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CROSS AT ST. BURYAN, CORNWALL.

The antiquity of Crosses everywhere, but especially in Cornwall, is an old and somewhat worn subject, but I consider one in the churchyard of St. Buryan in that county, is entitled to more than a passing notice. I have looked into all the Cornish histories at my command, but in none of them do I find the Buryan Cross engraved. The Rev. W. Haslam, known as the discoverer of the old Oratory of Perran Zabuloe; not many years since engraved some of the Cornish Crosses, which in that part are very abundant, two of them were in St. Buryan parish, but that of which I forward a sketch

is a third.

It is of a form rarely met with in Cornwall-a Maltese cross surrounded by a circle; a beautiful emblem of the eternal efficacy of the Atonement. On one side, somewhat mutilated and time-worn, is the crucified Christ; on the other, as shewn in the sketch, are the emblems of the five wounds received on Calvary.

The devotional character and thought about this Cross may well serve as a suggestion for the church restorers of the nineteenth century.

I should be glad to know the order in which the various forms of crosses may be arranged, from the Latin cross, to the more elaborate sculpture of the decorated period of English architects. Where may

such a classification be found? Feb. 12.

T. H. PATTISON.

as an

HOYLE.-Huddesford in his Catalogue of Anthony Wood's Manuscripts, in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, describes, no. 8466, account of the Nobility and Gentry, buried at Oxford, since 1643, etc. Among the persons noticed is JOSHUA HOYLE, Master of University College, and Regius Professor of Divinity. TALBOIS.-No. 8465, in the same Collection, is a folio volume of Pedigrees of the Nobility and Gentry of England, transcribed by Ralph Sheldon of Beoley; them is one of the TALBOIS family.

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THE CRIMEA SEVENTY YEARS SINCE.

or connivance of both Austria and Prussia. No one who

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have turned a deafened ear to all the aspirations of Blinded by political prejudices, England appears to warning against the aggressions of the Russians in the Black Sea, abetted as they have been by the assistance reads Capt. Sutherland's Tour from Gibraltar to Constantinople, printed in 1790, will fail being impressed with surprise that warnings so broadly and so unequivocally expressed, should have failed in exciting a more particular attention on the part of successive governments in England to our national interests. Russian fleet in the Black Sea was then officered by Englishmen, and under their superior abilities and nautical experience, in the bay of Chisemê inflicted a fatal blow to the Turkish Empire, and created that naval supremacy for the Russian, which has in 1855 been wholly subverted. The ambitious projects of the Empress Catherine, in 1788, with the entry of the Austrians under the Prince of Saxe Cobourg into Moldavia, created a determined resistance on the part of Turkey, which elicited from Capt. Sutherland the following animated remarks on the cupidity of our rulers.

As an Englishman, policy obliges me to wish success to the Turks. I feel the utmost detestation of the ambitious combination entered into by the Emperor of Austria and the Empress Catherine to extirpate the Turks, merely because Nature has been bountiful to their soil, and because their country promised an easy conquest. These Powers could scarcely imagine that Europe would look on with indifference: but they trusted they had a sufficient party to prevent any open declaration in favour of the injured Turks. These expectations the total suspension of the powers of France must have frustrated.

The writer in calling upon Prussia and England to support the Turk, if on no better terms than the strict observance by Russia of the Treaty of Cainardgie, a treaty which England was bound to redress, observes

What has become of that spirit of virtue and generosity, which not fifty years since led us to enter into an expensive war, in favour of Maria Theresa, merely because she was then an unfortunate Princess, oppressed by an ambitious neighbour, whose usurpations like those of Russia, threatened in time to affect ourselves.

It is, no doubt, a considerable abatement of the honest joy an Englishman feels in contemplating this act of magnanimity in his ancestors, to find, that ingratitude has been the only return which has been made to us. In cherishing Austria and Russia, we may really be said to have nurtured the viper in our bosom, which in the moment of our distress attempted a mortal wound by forming the Armed Neutrality, or in plain language, a combination to supply our enemies with implements for our destruction. critical a situation; if a sense of our national dignity; if If justice to the Turks, whom we have reduced to so our dearest interest and commercial concerns will not induce us to speak boldly in a moment like this, self-preser

vation at least should affect us. Let us recollect that

Russia is an evil-disposed aspiring child; that we now have it in our power to curb her proud spirit; but that if we neglect this opportunity and allow her to increase in

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pride, and in strength, in a few years she may perhaps trample on our breasts.

Pax queritur in Bello is a favourite motto, but Wars guarded against in peace, is in my opinion a much better one; and this is the motto England ought to choose. There is nothing in the present state of Europe, that Great Britain can in justice require, but what she must immediately gain. Let her then dictate terms to Russia, and check her ambitious views. If she refuses to subinit, shew us the Power who at this moment will dare to oppose the serious threats of England? Vengeance would soon overwhelm her.

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CENSURE AGAINST SNUFF-TAKING IN CHURCH.

The Sessional Records of Brechin, contain the following reprehension against the taking of snuff during divine service.

1638, Oct. 2. Thomas Will, Alexander Gawin and others, being called in this day before the Sessioun for taking of snuff in tym of divyn seruice, and that publickly to the offence of vthers, ane ewill example to wyr to doe the lyk, they confessed and promises not to the lyk in tymes to come or wyr wayes to vnderlye the censur of the Session.

Brechin, Feb. 7.

A. J.

HOLLES MONUMENT, ST. PETER'S, DORCHESTER. After a highly successful appeal to the town of Dorchester, and the county of Dorset, in aid of a fund for the repairing and restoring the beautiful old church of St. Peter's, sufficient has been obtained for effecting the more immediate requirements, leaving contemplated improvements, works of ornament and minor importance, to be effected when further contributions could be afterwards collected. These repairs have been progressing for some months past; and amongst the exceptions, caused by the inadequacy of means, was the removal of the monument of Denzil, Baron Holles of Ifield, from the eastern window of the south aisle, to some other part of the church, in order to open that window, that had been completely blocked up by the monument. One of the gentlemen of the Committee having given orders for its removal, the monument has been taken down, and partly put up at the western end of the north aisle.

From the first I have been acting as one of the Honorary Secretaries to the Committee appointed for the effecting these repairs, and until the occurrence of this circumstance have been wholly in accord with the persons of that Committee, and their plans; but in this I unfortunately differ from the parties assuming the management, and consider this difference as being on a subject, beyond the mere question of ornament, and am therefore induced to this remonstrance, in the hope of drawing the attention of all lovers of antiquity and beauty to this monument, that a remedy may present itself for that which I consider to be, to say the least of i., a most unjustifiable proceeding.

On the top, between two urns, an escutcheon encircled by the Garter, containing the arms of Holles, Duke of Newcastle.* Over all a ducal coronet, and on a cushion above it a ducal cap, motto-SPES AVDACES ADJVVAT.

Under the curtain are three cherubim's heads, and below these, the effigies of Lord Holles, in a robe of loose drapery, and in a recumbent posture, his right elbow leaning upon a cushion. On the outside of the monument, the effigy on the right side, is that of a boy, and on the left, that of an angel mourning. Below the effigy, are the arms, supporters, and motto of Lord

• Denzil Lord Holles, by Dorothy Ashley, his first wife, had an only son, Francis, who succeeded his father in the barony. He died March 1, 1689-90, and was succeeded by his only son Denzil, the third Baron Holles, who died in his nineteenth year, in 1694, when that honour became extinct, and the estates devolved upon his heir-at-law, John Holles, fourth Earl of Clare, who having married Margaret, daughter and coheiress of Henry Cavendish, second Duke of Newcastle, deceased 1691; was on May 14, 1694, created the Holles Monument to be erected in St. Peter's Church, Marquis of Clare, and third Duke of Newcastle. He caused in 1699, and dying in 1711, s. p. m., his honours, notwithstanding the panoply of armorial glory displayed in this

marble memorial, also became extinet.

Holles, with a baron's coronet. In a compartment on the base are two inscribed columns, that on the right in Latin, and that on the left in English.

The monument of such a man as Denzil Lord Holles, is, I think it will be admitted, of more than local interest; perhaps, indeed, I should not go too far, if I said of national interest. Lord Holles is known as a man noble and illustrious in descent. In the reign of King James the First he represented Dorchester in parliament; and married Dorothy, daughter and heiress of Sir Francis Ashley, of Dorchester. He was created a peer April 20, 1661, and was honoured by representing his sovereign at several foreign courts; was a faithful counsellor to his prince, a patriot to his country, and a Christian towards God. He died in the eighty-second year of his age, Feb. 17, 1679-80, and was buried in this church on April 10, 1680.* His wife was also

buried here.

Now, of this monument, I confess, I with pain observe it is intended to re-erect it in part only! Will it be believed that it is contemplated to set aside the pillars, the top, the urns, the curtain, and the cherubims' heads, because the omission pleases the taste of several gentlemen who have decided thereon? On the contrary, I consider it of great importance that the whole should be re-erected, and not thus mutilated by way of "improvement." A difference of opinion might possibly occur on the score of "improvement," for quot homines, tot sententiæ, and, in my humble opinion, the omissions apparently decided on would anything but

merit that name.

Another argument for its complete restoration is, that, I am credibly informed, there is a rent-charge of two guineas per annum, derivable from the estate known as Holles Froome, near Dorchester, formerly the property of Lord Holles, reserved and payable for the cleaning and maintaining of this fine monument.

One word on "the right" to mutilate monuments. It might as well be said that the parties are equally empowered to take from, or add, at their will and pleasure, to any monument in the church, according to their taste from time to time; unless it is contended, which it would be idle to do, that the lapse of time since its erection would give them that right. I trust, therefore, that the parties in authority, who have ordered the omissions, will, on consideration, agree with me that the monument ought to be reinstated, as originally designed and planned by the sculptor, who was surely the best judge of what was a becoming background for his own work; and that such an instance of bad taste may not mar the, in other respects, vast improvements to one of the finest and best-built churches of our county.

Dorchester, Feb. 11.

JOHN GARLAND.

The sermon preached at his funeral by the Rev. Samuel Rayner, then rector of St. Peter's, contains copious biographical details of Lord Holles. It was published by William Churchill, bookseller in Dorchester, in 1680, 4to., but is now of considerable rarity.

THE LAST OF THE COURT FOOLS?

Said Effendi, distinguished by the appellation of Mussahib, or Imperial Buffoon, who had served in that capacity four Sultans, and who notwithstanding his very advanced age, was frequently commanded into the presence of the present Sultan, to exercise his talent in smart sayings, and perform the antics of his office, which the venerable old gentleman generally did with remarkable agility, died at Constantinople on the 3rd instant, at the age of 121 years and seven months.

COMPENSATION OF MAGAZINE WRITERS.

A correspondent of the Aberdeen Journal states of his own knowledge, the following are the sums paid to writers, by the proprietors of the periodicals named.

We, ourselves, receive from Chambers's Journal, twenty-one shillings per page, and for the continuous Tales in the serial, a guinea and a half per page is paid; in a page of Chambers there are about 1373 words. In words, and for that number, the Religious Tract Society a page of the Leisure Hour, there are usually 1120 1250 words, Eliza Cook used to pay us a guinea; and pays fifteen shillings. For a page containing about Charles Dickens, Household Words, still pays that sum for a page of not more than 1050 words. For the much smaller pages of Tait's, Sharpe's, Bentley's, and the new New Monthly, half a guinea each is paid; while for pages of about the same size, Blackwood, and the Dublin University, pay double that price. For reviews, the Athenæum pays half a guinea; while the Critic and The Quarterlies pay their contributors at rates varying the Literary Gazette, pay seven shillings per column. from eight to sixteen guineas per sheet of sixteen

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"Takes note of what is done-
By note, to give and to receive."-SHAKESPEARE.

EARLY MERCHANTS' MARKS.

The following two examples of Merchants' marks are from rubbings of Sepulchral memorials in the London

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INEDITED LETTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.

I forward you another letter* addressed by Sir Walter Scott to "James Ellis, Esq., Otterbourne, by Hexham, Northumberland," perhaps not so interesting as the last, but still worth preserving. The volume, edited by Ellis, and dedicated to Scott, has the following title

Poetry, Fugitive and Original, by the late Thomas Bedingfield, Esq., and Mr. George Pickering, with Notes and some Additional Pieces, by a Friend, [i.e. Ellis.] Collecta revirescent. Newcastle, 1815, 8vo.

Is from the Flemish brass of Andrew Evyngar and family 1536, in the Church of All-hallows, Barking. On this brass are two other shields, the dexter charged with the arms of the Merchant Adventurers Company, barry nebulé of Many kind thanks, my dear Sir, for Pickering and six, arg. and azure; a chief quar- Bedingfield's poems, which I think greatly more valuable terly gules and or; the first and from being mingled with your own, which are comfourth quarters, a lion passant-pletely fitted to rank with them, and you know they guardant of the fourth. On the stand high in my estimation. I think you have made second and third, two roses of the a very acceptable present to the literary world, and third, barbed vert. The sinister shield bears the arms feel myself much flattered in standing godfather to the of the Salters Company, per chevron az. and gules, volume. It is executed in a manner creditable to the three sprinkling salts argent. Newcastle press, and without errors, which is equally honourable to the editor and printer. The literary anecdotes are very interesting, and will be the means. of preserving to posterity the memory of these two ingenious men, which must otherwise have perished with the generation in which they flourished. You were fortunate in the opportunity of knowing them, and they not less so, in being known to one whose kindred talents have enabled him to preserve their fame.

The inscription in old English raised characters; the words within brackets being erased.

[Off your charite pray for the sowls] of Andrew Evyngar cyteze and salter of London; and Ellyn hys [wyff on whoos soulys ihesu haue m'cy ame.]

In the church of St. Olave, Hart
Street, on a mural brass, the de-
vice marked on the representation
of a bale of wool; with the follow-
ing inscription.

John Orgone and Ellyne his wife.
As I was so be ye.
As I am, you shall be.
That I gaue that I haue.
That I spent, that I had.
Thus I end all my coste
That I leffte, that I loste, 1584.
J. J. H.

Lee Road, Blackheath, March 8.

The Border Antiquities must be given up, for I don't think the publishers have taken the thing by the right

In reference to the letter printed in Current Notes, pp. 4-5, Mr. White, it appears to me, is under a mistake, Current Notes, p. 14, in supposing that Sir Walter made a slip respecting the lines on the North Tyne. The lines to which allusion is made are now before me, having been printed in 1850, by Mr. Fenwick, from the manuscript in Mr. Ellis's autograph. The tract is entitled-Dialogue between the North and South Tyne Rivers. This Dialogue is the joint production of the late Dr. Shepherd, Preacher at Gray's Inn, and the late Miss Davidson, who in 1817 had a friendly controversy on the respective merits, in anti-point of beauty and association of the two streams.

TOMB OF HOMER.-The Sieur de Grun, a Dutchman in the Russian service, employed in searching for quities in the islands of the Archipelago, wrote to a friend early in 1772, that he had discovered in that of Nio, the tomb of Homer, who was always supposed to have died there. That he found a Greek inscription on the sepulchre which contained the skeleton of that poet, the most celebrated of all antiquity, but that it immediately crumbled to dust on being exposed to the air. He had also made many other discoveries of tombs and coins in the islands of Naxio and Milo, as in that of Nio. Wisbeach, March 7.

VOL. VI.

M. S. F.

As far as I know, the other poem, edited by Mr. Adamson, and entitled-The Marriage of the Coquet and the The Editor observes-the Alwine, is still anonymous. author of this poem is not positively known, but report attributes it to two different gentlemen, of whom each is equally well known in the county of Northumberland. The names of these two individuals I do not feel myself at liberty to mention here, as by assigning it to any one without certain information on the subject, I might, unintentionally, subtract from the merit of the real composer.

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E. H. A.

eruption.

handle, making the numbers far too large and miscel-, only a violent chicken-pox, and not the real variolous laneous. I have got a work for your acceptance-The Lord of the Isles-but I wait for the royal 8vo., which will appear in a fortnight.

I have just got from Mr. Bell the inaugural speeches at the opening of the Society of Antiquaries, which shew much taste and spirit. I have thoughts of going south this spring; perhaps, if I do not come down by sea, a mode of travelling to which I am rather partial, I may have an opportunity of being present at a meeting. I have often thought that if Antiquarian Societies would bestow some expense and time in causing fair copies to be transcribed from curious old papers and records, they would render their associations of most material use to history. About fifty years ago, an old Scotch gentleman, the Laird of Macfarlane, who chanced to be a keen genealogist and antiquary, employed an amanuensis in making a collection of this kind. The volumes thus compiled were afterwards purchased by our Faculty of Advocates, and are in their fine library; and what points out the extreme value of such a collection, many of the originals from which they were copied have even in the comparative short space of time, fallen aside, or been destroyed; so that these copies are now the only source to which we can resort for the curious information which they contained. Perhaps, the Antiquarian Society of the North may be induced at one time or other to take the matter under consideration?

Sometime since, I wrote you a long letter, which I hope came safe to hand. Mrs. Scott sends her kind compliments to Mrs. Ellis. Our eldest boy, Walter,† whom you remember at Otterbourne, has had the small pox, or something very like it, and thereby made himself the town-talk, for he was in infancy both vaccinated and inoculated. He has now got them well over, but the alarm prevented me writing this letter. The circumstance of the small-pox, if such the disease be, reviving like one of Ariosto's Enchanted Champions after it was supposed fairly slain, is a little startling. But as vaccination was then only new, it is possible the boy may not have had the right kind, and that the subsequent inoculation may not have taken effect, which sometimes happens; or, the disorder may have been

Scott was elected an Honorary Member of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Society of Antiquaries on April 7, 1813 several unpublished letters of Scott's in reference to his joining this Society, and the Border Minstrelsy, in the Editor's possession, will appear in Current Notes.

Scott's only son, born Oct. 28, 1801. He adopted the military profession, and was a Major in the 15th Hussars, when Sir Walter died Sept. 21, 1832, whom he succeeded in the Baronetcy. He became the Lieutenant-Colonel of his regiment, May 31, 1839, and served some years in India; on his return homeward he died at sea, off the Cape of Good Hope, Feb. 8, 1847. Dying without issue, the baronetcy became extinct.

Once more, my dear Sir, my grateful thanks and best wishes attend

you, and

I am very much.

Your much obliged and faithful servant, Edinb. January 19, 1815. WALTER SCOTT.

SCOTT'S WAVERLEY NOVELS QUESTIONED. In Notes and Queries, there appeared recently certain letters in which an attempt was made to discredit Sir Walter Scott's right to be considered Author of what are usually denominated, the Waverley Novels. This would be amusing enough were there not involved in it an imputation on the memory of the truly great and good man of the most serious description. In assuming Scott to be the author of Moredun, the concoctor of that eccentric and unequal production did not touch his moral character. People might say, and say with truth, that it was unworthy of his pen-but that was all whereas, the story now told just comes to this, that Scott appropriated for his own benefit the works of others.

What is said? Why, that Thomas Scott wrote the whole or best part of the novels prior to Rob Roy; and that in particular he was the author of The Antiquary. What is the proof of this wondrous statement? An alleged letter in the Quebec Herald, of July, 1820. It has the date of December-but no year. It has neither signature nor address. The party who was the recipient is represented as dead; who sent it is not disclosed; and where it was found-whether in New York or Quebec-is concealed. In this precious production, Thomas Scott is made to declare that he was the author of The Antiquary. It is asserted that the writer had seen the original manuscript in full in Thomas Scott's hand-writing.

An anonymous communication of this sort affords no evidence whatever. A court of law would dismiss it at once, and common sense rejects it as worthless. -Examine the matter, and see how the thing stands. Firstly, Was ever such a letter in existence, and if so, where is it now? Secondly, Who was the writer, and to whom was it addressed? Thirdly, What was the date that is to say, the year in which it was written? Fourthly, Where is the alleged manuscript of The Antiquary in Thomas Scott's autograph? In the next place, assume that Thomas Scott made such a statement, was it done seriously or in jest-was it over his cups, or was any body else present? The paymaster, humour-full of frolic and fun. as Thomas Scott is styled, was a fellow of infinite

Like the late excellent Peter Robertson (Eheu ! !) he could not resist a joke; and to mystify a Yankeecould there be a greater treat? Sir Walter, at the dinner at which the secret of his authorship was made public, desired Robertson to announce himself as the murderer of Begbie. Even very grave personages con

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