good moral tendency. Much too nu. merous already, in all fituations, are thofe who contemn life, and who act accordingly. I leave, however, thofe reflexions at his difcretion, and remain his conftant reader, Mr. URBAN, LA E. D. June 26. ATELY fpending a few days in the country, I took a walk to Stan well, a village in the hundred of Spelethorn, Middlefex. The church of this parish, which I made a drawing of (fee pl. III. fig. 1), was in the gift of the Windfors (the Windfors' creft on the top of the steeple, viz. a ftag's head erafed upon a wreath). Being given by fome perfon of the family to the abbot and convent of Chertsey, Surrey, it was appropriated to it, and a vicarage endowed, to which a clerk was admitred in 1427. The rectory remained in that abbey till the Diffolution, when it paffed with the manor to the crown. This village is famous for having been the refidence of the family of the Fitzothers, or De Windfors, who came into England with William the Conqueror. Having received four manors in this county as a reward for his vaJour, he feuled there, and held of the king the manor and lordship of Stanwell for fifteen hides. Thomas Windfor, efq. died 1485; the probate of his will dated Feb. 15, 1485. Administration was granted to Elizabeth (eldest daughter of Jobu An drews, of Baylham, efq. co. Suffex), his relict, who married afterwards to Robert Litton, knt. In his will he defused to be buried on the North fide of the choir in the church of Stanwell that a plain tomb of marble should be placed there of a competent height, with arms and infeription cut upon it. He was buried, according to his will, at Stanwell, where is yet remaining a raifed tomb, on which was a figure of a man in armour, and a woman, both kneeling, with the children behind. There were two fhields of arms, and ten inscriptions; but the braffes are quite gone (fee plate III. fig. 3.) The laft of the Wind for family who refided here was Andrew, Lord Windfor Sir William Dugdale had the following information from Thomas, Lord Windfor: "That, after the diffolution of the greater monafteries, in 31 Henry VIII, the king being informed by Cromwell and others, GENT. MAG. November, 1793. who had been his agents in the work, that the most likely means to fecure from ever returning again into thofe ufes, would be to difpofe of them into the hands of the nobility and gentry, by free gift, eafy purcha fes, or advantageous exchanges. The project fo wrought with the king, as he foon affented to put them into practice; and, in order thereunto, thought fit (amongst others) to engage Lord Windfor to be a partaker; to which end, in 34 Hen. VIII, he fent him a meffage, that he would dine with him at Stanwell on a certain day; and accordingly came, where he was magnificently entertained. Whereupon the king told him he liked the place fo well that he was refolved to have it, yet without a more beneficial he hoped that his highness was not in earnest, exchange. And the Lord Windfor anfwered, it having been the feat of his ancestors for many ages, and humbly begged he would not take it from him. The king with a ftern countenance replied, "It must be fo:" commanding him, on his allegiance, to go fpeedily to his attorney-general, who would more fully acquaint him with his reafons for it. Being therefore afraid of his displeasure, he accordingly repaired to the attorney-gene, ral, who thewed him a draught, readymade, of an exchange of his lordship and manor of Stanwell, with its appurtenances lying, as the patent fets forth, in the counties of Middlefex, Surrey, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, and Southampton (by which the greatnefs of it may in fome fort be difcerned), in lieu of Bordfley abbey, with the lands and appurtenances thereunto belonging, in Worcestershire. Whereof being constrained to accept of this exchange, he was commanded to quit Stanwell, though he had then laid in his Chriftmas provifion for keeping of his wonted ho pitality there: all which he left in the houfe, faying, "they fhall not find it bare him keeper of his great wardrobe." Stanwell." The king, in recompence, made . He made his laft will and toftament, bearing date March 26, 1543. writing himself Andrews Windfor, of Stanwel, in the county of Middlefex, knt. Lord Windfor; and ordered his body to be buried in the choir of the church of the Holy Trinity, of Hounslow, in the faid county of Middlefex, and to be placed between the pillars where his wife Elizabeth, Lady Windfor, lies buited; and that a tomb of freestone, with arms and infcriptions, be placed there. He left in his will, that ten pounds be given to the poor tenants of Stanwell and Horton. There is painted up in the church the fellowing infcription "The Right Hon. Lord Windfor, Baron Stanwell and Brandinham, gave the the Horns-houfe and twelve acres of land in Stanwell to beautify the church." The family failing in this Thomas, Lord Windfor, who died in 1642, and was tranflated by his fifter to the Hickmans; her fon Thomas Windfor Hickman, by Dixie Hickman, efq. being made, on her account, Lord Windfor, 12 Car. II; he was created Earl of Plymouth, Dec. 6, 1682, and died Nov. 3, 1687. He left two fons, of whom the prefent Earl of Plymouth is de fcended. The free-fchool, plate III. fig. 4, was built at the expence of Thomas, Lord Knyvett, for the education of the male children, frec, as it is expreffed on a stone against the building with thefe arms over it, viz. Argent, a bend Sable, within a border engrailed of the fecond, for Knyveit, impaling Gules, a lion rampant Argent, crowned Or, for Workingdon, of Leicestershire, and the following infeription under the arms: This boufe and free-fchool was founded at the charge of the Right Hon. Tho. Kavrett, Baron Efcreck, and the Lady Elizabeth, his wife, endowed with a perpetual revenue of twenty pounds land by the year, 1624." There is the following intcription in the church: "The Right Hon. Thomas Lord Knevett, Baron of Lfcreck, and Lady Elizabeth, his wife, gave the free-fchool, with 20), a year for ever, to teach the male children of the parish of Stanwell, free for ever." Fg. 2. in plate III. is a brafs figure in the church with the following infcription: Die jacet Ricardus de Chorp, nup' resol cccl'is De Stanewall, qui obyt uito bit me'fts unit, anno D'hi illio cccconi tuj' a'r'e p'piciet' d ́s. Amen." Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, B. LONGMATE. Hyde-freet, Bloomsbury, and uneafinefs on his account I find my MORE laft dying words from Mr. fyftems of Ethics and Divinity I Baxter. The Spectator humouronfly oblerves, that, upon finding a very rapid fale for them (for Baxter, in his day, was infinitely more noted and eminent than any Diffenter is in our times), the next day they cried, "More laft dying words of Mr. Baxter." The arrival of my eldeft fon, who has for many years been a furgeon in his Majefty's navy, and who, to his great honour, and my infinite fatisfaction, was appointed furgson of the Providence, Capt. Bligh: after my anxiety learned, I afterwards took pains to unlearn them all; it was "Marku Medulla," a gloomy heavy Dutchman's divinity, which was taught us, and which was only Calvin's Inftitutes epitomized. In the year 1750, I taught a boarding-fchool a Peckham, Surrey, and devoted myfelf to the ftudy of the Greek and Roman claflicks; and, preaching occafionally for Dr. Benfon at his meeting in Crutched-friers, I became intimate with that great mag. and with Dr. Lardner, who always fhewed thewed me very great refpe&t. Afterwards, in the year 1754, I removed to Congleton, in Cheshire, where I taught a grammar-fchool, delivered up to me by one of the most ingenious and learned men I have ever known, the Rev. Mr. William Turner, with whom I lived in friendship and harmony for seven years, preaching alternate Sundays to fmall Societies, Whitelock, in Cheshire, and Leck, in Staffordshire. In 1765, I was invited to take the charge of a very fmall church in Briftol; but, upon publishing a fecond edition of the Supre macy of the Father, written by one Williams, I was conftantly every week calumniated, in the Briftol paper, as an Arian, a Socinian, a Deift, and worfe than a Deift. On account of this public abufe, my falary diminished every year; and the last year, though I had a numerous family, it fell confiderably. In Briftol, in the courfe of five years, I read carefully the Greek Fathers of the three first centuries; the Greek language, after many years ftudy, being as familiar to me as the French is to any English gentleman, having had no occation to confult a Lexicon for twenty years. I immediately, at the defire of fome friends, came to London, and applied for a place then vacant in the British Mufeum; and it was happy that I was too late in my application, for, a month afterwards, I was in a fituation more profitable. God knows, I mean no reflexion on the merchants and gentlemen of Bristol; I always found them to be a generous and hofpitable people. But the lowest clafs of people in that city is a century behind the improve. ment of the rubbish of St. Giles's. Since the year 1772, I have lived, on the whole, extremely happy among my old friends in London, by literary industry procuring a fufficient maintenance for myfelf and family. I have written more books than any one perfon now living except Dr. Priestley; have never fpoken evil of dignities, but have lived on the beft terms with the Established Clergy, who ever refpected me as a fcholar. After expending a great deal of time in difcuffing the fubject, I am neither an Athanafian, Arian, or a Socinian, but die fully confirmed in the great Doctrines of the New Teftament, a Refur reétion, and a future ftate of eternal bieffedness to all fincere Penitents and good Chriftians. I am your obliged old friend, in much affiction from the palty, E. HARWOOD. Mr. URBAN, IN your Magazine for September is a print of Eaft Teignmouth church, where there is a round tower. I wish your correfpondent would give a de fcription of this tower, its dimenfions, thickness of the walls, and the mode and. the materials it is built of; that it have been one of the penitentiaries o may be ascertained whether it could alfo in Scotland. common in Ireland, and which occur R. R. MONG the comforts I expected to A derive from my return to my fire.. militia campaign, 1 efteemed as not fide after the prodigious fatigues of a the leaft the accumulation of your Ma gazines made during my abfence. I have but just now had the opportunity of trouble you with a line or two refpectturning them over; and am tempted to ing an enquiry made (long fince) by An old Correfpondent, p. 123, and p. 221., fort of reply made thereto by L. L. a Your old correfpondent afks the conAtruction of the words babeo, non habeor, which he "obferved as a motto on an hatchment, belonging (according to the the name of Booth, who, from low cir enquiries he made) to a clergyman of cumftances, came to the poffeffion of a very large fortune by the death of a friend." To this L. L. replies: "The Rev. (Everard) Booth was by no the latter name on fucceeding to the eitate means in low circumftances before he took of his maternal uncle. The motto on his achievement, no doubt, belongs to the family arms." tions of £. L.; but, I think the circumI cannot deny either of thefe afferstance of its being the family motto is no very clear explanation of its cona prefumptive proof (certainly not a fruction: and I think the construction conclutive one) of the motto being mo. deftly affumed by one who had been fuddenly railed to much fuperior circumftances than he had before lived in.. Habeo, non babior, is thè tranflation ftippus; to whom "cum effet objec which Cicero gives of a reply of Aritum, habere eum Laida-habeo, inquit, non habeor a Laide." The pallage is to Pætus: in the edition.of Gronovius to be found in one of his familiar letters it is the 26th letter of the 9th book. The force of the words, therefore, as applied to himself by one fuddenly en riched, |