession garden, enriched also with wall and other fruit trees, and enclosing the me Jonary, and gardener's apartments. The lower extremity opens into the arbustum, through which a walk of nearly a mile in extent is carried under the shade of upwards of one hundred fruit trees. On the borders of this walk grow about four hundred European plants, placed in succession agreeably to the Linnean classification, and lettered in le! gible characters, a catalogue of which is preserved. The walk is continued to an open portico, supported by eight small columus; in the centre is a piece of marble statuary, representing Cupid Hermaphrodite asleep. From the portico the arbustum tends northward to a circular temple or observatory; whence a view of the surrounding country is presented, combined with that of London, and its neighbouring villages: as well as of the Thames, and its floating forest of ships.

The temple is supported by the trunks of eighteen oak trees; round each, ivy, virgin's bower, honey-suckles, or other climbing shrubs entwine their foliage, and meet at their summits in the style of festoons. The outside of the base is ornamented with busts in statuary marble, of Ceres, Pomona, Cleopatra, Marc Antony, Alexander, and various others. Within is contained the mechanical instruments of the late Mr. Ferguson, and models in cork, by Dubourg, representing the Temple of Fortune in Rome; the Sybils temple (or of Vesta) near Tivoli; the triumphal arch of Titus in Rome; Virgil's tomb at Pausilippo near Naples; sepulchres of Plautius near Tivoli; of the Scipio family in Rome; and of the Horatii and Curiatii in Rome; the Temple of Health, in Rome; and Stone Henge, on Sa lisbury Plain.

Hence is seen the apiary, consisting of sixty-four hives, each of which is distinguished in legible chasacters, by the name of some kingdom, or independent nation, commeneing with the north of Europe, afterwards including Asia, Africa, and America, and concluding with the great European islands.

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