MR. URBAN,-I have somewhere read a statement that Nash's "History of Worcestershire" does not give a correct idea of the merits of Habingdon, on whose manuscript it is founded. I should be glad to learn from some correspondent of yours whether this is the case, and to what extent, and in what respect: in particular, whether Dr. Nash omitted much of Habingdon's matter, and whether Habingdon's MS. contains any and what pedigrees not in Nash's work, and where the MS. is to be seen. I am, &c. A. L.

MR. URBAN,-As every memorial, however minute, of the admired Cowper possesses its interest, I submit to your readers a Greek line which I discovered a few days since at the base of the pedestal which supports a bust of Homer in the wilderness of Weston Underwood. The line has recently been so obscured and concealed by weeds and briars, that it has escaped observation. A worthy clergyman in an adjoining parish, to whom I submitted it, with much promptitude and felicity, discovered it to be a line in the Odyssey, the First Book, the 308th line, admitting only a slight variation in the original it stands thus

« Ως τει πατηρ ὢ παιδι, και λησομαι αυτού ;"

OUTOTE

on the pedestal of the monument it appears

« Ως τε παις ώ πατρι ка OUTOTE λησομαι αυτου.”

Cowper thus translates the line very literally

"Who as a father teaches his own son

Has taught me, and I never will forget." With more elegance, but with greater latitude of interpretation, Pope renders it— "So fathers speak (persuasive speech and mild) Their sage experience to the favourite child." Cowper's inability to forget his great master in song, he assimilates with that of a dutiful child to a beloved father; his favourite recollections continually reverting to his cherished author precluding forgetfulness. In concluding let me invite attention to the state of the three commemorative Urns in Weston Grove. Two of these upon the borders of the Wilderness are in very fair condition, and the inscriptions, with a little aid of the memory, fair and legible. The third, standing in the heart of the Grove, I regret to say, is in a very dilapidated

and precarious state; by wanton mischief and levity only, as I apprehend, its position is so much out of the perpendicular, that a hand or a walking-stick might push it from its pedestal. These classic memorials, in conjunction with a lion and the aforesaid bust, constitute the only reminiscences of the Poet now remaining at Weston. Yours, &c. THOMAS WELTON. Olney.

MR. JONATHAN HINDLE remarks that two effigies of Knights Templar (as supposed) Sir Robert de Stiveton, of Kildwick in Craven, and Adam de Middleton, of Ilkley, are described and portrayed in Whitaker's History of Craven. They appear to have died nearly at the same time, about the year 1306 or 1307; and our Correspondent inquires, In which expedition to the Holy Land were they engaged?

Our friend Dr. Doran fell into an erroneous expression at the close of his article on The Daughters of Charles I." in our last number, which has called forth the remarks of more than one correspondent. When he stated that on the death of Henrietta Duchess of Orleans "was extinguished the female line descended from Charles," he should rather have said, "such was the end of the last surviving daughter of Charles." Henrietta left, as is well known, two daughters,

married to Charles II., King of Spain, and Anne-Mary married to Victor-Amadeus II. of Savoy, King of Sardinia. The latter only had issue, and her present representative is the hereditary Prince of Modena, in right of his mother, the eldest daughter and coheir of Victor-Emanuel, King of Sardinia. (See Mr. C. E. Long's Royal Descents, 1845, p. 1.)

GROTIUS, referring to last number of Gent. Mag. p. 591, line 20th (in continuation of paper on "Leadhills ") begs to correct two erroneous words inadvertently inserted from a preceding sentence:delete" and buckets." Ladders have been introduced at Leadhills, but never buckets. A. B. G.

June, p. 670. The late Mr. L. W. Wyatt died on the 14th February. Besides the noblemen and gentlemen mentioned in his memoir, he was employed by the Earl of Denbigh, Viscount Curzon, Lord Selsey, Lord Bolton, and General Wemyss. Among his property sold at Christie's was a view of London Bridge, painted by Clemendt de Joughe, ao 1650: it was sold for 301, 98.