thought, and certainly is, compared with children at a later period of life, I have myself experienced both (very recently the latter), and if my own consideration of the subject can for a moment soothe the sorrow, or in any degree comfort the surviving parents, they will find it in the following lines, written some years past :

ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF AN
'INFANT'S DEATH.

Lovely form of infant beauty
To the dust beneath consign'd!

This sweet cherub* still recalls thee
Fondly to a Parent's mind ; ·

Now renews the parting anguish
Which a parent's bosom rent,
When, to pierce the spotless victim,
Death's unerring dart was sent:

"Though bereav'd of thy caresses,
Shall I mourn the blest decree
Which for Earth's eventful changes,
Gave celestial scenes to thee?

No; with grateful adoration
I commemorate the day

Angels bore their new associate Far from buman cares away. The same sentiments are now united with those which I have since felt for his late brother, and with which I shall always commemorate them both.

Now withdrawn the veil of glory
Pervious to no human eye,

Heav'n receives the parted spirits To the blissful realms on high. Yours, &c. W. B. ***This Correspondent's private appre. hensions are wholly groundless. EDIT.

Statistical Particulars of WooLSTANTON, STAFFORDSHIRE. [Continued from page 121.]· Monumental Inscriptions, On a plain tomb at the West end of the North aile, near the entrance door, in capitals:

Here lyeth the bodies of John Cowell, sommetime of this Parish, Yeoman; and Christabell his wife; which sayd John left land, being inheritance, to nine severall persons. Allso hee hath given to the Free Schoole of Newcastle one hundred povnds. Allso hee hath given to the Poore of Nutton and Chesterton thirtie and two shillings a yeare for ever. Allso hee hath

given to the Towne of Newcastle aforesayd Tenn pounds, to pvt poore children to 'prentice: and to the Sovth side of Wollstonton

* Alluding to a monumental sculpture near the place of interment.

parish twentie povads, to pvt poore chil dren to 'prentice Which sayd John and Christabell departed this life, the 13 day of Aprill in the yeare of ovr Lord God 1659, Death is the end of all flesh; The liveing shovld lay it to hart. North wall is an hatchment, in meino Upon entering the Chancel, on the ry of Ralph Sneyd, esq.; who died Dec. 11th, at Bath, in Somersetshire; and was buried in the family vault in this Church, Dec. 19, 1793, aged 10 years. His wife Barbara died Feb, 23, 1797, aged 71 years, and was bu ried in the same vault.

The arms are s→ Argent, a fleur dé lis Sable, and a scythe, in pale, of the same (Sneyd); impaling, Ermine, two chevrons Azure (Bagot.) The crest is a Lion passant guardant Sable.

On the same wall near the hatchment, on a black tablet; in capitals:

the

"Here lyeth byried the body of William Yonge, of Caynton in the county of Sallop, esq. who married Svsanna, one davghters of Robert Corbett, ton, in the foresa yd county, esq. by whome he had issve; William, Mary, and Dorothye. This William was sonne and heire of William Yonge, and Ann his wife, one of the daughters of Sir William Sneyd, of Bradwall, in the county of Stafford, knight. He departed this life the eleventh day of February, Anno Domini 1597,"

:

urn, and above the pediment the arms of Sneyd. On the outside of each pilaster stands a cherub treading upon a skeleton on the lower part of the monument on a tablet is inscribed: **"Hic juxta situs est. Johannes Sneyd armiger, filius natu minimus Radulphi Sneyd de Keel, et Franciscæ, filiæ D'ni Johannis, et sororis, D'ni Roberti Dryden, de Ashby Canonum, in agro Northamptoniensi, Baronettorum; qui utriusq; parentis sanguine illustris, ab utrâq; familia virtutes à D'no Roberto Dryden fortunas amplas accepit, hæres non degener: formâ corporis et animi doti bus conspicius; egenis liberalis ; ĉognatis, præcipuè in rebus angustis, summè munificus; qui eâ erat indole, ut maximo cuivis muneri sufficeret, eâ tamen valetudine et modestiâ, ut in privatæ vitæ otio latere mallet. Ulcere infœliciter maligno correptus obiit Mart. xxIII. Anno Dom, MDCCX. ætatis suæ xxxII. Radulphus Sneyd de Bishton, Patruelis ejus, et ex insperato hæres conscriptus, marmor hoc posuit."

In the North corner of the chancel is an altar tomb; having on the top, the effigies of Sir William Sneide in armour, and his lady by his side: the front side of the tomb is adorned with the sculptured images of five sons in armour, and six daughters.-The end under the feet of the large effigies, has the images of the remaining four daughters'; and to the opposite end, under their heads, is affixed two coats of arms: That under the male head is, Quarterly, 1st and 4th Sneyd; 2d, quarterly, 1st and 4th Sable, 2d and 3d Argent: each quarter is charged with a leopard's face counterchanged; 3d. Argent, a cross of cross crosslets Sable. The shield under the female head is Sneyd, impaling, Or, three torteaux, each charged with a fleur de lis of the first; on a chief Azure, a bugle between 2 arrow heads Argent. Over this tomb is erected a kind of arch supported by plain pillars; the whole of which is of inferior workmanship. Against the wall on a stone within this arch is inscribed, in capitals:

"Here lie the bodies of Sir William Sneide, of Broadwall*; knight, and dame Anne his wife, one of the davghters and heires of Thomas Barrowe, of Flvckersbrooke, in the covntie of Chester, esqvier; who had issve five sons and ten davghters: which Sir William died the 6 of Jvne 1571."

*Broadwall, the antient family seat of the Sneyds, is situate about a mile and a half North of Woolstanton Village,

Against the East wall on the South side of the chancel window, is a glo bular marble tablet, encircled by a wreath, adorned on each side with a weeping cherub, and surmounted by ' a bust; it has also the arms of Sneyd and Dryden, on distinct shields on the lower part, and at the bottom of all an angel. The arms of Dryden are Az. a Lion rampant Or, a globe between two estoiles of the last in chief. It is inscribed:

"H. S. E. Willielmus Sneyd, RadulPhi Sneyd, de Keel, in Agro Staffordiensi Arm, Filius primogenitus; qui antiquæ et insignis Prosapiæ honorem, virtutibus eximius (verâ nobilitate) decoravit & auxit: largis munificæ fortunæ donis & venusti corporis pulchritudine iltrior; quippe qui inter profligatos iniquislustris, animi tamen dotibus multò illussimi temporis mores incorruptam egit juventutem, derisamq; modestiam, pietatem ac fidem profiteri ausus est & colere : Ita ut nullibi honestius formam, aut pulchrius virtutem habitasse dixeris. Longævam ipsi vitam concessisse visa est natura; non enim minus morborum expers corpus, quam mens vitii; donec fatali Variolarum labe correptus, animam puram (quasi facto morbo deturpatum aspernata esset domicilium) Deo reddidit, septimo die Sep

tembris anno Salutis MDCLXXXIX. ætatis suæ XXIV. Dolendum maximè quod tam teneris annis fatis succubuit: Constat tamen Deum vitæ opus perpendere, non dies numerare; illumque satis diu vixisse, qui cœlo maturus moritur.”

The above Inscription, according to respectable tradition, was written by the poet Dryden.

Ou the South wall within the rails of the altar, is another marble monument, nearly similar in design to the above. The cherubs on each side the tablet are represented as holding a chaplet, and not weeping the arms of Sneyd and Noel are on the lower part on distinct shields. The arms of Noel are Or, fretty Gu.a canton Ermine. The Inscription is:

"In Pace Radulphus Radulphi Sneyd de Keel armig: in Com: Staff: filins natu tertius; Francisca uxore, filia Gulielmi Noel equit: aurat: de Kirkby Mallery in agro Leicest: et tribus liberis, Radulpho, Edoardo, Honoria, superstitibus; Obiit prid. nonas April. A. C. ciɔɔexcv: Vixit annos xxv. M. 111. D. xi. magnum apud parentes, necessarios, conjugem, bonos, Sui desiderium reliquit : et ingente Pienplorantium frequentiâ elatus est. tissima conjux, contra votum B. M. d. s. p. P. C." Beneath

Beneath the above monument are three stone seats and a piscina.

In the chancel near or under Mr. Sneyd's hatchment is an old oaken chest, with these initials and date. F. C. I. T.-M. B. 1636. R. C. W. D. R. H. In the years 1803 and 1804 this churchunderwent considerable repairs; the seats, which were old and in bad condition, were taken down and re built, with the addition of boarded floors and new oak fronts. It is now well pewed. The ailes were then laid with new quarry bricks, and the walls white-washed, &c. The expence of which repairs was about 2307.

On the beam which supports the rafters of the South aile, extending the whole length in one line, in capitals, is:

Sir: Thomas: Colloclogh: knight: 1623: John Brett: esqvier: Raphe Bourne's John: Maclesfeelde: John Woode: Chvrchwardens: Anno: Domini: 1623.

This may be perhaps the date of the building of the Church, or some important repairs.

The Parish Register begins in 1628, during which year are recorded 26 funerals, 6 weddings, and 40 baptisms: and in the succeeding year, 25 fune rals, 2 weddings, and 53 baptisms.

Total in each

month for 104

years from 1701 to 1804,

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NEW-CHAPEL is a chapel of ease to Woolstanton; and is situate four or five miles Northward of the mother church: it is a modern brick building, in the interior, say, about 48 by 36 feet, and contains two double rows of oak pews, and a small West gallery: it has no tower, but there is a common cupola at the West end, in which is hung a small bell. In the chapel yard is a plain altar-tomb, to the memory of that eminent mechanic James Brindley; who has immortalized his name, by his superior skill in planning and conducting inland navigation. He was buried here, and the inscrip

tion on his tomb is merely,

"James Brindley, of Turnhurst*, Engineer, was interred Sept. 30, 1772, aged 56,"

Panegyric is not wanting for such a person; for, as long as those canals which he made endure, the name of Brindley will be remembered. This extraordinary man, though originally in humble life and circumstances, by his superior genius and industry was enabled, not only to benefit his country, but to acquire an ample fortune.

*Turnhurst is a mansion in this parish at a small distance South of the Chapel.

Some

Some of his relatives and descendants now live in and near Woolstanton Pa rish, in great respectability and independence.

The Chapelry is co-extensive with the North side of the parish. The Chapel is endowed with an estate in the parish of Norton in the Moors; and some land in Burslem parish, together with a few smalt annuities, and part of the surplice fees.

The patronage of this Chapel was formerly claimed by the Rev. J. Har ding, the vicar of Woolstanton, in right of his vicarage: but he was successfully opposed by Dryden Sneyd, esq. John Bowyer, esq. and Sarah Crewe otherwise Bourne, the wife of Charles Crewe, esq.; and the Judge, by his interlocutory decree, declared that their ancestors and predecessors did found and endow the Church of New chapel; and that the right of nomination belonged to them. The present patrons are Walter Sneyd, esq. of Keel, Mrs. Lawton, and Miss Alsager.

The present minister is John Lawton, A. M.

The Living of Woolstanton was formerly a rectory, valued in the King's books at 321. 3s. 97. and was given by king Edward VI. (Aug. 20, 1547) to gether with other livings to the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, in lieu of some lands, &c. which were alienated from his see*. It is now a valuable vicarage, endowed with a parsonage house, close to the church; nearly 50 acres of glebe, and the vicarial tithes, surplice fees, &c.

The patron and impropriator is Walter Sneyd, esq. of Keel.

The following is a list of the incumbents according to the register : 1628 Fran. Capps, buried 24th Nov.

1710 William Foden.

1724 John Harding, buried 24th April, 1743.

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1747 Samuel Middleton, who resigned in 1756. Edward Sneyd was instituted Nov. 5th of the same year, and held the living near 39 years. He was buried at Keel October 23, 1795, in the sixty-third year of his age.

His successor was John Fernyhough, who was formerly of Queen's Col lege, Cambridge, of which society he was fellow twelve years. He commenced B. A. in Jan. 1752, and was ordained Deacon by the Bishop of Lich field and Coventry, on a title to the curacies of Whitmore and Chapel Chorlton (two churches near New. castle under Line) March 18th 1753. In March 1760 he was licensed to the curacy of Newcastle under Line: where he lived from that time a truly respectable and beloved minister till his death. For nearly twenty years he was also incumbent of Maer; a curacy about seven miles from Newcastle. He took the degree of M. A. 1755; B. D. 1764. In March 1796 he was instituted to the vicarage of Woolstanton, on the nomination of the present patron; which he retained, together with the curacies of Newcastle and Maer, till he departed this life, March 8th 1808, in the 73d year of his age.

Mr. Fernyhough was a inan of generous and benevolent principles, and his social and domestic virtues will long endear his memory in the recollection of those who had the pleasure of knowing him.

He was succeeded by W. Chester, A. M. fellow of Merton College, Oxford, who resigned in 1807 for the living of Denton in Norfolk.

The present worthy incumbent is John Basnett, LL. B. (see Volume LXXVII. p. 1056, a.) Yours, &c.

UUS.

J. R. Thompson, p. 232, is, if I am not mistaken, a young man studying architectural matters in the school of J. Britton, whom I have had occasion to mention of late in this Miscellany, and (it may be called to mind) for very obvious reasons. This Mr. Thompson (supposing him the man I mean) some four or five years back applied to my friend J. Carter for various instructions relative to the composure of Henry's Chapel, which was readily complied with. He now gratefully returns the obligation by endeavouring to set right my inaccuracies," who am so closely allied in sentiment to J. Carter: for this his disinterested endeavour I thank him; that is, as far as his hints are just. The line of augels, I certainly misplaced in my account*. My idea of the arrangement of the groins, I aver to be correct, according to my judgment, and as they shew to my eye: but it is possi ble my opinion of one is deficient, and my gaze at the other dim and uncertain; at least in the superior skill and discernment of this my wellwisher. As for the side ailes, I hold to my description; and when I spoke of the pendentives being dispensed with, my meaning was directed to the five chapels or continuation of side ailes in the circuitous line round the East end of the structure, which are, I repeat," done without pendentives." I likewise, according to my method of illustration, still call the line of angels at East end of side ailes " cills of angels."

If Mr. T. sees objects in his imagination different from me, and chooses to distinguish them by other terms than I am in the habit of using, in truth, let him do so, and leave me to my task. For example: many men call our Antient Architecture "Gothic." I name it Architecture either in the Saxon, or Pointed style.” AN ARCHITECT.

cellent discourse, admirably and most

pathetically delivered by the vene

rable the Dean of Canterbury: Amongst the congregation I observ ed two of his Majesty's Sons, and several Members of both houses of Parliament. During the time the Psalms and Anthems were singing, every person, high and low, rich and poor, stood up. A few Sundays afterwards, I went to a small neat Chapel in Dukestreet, Westminster, one of the doors of which opens into St. James's Park.

Though I did not see any of the Peers of the Realm there, the congregation appeared to be genteel and respectable; but I was very much sur prised to observe, that not a single person in the Chapel, except the Clergyman and the Clerk, stood up, during the singing of the Psalms and Hymns; but all sat, as if they had been nailed to their seats. Can you, Mr. Urban, account for the difference in the behaviour of two congregations, so near to each other? If the practice. in the one be correct and proper, the contrary practice in the other must be the reverse. My friend, the learn ed Mr. John Reeves (and who by the bye lives within a few doors of the said Chapel) in his ingenious and erudite Introduction to his Edition of the Common Prayer, thus expresses himself on the subject:

"While we repeat the Psalms and Hymns, wes tand, conformably to what we

read, that while the Priests and Levites were offering up praises to God, all Israel stood; 2 Chron. vii. 6. Most of the Psalms contain some matter addressed to the Almighty, which makes it conve nient and proper, that the whole of them should be repeated by us, standing."

I trust, that the insertion of the above in your widely-circulating Ma gazine will be productive of some good, in more places than one; which I am sure is a sufficient inducement to you to publish it. A LAYMAN.

I that there is no country in the

T is, 1. believe, generally admitted,

world so eminently conspicuous as our own, for the exercise of compas sion and humanity to the suffering part of our fellow creatures; so much so, that when any new case of distress is made known, the hand of beneficence is immediately held out to its relief.