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from the language of holy scripture (Ps. xix. 1), the hymn of the cherubim (Is. vi. 3), and the angelic song (Luke, ii. 14), the apostolical epistles (1. Tim. i. 17), and the Book of the Revelations (Rev. vii. 12, comp. iv. 11). It was very ancient, and used in the Eastern Church before the Council of Nice. For brevity I would refer to L'Estrange's Alliance, &c. p. 110, c. iii., Wheatley's Illustration, &c. (which is a compendium of the notes of the most eminent ritualists), s. vii. p. 125, in confirmation of the present translation of the "Gloria Patri," which receives its paraphrase in the hymn in the order for the Holy Communion, "Glory be to God.... we praise Thee, we bless Thee, we worship Thee, we glorify Thee, we give thanks to Thee for Thy great glory, O Lord God.”

2. Your correspondent says, "to be numbered in glory' is poor English; and 'numerari gloria' is no Latin. The holy Bishops Ambrosius and Athanasius (Augustinus?) wrote and chanted munerari,' a reading which stands firm in all editions and MSS., and, excepting the English and its derivatives, in the language of every Church, people, or land that has adopted this song of triumph." These are bold assertions, Mr. Urban, and need good proof. I value your space, and would therefore only say, that in the ancient "Use of Sarum," which dates from A.D. 1078, the

word used is "numerari," and that the authorised breviary of the whole Roman Catholic Church, certainly not a moiety of Christendom, reads "numerari." This beautiful hymn, (notwithstanding the ancient legend of the Baptistery at Milan, when St. Ambrose admitted St. Austin into the Church,) from external and internal evidence is

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proved to have been composed in the Gallican Church, being first alluded to in the fifth century in the Rules of Cæsarius, Bishop of Arles. (Palmer's Orig. Liturg. vol. i. p. 229.) The word "numerari" signifies "to be accounted," "to have fellowship," or "to be with;" the "goodly fellowship" is a translation of "laudabilis numerus," just as St. Cyprian, in his description of Heaven, says, "illic nos carorum numerus expectat, &c. . . . . illìc Prophetarum exultantium numerus." And what is this but the sense of "to be numbered," as used in the Holy Bible? For instance, "He was numbered with us.” Acts, i. 17. (κατηριθμήμενος ἦν.) "He was numbered with the transgressors." St. Mark, xv. 28. Is. liii. 12, (λoyioon,) and surely not without a solemn allusion to the number of them who were sealed, as recorded in that portion of the Revelations which is read as the epistle on All Saints' Day.

Yours, &c.

PRESBYTER ANGLICANUS, M.A.

TODDINGTON HOUSE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE.
(With a Plate.)

THE new mansion at Toddington is well known as one of the most magnificent private structures of modern times. It has been amply illustrated by Mr. Britton, in a quarto volume (reviewed in our Magazine for Dec. 1841), and it has also been fully described, with a view, in our own pages (March, 1837).

When Mr. Hanbury Tracy (now Lord Sudeley) embarked in this great work (which is said to have incurred an expenditure of 40,000l.), he determined to select a new and more elevated site than that of the former mansion, which was placed in the lowest

part of the park, on the verge of a rivulet, a sheltered situation and a proper supply of water having probably been esteemed by its builders the most desirable advantages. This old house has since been for the most part destroyed; but a portion is still left as a ruin, much in the state represented in the accompanying plate, forming, with the ornamental Gateway (of which Mr. Britton has also given a vignette), a very interesting object for the visitor at the modern house, after he has rambled through the gardens and pleasure-grounds which

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The plan and general arrangement of the old house may be seen in one of Kip's views in Knyff's Britannia Illustrata. The gate-house already mentioned, which was placed in the centre of a front wall, led into a square court-yard: the principal entrance was opposite, in a projecting tower. Two smaller projections occupied the corners of the court, right and left: and in the back-front were projecting bays opposite to those parts of the courtyard front which were recessed on either side the entrance. The roof formed a succession of gables, and the general appearance of the mansion from a distance was that given in our vignette above, which has been engraved from a sketch by S. Prout, with which Mr. Britton has favoured us.

In other respects the house was perhaps too little different from the other stone mansions of the same country, to tempt any particular description; and the only notice we have been able to find of it is the following by the county historian Rudder :

"This village lies in the vale, and is distinguished for the richness of its soil, but more particularly for its being the residence of the lord viscount Tracy. His lordship's house is large and handsome, and was built at the close of the last century [i. e. the 16th, temp. Eliz.], since which it has undergone but little alteration. There is a large oak chimney-piece in the great hall, brought from Hayles abbey, where

Most of Kip's Gloucestershire seats are included in Sir Robert Atkyns's History of the county; but this is not, having probably been engraved after the publica

tion of that work.

it was set up by the Hobbys, as appears by a large scutcheon in the centre of it, divided into six quarterings, the first being the Hobbys' arms, viz. A fess between three hobbies, or hawks, but the colours are not expressed in the carving. The hall windows are ornamented with painted glass brought from the same place, and among other things have in them the arms of France and England quarterly, and those of Richard duke of Cornwall in a large scutcheon, viz. Or, an eagle displayed with two heads sable, and round, Ricard' plantagenet Semper Augustus Fundator Poster."

These curiosities are no doubt preserved in the new mansion: but we remember on visiting it that there was so large a collection of stained glass, mostly foreign, that there is some danger that the identity of the English fragments may be lost.

The church of Toddington stands close adjoining to the old mansion. It is not very large, and contains a few monuments of the family, but not of much beauty. There is also a chapel in the parish called Stanley Pontlarge, a name derived from some ancient landholder, who had brought his personal designation from Pont de l'arche in Normandy.

Toddington has never been sold from the time of the Domesday survey, at which it was held, as well as the neighbouring manor of Sudeley, by Harold. This Harold is said to have been the son of Ralph, earl of Hereford in the reign of the Confessor, who was the son of Walter de Maigne, a Norman, by Goda, daughter of King Ethelred II. Nor is this the only royal descent in the early pedigree of the family: for

the name of Tracy was derived from the marriage of John, the son of Harold, with Grace, daughter of William de Traci, baron of Barnstaple in Devonshire, a natural son of King Henry the First. Of this marriage there were two sons, Ralph and William. The former was the ancestor of the family of Sudeley, of Sudeley Castle, which in the reign of Edward the First and afterwards was summoned to Parliament, but became extinct in the male line in 1441. William, the younger, held Toddington of his brother Ralph, by the service of one knight's fee, temp. Hen. II. and assumed the name of Tracy. He is supposed to have been the same with William de Traci, one of the four knights of the king's household, concerned in the murder of Archbishop Becket. He was the ancestor of a family which continued to flourish in the male line until the close of the last century. Sir John Tracy, of Toddington, was created a peer of Ireland by the title of Viscount Tracy of Rathcoole, in the year 1642. Henry the eighth and last Viscount died in 1797. His sole daughter and heiress was married to Charles Hanbury, esq. who consequently took the name of Tracy, and was created Baron Sudeley of Toddington, in 1838. He is himself de

scended from the fifth Viscount Tracy, through his grandmother the Hon. Jane Tracy, wife of Capel Hanbury, esq.

A junior branch settled at the neighbouring village of Stanway in the 16th century, where there is another Elizabethan mansion, also engraved in one of Kip's views, and now belonging to the Earl of Wemyss, whose father Lord Elcho married the heiress of Anthony Tracy (afterwards Keck), by his wife Lady Susan Hamilton. Anthony was the grandson of the Hon. Ferdinando Tracy, (the third son of the third Viscount,) by Katharine daughter of Sir Anthony Keck: to which Ferdinando Sir John Tracy, the third and last Baronet of the first Stanway branch, bequeathed that estate in 1677. Of all these parties, and of the Sudeleys and their coheirs, accurate pedigrees will be found in Mr. Britton's work, communicated by the present Garter King of Arms.

The fine old castle of Sudeley, the seat, since the extinction of that family, of the Botelers, of Lord Seymour (who there buried his wife the dowager queen Katharine), and of the wealthy lords Chandos, is now the residence of Mr. Dent, (of Worcester,) who has recently restored portions of its extensive ruins in very excellent taste.

Extracts from the Portfolio of a Man of the World.
(Continued from Vol. XXVIII. p. 360.)

June 2, 1823. Read an old book by a most violent radical republican, a Mr. Bowring, on Arrests and Imprisonments by the Bourbons. He must have a great fear of being in a prison, he is so vehement against imprisoners; and indeed it seems as if it would not be his fault if he did not know yet, by personal experience, what it is to be arrested for political violence.

Looked into a valuable book by Dr. Paris, Medical Jurisprudence." The necessity for medical and surgical investigations to be conducted in a calm, humane, and philosophical spirit can never be too much insisted upon. The disposition to credulity in the human mind is nowhere more common or more dangerous than in the fanaticism with which medical practitioners are upheld, or the faith with which each new quackery is trusted to. Edward's poor mother made me quite miserable in her inability to be with her son at Bonn, in her ceaseless objurgations by letter upon his treatment, and in essays collected, but not abridged, from the dictums of her idol Dr. Fees to physicians are a dreadful infliction; but can any fee or any fame pay for the intense bore of a sickly mother, in

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