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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HOUGH I have searched ina va- 
riety of books for the habits and 
economy of the moth, yet I should feel 
much gratified if any one of your Cor- 
respondents would inform me, through 
the channel*of your useful miscellany, 
at what season of the year it begins to 
make its ravages among woollens, and if 
there be any known means of preven- 
tion. A CONSTANT READER. 
ESR 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
] WAS much pleased this morning, 
£ with meeting with the following pa- 
ragraph in the London Chronicle of yes- 
terday evening, which, as the contents of 
it must give satisfaction to every humane 
and considerate reader, I shall be very 
much obliged to you to insert in your 
usetut and widely circulated miscel- 
lany. 
““ We have the satisfaction to state, 
that, by erder of his Royal Highness the 
Prince of Wales, patron of the Society 
for superseding the Necessity of Climh- 
ing Boys, &c. the chimney-sweeping ma- 
chine has been introduced into Carleton- 
house, and that in every instance it has 
been used with complete success.” 
When I reflect on the innumerable 
miseries which the old method of sweep- 
ing chimnies invariably brings upon the 
children employed in this trade, and 
from which, indeed, very few of them 
escape, Lam astonished that a praatice 
so inhuman, so disgraceful, and so de- 
structive to health, could have been so 
long tolerated. Let us hope, however, 
that this method is going gradually out of 
use, and that the newly invented method 
of cleaning chimnies with the machine 
may, in time, entirety eradicate a prac- 
tice so detestable. I have frequently 
known instances of master chimney- 
sweepers forciag their apprentices up 
chimnies actually on fire, in order to ex- 
tinguish them, when the boys have come 
down terribly burnt, which has often 
proved fatal to them. ‘This practice, 
however, is pertectly illegal; and it cer- 
tainly is the duty of all spectators of such 
horrid transactions to bring the inhuman 
offender before a magistrate. 
London, March 17, 1808. 
The Antiquary—No. XV. 
rests. 
| [June 1, 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
THE ANTIQUARY - 
No. XV. 
To the Editor of the Antiquary. 
SIR, 
NHE elucidation of historical fact 
seems so much the first object of 
the Antiquary, that I make no donbt but 
you will admit the following remarks :-— 
It is stated by Rous, the Warwick An- 
tiquary, that the park at Woodstock, in 
Oxtordshire, was the first park in Eng- 
land; inclosed by Henry the First in the 
year 1119. Hicsays that several villages 
were destroyed to make it; and that it 
was seven miles round. His words are as 
follow :— 
“ Fecit iste rex eciam in Anglia 
parcum de Wodstok cum palacio inffa 
predictum parcum, qui parcus erat pri- 
mus Anglie@, et pro eo fiendo plures ville 
destrncte sunt, et continet in circuitu 
septem miliaria Anglicana. An erant 
ibi alfquz Ecclesiz vel Capelle destructe, 
nescio. Et constructus erat circa annum 
xii. regni hujus regis, vel parum post. 
Hujus rei exemplo ceteri domimi impar- 
caverunt certas terras'stias. Unde Hen- 
ricus comes Warrewiciparcum deW edge- - 
nock incepit,*”’ ‘ha hit 
Camden seems in some measure to 
have doubted the correctness of Ious’s 
information, though he copies his testi- 
meny.t Harrison who wrote the Descrip- 
tion of England prefixed to Holinshed, 
as will be shewn presently, coincides in 
the idea: and Woodstock-park I find 
again mentioned as the first upon record, 
in Dr. Whitaker’s History of Whalley.t 
Mr. Pennant, however, assigns a later 
origin to parks; and supposes them to 
have followed the destruction of the fo- 
Speaking of these last, he ob- 
serves,§ “When property became hap- 
pily more divided by the relaxation of 
feudal tenures, these extensive hunting- 
grounds became more limited; and as 
tillaze and husbandry increased, the 
beasts of chace were obliged to give way 
to others more useful to the community. 
The vast tracts of land before dedicated 
to hupting, were then contracted; and in 
* J. Rossi Hist. edit. Hearne, p. 138. 
+ Camd. Brit, ed. Gough, vol. ii. p. 26. 
t¢ Hist. Whalley, p. 175. See also Dug- 
dale’s Warwickshire, p. 304, | 
§ Pennant’s Britisa Zoology, edit. Lond. 
1776, vol. i, p. 37. . 
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