"It is fuppofed (fays he, in his defcription of the mole) that the verdant circles fo often feen in grafs-grounds, called by country people Fairy-rings, are owing to the operations of thefe animals (moles), who, at certain feafons, perform their burrowings by circumgyrations, which, loofening the foil, gives the furface a greater fertility and ranknefs of grafs than the other parts within or without the ring." The ring which I difcovered was a very green one, but not fo large. It was on a bowling-green. F. M. E. S. I Mr. URBAN, Sept. 10. DID not expect that my laft, p. 715, could offend any individual, leaft of all, that the quantity or the matter of it could deferve the odium of a mass of Inattentive abfurdities, and to be branded four times, p. 800, with my initials like a miller's fack; for, furely there is a wide difference between planting trees on the fide of a canal, and on the edge of a canal. If the latter had not been mentioned by one of your correfpond ents, poor T. O. had not given himself any trouble, much lefs Mr. Urban and his refpectable readers; but the warmth of fume, and the captioufnefs of others, will make him lefs officious in future. I immediately fearched former Maga zines on reading Dendrophilus's letter, p. So, in hope to acquit him of what, as I wrote from memory, I had not charged him nor any one elfe with by name or fignature: fo that I beg that gentleman will excufe me. The paffage that induced me to write as I did here follows from p. 100: "Dendrophilus (vol. LXII. p, 1080) should have acknowledged that he has taken the obfervations on trees, and the idea of fetting rows of them in the edges of canals, from White's 29th Letter," &c. &c. &c. The Southern Fauni goes on thus: "Some of the arguments used in favour of the proposed avenues are good; but, as the expence of fetting and protecting the trees would confiderably increase the charges incident to making the canals, I would advife the undertakers to first fee how the projected navigations answer before they incur extra expences." It the drippings of the trees (as he fays) in wet fummers would be very troublesome to the men and hōries, furely they would be much more fo in the winter, for, it is not a mere fummer trade. They could not drop on the goods British Zoology, vol. 1. p. 131.-We print this short extract, as the opinion of an eminent Naturalift, though we before had difcarded the fubject. EDIT. in the boats, however, if they were planted at the extremity of the towingpath, a difiance of many yards from the water's edge, as may be feen on the towing fide of the Thames navigation from Putney bridge upwards; where, Mr. Urban, you may obferve they grow no timber but willows and oziers, the overflowing of the tide rendering the fituation too wet for any other fort. The liberties taken, or depredations made, by rienced to confine them to one fide of the the bargemen, has been fufficiently expe water; yet, if fo abfurd and foolish a creature may venture his opinion, it is mine, that the farmers corn, potatoes, turneps, carrots, &c. &c. &c. are more defirable objects to them than his sticks or his timber. I think, Mr. Urban, after informing you of fo many of the most beautiful, as well as of the most antique, trees in the kingdom, I cannot justly be thought inimical to planting them in fuch places as gentlemen may think eligible, and not a hindrance to commerce. "Let me, fince life will little more fupply Than just to look about me ere I die," Since ev'ry day I look to be my laft; Implore forgiveness for my follies paft, Near to the verge of threefcore years andten, I drop all contest, and forgive all men.” Infcription on the Foundation-flone of the new Iron Bridge at Sunderland, laid by Mr. Burdon, Member for the County, Sept 24, 1793. The Widib of the Arch will be upwards of 200 Feet; an Extent, perhaps, superior to any Thing of the Kind in Europe. "Quo tempore Civium Gallicorum ardor vefanus Gentes turbavit Europeas N Feliciter Fundamina pofuit Gulielmo Hen, Lambton armigero Summo provinciali magiftro Fratrumque Societatis Architectonica, Et procerum comitarus Dunelmenfis Spectabili corona, Frpuliquoque plurima comitante catervâ. Mr. URBAN, Walton, Aug. 20. Survey taken 11801; burghs what 2; As the Hiftory of Liverpool must be charter first granted during the reign of fufpended fome time on account of other engagements, it has been thought proper, through the channel of your Magazine, to lay before the pub. lick, for the information of fubfcribers and encouragers of the work, the collections that have been made and arranged, the product of the preceding twenty-one months; and as it may ferve for a general anfwer to a question often repeated, "In what ftage is the Hiftory of Liverpool ?" From the sketch given, the publick may be enabled to judge of the plan of the intended Hiftory; and the Compiler takes this opportunity of foliciting the affiftance of thole who may be able to communicate any information on the fubje&s hereunto fubjoined, and, as a large held remains yet unexplored, upon any other interefting fubje&t not yet COLLECTIONS already made towards a HISTORY OF LIVERPOOL. Name; different ways of fpelling the town, quoted from various authors, conjectures on the origin of the word. Topography, boundaries; river Merfey defcribed, fource, fish caught in the river, names and prices in 1772 and 1792, attempts to improve the fith-market at different periods. by well-boats, premiums, focieties, &c.; caufe of the deftruction of fish by fith-yards. Ferries; copy of a grant of ferry to Berkenhead priory; temperature of air; fall of rain in Liverpool from the year 1774 to 17924; town; fields; foil; commons; liberties; latitude and longitude of the place. Antient ftate. Liverpool not a town during the time of the Romans; towns in Lancashire noted at that periods; Liverpool not noticed in the famous AUTHORITIES WHENCE QUOTED. 2 Letter from Henry Rofs. 13 MS from Croxteth-hall. 4 Hutchinson's weather-gage. 5 Whitaker. John, 1272; fee-farm rent of Liverpool 3, What fum of money Liverpool paid in tallage in 1227; alfo, what Lancaster, Prefton, and Weft Derby, paid. N. B. A history of the more antient ftate, pedigrees, and armorial bearings, of the different families in and about Liverpool, has been the leifure employment of a gentleman every way competent to fuch a work. Account of Liverpool by various au• thors, viz. Leland, Camden. Bixter, Blaeu, Campbell. Complete Hiftory of the Boroughs in Great Britain, Brooks's Gazetteer, Lownds's Geography. N. B. Liverpool not mentioned by Guthrie, although both Preston and Lancatter are noticed; fome MS extracts from Croxterh. Origin of the names of fome streets; anecdotes; number of streets i 15655 and 17256, with their names; in 1753, with their names 7; number of fireets in 1790, alfo number of fqu'tres, lanes, courts, &c.; Rofcoe's beautiful defcriptive poem on Mount Pleafant. State of the town from the year 1551, fo far as can be collected from copious extracts, from corporation records on various fubjects, the parish records, and other manufcripts; fome comments are offered, and modern modes and practices are mentioned, in order to bring under one comparative point views of things at different periods. Corporation eftate from the year 1721 to the year 1730, nine years; receipts and expenditures particularized; the fame in 1792 under various points of view 10. Hiftory of watch and lamps, from the period when one watchman was not thought fufficient, to the prefent time; expence; number of lamps and watch, men; anecdotes 1. *Mr. Holt being farveyor to the Board of Agriculture for the county of Lancaster. Canals, Canals. Hiftory of Sankey canal 1; utility of canals; the Sankey fitft in the kingdom when opened; the first cargo of coals brought to Liverpool; price; its height above the river Merley at low water. His Grace of Bridgwater's canal ®; original intention of; progrefs of the work; when completed; to what place it has communication; a defeription of Worley, in a letter from Mr. Adam Walker; the annual profits of the packets from Manchetter to Waruington; total profits of this canal 1791; height above the Merfey. Leeds canal; at when obtained; when the ground was firft broken; when opened; first cargo of coals; height above the Merfey; a statement of inland navigation from and to Liverpool, 1786, 1787, and 1788; boats employed on the canals not adequate to the overflow of bufinefs to and from Liverpool in the year 17923; the fubje& concluded with the fea-line of England, Scotland, and Ireland; total length of ca. nals in England. Commerce under the following heads: 1. Scale of importance of different ports in the kingdom in the year 1346, when Liverpool was not mentioned 4. 11. Another Icale of the gross receipts of the customs in different ports of the kingdom in the year 1781, at which period Liverpool makes a confpicuous figure 5. 11. Statement of the commerce of Liverpool in 1787 by Mr. Harris; another by J. Tarleton, e'q. M. P. IV. Statemen; or the commerce of Briftel for the lame year; revenues of the cutioms for Liverpool and Britol for three quarters of a year in 1787, from a MS in the hand-writing of the Jate B. Galcoyne, elq. V. Comparifon of English with feveral French ports 6. VI. Progreffive increafe of dock duties from 1732 10 17927. VII. Account of cuftem-houfe revenues, for the years 1720, 30, 40, 50, 60 70, 80, and 90%. AUTHORITIES WHENCE QUOTED. 3 Various authorities. 5 Report of commitioners of customs. * Custom-houfe books, by favour of Mr. Stanley. VIII. Arrival of fhips in the port, from July 5 to October 10, 17901. IX. Total number of ships which ar rived or failed from the port of Liverpool from the year 1709 to the year 17912. X. Amount of the number and value of African thips in the year 17903. XI. What lofs might probably be fustained fhould an abolition take places. XI. Calculation and account of men difcharged in confequence of the reftriction in the African trade 5, XIII. Exportation of coals from the year 1770 to the year 1792. XIV. Importation of cotron into, Liverpool, London, and Laneafter, 17926, XV. Number of prizes brought into the port, from August, 1777, to April, 17787. XVI. Number of privateers during the fame time. XVII. Lid of cuftom-houfe officers, falaries, &c. 1784$. XVIII. Poetry ca the African trade, by Celadon. XIX. Chamber of commerce. Water fide colts 19. Theatres. History of plays performed in the cle; next a barn in Cockpit-vard; Wilamion-firect; a house built purpofely for that purpofe in the Old Ropery; Drury lane houte; rent and receipts, new theatre roval; prologue; poetry by the late D. Heal fton on account of in accident; a mount of receipts for i enchus in 1791; receipts at the London theatre. Drey-ime, at the commencement and concution of Garrick's performance; the reateft receipt during the great run of the Beggar's Opera not equal to the receipt of the theatre royal at Liverpool; bit of performers in Liverpool hom the year 1760 to the year 1792; mulic-bail. AUTHORITIES WHENCE QUOTED. 1 Newspapers. that, custom-boufe books by favour of Ar2 Dr. Eofield's History to 1772; fiore thur Osflow, et. 3 Committee. 4 Ditto. Trades; fhip and boat building under improvements in naval architecture; different conftruction of veffels for different trades; quantity of timber confumed in hip-building exemplified variously; general regifter of fhips 1,92. Roperies. Clock and watch-makers; watchtool makers. Salt trade under various particulars. N. B. More of the leading trades, important to navigation, will be given, if proper information can be obtained. To conclude with the different trades and occupations carried on in Liverpool, alphabetically arranged, about 300 different defcriptions. Docks, hiftory of*. Mr. URBAN, 08. 8. 1 SHOULD think myfelf under great obligation to any one of your nume rous correfpondents who would, through the channel of your extenfively-ufeful Mifcellany, condescend to acquaint me with any particulars relative to the family of Dr. Chandler, formerly Bishop of Durham, efpecially as to his daugh ters, whether he had any, how many, and to whom they were all or either of them married. The define of informa tion on fuch a fubject does not arife from mere childish curiofity, but from motives of ferious importance to a few deferving individuals, who are really interested in the refult of the enquiry. A Welsh Dictionary, by W. Owen, AUTHORITIES WHENCE QUOTED. I Masters in the trade, &c. 2 Various authorities, 3 Ditto. 4 Duchy court, &c. 5 Parith records, F S. A. is advertifed on the blue cover of your Magazine for last month. It would be of fervice to fome of your readers to be informed which is the best Grammar yet published of that language. CLERICUS OXONIENSIS. Mr. URBAN, Cobbam, O. 18. YOUR Conftant Reader, p. 792, will find a pleafing account of the Fairlop Oak in Mr. Gilpin's "Foreft Scenery," vol. I. p. 104, In anfwer to another correfpondent, the chapel on Catharine-hill, near Guildford, is nearly twice as long as it is wide I fhall be obliged if any correfpond. ent will tell me the name of the publifber of a Treatife on Colours, about ten years ago, who lived behind either the New Church, or St. Clement's, in the Strand. JAMES GOODYER. "It is a thousand pities so instructive and fo eloquent papers should ever fall under fuch an imputation, and be ranked among the fcribblings of Elenor James, with this only advantage, of having better language; whereas the woman-couníellor is judged tö have the better meaning." Information is defired who might be the Elenor James here mentioned, and what her literary fcroll alluded to? Q. likewife the date of the ftatute for re-building or repairing the Spurn light-houfe? It is imagined that the act of parliament enquired after was-paffed in the reign of his prefent majesty. P. 746, 1. 41, &c. evidently from Gray's E egy, Mrs. James was the widow of a printer, and carried on that profettion after the death of her husband. In the "Anecdotes of Mr. Bowyer," p. 609, he is styled, "a mixture of benevolence and madness;" an affertion that two letters there printed fufficiently demonstrate; the one addressed to the "Lords Spiritual and Temporal affembled in Parlia ment" the other," Mrs. James's Advice to all Printers in general." She gave a filver cup to the elder Mr. Bowyer in 1712, which was afterwards bequeathed by his fon to the Company of Stationers. She was a benefactrefs alfo to the church of St. Bennet, Paul's wharf, where fome of the communion-platepreferves her name. EDIT. "The "The fwallow twittering from her clay-built fhed;" mifquoted from memory for fraw-built fhed. P. 816, col. 2, I. 36. There is in Wiltshire a place called Buckington; and, according to the symbol in Adams's Villare, published in 1680, there was. when this book was compiled, the house or private feat of a knight in that mane rial district. P. 836, col. 2, l. 57, read vol. LXI. P. 862. Obituary, July 30, for Mary read Martha; fee vol. LVII. p. 384.A letter fubfcribed Martha Hardrefs and Pleydell Hardrefs, in which the fifters added fome particulars of their family to the account given p. 309. The antient manfion of this family at Hardrefs, near Canterbury, is alfo noticed vol. LIX. p. 326. P. 864, col. 2, 1, 46, for LVI. read LVII.; and reference may alfo be made to vol. LIV. pp. 285, 286, E. U. Mr. URBAN, On 08. 14. N Ledbury church, in Herefordshire, are the following monuments. the pavement of the chancel is a graveftone, on the top of which is a figure in brafs of St. Peter, with the keys in his hand; and at the bottom a man in robes kneeling, with an infcription:. Sty par' noft' for Sere Willia' Calwe That loved wel God and all halwe. In the body of the church, on a brafs plate, is, "Here lieth SARAH, the wife of George Skippe, efq. She was borne the 12th of July, 1642, and was buried the 30th of June, 1665, being the daughter and co-heir of Ifaac Rigby, of London, gest. Abiit non obiit, preiit non periit." In the South aile, against the last wall, "To the memory of MARY, the wife of Ambrofe Elton, of the Hazle, gent. and daughter of Sir Giles Bray, of Barrington, in the county of Gloucester, knight, defcended from the Lord Regin-ld Bray, who came in with Henry the Seventh. Shee departed this life the 27th day of Sept. anno D'ni 1671, aged 53, She had iffue 6 children; 3 fons and 3 daughters.” The arms are, Paly of fix Or and Gules, over all, a bend Sable, charged with three mullets Or, impaling Arg. a chevron Sable, between three crows legs erafed of the last. Creft. An efcallop-shell Or. The epitaph on Theodore Paleologus, P. 719, has before appeared in your Mr. URBAN, Cafile Conner, Kilkenny. Yo OUR Barnstaple correfpondent, p. 795, will, I believe, find a print of Sir Bevil Grenville prefixed (with thofe of other glorious loyalifts) to Lloyd's "Worthies;" a melancholy regifter of the immolated virtues of the Taft century. Your Magazine, Mr. Urban, de ferves, in a great meature, the merit of having exalted the English spirit to that tone of loyalty which now echoes through the island, and even here vibrates upon the heart-ftrings of one who (himfelf a Norman) may fay with Courtenay, Quo lapjus quid feci? Is not the brave, the excellent, Lord Hood, a Devonshire man? Does he not fpring from the land which produced Hawkins, Glbert, Grenville, Drake, and Raleigh? Another question-Is there any lift of the members of Convocation for the year 1662; and where may it be found? In answer to your Heraldic Student, p. 801, may not mejles have the fame meaning as the word mafcles? a term well known in Heraldry, a lozenge voided. |