William Grantham, born in this parish, Elizabeth his wife, died 1784, aged 69. JAMES PETTY, died 1747-8, aged 33. Whoe'er thou art, that to this ftone draws near, Yet paufe a while, and drop the pitying tear. He, whofe pale corfe in filence fleep-below, Late knew with generous Friendfip's flame to glow; Gay as he was in manhood's fresheft bloom, Well might he hope for numerous years to come, Yet Death has fnatcht him to an early tomb. How vain in human life is all our truft. On a head-ftone, faid to be for a child of two years old, The railing world, turned poet, made a play, I came to fee 't, difliked, and went away. Against the Eaft wall of the North tranlept of St. Mary's, Oxford, this infcription in honour of the late Lady Pomfret, daughter and fole heir of John Lord Jefferys, Baron of Wem, who died 1761, having, on the death of her lord, 1753, given to the University the flatues, &c. collected by his father, William Lord Lempiter. HENRIETTE LOUISE FARMOR, rariffimæ fidei & exempli et morum elegantia spectabili, benemerenti inter infignia artis antiquæ monumenta que vivens liberali animo pofuerat face etiam pietati titulum mcrentes. In the Radcliffe library are two magnificent candelabra, of white marble; on one three craces fupport a man kneeling, with ferpents at his knees; the other has three reliefs in the pannole of the triangular bafe, reprefenting Hercules, a figure with a pelta, or Tmall field in the * Daughter of John Dart Cranville, by Sophia ber eldeit daughter, who died 1745. +ady of the bed-chamber to the Princefs Amelia. form of a crefcen', perhaps for Mars, and Palas at the ages three elephants' heads, and it refts on three feet, with eyes. All that remains at Ofenes are fome old buildings at the mill, part of thofe in Hearne's Textus Roffenfis, p. 317. At Rowley the arms of Richard king of the Romans, at the end of a garden-wail, the lion rampant in a border bezante, and the fi read eagle with two heads, and in the fame wall an arch tiled up. The gete and poftern goue. TETTSWORTH church is of ore pace, the nave divided by a plain round arch from the chancel, which has lancet windows. The South po ch has a round arch, with the holy Lamb between two half-figures of faints with hair and beards; one has the right hand lifted up, and a book in the left; the other is a bishop, in a mitre, his right hand lifted to give the bleffing, in his left a crofier. There figates are poorly drawn in your vol LX. P. 17. On the North fide of the chancel is a tablet for Thomas Cozens, who died in 1789, aged 77. In the South fide, in the window, an kolv-water-bafon, and under it a black coffin-fafhionet tone, folid, three feet and an haif long, and fix inches thick, the fide and top adorned with quatrefoils juft visible. In the middle aile the brats figures of a man in gown and hair, and a woman in veil head drets and gown. The pulpit is dated 1696. The font is round, cn a long fluted fhaft. On a Brafs Tablet in Laudulph Church, in the County of Cornwall, with the Roman Eagle, &c. at the Top. "Here lyeth the body of THEODORO PALEOLOGUS, of Pelaro, in Italye, defcended from the Imperial lyne of the lait Christian Emperors of Greece, being the fonne of Camilio, the tonne of Pofer, the forne of Theodoro, the fonne of jobn, the foune of Thomas, fecona br tert Conftantine Paleologus, the 8th of that name, and last of that lyne, that raypned in Conftantinople, untill fubdewed by the iu kes: who married wrh Mary the danger of William Balis, of Hadive, in Soutotke, get and had flue 5 chidren, Theocore, John, 1 erdinando, Marra, and Doroby, and dep'ted this life at Clyfton* the 21lt of Janvary 1636.” Epi *The fet of a Sir Nicholas Lower, in the parish of Lundup. Sir schons bellig, it is fand, of the Roman Catholic persuasion, Paleologos pad him a vifit, was taken ill, and died there. Sir Nicholas caufed this mona ment The ftars above us thus their courses run, They're but translated to an higher sphere. The preceding epitaph is an excellent example of the mixture of the pompous and of the familiar ftyle of the writer. The following one was copied on account of the patience and virtues it defcribes of a fickly widow rearing twelve children, notwithstanding the difficulties occafioned by fickness and distress: Twelve children's wants her widow'd care A METEOROLOGIST'S TOUR FROM Fifty mile-ftone. Wheat in full ear. In many fields the tops of the blade withered and fickly. The day calm and /pleasant. Wind N. W. Benton, June 24, five o'clock in the morning, the cowherd founding his horn to route the milk-maids to be prepared on his return from the common pafture with the village cows. A'der-bery fprings, and dog-role in bloom. ment to be erected to his memory. The houfe is an old Gothic Atructure, and the kitchen was occupied by the parith-clerk about tea years ince, when this in-cription was taken Qu. whether any defcendants of this royal line are now living, and where? 3 About fix o'clock faw three female gypfies at their repose under the cover of a thorn-bufh, and the fcreen of a hedgebank, their bed the green turf. There is, apparently, a diftinction of rank, &c. amongst thefe wanderers. The first party noticed had properly a covering of tattered fragments and old red cloaks to fcreen them from the dew of heaven, and cattle (two affes) to transport their chattels; the last seem very bare indeed! "Poppy top-knots deck" the corn and meads in fome places. Windfer. Slept this night here. Walked the terrace in the evening, where his o'clock in the evening, walking, chatMajefty generally appears about feven ting, and enjoying the company of his fubjects, with all the affability and confee him truly humble is in the prefence defcenfion of a private gentleman. To only of his Creator, proftrating him!elf before the throne of Him who has promised to regard the petitions of those "where two or three are gathered together." Amongst the many magnificent exhi❤ bitions in this place, to gratify the fight of a traveller, is the trifling bauble prefented by the Duke of Marlborough, for the lordship of Blenheim, every ad of Auguft, whereby he holds his tenure, a ftaff and mantle. In the round tower found a barometer and thermometer; the former 29o 75' i fome hours about the middle of the day. the latter 68°. This day gloomy, rain fpot fo celebrated for establishing the 25. Paffed through Runnymede, the first rude efforts of English liberty. Fancy was at work whilft rolling over thefe meads, embodying numerous images;-. g. here ftood King Johnhere his sturdy barons-and there va rious fpectators-there flarts up fome bold and able fpeaker, who loudly demands, &c. &c. the banks of which we pafs, add to the The fwans fporting upon the river, on picating fcene. No grais cut upon thefe meads, and which appear. but fcantv. Pals through the walk's where the Bard of Twickenham walked and meditated. The clofenefs of the paths, well covered with verdant trees, ferms well calculated for contemplation. The monument raif. ed to the Optima Marum taiíes affec tionate fenfations. I was disappointed in my expectation of pathing through the celebrared grotto; but the willow, planted by his own hands, does credit to the genius genius of the planter; fuppofed to be the largest in the world. It is thoroughly fupported, and propped in many places. Afked for a fprig of this bay. "No; I dare not." "A decayed branch" "No." "Only a withered twig?" Still in vain. Obferved a chef. But-tree, the fruit quite formed, the bloffoms all vanished. Viewed the grand and extenfive profpe&ts at Richmond. Putney. Barley in the ear, and wheat hot out at full length. Hay-making moft of the way to town; fome fields cleared; ; many to get in; crops heavy. A pleasant bland day. About two entered the metropolis, and mixed in the crowd. July 3. Ex. More grafs feems to mow than already mowing; firft crops of clover houfed; wheat, barley, and oats, in the full ear, and look promifing. 4. Great Dunmow. The country in general wants rain, the earth, in many places, open in wide chafms; and, notwithtanding the wind has blown from the rainy quarter, the N. W. point, for three weeks paft, ftill no rain. 7. In the Mafter's Lodge, Trinity College, Cambridge, barometer 30° o'; thermometer 78. 8. Huntingdonshire and Leicestershire began cutting their grafs in general this day. 9. Wheat in bloom at the Dibley Farm *. A field of grafs cutting at the approach into Derby; the thickest, longeft, and Arongeft, I ever remarked. Cole-feed reaping in feveral places on the road. 10. I had not an opportunity of examining a thermometer myself any where upon the road this day; it was faid to be in feveral places as high as 90. Mr. Dixon, of Salford, had remarked his own in the fhade arile to 90. At Abe borne, a horfe lay dead in the road, having dropped down whilft at work, owing, as fuppofed, to the exceffive heat; another was faid to have been feen in a fimilar fiate. 13. Manchester; thermometer in the fhade P. M. 79. in the fun 123. 17. Oldbam. The hay feems in as great forwardness here, though at the edge of the moors, as at Manchefter, * It would be injustice to Mr. Bakewell, as well as to our intelligent correfpondents, if we were not to give at full length (which we will do next month) his remarks on Difhley Farm. EDIT. GENT. MAG. August, 1793. but not a pea yet gathered, nor potatoe taken up. The first cherries were pluck. ed yesterday. 19. Bufy hay-making all the road from Manchefer to Walton *. J. H. Original Documents concerning Mr. RoBERT WOOD's Election at All Souls College, Oxford, 1722. (Promifed in p. 195) WHEREAS the Warden and the Fellows O. Anim. Coll. Oxon. have been labouring for feveral years to ftifle and fupprefs all claims of Calanguinity, notwithstanding they are obli ged by ftatute, and bound by oath, in all their elections to prefer fuch as are of the blood of their founder, principaliter, et ante omnes alios, and have no right to proceed to the choice of any others, but only, bis deficientibus, for want of fuch his relations appearing: Mr Thomas Wood, of Littleton, Middiefex. being of kin to the founder, in juftice to the family, and to rev.ve and establish the right of confanguinity, did, in 1694, order his fon, Mr. R. Wood, è Coll. Wadham (now Dr. Wood, of Doctors Commons), to appear at that election, and make his claim; which being properly done, the College, to ward off the blow, devolved the election to the Vifitor; who, upon exami nation, put the faid R. Wood in Fellow, qua confanguineus; and thus he held his fellow fhip for fome years. But the College not being determined by this cife, though it was a plain declaration of the fenle of their Vifitor in right of the confanguinity, and what would have been a direction on the like occafion to modeft and well-defigning men, but flattering themfelves in this they had acted only minifterially, and not ex motu proprio, in ali the fubfequent elections (except thofe of the two Chichlies). they have ftill difcarded the confangui nity, and profeffedly oppofed any other claim. The faid Mr. Wood, therefore, having a grandion, named alfo Robert Wood, a Gentleman Commoner ex Ede X, Oxon, being derived from the Chichries, and of the confanguinity of the founder of All Souls College, who defigned to appear for a Fellowship of that College in right of his relation, for which the ftatutes principally provide, according to the ufual method, he exhibited to the Warden of the College, See p. 632. fix |