Note 5 — EXTRACTS FROM MISS SEWARD’S LITERARY CORRESPONDENCE. (continued 2)

The late William Seward, Esq. who, in 1795, published “Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons,” obtained from Mr Longston, of Eyam, copies of these three letters. They will be found in the second volume of those compilations; but they are introduced in a cold, uninteresting manner. Though he personally examined the scenery, neither his heart nor his imagination seem to have caught the least glow from vestiges so likely to have warmed them. He does not even mention the beautiful, romantic dingle, and calls its perforated rock, from whence Mr Mompesson performed divine service during the contagion, “a cavern near Eyam, called at this day Cucklet Church.”