The following is a list of the incumbents fince the Reformation, with the date of their inftitutions: Roger Slade. 1575, Bartholomew Palmer. 1610, Robert Perry. 1644, John Chichester. 1650, Samuel Periam. 1659, John Bury. 1663, Benjamin Dukes. 1695, Robert Cole, The Chicheners patrons. 1728, Peter Stuckley.-Sir William Po'e, by grant from the Chichesters, patrons for this turn. 1736, Joseph Somafter. 1769, William John Tucker.-The Marwoods patrons. Bartholomew Cowde was inftituted May 23, 1554, in the place of Robert Coyle, deprived as uxoratus. The parfonage house is about half a furlong diftant from the church, is an old building covered with thatch, but hath fome good rooms, and is not inconvenient. All tithes are payable to the rector in kind; and there is a cufto mary modus of three hillings and four pence payable to the rector for every pit of lime burned in the parifh; and the manor-milis pay an annual modus of ten groats. J. T.' Mr. URBAN, June 24. the Popes, upon their exaltation to St. Peter's chair, have frequently celebrated a jubilee upon other extraordinary occafions. The ceremony obferved at Rome for the jubilee, at every 25 years end, which they call the holy year, is this: the Pope goes to St. Peter's church to open the holy gate, which is walled up, and only opened upon this occafion, and, knocking three times at the faid gate with the golden hammer he has in his hand, utters thefe words: Aperite mihi portas juftitiæ, &c. "Open to me the gates of righteoufnefs; I will go into them, and praise the Lord," Pf. cxviii. 19; whereupon the mafons fall to work to break down the wall that flops the gate; which done, the Pope kneels down before it, whilft the penitentiaries of St. Peter wash him with holy water; and then taking up the cross, he begins to fing the Te Deum, and enters the church, the clergy following him. In the mean time, three cardinal-legates are fent to open the three other holy gates with the fame ceremonies, which are in the churches of St. John of Lateran, of St. Paul, and St. Mary the Greater, and is performed at the first vefpers, or evening fong, of Christmas A HEAD, like that which is define eve, and the next morning the Pope ated in Plate 11. fig. 1, was, by mistake, engraved for Bishop Gardiner in Burnet's "History of the Reformation." This is fuppofed to be the head of Robert Horne, Bishop of Winchester, remarkable for the havock he made in church ornaments after the ReformaYours, &c. M. N. tion. IF you think an engraving of the inclofed handfome filver medal (l. II. fig. 2.), ftruck by Pope Benedict in commemoration of his jubilee, will afford information or entertainment to the readers of your Mifcellany, by inferting it you will oblige, Yours, &c. CLARENSIS. The jubilees at Rome are folemn indulgences granted by the Pope to all his communion t. Boniface VIII. first inftituted the jubilee anno 1300, in imitation of that of the Jews, ordering it to be observed every 100th year. Pope Clement VI. reduced it to so years; Urban VI. to 30; and Sixtus V. to 25; where it hath continued ever fince. Befides which, * See Gent. Mag. vol. XIX. p. 382; vol. + Collyer's Dictionary. XX. p. 45. gives his benediction to the people in the jubilee form. When the holy year is expired, they fhut the holy gates again on Chriftmas eve in this manner: the Pope, after he has bleffed the ftones and mortar, lays the first stone, and leaves there twelve boxes full of gold and filver medals. In days of old, a prodigious number of all forts of people came to Rome from all parts of Europe in the holy year; but few repair thither now except those who refide in Italy, becaufe the Popes afford this privilege to other countries, whe have the liberty of staying at home and receiving the fame favours from his Ho linefs. C. Urban will be obliging enough to mention that he will infert a fmall draw ing, with an intent to throw fome light on that matter, a future opportunity will be taken to tranfmit it. I. LANGDALE. Mr. URBAN, SEND June 27. I you two inedited tokens of Winchcombe in Gloucestershire, and one of "Nathanell Gilbert at Hinkley, 1671, different from that engraved in the "Leicestershire Collections," p. 978. In an antient record, temp. Hen. III. I find a lift of towns, of feveral of which, when united, it is expreffed, "Nomina Villarum quæ pro Villatis in Itinere refpondent;" and here and there one is confiderable enough to be taken “pro villatâ integrâ.” I wish to know to what fpecies of Itinerary this alludes; and the precife meaning of "villata" in this fenfe. M. GREEN. Mr. URBAN, June 27. HE inclofed drawing (pl. II. fig. THE 6) is an exact reprefentation of five fepulchres hewn out of a folid rock near a churchyard at Heyfham, about fix miles from Lancafter, with the ruins (as they are fuppofed to be) of fome place of worship ftanding a few yards from the fepulchres. Thefe are about 11 inches deep; the breadth and depth of the largest are much the fame as a common coffin; the others are in proportion. The three holes at the heads of them are about five inches deep, but fo much defaced that no judgement can be formed for what purpose they were made. If any of your ingenious correfpondents, whofe purfuits may enable them to gratify my requeft, will have the goodness to illuftrate either the prefent drawing, or the ring which accompa-nies it (See p. 513, fig. 4), they will greatly oblige, INQUISITOR. tended, defpoiled of all his foliage and umbrageous branches; on which occafion the Sylvan Gods are all in mourn ing, Pan has broken his mellifluent reeds, the Wood Nymphs have retired to their moft obfcure retreats, and even my fombre pea refufes his office, further than merely to tranfcribe for your valuable Repofitory a register of the dimen. fions of this fuperb tree. A WORCESTERSHIRE DRUID. Measure and Particulars of a large Oak, fallen the laft Month, in the Park of Sir John Rufhout, Bart. at Northwick, near Blockley, Worcestershire, judged to be about 300 Years old, which is perfectly found, and is very fine timber. Girt at five feet from the ground Length to the branches Solid contents of the body Total 83 Feet 21 30 634 200 834 Suppofed to be worth at least 2s. £. s. Total value 8 6 6 5 5 £.94 19 MR. URBAN, Pentonville, June 16. F the following account, in addition to what Mr. William Owen has communicated, of the difcovery of a nation of Indians in America that speak the Welsh language, will not be unacceptable to your readers, I fhall be obliged to you for the infertion of it. About twenty years ago, I became acquainted with a Mr. Binon, of Coyry, in the county of Glamorgan; he had been for about thirty years absent from his native country, and, during a great part of that time, an Indian trader from Philadelphia. Being once with fome friends in his company, and the Welsh language happening to be the subject of converfation, he told us, that there was in North America a tribe of Welsh Indians, who fpoke the language with much greater purity than we speak it in Wales. Indulging my natural inquifitive turno nd, I defired him to favour me with an account of what he knew of thofe people; upon which he gave me the following information, viz. that, about the year 1750, being one of a party of five or fix traders, they 'pene trated |