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church of Blackfriars, on the 1st of Jan. 1836, his parishioners and friends raised a subscription, of between 3007. and 4007., for the erection of a monument to his memory, which has been sculptured by Samuel Manning, esq. of Newman-street, successor to the celebrated Bacon, and erected in the church, by the side of the memorial of the late Mr. Romaine. It is surmounted by an excellent bust, and in a bas-relief, the beloved Pastor is supposed to be suddenly translated by angels, and about to receive an immortal crown, which appears on the glory above. open Bible, resting on the cushion, and grouped with other Christian emblems, displays the last significant text uttered by the lips of the deceased Pastor,-" Ye are complete in Him." Coloss. ii. ch. 10. v. The inscription runs as follows:-"Isaac Saunders, M.A. Died January the 1st, 1836, aged 54 years. He was ordained Curate of this Church, A.D. 1804; was elected Sunday Afternoon Lecturer, 1806; and Rector 1816. In all which offices, receiving mercy of the Lord to be faithful; as a Preacher he shunned not to declare all the counsel of God; as a Pastor, he watched for souls as one that must give account; as a Christian, he showed himself a pattern of good works; till, after having made full proof of his ministry, during a space of thirty years, and while in the act of preaching in this Church, the words of his text inscribed above being still on his lips, his spirit was translated from these earthly courts to worship with the saints in light, and dwell for ever with the Lord. His mortal remains, interred in the chancel vault, await the day of their redemption, when they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. This monument is raised by the inbabitants of these united parishes, and many mourning friends, to the glory and the praise of God."

P. 657.-A superb monument to the memory of Bishop Sparke has been erected in Bishop West's chapel, in Ely cathedral. It is an imitation of that of Edward the Black Prince in Canterbury cathedral, and the canopy of Bishop Mitford's, in Salisbury cathedral; it is of excellent workmanship, built by Hopper, of London.

Vol. VII. p. 99.-A monument to the memory of the late gallant Lord de Saumarez has been erected in the town church of Guernsey. It consists of a white marble tablet, two bas-relief figures, representing Faith on one side, and Hope on the other. Under a suitable inscription GENT. MAG. VOL. X.

is a bas-relief, representing the "Reunion and Crescent off Cherbourg."

P. 101. After a lengthened litigation, Sir Herbert Jenner pronounced judgment on the will of Mr. Charles Day, in the Prerogative Court, on the 29th June 1838. The deceased was the well-known blacking manufacturer of High Holborn. He died on the 26th Oct. 1836, at the age of 52 or 53 years, possessed of property to the amount of between 350,000l. and 370,0007. of which about 140,000. was real and the remainder personal. The testator left behind him a widow and a daughter (who was married some time since to Mr. Horatio Claggett), a sister, several other relatives, and three illegitimate children. The will, which was dated May 1st, 1834, and a codicil, bearing the same date, was propounded by the executors, Mr. William Croft (of the Ordnance-office), Mr. Pinder Simpson (an old friend and adviser of the testator), and Mr. Underwood. These two papers amply provided for his wife and daughter, and 100,000l. were bequeathed to his executors, in trust, to found a blind asylum (the deceased having been blind for about 20 years before his death). Legacies of 5007. were given to each of the executors, &c. These papers were not opposed. The executors took the opinion of the court upon the other papers propounded as codicils to the will of the deceased, one of which, dated the 24th Sept. (after the testator had had an attack of epilepsy), increasing the legacies to certain branches of his family; the second instrument was dated on the following day, drawn up also by Mr. Pinder Simpson (the son of the executor), for the same purpose. The third codicil was dated the 10th September, and was in favour of the three natural children of the testator (whose existence up to that day had been kept a profound secret), giving them 50001. each, in addition to post-obit bonds the deceased had executed in the favour of each in 1832. The last codicil was propounded by Mr. F. Defaur, and was dated on the 22nd assisted the deceased in the management Sept. by which that gentleman (who had of rents, &c.), was named as executor, of his money matters, in the collection with a legacy of 5007. This last codicil was written from instructions given by the deceased to Mr. Defaur by Mr. Hew son, one of the medical attendants of the testator, and executed in the presence of Mrs. Day, Mrs. Claggett, and two other parties. The executors named in the will did not, in fact, oppose any of the four codicils, except the last. The deceased, though blind, and deprived of the use of both legs, possessed an extraordi4 R

nary memory, and kept his accounts most accurately, in which he was assisted by his daughter. His health appeared to have been extremely good during the greater part of his life-until the attack of epilepsy on the 26th Aug. 1836, which affected the brain. The effect of this attack was not at first perceptible. The court did not wish to throw the slightest imputation upon Mr. Defaur, but, under all the circumstances, pronounced against the last paper, and directed probate to pass to the will, and four first codicils, as containing the intentions of the testator.

P. 218.-John Gamaliel Lloyd, Esq. was born 8th March, 1769, and consequently was only 67 at the time of his decease. He was the second son of John Lloyd, esq. F.R.S. of Snitterfield, co. Warwick, by Anne, only child and heiress of James Hibbins, esq. M.D. and grandson of George Lloyd, esq. F.R.S. of Hulme Hall, near Manchester, co. Lanc. by Eleanor, dau. of Henry Wright, esq. of Offerton and Mobberley, co. Chester, and Purefoy, dau. of Sir Willoughby Aston, Bart. He was educated at the university of Glasgow, called to the Bar in 1794 by the Society of the Middle Temple, of which Society he lately became a bencher, and for some years went the Northern and afterwards the Midland Circuit. He for several years held courts at Macclesfield, as deputy to the late Earl of Derby, as Steward of the Liberty of the Hundred; was in the commission of the peace for the county of Warwick in 1823, and subsequently; and filled the office of High Sheriff for the county of Warwick in 1832. By devise of a relation of his mother, the Rev. Francis Stanley, who died 18 April 1827 (see Gent. Mag. vol. xcvi. part i. p. 474), he came into possession of estates in Hertfordshire and Essex; and on the death of his elder brother George Lloyd, esq. of Welcombe House, 11 July 1831, he took by devise for life considerable estates in Warwickshire and Lancashire. He died, at lodgings in London, a bachelor, leaving two sisters surviving, the younger unmarried; the other is the wife of the Rev. T. Warde, of Leamington Priors, and has issue only Charles T. Warde, esq. the present owner of Welcombe House. He is buried, as one of the Masters of the Bench, in the Temple Church.

P. 324.-The will of Sir John Soane was opposed by his son, Mr. George Soane; but this opposition being withdrawn, the Prerogative Court pronounced for the will, on the 28th Nov. 1837. has since been proved, and the personal property sworn under 140,0007. The ex

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ecutors, Sir Francis Chantrey, Sir John Stevenson, and Mr. Higham, have, by power of attorney, renounced in favour of Mr. Bicknell, named in codicil as one of the executors. The will was proved by Mrs. Sally Conduitt, to whom testator bequeathed 50001. with request that she may be buried in the same vault with him.

P. 545.-The Maltese monument to the memory of the late Major-General Sir Frederick Ponsonby, is being erected in the works of Valletta, on St. Andrew's bastion, at the end of Strada Britannica. It consists of a pedestal and column of the Roman Doric order, its proportions being regulated upon that of Trajan, which still exists in all its beauty at Rome. It will be 71 feet high, or about two-thirds of the height of that masterpiece of architecture, and it is built of bard Malta stone of the first quality, of a pleasing whitish colour, which takes a polish like marble. It may be interesting to remark that upon the first commence. ment of the work, while digging for its foundation, a strong and massive wall, which from its construction and the great size of its stones appears to have been an old bastion, of which no knowledge can be traced, was found a few feet under the surface. Being well situated, and regularly built up from the solid rock, forty-five feet below, this wall was avail. able for the basis of the column, with an incalculable saving of expense and time.

P. 549.-A handsome marble tablet has been erected in St. Edmund's church, Salisbury, the production of Mr. Osmond, of that city, bearing the following inscription : "To the Memory of the Rev. Herbert Hawes, D.D. thirty-four years Rector of this Church, who during so long a period ably and zealously fulfilled his arduous duties; and under whose judicious superintendence the public business of the parish was conducted with peculiar and laudable unanimity; his parishioners, honouring his merits, and grateful for his services, have dedicated this tablet. died 17th Jan. 1837, in the 73d year of his age."

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VOL. VIII. p. 534.-William-HarcourtIsham Mackworth, esq. 4th son of Sir Digby Mackworth, Bart. and Frances his wife, daughter and coheiress of William Somerset Dolben, of Finedon, co. Northampton, esq. deceased, and grand-daughter and coheiress expectant of Sir John English Dolben, Bart. took the surname of Dolben, in addition to and after Mackworth, by Royal Sign Manual, 14 July, 1835.

P. 657.-The Baronet alluded to as the heir of Baroness Lindores, is Sir William Templer Pole, Bart. of Shute House,

Devon, who is a maternal cousin and the nearest relative of the deceased.

Ibid.-Thomas Hutchinson, Esq. Barrister-at-Law. This gentleman was the eldest son of the Hon. Thomas Judge Hutchinson, and grandson of the Hon. Thomas Hutchinson, her Majesty's Governor of the Province of Massachusetts.

VOL. IX. p. 108.-Alexander Townsend, Esq. of Theescomb House, near Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, has bequeathed to the Oxford, Gloucester, and Bristol Infirmaries 5001. each; to the Minchinhampton Dispensary 551. and to the poor of Southrop 1001. His executor is the Rev. William Colston, of Broughton Hall, near Lechlade.

Ibid.-Mr. Collingwood's marriage took place May 30, 1816 (not 1810). MaryPatience, the younger daughter and coheiress of Lord Collingwood, was married June 16, 1807, to Anthony Denny, esq.

P. 109.-The will of Mr. Samuel Thompson (who was for many years the leading partner in the well-known wine and spirit establishment on Holborn hill, under the title of "Thompson and Fearon,") has been proved in Doctors' Commons by Mary Thompson, his widow, and Seymour Teulon, David Liston, and George Henderson, the executors. amount of personal property in the province of Canterbury is sworn under 60,000%., independent of a large estate in America, which is said to be worth 40,000. The testator has left the whole of his fortune to his widow and family.

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P. 214.-The late Rev. W. Richardson, fifty-three years Vicar of St. John's, Chester, has left 2,000l. to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; 2,000l. to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; and 2,000l. to the Incorporated Society for promoting the enlargement, building, and repairing of churches and chapels. He has also bequeathed 6007. for the erection of an organ in the church belonging to the parish over which he had been for so long a period the worthy vicar.

P. 220.-John Heygate, Esq. late of West Haddon, Northamptonshire, has made the following munificent bequests to the various charities of his neighbourhood: 500l. to the West Haddon Charity School, 2001. to the Northampton Infirmary, 2007. to the Northampton Lunatic Asylum, 50l. to the Bedford Infirmary, 507. to the Leicester Infirmary, 1007. to the West Haddon Old Friendly Society, 501. to the New ditto, 197. 19s. to each of the parishes of West Haddon, Long Buckby, Watford, Winwick, Crick, Haselbeech, Wellingborough, and Husband's Bosworth.

P. 319.-The late Earl of Eldon's will was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury on the 16th Feb. by the three executors-the present Earl, Mr. Cross (the Master in Chancery), and Mr. Alfred Bell. It is of great length, filling 74 sheets, closely written. There are likewise seven codicils, neither (except one, which is holograph) very short. The will is dated the 24th of June, 1836; the codicils bear date in 1837; the last is dated December 21, 1837, less than a month before the Earl died. The bulk of the will is occupied with very careful devises of the real property in the counties of Dorset and Durham, trusts, limitations, recoveries, &c. The principal devisee is Lord Encombe (the present Earl), the testator's grandson, for life; then to his son; in default of children the property is left, under various conditions and limitations, to the daughters_of_the late Earl, Lady Frances Jane Bankes, and Lady Elizabeth Repton, and their families. The family of the latter takes a less extensive benefit than that of the former, the reason of which the testator declares is, that Lady Frances Bankes has a large family, and may expect to have more children, whereas Lady E. Repton has but one son, and is not likely to have more issue. The trustees of the property are Master Cross and Mr. Alfred Bell. There are various small legacies; and amongst others, the late Earl's coach horses are bequeathed to Lady Frances Bankes, with the direction that they are to have a free run of the grass at Encombe. The Earl also bequeaths his "favourite dog Pincher" to the same lady, with a clear annual allowance of 87. to buy him food. At the end of the will is a schedule of various articles, to be considered as heirlooms. "A small wooden box, made out of a piece of wood taken out of the room in which I was born. All my law and other books. All my robes as Lord Chancellor, and all other my judicial robes, and all articles of lace worn with them, and all my robes as a peer. The service of plate which I had on my appointment as Chancellor. Bust of myself. Bust of the Duke of Cumberland. Bust of Lady Eldon. All my boxes with the freedom and address of companies enclosed. The pictures of dogs Neptune' and Pincher.' The wooden box made from a piece of the wreck of the Betsy Caines,' which brought over William the Third. letters from members of the royal family. The pillar of wood which encloses an address of a body of clergy in Yorkshire, presented respecting my conduct as to the Roman Catholic Relief Bill." The codicils contain alterations and modifica

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tions of the devises in the will, except the holograph dated in September last, which gives a legacy to James Smith, the Earl's servant, whose character and services it eulogizes. This instrument is written on a sheet of note-paper, in a tremulous hand. The signature to the last codicil bears no resemblance to that in the will, and appears like the uncertain writing of a blind person, or one whose hand was guided. All the instruments are sealed with the Earl's coat of arms on black wax.

P. 325.-The will of the late John Reeves has been proved in Doctors' Commons. The amount of his effects have been sworn under 3,000l. The executors are his brother, Thomas Reeve, and James Silver. The property is bequeathed to his two daughters, Louisa and Fanny Reeve, and to his son, John Reeve, to whom he also bequeathes a share of a house in the Strand. The will is dated in September 1835. It was the general opinion he had died insolvent, which is now proved to have been erroneous.

P. 433.-At a public meeting of the inhabitants of Sunderland and other friends of the late Rev. Robert Gray, M.A. held on the 26th Feb. a series of resolutions were unanimously adopted, for erecting, by public subscription, a monument to his memory, and at a subsequent meeting it was determined that the surplus "shall be devoted to an endowment of the schools established by Mr. Gray in this parish, to be called, in future, the Gray Schools."-On the 14th June, the Committee held a meeting to make choice of the most appropriate design from those which had been forwarded for their inspection, in accordance with an advertisement in the newspapers. The competitors were very numerous, including artists of eminence from Edinburgh, London, Newcastle, &c. many of which were of a very high order of merit. After a careful inspection of the various models, drawings, &c. and a lengthened discussion of their respective merits, the meeting resolved to adopt one modelled in Sunderland by Mr. David Dunbar. It consists of a statue of the late revered Rector in his clerical robes, to be executed in the most durable description of Italian marble, similar to that used in the grand archway in front of the Queen's Palace, St. James's Park. This statue will be placed upon a handsome pedestal, in front of which is an altorelief representation of "BENEVOLENCE," with the following impressive and very appropriate quotation from the Epistle of St. James:-" Pure Religion and undefiled before God and the Father, is this;

to visit the Fatherless and Widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." The statue will be seven feet in height, so that when viewed in its position on the pedestal, (the monument, when completed being not more than twenty feet high), the figure will appear of the exact stature of the deceased Rector. The spot fixed upon for the erection of the monument, is over the vault in the centre of the burial ground, and it will, from its position, form a very conspicuous object from the sea and the surrounding country.-A splendid Polyglot Bible, which was purchased to be presented to Mr. Gray, by a few of his attached friends, a short time before his decease, has been given to his eldest son, Mr. Arthur Gray, who is 15 years of age. A Memoir of Mr. Gray has been published, printed uniformly with his Funeral Sermons, preached by the Rev. George Townshend, Prebendary of Durham; the Rev. William Webb, M.A. (the present Rector of Sunderland); and the Rev. Joseph Law.

P. 434. The library of the late Rev. William Mavor, of Woodstock, has been sold by public auction in Oxford. The books (about 3,000) were in the best condition, and belonged to all departments of general literature. Many of the more precious volumes bore evidence of their value by the late possessor's notes and observations pencilled on the fly-leaves, which, whilst they proved the merits of the copy, shewed the extent and accuracy of the annotator's information. The following epitaph has been placed upon his monument in Woodstock Churchyard: "Sacred to the Memory of the Rev. William Mavor, LL.D. The first great promoter of the Catechetical Method of Instruction, in all branches of human and divine knowledge, who, though dead, yet speaketh, for the instruction of youth and infancy, in the volumes which he benevolently and judiciously adapted to the growing powers of the mind. He was Rector of Bladon with Woodstock, and Vicar of Hurley, Berkshire, a Magistrate for the County of Oxford, and ten times Mayor of this Borough. Beloved and esteemed by relatives and friends, and respected by those whom, as a Minister and a Magistrate, he had long and faithfully served. He died Dec. 29th, 1837, in the 80th year of his age.

The feeling soul may linger here,

Soft Pity's bosom heave a sigh;
But spare my dust, and come not near,
Cold apathy! with tearless eye.
W. M."