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C^-xi S. N" 112., Feb. 20. 'o^. 



ties, with a view to some prospective temporal 

 benefit ; for spiritual or eternal benefits do not 

 seem at all to have occupied the heathen mind. 

 Even the concluding scene of Socrates, depicted 

 by Xenophon and Plato, leaves the result arrived 

 at by Cicero (De Inventione, i. 29.), that philoso- 

 phy can reckon a future state of rewards and 

 punishments, only among the prohabilia. The 

 cultivated Greek, according to Tholuck, believed 

 in no future state ; as, for example, Polybius 

 (xvi. xii, 9.) ; Pausanias (ii. 5.) ; and Simonides 

 (Stobaeus, 117.) The second Alcibiades [of Plato] 

 is designed to show that prayer itself should be 

 seldom, if at all, addressed to the gods, lest a per- 

 son should unconsciously pray for great evils upon 

 himself, whilst thinking that he prays for good ; 

 and lest the gods should not happen to be in a 

 disposition to grant what he happens to pray for. 

 Particular prayers, as for rain, are objected to by 

 Marcus Antoninus (v. 5.), and Socrates prayed 

 simply for what was good, leaving the gods to de- 

 cide, as knowing better than himself, what was or 

 was not for his good (Xenoph. Mem. Soc. i. iii. 2.). 

 Some of the philosophers decided not to pray at 

 all (Clem. Alex. Stromat. vii. 722.). See Tholuck 

 on Heathenism {Biblical Cabinet, No. xxviii.). 



T. J. BOCKTON. 



Lichfield. 



See The Gods of Greece, translated from the 

 German of Schiller, by Sir E. Bulwer Lytton. 



John Husband. 

 Berwick. 



Jews forbidden to read Ezechiel (2"^ S. v. 88. 

 119.) — The author of Household Words is fully 

 borne out in his statement, by the high authority 

 of St. Jerom, who writes thus in his Proemium on 

 Ezechiel, addressed to Eustachium : 



" Cujus difficultatem Hebrasorum probat traditio. Nam 

 nisi quis apud eos ajtatem sacerdotalis ministerii, id est, 

 tricesimum annum impleverit, nee principia Geneseos, 

 nee Canticum Canticorum, nee hujus voluminis exordium, 

 et fineni legere permittitur : ut ad perfectam scientiam, 

 et mysticos intellectus plenum humanae naturae tempus 

 accedat." 



F. C. H. 

 Jews under thirty years of age are warned not 

 to read the first and last chapters of Ezechiel's pro- 

 phecy. J. H. Leech will find the authority for 

 this in Dr. (jiWVs Commentary on the Bible, and in 

 Calmet's Preface to Ezechiel in his Sainte Bible 

 en Latin et en Frungais, 17 vols. 4to., Paris, 1772 ; 

 vol. X. p. 510. Mr. Leech might make an in- 

 teresting Note by the result of inquiries whether 

 the Hebrew Bible is used in Jewish schools, or to 

 what extent the reading of it is encouraged by 

 that nation. G. O. 



Hornech Family (2"'* S. iv. 491.) — It is not im- 

 probable that Philip was a son of Dr. Anthony 

 Horneck. We have always understood that Ge- 



neral Horneck, whose monument is in Westminster 

 Abbey, was also his child. The reverend gentle- 

 man's daughter married Robert Barnevelt, Esq., 

 by whom she had three sons. The two eldest died 

 issueless ; the third left ^ daughter, who was the 

 grandmother of the writer of this note. After Mr. 

 Barnevelt's death, his widow married, secondly, 

 Capt. Warre of Isleworth, who died before her. 



Philip wrote an ode, a copy of which is in my 

 library, inscribed to the Earl of Wharton, Lord 

 Lieutenant of Ireland. London, 1709. He is 

 styled LL.B. It consists of fourteen leaves. 

 Thorpe had in his Catalogue, 1849, a Funeral 

 Sermon on the Death of Lady Guildford, 4to. 

 1699, by Philip Horneck. He is introduced in 

 the Dunciad, J. M. 



Bellot Family (2"'» S. iii. 469.) — I think, though 

 these remarks are made with all due deference to 

 your correspondent Mr. Wm. Henry Bellot, 

 that he has made one or two trifling mistakes in 

 regard to the Halls of Great and Little Moretqn. 



Great Moreton Hall was pulled down some 

 years ago, and in its place the present castellated 

 mansion erected by George Holland Ackers, Esq., 

 the proprietor and Lox*d of the Manor. The old 

 hall was often called in the neighbourhood Bellot 

 Hall, from the name of its former owners. Their 

 monuments yet exist In a chancel at the end of 

 the south aisle of the beautiful church at Astbury, 

 in which parish the estate is situated. 



About a mile farther, on the road to Newcastle- 

 under-Lyne, is situated the fine old picturesque 

 mansion Little Moreton Hall. It is built of tim- 

 ber and plaster chiefly, and Is one of the most in- 

 teresting structures In the county of Chester, or, 

 in fact, In England. Engravings of It have fre- 

 quently been published. 



This was the property of the. ancient family of 

 Moreton of Little Moreton, and the last male de- 

 scendant In the direct line was Sir William More- 

 ton, Knt., Recorder of London, who died cii'ca 

 1763. He lies burled under an altar-tomb in a 

 chancel at the end of the north aisle of Astbury 

 church. On his death, the descendants in the 

 female line assumed the name of Moreton ; and 

 the family is yet existing, I think, in the county 

 of Kent. OxoNiENsis. 



P.S. Not having a local history at hand, I am 

 unable to supply the exact date of Sir William 

 Moreton's death. 



Powell ofFostill {Forest Hill?) (2°'' S. iv. 70.) 

 — This Richard Powell of 1639 can easily be 

 Identified as the father-in-law of Milton. That he 

 resided on his manorial estate at Forest Hill, near 

 Oxford, from 1620—1640 is evident from several 

 records. As regards the old way of spelling 

 Forest Hill, I may mention that in Domesday it 

 is written Fostel ; in other old records, Forslhull. 



I have searched the register at Forest Hill, and 



