Whether Messrs. Rivingtons mean to apply to the Court of Chancery, and stop the sale by an Injunction (for some parts of the work are, as I have said above, still protected by the Act of Parliament), I have not heard; nor do I know whether or not, from Mr. B.'s inspecting my edition of lgnoramus, he entertains an intention of republishing that: but I think it right to give him this intimation, that, if he attempts any such thing, he will inevitably involve himself in a Chancery suit, in which he cannot succeed, for that I shall immediately stop him, as I can do, by an Injunction. This I tell him as a Professional man as I have been, and to prevent him from entangling himself; for I know I am right, and have both the will and the means to protect myself, if necessary; and to make him repent any such attempt, if he should be so imprudent as to make it.

JOHN SIDNEY HAWKINS.

YOUR Readers, I doubt not, will

pardon my intrusion, dictated by gratitude, of recording the following addition to the honourable Lists in your last volume, pp. 872, 968.-This generous encouragement has induced me to set about reprinting the Hundred of GUTHLAXTON.

Yours, &c.

J. NICHOLS.
HIS MAJESTY'S LIBRARY.
The Bodleian Library.
The University Library of Cambridge.
Emanuel College, Cambridge.
Jesus College, Cambridge.
St. John's College, Cambridge.
Earl Moira.

Lord Bishop of Dromore.
George Allan, Esq. Blackwell Grange.
Stafford Squires Baxter,
John Caley, Esq. Gray's Inn.
Rev. Archdeacon Coxe, Bemerton.
Rev. H. W. Gery, Bushmead Priory.
Hudson Gurney, Esq. Norwich.
Edward Hartopp, Esq. Little Dalby.
Rev. William Layton, Ipswich.
Rev. Thomas Leman, Bath.
Samuel Lysons, Esq. Dir. S. A.
Rev. A. Macaulay, Vicar of Rothley,
Rev. J. Miles, Willoughby Waterless.
Rev. John Moore, Appleby.
Ellis S. Pestell, Esq. Ashby.
Rev. John Selwyn, Master of Wig-
ston's Hospital, Leicester.
Thomas Sharp, Esq. Coventry,
Rev. Henry-John Wolla ton, Rector
of Scotter, Lincolnshire.
[This List will be continued.}

By Dr. Pots, Bristol.

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October........

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November.

Mr. URBAN,

January 2.

N the Church-yard of the Parish of St. Thomas, in the Western suburbs of the City of Oxford, is a Schoolhouse founded by a Mr. John Combe, of whom little is known but that he was a native of that parish, and a plasterer and citizen of London. The tradition of the place is, that he was apprenticed to a slater by charity from the parish, and as he did not forget the place of his nativity, it is probable he also remembered the place of his habitation, which is supposed to have been in London; therefore, if his name should occur as a benefactor or other wise in any parish in the Metropolis, it is earnestly desired an account thereof may be given in your Magazine, as such names, which generally are all that remain to perpetuate their good actions, ought to be had in everlasting remembrance.

St. Thomas Parish-school is unendowed; but it was the intention of the worthy Founder that ten poor children should be educated therein, as he supposed the value of the rent of such a house would recompense the Master for their education. Mrs. Ann Kendall, among many other charities to the aforesaid parish, left twenty shilJings yearly to the Charity-school.

The following Inscription is cut on stone on the North side of the Schoolhouse:

"This School-house was built in the year of our Lord 1702, and in the 1st year of the reign of Queen Anne, at the charge of Mr. John Combe, citizen and plasterer of London, born in this Parish, and free of this City, for the benefit of as many poor children as the rent of the house will pay for their teaching to read and write, the Teacher to be the Clerk of the Parish, if duly qualified; but if not, the Teacher, as well as the Children, to be elected by the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor, and such as have executed both these

offices in this Parish, with the assistance

of the Minister.".

The following is a copy of a clause in Mr. Combe's Will, which is curious, not only as to its immediate object, but for the names of the eminent Divines (of their day) therein mentioned:

"I give, devise, and bequeath to the Parish of St. Thomas in or near the City of Oxford, all that the School-house and garden with the appurtenances lately built and made by me on part of the church

GENT. MAG. Junuary, 1809.

yard of the said parish, the ground for the same being appointed for that purpose by the then churchwardens, overseers of the poor; and elders of the said parish, by and with the consent and approbation of Dr. Aldrich, dean of Christ Church aforesaid; issues, and profits thereof, shall from time upon trust and to the intent the rents, to time be applied to pay a School-master to teach and instruct in reading English, writing, and arithmetic, ten poor children born in the said parish. And my will is, that the School-master and also the said Children shall from time to time be approved and appointed by the Churchwardens and Overseers of the said Parish for the time being, and the nine persons hereafter named, with the assistance of the minister of the said parish; that is to say. Mr. John Kendal; Mr. Thomas Cruch; Mr. John Potter; Mr. John Curtis; "Mr. Francis Loder; Mr. Richard Robinson; Mr. William Carter; Mr. Thomas Combe; Mr. John Gadney. And my will is, that when as often as any of the said nine per sons shall die, the room or place of him or them so dying shall from time to time be applied by one or more person or persons whom the survivors of them shall chuse and think most useful, and likely to be benefactors to the said school, as is usually done in such cases in London; and, ́· if any difference happen, the same shall be referred to the Dean of Christ Church for the time being, to whom I do give full power to determine the same."

be

be preached on the evening of that day, when anthems suitable to the festival are performed, and the church is generally crowded. It is much to be wished that these local festivals were more common, as in the hands of a judicious Preacher they cannot fail to be productive of great good. The writer of this has never forgotten a text on this occasion, although neard in his very tender years, from Dr, William Sharpe of Christ Church, in praise of the Foundress of the Lecture, viz. Matt. xxvi. 13: "Verily I say unto you, wheresoever this Gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her."

You must forgive narrative old age (if my contemporaries will allow me that privilege) to trespass a little more on your valuable pages, to say that at my last autumnal visit to the Church in question, I was surprised to find a walk from the entrance of the churchyard to the great door of the church, payed with stones taken from the graves of many families. Among many names, familiar to me, I observed no less than five inscriptions of branches of the rich and respectable family of Tawney. Can the vicar and churchwardens be justified in the removal of these pious memorials from their original destination? Or, what encouragement is there to erect such truly frail memorials of our friends, if they can be removed at the caprice of a vicar and churchwardens? I think I have seen something on this subject in some of your volumes, but I have not an opportunity of referring to them.

IN

contains, and am now in want of the following only:

2d of Elizabeth.

Sept. 27. Against melting of Monies, &c.-Valuation of Foreign Gold. Oct. 9. Valuation of Testons. Nov. 2. Valuation of Pistolets. 3d Year. Calling-in base Monies.

Feb. 19. June 12. Nov. 15.

Ditto.

Valuation of Foreign Gold.
4th Year.

Jan. 30. Against those who falsly re-
port, that the Queen intended to
alter and decrease her Monies.
March 13. Ditto.

Sth Year. Dec. 1. Value of Foreign Gold Coins. 10th Year.

Sept. 20. Exchange of Money.

I shali esteem it a particular favour if any of your Readers will direct me to these Proclamations; for which the Rolls Chapel, and the Collection of Proclamations belonging to the Privy Council, have been searched in vain.

As the History of English Coinage from the earliest account of Britain to the present time, which I announced in the Volume referred to above, is now nearly ready for the press, it would be peculiarly gratifying to me to receive intelligence respecting them as early as possible.

by the great liberality of the Society of Autiquaries, I am enabled to illus trale my work with LXIX Plates of Coins, from William I. to his present Majesty, both inclusive. To these I shall add specimens of the coins of Cunobeline (the only British money which, in my judgment, can be apprepriated); and also of the Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Danish monarchs, together with the Anglo-Gallic series, and others which are omitted in those lates; to be engraven from drawings which I made some years since from the collections in the Bo lleian and Ashmolean Libraries, the Colleges of the Christ Church and Corpus Christi in Oxford, the British Museum, Dr. Hune ter's Museum, the Cabinet of the late. Mr. Southgate, and some few small private Collections.

As these Plates will, altogether, amount to at least one hundred, the price of the work must necessarily be increased; and I shall shortly publish a new Prospectus, in order to state the alteration which will take place in the work; and to release those Gen

tlemen