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Edward 5th

BEING THE FOURTH NUMBER OF THE SECOND PART OF VOL. LIII.

MR. URBAN,

Leicefler, Sept. 18.

Thank for the you good-humour of the repartee in yourlaft, and hope that my prefent contribution (fee the plate) will take place in fome future Magazine. Yours, WM. BICKERSTAFFE. ON the North fide of the church of All Saints, Leicefter, in the third window from the weft, in the nave, which overlooks the leads, this iafcription [No. 1.] interfects the middle light. The next, or right-hand light in the faid window has the couple of lines in [No. 2.] near each other and parallel, included in an irregular fphere of glafs, that juft contains them.

(No. 3.) A fingle word, in the lefthand-light of the firft window from the chancel, in the fame wall, and parallel with the other literary window.

All the above copies, are the exact Lize and complection of the originals.

IN St. Martin's church, Leicester,
by the fouth gate of the chancel with-
out, on the wall, is affixed this elegant,
truly poetical, and pathetic epitaph,
written by her brother, the Rev. Mr.
Lettuce, faid to be Chaplain to the
Hoa. Sir William Hamilton, Envoy at
Naples, and publisher of the accounts
of fubterranean antiquities, and of the
late earthquakes in Calabria, &c.
"Here lieth the body of Mary Lettice,
who departed this life June 11, 1770,
aged 34 years.

Now thould this tomb the ftranger's ftep arreft,
The virtues of its tenant to proclaim,
He'd judge the eulogy by flatt'ry dreft,
Or oftentation catching at a name.

The first word is reverfed. EDIT.

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Then filent reft her unambitious tomb:

She needs no fame fepulchral praifes
breathe:

Affection drops its tribute in their room,
And her own confcience twines th' immor-
tal wreath."

IN mentioning "Wiffendine," page
640, of your Auguft Mag", with a
N. B. I did not mean that the fuper-
fcription of the dish was convertible to
derived from "wifhn;" or, if you
that term, otherwife than as probably
choofe, "wiffan," as its radical; whe-
ther the name of a perfon, place, mode
connoiffeur to determine.
or quality, I leave to the far-piercing

The Hiftory of a Steeple. See Gent. Mag.
p. 707.

BYNG's windt 1757, blew out a
fteeple-window of St. Mary's church in
Leicester, and much damaged the reft of
paired, entirely lined with brick, girt
the fteeple, which was that year re-
with five braces of iron, and ftrength-
ened with perpendiculars of the fame
metal, for a hundred and ten pounds.

The faid fteeple was ftruck by lightning, June 15, 1763, and repaired the fame year, at the expence of 80!.

In the dreadful thunder ftorm, July
10, 1783, the lightning ftruck the
higheft fteeple window, N. E. cracked
the inclofed brick work, and discharged
the free-ftone fhell, which was half a
foot thick, down to the next window

ferves, that fuch legends are chiefly Ger-
A very refpectable correfpondent ob-
man bufineffes, exprefing the names of the
informingus of little or nothing. EDIT.
refpective manufacturers, and confequently

+ On the day of Adm. Bying's execution,
March 14, 1757, it blew a prodigious hard
gale. See vol. XXIV. p. 138. EDIT,

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inclufive, upwards of fix yards perpendicularly; and nearly a yard broad all the way, fplitting the ftone-work as low as the battlements; part of whofe wall, N. E. paffed with the other fragments thro' the leads into the church; whofe roof is computed at 461. experice; and the steeple to be rebuilt new, nine inches thick, with an iron conductor, at 2281. with a conceffion of the old materials to the undertaker,

The fteeple was 61 yards from the ground; 35 yards and a foot from the battlements: the fame proportion to be obferved in the new erection, with additional decorations to the battlements. Not a word, on thefe occafions, about a brief.

take no notice of fuch when they do appear. The Spaniards of the prefent time are fhaking off every trace of barbarifm, and set the reft of the world a pattern by their most elegant publications. War, amidst its other evils, has, till very lately, deprived us of oneof the nobleft productions that ever graced the republick of letters. This is the new edition of Don Quixote, corregida por la Real Academia Efpanwala. En Madrid, 1780; in four tomes, Royal Quarto. This work was in hand feven years at least, and, befides what was principally intended by the academy, a very correct text, the impreffion and its decorations have been made with all poflible elegance and magnificence, and the whole fabricated in Spain and by Spanish artifts, Three new founts of letter, made for the printing-houfe of the Royal Library, were prefented to the Academy for the purpose of this edition, and do real honour to the founder, Don Geronimo Gib. The frontifpieces, the head and tail-pieces, the vignettes, are as beautiful as to defign and execution as can be wifhed. The fubjects of the feveral plates have been felected with judgement, and tho' all allowance has been made to the defigns, yet they all appear to have been confined to reality, Y containing fome enquiries relative to fides the goodness of the defigns and OUR Magazine for July, p. 568, Accordingly we are informed that, be

This was the native parish of Dr. Richard Farmer, the learned Mafter of Emanuel college, Cambridge; and of the Rev. Mr. William Ludlam, the great mechanic, &c who were born, I Think, in the fame houfe: and the first light, I myself faw, was in the fare parish. You fee how ambitious I am to be mentioned with great men, W. B.

Fig. 4, in the fame plate, is taken from a brafs on a round ftone in the choir of Stanton Harcourt church, Oxfordfhire. Qu, whofe arms? EDIT.

MR. URBAN,

the wives of Richard III. made me recollect a few sketches I had taken from a painted window in the church of Penrith in Cumberland, in a late tour I made in that county, which I imagine have never yet been published.

One of thein (fig. 5.) reprefents Ann de Lovel, as I conjecture, one of the wives of that monarch, who was of an ancient family in this county, of whom and whofe family I thould be happy to receive fome information thro' the channel of your Magazine.

Mr. Walpole, in his Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors, mentions that only one picture is known of Edw. the Fifth, (fig. 6) I have therefore added another reprefentation of that unfortunate Prince from the fame church.

gravings, the dreffes have the merit
of reality, and are formed from feveral
pictures and portraits of the time of
the author in feveral royal palaces:
The arms and armour have been drawn
from originals of the fame time in the
Royal Armoury. The fore part, fide,
and back of the coat armour are to be
feen in the feveral plates. Sorry am I
to add that no portrait of Cervantes has
as yet been difcovered: one prefixed is
given as ideal only. His life, by Don
Vicente de los Rios, prefents no ma-
terial difference as to any circumstance
to be found in that by Don Juan An-
tonio Pellicer, printed a few years
fince, and which, abftractedly, is to
be found in your Mag. of Jan. 17811
But his Analyfis del Quixote" is a
mafter-piece of criticifm; and may en-
title him to the name of the Additon of
Spain, as he has done that for Cer-
vantes which the former did for Mil-
ton, whofe name he mentions in feveral -
places with due refpect and cftcem.
Had the Academy fuppreffed this,
which I am authorised to fay was once