to appoint a Suffragan, wit gions? The law respecting Sul powers, to reside in those dist Bishopsisstill in force, and they be legally appointed in differen of this Kingdom in the antient appointment, in a case like this Nor do I see any law against consideration. The present Bis London is a man of correct in tion, of activity, and of busine my feeble voice could reach his should press on his attention th sideration of this subject. Th may be attended with difficulti in surmounting these difficulti Lordship might immortalize his the Church. by conferring a lasting benefit

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I. p. 154, 1750, occurs this expression for excellent good wi "Wine of one ear.] A pro some parts of Leicestershire an where, speaking of good ale, ale when it is good, we give a nod w ear; bad ale, ale of two ears. ear; if bad, we shake our head, give a sign with both ears that w like it."

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will, through the medium of you lication, convey to him some in of King's College, Cambridge tion respecting RICHARD DIXO in 1555. Was he the same pers 1570, but suspended in 1572? was Bishop of Cork and Clo where was he born, where and what inscription is there tomb-If you can inform m about what time Bells * began used in matters of Religion an tivity, you will have the thanks of

Paulinus, at Nola, a town in Ita * Bells were first invented by our correspondent looks at the E Paulinus, or even Nola, he will pædia Britannica under the articl formation the subject,

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Mr. URBAN, Brentford, Jan. 20. AVING recently had occasion to investigate the title to some land in the parish of Isleworth, I found in the deeds connected with that title the name of a lane in which the property is situate, spelt Whirlpool, Walpole, and Wurple, which induced me to make some inquiries as to the real ortho-, graphy and derivation of the word In the place where such information vas most likely to be obtained; but, inding no satisfactory result, I invesigated the matter further.

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The lane is long and narrow, inersecting garden-ground to a able distance; and I conceive its name - a corruption of Warp, Belg. and Veltan, Sax. and was probablyantient "Warpwelt" Lane, and by easy transition Warple or Wurple. Warp is the thread which crosses se woof in cloth, and Welt isa boundy, edging-border, or hold: hence I words signifying an inclosure are rived; as Belt and Fall, Eng, and llum, Lat.; and in this sense Chaucer, Adam welte (i. e, held) al paradise saving to one."

And in an Account of the expences of a May Game in the Reign of Henry VIII. there is an article "A Cote of Russet and a Kyrtle of Worstedde weltyd with red cloth."

Before inclosures became general, land, being open, was intersected with roads, common to all the occupiers, but exclusively the property of none; hence the name Warple was indiscriminately applied to all such roads, as being that part of the land which was the border or boundary, and distinguished one man's land from another's. The Warp, therefore, is that part of the cloth, which, not being crossed by the woof, is waste, and the Welt a border; consequently, if my derivation be correct, the Warple may be denominated a piece of land uncultivated, bounding or bordering open or common field lands.

Perhaps a more familiar exemplification of this derivation may be seen in the weaving of Napkins, where the division between each is marked by the threads of the warp not being crossed by the woof.

Yours, &c.

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REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

1. The Life of the Rev. John Hough, D. D. successively Bishop of Oxford, Lichfield and Coventry, and Worcester; formerly President of St. Mary Magdalen College, Oxford, in the Reign of James II.; containing many of his Letters, and biographical Notices of several Persons with whom he was connected. By John Wilmot, Esq. F.R.S. and S. A. 4to. pp. 387. White and Cochrane.

E have very recently (vol.

occasion to notice this truly respectable Biographer; and we rejoice to meet him again in this labour of love; for he is again embalming the memory of another venerable Relation.

"The private, unambitious life which Bp. Hough preferred, and which he enjoyed for many years, was little calculated to afford materials for Biography, or to furnish that fund of incident and anecdote which the lives of most public men supply: besides the length of time which has elapsed since his death, now nearly seventy years, has greatly increased the difficulty of acquiring particulars of his public, as well as his private life, and anight alone have furnished a sufficient apology for the scanty materials which the Editor of this work has been able to collect. But, in addition to the difficuities occasioned by this distance of time we have likewise to combat the great modesty of Dr. Hough, and Dis peculiar unwillingness to have any hing which proceeded from his pen nade public. We are informed by a Late Antiquary*, who had an opportumity of reading several of his Sermons which he calls 'very excellent'), that uch was the good Bishop's antipathy the publication of these, or of any ther of his writings, even after his deease, that he gave a strict charge to me contrary. - Accident alone occaoned so many of his Letters to be preerved; and it is much to be regretted at this was not the case with more of nem: especially as there is reason to ink, that he was in the habit of intiacy and correspondence with several the great men who lived in the busy igns of King William, Queen Anne, ad George 1.- It was the peculiar simation in which the Bishop was placed Magdalen College, Oxford, in the ign of James II. that first brought m before the publick, and gave rise

to the conspicuous part which he acted at that period, and which was the immediate cause of his elevation to the Episcopal Bench in the succeeding reign. - To the honour of this country, there is no reason to doubt, that many of his contemporaries in the Church, and many of the Clergy at other periods, would have acted the same part on a similar occasion; but none could have shewn more firmness and moderationqualities equally necessary to be united in the exercise of any great public duty. -Although Party ran very high in the reigns of King William and Queen Anne, Bishop Hough seems to have contented himself with the proofs which he had before given of his patriotism, and firm attachment to the civil and religious liberties of his Country."

We are informed by Mr. Wilmot, that

"He undertook this work some years ago, when he enjoyed the blessing of health; this has lately so much declined that he would not have been able to complete his design without the assistance of two learned aud valuable friends, the Rev. Mark Noble, rector of Barming in Kent, and the Rev. John Hewlett, morning preacher at the Foundling Hospital. The former, whose accurate knowledge of the different, Families in this Country well qualified him for the task, obligingly supplied him with most of the materials for the Notes, which have served to render the Bishop's Letters more intelligible and more interesting; and the latter, the Rev. Mr. Hewlett, whose learning and abilities are well known to the publick by his Sermons, his able Vindication of the Parian Chronicle, his valuable Notes on the Sacred Volume, and other excellent publications (which would grace, any preferment or dignity of his profession), not only encouraged the Editor to proceed, but assisted him in superintending the press, when the state of his own health rendered him very unequal to the undertaking."

Whilst we lament the indisposition of the worthy Editor, it is satisfactory

to find that he has had the assistance

of two very able Coadjutors. It is,
however, but justice to observe, that
he had himself used all due diligence
in pursuit of authentic documents.

The journey to Worcester and Har-
tlebury on the probability of meeting

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