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MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION AT BARDWELL.

ON a slab within the altar-rail at Bardwell Church, in Suffolk, is the following curious epitaph in Greek; but no name or date. It is supposed to refer to some former incumbent of Bardwell, probably the Rev. THOMAS TUER, who was buried there Dec. 29, 1708, and of whom there is no other memorial.

G. E. ADAMS.

36, Lincoln's Inn Fields, May 30.
*Αξιον ἄνδρα πόλου λαμπροῦ εἴ τίς τινα ζητεῖ
Ενθαδε τοιουτου ἀνθρώπου σῶμα καθέυδει.
Οὗτος λατρευτὴς ἡ τοῖο θεδιο· ἀληθοῦς
Τούς τε γονεῖς τίμα καὶ τίμα τὸν Βασιλήα,
Φίλτατος ἡ φίλων οὗτος βέλτιστος ἀδελφῶν,
Οὗτος ἀνὴρ ἡ τῶν ἀνδρῶν μὲν φίλος ἀπάντων
Μᾶλλον δὲ πτωχῶν οἷς ποικίλα δῶρα ἔδωκε.
Ζῶς ὧν ἡ τοῖος τοῖος τε θνηξόμενος τε.
Μέχρι ἕως ἡ γὰρ πνεῦμ ̓ αὐτοῦ ὕστατον ἐκπνῶν
Ὡς ἔφατ ̓ ἀντιβολῶν ἐμὲ Κύριέ μου ἐλέησον.
Εἰ ζῶ ἡ θνήσκω τὸ θέλημα θεοῖο γινέσθω
Εἰ οὖν ἦν ὅντως τόυτου θάνατός τε βίος τε,
Οὗτος ἕτοιμος ἔη θανατῶ ἀγαπῆς διὰ ἔργα
*Αξιος εὖ τε πόλου διὰ ΤΟΥ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΙΗΣΟΥ.

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ERROR RESPECTING CROMWELL'S DEATH. THE Protector was, on August 12, 1658, while at Hampton Court, taken ill of a fever, and was brought to Whitehall, where he died on September 3rd. Several historians state, that on the day he died, there happened the greatest storm of wind that was ever known.' Clarendon also, by mistake, reiterates that assertion, but it is erroneous, and has become one of those popular delusions which may fairly be classed with household words. Anthony Wood, in his diary, under August 30th,

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BIRTH-PLACE OF CERVANTES.

IN Spain, at every step, the traveller finds sufficient to excite the most melancholy reflections. Dr. Bowring, when in the Peninsula in 1819, went to Alcalá de Henares, the birth-place of Cervantes, the writer of the everywhere known adventures of Don Quixote. He sought for the house in which he was born, but was told it had been destroyed that a herd of friars might enlarge their kitchen-garden! and his enquiry respecting the manuscripts of Ximenes Cisneros elicited a conclusive reply: they had been cut up for sky-rocket cases to celebrate the arrival of some worthless grandee.

Since the certainty of Alcalá de Henares being the birth-place of Cervantes has been fully proved, numerous transcripts have been made of the entry of his baptism, October 9, 1547, at p. 192, in the parish records, the oldest of the registries in the Church of St. Mary Mayor; yet it is singular that no one has observed the fact, the father's name is there registered as "Carvantes."

Among the ecclesiastical documents at Tarragona, examined by Fray Jayme Villanueva, was a mass of letters addressed to the Cabildo, in 1614, relating various atrocious acts of robbery and murder perpetrated by Roque Guinart and his band (see Don Quixote, vol. iv., part 2, cap. 60,) and imploring their assistance to rid the country of those freebooters. Cervantes appears to have immediately availed himself of the facts, as the second part of Don Quixote was printed in 1615. Cervantes died in Spain, on the same day that Shakespeare died in England, April 23, 1616.

R. T. M.

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SPOLIATION OF MANUSCRIPT RECORDS. THE keepers of the early records have in many instances been themselves the destroyers of some of the highest consequence. In the Cathedral library, Exeter, is deposited the manuscript entitled or known as 'The Exon Domesday,' and in 1810, while being examined, it was discovered that a leaf had been torn out; when a note of the circumstance was made at the time. Subsequently Mr. Trevelyan called to see the book, and honourably produced the missing leaf from his pocket. It transpired that the leaf had descended to him from Dean Willoughby, who was Dean of Exeter in the time of King Henry the Eighth, and who had no doubt abstracted the leaf in question. Thus a spoliation at the era of the Reformation, was restored at a much later period.

Let any one examine the volumes of Royal signatures among the Musgrave Collections in the British Museum, and it will then be apparent how wickedly very many letters patent and other records have been mutilated, for the puerile object of simply possessing an autograph.

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ESCROQUER.-Current Notes, vol. iv. p. 10. note relative to Herrard follows the extract from Perroniana, p. 39; in the folio edition of Richelet, printed at Rouen, 1719, fol. vol. i. p. 532; thus:

Le fils de François Herrard de Vitri a escroqué dix louis d'or à M. Richelet, et ce faquin au lieu de cacher la conduite de son fils, en rendant ce qu'il avoit lâchement escroqué, a l'insolence d'approuver, et de remercier par un sot billet Monsieur Richelet de sa générosité.

DORCHESTER CHURCH.

ANTHONY WOOD in his Diary, under May 20, 1659, mentions the following interesting fact, in relation to the town of Dorchester.

At Dorchester, and thence to Warborow, to the house of Adam Hobbes, a farmer, to desire leave to see a book in his hands, containing matters relating to the church of Dorchester. He denied him the sight of it, but Hobbes being acquainted with Thomas Rowney, an attorney of Oxon, A.W. persuaded him to leave it in his hands for my use, which he did the next mercate day that he came to Oxon. 'Twas a book in quarto, written in parchment, in the reign, I think, of Qu. Elizabeth, and in it he saw the large will of Richard Beauforest, dated July 18, 1554, and proved on June 8, 1555; whereby he gives the abbey church of Dorchester, which he had bought of the king, to the towne of Dorchester. C. W.

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ELIZA AND MARY N.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

GRAHAM. The Earldom of Kerry passed, on the death of his cousin, in 1818, to the present Marquis of Lansdowne; whose eldest son, Thomas Fitz-Maurice, by courtesy EARL OF KERRY, died in 1836.

WILLIS'S CURRENT NOTES.

No. XLIII.]

"Takes note of what is done-
By note, to give and to receive."-SHAKESPEARE.

INEDITED LETTERS OF COLERIDGE.

THe first two were addressed to William Mudford, editor of the Courier evening newspaper. The three last to Thomas Hurst, bookseller and publisher. Queen Caroline died at Hammersmith, August 7th, 1821. This fact identifies the period of the first two letters, which are otherwise undated; they refer to his Lectures on Shakespeare in that year.

DEAR SIR,-I have written a column or more on the character of the late Queen, in connection with the prevailing tendency among a numerous party, to asperse their superiors. I hope you will be pleased with it. There are two pages more which you may depend on being left at the Courier Office, before six o'clock to-morrow evening. I assure you, that my main wish for having the Courier sent me, proceeds from the conviction that in reading it, few days could pass in which something would not suggest itself to me, though but a paragraph of a dozen lines, which I might as well write as talk, and which, might yet be occasionally useful to you, more so perhaps than set articles.

I enclose for your kind acceptance, tickets for my two Courses of Lectures; and at the same time, enclose an advertisement, which I should be glad to have inserted in Monday and Wednesday's Couriers. I hope that Mr. Street will be so good as to let my Prospectus appear. Alas! dear sir, these Lectures are my only resource. I have worked hard, very hard, for the last years of my life, but from Literature as Publication, I cannot gain even Bread. We dine on Sundays at half-past four, and should be happy if you would take a family dinner with us, when you are not better, or more agreeably engaged.

Your obliged,

S. T. COLERIDGE.

MY DEAR SIR,-I hope you will come and give the farewell shake by the hand to my Shakespeare. The Romeo and Juliett pleased me even beyond my anticipation; but alas! scanty are my audiences! But Poverty and I have been

The late Henry Nelson Coleridge, in the Biographical Supplement to the Biographia Literaria, 1847, vol. ii. p. 430; observes-" I have not been able to obtain any exact account of all my Father's courses of lectures given after his visit to Germany, but find from letters and other sources of information, that he lectured in London, in 1804, before going to Malta; on his return from Malta, in 1807; again in 1808; in 1811; in 1814, in which year he also lectured at Bristol; in 1817, and for the last time, I believe, in 1819." The lectures alluded to in these letters, were delivered still later, in 1821.

The subject appears to have been a favourite one with the Lecturer. See Gillman's Life of Coleridge, 1838, vol. 1, p. 252.

[JULY, 1854.

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matic fever, affecting principally the right side and the I have been very grievously afflicted by a sort of rheuthe paroxysms have come on about midnight, and rendered whole half of the back lengthways; the more grievous, that it impracticable to lie down,t or even to sit still for many

minutes together, till seven or eight in the morning; but for scribable depression of spirit which my reason finds it diffitwo or three hours before the fit, there comes on an indecult to overrule, and impossible to prevent or remove, and after the fits my whole back feels hot and sore as a bruise. But the weather is sadly against me, and I can only pray for myself and for all; may God either proportion the sufferings to the strength, or grant strength in proportion to the sufferAmen. ings. Thy will be done! Accept assurances of sincere respect and regard from your obliged,

S. T. COLERidge.

August 23, 1830. You may if you like, and continue to wish it, have the first half of the Aids to Reflection, on the understood condition, that you shall have the second as soon as it is actually required, whether I have or have not made the additions, or rather substitutions, which I meditate and which, consisting almost wholly of transcripts from manuscripts, my health only has prevented. This is the best compromise that, in the present uncertainty and restiveness of my Beast body, I can make between my desires to improve the book, and my anxiety not to worry or disappoint you or the public. S. T. COLERIDGE.

• On the initials, which Coleridge sometimes affixed to his letters, he made the pun, Estese (tornon.)

His residence at Highgate commenced in April, 1816. † Coleridge once went with a friend to visit a young lady whose father and mother were for many years martyrs to the gout; when he, in his eccentricity, expressed their helpless situation by the following parody of Byron

They lazily mumbled their mea's in bed,
Unable to crawl from the spot where they fed.

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Tuesday, April 9th, 1834.

MY DEAR SIR, Mr. Gillman tells me that he delivered to me, I know not how long ago, a letter from you respecting the Aids to Reflection, and, therefore, though I have no recollection of it, I doubt not it was so ; for my memory, never of the strongest, has, through long illness and accumulated indisposition, become pitiably intenacious; the memory indeed being a plant that has its root and trunk in the body, especially the stomach and bowels, though its branches and blossoms are in the head. However, better late than never.

I hereby authorise you to dispose of my share of the edition of the Aids to Reflection, and of the Essay on the Constitution in Church and State, according to the idea, as your own judgment may direct. For I can truly say, that though not worth a shilling of niy own in the world since King William the Fourth took my poor gold chain of a hundred links-one hundred pounds-with those of nine other literary veterans, to emblason d'or the black bar across the Royal arms of the Fitzclarences, I would yet rather lose ten times a hundred pounds, than ever suspect you of an unkind act towards Your very sincere friend,

S. T. COLERIDGE.

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THE Russian atrocities at Sinope were but a resumé of former attempts to destroy the nationality of Turkey in Europe. A similar outrage was perpetrated in 1790, and the circumstances appear to have escaped the notice of the writers of our day. The particulars are thus described among the political events of that period ;JASSY. JULY 2.-A courier has just arrived here with dispatches from Admiral Uschakow, commander of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea which informs us of a considerable victory gained by the Russian admiral over the Turks. Admiral Uschakow having information that fifteen large Turkish vessels were on their voyage to Sinope, he ordered a detachment of his squadron to pursue and attack them, which he did with such success, that above half of them were taken, burnt, or sunk, as they were entering the port. The Russian artillery was at the same time served with so much skill and effect, that the magazines of the Turks at Sinope were wholly destroyed, and about 300 men made prisoners.

Well might Lord Liverpool, with more liberality and sounder political knowledge than his compeers in the ministry of his day, denounce the Navarino conflict as "an untoward affair; "but a clearer estimate of past mischiefs has at length dissolved the mist, and the Muscovite policy will deceive no more.

There was a second edition of the Aids in 1831; a fifth in 1843. Biogr. Literaria, edit. 1847, vol. ii. p. 425. + First printed in 1830: it is now joined with the Lay Sermons in one volume, Biogr. Literaria, edit. 1847, vol. ii. p. 425

CUNEIFORM MONUMENTAL STONES IN IRELAND.

noticed in Current Notes, vol. iv., p. 35, are yet extant in Various examples of the cuneiform monumental slabs, Ireland, and several of them have been found in this neighbourhood. At the principal entrance of the churchyard of Saul, the scene of St. Patrick's ministry in Ireland, and within a short distance of Downpatrick, is one, that although now much defaced, still exhibits unmistakeable evidence of having been once of elaborate sculpture.

At Kilbride, distant about five miles from Downpatrick, are the remains of another, found on the site of the old parish church, and till lately, was built in a style, leading to a farm-house.

In 1813, whilst digging among the ruins of the ancient church at Ardglass, also within five or six miles of Downpatrick, one of very elegant sculpture was discovered; it is now built into the wall of the porch of the modern parish church, erected on the site of the old one.

Four of these cuneiform slabs were found in the ruins of Bannow Church, county Wexford; and in Selsker Abbey, in the same county, is another, but of more primitive character, if we may so speak; and among the ruins of the collegiate church of St. Mary, at Youghall, there are yet one or two good examples.

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In the cemetery attached to the parish church of Kilclief, about five miles from Downpatrick, and not many perches from the castle of that name, are to be seen three of those monumental stones. This cemetery is the site of a religious house founded in the earliest of Christianity in Ireland. About ten years since, I observed, built into the wall over a fire place in one of the rooms of the Anglo-Norman castle of Kilclief, a cunciform monumental slab, exactly corresponding in size, shape, and bas-relief, with the other examples yet reposing in the neighbouring cemetery; and of which a very erroneous impression has been current for upwards of a century.

Harris, in his History of the County of Down, 1744, and from him, more recently, Dubourdieu, in his Statistical Survey, 1812, state-"In Kilclief castle, is a chamber, called the Hawk's chamber, in that, according and hawks were kept." In the olden time, it is to be to the traditions of the old natives, the bishop's falconer premised, the castle of Kilclief was an episcopal residence; and the surrounding country, a manor pertaining to the bishops of Down; but Harris observes, the tradition probably arose from "the figure of a fowl, resembling a hawk, carved on a stone chimney piece in a room on the second floor." Harris's authority is the Ulster Visitation, in 1622. Dr. Petrie, one of our most learned and judicions archaeologists, has adopted the same error. He says, "the first floor is vaulted, and the second has a stone chimney-piece on which is carved the figure of a bird, resembling a hawk, and also a shield bearing a cross patee.* The fact, as determined by my own observation, is, no stone chimney

* Dublin Penny Journal, 1833, vol. 1, pp. 385-386.

piece is to be found in the entire edifice: and the description, so erroneous in all particulars, refers only to the cuneiform slab that is still part of the wall, above the fire place.

Like most of the numerous military remains which girdle the shores of the county of Down, as Dr. Petrie observes, "the name of the founder, or the period of the building of Kilclief castle are alike unknown; but its style of architecture sufficiently proves it to be of the early part of the fourteenth century." I am, however, of opinion, that an earlier date ought to be assigned, and that since it was first erected, the castle has undergone such alterations as to embarrass alike the artist and the archæologist. Neither is the time when it became a bishop's residence, accurately known. John Ross, appointed to the see of Down, in 1387, is known to have resided here. John Cely, or Sely, instituted in 1413, was also a resident till he was deprived in 1441; and Eugene McGynisse, or Magennis, bishop in 1541, held the castle and manor, which are still both appropriate to

the see.
Yet at whatever period the castle may have
been erected, it is clear, the monumental slab is of a
much older date, and that in fact having continued
beyond the remembrance for whose ashes it was to de-
note the deposit, the slab was simply as material used for
building purposes, hence it may be inferred it was an
object of considerable antiquity even at that time.

JAMES A. PILSON.
Recorder Office, Downpatrick.

MARGARET LOGY, QUEEN OF SCOTLAND, 1363. As the parentage of Margaret Logy, the Queen of David the Second, King of Scotland, 1329-1371, contemporary with Edward the Third, King of England, has long been a subject of doubt and inquiry among all historians, I have some reason to presume that anything new, however imperfect, may interest the reader; and, therefore, forward the following remarks, that some of your correspondents may either correct, or add to them.

Some have asserted that Margaret was the daughter of a knight, named Sir John de Logy; others that her father was a private gentleman, also named John de Logy; and in Extracta e variis Cronicis Scocie, p. 190, it is said, "Dauid Rex accepit in vxorem speciosissimam Dominam Margaretam Logy relictam Johannes Logy, pro successione et asseruit habenda." This idea of her being the widow of a John Logy, is evidently taken from one of the two manuscripts of Fordun, referred to by Lord Hailes in his Annals, vol. ii. p. 284.

Tytler supposes her to have been related to the Sir John de Logy, who was, with David de Brechin, executed as a traitor in the time of Bruce, and there is nothing to invalidate that opinion; still, in all the investigations which the inquiry has occasioned, one or two particulars highly conducive to point out her real parentage, have been overlooked.

Though the surname of Logy is of rare occurrence in the early annals of the kingdom, there was another person, whether a son, or in any way related to the forfeited baron, is unknown; who towards the middle of the same century was designated Johannes de Logy miles; and who, in 1359, had a charter from David the Second of the lands of Strongartnay, in the lordship of Monteith,* in Perthshire. Four years subsequently to that grant, 1363, the year that King David and Margaret Logy were married, “Johannes de Logy, Dominus ejusdem," had a grant from the said King of the Thanedom of Glamis, and also the reversion of that of Tanadice, in Forfarshire; the charter of the latter having been previously granted to Peter Prendergaist. The charter to John de Logy is dated, at Perth, the 12th day of April, 1363; and according to Wyntown,§ it was also "in the year thatmoneth of Aprile' of that

In Ince-Mortho the King Davy

Weddit the dame Mergret of Logy.

From these traces of the two barons named John de Logy, arises the question, whether, the knight and John of that ilk, were one and the same? though variously de"miles" and "dominus ejusdem," it is posscribed as sible they were one and the same person, for designations in old writings are not always uniform; but, whether identical or not, there is fair probability that John de Logy, who obtained the grant of Glamis and Tanadice, was the father of Margaret, Queen of David the Second. Glamis and Tanadice were both held, partly at least by a John de Ramsay, previously to 1362, as in that year Ramsay received certain payments in lieu of the feus of these lands,|| to which doubtless Logy had succeeded; and, on the reversion of Glamis to the Crown, whether after the death of John de Logy, or other undefined cause, that thanedom was granted to Sir John Lyon by King Robert the Second, in dowry with the Princess Jane, his wife, in little more than a year from the time of David's death. That John de Logy was deceased, or had ceased to be Thane of Glamis before King David's death, is

Acta Parl. vol. 1, p. 165.

+ Reg. Mag. Sigill., f. 32, 76. The reddendo paid by Logy for these lands, were a red falcon for the first, and a sparrow-hawk for the second, to be delivered yearly at the feast of Pentecost. Robertson, Index, p. 67, 32, in men"Carta to John Logie tioning this charter describes it as (perhaps for Lion), of that ilk."

Robertson's Index, p. 39, 56. Several of the name of Prendergaist, of the shire of Berwick, did homage to King Edward the First, in 1296. Regman Rolls, pp. 137, 150, 159, and 172.

Cronykil of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 293. Inchmurtho, Extr. e Variis Cron. Scocie, was a rich priory belonging to the Canons Regular of the Augustine Order, founded by King Edgar, on an island in the lake of Menteith.

Reg. Mag. Sigill, f. 90, 315.
Acta Parl., vol. i. p. 171.

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