Thus powerfully will prejudice and prepossession operate. That the Stratford bust has, however, been unmeritedly neglected, is most unequivocally affirmed. The tradition of the town is, that it was copied from a cast after Nature, a practice sufficiently prevalent in that age to support oral communication. "But we have still," says Mr. Britton in his Essay prefixed to Whittingham's edition, " a better criterion, and a more forcible argument in its behalf; one that flashes conviction to the eye of the intelligent artist and anatomist. This is the truth of the drawing, with the accuracy of muscular forms, and shape of the skull, which distinguishes the bust now referred to, and which are evidences of a skilful sculptor." That it was erected within seven years from the Poet's death is certain, being mentioned by Leonard Digges in his verses accompanying the first folio edition of Shakspeare's dramatic works, printed in 1623; and though I cannot altogether agree with the late Mr. Greene, in his before-mentioned letter, that if we compare the earliest engraving which was made of the Bard (that of Droeshout in the first folio) with the face ou the Stratford Monumeat, there will be found as great a resemblance as perhaps can well be between a statue and a picture, except that the hair is described rather shorter and straighter on the latter than on the former; nor coincide with Mr. Malone, who could not, on comparing them, trace any resemblance whatever; yet I think there may be found a considerable similitude of our monumental bust to this print, for the correctness of which we have his friend Jonson's testimony; and the "surly Ben" would surely not have unnecessarily complimented the artist, nor ventured to affirm what, had it been untrue, numbers then living could and probably would have denied. The sculptors of that period seem to have excelled the engravers in their respective arts; and the Stratford bust, which in the disposition of the head indicates some acquaintance with Gre cian models, is a much superior specimen of the labour of the chisel, than Droeshout's engraving is of that of the burin. The intention of these tedious ob servations, Mr. Urban, is to introduce the mention of a new era in the his tory of our Stratford bust. In Noveiber 1813, I gave Mr. Britton a cast which I had made of this face, and from which was copied the woodcut prefixed to his " Essay." By that gentleman the original was duly appreciated; and in consequence Mr. George Bullock, of Teuterden-street, Hanover-squre, visited Stratford in December last, with such sentiments as animate the connoisseur, and inade the first complete cast of the whole bust. Let it, therefore, be hoped that an excellent engraving, upon a large scale, by the first artist in England, will be speedily given to the publick; for though it has been several times copied with the monument itself (in Dugdale's Warwickshire; in Pope and Sewell's 8vo edition, 1728, by Fourdrinier; in Ireland's Avon; Boydell's Illustrations; and in my own History of this Town) yet most of them are incorrectly and all of them unsatisfactorily engraved. To multiply the casts from Mr. Bullock's first, and consequently valuable mould, will be now impossible; for after that which he has in London, and one which I pos sess (the latter only half way down the body of the bust) were made, the original mould was broken up, and thr. wo into the Avon. The Stratford bust is carved out of a solid block of stone (perhaps either Portland or Bath), but on no part of it could be discovered any name or date. By comparing the style and the quality of the material with other contemporary works (between 1616 and 1623) a probable guess may be made which of the few eminent artists of James's reign might have executed it. The general glare of light beaming on all sides through the Gothic widows which surround the monument, is certainly disadvantageous to the appearance of the features of this face; but when a single or more contracted light is properly thrown upon it, then the loftiness and beauty of the forehead, the handsome shape of the nose, the remarkable form of the mustachios and beard, and the very peculiar sweetness of expression in the mouth, are particularly striking. At first sight there appears an extravagant length in the upper lip, which, if viewed in profile, shews in truer proportion. After all, it appears somewhat long; and Lavater, upon whatever principles he determined, and whatever whatever regard his physiognomical observations deserve, has, I believe, mentioned that the modern busts of Shakspeare do not represent a man of genius, from the invariable shortness of his upper lip. In the description of a bust neither possessing a characteristic pertness of countenance, nor deficient in skilful- ` ness of execution, a bust seen to the least advantage in its present sitoa tion, so long disregarded, except by the very few, who, having had the constant opportunity, have been in the almost daily habit of contemplating and admiring it; and at last likely to gain its due value in the opinion of the illustrious Bard's intelligent countrymen, when its merits are more fully known than hitherto they have been; it may be a present improper further to intrude upon your pages, which may be better occupied, if not by a subject more interesting to those who boast of being born in a country which produced the greatest dramatic genius in the world, yet by compositions less erratic than the " bald disjointed chat" of Yours, &c. R. B. WHELER. Old Town, Stratford-upon-Avon. Mr. URBAN, Jan. 7. logue of the bookseller, and the ham- Mr. URBAN, N N Jan. 7. As your pages have always afforded the margin of the Domesday Sur a ready admission to any observations relative to the general Topography of this favoured Isle, and as County History in particular seems at present to hold a deservedly high rank in the public estimation; I venture to address you in behalf of a spot, of which but a very unsatisfactory and imperfect account has hitherto been given. The county of Somerset, sir, has laboured under the misfortune of having had an Historian, who, for the most part, has been diffuse, where a Jess detailed account would have been desirable, and too often brief, where a more ample account would have been acceptable to his readers. His pen was not calculated for the office which it assumed; and, were it necessary, numerous instances might be adduced, in which profferred information was too hastily canvassed, and documents of an interesting nature too cursorily investigated. That the opinion of the residents of the county is not in this respect at variance with that of the publick at large, those certain criterions of merit, the cata vey of Devonshire an abbreviation occurs, which, as I believe, is not to be found in any other part of that Record. It stands thus, par in small characters, and appears first at folio 105, and again at folios 105 b. 108 b. 110, 111, 112, 112 b. 113, 114b. 115, and 116. I am at a loss for its meaning, and shall thank any of your Correspondents who will assist nie in attaming it. Mr. Kelham (in Domesday Book IlInstrated) does not attempt its expla nation, but says merely, "This abbreviation occurs in the margin of Domesday, p. 105, in six piaces successively, and once in p. 110; but what the signification of it is, or to what it refers, is left to the reader to determine." Yours, &c. R. R. to the Editor of the Fourth Volume of the excellent History of that County, has fallen into a slight hallucination, by rendering ipsa Ecclesia" the Church itself.” It should rather be “the same Church" namely, the Church just before mentioned.-Collinson, in his “Somersetshire," has committed the saine mistake.—That Ipsa signifies "the same," is evident from Ains worth. And accordingly, in the Translation of Domesday for Leicestershire, the indefatigable Historian of that County renders ipsa Abbatia," the same Abbey," p. vi. ; ipse H. " the same Henry," p. xii.; ipse R. "the same King," &c. &c. Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, CARADOC. Jun. 18. N the Times of Saturday last, Jan. 14, I read a letter signed "Laicus," on the state of the Church in our Western Colonies. With the sentiments of the writer I perfectly agree; and as a Church establishment in the East was formed in the last year, celebrated for many memorable events, and that one not among the least, I do think that a resident Bishop should be sent out by the Prince Regent for the Ecclesiastical Government of the Colonies. It was at first, perhaps, well ordered, that they should be placed under the care of the Bishop of London; but it could not be supposed that they were always to continue so, when that Prelate has so large a Diocese at home. Besides, the inhabitants of the Colonies must be, as things are, without evidently, as the writer expresses, some useful Episcopal rites! Probably some of your friends know a reason why a Bishop should not be sent to reside in Jamaica. Yours, &c. AMICUS. thoughts on that most important subject, will, I am persuaded, be acceptable to many admirers of the useful portion of his multifarious objects of research, and seems to be a tribute of justice due to his memory. This consideration induces me to indulge a hope, that the insertion of the following anecdote in a Miscellany so generally esteemed and that has so extensive a circulation as the Gentleman's Magazine, may not be deemed an improper occupation of a part of one of its valuable pages. It is extracted from "Travels in some parts of North America, in the years 1804, 1805, and 1806. By Robert Sutcliff, late of Sheffield," one of the Society of Friends (called Quakers), 12mo. printed at York, 1811 *. The Editor informs us that the narrative was peuned without the remotest thought of publication, but from the wellknown character of the writer, its strict veracity does not admit of a doubt. He was a respectable merchant in Sheffield, and his extensive dealings with transatlantic connections led him to make two voyages to North America. elapsed, after his return from the latter in 1806, before he consented to permit the manuscript containing the observations he had committed to writing, to go to the press, from whence its contents had issued but a short time, when it pleased Providence to remove him from this state of existence. Several years A FRIEND TO ACCURACY. Page 225. " Philadelphia, 3rd month 31, 1806. In conversation this evening with Samuel Bryant, a son of the Judge of that name, he mentioned that Doctor Franklin was an intimate friend of his father's, and that, in consequence, there was a frequent intercourse between the two families. Amongst a number of anecdotes relating to the Doctor, he recited one respecting his religious opinions, which appeared to me worth preserving. It is as follows: At the time the Doctor was upon his death bed, he was visited by a young man who had a great respect for his judgment in all things; and having entertained doubts in his own mind as to the truth of the Scriptures, he thought that this awful period afforded a suitable opportunity of consulting the Doctor on this important subject. Accordingly be introduced it in a solemn, weighty, manner, inquiring of the Doctor what were his sentiments as to the truth of the Scriptures. On the question being put, although he was in a very weak state, and near his close, he replied, Young man! my advice to you is, that you cultivate an acquaintance with, and a firm belief in the Holy Scriptures: this is your certain interest'." Mr. URBAN, TH Jan. 18. HE attention of the publick being a good deal turned to William Greatrakes, I send some particulars relative to his family, drawn up from papers in my possession. Allen Greatrakes, of Clashdermot, in the Barony of Imokilly, and county of Cork, Gentleman," (so styled in a lease dated March 9, 1755, granted to him by Richard Supple, Esq. * of the lands of Monelahan, co. Cork,) had three sons and a daughter, Elizabeth Greatrakes, wife of Courtenay, of Lismore, co. Waterford, and now living at an advanced age. The sons were Osborne Greatrakes, William Greatrakes, Edmond Greatrakes, mentioned in the above lease, but supposed to have died young, as no farther account of him occurs. Allen Greatrakes, the father, devised the lands of Clashdermot and Monelahan to his sons Osborne and William, of which they made a division, Osborne taking Monelahan, and William Clashdermot. Osborne Greatrakes, the eldest son, resided at the town of Youghall, co. Cork; he is described in the Papers sometimes as "Osborne Great rakes, Merchant," at others, as "Osborne Greatrakes, Mariner." By his wife, who was named Mary, he left four daughters and coheiresses, viz. 1. Frances, wife of Anthony Sampis, Esq. 2. Mary; 3. Catherine; 4. Sarah. This Osborne Greatrakes mortgaged his leasehold lands of Monelahan and premises in Youghal to Richard Hutcheson, Esq. by whom the Mortgage was assigned to Colonel Richard Tonson, M. P. for the borough of Baltimore, whose descendant the Right Richard Supple, Esq. of Ahadoe, co. Cork, (the lessor of Allan Greatrakes,) was father of Sir Richard Brooke, Bart. of Northamptonshire. They Hon. William Lord Riversdale obtained a decree of Court for the sale of the mortgaged premises. were accordingly sold to Mr. Adderley Willcocks; and in the deed of conveyance the before-mentioned William Baron Riversdale, Mary Greatrakes (widow of Osborne Greatrakes), Anthony Sampis, Esq. and Frances Sampis (otherwise Greatrakes) his wife, and Mary, Catherine, and Sarah Greatrakes, daughters and coheiresses of the late Osborne Greatrakes, are stated to be consenting parties. William Greatrakes, of Clashdermot, the younger son (the supposed Junius) is styled usually in these Pa pers, "William Greatrakes, of the city of Cork, Esq." He appears to have had a property (I believe under a lease) in the barony of Duhallow, co. Cork, which he conveyed to Thomas Chatterton, Gent. of the city of Cork, viz. "all that and those the lands of Knockanerobart, Nancy's Farm, Keel, and Milleen, situate in the parish of Culleen, barony of Duhallow, and county of Cork, containing 328 plantation acres, and also the lands of Knockigillane, in the same barony." Of Mr. William Greatrakes's claims to the authorship of Junius's Letters, I do not feel myself entitled to give any opinion. Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, G. H. W. Jan. 19. N vol. LXXXIV. Part ii. p. 264, No me lines • Ad Elisam Popi horto lauros carpentem," also a translation of them, both sent by a Cor respondent, signed Oxoniensis. I need not tell you, Mr. Urban, that the Eliza so celebrated, was the late learned and excellent Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, the translator of Epictetus. But, on turning to the Memoirs of that lady, by her Nephew the Rev. Montagu Pennington, p. 25 of the quarto edi tion, I was induced to refer back to the year 1738, of your valuable Miscellany, and there found not only the original Latin verses, p. 372, but three several translations, or rather imitations of them. Also a Latin answer to the Epigram, and a translation of the same, both I believe from the pen of the learned and modest object of the first well-merited compliment. Yours, &c. A CONSTANT READER. Mr. Mr. URBAN," Jan. 2. HAREFIELD PLACE (a view piece to our present Volume) is so ably described by Mr. Lysons, in his “Middlesex Parishes," that I beg you to insert his own words: "In the survey of Domesday, the name of this parish is written Herefelle; in other antient records, Herfeld, Herefelde, and Herfield. Harefeld in the Saxon is literally the hare field.' "The parish of Harefield lies in the hundred of Elthorne, and forms the North-west angle of the county of Middlesex, being bounded on the North by Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire; on the West by the river Colne, which separates it from Denham in Buckinghamshire; on the South by Hillingdon; and on the East by Ickenham and Rislip. The village is pleasantly situated on rising ground, three miles from Uxbridge, and eighteen from London. "The manor of Harefield is thus described in the survey of Domesday Richard, son of Gilbert the Earl (of Briou,) holds Herefelle, which is taxed at five bides. The land is five carucates. Two hides are in demesne, on which there are two ploughs. The villans have three ploughs. The priest has one virgate; there are five villans, who hold a virgate each; seven bordars, who have five acres each, and one bordar, who has three acres; there are three cottars, and three slaves, two mills yielding - 15s. rent, four fisheries yielding 1000 eels, meadow equal to one carncate, pasture for the cattle of the manor, and pannage for 1200 hogs. The total annual value is 127.; it was only 81. when entered upon by the present owner; in King Edward (the Confessor's) time (being then the property of the Countess Goda,) it was 147.'-Richard, son of Gilbert Earl of Briou, was sometime called Richard Fitz Gilbert, sometime Richard de Tonbridge, and sometime Richard de Clare: from him it seems to have descended to Alice, daughter of Geoffrey, and grand-daughter of Baldwin de Clare, Sir "By a quo warranto, bearing date 1284, it appears, that Roger de Bacheworth was then lord of the manor of Harefield, and that he and his ancestors bad enjoyed it, with all its rights and privileges, from time immemorial, paying a smail quit-rent to the Honour of Clare. Richard de Bacheworth, in the year 1315, granted this manor to Simon de Swanland, who married the elder daughter and co-heir of his brother Roger. This Sir Richard afterwards took upon him GENT. MAG. January, 1815. the habit of the Knights Hospitallers ; his Margaret, who dower anigned wife in Harefield, took the wil. William, son of Sir Simon de Swanland, had three sons, two of whom died in their infancy, and the third left no issue. Joanna, the only daughter, married John Newdegate, who was afterward knighted, and served in the wars in France under Edward III. In the year 1585, John Newdegate, esq. the eighth in lineal descent from Sir John, who married Joanna Swanland, exchanged the manor of Harefield, with Sir Edmund Anderson, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, for the manor of Arbury in Warwickshire, which has ever since been the principal seat of the family. Sir Edmund Anderson, in 1601, sold Harefield to Sir Thomas Egerton, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal; his wife, Alice Countess Dowager of Derby, and Lady Anne, Lady Frances, and Lady Elizabeth Stanley, her daughters. The Lord Keeper died in 1617, being then Viscount Brackley; the Countess of Derby, in 1637. Lady Anne Stanley, the eldest daughter, married Grey Lord Chandos; and after his death, Mervin Earl of Castlehaven. She survived her mother only ten years; and on her death, George Lord Chandos (her eldest son by her first husband) inherited the manor of Harefield, pursuant to the deed of 1601. Lord Chandos died in February 1655, having bequeathed it by will to his wife Jane. In the month of October following, Lady Chandos married Sir William Sedley, bart. Sir William died in 1656; and in 1657 his widow took a third husband, George Pitt, esq. of Stratfield Say, in the county of Southampton. Having vested all ber estates, by a deed bearing date 1673, in Mr. Pitt and his heirs, he, in conjunction with his trustees, in the month of February 1675, (his lady being still living) conveyed by bargain and sale the manors of Harefield and Morehall to Sir Richard Newdegate, bart. Serjeant at Law, younger son of Sir John Newdegate, and grandson of John Newdegate, esq. who had exchanged them with Sir Edmund Anderson. Having been thus restored to the Newdegate family again, they have continued in it ever since, and are now [1800] the property of Sir Roger Newdigate, bart. who is the thirteenth in descent from SirJohn Newdegate first mentioned. It is remarkable that this ma nor (with the exception of a temporary alienation) has descended by intermarriages, and a regular succession (in the faniilies of Bacheworth, Swanlaud, and Newdegate,) from the year 1284, when, by the verdict of a Jury, it appeared that |