"Isaacus Singleton, ann. 1622.

"From Mr. Machel's MS Collections relating to Westmoreland, &c. vol. I. p. 618, in the Library of the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle.

"Your very obliged and faithful humble servant, CHA. CARLISLE." Rose Castle, Sept. 30, 1764.

"DEAR SIR, "I am to thank you for your two entertaining letters, of the 2d.ult. and 20th inst.; the former of which I ventured to answer the material parts of in my Letter to Sir Joseph Ayloffe, being at that time greatly hurried, and not much less so now, as I leave this place to-morrow, and begin my journey Southward. I design resting at Hagley about ten days, and then proceeding to Sir Richard Lyttelton's at Richmond till the end of October. Your conjecture, that the Sculpture discovered at Heppington rather represents a Saxon than a Danish King, is much more probable. I shall be very glad to see a good drawing of Bayeux Cathedral. The Church of Canterbury, I may say of England, has lost an able and very worthy member in poor Forster*. After the interview I had with him at Lambeth in the month of May last, I did not expect him to live a month.

"I have run over the six volumes, in folio, of Mr. Machel's MS Collections for Westmoreland and Cumberland, and find they contain abundance of curious things. Dr. Burn is soon to have the possession of them; and, I flatter myself, will compose a good History of that County from these excellent materials. I beg my best compliments to your worthy Colleagues; and remain, Sir, your obliged and faithful humble servant, CHA. CARLISLE.” 66 DEAR SIR, Old Burlington-street, March 30, 1765. "I called to thank you for the loan of Mr. Tyndale's curious book the day after you was so obliging to send it me: but, not finding you at the Paper-office, I could only convey my best thanks to you through Sir Joseph Ayloffe. Indeed, I had read the Dissertation some years ago at Aldersbrooke; however, it is so long since, that great part of it was new to me.

"I am mightily pleased with your intentions of printing it in your new edition of the Letter on Normandy, and with your good success in France, by procuring so many sets of the engravings from Montfaucon's Plates.

"I hope to have the pleasure of meeting you at Lambeth on Easter Tuesday; and if you can conveniently bring Mr. Kilner's MS. concerning Appropriations, &c. thither, I shall be able, on the slightest view, to judge whether a careful examination will answer the trouble.

"My nephew, young Mr. Pitt, has promised me a design for a new altar-screen at Carlisle Cathedral, in case I can send him a proper person to draw it. If you could recommend such a one, who will do it well under Pitt's eye, and reasonable, I should be greatly obliged if you would immediately send him to Mr. Pitt's, next the Admiralty wall, between that and the Bishop of * Dr. N. Forster: of whom see "Literary Anecdotes,” vol. IX. p. 289. + Dr. Thomas Secker.

Bangor's,

Bangor's, any morning by ten o'clock, and bid him tell the porter that he comes by my order, and must see his master.

"My cough continues very bad at times, and I fear will do so, at least till I can breathe some better air. I am, Sir,

"Your very faithful obedient servant, CHA. CARLISLE." "DEAR SIR, Burlington-street, May 16, 1765. "I herewith return you the Lambeth MS. with many thanks, and have no occasion to have any extracts made from it. I should be obliged if you could step to the Augmentation-office, and look into a small MS book on vellum, which I saw there last year, containing the Charter of Foundation of the Chapel of All Angels at Brentford Bridge: pray put down for me the name of the Founder, and the time when founded. I think it was a Chantry Chapel; if so, see for whose soul it was erected, &c. I want to be satisfied in these particulars, and shall be very thankful for them. Yours faithfully, CHA. CARLIsle.

"On second thoughts, I send this by the penny-post, and will leave the book directed for you at Mr. Sandby's, Bookseller, opposite St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet-street, where you will call for it when you go that way in your chariot."

"DEAR SIR,

Rose Castle, Aug. 5, 1765. "This morning's post brought me your packet of the 1st instant, accompanied with a letter from Sir Joseph Ayloffe, and two other packets, containing a transcript of the Commissioners' Survey of Richmond Palace, &c. 1649, for which I return him and you my hearty thanks. I am now to acknowledge the favour of yours of the 9th ult. which I received at Scarborough. In it you desire me to acquaint you with Bishop Pococke's * address: he was at Dublin when he last wrote to me, but I believe by this time is removed to his new mansion at Ardbraccan, near Navan, Ireland; however, a letter directed at either place will readily find him. Fulk Greyvill's Letter is curious, as is the Vicar of Hales-Owen's Return to the Commissioners, and the Epitaph on the Empress Matilda, for all which I feel myself much obliged to you. With the last of the three Papers I shall enrich my copy of Sandford's Genealogical History; for that contains only the two verses from Speed, viz. Ortu magna, virá major, &c.; and your epitaph proves Du Moulin's assertion false, viz. that the Empress was buried at Nostre Dame du Prez in Roan.

"If you meet with the Return from Over Arcley, in Lichfield Diocese and County of Stafford, to the Commissioners of the Bounty, I beg you will copy it out for me at your leisure.

"I was in great hopes you would come in for something on Rushworth's decease, who, if I mistake not, enjoyed some places in the Archbishop's gift. As I hear nothing of the new edition of Ecton's Thesaurus, I suppose there will be none, which makes me wonder at the Booksellers engaging you to apply to the Archbishop and myself for corrections in our Dioceses. "My cough has at last entirely left me, and, thank God, I am perfectly well. We had four hours heavy rain here on Saturday; * Dr. Richard Pococke, Bishop of Ossory. See p. 312; and see vol. II. p.806. and

and shall have more soon, as the sky is cloudy, and the glass falls, for which great blessing the Lord be praised. Peter Collinson wrote me word, what a terrible account you had received from Normandy of the mortal distemper which rages so much in a town there. I am, good Doctor,

"Your very obliged and humble servant, CHA. CARLISLE." "P. S. Having occasion the other day to consult Nicolson's English Historical Library,' in his account of English Coins, at p. 260, I stumbled on a marginal note entered in my hand-writing several years ago at Exeter, which pray communicate to Dr. Gifford. I think it pretty plainly proves that the passage from Stowe, cited here by Nicolson, and the truth of it contested by him, is well grounded. The marginal note is as follows:

"In a MS Rental of the estate belonging to the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, anno regni Regis Edwardi IV. sexto, the following occurs: 'In novo auro, videlicet Rialls, pleni ponderis, CCCCXXV li. XIX sol. VIII den. And in the year immediately preceding, in antiquo auro ponderis secundùm novam computationem XXIX li. XVII sol. xi den."

"DEAR SIR, Hagley Hall, Oct. 21, 1765. "Though I hope to be in town some time next week, and consequently shall see you soon, yet I cannot defer returning you my thanks by letter, for the very kind condolence you express on the great loss I have sustained in the death of my much esteemed old friend Bp. Pococke. Indeed, few things have ever affected me with deeper concern; but it is my duty to submit patiently to the will of God.

"I am not without suspicions that your politeness makes you take the expence of the St. Katherine's Drawings wholly on yourself, as they are likely to be of no use to me. If this be so, I must insist on paying part, if not the whole. I rejoice to hear you have the St. David's Registers; and should hope, as one Welsh Bishop has set the example, the others will follow, and then all Dioceses throughout the Kingdom will be compleat. Very few volumes remain of St. Asaph, Bishop Goldwell having carried many of them away with him when he fled to Rome at the Reformation.

"The Bishop of Exeter is a lucky man; but no one should grudge him Windsor, as the Deanery-house is in a sad condition, and he has a noble and generous spirit about him, that will doubtless exert itself in improving and embellishing that antiquated mansion.

"I leave this place on Thursday, and go to Lord Temple's at Stowe. Pray make my kind compliments agreeable to your Colleagues, and believe me, with great esteem, your obliged and faithful humble servant, CHA. CARLISLE."

"To the Rev. Mr. WATSON †, Middleton Tyas. "SIR, Old Burlington-street, Dec. 12, 1765. "I return you many thanks for your Letter, and the pains you have so obligingly taken to satisfy my curiosity with regard to *The Hon. and Rev. Dr. Frederick Keppel; who was at this period appointed Dean of Windsor. + Of whom see before, vol. I. p. 460. the