suing out of a crescent a star of six rays Arg. 3, Gu. a leopard's face with fleur de lis jessant Or. 4, Sab. three bars Arg. Adjoining is the following inscription on a monument of veined marble: "H. S. E. Richardus Westbrook, mer cator, filius natu minimus Johannis W. -Hoc est domus ultima, lector, creamur." On a monument similar to the former, as follows: "M. S. Gulielmi Westbrook de Fering, armig. et Elizabethæ uxoris. Obiit ille Feb. 29, anno Domini 1702, ætat. 62, Una fœlices tandem requiescimus urnâ. Arms: Gu. a leopard's face with fleur de lis jessant Or, for Westbrook; impaling Sab. 3 bars Arg. Adjoining, on a handsome monument of white marble, as follows: "M. S. of Mrs. Elizabeth Richardson, widow and relict of Joseph R. esq. late of the Middle Temple, London; and one of the daughters and coheiresses of `John Minshull, esq. late of Portslade in this County, and Barbara his wife, who was one of the daughters and coheiresses of William Westbrook, esq. late of this Parish. She departed this life the 22nd March, 1752, aged 52 years." Arms: In a lozenge, dexter defaced, sinister in pale, same as her sister's, Mrs. B. Johnson. Facing these monuments in the nave, on the floor, a large blue stone as follows: "Memoriæ et Pietati sacrum. Sub hoc marmore depositæ sunt reliquiae Barbaræ uxoris Johannis Westbrook, armigeri; quæ obiit 30mo die Maij, anno Domini 1657...... Johannis, qui ex hâc vitâ decessit.... die Junij, anno 1666. Ambo sperantes resurrectionem quæ est in Jesu Christo." Opposite the Pulpit in the aile a flat stone as follows: "To the memory of Mrs. Barbara Minshull, wife of John Minshull, gent. eldest daughter of William Westbrook, esq. who departed this life June 27....." At the East end of the nave near the chancel is a lofty monument of various-coloured marble: on the upper part appears a youth whose countenance is expressive of the most poignant grief; on the lower compartment is the following inscription: "Underneath are deposited the remains of William Westbrook Richardson, esq. of the Middle Temple, London, barrister at law, high sheriff of this county in the year of our Lord 1770. He died July 23, 1771, aged 45 years. The regret of this gentleman's relations and friends is the best panegyric to his memory. "Here also lies interred the body of Mrs. Barbara R. relict of W. W. R. esq. together with Miss Barbara R. their only daughter, who died young. Mrs. B. R. died April 8, 1774, aged 55 years. To the memory of his ever-revered parents, Wm. Richardson, esq. of Findon in this County, their eldest son, erected this monument." The workmanship of this monument is most beautiful, being adorned with exquisitely rich carving and mouldings of various-coloured marble. Against the South wall of the nave is an elegant monument of white marble: at the back of which rises à pyramid of black marble, ornamented with an urn, &c., with the following inscription: "In a vault underneath the Vicar's seat are deposited the remains of Thomas Richardson, esq. of Warminghurst-Park; high-sheriff of this County, in the year of our Lord 1793. He died August 29, 1797, aged 64." lions' heads erased of the field; imArms: Sab. on a chief Arg. three paling, Sable, a lion passant guardant Arg. and a chief Or.' On a tablet affixed to the South wall of the nave as follows: "In memory of Anne, wife of the Rev. James Penfold, vicar of this parish, who departed this life the 13th June, 1769, in the 31st year of her age. "Oh! "Oh! Reader, be wise in time, and suffer the great realities of that awful state into which thou must very shortly enter, to exert their full force and influence on thy daily conduct, remembering that the next remove and scene of being is ETERNITY!" On a flat stone near the pulpit, as follows: "M. S. Jana filia Johannis Layfield, LL. B. Rectoris de Chiddingfold, in comitatu Surriæ, et Judithæ uxoris ejus, hic jacet, felicem expectans resurrectionem quæ est in Domino nostro Jesu Christo. Nata 31 Martii, renata 14 Aprilis 1670. Denata... die Aprilis 1686." On a flat stone in the nave : « Underneath lye interred Mrs. Martha Mason, widow. She was a most tender mother to the present Vicar of this parish (by her first husband, Mr. William Albright, citizen and goldsmith, of London.) She died April 28, 1733, aged near 77. Also Mrs. Sarah Albright, his most excellent wife, who died in child-bed, August 30, 1733, aged near 34. Also William their son; and (under the stone East of this lies) Dorothy Sophia, their daughter; who both died under two months old. Also underneath lies interred the Rev. William Albright, late vicar of this parish, and of Preston, who died the 8th August, 1766, aged 75 years." Mr. URBAN, Slawston, Jan. 8. N your last volume, p. 403, you corbel-like. Canopy work, by Carter, in the compartments on each side the upper windows of the Tower; none by King, except on the buttresses. The distant view of the centre spire is given by Carter, it is not by King; this I suppose an omission of his. By King are given more bands round the spires than by Carter; these, and the pedestals of the statues, before-mentioned, I should' suppose, have not been altered since Dugdale's draughtsman took them ;' the window and the cross may. The number of statues appear to corre-} spond, or rather the niches, as Carter' says, those in his are in part supplied by fancy, those in Dugdale were probably then in existence. Yours, &c. J. TAILBY. LINCOLNSHIRE MONASTERIES, &c. Continued from vol. LXXIX. p. 1208. Dunston. The Hospital antiently founded here for leprous persons (spoken of by Tanner, in his Notitia, as in doubt whether the same as that of Meer) was situate on the Heath in Dunston liberties, by a valley a little South of the pillar, and East of the Lincoln Turnpike, on a hill side, facing the South; but even the foundation-marks scarcely remain. Every thing was cleared a few years ago, to turn the site into arable. The site seems about three acres, I have given us a good plate of the into two closes belonging to the heirs West front of Lichfield Cathedral. I have compared it with that in Dugdale's Monasticon by Daniel King. (This view is somewhat more to the S. W.) They nearly agree, which shews there was an accuracy of delineation attended to, as well in the time of King as of Mr. J. Carter. The differences may many of them arise from alterations made in the building since the time that in Dugdale was taken; especially, in the upper part of the great West window; that in Carter's being what, I suppose, is called the Marigold, or Catharine wheel, finish; that in Dugdale, the intersecting pointed arch, with quaterfoils in the compartments. The cross, too, above, on the finish of the gable, is not given by Carter, it is by King. The pedestals of the statues, in the first and second rows above the dado, are also dissimilar to those in Dugdale, being by Carter tall and slender, whereas by King they are low, squat, and of Berrys of Linwood Grange, and a Mr. Robinson. Meer Hospital, commonly called Meer-Hall, four miles South of Lincoln, East of Sleaford Turnpike. The foundation and broken ground, no less than 20 acres, were formerly a village. At the foot is a fine pond and spring of water. The site of the Hospital is not exactly known; a modern stone-built farm-house is just by. The estate is extra-parochial, belonging to I. Manby, esq. Revesby Abbey. A quarter of a mile South of the village of Revesby, near the edge of the great West Fen. It occupied a considerable Foundations of space of ground. walls, and a fragment two feet high of brick and stone, with loose stones. here and there, are the only remains of the building. On the South, within the area, are mounts of earth, like barrows. The site of the Abbey, &c. forms a good grazing close, belonging belonging to the venerable Sir Joseph Banks, bart. Bollington. About a mile South of Wragby, now an hamlet to Goltho. The Abbey stood on a rising ground, close by a wood: a ruin remains, in a plain stone wall about 14 feet high, and 20 long. The space of ground is moated round, containing about six acres. A mean-built farm-house, and the stone wall above-mentioned, are the only appearance of buildings on the spot. On the East side is a circular moat, inclosing a small space of ground, with a pond in the middle, the use of which is difficult to guess. The Abbey ground belongs to a gentleman of the name of Hackett, lately purchased of Chapman, esq. Hugworthington. Near Spilsby. The religious house here stood on a sunny hill side, South of the village, on land now the property of Lord Newark. A plain stone-built end wall, with two fire-places, one over the other, is all that remains of the building worthy of notice. Haugh. Near Alford, on heathy wolds, now an extra-parochial place. The lower part of the present farm or manor-house is of brick, and very antient in appearance. It stands on high dry ground; and is probably part of the religious house called Haugh. The Church, a small edi fice, contains several monuments and memorials of the Boll family. The estate belongs to some ladies of the name of Horsfield. An avenue of 70 antient yew-trees is near the house. Torksey. This religious house was situate on the East part of the Village, in a place now called the Abbey-yard. There is no building upon it, but a new-erected brick and tiled barn; even the foundatious have been so leveled down, that scarce any vestige remains. The estate belongs to Sir Abraham Hume, bart. Tattersall College. Situate on the East side the Market-place, on the back of a new-erected dwelling-house, inhabited by Mr. Footit. What remains of the College is a large brick and tiled building, now made use of as a malting. The walls are very thick, the door-cases and windows are of stone, some arched, and others with mullions, very anticut. The building, and site thereof, be longs to Earl Fortescue. Some people, however, suppose the College stood near the East end of the Church, where there are certainly many foundations, and a remarkable remnant of a brick building with an arched roof, like a bath. Croyland. The venerable ruin of Croyland is in the same precise state it was 20 years ago; when Mr. Gough, with his friend Mr. Nichols, visited and described the remains.The North aile of the Abbey Church is now the Parish Church. The Abbey and offices were situated on the South side this building, on land belonging to Mr. Whitsid, and now growing hemp, Sept. 14, 1810. Mr. URBAN, C. Whitkirk, near Leeds, HAVING lately had occasion to look into the antient registers of this parish, I was induced to examine the whole series from the year 1603, when they commence, as well as the Churchwardens' accounts, which are preserved as far back as the year 1653, and other parish records, entered in the same book with those accounts. In the course of this research I was led to make some extracts, which may not be altogether unacceptable, or at least may tend to excite farther examinations of such old records as may be yet in exist ence, and thereby furnish similar or more curious information. The accounts of the Overseers of the Poor for the Township of Temple-Newsam, lying chiefly in this parish, are also preserved from the year 1663, and those of the Constables for the same Township from the year 1670; but I met with nothing sufliciently striking in either of them, on a cursory survey, to draw my attention. The following is the list of the Vicars of this Parish as far as I have been able to make them out from the notices that occur in these records. Richard Tharold, M. A. first occurs: buried 10th Dec. 1618. Nathaniel Taylor, B. D. succeeded, inducted 8th May, 1619. He occurs in 1623, but I do not find the register of his burial. Christopher Rudston, M. A. buried 13th July, 1635. Charles Procter, M. A, succeeded, inducted 30th Nov. 1635: ejected or resigned in 1661. Richard Richard Wright succeeded, inducted June 1661: buried 14th Dec. 1674. Jonathan Dade succeeded, occurs 5th April 1675, buried 4th March, 1688-9. Richard Hopkins succeeded, in ducted 1st July 1689, buried 17th Feb. 1701-2. John Ray succeeded, inducted 1702, buried 8th Peter Simon succeeded, inducted May 1743, died 14th June 1779. John Wilson, B. A. succeeded, inducted Jan. 1780, died 27th July, 1785. Samuel Smalpage, M. A. succeeded, inducted 31st Dec. 1785; the present incumbent. Of most of these, little more is noted in the records to which I refer, than what is here put down; but of one of them, who occurs in the most eventful period, Mr. Charles Procter, more is recorded. The first thing that attracted my particular notice with respect to him was, his witnessing his successor's reading himself in, as appears from the following: "Memorandum, That the nine-and thirty Articles of Religion were publickely and distinctly read, in the parish church of Whitkirke in the county of Yorke, by Richard Wright, vicar of the said Church, upon the twenty-third day of June, in the thirteenth yeare of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord, Charles the Second, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. Anno Domini 1661. In testimony hereof, wee hereunto set our hands. CHARLES PROCTER. WILL. DIXON. [Parish Clerk.]" Under the idea of his being one of the Ejected Ministers, I could not but feel strongly interested for Mr. Procter on this occasion; particularly when I found he was a married man, and burthened with a large family. Seven children I find registered to Charles Procter, vicar, between the years 1648 and 1658, both inclusive; and I also find myself under the necessity of fathering four other children upon him, registered to Charles Prockter, with a trifling variation of the spelling, and without the addition of vicar, between the years 1639 and 1645 inclusive; as there is no direct evidence to the contrary, the date of his marriage not appearing in this register, as these entries occur during his incumbency, and in connexion with the others; and as the name never occurs in the registers, at least within any reasonable time, before or after his incumbency. And as I find only one, the youngest, of these children entered in the registry of Burials, I couclude that he went away with a wife and ten children living. It was only the preceding Summer that he had been at the expence of fitting up the Vicar's Pew in the Church, which does not seem as if he was then contemplating his removal. I annex the memorial of this transaction; several others of the like nature occurring in these records, by which the present title to many of the pews may be ascertained and established. "Memorandum, That itt is agreed the 10th day of July, 1660, by the Vicar and Churchwardens, whose names are underwritten, that that Stall or Pue in the Quire of the Parish Church of Whitkirke, being the next to Mr. Nelthorpe's pue, which Mr. Procter built att his owne charge, and wherein Mrs. Procter hath always sit, shall belong to the present and succeeding Ministers' wives, reserving only a seate in the said stall or pue for Katherin Dixon, the present Clarke's Wife, so long as shee shall live; the present and succeeding vicars keeping the same in sufficient repaire, and in such decent manner as becomes the house of God. CHARLES PROcter, RIC. BOOTHE, JOHN EAMONSON." I have before hinted that the first impression upon my mind was, that Mr. Procter was one of the Ejected Ministers; on which account, under the circumstances which I have mentioned, he would be entitled to serious commiseration; particularly if his removal were occasioned by scruples of conscience, in declining the subscription to the Articles. Upon a closer comparison of dates, however, I am willing to hope that he might be preferred to another bene fice, as the operation of the Parliamentary proceedings would of course have ceased long before the year fol lowing the Restoration of Charles II. and the date of his successor's reading himself in was about one year and two months prior to St. Bartholo mew's day, when by the Act of Uniformity, 14 Charles II. about 2000 of the the Clergy, according to Hume, were deprived of their livings. In the Churchwardens' Accounts I find the following entries: "1653. Given to Mr. Procter towards the providing a dinner for the Ministers upon the Exercise day, 5s. 1654. Charges upon the Ministers on the Exercise day, 65. 1659. Charges att a meeting att Whitkirke of severall neighbours, in consulting about the returne of an auswer to a warrant from the Sheriffe about Ejected Ministers, 4s. 6d. Mr. Procter, and Francis Dawson's charges, in going to York about the same businesse, 5s. 2d. Given to Mr. Procter by consent of the Parishioners, for going to Yorke, and his paines about the same, 5s." From one article in these accounts July 3d, 1670. Given then by the neighbours to a poor lame itinerary, one Mr. Walker, who then preached here, and after the sermon stood in the midle ile to receive the people's charity, which was 9s. 3d. November 20th, 1670. Given then in the midle ile of the church by the neighbours to a poore mendicant itinerary lame priest, one Mr. Walker, who had preached here the 3d of July 70, and preached again this day, the summe of 3s. 6d. July 30th, 1671. Given then in the midle ile of the church by the neighbours to the aforenamed Mr. Walker, the mendicant itinerary lame minister, who had been here severall times before, and did then preach, the summe of 6s. 3d. Yours, &c. S. S. Mr. URBAN, London, Dec. 13. THE evil of the present deprecia I am able to trace Mr. Procter into Ttion of our Paper Money having Lincolnshire after his resignation or ejectment, viz. "1662. Edward Butterfield's charges in going into Lincolnshire, to speake with Mr. Procter about Mr. Askwith's legacy, 65." Of the distresses of the Ejected Clergy at this period, some at least of the following entries are melancholy instances: "1667. Given to a poore old Minister who preached here June 2nd, 3s. 6d. Charges at severall times upon severall Ministers that preached here, 3s. 6d. 1668. Charges upon Mr. Bennington and some friends of his when hee preached here att Christmasse, 2s. 2d. Bestowed in ale upon a poore preacher that preached here, 6d. 1669. Given to a poore Minister who preached here at the Church April 25, 5s. Bestowed on him in ale, 4d. February 13, 1669. Collected then by the Churchwardens in the Church upon a testimoniall, and at the request of the Lord Bishop of Yorke, for one Mr. Wilmut, a poore Minister, the summe of 8s. 4d. May 16, 1675. Collected then in the Church, upon a Lettre of Request brought by Mr. Francis Fowler, of Bungay in the County of Suffolke, a poore distressed Minister, which was given to him May 17, 1675, 5s. 7d. ob." But the most affecting instances are those which follow: attained a height at once alarming and disastrous, and being pregnant with imminent danger to the commonwealth, every character conversant in matters of finance, and the political world in particular, are behoved, by the manifest existence of the fact, maturely to deliberate thereon, and to suggest any apparently efficient mode for the removal of this primary cause of general distress, this source of a series of national misfortunes, and principal measure, by which the Government may, in regard to the prosperity, strength, and true interests of the Country, be misled. Impressed with the great importance and magnitude of the subject, I shall venture (although in a great measure destitute of the qualities of a Financier or a tained facts, to offer some material Politician), after stating a few ascerobservations; and hope, that should any thing of an incongruous or indigested nature appear in my view of the case, I may have the advantage of the concise and limited manner in which your Publication obliges me to treat it. My design is simply to call the attention of your readers to the subject; and, in doing that, my end is answered. It has, Sir, recently been demonstrated by a gentleman intimately acquainted, as well with financial concerns, as with all the arcana of office, and official circumstances, that "the difference between £46. 14s. 6d. and £56. (that is to say, the difference between |