1812.] Sacrament.-Wine of one Year.-Christian Man.

the North of the church, it might be attended with salutary effect.

I can account for the lukewarmness of the generality of the common people of the Establishment, to the neglect of this indispensable sacrament. Mass, or the receiving the sacrament, is interwoven with the rites of the Roman Catholic Religion, and never omitted by those who go to church at all. Inattention to religious duties begets lukewarmness, and leads to crime: crime is necessarily visited by disease of body and remorse of mind; and in that state the sufferer is open to the assaults of Enthusiasm, and forsakes his Church for the rant of the Conventicle. Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

YOUR

ORTHODOX.

March 12. OUR Correspondent H. in p. 38, cites a proverbial expression from Rabelais' works by Ozell“Wine of one ear;" and solicits an explanation of it. I apprehend that he mistakes in supposing this to be an English proverbial expression, and that it is derived from the French, though erroneously translated, who have this proverb, which they apply to any thing that is crude, immature "Vin d'ane Année." From which it appears that it should be wine of one year, and not of one ear:"Wine of only one year old, or new wine, not being in estimation. Yours, &c.

I

Mr. URBAN,

R. E. R..

March 7.

CANNOT refrain from requesting you to insert, in the Gentleman's

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Magazine, the following curious "definition of a Christian man-after the Pope's making." It is copied from a large felio book in the chancel of Richmond church, Yorkshire, the date or title of which I am at a loss to find out. RICHMONDIENSIS.

"A Christian man after the Pope's making defined.

"After the Pope's Catholic religion, a true Christian man is thus defined:

First, to be baptized in the Latin tongue
(where the godfathers professe they
cannot tell what), then confirmed by the
bishop; the mother of the childe to be
purified; after he be growne into
yeeres, then to come to the church,
to keepe his fasting daies; to fast the
Lent; to come under benedicite, i. e. to
be confessed of the preest; to do his
penance; at Easter to take his rites;
to heare masse and divine service; to
set up candles before images; to creepe
to the crosse; to take holie bread and
holie water; to go in procession; to
carrie his palms and candle, and to take
ashes; to fast the ember daies, roga-
tion daies, and vigils; to keepe the holie
daies; to paie his tithes and offering; to
go on pilgrimage; to bui pardons; to
worship his Maker over the preest's
head; to receive the pope for his supreme
head, and to obeie his laws; to receive
St. Nicholas' clerks; to have his beads;
and to give to the high altar; to take
orders if he will be a preest; to saie his
mattens; to sing his inasse; to lifte up
faire; to keep his vow; and not to
marrie; when he is sicke, to take the
rites of the holie Church; to be buried
in the church yard; to be rung for; to
cowle; to finde a soul preest, &c."
be sung for; to be buried in a frier's

commencing with the volume for

1811.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. Cambridge, March 13.-The Chancellor's two gold medals for the best proficients 10 Classical Learning amongst the commencing Bachelors of Arts, have been adjudged to Mr. T. S. GUSSETT, of Trinity College, a scholar on Lord Craven's foundation, aud Mr. C, NEAL, of St. John's, the senior wrangler.

The following will soon be published: Dr. CROMBIE's Work on Latin Synonyms.

Mr. ELLIS, of the British Museum, has undertaken to superintend the Manuscript of BRAND'S Popular Antiquities, which is now printing in two volumes, 4to. as expeditiously as the nature of the work will allow.

Dr. AIKIN has undertaken the sole future superintendence and composition of the Annual Register (originally pubished by Mr. DoDSLEY)

Observations and Remarks on various Parts of Great Britain, during four excursions made by him in the years 1810 and 1811. By Mr. D. C. WEBB.

Remains of the late Rev. E. WHITE, of Chester, from papers in the possession of the late Mr. Spencer of Liverpool. By Mr. FLETCHER, of Blackburn,

A Poem entitled "India."

Mr. BURNS's second part of " An Inquiry into the Moral Tendency of Methodism."

Mr

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24. The History and Antiquities of the
County of Leicester, by John Nichols,
F.S.A. Lond. Edinb. and Perth.-Vol.
IV. Part I. containing Guthlaxton
Hundred, being the Sixth Portion of
the Work, 1807. The second Edition,
1810.-Vol. IV. Part II. containing
Sparkenhoe Hundred; the Seventh
and concluding Portion, 1811.
[Concluded from Vol. LXXIV. p. 1224.]

FROM peculiar motives attendant
on our connexion with this Work, we
have hitherto abstained from entering
in any way at large on its merits, in
the Critical Department of our Mis-
cellany. But the period is now ar-
rived, when our commendation, how-
ever it may gratify the Author, can-
not possibly be attributed to interest-
ed motives. Of the Fifth Portion,
the last which we noticed, or of the
Four Parts which preceded it, not a
single Volume can be obtained; and
of the Sixth and Seventh, which we
are now about to review, there are
very few unsold.

The Hundred of GUTHLAXTON (Part 1.) was completed but a few weeks before the amity of February 8, 1808, which destroyed all possibility of remuneration to its Author; and that too at a time when not more than three-fourths of the purchasers of the former Parts had been supplied; a circumstance which rendered it indispensably necessary to re-print that Portion, though at the certainty of a very considerable loss.

Of SPARKENHOE (the VIIth and concluding Part), several Parishes, which had been printed, were destroyed. This Part, therefore, it was necessary to begin entirely anew.

The History of Leicestershire may
now, with strict justice, be noticed as
the most ample and satisfactory
COUNTY HISTORY that has hitherto

appeared; with reverence be it spok-
en to the manes of Dugdale, Bridges,
Blomefield, Morant, Hutchins, Nash,
Hasted, Shaw, &c. &c.; nothing, in
short, being omitted, that could in any
way illustrate or enliven the tedium
of dry research.

In these two Portions, as in the pre-
ceding ones, the Plates are good, and
numerous. In Guthlaxton there are
LXVIII.; and in Sparkenhoe CXXVII.
Among these, the principal Views are,
GENT. MAG. March, 1811,

Ansley Hall, the seat of Mr. Newdigate
Ludford;

Appleby Hall, Rev. John Moore's;
Bardon Hall, Mr. Hood's ;
Bosworth Hall, Mrs. Pochin's;
Braunston Hall, Mr. Winstanley's;
Danet's Hall, Dr. Alexander's;
Enderby Hall, Mr. Loraine Smith's;
Gopsal Hall, Baroness Howe's;
Kirkby Malory Hall, Viscount Went-

worth's;

Lindley Hall, Rev. S. B. Heming's;
Normanton Hall, Mr. Arkwright's;
Misterton Hall, Mr. Franks's;
Oldbury Hall, Mr. Okeover's;
Orton Hall, Mr. Perkins's;
Osbaston Hall, Mr. Twisleton's;
Shenton Hall, Col. Wollaston's;
Stanford Hall, Mr. Otway's;
Westcotes, Mr. Ruding's.

Among the Portraits, are,
Rev. Samuel Ayscough;
Rev. Anthony Blackwall;
William Burton, the Historian;
Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham;
Sir Wolstan Dixie, Bart.
Rev. John Gallaway;
John Nichols, F. S. A.
John Onebye, and three of his Relations;
Rev. Dr. William Perkins;
Mr. John Robinson;

Lord Chief Baron Smyth ;
David Wells, esq. F. S. A.
John Wickliffe, the Reformer,
Rev. William Whiston; and
Mr. Wollaston.

As a Specimen of the manner in which the Churches are engraved, we shall here give a View of that of Witherley*,the last described in the Work.

"This Church consists of a tower (in which are five bells), a spire, chancel, nave, and North aile. The tower and spire together are 52 yards high. The steeple of this church,' says Burton, (being a high spire), was built by John last It is remarkable for its neat, durable lord Segrave, in the reign of Edward I. stone, workmanship, and proportion, and the battlements thereof richly ornamented with four beautiful pinnacles. In the Chancel (which is spacious, and has a large East Window) are three stone seats, all of equal height; and a piscina."

Three beautiful Plates of Fossils from the cabinet of Mr. Mounsey (since transferred to Quenby Hall) are illustrated by the description of Mr. Crabbe, the justly celebrated Poet.

See also Stoney Stanton Church, p. 17′

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Under Guthlaxton, the most prominent feature is Lutterworth, which gives occasion to introduce its famous Rector Wickliffe, and an ample History of the noble Family of Fielding earls of Denbigh.-Many of the Villages also are remarkable; particularly Cleybrook and Frolesworth; in the latter is an asylum for the distressed, of which the description cannot fail of interesting the feeling heart.

"The Hon. John Smith, lord chief baron of the Exchequer in Scotland (which high station he filled with great credit till his death, June 20, 1726, at the age of 70), was much attached to Frolesworth, his native village; but the house he lived in has nothing remarkable about it, except its plain and humble appearance, which would bespeak it to have been always the residence of a farmer. Amongst many other acts, how ever, of charity and beneficence, he has raised in Frolesworth a monument to his fame, more durable than brass, and which will transmit his name to the re

motest posterity, with the god-like character of having caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.'

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"It affords me a very high gratification to record, that the will of the Chief Baron has been treated with proper regard by his successors, and that the funds intended for the benevolent purposes of his will have been admirably well applied. "The following couplet and inscription are judiciously placed in the front of the Hospital:

Who built this alms-house neat, but
void of state,

Where Age and Want sit smiling at the
POPE.'
gate?

The Right Hon. John Smith, esq.
Chief Baron of the Exchequer of Scot-
land, and one of the Barons of the Ex-
chequer of England, ordered it by his
will; and endowed it, for the mainte-
hance of fourteen poor widows of the
communion of the Church of England.
Four of the houses were begun and
finished by Edward Wigley, M. D. and
Thomas Boothby, esq. relations and ex-
ecutors to the said Lord Chief Baron
Smith. The other ten were added and
completed by Thomas Boothby, esq. sur-
viving executor, in the year of our Lord
17617

"In 1795, when the estate devolved to the present owners*, finding that there was stilla considerable accumulation of the moneys of the charity unappropriated, they instantly suggested a plan for its farther improvement and extension;

William Collins, esq. of Maize Hill, Greenwich; and Captain Goodwin Colquitt, of the Royal Navy, in right of his wife Catharine, sister of Mr. Collins.

which meeting with the approbation of
esq. M. P. William Reeve, esq. of Lea-
the trustees (the late William Pochin,
denham Hall, in the county of Lincoln,
tor of Frolesworth), and being sanction-
and the Rev. Samuel-George Noble, rec-
ed by the Court of Chancery, four more
houses have been added (there being now
eighteen); the site of the place encom-
passed with a wall; and the allowance
to each widow increased from 127. to 20%.
a-year. A View of this comfortable recep-
tacle is given in Plate XXVII; and I can-
not refrain from expressing the satisfac-
tion I experienced, on a view of the Hos-
pital in August 1805, in observing the
very neat manner in which the apart
ments are fitted up, and the apparent
happiness of the aged widows."

Sparkenhoe is by far the largest,
and, perhaps, the most interesting
Hundred in the County. Many single
parishes in it furnish materials for co-
pious History. But of these, Market
Bosworth and Hinckley, not only as
Market Towns, but as the scenes of
are particularly to be noticed;—as
remarkable events in English History,
are also Burbach, honoured by the
pastoral labours of Anthony Grey, the
good Earl of Kent; by Dr. Duport,
the learned Greek Professor; and by
Roger Cotes, the no less celebrated
Mathematician;-Appleby, where a
noble school was founded by Sir John
Moore, Lord Mayor of London ;-
Shenton, once the property of the il-
lustrious Wollaston (and now inherit-
ed by his great grandson) ;—Lindley
(of which hereafter); and Witherley,
which was the site of Manduessedum,
a well-known Roman station.

Did our limits permit, we could en-
tertain our readers with extracts from
the numerous Biographical Memoirs
interspersed throughout the whole
Work. In Guthlaxton the follow-
ing are worthy of notice:

Rev. Samuel Ayscough; Rev. Richard Poet; Rev. Dr. Richard Grey; Rev, Duke, the Poet; Rev. John Dyer, the Richard Jago; Rev. Charles Jenner; Rev. Dr. Charles Hutchinson; Rev. Ed mund Poole; Dr. Richard Pulteney; Chief Baron Smith; Rev. Herbert Thorndike; Rev. Nathaniel Tovey; Rev. Dr. Watson, Bp. of Llandaff; Rev. Dr. Edward Wells; and John Wickliffe.

In Sparkenhoe, are to be found :

Rev. Richard Amner; Dr. Richard
Bentley; Rev. Anthony Blackwall; Rev.
Dr. John Blair; Rev. John Bold; Rev.
William Bradshaw; President Bradshaw;
land;
Rev. John Carte; Rev. John Cave; Rev.
Thomas Cherry; Rev. Thomas Cleive

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