propofed, To leave out from Ireland to the end of the question; and to infert, "Great- Britain confiding in the experienced good faith, generofity, and honour of Ireland, that, in proportion to her growing profperity, the will contribute to the neceffary expences of protect Ing the general interefts of the empire. "Queftion put, "that thefe words be inferted."

Paffed in the negative.

MR. URBAN,

THE

HE plate herewith fent you exhibits two curious medals ftruck in honour of Sir Richard SHELLEY, who was the last English grand prior of the order of St. John of Jerufalem, in the reigns of Mary and Elizabeth. This honour was conferred on him by the former queen thro' the intereft of Cardinal Pole. It entitled him to a feat in the upper houfe of parliament next to the lord abbot of Weftminster, and above all lay barons. Finding it prudent to decline both the ftyle and privileges of his office in the reign of her fuccellor, he retired to Spain on her acceffion, and there refided 17 years under that of turcopolier, one of the first great offices of the order, equivalent to that of general of the cavalry, and one of thofe dignities neceffary to arrive at previous to that of being elected grand master: it was always annexed to the grand priory of England; but the English knights being deprived of their benefices by Henry VIII. they confequently loft the rank and confidera tion they had enjoyed at Malta, and, at the death of Shelley's predeceffor, the grand mafter thought proper to refume the title, and keep it to hunfelt till the ftate of the Roman Catholic intereft in England was determined. Finding the friendship between the courts of England and Spain was abating, Sir Richaid in 1561 obtained the King of Spain's licence to go and all at the relief of valta, then befieged by the Turks; but he was fcarcely arrived at Genoa when he received letters of recal', and others from the grand mafter, requiring him to take up the title of his priory, which he could not vinit to do without prejudice to the order. Thus he came to be called prior of England, and again fet out for alta, where he was we received by the grand maiter John d. Valetta, and continued with him as long a he lived, and tit his fucceffor, the prior of Capua, almoft forced him away He then retired to Venice; om whence he foncited her Ma

jefty's permiffion to return to England, pleading, that though he could not renounce his religious opinions, and had met with great loffes in his fortune by the failure of foreign merchants, he had refufed a penfion offered by the King of Spain, rather than difoblige his rightful fovereign, whole father, Henry VIII. had been. fo good a friend to his father, as to compel him, in the beginning of his reign, to become his ferjeant and judge, and who had the honour to entertain his Majefty highly to his fatisfaction at his family feat at Michelgrove in Suffex. While he continued at Venice he was, however, employed to negociate the revocation of certain new imposts to be levied on the Levant traders; which, tho' it did not fucceed to his expectation, yet in the year 1584 feems to have been brought to a defirable iffue. Most probably it was about this time, confidering himself as the Queen's minifter in a bufinefs of importance, he thought proper to give to his medal a new reverfe, reprefenting a griffin, allufive to his family creft, with the following motto, PATRIÆ SUM EXCUBITOR OPUM, in which he feems, not improperly, to imply the mercanti e in cicft to be the riches of his

country.

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Sir Richard Shelley was born in 1514; for in one of his letters, dated Venice, 24 Aug. 1582, he defcribes himself as a man of threetcore years and eight. He was fon of Judge Shelley, who was fent by Henry VIII. to Cardinal Wolley to demand the turrender of York Place near Weltminster, now Whitehall, which the Cardinal was forced to comply. The compilers of our Baronetages feem not aware of this connection, for they only fay that Sir Richard was 66 defcendant of the fame lineage." They add," he was dominus natus, therefore when in Spain refuted to be called prior d'Inglaterra, and its led himfell Turcopo lier for the English nation;" whereas the truth is, he took this latter title as a lefs obnoxious title to his Proteftant Countrymen, 6. refpe&ting his name afore his perton, and the publique atore his particular," as he fays in one of his letters publihed 1774. The firth quarter in the coat on the fit reverte of this medal is the aims of Shelley,

John Shelley, burges for Rye in the reign of Henry V. and VI married Be arx, daughter and heir to Sir John Hawkwood knt, by whom he had ong lon, John, who, by marnage with Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Joho Mi

chelgrove,

shelgrove, of Michelgrove in the county of Suffex, became poffeffed of the cftate, which his defcendants ftill enjoy.

With thefe fcarce medals may be paralleled an older of JOHN KENDALL, an Englishman, Turcopolier at the fiege of Rhodes, 1477, found in Knaresboro' foreft in the laft century, and engraved by Mr. Thoresby in his "Ducatus Le odienfis:" the original now in the Devonfhire collection by purchafe at Mr. T.'s fale, 17..., for 21. 2s. He occurs prior 1491 and 1501. (Willis Mit. Ab. I. 232.)

A foreign gentleman having employed himfelf in collecting whatever relates to the order of Malta, applied to a perfon in England to procure him all that refpected the knights of that order, Englith. Scotch, or Irish. His printed propofals fet forth a lift of grand priors of England from 1327, collected by Bofio and Gouffancourt, hiftorians of the order: but thefe differing materially from the lift in Willis's "Mitred Abbeys," 1. 130-132, and Addenda, p 63, we fhall add to that lift, from Bp. Kennet's collections,

Roger de Mullins
William
Raymond

`William de Ivebale

1135 1171

1303 31 E. 1. Walter occurs in a grant of Witney church to the hofpital of St. Crofs at Winchester by Bp. Robert Bloet, 1162.

MR. UKBAN,

ΤΗ

HE obfervations I am about to make being rather biographical than theological, may perhaps incline you to give them a place in your very useful and agreeable work. They relate to a paffage in Mr. White's Sermons at Bampson's Lecture, which you lately commended fo very highly.

Mr. White, repelling with juft indigmation the pretentions of unbelievers to fuperiority in talents and learning, lays, P. 38, "Locke and Malbranche do not yield the palm of metaphyfical acuteness to the fullen fophiftry of Hobbes, or the cold feepticism of Hume. In brilliancy of imagination, and delicacy of tofte, Berkeley is furely not inferior to ShaftefJury," &c. bury

I object to the laft paffage only. None of the noble families of England, it is imagined, will admit a bishop of Cloyne in Ireland, or indeed any bishop, to be a proper parallel, in refpect of rank and dignity, to the Earl of Shaftesbury; for biops, as Blackstone obferves, are not

nobles, though they have feats in parliament. And the Deifts will, no doubt, object upon this occasion; and, fo far as weight and difinterestedness of testimony is attended to in this argument, to any clergyman. Some lay lord, they will fay, and not a bishop, should be fought for.

But my objections, Mr. Urban, are of a very different kind. Brilliancy of imagination, and delicacy of tafte, were not the peculiar and molt prominent excellencies of the life, as they are not now neither of the writings, of Lord Shaftesbury. So far only as this the betgoes, ter half of his real merit is not told us. He defcended more deeply than any other philofopher of modern times had done into the moft fecret receffes of the mind, laid mankind as it were open to them felves, and made full as accurate and great a difplay of the original principles, fentiments, and morements of the hu man beart, as Locke had done before, of the operations of the underfanding. This I conceive to be the prime glory of Lord Shaftesbury, and to have given to his writings fuch intrinfic and lafting worth, as nothing left us by Bp Berkeley, however amiable and excellent his character, can pretend to.

Mean time, Mr. Urban, this counting of heads, when the question is about truth, is but a fo-fo argument. Mr. White, however, having condefcended to use it, ought to be impartial. And if he fees the matter in the fame light as I do, will, it is hoped, in his next edition, either cancel the paffage, or find out a better parallel.

MR. UREAN,

ΤΗ

A LOOKER-ON.

HE following miscellaneous notes are at the fervice of your readers. Yours, &c.

E.

P. 403. The unfortunate, but wor◄ thy prince, who loft his life in endeavouring to fave the lives of his fellow. creatures, is thought to have been Maximilian Julius Leopold, born Oct. 10, 1752, youngest brother to Charles Wil liam Ferdinand, reigning Duke of Bruniwic Wolfenbuttel, who married Princess Augufta of Great Britain.

P. 450, col. 2. In anfwer to your correfpondent R. W. the edition of Diodati's Annotations, in which he every where writes Salomon, is the 3d edition, printed at London for Nicolas Fullell, 1651.

P. 4402

Publish it as the iet directo Oct. 2178s.

propofed, To leave out from Ireland to the end of the question; and to insert, "Great-Britain confiding in the experienced good faith, generofity, and honour of Ireland, that, in proportion to her growing profperity, the will contribute to the neceffary expences of protectIng the general interefts of the empire. Question put, "that these words be inferted."

Paffed in the negative.

MR. URBAN,

THES

HE plate herewith fent you exhibits two curious medals ftruck in honour of Sir Richard SHELLEY, who was the laft English grand prior of the order of St. John of Jerufalem, in the reigns of Mary and Elizabeth. This honour was conferred on him by the for mer queen thro' the intereft of Cardinal Pole. It entitled him to a feat in the upper house of parliament next to the lord abbor of Weftminster, and above all lay barons. Finding it prudent to decline both the ftyle and privileges of his office in the reign of her fucceffor, he retired to Spain on her acceffion, and there refided 17 years under that of furcopolier, one of the first great offices of the order, equivalent to that of general of the cavalry, and one of thofe dignities neceffary to arrive at previous to that of being elected grand mafter: it was always annexed to the grand priory of England; but the English knights being deprived of their benefices by Henry VIII. they confequentiy loft the rank and confidera tion they had enjoyed at Malta, and, at the death of Shelley's predeceffor, the grand mafter thought proper to refume the title, and keep it to hunfelt till the fate of the Roman Catholic intereft in England was determined. Finding the friendship between the courts of England and Spain was abating, Sir Richaid in 1561 obtained the King of Spain's licence to go and allift at the relief of vialta, then befieged by the Turks; but he was fcarcely arrived at Genoa when he received letters of recal, and others from the grand mafter, requiring him to take up the title of his priory, which he could not vinit to do without prejudice to the order. Thus he came to be called prior of England, and again fet out for alta, where he was we received by the grand maiter John d: Vaietta, and continued with him as long a he lived, and that his fucceffor, the prior of Capua, almoft forced him away He then retired to Venice;om whence he folicited her Ma

jefty's permiffion to return to England, pleading, that though he could not renounce his religious opinions, and had met with great loffes in his fortune by the failure of foreign merchants, he had refufed a penfion offered by the King of Spain, rather than difoblige his rightful fovereign, whole father, Henry VIII. had beer. fo good a friend to his father, as to compel him, in the beginning of his reign, to become his ferjeant and judge, and who had the honour to entertain his Majefty highly to his fatisfaction at his family feat at Michelgrove in Suffex. While he continued at Venice he was, however, employed to negociate the revocation of certain new imports to be levied on the Levant traders; which, tho' it did not fucceed to his expectation, yet in the year 1584 feems to have been brought to a defirable illue. Most probably it was about this time, confidering himself as the Queen's minifter in a bufinefs of importance, he thought proper to give to his medal a new reverse, reprefenting a griffin, allufive to his family creft, with the following motto, PATRIA SUM EXCUBITOR OPUM, in which he feems, not improperly, to imply the mercanti e intereft to be the riches of his

country.

66 a

Sir Richard Shelley was born in 1514; for in one of his letters, dated Venice, 24 Aug. 1582, he defcribes himself as a man of threetcore years and eight. He was fon of Judge Shelley, who was fent by Henry VIII. to Cardinal Wolfey to demand the turrender of York Place near Weltminiter, now Whitehall, with which the Cardinal was forced to comply. The compilers of our Baronetages feem not aware of this connection, for they only fay that Sir Richard was defcendant of the fame lineage." They add, he was dominus natus, therefore when in Spain refuted to be called prior d'Inglaterra, and its led himfell Turcopolier for the English nation;" whereas the truth is, he took this latter title as a lefs obnoxious title to his Proteftant countrymen, 64 relpecting his name afore his perfon, and the publique atore his particular," as ne fays in one of his letters publiibed 1774. The fat quarter in the coat on the tilt reverte of this medal is the aims of Shelley.

John Sheiley, burgets for Rye in the reign of Henry V. and VI married Be aux, daughter and heir to Sir John Hawkwood knt. by whom he had one fon, John, who, by marriage with Elizabeth, daughter and heir of John Michelgrove,