Repton, Worksop, Combe, Canonleigh, Buckland, Sherburne, Shaftsbury, Hales-Owen, Fountains, Alnewick, Tavistock, Woburn, MuchWenlock, Reading, Battle, Rivaux, Waverley, Stoneleigh, ValleCrucis, what sad thoughts do these simple names recall! what miserable histories! what distress, poverty, extinction, and it may be crime! We know not a service to the Church more needed than a re-publication of Spelman's "History of Sacrilege" continued to the present time; the ears of England's nobility and gentry must be made to tingle, and this for their own sakes, for unless we mistake the signs of the times, a wider and fiercer convulsion is all but at hand than the spoiler's wildest dream has conceived; the wrath of God is worse than the anger of man, and woe be to us, unless we make atonement and restitution for past sacrilege! We will produce the family history of a single person, and a good and eminent one, and desire our readers to mark the horrible sins of his descendants and their final extinction: to connect this history with the unrighteous possession of Church lands is easy. Sir Thomas Pope was thrice married, and left only one daughter, Alice, who died very young. His third wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Walter Blount. Thomas Blount, the heir of her brother William, inherited Tittenhangers from his uncle Sir Thomas Pope, and called himself Pope-Blount. Of this family Sir Henry Blount was a "sceptic," and pulled down the house. His son, Charles Blount, "inherited his father's philosophy," and was the notorious infidel author of the "Anima Mundi," and "Oracles of Reason." After his wife's death, this wretched man shot himself, because he could not form an incestuous marriage with his wife's sister, which account Warton (life of Sir T. Pope) says, that he received from "the late Sir H. PopeBlount, the last of the family." But to pursue the subject; and we have been at some little pains to trace the descent of other Churchlands in this immediate neighbourhood. The site and buildings of Sopwell Nunnery, founded by Robert de Gorham, the sixteenth abbat, were granted by Henry VIII. to a Sir Richard Lee, as well as the monastic buildings of St. Alban's Abbey and the parish church of St. Andrew, all of which he pulled down: according to Newcome, he was indebted for this wicked grant to the charms of his wife, one Margaret Greenfield, "who was in no small favour with the king" he died without male issue, and his lands passed into the Sadleir family. At the time of the Restoration, the male line of the Sadleirs became extinct, and the property passed to the Saunders' family; the male line of which being extinct, it was sold to the Grimston family, the present possessors. Again; the hospital of St. Mary de Prè, near St. Alban's, was suppressed by Wolsey, who afterwards obtained a grant of these lands for his own use; his fate is sufficiently notorious; after his attainder, it was forfeited to the crown, and granted to Ralph Rowlat, Esq. on the failure of whose male line, it was purchased from a female descendant, by Sir Harbottle Grimston, the ancestor of the Earl of Verulam, the present possessor. Again; Gorhambury, the seat of the Earl of Verulam, was originally part of the Abbey lands, and granted by Abbat Robert de Gorham, to a relation of the same name, who erected a mansion on it, hence called Gorhambury: it was reannexed to the Abbey by Abbat De la Mare, and at the dissolution, was granted to the above Ralph Rowlat, Esq.; on the failure of his heirs male, his daughter conveyed it to Maynard; he sold it to Lord Chancellor Bacon, who died without issue, and, as is well known, the title and family of the Bacons became extinct. Sir Thomas Meautys, Lord Bacon's private secretary, inherited Gorhambury as cousin and next heir; he died heirless, leaving an only daughter who died unmarried; Sir Thomas' elder brother succeeded him, who (or his representative) sold the estates to Sir Harbottle Grimston above mentioned. Again, the Manor of Childwick, formerly belonging to the Abbey, was held by Thomas Rowse, in anno 4to Eliz. He died leaving one son, who died without issue. Again, the manor of Newland Squillers, formerly belonging to the abbey, was granted to the Sir Richard Lee above named: on the extinction of his race it was conveyed to Richard Grace, who died without male issue. Again, the manor of Aldenham belonged either to this abbey or to St. Peter's, Westminster; at the dissolution it was granted to Ralph Stepneth and his heirs for ever, but he died without male issue: from his collateral heirs it passed into the Cary family, the last of whom, the celebrated Lucius Lord Falkland, was killed in a particularly strange and awful manner at the battle of Newbury: it then passed into the Harby family, the male line of which became extinct in 1674: and from them to the Holles family, the direct line of which became extinct in 1711, by the death of the Duke of Newcastle, who left an only daughter who carried the property into the Pelham family. We have only selected the seven first estates, formerly belonging to the Church, from a common county history, and here we find the families of Pope, Blount, Lee, Sadleir, Saunders, Wolsey, Rowlat, Bacon, Meautys, Rowse, Grace, Stepneth, Cary, Harby, Holles, invariably failing in the male line; fifteen families in succession possessed these abbey lands, and every one of them is extinct! Well indeed might the nobility and gentry of England prevent the publication of Spelman's History of Sacrilege. If among the 260 gentlemen who, in the reign of Henry VIII., shared the abbey lands among them, not sixty had even a son to inherit the estate-if such as we have noted are the remarkable calamities attendant upon so many noble houses who owned the lands of a single religious house, and all this in the circuit of a very few miles, though 66 we presume not to judge of the secret methods of God's providence, and only relate plain matters of fact, and leave every man to make his own application, yet it must be granted that these instances are so terrible in the event, and in the circumstances so surprising, that no considering person can well pass them over without serious reflection."* And it is for the sake of those who now hold what was originally obtained by scandalous and wicked sacrilege that we ask, "Did these men die the death of all men, or were they visited after the visitation of all men?" "EVERY DEVOTED THING IS MOST HOLY UNTO THE Lord." * Life of Sir H. Spelman. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. ORDINATIONS APPOINTED. BP. OF NORWICH, Aug. 13. BP. OF HEREFORD, Sept. 24. ORDINATIONS. By the LORD BISHOP OF RIPON, at Ripon, on Sunday, June 25. DEACONS. Of Oxford.-J. D. Hilton, B.A. Univ. (1. d. Abp. of York). of Cambridge.-J. H. Mitchell, B.A. Christ's. Of St. Bees.-G. L. Langdon. Of Dublin.-J. J. Robinson, B.A. Trin. PRIESTS. Of Oxford.-J. C. Bradley, B.A. Queen's; F. W. Vaux, B.A. Magd. H.; G. Lewthwaite, B.A. Univ. Of Cambridge.-W. Balderston, B.A. St. John's; W. T. N. Billopp, B.A. Emm.; J. Buckham, B.A. St. John's; J. A. Beaumont, B.A. Trin.; J. Bickerdike, B.A. Trin. Of St. Bees.-C. Thompson, R. Chadwick. Of Church Missionary College, Islington.-H. Baker (1. d. Bp. of London). of Dublin.-J. T. Mackintosh, B.A., W. Kelly, B.A. Trin. Literate.-W. Chamier. By the LORD BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH, at Peterborough, on Sunday, June 24. DEACON. Of Cambridge.-Hon. W. H. Lyttlelton, M.A. (Hon. 1841), Trin. By the LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, in Farnham Castle Chapel, on Sunday, July 9, 1843. DEACONS. Of Oxford.-P. L. D. Acland, B.A. Ch. Ch. (1. d. Bp. of Worcester); W. Allen, B.A. Magd. H.; B. Belcher, B.A. Wad.; J. Campbell, B.A. St. Edm. H.; G. S. Hookey, B.A. Wad. (l. d. Bp. of Ripon); F. C. Scott, B.A. St. John's; F. Sotham, B.A. Magd. H.; F. F. Stalham, S.C.L. Magd. H.; A. T. Wilmhurst, B.A. Magd. H. (l. d. Bp. of Worcester). Of Cambridge.-A. W. Cole, B.A. St. John's; H. Downton, M.A. Trin.; R. P. Hutchinson, B.A. Corp. Chris.; T. G. Postlethwaite, B.A. St. Peter's; F. A. Savile, B.A. Trin. Of Lampeler.-E. Edwards, St. David's (l. d. Bp. of St. David's). PRIESTS. Of Oxford.-E. H. Burnett, B.A. Merton; C. F. Cook, B.A. Magd. H.; G. De Gruchy, B.A. Exet.; W. Giffard, M.A. Univ.; H. T. Harris, B.A. New Inn H. (l. d. Bp. of Llandaff); W. H. Joyce, B.A. Univ.; C. Kemble, B.A. Wad.; S. C. Malan, M.A. Balliol; T. C. Martelli, B.A. Balliol; J. Meyrick, M.A. Queen's; N. Midwinter, B.A. Magd. H.; W. Tancred, B.A. Ch. Ch.; W. Thomson, B.A. Queen's; S. H. Unwin, B.A. Worc. Of Cambridge.-C. W. M. Boutflower, B. A. St. John's; C. H. G. Butson, B.A. Magd.; J. N. Harrison, B.A. Caius; C. Kingsley, B.A. Magd.; J. W. Reeves, M.A. Christ's. Literate.-E. G. Rogers (1. d. Bp. of London, for her Majesty's Foreign Possessions). By the LORD BISHOP OF CHESTER, at Chester, on Sunday, July 16. DEACONS. Of Oxford.-J. Booth, B.A. Brasen.; J. Gorton, B.A. Wad.; W. F. Addison, B.A. Wad.; E. Pedder, B.A. Brasen. Of Cambridge.-J. A. Burrowes, B.A. Corp. Chris.; J. Dodd, Queen's; T. N. Farthing, B.A. Cath. H.; J. Hollingworth, B.A. Cath. H.; J. B. Grant, B.A. Emm.; H. Jones, B.A. Cath. H.; W. Mulleneux, B.A. Emm.; G. Tatam, B.A. Cath. H.; J. Royds, B.A. Christ's; S. H. Sherard, LL.B. Christ's. Of Dublin.-J. Cox, B.A., W. M. Collis, B.A., A. Hume, Trin. Of St. Bees.-B. H. Browne, R. Cope, T. Ellerthorpe, H. P. Hughes, R. Kinder, W. H. Pochin, J. Watson. PRIESTS. Of Oxford.-J. Paul, s.c.L. 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WE have received the following, in reference to a recent article, to which we do not hesitate to give instant insertion : "To the Editor of the CHRISTIAN REMEMBRANCER. "Burton Court, Hereford, July 21, 1843. "SIR,-By mere accident, I yesterday opened a number of the CHRISTIAN REMEMBRANCER for this month, and, glancing over an article on Affghanistan, I was much disgusted at finding myself there represented as 'clinging' to the stirrup of Mahommed Akbar for protection against the Ghazees, on the 23d December, 1841. The writer of the paper cannot have gleaned that, if true, disgraceful fact from any published narrative of which I am aware, and I hereby distinctly deny it. I do not pretend to be more indifferent to life than other men; but it has always been my endeavour to abide by what, in the commencement of my military career I adopted for my motto, viz. 'Summum crede nefas animam præferre pudari, Et propter vit vivendi perdere causas.' I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, "Č. MACKENZIE, Capt. 48th Regt. M. N. I." ERRATUM IN JULY NUMBER. By a singular oversight, a note in our article on Southey, which was only supplied at the very last, and of which the press was never corrected, has slipped into the text. It consists of a passage in p. 79, beginning with the words, "The story, too, considered in itself," &c. and relates to Roderick, not the Curse of Kehama.-For " Pereus," read "Nereus," and for "Tolgata," read "Folgaba." THE CHRISTIAN REMEMBRANCER. SEPTEMBER, 1843. Plain Parochial Sermons. By the Rev. JAS. SLADE, M.A. Vicar of Bolton and Prebendary of Chester. 5 vols. London: Rivingtons. Sermons. By the Rev. CHAS. GIRDLESTONE, M.A., Rector of Aderley. Third series. London: Rivingtons. Practical Sermons. By the Rev. G. W. WOODHOUSE, M.A. Vicar of Albrighton, Salop. London: Rivingtons. Is there, or is there not, any essential and characteristic difference between the methods of announcing and enforcing the offers of grace and salvation by the preacher of the Church and of the conventicle? or, rather, we will divide this question into two branches;-First, Is there, as a matter of fact, any such difference to be perceived; and, secondly, Ought there,-regarding not so much their differences of position in point of education, &c., as the work they have respectively in trust,-ought there to be any marked and perceptible difference? Such is the inquiry we propose to ourselves in the following pages: it will embrace not only a review of the style of pulpit discourses, but also of the familiar intercourse between the clergyman and his flock, more especially as we have opportunity of judging of it, in the numerous tales and tracts which are devoted to recording this sort of intercourse. And, if the subject should appear unpromising to some, we would yet beg their patient attention, because we are persuaded that it is a matter very pressingly demanding investigation. Now, in reply to the first branch of the inquiry, we are willing to take the opinion of those who have much better means of judging than we can profess to have ourselves-those, we mean, who are in the habit of frequenting, indifferently, both Church and meeting-house: and we are sure that every parish |