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pense nor trouble will be spared during the whole year to make our publication worthy of the great events by which 1851 seems destined to be distinguished. "Looking before and after," we will endeavour to promote increase of knowledge and progress in rational inquiries by every means in our power, and especially by faithfully chronicling things present, and bringing to bear upon them the treasures of the past.

25, Parliament Street, Westminster, 30th December, 1850.

E PLURIBUS UNUM.

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GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE

MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-Genealogical Queries; Hampden of Hartwell, the Pierre-
pont family, William Cogan, the Ogden family-Sir William Bruges-Gospel Oak –
Taking off the hat to a Funeral-Lines inscribed on grave of Addison...

The Maids of Taunton-Mr. Macaulay and William Penn

The Banquet of the Dead-Funeral of Francis I.: by Dr. Doran..

Memoir of Vincent de Paul....

Facts for a New Biographia Britannica :-Dr. Young's Pension, Betterton's

widow, Rowe's widow, Dr. Arbuthnot, Dennis the critic, Gilbert West: by

Peter Cunningham, Esq. F.S.A.

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Colonel Mure's History of the Language and Literature of Ancient Greece
Southey and "The Aikins;" his injustice towards Mrs. Barbauld: by Miss
Lucy Aikin.

Continental Discoveries of Antiquities; Tomb of a Female Gallo-Roman artist:
by C. Roach Smith, Esq. F.S.A. (with Engravings). .

Account of an unknown Poem by Drayton: by J. Payne Collier, Esq. V.P.S.A.

The Proper Division of "Twelfth Night" into Acts.

Life of Dr. Andrew Combe..

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Monumental Brass to William de Aldeburgh in Aldborough church, Yorkshire:
by the Rev. Charles Boutell, A.M. (with a Plate)

Recollections of Lord Cloncurry; with a communication upon the subject from

J. R. of Cork....

Tradesmen's Tokens, No. VII.-The Toy at Hampton Court.

The Library of the British Museum, and the Universal Catalogue suggested by

"The Athenæum "

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONTH.

MISCELLANEOUS REVIEWS.-Fletcher's Notes from Nineveh, and Vaux's Nineveh
and Persepolis, 61; Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, 63; Sir F. Dwarris's
New Facts as to the Authorship of Junius, 68; The Lighted Valley-Annuaire de la
Société des Antiquaires de France, 1850-Lodge's Ancient Art among the Greeks-
Newman's Phases of Faith-Ledru Rollin's Decline of England .........
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE.-New Examination Statute, Univer-
sity of Oxford, 70; University of Cambridge-Dissenters' New College-Royal
Society-Royal Asiatic Society, 72; Royal Geographical Society, 73; Zoological
Society-Horticultural Society..

ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES.-Society of Antiquaries, 74; British Archæological

Association, 77; Oxford Architectural Society-Ecclesiological Society-Yorkshire

Antiquarian Club

HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.-Proceedings in Parliament, 79; Foreign News, 81; Do-
mestic Occurrences

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Promotions and Preferments, 85; Births and Marriages
OBITUARY: with Memoirs of the Earl of Roscommon; Hon. John Simpson; Sir
Thomas Cartwright, G.C.H.; Sir G. W. Prescott, Bart.; Sir William Kay, Bart.;
Sir James Flower, Bart.; Sir William Fielden, Bart.; Sir C. E. Carrington; General
Orde; Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Buchan; Lieut.-Col. Patrick Campbell, C.B.; Capt. G.
E. Davis, R.N.; William Roche, Esq.; M. Gay-Lussac; Henry Caslon, Esq.; Mr.
John Glover; Mr. James Thom; Madame Tussaud; Mr. Richard J. Wyatt...

CLERGY DECEASED

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Embellished with two Plates of a ROMAN TOMB discovered at ST. MEDARD DES

PRES, in Vendée; and an Engraving of the MONUMENTAL Brass of WILLIAM DE

ALDEBURGH.

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MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.

G. E. A. inquires, "Could any of your readers inform me WHO WAS THE SECOND WIFE OF EDMUND HAMPDEN, OF HARTWELL, ESQ. brother of Sir Alexander Hampden, knighted by Jac. I. in 1603, one of the guardians of the famous John Hampden. His first wife, Mary, daughter and coheiress of Ball, of Totness, co. Devon, died March, 1578, s. p. His SECOND WIFE, MARGARET, was buried at Great Hampden, July 18, 1603,"gravide," as appears by the register. By her he had Alexander, living in A.D. 1617; Anne, m. Sir John Trevor, whose son, another Sir John, m. Anne, eventually coheiress of the said John Hampden of Hampden; Margaret, m. Sir Thomas Wenman; Mary, m. Sir Alexander Denton; and Elizabeth. Mr. Edmund Hampden's will was proved January 31, 1605."

A subscriber would feel much obliged to any of our Correspondents who could clear up the descent of one of the members of THE PIERREPONT FAMILY. John Pierrepont, of Wadworth, ob. 1653, æt. 75, called on his gravestone in Wadworth Church, "gentleman," (vid. Hist. and Topog. of Doncaster, fol. 1828, vol. i. p. 252). Whose son John Pierrepont was ; whether of Sir Henry who died 1615, or of a son of Sir George, died 6 Eliz., remains in doubt. His will shows him to be nearly related to the Earl of Kingston. He m. Margaret, daughter and co-heir of Michael Cookson, of Crookhill, whose family tree, if extant, might throw light upon the matter. Also, could any of our readers favour our Correspondent with an account of the genealogy, &c. of ALDERMAN WILLIAM COGAN, OF HULL, who founded a school in that town. His will is dated Oct. 1772, wherein mention is made of several cousins named Barlow, one in orders, one a Capt. R. N. and one a merchant at Madras. They appear to have divided a portion of his large property, but whether they were the Barlows of Yorkshire or not does not appear.

An old Subscriber is very desirous of obtaining information as to the history and seat of the OGDEN FAMILY. Dr. Samuel Ogden, the Woodwardian professor, and author of many excellent sermons (born 1716 and died 1778), and in memory of whom a mural tablet was erected in the cathedral church at Manchester, was a member of this family. There is a tradition that a person of this name hid King Charles II. in an oak tree when pursued by his enemies. A branch of the family that emigrated to America,

probably about 1700, still retains in its crest and motto plain allusion to this story. Our correspondent will be much obliged by any aid in his researches in this matter. [Our correspondent should consult the will of Dr. Ogden, which contained legacies to his relations, and also the several authorities referred to by Chalmers in his life of Dr. Ogden in the General Biographical Dictionary.-EDIT.]

A. inquires if any of our readers can refer him to an account of a grand entertainment given by Sir William Bruges, kot. Garter King of Arms temp. Henry V. at his country house at Kentish Town, Saint Pancras, Middlesex, in 1416, to the Emperor Sigismund of Germany, King of Hungary and Bohemia.-The same cor. respondent also asks for information respecting an ancient oak tree called the Gospel Oak, in the Kentish Town field, under which tradition says that Saint Austin preached.

R. E. remarks: "In a paper entitled 'PLAIN QUESTIONS FOR CHRISTIANS,' published by Masters, and lately circulated very widely in certain parishes, amongst other questions for self-examination, such as, ' Do I uphold the Church?' 'Do I always pay proper respect to Her Ministers?' Do I abstain as much as possible from indulgence and self-gratification on all the Church's Days of Fasting and Abstinence?' there also occurs the following question. It is No. xiii. Do I take off my hat to a passing Funeral?' The meaning of the other questions seems plain enough, but can any of your readers tell me what is the meaning of this last one? How long has it been, and upon what ground is it, the duty of Christians to salute a passing funeral, and what is the meaning to be attached to such salutation?"

The following lines have been inscribed upon a stone recently placed by the Earl of Ellesmere over the grave of ADDISON in Westminster Abbey. The lines are by Tickell. The Montague alluded to was Charles first Earl of Halifax.

ADDISON.

Ne'er to these chambers where the mighty rest,

Since their foundation, came a nobler guest;
Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss conveyed
A fairer spirit, or more welcome shade.
Oh, gone for ever, take this long adieu,
And sleep in peace next thy lov'd Mountague.
Born 1672.-Died 1719,
Egerton, Earl of Ellesmere,
P.C. 1849.

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