RICHARD GEAST*, Esq. to Mr. GOUGH. "SIR, Blyth, Aug. 3, 1796. "I received from the Clerk of the Church of St. Mary at Warwick, by your order, a few days ago, a description of the Beauchamp Chapel at Warwick, and the Monuments of the Earls of Warwick, enriched with six prints. Give me leave to return you my thanks for this polite mark of your attention to me, and for the honour you have done this Chapel in collecting and forming into one body the principal matters which relate to it. I am, Sir, "Your obliged and most obedient servant, RICH. GEAST." Rev. JAMES GRANGER to Mr. GOUGH. "SIR, Shiplake, March 13, 1770. "I lately took the liberty of troubling you with what, I fear, has been thought a very impertinent letter, in relation to a book of mine, entitled, "A Biographichal History of England,' in which I mentioned a second Edition as being likely soon to take place. It is indeed very true, that Mr. Davies the bookseller thought so but a few months since, and that he told me that he did not question but he must begin re-printing it within the year. But he is now assured that a second Edition is at a much greater distance, and tells me that a great number of copies remain unsold in his hands, and especially in the hands of the booksellers his subscribers. After all, he owns the book has been very well received, and has, with great generosity, promised to give me a gratuity of 50l. besides his present of 13 copies; to say nothing of smaller presents. He is very much afraid, that what I have said to you, Sir, and other gentlemen, in relation to a second Edition, may be circulated to his disadvantage, I therefore think it incumbent upon me to obviate any reports of that kind, as they will doubtless prejudice the sale of the book. Mr. Davies tells me that the additions and emendations will be printed by themselves. It has been falsely reported that I neglected to take an account of a great number of the Heads in Mr. West's Collection. Nothing is more certain than that I did not wilfully omit one that could with any propriety be introduced into my work. I am, Sir, with great respect, "Your most obedient humble servant, JAMES GRANGER." Descended maternally from Sir William Dugdale, whose name he afterwards assumed; and he possessed by inheritance many of that great Antiquary's MSS. and Copper-plates, one set of which he lent to Charles Nalson Cole, Esq. for a new Edition of "Dugdale on Embanking and Draining." He was the father of Dugdale Stratford Dugdale, Esq. one of the present Representatives in Parliament for Warwickshire. Of whom see the "Literary Anecdotes," vol. VII. pp. 159. 580. Two valuable Letters of Mr. Gough to that worthy Divine are printed in Malcolm's Collection of "Letters to Mr. Granger," pp. 262-266. Letters Letters of Major HAYMAN ROOKE*. "DEAR SIR, To Mr. GOUGH. Mansfield Woodhouse, Dec. 2, 1788. "I am afraid you will think me long in fulfilling my promise; however, I have at last finished a few sketches of the monuments in the Cathedral of Carlisle. These go directed for you at Mr. Nichols's, and are as follows:-No. 1. The Monument of Bishop Stirkland. This has been well executed, but at present much defaced. No. 2. Bishop Barrow's Monument. This appears to have been ornamented with elegant Gothic sculpture, and highly finished, but now much mutilated: the animals on the stone at his feet may possibly be intended for the basilisk and dragon. No. 3. An impression from the original brass plate of Bishop Robinson, now kept in St. Catharine's Chapel. The spot where he was interred is not known, but it was certainly in the Cathedral. No. 4. Two Ancient Almonries, and a Chest, in St. Catharine's Chapel, or Minor Canon's Vestry. The Latin verse on No. 1, at (a) is in the black letter, a copy of which is with the drawing. The other is of a very singular construction: the top is wood, cut to imitate a slate roofing. They were originally open in the front; the doors and pannels have been added to them. No. 5, is the North side of the Tower, on the outside of which is the bust you mentioned. The height made it difficult to take an exact drawing of it. The niche seems to have been very elegant, but it is now much defaced. The figure is intended for an angel holding a shield, but the arms are entirely destroyed by the weather: they were probably those of Bishop Stirkland's, who built the tower and belfry, and furnished it with four large bells. The drawing was taken from the top of the roof of the North aile, from whence it was impossible to take in the whole Tower. No. 6. A Drawing of Bishop Bell's brass plate in the Quire. The fillet round his effigy has been broke up in several places, where at each corner was a rose: at the bottom is a scale for the dimensions of the monument. I find that all the Bishops of Carlisle who died at Rose Castle, and were buried in the Cathedral, had their mitres and monuments decorated with roses. These were the only monuments in the Cathedral that were worthy of a place in your elegant work. "As the Legends of St. Austin and St. Anthony are illustrated with curious specimens of the ancient style of painting, and shew the dress of those times, I must beg you will do me the favour to present them to the Society with my best compliments, and desire they will do me the honour to accept of them. These and the brass plate of Bishop Bell were drawn by young Carlisle, and they are copied with wonderful exactness: he is the lad I mentioned to you in a former letter. He would indeed be a great acquisition to any one who wanted a person to take drawings he has a most excellent character, and his indefatigable * Of whom see the "Literary Anecdotes," vol. VII. pp. 358. 666. attention attention to whatever he is ordered to do, entitles him to the countenance of those who wish to encourage merit. "I have sent four prints of the Revolution House at Whittington, to which is a narrative of what passed there, by our friend Mr. Pegge. You will do me the favour to accept of one, and shall take the liberty of troubling you to present one, with my best compliments, to Mr. Barrington, and one to Mr. Nichols. As I had this printed to distribute a few copies among my friends, I would not wish to have it appear in any other publication; but if Mr. Nichols has not had a drawing of Voltaire's house at Ferney*, nor of the house at Uxbridge (which is now pulled down), where the Treaty of Uxbridge † was signed, they shall be at his service, if he thinks them worthy of a place in his Magazine. I met with some Antiquities in Cumberland, which I hope soon to have the honour of laying before the Society. I am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, H. ROOKE." To Mr. NICHOLS. "DEAR SIR, Woodhouse, Aug. 13, 1791. "Many of the late Sir William Fitzherbert's friends are very desirous of having the inclosed character of him published in your Gentleman's Magazine, as being so universally read, and they hope it will arrive time enough to be inserted in your next. "I was in hopes before this to have had the pleasure of seeing you and Mr. Gough here. Our worthy Friend Dr. Pegge informed me that he expected you both at Whittington § about the 14th. In consequence of this, I mentioned in my letter to Mr. Gough, that I should flatter myself with the hopes of seeing you and him at Woodhouse for as long as you could conveniently spare. "As I find Mr. Throsby, who is now publishing the History of Nottinghamshire,' is a friend of yours, I have subscribed to that work, and shall be glad to have it in my power to be serviceable to him. I am, dear Sir, "Your very sincere humble servant, "DEAR SIR, To Mr. GOUGH. H. ROOKE." Thoresby, April 1; 1796. Upon looking over the plates of my paper on the Druidical remains in Derbyshire, addressed to Mr. Montagu, I find Basire has made a great mistake by inserting Augusial Seats, instead of Augurial. He says, at the bottom of one plate, Two Views of an Augusial Seat on Stainedge Cliff, near Wingerworth:' the same in the next plate. I thought it would be right to mention these errors, that the plates may be rectified before they are bound up in the Archæologia.' * Engraved in Gent. Mag. vol. LIX. p. 187. + Ibid. p. 685. See Gent. Mag. vol. LXI. p. 777. To whom Mr. Gough and myself paid many an annual and highly pleasant visit at his comfortable Rectory of Whittington. "I have |