Church of Ireland, holding that the consent of the Queen could not be given to such a measure, inasmuch as she had taken at her coronation an oath "to maintain and preserve inviolably the settlement of the United Church of England and Ireland, and the doctrine, discipline, and government thereof, as by law established, within England and Ireland, and the territories thereunto belonging;" and with reference to this subject he published two pamphlets, Arguments for Mr. Gladstone's Resolutions Considered, and Lord Macaulay on the Coronation Oath, 1869. In 1874 Reasonings on some Disputed Points of Doctrine appeared from his pen; and in the following year he engaged in a controversy with Cardinal Manning, in the columns of a daily journal, on Communion in both kinds, the correspondence soon after reappearing under the title of The Infallible Church and the Holy Communion in a separate publication. As may likewise be remembered by many, he took a very prominent part in the debates on the Alabama Claims.

The severe illness from which Lord Redesdale had been suffering for a month, terminated fatally at his London residence on Sunday, May 2, 1886; and his remains were laid to rest in the family vault at the church rebuilt by his sister within Batsford Park, near Moreton-in-the-Marsh. The Park had been his country seat (the estate having belonged for more than three centuries to the Freeman family, from whom it passed to Lord Redesdale's father, who, as mentioned above, assumed the surname and arms of Freeman in 1809); and in the vault were already the remains of fifteen members of the Freeman and Mitford families, including two lord chancellors of Ireland-Richard Freeman, who died November 20, 1710, and to whose memory there is an inscription in the parish church of Batsford; and the first Lord Redesdale. By Lord Redesdale's death a long familiar figure has been lately removed from the public eye, and the House of Lords has lost a veteran member, who for thirty-five years had filled an important parliamentary office with the respect and esteem of all his peers. The stranger who first caught sight of him as he shuffled, rather than walked, along the pavement, rarely even in winter with a greatcoat, might easily have mistaken him for one of the doorkeepers of the Houses of Parliament. But had the same individual paid a visit to the gallery of the House of Lords, he would have seen the unpretending-looking personage give the lie to his outward appearance by the ease and confidence with which he dispatched the duties of his office in the proudest public assembly in the world. It has been well remarked that the House of Lords and the public will be alike fortunate if his successor displays the same sound judgment, the same unwearied industry, and the same unassailable independence. Lord Granville paid this feeling tribute to the memory of Lord Redesdale :-"He was a strong, just, shrewd, and kind man. He was afraid of no one in or out of the House.

He

could say 'No,' and even a disagreeable 'No,' when the need arose; yet such was the simplicity and straightforwardness of his character, and the absence of all personal vanity from his disposition, that he never gave offence. The void created by his death will be difficult to fill, and it will be long before we cease to lament his familiar presence in this place."

1551. THE FIRST BANK IN THE WEST OF ENGLAND.-The Gloucester Journal of April 15, 1826, correcting a paragraph which had appeared in a contemparary respecting the establishment of Wood's Bank at Gloucester, says :-The bank in question, the first in this kingdom except the Bank of England and Child's, was opened by James Wood, Esq., the grandfather of the present proprietor, in the year 1716. His son, the late Richard Wood, Esq., continued the concern until his death, which took place March 6th, 1792; since which time the business has been carried on by James Wood, Esq. Mr. Wood . . . . is possessed of immense wealth, having a vast landed property, nearly a million sterling in the different funds, and is certainly one of the richest commoners in the united kingdom. It is a very singular circumstance that during the late run upon the banks [in the commercial panic of 1825] Mr. Wood was left a legacy by his late cousin, Anthony Ellis, Esq., of this city, of real and personal property amounting in value to more than a quarter of a million sterling. In the reign of Charles II. Mr. Wood's great-grandfather purchased a large quantity of land at Cheltenham, at £5 per acre, which land Mr. Wood is now selling at 1,000 guineas per acre.

J. L.

1552.-A REMARKABLE DREAM.-In Jefferson's Entertaining Literary Curiosities (1808), p. 233, what follows is given on the authority of Mr. Calcott [Catcott], "a worthy clergyman of Bristol": -A gentleman, a friend of Mr. Calcott, observed to him one morning, that he had been much alarmed the night before by a dream-so strong, so lively, and distinct, that no length of time would efface it from his recollection. That a woman, whom he circumstantially described to Mr. Calcott, had appeared before him, and made an attempt upon his life, and that this visionary murderess was so strongly impressed upon his memory, that he still shuddered when he thought of her. Mr. C. smiled, and the subject was changed. About a dozen years after, as the gentleman who had had the dream was travelling in Germany, what were his horror and amazement, on reaching the inn where he was to sleep, when he beheld the very woman (precisely the same, in dress, person, and features) whom he had seen in a dream in England twelve years before. He consulted with the servant, and they retired after supper to a two-bedded chamber, where they lay with cocked pistols, and beating hearts, attending the event. Accordingly after all the family had retired to rest, the door of the apartment was pushed open, and the woman

made her appearance, with a weapon in her hand. The English travellers, however, soon secured her, and thus, by an interposition, which even an atheist must allow to have been providential, were the lives of two innocent persons rescued from the attack of an assassin. GEORGE H. BRIERLEY.

Cardiff.

1553.-BEQUESTS OF MR. SAMUEL HARLEY BUSHEL.-The will of the late Mr. Samuel Harley Bushel, of 45, Tivoli-street, Cheltenham, who died at 4, Cromwell-street, Gloucester, has just been proved by Mr. A. C. Smith, of the National Provincial Bank, Bristol; Mr. John Bull, manager of the County of Gloucester Bank, Cheltenham; and Mr. Francis William Rankin, Ewell, of Surrey, the executors. The deceased gentleman has bequeathed sums of money to the following local charities:-To the Bristol Royal Infirmary, £5,000; to the Orphan Asylum, Hook's Mills, Ashley-hill, £1,000; to the Bristol Clergy Society, £1,000; to the Bristol Blind Asylum, £200; to the Bristol Deaf and Dumb Asylum, £200; to the Clifton Dispensary, Dowry-square, £500; to the Bristol Dispensary, £200; to the Bristol Hospital for Sick Children, £500; to the Bristol Benevolent Institution, £100; to the Bath United Hospital, £200; to the Gloucester Infirmary, £200; to the Cheltenham Hospital, £200; to the schools of St. Stephen's church, Tivoli, Cheltenham, £100; to the parishes of St. Paul, Portland-square, Bristol, St. James, Bristol, St. Mary Redcliff, Bristol, and St. Philip and St. Jacob, Bristol, £250 each, to be held in trust by the respective vicars for distribution among the poor. [Total, £10,400.] A few legacies are also bequeathed to private individuals.-Bristol Times and Mirror, January 20, 1888.

1554.-LELAND'S "ITINERARY:" CIRENCESTER.-I hope from time to time to supply for the benefit of your readers some extracts relative to Gloucestershire from The Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary, which was "begunne about 1538, 30 H. 8." (9 vols., 8vo, 3rd ed., Oxford, 1769); and I now make a beginning with what he has recorded respecting Cirencester. GLOUCESTRENSIS.

(Itinerary, vol. ii., pp. 49-51.) ·

Cirencestre stondith on Churne Ryver.

Churncestre caullid in Latine Coriminum.

Ther was afore the Conquest a fair and riche College of Prebendaries in this Toune; but of what Saxon's Foundation no man can telle.

Henry the first made this College an Abbay of Chanons Regulares, gyving them the Landes of the Prebendaries totally, and sum other Thinges. Rumbaldus, Chauncelar to King Edward the Confessor, was Dene of this House, and buried in the Body of the Chirch, as it apperith by the Epitaphy on his Tumbe.

The Est Parte of the Chirch of Cirencestre-Abbay shewith to be of a very old Building. The West Part from the Transeptum is but new Work to speke of. King Richard the first gave to Cirencestre the Cortes and Perquisites of 7. Hundredes therabout yn Glocestreshir.

The Landes of Cirencestre-Abbay litle augmentid sins the Tyme of the Fundation by Henry the first.

There ly 2. Noble Men of S. Amandes buried withyn the Presbyterie of Cirencestre-Abbay Chirch.

And there is buried the Hart of Sentia, Wife to Richard King of Romains, and Erle of Cornwalle.

Serlo first Abbate of Cirencestre.

This Serlo made his Brother Prior of Bradene-stoke.

Ther were xxviij. or xxix. Abbates of Cirencestre after Serlo. Mr. Blake the last Abbate buildid 2. Fulling Milles at Cirencestre that cost a 700. Markes of Mony. They be wonderfully necessary, bycause the Toun standith alle by Clothing.

There hath bene 3. Paroche Chirchis in Cirencestre, whereof S. Cecilia Chirch is clene doun. it was of late but a Chapple. S. Laurence yet stondith, but as no Paroch Chirch. Ther be 2. poor Almose Women endowid with Landes.

Ther is now but one Paroche Chirch in al Cirencestre: but that is very fair.

The Body of the Chirch is al new Work, to the which Ruthal, Bisshop of Duresme, borne and brought up in Cirencestre, promisid much, but preventid with Deth gave nothing.

One Alice Aveling, Aunt to Bisshop Ruthal by the Mother side, gave an Hundreth Markes to the Building of the right goodly Porche of the Paroch Chirch.

And Ruthalles Mother contributid and other to the performent of it.

Alexander Necham, a great Clerk and Abbate of Cirencestre, buried in the Entring of the Cloister of Wiccestre, entering out of the Chirch into the Cloyster. King Henry the first made the Hospital of S. John at Cirencestre. Cirencestre Toun hath but a

Bailife to govern there.

Cirencestre is yn Coteswolde.

Cirencestre hath the most celebrate Market in al that Quarters on Monday.

(Vol. v., pp. 64-66.)

Cirecestre, corruptely for Churnecestre, peraventure of Ptoleme cawlled Coriminum, stondeth in a Botom apon the Ryver of Churne. The Cumpace of the old Waul, cujus pauca adhuc extant vestigia, was nere hand ii. Myles.

Be lykehod yn times past Guttes were made that Partes of Churne Streame might cum thorow the Cyte, and so to returne to theyr great Botom.

A Man may yet walking on the Bank of Churne evidently perceyve the Cumpace of Fundation of Towers sumtyme standing in the Waul. and nere to the Place wher the right goodly Clothing Mylle was set up a late by the Abbate was broken down the Ruine of an old Tower toward making of the Myle Waulles, in the which Place was fownd a quadrate Stone fawllen down afore, but broken in aliquot frusta, wherin was a Romaine Inscription, of the which one scantly letterd that saw yt told me that he might perceyve Pont. Max.

The Soyle in the Stony Feeldes abowt Cirecestre is more apt for Barle then Whete.

Therabowt as in Coteswold is smawl Plenty of Wood except in few Places kept of necessite.

Among divers numismata fownd frequently there Dioclesian's be most fairest. But I cannot adfirme the Inscription to have bene dedicate onto hym. In the Middes of the old Town in a Medow was found a Flore de testellis versicoloribus, and by the Town nostris temporibus was fownd a broken Shank Bone of a Horse, the Mouth closed with a Pegge, the which taken owt a Shepard founde yt fillid nummis argenteis. In the South Sowth West side of the Waul be lykelyhod hath bene a Castel, or sum other great Building. the Hilles and Diches yet remanyne.

Sum say that it was the Place wher Sege was laide to the Town, and not far thens is a steepe rownd Biry like a Wind Myl Hill ext. muros cawlld Grismundes Tower, for Gusmundes Tower, as theie say.

The Place is now a Waren for Conys, and therin hath be fownd Mennes Bones insolita magnitudinis, also to sepulchres ex secto lapide. In one was a round Vessel of Leade covered, and in it Ashes and Peaces of Bones. More then iii. Partes of the old Town is now goodly Medow Ground. The iiii. Part ys yet wel inhabited, having one Paroche Chirche very richely wrought, and an Abbay of Blak Chanons fundatore Henrico primo.

Ther is also a litle Chapel as an Almose House.

But there afore was a great Chirch of Prebendaries. In the Body of the Chirch in a sepulchre Crosse of White Marble is this [Inscription,] Hic jacet Rembaldus presbyter, quondam hujus ecclesiæ decanus, [& tempore Edwardi regis Angliæ cancellarius.]

Cummyng from Glocester to Cirecestre almost yn the Myddle Way betwyxt wher the Wood fayleth and Champayne Countery toward Coteswold appereth, the faire old Way made by the Britons ys very evidently seen, and so goeth as strayt as a Line to Cirecester, and fro thens to Bathe. But sum wold that the Way from Cirecester to Bath should be the very Fosse, and the Way betwyxt Cirecestre toward Glocester to be an other of the iiii. Wayes made by the Britons. The Abbat of Circestre told me that abowt Cirecestre should be crosse meating of al the iiii. Wayes.

1555.—A BRISTOL RUMINATING MAN.-In Jefferson's Entertaining Literary Curiosities (1808) the following appears as a