riched, would be, "I have got a good eftate, but it has not turned my head;" or, to give it a little of the point of the original, I poffefs, but am not poffeffed." A MILITIA MAN. Mr. URBAN, Nov. 11. HE late Lord Vilcount Montague, TH who unfortunately loft his life in attempting to view one of the falls of the Rhine, was the laft male heir of a most noble and antient family in a lineal delcent from the Lady Lucy Nevill. Sir Thomas Browne was treasurer of the household to Henry VI.; Sir Anthony, his fon, was ftandard-bearer throughout the realm of England, and conftable of the caftle of Calais, and married the faid Lucy Nevill, one of the five co. heireffes of John Nevill, Marquis of Montague, who was himself defcended from › Edward the First, King of Eng. land. Sir Anthony Browne was created Viscount Montague by Queen Mary, and chofe that title on account of his ancestor's having been Marquis of Montague. In this nobleman ends the male defcendant from Lucy Nevill; and of this moft puiffant branch of the Nevills, the only lineal mate defcendants from any of the five co-heirefles, as I am informed, are the Huddlestons, of Salfton, in Cambridgeshire (defcendants from Huddlefon, of Millum caftle, in the county of Cumberland, a powerful knight in the reign of Henry IL.). Sir William Huddietton, of Cambridgethire, having married Hfabel Nevill, the youngest of the five co-heirelles of Ne. vil, Marquis of Montague. T. R. Mr. URBAN, Nov14. HE lare Sir Jofeph Aytoffe gave to THE the Society of Antiquaries an elahorate defcription of fome of the very curious paintings which were at Cowdray, the feat of Lord Montacute, clofe to the town of Midhurst, in Suffex*; and that Society have fortunately pre. ferved fome, by having them engraved from drawings taken for that purpofet. That noble building, with all the pictures and furniture, was this fummer entirely deflroyed by the careleffness of fome workmen who were employed there; and, as I do not know that there is any complete account of it, any notes, which may contribute to make fuch defcriptions as have been given of it more full, may be not altogether ufelefs. I *See p.451, 99o. † Archæologia, vol. 111 therefore trouble you with a few memoranda of what I obferved in a vifit there in 1784; but will fiift state what I find already printed concerning ito Defoe, in his Tour through Great Britain, fit edition (a book lefs spoken of than it deferves), barely mentions the place. T The enlarged edition, in 1778, defcribes it as fituated in a valley, encompaffed with lawns, hills, and woods, thrown into a park, the river running underneath. The houfe fquare, at each corner a Gothic tower, which have a good effect when viewed from the rifing grounds. The hall is cieled with Irith oak, after the antient manner. The walls are painted with architecture by Roberti, the ftatues by Goupé, the ftair-cafe by Pellegrini. The large parlour is of Holbein's painting; where that great artist has described the exploits of King Henry VIII. before Boulogne, Calais, his landing at Portf mouth, his magnificent entry into London, &c. In the other rooms are many excellent pictures of the ancestors of the family, and other hiftory-paintings of Holbein relating to their actions in war. The rooms are ftately and well-furnish ed, adorned with many pictures. There is a long gallery with the twelve Apoítles as large as life; another very neat one, wainscoted with Norway oak, where are many antient whole-length pictures of the family, in their proper habits. There are four hiftory-pieces, two copies of Raphael's marriage of Cupid and Psyche, and feveral old religious and military paintings from Battle-abbey. The park is noble, having great variety of ground in it, abounding with game, and is well wooded with pines, firs, and other evergreen trees, which are grown to a large fize; and here are fome of the largest chefnuttrees, perhaps, in England. The river Arun, gliding by Midhurst, fweeps through the park. The country adjacent ferves as a contraft to this beautiful fcenery by its barrenness; fome efforts, however, which his lordship has made by fir plantations, may evince that the moß fterile foil and dreary region is capable of receiving embellishment. But the fituation lying all along between tavo ridges of downs and hills on the North and South, thefe eternal barriers exclude all extensive profpect *." et Mr. Gough, in his Additions to Cam Vol. I. p. 174, eighth edition. den, den, fays, that it was in the Crown, was given in exchange to the co-heirs of John Neville, Marquis of Mounta gue, whofe fourth daughter, Lucy, married first Sir Thomas Fitzwilliams, and afterwards Sir Anthony Browae. She was fucceeded by her fon Fitzwilliams, Earl of Southamptor, who built the prefent houfe [now the late houte], as appears by his badges, arms, &c. in various parts of it, and adorned the rooms with paintings (whofe lofs we now regret). He dying without iffue, Sir Anthony Browne, as heir to their common mother, fucceeded. It is built of ftone round a fquare court, entered by a gate in the centre of the front, flanked by two towers, and a larger in the middie, and two hexagonal towers near the end. Over the gate, in capitals, Layaulté fe prouvera. In all the reparations of this house the antient ftyle has been very properly preferved. The chapel is handfome; the canopy light and elegant. The hall and ftair-cafe were painted by Pellegrini; the parlour by Holbein, or fome of his fcholars or contemporaries, with the exploits of Henry VIII. before Baulogne (which he enumerates). They were preferved in the civil-war by a coat of plafter laid over the ftucco on which they were painted; but one of the officers quartered here, exercising his partifan againft the wall, broke out from one of them the face of Henry VIII. which was afterwards replaced. Mr. Gough mentions Sir Jofeph Ayloffe's account and fays, there are other paintings of the principal events of Henry the Eighth's war in France, in which the Earl of Southampton and Sir Anthony Browne bore a part; fuch as The fea-fight wherein Sir Edward How ard, admiral, was flain, the journey to Spain; Marquis of Dorfet, chieftain ; the fight of Traport under the Earl of Southampton; the Earl of Southampton, admiral, meeting the Emperor, and conducting him to Dover; Francis 1. giving audience to two embathes from England; the Duke of Suffolk and Count de Bure befieging Bray; the winning of Bray and Mont Didiere, and the paffage of the Seine, by the Duke of Suffolk the King's moft nohte and victorious journeys of Ticvin (Terouenne), and Tourné; the battle of Pavia, &c.; befides a capital collection of family portraits and their alliances from this ame*. Next comes Mr. Shaw, to whom the lovers of topography are already much, and hope to be more, obliged. He has given a very neat engraving of the front of the houfe, but has merely quoted. Mr. Gough's account *. The notes I took are thefe : The river runs through the park in front of the houfe, though in fo deep a channel as to be hardly visible from it. On the porch door, LOIAULTE SAPROUERA.. under it below WI P The hall is lighted by windows on one fide, and a cupola of three stories in the centre; the roof coved, with carved wood. At the upper end is a buck ftanding, carved in brown wood; on the shoulder, a fhield with the arms of England; under it, the arms of Browne with many quarterings, carved in wood. There are ten other bucks, as large as life, ftanding, lying, and fitting; fome with fmall banners of arms fupported by their feet. The paintings in the parlour are already mentioned, In the drawing-room below-stairs a picture of Sir Anthony Browne, taken from a buft, with a long infcription (which I did not copy); Lord Fitzwilliam [or Southampton], and many family portraits; fome unknown., In the inner drawing-room e Over one door Lord Clifford, over the other Lady Clifford, faid to be father and mother of fair Rofamond; William the Conqueror, in armour, holding in one hand a globe furmounted with a crois, in the other, a drawn word; his gloves and helmet, with a plume of feathers, le on the ground; under him a shield of arms, two lions or leopards. May not thefe be the pictures faid to be brought from Battle abbey? It belonged to Sr Anthony, who is buried in Battle church, where there is a fumptuous tomb for him, On the walls of the flair-cafe, the ftory of Tancred and Clorinda, from Taffo. In the dining-room above-ftairs: Erafmus, by Ho bein. Machiavel and the Duke of Tuscany, by Titian. Late Lord and Lady Montacute, by Belle, a French painter. (From my date of 1784, thefe were grandfather and grandmother of the laft lord). "The king's most noble and victorious journies of Tirwin and Tourne." Mrs. Joanna Dormer; a rich drefs of black, much laced, a lace ruff, hair braided high. "The meeting of the kings betwene Guifnes and Ardes in a place called Valedorie." A collection of antient armour in a picture. General Brown, in the Imperial fervice, in armour; a full-bottom flowing wig; died 1729. "I, Earl of Southampton, now Admiral of England, meeting the Emperor on the fea, by the King my mafter's comandement, open upon Dongion Neffe, I then being admiral; foe con ducted him to Dover to the King my fajd mafter the fame night." The chimney piece of Suffex marble; over it, the Judgement of Solomon, over that, the king's arms, with the lion and griffin for fupporters. Satyrs, fphinxes, and other figures. "The Duke of Suffe, and I, Earl of Southampton, being fent in ambassade, unto the Frenfhe king to treat of matters of greate fecrefie." in They are ftanding before the king (Francis I.), who fits under a canopy of fate, the back powdered with fleursde-lis; in the middle, the arms of France, the letters F. R. on each fide. "The great ambaffaie fent to the Frenche king, where ther of Worces ter, then lord chambarlain, the Bithop of Ely, the Lord of Sain&e Jax, and the Lord Vaus, wer in comefion, with a great nomber of other nobilmen and gentilamen." In this picture, the French king is reprefented fitting on his throne; in front, the Bishop of Ely is ftanding bes tween the four English ambaffadors, who fit in chairs; he holds his cap in his left-hand, and is addreffing the king. The backs of these five are to the fpectators. On each fide fit the French king's counsellors. "Duke of Suff'c and Count de Bure befieging Braie." "Driving the French to Treport/" Brown, by Ifaac Oliver; a small beard, his hair fandy, cut clofe, a black cap and feather, his cloaths flashed, gold lace on the arms: one leg and thigh has a white dress, the thigh part in rolls, puckered, the other leg and thigh ftriped blue and white, rolled and puckered as the other; the ftripes reach to the end of the foot; the fhoes terminate in a very broad fquare, a little turned up. This was the drefs in which he was married as King Henry's proxy to Ann of Cleves. Drawing-room, hung with tapestry. An ebony cabinet with feveral views at Rome. The infide and outside of St. Peter's, and a long proceffion at the Pope's coronation. The chimney-piece of black marble; over it the battle of Alexander and Darius. Another drawing-room: A piece with two fmall whole-lengths of John and Thomas Fitzwilliam, who are reprefented in armour, dead, one run through with a fword, the other with a fpear, which remain in their bo dies. Under them is written, “In doing their duty against the Scots." Ralf Nevill, and Anne, daughter of Lord Audeley." "Ralf Nevill, of Raby, and Marie, daughter and heire of William, Lord Percy." Both thefe men are in armour, hele mets on, battle-axes in their hands, a crofs on their mantles. "Richard Nevill, Erle of Salyfburi, knight of the garter, and Alyce, daughter and heire of Thomas Montague, Erle of Salyfburi." Her coat of arms is on her gown on the left fide; he is in armour, his head bare, a pole in his right-hand. Under them the feveral coats are marked to be, 1. Richard Nevill, Earl of Warwick. the dau;" Near the door: "Edmonde Fitzwilliam," of Sir Johan Clifton," an urn and other ornaments between them. He is in ar mour, a small fhort stick in his righthand; his and her coats of arms are on her gown. A date 1534 Below it is another picture of the fame gentleman, and of Maulde, daughter of Johan Hothom, of Hole thernets ;" :therness;" an urn between them as above. A date 1534. He is here alfo in armour, a fpear in his left-hand. His coat armour, in the first, is on his breast only, in this, it reaches down to the middle of his thigh; in it a crefcent for difference. The upper picture has no beard, this has. His and her coat of arms are on the lady's gown. Hers are, Or, a bend Sable, three flars Az. pierced. A closet. North gallery. Large copies of Ralf, Lord Nevill, and the daughter of Lord Percy, and of fome other of the old pictures. The bottle of Pavia, by Holbein. The arms of Browne, with quarterings. Dame Alice, daughter of Sir John Gage, wife of Sir Anthony Browne, in a black gown full of long points on the arms, breaft, and to the bottom; gold border to her ruff; a chain of gold and pearls from her neck. A bed-chamber. A whole-length of William the Conqueror, faid to be copied from a picture in Normandy; a fceptre in his right. and rails of the fame to the altar, the edges of the pannels gilt; above, it was painted white with gold ornaments. Such are the notes I took on feeing this noble manfion. Imperfect as they are, they may, in fome measure, gratify prefent curiofity; but it is to be hoped fome gentleman may have taken a more full account. Should Sir William Burrell's very valuable collections for Suffex ever gratify the public eye, we may fairly hope to fee an ample defcription not only of the houfe but of all the curiofities it contained. Probably Mr. Walpole has given fome account of thefe pictures; but I have not his book to turn to. B. IN p. 806, I fend him the following information. I find in none of the copies of the Greek Teftament I have confuited the word xahsucian in 1 Tim: iv. 3; Lat I fee that Epiphanius adds ir when he quotes it. in his interpretation on this place, or "Deeft enim aut sex, quod addit Syrus; aut xèhevovlav, quod addit, hunc locum citans, E. piphanes," Pool. Mill, or elfe wapayyou; for, in Hær. 48, p. 410, fe&t. 8, he faith, this of the Apoftle is fulfilled in the Cataphryge and other heretics, for molt of them, ro yaμen xuλύεσιν, απέχεθαι βρωμαίων παραγγελ Auzu, "forbid marriage, and command to abstain from meat:"-that from The phyla we may conftrue these words thus, με οφάλες απο κοινό λαβών το κατ λυονίων, αλλ' έξωθεν προσθείναι το συμβα λουσίων απέχεθαι βρωμαίων, we mult not repeat the word forbidding, but add, in ' heu of it, counselling to abstain from meats;" for, fo all the antients have interpreted these words :-and that Erafmus, Beza, Pifcator, and others, ren-. der the place thus; "Prohibentium contrabere matrimonium, jubentium abitinere à cibis." Nearly the like ellipsis is in 1 Cor. vii. 19, and xiv. 34; and 1 Tim. ii. 12 and not only the Apoflle wrote in this manner but alfo Phæ drus: "Non veto dimitti, verùm cruciari fame," fupple jubeo: Homer, orOY MAL Owo soles. Chryf. Menander, Euripi- " des, and Tacitus. See Pool's Synopfis on this verfe. Such is the interpretation of the Fathers on this place, and of all the ancient commentators; and even the tranflations, although they do not T. R. is much obliged to D. H. for the notice he has taken of his criticism upon Mart. i. 11. But he would have been much more obliged to him, if he had examined it with more attention. The only motive of fubmitting it to the publick was, to learn whether it was not a better fupported folution of the difficulty than had yet been offered. D. H. certainly mistakes in faying, that Dr. Whitby has given the fame folution of it. The two accounts agree no farther than in the fuppofition that there were two perfons of the name of Jechonias. Jerom was the original author of Dr. Whitby's idea, that Jehoiakim was intended in this 11th verfe; but this is very different from that of T. R. who has endeavoured to prove that it was not Jehoiakim but Jehoahaz. D. H. adds, that it is plain Jehoiakim was the perfon meant from the mention of his brethren; but when Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim were brothers, it does not appear how this argument applies more to the latter than the firft. cularly as great part of his Lordship's diocefe was fituated near the banks of the river Thames, and therefore frequent accidents might be fuppofed to happen from the water. I believe his Lordship's recommendation has been very well attended to; and, on quitting that diocefe, I have adopted it in a parish to which I belong, near the river Thames, This attention in his Lordship was only one out of the many he shewed for the benefit of his diocefe during his continuance in that fee, which may well regret his tranflation, whilft his prefent fee may congratulate itfelf upon the bleffing it has acquired, of an able, humane, benevolent, pious, and zealous, Prelate. It is to be wifhed that his Lordhip's excellent mode of Confirmation, which fecures fo much decency and folemnity, according to the defcription one of your correfpondents gave of it to you, two years ago, may, in time, be generally oblerved in every diocefe. V. V. Mr. URBAN, N Nov. 14. anfwer to your correfpondent C. ericus Oxonienfis, p. 910, who enquires to folicitoufly after the family of Dr. Chandler, bishop of Durham, you may inform him, that Lord James Cavendish, youngest fon to William fecond Duke of Devonshire, had an only fon, William, who married Mifs Barbara Chandler, daughter to the Bishop, and died June 30, 1751, fo far as appears, without iffoe. Lord James had alfo a daughter, Elizabeth, married to Richard Chandler, Efq. fou to the Bishop, who affumed the name of Cavendish by act of parliament, patled in 1752, but does not appear, by any account in my poffeffion, to have left any iffue. Whether the right reverend Prelate had any other children, of either fex, I must leave to fome of your readers, who are better informed, to answer. How could the writer of the infcription in p. 942, col. 2, be guilty of fuch au over fight as to fpeak of a noble Peer as Premier Marquis of England, who is a Marquis but of yesterday? And now, Mr. Urban, will you allow me, in my turn, to ask a question? After Dr. Whitby's Annotations on the Gof pel of St. John, he has a Sermon on chap. VII. 47, 48, 49, against human authority in matters of faith, as afferted by the Church of Rome, in which he again and again mentions R. H. as the champion of that Church upon this question; who was this R. H.? I have no doubt but fome of your numerous and |