speaks of the more than ordinary favour and respect which he found above any of his equals, at the courteous and learned men, the pillars of the college, where he spent some years, and, who, at his parting, requested him to remain among them by letters full of kindness and loving respect. This is the view of the subject, which the editor of the Aldine edition of Milton first took; which was supported by additional proofs in our Magazine of November 1836; which was approved by Sir Egerton Brydges, in his edition; and which we believe includes all the facts on the subject that are necessary to be known. More than a century after, the sister University was attacked in the same manner for presenting these brabblements of logic and metaphysics to the students, in the place of solid and wholesome food. See Amherst's Terræ Filius, p. 5, et passim; and Roger Coke's Detection, p. 22, p. 665.

Of the Poetry scattered through these numbers, though there is a good Sonnet to Bentley, and not a bad one to Newton, yet Mr. Wilmot's * Dream of the Poets is decidedly the best, and is a very elegant composition; from this, therefore, we must make our extract; and, first, for Milton:

"Far off thy radiant coming shines,

O bard of Paradise! around

Darting the living splendour of thy lines :
And silvery sweet thy lute's enchanted sound
Falls on the listening ear, but rather now
Our memory gazes on thy solemn brow,
When harps from Eden's cedarn aisles were heard;
And ever, like a sweet and gorgeous bird
In the dark foliage bursting into song,
Thought after thought of beauty, a fair throng,
Within the poet's cloudless soul awoke,
And each emotion of his fancy spoke;
Peace to his troubled spirit, while he soar'd,
On the dark hour of his decay was pour'd
The Arabian Heaven, with all its dreams divine,
And all the hallowed pomp of Palestine.
The Muse walked with him, whose impurpled wing
Dropping with colours from the Indian spring,
And as his slumbers floated in a crowd,
Prophets, apostles, martyrs, like a cloud,
Kindling before the sunrise into gold."

Then follow the portraits of Cowley and Crashaw, which are drawn with taste and elegance; but we must reserve for our closing extract, the lines on B. Jonson and Gray.

"Would thou wert living at this hour,

Immortal Jonson! with thy whip of steel

Scourging the blood out of the dissolute age,
Until the fainting Sybarite might reel
In the rich twilight of his scented bower,
Beneath the fury of thy noble rage,

Our sternest painter and our best! - Not thine
To woo the muse beneath a Cynthia's eye,
Or flatter vice, or daub iniquity :

* This gentleman is author of the "Lives of the Sacred Poets," a very well written and interesting work, including the best life of Withers extant: Mr. Wilmot has a fine Virgilian flow of poetry, and we hope will not want a friendly Mecenas. He is also, we believe, the author of some eloquent Reviews in the "Theological Quarterly."

GENT. MAG. VOL. XII.

2 H

Trampling beneath the thunder of thy line
Sin's crested pride, as with a foot divine.
But who can blast the Titan power of crime ?
Rise once again, thou poet of all time,
Pour thy fierce anger through the trumpet's lips,
Lighting the moral blackness of eclipse !
Before the blaze of thy promethean* flame,
The sword of Satan weakens at thy name."

We do no think Gray's genius to be so happily or characteristically marked as the former; but the portrait is richly coloured, and the lines flow majestically.

"Lord of the cittern! hail, amidst the throng,

On the majestic river of thy song

The lyric Muses walk'd-river that flowed,
By no fierce wind or blackening tempest driven,
But shining calmly to the purple Heaven,
With beauteous forms and boughs of verdurous trees
Sleeping upon thy bosom; as the woodman sees

The leaves reflected on the sunny lawn,
Ere the soft pinion of the morning breeze
Startles the dewy slumber of the fawn."

We must add that the embellishments of the Cambridge Portfolio are numerous, and many of them very tasteful, particularly the etchings by Mr. Lewis. The landscape plates by Cooke are graceful and pretty; but the architectural subjects are scarcely drawn with sufficient care, though they show an attentive eye to the most beautiful and interesting features of the University. There are some good portraits, as those of Caius and Harvey; but the busts of Bacon and Coke are absolutely bad: it requires as much practice and skill to draw from sculpture as from the life.

SEAL OF ARCHBISHOP WALDEBY.

not easy to say whether the Archbishop took his surname immediately from the place of his birth (as was frequently the custom with churchmen), or whether it came to him by descent from his parent. In the preceding generation there were two distinguished citizens of York, John de Waldeby, bailiff in 1357, and Richard de Waldeby, mayor in 1365; one of whom may have been his father. John de Waldeby, a very learned theologian, is stated to have been his brother. They were both educated in the Augustinian priory of Tickhill, and Dr. John afterwards became the provincial of the Augustinian order in England. He died in 1393; having written several able theological works, of which the titles are given by Leland and his followers.†

Robert de Waldeby was a chaplain of Edward the Black Prince, whom

* Promethean, with the penultimate accented, would be more correct. † The earlier biographers appear, however, to have confounded the works of the he accompanied into France, and, sojourning at the University of Thoulouse, he became professor of Divinity there, and was afterwards consecrated Bishop of the diocese of Aire, in Gascony. From that see he was promoted, in 1391, to the archbishopric of Dublin, and in the following year was made Chancellor of Ireland. In 1394 he contributed to the entertainment of Richard the Second when the king kept his Christmas in Dublin; and shortly after he was one of the Ambassadors sent to negociate the King's marriage with Isabel of France.

Like some Englishmen of later times, Waldeby seems to have regarded a residence in Ireland as an expatriation, and in 1395 he was contented to resign his archiepiscopal dignity for the subordinate see of Chichester.

However, in the following year, he not only recovered his former grade, but had the satisfaction of resuming it in the province of his own nativity.

He survived little more than ten months, dying on the 6th Jan. 1397-8, when his body was buried in Westminster Abbey. His sepulchral effigy on brass plate is one of the few remaining in that edifice: it is a fine work of art, and has been three times engraved, by Cole, in Dart's Westminster Abbey; by Basire, in Drake's York; but more accurately in Mr. G. P. Harding's Antiquities in Westminster Abbey, 4to., 1825. The epitaph, of which the latter part only remains, is supplied in full, through Weever, from a MS. in Sir Robert Cotton's library : it is a compendious sketch, both of Waldeby's history and his character :

Hic fuit expertus in quovis jure Robertus
De Waldebye dictus, nunc est sub marmore strictus,
Sacre scripture doctor fuit et geniture;
Ingenuus medicus et plebis semper amicus :
Presul Adurensis, post hec archas Dulbinensis,
Hinc Cicestrensis, tandem primas Eborensis.
Quarto kalend. Junii migravit cursibus anni,
Milleni ter C. septem nonies quoque deni,
Vos precor orate, quod sint sibi dona beate
Cum sanctis vite requiescat, et hic sine lite.

There were originally three shields of arms upon the slab: of which the central oneremains, being the favourite achievement of King Richard the Second,* viz. an impalement of the presumed arms of King Edward the Confessor, with the quarterly coat of France and England: but the two lateral shields have been long since removed. The seal we now publish is therefore valuable as showing what the arms of Archbishop Waldeby were. None of his seals for the sees of Dublin, Chichester, or York have hitherto come into the large collection formed by Mr. Doubleday, of Little Russellstreet; otherwise his personal arms might also be expected to be found upon them, as is the case with the seals of his contemporary Archbishop Arundel.

The dexter side of the shield is oсcupied with an archiepiscopal pall surmounting a crosier; and these appear to have been the usual armorial insignia of the Archbishops of York, down to the period of the Reformamation. The same insignia, it is well known, continue to be borne by the Archbishops of Canterbury, at the present day; and also by the Archbishops of Armagh and Dublin. On what account the pall was relinquished by the Archbishops of York, unless it was for the sake of distinction from Canterbury, is perhaps not recorded; but it occurs so late as on the seal of Archbishop Edward Lee, consecrated in 1531. On all the monuments of Archbishops subsequent to the Reformation, the arms now used of a crown and cross-keys occur.t

two brothers, and perhaps their history also; for it is sometimes stated that John was elected (though not confirmed) Archbishop of York. See Tanner, Bibliotheca Britannica; and Stevens, Monasticon, ii. 219.

* Frequently displayed by his adherents: as on the seal of Archbishop Arundel (Archæologia, vol. XXVI, pl. xxx.); on a carving in the hall of Croydon Palace (Pugin's Specimens), and on the grave-stone of Sir Simon Felbriggs, his standard-bearer (Cotman's Norfolk Brasses); and in many other examples.

† On the first, that of Archbishop Sandys, the cross-keys appear without the crown, according to Drake's print, p. 457, but that print is perhaps not to be depended upon.

* See several instances in the Durham Wills, published by the Surtees Society. † Whilst on the subject of ancient seals, we shall take the opportunity to notice a manufactory of fabricated matrices which, we understand, has some time been carried

We recently saw two specimens in a shop window in the neighbourhood of Covent Garden. They were casts in brass of seals which we well knew, duly soiled with dirt and verdigrease; but having handles, apparently taken from modern bronze inkstands, &c. which completely exposed their character to the experienced eye. There can be no objection to the perpetuation of ancient seals in so durable a material; but the actual value of such casts is as many shillings as pounds are demanded. These hints may tend to place the unwary virtuoso on his guard, as we have reason to believe some remarks we formerly gave on fabricated Anglo-Saxon coins attracted the atten. tion of the numismatic collectors. EDIT,

* There appear to have been some ceremonies anciently used when the Lady took her Chamber. It is stated, that when the Queen of Henry the Seventh took her Chamber "the Erles of Shrewsbury and of Kente hyld the Towelles, whan the Quene toke her Rightes; and the Torches ware holden by Knightes. Whan she was comen into hir great Chambre, she stode undre hir Cloth of Estate: then there was ordeyned a Voide of Espices and swet Wyne; that doone, my Lorde, the Quene's Chamberlain, in very goode wordes desired, in the Quene's name, the pepul there present to pray God to sende hir the goode houre: and so she departed to hir inner Chambre."-Strutt, vol. iii. p. 157, from a MS, in the Cotton Library.