legacies were increased proportionably. Some land now let at 41. per annum was left by to be given to four poor widows (two belonging to Gueftling parifh, and two to Ickleham), who are to keep the (Cheney's) monument clean. For the two Gueftling widows, there is alto a house and a little plat of about half an acre. The owner of Bromham is truttee; and the late Mr. Bradshaw augmented the falary of the two Gueftling widows, by leaving 50l. to be laid out in land, for their use. William Fletcher, of Coghurft, gent. buried 25 Nov. 1712, lett an annuity of 11. jos. as a dole to the poor of this parish for ever. Gueftling, Geftelinges, Geftlinge, Geffeling, Gefling, Geftiyne. De dication, St. Laurence. Patron, Sir W. Afhburnham, Bart. Deanry, Haflings; King's Books, 121.os. 7d. Tenths, 11.48. 21 Ed. I. Ecc'ia de Geftling, xx m'r's, Pope Nicholas's taxation. WITH tisfaction, I behold the refolutions entering into by a few of the fuperior circles in this kingdom, for the fupport and correc tion of public manners; because I conceive, that fuch laudable meafures, if purfued with refolution and perfeverance, will give more effectual check to the progrefs of Anarchy than the Bayonet or the Contribution ;-it being a wellknown fact, that our miferable enemies advanced, with rapid ftrides, through blood and defolation, over the fepulchres of Morality and Religion. Having expreffed my unfeigned joy at the approach of the only kind of Reform I approve, I fhall add my wifh, that this Reform may become extenfive; and I know of no method furer to effect this, than by deeming it unfashionable to be wicked; and that Gaming, Debauchery, or Sharping, fhall be regarded as monftrous and as uncouth as the Ruff, the Fardingale, or the Demy-peak Saddle: and. farther to render this reformation in our manners complete, allow me to recommend it to every good individual, to difcourage, and steadily avoid, all thofe who practife evil. May we not term it an unnatural connexion, when we fee the worthy afociating with the worthless. Whether from indolence, curiofity, or timidity, we hourly meet Honefty arm-in-arm with Roguery; we fee Sobriety entertaining Drunkemefs, and Candour liftening to the fcandalous tales of Falfehood: the Senfualift is allowed to approach the Virtuous; and the Villain is permitted to creep round the Man of Honour! I am confident that there are many good men, and women too, who are frightened into this monftrous union; people, who are acted upon by a kind of Jacobinical influence; and who are not only afraid to avoid the fociety they inwardly difapprove, but even allow themfelves to receive amufement from it.-Could thofe I have laft defcribed perceive the injury thus committed on fociety; and the reproach attaching to themfelves; did they but confider, that, as in law, the Receiver is accounted equally culpable as the Thief; fo, in manners, thofe who encourage Vice, by not thewing a proper abhorrence of its perpetrators, cannot be held in equal efteem with fuch as have fortitude and self-denial enough to crufh the vipers, however infinuating or formidable their approaches. If the virtuous reflected thus deeply, I am convinced they would aroufe, and treat the infamous with the neglect and contumely they merit. I will haften to conclude, repeating the pleafure I experience at this profpect of a Reform, moral and religions; convinced of this being the most effectual countermine we can employ, to explode thofe dan gerous gerous doctrines which are at this hour fapping the foundation of our national exiftence; fince, if ever we fhould be wretched enough to permit our minds to be totally enflaved by Vice-if ever the rugged Virtue of old Britain is compreffed betwixt Luxury and Atheilim-in that dread hour, the Fiend, who now fides with his friends, and leads them inceffantly through his favourite fcenes, will encompass us alfo in his wiles, and Britons be come ftigmatifed with the Fraternal Hug. Mr. Urban, I am under the neceffity of writing haftily; if, however, you find thefe thoughts are expreffed with fufficient correctnefs, you will give them to the public, in your valuable Repository. A DISBANDED OFFICER. MR. URBAN, March 10. VIATOR A. p. 196, has, I VIA think, miftaken an affertion of mine. Col. Johnfon, who has taken the name of Tynte, married, as I prefume, the daughter of Capt. Haffel; which will reconcile the different accounts. Half blood was determined, in the claim of the Mildmays to the barony of Fitzwalter, to be no bar to the inheritance of an honour. [I hope Mr. Urban will fome time find admiffion for the paper fent laft October, regarding that barony, in which this matter is declared more at large.] Lady Tynte, p. 263, who died 14th of March, was the laft of the male line of the family of Butby, of Addington, in Bucks. Her father, Dr. Bufby, was fon of Sir John Bufby, by his fecond wife, who was a Dormer. Sir John's first wife was daughter and coheir of Sir William Manwaring, of Weft Chefter, knt. by whom he had a daughter, Hefther, married to the Hon. Thomas Egerton, of Tattonpark, Chefhire, whofe defcendants are now the representatives of the Bufby family. Robert Busby, efq. father of Sir John, married a daughter of Sir John Gore, alderman of London. His father married a Johnfon, of Afhenden, Bucks. Lady Tynte's mother was a Lymbury of Hampshire, by whom the Earl of Wiltshire, whofe grandmother was a Lymbury, became allied to her. But the Addington eftate ought to have defcended to the iffue of her paternal aunt. T. S. *See "Vifitation Co. Bucks, 1634." See alo" Willis's Bucks," "Kennet's Regifter," and "Gent. Mag. 1794," (under the article of Dr.Busby, maft. of Weftm.school.) IN STAINDROP CHURCH, DURHAM. are depofited the remains of JonN LEE, efquire, one of his Majefty's counsel at law attorney-general for the county-palatine of Lancaster, and fome time for this county allo; and member of parliament for Highain Ferrers. He died on the fifth day of August, 1793, in the fixty-first year of his age, after having attained, by means equally honourable to his abilities and principles, an eminent rank in his profeffion, and fucceffively filled the offices of folicitor and attorney-general to his Majesty. During the course of an active and ufeful life, he was diftinguished an indefatigable zeal in promoting, as an advocate, the interest of individuals; and a warm invariable attachment to the Laws and Constitution of his country. Free from all religious bigotry, he manifested, both in his public and private conduct, a firm belief in the Chriftian Revelation; and uniformly acted on the perfuafion, that an obfervance of its precepts is its best support. A benevolent chearfulness of difpofition, united with a peculiar pleasantry in converfation, procured him the esteem of numerous friends, whom no change of fortune could induce him to neglect. And by the practice of every focial virtue, as well as a fteady exertion of his uncommon talents in fupport of justice and rational liberty, he acquired an indifputable claim integrity of character,” 1798.] Waltham Abbey Church.-Strange Affertion of Dr. Price. 277 created a world for the fake of only one per reviewing this wild reflexion. It is not I am ftruck with horror while I am to be conceived how the deftruction of millions fhould be counterbalanced by the happinefs of one; and it is extremely prefumptuous to form a fuppofition which is utterly inconfiftent with all our ideas of infinite wifdom, juftice, and benevolence. The good Doctor would have thought this a horrid fyftem if he had been born under fuch a difpenfation, and had not been himfelf the happy individual; and yer, admitting that he had been thus highly favoured, we cannot comprehend how he could have enjoyed any real felicity in his exalted ftation, while he must have been occafionally confidering that all his fellow-creatures, without exception, were condemned either to an nihilation or everlasting punishment. No apology will be neceffary for fon to be faved out of it, and fitted in it troubling you with a faithful re. for everlasting happinefs." Differtation prefentation of the old church at Wal-on Providence, by R. Price, D.D. tham abbey (Plate 1.); the only part now remaining of a celebrated religious houfe there, originally founded by Earl Harold, brother-in-law to Edward the Confeffor. The learned Continuator of Camden informs us, that the town of Waltham is confiderable at prefent only for its market, and the manufactory of gunpowder carried on near it. Its church reduced to the nave, which its ftyle befpeaks to be of the time of its foundation, is the only remain of the antient magnificence of this mitred abbey, valued at 900l. per annum. The tomb of the founder was fuppofed to be difcovered in the garden of the abbey houfe about the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign; but it was more probably that of fome abbot. All that now remains of the abbey-house is part of a cloifter or crypt and the gate and poftern, on which are the arms of England in the time of Henry III. who vifited this houfe. The manfion built on the fite of the abbey by Sir Edward Denny, at the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, and modernized by Charles Wake Jones, efq. was entirely pulled down in 1770. In the gardens is a large tulip-tree, by its fize probably the first introduced in this kingdom*. The reader, who is defirous of knowing more minutely the fate of this church, is referred to Farmer's "Hiftory of the antient Town, and once famous abbey, of Waltham, 1735," Svo. T. P. April 4CICERO fays very truly, "nihil tam abfurdè dici poteft, quod non dicatur ab aliquo philofophorum." Divinat. I. II. § 58. There is no abfurdity, however extravagant, which has not been maintained by fome pretended philofopher. We have a remarkable inftance of this kind in a writer, who undertakes to vindicate the equity of Divine Providence against all objections. Among other obfervations on this fubject, he makes the following bold and extravagant fuppofition: "One may even venture to affert, that it would have been worth while to have difpenfations of the Supreme Being, it When we prefume to reafon on the is our duty to fpeak with more caution, reverence, and humility. death of Dr. Price, makes this very Dr. Prieftley, in his fermon on the curious remark: lieve, that in a fhort fpace we may fee our "We not only hope, but firmly be deceafed friend again, and be able to tell him, what he will be as eager to learn, how thofe things, about which he most interefted himself, refpecting the welfare of his country and of mankind, went on after his death; and fuch is the profpect that is now opening upon us, refpecting the enlargement of civil and religious liberty, and the extenfion of general happiness, that the longest liver will probably have the beft news to carry him." Sermon, May 1, fuppofed that thele two patriots, Price In conformity to this idea, it is to be and Priestley, will meet in heaven; congratulations, will begin to talk, and, after mutual compliments and like two gentlemen at a coffee-house, of politicks and the news of the day. Price will be "eager to learn" the progrefs of that revolution which was to "enlarge the bounds of civil and relihappiness of mankind." But, O grief gious liberty, and promote the general of griefs! how vain, how fallacious, are the fchemes of vifionary projectors, and the predictions of modern pro phets ! |