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Sir Henry Ellis supplies an Inventory of Goods belonging to the Lord Admiral Seymour at certain places in Sussex. The property had belonged to the Duke of Norfolk, and from the inventory of Cheseworth we see how meanly the chambers of even the poet Surrey, and his sister, Lady Richmond, were furnished; there are also some financial details about the iron-works in Sussex, which will have their value with certain classes of investigators.

The Rev. Mr. Turner treats of the College and Priory of Hastings and the Priory of Warbleton; the Rev. Mr. Ley describes Waldron, its church, its mansions, and its manors; and the Rev. Thomas Hutchinson gives a full account of his parish of Ditchling. Some curious mural paintings (apparently retouched) in Slaugham Church are described by the Rev. Mr. Campion; and a collection of Monumental Inscriptions from East Blatchington is supplied by the Rev. Mr. Dennis. Blaauw has printed a number of Licences to Fortify Towns and Houses in Sussex, which extend from the year 1258 to 1479.

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Mr. Durrant Cooper gives the Letters and Will of Dr. Andrew Borde, a summary of which we printed some time since, and therefore need not here dwell on; and an important paper on the Protestant Refugees in Sussex. This treats of the various immigrations of Huguenots, in 1562, 1568, 1572, and 1685, very many of whom reached Rye, as the nearest port to Normandy. The descendants of many of them are to be found in Sussex at the present day, though the names are often strangely changed, and Mr. Cooper has devoted much labour to tracing them out.

The last paper that we shall notice is one by Mr. Slade Butler, on The Vicars of Rye and their Patrons. The list of the former includes three bishops, viz., Scambler, bishop of Norwich; Fletcher, bishop of London; and Bagot, bishop of St. Asaph; among the latter we have Edward I., II., and III., the last of whom granted the rectory to the abbot of Stanley, in Wiltshire; it afterwards reverted to the Crown, has been held by the earls of Dorset (temp. James I.), and the Comptons, and is now in the hands of the Duke of Devonshire. Mr. Butler has appended to his paper a full list of the Monumental Inscriptions in Rye Church and Churchyard, as also of those in the burying-ground of the Baptist Chapel at Rye. They do not, in general, present any features of great interest, but they are no doubt printed as part of the body of monumental inscriptions which it is the aim of the Society to collect and preserve for genealogical purposes. The brass of Thomas Hamon illustrates the paper. Mortuary poetry is seldom of a very high order, and the poets of Rye are certainly not above the average; but they have a ground of complaint against Mr. Butler, who prints their effusions as

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prose. The following brief specimen of his mode of treating them will probably be enough :

"With patience to the last he did submit, And murmur'd not at what the Lord thought fit; But with a Christian fortitude resign'd, His soul to God at his appointed time; Therefore for me no further sorrow take, But love my wife and children for my sake."

The volume concludes with a paper of Notes and Queries, and a full Index; it has some twenty illustrations, is handsomely printed and bound, and is, both externally and internally, very creditable to all concerned. We are glad to see, from the Report of the Council, that the finances of the Society are in a satisfactory state, and that a rule has been recently made, that defaulters of three years' standing shall, after due notice, be struck off the list; as so much grace is given, no one can say that this proceeding is too peremptory, and its general adoption would do much towards placing our Archæological Societies in a satisfactory state as to money matters.

THE CAMPANA COLLECTION.

THE magnificent collection of antiquities and works of art formed by the Marquis of Campana is now lodged in the Palais d'Industrie, at Paris, having been purchased for the French nation, and was opened on the 1st of May last. Its founder not only expended his whole fortune in forming it, but borrowed 5,000,000 francs from the Roman Mont-de-Piété, on the security of the collection, with the view of enlarging it. He proved unable to redeem his pledge, and the Papal Government recently disposed of it piecemeal. The Emperor of Russia bought a small part; the remainder-and, in an artistic and scientific point of view, by far the most interesting part-was obtained by the French Government. The acquisition comprises-1. A collection of Etruscan antiquities; 2. Greco-Roman antiquities—many hundreds of objects in glass, bronze, marble statues, and more than fifty paintings; 3. A collection of majolica, enamels, &c.; 4. A collection of more than five hundred pictures of the Italian schools, from the Byzantine epoch to that of Raphael. But to these treasures additions have been made from other sources, and the whole comprises not only the ancient Campana collection, but the objects brought by M. Ernest Renan from Syria, by M. Henzey from Macedonia and Thessaly, and by M. Perrault from the north of Asia Minor; as also casts of the bassi-relievi of Trajan's Column, which the French Government recently directed to be taken at Rome, and those of a great number of fine antique statues, which France does not possess. It is stated that not fewer than 12,000 objects are comprised in this remarkable museum.

CORNISH CHURCHES.

III. CURY-GUNWALLOE-MULLION.

THE district of Meneage measures about ten miles, from its northern boundary to its termination at the Lizard Point-the southernmost land of England; and its greatest breadth from east to west-that is, from sea to sea-does not exceed ten miles. Within this small compass there are no fewer than twelve parish churches. Some of these are situated in secluded spots, embosomed in rich foliage; whilst others stand on open and exposed situations on the table-land. One, Gunwalloe, on the very margin of the sea, is often dashed by the foam in stormy weather.

Various are the interpretations given to the word Meneage, such as menég, 'stony;' mean-ake, 'the deaf stone;' meneog, 'kept in by the sea:' it is also said to mean the 'heath-stone,' from the fact of the beautiful Cornish heath, Erica vagans, growing plentifully over the serpentine rock of the district. "Menege," says Norden, "is a parcell of lande contayning the most part of this Kirrier hundred; a frutefull and plentifull place for people, corne, fleshe, fishe, tynn, and copper." This reference to tin and copper is not correct,—at least the district is not now disfigured by unsightly mine works; it is almost wholly an agricultural country. One side of Mount's Bay is formed by its western coast. The headlands, coves, and arched rocks along this shore are of the most varied and beautiful description; the peculiar character of the serpentine rock giving to the cliffs greater brilliancy of colour, though they have not the same savage grandeur as those at the Land's End.

When the wild downs in this tract of land were dense forests, through which wild beasts prowled, and about that period when the inhabitants began to change their Celtic religion for a purer faith, then, says tradition, saints came from afar, and here made their abodes in little hermitages. Of these were St. Rumon and St. Corantyne, afterwards Bishops of Cornwall. "St. Corantyne," says Dr. Borlase, "who is now called Cury, was the first Cornish apostle of note that we know of. He was consecrated Bishop of Cornwall by St. Martin, Bishop of Tours in France, and, being said to have converted all Corn

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wall, died in the year 401." Dr. Whitaker, however, who appears to have taken considerable pains to controvert Dr. Borlase on all points, states that St. Corantyne "certainly died in a much earlier year."

In the Domesday Book Cury was taxed under the jurisdiction of Buchent, now Bochym, a barton in the parish, and at that time of some note. In the reign of Henry VI. we find it called Curytowne. In Wolsey's Inquisition it is entered as Curyton, and was then presented with Breage, Germoe, and Gunwalloe as one living, Breage being the mother church.

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The church of ST. CURY (or Corantyne) is about one mile from the sea, and consists of a chancel, nave, south transept, north aisle, a tower at the west end of the nave, and a small porch. Originally it was undoubtedly cruciform. The south

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