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METEOROLOGICAL DIARY, BY W. CARY, STRAND.
From Jan. 26 to Feb. 23, 1843, both inclusive.

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J. J. ARNULL, English and Foreign Stock and Share Broker,
1, Bank Buildings, London.

J. B. NICHOLS AND SON, PRINTERS, 25, PARLIAMENT-STREET.

PAINTING OF ST CHRISTOPHER, in Sedgeford Chures North.

Gent Mag. Vol. XIX. April 18.13.

GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

APRIL, 1843.

BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT.

CONTENTS.

MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-Monuments in Chancels-Rastall Family-James
Cobbe-Marston St. Laurence-Hert-stone-Betham's Etruria Celtica...
THE VISION AND CREED OF PIERS PLOUGHMAN: Edited by T. Wright, M.A.
Fasting in Lent, and Licenses for eating Flesh......

The Self-culture, Studies, and Early Literary Compositions of Napoleon Buo-
naparte-His Patriotism-History of Corsica-Errors of Voltaire-Prince
Primate Dalberg-Rousseau-The Code Napoleon-The formation of great
Generals-St. Helena.....

On the Site of Anderida-Arundel, or Newenden?

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The Family of Bover-Narrative of Adm. Byng's last Action......

A Bon-Mot of Dr. Johnson traced to Arthur Murphy.. .....

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE FOUNDATION OF RELIGIOUS HOUSES, No. III.

Fountains Abbey.

The Oldest London Bankers-Family of Phair..

Dr. Dibdin's Tour in Belgium-Antwerp-Malines--Louvain

On Paintings of St. Christopher in Churches (with a Plate)..
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Bishop Doane's Sermons, 385; Miss Strickland's Lives of the Queens of
England, vol. V. 388; Price on the Picturesque, by Lauder, 390; Wells on
the National Finances, 391; De Vere's Waldenses, or the Fall of Rora, 392;
Philomorus, 394; Sydenham's Baal Durotrigensis, ib.; Gwilt's Encyclo-
pedia of Architecture, 397; Boyd's Episcopacy and Presbytery, 398; Tate's
Letters on the Analogia Linguæ Græcæ, 399; Bloom's Historical Notices
of Castleacre, 400; Oxford Architectural Society's Views of St. Giles's
Church, Oxford, and Churches of the Deanery of Bicester..
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE.-
New Publications, 403; Chetham, Ælfric, and Parker Societies, 407; Astrono-
mical, Meteorological, Geological, and Statistical Societies, 408; Book-
sellers' Provident Institution
ARCHITECTURE.-Oxford Architectural Society, 409; Yorkshire Architec-
tural Society..

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ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES.-Society of Antiquaries, 411; Cambridge
Antiquarian Society, 412; Numismatic Society, 413; Egyptian Tombs, 414;
Antiquities of London..
HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.-Proceedings in Parliament, 416; Foreign
News, 418; Domestic Occurrences

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Promotions and Preferments, 420; Births, 422; Marriages...
OBITUARY; with Memoirs of Lord Abercromby; Count Matuszewic; Hon.
Berkeley Paget; Lt.-Gen. Sir John Sinclair, Bart.; Adm. Sir John Law-
ford; Adm. Sir R. Hussey Hussey; Lieut.-Gen. Sir C. W. Doyle; Lt.-Gen.
Sir John Lyon; Major-Gen. Sir J. T. Jones; Major Marcus Annesley;
Rear-Adm. Henderson; Arthur Blennerhassett, Esq.; Hon. T. Orde Pow-
lett;
W. Orde, Esq.; G. A. Muskett, Esq.; Rev. Francis Wrangham;
Rev. John Wright, D.D.; Rev. George Langshaw, B.D.; Rev. G. A.
Montgomery; Thomas Le Blanc, Esq.; Edward Drummond, Esq.; Robert
Alexander, Esq.; Charles Palmer Dimond, Esq.; Thomas Hamilton, Esq.;
Michael J. Quin, Esq.; George Mitford, Esq. M.D......

CLERGY DECEASED

DEATHS, arranged in Counties

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Table of Mortality in the Metropolis for January and February-Prices of
Shares-Markets, 447; Meteorological Diary-Stocks...
Embellished with a Plate representing a PAINTING OF ST. CHRISTOPHER, discovered
in SEDGFORD CHURCH, Norfolk,

MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.

A VICAR begs to inform the CLERGYMAN in p. 255, that a vicar cannot claim any fee for a monument erected in the chancel by the lessee of the great tithes, but the said lessee has no right to enter the church, not even through the chancel door, without the permission of the vicar, except when the doors are open for Divine worship. Vide Jarratt versus Steele, in the Arches, 1820.-Query, may not the vicar demand a fee for opening the door to admit the lessee?

The Harl. MS., No. 6594, fol. 107, gives a pedigree of Rastall, of NortonRastall, commencing with Sir John R. temp. Edw. III. In the 5th generation from this person occurs Thomas Rastall, Bishop of Bath and Wells; and in the 10th, Wm. Rastall, Bishop of Worcester and Gloucester. Also in the 11th generation occurs Edward Rastall, of Cadon, co. Glouc., Esq., nephew to Bishop William, and who is set down as having married a daughter of Sir George Babington, Kat., and having issue several children, among whom occurs an Abbot of Bredon. The two Bishops do not occur in the lists of any of the above named sees, neither does it appear who Sir George Babington was, or what was the name of his daughter. Any information, especially upon these latter points, will oblige X.

D. T. asks for any information about James Cobbe, whose name frequently appears on the fly-leaves of MSS., to which he was in the habit of adding neat title-pages. Three or four such are in the Macro collection, where there is also an original work by him, entitled "The Life of Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum, and a Translation from Lucian." He seems to have lived about the middle or close of the 17th century; and, though not mentioned by Wood or Kippis, nor in Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, was, most probably, a well-known personage.

Early Remains found at Marston St. Laurence, Northamptonshire. Since the account given in our last number, several other discoveries have been made at this site. The remains have been preserved by J. M. Severne, Esq, the Rev. C. Blencowe, Miss Jeffs, Sir H. Dryden, Bart., the Rev. E. G. Walford, and Mr. Alfred Beesley: the three last named gentlemen, on collecting the whole of the remains for examination, agreed in opinion that they were Romano-British (not Anglo-Saxon, as has been suggested by other authority); and the date of the interments seems to have been now cleared

up, by the discovery of two coins, one of Carausius, and another apparently of nearly the same antiquity, beneath a skeleton which has been lately disinterred.

A BURGHER, of Doncaster, says :-In the 16th year of John a warrant was issued to certain persons to defend the town with "hertstone and pale, as the ditch that is made doth require." There is record of there having been a mound; but Leland was of opinion that there had not been a wall. Information, as to the description of defence is solicited.

In p. 226, A. P. states, that "Mr. Knapp became seated at Battisford, and married Penelope, dau. of Sir John Tasburgh, Knt. of Flixton Hall. It appears, however, from a pedigree in the possession of Mr. Davy, that Thomas Knapp, of Battisford, married Katharine, dau. and coheiress of Wm. Barker, a younger brother of Sir Robert Barker, of Grimston Hall, Bart., which seems proved by the arms of Knapp having been in Battisford Hall impaled with those of Barker. From a pedigree in the British Museum, 1169, 67, it further appears that Sir Thomas Barker, Knt., of Battisford, the eldest son of Sir Robert Barker, by his second wife, Susan Crofts, was the husband of Penelope, the dau. of Sir John Tasburgh of Flixton.

Erratum.-In the continuation of the Review of Sir William Betham's Etruria Celtica in the last number, p. 282, for lias, rocky, read liay, rocky, and omit the words "the stubborn in the middle of the word." The Reviewer wishes to add at the same page after the words "resoluble into the Iberno-Celtic," as follows:-The Etymology given by Sir William Betham for the district about Naples, Campania, is still more extraordinary-Caom mild, gentle, beautiful,-ban bright, brilliant, splendid-ia country, and thus by the ready monosyllabic process the term becomes Iberno-Celtic; but the real derivation from the Greek has been strangely disregarded by the Author, from " χαμαι humi, et Tous pes, inde xaμairηs ex quo contracté Campus et Campania; which last appears to be adjectively used for Terra Campania, Campana, or Campestris. The Gulph of Naples was called Campanus Sinus, from its proximity to Campania. On the words above mentioned see Littleton and Ainsworth passim, as clearly establishing their derivation.

Errata.-P. 312, six lines from foot, for Chester read Liverpool; and for John Audley, esq. read John Audley Hill, esq. P. 327, lin. penult, for 1814 read 1841; and for Peterston read Peterstow.

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