tus, Admiralli authoritate iterato infignitus, poftremò cum pro fide fuâ & fortitudine fingulari nupero civili bello exercitui regio Dux præeffet, mortem adeptus ultra illa honoratiffimæ vitæ decora illuftrem, Prælio de Edgehill, fatoq. tanti viri noto, in causâ fanctiffimâ Imperio Supremo victor gloriosè occubuit, anno ætatis 60, Christi 1642. E longo prudentique rerum ufu, multa illi experientia, oris dignitas quæ Procerem fateretur, eofque præ fe ferret titulos qui nunc leguntur. Tot licet nominibus præfulgenti alia adfuit claritudo è fobole non minus numerosa, quam ex Elizabetha Baronis Montacuti de Boughton filia liberos tredecim fufcepit: Montacutum, Rogerum, Peregrinum, Francifcum, Robertum, Henricum, Verum, & Edvardum; Catharinam, Elizabetham, Annam, Sophiam, & Mariam." On the fecond tablet: "H. S. E. Montacutus filius Roberti, Comes de Lindsey, Baro de Willughby, Beck, & Eresby, præcelsus Angliæ Camerarius, Carolo Primo ab interio Cubiculo, et Satellitij Regij Præfectus, Carolis utrifq. à Confiliis fecretioribus, Ordinis Perlscelidis Eques illuftris. Uxorem primam duxit Martham Gulielmi Cockain Equitis filiam, Comitis de Holderneffe viduam, è quâ suscepit liberos: Robertum (nunc Comitem de Lindsey, &c.) Peregrinum, Ricardum, Verum, Carolum, Elizabetham, Bridgettam, & Catharinam. Altera illi conjux Bridgetta Wray, Baroniffa Norreys de Rycot, honoratiffima Edvardi Sackvill vidua, è quâ genuit Jacobum Baronem Norreys (aliam Familiæ fuæ nobilitatem), Edvardum, Henricum, et Mariam. Ista sobole propagavit familiam, quam virtute multiplici illuftravit, candore & humanitate præcipuus, vultus fuavitate & gestuum moderatione fummus decorus, comitate generosa magnificè affabilis, Confiliarius prudentiffimus; in prælio de Edghill fortitudine spectabilis piâ, cum Imperatorem Patrem lethaliter proftratum objectu corporis fui diutiffimè protegeret interritus. Fide erga Principes optimos inconcuffa, qui Caroli Primi funeftiffimas exequias, quatuor procerum unus, inter ipfam furentis Tyrannidis sævitiam, ad tumulum profecutus eft, fuo pietatis officio damnare aufus potenter rebelles. Obiit 250 Julii, anno æræ Christ, 1666, ætatis fuæ 50; et fub hoc marmore cum patre Roberto & Martha conjuge unà requiefcit. Avi Parentumque honoratiffimæ memoriæ filij quatuor, Peregrinus, Ricardus, Verus, & Carolus, supremi teftamenti curatores, mætentes pofuerunt." Near the last is a mural tablet of white marble. Arms, quarterly, 1. Ber tie, 2. Willoughby, 3. Ufford, 4. Vere. Creft, a Saracen's head proper, ducally crowned Or. And the following infeription: "To the memory of Richard Bertie, who, being honourable by his noble parentage, made himself more so by his noble actions. He was grandchild of that heroick and renown'd Robert, and third fon of Montague, both Earls of Lindfey, and Hereditary Lord Greate Chamberlains of England. His actions were these : In Forreine parts he attended upon his then Royal Highneffe, now K. James II. and Mareschall de Turenne att the fieges of Mouzon ao 1653, and Laundrecy ao 1655; in both which he shewed an undoubted courage in two desperate attacks. His employmts at home were: hee ferved K. Charles the Ild in the command of Captain of Horse both in England and Ireland, as he did also the present King James the II. against the Invafion and Rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth in the Weft. He was a perfon of unblemish'd integrity, both to Church and State; of fignall loyalty to his two Sovereigns, hofpitality to his neighbours, and obliging candour to all men. To whose irreparable losse on the 19th of January ao D'ni 1686, and 50th of his unmarry'd life, the hon'ble Peregrine Bertie, his fecond brother, fole executor and conftant companion in his travayles abroad, and in his entire affection at home, hath, as the last teftimoniall of his neverdying love, erected this monument." On the South fide of the Chancel is a monument more than 17 feet high, of white marble veined with blue; at the top of which are the arms of Ber. tie, Willoughby, Beke, Ufford, Vere, and a lion rampant quarterly with an inefcutcheon charged with a maunch, and on a border eight pair of lions jambes faltire-ways; an Earl's coronet; tuppo fupporters, on the dexter, a Frier, with flaff and beads; on the finifter a Sa age wreathed about the temples and middle Motto, Loyauté me oblige. On. a pedestal in front about four feet high Bands a farcophagus, of dark variegated warble; and above the farcophagus, in the back ground, are feven bulis, inscribed, Eliz. Lady Lindsey, Robert Earl of Lindsey, Arabella Lady Rivers, Hon, Peregrine Bertie, Hon Norreys Bertie, Hon. Philip Bertie, Hon. Atbemarle Bertie. And on the front of the pedef tal below, the following infcription: "Robert Lord Willoughby of Eresby, eldest fon of Montague by his first wife the Countess of Holderneffe, fucceeded his Father in his hereditary honours of Earl of Lindsey, Lindsey, and Lord Great Chamberlain of England, July the 25th, 1666; and was made Lord Lieutenant and Cuftos Rotulorum of this County in his room, and one of his Majesties Most Honourable Privy Council, and sometime one of the Gentlemen of his Bed-chamber. He had the honour to be continued in the former stations in the succeeding reigns, till he thought fitt to resign the first in behalf of his fon, then Lord Willoughby of Eresby. He died May 9th, 1701, aged about 70 : years. This noble Earl was three times married; first to Mrs. Mary Maffingberd, one of the daughters and coheirs of John Maffingberd, of London, merchant: by her he had only one daughter named Arabella, who was second wife to Thomas Earl Rivers; after whose decease she lived in the state of widowhood, and dying without a will the 28th day of February, 1716, aged about 50 years, a confiderable personal eftate fell to her four half brothers, who survived her. His second wife was Elizabeth, fole surviving issue of Philip Lord Wharton, by his first wife daughter and heir of Sir Rowland Wandsford, Attorney General of the Court of Wards, by whom he had five fons. The eldest was Robert Lord Willoughby of Eresby, who fucceeded his father, and was afterwards created Marquiss of Lindsey and Duke of Ancafter. The second was the Right Honourable Peregrine Bertie, Vice Chamberlain to King William and Queen Anne, and one of their Majesties Most Honourable Privy Council; he usually served in Parliament for the Corporation of Boston, where he was chose seven times, and once for Truro in Cornwall. In November, 1706, the Queen made him one of the Tellers of the Exchequer. He was generally efteemed and beloved; and his relations and friends had a very great loss of him by an apoplexy the 10th day of July, 1711; he died unmarried, aged about 48 years. The third was Philip, who was Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber to Queen Mary, and Auditor of the Dutchy of Cornwall. In the year 1694 he was chose Member of Parliament for the town of Stamford. He married Elizabeth a daughter of the Earl of Meath, who was relict of Sir Philip Coot, by whom he had no issue, and died the 15th of April, 1728, aged about 64 years. The fourth was Norreys, who was brought up in the Sea service, and made several voyages as volunteer on board his Majesty's Ships of War before the Revolution. Soon after it, he was made Guidon of the Guards, and served the two first campaigns of that war with the troops in Flanders; but the troop staying at home the third year, he went a Volunteer, on board the grand fleet commanded by Admiral Ruffel, and was made second lieutenant of the Suffolk. While the ship lay at Dartmouth, he fell ill of a malignant fever, and died there Auguft the 27th, 1691, aged about 25 years.His third wife was Elizabeth, daughter and fole heir of Pope Earl of Downe in Ireland, relict of fir Harry Lee, of Ditchley, in the county of Oxford; by her he had one daughter named Elizabeth, who died in the seventh year of her age, and one fon named Charles, who acted for his brother, the Earl of Litchfield, in the command of Woodstock Park, and was chose Member of Parliament for New Woodstock, in the year 1705. His firft wife was an heiress, widow of Nicholas Newcomen, Esq.; his second was Mrs. Marshall; but, having no issue by either, he left his eftate to his great nephew Lord Albemarle Bertie, second son of the prefent Duke of Ancafter. He lies buried at Theddlethorpe, by his first wife, where there is a monument erected to them; all the rest are buried here. 'The fifth son of Robert Earl of Lindsey, by his second wife, was the honourable Albemarle Bertie, who erected this monument in the year 1738." Against the North wall of the Chancel, and opposite to the last, is a costly monument of marble near 20 feet high, having in the back ground a pediment supported by two Corinthian columns, above which are the arms, viz, Bertie, Willoughby, Beke, Ufford, Vere, and Wandesford, quarterly, on an inefcutcheon, three eaglets displayed in feffe, Wynne, impaled with a chevron between three leopards' faces, Farrington: a ducal coronet, and supporters, and motto as before. Under the pedjment are flowers in festoon. On a pedestal, with a circular front, near fix feet from the ground, is the effigies of the first Duke of Ancafter, standing, in a Roman dress, with a baton in his right hand. And on the front of the pedestal is inscribed, "L. I. Scheemaeckers et H. Cheere invent. & fecit." And beneath: "In a vault under this place lies the body of that late most noble prince Robert Bertie, Duke of Ancafter and Kefteven, Marquifs and Earl of Lindsey, Baron Willoughby, Beck, and Eresby, and Hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England. He was fon of Robert Earl of Lindsey by Elizabeth his fecond wife, the only furviving issue of Philip Lord Wharton by his first wife Elizabeth daughter and heiress of Sir Rowland Wandsford, of the County of York, Knight. His first wife was Mary daughter and heiress of Sir Richard Wynne, of Gwydder, in the County of Carnarvon, Carnarvon, Bart.; by whom he had two fons, Robert Lord Willoughby, who died under age in his travels at Wolfenbuttle, and Peregrine now duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, &c.; and three daughters, the Honourable Ladies Elizabeth, Eleanora, and Mary, who died young. His second wife was Albinia eldest daughter of Lieutenant-general Farrington; by whom he had issue five fons and one daughter: the Honourable Lords Vere, Montagu, Norris (dyed an infant), Thomas, Robert, and Lady Louisa. In the reign of King William the IIIrd, he was called up by writ from the Lower House of Parliament, as Lord Willoughby of Erefby, and was feveral years Chancellour of the Dutchy of Lancafter, Lord Lieutenant and Cuftos Rotulorum of the County of Lincoln, City of Lincoln, and County of the faid City, and one of his Majesty's Mast Honourable Privy Council. Her Majesty Queen Anne created him Marquess of Lindsey the 29th of December, 1706, and continued him in her Council, and in the fame honourable employments in this County, during her reign. He had alfo the honour to ferve his Majesty King George the Fire in the fame honourable ftations; and was, July the first, 1715, created by him Duke of Ancafter and KefHe always firmly adhered to the Church of England as by law established, was an equal affertor of the rights of the Crown, and the liberties of the People; and, when Parliaments were up, resided in this County, where he lived hofpitably, and had a good interest. He was born the 20th of October, 1660, and dyed the 26th of July, 1723. This monument was erected by his Grace's Trustees in the year of our Lord 1728, according to the power given them by his Will." teven. Against the fame North wall of the Chancel, and Eastward from the last monument, is another monument confifting of a pedestal of white marble, on which is the effigies of the fecond Duke of Ancafter, in a Roman dress, leaning against an urn; and beneath the urn a medallion, on which is a bust of his Duchefs: in the back ground a pyramid of dark-coloured marble, on which are the arms of Bertie, Wynne, Ufford, and Willoughby, quarterly, with an inefcutcheon, Or, a shield within an orie of martlets Sable, for Brownlow, and with coronet, supporters, and motto: the whole about fifteen feet high. Oun the front of the pedeftal is this infcription. "This monument is erected to the me mory of Peregrine late Duke of Ancafter and Kefteven, Lord Great Chamberlain of England, who died Jan. 1ft, 1741, aged 55 years; and of Jane his Duchefs, who was one of the daughters and coheiresses of Sir John Brownlow, late of Belton in the county of Lincoln, bart.; by whom he left three fons and four daughters, Peregrine now duke of Ancafter and Kesteven, Lord Great Chamberlain of England; Lord Albemarle; Lord Brownlow; Lady Mary, Lady Albina, Lady Jane, and Lady Carolina Bertie." On the South fide of the Chancel, oppofite to the last monument, is another of white marble veined, on which about fix feet from the ground are represented the third Duke of Ancaster, seated, in his robes, resting his right hand on a medallion, on which is the bust of his Duchefs, and holding a coronet in his left hand; and the fourth Duke of Ancaster in a Roman dress, with a baton in his hand, standing at the right hand of his Father. In the front the arms, coronet, creft, fupporters, and motto of Bertie Duke of Ancafter. On a marble ter minating in a pointed arch in the back ground is a medallion with a bust of the eldest fon of the third Duke, and above it an urn. And on two brafs tablets in the front are the following Inscriptions: "To the memory of the most noble Prince Peregrine Bertie, third Duke of Ancafter and Kefteven, Marquis and Earl of Lindfey, Baron Willoughby, Beck, and Eresby, Lord Great Chamberlain of England by inheritance, Master of the Horse to King George the Third, one of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Lord Lieutenant and Cuftos Rotulorum of the County of Lincoln, Recorder of Boston, and keeper of Waltham Foreft in the fame County.--His Grace first married on the 22d of May, 1735, Elizabeth daughter and fole heiress of William Blundell of Basingftoke, in the county of Southampton, Esq. relict of Sir Charles Gunter Nichol, Knight of the Bath; who having died without issue in December 1743, he married November 27th, 1750, Mary daughter of Thomas Panton of Newmarket in the county of Cambridge, Efq. by whom he had issue, 1. Lady Mary-Catharine, who was born April 14th, 1754, and died at Bristol April 12th, 1767; 2. Peregrine Thomas Marquis and Earl of Lindsey, who was born May 21st, 1755, and died December 12th, 1758; 3. Lord Robert afterward Marquis and Earl of Lindsey, who was born October 17th, 1756, and succeeded his Father August 12th, 1778; 4. Lord who was born September 14th, 1759, and died the same day; 5. Lady 3. Lady Prifcilla-Barbara-Elizabeth, now Baronefs Willoughby of Eresby, who was born February 14th, 1761, and married February 23rd, 1779, to Peter BurJell, of Beckenham, in the County of Kent, Esq. now fir Peter Burrell, Knight, Deputy Great Chamberlain of England; by whom the hath issue, the Honourable Peter-Robert Burrell, born March 1782; 6. Lady Georgina-Charlotta, born Auguft 7th, 1764. His Grace having raifed a regiment of foot for his Majesty's service during the Rebellion in Scotland in the year 1745, was promoted to the rank of a General in the Army. This noble Duke ever shewed the most unequivocal and zealous attachment to the illustrious Family now on the Throne of these Kingdoms, the most patriotick concern for the preservation of our happy Conftitution, and the most attentive regard to the particular interests of that County over which he presided, and in which, during the recess of Parliament, he lived with hospitable magnificence and liberality. His Grace's death was occafioned by a lingering bilious diforder: and, having for many days forefeen his approaching diffolution, he took leave of his difconfolate family and afflicted friends, by a most affectionate and folemn farewell. He quitted this world with philosophick tranquillity, and refigned his foul to God with the fure and Redfast hope of a moft fincere Christian. He died at Grimsthorpe, August 12th, 1778, in the fixty-fifth year of his age; and was succeeded in titles and estate by his only surviving fon." troubles arisen in the Western hemisphere suggested opportunities of inftruetion better fuited to the activity of his genius: nor were his loyalty and patriotifm restrained by the anxious apprehenfions of the tendereft Parents, or the earneft intreaties of those noble Relations, who faw in him their present boast, delight, and hope, their future comfort, protection, and glory. He went over as a Volunteer to North America in the twenty-first year of his age, and eagerly embraced every opportunity of diftinguishing himself by the most spirited and dauntless exertions, in the service of his King and Country, by fea as well as by land. During his fecond campaign he received the melancholy tidings of his noble Father's decease. On his return he furpassed the most sanguine expectations of his friends, his family, and his country. In his perfon manly gracefulness was united to natural dignity; his manners were elegant without affectation, his affability was the genuine fruit of univerfal benevolence, and by the eminent goodness of his heart he shone with peculiar luftre in the several relations of Son, Brother, and Friend. But it pleased God to give an awful demonftration of the inftability of human bliss, and to snatch away this object of general admiration, by a malignant fever, of which he died, unmarried, in the twenty-third year of his age, on the 8th of July, 1779: only eleven months after he fucceeded to the hereditary honours of his family." C. Harris, London, fecit. The Harleian MS. above referred to, notices the following arms in the windows of Edenham church, which are now loft. In the East window; Barry of fix, Or and Azure, a bend Gules, Gant. Azure, semé of fleurs des-lis, a lion rampant Or, Beaumont. "To the memory of the mosft noble prince, Robert Bertie, fourth Duke of Ancafter and Kesteven, Marquis and Earl of Lindsey, Baron Willoughby, Beck, and Eresby, Lord Great Chamberlain of England by inheritance, one of his Majesty's Moft Honourable Privy Council, Lord Lieutenant and Cuftos Rotulorum of the County of Lincoln. Quickness and clearness of apprehenfion, aided by a memory moft happily retentive, guided by fuch disoernnient as ordinary men derive from long repeated observation, and fired by an ambitious defire of real glory, secured and facilitated to this excellent young Nobleman the acquifition of every accomplishment, either fuited to that exalted ftation for which he was born, or conducive to his improvement in that most honourable profeffion in which he chose to follow the I REQUEST that it may ever be In a North window; Azure, a bend between fix martlets Argent, Lutterell. Argent, three dolphins naiant Sable, Simeon. In an upper South window the arms of Beaumont repeated. T. B. ARCHITECTURAL INNOVATION. kept in memory that my strictures lead directly to those Innovations done on our PUBLIC ANTIENT STRUCTURES which no man, or body of men, can truly call their own*; structures that are in a manner conmmitted splendid example of his renowned anceftors. Indefatigable in this glorious purfuit, he vifited foreign, but chiefly Northern climes; and with a deep-rooted fcorn for all the refinements of enervating luxury, he gloried in the character of a hardy Briton, and enriched it with the study and observation of the most celebrated *I do not at this time allude to those military establishments. But foon the Antiquities purchased by fale of estates, &c. by by the Nation at large to the immediate care and protection of particular individuals as a trust the most facred; then, furely, it is wrong in those fo trufted to fet afide the folemn obligation, by perpetrating on their walls each experimental disfigurement and unrestrained havock ander the direction of foreigners as well as natives. But the hour is at hand, when an account will be required for all the long lift of rchitectural depredations, vulgarly called improvements; and plunder, vulgarly called fpeculation, ir the value of lead, timber, ftone, &c. &c. At this moment a trembling account is about to be teanned, and adjudged. Certain Northern "blanks in the air," in" elegiac" ftrains, cry aloud for retribution; and each body of "dele gated guardians of our Antiquities" fland in fearful fufpence for the dreaded event! Fair (ame and confolation go with that heart who has fet this engine of enquiry, this barrier to Antiquartan devatlations, at issue! May his fuccels be equal to his patriotic endeavours! My wishes, as my hop s, turn on the most fanguine expectancy; and I wait the event. GUILDHALL, LONDON. Concluded from vol. LXVII. p. 1218. Interior of the Porch. Extremely perfect; and a most beautiful introduction to the Halt it certainly is. The length is portioned into two divifions, by columns fupporting groins, with rich bofles, &c. Each divifion has three compartments, with pointed heads, torns, and tracery, filling up the principal arches of the divifions. Interior of the Hall. Length 154 feet, width 52 feet. The length has eight divifions, made by clufters of coumns; and to each divifion, in the upright, is a stone feat of continuation, dado with compartments and tracery (among which, in certain situations, are door-ways and windows), ftring, or first entablature, grand window (in fome fituations other decorations take place), and second entablature. So far exift the remains of the original upright; its continuation shewed, no doubt, an open-worked timber roof (in manner like Westminster Hall), and which was eonfumed in the great fire. A repair foon took place, which next occurs in the present elevation; that is, a gnerat erntablature and double * See our Poetical department, p. 63, piers and windows with circular heads; these objects are regularly fet over the antient divisions below, the whole covered by a flat panneled cieling, three pannels in in width and fixteen in length. This attic flory then is plain to a degree; neither applicable to the situation, or to the style of an interior, the finish of which could not be perfect without an open-worked roof as aforesaid. The embellishments in the dado give three compartments; the centre ditto principal, within which are three smaller compartments with pointed head, turns, &c. On each fide of the grand window are compartments, in unifon with those in the dado. The window itself is lofty, and has its height in two tiers; the lower ditto, pointed heads, with turns; and the upper ditto, the general head of the window, with turus, tracery, &c. The two entablatures in their friezes have an infinite number of smalt blockings, composed of human heads, shields of arms, ornaments, &c. To the clufter of columns are rich bases and ornamented capitals; and on them, we may prefume, the destroyed timbers for the roof once took their (pringings; but now Wrenéan thields of arms with prepofterous embellishments ufurp their fituations. Se South fide of the Hall. First divifion (from the East). The Huftings (or more probably a grand flight of steps covered by faid Hustings), rifing fome feet from the pavement, unavoidably caused the first entablature to be fet as high as the top of the first tier of the grand window. Below this entablature are splendid canopies to fix niches; the rest of the work of these niches wainscoted out by Corinthian fluted pilafters and panneling. cond divifion. Dado complete; (as, in general, are all the rest, with the two entablatures;) grand window ditto. Third division. The work in centre of dado cut away, to bring in a modern door-way; occasional door-way complete: grand window stopped up. Fourth divifion, complete; no grand window; in lieu, fine compartments and tracery. Fifth division: grand door-way from the porch occurs; over it, in lieu of grand window, compartments and tracery: the work broke into for the pushing out a modern music gallery. Sixth divifion. Complete; and fimilar to fourth ditto. Seventh divifion. Window in dado ftopped up. Great window ditto. Eighth |