tus, Admiralli authoritate iterato infignitus, poftremò cum pro fide fuâ & fortitudine fingulari nupero civili bello exercitui regio Dux præeffet, mortem a eptus ultra illa honoratiffimæ vitæ decora illuftrem, Prælio de Edgehill, fatoq. tanti viri noto, in causâ fanctiffimâ Imperio Supremo victor gloriosè occubuit, anno ætatis 60, Chrifti 1642. E longo prudentique rerum ufu, multa illi experientia, oris dignitas quæ Procerem fateretur, eofque præ fe ferret titulos qui nunc leguntur. Tot licet nominibus præfulgenti alia adfuit claritudo è fobole non minus numerosâ, quam ex Elizabethâ Baronis Montacuti de Boughton filiâ liberos tredecim fufcepit: Montacutum, Rogerum, Peregrinum, Francifcum, Robertum, Henricum, Verum, & Edvardum; Catharinam, Elizabetham, Annam, Sophiam, & Mariam."

On the fecond tablet:

"H. S. E. Montacutus filius Roberti, Comes de Lindfey, Baro de Willughby, Beck, & Erefby, præcelfus Angliæ Camerarius, Carolo Primo ab interio Cubiculo, et Satellitij Regij Præfectus, Carolis utrifq. à Confiliis fecretioribus, Ordinis Perifcelidis Eques illuftris. Uxorem primam duxit Martham Gulielmi Cockain Equitis filiam, Comitis de Holderneffe viduam, è quâ fufcepit liberos: Robertum (nunc Comitem de Lindsey, &c.) Peregrinum, Ricardum, Verum, Carolum, Elizabetham, Bridgettam, & Catharinam. Altera illi conjux Bridgetta Wray, Baroniffa Norreys de Rycot, honoratiffima Edvardi Sackvill vidua, è quâ genuit Jacobum Baronem Norreys (aliam Familiæ fuæ nobilitatem), Edvardum, Henricum, et Mariam. Iftâ fobole propagavit familiam, quam virtute multiplici illuftravit, candore & humanitate præcipuus, vultus fuavitate & geftuum moderatione fummus decorus, comitate generosâ magnificè affabilis, Confiliarius prudentiffimus; in prælio de Edghill fortitudine fpectabilis piâ, cum Imperatorem Patrem lethaliter proftratum objectu corporis fui diutiffimè protegeret interritus. Fide erga Principes optimos inconcuffa, qui Caroli Primi funeftiffimas exequias, quatuor procerum unus, inter ipfam furentis Tyrannidis fævitiam, ad tumulum profecutus eft, fuo pietatis officio damnare aufus potenter rebelles. Obiit 25 Julii, anno æræ Chrift, 1666, ætatis fuæ 59; et fub hoc marmore cum patre Roberto & Martha conjuge unà requiefcit. Avi Parentumque honoratiffimæ memoriæ filij quatuor, Peregrinus, Ricardus, Verus, & Carolus, fupremi teftamenti curatores, mærentes pofuerunt."

Near the laft is a mural tablet of white marble. Arms, quarterly, 1. Ber

tie, 2. Willoughby, 3. Ufford, 4. Vere. Creft, a Saracen's head proper, ducally crowned Or. And the following. infeription:

"To the memory of Richard Bertie, who, being honourable by his noble parentage, made himself more fo by his noble actions. He was grandchild of that heroick and renown'd Robert, and third fon of Montague, both Earls of Lindley, and Hereditary Lord Greate Chamberlains of England. His actions were thefe : In Forreine parts he attended upon his then Royal Highneffe, now K. James II. and Marefchall de Turenne att the fieges of Mouzon ao 1653, and Laundrecy a 1655; in both which he fhewed an undoubted courage in two defperate attacks. His employmts at home were: hee ferved K. Charles the Ild in the command of Captain of Horse both in England and Ireland, as he did alfo the prefent King James the 11. against the Invafion and Rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth in the Weft. He was a perfon of unblemish'd integrity, both to Church and State; of fignall loyalty to his two Sovereigns, hofpitality to his neighbours, and obliging candour to all men. To whofe irreparable loffe on the 19th of January ao D'ni 1686, and 50th of his unmarry'd life, the hon'ble Peregrine Bertie, his fecond brother, fole executor and conftant companion in his travayles abroad, and in his entire affection at home, hath, as the laft teftimoniall of his neverdying love, erected this monument."

On the South fide of the Chancel is a monument more than 17 feet high, of white marble veined with blue; at the top of which are the arms of Ber. tie, Willoughby, Beke, Ufford, Vere, and a lion rampant quarterly with an inefcutcheon charged with a maunch, and on a border eight pair of lions' jambes faltire-ways; an Earl's coro net; fupporters, on the dexter, a Frier, with faff and beads; on the finifter a Sa age wreathed about the temples and middle Motto, Loyauté me oblige. On. a pedestal in front about four feet high fands a farcophagus, of dark variegated marble; and above the farcophagus, in the back ground, are feven bulis, infcribed, Eliz. Lady Lindfey, Robert Earl of Lindley, Arabella Lady Rivers, Hon. Peregrine Bertie, Hon Norreys Bertie, Hon. Philip Bertie, Hon. Albemarle Bertie. And on the front of the pedes tal below, the following infeription:

"Robert Lord Willoughby of Erefby, eldeft fon of Montague by his first wife the Countess of Holderneffe, fucceeded his Father in his hereditary honours of Earl of Lindsey,

Lindsey, and Lord Great Chamberlain of England, July the 25th, 1666; and was made Lord Lieutenant and Cuftos Rotu lorum of this County in his room, and one of his Majefties Moft Honourable Privy Council, and fometime one of the Gentlemen of his Bed-chamber. He had the honour to be continued in the former ftations in the fucceeding reigns, till he thought fitt to refign the firft in behalf of his fon, then Lord Willoughby of Erefby, He died May 9th, 1701, aged about 70 years. This noble Earl was three times married; first to Mrs. Mary Maffingberd, one of the daughters and coheirs of John Maffingberd, of London, merchant: by her he had only one daughter named Arabella, who was fecond wife to Thomas Earl Rivers; after whofe deceafe fhe lived in the fate of widowhood, and dying without a will the 28th day of February, 1716, aged about 50 years, a confiderable perfonal eftate fell to her four half brothers, who furvived her.- His fecond wife was Elizabeth, fole furviving iffue of Philip Lord Wharton, by his first wife daughter and heir of Sir Rowland Wandsford, Attorney General of the Court of Wards, by whom he had five fons. The eldest was Robert Lord Willoughby of Eresby, who fucceeded his father, and was after

wards created Marquifs of Lindfey and Duke of Ancafter. The fecond was the Right Honourable Peregrine Bertie, Vice › Chamberlain to King William and Queen Anne, and one of their Majefties Moft Honourable Privy Council; he ufually ferved in Parliament for the Corporation of Bofton, where he was chofe feven times, and once for Truro in Cornwall. In November, 1706, the Queen made him one of the Tellers of the Exchequer. He was generally efteemed and beloved; and his relations and friends had a very great lofs of him by an apoplexy the 10th day of July, 1711; he died unmarried, aged about 48 years. The third was Philip, who was Gentleman Ufher of the Privy Chamber

to Queen Mary, and Auditor of the Dutchy of Cornwall. In the year 1694 he was chofe Member of Parliament for the town of Stamford. He married Elizabeth a daughter of the Earl of Meath, who was relict of Sir Philip Coot, by whom he had no iffue, and died the 15th of April, 1728, aged about 64 years. The fourth was Norreys, who was brought up in the Sea fervice, and made feveral voyages as volunteer on board his Majefty's Ships of War before the Revolution. Soon after it, he was made Guidon of the Guards, and ferved the two firft campaigns of that war with the troops in Flanders ; but the troop ftaying at home the third year, he went a Volunteer, on board the grand fleet commanded by Admiral Ruffel, and was made

fecond lieutenant of the Suffolk. While the ship lay at Dartmouth, he fell ill of a malignant fever, and died there Auguft the 27th, 1691, aged about 25 years.His third wife was Elizabeth, daughter and fole heir of Pope Earl of Downe in Ireland, relict of fir Harry Lee, of Ditchley, in the county of Oxford; by her he had one daughter named Elizabeth, who died in the feventh year of her age, and one fon named Charles, who acted for his brother, the Earl of Litchfield, in the command of Woodstock Park, and was chofe Member of Parliament for New Woodstock, in the year 1705. His firft wife was an heirefs, widow of Nicholas Newcomen, Efq.; his fecond was Mrs. Marshall; but, having no iffue by either, he left his eftate to his great nephew Lord Albemarle Bertie, fecond fon of the prefent Duke of Ancafter. He lies buried at Theddlethorpe, by his first wife, where there is a monument erected to them; all the reft are buried here. The fifth fon of Robert Earl of Lindsey, by his fecond wife, was the honourable Albemarle Bertie, who erected this monument in the year 1738."

Against the North wall of the Chancel, and oppofite to the laft, is a coftly monument of marble near 20 feet high, having in the back ground a pediment fupported by two Corinthian columns, above which are the arms, viz, Bertie, Willoughby, Beke, Ufford, Vere, and Wandesford, quarterly, on an inefcutcheon, three eaglets difplayed in feffe, Wynne, impaled with a chevron be tween three leopards' faces, Farrington: a ducal coronet, and fupporters, and motto as before. Under the pediment are flowers in feftoon. On a pedeftal, with a circular front, near fix feet from the ground, is the effigies of the firft Duke of Ancafter, ftanding, in a Roman drefs, with a baton in his right hand. And on the front of the pedeftal is infcribed, "L. I. Scheemaeckers et H. Cheere invent. & fecit." And beneath :

"In a vault under this place lies the body of that late moft noble prince Robert Bertie, Duke of Ancafter and Kefteven, Marquifs and Earl of Lindsey, Baron Willoughby, Beck, and Eresby, and Hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England. He was fon of Robert Earl of Lindley by Elizabeth his fecond wife, the only furviving iffue of Philip Lord Wharton by his firft wife Elizabeth daughter and heiress of Sir Rowland Wandsford, of the County of York, Knight. His firft wife was Mary daughter and heirefs of Sir Richard Wynne, of Gwydder, in the County of Carnarvon,

Carnarvon, Bart.; by whom he had two - fons, Robert Lord Willoughby, who died -under age in his travels at Wolfenbuttle, and Peregrine now duke of Ancafter and Kefteven, &c.; and three daughters, the Honourable Ladies Elizabeth, Eleanora, and Mary, who died young. His fecond wife was Albinia eldest daughter of Lieutenant-general Farrington; by whom he had iffue five fons and one daughter: the Honourable Lords Vere, Montagu, Norris (dyed an infant), Thomas, Robert, and Lady Louifa. In the reign of King William the IIIrd, he was called up by writ

from the Lower Houfe of Parliament, as Lord Willoughby of Erefby, and was feveral years Chancellour of the Dutchy of Lancaster, Lord Lieutenant and Cuftos Rotulorum of the County of Lincoln, City of Lincoln, and County of the faid City, and one of his Majefty's Maft Honourable Privy Council. Her Majesty Queen Anne created him Marquef's of Lindley the 29th of December, 1706, and continued him in her Council, and in the fame honourable employments in this County, during her reign. He had alfo the honour to ferve his Majefty King George the Fir in the fame honourable ftations; and was, July the first, 1715, created by him Duke of Ancafter and KefHe always firmly adhered to the Church of England as by law established, was an equal affertor of the rights of the Crown, and the liberties of the People; and, when Parliaments were up, refided in this County, where he lived hofpitably, and had a good intereft. He was born the 20th of October, 1660, and dyed the 26th of July, 1723. This monument was erected by his Grace's Trustees in the year of our Lord 1728, according to the power given them by his Will.”

teven.

Against the fame North wall of the Chancel, and Eastward from the laft monument, is another monument confifting of a pedestal of white marble, on which is the effigies of the fecond Duke of Ancafter, in a Roman drefs, leaning against an urn; and beneath the urn a medallion, on which is a buft of his Duchefs: in the back ground a pyramid of dark-coloured marble, on which are the arms of Bertie, Wynne, Ufford, and Willoughby, quarterly, with an inefcutcheon, Or, a fhield within an orie of martlets Sable, for · Brownlow, and with coronet, fupporters, and motto: the whole about fifteen

feet high. On the front of the pedef tal is this infcription.

"This monument is erected to the memory of Peregrine late Duke of Ancafter and Kefteven, Lord Great Chamberlain of

England, who died Jan. 1ft, 1741, aged 55 years; and of Jane his Duchefs, who was one of the daughters and coheireffes of Sir John Brownlow, late of Belton in the county of Lincoln, bart.; by whom he left three fons and four daughters, Peregrine now duke of Ancafter and Kefteven, Lord Great Chamberlain of England; Lord Albemarle; Lord Brownlow; Lady Mary, Lady Albina, Lady Jane, and Lady Carolina Bertie."

On the South fide of the Chancel, oppofite to the laft monument, is another of white marble veined, on which about fix feet from the ground are reprefented the third Duke of Ancafter, feated, in his robes, refting his right hand on a medallion, on which is the buft of his Duchefs, and holding a coronet in his left hand; and the fourth Duke of Ancafter in a Roman drefs, with a baton in his hand, ftanding at the right hand of his Father. In the front the arms, coronet, creft, fupporters, and motto of Bertie Duke of Ancafter. On a marble terminating in a pointed arch in the back ground is a medallion with a buft of the eldest fon of the third Duke, and And on two brafs above it an urn. tablets in the front are the following Infcriptions:

"To the memory of the moft noble Prince Peregrine Bertie, third Duke of Ancafter and Kesteven, Marquis and Earl of Lindfey, Baron Willoughby, Beck, and Ereby, Lord Great Chamberlain of England by inheritance, Mafter of the Horfe to King George the Third, one of his Majefty's Moft Honourable Privy Council, Lord Lieutenant and Cuftos Rotulorum of

the County of Lincoln, Recorder of Bofton, and keeper of Waltham Foreft in the fame County. His Grace first married on the 22d of May, 1735, Elizabeth daughter and

fole heiress of William Blundell of Bafingftoke, in the county of Southampton, Esq. relict of Sir Charles Gunter Nichol, Knight of the Bath; who having died without iffue in December 1743, he married November 27th, 1750, Mary daughter of Thomas Panton of Newmarket in the county of Cambridge, Efq. by whom he had iffue, 1. Lady Mary-Catharine, who was born April 14th, 1754, and died at Bristol April 12th, 1767; 2. Peregrine Thomas Marquis and Earl of Lindsey, who was born May 21ft, 1755, and died December 12th, 1758; 3. Lord Robert

afterward Marquis and Earl of Lindley,

who was born October 17th, 1756, and fucceeded his Father Auguft 12th, 1778; 4. Lord who was born September 14th, 1759, and died the fame day; 5. Lady

3. Lady Prifcilla-Barbara-Elizabeth, now Baronefs Willoughby of Erefby, who was born February 14th, 1761, and married February 23rd, 1779, to Peter Bursell, of Beckenham, in the County of Kent, Efq. now fir Peter Burrell, Knight, Deputy Great Chamberlain of England; by whom the hath iffue, the Honourable Peter-Robert Burrell, born March 1782; 6. Lady Georgina-Charlotta, bơn Auguft 7th, 1764. His Grace having raised a regiment of foot for his Majefty's fervice during the Rebellion in Scotland in the year 1745, was promoted to the rank of a General in the Army. This noble Duke ever fhewed the moft unequivocal and zealous attachment to the illuftrious FaImily now on the Throne of these Kingdoms, the moft patriotick concern for the prefervation of our happy Conftitution, and the moft attentive regard to the particular interefts of that County over which he prefided, and in which, during the recefs of Parliament, he lived with hofpitable magnificence and liberality. His

Grace's death was occafioned by a linger ing bilious diforder: and, having for many days forefeen his approaching diffolution, he took leave of his difconfolate family and afflicted friends, by a most affectionate and folemn farewell. He quitted this world with philofophick tranquillity, and refigned his foul to God with the fure and Яedfaft hope of a moft fincere Chriftian. He died at Grimfthorpe, Auguft 12th, 1778, in the fixty-fifth year of his age; and was fucceeded in titles and eftate by his only furviving fon."

"To the memory of the most noble prince, Robert Bertie, fourth Duke of Ancafter and Kefteven, Marquis and Earl of Lindsey, Baron Willoughby, Beck, and Erefby, Lord Great Chamberlain of England by inheritance, one of his Majesty's Moft Honourable Privy Council, Lord Lieutenant and Cuftos Rotulorum of the County of Lincoln. Quickness and clearnefs of apprehenfion, aided by a memory moft happily retentive, guided by fuch difoernnient as ordinary men derive from long repeated obfervation, and fired by an ambitious defire of real glory, fecured and facilitated to this excellent young Nobleman the acquifition of every accomplishment, either fuited to that exalted ftation for which he was born, or conducive to his improvement in that moft honourable profeffion in which he chofe to follow the fplendid example of his renowned anceftors. Indefatigable in this glorious purfuit, he vifited foreign, but chiefly Northern climes; and with a deep-rooted fcorn for all the refinements of enervating luxury, he gloried in the character of a hardy Briton, and enriched it with the ftudy and obfervation of the most celebrated

military establishments. But foon the

troubles arifen in the Western hemifphere fuggefted opportunities of inftruetion better fuited to the activity of his genius: nor were his loyalty and patriotifm reftrained by the anxious apprehenfions of the tendereft Parents, or the earneft intreaties of thofe noble Relations, who faw in him their prefent boaft, delight, and hope, their future comfort, protection, and glory. He went over as a Volunteer to North America in the twenty-firft year of his age, and eagerly embraced every opportunity of diftinguishing himfelf by the moft fpirited and dauntless exertions, in the fervice of his King and Country, by fea as well as, by land. During his fecond campaign he received the melancholy tidings of his noble Father's decease. On his return he furpaffed the most fanguine expectations of his friends, his family, and his country. In his perfon manly gracefulness was united to natural dignity; his manners were elegant without affectation, his affability was the genuine fruit of univerfal benevolence, and by the eminent goodness of his heart he fhone with peculiar luftre in the feveral relations of Son, Brother, and Friend. But it pleafed God to give an awful demonftration of the inftability of human blifs, and to fnatch away this object of general admiration, by a malignant fever, of which he died, unmarried, in the twenty-third year of his age, on the 8th of July, 1779: only eleven months after he fucceeded to the hereditary honours of his family."

C. Harris, London, fecit.

The Harleian MS. above referred to, notices the following arms in the windows of Edenham church, which are now loft.

In the Eaft window; Barry of fix, Or and Azure, a bend Gules, Gant. Azure, femé of fleurs des-lis, a lion rampant Or, Beaumont.

In a North window; Azure, a bend between fix martlets Argent, Lutterell. Argent, three dolphins naiant Sable, Simeon.

In an upper South window the arms of Beaumont repeated. T. B.

ARCHITECTURAL INNOVATION. No CXVII. REQUEST that it may ever be kept in memory that my ftrictures lead directly to thofe Innovations done on our PUBLIC ANTIENT STRUCTURES which no man, or body of men, can truly call their own*; ftructures that are in a manner committed

by the Nation at large to the immediate care and protection of particular individuals as a truft the moft facred; then, furety, it is wrong in thofe fo trufted to fet afide the folemn obligation, by perpetrating on their walls each experimental disfigurement and unrestrained havock under the direction of foreigners as well as natives. But the hour is at hand, when an account will be required for all the long lift of rchitectural depredations, vulgarly called improvements; and plunder, vulgarly called fpeculation, ir the value of lead, timber, fione, &c. &c.

At this moment a trembling account is about to be teanned, and adjudged. Certain Northern "blanks in the air," in" elegiac" firains *, cry aloud for retribution; and each body of " delegated guardians of our Antiquities" fland in fearful fufpence for the dreaded event! Fair fame and confolation go with that heart who has fet this engine of enquiry, this barrier to Antiquartan devatlations, at iffue! May his fuccels be equal to his patriotic endeavours! My wifhe, as my hop s, turn on the most fanguine expectancy; and I wait the event.

GUILDHALL, LONDON. Concluded from vol. LXVII. p. 1218. Interior of the Porch. Extremely perfect; and a most beautiful introduction to the Halt it certainly is. The length is portioned into two divifions, by columns fupporting groins, with rich hoffes, &c. Each divifion has three compartments, with pointed heads, turns, and tracery, filling up the principal arches of the divifions."

Interior of the Hall. Length 154 feet, width 52 feet. The length has eight divifions, made by clufters of columns; and to each divifion, in the upright, is a stone feat of continuation, dado with compartments and tracery (among which, in certain fituations, are door-ways and windows), firing, or firft entablature, grand window (in fome fituations other decorations take place), and fecond entablature. So far exift the remains of the original upright; its continuation fhewed, no doubi, an open-worked timber roof (in manner like Weftminfier Hall), and which was eonfumed in the great fire. A repair foon took place, which next occurs in the prefent elevation; that is, ag neral entablature and double

* See our Poetical department, p. 63.

piers and windows with circular heads; thefe objects are regularly fet over the antient divifions below, the whole covered by a flat panneled cieling, three pannels in width and fixteen in length. This attic flory then is plain to a degree; neither applicable to the fituation, or to the flyle of an interior, the finish of which could not be perfect without an open-worked roof as aforefaid.

The embellishments in the dado give three compartments; the centre ditto principal, within which are three fmaller compartments with pointed head, turns, &c. On each fide of the grand window are compartments, in unifon with thofe in the dado. The window itfelf is lofty, and has its height in two tiers; the lower ditto, pointed heads, with turns; and the upper ditto, the general head of the window, with turns, tracery, &c. The two entablatures in their friezes have an infinite number of fmali blockings, composed of human heads, fhields of arms, ornaments, &c. To the cluster of columns are rich bafes and ornamented capitals; and on them, we may prefume, the deftroyed timbers for the roof once took their pringings; but now Wrenéan fhields of arms with preposterous embellishments ufurp their fituations.

South fide of the Hall. Firft divifion (from the Eaft). The Huftings

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(or more probably a grand flight of fieps covered by faid Huftings), rifing fome feet from the pavement, unavoidably caufed the first entablature to be fet as high as the top of the first tier of the grand window. Below this entablature are fplendid canopies to fix niches; the rest of the work of these niches wainscoted out by Corinthian fluted pilafters and panneling. cond divifion. Dado complete; (as, in general, are all the reft, with the two entablatures ;) grand window ditto. Third divifion. The work in centre of dado cut away, to bring in a modern door-way; occafional door-way complete: grand window stopped up. Fourth divifion, complete; no grand window; in lieu, fine compartments and tracery. Fifth divifion: grand door-way from the porch occurs; over it, in lieu of grand window, compartments and tracery: the work broke into for the pushing out a modern mulic gallery. Sixth divifion. Complete; and fimilar to fourth ditto. Seventh divifion. Window in dado ftopped up. Great window ditto.