the vicinity of London also the vil lages are replete with seminaries of instruction, even for the children of the better class, the want of accommodation for them is severely felt, and those children seek for admission round the Church, and often retire or are crowded together in a very indecorous manner: thus the rising generation must lose all sense of devotion: or religious improvement; and although heads of families may meet with accommodation, their servants often are excluded the service of their Maker from these causes.

This disregard to the inferior orders in the community is as impolitic as uncharitable, and more or less we are liable to, or answerable for, the sad effects; we cannot expect sobriety, honesty, and diligence, in those who are excluded from instruction. It is sometimes argued, that there is room for as many as will come to Church, that enlargement is in course unneces sary; but the result of these unwise neglects is the establishment of Chapels for every sect, and in such numbers as fully warrant the assertion that man is a religious as well as a social being, for he will no more live without some profession of religion, than without society; and the difference of convenience in one place of worship and the other, constitutes sufficient ground for the preference to the Chapel.

In a parish not many miles from London, I understand the liberality of the parishioners (much to their credit) have in two solemn meetings determined on the enlargement of their Church, for the accommodation chiefly of the lower classes, &c., and have provided sufficient funds to effect it; but as nothing can be done without a faculty from the Commons, and this depends on the consent of families for the removal of Monumen's and Grave-stones, the representatives of which perhaps cannot be found, or who may refuse their consent, and thus, perhaps, interdict the enlargement altogether, or create a material obstacle thereto, by which means the measure, salutary as it is, may be defeated; yet if the inhabitants chuse to build a meeting-house, it might be done without such obstacles, and be licensed as readily; and the fact is notorious, that many have been so built, and are in constant use: Are not these impediments equally disgraceful, in

the ecclesiastical establishment, with the lukewarm zeal of the laity ?

On some future day, I may apprize you of such villages as appear to require this improvement, by stating their population, and the size of their chancel; and call more pointedly on our legislators to remedy these serious mischiefs, which are a trespass against religion and morality. The luminaries in Church and State are earnestly importuned, and looked up to, for the completion of this essential service to their fellow-subjects and posterity: and they are invoked by all considerate persons to lay their commands on those whom their authority can influence, nor longer to pause over this one thing needful, as they regard the higher interests of their countrymen, and the future prosperity of this exalted nation.

A Member of the Church of England,

Mr. URBAN,

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Temple, May 20. Ta time when great attention is paid to the revival of old English Literature, especially in the republication of Works on British Antiquities and Biography, I am desirous of calling the notice of the publick to the labours of the industrious and accurate STRYPE. His pages contain an immense body of useful and interesting matter, relating to our Ecclesiastical History, and to persons who occupied the highest situations in the Church, at most important and critical periods; and it is well known how intimately the higher ecclesiastics were formerly employed in the distribution of the Laws, and in all affairs that related to the civil part of the constitution.

That these works are a mine, to which modern writers may successfully resort, has been sufficiently evinced by the valuable materials which Mr. Archdeacon Churton has drawn from them, and with which every chapter in his Life of Dean Nowell is illus trated.

The publications of Strype, to which I particularly allude, are the following; and it is unnecessary to say, that every buyer of Books feels their scarcity, from the prices which he is now obliged to pay for them.

Memorials of Archbishop Cranmer. -
Life and Acts of Archbishop Grindal,
of Archbishop Parker.
of Archbishop Whitgift.
of Archbishop Aylmer,
Aunals

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Mr. URBAN,

May 6.

SHALL be obliged to any of your numerous Readers to inform me who was the Author of a Translation of the whole New Testament into Latin Hexameters. I never met in my reading with any mention of or quotation from it and though I have seen the book itself in a distant Parish Library, I can only now speak from memory. I recollect that it appeared to be written by a chaplain of Queen Elizabeth, who was afterwards made a Eishop by James I. Ou consulting Godwyn De Præsulibus Angl. I found that John Bridges, Dean of Salisbury, and fellow of PembrokeHall, Cambridge, was consecrated Bishop of Oxford in 1603, after the see had been vacant eleven years. He died at 90, May 6, 1618; but no mention is made in Godwyn of his being the author of the above work: nor in Wood's Athena Oxon. who refers for a farther account of him to "Hist. & Antiq. Oxon." lib. ii. p. 291.; of which last book I have not been able

to get a sight. If any of your Readers will give an account of this curious translation and its author, he will oblige many of your Readers, as well as Yours, &c.

MR. URBAN,

N. N.

March 20.

N your Volume LX. p. 1055, it is

YOUR

Mr. URBAN, May . VOUR Correspondent, p. 516, in the first Part of your last Volume, styling himself Biographicus Á. fairly allows his want of correctness relative to the families of Tuite (not Tute) and Blake. From what circumstances he could even suppose that Sir John Blake was presumptive heir to the Wallscourt barony, I cannot conjecture. With respect to the Morres family, he persists in his former statement, on the alledged authority of "eminent heralds;" and he adds, "whatever your Correspondents may at any time therefore state to the contrary, is most probably devoid of truth." Now, in the face of this amiable assertion, I repeat, without fear of contradiction from any well-informed channel, that Archdall's deduction of the Lords Mountmorres and Frankfort, from a baronet of the line of Morres of Knockagh Castle is erroneous. The direct ancestor of those Noblemen was Hervey Morres, who obtained a grant of the estate and manor of Castle Morres, co. Kilkenny, (still the inheritance of the family,) and who was probably descended from a branch of the Morres's of Knockagh, previous to the grant of the patent of baronetage. Sir John Morres, of Knockagh Castle, was created a baronet in 1631; and it is matter of doubt, whether any male descendant of his body is now in existence; if not, the title is, of course, extinct. Your intelligent Correspondent, M. M. M. page 530, who seems better informed as to the history of this antient house, could, perhaps, inform your Readers, as to the relationship existing between Hervey Morres, the patentee of Castle Morres, (the direct ancestor of the Lords Mountmorres and Frankfort,)

very worthy and learned Dr. Michael Lort, was owing to an accident which he met with in going to his Rectory at Male-end, near Colchester. I wish to know in what year he was instituted to that Rectory; and, as he was probably buried there, should be much gratified by a copy of his epitaph, Perhaps some Essex Correspondent may be so kind as to oblige me,

Any particulars also of the Rev, John Jones, many years curate to Dr. Young at Welwyn, or of the late Dr. John Carr, of Hertford, would be a favour. M. GREEN.

statement, that the above Hervey Morres, of Castle Morres, was son of Sir John Morres, bart. has been long since found to be erroneous.

A gen tleman, who conceived himself entitled to the baronetage, procured copies of the wills and marriage settlements of the baronets, of the line of Knockagh, and the result of his investigation was, that neither he nor the Mountmorres family, were de scended from the grantee, but that their ancestor must have branched off at a remoter period from the parent stem,

Yours, &c, A CONSTANT READER.

Mr.