Philip and Jacob, Bristol, to the better EPITAPH TO SIR T. G. CULLUM, BT. Mr. URBAN, From motives of highest respect for the memory of Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, by whose notice as well as by the kindnesses of the several members of his family, conferred during past years on me, I have been so much honoured, and the comfort of my life so increased, I beg the favour of having his epitaph (which is on a handsome marble tablet, north side of Hawsted chancel, in Sufsolk) inserted in your publication. Yours, &c. F. H. T. B. Sacred to the memory of Sir THOS. GERY CULLUM, Bart. F.R.S. F.S.A. F.L.S. Seventh in succession of his family, and, during a long period of his life, Bath King of Arms. He was born in 1741, and having been, in early age, devoted to self-improvement, his mind was enriched by various and valuable information. His correspondence and communications were sought and highly appreciated, not merely in the circle of his friends and acquaintance, but by persons of distinguished taste and literary talents throughout the kingdom. Temperate in habits, most exemplary in character, friendly in disposition, his lengthened, useful, and respectable life ended September 8th, 1831. He married, in 1774, Mary, daughter and sole heiress of Robert Hanson, Esq., of Normanton, in Yorkshire, who died September 13, 1830. Their son and sole heir erected this monument. 1832. ARMS above the monument: Azure a chevron. Ermine between three pelicans Or, vulning themselves proper, Ulster, in pretence; impaling, Gules, the Sun in splendour between 3 mascles Ar. on a chief embattled Or, 3 lions ramp. Sa. (an alteration of "Hanson," granted to Lady Cullum in 1793). Crest, a lion sejant Or, supporting a column Arg. capital and base Or. Motto, "Sustineatur." EPITAPH ON JAMES LYNN, M.D. JACOBUS LYNN, Jacobi Lynn, de Woodbridge, in agro Suffolcia, Medicinam chyrurgicam primitùs peritèque in solo natali exercuit. Post quosdam casus et rerum discrimina, in Angliam reversus, Peregrè abeundi, tandèm, in causâ fuit hepar morbidum, comitante asthmâ, tabe per aliquot menses corpus depascente, Decessit apud Buriam Sancti Edmundi die 10o Decembris, 1832, annos natus 63. MR. ROBERT WILSON. THE following account of an unknown Botanist may deserve the notice of Naturalists. Robert Wilson, of Medomsley, in the county of Durham, an indefatigable Naturalist and ingenious man, was born in the neighbourhood. He was a sword-cutler, and employed at the manufactory at Shotley Bridge (now given up), and his principal employment was in en F. H. T. BARNWELL. graving on the swords, &c. Of his life little is known; but he was constantly employed in the pursuit of knowledge, and his rambles extended over all the neighbouring districts. His garden contained a valuable collection of plants, and many of those which he met with flourished there. He frequently left plants among those he respected or was acquainted with. He died a few years ago. " The sale of his property was attended by what is there called the whole country side." There were many curiosities; among others, a desk of his own making, richly inlaid with ivory and very many different woods: this had cost him many years labour: it was sold for a trifle. There was also a richly inlaid gun. Among his books there were several valuable additions to Botanical science:—1. a book, being a copy, in manuscript, of Withering's Bot. Art. tit. Lichens, with coloured drawings, and many new species; 2. a book containing a large collection of coloured drawings of Fungi, and many new, kinds; and 3. a Herbal with coloured drawings, mostly from an old Dutch Herbal, and a copy from Mr. Harriman's (another indefatigable Botanist) Manuscript on the genus Lichen, arranged according to Acharius's Lichenes. These collections are in the possession of the Rev. Mr. Wilson, Rector of Wolsingham; and are valuable, particularly as containing accounts of the Flora of the Vale of Derwent and Weardale and Teesdale, new districts, in every respect recommended to the notice of Naturalists, who will also find beautiful scenery, good fare, kind treatment, and cheap living. MR. URBAN, A SUGGESTION is thrown out, at p. 227 of your last Number, that "amidst all the miracles of our Lord, no instance of a lost limb restored is mentioned;" and the writer intimates a wish to learn, what reason can be assigned for such a want of miraculous intervention on the part of our Saviour. By a lost limb, the writer evidently intends to speak of a limb severed from the body; for of the restoration of other limbs, lost to all the useful purposes of life, by palsy and other causes, numerous instances are adduced by the Evangelists. But though no particular instance of a "lost limb restored" is recorded, we are not to infer that no such restoration took place; on the contrary, we are told that "great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and he healed them insomuch that the multitude wondered when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel."— Matt. xv. 30, 31. One only instance is recorded in the Scriptures of the healing of a part severed from the body by violence: this is that of the servant of the High Priest, whose ear was cut off by the sword; Matt. xxvi, 51. Mark xiv, 47. Luke xxii, 50. John xviii, 10. and we are told, that "Jesus touched his ear, and healed him,” [και αψαμενος του ωτιου του ιασατο αυτον,] by which we must understand, that the healing inIcluded the actual restoration of the ear, to the part from which it was removed by violence; for had the ear not been replaced it was necessary to touch it, and the verb taoμai, in another passage of Luke iv. 18, is used to express complete and entire healing. With regard to the separation of the large limbs from the body by violence, we have no reason to believe that this occurred often in Judea, during our Lord's abode upon earth; and it may be doubted whether a single opportunity was offered for such a manifestation of his miraculous power, as the restoration of such a lost limb. The only means which the surgeons at that period of the world possessed of stopping the bleeding from large arteries, consisted in the application of the actual cautery, and this could so seldom be effected, that in the event of the excision of large limbs, the rapid flow of blood would speedily prove fatal to the patient. Unless, therefore, our Lord had been present, when the infliction of the wound took place, he would not be called upon to exercise his benevolence, in miraculously curing the injury: and his presence was not to be expected in those places where these accidents mostly abound, amidst the rage of war, and violence, and rapine, and their consequences. I ought to add, that I have somewhere, but I cannot recollect where, seen some observations on the point here mooted, and the explanation I have ventured to give, is derived from my recollection of the reply which those observations elicited. VESTIGES OF SCULPTURE AND FAINTING AFTER THE FIRE OF OCTOBER. 1834. ST. STEPHEN'S CHAPEL, WESTMINSTER. OF all the magnificent buildings for religious services on which such vast expenditure was lavished by our ancestors, there was evidently none which could compete, in gorgeous splendour, with that which adorned the Metropolitan Palace of the Kings. Nor could we fairly expect to find elsewhere a rival edifice; when we consider that to the expenses of this the revenues of the kingdom were, for a long series of years, devoted with no sparing hand, and that the most tasteful artists and most skilful workmen that the country furnished, were impressed for the execution of its several parts. There can be no doubt that some of the great peers did emulate the magnificence of the Sovereign in this as in other matters; and the Beauchamp Chapel at Warwick may be instanced as a remaining specimen of great splendour. Still, all must have been inferior to this elaborate work of Edward the Third. The more degenerate æras of art could never rival this production of a pure and most elegant style; and if St. Stephen's Chapel were now as perfect as those of Edward the Fourth at Windsor, and of Henry the Seventh at Westminster, how far would it not surpass them in the estimation, which an impartial comparison, and a renewed taste, have taught us to pronounce on the various gradations of Pointed Architecture! It may be safely affirmed that in grandeur St. Stephen's Chapel as far exceeded the ordinary domestic chapel, as Westminster Hall exceeds the halls of ordinary mansions; whilst the magnificence of the design was decorated throughout with the most elaborate minuteness, by every device of sculpture, painting, and glass, the most beautiful in their forms, and the most brilliant in their colours. That this same edifice, so remarkable for itself, should, by a singular destiny, have become the place of assembly for the most remarkable and most powerful community of modern times, whilst at the same time all its ancient glories were concealed from view, and its architectural features GENT. MAG. VOL. V. were defaced by others of the most ordinary and, indeed, inelegant forms; -that the pealing anthem and the voice of prayer and praise, should have been succeeded by specious oratory, the wranglings of politicians, and the clamour of contending parties; at the same time that that foreign and domestic policy which has raised this country to so high a rank among the nations of the world, has been moulded into life within those once sacred walls; this is a portion of its history which has been often pointed out as adding greatly to its interest in the estimation of the English nation, and as an almost irresistible claim in favour of even the disfigured ruins of its former splendour. The records still preserved in the Exchequer furnish very full particulars of the expenses incurred in the erection and decoration of St. Stephen's Chapel; and copious extracts have been made from them both by Mr. J. S. Hawkins, in Smith's Antiquities of Westminster, and by Mr. Brayley (in several cases from fresh sources) in the "History of the Palatial Edi. fices of Westminster," now in course of publication. The following quotation is from the latter work: "The preparations for the ornamental painting and glazing of St. Stephen's Chapel were commenced about 1350, and the works were carried on for several years after that date. The Rolls of account relating to the same, are particularly interesting from the many notices oil-painting-and it may be remarked they include connected with the history of here, that they most decidedly invalidate the claim of John van Eyck (as advanced by Vasari) to be considered as the inventor of that art, in 1410. They also furnish us with the names of numerous artists, (mostly our own countrymen,) who were engaged in executing the splendid decorations which adorned the Chapel; and of whom Hugh de St. Alban's appears to have been the principal one, as he is expressly called master of the painters, in a precept entered on the Patent Rolls. That the chief artists were men of distinguished eminence in their profession there can be no doubt; and to them was entrusted the power both of selecting their assistants and compelling F |