GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. APRIL, 1845. BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. CONTENTS. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-Sir Walter Scott's Heraldry-Robert Rugg-The THE LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF DR. ARNOLD: by the Rev. A. Stanley.. The Ware called Samian, probably not made in England On the Jutes in Hampshire..... On the Archery of Ulysses. ...... THE FEMALE BIOGRAPHIES OF ENGLISH HISTORY, NO III.-Anne Duchess of The New Rectory House at Kingsworthy, Hants, (with a Plate.) REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. The History of Reynard the Fox, edited by W. J. Thoms, esq. and Reynard the Fox, by S. Naylor, esq. 385; The Collegian's Guide, 388; The Book of Symbols, 390; Walbran's Guide to Ripon and Harrogate, ib.; Dissent, its Character, Causes, Reasons, &c. 391; Poems, by Frances Anne Butler, 392; Wilkinson's Practical Geology and Ancient Architecture of Ireland, 394; Saull's Notitia Britanniæ, 397; Miscellaneous Reviews LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. ..... University of Oxford-University of Cambridge, 400; Royal Corporation of .... PAGE 338 339 361 365 367 369. 371 381 381 393 402 403 406 ...... 408 414 HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. Parliamentary Proceedings, 412; Foreign Promotions and Preferments, 419; Births and Marriages DEATHS, arranged in Counties..... 420 423-447 447-455 456 Registrar-General's Returns of Mortality in the Metropolis-Markets-Prices of Shares, 455; Meteorological Diary-Stocks.... Embellished with a View of the new RECTORY HOUSE, at KINGSWORTHY, Hampshire' GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. APRIL, 1845. BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. CONTENTS. PAGE 338 MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-Sir Walter Scott's Heraldry-Robert Rugg-The 361 The Ware called Samian, probably not made in England 365. 367 369 On the Archery of Ulysses THE FEMALE BIOGRAPHIES OF ENGLISH HISTORY, NO III.-Anne Duchess of Somerset: Illustrative Documents: Letters of the Duchess to Lord Burghley; Her Diets when a prisoner in the Tower; Her Will, and the Inventory of her Jewels; and Depositions taken relative thereto 371 381 381 The New Rectory House at Kingsworthy, Hants, (with a Plate.) REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. The History of Reynard the Fox, edited by W. J. Thoms, esq. and Reynard the Fox, by S. Naylor, esq. 385; The Collegian's Guide, 388; The Book of Symbols, 390; Walbran's Guide to Ripon and Harrogate, ib.; Dissent, its Character, Causes, Reasons, &c. 391; Poems, by Frances Anne Butler, 392; Wilkinson's Practical Geology and Ancient Architecture of Ireland, 394; Saull's Notitia Britanniæ, 397; Miscellaneous Reviews LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. University of Oxford-University of Cambridge, 400; Royal Corporation of ARCHITECTURE.-Oxford Architectural Society, 404; New Conservative Parliamentary Proceedings, 412; Foreign HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. News, 413; Domestic Occurrences .... Promotions and Preferments, 419; Births and Marriages DEATHS, arranged in Counties ..... 393 402 403 406 408 414 420 423-447 .447-455 456 Registrar-General's Returns of Mortality in the Metropolis-Markets-Prices of Shares, 455; Meteorological Diary—Stocks.... Embellished with a View of the new RECTORY HOUSE, at KINGSWORTHY, Hampshire MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. What family of Vernon had this bearing? Gwillim mentions one bearing, Or, a fess azure, and another, for difference, three garbs on the fess; while the well-known arms of the present Lord is the Vernon fret."-We need hardly remark that Sir Walter Scott's imperfect knowledge of heraldry is notorious; and it may be vain to attempt to reconcile all his erroneous assertions on the subject. In the present case it may be remarked that the coat of Burdon is Azure, crusilly, three pipes or; and another of the name Azure, two horns endorsed or, between four crosslets fitchée argent; and the similarity of the sound of that name to Vernon may have led to the blunder. The Robert Rugg of whom Tom Coryat speaks, and respecting whom our Correspondent inquires in p. 226, was no doubt the writer of an amusing letter which is printed in Raine's North Durham, p. 164. Rugg was then a gay Cavalier, but J. R. has seen proof that he afterwards joined the Roundheads. In Miss Strickland's "Lives of the Queens of England" is the following passage: There is a tradition in the North of England that the foremost man of this company (i.e. the Conqueror's army when landing for the attack of England,) to strike the land, was the ancestor of the Stricklands of Sizergh Castle in Westmorland, who derive their name and arms from this circumstance." vol. i. p. 41. SCRUTATOR QUINTUS remarks that this story is at direct variance with the etymology of the name, which is undoubtedly from a district of Westmorland, anciently written Styrkland, the pasture of the stirks or striks, young cattle so called. "Ought not," he adds, "such false and absurd legends to be reprobated as mere twaddle; for can it be supposed at all probable that a Norman knight, (how is it ascertained that he was a knight?) immediately on touching English ground, and before he had a yard of it in possession, should assume the English denomination, Strike-land, from that circumstance? No. further refutation of such absurdity can be required. Most complacently insinuating that she is the descendant of an ancient Norman family, Miss Strickland nevertheless confutes herself, for is it to be believed that either a haughty Norman, or his descendants, would condescend to change his patronymic for that of a dederived, would assuredly have been in the spised Saxon? Besides, the name, if so Norman idiom, and not have been translated into modern English, for it is not even the Saxon of the period. Burn, in his History of Westmorland, vol. i. p. 87, states, that amongst the pedigrees of almost all the other ancient families of that county, he had met with no satisfactory account of the Stricklands, and was himself therefore obliged to compile one from the family evidences; and this pedigree commences in the reign of John, old enough one would think even for Miss Strickland. Allow me also to state, that the residence of the Westmorland family is called, and always has been called, Sizergh Hall, not Castle." W. H. C. will be obliged to any of the Correspondents of the Gentleman's Magazine in Paris if they will give him the title and publisher's name, and the year when published, of a detailed account of The Life of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, referred to by our Correspondent T. Q. in the Minor Correspondence of Gent. Mag. for June 1842, vol. i. p. 570. Numismatics.-" Mr. Urban, You will much oblige me, and do an act of justice, by stating in your next number, that I have no connection with the Noffman or Hoffman by you lately mentioned in your January magazine, as selling false coins. Yours, &c. JOHAN HENRIE HOFFMAN, junior. Rue des Petits Augustins, No. 10, Paris." We have also received a letter signed "J. ROUSSEAU, Rue de Valois, 31 Palais Royal," from which we extract the following passage: "Je n'ai jamais fait une piece fausse je les rejette avec scin de ma collection et de mes medailliers ou viennent priser les amateurs; et, quand je suis consulté par eux, je me fais un devoir et un plaisir de leur indiquer les moyens de reconnaître ces imitations qui font tant de mal a la numismatique." ERRATA. P. 217. The late Hon. Mrs. Wardlaw died at Bath (not at Cheltenham) Dec. 28, and was buried in the new cemetery there on the 5th of January. P. 268, three lines from foot, for word read wood. P. 270, line 10, for Burpham, read North Stoke. P. 311. The marriages in this page, beginning "Jan. 24" to "31" inclusive, belong to December, not January. |