reign of William III. represents him in the 84th year of his age. Richard Penderill or Peuderell's portrait was painted by Zoust, and is engraved by Houston: these six brothers, continues Mr. G. rented little farms on the borders of Staffordshire, and were frequently employed as labourers, in cutting down timber *. Richard died 8th February, 1671, and lies buried in the Church of St. Giles in the Fields, London, where a monument is erected to his memory +: the author of his epitaph styles him the great and unparallel'd Penderel.' Richard was the third of these brothers, and he was commonly called Trusty Richard; he and his five brothers lived at or near the White Ladies, in a little farm within the wood; they were employed in cutting down timber, and watching it to prevent its being stolen. They subsisted chiefly upon the profits of some cow grass.-See Pepysian Miscel

lany, published by Sir David Dalrymple. The portrait of trusty Dick Penderell, engraved by Lamborn, Mr. Granger does not think genuine. At the Restoration, King Charles II. confirmed on Pendrel and his heirs, for ever, the sum of 100%. per annum.

Of the other characters whom Charles was obliged to for his escape.

THOMAS WHITGREAVES was of Moseley, in Staffordshire. In the Worcester Journal for 1810, is inserted, 'On Friday se'nnight died, at Moseley-hall, Staffordshire, Thomas Whitgreaves, Esq. the worthy descendant of the faithful preserver of Charles II.'

Jo. HURLSTON, or HUDDLESTON, was, at the time alluded to, Chaplain to Mr. Thomas he was a Benedictine Monk. Wood, who gives some account of him, says, he prevailed upon him to commit to writing the adventures of Boscobel Wood; surely this could not be the account that bears the signature of Thos. Blount.Huddlestone administered extreme unction to Charles II. when on his death-bed, at the request of James Duke of York. See an account of the death of that Monarch, by Huddleston, in the memoirs of King James, written by himself, vol. II. p. 748.

MRS. JANE LANE married Sir Clement Fisher, of Packington-hall, Warwickshire, Bart. Mr. Evelyn, in his Diary, men

A female descendant of the Pendrells, whose maiden name was Simmons, (and who married the Rev. W. Lens, see vol. XC. i. 190.), received a peusion, we believe of 1002. a-year. EDIT.

+ Engraved in Smith's Views, to illustrate "Pennant's London."

Charles, after his restoration, gather ed some acorns from the Royal Oak at Boscobel, set them in St. James's Park, and used to water them himself. Vide Tour through Britain, 1753.

§ Mrs. was at that time the title of Spinsters.

tions that she visited him at Paris in November, 1651: [September 6th of this year was the fatal Battle of Worcester.] In the European Mag. for October, 1794, is a copy of a letter from Charles II. regretting that he cannot at present reward Mrs. Lane according to his wishes and her deserts: this is dated during his exile. Her sister, Mrs. Lettice Lane, was blind many years before she died in 1709. She assisted her sister Jane in polishing pebbles, by rubbing them one against another. See Nash, vol. II. p. 168.

Many particulars respecting Boscobel House, and the Royal Oak, are to be found in your previous volumes. In vol. LIV. p. 294; the late David Wells, esq. (under the signature of Observator) communicated the original Latin Inscription as cut in stone on the wall encircling the Royal Oak; and in vol. LX. p. 35, the same intelligent Correspondent gave a full account of the state of Boscobel House and the Royal Oak, as they existed in 1790.-Your excellent Correspondent Mr. Parkes has also furnished you with two Views and an Account of Boscobel House, vol. LXII. 113; vol. LXXIX. 105.; and in the latter volume with a View of the Royal Oak, as it appeared in 1809, with an Inscription on a Brass Plate, which had been put up in 1787, instead of the former in stone, which had been destroyed. This Brass Plate is also now removed, as well as the brick wall that surrounded the descendant of the Royal Oak; which has been encircled with a very lofty handsome iron railing. A curious account of a series of historical paintings representing the principal persons concerned in concealing the King at Boscobel, is given in vol. LXXIX. p. 291.

Mr. Parkes has also furnished you with a view and account of the remains of the Priory of White Ladies, vol. LXXIX. p. 809; and in vel. LV. p. 89, Mr. Wells communicated drawings of some tiles, &c. from the ruins of that Priory.

It will be gratifying to your Readers to learn, that the estate of Boscobel has fallen into hands who duly reverence a spot so celebrated in the annals of Loyalty. It now belongs to Mr. Evans, the respectable banker of Derby; who has fitted up the house in an extremely elegant and appropriate manner; with all due attention to preserve every relique that may interest the curious visitor.

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ORE than once we have commended Mr. Chambers as Local Historian. He now appears in a still more appropriate character,as an ingenious Artist, commemorating the worth and talents of such of the "Natives or Residents" in Worcestershire, as have distinguished themselves either by their actions or their writings.

We quote the following sentiments as congenial to our own:

"The local Biographer," says Mr. C. "has many opportunities of correcting mistakes of the Author distant from the scene of action, and thus preventing the perpetuity of error, and I am not conscious of leaving a point uncertain through fear of trouble or a feeling of indifference."

"If I shall be considered by some to have fallen into the same errors as the conductors of the Biographia Britannica, who are so wittily reproved by Cowper, I offer in extenuation that the history of minor characters often involves dates and

circumstances of considerable importance. -In recording the lives of persons of general notoriety, I have usually been very concise, confining myself principally to such matter as is not generally known, or lies scattered in many books; but of such as have been natives of the county, I have copied from every source of information to prevent reference to any other work."

The Memoirs are of various lengths, according to the information obtained; but none of them so long as to be tedious-or so short as to be unsatisfactory. One of the most important is that of Dr. Nash, the venerable historian of the county; from which we shall extract the conclusion:

"It seems uniformly the custom with the topographers of Worcester to abuse each preceding collector, from whose materials they have gained their earlier information; this applies to Habingdon, Thomas Hopkins, and Lyttelton. Dr. Nash, must, however, be omitted in this charge; and his work will be found, by those who have perused it throughout, to GENT. MAG. Suppl. XC. PART II.

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be as correct, and to contain as much valuable matter, as any similar one of such magnitude, the production of an individual. There is a gentleman in this county every way fitted for the task of writing its history, who has for many years been making a collection which shall supersede Dr. Nash's book. I trust it will be published, and in such a style as the present public encouragement of such works, will allow. Perhaps I may be permitted and the great perfection of English art, to hint that the manner in which Ormerod's Cheshire is given to the publick, particularly in the decorative part, reflects as high credit on the Author and on the Subscribers, as it does on the period and the country that produced it."

We shall here stop to notice two slight errors in this article:

P. 463. for "Mr. Montague Brown" read "Mr. Montagu Bacon."

P. 466. Mr. Rose did not translate the Worcestershire Domesday, but furnished the "Dissertation" which accompanies it.

In another capital article, Mr. Chambers has gone out of his way, if not to commit an error, to create a doubt,-" Bp. Hurd in 1765 was made Preacher of Lincoln's Inn." So stands (and rightly stands) the text; but (adds Mr. C. in a note) "1775, according to Dyer's Camb."-With all due submission to the learned Historian of Cambridge, the date given by Mr. Nichols, and confirmed by the good Bishop himself, is correct. Dr. Hurd was made Bp. of Lichfield in 1775.

These, however, are trifles light as air in a work of general utility.

We have seen a copy of this elegant work illustrated by upwards of 50 beautiful drawings of the portraits of eminent men whose lives are given in the volume.

109. Three Months passed in the Mountains East of Rome, during the year 1819. By Maria Graham, Author of "Journal of a Residence in India." 8vo. pp. 305. Longman and Co.

OF this amusing Volume Mrs. Graham informs the Reader,

"Her object is, to describe the present state of the near neighbours of Rome; to show the peasants of the hills as they

are,

invoked in every peril, and we had more than one occasion to observe that these images were considered as something more than mere symbols."

The manners and habits of life of the banditti who infest this and the adjacent country, are well described; and the whole work is highly interesting.

110. An Historical Sketch of the Progress of Knowledge in England, from the Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons, to the end of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. With Notices of Learned men, and Specimens of the Antient Language and Poetry. By James George Barlace. 4to. pp. 358. Arch.

THIS "Sketch" was begun when the Author was only 14 years of age, for his own amusement and information, at a time of confinement, from suffering the amputation of his right

arm.

"The work is divided into eight periods, each beginning with an "Introductory Sketch," the chief intention of which is, to give some idea of the state of Religion and Government during each period. The subjects of Divinity and History, the elegant and useful Arts, the Sciences, Literary Foundations, Commerce, Language, &c. are severally noticed, and Specimens of Language given at the conclusion of every period."

"The Specimens of old poetry shew the genius of our countrymen, and also are good examples of the state of our language."

111. Winter Evening Tales, collected among the Cottagers in the South of Scotland. By James Hogg, Author of "The Queen's Wake," &c. &c. 2 vols. 12mo. Whittaker.

THE Author of these Tales, a man of no common celebrity in his own Country, where he is usually designated "The Ettrick Shepherd," is the Author of a whimsical superstition called, "Brownie of Bodspah;" and in the present work he may claim a higher degree of excellence. His "Tales," which are all founded on popular traditions, have various degrees of merit, and though some of

them are unpardonably vulgar(but not indelicate) in their language, others are extremely pathetic, and some of them possess even fine writing. We copy a few lines from The Bridal of Polmood."

"Last autumn on my return from the Lakes of Cumberland to Edinburgh, I fell in with an old gentleman at the village of Moffat, whose manners and conversation deeply interested me. He was cheerful, unaffected, and loquacious, to a degree which I have not often witnessed; but his loquacity was divested of egotism

his good humour communicated itself to all present, and his narratives were fraught with traditionary knowledge, the information to which, of all others, my heart in the course of our conversation, that he is most fondly attached. Having learned, was bound for Edinburgh, and that he had already been twice disappointed of obtaining a passage by the Dumfries mail, my friend offered to accommodate bim with a seat in our carriage; telling him that we had a spare one, and that instead of incommoding us, he would oblige us by his company. He accepted of our proposal, not only with apparent satisfaction, but with an easy and cheerful grace which seemed peculiar to himself; and early next morning we proceeded on our journey.

"As we ascended the lofty green mountains which overlook the vale of Annandale, the sun arose, and the scene became inconceivably beautiful and variegated. The dazzling brightness of the distant Solway it was almost impossible to look upon-the high mountains of Queensberry and Lowther, on the West, were all one sheet of burning gold; while the still higher ones to the Eastward were wrapt in a solemn shade. In almost any other circumstances I could have contemplated the scene with the highest sensations of The shades of the mountains were still lessening as the sun advanced, and those shadows, along the whole of their fantastical outline, seemed to be fringed with a delicate rainbow. This phenomena I pointed out to our traveller, who said it was common, and occasioned by the first slanting rays of the sun being reflected from the morning dew. On looking more narrowly to the surface of the mountains, I perceived it was sprinka garnish of silver globules,

delight, and gazed upon it without satiety and without weariness.

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brighter and more transparent than the

purest gem; yet so tiny, that the weight of a thousand scarcely caused the smallest blade of grass to stoop, or bent the web of the gossamer."

To give a matter of fact quotation, we shall extract from "The Shepherd's