sented itself, as the most eligible situation that could possibly be fixed upon; it was ready built to their hands; the Governors of the Foundling Charity were anxious to get rid of it at a price much below its value, and it required no considerable sum to repair the injuries it had sustained while a prison. The house and other buildings, with 20 acres of good land, were purchased for 5500%. ; and about 7707. was expended in repairing and fitting it up for the purposes of its new destination. In December 1784 the house was opened for the reception of the poor, who, having been accustomed to a maintenance from regular or occasional weekly pay, at first evinced great reluctance in accepting the mode of relief prepared for them; but, on experiencing the plenty and comfort of the new institution, the mildness of its -regulations, and the benevolent attentions of the Directors, their prejudices gradually subsided, and they in a great degree became reconciled to it. "To the indefatigable exertions and unwearied perseverance of the first set of Directors for carrying the Act into execution, and of the gentlemen who immediately succeeded them, the inhabitants of Shrewsbury are chiefly indebted for those excellent regulations and judicious laws which have rendered their House of Industry a model to almost all succeeding institutions of the kind throughout the kingdom*.Such of the inhabitants of the six united parishes as are rated and assessed, and possessed of property to the amount of thirty pounds per annum, or are rated at fifteen pounds, are by the Act incorporated as guardians of the poor: from these are chosen twelve directors, four of whom go out of office every year, and four more are elected in their stead; by which provision there always remain eight persons in the direction who have had some experience in its duties, and thus every Director serves three years. the Board of Directors the management of the whole concerns of the poor is entrusted. They meet at the house, in a handsome room appropriated to their use, twice in a week: on Mondays, to receive 'the various applications of the poor; and on Thursdays, to audit the accounts, and regulate the internal economy of the family. The chaplain, steward, a clerk, and the matron, are appointments to which salaries are annexed.-The proportion of money paid by the parishes is fixed and ascertained according to the average ex Το penditure of each for 12 years prior to the passing of the Act; and which amounted in the whole to 27617. 16s. 84d. per annum.”. "The average number of poor in the house, including children, is about 275. Their employment consists principally in preparing their own cloathing, which they do from the raw material to its finished state. Work-rooms are also set apart for shoemakers, taylors, &c. where the paupers who have been brought up in these occupations are employed, and where some of the boys are taught to work. The girls are by rotation employed in the kitchen, and instructed, as much as possible, in washing, cooking, and such other work as may best qualify them for service. To encourage the exertions of the poor, an allowance is made them of a sixth part of their earnings, as a gratuity. The utmost cleanliness is constantly preserved. All the paupers breakfast, dine, and sup, in the dining-hall, a long room 115 feet by 20. They are classed at separate tables, the men, the women, the boys and girls, have their respective stations. The quantity allowed for breakfast is a pint either of broth or milk-porridge to each adult; and to the children in proportion. For dinner, the grown-up persons have six ounces of solid meat after boiling, a trencher full of po tatoes or greens, and a pint of beer. Working children have each three ounces of solid meat, with roots or greens. The children drink water. At supper, the adults are allowed a pint of broth or soup, and six ounces of bread; and the children in proportion. The other suppers consist of a trencher full of potatoes mashed with milk, and a pint of beer. The steward and matron attend at the meals, to see that the meat is properly distributed.' Parallel with the hall is a plain, decent chapel, in which divine service is performed twice every Sunday, and the children are at other times instructed by the Chaplain in the principles of Religion. Prayers are also read to the whole family every morning and evening. At a little distance from the house is an Infirmary, where the sick and infirm are lodged in proper wards under the care of nurses, and attended by the apothecary of the house. The principal advantage obtained from this Institution is, the check which has been given to the great frauds and abuses that prevailed in the old system of parochial expenditure by an indiscrimi nate allowance of weekly pay. Here the * "Mr. Isaac Wood, a most active, vigilant, and intelligent friend of this Institution, who had been a director, to whom it certainly owes considerable obligations, published, in the year 1800, a pamphlet containing an account of the principles on which it is conducted, and of its internal and external economy.-This is, upon the whole, drawn up with fidelity, abounding in many valuable and judicious observations on the state of the poor in general" aged aged pauper, who is destitute of a home, or of a friend or relative to assist him when helpless and infirm, finds an asylum where his wants are supplied; and those who are incapable of providing for themselves, from natural weakness of intellect, or long habits of debauchery, are maintained, and, by the mild discipline of the house, at once restrained from farther irregularities, and in some degree rendered useful and industrious. A rigorous adherence to the principle of withholding every kind of relief except that offered by the house, is by no means observed; those poor who labour under temporary distress or disability, are liberally assisted and relieved in their own houses; and even regulat pay is granted in some cases, where great age or infirmity can meet with the constant attention of a child or other near connexion at home. The out-pay allowed by the Directors from August 1799 to May 1800, was 4127. 10s. 3d.; from August 1800 to May 1801, it amounted to 851/. 9s. 9d. The former was a period of plenty, in the latter, provisions were excessively dear. The difference is 4381. 19s. 6d.; which shews at once the libera lity of the Directors, and a proper discri mination in the distribution of their assistance. A considerable advantage is also derived from the improved management of children. Infants thrown on the parish from their birth are put out to nurse, where they remain till they are of age sufficient to be admitted into the house. The nurses are occasionally required to bring them before the Directors, that they may observe what care is taken of them, and that the children may be identified, and those frauds guarded against which have not unfrequently been practised. When taken into the family, the children are placed under the care of the house-nurses, the boys in one nursery and the girls in another. As soon as they are capable, they every morning and afternoon attend the school-room, where they are taught to read. Many attempts have been made at employing the children and some of the adults in a woollen manufactory, conducted by servants under the inspection of the Directors; and although the project was so far crowned with success that cloths of a good quality and in considerable abundance were produced by their labours, it turned out a very losing concern to the real interests of the Institution, from the unavoidable ignorance of the Directors in the various branches of a complicated machinery, and the consequent necessity of delegating its entire management to inferior agents. At present the children are furnished with knitting, or other employments which may easily be superintended and controuled, merely to prevent habits of idleness. As soon as their ages will admit, they are put out parish-apprentices. "The House of Industry is a spacious and handsome structure of brick, and stands on an eminence as salubrious as it is beautiful. The North front commands a noble reach of the Severn, which flows immediately beneath it; beyond is the town, skirtedwith gentlemen's houses partly hid by the foliage of the Quarry, over which the towers of the castle and the church-steeples appear, Bosom'd high in tufted trees'." "A very small tablet to the Rev. Job Orton, who died 1783, aged 66. It would be superfluous to dwell upon the character of this excellent man, which is sufficiently to be collected from his own trulyadmirable writings, (especially his Life of Doddridge,) from a note in Dr. Kippis' life of the latter in the Biographia Britannica, and from his Letters to a Young Clergyman,' (the Rev. Mr. Stedman.) Deceasing at Kidderminster, his remains were brought hither by his express desire, to be interred in the same grave with Mr. Bryan, à former minister of this church, who quitted his benefice on the Act of Uniformity." In St. Mary's church, "A small tablet, surmounted with a medallion, bearing a sapling reft by a storm, with the words, HEV! SPES NECQVICQVAM DVLCES! has an inscription in. the true lapidary style, and is altogether a model of correct taste: IOSVAE BLAKEWAY EGREGIA INDOLE MORIBVSQ. SVAVISSIMIS ADOLESCENTI QVEM DVM IN HIBERNIA MILES PEREGRE AB EQVO DISIECTVM PROPE VILLAM SLIGVM REPENTINA MORS ABRIPVIT XXIV. IVN. MDCCXCVI. FRATRI VNICO ATQ. VNICE AMATO I. B. B. HVI. ECCL. MIN." "In the Nave is a tablet with appropriate musical emblems to James Burney, organist, who died 1789, aged 80 years, 54 of which he was organist of this church.".. ."Mr. Burney," we are told, "left 701. for a set of chimes. He was a very eminent music-master, and of a family long distinguished for their proffciency in that science, as well as in Literature and the fine arts.". "His younger brother, by a second wife, is Charles Burney, Mus. D. the venerable and learned Historian of Musick, who had his early education under his brother in of hills. The parish, co-extensive with the manor, is four miles and an half in length, and upwards of a mile in width at the East end, and about three quarters of a mile in width at the West end. It is bounded on the East by Wilton and the Roman way, called by Leland the Highstreet, and by Stukeley the Hermen, or Ermine-street, leading from Lincoln' to Spittle-in-the-street, Wintringham, and across the Humber to Brough; on the South, by North Carlton and Brosholine; on the West, by Ingleby, Bransby, and Startou, whence it is separated by a rivuz let called the Till; which gives the name of Tillbridge-lane to a Roman road, by Camden called Old-street, leading diago naliy through the parish from High-street, Hermen, or Ermine-street, to Littlebrough the Agelocum of the Romans; and on the North by Aisthorpe or East Thorpe, and West Thorpe or Thorpe in the Fallows." Some very curious Roman Antiquities, discovered in 1795, are accu rately engraved and described, The Manor is described from Domest day; and under its owners the Abbot and Convent of Kirksted, to whom it was given by Henry II, and from whom it passed, at the dissolution of Monasteries, to the Crown, and was granted in 1538 in fee to Charles Duke of Suffolk; and, after several intermediate owners, became the property of Sir George Bolles, kut, who was lord mayor of London in 1617, and died Sept. 1, 1621, at the advanced age of 93. Scampton Hall is thus described: On "At a short distance Westward of the church of Scampton, formerly stood the West House, or Grange, belonging to the abbey of Kirksted. The precise spot where the East Grange stood is not disco verable. After the dissolution of that mo nastery, the West Grange was pulled down, and on its site was erected the Manor-house of the lord of this domain. the death of the last Sir John Bolles, baronet, in 1714, his sister and heiress, Mrs. Sarah Bolles, residing at Shrewsbury, suf- · fered the family mansion to fall into ruins. It was seated in the middle of a small park, where yet remains a magnificent stone gateway, erected about the reign of James the First, and no doubt contempo rary with the Hall itself. The elegance of this gateway, and the ruins of the walls which encircle the court-yard, the gar dens, and the bowling-green, bespeak the splendour of the mansion that once enlivened this spot. Passing, however, beneath the arch, scarcely a vestige of it can be discovered, save some old walls now incorporated into those of a farm-house "Not having been originally intended for publication, a plain and faithful detail of facts was much more considered by the Compiler than the exterior dress and ornament of language." As the little village here described is, perhaps, unknown to the generality of our Readers, we shall copy the general description of it: "The name of this parish, in Domesday, is Scantone; in the Register of Kirksted-abbey, to which the manor belonged, it is called Scamtona; in a Charter of Henry the Third to the same abbey, Shampton; and in the rolls in eyre in the reign of Edward the First, and in subsequent records Skampton and Scampton. Although it may be difficult satisfactorily to fix the etymology of the name, it is not unreasonable to conjecture its being a compound of the Saxon word scen, splendida or amœna, and tun, villa-shene, or sheen, signifying splendid, bright, or beautiful; as expressive of the magnificence or beauty of a Roman villa, lately discovered to have been here; or, denoting the beauty of the spot: hence, from Scen-tun, Scan-tone in Domesday, and afterwards Shampton, Scamtona, Skampton, and Scampton. Scampton is situate in the division of Lindsey and hundred of Lauris, or Lawress, about five miles North of Lincoln; the higher part of the parish is on a range of hills running to the Humber, forming the Western promontory of the county, (as mentioned by Henry of Huntingdon,) commanding an extensive and delightful prospect over the plain below, and stretching many miles into Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire: the village and church are situate about the middle of the lordship, beneath this range GENT. MAG. December, 1910. erected erected on its ruins. On viewing this scene, the mind is absorbed in contemplation; the ideas are directed to past events, and to the revolutions which this spot has witnessed. That which originally was the granary of Kirksted-abbey, aud the storehouse for its winter support, was razed, to make room for a mansion of splendour and gaiety. This again has revolved itself into the calmer habitation of the industrieus farmer; for, when the last baronet descended to his grave, the title became extinct; and, as his body mouldered into dust, so was his mansion suffered to decay nothing remaining entire except the As most of the pieces in the collection are on serious subjects, perhaps some of my juvenile readers may be inclined to lay the book on the shelf till Time shall bring their minds more in unison with its contents; and I hope it will be by Time only they will be made grave, and that Misfortune will have no share in the revolution. A few pieces are added, written in the author's youth, at the request of some of her junior friends; and she indulges a hope, that all her readers will meet something to please and amuse the leisure hour." Whatever may be thought of this good Lady's poetical talents, there can be no doubt of the goodness of her heart. Most of the articles are of a serious turn; and, amongst these, we particularly notice "Tributary Lines to the Memory of the late Rev. Richard Harrison, of Brompton, Middlesex," whose merits are recorded in our vol. LXIII. p. 1157; and “A Tribute of Respect to the Memory of the late Rev. Heury Cox Mason (see vol. LXXIV. p. 187.) Nor is she unmindful of living Divines. gateway, a faint, yet pleasing monument of its original grandeur." The History of the Church of Scampton is well related; and a most satisfactory account is given of the family of Bolles, who were for many. years lords of the manor. The volume contains XV Plates; amongst which are fine portraits of William Cayley, esq.; Sir John Bolle, knt.; and Sir Charles Bolle, kut.; neat Views of the Gateway of Scampton-hall, the Church, and Parsonage; a Map of the Lordship; and a large Map of part of Lincolnshire. If the work needed farther recommendation, it might be thus briefly given in the Author's words: "The profits arising from its sale are intended to be given to the Charitable Fund for the Widows and Orphans of distressed Clergymen, in the county of Lincoln." 60. Friendly Visits from the Muse; or, the In a short Preface, the Writer" expresses her grateful thanks to the friends who have patronized her humble work by their liberal subscriptions and generous encouragements." "Those," she says, "who are strangers to me, may perhaps expect some reason for appearing before the publick at so late a period of life -a reverse of fortune, and an independent spirit, must be my exeuse. I certainly entertained an humble opinion of my talent (if I possess one) or it had not been buried near forty years. In Lines composed in Islington Church," she says, "Here Christianity's bright beams dis The glorious regions of eternal day! Were given to be obey'd. Father of Another Poem has the title of The following lines are selected, not merely because they are short, but as particularly appropriate : "LINES on the preaching of the Rev. WILLIAM [WEEDEN] BUTLER, of Chelsea. "WHEN Butler preaches, Wisdom speaks, And Reason pleads Religion's cause; Learning and Eloquence unite, Enforcing God's most righteous laws. "Would 1 "Would you the Christian duties learn, And make the better part' your choice; Would you divine instruction hear, In soft Persuasion's gentle voice: "O! listen to his sacred lore, Ye inattentive, gay, and young; Imbibe the solemn truths that flow, With holy zeal, from Tully's tongue.. "You, who make happiness your aim, His moral virtues imitate; And, as ye hope for future bliss, His Christian graces emulate." One more specimen shall be given, on account of the little history which accompanies it: "ELENORA, THE INSANE FUGITIVE OF ISLINGTON. "Lost, wretched, desolate, forlorn, The insane Fugitive behold! Familiariz'd to penury; Nor hope, nor fear, thy bosom knows, Child of misery, tell me why "Cloth'd in the garb of poverty, Who can thy injuries redress? Thou findest ease in apathy; Must turn the monster into stone. "There is in Islington Workhouse (to which she was conveyed in the Autumn of 1802, from an outhouse where she lay apparently expiring) that poor insane fugitive, known in that village by the name of Elenora; an epitome of human misery. About the year 1789, a gentleman gave a short history of her in the Gazetteer, to this effect:-"That she was of a good family and fortune; that she was deluded and robbed of all her property by a villain, on which she became deranged, and had then been a destitute wanderer about Islington, Highbury, Canonbury, &c. always sleeping in the fields, or where might overtook her "The writer of this account did not exaggerate her forlor condition, as I had an opportunity of see ing her every day for more than the two last years of her miserable wandering She appeared to be about sixty years of age, was fed and clothed by charity She walked in all weathers from morning till night, and seemed insensible of the Worst. She spoke not unless spoken to she then answered in a mild and civil manner. When she was tired, she rested her back against a wall, or sat on steps; she always accepted what was given her with silent civility; but, if asked what had reduced her to the necessity of begging, she would refuse the money then offered her, and walk away. She seemed always contented, and sometimes cheerful. It is supposed that her name is Stuart. I once asked her ber name: she replied, "I am called hereabouts Jemima Williams.". In her we behold a striking instance of his Providence, whose mercy is over all hi works; for she certainly subsisted very many years without a roof to shelter her from inclement skies, or a change of ap. 'parel." 61. Five Sermons, preached before the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, Sheriffs, Common Council, and City Officers, by the Rev. Manley Wood, A. M.; 4to.; printed by W. Wilson. THESE Discourses, though published separately, are here classed to gether, as a complete series of Civic Sermons during the Mayoralty of Thomas Smith, esq. by a respectable Chaplain, whom we have before noticed on a similar occasion (LXXV. 944, 1035. LXXVI. 152, 248.) The First Sermon in the present series was at St. Lawrence Jewry, Jan. 7, 1810, from Rom. xii. 5. on the important duty of participating in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. II. A Fast Sermon, at St. Paul's, Feb. 28, 1810; Chron. xiv. 4. "To avert the judgment of Heaven from the community to which we belong, is the duty of all true lovers of their country, by setting about to rectify in themselves, each his particular sins, and by conducting himself in future as is pleasing in the sight of God; lest, for the transgressions we have committed against him, he should pronounce the curse against us that is uttered by the Prophet: 'Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her; the Lord hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him, and that his children should be desolate, because the enemy prevaileth. To prevent these evils is the duty of all, by turning every one from his iniquities to seek |