erected in the Chapel of St. Nicholas here.

Yours, &c. R. R. BARNES. On a Mural Monument at the East

end of the Chancel :

1.

"Sacred to the memory of

Thomas, eldest son of Captain Samuel and Harriett Bridge, of the 95th Rifle regiment. Born Dec. 13, 1799;

died March 12, 1809.

rose,

"Ah! what avails the fragrance of the [stows, Or beauteous tints which harmony beWhich ends and blossoms in one transient day,

And ere maturity which pines away?
How dark the aspect of its native ground;
Dull and insipid ev'ry plant around!
Such was thy fate, my child;-thy lovely
form,

Too fair to encounter dire Diseases' storm,
Liv'd to excite an anxious father's love,
And died to be his advocate above.
He hails thy friendly short-liv'd mission
here,

And marks his gratitude with sorrow's tear.
Thy intercession prays, when death shall

come,

To mix with thine his ashes in the tomb, The wretched parent may regain his son, And rest in conscious love 'till time is done. "S. B."

On an elegant Mural Monument at the South side of the Chancel.

2.

"Sacred to the memory of Philip Deane, late Commander of His Majesty's Packet King George, and one of the Capital Burgesses of this Borough; who died 29th April, 1806, in the 53d year of his age,

Also of his son Philip Deane, who sucreeded him in the Command of the Packet. He was detained at Helvoetsluys at the Commencement of Hostilities in 1803, and marched as Prisoner of War to Verdun in France, where he died on the 5th Sept. 1807, aged 32 years, universally regretted by all his unfortunate fellow-sufferers, to whom his urbanity of manners, and goodness of heart, had rendered him deservedly

dear."

On a Mural Monument at the North şide of the Chancel.

3.

"Sacred to the memory of Charles Cox, esq. late Agent to His Majesty's Packets on this Station. He departed this life the 7th April, 1808, aged 76 years.

"In the family vault near the North door of this Chapel, are interred with him, his son Charles Cox, who died at the age of five years; and two infant grand-children, Charles and Mary-Anne, son and daughter of Anthony and Mary-Anne Cox.”

Sir Philip Parker, bart. Burgess

of Parliament for this Corporation.....

£.105

Mr. URBAN,

イ

August 28.

YOUR Correspondent D. H. in bis description of Hornsey Church, p. 17, mentions "two angels holding shields, with the see of Canterbury; impaling, Gules, three Escalops, with a Goat's head, above a fess Or;" which he takes to be the armorial bearings of William Warham, Bishop of London, and Archbishop of Canterbury; and, although not blazoned in the most correct manner, are evidently intended for the arms of that Prelate. But in the Plate annexed to that article there is a remarkable difference : the first angel supporting a shield, containing the see of Canterbury, impaled with a field lozengé (that being the nearest guess I can make); and the second, the see of London, impaling three Escalops, on a Chief a Mullet. The contradiction of the print and description being so great, I would be glad to be informed which is to be referred to, as most resembling those at Hornsey. I should rather take those which are impaled with Canterbury to be the arms of either Archbishop Morton or Dean, who possessed that see while Warham was Bishop of London. Warham succeeded Thomas Savage as Bishop of London, A. D. 1500 (who was translated to York), and Henry Dean, as Archbishop of Canterbury, 1504, and held that see twenty-nine years. HENGIST.

Yours, &c.

***We shall be obliged to this gentleman for the Drawing he mentions.

Mr. URBAN,

A

Sept. 10. LLOW me the liberty of correcting a small error in the description of Rivalx Abbey, given in your vol. LXXX. p. 602. After specifying the dimensions of the Nave and Choir, which shew them to be of unequal lengths, it is added, "the Transept and Tower form, therefore, an exact cross in the centre of the building;" whereas the figures in the statement demonstrate the contrary. The fact is, that, being unacquainted with the exact size of the building, I mentioned in that account, as a matter of conjecture, the above two parts to be of the same length, and drew the inference accordingly as to the Transept; but Mr. Buckler kindly supplied the dimensions after the paper had passed into your hands, which occasioned the contradiction alluded

to. I am glad thus to acknowledge my obligations to him for this valuable addition, as well as for his pointing out in the account some Anglo-Norman remains in the Transept, which had escaped my attention. And I may well congratulate the publick on the excellent illustrations which have appeared in his Engravings of our Cathedrals and Monastic Buildings, amongst which, that of Rivalx ranks as a very interesting one. Yours, &c.

A

AN OBSERVER.

Mr. URBAN, Aug. 31. CONSTANT Reader, p. 14, has expressed himself very unhandsomely when speaking of the Precedence of Military men. He seems to forget that the greater part of the Colonels in the Army, and Post Captains of the Navy, are the sons and relatives of the most noble and respectable families of the United Kingdom. When he tauntingly speaks of the sons of tailors and stone-masons, &c. &c. attaining that rank, so far am I from under-rating the pretensions of these gentlemen, that I consider them in the first class of subjects, and infinitely more honourable in their pursuits and claims, than one hundred generations of Country Squires, even though they had displayed a coach and four at every County Election for the greater part of that period. It appears to me very rational and just, that a Captain of the Navy, or a Colonel in the Army, should have considerable rank in that State in whose defence he exposes his life in every quarter of the Globe, and to whom is entrusted the charge of a ship or a fort, and the constant superintending management of a thousand of our fellow countrymen.

When the active worth and weighty responsibility attached to these gentlemen is duly considered, it is very possible that the publick will allow them the Precedence of the Hidalgo breed of mere Country Squires, whose greatest exertion has most probably been in promoting a Turnpike Bill; or a florid display of Elocution at a Parish Vestry. As Honours are, generally speaking, the only rewards of Military men, Country Squires may allow them undisturbed possession, and quietly doze away their lives in their imagined consequence; because, forsooth, they have neither had the

exertion or talent of venturing from home, or increasing their patrimony in a series of ages.

I write this, Mr. Urban, in a hurry, being at this moment unable to refer to books; but, as Heraldry has occasionally formed a part of my reading, I am almost certain that, in Guiliim's Display, he gives to Colonels the Precedence of simple Knights; but what matters his authority, or Blackstone's, or any other? for your Correspondent, the "Constant Reader," has candidly confessed he will not allow of any opinion that does not coincide with his own. As for Hereditary worth, in despite of ten millions of quotations, daily instances occur of the woeful degeneracy of families; nor do I know a more exccrable wretch than he, who, born with every advantage of family and wealth, cannot preserve his fame and respectability; nor a more contemptible man than he who piques himself on his consequence, because he possesses what belonged to his family ten centuries ago it is at best but a negative qualification, if unattended with active worth. MILES TRIM.

Mr. URBAN,

THE

Sept. 13. HE following notices of the family of Browne, and their marriages, previous and subsequent to their settlement in Ireland, will, I trust, prove interesting to some of your Readers, extracted from an antient book of pedigrees in my possession, Dugdale, Camden, and others.

The first person of much note of this family, which has been long settled in England, though now extinet in this country, was Anthony, who, in the reign of Queen Mary, was created au English Peer by the title of Viscount Montacute, or Montague; he was commissioned by Parliament to go on an Embassy to the Pope, in order to reduce this realm to an union with the Church of Rome; and in the 2d of Elizabeth, his Lordship, and the Earl of Shrewsbury, were the only Peers who voted against the abolition of the Pope's Supremacy. He married twice; first, Jane, daugh.of the Earl of Sussex; and had Anthony, his son and heir, and a daughter Mary, married to Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton; next to Sir Thomas Heneage; and thirdly, to Sir William Hervey, created afterwards Lord

Ross

Ross in Ireland. The Viscount's second wife was Magdalen, daughter of William Lord Dacres, and had three sons, one of whom I conceive to have been the founder of the Irish branch (of which I shall presently speak); and also three daughters; of whom Elizabeth married Sir Robert, afterwards Lord Dormer; Mabel, married to Sir Stephen Cassan (temp. Eliz.); and Jane. Anthony, eldest son by the first wife, never succeeded to the Peerage, having died vitâ patris ; but, marrying the daughter of Sir William Dormer, was succeeded by his eldest son, another Anthony, who became second Viscount, and married Lady Jane Sackville, daughter of Thomas, Earl of Dorset, and dying 1629, left issue by her, Francis, his son and heir, and six daughters; 1. Mary, married William Lord St. John of Basing (son and heir of William Marquis of Winchester), and afterwards to William, second son of Thomas Lord Arundel of Wardour; 2. Catharine, married to William Tyrwhit, esq.; 3 and 4. Anne and Lucy, both nuns; 5. Frances; 6. Mary, married to Robert Petre, afterwards Lord Petre. Francis above named, 3d Viscount, married Lady Elizabeth Paulet, 4th daughter of Henry, Marquis of Winchester, and had Francis, his son and successor; Henry, who afterwards succeeded to the title; and Elizabeth, married Christopher Roper, Lord Teynham. Francis became 4th Viscount in 1682, and married Lady Mary Herbert, daughter of William Marquis of Pewis, widow of Henry Molineux [eldest son of Caril Viscount Molineux, of Maryborough, Queen's County, Ireland] but died sine prole. His next brother, Henry as above, then became 5th Viscount, and had one son, who died in his minority, and six daughters, The last Lord was living at the end of the reign of William and Mary. The honours, therefore, have been considered as extinct; but this has been clearly shewn to be altogether a misconception: for the line from the 2d Viscount hath been to this day carried on by several noble and respectable families of Ireland, which I shall specify; consequently, there can be no fear of the issue male failing, and the title must be ranked as dormant.

The principal descendants in Ireland are, Howe Peter Browne, Mar

quis of Sligo; the Right Hon. Denis Browne, M. P. for Mayoshire; Col. Browne, of Browne-hall, Mayo; Dominick Browne, esq. of Ashford, Galway; James Caulfield Browne, Baron Kilmaine (by some of your Correspondents considered as the eldest branch), married to Anne Cavendish, daughter of Sarah, late Baroness Waterpark, and has issue, Henry Montague, and other male issue; Sir John Edmund Browne, of Mayo, creation 1797; the Rev. Peter Browne, of Galway, Dean of Ferns, who married 1802, Alicia, the granddaughter of the late Stephen Cassan, esq. who died 1773, of Queen's County; and has issue: the late Rev. John Browne also, of Waterford, was a lineal descendant; and some few others equally respectable, but without male issue. In the Church at Winborne Minster, Dorsetshire, there is a superb monument to the memory (if I recollect rightly) of one of the daughters of a Viscount Montague *.

Several of your Correspondents have lately spoken of the expected appearance of a Baronetage of ireland and Scotland; and I am at a loss to imagine why so useful a work should be so long delayed. I should have hoped, from the great encouragement of late years given to the Peerages, such a compilation would long ago have been undertaken; and I conceive that very ample information respecting the families of mauy Irish and Scotch Baronets might be culled from your respectable and authentic pages, particularly by reference to your vol. LXXIX: and, in general, to your Indexes.

Mr. Debrett, I feel confident, is a person well qualified for undertaking such a task. His Peerage has hitherto met with the most extensive and unqualified support; so much so, that his last edition, though published so short a time, is now nearly out of print, and, as I am informed, is to be reprinted soon after Christmas, with all the communications, additions, &c. of the current year.

Yours, &c. ANTIQUARIUS D.B.

MR. URBAN,

Sept. 20. Asa Sa second edition of "Wallace" is said to be on the point of appearing before the publick, it may not be an improper season to make the following inquiries. If they do not result from misconception, or my confined powers of apprehension, the Author may perhaps avail herself of my remarks. Should they be just, they will not be less attended to by an enlightened mind, for coming from an obscure individual. Since I finished reading the Poem, I am saved the trouble of writing one query, with which I should otherwise have troubled you, by the perusal of the critique on it in the Quarterly Review: I there find that the page David, and the wife Agnes, are one and the same person. I presume not to say that my ignorance till then of this circumstance proceeded from any other cause than the obtuseness of my faculties. But to proceed to the inquiries, which I still wish to have satisfied, I am one of those plodding readers, who, whether I read prose or verse, am always desirous to affix a meaning to words and sentences. The Quarterly Reviewers have noticed some which puzzled me; but those that remain you will oblige me by inserting, and still more, by an explanation of them from any of your better-informed Cor respondents.

In Canto I. Stanza xv, I cannot understand what connexion there is between the six concluding lines and those that precede them. The Author is lamenting that she cannot celebrate each Hero who merited the "famebestowing rhyme ;" what then has "But" to do in connecting these regrets with a remark, just no doubt, that the race of man is fickle, &c. and has" in every age" "stooped to shame" ?

In the next Stanza, the Author, after enumerating several Worthies, with whom I had hopes to be better acquainted, particularly promises or foretels of Scrymgeour, that

History grave, and verse sublime, Shall give thy deeds to latest time," As this Hero is not mentioned again, 1 am left to suppose that the Author's modesty does not allow to her verse that epithet, but that she has altributed it to some of which I am ignorant; I shall, therefore, be obliged