Conduit St. Jan. 7. rbal reprint of the Art y Puttenham, is prearticulars as I could of the author, and apsome of his poems, e identified, called the Of his Christian name Hed too much, and the Oport of both George Fere too strong, to either. George had evens, and Webster by graphical Antiquities, son in the Bibliograto oppose either of

es required the disew testimony, nearly author; and which, terary pursuits of the ad others that might al credit, there could Lo suppose could yet ted among the Har

owledge, a confidence rior researches made Eve place to the name ich bears little apDaptismally bestowed Lueen Elizabeth, aud cance may be rejected The Author's full name llowing title of a deal mistress upon the y Queen of Scots. or true defence of and good renowne as haue unduelie seek to blemish the justice, crueltie, or - behaviour in any .proceedings against

cited for a surname, or Webster's arte of See Letter to J. P. Eving strictures on a John Ford's Dramatic

"1685. But Jefferies was not the only person that was the king's agent in this bloody work; for Kirk, one of his majesty's good officers, had after the Duke's defeat caused 90 wounded men at Taunton to be hanged, not only without permitting their wives and children to speak to them, but with pipes playing, drums beating, and trumpets sounding, and boiled their quarters in pitch to set them up in several parts of the town: though Kirk was positive afterwards, when he was charged with being concerned in such barbarity, that he had instructions, both from the king and his general, to do what he did."

" I was with Kirk during his whole stay at Taunton, where he executed but 19 out of 20; which last number he had orders to hang, signed by my Lord Feversham. MARTIN KILLIGREW."

Mr.

the year 1749; when Wardel George Westby, esq. (who married an aunt of the earl of Holderness, but had no surviving male issue) disposed of it to Mrs. Elizabeth Parkin of Sheffield, co. York, and of Woolley near Bath. This gentleman and his lady died in London within a few years afterwards, his lady being the survivor. They left an only daughter, but of whom I know no particulars.

If f you would be SO good as to give the inscription a place in your pages, it will remain a memorial of the family, when the monument, very possibly, may not be.

M. S.

B.

and placed in the hands of the Patres Scholarum Piarum.

"Tuscany ill cultivated; the product of ten harvests is computed to be spent in seven years.

Forty-five Professors in the Aca demy of Pisa, divided into three ranks: 1. Theology; 2. Medicine and Philosophy; 3. Canon Law and Civil. To the Professors, the first three years, 351. afterwards 20l. added. Teach Euclid, Newton, Locke, Smith, Sanderson, Maclaurin, and Cotes. Greek much neglected. Their Acts and Disputations very trifling."

ARCHITECTURAL INNOVATION.
No. CLVIII.

(REMARKS, &C.continued from p.518.) VI.

CHAPTER Dr. Milner proceeds with the appearances marking the progress of the First Order (as he justly terms it) of the Pointed Style, and says: "During the latter part of the twelfth century a strange inixture of styles prevailed in the numerous ecclesiastical buildings which were then going forward, as might be expected when an old style began to be exploded, and a new one was in the act of formation. This would not have been the case had the latter been copied from established models in Syria, Arabia, Egypt, Spain, or elsewhere." He then enumerates the intermixture of the old and new styles, from St. Cross, and St. Mary Magdalen on the Hill, both near Winchester, raised about the year 1174. "It is matter of evidence that the Pointed arch was used in England a considerable time before any other member which is now considered as belonging to the Pointed Style." The East end of Canterbury Cathedral is then brought into notice: "rebuilt between the years 1175 and 1180, under the direction of William of Sens, and of another architect of the name of William." Then follows some curious information: "It is an incomparable advantage for forming a right idea of the rise of Pointed Architecture in this country, that we are possessed of an accurate comparison made by an intelligent eye-witness, Gervase, a monk of this cathedral, between the choir part of the church built by Lanfranc, who was an architect as well as a prelate, about the year 1085 (and which was burnt down in the year 1174) and the said choir part rebuilt

WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL,

Visited 1810.

Though Canterbury be the higher stall, Vinchester is the better manger."

The meaning of this old saw being o obvious, little need be said in exlanation, otherwise than to express ome surprize that this church of Winhester is so indifferently attended to regard to common necessary reairs. The West front remains in the ame neglected condition as it apeared in 1789. The North transept, ne of the grandest examples of Saxon rchitecture, has indeed been cleared nce the foregoing date from the rubish that usually filled up its ailes; yet cill continues to be shut out from the est of the fabrick, as though it werea art possessing neither use or beauty. found a few repairs going on in the hoir; but, on enquiry, was given to nderstand the progress was so slow, nat many visitors had suspected the equisite funds for executing the

same

Fere either deficient or circumscribed, that a lively and vigorous proseation of the undertaking was altoether an impossible thing. I recolect no other trace of ecclesiastical are. The yearly visitation paid to Jaynefleet's monumental chapel is uly performed, but with such a duty me Church has no concern; Magdan College looks to this. Beaufort's onumental chapel, its companion in lendour and noble design, fares rather in this respect: no reverential sons ay obligatory attention to the subme sepulchral memorial; it is left to ke its chance, as it is called, either om the damage sustained in being posed to the out-of-repair vaultings ver it, or from the depredations of ischievous people, encouraged by mose who resort to the spot for no Cher purpose but to censure and dede the pious remains of antient art. Filliam de Wykeham's monumental mapel, like that of Waynefleet's, and om the like motives, also meets with Fotection.

Notwithstanding the seeming fair ondition of the two more fortunate

aapels, there are a few objections to e made to what the hands of ignoant repairers and beautifiers have one to them. The mutilations rought on the statues of Wykeham

and other particular parts, by the rage of barbarous and misguided zeal, have been restored, but in such a slovenly disgraceful manner that perhaps this part of the undertaking had better not have been attended to. The shields and other embellishments more directly on Wykeham's tomb, also restored, but in a modern fancy way, by paintings instead of sculptured work, according to the original design. These incongruities may probably escape a casual observer; but to the patient and exploring eye of an artist they appear most glaring and unseemly. How far the engraving of the head of Waynefleet in a recent publication of his Life can be valued, becomes a question, when more attention was paid by the engraver to a plaster cast of the head (including its modern deformities) than to a drawing made for the occasion, with natural restorations of the parts before dilapidated. Hence the want of the delineator's name to the engraving is accounted for.

Though the prince of poets (Shakspeare) and the prince of painters (the late Sir Joshua Reynolds) in their labours have each endeavoured to render the memory of Beaufort odious, his statue in this church is uninjured, perfect in all its lines, and to certain passers-by (unbiassed in their minds when reflecting on the real character of the Cardinal) a memento of " terrific awe and veneration."

There is in this church a kind of griping avaricious propensity with the officers deputed to shew the same to strangers. Artists and other ingenious men are most unfeelingly pressed in this sort; which, with the extreme difficulty they stand under in obtaining leave from the higher powers to study after the antiquities, render the following public questions necessary.

Are the revenues of the ecclesiastical establishment unequal to remunerate its menial attendants, that they must seek their wages from the accidental payments of certain travellers? and is example found in some corner of the foundation thus to warrant the driving away literary men or artists, the handers-down to posterity of passing events and existing antiquarian objects, through the means of hard pecuniary requisitions?