1808.] 
be behind hand in these pious frauds, 
have also a story of a similar vision, on 
the Mount Michael, in Normandy, In 
all these instances the saint appeared as 
the guardian of some sacred spot; and 
therefore the conjecture of Mr, Warton, 
thet Milton’ s expression of “ the ouurded 
mount” alludes to a fortress incorporated 
with the monastery which is said to have 
been founded beforethe time of Edward 
the Confessor, should probably give way 
to the above stated guardianship of the 
saint. All these legendary narrations of 
the apparition of Saint Michael may, per- 
haps, have been copied from what is re- 
lated of the celebrated appearance of 
the Goddess Cybele on the mountain in 
Phrygia, called after her, and which is 
also recorded on the Arundelian marbles. 
Your's, &c, 
Feb. 8, 1808. D. FE. 
=a 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
S you have, in some of the late num- 
bers of your Magazine, been very 
laudably calling the attention of the pub- 
lic to that useful mode of buildnig long 
practised in France, called en pizay (for 
so the word ought to be spelt) perhaps 
the following memoranda upon the sub- 
ject, extracted from a work en the natu- 
ral history of the Lyonnais, published in 
1765, by Monsieur Dulac, Avocat en 
Parlement at Lyons, may not be unac- 
ceptable to your readers. 
After describing the variety of soil in 
the Lyonnais, the author goes on to 
say, that a great advantage results from 
it in the facility which this circumstance 
affords for cheap, and at the same 
tine durable modes of building. He 
then describes two modes of building 
cottages and small honses, commen. in 
those parts, one of which is with rough 
wood and clay, and the other en pizay, 
or with earth only, which he recommends 
as preferable to the first, both for dura- 
bility, and for its perfect safety from fire. 
Argil, he says, is the sort of earth most 
proper to be used, and there should bea 
foundation of stone or brick work, which 
should be carried two feet at least above 
ground, The author describes the pro- 
cess to he observed in constructing the 
building, which it is perhaps needless 
here to repeat, as your Correspondents 
seem well acquainted’ with it; but he 
adds, that the earth wali should be left 
ding ayear to dry, before it is plas- 
tered over, which adds extremely to its 
durability. At the time Monsieur Dulac 
wrote, he says, there were houses stand- 
Montury Mac. No, 169. 
Building en Pizay.— Queen Katherine Parr. 
199 
ing which were known to have been built 
one hundred and fifty years; and the ori- 
ginal cost of this mode of building, he 
calculates at only a fourth part of the 
price of building im rough stone work, 
The generality of houses of this con- 
struction consist only of a ground floor 
and one story; but there are some of two 
stories, the ‘walls of the house bemg 
raised to the height of thirty feet. Build- 
ings en pizay are common in many parts 
of France, particularly im the Lyonnais, 
Dauphiné, Provence, Languedoc, and 
Auvergne, If you or any of your rea- 
ders would wish for the complete extract 
from Monsieur Dulac’s work, it shail be 
extremely at your service. 
Your's, &c. 
Stamford, ASP; 
February 9, 1808. 
— Eee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HERE are, I believe, three original 
portraits of Queen Katherine Parr; 
one, in the gallery at Lambeth palace; 
one,at the Earl of Denbigh’s, at Newnham 
ane who is descended ue a daugh- 
of William Lord Parr of Horton, 
uncie and chamberlain to the queen; 
and one ata clergyman’s at Yarmouth, 
in the county of Norfolk. For the latter, 
the late Marquis of Lansdown would have 
given £200; it is by Holbein, and in 
most exquisite preservation. 
Ali our genealogists and historians 
agree that the queen’s first husband was 
the son of Edward, Lord Borough: he 
died young, and little is known of him. 
Of her second husband, John Lord La-— 
timer, we are told, that he was concern- 
ed in Ask’s rebellion, called the Pilgrim 
age of Grace; and, that by his first wife, 
daughter and coheir of Sir George Vere, 
knight, he had issue, one son John, and 
one daughter Margaret; by his second 
wile, Katherine Parr, he never had any 
issue. Dugdale and Edmonson, make 
Johwand Margarct the issue of Fre! second 
wife, but this is wrong, This Johu Lord 
Latimer, the husband of Katherine Parr, 
died 154.2, and was buried in St. Paul’s. 
The queen’s fourth and last husband was 
Thomas Lord Seymour, of Sudeley, bro- 
ther of Queen Jane, andithe Pi ‘otector 
Duke of Somerset. She died in chitd- 
bed, and of poison; her issue, a daugh- 
ter, survived her one day, and was busied 
with her amiable and unfortunate mother, 
in the chapel of Sudeley castle,in the 
county of Gloucester. 
Let 1. censult Sandford’s Gen. Hist, 
Rapin’s England, vol. 2; Archeologia; 
Dd Dust 
