316 Monument to the Rev. J. B. Blakeway. ing in the Church where he had so long and so faithfully discharged the duties of a Christian minister, an appropriate monument to his memory, which in a very few days amounted to nearly three hundred pounds; and had it not been purposely confined to his parishioners, might readily have been increased to treble the amount. A most elegant and chaste design by Mr. John Carline, jun. of Shrewsbury, was subsequently exhibited to, and unanimously approved of by the subscribers; and a noble and splendid monument*, admirably executed therefrom by the Messrs. Carline, in the beautiful free stone from their quarry at Griushill, has in the course of the last six weeks been put up against the west wall of the north transept of the Church, immediately opposite the eastern entrance, from which place the eye is at once struck with the beauty of the design, and the exquisite talent displayed by the sculptors, whilst the mind rests with pleasure and satisfaction on the noble feelings which the distinguished worth of the deceased had excited in the breasts of his parishioners. This chaste and beautiful memorial is 12 ft. 6 in. in length, and 16ft. 7 in. in height, to the top of the centre finial; and is divided into three compartments by clustered buttresses, which are formed of three divisions or stories in height, out of which springs the shaft of a pinnacle, two stories high, pannelled, canopied, and having its pinnacle richly crocketted. The centre compartment comprises a large arch, cusped, canopied, and crocketted; and has its internal mouldings resting on moulded brackets. The back of the arch is deeply recessed, and contains the inscription, between which and the mouldings are two sunk pannels, with cinquefoil heads, which are continued round the arch so as to form its ceiling. On each side of this compartment is a niche with cinquefoil head, octagonal back, and richly groined ceiling, the divisions of the ceiling resting on slender cylinders, with caps and bases. These niches are mounted by acute-angled crocketted canopies formed of deep mouldings; sur * A lithographic print of it, by an emiment artist, from a drawing by Mr. J. Carline, jun. is in a state of forwardness, and will shortly be published. [Oct. and, resting on the head of each niche, within the canopy, is a cinquefoil within a circle. In the same situation of the centre compartment is a shield containing the following arms: Argent, on a bend engrailed Sable three bezants; impaling, Argent, a fess Vair between three unicorns passant. The above compartments rest on an altar-tomb, which stands on a step. The front of the tomb is divided into twelve small niches with trefoil heads, crocketted and canopied, each canopy containing a quatrefoil within a circle, and having its finial terminating on the mouldings of the ledger. These niches are separated by small buttresses with crocketted canopies and pinnacles. The space between the end buttresses and the wall are pannelled and finished upwards with a cornice and battlement, whilst the wall itself, including the whole side of the transept, is covered with reticulated divisions, each containing a flower in slight relief, which has great richness, and produces a good effect. The following short but comprehensive inscription, written by the Venerable Archdeacon Butler, D. D. and placed in the situation above alluded to, is cut in ornamented Roman capitals. "To the memory of the Rev. John Brickdale Blakeway, M.A. F.S. A. thirtyone years ordinary and official, and thirtytwo years minister of this parish, this monument is erected by the voluntary subscription of his parishioners, as a tribute of respect for his talents, esteem for his virtues, and gratitude for his long and faithful services as their friend and pastor. He died the tenth day of March, MDCCCXXVI. aged sixty years.' The superintendance of its execution was entrusted to the late Venerable Archdeacon Owen, M.A. the intimate friend of, and successor in the living, to the deceased; he, however, to the great regret of the town, lived not to witness the completion of his highly valued friend's memorial. On Archdeacon Owen's death the superintend ance devolved on the Rev. Wm Gorsuch Rowland, M. A. to whom the living, so recently held by his two most intimate and esteemed friends, was presented by the Corporation of Shrewsbury, which by this appointment paid a well-merited tribute of respect to a gentleman who has for so many years devoted his time, his talents, and his 1828.] Lady Packington.-Pedigree of Smith, alias Harris. purse to the praiseworthy but rare object of improving and appropriately ornamenting the formerly dilapidated, but now universally admired Churches of the Abbey and St. Giles; and who has already commenced the same course with the noble fabric now under his especial care. Stained glass of a most elegant and tasteful pattern, executed at his expence by Mr. Evans of this town, whose skill as exhibited in Lichfield Cathedral and Winton College, gained him so much credit, is now nearly ready to fill the large and beautiful triple lancet windows which occupy the north and south ends of the two transepts. It may perhaps be gratifying to some of your antiquarian and masonic readers, to be informed, that whilst recently clearing the plaister which had for ages disfigured the Norman arches that divide the transepts from the side ailes and chapels of St. Mary's Church, the distinguishing marks of several of the operative masons who were employed in working the stones of which the arches are composed, have been exhibited; and it is a singular fact that some of these marks, though made many centuries ago, are similar to those used by some of the masons of the present day. G. M. MR. URBAN, Oct. 6. OUR Correspondent "Q" in your YOUR Magazine for Sept. p. 197, expresses a wish to know the maiden name of "6 Abigail Packington, widow;" who, as he finds from the Journals of the House of Commons, had in October 1642, the Speaker's warrant for travelling with her servants into Holland; and whom he supposes to be the widow of Sir John Packington. It is singular that the writer should not have been struck with the omission of the title, which she would have had as widow of Sir John Packington but the fact is, that she was daughter of Henry Sacheverell, of Morley, co. Derby, esq. and wife of Humphrey Packington, esq. of Chaddesley Corbet, a younger branch of that loyal family. This Humphrey died in 1631, and she was buried with him at Chaddesley Corbet in 1657. The Christian name of Lady Packington, the daughter of Mr. Humphrey Smith, Queen Elizabeth's silk-mercer, was, according to a MS. note by Mr. Gough, in his copy of Dr. Nash's Col 317 lections for Worcestershire (now in Mr. Habington has given her coat "1. Sable, three fishes in pale Argent, on a chief Or a lion rampant of the First, between two ogresses; on the dexter ogress a martlet; on the sinister an anehor of the chief. Smyth. 2. Argent, three pales Azure, on a chief Gules as many bezants, Donington; sed quere [not Dorington as in Nash]*. "3. Argent, a chevron between three mullets Gules [...]. "4. As the first." This shield, though broken, is still sufficiently perfect to ascertain the actual bearings, and as Mr. Humphrey Smith is stated, in Wotton's Baronetage, to be of a respectable family "then living" in Leicestershire, your Correspondent will probably be able to assign the quarterings, and elucidate what the industry of the historian of Worcestershire has left imperfect; which would much gratify P. MR. URBAN, Bedford-place, Oct.20. According to the aforesaid pedigrees * Edmondson gives for Donington, Yorkshire, "Paly of six, Ar. and Vert, on a chief Gules three mascles of the First; another, Bezants." + It is from the Visitation by Sampson and Vincent, 1619; continued by Sir Thomas Cave, Bart.-EDIT. 318 Derrick's Memoirs of the Royal Navy. had one called Erasmus Smith, of Bosworth, placed in the 4th place, but called the third son in No. 1080, and placed and called the fifth in No. 1463, where Ambrose is in the 4th place; and another, Ambrose Smith of London, called the fourth son in No. 1980. Erasmus is said to have married, as his 2d wife, Margaret, sister to William Cicell, Lord Burghley, and widow of Roger Cave; while Ambrose Smith married Joane, daughter of John Cooe, of Coxall in Essex, by whom he had several children, one of whom was Dorothy, wife first to Benedict Barnham, Alderman of London, and afterwards to Sir John Packington. From this it would seem Lady Packington's name was not Abigail, but Dorothy. Her husbands are not mentioned in No. 1463, and only Benedict Barnham, and Sir John Packington, in No. 1080. Quere, what is Kimber's authority for the two subsequent marriages? According to Archdall's Irish Peerage, the first Lord Kilmorey's first wife died 1591, and he married 2ndly a widow, whose first husband did not die till the 30th April, 1627. She was Catharine, daughter of John Robinson of London, esq. relict of George Huxley, of Wyrehall in Middlesex, esq. and mother of the 2d Viscount Kil morey, and five other children. Yet according to Burke's General Dictionary, the 1st Viscount died in 1627. But if this were correct, as he could not marry the said widow before May of the same year, he must have be come the father of his six legitimate children, by one woman, in eight months. Neither could Lady Pakington have married the second Viscount Kilmorey, because Kimber says, Lady Pakington's husband died two years after the death of Sir John Pakington, consequently in 1627: but Burke says the 2d Viscount died in 1653. Thomas Earl of Kelly, is said to have died unmarried, but the Scotch Compendium does not say when. It must have been before 1651, when his brother Alexander was Earl of Kelly. In Blore's Rutlandshire, he mentions, p. 81, a monument in the north aile of the Church of St. Martin, Stanford Baron, to the memory of Richard Cecill, esq. and Jayne his wife, which states, that their daughter Margaret "was first marryed to Roger Cave of Stanford, esq. of whom descended Sir [Oct. Thomas Cave, and after to Ambrose Smith, of Bosworth, esquier." If this is to be confided in, the Harl. MS. pedigree, No. 1080, above mentioned, must err in stating Margaret to be the wife of Erasmus: but whichever it be, no authority seems to call Dorothy Smith's (afterwards Barnham's) father Humphrey Smith, except Kimber's, and the Baronetages which have copied him. There was a Humphry Smith, a first cousin of Ambrose. He was not a silkman, but a grocer of London, and married Anne, daughter of Alderman George Bowles. It is hoped that a settlement of these discrepancies may not be unattainable. MEMOIRS OF THE ROYAL NAVY. (Continued from p. 224.) HE war with America rendered it Tof course necessary to keep a very large naval force in that quarter of the Globe, in particular; but the conclusion of the war with France admitted of many of the ships which were paid off, and other old ships, being soon sold or broken up; the Navy, therefore, was now at its highest pitch of greatness, both with respect to the number of ships, and the amount of their tonnage, as will appear by the following table: Abstract of the Royal Navy, with its tonnage, on the 2d April, 1814. Guns. ......120 to 100. ..98. 84 to 74 64. Rates. 1st. 2d. 3d. Tons. No. 14. ..33855 16*...34250 .170... 303708 4862 .39.....53871 3.... 4th (Razees) 57. 56 to 50. 44 to 32. ......20 10 20...... 22. 34. 19056 1828.] Derrick's Memoirs of the Royal Navy. Ships and vessels of every other sort specified in 319 There were in commission on the 2d April, 1814, about 150 ships of the preceding abstracts...224.... 31176 line, 160 of 57 guns to frigates inclu This table presents such a view of the Naval force as justly to excite astonishment, it being almost three times as great as at the end of the war in 1762; not far from double what it was at the end of the war in 1783; and nearly one half above what it was at the peace of 1801. In the foregoing table the tonnage of the following ships and vessels is included by estimation, their actual tonnage not being known, viz. 32 Gunships 2; 6th rates 2; built, or then building, on the Lakes in Canada. Sloops and Brigs 11; small vessels 31; part of them built or building, as above. Receiving ship 1; Hulk 1. The 98 gunship mentioned to have been building on Lake Ontario, was finished with astonishing dispatch, as she was launched in October, only three or four months after her keel was laid *. The American Government was also at this time making great exertions on the Lakes, with many local advantages. The following ships and vessels were building in the King's and Merchants' yards at home and at Bombay, on the 2d April, and are included in the foregoing abstract, viz. sive, and near 400 sloops, of sorts, and small vessels: it should, however, be observed, that stationary ships employed on port-duty are included in this statement, and that none of them were fit for, or intended hereafter to be made sea-going ships. 1813. The value of the principal articles of unappropriated stores remaining in the magazines at the old cember, 1813, was as follows; viz. Dock and Rope-yards, on the 31st DeAt Deptford..... £.592,827 Woolwich. Chatham.. 1,624,0591 578,146 144,140 895,850 900,257 Total..4,735,279§ This shews what prodigious magazines of naval stores were kept up, to meet all the exigencies of the service; but the amount of their value, above that of the unappropriated stores on the 31st Dec. 1801 (2,124,3717.), is in part owing to the enhanced prices of timber, and timber articles, hemp, and many other kinds of stores, and not entirely to increased quantities of them. 1814. As the sacrifice which the French Government was compelled to make at the close of the war, in 1814, of a very considerable portion of the men of war which were at Flushing and Antwerp, as well as the stores, &c. agreeably to the treaty of Paris, would not have taken place to such an extent if an English fleet had not, by a most vigilant blockade off the mouths of the Scheldt, precluded all egress of the large ships, and nearly so of that of the frigates, during the last three or four years of the war, a particular account of that sacrifice, which may be considered as a sort of supplemental triumph of the British Navy, is here given. When the Commissioners from England arrived at Antwerp, in Au Including hemp in hired warehouses. § And at Milford there were stores, chiefly timber, to the value of about 50,000l. which, or what remained of them, were eventually removed to the new Dock-yard called Pembroke, being near that town. This occupied, for a great part of the time, between 20 and 30 sail of the line, besides frigates, &c. 380 Hampden Monuments. gust, in order to make a division of the ships, and naval and military stores, &c. in conjunction with the Commnissioners from the other powers, they found the following ships on the stocks, namely, two of 110, two of 80, and one of 44 guns, which five ships were delivered over to the Dutch, in trust for the allies, until the final adjustment of the affairs of Europe:-and they found the following also on the stocks, viz. which were given up to the French, Delivered over to the Dutch, in trust, like the five before mentioned, Of 80 guns. 74.... 16... .3 4 Delivered over to the French, Of 80 guns..... 74..... ..3 .9 Many of these twenty ships were hogged; and only a few of them were in good condition, or in a state to There have been then sent to sea. were likewise at Antwerp about 170 sail of gun-boats, and other craft, the greater part of the said vessels in a miserable condition, some afloat, some sunk, and some filled with mud-all, or great part of which vessels, had been provided, in the first instance, with a view to the invasion of Englaud. In addition to the ships of the line, and frigates already particularized, the enemy had at Antwerp two of the former class of ships, and one of the latter; and at Flushing, one ship of the line and two frigates; which six ships, as they had belonged to the Dutch before the nation had been subjugated by France, were restored to the sovereign prince (afterwards king) of the Netherlands. I am not aware that any of the foregoing particulars respecting the ships. at Antwerp and Flushing, have ever The French build their ships so weak that they are apt to become hogged in a short time. Their theory only is good. [Oct. appeared in print. They are inserted Hampden Monuments. John Hampden, Lord of the Maror of Great Hampden (and Eliz, his wife), died 23 August, 1496. Sir John Hampden, knt. (and Eliz. his wife) died 22 Dec. 1553. Griffith Hampden and Anne his wife. He died 27 Oct. 1591. She died Dec. 1594. William Hampden, Lord of Great Hampden, sonn and heire of Griffith Hampden and Anne his wife; which William departed this life ye 2d day of April, 1597. To the eternal memory of the truely virtuous and pious Elizabeth Hampden, wife of John Hampden, of Great Hampden, Esquier, sole daughter and heire of Edmund Symeon, of Pyrton in ye county of Oxon, esq. ye tender mother of an happy offspring in 9 hopefull children. In her pilgrimage the staie and comfort of her neighbors, the joye and glorye of a well ordered family, the delight and happiness of tender parents, wife to all an eternall pattern of goodnes but a crown of blessings to a husband; in a and cause of joye, whilst shee was in her herselfe blesst, and they fully recompenc'd dissolution a losse invaluable to each, yet in her translation from a tabernacle of claye, and fellowshipp with mortalls in a celestial mansion, and communion with a Deity, the 20th day of August, 1634. John Hamp den, her sorrowful husband, in perpetual testimony of his conjugall love, hath dedicated this monument. Yours, &c. WM. HOPKINSON. + Several ships were sunk at Antwerp during the bombardment by the English, under General Sir Thomas Graham, in March 1814. |