This venerable ftructure is fituated on the Southern extremity of the town, and the church-vard is bounded on the Eaftern fide by the river Avon, on the ban's of which are fome fine e'ms; thefe have a pleafing effect, yet they obftruct a difiant view of the building. This Church, which was formerly.collegiate, is dedicated to the Holy Trinity; it is fpacious and handfome, its length being from Eat to Welt 197 feet. The Nave is fupported on each fide by fix 'hexagonal pillars, terminated by pointed arches. The Chancel, which is of later date than the other part of the building, is light and elegant. On the North fide the Chancel was the Crypt, or Charnel-house, filled with human bones; this building was taken down in 1800, and the bones covered with earth. Within the church are many monumental memorials worthy of notice; but here I fhall confine myfelf to thofe which relate to Shakspeare, as being more immediately connected with the prefent fubject. Agsinth the North wall of the Chancel is an humble monument erected to the memory of the greatest Dramatic Poet the world ever produced, The Poet is reprefented with a cushion before him, a pen in his right hand, and his left refting on a feroll. This butt is fixed under an arch between two Corinthian columns, fupporting the entablature, above which are his arms, furmounted by a Death's head. On each fide the arms afmall figure, each in a fitting pofture, one holding in his left hand a fpade; the other with an inverted torch in his left hand, and in his right hand a fcull. The buft of Shakspeare was formerly coloured to refemble life; but. in 1798, at the request of Mr. Malone, it was judicioutly cleaned, and coloured white. The forehead is full and lofty, the crown of the head bald, the nofe inclining to aquiline, the beard pointed; at firft fight there feems a difproportion in the upper lip; this may be occafioned by the muftaches, or whiskers, for if taken in profile it is a very regular and expreffive countenance. The dre's a doublet, over that a loose gown without fleeves. GENT. MAG. July, 1807. OF stone is "HERE LYETH INTERRED, THE BODYE ANNE, WIFE OF. MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, WHO DEPTED THIS LIFE THE 6TH DAY OF AUGUST, 1623, BLING OF THE AGE OF 67 YEARS. Vbera,tu mater, tu lac vitamq; dedifti, Væ mihi; pro tanto munere Saxa dabo! Quam mallem, amoueat lapidem, bonus Angel' ore' Exeat at Chrifti Corpus, imago tua. Sed nil vota valent, venias cito Chrifte refurget, [peter." Claufa licet tumulo mater, et aftra On a flat ftone. Arms-three talbots heads erafed, impaling Shakspeare: On another stone: Arms, per pale, baron and femme quarterly, Ift and 4th a chevron, between three eagle's heads, erafed; 2nd and 3d a Buck's head cabolled, furmounted by a crofs patée, in the mouth an arrow; 2nd Hall, quartering Shakspeare; "HEERE RESTETH Y'E BODY OF THOMAS NASHE, ESQ. HE MAR'. ELIZABETH, THE DAUG. AND HEIRE OF JOHN HALL, GENT. HE DIED APRIL 4th A. 1047, AGED 53." "Fata manent omnes; hunc non virtute carentem Vt neque divitiis, abftulit atra dies; Abftulit; at referet lux ultima; fifte viator, Si peritura paras, per male parta peris." On another fione. Arms-On a lozenge, Hall; impaling Shakspeare: "HEERE LYETHY'E BODY OF SUSANNA, WIFE TO JOHN HALL, GENT. Ye DAVGHTER OP WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, GENT. SHE DECEASED Y 11TH OF JULY, A° 1649, AGED 66." This is all that now remains respect ing Shakspeare's daughter. I was informed, that the Epitaph was purpofely obliterated; and the Infeription for a Richard Watts, a perfon no way related to the Shaktpeare family, placed on the ftone. Dugdale has given the Epitaph as under. Witty above her fexe, but that's not all; Wife to Salvation, was good Miftrefs Hall. Something of Shakspeare was in that, but this [bliffe. Wholy of him with whom fhe's now in Then, Paffenger, haft ne're a teare, To weepe with her that wept with all ? That wept, yet fet herfelfe to chere Them up with comforts cordiall Her Love fhall live, her mercy spread When thou haft ne're a teare to fhed." The e, Mr. Urban, are all the memoria's of the family of SHAKSPEARE, is the Church of Stratford-upon-Avon and as I tranieribed them on the foot, I can, with confidence, vouch for their anpuracy. Yours, &c. D. PARKES. to Pembroke Hall, and was there made Fellow January 6, 1630; and in or about 1635 was appointed Chaplain to Bishop Wren. He was one of the University Preachers in 1641, and was fome time after one of the Proctors of the University. In 1644 (being then Bachelor in Divinity) he was ejected from his fellowship for not taking the Covenant. After this he retired and lived privately among his friends, and particularly with Sir Robert Shiry in Leicefierfhire, where he became acquainted with Dr. Sheldon, who was afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury. He had afterwards a private congregation in Lucoln, where he used to offielate according to the Liturgy of the Church of England; this had like to have produced him much trouble, bat it being found that he had refused a confiderable furm of money offered him by his congregation, he came off fafe. On the Reftoration he returned to Cambridge, and was reinfiated in his fellowfhip, and was prefented by the Crown Augufi ft, 1660, on the death of Dr. Newell, to the Prebend of Clifton in Lincoln Cathedral, to which he was inftalled Auguft 23, 1660: and then refiguing it, he was alfo on the fame day iuftalled to the fub-deanery of the fame church, which he refigned in 1671; and about the fame time he became Rector of Clayworth in Nottinghamfhire, which living he afterwards exchanged for the vicarage of Soham in Cambridgeshire. In 1661 he refigned his fellowship, and about that time was invited by Archbishop Sheldon to be Chaplain to the Duchefs of York, then fuppofed to be inclining to Popery, and in want of a perfon of Dr. Mapletoft's primitive ftamp to keep her fieady to her religion; but he could not be prevailed on to accept the appointment. In 1664 he was elected Master of Pembroke Hall, and became Doctor in Divinity, and was by the King Anguli 7, 1667, promoted to the Deanery of Eir. He ferved the office of Vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge in 1671, and died at Pembroke Hall Auguft 20, 1077. His remains, according to his own defire, we e depotired in a vault in the chapel of that college, near the body of Bishop Vren the founder of it, his honoured fend and patron, without any memorial. Dr. Mapletoft lived very hofpitably the side common tubes aan bunget, at Ely, and s herever he refided; and was elteemed for the many pious and charitable charitable acts in his life-time; and, tof, executors, on the 22d Auguft, at his death, after many gifts, legacies, and chariable donations, he bequeathed to the University. 100 towards purchafing Golius' Library of Oriental books for the University Library; and in cafe that defign was not executed, then to fome permanent univerfiy ufe, at the diferetion of the Vice chancellor and the two Profeffors of Divinity; 100% to poor widows, chiefly clergymen's. His benefactions to the church of Ely were, to the Dean and Chapter for ever all his clofe called hundred acres in the Wash in the town of Coveney, for the increase of the finging men's ftipends, and on condition that they fhould frequent early prayers in the Cathedral. He alfo bequeathed to the fame church his library of books, and 100%. toward fitting up a place 10 receive them and furnishing it with more books; to each of the Prebendaries a ring of 203. to each Minor Canon and Schoolmifter 20s. to each Singing-man and Verger 108. and to the Chorifters 5s. each.` In a codicil to his last will, figned 17th day of Auguft, 1677, he gives to the ufe of the town of North Thorefby, in the county of Lincoin, his two cottages and one mefluage, with all his lands in the fame town and fields of the fame for ever, to be fettled upon truftees, for and towards the maintenance of one fit perfon to teach the fcholars there to read, to learn them their catechifm and inftruct them in it, to write, to cafi accounts, and to teach them their accidence, and to make them fit for the grammar fchool, according to the rules and orders which he or his executors should preferibe; and alfo gives all thofe his lands, meadow, and pafture in Saltfleetby to the fe of the town of Louth for ever, for and towards the maintenance of one fit perfon to teach the children there in like manner as in his gift to North Thorefby per omnia. He gives likewife to the Mafter, Fellows, and Scholars of Pembroke Hall, lands in Coveney for ever, on condition that they pay yearly for ever to two poor fcholars to be called his Exhibitioners 41. each, and that they lay out yearly 40s in good books for the Library of the faid college. The will, with two codicils, was proved before Thomas Page, knt. Vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge, and adminifiration granted to John Mapletoft and Peter Maple 1677 Extracted from the Registry of the University of Cambridge June 21, 1774, by H. Hubbard, regifirary. The above particulars are taken, chiefly from Bentham's Hiftory of the Church of Ely, the Lincoln Chapter Book, and from Pembroke College Records of their Mafters and Fellows. In a MS note on the latter, in my poffeffion, the lands in Coveney, given to the College, are tiated to be 281. per. annum, and said to be for founding two Exhibitions and a Catechetical Lecture, and buying fome books for the Library, Bentham alfo mentions fome lands given by Dr. Mapletoft 10 Queen's Cullege and Pembroke Hall, for a Catechetical Lecture; but this last particular not appearing in his will, I durft not infert it in the above memoir. J. E. The above is a copy from the origi nal, prefented to Elpin, master of Dr. Mapletoft's school, by the Rev. Mr. Emeris. The executors of Dr. Mapletoft were, John Mapletoft of London, M. D. and Peter Mapletoft of Stamford, Grocer and Alderman; but what relations they were I cannot make out. Finding from the will that they had power to ac as they thought proper, they appointed truftees, and by a deed granted power to them of increasing or dimini ing the number of free fcholais from time to time as they thought proper, according to the rife or fall of the eftate in value. The yearly rent at this time is 421. exclufive of a single school room and garden: the number of free fcholars is 21. The above executors gave the piece of ground in a fireet called l'adehole, where the fchool now hands. The number of trafiees is eight at this period, and when thefe are reduced to three, thefe three furvivors elect fix others to be added to themfelves, as ordered by the deed. I have feen accounts of Louth in different gazetteers, &c. which mention a charity fchool for 40 poor children; but it does not appear that fuch an inflitntion ever exifted. The prefent mafter of Dr. Mapletofi's fchool is the perfon who gives the above account. T. ESPIN. The prefent mafter of the Gramar fchool is the Rev. T. Orme, D. D. F.S. A. who fucceeded the Rev. Mr. Emeris, M. A. Mr. Eineris refigned it fome few years fince. Rev. Mr. Emeris. Mr. 'Mr. URBAN, TH April 17. HE portrait of the Queen of Scots defcribed in` your last, p. 535, feems to have been copied in the print in a French history, Vignon inv. Mariette excud. cum privil. regis. Auguftus Thuanus, lib. 86. The variations, as far as memory ferves, are the more modern character of the drefs and crown, and the habits of the commiffioners and other affistants, and her af fitant ladies. The Queen is kneeling erect to a block; and the executioner, a ruffian like character, laying his left hand on her left shoulder, and holding the axe erect in his right hand. Under her, "Marie Stuart, reyne d Effroffe, fouffie le martyre pour la foy, par la conflance de fa mort renouvelle en ces derniers temps les exemples de l'ancienne Eglife." 66 The lafi edition of Granger mentions a head of her in an oval, with a reprefentation of her execution, a large half heet, fine. There are copies of it in Meterenus' Hiftory;" and there is a very fcarce print of her going to execution over her head are two angels with palms (one of the angels in this print holds a crown of laurel, another a palm) There are alfo two neat prints of her, which reprefent her execution, by Huren (Q Mariette) and Vignon, the former an 8vo. is very fearce. The 4to. print by Bondau has the date of her execution, viz. “ Martyrum puffa, eft 1587" The hillpry to which the print in queftion belongs was Emanuel Meteren's """ Hifloria Belgica," in low Dutch, 2 vols. fol Col. 1597, Amft. 1618; ranflated into almoli all the European languages, and into French, Have, 1618. The Author, who was a merchant pared neither coft nor sins to perfect his work, though his cre dulity led him into feveral mittakes, which were not corrected till in a fourth edition. Rawlinfon's Catalogue of Hiliorians." THE PROJECTOR. No. LXXII. affem. At ni id fit, quid habet pulchri conftruc HOR. tus acervus ? One farthing leffen'd, you the mafs reduce, And if not leffen'd, whence can rife its ufe? FRANCIS. too feverely blamed. The man, for example, who prefers his own coun try to every other, and thinks it fuperior to every other, is ufually reckoned, a fort of political bigot. This exclu five fondnels for one's own country may certainly be carried too far, and is always car ed too far, when we forget that the inhabitants of other nations, if not our fellow fubjects, are at least our fellow creatures, and equaily entitled to the offices of humanity. It is carried too far, likewife, when we reject vifible improvements in the flate of fociety, or in the arts or fciences, merely because they have not origi nated from ourfelves. But, on the other hand, a certain degree of relerve in favour of our own country is rather beneficial than hurtful. It forms no inconfiderable proportion of the union which is necellary for the defence and independence of nations; and perhaps no man can be cordially and rationally attached to the land which gave him birth, if he does not confider it as the beft in the world. Whether he be right or wrong in this opinion, the effect will be the fame, that he will have a conflant defire to make his country what he wishes to reprefent it; and the fame prejudice exiting in the minds of the inhaShauts of other countries, there will be a rivalthip, started from which each may profit, although the grand queftion of faperiority may never be fatisfactorily decided. When I confider the many circum-. ftances artached to the hiftory and actual fiate of our o vn country, of which we are apt to make our boifi, I obferve none fo often repeated as the floorithing and unrivalled liate of our manu fuctures; and my readers will not be furprized that my attention thould be caught by this particular in our lift of national bleflings, when they reflect that it is on manufactures chiefly that the whole tribe of PROJECTORS have fo long employed their genius I am not, however, about to enter into a reprefentation of the exifting profperity of the manufactures of Great Britain. My readers, I am convinced, do not expect fuch fubjects to be introduced in this paper. I have_no、 thing new to advance on the ftate of our linens, our woollens, our iron works, or our potteries. But when we are N ATIONS, as well as individuals, congratulating one another on the im are fubject to a fpecies of felf-provements introduced of late years in conceit, for which they are fometimes thefe articles, there is one manufac ture ture which I obferve has a decided preference in all our thoughts, at leaft if language be the expreflion of thought, upon which I wish to offera few remarks. And this is the MANUFACTURE OF MONEY, which is fuppofed to employ a much greater nomber of hands than any other whatever. There are lo few perions, indeed, in this kingdom who are not in one way or other employed in this manufacture, that the moment we hear or read of any perfon's death, the first and molt important question is, what money did he make? And if this be answered in the negative, if it turns out that he has lef few famples of his ingenuity behind him, it is concluded, without any farther enquiry, tha. he must have been a very bungling hand. Friends who meet after long feparation are always defirons to have this important quetion mutually refolved, what money they have made? and it is wonderful how much the continuance of their friendhip, its fervency aud conftancy, will frequently depend on the antwers given. if a gentleman who has lived many years in London, returns to pay a visit to his native place, be the difiance what it may, however remote to all appearance from the bufiling world, whether in the depth of the valley, or on the top of the mountain, he will always find fome whole curiofity wil lead them to make immediate inquiry into the ftate of the above-mentioned manufacture; and he will be received with welcome or coolness in proportion to the famples he is able to produce; fich averfion do mankind entertam againft idleness in this bufinefs of making mopey; and fuch is their opinion of the nature of this manufacture, particularly in London, that they cannot conceive how any man can fail from any other reafon ihan idleness. This notion, however, is not perfedly correct; and the error proceeds from confdering the manufacture of money as bearing a clofe refemblance to that of cotton, or wool, or any other article in which fome perfous are employed for the benefit of other perfons. But the cafe is different in the making of money, as here every man works for himlelf, and has his own particular art and myliery, which he is not very delirous of communicating, at least before he leaves off bufinels. : There are various other points in which this manufacture differs from thofe of Lancashire, Yorkshire, or Warwickshire. One very friking dif, ference is, that many perfons who have manufactured a very great quautity of money, are fo far from being defirous to find a market for it, as the Liverpool, Manchefter, and Birming ham men do, that they become exceedingly anxious to hide it from the knowledge of every human being ; and are fo far from being proud of their pro duction, that it is with great reluctance, and often with vitible pain, that they can be compelled to bring forward the fmallet fample of what they have been making Yet, perhaps, while they are thus affecting fecrecy, and what fome people would think humility, you cannot affront them more than by fuppofing that their flock on hand is not immenfe, and that they are inferior in that respect to any of their neighbours. Of all this, my readers must remember very striking inftances a very few years ago, when the late minifter. Mr. Pitt, determined for a particular reafon to know the exact fiate of thefe manufactures, and to compel the belt workmen to produce every year a certain proportion of their goods. The reluctance with which fome obeyed this order, and the many artifices which others invented to evade it, may perhaps appear as a proof that they are plain, unaffected men, who do not wish to make a parade of their induitry, who “do good by flealth, and bluth to find it fame." But we muft not give them credit for fo much of the fell-denying fpirit. The truth is, they generally fix a time when they fhall bring their goods to market, but whether from delaying this time too long, or neglecting to keep their own appointment, it has in very many infiances happened, that they have gone out of the world without performing their promife. All this in the cafe of any other manufacture would be very foolish; becaufe either the market would be, loft, the article would fink in price, or it would be entirely fpoiled by long keeping. On the contrary, the makers of money have the mol perfect fecurity that their goods will not be the worfe for keeping; and the great warehoufe in Threadneedle-fireet, where they are accustomed to deposit their fu plus flock, is not only guarded agaiutt |