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I have made thefe curfory obfervations, not with any intention to depreciate the character of Pope (for, whatever were his faults as a man, his writings entitle him to the higheft veneration and applaufe as a poet), but with a defign to note fome particular circumftances in the history of the English Odyffey, and more especially to pay a proper tribute of refpect to the modeft and ingenious. Dr. Broome, who feems to have been unkindly treated by Mr. Pope, notwithstanding he had tranflated a third part of the poem with an extraordinary degree of elegance and poetic fpirit, and had illuftrated, not only part of the Iliad, but the whole Odyffey, with fome of the most pleafing, the moft ufeful, and the most ingenious annotations, that we meet with, on any claffic writer, in any language. Yours, &c.

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J. ROBERTSON. No. 39, Great Marlborougb-fireet.

Mr. URBAN,

June 12. HEREWITH fend you a drawing (by an ingenious young friend) of the parish Church of Fulmodestone, a fmall village in the county of Norfolk, fituated 23 miles N. W. of Norwich, 5 miles E. of Fakenham, and S. E. of Walfingham (See Pl. III.). The Church confifts of a fingle aile, and is dedicated to St. Mary. In the reign of Edw. 1. the prior of Catleacre was patron. The rector had a manfe in the village of Croxton (which belonged to this parith) with 20 acres of land. Hugh de Grancourt gave the pa/tronage to Caftleacre Priory, and Henry I. confirmed it before the death of Bp. Herbert.

Croxton is now, and has been for years, an hamlet to Fulmodestone. Sir Walter de Grancourt fignified to Pandulf Bishop of Norwich, in King John's reign, by letters teftimonial, that he had releafed to the monks of Cattleacre all his right in the church of Croxton, to be enjoyed by the parton of Fulmodeftone, prefentable by that convent. May 17, 3 Edw. VI. Sir William Fermer, Kat. and Sir Richard Fulmodeftone, had a grant of the advowfon of Fulmodeftone and Croxton. The chapel or church of Crexton is a fingle pile co. yered with thatch, without a feeple, and dedicated to St. John Bapuft.

Clipfon is an hamlet to Fulmodeftone. Wm. Tho. Coke, Efq. one of the members for the county, is lord of the manor, and has a confiderable eftate in this parish. The family of the Brownes have been long refident at Fulmodestone: its prefent reprefentative, the Rev. Repps Browne, has confiderably, improved his houfe and eftate fince the death of his elder brother, the late John Browne, Efq.

The rectory house at Croxton was rebuilt, at a confiderable expence, by Robert Wace, clerk, then patron and rector, who foon after (Sept. 1, 1718), fold the advowfcn to the mafter, fellows, and scholars of Corpus Chrifti College, Cambridge. The following is a list of the incumbents. In a future letter I will fend you fome monumental infcrip,' tion and epitaphs. A. D.

Henry Sharpe,

1507, Mar. 10. John Wright, prefent ed by the Prior and Convent of Caf. tleacre.

1518, Nav. 14. Andrew Dey, by ditto, 1533, Dec. 30. William Bird, by ditto. 1554, March 28. Richard Taylor, by Thomas Duke of Norfolk.

1559, June 9. Roger Wilkins, by John Dannock.

1569, April 9 Robert Crance, or Drance, by ditto.

1587, June 10. Thomas Wilson, by William Clopton, Clerk.

1630, June 15. Thomas Wilfon, fon of the above, by Francis Shuldham, and John Fisher.

1655 or 6. Daniel Green, M. A. by Townshend Wilfon, Clerk.

1700. Barry Love, by John Wace, Clerk.

1705. Robert Wace, M. A.

1740, Feb. Francis Aylmer, B. D. and Prefident of C. C. C. Cambridge. 1759. John Barnardifton, B. D. after

wards D. D. and Master of C. c. c. c. 1778, July. James Cremer, B. D. and Fellow of C. C. C C.

1778, Oct. 31. Peter Sandiford, M. A. and Fellow of C. C. C. C. Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

TH

R. D.

July 16.

HE following remarkable difeafe among apparently thriving cherrytrees is not unworthy the attention of gardeners. Among the adepts in that pleafant and useful icience fome may be found who have leen the evil, and may

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Chaucerfrom an antient Illumination by his Disciple
Hoccleve, in the Collection of the Rev. M. Tyson.

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know the cure, and impart it to one who will be truly grateful to the phyfi

cian.

A garden near town, remarkably rich in foil, abounds in every kind of fruit,

except CHERRIES. The cherry-trees are thriving to the greatest degree. Their fhoots are vigorous and long; they blof fom remarkably well. On the 3d or 4th day after the bloffom is well open ed, on looking into each a kind of imperfect web feems forming within. The next day it is a compleat web, and a maggot may be found in each bloffom, so that, out of twenty hearty, thriving trees, not a fingle cherry ever comes to perfection.

The trees have been planted nine years. Eight of them had been forced, year after year, in a hot house. Each of thefe has a confiderably cankery wound in its lower ftem, but this impedes not the growth of the trees, which have more than doubled their bulk fince they have been planted.

Some of the trees are fet pretty near together, but that circumftance, although it might fint their growth, could not be of confequence here; fince fome, that stand quite clear of all others, are equally a prey to thefe deteftable vermin.

It should be obferved, that the trees which had been forced were the first fufferers by these creatures, and that the peft increased by degrees, and is now at its highest pitch, having communicated itself to 20 trees; but fome, growing in a meadow about fifty yards from the nearest infected trees, are not yet hurt.

Queries. 1. What is the cause? 2. Where does the difeafe lie? 3. Is it a known complaint? 4. The remedy, what should it be? And at what time of the year applied?

If the peft comes from the root, fhould it not be laid bare? The turf removed and burnt? New mould brought thither, mixed with lime, or other de letory fubftance ?

If from the wound, fhould not that be cut out, and fome balfam be ap. plied?

Again, when should the cure be begun? Should any thing now be done? Sincere thanks will be given for practicable advice, and its effects communicated to the Gentleman's Magazine.

HORTOPHILUS.

P. S. Philips's powder has been once tried. Some effect appeared, but very

little. The animals are fomehow sheltered from any powders.

Mr. URBAN,

July 15.

Active Magazine, and have spent AM occafionally a reader of your inmany a pleasant hour over its contents. Wishing to do what I can for its advan tage, I have fometimes troubled you with my productions, which you have been pleased, in general, to infert. This encouragement induces me to fend you the inclosed: I obtained it by an acci dent not worth mentioning. Whether it be a genuine portrait, or not, or who Stephen Hemming was (whose name with the date 1744 is at the back of the drawing), I know not. If you think it worthy the inspection of the curious, you will, no doubt, print it: If you do not, it is at your difpofal. I am told, that it is at least a good likenefs of our poet; and have once heard a conjecture hazarded, that it is a hafty sketch, at Lord Bolingbroke's defire, taken in Pope's laft illnefs of May, 1744; and intended to be carried in my Lord's pocket book; but cannot venture to give you my own opinion on the fubject. Should you publish it, your numerous correfpondents will be able, perhaps, to clear up all doubts. Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

W. B.

April 4

HERE fend you a miniature paint. ing of our immortal Dramatic Bard (fig. 3) which, if you think it worth adding to the valuable collection of cu riofities in the Gentleman's Magazine, is very much at your service. I think it bears an evident appearance of being an original; and was the property of gentleman of a confiderable taste in the virtuofo, who had it in his collection for a number of years.

Yours, &c. G. HENDERSON. P. S. In your Magazine for June, 1791, p. 524, your correfpondent, H. B. mentions, "that a Catalogue of Portraits, &c. will meet the amateurs early in the next season." Has the above Ca talogue appeared, if it has not, when' may it be expected †?

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Part I. Canto I. 1.

13, 14. By moft editors of Hudibras, this Sir Knight is fuppofed to have been Sir Samuel Luke, a colonel in the parliament army, &c. but, may I advance my opinion, that it was COLONEL PRIDE (whom Butler in another place ftyles Sir Pride); and to fupport this I will make ufe of this argument.

In Part I. Canto II. Where "the Saints engage in fierce contefts about their carnal interefts," and in the latter end of the laft fpeech made in parlia. ment, juft before Cromwell (for reafons best known to himfelf) WITH ARMY " turn'd'em all out of dores," are thefe lines:

Untill they'd prov'd the devil author

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O' th' covenant, and th' cause his daughter; For when they charg'd him with his guilt Of all the blood that had been fpilt, They did not mean, he wrought th' effufion, In perfon, like SIR PRIDE or Hewfon, &c. Quære, what effufion of blood did Sir Pride or Hewfon work? It was likewife wrought in perfon. Now this Pride was a foundling, made a colonel and knight by Cromwell; Hewfon* was a one eyed fhoe-maker, and likewife made a colonel and knight by Cromwell. To clear up the whole as well as I can, I will give your readers an extract from an old book I have (printed 1660), called "The Mystery of the Good Old Caufe." In relating the life, &c. of Herfon, it is thus: "He was thought worthy to be one of the 23 honourable perfons of the Committee of Safety, that were to manage all publick affairs of the nation, and to confider upon a frame of government to be established; but in the heat of that great work he was in all hatte, by his brethren of that committee, fent in a rage to London, to kill and fill the innocent boys playing at foot-ball in the streets, much like his brother Pride, who cruelly destroyed the innocent bears," &c. Pray, Mr. Urban, will not this account for the effufion made by Pride and Hew fon? And is there not fome reality in Pride's killing the bears, of which Butler, in his Hudibras, has given

*See a picture of him, by Vandyke, in Clarendon's Hiftory, compleated 1715.

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Let us that are unhurt and whole,
Fall on, and "happy man be's dole."

Part I. Canto III. 1. 638.

Pray what is the meaning of the words in italic ?

Part I. Canto III. I. 1166. Canonical cravat of Smeck. Quære, who, or what, is understood by Smeck? This again oc curs in Part II. Canto II. l. 524. "At this the Knight grew high in chafe, And ftaring furioufly on Ralph."

Part II. Canto II. 1. 541.

This is true Prefbyterian fpirit; for, if they have no foreign enemies to fight with, they will not fail to be difcontent and quarrel with their friends at home.

N. B. The inclofed head of Chaucer (fig. 4) has been in my poffeffion many years; I believe it (though a hafty per formance) to be a good likeness of that eminent poet, and hope it will find a place in your excellent Mifcellany.

MR. URBAN.

THE

July 16. HE mythologifts tell us, that, when Jupiter found his wife barren, he gave himself a blow on his forehead through vexation, as fome people do when they have caught themselves in a fit of Gupidity. In about three months his godfhip felt an unufual commotion, and fome troublefome throes, in his brain; upon which he fent for Vulcan to make an incifion in the part affected. The honeft blacksmith, being no very delicate operator, took a hatchet, and fplit the fcull of his patient; when, to his afton fhment, there leaped out, not a tender, little, naked girl, but a bold virago, in complete armour, who threw him into fuch a panic, that he ran away.

This fable is mentioned by Homer, in his Hymn to Pallas; by Apollonius Rhodius, L. IV. 1310; by Stefichorus, who is quoted in the Scholia to Apollonius; by Ovid, Faft. L. 111. 841; by Lucian, in a Dialogue between Jupiter and Vulcan; by Apollodorus, L. 1. c. . and many others.

The gentleman who wished to know what claflical authority there is for this ridiculous fabie, and applied to Dr. Harwood

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