The Keep of the Caftle of Cardiff, Glamorganfhire..

Goodrich Caftle, Herefordshire. Stands on an eminence, near the fouth eaftermoft extremity of the county, and on the weftern bank of the river Wye.

Goodrich Castle, Herefordshire. The second plate.

The Caftle of the Manor Houfe of Tixall, Staffordshire. St. Donat's, or St. Denwit's Caftle, Glamorganfhire. A fecond plate.

Croydon Palace, Surry. Supposed to have been built between the years 1066 and 1087, about which time the manor of Croydon was given by William the Conqueror to archbishop Lanfranc, by whom it is probable it was erected.

Hulne Abbey, Northumberland. This was the first monaftery of Carmelite friars in England, and was founded about the year 1240.

Minfter Lovel Priory, Oxfordshire. Situated in a valley close to the northermost bank of the rivulet Windrufk. It feems to have been built in the reign of king John, and appears from its ruins to have been a large and elegant building. The Monaftery of the Grey Friars, Richmond, Yorkshire. Founded, according to Tanner, by Ralph Fitz-Randal, lord of Middleham, A. D. 1258.

Leyftone Abbey, Suffolk. An abbey of the Premonftratenfian order, built and endowed about the year 1182, by Ranulph de Glanvill. The first houfe was placed a mile nearer to the fea; but that fituation being found both unwholfome and inconvenient, Robert de Ufford, earl of Suffolk, built the abbey whofe ruins are here delineated.

St. Martin's Monaftery, Richmond, Yorkshire. This monaftery stood on the southermoft bank of the river Swale, about half a mile fouth-east of the town of Richmond. It was a cell to St. Mary's abbey at York, for monks of the Benedictine order, and was founded about the year 1100, by Wymar, chief steward to the earl of Richmond.

Burgh, or Cnoberfburg Caftle, Suffolk. Mr. Grofe obferves, that, according to feveral antiquaries, at the head of whom is Camden, this place was the Garianonum of the Romans; but Sir Henry Spelman, and fome others, place that station at Caftor, near Yarmouth. Both parties, continues our author, produce plaufible reafons in fupport of their opinions; both appeal to the number of Roman coins, urns, and other remains found near their adopted spots; though, on the whole, the probability feems rather to favour the pretenfions of Burgh Castle. This caftle ftands on an eminence near the conflux of the rivers Yare and Wavenny.

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Newport Caftle, or the New Caftle upon Ufke, Monmouthhire. Stands, on the westernmoft bank of the river Ufke, and fuppofed.to have been built before the year 1172, for the defence of the paffage over the river.

Abergavenny Caftle. A fecond plate.

The Tower in Cardiff Caftle, Glamorganfhire. In this tower, according to tradition, Robert duke of Normandy, brother to William Rufus and Henry I. was confined upwards of twenty-fix years.

Caftle Rufhin, in the Ifle of Man. A fecond plate.

Caftor, or Caftor Hall or Caftle, Norfolk. This feems rather to have been a caftellated manfion, than an edifice calculated for defence. The time of its erection is not exactly known; but, from its materials, which are brick, it is fuppofed not to be older than about, the beginning of the reign of Henry VI.

Hubberstone -Priory, Pembrokeshire. Stands near Milford Haven, but when, or by whom founded, is not known.

Orford Chapel, Suffolk. This chapel, when entire, was a very large and handsome building: the outside was ornamented with flint work, according to the cuftom of the county; and from the ftyle of its chancel, appears to be of great antiquity; but its founder and the date of its conftruction are buried in oblivion.

Wenny, or Ewenny Priory, Glamorganfhire. Situated near the river Wenny, and was once ftrongly fortified. The date of its foundation is unknown; but it was made a cell to the abbey of St. Peter's at Gloucester, by Maurice de Londres, in

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The Watch Tower near St. Donat's Caffle, Glamorganfhire. A picturefque little building, standing in the park, a fmall diftance weft of the caftle-ditch, and feems to have been erected entirely for the purpose of a watch tower.

Cardiff, or Caertoph Castle, Glamorganthire. Erected according to Stowe, in the year 1110, by Robert Fitzhamon, who conquered that county.

Ogmore Caftle, Glamorganfhire. Stands in the angle formed by the junction of the rivers Wenny and Ogmore, a fmall diftance fouth of the high road leading from Cowbridge to Pyle, and is undoubtedly a building of great antiquity.

Caftor Caftle, or Hall, Norfolk. A fecond plate.

Kertmele, or Cartmele Priory, Lancashire. Founded in 1188, by William Marefchal, earl of Pembroke, for regular canons of the order of St. Auguftine.

Dunraven Houfe, Glamorganfhire. Situated about nine niles fouth-east of Cowbridge; is built on a high rocky head

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land, running out a confiderable diftance into the fea, and forming a point, called by the natives, The Witches Point. This houfe is faid to have been held for fome time by the Vaughans; and according to tradition, the laft proprietor of that family used to set up lights, along the fhore, and make pfe of other devices to mislead feamen, in order that they might be wrecked on his manor.

Dunraven House. A fecond plate.

Whitby Abbey, Yorkshire. A monaftery is faid to have been erected at this place so early as the 657, which continued in a flourishing state till about the year 867, when it was deftroyed by the Danes; it was refounded by William de Percy, in the reign of William the Conqueror.

Lanthony Priory, Gloucestershire. Stands about half a mile fouth-west of Gloucefter. According to the hiftory related by Mr. Grofe, this priory appears to have been founded in the beginning of the twelfth century.

All-Saints Church, Dunwich, Suffolk. Mr. Grofe obferves from the shattered ruinous state of this church, that it cannot remain long ftanding. Our author has copied the account of Dunwich, as given by Kirby in his Suffolk Traveller. The date of the building, however, is not ascertained in the narrative. The Caftle in the Ifle of Lundy. A fecond plate.

The Monaftery of St. Bees, Cumberland. Situated in a bottom about four miles fouth-fouth-weft from Whitehaven, and about one north from Egremont. The following is the hiftory of it from Tanner. Bega, an holy woman from Ireland, is faid to have founded, about the year of our Lord 650, a fmall monaftery in Copeland, where afterwards a church was built in memory of her. This religious houfe being destroyed by the Danes, was reftored by William, fon to Ranulph de Mefchin, earl of Cumberland, temp. Hen. I. and made a cell of a prior and fix Benedictine monks to the abbey of St. Mary at York.'

Lanthony Priory, Gloucestershire, A fecond plate.

Finchale Priory, in the bishoprick of Durham. It appears to have been built before the year 11 28. Finchale, Mr. Grose obferves, feems anciently to have been a place of note. A fy. nod is faid to have been held here in the year 788.

Knap Caftle, Suffex. This caftle, fays Mr. Grofe, ftands, or rather ftood, in the Rape of Bramber, not far from the town of Weft Grinstead. At what time, or by whom it was built, as alfo its form and extent, are all particulars equally unknown. With refpect to the two firft, it is probable it was erected about the fame period as most of our other ancient caftles; that is, foon after the divifion of the lands made by

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the Conqueror among his Norman followers; and that its founder was fome one of the family of Braofe, to which all the lands thereabouts then belonged. Refpecting its form and extent, not even a reasonable conjecture can be made from its present remains; indeed, they only ferve to prove, what scarcely occurs elsewhere, namely, that here was once a castle.'

Pickering Castle, Yorkshire. This caftle, which is of an irregular figure, is now extremely ruinous; and the date of its foundation is unknown.

Hertford Caftle. Built by Edward the Elder, fon of Alfred, in the ninth year of his reign. Hertford Caftle. A fecond plate..

[ To be continued. ]

Letters from Edinburgh; written in the Years 1774 and 1775. 8vo. 55. boards. DodЛley.

AFTER the travels in Scotland, fo lately published by Dr. Johnson and Mr. Pennant, it might be prefumed that any further account of that country could not much engage the attention of the public, at least for fome time. The nature of the work now before us, however, it must be acknowledged, differs greatly from that of either of the two former productions; the design of the author being not to exhibit a topographical description of Scotland, nor to relate the manners of the inhabitants in the remoteft parts of the country; but to present a view of the national character of the Scots, as it it is to be traced in the metropolis: an undertaking which requires attentive obfervation, acute difcernment, a mind unbiaffed by any prejudice, and above all a faithful representation of moral lineaments and of facts. How far the author poffeffes thefe effential qualifications, will beft appear from a careful perufal of the work. We may obferve, in the mean time, that the motto which he has chofen is expreffive of candour and veracity, and affords no ground to fufpect that any strokes of the caricatura are to be met with in the courfe of this literary correspondence.

Non hic centauros, non gorgona, harpyasque

Invenies, hominem pagina noftra fapit.

The first letter defcribes the approach to Edinburgh by the road through Dalkeith; and the three fubfequent letters are employed in delineating the fituation and ftreets of the town. In the fifth, the author treats of falutations on introduction to ftrangers, which are ftill generally practifed in Scotland, as

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well as on fome parts of the continent; and the fixth contains fome obfervations on the character of the Scots.

The civilities, fays the author, that have been paid to my fellow-traveller and me, the politenefs we have met with, and the attentions with which we have been honoured fince our arrival, all confpire to make this country every day more agreeable. At first I was afraid we should become too popular; but that fear has now fubfided, and we walk along without notice.

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The common people of this place, who had only feen travellers pafs through, like birds of paffage in their way to the highlands or the Hebrides, were aftonifhed to find two people become stationary at Edinburgh for a whole winter. What were we come for?" was the first question. They prefumed, to study phyfic?” “No.” "To study law?" "No."" Then it must be divinity?" "No," Very odd," they faid, "that we should come to Edinburgh without one of these reasons." At one time we were fuppofed to be hair-dreffers, at another, mountebanks, at a third, players. Whilst this fuppofition lafted, we were in great repute. A thousand people, who would have let us país unnoticed as peaceable and quiet gentlemen, the moment they imagined we might fome day exhibit before them, naturally concluded we must have fomething very curious about us, and that they had a right to look at us. In short, we have undergone as many changes as Proteus, in the imaginations of other people. One very pious lady, who had long been torturing her invention to no purpofe, concluded we could have come for no good, and very charitably wifhed we were well out of the place. In fpite of all thefe conjectures, however, here we are, and here we are likely to remain for fome time. Our pride, at leaft, will not let us remove till we have con: vinced them," that we are no fpies, but true men." If they did themselves juftice, they would have no reafon to be furprized. Is it fo ftrange and unnatural, that Englishmen should vifit Scotland? or that, when they are there, they should have po inclination to leave it ?'

In the fame letter we find the following account of the hofpitality of the nation.

This country has long been celebrated for its hofpitality to frangers and I am fure 1 can, with great truth, add my humble fuffrage to this general obfervation. They do not think they have paid you all the attention that is neceffary, when they have invited you once to dinner, and then take no more notice of you they are eager to fhew you repeated civilities; they are happy to explain, to inform you of what is really curious in their country; they give you a general invitation to their houfes; they beg of you to vifit them familiarly, and are forry if you do not do fo. I am afhamed to fay that many of my countrymen feem to have forgot all their kindness the moment they returned over the Tweed, I trust thofe waters will never

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