(BEING THE TWENTY-THIRD OF A NEW SERIES.) PART THE FIRST. PRODESSE & DELECTARE. E PLURIBUS UNUM. BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. London: PRINTED BY.J. B. NICHOLS AND SON, 25, PARLIAMENT STREET; WHERE LETTERS ARE PARTICULARLY REQUESTED TO BE SENT, POST-PAID ; AND SOLD BY JOHN HARRIS, AT THE CORNER OF ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, LUDGATE Street; LIST OF EMBELLISHMENTS. Clase mar kei akas * are Vignettes printed with the letter-press ] Ve♥ af de House at Faris, in front of which Henri Quatre was assassinated. Plan of a Soman Visa at Pitney, en. Somerset......... Chard and Tower of Dundry, ca. Somerset... Pam,ngs on Passes zum Tavistock Cầurch ............ *£=presenta, som et Capt. Clapperton's Funeral Ceremony.. Specimens of Awan Tattooing... -Houses at Mitcham, Surrey ..... Percy Momoment at Beverley, co. York........... Remains of the lum of the Prior of Lewes, Southwark .... Kerecsentations of ancient Seals and miscellaneous Antiquities; viz. Seal of Gomer's Monument in St. Saviour's Church, Southwark............... *Save Collu in St. Martin's Church-yard, Salisbury... #Painted Glass at St. Thomas's Church, Salisbury........... .393 .394 401 407 ..409 v .489 497 577 ....ib. Seal of Tavestock Abbey, Betsy Grimbald's Tower, and Sepulchral Vestiges pre served at the Vicarage, Tavistock.............. Isastead House, Esset....... & voda) Chapel, Waldam Green, Fulham............... Noy Dron ty Church, Brompton, Middlesex.......... *Norman Joodes in the Chapter-house of Bristol Cathedral. .609 * It has been suggested by a friend, that this is one of those clasps by which dada weer venchy lastered with a thong; the ring at the end or the hole at the Deck mykt de placed on a pan fixed to one of the sides of the book, as required by the dust or loseness of the contents. The Boute wili pivase to cancel pp. 331-532 of June Magazine. PREFACE. A task of greater difficulty has seldom fallen upon the Conductors of a Periodical Publication than that which the Editors of the Gentleman's Magazine are now called upon to perform, by writing a Preface to the HUNDREDTH Volume of their labours. On reaching a period in the history of that work, which has very few precedents in the annals of literature, it may be expected from its Editors that they should not merely present to their Patrons and Friends an account of the progress and general contents of the former volumes, and advert to the public and private principles by which all its Conductors have been actuated, but that they should speak of their present plans and resources. Were this, however, all which is incumbent upon them, they might hope to acquit themselves, if not with credit, at least without disgrace, for to the past they can allude with pride, and to the future with confidence; but they are aware that it is their duty to state the honest exultation which they naturally feel at the long and uninterrupted success which has attended the Magazine,-to notice with delicacy the causes which have preserved it from the fate that has attended so many of its contemporaries,—to allude to the grounds upon which they build their hopes that it is destined to survive for another hundred years, and, more than all, to express the deep gratitude with which they are impressed for the assistance of able contributors, and for the large share of patronage by which their exertions have been cheered and rewarded. In adverting to points of so personal a nature, egotism cannot be avoided; but there are occasions when silence as well as speech may have its source in vanity, and if ever a modest allusion to literary services be justifiable, it is when gratitude dictates the assurance that every effort will be used to retain the patronage which those services have acquired. The able Preface to the "General Index to the Gentleman's Magazine from 1787 to 1818," contains so satisfactory a history of the work, that it is only necessary to refer to it for an account of its institution and progress, and for the names of the eminent writers who originally contributed to its pages. But it is desirable to notice briefly the valuable |