METEOROLOGICAL DIARY, BY W. CARY, STRAND. Fahrenheit's Therm. Fahrenheit's Therm. ARNULL and ALLENDER, Stock and Share Brokers, 3, Copthall Chambers, Angel Court, Throgmorton Street, London. J. B. NICHOLS AND SON, PRINTERS, 25, PARLIAMENT STEE BY SYLVANUS URBAN, Gent. CONTENTS. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-The Earls of Kildare and Desmond-Family of Wiswould-The latter works of Dr. Dibdin-Richard Kilvert-Effect of 338 ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE LITERARY HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Anecdotes and Character of Robert Ferrar, Bishop of St. David's Strype's Life of Cranmer, as edited by the Ecclesiastical History Society- Richard Grafton the Printer and the Great Bible of 1538 Phraseology of the "Te Deum" and the "Gloria Patri". The Poor Men's Almshouse at Glastonbury (with a Plate) A list of Fatal Diseases in Westminster recorded in the year 1557 Gardiner's Sights in Italy, 385; Paleario on the Benefit of Christ's Death, 389; Abbadie on the Deity of Jesus Christ, 391; Townsend's Ecclesiastical and Civil History, 394; Fergusson's Ancient Topography of Jerusalem, 395; Lyon's Moral Power of the Christian, 398; Garbett's Popery and Infidelity in the Last Times, ib.; Miscellaneous Reviews .... ARCHITECTURE.-Institute of British Architects, 403; The New Houses of ...... ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES.-Society of Antiquaries, 406; Cambridge HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.-Proceedings in Parliament, 411; Foreign News, 412; Domestic Occurrences. Promotions and Preferments, 419; Births and Marriages OBITUARY: with Memoirs of Christian VIII. King of Denmark; Dr. Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury; the Earl of Powis, K. G.; Lord Granville Somerset Rear-Adm. Hon. T. W. King; Hon. Lindsey Burrell; Sir J. L. Rogers, Bart.; Sir H. C. St. John Mildmay, Bart.; Adm. Sir R. Laurie, Bart. K. C.B.; Sir A. C. Maitland Gibson, Bart. ; Sir Nathaniel L. Peacocke, Bart.; Sir R. W. Newman, Bart.; Rear-Adm. Sir T. Ussher, K.C.B.; General Frederick Maitland; Lieut.-Gen. Alex. Bethune; Rear- Adm. P. Stoddart; Rear-Adm. J. F. Maples; Colonel F. Sherlock, K.H.; Thomas Duncombe, Esq.; David Erskine, Esq. of Cardross; T. Orby Hunter, Esq.; John Leech, Esq.; George Morgan, Esq.; Alexander Powell, Esq.; Samuel Duckworth, Esq.; Miss Herschel; Patrick Murphy, Registrar-General's Returns of Mortality in the Metropolis-Markets, 455; 456 Embellished with a View of THE POOR MEN'S ALMSHOUSE AT GLASTONBURY. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. MR. URBAN,-Permit me here to make confession of an error in my precursory notice of the History of the county of Kildare," which was published in your Number for March, p. 261. Writing of the Earls who derive their title thence, I stated that John Fitz-Thomas was the first so enn bled, and thus far was right; but I ad led erroneously that he became ancestor of the diverging lines of Kildare and Desmond." The mistake was induced by one in the Calendar of the Patent Rolls in the Tower of London, where Thomas. the father of this John, and whose second son Maurice is in sundry pedigrees alleged to have been the first created Earl of Desmond, is misrepresented as the first Earl of Kildare. Al though, on revision, I consider my above comment in the Magazine incorrect. I am yet not at present prepared to speak positively as to the identity of the first Earl of Desmond, or the precedence of those illustrious lines. Yours, &c. JOHN D'ALTON. S. W. S. P. is clearly correct in deriving the surname which is now written Wiswould, Wiswold, Wisewold, and Wisewould, from the parish of Wimeswould in Leicestershire, originally Wymondeswold, -the wold or forest-country of Wymond in the Anglo-Saxon times. Some of the family are found in Nottinghamshire in the year 1890, and in 1459 a branch was fixed at Southwell, where they long continued. Our correspondent adds that, though Rastall in his History of Southwell supposed the Wymondswoulds to be quite extinct, yet the name of Wiswould, which is evidently a contraction of the mame, has continued in the county of Notfingham, as appears by the registers of West or Little Markham, Eaton, Bevercontes, &c. and there it still remains at this day, in the liberty of Southwell. He also supposes the same name appears in a form still further corrupted in a poem quoted in the Tatler, No. 2: To an old uncle oft she would complain, We have received from the daughter of the late Dr. Dibdin a list of her father's works, the two last of which were not mentioned in the memoir which appeared In our January Magazine, viz. Sermons, and Three Letters to the Bishop of Lan daf. 1843; The Old Paths, 1844. It is added that "one sheet of Dr. D's intended History of Dover was printed, and some of the engravings finished, and a small portion of his Biographical Tour in Belgium is written in MS These two works he fully intended to have completed, but the nature of the malady of which he died, viz. paralysis of the brain, had been gradually increasing upon him for some years past, and which entirely incapacitated him from performing their completion, notwithstanding his repeated efforts to progress with them. One of the medical gentlemen who attended the post mortem examination, asserted that the brain was in such a state from over-work, that it was quite impossible he could have accomplished them." H. T. E. says, "There is a story, that a person had long been absent from the land of his nativity, where in early life he had assisted in setting up a singularly fine peal of bells. On his return home, after a lapse of many years, he had to be rowed over some water, when it happened that the bells struck out in peal, the sound of which so affected him that he fell back in the boat and died!-Can any of your readers give a reference where the account is to be met with ?" In Fuller's Church History, vol. iii. p. 390, and in Bishop Hacket's Life of Archbishop Williams, abridged edit. p. 190 et seq. mention occurs of one RICHARD KILVERT, apparently a solicitor, praetising in the Court of Star Chamber, and a most unprincipled persecutor of the Archbishop during his troubles since 1636 1640. The same person is also severely handled in a satirical brochure of the time, of which there is a copy in the Bodleian Library, as a monopolist of wines. If any of our readers could oblige the life and character of this worthy, or F. K. with any additional particulars of could furnish any clue to his connexion with a Roger Kilvert, merchant of London, 1634, whose name occurs in a short pedigree of the family of Kilvert, in the Heralds' Office, it would be esteemed and acknowledged as a particular favour. In answer to the inquiry (p. 114) for the derivation of Ardington, the name of a village in Berkshire, S. H. replies, Ard is a Celtic adjective, and in the word before us signifies great. The Saxon ing in this instance is a meadow. The last syllable requires no explanation. Ardington then means the "house of the great meadow." THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century, &c. By J. B. Nichols, F.S.A. Vol. VII. PERCY CORRESPondence. FROM one small quarto volume originally published in the year 1782, and called Anecdotes of Bowyer the Printer, the two works of Literary Anecdotes and of Illustrations of Literary History have proceeded, issuing from the same press, and under the care of the same proprietors and editors: they have increased, by successive volumes published at intervals, till they at length form the richest, the most extensive, and the most valuable body of literary history in our language. Conjointly the two works extend to fifteen large volumes of biographical memoirs and epistolary correspondence of writers of all degrees of fame and excellence who flourished during the last century; correcting many mistakes in works previously published, and affording much additional information The present volume forms a valuable supplement to the former, containing as it does the correspondence of several persons engaged in different walks of literature, and expressing their separate and independent opinions on the subjects presented to their inquiry. The chief portion is called the Percy Correspondence. The Bishop during the latter part of his life was resident in his diocese of Dromore, in Ireland, very remote from that literary society in which he had lived during his earlier years; and he depended on the communications of his friends for information on subjects in which he was much interested, and for accounts of that learned society in which so many of his most pleasing hours of life had passed; of which he was one of the most distinguished members; and beyond that circle known by his various talents, his elegant taste, and his curious inquiries into the poetic literature of the country. The names of most of Dr. Percy's correspondents are familiar to our readers, and to all we are more or less indebted for some useful information, or some pleasing creation of fancy; for some invention of genius, some expansion of learning, or some discovery of truth. Those who delight in our old Ballad poetry, and who feel how much they are indebted in this respect to the Editor of the Reliques, will be gratified with the correspondence of Grainger and Anderson; while the names of Archdeacon Nares and Dr. Lort, always held in respect by scholars, will receive honourable addition by the memorials here produced of their zeal and activity in the cause of letters. To Archdeacon Nares especially we would gladly give our meed of praise, as the able and vigilant Editor for many years of the British Critic; a Review which, under his inspection and authority, during times when the opinions of the higher ranks were unsettled, and the doctrines inculcated among the lower were dangerous and delusive, resisted the machinations of the factious, and supported the best principles of social duty and constitutional government, equally repressing the fanaticism of the Sectary, the violence of the Republican, and the delusions of the Infidel: while in sobriety of judgment, in soundness of learning, and in candour of criticism, it might challenge competition with any of its rivais, abroad or at home. His two works, the Orthoëpy of the English Language, published in his earlier time, and his Glossary in his later, are works of solid merit, and will be esteemed by all who seek for information respecting our language, whether as to the extent of its vocabulary, or the principles of its formation. Of the other writers it is not necessary for us to make a distinct and particular mention, as the very diligent Editor of the work has prefixed a biographical memoir at the head of each separate correspondence. We therefore proceed to make a few extracts, sufficient to show the nature of the materials, though we are unable to give an adequate representation of their value and extent. In the few remarks we have made the only object we have had in view is what the interest of learning required. The writers themselves have been removed far beyond the reach of censure or of praise, and can no longer be affected by the tenderness of the friendly, or the severity of the envious and malignant. Some of them were much exposed to attacks in their own day; but the interval that has passed has modified opinions formed in haste or prejudice on their characters or talents; and we must recollect, "that the duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason whatever it may discover, and to promulgate the determinations of truth whatever they dictate." In a letter to Bishop Percy, Mr. Steevens observes— P. 3. The character your lordship gives of Mr. J. Monck Mason's production is thoroughly just. He is often ingenious and sometimes right; but occasionally outdoes even Dr. Warburton in absurdity of conjecture. There is also somewhat of ferocity in his manner, which had better been avoided. Still, with all his extravagances, I must allow that he is a man of thinking and erudition. Boswell's book is not yet gone to press. He waits, I believe, till Mrs. Piozzi has published two volumes of Johnson's correspondence with her, which is expected to comprise near 200 letters. Lord Lonsdale has appointed Boswell recorder of Carlisle, and he is gone to take possession of his new office. Mr. Jephson's Julia'* I have neither seen nor read; but am told the playhouse lost by performing it, and that the author's only gain has been by the sale of the copy. In about a month or six weeks we are to expect the three volumes, quarto, which conclude Mr. Gibbon's celebrated work. Mr. Bruce's Abyssinian Tour is also at press, but will be withheld till next winter. It will be dedicated to the Honourable Daines Barrington, with singular propriety, as he is the only one who possesses credulity enough for the author's purposes. Your Lordship and I may perhaps unwillingly believe that in the kingdom of Amhara every jessamine tree is as big as two English oaks and yet this fact our traveller is said to have asserted in conversation. I relate it on the authority of Mr. Gibbon. I have been so long absent from the literary world, that the intelli gence I offer you is scarce worth your reading. One circumstance, however, I must not omit. Your antagonist, Mr. Ritson, about a month ago, got drunk, and assaulted an inoffensive barber, who brought an action against him, and has obliged him to pay severely for his frolic; a proper warning to critics militant." &c. P. 6. Another word and I have done. You cannot more successfully ingratiate yourself with your coadjutor, the Rev. Henry Meen, than by requesting him to give you a copy of Happiness, a poem in blank verse, which he published while he was resident in Emanuel college." This was the early and unfortunate production which Mr. Meen was Jephson was a favourite poet of Horace Walpole, see his Letters, vol. v. p. 223; and Thoughts on Tragedy, vol. ii. p. 305-314. See also Campbell's Life of Mrs. Siddons for a criticism on his Tragedies, vol. ii. pp. 73, 105, 113, 158. Mrs. Inchbald says in her Memoirs, vol. i. p. 149, "The Count of Narbonne succeeded so greatly, as even to suspend the pantomime itself. It was a tragedy that burst out of the Gothic castle of romance. It was extremely well done, and we believe Walpole said so," &c.-REV. |