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rage: uninfluenced by selfish views, he ever firmly persevered in the path of duty. His piety was sincere, and without ostentation, his benevolence diffusive, active, unwearied. What wonder that one in whom so many great and amiable qualities were united, whilst living should be revered, and when dead, be regretted as a public loss! He departed this life, Jan. 18, 1805, in the 75th year of his age.' "Mr. Wilkinson published only one Sermon: a plain, unaffected, interesting discourse, delivered in St. Paul's Church, on the day when first the Infirmary, that noble monument of the liberality of the passing generation of inhabitants of Shef

field and its vicinity, was opened for the reception of patients. He entered not into religious controversies; but in theology, be was of the school of Clarke, Balguy, and the rational divines of the former

half of the last century.

"The inhabitants of Sheffield, who had

benefited so largely by his public and private services, were not unmindful of what was due to the memory of Mr. Wilkinson. There was one day of public mourning: an. engraving was executed from the portrait which had been painted some years before by desire of the Company of Cutlers, and hung in their Hall: the hand of Chantrey, as we have seen, was called to give his features to marble for a monument to be erected at the public expense in the parish church: and impressed upon a medallion in copper, the features of his countenance will be perused by far distant generations. The good should be had in everlasting remembrance."

The sepulchral chapel of the Talbot family is next described. It was founded by George, the fourth Earl of Shrewsbury, temp. Hen. VIII. A general view is given of the Chapel.

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"The monument of the founder is an altar tomb with spiral columns at the four corners, and upon it cumbent effigies of the Earl and bis two Countesses. stands in a recess beneath the arch, and three of its sides are concealed by the wainscot and the upright shafts which support the arch. The side exposed to view presents three rose compartments, and in the centre of each a shield of arms in

brass. That in the centre contained the six principal quarterings of the Earl, viz. Montgomery, Talbot, Nevil, Furnival,

Verdon, and Strange. That on the dexter the same, impaling Hastings, and that on the sinister the same, impaling Walden. The tomb has been robbed of the last. The effigies are in marble, and in the best style of the age: the work it is probable of some Italian artist, whose name I once hoped to have recovered from some notice

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of him in the Talbot papers. The Earl is represented with his coronet and in the robes of the order of the Garter, his feet resting on a talbot, and his hands joined as in prayer. There is a character given to the countenance which leaves no room to doubt that it is intended to be a portrait. Ou a close vest beneath his robe are embroidered the six principal quarterings of his house. On the dress of the two ladies who lie beside him are also heraldic devices. Their hands are joined as in prayer, and at their feet are angels supporting plain shields."

An exquisite delicate etching of these elegant figures, by Blore, illustrates this description.

Between the Shrewsbury chapel and the vestry is the Communiontable, with a painting of the Last Supper, by Nathaniel Tucker, an artist who resided at Sheffield, and left portraits of the principal inhabitants between 1765 and 1780.

The modern churches of St. Paul and St. James are next noticed.

The different societies of Dissenters

form the subject of the 10th Chapter. Among the dissenting ministers, Mr. Timothy Jollie is conspicuous, "a man," says Dr. Grosvenor, (who studied under him)" of an excellent spirit, of great spirituality, and sweetness of temper. He kept an academy, from which issued some of the most useful and popular ministers among the Dissenters, in the earlier part of the 18th century. He had also under his care three men who attained eminence of another kind: Saunderson, the blind professor; Bowes, the Irish Chancellor; and Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury. An interesting memoir of the Archbishop is here given; and twelve of his letters written in early life.

Under the head of" The Grammar School," our limits will only permit us to notice that memoirs are to be found of the Rev. John Balguy, father of Dr. T. Balguy, the Archdeacon, and who declined a Bishopric; of the Rev. Charles Daubuz; the Rev. Christopher Robinson; the Rev. Joshua Bayes; John Roebuck, M.D. of Birmingham; the Rev. James Cawthorn, master of Tunbridge Grammar School; and the Rev. Ebenezer Radcliffe.

The 12th and last Chapter contains an account of the Charitable Institutions and Foundations. St. Leonard's Hospital, the old Alms Houses, the

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Town Trust, the Hospital of Gilbert Earl of Shrewsbury, and Hollis's Hos pital and Schools, are all described.

The other charitable institutions which do honour to this populous town, may be thus briefly enumerated: The Boys' Charity SchoolThe Free Writing School, and Birley's Charity-Barlow's Charity-Sitwell's Charity-Parkin's Charity-Kirkby's Charity-Sunday Schools-The Girls' Charity School-The General Infirmary-Hanby's Charity- Hudson's Charity-Sick Clubs, and the Female Benefit Society-Society for bettering the Condition of the Poor-Society for superseding Climbing Boys-Laucasterian School-National District Society's Schools-Parsons's Charity -and the Humane Society.-All these are fully noticed.

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The Topographical Survey of the Parish of Sheffield" embraces the history of the six following townships, arranged according to the proximity of situation: The township of Sheffield; Ecclesall-Byerlow, Upper Hallam, Nether-Hallam, BrightsideByerlow, and Attercliffe-cum-Darnall. In the township of Sheffield is an account, with two views, of the remains of Sheffield Manor.

"There is nothing in the ruins of Sheffield-manour which, as a single object, presents a fine subject for the pencil, and, as a whole, the ruin is less picturesque than it was fifty years ago, when the twin towers were both standing. Its interest as a building arises not from the beauty of minute portions, but from the extent of the whole. Of the present state and appearance of the ruins the engravings here given from faithful and beautiful drawings will long preserve the memory, when the ruins themselves shall have perished but no pencil, no pen could do justice to the magnificent panorama of distant scenery which spreads around the site of this edifice. The founder, while he took care to screen it from the winds by close and thick plantations up to its very gates, placed it on the highest point in the park. The fir-crowned heights of Norton, the sweet vale of Beauchief, the purple moor of Totley, and the barren bills of the Peak, the thick woods of Wharn cliffe and Wentworth, the widening vale of the Don, and the hills of Laughton and Hansworth, each distinguishable by its spire, are all comprehended within the view from this elevation. The manour itself, its towers and battlements appear ing above the thick woods in which it was embosomed, must have once formed a proGENT. MAG. May, 1821.

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minent and striking object in the scenery from many points of the surrounding country."

At the manor the principal agent of the Norfolk family resided till 1706. "An old half-timbered house in the Ponds was undoubtedly an appendage to the Castle. Tradition says it was the Laundry. It is called, in an inventory of the time of Elizabeth, The Hawle at the Poandes'." Of this curious old mansion there is a very neat wood-cut by Mr. Hughes, from a drawing by Mr. Blore; which we are thankful to the author for being allowed to lay before our readers. (See Plate II.)

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The old Gaol (a particular description of which was given in our Magazine for 1801, p. 300), has been lately taken down.

In page 194, the Town Hall and various other public buildings are de scribed; and a List is given of the Master Cutlers.

Under the township of EcclesallByerlow, are accounts of the antient family of Ecclesall, and the great family of Scrope; as also an account, with a pedigree, of the respectable family of Strelley of Beauchief Abbey, and of their Representatives, the Pegge's of Beauchief.

"We have in this family an instance which by some has been supposed rare, of the direct descendants of the original grantee possessing and residing upon the abbey lands granted to their ancestor. What, indeed, could tempt the family to forsake a residence circumstanced so agreeably in every respect as Beauchief? Not to be last enumerated among the advantages of this choice spot is the preservation of so many records of the monastic establishment in its days of prosperity, and that there has arisen among the family of its modern owners an antiquary who has known how to make a judicious use of the materials for its history. The late Dr. Samuel Pegge, rector of Whittington, was descended of Humphry Pegge of Osmaston, who was cousin german to Edward Pegge who married the heiress of Beauchief. But through his mother he had a nearer connexion with the house whose history he has so well described. She was a daughter of Francis Stevenson of Unstone by Gertrude his wife, the daughter of Edward Pegge of Beauchief esquire, and Gertrude Strelley.

The Reader may find a very pleasing description of the sequestered and beautiful scenery around Beauchief in a work entitled Peak Scenery,' by Mr. Rhodes

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of Sheffield, a gentleman who in the midst of his commercial pursuits, and an active engagement in any scheme which has for its object the benefit of his place of residence, has found time to cultivate a taste for the beauties of nature and of art, which is combined with powers of description of no ordinary kind. We have had many engravings of the remains of Beauchief, and there is one in the work here referred to which will have a permanent value as being from the pencil of Chantrey,"

Broom Hall introduces a full account of the highly respectable family of Jessop; several of whom were of literary eminence; and that spirit still lives in its present representatives. "The name of Sir William Gell is deservedly held in the highest respect by the lovers of the remains of classical times; and Mr. Marmaduke Lawson, the eldest son of the Rev. Mr. Lawson, of Magdalen College, Cambridge, where he was admitted A.B. in February, 1816, obtained in 1812 one of Sir William Browne's medals for the best Latin ode, and in 1816 one of the Chancellor's medals for the best classical exercises. In 1814 he was elected the first Pitt scholar. At the general election of 1818, Mr. Lawson was returned Member of Parliament for Boroughbridge."

The Out-Parts of Hallamshire consist of the parishes of Ecclesfield, Hansworth, Treeton, and Whiston, and the Chapelry of Bradfield. All these places is satisfactorily described; with accounts and pedigrees of the numerous families connected with them.

We trust our full approbation of the able manner in which Mr. Hunter has executed his task, has been already sufficiently evinced by the ample account we have given of his Work.

64. Account of a Tour in Normandy; undertaken chiefly for the purpose of investigating the Architectural Antiquities of the Duchy, with Observations on its History, on the Country, and on its Inhabitants. Illustrated with numerous Engravings; 2 vols. Royal Svo, pp. 240, and 314. Arch.

VERY rarely do we find united in one person the extent of science, the solid learning, and at the same time the extreme diffidence, which appear throughout these entertaining Volumes. Mr. Dawson Turner has long been distinguished as an Amateur Col lector; and as a liberal patron of the Polite Arts; but his accurate knowledge of Architectural Antiquity, and

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his intimate acquaintance with the principles of Political Economy, are here first publicly developed.

The connexion which for some ages subsisted between Normandy and our own country is well known; and is demonstrated by the similarity of manners which even to this day is visible. An account, therefore, of that extensive Province from so judicious an observer, cannot fail of being a valuable acquisition to English Literature.

Mr. Turner shall introduce himself:

"The observations which form the basis

of the following Letters, were collected during three successive tours in Normandy,

in the summers of 1815, 1818, and 1819; but chiefly in the second of these years. Where I have not depended upon my own remarks, I have endeavoured, as far as appeared practicable and without tedious minuteness, to quote my authorities for facts; and I believe that I have done so in most instances, except indeed where I have borrowed from the journals of the companions of my tours,—the nearest and dearest of my connections,-or from that of my friend, Mr. Cohen, who, at almost the same time, travelled through a great part of Normandy, pursuing also very si milar objects of inquiry. The materials obtained from these sources, it has been impossible to separate from my own; and, interwoven as they are with the rest of the text, it is only in my power to acknowledge, in these general terms, the assistance which I have thus received."

The descriptions given by Mr. Turner of the several Cathedrals and Churches which he visited are not only satisfactory to the professed Artist, but from the elegant simpli city of the language, are equally pleas ing to the general Reader.

That our Author can also agreeably descend to ordinary life, may be exemplified by the following extract:

The first approach to Dieppe is extremely striking. To embark in the evening at Brighton, sleep soundly in the packet, and find yourself, as is commonly the case, early the next morning under the piers of this town, is a transition, which, to a person unused to foreign countries, can scarcely fail to appear otherwise than as a dream; so marked and so entire is the difference between the air of elegance and mutual resemblance in the buildings, of smartness approaching to splendor in of the activity of commerce in the movethe equipages, of fashion in the costume,

ments, and of newness and neatness in every part of the one, contrasted in the other with a strong character of poverty and neglect, with houses as various ju

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