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she and her children were at dinner. At length she was relieved by the royal forces under Prince Rupert and her Lord, when she retired from the place, recommending, as Governor, Captain Edward Rawsthorn, who, with the spirit of his Mistress, endured another siege till the ruin of the royal cause; and, by the royal command, he yielded up the house to Colonel Booth, December 5, 1645. The reduction was thought of such importance that public thanks were, by order of Parliament, given by the Ministers of London in all the churches. The place was dismantled the following year: all the floors and wainscotting were sold for 541. 7s. 10d. Knowsley was, by order of the ruling powers, repaired with the lead from hence.

On the Restoration it was repossessed by the family; was repaired, and even inhabited the beginning of this century, when the Eagle Tower and some parts of the wooden house were standing. The house, and this part of the estate, were transferred to John lord Ashburnham, by his marriage in 1714 with Henrietta daughter of William ninth earl of Derby. Lord Ashburnham sold it to a Furness, who soon disposed of it to Sir Thomas Bootle. I have more than once heard a relation, which, if well founded, is a wonderful instance of the retribution of Providence, the instability of all human tenure, and the strange changes of fortune in families, which ought to instil a most humiliating lesson into the Great. Previous to the siege of Latham, one Bootle (said to have been ancestor to Sir Thomas) was He is said to have taken a voluntary porter to the Noble owner. oath of loyalty, but afterwards sided with the parliament. At the storming of Bolton, he had a Captain's command in the town; when surrounded by the royalists, and seeing his old master near him, he applied to his Lordship for quarter: the fellow perished in the rage of the assault. His descendants possess the most ancient property of the Peer, to whom he had sued in vain.

Another singular anecdote is preserved, serving to shew the pride of high lineage, and the vanity of low. The late Earl of Derby had on sale a place near Liverpool called Bootle, which Sir Thomas was particularly desirous of, through the ambition of being thought to have been derived from some antient stock. The Earl refused to part with it to this new man, who with proper spirit sent his Lord. ship word, (Latham being then to be sold,) that if he would not let him be Bootle of Bootle, he was resolved to be Bootle of Latham.

Possibly the family of the Bootles may have been, through envy, depreciated; for, when Sir William Dugdale made his visitation of Lancashire, in 1664, Thomas Bootle of Melling was summoned, with other Gentry of the county, and entered his pedigree. It appeared that they had then been settled there four generations, though at family non arma gerens, those they assumed being the property of Ponsonby earl of Besborough. This Thomas was either grandfather or great grandfather of Sir Thomas Bootle, knight.

Before I quit Latham I must not forget the romance of Oskytel, the person to whom the Stanleys owe the cognizance of the Eagle A certain Sir Thomas de Latham, in a century uncertain, and Child. found himself, in a very advanced age, childless, and in possession of an antiquated lady. In hopes of posterity, he entered on an intrigue

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with a fair vassal in the neighbourhood, who, in consequence, bore to him a son. It was the wish of Sir Thomas to adopt the child, and to introduce him into the family. In order to do it unsuspected by the lady, he caused it to be placed well swaddled in an eagle's nest in Terston-wood, immediately before he had artfully drawn his wife on a walk that way. The cries of the infant were soon heard: it was relieved from its situation, pitied by the lady, who considered it as a heaven-зent gift in compassion to her sterility, took it home, and, ignorant of the deceit, educated it with all the fondness of a natural mother.'

Natural history is not overlooked; and a catalogue of curious plants is given, to invite the excursion of the botanist :

• Cloud Berries are found plentifully on the moors between Malham and Settle. They take their name from their lofty situation. I have seen the berries in the Highlands of Scotland served as a desert. The Swedes and Norwegians preserve great quantities in autumn to make tarts and other confections, and esteem them as excellent antiscorbutics. The Laplanders bruise and eat them in the milk of rein deer, and preserve them quite fresh till spring by burying them in the snow.'

To an account of Kendal, is subjoined a short biographical sketch of Dr. Shaw, the celebrated traveller, who was a native of that place.

At Wharton-Hall, the tourist made inquiries respecting Philip Duke of Wharton, whom Pope mentions as the scorn and wonder of his days ;" and he informs us that he discovered people now living, who well remembered this British Clodio, and who have been witness to the justice of the description of the profligate part of his character; of his affecting to hunt on Sundays, and shewing in all his actions an equal contempt of the laws of God and man.' Severe, therefore, as the lines of Pope may at first be thought, he appears from this account to have faithfully delineated the profligate original.

Mr. Pennant is not such an infatuated antiquary as to be unable to descry the defects and inconveniences of our antient edifices. He thus comments on Naworth-Castle:

It is a large pile, square, and built about a court, with a square tower at each corner. In the south side is a gateway with the arms of the Dacres; over the door those of the Howards. On the north, it impends over the river Irthing, at a great height; the banks shagged with wood. The whole house is a true specimen of ancient inconvenience, of magnificence and 1ttleness: the rooms numerous, accessible by sixteen stair-cases, with most frequent sudden ascents and descents into the bargain; besides a long narrow gallery. The great hall is twenty-five paces long, by nine and a half broad, of a good height; has a gallery at one end, adorned with four vast crests, carved in wood, viz. a griffin and dolphin with the scallops, an uni

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corn, and an ox with a coronet round his neck. In front is a figure, in wood, of an armed man; two others, perhaps vassals, in short jackets and caps, a pouch pendant behind, and the mutilated remains of Priapus to each; one has wooden shoes. These seem the ludibrium aule in those gross days.'

As the concluding paragraph of the first part of this tour offers an useful hint, as well as much historical matter, we did not hesitate in marking it for quotation :

• Alston Moor, a mine, and market town, consists of a number of small houses covered with flags, built irregularly, and extending lengthways up the side of a hill. This manor had been at different times the property of the Veteriponts. In the reign of Henry V. of John de Clifford in that of his successor, of Thomas Whitlow, who granted it to William Stapleton and his wife. Mary, co heiress of that house, conveyed it to a second son of Sir Richard Musgrave of Hartley castle. It afterwards devolved to a Hilton, son of that Lady by a first husband. His descendants possessed it till the time of James 1. when Henry Hilton of Hilton, Esq. sold it to Francis Ratcliff baron of Dilston near Hexham in Northumberland, in whose house it continued till the attainder of the unfortunate James Earl of Derwentwater in 1715. The estates of that Nobleman in this county are extremely rich in lead-ore. It appears by the Moor-master's books, as related by Dr. Burn, that in three years, viz. 1766, 1767, and 1768, the mines produced sixty-one thousand eight hundred and thirty byngs of ore, which at the valuation of each byng, in those years, at 21. 158. cach, amounted to the vast eum of 170,0321. 10s. This, and the other estates of Lord Derwentwater, were, by Act of Parliament, in 1735, vested in Greenwich hospital, and bring in a vast revenue to that magnificent and useful foundation. time of the forfeiture they were supposed to amount to about seven At the thousand pounds a year; yet, by the contrivance or connivance of the Commissioners of the Forfeited Estates, were sold for the sum of 1060lt. The villainy of the transaction was detected, in 1732, by the sagacity and pains of Thomas Lord Gage, then in the House of Commons, who was honoured by the thanks of the House for his services. Two of the Members concerned as commissioners in this infamous affair, were expelled; and a third, who appeared to have been drawn into an irregularity only in the proceedings, received a reprimand from the Speaker in his place §. This ought to be an example to posterity, particularly to men in power, who may attempt, under specious pretences, the destruction of benefits intended for the public good, whether the foundation be recent or ancient; whether it be the alienation of Church Lands, or of those allotted for the support of the Poor. The securities are now good, the tenures firm. they should be disposed of for money, every day may produce inIf

*Ruff head's Statutes, vi. 317.'

Hist. and Proceedings of the House of Commons, vii. 154.'
Same, 240; and Lodge's Irish Peerage, iii. 300.'

Hist. &c. vii. 240.'

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stances of the loss sustained by the laying it out improperly for selfish ends. The same may happen in an exchange for other lands. A little recollection will remind us of the sums endangered to the Poor, by the laying out of money on the temporary mortgages of tolls of turnpikes. It cannot be doubted, that when Parliament takes into consideration the movements of the lesser wheels of government and policy, it will not neglect an inspection into these breaches of trust, and cause full justice to be executed on those who may have dared to abuse the most sacred of deposits.'

The second of these volumes continues the tour from AlstonMoor to Stanhope - Wolsingham - Bishop Aukland PabyCastle Bernard Castle-Egleston - Abbey (Yorkshire) - Wycliff-Ravensworth-Castle-Catarrick Bridge-Burniston - Cathorp - Hackfall - Norton-Coniers - Ripon — StudleyPark-Fountain's Abbey-Borough - Bridge - Aldborough Knaresborough-Harrowgate-Ripley-Brimham Crags. As an instance of strange revolutions in the use of places, we may give the account of the Oven at Raby-Castle which, with the Kitchen, remains a token of antient hospitality:

The oven was of dimensions suited to the hospitality of the pile ; higher than a tall person, for the tallest may stand upright in it, and I think its diameter must be fifteen feet. At present it is converted into a wine cellar; the sides are divided into ten parts, and each holds a hogshead of wine in bottles.

، The kitchen is a magnificent and lofty square; has three chimnies, one for the grate, a second for stoves, the third, now stopped up, was for the great cauldron : the top is arched, and a small cupola lights it in the center; but on the sides are five windows, with a gallery passing all round before them, and four steps from each pointing down towards the kitchen, but ending at a great height above the floor, and seem neatly ornamented. From the floor is another staircase that conducts to the great hall, but the passage is now stoptWhat hecatombs must have been carried that way!

Egleston-bridge, to say nothing of its neighbouring cataracts, is intitled, by its construction, to the traveller's notice :

The first of the wonders is Winch-Bridge, flung over the river from precipice to precipice, about two miles above Middleton, where the water falls in repeated cataracts. It is made of chains stretched from rock to rock, seventy feet in extent, over a chasm of sixty feet deep. The bridge is only two feet wide, with a hand rail on one side, and planked at the bottom. It is a common passage for strongheaded miners; but such is its tremendous motion, and such the awe of the dreadful gulph beneath, that few are the passengers: besides, I dare say, that the architect of this bridge never heard of that of Chooka, in the distant Bootan, flung across a river of the same name; stretched from buttress to buttress, founded on the rocks, and, in all respects, sonstructed with chains, and planked at bottom. Yet, in my Hin doostan II. tab. xiii. I can produce one not more wonderful than that REV. JUNE, 1804.

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of the consentaneous thought of a British bridge-builder, at thousands of miles distance.'

Studley-Park is mentioned as extremely deserving of a visit, not because it exhibits the improvements of the modern landscape gardener, but because it is a specimen of the old formal style, of which little now remains.

A long narrative is annexed respecting the foundation of Fountain's Abbey; which, if it commenced in sanctity of manners, became at last, like other picus institutions of a su perstitious age, the scene of irregularity and vice. The last Abbot is accused by Layton, in his Letter to Lord Cromwell, of keeping six whores; which Mr. Pennant charitably considers as an exaggerated charge: but it is severe enough, if only half of it be true.

With much good sense, Mr. Pennant resists the idea that Brimham Crags are druidical remains, and regards them rather as lusus nature, or the effect of chance.

The termination of this journey connects it with Mr. Pennant's Scots tour. The engravings, as usual, are taken from drawings executed by the author's skilful and favorite servant, Moses Griffith.

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CATALOGUE,

For JUNE, 1804.

ARTS.

Art. 15. The New Vitruvius Britannicus; consisting of Plans and
Elevations of Modern Buildings, public and private, erected in
Great Britain by the most celebrated Architects, engraved on 72
Plates, from original Drawings. By George Richardson, Archi-
tect. Folio. 51. 158. 6d. Boards. Taylor.

TH HE first seven Numbers of this publication were announced in our

33d Vol. p. 306. It is now completed, and has assumed a different title, corresponding with the author's intention that it should be viewed as a supplement to the Vitruvius Britannicus. We are gratified in the fulfilment of this design, and recommend the publication to all lovers and professors of the art, as worthy of their pa tronage and consultation. The engravings are numerous and well executed; and the requisite descriptions are given both in English and French.

For the reason before assigned, we feel ourselves unable to enter into any critical examination of these specimens of modern skill in architecture: but we shall endeavour to convey a general idea of the contents of this volume, by specifying the mansions which it delineates, and the names of the artists. They are as follow:

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