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treme rarity, the following yet extant among the archives of the family of Ogilvy of Inverquharity, and kindly communicated by Sir John Ogilvy, will doubtless be read with much interest. It is entitled, "License be the King to Al. Ogilvy of Inercarity to fortifie his house and put ane iron yet therein," and proceeds thus

JAMES be the grace of God Kinge of Scottis. To all and sindry oure liegies and subdits to qwhais knawlage theis oure Llez [Letters] sall cum gretinge. Wit yhe vs to haue gevin and grauntit full fredome facultez and sp[eci]ele licence to oure loued familiare Sqwier Alex. of Ogilby of Inuerquharady for to fortifie his house and to strenthit with ane Irne yhet. Quharfor we straitly bid and commaunde that na man take on hande to make him impediment stoppinge na distroublace in the makinge, raisinge, hynginge, and vpsettinge of the saide yhet in his said house vndir all payne and charge at eftir may follow.

Geuin vndir oure signet at Streviline the xxvo day of September ande of oure regne the sevint yhere [1573.]

The lands and castle of Inverquharity were held by the ancestors of the present baronet from a period anterior to the year 1405, and were, with the exception of the old messuage and the surrounding park only recently alienated. The house and park are still retained by the family, but the castle is now a ruin. The "Irne yhet" for which the above licence was obtained is still there in its original position. These iron gates hung on strong hinges, and secured by two or three bolts, varying in diameter from two to four inches, were not unfrequently aided in their repellative quality by a thick bar of oak, one end of which being placed in an aperture in the wall, passed immediately behind the gate to an opposite niche chiselled in the stone work to receive it. At many other fortalices in the same district, such gates as here described are remaining; and among them that at Invermark Castle, in the romantic valley of Glenesk, affords a satisfactorily picturesque specimen; that castle, as shewn in the accompanying view

having been erected in the sixteenth century, and the "irne yet" or gate being a type of all others which I have noticed, is represented at the commencement of this paper.

I am not aware that gates of this or a similar construction can claim any earlier antiquity in Scotland than the reign of James the Sixth. On this point, possibly some of your correspondents can inform me; but connected with the one above engraved, there is a peculiarity which may be briefly noticed. Towards the close of the sixteenth century, while the extensive lordship of Glenesk was held by the old family of Lindsay of Edzell, Sir David Lindsay and his brother Lord Menmuir, founder of the noble house of Balcarras, discovered in the glen, minerals, including gold, silver, brass, and tin, which were leased to a skilful German, and it is stated the gate above depicted was the work of a native blacksmith, from iron ore raised and smelted in Glenesk; in fact, the whole of the iron about the castle of Invermark, of which the gate is almost the only worked from and upon the same soil. Subsequently, vestige, is also recorded to have been obtained and these mineral discoveries were attempted to be continued by the York Buildings Company, but their operations failing of success the works were abandoned.

The tower or castle of Invermark, now roofless and a ruin, appears to owe much of its dilapidated condition to neglect, as between the time that the estate was sold by the last Lindsay of Edzell, to James, fourth Earl of Panmure, by whom as a Jacobite it was forfeited within the year following the purchase; and the sale of the lands by the Government to the York Buildings Company, the castle is noticed as gradually falling to decay.

Invermark Castle stands on a rising ground near the junction of the rivers Mark and Lee, in the valley immediately below the fine shooting lodge lately erected by Lord Panmure, and forms a beautiful object in the landscape. Here, almost under the shadow of the venerable ruin, Alexander Ross, author of the well known Scottish poems of Helenore, or the Fortunate Shepherdess; the Rock an' the Wee Pickle Tow, etc., taught the youth of the parish upwards of fifty-two years, and his ashes repose in the old romantically situated kirkyard at the foot of the Loch of Lee, surrounded by rugged mountains from three to four hundred feet in height. The ruins of his humble dwelling are laudably preserved. Some years since a monument of Aberdeen granite was subscribed for by his admirers and erected to his memory, but through the influence of the parish minister of the period, was most absurdly placed in the new kirk, which is about a mile distant from the grave of the bard, it is however hoped that a change for the better will remedy this evil, no person being more alive to the propriety of having both men and things in their right place than Lord Panmure, who is sole proprietor of the large and interesting lordship of Glenesk, much of which has received great improvement within the short space of three years.

The shooting lodge recently erected by Lord Panmure is on the side of the hill, to the left of the Castle of Invermark, more than 200 feet above the level of the Loch of Lee. It is built of native granite, in the picturesque style of English cottage architecture, with a tower on the east front.

The house represented in the view, to the right of the castle, is the residence of the parish schoolmaster.

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In 1729, the Burlawmen, or those appointed to value the lands and houses on the forfeited properties of the Stuart adherents, in reference to this edifice, made a report, that the present value of the castle of Innermark, of stone and slate roof is three hundred and sixtyfour pounds; and the reparations necessary thereto, is one hundred and ninety pounds, twelve shillings, which it must have in all haste to prevent its going to ruin.* The repairs suggested by the report were immediately made, and the factor or manager of the Panmure portion of the York Buildings' Estates made it his occasional residence. Two of his female descendants were its last occupants, they having continued to inhabit the castle till 1803, when the stone work of the offices, and the timber of the interior were taken to build the adjoining manse for the use of the parish minister. Brechin, August 9.

SPES ET FORTUNA VALETE.

A. J.

I send you an early version of the Greek Epigram lately a subject of discussion in your columns, which I copied in 1852, from an ancient sepulchral monument in the Lateran Gallery at Rome.

The portion of the inscription which I copied is as follows:

D. M. L. ANNIVS OCTAVIANVS VALERIANVS.
Evusi effugi Spes et fortuna valete.
Nil mihi Voviscum est ludificate alios.
JOHN SIMEON.

COMBUSTIBILITY OF THE DIAMOND.

In Current Notes, p. 44, Rouelle the French chemist is said, from Prior's Life of Goldsmith, to have been the first person who ascertained the composition of the Diamond by submitting it to combustion; but that fact had been long since foreseen. Boetius de Boot in his History of Gems, printed in 1609, spoke of the Diamond as an inflammable substance. In the chapter "De Adamante," he intimates

Quod itaque mastix, quæ igneæ naturæ est, Adamanti facile pingi possit, signum est id propter materiæ similitudinem fieri, ac Adamantis materiam igneam et sulphuream esse, atque ipsius humidum intrinsecum et primogenium, cujus beneficio coagulatus est, plane fuisse oleosum, et igneum, aliarum vero gemmarum aqueum.

Non mirum itaque si pinguis, oleosa, et ignea masticis substantia illi absque visus termino adpingi, et applicari, alius vero gemmis non posset.

He quaintly adds

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Celestial Pryncesse thow blessed Virgin Marie,
Thy Servant Margret Cantlowe, call to Remembraunce,
And pray to thy dere Sonne the Well of all Mercy,
To pardon her Trespas and Fautes of Ignoraunce;
Whiche to Hen. Cantlowe was Wyffe wythoute Varyaunce,
And Dowhtyr also to Nicolas Alwyn,

Mercers of London, God shelde them all from Synne. The sayd Margrete died V. Day of Marcii, Ao. 1486. In the north aisle of Carshalton church, in Surrey, is the figure of a woman praying, with this inscription from her mouth:

O blessed Lady of Pittie, pray for me,
That my soul savyd may be.

On the north wall in the chapel of Windsor, is a figure in vestments kneeling before the Virgin and Child, above are the words

MAGISTER ROBERTVS HONYWODE LEGVM DOCT. Behind him stands St. Catherine with her sword and wheel; and from his mouth issues this scrollVirgo tuum natum pro me precor ora.

And below is inscribed

Orate pro anima Magistri Roberti Honywode, Legum Doctoris, nuper Archi-Diaconi Tawnton, ac Canonici hujus Collegii. Qui obiit 22 die Januarü, Anno Dni 1522.

At Hungerford, in Berkshire, occurs this inscription: Pry pour Mons. Robert de Hungerford, tant cum il vivera, Et pour l'alme de ly appressa mort priere: Synk Cents et sinquante jours de pardon avera grante de quatorse et veoques tant come il fust en vie: per quei en noum de charite: Pater et Ave.

Many monumental inscriptions end in this manner. For instance at East Shelford :

For whose Soule, of your Charitie say a Pater Noster and Ave.

At Cookham, in the same county, against the north side of the chancel, is a monument, with the figures of a man and a woman, and this inscription under their

feet :

Of your Charitie pray for the Soules of Robert Pecke, Esq., sumtyme Master Clerke of the Spycery with King Harri the Sixt. and Agnes hys Wyfe. Robert decessyd the

Qui hac à me data ratione contentus non est, meliorem 14th day of January, in the Yere of our Lord God, a Thouadferat.

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sand CCCCC and XVII. Whos Soules and all Crysten Soules Jhesu have Mercy.

Out of the man's mouth issues the words

Sancta Trinitas, unus Deus, miserere nobis. And out of the woman's

Virgo Dei digna, peccantibus esto benigna.

In St. Giles' Church is a similar inscription, but not quite so blasphemous, but all are outdone by the following in the chapel of Windsor, for here we have the blasphemous dogma of the Immaculate Conception with a vengeance.

Orate pro animabus Regis Henrici VIImi et Christofori Urswyk, quondam ejus Elemosinarii magni et istius Collegii Decani. Ave Maria, etc. Et Benedicta sit sanctissima tua Mater Anna, ex qua sine macula processit tua purissima caro Virginea Amen. Deus qui per unigenitum tuum, ex utero Virginis incarnatum, ac morte passum, genus humanum redemisti, eripias quesumus animas Henrici VIII. ac Christofori, necnon omnium eorum, quos ipse Christoforus, dum vixit, offendit, ab eterna morte, atq; ad eternam vitam perducas, per Xm. Dominum nostrum. Amen. The above are copied literatim. Hawkshead, August 10.

D. B. H.

Mr. Kelly will find in the Rev. Charles Boutell's Monumental Brasses of England, an engraving of a brass of an Ecclesiastic at Great Bromley Church in Essex, having a scroll close to the head, on which is inscribed the invocation.

Mater dei memento mei.

On a memorial brass of Sir Richard Bewfforeste, in the Abbey Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, at Dorchester in Oxfordshire, is also a scroll with this inscription.

O dulcis Mater Virgo Virginu ora p. nobis tuu filiu. Nottingham, August 7. F. R. N. H.

JOHN INGLEDEU, not Thomas Ingledew, a native of Yorkshire, and chaplain to William Patten of Wainflete, Bishop of Winchester, founded in 1461 two Fellowships in Magdalen College, Oxford, for natives of the diocese of York, or Durham; and for their maintenance conveyed to the College for ever, certain lands in Yorkshire. It is possible that these lands may be situate in the locality of his birth; and their situation is doubtless known to the authorities at Oxford. No record is extant to show in what college either he or the bishop received his education. See Wood, Hist. et Antiq. Oxon., tom. II. pp. 187, seqq.

It does not appear that any family of this name is at present resident in Yorkshire. Two individuals of the name reside in the county of Durham, Silvester Ingledew at Stockton-upon-Tees, and James Ingledew at Oaktree, Hurworth; and two in Northumberland, Henry and John Ingledew at Newcastle.

If Angeltheos* cannot obtain the information he requires, at the Register Office, Wakefield, he may, perhaps, by consulting the Indexes to the Calendars of Inquisitions, Rolls, etc., published by the Record Commissioners; any volume of which may be had for a few shillings.

Hawkshead, Aug. 6.

D. B. H.

* This derivation is exceedingly doubtful. See Spelman in v. Ingle, and comp. Horace, Book I. Satire viii. lines 2, 3.

GEORGE COLMAN THE ELDER.

Isaac Reed, is now before me.
The following memorandum, in the autograph of

August 24th, 1794. Dr. Douglas, bishop of Salisbury, told me at his palace, Salisbury, that General Pulteney offered Mr. Colman a seat in Parliament, and to provide

amply for him, if he would quit his theatrical connections, had been kept by Mossop; had a child by him, and afterparticularly, I think he said, his mistress, Miss Ford, who wards became his wife.

Is this a known fact, or are there further particulars known? J. C.

The conversation appears to have been caused by the then recent decease of George Colman the elder, in a lunatic asylum, on the 14th of the above month. Miss Ford, who is frequently noticed in the Garrick Correspondence, was, notwithstanding her position with Mossop, and subsequently with Colman, a woman of intellect, and the child referred to, was Griffinhoof, or George Colman the younger. Colman the elder was the nephew of the Countess of Bath, herself said to have been, before her marriage, Bolingbroke's mistress. On the death of the Earl of Bath in 1764, Colman became independent, and notwithstanding his noncompliance with General Pulteney's expressed desire, was further benefited under his will, on his decease in 1767.

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Joseph Smith, twenty-five years since assumed the designation of "the prophet," and organised "the Mormon Church," with six members. Smith is since dead, but "the Church" in Utah territory in the United States now embodies three presidents, seven apostles, 2026" seventies," 715 high priests, 994 elders, 514 priests, 471 teachers, 227 deacons, besides the usual ratio of persons not yet ordained, but in training for the ministry. The total number of the Scandinavian mission is said to have been 533, of whom 409 were Danes, 71 Swedes and 54 Norwegians. Mormonism is a direct avowal of the principle of polygamy, and during the six months which ended in April last, 278 persons in the territory of Utah died, while 965 children were born; 479 persons were baptised in the Mormon faith, and 86 were excommunicated from the church. the same period, from November 1854 to April 1855 inclusive, the number of Mormonites who left the port of Liverpool en route for the Salt Lake, in the United States, comprised a total of 3626 persons, of whom 2231 were English, 401 Scottish, and 287 Welsh.

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No. LVII.]

"Takes note of what is done

By note, to give and to receive."-SHAKESPEARE.

INGLEDEW FELLOWSHIPS AT OXFORD.

Wood's History of Oxford cited by D. B. H. in Current Notes, p. 64, seems to be inaccurate. The Statutes of Magdalen College, Oxford, given by the founder William of Waynflete Bishop of Winchester in 1479, and lately printed by desire of Her Majesty's Commissioners for inquiring into the state of the University of Oxford, from a manuscript in the Bodleian Library, contain the tenor of an ordinance intituled Compositio Magistri Thomæ Ingeldew-whereby it appears that THOMAS INGLEDEW, not John Ingledew, a Clerk of the Diocese of York gave to Magdalen College, Oxford, a sum of money, not land, to be laid out in the purchase of land for founding two Fellowships, so that the suggestion kindly made by D. B. H., as to obtaining information of Thomas Ingeldew's family or birth place fails to be applicable.

The two Fellows were to celebrate for the souls of Thomas Ingeldew, and of John Bowyke and Eleanor Aske; and it was provided that Thomas Ingeldew's cousin, Richard Marshall of University College, should hold one of the Fellowships.

Besides the persons of the name of Ingledew referred to by D. B. H., there are others of the same name resident in some of the northern parishes of the North Riding of Yorkshire,

It is highly probable that Ingledew, Engledue, and Engledow are corruptions of Angeltheow mentioned in the Saxon Chronicle under the years 626 and 755, keeping in view the Saxon character, for th. Newcastle upon Tyne, Sept. 1.

ANGEL EOW.

ARCTIC ARMORIAL DISTINCTION.

To eternise the memory of Captain James Cook, a coat of arms was granted to his family, by patent dated September 3, 1785. Azure, two polar stars or; a sphere on the plane of meridian, North pole elevated, circles of latitude for every ten degrees, and of longitude for every fifteen; showing the Pacific Ocean bearing 60 and 2400 west, bounded on one side, by America; and on the other by Asia and New Holland, in honour of the discoveries made by him in that ocean. His track thereon marked by red lines. For his crest, on a wreath of the colours, an arm embowed, vested in the uniform of a Captain of the Royal Navy. In the hand, a Union Jack, on a staff proper; the arm encircled by a wreath of palm and laurel.

Some such distinction appears to be deservedly due to Commander now Captain McClure for his discovery of the North West Passage. Sittingbourne, Sept. 3.

VOL. V.

F. M.

[SEPTEMBER, 1855.

SCHOLA SALERNITANA.

Those who may wish to come to a well founded conclusion concerning the Royal Personage to whom this kind of dedication

fessor.

Anglorum Regi scribit Schola tota Salerni; find that he is fully of the opinion expressed by Dr. was addressed, must consult Tiraboschi, and they will Heaton. The well known erudite author of Italian literature devoted an entire chapter of his great work,* nitana; and has therein discussed at length the point as the Penny Cyclopædia styles it, on the Schola Salerin question. Nor did he forget to weigh the opinion hesitate to assert, with all the respect due to this last given by Muratori on this subject, but, he did not named very learned historian, that he gave his opinion of his own accord without any support of historical the King of England, this ought to be a real king, and ground, observing that as the work was addressed to could not be any other than King Edward the ConUpon this, Tiraboschi, besides not seeing any observes that, however great might be the name of that reasonable basis in this opinion expressed by Muratori, School, a King of England would not have written to it, in order to receive from it sanitary counsels and instrucNormandy, his statement entirely coinciding with that tions. He then declares himself for Robert Duke of of Dr. Heaton; and finally, to corroborate his opinion, refers to the fact that, in a Manuscript Code, the work is found addressed to King Robert-Salernitanæ Scholæ, versus ad Regem Robertum.† Tiraboschi was of opinion that the Prince being at Salerno on his return from Palestine, the desire of the School to of England, was possibly the chief motive that induced acquire a distinction with the accredited future King the Professors of it to render him honour in this work, and probably he himself made the request. He at the

same time declares that almost all the authors, and the

most credited men amongst the modern, as Giannone, in his History of the Kingdom of Naples, and Friend, Hist. Med., edit. Venet., p. 147, give the same statement, adding another circumstance, that mentioned by Dr. Heaton, concerning the wounds, which, according to these two historians had degenerated into a perilous fistula, and for the cure of which the Duke of Normandy had applied to the Doctors of the said School: nor is the circumstance of his wife sucking the poison from the wound pretermitted, a circumstance which Gian

* Edit. Venez. 1795, Vol. III., Lib. IV., Cap. vi. Medicina. † MS. Bibl. Reg. Paris., 6941. Catal., Tom. IV. p. 295.

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none adduces as an historical fact, with the only observation in a parenthesis (alcuni stimano favoloso questo racconto del succhiamento del veleno). Tiraboschi refuted this with solid reasons, but those who would refer to what Giannone has himself said upon this subject, will find a lengthened discussion in his history. Lib. X., cap. xi., Edit. Haia, 1753, 4to. Tom. II., pp. 119, et seq.

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After all, it must not be forgotten, that Dr. Heaton's statement is found identical with that in the Preface to the work in question, not only in the Paris edition as quoted by him, but also, since it must be the same, in that printed at Rotterdam by Arnold Leers, in 1648, with the following title-Zachariæ Sylvii Præfatio in Scholam Salernitanam. In this edition, the title of the work is thus-Schola Salernitana: sive de Conservanda Valetudine Præcepta Metrica. Autore Joanne de Mediolano hactenus ignoto; cum luculenta et succincta Arnoldi Villanovani in singula Capita Exegesi. The chapter De Salvia,' in this edition, is the Sixtieth, not the Thirty-eighth, as in that quoted by Dr. Heaton. The reasons advanced by Tiraboschi in refutation of the circumstance of the sucking of the poison, are two. The first is, that Oderico Vitale, a contemporary writer, Hist. Eccl. ad an. 1100; who while he makes great eulogiums of Duke Robert's wife, is wholly silent in respect of this celebrated action of conjugal love; nor was Tiraboschi able to find it mentioned by any ancient writer. The second reason is, that the School of Salerno, in the prescription for the cure of the fistula, which it is conjectured was added on this occasion, did not in any way allude to the sucking, not even in case of poison; which case they did not mention at all. The prescription, De curatione Fistula, Cap. lxxxiii. is as follows

Auripigmentum, sulphur miscere memento: His decet apponi calcem : conjunge saponi : Quatuor hæc misce; commixtis quatuor istis Fistula curatur, quater ex his si repleatur. Bristol, August 28.

F. S. DONATO.

NUMISMATA. Some Remarks induced by the reverse of a Medal recently designed and engraved by LEONARD CHARLES WYON, of Her Majesty's Mint.

The Groupe is composed of three figures. In the centre and looking to her right stands NUMISMATA, a dignified commanding Matron, extending her right hand in welcome to an animated lovely Damsel, who is pressing towards the Goddess, and represents TIME PRESENT, Youth in her Spring. With her left hand, Numismata withdraws a Curtain, and discloses an Old Man seated contemplatively on a Cube, (on which is engraved a Coin of Egina, from whence Coinage is considered to have originated.) The Sage is thus the Type of TIME PAST: of that World which has passed away, and to whose anxieties, exultations, fears, and hopes, we are the living acting representatives.

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Coinage, in its fullest extent of development, a Record of Past existence: a Diffusion of the Present.

Singular, as it may seem to us, the imaginative Greeks never approached the subject. The Romans have merely given us the justice of their Coinage, and the Moderns the machinery only of Coinage: the Spirit has been left with Hades. Whether our Saxon Wizard has really raised the Goddess from her sleep of ages, it is for the Priests of her Temple to declare, but at all events the Apparition is a very lovely one.

To enter more fully into the spirit of Mr. WYON'S personification, let us consider in reference to TIME PRESENT, how few of Queen Victoria's subjects have seen Her Majesty, yet thanks to the Coinage of Money and Medals, Her Majesty's Portrait, is as a Household Deity from London to Lahore! while through the same Power, the multitudinous Past, involving Empires, Sovereigns, and Events, remain an existing World to us; and will remain so, equally to interest and instruct unknown generations whose futurity is beyond the ken of our Divination.

These varied conceptions we think have been very happily embodied. The noble figure and graceful attitude of NUMISMATA, her benign and intellectual countenance, and the magnificent flow of her drapery, uniting itself with the massive fall, and superb folds of the curtain, all contribute to indicate the presiding Deity; and then the loveliness of early Girlhood, with the elasticity of the youthful form of TIME PRESENT; Constitute an imposing contrast, to the Antient of other days gravely quiescent, seated in the background, and in the now, light cheerful Damsel, there is the prospective promise, of good enduring stamina. All three attitudes are indeed characteristically significant and appropriate the stationary unchanging Genius-NuMISMATA, the immoveable tranquillity of Age, the progressive ardour of Youth, and the Present, with all its rose tinctured animating Future in prospect. The Past, with all its mingled sunshine and shadows in review, now-alike-neither enlivening nor depressing; and yet-alike-subjects of thought, comparison, and consideration. Combine all, and they are fully expressive of the Inscription-

NUMISMATA IRRADIATING THE PRESENT: RESTORING THE PAST.

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In this graceful and effective Groupe, Mr. WYON, has idealized and personified the powers and purposes of summer last.

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