The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer; Vol. 4, July-Dec 1884Various
History
The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer; Vol. 4, July-Dec 1884
Various
Archaeology -- Periodicals; Great Britain -- Antiquities -- Periodicals
SIR,--Can you tell me who was the popular preacher at the Wesleyan
Chapel in Great Queen-street, Lincoln’s-inn-fields, about 1811? Macready
when first in London became acquainted with him, and was fascinated by
his manners and learning, but was warned against him as a reprobate of
most dangerous character. I fancy that he finally came to be publicly
disgraced. The London Directories are useless at that date, and the
Wesleyan Mission Books equally so. Do you know anything about him, or
can you indicate where to search?
C. A. WARD.
_159, Haverstock Hill, N. W._
HISTORICAL CHAIRS.
SIR,--Will you kindly enable me to ask through your columns for
descriptive particulars, with engravings, drawings, or photographs, of
celebrated chairs in family residences, or in cathedrals, churches,
colleges, town-halls, and public institutions at home or abroad? I am
preparing an illustrated account of Historical Chairs from available
literary sources; but as many interesting examples have escaped my
search, and as I wish to make the proposed work as copious as possible,
I thus beg your assistance.
C. B. STRUTT.
_34, East-street, Red Lion-square, London, W.C._
THE VISCOUNTY OF CULLEN.
SIR,--In reply to the inquiry of HERALDICUS MUS, I beg to inform him
that the limitation of this dignity is correctly given in Sir Bernard
Burke’s _new_ “Extinct Peerage,” and included, as he suggests, a
remainder to the Berties, but that the original patent of creation being
lost (and having, unfortunately, never been enrolled), the Earl of
Lindsey cannot _prove_ his right, unless the patent should yet be
discovered. The second Viscount having taken his seat, no difficulty
could arise so long as there remained male issue of his body; but when
that became extinct, the special remainder would have to be established
by proof. I speak, of course, of England or Ireland, for, in the
anomalous chaos beyond the Tweed, it is possible to take a remainder for
granted, as in the Ruthven case, at one’s own sweet will.
J. H. ROUND.
_Brighton._
VISCOUNT HAMPDEN’S ANCESTRY.
(See vol. v. pp. 197, 331.)
SIR,--If your correspondent “Trombone” will re-peruse my letter on this
subject, which appears at the first-named reference, he (or she) will
see that whatever faults there may be of omission, there are none of
commission, in regard to the families of Trevor and Hampden.
Nothing is certainly said concerning the bequest of the Glynde estates
to the Honourable Richard Trevor, afterwards Bishop of Durham; but it is
probable that he devised them on his decease to his brother Robert, then
Baron Trevor, afterwards Viscount Hampden of Hampden. On the death of
the last Viscount in 1824, the extensive estates were divided amongst
co-heirs, from one of whom the present Viscount Hampden of Glynde is
descended.
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