23. Where Coke's remains, &c.] Tittleshall, a village, in the church of which is the burial-place of the noble family of Coke, and a very fine marble monument of the Right Hon. Sir Edward Coke, lord chief justice of the King's Bench in the reign of King James I. and ancestor to the late Earl of Leicester. W.

ibid.

-Kaynham-
W.

count Townshend.

-] The seat of Lord Vis

25. Laocoon here in pain still seems to breathe,] The statue of Laocoon in bronze by Girardon. W.

ibid. See! the proud Rabbins, at the sumptuous board,] The picture of Mary Magdalen washing Christ's feet, by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, born at Antwerp, 1577, and died 1640. W.

ibid.

On the next cloth behold Van Dyck display
Celestial innocence, immortal day:

His pencil here no more with nature vies,] The Holy Family, with a dance of Angels, by Sir Anthony Van Dyck, a scholar of Rubens, born at Antwerp 1599, and died 1641. W.

These, as Mr. Duncombe remarks, are melancholy mementos, when we reflect that all these noble remains, to us now dead and buried in Russia, are as much lost to the English in general, as if they had been carved by Phidias, and painted by Apelles.

26. Behold! where Stephen fainting yields his breath.] The stoning of St. Stephen, by Eustache Le Sueur, born at Paris 1655, and died 1677. W.

26. Here too Albani's pencil charms the eye;] John baptising Christ, by Francis Albani, who died 1660.

W.

ibid. Sweet modest charms the Virgin's cheek adorn,] An assumption of the Virgin Mary, by Morellio. W. ibid. The next gay room is known by Carlo's name,] The green-velvet drawing-room is called the Carlo Maratti room, from being filled with pictures by that master and his scholars. W.

Carlo Maratti was born at Rome, 1625; was a scholar of Andrea Sacchi; and died 1713. W.

ibid. Look on yon Pope, nor wonder if he speaks.] A portrait of Clement IX. W.

ibid. Spread sportive Loves and laughing Cherubs round;] He painted the Judgment of Paris, in this room, when he was 83. W.

27. With summer here the cloth Bassano warms,] The Bassans, father and sons, were very eminent landscape painters about the middle and towards the end of the sixteenth century. W.

28. On the sad cloth the world's great Master dead.] Christ laid in the sepulchre, by Parmegiano. W.

ibid. Whose life, insatiate war itself could spare.] Francis Mazzuoli, commonly called Parmegiano, was born 1504, and died 1540. There is a story of this master at the taking of Parma, like that of Archimedes, and also like that of Protogenes, at the taking of Rhodes, while he was painting his famous Ialysus.

W.

28.

Now, as Aeneas in the Stygian glades

Wondering beheld departed heroes' shades,

Amidst the forms of worthies dead we range,] In the yellow drawing-room are portraits, by Van Dyck of lord chief baron Wandesford, lord and lady Wharton, their daughters, archbishop Laud, king Charles the first and his queen. The portrait of the earl of Danby now hangs in the great parlour. W.

ibid. The next great form with melancholy eye,] Charles the first. W.

29. But see where Kneller now our eye commands] Sir Godfrey Kneller. W.

ibid. See mighty William's fierce determin'd eye,] King William the third on horseback. W.

ibid.

Next in the steady lines of Brunwick's face, Majestic manly honesty we trace ;] George the

first on horseback. W.

31. What strokes, what colours, Snyders could command! How great the power of Rubens' daring hand!] The four markets, by Rubens and Snyders. W. ibid. See! Mola next the Roman deeds displays,

That bids our hearts be patriots as we gaze.] The stories of Curtius and Cocles, by Mola, born 1609, died 1665. W.

ibid. Here Julio's wondrous buildings still appear,] A piece of architecture, by Julio Romano, born 1492, died 1546. W.

ibid. Great shade of Poussin! from the Muse receive] Here are the stories of Scipio's continence, and of

Moses striking the rock, by Nicolo Poussin, born 1594, and died 1665. W.

33: With scenes too sad Salvator strives to please,] A very capital picture of the prodigal son on his knees at prayers amidst the herd of swine, by Salvator Rosa, born 1614, and died 1673. W.

ibid. Pure beams of light around the Virgin play,] The famous picture, by Guido, of the doctors of the church disputing on the immaculate conception. Guido

Reni, born 1575, and died 1642. W.

84. Thee too, Lorrain, the well-pleased Muse should name,] Claud. Gille of Lorrain, born 1600,

and died 1682. W.

ibid. Nor e'er forget Domenichipi's fame,] Domenico Zampieri, commonly called Domenichini, born 1561, and died 1641. W.

bid. May we like Walpole, meet the fatal day !] Catharine Shorter, first wife to Sir Robert Walpole, whose merits are inscribed by her youngest son, the honourable Horace Walpole, on the tomb he erected in Westminster-Abbey, at once a monument of piety and taste.

EPISTLE IV.

Page 35. For a more particular account of these venerable ruins, the Reader is refered to Mr. Gilpin's "Observations on the river Wye," p. 31, &c.

35. See the ridg'd tide with sober grandeur heave,

And float in triumph o'er the river-wave.] This manner of the coming-in of the tide to the river Severn is called the Eager, or the Hyger, of the Severn. There is a beautiful allusion to it in bishop Sprat's History of the Royal Society. D.

36. Here, noble Stafford, thy unfinish'd dome,] The remains of a noble seat begun by Stafford, Duke of Buckingham. DAVIES.

ibid. And thence the long-stretch'd race of Berkeley come.] Berkeley-castle, the seat of the

Earl of Berkeley.

37. Where Vaga mingles with Sabrina's tide.] The rivers Wye, and Severn. D.

ibid. Ascending Chepstow shows it's castled seat.] Chepstow-castle in Montmouthshire, the seat of the Duke of Beaufort.

EPISTLE V.

Page. 39. Dr. Yalden, or, as Wood styles him, Youlding, was a younger son of John Youlding who had been page to Charles I. when Prince, and after the Restoration, an exciseman at Oxford. Our Author, born in that city, from being originally a cho. rister of Magdalen, became a demy and probationer fellow. He took the degree of Doctor of Divinity in the year 1708.