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Mr. URBAN, Shrewsbury, April 28. NCLOSED you will receive a drawing of Atcham church, in the county of Salop, (Plate I.) which I made from a fketch taken in one of my rambles in fearch of church notes, fcraps of antiquity, &c. This church is fituated in the hundred of Bradford South, and deanery of Salop, about four miles from Shrewsbury on the London road. The fituation is remarkably picturesque; the river Severn gently gliding by the Western fide of the church-yard, and the varied foliage of the trees, planted near the church, produce the most charming effect. The Weft door-way has the appearance of Saxon architecture, but the upper part of the tower and body of the church are of much later date. The interior is plain, and contains little more than the common order of parish churches. The following infcriptions, copied at the time, may amule fome of your readers.

On a brafs plate. (In capitals.) "Heare was bvried ye bodys of Themas Calcot, of Betton, and Margery, who lived man and wife allmoft 54 years He ended this life ye 29th of March, in ye yeare 1677, in the soth yeare of his age. She ended her life ye 20th of February, 1685, ye 88th yeare of her age. They left iffue, William, John, and Richard."

On a blue ftone within the Communion rails :

"Here lieth the Body of the late Rev. SAMUEL JONES, Vicar of this Church, who departed this life Novembr the 9th, 1725, aged 66."

Arms: a lion rampant, with a crefcent for difference; impaling feven mafeles, 3, 3, and 1. Creft: a fun in its glory.

On a marble tablet against the North

wall:

In a frame against the Weft wall: On the top is the figure of Death; below is a Corpfe in a Coffin, &c. as emblems of Mortality, under which are the following lines:

An EPITAPH, or EPICEDIUM, penn'd as a cautionary Farewell to a finful World. By TH. LYSTER.

"SOHO, Paffenger! ftay; turn thine eye,
And fee how here these bones do lie;
Much toile and trouble, envie and ftrife,
Doth ftill disturb thy mortal life;
But in this grot is now the bed
Where I at reft have laid my head.
As 'tis appointed, thus thou must
Be re-acquainted with the duft.

Truft not the World before thou try it,
For moft men are deluded by it:
Much like unto a Syren's fong
Which tempts to fteere ye courfe that's
wrong;

It's vain delights, if that thou minde them, At last thou shalt deceitful finde them. These feeming joyes which thou art craving Are painted toyes, not worth thy having, All fill'd with fñares, with netts, and ginns, For to entangle thee with fins.

Therefore no more be feen to wooc it, But quit thy love and liking to it; For, if the longest life of man Is but in length much like a fpan, Then he that ftands moft furely fhall, God knows how quickly, have a fall. Then pause awhile! and learn of me That in my cafe thou foon fhalt be. And now prepare thyfelfe for Heaven, Before Death's fatal ftroke is given.

It is not Bones beneath a stone That can doe good when life is gone; The greateft good thou here canft have Is a remembrance of thy Grave, And brittle ftate; which understood, And ponder'd well, may doe thee good. But God's good word all truth doth tell," And if in Peace thou think'ft to dwell, Beg Grace and doo it,

And Farewell."

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On a table are the following memoran

da of burials in this Church. 1619. March 4. Thomas Burton, of Longner, Efq. (eldeft fon of Edward Burton*, Efq, buried in the garden at Longner), aged 77.

1622. October 4. Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Newton, of Heighley, in this county, Efq. wife of Edward Burton, of Longner, Efq,

1629. June 16. John, third fon of Thomas Burton, of Longner, Efq. and Catharine (Beift), his wife.

1671. November 11. Catherine, daughter of Jacob Walton, of Doveridge, in the county of Derby, Efq. wife of Francis Burton, of Longner, Efq.

1680. May 11. Longner, Efq.

Francis Burton, of

1691. July 13. Penelope, an infant daughter of Judge Thomas Burton, of Longner, and Elizabeth (Berkeley) his wife.

1692. February 14, Edward, third fon of the laft-mentioned Thomas and Elizabeth Burton, of Longner, aged fix

years.

1693. December 8. Elizabeth the daughter of Thomas Berkeley, of Spetchley and Ravenfhill in the county of Worcefter, efq. wife of Judge Thomas Burton, of Longner.

1695. April 27. Thomas Burton, of Longner, one of his Majefty's judges for North Wales.

Robert Burton,

1725. February 21. of Longner, efq. aged 48. 1733. November 17. Elizabeth Burton, fecond daughter of judge Thomas Burton of Longner, wife of Joseph Jones of Chilton, efq. aged 58.

1739. May 10. Mary, fourth daughter of the laft-mentioned Thomas and Elizabeth Burton of Longner, aged 59. 1758. June 25. Ann fecond daughter of Robert Burton of Longner, and Anne (Hill) his wife.

1761 March 13. Thomas Lingen Burton, eldest fon of the laft-mentioned

HE publication in your laft num

ing in Soho-fquare, invites, by Refolution feventh, any contribution from the community at large, to the defired improvement of the Medical profeffion.

My fentiments have been ftated already p. 302; and, as my words were not put forcibly enough to make impreflion at a firft reading, we had a reprint of them p. 508, at the will and pleafure of Medicus. This was not the faireft way of treating your other readers, Mr. Urban; they, with your humble fervant, are naturally defirous of new matter. See alfo pp. 607 and 715.

How fatisfactorily Medicus has anfwered, is for the Profeffion in general to decide. One thing is abundantly clear to me, that an intimate acquaintance with the various articles of an Apothecary's fhop made no part of his education; and, unfortunately for Phy ficians, without fuch acquaintance they do but fcramble up, creating laughter behind a counter, in much the fame way as the want of fufficient fcholaftic leffons early in life has exhibited plentiful amufement from letter-writers of that ftamp; with one material diftinction however: thefe laft agitate cer tain mufcles with increafing fenfation of pleasure, and divert other people by

October 16. Elizabeth, third daughter of the laft-mentioned Robert and Anne Burton of Longner, aged 2.

1771. May 6. Anne, daughter of Thomas Hill of Tern, efq. wife of Robert Burton of Longner, efq.

1772. February 11. John, fifth fon of Robert Burton and Anne his wife, an infant.

1775. Auguft 1. Mary, fourth daughter of Robert and Anne Burton of Longner, aged 15.

*For an account of this gentleman, and the troublefome times in which he lived, fee Fox's Acts and Monuments.

difappoint the languishing fufferer, abule his confidence, mifplaced and largely paid for; and, worfe than all, expend all thofe precious hours in the beginning of fickness to no good, which, under better management, would have nipped the difeafe in its bud.

The very right honourable Baronet, in whofe hofpitable manfion this Sohomeeting was held, experienced Medical Prefervation from a very perilous fate, by the party having benefited by fuch an early education as feems fo little adverted to by the Meeting, notwithstanding that thundering admoni

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tion in p. 72 (mifcellaneous) of the Medical and Chirurgical Review, vol. XIII.

A rooted knowledge of the Matéria Medica, the habit early in life of bedfide apparatus, manual activity (Surgery is not meant) to help and direct, are of most effential moment; and any man thus initiated will be careful to the end of his days, that prescriptions of his writing thall neither be fruftrated by preparation with bad articles, or fophifticated at a fimulating Druggift's fhop.

"They that have ears let them hear —.” There feems a difficulty in Correfpondents about Quack Medicines, their fale, &c. Would not this be removed by confining the fale of all fuch to Apothecaries? Do not imagine Apothecaries would not fell them. The profit of the retail is large; and Quack Medicines, like Lady Bountiful's and other mistaken doctors, only make the real and informed practi

tioners more work.

Mr. URBAN, Golden-fquare, Nov. 3. AM an unlettered man, but read

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appears to be the main object of their lives? To get power and money. the Parish Prieft the friend of the poor out of the pulpit*? Dares a poor man approach his door, to confult him on the fiate of his mind, to afk his advice, to receive fpiritual inftruction or confolation? Not he indeed! The very idea of going to the Rector implies appearing before a great man. And were he to go, unlefs to carry money, or money's worth, how would the Rector receive him? As Chrifi did Nicodemus ? Not be indeed. All the poor man would get, nine times out of ten, would be a rebuff, and a conviction of the pride of the Prieft; and that in the Church he must not look for a faithful friend, an apoftolic guide, or a truly charitable, humane, and attentive Di

vine !

What Rector troubles himself about cafes of confcience, or cafes of distress, or any cafes that produce nothing to himself; for it is too true, that the body of the English Clergy regard nothing fo much as felf-intereft: it is no unfair or uncharitable imputation to fay, that there is not in the whole world an order of men, taken for all in all, fo directly avaricious as the Clergy. They are viciously fo to the

I find conftant complaints about the progrefs of Methodifm, and "Evangelical Preaching." I deteft hypocrify, and I am difgufted with the cant and nonfenfe of Evangelical Preachers. I am as little fatisfied with the general conduct of fome regular Churchmen, to which, in a great measure, is to be afcribed the prevalence of fectaries of all defcriptions. It is not by doctrines merely that the fectaries gain their advantages; it is not by novelty and vulgar bawling only that the vulgar are captivated. The want of fomething in the regular Clergy is the great evil; and that fomething is a difference of external behaviour to their parishioners. A little more fuavity, a little more apoftolic meeknefs, a little more Chriftian charity, a little more attention to the fpiritual welfare of their flock, would do infinitely more good than all the writing and all the preaching of thefe men, againft fects and fectaries.

What is the conduct of nine Clergy men out of ten? Why, in general, they are esteemed to be a decent good fort of respectable men; and, for their own fake, they must be fo. But what

worfe in them than in others, because their attention ought to be directed to other things. This, however, is the difgufting point in which the Clergy are viewed; and they carry their selfishness to fuch extremes, that the generality of people will not be perfuaded the Clergy believe the doctrines they preach, becaufe their practice contradicts it, and because their preaching in general is cold, inanimate, and uninteresting to Chriftians.

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What is the confequence? The middling and lower claffes go to hear men like themselves, who will not only preach evangelically, but will familiarife themfelves, comfort and confole them in fickness and misfortune while the great man at the Parfonage is not to be approached but with cap in hand; and, finding the largest part of his parishioners flocking to hear an ignorant Methodist, instead of regaining them by altering his own conduct, fits down to write fulminating fermons against Methodifts and Methodifi : thus engendering ftrife inftead of healing it; and banifhing heavenly cha

* Yes; almost univerfally. EDIT.