G00 Retrofpe of Domeftic Literature.—Topography and Antiquities. 
the names of perfons whofe defcendants 
are yet in pofleffion of the fame lands, in 
the neighbourhood of the city, and as it 
may probably give affiflance in tracing 
the genealogies of families.” For our 
own part, we confider it as one of the 
meft curious documents in the voluaie. 
To thofe, indeed, who have nor a local 
intereft in the work, lifts of bailiffs, re- 
corders, ftewards, town-clerks, and even 
reprefentatives in patliament, may feem 
dry; but there are readers who are enti- 
tled to expe&t them. Among the engrav-. 
ings, the moft interefting are an ancient 
view of Litchfield, from a painting in the 
pofleffion of the reverend Henry White, 
and another of Ediall Hall, in the neigh- 
bourhood of Litchfield, where Dr. John- 
fon kept a fchool, in 1736. That there 
are many errors in the work, we will not 
hefitate to fay: but it deferves encourage- 
ment. 
The progrefs of Mr. BLOMEFIELD’s 
«< Hiflory of Norfolk,” in a new edition, 
is announced by the publication of a third 
volume. Our only objection is that we 
do not like a county hiftory in an o€tavo 
fize. 
“© The Guide to the Cathedral Church 
of Ely,”’ in which all the beft parts of 
Mr. Bentham’s Hiftory are comprefied, is 
a very valuable publication, as well fitted’ 
for the library of an antiquary, as for the 
occafional vilitor of Ely. It is f{mall, 
and occupies but 70 pages. 
Mr. Lane’s “ Student's Guide through 
Lincoln’s Inn,” is a woik that may be 
read with pleafure. It contains not only 
a curious and valuable hiftory of the fo- 
ciety itfelf, but all the different forms ne- 
ceflary to be gone through by a ftudent, 
from his firft entrance till-called to the 
bar; accompanied by biographical fketches 
of ijlufirious and eminent perfons, mem- 
bers cf the fociety, who have acquired 
dignities and diftinGion in the fears of 
juitice, or in the councils of the nation. 
The two firf parts of Mr. BrirTcn’s 
S¢ Architefural Antiquiiies,”’ were men- 
tioned with a due commendation im our 
laft retrofpect. Since then, the third and 
fourth parts have appeared, the engrav- 
ings of which keep up the beauty of the 
publication. The third part is devoted 
to the architectural hiftory of round- 
churches in England. The fourth, to 
the firf& portion of the hifery of antient 
crofies. Inthe illuftration ot the former, 
M:. Britton appears to have gone back, 
we think unnecefiarily, to the pillartem- 
ples of the Druids, and the facred round 
fructures of the Greeks and Romans; 
fubjects, which, -however interefting ina 
them/elves, throw little light either onthe 
origin, or the hiftory of the Englifh round 
churches. Ofthefe, Mr. Britton obferves, 
there appear to be four perfect examples 
fill remaining ; St. Sépulchre’s church at 
Cambridge, St. Sepulchre’s, Northamp- 
ton, the Temple Church, London, anda 
{mali one at Little Mapleftead in Effex ; 
all which, with otners at Temple Bruer, 
and Aflickly in> Lincolnfhire, are gene- 
rally attributed to the knights templars 
during their power and pro‘perity in Eng- 
iand. They cbtained their organization 
and fame in the vicinity of the church of 
the Holy Sepulchre at Jerufalem, and are 
fuppofed to have made that their model 
for the principal churches which they 
built in England. The churches at Cam- 
bridge, Northampton, and the Temple, 
with their ground-plans and interiors, from 
the fubje&ts of the plates. They are well- 
engraved, and have each an appropriate 
hifiory attached. The firft is attributed 
to the reign of Henry the Firft,' and the 
fecond to the clofe of the twelfth or be- 
ginning of the thirteenth century. The 
lat is fuppofed to have been originally 
built in 1135, but to have received addi- 
tions and improvements to a confiderable 
extent in 1240. . 
In the firft portion of the ‘* Effay te- 
wards a Hiftory of Stone Croffes,” which 
forms the fourth part, Mr. Britton ap- 
pears to have been more elaborate. The 
moft remarkable fubje&s of the plates are 
the crofles which Edward the Firit ere&ted | 
to the memory of his Queen: though the 
letter-prefs in which their hiftory is detail- 
ed, isreferved by Mr. Britton for another 
number. Having defcribed the upright 
pillars of the Druids, and the bowing~- 
ftones (as they are called) among the 
Weftern Ifles, Mr. Britton infermsus that 
the greater part of the croffes now re- 
maining may be claffed under the follow- 
ing heads, as land-marks, fepulchral me- 
amentos, memorials of batiles or fome fatal 
event, or as places of public prayer or 
prociamation: fome, he adds, were allo 
placed by the road Gide, in church-yards, 
market places, at the junétion of three or 
four ftrects, cr on (pots where the body of 
fome deceafed perfon had~been: halted in 
the way to interment. From general ob- 
fervations, the author proceeds to parti- 
cular examples, and endeavours to afcer- . 
tain the charaéter and appropriation of 
the different crofles reprefented in the re- 
mainder of the, accompanyirg prints. 
Among which the White Crofs near, and 
the Biackiriarg Crofs at, Hereford ; po 
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