GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. MAY, 1841. BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. CONTENTS. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-William de Rishanger-Points of Heraldry and ....... PAGE 450 451' 468 472 473 480 Notices of the Family of Archbishop Sancroft....... 486 487 491 492 494 495 POETRY.-DRINK AND AWAY.-POETIC THOUGHTS.. REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Akerman's Numismatic Manual, 497; Gardiner's Visit to the Indians of Chili, 502; Narrative of a Three Months' March in India, 503; Troughton's Nina Sforza, a Tragedy, 503; Publications of the Surtees Society, 505; Shortt's Antiquities of Exeter, 508; Works on the Provincial Dialects of England, 510; Lady E. Stuart Wortley's Jairah and other Poems, 513; Fennell's Natural History of Quadrupeds, Dr. Thomson's Domestic Management of the Sick Room, 515; Miscellaneous Reviews........... FINE ARTS. 516 National Gallery, 522.-The Art-Union of London, 523.-Statue of the 523 LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE.-List of New Publi- ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES. Society of Antiquaries, 526.-Numismatic Society.. HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.-Parliamentary Proceedings, 529. News, 529. Domestic Occurrences.. Promotions and Preferments, 532.-Births, 533.-Marriages OBITUARY; with Memoirs of the Earl of Rothes; Earl O'Neill; Earl of CLERGY DECEASED, 549.-Deaths arranged in Counties Bill of Mortality-Markets-Prices of Shares, 559; Meteorological Diary-Stocks 560 Embellished with an Interior View of BOLTON HALL, YORKSHIRE. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. MR. HALLIWELL informs us that the MS. of Hymns to Symon de Montfort, mentioned by Tyrrell as being in the Public Library at Cambridge, and alluded to in the review of Rishanger's Chronicle in our last number, has been repeatedly searched for without success.-A Suffolk Correspondent claims William de Rishanger as a native of that county, and we think with very great probability: as the parish in Suffolk now called Rishangles is written Risangra in Domesday Book, and we know of no other place in the kingdom bearing the same name. The practice of monks and ecclesiastics in general to assume the name of their birth-place is evidenced by continual proofs. We are sorry to be obliged to defer the insertion of two Communications relative to the erection of Royal Arms in Churches: also, those of the Rev. MR, HOWMAN and MR. HALLIWELL on Herne's Oak; and a reply which we have procured from J. R. to the enquiry of R. M. The Correspondent who asks for the explanation of a French blazon, is informed that his lion dragonnée must be halflion half-dragon (with the wings and tail of the latter), and that the caunettes are young ducks, which the French heralds draw like martlets, but with legs and beaks. 66 By Bagots is no doubt meant badges; and another Correspondent is informed that "shetills " or shotills, were scutulæ, small flat dishes. A CORRESPONDENT enquires where the house of Lord Vaux at Hackney was situate, which is frequently mentioned in "A Declaration of egregrious Popish Impostures," printed in 1603. A Query for Heralds.-A gentleman having married for his 1st wife an heiress, and having by her an only daughter: he on the death of his 1st wife marries again and has by this 2nd wife a son. The daughter by the 1st wife marries. How are her arms to be blazoned with her husband's?-T. STRAIN OUT versus STRAIN AT. Matt. xxiii. 24.-I have this verse before me in a specimen of the "English Hexapla" (a truly noble work, projected by the Messrs. Bagster;) as it is rendered in Wiclif's Translation, 1380; in Tyndale's, 1534; Cranmer's, 1539; Geneva, 1557; Rheims, 1582; and the Authorized Version, 1611 Wiclif, who translated from the Latin Vulgate, reads-" clensenge a gnat." Tyndale, Cranmer, the Geneva, : from the Greek; οἱ διυλίζοντες τὸν kovana, read-" strayne out; " the Rheims, "straine a gnat," and the autho rized "straine AT." I should be inclined to favour a suspicion that the change from out to at might have been originally merely typographical, if I had not a recollection of having seen an entirely independent translation, prior in date to King James's, with the same word at. And as it is not likely that two printers should stumble into the same error, I apprehend out must have been turned out by design, Can any of your Biblical readers throw any light upon the subject? Can any of them settle the question? When did at first supplant out? Does any one continental translation adopt a similar_interpretation? R. C. W. L. wishes to ask two questions of any Biblical readers.-1. How and where did St. Paul dispose of himself from the time when he quitted his own hired house till his death, a space, according to Bishop Burgess, of seven or nine years?-2. May not the length and unconnectedness of his Epistle to the Romans be ascribed to its having the doctrines he preached at Rome mixed up with the original letter? To account for the seven or nine years before mentioned, Bishop Burgess sends him west to Spain and as far as Britain, but without authority. Others send him to the east, but that could not be, for we have his own authority for assuring his eastern friends that they should see his face no more. CYDWELI observes, There are some Archaisms in the English Bible, for instance, or ever, which is equivalent to before, or as soon as. It occurs in Daniel vi. 24," and brake all their bones in pieces, or ever they came at the bottom of the den." How came the words to have that meaning, for they have no inherent meaning whatever? The same expression occurs toward the end of that century, in Case's Mount Pisgah, 1670, "and have the first share in the felicities and triumphs of that day, or ever the sleeping saints should be awakened or got out their beds of dust."-What, I would also ask, is the verbal meaning of the expression world without end? It occurs often in the Liturgy, and also in the authorized version, Isaiah, xlv. 17. "Ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded, world without end." P. 320. Clifton and Cliburn are both in Westmorland, and Dr. Robinson was a magistrate for that county. MAGAZINE. GENTLEMAN'S THE LIFE OF SIR RICHARD HILL, BY REV. EDWIN SYDNEY, A.M. THE great fault which we have to find with this book is, that it is too long; the fringe is out of proportion to the garment: d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire.' "Le secret mony in the manner in which the different subjects are treated, and in the There is a want of proportion and harspace they respectively occupy: many points are discussed with which Sir Richard Hill is but remotely connected; many are developed at too great length, till the hero of the story seems to disappear among the clouds of theological discussion and dispute. A writer, who himself was well skilled in the best manner of arranging and disposing his materials, has told us, "Sed ut opera extruentibus satis non est, saxa atque materiam, et cætera ædificanti utilia congerere, nisi disponendis iis, collocandisque artificum manus adhibentur: sic in dicendo qualibet abundans rerum copia cumulum tantum habeat, atque congestum, nisi illas easdem dispositio in ordinem digestas, atque in sese commissas devinxerit." In these days, when knowledge is multiplied and curiosity is insatiate, it is the duty of every writer to be as brief as his subject admits : quod nimium est, vitium est. Sydney kept this judicious advice in mind, we should have been spared the Had Mr. discussion on the Oxford Tracts and the long accounts of Voltaire's illness and death; while much of the history of the dispute between Whitfield and Wesley might have been abridged. We could also have dispensed with the numerous quotations of Sir Richard's humour, which his biographer so much admires and so largely cites; for these qualities called wit and humour are very delicate and fugitive in their nature, and not easily transplanted with success, "Unde conciliatur risus, et quibus ex locis peti soleat, difficilimum est docere.' fesses on theological subjects, and on the tenets of the church, we have no As to the opinions which he profault to find with their introduction. Mr. Sydney, as well as the person whose history he relates, belongs to that portion of the establishment which is called" the Low* Church party;" accordingly he advocates their views, defends their principles, and recommends their example; and with the sole exception of the "Oxford Tracts," he delivers his sentiments on the controverted subjects which he discusses, with the temper and moderation that are creditable to him, however we may differ from him as to his reasonings and conclusions. The name of Sir Richard Hill ought not to have passed away in silence, nor his virtues to have been suffered to moulder obscurely in the tomb; and had Mr. Sydney given us somewhat that kind of sketch that just touched upon the peculiar temper and more eminent virtues of his mind, with a short account of the transactions of his life, such as would have made the portrait a faithful likeness of the original, we should have been *See Doctor Hook's Letter to the Bishop of Ripon, in which he ranks the clergy of the present day in two great divisions, "the High and Low Church," and considers it to be a matter of duty to side with one party or the other. |