inclosed the heart of Sir Edward Bruce Lord Kinloss, killed in a duel with Sir Edward Sackville, afterwards Earl of Dorset, in the year 1613, and copied by Hone from a plate in the Archæologia, vol. xx. It is the same which is again mentioned in Mr. Ord's note at p. 252.

The other monastic houses which existed in Cleveland were Handale Priory, Grosmond, Middleborough, Mountgrace, and some minor cells and hermitages. The beauty of the country in which the first was placed is shown in the view which we are permitted to give in the accompanying Plate. "Its situation," says Mr. Órd, "is truly delightful and picturesque. The sea, only three miles distant, presents an incessant variety of pleasing spectacles. The profound seclusion of the woods and groves, the deep solitude and repose experienced in wandering along the lonely glens, forcibly carry back the mind to that remote period when

Their bells were heard at evening, swelling clear, [hill: By pilgrims wandering o'er the heath-clad Sweet Contemplation ever lingered near," &c.

Among the castles of the district were Mulgrave, the ancient seat of the Mauleys; Kilton, that of Thweng; Skelton, that of Bruce; Wilton, of Bulmer; Kildale, of Percy; Whorlton, of Meinell; and Danby, of the lords Latimer. Some fine remains exist of the Norman castle of Mulgrave; whilst a modern castle, built by the Duchess of Buckingham, a daughter of King James the Second, is the seat of the present Marquess of Normanby. Kilton is still an interesting building. Skelton was destroyed by Mr. Wharton, its modern lord, in the year 1788. Danby Castle "is a noble picturesque ruin, commanding the whole extent of Danby Dale." It is supposed to have been built in the reign of Edward I. by William le Latimer, who married Lucia daughter and heiress of Marmaduke de Thweng, and the arms of Thweng and Latimer* still remain on

* Mr. Ord says, "The arms of Latimer and de Ros, viz. three martlets and a cross flory;" but neither of these bearings belong to Ros. The fess between three popinjays (not martlets) is the coat of Thweng; and the cross flory that of Latimer.-In other places, we find Mr. GENT. MAG. VOL. XXVIII,

the walls. An ancient bridge also stands near the castle, a view of which appears in the accompanying engraving, with which we are favoured by the publisher. "A tradition runs in the vale that this bridge, Castleton Bridge, and Dale-end (since destroyed) were built by three sisters, probably Lucy, Margaret, and Catharine de Thweng, daughters of Marmaduke de Thweng, brother and heir male to Robert, whose daughter married William le Latimer." The extraordinary high pitch of the arch of this bridge reminds us of the triangular bridge at Croyland, which our architectural critics have assigned to the fourteenth century.

We are not aware, however, that any certain data have been discovered for judging of the age of bridges; but if the rude carving of the arms of Neville (shown in the cut), which our author says "forms the keystone" of this bridge, be part of its original structure, it would not be older than the time when John lord Neville became lord of Danby, in right of his wife the heiress of Latimer, which was in the reign of Richard II.

Mr. Ord has many eminent families to boast among the denizens of Cleveland; and his pedigrees, which are more than forty in number,-including Allan of Blackwall Grange, co. Durham (a very copious sheet pedigree), Bulmer of Wilton, Bruce of Skelton, Cary lord Hunsdon, Chaloner, Conyers, Dundas, Everingham, Foulis, Hale,†

Ord tripping in his heraldry, as in pp. 173, 211, a lion rampart; p. 342, "three lion's heads arrested"-we presume erased; p. 449, "a semi of crosslets," for Azure, semée of crosslets, and "three bars gemel, on a chief or;" besides omissions of tinctures, chief, or," for "three bars gemelles and a as in p. 505. No topographer can be a master of his subject who neglects heraldry.

It appears that Mrs. Anne Smelt, the second of the twenty-one children of General Hale, is still living, or was in 1839, when she thus wrote to Mr. Thomas Small, of Gisborough. "With regard to my father's being aide-de-camp to General Wolfe, I think you are incorrect; for Wolfe's words were, after receiving his mortal wound, 'I am aware that it is the aide-de-camp's privilege to carry the despatches home; but I beg, as a favour, to request that my old friend, Colonel Hale, may have that honour.' Also, General Hale's portrait is not inserted in that

eprint of Wolfe's death; and why?

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Ingram, Lowther, Mauley, Mauleverer, Meynell, Pennyman, Percy of Kildale (a branch of the Earls of Northumberland), Sheffield, Stapleton of Myton, Strangwayes, Turner of Kirkleatham, Thweng, and Wharton,-wear the aspect of full and complete information. They are, however, open to some criticism, which a little more research might perhaps have prevented.

How is it, for example, that he introduces the pedigree of Lee of Pinchinthorp with an assurance that it "is drawn up with great care from various authentic documents," but follows it with a note mentioning that he cannot find any sufficient authority for the statement that this family is descended from archbishop Lee, although the name of the archbishop is placed in the pedigree. (We, of course, understand the word "descended" in its popular but not very accurate sense,

namely, that the archbishop was one of the family, though not a lineal progenitor.) As for the family of James Lee, Earl of Marlborough (misprinted "Malbeny" in Mr. Ord's p. 242), who was also claimed as a kinsman by one of the Lees of Pinchinthorp, it appears to have been a distinct race, his father having lived at Teffont Evias in Wiltshire, and his remoter ancestors in Devonshire.

In the pedigree of the lords of Danby, p. 330, Leo Lord Welles is inadvertently made a son of William Lord Willoughby. In p. 331 Baldwin Tentoneous otherwise Tyas, is a misprint for Teutonicus.

Again, the pedigree of Lowther, though "revised and corrected by the living representative of the family," is a manifest forgery for the first twelve or fifteen generations, which are sketched forth in this manner :

This kind of imaginary tree, which was in fashion in the seventeenth century, might perhaps at first be intended only as a skeleton form, as lawyers use the names of John Doe and Richard Roe; but after the heralds had begun the practice of making such long rolls, they were evidently expected to furnish them of the fashionable dimensions, in every case, and such were naturally accepted in willing confidence by the parties concerned, whose ignorant credulity required only the ipse dixit of the professional fabricator and the testatur of his superior King of Arms. The modern practice of the Heralds' College

Because he would not give the printer the monstrous sum of 1007. which he demanded as the price of placing on a piece of paper what his own country knew very well, viz. that he, General Hale, fought in the hottest of the battle of Quebec,

whether the printer thought fit to record it or not." This anecdote, whether true or not, will raise a smile in the reader: "the printer," we suppose, was Alderman Boydell; the painter, as is well known, was Benjamin West.

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is very different, for we believe no attestation is allowed unless preceded by a critical examination. It is certain that there are few ancient pedigrees that should pass current with a modern genealogist, if unsupported by documentary evidence; least of all one of these roll pedigrees; and their mendacity is generally very easily detected, for the names introduced are seldom those of families that flourished during the centuries in which they are placed.

Mr. Ord has, however, shown himself possessed of the discrimination of an intelligent antiquary, where he has given himself time, and has dissipated some of the reveries of his antiquarian predecessors as in p. 243, where Whitby attributed the etymology of Commondale to Colman, the venerable bishop of Northumbria, Mr. Ord judiciously remarks it is very improbable, as the place appears in Domesday book under the orthography of Camisedale; that Freeburgh, which John Cade, esq. F.R.S. styled "one of the greatest Celtic remains Britain can glory in," is not a greater Silbury, but a natural sandstone formation (p. 266);

and that the inscription on the Wainstones, which Mr. Graves thought so important as to place it on his engraved title-page, was the idle inscription of an enamoured rustic, "wooing T. D." in the year 1712! With respect to a brass monument of a companion of the conqueror, Sir Lewis Goulton (in p. 455), Mr. Ord is as credulous as his predecessor.

In two places Mr. Ord has allowed himself to be very readily baffled. The first is at p. 44, where is this note on the words "prioratum Hagustaldensem:"

"I have no means of discovering what town is here meant, but suppose it may be Ripon ;"

an oversight the more extraordinary as only twelve pages before is enumerated, among the principal cities of the kingdom of Northumbria, "Hexham, or Hagulstadt."

The other is at p. 535, where he

says,

"The following passage in Dallaway's Architecture, p. 338, has somewhat puzzled us: By Edward IV. a tower and large court of apartments were added to Nottingham castle; and his brother Richard augmented Warwick and Middleburg in Yorkshire.'"

There are twenty authors, less blundering than Dallaway, that would have told him that Richard's favourite castle was Middleham. Mr. Ord has himself a similar misprint in p. 53, Croydon for Croyland.

Mr. Ord's powers of local description are generally effective. His pictures of manners and customs are interesting; as for instance his account of the fisheries of Staithes, which closely agrees with that given by Sir Cuthbert Sharp of the fishermen of Hartlepool, though written without previous reference to it.

In p. 228, among other agreeable anecdotes of "the olden time" in Gisborough, are some relating to certain Dutch regiments, who were quartered in the town in 1745, during the absence of the English troops in Scotland. Many of the officers resided in

Mr. Chaloner's old hall, and afterwards sent him as many Dutch tiles as covered all his roofs [but qu. were Dutch tiles made for that purpose?] Others lodged with Cholmley Turner, esq. at Kirkleatham, and one of them, Colonel Straubenzie, eloped with that gentleman's daughter (p. 228). He is called in the deeds of Kirkleatham's hospital, "Philippus Willem Casimer Van Straubenzie" (p. 369). This is remarkable, as the origin (in England) of a family still resident here, and which, if we mistake not, has been latterly well known on the turf.

His pages acquire further interest from being interspersed with several interesting biographical notices, particularly of literary men, among whom are Charles Bissett, M.D., John Hall Stevenson, esq. Zachary Moore, (the present) Lord Normanby, William Bowyer the elder, father of the learned printer, the Rev. James Holme, a Yorkshire

poet, the illustrious Brian Walton, Dr. Conyers Middleton, &c. whilst reminiscences of James Cook, the circumnavigator, the great name among the natives of this district, are renewed upon several local occasions.

mised his task by referring to his preIn some places Mr. Ord has econodecessor Graves for what a history of Cleveland might be expected to contain, as for the pedigree of Trotter, p. 258; but to this we make no objection, Graves's History not being a scarce book. Perhaps he has elsewhere been too ready to indulge in trifling anecdotes and reflections, which, however amusing to the general reader, occupy valuable space, and detract somewhat from the dignity of his work. On the whole we think his original error was that he assumed the work of Graves as his model, when he ought rather to have followed in the wake of Surtees, Whitaker, and Hunter; but it will be allowed on all hands that he has far excelled his own prototype, and accomplished a work which, if not immaculate, will be very useful to the inhabitants of Cleveland, and is also an acceptable addition to our English topography.

A Hand-book round Jerusalem, or Companion to the Model, by the Rev. John Blackburn, M.A. Incumbent of Attercliffe.-Mr. Blackburn visited Jerusalem a few years ago, and from that time he has taken the liveliest interest in every point connected with its ancient remains and traditionary history. This has been fostered by the accidental circumstance of an ingenious artist, Mr. Edwin Smith, of Sheffield, having undertaken to form a model of the city for the use of the schools at Attercliffe, a work which has been attended with such success, and is now brought to such perfection, that Mr. Blackburn is enabled to recommend other copies of the same model to the public at large. This is at once a just reward to the perseverance of the artist, and cannot fail to advance the instruction and gratification of such as may avail themselves of his work inasmuch as a model is necessarily more adapted to convey information than the flat surface of a map. The model is made in two sizes, one 18 inches to a mile, and the other 9 inches to a mile. The present descriptive explanation has been compiled with such care, and is so full of particulars, that it may well serve for the traveller's guide in the holy city itself. The spots designated by either the real or the legendary traditions of history are faithfully identified, at the same time without either repelling the reader's faith or encroaching upon his credulity; for, as the author well remarks, some of them are universally acknowledged, and can never fail to be recognised; others are open to dispute; and others again are too absurd to be respected."— A model of Jerusalem, restored to its ancient magnificence, the work of M. Brunetti, is now on view at the Egyptian hall in Piccadilly, and a visit to it cannot fail to enhance the interest of Mr. Blackburn's production.

Pagan and Popish Priestcraft identified and exposed, &c. By the Rev. R. Taylor. -This work contains a great deal of valuable information in a small compass, and may be read with advantage and interest. The author in his Preface has given a brief epitome of his plan. He has shown how Satan's resistance to the truth of revelation was shown by Cain's depravity; how it prevailed through the instrumentality of Ham and his wicked posterity; how the heathen priestcraft made void the divine law, as epitomised in the Decalogue; how philosophy, falsely so called, insinuated itself into the Church of Christ, and displaced the Christian precepts; and how what has been called the Christian Father era of the third century caressed its se

ducing form in that spirit of conciliation which led the way to all the great truths being finally amalgamated with the false notions of heathenism. He traces these workings of the mystery of iniquity from the third through the fourth to the fifth century, when those notions of proleptic Popery prevailed which with us at the present day have received the name of Tractarianism. He has demonstrated how the old heathen idolatry crept on, serpent-like, in a vain love of splendid buildings and glittering ornaments, till men believed there was a divinity in these; how such men as St. Cyril, a greater authority with some of our Tractarians than St. Paul, abused the sacraments, teaching that the flesh is renewed in this present life, instead of the "vile body" remaining vile till the general resurrection; and then bringing in the worship of relics, prayers to and for the dead, saint worship, in the place of worshipping the old Pagan deities, and all Satan's other counterfeits of the Christian Church, with all their abominations, till finally the great Papal idol, the transubstantiated wafer, was erected, and Popery stood forth in all the fascinating, seducing pageantry and soul-destroying sensuality of the eastern Baalism, and the dreadful potency of cruelty and terror of the western Druidism.

The Champion of the Cross; an Allegory. By the Rev. J. S. Tate.- This poem is said to be an allegory, written to exemplify the interior life of a Christian." There are two characters introduced: one the perfect man, who has never fallen away, and whose end is therefore peaceful; the other who has fallen and is restored, and whose end is martyrdom. The author says-" Nor does it seem wrong to assign to the more perfect character a peaceful end when we reflect upon the latter days of St. John, while St. Peter's end is martyrdom." It is divided into seven cantos, The versification is smooth and the imagery pleasing, but the whole is rather too mystical for our taste, and some of the expressions are such as a correct taste would not approve, as-

-round his face, In sweet unutterable grace, Heaven hovered. And sometimes the rhymes are defective,

as

To quail and bow before that storm,
Filled with terror and alarm.

And sometimes the expression is weaker than is required, as

Alas! the enemy comes on,
And he is nearly now undone.

But, in justice to the author, we must say that there are several passages showing a pleasing selection of imagery and elegance of description, as

Calmly and slowly through the sky
The evening clouds came floating by,
Tinged by the setting sun's red beam;
While gently glides the crystal stream
To the deep murm'ring ocean. Stars
Light their pale lamps, and drive their cars
Through the dark vault of heaven; the
moon,-

Fair empress of the midnight noon,-
Comes forth in all her glory,-pale,
Yet beautiful; while on each sail
That slowly glides along the sea,
Rising and falling heavily,

She pours her placid light. Each wave,
Which then, with rolling deep and grave,
Comes slowly on, drinks of her light,
And, for a moment sparkling bright,
Adds lustre to the calm still night.

By

Sermons on the Seen and Unseen. Rev. E. Caswall, A.M.-It would be unreasonable to expect novelty of remark, or ingenuity of argument, in the exposition of the main and leading doctrines of Scripture which form the subjects of all practical discourses. One writer may excel another in happiness of illustration, in elegance of arrangement, and in clearness and propriety of style; but, generally speaking, there can be no other very discrimi nating marks between them. To be plain, perspicuous, and in earnest, is what we require in discourses from the pulpit, and to this praise the author of the present work is justly entitled. The two sermons on Angelic Ministrations and Satanic Influences, are a little more removed from the ordinary topics we meet with, especially the former, and may be read with pleasure and improvement. The following passage shows the author's style and manner :"Commence (your repentance) at once. Learn to be temperate, to be gentle, to be charitable, to be self-denying. Humble yourself before those who despise you. Submit to your superiors with a willing mind. Be strictly honest and honourable in all your dealings. Assist those who have injured you, be even earnest in assisting them. Make an abundant restitution to all whom you have yourself injured in any way. Open your hand liberally to supply the necessities of others. Assist the fatherless and widows in their affliction. Keep yourself unspotted from the world. Be diligent in your prayers. Be earnest if you have a household in commencing at once family worship morning and evening. Speak truth with your neighbour in the smallest trifle. Govern

the words of your lips and thoughts of your heart. Throw up your idle companions, your vain occupations, your needless extravagances. Attend with regularity the services of the church. Keep holy the Sundays, the festivals, the fast-days," &c.

The Castle of Ehrenstein; a Romance. By G. P. R. James, Esq. 3 vols.—This is of a different character from Mr. James's other writings, and has a more decided claim to the title of a romance. He has penetrated more deeply into the regions of the marvellous, and has employed in the working-out of his story what appears at first sight to be supernatural influences, but which, as the tale proceeds, resolve themselves into a very ingeniously contrived system of delusion, employed by some of the chief actors in the story in order to effect a particular object. But, independently of this machinery, the work is one of great interest, and displays rather more than usual of the author's power of describing stirring and eventful scenes and incidents, as well as the more quiet details of domestic life. It is this capability of contrasting the stillness and excitement of human life which constitutes one of Mr. James's chief qualifications as a writer of fiction, and throws the charm of perpetual variety over his works.

Home Influences; a Tale for Mothers and Daughters. By Grace Aquilar. 2 vols.-We are not quite of that class of persons for whose improvement and in. struction these tales are intended; perhaps we are not of the proper sex, and therefore we may be wrong in thinking that some parts might be abridged, and some few omitted, with advantage; but it is very probable that younger people will feel interested in these minutiae and details, which we can hardly enjoy, and feel the application of history and moral which have little influence on our more aged bosoms. However that may be, the work is one that contains much important instruction in the pleasing vehicle of fictitious history. The characters are cleverly drawn, and well contrasted, and the whole story of Ellen and her suffering is painted with such a very vigorous pencil and such power that it kept us throughout in the most painful interest for the final catastrophe. We recommend the author to proceed in her work, so well commenced; and, as she watches the various movements and feelings of the youthful mind, as she estimates the powers of resistance and the liability to failure, as she sees the force of habit and the influence of example, she will be able to observe from whatever quarter danger may arise, and to