"I have kept a book of yours a most shameful time; but I hope to be able to send it very soon together with Mr. Elstob's transcript of the Anglo-Saxon Orosius.

"I am,

&c

D. BARRINGTON."

25. Mr. GOUGH to Mr. BARRINGTON. "DEAR SIR, Enfield, Nov. 29, 1772. "I am greatly obliged to you for recovering Mr. Tyrwhit's Observations, and for the trouble you have taken about the Petiver papers.

By the time Millan finds them, I hope to be in town for the winter; I should rather say by the time he promises to find them; for, to judge by the long time he has taken to find a plate of a plan of Aberdeen (almost ever since I left Aberdeen last year), and the immense piles he must remove, before he can begin his search, I shall almost despair of obtaining either of my objects.

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If your interest with, or influence over him, prove greater than that of a stranger, I shall have it in my power to gratify Dr. Sutherland and my correspondent at Edinburgh.

"I am, &c.

R. GOUGH."

26. Mr. BARRINGTON to Mr. GOUGH.

"DEAR SIR,

Monday, 1772.

but

"I am shamefully ignorant in what relates to fossils;. conceive the specimen you have left for me to be very curious, and shall consult the learned in these matters, before I shew it to the Royal Society, according to your obliging permission.

"I am vastly indebted to you, also, for your kind communication with regard to Swallows and Martins being seen in December, which are highly interesting to me.

"I will soon send you what I have said on the head of Swallows not migrating from England, as it is printed in the Philosophical Transactions for 1772.

“You will find, thereby, that Swallows are constantly seen during the winter, both in Italy and Portugal; and the reason for so reviving with us is, that our mildest winters cannot be compared to those of Spain and Italy.

"It is well known that most flies are torpid during the winter, and yet in the room where I commonly dine, I have seen two or three during the whole of the present December, but not more.

I will beg you, however, to ask whether the observers are sure about the different species, viz. the Swallow at Poole, and the Martins near Christchurch.

"Be so good, also, as to procure the exact day when the latter were seen. D. BARRINGTON."

I am,

&c.

27. "DEAR SIR, June 22, 1773. "I am much obliged to you for the Vineyard controversy *. I have immediately sent Mr. Pegge's paper to Mr. Nichols to be composed, and my answer shall be ready also by to morrow.

"You will find an insertion in Mr. Pegge's paper, in my hand writing, which was by his particular desire. It contains, as he conceives, a further corroboration of what he hath insisted upon.

"I was, last Thursday, at the Society, but unfortunately not till they were in the midst of a warm debate on the statute you allude to. Nothing, however, was done, as Mr. Bartlett insisted that such a requisite would confine the election to London and its environs, as many of those who were at a greater distance, were not personally known to three of the members.

"I am,

&c.

28. "DEAR SIR,

D. BARRINGTON."

May 30, 1774. "The Dean of Exeter called upon me this morning, to say, that you did not mean your paper about English Vineyards should be now read at the Society. I cannot, therefore, but consider this in its true light that of a sacrifice you are pleased to make to the friendship and good intercourse which hath for some time subsisted between us; and which I hope will now continue upon the footing it was before.

"The truth of the matter is, that I do not pretend to be infallible, and that I am not at all surprised that both you and others may differ from me in opinion. I will also go further in saying, that though you controvert what I have maintained, you do it in a most unexceptionable manner.

"However, having already given satisfaction to Mr. Pegge, I do not consider myself as liable to be called upon in the printed Archæologia any more on that subject, and should therefore have opposed your objections being printed.

"I will also add, that upon the footing we have lived together I do think you should have communicated your objections to me, and not at once have produced them to the Society.

"The part, however, you have now acted, convinces me that unkindness was not at the bottom of what you have done. DAINES BARRINGTON. "P. S. The President wishes that we may meet about Edward the First's corpse."

"I am, &c.

29. "DEAR SIR,

[1774].

"I am sorry we cannot meet to-morrow about the corpse of King Edward; but, indeed the President tells me that he shall go out of town on Friday next, and that it may not be inconveniently put off for a fortnight. I know that many may think

See Pegge's and Barrington's papers on the Vineyard Controversy, in Archæologia, vol. III. pp. 53-95.

there are exceptions to the Hexameter, and had thoughts of obviating them by a note. The line is:

Ηρακλεῖ τυρι ο Διόδωρα αρχιερέα.

"Now it may be said that ga is short, and that it should likewise be melted down by elision, so as to make but one syllable with the ας which follows.

"To this I answer, however, that though finita in a brevia sunt, yet... [a line or two is here left.]

.....

"As for the elision (though I admit the verse would sound better), it is by no means necessary, and there are hundreds of examples which shew that is not so.

"These are the only objections I am aware of; but if you have any others to state, I shall be very glad to hear and consider them.

"I am very glad to hear that Frofessor Ward and myself think alike about any matters relative to the Corbridge Inscription. I am, &c. DAINES BARRINGTON."

30. Mr. LLOYD to Mr. BARRINGTON.

"HON. SIR, Cowden, July 16, 1774. "The favour of yours of the 25th ult. I received last Thursday, and cannot guess at the reason why it was so long coming so short a way, or where it could lie, or by whom it came hither, for I was not at home to receive it, nor had it any Postoffice mark upon it.

"In answer to both your questions at once, I can only say that I never saw but two copies of Nennius's History, or rather Chronology, viz. Bertram's, and one which my son William (the present master of Beaumaris School) copied for me out of the Bodleian Library; the latter seems to me the freer of the two from interpolations. This, at the request of Mr. Morris, of the Navy Office, I lent Mr. Evan. Evans, a person whom you know, and who is the only one that studies to prepare a new edition of it for the benefit of the publick. But in what forwardness his performance is, I cannot tell. He is now, and has been some time, a pensioner, or rather a Librarian to Sir Watkin Williams Wynne, and, I suppose, maintained in one of his houses. I fear the unsteadiness of his mind will hardly permit him to complete so useful a work.

"I wish this may reach you before you set out for Wales, whither I wish you a good journey, and safe return home again." "I am, Sir, your much obliged and obedient servant,

WILLIAM LLOYD."

"Mr. Barrington presents his compliments to Mr. Gough, and sends him the above letter, from Mr. Lloyd of Cowden, in relation to his intentions about the publication of Nennius."

31. Mr. BARRINGTON to Mr. NICHOLS.

September, 1781.

"Mr. Barrington is much obliged to Mr. Nichols for what he has suggested about the great increase to the present miscellaneous publication from the addition of the Anglo-Saxon Orosius. "As the present volume is nearly of a just size, it may as well stand as it is.

"Mr. Barrington will return to town at the beginning of next November, when he will settle every thing about the Dean of Carlisle's pedigree, and whatever else may relate to the quarto Miscellany."

32. Mr. BARRINGTON to the Rev. Mr. NORRIS *. "DEAR SIR, December 22, 1784. "I proceed to some few additional observations which I made during the last summer, and which, perhaps, may be interesting to the Society.

"On the North and outside wall of Wellingborough Church, in Northamptonshire, is the following epitaph: William Batley, Architect, died in 1674, æt. 80.

All worldly fabricks are but vanity

To heavenly buildings for eternity.'

"I conceive from this William Batley's having assumed the style of architect in the last century, that he must have been a builder of great eminence in that part of England, and probably gave plans for many of the good mansion houses which still remain in Northamptonshire, and the neighbouring counties.

"The first palaces or houses built in England †, which have pretensions to either symmetry or elegance, seem to be those of Henry the VIIth at Richmond, and the front to the Thames of what was called Placentia at Greenwich, both of which have been engraved at the expence of the Society, amongst their 'Monumenta Vetusta.' I cannot, however, find, either in Rymer's Fœdera,' or other authorities which I have consulted, who was employed by this king as architect for either of these newly built palaces. It is not impossible that the plans might have been taken from some which Henry had seen whilst he was so long abroad, nor, as is well known, was money wanting in the royal coffers to execute them in the most elegant and expensive manLord Verulam informs us that the Chapel adjoining to Westminster Abbey cost more than £.14,000 (a vast sum in those times), in which the charge of his superb, yet beautiful, mausoleum, is not included. It is believed that the name of the person who built this elegant structure is equally consigned to oblivion with the architect of the two palaces before mentioned, though we know that Pietro Toreggiani was sent for from Italy to execute the brass-work of this king's most magnificent tomb.

ner.

* Read at the Society of Antiquaries, Jan. 20, 1785. † A. D. 1498.

"The next house of any consequence, which at least I have happened to stumble upon, was that of Cardinal Wolsey at Hampton Court, and which, according to Lord Herbert, was finished in 1525, but his Lordship is silent as to the name of the builder. "The first mention, indeed, which I have happened to find of the term of Architect or Architecture, is in the year 1544, and 36th of Henry the VIIIth, when that king grants to Johannes de Padua* a fee of two shillings per diem, pro inventis in Architecturâ et re Musicâ †. Possibly the plans for building, hereby alluded to, were for Henry's magnificent palace in Surrey, which he styled Nonsuch; but this must depend upon the year in which this expensive structure was begun, which I do not recollect, nor perhaps does it any where appear.

"John of Padua survived Henry, and his salary was continued by Edward the VIth ‡, in the same words and for the same considerations; which are, for his musical compositions, as well as 'inventa in Architecturâ,' and I should suppose that he originally came from Italy as a performer on some instrument, and by accident only was employed by Henry the VIIIth as an architect.

"Be this as it may, the Kings of England had not then any officer styled their Architect, nor to this day is there any establishment in the Board of Works, but for a Surveyor-General§, the first of which also is believed to have been the celebrated Inigo Jones. It should seem, indeed, that the three immediate successors of Henry the VIIIth could not have had occasion for plans of new palaces as, besides many others, which were rather castles, they were in possession of Richmond, Greenwich, and Nonsuch, the two first of which were built by Henry VII, and the last by Henry VIII.

"These same palaces would probably have been sufficient for James the First, had he not been fond of hunting ¶, for which diversion Theobalds in Hertfordshire was most conveniently situated, being in the neighbourhood of Enfield Chace and Waltham Forest to the South, with several extensive woods and commons to the Northward. This palace, therefore, was almost new built by him, and at so great an expence, that Mandelslo, a foreigner

* The index, indeed, to Mr. Walpole's most ingenious and informing publication notices two architects of earlier times, viz. Elyas and Rowsby, but the first of these was Ingeniator, or Engineer, and the other seems to have been only employed in the repair of a palace.

+See Rymer's Fœdera in anno.

Ibid. A. D. 1549.

§ During the reign of Philp and Mary John de Padua, before mentioned, was designer of the buildings with a salary of £36. 10s. MS. of the then royal household, which I had the honour of presenting to the Society of Antiquaries.

There is an engraving of this very singular and expensive palace by Hoffnagle, copied in Lysons's Environs, and in Queen Elizabeth's Progresses, as also on the side of Speed's map of the county of Surrey: but the most complete is in Braun's Orbis Terrarum,' 1572.

¶ I do not recollect any of James's predecessors who were particularly fond of this manly amusement except William Rufus.