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houfe adjoining, which might once have been a great tavern; or elle formerly,

when the old Guildhall was used for the corporation, there was adjoining to it a capital houfe of entertainment, to fupply the body corporate with fome of the good things of this life, in which they delight; and in which there might have been a large pleasant room, according to the tafte of thofe days, with a handfome carved chimney-piece, on which the landlord chofe to have feveral emblematical reprefentations, which in thofe days might have furnished much entertainment to his guests, and given an additional goat to their repaft. The fourth emblem I am at a lofs to make out. Some think it an emblem of the Trinity, others a fhip mark. Again, others fuppofe a great merchant lived here, that the dolphin was an emblem of his fhip failing over the main, and that this fourth emblem was the mark or feal he made use of in his tranfactions of bufinefs. However, the difcuffion of this point must be left to wifer heads than mine to determine.

Other conjectures are, that this houfe ftanding in the ancient Afh-market, įt was the dwelling of an eminent fishmonger, as in Catholic times this trade B. A. was of confequence.

Mr. URBAN, Andover, March 2.
S there any monumental infcription

I in the church of Wyly, in Wiles, to

the memory of the Rev. Thomas Botver, or to the Rev. John Lee, both rectors of that parish, who died about 1620? I am informed, by the son of a-late rector, that what the register of that parish fays concerning thofe perfons is highly curious, and with fome correfpondent would fend you a tranfcript of it.

Yours, &c.

SEARCH.

Mr. URBAN,

Mar. 26.

I SEND you a copy of an original let

ter of Oliver Cromwell's in my poffeffion. It is fomewhat difficult to afcertain the letters of the name of the minifter to whom it is written. But I have copied them exactly, as well as the whole of the letter, which is written in a very fmall hand, and is endorfed, "Oliver Cromwell's l're to M. Hicch of Ely in 1643," in the fame hand as the letter itfelf.

A COUNTRY RECTOR.

"Mr. Hitch,

"Leaft the fouldiers fhould in any tumultary or diforderly way attempt the reformation of the cathedrall church, I require you to forbear altogether your quire fervife, foe unedifyeing and offenfive; and this as you will answer it, if any diforder

fhould arife thereupon.

"I advise you to cattichife, and read and expound the Scripture to the people; not doubting but the Parliament, with the advife of the Affembly of Divines, will in due tyme direct you further.

"I defire your fermons, where ufually
they have bin-but more frequent.
Y'r lov' friend,

January 10, 1643. OLIVER CROMWELL."
Feb. 10.

Mr. URBAN,

THE

HE inclofed (plate III. fig. 2.) is a drawing of a filver coin found near London Bridge. I take it to be a penny of Edward III. ftruck at the BiIt reads on hop of Durham's mint. the obverfe fide,

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GLI

which must be for Edwardus Rex Angli; and on the reverfe,

.....ITĀS DVREME

It has a crofs for Civitas Dureme. pattee for a mint-mark; and on the reverfe one part of the cross is formed into a crofier, to fhew it was ftruck at B. the Bishop's mint.

It is the most common of all marks-a merchant's mark.

EDIT.

SUMMARY OF THE PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT, SESS. V.

Debates in the Fifth Seffion of Parliament.

(Continued from p. 136.)

Friday, December 7.

MR. Jervoise prefented a bill for the

rebuilding of the parish church of Saint James Clerkenwell, which was read the first time.

Several papers from the Eaft India-ho. the titles having been previously read, were ordered to be laid on the table.

GENT. MAG. March, 1788.

The land-tax and malt-duty bills were read a first and fecond time.

A bill for regulating the marine forces while on fhore was read the first and fe

cond time.

The order of the day being read, for the House refolving itself into a committee of the whole Houfe, for taking into confideration the granting of a fupply to his Majesty, and Mr. Gilbert having taken the chair;

The

summary of Proceedings in the prefent Son of Parliament.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved, that the fum of 17.4074. 55. 11d. be granted to his Majefty, for defraying the expences incurred by the late naval armaicht. Ketolved.

That the fum of 9,878 45. be gran ted to his Majefty, ter detraying the additional expences of the army. Retoived, That 13 3001. os. Sd be started for the expences of the Ordnance. Reiolved.

That the fum of 58,1661. be granted to his Majefte, being a fum iffued from the civil list for fecret fervices abroad. Refolved.

That the fum of 20,cocl. be granted to his Majefty, for the like fum iffued for the repairs of Carlton-houfe, in compliance with the addrefs of the Houfe of Commons to his Majefty. Refolved.

That 60,ool. be granted to his Majefly, for the like fum iffued for the payment of the debts of his Roval High neis the Prince of Wales, conformably to an addrefs of that Houfe. Refolved.

That the further fum of 101,000l. be granted for the payment of his Royal Hi, heeft's debts, making in the whole the fum of 161.000l. the fum voted by Parliament for the purpose. Refolved.

And that the fum of 17.4961. 143. 6d. be granted to bis Majefly, to make good the funt iued in compliance with the addrelles from that Houfe to his Majefty. Relolved.

Mr. Burke brought up the report of the committee appointed to confider of the anfwer delivered at the bar of the Houfe of Lords by Warren Haftings, to the charges Exhibited against him by the Commous of Great Britain, for high chimes and mufdemeanors.

On Mr. B moving that the fame be read, and the motion being agreed to, the feport was read by the clerk, and was in fubftance as follows: The infwer delivered at the hu of the Houfe of Lords, by Warren Hell 999, to the chargs exhibited againit Lim, is an attempe to cover his comes by falfehood and evatio and give a gbs and che louring to his traderens untanétione by truth; it is, tort fore, the opinion of the committes, they the Honte, in aid of the cack of indlice, fhould, with all convenient Iped, tend up to the Houfe of Lords a replication to that anfwer, to Inform their Lordships, that they aver the charge to be trus, and will prove them at their I or fay other place that their Lodhips fhall hot, or in any deem proper, and at whatever the they fhall appoint.

The replication was then read, which the "onclufion, which promited, in the was the fame as the report, except naine of the knights, citizens, and burgetes, in Parliament affemb'ed, and of the whois Commons of Great Britain, to fubftantiate the charges exhibi ted at their Lordtips bar against Warruption, cruelty, breach of faith, and of ren Haftings, of extortion, bribery, corevery other crime with which he ftands Lordthips fpeedy juftice and exemplary charged by them, and prayed of their punishment.

merion, read a fecond time;
The report and replication being, on

ther that replication fhould be the reThe Speaker put the queftion, Wheplication to the anfwer, given in at th. Haftings, to the charges exhibited abar of the House of Lords by Warie gainft him of high crimes and mildemeanors; and this being agreed to,

Mr. Burke moved, that the replication be engtoffed. Ordered.

Monday, Dec. 10.

replication of the Houfe to the antwer of Mr. Burke moved, that the engroffed having been done, he moved, that it Warren Haflings fhould be read; which should be fent up to the Houfe of Lords. Burke appointed the meffenger, who, in This motion was agreed to, and Mr. the members in oppofition. Two Mals carrying it up, was attended by mott of their Lordships, which was in fubflacce, ters in Chancery brought an answer from of Warren Haftings, eiq; at the bar of That they had fixed upon Tuesday the 13th day of February next for the trial orders for the erection of proper convetheir Houfe; and that they would give niences for the accommodation of the managers of the impeachment.

Houfe, that he had in his hands a peti-
Mr. Ald. Sawbridge informed the
tion from fome electors of Queenboro'
in Kent, which he thought it his duty
to prefent to the Houfe. The petitio
complained, that the Board of Ordnance,
in laying out the public money in that
ners, who were only four in number,
borough, paid much lefs attention to the
public intereft, than to the establishment
of a corrupt influence among the elec-
tors, in which the Board had fucceeded
Queenborough had been invariably re-
fo well, that, for the laft 30 years,
and, after ftating various grounds of ac-
prefented by a member of that Board :
cufation, prayed, that they might be
permitted to cftablith, by proofs at the

bar

Summary of Proceedings in the prefent Seffion of Parliament. 227

bar of the Houfe, the allegations of their petition. Mr. Sawbridge moved for leave to bring it up; but the Houfe, without any debate, divided upon the motion, which was rejected by a majority of 63-aves 32-пoes 95.

Sir John Miller complained, that very unbecoming liberties had been taken in one of the public prints in reporting the fpeeches of members of that Houfe, which he, for one, was not difpofed to countenance, or furfer to país unnoticed. He therefore cautioned the perfons alluded to, that, if they perfifted in the indecent practice of abusing a Member for his fpeeches in that affembly, or of mifreprefenting them, he would, how ever reluctantly, move, that the standing order for excluding ftrangers should be rigorously enforced.

Mr. Gilbert, alter a fhort introductory fpe.ch, moved, that a committee hould be appointed to take into confideration the fate of the poor, and of the laws which provided for their maintenance. Agreed to.

Mr. Courtenay obferved, that, though an order had been made for taking the Ordnance estimates into contideration this evening, yet he thought the difcuffion of the army eftimates would take up fo much time, that the confideration of the former must be put off to fome other day; and that, confequently, certain papers might be produced, which, in his opinion, ought to be perufed by the Members before they voted the fupply for the Ordnance.

Thofe papers were, the warrant from his Majefty to the Duke of Richmond for raifing a corps of military artificers, and the confequent inftructions iffued by his Grace for railing the men. The plans of the noble Duke were, he remarked, diftinguifhed by an originality of idea from thofe of every other mortal, of which the plan in queftion was a striking inftance. According to his conception, the merit of a carpenter, a malon, or a bricklayer, was not to be eftimated by a knowledge of his trade, but by the altitude of his perfon; for every man who was in height 5 feet 8 inches was to be admitted into the corps; while a man of ten times more fkill in his bufinefs was excluded, if unfortunately he wanted half a quarter of an inch of that ftandard, And, as if this was not enough, the Duke had established a Sunday School for inftructing thole tradefmen on the Sab. bath-day in the manual exercife. He concluded by moving, that the warrant

and inftructions abovementioned fhould
be laid before the Houfe.-On this mo-
tion there was a divifion, but no debate,
and it was rejected by a majority of 159.
-Aves 45.-Noes 204.

The Houfe then went into a commit-
tee of fupply on the army and ordnance
eftimates.

The Secretary at War propofed, that
the military establishment for N. Ame-
rica and the Weft Indies fhould be ang
mented from 9,45 to 12,610 men. The
annual expence of the former establish-
ment was 244,cool and the expence of
the number now propofed would be
315,000l. This augmentation had been
recommended by the governors and com-
manders of the Weft India Islands, as
well as by a board of general officers,
fummoned for the purpose of giving
their opinions on the fubject. To com-
penfate, however, in fome measure, for
this increafe of eftablishment, his Ma-
jefty had graciously offered to confent to
a reduction in the number of his houfe-
hold troops. Our guards and garrifons,
in 1787, amounted to 17,638 men; but
in the enfuing year it is intended to re-
duce them to 16,982. The Houfe, he
hoped, would not object to the prefent
plan, as it would remove all apprehen
fions for the fatety of our foreign depen
dencies at a trifling additional expence.
He concluded by moving a refolution to
the above purpofe.

Col. Fitzpatrick difapproved of the
The peace
propofed augmentation.
eftablishment of 1783 had been confi-
dered as adequate to all the purpotes of
national defence; and, before the pr.fent
measure had been brought forward, it
ought to have been fatisfactorily proved,
that, fince 1783, circumftances had oc-
curred which rendered an increafe of our
indifpenfably neceffary.
establishment
But nothing of this kind had been de-
monftrated. Our foreign poffeffions did
not appear to be in a state of infecurity;
and from our late fuccefs in baffling the
defigns of the French in Holland, he
was inclined to think, that a reduction
With re-
of our itanding army was mo e advifa-
ble than an augmentation.
gard to the expedient lately practifed, of
confulting the governors and general
officers on this fubject, he thought the
opinions of thofe gentlemen inadmifi-
ble; and this mode of recurring to them
evinced the propriety of appointing pers
manently a commander in chief of the
army.

As to the deftination of the troups to he railed in addition to the prefent

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prefent establishment, he remarked, that,
if they fhould be principally intended
for the West Indies, a very material
queftion would arife, namely, whether
we should concur in adopting a new fyf-
tem of defence for our poffeffions there;
and whether the augmentation of the
land-forces would not, probably, be fuc.
ceeded by additional fortifications, to
the neglect of the proper defence of
thofe islands, our navy? As to the re-
duction of the household troops, that
fcheme might have been properly ad-
opted without any increafe of the other
part of the army. He enlarged on thefe
points, and at the clofe of his fpeech
obferved, that as thofe who had oppofed,
and caufed the rejection of, many of the
Minifter's plans, had acted with more
real kindness towards him than if they
had affented to them, there was now an
opportunity for his profeffed adherents
to prove the fincerity of their attach-
ment, by rejecting the measure un-
der deliberation.
moving, as an amendment to the motion
He concluded with
of the Secretary at War, that the num
ber of men, and fums of money, inferted
in his motion, fhould be the fame as in
the establishment of the present year.

Summary of Proceedings in the prefent Seffion of Parliament.

Mr. Bastard, after a few handfome compliments to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, faid, that he did not altogether approve the propofed augmentation, as he was not fufficiently convinced of its neceflity, and thought that this attention to the army would leffen our ability of paying a due regard to the navy, which he confidered as the fole conftitutional defence of this country. However, as he placed great confidence in the Minifter, he would not oppofe the motion of the Hon, Baronet.

Col. Phipps, Sir G. P. Turner, Col. Norton, and Sir Jofeph Mawbey, fupported the motion; Gen. Burgoyne, Mr. Aid. Sawbridge, and many other gentlemen, oppofed it.

Mr. Fox hoped, that the Houfe would not agree to a measure, which, while it was not juftified by any grounds of expediency, was fraught with the most pernicious confequencer. He dwelt on the peace eftablishment of 1783, which had taken place during his adminiftra. tion: this establishment, he faid, was nearly the fame with that which pre. vailed in 1749, after the treaty of Aixla-Chapelle, and alfo with that of 1763. If the number of troops employed at thofe periods had proved fufficient for our defence, when our foreign depen

dencies were confiderably more nume-
rous than they are now, what motive
tary eftablishment at prefent? Some
gentlemen had been led fo far by their
can be alledged for increafing the mili
confidence in the Minifter, as to feem
willing to give him credit for his mea-
fures, without taking the trouble of be
ftowing a thought on their probable
tendency. But a general bill of credit
confidence, might lead to very dange-
rous conceffions. The intended increase
to Miniftry, arifing from an excels of
ceffary by the recent fubfidiary treaty
was alfo, he faid, rendered more unne
with Heffe-Caffel; as the having a body
of foreign troops ready at our call
fhould induce us rather to diminish than
add to our ordinary establishment. The
Minifter, it was faid, had difconcerted
conflitutional government of Holland,
and had recovered the former glory of
the projects of France, had restored the
this nation. To the Hon. Gent's con-
to give his tribute of applause, but he
duct on the late occafion, he was ready
fequences would have refulted from its
had flattered himfelf that different con-
he expected, instead of the profufion of
tion.
augmentation, the economy of reduc-

voured to refute, the principal argu-
Mr. Pitt recapitulated, and endea
infifted, that in time of peace we ought
ments urged against the motion. He
mentation was to prevent fudden or un-
to prepare for the contingencies of war,
fufpected attacks, which might perhaps
and that the defign of the prefent aug.
take place before we could fit out our
fleets, or embody our militia. Nor did
his attention to the army flacken his ef
fpectable footing; 10,000 men had been
voted for that fervice this year, which
forts to put the navy on the most re-
preceding year: the extraordinaries of
were 2000 more than had been in pay the
mounted to a million and a half; and
the navy fince the year 1783 had a-
thirty fhips of the fine had been launched
thefe circumftances he fubmitted to the
fince the termination of the war.
confidence.
From
Houfe how far he was entitled to their

fpecting the plantation eftimates, was,
For it 242-gainst it So-Majority
The divifion on the firft motion, re-

162.

were, For it 140—Againk it 28—Ma-
On the fubfequent motion, relative to
the ordnance eftimates, the numbers
jority 172