GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. SEPTEMBER, 1847. BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. CONTENTS. PAGE MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-The Cambrian Archeological Association-English Liturgies-Genealogical and Ecclesiastical Queries-Tyrolese Heraldry 226 MACAULAY'S LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME The Etymology of York .... ..... The Proposed Alterations in Westminster Abbey.... ...... ... 227 255 256 Lines by Bishop Atterbury on Lord Cadogan . ..... 266 268 271 Layamon's Brut, by Sir Fred. Madden, 273; Letter to Lord John Russell on Bishops, by Oxoniensis, 275; Wilson's Continuation of Mill's British India, vol. ii. 277; Thierry's History of the Norman Conquest, by Hazlitt, 279; Rose's Early Spread of Circumcision, 280; Kentish's Notes and Comments on Scripture, 281; Doubleday's Financial History of England, 282; Fox's English Etymologies, 283; Miscellaneous Reviews... LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE.-Shakspere's House.. 291 ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES.-Meeting of the Archæological Institute at Norwich, 292; Meeting of the Archæological Association at Warwick, 300; French Archives in England..... ......... 285 303 HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.-Foreign News, 304; Domestic Occurrences 305 Promotions and Preferments, 308; Births and Marriages 309 OBITUARY: with Memoirs of Lord Dunsandle; Admiral Poyntz; General CLERGY DECEASED.. DEATHS, arranged in Counties.. Embellished with Views of BINHAM PRIORY CHURCH, WALSINGHAM PRIORY 327 329 336 MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. The first annual meeting of the Cambrian Archæological Association will, we are informed, be held at Aberystwith, from the 7th to the 10th of September. Of this Association, formed for the purpose of examining, preserving, and illustrating all ancient monuments and remains of the history, manners, customs, and arts of Wales and its Marches, Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, the Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire, is the president; and the patrons are announced to be the Bishops of Bangor, Llandaff, St. David's, and St. Asaph. The name of Sir Samuel Meyrick is among those of the vice-presidents. To prevent labour being thrown away on subjects already in hand, the Committee have announced that papers are in preparation on the following subjects:-the Local Antiquities of Aberystwith; the Roman Remains in Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire; the History and Architecture of Strata Florida Abbey ; and the State of the Druidic Religion in Britain during the residence of the Romans. The Rev. PETER HALL, of Bath, (who is engaged on a Liturgical Compilation, exhibiting at one view the substitutes that have been successively proposed for the English Liturgy, and the alterations made in adapting it to other churches,) would feel exceedingly obliged to any one who could inform him where there exists a copy of the Form of Prayer and Sacraments, commonly called the "Puritan Liturgy," the 4th edition, printed at Middleburgh, 1602, 12mo. or any later edition. C. asks," Can any of your genealogyloving readers furnish any particulars of the Clarkson name anterior to the time of Queen Elizabeth?' I have discovered a continuous pedigree of one branch of the family from the above period to the present day, commencing with one Robert of Bradford, Yorkshire, who died in 1631, and whose son David is mentioned by Calamy in his Non-conformist Memorial as a divine possessed of an eminent degree of sacred knowledge, and conversant in the retired parts of learning.' His cure was that of Mortlake in Surrey, from which he was ejected for non-conformity in 1662, and died in 1686, aged 64. His sister Mary was married in 1632 to John Sharpe, uncle to the archbishop of that name. The earliest record I find of the name is in a list of the gentry of Staffordshire, returned by commissioners in the terminating in 'son,' as Johnson, Richreign of Henry the Sixth, 1433. Names ardson, &c. are discoverable as early as the latter part of the fourteenth century, and in some few instances still earlier. ference is made above are, Argent, on a The armorials of the branch to which rebend engrailed sable three annulets gold." A. B. would feel obliged to any Correspondent who would inform him of a correct account of the later generations Engleborne, co. Devon (also of Spetchof the pedigree of Wootton, or Wotton, of wick Park); as those given under Mr. Urban's memoir of Mr. Estcourt Cresspedigrees, seem to be totally discordant. well, and in the published Creswell that family; but some accounts make the The Wottons appear to have merged in heiress daughter of a Samuel, and others of a John, Wotton; and locating them respectively at Spetchwick Park and Engleborne. parish church of Wiltau, a village close to PLANTAGENET informs us that in the Innspruck, and in whose cemetery sleeps many a brave Tyrolian killed in the battle on its neighbouring hill, which prevented the entry of the French into that city, is a gravestone remarkable to an English eye for the manner in which one of its armorial shields is placed thereon, and of which an account to the curious in heraldic matters may be interesting. and wife, marshalled, as occasionally also These are two separate shields for man with us, along side one another: but with this peculiarity, viz. the woman's shield is placed topsy-turvy, for the purpose of dereversed, or (to use a vulgar expression) noting that she was the last of her family and name, as fully evidenced by the inscription under them. The lady was the wife of Herr Ferdinand von STAHLBURG, and is thus described : ..... UND FRAU GEBORNE CAMERIN for omisso, read amisso. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. Lays of Ancient Rome. By T. B. Macaulay. 4to. THE costliness with which the present volume has been published, and the classical elegance and taste with which it is decorated and illustrated, show at once the wise liberality of the publishers, and the ascertained popularity and merit of the author. Some persons may hint doubts as to the poetical powers of Mr. Macaulay, as if they were afraid of his engrossing every variety of natural talent and acquired accomplishment: others may express the opinion that there can be little resemblance between his ornamented lays and the old rugged and bare Saturnian lines, rough with final consonants, and marching in obsolete forms of metre; but the sale of several editions, and the increased size, decorations, and cost of the last give certain proofs that the favourable opinion of the public is not withdrawn or diminished, and that his somewhat bold undertaking has been crowned with signal success. When Sir Robert Walpole expressed to his son, in his usually coarse language, his judgment on the falsehood of all history; and when Dr. Johnson, confining himself to that branch of it which is immediately before us, observed, "An account of the ancient Romans, as it cannot really interest any present reader, and must have been drawn from writings that have been known long, can owe its value only to the language in which it is delivered, and the reflections with which it is accompanied ;-when the statesman and the scholar spoke thus of history, they probably thought only of Livy or Plutarch, or Hooke or Goldsmith, and of the popular narratives which they had fabricated or received; of a continued story ingeniously constructed; and an arrangement of facts placed in a pleasing and popular form. They were not considering, on the one hand, the contradictions and inconsistencies that a careful research and critical examination might discover and expose; nor, on the other, what instruction in political institutions and social life might be drawn from philosophical induction and moral reflection, as unsound statements, impossible conjunctions, and erroneous conclusions are removed, to make room for the permanent establishment of truth. In ancient history, where the stream of tradition has been interrupted in its channel, where records of every kind have been mutilated or destroyed, where the text of the authors themselves has been defaced or altered, and where most important portions of their works have been entirely lost,-it requires much more than an ordinary stock of learning or ability to weave into one consistent and pleasing work the various threads of the historic narrative, scattered and torn as they are. Fitly to prepare a writer for the very arduous and laborious task he has undertaken, he must have an erudition familiar with |