CHRONICLE. 
siastical persons ; confirmations of 
grants made to bodies corporate, as 
well ecclesiastical as civil ; grants in 
fee farm ; special licences ; grants of 
offices ; special and general patents 
of creations of peers; and licences 
of all kinds which pass the great 
seal: and on the backs of these 
rolls are commissions to justices of 
the peace, of sewers, and all com- 
missions which pass the great seal. 
The Calendar of these Rolls, pub- 
lished by his majesty’s command, in 
pursuance of an address of the house 
of commons, on the report of the 
commissioners for enquiring into the 
state of the public records, is print- 
ed from four MS. volumes, pro- 
cured, in 1775, by Mr. Astle, for 
public use, from the executors of 
Henry Rooke, esq. his predecessor 
in the office of keeper of the Tower 
records, collated with two MSS. in 
the Cottonian library, marked Titus 
C. If. and ILf. which seem to have 
been compiled in the reign of James 
I. by some experienced clerk, who 
seems to have selected from the re- 
cords themselves what appeared to 
him most useful and interesting.— 
They supply many omissions and 
deficiencies in the Tower copy; 
and, after all, this Calendar, though 
entitled to great merit, is only a se- 
lection, various entries appearing on 
the Patent Rolis not entered here : 
and, therefore, though this work 
will be found to yield abundant in- 
formation, no one is to be deterred 
from an examination of any record 
meutioned elsewhere as being on the 
Patent Roll, because it is not men- 
tioned here. Mr. A.’s report on 
the state of the records under his 
_care will be found in the Report of 
the Committee abovementioned. 
Shot himself through the heart, in 
@ bed-room at the White-horse, in 
Vou. XLV. 
529 
the High-street, Canterbury, 2 
young gentleman, named W. Craw- 
ford, who, it appears, had been a 
midshipman in the royal navy. 
3d. At Dalmahoy, near Edin- 
burgh, the widow of sir John Hai- 
kett, bart. of Pitfirane. 
At Spring-garcen ‘coffce-house, 
Charing-cross, William Wilcox, 
esq. a gentleman of iamily and for- 
tune. He puta period to his exist- 
ance, in a fit of insanity, by nearly 
severing his head from his body. 
7th. Interred, at’ St. Mary’s 
(Scilly) under the discharge of mili- 
tary honours, the body of Mr. 
Henry Harland, a truly veteran 
soldier, aged 78, in his majesty’s 
service 55 years, the last 23 of 
which he enjoyed the station of mas- 
ter-gimner to that garrison, dwel- 
ling in a comfortable house within 
the line. During his arduous exer- 
tions, in earlier days, his hair- 
breadth escapes were many and va- 
rious, two of which, the most dis- 
tinguished and providential, may 
suffice. At the still-to-be-regretted 
defeat of general Braddock, he fell 
near the side of a young America 
officer; they both, while warm, 
crawled from the spot a short. dis- 
tance into the bushes, and thereby 
escaped the death-stroke of the in- 
dians.. After the action, the mother 
of this officer sent servants, with 
horses, to learn the fate of her son. 
Fortunately they were descried 
Pits together, just able to speak, 
and were taken away together to 
the mother’s house, where: the son 
died ; but Harland recovered. The 
late general Washington at this time 
was major in the English service ; 
and Harland has often been heard 
to declare, that, had the general 
embraced the major’s advice, as to 
the mode of fighting the enemy, the 
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