zure). Sir Geffrey Pole was fourth fon (according to the Cufaude pedigree) of Sir Richard Pole, Knight of the Garter, by Margaret, daughter of George Duke of Clarence (brother of Edw. IV.), and Countess of Salisbury in her own right, as heiress to her brother Edward, Earl of Warwick and Salisbury, who was beheaded Nov. 28, 1498, S. P. By this illuftrious match William Cufaude had iffue two fons and a daughter. The latter was married to William Ward, by whom he was mother of Conftance, wife of Sir Robert Eliot, knt. in 1621, who bore for his arms, Or, 2 bars, and 3 crefcents in chief, all Gules, and was fon of John Eliot, of Somton, co. Somerfet (who was feventh in defcent from Thomas Eliot, of Upton, co. Somerfet, who bore the fame arms). The younger fon of William Cufaude, by Mary Pole his wife, was Arthur, who, by the daughter and heir of William Spencer, of co. York, had a fon William, 1621. Alexander Cufaude, of Cufaude, efq. the eldest fon, had issue, by Jane his wife, daughter of Richard Wall, of co. Chefter (who bore, Arg. a bend Gules, between 3 boars heads Sable), Simeon Cufaude, of Cufaude, efq. 1621, who by Frances, daughter of Richard Godfrey, of co. Norfolk, had Matthew, John, Simeon, Francis, and Edward. Here ends the pedigree. The only continuation I can make is from two monumental infcriptions, which I collected, with fome pains, from the burying-ground of the Holy Ghoft chapel, at Bafingfloke before. mentioned. The firft, which is not perfectly legible, I took from the broken half of a tombstone thrown about the ground. In pious memory of SIMEON CVFAVD de Cufaud in Hampshire, 500 years the poffeffion and habitation † of Gentlemen of ranke, his predeceffors. By Marie granchild to Richard Pole knyght of the Garter cofin german to K. Hen. 7. and to Margaret Counteffe of Salif Our correfpondent will perceive that we have fupplied fome of the chafms in this infcription. This has been done from an attentive examination of the ftone itself, in May, 1788. EDIT. + Qu. "habitation," or "inheritance ?" All genealogifts agree he was of Welch extraction, and by that means, I fuppofe, related to Hen. VII. though I have no where feen this latter circumftance mentioned. bury, daughter to George Duke of Clarence mar ried to his father Alexander CVFAVD Efquire he was defcended from the royal blood of the Plantage nets • exemplary virtue and patience as he lived religioufly died Sept.1619, aged 76. of this learned and Hendringham 19 years The other infcription is upon a tomb of later date, placed there fince the ruin of the chapel, but, though perfect, much overgrown with weeds, &c. "Here lyes the body of John Cufaude, of Cufaude, defcended from the ancient family of the Cufaudes, of Cufaude, in the county of Southampton, Efquires, who married Anne, one of the co-heireffes to Roger Hunt, of Chawton, in the county of Bedford, Efq. He died Nov. 23, 1701. "This monument was dedicated to his memory by his loving wife." Here, I fuppofe,ended the ancient fami ly of Cufaude. The eftate, which tradition fays was much diminished before they became extinct, was, after palling thro feveral hands, purchafed fome few years Sir Geffrey Pole, called his fourth fon in this pedigree, is, in other places, called his fecond or third fon. Milles (in his Cat. of Honour, p. 1054), fays, Geffrey was great grandfather of Geffrey and Arthur Pole, then lately living in Italy. The arms of Sir Tho. Fitzherbert, who married the daughin the pedigree, Gules, 3 lions rampant, Or. ter of Sir Richard Pole, K. G. are blazoned Mr. Longmate, in his excellent Supplement to Collins's Peerage, fays, p. xiv. that it feems Sir Richard Pole was a branch of the Pooles, of Poole Hall, in the hundred of Wirral, co. Chefter. But furely this is a mistake. The arms of the two families have no fimilitude. Thofe of Wales are, Parti per pale, Or and Sable, a faltier counterchang'd." Thofe of Cheshire are, Azure, a lion rampant, Argent, between 8 fleurs de lis, Or. Mr. L. fays, befides, that Sir Geffrey Pole, knt. defcended from this Sir Richard Pole, K. G. died feifed of Poole Hall, in Wirral; but upon what authority? It has belonged to the prefent Sir Ferdinando Poole, bart. and his ancestors, from the earnest times till very lately, if not this moment; and he certainly is not defcended from Sir Richard Pole, K. G. nor is the name of Geffrey among his ancestors. Married to his grandfather William, as appears by the pedigree. This might be a mistake in the tranfcription, owing to the difficulty of reading the broken parts, and the letters filled up with mofs and dirt. ago ago by the prefent poffeffor of the Vine. The manfion has been nothing more than a farm-houfe within the memory of man. Mr. URBAN, BEL June 10. EING one of many who read with infinite fatisfaction your ufeful publication, I feel myfelf difpofed to communicate to the public, by your means, any abufe which ought to be corrected, and any hint which would be attended with advantage. The abufe which I have at present to lay before you is that of Church Briefs, which are most of them obtained by the groffeft perjury, and confequently contain the groffeft falfehoods, which become more fhocking when read in the face of a congregation, and in the prefence, the more immediate prefence, of Almighty God. A That this is not empty declamation, the following accounts will evince. man in an inland county, fome years ago, found a perfon or perfons hardy enough to fwear that he had sustained a lofs of £.392, and upwards, by fire, though his lofs did not exceed £.20, and he had collected more than £.10 among ft his neighbours. He was told by one of the brief-gatherers, that the general practice in eftimating loffes was, if any part of a houfe be burnt, to include the whole house and all the furniture in the valuation. Another infiance may be quoted from the fame county, where the damage was estimated at more than £2,0co: but the clergy, in general, know better than to be driven from house to houfe, whenever a paltry fellow of a brief-collector chufes to fend them. The efimates for churches are equally fhameful. The clergy are made to declare, that church, which may be rebuilt for two or three hundred pounds, requires one thoufand. Upon which account, it would be a laudable practice entirely to difcourage every donation to a brief, till these evils are removed. The remedy is fimple and eafy. Let three or four magiftrates be requested to vifit the places where the fires or inundations happen, and where the churches are to be rebuilt: let them advert to every circumstance, and make ample allowance for the temporary inconvenience which an inhabitant of any houfe, the Occupier of any premilles, may have fuftained, and let them refolve to admit no allegations of workmen to pafs without fuch a view. This, I conceive, may be done without an at of parliament; but if an act be neceifary, why should it not pafs. I alfo think that the proctors of the refpective diaries might be allowed a certain poundage, and, being obliged to attend the vifitations on other accounts, would collect the money more cheaply than the prefent people, who, going for that fingie purpose, must ex◄ pect to be better rewarded. VERAX. ORIGINAL LETTER from Dr.WALLIS to Sir SAM. MORLAND, at Leyden. SIR, May 30, 1689. WROTE you, a while fince, an anfwere to one of yours concerning Des Cartes's Algebra, which I hope you did well receive. The occafion of this is, to defire a courtesy of you, having myself very little acquaintance in Holland. I have heretofore published divers treatifes in mathematicks feverally; fome of them fmall pieces, and likely enough to be loft; and most of them out of print, and not to be bought. I have been de fired by fome (and I am not averfe to it) to have them all re-printed together in my life-time, rather than to have them done imperfectly afterwards, as pofthumous works ufe to be; which may be done in two middling volumes in folio; and fome that have been printed in English (efpecially my last treatfe of Algebra) put into Latine, for the benefit of foreigners, who do not understand English. Now, because I find that books of fuch nature are more readyly undertaken, and better done, in Holland than in England (where our printers and bookfellers do more affect English books), as we find in the works of Vieta, Schooten, Slufius, and others; I defire you will pleafe to difcourfe it with fome of the printers or book fellers at Leyden or Amfterdam (fuch ofpecially as have printed books of that nature), whether any of them will undertake the impreffion thereof at their own charge, and with what fpeed they would difpatch it. For, if it will be neceffary that I come over myself (as perhaps it may), I would willingly have it difpatched in as fhort a time as may be. And, I think, by this time my name is fo well known in the world, that they need not much fear but that the books will, in a reasonable time, be fold off, and they no lofers by it. If you pleafe to do me this favour, and let me have an account of it as foon as conveniently may be, you will oblige, Sir, yours to ferve you, JOHN WALLIS. Mr. Mr. URBAN, plants that tranquillity in the bofom, June 20. livered by. Mr. THOMAS, architet, before the SOCIETY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, at their houfe in the Adelphi, on Tuesday the 29th of May, 1787, that day being appointed by the Society for the distribution of their re wards, when Mr. Thomas was voted the thanks of the Society for the fame. "I WILL not trouble the Society with a long apology for what I am about to deliver. If the language is not exalted, I trust the fentiments will be found juft, because they come not fo much from the bead as the beart. And if there fhould be any defect found either in the compofition or the delivery, I hall only fay, that I have no claim to perfection, but rely entirely on the candour of the Society. "As man was defigned by the Almighty for a focial being, he was endowed with that capacity of improvement which diftinguithes him fo eminently from other creatures, and marks him for the Lord of the Creation. "The exercile of this gift naturally tended to the introdution of arts and fciences; not fuddenly indeed, but by juft gradations, as men were drawn from a favage ftate to unite in fociety, where thefe became neceffary to their .con-venience, and in a degree even to their prejervation. "The high opinion which the ancients entertained of the first promulgations of ufeful arts, we find interfperfed in numbers of their writings, Amphion raifing the walls of Thebes by the fweet founds of his lyre; Orpheus (who is defcribed as "drawing tears down en, caufing But fhould thefe fweet notes be drown ed, the individual becomes unhappy, and that ligature of intellectual relation which binds the arts, making them fub fervient to virtue, and cementing fociety, being broken, a door is opened to anarchy and confufion. "How great then is the praise of those who ftand forth. the profeffed pro tectors of thefe arts! who establish nurferies for infant improvements! and lead men to that happinefs which is intended for them by the Author of their Being! Such perfons there have been in various ages, and before a Society of that defeription, it is my boaft that I now ftand; a Society diftinguished by the encouragement given to merit, and whole premiums for ufeful improvements, too many for me to enumerate, have been productive of the moft beneficial confequnces to the community. "Genius is a tender plant, which requires much foftering care, yet fails not when cultivated to reward the toil neceffary for bringing it to maturity; but where that is wanting, like the neglected vine, Unpropp'd it falls, and unfupported dies. Various as the arts are, throughout their wide-extended circle, fo various have been the predilections for each in particular perfons; yet in the end we find, that, by the general concurrence of mankind, the useful have juftly obtained the preference. And, in point of encouraging fuch useful knowledge, it is univerfally allowed that this inftitution ftands unrivalled; nor was there ever money expended in any nation to more beneficial purposes than thofe naturally refulting from the premiums, amounting to 30,000l. beflowed by their direction. "It has been properly remarked, That art is a difpofal of the things of nature according to human contrivance; and the method of enlarging the bounds of the fciences is the beit hat can be defired, as they conftantly oceed from experiments.', Farther, if the mere reprefentation he Trojan wars could infpire with oifm; if the bofom warms at viewing e portraits of ancient worthies; ave fubjects of a nature as in and moft skilfully delineated, i team. There we behold a Boyle, a Locke, and other illuftrious lu minaries of fcience, whofe ftudies and labours have conduced to the improve ment of mankind, holding out examples for emulation and perfeverance, whereby their memory is immortalized, and their fame mult last as long as time endures, and language can convey ideas to pofterity. "There is equal truth and accuracy in the obfervation, that all our knowledge and progrefs in the arts ultimately refer to the great end of prefervation; the faculties of the mind, like thofe of the body, not being given us for the mere pleasure we find in the gratification of them, but for further and nobler purpofes. What can be more obvious, than that these are the prefervation of ourfelves, and the good of Jociety? Ariftotle has juftly faid, the mind, abftractedly, has the fame command over the body, as the master has over the flave; but reafon rules the imagination, as a magiftrate does a free citizen, who may likewife come to govern in his tura. "It is perhaps curious enough to obferve from what flight fources fome of our capital improvements have arifen. The perfection of the notes of music, the knowledge of dying, printing, and mak ing glass, and of the dipping-needle, we Owe to unexpected accidents triking forcibly on the imagination, which, like the ftrings of certain mufical infiru ments, has vibrated in a fort of fympathetic harmony. But though imagination operates fo powerfully; though many arts have arilen from circumftances fimilar to thofe above-mentioned; though a minute attention to the asconomy of the animal creation, or accident itself, may thus far operate in opening the fources of various arts; yet thefe would never flow in fuch full ftreams as effectually to water the plant of genius, if they were not fupplied by industry and application a but conti nued labour, and cogent necefity, mafter every thing.' "It is alfo rational to conclude (the improvements of the mind being progressive), that every bint given of a new invention is likely to have its ufe. Mamy perfons, who have been arduous in the purfuit of one invention, have found out, or furnished the ground for introducing another; and thus, as the various fuggeftions thrown out by this Society have tended to feveral ufetul difcoveries, fo more may fucceed, and none can tell where they will end; as we have heard it faid, "That a new obfervation in 'fome people's minds is like a park in a heap of gunpowder, which may blow " up a whole mine.' often difcover to us combinations; and "For the faculties thus fet to work connecting links which otherwife would remained unfought, as unfufpected. It is principle in our nature should never be for this reafon that the intended active kept idle, left, like the wheels of fome curious machine, it should contract fuch when called into exertion. a ruft as might impede its operations direct, but collateral means are neceflary Not only to this end. Every thing which tends any art or fcience, tends alfo to sharpen to employ the mind in the pursuit of its perceptions; and we may be allowed to obferve, that the extreme dullness in probably arifes from the fame caufe as many people's intellectual faculties most Cicero of old attributed to the failure of of properly exerting them. the powers of memory, namely, a want fuch efforts, whatever can roule to the "Whatever, therefore, ftimulates to purfuit of arts, or throw any light upon icience, mult certainly be useful, confequently commendable; -fince, as rays converging, they are calculated to meet the public good. in one focus, and bid fair to operate for give encouragement to merit. "I have mentioned Athens and a that that man fhould arrive at once at the utmoft limits of his poffible perfection, or that this matter fhould depend merely upon any number of revolving years, then it is certain that a far different race of beings must have been destined to inhabit this globe. But as this was newer to be the lot of bumanity, as mortals were intended to improve their talents by just degrees, and thus, in fome meafure, to earn thofe bleffings and conveniences which are confequent in this life to a proper ufe of them; it must follow that both they who endeavour, and they who afft, in the cultivation of ufefnl arts, are worthy objects, as contributing what is in their power to the happiness and dignity of human nature. "Here permit me to obferve, and to congratulate this Society on the circumfance, that, whilst many are spending their time in what is called mere dogmatizing, forming opinions only upon theory, they, by reducing all to practice, muft neceffarily have produced those ad. vantages which the former held forth only in fpeculation. How ftriking is the comparifon! and who can hesitate where to give the preference? "It would be needlefs for me to recount those methods fo judiciously adopted by this inftitution for the purpose of increafing useful knowledge. The minutes of the Society, and the fums expended, fufficiently fpeak for themfe ves. They have proved likewife, by their felection of fubjects for the pre new difcoveries to light, the plan, founded on univerfal benevolence, is fupported by just order and decorum.Where the motives are fo evidently ge nerous and difinterefted, the confequences might well be expected to be good.They have been proved fuch in the face of the public, and the due applaufes have not been with-held, will not be with-belt, from fo laudable an inflitution. "To you the noble tafk is affigned, of rewarding deferving individuals, and at the fame time benefiting a whole na❤ tion. 'Tis yours, To call Defert, yet blufhing, from the shade; And to young Merit give the foftering aid. Whilft you greatly proceed in fuch a fhining track, there is no doubt but the defired fuccefs will attend your endea vours. Years fucceeding years will increase your honeft fame; and, I trust, the time is not far diftant, when it will be recorded in the faithful page of hif tory, that the Society for the Encouragement of Arts and Manufactures and Commerce contributed fo much to the public good, as to be defervedly ranked among the foremost of thofe Worthies whofe indefatigable attention to the pro motion of ufeful knowledge has rendered them the ornament and fupport of their country." miums, bow fully they are convinced, Aa time when the fcience of Natu "the useful is the good." "I cannot conclude till I have taken fome little notice of those would-be philofopbers who have attempted to depreciate the arts and sciences; yet, halting as it were between two opinions, they never feriously adopted eber. Not hardy enough to relort to that favage Life, which, in effect, they fo partially delineated, and praised under various forms, they lived unblething and unbleft; ftrangers amidst their nearest relations, and worfe than folitary beings in the midst of fociety. In spite of that logic with which they used to deceive, they themfelves became the best comment on the abfurdity of their own text; and thus John James Rouleau, the profelled contemner of the arts, was continually rendered unhappy by points of what I had almost called a Javage delicacy. But it is yours to cherish thofe arts, to nurture genius, and promote uletur knowledge. Ever ready to affift invention, and bring ral History is rifing to a new height, and the importance of its ditcoveries and obfervations futficiently eflab. lifhed, this attempt, feeble as it may be, to increase the flock of natural knowledge, I hope may lay claim, at least, to the attention and indulgence of the public. Among the different degrees of plea fure which refult from inveftigating the works of nature, the higheft, perhaps, is that afforded by the affittance of the microfcope: and, for the fake of fuch pleasure, it is to be wished, that fome of thofe who have written on the subject of microfcop.cal difcoveries had ufed more candour when they defcribed, and attention when they delineated, the ob jects of their examinations. Whether I have, or have not, avoided the errors I complain of, others are to judge. However, I beg leave to affure the reader, that the drawings which accompany thefe obfervations are made from an at Pentive |