less necessary on account of any pub- The Queen to the Princess of Wales. "Windsor Castle, May 27, 1814. "The Queen cannot omit to acknowledge the receipt of the Princess of Wales's Note of yesterday, although it does not appear to Her Majesty to require any other Reply than that already conveyed to Her Royal Highness's preceding Letter. Mr. URBAN, CHARLOTTE R." June 11. Tof the Dimensions of the largest HE annexed comparative Scales and most celebrated Religious Edifices in Europe may not be unacceptable to your Readers. It is faithfully reduced from a fine Drawing in the possession of your truly respectable friend and occasional correspondent Dr. Parr. Such of your Readers.as possess sets of your inestimable Work may consult Vol. XX. p. 580, where the particular dimensions of St. Peter's at Rome, and St. Paul's, London, are given, with a View of the Choir of St. Paul's; as also,. Vol. XXIII. pp. 78, 79, for plans of St. Peter's and St. Paul's, drawn on the saine scale. Yours, &c. CARADOC.C June 15. pre signs, yet their great whole still serves the Christian idea of a place of Divine worship, in the cruciform laying-down of the lines; Western entrance, nave, transepts, choir, and altar end, Eastwards; even the Pa gan temple, the Pantheon, converted to the uses of the Church of Christ, bears out this analogy. Glancing at our new-conceived edifices for public devotion, little or nothing of this sort is visible; a perverse spirit of Innovation, under the disguise of Improvement, guides the hands of modern designers employed to raise piles sacred to religious purposes. Reverting to the Plate before us, and viewing the great objects thus brought into one comparative view, the mind is left to contemplate on their varied proportions, as well as diversified forms; instructing both! Yours, &c. J. C. p. 321, &c.) I stated the following fact; namely, that upon the death of Ralph Wycliffe in 1606, the male line became extinct, and that his two sisters married, the one a Witham, and the other a Tunstall, the latter of whom redeemed the other moiety, and that thus the estate descended to the present possessor, F. Constable, esq. In your Magazine for January 1813, p. 20, a Correspondent of yours, who signs himself Senex, has brought forward no small objections to this statement. He says, the male line Mr. URBAN, did not become extinct on the death AFTEtios ved at not and-nued in his uncle William, whom I FTER setting aside the morti- of the above Ralph, but was contimention to be living in 1611; and that David, the grandson of this William, mortgaged the estates to Marmaduke Tunstall, esq. in the beginning of the last century. Now, Mr. Urban, if those of your readers who feel any interest in the matter, will for a moment examine those monumental inscriptions which I have given from Wycliffe Church, in that part of your Magazine referred to above, they will find that this Ralph's father was called William, therefore how could he have an uncle William? They will also find that I do not there mention a William Wycliffe as living in 1611. The only time that date occurs in my paper is in the transcript ing one of our sublime antient churches in the accompanying assemblage of Religious Edifices in Europe, it may be noted, that by a comparison of these Plans with foreign engravings of the same subjects on larger and more detailed scales, it is found they are rather to be depended on as good copies than doubtful representations. It might have been wished that the Inner Walls, marking the several ailes and chapels of each structure, had been delineated, as there is sufficient space in each of these associated engravings for that purpose. Though the arrangements vary in their smaller parts in the several de transcript of a monumental inscription on brass, placed, in 1611, by a John Wycliffe to the memory of his father William who died in 1584, and his mother Merial who died in 1557. That Senex is wrong in the latter part of his statement concerning the mortgaging of the estate by a David Wycliffe, will easily appear from the following document in the possession of H. Witham of Cliffe, esq. who is lineally descended from that John Witham who married the coheiress Dorothy Wycliffe. Burgus de Darlingto'. Curia Capitalis Reve'ndi in Xp'o patris d'ni d'ni Will'mi Dunelm' ep'i, tent' ib'm XXI die Junii Anno R. Regis Jacobi Angl' decimo et Scotia XLVIto, 1612, cora' Joh'e Lisle, Balli'o, & X'rofero Skepper, Sen'lo. Ad hanc curiam veneru't Marmadueus Tonstall et Joh'es Wytham armig p' Rob'tu Ward hac vice deputatu', qui in matrimoniu' ceperunt filias et coheredes Will'mi Wickliffe ar' nup' defuncti, et finem facere petebant p' tertia parte triu' burgagiorum jacent' & existent' infra Burgu' de Darlingto' pd'c jure hereditario dictar' coheredu' uxor' suarum: unde inveniuntur recti heredes, ac p' iisdem admittunt' Burgenses, ac solverunt d'no p' relevio. Per me Rich' Pickeringe dic' Cur' Clicu'm. Indorsed" for my Ld iis: for clarke xd," In this short and authentic document it is expressly stated that Mar, maduke Tunstall and John Witham esqs. were found to be the heirs of William Wickliffe, esq. in right of their wives; and that their claims to the moiety of three burgages in Darlington were allowed by the Bishop's Court, in consequence of such right. How does this stubborn fact" accord with Senex's statement, that in the beginning of the last century, David Wycliffe mortgaged the Wycliffe estates to Marmaduke Tunstall, when we see that in the beginning of the preceding one the great grandfather of this Marmaduke was allowed to be one of the right heirs to these estates? I moreover, observe, that from that period the family of Tunstall is said to be of Wycliffe s two instances of which I here quote from the parish register of Richmond, Yorkshire. liffe parish, married December 11th 1654." "Thomas Chumley, esq. of the parish of Brandsby, ande Mrs. Katherin Ton stall of the parish of Wicklife was published three severall markett dayes att the market crosse in Richmond in 3 severall weekes accordinge to acte of p'l'm'te made & p'vided in that case; and married the 25 day of June 1659 by Thomas Smith Aldr Justice of the peace and Corum, & before these wittness, Mr George Markham, Mr. Wm Witham, Mr. Michell Pudsey, Mr. Christopher Sanderson, Mrs. Markham sister to hir. Henry Jackson, Register." Many more proofs that the Tuns talls resided at Wycliffe long before your Correspondent says the estate was mortgaged by a David Wycliffe, might, I make no doubt, have been adduced from the Parish Register; but unluckily the earlier part of it is lost; what remains commences about 1690. In reply to the queries in your Magazine for last August, p. 112, concerning the Robinsons and Rokebys; first, William Robinson, only son and heir of Ralph Robinson, by * Ann (not Agnes) daughter of James Phil. lips, of Brignall, esq. purchased Roke. by, of Thomas Rokeby, esq. This Thomas is the last person mentioned in the pedigree of that family, given by W. Scott, esq. concerning whose marriage I find the following entry in the parish register of Kirby Hill. Thomas Rookby of Rookby, esq. and Mrs. Margaret Wicliff, daughter of John Wicliff of Gailes (in this pa rish) esq. married 22 Aug. 1661." I do not know with what propriety your Correspondent calls Rokeby the antient estate of the Robinsons, as it could not have been in their possession much above a century, when Sir Thomas Robinson, created baronet in 1731, sold it to Bacon Morrit, esq. the father of the present Mr. Morrit. DUNELMENSIS. "Mr. George Markham, of Allerton parish, and Elizabeth Tonstall, of Wick Office, taken in 1582. * From a Pedigree in the Heralds' berland berland in 1085.-Osmond de See, Bishop of Salisbury, and Lord Chancellor, created Earl of Dorset, in 1087. Bishop Randolph (see page 408) is improperly styled "the Honourable" by your Correspondent W. B.-a tille peculiar to the younger sons of Earls, and the sons of Viscounts and Barons. As a Bishop exceeds in rank the persons entitled to be styled "the Hon." it seems singular, why a Bishop (when the son of a Nobleman) is addressed "the Hon. and Right Rev." and not as "the Right Rev. and Hon.” as The account of the Burke family in page 416 is pretty correct, except that Sir William (Fitz-Adelm) de Burgho was not ancestor of the Earls of Kent, of the name of de Burgo; but he was first cousin of Hubert de Burgo, Earl of Kent, and great nephew of Odo de Burgh, Bishop of Baieux, created Earl of Kent by King William the Conqueror, to whom he was half-brother.-The Bishop's brother, Robert de Burgh, was also created Earl of Cornwall, in 1068: he was grandfather of Sir Wil liam Fitz Adelm de Burgh (or Burke) whose mother, Agnes, was daughter of Lewis VII. King of France, and who was appointed Governor of IreJand in 1177-his grandson was created Earl of Ulster, which title was carried into the royal house of Plantagenet by the marriage of Elizabeth de Burgh, only child of William third Earl of Ulster, with Lionel Duke of Clarence.-The De Burghs, Earls of Clanricarde, are now the chief branch of this antient house: they derive from William de Burgh, younger brother of the first Earl of Ulster; they formerly enjoyed the English honour of Earl of St. Alban's, and have been twice advanced to the Marquisate of Clanricarde, but the honour has each time failed for want of male heirs of the Grantee, while the Earldom' has devolved on collateral issue as descendants of the Grantee to the Earldom. B. O. Roderick, adds, " the title has since been given at pleasure to the family of Fitzwilliam, and a few years back bestowed on General Carpenter.”— The last remark is erroneous, and I do not well understand the meaning of the title having been given "at pleasure."-The following is, I believe, a more accurate account; The title of Earl of Tyreonnel was first conferred, in 1603, on Roderick O'Donnell, the Irish Chieftain of Tyrconnel; he forfeited the Peerage in 1613. The diguity was next conferred in 1663, on Oliver, the second Viscount Fitzwilliam, of Merry on, who died in 1667, without issue, when the earldom became extinct. The next person who enjoyed this honour, was Richard Talbot, created Earl of Tyrconnel in 1636, by James II. and by the same Monarch, after his abdication, advanced to the dignity of Duke of Tyrconnel.-The Earldom was forfeited on the Restoration-the grant of the Dukedom was considered invalid. The family of Brownlow (whom Miss Owenson omits) next obtained this peerage in 1618, in the person of Sir John Brownlow, bart. of Belton, co. Lincoln, created Viscount Tyrconnel and Baron of Charleville, which titles expired in him in 1746 from his sister and sole heiress, Anne Brownlow, who married into the family of Cust, of Stamford, baronet, descends the present John Cust Lord Brownlow, whose father, Sir Brownlow Cust, was created an English Baron in 1776.— The title of Earl of Tyrconnel was lastly couferred, in 1761, on George Carpenter, third Lord Carpenter, (grandson of General Carpenter, created Lord Carpenter in 1719); and is now enjoyed by his grandson, John Delaval Carpenter, fourth Earl of Tyr. connel, and sixth Baron Carpenter. In the new edition of the British Plutarch, vol. VI. p. 130, it is stated, that Thomas Pelham Holles, Lord Pelham of Houghton, continued to sit as a Baron in the House of Peers, after he had succeeded (in 1711) to the title of Duke of Newcastle-uponus, was which title, 66 only honorary."-Of such honorary" Dukedoms I never before heard. The Editor of the Biographical Peerage classes Smithson among the maternal ancestry of the Duke of Northumberland. H. M. Me 2 Mr. URBAN, ET me request you, at some con to preserve in your columns Ogilby's Proposals for a Lottery of Books, herewith inclosed. Many of your Readers may think it a curiosity as well as Yours, &c. A BIBLIOGRAPHER. A second Proposal, by the Author, for the better and more speedy Vendition of several Volumes (his own works), by the way of a standing Lottery. Licensed by his Royal Highness the Duke of York, and Assistants of the Corporation of the Royal Fishing. Whereas John Ogilby, Esq. erected a standing Lottery of Books, and compleatly furnished the same with very large, fair, and special volumes, all of his own designment and composure, at vast expence, labour, and study of twenty years; the like impressions never before exhibited in the English Tongue. Which, according to the appointed time, on the 10th of May, 1665, opened; and to the general satisfaction of the Adventurers, with no less hopes of a cleer dispatch and fair advantage to the Author, was several daies in drawing when its proceedings were stopt by the then growing sickness, and lay discontinued under the arrest of that common calamity, till the next year's more violent and sudden visitation, the late dreadfull and surprizing Conflagration, swallowed the remainder, being two parts of three, to the value of three thousand pounds and upward, in that unimaginable deluge. Therefore, to repair in some manner his so much commiserated losses, by the advice of many his Patrones, Friends, and especially by the incitations of his former Adventurers, he resolves, and hath already prepared, not only to re-print all his own former editions, but others that are new, of equal value, and like estimation by their imbelishments, and never yet published; with some remains of the first impressions, reliques preserved in several hands from the fire; to set up a second standing Lottery, where such the discrimination of Fortune shall be, that few or none shall return with a dis-satisfying chance. whole draught being of greater advantage by much (to the Adventurers) than the former. And accordingly, after publication, the Author opened his Office, where they might put in their first encouragements (viz.) twenty shillings, and twenty more at the reception of their fortune, and also see those several magnificent volumes, which their varied fortune (none being bad) should present them. *But, the Author now finding more difficulty than he expected, since many of his Promisers (who also received great store of Tickets to dispose of, towards promotion of his business), though seeming well resolved and very willing, yet straining courtesie not to go formost in paying their moneys, linger out, driving it off till near the time appointed for drawing; which delatoriness (since dispatch is the soul and life to his Proposal, his only advantage a speedy vendition :) And also observing how that a money dearth, a silver famine, slackens and cools the courage of Adventurers; through which hazy humors magnifying medium Shillings loome like Crowns, and each Forty Shillings a Ten Pound heap. Therefore, according to the present humor now raigning, he intends to adequate his design; and this seeming too large room'd standing Lottery, new model'd into many less and more likely to be taken tenements, which shall not open onely a larger prospect of pleasing hopes, but more real advantage to the Adventurer. Which now are to be disposed of thus: the whole mass of Books or Volumes, being the same without addition or diminution, amounting according to their known value (being the Prizes they have "Whereas some give out that they could never receive their Books after they were drawn in the first Lottery, the Author declares, and it will be attested, that of 700 Prizes that were drawn, there were not six remaining Prizes that suffered with his in the Fire; for the Drawing being on the 10th of May, 1665, the Office did then continue opened for the delivery of the same (though the Contagion much raged) untill the latter end of July following; and opened again, to attend the delivery, in April 1666, whither persons repaired daily for their Prizes, and continued open untill the Fire." been THE PROPOSITIONS.-First, whosoever will be pleased to put in Five Shillings shall draw a lott, his fortune to receive the greatest or meanest Prize, or throw away his intended spending money on a Blank. Secondly, whoever will adventuré deeper, putting in 25 Shillings, shall receive, if such his bad fortune be that he draws all Blanks, a Prize presented to him by the Author of more value than his money (if offered to be sold), though proffered ware, &c. Thirdly, who thinks fit to put in for eight lots 40 Shillings shall receive nine, and the advantage of their free choise (if all Blanks) of either of the works compleat, vid. Homer's Iliads and Odysses, or Æsop the first and second volume, the China Book, or Virgil. Of which, The first and greatest Prize contains (1 Lot, Number 1.) An imperial Bible with chorographical and an hundred historical sculps, valued at 251. Virgil translated with sculps and annotations, val. 51. Homer's Illiads, adorned with sculps, val.... .... 57. Homer's Odysses, adorned with sculps, val. 41. Æsop's Fables paraphrased and sculped in folio, val. 31. .... Homer's Works in English, val. 91. Virgil translated, with sculps and annotations, val. 51. Al. The first and second vol. of Æsop, val. 61. The Description of China, val. Entertainment, val. .... 21. In all 36 Pound. 1 Lot, Num. 4. One imperial Bible with all the sculps, val. ....251. sop's Fables the first and second vol. val. 61. In all 19 Pound. I Lot, Num. 12. One royal Bible with all the sculps, val.. And both the Æsops, val.. 10%. 61. In all 16 Pound. One royal Bible with all the sculps, val.. 107. A Virgil compleat in English, val,. 51. In all 15 Pound. 1 Lot, Num. 14. One royal Bible with all the sculps, |