SUPPLEMENT ΤΟ VOL. C. PART II. Embellished with Views of the Manor-house and Ruins of the Priory at HINTON CHARTERHOUSE, Somerset ; and a Plan of the Norman Church at LANGFORD, Essex. HINTON or in is a village in Somersetshire, five miles south of Bath on the road to Sa lisbury. It derived its secondary appellation, which distinguishes it from various other places of the same name, from a Priory of Carthusians formerly established there. It has also been sometimes styled Hinton Comitis, have ing been a manor attached to the Earldom of Salisbury. It was among the lands which William the Conqueror conferred on Edward of Salisbury, who is supposed to have been only Vicecomes or Sheriff of Wilts, but whose grandson Patrick received the title of Earl of Salisbury from the Empress Maud. At the composition of Domesday, Edward de Sarisberi held "Hantone" of the King, having three ploughlands in the demesne; and there were nine serfs, twelve villeins, and fifteen cottagers, with six ploughs; two mills rendering 24s., twelve acres of pasture, and wood one mile long, and half a mile broad. William de Longespé, the first Earl of that name (and one of the natural children of King Henry the Second by Fair Rosamond), had first placed the society, in 1222, on his manor of Hatherop in Gloucestershire; and had by his will bequeathed them various sacred utensils, a thousand ewes, three hundred rams, forty-eight oxen, and twenty bulls. But his widow Ela, "because (as is stated in her charter) the monks and brethren destined for that place, although they had continued there many years (that is, apparently, about five), could not find in the tenements the Earl had given them a place suitable to their rule," was in 1227 induced to remove them to her park of Hinton. In exchange for the lands in Gloucestershire, she then granted them all her manor of Hinton, with the advowson of the church, and the park; and likewise all her adjoining manor of Norton, with the advowson there; and all GENT. MAG. Suppl. C. PART II. A their appurtenances, except such military service as was due to her, and the service of Richard the parker, for the virgate of land he held; which service however should belong to the monks, whether Richard rested his claim upon his office of keeper, or on military te nure. The house of the religious was to be built in the honour of God and the blessed Virgin, and of St. John the Baptist, and of All Saints, at the place in the park of Hinton which was called Locus Dei; and the habit and rule to be observed was that of the church of Chartreux,-the strictest of all the religious orders. Twelve years after, King Henry the Third, by charter dated in the twenty-fourth year of his reign, took under the special protection and defence of himself and heirs, the house of the Carthusians at Hinton; and granted to the monks for ever all the privileges and customs which his grandfather King Henry had granted to the Carthusian house he had founded at Witham. That house, which was also in Somersetshire, was the first settlement of the order in England *; its dedication is in the same terms as that of Hinton; and its rights and privileges were the same as those possessed by the original establishment at Chartreux. Pope Innocent the Fourth granted a Bull of privileges to Hinton in 1245. At the Taxation of Pope Nicholas in 1291, the temporalities of this Priory were returned as, in Chynton 47. 10s. ; in Norton Comitis 121.; in Hinton 24. 15s. making a total of 411. 5s. Its wealth was increased by a variety of grants from the neighbouring landowners, and the merchants of Bris Regarding this Monastery and two others in Somersetshire, there is a privately printed volume, entitled "Monastic Re mains of the Religious Houses at Witham, Bruton, and Stavordale, co. Somerset. Collected by Sir Richard Hoare, Bart. anno 1824." Only fifty copies were printed for distribution by the munificent author; and none for sale. tol. King Richard the Second granted the monks a hogshead of wine yearly out of that port; and King Henry the Fifth a charter of freewarren in the manors of Hinton of Norton. Their estates were in 1444 valued at 50l. 16s. 10d. In the 26th Henry VIII. the gross revenues were estimated at 2621. 12s.; the reprisals from which amounted to 131. 12s. 10d. leaving a net income of nearly 250l. The Priory was surrendered to the King on the 31st of March, 1540. Edmund Hord, the last Prior, was assigned a pension of 441. ; and twentyone monks were also pensioned, two at 12 marks or 81.; fourteen at 10 marks; and four at three marks or 21. The site of the Priory was granted, about four years after, to John Bartlet, who sold it to Matthew Colthurst. It was afterwards in the Hungerford family, then in the Robinsons, and in the time of Collinson the historian of Somersetshire, the joint property of James Humphrys, esq. and Joseph Frowd, esq. in right of their wives, the daughters of Stocker Robinson, esq. The old manor-house of Hinton, represented in the first view of the Plate, is supposed to have been built out of the ruins of the Priory. Hinton Charterhouse, the present mansion, which is about half a mile distant, was the seat of the late James Skurray Day, esq. brother-in-law to the present Lord Ribblesdale, and is now occupied by his mother, Mrs. Day; a description of the house, and the pictures, will be found in the Beauties of England and Wales. The second view represents the remains of the Priory church. There is another view of this building in the elegant little work entitled "The Antiquarian Itinerary." It shows the east window, composed of three lancet lights, without any tracery above; and another lancet window on the north. This favoured spot, which the somewhat difficult Carthusians at length chose as the scene of their mortifications, retains its natural beauties. "The environs," says Collinson," are highly beautiful, being variegated with fine open lawns, hanging woods, and limpid streams. In the vicinity are several large tumuli; and in the ruins of the abbey have been dug up Roman [] bricks, tesseræ, and other reliques." Within the monastery of Hinton was for many years resident Thomas Spenser, a learned and pious monk, son of Leonard Spenser of Norwich. He wrote, among other works, "Comment. in Epist. D. Pauli ad Galatas." He died in 1529, and was buried in the Priory church. In the little work on English Mo nastic Libraries, by the Rev. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A. recently published, occurs the following list of books, specified in an indenture of the year 1343,* as having been lent by the prior and convent of Hinton, to another house. It is curious both on account of its contents, and as showing an unobserved usage of the monasteries: Two books of Homilies, to be read in the Refectory. The four Gospels. The Meditations of Anselm Life of Paul the Hermit. Libel. de Manipul. flor. Dialogus SS. Gregorii et Augustini. Liber qui sic incipit, "Qui bene præsunt presbyterii." Stimulus Amoris, et multa alia edificatoria de manu Domini Will. de Colle. The engagement to restore these books was formally drawn and sealed. Of this monastery was Nicholas Hopkins, who was several times consulted as a prophet by the last Stafford Duke "I owe the knowledge of this curious chart (observes Mr. Hunter) to the Collections of Sir Thomas Phillipps, a gentleman who with the spirit of a Bodley, a Cotton, or a Harley, and deserving, like these illustrious men, the respect and gratitude of his country, has brought together a collection of the manuscripts of the Middle Ages, such as never before was assembled in private hands. It is far from being improbable that amongst the shousands (for thousands there are) of the manuscripts which he has brought to our shores, may be some of the contents of those ship-loads' mentioned by Bale, which were sent abroad on the suppression of the English monasteries," PART 11.] United Twins.-Junius and Lachlan M'Lean. of Buckingham; and "like a false hypocrite" had induced the Duke to the treason with his "false forged prophecies." He was one of the witnesses at the trial in 1521, and full particulars of the Duke's consultations with him, will be seen in Holinshed's account of that proceeding. Mr. URBAN, WITH 579 Thetford, Dec. 31. WITH the termination of the old year I transmit a few literary notices relative to Junius, Lachlan M'Lean, Sir Philip Francis, and Lord Temple. But, in the first place, I beg to extract the following passage from Galt's Life of Benjamin West, published in 1820. After noticing the in many literary characters, that writer adds, Collinson says, that in the church of Norton St. Philip's (also called Norton Comitis), "under an arch intimacy which Mr. West enjoyed with the south aile, lies the effigy of one of the religious of Hinton Abbey, who is supposed to have rebuilt the church. Her hands are uplifted in a suppliant posture, and at her feet is a dog." Collinson does not explain how a female could have been one of the members of a religious foundation for males. The paragraph which next follows may be worth adding, as mentioning a supposed instance of united twins, -a subject which, from the public exhibition of living individuals so circumstanced, has recently attracted much attention. "In the floor of the nave are the mutilated portraitures in stone of two females close to each other, and called by the inhabitants the fair maidens of Fosscot, or Fosstoke, a neighbouring hamlet now depopulated. There is a tradition that the persons they represent were twins, whose bodies were at their birth conjoined together; that they arrived at a state of maturity; and that one of them dying, the survivor was constrained to drag about her lifeless companion, till death released her of her horrid burden." This account (which comes in bad company with the female monk of Hinton,) is perhaps nothing more than a sexton's tale, like that of the lady in Westminster Abbey, who died from a prick of her finger, or numberless others which are rife throughout the country. It may, however, be remarked that the history of these "fair maids of Foxcot" bears a strong resemblance to that of the maids of Biddenden in Kent; whose remembrance is annually renewed by cakes stamped with their figures, which are distributed at Easter. (See Hasted's Kent, and Hone's Every-Day Book for 1827.) The Biddenden maids lived so early as 1100; and, from the mention of a depopulated hamlet, these appear to claim an early æra.-But an examination of the stone figures by a more judicious eye than Collinson's, might tend to show whether the story has any claims to regard. J. G. N. "An incident of a curious nature has brought him to be a party in some degree with [to] the singular question respecting the mysterious author of the celebrated Letters of Junius. On the morning that the first of these famous invectives appeared, his friend Governor Hamilton happened to call, and inquiring the news, Mr. West informed him of that bold and daring epis tle: ringing for his servant at the same time, he desired the newspaper to be brought in. Hamilton read it over with great attention, and when he had done, laid it on his knees, in a manner that particularly attracted the notice of the painter, who was standing at his easel. This Letter,' said Hamilton, in a tone of vehement feeling, 'is by that damned scoundrel, M'Lean.' What M'Lean?' enquired Mr. West. The sur This geon of Otway's regiment; the fellow, who dote is curious. M'Lean, owing to a great impediment in his utterance, never made any figure in conversation; and passed with most people as a person of no particular attainments. But when Lord Shelburne came into office, he was appointed Under Secretary of State, and subsequently nominated to a Governorship in India; a rapidity of promotion to a man without family or parliamentary interest, that can only be explained by a profound conviction, on the part of his patron, of his superior talents, and perhaps also from a strong sense of some peculiar obligation. M'Lean sailed for India in the Aurora frigate, and was lost in the wreck of that ship on the coast of Africa. That the Letters of Junius were not ascribed to him by any party, is not surprising; for his literary talents were unknown to the public. But the general opinion of all men at the time was that they were the production of some person in connection with Lord Shelburue."-Vol. II. p. 57. 1. Mr. Galt speaks with too much confidence, and in direct opposition to the fact, when he states that "it was the general opinion of all men at the time," (though general and all cannot be, grammatically or logically, thus united in the same sentence,) "that they were the production of some person in connection with Lord Shelburne." For the general opinion of the contemporaries was in favour of Burke, as I could easily prove, if space were allowed to me. 2. The story told by Mr. Galt about Governor Hamilton and Mr. Lachlan M'Lean, may be applied to a very important purpose connected with Junius. The great argument urged by Mr. John Taylor and other Franciscans, is that the sudden and extraordinary promotion of Sir Philip Francis to a high appointment in India, can only be accounted for on the supposition that he was the author of the Letters of Junius. This kind of argument, which its promulgators regard as decisive, rests in truth on this dangerous foundation, that no other instance can be found of a man similarly exalted without family or parliamentary interest;' and such is the delicacy of the argument, that a single authentic instance is sufficient to overturn it. The history of Lachlan M'Lean supplies the instance required, and the Franciscans must strike their colours! 3. Some notices of Lachlan M'Lean occur in the Gent. Mag. April, 1830, p. 293, and from them it appears that a correspondent had a few years since made inquiry about this personage, and a reply was given at the time, but there is no reference to guide me to the numbers containing the queries and the answers, or to the subjects discussed in them. 4. Mr. Galt tells a curious anecdote in p. 65, which I will transcribe: "Dr. Francis, the father of Sir Philip, had been long before mentioned, but for what reason I have never been able to ascertain. The answer of Sir Philip himself on the subject is, however, curiously equivocal : at least it so strikes me; although it is generally considered as a decided denial. It is as follows: The great civility of your letter induces me to answer it, which, with reference merely to its subject-matter, I should have declined. Whether you pill assist in giving currency to a silly, malignant falsehood, is a question for your own discretion; to me it is a matter of perfect indifference. But notwithstanding all this, an amusingly mysterious circumstance has, I am informed, transpired since the death of Sir Philip. In a box, it is said, which he carefully deposited with (at) his banker's, and which was not to be opened till after his death, a copy of the publication Junius Identified, with a common copy of the Letters of Junius,' were found. I shall offer no comment on this occurrence; for even granting that it was true, it might have been but a playful trick, if Sir Philip Francis was, in any respect, a humorist." In my "Letters on the Authorship of Junius's Letters," I have stated a fact communicated to me by my ex cellent friend the Rev. Dr. Fellowes, that after the death of Sir Philip he examined his library, with a view to the very question of the authorship of these Letters, and he found one copy of Junius containing some marginal notes of a very ordinary description, and not likely to have been made by Junius himself. 5. One of the identities of expres sion noticed by the ingenious Mr. John Taylor as remarkable in Junius and Sir Philip Francis, is the phrase so far forth. In the book above cited, I have commented on this remark. If the phrase were confined to these two writers, then Mr. Taylor might be justified in laying great stress on the fact; but without an universal knowledge of English authors of every age, and without a memory equal to that knowledge, Mr. Taylor cannot reasonably take on himself to say that no other writer has used the expression; part 11.] Lord Temple the presumed Author of Junius. and if any other writer has used it, then Mr. Taylor's argument falls to the ground. 66 Now quatenus is translated by Ainsworth, So far forth as." And in the Rev. Nath. Carpenter's very beautiful composition, entitled "Achitophel, or the Picture of a Wicked Politician," London 1638, 12mo. I find these three instances:-1. "The former concurrence of our assent, or at least submission to such extremities, we finde warranted not onely by permission but commands, so farre forth as the justice of the cause conspiring with a regulated conscience imports necessity.' 2. "An obedience we justly owe to our superiours, both active and passive, so far forth as it may stand with the right of nature, and God's honour, as that which God expressly commands, and no community can want.' 3. "Neverthelesse, so farre forth as the infinite power of God may dispence with man's inquiry, wee may reduce the manner of his working to certain heads." 6. Some of your readers may be amused by the perusal of the following article, extracted from a letter addressed to me by my enlightened friend John Pickering, Esq. and dated Boston, U. S., Aug. 16, 1830:-"I enclose an extract from one of our newspapers on the Junius-controversy, as to the point whether Lord Temple was the author, as lately contended in England. The writer of this piece takes the negative of the question. But it is a little remarkable that as much as ten or twelve years ago, an acquaintance of mine came to the conclusion that Lord Temple was the author; and he had marked in his copy of Junius all the passages and allusions which, he thought, indicated Lord Temple to be author. I expect to have the use of that copy shortly." From the New-England Palladium:-"Ever and anon we have reports flying from England to America, that the author of the celebrated letters under the signature of Junius, is actually discovered. This has been said so often, and vanished again into thin air, that the very mention of it associates the disagreeable idea of a hoax, and diminishes, in the minds of readers, the real importance of that great question, to the solution of which is annexed valuable history, The New York papers now say that 581 the late Earl Temple, brother to the Right Hon. Geo. Grenville, the putative father of our notorious Stamp-act, was the writer of Junius; but it is difficult to believe it. "Lord Temple was a man of abili ties and education, a staunch Whig, and a very honest man. He was a generous champion of the people's rights, in the famous question of general warrants; and patronized and sustained Wilkes when prosecuted for writing the North Briton,' No. 45. Had he not taken that celebrated demagogue under his special protection, the name of John Wilkes would have sunk below the horizon in obscurity. It was generally believed that Lord Temple was the author of several Numbers in the North Briton,' and not unlikely of that Number fathered by Wilkes. But, respectable as he was as a writer, and illustrious as a nobleman of the revolutionary stock, and distinguished for his whigism and well-known independent spirit, we can hardly suppose him to have been the author of the best compositions in our language. To write better than Bolingbroke, Swift, or Johnson, is an elevation which none of the Grenvilles, clever as they were, ever rose to. "Lord Temple was a stern man, of stern principles and rigid honour, and so little of a courtier, that the late King more than once complained to those about him of the uncourtly be haviour of Temple-as a Privy Councillor, and in the course of business. Now his Lordship had spirit enough, venom enough, and resentment enough; but he had not talent enough to crowd so much thought into so few words, and those few so elegant as has Junius. It is, however, remarkable that Junius never once mentions the naine of Lord Temple; and whenever he mentions his brother-in-law, Lord Chatham, it is evidently with great caution and hesitancy; and it is alike remarkable that this illustrious nobleman never mentions, in any of his fine speeches, the name of Junius. "The authorship of Junius is a great problem, and its solution may mark an epoch in British history. The character of the long reign of George III. turns upon it,-our own history is connected with it, and the French Revolution grew out of the principles of that unknown writer. George III. told General De-s, while riding with |