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NORTH AILE OF ST. MARY'S CHURCH, BEVERLEY.

1830.] St. Mary's Church, Beverley.-F. Drake, F.R.S. & S.A.

well, dated Feb. 25th, 1775, observes, "that, if Macpherson had not talked unskilfully of manuscripts, he might have fought with oral tradition much longer."

I am of Dr. Johnson's opinion with regard to the non-authenticity of Ossian's poems; for it is very unlikely that a long poem such as Fingal could be preserved by oral tradition; and as to any ancient manuscript of this poem, it could never be shown. Mr. Macpherson, together with Chatterton, must therefore be looked upon as the ingenious fabricators of their respective poems, till such time as the manuscripts of Fingal, as well as those of Rowley, are produced for the inspection of competent judges. S. H. H.

Mr. URBAN,

Goswell Road,
June 12.

HE Church of St. Mary, BeverTHE ley, is one of the most interesting specimens of decorated pointed architecture in the kingdom. It consists of a nave, transepts, chancel, and ailes; with a noble tower in the centre. The interior is equally interesting with the exterior, and displays many architectural features not existing in any other church in the kingdom. The subject of the annexed engraving (see Plate II.) from Scaum's Beverlac, is a portion of the north aile of the Chancel, looking east. It has a peculiarly curious groined stone roof, which has attracted the attention of many antiquaries and architects, and makes a singular appearance, from the mode in which the ribs spring from the piers, and cross each other as they rise upwards. The ribs which form the groins of the roof unite on the north side in a cluster at the impost, and are continued down the pier, forming with it one unbroken line, being destitute of impost, mouldings, or capital; but on the opposite side they all enter into rings, without appearing below them; they do not spring, as is usual, from the same circumference of one circle, but are distributed; the ar rangement produces this singular effect, that the ribs upon the south side, cross each other, whereas those on the north side diverge uniformly; a contrast which is extremely curious. The mouldings of these groins are highly indented and characteristic; their

We believe a somewhat similar crossing of ribs occurs in the roof of part of York Cathedral.

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strongly marked indentures produce a great effect in the crossings, and upon the north side all the mouldings, except the most prominent, coincide and disappear in the body of the column, the upper fillet and mouldings of each groin only appearing, and producing, by their assemblage, a set of flutes not unlike those of a Corinthian column.' The diagonal arch is a complete semicircle. The windows of this part of the aile, which there can be little doubt was originally intended for a chapel, are enriched with tracery, and the eastern one has a very fine effect. There is also a side chapel out of this aile which is likewise groined, and through which there is now a passage leading to the vestry; all these are of decorated character, and, as before observed, curious for their moulding and details, some of which are by no means

common.

The following inscription to the memory of Dr. Drake, the author of Eboracum, has not been printed in either of the Histories of Beverley which you have recently reviewed. A beautiful ancient niche near the west door of this church has been most perversely mutilated, to admit the monument of a topographer and antiquary.

"Memoriæ sacrum Francisci Drake, armig. Reg. Soc. necnon Antiquarm Socii; eruditione et studio quantum profecerit Historia ejus Eboracensis, necnon et Parliamentaria, palam testantur; si amicum, si civem, si sodalem spectes, quaque in vitæ condiin modum conciliavit; adeo benignus, adeo tione, omnium gratiam et amorem mirum benevolus, adeo urbanus, ut nihil supra. Franciscus Drake, S.T.P. filius ejus e natu maximus, et hujusce ecclesiæ Vicarius, patris tam bene meriti haud immemor, hoc monumentum fieri voluit. Obiit anno Christi 1771, ætatis 76."

Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

THOMAS ALLEN.

Sept. 14. AMONG the Additional MSS. in

the British Museum is a volume consisting of the original proceedings of the Mayor and Corporation of Winchester, from the 2d Hen. IV. to the 5th Edw. VI. and containing copies of a variety of curious instruments, touching the liberties, customs, and topography of the city. On the last folio but one (the 81st) is the following memorandum:

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Md yt ye xvth daye of october, ao regni Reg' herici octavi xxxviijo, there were nubred and left in this blake book lxxxj levis, and so delyu'id to Mr. Willia heicroft, then mayer."

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Black Book of Winchester, and St. John's Hospital.

By what chance this "Black Book" escaped from the vigilant custody of the Mayor, those best can tell who know how such records are often kept; viz, utterly neglected, until some antiquary begs to be favoured with a sight of one of these documents, probaj bly covered with dust and half destroyed by damp; and then, for the first time, they are considered of such value as not to admit of the gaze of any eyes but such as are unable to read them!

But to return to the said Black Book of Winchester. On the verso of the 31st folio, is a curious inventory of the effects of the hospital of St. John in that city, taken in the time of Peter Hulle, Mayor; which, without further preface, I shall transcribe, for the amusement of your Hampshire readers.

"Temp'e Will'i Wyke Custodis.

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in lenthe iij zerdes & a half, ij Basoms & j lauer, j litel Morter of Brasse for Spices, to pounde on', weying xij lb. ; iiij Braspottes, j belle and j litell' posnette,? j hangynglau', xj payre of Shetes, iij payre blankettz, xxiijs keu'lytes, jCrowe,j Spade, j Shouele, j howe, Rake,j Spytele, Dongpyke, j whelbarew, j bounde w'Ire, j Cofer in the Chambre w' Munimentez and Chartes. In cui' rei testimon', &c."

Some account of this Hospital may be found in Milner's Hist. vol. 2, p. 194; from which may be learned how it came under the administration of the city magistrates, and its recent appropriation as a council chamber of the Corporation. I will only make a short extract: "In the dust-hole, (writes the historian) near the apartments of the windows, amongst other curious_antiques, is seen the figure of St. John the Baptist's head in the dish, being the bust of the holy patron of the house which formerly stood over the principal doorway." In all probability, this is the very head of alabaster specified in the above inventory. Yours, &c.

HANTONIENSIS.

"Vtensilia dom' s'ci Johis.-This present indent'e berith' wittenez th' Petrus Hulle,1 Mayre of the cite of Wynchestr', & all' the Commez of the same Cite hath' delyu'ed to s' William Wyke to our' kep' of our' hous of synt Joh'nis of Wynchestr' al our' goodes and Catellis vnderwrite. Firste viij Corporas, iiij tuellis for the autres in the Churche Mr. URBAN, Shrewsbury, Oct. 2. goode & v hode,2 ij litel tuellis for the lauygorolde, j paxebrede of siluer & ou gyldnument in St. Mary's Church, HE erection of a splendid Mo&j neth' paxbrede, & a hede of syn' John' the Baptie of alabastre; j Box of siluer wloute ouer gylde, ij Chales of siluer wtynne ouer gylde, j Chales of siluer ygylde w'oute, ij ymagez of syn John' the Baptie of alabastre, j ymage of oure lady of alabastre, v chothis 3 of sylke & a litel pelew, viij p'ies vestimentez wt all' the apparell', ij surplis feble, jawbe wt parurys, j Cristalstone, j Box wt dyu's reliquis, iij Missalez, ij Antiphou's, ij Portous, vj sawters, ij legendez, ij Grayellis, j episteler, j Marteloge aud vij other diuerse bokes,iij sakeryng belles,iiij Cruettez, ij lampes of brasse, j mettable wtij trestallis, ij belles for the Churche wt the Trunke pond. viij c. I., j forme, ij Meteclothis conteynyng in lenthe xiiij zerdes, w'a tuwell' conteynyng

1 Peter Hulle or Hille was Mayor of Winchester, the 20th Hen. VI. 1442, as appears from fol. 26-b, of the same MS. His name will not be found in the list of mayors printed at the end of Milner's Hist. of Winchester, which I suspect to be in great measure a fabrication, for I cannot find in it one name in ten of the Mayors recorded in the "black book," a series of which might be extracted from thence with great facility. 3 Clothes? 4 Pair. 5 Breviaries. (See Tyrwhitt's Note on Chaucer, v. 13061.) 6 Meat-table.

2 Old.

Shrewsbury, in memory of the late Rev. J. B. Blakeway, M.A. F.S.A. one of the authors of "The History of Shrewsbury," having been already noticed in your Magazine, I herewith send you a notice of a memorial which has this day been completed to his revered colleague in the arduous labours of that invaluable work, which alone would have carried their names down to posterity by every true Salopian with lasting honours; nevertheless it is gratifying to see that Salopia's willow is thus snatched as it were from the brink of her beauteous river, to entwine a wreath to flourish around their tomb,-a wreath which will never fade, whilst Salopians estimate their zeal in rescuing from destruction and the hands of time the very few remaining monuments indicative of the pristine splendour of their native town.

The memorial is erected on the north side of the chancel of St. Julian's Church, over which parish the Archdeacon presided with assiduous attention to the welfare of his flock for the space of thirty-five years.—It is a

↑ Pipkin. 8 Counterpanes. 9 Hoe.

1830.] Rev. Arch. Owen.-Family of Martin the Regicide.

plain tablet, with a Grecian pediment inserted on a square slab of dove-coloured marble, having the following inscription in Roman capitals.

Sacred to the memory of the Venerable HUGH OWEN, M.A. F.A.S. Archdeacon of Salop, Prebendary of Salisbury and Lichfield, one of the Portionists of Bampton, Oxfordshire,

formerly Minister of this Parish, and afterwards of St. Mary in Shrewsbury. He was the only son of Price Owen, M.D. and Bridget his wife, and the lineal representative of an ancient British family. Distinguished for the extent and accuracy of his antiquarian researches, and knowledge of the principles of ecclesiastical and civil architecture, by the judicious application of this talent, joined to a firm but mild exertion of his official authority, he greatly restoration of many venerable fabrics within his archdeaconry. His "Account of the ancient and present State of Shrewsbury," originally published in a single volume, was afterwards embodied in a complete History written by him, in conjunction with the Reverend John Brickdale Blakeway. He died Dec. 3, 1827, aged 67 years. Harriet his wife, daughter of Edward Jeffreys, esq. died April 3, 1825, aged 59 years. Yours, &c.

contributed to the decent and substantial

Mr. URBAN,

H.P.

Nov. 11.

HAVN researches respecting the family of Martyn, I am enabled to correct a most material error in the biography of Sir Henry Martin, the celebrated Civilian and father of the Regicide, as it is given in Wood's Athenæ. He is there stated to be the "son of Anthony Marten of London, son of William Marten of Oakingham, in Berks, and Margaret, his second wife, daughter of John Yate, of Lyford in the same county." The appearance of a Henry in the Visitation of Berkshire, as the son of the above Anthony, seemed to favour this supposition. Two grounds of doubt however existed. One, the mode of spelling the name with an i, and not with a y; the other, the total difference in the armorial bearings; the family seated at Oakingham bearing Argent, on a bend Sable, cotised Ermine, three cinquefoils Or; whereas the coat on the monument of Sir Henry, at Longwich in Berkshire, seems to have been, Argent, two bars Gules, each charged with

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three Bezants. To prove, then, that the Henry, mentioned in the Visitation, as the son of Anthony Martyn, and grandson of William Martyn, was not Sir Henry the Civilian, but another Henry, who was seated at Upham, in the parish of Albourne, in Wiltshire:

Anthony Martyn of London, Citizen and Grocer, of St. Dunstan's in the West suburbs, by his will (proved in 1579), directs to be buried in that Church, and mentions his wife Anne, his daughter Anne Cooke, his brother Giles Jacob, his daughter June Stampe, and his son Henry Martyn, to whom he leaves all his lands to be holden of the head Lords of the fee by the services thereof due, and of right accustomed." One of the witnesses was Simon Stampe. That this was the Anthony Martyu, son of William of Oakingham, is proved by the fact of the Visitation mentioning the marriage with Anne, the daughter of John Jacob, and the names of two daughters, Jane and Anne.

The books of the Inner Temple contain the entry of "Henry Martyn de London," and "Symon Stampe de Cholsey," both on the same day in 1567, and both with the same sureties.

In 1594 the will of" Symon Stampe of Wanborough, co. Wilts, gent." was proved; he names his son Martyn Stampe, his wife Jane, and his “good

brother' Henry Martyn, of Upham,

esq." thus establishing the fact, that Henry the son of Anthony, the son of William of Oakingham, was not Sir Henry the Civilian, but another Henry seated at Upham. That they were not one and the same individual, is proved from the will of an Edward Walrond of Albourne, esq. (whose niece, Jane Walrond, was the wife of Henry Martyn of Upham), dated 1614, in which he bequeaths ten angels to his "friend Mr. Dr. Martyn," and six angels to his "cousin Mr. Henry Martyn of Upham," besides making both of them his executors. I am not enabled to show who was the father of Sir Henry, but we collect from the will of Edward Walrond abovementioned, that Sir Henry's wife was his cousin, inasmuch as he leaves to his " cousin Martyn, wife of Mr. Doctor Martyn, a ring of 101."

The lands bequeathed by Anthony Martyn to his son Henry, "to be held of the Lords of the fee," were

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Martyns of Oakingham.-Punch.

obviously those at Upham, which were held under the Duchy of Lancaster, and were purchased between 1554 and 1576 by Anthony Martyn, of his cousin James Yate, as appears from the pleadings 19 Eliz." Anthony Marten, gent. v. Thomas Goddard, gent." They continued in the Martyn family for a considerable period, and descended, if I am not mistaken, to Henry Martin, the author of several papers in the Spec

tator.

The coat which appears impaled by that of Sir Henry at Longworth, bears some resemblance to Besil, and it is highly probable that his wife was of a Berkshire family, from the circumstance of his having invested the profits of his profession in lands in that county.

The difference in the mode of spelling the names, is shown in the books of the Civil Law Court, in 1596, when Sir Henry signed his name with an i, in his admission; and again in the books of the Inner Temple in 1620, when his son Henry (the Regicide) was entered whereas in the same books, in 1601, Edward the son of Henry Martyn, of Upham, is entered with a y, his father signing as one of

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MSS. 5801-2) gives him the same arms as those on his monument, but marries him to the daughter of Weld, whom he states as dying in 1677, while the monument at Longworth makes his wife die in 1618; and the pedigree of Weld, 3. D. 14, mentions Frances the daughter of Sir John Weld, as marrying Martyn, brother to Sir Henry Martin." To add to the confusion, the Visitation of Hants, 1544, Harl. MSS. gives a strangely complicated coat, totally unlike either of the coats abovementioned, to " Martyn, Doctor of the Arches." His will, a document more to be relied on, names his niece Frances, "now serving me;" son Henry; grandchildren Mary, Edmond, and Margaret Martin; William Pul

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Punch is an abbreviation for Punchinello. In the American edition of Johnson's English Dictionary, as improved by Todd, and abridged by Chalmers, Boston, U. S. 1828," we have:

"Punch, n. s. Ital. Polichinello, the buffoon or harlequin of the puppet-show.-GAY. "Punchinello, n. s. [Ital. Polichinello,] a sort of buffoon, a punch.-TATLER.

"Punch, Punchy, a. short, thick, fat."

Ficeroni, in his "Dissertatio de Larvis Scenicis et Figuris Comicis Antiquorum Romanorum," published at Rome in 1754, enters into the following explanation:

"Quæ sequitur persona, e prototypo delineata est, qui in Museo RR. PP. Societatis Jesu, olim Marchionis Capponi, asservatur. Brachiis caret hic homuncio, et humili, ut ita dicam, penula infra genua tegitur, quadam sandaliorum specie calceatus, quæ parvis tæniis supra pedes obligata calceamenti quoddam genus præ se ferunt a socco et a cothurnis diversum. Itaque neque cothurnatus, neque soccatus dici potest, et ne planipes quidem, id est nudis pedibus, quibus tribus modis solebant in scenam actores prodire. Præterea hæc persona tam a tergo, quam dextrorsum gibbosa apparet, capite abraso, naso pando, recurvo, et crasso, et sannis argenteis de ore protendentibus, ita ut ipsius vultus a reliquo corpore abnormis, verum monstrum, veramque stultitiæ et hebetudinis speciem ostendat, instar fatui illius, qui PULCINELLA dicitur, et hodie in scenam induci solet, ut risum moveat. dendum quid de hac persona scriptum fuit fuerit) in calce ectypi were incisi jussu ejusdem Marchionis Capponi. Tertia, quæ sequitur persona, ex quadam meæ collectionis gemma affabre, ut apparet, delineata, amplo pallio cooperta est, nudatis pedibus, et capite abraso. Os ejus et mentum a naso satis recurvo contegitur. Ex tarda et ignavi corporis habitudine, stat enim flexis brachiis, gitur, involutis, similis dici potest personæ, ac intra vestem, quæ supra gremium collide qua superius loquiti sumus, quæ PULCINELLA nuncupatur, et quam doctorali toga indutam vidimus Romæ anno 1728, quum quædam ageretur comœdia, cui titulus erat, PULCINELLA finto Dottore, populo maximopere plaudente."

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