Gleanings in England ... Third edition

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GLEANINGS IN ENGLAND; DESCRIPTIVE OF THE COUNTENANCE, MIND AND CHARACTER OF THE COUNTRY. By Mr. PRATT. ct In whatever light we regard the British Islands, whether as theCradle of Liberty, the Mother of Arts and Sciences, the Nurse of Manufactures, the Mistress of the Sea ; or, whether we contemplate their Genial Soil, their mild Climate, their various natural and artificial Curiosities, we shall find no equal extent of territory on the face of the globe of more importance, or containing more attractions, even in the estimation of phase who cannot be biassed by native partiality." Mayor. VOL. II. LONDON: Printed by A. Str.ih.in, Printers-Street, fORt. N.LSNCMAN AND O. HIES, rATERNO!T£R-I«», jSoi. TO THE MOST NOBLE THE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWN. MY LORD, One of the dearest Friends, and Wisest Instructors of my youth, the late amiable and ingenious Dr. Hawkesworth, has addressed to your Lordship his elegant translation of the chef d'œuvre of the venerable and virtuous Fenelon.

You were, even at that period, My Lord, thought a fit Patron to Telemachus. The translator discovered in Lord Shelburne, before he became conspicuous to the public eye, a general resemblance to the character of his hero ; and considered both, b VOL. DEDICATION. as eminent examples of noble views and early virtues. With the happiest effect, indeed, he ran a parallel which, as he observed, consisted in the steady pursuit of the great purposes of life, at an age when dissipation is scarcely supposed to deserve censure. This motive in associating you together gained additional force in his mind, when, as he contemplated the two Personages, mellowed by time, and ennobled by action, he was able to trace a yet more striking similitude. Your Lordship, like the Pupil of Mentor, not contented with having taken the field as a Volunteer, qualified yourself for command, while other youths were only learning to obey.

You had become not amply adorned with private virtue, but jealous of public liberty. You not only displayed talents, but passions and prin- DEDICATION. ciples, directed to the community as their object. You was looked upon as a Noble man from whom, when time should yet farther have engrafted experience upon ability, your Country might expect the most important services. More than thirty years, my Lord, have elapsed, since the moral and estimable Hawkesworth offered you this splendid homage of his respect ; and, with a pro phetic spirit, anticipated your future glory. Had he lived to see those virtues which dignify, and those talents which grace your Lordship, unfolded in their full lustre, no doubt, it would have been his pleasure to have done them justice, and to exhibit them to the world for the example and instruction of posterity.

Letter I

he thread of the correspondence resumed and con nected with the former Letters by a single page — A return to Cromer, where the Reader is replaced in comfort, and introduced at first sight to a friend — and such a one as is rarely to be met with amongst the oldest acquaintance in the walks of life — Another friend who, without any sight at all, is no less cour teous to the stranger by the way — Poor, merry, and blind James Reynolds! — Tautology reconciled : and a faithful drawing of a pleasant man — Diversity of character in England farther displayed . . . LETTER IT. The Norfolk plan of going " a neighbouring," being a curious system of visiting — A tea-table where, in the Norfolk fashion, company helps themselves — and every body is made heartily welcome to his own — The progress of slander — with a comment or two an the difficulty of female reputation in England . CONTENTS. X

Letter III. Page

The visit ofa Sybil — and Sybilline leaves, which are scattered in the path of the Gleaner — The needless apology — and an elegy, of which, every stanza will engage the affection of a poetic heart . , . 26

Letter IV

Wiiich introduced the MAGI of MEDICINE — and the process of an Heroi-Essai, or the QUACKS of England !— Preparation for a superb exhibition — " Health to the diseased, and comfort to the hopeless " — The medical army drawn up 35

Letter V

The same glorious subject ! — Its superiority to every other, whether of Greece or Rome — Solemn invocation to do justice to the theme ! — The beams of Homer, Virgil, and Ossian, quenched in the insufferable bla?e of the " solar tincture," &c. — - Achilles, Æneas, Belial, and Eelzebub, hide their diminished heads, and are dragged at the chariot wheels of the potentates of the draught ! — The chieftains of the powders ! and the heroes of the pill ! — Their march into the villages and cities of England, to purge them of all intestine enemies — Our medicine-defended Isle ! — A battle with disease at^d CONTENTS. XI PAGE death, in which victory decides in favour of the quack heroes ! — " A word to the wise," by one pf the conquerors 37

Letter VI

The miracles or the girdle of health ! ! or the wonders of the Acromatic Belt ! which cureth beast, bird, and fish not less effectually than man — The magnificant exploits of the GIRDLE- HERO ! — Buy me ! and be well — Achievements of another medical Atlas ! who gives a grand specific, of which the universal and infallible qualities are enumerated — Medical anecdotes gleaned from France, Germany, and Great Britain, the latter of which bears away the palm — Oh, the rare Quacks of Old England ! and O the Old English rare Quacks! 49

Letter VII

The true history of one of the greatest of the great ! — The progress of physic — and of health and wealth! — The victory of the three P — 6 — , to wit, the Patient, the Pulse, and the Physician — The defeat of the three D — s — , viz. the Disease, Death, and the Diploma .' 66

Letter VIII

The divine modern art of curing incurables! — Envy of incurable unbelievers ! — The idle arguments against CONTENTS. XII PAGE medical infallibility —The Gleaner's candid confession of once lacking medical faith himself — The opinions of a caviller, a malicious foe to the champions of the pills and powders, telleth a story — The Gleaner's recovery from an infection caught by reading medical books -— Lines pretending to save invalids from dying of the doctor, a common epidemic, saith the Caviller — The Gleaner's conversion to Quac kery, the professors of which, he determines, ought to be held up as first-rate benefactors, heroes, and d^mi-gods ............. 72

Letter IX

List of infallibles! — Specifics from head to foot, anodynes from top to toe — the triumph of the Quacks over the maladies incident to the human frame, videlicet, to the hair, the skin, the cheek, the nose, the nostrils, the-chin, the lips, the teeth, the neck, the breast, the sides, the back, the bones, the marrow, and all the etceteras within and without ! — likewise an account ofthe conquest of the said Quacks over the regularbred pretenders ; yea, and over the grave itself — also an Io Paan on the complete overthrow of all human disorders visible and invisible, obvious and mystic, real and imaginary — a grand medical pageant, concluding with two illustrative facts, from an authentic record CONTENTS. XIII PAGE of incredibly credible sublime atchievement, being'a satire on unbelievers, and a just panegyric on the curers oflNCURABLEs — Farewell health-giving powers- Vulcan shoe your steeds with gold, Machaon be your footman, and Hygeia your postilion ; Quack, quack, quack, be your motto, and a decoy-duck your crest, bearing that motto in its bill. 93

Letter X

A second visit from the Sybil, who presents tlie Gleaner with a beautiful Snow-drop. "3

Letter XI

English Politics — The old adage of there being nothing new under the sun confessed — Inveterate black and white, the only political colours in England — Observations on the spirit of party^No golden mean allowed in politics as in religion — a gleaning of the British Constitution, and characteristics of Fox, Sheridan, and Pitt, three of the political chieftains. 117

Letter XII

Tiie Sybil maketh her third appearance, and scattereth more laurel-leaves, bright with the gloss of genius, yet steeped in the dews of sorrow ; and the Gleaner CONTETTT5. XIV PAO* predicteth that, whoever hath poesy, or tensibility, or sympathy in their souls, will feel grateful for their preservation '33

Letter XIII

English Charities, a glory of the isle. O Eng-. land ! O my country ! will every Briton proudly ejaculate on this subject ! — Motives to compassion — The institutions of benevolence — the infants of the public — Its children in the second state of protection—Indigence — Insanity — the palaces for our veterans of the sea and land — The Gleaner reserves himself for the farther discussion and conclusion of this great national subject, to give room in his present sheaf to the claims of the Philanthropic Society', one of the most heaven-directed designs of the country — The Dove 143

The heart ofa British Tar displayed in meeting, reconciliation and loving-kindness 195

Letter XVII

Our good old Castle on the English Rock — an edifice sacred to the people of England — the Castle in danger — ■ the Castle preserved — The Gleaner again glorieth in the name of Briton . . 203

Letter XVIII

The ruins of Castle-Acre —The ravage and the improvements of time — A midnight meeting — Living and the dead scenery — Lovers, Robert and Betsey — Views from a monastery — Price's description of the Picturesque, with illustrations agreeable to the definition — a cottage of refreshment by the way — Honest John Pearson — Lord Pet re — Buckingham-hall CONTENTS. it

Letter XIX. Pa

Th Et for d — Its native historian — Curiosities — The smock of St. Andriese — Margaret Whoops.'s will concerning it — The corporation and town, ancient and modern 233

Letter XX

Thetford — The prior — A pair of notable monastics, Guiscard and Bernard — Miracles! miracle the •first, a woman deprived of the use of her tongue ! Miracle the second, its faculty restored by the miraculous effect of a sum of money — Another, being the wonder of wonders in the undeniable history of William Heddrick and his son -. .338

Letter XXI

English Elections — curious mode oi making a British Senator — System of borough-hunting, and delectable particulars of a votc-chace — the male and female Patriots of England ! equal lovers of their country — Proofs during the time of election — England the new land of promise — The freedom of representation stated and explained — A note of information, including a gleaning of Norwich — concluding with a partial selection of what historians have noticed in the chronology of Norfolk . . . CONTENTS. XVII

Letter XXII

' PAGI Adieu to Norfolk — progress into Suffolk — Recapitulations — English Fogs, and other vapours of prejudice, cleared and dispersed — Pastoral retrospect of haymaking — Harvesting — Gleaning in the summer and autumn of 179S — Landscapes for painters of nature and the heart, taken from real groupes and scenery, of which prosperity, plenty, and content are the principal objects — The poet of nature illustrated — Norfolk and Suffolk custom of the labourers asking " Largess" ?(>&

Letter XXIII

A barren island, being a contrast of the above, after the bounties of Providence to England, in the harvest, and after the unparalleled summer and autumn of 1800 — The staff of life — the progress of what many have presumed to be man-created famine, in the midst of what multitudes have insisted is, God-created abundance — The state of the English poor enquired into — Laws of the land and laws of nature examined — The Gleaner adviseth. A rich gleaning on the present scarcity, contributed by an ingenious and benevolent friend — small and large farms — monopolies — country banks — ■ VOL. II. c CONTENTS. PACE farmers, and other roots of the evil — the remedy proposed — beneficial regulations — manly sentiments of the Earl of Warwick , • 275

Letter XXIV

Corroboration of the preceding remarks on the subject of subsistence — a practical method of ascertaining the truth wherever an alarm is spread of a probable scarcity — Legislative interference — the sentiments of the amiable St. Pierre ......... 297

Letter XXV

Bury St. Edmund — Curious inconsistency of etymologists — Ancient and modern description of the town — and of Suffolk in general — Achievements of Edmund, while that saint's head was on his shoulders — greater wonders when it was off — adventures of the head itself — Miraculous relicks — the tomb of the martyr — discovery of the embalmed body of Tho. Beaufort, third son of trie celebrated John of Gaunt . . 318

LETTER XXVL

B"RY — Enquiry into, and defence of our attachment to favourite animals — eulogy on the canine race — CONTENTS. XIX PACE epitaph of Toby — story of a dog and his condemned master — a Parisian anecdote — the French merchant i — Professor Raff's description . , 338

Letter XXVII

Newmarket — The Gleaner indulgeth somewhat selfishly in family pride, albeit one of the fairest of his relatives is thought to have died of a box on the ear; yet an ancestor of his, be it known to thee, Reader, was the patron of the poet Donne — English Nobles — The Duke of Grafton — The science of jockeying — English Horseracing — the majesty of the horse, the meanness of the rider — English Cockfighting, and Bullbaiting — The grooms of England, Plebeian and Patrician ! -, — The high bred racer — the grey-bearded humble poney — the Gleaner's advertisement for his hobby-horse — Local description of Newmarket — Jockey's adver. tisement for a master — Eulogy of an English wit on the sublime art of driving one beast against another — Jockeyship and horseracing peculiarly adapted to an university, being founded on classical principles — Sir Richard Hill, and the Hon. Henry Erskine 362 C CONTENTS. XX PAGE 4OO

Letter XXVIII

Cambridge — Excellent and original strictures contributed by a Friend, on the benefits of our academic education — contrasted sentiments of Lowth and Gibbon on that subject — Answer to these . • . .

Letter XXIX

Excellent local description of Cambridge and its University, abridged from an original work — Origin — Senate-House — Public library, with its curiosities — Clare Hall, its buildings, gardens, water, &c. — The chapel and superb library — Pembroke, curious anecdote of the Foundress, her antique cup, &c. Spencer, Gray, Mason, and the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, educated here — Bene't, its origin, its library for ecclesiastical manuscripts, the mosE celebrated in Great Britain — Trinity and Key's College — The gate of humility — The gate of virtue — The gate of wisdom and the gate of honour, particulars concerning them — Story of the Sultaun and his Vizier — King's College — Its magnificence — Its chapel, the most perfect specimen of gothic architecture — Accurate description of its choir, of its two roofs, walls, windows, &c. — Military and naval trophies — The library, &c. — Queen's — CONTENTS.

XXI PACE Catharine Hall — The celebrated Eishops Sher lock and Hoadley, both of this college — Jesus College, so called from the conventual church, now the chapel, dedicated to that most sacred name — Archbishop Cranmer, and the inimitable Yorick, both of this college — Christ College — Anec dotes of its Founder, Lady Margaret, mother of our seventh Henry — Donation of Prior the Poet, our English Fontaine — Curiosities — Benefactions — Ravages of Cromwell — St. Mary Magda len's — Its founder the unfortunate Earl of Staf ford — Other particulars concerning it — Trinity — Visit of the King of Denmark — The ChafJl a masterpiece of ancient architecture — Sir Isaac Newton, one of the honours of our island and of hu man kind, of this college, as were Lords Bacon and Russel, Cowley, Dryden, Coke, and Spelman — The Library — Various curiosities, at the head of which is a copy of King John's grand charter, still to be considered as the glory of our country — Walks of contemplation — Academic groves — Emanuel — Its various beauties and benefactors — Sydney — Sussex — The petrified scull — Portrait of Oli ver Cromwell, educated here — Relative magnitude and population of the several colleges — St. Mary's Church — The Conduit — Hobson's choice — Anecdotes of Hobson — Abridged account of the c CONTENTS.

PACE chief officers and offices of the University — Chan cellor — High Steward — Vice-Chancel lor — Commissary — Proctors — Taxors — Moderators — Scrutators — The Public Orator — The Caput — Senate .... 425

Letter XXX

Local description of Oxford, from the same source — Importance of the universities in the eyes of Europe — Antiquity of Oxford — etymology — Alfred — birth-place of Richard Coeur de Lion — Monastic establishments — the happy situation of Oxford — its advantages and inconveniences — Bear Inn, excellent accommodation — The magnificent and extensive College of Christ Church — its foundation — Great Tom — Cardinal Wolsey — Particulars of this noble edifice, and endowment — pictures and paintings — monuments — the Isis — Superb walks University College — the Physic Gardens interesting account of them — magnificent Library of Radcliffe — Brazenose College — All-soul's — grand court — chapel — library — hall — celebration ofthe Mallard — Hertford Collece the Theatre — various particulars concerning it — commemoration of founders and benefactors — Public Schools — Arundelian marbles — Pomfret collection — Bodleian Library — Museum — Claren- CONTENTS.

PAGE don Printing-house — built from the profits of Lord Clarendon's History of the Rebellion — Queen's College, the magnificent structure — curious cere mony on New Year's Day — singular customs — anecdote of a student — Magdalen College, of which the celebrated Addison was a member — New College — the beauty and grandeur of its chapel — the joint abilities of Reynolds and Jervais exhibited on one of the windows, with sublime paintings of the four Cardinal and the three Christian virtues—Wadham College — its admirable symmetry — hall — chapel — and curiosities particular ized — Baliol — St. John's — Worcester — Corpus Christi — Merton — Oriel — Lincoln, and Jesus Colleges . 473

Letter XXXI

The pleasures of accident — the Gleaner introduces his Reader to an entertaining and estimable stranger — Naval anecdotes on board the Venerable — public and private character of Lord Duncan — gallantry of the seamen — the horrors of defeat and of victory — anecdote of De Winter — reflections on Lord Duncan's conquest — touching extracts from a naval sermon — inscription for the intended Naval Pillar — Remarks on that subject — ignorance and wisdom neighbour each other — Illustrations of both — Ori- CONTENTS, PAOK ginal Sonnets on a report of the death of Charlotte Smith, and on that report being without foundation, contributed by Jl friend * . 537

Letter XXXII

Huntingdonshire — St. Ives — description of these — sketches ofthe history ofthe county — its antiquities, British, Roman, Saxon, and Danish, from an unpublished work, by favour of the author . . . 567

Letter XXXIII

Home-felt feelings — the power of local attachment — remarks on a beautiful poem under that title — first perusal of the first letter to the heart — meadow scenery — objects of tranquillity amidst a world of tumult — Houghton hills — a youthful hermit and his hermitage — verses written in the latter by the hermit's friend 58T

Letter XXXIV

Sacred Gleanings — a visit to a church and churchyard — a tribute of affection and of duty to the living and the dead — a solemn hour — and its effects on the mind and feelings of the Author — the reader is introduced to an original being — the effusions of an unpolluted heart, and the traits of one of Nature** CONTENTS. XXV PAGE least ornamented sons, forming a more perfect man than either education, fashion, wealth, solitude or so ciety, can often exhibit in any age or country . . 6o;>

Letter XXXV

The village of Woodhurst — A farm house, not of modern construction or furniture — or inhabitants — the excesses of loving-kindness — touches of nature — the bliss and misery of a parent — the sympathy of a friend — the duty, piety, and love of a dying child — village graves and epitaphs — times long past — the present hour — the parting moment — Friend and Reader, Adieu Jusl published, (With an Engraving of the Author) THE FIFTH EDITION OF GLEANINGS Through Wales, Holland, and Westphalia, In Three Volumes, Price One Guinea ia Boards. and A NEW EDITION, Volume I. Price 8 s. in Boards, of GLEANINGS in ENGLAND; Descriptive of the Countenance, Mind, and Charactep. of the Country. " THE Author continues to merit the character he has long and deservedly maintained, of a sprightly and agreeable writer ; of an intelligent, and often a sagacious observer of human life and manners ; and he is entertaining throughout."

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Letter I

To the Baron de B. W ith health and spirits comparatively renewed, I sit down, as well to continue the transcripts from our former Tour in Norfolk, and the counties in that direction, as to present you with a brief and partial sketch of an excur sion in another part of this interesting land. Without more preface, therefore, we will, for the present, re-place ourselves at Cromer, where your memory, faithful to nature and to friend ship, will bring back scenes and descriptions which you will re-peruse with the satisfaction that ever attends the remembrance of social and mental enjoyment. Indeed, not a few Gather ings, at the engaging spot which I have so long left, vtiWfor their own sake, afford you as much VOL. II. B pleasure as at the time when they were first im parted. To that date we will now return ; and I will try, as much as may be, to make you for get there bave been any stops from sickness, or other impediments.

Cromer, September 30, 1798. There lives here a Gentleman of a most singular cast of humour ; and I dare appeal to every resident, and to innumerable others, who during his sojourn in the place, have been its visitants, for the following unexaggerated por trait of him. In truth he is of so affable and communicative a disposition, that I should not hesitate to refer all such as may suppose the features overdrawn to the pleasant original him self; particularly as this may be done without put ting the stranger to the difficulty of a self-introduction. Whosoever walks forth, either in the streets, the fields, upon the beach, or on the cliffs, at almost any hour of the day, will en counter a man of an erect figure, eager step, searching eye, and busy air, who has, as he will tell you, no use either for feet or eyes, but as the instruments of passing away the time allotted him in this world in the most agree able manner that he can, and who, from the earliest dawn to the latest period of the evening, finds every moment of his waking hours as much occupied, as if his mind and body were from necessity employed in the most active con cerns.

Whatever he meets with, whatever is behind or before him, within the possible space of being overtaken or come up to, are made subservient to his amusement, his pastime, or his philanthropy. He knows every body's business, and has none of his own, but to procure that knowledge : Indeed to most people this would be the most arduous of all things ; yet this gentleman effects it by the easiest means in the world. He is almost always in motion, winding and turning in every possible meander in pursuit of objects, and has something to offer to each. If near a person, whether stranger or acquaintance, he speaks; if at a distance he shouts, if too remote to be heard he runs to join him. In performing his usual tour of the streets, he generally keeps the horse path, cross- B ing over to either side as an objecr appears at one or the other.

If he observes any one at a door, he takes him or her by the hand ; if at a window within his reach he gently taps, if a child is looking through it, he puts his lips close to the glass, and talks and kisses au travers ; if any one is looking out from the attick story he raises his voice, to utter the passing words of the day, about health and the weather, with some quaint story or moral intermixed, and pro ceeds in his perambulations. But in their greet ings he always says, and without appearing to intend any jocularity, good night for good morrow, and good morrow for good night. To every stranger he goes indiscriminately, and with a uniform question,—" Madam, Miss, Sir, or Gentry — can I be useful. Place, People, Land, Water, I know them all, and all I know is at your service." Before I go on with him, however, my dear Baron, I must note another of his peculiarities ; he repeats every question, and almost every an swer, but commonly with a slight transposition.

I fear the odd pleasantry of this, will evaporate in written description, but its effect in discourse, set off by the speaker's whimsical, brisk, mode of expressing himself, tones and gestures cor responding, was truly laughable. I will en deavour to preserve the spirit upon paper, as well as I can, by giving you, in his own words, what follows ; just desiring you to pre-supposs that the speaker and your correspondent had met for the first time at one of the churchgates. " Yes, Sir, I take more exercise than any man in Cromer; than any man in Cromer more exercise take I. — How do you do neigh bour Pretty-face ?" (to a female passing.) — " Known that Lady from a child ; from a child have I known she. Exercise is good : twelve miles a day in and out ; in and out twelve miles. Hollo! there goes Richard — a fine old one is Richard.

Aye, honest Dick, how long did you walk with my father, honest Dick ? Fifty years, I dare say, poor Dick ; I dare say 50 years. I like Cromer better than any town I ever saw. Here comes smiling Miss Butler, a neighbouring farmer's daughter. How fare ye, Miss B. ? B3 Yes, sea and shore, Sir, is delightful ; shore and sea, Sir ; — And when am I to have the promised piece of bride's cake, Miss B. ? — A fine brown girl, one of eight. — ■ This man over the way, Mr Rust, has eight children also; eight children has he. Lived there three years ; three years there lived I. Next Gentleman, Mr. Baldwin, is a batchelor. Why, what Sir, can a man desire, more — the land beautiful, and the water beautiful. There comes Miss Butler again — a good brown face — I like a brown wo man — married one myself — and am going to marry again — home is home. — That dog now following that poor man, he'll never leave the man ; the man he'll never leave — I've known both, Sir, a sort of years. — Pray, Sir, have you seen the Sea-House at Felbrig ? worth seeing is Felbrig Sea-House — I'll shew it you with plea sure ; with pleasure I'll shew."

This courteous offer produced the first momentary pause, of which I was about to avail myself, when my rapid inviter, who was a physiognomist, assured me that I need not give myself the trouble of making a speech, for that my look convinced J him, I had nothing to do, but to follow him ; or rather, added he, taking off his hat, proceed with him upon a sociable plan, after this fashion. " Yes, Cromer for my money ; for my money, Cromer. — These streets, to be sure, seem to be paved with tenter-hooks, and cut a man to the soul :" (his emphasis on that word and his arch look, indicated that he spake punningly) : " but then that nice wood above, and that water below, and those hills and vallies between, make amends for being crippled a little in the feet ; in the feet a little crippled. I see you are of my opinion ; of my opinion are you."

It was no easy matter to keep pace with him ; he passed through the streets, scaled the mountains, traversed the beach, and descended into the vallies, with a speed that did full justice to the ardour of his description. " I love a hill, Sir, better than a dale, be cause a man seems to be above the world when he has got to the top, — nearer to heaven, as it were. Now there's a view for you ! I have gone up to this light-house on the cliff; a handsome light-house by the bye as any in b England, a handsome light-house — I have gone up it all weathers and humours, — you have there half the county of Norfolk under your eye. When I have gaii;ed this point, I always feel myself bigger and taller, by I do not know how many inches, than when I am crawling along any of the bottoms. On a mountain a man is where he should be !