412 Effects of cold Iron. Want of Room in Churches. [May, I Mr. URBAN, Oxford, May 20. TAKE the liberty of sending you a few remarks upon a phænonienon noticed, in your pages 124 and 234. It is stated that the Lapland ers will offer a stranger a piece of cold iron in severe which, on being applied to the weather, tongue, produces a scusation of burn ing. May not this be effected by the rapidity with which the vital heat rushes to one point in order to restore an equal temperature; the quantity of which caloric may be so abundant, as for a moment to cause sensations of the nature alluded to. The blackened appearance assumed by leaves when affected by frost (evidently resembling the action of fire) may be accounted for on the same principle, viz. the sudden transmission of heat from different parts of a plant to its leaves, which we know are of a most delicate structure. Mr. URBAN, F. L. May 6. S As you value the interests of Suciety, of which I cannot but think you are a principal guardian, I am persuaded you must be the advocate of the Established Religion of the country, and would promote its extension by every means in your power, to the extremities of this sea-girt Isles and upon this laudable principle I have ventured to trouble you with the following observations! In the course of the two last years, the consideration of the want of places for public worship for this populous metropolis was very prevalent, the inhabitants of which, iu many parts of it, have been doubled within a few years; and, with the exception of some Chapels built at the fashionable end of the town, and let out as a profitable concern, there is not any addition to the Parish Churches, but which we had sanguinely expected through the exertion and persuasions in Parliament of our Archbishops, Bishops, Nobles, and others, who have felt for the cause of Religion, admitted the necessity of these measures, and whose Dames have been repeatedly mentioned with the respect and veneration they were entitled to, from the patronage they were disposed to give to such important undertakings, as well as for their general efforts in the promotion of learning, virtue, and reli, gion; but, alas! Sir, although other plies are voted for Army, Navy, and matters come in course, and sup Ordnance, the contracts for loans, and the considerations of currency, embarked in with eagerness, not a word has escaped on this great subprofess we have been arming, and exject, the ultimate end for which we pressly stated to be for the defence of appeal to the Deity we have been our Religion and Laws, in that solemn making for his support and blessing in the perilous war in which we are engaged. tial a concern? or have we discovered Whence is this apathy in so essenwithout the aid of Religion? that our that off Constitution can be uphold of Providence, or that our professions success is not owing to the blessing adoption, and when millions are voted are without the zeal requisite for their for the purposes of War, funds towards so salutary a measure are not even thought of? fax many not be undertaken without a heavy this is not the case with the metro- the the vicinity of London also the villages are replete with seminaries of instruction, even for the children of the better class, the want of accommodation for them is severely felt, and those children seek for admission round the Church, and often retire or are crowded together in a very indecorous manner: thus the rising generation must lose all sense of devotion: or religious improvement; and although heads of families may meet with accommodation, their servants often are excluded the service of their Maker from these causes. This disregard to the inferior orders in the community is as impolitic as uucharitable, and more or less we are liable to, or answerable for, the sad effects; we cannot expect sobriety, honesty, and diligence, in those who are excluded from instruction. It.is sometimes argued, that there is room for as many as will come to Church, that enlargement is in course unnecessary; but the result of these unwise neglects is the establishment of Chapels for every sect, and in such numbers as fully warrant the assertion that man is a religious as well as a social being, for he will no more live without some profession of religion, than without society; and the difference of conve nience in one place of worship and the other, constitutes sufficient ground for the preference to the Chapel. In a parish not many miles from London, I understand the liberality of the parishioners (much to their credit) have in two solemn meetings determined on the enlargement of their Church, for the accommodation chiefly of the lower classes, &c., and have provided sufficient funds to effect it ; but as nothing can be done without a faculty from the Commons, and this depends on the consent of families for the removal of Monumen's and Grave-stones, the representatives of which perhaps cannot be found, or who may refuse their consent, and thus, perhaps, interdict the enlarge. ment aitogether, or create a material obstacle thereto, by which means the measure, salutary as it is, may be defeated; yet if the inhabitants chuse to build a meeting-house, it might be done without such obstacles, and be licensed as readily; and the fact is notorious, that many have been so built, and are in constant use: Are not these impediments equally disgraceful, in the ecclesiastical establishment, with the lukewarm zeal of the laity? On some future day, I may apprize you of such villages as appear to require this improvement, by stating their population, and the size of their chancel and call more pointedly on our legislators to remedy these serious mischiefs, which are a trespass against religion and morality. The luminaries in Church and State are earnestly importuned, and looked up to, for the completion of this essential service to their fellow-subjects and posterity; and they are invoked by all considerate persons to lay their commands on those whom their authority can influence, nor longer to pause over this one thing needful, as they regard the higher interests of their countrymen, and the future prosperity of this exalted nation. A Member of the Church of England. Mr. URBAN, ·A Temple, May 20. Ta time when great attention is paid to the revival of old Eng lish Literature, especially in the republication of Works on British Antiquities and Biography, I am desirous of calling the notice of the publick to the labours of the industrious and accus rate STRYPE. His pages contain an immense body of useful and interesting matter, relating to our Ecclesiastical History, and to persons who occupied the highest situations in the Church, at most important and critical periods; and it is well known how intimately the higher ecclesiastics were formerly employed in the distribution of the Laws, and in all affairs that related to the civil part of the constitution. That these works are a mine, te which modern writers may successfully resort, has been sufficiently evinced by the valuable materials which Mr. Archdeacon Churton has drawn from them, and with which every chapter in his Life of Dean Nowell is illustrated. The publications of Strype, to which I particularly allude, are the follow ing: and it is unnecessary to say, that every buyer of Books feels their scarcity, from the prices which he is now obliged to pay for them. Memorials of Archbishop Cranmer. I Mr. URBAN, : *** May 6. SHALL be obliged to any of your numerous Readers to inform ine who was the Author of a Translation of the whole New Testament into Latin Hexameters. I never met in my reading with any mention of or quotation from it and though I have seen the book itself in a distant Parish Library, I can only now speak from memory. I recollect that it appeared to be written by a chaplain of Queen Elizabeth, who was afterwards made a Bishop by James 1. On consulting Godwyn De Præsulibus Angl. I found that John Bridges, Dean of Salisbury, and fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, was consecrated Bishop of Oxford in 1603, after the see had been vacant eleven years. He died at 90, May 6, 1618; but no mention is made in Godwyn of his being the author of the above work: nor in Wood's Athenæ Oxon. who refers for a farther account of him to "Hist. & Antiq. Oxon." lib. ii. p. 291.; of which last book I have not been able to get a sight. If any of your Readers will give an account of this curious translation and its author,he will oblige many of your Readers, as well as Yours, &c. MR. URBAN, N. N. March 20. N your Volume LX. p, 1055, it is Mr. URBAN, May 7. YOUR Correspondent, p. 516, in Ythe first Part of your last Volume, styling himself Biographicus A. fairly allows his want of correctness relative to the families of Tuite (uot Tute) and Blake. From what circumstances he could even suppose that Sir John Blake was presumptive heir to the Wallscourt barony, I cannot conjecture. With respect to the Morres family, he persists in his former statement, on the alledged authority of "eminent heralds and he adds, "whatever your Correspondents may at any time therefore state to the contrary, is most probably devoid of truth." Now, in the face of this amiable assertion, I repeat, without fear of contradiction from any well-inform ed channel, that Archdall's deduction of the Lords Mountmorres and Frankfort, from a baronet of the line of Morres of Knockagh Castle is erroneous. The direct ancestor of those Noblemen was Hervey Morres, who obtained a grant of the estate and manor of Castle Morres, co. Kilkenny, (still the inheritance of the family,) and who was pros bably descended from a branch of the Morres's of Knockagh, previous to the grant of the patent of baronetage. Sir John Morres, of Knockagh Castle, was created à baronet in 1631; and it is matter of doubt, whether any male descendant of his body is now in existence; if not, the title is, of course, extinct. Your intelligent Correspondent, M. M. M. page 530, who seems better informed as to the history of this antient house, could, perhaps, inform your Readers, as to the relationship existing between Hervey Morres, the patentee of Castle Morres, (the direct ancestor of the Lords Mountmorres and Frankfort,) I stated that the death of the late and the Knockagh family. Archdall's very worthy and learned Dr. Michael Lort, was owing to an accident which he met with in going to his Rectory at Male-end, near Colchester. I wish to know in what year he was instituted to that Rectory; and, as he was probably buried there, should be much gratified by a copy of his epitaph. Perhaps some Essex Correspondent may be so kind as to oblige me. Any particulars also of the Rev. John Jones, many years curate to Dr. Young at Welwyn, or of the late Dr. John Carr, of Hertford, would be a Savour. M. GREEN, statement, that the above Hervey Morres, of Castle Morres, was son of Sir John Morres, bart. has been long since found to be erroneous. A gen tleman, who conceived himself entitled to the baronetage, procured copies of the wills and marriage settlements of the baronets, of the line of Knockagh, and the result of his investigation was, that neither he nor the Mountmorres family, were de scended from the grantee, but that their ancestor must have branched off at a remoter period from the parent stem. Yours, &c, A CONSTANT READER, Mr. A Lord having sold it to his cousin, though an honour conferred on the first Lord with special remainder to. his male descendants. With respect to the Meares' family, I shall not interfere with your Cor respondent's harmless attempt to dignify them, by identifying them with the Morres' family of Ireland, and the Delamere family of England. Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN. May 3. NDREW KNOX, Parson of Paisley, the first Protestant bishop of the Isles in Scotland, and afterwards Bishop of Raphoe in Ireland, was not the ancestor of the Northland family. The Prelate left an only son, Thomas, also Bishop of the Isles, who died in 1628, issueless. Lord Northland descends from the Silvyland branch of the Knox family, and is now, by the extinction of the elder branch (of which the Bishop was a younger son), the chief male repro-published at the Hague, sentative of the antient family of Knox of that ilk and Ranfurly, in the barony of Renfrew. Sir Archibald Acheson, of Glencairney, co. Haddington, in Scotland, Solicitor General, and many years Secretary of State for Scotland, was seated in Ireland in 1610, and in 1618 (see Pynnar's Survey) had two huadred and three men upon his estate capable of bearing arms. He was created a baronet in 1828, and died in 1634, at Letterkenny in Ireland. His lineal descendant Sir Archibald, sixth baronet, was created Viscount Gosford, and was grandfather of the present Earl of G. who is the eighth baronet under the patent of 1628. The family of Echlin is of Scotch origin; but Mr. Echlin, who was raised to the baronetage in 1721, was not a native of that country. The family had been settled in Ireland for more than a century previous to that time. Robert Echlin was Bishop of Down in 1613. Sir Andrew Stewart, created a ba ronet of Nova Scotia, was the eldest son of Andrew, first Baron Castle Stewart of Ireland, who was the fourth Baron Ochiltree of Scotland, which latter honour he sold to his cousin Sir James Stewart (son of the Earl of Arran) with the permission of the Crown. On the failure of the line of this James Stewart, who thus became Lord Ochiltree, the Lord Castle Stewart laid claim to the barony, as reverting again to the elder branch, who had formerly enjoyed it; but the claim was rejected, as, I underatand, no such instance of the alienation of a title is on record, in the case of the English or Irish peerage, and seems peculiar to the Scotch baronage. The present Earl of Castle Stewart is the admitted lineal male descendant of Andrew fourth Lord Ochiltree, and is yet deemed incapable of enjoying the dignity, in consequence of that Mr. URBAN, C. V. May 4. BEG leave to refer Scrutator to in 1698, where he will find, word for word, the remarks made upon what appeared singular in our customs and manners by the Abbé Delaporte, of a later date, as quoted by Scrutator in p. 218. The Title to the Volume is, "Memoirs and Observations made by a Traveller in England; on what appeared to him most remarkable in Religion, Politics, or Manners, Historical Facts, or Natural Curiosities, with a particular Description of whatever is curious in Londou: the whole enriched with Plates." The plates consist of Views of our Public Buildings, Quakers' Meeting, Milk Maids' Garland, &c. under the assumed name of H. M. de V. (H. Marville de Vielly). Should Scrutator wish to be satisfied of the very original as well as ingenious Author of these remarks, he will find his real name by turning to the Correspondence of the Rev. James Granger edited by Malcolm: I think, in the Letters of the Rev. Mr. Cole, recommending a perusal as being useful to Mr. Granger, of an Edition printed at Paris, even later than that of the Abbé Delaporte, in 4 Vols. 8vo. Yours, &c. ANTI-SCRUTATOR. Mr. URBAN, Yaxley, March 18, THF following inscription is taken HE from a tombstone in the churchyard at Yaxley, an explanation of which I request some one of your Correspondents to favour me with. A.M. "Sacred to the Memory of John M'Kay, late Private in the Fifth, or Ross-shire Militia, who died at Norman Cross, Sept. 1st, 1808, aged 17 years. Born in the Parish of Dornoch, County of Sutherland, Scotland. Chriochnaich mi nis mo chath's mo reis, is dlu ahomh bas is uaiah; M' anam a choisrig mi dhia, triallaidh gu neamh le buaiah. This stone was erected by his Parishioners 12 A METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, kept at CLAFTON, in Hackney, 19. The Cirrus appeared early, followed by Cirro-stratus, Cirro-cumulus, and Cumulus, and eventually by Nimbus and showers. 21. Cirrus extending its fibres along with the current of air. In a lower region Cumuli float along in different planes, the lower ones black and lowering. The Cuckoo and Swallow first seen. A lucid meteor observed about 3 P. M. 22 to 25. Cirrus, Cirro-stratus, Cirro-cumulus, Cumulus, and Cumulo-stratus, of various figures continually prevail, with Summer lightning and dry air. 26 & 27. Same kind of clouds with showers. 28. The multiform appearance of the Chro-stratus exhibited a beautiful sky this afternoon; in some places it was finely undulated, then became reticular, and lastly confused vapour. Cirro-cumulus and Cumulus also seen: showers late in the evening. 29 & 30. Nimbi (with Cirrose fibres extending from them) pouring down showers. May 1. Continued showers through the day. 2 & 3. Showers with clear intervals. 4. Only Cumuli to-day. 6, 7, & 8. Showery at times. 9. Rainy. 11. Cirro-stratus coloured by setting suns. 12 to 14. Cirrus, &c. Sky deep blue in the Eastern horizon. On the 13th only Cumuli: 14th, Cirri and Cumuli. 15. Only Cumuli in forenoou. Towards evening Cirrus, Cirro-stratus, and Cirrecumulus, in different altitudes, by approaching and collapsing, formed very dense Nimbi: and exhibited very various tints and unusual appearances; and ended in rain. N. B. The electric bells of De Lac's column were silent till the 7th May, when they began to ring, aud have continued ringing, more or less regularly, till the present time. Clapton, May 16, 1811. THOMAS FÖRSTER. Mr. |