108 The interior, as we remarked in the outset, is far superior to the outside of the building; and it is but just and fair to the architect to observe, that the same praise is due to the structure which we awarded to Walworth Church, for the essential qualities of light and distinctness of hearing, both of which it enjoys to a degree beyond many Churches of recent construction. A large proportion of the centre of the Church is appropriated to the poor, and it is pleasing to add that a numerous attendance of this class of the congregation forms the strongest evidence of the necessity, as well as the utility of the erection of additional Churches. No surer antidote to the depravity which is too apparent in this parish, can be afforded, than the celebration of divine worship, according to the doctrines and forms of our esteemed Establishment. Every new Church that is opened, affords an additional proof that a strong attachment to the Establishment exists among all classes, and that if Churches are provided they will be attended, notwithstanding the abuse of the numerous enemies of the Church, who, feeling conscious that their own elevation can only be built on the ruin of the Church, strain every nerve, and use every expedient to effect this, the ultimate and only object of dissent and schism. Population of Great Britain. This Chapel contains 800 in pews, and 1200 in free seats. The contract amounted to 17,6387. 188. including incidental expenses and architect's commission. The first stone was laid on the 26th June, 1826; and the chapel was consecrated, as before observed, on the 16th Oct. 1828. E. I. C. [Feb. metrical ratio. Judging from the census taken in the year 1801, 1811, and 1821, at intervals of ten years, this estimation does not appear to accord with the fact. In 1801 the population amounted to 10,942,646; in 1811, to 12,596,803; and in 1821, to 14,391,631. The difference between the two first is 1,654,157; and the difference between the census of 1821 and 1811, is 1,794,828; and by adding these, and taking the half, the average increase is 1,724,497.5, a result militating quite against the philosopher's hypothesis. It is also confidently asserted, that food increases only in an arithmetical ratio, while there can be no accurate data for arriving at such a conclusion, as the quantum of food must depend on agricultural exertion, animal produce, and importation of corn. The increase of numbers is still greater in Ireland, and must prove a serious source of distress, if not met, ere long, by some adequate remedy. On reflection, the cultivation of the waste lands, amounting to seventeen millions of acres, would by spade husbandry by paupers, occasion a great outlay of money, without being adequately productive, for a considerable period. It would be much more eligible to sell these lands, as the wealthy purchasers would necessarily employ a great part of the labourers out of employment in their cultivation. The capital procured by such sale would furnish a lasting fund for defraying the expense of sending to Canada, with their own free will and assent, at proper periods, certain portions of the excess of the population, who might be required to bind themselves and their heirs to repay to the native country, at least a part of the expenditure in locating them in a British colony. Voluntarily, or parochially, for obvious reasons, the requisite funds cannot be raised. As all are concerned, all must contribute, by means of the most equitable mode, a moderate property-tax; to compensate for which, Mr. URBAN, Exeter, Feb. 1. IT has been for some time laid down by a far famed writer on political economy, that the human race in Britain doubles itself in every twentyfive years and as it were, by a geo on the north side. The Rubric seems only to refer to the communion service. The Bishop of London would, I hope, have given a better reason for adopting St. John for the Chapel than A. W. assigns, for that would go to exclude St. Chrysostom and St. Athanasius from the Liturgy, and show that the installation service of the Order of the Garter was not only unscriptural, but that his brethren of Winchester and Salisbury were inconsistent in allowing this unscriptural Saint to be there styled "the blessed Martyr and Soldier in Christ." I should conceive that the Prelate's objection was rather against naming the Church after the reigning monarch, than to its having for its patron the tutelar saint of the kingdom of Engle our champion thrice renowned, St. George." ་་ 1831.] Benefits of Emigration.-Tithes. assessed taxes frequently adverted to, and of an unequal description, would be taken off. The beer rendered cheap is found to demoralise more than it benefits. The half of the three millions relinquished, would, laid again on this article, yield an emigrationfund which must be raised by some means, to take off the dangerous pressure of an excess of population without sufficient employment, and stinted in food and former comforts. The Americans hold a steady eye on Canada, of which they will in time attempt to deprive us. The present inhabitants are principally of French descent; and they might not be averse to become American subjects. This is a valid argument for increasing the strength of British population in Canada, convenient also by contiguity, and in a great measure by congeniality of climate. As these emigrations from all parts of the United Kingdom, must unavoidably in future be on a large scale, great embarrassment, if not distress, will arise in the beginning, if the locality is not in some degree previously prepared for the expected settlers. Even the subject Reform itself, frequently treated of judiciously in your really useful publication, is hardly paramount to making a permanent provision for the hundred and seventy-two thousand and odd of annual increase of the population, exclusive, I believe, of the Irish increase. Our oldest records, the sacred Scriptures, inform us, that for the general welfare, gradations among mankind were ordained; and it appears that the land was intended to maintain all born on it, but not in idleness, as the same writings inform us that to eat people must work. We require, at this moment, the head of an Adam Smith to tell us what arrangements ought equitably to be in force between the landlord and tenant, for the due maintenance of the agricultural labourer; and this question the imperious force of circumstances, unhappily arising from the case, appears to be urging to an obvious and unavoidable conclusion. This mighty nation sees and bears evils, long before it applies a manifest remedy. The lives of many of our Clergy were endangered, in illegally exacting a reduction of tithes. This hostility arises from their being received in kind. The Clergyman and tenant ought not to come in contact, 109 not even by composition. The landlord should deliver his due tithe to the Clergyman, in accordance with a periodical arrangement between landlord and tenant, founded on alteration in the value or rent of land. The present procedure injures the attachment that ought to subsist between parishioners and their pastor. If a moderate property-tax be substituted for disadvantageous taxes taken off, the great bulk of tenants will be greatly benefitted, as they or most of them will be exempted in the scale. A small reduction of rent, in addition to this, and to the relief from certain of the Assessed Taxes, will fully enable the tenant at all times to grant adequate wages to his labourers. The Property Tax will be according to a scale of income. For want of this, this tax was formerly unequal and unjust. For instance, suppose two gentlemen with large families to educate, and that one of them has an income of 1000l. and the other 5000l. a year. Were there no scale, the former, at 5l. per cent. would pay 50l. and the latter 2501. Now, Mr. Urban, the man of minor income must part with necessaries, while the other dispenses with luxuries only, if even that. We have pamphlet - writers now, who are constantly inculcating that landowners only pay the public burdens. I am an inhabitant of a town, and if these writers will favour me with a call, I shall convince them that we pay poor rates, church rates, county and city rates, way rates, house tax, and a multiplicity of other matters, from which the landowner is exempt. These writers are severely handled in the periodical prints, because they do much mischief with unblushing effrontery; and from ignorance of their subject, create discontent where harmony is always desirable. Yours, &c. JOHN MACDONALD. Some brief Notices of the Family of COPINGER, of Buxhall, co. Suffolk. (Concluded from p. 15.) THE following extract from "Laventhe pen ham Church," a poem from " of a Child of Nature," thus characterises the Rev. Henry Copinger, whose goodly deeds we noticed in our last number. "The great good Copinger, whose godly ways 'Twere well to imitate in modern days; 1 110 Notices of the Family of Copinger. Maintain'd a character which grac'd our And for its meed a laurel might demand. Oh! let not sacrilege our conscience stain, Mr. Copinger had issue by Anne 3. Henry, who was seated at Kersey, and married Elizabeth, the second daughter of John Sampson, of Sampson's Hall, in that parish. 4. Ralphe, who was a merchant in London, and who, dying at Branford, in Suffolk, was interred in that church, with the following inscription on a flat stone: Copinger arms and crest. "Lett the name and memorie of Ralphe "Who, coming hither, health for to repaire, the ayer. "Obijt Julij An'.Dom'.1658, ætat. suæ 62." 5. Francis, who was seated at Branford, on a daughter of whom there is this inscription on a table monument in the nave of the Church of Akenham in Suffolk : Arms of Copinger. "Under this marble stone resteth the body "For nineteen yeares, I liv'd a virgin life, At thirty-six, pale death my life assail'd, [Feb. 6. Thomas, who was presented by his brother William to the Rectory of Buxhall in 1662, and who died in 1685. Of the daughters, Anne married Joseph Tye, of Clopton, gent., who died on the 5th of August, 1685, and was interred in the nave of that church, where, on a flat stone, is this inscription to his memory: "Here resteth the body of Joseph Tye, gentleman, late of Clopton, who departed this life August 5th, Anno Domini 1685." From this Mr. Henry Copinger, the Rector of Lavenham, was descended the wife of John Moore, of Kentwell Hall, esq. V. I now return to William Copinger, his eldest son. He married Mary, the daughter of Richard Goodday, of Kettlebaston, gent. and dying on the 13th of Jan. 1648, was interred in the chancel of the church of Buxhall, where, on a flat stone, is this inscription to his memory, in small capitals : "Here lyeth the body of William Copinger, esq., expecting the joyfull resurrection, who marryed Mary ye daughter of Richard Goodday, of Kettlebarston, esq., by whom hee had issue 2 sonnes and 6 daughters; and after he had lived peaceablely, charitablely, and piously, departed this life comfortablely, the 13th of January, 1648, in of his age. yeare the 67th "Maria illius relicta, charissimo conjugi, pietatis ergo, mærens posuit." His wife deceased on the 4th of March, 1663, and was interred in the same place, with this inscription on a flat stone to her memory: "Here lyeth the body of Mrs. Mary Copinger, the rellict of William Copinger, esq. who died the 4th day of March 1663." They had issue two sons and six daughters; viz. Henry, of whom hereafter; and William, who in 1662 was presented by his mother to the rectory of Buxhall, and who, dying in 1684-5, was buried in the chancel of that church, where, on a flat stone, is an inscription to his memory, now illegible, with these arms, Copinger, impaling a lion rampant. One of the Reeve, daughters, Ann, married and dying on the 30th of April, 1692, was interred in the chancel of the same church, where, on a flat stone, is the following memorial: "Here under lyeth the body of Dame Ann Reeve, who departed this life the last day of April, 1692.' VI. Henry Copinger, the eldest son 1 1831.] Notices of the Family of Copinger. of William and Mary his wife, succeeded his father as Lord of the Manor of Buxhall. He married Mary the daughter of Henry Herris, of Shenfield, in Essex, gent., and of Mary his wife, the daughter of Sir Harbottle Grimston, Bart., and dying on the 4th of October, 1675, was buried in the chancel of the church of Buxhall, where, on a black marble slab, is this inscription to his memory, in capitals: Arms: Copinger, impaling, on a bend wavy, three estoilettes. "Henrici Copinger, Arm", hic habes totum qd cœlum n' habet. Qui uxorem duxit Mariam, filiam Xri Herris de villâ Shenfield, in agro Essexiensi, Armri, ex quâ sustulit quinquies quaterq. puerpera; superstites filium filiasq. tres. Hos omnes, licet charissimos, lubens reliquit Xris die IV. An D'ni MDCLXXVo. Properavit scil' quo sanctius celebraret maximum cum superis natale. Etat An° LIVo. Hoc monumentum dicta Maria pietatis ergo posuit." He left issue a son and three daughters, viz.: VII. William, who received his academical education at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he proceeded to the degree of A.B. in 1677, and to that of A. M. in 1681. In 1685 he was presented by his father to the Rectory of Buxhall, and deceased in 1708. Anne, who was born in 1661, and, dying on the 21st of Sept. 1693, was interred in the chancel of that church, where, on a flat stone, is this inscription to her memory: Arms of Copinger in a lozenge. "Here lyeth the body of Anne Copinger, one of the daughters of Henry Copinger of Buxhall in the county of Suffolk, esq., who departed this life the 21st of September 1693, and in the yeare of her age 32." VIII. And Sarah, who married Thomas Hill, clerk. He was born in 1678; and received his academical education at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he proceeded to the degree of A.B. in 1700; to that of A.M. in 1704; and to that of S. T. P. in 1719. In 1709, he was presented by his mother-in-law, Mrs. Sarah Copinger, widow, to the Rectory of Buxhall; and, dying on the 4th of Sept. 1743, was interred in the chancel of that church, where, on a mural tablet, is this inscription to his memory: "In memory of Thomas Hill, Doctor of Divinity, many years Rector of this Parish, and in commission of the peace for this county. He married Sarah, daughter and 111 sole heiress of Henry Copinger, esq., Lord of this Manor, by whom he had several children. He died Sept. 4th, 1743, in the sixty-fifth year of his age, and rests in hopes of a blessed immortality. Disce quid es, quid eris, memor esto quod morieris." Hill, esq., Lord of this Manor, and Patron "Near him lyes his eldest son, Thomas aged 35 years. of this Church; he died Sept. 5, 1746, 66 By the side of his grave are deposited the remains of his wife, who departed her life May 4th, 1748, aged 28. And near this marble lye two sons and a daughter of the Rev. Mr. Henry Hill. "Thomas died Feb. 11, 1747, aged 2 years and 9 months.-Susan died April 22, 1755, aged 8 months; and Thomas died June 15, 1756, aged 5 weeks and 4 days.— Lydia, daughter of Thomas Hill, esq. died May 8th, 1759, aged 18 years.-Martin, son of H. Hill, D. D. died Feb. 26, 1761, aged 12 years.-Sarah Hill, relict of Thos. Hill, D.D. died Jan. 17, 1762, aged 76 years.-Copinger, son of H. Hill, D.D. died Sept. 3, 1765, aged 6 years." Dr. Hill left issue several children, of whom, Thomas, the eldest, deceased on the 5th of September, 1746, leaving issue by his wife, who died on the 4th of May, 1748, an only daughter, Lydia, who departed this life on the 8th of May 1759, in the 13th year of her age. IX. Henry, the second son, was educated at Caius College, Cambridge, where he proceeded to the degree of A.B. in 1737, to that of A.M. in 1751, and to that of S. T. P. in 1763. In 1741, he was presented to the Rectory of Tostock, and in 1743 to that of Buxhall. He deceased on the 8th of Nov. 1775, and was interred in the chancel of the church of Buxhall, where, on a mural tablet, is this inscription to his memory : who dying on "Henry Hill, D. D. obiit 8th Novbr 1775, anno ætatis 60." He married Susan the 8th of Sept. 1794, was interred in the same place, where, on another mural tablet, is this inscription to her memory: "Susan Hill, relict of Henry Hill, D.D., obiit Sept. 8, 1794, aged 77." They left issue daughters, viz. : son and He X. Henry, who was born in 1747, a brief memoir of whom is given at pp. 282 and 648 of vol. xcvi. pt. 2. was interred in the chancel of the church of Buxhall, with this inscription to his memory: 112 Notices of the Family of Copinger. "Henry Hill, A.M. obiit 31st July 1826, anno ætatis 79." He married the daughter of Tweed, of Stoke by Clare, gent. by whom he left no issue. The Arms borne by the Copingers of Buck'shall were-Bendy of six, Or and Gul. on a fess Az. three plates. Crest a Chamois-deer's head Sable. In the chancel of the church of Weting St. Mary, in Norfolk, is this inscription: Copinger, impaling, on a bend, three cinquefoils, Kirkham. [Feb. obligations to your Correspondent, who now dates from the Glebe House, Navestock, for his communications on and his known accuracy is such, that the subjects of genealogy and biography; it is with considerable hesitation that I now address you upon the notices of in your last Number, p. 12. There is the family of Copinger, which appear great confusion in the several pedigrees of this family, concerning the early descents. I very much doubt whether Henry Copinger, who married the daughter of Sir Thomas Jermyn of Rushbrook, was the brother of Sir William C. the Lord Mayor of London, and the son of Walter Copinger, who died in 1532; indeed in two or three pedigrees of the family in my possession, no less than two generations are interposed between the said Walter, and the said Henry. The pedigrees I allude to, give the descents as under: Walter Copinger. "Gregory Copinger, of Bromehill-house, who dy'd the 10th Feb. 1724, aged 65 years. Elizabeth his wife, bury'd the 19 of July, 1702, aged 40 years." Yours, &c. J. F. Mr. URBAN, Sir William Copinger, Lord Mayor of London 1512; died 1512. Walter, or Wil-Beatrix, John C. of Roger John Copinger, 1512;Joan, dau. and coh. of Wm. Bond, of C. 3 daugh ters. Thomas, 1512. Henry Coppinger, of Allhallows Hoo, Kent, and of=Agnes, da. of Sir Thomas Jermyn; Buxhall. Another pedigree in my possession makes William Copinger, who married Asherst, the son and not the brother of Sir William C. the Lord Mayor. I have in my possession a small pamphlet of three leaves, not paged, in 4to, printed at London, for T. Bates, by B. A. in 1641, entitled "A Seasonable Speech by Sir Nathaniell Coppinger, spoken in the High Court of Parliament, Oct. 14, 1641, for the bringing of the Archbishop of Canterbury to his long expected Tryall. And concerning the Expulsion of Papists, in respect of their late dangerous Plots; and the correcting of Separatists, in regard of their Errors." Perhaps your Correspondent abovementioned, or some other, may be able to give some information about the above Sir Nathaniel C. I cannot find his name in the list of Members, in the Parliamentary History, nor in any account of the family which I have met with. I should be very glad to have something about him. Also to ascertain how Edmund Copinger, who died 1600. was one of the followers of William In p. 14, col. 1, line 33, for favit we should read pavit; in col. 2, line 7, for Burly, Burlz; in the inscriptions Copinger should have only one p; col. 2, 1. 28, for Clopton read Copinger. The arms on the large shield over the monument of Henry Copinger are:-1 and 6. Copinger.-2. Sturmyn. Qy. Or and Gules; on à bend Sable three escallops Argent.-3. Bond. Argent, two bends Sable, in sinister chief a cross croslet of the Last.-4. Alphage. Argent, a fesse between three boars' heads couped, fesse ways, Sable.-5. Petytt. Argent, a chevron engrailed between three bugle-horns Sable, stringed Gules.-The arms of Fisher are: Argent, on a chevron between three demi-lions rampant Gules, as many Plates. |