and about the citie of London, which of late years have fo revived the exercise, so countenanced the artificers, fo enflamed emulation, as in themfelves for frindly meeting, in workmen for good gayning, in companies for earnest comparing, it is almost growne to an orderly difcipline, to aherithe louing fociety, to enrich labouring ponestie, to maintaine honeft activity, which their fo encouraging the under tra vellours, and fo encreafing the healthfull traine, if I had facred to filence, would not my good freind in the citie, maister Heugh Offly, and the fame my noble fellow in that order Syr Launcelot, at our next meeting have give' me a fowre nodde, being the chief furtherer of the fact which 1 commend, and the famofett knight of the fellowship which I am of? Nay, would not even Prince Arthur himselfe, maifter Thomas Smith, and the whole table of those well known knights and most active archers, have laid in their chaleng again their fellow knight, if, fpeaking of their pastime, I fhould have fpared their names? Whereunto 1 am easily led, byCaufe the exercife deferuing fuch praise, they that love fo praiseworthie a thing neither can of themfelves, neither ought at my hand to be hudled up in filence." To return from this digreffion. Of a clergyman it is pleafing to obferve, with an eminent divine, "he was a prieft in his own houfe as well as in the temple." Mulcafter, we are fatisfied from his writings, was a warm Proteftant; but what was his piety, or what his converfon from Popery, we are not told. And he feems never to have engaged himself in the bufy controverties of the Reformation*. As a fcholar he ranks high. His Englith productions boaft an exuberance of expreflion not often found in the writers of his own day; and his Latin, not inelegant, were celebrated in their time. But for his kill in the Greek and Oriental tongues we must trust to the voice of Fame. For the last of thefe, however, he was efteemed by the celebrated Hugh Broughton, a man of eminence for Eaftern learning, but miferably ignorant in every ether fpecies of literature. (To be continued.) Mr. URBAN, P May 23. UTTENHAM, in Surrey, is much celebrated for its filbrity by Mr. Swift, its rector, whe, in a letter to Mr. Aubrey (Surrey, IV. 23), fays, "In this little fpot you fee a fpecimen of the antediluvian world; the ftreets crouded with Natus natorum, et qui nafcentur ab illis;" and fuch a tribe of patriarchs within doory as if this place were exempted from the feeblenefs and hafty decays of this latt agt of the world, and Death confined to keep his due feafon for harvest, mowing down none until Time had ripened them for his fcythe." Whether this happy privilege ftill fubfifts at. Puttenham, or is transferred to Elfted, a village equi diftant from Godelming in a direc tion, I know not; but have feat you a few inftances of longevity from the latter church-yard. Thomas Snelling, William Moore, Margaret, his wife Nicholas Knight Thomas Chitty Anne Parfons Richard Wilkinfon James Wilkinfon 1765 aged 87 1767 61 James Wilkinfon, jun. 53 John Wilkinfon His wife 61 67 60 Verses on Nicholas King. "A well-fpent life makes death a welcom friend, For joy enfueth which has no end." On Thomas Snelling. "Impartial judge of all the world, I trust my caufe to thee, And hope thy mercies will extend, gracious Lord, to me.” On William Moore. "A covering cloud thou art to me, And all thy lambs and sheep befide. My fweet falvation now I fee; Chrift is my life and precious guide. On Margaret Moore. "Jefu great, and Saviour dear, Before this . go. In mercy we are drawing near, Fuller has recorded the testimony of "those who heard him preach, that his fer Mons were not excellent." The Hiftorian is doubtlefs incorrect when he writes th Muicafter died about the middle of Queen Elizabeth's reign, Mr. URBAN, June 5. the favourite ride from the town of SEND you a copy of a draw- Lancaster, the road going on the the Mr.UREAN, Macclesfield, June 7. N the Weft fide of Peak hands of the late Rev. Mr. Symp-feveral delightful and romantic fon, of Lincoln, of an antient brais profpects. much admired by all. mortar belonging to the infirmary ftrangers. W. C. of St. Mary's abbey at York; which, at the time the drawing was taken by Haines, who drew for Mr. Drake, was in the poilerfion of Henry Fairfax, efq. of Towlfton, near Tadcafter. The quatrefoils on the fides of the veffel are filled with animals rampant and paffant alternately. Infcription round the edge: Fig. 2. is exactly half the fize of a circular brick in my poffeffion, of which I can give no farther account; and defire an explanation. Fig 3. is part of a Roman patera, found in September 1798, in taking up the foundations of the Roman wall, near the Were-dykes, at Lincoln. FIG. D. H. Mr. URBAN, June 6. NIG. 4. is an exact drawing of a grave-ftone lying in the priory, now in ruins, near Hornby, nine miles from Lancafter, the property of John Marsden, efq. of Hornby caftie. I fhall be much obliged if any of your Antiquarian correfpondents can give any account whom they fuppofe may have been buried under it, and about what period. I understand this priory, or cell, as it is by fome called, formerly belonged to Croxton abbey, in Leicestershire. I cannot help taking this opportunity of adding, that Hornby is a neat town and the antient caftle there has been chiefly rebuilt by Mr. Marsden, who refides there. The caftle is a moft delightful fituation, and commands an extenfive profpect. Mr. Marfden, fince he purchased the lordship of Hornby, and refided there, has made great improvements in the buildings, lands, and collieries. Hornby is GENT. MAG. June, 1800. forent, and about two miles diftant from Chapel-in-the-Frith, there is a remarkable intermitting fpring, which I had the pleasure of vifiting, in company with a gentleman from Macclesfield, a few days ago. It is fituated on the new turnpike-road between Chapel and Caftleton, upon the right-hand fide," and clofe to the road. We found the refervoir nearly full. The water was running out, and none coming in. After waiting about ten minutes, we perceived the wa ter beginning to rife at the head and farther fide of the refervoir; and, in a very fhort time, it ran quite fluently from the mouths of two or three fmall tunnels. The troughs filled; they overflowed; and in four minutes the large refervoir was completely filled. The fprings ceafed to flow; there was a ftilluefs on the furface of the water; and in 12 minutes it ran off as before, in a channel at the lower end of the refervoir, which paffes under the turnpike-road, leaving very little water in the bed of the refervoir. In four minutes more it was filled again; fo that, in the compafs of little more than half an-hour, we faw the whole operation twice completed. This was. after a wet feafon, though the day on which we vifited the fpring, April 15, 1800, was particularly fine. An old acquaintance of mine, who had accompanied us from Chapel, declared that, though he had gone 50 times paft the place, he had never witneffed the phæno menon before; and Mrs. Orgif, of the inn, who had lived at Chapel all the days of her life, told us the had not even feen the place. How ftrange, in perfons living fo near near the fpot, does this want of curiofity appear, efpccially. in a female! We were informed, that the intervals between ebbing and flowring are various, according to the quantity of rain which falls at different seasons of the year. The well, on the day we faw it, flowed nearly four times in an hour. Some times it does not flow above once in the fame space of time; and, in very dry feafons, perhaps not more than once in 12 hours. This well, which is juftly confidered as one of the wonders of the Peak, is much vifited, during the feafon, by the company who refort to Buxton. The well is fituated at the foot of a large hill, which rifes to a confiderable height. A few moments before the appearance of the water, a gurgling noife is heard at a diftance, which gives notice of the approach of the water. It then begins to flow, gradually at the firft, from feveral places at the upper end of the refervoirs, and afterwards forms a ftrean fufficiently large to turn a mill. The water, which is perfectly clear and quite cold, is never frozen, even in the fevereft weather. The common, and perhaps the moft philofophical and fatisfactory, way of accounting for this ftriking phænomenon is, by confidering it as the effect of a natural fyphon, or crane, formed in the earth. Thofe who understand the principles upon which this inftrument acts, will eafily apprehend and account for the various phænomena which attend Barmour and other intermitting fprings. The water in the fappofed cavity at A, for example, gradually rifing, forces itfell into the natural fyphon or tube at B, and afcending till it reach the highest point C, it begins to defcend through the other leg of the phon, and Gows out at D. When the furrace of the water, at A, is lower shan the other extremity of the fphon, B, it will ceals to Low, the whole of the wa ter contained in the fyphon running out at D into the external refervoir or well at E. According to the preceding hypothefis, it is evident that the time which elapfes, during the filling of the internal refervoir, at A, will be various, according to the wetnefs or drynefs of the featon; whereas, whenever it begins to flow, the time in which it dif charges the contents of the refervoir underground, will be nearly the fame. If this obfervation be agreeable to fact, it will afford a very strong, if not a decifive, confirmation of the truth of the prefent theory. I have recently been favoured with a letter from a gentleman, who has refided at Chapel a confiderable time, in anfwer to a query "Whether the I had propofed, period of influx ever exceeded four or five minutes?" He has seen it ebb and flow at many different periods, and is perfuaded that my conjecture is perfectly right. In all feafons, the duration of time, from the moment of its beginning to flow till that of ebbing, is nearly the fame, viz. about four or five minutes; but the intervals be tween ebbing and flowing depend entirely upon the feafon. He was once prefent when it feemed to flow without intermiffion; but, as the feafon was remarkably wet, it may be prefumed that the channel underground from one refervoir to a nother was, at that time, constantly full, fo that at the furface no variation was perceptible. Yours, &c. H T. MOLINEUX. Mr. URBAN, Notts, June 8. TAVING feen, p. 306, an account of the effects of lightning on an elm, by your inge nious correfpondent, J. P. Malcolm, I have ventured to fend you drawing (fig. 6), which I took about five years ago, of a tree ftruck with lightning in a very ex traordinary manner. This tree is in Birkland, an extenfive wood on Sherwood forest, in which are ma |