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PART 11.]

Moravian Chapel at Chelsea.

MORAVIAN CHAPEL AT Chelsea.

HE sect of

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contemporaries at Oxford, was consethe of the

Tfounded in gravans, which was Brethren. He had previously publish

Zinzendorf, in 1722, is doubtless well known to our readers. In ancient re

cords they are known by the title of Unitas Fratrum, or United Brethren. Respecting their peculiar discipline and tenets, some interesting details will be found in our vol. LXXVII. P.

795, to which the reader is referred.

In the year 1750, Count Zinzendorf formed an intention of establishing a settlement at Chelsea*, and hired a plot of ground to erect a large building for the reception of three hundred Moravian fanrilies, to carry on a manufactory; and at the same time he purchased the Duke of An caster's old mansion, called Lindsey House, and also purchased of Sir Hans Sloane a piece of land, part of the gardens of Beaufort House, for a burial ground, together with the stables belonging to that old mansion; and also a slip of ground as a carriage way from the stables, which they intended to make their chapel to Lindsey House. He also took a long lease of ninety nine years, from Sir Hans Sloane, of most of the remaining site of Beaufort House. The chapel was fitted up, but the settlement, which was to be called Sharon, failed; Lindsey House was, however, inhabited by some of the society. Count Zinzendorf himself lived there, and presided over the community as long as he dwelt in England. After the ordinary, with his household, had moved into Lindsey House, he again began the conferences with the labourers that were at hand from the German and English congre gations. He made preparations for the Girls' Economy, which formerly had been established at Mile End, and which moved from thence to Chelsea, to be transported to Fulnuck, where it could be better regulated.

Soon after, in November 1754, an English provincial Synod was held at Lindsey House, at which the Minister of the Brethren's Church at London, John Gambold, a divine greatly esteemed for his piety and learning by several English Bishops, who were his

* The following particulars are chiefly abstracted from Mr. Faulkner's History of Chelsea,' now in the course of publication; to whom we are indebted for the use of the annexed engravings.

ed, in 1752, a hymn-book for the children belonging to the Brethren's congregation, printed entirely with his own hands at Lindsey House. The ed mostly of Germans and Missionaries; Brethren inhabiting this house consistcipally intended the establishment, for whose use indeed the Count printhat they might make it a sort of caravansera or resting place, when they arrived in this country, in passing to or lishments in the British dominions. from their various missionary estab

being wainscoted, the pannels were The great staircase of Lindsey House painted by Haidt, a German artist. Besides several portraits, the subjects of these pictures related principally to the history of the Brethren, and the tran

sactions of the Missionaries. These paintings were afterwards removed to their Minister's house in London, probably in 1770, when Lindsey House was sold by the Society to persons of the names of Coles and Bannister.

residing at present in Chelsea. Their There are not any of the Moravians church is episcopal; and, after due examination, has been acknowledged

as

an ancient Protestant episcopal church by the Parliament of Great Britain; by which recognition security

has been afforded to their various settlements and missions in the British dominions.

The Burial Ground is situated at the

north end of Milman's-row, and is surrounded by houses and walls; on

the south side are still to be seen some More's house, afterwards the Duke of interesting remains of Sir Thomas Beaufort's; consisting of brick walls of great thickness, remnants of door. ways, windows, &c. This cemetery occupies about two acres of ground; it is kept extremely neat, a person having a house on the spot, and a salary allowed him for taking care of it. The whole is divided into four distinct compartments. The Brethren are buried in separate divisions from those of the Sisters; for, as in their public assemblies, they still adhere to the ancient custom of separating the sexes, the men occupying one, and the women the other side of the chapel, so they retain it even in their burying ground.

The burial service of the church of

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World's End Tavern, Chelsea.

the Brethren is conducted in the following order. The coffin being deposited in the middle of the chapel, a hymn is sung by the congregation, for they value and carefully cultivate music as a science, and the responses of their liturgies are attended with peculiar effect. The Minister then delivers a discourse, in which some account is given of the deceased, and of his or her state of mind in dying, with suitable exhortations.

The chapel at the north side of the burial ground occupies the site of the old stables. It is nearly twenty years since divine service was performed here by the Brethren; but it is now used by various religious denominations, with permission of the Rev. Mr. La Trobe; and on Sunday it is successively occupied from an early hour in the morning till eight in the evening.

The tomb-stones of the Brethren are

all flat, placed on turf, raised about six inches above the ground, in regular rows. They are of two sizes, the larger for grown persons, and the smaller for children. The inscriptions on the grave stones in general record only the names and age of the persons interred. Against the south wall of the chapel is a tablet to the memory of Christian Renatus, Count of Zinzendorf and Pollendorf, born December 19, 1727, departed May 28, 1732. He was the only son of the celebrated Count Zinzendorf.

WORLD'S END TAVERN.
In the reign of Charles the

the World's End Tavern (of which we have given a view, as it formerly appeared, from Faulkner's History of Chelsea,') was a noted place of entertainment. The grounds and teagardens were on an extensive plan. Every thing was elegantly fitted up for the reception of company, similar in some respect to the tea-gardens of White Conduit House. The World's End' was frequently visited by the higher classes of society, owing to the superiority of its accommodation; but in the course of time, the promiscuous assemblage of all ranks generated into licentiousness, till it was considered a reproach on the moral character of an individual to be seen there. Thus in Congreve's comedy of Love for Love,' Mrs. Foresight and Mrs. Frail, in a

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dialogue, accuse each other of having been seen at the World's End.'

Mrs. Foresight. I suppose you would not go alone to the World's End?

Mrs. Frail. The World's End! what

do you mean to banter me?

Mrs. Foresight. Poor innocent; you don't know that there is a place called the World's End. I'll swear you can keep your countenance-surely you'll make an admirable player.

Mrs. Frail. I'll swear you have a great deal of impudence, and, in my mind, too much for the stage.

Mrs. Foresight. World's End. pear who has most.

No.

Very well, that will apYou never were at the

Mrs. Frail. Mrs. Foresight. You deny it positively to my face?

Mrs. Frail. Your face! what's your face? Mrs. Foresight. No matter for that, it is as good a face as yours.

Mrs. Frail. Not by a dozen year's wearing. But I do deny it, positively, to your face, then.

Mrs. Foresight. I'll allow you now to find fault with my face; for I'll swear your But look you here now; where did you lose impudence has put me out of countenance. this gold bodkin?-Oh, sister!-Oh, sister! Mrs. Frail. My bodkin!

Mrs. Foresight. Nay, it is yours-look at it.

Mrs. Frail. Well, if you go to that, where did you find this bodkin? Oh, sister! sister! sister every way!

Mrs. Foresight. Oh! devil on't that I could not discover her without betraying myself. (Aside)

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M. p. and another Correspondent in your October Magazine, p. 317, for their respective communications in regard to the Pakington family. They have prevented some mistakes, and corrected some errors. In return, I beg leave to endeavour to elucidate the obscurity of Mr. Habingdon's account of the arms on the monument in Hampton Lovet Church: but as I am not confident that I may be able to do so with satisfaction to your ingenious Correspondents, I must beg their indulgence for that portion of my remarks which may be conjectural.

Y acknowledgments are due to

In the first place, not knowing upon what authority the name of Smyth is annexed to the first quarter of the coat described (p. 317), I am inclined to imagine that Habingdon, who did not

PART II.]

Pakington Family.-Admiral Benbow.

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assign the quarterings, might have mistaken the coat altogether for that of another Dame Dorothy Pakington, instead of the lady to whom it properly belonged. By reference to the pedigree, it will appear that Sir Thomas Pakington, knt. father of that Sir John Pakington who married Dorothy daughter of Humphrey Smith, according to Kimber, or Ambrose Smith, according to your Correspondent from Bedford-place, p. 318, married Dorothy daughter of Thomas Kitson, Esq. of Hengrave in Suffolk, by whom, as seems to me,' to use a phrase of some of our olden antiquarians, these quarterings came into the family, and not by Dorothy Smith; and for these following reasons, first, because I can not find any such arms assigned to persons of the name of Smyth, or Smith; secondly, because the first quarter bears a great resemblance to the arms of Kytson, and the second and third to the arms of Donyngton, which bearings being brought into the Pakington family by the daughter of Kytson, and before the marriage of Dorothy Smith, appears strongly to support my conjec

ture.

As to Dorington, suggested by Dr. Nash, not knowing any thing of such an alliance with either of the Pakingtons, and there being no agreement between the armorial bearings of the former and the quartering described, I think it may be laid entirely out of the question. Kimber's account is very erroneous, and Betham seems to have borrowed it, verbatim. These writers state, that Dame Dorothy Pakington (the first of the two Dorothys), died in 1575, in her 65th year, having been married, after Sir Thomas Pakington's death, to Thomas Tasmagh, Esq.; but the fact is, that the name of her second husband was Tasburgh; that she died 2d May, 1577, aged 46 years and 7 months; and that in addition to the inscription on her monument at Hawridge in Buckinghamshire, where Thomas Tasburgh, Esq. resided (and according to Br. Willis, filled the office of High Sheriff of that county 23d Elizabeth (see Hist. of Hundred of Buckingham, p. 17), there are three brass plates, on which are still to be traced the arms of Pakyngton, impaling Kytson, Kytson impaling Donyngton, and Tasburgh impaling Kytson. In the first of these, the sinister impalement is three fishes hauriant in fess a chief..... In the second,

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the last described (which I ought to have mentioned has, like its fellows, the names engraven above the escutcheon), impaling quarterly, 1 and 4, paly of six.... on a chief three roundels: 2 and 3, a chevron between three mullets. In the third, the arms of Tasburgh (as having no connexion with the immediate object of the present discussion) need not be noticed; but the impalement is the same as of the first described coat. There are no marks to distinguish the blazoning, and (which is still less satisfactory) here are wanting the charges on the chief, described by P.' in the first quarter, to which is attached the name of Smyth; and here I beg to be allowed to offer my conjecture:-that in this case, as in many others, the hasty execution of the engraving, or the imperfect directions given, may have occasioned the omission of the Lion and Ogresses, more correctly introduced in the window of Hampton Lovet Church. Such errors are frequently observable on modern, as well as, ancient monuments, and whoever will take the trouble to examine half a dozen achievements on the walls of Churches, or even on the fronts of houses, and com-. pare those designed for persons belonging to the same family with each other, will soon be convinced that incongruities quite as glaring are even at the present day to be discovered. To whom properly belonged the third quarter, viz. a chevron between three mullets, having no pedigree of the Donyngtons at hand, I am unable to say; but for the reasons before given, it must have been brought to the Pakingtons before the marriage of Dorothy Smith, and may not improbably have been the bearing of a maternal ancestor of the first Dame Dorothy Pakington, although it could not of the second. Yours, &c.

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Anecdotes of Lord Erskine.-Apocryphal Books. [xcvIII.

til every hold was gone, but had to encounter the "unparalleled" treachery of those under his command.

The aforesaid circumstance having induced several gentlemen of the parish of Saint Mary Shrewsbury to come forward with their contributions, to further the erection of some monument that shall exemplify his courage to subsequent generations, I have therefore availed myself of your valuable and widely-circulated pages, in making the fact more generally known, considering that others, within the range of its publication, might likewise feel desirous of lending their aid towards the completion of this patriotic undertaking.

Should the subscription now entered into be sufficient, it is proposed to erect a statue in the north transept of the venerable church of Saint Mary, in which parish the Admiral was born; the site for which, in addition to a handsome subscription, has been presented by the munificence of the minister, the Rev. William Gorsuch Rowland, M.A.

Your industrious correspondent, Mr. D. Parkes, of Shrewsbury, has kindly undertaken to receive subscriptions for the purpose, and the zeal he has already manifested in forwarding the measure is highly creditable: and Mr. Urban will no doubt assist by making known this public-spirited undertaking.

I am, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

H. PIDGEON.

Dec. 10.

I AM persuaded you will think that

any anecdotes of such a man as the late Lord Erskine (excepting those which do no honour to his memory), are worth preserving, and I therefore offer the following, which are indubitably authentic, for insertion in your durable pages.

A CORRESPONDENT.

Mr. Erskine, as might be supposed from his early education, was peculiarly conversant with maritime law, and as a matter of course, was employed in almost every insurance case that came before the King's Bench. The better to explain subjects of that description, he procured a neat model of a ship, which he frequently pro

duced in Court, to elucidate his arguments to the judge and jury.

Mr. Erskine once took occasion to ridicule and mimic the manner of the

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eminent barrister generally known by the familiar name of Jack Lee, upon which the latter retorted as follows: "My learned friend has been very pleasant, and occasioned much merriment at my expence. I admit he possesses great powers of mimickry; I admire the versatility of his talents; he has shewn it in various ways; he has been in the army and in the navy; has been, I believe, a special pleader; he is now a barrister, and I should not wonder if he were next to exhibit as a Tiddy-Doll at Bartholomew fair." The laugh was completely turned against Erskine, who did not hold up his head for the remainder of the day. But Lee and he continued, as they had been, staunch friends, and the former, it is well known, upon retiring from the bar, left Erskine his bag.

Mr. URBAN,

Dec. 15.

HAVING several times attentively perused the 36th chapter of the prophet Jeremiah, and compared it with the Book of Baruch, I cannot satisfactorily subscribe to the general opinion that the writings of the above named author are Apocryphal, since the subject of the epistle of Jeremy, contained in the 6th chapter of Baruch, perfectly harmonizes with what is mentioned to be the contents of the roll written by the scribe Baruch at the mouth of Jeremiah the prophet:

"Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim, king of Judah, had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words."

It appears to me, not merely an interesting, but likewise a most important subject of investigation, to search deeply into the history of the Books called Apocryphal; and presumptuous are they who should rashly cast into oblivion such instruction both religious and moral, as they contain; which bears so much the character of divinity, and which also in very many parts refers to, and agrees with the Holy Scrip

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