During a visit to Sawston, I was invited to look over "the Great House, and its antiquity excited my curiosity to collect a few observations concerning it for the Year Book, which I send you with the accompanying N. E. sketch of the building.

"The Hall" stands detached from the village, south of the church, surrounded with trees and a spacious garden and lawn; it is a large quadrangular building, and was erected in the year 1557, upon the site of a former edifice. In the rooms are the portraits of Sir John Huddleston the protector of queen Mary, and several more of the Huddleston family. "Sir John Huddleston entertained the princess Mary at his house immediately after the death of her brother king Edward VI., and contrived her escape to Framlingham castle in Suffolk, for which his house was plundered by the mob, who took part with lady Jane Gray.

Fuller, in his "History of Cambridge, ' says, "The lady Mary, after her brother's death, hearing queen Jane was proclaim

ed, came five miles off to Sir John Huddleston's, where she heard masse; next day Sir John waited on her in Suffolk, though she for the more secrecy rode on horse-back behind his servant, which servant lived long after, the queen never bestowing any preferment upon him, whether because forgetting him (when memory was engaged on greater matters) or because she conceived the man was rewarded in rewarding his master. Indeed she bestowed great boons on Sir John, and, among the rest, the stones of Cambridge castle, to build his house at Salston. Hereby that stately structure, anciently the ornament of Cambridge, is at this day reduced next to nothing."

The following information I obtained from the present highly esteemed possessor of Sawston Hall. Sir John Huddleston was of the queen's privy counsel, and captain of the guard to king Philip. He was entrusted by the queen with a jurisdiction over part of Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire: she likewise granted him Wilbraham Temple. The Rev. Mr. Hicks, the present possessor of Wilbra

ham, has the original deed of the Grant. Father John Huddleston, a Benedictine Monk of Lampspring in Germany, was Chaplain in the family of Mr. Whitgrave of Moseley in the county of Stafford,who was a principal contriver of king Charles's escape from the battle of Worcester. My informant says "The family of Huddleston is supposed to be Saxon, and to trace five generations before the Conquest. The most ancient residence was Huddleston in Yorkshire, from which place comes the name.-Nine brothers of the Huddleston family are said to have lost their lives in fighting for king Charles." Respecting the commotion, I derive from the same source that "The council took the part of lady Jane. The duke of Northumberland was their general; he had his troops at Cambridge, and the council promised to stand by him, but upon finding the lady Mary had gone from New Hall, a palace of Henry VIII. in Essex, by Copt Hall and Sawston to Framlingham castle in Suffolk, had been joined by the Suffolk men, and had claimed the crown, they deserted him ; i. e. would not acknowledge he had acted under their authority. He therefore, though he threw up his cap in the market place and proclaimed the queen, was beheaded; none of the Tudors being much given to mercy."

It is a singular proof of the tenacity with which the unlettered preserve oral information that, at this day, the village dames tell how the queen escaped the fury of the mob, by quitting "the Hall,” in the disguise of a milk-maid, with a pail on her arm. They say she had got a short distance from the village, when her conductor requested her to look back and see how her enemies had served Sawston-hall; the lady Mary turned her eyes and saw it in flames; she immediately promised that, if ever she was made queen of England, Sawston Hall should be rebuilt of stone, and by that means defy the fury of the lawless element. Traditional report, however seemingly vague and desultory, has a connexion with fact.-The village now presents

The joys of liberty and smiling Peace! No doubt further interesting particulars of this momentous era are capable of being added, and your attention and that of your numerous literary friends is respectfully solicited to the subject. Cambridge. T. N.

A LADY'S SONG.

The wise man sees his winter close
Like evening on a summer day;
Each age, he knows, its roses bears,
Its mournful moments and its gay.
Thus would I dwell with pleasing thought
Upon my spring of youthful pride;
Yet, like the festive dancer, glad

To rest in peace at eventide.
The gazing crowds proclaim'd me fair,

Ere, autumn-touch'd, my green leaves fell: And now they smile and call me good-

Perhaps I like that name as well.

On beauty bliss depends not; then

Why should I quarrel with old time? He marches on: how vain his power With one whose heart is in its prime ! Though now perhaps a little old,

Yet still I love with youth to bide; Nor grieve I if the gay coquettes

Seduce the gallants from my side.
And I can joy to see the nymphs

For fav'rite swains their chaplets twine,
In gardens trim, and bowers so green,
With flowerets sweet, and eglantine.
I love to see a pair defy

The noontide heat in yonder shade;
To hear the village song of love
Sweet echoing through the woodland glade.
I joy too (though the idle crew

Mock somewhat at my lengthen'd tale,) To see how lays of ancient loves

The listening circle round regale.
They fancy time for them stands still,

And pity me my hairs of gray,
And smile to hear how once ther sires
To me could kneeling homage pay.
And I, too, smile, to gaze upon

These butterflies in youth elate,
So heedless, sporting round the flame
Where thousand such have met their fate.
Comtesse Barbe de Verrue.

September 5.

5th September, 1569, died Edmund Bonner. He was bishop of London in the reign of Henry VIII., but in 1549 was deposed by king Edward VI. and committed to the Marshalsea, whence he was released in 1559, and restored to the see by queen Mary, during whose reign he exercised the office of an ecclesiastical judge, condemned two hundred persons to the flames for their religion, and caused great numbers of others to suffer imprisonment. In his violent proceedings

against Richard Gibson, a gentleman, who, being surety for a debt, was imprisoned in the Poultry Compter, Bonner required him to confess or deny whether, if at liberty, he would go "in procession" with others to his parish church upon appointed days, "bear a taper or a candle upon Candlemas-day, take ashes upon Ash Wednesday, bear palm upon PalmSunday, creep to the cross upon days and and times accustomed, receive and kiss the pax, &c." Bonner pronounced the fatal sentence against him, and "he valiantly underwent the cruel death of burning in Smithfield." About the same time, Cardinal Pole, as legate, interposed between Bonner and two-and-twenty Colchester people, and saved their lives. Bonner wrote to the Cardinal, "that he thought to have had them all to Fulham, and to have given sentence against them.” He whipped some of the victims of his judicial character with his own hands. In Fox's "Acts and Monuments" there is a wood-cut of his inflicting this punishment on Thomas Henshawe. When the print was shown to Bonner, he laughed at it, saying, "A vengeance on the fool, how could he get my picture drawn so right?" He was commonly called "Bloody Bonner." On the accession of queen Elizabeth, this cruel man was finally dismissed from the bishopric of London, and again committed to the Marshalsea. He died in that prison, and was buried in St. George's church-yard in the borough.* The following epigram was found attached to his monument :

If Heaven be pleased when sinners cease to sin,

If Hell be pleased when sinners enter in,
If Earth be pleased when it hath lost a knave,
Then all are pleased! for Bonner's in his
grave.

street, where she had lived by his bounty nearly twenty years, Mrs. Anna Williams, who had long been deprived of her sight. She published, in 1745, the "Life of Julian," from the French of M. de la Bleterie. In 1766, she published a volume of "Miscellanies in Prose and Verse," 4to. Dr. Johnson wrote several of the pieces contained in the volume. She was the daughter of Zachariah Williams, who published a pamphlet printed in English and Italian, intitled, "An Account of an Attempt to ascertain the Longitude at Sea, by an exact Theory of the Variation of the Magnetical Needle. With a table of Variations at the most memorable Cities in Europe, from the year 1660 to 1680," 1755, 4to. English part of this work was written by Dr. Johnson, the Italian by Mr. Baretti. In Boswell's life of Johnson there are interesting memorials of Johnson's kindness to Mrs. Williams, and her grateful attachment to him.

The

DR. JOHNSON'S MAN, "FRANK." Francis Stewart was the son of a shopkeeper in Edinburgh. He was brought up to the law, and for several years employed as a writer in some of the principal offices of Edinburgh. Being a man of good natural parts, and given to literature, he frequently assisted in digesting and arranging MSS. for the press; and, among other employments of this sort, he used to boast of assisting, or copying some of the juvenile productions of the afterwards celebrated Lord Kaimes, when he was very young, and a correspondent with the Edinburgh Magazine. When he came to London he stuck more closely to the press; and, in this walk of copying, or arranging for the press, he got recom mended to Dr. Johnson, who then lived in Gough-square. Frank was a great admirer of the doctor, and upon all occasions consulted him; and the doctor had also a very respectable opinion of his amanuensis, Frank Stuart, as he always familiarly called him. But it was not only in collecting authorities that “Frank” was employed; he was the man who did every thing in the writing way for him, and managed all affairs between the doctor, his bookseller, and his creditors, who were then often very troublesome, besides every species of business the doctor had to do out of doors. For this he was much better qualified than the doctor himself,

as he had been more accustomed to common business, and more conversant in the "ways of men."

In another department, besides collecting authorities, Frank was remarkably useful to Dr. Johnson; this was, in explanation of low cant phrases, which the doctor used to get Frank to give his explanation of first. All words relating to gambling and cardplaying, such as All-fours, Catch-honors, Cribbage, &c., were, among the “ "typos," said to be Frank's, corrected by the doctor, for which he received a second payment. At the time this happened Johnson's Dictionary was going on printing very briskly in three departments, letter D, G, and L, being at work upon at the same time; and the doctor was, in the printing-house phrase, "out of town," that is, had received more money than he had produced MS.; for the proprietors restricted him in his payments, and would answer no more demands from him than at the rate of a guinea for every sheet of MS. copy he delivered, which was paid him by Mr. Strahan on delivery; and the doctor readily agreed to this. The copy was written upon quarto post paper, and in two columns each page. The doctor wrote, in his own hand, the words and their explanation, and generally two or three words in each column, leaving a space between each for the authorities, which were pasted on as they were collected by the different clerks or amanuenses employed. In this mode the MS. was so regular, that the sheets of MS. which made a sheet of print could be very exactly ascertained. Every guinea parcel caine after this agreement regularly tied up, and was put upon a shelf in the corrector's room till wanted. The MS. being then in great forwardness, the doctor supplied copy faster than the printers called for it; and in one of the heaps of copy it happened that, upon giving it out to the compositors, some sheets of the old MS. that had been printed off were found among the new MS. paid for. This led to a charge against the doctor of having obtained double payment for the same MS. copy. As the MS. was then in such a ready and forward state, it is but justice to the doctor's character to say, that he does not appear to have been driven to his shifts so much as to make use of this shabby trick to get three or four guineas, for the sum amounted to no more. It is probable that it happened by the doctor's

keeping the old copy, which was always returned to him with the proof, in a disorderly manner. Besides this there was another mode of accounting for it, which, at that time, was very current in the printing-house. In addition to his old and constant assistant, Stuart, the Doctor had several others, some of them not of the best characters; one of this class had been lately discharged, whom the doctor had been very kind to, notwithstanding all his loose and idle tricks; and it was generally supposed that the rogue had fallen upon the expedient of picking up the old MS. to raise a few guineas, finding the money so readily paid on the MS. as he delivered it. Upon the whole, every body was inclined to acquit the doctor, as he had been well known to have rather "too little thought about money matters." What served to complete the doctor's acquittal was, that, immediately on the discovery, Frank supplied the quantum of right copy (for it was ready); which set every thing to rights, and that in the course of an hour or two.

Frank usually “ spent his evenings" at the Bible, in Shire Lane, a house of call for bookbinders and printers; where he was in good esteem among some creditable neighbours that frequented the backroom. Except his fuddling, he was a very worthy character; yet his drinking and conviviality, he used to say, he left behind him at Edinburgh, where his intimacy with some jovial wits and great card-players made his journey to London very prudent and necessary, as nothing but such a measure could break off the connexion. Before Frank determined on quitting Edinburgh, he took some pains to bring his companions to order and good hours; and one of his efforts in this way was his writing a song of four verses, to the famous old tune of "Woe's my heart that we should sunder;" every verse concluded with a chorus line, “ Let's leave lang-jinks but never sunder."

In one of his Edinburgh night rambles, Frank and his companions met with the mob-procession when they were conducting Captain Porteus to be hanged; and Frank and his companions were next day examined about it before the towncouncil, when, as he used to say, 66 we were found to be too drunk to have had any hand

Lang jinks is the name for lansquenet in Scotland among gamesters.