their thighs, others are cutting the rose-leaves or poppy petals* to line their curious habitations, and a strange, yet harmonious, amalgamation of sounds meets the ear. If we look a little closer upon the plants, we shall see sentinels, with red abdomens and quivering antennæ, guarding apparently the avenues to the leaves; these are the ichneumonide, who are preparing to deposit their parasitical offspring upon the various unfortunate caterpillars their different species assail. Here and there the curious white froth of the cicada spumaria appears shrouding the naked insect below. The ants are also upon the alert on the raspberry trees, bearing thence the aphides, that they may regale themselves at home on the honey dew these omnivorous feeders supply. All are active and awake; even the spider bustles about to add new meshes to his web, which the breeze or some rude humble-bee has broken from its hold upon the laburnum tree, and the swift dragonfly takes a passing glance at the scene as he hurries on to dash around the rushes and purple arrow-heads of his native pond. (P. 101.) In parting, we may suggest to Mr. Lees in any future essay of his pen, to adopt less metaphor, and indulge, at all times, very cautiously in its admission; he will thus secure a still further hold on the reader of taste, and we are persuaded that he will finally admit the truth of our assertion, that his simplest passages are invariably his best. STANZAS. "The sacrifices of GoD are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise." Psalm li. v. 17. Isaiah xlii. v. 3. "A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench." DEEP in my heart-my trembling heart, On that pure shrine is grav'd a name A broken, contrite heart that woe A bruised reed, tost to and fro, And smoking flax whose hidden glow These off'rings undespis'd I lay Upon that shrine of many fears, And HE whose mercy and whose sway "Will dry the Mourner's tears." C. "The apis papaveris, or drapery-bee, hangs her apartment with the splendid petals of the poppy, which she cuts out from the half-expanded flowers, and carefully fits them around the walls of her cell; here she deposits honey and pollen for her young brood, who thus awake to life in a beauteous apartment, surrounded with comforts, when the tender mother who provided it for them is no more." RUDHALL, HEREFORDSHIRE. To the Editor of the Analyst. SIR,-Conceiving the intention of your Magazine to be for the purpose of preserving from decay memorials of the manners and customs of past ages, I am induced to send you the bill of fare annually on new year's eve set before the tenants of the Westfaling family assembled at Rudhall, near Ross, in this county. The dinner was instituted by Herbert Westfaling, Esq. son of the Bishop of Hereford, who, in the latter part of Queen Elizabeth's reign, married Miss Rudhall, the heiress. The late Mrs. Westfaling, the last of the family, died between three and four years ago, and the reversion to the property having been purchased by Alexander Baring, Esq., M.P., the furniture and pictures were sold soon after. Here I bought the portrait of the above-mentioned Herbert Westfaling, the two table cloths used for this dinner, dated H. W., 1598, and H. W., 1601, and twentyseven napkins, dated H. W., 1622, with the pewter dishes and plates, but, I regret to say, the leathern jacks which held the ale had been destroyed. The dinner was spread on a large thicklegged table of the period, and there were four three-cornered ones placed in the angles of the room. The dinner was thus: FIRST COURSE. Six large fowls, replenished as often as wanted. Large mince pies, in patty pans, shaped like hearts and stars. Two of the corner tables held boiled legs of mutton, another a boiled rump of beef, and on the fourth was a large boiled plum suet pudding. The ancient house of Rudhall was burnt down in the latter part of the reign of James 1st, during the absence on the Con tinent of the young heir, with the exception of one side of the quadrangle, which still displays gable-ends with beautiful bargeboards, on which, among other devices, are the feathers of Edward, son of Henry VIII. as Prince of Wales, being seven in number, three in front and four behind. Some doors of beautiful open carvings of that reign are put up at Goodrich Court. This gentleman, however, began to rebuild it in the reign of Charles I., and the front, with its porch of entrance, at right angles to the side described, are of that period, but the remainder of the house is modern. The following account of the family is from a MS. written at different times by Herbert Rudhall Westfaling, Esq. who died in the year 1743, at the age of 73 : "John Harbart, the first that I can find of my family, who, by oral tradition, was a younger brother, or descended from a younger branch of the family of the Herberts, Earls of Pembroke, the particulars of which, through the remissness of my trustees, is left much in the dark to me. This John Harbart as appears by his picture in Rudhall House, was a Knight of St. John of Jerusalem, supposed to be about the time of the dissolution of the order in the reign of Henry VIII. upon which he travelled beyond sea. My great aunt Elmhurst and others of my relations have told me that he then changed his name to Westfaling. I have no account whom he married, but he left issue one son Herbert, whom he bred up a scholar, and placed him a student in Christ-church College, Oxford. He being of the reformed religion in the year of Queen Mary, when those who separated from the errors of the church of Rome were persecuted, he fled for his religion into foreign countries. And others of my relations have told me that he then changed his name from the surname of Herbert to Westfaling, and called himself Herbert Westfaling. But of the truth of this I am wholly ignorant as is above mentioned. Anno Dom., 1585, he was made Bishop of Hereford (in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.) I shall not give any account of his life, there being several short relations of his life in print, which were done by those contemporary with him, and who, by ocular testimony, knew the truth of what they published to the world. He was certainly an extraordinary good man. He, in some part, beautified the Bishop's Palace in Hereford, and gave an estate to Jesus College, in Oxford, sufficient for the maintenance of two fellows and two scholars in the college. He left to his son a plentiful estate, viz., at Pomfret, in Yorkshire, houses in London, the lordship of Mansel, with leasehold and freehold lands in Hampshire, the great tithes of Marcle, the leases of Warham and Mills at Bromyard, and other estates in the counties of Hereford and Worcester-all, or most in Worcestershire and Herefordshire, with this Bishop's money. He had likewise an estate in the city and county of Oxford, which has given me thought whether the Bishop's father was not descended from the family of the Herberts of Oxfordshire, who are said to be descended from the same family of the Herberts as the Earls of Pembroke, but prior to the honour. He likewise left his son a considerable sum of money, but of what certain value his lands and personal estate were I never heard. Anno Dom. 1567, this Bishop married Anne, the daughter of Dr. William Bradbridge, alias Barloe, a Bishop* (which Bishop Barloe had five daughters, who married five Bishops.) He (Westfaling) had issue one son, Herbert, born the 4th of February, 1572,† and four daughters, viz. Anne, Margaret, Elizabeth, and Frances. Anne married Jefferys, an ancient family of Hom Castle, in the county of Worcester, a family very flourishing at this day-the present Henry Jefferys a person of great learning and other qualifications to be equalled by few gentleman in England. Margaret married Dr. Edes, Dean of Worcester, who died and left her a rich widow, worth, in money and lands, ten thousand pounds—afterwards she married Littleton, of the county of Worcester, by whom she had issue. Elizabeth married Walwyn, of Newland, in the same county-afterwards she married Dickens, of Leaton, county Stafford, and had issue by both, from whom Mr. Dickens, a drysalter, by London Bridge, a very rich man, is descended. Frances married Jenks, of Newhall, county Salop, and had issue. He died March 10th, 1601, and was buried in Hereford Cathedral Church, in the north side, where his monument is erected. Herbert the son was bred up a good scholar at the University of Oxford. He had the character of a virtuous, ingenious man, began to enter the world supported by a plentiful estate and a sum of money besides his wife's fortune. Given to no vice as ever I heard of, except sinning against his posterity by consuming a considerable part of his estate, which would otherwise have descended to them, by turning his ingenuity to fanciful projects, which were attended with much loss and no profit to him. He was unhappy in his economy, never continuing long with his family in any one place, but very often removing, verified to his posterity the proverb, that "the rolling stone does not gather moss"-for he sold his estates in the counties of York, Oxford, Worcester, and in London, and left to his eldest posterity only the lordship of Mansell and leases for lives in Hampshire. In his time was the civil war. He was on the King's side. He lived to be fourscore years of age or upwards. He died about 8007. in debt at Hampton, and was buried at Mansell Church. He married Frances, the daughter of William Rudhall, of Rudhall, Esq. This family of the *First of St. Asaph, then of St. David's, and last of Bath and Wells. †The portrait at Goodrich Court calls him 36 in 1609, which would make him a year older. Rudhalls is one of the ancientest in this county of Hereford, supposed by some of the family to be descended from the Saxons, blessed with a very large estate of nearly 3000l. per annum of reserved rents, before it was diminished by my great uncle John Rudhall. By Frances he had issue four sons, Herbert, William, James, and Samuel; the two last died unmarried, and five daughters, Anne, Elizabeth, Mary, Margaret, and Frances; the two last died unmarried. To his second son William, whose posterity now live at Grafton, near Hereford, he gave the great tithes of Marcle and the Mills at Bromyard. Anne married Murders, of Burghill. Elizabeth, to whom he gave his freehold lands in Hampton, in portion, married Whittington, of the Castle. Mary, to whom he gave his lease of Warham, married Elmhurst, a divine. The eldest son, Herbert, was bred up in Lincoln College, Oxford, a good scholar. He was a very virtuous, prudent man. His father settled on him only Mansell, out of which he was to pay 60l. per annum. He had several children. He lived in good repute, and kept within the bounds of his small estate. He died near 40 years of age, at his house at Mansell, of the small pox, in the life time of his father. In all probability it had been much happier for his posterity if he had survived his father some years. He was buried in Mansell Church. He married Elizabeth, the daughter of John Frogmore, of Claines, in the county of Worcester, and left issue four sons, Herbert, John, William, and James, the three last died unmarried; and three daughters, Frances, died unmarried, Elizabeth, married John Barnes, of Hartleton, and Anne, who died a child. Herbert, the eldest, who is my father, was bred up in the time of the civil wars, which prevented his being kept to his book. The estate which descended to him was the lordship of Mansell and the leases at Hampton Bishop. About his age of 28 years he was chosen a member of convocation for Hereford, which brought in King Charles the 2nd, which was soon dissolved, when he was chosen again for Hereford for the Parliament which sat 18 years. In his second election he had great opposition from Sir Edward Hopton, who likewise endeavoured for Hereford, and was falsely returned by the mayor. We have heard that this election and his contest in the House of Commons cost 12007. In his time my uncles John and William Rudhall, dying without issue, the remaining estate of Rudhall unsold, was divided by the heirs of the sisters into eighteen shares, as appears by the will, whereof my father had four shares, and being descended from the eldest daughter of the Rudhalls, had the house, and a larger allotment than any of the others, with a proportion of timber for rebuilding Rudhall House. But the wood was sold, and nothing done but the rebuilding of the malthouse. He was a person of an extraordinary good nature, which, in many things, turned to his prejudice, as his being bound for NO. I. E |