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rendered more amole than they at pre- 
sent appear. 
The ninth part of Mr. Brrrron’s “Ar- 
chitectural Antiquities,” contains plans, 
views, ‘and minute details of three very 
ancient parish churches: viz. Stewkelev, 
in Buckinghamshire; St. John’s church, 
Devizes; and St. Peter’s church, Nor- 
thamptoa: all in the rich style which 
marked the earlier structures of the Nor- 
mans. . 
The tenth, eleventh, and twelfth parts, 
are devoted to Henry ‘VIL. chapel, in 
Westminster Abbey, in compiling the 
account, of which Mr. Britton seems to 
have taken extraordinary pains. 
The thirteenth part contains seven 
prints of old mansions: of which the 
most curious are views of Audley End, 
and the manor house of Compton Win- 
gate, in Warwickshire. 
The plates are still executed in as mas- 
terly, if not a better style than those 
which accompanied the former parts. 
In this class also, we have to notice an 
enlarged edition of Mr. Duwncan’s 
“ Scotch Itinerary,” illustrated by two 
well engraved maps, one of Scotland, and 
the other of Islay and Jura. 
The third volume of the “ Antiquarian 
and Topographical Cabinet,” appears to 
have been executed, both as to plates and 
letter-press, with the same ability as its 
precursors, Among the plates, the views 
of Dunstable Priory, Furness Abbey, 
froin the south, St. Albans, and St. Se- 
pulchre’s, Northampton ; are perhaps the 
best. 
In “ The History of the ancient Town 
of Shaftesbury,” by Mr. Apams, we have 
a very useful and respectable publication, 
in part founded on the basis of what re- 
lates to Shaftesbury in Hutchins’s History 
of Dorsetshire. 
But the most important work we have 
to notice, will be found in the “ Abstructs 
of Records and Manuscripts respecting 
the County of Gloucester ; | formed into a 
History, correcting the very erroneous 
Accounts, and supplying numerous de- 
ficiences in Sir Robert Atkins, and sub- 
sequent writers,” by Tuomas Dupiry 
Fossrooxr. F,A.S. &c, 2 vols. 4to. 
“ The Ancient and Present State of 
Gloucestershire,” by Sir Ropertr At- 
KYNS, made its first appearance in 1712, 
upon the plan of Chauncey’s Hert- 
fordshire. It was published by Sir 
Robert’s executors; and a large portion 
of the copies, not only of this, but of a 
subsequent edition being destroyed by 
fire, “A New History,” of the county, 
Retrospect of Domestic Literature—T opography, Ke. 
was undertaken by Mr. Rudder, and 
published in 1779: in which Sir’ Robert 
Atkyns’s historical accounts of the suc- 
cessive owners of manors and estates, 
down to the beginning of the eizhteenth 
century, appear to have been almost im- 
plicitly copied. 
To supply the deficiencies to which a 
posthumous work was liable, and which 
probably did not fall within the oppor- 
tunities of Rudder, appears to have been 
the first object with Mr. Foshrooke. 
Domesday, benefactions, epitaphs, and 
descriptions of churches, he entirely 
omits: the first having been given by 
Rudder, and the three latter being in- 
cluded in the ‘ Historical, Monumental, 
and Genealogical Collections relative to 
the County,” published by Mr. Bigland, 
in 1791. 
Large extracts from a work of reference, 
cannot be admitted here; but justice to 
an industrious antiquary, demands that 
we should explain how far his accounts 
of the descent of property are more co- 
pious, or more to be relied on, than the 
accounts of those who have made en- 
quiries before him. The more material 
additions of this nature are, of course, 
confined to the parochial history ; though 
avariety both of curious and new intel- 
ligence will be found, not only on the 
general history of the county, but on the 
clothing manufactory, the rivers and 
canals, the forests and chases, the honour 
of Gloucester, and the provincial dialect, 
as preliminary matters: followed by 
“ Augmentations and Corrections of 
Archdeacon Furney’s History of the City 
of Gloucester.” 
So numerous are the omissions, and so 
unconnected the genealogical details of 
Sir Robert Atkyns, that the reader who 
compares his history with Mr. Fos- 
brooke’s, in matters of record, will have 
little hesitation in.a preference. 
One instance, among many, may be 
quoted in the account of property at E/k- 
stone, subsequent to the Domesday Sur- 
vey. 
“ The manor of Elkstone was granted 
to John le Brun 50. H. 3. John le Brun, 
son of John, was seized thereof 31. E. 1. 
John Acton was seized of the manor of 
Elkston, 8. E. 2. Hugh Mustel died 
seized thereof, 19. FE. 2. 
“Richard Bellers held Elkeston, 
37 E83: 
“ Sir John de Acton died seized of the 
manor of Eccleston, 17. E. 3. 
’ « Sir John Pointz, son of Maud, the 
grand-daughter and heiress of Sir i 
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