ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.
Missing from the genealogies of the new Peers—three FATHERS—five
MOTHERS—nine GRANDFATHERS—fourteen GRANDMOTHERS—twenty
GREAT-GRANDFATHERS—and nearly twice the number of GREAT-GRANDMOTHERS—also
some COMPLETE GENERATIONS OF ANCESTORS.
If any person can give notice at the HERALD’s OFFICE of any Fathers,
Mothers, Grandfathers, Grandmothers, Great-grandfathers, and
Great-grandmothers, worth owning, of the names of C———, D———,
H———, L———, P———, E———, &c. &c. &c. so as that the said
Fathers, Mothers, Grandfathers, Grandmothers, Great-grandfathers, and
Great-grandmothers, may be taken and restored to the advertisers, the
person so informing, for every such notice, shall receive ONE GUINEA
reward, and no questions shall be asked.
And if any person will undertake to find ANCESTORS BY THE GENERATION, for every regular descent of not less than three, and not more than five, he shall receive TWO GUINEAS each ancestor; and for every regular descent of not less than six, and not more than ten, he shall receive FIVE GUINEAS each ancestor, and so in proportion for any greater number.
A HANDSOME COMPLIMENT will also be given, in addition to the rewards above proposed, for ANCESTORS who distinguished themselves under JAMES II. CHARLES II. and CHARLES I. in the cause of PREROGATIVE. Likewise an extraordinary price will be paid for the discovery of any ANCESTOR of REMOTE ANTIQUITY and HIGH FAMILY; such as the immortal DUKE ROLLO, companion of WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR, and founder of the present illustrious family of ROLLE.
N.B. No greater reward will be offered, as THE HERALDS have received directions for making NEW.
VIVE LE SCRUTINY.
CROSS GOSPEL THE FIRST.
——But what says my good LORD BISHOP OF LONDON to this same WESTMINSTER SCRUTINY—this daily combination of rites, sacred and profane—ceremonies religious and political under his hallowed roof of ST. ANN’S CHURCH, SOHO? Should his Lordship be unacquainted with this curious process, let him know it is briefly this:—At ten o’clock the HIGH BAILIFF opens his inquisition in the VESTRY, for the PERDITION OF VOTES, where he never fails to be honoured with a crowded audience.—At eleven o’clock the HIGH PRIEST mounts the rostrum in the CHURCH for the SALVATION OF SOULS, without a single body to attend him; even his corpulent worship, the clerk, after the first introductory AMEN, filing off to the Vestry, to lend a hand towards reaping a quicker harvest!—The alternate vociferations from Church to Vestry, during the different SERVICES, were found to cross each other sometimes in responses so apposite, that a gentleman who writes shorthand was induced to take down part of the Church-medley-dialogue of one day, which he here transcribes for general information, on a subject of such singular importance, viz.
HIGH BAILIFF.—I cannot see that this here fellow is a just vote.