in keeping of sheep," returned the other, "yours were then in plotting of treason." Whose animosities for the present cost both of them a confinement; yet so that afterwards the Upper House ordered reparations to this lord Spencer, as first (and causelessly) provoked.*

This lord was also he who, in the first of king James, was sent (with Sir William Dethick, principal King of Arms) to Frederick duke of Wirtemburg, elected into the order of the Garter; to present and invest him with the robes and ornaments thereof, which were accordingly, with great solemnity, performed in the cathedral of Stutgard.†

KING JAMES.

2. ARTHUR THROGKMORTON, Mil.-He was son to that eminent knight, Sir Nicholas Throgkmorton (of whom in Warwickshire); and his sister was married to Sir Walter Raleigh. This Sir Arthur was a most ingenious gentleman; and, dying without issue-male, his large estate was parted amongst his four daughters, married to the lord Dacres, the lord Wotton, Sir Peter Temple of Stow, baronet, and Sir Edward Partridge.

3. JOHN FREEMAN, Arm.-He died without issue; and was a most bountiful benefactor to Clare-hall in Cambridge; giving two thousand pounds to the founding of fellowships and scholarships therein.

12. WILLIAM WILLMER, Arm.-He was the first pensioner, as doctor James Montague the first master, and Sir John Brewerton first scholar, of the house in Sidney College; being all three of them (but in several proportions) benefactors to that foundation.

22. WILLIAM CHAUNCY, Mil.-These have been very (but I know not how) ancient in this county, but far ancienter in Yorkshire; for I meet with this inscription on a monument at Sabridgeworth in Hertfordshire:

"Hic jacent Johannes Chancy, Ar., filius et heres Johannis Chancy, Ar., filii et heredis Willielmi Chancy, Mil. quondam Baronis de Shorpenbek in com. Ebor., et Anna uxor ejus, una filiarum Johannis Leventhorp, Ar., qui quidem Johannes obiit VII Maii MCCCCLXXIX. et Anna, 11 Decemb. MCCCCLXXVII. quorum animabus . . . ."

It appeareth to me, by a well-proved pedigree, that Henry Chancy, Esq. of Yardlebury in Hertfordshire is the direct descendant from the aforesaid John Chancy, whose epitaph we have inserted.

• Wilson, in the Life of King James.

+ Stow's Chronicle, p. 128.

KING CHARLES.

7. JOHN HEWET, Bart.-He had not one foot of land nor house (hiring Hemington of the lord Montague) in the whole county, though several statutes* have provided that the sheriff should have sufficient land in the same shire to answer the king and his people. The best is, this baronet had a very fair estate elsewhere. And, as our English proverb saith, "What is lost in the hundred will be found in the shire;" so what was lost in the shire would be found in the land. However, this was generally beheld as an injury; that, because he had offended a great courtier, the shrievalty was by power imposed upon him.

THE FAREWELL.

The worst I wish this my native county is, that Nine (a river which some will have so termed from nine tributary rivulets) were Ten; I mean, made navigable from Petersburgh to Northampton; a design which hath always met with many backfriends, as private profit is (though a secret) a sworn enemy to the general good.

Sure I am, the Hollanders (the best copy of thrift in Christendom) teach their little ditches to bear boats. Not that their waters are more docible in this kind than ours; but they are the more ingenious and industrious schoolmaster of the lesson of public advantage, making every place in their province to have access unto every place therein by such cheap transportation.

WORTHIES OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE WHO HAVE FLOURISHED SINCE THE TIME OF FULLER,

Dr. Stephen ADDINGTON, learned dissenting divine and author; born at Northampton 1729; died 1796.

Sir William ADDINGTON, a magistrate and author; born at Litchborough 1749.

Vincent ALSOP, author and nonconformist divine; born at Wilby; died 1703.

Caleb ASHWORTH, dissenting divine, tutor, and author; born 1709; died 1774.

Matthew BARKER, author and nonconformist divine; born at Cransley; died 1698.

Ralph BATHURST, divine, physician, and Latin poet; born at Hawthorpe 1620; died 1704.

9 Edward II. Lincolnshire; 4 Edward III. c. 9; 5 Edward III. c. 4.

WORTHIES SINCE THE TIME OF FULLER.

539

Edward BERNARD, mathematician, astronomer, Orientalist, and critic; born at Paulers Pury 1638; died 1697.

Sir John BLENCOWE, M.P., justice of the King's Bench; born at Marston St. Lawrence 1642; died 1726.

William BLENCOWE, third son of the judge, decipherer to the Government; born at Marston St. Lawrence 1682-3; died 1712.

William BURKITT, commentator on the New Testament; born at Hitcham 1650; died 1703.

Alban BUTLER, learned catholic divine and historian of the Saints; born at Apletree 1710; died 1773.

William CAREY, LL.D. Oriental scholar; born at PaulersPury 1761; died 1834.

Esther CHAPONE, poet and moralist; born at Twywell 1727; died 1801.

Samuel CLARKE, divine and Orientalist; born at Brackley 1624; died 1669.

Thomas COGAN, physician and author on ethical philosophy and theology; born at Rowell 1736; died 1818.

Elisha COLES, author of "Practical Discourses of God's Sovereignty;" died 1688.

Elisha COLES, nephew of the preceding, lexicographer; born 1640; died 1684.

Philip DODDRIDGE, D.D. learned dissenting divine and commentator; born at Northampton 1702; died 1751.

John DRYDEN, dramatic, political, and satirical poet and translator; born at Aldwinkle All Saints 1631; died 1700. John FREIND, physician, politician, and elegant writer; born at Croughton 1675; died 1728.

Robert FREIND, brother of John, scholar, celebrated for Latin epitaphs; born at Croughton 1667; died 1751.

Francis GASTRELL, bishop of Chester, author of "Christian Institutes;" born at Slapton 1662; died 1725.

Dr. John GILL, baptist, Orientalist, commentator on the Bible; born at Kettering 1697; died 1771.

Simon GUNTON, historian of the cathedral, Peterborough; died 1676.

James HERVEY, author of "Meditations," pious divine; born at Hardingstone 1713-14; died 1758.

Sir John HILL, physician, voluminous writer, butt of the wits; born at Peterborough 1716; died 1775.

Selina Countess of HUNTINGDON, charitable founder of sixtyfour chapels, some colleges and seminaries; born at Astwell 1707; died 1791.

George JEFFREYS, poet and miscellaneous writer; born at Weldon 1678; died 1755.

William JONES, divine, institutor of the "British Critic;" born at Lowick 1726; died 1800.

William LAW, nonjuring divine, author of "Serious Call;" born at King's Cliffe 1686; died 1761.

Sir Creswell LEVINZ, justice of Common Pleas, and author; born at Evenley 1627; died 1700-1.

Owen MANNING, divine, and historian of Surrey; born at Orlingbury 1721; died 1801.

Charles MONTAGUE, first earl of Halifax, K.G. "Mæcenas,” statesman and poet; born at Horton 1661; died 1715.

John NEWTON, astronomer and mathematician; born at Oundle 1622; died 1678.

Richard NEWTON, divine, founder of Hertford College, Oxford; born at Yardley Hastings 1675; died 1753.

William PALEY, divine, philosopher, and theologian; born at Peterborough 1743; died 1805.

Samuel PARKER, bishop of London, historian of his own times; born at Northampton 1640; died 1687.

John PARKHURST, divine, lexicographer, and critic; born at Catesby 1728; died 1797.

Thomas PAYNE," honest Tom Payne," bookseller and bibliopolist; born at Brackley 1717; died 1799.

Philip THICKNESSE, lively writer, and eccentric character; born at Farthinghoe 1719; died 1792.

Leonard WELSTED, poet, satirized by Pope; born at Abington 1689; died 1747.

Daniel WHITBY, learned divine, author of "Commentaries," &c.; born at Rushden 1638; died 1726.

John WILKINS, bishop of Chester, philosopher; born at Fawsley 1614; died 1672.

Thomas WOOLSTON, divine, and author of some works of a deistical tendency; born at Northampton 1669; died 1732-3.

The county of Northampton has been fortunate in its topographers. Norden appears amongst the earliest of its historians. He laid the foundation for the History of the County by John Bridges, which was edited by the Rev. P. Whalley, in 2 vols. fol. 1791. In 1822, a very superior edition, in folio, was undertaken by Mr. Geo. Baker, which occupied many years' attention, and certainly reflects great credit on the enterprising spirit and indefatigable research of the author. Other local histories and descriptions have also made their appearance; as the Rev. S. Gunton's History of Peterborough (1686); the Rev. J. Mastin's History of Naseby (1792); Guide to Burleigh (1815); Rev. H. K. Bonney's Historic Notices of Fotheringhay (1821); Cole's History of Weston Favell (1827), &c.—ED.

NORTHUMBERLAND.

NORTHUMBERLAND hath the bishopric of Durham (separated by the river Derwent running into Tyne) on the south; Cumberland on the south-west; the German Ocean on the east; and Scotland on the north and west; parted with the river Tweed, Cheviot hills, and elsewhere (whilst our hostility with the Scots) mutuo metu, with mutual fear, now turned into mutual faith, both nations knowing their own, and neither willing to invade, the bounds of others.

It is somewhat of a pyramidal form, whose basis, objected to the south, extendeth above forty, whilst the shaft thereof, narrowing northward, ascendeth to full fifty miles. Nature hath not been over indulgent to this county in the fruitfulness thereof; yet it is daily improved, since (to use the prophet's expression) they have beat their swords into plough-shares, and spears into pruning-hooks ;* and surely such plough-shares make the best furrows, and such comfortable pruning-hooks cut with the best edge.

It must not be forgotten, how, before the uniting of England with Scotland, there lay much waste ground in the northern part of this county, formerly disavowed, (at leastwise not owned by any) only to avoid the charges of the common defence.† But afterward, so great, sudden, and good the alteration, that, the borders becoming safe and peaceable, many gentlemen inhabiting thereabouts, finding the ancient waste ground to become very fruitful, in the fourth of king James put in their claims, and began to contend in law about their bounds, challenging their hereditary right therein.

THE BUILDINGS.

One cannot rationally expect fair fabrics here, where the vicinity of the Scots made them to build not for state but strength. Here it was the rule with ancient architects, "what was firm, that was fair;" so that it may be said of the houses of the gentry herein, "Quot mansiones, tot munitiones," as either