of Sir Rich. Browne, of Sayes Court near Deptford in Kent, onely one daughter, Susanna married to William Draper, Esq., of Adscomb in this County, survived him; the two others dying in the flower of their age, and all the Sons very young, except one, named John, who deceased 24 March, 1698-9, in the 45 year of his age, leaving one son, John, and one daughter, Elizabeth. His "virtuous and excellent wife" reposes in a like sepulchre on the left hand side of the entrance, and the goodly effigies of his ancestors surround the walls. Among these may be seen the twentyfour children of George Evelyn, Esq., who died in 1603, kneeling on stony cushions, with their hands clasped in the attitude of prayer, saving three or four infants who, strangely swathed with sundry bandages, are lying at the feet of their brethren.

Besides those already mentioned, the church contains several monuments, among which are two tablets to the memory of the earl of Rothes, and the deceased members of his family. His lordship's eulogy, written by his countess, paints his virtues in glowing colors; it concludes thus-" His afflicted widow, and once happy wife, inscribes this marble; an unequal testimony of his worth and excellence, and her affection, wishing that heaven to her may grace supply, to live as well, and as prepared to die." On the opposite side is a fair tablet, denoting the vault of the ancient family of the Steeres, Ockley.

The exterior of the church has been partly modernised; and were it not for the beauty of its situation, and the circumstance of its containing the ashes of John Evelyn, would little deserve attention. The porch represented in the accompanying sketch is the interesting spot where he was taught to read by the village schoolmaster.

It may not, perhaps, be generally known, that Mr. William Glanville, one of the clerks of the treasury, reposes behind the church, and that yearly, on the anniversary of his death, which happened in January, 1717, forty shillings, in accordance to his last will, are or were paid to five poor boys of Wotton, upon condition that they should, with their hands laid on his tomb, reverently re

THE PALACE OF WORLDLY FELICITIE. *

The palace was situated, or built, in a pleasant vallie upon the foote of a high mountain, environed with hills on every side, whereby it was not only defended from force of tempests which way soever the wind blew, but the very hills themselves were very sightly and serviceable; for on the one side was a goodly vineyard, wherein grew grapes of sundry sorts; on the other side it yielded a great quantity of graine; on another side were proper woods, which yielded a good store of timber and trees, wherein bred all manner of birds; on another side were warrens and conniborrowes full of hares and connies; in another place was a goodly park, wherein was no want of deer, red or fallow.

Beyond these hills were goodly forests full of gentlemanly game for hunting. In the valley where the palace stood, was a marvellous faire greene meadow, through the middest whereof ran a river of fine fresh water, upon the brimmes whereof, on both sides along, grew apple trees, peare trees, plum trees, olive trees, elder trees, oke trees, elm trees, and such like; fast by the goodly banke, also, grew many young hasil trees full of nuts, at the time of the yeere; and, by that againe, such store of walnut trees; besides many ponds of fish, and excellent orchards of all kinds of fruits, and goodly gardens also of sweet flowers. The river was not without great store of waterfouls; and, as for the wood, there bred in it hawkes, hernes, pelicans, phesants, cranes, woodcocks, bitterns, kites, crows, cormorants, turtles, woodquists, eagles; to be short, all kinds of birds possible, as might be perceived by the feathers, which fell from them to the ground pruning themselves; what should I speak of pigin houses, and of such bankitting places, fine and delicate? why it were but folly. Besides all this, you

*From the Voyage of the Wandering Knight, translated from the French by W. G., and dedicated to Sir F. Drake. (Black letter.)

must think what there were of tennis courts, and other places of pastimes, the walls thereof were very high, insomuch that it would have made one amazed, and desire to look down from the top. There was also a marvailouse moate, and, fearful to behold, the bridge whereof was not broad, and called Desperation, the passage over being a long narrow plank, so that, if one went awrie, he fell in with hazard never to be recovered. The stables were full of goodly horses, as hobbies, jennets, barbed horses, geldings, hackneys, mules, camels, and colts; the kennels full of dogs, as grey-hounds, otter-hounds, harehounds, spaniels for land or water, mastives for bull, beare, and boare. We supt in a banketting house, and our supper excelled all the fare that ever I saw.*

FLITTON.

[For the Year Book.]

I.

We passed the low stone wall, and stood
Beside the heedless dead,
That lay unknowing and unknown'

Each in his narrow bed-
Oe'r which the mellow summer sun
Its ev'ning glories shed.

II.

And on the sleek and verdant sod,
A lengthened shadow threw,
Where'er an unpretending stone

Or hillock rose to view;

Trophies that proved death's kingly claim, Beyond all pleading, true.

III.

And there, the church-yard path beside,
A dial stood, to show

How, fleeter than the light-wing'd wings,
Our minutes come and go,
And certain and unceasing change
Await on all below.

IV.

We gazed upon its tarnished face,

Just as the solemn chime

Rocked the grey tow'r whose sun-lit walls
Rose on our gaze sublime-
And, to the well-tuned heart, it seemed
To say " Redcem the time."

V.

And now we sought the welcome porch,
Upon whose front are shown-
With russet moss that lies in spots,

And lichens overgrown,

The bearings of my Lord de Grey,
Carved daintily in stone.†

Flitton church, Bedfordshire, was probably built in the early part of the fifteenth century, by Reginald lord Grey, whose arms, quartering those of Hastings, are carved on the porch.

VI.

Three azure bars, with other three
Between, of virgin white,
Which cunningly enwrought were borne,
By that redoubted knight,
Sir Henry, at Caerlaveroc,
When Edward led the fight.*

VII.

We sat within its quiet shade
And on the sunny scene,
More lovely by the contrast made,
And pleasingly serene,

Gazed with a joy we scarce had known,
Since life was young and green,

VIII.

Ere pleasure had been linked to pain-
And asked ourselves the while,
"toil so hard to gain
Why man should

A monumental pile"
That, whilst it craves the stranger's tear,
Provokes the scorner's smile.

IX.

But now the grey old oaken door

Swung open to the touch, And up and down the breezy aisle

We passed, and pondered much ; Nor, as we spoke of mortal man, Forgot that we were such.

X.

For as we came within its walls
So calm a freshness fell
Upon our minds, we deemed that here
That perfect peace must dwell
Which scatters, from its healing wings,
Delights which none can tell;

XI.

And feared that our unhallowed haste,
And sounding step, had scared
The gentle spirit from its rest-

Which, as it upward fared,

Had waked those stirrings in the air Whose influence we shared.

XII.

And hence, with staid and thoughtful mien, We moved along the nave,

And through a stately iron gate."

Caerlaveroc castle, in Scotland, was besieged by Edward I., in 1300. Amongst his followers was Henry de Grey, a member of this honorable family. His arms, which are precisely the same with those here described, are thus set forth in the old rhyming narra tive of the siege :

“Henri de Grai, bi ie la

Abec son bon seigneur le compte,
Banier avoit il par droit conte
De VE pieces, là vrai mesur—
Barre de argent e de azur."

The distinguished and amiable, but ill-fated lady Jane, came of this stock.

+ The Columbarium of the Greys is entered from the nave. It consists of four

12th August, 1662, died Charles Seymour, the proud Duke of Somerset. Charles II., in the last year of his reign, made him a knight of the garter. James II. appointed him a lord of the bed chamber; and for refusing to introduce Ferdinando Dada, Archbishop of Amasia, the Pope's nuncio, to the public audience at Windsor, discharged him from his place in the palace; and from the army, as colonel of the third regiment of dragoons. The duke concurred in the Revolution, but kept in retirement at the beginning of William's reign. He afterwards took office as president of the council, and a lord justice. Under Queen Ann he was master of the horse, a privy counsellor, and a commissioner for the Union; but at the change of the ministry he was superseded. self into the council at Kensington, which With the Duke of Argyle, he forced himhad been summoned to deliberate upon the death of the queen, and disconcerted the plans of the tories. George I. named him a lord justice, and guardian of the realm, and on his landing restored him to all his employments; yet, on bail being refused for his son-in-law, Sir William Wyndham, who was suspected of holding intelligence with the Court of St. Germain's, he expressed his sentiments so warmly that he was removed from his office of master of the horse. He had boundless pride. In the reign of Queen Ann he ordered his servants to wear the same livery as her majesty's footmen; and shot their dresses from a cart into the court of the palace. He claimed to be

common to nail horse-shoes on the thresholds of doors; which is to hinder the power of witches that enter into the house. Most houses of the west of London have the horse-shoe on the threshold. It should be a horse-shoe that one finds. In the Bermudas they use to put an iron into the fire when a witch comes in. Mars is enemy to Saturn." He adds, "Under the porch of Staninfield Church, in Suffolk, I saw a tile with a horse-shoe upon it, placed there for this purpose, though one would imagine that Holy Water would alone have been sufficient. I am told there are many other similar instances." In 1797, Mr. Brand says, "In Monmouthstreet, many horse-shoes nailed to the thresholds are still to be seen. There is one at the corner of Little Queen-street, Holborn." April 26th, 1813, Mr. Ellis "counted no less than seventeen horseshoes in Monmouth-street, nailed against the steps of doors."

In Gay's Fable of "The Old Woman and her Cats," the supposed Witch complains as follows:

:

Crouds of boys Worry me with eternal noise; Straws laid across my pace retard,

The horse-shoe's nailed (each threshold's guard),

The stunted broom the wenches hide,
For fear that I should up and ride.

"

"That the horse-shoe may never be pulled from your threshold" occurs among the good wishes introduced by Barton Holiday in his "Marriage of the Arts." Nailing of horse-shoes seems to have been practised as well to keep witches in, as to keep them out. Mr. Douce's manuscript notes upon his copy of Bourn's "Vulgar Errors,' say, "The practice of nailing horse-shoes to thresholds resembles that of driving nails into the walls of cottages among the Romans, which they believed to be an antidote against the plague; for this purpose L. Manlius, A. U. C. 390, was named Dictator, to drive the nail. See Mr Lumisden's Remarks on the Antiquities of Rome, p. 148."

Misson says, in his travels in England, "Having often observed a horse-shoe nailed to the threshold of a door (among the meaner sort of people), I asked several what was the reason of it; they gave me several different answers; but the most general was, that they were put there to keep out witches. It is true they laugh when they say this, but yet they do not

laugh at it altogether; for they believe there is, or at least may be, some secret virtue concealed in it; and, if they were not of this opinion, they would not be so careful as they are to nail it to their thresholds."

HANDSEL.

Misson, after remarking as above, upon horse-shoes, says, "This little superstition puts me in mind of another. A woman that goes much to market told me, t'other day, that the butcher-women of London, those that sell fowls, butter, eggs &c., and in general most trades' people have a particular esteem for what they call handsel, that is to say, the first money they receive in a morning; they kiss it, spit upon it, and put it in a pocket by itself." Lemon explains "Handsell" to be, "the first money received at market, which many superstitious people will spit on, either to render it tenacious that it may remain fairy gift, or else to render it propitious with them, and not vanish away like a and lucky, that it may draw more money to it." The latter is at this day (1831) the prevailing belief with lovers of handsel among the London dealers in markets, and hawkers of provision in the streets.

GUILD OF THE ASSUMPTION. Mr. Dawson Turner, in his work on Normandy, describes a ceremony of the Guild of the Assumption, at Dieppe, instituted by the governor des Morets, in 1443, in honor of the final expulsion of the English. Des Morets himself was the first grand master of the guild.

About midsummer the principal inhabitants used to assemble at the Hotel de Ville, and there they selected the girl of the most exemplary character to represent the Virgin Mary, and, with her, six other young women to act the parts of the daughters of Sion. The honor of figuring in this holy drama was greatly coveted; and the historian of Dieppe gravely assures us that the earnestness felt on the occasion