in contemplation, they had deprived their country of the honour of having produced a work that will be read with pleasure as long as a real judge of its merit will be found. The diftribution of the whole into two parts, agreeable to the plan of the late editor of this work, is here adopted: and as in the original editions there was no divifion of the fecond part into books, no notice of fuch is to be found in this, nor in the former. As fome of your literary correfpondents may be pleased with the above account, a corner in your ufeful compilation is requested for the fame, by your conftant reader, L' J. B. Description of the Church of LISIEUX in Normandy, from the Account of "the Alien Priories," to illuftrate our View of it from an original Drawing. ISIEUX is a fmail city of Upper Normandy, and in the generality of Rouen, pleasantly fituated on the ríver Tonquc. This city, which was efteemed the capital of the Pais de Lieuvin whilft that country was under the government of the French kings, is now the property and fee of the bishop, who is alfo Earl of Lafieux, and enjoys an annual income of 40,000 livres. His diocefe is one of the moft confiderable in the province, The cathedral contains foine tolerably good monuments. In the choir is a brafs monument for one Hannuier, an Englishman; and another, of white marble, erected for William d'Eftouteville, founder of the college de Lifieux at Paris. In the chapel of the Holy Virgin ftands the tomb of the founder, Peter Couchon, bishop of Beauvais, who, in reward for the fentence which he, as fupreme judge, pronounced in the cafe of the Maid of Orleans, obtained the bishoprick of Lifieux. The bishop, however, afterwards repenting of what he had done in that matter, built this chapel, and therein founded a high mats to the Holy Virgin, which is fung daily by the choiriters, in order, as it is expreffed in his foundation-charter, to expiate the falle judgement which he gave in the above-mentioned cafe. The canons of this church, by virtue of a compact between them and the bishop, enjoy the extraordinary privilege of being earls of Lifieux, with the full excrcife of all civil and criminal jurifdiction within the earldom, during the vigil and feaft-day of St. Urfinus in every year. In or The 10th and 11th of June. der to perpetuate this right, two of the canons elected by the chapter for that purpofe, having on the vigil of the faint, dreffed themfelves in their furplices, covered with bandaleers of flowers, and, holding nofegays in their hands, mount on horfeback at the great door of the cathedral, and ride to each of the four gates of the city, preceded by two mace-bearers, two chaplains, and twenty-five halberdiers armed with helmets and cunaffes, and followed by all the officers of justice on horfcback, cloathed in their proper habits, covered with bandalcers of flowers, and carrying nofegays in their hands. As foon as thefe canons arrive at the city-gates, the keys are delivered up to them, and they there poft a proper guard of their own in lieu of that of the bishop, which, on the delivery of the keys to the ca nons, immediately marches out. customs payable within the city, and the profits of the fair therein held on St. Urfinus's day, belong to these two canonical carls; in confideration of which, they deliver to each of the other canons a loaf of bread and two flaggons of wine: and, in cafe any poft or place of profit becomes vacant within the earldom during thefe two days, they have the fole right of nomination and Here is a Beprefentation thereto. nedictine nunnery, founded in the year 1050, by Lefceline countess of Eu, with the affiftance of her fons, earl Robert, and Hugh bishop of Lifieux. The lat ter lies buried at the entrance of the choir; and on the wall adjoining is an infcription in which he is called founder of that nunnery. MR. URBAN, All THE ROYSTON CLUB (fee vol. L. P. 474) is fo totally unnoticed by our tourists, and fo little known out of its own neighbourhood, that the following account of it may not be unacceptable to your inquifitive readers, and it is to be hoped may draw forth fuller and more correct information on the fubject. The precife year of its inflitution does not appear. It certainly was prior to the year 1698, and perhaps began at the Revolution. The only book of entries now known to exift by the prefent landlord and his waiter opens with a litt of members from the inflitution to 1698. Among thefe members the following have been extracted, not in regular fucceffion, nor as a complete lift, but as perfons most likely to be known beyond their own counties, though though after exhaufting his talent in naming their respective places of abode, your correfpondent finds himfelt obliged to leave feveral of them to the fagacity of others Their meetings were held on a Thurfday. Their mode of election was by a majority on ballot on the club-day fucceed. ing that of nomination. The candidate was admitted on his firft appearance within a year after his election, otherwife a fecond ballot was allowed. The fteward for the day entered the nomination and election. Each member who was fteward furnished the wine, or tive guineas in lieu of it. No wine was to be drunk out of the club-room, and what was left after cach meeting was to be put into a cheft, and the key delivered, fealed up by the fteward or his deputy, to the maller of the houfe, for the next fteward. In 1760 there was fo much wine in the cellar that it was refolved that no member should be chofen fteward for 3 months to come.In September 1783 there remained, of Claret, Madeira, Port, and Lisbon, about 3 pipes. The bill of extraordinaries was to be delivered in on the firft Thursday in July. No cyder, wine, or beer, or tobacco, to be allowed as extraordinaries; only fire and venifon fees. The place of meeting was the Red Lion Inn, which is the Poft-houfe. Two handfome rooms, a fmailer and a larger, were built, at the expence of the members, at the back of the houfe, for this purpofe, and furnished with portraits, ftill preferved there, though the rooms, having loft their original deftination, and the larger ferving occafionally for an affembly, and having an orchestra, and the fmaller for an ordinary on market-days, or other public occafions, are going faft out of repair. vage*, in a gown and band: and over the chimney the Judgement of Paris. Round the top of the larger room, above the wainfcot, are the following heads: At the upper end of the room an old man in his hair and a gown, and over A head in robes, with the George. A man in a flowing wig, cravat, and Another in a like wig and gown. A gentleman in a yellowish coat, blue Another in a pink coat and cravat. Another in a gown and fhort cravat. Over the chimney the Angel appearing to the Shepherds t. The chaplain to the club was Hugh Parnel, on whofe deceafe Francis Gulfton, rector of Widial, was elected, 1763, and occurs in that character in 1777. He is ftill living, and refident at Widial, though the eftate has been fold out of the Gulfton family, firft to Stephen Comyn, barrifter at law and bencher of the Inner Temple, and by him to Brabazon Ellis, efq. whofe fon, John Thomas, now enjoys it, and has improved the hall by the addition of two bow windows, and by a new road to it from Buntingford. I am credibly informed that the divifions in the county on the general elecion 1754, when Hale, Gore, and Gardiner, were candidates (and the latter loit it) occafioned an almoft total defertion of this club. ANOTHER CANTAB. In the firft, or ante-chamber, are two very good half-lengths of James I. and Charles I.; whole lengths of Charles and James II, William, Mary, and Anne, in an inferior ftyle: a good head of Dr. Sa*Rector of Bygrave, then of Clothall, Herts; and lecturer of St George, HanoverSquare, London. In his younger days he had travelled with James 5th Earl of Salibury, who gave him the great living of Clothall, where Dr. Savage rebuilt the rectory-houfe. In his more advanced years he was fo lively, pleafant, and facetious, that he was called the Arifi pus of the age. One day, at the levee, George I. afked him, "How long he had frayed at Rome with Lord Salisbury?" Upon his anfwering how long, "Why," said "the King, "you flayed long enough, why did you not convert the Pope?" Becaufe, Sir,' replied he, I had nothing better to offer him.'-Having been bred at Wellminster, he had always a great fonduefs for the school, attended at all their plays and elections, affifted in all their public exercifes, grew young again, and, among boys, was a great boy himself. He ufed to attend the fchools to fornith the lads with extempore epigrams at the elections. The king's fcholars had fo great a regard for him, that, after his decease, they made a collection among themfelves, and, at their own charge, erected a small tablet of white marble in the Cloysters to his memory. See it in the "Anecdotes of Bowyer," p. 644. He printed two Sermons; I. "On the "Election of the Lord Mayor, 17073" 2. "Before the Sons of the Clergy, 1715." He died March 24, 1747. EDIT. † Arthur Chauncey was paid 8 guineas for cleaning and mending these pictures in 1745. James James Goulston, Sir Thomas Brograve, Bart. Henry Guy, of Sheephall and Braughing. of Tring. Qu. mayor of St. Alban's in 1685. (Chauncy, 457, 458.) and alderman by the charter James II.; recorder of Berkhamsted 1638 (Ib. 581); groom of the bed-chamber, clerk of the treafury, temp. Charles II. James II. and William III.; member for a borough in Yorkshire in all their parliaments (Ib. 592). He built an elegant houfe, and laid out large and beautiful gardens there, and a park, and then fold it to Sir William Gore, Knt. lord mayor. (Salmon, Herts, 130.) Robert Elwes, Sir Edward Turnor, Knt. of Amwell and Throcking. Qu. ferjeant at mace to Charles II. who held Bedwell Park in Effingdon. (Chauncy, 277.) Qu. of Great Hormead? of Pelham Furneux. of Bygrave, and Cokenbatch in Barkway. Some of this family were burgeffes of Qu. who fold Wefton, 1654 Chaun. 374.- who died 1714-15. member for Hertford 1661; speaker of the Houfe of Commons, knighted, and folicitor to the Duke of York; 1663,. treafurer to the Middle Temple; 1670, folicitor general; 1671, ferjeant at law and chief baron of the Exchequer. (Chauncy, 250.) Sir Alexander Rigby, Knt. Henry Earl of Suffolk and Bindon, created Earl of Bindon and Baron Chef terford in his father's life, became Earl of Suffolk in 1709, and died in 1718. Ralph Freman, Richard Gulfton, William Lexinz, Sir Richard Hutchinfon. William Gore, [fon of Sir William] John Ellington, William Robinfon, Sir Charles Buck, Bart. Robert Gilfthorpe, Efq. Henry Coghill, Francis Pemberton, of Tring. of Ablim in Great Berkhamsted. of Lytton Strode. of the Grove, Watford. of Welwyn, died 1731. of Pen's Flace, Aldenbam. Qu. afterwards knighted, ferjeant, chief juftice of the King's Bench and Common Pleas; died 1627. (Chaun. 469.) This houfe, one of the beft works of Sir Chriftopher Wren, being entirely his own plan, was built for Mr. Guy with the treafury money. It is the property of the prefent Charles Gore, Efq. great grandfon of Sir William. EDIT. John Edward Chefter, fellow of Emanuel College, Cambridge. of Bengeo and Sacombe. of Bradfield and Rifden. of Eafwick, member for Herts county, father to the prefent. of Cokenbatch, admitted 1734,quitted 1745. Lucius Charles vifcount Falkland, 1735, died May 27, 1776. Alexander Cottle. William Benn, Edward Gardiner, 1746, William Pym, William Wright, Ralph Freman, D. D. of Barkway. of Hamels, in Braughing, uncle to the firti lady of the right hon. Cha. Yorke, whofe fon now poffeffes the estate. Sir Thomas Salisbury, Knt. Thomas Whetham, Chriftopher Anstey, D. D. Richard Hale, Francis Bowyer, Thomas Clarges. Robert Philipps. John Robinfon Lytton, Robert Thornton, John Gardiner, 1742, Honourable James Afton, George Jennings, James Gordon, of Offley, judge of the Admiralty. of Trumpington, co. Cambridge, father of North Mimms. now Sir Richard Chafe, Knt. of Hadham, fheriff of Herts* 1745, when he was knighted. Sir John Hynde Cotton, Bart. 1752, William Pluminer, jun. 1758, Earl of Effex, 1765. of Knebworth. of Little Ayot. of Beeches. of Great Gaddejon, deceased, eldest brother to the prefent member for the county. the other member for the county. of Hitchin, member for St. Alban's. William Anne, of Cafbiobury, now living. of Alpeden. He is or was Lieut. Col. of the Herts militia. Summary of Proceedings in Parliament, (Continued from p. 743.) MR May 7. R. W. Pitt rofe to open the long, expected motion for a parliamentary reform. The houfe, and all the avenues to the houfe, were crouded by noon, though the bufinefs did not come on till half after four. tive government, were greatly leffened and debilitated. Hence clamours sprung up within doors; and hence, as was perfectly natural in the moment of anxiety, to procure an ad-quate and fit remedy to a practical grievance, a fpirit of fpeculaAtion went forth, and a variety of wild fchemes, founded in vifionary and impracticable ideas of reform, were fuddenly produced. It was not for him, he faid, with unhallowed hands to touch the venerable pile of the conftitution, and deface the fabric; to fee it stand in need of Brepair was fufficiently mortifying; but the more he revered it, the more he withed to feeure its duration, the greater he felt the neceflity of guarding against its decay. Innovations, he knew, were at all times dangerous, and at no time more hazardous than the prefent, when all men C were politicians, and all men had opini ons of their own, which, of course, were thofe only that were fit to be adopted. Paufing upon this, he had relinquished the idea which he fuggested to the Houfe laft year (fee p. 65), and wished rather to renew and invigorate the fpirit of the old conftitution, than to new model its an He introduced his refolutions with a masterly oration on the excellence of the English Conftitution; a Conftitution, which, while it continued as it was firft framed by our ancestors, was diftinguish od by the furrounding nations as the production of the most confummate wifdom. Raifed by that conflitution to greatnefs and to glory, England has been at once the envy and the admiration of the world. No man looked upon the glorious fabric with greater veneration than him.felf. Indeed there was no form of government, on the known furface of the globe, that was fo nearly allied to perfect freedom. But, faid he, a melancholy feries of events, which lately eclipfed the fplendour of Britain, exhibited a lamentable reverfed of fortune, which could be accounted for cient form. When he fubmitted this only upon this principle: That, for the fubject to the confideration of the House laft fifteen years, there had been a devia- laft year, he was told it was ill-timed tion from the principles of that happy our attention was then employed about conftitution under which the people of many things the objection was not England had been wont to perform ex. without its force. At prefent, we are ploits that dazzled the neighbouring na- once more happy in the enjoyment of tions. As an incontrovertible proof of peace, and now is the time to improve E the truth of what he had advanced, he the bleflings of it An Englishman who need only, he said, advert to the history would compare the flourishing state of of a few years recently paffed, which this country fome twenty years ago with would exhibit fuch a picture of difafters the fate of humiliation in which he now and difgraces as this kingdom had long beholds it, muft be convinced that the been unaccustomed to bear. He then ruin which he now deplores must have ftated the ruinous confequences of the F proceeded from a fomething radically American war; the immenfe expenditure wrong in the conftitution; of this radi of public money; the confequent heavy cal error all are convinced; nay, the burden of taxes; and the preffure of the Houfe itself had discovered that a fecret collateral difficulties produced by mea- influence was fapping the very foundation fures the moft oppofite to wisdom and of liberty by corruption; that its influcommon fenfe, infomuch that the people, ence had been felt within those walls, and out of temper by little and little, and at Ghad often been found ftrong enough to laft provoked to extremity, began to turn ftifle the fenfe of duty, and to over-rule their eyes inwards, in order to fee if there the propofitions made to fatisfy the wishes was not fomething radically wrong at and delires of the people; that it had home, that was the chief caufe of all the rifen to fuch a height that men were misfortunes they felt from abroad. In afhamed any longer to deny its existence, fearching for the internal fources of their and the Houfe had at length been driven foreign fatalities, they naturally turned to the neceffity of voting that it ought to their attention to that Houfe, where they be diminished. Many expedients had been found that, by length of tine, the fpirit fuggefted to effect this falutary purpose. of liberty, and the powers of check and Among thofe which had been devised to Controul upon the Crown and the execu bar the entrance of fuch influence into GENT. MAG. Ott. 1783. |