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The book, I hear with pleasure, is already working in the confciences of private gen tlemen. When, or in what form, the abuses too truly complained of in the above-named treatife will be laid before the great council of the nation, must be referred to Him who fitteth in the heavens over all, whofe ways are in the deep, and whote judgements are not known by the fallen children of fallen parents.

"It will be a pleafure to you, Sir, to be acquainted, that the charity-fchools in Wales are ftill fupported, and carrying on the best of conqueits. By means of thefe nurferies, the name of ou bleed and dearest Redeemer is made known to many fouls, who, before the erection of these fchools, may be faid to have lived underground. The light of the fun of righteoufBefs had never cheared their benighted minės, nor fortified their spiritual eye-fight to look beyond this perishable (yitem, and to fix their affections on things above. Mr. Jones, the principal agent, under God, in behalf of these schools, is preferved in an unexpected manner among us by the adorable goodness of Him who bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

"I remain, reverend Sir, your obliged friend and fervant, JOHN THOROLD." 3. "Kenfington Gravel pits, July 26, 1743. "Rey. and dear Sir,

"I waited for a few lines from my much honoured friend, Dr. Newton, before I returned my acknowledgements for your laft favour of the 8th of July.

"This day I am favoured with a letter from the Doctor, and m hereby prepared to return you a fatisfactory answer to your kind remark on a paff ge in the Rules and Statutes for his Society. Take then Dr. Newton's anfwer in his own words: With regard to the pallage tranferibed from your correfpondent's letter, I have only this to fay, that the charities to por housekeepers

were reftrained to fuch of them as fhould have attended on the fervice of the church, in order to encourage fuch attendance. But, upon a review of that paffage, I agree

fpare Mr. Jones in a very unexpected manner. The work he is the inftrument of carrying on in Wales will not die with him: when be is removed out of the diftorted view of prejudice and error, it will fpeak his preifes in the gates of justice and equity, and emalm his memory with odours, mi ch more fragrant and perma nent than thofe which fpring from the moft fpicy and balmy mountains and plains of the earth..

"I am almost every Tuesday at Mr. Broughton's from eleven to one o'clock, where I should be glad to fee you if it funts your convenience.

"If I did not acknowledge your letter before laut, it was an omiffion in me, for which I beg your excufe

"O that we may be made meet, through the merits of our mot holy Saviour, to be partakers of the inheritance of the faints in.light, where ignorance and fin can find no admiffion, where every thing is as t fhould be, and love throws an inexpreffible beauty on every look, word, and actios, of every bright, wife, happy inhabitant The Church triumphant is a city that is at unity in itself indeed, where the whole bufinefs is joy and love. The blotted Jefus is the purchaser of thefe infinite priffions. I remain, dear Sir, your affectionate friend, JOHN THOROLD.”

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June 6. HERE is a flight error in your

with the gentleman, and think the thought Tituary, vol. I.XIX. p. 109,

is too narrow, and can easily foresee there may be other perfons in fuch circumitances as would become thote who attend moft ftrictly on the fervice of the church hot to overlook. My fervice to the gentle man, whoever he is, with my thanks for his remark. I hope he will be fo good as to fuggeft to me any other particulars, he

would have me re-confider.'

"Thus you have a fpecimen what an open ingenuous fpirit Dr. Newton is endued with, which I could not excufe my. felf from exhibiting to your view. I am not infenfible how lovely fuch a behaviour,

- appears in your eyes.

"It pleates the gracious Difpenfer of life and health, fichefs and death, to

under the account of Kin Long. The awhor of the Purfuns of Literature did not addrels a letter to that emperor, as there afferted, but made ufc of the monarch's name, as the fuppofed writer of an epifle to his Britannic Majefty, as the very name of the work ufficiently indic tes, viz. “The impeal Épittle from Kien Long, Emperot of China, to George the Third," &c.

Permit me to enquire, who was the proprietor of Binderton houfe, in the county of Suffex, previous to its being purchaled by Sir James Peachey, ta ther of Lord Scica? A RAMBLER.

Mr.

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Mr. URBAN,

Letcomb Regis,
Oct. 24, 1798.
THE inclofed view of Pley-

Tdell's aile, on the North fide

of the chancel in Faringdon church, was taken from the staircase leading to the organ-loft, through an arch in the Eaft wall of the upper North tranfept.

In the middle of the floor is a large marble grave-ftone, on which are emboffed the figures of a man and woman; and under,

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They lived together fixty years

with great reputation;
and both died A.D. 1701.
His grandfon, Henry Pye, efq.
laid this ftone over them,
A. D. 1730."

Against the North wall, towards the Eaft end, is a noble monument of white marble, with columns of blue, in the Corinthian order, fupporting cherubs of alabafter, one of them holding a fcull. Over the centre, on variegated marble, the arms of Pye impaling Curzon, viz. Argent, on a bend Sable three. hawks Or, collared and armed Gu. Creft, a crofllet fitché Gules, be tween two wings proper. Over all, an urn adorned with feftoons a of flowers.

"Hic jacet TOBIAS PLEYDELL, armi ger, et ELINOR, uxor ejus, qui quidem Tobias obiit decimo octavo die Octobris, anno Domini milleffimo quingentefimo octogentefimo tertio.

Beati qui moriuntur in Domino." Towards the Weft end is grave-ftone with this,

"Here lieth the body of BARTHOLOMEW YEATE, efq. who departed the 7th of August, an. Dom. 1708, aged 2 3.”

At the head of the stone the arms of Yeate, viz. Embattled per fess, Or and Gules, between three gates changed.

On one of the buttreffes of the tower, which projects into the aile, is a neat monument with

"Hanc juxta columnam dormiunt reliquiæ LIONELLI RICH, generofi ; qui obiit vicefimo tertio die Decembris, 1742, ætatis 40.

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"His fubtus jacet

JANA PYE,

uxor Henrici Pye,

de Faringdon, in comitata Berche
armigeri,

et Nathaniel Curzon,

de Kettleston, in agro Derbienfi,
baronetti,

filia natu fecunda:

orta ex familia
propter antiquitatem
ac intemeratam in ecclefiam fidem
pariter illuftri.
Vixit tanquam vitæ cœleftis provida
tanquam ejufdem fecura obiit;,
in Deum, parentes, conjugem,
femper pientiffima.

Filius erat natu tertius Lionelli Rich, de
Dodfwell, in comitatu Gloceftri, armigeri;
et uxorem duxit Annam, Henrici Pye, ar-
migeri, filiam, quæ marmor hoc voluit die Martii 15to, annoq.

Primâ et præproperâ puerperiâ immaturâ abrepta

extrui.

Amoris et gratitudinis monumentum.” The arms on the top are, Parted per pale, Sable and Gules, a croflet fitché Or, between four fleurs de lis of the fame, impaling Pye, Ermine, a bend fufil Gules.

On a flab of white marble lying on the floor near the North-eaft

Corner:

"Here lies

Sir ROBERT PYE, knt.

lord of this manor. He was efteemed a fine gentleman by all who knew him.

Here alfo lies Dame ANNE, his wife, daughter of the 1 famous Mr. Hampden, GENT. MAG. June, 1800.

falutis humanæ 1706to,

ætatis fuæ i3tio.

In æternam uxoris defideratiffimæ memòriam, atque filii vix matri fuperftitis, fupremum hoc amoris dolorifque monumentum pofuit maritus mæstiffimus.”

the middle one, against the fame The next monument, namely,. marble. It is fupported by columns wall, is of most beautiful variegating of the Doric order, crowned with elegant urns. The arms on the top are Pye impaling Bathurft, viz. Sable, two bars Ermine in chief, three croffes pattée Or.-Motto. In glorior-Creft, as the former.

On a fmall tablet under the arms "H. S. I.

ANNA PYE,

Henrici Pye, de Faringdon Magn.

in

in com. Berch, arm. uxor altera et defideratiffima; Benjamin Bathurst, in agro Northampton,

militis, filia unica;

honoratiffimi Allen Bathurst, baronis,

foror chariffima."

politeness in his manners, with an open benevolence and generosity in his difpofition, which plainly denoted him

The true English Gentleman.

He married, first, Jane, daughter of Sir Nathaniel Curzon, bart. who djed and left no iffue. The forrow he felt at her death

Under this, on a large table be- he affectionately expreffed by the mone

tween the columns :

"Sifte gradum, viator!

Ecce

variolarum fpolia!
nunquam, eheu, fplendidiora!
Uxorum lectiffimam, optimam,
amicam cordate finceram,
matrem pientiflimam
fuftulerunt;

omnium, quibus nota, delicias.
Familiarium decus,
inopum patronam,
amoverunt;

rei economicæ pertiffimam,
fidei Chriftianæ colentiffimam,
pietatis omnimodæ observantiffimam,
eripuere.

Virtutes tamen remanent inta&tæ;
his illa

non amplius fungi poteft,
in æternum vero fruitur ;
his nos

haud amplius frui poffumus,

fed perpetui fungamur.

Sin dotes eximiæ tam animi quam corporis deflendæ fint,

Luetui conjugis nullus erit modus. Ob. 6to Octobris, anno Dom. 1729, ætat. fuæ 39."

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Weftward of the laft-mentioned, againft the fame wall, is a grand obelisk of grey marble finely embellished with fuitable ornaments, particularly a capital buft in alto relievo of the late Admiral Pye, over a fuperb urn of white marble:

"Here lieth the body of HENRY PY, of this place, and afterwards of Knotting, in the county of Bedford, efq. He was defcended of a very antient family, whofe dignity he fuftained and adorned with the

ment he erected to her memory. But this lofs was abundantly fupplied by his happy union with Anne, daughter of Sir Benjamin Bathurst, knt. and fifter of Allen Lord Bathurst, of Cirencefter, in the county of Gloucester; a union more intimately endeared to him by a numeroas offspring of fixteen children, thirteen of whom lived to fhare his active love and zeal for their welfare after the severe lois of a moit affectionate mother, to whole remembrance he confecrated the adjoining monument. He married alío, in the year 1732-3, Habella, daughter of War ren, efq. who furvived him, and lies bu ried near this place.

His fecond fon, Vice-admiral Thomas Pye, erected this marble in teftimony of his grateful duteous refpect to his father, who died January 6, 1749, aged 65,,

And in memory of WILLIAM PYE, 1 brother he loved and lamented, who fought and fell, as became a foldier, in að engage. ment near Bengal, in the East-Indies, on Feb. 5, 1759, 3ged 30."

Several efcocheons and funeral flags are difperfed in various parts of this aile, whofe armorial bearings are nearly the fame as thofe already noticed. J. STONE

Mr. URBAN, Aug. 17, 1799. OOKING over fome pape theother day, which I brought with me many years ago from Germany, I found the inclofed antient puzzle (fig. 2); which, as a matter of curiofity, I hope you may think deferving of a place in your Maga zime; and fhall be glad to fee an explanation of it from fome of your correfpondents. JULIUS.

Mr. URBAN, May 21. NO obviate and fet right an in

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nocent error is near of kin to the advancement of truth. In your laft volume, p. 1022, "A Lover of Cathedrals and Choir Worship" has given us a valuable though brief added merits of his own amiable virtues. defcription of the cathedrals in He had a gracefulness in his person, an af- Ireland, partly from his own know. fability, in his demeanour, a courtefy and ledge. Whether the writer is a

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