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but was tranflated by Papal bull to the Archbishoprick of Dublin. It was defcending, to become a Suffragan Prelate in England; but he foon re-afcended to a primacy, being railed to the fee of York in 1396 ** (Godwin, p. 508.)

V. 1396. Robert Read, a Dominican friar, from Waterford to Carlisle, by Papal bull. (Ibid. p. 766.)

VI. 1398. Thomas Peverell, white friar, from Otfory to Landaff. (lb. 6c9.) VII. 1452. James Blakedon, from Achad, alias Achonry. to Bangor, by Papal bull. (Ibid. p. 624.)

VIII. 1521. John Kite, from Armagh to Carlile, or rather from Armagh to the archbishoprick of Thebes, with which he held Carlife, by a perpetual commendam. (Ibid. p. 770, not. 1.) And it is obfervable, that in the infeription on his monument in the chancel of Stepney church (Weever, p. 539), Is archbishoprick in Greece is only

mentioned:

In Greece Arch Byshop elected wortheley, And late of Carliel rulying paftorally.

To accept the diminutive fee of Carlife in lieu of the primacy of all IreJand, thesed a strong predilection for England. He probably took the other titular archbishoprick, that he night not lofe the titles ufually annexed to that fuperior dignity lathe epitaph, which is in a language very uncouth, he is denominated, "John Kitte, Londoner naytte."

IX. 1567. It appears from Ware (Hibernia Sacra, p. 120), that Hugh Curwin, Archbishop of Dublin, was in this year tranflated to the bishoprick of Oxford, which had been vacant ten years. He was, according to Strype (Ecclef. Mem. vol. III. p. 228), confecrated Archbfhop Sept. 4; and, according to Ware, on the 8th of that month, 155; and the latter adds, that Queen Mary appointed him Chancellor of Ireland the next day. This office he is faid to have difcharged many years with reputation, but that, being grown old, he defired to return and die in his own country, as he did, in 1568, at Swinbrooke, in Bedfordshire. Strype's Life of Archbishop Parker, p. 225; in which there is a further account of this prelate. X. 1982. Marmaduke Middleton, rom Waterford to St. David's. In

Thomas Rushook, a predeceffor in Chichetter, was removed in 1383, and 0biged to ccept the mall bithoprick of TriSum, now Klimore, in Ireland, but foon fe, wards died of grief in England.

Strype's Life of Archbishop Grindal, p. 270, there is a letter from Bithop Middieton to Secretary Walfingham, reprefenting the fad and neceffitous itate of his new diocefe; and Strype remarks, that the prelate feemed by this letter to have been a grave good fort of man. He was, however, eight years after, not only deprived of his bifhoptick, but formally degraded, by the High Commillioners at Lambeth-houfe, of his epifcopal robes and prieftly veftiments. Br. Willis, in his Survey of St. David's, P. 123, fays, that, by the best informa tion he could learn, the occafion of this cenfure was fome fimoniacal practices he had been guilty of, together with a notorious abufe of a charity, and that he was alfo charged as if he had a defign to alienate fome lands of the Bishoprick, and to fe.tle them on his fon Richard, whom he made Archdeacon of Cardigan. But in a letter dated July 5, 1748, an extract from which have read, Willis Lays, "that he was deprived for forging a will, and that it is faid, he was convicted of having two wives." He died Nov. 1, 1593, and was buried in the collegiate church of Windtor.

XI. 1603. John Thornborough, from Limerick to Brittol, which had been vas cant ten years. He held the deanry of York in commendam with both fees.

XII. 1627. William Murray, t.om Fernabore, ufually called Kifenore (united foon after the Refloration to the archbishoprick of Tus), to Landaff. As this was the finalieft ofhoprick in Ireland, and efiimated among the poorelt, Murray had good realons for giving a preference even to Landa; and Richard Betts, D.D who was appointed his fucceffor, took a voyage of dilcovery to Ireland, and returned home unconíecrated. Ware, p. 239. 242.

XIII. 1641. James Ufher, from Armagh to Carlife. It was not, ftrictly fpeaking, a tranflation, becaufe this excellent and eminently learned man never ceded his archbishoprick; but, which compelled to leave Iceland, the fee of Carlifle was granted to him in commendam, that he might have, fomewhat to fupport him. Godwin, p. 772.

lian Roberts, Bifhop of Bangor, in AuXIV. 1665 On the death of Wilguit 1665, Robert Price, Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, was nominated to fucceed him, but he died March 26, 1666, before his election could be completed. Willis, Survey of Bangor, p. 115,

XV.

Lift of Bfhops removed from Ireland to England.

XV. 1667. William Fuller, from Limerick to Lincoln, by bis affiduous induftry and pains, on Bifhop Laney's removal to Ely. He had prepared many materials for writing the Lite of Dr. Bramhall, primate of Ireland, but was prevented by his death, which happened at Keafington, in April 1675. Magn. Britan. Antiq. & Nov. vol. II. p. 1477.

XVI. 1692. Edward Jones, from Cloyne to St. Afaph. According to Br. Willis," he was, about the year 1699, fufpended for fome fmall time, as leveral of our writers tell us, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, for fimoniacal practices which he is faid to have yielded to; as he did alfo (having a numerous family) to the filling up of a leafe which his two predeceffors refused to renew by the immediate command of the King, there being an intention that the eftate fhould in future be held in demefne by the Bishops of that fer," Survey of St. Afaph, p. 94 Bishop Burnet's account is, that the profecution of Bishop Watfon of St. David's, for timony, was followed by another profecution against Bishop Jones, in which tho' the prefumptions were very great, yet the evidence was not fo clear as in the former cafe. Hiftory of his own Times, vol. II. p. 227.

From the preceding detail it appears, that, in 465 years, there have been only fifteen removals of Bifhops from Ireland to England, with not one inftance for almost à century; and the probability is, that all future folicitations will be fruitless. Two obvious realons occur (and there may be others of greater importance) why no minifter will countenance any remigration. One, that he would be perpetually teazed with peti tions, it being well known that the Anglo Hibern. prelates are apt to be af flicted with what is called, in the natives of Switzerland, the Pathopatridgia, i. e. a paffionate longing after home. The other, that, on the tranflation of a Bishop from an Irifh to an English fee, there is no lapfe of preferment to the Crown.

W. & D.

P.S. Is it not implied in T. Search's letter (Mag. for Jan. p. 32-34), that his revifal and corrections are confined to the laft year's volume of your useful Mifcellany? But, truding perhaps to his memory, he does not feem to be

aware, that M. Skinner's account of The Bourne Brook at Hallings was inferted in

* Bifhop Price's did not take place.

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vol. LVI. p. 649.-Your correspondents, by citing page as well as volume, would five trouble to your readers; and fome, from inadvertency, omit a reference even to the latter.

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Mr. URBAN, Isle of Wight, Mar. 5.

BEG a corner of your Magazine for the copy of a petition, now circulating through the Island, on the fubject of the Slave-Trade. Every good man has long lamented that a nation like ours fhould lend its patronage to fuch frauds and barbarities as are exercifed in this manftealing, man-buying, and man-murdering fyttem.

Thanks to heaven, the morning dawns which brings a brighter profpect. Not only the horrid nature of the bufinefs has been thoroughly inveftigated, but the actual ftate of it prefented to univerfal attention, to promote a general union of remonftrance against the futther progrefs of fuch iniquity. Even the impolicy, as well as the wickedness of the Slave-Trade, has been evinced by the most unquestionable authorities.~ Yet foine perfons fay, they do not underftand the question: to fuch we would reply-Difcite juftitiam moniti-and refer them to a rule of moral condu&t which can never bend to prejudiced and interested policy: Whatsoever ye would, &c." St. Matthew..

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The Quakers are entitled to diftinguifhed refpect from the friends of our liberating plan. Infpired by that divine radiance of which they religioufly fpeak. they have extinguished flavery through. all their extenfive plantations. Every man who ferves them is a voluntary agent for just wages; and they have reafon to rejoice in the wifdom as well as equity of their determination. Not only where" the eye dejected, prov'd the heart diftrefi," are content and repole introduced; but gratitude and emulating obedience produce a more extenfive cultivation and richer plenty.

Let free-born hands attend the fultry toil,

And fairer harvests shall adorn the foil;
The teeming earth fhall mightier ftores dif-
clofe.

And Trade and Virtue be no longer fɔes.
Yours, &c.
W. S. Jun.

To the Honourable the Commons of Great
Britain in Parliament affembled.

WE, &c of the life of Wight, beg leave to join the numerous and respectable by of Petitioners, who, fupported by the bet principles of moral and religious obligation,

312 Ifle of Wight Petition on the Slave-Trade.—A famous old House.

as well as an enlightened regard to national profperity, are applying to Farliament for the fuppreffion of the Slave-Trade: a traffic which we have often deplored, as the difgrace of our free country, and expofing us, by the horrid cruelties which it occafions, to the indignation of the Univerfal

Parent of mankind.

To be infenfible to the prefent call on piety and benevolence, would be inconfiftent with all our feelings and all our ideas as rational and accountable beings.

We confider the prefent efforts in favour of the rights of our oppreffed fellow creatures, as tending to conftitute the most brilliant æra in our national hiftory, and would lend our voice in its progress.

To do what we would be done unto, we know to be the immutable law of equity, as

well as the precept of our Divine Mafter; infinitely paramount to every confideration of local intereft, or private avarice.

We fee, therefore, with the utmost con

cern, that arguments, drawn from fuch polluted fources, are adventured to mislead the public opinion, to check a generous system of policy, and lull activity into indiffe

rence.

We abhor the bafenefs of fuch motives, and would enter our lafting protest against fuch mifreprefentations. For though navigation and commerce are the grand fource of the nation's celebrity and strength, we are confcious that wealth can never be bleffed or beneficial, which is acquired by violence and cruelty.

We have too high a fenfe of public honour to fuppofe our country must be indebted to the most infernal practices for her fupport; and are convinced, that to diffafe fcience, to fpread the influence of every humanizing art, and especially the all-healing bleffings of our mild religion, may go, in the happiest combination with every inft profpect of gain, and under the blettings of heaven, to an exaltation and extent which the prepoffeffed and illiberal have never had in contemplation.

Mr. URBAN,

and

Feb. 13.

INCE the new part of Edinburgh, SINCits communication with the old town, has been fo far completed as to evince the propriety of making the old part correspond in fome degree with the new; a plan has been formed to continue a fpacious ftreet directly Southward from the North Bridge to that part of the town where the college or university is intended to be rebuilt: but, in order to effect this, the ancient Provost's houfe in Peebles Wynd must neceffarily be taken down *. This circumftarce, to

*"The old houte where Q. Mary is faid to have lodged is to be pulled down in

gether with its being the most ornamented of any houfe of its time, and being, by tradition, the house in which Mary Queen of Scots was confined after her furrender at Carberry-hill, may poffibly induce you to preferve an engraving of it in your valuable repofitory. (See Plate 111.)

Maitland, in his Hiftory of Edinburgh, gives the following account of this building:

On the South fide of the High-street, and at the North-weft corner of Peebles Wynd, is fituated a magnificent edifice denominated the Black Turnpike +; which, were it not partly defaced by a falfe wooden front, would appear to be the most fumptuous building perhaps in Edinburgh; which, together with its front in Peebles Wynd, with three turnpikes thereunto belonging, form a nothis building has been pleased to shew ble ftructure. A principal proprietor of me a deed, wherein George Robertson of Lockart is acknowledged by the bailies of Edinburgh to be the fon and heir of George Robertfon, burgefs of Edinburgh, who built the faid tenement, which refutes the idle ftory of its being built by King Kenneth. The abovementioned deed is dated Dec. 6, 1461; and in the year 1508, the fame author relates, that James IV. empowered the Edinburghers to farm or let the Borough Moor, which they immediately cleared of wood, and, in order to encou rage people to buy this wood, the towncouncil enacted, that all perfons might extend the fronts of their houfes feven feet into the street, whereby the Highftreet was reduced fourteen feet in breadth, and the appearance of the houfes much injured. This wooden front appears in the elevation, letter A ; and at B is the window of a small room (thirteen feet fquare, and eight feet high), into which, it is faid, Mary Q of Scots was conveyed A.D. 1567; "for, inftead of being allowed the ufe of her own palace, as the expected, the was carried along the streets, to be gazed upon by the people and the incenfed mob, who, from their windows and forettairs, railed at her with the moft defpiteful language, crying, "Burn the whore! burn the parricide!"-and be

eight or ten days hence." Extract of a letser from Edinburgh, dated Sept. 20, 1787.

+ Turnpike here fignifies a circular fpiral ftaircafe, leading to feveral apartments. Maitland's History of Edinburgh, fol.

p. 187. 183.

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