MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS AT ROME.

THE inscriptions which I forward have not been published, with the exception, perhaps, of that to the memory of Sir Edward Carne, of Nash, in the county of Glamorgan, our last authorized ambassador to Rome.

With reference to the first two names, Owen Lewis and Hugh Owen, I know nothing. The monuments were destroyed when the church adjoining to the English College was pulled down. Possibly some of your readers may inform us as to Charles Gwyn and Geoffrey Vaughan, as well as of the others.

The Rev. Dr. Thomas Grant, Rector of the College, when I was at Rome in 1847-8, obligingly copied the inscriptions from a MS. in the College Library,

Sir Edward Carne's monument, and that of Pecham, are in the atrium or cloister of St. Gregory, in Monte Celi, at Rome.-J. M. T.

March 1, 1853.

FORMERLY IN THE CHURCH OF THE ENGLISH COLLEGE, ROME.

Audoeno Ludovico Cambro Britanno U. J. D. ac Professori Oxonii in Anglia Ac Regio Duaci in Flandria Archidiacono Hannoniae et Canonico in Metropolitana Cameracensi atque Officiali generali utriusque Signaturae Referendario Caroli Cardinalis Borromaei Archiepiscopi Mediolanensis Vicario Generali Gregorii XIII Et Xysti1 V. in Congregatione de Consultationibus Episcoporum et Regularium a Secretis Episcopo Cassanensi Gregorio XIV ad Helvetios Nuntio Clementis VIII. Apostolicae Visitationis in Alma Urbe adjutori, Anglos in Italia Galliae ac Belgio omni ope Semper juvit, atque ejus imprimis opera Hujus Collegii ac Duacensis ac Rhenensis Fundamenta jacta sunt Vixit annos LXI Menses IX Dies XXIX Exula Patria XXXVI Obiit XIV Octobris MDXCV Ludovicus de Torres Archiepiscopus Montis Regalis Amico posuit.

FORMERLY IN THE CHURCH OF THE ENGLISH COLLEGE, ROME.

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D. Hugoni Odoeno Nobili Cambro Britaño Carnaviensi qui

1 Sixtus.

florente Adhuc aetate Patriam haeresi infectam Fugiens, L annos in Gallia Hispania Belgio Italia vivens exilio consenuit cujus Opera et consilio uterque Philippus Hisp. Reges Albertus Austriae et Burgundiae Et Alexander Parmæ Duces in rebus Gravissimis sunt usi Catholicam Contra Sectarios Fidem semper pro Virili adjuvit provexitq. usque adeo ut Illius zelo exagitati Haeretici novas Indies illi molestias procudere usq Ad extremum vitae spūm2 non destiterint, cujus in Deum pietas, liberalitas in Pauperes in Bonos oes benevolentia Ereptum terris Coelo dignum reddiderunt, Romae octogenarius Romanae Fidei Propugnator acerrimus maximo Catholicorum Anglorum dolore moritur III Kalend. Junii anno MDCXVIII Collegium Anglorum insigni Benefactori et Carolus Guineus ex Sorore nepos ex testamento hæres Amantissimo avunculo posuere.

CLOISTER OF ST. GREGORY, IN MONTE CELI, ROME.

Roberto Pechamo Anglo Equiti aurato Philippo et Mariae Angliae et Hispan. Regit Olim a consiliis. genere Religione virtute praeclaro Qui cum Patriam suam A Fide Catholica deficientem Adspicere sine summo dolore Non posset, relictis omnib. Quae in hac vita carissima esse Solent in voluntarium profectus Exilium post sex annos Pauperibus Christi Haeredibus Testamento institutis Sanctissime e vita migravit Idib. Sept. ann. MDLXIX Aetatis suae LIV Thomas Goldovellus Episcopus Asaphensis et Thomas Kirtonus Angli Testamenti Procuratores pos.

CLOISTER OF ST. GREGORY, IN MONTE CELI, ROME.

Eduardo Carno Britanno Equiti Aurato Jurisconsulto Oratori summis de rebus Britanniae Regum ad Imperatorem ad Reges bisq. Ad Romanam et Apostolicam sedem quarum In altera legatione a Philippo Mariaq. piis Regibus missus oborto dein post mortem Mariae in Britannia schismate, sponte Patria carens ob Catholicam Fidem cu magna integritatis veraeque pietatis existimatione decessit hoc monumentum Galfridus Vachanus et Thomas Fremannus amici ex Testamento pos. Obiit anno Salutis MDLXI XIIII Kal. Febr.

2 Spatium.

THE LATE EDWARD ROGERS, ESQ.

SINCE the publication of our last Number, we have lost a warm friend and firm supporter, and one deeply interested in Archæological science. We allude to the decease of Edward Rogers, Esq., of Stanage Park, which occurred at Bath, on the 22nd of December last.

When we enriched the pages of our July Number with a disquisition from his pen upon that disputed subject, "The Site of the Last Battle of Caractacus," we little expected to be called upon, so soon, to deplore the removal of its estimable and talented author; nor could those members of the Cambrian Archæological Association whom he entertained at Stanage last autumn, in the spirit and with the abundance of true English hospitality, have anticipated that the hand which then greeted, and the lips which bade them welcome, would, after the lapse of a few weeks only, be motionless and mute in death.

Such sad events, though we cannot control or avert them, it is our melancholy privilege to lament and to deplore; and we should be doing an injustice as well to our own feelings, as to the memory of one so respected in public, and so beloved and esteemed in private, life, so interested in antiquarian researches, and so desirous by every means in his power to develope and to extend them,-if we withheld the earliest tribute of our unfeigned sorrow at his removal, and the conviction that it has occasioned a blank in our Association which will not soon be adequately supplied.

Mr. Rogers was descended from an ancient Shropshire family -Rogers of "the Home." He was the only son of Charles Rogers, Esq., an opulent London merchant, who on his retirement from business, purchased the estate of Stanage, in the counties of Radnor, Hereford, and Salop, and erected upon it the present noble mansion. This, with the estate, the late Mr. Rogers considerably improved; enlarging the one, and so extensively planting the other, as to gain from the Society of Arts the gold medal for plantations.

The subject of this brief memoir was educated at the Charter House, whence he proceeded to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and graduated in civil law. After being called to the bar, and travelling the Oxford Circuit, he retired from the active duties of the profession, and obtained, in 1820, a seat in Parliament for the Borough of Bishopscastle, which he retained till the passing of the Reform Bill. He was moreover an active magistrate, and deputy-lieutenant for the county of Radnor, and filled the office of sheriff in the year 1840.

Mr. Rogers was twice married. His first wife, Sarah Augusta, daughter of George Wolff, Esq., Danish Consul in England, was taken from him in the year 1816, and their numerous family were cut off in childhood, with the exception of Edward, who died at Geneva, in 1838, several years after he had attained his majority. He afterwards married, in 1832, Eliza Casamajor, daughter of Henry Brown, Esq., of the Madras Civil Service, a union from which he derived uninterrupted happiness, till in December, 1849, death again withered the pleasant plant in whose shadow he delighted, and he was left to pursue his sad and solitary way!

This heavy blow fell with overwhelming violence upon our estimable friend; his constitution sustained a shock from which it never afterwards recovered, and the subsequent loss of a dear and justly valued Sister in whose society he took refuge, added to the already accumulated burden, and matured the seeds of a latent but long existing disease.

After consulting an eminent London physician, and resorting to every expedient that medical science could devise, he returned to Bath, where, after much suffering, patiently endured, he quietly and resignedly breathed his last in the seventy-first year of his

age.

THE LAST PART OF THE MIRROUR FOR

MAGISTRATES.

IMPRINTED AT LONDON BY THOS. MARSHE, A.D. 1574. Howe Owen Glendowr seduced by false prophecyes toke upon him to be Prince of Wales & was by Henry Prince of England chased to the mountaynes where He miserablye died for lacke of foode Anno D 1401.

About the year 1557, Sackville formed the plan of the Mirrour for Magistrates; it was to comprise all the illustrious unfortunates of the English history, and every personage was to recite his own misfortunes in a soliloquy before the poet, who descends, after the manner of Dante, into hell, conducted by Sorrow. It was intended that the characters should have passed in a chronological order of procession, and Sackville began vigorously with the induction. But the poet was soon lost in the statesman. He had commenced his biographical sketches at the further end of the series with Henry, Duke of Buckingham. He therefore adapted the close of his induction to the

circumstances of his only finished legend, and abandoned the design abruptly, but he did not relinquish the project of his own fancy, without recommending its completion to Richard Baldwyn and George Ferrers, men of the first talent at that period, nor without selecting the most pathetic incidents and catastrophes from the chronicles. The magnitude of the attempt to which his single resources appeared equal, deterred his successors from prosecuting it without assistance; they invited the contributions of their contemporaries, and, amongst the rest, engaged Churchyard and Phaer; the latter wrote the life of Owen Glandwr, inserted in the quarto collection of 1559, the title of which was as follows:-"A Myrroure for Magistrates wherein may be seen by example of others with howe grevous plages Vices are punished & how frail & unstable worldly Prosperitie is founde even of those whom Fortune seemeth most highly to favour.— Felix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum. Anno 1559. Edibus Thomæ Marsh." The Mirrour was reprinted in 1563, 1571, 1574, and again in 1587, with an induction and the addition of new lives by John Higgins. Whether Phaer's poem was thrown out to make room for the insertions of this editor is not known, but it certainly made a part of the collection on the first two republications. In the year 1610, the work underwent a complete revision with additions, by Richard Niccols, a poet of powers very superior to Higgins. On this occasion the title was changed; "A Mirrowr for Magistrates being a true Chronicle Historie of the untimely Falles of such unfortunate Princes & Men of Note as have happened since the first entrance of Brute into this Island until this our Age, &c., newly enlarged; imprinted by Felix Kyngston, 1610." It contains eighty-six lives, &c.