pictures done by some of the greatest Italian masters. have been altered to the Roman gothic. The chapterThe library joins to the gallery, and is a grand collection of valuable books, both ancient and modern. The prospect from the house is the most delightful, that can be imagined, reaching to a vast extent over the forest; and the gardens are laid out with all that elegance by which true taste is distinguished. The park, which is very extensive, is inclosed with a stone wall in some parts, and in others by wooden pales; and within are plenty of deer, and a great variety of other game. On the whole, this may be considered as one of the most delightful spots in England.

house, built in 1377, is elegantly gothic. The choir was built in the reign of Edward III., and is a mixture of Saxon and gothic. The college, or vicarage, was rebuilt by subscription, in 1780. In 1784, a new library was erected; and in the same year the parade, a most commodious walk, planted on each side with trees, was made in the north side of the church-yard. In the church are several very ancient tombs, and many antiquities have been discovered in it. Near the chapter-house is a free-school, where several boys are qualified for the university, there being two scholarships for them in St. John's College, CamTUXFORD is a small but neat town, on the high road bridge. The chapter§ consists of sixteen prebendaries,|| six from London to York. The greater part of this town vicars-choral,¶ an organist, six singing men, six choristers, was burnt down in the year 1702, but was afterwards six boys, a register, a treasurer, an auditor,*with a verger, † rebuilt. In the neighbourhood of Tuxford is the village and other proper officers. Here are two synods, held of Broadham, which was formerly famous for its abbey. every year, by virtue of a commission from the archWORKSOP is a small town, pleasantly situated in a valley bishop of York. The jurisdiction of the Chapter extends near the source of the river Ryton. This place was also over twenty-eight parishes, the secular § business of formerly noted for its abbey, which was founded in the which is transacted by a vicar-general, || who must be reign of Henry I., for monks of the order of St. Augus- acquainted with the civil law. The vicar-general, who tine. According to the return made by the commissioners, is chosen by the Chapter out of their own body, holds at the dissolution of the religious houses, it appears to visitations twice a year. The civil government here is have been richly endowed, at which time its annual reve-distinct from that of the county, and is called the Soke of nues amounted to 302l. It was burnt down in 1764, but Southwell-with-Scroby, a town near Blyth. was afterwards rebuilt. Near this town is the noble seat the remains of a once magnificent palace, which was of the dukes of Norfolk. The ancient structure, con- demolished in the time of the civil wars; and also of taining 500 rooms, was burnt to the ground in 1761, several chapels and other religious foundations. Southtogether with the library, furniture, paintings, and other well is 128 miles from London. curiosities, the whole loss of which was estimated at 100,000l. The present building was erected under the direction of Mr. Payne, and is considered one of the noblest mansions in the kingdom. Worksop is twenty miles from Nottingham, and 158 from London.

BLYTH, a very trifling town, but a very extensive parish, is seated on the borders of Yorkshire. It is near Bawtrey, on the road from Retford: it is chiefly noted for its large gothic church, with its lofty tower and ancient monuments. It is a place of great antiquity, and had formerly a castle, but which has long since been demolished. Here was formerly a monastery founded for Benedictine monks.

SOUTH WELL is beautifully situated on a rising ground, in the midst of an amphitheatre of hills, on a stream called the Greef, a branch of the river Trent, at the distance of about ten miles from Nottingham. By some antiquarians, this place is supposed to be the Adpontem of the Romans. Southwell is chiefly noted for its church, which is both parochial * and collegiate, t the only one that is so in England, except that of Rippon. It is called a minster, and is supposed to have been founded in the year 630, by Paulinus, the first archbishop of York. The middle of the western part of the cathedral is of Saxon architecture, and is said to have been built in the reign of HAROLD, with windows circular at the top, small, and ornamented. The pillars are large, plain, and singularly massive, with capitals sparingly decorated; the arches are simple, circular, and heavy; the roof is of timber; the towers and spires are of Roman construction: the spires are supposed to have been erected on the towers about the reign of William Rufus, but the towers themselves about 1023. Some of the windows

PAROCHIAL, belonging to a parish.

A COLLEGIATE CHURCH is that which is endowed for a society, or body corporate, consisting of a dean and secular priests, without a bishop of this kind is Westminster Abbey.

An abridgment of the word monastery.

Here are

EAST RETFORD, a small but neat town, is pleasantly situated on the river Idle, over which there is a bridge to West Retford. It received its name from a ford which

§ CHAPTER, (a term in Canon Law,) a congregation of clergymen, under the dean, in a cathedral church; an assembly held by a religious order for deliberating on their affairs, and regulating their discipline ;-the places in which the assemblies of the clergy are held.

A PREBENDARY is an ecclesiastic or clergyman who enjoys a Prebend.

maintenance.

A PREBEND (from præbo, Lat. to allow) is a small living in a cathedral or collegiate church, for the maintenance of the prebendary; or, in other words, a prebend is the allowance or stipend that a prebendary receives out of the estate of a cathedral or collegiate church for his VICARS-CHORAL are those who have the government or management of the choir. The term vicar is from the Latin word vicarius, signifying one that performs the place or office of another. 2. A priest of a parish, the predial tithes of which belong either to a chapter or to a layman, who receives them, and only allows the vicar the small tithes, or a convenient stipend or salary. The predial tithes are such as are paid from things growing from the ground only.

• AUDITOR, one who examines and passes either public or private accounts: one who hears or is present when any thing is delivered in public. + VERGER, an officer who carries a rod tipped with silver before a bishop, dean, &c.; also certain officers of the courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, whose business it is to carry white wands before the judges.

SYNOD, an assembly of clergymen, generally provincial.

§ SECULAR, relating to the affairs of the present world, opposed to spiritual or holy ;-belonging to the laity. A secular priest is a person not bound by the rules of any monastic society.

VICAR GENERAL was a title first given to Thomas Cromwell, earl

of Essex, with full power to oversee the clergy, and regulate all matters

relating to church affairs.

¶ CIVIL LAW, properly, is the peculiar law of a city, country, or state; but what is usually meant by the civil law, is a body of laws composed out of the best Roman laws, compiled from the laws of nature and nations; and, for the most part, received and observed throughout al the Roman dominions for upwards of 1200 years. The civil law, however, here noticed, is not received at this day, in any one nation, without some addition or alteration; for sometimes the feudal law is mixed up with it, or general, or particular customs; and often ordinances and statutes are cut off from a great part of it; or, in other words, civil law is that which is opposed to the common, and implies the Roman law, contained in the institutes, digests, and codes.

was anciently over the river Idle; and the epithet red was added from a reddish clay, which is found here in great plenty. It was formerly written Redford. This place is ohiefly noted for hops and malt.

applied himself chiefly to the study of natural philosophy, and left behind him several learned treatises, some of which have been since published in the Philosophical Transactions. He had great skill in teaching the deaf Among the most memorable' persons éf Nottingham- and dumb to speak, on which he wrote a treatise. He shire were ROBERT HOOD, or HEAD, but more generally also published a "Treatise on Harmony," in 8vo. in 1694. known by the name of ROBIN HOOD; DRS. CRANMER, Another work of his was a "Discourse concerning Time." DARWIN, HOLDER, and STERNE; JOHN HOLLES, DENZIL in 8vo. He died in London, in 1697.

LORD HOLLES.

HOLLES, WILLIAM CHAPPEL, KIPPIS, WARBURTON, DODSLEY, WAKEFIELD, R. WHITE, and HENRY KIRKE WHITE. Robin Hood is supposed to liave been the son of a nobleman. He was long the ringleader. of a gangof JOHN HOLLES, the first earl of Clare of that name, was robbers who infested Sherwood Forest, and the towns of born at Haughton in 1564. He greatly distinguished himits vicinity; but in all his offences he never committed self in the wars of the Netherlands, in those against the acts of cruelty, except in his own defence. His many Turks, in the defeat of the Spanish Armada, and in suppranks, and benevolence to the poor, but with other pressing the Irish rebels. In the reign of James I. he was people's money, made his villanies less detested; and thrown into prison, but after remaining a few weeks, he perhaps secured him from undergoing the punishment he so jnstly deserved. In his old age he retired to a convent in Yorkshire, where, it is said, he was bled to death; but of this there is no certain proof.

came out, to the surprise of every one, a Baron of England, having paid for his dignity 10,000l, to the then great favourite, the duke of Buckingham; and for the dignity of Earl Clare he gave 50001. to the same nobleman in 1624; nevertheless in the beginning of the reign of Charles I. he became one of the duke's most violent enemies, nor did 3,384 his enmity terminate until the death of the latter, who fell 5,566 by the hands of an assassin, named Felton, at Portsmouth, 1,113 when he was upon the point of making a descent upon 1,769 France. Both before and after the death of Buckingham, 3,735 Holles employed his whole time in endeavouring to supPort the rights of the people, in opposition to the arbitrary proceedings of the ministry; and in this arduous task he persevered till his death, which happened on the 4th of October, 1637,, in the 73d year of his age.

Retford East & Par 2,491 Blyth Parish.
Nottinghamshire sends ten members to Parliament;
namely, four, for the county, two for Nottingham, to for
Newark, and two for East Retford.

BIOGRAPHICAL MEMORANDA OF NOTTING-
HAMSHIRE.

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LORD DENZIL HOLLES.

DENZIL HOLLES, the second son of Lord Holles, was born at his father's seat in this county, in 1597. He was DR. RICHARD STERNE, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. chosen a member of parliament in 1627, and in 1641 he RICHARD STERNE, archbishop of Canterbury, descended was one of the five members accused of high treason, by from a good family, was born in this county in 1598. He King Charles I., in consequence of which harsh treatment received the rudiments of his education at the free he sided with the Parliament on the breaking out of the gramcivil wars. He strongly opposed, however, the taking mar-school, at Nottingham, but finished his studies at Christ-church College, Oxford, where he took his degrees away the king's life, and the usurpation of Cromwell; and and entered into holy orders. He was afterwards ap- afterwards heartily. concurred in the Restoration. For pointed one of the chaplains to Archbishop Laud; and these instances of his loyalty, he was advanced by Charles when the, archbishop was committed to the tower, Dr. the Second to the dignity of baron of England by the title He died in 1688, Sterne was sent with him, where he remained till the of Lord Holles of Isfield, in Sussex. archbishop was beheaded, when he was set at liberty. aged 81. For a time he lived in great obscurity, until the restoration of Charles II., when he was appointed bishop of Carlisle, and soon after, translated to the archbishopric.of Canterbury, which he continued to enjoy until his death, which happened in 1684, when he was interred under a handsome monument in his own cathedral.*

DR. HOLDER.

WILLIAM HOLDER, D.D. a native of this county, was born in the reign of James I. He received the first rudiments of his education at the free-school at Nottingham, and finished his studies at Pembroke College, Oxford. He

LAWRENCE STERNE, also a celebrated divine, was a native of Clonmel in the south of Ireland. He was born in 1713, and died in 1768. . He was a writer of original and great powers. His works consist of the Life and Opinions of Tristrarm Shandy, Sermons, a Senti-. mental Journey, and Letters, published since his death.

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