March 17th.

SONNET ON THE OBITUARY.

(FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.)

THESE are the thrillings of the mind's repose-
While mute attention pauses o'er each tale,
The flush is deepen'd, or the cheek grows pale,
The gasp is breathless, and the eyelid flows:
Whether with infant hush'd at mother's breast,
Or bounding freely from the guiding arms,
Or beaming bright in full resplendent charms,
Or with grey locks, upon the pillow'd rest,—
Whate'er the ties which may have sever'd been,

Widely around there still hath been bereaving
As this list tells, much sorrow and sad leaving,
Or in tumultuous or in quiet scene-
Here shew, as passing now before the eye,
Those on Life's road who long since have gone by.

C. V. L. G.

CORRESPONDENCE OF SYLVANUS URBAN.

Comments on the Biography of Jeremy Taylor-The Complutensian Polyglot-The Stanley Memorial Window in Norwich Cathedral-House Drainage in Early Domestic Architecture-Memorial Buffetings; Norman Privilege of Retractation, and Character for Uncertainty; Custom of Smiting a Jew at Easter-Touthill, or Totehill, Tothill Fields-Mile End; Huscarl's Manor at Stepney and Mile End-St. Armill's Chapel, Westminster.

COMMENTS ON THE BIOGRAPHY OF JEREMY TAYLOR.

MR. URBAN,-In the following pages I purpose to offer some comments upon a portion of the elaborate biography of Jeremy Taylor written by Bishop Heber, and lately re-edited by the Rev. C. Page Eden. The life as well as the writings of Taylor must be of interest to all lovers of English literature. Not only are we glad to meet with any notices of him during the troublous years in which he wrote the greater number of his works, but we are also curious to learn something more than is generally known of his manner of life during his early days at school and college, in which the foundations of his future greatness must have been laid. And if we cannot see him as a school-boy and an undergraduate, we shall not deem it lost time to learn only the dates of the turning points in his life.

That Jeremy Taylor was born in Cambridge, that he was at school and at college there, are facts well known; but as to the date of his birth and the time he passed within the walls of Caius College, his biographers are not agreed. Bishop

Heber speaks with hesitation, and his
recent editor has added very little to our
information on these points. For the
little we have learnt since Heber wrote we
are indebted to the elegant biography by
Mr. Willmott, which is quoted by Mr.
Eden, and which had been enriched from
sources of information supplied by Mr.
Smart Hughes's research
which the latest editor appears not to have
resorted.

sources to

1. Bishop Heber, in the Life by him (p. xi. Ed. Eden, 1854), states that "Jeremy, third son of Nathaniel and Mary Taylor, was born in Trinity parish, Cambridge, and baptised on the 15th of August, 1613."

In what parish he was born will be doubtful till it can be determined in which of two houses his father and mother lived at the time. According to tradition (and on such a point tradition may be worthy of trust), he was born in the house which is now the Wrestlers' Inn, though this does not stand in Trinity parish, but in St. Andrew's. But, not to spend time and space upon discussing this question,

* In the Rev. J. J. Smith's Cambridge Portfolio, 4to. 1840, is an interesting article on the Old Houses, and particularly the old Inns, of Cambridge, written by the Editor.

March 17th.

SONNET ON THE OBITUARY.

(FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.)

THESE are the thrillings of the mind's repose-
While mute attention pauses o'er each tale,
The flush is deepen'd, or the cheek grows pale,
The gasp is breathless, and the eyelid flows:
Whether with infant hush'd at mother's breast,
Or bounding freely from the guiding arms,
Or beaming bright in full resplendent charms,
Or with grey locks, upon the pillow'd rest,—
Whate'er the ties which may have sever'd been,

Widely around there still hath been bereaving
As this list tells, much sorrow and sad leaving,
Or in tumultuous or in quiet scene-

Here shew, as passing now before the eye,
Those on Life's road who long since have gone by.

C. V. L. G.

CORRESPONDENCE OF SYLVANUS URBAN.

Comments on the Biography of Jeremy Taylor-The Complutensian Polyglot-The Stanley Memorial Window in Norwich Cathedral-House Drainage in Early Domestic Architecture-Memorial Buffetings; Norman Privilege of Retractation, and Character for Uncertainty; Custom of Smiting a Jew at Easter-Touthill, or Totehill, Tothill Fields-Mile End; Huscarl's Manor at Stepney and Mile End-St. Armill's Chapel, Westminster.

COMMENTS ON THE BIOGRAPHY OF JEREMY TAYLOR.

MR. URBAN,-In the following pages I purpose to offer some comments upon a portion of the elaborate biography of Jeremy Taylor written by Bishop Heber, and lately re-edited by the Rev. C. Page Eden. The life as well as the writings of Taylor must be of interest to all lovers of English literature. Not only are we glad to meet with any notices of him during the troublous years in which he wrote the greater number of his works, but we are also curious to learn something more than is generally known of his manner of life during his early days at school and college, in which the foundations of his future greatness must have been laid. And if we cannot see him as a school-boy and an undergraduate, we shall not deem it lost time to learn only the dates of the turning points in his life.

That Jeremy Taylor was born in Cambridge, that he was at school and at college there, are facts well known; but as to the date of his birth and the time he passed within the walls of Caius College, his biographers are not agreed. Bishop

Heber speaks with hesitation, and his recent editor has added very little to our information on these points. For the little we have learnt since Heber wrote we are indebted to the elegant biography by Mr. Willmott, which is quoted by Mr. Eden, and which had been enriched from sources of information supplied by Mr. Smart Hughes's research -sources to which the latest editor appears not to have resorted.

1. Bishop Heber, in the Life by him (p. xi. Ed. Eden, 1854), states that "Jeremy, third son of Nathaniel and Mary Taylor, was born in Trinity parish, Cambridge, and baptised on the 15th of August, 1613."

In what parish he was born will be doubtful till it can be determined in which of two houses his father and mother lived at the time. According to tradition (and on such a point tradition may be worthy of trust), he was born in the house which is now the Wrestlers' Inn, though this does not stand in Trinity parish, but in St. Andrew's.* But, not to spend time and space upon discussing this question,

*In the Rev. J. J. Smith's Cambridge Portfolio, 4to. 1840, is an interesting article on the Old Houses, and particularly the old Inns, of Cambridge, written by the Editor.