CORRIGENDA ET ADDENDA. P. 7, line 10, for 1732 read 1722. ,, 25, ", 30, ", 59, ,, 86, », 112, 10 from bottom, for brother read nephew. See infra, p. 201. ,, 113,,, 20, for 1663 read 1683. ,, 114,,, 9 from bottom, for 1663 read 1683. ,, 135,,, 20, Dr. Ogilvie's monument is in the parish church of Ross, Herefordshire. 12 from bottom, for Naish read Nash. See infra, p. 330. ,, 276, ", 16 from bottom, for Gloucester read Glocester. » 409,,, 4 from bottom, after Breadalbane insert of the creation of 1831. ,, 411,,, 15, for Earl read Marquis of the creation of 1885. MOTTOES. "I have chosen commonly to set down things in the very words of the records and originals, and of the authors themselves, rather than in my own, without framing and dressing them into more modern language. Whereby the sense is sure to remain entire as Whereas by affecting too curiously to change and model words and sentences, the sense itself, I have observed, often to be marred and disguised." the writers meant it. "'Tis in books the chief Of all perfections, to be plain and brief." STRYPE. BUTLER. "What was in its life-time mere moss, becomes in the lapse of ages, after being buried in its peat bed, of some value as fuel; it is capable of yielding both light and heat. And so even the most worthless pieces of the literature of a remote period contain in them both instruction and amusement. The historical student should consult such of these as time has spared." ARNOLD. "What beautiful diversity does the face of this dear island present! What a school for study and contemplation! Where else are to be found twenty-four cathedrals, the finest monastic buildings, thousands of parochial churches, and interesting remains of antiquity without_number, all within a boundary of a few hundred miles? Each county is a school, where those who run may read, and where volumes of ancient art lie open for all enquirers." PUGIN. "Without, or with, offence to friends or foes, I sketch the world exactly as it goes." LORD BYRON. Time, as has been said by the wisest of men and the most sagacious observer of its effects, is the greatest innovator of all. While man would sleep or stop in his career, the course of time is rapidly changing the aspect of all human affairs. It is the province of human wisdom to wait upon the wings of time; not with the vain hope of arresting his progress, but to watch his course; to adapt institutions to new circumstances as they arise, and to make their form reflect the varying aspect of events. Unless we do this, of what value is it to go back to former periods? Unless we draw lessons of wisdom from the facts which we recall, experience will become a swindler, who thrusts upon us old coinage at a value which it has long since lost; our knowledge will dwindle into pedantry, our prudence into dotage, and history itself will be no better than an old almanac." LORD PLUNKET. "Some things are very good, pick out the best, Good wits compiled them, and I wrote the rest; If thou dost buy it, it will quit the cost, Read it, and all thy labour is not lost." JOHN TAYLOR, the Water Poet. "Family history is a subject of surpassing interest. Now that men have come to know that genealogy is a branch of science which, if rationally pursued, will be productive of important knowledge, it is ceasing to be degraded by being a mere slave to those who possess rank and title." ATHENEUM, September 29, 1888. "Not harsh and rugged are the ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers." WARTON. "The present is founded on the past, and is inseparably connected with it; neither can it be properly understood or fully appreciated, and certainly no idea of the progress of civilization can be arrived at, unless there is an intimate acquaintance with the history of the past." BATTY. "Of ancient writ unlocks the learned store, POPE. "Excepting that peace, which, through God's infinite mercy, is derived from a higher source, it is to literature, humbly speaking, that I am beholden, not only for the means of subsistence, but for every blessing which I enjoy; health and activity of mind, contentment, cheerfulness, continual employment, and therefore continual pleasure.” SOUTHEY. "It is asserted after much reflection, that there is scarcely an important fact in the annals of this country but either had its origin, or became intimately involved, in a point of genealogy." SIR HARRIS NICOLAS. "Bristow, the Marchants Magazin, enclos'd Viewing her verdant Marsh, may well disdaine "It is a degradation to man to be reduced to the life of the present; and never will he cast forth his hopes, and his views, and his efforts towards the future with due effect and energy, unless at the same time he prizes and holds fondly clasped to his heart the recollections of the past." GLADSTONE. 'Tis not time lost, to talk with antique lore BULL. "Archæology is a chain of continuous tradition which connects the civilized nineteenth century with the races of the primeval world,-which holds together this great brotherhood in bonds of attachment more enduring than the ties of national consanguinity, more ennobling even than the recollections of ancestral glory,which, traversing the ruins of empires, unmoved by the shock of revolutions, spans the abyss of time, and transmits onward the message of the past.” SIR CHARLES T. NEWTON. "Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee." DEUT. XXXii. 7. "For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: (for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?" JOB viii. 8, 9, 10. "Some steal a thought, And clip it round the edge, and challenge him BAILEY ("Festus"). "Do you suppose, Cottle, that I have forgotten those true and most essential acts of friendship which you showed me when I stood most in need of them? Your house was my house when I had no other. Sure I am that there never was a more generous or kinder heart than yours, and you will believe me when I add, that there does not live that man upon earth whom I remember with more gratitude and affection. . . . Good-night, my dear old friend and benefactor." SOUTHEY. CONTENTS. NO. PAGE. 1519. 1521. 1515. Smith's "Description of England": Gloucestershire, A.D. 1588 1516. Almondsbury Church: Monumental Inscriptions, etc. 1517. Lines on Sir Baptist Hickes, first Viscount Campden 1518. A Journalist in Trouble, 1728 Some Briefs and Collections in East Budleigh Church, Dio. 1520. Twemlow's Funeral Sermon on John Phillimore, 1738.. Lawless State of the Kingswood District, 1795-1817 1522. Mrs. Mary Granville, of Gloucester 1724-1747 1523. Sir Robert Smirke, R.A., and Sir Edward Smirke 1524. A Plea for Pewter Vessels.. 1525. A Gloucester Worthy of the present Century 1528. The Rev. John Parsons' House at Redland, Bristol 1529. Restoration of Lechlade Church 1530. A Glimpse of Edward Colston 1531. George Thornton, of Virginia: Monumental Inscription 1534. The Accident at Olverston Church on Christmas Day, 1838 1537. Sir Nevill Poole, Knt., M.P. for Cirencester, 1626 1538. Sir John Seymour, Knt., M.P. for Gloucestershire, 1646 1539. Thomas Hodges, Esq., of Shipton Moyne 1540. Rev. Henry Richards' Letter on Horfield Manor "Pleas of the Crown for the County of Gloucester," A.D. 1221 1547. An Act concerning the Condytes at Gloucester, 33 Hen. VIII. 1549. Great Witcombe Church: Monumental Inscriptions 1558. St. Peter's Church, Cheltenham: Monumental Iuscriptions 1559. Memorials of the Rev. John Bryant Clifford, of Bristol 1560. 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