The monethe's minde; mentioned in this extract, was a fervice performed for the dead, one month after their deceafe: there were alfo weeks' mindes, and years' mindes, which were fervices for the dead performed at the end of a week, and of a year. The word minde fignified remembrance; a month's mind was a remembrance after a month; a year's mind, a remembrance after a year. The phrafe monthe minde furvived the cuftom, and the words being ftill remembered as coupled, when their original meaning was almoft forgotten, it is, I think, eafy to conceive that a perfon who had a ftrong defire to a thing might, inftead of faying, I have a mind to it, fay, I have a month's mind to it, as meaning fomewhat more. The other extract is from Ray's "Collection of English Proverbs;" where it is faid, that "To dine with Duke Humphrey, is to faft, to go without one's dinner. This Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, was uncle to King Henry VI. and his protector during his minority, renowned for hofpitality and good houfe keeping, and commonly called the good duke of Gloucefter. Thofe were faid to dine with duke Humphrey who walked out dinner time in the body of St. Paul's, because it was believed the duke was buried there. But, faith Dr. Fuller, that faying is as far from truth as they from dinner, even twenty miles off; feeing this duke was buried in the church of St. Albans, to which he was a great benefactor." H. D. B. Mr. URBAN, Dec. 31. Mr. URBAN, Cowbit, Dec. 31. YOUR Conffant Reader, p. 1107, feems to be well-difpofed, and well-informed concerning the duty he enquires about; and would not the fincere communicants, whom he speaks of, find much Chriftian fobriety, found judgement, and excellent instruction, in a Companion to the Altar, which is printed in many of our Prayer Books? P. S. X. Y. p. 1091, feems to be right in his remark on Exodus, xxviii, 36: "Holiness to the Lord." It is true, the Septuagint is Αγίασμα Κυρία, the Holiness of the Lord; but Tremellius has it "San&titas Jehovæ;" as X. Y. has before oblerved. Now fignifies to or unto, and is generally prefixed to the dative cafe, which, I believe, Tremellius means here; for, I find him frequently closer to the Hebrew than the Septuagint is. May not the word " extra," p. 1096, Numifmate folenni decoravit ob. Jul. 12, 1753, æt. 23." 2. In Cifton church-yard. "In a vault beneath this ftone lies intered the body of the laie Rev. THOMAS FRY, Dr. in Divinity, Prefident of St. John's Col "BIOGRAPHICUS,"Anecdotes of lege in President of St. He de parted this life, 22 Nov. 1772, aged 56 years. 3. In BAKEWELL church-yard. He died Oct. 31, 1792, aged 70 years." If Truth, if Candor, if Probity, We trust his foul hath received His afflicted mother caufed this stone Requicfcat in pare; almen.” Mr. Mr. URBAN, INa Dec. 10, Ianfwer to your correfpondent F.A.S. p. 416, it is believed that the Daniel Vere enquired after was a NATURAL fon of one of that noble family. Ir p. 405, col. 2, 1. 47, what is meant E. D. by "additional Charter?" Mr. URBAN, Oxford, Dec. 31. PERHAPS you will find room in your Supplement for the admiffion of the following fri&tures, refulting from fome enquiries in the preceding parts of your volume for 1793. P. 811.The Querift has been already replied to in p. 1011. But was not Dr. Scrope's colleague mentioned in his preface to the fecond volume of lord C arendon's State Papers, Dr. Nowell, the prefent worthy principal of St. Mary Hall? His fucceffor was, undoubtedly, Dr. Monkhouse. The perfon fo illiberally defcribed by Toup, fee p. 811, was, most affuredly, no other than the late highly-to-be-re fpreted b fhop Lowth; to whofe interference the omiffion of that critic's objectionable note is to te attributed. Dr. Kennicott had no concern in it. Toup's defcription of bishop Lowth, as "in literis elegantioribus planè hofpitis;" and L. L's characterizing him in p. 1079, col. 1, by "a total want or neglect of all tafte," may furely be confidered as the refult of blind prejudice, or hardy oppofition, to the general voice of the learned world. This baughty fpirit of fingularity feems to have poffeffed your correfpondent, when he hurled his telum imbelle against the bishop's poeti cal performances, and his profe verfion of Ifaiah. The truly ingenious tranfla• tor of Euripides, Mr. Potter, in his preface to "The Oracle concerning Babylon, &c. from Ifaiah; London, 1785," entertains a more favourable opinion of his lordship's abilities. The fai caftic cavils at futeraccuracy in fome paflages of the verfion, as arifing from "the untoward task of publishing a grammar," ftrongly indicate a glaring deficiency of judgement in L. L. whole want of candour alfo cannot permit him to let flip any opportunity of fhewing his egregious malignity towards epilcopacy. Lowth would probably have efcaped it, had not his "name made its appearance in the Gazette" as a bihop; in fome of which order, though Pope couldfpy defert," L. L. cannot. He may well reprefent what he has GENT. MAG. Supplement, 1793. published in p. 702, 703, as having fneers, if he can at any time find occa fron to indulge himself in cafting them. What your reviewer has faid, in p. 933, col. 2, of the bufinefs there alluded to, cannot be fairly controverted. The defendant's own account, fince published in an octavo volume, justifies allo a brother reviewer's defcription of his whole conduct, as difcovering "throughout a degree of petulance fcarcely par donable in a boy, and highly difgraceful in a man who lays claim to the character of an enlightened and liberal philofopher. The whole feries of his remarks during the trial, and of his fub. fequent vindication, confifts of trifling quibbles, or difingenuous evafions. The conduct of his opponents was temperate; their proceedinge fyftematically regular; and their uit mare decition juft." It should not have been omitted, that the long and excellent speech of the vice-chancellor, which you so deter. vedly commend in p. 933, col. 2, is níolt difingenuously given, in a very imperfe manner, by the defendant; whofe laudable, manly fpirit" must be left to the celebration of L. L. the ready advocate of a man, who ftands fo firm in innocence, that the common law cannot reach one hair of his head." S、ep. 702, 703. The paffage which he perfelly remembers, p. 1072, col. 2, viceIn Lowth applied an expreffion of he Plaimifl to Warburton, should, in common candour, have been po'med our. If it ftands as L. L reprefents, he should recolect how often "the mere aukwardne's of a man, who knew not how, at empang to be facetious," will apply to very many paffages, in which he himself takes the liberty of afing, or rather abufing,the language of Scripture. Ut nemo in fefe tentat defcendere! P.936 col.12, 1. antep fhould we not for "Spence's" read "Lowth's "'* The "Cho ce of Hercules," at the end of the 10th dialogue in Spince's "Polymetis," was the undoubted performance of his friend Lowth. Yours, &c. ACADEMICUS. * See p. 1080, col. 1. Mr. Mr. URBAN, THE Dec. 31. HE following notices may not be unacceptable to fome of the numerous readers of your volume for 1793; in p. 1001. of which the famous Edmund Curl is referred to for information relative to Crafhaw. Recourfe, however, needs not be had to him, whofe authority unfupported is of no avail. Crafhaw's education"in Sutton's Hofpital, called the Charter house," is attested by A. Wood, in his Fafli, Oxon. ii. 3, to which the ingenious writer of his life in the "Biogra phia Britannica" refers, and from which Curll muft have borrowed his account; which is alfo gi by Mr. Headley in his "Biographical Sketches" prefixed to "Select Beauties of Antient English Poetry; London, 1787.” P. 796, col. 2. line 35, for "439," read "435;" and col. 1, 1. P. 797, 23, erafe the comma; as alfo the period after "vocat," in l. 28; and to the note add, "of vol. LXII." P. 1335, col. 1.1. 23, read "folio." P. 1051, col. 1, the intelligence in 1. 8, 9, 10, being premature, fhould not have been admitted. P. 1096, note, 1. 2, "and he never was out," will probably explain this paffage; that is, he never was at a lofs for fomewhat to fay; he never ftopt for want of words. Ibid. note, I, 13, Dr. Ninecaps may not, perhaps, occur in the Tatler, but in the Spectator, No. 494. See Granger's Biographical Hiftory," under Thomas Goodwin. P. 1125, col. 2, l. 37, read "Part ii." P. 1091, col. I, to what do lines 38, 39, 40, refer? Mr. URBAN, SCRUTATOR. Dec. 19. LEISURE day has afforded me A the great pleasure of reading your Magazine, and making a few remarks. May the example of the benevolence of Birmingham be followed by the inhabitants of every town! Thanks to William May, for fo pleafing a receipt for a icald; and fhould Veritas, or any of his family, meet with fuch 20 accident, he will try the cold water, and has not a doubt of its being a good prefeription, Can any of your numerous corre fpondents inform me who was the thor of The Whole Duty of Man? Can you inform me whether William Gilpin, vicar of Boldre, near Lyming ton, and author of Lectures on the Two MONTHS TOUR IN SCOTLAND. (Continued from p. 1095.) HAVING, left Bunaw, and forded a wide, but shallow, ftream, paffing fome iron furnaces, we croffed a trac of pleafant meadows, where now, in the end of Auguft, the mowers were just beginning to cut down the grafs. On account of the roughness of the furface, fcattered plentifully with fragments of rock, this work is performed in a jerking and interrupted manner, with a fcythe of not more than a foot and an half in length in the blade. Rifing out of this bottom up the fides of hills richly clothed in birches, whofe bright and penfile foliage, foftly undulating with the breeze, formed a moft ref:ething contraft with the dead and dufky moors over which we had been lately travelling, we found occafion to lament, that Art, too frequently at enmity with Nature, was beginning to play the tyrant even here, many parts of this lovely landfcape having been already plundered of their fhades to fupply the demands of Vulcan in his caves below. At the distance of about two miles from Bunaw, in paffing through an inconfiterab'e village, Crouarchin prefasted itfelf to us in a moft impreffive point of view, towering fupereminently aloft, above all competition from its furrounding neighbours. Like Parnaffus, it may boast two fummits, the one faid confiderably to furpafs the other in altitude; though, from the vast elevation of them both, this difference is icarcely obfervable from below. Upon the border of a valley fomewhat farther onwards ftands another village, the name of which we were unable to collect from the quick and frongly-accented pronunciation of the inhabitants; it was, however, of greater extent, better built, and more fully peopled, than any we had lately feen; being, befides, diftinguished by a school endowed for the purpofe of teaching the English language to the natives of thefe regions, where the Erfe, till lately, has almoft alone been known. Charitable foundations for education are common in most parts of Scotland; nor, as is the cafe with us, do manufactures and agriculture (affording light manual employments, adapted to the earlieft years of life) draw off the attendance of youth from fuch feminaries: hence it happens, probably, that the peasantry of that country are in general better taught, and more informed, than persons of the fame clafs in this. Soon after having left this village, Loch-aw, a lovely water of thirty miles in length, but not proportionably broad, appeared before us betwixt its rocky confines running nearly straight and parallel to each other. Having ferried over it in a boat of a conftruation fufficiently roomy and commodious, we again refumed our faddles, and pushed briskly forward for Inverary, hoping there to meet with fuch accommodations as would compenfate for all the fatigues and inconveniences we had of late experienced, and repay the exertions of one of the most laborious days that we fuftained in Scotland. It has already been obferved, that it is to the foldiery ftationed in this country that it stands indebted for the great improvements which have been effected in its hi hways; to whom, whilt to employed, an encouraging addition is made of fix-pence to their daily pay. By thefe a road was now forming trom the ferry abovementioned, to fail-in with that leading from Tyendrum to love rary, and which, when completed, could no fail of being both an ornament and a benefit to thofe neighbourhoods. As we continued upon the road this evening to a much 1. tc. hou, than ufual, the moon, now near us ful, and riding in cloudless splendour above the funmits of the highefountains, produced, among then tur inequalities of those broken an tomatic Chiens, ef. fects of ligh and share moor ceivable by tuch as have been accu romed only to the Sormity of level countries; whilft Echo, refpontive from her pumerou cave to the trampling of our hovies on the ocks, cu different voices caling to each other, the uth of rivers fa deneath mur er the fog of torrents fron, the ights bore, or the dying and incitind numurs of dutant wa ter-talls, conty .ed wit.. the wiching time of nigh" O excite an intermixture of awelui, anxious, and agrecable emotions in the mind. In approaching Inverary, extenfive woods of pine, invefting the fides of vaft and lofty mountains, flung their folemn fhades acrofs the vale, in the very depth of which the Aray rolls along, revealing himself at intervals betwixt the trees, but more generally buried in his rugged bed, and betraying himself only by the noife and tumult of his course. It was one in the morning when we reached our inn; the family, however, were still up. The houfe was large and excellent; and, a fynod of the Highland clergy being there affembled at the time, by the arrangements of the larder it appeared that the Kirk, as well as the Church, is no improvident nor unskilful caterefs. A moft fumptueus fupper was quickly ferved; and, though the beft beds in the houfe were previously occupied by the guests who had come before us, thofe which remained, in contraft with the lodgings we had lately had, feemed beds of down, and by no means to ftand in need of the apologies which our hoft repeated in their behalf as he lighted us to our apartments. I (To be continued.) Mr. URBAN, Caernarvon, Dec. 30. HAVE read, in p. 1093, a letter from Lichfield, in which the writer afks two or three questions refpecting the late Dean of Bangor and his predeceffor; and, as I happen to be able to give accurate anfwers to thefe enquiries, you will be pleafed to inform your correfpondent, that the immediate predeceffor of the late Dean of Bangor was Dr. Hughes, who was promoted to this dignity in 1749 by Dr. Pearce, then Bhop of Bangor; and, on the death of Dean Hughes, in Auguft, 1753, the fame bithop conterred this preferment on Dr. Thomas Lloyd, who, dying in October Lati, enjoyed this dignity tu 40 years; and, in November laf, the prefent Lifhop collated his nephew, John Warren, M.A. fon of Dr. Waiien, to this dignity; and, as your correfpondent is, I make no doubt, a gentleman of candour, and fond of ecciefianical anecdotes, you will be pleated to add, that our bithop, in the courie of ten years, or thereabouts, has given to the clergy of this country parochial and o her ecclefiaftical preferments, amount ing together to the annual fum of 4000l. at leaft; and, the deanry excepted, every vacant benefice has been hitherto conferred on Weithmen. LAICUS. Mr. Mr. URBAN, Dec. 31. Tby our coffefpondent M. Green, p. 1001, as alluded to by Mr. Hayley, could not be on occafion of "Natalis Principis Mariæ," but was doubtlefs written in confequence of the birth of the Princess Anne, the king's third daughter, on March 17, 1635-7, who "died at Richmond, not having attained to the age of three years and nine months. The "Natalis Ducis Ebora cenfis" was Oct. 14, 1633. In reply to the request of A Conftant Reader, p. 1076, I fend you the following extracts from a paper, which was, I believe, put into my hands by the late Sir Ashton Lever, at Alkrington, near twenty years ago; in which, after explaining to his friends what are the fubjects he is defirous to obtain," he lays down a method for their prefer vation and fafe convevance, calculated to give as little trouble as poffible ""Large beafts fhould be carefully fkinned, with the horns, fcull, jaws, tail, and feet, left entire: the fkins may then either be put into a veffel of spirit, or elfe rubbed well on the infide with the mixture of falt, allum, and pepper, hereafter mentioned, and hung to dry. Small beafts may be put into a cask of rum, or any other fpirit. Large birds may be treated as large beafis, but mult not be put in fpirit. Small birds may be preferved in the following manner: take out the entrails, open a paffage to the brain, which should be scooped out through the mouth; introduce into the cavities of the fcull and the whole body fome of the mixture of falt, allum, and pepper, putting fome through the gullet and whole length of the neck, then hang the bird in a cool airy place, faft by the feet, that the body may be im pregnated by the falts, and afterward by a thread through the under mandible of the bill, till it appears to be fweer, then hang it in the fun, or near a fire: after it is well dried, clear out what remains loote of the mixture, and fill the cavity of the body with wool, oakum, or any foft fubftance, and pack it smooth in paper. Large fithes fhould be opened in the belly, the entrails taken out, and 'the infide wel: rubbed with the preparation of falt, allum, and pepper, and ftuffed with oakum. Small fishes put in fpirit, as well as reptiles and infects, except butterflies and moths, and any infects of fine colours, which thould be pinned down in a box prepared for that purpofe, with their wings expanded. With regard to birds fhot in this kingdom, I wish to have them fent fresh killed; only obferve to put tow info the mouth, and upon any wound the bird may have received, to prevent the feathers being foiled, and then wrap it fmooth at full-length in paper, and pack it clofe in a box. And, if it be fent from a great diftance, the entrails fhould be extracted, and the cavity filled with tow dipt in rum or other fpirit. The following mixture is proper for the prefervation of animals: one pound of fait, four ounces of alum, two ounces of pepper, powdered together. I fhould be particularly obliged to fuch captains of fhips as would fer apart a fmall cask of fpirit, into which they may put every uncommon fea production which they meet with during their voyage, wrapping every article feparate in a rag, or a little oakum. P. 1077, col. 1. In the article refpecting the Letters on the History of England, line 8, after the words "Lord Chesterfield" infert the word not. P. 1093, col. 2. Hugh Hughes, D D. was Dean of Bangor in 1755; but when he died, or when Dr. Lloyd was appointed dean, I am not able to difcover; the reafon of which I take to be, that the deanry is in the gift of the bishop, not of the king, and therefore the appointment is not announced in the Gazette. Inform your correfpondent Biographicus, No 1131, col. 1, that, according to your Magazine, the "Rev. Mr. Mulgrave, of Brampton, Derbyshire," died April 22, 1736. Whether he be the perfon your correspondent enquires after, I am not able to say, E. IN p. 1157, you mention the Duke of Somerfer's estate as fmall. When the title came to Edward, Duke of Somerfet, who died in 1792 (fee LXII. 91), the eftate was 'fmall, but he lived a long life in great rethement at Maiden Bradley, faved much money, and laid it all out in purchases of land. He was fo afraid of the fmall-pox that he would not open letters; they were to be held up to a glafs window that he might read them through it. He paid no vilits for fome years before his death. Q. X. Dec. 31. HAVE not lived enough in Italy to know the play of Scrope-but fcioperone (whence the commn ill-fpelt word chaperon) is an idle or lazy perton. * D.D. of Trinity college, Cambridge, 1755. R. 295. 1be |