there should have been about eight thousand coins; and I have heard it supposed there were that number at least, of which not more than forty were halfpence. The great mult of these coins were English pennies of Edward the First and Second, but none of Edward the Third. Most of them from the mints of London, Durham, Canterbury, Lincoln, York, St. Edmondsbury, Newcastle, Berwick, and Bristol. A few from the mints of Exeter, Kingston, and Hadley; one or two Acquitain pennies, but none of Reading or Chester.

There were also a great number of Irish coins of Edward I. and II. struck at Dublin and Waterford, including several halfpence; one Cork penny and one Cork halfpenny; a Dublin penny, having the bust without the triangle, similar to the English coinage.

Of Scotch coins, a great number of pennies of Alexander the Third, and one halfpenny, two or three pennies of John Baliol, and a few of Robert I.

From twenty to thirty foreign sterlings, two or three of which are unpublished varieties.

A few months since a countryman near Tallow, found a hoard of coins, chiefly copper. A few of the St. Patrick's halfpence; halfpence also of Charles the Second, dates 1680, 81, 82, and 83; James the Second, 1686 & 88; William and Mary, 1692, 93, and 94; and William III. 1696. A few silver coins were with them. English, from Charles I. to William III. French of Louis the Thirteenth and Fourteenth, and Spanish of Charles the Second. Yours, &c.

MR. URBAN,

R. S.

Sept. 15.

IT may be satisfactory perhaps to your correspondent, L. A.' in p. 226, to be informed, that in the second volume of the Antiquarian Repertory,' there is a short biographical account of Sir Henry Unton, or Umpton, accompanied with a portrait.

The Sir Edward Unton who married Catharine, a daughter of the fourth Earl of Huntingdon, was Sir Henry's elder brother. Their sister Cecil was twice married; her first husband having been Sir John Wentworth, of Gosfield-hall, Essex, by whom she had

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Sir John Wentworth, knight and baronet, with other children. She married secondly, Sir Edward Hobbee, or Hoby; and dying in 1618, was buried at Aston Rowant, in Oxfordshire.

Her brother, Sir Edward, having been slain in the Portugal Voyage,' undertaken in the years 1589, 1590, and 1591, Sir Henry succeeded to the family property; and he having died in 1595, administration to his effects was, shortly afterwards, issued to Cecil and her husband.

Skelton, in his 'Oxfordshire,' alludes to Aston Rowant as being an ancient possession of the Untons; but I have much doubt on this point. It belonged certainly to Sir Alexander Unton, grandfather of the said Edward, Henry, and Cecil, who made his will in 1547; but it is not mentioned either in the will made in 1533, of their great grandfather, Sir Thomas Unton; that proved, about two years afterwards, of his widow, Dame Elizabeth Unton; or in the will of their younger son Thomas, proved in 1543.

Portions of the Unton property situate in Stokenchurch, a hamlet of Aston Rowant, were purchased by the Tipping family; and some of it is, I believe, in possession at this day of their representatives; who (see Lyssons's Berks, &c.) are the Wrough

tons.

The Unton Pedigree in Ashmole, begins with Hugh, the father of Sir Thomas, and I much suspect that the following party, who had respectable property at, and near to, Sculthorpe, in Norfolk, and whose Memorial there (see Blomefield and Parkin, and Cotman's Norfolk Brasses,) runs thus:

"Hic jacet Henricus Dnton, gentilman, quondam Cirographus d'ni Regis de Co'i Banco: qui obiit vicesimo septimo die mens' Augusti Ao d'ni MCCCC° Irr° cus' a'ie p'picier' deus. Amen."

was of the same family. He is represented kneeling in prayer, in armour, with sword and spurs.

His will, in which a brother Hugh Unton is mentioned, was registered at the Prerog. Court, in 1471 (2 Wattis); the testator had some property in Lancashire; and the will of the following party, who, from its contents, was evidently of Sculthorp connexion, was

also registered there in 1529 (13 Jankyn), namely, Hugh Unton, of the parish of St. Lawrence Poulteney, London, citizen and draper.

In 1589, there was a will registered at the above court, of Humphrey Umpton, of Drayton-in-Hall, Salop; but its contents do not at all verge towards the above-named parties, or any persons seemingly descended from them.

It may be gathered from Morant's Essex, that Sir John Wentworth, son and heir of Sir John and Dame Cecil, being extravagant, wasted his estates; and that such property as was left at the time of his decease in in 1631, was divided amongst his daughters and co-heiresses. Yours, &c. J. B.. G.

THE Abbey of St. George at Bocherville, is seated upon an eminence on the right bank of the Seine, two leagues below Rouen. Its situation amidst an ancient forest is implied in its name; and the beautiful vicinity has retained all the charms of its primitive boscy glades. The abbey was founded about the year 1050, by Ralph de Tancarville, the tutor and chamberlain to the Conqueror of England, who, with his Duchess, assisted in the pious labour, by benefactions to the infant society.

At the French Revolution, the abbatial church was fortunately made parochial, and thus escaped the ruin in which nearly the whole of the monastic edifices throughout France were at that time involved. As it had previously sustained little injury or alteration, it is now one of the most interesting and instructive of all the existing churches erected in the Norman style.

The modern architectural antiquaries have paid it great attention. In Cotman's Architectural Antiquities of Normandy, seven plates are devoted to it; two being exterior views, one of the great doorway, one an interior, and the three others of parts.

In the " Voyages Pittoresques et Romantiques dans l'Ancienne France," fol. Paris, the 22d livraison, consisting of fourteen plates, is occupied with this subject. Besides these, there is a separate work, entitled Essai historique et descriptif sur l'Eglise et l'Abbaye de Saint Georges de Bocherville, par Achille Deville," printed at Rouen, in 4to, 1827, and illustrated with several lithographic prints and GENT. MAG. VOL. IV.

vignettes.* To this volume we are indebted for the view of the Chapterhouse, which we now present to our readers; whilst the accompanying plate of architectural parts has been drawn by our own artist from casts made by the late Mr. Pugin, and we can safely add, that they are given with greater accuracy than in any of the works we have named.

It is the church alone of Bocherville that has been preserved uninjured. The monastic buildings, which were built about the year 1700, have been converted into a manufactory; and the Chapter-house is described by Mr. Dawson. Turner† as being extremely dilapidated. When he saw it, it was used for a mill; and it is drawn in the Voyages Pittoresques" as occupied by a stable.

*This work contains the best history of the Abbey; and though, on the whole, the plates of the two former works are of superior merit, yet this furnishes some subjects not given in them, particularly the le Roulx, 1535, great seals of Richard splendid gravestone of the Abbat Anthoine Coeur-de-Leon and Philippe le Hardi, and a portrait of the Abbé d'Orleans, the last of the house of Orleans-Longueville, who died at this abbey in 1694. In addition to the history of the abbey, this volume contains several charters, a list of the Abbats, and a memoir of the Chamberlains of Tancarville, the hereditary founders. One of the Abbats was Francis Duc de FitzJames, Peer of France, and Bishop of Soissons, grandson to James II. King of England. He was nominated Abbat in

The Chapter-house was erected about a century later than the church, by Victor, the second abbot, who, we are told, "obiit longævus dierum, idibus Martii, seu xviij calendas Aprilis, ante annum 1211; sepultusque erat sub tabulâ marmoreâ in capitulo quod erexerat."

Mr. Dawson Turner has added to the interest of the church of Bocherville by comparing it with the cathedral of Norwich, which it much resembles, particularly in the circular termination of its east end, which possesses the most beautiful effect from the interior. We have considered the Chapter-house to be deserving of the like attention, from its great similarity to the remains of the Chapterhouse at Rochester. The Chapterhouse at Norwich has been entirely removed.

Views of the Rochester Chapterhouse will be found in the title-page to Thorpe's "Registrum Roffense," in pl. xxxiii. of that work, and in plate xxxvii. The last is a large folding plate, displaying its architectural features on a clear scale. On reference to that plate the student of ancient architecture will be interested to see how nearly the design corresponds with this of Bocherville. The central door stands between two windows, which are flanked by similar pilasters, and rise from a similar dwarf wall. Above, are three windows, as at Bocherville, but their heads are circular instead of pointed. The doorway at Rochester was more in the ordinary fashion, being narrower than the windows, and having columns descending to the ground; whilst at Bocherville, it will be perceived, the three arches are alike in size and form. The Chapter-house at Rochester is supposed to have been erected by Bishop Ernulph, who died in 1125. He was a French monk, from Beauvais, and had previously occupied the abbatial chair at Peterborough, where also he erected the Chapter-house.

There is, on the whole, more sculpture about the Bocherville work than at Rochester. The two columns in front of the piers are, as it were, additional; as are the small statues placed within the arches against the piers, two of which will be seen remaining in the view. These statues are very remark

able. They resemble in style those at the great west door of the church at Rochester. We may probably recall the attention of our readers to them; and we shall only add at present, that they are very extraordinary allegorical representations of Mors, Disciplina, &c. identified by the inscriptions which they hold in scrolls before them.

The capitals of the columns are carved with very curious bas-reliefs. Of these, specimens are given in our second plate; one of the subjects being Abraham offering up Isaac, his sword being arrested by an Angel, and a ram appearing in the thicket below; the other is, apparently, Lot and his family conducted from Sodom. The subjects of, God appearing to our first parents in the Garden, and the angel driving them out of Paradise, occur in capitals in other places; as does the Temptation by the Serpent, on one of the capitals of the great west door of the church.

Round the capitals of one of the piers of the chapter-house, an apparently connected story is given, which Mr. Cotman, in his plate 11, has formed into one continuous bas-relief. It evidently refers to the history of the Israelites under Joshua, the Sun standing still, and the passage of the Red Sea; but the armour, the standard, and other features are interesting illustrations of the Norman age, and of the tapestry of Bayeux. Plate 44, in Mr. Dawson Turner's Tour in Normandy, is a portion of the same subject, and exhibits a horseman, which that gentleman describes as a duplicate of the supposed figure of William the Conqueror at Caen.

A still more interesting capital, perhaps, is that of which a wood-cut is given in Mr. Turner's Tour, vol. ii. p. 13, and an extended plate as a frontispiece to that volume. It represents eleven musicians with various instruments, and a female dancing-girl or tumbler. The instruments—a viol, a rote, a syrinx, a mandore, a psaltery, a dulcimer, harp, bells, &c. are described by Mr. Douce in Mr. Turner's volume, p. 14; and the group was deemed so curious by Mr. Fosbroke, that he has copied it in his Encyclopædia of Antiquities, p. 602.

This capital is no longer on the spot; nor another, of the same age and like