208 Family of Greaves-Cheapness of Provisions. the netting, and tumbling the whole ." To explain this statement on Mr. URBAN, [Sept. may likewise be seen in Lysons's En- that he has met with another portrait Mr. Meadows also informs us of one of this family, bearing the following inscription: "Lucilla Anna Maria Graves, daughter of the Rev. R. Graves, Rector of Claverton 20, Pall Mall. and of Croscombe, Somerset, and grand ALLOW me to remark on the let- dughter of Richard Graves, esq. of Mic ter of I. E. in p. 28, that the author of the very interesting work on the Pyramids, and other publications, 60 far from being Richard Graves, was not even named Richard, but was Mr. John Greaves, a learned traveller, geometry professor of Gresham College, and Savilian professor of Astronomy at Oxford, and who formed Archbishop Laud's splendid collection of MSS. There is a small etching of his portrait by Sir Edm. Marmion. He died in 1652, twenty-eight years before Mr. Richard Graves was born.-The latter was, however, as the Rev. (not Sir) P. Meadows stated in vol. XCIV. ii. 602, a very eminent Antiquary and genealogist, and intimate with Thoresby and Hearne, the latter calling him his egregious friend." I beg also to add an account of the following very scarce monumental print engraved by Vertue, which appears to be unknown to Mr. Meadows. It is inscribed at top: "The Monument of Mrs. Eleanor Graves, her father-in-law, mother, and four sons." Under the busts of herself, mother, father-in-law, and small figures of her four sons, appears the following: "Here under are interred the bodyes of John Bentley, esq. and Ellenor his wife, the relict of Thomas Bates, gent. by whom she had issue an only daughter Ellenor (here also interred); she married to Richard Graves of Lincoln's Inne, esq. by whom she had issue six sonnes and nine daughters, of whom foure, viz. Richard, John, Richard, and Benjamin, are here likewise buried. The said John Bentley dyed the 26th of Feb. 1660, aged 65 years. Ellenor his wife dyed the 12th of Aug. 1657, aged 63 years, and Ellenor, her daughter, dyed the 4th of May, 1656, aged 39 years." And at the bottom of the engraving: "In the parish church of Richmond in Surry-G. Vertue sculp." A description of this Monument kleton, Gloucestershire, died March 10th, 1822, aged 57.-S. Baptiste, Lith. de G. Engebriann." On the back of the engraved portrait of John Graves, gent. who died in London, aged 103 years, in 1616, as noticed in vol. xciv. ii. 602, is the following memorandum : "Hugh Graves, a younger brother of the York, and M. P. for that city in several Parvenerable John Graves, was Lord Mayor of liaments of Queen Elizabeth." Hugh Graves was Sheriff of the city Philip M. became Latin Secretary. I ÉDIT. Mr. URBAN, Enfield, Aug. 9. HAVE in my possession various documents respecting the cheapness of Provisions in the olden time. If you think the following worthy to pages, it is at your service. occupy a niche in your imperishable H.J.S. Anno Domini 1561. Imp. Beef with loyn g 8 per 1 fore quarter of Veale s. d. 1 0 0 5 A loyn Litho. 17 Fludyer St Westm PLAN of the POWDER PLOT CELLAR and other BUILDINGS, Adjoining the Old Palace, Westminster. U I Y 300 250 1825.] Account of the Powder Plot Cellar, Westminster. A loyn of Mutton and shoulder of Veale A brest and coller of Mutton 6 Plover 4 brace of Partridges 09 0 7 1 0 2 0 4 couple Rabbets 2 Pigs 4 couple of Henns 2 0 2 couple of Mallard Eggs 1 0 6 1 6 0 0 9 0 3 2 1 34 2 bushels of Flowre 16 loaves whit Bread 18 loaves wheaton Bread 3 loaves Messelin 1 barell Double Beer 1 barell Small Beer 1 quarter of Wood Nutmegs, Mace, Cinnamon and Graises 4 pound Barbery Sugar Fruit and Almonds Sweet Water and Perfumes 16 Oranges 2 gall. clarrett Wine 1 quart Sack.. quart Malmsey 1 quart Barturd 1 quart Muskadine I 6 0 2 2 3 6 0 7 0 4 00000ROOCO 2 2 0 3 0 6 2.1 17 0 Mr. URBAN, Aug. 16. SEND you for insertion a plan of the Powder Plot Cellar, and other buildings adjoining, taken from some memoranda and measures, made by myself and two other persons some years since, while those buildings were remaining unaltered. Very few persons, it is believed, were ever in the Cellar, or knew where it was situated; and there is reason to think, that no similar plan may be in existence, but to a certainty none has ever been before published. And, as the buildings, which were part of the old palace, have in the late alterations at Westminster (to speak at least of the old House of Lords, the Powder Plot Cellar, and the house which the conspirators first occupied) all been destroyed, it was thought important to endeavour thus to preserve and perpetuate the remembrance of them. Explanation of Plan. A. Part of the Commons Committee Rooms, Westminster Hall, &c. B. Lobby to House of Commons. C. House of Commons, formerly St. Stephen's Chapel. GENT. MAG. September, 1825. T. Irregular Brick Buildings. U. Prince's Chamber. V. A small Court, leading into Parliament Place. W. A Passage from Cotton Garden into Parliament Place. X. Part of Old Palace Yard. The particulars of the Powder Plot, and the circumstances attending its discovery, are of course too well known to need repetition. All that is here intended, therefore, is to ascertain and point out the several spots, to which the narrative refers. When, in a meeting of the conspirators, in a house behind St. Clement's Church in the Strand, about the middle of Easter Term 1603, as it seems, the nature of the plot had been decided. Percy, one of the conspirators, was sent to hire a house at Westminster, which Fawkes and Winter, in their separate confessions*, subsequently made, describe as near adjoyning to the Parliament House. Winter, in his confessiont, says it belonged to one Ferris,' and that Catesby, one of the conspirators, was the person who hired it, and thereby became, as Ferris before was, tenant to Whinyard. Lord Salisbury, See them inserted in a book, entitled, "The Gunpowder Treason, with a Discourse of the manner of its discovery," 12mo, 1679, PP. 41, 51. +Ibid. p. 51. in 210 Account of the Powder Plot Cellar, Westminster. in a Letter in Winwood's State Papers, vol. ii. p. 170, says, that Percy hired a part of Vyniard House, in the Old Palace; evidently mistaking the name, instead of Winyard's house, as belonging to Winyard. That person, Winyard, in a relation inserted in the Archæologia, vol. xii. p. 207, is mentioned as having the keeping of some of the King's stuff, and as having been an honest and ancient servant of the late Queen. So that evidently he was keeper of the wardrobe. The same relation also speaks of Winyard's having let some part of a room under the Parliament Chamber, to one that used it as a cellar, who is afterwards named as Thomas Percy. Speed+ points it out still more particularly as "a certain edifice, adjoining the wall of the Parliament House, which served for with drawing rooms for the assembled Lords, and out of Parliament was at the dispose of the Keeper of the Place [Palace] and Wardrobe thereto belonging." And this account of Speed's, so far as it speaks of the House as consisting of withdrawing rooms for the Lords, is confirmed by Winter's confession, in which he mentions the necessity they at one time experienced of postponing their work, because the Scotch Lords were appointed to sit in conference on the Union in Percy's house. Unquestionably, from all these circumstances of description, this must have been a house which at one time stood on the spot marked R in the plan. But the original house, existing at the time of the Powder Plot, was afterwards pulled down, and replaced by another, which has also itself been since destroyed. This last erection was at one time used as the Ordnance Office, and afterwards as one entrance to the old House of Lords. While it continued the Ordnance Office, a view of it was taken by Wale, for the purpose of insertion in "London and its Environs," published in 1761, in which work it will be found engraven. This original house the conspirators occupied, and they continued in possession of it till about Easter 1605; for Fawkes, in his confession says, that about 11 Dec. 1604, they began [Sept. their mine, that by Christmas they. had brought their mine to the wall, and about Candlemas had wrought the wall half throught." After this he says, " about Candlemas they worked. another fortnight in the mine against the stone wall, which was very hard to beat through." Fawkes says, "truly it was three yards thick 1" He speaks of the foundation wall, which of course was the thickest; and the wall of the superstructure, above ground, was on measuring it, in one place found to be, in that instance, 6 feet 8 inches and an half, which is but 2 feet 34 inches short of that measure. About Easter 1604-5, it was, that while they were working, they heard the noise of removing coals in the adjoining cellar §. On sending round, they found the cellar was to be let. They immediately took it, and this was, beyond all doubt, the great cellar under the old House of Lords, which is marked in the plan with the letter S. Smith, in the Antiquities of Westminster, has given views of the elevations of the four sides of this cellar, in the lowest of which, as it stands in the plate, may be seen in a recess near the right hand extremity, as the beholder looks at it, the door through which Guy Fawkes, when he had fired the train, was to have made his escape. This he was to have done by crossing a small court, marked V. in the plan, into Parliament Place Y. and so to the water, at the further end of Parliament Place, where a boat was to have been in waiting for him. A view of the stairs and landing place, at the end of Parliament Place, which are now removed, and the end of the passage closed up with a wall, is given in an engraving in Smith's Antiquities, from a drawing communicated by Sir James Winter Lake. This cellar, which was 77 feet long, 10 feet 3 inches high, and 24 feet 4 inches wide, was accessible two ways. One from Cotton Garden, through a door under the North side of the Painted Chamber, a view of which may be seen in Smith's Antiquities; the other from Parliament Place, through the small court, marked V in the plan, and so through the door, above described as that through which Fawkes intended to make his escape + Fawkes' Confession, p. 41. § Ibid. p. 42... |