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Mr. URBAN, Norwich, Jan. 24. R. BLOMEFIELD, the Norfolk Antiquary, fpeaking of Flouden Church, fays; There lies an old fione in the Porch, broad at one end and narrow at the other, which fhews it to have been laid over fome Prieft by its shape; and accordingly, I find that Roger Northwood, Rector here, who died in 1871, is buried under it." (vol. III. p. 48.)

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"Near this ftone lyeth the body of Frances Kemp, late widow of Thomes Kemp of Thwait Hall in the county of Norfolk, gent. who departed this life Jan ary 12th, in the year 1691, aged 67.”

Bentham's Ely, Appendix, p. 51It is not unlikely that John Kemp, who married Jane daughter of Thomas

Now I confefs myself unable to reconcile the above with the engraving and account of the tomb belonging to Elenor de Clive, given in your vol. LXIV. p. 89; and thall feel mylelobart, was a fon of George Kemp of much obliged by the remarks of your Correfpondents thereon.

D. H. vol. LXVII. p. 509, has given us a faithful extract from Blomefield's account of Bishop Parkhurft ; by which it appears that he was elected Fellow of Merton College in 1529, and that he was confecrated Bithop of Norwich in 1560. I think thefe dates are fufficient to convince any perfon that the Bishop was not brother to Sir Robert Parkhurt, Lord Mayor of London in 1653, even though they

bore the fame armis.

D.

Mr. URBAN, Candridge, Jun. 27 LOMEFIELD, in his Norfolk, BLOM vol. II. p. 683, speaking of Somerton Hall Manor, fays,

"In 1544, Henry Cruch fettled it on Miles Hobart of Plumftede Parva, fecond fon of Sir James Hobart; and he, by will dated 1557, gave it to John Hobart, his fecond fon, by Eleanor daughter of John Blenerhaffet of Frente in Norfolk; which John married Anne daughter of Sir Philip Tilney of Shelly in Suffolk, knt. and left it to his eldeft fon Thomas Hobart of

there in 1606, leaving his widow Mary, Tottenham, co. Middlefex, who died daughter of John Corbet of Sprouton co Norfolk, elq.; whole firft hofband was Sir Roger Woodhouse.

One reafon amongst others which frengthens this conjecture is, thas Biomefield, enumerating the arms in Thwait Hall windows, mentions Kem impaling Hobart, Corbet, Hobart, and Tilney, with his quarterings.

The names of George Kemp's chil Parish Regifler of Tottenham. But a dren may perhaps be found in the farther queflion fill remains: Of witrat family was this George Kemp of Tors tenham? Ang information on above will oblige,

Mr. UREAN,

the

EDGAR WYK

Jan. 14 UPPOSING a Clergyman to have

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a legal qualification for not refiding upon a Living, to the Curate of which he allows 751. a year, and the houfe and garden; can the Bifhopp compel him, in addition to this, to pay the Taxes upon the houfe?

This, Sir, is a matter of fuch to fiderable importance to the beneficed Clergy, and muft in many cafes befo extremely oppreffive, that, in my c nion, it mot certainly ought to be clearly afcertained, whether the Bithops have fuch right, as I know that that right, and fome have exerted it many of them confider that they have

Thwait, who married Anne daughter of Wm. Reymes of Overstrand, or xtrand, in Norfolk, and left three daughters; Jane married to John Kemp; Mary to Dr. Colby, and Elizabeth to -- Pettus, who all released to Kemp; and Thomas Kemp, fon of John and Jane aforesaid, left it to Clement Kemp, his fon and heir, who by -Witton of Wilby, his wife, left a daughter and heiress, who with her huf-In many cafes it muli render the Living

band conveyed it, before the year 1693, to John Horne of Wichingham, gent. &c."

Now, Sir, allow me to afk, who was the husband of Clement Kemp's daughter and heiress, who conveyed this ellate before 1693 to John Horne of

of no value to the actual pollenfor;
and I have always underfiond that the
utmost in the power of a thop wes,
to order a ftipend of 751. a year, and
the houfe, or in lieu of it 151. a year to
find a houfe.
A CLEROZMAN.
Mr.

MR. URBAN,

IN

Jan. 12. N the course of the last summer in digging the foundation of a houfe at Henstridge, near Sherborne, where fome old ruinous cottages had formerly ftood, the workmen accidentally ftruck upon a large flat flone, which appeared to have been the foundation of an au

tient building. Under the flone, neatly

folded in a fheet of milled lead, were difcovered fifteen or fixteen Nobles of the different coinages of Edward the Third, Moft of the coins are in a very high ftate of prefervation; three or four appear to have been injured by the preffure of the ftone, but they are in general as fresh and perfect as when delivered from the mint. Thofe which have come to my hands are of a much more delicate execution than the Noble engraved in Pinkerton; but are exactly of the fame fize, though fomewhat different in the impreffion. I am told that the impreffion is not the fame upon any two of the coins difcovered. They are of extremely fine and pure gold, and in general weigh about 120 grains. On the coin now before me the King is reprefented with a drawn fword in his right hand, and with a fhield bearing the arms of France and England quarterly on his left. He ftands in a boat leaning against the maft, and not fitting, as in Pinkerton. He has no mantle, but is drefled in an elegant embroidered tabard, with a deep fringe from the elbow to the wrift, and a fafh round the waift, the ends of which hang down on the left fide under the fhield. The raff round the neck is double, and the face and hair very neatly executed. The ftem and poop of the boat are or namented with turrets, as in Pinker ton, one fquare and the other hexagonal with quatrefoils. The ropes, three on each fide, extend from the turreis to the yard-arm. The yard-arm, round which the fail is furled, is above the King's head, extending across the coin from the D of Dominus to the E of Edward. At the maft-head is a penon with the King's initial E. The King is not upon this coin fo difproportioned to the fize of the veffel in which he flands, as on that engraved by Pinkerton.

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On this coin the E in Edward is be tween the end of the yard-arm and the hexagonal turret of the veffel; the 1). immediately below the turret. On others the E and I are both above the turret and not disjointed. Reverse,

"IHC AVTE TRAN· · CIENS PEDIEM ILLORVO IBAT

One of the coins on the reverfe has IB. inftead of IBAT. on others are the letters AQV. It is probable thefe coins were depofited at the time of the laying the foundation of fome public or ecclefiaftical building; but there is at prefent no exifting record or tradition of any fuch building having food near the fpot. The cottages under which they were found flood a little East of the Church, perhaps upon the fite of fome Chantry. Adjoining to the chancel is a large Sepulchral Chapel of the Toomers of Toomer in this parish; but whether any chantry was endowed by them is not now known.

Any of your numerous numifmatic Correlpondents who will give information refpecting the value of the Coins, and the probable time and occafion of their being placed in this fituation, will oblige fome of your confiant Readers. Yours, &c.

S. T. R.

Jan. 17.

Mr. URBAN, THE Sermons fo juftly recommended (fee p. 708 of your la volume) were preached in 1802 by George Frederic Nott, B.D. Fellow of All Souls Gollege, (not Watts).

B. 1. B. is truly juft, p. 719. And though I wish to give every fupport to the Eftablished Church, and to pre vent, if poffible, the great increase of Enthufiafm; yet, I must own the juftnefs of the letter in p. 712 figned "A Friend to Toleration ;" and hope, with him, that the Clergy will (and am certain of it) receive instruction even from their Enemies,

And I wifh, Mr. Urban, that good young Preachers were more encouraged by the Bishops then we fee they are; but most of the Clergy must look for their reward in a better world. A. B.

To the communications of C. C. and to. thofe of Mr. CARDEW, proper attention fhall be paid as foon as conveniently can be. JUSTITIA'S fhort note is received; bur not the letter to which that note refers. We refer S. E. to the Heralds' College. 1.4

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1. A Poetical Tranflation of the Works of Horace, with the original Text and Critical Notes. By Philip Francis, D. D. A new Edition, with additional Notes, by Edward Du Bois, Efq. of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. 4 vols. 12mo. 20s. 1807. Cadell and Cc., ANY Editions of the Horace of Dr. Francis have been published, during the life and fince the death of the Tranflator; but it has happened to the latter through the want of a competent Editor, and to the former, through fome other negligence, that not one has appeared without an abundance of errors. Under thefe circumftances, it affords us pleafure to find, that Mr. Du Bois, the learned and elegant author of The Wreath *, has. undertaken to revife the Latin text, and to produce an Edition worthy both of the Roman Poet and his English interpreter.

In a well-written Introduction, we meet with fome remarks on this verfion of Horace, the liberality of which reflects credit on the writer as a fcholar and a critic.

"The merits of Dr. Francis, who has long been beyond the reach of eulogy to flatter, or reproof to wound, it is now too late to canvaís. His literary labours have paffed the ordeal of many years of criticifm, and his reputation is fixed. That he has in this verfion fucceeded with equal felicity throughout, it would be untrue to fay, and indeed, confidering the undertaking, unreasonable to expect. He who can skilfully translate twenty lines of Homer may fuccefsfully proceed, in the fame form, through the whole of the Iliad, with only an increase of fimilar toil proportioned to the extent of the journey. But not fo with Horace his intricacies and obfcurities, added to the endless variety of his fubjects, and the diftin&t claffes of poetry to which they belong, prefent the tranflator with difficulties of a new fort and quality in every different poem. He then, who interprets all the remains of the Venufian bard, fhould not be fcrutinized with an eye eager to detect faults, but with a mind generous to overlook defects, and free and liberal to commend where much has been meritoriously accomplished. Horace, like our Shakspeare, did not write for to-day or to-morrow; his writings are for all

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time; and it is not too much to affirm, injustice to Dr. Francis, that it will be long

* Tranflations from Sappho, &c. with the originals and notes, 8vo, 1799GENT. MAG. January, 1808.

before any one thall be found, amongst Englifhmen, to difpute his right to fhare the favour due to the Roman Poet, and to purfue him with honour in his unrivalled courfe." (pp. iii. iv.)

Dr. F. died at Bath in 1778; and Mr. Du Bois tells us, we doubt not, correctly, that the feventh edition (1765) was the laft that paffed under his eye." (p. viii.)

"It is, perhaps, needlefs to observe,”'' fays Mr. D. that the edition of 1765* has been my principal guide. Its numerous typographical errors (for they were numerous) have been corrected; and it is hoped that fcarcely any have crept into thefe volumes, but it would be a vanity too great to vouch for it. Though by no, means equal to this prefumption, I am not without ambition. As far as compamerit, by that teft I am willing that the rifon, in this refpect, may be a teft of value of this edition fhould be tried. If the impreffion fhould then be found comparatively good, I truft that the difcovery of fuch little inaccuracies as our Poet himfelf, in fome cafes, teaches us to forgive,' will not afford cause of serious offence to the Critics."

It was at firft propofed to the Editor merely to undertake the humble office" of correcting a copy of the most approved Edition of Francis's Horace, and fubfequent circumftances determined him to increase the number of notes. "The Bookfellers required that the work fhould be fent immediately to prefs; and what is added to it was furnifhed during its progrefs."-This we regret, as it probably deprived us of many valuable comments, which more deliberation might have enabled him to fupply. To his own notes, as well as thofe which he has felected from the French Scholiafts, Bentley, Wakefield, and others, he adds the affif tance of his friends, Sir Philip Francis (the son of Dr. F.), Capel Lofft, efq. and the Rev. S. Wefton. Thefe are all honourable names; and we lament that the first has written but three notes, and, as we guefs from the words" hereditary title to a place," a tranflation of the xxth ode of Anacreon. They are excellent. The two at p. 304, vol. I. and p. 32, vol. III. are too long for us to quote ; but we fhall tranfcribe that at p. 812, vol. IV.

"Si proprius ftes. Ariftotle, lib. iii. (fee the paffage quoted and commented on by Lambinus in his edit. of Hor. fol. p. 406.) obferves fome fuch diftinc

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tion as this in a public fpeaker, with refpect to his haranguing "the many" TX, or addreffing "the judicious few." A oяaygapia, a rough outline or loofe fketch, fuits the former; but a more finished picture, and one that will bear inspection, may be prefented to the latter. This remark is perfectly juft. I have heard Edmund Burke fay, "that it was impoffible the political orations of Demofthenes could have been intelligible to a popular affembly in their prefent clofe compact form."

The one on quem vocas," Od. xx. lib. 2. which has fo puzzled the anno tators, is exceedingly ingenious. We muft add the Ode, which appears in the fupplementary notes.

ANACREON. Ode XX.

"If I, like Proteus, had the skill To change my shape and place at will, I'd be the girdle round her waist, The happy chain that holds her faft; The glove, the ribbon, or the lace, That hides and kiffes half her face; The giddy, waves that round her go In eddies, and forget to flow; The breeze that cools, the flame that warms her, [her; The fighs that melt, the fong that charms The mirror that reflects her eyes, The rofe that on her bofom dies.

"But were it left to my difcretion
To choose my office and my ftation,
I'd be her fhoes, to keep her even,
And like an Atlas carry Heaven.
Should fortune then my wifhes crown,

And one falfe step should bring her down;
The fimple nymphs who ftood around,
Would fay that it was flippiry ground;
But every jealous eye would fee
She owed the lucky fall to me!"

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This Ode always reminds us of Romeo's exclamation:

Oh that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek." which was, fays Steevens, travefiied by Shirley, in The School of Compliments. "Oh that I were a flea upon that lip," &c. The fame fort of prettinefs of imagination is to be found in Cymbeline. • The notes of Mr. Wefton and Mr. Du Bois are replete with erudition and ingenuity. We could willingly extract Tome of the former, but our space requires that we fhould be brief; therefore, with three or four, as a fpecimen of the commentary of the latter, we Mhall close our review.

Lib. i. Od. xiii. "Rofeam.] Rofeus, like purpureus and aureus, often denotes merely the perfect beauty or excellence of any

thing in its kind. We have nepruge and xeuren Apparion, golden and purple Venus; but certainly, though otherwise turned, in both cafes to be tranflated beautiful or lovely Venus. The epithet purple, how ever, has various interpretations when varioufly applied. In Anacreon, Od. xxviii. when coupled with χαιταί, it fignifies black, unless we choose to read beauteous treffes; fince it cannot, as it has been faid, mean "a tint between the black and the yellow," quamvis neuter, according to Ovid, Amor. lib. i. el. 14. becaufe the poet, three lines before, exprefly fays that her hair is black, have. Scaliger's defire to fubftitute lacteam in the place of rofeam is little fhort of high-treafon against the true fpirit of poetry. A neck beautiful and fragrant as the rofe, is the sense of Horace."

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Lib. i. Od. xviii. "Tollens vacuum plus nimio.] This is a fine picture of vanity,. fays the French commentator. emptier the head, the higher it is held. The fame is the cafe with ears of corn; the ftraighteft and the moft lofty are ever the most empty."

Lib. ii. Od. vii. "Venus arbitrum dicet bibendi.] For a full explanation of these matters, fee Palamedes; five de tabula luforia alea et variis ludis; particularly p. 100 of an edition by Souterius. It may be obferved, that the beft throw with the dice was Aboodirn, Venus, five jactus Venereus; i. e. three Sices; the worst xav, canis, which appears to have been what our gamefters call Crabs. Suetonius, in his Life of Auguftus, has preferved an elegant fragment of a letter from the Emperor to Tiberius. It will be quoted here with propriety. Canavi, mi Tiberi, cum iifdem. Accefferunt conviva Finicius et Silvius pa

ter.

Inter cænam lufimus yegorrixw; et heri et hodie. Talis enim jactatis ut quifque canem, aut fenionem, miferat, in fingulos talos fingulos denarios in medium conferebat; quos tollebat univerfos qui Venerem jecerat. cap. 71. Andreas Tiraquellus remarks with regard to the above paffage, that fome would tranfpofe fenionem to the end of the period, and read qui Venerem aut fenionem jecerat; becaufe fenio is called dexter by Perfius (Sat. iii.), in oppofition to damnofa canicula. With refpect to the etymon of the word alea, these queries may amuse: an quafi alvea, ab alveo, in quo luditur; an ab an, error; quippe cum fit incertus ludus?" For the inventors of dice, and all games played with them, fee Herodotus, lib. i. 26."

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Lib. iv. Od. ii. "Tumque dum.] Even Bentley cannot reconcile me to Tum dum, It is, perhaps, more ridiculous to modern ears; but I think it muft always have been harth, and even ludicrous. Wakefield reads Tuque dum.

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the blow not been merely a box of the ear, it would not have been surprising if poor Charilus had died of his blows. This would be an admirable bargain for the publick to make with our poets. Incultis qui verfibus. Horace appears to have confounded the particulars of two anecdotes ; one related of the Chærilus of Alexander; the other of Chærilus, an excellent poet, who was paid in a fimilar manner by the Athenians for all his verfes indifcriminately. See Plutarch, Q. Curtius, Suidas, Defprez."

In the form and fashion of a work of fo much eradition, aud on which fo much care and talent have been employed, fome will think that the bookfellers might have been more liberal; but it is, perhaps, more honourably diftinguifhed by its plain and unaffuming fhape, than if it were put forth with all the typographical (plendour which fo commonly and fo ridiculously accompanies many of the mofi flimly and vapid productions of the day. J.

2. Coxe's Hiftory of the House of Auftria. (Concluded from vol. LXXVII. p. 1140.) 3 vols. 4to. 51. 5s. Cadell and Davies.

THE life and exploits of Rhodolph of Hapfburgh, the great founder of this illuftrious Houle, are laboured with peculiar care. His juftice, his prudence, his military and political skill, and his amiable qualities, are fet in the most pleafing light; and the delineation of his reign does no lefs credit to the heart than to the head of the author. We believe few readers of tafte and feeling can perufe this interesting piece of biography without equal pleafure and profit.

The animated struggles between the Swifs mountaineers and the fucceeding princes of the Auftrian Race, are delineated with a ftrength and accuracy which could only have been attained by a perfon fo intimately acquainted as Mr. Coxe with the feenes of action and the peculiar character and manners of this people. Yet with all the affection which every man,particularly the author, muft naturally feel for this brave and interefting (and alas! now unfortunate) nation, he has never deviated from that impartiality which is the first duty of

the Hiftorian. He has neither indulged. in unqualified or unfounded invectives against the Auftrians, nor palliated the faults and defects which are extenuated, if not gloffed over, by the touching candour and fimplicity of the antient Swifs character. In this as in every other infiance he gains our confidence, and arrefts our attention, by the fkilful arrangement of his matter, the beauty of his ftyle, and the force and fidelity of his defcriptions. He has no lefs evinced his perfeverance and research than his tafle and judgment, in this and the immediately fubfequent part of the Hiftory, by placing in a clear and confpicuous light the complicated tranfactions of the different branches into which the Auftrian family was now divided, and which have hitherto, rendered this portion of their Annals a mafs of almost inextricable confufion.

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Proceeding onward, our author de fcribes the intrigues and efforts of the Auftrian family to obtain Hungary and Bohemia, which fearcely termi nated with the poffeffion of those thrones by Ferdinand the First. He here gives a friking picture of thofe countries while a prey to all the horrors of feudal barbarifm and religious war, and defcribes the rife and ftupen dons enterprifes of the Ottoman race; enemies once fo terrible to the Chriftian world. Yet, with his characteristic moderation and liberality, he does ample juftice to the great talents and important exploits of Podielrad and the Corvini, and to the fpontaneous loyalty and ge nuine attachment which the Bohe mians and Hungarians have never failed to difplay towards their fovereigns, even in the moft turbulent and barba rous periods of their annals.

On reaching the æra of Maximilian the First, the hiftory takes a wider fcope. The commencement of the Reformation, the formation of a great political fyftem, the changes in arts, feience, literature, and arms, and the firft rife of that inveterate national jealoufy and political rivalry between Auftria and France, which feas of blood have not fufficed to quench, form a feries of events equally interefting for their novelty and importance. In particular we would call the attention of the reader to the luminous account of the fyftem of European policy, now first confolidated, the fudden and wonderful improvements in arts and fciences, and the confequent changes in the man

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