The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-06 00:00:00

CURIOUS ANTIQUITIES OF- BARNES,

The Manor of BARNES, according to the His-
tory of St. Paul's Cathedral, by Dugdale, was
given to the Canons of St. Paul's by King A thel-
stan, and, except the temporary alienation of their
property during the Government of the Common-
wealth. It has continued in their possession ever
since. It was valued in the time of Edward the
Confessor at 61.; in the Conqueror's time at 71. ;
in 1291 it was taxed at 12/. This taxation was
made at the time that Nicholas IV. granted a
tenth of all ecclesiastical revenues to the King, to
defray the expences of the Holy war. A record of
this taxation is preserved in the Exchequer. An-
other copy is in the Bodleian Library, and is
often referred to by the title of the Bodleian va-
lour. In 1589 Sir Francis Walsingham enter-
tained Queen Elizabeth at Barn-elms, with, as
was usual in all her Majesty's visiLs, her whole
Court. Lord Talbot, in a letter to his father,
the Earl of Shrewsbury, says, " This daye her
Ma'tie goeth to Barn-elms, where she is pur-
posed to tarry all day, to-morrow being Tues-
day, and on Wednesdaye to return to Whyte-
hall agayne. lam appointed among the rest to
attend her Ma'tie to Barn-Elms. I pray God
Almighty my diligent attendance there may pro-
cure me a gracious answere to my suite at her
return ; for while she is ther, nothing may be
moved but matter of delyghte, and to content
her ; which is the only cause of her goinge
thithere." The following story is told of Hey-
degger, Master of the Revels, who was for some
time the tenant of the manor-house. King
George 1. gave him notice that he would sup
with him on a certain evening, and that he should
come from Richmond by water. It was Hey-
degger's profession to invent amusements, and he
was resolved to surprise his Majesty by a speci-
men of his art. The King's attendants, who
were in the secret, contrived that lie should
not arrive at Barn-elms before night, and
it was with some difficulty that he found
his way up the avenue which led to the house.—
When he came to the door all was dark ; and he
began to be very angry that Heydegger should
be so ill prepared for his reception. Heydegger
suffered his Majesty to vent his anger, and af-
fected to make some awkward apologies, when,
in an instant, the house and avenues were enve-
loped in a blaze of light, a great number of lamps
having been so disposed as to communicate with
each other, and to be lighted at the same instant.
The King laughed heartily at the device, and,
went away much pleased with his entertainment.
Adjoining to the mansion is a house which be-
longed to Tonson, the bookseller, at the time
that he was Secretary to the Kit-Kat Club.—
Here he built a room for their reception ; and
here they held their meetings. The room was or-
namented with portraits of the members, painted
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, which have been en-
graved in mezzocinto. Barn-elms was the tem-
porary residence of Cowley, the poet. From
Barn-elms he removed to Chertsey, where he
died. The church of Barnes is about half a mile
from the river; it is dedicated to St. Mary, and
is one one of the most ancient structures in the
neighbourhood of the metropolis. About the
time of Richard the First, an Hospital was
founded within the liberties of Saint Paul's
Cathedral, by Henry de Norhampton, one of
the Canons of that Cathedral. As there is no
mention of a church in the Conqueror's Survey,
it is probable that it was built about this time.
The windows in the north wall of the chancel are
of the architecture of that period, narrow and
pointed. The windows in the south wall and in
the nave are of a later date. The walls are built
chiefly of stone and flint. The tower is square,
with buttresses ; it is built of brick, and has a
staircase and turret at the south-east corner. The

quoins are of a soft stone, much crumbled ; the
windows are square and plain. The church was
considerably enlarged on the north side, in the
years 1786 and 1787. On the north wall of the
chancel is a tablet to the memory of a Rector of
the church. We shall give the inscription, as it
is rather singular :
" To the best of husbands, John Squier, the late faithful and
(Oh ! that for so short a time) painful Rector of this parish ; the
only son to that most strenuous propugnator of pietie and loyaltie
(both by preaching and suffering) John Squier, some time Vi-
car of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, near London. Grace Lynch,
who bare unto him one only daughter, consecrates this (such as
it is) small monument of their mutual affection.
" He was invested with this care, 1660
He was divested of all care, 166.—Jan. 9, aged 42."
The Church of Barnes is one of the Archbishop
of Canterbury's peculiars. The presentation
has always been in the Dean and Chapter,
except when they leased the advowson with the
manor, which they did to the Says, to Thwaytes
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and to the
Wyats. Francis Hare, well known to the lite-
rary world, was instituted to the Rectory of
Barnes, Sept. 3, 1717, which he held for 10 years.
He was bred at Eton, from whence he removed to
King's College, Cambridge, where he was tutor
to the Marquis of Blandford, son to the great
Duke of Marlborough. Dr. Bare became suc-
cessively Bishop of St. Asaph, and of Chichester.
He died in 1740. The celebrated Robert 'Beale

died, and was buried at Barnes. Beale married

the sister of Sir Francis Walsingham's lady, by
whose influence he found an easy introduction to
Court. He was much in the confidence of Eliza-

beth, who frequently employed him in her nego-
ciations with Mary Queen of Scots, and made
choice of him, in conjunction with Lord Buck-

lurst, to make known to her the sentence of the

Court.

Beale was afterwards sent to Fotherin-

gay, with the warrant for beheading that unfor-
tunate Queen. According to Camden's Annals,
he read the fatal instrument upon the scaffold,
and was a witness to its execution. He was em-
ployed on an Embassy to Zealand with Sir
William Winter, in 1576 ; and the year before
his death, was one of the Commissioners at the

Treaty oißologne. According to Camden, he was a
man of a most impetuous and morose d isposition.The
death of an extraordinary individual of the name of
ham, is reorded in the Register of Barnes.
The real name of this person was Abiezer Coppe;
he was Portmaster of Merton College, Oxford.
After having been by, turns, Presbyterian and
Anabaptist, he became one of the wildest enthu-

siasts of that fanatical age. He published seve-
ral pamphlets with strange titles, and as strange

contents : one of them is called " Two or three
days before the Eternal GOD thundered at
Great St. Helens." In 1650 he was committed to
Newgate for publishing a book called " The
Fiery Flying Roll." A copy of this book,
which was bnrnt by the hangman in London
and other places, is preserved amongst the collec-
tion of pamphlets in the British Museum. When
he had remained in prison more than a year, he pub-
lished a recantation called, " The Wings of ,
Fiery Flying Roll clipped, or Coppe's Return to
Truth." Unwilling to expose himself to any
further danger, he changed his name to Him,
and went to reside at Barnes, where he occa-
sionally officiated as a preacher and physician till.
his death. In the register we also meet with the
name of Mrs. Anne Bayard, a celebrated blue
stocking. This lady was so fond of the study of
Divinity, that she learned Greek to read St.
Chrysoston in the original. She is said, besides,
to have possessed various other accomplishments,
but as such accomplishments are general amongst
the ladies of the present time we shall not dwelt
upon them. The following inscription has been _
copied from her tomb :
" Here lies that happy maiden, who often said
That no man is happy until he is dead ;
That the business of life is but playing the fool,

Which bath no relation to saving the soul ;
For all the transaction that's under the sun,
Is doing of nothing, if that be not done,
All wisdom and knowledge doth lie in this one."

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, SEPT. 30.—We have
now plenty of wheat, rice, and corn of every
description, from India. The crops look well,
so that there is no chance of the colony being
starved for another year or two. Of late the ac-
counts from the frontiers have been rather gloomy,
and Colonel SCOTT, who commands there, has
requested more troops, to enable him to extend
his quarters and strengthen some posts which are
exposed. Kaffers are seen all through the bush
along the frontiers, and have committed a few
murders, and driven off a great number of cattle.
Wonderful to tell you, a young man of very re-
spectable family, the son of a Clergyman, has
been convicted of flogging a slave to death, and
condemned to be hanged.
PORTRAIT OF THE EARL OF ITOPETOU.N.—The portrait
of this distinguished Nobleman is now placed in the County
Hall, Cupar. It is a most excellent likeness of his Lordship,
and does great credit to the artist, Sir HE RAEEURN, by
' whom it was executed. We have seen an engraving of this
painting, by Mr. Wm. WALKER, of Edinburgh, which for
taste and fidelity has been seldom equalled, and may justly be
placed among the first exertions of this young and promising
engraver.—( Caper Herald.)
The Magistrates and Town Council of Brechin have voted
ten guineas towards the erection of the equestrian statue of his
Majesty in Edinburgh.
The overseers of Maidstone have had the following passage
from the New Testament placed on the front of the Workhouse:
"If any would not work neither should he eat."-2 Thes. c.
v. 10.

PUBLIC Seim°Ls.—A public meeting was!held
in the city of New York on the 15th of July last,
for the purpose of establishing a great public
school there, for classical education ; and it IS
with peculier pride that we learn that the model
which has been held out as the most worthy of
imitation is the High School of Edinburgh. 44-
report of a Committee, appointed by the meeting,
has been published, in which there is a very
full detail of the improvements introduced, and
so successfully carried into effect, by the late
eminent Rector, Mr. PILLANS ; we mean the alt'
plication of the monitorial system, the introduc-
tion of private studies, and the total abolition of
corporal punishment ; a system by which, both in
its direct and indirect operation, the whole cha-
racter of the school has been changed, not only in
regard to the amount and superior accuracy of
the work done, and the imparting of a more re-
lined taste for classical learning, but in the im-
provement of the moral feelings and gentleman-
like carriage of the boys. The patrons of the
public institutions for education in this place,
fully alive to the great value of this extension of
the monitorial system of instruction, in the new
school that is about fp be erected, the plan of the
building is adapted, we understand, for the pur-
pose of carrying it into effect in the most efficient
manner.—(Edinburgh Courant.)

TRANSMISSION OF BURTNAY.—On the after-
noon of Monday, James Burtnay, who was tried
and condemned here for violating the person Of
a young girl, arrived at Ayr, to undergo the
execution of his sentence. He was conveyed in
a chaise, in the custody of Mr. GuNN, chief
constable of Ayr, and escorted by a strong party
of the Ayrshire yeomanry cavalry. The Sheriff-
clerk Depute, in another chaise, preceded the
one which contained the unfortunate individual.—
( Edinburgh Courant, Dec. 2.)

BIRTHS.
On 'Wednesday, the 4th instant, the Lady of William Fox,
Esq., of Russell-square, of a daughter.
On Wednesday, at Upton, near T9rqu:ay, the lady of
Ham Hole, Esq., of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 4th inst., at Marylebone Church, Mr. Salter frmil
Exeter, to MisS Jay, of Dorset-street, Portman-square. After
the ceremony the happy pair left town for Brighton.
Yesterday, at St. George's, Hanover-square, John Cornwall'
Esq., eldest son of the late John Cornwall, of Hendon, Md.
dlesex, Esq., and nephew of
.the late Viscount Gardner, to
Charlotte Susan, daughter of Sir John Gregory Shaw, Bart.,
of Kenward, in the county of Kent.
In Aberdeenshire, on Monday, the 25th ult., Major G. Tur-
ner,am Rsaoy, Esq., of i
Royal Artillery3a,rrtoa. Margaret, daughter of the Johnß