Barne-elms, near Putney, where Tonson built his gallery for the pictures of the Kit-Cat Club.

was the father of twelve children, of whom six died in vita patris. Of the latter I have been able to discover one only-Lettice, buried at the church of St. Giles, Camberwell, on the 9th January, 1626.†

John, eldest son of the Dean, is not so well known but that some account may be here given of him. He was born about the year 1604, and is mentioned in his father's will (dated 13th Dec. 1630, and proved in the P. C. C. on the 5th April, in the following year), together with his brother and four sisters. He was educated at Westminster, and Christ church, Oxford, and afterwards, being LL.D. of Padua, was incorporated in the same degree at the former university, June 30, 1638. Anthony à Wood has given a severe character of him in his Fasti Oxon. stating that "he proved no better all his lifetime than an atheistical buffoon, a banterer, and a person of over free thoughts: yet valued by Charles II." It is added that " there is no doubt but he was a man of sense and parts." He wrote several enumerated in the Fasti (edit. Bliss), poetical trifles, some of which are i. 503. He died in the winter of 1662, and was buried near the standing dial in the yard at the west end of St. Paul's, Covent Garden. Whether he was married is not stated by any biographer; but it is not improbable he was the same John Donne who was married to Mary Staples, at Camberwell church, 27 March, 1627.

George Donne, second son of the Dean, was baptized May 9, 1605, at Camberwell, and is described in his father's funeral certificate‡ as Captain and Serjeant-Major of all the forces in the Isle of St. Christopher. He married, and had a daughter Margaret, baptized at Camberwell, March 22, 1637-8.

Constance, eldest daughter of the Dean, was married first to Edward Alleyne, Esq. founder of the College called " God's gift" at Dulwich, and to him, whom she brought a marriage portion of 500l. she was united at

+ Parish Register.

Coll. Arm. I. 23, p. 39.

Will of Dr. Donne. Alleyne's name however does not appear here, being mentioned only as her "first husband."

Camberwell Church, Dec. 3, 1623.* Her second husband was Samuel Harvey, Esq. of Abury Hatch, Essex, grandson of Alderman Sir James, and nephew of Sir Sebastian Harvey. She was married to him also at Camberwell, June 24, 1630; and had issue three sons, John, Thomas, and James,

Bridget and Margaret, the second and third daughters of the Dean, were unmarried at his death. The former married before Jan. 7, 1634, Thomas Gardiner, Esq. of Peckham,† whose pedigree may be found in p. 15 of the third volume of the Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, and had issue Robert, Frances, and Margaret. The latter had to her husband Sir William Bowles, and was mother of Margaret, the wife of Peter Scott, LL.D. Canon of Windsor. Elizabeth was the name of the Dean's youngest daughter; but of her I have nothing to relate.

The information 1 have collected is certainly of little value. I write only in the hope that, the subject being bruited, we may hear further on it from some other correspondent. The parish registers of Pirford and Mitcham in Surrey, and of St. Clement's Danes, may give the baptismal notes of some of the Doctor's children, and the burial entries of the five who died during the life of their mother. Camberwell.

G. S. S.

NOTICES OF EDW. HANNEs, M.D. Edward Hannes, M.D. is mentioned in Gent. Mag. for last Nov. p. 463, as having published only one pamph

let, an "Account of the Dissection of the Duke of Northumberland." Prefixed to Sydenham's Schedula Monitoria de Nova Febris Ingressu there is a Lyric Poem in Latin, addressed to him by Dr. Hannes, which possesses much more of poetical beauty than commonly belongs to such laudatory effusions from partial friends. Sydenham cared but little for book learning, and held in contempt the dogmas of the school, and the antiquated methods of cure which had descended from physician to physician, no discrimination being employed in determining their real value, and no examination entered into respecting their actual properties and use. Sydenham thought for himself; and his acuteness in detecting symptoms, and thereby discovering the nature of the disease, and the most effectual method of administering suit. able remedies, was admirable, and is well alluded to in the following lines Sic te scientem non faciunt libri Et dogma pulchrum; sed sapientia Enata rebus, mensque facti

Experiens, animusque felix.

Non mille plantæ, et multa domi vitra, Ignesque centum, aut hypothesis placens: Prosunt medenti, vel coercent

Sæva luis mala, sæva febris; Ni pectus adsit consilii potens, Ni plena rugis experientia,

Ususque naturam secutus

Quid faceret moneant in aurem. Indeed, the whole Poem will well repay the reader for the few minutes its perusal requires. B. S. G. S.

Ἱλαράνθρωπος.

Melford, Suffolk, MR. URBAN, Oct. 16. I SEND you a drawing of a piece of ancient sculpture recently discovered, which may probably throw some light on the history of a person known to fame, and certainly tends to prove the importance, at an early period, of the noble family of Cavendish.

In the Archæologia, vol. ii. is a communication from the late Thomas Ruggles, Esq. respecting the early history of the Cavendish family, as connected with the village of Cavendish in this county. After proving that the manor of Overhall in Cavendish passed in 1359 from the family of Odyngseles to Sir John Cavendish,

Chief Justice of the King's Bench (who was beheaded at Bury St. Edmund's by Wat Tyler's mob), and the advowson and other lands in Cavendish, from Sir John Clinton, in 1370, he mentions that in a house on the Green may be seen three stones, each about a foot square, having the arms of Cavendish quartered with another family. I beg to observe that the other family is Smith, and the shields are stucco not stone.

In repairing this old house lately, and converting it into several tenements, the sculpture, of which I send you a drawing, was found in front of a large chimney, within the house, walled up with plaster; probably this chimney was the only part of the present building which remained of the mansion once occupied by the Cavendishes. The carving is in altorelievo, on grey clunch stone, painted. It is eight inches in thickness, in width 2 ft. 1 in. and in height 2 ft., in excellent preservation, except the head of one of the supporters, which is lost. The arms are, Sable, three stag's heads cabossed Argent, Cavendish, quartering Arg. a chevron between three cross-crosslets Gu. Smith, and impaling Argent, a chevron between three mascles Gu. which I take to be Spring. The initials G. C. are very visible in gilding, over the arms.

Thomas Cavendish, Clerk of the Pipe in the Exchequer, who died in 1524, married Alice, daughter and coheiress of John Smith, of Podbrook Hall, in Cavendish, who bore the arms of Smith, as above. George Cavendish,

the eldest son of this marriage, died seized of the manor of CavendishOverhall, about 1562. The shield, with the eyelet-hole, is of the shape used at the early period of his time, and the initials "G. C." cannot, I think, be applied to any other descendant of Thomas Cavendish and Alice Smith, unless we suppose the G is intended for "Gulielmus," the point on which has arisen all the doubt and discussion respecting the writer of the Cardinal's Life, the MS. being signed by the author in several places" G.C."

In the recent edition by Mr. Singer, of Cavendish's Life of Cardinal Wolsey, and the dissertation by the Rev. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A. there reprinted, it is clearly proved that this George Cavendish was the Gentleman Usher of Cardinal Wolsey, and his faithful friend and historian, and not his younger and more fortunate brother, Sir William, the immediate ancestor of the noble family of Cavendish.

It is known that George Cavendish married Margery Kemp (daughter of William Kemp, of Spain's Hall in Essex, by Mary Colt his wife, sister to Jane, first wife of Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor), and if the initials on the sculpture now discovered allude to him, he must have married into another family, the arms of Kemp being very different, and I think it probable that this shield was placed in the mansion of George Cavendish, when he was a young man, and came into possession of the estate as heir of his father (1524), and this first wife probably dying young, is not mention.

ed in the accounts of the family, not having left issue. It appears that Margery Kemp must have been his last wife, as he is said to have spent his latter days in the house of the Kemps. The arms impaled are those used by the Springs of Pakenham, in this county, who became Baronets, and were descended from Thomas Spring of Lavenham, who died 1486. Lavenham is about seven miles from Cavendish, and the Springs were very wealthy clothiers, and intermarried with the De Veres, Earls of Oxford.

THE treatise of Professor Heeren laid before the Royal Society, was entitled "Conamina ad explicanda nonnulla Historia Mercaturæ Antiquæ capita." It contained attempts to lay down the earliest traces of some branches of the commerce of antiquity, but by no means to give a connected account of them. The articles in question are all of Asiatic, and mostly Indian origin. They are the following:-rhubarb, beetle, opium, attar of roses, and shawl-wool, and its country.

Rhubarb. This inquiry arose from the very instructive treatise of Professor C. Ritter in his Asia, (second book, B. I. S. 179—186,) out of which first some notices were extracted, in order to link the subsequent inquiry to it. The country of genuine rhubarb is the high chain of mountains which separates China from Tangut or Coschotay, particularly the country round about the Coco-nor-Seethough it is also found in the Himalaya, but not, as was formerly believed, on Altai and in Siberia. There the inhabitants annually collect and dry the root, and send it in great packets to China, and from thence it is brought to Kachta.

There is no doubt that rhubarb was known in the Roman Empire. The principal passage is in Ammian. Marcellin. XIl. 18. Tanai vicinus Rha amnis

(the Wolga) in cujus superciliis quædam vegetabilis ejusdem nominis gignitur radix, proficiens ad usus multiplices medelarum." The only mistake arose from seeking the country of the root on the upper side of the Rha; where it was only brought by barbaras gentes, and from thence it came over the Caspian sea into the Roman empire. To this the author now limits his own inquiries-they turn upon a passage of the Periplus maris Erythree-at the conclusion of this work, which was written by one Arrian, a merchant, probably of Alexandria, who trafficked in Indian goods, and himself visited India—only the Malabar coast, probably not the Coromandel coast, and certainly not the interior of the continent, about which he only communicates some traditions that must be considered as traditions only, and not observations. After he has spoken of the country of the Ganges, he goes to the conclusion of the treatise, according to the emendations of Salmasius (ad Solin. p. 754). "Beyond this country to the north, lies, in the country of the Sinese, a large city called Thina, from whence the silk stuffs are brought to Barquaza, through Bactria, by land to Limyrica; it is not easy to reach this city of Thina, and there are few that return thence. This country lies under the little bear, and should touch the end of the sea of Pontus and

the Caspian sea, where the lake Mœotis into the ocean. Every opens year, however, there comes to the confines of Thina a nation with illshapen bodies, broad faces, and flat noses-they are called Sesates, and are half wild-they come, however, with their wives and children, and carry great burthens in mats, that look as if they were platted with the vinethey remain in one place on the border in the neighbourhood of Thinathey stay some days, and celebrate feasts, lying on their mats, and then go back again into the interior of their country; then come the people of Thina, take away their mats, and draw out of these mats threads that they call petras, and that they wind together in the shape of a ball-from this proceed the three kinds of malabatturums; out of the great, the hadrosphærum; out of the middling, the mesophærum; out of the little, the microsphærum, which are then brought to India." From this passage clearly proceed the following results. The beginning of it treats of a commerce that was carried on on the northwest side of China, by a people who belonged to the Mogul stem; who, according to the description, were a nomadic people, who dwelt in the bordering part of Mongoley, in Tangut or Coschotay, and the neighbourhood of the Coco-nor-See, and who came from thence with an article of commerce in large bundles to the confines of China, where they held their market, and the market people of the city of Thina came to exchange the goods-all this applies itself to the rhubarb traffic. The city of Thina is the Chinese border-city, Sining, according to Pallas, the chief place of the rhubarb traffic, and still, according to the reports of the Jesuits, a large commercial city. The Sesates are the Tanguten inhabitants of the Coco-nor-See; they come with their bundles, but dare not pass the boundary, and must hold their market on the outside of the Great Wall. So it was, according to the testimony of Martini, in the seventeenth century. The ambassador who brought presents (according to the Chinese expression, tribute) to Pekin, alone dared to proceed to the court; and during his journey, those who accompanied him found time to carry on their traffic.

This led the au

So it should appear that the descriptions of the place, (let the reader cast a look on the position of the Coco-norSee and the city of Sining upon a map,) of the people, of the transportation of the wares, and of the market, agree; and that the name of the ware alone remains to be added; and here lies the difficulty-instead of rhubarb, malabathrum (that is beetle) is named in the last half of the passage. Now, however, it is known that beetle is the product of a hot climate, and could not possibly be brought from Mongoley to China. thor by his inquiries on India and its commerce, to the discovery that Arrian, who here merely repeats traditions, but does not speak as an eyewitness, has confused the two accounts, and applied to beetle what was related to him of rhubarb; this he shall consider to be the right explanation till a better (which Vincent has in vain in his commentaries attempted) be offered. The author did not suppose that rhubarb was the article, because accurate accounts of the arrangement of this branch of commerce were wanting to him. If the given explanation is accepted, the roads of this traffic are sufficiently marked. One need not trouble oneself about the present road over Siberia, for Kiachta for a century past has been appointed as the place of traffic; the chief road is that through the middle of Asia, over the Caspian sea, and the Wolga or the Black-sea, already known to Ammian. Marcellinus; but the close of the passage-which cannot be applied to beetle, that certainly never came to Europe as a ware-proves that also another road ran over Bactria to Malabar, which, now that we receive rhubarb from the East Indies, will be needed again. The result of this inquiry is, that the first half of the passage of the Periplus must be thus explained; of which the second, however, refers to the beetle.

Beetle. That beetle is the thing spoken of in the passage of the Periplus is certain; as there is no doubt that malabathrum (as already Salmasius ad Solin. p. 754, has proved, where also the other passages are collected,) is beetle. The best description we owe to Kämpfer, in the Amoenitatibus Exoticis, p. 647: "It consists of the beetle