place where love might be gratified. She throws an apple at Damætas, who was Intent upon bufinefs, or vacant; and immediately before the the fall of it flies towards the willow-trees. The stroke of the apple excites him, he looks about, and finds her glancing, and wishing in her heart to be feen before he enters the covert (et fe cupit ante videri). This I apprehend to be the real meaning of the paffage. We cannot imagine that the Poet of Nature, who is allowed to be very accurate in his Eclogues, would, after painting the caft of the apple, and the flight of the girl, revert at the close of his defcription, and tell us, in a kind of poftfcript, that the girl had, before the commenced her flight, an ardent defire to be defcried by Damætas. I can honeftly affirm that, at the time I hit upon this meaning, I neither intended to improve myfelt nor to inform others, in any part of polite literature. The ftudy of a Claffic in the original is now MR. URBAN, Jan. 5. accounted by fome a moft prepofte- DR. Smollett, in his Travels rous employ. The first reformers in letters and politicks have afferted, that the fpirit of the antients is faithfully preferved in tranflation. To pefter ourfelves, therefore, with acquiring or cultivating languageswhichwill never be useful, never ornamental, is, in my humble opinion, a moft prodigal wafte of our time, and will certainly fubject us to the heartieft contempt and keeneft derifion of the wifer part of mankind. The improvements of this age are many indeed; and we can, from a few fpecimens which have been lately fubmitted to us, affure the publick, that, very early in the next century, the nobility and others of this kingdom will be invited to purchase a new-invented fet of charts and atlasses, calculated to fuperfede the great labour and expence of all travel. Thefe, we are told, will furnish them in one day, in their own parlours, with a far greater ftock of knowledge than can through France and Italy, fpeaking of Nice, fays, that fometimes the fifhermen there find, under water, pieces of land-cement, of a triangular form, that weigh from 12 to 15 pounds. The cement is hard as marble; and yet in the heart of thefe maffes is found a kind of muscle, called a date, from its refemblance to that fruit, alive and juicy. Upon breaking one of thefe maifes with a hammer, about 12 mufcles are generally found; for the production and fubfiftence of which, it is extremely difficult to account. Permit me to atk fome of your ingenious correfpondents, whether the Doctor was right in deeming the fifh a mufcle? If so, of what fpecies of mufcle it is con fidered by Naturalifts? J. G. C. OCKHAM IN SURREY. Tbetween between Horfley and Ripley, about 7 miles from the town of Guildford; and this place is remarkable for the birth of William Ockam, Ockham, a famous fchoolman. The church (Pl. 11. fig. 1), which is dedicated to All Saints, confifts of two ailes, and has a tower with five bells at the Weft end. It is a rectory in the deanry of Stoke; the patron, the Right Hon. Lord King, who has a hand fome feat near the church. This view was drawn in 1753; from which there is no material alteration except of the tree faid to be planted in Queen Eliza beth's reign, blown down a few years fince. The prefent incumbent, the Rev. Samuel Godfchall* was inducted in 1797. On the North fide of the church is a handsome monument of the Lord Chancellor King and his lady (fig. 2). On the urn is written, DEPOSITUM PETRI DOMINI KING, And at the bottom this infcription. "He was born in the city of Exeter of worthy and substantial parents, He applied himself to his ftudies in the Middle Temple; and, to an exact and compleat knowledge in all parts and hiftory of the law, He was chosen a member of the Houfe of Commons in the year 1699; made chief-justice of the Common Pleas in 1714, on the acceffion of King George I.; created Lord King, Baron of Ockham, and raised to the poft and dignity of lord high chancellor of Great Britain, 1725; under the laborious fatigues of which weighty place finking into a paralytic disease, he refigned it November 19, 1733; and died July 23d, 1734, aged 65. A friend to true religion and liberty. He married Anne, daughter of Richard Seys, of Boverton, in Glamorganshire, Efquire, with whom he lived to the day of his death in perfect love and happinefs; and left iffue by her four fons, John, now Loid King, Peter, William, and Thomas; and two daughters, Elizabeth and Anne." Mr. Walpole, in his Noble Authors, vol. II. p. 136, gives the following account of his lordship: "Lord Chancellor King was related to Mr. Locke, who, on feeing his treatife in defence of the rights of the Church, perfuaded him to apply himself to the Jaw; to the highest dignity of which he rofe. We have, of his writing: Enquiry into the Conftitution, Difcipline, Unity, and Worship, of the Primitive Church,' 1691. 'Hiftory of the Apostles' Creed, with critical Obfervations on its feveral Articles.' 'The Speech of Sir Peter King, Knight, Recorder of the City of London, at St. Margaret's Hill, to the King's most excellent Majefty, upon his Royal Entry, Sept. 20, 1714." near the porch, is a fquare graveftone, to the memory of a carpenter of the name of Spong, with this infcription by the Chancellor: "Who many a sturdy oak had laid along, Fell'd by Death's furer hatchet, here lies SPONG. Pofts oft he made, yet ne'er a place could get, And liv'd by ing, tho' he was no wit. Old faws he ha, altho' no Antiquarian; And ftyles corrected, yet was no grammarian Long liv'd he Ockham's premier architect; And lafting as his fame a tomb t' erect In vain we feek an artift fuch as he, Whofe pales and gates were for eternity. So here he refts from all life's toils and follies. [labourer Hollis +!" O fpare awhile, kind Heav'n, his fellows The manor of Ockham was in the poffeffion of Ralph de Stafford, 1371. In 1527, the estate, with the advowfon of the church, was granted, by King Henry VIII. In the church-yard of Ockham, with the knights fees thereunto be Near the monument of Sir Peter King and his lady is the brafs plate of Walter Frilende, priest (fig. 3); and in the chancel are fome remains of ftalls. • Younger fon of a useful and very respectable magistrate at Albury, in the neighbourhood. Hollis was a bricklayer to the family. GENT. MAG. February, 1800, longing, longing, to John Bourchier, Lord Berners. Afterwards the eftate came into the poffeffion of the antient family of the Weftons. See the Regifter belonging to the parith-church of Weft Clandon. "Henry, fon of Sir Henry Weton, and Dorothy, baptized O&. 13, 1561. "Richard, fon of ditto and ditto, bap. tized Sept. 17, 1564. "Richard Weston, efq. and Jane Deflar, gentlewoman, married May 27, 1583.” The fifter of Mrs. Fitzgerald, of Weft Horfley, who died two or three years fince, and was a Wefton, fuppofed to be about 111 years of age, was born at Ockham, at the time the family lived there. This eftate was bought by Sir Peter King (the chancellor); in which he was fucceeded by his eldeft fon, John, who died without ife. Peter, the fecond fon, fucceeded him, who died a batchelor. William fucceeded him, and died alfo without flue. The youngest fon, Thomas, enjoyed the title and eftate and left inlue, Peter, Thomas, Anne, and Wilhelmina. Peter, the late lord, whofe death and character you have in vol. LXIII. p. 1061, was fucceeded by his eldeft fon, Peter, who now enjoys the title and eftate. A. Z. Mr. URBAN, A Jan. 28. N Artift and Antiquary, vol. LXIX. p. 113, b. juftly ridicules the little attention that is paid to antient coftume on the Englih ftage. Yet, poffibly, though it is their province "to catch the manners living as they rife," our managers behind the fcenes, hackneyed in trick and ftage-effect, might anfwer with fome appearance of truth, that a too faithful copy of the obfolete manners of the dead, on every occafion, would frequently tend to create difguft or ridicule, inftead of applause, amongst the "profanum vulgus, the great vulgar and the fmall." In the gaping crowd of pit, box, and gallery, how comparatively few (they may justly retort) are artists of virtú, or learned Antiquaries! Indeed, the moft conftant attendants at the theatre, confequently the managers' best friends, can hardly be fuppofed to know, or care, whether Hamlet's "inky cloak" could really be fafhioned like Mr. Garrick's full-drefs coat of black velvet; or, as his Father, when he "combatted the ambitious Norway," muft have been harnessed in fcale or in chain mail, whether the ghoft of the Royal Dane, in arms, could be fuppofed to ftalk away from the platform in vambrace and gorget of plate-armour: but, furely, the apparition itself fufficiently aftounded Denmark; no need to exhibit the late living warrior frowning under fuch a formidable fuit of buckram as no warrior then living had feen before. The armed ghost of a king, I ween, if he is to be recognized, fhould, be "femblably furnished like the king himfelf." We repair to the theatre for rational information as well as vacant pleafure; and it ought not to be the managers' fault if we return confirmed in ignorance. The fpectators in general, but more especially thofe who are themfelves unable to judge of the propriety of all parts of the fpectacle, are fuppofed to rely on the taste and judgement of another, who, by receiv ing their money, feems tacitly to undertake the office of pleafing inftructor; therefore, if he wilfully mifreprefents and confounds the antient customs, manners, and dreis, of our forefathers, I apprehend he neglects his duty, and breaks his engagement; for, he certainly leads into error, and deceives them. I am fufficiently aware of the impoffibility of attending to all minutie, and that very great allowance muft neceffarily be made. Perhaps, indeed, it would be no eafy matter to draw the line exactly; but every well-informed perfon will readily allow that, by confulting the best works of our own and foreign Antiquaries, &c. which the manager of a London theatre |