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Sir Edward Stanley, who afterwards succeeded to the title and became Earl of Derby*;"

whereas two books of Peerage, to which I have referred, state that Sir Edward Stanley, the 11th Earl of Derby, married Elizabeth only daughter and heir of Robert Hesketh of Rufford, in Lancashire.-I have not Collius's valuable Peerage at hand, on whose correctness I always depend, nor have I Kimber's Paronetage; and it is very probable that the two books to which I have referred may be incorrect. I shall be much obliged to Betha, or any other of your Correspondents, to reconcile this difference, and to tell me if Lady E. and Lady B. were indeed the sisters of Lady Derby; and if not, to inform me whose daughters they were: their characters I admire and respect; and I hope Lady Echlin's grandson, the present possessor of Villa Rupa, possesses also the virtues of his inestimable grandmother.

Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN, 00

JUBA.

June 3.*

TOO long have I had the pleasure of reading your very useful publication not to be convinced, that audire alteram partem is the invariable rule of right by which its pages are put together. In your Number for May 1812, pp. 406, 407, appears a sensibly-written letter of tempered reproach, dated "Brompton, May 18," and subscribed "A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND." To that letter it is my humble wish, with your permission, briefly and respectfully to reply; and to introduce, into the present answer, such a plain statement as I hope will satisfy your Correspondent, with his wife and whole family, that, though disappointed, they were not aggrieved on Whitsunday.

I conceive the difference between a CHURCH and a CHAPEL, both of the Establishment, to be marked and great. A CHURCH is the property of a parish; a CHAPEL is the property of individuals, not of necessity resi dent on or near the spot. For the sake of order, the pews of a Church are appropriated; for the sake of profit, the pews of a Chapel are let. In both cases, the actual possessors

* We have no doubt of the accuracy of our former Correspondent.-EDIT.

and occupiers of the pews for the time being, alone, have plenary power over the property in the seats. They may admit, they may exclude, strangers; nay, they may eject intruders, if any such presume to pre-occupy places, assigned (no matter for what consideration) to the constant pew

holders.

All this your intelligent Correspondent, I doubt not, will readily allow. But, with this part of my statement, unaccompanied by more minute remarks, I feel persuaded neither your Correspondent in particular, nor your Readers in general, will rest satisfied. The main complaint now brought glaringly forward, seems to be, not the appropriation of scats to certain regular attendants upon public divine worship, but the lock-up system of some few Chapels in Brompton and its vicinity; not the filling pews invariably with the selfsame faces, but the keeping them unoccupied in the absence of their proprietors, altogether, and allowing seals to remain useless throughout morning and evening service, when respectable persons are standing in the pew-doors." the ailes or

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Sir, it is tax from my intention to attempt a denial of frequent abuses of good regulations. I admit, with unfeigued regret, that the abuscs may, in some instances, be flagrant and notorious. Still, Mr. Urban, an argument of greater weight than what your Correspondent has yet adduced must be brought into fuil play, before I can assent with him to the propriety, or even to the practicability, of urging the Dignitaries of

our Establishment to devise better plans for public accommodation than are now enacted and enforced; un

less, indeed, free (i. c. `gratuitous) institutions be meant to be recommended.

Permit me to bring the question, pointedly, to an issue. Brompton has a CHAPEL (private property), of which every pew, nay, every seat, is well let, to families of consequence and property. Of these families many persons attend duty twice, and nearly all attend once, on every Sunday. There are forms in the middle aile, and seats behind the pulpit near the altar, for those who do not pay. All the pews are kept empty, till the second lesson of the day is read, in order to ensure the comfort of the regular congrega

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Fig. 3. Monument at Lee, Kent.

Dance & Settee Baker,

The Worrall

tion as they arrive; but, after the voluntary on the organ has commenced, all decent by-standers are admitted into the vacant seats by the pew-openers, who have express orders to that effect. This procedure, surely, is liberal, and ill demands the harsh constructions of your warm Correspondent. When the attendants are informed previously, that such or such a family will be absent, they never stay till the voluntary begins, but fill the pew, forth with, with persons of a sober and decent appearance.

Money," in the suspicious shape of douceur," is most positively forbidden to be taken for seats; if, therefore, a delay of accommodation takes place at Brompton at any time, the cause is not so much churlishness in any of the parties concerned, as compliance with obvious and imperious necessity. HA CHURCHMAN, &c. &c.

SEND you a Drawing by Dr. I Stukeley, (Plate II. fig. 1.) with a description of it in his own hand-writing, dated March 28, 1754, and called by him, "Antiquarian Society's Arms." That respectable Body, it is needless to add, preferred another design; but the one now sent you is worth preserving in your Miscellany of Curiosities.

M. GREEN. "The lyon intimates that generous nature and noble ardor which preserves and restores from the injury of Time, Regardant, he looks back to time past. He holds a sun in glory in his right paw. The rising sun dissipates the mists and obscurity of night and oblivion. The field is partè per pale

et Sable, meaning day and night; the lyon is Argent; sun, Or. The crest is an eagle, whose sharpest sight reaches to the greatest distance. He holds in his talon a wolf's head erased, the wolf is the emblem of devouring time. Supporters, a golden lyon, as a compliment to the Sovereign, who gave the charter; and an eagle Sable. This is in a method strictly heraldic. Otherways, for a scutcheon, take the picture of Britannia as on reverse of halfpennys; for crest an antique lamp; a Druid for supporter."

The Ring, fig. 2, was found, about twenty years ago, in Strelley Park, about four miles West of Nottingham, the property of Thomas-Webb Edge, esq. who built the beautiful mansion there, and laid out the pleasureGENT. MAG. June, 1812.

grounds and plantations about the year 1795. [A picturesque view of the house has been published by Mr. Throsby, in his new edition of Thoroton.] The figure of St. Edith is well preserved. The ring, probably, belonged to the Abbess of some religious house in that neighbourhood.

Fig 3. (from the Church of Lee in Kent) is thus described by Dr. Thorpe, in the "Registrum Roffense," page 851.

On the South side of the communion-table is a mural monument of stone, with the effigies in brass of a man in armour, kneeling at a desk, with a book open before him, and underneath When that Quene Elizabeth full five this inscription in black letter:

yeres had rain'd, [here interred, At five and twenty yeres of age was enThen Nicholas Ansley, whos corps lyes tertayn'd

carred Into her servis, where well himselfe he In eche man's love 'till fifty and eyght veres ould,

Being sergeant of her seller, death him

then controul'd. 1593.' Above the figure, on an escutcheon of brass, are these arms: Paly of six pieces, on a bend, a crescent for a difference. Crest, a blackmoor's head with a band

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The other autographs are taken from the following agreement, dated Feb. 18, 1733-4.

"We Henry Baker of Enfield, gent. and Thomas Worrall, of London, bookseller, agree as follows:

In consideration of eight guineas (which Mr. Worrall has given me a note of hand for, payable within one month after the date hereof) Mr. Henry Baker sells to Thomas Worrall the copy of a poem, called the Universe, in manner following: That is to say,

The right and property of the said copy shall belong intirely to the said Thomas Worrall; but Mr. Baker shall be at liberty after one year, and not sooner, to print the same amongst his other poems, if so be he pleases; but shall never print it by itself, or in any manner prevent Mr. Worrall from printing or disposing of it in what manner he thinks fit.

N. B. Mr. Worrall shall make a present of a dozen books to Mr. Baker.

In witness of the above agreement, both parties set their hands.

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J. BAKER. THOS. WORRALL."

Mr. URBAN, May 29. SHALL be extremely obliged to any of your Correspondents (fond of genealogical researches) who can point out the immediate descendants of Sir John Woodcock, knt. Lord Mayor of London 1405. His arms, field Or, on a bend Gules, three crosses pomée fitchée of the field; crest, on a wreath, a demy lion rampant Gules, supporting a cross pomée fitchée of the field, were assigned to Ralfe Woodcock, of Keame, alias Cayham, co. Leicester, son of Thomas Woodcock of Keame aforesaid, in the Visitation held by the College of Arms 1683, and are so registered in that office; whence it is presumed the above Thomas and Ralfe were proved to be such, but none of the intermediate generations are noticed. From Maitland and Stowe's History of London, as well as from Weever's Funeral Monuments, it appears that Sir John Woodcock was an upright and vigilant magistrate.

In 1522 Roger Woodcock was buried in St. Michael le Querne's Church, London.

In 1580 Ralph Woodcock was Sheriff of London; and in 1658 a Mr. Woodcock of London (called, in the Index of Heath's Chronicle of the Civil Wars, Sir Thomas Woodcock) is mentioned as a firm Loyalist; and caped execution for being con

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Mr. URBAN,

A CONSTANT READER.

May 27. HE statement below, as made, we are told, by the Southwark Bridge Company, may be thought worth insertion..

Daily number of Passengers, Horses, &c. going over London and Blackfriars Bridges.

London Bridge.-Persons on foot 89,640, horses 764, coaches 1240, waggous 763, carts, &c.2924, gigs, &c. 435.

Blackfriars Bridge.-Persons on foot 61,069, horses 822, coaches 990, waggons 533, carts, &c. 1502, gigs, &c. 590. Yours, &c. P.

ETTER late than never," and

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"it is never too late to do well," are proverbial sayings, that, perhaps, are more frequently expressed than properly attended to; but when we feel their force in a consciousness of our own past omissions, even with respect to matters not of the greatest importance, a desire is sometimes excited to endeavour to atone for the past by an amendment in future.

I believe there are many veteran Readers of the Gentleman's Magagine besides myself, who have excused themselves, on the pleas of want of leisure and other impediments, from communicating occasional corrections of errors, that, from the nature of such miscellaneous publications are often unavoidable, but which they could, from their own knowledge, prevent being handed down to posterity without the means of rectifying them. As this valuable compilation is likely to be referred to by future writers, on a variety of subjects, it seems very desirable that, at least, such mistakes as relate to matters of fact, should be corrected, before the opportunity of doing it may become irrecoverably lost.

A casual turning over the leaves of Volume LV. (1785) lately, gave rise to the foregoing reflections, and the application of them to my own omis

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