1827, aged 11 weeks [2]. A still-born son, April 6th, 1834. John, died Sept 21st, 1837, aged 8 years. 6. To the memory of Martha, wife of Edward Hogg, who died December 7th, 1813, aged 61 years. To the memory of Martha, daughter of Edward & Martha Hogg, who died April 6th, 1816, aged 22 years. To the memory of James Hogg, who died April 30th, 1826, aged 35 years. To the memory of Edward Hogg, Lord of the Manor of Randwick, who died December 31st, 1836, aged 81 years. Sacred to the memory of Mary Anne, the beloved wife of the Revd Richd Morris, M. A., Vicar of Eatington, near Stratfordupon-Avon, who died September 9th, 1855, aged 60 years. 7. Sacred to the memory of William Jennings, Esqre, late of Knowle Green, Staines, Middlesex, who died April 25th, 1857, aged 65 years. Also of Elizabeth Jane Jennings, wife of the above, who died May 19th, 1856, at Knowle Green, aged 78 years. [In same enclosure with the Rev. David Lloyd. See ante, vol. i., p. 146.] 8. Heare sleepeth the body of | Margret, the wife of Rad | vlph Meisy, Preacher, aged 83. Her faith had long war | with sin and Satan, and had a joyfull victory by Christ | the XIX of April, Ano 1628. Heare sleepeth the body of Radvlph Meisy, Preacher, a gentelman by birth, a | painful labovrer in the ministry 34 years, and rested the 24 of December, | Anno 1628. Here likewise lies the body of Anna Jemima, eldest daughter of William James, Gent, of [illegible], wife of ye Revd Mr Rice Jones, Curate of y Parish. She died Sepr ye 6th, 1762, aged 36 years.* 9. (Against south wall of church.) Beneath resteth the body of Richard Pegler, who departed this life Jany the 23d, 1755, aged 70 years. Also of Sarah, his wife, who died April the 7th, 1764, aged 79 years. Likewise James, their son, who departed this life the 30th day of Augst, 1749 [?], aged 31. Also of Jane, their daughter, who died March the 11th, 1785 [?], aged 55. On a board in the church the following information is given :1823. This Church was enlarged at an expense of £320; of this sum £125 was a grant from the Church Building Society; the remainder (exclusive of £42 by the purchase of faculty seats) was raised by voluntary subscriptions. The principal timber was given by Lord Sherborne. 1825. The chancel was rebuilt & enlarged by Ld Sherborne, the impropriator. ABHBA. * This inscription has been given ante, vol. i., p. 146, but not as fully as here. - It 1879. KING LUCIUS AND Gloucester. Antiquaries have often disputed whether the ancient effigy in the Norman chancel of St. Mary-de-Lode Church, Gloucester, is that of King Lucius, whom tradition reports to have been buried there, or that of an ecclesiastic. The effigy has suffered too much from the lapse of ages for any decided opinion to be formed. But in one of the modern memorial windows in the Cathedral is represented the baptism, coronation, and funeral of Lucius, and the donor-the late Mr. W. V. Ellis-w -was of those who believed that the king was interred in St. Mary-de-Lode Church, and therefore he selected the chief incidents of his life as subjects for the window. The old church of St. Peter-upon-Cornhill, London, which according to tradition is the oldest foundation of any in England, was recently reopened after undergoing considerable structural repairs. The original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666, and the present edifice was built from the designs of Sir Christopher Wren Preserved in the vestry is an incised brass tablet in a massive oak frame. The tablet, which was re-engraved after the Fire, is said by Strype to have been originally of the date of Edward IV. bears the following inscription :-"Bee it knowne to all men that in the yeare of ovr Lord God 179, Lvcivs, the first Christian King of this Land, then called Britaine, Fovnded ye first Chvrch in London, that is to say, ye Chvrch of St. Peter vpon Cornehill, and hee fovnded there an Archbishops See, and made that Chvrch ye Metropolitane and cheife Chvrch of this Kingdome, and so it indvred ye space of 400 yeares and more, vnto the coming of St Avstin the Apostle of England, the which was sent into this Land by St Gregorie, ye Doctor of ye Chvch in the time of King Ethelbert, and then was the Archbishops See & Pall removed from ye foresaid Chvrch of St Peter vpon Cornehill vnto Dorobernia, that now is called Canterbvrie, & there it remaineth to this day, and Millet a monke, which came into this land with St Avstin, hee was made the first Bishop of London, and his See was made Pavls Chvrch, and this Lvcivs King was the first fovnder of St Peters Chvrch vpon Cornehill, & hee reigned King in this Land. And in the yeare of ovr Lord God 124 Lvcivs was crowned King, and the yeares of his reigne were 77 yeares, and he was bvried (after some Chronicles) at London, and after some Chronicles hee was bvried at Glocester, in that place where ye Order of St Francis standeth now." J. H. B. 1880.-DISCOVERY OF AN ANCIENT GUEST HOUSE IN GLOUCESTER. -Towards the close of 1889 an interesting discovery was made, during extensive reparation of the canon's house in College Green, which was last in the occupation of the late Rev. Richard Harvey, canon residentiary. The front elevation of the house is of modern brick, and there is nothing in its external appearance to indicate that it has any claim to antiquity. At the western end is a separate small building, with gabled roof, used as servants' rooms. It was found that the uppermost of these chambers had been constructed inside an ancient and spacious hall, with a good and lofty timbered roof of massive proportions. There were the remains of a carved stone fireplace in the east wall; but the chimney had been closed with brickwork, though part of the ornamental mantel remained in the wall. The old timbered roof was entirely concealed by an ordinary lath-and-plaster ceiling. The floor of the modern chamber had been built three or four feet above the level of the floor of the ancient hall. At the rear, on the ground level, was a series of small rooms which had been used as out-offices. These, it was found, were originally entered by arched doorways of timber, constructed with massive timber side-posts and beams above. The whole of this ancient work, which was probably five hundred years old, was exceedingly well constructed with oak or chestnut, and the quantity of timber employed showed the unlimited resources in that respect possessed by the ancient craftsmen. For what purpose this lofty hall and the smaller rooms were erected it is impossible to say; but there can be no doubt that they were used as hall and chambers for visitors to the Abbey. guests' J. H. B. 1881.-THE LATE THOMAS GAMBIER PARRY, D.L., OF HIGHNAM COURT.-Mr. Gambier Parry, who died at Highnam Court, Gloucester, on the 28th September, 1888, was born in London 22nd February, 1816, his father, Richard Parry, of Banstead, Surrey, a director of the East India Company, dying in 1817. His early years were spent chiefly with his maternal uncle, Admiral Lord Gambier, passing successfully through Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1837; M.A., 1848). He married (1), in 1839, Anna Maria Isabella, daughter of Henry Fynes Clinton, Esq. [of Welwyn, Herts]; and (2), in 1851, Ethelinda, daughter of the Very Rev. Francis Lear, Dean of Sarum. In 1838 he purchased the estates at Highnam, which were subsequently [in 1851] formed into a separate parish, and, during a period of fifty years, he laboured unremittingly for the good of those about him. He was eminent as an antiquary, an ecclesiologist, a musician, and a man of letters, and as a landscape gardener he had few equals. The surroundings at Highnam testify at once to his taste and the extent of his botanical knowledge. He will, however, be remembered more particularly as a philanthropist and an artist. His charity was boundless, and besides building and endowing the church at Highnam, and providing vicarage and schools, he founded, in 1864, St. Lucy's Home of Charity, in Gloucester, for orphans and aged persons, and, two years later, the Free Hospital for Children. An artist in water-colours, it was not until 1857 that he turned his attention to figure painting, and made the art of fresco his special study. After a series of careful experiments, extending over several years, VOL. IV. 00 he invented a process, or medium, which he termed "spirit fresco." In 1860-61 he painted his first great fresco in the church at Highnam; his frescoes in the north aisle of the same building being executed some years later, and completed in 1880. Between these dates he, in 1863-64, painted the easternmost half of the nave roof of Ely Cathedral. Six bays, each of nearly 1,000 superficial feet, were thus decorated by him, the work being carried out in a great part while lying in a chair slung at a height of more than 80 feet above the pavement. The decoration of St. Andrew's chapel, in Gloucester Cathedral, followed during the years 1866-67, and in 1879 he was employed upon the roof of Tewkesbury Abbey. All his frescoes were from his own drawings; all were executed, except in the mere mechanical parts, by his own hand; and the cost was in all cases defrayed almost entirely by his private purse. He was appointed one of the original committee for the completion of St. Paul's Cathedral. He was the founder of the Gloucester School of Art, and its president; and he published some of his essays on various arts under the title of The Ministry of Fine Art to the Happiness of Life, London, 1887.-Annual Register, 1888, pt. ii., p. 172. What follows will be deemed an appropriate appendix:- The final meeting of the general committee of this fund was held in the lesser chapter-room of the Cathedral on Dec. 28th, 1889. There were present Sir John E. Dorington, Bart., M.P., Sir Wm. H. Marling, Bart., Mr. B. St. John Ackers, Mr. Wm. C. Lucy, Dr. Ancrum, Dr. Needham, Canon Maddy, and Canon Tinling, the honorary secretary. The Dean of Gloucester presided. The hon. secretary laid before the committee a general statement of accounts since the first meeting on Nov. 3rd, 1888. The total subscriptions received were £812 18s. 6d. It will be remembered that the memorial was to "comprise the filling with stained glass the west window in the south transept, and the placing a brass plate to record the object of the memorial; any remaining sum to be devoted to the Children's Hospital." At a meeting of the committee on Dec. 8th, at the request of certain citizens, it was resolved that any subscriptions to the School of Art should be given to that institution. The expenditure has been as follows:— Memorial window in south transept, including restoration of stone work, and architect's fees Memorial brass ... Paid for insertion in newspapers Printing circulars and postage £ s. d. 671 8 5 ... ... ... 21 7 6 Special subscriptions to School of Art Special subscriptions to Children's Hospital 946 600 ... ... 10 0 0 60 0 0 34 18 1 £812 18 6 Remaining sum to be devoted to Children's Hospital Messrs. Clayton and Bell were selected by the general committee to submit a design for the window, which was approved, and ordered; and after its completion the committee passed a resolution expressing their "thanks to Messrs. Clayton and Bell for the very liberal conditions under which they have supplied the glass for the window which now decorates the Cathedral." The architect's fee has been most generously given by Mr. Waller to the Children's Hospital, through the treasurer of that institution. Since the publication of the fifth list of subscriptions a sum of £20 has been received from "Old Friends;" but I shall be forgiven for stating that such subscription is from Messrs. Clayton and Bell. As the correspondence respecting this memorial has passed almost entirely through my hands, I am tempted to impress upon those for whom I have acted as hon. secretary, the very deep esteem in which Mr. Gambier Parry was held by "all sorts and conditions of men;" but his works do follow him. The memorial brass is the work of Messrs. Barkentin and Kraal, Regent-street, London. E. DOUGLAS TINLING, Canon Residentiary and Hon. Sec. 1882.—THE OLD POST OFFICES, BRISTOL.-In "S's" interesting article on the Post-office, which appeared recently [October, 1889] in the Times and Mirror, it is stated that "it is not known where the Post-office of 1771 was situated, but it is known that the business of the office was removed from Small-street to Corn-street in the year 1748." Perhaps it may be worth mentioning that the removal in 1748 was to the basement floor of the house on the west side of the Exchange, then newly erected. Mr. Thomas Pyne was the first postmaster who occupied the house in question, which was originally designed by the Corporation for the purpose to which it was then appropriated. It is now the Old Post-office chambers. In Rocque's large four-sheet plan of Bristol, published in 1743, the old office in Small-street has the words "Post House The Assize-courts are built on its site. over it. There was a Post-office in Bristol as early as 1671 (Broadmead Records, 1847, p. 126), but where it was situated does not appear to be known. The house which Henry Pyne, deputy-postmaster, built in All Saints'-lane, in 1700, "for the conveniency of a postoffice," was taken down in 1738 or 1739, and the business of the office removed to Small-street. In the Calendar of State Papers, under the year 1660, there is a complaint against one "Teig, an anabaptist, former postmaster of Bristol, who broke open letters directed to the King's friends." This is the earliest mention of a Bristol postmaster that I have met with. WILLIAM GEORGE. |