In fact, whoever has visited this ancient Church, and seen it in its former wretched state, will be quite astonished: it now truly looks, "As though we own'd a God, ador'd his power, Rever'd his wisdom, loved his mercy." And its sacred walls will, it is to be hoped, no more echo with the twittering of birds, the sparrow find a place of security over the altar, or the swallow be permitted to "build her brooding nest," above its antique pulpit ; although these are striking resemblances of the tranquillity and peace which the "means of grace" are to a Christian, and which seem to inhabit the House of the Deity. But the sentiment which this venerable building impresses is in some measure checked by its disuse, Divine Service being performed within its walls only twice a year. Since, however, it has been put into a complete state of repair, it is to be desired some means will be devised to introduce a more frequent service, that may, we would charitably anticipate, prove instrumental to the happiest purposes of the heart and a religious life. H.P. AVING seen, in some late num Hbers of your Magazine, a series of papers on Witchcraft; and Sir Walter Scott's late work on Demonology and Witchcraft having excited some interest; I beg to contribute the following extract, which shows how far that extraordinary delusion prevailed, even where superstition might have been considered as eradicated. The work I quote is Dr. Cook's general and historical view of Christianity, 1822, vol. 3, p. 339. A work certainly prolix and tedious, but which has its merit and use. "There lies before me at present an account of the condemnation of a woman by a tribunal at Geneva, about the middle of the seventeenth century; and an enumeration of a few of the particulars connected with it will give a much juster conception than any description of the cruelty which, in proceeding against witchcraft, was almost universally practised. The woman was accused of having sent devils into two young women, and of having brought distempers upon several others, a charge sufficiently vague, and to which the observations made above fully apply. To substantiate it, the members of the tribunal availed themselves of an opinion, that the devil imprinted certain marks upon his chosen disciples, the effect of which was, that no pain could be experienced by any application to the parts of the body where these marks were. They sent two surgeons to examine whether such marks could be discovered in the accused; and they reported, not surely much to the credit of their medical skill and philosophy, that they had found one, and that having thrust a needle into it the length of a finger, she had felt no pain, and no blood had issued from the wound. Being brought to the bar, the prisoner denied the statement of the surgeons; upon which she was examined by three more, and with them were joined two physicians. It might have been expected that such a body of men, who had received a liberal education, and who must have had some acquaintance with the nature and the construction of the human frame, would have instantly presented a report, showing the absurdity of the examination upon which they had been employed. This did not occur to them; for they gravely proceeded to thrust sharp instruments into the mark already mentioned, and into others which they thought they had found out; but as the miserable patient gave plain indication that she suffered from their operations, they were staggered, and satisfied themselves, with declaring, that there was something extraordinary in the marks, and that they were not perfectly like those commonly to be seen in the bodies of witches. She was, notwithstanding, doomed to another investigation, the result of which was, that after some barbarous experiments, she felt no pain, and hence it was inferred that the marks were satanical. She had, previously to this last enquiry, been actually put to the rack; but she retained her fortitude and presence of mind under it, firmly maintaining that she had sent no devils into any of the persons whom it was alleged that she had thus injured. She was again threatened with the torture; and, from dread of undergoing it, she made a confession, which it is painful to think was not at ouce discerned to be the raving of insanity. Similar proceedings were continued; and the conclusion of the whole was, that she was condemned to be hanged and burned for giving up herself to the devil, and for bewitching two girls." The work cited by Dr. Cooke, in authority for this statement, is Memoirs of Literature, vol. 1, art. 47. In no city of Europe should we have expect ed to find such gross ignorance and barbarity at that time, as in Geneva. And it is humiliating to remember, that at the same period, Hopkins the witch-finder was employed in England, and the belief in witchcraft was countenanced by that acute detector of errors, Sir Thomas Browne. CYDWELI. 1880.] Lulworth Castle, the present residence of Charles X. 201 LULWORTH CASTLE. S Lulworth Castle in Dorsetshire A forms the present retreat of falleu royalty, the annexed view (see Plate I may be acceptable to our readers. The most ancient possessors of the manor are said to have been the De Lolleworths; but the powerful family of the Newburghs possessed it as early as the reign of John. Christian, the sole heiress of Sir Robert Newburgh, carried the estate to her husband, Sir John Marney, in 1514; and their second daughter, Elizabeth, brought it into the Howard family, by marriage with Thomas Lord Howard of Bindon; the other coheiress, Catharine, who married Lord Poynings, having died without issue. From the Howard family the estate was purchased in 1641, by Humphrey Weld, esq. of Holdwell, in Halfield; and is now pos sessed by Cardinal Weld, his lineal descendant. That here was a Castle in former ages appears from Tyrrel's History of England; where we read, that Robert Earl of Gloucester, 1142, took the Castle of Lullwarde for the Empress Maud. Whether the present structure had its name from succeeding to its site, or only from being built in that form, is uncertain; though it never was a place of strength, or designed to be such. It is a noble pile, and stands at the higher end of the parish, a little north of the church, and on the edge of the park, on a rising ground; commanding a fine prospect of the sea, from an opening between the hills; and from the top of the house is an extensive view over the country, espe, cially on the north and east. It was chiefly built out of the materials of Mount Poynings and of Bindon Abbey, by Thomas Viscount Bindon, as Mr. Coker says (p. 44) about 1600, Some have made Inigo Jones the architect. The foundations were laid 1588, and the building was finished 1609. But, though Theophilus Earl of Suffolk resided here 1635, little of the inside work was finished when Mr. Weld came to it. It is an exact cube of 80 feet, with a round tower at each corner, 30 feet in diameter, rising 16 feet above the walls, which, as well as the towers, are embattled. The walls are six feet thick, the offices are, under ground, arched with stone. GENT. MAG. September, 1880. The house has three stories, but the towers four; in each front are three rows of four windows; in the towers are four rows of three each, exclusive of the offices. The hall and diningroom are large, and the rooms are in general 18 feet high. In some of the apartments are some family pictures, done by the celebrated hand of Sir Peter Lely. The principal front is on the east, and faced with Chilmark stone. Before it was a large court, now laid into the lawn leading to the landingplace, which is guarded by a balustrade of stone (which, in the late Edward Weld's time, only extended along the east front), and called the Cloisters, because paved with the stones taken from the cloisters of Bindon abbey. This was continued by the late possessor along the north and south sides, at the extremity of which it joins a terrace to the west, of the same height with themselves. Over the doors are the statues of two ancient Romans in their gowns. On each side of the door, which is supported by four pillars of the Ionic order, is a large niche, and over them two shields, on which are the arms of Weld, properly blazoned. In the niches are statues of Music and Painting. This mansion has had the honour to entertain King James I. when he came in his western progress to hunt in the Park and the Isle of Purbeck, 1615*; as also, in 1665, King Charles II. and the Dukes of York and Monmouth, whose names the apartments they lay in still bear. It is reckoned one of the finest seats in the county for its uniformity, and was justly admired by King Charles II. The large gardens adjoining, and the groves of trees that almost surround it, add greatly to the beauty and grandeur of the place. The only thing it wants is water. It was sometimes garrisoned by the King; but in 1643 and 1644 by the Parliament, probably to be some check upon Corfe Castle. Captain Thomas. Hughes was governor here during that time; whose receipts, without date, out of the hundred of Winfrith and liberties of Bindon and Owre-Moygne, being the profits of sequestered lands, amounted to 38541. 4s. 04d. and his disbursements to 25187. 133. 04d. The * See Nichols's Progresses of King James, vol. III. p. 97. iron bars of the windows, the leaden water-pipes, and great part of the wainscot, were sold, or carried away by the Parliamentarians, when they broke up their garrison. By the governor's accounts, three tons of lead were sold hence, and two more delivered for the use of the garrisons of Weymouth, Poole, and the siege of Corfe castle, besides what was spent here; and the owner was very fortunate, that a set of men, who delighted so much in mischief, had not burnt or demolished this beautiful pile of building. In 1789, George III. together with his Queen and the three elder Princesses, paid a visit to Lulworth Castle by sea from Weymouth, where they then resided for a few weeks. In 1791, the same royal company repeated their visit by land, and, on each occasion, spent many hours in examining the Castle, the new chapel, and the grounds. In 1792, their Majesties, with the Prince of Wales, and five of the Princesses, sailed from Weymouth in the Juno frigate, which was accompanied by several other vessels, in order to visit the Castle, whilst the Duchess of York, and several ladies of the court went thither by land: however, the sea running high, none of the nautical party attempted to land, except the Prince of Wales, which he effected, at the expense of a severe drenching. He surveyed the Castle, and returned to Weymouth by land. A few days afterwards, the King and Queen, with the Princesses, to prevent a second disappointment, came to Lulworth in their carriages. These visits were commemorated by the following inscriptions on oval stones over the door of the principal front of the Castle: Adventus regis Georgii III. et Caroletæ reginæ conjugis, qui supra cætera beneficia ab anno MDCCLXXXIX. frequenti aditu prætorium hospites ingressi, omnemque Weldeorum domum admissione et adloquio solati, splendorem loco ac dignitatem præsentiâ intulerunt. Anno MDCCXCI. Georgius III., rex, fidei defensor, legitimæ libertatis adsertor, consentientibus regni ordinibus leges quæ Catholicis sacris advorsabantur publicè refigi, ejusque nominis cives æquo libertatis jure uti voluit, jussit. Immortale optimi principis beneficium sempiternæ posterorum memoriæ consignabat Thomas Weld devotus majestati ejus. the present Chapel, which stands at a small distance to the south-west of the Castle, was laid by the late posses sor, under which were placed coins of the reign of Geo. III. and a plate of brass, with the following inscription: templi jactus anno MDCCLXXXVI. IV° nonas Lapis sacer auspicalis in fundamenta futuri Februarii, quod templum Thomas Weld publicè meo in solo primus omnium mitescente per Georgium tertium legum penalium acerbitate, in honorem Virginis Beatissimæ Dei genetricis, adgredior extruendum. Tu vero Deus optime maxime opus tantis auspiciis inchoatum custodi, protege, fove, ac confirma, ut quaqua Britanniæ patent religioni sanctæ templa adcrescant templis cul tores. The Chapel is of a circular form, increased by four sections of a circle so as to form a cross, and covered with a dome and lantern. It contains a well-toned organ, a copy of Raphael's transfiguration, and two other scriptural pieces brought from Italy. Joseph Weld, Esq. brother of Cardinal Weld, the owner of Lulworth Castle, having tendered the use of this noble mansion to the ex-King of France, in case the British government would permit him to land, the fallen monarch gladly accepted the offer, and on the answer of our government being received, allowing him to reside in England as a private individual, preparations were made for the departure from Cowes. On Monday Aug. 23, 1830, the royal family debarked at Poole, and proceeded to Lulworth Castle by land. Shortly after three o'clock, two carriages arrived, with luggage and a few attendants, and about five o'clock two other carriages drove up the park, containing the deposed Monarch, the Duke of Angouleme, the Duke of Bordeaux, the Duke of Luxembourg, and General Baron de Damas. The ex-King was received at the entrance of the Castle by Joseph Weld, Esq., with whom he cordially shook hands. Charles (who, we believe, now bears the title of Duke of Milan, being prohibited from residing in England otherwise than as a private indivi dual), is of rather tall stature, but he does not display his figure to any advantage, owing to a rather ungraceful In the year 1786 the first stone of stoop, He bears evident marks of |