HERMITS, ANCHORITES, AND ANCHORITESSES. IN the will of Henry, third Lord Scrope of Masham, ob. in 1415; divers bequests were made to hermits, anchorets, and anchoritesses all over England. Several of these worthies are described as living in the parish churches, and one as having a male servant. Thus to the Anchoret of Staunford, living in the parish church there, xivs. ivd.

To Elizabeth, late servant of the anchoret of Hampole, (the sum left blank.) W. B. S. would feel obliged if any correspondent, in Current Notes, could give any illustration on these two points. Are there any traces in any of the churches now remaining of any cell provided for the accommodation of recluses? Your correspondent is aware, that it was a very common thing for the great barons to make provision by way of endowment for a recluse; but they generally resided, not in the parish churches, but in very dreary, desolate, and wild places, and often had the character of wizards, magicians, and enchanters, such was William of Lindholme, in Hatfield Chase, and the Recluse at Sandtoff; any information concerning the lives of these hermits would be very interesting. Queen Elizabeth, it is said, had a great misliking of females in cathedral closes: she said they were great interruptions to study. This charge, however, cannot be brought against her namesake, the serving girl, as the writings of her master, the Hermit of Hampole, are the only productions of his class which have come down to our time.

In this will of the Lord of Masham are several bequests to chaplains who are described as living, commoranti, in the parish church. Does the word commorans necessarily imply, that the chaplain had victus et cubile in the church, or only that he was found there every day in the discharge of his duty? One entry stands thus, "To a certain chaplain dwelling in York, in a street called Gilligate, in the Church of St. Mary, xivs. ivd.” Another thus: "To Thomas the chaplain, dwelling commoranti continuo, in the Church of St. Nicholas, Gloucester, xivs. ivd." The first of these entries might be read thus, "to a certain chaplain in, or belonging to the Church of St. Mary, in York, dwelling in a street called Gilligate."

But the other entry is more precise, and the words commoranti continuo seem to favour the notion that the chaplain actually resided in the church.

Axholme.

W. B. S.

BANNATYNE CLUB PUBLICATIONS. letter of Sir Walter Scott.

An inedited

MY LORD DUKE,-Since I was honoured with such a flattering mark of your Grace's notice, as was implied in receiving a set of your Grace's splendid edition of the Irish Historians, I have been very anxious to place in the magnificent library at Stowe, some volumes which may in some degree express my sense of very great obligation. Your Grace is perhaps aware that a number of individuals, constituting what has been called the Bannatyne Club of Scotland, have been associated for the purpose of reprinting for private distribution, and with a view to preservation, rare tracts or manuscripts, chiefly such as are connected with the History of Scotland. I trust your Grace, whose judgment is unquestionable, will not disapprove of the specimen of our labours which I have now the honour to transmit for your kind acceptance. The work which has hitherto been only known in the suspected and doubtful shape of a modernised edition, is now for the first time published in its original shape, from the author, Sir James Melville's original Manuscript, in the hands of Sir George Rose, having been a part of the library of the last Lord Marchmont.

If this small offering should be acceptable to your Grace, I hope to be the means of placing similar volumes on the shelves of your Grace's library, as having the honour to be the Preses of the Club, I know I shall well discharge the duty of the office, by including the Collection at Stowe amongst them, to which we presume to offer a copy of the productions of our press.

We have lately finished a singularly interesting Historie of King James the Sext, of which a copy remains in our store, it will accompany the Memoirs of Sir James Melville. At press, we are at work upon a book called Spalding's Memoirs, which gives a most singular account of the internal state of Scotland, during the reign of King Charles I., and the Civil Wars. This will appear next year, and I hope may be acceptable at Stowe. I presume to offer my most respectful compliments to her Grace; and am, with a great sense of obligation, My Lord Duke,

Your Grace's most obedient, and obliged humble servant,

Edinburgh, June 7, 1827.

WALTER SCOTT.

NEWCASTLE GLASS-MAKERS.-Your correspondent THOMAS GRAY, Current Notes, p, 47. appears anxious to obtain Notes on Glasshouses. The following possibly may be of use to him. In the Steward's account of the household Neyland, in Suffolk, for the year 1465, under the date expenses of Sir John Howard, of Stoke by of May 2, occurs

Item, paid to the glacyer of Yipswiche, for ix fote of glasse to the new closet, iijs. ixd.

The glass here used was no doubt of Newcastle manufacture, brought thither by sea, as coal and glass is still carried there.

Raleigh was executed on October 29, 1618, in Old Palace Yard, the space in front of King Henry the Seventh's Chapel; and his body was borne in St. Margaret's church, and there buried on the same day. The Burial Register has a peculiarity, the days of the month, when each burial took place, are not particularized, thus, under October 1618, the entry is simply

"Sr Walter Rawleigh, Knight,"

but, as in proof of his sepulture on the day of his execution, there are for the two remaining days of the month, three other names, following that of the victim of the wretched imbecile, King James the First.

Over the door leading to the south aisle of St. Margaret's church, is a brass tablet, appropriately and most inoffensively encompassed in a frame. On it, is engraved the following inscription

WITHIN YE CHANCEL OF THIS CHURCH WAS INTERRED THE BODY OF THE

GREAT SR WALTER RALEIGH, KT.

ON THE DAY HE WAS BEHEADED
IN OLD PALACE YARD, WESTMINSTER,
Oct. 29th, Ano. Dom. 1618.

READER. Shovld yov reflect on his errors,

Remember his many virtves,

And that he was a mortal.

The night before his execution, he was confined in the Gate-house prison, and appears to have then exercised his poetical talent in versifying-on a piece of paper he

wrote

On the Snuff of a Candle.

Cowards fear to die, but courage stout,
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.

And in his Bible, were also found, the following verses—
Even such is Time, which takes in trust,
Our Youth, our Joys, and all we have,
And pays us nought but Age and Dust,
When in the dark and silent grave:
When we have wandred all our ways,
Shuts up the storie of our days:

And from which grave, and Earth and Dust,
The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.

From some notes relative to his execution, the day was Thursday; and his attire was a hair-coloured satin doublet, with a black wrought waistcoat under it; breeches of black cut taffety, and ash-coloured silk stockings. He wore also a black velvet night-gown; his hat; on his head, a wrought night-cap; and about his neck, a ruff-band.

BURGESS. In the burial register of the Church of St. Benedict, Gracechurch-street, is the following entry1559, 14 April, Robert Burges, a common player.

and very probably the following information may not be although he is called in his communication " Mr. Tilly," considered out of place in your useful and agreeable work. far-famed and most richly diversified river, the Tamar, on an eminence, and surrounded by woods. Sir James was the son of a labourer in the neighbourhood, and in the service of Sir John Coryton, Bart., the owner of the mansion, afterwards attaining the position of steward and guardian of his children. He however ultimately became rich, how is now unimportant; acquired the estate himself, and was knighted by King James the Second. He was buried in the grounds, and a tower erected on the spot.

The Castle is situated at a beautiful turn of that

Gilpin in the "Observations on the Western Counties" calls him "a celebrated atheist of the last age," and states, that "in ridicule of the resurrection, he obliged his executors to place his dead body, in his usual garb, and in his elbow-chair, upon the top of a hill, and to arrange, on a table before him, bottles, glasses, pipes, and tobacco; and in this situation ordered himself to be immured in a tower of such dimensions as he prescribed, where he proposed, he said, patiently to wait the event."

In Mr. Davies Gilbert's "History of Cornwall," he says"The interment of Sir James Tillie, in this romantic spot, certainly gave rise to many ridiculous stories, to which an air of probability has been given by the narrative of Gilpin ; but nothing can be more false than his account of the body having been placed in a chair, with a table before it, laid out with bottles, glasses, etc. On the contrary, the body

was placed in a coffin, and deposited in a vault; and the choice of situation will not appear strange when it is considered that, in the room above, Sir James Tillie had, perhaps, enjoyed the most happy hours of his life! His last Will and Testament has lately been examined by his heirs at Doctors' Commons, and in the document it is observable, that so far from his principles being atheistical, they breathe throughout a disposition fraught with the utmost submission to the will of Divine Providence, and with a perfect confidence in the wisdom and mercies of the Creator."

Hals, who lived about the same time as Tillie, has made mention of the story, rather corroborating Gilpin; but doubtless the account by Mr. Davies Gilbert is the most likely; and the fact of his being represented on the monument as sitting "in his usual garb, and his elbow chair," together with that love of the wonderful so usual in all ages, may be thought sufficient to have "marvellous a tale." given rise to so

I am pleased to think that the evidence is in favour of the anecdote not being correct, and glad that your correspondent M. has mentioned another authority in favour of such opinion. The converse is almost too dreadful to contemplate. It is however an interesting enquiry, and I look for any other information in the power of your readers. JOHN GARLAND. Dorchester, Oct. 4.

CHATELAIN. In reply to W. S. F., anxious for some notices of Chatelain, the rarity of whose admirable views, in and about the metropolis, are duly appreciated by collectors, the following are proffered.

Chatelain's real name was Jean Phillippes, ard he had been a lieutenant in the French service. Gandon, the architect, assured Grose he had seen his commission, and had once one of his pocket-books, containing the military operations of a campaign in which he had been engaged and from that, it also appeared, he was addicted to alchymical pursuits, and possessed many books on the subject.

On coming to England, he assumed his mother's name of Chatelain, and adopted etching for a maintenance. He etched for Goupy, Pond, Vivares, and others, at the rate of two shillings and sixpence an hour, till he he had earned a half-guinea, and would then work no more till the money was expended. He never chose to bite-in a plate.

He was a tall, well-looking man, and always wore a whitish, or light drab-coloured coat. He busied himself four years in drawing views of the environs of the metropolis, Islington, Mary-le-Bourne, Pancras, and other places. He was once taken vi et armis, by a sturdy farmer, and thrust into St. Giles's pound, for trampling down his grass; and, at length, attracted by Whitfield's out-door preaching, he stood to listen, and had his pocket picked of his sketch-book. Although a mannerist in his drawings, Woollett and others considered him the introducer of the broad free manner of etching.

"for

Chatelain was a great epicure, notwithstanding the poverty of his means. The elder Gandon, on going one day into the King's Head tavern, in Fleet-street, at the west corner of Chancery-lane, saw a turkey and a large fowl roasting, which the taverner said was an outlandish drawer." On further inquiry, he found it was Chatelain, who told him, that he had quarrelled with his wife; that the turkey was for himself, and that the (alluding to his wife) might starve on the fowl, and a pint of wine!

Frequently distressed, Clee the engraver used to lend Chatelain money on his drawings; and invite him to dinner, taking care, while it was being prepared, to have the proper materials at hand, nor was the dinner served till the drawing was finished, and Chatelain, by the meanness of his host, thus amply paid him for the meal to which he had been verbally invited a free guest.

SHERRY COBBLER NOT A NEW IDEA.-There is nothing new nnder the sun: it is as clear as the sun himself, that the Americans have made no discovery in their method of drinking what is known as Sherry Cobbler. In the 4th Book of the Anabasis, chap. 5, sect. 26, Xenophon writes thus, in describing a village to which Polybotes the Athenian led his men in his way home.

"And there were wheat, and barley, and beans; and beer (olvos pievos) in goblets: and there were in them, floating on the surface (iooxaλɛïç), quantities of barley itself, and reeds were lying therein, some greater, others smaller, free from joints (yovara). And when one was athirst, it was necessary to take these into the mouth and suck. And it was a liquor altogether unmixed, unless one would pour water thereon: and the draught was exceedingly agreeable to any one accustomed to it."

What is this, pray, but Beer-Cobbler? FELTHAM.

STRAWBERRY HILL.-Has an account of all the works that have issued from the Strawberry Hill press been printed, if so where I can meet with it? The order in which they appeared, and presumed number of copies, would also be acceptable. A. K.

The late Mr. George Baker, of St. Paul's Churchyard, made a list, of which twenty copies were printed in quarto, for private distribution. In Martin's Catalogue of Privately Printed Works, there is also a copious list; that work, considerably enlarged, is now in course of republication. The sale catalogue of Mr. J. W. K. Eyton's library, also proffers many interesting particulars, as Mr. R. P. Cruden's extensive collection was purchased to render it fully complete.

MICHAEL ANGELO.-In what collection or gallery is deposited the design or sketch by this master, called L'Anima Damnata?

B.

TRELAWNEY.-The song printed in Current Notes, p. 68, was written by Rev. R. S. Hawker, Vicar of Moorwinstow, Cornwall. It is among his poems, published in 1836, by Roberts, of Stratton, with this note

"With the exception of the chorus, contained in the last two lines, the song was written by me, in 1825; and was soon after inserted in a Plymouth paper. It happened to fall into the hands of Mr. Davies Gilbert, who did me the

honour to reprint it at his own private press, at East Bourne, under the impression, I believe, that it was the original ballad. I publish it here, merely to state, that it was an early composition of my own. The two lines above mentioned, formed, I believe, the burthen of the old song, and are all that I can recover."

far as Exeter, determining on his liberation. The bishops were declared in Westminster Hall, on the 29th of the same month, "Not guilty." Bishop Trelawney was translated to Exeter, April 13, 1689; and from thence to Winchester, June 21, 1707. He died in 1721.

H. T. E.

The original ballad is still a desideratum.—EDITOR.

ELEGIAC VERSES ON SHAKESPEARE. In an excessively rare volume entitled “ Epigrams; Six Bookes: with some Select Poems, by S. Sheppard," printed by G. D., and are to be sould by Tho. Bucknell, at the Golden Lion, in Duck Lane, 1651; at p. 150, are the following verses :—

In Memory of our Famous Shakspeare.

Sacred Spirit, whiles thy Lyre
Ecchoed o're the Arcadian Plaines,
Even Apollo did admire,

Orpheus wondered at thy straines.

Plautus sigh'd, Sophocles wept
Teares of anger, for to heare
After they so long had slept,

So bright a Genius should appeare:

Who wrote his Lines with a Sunne-beame
More durable than Time or Fate,

Others boldly do blaspheme,

Like those that seeme to Preach, but prate.

Thou wert truely Priest-elect,

Chosen darling to the Nine,
Such a Trophey to erect

(By thy wit and skill Divine)..
That were all their other Glories
(Thine excepted) torn away
By thy admirable Stories,
Their garments ever shall be gay.
Where thy honoured bones do lie
(As Statius once to Maro's urne)
Thither every year will I

Slowly tread, and sadly mourn.

The volume ends on p. 257, and runs to signature S in eights. In the Third Pastoral, at p. 249, he again speaks of Shakespeare, after an eulogy on Ben Jonson,

thus

With him contemporary then (As Naso, and fam'd Maro, when Our sole Redeemer took his birth) Shakespeare trod on English earth, His Muse doth merit more rewards Than all the Greek, or Latine Bards, What flow'd from him was purely rare, As born to blesse the Theater, He first refin'd the Commick Lyre His wit all do, and shall admire The chiefest glory of the Stage, Or when he sung of War and strage Melpomene soon viewed the Globe, Invelop'd in her sanguine Robe, He that his worth would truely sing Must quaffe the whole Pierian spring. Spenser, Sydney, Beaumont, and Fletcher and Suckling are also mentioned in this Third Pastoral.

The 28th Epigram in the Fourth Book, is in high praise of Edmund Spenser.

R. T.

BEGGAR'S PETITION.-Who was the author of this highly popular production, and when did it appear? W. A. H.

SHAKESPEARE.-I hail the appearance of Collier's Emendations right gladly. The first folio is known to be full of typographical errors, and little wonder. It was only a play book, and probably brought out with no greater care than we should now bestow on one of Catnach's ballads, or sixpenny song book. Even at the present day, in spite of reader's proofs, and a most careful revision of the press, what stupid blunders are committed! I remember one curious instance. In Planché's Regal Records," the coronation chair was described as being ornamented with a pattern of oak leaves and "worms!" The learned editor of the "Gent.'s Mag." suggested as an emendation tendrils of the vine!' After all, it was a mere printer's error-the worms were simply acorns. F. S. A.

GAZETTE.-The first periodical collection of news from all parts of the world, emanated in the sixteenth century at Venice, on a small sheet quarto of eight pages, and was there sold for a small copper coin, called a gazetta, whence the phrase.

In the British Museum, is one of 1572, in reference to the celebrated sea fight at Lepanto, between the Turks and the Venetians. King James the Sixth, of Scotland, in his poem, has commemorated the power of the Venetians. William Cecil, afterwards Earl of Exeter, in a letter of news, dated "Fro my lodging in Westminster, this 23d of Octobr, 1590," and addressed to Lord Talbot, conjures him-"I pray yor L. esteme my nues as those which in Venis ar fraught in ye Gassetta; if it be more worth I shalbe glad." Some doubt of credence appears to be here alluded to, as at the close of the seventeenth century, a similar questioning of the materiality in fact of certain statements, were in reply said to be based on information derived from the Brussels Gazette! The London Gazette originally commenced as "the Oxford Gazette," Nov. 14, 1665, and the first twenty-three papers were published in that seat of learning; but No. 24, was printed in London, and then named the London Gazette, Monday, Feb. 5, 1665-6, appears to have been the earliest English paper bearing the title of Gazette.

GALANOS.-M. Demetrius Galanos, the most learned linguist that modern Greece has produced, and who for more than twenty years occupied with pre-eminent distinction the Sanscrit Professorship at the College of Benares, in Hindostan, died recently in that city, in his sixty-ninth year. His numerous wholly unpublished manuscripts on the different idioms of Asia, the result of forty years laborious research, M. Galanos has bequeathed to the University of Athens, on condition of that seminary causing them to be published, he himself having left sufficient funds for that purpose. These when published will make about ten folio volumes. The Athenian University accepts the gift and its contingent duties, and has directed its rector, Dr. Georgio Thypaldos, to conduct the publication.