in order that the world may know the names of some of the monsters, which, as represented in the plates, alike defy the skill of the herald and the naturalist.

A Manual of Heraldry for Amateurs, by Harriet Dallaway. 12mo. pp. 169. Pickering, 7s.

This pretty and unpretending little volume is said to have been written at the request of Miss Howard Molyneux, to whom it is in scribed. It is designed to afford a knowledge of the rudiments of Heraldry to Amateurs, for which purpose it appears to be well calculated; as the descriptions are concise and simple, and are illustrated by wood cuts. When we say that the fair compiler, whose various accomplishments are well known, is the wife of the author of the popular volume, entitled "Inquiries into the Origin and Progress of the Science of Heraldry in England," any recommendation of her labours from us would be superfluous; for it will be readily supposed that she has received the assistance of his researches and talents, and consequently that few ladies are so qualified to afford information on the subject.

CREATIONS OF HONOURS, CHANGES OF NAME, &c.

From the London Gazettes, from January 25th to March 25th, 1828.

February 8.—Whitehall, January 17.-The King has been pleased to give and grant unto Thomas Stott, of the city of Quebec, Esq., sometime Paymaster of the 29th Regiment of Foot, and now Paymaster of the 4th Royal Veteran Battalion, in behalf of his grandson and sole heir-expectant, William Jane Stott Wilson, an infant of the age of fourteen years, or thereabouts, His Majesty's royal licence and authority, that he the said William Jane Stott Wilson, and his issue, may take and use the surname of Stott, in lieu of that of Wilson, and also bear the arms of Stott.

February 19.-Whitehall, February 18.-The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for granting the dignity of a Baronet of the said United Kingdom to the following Gentlemen respectively, and the heirs-male of their bodies lawfully begotten, viz.

Francis Freeling, of the General Post Office, in the city of London, and of Ford and Hutchins, in the county of Sussex, Esq.

Joseph de Courcy Laffan, of Otham, in the county of Kent, M. D., Physician to His Majesty's Forces, and to His Royal Highness the late Duke of Kent.

Patrick Macgregor, of Saville Row, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., Serjeant Surgeon to his Majesty, and Personal Surgeon to His Royal Highness the late Duke of York.

March 4.-Whitehall, February 14. The King has been pleased to give and grant unto Ann Raynsford, of Powick, in the county of Worcester, widow, and relict of the Reverend Charles Justinian Raynsford, late of Powick aforesaid, Clerk, deceased, and unto her sister, Mercy Vincent, of the same place, Spinster, deceased, two of the daughters of Francis Vincent, late of Weddington Hall, in the county of Warwick, Esq., deceased, by Mercy his wife, who was the sister of Thomas Sheldon, late of

"Cobham" in the Gazette of February 19th, but corrected to “Otham” in the Gazette of February 26th.

Abberton, in the aforesaid county of Worcester, Esq., also deceased, His royal licence and authority, that they may, in compliance with a clause contained in the last will ard testament of their maternal uncle, the said Thomas Sheldon, respectively take and use the surname of Sheldon only, and also bear the arms of Sheldon '.

March 7.-St. James's, March 5.-Sir Christopher Robinson, Knt., sworn of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council.

Whitehall, February 23.—The King has been pleased to give and grant unto Samuel Lesingham, of Upton-upon-Severn, in the county of Worcester, Esq., and Lucy his wife, second daughter, and at length co-heir, of Francis Vincent, of Weddington Hall, in the county of Warwick, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, deceased, by Mary his wife, one of the sisters of Thomas Sheldon, of Abberton, in the said county of Worcester, Esq., also deceased, His royal licence and authority, that they may take and use the surname of Sheldon only, that they may respectively bear the arms of Sheldon, and that such surname of Sheldon only, and the arms of Sheldon, may be taken and borne by the issue of their marriage, in compliance with a proviso contained in the last will and testament of the said Thomas Sheldon, bearing date the 7th day of November, 1801, and in testimony of their grateful and affectionate respect for his memory.

March 14.-Windsor, February 5.-Thomas Frankland Lewis, Esq., sworn of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council; and, on the 13th of February, Rowland Lord Hill was also sworn of the Privy Council.

March 21.-Whitehall, March 19.-The King has been pleased to grant unto the Most Noble William Spencer, Duke of Devonshire, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, His royal licence and permission, that his Grace may accept and wear the insignia of the Imperial Russian Order of St. Andrew.

According to this notification, His Majesty has been pleased to authorize a dead woman to change her name and arms; a concession, by which we presume she will not very speedily benefit. It is time that official announcements should be superintended by some responsible person, for we before had occasion to point out the careless manner in which they are printed in the London Gazettes.

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Copies of several Letters received from and writ to the Right Honourable the Lord Arlington and Mr. Trevor, Secretaries of State in the Reign of Charles the Second, by the Honourable Charles Bertie, Esq. of Uffington, in the County of Lincoln, as Envoy Extraordinary to the King of Denmark, to adjust the Difference of the Flagg.-MS.

THESE papers, with various memorials, and a brief journal of the envoy's voyage and return, occupy the first two hundred and fifty-six pages of a thin volume in folio, preserved in the library of the Earl of Lindsey, at Uffington House. For permission to offer this notice of their contents we are indebted to the kindness of the Countess Dowager. The manuscript bears the name and arms of Mr. Bertie, and appears to have been transcribed from the original correspondence for his own use: there is also another transcript for his younger grandson Peregrine', about 1747;

Father of Albemarle, eighth Earl of Lindsey, and grandfather of the present Earl. The name of Peregrine is peculiar to the Berties, and its romantic origin is well known. On the accession of Mary, the Duchess of Suffolk, with her infant daughter (afterwards Countess of Kent) and chaplain, Dr. Sandys (afterwards Archbishop of York), set off in disguise to join her second husband, who had obtained leave to visit Germany. After various adventures and escapes, Mr. Bertie, with his wife and child, arrived on foot at Wesel on a dark and wretched evening, 12th Oct. 1555. The innkeepers, taking them for a lance-knecht and his mistress, with one accord denied admittance: "In the mean time the poor babe cried bitterly; the Dutches wept as fast; the weather was extream cold, and the Heavens rained as fast as the clouds could powre." In this extremity they took refuge in the church-porch of St. Willebrode, where she gave birth to the ninth Baron Willoughby d'Eresby, hence called Peregrine. We shall not VOL. II. PART II.

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made, however, with no attempt at literal exactness, and in other respects incomplete.

Mr. BERTIE was the fifth and youngest son of Montague, second earl, by his first wife Martha, daughter of Sir William Cockayn, of Rushton, in the county of Northampton, and widow of John, Earl of Holdernesse. He died 22d March, 1711, in the seventy-seventh year of his age, and is buried in the chancel at Uffington. The following character is given of him in Francis. Howgrave's "Ancient and Present State of Stamford."-" This gentleman was endowed with extraordinary parts, and very early qualified himself for the service of his country, by his travels into France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, and Poland. He first signalized his valour by his attendance on George, Duke of Albemarle, general to King Charles II. in the two great battles' fought against the Dutch at sea, in the year 1666, and was afterwards preferred to be one of the captains in his majesty's regiment of guards, whence his majesty was pleased to command him his envoy extraordinary to Christian the Fifth, King of Denmark, to adjust the difference about the flag, in the year 1671; in which negotiation, having succeeded to his majesty's great satisfaction, he returned home; and, in 1672, waited on his Royal Highness the Duke of York to sea2; and was per

pursue the story, the interest of which long continues. He is recorded by Naunton (Fragm. Regal. 1824), as an approved soldier, and from his will, preserved in Collins, must have possessed an extensive library.

The great troubles and wonderful deliverance" of his parents form chap. xi. of Clarke's Martyrologie, 274-280, ed. 1625: 521-526, ed. 1677. The ballad, temp. Eliz. "of the most rare and excellent history...to the tune of Queen Dido," may be found in the collections of Evans and others, and was reprinted, with two woodcuts, on a broadsheet, by J. Nichols, in 1806. "The Life of the Dytches of Suffolke as it hath beene divers and sundry times acted, with good applause," by Thomas Drue, Lond. 1631, is of much greater rarity. It is rather to be called a dramatic representation than a play, and its popularity must have been owing to the interest of its story and some small attempts at humour, for we can discover no other recommendation. Bonner is pushed into a well by a friend of the fugitives, who, when all is safe, officiously assists in his extrication: The words

Well done my masters, lend's your hands,

Draw Dun out of the ditch.

Draw, pull, help all, so, so, well done,

recall a spirited scene in the Peace of Aristophanes. At the close of Act III. Eras mus makes his appearance at Wesel, and in the middle of Act IV. the scene is suddenly changed to Oxford, that the audience may be edified by Ridley and Latimer on their way to execution. It is not paged, but ends on i. 4. in quarto.-See also the "wise speeches," Camden's Remaines, p. 370, ed. 1674, Fox's Martyrs, and Hollingshed,

Burnet's Own Time, i. 229, fol.-i. 397-8, Routh; and compare Evelyn (Memoirs, June 1-17, 1666), who says, "God knows it was rather a deliverance than a triumph."

In his letters to the Lord Chancellor Retz, and Griffenfeldt, principal Secretary of State, upon his return to England, March 15, 1671-2, he mentions, "being commanded to sea in the Duke of York's second;" but promises meantime to send the Chancellor some books on gardening and planting, with " a glass beehive, wth will keep their workes from being incomprehensible as the acts of some persons, you know of, are."

sonally with him in that engagement of Sol-Bay. In 1673, he was advanced to be Secretary of the Treasury, under the Right Hon. Thomas, Earl of Danby, then Lord High Treasurer of England; and in the year 1680', was again honoured with the appointment of his majesty's envoy extraordinary to several electors and other princes of Germany; and, last of all, in the year 1681, was made Treasurer and Paymaster of his Majesty's Office of Ordnance, in which he served near twenty years, though under three several reigns; and served thirty years in Parliament as burgess of Stamford, wherein he acquitted himself with unspotted reputation. He had such an universal genius, that, when he went to solicit a favour, he could easily enter into the foible of every man's nature; and so indefatigable was he at all times in the service of his friends, that he never ceased his importunities till he had either gained his point, or left no hopes of success. He was a true patriot to his country, and valued its interests so much, that, notwithstanding he tasted largely of his prince's favours, he freely quitted them all, rather than consent to the least thing he thought might be a disservice to it; and therefore he undoubtedly was the properest person to represent so uncorrupted a corporation. His behaviour was easy and genteel; and he was so well beloved, that he used commonly to be called 'honest Charles Bertie;' and well did he deserve so particular a character; for when some had a design to lessen the great esteem his country had for him, the great council of the nation honourably acquitted him. But I shall say no more of this great man, than that he was grandson to the valiant Earl of Lindsey, that so bravely lost his life in the battle of Edge-Hill, in the just defence of his king and country." He was returned to parliament from Stamford with his brother Peregrine3, 1661,

On this occasion, passing through Wesel, he obtained a copy of the register of the birth and baptism of his great grandfather, authenticated under the town seal; and restored the inscription in the church-porch, which had suffered from time and wantonHis great grandson Albemarle (then Colonel Bertie) found it well preserved, 22nd August, 1784, and brought a copy to England.

ness.

2 Clarendon, passim. Of this earl and his son Montague, both commemorated in Mr. Lodge's Illustrious Portraits, very interesting particulars are given in Lloyd's "Memoirs of those who suffered in the Cause of Charles I." pp. 306-320, fol. Lond. 1668. The frontispiece contains an excellent portrait of the former nobleman; another occurs, p. 62, of James Heath's Brief Chron. ed. 1663. That by Houbraken, in Birch's Heads, is unfaithful.

3 Peregrine, with his elder brother and Sir T. Osborne, were the three voices that unexpectedly threw out the non-resisting oath after the passing of the five-mile-act in the parliament which held its sixth session at Oxford, 31st Oct. 1665. Detection of the Parliaments of England, i. p. 98, "Of the Use and Abuse of Parliaments," 2 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1774. See also Locke's celebrated "Letter from a Person of Quality to his Friend in the Country."