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inserviit, ab omnibus gratiam et sine invidia laudem consecutus est. Erat enim ingenio simplici, aperto, perhumano, antiquis moribus et fide, neque illo quisquam aut amici aut viri probri aut medici denique scientis et assidui partes cumulatius explevit.”

6. The Gateway and Porter's lodge. The Gates are the ancient gates of the Monastery, being, as the detail of the workmanship proves, certainly as old as the latter part of the fifteenth century. Unfortunately their beauty has been diminished by loss of height, the ground having been raised; our ancestors found it a cheaper method to adapt the Gates to the use required of them, by cutting off two or three feet from the lower extremity, rather than to rebuild the Gateway, and so preserve to the gates their due proportion.

7. The house which for a very long period was occupied either by the Head Master or Usher as a Boardinghouse. The communication with the Green was latterly through the passage shown on the plan as passing by the Chapel door. In former times the communication was by the chapel cloister, through the door at a. In the chapel court at the back of the house, the writer of these notes, whilst a boy, carved a WH on a paving stone, which after many vicissitudes at last found a permanent place in the wall of the chapel cloister.

8. The houses on the east of 7 are on the site of the property retained by the North family, when the Charterhouse was sold to the Duke of Norfolk. But though forming no part of the Charterhouse, the spot marked 8 must not be passed unnoticed as the site of the Boarding-house, held from time to time by various occupants. The communication with the Green was for many years by a subterraneous passage at the east end of the chapel.

9. Rutland Court as it anciently stood, but now rebuilt. At b is the site of the boarding-house, now occupied by the Rev. Mr. Walford.

10. The Chapel. In the year 1825 the addition towards the Green was made for the accommodation of the Boarders.

11. Brooke Hall; over it are the apartments formerly occupied by Mr. Barbor, and which now form the residence of the Rev. Mr. Dicken, the present Reader.

12. The Great Staircase leading to the Terrace, the Governors' room, the Master's and the Reader's apartments.

13. The Master's Lodge.

14. The Offices of the Registrar and Receiver; a part of which was formerly occupied by Ben Wall, a goodhumoured old servant of Dr. Ramsden, who many a time enlivened our circle in the Green, by his two well-known songs, Duke William and the Leather Bottell.

15. The Registrar's apartments; now occupied by Archibald Keightley, the friend and contemporary of the writer, the sharer with him in the same form, of the labour of making out the lesson together, and partner with him in danger, when in negotiating for the purchase of the first net placed on the five's-court wall, and being rather out of bounds, they encountered together a master's awful visage in Aldersgate Street. 16. The Reservoir.

17. The Apartments formerly occupied by the Reader, Mr. Pritchett, now by Mr. Tucker, the Manciple.

18. The Great Kitchen, with the Larder and Sculleries adjoining, which extends beneath the Manciple's apart

ments.

19. The Apartments of the Organist over the antehall, in which, whilst the late respected R. J. S. Stevens

held that office, the writer frequently found refuge from his labours as a "fag," and was delighted and instructed by the conversation of so kind a friend.

20. The great Hall.

21. The upper Hall, over which are the Governors' room and the Library, and formerly the Tailor's shop. 22. The Buttery, and stairs to Tailor's shop.

23. Dixon, the late Manciple's apartments, at the back of which lies the Garden, called Dixon's or Wollaston's Garden.

24. Rooms occupied by Pensioners and Servants. 25. The original Carpenter's shop.

26. Pensioners' apartments.

27. Ancient Stable-yard.

28. The position of the Horsepond!! 29. Original Burial-ground.

30. The Matron's house.

31. Hendry, the Gardener's house; the place where the late Mr. George for some years abode.

32. The house formerly occupied by the Preacher, and afterwards by Dr. Russell.

33. Gown-boys.

34. Middle Briars-the etymology of which has defied research. In the days of driving four-in-hand, the Bell Inn had its sign on the wall of Middle Briars. 35. The apartments of the Usher, the late Mr. Wollaston.

36. The Pump.

37. The Crown Inn, on the upper walk, now levelled. 38. Cloaca max.

Note.-The buildings numbered on the plan, but not shaded, have been pulled down.

The New Buildings coloured Red.

A. Pensioners' apartments.

B. The Preacher's house.

C. Stokoe, the Gown-boys' Butler's lodge.

D. The Schoolmaster's house.

E. The Matron's house.

F. The Burial-ground.

G. Servants' apartments.

H. The Carpenter's workshops.
I. The Stable-yard.

THE SAD SHEPHERD.

WITH sighs and smiles and such like wiles
My heart did Phyllis win,

Then mocked my pain, and cried, Good swain,
Too hasty you have bin;

There's time enough to talk such stuff,

I have no time to wed,

Nor can divine what words of mine

Have turned your silly head.
Then down the glade this fickle maid

Tripped like a pretty fawn,

But me she left of hope bereft,
A shepherd most forlorn.—
Into the brook I've thrown my crook,

My sheep at pleasure stray,
And all alone, I mope and moan
Through the long summer's day.
No more for me the bonny lea

Is decked with light and flowers;
The joy is dead, the grace is fled

Which crowned those happy bowers,

Where oft at eve I did receive
Fond hopes that bred despair
From beaming eyes that, lover-wise,
To mine upturned were.—

Ye lusty swains that o'er these plains
Attend your fleecy care,

Take heed lest you be tempted too
To court a cruel fair!

The bliss so short is dearly bought
With after-days of woe-

As I can tell, who know full well
What pains from love do flow.

ON VIEWING A SPLENDID PRIVATE MONUMENT.

WHY what avails now this sepulchral pomp
Him that is rotting in the dust beneath it?
Sleeps he the sounder, for that o'er his head
Is built up such a gaudy canopy
?

No. He who lies hard by, with but a turf

Thrown o'er him, sleeps as sound.—Why then 'tis vain! Vain all these pains bestowed to rear a pile

For worms to fatten in! 'Tis folly's work:

The pageantry of idiots: raised perhaps

To tell, a knave lies here! These trophies too,
These tinsel'd scutcheons, types appropriate
Of worldly pride, will Sir Pomp bear them hence,
And at Heaven's gate bid them make good his title ?
-How pitiful such greatness! But forsooth,
So wills the world, the rich man, when he dies,
Must moulder splendidly, and turn to dust
Cased in a marble outside.-Weak defence!
The Archangel's trump will burst its solid walls,
And will the soul find more acceptance then,
For that the body is so gaily housed?
Scripture says not, I think.

T. G. A.

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