created duke of York and bishop of Osnaburg in 1760; died young and unmarried, 1767.

Frederick, second son of George III., was created bishop of Osnaburg; but died 1827, though married, without issue. And these three are the only instances of an English Prince having borne this title.

By way of conclusion to this chapter, we will remind the reader of bishop Cosin's conduct. 'He," says Dugdale, "shortly after his consecration to Durham, taking notice that the greatest part of the materials made use of in that building,"—the castle, as erected by sir Arthur Haslerigg, the rebel,

were what were taken for the purpose from the consecrated chapel, not only refused to make use of it for his habitation, though it was most commodiously contrived, and nobly built, but took it wholly down, and with the stone thereof built another beautiful chapel on the north side of that great court."

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CONCLUSION.

WE thus close the additions which we have thought desirable to make to sir Henry Spelman's History of Sacrilege. They might have been indefinitely increased; but we were afraid of wearying the patience of the reader, and of swelling the book to an inconvenient size. Enough, we think, has been said to convince those who are capable of conviction; more examples to the same end to them would be useless, and to others superfluous.

We have reserved for the following Appendices a systematised view of the fate of those Abbey-sites of which we have been able to learn the history; and we trust that the Tables, which we are about to present, will not be without their use. They, as well as what we have hitherto written, will confirm the words of good king Wihtred in the Council* of Beccancelde. "It is a horrible thing for men to rob the living GOD, and to divide His portion and raiment among themselves."

* LANDON'S Manual of Councils, p. 76.

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Name.

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Grantee.

Hyde, Benedictine Abbey, Hants; Bethell, Richard.
value £865

Fate.

Of him we can learn nothing, either from books or from inquiries at Winchester. At all events, his family never took root in the county. The end of this family is deplorable; George Samuel Montague, last lineal descendant of sir Antony Browne, in the direct line, determined, in company with Sedley Burdett, (also the representative of a family involved in Sacrilege,) to pass the falls of Schaffhausen. Eluding the vigilance of the magistrates, who placed guards to prevent the attempt, and extricating himself by force from the grasp of a faithful servant, he pushed off in a flatbottomed boat. The adventurers passed the first fall safely; they went down the second, and were never more heard of. In that same year, Cowdray House, the magnificent mansion of the Montagues.-fro-r892.

Abeya

Ramsey, Benedictine Abbey, Hunts; } Cromwell, sir Richard......

value £1983

{

ance

Extinct in the direct male line, 1692. Abey
of barony determined in favour of Hugh
Fortescue, esq., 1721; he died without issue,
and the barony passed to his sister Margaret,
who died unmarried. Among other possessors
of the abbey was Adrian Scrope, the regicide,
beheaded at the Restoration.

In Appendix II. we have related at length the
miserable fate of his sons, and the extinction
of the family in the male line.

His co-grantee was Richard Stansfield; of them
we can learn nothing.

Both lines of Cromwells were deeply involved
in Sacrilege; both miserable. Sir Richard
Williams, grantee of Ramsey, who assumed
his wife's name, she being sister to Thomas
Cromwell, must have had estates from the
Dissolution producing an annual income of
£80,000 or £90,000, present value. And

yet his grandson, Robert, father of Oliver
Cromwell, was in reduced circumstances.1

Family extinct in the fourth generation.

Family extinct in the third generation. Of a
collateral branch, we believe, was sir William
Denny of Gillingham, bart., who died in
great indigence, 1642, and was the last of his
family.

Died childless.

Fate.