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sentions, and troubles, with which they have for a long time been agitated, may be able to labour with more success in the Vineyard of the Lord, and contribute to the salvation of Souls; we grant them permission to quit the houses and colleges of the company, and to enter into any other regular Order, already approved by the Holy See; or otherwise we do permit them to live at large, as secular priests and elerks: and we declare, that as soon as the individuals thereof shall have quitted their houses and colleges, and taken the habit of secular clerks, they shall be qualified to obtain, in conformity to the decrees of the holy canons and apostolic constitutions, cures, benefices without cure, offices, charges, DIGNITIES, and all employments what ever, which they could not obtain so long as they were members of the said Society, &c. Likewise we grant them the power, which they had not before, of receiving alms for the celebration of the mass, and the full enjoy ment of all the graces and favours from which they were heretofore precluded as regular clerks of the Company of Jesus." From these extracts it is evident that the individuals composing the Society of Jesuits were not disgraced, when their company was suppressed; and from their being permitted to enter into any other regular order of the Catholic Church, it is equally evident that their moral conduct and practices were as pure as the members of the other monastic orders; or else we might suppose that Clement would have prohibited this intermixture, for fear the other Societies should be corrupted, and consequently liable to the same accusations as were alledged against the Jesuits by their enemies. But what establishes, in a more striking degree, the innocence of the Society, is, that the Bull of Clement acknowledges that, although the superiors and other members of the Order dissented from the suppression, yet not one of them was heard, or ciled, in its defence, and they were absolutely forbidden even to write or speak about the said suppression. Now will any one contend, if the members had been guilty of the atrocious charges attributed to them by the pamphlet of Laicus, that such close and arbitrary proceedings would have been adopted upon the occasion of the abolition of the Society? Do they not

speak volumes in favour of the suppressed Order? Do they not carry conviction to the mind of every unprejudiced man, that Clement, although he found it necessary to dissolve the Company, as the lesser of two evils with which the Church was threatened, was yet so fully satisfied that the cause of truth and justice was on the side of the Jesuits, their opponents not being able to bring home a single charge against them, that he found himself under the necessity of enjoining silence upon the members of the suppressed body, in order to cover the weakness of his own decree? With respect to the observations of Laicus upon the Establishments for education at Castle Brown and Stonyhurst, I shall have occasion to make but a short remark. Indeed the language of Laicus conveys a greater compliment to the abilities of the superiors of these Seminaries than he is aware of; because, if these schools are filled with the children of the most eminent Catholic families, is it not a proof that the system of education is of a superior kind? For it can hardly be supposed that while the Catholics are endeavouring to obtain their just rights, and striving to remove the unfounded prejudices which unhappily exist among their dissenting countrymen against them, they would blast the hopes they are anxious to see realized, by placing their children under the care and superintendance of men,who, were they governed by the diabolical principles which Laicus accuses them of, would deserve to be banished from the pale of society, and execrated as the basest of mankind. But the opinion of my Lord Bacon of the merits of the Jesuits will carry a stronger conviction to the minds of your intelligent readers, than the flippant remarks of Laicus. This great and profound Philosopher, in his work on the Advantage of Learning, says, "That excellent part of ancient discipline, which consists in education, has been in some sort revived in late times in the schools of the Jesuits, in regard of which, and some other points concerning human learning and moral matters I may say, as Agesilaus said of his Enemy Faruabasus-Talis cum sis, utinam noster esses.”—In another part of the same work he adds, "Concerning the instruction necessary for youth, we can in one word give our

opinion,

opinion-seek it in the schools of the Jesuits, for better than these do not exist."If such was the opinion of a protestant and philosophic Chancellor of England, and consequently no friend to the Catholic religion, can we wonder that those who profess that faith should entertain the same idea of the pre-eminence of the Jesuits' system of education; and it would be better for Laicus to lay proofs before your readers, instead of loose insinuations, that the moral and religious sentiments instilled into the minds of those under instruction at Castle Brown and Stonyhurst, are more inimical to the peace of society, and more at variance with the free principles of the British Constitution, than at any other Seminary in the United Empire. But, Mr. Urban, it is time I should close my letter; and I fear I have already trespassed too long upon your useful columns, and tired the patience of your readers.—I shall therefore close with observing that bad I not conceived myself unjustly attacked by your Correspondent Laicus, and held up as a man, who, taking advantage of the liberty of the Press, have used that invaluable blessing for the purpose of defending immoral doctrines and treasonable principles, I should not have presumed to trouble you with this letter. The charges however I utterly deny, and fling them. back with contempt in the teeth of Laicus. It is true I have exposed his malicious attacks against the Jesuits, and I have admitted the letters of Clericus in answer to Laicus into my journal, after they had been refused admission into The Times: but I trust a desire to give every aid in my power to elucidate the cause of truth, and lay open the shameful practices of anonymous slanderers, will not, "in this day of light and liberty," render me criminal in the eyes of a British Publick, Yours, &c.

WM. EUSEBIUS ANDREWS.

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was mentioned by the Reviewer in your Magazine for March, p. 236. The second inscription (written by the late Rev. William Jones, of Nayland, in Suffolk) may be seen in the parish Church of Epsom, in Surrey, engraved on a beautiful monument, which was raised by conjugal affection and filial piety to the inemory of the Rev. J. Parkhurst, late fellow of Clare Hall, in Cambridge.

Yours, &c. RICHMONDIENSIS

"Humili sub hoc tumulo

requiescunt cineres

ROBERTI CLOSE, A. M. *
Collegii Divi Johannis
apud Cantabrigienses
quondam Socii;

deinde per annos 28 liberæ Schola Grammaticæ hujus Burgi Archididascali Qualis erat!

qualiterque doctrina, ingenio,verâ pietate et ingenuå morum suavitate spectabilis ! testentur Alumni,

testentur omnes sibi noti,

sua hic vetat verecundia amplius promulgari.

Obiit 16 die Augusti,

anno Redemptionis nostræ 1750,
ætatis suæ 67.

"Glory to God alone.

Sacred to the Memory

of the Rev. JOHN PARKHURST †, A. M. of this Parish,

and descended from the Parkbursts
of Catesby in Northamptonshire.

His life was distinguished

not by any honours in the Church, but by deep and laborious researches into the treasures of Divine Learning the fruits of which are preserved in,

two invaluable Lexicons, wherein the original text of the Old and New Testament is interpreted with extraordinary light and truth. Reader! if thou art thankful to God

that such a man lived, pray for the Christian World, that neither the pride of false learning, nor the growth of unbelief, may so far prevail

as to render his labours
in any degree ineffectual.
He lived in Christian charity;
and departed in Faith and Hope
on the 21st day of February, 1797,
in the 69th year of his age."

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To RICHARD HUDDLESTON, Esq. of Sauston Hall, this Plate is humbly inscribed

by his obliged Servant_Richmondiensis.

Mr. URBAN,

SA

July 1. AWSTON is a very pleasant village, situated seven miles South of Cambridge, and about eleven North-east from Royston. This pa rish is bounded on the East by Pampisford and Babraham; on the West by Whittlesford and the two Shelfords; on the North by Stapleford and Great Shelford; on the South by Pampisford and Whittlesford. "There are four manors in this parish, Pyrotts, Dernford, Dale, and Huntingtous; all now the property of Richard Huddleston, esq. The manor of Pyrotts continued, until the year 1329, in the immediate descendants of Pirotus, who held it under Eudo Fitzhubert, Steward of the household to William the Conqueror. Sir Edmund de la Pole died seized of this manor and Dernford, in 1419. Mr. Huddleston's ancestor married Isabella* one of the coheiresses of John Neville, Marquis Montagu; and in her right acquired these manors, which had descended from the De la Poles, through the Ingoldesthorpes, to the noble family of Neville. The manors of Dale and Houtingtons were purchased by Sir Edmund Huddleston, before the year 1580. The manor of Dale, or Le Dale, had been in the Sawstons, who held it under the manor of Pyrotts, by the service of finding au armed soldier, whenever the owner of that manor should attend the king to the wars. The manor of Huntingtons was purchased of the Moores, representatives of the Huntingtons, from whom it acquired its

name.

A paramount manor in Sawston was confirmed in the sign of Richard III. to the Duke of Bucking

"The lady Isabel [Ingaldesthorpe]. John, her youngest son, died a minor, and was buried in 1480, at Sauston (sic) in Cambridgeshire. She had also one of her sons, John by name, Duke of Bedford; and five daughters, of whom Isabella was married to Sir William Huddleston. Upon a division of the estates of the Ingaldesthorpes, &c. which was not till in or about the eleventh of Henry VII. on the death of Joan their grandmother, the manor of Rainham, with that of Wimbotsham, in Norfolk, Sauston, &c. in Cambridgeshire, came to Isabella aforesaid, who is said to have been relict of Lord Dacres, before her marriage with Huddleston." Blomefield's Norfolk. GENT. MAG. July, 1815.

ham, as representative of the Bohuns and Mandevilles; one Roger held an estate under Geoffrey de Mandeville, when the survey of Domesday was taken *,"

William Huddleston, who settled at Sawston in consequence of his marriage with Isabella, one of the coheiresses of the Marquis Montagu, was of an antient family of Millum Castle, in Cumberland; his son, Sir John Huddleston, entertained the princess Mary at his house, immedi ately after the death of her brother," King Edward VI. and contrived her escape to Framlingham Castle, in Suffolk, for which his house was plundered by the mob, who took part with Lady Jane Gray. Thomas Fuller, in his "History of the University of Cambridge," tells us (page 130) that "the Lady Mary, after her brother's death, hearing Queen Jane was proclaimed, came 5 miles off to Sir Robert Huddleston's t, where she heard inasse. Next day Sir Robert waited on her into Suffolk, though she, for the more secrecy, rode on horseback behind his servant; which servant (as I am most credibly informed) lived long after, the Queen never bestowing any preferment upon him. Whether because forgetting him (whose memory was employed on greater matters) or because she conceived the man was rewarded in rewarding his master. Indeed, she bestowed great boons on Sir Robert, and amongst the rest, the stones of Cambridge castle to build his house at Salston." So says Fuller: but the old women of the village differ upon this point; they say that the aforesaid queen escaped the fury of the mob, by quitting the house in a servant's dress with a milk-pail under her, arm. When she had got a short distance from the village (perhaps on the cloud-capt top of Gog Magog) her conductor re quested her to look back, and see how her enemies bad served Sawston hall. No sooner had her Ladyship turned her eyes than she

"Beheld the satiate flames in sheets ascend the sky;" and immediately promised that, if ever she was inade Queen of England,

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