GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE ; LONDON GAZETTE Birmingham 4 Blackb. Brighton Bury St. Edmund's NOVEMBER, 1814. IRELAND 37 Camb.-Chath. CONTAINING SCOTLAND 24 Meteorological Diaries for October and November, 1814... 410, 510 Review of New Publications, viz. Historical Chronicle. Embellished with an Engraving of the fine PAINTED WINDOW in STATIONERS' HALL, and with a Perspective View of CHETILE CHURCH, Co. Dorset. By SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. Printed by NICHOLS, SON, and BENTLEY, at CICERO'S HEAD, Red Lion Passage, Fleet-str. London; where all Letters to the Editor are to be addressed, PosT-PAID. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, For NOVEMBER, 1814. Mr. URBAN, Nov. 10. I ENCLOSE herewith three Epitaphs, which perhaps have not only Novelty, but Information to recommend them. Though to the Votaries of the Card Table, the Assembly, and Theatre, this species of composition may, in the words of the great Lord Verulam, be deemed "hearselike poetry," and be laid aside for the idle sing-song of the day, yet there are minds who may think it worthy of attention, and these possibly will agree with me, that the two first are distinguished by their elegance, simplicity, and correctness, and merit preservation in the valuable Miscel lany to which they are sent. Yours, &c. I. J. C. In the Church-yard of Hertingfordbury, near Hertford. Sacred to the memory of Robert Chester, of an antient Family in this County; who departed this life the 14th day of September, 1790, aged 64 years. Also of Harriott his wife, who departed this life the 11th day of October, 1792, aged 55 years; of an antient Family of Caesars in this County. Here, blameless pair'! with mild affections blest, Belov'd, respected, much-lamented, rest: Life's shelter'd vale secure in peace ye trod, [God! Your practice, Virtue; your reliance, Long days, long life indulgent Heaven bestow'd, And sweet content to gild your calm [abode; Friends who through life their faith unalter'd kept, Children who lov'd, who honour'd, and [who wept. Heroes and Kings, life's little pageant o'er, [no more, Might wish their trophied marbles told II. In the Cathedral of York. Unmark'd around us fall the good and Let those he lov'd, let those who love him, tell o'er; [fell; How dear he liv'd, and how lamented Tell of the void his social spirit left; of kindness, when the scene of joy was Of comforts long enjoy'd, for ever 'reft; Of wit that gilded many a sprightly hour; Of truth's ethereal beam, by learning [giv'n, To guide his virtues to their native Heaven; While gratitude is left, or goodness lov'd; Nor shall their sorrowing voice be heard [unmov'd, But list'ning crowds this honour'd tomb attend, And children's children bless their fa[ther's friend. JOHN BACON SAWREY MERRITT. Westmacot, 1809. Proclaim aloud that Man is born to die! Ordains the natal and the final hour; trust, [just; His arm paternal guards the wise and I Mr. URBAN, Nov. 19. LATELY visited the Exhibition representing "Christ Rejected," and of Mr. West's celebrated Picture was extremely impressed with the grandeur of the design as a whole. I was, however, struck with some parts which seemed to me unappropriately described. The most pro minent was the colour of the robe of our Saviour. The point of time intended to be represented in the Picture is stated in the Catalogue, page 7, to be crowned with thorns, and in the "when Pilate brought forth Jesus, gorgeous robe with which he had been arrayed by Herod." The latter fact is related only by one of the Evange servable that our Saviour was at two lists, St. Luke, xxiii. 11. It is ob different times arrayed in mock majesty for the purpose of derision: the one by Herod, above referred to; the other by the Roman Soldiers, after he had been delivered by Pilate to be Scourged. In each of these arrayments his different persecutors followed the costume of the Countries to which they belonged. Herod, with his men of war, arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, to the colour of which I shall afterwards advert; whilst the Roman Soldiers clothed him in the Imperial purple, which fact is related by Matthew xxvii. 28; Mark xv. 17; and Johu xix. 2: verse 5 is therefore evidently wrong quoted in the Catalogue, p. 6, for our Saviour is there stated as coming forth wearing the crown of thorns and the gorgeous robe; whereas the relation of the Evangelist adverts to the 2d verse, and marks a later event, when he came forth wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. The Greek word, which is transJated gorgeous in Luke xxiii. 11, is Aaμmpar, in Latin splendidam, candidam. The learned Bishop of Rochester, in his Commentary on the passage, observes, it should rather be "a shining robe, i. e. a white one;" upon which he gives us the following Note: "The nobility among the Jews were accustomed to wear white robes, and were therefore called on albati, a name taken from the colour of the robe which they wore. Hence in Rev. iii. 4, it is said, concerning the Saints in Sardis, they shall walk with me in white (garments), for they are worthy. In this sense James uses the word argos in his Epistle, ii. 2, and puts in opposition to it the garment of a poor man, which he calls jvmagòr, noi vile, but of a dark and dirty colour. In this white robe, therefore, Herod caused Jesus to be clothed; and, the nobility among the Romans wearing purple for the most, part, Pilate's Soldiers, who were Romans, put on Jesus a purple robe (Mark xv. 17, and John xix. 2); both of them following the custom of their own country, when, by way of mocking Jesus as a King, they clothed him in robes of state." Our Saviour, likewise, it will appear from the three Evangelists Matthew, Mark, and John, should not, if represented in the situation intended to be described in this picture, be crowned with thorns. For it was after he had been delivered up by Pilate to the Roman Soldiers, and after the scourging, that they plaited the crown of thorns, and put upon his head, and clothed him in purple, which subsequent fact is what St. John relates in the passage above cited. I am also led to entertain doubts upon the dress of Pilate, and to question the propriety of his being decked with laurel; as also to wish for an authority for the High Priest wearing a breast-plate at that era of the Jewish Nation. All which I offer for the observation of your learned Readers. Mr. URBAN, ΦΙΛΑΛΗΘΗΣ. Kimcote, Leicester, messe Family, permit me to inform him, that Mr. George Thicknesse lived, for several years before his death, in a house (belonging to the late Dr. Loveday) at Arlescote in the Parish of Warmington, Warwickshire: that he was buried (as I have been informed) in Warmington Church-yard according to his own direction, viz. "a plain coffin, without ornament, name, or initials; to be carried to Church by some poor men, without a pall or any other covering; to be buried the reverse way from the usual practice, and on the North side of the Church-yard (where scarcely a grave had been made); and no mound or mark to be set upon the place to distinguish it in the least, nor gravestone or monument to be erected:" all of which were strictly complied with. On the 3d of November 1809, or then about, his housekeeper, Mrs. Lewis, was brought from Bodicot to Warmington to be buried beside her Master, having given the same direc tions about her own burial as he had formerly done for his: and she was buried accordingly. The coffin, of common plain boards, was tied on the front of a post-chaise (Bodicot being 8 miles from Warmington), and when at the Church-yard gate, was carried to the Church and grave without pall or covering, and deposited by her Master; nor does any raised turf, mound, or memorial whatever, mark the place. But a singular circumstance took place. The Clerk came to me (being at at the time Curate) the day before, saying that he had been desired to make the grave in a different way from the others, and wished to know if I would permit it. I told him, as there were no graves on the North side of the Church-yard, that he might make it from North to South, if they liked, and especially as her Master had been buried so. He accordingly made the grave from North to South, with her head, I think, next the Church, which I had understood to have been the way her Master had been buried in; and it was not till some weeks after I discovered that her Master was buried only in the reverse way from the usual practice, i. e. the head lying next the East; so that by the above mistake she is laid at the feet of her Master, and the two bodies form a T. many years the "burial-place of that Noble Family." The chancel, though usually kept in repair by a Rector, was, some years past, new built by the Family, with four large niches in the side walls, within one of which (the first on the North side) is a grand Mouument erected in memory of John Duke of Montagu, with a medallion of him, and a full length figure of his Duchess, by Roubilliac. On the South, one to the memory of the Duchess, with three figures of the Fates, by the same Artist. The second on the North side is to the memory of the last Duchess, by Van Gelder; that on the South is reserved for a Monument to the late Duke of Montagu. Mr. URBAN, E. J. Upper Guilford-str. Nov. 12. S Mr. Bentham (p. 307) implies a The spot where they were buried doubt of the purity of my in cannot be distinguished, and only lives in the memory of the Clerk and some inhabitants. Yours, &c. THOS. RIDGE. P. S. Since writing the above, I have seen an account of Mr. T. in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. LX. p. 1153; where there seems to be a little inaccuracy in the statement of "his never quitting the Parish" after the death of his Benefactor: for the old mansion-house referred to was probably that belonging to the Holbech family in the Parish of Mollington. Mr. Holbech's residence is in the ad joining Parish of Farmboro'; and Arlescote, where Mr. T. lived for several years, and died, is nearly three miles from either Mollington or Farmboro', being separated from both by the village of Warmington. T. R. Mr. URBAN, Nov. 8. HE remains of her Grace of Buc tentions in publishing "Mr. W. Cole's Notes" on his Father's History of Ely Cathedral,' at the end of what I call An Olio of BIBLIOGRAPHICAL and Literary Anecdotes and Memoranda,' and has given partial extracts from the remarks which precede them, as well as dismissed me with the sweeping hope, that if my motives for publishing the scandal and ill nature of Mr. Cole were the reverse of what I have stated them to be, the contempt of all good men will be my reward;' I need not, I believe, make any apology for requesting your insertion of the whole of these remarks, as they will not occupy much space, and cannot, I think, be misconstrued into any thing like Mr. B.'s interpretation of them. "Manuscript copies of these Notes, the originals of which are said to be in a copy of Bentham's Ely formerly belonging to Cole, are in the possession of Teleugh (295) were not interred in various persons, and so well known by a Weekley Church, Northamptonshire, though the Parish Church for Bough ton-House, but in that of Warkton adjoining, equally the entire property, and in the patronage, of the Montagu Family, where a daughter had very lately also been buried. Lord Sydney and Lord Chatham joined the procession on its near approach_to Boughton-House, on the Saturday afternoon, where the corpse lay in State till Sunday noon. For some particular reasons, the latter has been number of the Collectors of Topographical History, that, on referring to the new edition of Bentham's Book, it was with infinite surprize I could find no notice taken of them, and yet so much solicitude shewn to defend his right to the Authorship of the Essay on Gothic Architecture, which it appears had been falsely attributed to Gray. It is possible the Editor may be ignorant of the exist ence of these Notes; if so, it is proper he should be no longer withheld from a knowledge of them; and, in my humble opinion, the refutation of the assertion that |