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South East Prospect of Stratford upon Avon 1746.

in Carlisle, who faid he would get them examined by a judge, and then give either the value of them, or return them. We cannot learn that he did either.

It is much to be regretted, that neither this place, nor the Roman Antiquities at Netherby, have ever been traced and examined with due care and kill. No county in the kingom, pro. bably, affords fo amp'e a field for Antiquarian research as Cumberland; but adequate motives to engage people in moderate circunftances to undertake fo tedious and laborious an inveftigation have never been propofed to the natives of the county; and, unhappily for us, we are too remote, and perhaps too poor, to engage the attention of our more opulent fellow-citizens of the South, unless by our lakes and mountains, which cafually attract some tran fient tourifls, who, however, feldom have leifure to hunt after Antiquities.

In the Gentleman's Magazine for 1742, there is at leaft an ingenious account of a very extraordinary ftonepillar, or cross, fill remaining in the church-yard of this place. You will alfo find a pretty copious account of it in the late edition of Camden, vol. III. p. 200. We are forry to have occafion to fay, that, from a late infpection and examination of the ftone, we think there is reafon to be diffatisfied with all the accounts yet given of this fingularly curious piece of antiquity. We are still more forry to have occafion to add, that we have not yet been able to fatisfy ourfelves, either as to the true defign of the cross, or the true reading of the infcription.

If it will not be deemed a trefpafs on your pages, we will tranfmit to you, for a future Magazine, a drawing of the crofs in queftion, together with fome farther account of it.

The Compilers and Eitors of the new Hifiory of Cumberland.

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Strype's extenfive field of "Ecclefiaftical Memorials," vol. I. p. 312, in which he relates the examination of John Legh (once a fervant to Cardinal Wolfey), who, about the year 1535, on his arrival from Rome, was imprifoned in the Tower, in order to learn from him the fubftance of his fuppofed treasonable converfation with Pole.

"Then (writes the Memorialift) he (Legh) proceeded to another argument concerning a religious house, or hospital, founded, 1 fuppofe, in Rome, dedicated to St. Thomas à Becket, for Englifhmen; whereof Cardinal Pole was now the fupervisor. And complaint being made of one Borbrig, the prefent mafter of that houfe, the Cardinal told Legh, that he would put an order to come to the hofpital for to limit Borbrig to his penfion. He difannulled this man of the maftership of the houfe, and made a new mafter,called Helliar (Hilliard, I fuppofe, who was attainted in Parliament when Pole was); and another, his companion, named Goldwell (attainted at the fame time), was made Cuftos there. He made brothers of the hofpital; among the which he would needs that Legb fhould be one, faying to him, that he might do it with his honelty and worship; and that there were other worshipful men of England of the brotherhood. Among which he named Dr. Clark, the Bishop of Bath, who alfo, Pole faid, had been a great benefactor to the house. Further, he noted one Mr. Wotton, and Dr. Benet, (who had formerly been ambaffadors,) to be brothers there.

"There being a public dinner at this house, the Cardinal and Legb happened t☛ be there; who, after eating, fell into difcourfe about the foundation of it, faying,

that it was founded in the name of Thomas of Canterbury, whom the King's Grace,' faid he, had pulled out of his shrine,' &c. &c."

Goldwell (Thomas, S.T.P.) returned with Pole to England, and was, I believe, chaplain to the Cardinal after he became Archbishop of Canterbury. He was Bishop of St. Asaph, and defigned for the fee of Oxford; but Queen Mary died before the tranflation was completed. On the acceffion of Queen Eli

at the Council of Trent in 1562. He was living in 1580, being then four core years of age, but died foon after at Rome, and was there interred. Mr. Addifon, in his Travels, noticed, that the picture of Bishop Goldwell was in the Pope's Gallery at Ravenna,

PROBABLY the following para- zabeth, he went again abroad, and was graphs relative to the college at Rome, appropriated to English ftudents, may not be new to your intelligent correfpondent Mr. Milner (vol. LXI. p. 1177); but to the readers of your Ma. gazine, who may not before have met with this hiftorical gleaning, nor have an opportunity of turning to the book referred to, it may not be unacceptable. It was picked up in the induftrious

P. 697, col. 2, l. 10, for perceiving r. conceiving.

Your's, &c.

W. & D.

Mr.

Mr. URBAN, Lichfield, Aug. 2.

formed a principal part of Chatterton's

I HAVE lately, and not til lately, own accufation, and to have been for

met with Dr. Gregory's Life of Chatterton; I am not, therefore, acquainted with the manner in which it has been received by the publick; but, as it offers fome fentiments, novel at least to me, I am induced to point them out to your readers. Upon the authenticity of the poems it does not appear to have beftowed any new light; it perhaps may be merit fufficient that it has prefented the former proofs in a collected point of view; to tell all that is known is certainly to go as far as expectation can warrants and the only queftion that can arife upon fuch a work is the neceffity of telling again what has been already told. It is not, how ever, the question that I mean to afk Dr. Gregory. In the course of his Narrative he has neceffarily related Chat terton's application to Mr. Walpole; but he has not been content to relate it, he has entered into an impaffioned defence of a conduct which Mr. Walpole himself had long fince defended. By the prefent endeavours, I fear, the cause will not be much benefited. It has raked Mr. Walpole's Letters from the duft; which, not to fpeak feverely of them, had better have remained there. It has prefented arguments from its own fource, which honour and liberality would difdain to have written, and which cannot be read but with fenti ments of difguft and contempt. Thefe are not terms to be indifcriminately ufed; but they will not be thought injurious to the man who can write thus: "It can scarcely be deemed an inftance of extraordinary illiberality that a private man, though a man of fortune, hould be inattentive to the petition of a perfect stranger, a young man, whofe birth or education entitled him to no bigh pretenfions." Nay, more, after a panegyrick on M. Walpole, he adds, "Confidering things as they are, and not as they ought to be, it was a degree of unusual condescension to take any notice whatever of the application." Thefe are the grounds upon which Dr. Gre gory is content to reft Mr. Walpole's final defence. The folicitude which he has bestowed upon it fufficiently evinces a particular intereft in its eftablishment; but, perhaps, a more unfortunate adoption of fentiments cannot be adduced; they will not, even if they had no farther a reference, appear very judicious, when they are known to have

mally and folemnly renounced by Mr.
Walpole himself. It cannot well be
argued that this was unknown to Dr.
Gregory, as he has published this ac-
cufation and defence in the very next
pages to the Preface which I have juft
tranfcribed. As refpecting himself, it
certainly prefents a picture of fingular
ingenuoufnefs. A divine and a man of
letters comes forward publicly and un-
called upon, and affirms, that genius
ftruggling in poverty and obfcurity has
no claim, and is totally unworthy, of
the public patronage; that merit is con
centred in birth and fortune, and it is
there alone that we are authorised to bow
the knee. Had thefe opinions been de-
livered by Mr. Walpole, who was born
to ariftocracy, we fhould have lamented
that early impreffions had not been cor
rected by riper judgement; but, when
we read them from Dr. Gregory, every
cheek is fuffufed with the bluth of in-

dignation, and we defpife and reje& the
unqualified defender of the Great, the
trembler at the frowns of Power.
Yours, &c.
C. M. jun.

Mr. URBAN,

Nov. 10.

HAVING vified Dublin in Seplaft, I was much pleafed, in obferving the monument in Chriftchurch in that city, ereed by the Right Hon. Welbore Ellis, which, on my return, I found to be mentioned in your Magazine, p. 788. 1 think this monument a very hand fome one, though not fufficiently elevated, and though, to be fure, it may be confidered, like every other monument, a memento for the living as well as the dead; but I was mech more pleafed in oblerving a very antient infcription, in the fame church, to perpetuate the memory of Richard de Clare, furnamed Strongbow, who is therein stated to have been Lord of Chepstow, and the fift conqueror of Ireland, in the year 1138, or thereabouts. And having taken an account, on my viewing the ruins of Tintern abbey, near Chepflow, that fuch abbey was founded, about the year 1131, by Walter Faz Richard de Clare, Lord of Caerwent and Monmouthshire; and that William, Earl of Pembroke, and Marshal of Englaud, who married the daughter and heitels of Richard de Clare, lurnamed Strongbow, gave divers lands to the monks and abbots thereof; I wish to be mormed whether

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