31. EDW R ANGL DNS HYB CIVI TAS CAN TOR Large letters, similar to no. 1. 32. As no. 31, but Saxon € on obverse. 33. As no. 31, but smaller in all respects. 34. As no. 33; star on king's breast. Coin smaller than the preceding. 35. EDW R ANGL DNS HYB. Brooch on breast. CIVI TAS CAN TOR. Similar to no. 31. 36. As no. 35, but no brooch on breast. 37. As no. 36; the pellet before legend on reverse. 38. EDW R ANGL DNS HYB Two dots on king's breast. CIVI TAS CANTOR As no. 31. mark, on reverse, a cross moline (Bp. Beck, 1283-1311.) 48. As no. 47, but small letters. 49. As no. 47. Cross moline m.m. before legend on obverse and reverse. 50. As no. 48. Star on king's breast; the cross moline m.m. on obverse only. 51. EDW R ANGL DNS HYB CIV ITA SDVR EME Cross moline m.m. before legend obverse and reverse. Letters small. 52. EDW R ANGL DNS HYB CIVI TAS EME DVR The syllables transposed; large letters. 53. As no. 47; but on reverse, in one quarter, a cross moline instead of pellets. ST. EDMUNDSBURY. 54. EDW R ANGL DNS HYB VILL SCIE DMV NDI Letters small. 55. As no. 54. Star on king's breast. Letters small. 56. EDW R ANGL DNS HYB VIL LAS EDM VNDI 57. Obverse as no. 54. Brooch on breast. Letters large. VILA SCI EDM VNDI Letters small. 58. Obverse as no. 54. VILA SCIE DMV NDI 59. Obverse as no. 54. VILA SCI EDM VNDI 60. EDW R ANGL DNS HYB ROBE RTDE HADE LEIE Large letters. Cross small and plain. A variety has the RO and the DE on reverse, braced as monograms. Robert de Hadley was moneyer here in 1280. His coins are the last in the English Series on which the name of the Moneyer ostensibly appears. 61. As no. 60, but with Saxon €. 62. EDW R ANGL DNS HYB ROBE RTVS DEH ADL' 63. EDW R ANGL DNS HIB no. 60. 64. Obverse as no. 62. ROBE RTV SDEH ADL' Letters small. Reverse similar to 65. Obverse, bust in a triangle. Reverse as no. 60. Cuff's Sale Catalogue, no. 785. 66. Obverse as no. 65. Reverse similar to no. 62 EXETER. 67. EDW R ANGL DNS HYB Star on breast. CIVITAS EXONIE Small letters. Another, similar type; no star on the breast. KINGSTON-UPON-HULL. 68. EDW R ANGL DNS HYB Star on breast. VILL KYN GES TON Small letters. DUBLIN, IRELAND. 85. EDW R' ANGL DNS HYB A dot below bust. CIVITAS DVBLINIE Small letters. 86. As no. 85, but EDW B' on obverse. 87. Legends same as no. 85; but the letters on obverse are small; large on the reverse. 88. Legends as no. 85, but two dots below the king's bust. Letters large. 89. As no. 88, but small letters. 90. Legends as no. 85; two dots below bust; the letters on obverse small, on the reverse large. 91. As no. 85. A brooch in addition to dot on king's BAKER'S DOZEN.-What is the right meaning of the phrase, a baker's dozen? Diss, Feb. 7. S. L. S. Thirteen as twelve, which has long been the custom. Taylor, the Water-poet, in his Travels of Twelve Pence, notices How bakers thirteene penny loaues doe giue, All for a shilling, and thriue well, and liue. So also, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle, in her Nature's Picture, 1656, folio, observes In this volume there are several feigned stories; also, there are some Morals, and some Dialogues; but they are as the advantage loaf of bread to the baker's dozen.. CREATION OF PEERS FOR LIFE. The opponents to the unquestionably constitutional and legal prerogative vested in the Queen's authority to create Peers for life, appear to have purposely omitted any reference to Blackstone, who in his Commentaries, observes:p. 401, Creation by writ has one advantage over that by patent: for a person created by writ holds the dignity to him and his heirs, without any words to that purport in the writ; but in letters patent there must be words to direct the inheritance, else the dignity ensues only to the grantee for life. For a man or woman may be created noble for their own lives, and the dignity not descend to their heirs at all, or descend only to some particular heirs: as where a peerage is limited to a man, and the heirs male of his body by Elizabeth his present lady, and not to such heirs by any former or future wife. CROSS AT ST. BURYAN, CORNWALL. The antiquity of Crosses everywhere, but especially in Cornwall, is an old and somewhat worn subject, but I consider one in the churchyard of St. Buryan in that county, is entitled to more than a passing notice. I have looked into all the Cornish histories at my command, but in none of them do I find the Buryan Cross engraved. The Rev. W. Haslam, known as the discoverer of the old Oratory of Perran Zabuloe; not many years since engraved some of the Cornish Crosses, which in that part are very abundant, two of them were in St. Buryan parish, but that of which I forward a sketch is a third. It is of a form rarely met with in Cornwall-a Maltese cross surrounded by a circle; a beautiful emblem of the eternal efficacy of the Atonement. On one side, somewhat mutilated and time-worn, is the crucified Christ; on the other, as shewn in the sketch, are the emblems of the five wounds received on Calvary. The devotional character and thought about this Cross may well serve as a suggestion for the church restorers of the nineteenth century. I should be glad to know the order in which the various forms of crosses may be arranged, from the Latin cross, to the more elaborate sculpture of the decorated period of English architects. Where may such a classification be found? HOYLE.-Huddesford in his Catalogue of Anthony Wood's Manuscripts, in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, describes, no. 8466, as an account of the Nobility and Gentry, buried at Oxford, since 1643, etc. Among the persons noticed is JOSHUA HOYLE, Master of University College, and Regius Professor of Divinity. TALBOIS.No. 8465, in the same Collection, is a folio volume of Pedigrees of the Nobility and Gentry of England, transcribed by Ralph Sheldon of Beoley; among them is one of the TALBOIS family. THE CRIMEA SEVENTY YEARS SINCE. or connivance of both Austria and Prussia. No one who The Blinded by political prejudices, England appears to have turned a deafened ear to all the aspirations of warning against the aggressions of the Russians in the Black Sea, abetted as they have been by the assistance reads Capt. Sutherland's Tour from Gibraltar to Constantinople, printed in 1790, will fail being impressed with surprise that warnings so broadly and so unequivocally expressed, should have failed in exciting a more particular attention on the part of successive governments in England to our national interests. Russian fleet in the Black Sea was then officered by Englishmen, and under their superior abilities and nautical experience, in the bay of Chisemê inflicted a fatal blow to the Turkish Empire, and created that naval supremacy for the Russian, which has in 1855 been wholly subverted. The ambitious projects of the Empress Catherine, in 1788, with the entry of the Austrians under the Prince of Saxe Cobourg into Moldavia, created a determined resistance on the part of Turkey, which elicited from Capt. Sutherland the following animated remarks on the cupidity of our rulers. As an Englishman, policy obliges me to wish success to the Turks. I feel the utmost detestation of the ambitious combination entered into by the Emperor of Austria and the Empress Catherine to extirpate the Turks, merely because Nature has been bountiful to their soil, and because their country promised an easy conquest. These Powers could scarcely imagine that Europe would look on with indifference: but they trusted they had a sufficient party to prevent any open declaration in favour of the injured Turks. These expectations the total suspension of the powers of France must have frustrated. The writer in calling upon Prussia and England to support the Turk, if on no better terms than the strict observance by Russia of the Treaty of Cainardgie, a treaty which England was bound to redress, observes What has become of that spirit of virtue and generosity, which not fifty years since led us to enter into an expensive war, in favour of Maria Theresa, merely because she was then an unfortunate Princess, oppressed by an ambitious neighbour, whose usurpations like those of Russia, threatened in time to affect ourselves. It is, no doubt, a considerable abatement of the honest joy an Englishman feels in contemplating this act of magnanimity in his ancestors, to find, that ingratitude has been the only return which has been made to us. In cherishing Austria and Russia, we may really be said to baye nurtured the viper in our bosom, which in the moment of our distress attempted a mortal wound by forming the Armed Neutrality, or in plain language, a combination to supply our enemies with implements for our destruction. critical a situation; if a sense of our national dignity; if If justice to the Turks, whom we have reduced to so our dearest interest and commercial concerns will not in duce us to speak boldly in a moment like this, self-preser vation at least should affect us. Let us recollect that Russia is an evil-disposed aspiring child; that we now have it in our power to curb her proud. spirit; but that if we neglect this opportunity and allow her to increase in 1 pride, and in strength, in a few years she may perhaps trample on our breasts. Pax queritur in Bello is a favourite motto, but Wars guarded against in peace, is in my opinion a much better one; and this is the motto England ought to choose. There is nothing in the present state of Europe, that Great Britain can in justice require, but what she must immediately gain. Let her then dictate terms to Russia, and check her ambitious views. If she refuses to subinit, shew us the Power who at this moment will dare to oppose the serious threats of England? Vengeance would soon overwhelm her.. CENSURE AGAINST SNUFF-TAKING IN CHURCH. The Sessional Records of Brechin, contain the following reprehension against the taking of snuff during divine service. 1638, Oct. 2. Thomas Will, Alexander Gawin and others, being called in this day before the Sessioun for taking of snuff in tym of divyn seruice, and that publickly to the offence of vthers, ane ewill example to wys to doe the lyk, they confessed and promises not to the lyk in tymes to come or wy' wayes to vnderlye the censur of the Session. Brechin, Feb. 7. A. J. HOLLES MONUMENT, ST. PETER'S, DORCHESTER. After a highly successful appeal to the town of Dorchester, and the county of Dorset, in aid of a fund for the repairing and restoring the beautiful old church of St. Peter's, sufficient has been obtained for effecting the more immediate requirements, leaving contemplated improvements, works of ornament and minor importance, to be effected when further contributions could be after wards collected. These repairs have been progressing for some months past; and amongst the exceptions, caused by the inadequacy of means, was the removal of the monument of Denzil, Baron Holles of Ifield, from the eastern window of the south aisle, to some other part of the church, in order to open that window, that had been completely blocked up by the monument. One of the gentlemen of the Committee having given orders for its removal, the monument has been taken down, and partly put up at the western end of the north aisle. From the first I have been acting as one of the Honorary Secretaries to the Committee appointed for the effecting these repairs, and until the occurrence of this circumstance have been wholly in accord with the persons of that Committee, and their plans; but in this unfortunately differ from the parties assuming the management, and consider this difference as being on a subject, beyond the mere question of ornament, and am therefore induced to this remonstrance, in the hope of drawing the attention of all lovers of antiquity and beauty to this monument, that a remedy may present itself for that which I consider to be, to say the least of it, a most unjustifiable proceeding. On the top, between two urns, an escutcheon encircled by the Garter, containing the arms of Holles, Duke of Newcastle.* Over all a ducal coronet, and on a cushion above it a ducal cap, motto-SPES AVDACES ADJVVAT. Under the curtain are three cherubim's heads, and below these, the effigies of Lord Holles, in a robe of loose drapery, and in a recumbent posture, his right elbow leaning upon a cushion. On the outside of the monument, the effigy on the right side, is that of a boy, and on the left, that of an angel mourning. Below the effigy, are the arms, supporters, and motto of Lord Denzil Lord Holles, by Dorothy Ashley, his first wife, had an only son, Francis, who succeeded his father in the barony. He died March 1, 1689-90, and was succeeded by his only son Denzil, the third Baron Holles, who died in his nineteenth year, in 1694, when that honour became extinct, and the estates devolved upon his heir-at-law, John Holles, fourth Earl of Clare, who having married Margaret, daughter and coheiress of Henry Cavendish, second Duke of Newcastle, deceased 1691; was on May 14, 1694, created Marquis of Clare, and third Duke of Newcastle. He caused the Holles Monument to be erected in St. Peter's Church, in 1699, and dying in 1711, s. p. m., his honours, notwithstanding the panoply of armorial glory displayed in this marble memorial, also became extinct. Holles, with a baron's coronet. In a compartment on the base are two inscribed columns, that on the right in Latin, and that on the left in English. The monument of such a man as Denzil Lord Holles, is, I think it will be admitted, of more than local interest; perhaps, indeed, I should not go too far, if I said of national interest. Lord Holles is known as a man noble and illustrious in descent. In the reign of King James the First he represented Dorchester in parliament; and married Dorothy, daughter and heiress of Sir Francis Ashley, of Dorchester. He was created a peer April 20, 1661, and was honoured by representing his sovereign at several foreign courts; was a faithful counsellor to his prince, a patriot to his country, and a Christian towards God. He died in the eighty-second year of his age, Feb. 17, 1679-80, and was buried in this church on April 10, 1680.* His wife was also buried here. Now, of this monument, I confess, I with pain observe it is intended to re-erect it in part only! Will it be believed that it is contemplated to set aside the pillars, the top, the urns, the curtain, and the cherubims' heads, because the omission pleases the taste of several gentlemen who have decided thereon? On the contrary, I consider it of great importance that the whole should be re-erected, and not thus mutilated by way of "improvement." A difference of opinion might possibly occur on the score of "improvement," for quot homines, tot sententia, and, in my humble opinion, the omissions apparently decided on would anything but merit that name. Another argument for its complete restoration is, that, I am credibly informed, there is a rent-charge of two guineas per annum, derivable from the estate known as Holles Froome, near Dorchester, formerly the property of Lord Holles, reserved and payable for the cleaning and maintaining of this fine monument. One word on "the right" to mutilate monuments. It might as well be said that the parties are equally empowered to take from, or add, at their will and pleasure, to any monument in the church, according to their taste from time to time; unless it is contended, which it would be idle to do, that the lapse of time since its erection would give them that right. I trust, therefore, that the parties in authority, who have ordered the omissions, will, on consideration, agree with me that the monument ought to be reinstated, as originally designed and planned by the sculptor, who was surely the best judge of what was a becoming background for his own work; and that such an instance of bad taste may not mar the, in other respects, vast improvements to one of the finest and best-built churches of our county. Dorchester, Feb. 11. JOHN GARLAND. The sermon preached at his funeral by the Rev. Samuel Rayner, then rector of St. Peter's, contains copious biographical details of Lord Holles. It was published by William Churchill, bookseller in Dorchester, in 1680, 4to., but is now of considerable rarity. THE LAST OF THE COURT FOOLS? Said Effendi, distinguished by the appellation of Mussahib, or Imperial Buffoon, who had served in that capacity four Sultans, and who notwithstanding his very advanced age, was frequently commanded into the presence of the present Sultan, to exercise his talent in smart sayings, and perform the antics of his office, which the venerable old gentleman generally did with remarkable agility, died at Constantinople on the 3rd instant, at the age of 121 years and seven months. COMPENSATION OF MAGAZINE WRITERS. A correspondent of the Aberdeen Journal states of his own knowledge, the following are the sums paid to writers, by the proprietors of the periodicals named. We, ourselves, receive from Chambers's Journal, twenty-one shillings per page, and for the continuous Tales in the serial, a guinea and a half per page is paid; in a page of Chambers there are about 1373 words. In words, and for that number, the Religious Tract Society a page of the Leisure Hour, there are usually 1120 1250 words, Eliza Cook used to pay us a guinea; and pays fifteen shillings. For a page containing about Charles Dickens, Household Words, still pays that sum for a page of not more than 1050 words. For the much smaller pages of Tait's, Sharpe's, Bentley's, and the new New Monthly, half a guinea each is paid; while for pages of about the same size, Blackwood, and the Dublin University, pay double that price. For reviews, the Athenæum pays half a guinea; while the Critic and The Quarterlies pay their contributors at rates varying the Literary Gazette, pay seven shillings per column. from eight to sixteen guineas per sheet of sixteen pages. 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